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destroy
a
capitalistic
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is to
debauch
its
currency."
Samuelson,
Robert
J.:
The
Great
Inflation
and Its
Aftermath,
Random
House
Inc., p.
20, 2008
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of other
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money."
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9/3/10
a.m.
Operation
Sit In
National
Coordinator
Interview
on Web
Talk
Radio
9/3/10 a.m.
'Islamization' of Paris a Warning to the West Dale Hurd, CBN News
9/2/10
Back to School Jihad in Iraq Diana West, Big Peace
"Abeer Mohammed is a senior
local editor based in Baghdad for Institute of War and Peace Reporting. Here’s
an excerpt from a
post at the IWPR site about
the story behind his sensational report (posted below) on how teachers in Iraq
are schooling their students in jihad and Islamic supremacism:
"'Our teacher tells us it is forbidden in Islam to make friends with
unbelievers,' he said. “When I study that we have to fight the unbelievers in
the name of jihad, I think, ‘Will I kill Zuhair one day?’” . . .
"Ahmed’s family in Muslim; Zuhair’s is Christian. And it turns out that in
Iraq’s schools today, religious tolerance is not part of the curriculum.
"Sanaa
Muhsin, an Islamic studies teacher in Baghdad’s Shaab district, said she
regularly instructs her students that 'each Muslim had a duty to carry out jihad
– namely to fight unbelievers.' She identified unbelievers as those who did not
follow Allah or the Prophet Mohammed.
"Some students appear to be learning the lessons well.
"Sajjad
Kiayyad, 7, of Baghdad, said he plans to become a holy warrior when he grows up.
'I will fight the Americans because they are Jewish and unbelievers,' he said.
'I will be victorious, or I will be a martyr in heaven.'
"Maryam
Ali, 9, also of Baghdad, said she is carrying out her own jihad by calling on
'unveiled female friends to cover their heads.'”
9/2/10
Stormin'
Mormon? Glenn Beck Television Show First Segment Today--Video
Media still
missing message of Restoring Honor rally
9/2/10
CNBC's Najarian: Drilling Moratorium 'Shows a Tone-Deafness From This
Administration'
By Jeff Poor,
NewsBusters
"With
a
9.6 percent unemployment rate overall in the United
States and unemployment rates showing an uptick in
states on the Gulf of Mexico that allow offshore oil
drilling, one has to wonder what the Obama
administration is thinking its Draconian wide-sweeping
moratorium halting deepwater drilling in the Gulf after
the BP oil spill.
"While
environmentalists are
using today's explosion on a oil production platform
in the Gulf to support a drilling moratorium, critics
like CNBC's "Fast Money" panelist Jon Najarian have
questioned the wisdom of the Obama administration's
decision to put up to 75,000 in limbo.
"'As
far as what was going on in the Gulf, it shows a
tone-deafness from this administration,' Najarian
said
on the Sept. 2 broadcast of 'Fast Money.' 'I mean,
I'll pound the table for that because I'm not running
for office. But I mean, this guy is tone deaf that
75,000 jobs in the Gulf of Mexico that have been idled
for no good reason. It's costing all of us and it
costs all the places where they would normally spend
money as well.'" [No. It's too good an opportunity to
put another nail in the coffin of capitalism. What does
it take for people to understand Obama's clear actions
are the Cloward-Piven strategy?]
9/2/10
Democratic Salvage Plan The Wall Street Journal
How
Nancy Pelosi might save her majority.
"With the economy struggling
and the polls turning sharply against them, Democrats are at sea about how to
prevent an electoral rout in November. Reports yesterday said the White House
may be panicked enough to contemplate new tax cuts. Allow us to suggest a
salvage plan that would help the economy and perhaps also save the Democratic
majorities on Capitol Hill: Return after Labor Day, extend all of the 2001 and
2003 tax rates at least through 2013, and then go home.
***
"This is not Speaker Nancy
Pelosi's current plan, to say the least. Her idea is to return to Washington in
10 days and start a debate over raising taxes only weeks before Election Day.
Democrats are betting they can vote to extend the lower tax rates set to expire
in January for those making less than $200,000 a year, while cornering
Republicans to defend lower rates for 'the rich.' Voters are supposed to applaud
this exercise in class warfare amid a weak recovery and 9.5% unemployment.
"This is the kamikaze strategy
for political revival. You go down in ideological glory but still lose the war.
Republicans are delighted to have a tax debate this fall, and well they should.
They know the debate will only reinforce the Democrats' reputation as tax and
spenders, and at a time when the economic recovery is fragile. The overall
health of the economy is sure to trump class envy as a political argument. . . .
"The only reason to oppose our
Democratic self-rescue plan is the grip of ideology. We recall the Democratic
Presidential debate when ABC's Charlie Gibson famously asked candidate Barack
Obama why he favored higher capital gains tax rates when the evidence is that
lower rates produce more tax revenue. After some back and forth, Mr. Obama's one
word reply came down to 'fairness.' If you really believe the main job of
government is to redistribute income and punish the rich for making too much
money, then you don't mind raising taxes even if it costs you control of
Congress.
"We don't think most Democrats
favor that trade, and the evidence on that score is growing every day. In the
Senate, Evan Bayh, Kent Conrad and Ben Nelson have already called for extending
the Bush tax rates, and the roll call in the House is into double digits.
Economist Mark Zandi, an architect of the stimulus, has called for an extension
of the lower rates on Keynesian grounds, and even White House chief economist
Christina Romer said this week in her farewell speech that the only way to boost
"demand" was to increase spending or cut taxes. The former has already failed,
so how about avoiding a tax increase?
"All it takes is a word from
President Obama or Speaker Pelosi, and these Democratic defections will become a
joyous stampede. For the alternative, how do the words 'Speaker Boehner' sound?
9/2/10
Lawyer’s Family Flees Iran by:
Amy Kellogg,
FoxNews.com
"The case of
Sakineh Mohmmadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to death by
stoning, has become a high profile human rights story
internationally. Her case remains under review.
"The people
involved in that case, and those close to them, have also had their
lives turned upside down.
"The authorities
went after Mohammad Mostafaei, one of the lawyers defending Ashtiani.
He went into hiding, thinking that if he was arrested, he would not
be doing anyone any good. A well-known human rights lawyer, he has
around 70 clients. He says he thought they would keep him in jail
for five or six years.
"Instead,
authorities arrested his wife Fereshteh Halimi, as well as her
brother and father, who is elderly and has a heart problem. She
was held in Iran’s notorious Evin prison for two weeks, kept as a
hostage, told she wouldn’t see her seven-year-old daughter again,
unless she divulged her husband’s whereabouts. She never did."
9/2/10
US Avoids Recession as Data Can’t Get Much Worse By Rich Miller
and Simon Kennedy, SFGate
"The U.S. economy is so bad
that the chance of avoiding a double dip back into recession may actually be
pretty good."
9/2/10
Arpaio: Justice Dept. 'Sandbagged' Me With Lawsuit in Civil Rights Probe
FoxNews.com
"Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio
said Thursday the Justice Department "sandbagged" him with the lawsuit it filed
earlier in the day against him."
9/2/10
EDITORIAL: The left's war on the gasoline-powered car The
Washington Times
Move over smog ratings, smug factor is here
"Professor
Obama is looking to grade you on your car-buying preferences. Beginning with
the 2012 model year, new vehicles will carry revised window stickers bearing
ratings from 'A+' to 'D,' with the highest marks reserved for choices the
administration endorses and the lowest for those it frowns upon. This is just
the latest example of the nanny state mentality that has taken hold inside the
Beltway. . . .
"The new proposed window
stickers will include a measure of estimated "fuel-cost savings" based on the
operating costs of electrics and hybrids, compared to gasoline-powered vehicles.
It would be far more honest for the government to report the per-vehicle federal
and state subsidies that go into each car. That way, the public would see that
all such 'savings' are illusory."
9/1/10
Before
Gold, Turn to God Glenn Beck Television Show Segment Today--Video
[I'm sorry I have only the first
segment here as usual, and that is coming in jerky. I wish I had seen it all.]
9/1/10
What American President Would Do That?
By
Carol A. Taber,
American Thinker
"Other presidents have
been wrong. Other presidents have been misguided. Other presidents have been
weak and pusillanimous and pathetic.
"Only one truly disdains
America. His name is Barack Obama.
"How else to explain his
latest outrage against the country that elevated him to the ranks of world
leadership? Last week, the Obama State Department submitted a report to the
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights on the supposed human rights
violations taking place in the United States. According to the
Washington Times,
the report describes how the United State discriminates against the
disabled, homosexuals, women, Native Americans, blacks, Hispanics and those
who don't speak English. There is the expected pandering to Muslims... the
report notes that until recently, the U.S. engaged in torture, unlawfully
detained terrorist suspects and illegally spied on Americans communicating
with terrorists ... but the report assures readers that Mr. Obama has been
putting a stop all that.
"Beyond the outrage felt
by Governor Jan Brewer, whose move to protect Arizonans' human rights was
offered up as an example of an abuse of human rights by Mr. Obama's
State Department report (gotta protect those drug cartel murderers!), for
many citizens, this report is a rank anti-American manifesto and the last
straw. Many believe it to be outright evil, that there is no other word to
encompass Obama's disgraceful and indefensible decision. This odious report
has placed America -- us -- on a list of human rights violators that
includes Iran, North Korea, and Sudan. And Mr. Obama and his administration
have done it purposefully, intentionally, and with malice aforethought.
"The truth, on the other
hand, is that every demographic group mentioned in the report as victimized
by America is better off in America than in any other country on earth.
That's why they stay here. If they don't like America, they're free to leave
at any time. We're not the Soviet Union or China, restricting population
flow. European glories are only a plane ticket away.
"But they don't leave.
That's because the people of America have a higher standard of living, more
opportunity for high-quality health care (at least for a little while
longer), a better shot at a decent education, and more personal freedom to
pursue occupations of their choice -- and life, liberty, and happiness --
than in any other place on the planet.
"But according to Obama,
splinter groups of Americans (including women, who compose a majority of the
population) are hapless and defenseless victims of our "downright mean"
country, a description coined by Mrs. Obama during Mr. Obama's campaign for
president. The State Department report is a typical liberal
look-at-America-through-a-toilet-seat perspective, construing every minor
problem as systemic and considering all forms of law enforcement
discriminatory. The report is unseemly and deeply offensive to the American
people. . . . [Click the headline link to read the material omitted here.]
"More likely, Obama
just doesn't give a tinker's damn whether the world flays us because he
thinks America's minor flaws are major ones. It is possible that Obama
dislikes America because this is the country that produced his rootless
life and gave leeway to his drunk, child-abandoning Kenyan father. More
likely, Obama is displeased with this country because he spent his
childhood wandering from identity to identity until he found one that
justified his alienation -- identity as a Marxist racialist -- an
elevated identity in the left's hierarchy of the victimized.
"Whatever the reason,
Obama has no soft spot for America. The unpresidential condescension he
feels for our country and its religion- and gun-clinging citizens oozes
from his pores and spills out of them in unguarded moments. And that
disrespect -- the kind that comes only from those who are clueless about
leadership -- gives both aid and comfort to our enemies and leaves those
who wish to share in the bounty of our freedom and liberty in the dark.
"What American
president would do that?"
9/1/10
A Black Man Goes To
Glenn Beck's Rally by Jerome Hudson, Human Events
"To hear the mainstream media
tell the story, you would have thought that I, a black man, had walked into a
hornet’s nest of racists when I decided to attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor"
rally. In reality, my experience was the complete opposite. .
"The message I took away is that we cannot continue to pick at the scab
of America's past but must become the balm that heals it. That's the way
forward—arm in arm, moving together, toward a better future.
"Standing in a crowd that stretched from the Washington Monument to
Lincoln Memorial what happened on 8/28 was the most inspirational thing I had
ever experienced.
"Standing there, unhyphenated and united, this black man has never felt
more free in his life."
9/1/10
Tea Party Turning Into A Tidal Wave Investors.com
"Murkowski by a little-known
conservative lawyer is the latest evidence of a tidal wave building that may
sweep aside an out-of-touch establishment. 'We the people' won't be ignored.
"Shays' Rebellion, an uprising
of 1,200 farmers led by one Daniel Shays, angry over conditions in Massachusetts
in 1786, prompted Thomas Jefferson to write to James Madison that 'a little
rebellion now and then is a good thing' for America.
"A more peaceful rebellion is
now occurring across the country, and we believe it's a good thing for America.
Considering the excesses of this administration and Congress and their abuse of
power to the point of ignoring the Constitution itself, it's also a very
necessary thing, an idea whose time has come."
9/1/10
Who 'Won' Iraq? Investors.com
"President Obama told
the nation Tuesday night that he fulfilled 'my pledge to the American
people as a candidate for this office' by ending combat in Iraq. . . .
"The president's political
advisers obviously considered it inconceivable to announce an end to Operation
Iraqi Freedom without a tip of the hat to its initiator. And so, the president
told viewers that "this afternoon, I spoke to former President George W. Bush."
"But let's parse what follows.
"It's well-known that he and I disagreed about the war from its outset,"
President Obama notes. Who, though, was right and who was misguided?
"Had Barack Obama's advice
been followed in 2003, Saddam Hussein would be in power today, routinely
murdering innocent Iraqis and oppressing the rest.
"Had his advice been followed
in 2007, there would have been no surge — which Sen. Obama claimed would not
'solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse' —
and Iraq today would be awash in the blood of rampant terrorism, with al-Qaida
and Iran vying for control of the oil-rich power.
"According to President Obama,
'no one can doubt President Bush's support for our troops or his love of country
and commitment to our security.' What was doubted was not Bush's patriotism, but
his judgment. And the self-absorbed Obama never bothers to give him the
judgmental credit he deserves. That's OK; in the end, history will.
"'As I've said, there were
patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it,' the president
added. But it's a strange brand of patriotism to want to repeat the ignominy of
Vietnam, and the cut-and-runners dominating the Democratic Party were proposing
to do just that three short years ago — a repeat performance of the Democratic
Congress of the mid-1970s. . . .
"Could it be that President
Obama did not thank President Bush because when Iraq descends back into chaos,
thanks to Obama's premature departure, this administration is going to be in
search of someone to blame?"
9/1/10
George W.'s War Investors.com
8/31/10
Overwhelm the system
Wayne
Allyn Root, Las Vegas Review-Journal
"Obama is no fool. He is not incompetent. To the contrary, he is
brilliant. He knows exactly what he's doing. He is purposely overwhelming
the U.S. economy to create systemic failure, economic crisis and social
chaos -- thereby destroying capitalism and our country from within."
8/31/10
Be afraid, they are
here jmarkcampbell, Lucianne.com
[Busted--Orlando Mosque
Finances Hamas Fundraiser (13.51 minute video)]
8/31/10
Humility and
Honesty About Iraq Can Inspire Trust by
Sarah Palin, FaceBook
"President Obama, please show
grace, humility and some honesty before the American people tonight. Please
don’t declare 'Mission Accomplished' and then saunter away with an assumption
that your opposition to the Iraq strategy was key to our troops’ success. Please
end the political posturing. Admit you were wrong about the surge. Recognize
what our brave armed forces have achieved. Admit that the strategy long
advocated by Republicans, proposed by President Bush, led by Generals Petraeus
and Odierno, and executed by thousands of America’s finest – our brave men and
women in uniform – brought violence under control and made responsible
withdrawals possible. The more honest you are about the past, the more likely it
is you will gain the support of the American people for your Iraq policy in the
future. We need to be able to trust the White House war strategy, as our
children’s future depends on it. Being honest with us tonight is a good starting
point in building trust."
8/31/10
Baghdad on high alert as U.S. officially ends combat mission
By Jane Arraf | Christian Science Monitor
"BAGHDAD — Security forces
were on high alert as Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki marked the official end
of the U.S. combat mission here by telling skeptical Iraqis that a new day
had dawned for their country.
"In Baghdad, all leave for
Iraqi soldiers and police was canceled and new checkpoints were set up
across the city, adding another level of frustration to Iraqis struggling to
get through 115-degree heat amid power cuts and water shortages – many of
them fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
"U.S. forces prepared for
a possible wave of rocket and mortar attacks aimed at the American embassy
in the protected Green Zone . . .
"Unlike June 30 last year,
which was declared a day of national celebration as US troops withdrew from
the cities, the capital was somber on Tuesday.
"'Do we celebrate
suicide?' ask Abu Tariq, an army officer in central Baghdad. He says that
the U.S. military drawdown while Iraq's borders remain porous and there are
'political divisions within the security forces' caused by a system that
allows political parties to nominate officers 'is suicide for the Iraqi
people and a stable Iraqi state.'
"'I don’t say they should
stay — but the timing is so wrong. At least wait until we have a
government,' he says."
8/31/10
Can't Blame War For Spike In Deficit Investors.com
"Federal Spending:
The CBO says eight years of war in Iraq were less expensive than the
president's failed stimulus package.

"'Relative to the size of
the economy, this year's deficit is expected to be the second largest
shortfall in the past 65 years — 9.1% of gross domestic product, exceeded
only by last year's deficit of 9.9% of GDP,' CBO wrote. This as unemployment
hovers just under 10%. Recovery summer or recovery bummer?
"The CBO analysis shows
that you can't, as Barack Obama the candidate and others have tried to do,
blame the unconscionable debt as far as they eye can see on the Iraq War.
Iraq was President Bush's war. Petraeus was Bush's general. This is
President Obama's debt.
"According to a
devastating analysis of our debt crisis and Iraq by the American Thinker's
Randall Hoven, 'The sum of all the deficits from 2003 through 2010 is $4.73
trillion. Subtract the entire Iraq War cost and you still have a sum of
$4.02 trillion.' Democrats have been in control of Congress since January
2007, and they wrote the budgets of the last two years, when deficits rose
like twin towers."
8/31/10
Financiers Ditch Obama,
By Matthew
Shaffer, National Review Online
"Seventy percent of the
donations of Wall Street financiers — the cogs and beneficiaries of the free
market that Republicans were supposed to defend — went to Democrats. Obama’s
presidential campaign relied on heavy monetary and participatory support from
Wall Street.
"This has quickly changed.
Over at Dealbook, Andrew Ross
Sorkin has a great
column about financiers reversing their support for Obama.
Daniel S. Loeb, the
hedge fund manager, was one of Barack
Obama’s biggest backers in the 2008 presidential campaign…
So it came as quite a surprise on
Friday, when Mr. Loeb sent a letter to his
investors that sounded as if he were preparing to join Glenn Beck in
Washington over the weekend. . . .
"Other converts include Jamie
Dimon (CEO of JP Morgan Chase) and Steven A. Cohen (founder of SAC Capital
Advisors), both former Obama supporters. Stephen Schwarzman
had to apologize for his outburst against Obama’s policies, but still
maintains that Obama is bad for business. These aren’t just scattered anecdotes.
The shares of Wall Street donations to
each party have reversed. 'Since June, when the financial regulation bill was
nearing passage, Republicans were receiving 68 percent of the donations,' Sorkin
reports."
8/30/10
Hatch's Plan to Get Parts of Health Care Law Repealed Gains Steam,
Greta Van Susteren, On the Record,
FoxNews.com
Special Guests
| Sen. Orrin Hatch [Video on the original article targeted by the above
headline link.]
VAN SUSTEREN: I'm
very well. So Senator, you have -- you've introduced a bill, the American Job
Protection Act, and I understand now you have secured some support, the United
States Chamber of Commerce, National Federation of Independent Business and the
National Association of Wholesalers and the National Retail Federation. What is
this statute that they are now endorsing?
HATCH: Well, what
that does is it does way with the employer mandate. As you know, they're going
to impose mandates in health care on employers that are going to be -- cost an
arm and a leg. And the employers are now starting to rebel about it because
they're -- these are going to amount to at least a $52 billion increase in
taxes, plus all kinds of other onerous regulations and burdens. So that's why
people aren't hiring today, in a great sense, because they -- they basically
just don't know what's going to happen in the future. They're very uncertain.
They're very upset about it. And to be honest with you, that employer mandate
has been changing as we sit here.
VAN SUSTEREN: What
do you mean it's changing?
HATCH: Well, it was
supposed to be just a mandate that you had to give insurance to your employees.
It was supposed to save money over the long run. Now we find it's well over $300
billion in additional costs. Plus there'll be about a $52 billion increase in
taxation. Plus, there are a lot of businesses that do have insurance, but
they're now being told the insurance that they have isn't as good as it should
be, or it isn't the way the government wants it to be.
Small businesses are just frantic
about this because a lot of small businesses are refusing to hire over the
50-employee limit because they get pushed into having to have this employer
mandate, which is -- which can be very expensive and very problematic for the
businesses involved.
VAN SUSTEREN: All
right, now, the employer mandate -- just so that we get this sort of sorted out
-- is different from the individual mandate. And the employer mandate...
HATCH: Right.
VAN SUSTEREN: ...
says they have to buy -- they have to buy insurance for -- if they have more
than 50 employees.
HATCH: Right.
VAN SUSTEREN: If you
-- if you work for a company that has more than 50 employees and that there is
this employer mandate, have you then met your individual mandate?
HATCH: No, not
necessarily, because -- I think you would probably get by with that. But keep in
mind, people are very upset right now. There's so much uncertainty that that's
why people aren't hiring. They know this is a $2.6 trillion health care bill if
you extrapolate it over a full 10 years. On And Top of that, they know that the
policies that they have, because of all the government paperwork and the
mandates that they are imposing upon business -- the costs are going up
dramatically, even so. And so this has -- this has caused a lot of uncertainty
in the business world, and that's one of the reasons why, you know, banks aren't
lending and corporations aren't hiring. Small businesses are not expanding. All
of that has to change or we're not going to be able to pull out of this
recession the way we should.
So the employer mandate really
is a very, very bad approach towards health care. Then you add to that the
individual mandate. Look, if the government can impose upon an individual that
they have to buy an insurance policy that they don't want to buy, based upon
what they claim to be a governmental right under the commerce clause, Article 1,
Section 8 of the Constitution, then the government -- if they can force to you
buy something you don't want to buy, then the government can do anything to you.
And you know, they might even say some day, Well, we want to save General
Motors, so you got buy Chevy or you got to buy this particular model. I mean,
that sounds bizarre, but that's the type of thinking that goes into the
individual mandate, as well. . . .
HATCH: Well, we read
it, I'll tell you, in our office. I had two or three of our top people plus
myself reading that health care bill. And I got to tell you, it's a mishmash of
all kinds of onerous burdens and expenses imposed upon business. I mean, it is
-- it is one of the most colossally awful pieces of legislation I have ever
seen. . . .
[O]ne of big arguments was
they had to get the 32 million people who don't have health care health
insurance. So how did they do that? They pushed 16 million people into Medicaid.
Now, the states are up in arms
because the states have to pay their share Medicaid. Well, they said (INAUDIBLE)
the federal government in this bill will pick it up for a couple years. Well,
what happens at the end of that? The states are frantic, too. I think Utah would
be paying well over $100 million more for these people that they pushed into
Medicaid.
"It's a really, really lousy,
bad bill, and everybody knows it."
8/30/10
Beck:
Media
Misses
Rally's
Message
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today--Video
Where
I saw
hope,
the
media
saw a
'pit of
hatred'
[You
really
should
watch
this
video.
It is
very
insightful.]
8/30/10
Glenn
Beck
crowd:
Not so
white as
advertised
By Anita
Crane,
WorldNetDaily
Many creeds, colors
in attendance refute charges of racism against rally
"The crowd itself included
veterans, parents, disabled Americans, people of all ages and – contrary to some
criticism leveled against the rally – attendees of many races and ethnicities.
"Day Gardner, president of the
National Black Pro-Life Union based in Washington, D.C., for example, stood on
the platform with Alveda King as she recalled her uncle Martin Luther King Jr.'s
historic "I Have a Dream" speech.
Before the multitudes assembled
Alveda King proclaimed, "If Uncle Martin could be here today … he would surely
remind us that as brothers and sisters, united by one blood in one single race,
the human race, we are called to honor God and to love each other.'
"Praising the entire rally,
Gardner exclaimed, 'It was phenomenal!
"'It felt great to be up there
with all these wonderful leaders, the black pro-life leaders from all over the
country,' Gardner said. 'I was extremely proud of my sister in Christ and my
dear friend, Dr. Alveda King. … Seeing her walk out where her uncle and her
father were 47 years ago – my eyes welled up, and I had a lump in my throat,
because we have come a really long way.' . . .
"Miller, a black Christian and
author of "Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom's Porch," told WND he's been outraged
by claims reported in the media that the tea parties are racist and that Beck's
rally was somehow a slap against Martin Luther King Jr.
"'Those naysayers who compare
us to the Ku Klux Klan are despicable,' Miller said. 'By making such a ludicrous
comparison, they have revealed themselves to be morally bankrupt, so they no
longer warrant a hearing from Americans of good will. . . .
"Roever, whom Beck introduced
by recounting the Navy veteran's inspiring recovery from a disfiguring
injury in Vietnam, led a prayer for the
nation. Afterward, he spoke to WND about the enormous gathering.
"'I think it's made about 90
percent of the politicians in this city very nervous,' Roever said. 'Some of
them are tremblin' in their offices right now because this is a statement – not
only to D.C., but to the whole country – that we're not going to be satisfied
with the status quo.'
"Roever said he wants all
politicians – from the president to lawmakers to activist judges – to know that
many people are fed up like him:
"'There is so much corruption,
back scratchin,' deals made,' he stressed. 'The No. 1 issue bothering me is that
they know their time is short, so they ramrod anything through Congress, and
it's more difficult to repeal a law than it is to get that law made.
"'They're hoping their agenda
will survive, but I don't think it will,' said Roever. 'I've never seen my
country like this. I didn't go to Vietnam and get my face blown off, my fingers
blown off, my body damaged and wounded beyond
repair for what this government's doing right now.'"
8/30/10
In case you missed it: Glenn Beck’s ‘Restoring Honor’ rally raised $5.5 million
for wounded soldiers
By:
Mark
Hemingway, WashingtonExaminer.com
8/30/10
Seventy percent of Americans know they've been conned
By:
Hugh Hewitt,
WashingtonExaminer.com
"The people on the Mall and
the millions more who watched the gathering with satisfaction rather than fear
are quite simply sick of the left, and of its vast sneer toward the traditions,
values and, yes, faith of the American middle class.
"The American Enterprise
Institute's Arthur Brooks has quite accurately described America as a 70/30
nation, with the 70 percent presently massively underrepresented in the federal
government, the Manhattan-Beltway media elite and academia.
"The 70 percent is appalled by
the placebo economics practiced by the president and the Congress over the past
two years, shocked by its profligacy with the wealth of the republic, and
sickened by the looting of the next generation's opportunities.
"The 70 percent did not want
Obamacare, but it has been thrust upon them.
"The 70 percent did not want
federal judges to declare "game over" in the complex discussion of what marriage
is and means.
"The 70 percent want a fence
on the border that works, and do not want their concern over unregulated
immigration dismissed as nativisim.
"The 70 percent are not
ashamed of their belief in God, deeply resent being labeled bigots because they
view ground zero as land that ought not to be exploited for "messaging" of any
sort by any group, and are enraged by the scorn which they encounter everywhere
in media except Fox News and talk radio.The 70 percent believe that the federal
government is remote and clueless, and that the Constitution's principles of
enumerated and limited powers and the sovereignty of the states are vibrant,
important core values to the republic.
"The 70 percent think Iran is
in the grip of an evil, theocratic fascism, and that Israel is our true friend
and ally deserving of our full-throated support.
"We are in the middle of a
perilous economic passage to a new competitiveness across the globe. We are
watching other countries across the globe respond to the new demands of
competitiveness by shrinking the public sector and encouraging private-sector
growth. But American education is crippled by bureaucracy and burdened by the
inability of a political class to demand reform of the practices and pensions of
the public sector. Children have been hostages of this countrywide collapse of
common sense for a generation, despite wave after wave of "reform".
"Two years into what had been
sold as a new politics and a new approach, the 70 percent are fully aware that
they have been conned, suckered, and taken to the cleaners by a
hyper-ideological amalgam of leftist public intellectuals, snarling bloggers,
career politicians with limited abilities who are often corrupt, and a president
wholly inexperienced in the management of complex problems who is in way over
his head and prisoner to slogans and schemes that make for great campus debates
-- but for disaster in the real world."
8/30/10
CBO: Eight Years of Iraq War Cost Less Than Stimulus Act
FoxNews.com
8/29/10
Huge
throng
crowds
National
Mall for
Glenn
Beck
rally
By Erika Bolstad | McClatchy
Newspapers
"WASHINGTON — Hundreds of
thousands of people streamed onto the National Mall for a rally featuring
Fox News personality Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008
Republican vice presidential candidate.
Beck said he wanted to focus on
American heroes, not politics, and early in the event, he invited people to
text a $10 to his charity, the Special Operations Warrior Foundation. The
event, with the title "Restoring Honor," is about reminding people of the
legacy of the founding fathers, Beck said. . . .
"No crowd estimates were available, but thousands lined both sides of the
reflecting pond facing the Lincoln Monument. Hotels throughout the
Washington, D.C., region were sold out, and Metro, the Washington-area
subway system, put out an advisory Saturday morning warning of crowded
conditions on all lines."
Comment included in this
article:
joep1 "[Y]ou need to realize that if you fill the mall in front
of the Lincoln memorial that is about 300,000. The back side going
towards the Washington monument is another 200,000 to 250,000. So if the
front is full and the back also has a lot of people, at a minimum that
is 300,000 + 100,000 to 150,000= 400,000 to 450,000.
Comments about it on
Lucianne.com:
gop juggernaut redux "One note -- I
guarantee you many thousands got there very late. At Vienna metro, there
were 1000 people lined up waiting to buy metro passes. They probably got
there at noon or later. The metro was overwhelmed. I parked a mile away
at the Safeway."
GambrillsGuy, "There were thousands
in line at the New Carrollton Metro stoop at 8 0;
the wait to get tickets was 2 hours. I've never seen that station so
packed, and the parking lots so filled for any event. And still, more
and more people came. Thanks to GambrillsGal, we had a Metro Smart Card,
and got our Metro Passes quickly."
gonavy,
"I was at the New Carrollton stop also, and
I was very very thankful that I had a smartcard and didn't have to wait
in the line.And, I was under those trees to the right of the stage, and
it was packed shoulder to shoulder. There were as many under the trees
as there were in the field on the opposite side of the reflecting pool.
There are a couple of shots from the air that show people packed in
there."
federale,
"Federale and his brother stood up and were
counted at the Glenn Beck rally. Glenn Beck and his guests were great!
The crowd was magnificent! On the other hand, the Washington Metro fell
flat on its face. No attempt was made to accommodate the huge crowd.
Thousands undoubtedly gave up and went home when they were unable to get
into the Metro stations or onto jam-packed trains. There should be an
investigation as to whether or not Metro's failure was politically
orchestrated."
starlady,
"The Metro was a problem (due to overload),
last year also on 9-12. Think about WHO runs the Metro. (The government)
I think there are cutbacks in service on weekends also. Do YOU think the
Dems in that area want a bunch of conservatives to make it to their
event in DC ? (Not hardly)
Next time people have to be aware of this problem and plan accordingly.
(Get your Metro Smart card early) Each event has a learning curve of
challenges for the participants."
gonavy,
[T]housands of people got ripped of by
metro also as their tickets were not working on the return trip. [S]omeone
should start a campaign to get that money back from metro and donate it
to SOWF."
Poliskeptic, "Yes, thanks to C-Span
those of us who couldn't make it, were able to be there in spirit. Yes,
C-Span, you know the network that Obama promised would show all the
debates and discussions on the health care bill."
fb274,
"I read O'Rielly told Beck that if 100K
showed for his rally he would let Beck have his time slot on TV. Maybe a
letter-writing campaign is in order to remind him of this.
"IMO. not so much has conservatism grown in the last years--it is the
fact that the sleeping dog has been awaken and is now barking. The
liberals have for far too long been able to get by with spewing lies
with a straight face and no one called them on their lies."
starboard,
"May God bless Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin
for all they are doing.
"I was not able to watch C-Span yesterday, but late last night tuned into
FOX for a few minutes and watched Geraldo who did a large portion of his
show on the rally. In his own way, he raved about it and said Glenn was
absolutely perfect in his presentation. I thought it was funny that of
all the FOX hosts, the most unlikely to spend so much time on the rally
would be Geraldo.
"I agree with others above who said FOX played this event professionally
and without bias."
sherlock1,
"NPR 'news' this morning has not a peep
about the Beck rally. It is all-NOLA, all the time, a real liberal
sob-fest that has the special sweetness of allowing them to perpetuate
the myth of the Bush who hates black people."
Polaris, "Normally
I cannot abide . . . Rivera and must turn the TV off when I see his smug
smirking face, however, he covered the event Saturday evening, so I watched.
Gratefully, he had Dr. Alveda King on as a guest to counter that other guest,
sharpton. At one point, Rivera tried to bait Dr. King, but she just smiled and
stuck to her principles and reiterated Beck's message of Love.
"The most amazing thing is that from that leftist progressive's own
mouth, he reported that the computer program that analyzes aerial photos
measuring both the crowd's size and density, put attendance estimates as high as
2 million. That's 2 MILLION. I was shocked he didn't choke on the words or that
it wasn't 'bleeped* out. Of course, he had to add the disclaimer that the
program isn't fail-safe, and that in his estimation, it was more like 500,000."
ratso ferrari,
8/29/2010 "So only 87,000 attended Glen Beck's
rally according to CBS? Oh yeah they're the same news network that let Dan
Rather spout his lies about Pres Bush's military service."
gcs11111,
"The media coverage was awful. They played clips
all day and Sunday showing the crowd BEFORE the majority of the people arrived."
canalzone,
."Gave C-SPAN Kudos for a great job and for not
making themselves part of a wonderful event."
8/29/10
Restoring
Honor
Rally -
Amazing
Grace -
bagpipes
YouTube
Video
8/29/10
Beck: I
don't
think
I'm
electable
By
Gautham
Nagesh,
The Hill
"Author and TV host
Glenn Beck denied he has any aspirations of running for office during an
interview on "Fox News Sunday" the day after his Restore Honor rally
attracted scores to Washington.
"When asked if the
rally would prompt him to consider seeking election, perhaps as the running
mate of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, Beck said there was no chance that
he will run. . . .
"Beck admitted he
regrets calling President Obama a racist who hates white culture, calling
the statement inaccurate. He has since read Obama's books and believes the
president is a believer in liberation theology, a movement popular in Latin
American that interprets the teachings of Jesus Christ in terms of
liberation from unjust social, economic and political conditions.
"'[Obama's] viewpoints come from liberation theology. At a gut
level I sensed that, but miscast it as racism,' Beck said.'I want to amend
[that statement], I think it is much more of a theological question.'
"Beck said President
Obama has also expressed his belief in collective salvation in four
different speeches, the idea that an individual's salvation is directly tied
to that of the collective. He said most Christians look at collective
salvation as the direct opposite of the Gospel's teachings.
"'I'm not judging
President Obama, I would love to have a conversation about collective
salvation,' Beck said, adding that 'Jesus came for personal salvation.'"
8/29/10
Palin in
Ascendance,
Liberals
Admit
Defeat
Jennifer
Rubin,
CommentaryMagazine.com
"She certainly has them on
the run. At the National Mall rally on Saturday, Sarah Palin delivered an
eloquent and moving tribute to servicemen and a nonpartisan call to restore
— not transform — America. The
complete text should be read in full. (If you are not moved to tears by
the stories of three heroic military men, you have a heart of stone.)" . . .
"And it’s really worse
than the New York Times worriers admit. Palin not only trumped the
left on style but she also managed to connect on nearly every issue —
ObamaCare, bailouts, Israel, taxes, American exceptionalism, and the
stimulus plan — in a way the president and his liberal supporters could not.
For all of her supposed lack of “policy muscle,” it was she who defined the
debate on ObamaCare and she who synced up with the Tea Party’s
small-government, personal-responsibility, anti-tax-hike message. Who’s
short on policy muscle — the White House or Palin? Does “engagement” of
despots, Israel-bashing, and capitulation to Russia make for a meaty
foreign-policy agenda? Go read a Palin
foreign-policy address or
two. Plenty of meat and common sense there.
"But I give the Times
gals credit — they know they are losing the battle to discredit Palin. Now
they need to figure out what to do about it. They might start with examining
whether their agenda has as much sell as hers."
8/29/10
Obama
could
kill
fossil
fuels
overnight
with a
nuclear
dash for
thorium
By
Ambrose
Evans-Pritchard,
Telegraph.co.uk
If Barack Obama
were to marshal America’s vast scientific and strategic resources behind a
new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global
energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within
three to five years.
8/28/10
ACT! For
America
Brigitte
Gabriel*
"I
founded
ACT! for
America
because
Islamic
militants
have
declared
war on
America.
I know
what
this
means.
For
years, I
witnessed
first-hand
how
brutally
jihadists
treat
non-Muslims.
"We are in for the fight of
our lives and we must ACT! - before it's too late.
"What We're Up Against
"Islamic extremists have
proclaimed jihad against Christians, Jews, non-Muslims and secularists - simply
because they regard us as infidels.
"The warriors of Islamofascism
are not only 'over there'. Tens of thousands of Islamic militants now reside in
America, operating in sleeper cells, attending our colleges and universities,
even infiltrating our government. They are here - today. Many have been here for
years. Waiting. Preparing.
"They are being aided and
abetted by the purveyors of political correctness - those in government, the
media, academia and Hollywood who are apologists for Islamofascism, who
outrageously blame America for the cruel and brutal actions of those who want to
kill us and destroy our way of life."
*Brigitte Gabriel, now an American
citizen, is a Lebanese immigrant who came to the United States after
losing her country of birth to militant Muslim fundamentalists during the
Lebanese Civil War.
8/28/10
Putin Vows Russia Will Launch Manned Space Missions in 2018
FoxNews.com
8/28/10
Obama
Hauls
Arizona
Before
the UN
Human
Rights
Council
Ben Johnson, Floyd Reports,
The White House Watch
"Apparently Barack
Obama is not content to
make a
federal case out of his immigration feud with
Arizona; he
just made it an international one.
"The president’s
first-ever report on U.S. human rights to the UN Human Rights Council
contains a rich vein of offensive material. So far, one aspect has not
been reported: our petty president used the situation to bash
Arizona’s immigration law. Throughout the report — while sounds like
an Obama campaign speech — the president discusses
'the original flaw' of the U.S. Constitution, America’s tolerance
for slavery, and
his version of our long and despicable history of discriminating
against and oppressing minorities, women, homosexuals, and the
handicapped. After each complaint, he addresses how he is delivering us
from ourselves, patting himself on the back for such initiatives as
ending 'torture,' promoting Affirmative Action, and passing health care
legislation." [Click
here to view the pdf file itself.]

If you are not in Washington today with
Glenn and friends you should be
8/28/10
Beck, Palin, Faith, Hope, and Charity
By
Daniel Halper, The
National Standard
Hundreds of thousands rally in Washington.
"Radio
and television personality Glenn Beck today hosted hundreds of thousands
of rallying citizens from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C. In what was an amazingly apolitical rally, Beck and his
fellow speakers focused on three themes: faith, hope, and charity.
"The event, billed by its organizers 'Restoring Honor,' harkened back to
revered American leaders, from the Founding Fathers to Martin Luther
King Jr., and religious figures, particularly Moses, whom he
continuously referred to as “the man with the stick and burning bush.”
"Offering a grim picture of where the country is today, while refraining
from critiquing specific politicians or even particular policies, Beck
hit a hopeful pitch, urging his minions to be more like the great
Americans and religious figures he praised.
“Do we no
longer believe in the individual, and the power of one individual?” Beck
demanded. “No!” the crowd adamantly answered. “One man can change the
world….That individual is you!” . . .
"The
rally coincided with the day of Reverend Martin Luther King’s 1963 March
on Washington. And many speakers, including Beck himself paid tribute to
the civil rights leader who altered the course of American history
through his peaceful civil disobedience and belief in God. . . .
"The
rally coincided with the day of Reverend Martin Luther King’s 1963 March
on Washington. And many speakers, including Beck himself paid tribute to
the civil rights leader who altered the course of American history
through his peaceful civil disobedience and belief in God. . . .
"Palin’s
address to the crowd today was hardly political, especially for a
once-time nominee for vice president. Not once did she mention Obama,
Democrats or, even, Republicans. Instead, she addressed the crowd as a
mother of a soldier.
"Palin
heartily thanked 'America’s finest, our men and women in the military.'
She called the military 'a force for good' in this world. 'And that is
nothing to apologize for,' Palin said, in what was probably the most
political moment of her speech, as it was presumably a veiled shot at
Obama for what many perceive as a worldwide apology tour taken by the
president.
"Palin
used her time to defend America’s war in Afghanistan. And honored those
who had made the ultimate sacrifice in the fight for freedom.
"Here’s Palin’s full address: [Video in the piece targeted by the
headline link introducing this article] . . .
"'America today begins to turn back to God,' Beck told the crowd at the
beginning of the rally. Judging from the sizeable audience, and the
enthusiasm that many supporters expressed, it’s pretty clear that
hundreds of thousands wholeheartedly agree."
8/28/10
In front of historic crowd on the Mall, Beck makes plea for
spiritual renewal and self-government
By
Jon Ward - The
Daily Caller
"A crowd estimated
to be around 300,000 gathered on the national Mall Saturday for a
three-hour rally led by Fox News personality Glenn
Beck, who held largely true to his promise to keep
the event nonpolitical and instead conducted something of an
old-style religious revival meeting that meandered between calls for
moral renewal, racial unity, self-government, and support for the
U.S. military. . . .
“Beck showed
his talent for oratory and cemented his place as a notable and
unusual figure in American political history, and along the way
raised what he said was $5.5 million for the families of special
operations
soldiers killed or wounded in the line of
duty. But Beck’s message throughout likely came as a surprise to
many who don’t usually watch his show, who see him as mostly a
loud and dramatic critic of President Obama.
The Beck rally was a
mixture of religion, public relations and political philosophy.
After predicting the beginning of another Great Awakening at a
Kennedy Center event on Friday night, Beck strode back and forth
across the massive but spartan stage set, keeping his rhetoric
long on motivational generalities but short on specifics.
“Arguably, the
energy in the country that drove so many people to attend the
rally came from concern about
government
spending and debt, as well as its size and its
growing involvement in the private sector and individual lives.
But Beck, who is a Mormon, titled the Saturday rally 'Restoring
Honor' and used that theme to talk about the need for Americans
to return to God themselves as individuals and live upright,
moral lives.
“'If we want
our country to survive, we must begin to look within ourselves,'
Beck said. 'To restore America we must restore ourselves.'
“Beck’s
presupposition was that America is at a crisis point and its
citizens are in danger of losing their power for self-government
because they have grown lazy and apathetic and allowed it to
atrophy.
“''America is great because America is good … America is only
what we choose her to be, we as individuals must be good so
America can be great,' he said. 'We’ve grown tired. We’ve grown
weak. We’re dividing ourselves. There is growing hatred in the
country. We must be better than what we’ve allowed ourselves to
become. We must get the poison of hatred out of us. No matter
what anyone might say or do, no matter what anyone smears or
lies or throws our way … we must look to God and look to love.'
“Beck
made clear that he was not advocating for any one
religion. He brought a group of clergy onto the stage and
encouraged those at the rally and watching online or on TV
to 'go to your churches, your synagogues, your mosques,
anyone who is not preaching hate and division, anyone who is
not teaching to kill another man.'
