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912 Patriots of Lower Bucks - Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place!
March 4, 2013
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"There is a rank due to the United States, among nations, which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war."
~ George Washington, Fifth Annual Message, 1793
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Reason For Nomination Exposed:
Obama And Hagel Have Secret Plan To Enforce Palestinian State With U.S. Troops
Excerpted from Israel National News: Hagel, at Obama's bidding, plans to send troops to Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank") where they would soon be victims of Hamas terror. It's in writing. An investigative report.
There is only one reason that Chuck Hagel was picked by President Obama to be US Defense Secretary, and why Obama will go nuclear to get him confirmed:
Hagel is the only person alive now dumb enough to deploy US "peacekeeping" troops to what is surely a "West Bank" deathtrap. Don't believe me??! Well, in early 2009, two years after Hamas violently took over Gaza, Hagel along with a ragged has-been crew of "Israel Lasters" had some strong "recommendations" for the incoming President Obama.
I will let Hagel's 2009 "recommendations" speak for themselves. But to lend a note of rationality, Florence Gaub, a NATO researcher, in 2010 published a NATO Research paper outlining some of the problems of such a deployment. (I.e. it would need about 60,000 US/Nato troops and about 160 billion Dollars over 10 years) I and I will excerpt her report as well.
Obama's determination in confirming Hagel is based on Obama's belief that Hagel will cripple Israel at any price: including the deaths of thousands of US soldiers at the hands of Hamas suicide bombs in the Palestinian Authority.
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Dear Friends,
Earlier this morning I had the opportunity to go on Fox News to discuss the release of hundreds of illegal aliens in our state.
This has caused absolute chaos and it is absurd that our federal government is playing the blame game as to who ultimately allowed this release to happen.
What's even more absurd is that I didn't find out about the release of the illegal aliens until I heard it on the news!
Please take a moment to watch the video
The federal government appears to want to give Arizona a form of payback when all we have wanted to do was secure our borders and protect our citizens.
If you are as outraged as I am, please share this video on Facebook and Twitter to help spread our message.
President Obama and the federal government will not get away without giving us answers.
Thank you for your continued support!
My very best,
Jan Brewer
Governor of Arizona
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Stop Radical Judicial Nominee Caitlin Halligan! |
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March 3, 2013
Tomorrow, Monday, March 4th, the Senate is scheduled to vote on a cloture motion on Caitlin Halligan, another of President Obama's radical judicial nominees. The Senate rejected Halligan's nomination in the last Congress, but President Obama renominated her to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. We need you to call your Senators today and tell them to vote NO on Caitlin Halligan!
Here are a few of the many reasons Senators should vote NO on Halligan:
Same Sex Marriage
- As Solicitor General of New York, Halligan wrote an opinion arguing for same sex marriage, even though the state's domestic law required that marriage licenses only be issued to opposite sex couples. Halligan declared that observing the statute as written raised, "serious Constitutional concerns."
Radical Pro-Abortion Advocate
- As New York's Solicitor General, Halligan joined an Amicus Curiae brief in support of the National Organization of Women's (NOW) suit attempting to use Civil racketeering charges to shut down abortion clinic protests nationwide. The importance of Halligan's joining the amicus brief cannot be understated. One of the key purposes of the brief was to persuade the Court to rely on New York's expanded definition of property and how property can be obtained through extortion, a point she hoped that the weight of her office as New York's Solicitor General would carry. NOW's and Halligan's arguments were so radical, they were rejected by an 8-1 margin. Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg, arguably the Court's most liberal Justice wrote, "The court is rightly reluctant, as I see it, to extend RICO's domain further by endorsing the expansive definition of 'extortion."
Racial Preferences
- Halligan has joined briefs supporting racial quotas at universities. Three out of four of the policies she supported were later declared unconstitutional.
Second Amendment Rights
- As the National Rifle Association declared in its letter of opposition to Halligan's confirmation as New York's Solicitor General, she strongly supported "inside and outside the courtroom" the State of New York's activist efforts to sue gun manufacturers for crimes committed with guns. When Congress passed the bipartisan Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act to protect manufacturers from such frivolous suits, Halligan signed onto a friend of the Court brief arguing that the law was unconstitutional.
Detention of Enemy Combatants
- Halligan was a member of a bar committee that issued a report claiming it is unconstitutional for the United States to detain enemy combatants. During her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Halligan tried to distance herself from this report; however, she also signed onto a friend of the court brief arguing the same conclusion in a case involving such detention.
Halligan is a radical activist, who has viewed the federal court system as a vehicle for making, not interpreting, policy. We need you to tell your Senators to vote NO on her confirmation tomorrow at noon. Nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals are often subject to higher scrutiny than other courts. Also, unlike other Courts, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit does not have an overwhelming caseload. In fact, there are currently more judges than necessary to manage the number of cases pending. Thus, there is no reason to rush to confirm an unfit, radical nominee. Cloture requires a 60 vote threshold, so it is still possible to stop this nominee!
Take Action!
Call your Senators today and tell them
to vote NO on Caitlin Halligan!
Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121
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 Glenn: Help us get in millions of home
Why should you support the "Get TheBlaze" movement to get TheBlaze in millions of homes across the country? For starters, how about a network that will cancel out the damage Al-Jazeera will be doing in America as it replaces Current in your lineup? Check out Glenn's "why" in this exclusive letter HERE.
Ready to take action? Click here to contact your TV provider and urge them to add TheBlaze.
ATTENTION: Are you a Verizon FiOS Subscriber?
They've created a new form for you to fill out to request TheBlaze! You can complete the form HERE. And don't forget to make your request public by posting on their Facebook page. Thank you for supporting us!
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 Forced by the sequestration to trim $85 billion from the country's $3.6 trillion budget, President Barack Obama announced today that he would not deploy the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Harry Truman to the Persian Gulf as part of his plan to disband the entire United States military. "I warned Congress that these cuts did not have to happen," Obama said at a White House press conference. "The Republicans could have turned them off at any time by just compromising and raising the taxes I requested. So now they have forced me to lay off the only non-essential government employees I could find, which just happens to be all the members of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. As of midnight Friday, the United States is indefensible." MORE >>
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Unionized Federal Workers: We'll Get Our Pay Despite Sequester
The Heritage Network | Georgianna Nutt | March 1, 2013 at 5:33 pm
Up to 875,000 federal workers may experience mandatory unpaid leave for one day per week thanks to sequestration, resulting in a 20 percent pay cut for 22 weeks beginning April 1. But the union that represents federal workers is vowing to get that pay. National Federation of Federal Employees spokesperson Cory Byrthrow threatens that the powerful union will "absolutely fight for back pay in the event of a furlough."
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What Is the Constitutional Role of the County Sheriff?
Citizens for Constitutional Government (CCG) is holding a
Constitutional Sheriffs forum on Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 6:30 p.m., at the Quakertown Free Library
located at 401 W. Mill Street, Quakertown. The keynote speaker will be William Reill, an expert on the Pennsylvania Constitution and founder of the Sheriff Brigades of Pennsylvania. Sheriffs from Bucks, Berks, Chester, Delaware, Lehigh and Montgomery Counties have been invited to attend and share their perspective on their role as a County Sheriff. Any candidate for the office of County Sheriff is invited and will be given the opportunity to make a brief statement of his platform. The meeting is free and open to the public. For more information on CCG, see www.CCG-PA.org or on the constitutional role of the sheriff, see http://www.sheriffbrigadesofpenn.com/.
PLEASE SAVE THIS DATE AND INVITE YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF TO THIS FORUM. We want to meet and hear from as many sheriffs from surrounding counties as possible so please call or visit yours to invite him/her personally (contact info below). And ask your friends to visit with you or call on their own; the more constituents ask the sheriff to come, the more likely he'll show up. HE NEEDS TO HEAR what the Constitution says about his role and YOU NEED TO HEAR FROM HIM to know whether he'll protect your Constitutional rights (like the right to bear arms). Suggestions for your conversation with your Sheriff are at the end of this email.
Note: Be sure to let your sheriff know that, if he desires it, we will give him 5-10 minutes to speak to his constituents about his perspective on his role and authority. Please let me know if and when you have contacted your sheriff and his/her response. I need to know asap which sheriffs are coming. thanks, Jaime
TO CONTACT YOUR SHERIFF (a visit is best but a phone call will do)......
BUCKS COUNTY Sheriff Duke Donnelly, Bucks Courthouse, 1st floor, 55 E. Court St, Doylestown 215-348-6124
MONTGOMERY COUNTY Sheriff Eileen Behr, Montgomery Courthouse, 1st floor, E. Airy and Swede Streets, Norristown 610-278-3331 [email protected]
LEHIGH COUNTY Sheriff Ronald Rossi, Lehigh Courthouse, Room 253, 455 W. Hamilton St., Allentown, 215-782-3175
BERKS COUNTY Sheriff Erik Weaknecht, Berks Courthouse, 3rd floor, 633 Court St., Reading 610-478-6240 [email protected]
DELAWARE COUNTY Sheriff Joseph McGinn, Delaware Courthouse, Room 101, 201 W. Front St, Media 610-891-4296
CHESTER COUNTY Sheriff Bunny Welsh, 201 W. Market St, West Chester 610-388-0240 [email protected] [Interested but will be out of town that day]
"This is about good government and accountability. The Sheriff answers to the people. This job exists because of the Constitution and I answer to the citizens who elected me."- Sheriff Bunny Welsh
SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR VISIT WITH YOUR SHERIFF
- Provide information re. the constitutional role of the sheriff from www.sheriffbrigadesofpenn.com
- Recommend the Sheriff Brigades of Pennsylvania website
- Ask your Sheriff to join the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association
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- Invite your Sheriff to attend our March 12 CCG Constitutional Sheriffs Forum and speak briefly about his perspective on his role
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Concerned gun owners hold rally in Bucks County
See video here:
By Christina Kristofic Staff Writer | Posted: Sunday, March 3, 2013 6:00 am
Some wore camouflage.
Some draped American flags over their shoulders and AR-15s and other rifles on straps around their necks.
Others dressed in simple, warm clothes and carried American flags, Gadsden flags or posters on poles.
They numbered about 200. They came from all over Bucks County and gathered on the sidewalk in front of the Bucks County Courthouse in Doylestown for about an hour Saturday morning to stand together for the Second Amendment and against proposals to ban assault rifles and high-capacity magazines.
"What's happened in the country in the past few months with the killing is not the result of lawful firearms (ownership)," said John Eperjesi, 66, of Morrisville.
"There are 80 million gun owners in this country that did not participate in (the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in) Newtown, Conn., and we're being blamed for it. The legitimate gun owners in this country are appalled as anyone else with the tragedy that happened up there, but we're not responsible. A sick individual did it."
Bill O'Neill, 72, of Holland, said he opposes any limitations on Second Amendment rights.
"It's unfortunately come down to the people being allowed to own a few types of guns and a few types of bullets. I'm against that. I support the Second Amendment completely," he said. "I don't want guns in the hands of the wrong people and, by that, I mean criminals and felons. I think there are too many illegal guns. Law enforcement should take the steps to collect the illegal guns."
Some law enforcement officials were at the courthouse during the rally Saturday, but no one asked some of the men carrying guns if they legally owned them.
"Criminals are always gonna be criminals. To take away certain items from law-abiding citizens will not make things better or safer," said Dave Zimmerman, 38, of Sellersville.
Zimmerman had an AR-15 on a strap around his neck. He said he wore it that way on Saturday to show support for the weapon. "There are a lot of guns out there that are a lot more lethal. Because of the looks of it, it looks worse. You could take two cars with the same engine and tint one out, lower it, put rims on it, make it sound loud, and it looks more aggressive. But it's still the same car as the car next to it."
Zimmerman's friend, Bruce Gold, was quick to point out that the AR in AR-15 doesn't stand for "assault rifle"; it stands for Armalite Rifle (Armalite is the manufacturer).
The AR-15 is not a bad gun, said Gold, 42, also of Sellersville.
"A gun's bad if a bad person has it," he said. "But a gun's good if a good person has it."
Several people said they believe gun ownership is a "God-given," "divine" or "natural" right.
"As a Jew, I am keenly aware that whenever a country's dictators have disarmed the public, it has led to mass exterminations of people. Hitler was one. But Mao, Stalin, in Cuba," said Linda Rosen, 63, of Doylestown. "If this right goes, we lose all of our rights."
The rally was organized by the Concerned Gun Owners of Bucks County.
13 States, and Counting, with Bills to Nullify Federal Gun "Laws
Calling all Patriots!
We have a man in Harrisburg (Daryl Metcalfe) who has the backbone to write the legislation we need and he has done this! Please note which Reps. have NOT signed on as co-sponsors of HB 357. Please use the link below to enter the Tenth Amendment Center and click on Representative Metcalfe's link, SIGN his petition, PRINT his petition for friends & family and then CALL your Rep. to either thank them or encourage them to sign on as CO-Sponsors! This is IMPORTANT! Let's support a man who is supporting us!!!
Return Petitions to Representative Daryl Metcalfe's office:
P.O Box 202012, Harrisburg, PA 17120-2012
Petition to Montgomery County Sheriff. "PLEASE CLICK LINK BELOW AND SIGN!"
We, the undersigned residents of Montgomery County, implore our Sheriff to publicly pledge to honor her sworn oath to protect and preserve our guaranteed right to bear arms in defense of ourselves and the State under both the Pennsylvania and Federal Constitutions and to intercede on our behalf against any incursion by Federal or local law enforcement. Our PA Constitution is clearly stated in Article 1: Section 21- "The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned."
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PA Liquor Sales Privatization
 What is going on with PA Liquor privatization?
PA House majority leader Turzai will introduce a House Bill on March 4. The bill number is HB 790. This bill is supported by Governor Corbett and will essentially privatize liquor sales in Pennsylvania. With control of both the Senate and the House in the control of Republicans, this bill should "sail through" both chambers and be signed by the Governor.
The problem is that not all Republicans are on the same page. Rep. John Taylor, the lone Republican House member from Philadelphia is the Chair of the House Liquor Control Committee. He has previously gutted privatization bills. He has stated that he "wants to slow things down" and "avoid the chaotic process that other states have experienced."
Therefore, we need citizens to email and call members of the committee and ask them to support privatization now.
Example:
Dear Representative ________
I urge you to support HB 790 to privatize the PA State Stores. Please do not allow special interest amendments to slow the process down with partial privatization over time. It is time to quit talking and take the action supported by the citizens of the state and Governor Corbett. It is time to get the Commonwealth to get out of the booze business and focused on its regulatory responsibilities.
Thank you.
Who are the members of this committee? If your representative is on this committee organize an email and phone call operation NOW.
Republican Members:
Taylor, John, Chair
Miccarelli, Nicholas A, III, Secretary
Mustio, Mark, Subcommittee Chair on Marketing
Payne, John D., Subcommittee Chair on Licensing
Delozier, Sheryl M., Ellis, Brian L., Kampf, Warren, Killion, Thomas H., Krieger, Timothy
Lawrence, John A., Masser, Kurt A., Petri, Scott A., Reese, Mike, Regan, Mike, Sonney, Curtis G.
Democrat Members:
Costa, Paul, Chair
Davis, Tina M., Democratic Secretary
Kotik, Nick, Subcommittee Democratic Chair on Licensing
Mahoney, Tim, Subcommittee Democratic Chair on Marketing
Rob Boysen Lil Boysen Bill Harper
Tea Party Patriots PA State Coordinator, S.E. Region Co-Coordinator Co-Coordinator
Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Group Coordinator Communications
Coordinator, Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots-Lower Bucks
Email: Lil: [email protected]
Rob: [email protected]
Bill: [email protected]
Twitter: Rob: @pennpatriot1949
Lil: @gypsypatriot
Rob & Lil Home: 215-547-6136
Rob's Cell: 267-278-0827
Lil's Cell: 267-278-1656
Bill's Cell: 215-431-8438
"As government expands, liberty contracts." Ronald Reagan
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Metcalfe Seeks to Make Federal Gun-Grabbing A Criminal Offense in Pennsylvania
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HARRISBURG - State Representative Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler) today announced his legislation that would make any new federal gun control laws unenforceable within the Commonwealth.
"Passage of my legislation will send the message that there will never be additional gun control, anywhere in Pennsylvania," said Metcalfe. "Whether by White House executive orders, congressional fiat, or judicial activism, we will never allow the left to benefit from the wicked acts of murderers in order advance their senseless gun-grabbing agenda which would only succeed in replacing one of our most sacred personal liberties with the chains of government tyranny."
Similar to legislation most recently introduced in Wyoming and Texas, Metcalfe's Right to Bear Arms Protection Act (House Bill 357) would:
- Prohibit enforcement of any new federal registration, restriction or prohibition requirement for privately owned firearms, magazines and ammunition.
- Require the state of Pennsylvania, including the Office of Attorney General, to intercede on behalf of Commonwealth citizens against any federal attempt to register, restrict or ban the purchase or ownership of firearms and firearms accessories which are currently legal products.
Final enactment of Metcalfe's Right to Bear Arms Protection Act would mean that anyone - even federal agents - who try to enforce any type of gun control restriction within state borders would face arrest and being charged with a felony offense.
"The right of the citizens to bear arms in defense of themselves and the State shall not be questioned," said Metcalfe. "Article 1, Section 21 of the Pennsylvania Constitution makes it crystal clear that no level of government, especially the federal government, has any authority whatsoever to impose senseless restrictions on law-abiding firearms owners, or worse, the confiscation of legally owned firearms. The purpose of my legislation is to force any gun-grabbing federal official to count the costs of unconstitutionally disarming or denying Pennsylvania citizens their God-given right to keep and bear arms."
Metcalfe is also calling on all Pennsylvania citizens who support Constitutional liberty to attend Pennsylvania's annual Second Amendment Action Day on Tuesday, April 23, beginning at 10:00 a.m. in the State Capitol Rotunda, and to sign the all-new Armed Pennsylvania: Say to No Gun Control petition by visiting RepMetcalfe.com.
Representative Daryl Metcalfe
12th District
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Media Contact: Ty McCauslin
717.772.9979
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| Office Locations | | 2525 Rochester Road, Suite 201, Cranberry Township, PA 16066 | Phone: (724) 772-3110 | | 144 Main Capitol, PO Box 202012, Harrisburg, PA 17120-2012 | Phone: (717) 783-1707 | | Email: [email protected] | | TTY: 855-282-0614 |
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Hello Patriots on this Day!
We need to make daily calls to Washington to stop infringement on our 2nd Amendment rights!!
Senator Casey 1-866-802-2833 www.casey.senate.gov/contact
Rep. Fitzpatrick (R-8) 215-579-8102 www.fitzpatrick.house.gov
Rep. Meehan (R-7) 610-690-7323 www.meehan.house.gov
Rep. Schwartz (D-13) 215-517-6572 www.schwartz.house.gov
Rep. Chaka Fattah 215-871-4455
Rep. Bob Brady 610-874-7094
Important Dates:
- February 15 - March 27, 2013 - Debt Ceiling: Sometime in this date range we are expected to reach the debt ceiling (Technically we have already hit the debt ceiling, but this is the date range when we will reach a point where the Treasury can no longer implement "extraordinary measures" to meet our spending obligations.
- February 28, 2013 - Sequestration: The "fiscal cliff" bill created a new manufactured crisis that will happen sometime at the end of February. This is when the sequestration can was kicked down the road.
- March 31, 2013 - Continuing Resolution: The current Continuing Resolution that the government is operating under expires on March 31. This means that they will have to pass a CR between now and then.
- April 15, 2013 - Budget Resolution: This is the date by law in which both Houses should have a budget resolution passed. We are already hearing that the President is late in submitting his budget, the House is reporting that they will not meet their deadline for a budget, and the Senate... well they haven't passed a budget in over 1,350 days.
Any questions, holler.
Lil
Rob Boysen Lil Boysen Bill Harper
Tea Party Patriots PA State Coordinator, S.E. Region Co-Coordinator Co-Coordinator
Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Group Coordinator Communications
Coordinator, Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots-Lower Bucks
Email: Lil: [email protected]
Rob: [email protected]
Bill: [email protected]
Twitter: Rob: @pennpatriot1949
Lil: @gypsypatriot
Rob & Lil Home: 215-547-6136
Rob's Cell: 267-278-0827
Lil's Cell: 267-278-1656
Bill's Cell: 215-431-8438
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Dear Patriots:
Our next meeting of the Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots-Lower Bucks will be March 6, 2013 at 7 PM. PLEASE NOTE; THIS MEETING IS ON A WEDNESDAY!! The meeting will take place at Erwin's Country Kitchen, 4059 Brownsville Road in Trevose.
We're looking to increase our group! Join us...bring a friend or two.
An invitation has gone out to Concerned Gun Owners of Bucks County to speak at our meeting. The 2nd Amendment must be a concern of all law-abiding citizens. We CANNOT let the opposition infringe upon our God given rights.
Mike Henry was hired as the Philadelphia Regional Coordinator for Heritage Action. Mike will be speaking to our group at the meeting. He joined Heritage Action after successfully running a local outreach campaign as an intern for American Majority Action in southeastern Pennsylvania. During the campaign, he worked closely with local tea party groups to organize their canvassing efforts. He is an alumnus of Archmere Academy, in Claymont, Delaware, and will be a 2013 graduate from Pennsylvania State University. Heritage Action is the Pennsylvania think tank of Heritage Foundation which is being led by former Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC).
We have persons within our group who give a short summary of what is happening in their community.
What are the hot issues in Harrisburg? How do you feel about Governor Corbett's budget? liquor privatization? Agenda 21?
Why is Penn State on the New Drone Authorization List? Who is funding these drones?
How do you feel about Immigration? the "No Labels" group in Congress? and lots more discussion.
Lil Boysen, Co Coordinator
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We would like to clarifiy the Prothonotary candidates for the upcoming Republican Primary are Michelle Christian (not Diane) and Pat Bachtle. It does not change a call for an open primary in this race.