“'These
men and women don’t agree on fundamentals. They don’t agree
on everything that every church teaches,' Beck said of the
clergy behind him on stage. 'What they do agree on is God is
the answer.'
“But most
of the prayers offered and religious messages delivered by
the clergy who spoke, as well as by Beck himself, focused on
Jesus Christ and an explicitly Christian message. . . .
“'Today we
are going to concentrate on the good things in America,
the
things we have accomplished and the things
we can do tomorrow,' he said. 'We have a choice today to
either let those scars crush us or redeem us.'
“Alveda
King, the niece of the civil rights leader, also gave a
short speech defending Beck and his cause, and said that
America’s problems with financial debt are due to a deficit
of character.
“'If Uncle
Martin could be here today, he would surely commend us for
giving honor where honor is due,' King said. 'Forty-seven
years ago, Uncle Martin compared our nation’s promise of
equal protection to a check marked insufficient funds. Today
in more than one sense, America is nearly bankrupt. Our
material gains seem to be going the way of our moral
losses.'
“King sent
out an e-mail during the rally that criticized abortion in
particular, and defended herself from critics who said she
has “hijacked” her uncle’s legacy.
“'How can
I hijack something that belongs to me? I am an heir to the
King Family legacy,' she said.
“Beck, who
was surrounded at all times by a trio of bodyguards in black
suits and dark sunglasses, also brought a stream of
African-American and Native American leaders on to the stage
to offer prayers and
songs, as well as to receive awards. For
example, Beck awarded a medal of faith to the Rev. C.L.
Jackson, a black minister from Texas.
“And a
group of black women sang spiritual songs, giving a feel of
an African-American church service on stage. The emphasis on
unity also seemed aimed at combating the idea that the Tea
Party movement is fueled by racist or violent sentiment. . .
.
“'The
courage by this black guy up here to come out is
unbelievable,' said Adam Washburn, of Oceanside, California,
who said he was 'honored' to have African-Americans
participating in the rally.
“Washburn,
a 47-year old plumber, said he was concerned about racial
tension – “I’ve seen more tension recently than I’ve seen in
my lifetime” – and said he thought Democrats have taken
advantage of the black vote.
“'The
whole
Democratic
and progressive movement has lied to them and tried to
destroy those people, and keep them under their thumb,' he
said. 'If you create a welfare state, you’re ruining those
people’s lives.' . . .
“As for
politics and the approaching midterm elections, none in the
crowd had much good to say about either political party.
Jones said Democrats such as Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, of Nevada, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, of
California, are 'the enemy within.
“But as
for the
Republican
Party, Jones said: 'If the Republicans
don’t do what we say, we’ll vote them out too.'
“'RINO’s
beware,' Jones hollered, referring to the common term used
now among the Tea Party: Republican In Name Only."
8/28/10
Massive crowd for Restore Honor Rally
Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
"Carrie
Dunn of left wing
MSNBC even concedes:
Today's
rally was indisputably huge. NBC's Domenico
Montanaro noted one park service official's estimate
of over 300,000 but please note that the park
service no longer provides 'official' estimates.
"Scott Wong of Politico, also generally no cheerleader
for conservatives,
writes:
Tens of
thousands? Certainly. One hundred thousand? Perhaps.
Half a million? No one can really say for sure.
Crowds
packed the area around the Reflecting Pool, standing
shoulder-to-shoulder under the canopy of trees, as
they strained to see the half a dozen big-screen
monitors near the Lincoln Memorial. Families huddled
around the World War II Memorial fountain, dipping
their feet in the water to stay cool under the
August sun. And they laid out camping chairs and sun
umbrellas, filling the large grassy area between the
memorial and the Washington Monument.

"Jim
Hoft of
Gateway
Pundit
posts a collection of pictures from various sources,
showing the crowd filling impressive amounts of space,
and links to a
Washington
Post
story that reports Al Sharpton's counter-rally drew only
3,000."
8/28/10
Oikophobia
By
JAMES
TARANTO,
The Wall
Street
Journal
Why
the liberal elite finds Americans revolting.
"If you think it's offensive
for a Muslim group to exploit the 9/11 atrocity, you're an anti-Muslim bigot and
un-American to boot. It is a claim so bizarre, so twisted, so utterly at odds
with common sense that it's hard to believe anyone would assert it except as
some sort of dark joke. Yet for the past few weeks, it has been put forward,
apparently in all seriousness, by those who fancy themselves America's best and
brightest, from the mayor of New York all the way down to Peter Beinart. . . .
"Reich doesn't just fail to
see the obvious. He dehumanizes his fellow Americans by treating their values,
feelings and opinions as no more than reflexive reactions to material
conditions. Americans in fact are a very tolerant people. Even in the immediate
aftermath of 9/11, there was no serious backlash against Muslims. What makes
them angry--what makes us angry--is the bigotry of the elites.
"The Ground Zero mosque is an
affront to the sensibilities of ordinary Americans. 'The center's association
with 9/11 is intentional and its location is no geographic coincidence,' as the
Associated Press has reported. That Americans would find this offensive is a
matter of simple common sense. The liberal elites cannot comprehend common
sense, and, incredibly, they think that's a virtue. After all, common sense is
so common.
"The British philosopher Roger
Scruton has coined a term to describe this attitude:
oikophobia. Xenophobia is fear of the alien; oikophobia is fear of the
familiar: "the disposition, in any conflict, to side with 'them' against 'us',
and the felt need to denigrate the customs, culture and institutions that are
identifiably 'ours.' " What a perfect description of the pro-mosque left.
"Scruton was writing in 2004,
and his focus was on Britain and Europe, not America. But his warning about the
danger of oikophobes--whom he amusingly dubs "oiks"--is very pertinent on this
side of the Atlantic today, and it illuminates how what are sometimes dismissed
as mere matters of "culture" tie in with economic and social policy:
The oik repudiates national
loyalties and defines his goals and ideals against the nation,
promoting transnational institutions over national governments, accepting
and endorsing laws that are imposed on us from on high by the EU or the UN .
. .
The oik is, in his own eyes, a
defender of enlightened universalism against local chauvinism.
"Yet the oiks' vision of
themselves as an intellectual aristocracy violates the first American principle
ever articulated: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal . . .'
"This cannot be reconciled
with the elitist notion that most men are economically insecure bitter clinging
intolerant bigots who need to be governed by an educated elite. Marxism Lite is
not only false; it is, according to the American creed, self-evidently
false. That is why the liberal elite finds Americans revolting. . . .
"Yesterday's Times featured a
fascinating story about world-wide Muslim reactions to the Ground Zero mosque
debate:
[I]n countries with nothing
similar to the constitutional separation of church and state, find it
puzzling that there is any controversy at all. In most Muslim nations, the
state not only determines where mosques are built, but what the clerics
inside can say."
8/28/10
a.m.
Live
Video of
Restoring
Honor
Rally at
the
Lincoln
Memorial--Beck,
Palin,
King et
al
8/27/10
Russian
subs
stalk
Trident
in echo
of Cold
War
Telegraph.co.uk
Russian
submarines are hunting down British Vanguard boats in a return to Cold War
tactics not seen for 25 years, Navy chiefs have warned.
"A specially upgraded
Russian Akula class submarine has been caught trying to record the acoustic
signature made by the Vanguard submarines that carry Trident nuclear
missiles, according to senior Navy officers.
British submariners have also
reported that they are experiencing the highest number of "contacts" with
Russian submarines since 1987.
"If the Russians are able to
obtain a recording of the unique noise of the boat's propellers it would have
serious implications for Britain's nuclear deterrent. Using its sophisticated
sonar, the Akula would be able to track Vanguards and potentially sink them
before they could launch their Trident D4 missiles.
"The Daily Telegraph
has learnt that, within the past six months, a Russian Akula entered the North
Atlantic and attempted to track a Vanguard. The incident has remained secret
until now.
"It is understood that the
Russians stood off Faslane, where the British nuclear force is based, and waited
for a Trident-carrying boat to come out for its three-month patrol to provide
the Continuous At Sea Deterrent."
8/27/10
New
Immigration
Policy
to Halt
Some
Illegal
Immigrant
Deportations
FoxNews.com
"The
change
in
policy
could
affect
thousands
of the
estimated
17,000
pending
removal
cases.
According
to ICE
[Immigration
and
Customs
Enforcement]
data,
nearly
40,000
immigrants
obtained
U.S
residency
status
due to
sponsorship
of
relatives
who were
legal
residents
in
fiscal
year
2009. By
comparison,
more
than
393,000
illegal
immigrants
were
deported
during
that
same
span.
"Sen. Chuck
Grassley, R-Iowa, likened the change to a "free pass" for illegal immigrants, a
characterization federal authorities denied.
"'Actions
like this demoralize ICE agents who are trying to do their job and enforce the
law,' Grassley told The New York Times. “Unfortunately, it appears this is more
evidence that the Obama administration would rather circumvent Congress and give
a free pass to illegal immigrants who have already broken our law.”
"A Department
of Homeland Security official told Fox News that the new policy was designed in
July 2009 to improve docket efficiency.
"Richard
Rocha, ICE's deputy press secretary, said the agency remains focused on removing
foreign nationals who have criminal convictions.
"'This
administration is committed to smart, effective immigration reform, prioritizing
the arrest and removal of criminal aliens and those who pose a danger to
national security,'' Rocha said in a statement. 'In 2010 to date, ICE has
removed more than 150,000 convicted criminals -- a record number.
"'ICE is not
engaged in a 'backdoor' amnesty and has placed more people in immigration
proceedings this year than ever before. ICE has implemented a new policy to
expedite the removal of criminal aliens and those who pose a danger to national
security by ensuring these cases are heard.'"
8/27/10
Maine
Ballot
Initiative
Seeks to
Extend
Vote to
Legal
Immigrants
FoxNews.com
8/27/10
Defense
Department
Rejects
4
States'
Military
Voter
Plans,
Grants 5
States
Waivers
FoxNews.com
"The
Department of Defense announced Friday that it was denying four
states' requests to waive requirements of a
law intended to protect the voting rights of
military personnel overseas, but five other states were granted
exemptions because their alternative
accommodations
were deemed adequate.
"The states
denied exemptions to the Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment Act were
Alaska, Colorado, Hawaii and Wisconsin, as well as the District of Columbia and
the Virgin Islands. Waivers were granted to
Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Washington.
"The MOVE Act
requires states to send absentee ballots to military and overseas voters covered
by the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act no later than 45 days
before an election for federal office starting with this fall’s elections,
election. In accordance with the MOVE Act, states are allowed to apply for a
waiver from the 45-day ballot requirement."
8/27/10
Primary
Lessons
By
Ross
Kaminsky,
The
American
Spectator
"After reflecting on the
results of Republican primary elections for the U.S. Senate and related
political happenings over recent months, the message is now clear: Barack Obama
was right: It really is about hope and change.
"Not the naïve 'Obama Zombie'
hope for a government that would keep us from having to pay for our own
mortgages or for filling our own gas tanks. But rather a change toward a
government that moves us toward living by our republic's founding principles.
"The first step on that path,
according to the newly awakened and re-energized Republican electorate, was to
tell the Beltway kingmakers what they can do with their preferred candidates.
"In this primary election
cycle, few words were as damaging to Republican candidates as "establishment"
and "insider." Ties to incumbent politicians, not least to John McCain, were
poison. Also harmful was being perceived as "bipartisan," in the sense that the
word has come to mean: Republicans helping pass liberal legislation while
getting nothing in return.
"On Tuesday, with all local
ballots counted, attorney Joe Miller looked set to pull the season's biggest
upset, knocking off incumbent Senator Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's Senate primary.
By Thursday morning, the lead was down to 1,668 votes with up to 8,000 absentee
ballots still to be received and counted. Even if Murkowski pulls out a victory
-- but especially if she doesn't -- the result reinforces the power of Sarah
Palin; she endorsed Miller, who spent a mere $200,000 on his campaign, less than
one-seventh of the $1.4 million plus spent by Murkowski, who had the
fourth-lowest ranking among Republican Senators in the
2009 American Conservative Union ratings. Even a pro-Miller poll paid for by
the Tea Party Express showed Murkowski with a 12 point lead just 3 days before
the election -- and that was much closer than any other poll. The election shows
that the anti-incumbent, anti-RINO wave is as alive in Alaska as in the rest of
the nation."
8/27/10
W.'s
redemption:
As
Barack
Obama
falls,
George
Bush
rises
Andrea
Tantaros,
NYDailyNews.com
"Bush was far from a perfect
President. He angered conservatives by riding shotgun on a congressional
spending spree that sent deficits soaring. But Obama's policies and the weak
economy have quadrupled those deficits, and he has gone on to waste even more,
giving Democrats no credibility when it comes to the country's finances.
"Many have speculated that it
would take decades for Bush to be vindicated as a President and for history to
ultimately define his legacy. It appears now that it might not take that long.
According to Reid Wilson of Hotline, a survey conducted by a Democratic
pollster shows that "George W. Bush is 6 points more popular than President
Obama in 'Frontline' districts - seats held by Democrats that the Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee sees as most vulnerable to Republican takeover.
That Bush is more popular than Obama in Democratic-held seats is cause for
outright fear."
"This is precisely why bashing
Bush, a presidential pastime of Obama's and the current Democratic majority,
will not work. Besides the fact that Bush isn't on the ballot, vilifying him
demonstrates only that the left is devoid of answers and incapable of leading.
Democrats have had control of Congress since 2006, and since taking office,
Obama has led the economic recovery - including a massive stimulus bill that has
done little to stimulate the economy and a much-disliked health care bill.
"Since leaving office, Bush
has been wise. He's kept out of controversy, and with true class, has resisted
the urge to go on the offensive and argue his case - or defend the choices he
made during his tenure.
"Rather than fight, he's
letting history be the judge, and he'll likely be rewarded.
"Maybe Obama is so disastrous
as a commander in chief that Bush appears competent. Or maybe Bush was always a
solid leader who unfairly had the media assaulting his every move. Whatever it
may be, the President who initially could do no wrong and once walked on water
is slowly sinking. The President who could do no right is slowly rising."

OGUNQUIT, Maine – Former President George W.
Bush & wife Laura
surprised participants in the third annual “Run for the Fallen” last Sunday.
"Every person,
newscaster and commentator always prefaces any, even the mildest
criticism, of President Obama's policies with some statement about how
dazzlingly brilliant the man is. Liberals, conservatives, independents —
it never changes. Why is this? And most important of all, is it true?
"What and where is the
proof that Obama is such a sharp fellow? The recorded evidence is
unavailable since his academic records, and test scores from three
universities are sealed at his demand. Sure, he graduated from Harvard,
but so did George Bush, who earned an MBA but is still pilloried by some
as dumber than dirt." [The rest of the article details how stupid he has
performed as president, not even giving him credit for smarts in
purposely and successfully destroying the economy, a la Cloward-Piven,
in order to replace it with a socialist one.]
8/27/10
Obama, Democrats got 88 percent of 2008 contributions by TV network
execs, writers, reporters
By:
Mark
Tapscott, WashingtonExaminer.com
8/27/10
Divine
Destiny
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
Exploring
the
principles
and
values
of
America
8/27/10
a.m.
The only
way to
see
Glenn
tonight
[Glenn
Beck
that is.
This is
not the
usual
hyperlink]
"There are only two ways to
see Glenn live from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. tonight:
1. Buy a time machine and
camp out last night for tickets.
2. Join us live on the
Insider Extreme at
glennbeck.com.
"We highly recommend option
#2, but the choice is yours. If you decide to join us online, the pre-show,
hosted by Scott Baker, begins at 7:30pm ET. Then, at 8pm, we'll take you live to
the Kennedy Center stage for America's Divine Destiny, an event that will
emphasize the forgotten role that faith must play in reuniting our country."
8/26/10
Drug
cartel
suspected
in
massacre
of 72
migrants
By MARK
STEVENSON
and E.
EDUARDO
CASTILLO,
MyWay
"MEXICO CITY (AP) - The
discovery of 72 slain Central and South American migrants on a ranch just south
of the U.S. border provides a horrific reminder of the brutality of human
trafficking in a country dominated by drug cartels.
"A wounded Ecuadorean who
escaped the killing ground in Mexico's Tamaulipas state told authorities that
the migrants' abductors identified themselves as Zetas, a drug gang whose
control of parts of the state is so brutal and complete that even many Mexicans
avoid traveling its highways.
"Migrants running the gauntlet
up Mexico to reach the United States have long faced extortion, violence and
theft. But reports have grown of mass kidnappings of migrants, who are forced to
give the telephone numbers of relatives in the United States or back home who
are then required to transfer ransom payments to the abductors."
8/26/10
Afghan
president
questions
US
timeline
for
leaving
Afghanistan
CBC News
"KABUL - President Hamid
Karzai criticized the U.S. plan to begin withdrawing troops starting next July
and said the war on terror cannot succeed as long as the Taliban and their
allies maintain sanctuaries in Pakistan.
"Karzai's statements Thursday
were made during a meeting with visiting U.S. congressmen and come at a time
when the Obama administration is ratcheting up pressure on the Afghan leader to
do more to stamp out corruption. The Afghan government maintains that the U.S.
should be doing more on other fronts, including pressuring Pakistan to shut down
the insurgent sanctuaries."
8/26/10
Mosque's Saudi Patron Business.com
"Islamofascism:
New dots are emerging from the probe into who's behind the Ground Zero mosque,
and the radical Muslim Brotherhood is coming into view.
"While a couple of U.S.
nonprofits — the Cordoba Initiative and its sister, the American Society for
Muslim Advancement — are coordinating the New York project, they hardly give the
full picture. A Saudi charity has sunk more than $300,000 into ASMA. It's called
the Kingdom Foundation — headed by Alwaleed bin Talal, the Saudi prince whose
9/11 relief check was rejected after he blamed the attacks on U.S. foreign
policy.
"Bin Talal is a major
financier of Muslim Brotherhood fronts in the U.S. His foundation is run by
Saudi hijabi Muna Abu Sulayman, who appears on ASMA's Web site as one of its
"Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow.". . .
"So? The Egypt-based
Brotherhood is the parent of Hamas and al-Qaida and the source of most of the
jihadi ideology and related terror throughout the world today. Citing its secret
U.S. archives, prosecutors say the Brotherhood has a plan to 'destroy' America
'from within,' and is using its agents and front groups in the U.S. to carry out
that strategy. Like the mafia, it's highly organized, and uses shells and
cutouts to launder money. . . .
"Moreover, Rauf's 2004 book on
Islam was published in Malaysia under the title, 'A Call to Prayer from the
World Trade Center Rubble: Islamic Dawa in the Heart of America Post-9/11.' Dawa
is Arabic for proselytizing.
"In the book, the New York
imam calls for a "subsidiary entity within the judiciary" in America that
adjudicates on Shariah compliance."
8/26/10
Voting
System
and
Fraud
Prevention
Tradeoffs--Revised
8/26/10
By
George
Edwards
and Joe
Dugan,
GIAC2002.org
8/26/10
Restoring
Honor
Message
behind
the 8/28
rally
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today
8/26/10
Group
Founded
by Van
Jones
Claims
FNC
Lies,
Proceeds
to Lie
About
Fox, Tea
Party
By Lachlan Markay, NewsBusters
"Turn
Off Fox
is a
project
started
by Color
of
Change,
the
far-left
political
organization
founded
by
neo-Marxist
and
black
liberation
theologist
Van
Jones.
"Despite Turn Off Fox's
righteous indignation, the
same document making the above accusations pushes blatant misinformation
about both Fox and the Tea Party movement. Got that? The Turn Off Fox campaign
wants FNC to tell the truth, and uses demonstrable falsehoods to bolster its
case.
"The document accusing Fox of
pushing misinformation claims that Bill O'Reilly got former USDA official
Shirley Sherrod fired, and claims that Tea Party protesters shouted racial slurs
and spit on black congressmen outside the Capitol. Both claims have been
thoroughly debunked. . . .
"Numerous videos of the
protest in question give no indication that any racial slur was uttered, or that
any protester spit on Congressman Cleaver.
"The New York Times recently
issued a retraction to that effect, noting the lack of evidence for a claim
that most media outlets - but not Fox! - were willing to unquestionably parrot
for so long.
"The 'Turn Off Fox' campaign
is the latest effort in Color of Change's continuing vendetta against Fox News.
This is the
same organization that tried to get Glenn Beck taken off the air by
targeting Fox's advertisers.
"These blatant factual
inaccuracies raise serious questions regarding Color of Change's credibility.
How can it accuse Fox of spreading misinformation, while using misinformation to
bolster its case? This document suggests that, contrary to Color of Change's
claims, this is little more than a political effort designed to stifle speech
the group's far-left members don't like."
8/26/10
Crying Bigotry: Last Refuge Of The Liberal By
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, Investors.com
"Liberalism under siege is an
ugly sight indeed. Just yesterday it was all hope and change and returning power
to the people. But the people have proved so disappointing. Their recalcitrance
has, in only 19 months, turned the 40-year liberal ascendancy that James
Carville predicted into a full retreat.
"Ah, the people, the little
people, the small-town people, the "bitter" people, as Barack Obama in an
unguarded moment once memorably called them, clinging "to guns or religion or" —
this part is less remembered — "antipathy toward people who aren't like them."
"That's a polite way of
saying: clinging to bigotry. And promiscuous charges of bigotry are precisely
how our current rulers and their vast media auxiliary react to an obstreperous
citizenry that insists on incorrect thinking. . . .
"Note what connects these
issues. In every one, liberals have lost the argument in the court of public
opinion. Majorities — often lopsided majorities — oppose President Obama's
social-democratic agenda (e.g., the stimulus, ObamaCare), support the Arizona
law, oppose gay marriage and reject a Ground Zero mosque.
"What's a liberal to do? Pull
out the bigotry charge, the trump that pre-empts debate and gives no credit to
the seriousness and substance of the contrary argument. . . .
"It is a measure of the
corruption of liberal thought and the collapse of its self-confidence that,
finding itself so widely repudiated, it resorts reflexively to the cheapest
race-baiting (in a colorful variety of forms).
"Indeed, how can one reason
with a nation of pitchfork-wielding mobs brimming with 'antipathy toward people
who aren't like them' — blacks, Hispanics, gays and Muslims — a nation that is,
as Michelle Obama once put it, 'just downright mean'?
"The Democrats are going to
get beaten badly in November. Not just because the economy is ailing. And not
just because Obama over-read his mandate in governing too far left. But because
a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites whose undisguised contempt for the
great unwashed prevents them from conceding a modicum of serious thought to
those who dare oppose them."
8/26/10
Ben
Quayle
hammers
Obama in
victory
speech
By
KASIE
HUNT
"With his prospects
uncertain heading into the 10-way Republican primary Tuesday night, Ben
Quayle canceled a planned victory party. But with a win in hand
Wednesday, Quayle finally got to make a celebratory speech, where he
hammered a familiar target: President Barack Obama.
"His victory speech’s
first line mirrored a startling attack ad he released in the campaign’s
final weeks: 'I mainly have eight words for you: Barack Obama is the
worst president in history,' he told supporters."
8/26/10
Understanding
Barack
Obama
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
I
think
Obama is
spoiled.
I think
his
entire
life he
has been
told how
special
he is
and he
has
believed
it. And
I think
for
reasons
which
are
very,
very
obvious
to me,
that I'm
not
gonna
spend
time
detailing,
I think
Obama's
had so
many
guardian
angels,
this was
a guy
who,
frankly,
was
never
going to
be
allowed
to fail.
That's
why when
I said
"I hope
he
fails"
they all
had the
proverbial
cow,
because
if
Obama's
at
Harvard
and does
C or D
work
he's
gonna
get an
A,
there's
somebody
covering
for him
at every
step of
the way.
Charmed
life or
what
have
you, for
whatever
reason.
I know
the
reasons,
I'm not
going to
waste
time
explaining
them. It
would be
a great
media
tweak
but they
wouldn't
get it.
So is
that
laziness
or is it
-- Obama,
I think
he wants
to run
the
world.
The
White
House,
this
country
is too
small,
too
small
for him.
As to
incompetent,
that's
like, is
he smart
or dumb?
We have
to
define
competent.
If his
purpose
is to
restructure
the
American
economy
from
capitalism
to
socialism,
he's
pretty
competent.
If he
really
is
serious
and
thinks
he's got
the best
ideas on
creating
jobs,
then
he's
incompetent.
So to
answer
that
we'd
have to
know
what his
real
purpose
is,
rather
than
just
surmise.
I'm
pretty
sure I
know
what his
purpose
is.
Nobody
who
really
wanted
to
create
jobs,
revive
an
economy
would do
what
he's
doing
and
stick to
it."
8/26/10
Floating
Protest:
Fishermen
Appeal
to Obama
for Help
FoxNews.com
"While welcome signs dot the
little island of Martha's Vineyard, encouraging President Obama and his family
to enjoy their vacation, the seas are not so friendly. A flotilla of New England
fishing vessels -- totaling about a dozen boats thus far -- has converged just
outside the Vineyard Haven Harbor. The floating protest is an appeal to the
president to intercede with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
NOAA, on the behalf of struggling fishermen who feel strict new federal
regulations will devastate coastal communities and force them to leave their
boats and their livelihoods.
"The protesters aim to signal
a variety of concerns regarding everything from catch limits forcing fishermen
to restrict their hauls to fuzzy science they believe leads to smaller fishing
allocations and even abuse on the part of government officials who seek to
control the industry.
"Jacqueline Odell, the
Executive Director of the Northeast Seafood Coalition, an advocacy group that
represents more than 250 commercial fishing businesses from Long Island to
Maine, understands the frustrations expressed and expects some of the
organization's members will participate in the Vineyard protest.
"Citing strict new annual
catch limits and a new management system, including 'catch shares' which push
fishing businesses to operate in sectors and share a given allocation of fish,
Odell believes many small boat owners will be forced to stop fishing or lay off
crew members."
8/25/10
What We
Learned
from the
Primaries
Last
Night
John
Podhoretz,
CommentaryMagazine.com
"The success of insurgent
candidates in the Florida GOP gubernatorial primary and the Alaska GOP
senatorial primary indicates that Republican voters in wildly different
locales are not simply in an anti-Obama, anti-Democrat mood. They are
genuinely eager to upend the political system. And this is something very
new.
"Usually, politicians who
use the language of insurgency are just that. For them, channeling the anger
of voters is a marketing device. They are always using the language of
insurgency — I’ll go to Washington and shake things up; the system is
broken and I’m going to fix it – but they do so as a vote-getting
tool. The shock troops of the 1994 Gingrich Revolution were, when it came
down to it, mostly classic political hacks who marched in formation when it
suited their aims and went AWOL when the fighting got tough.
"These Republican
insurgents, however, really are insurgents, and one should take them at
their word that they are not in this to become professional politicians
whose primary aims are fundraising and re-election. If enough of them are
elected in November, and enough could be 10 in the House and three in the
Senate, they really could change the political dynamic in Washington in ways
impossible to foresee. They will also, almost certainly, say unguarded
things that will provide a bountiful harvest for the liberal media."
8/25/10
10
States
Seek
Waiver
to
Comply
With
Military
Voting
Law's
Absentee
Ballot
Rules
FoxNews.com
"Armed insurgents provide quite enough for our fighting men and women overseas
to worry about but this fall's jam-packed election calendar is also ambushing
them.
"Ten
states, Washington, D.C., and the Virgin Islands are all seeking waivers
exempting them from complying with the new law -- the Move Act -- that requires
all states to
mail absentee ballots to
overseas military voters 45 days before Election Day. . .
"'It's been very clear that some of these states were not going to be in
compliance with the Move Act a long time ago,' said Eric Eversole, executive
director of the Military Voter Protection Project. 'And the
Department
of
Justice, each step of the
way, has simply not taken the actions to ensure that the Move Act would be
implemented in each of the 50 states.'"
8/25/10
Unemployed
group
blasts
Geithner's
handling
of
economy
By Jay
Heflin,
The Hill
"'The
pace of
job
losses
is
increasing,
and
Secretary
Geithner
doesn't
have a
clue on
how to
end this
grave
recession,"
said
Rick
Sloan,
the
group's
acting
executive
director,
in
prepared
remarks.
. . .
"'Geithner
was
delusional
then and
he's
even
worse
now,'
Sloan
said,
pointing
to
comments
that
were
made
less
than a
month
ago by
Geithner
declaring
the
economy
was 'on
firmer
foundation
for
future
growth.'
. . .
"Last
week's
increase
in
jobless
claims
was the
third in
a row,
and
suggests
that the
private
sector
may
report a
net loss
of jobs
in
August,
a first
for the
year."
8/25/10
The
Mosque
Behind
the Mask
Dick
Morris,
FrontPageMag.com
"The proposed mosque near to
ground zero is not really a religious institution. It would be — as many mosques
throughout the nation are — a terrorist recruitment, indoctrination and
training center. It is not the worship
of Islam that is the problem. It is the efforts to advance Sharia law, with its
requirement of jihad and violence, that is the nub of the issue.
"There is a global effort to
advance Sharia law and make it the legal system of the world. Most major banks
and financial institutions offer Sharia compliant funds, which have their
investments vetted by the most fundamentalist and reactionary of clerics to
assure that they advance Sharia law. . . .
"Not only is Sharia law a
vicious anti-female code that orders death by stoning, promotes
child marriage, decriminalizes abuse of
women and gives wives no rights in divorce, but it also explicitly recognizes
the duty of all Muslims to wage jihad against non-believers and promotes
violence to achieve its goals. In this respect, violent jihad is as inherent in
Sharia law as revolution is in communist doctrine.
"But there are non-Sharia
mosques where peaceful and spiritual Muslims worship God in their own way
without promoting violence. A soon-to-be published study funded by Frank
Gaffney’s Center for Security Policy found that 20 percent of the mosques in the
United States have no taint of Sharia and simply promote peaceful worship. But
80 percent are filled with violent literature, Sharia teachings, and promotion
of jihad and its inevitable concomitant — terrorism.
"Which brings us to the ground
zero mosque.
"There can be no doubt that
any mosque organized and run by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf will be based on Sharia
law and will serve as local branch office of the pan-Islamic terrorist offensive
against the west. That such a facility should be located right next to the place
where jihad achieved its most hideous triumph is unspeakably inappropriate."
8/25/10
Islam: The Only Religion Protected and Defended by the American Left
Rush Limbaugh Show Segment Today--Transcript
RUSH: Now, Andy McCarthy, National Review Online, one of the editors over
there, I mean this is a great, great piece. His headline: "Inventing Moderate
Islam -- It can't be done without confronting mainstream Islam and its sharia
agenda." It's a
long piece, but McCarthy says we're being force-fed the idea there are moderate
Muslims pouring out of our elite, totally bought-off universities. And McCarthy
explains there's no such thing as a moderate Muslim. Now wait 'til the
Drive-Bys get hold of this piece. I mean they're going to literally freak out.
It is a long, long piece. But the point is there's no such thing as moderate
Islam. One of the things McCarthy says taught him this -- as we've discussed
countless times in the program -- Andy McCarthy was on the US attorney's staff,
the US attorney's office prosecuting the blind sheik. And in preparing for the
trials, he listened and read what the blind sheik, Omar Abdel Rahman had said,
some of the most incendiary, provocative, violence-inducing things he had said.
. . .
This is why I believe we're looking here at almost a reincarnation of the Cold
War. We've got the Russians, the Soviets, and the American elite, the academics
and everybody else thinking, "Oh, they're harmless people. In fact, it's a
great system if we just get the right people running it. It's all about
fairness and equality."
Meanwhile, the rest of the people see that people are slaughtered in
communist countries, they build walls to keep 'em in. They kill 'em and they put
'em in jail if they don't toe the party line. And we're saying how can our
elites look at this and find anything admirable in it, anything they want to
emulate. And we're at a loss. Then Ronald Reagan comes along, starts calling
the evil empire and the people in the ruling class literally start having cows.
. . .
RUSH:
[Now] You've got Bloomberg and the pro-mosque people thinking that this is
nothing more than a freedom of worship issue, a freedom of religion issue, when
they don't care about that in the first place anyway. Versus the rest of the
country that says, wait a minute, now, 2700 Americans died on that site,
something here doesn't compute with those of us who live in the world of common
sense. . . .
Thomas Jefferson was sent to Europe to deal with the Muslim Barbary Coast pirate
problem before he even became president. Would you like to know what Thomas
Jefferson learned? I'll tell you what he wrote. Islam "was founded on the Laws
of their Prophet, that it was written in their Quran, that all nations who
should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their
right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make
slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every (Muslim) who should
be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise." This is what Thomas Jefferson
learned before he even became president.
And Thomas Jefferson ended up going to war with the Muslims rather than
pay them tribute, the Barbary pirates. So there isn't anything new here. What's
new here is the leftist, the American left's reaction, and I really do think
that... I ask my question again: Name for me the last time the American left
went gaga over religion? When did they stand up for it, like it, encourage it?
They don't."
8/25/10
Al Gore's global-warming crusade shrinks
Washington Times, by Matt Patterson
"Mr.
Gore himself is to blame for at least some of the public backlash against
global-warming orthodoxy: Using bad science to justify bad policy will
inevitably rub people the wrong way. And
Mr. Gore has not
helped his cause by consistently expressing outrageous falsehoods ("the debate
is over") and shamelessly trying to shield his assertions from legitimate
criticism by claiming "settled science." All the while, he has enriched himself
and pushed a left-wing economic agenda. . . .
"The unreliability of
tree-ring data has long been known. Nevertheless, the hockey-stick graph was
embraced enthusiastically by
Mr. Gore and the
global-warming crowd, for it conveniently dispensed with two significant climate
events: the Medieval Warm Period (10th to 13th centuries) and the Little Ice Age
(14th to 19th centuries). The former saw temperatures in the North Atlantic warm
enough that vikings could settle and flourish in a lush Greenland, the latter
temperatures so low that people routinely ice-skated on a frozen River Thames.
Both of these climate events, for which there are masses of historical evidence,
began before the Industrial Revolution and therefore are unattributable to
man-made carbon emissions.
"That's why the global-warming
crowd was so desperate to hide them: If people realize that temperature
fluctuations occur naturally and cyclically, they are less likely to embrace the
draconian, job-killing energy taxes favored by
Mr. Gore and his
ilk as punishment for their own carbon sins. . . .
"[T]he flaws in the
statistical methodology used to create the various hockey-stick graphs have
received widespread attention, and the once-iconic symbol of global warming has
since been largely marginalized in the climate-change debate.
"But not before it helped
Al Gore to earn an
Academy Award, a Nobel Peace Prize and an undeserved reputation as a scientific
guru. As The Washington Post once noted of
Mr. Gore's academic
credentials: 'For all of
Gore's later
fascination with science and technology, he often struggled academically in
those subjects. The political champion of the natural world received [a]
sophomore D in Natural Sciences 6 ... and then got a C-plus in Natural Sciences
118 his senior year."
8/25/10
Shaping Tea Party Passion Into Campaign Force
By
KATE ZERNIKE, New York Times
8/25/10
Court should keep the fake Tea Party off Michigan ballot
The Detroit News
"The judges should keep the
fake Tea Party off the ballot. It has nothing to do with the various tea party
groups across the state, which are opposed to the growing size and scope of
government.
"It does have connections to
the state Democratic Party and its puppet master, the United Auto Workers union,
neither of which can pretend to share those limited government values.
"The intent is clearly to
deceive voters who might otherwise cast their ballots for Republican
candidates."
8/25/10
DISCLOSE
Act aka DISGRACE Act
[Not a hyperlink]
Tea Party Patriots
"Remember
the DISCLOSE Act? Or, as we like to call it, the DISGRACE Act; the one in
which the Reid-Pelosi-Obama team attempted to silence small, grassroots
groups during elections, including the ones this November. Though it failed
to pass in the Senate last month, Harry Reid has decided that he is going to
try again. The only thing that stopped it before were the three usual
suspects: Senators' Snowe, Collins, and Brown. Reid and Obama are pressuring
them hard to change their votes to Yes. We must pressure them harder to
continue voting NO.
"Here
is a refresher course on the DISCLOSE Act:
"From our friends at Freedom Action about this speech violating bill-
"Even if somehow the speech restrictions in this bill were
constitutional, their uneven application would be a violation of the
Fourteenth Amendment's equal protection under the law. Even the
left-leaning Sierra Club has labeled the DISCLOSE Act a two-tiered
system that is 'unfair and undemocratic' and that smaller grass-roots
organizations would be disadvantaged because they lack the resources to
cope with 'the additional disclosure burdens.' The unions and the big
non-profit groups get to keep their free speech given to them in the
January Supreme Court decision, but the corporations and small
non-profits lose theirs under DISCLOSE.
"Also, President Obama and some Democrats are dishonestly stating that
the Court's decision would 'open the floodgates for special interest,
including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our
elections.' However, current federal law and Federal Election Commission
regulations already ban foreign corporations from participating directly
or indirectly in American elections. (see 2 U.S.C. § 441e and 2 U.S.C.
437g). . . .
"(For
those interested, here's a good link with information on the actual
language and problems with the DISCLOSE bill, click here: http://www.gop.gov/bill/111/2/hr5175)"
8/24/10
Media
Nearly
Silent
as
ObamaCare
Proponents
Drop
Deficit,
Cost
Savings
Claims
By Lachlan Markay, NewsBusters
"It has now been five days since Politico's Ben Smith
published a
powerpoint presentation created by an amalgamation of powerful left wing
interest groups, conceding that two of the central arguments for passing
ObamaCare - that it will lower the deficit and will reduce health care costs -
have failed. "For a group of
organizations integral to the passage of the law, that was a stunning
admission. And yet, the mainstream press is nearly silent on the issue. Searches
on Nexis and Google News reveal no coverage from the major television networks,
the cable news channels (with the exception of Fox), the New York Times, the Los
Angeles Times, USA Today, NPR, PBS, or Newsweek. To their credit, Time Magazine
and the Washington Post published a blog post each on the revelation.
"Even while discussing
ObamaCare and its potential effects on the deficit and health care costs, some
media outlets managed to avoid any mention of a fact Democrats now seem to be
conceding: "the White House's first and most aggressive sales pitch have
essentially failed," as Smith notes. . . .
"Even the White House's own
Medicare Actuary has
acknowledged that ObamaCare will increase, not reduce, the amount the nation
spends on health care over the law's first 10 years. Optimistic projections
beyond the 10 year window "may be unrealistic," the Actuary stated (pdf).
"Not only will the bill raise
the amount the nation as a whole spends on health care, it will also raise
individual Americans' insurance premiums,
according to the Congressional Budget Office. Senate Democratic Whip Dick
Durbin concurred with that
assessment.
"Neither will the law reduce
the federal deficit. Once one strips away all of the accounting tricks and
budgetary gimmicks, one finds,
in the
words of the former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, 'The health care
reform legislation would raise, not lower, federal deficits, by $562 billion.'"
8/24/10
Conway:
U.S.
Withdrawal
Deadline
Boosts
Taliban
in
Afghan
War
By
Nathan
Hodge,
The Wall
Street
Journal
"The top U.S. Marine general
made a sharp departure from the White House’s talking points on Afghanistan,
saying President Barack Obama’s promised July 2011 deadline to
start withdrawing troops from the country had given “sustenance” to the Taliban.
"'We know the president was
talking to several audiences at the same time when he made his comments on July
2011,' Gen. James Conway told reporters on Tuesday. 'In some
ways, we think right now it’s probably giving our enemy sustenance….In fact,
we’ve intercepted communications that say, ‘Hey, you know, we only have to hold
out for so long.’”
8/24/10
Beck:
Obama's
Faith
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today--Video
Why
would
any
American
think
the
president
is
Muslim?
8/24/10
Chris
Matthews'
latest
verbal
blunder
Thomas Lifson, American Thinker
"Watch this
video
(you can scroll to 3:25 if you have a limited tolerance for Matthews,
although it's worth it to see the whole video) and
see
Chris Matthews flaunt his ignorance. Discussing the Ground Zero Mosque:
Matthews: "Suppose they
built this thing right square over....right over the Wailing Wall in
Jerusalem"
"Obviously, he does not
realize that the Dome of the Rock Muslim 'Shrine' was built directly on the
site of the 2nd Temple -- 'right over' the 'Wailing Wall' (It's called the
'Western Wall,' Chris) on the Temple Mount, not to mention that the Al Aksa
Mosque is also built on the Temple Mount."
8/24/10
Place Observers In Mosques By MICHAEL STOPA, The Sun
Chronicle
"[T]he symbolism and the
inevitable 'pilgrimages' to Manhattan by Islamic radicals is only one issue.
The real concern is not a question of bricks and mortar. The deeper threat
concerns what goes on inside the walls. We know that mosques, from Hamburg
to London to Falls Church, Va., (where the Fort Hood shooter was
indoctrinated) have been used as places to incite and plan violence.
"In addition, non-believers are prohibited from entering a mosque. Some
portion of the proposed Ground Zero construction plans are for a cultural
center, which presumably would be open to visitors. But the mosque itself
will be off limits to non-Muslims. Mosques effectively house secret
societies, which shield their proceedings from the outside world.
"The battle is not over yet, but it might prove impossible to prevent the
Cordova Initiative (the principal underwriter of the mosque) and its
director Faisal Rauf from receiving the permits and starting construction.
However, I believe that we can and should end the secrecy and doubt about
the activities in the Ground Zero mosque and others (such as the one in
Roxbury) where militant influences are suspected. Incitement to violence is
a crime. Our law enforcement practice has never allowed privacy of
association to trump an investigation into the plotting of violence. . . .
"President Obama had a
golden opportunity to play the peacemaker. Had he merely urged American
Islamic leaders to consider the concerns of the 9/11 victims' families, he
would have been a hero - even if his plea had been ignored. But the
president views America as a nation with a history of oppression. This makes
it difficult for him to speak persuasively or act decisively toward
America's enemies, even when we have suffered a horrific, unprovoked attack.
Mr. Obama often seems to be morally more comfortable standing with the
vandals."
8/24/10
Voter ID
and
Illegal
Aliens
The
Foundry
"The
latest Rasmussen poll on voter ID is sure to frustrate liberal advocacy
organizations like the NAACP and the League of Women Voters that oppose
commonsense proposals to ensure the integrity of our election process. They have
been waging a losing litigation battle against states to try to prevent them
from implementing photo ID requirements.
"Rasmussen reports that an
overwhelming majority of likely voters (82 percent) believe all voters should
show photo ID before they are allowed to vote (that includes a majority in every
demographic group). Only 14 percent disagree. This is the highest level of
support for photo ID since Rasmussen started polling the question in 2006.
"On a related issue, the
majority of voters said ballots should be printed only in English. The Justice
Department, by contrast, has threatened to sue Cuyahoga County, Ohio, unless it
prints ballots in Spanish.
"And 56 percent of voters
oppose the Justice Department’s lawsuit against Arizona over its immigration
law. In fact, 54 percent think Eric Holder should be spending his time suing
sanctuary cities, something the Justice Department has specifically said it will
not do."
8/24/10
Border
Patrol
Joins
ICE
Agents
In
Condemning
Obama
Administration
by Jim
Kouri,
The Post
Chronicle
"On the heels of Immigration
and Customs Enforcement agents' 258-0 "vote of no confidence" against their
superiors, U.S. Border Patrol agents are slamming President Barack
Obama's
administration, especially Attorney General Eric Holder.
"'We are receiving reports...
that Eric Holder and DOJ have signaled that they [will continue to] challenge
SB1070. If this development wasn't so sad, it would be funny,' according to the
membership of the National Border Patrol Council Local 2544, which represents
U.S. Border Patrol agents in Tucson, Arizona. . . .
"The Immigration and
Nationality Act includes section 287(g), added in 1996, that grants local and
state jurisdictions the ability to enforce immigration law with proper training
and supervision by federal authorities. In 2003, Alabama became the second state
in the nation to participate in the program by signing a memorandum of
understanding (MOU) with the
Department
of
Homeland
Security. Florida was the first state to participate, in 2002,
and later Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio sent his deputies for training. . . .
"'Partnerships with our state
and local law enforcement colleagues have always been essential to our fight
against illegal immigration,' said Paul Kilcoyne, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement's deputy director for investigations.
"'This innovative and
cooperative effort allows our state troopers to become force multipliers for
America's border security mission. We always welcome those who enter our country
legally, but we won't stand idly by and do nothing when we catch illegal aliens,
some who have committed crimes like armed robbery, rape and drug smuggling, in
our state,' he said."
8/23/10
Petraeus
Says
Taliban
Momentum
'Reversed'
FoxNews.com
"Gen.
David
Petraeus,
the
commander
of U.S.
and NATO
forces
in
Afghanistan,
said in
an
interview
Monday
that a
surge in
coalition
troops
has
turned
the tide
on the
Taliban's
"momentum"
there,
but
warned
tough
battles
still
lie
ahead.
"Petraeus
also
played
down the
prospect
of a
rapid
withdrawal
of U.S.
troops
next
year,
repeating
his
insistence
that a
target
of July
2011 was
merely a
'date
when a
process
begins
--
nothing
more,
nothing
less.'"
8/23/10
Beck:
Why the
Mideast
Matters
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today--Video
Is
the
Obama
administration
fundamentally
transforming
our
relationship
with
Israel?
8/23/10
Alveda
King
speaks
on
whether
her
uncle
Martin
Luther
King Jr.
would
stand
with
Glenn
Beck or
NAACP on
Aug. 28
By
Matthew
Boyle,
The
Daily
Caller
"Alveda King, Dr.
Martin
Luther
King, Jr.’s niece and one of
Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally’s keynote speakers, said if her uncle
were alive today, he’d choose to attend the Aug. 28 rally that 'demonstrates
the spirit of love and unity and peace.'. . .
"'I’m speaking at the Glenn Beck rally because Glenn and I have had many
conversations about faith, hope and love,' Alveda King said in a phone
interview with TheDC. 'Glenn asked me about the
philosophy
and the strength to
love that my uncle Martin had. I’ve been sharing that with Glenn and I’m
hearing and seeing Glenn embrace those principles. Where those principles
are bound, and they’re not just rooted in the American Dream, but in the
faith of our Father.'
"Alveda King said she thinks Beck embraces the meaning of her late uncle’s
'I have a dream,' speech, and aims for trying to reach a better tomorrow,
better than the NAACP.
"Lloyd Marcus, composer of the 'Tea Party Song' and regular Tea Party rally
speaker and black conservative, said he thinks Beck’s rally is where Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., would be were he alive today.
"'I find them [the NAACP and NAN] totally disgusting and I salute my brother
Glenn Beck,' Marcus said. 'Dr. King was all about judging people by the
content of their character and not the
color of their skin. That’s
what Beck is all about. The NAACP are completely the opposite. They have far
abandoned Dr. King’s vision and dream a long time ago because they are
totally about skin color and they have nothing to do with the content of a
person’s character.'
"Marcus also said that, if Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were alive today,
he’d be disgusted with the civil rights leaders guiding the nation."
8/23/10
Court
Blocks
New
Federal
Funding
for
Embryonic
Stem
Cell
Research
FoxNews.com
"A
federal
judge
temporarily
blocked
the
Obama
administration
Monday
from
using
federal
dollars
to fund
expanded
human
embryonic
stem
cell
research,
saying
the
research
involves
the
destruction
of
embryos."
8/23/10
a.m.
Voting
System
Recommendations
George
Edwards,
GIAC2002.org
8/23/10
CNN
Falsifies
History
of
Muslim
Domination
of
Spain,
Shills
for
Islam
8/23/10
Mosque
Imam
Rauf: US
Has More
Blood on
Its
Hands
Than
Al-Qaeda
Limbaugh
Today
RUSH:
Going
back to
July 12,
2005 in
Adelaide
Australia
at the
University
of South
Australia's
Bob
Hawke
Prime
Ministerial
Centre,
the Imam
Feisal
Abdul
Rauf
presented
a
lecture
entitled:
"What
does it
take to
change
the
relationship
between
the West
and the
Muslim
world?"
Here is
a
portion
of
Feisal
Abdul
Rauf,
July
12th,
five
years
ago.
RAUF:
We tend
to
forget
in the
West
that the
United
States
has more
Muslim
blood on
its
hands
than
Al-Qaeda
has on
its
hands of
innocent
non-Muslims.
. . .
RAUF:
-- the
US-led
sanction
against
Iraq led
to the
death of
over
half a
million
Iraqi
children.
This has
been
documented
by the
United
Nations.
And when
Madeleine
Albright,
who has
become a
friend
of mine
in the
past
couple
years,
when she
was
secretary
of state
and was
asked if
this was
worth
it, said
it was
worth
it.
RUSH:
Madeleine
Albright
says it
was
worth it
that a
half
million
Iraqi
children
died,
she said
it was
worth
it. So
US has
more
blood on
its
hands
than
Al-Qaeda.
That's
the imam
in
2005.
This
sounds
like
Jeremiah
Wright:
"America's
chickens
have
come
home to
roost,"
quote,
unquote.
8/23/10
Islamic
Radicals
Threaten
Suicide
Bombings
Against
Gainesville
Church
"A Gainesville church plans to go ahead with the burning of the Muslim
holy book on Sept. 11, despite threats of bombings and the lack of a
permit.
"According to
the
Wall Street Journal, Terry Jones, pastor at the Dove World Outreach
Center will call for Sept. 11 to be an 'International Burn a Koran Day.'
"However, the
Gainesville fire department has denied a permit for the event.
"One jihadist website
vowed to conduct suicide bombings in Florida to avenge the Koran
burning, while others predicted an increase in terrorist recruits as a
result of such actions.
"'By Allah, the wars
are heated and you Americans are the ones who...enflamed it,' says one
such posting. 'By Allah you will be the first to taste its flames.'
"Jones said the
radical threats confirmed his views of Muslims. 'I can understand that
they would be offended. I think their reactions--violence, threats,
murders terrorist attacks--that only reveals the true nature of Islam
which needs to be revealed,' he said.?
8/23/10
An
Anti-Communist,
Former
GOPer
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
CALLER:
I want
to get
to my
point
about
the
mosque
and a
cross
episode
up in
Vermont,
but I
just
wanted
to make
some
points
very
quickly.
What was
it where
Obama
spoke
and the
cross
had to
be
covered?
Do you
remember
that?
RUSH:
Yeah.
Georgetown
University,
I think.
CALLER:
Okay.
So when
he spoke
there,
the
cross of
my God,
His son,
was
covered.
However
when he
speaks,
I have
not
heard
that man
talk
about
"the
Holy
Bible."
However
on
certain
occasions,
or more
than
one,
I've
heard
him talk
about
not "the
Koran,"
but "the
Holy
Quor'an,"
to let
us know
that
he's
emphasizing
the way
he says
that.
RUSH:
Yeah?
CALLER:
So
that's
one
thing.
Now,
with
this
mosque
going
on, up
in
Vermont
there is
a story
about a
woman
who has
-- on
her own
personal
property
-- put a
cross.
Now
she's
being
denied a
permit
for that
and
being
told to
take it
down,
and I
want to
make a
comparison
of what
I see.
I used
to be a
Republican.
I'm an
independent
now.
RUSH:
Right.
CALLER:
My
problem
is
whoever
is gonna
lead
this
country,
it's not
going to
be about
Republican-Democrat.
It's
going to
be about
the
person
who
understands
what the
threat
to this
country
is, and
it's
communist
and
socialist
policies.
Ronald
Reagan
understood
that.
Now,
what
people
don't
tell you
is over
135
million
people
-- this
is from
the
Congressional
Record
-- died
due to
communist
killings.
Mass
murders,
basically.
RUSH:
Mmm-hmm.
CALLER:
More
people
were
killed
under
communism
during
times of
peace
than
during
all the
wars in
this
country
combined.
Now, if
people
don't
understand
communism
and
socialism
-- and
Lenin
said
that
socialism
was what
would
lead us
to
communism.
That's
the
ultimate
goal of
socialism
is
communism.
. . .
CALLER:
But as
you
look,
communism
is in
eastern
Europe;
it's
spreading
through
Latin
and
Central
America;
it's
still
behind
the
scenes
in
Russia;
it's now
entrenched
in this
country
through
so many
bogus
organizations
they say
they're
this for
America
but
they're
communist
ties
doing
nothing
more
than
trying
to tear
this
country
down.
And if
this
country
doesn't
realize
that,
that's
basically
what we
are --
RUSH:
That's
another
thing
that
you're
pretty
close to
being
right
on, and
that's
why
abandoning
the
party
and
going
independent
is a
ticket
to third
party,
which is
a
guaranteed
winner
for
Democrats.
CALLER:
Well,
that may
be so.
I can
still
vote as
I say,
but I'll
tell
you,
Rush,
the most
important,
it isn't
even who
you vote
for,
again,
if
people
don't
understand
the
ties, if
these
people
running
for
office
do not
understand
the ties
-- and
I'll
make a
connection.
The
Naked
Communist,
the
goals of
1958
were
written,
okay,
that was
a book,
and one
of their
goals --
well,
there
were
several
goals.
The
first
thing
they
knew
they had
to do
was to
dethrone
God,
morality
in this
country,
which
would be
the
collapse
of the
family
unit,
and
attack
patriotism.
Okay, by
1962,
prayer
was out
of our
schools.
In that
short of
time
they
accomplished
one of
their
goals.
By doing
all this
they're
breaking
the
family
unit
down,
they're
dumbing
down the
schools.
If you
look
right
now
abortion
is high,
we have
a 40%
illegitimate
birthrate,
50%
divorce
rate.
We've
had one
of the
highest
teenage
suicide
rates.
There's
no
identity
in this
country
anymore.
If this
country
does not
wake up
and we
do not
have a
leader
that
understands
like
Ronald
Reagan
what the
threats
of
communism
and
socialism
is and
how they
are
pulling
us down
--
there's
a
purpose
to this
open
borders,
they're
pitting
blacks
against
whites,
pitting
the rich
against
the
poor, to
keep
dividing
and
dividing
and
dividing
and
dividing
this
country
to the
point
that no
one
trusts
anyone.
That has
gotta
stop.
And, if
anything,
the best
thing
that
could
happen
in this
country
is if
the
blacks
and the
whites
could
band
together.
If
nothing
else, if
there is
nothing
else we
can
agree
on, we
share
the same
God, we
share
the same
religious
beliefs,
and that
is the
thing
they
know
they
have to
cut
down."
8/22/10
Blago:
'This is
criminalized
politics'
Politico
"Former Illinois Gov.
Rod Blagojevich said on Sunday his 'political horse trading,' including
that to fill the Senate seat vacated by Barack Obama when he was elected
president, was no different from the deals the White House cuts.
"'This is criminalized
politics,' he told 'Fox News Sunday.'
"Blagojevich pointed
to the Obama administration's arm twisting on health care reform, and
reports of offering a job to Rep. Joe Sestak (D-Pa.), who's running for
the Senate.
"'It's the same,' the
impeached governor said. 'It's political horse trading that prosecutors
are trying to criminalize ... The jury will see it for exactly was it
is, political horse trading. It was never about campaign funds. I just
never made a decision to do that. The decision I made was to make a
political deal.'
"Blogojevich said he
talked to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), White House chief
of staff Rahm Emanuel, and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) before he was
arrested. Asked if he is guilty of nothing more than these three men,
Blogojevich agreed.
"'That's exactly
right, absolutely right," he said. "And they did nothing wrong either.'"
[Click headline to be able to see video.]
8/22/10
Constitution:
Is it
for us,
or
against
us?
Frank
Miele,
Daily
Inter
Lake
"It was
Supreme
Court
Justice
Arthur
Goldberg
who, in
a 1963
ruling,
wrote
that
'while
the
Constitution
protects
against
invasions
of
individual
rights,
it is
not a
suicide
pact.'
This
concept,
however,
goes
back
much
further
than
1963
— to the
very
founding
of our
nation,
in fact,
and we
might
more
appropriately
refer to
the
words of
Thomas
Jefferson,
who
wrote:
"'A
strict
observance
of the
written
law is
doubtless
one of
the high
duties
of a
good
citizen,
but it
is not
the
highest.
The laws
of
necessity,
of
self-preservation,
of
saving
our
country
when in
danger,
are of
higher
obligation.
To lose
our
country
by a
scrupulous
adherence
to the
written
law,
would be
to lose
the law
itself,
with
life,
liberty,
property
and all
those
who are
enjoying
them
with us;
thus
absurdly
sacrificing
the ends
to the
means.'
. . .
"Practically
speaking,
without
the
actual
country
of the
United
States
of
America
to
enshrine
it, the
Constitution
is
nothing
more
than a
piece of
paper.
Kill the
country,
and you
have
turned
the
cherished
rights
of the
Constitution
into
mere
nostalgia.
. .
."The
Democratic
talk-show
host
Bill
Press
wrote a
column
recently
entitled
'The
Constitution
Works,
Don’t
Change
It.' In
it, he
says,
'Republicans
are
coming
up with
another
phony
crusade
to amend
the
Constitution.'
"He’s
talking
about
the
effort
to
revise
the 14th
Amendment,
but it
doesn’t
matter
what he
is
talking
about.
When he
talks
about a
'another
phony
crusade,'
he has
made his
point.
In his
mind, no
effort
shall be
made to
amend
the
Constitution
by
conservatives
without
it being
phony.
No
doubt,
he has
forgotten
that it
was
Republicans
who led
the
crusades
to end
slavery
with the
13th
Amendment
and to
ensure
that
former
slaves
were
guaranteed
full
citizenship
in the
14th
Amendment.
I
presume
he
doesn’t
think
those
were
'phony'
crusades.
"And
what
makes an
issue
phony?
Clearly,
to pass
an
amendment
to the
U.S.
Constitution,
you need
to
garner
huge
support
in both
Congress
and
among
the
several
states.
The bar
is set
incredibly
high for
a
compelling
reason
— to
ensure
that
changes
made DO
reflect
the will
of 'we
the
people.'
"But
that
should
not
restrict
the
right of
all
Americans
to seek
to amend
the
Constitution
in any
way they
see fit.
There is
nothing
phony
about
participating
in the
civic
dialogue
and
engaging
in a
constitutionally
prescribed
process
to shape
the law
of the
land
through
persuading
public
opinion.
"One can
bet that
Bill
Press
and his
colleagues
on the
left do
not ever
use the
term
'phony
crusade'
to
describe
the
amendments
that
gave
women
the
right to
vote or
that set
the
voting
age at
18.
These
were
good
liberal
causes
that
improved
our
nation
through
recognizing
limitations
in the
original
Constitution
that
ought to
have
been
corrected.
"The
same
privilege
to work
to
improve
our
nation
should
extend
to all
citizens.
Do not
let the
Constitution
be used
against
you, and
do not
let
politicians
or
anyone
else
shame
you into
thinking
you have
no power
as an
American
citizen
to
influence
your
government.
It is
time
that we
get
creative
about
using
our
power as
citizens
to
restore
the
republic
that was
handed
to us in
1787 by
our
Founding
Fathers.
If we do
not
think
ourselves
worthy
to amend
the
Constitution,
then we
are not
worthy
of the
Constitution
— period."
8/22/10
Headless,
mutilated
bodies
hung
from
Mexico
bridge
Yahoo
News!,
Reuters
8/22/10
Officials:
We could
still
lose
Iraq
By
SIMMI
AUJLA,
Politico
8/22/10
New
evidence
that the
Obama
stimulus
was a
bust
PowerLine
"Lindsey's
conclusion
- which
seems
unassailable
- is
that
after
correcting
for the
unduly
low
starting
point
used by
Romer
and
Bernstein,
the
actual
performance
of the
economy
with
respect
to jobs
is
almost
exactly
what
they
said
would it
would be
if we
had done
nothing,
instead
of
passing
the $800
billion
stimulus
package.
This
strongly
suggests
that the
stimulus
package
enacted
by the
Democrats
was a
bust."
8/22/10
Yet
another
Soros
tentacle
exposed
Thomas
Lifson,
American
Thinker
"Jim Wallis, the man
behind the so-called 'religious left' - a left wing evangelical activist who
worked to get evangelical support for Obama -- has been exposed as another
stooge of George Soros. And he had the gall to accuse Marvin Olasky, the
conservative evangelical who asked Wallis to admit his connections to Soros,
of lying."
8/22/10
Public
Education
System
and
Learning
George
Edwards,
giac2002.org
8/21/10
National
Education
Association
Selling
its Saul
By
Bill
Costello,
American
Thinker
"The National Education
Association (NEA), the U.S.'s largest labor union, is promoting communism to
the millions of American public school teachers it represents. Teachers who
are influenced by their union's efforts are more likely to indoctrinate
American children into communism.
"For the past several
months, the
NEA website
has recommended that its members read books by communist sympathizer Saul
Alinsky. And, for a time, the website listed October 1 as a day for teachers
and students to celebrate the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China
by Mao Zedong.
"Saul Alinsky, who has
been described by his biographer Sanford Horwitt as a 'Communist
fellow-traveler,' wanted to transfer power from the so-called Haves
to the so-called Have-nots and transform the U.S. into a communist
state.
From coast to coast, news
stories abound about communist indoctrination in U.S. schools. For example,
the New York Times recently
reported
that a teacher working at Beacon High School in New York City had pictures
of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro on the walls of his classroom, took students
on a field trip to Cuba, and bluntly admitted to the school principal that
he's a communist. And Fox News recently
reported
that students at Black Pine Circle School in Berkeley, California created a
mosaic that included symbols of communism and a prediction that "capitalism
will fail." . . .
"Students
in California are sent home
for wearing American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo while students around
the country are allowed to wear T-shirts with images of Che Guevara, the
communist revolutionary and mass murderer.
"American children are
not being taught that Alinsky's "paradise of communism" has never shown up.
They are not learning that the world's greatest famines and mass murders
have occurred under communist regimes.
"And the NEA wants to
keep it that way.
"The Center for
American Progress, which received
$110,000
from NEA, published a
report
recommending the elimination of several subjects from U.S. federal
education programs, including "Academies for American History and
Civics," "We the People," and "Excellence in Economic Education."
"American history,
civic education, and economic and financial literacy are the three most
important subjects for producing an educated electorate -- and yet they
are the very subjects at risk of being eliminated from primary and
secondary public education.
"Don't expect
students to learn these subjects at the tertiary level; a
study
conducted by the nonprofit American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA)
found that both public and private universities are failing to require
students to learn important subjects, especially American history,
American government, and economics.
"In a letter on
ACTA's website, Former Harvard Dean Harry Lewis writes, 'Many studies
have shown that our college graduates are ignorant of the basic
principles on which our government runs. For starters, most cannot
identify the purpose of the First Amendment, what Reconstruction was, or
the historical context of the Voting Rights Act.'
"However, if the NEA
is successful in its pursuit to promote communism to the millions of
American public school teachers it represents, then American children
will at least be well-educated in the philosophy of Saul Alinsky and the
importance of the anniversary of the Communist takeover of China by Mao
Zedong. And that is the only history, civic education, and economic and
financial literacy that seems to matter to the NEA."
8/21/10
Israel:
Fueling
up Iran
reactor
'totally
unacceptable'
MSNBC.com
Despite sanctions, Iran starts up nuclear plant that U.S. once
hoped to block
"[Israel] has said a
nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to its existence, raising concerns Israel
could attack Iran's nuclear sites.
"Israeli Foreign Ministry
spokesman Yossi Levy said: 'It is totally unacceptable that a country that so
blatantly violates resolutions of the (United Nations) Security Council,
decisions of the International Atomic Energy Agency and its commitments under
the NPT (non-proliferation treaty) should enjoy the fruits of using nuclear
energy.'
"'The international community
should increase pressure on to force Iran to abide by international decisions
and cease its enrichment activities and its construction of reactors,' Levy
said.
"The United States, Israel and
some other Western countries fear Iran's nuclear is aimed at produce atomic
weapons."
8/21/10
After Crawling Onto U.S. Radar, Somalia Extremists Pose Threat – But Will They
Go Global?
By Mike Levine. FoxNews.com
"[T]he two
briefers told Tomarchio they were becoming increasingly concerned about "radical
mosques" in Columbus, Ohio, where imams 'considered to be a little fiery' would
come from Somalia and preach anti-Western messages to the growing Somali
community, Tomarchio recalls about that day in 2006.
"It marked
one of the first times a U.S. counterterrorism official was warned that Islamic
extremists in Somalia could pose a threat to the U.S. homeland -- not just a
threat to the Horn of Africa or U.S. interests there.
"In the years
since, such extremists have become more powerful, more global and more deadly
than U.S. officials ever imagined. One group in particular, Al Shabab, has
recruited dozens of Americans from Minneapolis and elsewhere. They've produced
the first known American suicide bomber, pledged their allegiance to Usama bin
Laden, and last month launched their first attack outside Somalia with
coordinated bombings in nearby Uganda."
8/21/10
Code Pink Tells Gold Star Mom: Your Son Deserved to Die
by
Debbie Lee, Big Peace
"I still clearly remember the
day that I was summoned home by my oldest son Kristofer to find the Navy
officers and chaplain waiting inside my home to tell me the most painful and
agonizing words I would ever hear, “We are sorry to inform you that your son
Marc Alan Lee was killed in action.”
"August 2nd, 2006 forever
changed my life. I don’t breathe the same, I don’t think the same, I don’t act
the same, I don’t live the same. Everything I do since that day is much deeper
and with greater passion. I cherish every moment that I breath, every person in
my life, every hug and the precious gift of life. Since that day I have
dedicated my life to honoring and supporting our troops, their families and
especially the families of the fallen.
"I have always been a patriot
and understood that our men and women serving have paid for my freedoms but
since the day Marc willingly sacrificed his life, I understand in a much deeper
way the cost and sacrifice that our brave warriors and their families make.
'Freedom isn’t free' is a reality not just a patriotic slogan. . . .
"Numerous times over the past
four years I have confronted the antics of Jodie Evans and her anti-war Code
Pink cronies. We’ve all seen the nightly news with them being arrested time and
time again throwing their leftist temper tantrums with their pink boa feathers
wrapped around their necks as they kick and scream like a two-year-old throwing
a tantrum to get attention. They have sent over $600,000.00 to the terrorists in
Fallujah, or as they called them, 'freedom fighting' heroes. You would think
treasonous acts like this would have them locked in jail. Over and over they
have attacked our military recruiting offices causing thousands of dollars of
damage to the offices and threatening the recruiters.
"In 2008 they barricaded the
recruiting office in Berkeley with the blessing of the Berkeley City Council. We
at Move America Forward had all we could stomach when we heard them tell the
Marines they were unwelcome, unwanted intruders, not in Iraq or Afghanistan but
on American soil in Berkeley, California. Americans from across the nation
joined us in Berkeley to counter-protest these anti-war hippies. Numerous times
they told me they support the troops but not the war, yet over and over when I
asked if they had sent care packages, phone cards, written letters, or helped
the families left behind in anyway, they conveniently couldn’t remember anything
they had done. Yet they had a successful fundraiser to send $600,000.00 to our
enemies in Iraq? Yet Jodie Evans and her Code Pink degenerates taunted me and
made light of my son’s sacrifice telling me, 'Your son deserved to die in Iraq
if he was stupid enough to go over there.' It took every ounce of reserve in my
body to not level these idiots to the ground. These same people who call
terrorists “freedom fighters” says that my son, who gave up his life for their
freedoms, deserved death. . . .
"Now Jodie Evans is at her
fundraising efforts again, this time to support Jerry Brown for Governor of
California. California is at the top of the list for military bases and boasts
one of the largest populations of Veterans, yet Jerry Brown a past governor of
the state and candidate for the office again, is willing to take thousands of
dollars from one of the largest anti-war groups in America. What a slap in the
face to all of our brave warriors who have fought and sacrificed so much for our
freedoms.
"My son Marc is buried in Fort
Rosecrans in San Diego along with a multitude of Vets who honorably served and
gave their last breathe defending the shores of America. Their headstones are a
testament to the sacrifices they have made as they gave the greatest gift they
could, their life, so others could live and live free. Jerry Brown is
dishonoring and disrespecting each of our fallen heroes by accepting money from
a terrorist supporting lunatic! Jodie Evans has deeply insulted and offended me
and so many other Gold Star families too many times."
8/21/10
Rush
gets
$11M+
for loud
condo
By CATHY
BURKE,
New York
Post
"Right-wing radio host
Rush Limbaugh made good on his vow to "get out of New York totally,"
reportedly closing on a $11.75 million sale of his 10-room Upper East Side condo
-- and splitting so fast, he left all his gilded, gaudy furnishings behind.
"The liberal-bashing Limbaugh
has long railed against New York's high taxes. His Web site published the
transcript of one bombastic broadcast under the title 'El Rushbo to New York:
Drop Dead.'"
8/20/10
Another
Obama
recess
appointment,
another
radical
avoids
scrutiny
Ed Lasky,
American
Thinker
"Another controversial
Obama recess appointment without Senate scrutiny. And one of those
appointments has a suspect history, reports the
Washington Post . . . .
"Why
would
anyone
have
problems
with an
appointee
in the
unstable
Central
American
region
who has
ties to
Castro
and
company?
But
wait..there
is more.
Ms.
Aponte
also
sits on
the
board of
the
National
Council
of La
Raza and
the
Puerto
Rican
Legal
Defense
and
Education
Fund. La
Raza
means
'the
race'
and has
advocated
radical
positions
regarding
a wide
range of
issues
(that is
a job
requirement
for
Obama
appointees).
The
Puerto
Rican
Legal
Defense
and
Education
Fund
perceives
discrimination
across
America,
of
course.
. . .
"Is it too much of a stretch
to assume that both Chavez and Castro (and Ortega, and the grab bag of radicals
in Central and South America) will be happy with the new Ambassador to El
Salvador - a person with ties to the Castro regime and with an affinity towards
radical ideas and agendas?
"No wonder Obama chose to
circumvent the Senate in making yet another recess appointment.
"This is why Obama likes
Congressional recesses; he gets to take more vacations (because
driving the US economy off the cliff is hard work) and, as a bonus, also
gets to make recess appointments that avoid scrutiny and publicity."
8/20/10
They
won't
build
it!
Hardhats
vow not
to work
on
controversial
mosque
near
Ground
Zero
BY
Samuel Goldsmith,
NYDailyNews.com
8/20/10
Moral
myopia
at
Ground
Zero
Charles
Krauthammer,
The
Washington
Post
"The
Atlantic's
Michael
Kinsley
was
typical
in
arguing
that the
only
possible
grounds
for
opposing
the
Ground
Zero
mosque
are
bigotry
or
demagoguery.
Well
then,
what
about
Pope
John
Paul
II's
ordering
the
closing
of the
Carmelite
convent
just
outside
Auschwitz?
(Surely
there
can be
no one
more
innocent
of that
crime
than
those
devout
nuns.)
How does
Kinsley
explain
this
remarkable
demonstration
of
sensitivity,
this
order to
pray --
but not
there?
He
doesn't
even
feign
analysis.
He
simply
asserts
that the
decision
is
something
"I
confess
that I
never
did
understand."
"That's his Q.E.D.? Is he
stumped or is he inviting us to choose between his moral authority and that of
one of the towering moral figures of the 20th century?
"At least
Richard Cohen of The Post tries to grapple with the issue of sanctity and
sensitivity. The results, however, are not pretty. He concedes that putting
up a Japanese cultural center at Pearl Harbor would be offensive but then
dismisses the analogy to Ground Zero because 9/11 was merely 'a rogue act,
committed by 20 or so crazed samurai.'
"Obtuseness of this magnitude
can only be deliberate. These weren't crazies. They were methodical, focused,
steel-nerved operatives.
"Nor were they freelance
rogues. They were the leading, and most successful, edge of a worldwide movement
of radical Islamists with cells in every continent, with worldwide financial and
theological support, with a massive media and propaganda arm, and with an
archipelago of local sympathizers, as in northwestern Pakistan, who protect and
guard them.
"Why is America fighting
Predator wars in Pakistan and Yemen, surveilling thousands of conversations and
financial transactions every day, and engaged in military operations against
radical Muslims everywhere from the Philippines to
Somalia -- because of 19 crazies, all of whom died nine years ago?
"Radical Islam is not, by any
means, a majority of Islam. But with its financiers, clerics, propagandists,
trainers, leaders, operatives and sympathizers -- according to a conservative
estimate,
it commands the allegiance of 7 percent of Muslims, i.e., more than 80
million souls -- it is a very powerful strain within Islam. It has changed the
course of nations and affected the lives of millions. It is the reason every
airport in the West is an armed camp and every land is on constant alert.
"Ground Zero is the site of
the most lethal attack of that worldwide movement, which consists entirely of
Muslims, acts in the name of Islam and is deeply embedded within the Islamic
world. These are regrettable facts, but facts they are. And that is why putting
up a monument to Islam in this place is not just insensitive but provocative.
"Just as the people of Japan
today would not think of planting their flag at Pearl Harbor, despite the
fact that no Japanese under the age of 85 has any possible responsibility for
that infamy, representatives of contemporary Islam -- the overwhelming majority
of whose adherents are equally innocent of the infamy committed on 9/11 in their
name -- should exercise comparable respect for what even Obama calls hallowed
ground and take up the governor's offer."
8/20/10
Segregation
in the
20th
Century
Glenn
Beck
Televisions
Show
Segment
Today--Video
Racism
and
progressives
8/19/10
Military
Strike
Could
Delay,
Not
Stop,
Iran's
Nuclear
Program,
Officials
Say
By Judson Berger, FoxNews.com
"As Iran,
with Russia's help, gets ready to flip the switch on its first nuclear reactor,
Washington is engaged in a frenzied debate over whether Israel should consider
launching an air attack designed to cripple Tehran's nuclear capabilities.
"But key
military officials and analysts say Iran has already passed the point where a
strike would deal its entire nuclear program a fatal blow. The country might be
persuaded to abandon any efforts to build a bomb, they say, but -- like it or
not -- Iran is going nuclear. And no number of Israeli F-16s is going to change
that.
"'We can't
stop it. We can slow it down,' Rep. Adam Smith, D-Wash., a member of the House
Armed Services and Intelligence committees, told FoxNews.com. . . .
"Bushehr is
just one piece of a much larger puzzle.
"Iran has a
uranium-enrichment plant at Natanz and another at Qom, which Western allies blew
the whistle on last year. Several facilities critical to the nuclear program are
known to be scattered throughout the country, and others are believed to exist
in unknown locations. Iran has committed to building more reactors and more
enrichment facilities, and as long as it has nuclear physicists, the regime can
continue to pursue its goals.
"Attacking
Iran's nuclear program might be like Mickey Mouse chopping broomsticks in The
Sorcerer's Apprentice. The program could be taken down -- but for how long? . .
.
"[O]thers say
there's little doubt that Iran's nuclear energy will soon go beyond feeding the
country's electric grid. They wonder whether Iran is closer to a weapon than the
West thinks, and they suggest drastic action may have to be taken to ensure the
Iranians don't get the bomb, even if it doesn't halt the nuclear program.
"'I
personally think it will take the use of force against at least elements of the
Iranian nuclear program to make this Iranian leadership think it's too costly to
continue on this path,' said Kori Schake, an associate professor at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point and a former member of the National Security
Council staff during the Bush administration. . . .
"The
scenarios for an Iranian backlash and turmoil in the broader Middle East in the
wake of a military strike are ghastly -- the specter of a new conflict comes as
the last U.S. combat brigade in Iraq begins to pull out. And those scenarios are
the basis for the extreme caution with which U.S. officials talk about a
military option.
"'Nobody
knows how bad it could get,' said Steven Simon, a former director with the
National Security Council and senior fellow with the Council on Foreign
Relations.
"Simon
suggested the Israelis, who have previously knocked out reactors in Iraq and
Syria before they went active, have greater reason to attack than the Americans.
But he agreed that military action only delays, and doesn't stop, nuclear
development -- including a nuclear weapon."
8/19/10
Ax may
fall on
tax
break
for
mortgages
By
Walter
Alarkon,
The Hill
"Policymakers
seeking
savings
have
tried to
cap the
mortgage
interest
deduction
before —
and
failed.
Five
years
ago, a
bipartisan
tax
reform
commission
created
by
President
George
W. Bush
proposed
ending
the
mortgage
tax
break.
But the
commission’s
plan
stalled
in
Congress,
partly
because
of
popular
support
for the
mortgage
deduction.
. . .
"The
White
House
says it
was
included
in the
president’s
budget
proposal
again
this
year
because
it
remains
a good
idea."
8/19/10
Health
Officials
Recall
380
Million
Eggs
Over
Salmonella
Outbreak
FoxNews.com
"Minnesota, a state with some
of the best food-borne illness investigators in the country, has tied at least
seven salmonella illnesses to the eggs.
"Other states have seen a jump
in reports of the type of salmonella. For example, California has reported 266
illnesses since June and believes many are related to the eggs. Colorado saw 28
cases in June and July, about four times the usual number. Spikes or clusters of
suspicious cases have also been reported in Arizona, Nevada, Illinois, Texas and
Wisconsin. . . .
"The Food and Drug
Administration also is investigating.
"Much of
the
investigation
so far
has been
centered
on
restaurants
in
California,
Colorado
and
Minnesota
where
sick
people
ate.
They are
not
necessarily
breakfast
places —
it's
possible
some got
sick
from
eating a
salad
dressing
that had
a raw
egg in
it, or
eating
soup
with an
undercooked
egg
dropped
in,
Braden
said."
8/19/10
Who Is
He,
Anyway?
Powerline
"The Pew poll, as reported by
the Associated Press, finds confusion about
Obama's most basic beliefs:
Americans increasingly are
convinced -- incorrectly -- that President Barack Obama is a Muslim, and a
growing number are thoroughly confused about his religion.
"I love that 'incorrectly.'
The AP has evolved into an opinion machine, so it's rare and a little startling
to see it stand up so boldly for a 'fact.' He's not a Muslim, dammit! . . .
"So, what is going on here?
First, we are seeing fallout from the Jeremiah Wright affair. I would never
presume to pass judgment on Obama's spiritual life. But one thing I will say
with confidence: Jeremiah Wright is no Christian. His ideology of hate
disqualifies him. So many millions of Americans, learning that Wright was
Obama's spiritual mentor, must have wondered where Obama himself was coming
from. I think that is the main source of confusion, coupled with Obama's lack of
connection to any identifiable Christian tradition.
"The second factor, I think,
is Obama's effort to project a post-American, above-America persona. Obama
postures as a citizen of the world who has graced America by condescending to be
our President and to instruct us. Some liberals accept this posturing
gratefully, but most Americans don't. Obama has defined himself as literally
exotic. Small wonder that some Americans attribute exotic qualities to him.
We're not sure who he is, exactly, but he certainly isn't one of us. Given the
currents that swirl through world events these days, being a Muslim is one
interpretation of Obama's exoticism. Those who construe Obama in this way may
well be wrong, but it is not hard to understand why they interpret his aloof
non-Americanism in this way."
8/19/10
Obama's Point of No Return By
J.R. Dunn, American
Thinker
"There comes a moment in a
failing presidency where the incumbent, through some single gesture, action, or
statement, crosses a certain line from beyond which there is no return. Through
his own will and behavior, he so underlines his failings, so frames his negative
image, that no further action can ever erase it. Fate, accident, and
circumstance have nothing to do with it. It is the president himself who puts
the period at the end of his own sentence. . . .
"With
Obama, we have an abundance of riches: the multiple vacations, the legal
harassment of the state of Arizona on behalf of illegals, the clownish
response to the Gulf oil blowout. But when historians come to select the
moment when Obama went over the edge of the world, I think they'll find the
great Iftar mosque speech of August 13, 2010 hard to beat.
"During a White House
dinner celebrating Ramadan, the president found it appropriate to come out
in favor of religious freedom. Not in support of Christians being attacked
by janjaweed gunmen, or Bahá'ís tormented by Iranian mullahs, or Jews being
stalked by assassins, or even American citizens being told that they cannot
pray in public, but in favor of a shadowy foreign foundation with suspicious
financing and disturbing jihadi connections that wishes to build some kind
of victory monument congruent to the site of the 9/11 massacre. . . .
"The past two years are
the best Obama will ever see. The real crises of his presidency are still to
come, and they are easily visible as they move toward us -- Iran, terrorism,
the economy, the collapse of the national health care system hastened by his
own policies. He will meet them under a cloud of his own making, attempting
to overcome them as a president who takes endless vacations, who will not
defend his country's borders, who sat out the Gulf oil crisis, who overlooks
the sacrifices of his own countrymen in favor of dubious foreign figures.
"Some lines of
Shakespeare occurred to me while Obama was dawdling over a response to the
oil blowout. They can also serve to cover the entire morass:
There is a tide in the
affairs of men,
Which, taken at the flood,
leads us to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of
their life
Is bound in shallows and in
miseries.
"The tide has gone out for
Barack Obama. It is all epilogue from here on in.
8/19/10
Obamacare’s stealth ambush of senior citizens
By:
David
Freddoso, Washington Examiner.com
"Even Obamacare’s biggest
cheerleaders won’t be able to ignore Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster
forever. Based on current law, Foster says, seniors who rely on Medicare
will replace Medicaid recipients at the bottom of the health care ladder as
early as 2019, five years after the individual mandate kicks in. That’s when
the fees Medicare pays to providers will be slashed below Medicaid rates,
which are already well below market prices.
"'And if you’re in a plan
that pays the lowest rates, you’re in trouble,'
John Goodman, president of
the National Center for Policy Analysis, told The Examiner.
"That’s because the $575
billion cut to Medicare over the next decade — which is needed to pay
insurance subsidies for 32 million new people — will force one in seven
hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies and hospices out of business,
according to the formal Medicare trustees report released on April 22. By
2050, 40 percent of existing health care facilities will forced to close
their doors."
8/19/10
'A little rebellion now and then'
By WALTER E. WILLIAMS
"Ultimately, we Americans
must act to ensure that our liberty does not depend on personalities in
Washington. Our founders tried to do that with our Constitution. Thomas
Jefferson offered us a solution when he said, 'The spirit of resistance to
government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always
kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to
be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then.'"
8/19/10
From
Servitude
to
Slavery
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today--Video
How
did
slavery
in
America
start?
8/18/10
OPERATION
SIT IN
By Larry
W.
Richardson,
GIAC2002.org
"One of
the
Bills
that is
already
in
committee,
and is
indeed
alive
and well
is H.R.
5741 The
Universal
National
Service
Act.
This is
the Bill
that
will
allow
Obama to
create
and
populate
his
sought
after –
Civilian
Security
Force –
or
whatever
he names
it. He
will
have a
free
hand to
do
whatever
he
desires.
Every
citizen,
male and
female,
between
the ages
of 18
and 42
will be
REQUIRED
to serve
the
country
for two
years.
The
really
bad
thing in
the Bill
is that
the
President
gets a
‘carte
blanche’
to do
whatever
he
“desires.”.
. .
"My
proposal
is
non-violent,
albeit
it does
involve
civil
disobedience.
I have
developed
this
Operation
based on
the
premise
that if
the
Senators
cannot
get into
the
Senate,
they
cannot
cast
their
vote.
Thus –
Operation
Sit In
- a
grassroots
uprising
of
people
from all
over the
country
descending
on
Washington
D.C.
determined
to risk
arrest
for the
non-violent
act of
staging
a
physical
sit-in
blocking
every
entrance
to the
Senate
building,
including
the
underground
entrance
from the
MARTA
system.
This
will not
be a
picnic,
or a
vacation,
it will
be a
mission
with a
purpose!
It will
require
hardy
individuals
determined
to do
what
they can
to save
this
country
for
their
children
and
grandchildren.
. . .
"We will
be
prepared
to leave
on a
moment’s
notice
[to go
to
D.C.],
when
Harry
Reid
makes
the
announcement
that he
is
scheduling
the vote
on this
Bill,
that
will be
our
‘trigger.’"
For more
information,
vist
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1685175226
8/18/10
American
Socialists
Release
Names of
70
Congressional
Democrats
in Their
Ranks
by Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit
8/18/10
Beck:
Divine
Providence
vs.
Manifest
Destiny
Glen
Beck
Show
Segment
Today--Video
Has America
strayed from our Founders' vision?
8/18/10
Administration Is Taking All Of Us For Fools By
THOMAS SOWELL, Investor's Business Daily
Much has been made of the fact that
families making less than $250,000 a year will not see their taxes raised. Of
course they won't see it, because what they see could affect how they vote. But
when huge tax increases are put on electric utility companies, the people will
see electricity bills go up. When huge taxes are put on other businesses as
well, they will see the prices of the things those businesses sell go up.
"If you are not in that 'rich'
category, you will not see your own taxes go up. But you will be paying someone
else's higher taxes, unless of course you can do without electricity and other
products of heavily taxed businesses. If you don't see this, so much the better
for the administration politically. . . .
"There was a time when most
Americans would have resented the suggestion that they wanted someone else to
pay their bills. But now, envy and resentment have been cultivated to the point
where even people who contribute nothing to society feel that they have a right
to a "fair share" of what others have produced.
"The most dangerous corruption
is a corruption of a nation's soul. That is what this administration is doing."
8/18/10
Islamic Center Backers Won't Rule Out Taking Funds from Saudi Arabia, Iran
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN, ABCNews
8/18/10
Just How Smart Is Obama? By
Victor Volsky,
American Thinker
"Add to
this
Obama's
obvious
economic
ignorance,
his
glaring
naiveté
in
international
affairs,
his
boundless
faith in
the
power of
his
oratory,
his
intellectual
laziness,
his
intrinsic
indecisiveness
smacking
of
childish
belief
in the
power of
wish
(close
your
eyes and
the bad
stuff
will
just go
away),
his
political
tin-ear
-- are
these
the
attributes
of a
genius?
Sorry,
Obama
fans,
what it
all adds
up to is
an
immature
narcissist,
an
utterly
inexperienced
tyro,
devoid
of
administrative
ability,
lacking
political
skills...a
radical
ideologue,
who
apparently
believes
that the
job of
president
boils
down to
an
incessant
gabfest."
8/18/10
Body of
Abducted
Mexican
Mayor
Found
Bound,
Dumped
by
Roadside
FoxNews.com
8/18/10
Goodbye
To All
That: A
Farewell
to the
MSM
Ron
Futrell,
Big
Journalism
"[I]t’s hard to tell whose
ratings are falling faster—those of the Cold-Hearted Social Engineer in the
White House, or the activist old media that adore him so (oh, just for the
record, the Democrat Congress is actually at the bottom in this survey.)
"Gallup just completed its
annual Confidence in Institutions survey and things do not look good for the
news media. Also, a recent Pew Research study points out the
biggest decline in audiences is with the network newscasts, local newscasts
and newspapers. Hmmmm, wonder why?
"Those who took the poll
ranked journalists right near the bottom with bankers in lack of confidence.
Interesting — bankers have been demonized and destroyed by Democrats and their
activist Old Media for the last four or five years and now they all share the
room in the basement."