Why all the fuss about a Prothonotary race?
If you have wondered what a Prothonotary is, you are not alone. In addition, whoever thought that it would be the focus of a power struggle within the Bucks County GOP for the 2013 elections?
There are two people running for Prothonotary this May. Pat Bachtle a long time incumbent and a newcomer Diane Christian. On paper this looks ok, but when you take a closer look, more questions than answers arise.
The Tea Party should be happy to see a newcomer on the ticket. Right?
We should be happy to see the incumbent challenged by a newcomer. Right? Except this newcomer was hand selected by Bucks County GOP Chairwoman Pat Poprik.
Do you remember the countless "newcomers" who have tried to run for office in the past few years? They were handily dismissed by the party leadership and told that positions only go to those who have worked hard for the party over several years. Pat Bachtle is the incumbent Prothonotary and has worked for the party for many years. Now Pat Poprik is embracing a newcomer that she has hand selected with no prior experience or record. There is clearly a double standard.
One does not have to think too hard to figure out what the reaction would be to an unknown Tea Party candidate running against an established incumbent. Remember when the GOP called the Constables to intervene against non-endorsed GOP candidates in 2010?
Why is the party chair deciding to pick this fight when Bucks County is becoming more liberal? This has the potential to leave the seat wide open for a Democrat grab. Bucks County GOP money should not be spent in a primary for a Prothonotary seat. This is foolish and wasteful use of resources.
We at The Kitchen Table Patriots
are calling for an Unendorsed Primary. Let the best candidate win. The registered Republicans of Bucks County should decide on primary election day who should be the next Prothonotary on the Republican ticket. Not a small group of GOP County Executives, half of which were appointed by the Chair of the Party. It doesn't seem like a fair process does it.
If you are a registered Republican and live in Bucks County Pennsylvania we are urging you to contact your local committee person and ask them to vote for no endorsement. If you do not know who you committee person is than call the Bucks County Republican Headquarters at 215-345-8811
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Also We urge you to clear your calendar and attend the Bucks County GOP executive committee meeting on Thursday March 7 at PM. at the Republican Headquarters in Doylestown. The is the night that the executive committee, half of which were hand picked by the county chair will endorse. Come and speak your mind to your elected Executive. Let the Republican party know you are watching and paying attention.
The Kitchen Table Patriots Team
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CALLING ALL PATRIOTS! JOIN US AT THE VALLEY FORGE PATRIOTS MARCH 8TH MEETING.
FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013 AT THE PHOENIXVILLE COUNTRY CLUB, 6PM.
Our main speaker will be Matt Brouillette, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation in Harrisburg.
Matt will discuss Governor Corbett's new budget and the major issues in it including privatization
of liquor stores, pension reform, Medicade stabilization, and lowering the corporate income tax.
All of these issues are of great importance to the citizens of PA.
Also joining us will be Matt Hissey of Americans for Prosperity who will update us on the near term activities of AFP.
One of their recent successful projects was working to stop healthcare exchanges in PA that many of us helped with.
And very important, will be an open mic' discussion of VFP's focus for 2013. Please give this some serious thought and bring your ideas to the meeting. One big issue is Voter Fraud and how and with whom we should address this. Some members have signed up to work with True the Vote as well as Club for Growth who helped elect Senator Toomey.
We look forward to seeing you all on March 8th.
From your Steering Committee, Joe Panas, Jeff Morgan, Mark Driver, Betty Dunkel
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Fellow Conservatives,
Have you registered for CPAC 2013, the 40th annual political action conference March 14-16, 2013, at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center? Grab your friends, spread the word, and don't miss your chance to be present and be involved in making a difference for our country's future! Register TODAY at conservative.org/cpac2013.
With a renewed focus on engaging our country's youth and empowering this next generation of shining conservative stars, you won't want to miss this historic event! You, too, can join national and regional conservative leaders, including Governors Scott Walker and Jeb Bush, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, and U.S. Representative Paul Ryan, along with thousands of patriots and conservatives from across the country. This must-attend event offers three full days of blockbuster speeches, policy discussions and networking opportunities - all celebrating the shared principles of smaller government, a strong national defense and traditional American values.
This year, on CPAC's 40th anniversary, we are placing a renewed focus on engaging our country's youth and empowering the next generation of shining conservative stars. The CPAC 2013 theme, America's Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives, and tagline, New Challenges, Timeless Principles, reflects a bright outlook for growth in our movement.
Recognizing CPAC as America's largest gathering of conservative leaders and activists, ACU is also pleased to announce some exciting opportunities to help you enjoy your time at CPAC even more this year!
- For the first time in our 40 years, we will be offering a free shuttle bus service to and from CPAC.
- Stay tuned for the cutting-edge CPAC App, sponsored by The Washington Examiner. At your fingertips you will have the latest speaker updates, straw poll results and more.
For more information about CPAC 2013 and our other confirmed speakers, please visit our website at conservative.org/cpac2013, or check us out on Facebook at facebook.com/CPACNews or Twitter at @cpacnews and #CPAC2013.
Don't forget, register TODAY by logging on to conservative.org/CPAC2013. We look forward to seeing you in March!
The American Conservative Union
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February 14, 2013 "Americans United to Defend
Free Speech" Tune in to the webcast on March 11th
Your First Amendment right to express an opinion about Islam is under attack.
Not just from those who have no recourse but to call you an "Islamophobe."
But from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)-and our very own State Department.
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On Monday night, March 11th, in a two hour national webcast, ACT! for America will unveil a new campaign to push back against this threat.
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You can tune in to this very important webcast by using this web address: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/radical-islam-how-it-threatens-free-speech |
The webcast will begin at 7:30 P.M. EST, and will feature Brigitte Gabriel, Executive Director Guy Rodgers, and Deborah Weiss, an investigative journalist, attorney and expert on the Istanbul Process and UN Resolution 16/18.
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Tune in to this extremely important webcast to find out how UN Resolution 16/18 threatens your First Amendment rights and what ACT! for America plans to do to fight it.
You'll also have the opportunity to email questions.
This is a call to patriots everywhere! |
If you don't want to see sharia law's prohibition against any speech that supposedly "defames" Islam or Muhammad gain a foothold in America, you need to tune in to this webcast.
If you cherish the right to free speech as much as we do, you need to tune in to this webcast.
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For even if we win the war on terrorism, if we lose our freedom to speak out against the tyranny of radical Islam, we still lose.
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Announcing the 2013 National Conference
& Legislative Briefing!
June 19 - 21 we will convene at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC for our fourth annual National Conference & Legislative Briefing.
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And here's some really great news: This year's registration fee is only $229! Register by April 15th and you'll receive our "Early Bird" rate of just $189!
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We also offer again this year special benefits for Patriot Eagle and Patriot sponsors.
We have some exciting new wrinkles planned for this year's event, and our list of confirmed speakers already includes:
- Steven Emerson - Journalist, author, and the Executive Editor of the Investigative Project on Terrorism. A. M. Rosenthal, late-managing editor of The New York Times, described Emerson as "one of the nation's best national security correspondents."
- John Guandolo - Former FBI agent and one of America's leading authorities on the Muslim Brotherhood and its inner workings in America. Guandolo spoke at our conference in 2011 and received rave reviews from conference attendees!
- Ezra Levant - Canadian lawyer, author, newspaper columnist with Sun Media, and former publisher of the Western Standard. Hauled before a Canadian "human rights commission" because he published the Danish cartoons that satirized Muhammad, Levant's personal account of a politically correct government inquisition is something you won't want to miss!
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The National Conference & Legislative Briefing will begin on Wed. evening, June 19th, and conclude on Friday, June 21st at noon, with additional optional training sessions Friday afternoon.
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It will again feature our very popular Capitol Hill Awards Luncheon and our signature gala banquet-and of course, our Legislative Briefing, where Members of Congress will brief you on various issues and answer your questions.
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So make your plans now to join us in our nation's capital for what promises to be our best National Conference & Legislative Briefing ever!
More details to come!
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Important Announcement from SFL
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You're probably wondering why you've been getting more emails from me and Sustainable Freedom Lab after having had next to none for quite some time.
Well, the truth is that I've been very busy. As always, I spend enormous amounts of my time researching, writing, and speaking to the public about the threats of Agenda 21 and Regionalism.
I've also been working on important projects behind the scenes.
Now I'm finally ready to reveal the first of these "secret" projects: The DVD version of "Stopping Agenda 21 in Your Community".
Like the title suggests, this DVD program offers step-by-step training on how you can fight back against those who would bring Agenda 21 into your community. The test audience who saw this program during the limited streaming we held last Fall felt it was critical viewing for anyone concerned about the erosion of our property rights.
Click here to read my blog post on the SFL website about our first DVD.
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Helping you fight back,
John
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If you've been wanting an interesting, clearly written, how-to-manual for identifying and fighting UN Agenda 21, here it is. Agenda 21--All the information you need to understand what is happening in your town, why it's happening, who is behind it, and what you can do to stop it. BEHIND THE GREEN MASK: U.N. Agenda 21 is 172 pages of truth. Part history, part current events, part hand-to-hand combat, and part blueprint for keeping your freedom, this is one book that you'll put to work immediately. Boots on the ground and all hands on deck is the order of the day. Awareness is the first step in the Resistance.
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Awareness about Agenda 21 is finally spreading throughout the country, due in no small part to your efforts. But knowing it is there isn't enough. Now we need to educate ourselves on how to combat it. That's where you come in.
 American Policy Center has recently released a booklet that explains everything you need to know to start fighting back against sustainable programs both locally and nationally. The booklet is called Special Report: Agenda 21 and How to Stop It and is available in the APC store for only $5.95.
I wrote this 35 page booklet in order to give activists a succinct resource they can refer to if they suspect Agenda 21 or Sustainable Development is being implemented in their area. It includes my own research coupled with incredibly helpful graphics created by Carroll County, Maryland Commissioner Richard Rothschild.
In the booklet you will find answers to several roadblocks that grassroots anti-Agenda 21 activists often face, including a definition of property rights and "Resolution to Protect Citizens' Property Rights," which many concerned citizens are already using to tie the hands of power hungry politicians.
This booklet is a great resource for anyone interested in preserving their property rights. It includes all the information to put up a first line of defense and step by step instructions for how to proceed from there. If you face Agenda 21 or Sustainable development in your area or are simply concerned with the national fight this booklet is a must read.
Click here to order your booklet now!
In Liberty,
Tom DeWeese
President - American Policy Center
P.S. - The American Policy Center store has recently updated our inventory to include everything you need to fight back against Agenda 21. The revamped catalogue includes the "Stop Agenda 21 Action Kit", which provides users with everything they need to know about Agenda 21 in their own living room, as well as ways to share it with other concerned activists and critical knowledge on how to fight back. The store also offers DVDs of past successful conferences and symposiums, books and articles that deal with the issues of sustainability and Agenda 21 and individually packaged manuals and workbooks to aid you in your activism. You don't need to look any farther than the American Policy Center Store for everything you need to combat Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development in your area.
View our online store
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ACTION CENTER
Tell lawmakers not to double down on broken Medicaid system!
Take Action (http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=duLQIaMQLhJUL9N4E&s=euIXKaPOIgLNL9MSIqF&m=mvJ0KdOYIiIUImI)
Thank Governor Corbett for also opposing the expansion!
Take Action (http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?a=elKSKdNUIiI1J9N0F&s=euIXKaPOIgLNL9MSIqF&m=mvJ0KdOYIiIUImI)
Seating is very limited, but as of now there are about 80 spots left. When inviting people, keep in mind that we want the most active and involved people to attend. This is a training event, so we want to train the best, brightest, and most dedicated to become Citizen Watchdogs!
In Liberty,
Matthew M. Hissey
(267) 838 2380
Grassroots Director
Americans For Prosperity Pennsylvania
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How to Raise an American Patriot: Making it Okay for Our Kids to Be Proud to Be American
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Parents are the number one people to teach this to their kids.
This historic book will give parents the talking points they need to teach their kids why it's good to love our country and understand why it's so important to fight for our freedom and their rights.
We will lay the foundation for our next "greatest" generation.
I interviewed 13 American patriots, all with different backgrounds and upbringings - several you have heard of and several you haven't heard of but you should.
- Ed Meese, former Attorney General and staff member under President Reagan.
- Jackie Gingrich Cushman, syndicated columnist, daughter of Newt Gingrich.
- Eric Erickson, editor of RedState.com, radio host, CNN contributor and author of the current best-seller "Red State Uprising."
- Rachel Campos-Duffy, fill-in voice of The View, author, wife of Sean Duffy.
- Kevin Jackson, political pundit, bloggor and author of "The BIG Black Lie.
- Reverend Steven Craft, pastor, author, former prison chaplain and national speaker.
- Charlie Rhoads, former military officer, CEO of Joe Foss Institute.
- Rick Green, former Texas legislator, author and national speaker for Wallbuilders.
- Cathy Gillespie, political and philanthropic activist, co-founder of Constituting America, wife of former Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie.
- Janine Turner, actress, author, speaker, founder of Constituting America and radio talk show host, The Janine Turner Show. on Talk Radio 570 KLIF.
- Dr. Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, the premier educational institute for constitutional principles.
- Seth Swirsky, award-winning songwriter, singer, artist, film maker and musician.
- Debbie Lee, Gold Star mom and founder of America's Mighty Warriors.
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NEW: Land of Pilgrim's Pride
 In the New York Times bestseller, Sweet Land of Liberty, Ellis the Elephant sets off on a quest to find out how America became a free and exceptional nation. Now Ellis is back and ready to learn about the birth of our great nation in Land of the Pilgrims' Pride.
Written and illustrated by Callista Gingrich and Susan Arciero, Ellis once again educates and entertains as he discovers America's thirteen original colonies. Starting in Virginia, Ellis journeys through each of the colonies and learns about their unique characteristics. From Pocahantas to Benjamin Franklin, Ellis experiences life in Colonial America.
Perfect for children ages 4-8, Land of the Pilgrims' Pride will delight young and adult readers alike while exploring how America began. |
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NEW: Sweet Land of Liberty
 In Sweet Land of Liberty, Ellis the Elephant sets off on a quest to find out.
Through an amazing afternoon at the library, Ellis travels through time and discovers the pivotal moments that have shaped our nation's unique history, including,- the Pilgrims' first Thanksgiving
- the Boston Tea Party
- George Washington crossing the Delaware
- pioneers settling the great frontier
- the first man on the moon
...and many more of the astounding events and people whose dreams, courage, and hard work have made America great.
With its vivid illustrations and charming rhymes, Sweet Land of Liberty is a must read for children and parents alike who want to explore our nation's great history-and discover why America is a free and exceptional nation. |
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One Nation Under God - A Book for Little Patriots
|  From "One Nation Under God' through "Ten Amendments in the Bill of Rights," this is the perfect book to teach little patriots about the basics of America.
One Nation Under God: A Book for Little Patriots guides children through the building blocks of America in a fun and engaging way. Beautiful full-color illustrations by Anthony Resto.
A book every Conservative parent should read to thier children!
Specifications: Paperback book; 24 beautiful, fully-illustrated pages
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IS IT?
http://vimeo.com/52009124
The Agenda
Please watch and share
If you want to understand what is happening to our beloved country please watch this important movie. Please share it with everyone.
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Posted on February 1, 2013 by Dean Garrison
 Has Communist Ideology Overtaken America? Education is crucial. Today I want to share two very interesting lists with you, and rather than adding an extensive amount of my commentary, I want to give you the chance to examine the facts for yourself. It is my opinion that many communist goals have already been accomplished. I also believe that advancement has been made in other areas. But, you owe it to yourself to do your own research. I believe not only in the freedom of speech, but also in the responsibility of free thought. So please don't take my word for it. Examine the facts for yourself.
Again, I want to share two lists with you. The first is a list that was entered into 1963 Congressional Record. The second is the 10 planks of The Communist Manifesto.
If you can't see this happening in America, and a ton of progress being made, then I offer two potential explanations:
- You are one of the "useful idiots" of communist teaching.
- I am one of the "village idiots" that your Mama probably warned you about.
Some of these points will be open for debate and some will not. In some cases it is blatantly obvious that they have achieved their goals. It is even rumored that our own President has deep communist ties. You might want to check that out as well but I will withhold my opinion at this point. Let's just lay it out and you can interpret it.
This list was originally printed in "The Naked Communist" by Cleon Skousen. It was entered into Congressional Record in 1963 as the 45 goals of "The Communist Takeover of America."
Read More . . .
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Yes, it's true: You can support ACT! for America-at no cost to you! An important message from
Guy Rodgers, Executive Director
The next time you make an online purchase of almost anything, you could be helping ACT! for America-at no cost to you.
Sound too good to be true? It isn't.
All you have to do is sign up for "iGive"-a program that's been around since 1997.
The concept is as powerful as it is simple.
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Every time an iGive member makes an online purchase at over 1,000 brand-name stores, a percentage of that purchase is donated to that person's charity of choice.
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And with the holidays just around the corner, you could be helping ACT! for America with every gift you buy!
The concept isn't new. In the mid-1990s many supporters of non-profit organizations signed up with long distance telephone programs where a percentage of their bill was donated to their charity of choice.
But our investigation of iGive has convinced us that this program has an ease of use and sophistication that we find remarkable.
- Imagine booking a hotel room on Orbitz-and having 1.6% of that purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
- Or buying an Xbox at Best Buy-and having 1.2% of the purchase price donated to ACT! for America.
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The same goes for buying merchandise at Amazon, Bath and Body Works, Advance Auto Parts, Game Stop, Kmart, Home Depot, Holiday Inn, Old Navy, NASCAR Superstore, Overstock.com, Mattel, J.C. Penney, Office Max, QVC, Radio Shack, Shoe Carnival, Pottery Barn-and on and on the list goes.
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In other words, every time you make a purchase of merchandise you would buy anyway, you would be financially supporting ACT! for America!
All you have to do is log on below and follow the directions to create your account and download the iGive "button." (Note: downloading the "button" is key).
Get Started Here!
When I was first informed of iGive, I was skeptical. I've seen these ideas come and go. Often, they're too good to be true. Or there are all kinds of glitches and problems.
So I spent hours researching.
I looked at online customer reviews (which were very good). I read all of iGive's fine print, such as Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. I signed up and even emailed two tech support questions to see how good their tech support was.
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And the more I dug, the more I liked what I saw. For instance, both of my tech support questions were responded to within 60 minutes. How often does THAT happen?
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As you know from our Patriot Partner program, we're all about encouraging a lot of people to each do a little-to do something. When everyone does a little, together we accomplish a lot.
So consider what could happen.
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If just 1% of ACT! for America members each purchased just $400 in merchandise in 2013, from all the available outlets, and the average percentage donated to ACT! was 1.5%, the total amount donated back to ACT! for America would be...
...$15,000. That's a lot of money, wouldn't you agree?
And if you were one of those ACT! for America members, it wouldn't cost you one thin dime to help ACT! for America receive $15,000.
If this idea really caught on, and eventually 5% of our members made purchases with iGive, that $15,000 could explode to $50,000, $75,000 or more!
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What's more, that 1.5% figure might be low. Many of the merchants offer percentage donations that are much higher. One printer inkjet company I looked at offered 13%!
Every merchant website you visit tells you right at the top what percentage of your purchase price will be donated to ACT! for America.
Just think what we could accomplish with an extra $15,000, $50,000 or $75,000 in our fight against radical Islam!
Get Started Here!
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One of the things I most wanted to know was their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Check it out for yourself. I confirmed the terms with a company representative. And I like what I learned. As security-conscious as I am, I have no hesitation using the service-and I'm already doing so.
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I know there are many people out there who would love to support ACT! for America, or give more than they're giving, but in these tough economic times they simply can't.
Well, here's a way that everyone who believes in our mission can easily support what we're doing-at no cost to them.
It doesn't get any better than that.
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There are already chapter leaders who have signed up for the program, and the feedback I have been getting from them has been all positive. They love the idea and many of them are already using it.
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So please, join me and these ACT! for America chapter leaders who are already signed up and using the iGive service.
Yours for a safe and free America
Guy Rodgers |
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Individuals sympathetic to the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister agenda have infiltrated the Obama Administration.
Brainwashed by the Muslim Students Association and then propelled in to the position of Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the David Horowitz Freedom Center tracks the path of Huma Abedin and other Muslim sympathizers who have navigated their way into positions of great influence in the Obama Administration. Everything is revealed in the explosive new Freedom Center pamphlet, "The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration," written by Frank Gaffney, national security expert who served as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan.
The David Horowitz Freedom Center is committed to educating the public on the Muslim Brotherhood's sinister Agenda. That is why we are giving away this pamphlet for FREE.
Go here:
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Subject: Great Sources of information---Please keep in folder.
From a Fellow Patriot that was kind enough to put this together.
I spoke with someone recently regarding web sites/groups and subscriptions to information/news feeds. This is a listing of many such which may be of use to folks.
The number of emails can get overwhelming at times, so check out the sites and see what suits your need. I recommend, though to be sure to subscribe to at least #1 Tea Party Patriots and #2 Americans for Prosperity.
Groups/web sites for keeping up on issues, events, etc.
1. Tea Party Patriots (National) http://www.teapartypatriots.org
Dot's note ► From this site, you can get to state and local group sites. Basically, this is our "Home page" for information on the national level. Great site to keep up with issues within the "realm" of the Tea Party's core values: Fiscal Responsibility, Free Markets and constitutionally limited Government. They have many citizen journalists who contribute. Also, information on events, etc.
From the site:
ABOUT TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
The Tea Party movement spontaneously formed in 2009 from the reaction of the American people to fiscally irresponsible actions of the federal government, misguided "stimulus" spending, bailouts and takeovers of private industry. Within the first few weeks of the movement, Tea Party Patriots formed to support the millions of Americans seeking to improve our great nation through renewed support for fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free market economic policies.