8/18/10
Decision
Not to
Rebuild
Church
Destroyed
on 9/11
Surprises
Greek
Orthodox
Leaders
FoxNews.com
"Greek
Orthodox
leaders
trying
to
rebuild
the only
church
destroyed
in the
Sept. 11
terror
attacks
expressed
shock
this
week
after
learning,
via Fox
News,
that
government
officials
had
killed a
deal to
relocate
the
church."
8/18/10
King
Hassan
II of
Morocco:
A
Secular
Muslim
Is Not a
Muslim
8/17/10
'Israel
has days
to
strike
Bushehr'
By
HILARY
LEILA
KRIEGER,
The
Jerusalem
Post
Bolton:
Russia
to load
fuel
into
reactor
on
Saturday.
"Israel
has only
mere
days to
launch
an
attack
on
Iran’s
Bushehr
nuclear
reactor
if
Russia
makes
good on
its plan
to
deliver
fuel
there
this
weekend,
former
US
ambassador
to the
UN John
Bolton
warned
Tuesday.
"He said that once Russia has loaded the fuel into the reactor -- slated
for
Saturday
– Israel
would no
longer
be
willing
to
strike
for fear
of
triggering
widespread
radiation
in an
attack."
8/7/10
Human
Shields
In A
Nuclear
Iran
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Atomic
Terror: Tehran will soon have a new 'defensive system' to
protect its Bushehr nuclear plant — not anti-aircraft artillery, but
lethal radiation that will poison innocent Iranians if the U.S. or
Israel attacks.
"Truer words never
came from a regime for which lying is a well-honed skill: 'These threats
of attacks had become repetitive and lost their meaning.' So said
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast on Tuesday of the
chance that military force would hit his country's nuclear program.
"More disturbing,
Mehmanparast pointed out that 'according to international law,
installations which have real fuel cannot be attacked because of the
humanitarian consequences.'"
8/17/10
China
Targets
U.S.
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Defense: A
Pentagon report suppressed by the administration describes a massive Chinese
military buildup that has only one purpose: to deny us access to the Western
Pacific and destroy American forces that try.
"The required annual report to
Congress on China's military power was finally released Monday amid questions of
why the document, due in March, was delayed five months. With the Ground Zero
mosque dominating the news, maybe now was considered a good time to sneak the
grim news past the American people.
"Perhaps it was to avoid
offending the sensibilities of the country helping to finance the Obama
administration's unconscionable debt. Maybe it was delayed to avoid questions as
to why, with this growing threat, we are unilaterally disarming, shredding our
nuclear inventory and canceling major weapons systems America needs to defend
itself.
"We have commented extensively
on China's growing threat, and this report, coming alongside news that China has
passed Japan as the world's second largest economy, confirms our worst fears as
China builds a military far beyond its legitimate defense needs.
"The 2010 report, curiously
renamed the 'Annual Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the
People's Republic of China,' speaks of China's program to deny U.S. forces
access to regions it considers critical to its security.
"'China is fielding an array
of conventionally armed ballistic missiles, ground- and air-launched cruise
missiles, special operations forces and cyberwarfare capabilities to hold
targets at risk throughout the region,' the report says. These targets would be
American bases and carrier battle groups that might be sent to aid Taiwan.
"The 74-page Pentagon report
also notes that China is 'pursuing a variety of air, sea, undersea, space and
counterspace' weapons designed specifically to attack U.S. forces. Primary among
them is the Dong Feng 21D carrier-killer ballistic missile that can hit moving
and heavily defended American carriers with pinpoint accuracy at distances
between 900 and 1,000 miles from China's coasts.
"China's midrange missiles are
'designed to target forces at sea, combined with overhead and over-the-horizon
targeting systems to locate and track moving ships. At the same time, China's
growing cyberwarfare and anti-satellite capabilities are designed to blind and
hinder any U.S. military response.'
"For anti-access airstrikes,
the Chinese have home-built fighter aircraft as well as Russian Sukhoi SU-30s,
all armed with anti-ship cruise missiles. At sea, anti-access weapons include
guided missile ships equipped with anti-aircraft and anti-ship missiles.
"China's increasingly
blue-water navy includes Sovremenny-class guided-missile destroyers purchased
from the Russians. They come equipped with supersonic, sea-skimming SS-N-22
Sunburn cruise missiles designed for one purpose: attack American carrier battle
groups.
"China has six nuclear-powered
attack submarines and 54 quiet, diesel-electric submarines, many of them
equipped with advanced, anti-ship cruise missiles. In October 2006, a Chinese
Song-class attack submarine surfaced within weapons distance of the American
carrier Kitty Hawk off Okinawa. China also plans to deploy two aircraft carriers
of its own by 2015. It has already acquired four retired carriers.
"As Defense Secretary Robert
Gates leaves his post, we have more to worry about than our strategy in
Afghanistan and the July 2011 target for withdrawal.
"China is challenging
diminishing American power in the Western Pacific and globally, and Gates'
replacement and the rest of the administration need to be grilled on what they
intend to do about it, if anything."
8/17/10
How to Win the Clash of Civilizations By
AYAAN HIRSI ALI, The Wall Street Journal
The key advantage of Huntington's
famous model is that it describes the world as it is—not as we wish it to be.
"What do the controversies
around the proposed mosque near Ground Zero, the eviction of American
missionaries from Morocco earlier this year, the minaret ban in Switzerland last
year, and the recent burka ban in France have in common? All four are framed in
the Western media as issues of religious tolerance. But that is not their
essence. Fundamentally, they are all symptoms of what the late Harvard political
scientist Samuel Huntington called the "Clash of Civilizations," particularly
the clash between Islam and the West.
"Huntington's argument is
worth summarizing briefly for those who now only remember his striking title.
The essential building block of the post-Cold War world, he wrote, are seven or
eight historical civilizations of which the Western, the Muslim and the
Confucian are the most important.
"The balance of power among
these civilizations, he argued, is shifting. The West is declining in relative
power, Islam is exploding demographically, and Asian civilizations—especially
China—are economically ascendant. Huntington also said that a civilization-based
world order is emerging in which states that share cultural affinities will
cooperate with each other and group themselves around the leading states of
their civilization.
"The West's universalist
pretensions are increasingly bringing it into conflict with the other
civilizations, most seriously with Islam and China. Thus the survival of the
West depends on Americans, Europeans and other Westerners reaffirming their
shared civilization as unique—and uniting to defend it against challenges from
non-Western civilizations."
8/17/10
'Modern'
Life In
Afghanistan
--
Stoned
to Death
for
Being In
Love
By Phyllis Chesler, FoxNews.com
"Earlier
today, on the cusp of the second decade of the twenty-first century, the Afghan
Taliban treated the world to a display of Islamic (Sharia) law. They proudly
sentenced two human beings to be
publicly stoned to death by a mob of two hundred men who were only too happy
to do so, a mob which included the relatives of both victims as well as
bystanders galore.
"The couple’s
crime was that of loving each other and wanting to marry. However, the woman
refused to marry the relative to whom she had already been promised. Thus, they
had both rebelled against cultural, tribal, and religious expectations.
"The couple,
25-year-old Khayyam and 19-year-old Siddiqa ran away. Both were lured back home
by relatives who promised them that permission would be granted for them to
marry. It was a ruse. Once back, they were subjected to Afghan Islamic justice,
Taliban-style and were stoned to death. Siddiqa was forced to wear her burqa to
her execution. . . .
"What
happened today is reality—and it is coming our way if we allow such thinking to
penetrate the West .[Several other similar "honor killings" on what we would
consider extremely trivial grounds are related.] . . .
"In the last
thirty years, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, the Turks, the Saudis, the
Iranians, and the Egyptians have all engaged in the following atrocities for,
from our western point of view, the most minor offenses: stonings, beheadings,
hangings, burying young girls alive, amputations, nose and ear chopping,
floggings, acid thrown in the faces of young girls for improper veiling. They
claim they are doing so in the name of Islam. Anti-Islamist Muslims claim that
such punishers are criminals who have hijacked an otherwise peaceful religion.
"We had
better decide who is right."
8/17/10
Beck: Now Obama Cares About Religious Freedom?
Glenn Beck Show Segment Today--Video
His administration has a funny way
of showing it
8/17/10
Bobby
Bailout:
Casey to
Put
Taxpayers
on Hook
for
Teamsters’
Shenanigans
By Kevin
D. Williamson, NationalReviewOnline
"Sen. Robert Casey (D., Pa.) and Rep. Earl
Pomeroy (D., N.D.) are pushing legislation that would commit taxpayers’
dollars to bailing out the Teamsters’
retirement pension fund. The
financial crisis and the Great Recession may have upset your retirement
plans, but that’s not reason that politically connected union thugs have to
share the pain."
8/17/10
'Atlas
Shrugged':
The
CliffsNotes
Today
By
SCOTT S.
POWELL Posted
06:34 PM
ET,
Investor's
Business
Daily
"'Atlas Shrugged" —
Ayn Rand's fourth and last novel, published in 1957 — may be second to
the Bible as the most influential book read in America, according to a
Library of Congress survey. It is required reading in management
training at BB&T, the 12th-largest bank in the U.S. and one that
resisted taking TARP bailout funds.
"Since the Obama
administration took office, 'Atlas Shrugged' has been enjoying a
renaissance with rising sales and library waiting lists, partly because
it explains our current economic woes more straightforwardly than most
of what we hear from today's experts."
8/17/10
GM
Workers
Chase
Out UAW
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
"As soon
as three
UAW
International
representatives
took the
podium,
they
were met
with
boos and
shouts
of
opposition
from
many of
the 631
workers
currently
employed
at the
plant.
The
officials,
attempting
to speak
at the
only
informational
meeting
on the
proposed
contract
changes,
were
forced
out
within
minutes
of
taking
the
floor.
The
incident
once
again
exposes
the
immense
class
divide
between
workers
and
union
officials,
who are
working
actively
with the
auto
companies
to drive
down
wages
and
eliminate
benefits."
(laughing)
The
shoe's
on the
other
foot.
Now the
UAW's
executives
are the
owners
and
they're
trying
to tell
their
own
brethren
to take
50 cents
on the
dollar.
The
national
UAW are
the
bosses.
Now that
they
effectively
own
Obama
Motors,
they're
the ones
riding
the
backs of
the
proletariat
-- and
it shows
up on
the
World
Socialist
website!
. . .
RUSH:
I can
just
imagine
when I
get to
my
e-mail,
there
are
going to
be some
people
asking,
"Are you
really
laughing
at the
misfortune
of
people
who are
having
half
their
salaries
taken
away?"
Well, it
may look
like
that but
that's
not
really
what I'm
laughing
at.
What I'm
laughing
at is
the life
lesson
learned.
The very
people
who used
to go on
strike
over
these
kinds of
proposals
are now
causing
the very
action
that
used to
cause
the
strike
-- and
they're
union
people!
They
just now
happen
to be
owners.
Look
what
happened
to them
when
they
become
owners:
They
learn
that
the single
biggest
cost in
running
a
business
is
labor,
and that
if
you're
not
showing
a
profit,
and if
you need
to very
quickly,
the
first
thing
you can
look to
cut is
labor
costs.
It's the way of the world. It just is. It's a sad thing, but it just
is. Add
to this
the
reason
they
want to
do it is
they
want to
sell the
company
(laughing)
because
I'm sure
there's
a
premium
they're
gonna
get
'cause
they're
selling
this
thing at
a profit
or hope
to. So
there's
an
influx
of cash
but the
new
owners
aren't
going to
buy it
at
current
wages.
So
there's
an
economic
lesson
here
being
learned
left and
right.
The sad
thing is
that
nobody
knows
about it
other
than
those of
you
listening
here on
the EIB
Network.
Now, who
else...?
You want
to talk
about
chutzpah?
Who else
but the
United
Auto
Workers
would
have the
chutzpah
to
demand
that
they cut
their
salaries
by
half?
The
executives!
I don't know that General Motors ever went that far. I don't know that
Chrysler
went
that
far.
They
mighta
laid
people
off.
(interruption)
Yeah,
new
hires.
The new
hires
are
given a
significantly
lower
wage,
and
that's
what
we're
talking
about
here,
not
people
that have
been
around
for
quite a
while.
. . .
RUSH:
From the
EIB
Network
archives.
My
website,
Stack of
Stuff
Quick
Hits
Page on
May
20th,
2009, I
predicted
this
very
thing
would
happen.
It was
May of
2009
when
Obama
gave
Chrysler
to the
UAW.
Now, get
this.
Get
this.
Snerdley,
the UAW
executives
have
said
they
will
close
the
plant if
the
rank-and-file
don't
take the
deal.
They're
gonna
lock 'em
out. I
read
further
in the
Socialist
Worker
story.
They are
going to
close
the
plant if
they
don't
take the
deal.
Now,
here's
the
deal.
We're
talking
starting
salary.
The cut
here is
to
starting
wages,
and it
works
out this
way.
The
starting
wage
right
now is
30 bucks
an hour;
they're
cutting
it back
to
$15.50
an
hour.
$15.50
is $620
from
40-hour
week,
which is
$32,240
a year.
That's
starting.
That
does not
include
overtime
or
benefits.
That's
the base
starting
salary.
The
median
salary
in the
US is
still
somewhere
under
$40,000.
This is
a
starting
gig down
from 30
bucks an
hour to
$15.50,
and
they're
gonna
shut it
down.
Is there
a
conflict
of
interest
here? I
have to
ask.
The UAW
shutting
out its
own
workers?
I mean,
it's not
as
though
old
General
Motors
execs
are
doing
this.
"Experts
say that
union
leaders
are
worried
about
being in
an
uncomfortable
position
of being
blamed
by
membership
if
management..."
(laughing)
Management
needs...?
(laughing)
Union
management.
There's
a
conflict
here.
There's
no
question.
8/16/10
Legitimate
Questions
for the
President
Sarah
Palin
"Mr.
President,
should
they or
should
they not
build a
mosque
steps
away
from
where
radical
Islamists
killed
3000
people?
Please
tell us
your
position.
We all
know
that
they
have the
right to
do it,
but
should
they?
And, no,
this is
not
above
your pay
grade.
If those
who wish
to build
this
Ground
Zero
mosque
are
sincerely
interested
in
encouraging
positive
'cross-cultural
engagement'
and
dialogue
to show
a
moderate
and
tolerant
face of
Islam,
then why
haven't
they
recognized
that the
decision
to build
a mosque
at this
particular
location
is doing
just the
opposite?
Mr.
President,
why
aren't
you
encouraging
the
mosque
developers
to
accept
Governor
Paterson's
generous
offer of
assistance
in
finding
a new
location
for the
mosque
on state
land if
they
move it
away
from
Ground
Zero?
Why
haven't
they
jumped
at this
offer?
Why are
they
apparently
so set
on
building
a mosque
steps
from
what you
have
described,
in
agreement
with me,
as
'hallowed
ground'?
I
believe
these
are
legitimate
questions
to ask."
8/16/10
Mosque Issue Shows Us We Have Our First Anti-American President
Rush
Limbaugh Show Segment Today--Transcript [It was apparent to me that Obama was
anti-American before this issue.]
RUSH: Oh, come on, give me a break, presidency in total meltdown?
Wishful thinking, Snerdley. Presidency in total meltdown? How can a presidency
which features a president as a foreign agent be in meltdown? They're not in
meltdown. They're hitting grand slam home runs. . . .
Let me just ask you one quick question here, folks. If instead of a mosque,
somebody wanted to build a Walmart near the World Trade Center, the left, that
is to say the unions, including Obama, would be up in arms at the loss of
community. You can't find a Walmart in New York City to this day. There are 30
mosques at least. I think there's a mosque, what, 10, 20 blocks from Ground
Zero already. You try to put a Walmart there, and can you imagine the uproar?
I mean this is the first time in a long time, Snerdley, that I can recall the
Democrats, the liberals ever even caring about property rights. Really.
(laughing) Look, there's so much here. There is so much to learn here. You
know, we thought Obama was our first post-American president. We might have
underestimated him. Our first anti-American president.
8/16/10
Mexican Mayor Kidnapped by Gunmen as 8 Hunters Found Shot to Death
Fox News.com
8/16/10
Generic Congressional Ballot Rasmussen Reports Generic Ballot:
Republican 48%, Democrat 36%
"Republican candidates have
jumped out to a record-setting 12-point lead over Democrats on the Generic
Congressional Ballot for the week ending Sunday, August 15, 2010. This is the
biggest lead the GOP has held in over a decade of Rasmussen Reports surveying."
8/15/10
The 'Right to Health Care' Can Be the Right to No Care
By
Deane Waldman,
American Thinker
"'Ration'
comes from the Latin ratio (to reason or think) and can be defined
as "allowing an individual a fixed amount of a commodity." If health
care is a right, the 'allower' or
balancer of supply and demand
is the government, which must and will ration health care. That is what
occurs in all
universal health care
countries, including France, Germany, Scandinavian nations, Taiwan, and
Japan. Consider Great Britain with its National Health Service (NHS).
"Because
Great Britain cannot afford its current level of demand for health care, the
NHS is cutting services. Services already deleted or to be cut include heart
surgery over the age of 65, kidney dialysis over 55, much hospice care, many
cancer treatments, and most nursing
homes.
"The
NHS has a commission (department) called NICE, the National Institute for
Health and Clinical Excellence. As an aside, note that the president's
choice for Director of Medicare,
Dr. Don Berwick,
is an admirer of the NICE and wants to import to the USA.
"The
responsibility of NICE is to determine which medical treatments have the
best cost/benefit ratios for the nation, to approve
payment for those, and to deny payment for all other treatments. Note what
the italicized words mean (to them). Cost considers only the
immediate outlay and does not calculate avoided costs, or productivity gains
or losses. The benefit is national, based on the entire
population and not the individual's best interest. If a specific patient
needs something that does not work in the majority, the specific patient
doesn't get it.
"The
non-payment for specific treatments, either because of age or based on NICE
criteria (talk about an acronym that means its opposite!), is effectively a
death panel. Remember the fierce denial of the Democrats that Obamacare (HR
3590 or PPAHCA) would have any such thing? Read the Patient Protection and
Affordable Health Care Act: It assigns $650 million for cost/benefit
analyses. What happens when the answer is negative? Answer: No payment for
that care, and therefore
no care
-- just like Great Britain.
"Nations
with "universal health care" have a dirty little secret that is highly
relevant to those in the USA who want to import their systems: They are
not universal.
Non-citizens are excluded. . . .
"There
is a small ray of hope. Eleven states have sued to block HR 3590 on the
grounds that you cannot penalize someone for not doing something, like not
paying insurance. Of course, Washington is totally opposed and has filed
papers seeking summary dismissal. The first State case -- Virginia -- to
reach federal court was just decided. The judge upheld the State's position
and rejected dismissal."
8/15/10
Obama Is Colluding with a New Fascist Imperialism
By
James Lewis,
American Thinker
"Nothing is more like
the fascist Axis of the 1930s than Islamist expansionism today. Like the
Hitler-Tojo-Mussolini Axis of the 1930s, Islamic fascists are
fundamentally imperialistic, with an explicit order from on High to
subjugate civilized people or turn them to ashes. Mohammed himself
famously threatened the cultured Persian and Byzantine Emperors of his
time, and in the following years, his followers knocked those empires
over like devouring army ants.
"The peace-loving
Buddhist monasteries of India were consumed by invading Muslim armies,
with the result that there are no Buddhist monasteries left in India
today. Not a single one. Only Hinduism survived the Muslim invasions,
because Hindus are not pacifists. You can ask any Sikh about that; they
are a huge warrior religion that arose as a buffer between Hindu India
and its many Muslim invaders, who now hold Pakistan and Afghanistan. In
India, the Buddhist monks just died or fled to Tibet. So much for the
glorious results of peaceful resistance against Muslim armies.
"Wherever Islamic
fascists go, they first like to frighten and intimidate less warlike
peoples -- as in London today, where any BBC criticism of Islamic
fascists is streng verboten. That's what the Ground Zero Mosque
and the Mohammed cartoon uproar have in common: They are purposeful
agitprop campaigns to scare and intimidate all the weak-willed liberals
in the West, a standard Islamist tactic to conquer by intimidation, just
as Muslim conquerors have always done. Why bother to wage war when you
can win by terror? Putin understands that, the Chinese understand it,
and it's clear enough around the Middle East. Only American liberals and
European socialists are in denial. That's why they are the biggest
round-heels in the world. They will happily collude in their own
subjection and degradation.
"Islamic practice has
always required mosques to have the highest towers in any subjugated
city. No Jews or Christians were ever allowed to build higher places of
worship, to ride higher (on horses or mules), or even to raise their
heads higher while walking the streets than any Muslim. If you were a
Jew or a Christian, you would duck your head deep down as you passed a
Muslim, who was allowed to spit on you at will. As recently as the
Ottoman Empire (crumbled in 1917), all dhimmis were unceremoniously
beaten to the ground if they dared to raise their heads higher than a
passing Muslim. Modern Westerners deny the obvious, but that is because
they are wishful idiots, self-inflicted ignorami, and dead meat to all
the predators of this world. It's Little Red Riding Hood skipping into
the dark forest again, but this time nobody told her about the Big Bad
Wolf."
8/15/10
American Muslims Debate Loyalty to America
By
Eileen F. Toplansky.
American Thinker
"American Muslims are
debating key questions of loyalty to America, a debate in which the stakes
could not be higher. Alarmingly, "no fewer than four United States citizens
and a permanent U.S. resident have risen to senior leadership posts within
al-Qaeda," according to an
Investors Business Daily
editorial by Paul Sperry. Thus, 'five English-speaking leaders are actively
planning or facilitating attacks against their countrymen, while recruiting
and radicalizing other American turncoats to carry them out.'
"The implications of this
are frightening. No longer is America at war with a foreign enemy. The
enemy is here -- an enemy who understands how "America works, having lived
here for decades." Thus, fellow Americans are recruited by the enemy. These
traitors are "fed by a native Muslim population once believed [to be] ...
nonthreatening." Is this an aberration, or does Islam condone and promote
this disloyalty?
"Special
Dispatch No. 3162,
published on August 12, 2010 by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI),
helps to shed light on this question. The Dispatch highlights the rulings
posted on the website of the Assembly of Muslim Jurists in America. Included
'under the category 'Matters Pertaining to Muslim Minorities [in Western
Countries]' were answers to questions regarding the legitimacy of
cooperating with United States security forces in the war on terror -- both
on American soil and abroad -- as well as the legitimacy of enlisting in the
ranks of these forces.'
"Ambivalence was
reflected by the Muslim jurists as well as the fatwa committee.
"Question: Is a
Muslim who owns a moving company permitted to transport supplies from
the distributor's warehouse to the port, knowing that the supplies are
to be sent to soldiers operating in Islamic countries as part of NATO
forces?
"Response: Help one
another in goodness and piety, and do not help another in sin and
aggression...If somebody commits a crime and conspires against [Muslims]
you must not abet him anywhere on earth, whether he is a civilian or
belongs to the military. ..."
"Question: Is it
permissible [for] a Muslim, to enlist in the U.S. Navy, in light of the
possibility that [one] might be sent to serve in a Muslim country. ...
[Would] enlisting in the Navy be considered 'loyalty to the infidels and
leaving the fold [of Islam].'
"Response: One third
of all Muslims today live as minorities in non-Islamic countries, and
most of the remaining two-thirds live in the shadow of non-Islamic
regimes, even if they live in Islamic lands. The two groups are subject
to man-made laws, which Islamic (sharia) does not recognize,
either fully or in part. ...
"While the Muslim jurist
Al-Hajj does suggest that Muslims should be encouraged to work for the
police in order to avoid the possibility that "residents of that country
might think that Muslim citizens' loyalty to the country was flawed," he
also explains the harmful aspects of Muslims serving on a police force in a
Western country. At the forefront of this difficulty is that Muslim
policemen might be obligated "to impose laws that are not the laws of
Allah."
"In essence, if a Muslim
serves on the police force, is his service an example of subjugation to
man-made laws, 'which is tantamount to a sin, or is it permitted as the
lesser evil'? Thus, 'serving on the police force also constitutes 'aid to
perpetrators of crimes and aggression,'' and "[Muslim] policemen [in Western
countries] 'might participate in incriminating a Muslim who has been done an
injustice.'' Furthermore, 'a policeman is obliged to undergo violations of
modesty, such as 'licentious mixing between the sexes, seclusion with
someone of the opposite sex, and the like.'
"Therefore, if a Muslim
does engage in police work despite the violations of sharia, then
"it is based on the principle of preventing worse outcomes for Islam and
Muslims."
"Concerning Muslims
joining U.S. security forces, there are conflicting views as well. On the
one hand, jurisprudent Dr. Al-Qudah said that it is 'permissible for a
Muslim to serve in the U.S. military, providing he does not fight his
coreligionists.' Thus, 'the only thing you must consider in this regard is
to make sure not to be involved in fighting, harming, or even bothering
Muslims at all. [Other than this], defending your country would be a noble
job of which you could be proud.'
"At the site
muslimsforasafeamerica.org,
an online discussion was held on May 19, 2010 under the title "Should
American Muslims Be Loyal to America? There were pro and con arguments
concerning Muslim loyalty to America.
"By virtue of living
in the U.S. and benefiting from freedom and opportunity in the U.S.,
American-born Muslims have given an implicit pledge to be loyal to
America. ...
"Being loyal to
America does not require American Muslims to be less loyal to God.
Neither God nor America demand[s] exclusive loyalty. ...
"There is no conflict
for American Muslims between being loyal to and caring for the worldwide
Muslim community, and being loyal to and caring for our American
neighbors of other faiths. ...
"You can be both a
good Muslim and a good American, because Islam and America are based on
the same values, like justice and compassion.
"... America is not
dar-ul-harb (the land of war), because Muslims are free to practice
and preach their faith here
"Arguments why American
Muslims should not be loyal to America include:
"American Muslims
have no special relationship with (or obligation to) America. ... A
Muslim's true covenant (or pledge) is with God.
"American Muslims can
be loyal to both God and country, but only if that country is an Islamic
state, governed by Islamic law (shariah), not a country that
rejects God's law and follows man-made laws.
"American Muslims
must be loyal to the worldwide Muslim community, not to Americans of
other faiths who have rejected Islam and repeatedly elected political
leaders who have caused great suffering in the Muslim world. ...
"America and Islam
have contradictory agendas and priorities, and they have different
visions for the world. American Muslims cannot simultaneously support
both sets of agendas, priorities, and visions.
... America is
dar-ul-kufr (the land of disbelief), because America has rejected
Islam and actively opposes the establishment of a Caliphate in the
Muslim world.
"And so we return to the
Americans now in senior leadership posts in al-Qaeda.
"How do we battle the
ongoing war from within? America finds itself "battling [its] own citizens.
How do we deal with wartime traitors? Can the CIA assassinate them? Can it
spy on them? What about their civil rights?"
"Anwar Awlaki, the
American-born cleric, is al-Qaeda's top recruiter of Western suicide cells.
Awlaki radicalized the Fort Hood shooter and the Times Square bomber. Awlaki
has called "on American Muslims to turn against their government and has
even justified killing American civilians." He has stated that "[j]ihad
against America is binding on every other [American] Muslim," and he warns
that terror attacks will come "from within" the United States. In addition
to recruiting other Muslims, "African-American and white converts, who do
not fit the Arab terrorist profile, have received al-Qaeda training in
Yemen." Moreover, because of "free speech," currently "there are 15,000
jihad Web sites" -- the majority of which "operate off servers based inside
the U.S."
"The jihadists are intent
upon the destruction of this country. If moderate Muslims do exist, then it
behooves them to fight the American traitors among us. If American Muslims
continue to reflect a conflicted relationship with their country of birth,
putting Islam above all else, then other Americans will rightly conclude
that a civil war is upon us -- one that al-Qaeda is steadfastly
perpetrating."
8/14/10
Wake
Up Call:
They are peaceful
as long as you obey.
"Pictures
fromLondon ~ this is beyond scary... "
8/14/10
N.Y.
mosque
must be
moved
Charles
Krauthammer,
TheSunNews.com
Respect
for
what's
sacred
"When
we speak of Ground Zero as hallowed ground, what we mean is that it belongs to
those who suffered and died there -- and that such ownership obliges us, the
living, to preserve the dignity and memory of the place, never allowing it to be
forgotten, trivialized or misappropriated. . . .
"Location
matters. Especially this location. Ground Zero is the site of the greatest mass
murder in American history -- perpetrated by Muslims of a particular Islamist
orthodoxy in whose cause they died and in whose name they killed. . . .
"America
is a free country where you can build whatever you want -- but not anywhere.
That's why we have zoning laws. No liquor store near a school, no strip malls
where they offend local sensibilities.
"Some
restrictions are for reasons of aesthetics. Others are for more profound reasons
of common decency and respect for the sacred.
"Build
it anywhere but there.
"The
governor of New York offered to help find land to build the mosque elsewhere. A
mosque really seeking to build bridges would accept the offer." [But it didn't.]
8/14/10
Oh, So
Now They
Call
Social
Security
a
‘Crisis’
Chris
Field,
TownHall.com
"Back in
2005,
President
George
W. Bush
embarked
upon
what may
have
been the
bravest
and most
ill-fated
campaign
of his
presidency.
It
inspired
some
rhetoric
on par
with, if
not
worse
than,
that of
anti-war
politicians
criticizing
efforts
in
Afghanistan
and
Iraq.
The
fight
was over
Social
Security
-- the
sacred
entitlement,
the
legacy
of FDR,
the
so-called
third
rail of
American
politics.
"Bush, in what was a responsible if badly pitched campaign, sought to
convince
American
voters
of the
imminent
financial
crisis
Social
Security
was
facing
and that
they
should
support
a plan
to give
individual
citizens
some
ownership
over
their
benefits.
He
failed
to
convince
the
public,
and the
Democratic
Party
happily
embraced
a role
as the
"Party
of No,"
scoffing
at
Bush’s
allegedly
manufactured
crisis."
8/14/10
Missouri
had the
illegal
alien
law
before
AZ.
derkelier.com,
Article
in "The
Ozarks
Sentinel"
Editorial
Opinion
- Nita
Jane
Ayres
[This is
a must
read.
The
targeted
article
reports
so many
wonderful
actions
that it
can't be
meaningfully
abstracted.]
8/14/10
The
Czech
Republic
Remembers
and Says
Thank
You
(WWII)!

8/14/10
In U.S.,
Confidence
in
Newspapers,
TV News
Remains
a Rarity
by
Lymari
Morale,
Gallup
No more
than 25%
say they
have a
"great
deal" or
"quite a
lot" of
confidence
in
either
8/14/10
Letter
To Obama
at
Whitehouse
Sent
from 95
year Old
Pearl
Harbor
Hero
snopes.com
I can't
figure
out what
country
you are
the
president
of.
You fly
around
the
world
telling
our
friends
and
enemies
despicable
lies
like:
"
We're no
longer a
Christian
nation"
"
America
is
arrogant"
- (Your
wife
even
announced
to the
world,"
America
is mean-
spirited.
" Please
tell her
to try
preaching
that
nonsense
to 23
generations
of our
war
dead
buried
all over
the
globe
who
died
for no
other
reason
than to
free a
whole
lot of
strangers
from
tyranny
and
hopelessness.)
I'd say
shame on
the both
of you,
but I
don't
think
you like
America,
nor do I
see an
ounce of
gratefulness
in
anything
you do,
for the
obvious
gifts
this
country
has
given
you. To
be
without
shame or
gratefulness
is a
dangerous
thing
for a
man
sitting
in the
White
House.
After
9/11 you
said,"
America
hasn't
lived up
to her
ideals."
Which
ones did
you
mean?
Was it
the
notion
of
personal
liberty
that
11,000
farmers
and
shopkeepers
died for
to win
independence
from the
British?
Or
maybe
the
ideal
that no
man
should
be a
slave to
another
man,
that
500,000
men died
for in
the
Civil
War? I
hope you
didn't
mean the
ideal
470,000
fathers,
brothers,
husbands,
and a
lot of
fellas I
knew
personally
died for
in WWII,
because
we felt
real
strongly
about
not
letting
any
nation
push us
around,
because
we stand
for
freedom.
I don't
think
you mean
the
ideal
that
says
equality
is
better
than
discrimination.
You
know the
one that
a whole
lot of
white
people
understood
when
they
helped
to get
you
elected.
Take a
little
advice
from a
very old
geezer,
young
man.
Shape up
and
start
acting
like an
American.
If you
don't,
I'll do
what I
can to
see you
get
shipped
out of
that
fancy
rental
on
Pennsylvania
Avenue .
You
were
elected
to lead
not to
bow,
apologize
and kiss
the
hands of
murderers
and
corrupt
leaders
who
still
treat
their
people
like
slaves.
And just
who do
you
think
you are
telling
the
American
people
not to
jump to
conclusions
and
condemn
that
Muslim
major
who
killed
13 of
his
fellow
soldiers
and
wounded
dozens
more.
You mean
you
don't
want us
to do
what you
did when
that
white
cop used
force to
subdue
that
black
college
professor
in
Massachusetts
, who
was
putting
up a
fight?
You
don't
mind
offending
the
police
calling
them
stupid
but you
don't
want us
to
offend
Muslim
fanatics
by
calling
them
what
they
are,
terrorists.
One more
thing.
I
realize
you
never
served
in the
military
and
never
had to
defend
your
country
with
your
life,
but
you're
the
Commander-in-Chief
now,
son. Do
your
job.
When
your
battle-hardened
field
General
asks you
for
40,000
more
troops
to
complete
the
mission,
give
them to
him.
But if
you're
not in
this
fight to
win,
then get
out.
The
life of
one
American
soldier
is not
worth
the best
political
strategy
you're
thinking
of.
You
could be
our
greatest
president
because
you face
the
greatest
challenge
ever
presented
to any
president.
You're
not
going to
restore
American
greatness
by
bringing
back our
bloated
economy.
That's
not our
greatest
threat.
Losing
the
heart
and soul
of who
we are
as
Americans
is our
big
fight
now.
And I
sure as
hell
don't
want to
think my
president
is the
enemy in
this
final
battle...
8/14/10
The
First
Un-American
President
By Alan
Caruba,
Canada
Free
Press
Obama,
a
pompous
hypocrite
8/14/10
Socialist
Party of
America
reveals
70
Democrats
as
belonging
to their
caucus
Rick
Moran,
American
Thinker
8/14/10
Collapse
BY
William
Kristol,
The
Daily
Standard
The
left is unpopular, undisciplined, and ill-tempered.
"So,
those of
us from
the
pro-Tea
Party
wing
(dare I
say the
pro-American
wing?)
of the
American
public
need not
respond
to the
left in
kind. We
choose
the high
road. We
choose—yes—to
light a
candle!
We
choose
to
ignore
the
left’s
sad
vulgarity."
8/13/10
Calvin
Coolidge
Still
Matters
Glenn
Beck
Show
Segment
Today--Video
Why
progressives
want you
to
forget
about
the 30th
president
"The
Center
for
American
Progress
[group
heavily
funded
by
George
Soros]
did a
little
booklet
on
education
and it
said--are
you
ready?--'These
are the
niche
items
that can
be cut
from
education:
U.S.
History,
Constitutional
Study
and
anything
to do
with
economics.'"
[Beck's
Friday
shows
typically
concern
American
history
including
some
regaling
black
audiences
about
black
history
that we
were
never
taught.]
8/13/10
No Time
for Boy
Scouts,
But
Iftar
Dinner
Makes
Obama's
Schedule
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
An iftar
is "a
special
evening
meal
observed
during"
-- wait
for it
--
"Ramadan".
This is
happening
tonight
in the
White
House
State
Dining
Room. .
.
This is
Obama in
a
written
statement
on
Wednesday.
Iftar
celebrations
"remind
us of
the
principles
that we
hold in
common,
and
Islam's
role in
advancing
justice,
progress,
tolerance
and the
dignity
of all
human
beings…
Ramadan
is a
celebration
of a
faith
known
for
great
diversity
and
racial
equality,"
wrote
Obama, a
"reminder
that
Islam
has
always
been
part of
America
and is
that
American
Muslims
have
made
extraordinary
contributions
to our
country."
Ahem. A
list of
those
contributions
does not
accompany
the
president's
statement.
"The
dinner
comes
amid a
growing
controversy
over the
proposed
construction
of
Islamic
cultural
center
in
downtown
Manhattan".
Meanwhile,
the
White
House
has been
silent
on that
issue.
. . .
The only
reason I
mention
this is
not so
much
because
he's
doing an
iftar
dinner
-- I
just
want you
to
remember
that he
could
not be
bothered
to go to
the Boy
Scouts'
100th
anniversary.
But he's
got time
to do an
iftar
dinner
out
there. .
. .
RUSH:
I
don't
want to
be
misunderstood
about
this
Iftar
dinner
business.
George
W. Bush
started
the
tradition,
and do
you know
what
year?
2001.
George
W. Bush
held an
Iftar
dinner
in
2001.
How's
that for
religious
tolerance?
And we
see all
the good
that it
did.
And I
have
found
out some
of the
guests
at
Obama's
Iftar
dinner
tonight.
They
include
the
chief of
mission
from the
PLO.
8/13/10
Obama
Comes
Out in
Favor of
Allowing
Mosque
Near
Ground
Zero
FoxNews.com
"Obama made the comments at an annual dinner in the White House
State Dining Room celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
"Republicans were quick to
pounce on the president's remarks.
"'President Obama is wrong,'
said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. 'It is insensitive and uncaring for the Muslim
community to build a mosque in the shadow of ground zero. While the Muslim
community has the right to build the mosque they are abusing that right by
needlessly offending so many people who have suffered so much.'
"The White House had not
previously taken a stand on the mosque, which would be part of a $100 million
Islamic center to be built two blocks from where nearly 3,000 people perished
when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11,
2001."
8/13/10
Fox News Poll: 64 Percent Think It's Wrong to Build Mosque Near Ground Zero
By Dana Blanton,
FoxNews.com
"A Fox News poll released
Friday found that 61 percent of voters think the Muslim group has the right to
build a mosque in lower Manhattan.
"However, 64 percent think it
would be wrong to put a mosque there.
"Click
here to see the poll."
8/13/10
Beware
the VAT:
Why the
consumption
tax is
possible
CNNMoney.com
"Last
winter,
when
most
experts
reckoned
that
Scott
Brown's
election
in
Massachusetts
spelled
the
demise
of the
Obama
health
care
bill,
Ryan --
who's
intimately
familiar
with
arcane
congressional
rules as
the
ranking
Republican
on the
House
Budget
Committee
-- told
me that
those
rules
left the
Democrats
plenty
of room
to pass
the
bill. He
was
contrarian,
and he
was
right.
"So . .
. I
asked
Ryan to
handicap
the
probability
of
another
legislative
landmark
that
would
forever
change
the
course
of the
U.S.
economy:
The
adoption
of a
European-style
value-added
tax, or
VAT
[a
sales
tax at
every
level of
a
transaction
or
process]
. . . .
"Ryan told me that a VAT is
far more likely than most Americans imagine. The reason isn't the one that many
experts are forecasting -- that the Fiscal Commission appointed by President
Obama will recommend the controversial levy. 'I don't believe the Commission
will advocate a VAT,' Ryan told me, adding that he doesn't speak for his fellow
members.
"On the contrary, Ryan fears
another path to the VAT. 'It cannot pass without a fiscal crisis,' he warns.
'Our leaders are now courting one with big spending and by adding new
entitlements. They know in the back of their minds that if a fiscal crisis
comes, they can throw a VAT on top of that.'
"Ryan concluded by saying that
the economy now faces two layers of uncertainty -- the threat of a debt debacle
that's already well known, and the added danger that the solution will be the
heretofore unimaginable and largely unforeseen: a VAT."
8/13/10
Federal
Appeals
Court
Overturns
Ruling
Barring
Congress
From
Defunding
ACORN
FoxNews.com
"A
federal
appeals
court on
Friday
threw
out a
decision
that had
barred
Congress
from
withholding
funds
from
ACORN,
the
activist
group
driven
to ruin
by
scandal
and
financial
woes."
8/13/10
WikiLeaks'
Hands To
Get
Bloodier
Investor's
Business
Daily
"WikiLeaks, which puts stolen,
mostly classified U.S. documents on the Internet, justifies its publishing of
secrets as throwing sunlight on the devious doings of governments.
"In reality, its founder,
Julian Assange, is an anti-American agitator whose main aim is to end the U.S.
war in Afghanistan by any means necessary. If that means publishing the name of
an Afghan tribesman who's so much as given a U.S. soldier a drink of water in
Kandahar, he's indifferent to the impact.
"So there's no doubt the
76,000 stolen documents he's already published are the work of an enemy who is
maddeningly exempt from the U.S.' excessively legalistic approach to war.
"He's already published more
than 100 names of Afghans connected to U.S. troops in his first info dump. The
name-filled battlefield reports shed no sunlight on anything readers of the news
don't already know of the U.S. war strategy — which is based on relationships
with informants. But for the Taliban, it's a gold mine."
8/13/10
Why Rod
Blagojevich
jury
deadlock
could be
good
news for
defense
Christian
Science
Monitor,
Yahoo!
News
8/13/10
Correction:
The
state on
the
following
was
mis-named.
8/6/10
Independence
Caucus
Report
George
Edwards,
Giac.2002.org
"The Independence
Caucus
is
a
nationally
active,
citizen-led
organization
of
conservatives
which
started
in Utah
with the
election
in 2008
of US
Representative
Jason
Chaffetz.
The
organization
as been
very successful in
getting candidates they
vetted and endorsed to win
in major party primary
elections. They offer what
they have found to be
winning strategies. . . .
Click
here
to view
the
PowerPoint
presentation
opening
the
meeting."
8/12/10
The
stunning
decline
of
Barack
Obama:
10 key
reasons
why the
Obama
presidency
is in
meltdown
Niles
Gardner,
Telegraph.Co.UK
"The
last few
weeks
have
been a
nightmare
for
President
Obama,
in a
summer
of
discontent
in the
United
States
which
has
deeply
unsettled
the
ruling
liberal
elites,
so much
so that
even the
Left has
begun to
turn
against
the
White
House.
While
the
anti-establishment
Tea
Party
movement
has
gained
significant
ground
and is
now a
rising
and
powerful
political
force to
be
reckoned
with,
many of
the
president’s
own
supporters
as well
as
independents
are
rapidly
losing
faith in
Barack
Obama,
with
open
warfare
breaking
out
between
the
White
House
and the
left-wing
of the
Democratic
Party.
While
conservatism
in
America
grows
stronger
by the
day, the
forces
of
liberalism
are
growing
increasingly
weaker
and
divided.
"Against
this
backdrop,
the
president’s
approval
ratings
have
been
sliding
dramatically
all
summer,
with the
latest
Rasmussen
Daily
Presidential
Tracking
Poll
of US
voters
dropping
to minus
22
points,
the
lowest
point so
far for
Barack
Obama
since
taking
office.
While
just 24
per cent
of
American
voters
strongly
approve
of the
president’s
job
performance,
almost
twice
that
number,
46 per
cent,
strongly
disapprove.
According
to
Rasmussen,
65 per
cent of
voters
believe
the
United
States
is going
down the
wrong
track,
including
70 per
cent of
independents.
. . .
"Can it
get any
worse
for
President
Obama?
Undoubtedly
yes.
Here are
10 key
reasons
why the
Obama
presidency
is in
serious
trouble,
and why
its
prospects
are
unlikely
to
improve
between
now and
the
November
mid-terms.
"1.
The
Obama
presidency
is out
of touch
with the
American
people .
. .
"2.
Most
Americans
don’t
have
confidence
in the
president’s
leadership
. . .
"3.
Obama
fails to
inspire
. . .
"4.
The
United
States
is
drowning
in debt
. . .
"5.
Obama’s
Big
Government
message
is
falling
flat . .
.
"6.
Obama’s
support
for
socialised
health
care is
a huge
political
mistake
. . .
"7.
Obama’s
handling
of the
Gulf oil
spill
has been
weak-kneed
and
indecisive
. . .
"8.
US
foreign
policy
is an
embarrassing
mess
under
the
Obama
administration
. . .
"9.
President
Obama is
muddled
and
confused
on
national
security
. . .
"10.
Obama
doesn’t
believe
in
American
greatness
. . .
"There
is a
distinctly
Titanic-like
feel to
the
Obama
presidency
and it’s
not hard
to see
why. The
most
left-wing
president
in
modern
American
history
has
tried to
force a
highly
interventionist,
government-driven
agenda
that
runs
counter
to the
principles
of free
enterprise,
individual
freedom,
and
limited
government
that
have
made the
United
States
the
greatest
power in
the
world,
and the
freest
nation
on
earth.
"This,
combined
with
weak
leadership
both at
home and
abroad
against
the
backdrop
of
tremendous
economic
uncertainty
in an
increasingly
dangerous
world,
has
contributed
to a
spectacular
political
collapse
for a
president
once
thought
to be
invincible.
America
at its
core
remains
a deeply
conservative
nation,
which
cherishes
its
traditions
and
founding
principles.
President
Obama is
increasingly
out of
step
with the
American
people,
by
advancing
policies
that
undermine
the
United
States
as a
global
power,
while
undercutting
America’s
deep-seated
love for
freedom."
8/12/10
A Fraud
Exposed
and
Ignored
James C.
Capretta,
NationalReviewOnline
“'Law
Will Extend Medicare Fund, Report
Says,' was
the New York Times headline. 'Medicare Funds to Last 12 Years
Longer Than Earlier Forecast, Report
Says,'
was the similar take of the Washington Post. Those two stories
were upbeat summaries of what
the
latest report on Medicare’s long-term financial outlook supposedly
revealed.
"But was
that really the most newsworthy headline here?
"How about the fact that
the person who compiled all of the data for this report, and knows its
contents better than anyone else, utterly repudiated its findings?
"That’s right. Richard
Foster, the chief actuary of the Medicare program and the man responsible
for overseeing the production of the data which forms the basis of this
annual report’s forecast, has advised the public — in his official
“Statement of Actuarial Opinion” printed at the end of the trustees’ report
— not to believe any of the modestly rosy conclusions contained within it.
"It’s hard to overstate
the importance of this development. Here is the president’s point man for
assessing the financial status of Medicare declaring that much of the
claimed benefits for Medicare from the recently passed health-care law —
benefits that the president himself
again touted on Saturday — are not to be believed. You’d think it might
be news if the top expert in government
essentially said the president of the United States was basing his public
assertions on one of the most important issues of the day on flawed and
misleading data. But apparently not.
"Foster and his staff
began exposing the fraudulent nature of the Medicare claims months ago. In
their
April analysis of the final health-care legislation, they agreed with
the Congressional Budget Office and every other commonsense person that the
same dollar can’t be spent twice. If the Medicare cuts in Obamacare are to
be believed (a big “if”), they could be used to improve Medicare’s financial
outlook, or to pay for another entitlement program, but not both. But of
course Obamacare’s apologists continue to argue that both were
financed by the Medicare cuts. The unfortunate consequence of this duplicity
is that, eventually, taxpayers will be left holding the bag. At some point,
they will be asked to pay higher taxes to finance Medicare spending as well
as a new entitlement for health insurance, both of which were supposedly
covered by the Medicare cuts.
"But it’s actually far
worse than just that. As Foster notes, the Medicare cuts upon which the
president’s claims of additional Medicare solvency rest are so absurdly
unrealistic that they can hardly be taken seriously at all. Despite all of
the talk of painless “delivery-system reform” in Medicare, the big cuts
come, as usual, from arbitrary and deep across-the-board payment-rate
reductions for hospitals and other institutional providers of care.
"Each year, these
institutions get an inflation increase in their payment rates, to reflect a
rise in their input costs. Under Obamacare, those inflation increases will
now be cut by an amount averaging a little over a half of a percentage point
every year, in perpetuity. The compounding effect of cuts of this size is
truly massive, and entirely implausible. As Foster and his colleagues
document in
an accompanying analysis released on the same day as the annual report,
these payment-rate reductions simply widen the gap between the cost of
providing care and what the government will pay. Even before the cuts become
operational, Medicare’s rates stand at only about 80 percent of what private
insurers must pay to secure access to care for patients. But under Obamacare,
by 2020, Medicare’s rates would have already fallen below 75 percent of
private insurers’ rates, and below what Medicaid pays as well. By the end of
the projection period, Medicare’s rates would cover only about one-third of
the payments that private insurers would be making to secure access to
services.
" "Obamacare’s apologists
would like Americans to believe they have set in motion a sophisticated and
carefully considered plan to slow cost growth in Medicare — and the rest of
the health system for that matter. But the truth is that all they have done
is put into law a formulaic requirement for deeper price cuts in Medicare.
That’s it. Presto! Problem solved!
"But of course, the
problem is not solved. Arbitrary price controls always and everywhere drive
out willing suppliers of services. Who will see Medicare patients at 33
cents on the dollar?"
8/12/10
Iranian
Rockers
Tear
Down
'The
Wall'
By Diane Macedo, FoxNews.com
"Blurred
Vision, formed in 2007 by brothers Sepp, 28, and Sohl, 35, who fled Iran with
their
family in 1986, was inspired to cover the classic tune after
watching protests in Iran unfold over the controversial reelection of Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"'We did a
show in Toronto in September and while we were performing we decided let's play
'Another Brick in the Wall' just for the hell of it and as the chorus line came
up I just decided to sing 'hey Ayatollah' instead of 'hey teacher' and when I
sang that line the crowd went insane,' Sepp told FoxNews.com.
"Blurred
Vision, formed in 2007 by brothers Sepp, 28, and Sohl, 35, who fled Iran with
their
family in 1986, was inspired to cover the classic tune after
watching protests in Iran unfold over the controversial reelection of Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"'We did a
show in Toronto in September and while we were performing we decided let's play
'Another Brick in the Wall' just for the hell of it and as the chorus line came
up I just decided to sing 'hey Ayatollah' instead of 'hey teacher' and when I
sang that line the crowd went insane,' Sepp told FoxNews.com. . . .
"The music video, which
includes images of violent clashes during last year's protests in Iran, has
garnered more than 250,000 views on
YouTube
. The song has also begun getting
radio play in Canada. But Sepp says it's the attention it's receiving in Iran
that moves the band the most. . . .
"The band denies any
affiliation with the U.S. government and Amnesty International confirmed to
FoxNews.com that the band donates most of its download proceeds to the human
rights organization. . . .
"'I think it's great that
these guys are using the song to protest against the repressive and brutal
regime in Iran,' Waters said on his Facebook page. 'I am proud to be a small
part of this resistance.' . . .
"'We truly believe that one
emboldened mind with knowledge is worth more than a million hands empowered by
wealth,' Sepp said. 'It's an ethos of the band that awareness can change the
world and music is our tool and platform to do that; and in my opinion it's
truly working because the dialogue has begun.'"
8/12/10
George
W. Bush
makes
surprise
visit to
U.S.
troops
Los
Angeles
Times,
by Andrew
Malcolm
"Former President
George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a surprise
visit to U.S. troops this afternoon.
"They showed up at the USO in
the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. There they mingled with the returning soldiers,
thanked them, chatted and posed for photos as proof of the unexpected encounter
for folks back home.
"The USO just posted an
assortment of the photos on its
Facebook page, which quickly drew a growing list of appreciative comments.
"'What an AWESOME moment,"
Robert Rowe wrote. 'If anyone can't see the President and First
Lady's love for our nations troops, they must be dead or blind. May God Bless
them ALL !' Richard Cruz wrote: "The look on that kid's face
says it all....'
"And Shirley Lovely
Fry added: 'A President and First Lady who love their country and their
country's military.'"
8/12/10
US
military
to urge
Barack
Obama to
slow
down
Afghanistan
withdrawal
By
Robert
Winnett,
Telegraph.co.uk
The US military
is to urge Barack Obama to slow down the withdrawal of troops from
Afghanistan, which is planned to start next year, it has emerged.
"General David Petraeus,
who took command of the
Afghan mission last month, is expected to use a series
of interviews next week to say the military needs time to complete its work
in the country. . . .
"Mr
Obama is expected to come under pressure in the run-up to the
2012 Presidential election for a rapid withdrawal of American troops. . .
"The military concerns
over the strategy in Afghanistan have emerged after fears were also raised
that the Americans are seeking to leave Iraq too quickly.
"The US
military
will end
combat
operations
in Iraq
at the
end of
this
month
and
troops
will
begin
returning
home.
However,
the head
of the
Iraqi
army
warned
on
Wednesday
that the
US army
was
needed
in the
country
for
another
decade.
. . .
"Counter-insurgency
experts
are
reported
to have
warned
that
they
have
only
begun
making
breakthroughs
in the
past 12
months –
despite
the US
mission
in
Afghanistan
beginning
in 2001.
. . .
"However,
senior
Democrat
politicians
are
pressuring
the
President
to
quickly
remove
tens of
thousands
of
troops
from
Afghanistan."
8/12/10
Silencing
the
citizen
soldier
The
Washington
Times
Justice
foot-dragging
disenfranchises
the
military
"The
lack of
transparency
on this
issue
makes it
difficult
to know
whether
the
Justice
Department
takes
seriously
the
right of
military
personnel
serving
overseas
to have
a say in
the way
our
government
is run.
Those
who risk
their
lives on
behalf
of this
country
should
not be
disenfranchised
because
the
administration
refuses
to do
its
job."
8/12/10
The Fix
for GOP?
Conservatism!
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
What
is the
Republican
Party
doing
that has
people
down on
it? In
this day
and
age. In
fact,
they're
benefiting
tremendously
from not
being
Democrats,
so what
are they
not
doing or
doing
that's
causing
this
problem?
And
what's
the
fix?
And you
and I
both
know the
fix.
The fix
is start
standing
for
something
and make
what
you're
standing
for
conservatism.
You want
to raise
that 24%
to over
50?
Then get
in line
with a
majority
of
people
in the
country.
Republicans
need to
forget
about
being
part of
the
ruling
class.
And
remember
what the
purpose
of their
existence
in
government
is.
This is
in the
Wall
Street
Journal,
this
word
"grim"
is in
their
own
story of
their
own
poll,
"Grim
Voter
Mood
Turns
Grimmer,"
is the
Wall
Street
Journal
report
on their
own
poll.
"Pessimism
Rises on
Economy
and War;
Bad
Reviews
for Both
Democrats
and
GOP."
There's
nothing
the
Democrats
can do.
They're
in
charge.
The
Democrats
can't do
diddly-squat
to help
themselves.
By their
very
existence,
with
total
unchecked
power,
they are
doing
themselves
damage
that
can't be
stopped
and
can't be
reversed.
The only
option
they
have --
Karl
Rove
points
this out
in his
column
today in
the Wall
Street
Journal
-- the
only
option
they
have is
bashing
Bush,
and
that's
not a
good
one, but
it's the
best one
they've
got.
They
cannot
point to
anything
they've
done
with
pride.
In fact,
they're
being
told not
to
brag.
They're
being
told not
to run
on their
accomplishments.
Why is
that?
Because
they
know
that
nobody
wants
them!
Nobody wanted health care as we have it; nobody wanted the Porkulus;
nobody
wants
the
financial
regulatory
reform
bill;
nobody
wants
the way
Democrats
are
doing
things.
So there
remains
a huge
opportunity
for
Republicans
to
contrast
who they
are, and
all
they'd
have to
do is
start
espousing
the
values
and
principles
of our
founding.
And keep
in mind
as is in
the case
with
every
poll,
every
poll
they
oversampled
Democrats.
So there
are far
more
Democrats
in this
poll
than
there
are
Democrats
in the
country.
And that
happens
practically
with
every
pollster.
Bill
Clinton,
Barack
Obama
told the
Democrats:
run on
health
care,
vote for
health
care,
vote for
it.
Remember
Clinton
running
around
telling
these
guys at
meetings,
(imitating
Clinton)
"Hey,
you
know, I
lost
Congress
in 1994,
you know
why? We
lost it
'cause
we did
not pass
health
care.
If I had
stuck
with
that, if
we'd
passed
that,
then
that
Newt
Gingrich
revolution
wouldn't
have
happened.
Now, you
sit out
there
and you
don't
fall for
this
notion
of
voting
for this
is gonna
hurt
you.
Voting
for
health
care is
the only
thing,
the best
thing
you can
do to
help
yourself."
And now
what?
Now they voted for it. And is Clinton out there saying, "Now, stand up
for
yourselves,
go out
there
and run
for
reelection.
It's
like I
told
you, I
told you
this the
only way
to save
yourself,
you vote
for
health
care,
you run
out
there
and you
tell
everybody
you
did."
No.
They're
getting
letters
from
Clinton
and
Hillary
and
Begala
and
everybody
else.
(imitating
Clinton)
"By the
way,
when
you're
on our
campaign,
don't
start
bragging
about
your
support
for
health
care,
don't
even
mention
you
voted
for it.
It's not
something
we want
to talk
about
right
now.
And
don't
talk
about
financial
regulatory
reform
bill.
In fact,
just
don't
say one
thing
about
anything
you've
done.
Just
bash
Bush."
It's all
they
got.
Golden
opportunity
here for
the
Republicans.
But they
sit
there
and
they're
just
gonna
try to
take
what
comes
their
way by
not
doing
anything.
8/12/10
This Is
Recovery
Summer?
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Video
Obama's claim
that the worst is over flies in the face of economic reality
8/11/10
Buying
Union
Votes
With
Food
Stamps
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Corruption:
In an election year in which Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress
are threatened, no price is too high for extra votes — even if it means taking
from the poor.
"What do you do when a
trillion-plus dollars in "job-creating" stimulus fails to create jobs? Pass more
stimulus — telling the people not to worry, that this time it's only $26
billion. . . .
"[W]hat President Obama signed
into law this week was not just good taxpayer money thrown after bad.
"This was not, as the
president claimed, about 'saving the jobs of teachers and other essential
professionals.' It was about using taxpayer money to pay off teacher union
bosses, reward them for past political favors and get the vote out for Democrats
this year. . . .
"Ryan points out that the goal
of this added stimulus is 'not incentives for small business and private-sector
job creation. The goal here is very clear: public-sector job creation,' he told
Fox News' Neil Cavuto.
"As Ryan put it, 'taxpayers
from frugal states are basically bailing out taxpayers from profligate states.'
. . .
"This $26 billion bailout is about
political power that buttresses big government, not educating kids or
maintaining police and fire department services. Because of that dishonest
facade, the president and Congress have actually been able to raid the
food-stamp program to fund their Democratic Party vote-buying scheme.
"Some $12 billion will be
swiped from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which assists 41
million poor Americans.
"Can you imagine the uproar if
Republicans raided food stamps for, say, tax cuts? Yet cutting taxes would be a
real 'jobs bill.' And it would be worth taking away some peoples' food stamps if
it resulted in them getting a good job in a troubled economy.
"Why not let food-stamp
recipients trade in their federal Electronic Benefits Transfer card for a public
employees union membership card? Or, better, why not build an economy that
creates real jobs?"
8/11/10
57% of Likely Voters Describe Democratic Congressional Agenda As Extreme
Rasmussen Reports
8/11/10
Blame Barney Frank for the Recession Not George Bush
Big Government
"The progressive Democrats in power must believe that the citizens of
this country are absolute morons, either that or they haven’t read a
newspaper in two years and don’t realize that George Bush is no longer
president. The Democratic party plans on retaining their change message for
their 2010. Their new tag line is 'vote for us, or its back to the bad old
economic policies of George Bush.' That’s right Barack Obama and his
progressive majority are going to campaign as if they were all still in
kindergarten 'Its not my fault….blame Bush.'
"Not only is that approach childish, but it belies the truth. Allow me to
suggest that the policies of Barney Frank had more to do with the bursting
of the housing bubble, the resulting bank crisis and the “great recession,”
than the policies of George Bush. Led by Frank the Democratic party brought
down the banking industry by forcing banks to give loans to people who
couldn’t afford them, then he blunted the Republican attempts to regulate
the industry.
"Frank aggressively fought
reform efforts by the Bush administration. He told
The New York Times on Sept. 11, 2003, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s
problems were “exaggerated.” Exaggerated? Thanks to Fannie and Freddie the
housing market collapsed and we fell into this “great recession.”. . .
"When the housing bubble
finally burst Mr. Frank called for prosecution of the people who caused the
banking crisis, he should have looked in the mirror.
"Barney Frank got away with
his housing bubble hypocrisy and is still getting away with it. Fannie and
Freddie are still
asking the public for money, the economy is still in the toilet and the
Democratic Party is still blaming President Bush.
"While there were plenty of
problems with George Bush’s policies, this recession has more to do with the
policies of the progressive Democrats, than those of the former president. In
fact, if the POTUS and his progressive lemmings were to be truthful, they should
be blaming Barney Frank because when you examine what happened Frank is the one
blocked the regulation of Fannie and Freddie and it was Frank who kept saying
over and over there is no housing crisis."
8/11/10
Obama’s Imperial Presidency Bill McCollum, National Review
Online
On immigration,
the White House is trampling constitutional principles.
"In
the words of our second president: We are a
government of laws, not of men. This key principle, which places our
Constitution above our leaders, set
young America apart from the governments of monarchical Europe. Regrettably,
President Obama is endangering this venerable tradition by deliberately and
systematically seeking to expand executive power well beyond its proper
boundaries. In the process, he is trampling both the
constitutional authority of
Congress and the sovereign rights of
the states.
"This bold power
grab is directed at immigration, which is predominantly a domestic-policy
matter, where unilateral presidential authority is inherently weak. Obama’s
efforts appear to be driven by crass political considerations, making them
all the more unprecedented and unfortunate.
"The principles of separation
of powers and federalism comprise the foundation of America’s constitutional
structure. Separation of powers enables Congress to play a dominant role in
domestic affairs and the president to enjoy robust authority in military and
foreign affairs. Federalism limits the authority of the federal government
and allows the states to wield ample police powers. The Obama
administration’s immigration policy provides a vivid example of blatant
disregard for separation of powers and federalism. . . .
"President Obama’s actions are
unlike anything the American people have seen before. Indeed, they are in an
entirely different category than the actions of previous presidents, which
were undertaken largely in wartime and prompted by grave challenges posed by
foreign enemies. It was during times like these that robust assertions of
executive power were most appropriate. The famous 'steel seizure' case, in
which President Truman tried to assert control over domestic steel
production by claiming labor strikes were impairing his ability to pursue
the Korean War successfully, was a high-water mark of such efforts, which
were invariably countered by resistance from Congress and the courts.
(President Truman lost his case.)
"Today, President Obama is striving to accomplish a great deal more than
President Truman ever dreamed of doing. He is disregarding a clear set of
statutory requirements contained in federal immigration law, and he is
greatly expanding presidential power — all without tackling a genuine
national-security threat. His unilateral effort to reshape America’s
immigration policy is eroding the separation of powers, evading checks and
balances, and destroying federalism. These actions are hostile to the core
of our Constitution.
"This president seems committed to running a government of men that rules
without regard for the law. A government of laws is what the Constitution
requires, and what the American people demand."
8/11/10
In
Netanyahu,
Israel
Has Its
Own
Churchill
George
Will.
Investor's
Business
Daily
"No two
leaders
of
democracies
are less
alike —
in life
experiences,
temperaments
and
political
philosophies
— than
Netanyahu,
the
former
commando
and
fierce
nationalist,
and
Barack
Obama,
the
former
professor
and
post-nationalist.
. . .
"Netanyahu,
his
focus
firmly
on Iran,
honors
Churchill
because
he did
not
flinch
from
facts
about
gathering
storms.
Obama
returned
to the
British
Embassy
in
Washington
the bust
of
Churchill
that was
in the
Oval
Office
when he
got
there. .
. .
"[Obama's]
Cairo
speech
came 10
months
after
Obama's
Berlin
speech
in which
he
declared
himself
a
'citizen
of the
world."'
That was
an
oxymoronic
boast,
given
that
citizenship
connotes
allegiance
to a
particular
polity,
its laws
and
political
processes.
But the
boast
resonated
in
Europe.
. . .
"No one
is less
a
transnational
progressive,
less a
post-nationalist,
than
Benjamin
Netanyahu,
whose
first
name is
that of
a son of
Jacob,
who
lived
perhaps
4,000
years
ago.
Netanyahu,
who no
one ever
called
cuddly,
once
said to
a U.S.
diplomat
10 words
that
should
warn
U.S.
policymakers
who hope
to make
Netanyahu
malleable:
'You
live in
Chevy
Chase.
Don't
play
with our
future.'"
8/11/10
The
Toyota
recall
that
never
should
have
been?
U.S.
study
finds
driver
error to
blame
for
crashes.
Mail
Online
"The US
Transportation
Department’s
probe
into the
incident
has
found
that in
more
than
half the
cases
drivers
were
probably
to blame
by
pressing
the
wrong
pedal.
Engineers
found
only one
instance
where an
accelerator
pedal
became
trapped
under a
floor
mat, and
none in
which a
pedal
became
stuck or
sprang
back too
slowly.
. . .
"Toyota
itself
has
carried
out an
internal
investigation
into the
problems
and
found
that,
contrary
to the
USTD
findings,
that
floor
mats can
trap the
accelerator
pedal,
and that
the
pedal
mechanism
can be
slow to
return
to its
non-depressed
position.
"The
recall
was to
enable
it to
rectify
these
problems.
8/10/10
The
Moderate
Imam
Behind
'Ground
Zero
Mosque'
Glenn
Beck
Show
Video
Religious
freedom
is one
thing,
but
should
we
investigate
Feisal
Abdul
Rauf's
intentions?
8/10/10
Group:
State
Department
Is Wrong
to
Sponsor
Imam
Trip
FoxNews.com
"The State
Department confirmed Tuesday that the administration is sponsoring Feisal Abdul
Rauf's trip to Qatar, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, which is described
as part of a program to send Muslims abroad to educate other countries about the
role of religion in the United States. Rauf made similar trips during the Bush
administration.
"Rauf and his
partners are preparing to build a $100 million Islamic center and mosque near
Ground Zero, the site of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks that left nearly
3,000 dead.
"The American
Center for Law and Justice objected after learning about the plans to sponsor
Rauf's upcoming trip. The group said it will file a protest letter with the
State Department demanding the government halt its sponsorship of the trip.
"'This shows
a tremendous lack of judgment on behalf of the State Department; and for the
American taxpayers to be funding this global journey is not only wrong, but
deeply offensive,' Jay Sekulow, chief counsel for the organization, said in a
written statement. 'It seems with each passing day we learn more disturbing
information about this project and the people behind it. We demand that the
State Department put a halt to the Imam's participation in this publicly funded
trip.'"
8/10/10
Behind The Ground Zero Mosque Investor's Business Daily
"Sacred Sites:
While a Greek Orthodox church is held up near ground zero, the Cordoba
Mosque is fast-tracked on property the developers don't own. Moderate
Muslims and Muslim victims of 9/11 say it's a provocation.
"Like the fabled
Trojan Horse, the Cordoba Mosque is touted as an offering of friendship
and a chance for us to show our tolerance. But its march toward
construction has been marked with deceit, fraud and double standards.
"Before Islamofascists
turned passenger jets into cruise missiles and toppled the World Trade
Center, mosques and Islamic cultural centers dotted America. Not a
single Christian church exists in Saudi Arabia. We've shown our
tolerance. We do not need to show our naivete. . . .
"The imam behind the
proposed mosque, Feisal Abdul Rauf, thinks dialogue between religions is
a waste of time. He is a fierce advocate of Shariah law and its
imposition on the West. He has refused to condemn Hamas as a terrorist
organization and is a key figure in the Malaysia-based Perdana Global
Peace Organization, which helped sponsor the six-ship flotilla that
tried to break Israel's blockade of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. . . .
"Canadian Muslims
Raheel Raza and Tarek Fatah, who sit on the board of the Muslim Canadian
Congress, wrote in the Ottawa Citizen of Aug. 7: 'We Muslims know that
the idea behind the ground zero mosque is meant to be a deliberate
provocation to thumb our noses at the infidel.' Or a 13-story middle
finger."
8/10/10
Video on
Immigration
Legislation
Working
its Way
Through
Congress
Lou
Dobbs,
CNN
"Among
absurd
provisions
[then
naming
several]
. . .
"Suckers."
8/10/10
Little,
Brown &
Biased
Investor's
Business
Daily
Subprime Scandal: The Democrat-run Financial Crisis
Inquiry Commission has retained a major publisher to help sell its false
narrative that Wall Street caused the housing crisis. Look for it in the
fiction section.
"With the facts aligning
against their predetermined, anti-market conclusion, Democrats are desperate for
a best-seller from Angelides. It's their key to maintaining control of the
debate and pushing for more federal regulations, including an expanded CRA.
"The Post in its story called
the report, due Dec. 15, an "authoritative account." Please. It's more a
whitewash of the role that government-mandated, affordable-housing quotas played
in the crisis, while giving blanket immunity to Clinton officials who set them.
"Such historic revisionism may
be soothing bedtime reading for Rep. Barney Frank and other guilty parties, but
a public hungry for the truth about how it lost trillions in wealth will be
cheated."
8/10/10
The U.S.
Senate
and
Shirley
Sherrod
"Which brings us up to today,
when two current events suddenly thrust this otherwise little-known case into
the spotlight. First,
the Senate stripped funding for the settlement out of an unrelated war
appropriations bill, as they had done several times in the past. Second,
it was revealed today that “A farm collective founded by Shirley Sherrod and
her husband that was forced out of business by the discriminatory practices
received a $13 million settlement as part of Pigford last year, just
before she was hired by the USDA.” . . .
"Forget about Shirley
Sherrod’s connection. Forget about the Senate not funding the settlement. There
will be plenty of pundits commenting on those aspects over the upcoming days.
"What I want to know is:
How can there be 86,000 legitimate claimants? . . .
"In the pdf version of the
government’s official 2007 Agricultural Census, Table 53 on page 646 shows that
there are exactly 39,697 African-American farmers grand total in the entire
nation."
8/10/10
Forty Acres & a Mule -- Sherrod Style?
Rosslyn Smith, Before Its News
"Shirley Sherrod's
quick dismissal from the Obama administration may have had less to do
with her comments on race before the NAACP than her long involvement in
the aptly named Pigford
case, a
class action against the
US government on behalf of
black
farmers alleging that the
US Department of Agriculture
(USDA) had discriminated against black farmers during the period from
1983 through 1997. . . .
"[A]ccording to
Agri-Pulse.com the number of total claims filed not only exceeded
the original estimate by almost 40 to 50 times, it is close to four
times the USDA's
estimate of 26,785 total black owned farms in 1977!
One reason for this is that the settlement applied to farmers and
those who "attempted to farm" and did not receive assistance from
the USDA. Getting the latest round of Pigford cases from the 2008
farm bill settled is said to be a high priority for the Obama
administration.
"So where does
Sherrod come into this picture? In a special to the
Washington Examiner,
Tom Blumer explains
that Sherrod and the
group she formed along with family members and others,
New Communities. Inc. received the largest single settlement under
Pigford. . . .
"What makes
this even more interesting to me is that Charles appears to be
Charles Sherrod,
who was a big player in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee in the early 1960s. The SNCC was the political womb
that nurtured the Black Power movement and the Black Panthers
before it faded away.
"Blumer has
some questions about this settlement and about Sherrod's rapid
departure from the USDA . . .
"I
ask because there are a multitude of small parcels of non
productive rural land all across the south, land unsuitable
for mechanized agriculture that was once owned by
subsistence farmers, black and white alike. Many of these
parcels continue to be owned by family members who moved
elsewhere out of sentimental reasons. The property taxes and
other carrying costs are cheap and often ancestors
are buried there in family plots. A drive on any country
road in the South may turn up several carefully maintained
postage stamp sized family cemeteries. As I read Blumer, I
wondered how many of the owners claimed they had attempted
to farm just such acreage to score a fast $50,000 from Uncle
Sam?"
8/10/10
Is the Senate becoming riper for a Republican takeover?
By
Linda Feldmann, The Christian Science Monitor
"Surging
challenges to two Democratic incumbents – Patty Murray in
Washington and Russ Feingold in Wisconsin – are a reason
that chances for Republican takeover of the US Senate may be
rising in Election 2010."
8/9/10
Soros
steps up
his war
against
American
energy
independence
Ed Lasky,
American Thinker
"George Soros is
continuing his assault on America's shale gas industry. His latest step is
to mobilize MoveOn.Org, a so-called 527 group that he liberally funds, to
join forces with the very left-wing Working Families Party of New York in an
effort to stop the process of hydrofracking: a crucial , and safe,
technology used to tap our nation's abundant natural gas reserves: . . .
"MoveOn is following the
agenda of George Soros. He wants shale gas -- a vast, easily tapped resource
located on-shore throughout large swaths of America -- to be plugged up.
This helps his big
financial interest in the Brazilian petroleum company Petrobras, the
Australian-based InterOil corporation, and the billion dollars he is pouring
into 'renewable' energy schemes. I covered Soros and his
schemes regarding shale gas
(Cheap Natural Gas and its Democratic Enemies ; Cheap Natural Gas and
Its Enemies;
Harry Reid Pulls a Fast One to
Sabotage Shale Gas Development).
Soros also has pulled in his billionaire pals, Herbert and Marion Sandler
(profiteers from the
savings and loan disaster) who have founded and funded their own media
outfit, Pro Publica, that is purportedly a non-partisan investigative group.
Pro Publica has for some odd reason focused much of its efforts on
disparaging the shale gas industry.
"There seems to be a
concerted effort among George Soros and the Sandlers (who have cooperated
also in founding and funding the Center for American Progress -- a big
promoter of cap and tax and clean energy schemes) and their pet groups,
MoveOn.Org and Pro Publica, to derail America's most promising domestic
energy resource: shale gas."
8/9/10
Still Oblivious To Meltdown's Cause Investor's Business Daily
"Despite repeated efforts
in Congress by Republicans to reform Fannie and Freddie in 2001, 2003, 2004,
2005 and 2007, powerful Democrats refused to cooperate. And Fannie and
Freddie continued to feed the housing bubble with trillions of dollars in
publicly guaranteed money — until it was too late.
"And they're still doing
so. Even today, nine of 10 new mortgages are backed by Fannie and Freddie,
and the two GSEs account for more than half the $10.7 trillion in mortgages
outstanding.
"Fingerprints of the CRA,
Fannie and Freddie, and the politicians who used them, are all over this
monstrous fiscal crime. Yet, even as this government failure has been
definitively revealed through painstaking research, the Obama administration
has weirdly insisted that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac still deserve our
support.
"Last August, the
Congressional Budget Office predicted that Fannie and Freddie could cost us
$389 billion over the next decade. But others say the bill could be as much
as $1 trillion. Yet neither Fannie nor Freddie was addressed in the
so-called financial reform bill that President Obama just signed.
"That's what makes the
situation in the rolling hills and inland valleys east of San Francisco and
Los Angeles even sadder. Not only could their tragedies and others like them
have been avoided, but we're still using trillions of taxpayer dollars to
put people into houses they can't afford, artificially propping up housing
prices.
"This is only the latest
example of how big government, with the best of intentions but not a
particle of common sense or competence, ends up hurting the very people it
sets out to help. Without learning from this one, it certainly won't be the
last."
8/9/10 'We
socialists'
vs. 'we
the
people'
By
Tony
Blankley,
The
Washington
Times
Americans are readying to reclaim their birthright of liberty
"[T]he
gap
between
the
consciousness
of "we
socialists"
and "we
the
people"
can be
seen in
the
assertion
by some
liberals
recently
that the
president's
collapse
in the
polls is
part of
this
current
reaction
to
events
is but a
passing
thing.
If they
think
that,
they
understand
nothing
of the
forces
they
have
unleashed
by their
tragically
imprudent
effort
to
fundamentally
transform
our
country.
. . .
"A year ago, it seemed
possible that a majority of Americans - rattled by economic collapse and under
the sway of a popular, charismatic president - might buy in to plans to
fundamentally transform America away from liberty, prosperity and greatness and
toward security and a massive, protective state. At first, many of us were
hesitant to speak out when we thought we might be but a few. (Of course, some of
us saw what was coming and spoke out before the 2008 election. See my columns
from the spring, summer and fall of '08.)
"But as the first details of
the transformation were revealed to the nation - in Obamacare, the stimulus,
bailouts, nationalizations and running roughshod over the Constitution - it
became clear that the price for security turned out to be our birthright of
liberty. Americans were not that rattled.
"Now that we who cling to our
liberty know we are a majority - and potentially a very large majority - we are
aroused to the defense of our ancient rights - and we will not slacken in our
efforts until that repulsive plan for transformation has been expurgated from
the body politic - to quote Franklin D. Roosevelt - 'so help us God.'"
8/9/10
EDITORIAL:
Immigration
enforcement
on ICE
The
Washington
Times
Federal agents protest border inaction by the Obama administration
"America's front-line
defenders against illegal immigration want to do their jobs, but they say the
Obama administration is practicing unilateral disarmament.
"The National Immigration and
Customs Enforcement Council and its affiliated local councils, which represents
rank-and-file ICE officers, unanimously approved a no-confidence motion on U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director John Morton and Assistant
Director Phyllis Coven. A letter announcing the 259-0 vote said that ICE leaders
are pursuing "misguided and reckless initiatives" and that ICE managers
'abandoned the Agency's core mission of enforcing United States immigration laws
and providing for public safety, and have instead directed their attention to
campaigning for policies and programs related to amnesty.'
"This is unprecedented
criticism of the agency tasked with protecting America's borders and
guaranteeing that only legal immigrants enjoy the benefits of living in the
United States. The message from front-line professionals is that President
Obama's hand-picked political appointees are ignoring their statutory
obligations to enforce the law in favor of the administration's policy of
calculated neglect.
"This vote comes on the heels
of an 11-page memo from the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services
detailing the "Administrative alternatives to comprehensive immigration reform"
that would result in reducing the "threat of removal" for thousands of
"individuals present in the United States without authorization." The memo
revealed the extraordinary and unprecedented lengths to which the Obama
administration is going in order to protect millions of people who are in
violation of federal law.
"Another reason for concern is
the recent appointment of Harold Hurtt as the head of ICE's office of state and
local coordination. The mission of his charge is to increase cooperation between
federal immigration efforts and state and local law enforcement. Mr. Hurtt,
however, is a poor choice for fostering any type of constructive collaboration.
While serving as police chief in Phoenix and Houston, Mr. Hurtt implemented
policies and procedures that created de-facto sanctuary cities."
8/9/10
EDITORIAL:
A
pattern
of
misconduct
at
Justice
The
Washington
Times
Black Panther case is no shot in the dark
8/9/10
What
were the
dreams
of your
father?
Glenn
Beck
Show
Segment
Today
"Maybe
he
wanted
you to
go to
college,
because
he
didn't
even
graduate
from
high
school.
He
probably
wanted
something
better
for you
than he
had.
Maybe he
wanted
to start
his own
business
and be
his own
boss.
Maybe he
wanted
to take
your
mother
to
Europe
or South
America
on a
dream
vacation.
Maybe he
just
wanted
to
retire
with
enough
money to
make his
golden
years
comfortable,
enjoy
his
grandchildren
and go
fishing?
"Even if those weren't the
dreams of your father, they're probably dreams that you can at least relate to,
as an American. Chances are your father didn't dream of leaving his
family
and two-year-old toddler behind to continue his education at an Ivy League
school, so that he could take that American government-paid education back to
his home country, along with a woman he picked up in Boston who would become his
third wife, to encourage his nation to drop the newfangled socialism being
promoted, in favor of old-style Soviet Marxism.
"How many of our fathers had
that dream? There's only one that I can think of. Of
course, the dreams of Barack Obama's father were a little more
complicated than that, but essentially that's what Barack Obama, Sr., did. He
fought against the 'African socialism' advocated by pro-Western 'Third Way'
leader Tom Mboya and the president of Kenya, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and in favor of
the communist-allied leader Jaramogi Oginga Odinga."
8/8/10
Victims
of
massacre
in
northern
Afghanistan
had
given
years of
service
to
Afghans
FoxNews.com
"One
gave up
a
lucrative
practice
to give
free
dental
care to
children
who had
never
seen a
toothbrush.
Others
had
devoted
whole
decades
of their
lives to
helping
the
Afghan
people
through
war and
deprivation.
"The years of service ended in
a hail of bullets in a remote valley of a land that members of the medical team
had learned to love.
"The bodies of the 10 slain
volunteers - six Americans, two Afghans, a German and a Briton - were flown
Sunday back to Kabul by helicopter, even as friends and family bitterly rejected
Taliban claims the group had tried to convert Afghans to Christianity."
8/8/10
Across
Nation,
Mosque
Projects
Meet
Opposition
Laurie Goodstein,
The New York Times
"While a high-profile battle rages over a
mosque near ground zero in Manhattan, heated confrontations have also broken
out in communities across the country where mosques are proposed for far less
hallowed locations. . . .
"At one time, neighbors who
did not want mosques in their backyards said their concerns were over traffic,
parking and noise — the same reasons they might object to a church or a
synagogue. But now the gloves are off.
"In all of the recent
conflicts, opponents have said their problem is Islam itself. They quote
passages from the Koran and argue that even the most Americanized Muslim
secretly wants to replace the Constitution with
Islamic Shariah law.
"These local skirmishes make
clear that there is now widespread debate about whether the best way to uphold
America’s democratic values is to allow Muslims the same religious freedom
enjoyed by other Americans, or to pull away the welcome mat from a faith seen as
a singular threat. . . .
"'I do believe everybody has a
right to freedom of religion,' she said. 'But Islam is not about a religion.
It’s a political government, and it’s 100 percent against our Constitution.' . .
.
[Contrary view:] "'A lot of Muslims
came to the U.S. because they respect the Constitution,' she said. 'There’s no
conflict with the U.S. Constitution in Shariah law. If there were, Muslims
wouldn’t be living here.'”
8/8/10
Boehner:
End to
Birthright
Citizenship
'Worth
Considering'
FoxNews.com
8/8/10
Time to
admit
Obamanomics
has
failed
WashingtonExaminer.com
"Romer
is best
known
for
drafting
the
February
2009
report
'The Job
Impact
of the
American
Recovery
and
Reinvestment
Plan,'
which
the
White
House
used as
an
ammunition
belt in
the
fight to
gain
passage
of its
$862
billion
economic
stimulus
bill
(the
actual
cost of
which
exceeds
$1
trillion
when
interest
is
included).
Romer
predicted
that
following
passage
of the
stimulus
bill,
unemployment
would
plateau
below 8
percent
last
fall and
by this
month
register
at 7
percent.
That's
not
close
enough
for
government
work, as
unemployment
stands
at 9.5
percent
today.
It would
be
higher
except
that
hundreds
of
thousands
of
frustrated
job
seekers
have
given up
looking
for new
jobs and
dropped
out of
the
labor
force.
"Predictably,
the
stimulus
bill has
proven
to be an
extraordinary
waste of
borrowed
money
that has
failed
to
create
jobs,
generate
economic
growth
or do
much of
anything
other
than
line the
pockets
of White
House
political
allies.
That and
give
$308
million
in
subsidies
to BP
before
the Gulf
oil
spill
disaster,
and
subsidize
a study
on what
happens
when
monkeys
snort
coke.
"As
Romer
fades
back to
her
teaching
post at
Berkeley,
Obama is
adding
to the
economic
misery
by
creating
an
environment
of
regulatory
uncertainty.
The Wall
Street
reform
law
Obama
recently
signed
potentially
requires
533 new
regulations,
60
studies
and 93
reports,
according
to the
U.S.
Chamber
of
Commerce.
Obama's
Environmental
Protection
Agency
has 29
active
rulemakings,
and
there
are 100
new
rules on
the
Labor
Department's
agenda
and 26
at the
Transportation
Department.
"Add
Obama's
determination
to raise
everybody's
taxes by
allowing
the Bush
cuts
from
2001 and
2003 to
expire
Jan. 1,
2011,
and it's
easy to
why
banks,
businesses
and
consumers
are
hoarding
trillions
of
dollars
that
could
otherwise
spur
economic
growth.
And we
haven't
even
addressed
the
destructive
effect
on
economic
growth
of
Obama's
nationalization
of major
portions
of the
economy,
including
the
banks,
health
care and
the auto
industry.
"The
economy
is
stalling,
unemployment
seems
stuck at
European
levels
of
idleness,
the
federal
deficit
and the
national
debt are
at
historic
highs,
public
confidence
in
Congress
is at
its
lowest-ever
level
and big
majorities
of
Mainstream
Americans
say
Obama
has the
country
on the
wrong
path.
Obamanomics
has
failed
miserably
and it's
time for
everybody
in this
town to
admit it
so we
can move
on."
8/8/10
Establishment
Press
Ignores
Counterpunch
Accusations
That
Sherrods
Mistreated
Workers
at New
Communities
By
Tom
Blumer,
NewsBusters
8/8/10
Weatherman
or
Weather
Underground
A Guide
to the
Political
Left,
DiscoverTheNetworks.org
[Glenn
Beck
calls
DiscoverTheNetworks
a
"fantastic"
resource]
"Weatherman
(known
colloquially
as The
Weathermen)
was a
political
faction
elected
in 1968
to lead
the
radical
group
Students
for a
Democratic
Society
(SDS)*. .
. [T]he
most
militant
wing of
the
SDS’s
Revolutionary
Youth
Movement,
the
fledgling
Weatherman
issued a
'manifesto'
eschewing
nonviolence
and
calling
instead
for
armed
opposition
to U.S.
policies;
advocating
the
overthrow
of
capitalism;
exhorting
white
radicals
to
trigger
a
worldwide
revolution
by
fighting
in the
streets
of the
'mother
country';
and
proclaiming
that the
time had
come to
launch a
race war
against
the
'white'
United
States
on
behalf
of the
non-white
Third
World. .
. .
"FBI
files
from
1976,
recently
made
public
under
the
Freedom
of
Information
Act,
confirm
the
connections
between
Weatherman,
Castro's
Cuba, and
Moscow.
. . .
In March
1970 the
organization
issued a
'Declaration
of a
State of
War'
against
the
United
States
government,
using
for the
first
time its
new
name,
the
'Weather
Underground
Organization'
(WUO),
adopting
fake
identities,
and pledging
to
pursue covert
activities
only.
"Shortly after that Declaration was made public, three members of the
Weather
Underground
accidentally
killed
themselves
in a
Manhattan
townhouse
while
attempting
to build
a
powerful
bomb
they had
intended
to plant
at a
social
dance in
Fort
Dix, New
Jersey
-- an
event
that was
to be
attended
by U.S.
Army
soldiers. Hundreds
of lives
could
have
been
lost had
the plot
been
successfully
executed.
"The
Weather
Underground
went on
to claim
credit
for some
25
bombings
over the
next
several
years,
detonating
explosives
at the
rebuilt
Haymarket
statue,
a
bathroom
at the
Pentagon,
the
Capitol
barber
shop,
the New
York
City
police
headquarters,
and a
variety
of other
targets.