Tea Party Patriots is a national grassroots organization that exists to serve and support the thousands of local organizations and millions of grassroots Patriots throughout our nation. We provide logistical, educational, networking and other support to thousands of community-based tea party groups around the country. Tea Party Patriots state and national coordinators serve your local grassroots groups, support you with the tools and technology you need to address your local issues, listen to your voices, gather your ideas, and together help shape the overall direction of our national movement. Working in a truly grassroots fashion, we have already changed the political landscape of America.
TEA PARTY PATRIOTS IS 100% GRASSROOTS, 100% OF THE TIME.
Tea Party Patriots is made up of, and funded by, millions of regular Americans just like you, who believe there is a better way forward for America. We are a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization that does not support any political party nor do we endorse candidates. If you support fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free market economic policies, we encourage you to sign up for Tea Party Patriots today.
2. Americans for Prosperity (AFP) http://americansforprosperity.org/
Dot's note ► Great organization, super info. they sponsor/organize many events in the area and DC. Jennifer Stefano is the PA State Director. You've most likely seen her on Fox News Channel.
From the web site: OUR MISSIONS
Americans for Prosperity (AFP) is committed to educating citizens about economic policy and mobilizing those citizens as advocates in the public policy process. AFP is an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state, and federal levels. AFP grassroots activists advocate for public policies that champion the principles of entrepreneurship and fiscal and regulatory restraint. To that end, AFP supports:
Cutting taxes and government spending in order to halt the encroachment of government in the economic lives of citizens by fighting proposed tax increases and pointing out evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse.
Removing unnecessary barriers to entrepreneurship and opportunity by sparking citizen involvement early in the regulatory process in order to reduce red tape.
Restoring fairness to our judicial system.
WHO WE ARE
The heart and soul of AFP is our citizen activists. They organize events, write letters to the editor, and petition their lawmakers to uphold freedom and prosperity. Americans for Prosperity has more than 1,800,000 activists in all 50 states and 34 state chapters and affiliates. More than 90,000 Americans in all 50 states have made a financial contribution to AFP or our sister organization, AFP Foundation.
WHAT WE DO
AFP's network of organized and influential citizen leaders in a growing number of states throughout the country is working to change the nation one state at a time.
AFP mobilizes citizens to effectively make their voices heard in public policy issue campaigns.
AFP educates citizens about where their elected officials stand on our issues.
AFP combines "best-in-class" capabilities built once at the national level with local knowledge from our state staff and on-the-ground grassroots to create economies of scale that win.
AFP leverages our comparative advantages with those of other groups by building coalitions of local, state, and national grassroots organizations fighting for a common cause.
3. Freedom Connecter http://connect.freedomworks.org/
Dot's note ► A great site to connect with others. Register, then browse for folks who are near your residence or elsewhere who share your views. I have connections in CA, NY, NC, AL, TX, MO and FL.
4. FreedomWorks for America (FWFA) https://www.freedomworksforamerica.org/
From the web site:
FreedomWorks for America (FWFA) is focused on spearheading bottom-up grassroots campaigns on behalf of candidates who will promote economic freedom. Unlike other PACs and organizations, FreedomWorks for America will aggressively support candidates who will defend freedom, even in political primaries against establishment or incumbent Republicans. And instead of spending funds on traditional methods like TV and radio advertisements, our financial resources will primarily be spent mobilizing our over a million-strong volunteer base to promote candidates who are champions of freedom. We are the only group with the grassroots base and the campaign expertise to make a real impact on the ground in races across the country.
WHAT WE DO
FreedomWorks for America utilizes its over a million-strong grassroots volunteer base to elect candidates who fight for lower taxes, less government, and more freedom.
WHY WE DO IT
FreedomWorks for America believes individual liberty and the freedom to compete increases consumer choices and provides individuals with the greatest control over what they own and earn. FreedomWorks for America aims to elect real champions of freedom who will stand up for these principles in the face of Washington establishment pressure, and who will be standard bearers for the grassroots to rally behind.
HOW WE DO IT
FreedomWorks for America's aggressive, real-time campaigns activate a growing and permanent volunteer grassroots army to show up and demand that our elected officials stand up for freedom. Our decentralized approach means that we have the capability to directly impact elections across the country through citizen action on the local level.
5. Constitutional Organization of Liberty (COOL) http://reclaimliberty.com/
Dot's note ► Great educational offerings. Sign up for email.
Ruth & I bumped into each other at one of these events:
From the web site:
Liberty Breakfast
The Liberty Breakfast is a new presentation format that allows participants to enjoy a casual meal with other like-minded individuals, and then engage in an interactive review and discussion of a specific topic related to the Constitution, the Founding Fathers or relevant historic documents.
The Liberty Breakfast is held on a rotating basis across Pennsylvania, and topics and instructors may vary from location to location. Participants are responsible for the cost of their meal. (Duration: 2-3 HR)
A Project Of The Alexander Hamilton Institute For Constitutional Studies
Education is the critical service that COOL provides to participants in order to develop a more well rounded understanding of the documents critical to the founding of this nation. Currently, COOL offers a variety of different fee-based courses and is constantly seeking out new material for presentation.
Mark Thomas, Chairman, P.O. Box 822, Lebanon, PA 17042
[email protected]
1-717-228-7524
6. The Blaze http://www.theblaze.com/
Dot's note ► Glenn Beck's media corporation. This is news site. They send reporters out and get some good videos. Sign up for emails.
From the web site:
The Blaze is a news, information and opinion site brought to you by a dedicated team of writers, journalists & video producers.
Our goal is to post, report and analyze stories of interest on a wide range of topics from politics and culture to faith and family.
Email: [email protected]
7. PJTV http://www.pjtv.com/
Dot's note ► Some really good interviews
From the web site:
About PJTV
PJTV launched at the 2008 Republican National Convention, where it was the first online news organization accorded a full television booth along with the old media networks.
Since then it has evolved into the premier center-right online news and commentary television network, broadcasting over the Internet from its headquarters in Los Angeles, CA. PJTV studios are also located in Washington, DC, New York City, Knoxville, TN & Denver, CO.
Besides covering the political and economic issues of the day, PJTV has been covering the Tea Party movement from its inception. PJTV viewers have found a new voice in the media via opinion commentators like Glenn Reynolds, Bill Whittle, Tony Katz, Allen Barton, Joe Hicks, Andrew Klavan, Alfonzo Rachel, Al Sonja Schmidt, Stephen Kruiser, Scott Ott, Stephen Green and others. PJTV is under the direction of PJ Media CEO Roger L. Simon.
8. The Heritage Foundation http://www.heritage.org/
Dot's note ► Great resource for information on and analysis of issues.
From the web site:
Founded in 1973, The Heritage Foundation is a research and educational institution-a think tank-whose mission is to formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense.
9. Glenn Beck http://www.glennbeck.com/
Dot's note ► Audio of radio shows and commentary. Other programs require a paid subscription.
10. National Center for Policy Analysis http://www.ncpa.org/
From the web site:
Daily Policy Digest - NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge.
12770 Coit Road, Suite 800
Dallas, TX 75251-1339
1-972.386.6272
11. PoliticsPA www.politicspa.com
From the web site:
Online political community features news briefs, editorials, and links to sites of interest to Pennsylvania voters.
900 19th Street NW, 8th Floor
Washington, DC 20006
12. PAIndependent http://paindependent.com/
Dot's note ► great news of PA
From the web site:
Pennsylvania Independent is a public interest journalism project dedicated to promoting open, transparent, and accountable state government by reporting on the activities of agencies, bureaucracies, and politicians in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
225 State Street, Suite 300
Harrisburg, PA 17101
Phone 717.350.0963
13. 912 Patriots of Lower Bucks http://patriotsoflowerbucks.com
Dot's note ► MUCHO information from multiple sources!
From the web site:
Your Daily Updates ALL in ONE Place
PO Box 2122
Warminster, PA 18974
215-274-5415
14. Rasmussen Reports http://www.rasmussenreports.com/
Dot's note ► also commentary regarding what's in the news.
From the web site:
"If it's in the News, it's in our Polls. Public opinion polling since 2003". 625 Cookman Avenue
Asbury Park, NJ 07712
15. Town Hall http://townhall.com/
http://townhall.com/columnists/
Dot's note ► you'll recognize many of these conservative columnists. Sign up for Town Hall daily and you get, again, MUCHO commentary.
From the web site:
Townhall is the top source for conservative news, political cartoons, breaking news, election news and commentary on politics and the media culture.
Townhall Spotlight
1901 N. Moore St - Suite 701
Arlington, VA 22209
16. Tea Party Nation http://www.teapartynation.com/
Dot's note ► Great discussions on numerous issues.
From the web site:
A HOME FOR CONSERVATIVES!!!
Tea Party Nation is a user-driven group of like-minded people who desire our God-given individual freedoms written out by the Founding Fathers. We believe in Limited Government, Free Speech, the 2nd Amendment, our Military, Secure Borders and our Country.
Judson Phillips
17. Daily Caller http://dailycaller.com/
http://dailycaller.com/wp-login.php?action=register
Dot's note ► Several editions including: The DC Morning and The DC Links.
From the web site:
Daily Caller is a news and opinion website based in Washington, D.C., United States, with a focus on politics, original reporting and breaking news, founded by journalist and political pundit Tucker Carlson and politician Neil Patel.
18. Cowboybyte http://cowboybyte.com/
Dot's note ► Cowboybyte has a BITE to it as well. Most entries link to original information/articles. I really like it!
From the web site:
Ronald Reagan... John Wayne... Charlton Heston... These men were rugged individualists, conservatives, and patriotic Americans - the very qualities that make up a true Cowboy. CowboyByte.com is dedicated to bringing the cowboy out in all of us.
While the mainstream media is lying to you and covering up the truth, CowboyByte.com will inspire and inform you. At CowboyByte.com, you'll be the first to know about any threats to our Constitutional right to bear arms. We'll tell you about the effects of bills introduced and passed regarding our air, water, and food supply. You have the right to know how your government is affecting you and our family. That's why CowboyByte.com will be there to tell you what is really going on behind the scenes.
19. Conservative Daily http://conservative-daily.com/
Dot's note ► Good articles and links. A big part is their "action alerts". They also charge for sending faxes to Congress.
From the web site:
Conservatives Daily Alerts
20. Conservative Daily News - (different than the one above) www.conservativedailynews.com/
From the web site:
"News for the People, By the People" - CITIZEN JOURNALISTS.
Rich Mitchell - Managing Editor
Conservative Daily News
PO Box 42
Bahama,
North Carolina 27503
21. Freedom Outpost http://freedomoutpost.com/
Dot's note ► Good variety of articles and videos.
22. Atlas Shrugs
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
Dot's note ► Pamela Geller pulls no punches on this site. Some somewhat incendiary articles. Pam was a speaker in DC at the Independence Hall Tea Party Association Independence Day event.
The group who was having a statewide tour selling the Agenda 21 "Smart Towns" concept...
http://www.strongtowns.org/
On our side of the Agenda 21 issue..
John Anthony - Sustainable FREEDOM Lab, L.L.C.
http://sustainablefreedomlab.org/
For ACTION in Pennsylvania....
Americans for Prosperity - Pennsylvania
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Governor Tom Corbett is planning to meet with the Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to discuss expanding the entitlement program Medicaid as a part of ObamaCare.
This is terrible news.
So far, Gov. Corbett has been a principled opponent of the President's health care scheme. But he now appears to be wavering on the Medicaid expansion.
Click here to call Governor Corbett and tell him NOT to expand Medicaid.
All around the state, lobbying groups are pressuring the Governor to give in to expanding an already costly entitlement. Why? They want more of your money of course!
Governor Corbett needs to know that you support his decision to not make Pennsylvania liable for Washington's mandate. We can't let special interests dictate how Pennsylvanians get their health care. Gov. Corbett is standing strong now but it may not be for long.
Click here to call Governor Corbett and thank him for standing strong against ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion.
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Friday Digest
Chicken Little, Sequester Edition
March 1, 2013
"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." --James Madison, Federalist No. 10
We're publishing today from a secure bunker in an undisclosed location so as to avoid the fallout from the apocalypse known as the sequester. Today, the $85 billion in federal spending "cuts" take effect now that the Senate failed to pass either Democrat or Republican alternatives yesterday. The devastation is unthinkable -- unable to afford plane trips home to Delaware, Joe Biden will even begin taking the train again. We just pray the nation survives.
All kidding aside, the sequester does, in fact, involve real pain for real people. Barack Obama is ensuring that layoffs, furloughs, pay cuts and the like are as widespread and as painful as possible, all in an effort to defeat his political opponents and extract even greater tax hikes out of them. He even released hundreds of detained illegal aliens, and then blamed his Department of Homeland Security for doing it without his knowledge. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano also blamed underlings. Obama also warned that cuts will affect an agency that no longer exists. And the sequester is a "manufactured crisis" the White House blames for delaying its own budget submission, due Feb. 4.
But just remember who manufactured it to begin with -- Barack Obama. He will continue the charade to ensure that the maximum damage is done from the "Republican Sequester."
As we go to press, the president is meeting with Republican leaders John Boehner and Mitch McConnell, presumably to rhetorically abuse them in private before he does so again in public. To show how serious Obama is at replacing sequestration, or even just better managing it, the White House threatened a veto of a GOP offer to let the president have even more authority to selectively implement the sequester. Senate Democrats were happy to kill the bill for him.
For his own political gain Obama needs the sequester to be a blunt object that causes as much pain as possible. Besides, it's a win-win for him. Now he can tell the affected people, "I feel your pain," all while blaming Republicans. If the GOP caved, spending would have continued to grow out of control, just like he wants. For that matter, it will still grow out of control, just at an imperceptibly slower pace. In reality, the spending "cuts" for FY2013 amount to just $43 billion.
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Defunding ObamaCare
 ObamaCare is now the law of the land and has been deemed constitutional by our Supreme Court. These are the facts, whether we like them or not.
There is a last line of defense that can be used to stop the implementation of ObamaCare and that is by defunding it before it is too late.
The current continuing resolution (CR) funding the government expires on March 27, setting up an opportunity for Congress and President Obama to honor the bi-partisan sequester savings already agreed upon. It also presents an opportunity to achieve even more savings by defunding and stopping the implementation of ObamaCare which the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported will force 7 million Americans out of their existing health insurance.
Heritage Action has provided a detailed description of the proposed process to defund ObamaCare using this process and needs our help to convince our GOP Congressmen to get on board with this proposal.
Many of us worked hard to ensure victories for the thirteen (13) newly elected Republican Congressmen from Pennsylvania on the promise from each of them to stop ObamaCare and this CR is one of the last chances they have to do so. Let's hold their feet to the fire and request them to use the continuing resolution process to defund ObamaCare.
When the House considers the next CR, they should demand that all funding for the implementation of these exchanges be rescinded and instead used to pay down the deficit. At the very least, the GOP Leadership and the Rules Committee should allow an amendment to defund the exchanges in the CR to be brought to the Floor, so that every member of the House can record their position on the repeal of ObamaCare, the most pressing and important domestic policy issue of our generation.
Please contact your Representative here.
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RedState Morning Briefing
For March 4, 2013
1. Defund Obamacare Now!
House Republicans plan to bring a Continuing Resolution to the floor, which will fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year. If nothing is done to stop them, GOP leaders plan to put forth a clean CR that funds Obamacare. This is unacceptable.
With health insurance premiums skyrocketing, employers dumping workers from health plans, and new reports predicting trillions in new debt as a result of Obamacare, we must defund this behemoth before it fully takes effect next year. Many of the new members pledged to defund Obamacare, yet they have dithered for two years in the hopes that it would be struck down by the Supreme Court or that Republicans would win the White House. In fact, 105 current members of the House GOP Conference signed a letter last August committing to defund Obamacare. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
2. Colorado Senate Meeting to Restrict 2nd Amendment TODAY
Colorado Democrats have gone too far, and the time to stop them is now. On Monday morning the Colorado Senate will take up a package of anti-second amendment measures, four of which have already been passed in the House.
It is time for conservatives to take a stand against this assault on our rights.
The Democrats in Colorado control both chambers of the legislature and the Governor's office. They assume that this gives them the right to subvert your constitutional rights. They seek to limit your capability to defend yourself by banning concealed carry on campuses and limiting the capacity of magazines. They intend to make it more difficult to procure a firearm through an expansion of background checks and increased fees, read taxes, on the same.
Senate President John Morse has gone so far as to introduce legislation which blatantly contradicts federal law. Morse, with no regard for the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, intends to make gun owners, sellers, and manufacturers liable for any damages that occur from the discharge of a weapon they owned, sold, or produced.
So what can you do?
Michael Brown, a talk radio host in the Denver area, is calling on the people of Colorado to show up en masse at the State Capitol TODAY and then do two things when you get there. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
3. Texas House Republicans Meet TODAY to Plot Cave on Obamacare
Governor Rick Perry is solid on the issue, but if enough members of the Texas legislature disagree with him, they could override him.
The ring leader is apparently State Rep. Lois Kolkhorst, along with Representative John Zerwas.
If you live in Texas, go to the RedState Action Center RIGHT NOW and email members of the Texas State House of Representatives. Tell them to oppose the Medicaid expansion. . . . please click here for the rest of the post →
4. Missouri State Senators Mike Parson and Tom Dempsey Begin Obamacare Sellout
Missouri State Senators Mike Parson and Tom Dempsey are working toward a cave on Obamacare as best they can in Missouri.
Senator Parson has filed SB 456, a "shell" of legislation into which multiple sources in and around the Missouri legislator expect they'll put an expansion of Medicaid.
Over 70% of Missourians voted to oppose implementation of Obamacare in a ballot initiative, but several people I've spoken to said this legislation would act as an end run around the will of the people and be focused on Medicaid, without focusing on state exchanges, mandates, etc.
The result would still be the same.
The Missouri Senate President has handpicked a committee to look at expansion of Medicaid in Missouri and Speaker Timothy Jones has set up a working group. All these acts are happening in unison and many are fearful there'll be a coordinated rush to push through Medicaid expansion before voters can rally.
If you live in Missouri, go to the RedState Action Center right now and take action to stop the legislature from expanding Medicaid.
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Obama Fulfills DeMint's Prediction, Blaming Sequester for Future Economic Problems
The Foundry | Amy Payne | March 1, 2013 at 12:59 pm
Senator Jim DeMint, the president-elect of The Heritage Foundation, apparently has a crystal ball. This morning he predicted that Obama would use the sequester as a smokescreen:
So why is President Obama leading a scare campaign filled with untruths about how sequestration will necessitate firing firefighters, cops, and teachers? I'll tell you why. Because liberals know the Obama tax hikes forced through in January will really hurt the economy. It's preemptive damage control. The President is trying to blame the sequester for the economic problems his tax hikes will spawn.
Just a few hours later, in a press conference, President Obama said:
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March 4, 2013
Today's Articles:
Barack Obama: The Man Behind the Mask
Steve McCann
Sixty-three months ago Barack Obama officially declared his candidacy for President. Only now are some among the so-called media and ruling elites in America slowly awakening from their self-induced infatuation and beginning to understand who he is. More
The Latest from Massa-choose-sex
Janet Tassel
Man and woman created He them. Oh yeah? Well, here in Massachusetts that biblical stuff is long gone, trashed for representing patriarchal imperialism, binarism, gender apartheid, cissexism, and other detestable things. More
Robin From the Hood
Richard Butrick
If one's only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. Obama's skill set is that of the community organizer. He will always construe problems as at root social justice problems. More
Philadelphia Legislators Repackage Jim Crow with New Gun Laws
William A. Levinson
When African-American legislators channel Jim Crow and the Klan, and Jewish legislators channel Heinrich Himmler, there is a serious problem that the people who put them into office need to correct. More
Progressivism's Revenge
Daren Jonescu
To gain a clear picture of the agenda of modern-day progressives, we need to take a close look at their century-old roots, for one simple reason: at that time their agenda was not so carefully concealed. More
Why does anyone need a high-capacity magazine?
Mark Almonte
For a lot of reasons, actually. More
Obama's Mythical Spending Cuts
Peter Wilson
On the one hand the president uses scare tactics to make the point that cutting any government spending will cause pain. On the other hand, he praises himself for his enormous ongoing deficit-cutting efforts. More
American Thinker BlogWhy Wind Power Won't Work
March 4, 2013
Wind power is a ball and chain for the economy. More Two Palestinian Deaths
March 4, 2013
One in the media spotlight, the other essentially ignored -- why? More Creating Stronger Communities
March 4, 2013
Government doesn't have much to do with it. More CPAC turns away Pamela Geller
March 3, 2013
CPAC already has earned headlines for narrowing the conservative tent this year. More Democrat war on women continues
March 3, 2013
Somebody tell Sandra Fluke: a Democrat state rep on Connecticut made a lewd remark to a 17 year old girl in a hearing, and also refuses to accept females as interns on his staff. More Government regulation destroying pharmaceutical industry
March 3, 2013
Current cost to bring drug from concept to market: $1.2 billion. More American Thinker accused of publishing 'a general attack on traditional Judaism'
March 3, 2013
A blogger normally worthy of respect has hurled a charge at an article published in American Thinker. More SpaceX cargo capsule overcomes glitch, completes mission to ISS
March 3, 2013
A milestone in the history of privately funded space flight. More Napolitano: 'Border is secure'
March 3, 2013
Napolitano's dodge is necessary because the Obama administration needs immigration reform to go forward, separate from the issue of border security. More Pakistan clerics endorse suicide attacks against Americans in Afghanistan
March 3, 2013
Pakistan behind new fatwa? More DHS re-designs Predator drones to spy on Americans
March 3, 2013
Questions about privacy and liberty need to be addressed. More The feverish de-legitimization of personal self-defense
March 3, 2013
The madness of the government schools. More
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By Arnold Ahlert
A dissenter has risen up. Now he must pay the price.
By Frontpagemag.com
Ketnote speaker at the Freedom Center's 2013 West Coast Retreat encourages Americans to keep the fight alive to save our country.
By Daniel Greenfield
It's time to let the Egyptians choose their own destiny.
By Robert Spencer
But not the lesson he should be learning: how to defeat him.
By Bosch Fawstin
Obama needs to answer for what he didn't do.
By Bruce Bawer
Even stating factual information will be met with state oppression.
By David Solway
Whether passive or aggressive, anti-Israel slander amounts to the same thing.
By John Hinderaker
A senator's plea for the Congress to reject the architect of Obama's ruinous economic agenda.
By Frontpagemag.com
A disturbing look at the media's obedient silence in service of the president.
By Moshe Dann
Jihadi geopolitics in a powder-keg.
By Raymond Ibrahim
Obama-supported jihadists use allegations of "proselytizing" as a pretext to terrorize.
By Joseph Klein
The UN's alliance of bigots.
By Frontpagemag.com
What Islamic barbarity will ever outrage the West's "progressives"?
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Can Obama Be Stopped?
Larry Elder Confronts Race and the Fatherhood Crisis in America
Obama Terrorizes Public with Illegal Alien Releases
Naked Liar
Israeli Leftist Targets Holocaust Organization
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TO: RJC Members
FROM: RJC Legislative Affairs Committee
SUBJ: S. Res 65, just introduced by Senator Graham
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With President Obama scheduled to visit Israel later this month and diplomatic discussions with Iran intensifying - and as the Tehran regime moves ever closer to its objective of obtaining nuclear weapons capability - this is a critical moment for Israel's security.
In response, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham introduced S. Res. 65, a bipartisan measure that would put the U.S. Senate on record in support of our key regional ally - in a clear and forthright way.
After detailing the most important milestones in the history of the U.S.-Israel alliance, S. Res. 65 puts the U.S. Senate on record as:
- strongly condemning the numerous threats against Israel that high-ranking Iranian officials have made,
- acknowledging the grave threat posed to the United States, the West, and Israel by the Government of Iran's continuing pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability,
- reiterating that the policy of the United States is to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, capability and to take such action as may be necessary to implement this policy,
- recognizing that the United States has a vital national interest in ensuring the security of the State of Israel, and
- urging that, if the Government of Israel is compelled to take military action in self-defense, the United States Government should stand with Israel by providing necessary diplomatic, military, and economic support.
At a press conference announcing this bipartisan measure, Senator Graham made it clear that the firm and explicit pledges contained in S. Res. 65 are intended to assure that the oft-heard promise that America "has Israel's back" as it confronts Iran is a promise that will be kept.
TAKE ACTION
Call your U.S. Senators and urge them to cosponsor S. Res. 65 if they have not done so already. As of today, 21 Senators have cosponsored Senator Graham's resolution; You can find a list here.
Information about how to contact your U.S. Senators can be found HERE or by calling 202-224-3121.
Senators are more responsive to their own constituents, so we encourage you to alert friends and family members in other states and ask them to contact their Senators as well.
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by COLONEL KENNETH ALLARD (US ARMY, RET.)
You save big bucks by closing bases and cutting weapons procurement, so begin by testing congressional resolve on both fronts.
Bottom line, Arpaio said, "If they're here illegally, they should be deported."
by DANIEL GREENFIELD
The basic practical functions of the family have been replaced by the nanny state. It is the nanny that takes over the care and teaching of the child as soon as possible.
by DR. WALID PHARES
This stark warning from experts in counter-terrorism who have worked in the field should be heeded. Washington is funding an umbrella group backed by Qatar and the AKP Government of Turkey.
by ALAN CARUBA
Having had the ObamaCare forced on us by a Liberal-controlled Congress, we are beginning to learn that the cost of healthcare is going to increase, people will be laid off, have their hours reduced, or simply not hired at all as the result of Obamacare.
by PETER BROOKES
Early seismic data indicates the North Korean test was not only successful, but was also the most powerful to date.
by CLIFF KINCAID
Al Jazeera is working furiously to stop the mounting congressional interest and now has three lobbying firms working to stop any hearings or investigations into the deal.
by JIM KOURI, CPP
"It's a sad state of affairs when nations bend-over backwards to avoid the tiniest slight against Muslims but tolerate the assaults and killings of Jews in the streets of otherwise liberal democracies..."
by DR. LAINA FARHAT-HOLZMAN
My annual Darwin Awards are granted to people so stupid that they should not contribute to the human gene pool. There are many candidates this year.
The Texas teacher is also under fire for encouraging students to dress in Islamic clothing and telling teens to stop referring to the Holocaust as 'genocide.'
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Shale Envy: Why North America Is the Global Oil & Gas Sweet Spot
Mar 03, 2013 08:17 am
Sunday Worship: No Other Gods Before Me
Mar 03, 2013 08:00 am
Small Companies Are Hubs of Future Profit in Regenerative Medicine
Mar 03, 2013 07:54 am
Alka Singh: Is a False Perception of Risk Pummeling Your Profits?
Mar 03, 2013 07:42 am
"You Don't Need No Education!"
Mar 03, 2013 06:29 am
What is a Progressive?
Mar 02, 2013 01:14 am
Politics over Public Safety: More Illegal Alien Criminals Released by Obama Administration
Mar 02, 2013 12:00 am
National Security Experts Warn: Reject Brennan
Mar 01, 2013 08:59 pm
Are The Republicans On A Colorado RockyMountain High?
Mar 01, 2013 04:15 pm
Sequestration: Say Goodbye to Our First Line of Defense
Mar 01, 2013 12:18 pm
20 Republicans Vote for Liar Jack Lew
Mar 01, 2013 06:02 am
Be Careful: Russia is Back to Stay in the Middle East
Feb 28, 2013 09:12 pm
The Democratic Machine Seeks to Capture Texas
Feb 28, 2013 03:58 pm
Some of Obama's Defense Policy Mistakes
Feb 28, 2013 12:56 pm
Fire: The Overlooked Threat
Feb 28, 2013 12:30 pm
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March 1, 2013 Competition Needed for Al JazeeraJanSuzanne Krasner
Vice President Al Gore's sellout of Current TV to Qatar's Al Jazeera is going to bring this Middle Eastern news giant into American homes, but it will be information 'nuanced' for the American public's consumption. This state owned network was the media of choice for Osama Bin Laden, and continues to be the resources for Hamas and Hezbollah.
It seems that this single Middle Eastern offering for 40 million American cable subscribers needs some competition that will show Americans what Muslims in the Middle East (and maybe in a local mosque) are listening to without the 'nuances.' One suggestion is the MEMRI TV Project One, an organization that monitors over 100 Arabic and Farsi TV channels round the clock.
Watch a recent 1:41 minute video picked up by MEMRI that is truly an "eye-opener." It is embedded below. The speaker is the Egyptian Cleric Abu Islam as he appeared on February 13, 2013 on Egypt's Al-Omma TV in a "Swear to God the Almighty, I am not lying" speech on the emergence of Christianity from penis worship.
Cleric Abu Islam tells the viewers "that the Church worship originated in worship of the penis. This is  documented in dozens of pictures. Let me tell you something...it's indecent, but true. Take a look at a picture of Jesus and you'll see a penis, right there (he strokes his right side)...Or is it on this side? (He points to his left side and back to the right side) Oh, it's the right side...A penis, right here. There are many pictures like this. They worship it."
The Cleric continues with claims about Christian women: "(Christian women) raise cats and dogs as a substitute for husbands. They train their dogs to play the husband. I swear to God, I am not lying. They buy dogs for this purpose. They train dogs to play the husband of them. Christian women do that."
Watch this short video to see how followers of Islam are propagandized against Christians, not only Jews.
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
DENIAL IS CONFIRMATION Politicians often seem to deny that one quality about them that everyone knows is true. Obama's "I Am Not a Dictator" deserves to join "I Am Not a Crook" in the annals of political denials. Obama is finding a dozen different ways to say that he doesn't wield absolute power. "I am not a dictator". "I can't mind-meld Congress into making a deal." "Even though I have been doing anything I want with respect to everything else, when it comes to the sequester I can't take control of it, even though the Senate has offered me that opportunity." I am not a dictator, except when I want to be. CHOPPING THE BRANCHES WILL NOT CHOP DOWN THE TREE Terrorism can never be defeated by fighting terrorists. Combine massive wealth in some parts of the Middle East with staggering poverty in other parts and the supply of mercenaries is nearly endless. Syrian Jihadists are being paid $150 a month by Qatar; a good salary for an unskilled laborer in a region where life is cheap and every family has plenty of surplus sons and mouths to feed. A barrel of oil can buy the services of a killer for a month and Qatar pumps out millions of barrels a day.
Terrorism is cheap for the sponsors, profitable for the participants and hideously expensive for the targets. A soldier in a First World nation can cost six figures. For that same amount, a backward oil tyranny can field a hundred men. When those hundred men kill a soldier, then his nation will be heartbroken and question the costs of war. When those hundred men die, their mothers will ceremonially wail and cry out for more martyrs to avenge them. And the terror will go on.
Islam makes the process easier. Like Palestinian nationalism, it is a war machine whose ideas lubricate the recruitment, rampages and replenishment of fresh cannon fodder for the wars of the old rich men of the region. from my article this week, Terrorism Without EndAGENDA IS EVERYTHING, PROCESS IS NOTHING
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Posted by Daniel Greenfield @ the Sultan Knish blog
Regardless of how many wars on poverty are declared and how often calls are issued to make the rich pay their fair share, neither the rich nor the poor will be going anywhere anytime soon. The question is what forces will keep the poor impoverished and where the rich will derive their wealth from. The founder of Subway recently said that he could not have started up his company today. Similar messages have come from the founders and heads of other major companies. That isn't to say that companies will cease to exist. What we think of as business has been changing for some time. In most countries, starting a business does not begin with a great idea. It begins with connections. Knowing the right people is still important, but in most places it's the most important thing. Under the current American model, a company becomes successful and then begins to lobby Washington to gain a competitive advantage or to avert hostile lobbying directed at negating its existing competitive advantage. That is a perversion of free enterprise, but in much of the world companies begin lobbying first and then become successful. This is the model that has evolved under Obama. And it's a familiar model to anyone doing business in Russia or China. Political connections come first and then the business becomes feasible. Oligarchy is the inevitable outcome of an economic climate where the governments acts as a gatekeeper to the country's customers. Measures that began as limited safety and fraud regulations have become a comprehensive political economic system that controls every aspect of every economic transaction. The government creates markets. It creates companies and customers. It sets prices and taxes industries that it does not favor out of business. Corporate lobbying isn't just about the proverbial 200 dollar screwdriver. It's about making it more expensive for some companies to make screwdrivers than others. It's also about forcing independent screwdriver manufacturers out of business. It's about government grants to make environmentally friendly screwdrivers and heavy taxes on companies that don't make environmentally friendly screwdrivers. Tactics like these aren't new.
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Obama's Sequester Smokescreen
By Jim DeMint
Suppose you desperately needed to lose weight but had a Big Mac with fries and a Coke staring you in the face. You could take your need to diet seriously and say, "No thanks, I'll have a salad." Or you could decide to reduce the Big Mac meal by 2 percent - pushing aside a couple French fries and gobbling up the rest.
If you took Option B, how do you think that "diet" would work out for you? Well, that, my friends, is the tale of the sequester that hit us this morning.
For the past few days the White House, with a big assist from sympathetic media, has done all within its considerable powers to make it seem like sequestration means the end of the world. If all you've heard is their side, you might be forgiven for thinking that the Mayans were right after all - just off by a couple of months on their prediction of the apocalypse.
This political panic needs a little common sense. In the last decade, federal spending has exploded from a $2 trillion budget in 2002 to a $3.5 trillion budget in 2012 - a 75 percent increase. Over the next 10 years, the budget is projected to grow another 69 percent to $6 trillion. The sequester barely taps the brakes on this runaway spending, still allowing a 67 percent increase over the next 10 years. Too much to ask of Washington?
"Sequester" is an awkward word for automatic spending reductions that were decided during negotiations for the 2011 debt ceiling deal, and it is problematic. The reductions leave the largest part of federal spending - entitlements - virtually untouched while deeply cutting into defense priorities. This compromises national security by undermining military readiness and capabilities, while doing nothing to make defense more efficient and effective. This is a poor substitute for real budgeting. The President and Congress have had a year and a half to come up with a smarter way to reduce spending, and they have failed.
But you must remember that we live in a world where Harry Reid's Senate has not passed a budget in 1,402 days. The sequester is a symptom of Washington's fiscal cluelessness.
Yet, recall why we are having this conversation in the first place. We're facing a serious debt crisis that has already led to America's credit rating being downgraded. It is driven by these massive spending increases - resulting in even more debt - which, if left unresolved, will cripple our children's future with higher interest rates, inflation, and even fewer jobs. It's time to put our nation on the path to a balanced budget within the next 10 years.
So why is President Obama leading a scare campaign filled with untruths about how sequestration will necessitate firing firefighters, cops, and teachers?
I'll tell you why. Because liberals know the Obama tax hikes forced through in January will really hurt the economy. It's preemptive damage control. The President is trying to blame the sequester for the economic problems his tax hikes will spawn.
But our struggling economy is the President's own creation. His tax hikes - in income taxes, payroll taxes, and Obamacare taxes - will take $150 billion out of the economy this year alone. The $150 billion doesn't magically appear in Washington's bank account without real consequences. It comes out of your paycheck. It means less money for your boss to give you a raise. Small businesses won't have the money to hire new employees. You'll have less money to save for your retirement or your child's college fund.
The impact of the tax hikes on the economy is nearly twice as big as the impact of sequestration. Over 10 years, Obama's tax hikes will suck $2.9 trillion out of the economy.
Excess taxation hurts working families, but cutting government spending helps spur jobs and economic growth. As Heritage economist J.D. Foster has explained, reducing the rate of spending growth "may even provide a modest short-term lift while improving the economy's performance in future years."
Washington has a problem with spending and debt. It needs immediate action. A paper by Heritage researcher Romina Boccia pointed out just last month that U.S. publicly held debt, not even counting state and local government debt, will exceed 76 percent of GDP this year, and chronic deficits are projected to push U.S. debt to 87 percent of the economy in 10 years. Recent economic research confirms that "federal debt at such high levels puts the United States at risk for a number of harmful economic consequences, including slower economic growth, a weakened ability to respond to unexpected challenges, and quite possibly a debt-driven financial crisis."
These are the real consequences of Obamanomics. The President's spending spree is the real problem. His trillion-dollar deficits mean that we can't just skip a couple of fries - we have to put government on a true spending diet. Our children's future is too important to wait any longer.
Former Senator Jim DeMint is president-elect of The Heritage Foundation.
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by John Ondrasik
I see Andrew every day. When I fire up my buddy list there is Bodiaz bringing his dose of happy-sad. Thanks, someone, for not turning his computer off.
On the one-year anniversary of his death, many folks will speak of Andrew's loss to the cause. Go ahead and cube that vacuum a few times. It's true, in some measure he lives on in all of us. When I was out campaigning for Romney last year, all my tough decisions were decided by a simple What Would Andrew Do?
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wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads
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Once-Defeated Disease Now Surging
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Merciless Killers Crossing Border From Mexico
By Jack Minor
WorldNetDaily
A member of Congress who for more than 30 years worked as a doctor says the baggage that illegal aliens are bringing into the United States now is killing people.
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Taking Liberal Elite Lies Worldwide
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Look To South Africa
By Erik Rush
CanadaFreePress.com
The aggregate compromise of America's representation globally is being misrepresented, as are international events.
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Student In Texas Sues Over Ongoing Punishment For Refusing To Pledge Allegiance To Mexico
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Texas: Students Can Opt-Out Of Reciting American Pledge Of Allegiance But Not The Mexican Pledge
RightSideNews.com
Just as the 2011 school year began, Brenda Brinsdon, then a 15 year-old sophomore at Achieve Early College High School (AECHS) in McAllen Texas, was thrust into the national spotlight after she refused to stand up, extend her arms straight out with palms down and recite the Mexican Pledge of Allegiance and sing the Mexican National Anthem.
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One Business Sector Obama Is Good For--Inadvertently
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NH Gun Store Names Obama Salesman Of The Year
By Heather Ginsberg
TownHall.com
The poster in the front window of Collectable Arms & Ammo has a picture of President Obama with the title as Firearms Salesman of the year and two AK-47rifles below his picture. In another poster next to this one features pictures of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Mao Zedong with a statement that reads "All Experts Agree, Gun Control Works".
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Iranian Source Warns Of Danger To US
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U.S. Warned: Al-Qaida Hit-Squads Coming
By Reza Kahlili
WorldNetDaily
Source IDs water, transportation, power lines, cell towers, lawmakers as targets--April deadline set.
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Evita Re-Incarnate?
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President Michele Obama in 2016?
By Marshall Frank
RightSideNews.com
The propaganda mill is already being set in motion for the 2016 election campaign, designed to keep Barack Obama in office. How? By laying the groundwork for Michele Obama.
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Sussing Sequestration Originator Will Get You Yelled At And Threatened
By Judi McLeod
CanadaFreePress.com
[W]hy the world's first Celebrity President and his bully boy minion Gene Sperling, who got to yell at celebrated journalist Bob Woodward for a half an hour before threatening him "you'll regret this" are losing their cool these days ...
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News Of The Utterly Weird ...
HBO, Dennis Rodman, And Kim Jong Un
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Dennis Rodman Tells N Korea's Kim He Will Be Friend for Life
Newsmax.com
Dennis Rodman, the basketball Hall of Famer who once wore a wedding gown to promote his autobiography, told North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, "You have a friend for life," after an exhibition game in the communist nation, according to organizers.
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Video: Obama Admin Prepares To Disarm America
Mar 02, 2013 01:29 pm
Barack Obama is a Marxist. And like all good Marxists, he wants to disarm the public. It's not like it hasn't been done before. In October 1918, the Communist government "ordered citizens to surrender all firearms, ammunition...having first mandated registration of all weapons six months earlier." The Nazis followed the same pattern. The Nazi Weapons Law [...]
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Obama's Vision: A Totalitarian StateMar 02, 2013 01:24 pm
America is being transformed, right before our eyes. It's one of the only promises the serial liar in the White House has kept. But the Republican Establishment still hasn't caught on, or else they think that somehow they will manage to hold onto the power and privilege of their current elite status. They think their [...]
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Video: Obama: 'I Am Not A Dictator'Mar 02, 2013 01:20 pm
Right. And Richard Nixon meant it when he said he was not a crook!! Related posts: Santorum: Obama A 'Two-Bit Dictator' Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says Barack Obama is... Top Obama Supporter: Imprison Opposition "Like A Third World Dictator" Enlightened Marxist Harry Belafonte was on with pal Al Sharpton...
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And The Oscar Goes To...President And Mrs. Obama!!Mar 02, 2013 01:11 pm
President Barack Obama is accustomed to receiving awards he does not deserve. In fact, the President received the ultimate prize in November of 2008. He was elected President of the United States despite scant credentials for the world's most important position. He benefited from very inadequate vetting by the liberal news media, former political watchdogs turned lapdogs [...]
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Video: Mark Levin: What Obama Is Doing Is 100x Worse Than WatergateMar 02, 2013 01:02 pm
Mark Levin explains why Obama is 100 times worse in what he is doing than what happened in Watergate, and that he actually feels sorry for Richard Nixon and the way he was treated when he sees how Obama is being treated by the press. Related posts: Mark Levin: Why I Cannot Vote For Ron [...]
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Texas School Forces Students To Recite Mexican PledgeMar 02, 2013 12:54 pm
One student in a Texas high school is taking legal action after she said she was reprimanded for not participating in a class recitation of the Mexican pledge of allegiance and national anthem. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Brindson's suit, filed by the Thomas More Law Center, contends that administrators violated her constitutional rights by forcing her to [...]
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Video: Kerry: Obama Giving Additional $80 MILLION To The ENEMY!!Mar 02, 2013 12:43 pm
Thanks to Obama, the Syrian rebels (aka al-Qaeda) can continue to slaughter the Christians and the Shiites in Syria. Related posts: Obama Gunrunning To Al-Qaeda If you were a sitting President and it was discovered... Obama Trafficking Guns To Al-Qaeda Barack Hussein Obama is arming the "rebels" in Syria, the...
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Divide And Conquer - The Two-Party SystemMar 02, 2013 12:32 pm
"There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution."- John Adams Here we go again ... [...]
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Video: Caller Takes On Radical Radio Host Over Obama's Born In Kenya BioMar 02, 2013 12:23 pm
Thom Hartmann gets educated by a wise caller about Obama's eligibility (or lack thereof) to be president... Related posts: Black Radio Host Schools A Liberal On Chris Rock's Racism Kevin Jackson talks to a liberal who defends Chris Rock's... RADIO CALLER BLASTS AL SHARPTON OVER PALIN BLAME GAME IN AZ SHOOTING When an irate caller [...]
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Why CPAC Was Right To Turn Down Chris ChristieMar 02, 2013 12:21 pm
The organizers of CPAC have come under sharp criticism for not allowing Chris Christie to speak at CPAC. Those who criticize are the same RINOs who have been distorting the brand of the Republican Party, trying to turn it into a Democratic Party lookalike. Although Christie has not been uniformly bad, this blue state governor has become far [...]
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Video: Sick "Abortion Battles" Baby-killing Game At Hunter CollegeMar 02, 2013 12:16 pm
I gotta admit this is pretty disturbing. I mean, who jokes about killing babies, even more so to make a game out of it? Related posts: Michelle Obama Almost Makes You Forget That Her Husband Supports Killing Babies And Killing Natural Marriage. Almost... The First Lady of America took the grandstand last night... A Conservative [...]
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Kevin Jennings, Pornography, And Innocence LostMar 02, 2013 12:06 pm
These are dark times. The economy is in the tank, taxes are through the roof, radical Islam is alive and well, our government scoffs at scrutiny, and a majority of the country could care less. Despite all these sobering realities, what really keeps me awake at night are the various demonic forces that continue to [...]