. . .
"The
Weather
Undergound
aspired
to take
over the
U.S.
government
and
establish
re-education
camps
in the
American
southwest;
the
organization
estimated
that it
would be
necessary
to kill
some 25
million
people
"die-hard
capitalist[s]'
who
could
not be
reformed.
"By the
time the
U.S.
withdrew
its
military
forces
from
Vietnam
in 1975,
the
Weather
Underground
was
clearly
losing vitality
as an
organization,
having
failed
to
invigorate
a new
radical
movement
in the
U.S. or
to
inspire
an
all-out
war
against
the
government. In
the wake
of
President
Jimmy
Carter's
amnesty
for
draft
dodgers,
members
of the
group
began to
emerge
from
hiding. Many
were
never
prosecuted;
others
had
their
convictions
overturned.
Some,
like
Rudd
[Mark
William
Rudd, currently
a
mathematics
professor
at a New
Mexico
community
college],
Dohrn
[Weatherman
leader
Bernardine
Dohrn,
currently
a law
professor
at
Northwestern
University
and a
Board
member
of the
ACLU)],
and
Ayers [Bill
Ayers,
now a
Professor
of
Education
at the
University
of
Illinois],
claimed
places
for
themselves
in
academia,
while
others
attempted
to
return
to the
mainstream."
*"Students
for a
Democratic
Society
(SDS)
was a
radical organization
that
aspired
to
overthrow
America's
democratic
institutions,
remake
its
government
in a
Marxist
image,
and help
America's
enemies
defeat
her sons
on the
battlefield
in
Vietnam.
The
group
developed
from the
Student
League
for
Industrial
Democracy,
the
youth
branch
of the
socialist
League
for
Industrial
Democracy."
[From a
different
page of
the same
Web site
cited
above.]
8/7/10
Israel
versus
Iran
By
Robert
P.
Barnidge
Jr.,
The
Washington
Times
Would a first strike be lawful?
"With
CIA Director
Leon Panetta's June 27 conclusion that sanctions will "probably not" dent
Iran's
drive for a 'nuclear option' and former
CIA Director
Michael Hayden's recent statement on
CNN that a strike on
Iran
now 'seems inexorable,' the storm clouds of war seem to be circling in the
Middle East once again. An Israeli strike may or may not be in the cards, with
the acquiescence, if only privately, of some Arab states and others, but the
question nevertheless arises: Would an Israeli strike on
Iran
necessarily be unlawful?
"According to international
law, armed force can be used only in two exceptional situations. These are when
the U.N.
Security Council has authorized it and when a state acts in self-defense, to
quote Article 51 of the
U.N.
Charter, if an armed attack occurs.'
"There is no suggestion that
the
Security Council has authorized the use of force against
Iran.
Rather, the question is whether an Israeli strike on
Iran
could be justified on self-defense grounds."
8/7/10
The
Left’s
War on
the Army
Continued:
Soldier
in
Uniform
Refused
Service
in
Supermarket
by
Michael
van der
Galien,
David
Horowitz's
News
Real
Blog
"Sapper Anthony Walls, of
the 21 Engineer Regiment, went to
the Co-op in Croydon to buy beer after a gruelling 34-hour journey home from
Kandahar.
"The 27-year-old, said it
was his ‘first hour back in the real world’ after four-and-a-half months
helping build 'the most dangerous road in Afghanistan'.
"But when he arrived at
the till to pay he was met with a blank stare from the cashier, who refused
to serve him and called for her manager.
"The
store manager then told Sapper Walls
that he refused to serve him and that there was 'nothing' he 'could do about
it.' . . .
"This incident is yet more
proof that it’s time for the European Right to end the
Left‘s war on the armed forces –
now. We’ve allowed them to smear the army for too long a time. It’s time to
counter their propaganda and to name and shame them when they humiliate our
brave boys and girls who, after all, put their lives on the line for their
country and its allies."
8/6/10
Obama's
zealous
civil
rights
enforcer
gets
busy
By:
Byron York, WashingtonExaminer.com
"Perez is playing a leading
role in the Justice Department's lawsuit against Arizona's new immigration law.
He is promising a huge increase in prosecution of alleged hate crimes. He vows
to use 'disparate impact theory' to pursue discrimination cases where there is
no intent to discriminate but a difference in results, such as in test scores or
mortgage lending, that Perez wants to change. He is even considering a crackdown
on Web sites on the theory that the Internet is a 'public accommodation' as
defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
"To do all this, Perez has
come up with some novel ideas. For example, in a recent lending discrimination
case, he forced the defendant -- who settled the case without admitting any
wrongdoing -- to pay not only the alleged victims but to
funnel $1 million to unrelated 'qualified organizations' to conduct social
programs.
"Perez is pushing just as hard
on smaller issues. In a little-noticed move last year, he threatened several
universities because they took part in an experimental program to allow students
to use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks. At the time, the Kindle was not fully
accessible to blind students, and under pressure from Perez the schools agreed
not to offer the e-reader to any students until it was fully accessible to all.
. . .
"Heading the Civil Rights
Division is the opportunity of a lifetime for Perez. A former aide to the late
Sen. Ted Kennedy, he was an activist and later a councilman in Montgomery
County, Md., where he made a name for himself pushing in-state tuition and
drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants. Now, he's on a much bigger stage."
8/6/10
The Zealot heading up the DOJ's Civil Rights Division
Ed Lasky,
American Thinker
"As Perez [see the article
above] continues his campaign of advocacy (more appropriate for left-wing
advocacy groups, as York notes) he will bring disrepute on his office. After a
while, Americans will tire of being called 'racists' and his zealotry will
boomerang. Americans will be more divided than ever before as Perez and company
separates us into favored groups and disfavored groups.
"Is this a job requirement
for officials in the Obama administration? We certainly see a raft of new laws
passed by Congress and signed by Obama that follow this agenda (ObamaCare; Fin
Reg; the new Consumer Agency-all have provisions mandating preferences for
minorities). What happened to the candidate who promised to unite us? That pose
vanished once Obama moved into the Oval Office.
"Businesses will tire of
being slapped with lawsuit after lawsuit-and send jobs overseas. People will be
tired of being slurred as being biased and will send their votes to people who
take a more rational view of America. We have had enough guilt trips. That
mentality might be pervasive on college campuses and left-wing salons but
doesn't play well in Peoria.
"After awhile (and I think
this time is fast approaching) Americans will tire of being condemned as cowards
when it comes discussing race . We will seek leaders who are proud to be
Americans (unlike Michelle Obama, now spending taxpayer dollars at a deluxe
resort in Marbella) and who do not view our nation as a land of benighted
bigots."
8/6/10
Chinese
'Carrier-Killer'
Missile
Could
Reshape
Sea
Combat
FoxNews.com
"China is developing an
unprecedented new missile that is designed to be launched from land with enough
accuracy to penetrate the defenses of even the most advanced moving aircraft
carrier from a distance of more than 900 miles, sources say.
"Initial reports on the new
missile suggest it could reshape conflicts at sea, but U.S. weapons experts told
FoxNews.com that it's no game-changer, nor a revolutionary threat to America's
aircraft carriers -- which are the center of U.S. Pacific defense strategy.
"'Some have called it a game-changer. I would dispute that claim,' said
Toshi Yoshihara, an associate professor at the
U.S. Naval War College.
"When complete, the Dong Feng
21D -- a version of which was displayed last year in a Chinese military parade
-- would give China the ability to reach and hit U.S. aircraft carriers well
before the U.S. can get close enough to the mainland to hit back.
"A nuclear bomb could
theoretically sink a carrier, too, assuming its sender was willing to raise the
stakes to atomic levels. The conventionally armed DF 21D's uniqueness is its
ability to hit a powerfully defended moving target with pinpoint precision.
"'The emerging Chinese
anti-ship missile capability, and in particular the DF 21D, represents the first
post-Cold War capability that is both potentially capable of stopping our naval
power projection -- and deliberately designed for that purpose,' said Patrick
Cronin, senior director of the Asia-Pacific Security Program at the nonpartisan,
Washington-based Center for a
New American Security. . . .
"'If those missiles can reach
carriers in the open ocean, they can target critical naval bases all along the
Pacific Rim,' Yoshihara said.
"'That challenges the basic principle of American power projections in
the Far East.'"
8/6/10
States
respond
in
health
care
overhaul
lawsuit
Jennifer
Kay,
Yahoo!
News,
Associated
Press
"Twenty
states
and the
nation's
most
influential
small
business
lobby
demanded
Friday
that a
federal
court in
Florida
hear
their
challenge
to
President
Barack
Obama's
health
care
overhaul
because
they
face
imminent
harm
from its
mandates.
. . .
"McCollum, a Republican
candidate for governor, is leading the legal challenge. Other states that have
joined the lawsuit are Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Indiana,
Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Texas, Utah and Washington.
"Virginia's attorney general
separately sued the government. A federal judge denied the Justice Department's
motion to have that case dismissed, saying the overhaul raises complex
constitutional issues.
"Missouri voters on Tuesday
overwhelmingly voted in
favor
of
a
state
measure to bar the government from requiring people to carry
health insurance and penalizing those who don't.
"In its motion to dismiss the
lawsuit filed in Florida, the Justice Department said the requirement to buy
coverage is an exercise of Congress' constitutional power to tax and spend."
8/6/10
Americans aren't buying Obama's unconstitutional health care law
By: Karen Harned, WashingtonExaminer.com
"The federal government’s
attempt to defend the constitutionality of the individual mandate, which forces
Americans to purchase health insurance whether they want to or not, is weak.
With no legal precedence to rely on, they have conveniently re-labeled the
controversial individual mandate as a tax, despite repeated assurances from the
president himself during the legislative debate that the mandate is absolutely
not a tax.
"The president has publicly
changed his position so drastically and now calls the individual mandate a tax
because he knows Congress does not have the authority to tell us what products
we must purchase simply because we are alive.
"The individual mandate, if
upheld in the courts under the Commerce Clause, would give Congress top-down
authority to dictate virtually every aspect of Americans’ lives, as consumers
and producers, and would transform our federal government from one of limited,
enumerated powers into one of limitless authority over states and their
citizens."
8/6/10
Voters
to
Obama:
Your
Priorities
Stink!
The
Wall
Street
Journal
8/6/10
Independence
Caucus
Report
George
Edwards,
Giac.2002.org
"The Independence
Caucus
is
a
nationally
active,
citizen-led
organization
of
conservatives
which
started
in Utah
with the
election
in 2008
of US
Representative
Jason
Chaffetz.
The
organization
as been
very successful in
getting candidates they
vetted and endorsed to win
in major party primary
elections. They offer what
they have found to be
winning strategies.
8/5/10
Borderline
Obama
Pamella
Geller,
The
Washington
Times
National security is not the president's interest.
"As a
federal
judge
gutted
Arizona's
new
immigration
law on
July 29,
the
Obama
State
Department
announced
that it
was
'encouraged'
by signs
that the
Arab
League
would
support,
or at
least
not
directly
impede,
direct
negotiations
between
Israel
and the
Palestinians.
Not
surprisingly,
media
seemed
not to
notice
or care
how the
two
things
were
related.
But they
are.
"One of the most overlooked
aspects of the question of immigration is its connection to national security.
[Emphasis added.]
Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican, mentioned that connection on
Sean Hannity's
Fox News program, but it received very little notice thereafter. Even Arizona's
Republican state
Sen. Russell Pearce, who wrote the Arizona immigration bill, SB 1070, hasn't
spoken of its role in protecting the nation. Yet there is a silver bullet
linking the Islamic terror threat with the porous border of Arizona that
deserves our immediate attention.
"With fresh evidence of
Hezbollah
activity just south of the border, and numerous reports of Muslims from various
countries posing as Mexicans and crossing into the
United
States from Mexico,
our porous southern border is a national security nightmare waiting to
happen. [Emphasis added.]
"My colleague and coauthor,
Robert Spencer,
has spoken with people who live along the Arizona border who for years have been
finding Korans and Islamic prayer rugs on their property, left by illegal
invaders. It is well documented in the
Department of Homeland Security's 2008 Yearbook of Immigration Studies, from
the
Office of Immigration Statistics: Federal law enforcement agencies detained
791,568 deportable aliens in fiscal year 2008, and 5,506 of them were from 14
'special-interest countries' - i.e., nations full of jihadists such as
Afghanistan,
Iran
and Pakistan.
"Informants are telling us
that those numbers continue to swell. But where are these people? What Americans
- Arizonans in particular - are not being told is what Immigration Customs
Enforcement does with individuals who were detained after illegally entering
Arizona from a 'special-interest country.'
"Here is what we do know:
"Whenever Arizona law
enforcement officials contact Homeland Security about a suspected OTM (Other
Than Mexican) they have detained, federal authorities swoop down, cart off the
illegal entrant, and tell local officials nothing more about the case. OTMs have
utilized sophisticated human smuggling networks to enter the
United
States from as many as 157 countries around the world - including
Iran,
Pakistan,
Iraq,
Afghanistan,
Morocco and
Egypt.
"All this is happening against
the backdrop of President
Obama's
refusal to admit that the global jihad even exists.
John Brennan,
his counterterrorism adviser, even denies that jihad is a motive for jihadists.
Mr. Obama has
publicly excoriated
Israel, demanded that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed,
called for civilian trials of terrorists and embraced Palestinian statehood even
if it jeopardizes Israel's
security.
"Mr.
Obama's stance is consistent: As I show in my book, 'The Post-American
Presidency,' he is a socialist internationalist who wants to subordinate America
to international law. Why should he care about securing the borders? And in
Arizona and all along the border, the beneficiaries of his policies will be
Islamic jihadists - the same people he is encouraging, enabling and backing in
their jihad against
Israel.
"Regarding both Arizona and
Israel, with a
consistency that can only come from deeply held conviction,
Barack Obama
is damaging national security and endangering the future of our nation."
8/5/10
ICE
Union
employees:
ICE
Director
won't
let us
enforce
U.S.
immigration
laws
Kerry
Pickett,
The
Washington
Times
"On June 11, 2010, the National
Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council and its constituent local
representatives from around the nation, acting on behalf of approximately
7,000 ICE officers and employees from the ICE Office of Enforcement and
Removal Operations (ERO), cast a unanimous 'Vote of No Confidence' in the
Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), John Morton, and the
Assistant Director of the ICE Office of Detention Policy and Planning, (ODPP),
Phyllis Coven.
"According to
CIS:
“The letter, acquired through sources, provides a litany of examples of how
ICE's mission is being skewed towards supporting an unflinching goal of amnesty
by refusing to allow agents to do their job; allowing criminal aliens to roam
free; depleting resources for key enforcement initiatives that preceded this
administration; and misrepresenting facts and programs, demeaning the extent of
the criminal alien problem and geared to support amnesty.”
"Two bullet points in the
letter stick out:
"While ICE reports internally that more than 90 percent of ICE detainees
are first encountered in jails after they are arrested by local police for
criminal charges, ICE senior leadership misrepresents this information
publicly in order to portray ICE detainees as being non-criminal in nature
to support the Administration's position on amnesty and relaxed security at
ICE detention facilities.
"The majority of ICE ERO Officers are prohibited from making street
arrests or enforcing United States immigration laws outside of the
institutional (jail) setting. This has effectively created 'amnesty through
policy' for anyone illegally in the United States who has not been arrested
by another agency for a criminal violation.
"Another disturbing point of the letter is the description of the
Obama Administration policy on ICE detention centers that have bingo nights,
dance lessons, plant hanging:
"ICE Detention Reforms have transformed into a detention system aimed at
providing resort like living conditions to criminal aliens. Senior ICE
leadership excluded ICE officers and field managers (the technical experts
on ICE detention) from the development of these reforms, and instead
solicited recommendations from special interest groups. The lack of
technical expertise and field expertise has resulted in a priority of
providing bingo nights, dance lessons and hanging plants to criminals,
instead of addressing safe and responsible detention reforms for
non-criminal individuals and families. Unlike any other agency in the
nation, ICE officers will be prevented from searching detainees housed in
ICE facilities allowing weapons, drugs and other contraband into detention
centers putting detainees, ICE officers and contract guards at risk."
8/5/10
Bankrupted
By the
Pension
Pyramid
Glenn
Beck
Show
Segment
Today--Video
"Pelosi announced via Twitter
(because she's so hip — just like you!) that she is reconvening Congress to vote
on a $26 billion 'jobs' bill. I'm sure this time it will work. Just like when
the stimulus bill saved all those jobs — wait, unemployment is still almost 10
percent.
"But why do we need 26 billion
extra dollars when there is still $421 billion still left in the stimulus bill?
Money the president said we could use to save teachers: . . .
"Now, I'm not a mathematician
or anything, but I think we could take the $26 billion out of the stimulus money
— let me break out a calculator to be sure: $421 billion minus $26 billion....
Yeah, there's still a few dollars left over: $395 billion-ish. That's enough to
hire 10 million teachers, if we pay them the average salary in America. There
are 6.2 million teachers in America now, so why is Nancy Pelosi trying to pass
another jobs bill again?
"Oh, that's right, because she
loves teachers. Conservatives hate them, but progressives love them."
8/5/10
G.M.
Pushes
for U.S.
to Sell
Entire
Stake at
I.P.O.
By NICK
BUNKLEY,
New York
Times
"TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Eager
to rid his company of the stigma of being government owned, the chief executive
of
General Motors,
Edward E. Whitacre Jr., said Thursday that G.M. wanted Washington to sell
its entire stake during an initial public offering.
“'We want the government out,
period,' Mr. Whitacre said in comments after speaking at an automotive
conference in northern Michigan. 'We don’t want to be known as Government
Motors.'”
8/5/10
Rush
Monologue:
Life is
Not Fair
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
I know
this is
not
going to
go down
well
among
people
who have
this
notion
that
fairness
is the
overriding
objective
of any
society.
I've
made the
point
throughout
my
career,
the
undeniable
truths
of life,
many
monologues
on this
program,
that
life is
not fair
by
definition.
Life
isn't
fair. I
mean, it
just
isn't,
and
there's
no way
that you
can
change
certain
aspects
that
make
life
unfair
to make
them
fair.
Life is
not
equal.
Sometimes
people
earn
more
than
others.
Some
people
have
children
when
other
people
can't.
There's
nothing
unfair
about
that.
That's
just the
way it
is.
Unspeakable
tragedies
happen
to some
families;
they
don't
happen
to
others.
Some
people
live a
long
time;
some
people
don't.
There's
no
explaining
any of
this.
Nobody's
in
charge
of
this.
There's
no
government
that can
change
this,
although
we have
plenty
of
busybodies
trying
to on
this
"living
longer"
business.
(imitating
busybody)
"Oh
yeah,
some
people
are
living
longer
because
they
don't
smoke,
drink,
eat
trans
fats,"
and go
down
that
ridiculous
road.
But the
vast
majority
of
things
that
occur in
the
process
of
living
life are
unequal
and
unfair.
There are some people in the world who are born in some of the most
God-awful
places
and
circumstances
and
throughout
their
lives
never
escape
those
God-awful
places
and
circumstances.
And
there
are
other
people
who are
born in
the laps
of
luxury,
who sip
cocktails
at 4:30
in the
afternoon,
inherit
their
money
and look
down on
those
who earn
it.
It's not
fair.
It's not
equal.
But it's
not
because
of the
US
Constitution.
It's not
because
of the
United
States
of
America.There
are
people
who you
look at
who do
work
that is
far more
important
morally,
economically
than
other
people
and the
work
they do
and yet
those
people
who
don't
make
much
money,
teachers,
a lot of
people
think
teachers
are the
most
important
people
we have
in
society
and look
at what
they
make
compared
to
athletes.
Athletes
are
another
thing.
Champions
are
born.
They are
not made
in the
weight
room.
They are
not made
on the
practice
field.
It's
honed
and it's
practiced
and it's
improved,
but
champions
are
born.
If you
can't
run a
4.2 40,
nobody
can
teach
you
how. If
you
can't
throw a
baseball
100
miles an
hour,
nobody
can
teach
you
how.
It's not
fair.
Some
people
can and
some
can't.
It's not
because
the
Constitution
or the
country's
unfair.
It's not
because
America's
unjust,
that
some
people
can end
up
playing
Major
League
Baseball
and
others
can't.
And it's
certainly
not fair
that
among
those
who play
Major
League
Baseball,
some of
the most
immoral
rotten
schlubs,
constant
drunks,
drug
abusers,
are the
biggest
stars,
biggest
heroes
and some
of the
ones
that are
clean
and pure
as the
wind-driven
snow,
God,
country,
church
every
day, get
cut,
don't
make
teams.
Not
fair.
Certainly
not
equal.
Not
because
the
Constitution's
unfair.
It's not
because
America
as
constituted
is
unfair.
There
are
people
who have
lived
upstanding
lives,
who are
the
models
of
decorum
in their
communities
and for
no
reason
whatsoever
a drunk
driver
kills
them.
Gosh,
that's
not
fair.
And it
certainly
isn't
equal,
but it's
not
because
of the
US
Constitution.
It's not
because
of the
United
States
of
America.
You can
conjure
up all
these
examples.
They are
never
ending.
It's a
limitless
list of
examples
that we
can all
cite if
you want
to stick
in the
country.
Some
people
in this
country
are born
to
wealthy
families.
Some
people
end up
marrying
wealthy
people.
Other
people
end up
marrying
people
who lose
their
jobs,
lose
their
careers,
and end
up on
skid
row.
Not
fair.
Certainly
not
equal,
but it's
not the
fault of
the US
Constitution.
There
are some
people
who are
able to
watch
football,
basketball,
baseball
games
from
air-conditioned
suites,
sky
boxes,
what
have
you.
Others
have to
sit out
in the
stands
freezing
or
getting
wet or
what
have
you, pay
through
the nose
for it
to
boot.
Certainly
not
fair,
certainly
not
equal,
and
certainly
not the
fault of
the US
Constitution.
Not the
fault of
the
United
States
of
America.
None of these inequities, none of this unfairness means that the Constitution
has been
violated.
None of
these
inequities
or
inequalities
or
unfairness
means
that the
United
States
of
America
is
unjust
and
immoral.
None of
it means
that the
way
we've
governed
ourselves
is
unfair.
It
doesn't
mean
that
somebody
owes you
something.
It
doesn't
mean
that
you're a
victim
of
anything.
It's
just
called
life.
And I
realize
a number
of you
out
there on
the left
are
probably
just
screeching
about
now
claiming
I'm
insensitive
and
lacking
in
compassion
and
don't
get it
when
it's
just the
other
way
around.
It's
life.
You live
your
life.
We all
make
decisions:
good,
bad,
indifferent.
Some of
us are
leaders.
Some of
us are
followers.
Some of
us have
unique
talents.
Some of
us don't
have
any.
Some of
us have
great
confidence.
Some of
us are
forever
burdened
with
inferiority
complex.
Some of
us care
only
what
we're
thought
of;
others
couldn't
care
less.
It
doesn't
mean
that
anybody's
better
than
anybody
else or
anybody's
any
worse.
It
certainly
doesn't
mean the
United
States
of
America
sucks
and it
doesn't
mean
that our
Constitution
needs to
be blown
up and
rewritten,
and it
doesn't
mean
you're a
victim.
It's
called
life.
Everybody
tries to
live
their
life.
Some
people
get a
better
handle
on it
than
others.
Some
people
think
they
have no
control
over
their
lives.
They are
constant
victims
that are
always
looking
to blame
everybody
else for
what
doesn't
go right
in their
lives.
Other
people
don't
have
time for
that.
They
realize
they
only
have one
life and
every
day is
something
to
seize,
to make
the most
of.
Regardless
where
you fall
in this
spectrum,
it
doesn't
mean we
have a
flawed
country,
and it
doesn't
mean our
Constitution
is
flawed.
It
doesn't
mean
you're a
victim.
It means
you're
alive.
In this country, in the United States of America right now, today, August
the 5th,
2010,
regardless
of your
race,
regardless
of your
sex,
your
gender,
or your
orientation,
you have
more
liberty
and more
opportunity
to
change
anything
about
your
life
that you
don't
like
than
anywhere
else in
the
world,
because
you live
in the
United
States
of
America,
because
you are
an
American.
It is
time to
stop
thinking
of
yourself
as a
victim
of
America,
of
unfairness,
of
inequality,
and
realize
the good
fortune
you have
had to
be born
in this
country
because
regardless
of where
you grew
up,
regardless
of where
you
live,
regardless
of where
you're
born,
regardless
of
whether
you're
gay,
straight
or like
goats,
you have
more
liberty
and more
opportunity.
Whether
you
haven't
married
a rich
woman
who
inherited
her
money
from a
guy who
inherited
his
money
who died
in a
helicopter,
it
doesn't
matter.
Wherever
you are
and
whoever
you are
and
whatever
you are,
you have
more
opportunity
to
change
what you
don't
like
about
yourself
than
anybody
else in
the rest
of the
world
because
you live
in the
United
States
of
America.
Your lot
in life
is not
because
you live
in
America.
You are
not a
victim
if
you're
an
American.
You are
among a
precious
few
worldwide,
and the
people
who are
not
Americans
wish to
hell
they
were and
will do
anything
to
become
Americans.
And yet
we have
a
seemingly
growing
portion
of our
population
who look
at being
an
American
as some
kind of
a
limitation,
a
shackle.
You're
not a
victim.
Life
isn't
fair.
Life
isn't
equal.
Nobody
can make
it fair
and
nobody
can make
it
equal,
and all
these
things
that
make you
unhappy
are not
because
of the
US
Constitution.
It does
not have
to be
destroyed.
It does
not have
to be
blown
up. In
fact, I
would
venture
to say
that
most of
the
unhappiness
in the
country
today is
being
borne by
people
who love
this
country
and who
are
watching
it right
before
their
very
eyes be
destroyed
and wish
to save
it, and
they are
being
told
they're
the
reasons
that
life is
unfair
and
unequal,
because
they are
supposedly
the
majority.
8/4/10
The Day
After
November
2
BY
Matthew
Continetti,
WeeklyStandard.com
What
will it bring?
"[A] mix of bad policy and bad
economics is likely to sweep dozens of Republicans into federal office come
November 2. But have conservatives and Republicans given serious thought to what
they are going to do the day after November 2? And are conservatives
and Republicans ready to accept responsibility for an economy and society that
are only beginning to work their way out of a massive credit crisis? . . .
"De-funding Obamacare is worth
a shot because Obamacare is bad policy. But de-funding may not work. And once
that question is decided either way, the public will expect a Republican
Congress to do something - anything - related to unemployment.
"Now would be a good time, for
example, for Republicans to embrace a major tax reform that would broaden the
base while lowering rates. Or a permanent cut in the payroll tax. Or a
Henry Clay Infrastructure Bank for Internal Improvements. Or an energy bill
that would open up new areas for drilling and exploration while ending subsidies
for pie-in-the-sky alternative energy. Or
a
major overhaul of the American welfare state that puts it on a sustainable
footing while preserving benefits for everyone 55-and-over and ensuring that
assistance is provided to those who need it the most."
8/4/10
Missouri Votes for New American Dream: The Repeal of Obamacare
Rush
Limbaugh Show Segment Today--Transcript
RUSH: I must admit to you today that we have a new American dream. The
new immediate American dream is no longer owning a house, can we admit that? I
mean, that's a fantasy. The new American dream is repealing Obamacare. The
overwhelming passage of Proposition C in Missouri, this is the first vote and
maybe you can look at it almost as a poll. The first vote on the new American
dream: Removing Obama from our lives and repealing Obamacare. Not just
Obamacare but Obama and his entire unconstitutional prosperity‑killing policies
and agenda. The new American dream obviously is to retain the Constitution as
written.
It is amazing, 72% of the people in Missouri voted to repeal Obamacare,
79% in Cape Girardeau county, which is my county. This is stunning news to a
lot of people. Cannot believe this happened. The political class, the ruling
class inside the Beltway is in a state of denial about this as is the partisan
political operative media, and this is the closest indication we've had to a
public poll on this. This is called a landslide, folks, 71, 72%.
8/4/10
ObamaCare
and the
Constitution—An
Update
A
federal court denies the government's motion to dismiss the challenge.
"Last November, a reporter
asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if it was constitutional for Congress to
require Americans to buy health insurance. Ms. Pelosi responded, "Are you
serious?"
"On Monday, U.S. District
Judge Henry Hudson got serious. He denied Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the state of Virginia
challenging the new health law. His ruling stated that it is far from certain
Congress has the authority to compel Americans to buy insurance and penalize
those who don't.
"Judge Hudson's ruling paved
the way for a trial to begin on October 18, with possible appeals all the way to
the Supreme Court, a lengthy process. Some states will likely delay creating
insurance exchanges and slow down other costly preparations for ObamaCare until
its constitutionality is determined by this case.
"If mandatory insurance is
declared unconstitutional, the entire health law could collapse like a house of
cards. Most complex legislation states that if one part of the law is struck
down, other parts remain enforceable. But authors of ObamaCare chose to omit
that clause, suggesting that the health overhaul won't work without mandatory
insurance. . . .
"Mr. Cuccinelli argued that
Congress ignored these warnings. ObamaCare, he said, was 'cobbled together in
secret, passed by the Senate largely or totally unread, on a party line vote
literally in the dead of night on Christmas Eve.'
"Judge Hudson ruled that the
court must do what Congress failed to do—apply the Constitution."
8/4/10
Black
Political
Activists:
Tea
Party
'Not
Racist'
By Jake Gibson, FoxNews.com
8/4/10
Justice Brennan's
Footnote Gave Us Anchor Babies
by
Ann Coulter, Human Events
"Democrats act as if the right to run across the border when you're 8 1/2 months
pregnant, give birth in a U.S. hospital and then immediately start collecting
welfare was exactly what our forebears had in mind, a sacred constitutional
right, as old as the 14th Amendment itself.
"The louder liberals talk about some ancient constitutional right, the
surer you should be that it was invented in the last few decades.
"In fact, this alleged right derives only from a footnote slyly slipped
into a Supreme Court opinion by Justice Brennan in 1982. You might say it snuck
in when no one was looking, and now we have to let it stay.
"The 14th
Amendment was added after the Civil War in order to overrule the Supreme Court's
Dred Scott decision, which had held that black slaves were not citizens
of the United States. The precise purpose of the amendment was to stop sleazy
Southern states from denying citizenship rights to newly freed slaves -- many of
whom had roots in this country longer than a lot of white people.
"The amendment guaranteed that freed slaves would have all the privileges
of citizenship by providing: 'All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United
States and of the State wherein they reside.'. . .
"The very
author of the citizenship clause, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, expressly said:
'This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are
foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign
ministers.'
"In the 1884 case Elk v. Wilkins, the Supreme Court ruled that
the 14th Amendment did not even confer citizenship on Indians -- because they
were subject to tribal jurisdiction, not U.S. jurisdiction.
"For a
hundred years, that was how it stood, with only one case adding the caveat that
children born to LEGAL permanent residents of the U.S., gainfully employed, and
who were not employed by a foreign government would also be deemed citizens
under the 14th Amendment. (United States v. Wong Kim Ark, 1898.)
"And then, out of the blue in 1982, Justice Brennan slipped a footnote
into his 5-4 opinion in Plyler v. Doe, asserting that 'no plausible
distinction with respect to Fourteenth Amendment 'jurisdiction' can be drawn
between resident aliens whose entry into the United States was lawful, and
resident aliens whose entry was unlawful.' (Other than the part about one being
lawful and the other not.)
"Brennan's authority for this lunatic statement was that it appeared in a 1912
book written by Clement L. Bouve. (Yes, THE Clement L. Bouve -- the one you've
heard so much about over the years.) Bouve was not a senator, not an elected
official, certainly not a judge -- just some guy who wrote a book.
"So on one hand we have the history, the objective, the author's intent
and 100 years of history of the 14th Amendment, which says that the 14th
Amendment does not confer citizenship on children born to illegal immigrants. .
. .
In the Silverios'
munificent new hometown of Stockton, Calif., 70 percent of the 2,300 babies born
in 2003 in the San Joaquin General Hospital were anchor babies. As of this
month, Stockton is $23 million in the hole.
"It's bad enough to be governed by 5-4 decisions written by liberal
judicial activists. In the case of 'anchor babies,' America is being governed by
Brennan's 1982 footnote."
8/4/10
'Administrative alternatives' = stealth amnesty
WashingtonExaminer.com
"Obama administration
officials are now busy distancing themselves from a controversial draft
memorandum outlining various ways to bypass Congress and administratively
grant amnesty to tens of thousands of illegal immigrants. But the leaked
internal memo has struck a nerve in the body politic precisely because it is
only the latest of a growing list of examples of the Obama White House
seeking to circumvent the popular will.
"For example, while hiding
behind a misguided Supreme Court decision that gave it the power to declare
carbon dioxide a 'pollutant,' the Environmental Protection Agency has
started what amounts to an end run around Congress with a major revision of
the 1970 Clean Air Act. Millions of previously unregulated commercial
facilities, including small office buildings, stores and commercial
kitchens, will soon be ensnared in stifling regulations that Congress never
authorized or approved.
"The attempted power grab
outlined in the immigration memo is a similar effort by the executive branch
to breach the Constitution's separation-of-powers clause. The only
difference is that instead of applying a law clearly meant for large
factories and power plants to the neighborhood grocery store, the amnesty
memo would have the executive branch stop enforcing existing federal laws
concerning wide swaths of illegal immigrants. This would be done without a
single vote being taken in Congress, which clearly intended the laws it
passed to be enforced.
"Addressed to U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and
tellingly entitled 'Administrative Alternatives to Comprehensive Immigration
Reform,' the 11-page memo proposes a nonlegislative amnesty that uses
executive orders and other legally questionable methods as the basis to
circumvent congressional intent. . . .
"Even as this outrageous
memo was being circulated among multiple federal agencies and officials, the
Obama Justice Department was preparing to sue the state of Arizona to stop
officials there from enforcing a new immigration law. In a letter to
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa,
and other Senate Republicans correctly characterized the memo's
recommendations as a 'large-scale, de facto amnesty.'
"Repeated public opinion
surveys have shown most Americans reject amnesty. This stealth approach has
apparently become the administration's preferred method of dealing with
major issues, but it's a cynical ploy that undermines Congress and the
president's dwindling credibility as well."
8/4/10
No mosque
By
R. Emmett
Tyrrell Jr.,
The Washington Times
Look for Country Class to overrule Ruling Class
"The Country Class or the
Country Party
has come down against the mosque, and it goes far beyond New Yorkers. It
embraces Americans from all over. They oppose the mosque and their opposition is
growing. On the other side, the Ruling Class' spokesman is, not surprisingly,
Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg of New York, though he could be from Chicago or Boston
or Washington. Apropos of the mosque, he says: 'What is great about America, and
particularly New York, is we welcome everybody, and if we are so afraid of
something like this, what does it say about us?'
"First of all, we do not
welcome everybody, not drugs lords, not Nazis, not Islamofascists. Secondly, we
are not "so afraid of something like this." Rather, we recognize it as an
affront to the fallen and to the nation. Ad arguendo, the affront might not be
intended by those wishing to put up the mosque, but it will be recognized by
others throughout the world as an affront. Possibly it will be recognized as a
sign of the triumph of Islam over nonbelievers. It ought not to go up."
8/3/10
No
Mosque
at
Ground
Zero
by Newt
Gingrich,
Human
Events
"One of
our
biggest
mistakes
in the
aftermath
of 9/11
was
naming
our
response
to the
attacks
'the war
on
terror'
instead
of
accurately
identifying
radical
Islamists
(and the
underlying
ideology
of
radical
Islamism)
as the
target
of our
campaign.
This
mistake
has led
to
endless
confusion
about
the
nature
of the
ideological
and
material
threat
facing
the
civilized
world
and the
scale of
the
response
that is
appropriate.
"Radical Islamism is more than simply a religious belief. It is a
comprehensive
political,
economic,
and
religious
movement
that
seeks to
impose
sharia—Islamic
law—upon
all
aspects
of
global
society.
"Many Muslims see sharia as simply a reference point for their personal
code of
conduct.
They
recognize
the
distinction
between
their
personal
beliefs
and the
laws
that
govern
all
people
of all
faiths.
"For the
radical
Islamist,
however,
this
distinction
does not
exist.
Radical
Islamists
see
politics
and
religion
as
inseparable
in a way
it is
difficult
for
Americans
to
understand.
Radical
Islamists
assert
sharia’s
supremacy
over the
freely
legislated
laws and
values
of the
countries
they
live in
and see
it as
their
sacred
duty to
achieve
this
totalitarian
supremacy
in
practice.
"Some radical Islamists use terrorism as a tactic to impose sharia but
others
use
non-violent
methods—a
cultural,
political,
and
legal
jihad
that
seeks
the same
totalitarian
goal
even
while
claiming
to
repudiate
violence.
Thus,
the term
“war on
terrorism”
is far
too
narrow a
framework
in which
to think
about
the war
in which
we are
engaged
against
the
radical
Islamists.
"Sharia
law is
used in
many
Muslim
countries
to
justify
shocking
acts of
barbarity
including
stoning,
the
execution
of
homosexuals,
and the
subjugation
of
women.
Sharia
does not
permit
freedom
of
conscience;
it
prohibits
Muslims
from
renouncing
their
Islamic
faith or
converting
to
another
religion.
Sharia
does not
support
religious
liberty;
it
treats
non-Muslims
as
inferior
and does
not
accord
them the
same
protections
as
Muslims.
In these
and
other
instances,
sharia
is
explicitly
at odds
with
core
American
and
Western
values.
It is an
explicit
repudiation
of
freedom
of
conscience
and
religious
liberty
as well
as the
premise
that
citizens
are
equal
under
the law.
"Thus, the radical Islamist effort to impose sharia worldwide is a direct
threat
to all
those
who
believe
in the
freedoms
maintained
by our
constitutional
system.
. . .
"There
are many
reasons
to doubt
the
stated
intentions
of Imam
Feisal
Abdul
Rauf,
the man
behind
the
Ground
Zero
mosque.
After
9/11 he
did not
hesitate
to
condemn
the
United
States
as an
'accessory'
to the
attacks
but more
recently
refused
to
condemn
Hamas as
a
terrorist
organization.
This is
unsurprising
considering
he has
well-established
ties to
U.S.
branches
of the
Muslim
Brotherhood.
He has
also
refused
to
reveal
the
sources
of
funding
for the
mosque
project,
which is
projected
to cost
$100
million.
"More importantly, he is an apologist for sharia supremacy. In a recent
op-ed,
Rauf
actually
compared
sharia
law with
the
Declaration
of
Independence.
This
isn’t
mere
dishonesty;
it is an
Orwellian
attempt
to cause
moral
confusion
about
the
nature
of
radical
Islamism.
"The true intentions of Rauf are also revealed by the name initially
proposed
for the
Ground
Zero
mosque—'Cordoba
House'—which
is named
for a
city in
Spain
where a
conquering
Muslim
army
replaced
a church
with a
mosque.
"This
name is
a very
direct
historical
indication
that the
Ground
Zero
mosque
is all
about
conquest
and thus
an
assertion
of
Islamist
triumphalism
which we
should
not
tolerate.
. . .
"Apologists
for
radical
Islamist
hypocrisy
are
trying
to argue
that we
have to
allow
the
construction
of this
mosque
in order
to prove
America’s
commitment
to
religious
liberty.
They say
this
despite
the fact
that
there
are
already
over 100
mosques
in New
York
City.
"In fact, they’re partially correct—this is a test of our commitment to
religious
liberty.
It is a
test to
see if
we have
the
resolve
to face
down an
ideology
that
aims to
destroy
religious
liberty
in
America,
and
every
other
freedom
we hold
dear."
8/3/10
Mutilated
by the
Taliban:
The girl
of 18
who had
nose and
ears
hacked
off for
trying
to flee
cruel
in-laws
By
Defence
Correspondent,
Mail
Online
"With her clear skin and dark, flowing hair, 18-year-old Aisha would
ordinarily
have
stood
out from
a crowd
because
of her
beauty.
But now, tragically, the young Afghan
woman is eye-catching for a horrifically different reason.
"Aisha is a victim of Taliban
brutality, her nose and ears barbarically hacked off by her own husband in a
warped punishment for attempting to flee her cruel in-laws.
"Shocking brutality: Aisha, seen here on the cover of US Time magazine, had
her nose cut off by her husband under Taliban orders.
"Held down by her
brother-in-law, the young bride endured the agony of the man she married
disfiguring her face with a knife.
"Aisha's striking image stares
out from the cover of U.S. news magazine Time.
"The photograph is a stark
reminder of the fate awaiting independent-minded women if the Taliban regain
power.
"The magazine is running the
front page, with the headline What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan, as coalition
countries set a timetable for the withdrawal of international forces from the
country.
"Influential voices in
Afghanistan are suggesting that the West must bring the Taliban to the
negotiating table to thrash out a peace deal as part of the exit strategy.
"But women - who were treated
as little more than slaves under the hardline regime's rule - believe they will
bear the brunt of any reconciliation.
"Touching her face, Aisha told
the magazine: 'They are the people who did this to me. How can we reconcile with
them?'"
8/3/10
Obamacare
Only
Looks
Worse
Upon
Further
Review:
By
Kevin Hassett, Bloomberg
"The new law creates 68 grant
programs, 47 bureaucratic entities, 29 demonstration or pilot programs, six
regulatory systems, six compliance standards and two entitlements.
"Getting that massive
enterprise up and running will be next to impossible. So Democrats streamlined
the process by granting Health and Human Services Secretary
Kathleen Sebelius the authority to make judgments that can’t be challenged
either administratively or through the courts.
"This monarchical protection
from challenges is extended as well to the development of new patient-care
models under Obama’s controversial recess appointment,
Donald Berwick, whom Republicans are calling the rationer-in-chief. Berwick
will run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where he can experiment
with ways to use administrative fiat to move our system toward the socialized
medicine of Europe, which he has at times embraced.
"A sprawling, complex
bureaucracy has been set up that will have almost absolute power to dictate
terms for participating in the health-care system. That’s what the law does to
government. What it does to you is worse.
"Based on the administration’s
own numbers, as many as 117 million people might
have to change their health plans by 2013 as their employer-provided
coverage loses its grandfathered status and becomes subject to the new Obamacare
mandates.
"Those mandates also might
make your health care more expensive. The Congressional Budget Office
predicts that premiums for a small number of families who buy their
insurance privately will rise by as much as $2,100. . . .
"To pay for this expansion,
the bill takes $529 billion from Medicare, with roughly 39 percent of the cut
coming from the Medicare Advantage program. This represents a large transfer of
resources, sacrificing the care of the elderly in order to increase the Medicaid
rolls.
"For all this supposed reform,
you, the American taxpayer, can expect a bill to the tune of $569 billion.
"Front and center among the
new taxes is the 40 percent excise tax on those lucky people with so-called
Cadillac health plans. The higher insurance costs that are driven by the
government mandates will push many more ordinary plans into Cadillac territory.
"If the idea of taxing people
with coverage deemed too good doesn’t bother you, maybe the new 3.8 percent tax
on investment income will. That will apply even to a small number of home sales,
those that generate $250,000 in profit for an individual or $500,000 for a
married couple."
8/3/10
Obama to
Gulf:
Drop
dead
By
THE
WASHINGTON
TIMES
Moratorium on drilling adds human misery to injury
"The Gulf oil spill should not
recede from the headlines without further attention to how President Obama
continues to punish the victims. His moratorium on deep-water drilling in the
Gulf of Mexico is unreasonable and unconscionable.