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Video: Carney Challenged On Sequester, Can't Defend ClaimsMar 02, 2013 11:58 am
Jay Carney can't back up the White House claims about the Sequester... Related posts: Carney: Sequester Was Obama Team Idea Jay Carney admitted last night in an interview with Bret... Obama Caught In Bald-Faced Lie On Sequester Greta Van Susteren played a montage of political statements on...
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Colion Noir: Urban Safety ChampionMar 02, 2013 11:54 am
Colion Noir's pro-Second Amendment YouTube videos have been among my favorites for awhile. I'm excited to see he's now a contributor on NRA News, produced by the National Rifle Association. As a young urban man, his advocacy is a refreshing counterpoint to gun-grabber propaganda and chocolate Klansmen glorifying mindless violence. His rebuttal of a politician's [...]
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Compassionate Truth: The Greatest Form Of ToleranceMar 02, 2013 11:52 am
"Why is it that we have been so ineffective in reaching persons trapped in this particular pattern of sin? The Gospel is for sinners - and for homosexual sinners just as much as for heterosexual sinners. As Paul explained to the Corinthian church, "Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were [...]
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Osama Bin Laden A "surprise Witness" Against Wikileaks Defendant Bradley ManningMar 02, 2013 11:45 am
The raid on bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan netted more than the death of bin laden. SEAL teams members in the compound collected hard drives and other electronic media regarding al-Qaida activities and connections. During the analysis of that media, Intelligence analysts found that bin laden had files that were downloaded from WikiLeaks; that [...]
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10 Programs That Should Be Cut - But Won't Be Cut - From The Federal BudgetMar 02, 2013 11:35 am
Washington is laying on the malaise pretty thick lately over automatic budget cuts set to take effect in March, with admonitions and partisan attacks galore. Of course, those of us who are educated in the finer points of our corrupt puppet government are well aware that the public debate between Democrats and Republicans amounts to [...]
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Hagel Vows Budget Cuts Won't Erode US MilitaryMar 02, 2013 11:31 am
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon will not let an impending $46 billion in budget cuts erode U.S. military power, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said Friday. He said the cuts will "cause pain" but insisted that they can be managed without hurting national security. At his first news conference since taking over for Leon Panetta as Pentagon [...]
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Five Realities Facing Americans As To Continued Mass ImmigrationMar 02, 2013 11:29 am
While we Americans see our country inundated with joblessness, debt, crowded cities and environmental dilemmas, few of us question why our U.S. Congress continues a steady flow of nearly 100,000 legal immigrants every 30 days. If you asked the average American on the street if he or she was aware of that enormous number of [...]
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Mass Illegal Immigrant Release Could Be Headache For ObamaMar 02, 2013 11:27 am
The release of hundreds of illegal immigrants into a federal monitoring system this week may be an ongoing headache for the Obama administration, as Republicans focus their scrutiny on uncovering potential missteps. Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, "will be aggressively examining the ramification of this decision," according to a [...]
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Video: Barack Obama's Impeachable Offense
Mar 01, 2013 01:33 pm
Reading the headlines the past few weeks has been like a page out of the book of Revelation. Barack Obama riding on his red horse has been foretelling a literal Armageddon if the so-called "draconian" sequestration cuts go into effect. But Armageddon turned into Chicago's cutthroat streets with Obama's Al Capone-like thugs shaking down enemies [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Barack Obama's Impeachable Offense
Keith Ellison Defends Obama, His Muslim BrotherMar 01, 2013 01:23 pm
This unequaled display of rudeness by US Representative Keith Ellison (D-MN) on the Sean Hannity show wasn't just bad manners. He's a Muslim, and citing his religion is instructive for this reason: his pugilistic attitude is expected when one Muslim brother feels he's defending another Muslim brother, in this case Obama. While the president says [...] Read More and Comment: Keith Ellison Defends Obama, His Muslim Brother
Video: Obama Supporter: Rather Be Murdered Than Defend MyselfMar 01, 2013 01:13 pm
I just don't understand these people...do you?! Related posts: Powerful Video From A Former Obama Supporter (EDITOR'S NOTE: After reviewing concerns from some of our readers... Colin Powell Attempts To Defend Obama's Document Fraud Globalist and RINO Colin Powell tries to defend Obama's document... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama Supporter: Rather Be Murdered Than Defend Myself
Like Child Molesters And Drug Addicts, Liberals Can NEVER Be Cured Of Their LustsMar 01, 2013 01:06 pm
Like child molesters and drug addicts, liberals can't be cured of their addiction. They want to run our lives in every way possible. New York City's Mayor Nanny Bloomberg is one such liberal. He won election twelve years ago by pretending to be another Rudy Giuliani. But even though he knew he was legally limited [...] Read More and Comment: Like Child Molesters And Drug Addicts, Liberals Can NEVER Be Cured Of Their Lusts
Journey Back With Me, If You Will...Mar 01, 2013 01:04 pm
Journey back with me, if you will, to a simpler time. To a dark and ominous period known as American history up until now. An oppressive period when society actually believed the genitals you left your mother's womb with determined your gender. A tyrannical time when parents actually parented according to the acknowledged moral standard [...] Read More and Comment: Journey Back With Me, If You Will...
Video: Leno On Obama Realizing First Term Mistakes: 'Apparently, He Does Watch Fox News'Mar 01, 2013 12:57 pm
Jay Leno took a marvelous swipe at the Obama-loving media Wednesday... Related posts: Leno Cracks Hysterical Jokes About Obama's Economy NBC Tonight Show host Jay Leno took a swipe at his own... Leno Takes Some Surprising Shots At Obama I think Jay Leno is funnier than more left-wing late-night... Read More and Comment: Video: Leno On Obama Realizing First Term Mistakes: 'Apparently, He Does Watch Fox News'
Feds Say Sequester Will Harm Non-existent AgencyMar 01, 2013 12:52 pm
Barack Obama and the rest of the leftists in charge of Washington have exploited the looming sequestration - that they themselves developed - to scare Americans with wild claims of rampant government shutdown. To aid in the dissection of what effect the mandatory cuts will have, the Office of Management and Budget produced a report outlining what [...] Read More and Comment: Feds Say Sequester Will Harm Non-existent Agency
Video: Obama Myths Of Sequestration Panic DebunkedMar 01, 2013 12:45 pm
The "cuts" under sequestration are, in fact, not spending cuts at all. Even the one department that faces substantive cuts, Defense, will continue to spend at historically high levels. Cato Institute Senior Fellow Michael D. Tanner comments. Related posts: Sequestration: Much Larger Spending Cuts Needed To Balance The Budget Sequestration, the set of automatic spending [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama Myths Of Sequestration Panic Debunked
Elena Kagan, The Fox In The Chicken CoopMar 01, 2013 12:36 pm
"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."- Franklin D. Roosevelt As the Supreme Court conveniently looks at the issue of homosexual marriage, the Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to strike down the federal law defining marriage as a union between only a man [...] Read More and Comment: Elena Kagan, The Fox In The Chicken Coop
The Shot Heard Around The WorldMar 01, 2013 12:35 pm
"The shot heard around the world" is most commonly taught today to be the shot that started the Revolutionary War and America's fight for freedom. However, I believe that as time has gone on, the true meaning behind "the shot heard around the world" has been quite distorted; and this can easily be tied into [...] Read More and Comment: The Shot Heard Around The World
Video: Lanny Davis Threatened By White House Too!Mar 01, 2013 12:32 pm
Davis told WMAL that his editor, John Solomon, "received a phone call from a senior Obama White House official who didn't like some of my columns, even though I'm a supporter of Obama. I couldn't imagine why this call was made." Related posts: Veteran Journalist Threatened By White House Bob Woodward says he was told [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Lanny Davis Threatened By White House Too!
Video: "Maxine's Math"Mar 01, 2013 12:15 pm
The California Congresswoman who said, "...the Tea Party can go straight to hell," has once again redefined "outrageous". Watch this! Related posts: Video: Obama And Maxine Waters' Good Cop/Bad Cop Routine Once again, the GOP hacks have been rope-a-doped. Last week,... Santorum Details New Delegate Math As he struggles to keep up with frontrunner Mitt [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: "Maxine's Math"
Video: Obama's Attempt To Gut Welfare Work RequirementMar 01, 2013 12:04 pm
President Obama's attempt to gut the work requirement for those on welfare runs into a little issue with the Constitution... Related posts: Liberal Criticizes Obama On Removing Work Requirement From Welfare Reform Liberal Kirsten Powers says that removing the work requirement from... GOP Governors Unite Against Obama's Welfare Work Release At least nine Republican governors [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama's Attempt To Gut Welfare Work Requirement
Republicans Warn Obama Has 'poisoned' Relations With Campaign-style AttacksMar 01, 2013 12:02 pm
President Obama's public shaming of congressional Republicans to act on a range of issues may be winning at the polls - but it risks alienating the people needed to reach bipartisan compromise. While Obama has made a strategic calculation that he needs to marshal public support to push through his agenda, centrist Republicans warn the [...] Read More and Comment: Republicans Warn Obama Has 'poisoned' Relations With Campaign-style Attacks
Video: How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools, Kids, And EducationMar 01, 2013 12:01 pm
We talk endlessly about improving public schools. So what's standing in the way? Stanford Political Science Professor Terry Moe identifies the biggest obstacle - teachers unions. Related posts: Could 'Death Education' In Our Schools Also Be To Blame? What exactly is Death Education? Back in 1990, ABC's 20/20... Steve Jobs Vs. Wall St. Whiners And [...] Watch the Video and Comment: Video: How Teachers Unions Hurt Schools, Kids, And Education
Ryan: We'll See If Obama Uses The Sequester Flexibility We Plan To Give HimMar 01, 2013 11:59 am
(CNSNews.com) - Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), chairman of the House Budget Committee, says he expects the House to pass a measure next week that will give the Obama administration more flexibility in making the spending reductions required under sequestration. "So I think you'll see more flexibility for the military, for national security, and more flexibility [...] Read More and Comment: Ryan: We'll See If Obama Uses The Sequester Flexibility We Plan To Give Him
Video: Obama Sees No Saudi EvilMar 01, 2013 11:59 am
Saudi Arabia's notorious religious police, known as the muttawa, charged into a private prayer meeting of at least 53 Ethiopian Christian workers in early February and arrested them for praying in a private home. No related posts. Watch the Video and Comment: Video: Obama Sees No Saudi Evil
Video: When Can The U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas Vs On American Soil?Mar 01, 2013 11:50 am
This is a good question posed by Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina. Related posts: Congressman Wants Petraeus To Testify One Way Or The Other Rep. Trey Gowdy told Greta Van Susteren last night that... Congressman Dares Obama Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) challenged President Obama Wednesday morning on... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: When Can The U.S. Target Alleged American Terrorists Overseas Vs On American Soil?
Let's Shed A Tear For Those Under-Appreciated Bureaucrats Who Get Lavish Pensions And Live In $700K HomesMar 01, 2013 11:41 am
When I first read this story in the Washington Post about supposedly under-appreciated federal bureaucrats, I was tempted to focus on the sentence referring to "the sledgehammer of budget cuts scheduled to hit today." Is the Washington Post so biased and/or clueless that reporters really think that a 1.2 percent reduction in overall spending for [...] Read More and Comment: Let's Shed A Tear For Those Under-Appreciated Bureaucrats Who Get Lavish Pensions And Live In $700K Homes
Video: In 2020, The Skies In America Will Be Full Of Drones!Mar 01, 2013 11:30 am
How is it that Congress is not all over Obama for using drones in other sovereign nations? Related posts: GOP Senator Defends Obama On Drones Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will offer a resolution next week... Will Drones Fill Our Airspace? I wonder how many airplanes will run into these Drones... Watch the Video and Comment: Video: In 2020, The Skies In America Will Be Full Of Drones!
Sequestration: Much Larger Spending Cuts Needed To Balance The BudgetMar 01, 2013 11:16 am
Sequestration, the set of automatic spending reductions set to hit on March 1, barely makes a dent in federal spending over the next decade. Much larger spending cuts are needed to rein in growing spending and debt and avoid a debt crisis. Federal spending is projected to grow from $3.6 trillion in 2013 to [...] Read More and Comment: Sequestration: Much Larger Spending Cuts Needed To Balance The Budget
Slain Calif. Officers Were Taken By SurpriseMar 01, 2013 10:53 am
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - In this tolerant beach town where a mayor once hosted a medical marijuana giveaway and cars sport "Keep Santa Cruz Weird" bumper stickers, there is a growing concern among residents that their laidback city is being gripped by an escalating, violent-crime wave. The rise of seemingly random attacks, including the killings [...] Read More and Comment: Slain Calif. Officers Were Taken By Surprise
Eurozone Jobless Hits Another RecordMar 01, 2013 10:49 am
BRUSSELS- Unemployment across the 17 European Union countries that use the euro has risen to a record 11.9 percent but inflation has fallen to its lowest level in two and a half years, official figures showed Friday. Eurostat, the EU's statistics office, said nearly 19 million people are unemployed in the eurozone following an increase [...] Read More and Comment: Eurozone Jobless Hits Another Record
Buchanan: Has The Bell Begun To Toll For China?Mar 01, 2013 10:35 am
"Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and convictions wavered," China's new leader, Xi Jinping, told a closed meeting of party elite in Guangdong province. "Finally all it took was one quiet word from Gorbachev to declare the dissolution of the Soviet [...] Read More and Comment: Buchanan: Has The Bell Begun To Toll For China?
Heavy Fighting Over Police Academy In North SyriaMar 01, 2013 10:30 am
BEIRUT- Syrian government forces fought fierce clashes with rebels attacking a police academy near the northern city of Aleppo on Friday, while the bodies of 10 men - most of them shot in the head - were found dumped along the side of a road outside Damascus, activists said. Russia, meanwhile, sharply criticized a decision [...] Read More and Comment: Heavy Fighting Over Police Academy In North Syria
Obama Urges Justices To Overturn Gay Marriage BanMar 01, 2013 09:57 am
WASHINGTON- The Obama administration wants the Supreme Court to overturn California's gay marriage ban, outlining a broad legal argument that could ultimately be applied to other state prohibitions across the country. The administration's friend-of-the-court brief, filed Thursday evening, unequivocally calls on the justices to strike down California's Proposition 8 ballot measure, although it stops short [...] Read More and Comment: Obama Urges Justices To Overturn Gay Marriage Ban
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These days it may seem as though the entire nation is moving ever leftward. But on the personal level it's actually much more usual for political change to go in the opposite direction: from left to right.
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Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has "bonds of trust" with Barack Obama. So what did he mean when he stated that Zionism is "a crime against humanity"? Erdogan said exactly what he believes. The Turkish leader is a holdover from the enchanted world of rural Anatolia, in which Jewish conspiracies swirl in the night air along with jinn and witches.
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With the federal government facing an economic upheaval over looming budget cuts, Congress returned to the nation's capital from far and wide after a week off on Monday. Instead of sticking around town to devise a sequestration package intended to cut spending by about $1 trillion over the next nine years, about two dozen lawmakers used the recess to travel overseas.
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If the military continues to be gutted under Obama, fewer men and women are expected to walk through the doors of recruiting offices. If there aren't enough men and women in uniform come the next conflict, will this administration or the next -- which will be left to mop up the damage at the Pentagon -- be forced to institute the draft?
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| | | | | | | Wall Street Legend Warns: 'A Storm Is Coming' | | | | | | On Friday, noted hedge fund manager Stan Druckenmiller warned that the U.S. economy is headed for a �storm� that could prove to be far worse than the financial meltdown of 2008. If you�re not familiar with Mr. Druckenmiller, here�s what you need to know: He�s one of the most respected and successful hedge fund managers in the past 30 years. Learn why the Wall Street wizard thinks we're headed for trouble, and also what could prevent us from a serious crash, HERE. | | | | | |
A bill making its way through the Colorado state capitol could outlaw the best-selling hunting shotgun in the state. The bill, aimed at banning high-capacity ammunition, has already passed the House and has support from Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. If it�s signed into law, it will also seriously limit shotguns used by most hunters in the state. Watch the video report on this developing storyHERE.
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Democratic and Republican advocates are using last Tuesday�s Fox News Channel appearance by Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison on Sean Hannity's show for fundraising. As the newly minted feud presses on, Hannity continued a discussion about Ellison�s career on his show Friday. See the latest clips and learn how much money has been raisedHERE.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Book Of The Week: 'A Story of God and All of Us' | | | | | | The highly anticipated TV miniseries, The Bible, takes dramatic cues from this companion novel, which mines key elements from the New and Old Testaments and faithfully retells them as moving narratives. Enter into the epic adventure right HERE. | | | | | | READ THIS | | | | | | | | | | | | | Who Sends Obama Daily Scriptures? The Pastor-in-Chief | | | | | |
President Obama�s friend and former employee Joshua DuBois is his so-called �pastor-in-chief.� Each morning, DuBois sends the White House scripture and reflective verses that are often tailored to the political season in an effort to sustain Obama�s faith. Watch Mr. DuBois discuss the President�s daily devotionalsHERE.
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Fans showed up to be wowed by the Rascal Flatts� music at the band's Feb 23rd concert in Pikeville, Kentucky. But it was a little boy who stole the show. A video that was uploaded to YouTube shows the little kid fervently dancing in the stands � and the crowd going wild. Prepare to experience extreme video cutenessHERE.
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| | | | | | | The NRA's New Pro-Gun Contributor Might Surprise You | | | | | | The media is going to have a hard time stereotyping the National Rifle Association (NRA) after the organization just announced its latest contributor to NRA News. TheBlaze was tipped off to the announcement and introduction of the man who calls himself an �urban gun enthusiast.� Meet Colion NoirHERE. | | | | | |
On Thursday, the National Rifle Association held a massive rally in Albany, N.Y. to protest the Empire State�s restrictive gun laws signed into law by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in January. The state�s massive gun control package gave New York the strictest gun laws in the United States. Watch the videos and watch NRA President David Keene deliver a powerful message to Gov. CuomoHERE.
After his radio show on Friday, Glenn Beck took some of his staff to a gun range in Dallas, Texas. Since they were gathering some video of shooting experts for an upcoming show on TheBlaze TV, technically the outing qualified as �work.� However, Beck certainly found some time to have some fun of his own. See the evidenceHERE.
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On Tuesday, TheBlaze asked readers who own one or more semi-automatic rifles, like the AR-15, to explain why they chose that particular firearm. The response was overwhelming as hundreds of emails came pouring in from gun owners across the country. Of course we read them all and selected a few of our favorites -- which you can readHERE.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Black Pastor Exposes U.S Gov't History On Guns & Minorities | | | | | | The Rev. Kenn Blanchard, a faith leader at Washington D.C.�s Historic Berean Baptist Church, is unabashedly supportive of gun rights. The African American preacher has repeatedly called for fewer firearms restrictions, stating that he believes laws have historically been used to restrict specific ethnic groups. In an interview with NPR on Thursday, Blanchard explained why he�s in favor of more expansive gun rights and shared his background. Listen to the audioHERE. | | | | | | READ THIS | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Taking Joe Biden's Gun Advice Gets One Man Arrested | | | | | |
In his interview with Field & Stream magazine, Vice President Joe Biden blindly encouraged concerned homeowners to fire shotgun blasts at potential intruders through the front door. Yeah, that seems like totally legit advice, right? WRONG! Learn how following Mr. Biden's advice landed a Virginia man in jailHERE.
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On Tuesday, a crowd of people rallied against gun violence at the Georgia State Capitol in honor of Trayvon Martin. During the rally, one female protester � wearing an Obama hat told a local TV crew that using a firearm in self-defense �is not an option.� Watch the startling videoHERE. | | | | | |
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Statistics show that there are some major differences among faith groups when it comes to their views on gun control. In a recent blog entryon the Washington Post�s web site, Dr. Robert P. Jones, CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), highlighted why he believes that evangelicals and catholics differ so fervently when it comes to this key issue. Learn Dr. Jones' three top reasons for this religious chasm on gunsHERE.
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| Congressional Math: 170 Million Jobs Lost To Sequestration! | | | According to Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters, if Congress allows sequestration cuts to take effect, more than 170 million Americans could lose their jobs. There's only one small problem with that statement. The entire economy only has 134 million jobs. See how we breakdown Rep. Water's mathHERE. | | | READ THIS | | |
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| | | | | | | Sequestration Is Upon Us: Now What? | | | | | | Well the March 1st deadline is here and the U.S. is officially sequestrated. Yes, as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011 passed by Congress, and signed off by the President, the U.S. government will automatically slash $85 billion from its annual budget (about 2.4 percent of the total budget). So now that these �deep� and �painful� spending cuts are here, how are people reacting? We�re glad you asked. A cross section of the reactions to the Sequestration can be foundHERE. | | | | | |
Though President Barack Obama enjoys heavy support from most of Hollywood, actor John Cusack appears to be disenchanted with the Commander-in-Chief. The piece Cusack wrote for an online site wonders, "One is forced to ask the question: Is the President just another Ivy League A**hole shredding civil liberties and due process and sending people to die in some sh*thole for purely political reasons?" Get the rest of this storyHERE.
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On Wednesday, while speaking in front of the National Association of Attorneys General in Washington, D.C., Vice President Joe Biden addressed gun control, making a particularly striking comment about the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Watch the video and try to make sense of what the Vice President was saying HERE.
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| | | | | | | | | | | | Texas Man With A Rifle Takes On Three Home Intruders... | | | | | | When Randy Magdeleno arrived home Wednesday morning, he found three burglary suspects running around his Houston home. It was a terrifying situation, he said, but thankfully he had his gun to protect him. The problem was, the .22LR bolt-action rifle was unloaded. But the burglars didn�t know that. Watch what happened nextHERE. | | | | | | READ THIS | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Benjamin Carson became a conservative icon after delivering a powerful speech critical of President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast last month while the President sat only a few feet away. Thursday evening, in order to learn more about how he developed his belief-system, Glenn Beck hosted Dr. Carson on his program to discuss the surgeon�s upbringing and influences: his mother and Booker T. Washington. Watch this fascinating interviewHERE.