"Mr. Obama says the six-month
ban on drilling is needed to buy time to investigate what caused the blowout,
strengthen oversight and issue new regulations. This is nonsense. Copious
investigation already has shown that a series of specific decisions and errors
combined to cause the BP well to explode. Few details remain unanswered. Few if
any new regulations are needed; the problem was in the failure to abide by
existing regulations. Oversight at the Minerals Management Service (MMS) was
extremely lax. It shouldn't take six days, much less six months, to make MMS
actually do its job.
"Meanwhile, the detrimental
effects of the moratorium are serious. 'In its first six months, the moratorium
could cost the Gulf Coast 8,169 jobs, $2.1 billion in economic activity and $98
million in state and local tax revenue,' reported the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, relying on a July 19 study by Louisiana State University
professor Joseph Mason. "Nationwide, it could cost 12,046 jobs, $2.8 billion in
economic activity and $219 million in tax revenue."
"The indirect effects could be
far worse, especially for the people of Louisiana who are still struggling to
recover from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Ike and Gustav in 2008. The
oil industry at least indirectly supports 320,000 jobs in the Pelican State
alone, according to former Democratic Rep. Chris John, who now heads a Louisiana
oil-and-gas association. And it's not really unsafe. 'We've drilled 42,000 wells
in the Gulf of Mexico since 1947, including 2,500 in the deep water (more than
1,000 feet),' Mr. John said at a July 30 luncheon sponsored by the Pelican
Institute think tank, 'and this is the first time anything has happened.' . . .
"The administration's
dithering made the crisis worse, which won't prove to be the full extent of the
damage caused to the region by the White House. Mr. Obama's moratorium will have
the added effect of harming the very environment he claims to be protecting.
'Royalties from offshore drilling in Louisiana are designated by the state
constitution to pay for critical infrastructure protection and coastal
restoration,' wrote the Heritage Foundation's Rory Cooper last month. 'The
longer this drilling moratorium continues, the longer Louisiana has to wait to
protect itself from future disasters.""
8/3/10
As Obama
Economy
"Recovers,"
ChiCom
iPhone
Factory
Booms
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Today
Segment
Transcript
RUSH:
Its
Obama's
economy.
I want
to go
back to
this
story.
Factory
orders
in the
United
States
are
down, as
well as
the pace
of
consumer
spending.
But the
factory
orders
story
fell in
June,
second
straight
month
"due to
lower
demand
for
steel,
construction,
machinery,
and
aircraft.
Analysts
had
expected
a much
smaller
drop."
Meanwhile,
Foxconn,
which
makes
the
iPhone,
iPad,
iPod in
China,
Shenzhen,
is gonna
build a
new
factory
that
will
primarily
produce
the
iPhone.
"Xinhua
says
that
more
than 500
employees
are
already
working
a
temporary
site
rented
from the
Zhengzhou
city
government.
Factory
construction
will
start on
August
20 and
is
expected
to be
operational
in a
year.
Xinhua
says the
site
will
reportedly
produce
$13
billion
(U.S.)
worth of
products
for
export,
make
about
200,000
phones
per day
and will
employ
nearly
200,000
workers,
most of
whom are
expected
to be
from the
Henan
province."
Now, Foxconn is not without its problems. They had to put nets all the
way
around
the
outside
of their
existing
factory
because
of the
suicides
committed
by their
employees.
Employees
are
overworked
in there
and they
jump out
the
windows
and they
kill
themselves.
So they
built
nets. I
saw a
picture
of this.
There
are nets
outside
on the
side of
the
building
that
catch
employees
who jump
over.
Apple
had to
move in
there
and
promise
a 30%
raise,
'cause
they
can't
make
product
fast
enough.
There's
a
waiting
list for
the
iPhone
4;
there's
a
waiting
list for
the iPad.
IPod
touch,
no
problem
getting
those
things,
but they
can't
meet the
demand.
You read
a story:
US
factory
output
down;
people
aren't
manufacturing
things.
We e
know
this is
happening.
Yet here's Steve Jobs -- darling of the left, huge Obama supporter,
Algore a
member
of the
Apple
board --
and
nobody
on the
left's
upset
that
Jobs is
not
hiring
union
workers
in
America
to make
the
iPhone
or the
iPad?
They're
being
made by
Chinese
labor,
and the
workers
that
make the
things
are
committing
suicide.
Not in
great
numbers,
but
they're
still
jumping
out the
windows
over
there at
the
Foxconn
building.
Now a
new
factory:
200,000
new
workers.
You
know,
Biden
said
we're
going to
be
producing
500,000
jobs a
month by
this
time.
The
ChiComs
are
doing it
for one
product!
Well,
two
products:
iPhone,
iPad.
It's $13
billion
worth of
exports.
Obviously Apple is not being hampered by any union problems in China. I
don't
think
they're
unionized
over
there in
Shenzhen
at
Foxconn.
The
Summer
of
Recovery
is
working
for the
ChiComs.
I don't
even
know if
there's
an
economic
slowdown.
Two
hundred
thousand
iPhones
a day!
Two
hundred
thousand
will be
made per
day.
They're
not
making
that
many now
but they
can't
keep up
with the
demand,
so they
hired
200,000
new
employees.
And yet
Apple
escapes
any
scrutiny
by the
State-Controlled
Media
and the
left?
They're
jobs
Americans
don't
want to
do?
Americans
don't
want to
make
iPads?
Americans
don't
want to
make
iPhones?
You know, folks, if you go to Apple's website and buy this stuff on the
website,
it gets
shipped
from
Shenzhen,
China.
They
don't
even
ship the
stuff
here
first to
distribution
centers.
8/2/10
Joe
Dugan's
Tea
Party
inverview
with Tim
McGinnis
of WPDE
[Video
of Joe
Dugan,
Myrtle
Beach
Tea
Party
Board
Chairman]
8/2/10
Meet the
New
Radicals
[Video
of Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today.
Click
here
for the
show
transcript
on the
"new"
SDS]
"Last week I showed
you the left's playbook,
the
manifesto from the Weather Underground. These guys exemplified what it means
to be a '60s radical: They'd do whatever it took to overthrow America and — in
their words — 'institute communism and a dictator.'
"And they really believed the
ends justified the means. They bombed the home of the judge in a Black Panther
trial with 'kill the pigs' written in graffiti. They bombed the New York City
Police Department headquarters. They conducted sniper attacks on Cambridge
Police headquarters and robbed a Brinks armored car, killing two cops in the
process.
"I could go on and on.
"Back then, most of these
radicals were part of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), now they occupy
positions of power. Wade Radthke, former SDS member, founded ACORN and SEIU.
Andy Stern, another SDS member and former president of SEIU and is on President
Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility Commission. Jeff Jones, former SDS member, is now
a member of the Apollo Alliance and helped write the stimulus bill. Then, of
course, there is the president's 'spiritual adviser,' Jim Wallis, another former
SDS member.
"If you missed it, you should
really go back and watch. The evidence is quite overwhelming. You’ll see this
radical thought is commonplace with the powers in and around the current
administration.
8/2/10
Mexican
Drug
Cartel
Allegedly
Puts
Price on
Ariz.
Sheriff's
Head
FoxNews.com
"A
Mexican
drug
cartel
has
reportedly
put a
hefty
price
tag on
the head
of
Maricopa
County
Sheriff
Joe
Arpaio.
"As parts of Arizona's
immigration law, SB 1070, went into effect last week, a Mexican drug cartel sent
out text and audio messages offering rewards to anyone who would join its fight,
a source who says his wife received the message told
MyFoxPhoenix.com.
"'It's offering a million
dollars for Sheriff Joe Arpaio's head and offering a thousand dollars for anyone
who wants to join the Mexican cartel,' the man, who wants to remain anonymous,
told the station.
"The instructions included
directions to pass the message along and listed an international phone number,
MyFoxPhoenix.com reported."
8/2/10
SB1070 protesters desecrate US flag
by KTAR.com
"Last week's SB1070 protest
brought people to Phoenix from across the country, including immigrant-rights
activists bussed in from California.
"What were they doing in
Phoenix?
"Some were desecrating the
U.S. flag during the national anthem. Messages spray-painted onto the flag
included: 'Impeach Brewer' and 'Deport Arpaio.'
"WATCH the
video"
8/2/10
Rockets Strike Jordan and Israel
By:
Yonat Friling,
FoxNews.com
Jordanian man dies of his
wounds, unexploded rocket found in Eilat.
8/2/10
Pete Stark: The Federal Government Can Do Most Anything In This Country,
Breitbart [Video of black lady's brilliant queries and
his dumb lame responses.]
8/2/10
Are Barack Obama and Gibbs really this ignorant or are they being dishonest?
The Beaufort Observer
"Last
week President Obama did a photo op at a GM plant. In remarks to the
assembled GM workers Obama took credit for saving their jobs. In fact, he
took credit for saving the 'American auto industry.' The problem with this
is that he was being dishonest or showing his ignorance.
"He based this claim on his bailout of GM and Chrysler with taxpayer
money (actually money borrowed from China) rather than allowing Chrysler and
GM to go bankrupt. One might be tempted to overlook this claim as another
"misspoken" comment from the President, but apparently it was not because he
was reading from the Teleprompter. Then also last week Obama spokesman
Robert Gibbs displayed either gross dishonesty or gross ignorance on the
same point.
"Here's what he said: [Video follows in the original target source.]
"Now
here's the problem. Gibbs is talking about Obama taking over General Motors
and Chrysler shortly after taking office. He claims that if GM and Chrysler
had declared bankruptcy, a million workers would have been out of work and
dozens of communities would have been devastated.
"The problem with that claim is that it simply is not true. In fact it is
so untrue as to be absurd. When a company goes bankrupt it is the creditors
that loose. Those creditors can be the bond holders, the lenders who have
loaned the company money, the suppliers who have delivered but not paid and
finally the stockholders.
"When a company goes bankrupt either one of two things happen. Either the
court determines which creditors will get paid and which will not or the
assets are sold, essentially to the highest bidder, and the company
"emerges" from bankruptcy and begins building cars again. The same workers
who were employed before often simply return to work for a different owner.
"Now it
is true that sometimes in a bankruptcy union contracts are voided and new
ones are negotiated. But history has shown that workers don't necessarily
suffer much in such realignments and often benefit because the company dumps
excess costs and emerges healthier than before, thus protecting jobs in the
long run.
"Most college graduates have had a course or two that explains all this.
We don't know if Robert Gibbs is a college graduate or not or if he and the
President were absent from Business 101 the day they covered bankruptcy but
either they know and are simply being dishonest or they are exceedingly
ignorant. Either way, it is not good for us that they don't know any more
about business than this.
"And Mr. Gibbs was being disingenuous when he claimed GM and Chrysler
operated at a profit last quarter. That is no more true than you or I
running up our credit card account and claiming we spent less than we took
in for a month or two.
"So, wonder if they just don't know any better or if they think we are so
stupid we don't know when they are being dishonest?
"And by the way, Mr. Gibbs. F-150's are made by Ford."
8/2/10
Wiki espionage Tony Blankley, TheWashington Times
Paying for spying with lives
"'Wiki' is a cute Hawaiian
word for 'quick' - borrowed by
Ward
Cunningham, creator of the first Internet wiki - from the name of a fast
little interterminal shuttle at Honolulu International Airport.
"But cute and innocent as
the word may sound, when attached to damaging wartime leaks by Wikileaks
operator
Julian Assange, its cuteness should not protect
Mr. Assange
from being prosecuted and possibly executed by the
U.S.
government for wartime espionage.
"Title 18 U.S. Code,
Section 794, Paragraph (b) reads:
"'Whoever, in time of war,
with intent that the same shall be communicated to the enemy, collects,
records, publishes, or communicates, or attempts to elicit any information
with respect to the movement, numbers, description, condition, or
disposition of any of the Armed Forces, ships, aircraft, or war materials of
the
United States, or with respect to the plans or conduct, or supposed
plans or conduct of any naval or military operations, or with respect to any
works or measures undertaken for or connected with, or intended for the
fortification or defense of any place, or any other information relating to
the public defense, which might be useful to the enemy, shall be punished by
death or by imprisonment for any term of years or for life.'
"Our friends at
the New
York Times,
the Guardian
and Der Spiegel - who coordinated the publication of his leaks - might find
the following Subsection (c) also to be a revealing read:
"'If two or more persons
conspire to violate this section, and one or more of such persons do any act
to effect the object of the conspiracy, each of the parties to such
conspiracy shall be subject to the punishment provided for the offense which
is the object of such conspiracy.'
"And, according to
Friday's
New York Times, 'Justice
Department lawyers are exploring whether
Mr. Assange
and Wikileaks could be charged with inducing, or conspiring in violations of
the Espionage Act.'"
8/2/10
Why did feds claim Kindle violates civil rights?
By:
Byron
York,
WashingtonExaminer.com
"Did you know the
Justice Department threatened several universities with legal action
because they took part in an experimental program to allow students to
use the Amazon Kindle for textbooks?
"Last year, the
schools -- among them Princeton, Arizona State and Case Western Reserve
-- wanted to know if e-book readers would be more convenient and less
costly than traditional textbooks. The environmentally conscious
educators also wanted to reduce the huge amount of paper students use to
print files from their laptops.
"It seemed like a
promising idea until the universities got a letter from the Justice
Department's Civil Rights Division, now under an aggressive new chief,
Thomas Perez, telling them they were under investigation for possible
violations of the Americans With Disabilities Act.
"From its introduction
in 2007, the Kindle has drawn criticism from the National Federation of
the Blind and other activist groups. While the Kindle's text-to-speech
feature could read a book aloud, its menu functions required sight to
operate. . . .
:Now, Perez is at work
on a far bigger project, one that could eventually declare the Internet
a 'public accommodation' under the ADA. That could result in a raft of
new Justice Department regulations for disabled access to all sorts of
Web sites.
"Of course, most Web
access problems are already being solved by the market, but that won't
stop the Justice Department's zealous civil rights enforcer."
8/2/10
Cuba eyes more self-employment as massive layoffs loom
Breitbart
"President
Raul Castro expanded self-employment fields on Sunday, ahead of looming
government plans to slash as many as one million jobs -- 20 percent of
communist
Cuba's work force -- from state payrolls. . . .
"After the crash of the
former
Soviet bloc, Cuba's cash-strapped government in the 1990s approved a
wide range of self-employment. Positions such as beauticians, dog groomers,
small restaurant owners and even lighter refillers were legalized as long as
workers got licenses and paid taxes.
"But social resentment
emerged as an issue when some workers, particularly in small private
restaurants, achieved dramatic levels of success.
"The government began
increasing taxation and regulation, and decreasing license-granting, until
the self-employed sector was largely rendered paralyzed, like the rest of
the economy.
"Cuba has no regular
access to international funding; it depends heavily on the cut-rate oil it
gets from
Venezuela in order to keep its fragile economy afloat. Tourism earnings
and remittances from emigres also are key pillars of the Cuban economy."
7/31/10
There
will be
blood:
Leaking
Afghan
war
secrets
will
cost our
friends
their
lives
New
York
Daily
News
"The publication of 92,000
classified documents from inside the war effort in
Afghanistan is proving a greater threat to national security than first
believed. Worse, it has produced mortal dangers in the battle zone.
"Initial evaluations suggested
WikiLeaks founder
Julian Assange had disseminated a mountain of reports that added little to
the picture of a tough campaign. Now, though, closer inspection has revealed
dozens of instances in which the reports reveal the names of Afghans who have
cooperated with
U.S. and NATO
troops. They now sit squarely in the gunsights of the
Taliban.
"'The battlefield consequences
are potentially severe and dangerous for our troops, our allies and Afghan
partners, and may well damage our relationships and reputation in that key part
of the world,' said
Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
"Adm.
Mike Mullen, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, was blunter: 'Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes
about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is
they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that
of an Afghan family.'"
7/31/10
It is us
Ted
Nugent,
The
Washington
Times
We're the ones who allowed anti-Americans to take over America
"Barack
Hussein Obama did not sneak into power. An army of clueless, disconnected,
ignorant Americans invited him to bring his Marxist, glaringly anti-American
jihad into our lives. This president's overtly destructive,
clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his
ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting
with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism, socialist and racist community
organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and
social-justice-spewing Rev.
Jeremiah Wright
and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like
Bill Ayers, and
by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including
Van Jones, Cass
Sunstein, Anita
Dunne, et al. So let me get this straight: You claim your intentions were
noble because you simply wanted to get your child a puppy but somehow didn't
notice that it was foaming at the mouth, and now you're shocked that your child
has rabies? I think not. That is not a mistake. It is negligence -- dangerous,
life threatening and, I am convinced, downright criminal negligence.
"And the price for such negligence is catastrophic, don't you know.
"But it gets worse. For, you see, the blame doesn't fall just on the
obvious stupidity of our friends and families who voted for this corrupt,
death-wish government in whose stranglehold we find ourselves. Ultimately, it is
our fault. It is the failure of those of us who know better but have failed
miserably to educate our own. Living our lives with a captive audience of
family, friends, co-workers, socialites, fellow worshippers at church and other
parents at school -- everyone in our everyday walks of life -- far too many of
us have allowed uneducated, history-devoid, denial-riddled, fantasy-driven,
anti-gun and anti-hunting, anti-capitalism general ignoramuses to remain so and
run amok, when by all thoughtful considerations, it was our duty to educate and
upgrade everyone in our lives to truth, logic and the American way.
"It is the terminal curse of
apathy and disconnect that got us into this shameless mess we find America in
today, and in all honesty, we have no one to blame but ourselves." . . .
"We will be smart enough never
to let a Mao Zedong fan club in the White House ever again?
"Will we have learned our
lesson that we the people have a daily, moral responsibility to be suspicious of
everyone in government and the media and watchdog them properly from now on?
Will we finally never forget? Will we finally say never again and mean it?
"Will we finally use the
incredible freedoms as provided by the sacrifices of our amazing warrior heroes
of the U.S. military to be sure this insanity can never happen again? Can we
show at least that basic respect for the privilege of being American and how we
got here?
It is not them, it is us. Pogo was right."
7/31/10
Arizona
Governor
Considers
Changing
Immigration
Law
FoxNews.com
"Republican
Gov. Jan
Brewer,
who
signed
the law
and
appealed
a ruling
blocking
its most
controversial
sections,
said
Friday
she
would
consider
changes
to
"tweak"
the law
to
respond
to the
parts
U.S.
District
Judge
Susan
Bolton
faulted.
. . .
"Democrats scoffed at Brewer's
desire to change the law, with a key state House of Representatives minority
leader calling it laughable.
"'Why would we help her?'
asked Rep. Kyrsten Sinema of Phoenix. 'This bill is so flawed and clearly a
federal judge agrees.'"
7/31/10
Timing
of
National
Guard's
Deployment
to
Southwest
Border
Stirs
Confusion,
Anger
FoxNews.com
"The 1,200
National
Guard
troops expected
to arrive Sunday on the southwest border for reinforcement won't finish
deploying until late September, federal officials say, stirring confusion and
anger among Arizona lawmakers who thought the deadline was Aug. 1.
"President
Obama announced in May he would send
National Guard troops"
7/31/10
It’s
About
Sharia
Andrew
C.
McCarthy
National
Review
Online
"The
single
purpose
of this
jihad is
the
imposition
of
sharia.
On that
score,
Gingrich
made two
points
of
surpassing
importance.
First,
some
Islamists
employ
mass-murder
attacks
while
others
prefer a
gradual
march
through
our
institutions
— our
legal,
political,
academic,
and
financial
systems,
as well
as our
broader
culture;
the goal
of both,
though,
is the
same.
The
stealth
Islamists
occasionally
feign
outrage
at the
terrorists,
but
their
quarrel
is over
methodology
and
pace.
Both
camps
covet
the same
outcome.
"Second, that outcome is the death of freedom. In Islamist ideology,
sharia
is
deemed
to be
the
necessary
precondition
for
Islamicizing
a
society
— for
Islam is
not
merely a
religious
doctrine,
but a
comprehensive
socio-economic
and
political
system.
As the
former
speaker
elaborated,
sharia
embodies
principles
and
punishments
that are
abhorrent
to
Western
values.
Indeed,
its
foundational
premise
is
anti-American,
holding
that we
are not
free
people
at
liberty
to
govern
ourselves
irrespective
of any
theocratic
code,
that
people
are
instead
beholden
to the
Islamic
state,
which is
divinely
enjoined
to
impose
Allah’s
laws.
"Sharia, moreover, is anti-equality. It subjugates women and brutally
punishes
transgressors,
particularly
homosexuals
and
apostates.
While
our law
forbids
cruel
and
unusual
punishments,
Gingrich
observed
that the
brutality
in
sharia
sanctions
is not
gratuitous,
but
intentional:
It is
meant to
enforce
Allah’s
will by
striking
example.
"On this last point, Gingrich offered a salient insight, one well worth
internalizing
in the
Sun Tzu
sense of
knowing
one’s
enemy.
Islamists,
violent
or not,
have
very
good
reasons
for the
wanting
to
destroy
the
West.
Those
reasons
are not
crazy or
wanton —
and they
have
nothing
to do
with
Gitmo,
Israel,
cartoons,
or any
other
excuse
we
conjure
to
explain
the
savagery
away.
Islamists
devoutly
believe,
based on
a
well-founded
interpretation
of
Islamic
doctrine,
that
they
have
been
commanded
by Allah
to kill,
convert,
or
subdue
all who
do not
adhere
to
sharia —
because
they
regard
Allah as
their
only
master
('There
is no
God but
Allah').
It is
thus
entirely
rational
(albeit
frightening
to us)
that
they
accept
the
scriptural
instruction
that the
very
existence
of those
who
resist
sharia
is
offensive
to
Allah,
and that
a
powerful
example
must be
made of
those
resisters
in order
to
induce
the
submission
of all —
'submission'
being
the
meaning
of
Islam.
. . .
Most
significant,
there is
sharia.
By
pressing
the
issue,
Newt
Gingrich
accomplishes
two
things.
First,
he gives
us a
metric
for
determining
whether
those
who
would
presume
to lead
us will
fight or
surrender.
Second,
at long
last,
someone
is
empowering
truly
moderate
Muslims
—
assuming
they
exist in
the
numbers
we’re
constantly
assured
of. Our
allies
are the
Muslims
who
embrace
our
freedom
culture
— those
for whom
sharia
is a
matter
of
private
belief,
not
public
mission.
Our
enemies
are
those
who want
sharia
to
supplant
American
law and
Western
culture.
When we
call out
the
latter,
and
marginalize
them, we
may
finally
energize
the
former.
"It’s that simple. Not easy, but simple."
7/30/10
Arizona can prevail on immigration law By Michael Hethmon,
Special to CNN
"A district judge on
Wednesday preliminarily barred the enforcement of two sections and two
subsections of Arizona's new immigration law, SB 1070.
"As was the case with the
public reaction after Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed the law on April 23, we
are again seeing wild claims about the matter -- in this case, about Judge
Susan Bolton's order.
"Commentators are making
overblown statements about the judge's order without having actually read
it. . . .
"First: The judge
lives in Arizona, likes Arizona and its people and sympathizes with your
struggle to fight 'rampant immigration, escalating drug and human
trafficking crimes, and serious safety concerns.' That's from the first
sentence of her order.
"Second: The judge
agrees that Arizona has a right to express its intent that 'attrition [of
the number of illegal immigrants entering the state] though enforcement' be
the state policy. The judge rejected the administration's request that she
find that SB 1070 is unconstitutional as a whole.
"She clearly didn't buy
into the claim that states are barred from enforcing our nation's
immigration law. . . .Third: Bolton upheld the anti-sanctuary
provisions, including the provision allowing citizens to sue local
governments (but not their police officers) that harbor and encourage
illegal immigration. Bolton also approved of the tough new state felony laws
that 'mirror' federal immigration crimes such as smuggling, transporting,
sheltering, harboring and inducing illegal aliens to remain, even if they do
not follow the federal statute word-for-word. . . . [4th and 5th problems,
as they stand, for Arizona]
"Sixth: Bolton
upheld the constitutionality of punishing aliens who stand in public streets
to solicit day labor. . . .
"When the order was
issued, I was in a meeting with East Coast legislators from one of many
states considering SB-1070 laws. They were concerned by the first news
reports. But after we read the order together, their confidence was
restored.
"They resolved to include
Bolton's technical corrections in the bill they're drafting and go forward
with this vital program for protecting citizens' rights and the rule of
law."
7/30/10
Conservatives rally around the Tenth Amendment
By Matt Purple - The Daily Caller
"It’s only 28 words long:
'The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or
to the people'
"But the Tenth Amendment
to the Constitution is having a powerful effect on conservative ideology
these days. Libertarian activists are citing the amendment with renewed
fervor and many
politicians have been heard reciting it recently as well.
"'The reality is the Tenth
Amendment really defines what the Constitution was supposed to mean,'
Michael Boldin, founder of the Tenth Amendment Center, told The Daily
Caller.
"On Capitol Hill, a group
of Republican congressmen recently founded the Tenth Amendment Task Force,
with the goal of 'Dispers[ing] power from Washington and restor[ing] the
constitutional balance of power through liberty-enhancing federalism,'
according to their website. . . .
"Many progressives say
that’s absurd. Ian Millhiser, a policy analyst at the Center for American
Progress, cautions that conservatives are interpreting the Tenth
Amendment too narrowly, and that such a reading would abolish popular
programs like Social Security and Medicare. . . . [Emphasis added.]
"The Constitution’s
complement to the Tenth Amendment is the Commerce Clause, which states,
'[The
Congress shall have
power] To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several
States, and with the Indian tribes.'
"Many progressives contend
that this gives the federal government broad power to regulate anything
that affects commerce. This reasoning was adopted by the courts during
the New Deal.
"Others claim that
'regulate' meant something different during the late-1700s — literally
to 'make regular.' They argue the Commerce Clause was just supposed to
block states from establishing tariffs and sanctions against each other
that could hamper regular trade."
7/30/10
Slow
Poison
Investor's
Business
Daily
"How do
you keep
an
economy
from
digging
itself
out of a
major
recession?
One
surefire
method
is
massively
expanding
a
government
whose
major
programs
are
already
on their
way to
bankruptcy,
then
sitting
idly by
as major
tax
increases
arrive.
"The Democratic
Congress has spent a trillion dollars on a failed Keynesian stimulus that
promised millions of jobs that never materialized. They added a massive new
entitlement in the form of a government takeover of health care when the
entitlements already burdening us are going broke. And they are letting the Bush
tax cuts expire at the end of this year.
"Why in
such a
chancy
economic
environment
would
investors
invest?
Why
would
entrepreneurs
take
risks?
And why
would
businesses
expand
and hire
new
employees?
By
extension,
why
would
consumers
spend? .
. .
"Excuse us, but
where on earth did that trillion dollars in job-creating stimulus go?
"It is under these
scary conditions that the Bush tax cuts are about to expire. . . .
"That, the
mega-bank concluded, could possibly be enough to 'push the economy to a stalling
point.'"
7/30/10
Blow
WikiLeaks
Off The
Internet
Investor's
Business
Daily
"The horror we feared
would happen is here. Friday, the New York Times reports the Taliban is
Warfare: Now that the Taliban are scouring WikiLeaks
for names of allies to kill from a trove of stolen U.S. documents, the
White House is begging the site not to publish more. It should make
WikiLeaks an enemy target.
"The horror we feared
would happen is here. Friday, the New York Times reports the Taliban is
studying 75,000 classified U.S. documents posted on WikiLeaks for names
of informants, potential defectors and others who cooperated with
American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
"'We are studying the
report,' a gleeful Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the Times.
'If they are U.S. spies, then we know how to punish them.'
"That means death for
any Afghan who ever cooperated with us because those reports are loaded
with names, identifying villages, parentages and potential defectors.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange threatens to publish more documents and
publicly sneers at the prospect of deaths, mockingly saying the U.S.
should launch criminal inquiries on U.S. soldiers instead.
"Chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen warns that Assange may 'already have
blood on his hands.' The White House response is to focus on begging
Assange, who leaked the documents, to stop. . . .
"[T]he
war is
going on
right
now, and
Afghans
will
almost
certainly
die due
to
WikiLeaks.
We
believe
Assange's
act was
malicious
and
intentional,
in
essence
an act
of war
to aid
our
enemies.
"Instead of pleading
with Assange in Sweden, Congress and the president need to find a reason
to destroy the WikiLeaks Web site — or so impair it that it can no
longer function.
"It's not a matter of
free speech, but life and death. If not done quickly, people will die.
People we've promised to protect. People who will be the future of their
country.
"Today, it seems,
Assange and and his silent partners the Taliban understand information
warfare. Unfortunately, the U.S. doesn't. It's time to change that."
7/30/10
Will
Washington's
Failures
Lead To
Second
American
Revolution?
By
ERNEST S. CHRISTIAN AND GARY A ROBBINS, Investor's Business Dailty
"Opinion polls suggest that in the November mid-term elections, voters
will replace the present Democratic majority in Congress with opposition
Republicans — but that will not necessarily stop Obama.
"A President
Obama intent on achieving his transformative goals despite the
disagreement of the American people has powerful weapons within
reach. In one hand, he will have a veto pen to stop a new
Republican Congress from repealing ObamaCare and the Dodd-Frank
takeover of banks.
"In the other,
he will have a fistful of executive orders, regulations and
Obama-made fiats that have the force of law.
"Under
ObamaCare, he can issue new rules and regulations so insidiously
powerful in their effect that higher-priced, lower-quality and
rationed health care will quickly become ingrained, leaving a
permanent stain.
"Under
Dodd-Frank, he and his agents will control all credit and
financial transactions, rewarding friends and punishing
opponents, discriminating on the basis of race, gender and
political affiliation. Credit and liquidity may be choked by
bureaucracy and politics — and the economy will suffer.
"He
and the EPA may try to impose by 'regulatory' fiats many
parts of the cap-and-trade and other climate legislation
that failed in the Congress.
"And
by executive orders and the in terrorem effect of an
industrywide "boot on the neck" policy, he can continue
to diminish energy production in the United States.
"By
the trick of letting current-law tax rates 'expire,' he
can impose a $3.5 trillion 10-year tax increase that
damages job-creating capital investment in an economy
struggling to recover. And by failing to enforce the law
and leaving America's borders open, he can continue to
repopulate America with unfortunate illegals whose skill
and education levels are low and whose political
attitudes are often not congenial to American-style
democracy.
"A
wounded rampaging president can do much damage — and,
like Caesar, the evil he does will live long after he
leaves office, whenever that may be.
"The
overgrown, un-pruned power of the presidency to reward,
punish and intimidate may now be so overwhelming that
his re-election in 2012 is already assured —
Chicago-style." [Can the courts require he produce a
birth certificate as everyday citizens had to do to work
in defense plants during World War II? And failing that,
show him the door now?]
7/29/10
The
Names
Have
Changed
But the
Philosophy
Is the
Same
Glen
Beck
Show
Segment
Video
of the
Evening's
Show
--Transcript
Here
The goal
of the
Weather
Underground
was a
“dictatorship”
of a
“new
democracy”
that
develops
into
socialism.
"A lot of people will glance
at the Weather Underground [Emphasis added.] manifesto and say, Oh,
Glenn! It's the 1960s. This has got nothing to do with today. Well, it's
not like President Obama has the manifesto stapled to the wall behind his
picture of Lincoln so he can look at it when no one is around and secretly plot
to end the Vietnam War.
"But, as we look through the
manifesto, you can see the philosophy is the same. Insert the victims of today
over the victims of yesteryear, clean up the outdated-radical-hippie language of
the '60s and you pretty much have a position paper from this administration.
"Back then, the victims were
the Vietnamese, the students, the labor unions, the working class, the Third
World and the oppressed. Well, today, it's no longer the Vietnamese. It's the
Iraqis or the Palestinians or the Afghan people."
7/29/10
Weather Underground (organization) From Wikipedia, the free
encyclopedia
"Weatherman, known
colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground
Organization (abbreviated WUO), was an
American
radical left organization. It originated in 1969 as a
faction of
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)[2]
composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their
supporters. Their goal was to create a clandestine revolutionary party for the
violent overthrow of the
US government and the establishment of a
dictatorship of the proletariat.[3]
"With leadership whose
revolutionary positions were characterized by Black separatist rhetoric,[2]
the group conducted a campaign of
bombings through
the mid-1970s, including aiding the
jailbreak and escape of
Timothy Leary. The "Days
of Rage", their first public demonstration on October 8, 1969, was a riot in
Chicago timed
to coincide with the trial of the
Chicago Seven. In 1970 the group issued a "Declaration of a State of War"
against the United States government, under the name "Weather Underground
Organization" (WUO). The bombing attacks mostly targeted government buildings,
along with several banks. Most were preceded by evacuation warnings, along with
communiqués identifying the particular matter that the attack was intended to
protest. For the bombing of the
United States Capitol on March 1, 1971, they issued a communiqué saying it
was "in protest of the US invasion of
Laos." For the
bombing of
the
Pentagon on May 19, 1972, they stated it was "in retaliation for the US
bombing raid in Hanoi."
For the January 29, 1975 bombing of the
United States Department of State Building, they stated it was "in response
to escalation in
Vietnam."[4]
"The Weathermen grew out of
the
Revolutionary Youth Movement (RYM) faction of SDS. . . . [The] founding
document called for a 'white fighting force' to be allied with the 'Black
Liberation Movement' and other radical movements[5]
to achieve "the destruction of
US imperialism and achieve a
classless world: world
communism."[6]
7/29/10
Bill Ayers
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Charles "Bill"
Ayers (born December 26, 1944)[1]
is an American
elementary
education theorist and a former leader in the movement that
opposed U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. He is known for his
1960s
activism as well as his current work in
education reform,
curriculum, and instruction. In 1969 he co-founded the
Weather Underground, a self-described
communist
revolutionary group[2]
that conducted a campaign of
bombing public buildings during the 1960s and 1970s, motivated
by U.S. involvement in the
Vietnam War. He is now a professor in the College of Education
at the
University of Illinois at Chicago, holding the titles of
Distinguished Professor of Education and Senior University
Scholar.[3]
During the
2008 Presidential campaign, a controversy arose over his
contacts with candidate
Barack Obama. He is married to
Bernardine Dohrn, who was a leader in the Weather organization.
[Other than his far from distant association with Obama, note
his "work in education reform, curriculum and instruction"--a
cofounder of "the
Weather Underground, a self-described
communist
revolutionary group[2]"]
7/29/10
Arizona Immigration Decision
Andy McCarthy,
NationalReviewOnLine
"On a quick read, the federal court's issuance of a temporary injunction
against enforcement of the major provisions of the Arizona immigration law
appears specious."
[Also an attendee at the latest
Myrtle Beach Tea Party pointed out that Article 3, Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the
Constitution clearly states that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction for
suits against states.]
7/29/10
Memo outlines backdoor 'amnesty' plan
Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times
Immigration staffers cite tools available without reform
"With
Congress
gridlocked on an immigration bill, the
Obama administration is considering using a back door to stop deporting many
illegal immigrants - what a draft government memo said could be 'a
non-legislative version of amnesty.'
"The memo, addressed to U.S.
Citizenship and
Immigration Services Director
Alejandro
Mayorkas and written by four agency staffers, lists tools it says the
administration has to 'reduce the threat of removal' for many illegal
immigrants who have run afoul of immigration authorities."
7/29/10
Hapless SEC can now hide its secrets
WashingtonExaminer.com
"'No one will know until this is actually in place how it works,' said
Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., of the Senate's slapdash financial reform bill. He
ought to know: He co-sponsored the bill along with Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass.
Two weeks after its passage, we've already seen one outrageous result: Thanks to
an unnoticed provision of the bill, the Securities and Exchange Commission is
now declaring itself exempt from Freedom of Information Act requests, one of the
bulwarks of government transparency."
7/29/10
A Boswell For Rush
JAY NORDLINGER, NationalReviewOnLine
"Zev Chafets has written many books on many
subjects, and he has a very juicy subject in Rush Limbaugh. 'El Rushbo' has
figured hugely in the political culture of this country for the past 20 years.
And he offers a highly interesting personal story. . . .
"Rush Limbaugh: An Army of
One is a spiffy, instructive, and absorbing read.
"His [Chafets] politics have
always been somewhat hard to discern. I have always considered him a 'liberal
with sanity,' to use the phrase that Ed Koch, the former New York mayor, coined
for himself. (This coinage drives liberals 'without sanity' crazy.) In his
Limbaugh book, however, Chafets often sounds like a conservative — in his
understanding of Rush and his fans, in his understanding of those who despise
them. The 'despising' side will surely consider this book a brief for Limbaugh.
Never does Chafets sound more like a conservative than when he is describing and
analyzing our media culture. Here he is talking about Walter Goodman, the New
York Timesman who reviewed Limbaugh’s 1992 book The Way Things Ought to
Be: 'To Goodman, Limbaugh was merely a demagogue, devoid of ideas worth
considering. Like most liberal intellectuals, the reviewer knew next to nothing
about American conservatism, and it showed . . .' Chafets later observes that,
in the presidential campaign of 2008, 'mainstream reporters functioned as Obama
bodyguards.' Who can argue? . . .
"In December 1992, the former
president [Reagan] wrote to Limbaugh, 'Now that I’ve retired from active
politics, I don’t mind that you’ve become the number one voice for
conservatism.' He also said, 'I know the liberals call you ‘the most dangerous
man in America,’ but don’t worry about it, they used to say the same about me.
Keep up the good work.' Not often does a person receive a testimonial like that.
It should help Limbaugh to 'smile at his foes,' to borrow from an old hymn. He
does anyway, really."
7/29/10
Rush Limbaugh, the "Obnoxious Anti-Environmentalist" was Right
Rush Limbaugh Show--Today Show
Segment Transcript
RUSH: TIME Magazine on their website by the putrid Michael Grunwald, he's
the writer of the story: "The BP Spill: Has the Damage Been Exaggerated? --
President Obama has called the BP oil spill 'the worst environmental disaster
America has ever faced,' and so has just about everyone else. Green groups are
sounding alarms about the 'Catastrophe Along the Gulf Coast,' while CBS, Fox and
MSNBC slap 'Disaster in the Gulf' chryons on all their spill-related news. Even
BP fall guy Tony Hayward, after some early happy talk, admitted the spill was an
'environmental catastrophe.' The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh
has been a rare voice arguing that the spill -- he calls it 'the leak' -- is
anything less than an ecological calamity, scoffing at the avalanche of
end-is-nigh eco-hype." The obnoxious anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh,
writes the putrid Michael Grunwald.
Well, the next paragraph begins this way. Well, the obnoxious and
anti-environmentalist Rush "has a point. The Deepwater explosion was an awful
tragedy for the 11 workers who died on the rig, and it's no leak; it's the
biggest oil spill in U.S. history. It's also inflicting serious economic and
psychological damage on coastal communities. ... Yes, the spill killed birds --
but so far, less than 1% of the birds killed by the Exxon Valdez. Yes, we've
heard horror stories about oiled dolphins -- but, so far, wildlife response
teams have collected only three visibly oiled carcasses of any mammals. Yes, the
spill prompted harsh restrictions on fishing and shrimping, but so far, the
region's fish and shrimp have tested clean, and the restrictions are gradually
being lifted. And, yes, scientists have warned that the oil could accelerate the
destruction of Louisiana's disintegrating coastal marshes ... but, so far,
shorelines assessment teams have only found about 350 acres of oiled marshes,
when Louisiana was already losing about 15,000 acres of wetlands every year."
So it's convoluted piece, ladies and gentlemen, but does point out that the
obnoxious and anti-environmentalist Rush Limbaugh has a point, that it's all
been exaggerated.
"Marine scientist Ivor Van Heerden, another former LSU prof who's working
for a spill response contractor, says 'there's just no data to suggest this is
an environmental disaster. I have no interest in making BP look good -- I think
they lied about the size of the spill -- but we're not seeing catastrophic
impacts,' says Van Heerden, who, like just about everyone else working in the
Gulf these days, is being paid out of BP's spill response funds. 'There's a lot
of hype, but no evidence to justify it.' The scientists I spoke with cite four
basic reasons the initial eco-fears seem overblown. First, the Deepwater Horizon
oil, unlike the black glop from the Valdez, is comparatively light and
degradable..." something I said within the first week of the spill. "...which is
why the slick in the Gulf is dissolving surprisingly rapidly now that the gusher
has been capped." It's not surprising to me. It was predicted by me. I didn't
have to predict it because I knew this would be true." . . .
RUSH: You know, there's another reason why the left is angry out there
about this oil spill. Obama did not lift a finger to help. The left is looking
at this, the environmentalist wackos, as such a blown opportunity. He did
nothing -- sat around for how many days, 58, 60 days? -- and did diddly-squat.
God took over. Obama cannot raise the seas, he cannot lower the seas, he cannot
clean up the seas. He cannot get rid of the oil. I have the guts to report it.
So all they can do -- and don't be surprised if this happens. Don't be surprised
if the partisan political operatives in the so-called media, the Fake Media,
say, "Well, of course Obama didn't do anything. He knew that this would take
care of itself on its own."
No, no, no! We're not going to let 'em get away with that because it
wasn't long ago -- how long ago was it? -- that Obama went on TV and said he was
in there shaving one morning (which he has to do, I understand, once a week) and
his little girl came in and said (child voice), "Daddy? Daddy? Did you plug the
leak yet, daddy? Did you plug the hole?" So when the Fake Media comes around and
says, "Obama knew it was going to take care of itself and that's why he wasn't
in a panic." No, no, no, no. Obama's family was panicking over whether or not
he'd plugged the hole yet. Very, very simple
7/28/10
Too Many
Voters
Unaware
Of How
The
Mainstream
Media
Corrupts
The News
By
Alicia
Colon,
The
Irish
Examiner
"My sister who lives in
Westchester and I were discussing her husband's serious eye condition (he has
macular degeneration) and I mentioned that Glenn Beck announced he might be
going blind. She said, 'Who?' She'd never heard of the Fox News host who's
written several best-selling books and appears regularly on 'The O'Reilly
Factor.'
"My sister is an intelligent
senior citizen but she doesn't watch Fox News very much though does watch CNN
and upon further discussion told me she'd never heard of Anthony ('Van') Jones,
the green-jobs czar ousted from the White House after Mr. Beck exposed his
communist background. Her television news sources are CBS, NBC, and ABC, and, as
a Democrat, she had no problem voting for the relatively unknown Illinois
Senator Barack Obama. . . .
"I've done a similar personal
survey of persons I know to be Obama supporters and, similarly, their news
sources are the same. While some are Internet savvy, they use it to access
social networks such as My Space, Facebook and Twitter and to view YouTube
videos. None of them recognized the name Andrew Breitbart.
"There's a lot of buzz on the
Internet about what has been called the Journolist. This was a private e-mail
list maintained by Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein of about 400
journalists, bloggers, and academics who may have colluded in aiding the
election of Mr. Obama. Mr. Breitbart is the king of the alternative media and
created his 'Big' sites, (full disclosure: I write for two of them) to report
what was being unreported by the mainstream media.
Big Journalism and
Big Government are two
Breitbart sites that have uncovered scoops that took weeks for the mainstream
media to report. The others are Big
Hollywood and Big Peace. The Acorn scandal
would never have come to light without this exposure. . .
"Unfortunately, no matter how
many smoking guns expose the corruption in the Fourth Estate, there are still
too many people like my sister who hear only one side of the news. Even though
the mainstream media numbers keep declining they still control the major
outlets. It's no surprise that the administration will continue to turn every
incident into a race issue. That's because it works."