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- Wilkow! -- Will SCOTUS overturn Callifornia's ban on gay marriage? Jordan Sekulow joins Andrew tonight. -- Watch Wilkow! at 6pm ET -- only on TheBlaze TV.
TheBlaze Radio Network 13-yr-old Katelyn Francis' Facebook page is not typical. It reads: �Katelyn is a 13 year old who enjoys competing in Multi Gun matches around the country.� Watch the young lady show off her precision shooting skills in an NRA profile videoHERE. | | | | | |
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On Thursday, famed reality show producer Mark Burnett (�The Voice� and �Survivor�) and his wife, actress Roma Downey (�Touched by an Angel�) penned an eye-grabbing op-ed in the Wall Street Journal entitled, �Why Public Schools Should Teach the Bible.� True to its title, Burnett and Downey make the case that America�s children should be taught the holy book�s ins and outs in classrooms across the nation. Follow their logic and learn more about the couple's new mini-series about The Bible, (debuting on The History Channel this weekend)HERE.
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Senator Menendez likes his hookers young and new to the trade
Mar 03, 2013 05:13 am | Coach Collins
by George Spelvin
"That senator likes the youngest and newest girls," said a young Dominican Republic hooker as she described in detail what allegedly went on at sex parties involving Miami ophthalmologist and high-dollar campaign donor Salmon Melgen and New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. Of course Menendez is denying everything, something not difficult to do with the majority of the mainstream media covering up for the liberal democrat.
When she heard the code word "chocolate," a young sex worker said she and other females knew they were being summoned to various homes. She even preserved the phone number from which the "chocolate" summons came. (1) But she now fears something may happen to her, saying "if they know that I spoke with someone; they will find me." Another young underage female claims she "had sex with Menendez three times at least in 2009," and that she remembers the June visit well because her 17th birthday was in ... Continue Reading:Senator Menendez likes his hookers young and new to the trade
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Osama bin Laden a "surprise witness" against Wikileaks defendant Bradley Manning Mar 02, 2013 05:13 am | Coach Collins by Jim Emerson, staff writer The raid on bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, netted more than the death of bin laden. SEAL teams members in the compound collected hard drives and other electronic media regarding al-Qaida activities and connections. During the analysis of that media, Intelligence analysts found that bin laden had files which were downloaded from WikiLeaks, that is, the information stolen by Pfc Manning was in the hands of al-Qaida. Apparently, Bradley Manning "knowingly gave intelligence to the enemy through indirect means". (1) Army prosecutors are planning to use one of the SEALs to testify at Manning's court-martial. The evidence will show that bin Laden asked for and received WikiLeaks files. The Prosecution will also call additional witnesses to testify how the leaked information may have resulted in "injury and death to individuals" and may have been used to influence enemy capability and activity in several countries. The amount of damage Manning has done is unknown ... Continue Reading:Osama bin Laden a "surprise witness" against Wikileaks defendant Bradley Manning comments | read more
Like child molesters and drug addicts liberals can NEVER be cured of their lusts Mar 01, 2013 05:13 am | Coach Collins By Derrick Hollenbeck, staff writer Like child molesters and drug addicts, liberals can't be cured of their addiction. They want to run our lives in every way possible. New York City's Mayor Nanny Bloomberg is one such liberal. He won election twelve years ago by pretending to be another Rudy Giuliani. But even though he knew he was legally limited to two terms Nanny's liberal lust for power was ultimately just as strong as a fish eyed child molester's lust for gratification. Nanny got the also term limited City Council to say, "Oops the people made a mistake and as their friends we'll fix it for them - there term limits - are all gone!" An emboldened Nanny and friends have since prohibited smoking in public parks and beaches, changed the lunch menus in schools to "healthy portions of salad" that nobody eats and set their sights on lowering the salt intake of their subjects by 25%. Nevertheless, ... Continue Reading:Like child molesters and drug addicts liberals can NEVER be cured of their lusts comments | read more |
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Friday, March 1, 2013
To: Friends & Supporters
From: Gary L. Bauer
Good news! Yes, I said good news. What is it? It is sequestration day and the world has not ended!
Obama "Evolves" Again
Barack Obama's evolving position on same-sex "marriage" has taken yet another turn. It has been a long and twisted path in which Obama has repeatedly deceived the American people.
In 2008, during a debate at Saddleback Church, Obama told Pastor Rick Warren, "I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman." Of course, that was a lie. Many years before, in 1996, Obama said that he supported the radical idea of men "marrying" other men.
As he was gearing up for the reelection campaign last year, he changed again and came out in support of same-sex "marriage," telling ABC News, "I've been going through an evolution on this issue." But he added:
"I have to tell you that part of my hesitation on this has also been I didn't want to nationalize the issue. ...And what you're seeing is, I think, states working through this issue ... all across the country. Different communities are arriving at different conclusions, at different times. And I think that's a healthy process and a healthy debate. And I continue to believe that this is an issue that is gonna be worked out at the local level, because historically, this has not been a federal issue."
So, while he supported same-sex "marriage," he was willing to let the states decide the issue for themselves.
Evidently in the past seven months since he made that statement, Obama has evolved yet again. Last night the White House filed a brief demanding the Supreme Court strike down Proposition 8 -- California's voter-approved constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
The militant homosexual rights movement is cheering today. As one activist put it, "If the court accepts the reasoning that the White House has put forward every state's anti-gay-marriage amendment will fall quickly. Make no mistake about it, the brief is a very bold endorsement of [same-sex marriage]." Evidently, Mr. Obama now wants to federalize the issue and force same-sex "marriage" on every state in the union.
March For Marriage
On March 26th the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case seeking to overturn Proposition 8. It is infuriating that we have arrived at this juncture.
Since judicial activists first tried to redefine marriage in the 1990s, the voters of 31 states have approved constitutional amendments preserving the definition of normal marriage.
But just as it did with abortion, when the left used the Supreme Court to impose its morality on the people, it is once again hoping that the high court will invalidate the will of millions of Americans in states all across the country.
You and I may not have a vote in the Supreme Court, but we can still make our voice heard!
Join me in our nation's capital on Tuesday, March 26th for the March for Marriage. I am proud to co-sponsor the March for Marriage along with the National Organization for Marriage and other pro-family organizations. Please share this report with like-minded friends, family members and fellow worshippers, and encourage them to attend. Visit MarriageMarch.org for handouts, talking points and more information.
I look forward to seeing you there!
The Bible
Tune in to the History Channel this Sunday, March 3rd, at 9:00 PM ET to watch the series premiere of "The Bible."
The series is produced by Mark Burnett and his wife Roma Downey. Downey starred in the CBS series "Touched By An Angel" and Burnett has produced hit reality shows such as "The Apprentice," "Survivor" and "The Voice." Both say this is the most important project they ever done.
They told Fox News that they hope the series will combat "biblical illiteracy." Asked why he took on this project, Mark Burnett explained:
"The Bible is most-read book of all time. It has touched the lives of billions of people across the planet and has significantly shaped history, culture, literature, art, politics and human behavior -- and continues to shape the world we live in today."
Downey added, "Our prayer is that the dramatization of these stories will drive viewers to go to the Bible itself and drink in the actual text, because it is a book that changes lives."
Indeed! And many Christian leaders are embracing the series. Pastor Rick Warren's Saddleback Church is using the series as a small group discipleship tool. Here are some quotes from evangelical and Catholic leaders endorsing the show:
"The Bible, the made-for-TV video, seeks to introduce a new generation to the Bible, the great book of the works of God. It does so with great passion, exquisite skill and cinemagraphic triumph." -- Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington
"I'm convinced that The Bible represents a unique opportunity to convey God's redemptive message to a broad audience -- many of whom may be unfamiliar with the narrative of Scripture." -- Jim Daly, President, Focus on the Family
"The Bible Series is powerful beyond words. ... As president of Parents Television Council I spend much of my time criticizing the ubiquitous flow of graphic and gratuitous sex and violence and profanity in entertainment... It is gratifying to see industry leaders working to give families something so positive, uplifting, inspiring, educational and entertaining." -- Timothy F. Winter, President, Parents Television Council
The 10-part series, from Genesis through Revelations, begins this Sunday and runs through Easter. You can learn more at bibleseries.tv.
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February 28, 2013
FRED HUTCHISON, RA ANALYST - Last fall, I had extended e-mail debates with two credentialed scientists. One was a defender of Einstein, and the other a defender of the global warming theory... (more)
February 28, 2013 THE INDEPENDENT - Public concern about environmental issues including climate change has slumped to a 20-year low since the financial crisis, a global study reveals... (more)
February 28, 2013 JOSEPH FARAH - Sometimes when I talk about the way moral relativism is destroying America, I get some quizzical looks. What is moral relativism? It's the inability or unwillingness to make moral judgments about right and wrong, to be able to point to ultimate truth, believe in it and allow it to guide your life and behavior... (more)
February 28, 2013 REUTERS - Journalist Bob Woodward on Wednesday criticized Barack Obama's handling of the automatic U.S. budget cuts set to take effect this week, calling the president's decision to hold back on military deployments "madness."... (more)
February 28, 2013 BUSINESS INSIDER - Bob Woodward said this evening on CNN that a "very senior person" at the White House warned him in an email that he would "regret doing this," the same day he has continued to slam President Barack Obama over the looming forced cuts known as the sequester... (more)
February 28, 2013 PHILIP KLEIN - If you want to understand why proponents of limited government keep losing the health care debate, look no further than this year's upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference... (more)
February 28, 2013 NEWSMAX - Dr. Ben Carson -- the renowned neurosurgeon who made headlines when he stood by President Barack Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast and criticized his healthcare and tax policies -- will be the featured speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference... (more)
February 27, 2013 NEWSMAX - Al-Qaida is on a round-the-clock mission to launch a new terrorist attack on New York City, former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy said on the 20th anniversary of the first World Trade Center attack... (more)
February 27, 2013 BLOOMBERG - The Senate intelligence committee delayed a vote on John Brennan's nomination to head the CIA by at least a week after the Obama administration provided internal communications demanded by Republicans about last year's deadly attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya... (more)
February 27, 2013 NEWSMAX - CIA nominee John Brennan, whose nomination is expected to come to a vote in the Senate on Thursday, was involved in drafting the talking points used by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice in the wake of the 2012 Benghazi attack, Republican lawmakers charged... (more)
February 27, 2013 ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Senate has voted to confirm Chuck Hagel to be the nation's next defense secretary. The vote Tuesday was 58-41, with four Republicans joining Democrats in backing President Barack Obama's nominee. The vote ended a contentious fight over the president's choice for his second-term national security team... (more)
February 27, 2013 FRANK GAFFNEY - This is no time for America to have a mediocre secretary of defense. Under present circumstances -- let alone foreseeable ones -- it would be the height of folly to give the job to someone even more deficient: Chuck Hagel... (more)
February 27, 2013 PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY - President Obama ended his State of the Union speech on a warm and fuzzy note by calling for pre-K programs for almost all children. The best thing he could do for pre-kindergarten children is to make sure he doesn't hang trillions of dollars of debt around their necks, but that isn't the route he is taking... (more)
February 27, 2013 WORLDNETDAILY - The Obama administration has launched another challenge to the rights of individuals to act on their religious beliefs, this time focusing on a family of homeschoolers. The administration already has argued in legal cases against the Obamacare contraceptive mandate that religious business owners can be forced to pay for abortifacients for their workers in violation of their religious beliefs... (more)
February 27, 2013 MICHELLE MALKIN - Traffic alert: There's a massive clown-car pileup on the Beltway. And with the White House court jesters of sequester behind the wheel, no one is safe. Fiscal sanity, of course, is the ultimate victim. President Obama has been warning America that if Congress allows mandatory spending "cuts" of a piddling 2 percent to go into effect this week, the sky will fall... (more)
February 27, 2013 WASHINGTON TIMES - Scouting organizations in California that bar open homosexuals as leaders and members could lose their state tax-exempt status if a bill is enacted... (more)
February 27, 2013 WASHINGTON EXAMINER - In an interview with Good Morning America's Robin Roberts aired this morning, First Lady Michelle Obama recalled the tragic death of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton who was shot and killed in Chicago after performing during the President's Inauguration celebration in Washington D.C.... (more)
February 27, 2013 WORLDNETDAILY - Those pushing President Obama's gun-control agenda often portray the United States as one of the murder hot spots of the world, but the numbers tell a different story. Even more revealing, gun murders in the U.S. are concentrated in big cities that typically have the strictest gun-control regulations... (more)
February 27, 2013 ASSOCIATED PRESS - The American-led military coalition in Afghanistan backed off Tuesday from its claim that Taliban attacks dropped off in 2012, tacitly acknowledging a hole in its widely repeated argument that violence is easing and that the insurgency is in steep decline... (more)
February 27, 2013 FOX NEWS - An Illinois father wants a school district to reconsider its dress code after his son was asked to remove a U.S. Marines T-shirt or be suspended, FoxNews.com has learned... (more)
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Bizarre sex games in today's Army training
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It's a case of soldiers gone wild.
You simply may not believe the sexy shenanigans taking place these days in training for America's military.
We're tearing the covers off this naughty one, but be forewarned, this report contains details of a sexually graphic nature that may offend some readers.
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Horrifying secret Obama doesn't want you to know
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As you know, President Obama loves to trumpet his successes (as if he actually had any).
But WND has been digging deep into his administration, and we've unearthed some sickening information you'll never hear the pretender in chief mention.
Once you click, you'll know why ...
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NBC reveals 'secret under pope's famous hat'
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Have you ever wondered what secret lay beneath Pope Benedict's famous hat?
Well, the folks at NBC have their own idea, and they exposed it on national TV last night.
Take a look for yourself ...
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You WON'T see this conservative star at CPAC ...
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What in the world is going on at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference?
For the past four years, this conservative star has been hosting standing-room only events at the annual get-together of right-thinking minds to save America.
But this year, the famous name is left out in the cold ...
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Dating is dangerous, Christian leaders say
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Why is it that American parents spend a decade and a half trying to instill their values in their children, protect them from harm, and then, just when those same children's hormones are kicking in, release them to the world of dating where they will be in close, private, intimate contact with other hormone-driven teens the parents do not know?
There's something wrong with this model.
Maybe there's a better way ...
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Do you know exactly how the nation of Israel fits into current world news events?
Given the tensions in that part of the world and the ability of some of the players there to make good on their threats against America -- not to mention what some see as the unfolding of prophetic events -- this might be a good time to get up to speed.
Here's how.
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High-capacity gun magazines airlifted to 'freedom-loving' Americans
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Here's a member of the firearms industry targeted by Democrat gun grabbers who isn't taking their Soviet-style embargo of the Second Amendment without a fight.
It's a clever political project ... and an even more clever marketing campaign.
Americans trapped inside occupied territory, take heart ... the Yanks are coming!
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Execution for 'House of Horrors' doctor?
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Whatever one's position on decriminalization of drugs, it's still a telling indictment of the government's inspection system that this doctor would have gotten away with running his filthy, deadly clinic if he hadn't been suspected of writing illegal prescriptions.
He almost got away with murder ...
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Merciless killers invade U.S. over Mexico border
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Once upon a time, they were the leading killers of Americans.
We wiped them out ... we thought they'd never come back.
But they have ... crossing the U.S.-Mexico border ... more determined to kill than ever ... Americans defenseless against them.
Do you breathe? Yes? Then they're targeting you ...
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Battle for life: 22-year-old filmmaker shows how it's done
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If you're sitting down now, go ahead and stand up ... you'll be on your feet cheering after you meet this 22-year-old filmmaker who is destined to change the world.
All is not lost ... in the face of evil and darkness a new generation has entered the battle for the good ... for the truth ... for life.
This is the powerful, feel-good story of the week ... enjoy and pass it on.
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Maybe THIS should be Obama's Benghazi defense
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The order to slaughter U.S. diplomatic personnel was captured on audiotape ...
The U.S. knew, in real time, the identity of the terrorist calling the shots ...
It was a Republican president who initiated the cover up that let the ringleader responsible for machine-gunning three Americans to death escape justice, attain international respectability ... and even win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Whatever Obama's hiding in Benghazi, could it be bigger than this?
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The National Rifle Association has a new weapon in the fight to defend the Second Amendment.
This "urban gun enthusiast" promises to cut right through Obama's support base.
Check out this example of asymmetrical political warfare at its finest ...
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If it talks like a dictator and it acts like a dictator ...
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On the day Barack Obama declared, "I'm not a dictator," an Arizona congressman is comparing him to a very famous one over his mass release of criminal illegals.
The question is, given this aging dictator's politics, will the comparison upset or please Obama?
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What are the heavens telling us?
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The sky is falling!
No, not the phony end-of-the-world hype Obama and the sequester hucksters tried to pass off.
Real stuff ... February's impressive display of celestial events - notably the meteor that exploded over Russia.
Those "signs from the heavens" have some theological leaders and experts convinced God is trying to send a message.
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Now look who's calling Obama's sequester idea 'dumb'
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What a difference a day makes.
Yesterday the sky was falling because of the looming sequestration ... police officers, firefighters, teachers, soldiers would see pay cuts ... air-traffic control towers and shipyards would close down ...
But today ... the chief proponent of the scheme is dismissing it all as "dumb" ... something that's "not going to be an apocalypse."
Oh, well.
Now that the silly Chicken Little facade has been ripped away, WND tells you what you REALLY need to be worrying about ...
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What could Obama's Defense Department possibly have against WND?
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They're doing it again.
They're doing it again even as the White House is issuing threats to reporters whose work offends the administration ... telling them they'll "regret" what they've written.
They've been messing with the Second Amendment ... now it's the First Amendment.
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Campus craze: 'Stab that baby!'
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Callous. Sickening. Not funny.
Those words are being used to describe the "really fun" game played by some students on their college campus.
You won't believe what they were "pretending" to do.
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Deadly cost of illegal aliens behind the wheel
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In the next few months, as Washington Democrats look to create a new pool of voters by granting amnesty to illegal aliens, and Republicans compromise because they fear being called bad names, think of Timothy Kay, a veteran who served his country overseas.
And think of the unlicensed and uninsured illegal alien who came over the border and turned Kay's life upside down in a highway crash.
Think of all these victims ... because the politicians won't.
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One year after the death of Trayvon Martin, the national news outlets are eager to let us know Sanford, Fla., has begun to heal.
So say the Detroit Free News, ABC, NBC, PBS, Associated Press and others.
Hmmmm ... not so fast.
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A Christian in prime time?
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Report Shows Senior Administration Official Has No Interest in Enforcement
A report written by President Obama's top domestic policy advisor more than 20 years ago, when she served as a senior immigration policy analyst for the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), ought to raise some serious red flags with members of Congress.
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McCain Says Obama "Understands" Border Security
President Obama understands Republican concerns about the need to link improved border security to changes in immigration law, two key Republicans involved in the effort said Tuesday.
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Fabricating Consensus on Immigration
Amnesty proponents have apparently absorbed the lessons of 2007. As they embark on yet another legislative effort in 2013, they are aggressively attacking the obstacles that tripped up their last attempt.
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White House Says ICE to Blame for Release of Illegal Aliens
The White House said Wednesday that it had nothing to do with the decision by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to release immigrants awaiting deportation.
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How Many Visa Overstayers?
It is obviously tricky to base estimates about illegal aliens on a government survey, because illegal aliens do not willingly provide information to government agents.
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Amidst continuing controversy over the Department of Homeland Security's purchase of large quantities of guns and ammunition, the federal agency is getting more secretive about its activity by censoring information about a no-bid contract with Remington for firearms parts ... (more) |
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A popular hunting shotgun could be banned under one of the bills moving through the state Capitol.
A pump or semi-automatic shotgun is the gun most hunters in Colorado use. It's a gun state Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, says could be banned under a bill that's already passed the House and ... (more) |
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Obama's Assassination Drones
The Power to Assassinate a Compliant and Submissive People. President Obama's nomination of John Brennan is being held up over Brennan's refusal to state whether the... (more)
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With gun rights coming under fire across the border in New York State, the Susquehanna County commissioners spoke out by resolution Wednesday in favor of the Second Amendment.
Republican Commissioner Michael Giangrieco said the issues in New York prompted him to address the matter... (more) |
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See this video where President Obama declares he is "not" a dictator and watch him contradict himself through the rest of the speech... (more) |
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Tears for Piers
Posted: 03 Mar 2013 03:17 PM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
What's more fun than watching Tottenham Hotspur defeat Arsenal in the North London Derby, causing Arsenal to drop to within two points of Everton in the battle for fifth place in the EPL? Lot's of things, actually, and of them is watching this happen in front of Arsenal fan Piers Morgan, the insufferable CNN talk show host.
I've seen Morgan on Fox pre-game shows before. On those occasions, he limited himself to incorrectly predicting the outcome of the match.
Today, though, Morgan decided to rant non-stop against Arsene Wenger, the Arsenal manager. Wenger is one of the great soccer minds of his generation. Taking over at Arsenal in 1996, he transformed the club into one of Europe's best and a perennial contender, with Manchester United, for the EPL crown, which his Arsenal teams have won three times.
In recent years, Arsenal hasn't sustained a strong title bid. However, the club has remained in the EPL's top four, thus qualifying every season for the prestigious and ultra-lucrative Champions League.
Morgan wants Wenger out because he doesn't think the top four is good enough for Arsenal. But it isn't Wegner's fault that Manchester City and Chelsea have surpassed his club. These two teams are rolling in foreign money, and Arsenal lacks the resources to keep up. Blaming Wenger because Arsenal is on the fringe of the top floor is like blaming David Moyes for Everton's status on the fringe of the top six - in other words, ludicrous.
Morgan whined that Wenger keeps selling his top players. He cited Robin Van Persie and, especially, Cesc Fabregas. But Wenger d�dn't sell Fabregas because he thinks Mikel Arteta (ex-Everton) approaches Fabregas in quality. Fabregas was determined to return to Spain to play for Barcelona, and Arteta was a decent, available replacement Arsenal could afford.
No manager could have kept Fabregas in North London. But Wenger, in a brilliant acquisition, has now brought in Santi Cazorla to fill the creativity void. Cazorla is arguably the best play making midfielder in the EPL this season.
As for Van Persie, he succumbed, like so many others, to the lure of Manchester United. Morgan notes that United boss Sir Alex Ferguson also faces limitations on spending. But Fergie's constraints aren't as severe. Nonetheless, if Sir Alex will take the Arsenal job, then by all means, Wenger must go. Otherwise, Morgan should attempt a more nuanced analysis of his club's managerial situation.
Morgan also opined that Wenger has opted for players who are too small. A more cogent complaint would be that the team's defenders are too ponderous. But we should no more expect cogency from Morgan than from the guy who calls your local sports radio station at 3:00 a.m. to vent.
When not attacking Wenger, Morgan was offering helpful advice on how Arsenal should play Spurs. They need to stop Gareth Bale, he warned. As Bale is probably hottest footballer in Europe right now (with the possibile exception of Barcelona's Lionel Messi), Morgan's counsel was akin to telling the Green Back Packers to watch out for Adrian Peterson.
Morgan also took pains to let us know how many season tickets he has. In addition, he disclosed that he knows Wenger personally. If he's this close to the situation, why is his analysis is so pedestrian?
By half time, delicously, Spurs were ahead 2-0. Morgan looked as if Larry Pratt had replaced Warren Barton in the Fox studio. He attacked the Arsenal defense for "running away" from Bale when he scored the first goal. Actually, Arsenal had tried to pull the off-sides trap. That device isn't fool proof, but neither is standing next to a player like Bale hoping you can keep up with him when he elects to make his run. The real problem, as Barton noted, was the lack of pressure on the ball.
The match ended 2-1 to Spurs. By now Morgan looked like Ben Shapiro had replaced him at CNN. With the veins in his neck bulging, the talk show host continued his Wenger must go rant.
But Morgan is a humane man. He wouldn't like to see Arsenal sack its long-time gaffer. Instead, Morgan intoned, Wenger should look at himself in the mirror and admit he's no longer the man for the Arsenal job.
Here's a better idea. Morgan should look at himself in the mirror and admit he never was the man for Larry King's job.
That won't happen, of course. But we can at least hope that Fox Soccer Channel will conclude that this whining celeb doesn't belong in its studio.
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Psalm 23, newly revised
Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:50 PM PST
(Scott Johnson)
Last week we posted Claremont Institute senior fellow Mark Helprin's interview with Claremont Review of Books editor Charles Kesler here. Now comes the sardonic Mr. Helprin with "Psalm 23, newly revised according to modern principles." In the fifth year of our Lord and Master Barack Obama, let us pray:
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of debt, I fear no bankruptcy, for Obama is my shepherd. He prepareth a table of food stamps before me, and maketh me lie down beside waters He hath cleansed and seas He hath made recede, even though the bad Republicans wisheth the earth to be burnt unto a cinder, and will not buy the electric car that is good, for it hath zero emissions, and receiveth its power from a power plant, which hath not zero emissions, but the ways of the President are mysterious.
He hath told the stubborn Israelites, evil builders of apartments, that they know not their own interests and He does, and know not what they do, when they fear the nuclear weapon of the Persians. The ways of the President are mysterious. He alloweth the Persians to get the nuclear weapon (unless He hath something up His sleeve), for He knoweth that when they behold Him they will stay their hand, and not burn the Israelites unto a cinder, as they pronounce.
Yea, though Bernanke maketh funny money that will not compute, Obama prepareth a statistical table in front of the bad Republicans that showeth it will, if only they have faith. Fear not the Hellenes and the path they have trod. Though for sure we shall follow them, the President will be our sword, and our shield. His Hillary Rodham and his staff, they comfort us.
Fear not the Chinois, whose power waxes as ours wanes, for someday thy children's children shall journey over the sea that Obama hath made recede, west of the land of Geffen and Famous Amos, to build railroads for Beijing. Then the Third World will have inherited the earth, and the strong will have been laid low, which is good, and which is also the Democratic platform.
Verily, we should be like the meek of the earth, and follow the commands of the President, the Amalekites, the EPA, and the IRS, which taketh our money, which is good, for we know not what to do with it. And Obama does, for you did not buildeth that. Once, we were slaves in the land of Reagan (and if you attributeth the "Reagan" deficits to increased military spending and lowered tax rates, tryeth accounting for the changes in military expenditure and tax revenues in the Reagan years, for, lo, when combined they yieldeth a surplus). Then, we were sinners, in spending our own money for what we thought was our own good. But now we are free, for the President spendeth it for us, and He maketh miracles, for, lo, He roasteth invisible chickens, and, lo, He spendeth money that existeth not, that Bernanke printeth. And, lo, it buys us stuff, for now.
Yea, though I accumulate debt higher than the mountains of Gilboa, and the deadbeats skip like rams, I shall not want, for Bernanke maketh funny money, and the President smiles upon the land, but not upon the bad Republicans. For they wisheth to live within their means, which surely must be evil. And what would you expect from people who are suspicious of Social Security? And wisheth to burn the earth unto a cinder.
But arithmetic notwithstanding, I will dwell in the house of Obama all the days of my life. (Why not four terms, and what about Michelle? For the Constitution liveth.) And, the earth having been purified, surely it will be good when-and where do I apply for-government assistance will be the only thing left.
Amen.
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Conservatives, Anti-Intellectualism, and Harvard, Oh My!
Posted: 03 Mar 2013 02:49 PM PST
(Steven Hayward)
Well what the heck, we may as well make this a Power Line symposium, like Commentary does from time to time. Paul and John's posts are right down my alley just at this moment, as I've been in the throes of the University of Colorado business for the last several weeks. (Concerning which, see the Wall Street Journal's Jason Riley and James Freeman discuss the issue-and mention me-in this video; I'm avoiding public comment about the whole thing right now, but I'll break media silence briefly to say that I agree with virtually every syllable of what Jason says here-especially his comment about Thomas Sowell's philosophy of classroom teaching, which I fully share.)
A few observations: Paul is right to defend Ted Cruz about Harvard Law School, which in the late 1980s and early 1990s became almost wholly captured by the "Critical Legal Studies" fad (that would have been at the tail end of Obama's time there, incidentally). CLS is just Frankfurt Marxism wrapped in a legal brief, and on some other occasion perhaps I'll go off on the "Frankfurters," as I like to call them. (Meaning, yes, they're all a bunch of dicks.) Things were so bad at Harvard Law in those days that it was typical for students who expressed non-liberal points of view in class to be hissed or booed openly-and the faculty did nothing to put a stop to this atmosphere. Even Elena Kagan (now Justice Kagan, and obviously no conservative), when she became dean, could see that Harvard had swung too monolithically to the left, and she made a special effort to hire conservative law professors to bring some balance back to Harvard Law. (And no one called it "affirmative action" for conservatives, I should note.)
Second, while the problem of leftist indoctrination does occur, it happens more often in the fringy, ethnic- and gender-studies programs more than in the mainstream humanities courses. (Both the political science and history departments at the University of Colorado never wanted anything to do with Ward Churchill, it bears noting.) And I also think blatant indoctrination occurs more at smaller, private liberal arts colleges than in the main departments at larger universities, especially the large public research universities like Colorado, Berkeley, etc. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are somewhere in between the large public research universities and traditional liberal arts colleges I think, which makes their cases even harder to judge. But at all of those three, I can point to a number of solid professors, not necessarily conservatives, worth studying with. For a long time Harvard's government department featured not just Harvey Mansfield, but Sam Huntington, James Q. Wilson, Ed Banfield, and Sam Beer. Today I'd unhesitatingly recommend Michael Sandel and Robert Putnam, as their liberalism is serious and thoughtful, and their courses, as far as I can tell, are conducted in the best tradition of non-indoctrinating liberal education. At Yale, Steven Smith, John Lewis Gaddis (actually a registered Republican I think!), and Donald Kagan come quickly to mind. Princeton has Robby George, Aaron Friedberg, and I have considerable regard for Sean Wilenz (definitely a liberal).
Paradoxically, it is at private liberal arts universities where you typically find many more (though scattered) conservative professors than you do at the large research universities, so the radicalism of many classrooms is offset by these oases of sense. And conservative professors are usually very popular with students for reasons I'll discuss some other time, though this will be implicit in the serial descriptions of the new Power Line 100 Best Professors series. But there are few such oases in the large research universities. Jim Ceaser at Virginia is about the only person who comes quickly to mind. The reasons for the near total absence of conservatives at large public research universities may have more to do with some of the defects (in my opinion) of the methodological narrowness of the public research university today than it does blatant hiring bias, though even once you factor in self-selection factors (i.e. few conservatives want to teach in the humanities in research universities), then the bubble effect of like-minded liberalism among the faculty reinforces this tendency in subsequent hiring cycles. But beyond just the hiring controversy, I think the narrower specialization and methodological exactitude of research universities may be a more significant problem than blatant classroom bias. Many more thoughts on this in due course.
Above all, as I often like to say, I'm happy to match conservative intellect against the too often unchallenged and therefore lazily self-satisfied campus liberal opinion. I never start to get concerned about the odds until the panels are stacked at least four to one against me; any ratio lower than that I consider unsporting to the liberals. This is a tiny part of what I had in mind with my recent post here about my non-use of the term "normative."
Okay Scott, your turn.
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Is the right's critique of Harvard anti-intellectual?
Posted: 03 Mar 2013 12:56 PM PST
(Paul Mirengoff)
I agree with John's contention, sparked by an editorial in the Harvard Crimson, that populist anti-intellectualism isn't a wise approach for conservatives to adopt. But I want to add that the editorial in question doesn't show that the conservative critique of Harvard rests on populist anti-intellectualism.
The Crimson cites three conservative "attacks" on Harvard. The first came from Ted Cruz, who complained that, during his time at Harvard Law School, the faculty contained a sizeable number of Marxist professors. This beef isn't anti-intellectual. There is no inconsistency between intellectualism and the belief that a law school faculty shouldn't include many Marxists.
The Crimson sniffs that "education gives people new ideas that they might not have otherwise had." But even assuming that Marxism is a new idea that won't have occurred to law students during their undergraduate years, one or two Marxist law school faculty members would be sufficient for that purpose. And the Crimson makes no mention of Cruz's complaint that, in his time, the Harvard Law School faculty was nearly devoid of openly conservative professors.
Bill O'Reilly is the second conservative purveyor of anti-intellectualism identified by the Crimson. O'Reilly was unhappy that his alma mater accepted something called Harvard College Munch, a group for students who share an interest in kinky sex. But there is nothing anti-intellectual about O'Reilly's displeasure. Intellectuals can and do take either side in the debate over whether a college should accept or sponsor groups that promote off-beat sex.
The Crimson's last example is Mitt Romney. During the presidential campaign, he criticized President Obama for having spent "too much time at Harvard." Since Romney spent more time at Harvard than Obama, I hope that Romney made this comment with tongue somewhat in cheek. If not, then the remark is mildly anti-intellectual (not to mention ridiculous). But it provides slender support for the Crimson's suggestion that conservative criticism of Harvard is anti-intellectual.
The fundamental conservative criticism of Harvard is the same as its criticism of academia as a whole - that some of its precincts tend to provide students with leftist indoctrination rather than an intellectually balanced education. This critique, whether or not one agrees with it, isn't anti-intellectual.
As to whether conservatives students should apply to Harvard, I'm reminded of when I told a leading figure in the Bush adminstration, with a distinguished background in academia, that my daughter was applying to Brown and Dartmouth. "Equally bad," was his reply. When I asked where his kids had gone to college, he said that one of them had attended the notoriously leftist Reed College.
As John suggests, for conservative students few alternatives to Harvard exist that aren't "equally bad." So why not try to attend Harvard and annoy the Crimson?
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Is Populist Anti-Intellectualism Wise?
Posted: 03 Mar 2013 11:47 AM PST
(John Hinderaker)
On Friday a producer of Larry Kudlow's CNBC show asked whether I would be willing to come on that evening to talk about this editorial in the Harvard Crimson. As it happened, I was already committed for the evening and had to decline, but that was just as well, as I wasn't sure what to say about the article in any event.
The Crimson editorial chides Harvard graduates who go on to use the university as a whipping boy, especially in a political context:
If you think Harvard is a revolutionary communist hotbed, don't apply. If you think Harvard is full of "pinheaded" professors, don't enroll. And if you think Harvard pollutes the minds of its students, don't walk out of here with a degree-and certainly don't get two.
You see, lately, there seems to be a pernicious trend of public figures-especially those on the right-falling in love with Harvard just long enough to benefit from its educational resources and, yes, its social prestige, before turning against our school. Just recently, Senator Ted Cruz of Texas affirmed his belief that Harvard Law School was, during his years as a student there, home to a cohort of "Marxists who believed in...overthrowing the United States government." In November, Fox News pundit and Harvard Kennedy School graduate Bill O'Reilly glibly referred to Harvard professors as "pinheaded" while implying that the Harvard community is morally suspect for its acceptance of Harvard College Munch, a group for students who share an interest in kinky sex. And last April, presidential candidate Mitt Romney, who holds a J.D. and MBA from our fine institution, lambasted President Obama for having spent "too much time at Harvard."
Such episodes of treachery are apparently attempts to curry favor with the more anti-intellectual members of our body politic. Yet it is finally time that we say enough is enough. We at The Crimson urge anyone who plans on one day scoring political points by maligning Harvard to neither apply, enroll, nor graduate from this fine institution.
Frankly, much as I disagree with the Crimson's political slant, I think the editors have a point. Do Ivy League institutions like Harvard tilt to the left? Of course. But left-wing outrages are just as likely to come from state universities (think Ward Churchill) and the local community college. There are great conservatives at the Ivy League schools, not to mention the many fine teachers who are more or less apolitical. And I do think it is a bit unseemly for Mitt Romney, who has degrees from both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, to tweak Barack Obama for spending too much time there.
Dismissive comments about educational institutions like Harvard are common on the right, and the Crimson's editors are not alone in seeing them as a manifestation of anti-intellectualism. They are intended, I take it, to strike a populist tone. But do they do so effectively? I don't think so. Putting aside the question whether Harvard is any more left-wing than, say, the University of Wisconsin, I suspect that attacks of the sort cited by the Crimson are counter-productive. Most people, rightly or wrongly, think of institutions like Harvard as places of great intellectual achievement-which is, after all, the point of singling them out for disdain. As far as I can see, for example, virtually everyone considers Barack Obama's having been President of the Harvard Law Review to be a fine thing, and some even considered it, however misguidedly, to be a qualification for high political office. Equating intellectualism with leftism plays into the (entirely false) narrative that paints conservatives as ignoramuses, and Republicans as the "stupid party."
The question of how conservatives and Republicans can better appeal to low-information voters is a critical one, and I don't have any easy answers. But there is little evidence that indulging in what comes across as anti-intellectual populism is an effective means to that end.
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The Week in Pictures
Posted: 02 Mar 2013 02:36 PM PST
(Steven Hayward)
Time for another of our periodical photo-cartoon essays of the week that was.
The sequester hits DC.
Undoubtedly the best item of the week was Obama showing his pop-culture ignorance of the crucial distinction between (and superiority of) Star Trek and Star Wars by eschewing the use of a Jedi mind-meld. (And you thought his Spock-like ears actually meant something.) This is going to cost him at least 10 points in his approval ratings. Someone needs to sit him down and make him watch the Trekkie-Star Wars gang fights with Seth Rogen in Fanboys (a much under-rated movie in my book). Bonus! It turns out the Trekkie vs. Jedi Wars gang fight is up on YouTube! Anyway:
Speaking of science fiction, pretty sure this is a Firefly reference. Browncoats rule!
Boneless wonder #1
And boneless wonder #2. Still hard to put this guy and "swift" in the same sentence.
NRA Gothic
No wonder they have a bad attitude about us.
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Smearing Gun Permit Holders By Omission
Posted: 02 Mar 2013 02:19 PM PST
(John Hinderaker)
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported yesterday that the State of Minnesota issued 31,657 permits to carry handguns in 2012, a record number. No surprise there. The Strib puts that number in the context of the current debate over gun control, and concludes with these statistics, presented without comment:
Minnesota's permit holders have committed at least 1,159 crimes since 2003, including 114 in which a gun was used, according to the BCA.
Wow, sounds like a regular crime wave among gun permit holders! But what do those data actually show? According to the same article, there are now over 125,000 permit holders in Minnesota, or around 2.6% of the over-21 population. So, other things being equal, you would expect them to commit something like 2 to 2 1/2% of all crimes (since a considerable number are committed by persons who are less than 21 years old). In order to put the Strib's numbers in context, you need to know something about the number of crimes committed in Minnesota.
According to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension's numbers, there were at least 146,249 crimes of violence and crimes against property in Minnesota in 2011. (I believe that total is low, if we are trying to get a number for all crimes, since drunk driving, for instance, is not included). Let's assume, to make the calculation simple, that the number of violent and property crimes has remained constant since 2003; actually, it has fallen somewhat. But using the 2011 rate for the period 2004-2012 yields a total of 1,316,241 crimes. (And you thought Minnesota was a law-abiding state!) Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that over that period of time there have been an average of 50,000 carry permit holders in Minnesota; that would be roughly 1.2% of the over-age 18 population. (Again, that is an average from 2004 through 2012, assuming an average of 50,000 permit holders over that time period.)
So do the math: if permit holders were as law-abiding as the average Minnesota citizen, you would expect them to have committed 1.2% of the 1,316,241 crimes from 2004 through 2012, or a total of a little over 16,300. Which tells us, according to the Strib's numbers, that non-permit holders are around 15 times as likely to commit a crime as permit holders. Carry permit holders must be the most law-abiding segment of Minnesota's population, with the possible exception of Sunday School teachers.
SIG Sauer P938 Extreme
I believe that since Minnesota enacted its shall-issue law in 2003, two permit holders have been charged with homicides. Over the eight years from 2004 through 2011, there were 807 homicides. Using the same logic employed above, one would expect 1.2%, of these homicides to have been perpetrated by carry permit holders. That would be nine or ten murders, as opposed to two.
A representative of the Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance offered similar numbers with respect to drunk driving:
Rothman responded that permit holders commit much less than their share of crime, citing as an example that though one in seven Minnesotans has a DWI on their record, only one in 545 of the state's permit holders got one after getting a permit. "No one ever claimed permit holders would be perfect," Rothman said, "but the numbers show (they) are consistently orders of magnitude more law abiding than the general public."
Other analyses have shown that permit holders are far less likely than other Minnesotans to commit assaults and other crimes.
One could tinker with all of these numbers around the edges, but there is no escaping the conclusion that permit holders are remarkably law-abiding, and commit far fewer crimes than would be expected, given their numbers. That being the case, it was deceptive for the Star-Tribune to recite numbers for crimes committed by permit holders without putting them into context and noting how extraordinarily low the numbers are.
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Brennan and the bin Laden files
Posted: 02 Mar 2013 10:17 AM PST
(Scott Johnson)
Tom Joscelyn writes:
My latest in the Weekly Standard deals with Osama bin Laden's files. The Obama administration, despite its supposed commitment to transparency, has released just 17 files and a handful of video clips from a corpus totaling "hundreds of thousands of documents and files." Tom Donilon, Obama's national security adviser, has said that the documents and files would fill a "small college library." There are compelling reasons to think that the administration has politicized the documents' contents and this has a direct bearing on the course of America's counterterrorism strategy.
Read Tom's article at the link above or here.
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Hitler Learns About Power Line's Pop-Up Ads
Posted: 02 Mar 2013 10:12 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
Up to now Power Line has been supported wholly by ads, and has eschewed any kind of paywall or subscription fee. We don't fully control the ad rotation-that's why I kept getting Alan Grayson ads before the last election on my screen, which I found rather amusing actually. Clearly Grayson's campaign didn't use Obama's data mining wizards to target his media.
But in any case, internet ads-especially the pop-up kind-are the online equivalent of the loose magazine subscription cards that fall out in your lap or the coupon circulars in the Sunday papers: a necessary nuisance of doing business. (Thank God Alan Grayson didn't have pop-up ads at least; that could have ruined many meals. Talk about politics as show business for ugly people!)
In our ongoing efforts to think up new ways to expand Power Line further and offer more content (new things coming soon!), we float ideas and experiment from time to time. It's amazing how many people read Power Line in the middle of the night (perhaps our overseas readers?), because we heard from a lot of you when we experimented briefly in the middle of the night a few days ago with a survey widget, which is one of the new things being tried on websites. It's quite obtrusive, asking you to answer a question before getting access to an article.
Anyway, our chief critic caught up with the scheme at a recent Power Line editorial board meeting, as you'll see here. (And somehow I can't seem to get the pop-up to turn off inside of YouTube. So the joke is really on us now.)
JOHN adds: Don't worry, we don't have any intention of implementing the survey. But the video-Steve gets all the credit-is hilarious, in my opinion.
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The Weekly Winston: Obama Boneless Wonder Edition
Posted: 02 Mar 2013 08:57 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
In honor of the recent Cabinet confirmations of John Kerry, Jack Lew, and Chuck Hagel, it becomes apparent that Churchill's famous remark about Ramsey MacDonald as "the boneless wonder" is for once inadequate to the moment: Obama has installed an entire boneless chicken farm. To do full justice to the complete mediocrity that is Obama's second term, we'll need to roll out the entire repertoire of Churchill's dismissals of MacDonald, Stanley Baldwin, Neville Chamberlain, Clement Attlee, and Aneurin Bevan-all of which are a perfect fit for the Great O and his team of tiny toy men:
About MacDonald (in 1933):
We know that he has, more than any other man, the gift of compressing the largest number of words into the smallest amount of thought. . . On the whole his four years of control of our foreign relations have brought us nearer to war, and have made us weaker, poorer and more defenseless . . .
About Attlee (post-war):
Mr. Attlee combines a limited outlook with strong qualities of resistance. . . He is too wise [to go to Moscow]. He dare not absent himself from his Cabinet at home. He knows full well that when the mouse is away the cats will play.
About Bevan (1946):
There is however poetic justice in the fact that the most mischievous political mouth in wartime has also become, in peace, the most remarkable administrative failure.
About Baldwin (1936):
Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.
And this bit about Chamberlain, from early 1938, applies perfectly to Obama:
When we have the Prime Minister here, what is the good of worrying about the Foreign Secretary? What is the point of crying out for the moon when you have the sun, when you have the bright orb of day in whose refulgent beams all the lesser luminaries hide their radiance?
Like I say, an entire boneless chicken farm is in place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Hat tip, as always, to Richard Langworth's indispensable Churchill quote collection.
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Barack Obama, Spending Junkie
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:41 PM PST
(John Hinderaker)
One would hope that the spectacle the Democrats have made of themselves over the prospect of a modest increase in federal spending for FY 2013 would be enlightening to a lot of voters. The Democrats' craving for federal dollars is not unlike that of a junkie for heroin, and the lengths of dishonesty to which Barack Obama and the Democrats will go to keep the money flowing are likewise reminiscent of the pathetic actions of a drug addict.
So in my view, this Michael Ramirez cartoon is right on the mark:
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The Global Cooling Scare Revisited
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 12:20 PM PST
(Steven Hayward)
The climate campaign always tries to downplay the fact that the global cause du jour in the mid-1970s was the prospect of a new ice age. It was only a handful of marginal scientists (though Newsweek reported the scientific community was "almost unanimous" about the threat of cooling, almost as though it was a "consensus"), and a few scattered media reports.
The indispensable WattsUpWithThat website of Anthony Watts has done a public service by collating a large number of the press accounts of the issue from the time, and offers a list of 65 stories between 1970 and 1980. Keep in mind that these only represent the ones that are retrievable on the Internet today; there are likely a multiple of this not available online.
And then there's this fabulous one-minute snippet from the late 1970s featuring the late Stephen Schneider, one of the leading warmists of the last two decades, plumping for the new ice age hypothesis back then:
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From the mixed-up files of Obama's trusted friend
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 10:59 AM PST
(Scott Johnson)
In his most recent verbal assault against Israel, Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan has characterized Zionism as a crime against humanity along with anti-Semitism, fascism, and, of course, Islamophobia. Isn't leaving homophobia off such a list itself a crime against humanity?
Prime Minister Netanyahu has issued this concise response: "This is a dark and mendacious statement the likes of which we thought had passed from the world."
Netanyahu is constrained by the conventions of diplomacy. Almost as concise but more to my taste is the less constrained response of the head of the Conference of European Rabbis, Pinchas Goldschmidt, in an email to Reuters: "The irony of these comments will not be lost on the families of those slaughtered during the Armenian genocide, a crime still not recognized by the Turkish government."
Andrew McCarthy's new book devotes substantial attention to the deep thoughts of Erdogan. Andy puts Erdogan's noxious emission in context here, though not the kind of context that excuses the offense. Let's give Andy the last word for the moment at somewhat greater length:
I think "crime against humanity" has become a verbal tic for Turkey's Islamic-supremacist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
In Vienna, at one of the UN's nauseating "dialogues" between Islam and the West (you know, those conferences where Western leaders explain how much they admire Islam and Islamic leaders reciprocate by explaining how much they, too, admire Islam), Erdogan pronounced Zionism a "crime against humanity," which he placed on a par with anti-Semitism. The latter is a subject Erdogan knows a thing or two about.
As I recount in Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy (just released in paperback this week), Erdogan first burst on the scene almost 40 years ago as the 20-year-old writer-director-star of a theatrical production called Maskomya. As Andy Bostom edifies us, Mas-Kom-Ya is short for Masons, Communists, and, yes, Yahudi - Jews. In Erdogan's telling, these were evil subversive groups whose common denominator was - all together now! - Judaism.
Spring Fever documents Erdogan's application of "crime against humanity" label to calls for Muslims in Europe and America to assimilate in the Western societies where they've chosen to live. He also said it was a "crime against humanity" for Israel to defend itself in 2008's "Operation Cast Lead" after over 3000 rockets and mortar shells were fired into Israeli territory by Hamas - the international terrorist organization that Erdogan's Turkey lavishly funds and whose leaders he receives as dignitaries.
In this week's Vienna speech, Erdogan reached unprecedented epistemological buffoonery when he explained that not only Zionism but Islamophobia is a "crime against humanity." Either he does not know what a crime is or he does not know what a phobia is, but since a rational mental state is required for the former the latter doesn't qualify. Or maybe Erdogan knows exactly what crimes and phobias are, but as an Islamo-fascist he figures such niceties should never get in the way of a good smear. Oh, almost forgot, Erdogan also said fascism was a "crime against humanity." Between his invocation of anti-Semitism and fascism, we see that Erdogan at least knows how to project.
In 1975, a year after Maskomya had its run, Erdogan's fellow Islamic-supremacists engineered the passage of U.N. General Assembly Resolution 3379, declaring that Zionism was a form of racism. The condemnation by the United States of this blatant act of anti-Semitism was unequivocal. The late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., asserted, "The United States ... does not acknowledge, it will never abide by, it will never acquiesce in this infamous act." Even the fraudulent enterprise that is the U.N. eventually felt compelled to buckle under forceful American leadership (much of it provided in the Bush 41 State Department by a young assistant secretary named John Bolton). The noxious "Zionism equals racism" resolution was finally repealed in 1991.
Now, Erdogan has seen racism and raised it to a crime against humanity, but we've thus far heard no Moynihan-like condemnation from the Obama administration.
Notwithstanding that the prime minister's claim to fame is imprisoning uncooperative journalists and political opponents on trumped up charges, President Obama has described Erdogan as one of his most "trusted friends" among world leaders. Although Erdogan is a top provider of material support to Hamas, a serious felony in the United States, Obama recently said of him: "The bottom line is that we find ourselves in frequent agreement upon a wide range of issues." And, indeed, it is Erdogan who has been prodding Obama to repeat the administration's Libya debacle by overtly supporting the Syrian "rebels" - the jihadist-rife, Muslim Brotherhood-dominated opposition seeking to topple the Iran-backed regime of Bashar al-Assad. It appears Obama and his second-term foreign policy team are poised to give Erdogan his way.
Sigh. Maybe for just a few minutes, Obama could pretend that Erdogan was a Republican and that anti-Zionism was the sequester...
Via Jennifer Rubin/Right Turn.
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Newt Gingrich: What Is To Be Done?
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 09:24 AM PST
(John Hinderaker)
Newt Gingrich met yesterday with some Republican Congressional staffers and gave them the memo below, which I obtained from a Congressional aide. It lays out Newt's assessment of where the Democratic and Republican parties stand today. Much of it will seem familiar to readers of this site, but Newt sets forth the facts-many of them grim-with his customary panache. This is obviously a big topic, and I have just a few comments on Newt's memo which I will save until the end. Here it is:
For now, just a few quick observations:
1) I think Newt's assessment of the Democrats' strategy and intentions is correct.
2) Newt's sense of urgency is well-founded. At the moment, the Democrats are well ahead of the GOP both strategically and technically.
3) It may well be true that we need "a new model Republican doctrine and system," and that Republicans need to "build a system for a permanent campaign with a 24/7 strategy," etc. However, doing these things will be difficult, to say the least, in an environment where the Republicans lack any sort of centralized leadership, an inevitable consequence of not controlling the White House.
4) I think Newt hits the nail on the head when he says: "The 2012 turnout mechanisms will be modernized, improved and strengthened to try to make 2014 turnout resemble 2012 rather than 2010." That is, I think, the central point of the Democrats' manifold strategies.
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Clowning in Rome?*
Posted: 01 Mar 2013 09:02 AM PST
(Steven Hayward)
Best tweet of the day so far may belong to David Freddoso, who says "BREAKING SEQUESTER NEWS ** DUE TO BUDGET CUTS, THERE IS NO POPE ANYMORE - YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN, PEOPLE **." Heh.
More seriously, since we wrote here a couple of weeks ago about the theological studliness (that's a technical term right out of the Catechism, isn't it?) of Pope Benedict, there has been a media frenzy about whether a secret report about Vatican corruption is linked to Benedict's decision to step down-or perhaps even that he was forced out. I'm sure Bob Woodward can sort this out for us, and that the rest of the media will accept his findings unquestioningly, as they always do.
In the meantime, somewhere in the cobwebs of my mind the old saying about "life imitating art" comes along, recalling dimly the 1981 Morris West novel The Clowns of God. The plot revolved around a Pope who claimed to have received a direct revelation from God concerning the imminence of the ends times and the Second Coming of Jesus. Can't have that around the Vatican, so the hierarchy forces Pope Gregory XVII to resign, after which the former Pope goes on a private quest to prepare to meet the arrival of Jesus. Cold War tensions provide the context for the novel and the plausible basis for thinking the End Times were upon us (how original was that?), but one wonders whether the Catholic Church might be on the cusp of another Reformation-like challenge if the rumors of rampant corruption are even a little bit true. Certainly the church hierarchy's bureaucratic behavior in the clergy sex abuse scandals was less than reassuring.
Morris West died in 1999; if he were still with us he might have to rewrite The Clowns of God to reflect that what challenges the church most is not world-historical trends like nuclear weapons and the Cold War, but the basic frailty of all human institutions.
*P.S. Yes, in case you're wondering, the headline for this post is indeed an obscure reference to the Henry Nouwen classic of contemplation, Clowning in Rome.
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by Katie Nielsen
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In today's Morning Bell, Heritage Foundation President-Elect Jim DeMint boils down the complicated issue of sequestration with a simple analogy:
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Suppose you desperately needed to lose weight but had a Big Mac with fries and a Coke staring you in the face. You could take your need to diet seriously and say, "No thanks, I'll have a salad." Or you could decide to reduce the Big Mac meal by 2 percent-pushing aside a couple French fries and gobbling up the rest.
If you took Option B, how do you think that "diet" would work out for you? Well, that, my friends, is the tale of the sequester that hit us this morning.
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Read the whole thing, including DeMint's call for "a true spending diet."
This week, Congress passed the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, known inside the Beltway as VAWA.
Nobody can deny that violence against women is unacceptable. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agreed that domestic violence cannot be tolerated. But the bill passed by the House of Representatives on Thursday reauthorizes a law of unproven effectiveness.
VAWA authorizes the government to award grant money to organizations with little track record of success, Heritage Foundation expert David Muhlhausen explains. For example, the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence Against Women is the primary recipient of VAWA funding. But their reporting of their success is flawed and misleading.
Women must be protected from violence. But this is a fight that must be waged at the state and local level, not the federal level. Even when motives are good, lawmakers should think twice before reauthorizing laws fraught with unnecessary components and unproven results.
Do you think VAWA is the right approach to domestic violence?
The Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in Alabama v. Holder, the constitutional challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. Heritage Foundation legal expert Hans von Spakovsky recaps the arguments, gives us background on the case and explains the law's shaky legal grounding.
Section 5, von Spakovsky explains, is "an emergency provision passed by Congress in 1965 that was originally supposed to terminate after five years. It was renewed for a fourth time in 2006 for another 25 years."
Shelby County, Alabama and the state are still subject to Section 5's restrictions-based on data from elections held more than 40 years ago. "Under the current rate of registration and turnout of voters, neither Shelby County nor Alabama would be covered under Section 5," von Spakovsky notes.
In fact, the state that today has the worst disparity between black and white voter registration is Massachusetts, but that state isn't subject to federal voting supervision under Section 5. The best state on that measure? Mississippi, which is subject to federal controls.
"This is clear evidence that Section 5 no longer reflects actual conditions around the country," von Spakovsky argues.
Do you think Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act should be overturned? Tell us in the comments.
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Heritage Work of Note
- President Obama's sequestration spin is meant to scare Americans into believing spending cuts will doom the economy, Heritage President-Elect Jim DeMint said this week on CNBC. When in fact, he said, it is the President's tax-and-spend policies that are truly harmful.
Watch the full interview here.
- Heritage scholar Ernest Istook hosted several leading political commentators and Heritage experts on his program last week, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), Donald Devine, Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), Heritage defense expert James Carafano, and Heritage President-Elect Jim DeMint. Check in Monday as Istook continues to discuss these and other important issues. Be sure to tune in 9:00 a.m. to noon Eastern Monday through Friday. Find out more about the show, browse show archives, and listen live on istook.com.
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The Banality of the RINOs
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By Matt Purple
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What is it that moderate Republicans want?
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I'm told we're living in a Moderate Moment. After Mitt Romney lost the election, moderate Republicans started emerging from every corner of the country, from Northwest Washington, D.C. to Arlington, Virginia.
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Today's Headlines: Friday, March 01, 2013
Sen. Reid to the Press: 'You Guys Have an Obligation to Report' that Democrats Are Right
Rep. Donna Edwards: GOP Forcing Women 'To Stay in Their Homes With Their Abuser' Because of Sequester
House Passes Violence Against Women Act -- 138 Republicans Vote No, But 60 Vote Yes
Boehner: 'We've Done Our Job'
Obama Urges Supreme Court to Overturn California's Voter-Passed Same-Sex Marriage Ban
U.S. Hints at Sanctions as Pakistan Moves Ahead on Gas Pipeline With Iran
COMMENTARY:
Has the Bell Begun to Toll for China?
By Patrick J. Buchanan
What is it that gives a party its legitimacy, its right to rule? What holds a nation together when its founding ideology has been abandoned by both elites and the people? That is China's coming crisis -- and America's.
Rotten to the Core, Part III: Lessons from Texas and the Growing Grassroots Revolt
By Michelle Malkin
Here's the dirty little secret: Despite the best efforts of vigilant parents, teachers and administrators committed to academic excellence, progressive activists reign supreme in government schools.
Richard Milhous Obama
By Rich Galen
The Obama White House has done something no one, not even its worst critics, could have accomplished. The administration of Barack Obama is being compared to the administration of ... Richard Nixon. Nixon and Obama, tied together by their anger at a reporter - the same reporter - Bob Woodward.
NEWSPAPER ROUNDUP:
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 A controversial government study today revealed an astounding conclusion: free lunches are expensive and lack nutrition. All copies of the study have since disappeared and the members of the blue-ribbon panel which produced it have not been seen since it was released. President Obama condemned the results, alleging that the panelists were "receiving bread under the table from the restaurant industry." "It's nonsense," said the president. "Michelle and I get free lunches all the time and they don't cost us a thing... MORE >>
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March 01, 2013
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On Today's Program
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Sequestration Apocalypse NOW
The left is in full-fledged freak out mode over the coming sequestration apocalypse NOW. Only government would be alarmed at trimming a $3.6 trillion budget by 2% or less. It's absolute nonsense - Glenn explains more on radio today.
Maxine Waters makes dumbest point ever, claims 170 million jobs will be lost
It wasn't long ago that Nancy Pelosi claimed 500 million jobs would be lost per month if there was no government stimulus. Maxine Waters is taking a page from Skeletor's book by claiming if no deal is made on the sequester cuts, 170 million jobs will be cut. Quite a claim considering only about 130 million people in America have jobs. WATCH
Mark Burnett's "The Bible" mini-series kicks off this weekend
You've been waiting for someone in Hollywood to make something of real value in the entertainment world. Survivor creator Mark Burnett has done it: an epic 1o-hour mini-series that cost him $25 million to make. Glenn has seen the first 4 hours of the series and talked about how good he thinks it is on radio today -- WATCH.
Obama snaps to reporters: "I am not a dictator."
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Help feed the homeless AND win a chance to meet Tim Tebow! Amazing opportunity to give back HERE.
Wonderful World of Stu takes on sequestration
Haven't had a chance to check out Stu's new show? Here's your chance to see what all the intraweb buzz is all about - check out Stu's unique take on the fake sequestration controversy! Watch
The latest NRA contributor may surprise you. Find out who it is HERE.
Gun Debate Settled Since 1791 T-Shirt: Tired of the endless gun debate? Yeah, so are we. Get the shirt that says it all. The Gun Debate Settled Since 1791 - the year we put the right to bear arms in the constitution. Get yours today.
Listeners call in with their sequestration HORROR STORIES
Today is the big day and callers from all over the country shared their oh-so tragic sequestration stories. From extra clouds rolling in to the four horses of the apocalypse rounding people up, callers were suffering through the devastating effects of those massive 2% government cuts (a cut of a spending increase, btw). Hear the sad tales HERE.
Hard work and family values are the core of many small businesses. Starting today at The Marketplace by The Blaze, get 20% of all orders over $20 when you shop Alabu Skin Care.
5th grader called murderer for having a paper 'gun'
The left constantly refers to conservatives as 'extreme' in their views while painting themselves as the model of sanity. Does that match reality? Not in Philadelphia, where one 5th grader was scolded by the school and called a 'murderer' by her peers because she had a paper 'gun' on her at school. The actions have done irreparable harm to the little girl -- WATCH.
MUST WATCH: Glenn's interview with Dr. Ben Carson - VIDEO.
Tonight's Primetime Lineup on TheBlaze TV
- 5pm ET - The Glenn Beck Program: Mark Burnett and Roma Downey join Glenn to talk about their new mini-series, "The Bible."
- 6pm ET - Real News: What is the President's end-game? Is he serious about trying to avoid the sequester?
- 7pm ET - Wilkow!: Will SCOTUS overturn California's ban on gay marriage? Jordan Sekulow joins Andrew tonight.
- Saturday @ 10pm ET - The B.S. of A.: An intrusive survey, The Angry Jim Show, Fleventy Fleven is still not a number, and a puppet explains EMPs.
- Watch live or on demand: Start your free trial now!
Guess that disgusting soda! Pat risks his life and taste tests 5 extra-ordinary soda flavors on "As Seen on Pat & Stu."
NOW AVAILABLE: Get the eighth episode of Wrath & Righteousness!
Glenn's e-book thriller series Wrath & Righteousness examines the eternal battle between Light and Darkness while asking one of the fundamental questions of our existence: what is mankind's relationship to the spiritual world? The eighth episode in the 10-part series is available HERE. Download the previous 7 episodes HERE to catch up. Have a question or comment about the series? Visit our FAQ page.
Tune in to The Buck Sexton Show and Wallbuilders Live with David Barton this weekend on TheBlaze Radio Network! Don't miss Buck Sexton from 12-3pm ET, followed by Wallbuilders Live this Saturday.Listen free on TheBlaze Radio network online or on your mobile device with TheBlaze App or iHeartRadio.
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Wonderful World of Stu takes on sequestration
Haven't had a chance to check out Stu's new show? Here's your chance to see what all the intraweb buzz is all about - check out Stu's unique take on the fake sequestration controversy! Watch
The latest NRA contributor may surprise you. Find out who it is HERE. Gun Debate Settled Since 1791 T-Shirt: Tired of the endless gun debate? Yeah, so are we. Get the shirt that says it all. The Gun Debate Settled Since 1791 - the year we put the right to bear arms in the constitution. Get yours today. Listeners call in with their sequestration HORROR STORIES Today is the big day and callers from all over the country shared their oh-so tragic sequestration stories. From extra clouds rolling in to the four horses of the apocalypse rounding people up, callers were suffering through the devastating effects of those massive 2% government cuts (a cut of a spending increase, btw). Hear the sad tales HERE.
Hard work and family values are the core of many small businesses. Starting today at The Marketplace by The Blaze, get 20% of all orders over $20 when you shop Alabu Skin Care.
5th grader called murderer for having a paper 'gun' The left constantly refers to conservatives as 'extreme' in their views while painting themselves as the model of sanity. Does that match reality? Not in Philadelphia, where one 5th grader was scolded by the school and called a 'murderer' by her peers because she had a paper 'gun' on her at school. The actions have done irreparable harm to the little girl -- WATCH. MUST WATCH: Glenn's interview with Dr. Ben Carson - VIDEO. Tonight's Primetime Lineup on TheBlaze TV - 5pm ET - The Glenn Beck Program: Mark Burnett and Roma Downey join Glenn to talk about their new mini-series, "The Bible."
- 6pm ET - Real News: What is the President's end-game? Is he serious about trying to avoid the sequester?
- 7pm ET - Wilkow!: Will SCOTUS overturn California's ban on gay marriage? Jordan Sekulow joins Andrew tonight.
- Saturday @ 10pm ET - The B.S. of A.: An intrusive survey, The Angry Jim Show, Fleventy Fleven is still not a number, and a puppet explains EMPs.
- Watch live or on demand: Start your free trial now!
Guess that disgusting soda! Pat risks his life and taste tests 5 extra-ordinary soda flavors on "As Seen on Pat & Stu." NOW AVAILABLE: Get the eighth episode of Wrath & Righteousness! Glenn's e-book thriller series Wrath & Righteousness examines the eternal battle between Light and Darkness while asking one of the fundamental questions of our existence: what is mankind's relationship to the spiritual world? The eighth episode in the 10-part series is available HERE. Download the previous 7 episodes HERE to catch up. Have a question or comment about the series? Visit our FAQ page. Tune in to The Buck Sexton Show and Wallbuilders Live with David Barton this weekend on TheBlaze Radio Network! Don't miss Buck Sexton from 12-3pm ET, followed by Wallbuilders Live this Saturday.Listen free on TheBlaze Radio network online or on your mobile device with TheBlaze App or iHeartRadio.
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Has Communist Ideology Overtaken America? Education is crucial. Today I want to share two very interesting lists with you, and rather than adding an extensive amount of my commentary, I want to give you the chance to examine the facts for yourself. It is my opinion that many communist goals have already been accomplished. I also believe that advancement has been made in other areas. But, you owe it to yourself to do your own research. I believe not only in the freedom of speech, but also in the responsibility of free thought. So please don't take my word for it. Examine the facts for yourself.