7/28/10
Bullets
across
the
U.S.–Mexican
Border
Deroy
Murdock,
National
ReviewOnline
"Whether
one
favors
blanket
amnesty
for
undocumented
workers,
mass
deportation
of
illegal
aliens,
or
something
in
between,
all
Americans
should
worry
about
what is
happening
on our
southern
border.
The
situation
has
devolved
into
bedlam,
and
grows
more
lethal
daily.
Pacifying
the
frontier
has
nothing
to do
with
anti-Hispanic
racism
and
everything
to do
with
national
security.
. . .
"'Members
of
Hezbollah,
the
Lebanon-based
terrorist
organization,
have
already
entered
the
United
States
across
our
southwest
border,'
concludes
A Line
in the
Sand,
a 2006
report
by the
House
Homeland
Security
Investigations
Subcommittee.
"The U.S
media
have
snored,
as if
under
sombreros,
right
through
the
events
in
El Paso
on June
29. At
about
4:50
p.m.,
city
workers
were
performing
their
duties
at El
Paso
City
Hall.
Suddenly,
a bullet
pierced
a window
and
traversed
an
interior
wall
before
it was
stopped
by a
picture
frame.
Another
bullet
smacked
an
exterior
wall but
did not
penetrate
it; the
bullet
was
recovered
and
proved
to be
from an
AK-47.
In
total,
seven
bullets
hit El
Paso
City
Hall
that
day.
"Police
say
these
bullets
most
likely
came
from
across
the Rio
Grande,
echoing
Pancho
Villa’s
cross-border
gunfire
in the
same
area in
1919.
At the
same
time
that El
Paso
City
Hall
came
under
fire,
six
Mexican
federales
were
battling
a
gun-wielding
gang
outside
a Smart
Supermarket
on
Bernardo
Norzagaray
Boulevard
in
Juárez,
Mexico,
about
half a
mile
away.
Chihuahua
State
Police
say they
found 40
spent
shells
from an
AK-47
and
other
weapons
at that
spot.
Mexican
Federal
Police
officer
"Domingo
Hernández
Espinoza
was
killed
in the
confrontation,
and two
other
people
were
wounded,
one
fatally.
Amid all
the
crossfire,
bullets
ignored
the
border
(a
common
regional
attitude)
and
struck
the seat
of El
Paso’s
municipal
government.
. . .
"[T]the
Obama
administration
has
deemed
that a
region
larger
than
Delaware
and
Rhode
Island,
combined,
is too
treacherous
for
Americans
to
visit.
"'Ceding that enormous portion of the United States to the bad guys
basically
is the
federal
government
saying,
‘We
don’t
have
control
of our
own
territory.
You’re
on your
own.
Good
luck!’ .
. .
"At the
eastern
end of
the Rio
Grande,
on the
Gulf of
Mexico,
the
University
of Texas
at
Brownsville
was
closed
from
September
3 to 6
after
bullets
flew
across
the
border
and
struck a
parked
car and
a campus
building.
The
bullets
were
fired
during a
shootout
in
Matamoros,
Mexico.
As loud
explosions
erupted,
and
Mexican
Army
soldiers
exchanged
gunfire
with
unidentified
suspects,
Cameron
County
sheriff
Omar
Lucio
scrambled
his
deputies
to
border
bridges
to keep
the
violence
within
Mexico.
. . .
"On the
exact
same day
that UT
Brownsville
closed,
Sergio
Saucedo,
30, was
kidnapped
from his
home in
Horizon
City,
Texas,
near El
Paso.
His wife
told
police
that he
was tied
up with
duct
tape,
hauled
out the
back
door,
and
whisked
away in
a Ford
Expedition
at about
3:40
p.m.
"On
September
8, just
five
days
after
this
abduction
in broad
daylight,
Mexican
officials
found
Saucedo’s
mutilated
cadaver
on their
side of
the
border,
near
Juárez.
Saucedo’s
hands
had been
cut off
and laid
upon his
chest. .
. .
"'Illegal
alien!'
rancher
Robert
Krentz,
58,
radioed
to his
brother
while
driving
his
all-terrain
vehicle
around
their
family’s
35,000-acre
ranch in
southeastern
Arizona
on March
27.
Later
that
night,
police
found
Krentz
dead in
his ATV,
with the
engine
still
running.
He
seemingly
encountered
an
illegal
who
fatally
shot
him.
Law-enforcement
officials
found
tracks
near the
crime
scene.
They
followed
those
footsteps
south 20
miles,
across
the
ranch
the
Krentzes
have
operated
since
1907,
right to
the
border.
. .
"Carter
refers
to
the
April
30
shooting
of
Pinal
County
sheriff’s
deputy
Louie
Puroll.
Near the
junction
of I-8
and
Arizona
Highway
84,
Puroll
confronted
five
suspected
drug
smugglers
—
Hispanic
men who
'appear
to be
undocumented,'
according
to
county
lieutenant
Tami
Villar.
The
suspected
smugglers
fired
some 30
AK-47-type
rounds
at
Puroll,
who
responded
with his
handgun
and an
AR-15
semiautomatic
rifle.
After
police
helicopters
responded
to
Puroll’s
distress
call,
the
suspects
futilely
opened
fire on
the
choppers.
Fortunately,
the
police rescued
Puroll,
who
survived
this
attack
with a
flesh
wound
just
above
his
kidney.
. . .
"'Members of Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based terrorist organization, have
already
entered
the
United
States
across
our
southwest
border,'
concludes
A Line
in the
Sand,
a 2006
report
by the
House
Homeland
Security
Investigations
Subcommittee.
"In the free-fire zone known as the U.S.-Mexican border, flying bullets
now
herald
the
arrival
of
Islamofascist
terrorism
as yet
another
menace
on this
international
frontier.
Yet the
chief
response
of the
overlawyered
Obama
administration
is to
sue
Arizona
over its
recently
adopted
immigration
law.
"And so it goes in the Upside-down States of America."
7/28/10
Inside a
Radical
Manifesto
Glenn
Beck
Video [Transcript]
Segment
Tonight's
Show
7/28/10
CBO's
Grim
Diagnosis:
Enemy Is
Us
Investor's
Business
Daily
"The
nonpartisan
Congressional
Budget
Office,
whose
job it
is to
make
reasonable
projections
about
the
economy
and
budget,
now says
it's not
the
financial
sector
that's
putting
us at
serious
risk —
it's
government's
almost
insatiable
desire
to spend
ever
larger
sums of
money.
"In a
new
report
this
week,
the CBO
grimly
summarizes
America's
fiscal
future:
'Unless
policymakers
restrain
the
growth
of
spending,
increase
revenues
significantly
as a
share of
GDP, or
adopt
some
combination
of those
two
approaches,
growing
budget
deficits
will
cause
debt to
rise to
unsupportable
levels.'"
7/28/10
An
Unserious
Presidency
On View
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Leadership:
As
Americans
suffer
economically,
President
Obama
golfs,
vacations,
campaigns,
appears
on a
frivolous
talk
show —
and
vacations
some
more.
Gee,
don't we
have a
war and
other
problems
to
attend
to?
"Will history record that
Barack Obama's only great achievement as president was getting his golf handicap
down to the teens? The president played more than two dozen rounds of golf in
his first year in office — as many as George W. Bush did over his entire eight
years. . . .
"With the unemployment rate
near double digits, in spite of over $800 billion in a misguided Keynesian
stimulus, and two-thirds of Americans believing the country is headed in the
wrong direction — that direction being global decline — the man elected on a
platform of 'Change' with a capital C seems to think his job is to neglect
his job and have a blast. . . .
"Former CIA director Michael
Hayden this week said military action against Iran may soon be the only option.
Domestically, the president has let
the Gulf Coast oil cleanup effort be bungled by conflicts with the affected
states, and he imposed a moratorium on oil drilling that has sparked popular
discord among area residents whose livelihoods depend on oil.
"At a time when the
entitlements of Social Security and Medicare are headed for a fiscal train
wreck, he imposes a new entitlement in the form of ObamaCare. And he signs a
Wall Street 'reform' that strengthens rather than scraps the too-big-to-fail
policy at the root of the financial crisis.
"Rather than working hard to
solve problems — and perhaps knuckling down to re-assess his own failed policies
— this president, in whom so many placed so much faith, is saddling us with new
problems.
"But hey, thanks to the
taxpayers, at least he's leading the good life."
7/27/10
BP Oil
Spill:
Clean-Up
Crews
Can't
Find
Crude in
the Gulf
By JEFFREY KOFMAN, ABC News
As Size of Slick Shrinks,
Experts Say Oil is Breaking Up, Staying Below Surface
"At its peak last month,
the oil slick was the size of Kansas, but it has been rapidly shrinking, now
down to the size of New Hampshire.
"Today, ABC News surveyed
a marsh area and found none, and even on a flight out to the rig site Sunday
with the Coast Guard, there was no oil to be seen. . . .
"The
light
crude
began to
deteriorate
the
moment
it
escaped
at high
pressure,
and
then it
was
zapped
with
dispersants
to speed
the
process
along.
The oil
that did
make it
to the
ocean's
surface
was
broken
up by
88-degree
water,
baked by
100-degree
sun,
eaten by
microbes,
and
whipped
apart by
wind and
waves."
7/27/10
Obama
Won’t
Speak
In-Person
at Boy
Scouts’
100th
Anniversary
Celebration
But Will
Appear
on ABC
TV’s
‘The
View’
By
Penny
Starr,
Senior
Staff
Writer,
CNSNews.com
[I
suggest
that you
scroll
down on
the page
targeted
by the
above
headline
link to
read the
comments.]
7/27/10
The
salesman
doesn't
know the
territory
By
Wesley
Pruden,
The
Washington
Times
"Barack
Obama is taking his teleprompter on the road again, this time with Detroit
as the first stop on a magical mystery tour to prove that he is, too, still the
messiah. He's trying to persuade everybody that he really isn't who he really
is.
"He's beset by polling numbers
that continue to fall. Everything he does makes it worse. He's fleeing
Washington's chattering class, and he'll run into the crying class on the road.
The president has yet to get his mind around the fact that most Americans have
decided that he betrayed their trust, that their only hope for change begins in
November. . . .
"Rahm
Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, describes the president —
emotionally distant, hostile to the cherished traditions of hard work and free
enterprise, contemptuous of small-town America — as 'reasoned, calm, looking
like the adult in the room.' We've come a long way to the time and place when we
can elect a black president who, like the elites he represents, is indifferent
to and contemptuous of the values Americans hold dearest. The president is an
attractive, likable salesman, but he can tour from now until next Christmas and
never move his merchandise. He never learned the drummer's first rule for
success: 'You gotta know the territory.'"
7/27/10
Augusta
State
University
to
student:
Accept
homosexuality
or leave
school
By John
Rossomando
- The
Daily
Caller
"An Augusta State
University counseling student has filed a lawsuit against her school
claiming it violated her First Amendment rights when it told her to change
her traditionalist Christian views on homosexuality or get out. . . .
“'This is not the role of
the state to be supervising their students’ religious beliefs, must less
mandating their religious beliefs,' French said. 'They certainly believe the
values they hold trump her religious beliefs and that she should change her
religious beliefs to match their beliefs…[It’s] fundamentally coercive.'
“The courts have defined
'religion' as a deeply held worldview that holds the same place in a
person’s life as a conventional religion such as Christianity or Islam;
consequently, an effort to require students to adhere to a certain worldview
could potentially violate the Establishment Clause.
“As a result, French said
the university’s effort likely violates the Establishment Clause as well as
the First Amendment’s free exercise clause.
“'The left has been
extremely upset by the fact that you would even see a picture of the 10
Commandments, or hear a prayer, or see a nativity scene,' French said. 'None
of those things are coercive. Here they are actually coercing students, they
are actually saying, ‘Your religious beliefs disqualify you from this
program, and to stay in this program you must alter your beliefs.’”
7/27/10
Where
Are the
Weathermen
Now?
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Today--Transcript
I believe there's one
document that explains the reason for many of the actions we're seeing from this
administration. It's the June 18th, 1969 manifesto from The Weathermen.
"I know this will seem to many
like ancient history, but if you don't know history you won't know where you are
and you won't know your future. This manifesto sounds crazy to us, sure, but
judging by their actions, there sure are an awful lot of people in and around
the administration who buy into the philosophy contained in these pages.
"Can you ever remember a time
where so many Americans — including the president — have labeled America the bad
guy? How many apology tours has the president gone on around the world? Even
"Captain America" isn't safe. A movie about the comic character is coming out,
but according to the director he 'wants to serve his country, but he's not this
sort of jingoistic American flag-waver.'
"He's Captain America.
If he's waving American principles, I'm cool with that. But even Superman isn't
doing that anymore. If you saw the last movie, they changed truth, justice and
the American way to: truth, justice — and that's it.
"Where is this hatred for
America coming from? From people who share the ideology found in this manifesto.
It was 'submitted' by a handful of Weathermen radicals, most notably Bill Ayers,
Bernardine Dohrn and Jeff Jones.
"The Weathermen were an
offshoot of the radical group Students for a Democratic America (SDS). They
formed in 1969 and the main goal for their 'revolution' was 'the destruction of
U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: World communism"'and
to 'achieve the dictatorship of the proletariat.'
"They talk about Cloward and
Piven and collapsing the system from within."
7/27/10
If
I Could
Change
One
Thing .
. .
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH: If
I could
change
one
thing,
it would
be to
change
the fact
that so
many
people
born in
this
country
hate
it. If
we could
change
that, we
would
eliminate
90% of
the
problems
politically
that we
have.
Do you realize that the political arguments that we're having in this
country
are not
just
between
two
competing
ideologies.
They're
between
people
who love
the
United
States
of
America
and
people
who
don't.
You
might
even go
further
and say
it's not
just
people
who
don't
love the
country.
It's
people
who have
an
active
hate for
it. You
can see
it in
the
media;
you can
see it
in all
the fake
media
journalists
at
Journolist;
you can
see it
in the
Democrat
Party;
you can
see it
in every
one of
the
Democrat
Party
constituency
groups.
The
unions,
the
African-Americans,
NAALCP,
the
Hispanics,
whatever
subset
of the
Democrat
Party
you look
at,
there's
anger
and
misery.
There's
no love
for
anybody
or
anything.
On our
side we
have a
professed
and deep
love for
the
country
as
founded
and our
families
and we
want
everybody
to feel
the same
way. We
want
everybody
to look
at this
country
as the
greatest
on earth
that has
provided
more
opportunities
for
human
beings
than any
other
nation
in
history.
Some people have doubted Obama's patriotism. I don't get into that.
It's
clear
that
Obama
has a
different
view of
this
country
than the
vast
majority
of the
American
people.
It's
clear
that the
people
who
support
Obama
have a
vastly
different
view of
this
country,
its
past,
its
present,
and its
future,
than the
vast
majority
of the
people
of the
country.
We're
being
ruled
and
governed
by a
minority
of
people
who have
an
active,
ongoing,
and
increasing
dislike
for this
country.
And they
have a
pure
hatred
for the
people
who do
like it
and who
love it,
not just
a
disagreement,
they
have an
active
hatred
for
those of
you who
do love
the
country.
Dennis
Prager
has a
pretty
good
piece on
this at
National
Review
Online
today,
tries to
answer,
why do
they
hate?
And
we've
struggled
with
this
ourselves
over the
course
of 21
years.
We
always
try to
figure
out the
motivations
for
those
who
disagree
with
us.
Sometimes
you
figure
the
motivation
is not
important
because
you
gotta
deal
with the
reality.
But they
do
hate.
They
have an
active,
vitriolic
hate.
They are
never
happy.
So I'm just thinking if I could just wave a magic wand, change one thing,
it would
be that
everybody
born
here
loves
the
country.
Do you
realize
how much
that
would
change
things?
Overnight.
And it
boils
down to
the fact
that it
is a
matter
of love
and the
fact
there
isn't
any on
the
left.
There's
only
anger,
vitriol,
outrage,
what
have
you, at
people
they
don't
even
know, at
the
traditions
and
institutions
of the
country.
If it's
too much
to ask
that
they
love the
country,
maybe
appreciate
it? The
two go
hand in
hand.
They're
not
going to
appreciate
it.
They're
out to
destroy
it as it
was
founded.
And
that's
what so
many of
us
really
have
trouble
getting
our arms
around,
the
active
desire
to
destroy
the
country.
. . .
CALLER:
Why the
hate of
America?
I think
it has
to do
with the
removal
of the
Pledge
of
Allegiance
and the
shift
from
patriotism
to a
hyphenated
America,
and then
a lack
of
decent
education
on the
foundation
and the
origins
of the
Constitution
and a
false
belief
that the
higher
the
education
the
smarter
they
are. I
believe
an Ivy
League
education
is not a
valid
substance
for
common
sense.
RUSH:
Well,
all of
that is
true.
The
reason
the left
hates
America?
As I
say, we
could
spend
here all
day
talking
about
it. The
reasons
don't
really
matter,
except
if you
want to
prevent
it from
happening
again.
We could
all come
up with
reasons
why. My
point
was if
we could
get rid
of this
hate, we
could
solve
the vast
majority
of the
problems
that we
have
because
all the
problems
that we
have
with the
left are
rooted
in their
hate,
hatred
for and
of this
country
in
various
ways. I
think if
you want
to start
talking
about
reasons
(which
is not
what I
was
looking
for
here,
but if
you want
to start
talking
about
reasons)
it's the
Constitution,
the
Declaration
of
Independence.
These
people
don't
like
God.
They
don't
like the
fact
this is
a nation
blessed
by God,
founded
with
recognition
that
"All men
are
created..."
That's
God.
That
doesn't
fly with
these
people.
But the
fact is
they
do.
Nobody's
arguing
with me
the fact
they
hate the
country.
This is
what I
find
interesting.
Not one
person
has
called
and
said,
"Oh, we
don't
hate
America,"
not one
leftist.
None of
you have
called
and
said,
"Rush,
you're a
little
wrong.
They
love the
country."
No, they
don't.
They
don't.
It's one
of the
fundamental
problems
that we
got.
7/26/10
US
flaunts
its
power
with
drills
by air
and sea
off
Korean
peninsula
as North
stays
clear
FoxNews.com
"ABOARD THE USS GEORGE
WASHINGTON (AP) — The East Sea off the coast of the Korean peninsula roiled
Monday with U.S. and South Korean ships, submarines, fighter jets and
helicopters — high-profile military maneuvers intended to show North Korea that
it is being watched.
"Military officials said that
despite threats of retaliation, North Korea was staying clear. Most of the
firepower for the four-day exercises — which North Korea condemns — has been
flying off the decks of the USS George Washington, a U.S. supercarrier that can
carry up to 70 aircraft and more than 5,000 sailors and aviators.
"Washington and Seoul are
hoping the drills — and the deployment of the most potent symbol of American
military reach in the U.S. Navy — will send a powerful message to North Korea in
the wake of the March sinking of a South Korean warship that killed 46 sailors.
An international investigation determined the ship was sunk by torpedo, likely
in a sneak attack by a North Korean submarine."
7/26/10
Britain
Plans to
Decentralize
Health
Care
By
SARAH
LYALL,
New York
Times
[From
Limbaugh's
"Stack
of
Stuff"
RUSH:
Here's
an
interesting
headline
in the
New York
Times:
"Britain
Plans to
Decentralize
National
Health
Care."
It isn't
working.
National
health
care in
the UK
isn't
working.
They're
gonna
decentralize
it.
They're
gonna
take
more and
more of
it into
the
private
sector,
the
opposite
direction
we're
going,
and the
shifting
of these
bureaucrat
jobs to
the
private
sector
-- there
are tens
of
thousands
of these
jobs.
They're
all
union
jobs,
and
that's
why we
ought to
hold our
breath
on this
because
I'm not
so sure
that
they're
going to
succeed
with
this. I
mean, a
lot of
British
administrations
have
talked
about
getting
rid of
these
administrators,
but none
of them
have
been
able to
do it
because
just
like the
union
people
here,
they'll
threaten
to go
violent,
strikes
and this
kind of
thing,
but at
least
what is
now
known is
the UK
can't
sustain
its
health
care
system,
and
theirs
is just
$160
billion.
It's
just
amazing.
And Canada's in an economic rebound. They cut taxes. Germany is in a
bit of
an
economic
rebound,
too.
Not that
we want
to
emulate
Germany,
but we
are
headed
in the
direction
all of
these
western
European
socialist
democracies
have
trod and
are now
admitting
failure.
And yet
here we
go just
unimpeded
down the
same
road,
totally
ignoring
what we
see
right in
front of
us.]
7/26/0
The
Unpresidential
President
BY
James W.
Ceaser,
The
Weekly
Standard.com
Barack Obama . . . a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he
diminishes in stature.
"The usual
posture of the statesman is calming and deliberate, which is what is meant by
the term 'presidential.' To engage in populism and parallel demagogic tricks—to
blame others, to mock, to display no magnanimity toward opponents—all of these
actions necessarily appear unpresidential. They are fitting for campaigns, but
they make a president look smaller."
7/26/10
Obama
Lied on
Lockerbie
Bomber
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Transcript
Today
OBAMA:
I think
all of
us here
in the
United
States
were
surprised,
disappointed,
and
angry
about
the
release
of the
Lockerbie
bomber,
and my
administration
expressed
very
clearly
our
objections.
Prior to
the
decision
being
made and
subsequent
to the
decision
being
made.
RUSH:
Well,
that's
just not
true
because
the
White
House
privately
backed
the
release
of the
Lockerbie
bomber.
That's
right.
This is
from The
Australian,
published
today:
"The US
government
secretly
advised
Scottish
ministers
it would
be 'far
preferable'
to free
the
Lockerbie
bomber
than
jail him
in
Libya.
Correspondence
obtained
by The
Sunday
Times
reveals
the
Obama
administration
considered
compassionate
release
more
palatable
than
locking
up Abdel
Baset
al-Megrahi
in a
Libyan
prison.
The
intervention,
which
has
angered
US
relatives
of those
who died
in the
attack,
was made
by
Richard
LeBaron,
deputy
head of
the US
embassy
in
London,
a week
before
Megrahi
was
freed in
August
last
year on
grounds
that he
had
terminal
cancer,"
from
which
he's
apparently
recovered.
"The
document,
acquired
by a
well-placed
US
source,
threatens
to
undermine
US
President
Barack
Obama's
claim
last
week
that all
Americans
were
'surprised,
disappointed
and
angry'
to learn
of
Megrahi's
release.
Scottish
ministers
viewed
the
level of
US
resistance
to
compassionate
release
as
'half-hearted'
and a
sign it
would be
accepted."
This is
big,
folks.
It's as
big, if
not
bigger
than the
WikiLeaks
thing.
The
WikiLeaks
thing,
can we
now call
this the
Democrats'
war?
They
wanted
it. From
the
first
day we
went
into
Iraq
they
wanted
to focus
on
Afghanistan.
This is
Obama's
war. Can
we now
call it
Obama's
war? Yes
we can,
and we
will do
so
accurately.
I still
don't
know
what to
call
these
people.
They're
not
media.
The
flacks
for the
ruling
class
will of
course
not call
it
Obama's
war, but
it
clearly
is. The
White
House
backed
release
of
Lockerbie,
the
bomber.
Now,
remember
ClimateGate,
let's
put all
this in
perspective.
ClimateGate
was a
story
because
e-mails
got out
that
were
meant to
remain
hidden
from
public
view,
forever.
Information
about
the
White
House
backing
the
release
of the
Lockerbie
bomber
was
never
supposed
to see
the
light of
day,
either.
But it
has.
This is
the same
regime
that
desperately
wants to
try
Khalid
Sheikh
Mohammed
in New
York
City;
the same
regime
that
wants
NASA to
help
Muslims
feel
better
about
themselves
in math
and
science;
the same
regime
that has
not said
a word
about a
mosque
at
Ground
Zero,
which is
opposed
by I
think
even 71%
of New
Yorkers
and
throughout
the
country.
A mosque
at
Ground
Zero is
meant as
a
monument
to our
defeat,
and we
have a
bunch of
politically
correct
cowards
who are
afraid
to stand
up to
this and
say,
"No, no,
no, no,"
because
we still
feel
somehow
the need
to reach
out, to
have
understanding
with
militants
in the
Islamic
world.
7/26/10
Netroots Nation
Targets Beck Glenn Beck Television Show Segment [video]
DEAN: And it was
about to go — and it was...
WALLACE: But it
wasn't on Fox News, so maybe you shouldn't be using the racist phrase either.
DEAN: And it — and
it — and it was about to go — and it was about to go on Glenn Beck, which is
what the administration was afraid of.
BECK: The
video was about to go on Glenn Beck? Are we in the "Minority
Report" movie now? Does Howard Dean have a trio of albinos
bathing in milk with electrodes attached to their heads
showing him the future on computer screens? I'm surprised a
squad of commandoes didn't bust into the studio last Monday
to stop me from playing the video I was "about to" play.
Unfortunately, for them, I
didn’t play it. And when I finally did approximately 26 hours after she was
fired — the next night — I took Shirley Sherrod's side. Now Howard, that's kind
of a pesky, inconvenient, little fact there.
But no one is letting the
facts get in the way of their Tom Cruise, “Minority Report”, chicken little
racist charges. Because the problem is that you have gotten under their skin to
such a degree they can't get you out of their heads. . . .
RUCKER: One of the
campaigns we ran last year, Color of Change, was basically going after Glenn
Beck's advertisers where we thankfully stripped him of normal brands, companies
you'd recognize. But the reality is — and we knew this — we weren't trying to —
well, we were trying to, actually, we were trying to marginalize Beck. We didn't
expect we would get him off the air. We wanted to make him untouchable to a
certain degree. . . .
BECK: As I said, the tape of
Shirley Sherrod was not going to be on my show. When it was — 24 hours later — I
supported her. Cries of racism without an event?
So what is the real issue
here? Because it's not racism. The issue is choice.
We must choose. Do we choose
those who create fear, limit choices, lie, cheat and steal? Do we stand with
ACORN, communist revolutionaries, Black Panthers, union thugs or the troops,
cops, your house of worship, small businessmen and women, moms and dads who fear
that America's best days are behind her? Because the powerful forces of greed
and corruption are blocking the road to individual freedom, individual faith,
individual responsibility, inventiveness and volunteerism. . . .
BECK: Here we stand at that
epic choice: Do we let them finally conquer the American spirit or do we stand
again and shake off the ever-forming chains? Reclaim our rightful place by
picking up our God-given responsibilities to ensure that man continues his crawl
from the swamp to the stars.
Stand, for you are man — and
what is more, you are an American.
Let them cry racism. I ask you
to stand and cry: freedom. All men, all races, all creeds: Freedom. Freedom from
want, freedom of religion, of speech. Freedom from a monolithic and faceless
bureaucracy that make your choice for you. . . .
I believe that Americans will
again draw the line between them and those who currently hold the keys that
control the force of the greatest and most powerful nation on Earth behind them
— those who would be our kings, those who would blaspheme our sacred American
ideals while they cry racism.
Americans, stand in the fire
of God's truth and once again cry freedom.
7/26/10
Last Few
Early
Humans
Survived
in
'Eden,'
Scientists
Say
FoxNews.com
"A strip
of land
on
Africa's
southern
coast
became a
last
refuge
for the
band of
early
humans
who
survived
an ice
age that
wiped
out the
species
elsewhere,
scientists
maintained
Sunday."
7/25/10
Inspector
General
investigating
Department
of
Interior
report
falsely
claiming
experts
endorsed
offshore
drilling
ban
By:
Mark
Hemingway,
Washington
Examiner.
com
7/25/10
Video:
Howard
Dean
absolutely
slammed
by Fox
News'
Chris
Wallace:
Dr. Clueless himself - former head of the DNC Howard Dean absolutely gets
disected by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. Wallace shows how to deal
with liberals - shove the facts in their face:
7/25/10
Clarice's
Pieces:
Know
When to
Hold 'Em
By
Clarice Feldman,
American Thinker
"This
week,
the
President
again
acted
precipitously
in
forcing
the
resignation
of
Shirley
Sherrod,
a USDA
employee,
for her
remarks
made in
March to
an NAACP
group
.When it
appeared
that her
remarks
-- while
they
were
intemperate
and
would
surely
have
been
deemed
racist
if
they'd
been
made by
a white
speaker,
were
somewhat
ameliorated
(but no
less
racist)
by her
claimed
epiphany
that the
issue
was
class,
not race
-- he
was
forced
once
again to
backtrack.
Obama
apologized
and
apparently
another
position
was
offered
to her..
. .
"In sum,
in the
new
telling
of the
events
Breitbart's
own
words
are
ignored
and he
was
blamed
for what
were the
White
House
and the
NAACP's
intemperate
actions.
Sherrod
and the
NAACP
both
blamed
Fox, the
network
that
held
back on
the
basis
they
wanted
to see
the
whole
tape and
would
not run
the
story
until it
could
see the
whole
thing
and get
some
context
for her
remarks.
. . .
"The
story gained even more traction than it might have -- at least online. (Who
knows what minimal information those who rely on old media have of any of
this?)
DOUG GILES, TownHall.com [Much more than Sherrod--must read}
"The
reason for that is the Daily Caller obtained the archives of the 400 member
listserv JournoList emails which reveal the connivances of this band of
journalists and academics.
"There's
a lot of unsavory meat being exposed. Not the least of it is the plan to tar
any opposition to Obama and his policies during the presidential campaign as
racist even though the claims
were far fetched
and baseless, and to prevent news of Obama's racist and Marxist Reverend
Wright from being published. . . .
"How much
'context', for example, did civil rights activists give the decent Judge
Pickering with a lifetime of working for better racial relations and square
dealing? None, of course.
"But this tactic has been so good to them, the examples of the bluffs'
working are numerous. Thus Senator Byrd was given a hero's farewell in
the Capitol, his role in blocking civil rights legislation for years was
all but forgotten by the Democrats and most of the press when his party
laid him to rest after a long career redolent of racism. But Byrd's an
easy example of how public memories have been distorted by time and
media disinformation. Here's a better test. Ask your family and friends
if then Senator John F Kennedy, voted for or against President
Eisenhower's 1957 Civil Rights Act.
"When you realize how few know the correct answer, maybe you'll agree
that the time to push back against this race card bluffing and media
distortion of the truth is long overdue."
7/25/10
US holds drills off Korea as Pyongyang talks war
By ERIC TALMADGE, Seattlepi.com
"ABOARD USS GEORGE WASHINGTON -- U.S. and South Korean warships and
helicopters practiced anti-submarine maneuvers off the
Korean peninsula Monday, readying defenses against the kind
of weapon that allegedly sank a South Korean navy vessel
earlier this year.
"The
destruction of the Cheonan in March, which has been blamed
on North Korean torpedo, killed 46 sailors in the worst
military disaster for the South since the 1950-53 Korean
War.
"The
four-day "Invincible Spirit" exercises involving 20 ships,
200 aircraft and about 8,000 U.S. and South Korean sailors
are being held in response to the sinking, bringing threats
of retaliation from North Korea, which denies responsibility
for the attack.
With the opening subject of "Fox News Sunday" being last week's
controversial termination of Agriculture Department official Shirley
Sherrod, Dean said, "I think Fox News did something that was
absolutely racist. They took a, they had an obligation to find out
what was really within the clip." Dean continued, "They have been
pushing a theme of black racism with this phony Black Panther crap
and this, this business, and Sotomayor and all this other
stuff...The Tea Party called out their racist fringe, and I think
the Republican Party's got to stop appealing to its racist fringe."
That apparently was all host Chris Wallace could stand, for he
struck back and struck back hard beginning with, "I know facts are
inconvenient things, but let's try to deal with the facts" (video
follows with transcript and commentary):
Read more:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/07/25/howard-dean-calls-fox-news-racist-chris-wallace-pushes-back#ixzz0ukQ1cqyn
With the opening subject of "Fox News Sunday" being last week's
controversial termination of Agriculture Department official Shirley
Sherrod, Dean said, "I think Fox News did something that was absolutely
racist. They took a, they had an obligation to find out what was really
within the clip." Dean continued, "They have been pushing a theme of
black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this, this business,
and Sotomayor and all this other stuff...The Tea Party called out their
racist fringe, and I think the Republican Party's got to stop appealing
to its racist fringe."
That apparently was all host Chris Wallace could stand, for he struck
back and struck back hard beginning with, "I know facts are inconvenient
things, but let's try to deal with the facts" (video follows with
transcript and commentary):
Read more:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/07/25/howard-dean-calls-fox-news-racist-chris-wallace-pushes-back#ixzz0ukQ1cqyn
With the opening subject of "Fox News Sunday" being last week's
controversial termination of Agriculture Department official Shirley
Sherrod, Dean said, "I think Fox News did something that was absolutely
racist. They took a, they had an obligation to find out what was really
within the clip." Dean continued, "They have been pushing a theme of
black racism with this phony Black Panther crap and this, this business,
and Sotomayor and all this other stuff...The Tea Party called out their
racist fringe, and I think the Republican Party's got to stop appealing
to its racist fringe."
That apparently was all host Chris Wallace could stand, for he struck
back and struck back hard beginning with, "I know facts are inconvenient
things, but let's try to deal with the facts" (video follows with
transcript and commentary):
Read more:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/07/25/howard-dean-calls-fox-news-racist-chris-wallace-pushes-back#ixzz0ukQ1cqyn
7/24/10
Senate
Energy
Debate
is Still
all
About
Cap-and-Trade
By Phil Kerpen, FoxNews.com
"A
headline on Thursday screamed: 'Democrats pull plug on climate bill.' Don’t
believe it. It’s a diversionary tactic.
"The Obama administration and
Democratic
congressional
leadership, seeing their window for shoving the country to the hard left
closing quickly, are intent on making one last major push for cap-and-trade.
It starts with their 'spill-response bill' or 'energy bill,' but it’s really
about cap-and-trade."
"The irony is that the political genius of cap-and-trade was supposed to
be that it hides a tax hike from the American people.
"The concept was developed
largely as a response to the political price suffered by Democrats for their
advocacy of outright energy taxes. As Al Gore explained: “I worked as
vice-president to enact a carbon tax. Clinton indulged me against the advice
of his economic team. That contributed to our losing
Congress two years
later to Newt Gingrich.”
"Enter cap-and-trade: the
code-worded way to impose a massive energy tax and pretend it's not a
tax. The political
'innovation' of cap-and-trade is that instead of levying a tax directly, it
puts a cap on overall greenhouse gas emissions, and establishes a market for
companies to buy and sell the permits.
"So it’s a tax with the added uncertainty of the tax rate being set at
auction, making it a tax with an unknown rate. The Congressional Budget
Office scored the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill as an $846 billion tax
hike. They also admitted the costs will be passed onto consumers in higher
prices.
"It was supposed to be a hidden tax, but the American people broke the code.
They know about cap-and-trade. They know it’s a huge tax hike and they don’t
want it. Support is crumbling. So cap-and-trade true-believers turn to even
deeper subterfuge. . . .
"The
Senate will take up energy legislation next week and pretend it’s not about
cap-and-trade. Democratic
leadership had already
scaled back the cap-and-trade provisions to just power plants (still enough to,
as President Obama explained, cause electricity prices to 'necessarily
skyrocket') and now have reportedly removed cap-and-trade completely --
temporarily -- although it remains the centerpiece of their real plan.
"The key first step of the plan is
to get something, anything, related to energy passed through the Senate. That
will get it into a
conference committee –
likely an informal, backroom, secret one – where it can be 'merged' with the
House-passed Waxman-Markey bill.
"The lead author of that bill, Henry Waxman, is openly telling reporters that at
that stage he will reinsert the full-blown cap-and-trade program.
"Both as a function of the legislative calendar and of electoral politics,
neither the House nor Senate is likely to vote on the conference report before
the election. It will instead, Senate cap-and-trade point man John Kerry has
said, be considered in a lame duck session of Congress.
"A lame duck session is a session of the old Congress – including those who have
already lost re-election – convened after the election but before the
newly-elected Congress can be sworn in."
7/24/10
GOP
Lawmakers
Call for
Investigation
Into
Alleged
Racial
Politics
of
Justice
Dept.
Fox
News.com
"Republicans on the Senate and
House
Judiciary
Committees are calling for an investigation into allegations that the Justice
Department wrongly abandoned a case against the New Black Panther Party and has
adopted a policy to ignore voting rights violations against white victims.
"Senate Judiciary Republicans sent a letter Friday to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
chairman of the committee, requesting a hearing and House Judiciary Republicans
wrote President Obama on Thursday asking him to direct Attorney General Eric
Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to launch an investigation.
"A spokesman for Leahy did not
return a message left on his
cellphone Saturday. The
White House did not immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
"The requests come as the bipartisan and independent U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights continues its yearlong investigation of the allegations. Earlier this
month, the commission, which has a conservative majority, called on the Justice
Department to investigate its civil rights division after a former employee, J.
Christian Adams, now a conservative blogger, testified that supervisors in the
division instructed attorneys to ignore voting rights cases that involved black
defendants and white victims."
7/23/10
Race
Played
Role in
Obama
Car
Dealer
Closures
By
William Tate,
American Thinker
"The Obama administration,
already
under
fire for unprecedented allegations of racial bias, faces a new bias
claim from a most unlikely source: one of the administration's own
inspectors general.
"Decisions on which
car dealerships to close as part of the auto industry bailout --
closures the Obama administration forced on General Motors and Chrysler
-- were based in part on race and gender, according to a
report by Troubled Asset Relief Program Special Inspector General
Neal M. Barofsky.
[D]ealerships were
retained because they were recently appointed, were key wholesale
parts dealers, or were minority- or woman-owned dealerships.
[Emphasis added.]
"Thus, to meet numbers
forced on them by the Obama administration, General Motors and Chrysler
were forced to shutter other, potentially more viable, dealerships. The
livelihood of potentially tens of thousands of families was thus
eliminated simply because their dealerships were not minority- or
woman-owned.
"As has been widely
reported, the Inspector General's study skewered the Obama Gang for
strong-arming the companies into closing 2,000 dealerships, costing an
estimated 100,000 people their jobs during a recession.
"But the news media
has ignored key elements of Barofsky's report -- elements that are far
more damaging, if possible, to Obama." [Read on in the original linked
to by the headline here.]
7/23/10
SOUTH
CAROLINA
BLACK
CONSERVATIVES
PLAN
ANTI-ILLEGAL
RALLY
"The
newly-formed
Black
Conservative
Movement
of South
Carolina
will
sponsor
its
first
major
event on
Saturday,
August
7, 2010.
The
'Anti-Illegal
Immigration
Rally'
will be
held
from 10
am to 1
pm at
the
Statehouse
in
Columbia.
The
rally is
being
held to
express
support
for
Arizona’s
anti-illegal
immigration
law and
to show
support
for
South
Carolina
bill
S1446
that
will
allow
law
enforcement
to ask
for
proof of
citizenship
status
if that
person
is
suspected
to being
in the
U.S.
illegally,
after
said
person
is
suspected
of
committing
a crime.
"Featured speakers will include Tim Scott, Jim Pratt, and Sheri Few
Congressional
candidates,
Charles
Daley,
Charleston
Tea
Party
Activist,
and Roan
Garcia-Quintana,
of
Americans
Have Had
Enough,
and many
more."
7/23/10
Diversity
and the
Myth of
White
Privilege
By
JAMES WEBB, The Wall Street Journal
"The NAACP believes the tea
party is racist. The tea party believes the NAACP is racist. And Pat Buchanan
got into trouble recently by pointing out that if Elena Kagan is confirmed to
the Supreme Court, there will not be a single Protestant Justice, although
Protestants make up half the U.S. population and dominated the court for
generations.
"Forty years ago, as the
United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost
every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such
debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of
government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The
time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit
of a fair chance at the future. . . .
"Nondiscrimination
laws
should
be
applied
equally
among
all
citizens,
including
those
who
happen
to be
white.
The need
for
inclusiveness
in our
society
is
undeniable
and
irreversible,
both in
our
markets
and in
our
communities.
Our
government
should
be in
the
business
of
enabling
opportunity
for all,
not in
picking
winners.
It can
do so by
ensuring
that
artificial
distinctions
such as
race do
not
determine
outcomes."
7/23/10
Bernanke
Says
Extending
Bush's
Tax Cuts
Would
Maintain
Economic
Stimulus
By
Scott
Lanman
and Ryan
J.
Donmoye,
Bloomberg
"Federal
Reserve
Chairman
Ben S.
Bernanke
said
extending
at least
some of
the tax
cuts set
to
expire
this
year
would
help
strengthen
a U.S.
economy
still in
need of
stimulus
and
urged
offsetting
the move
with
increased
revenue
or lower
spending.
"'In the
short
term I
would
believe
that we
ought to
maintain
a
reasonable
degree
of
fiscal
support,
stimulus
for the
economy,'
Bernanke
said
yesterday
under
questioning
from the
House
Financial
Services
Committee’s
senior
Republican."
7/23/10
Ground
Zero
Mosque
Goes
Radioactive
Big
Peace
"The
latest
assault
of the
stealth
jihadists
has
suddenly
gone
national.
And so
has the
push-back
by
freedom-loving
Americans.
"With help from two of our
country’s most prominent leaders – former Alaska Governor
Sarah Palin and former Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich – Americans are being alerted to a truly horrifying prospect:
The site where nearly 3,000 of our countrymen were murdered on September 11,
2001 is at risk of being defiled by a 13-story, $100 million megamosque.
"More importantly, people
across the Nation are learning about the true purpose of this complex:
It is intended to be a symbol of America’s defeat on 9/11 – and a beachhead for
the toxic program that animated the perpetrators of that murderous attack, the
program authoritative Islam calls “Shariah.”
"A new 1-minute
video just released by the
Center for Security Policy shows how the Ground Zero mosque would fit the
pattern of other mosques built elsewhere as permanent manifestations of
Shariah’s triumph over its enemies. The ad powerfully describes how our
acquiescence to this initiative will be seen by the jihadists as proof not of
our “religious tolerance,” but of what it is: Our submission to Shariah."
7/23/10
Taxpayer-funded abortions are here The Washington Times
Obamacare opens up the floodgates to horror
"It now appears that two more
states, Maryland and New Mexico, will join Pennsylvania in using tax dollars to
kill unborn children. As the National Right to
Life Committee
discovered, federally funded high-risk insurance pools in these states include
"pre-existing condition" insurance plans that cover abortion. The pools have
received $5 billion from
Congress to
provide benefits until 2014, when Obamacare kicks in.
"This is more evidence of the
emptiness of President
Obama's
executive order that promised the federal takeover of health care wouldn't
bankroll abortion. It also underscores the depth of
Rep. Bart Stupak's
betrayal of the pro-life cause in accepting
Mr. Obama's
word in return for the vote critical to Obamacare's ultimate passage. At the
time, the Michigan Democrat explained that he had received an 'ironclad'
commitment from the president that no taxpayer dollars will be used to pay for
abortions."
7/23/10
Daily Gut: When JournoList Attacks
Big Hollywood
"So, here’s what we’ve learned
so far from the leaked emails:
-
they desperately wanted Obama to
win
-
they cried like little girls when
he did. (He’s their Justin Bieber.)
-
they conspired to label anyone
who disagreed with them as racists
-
they hate Sarah Palin.
"So let me get this straight:
everything we see in these missives is exactly what we suspected about the
mainstream media all along. All of these revelations boil down to one supreme
epiphany: they completely fulfill the mundane, predictable stereotype of the
contemporary media hack.
"Well, actually: it’s only an
epiphany if you just got here.
"The real point: With the
exception of Fox News, a few mags, a handful of talk radio hosts and some vital
websites -the idea of free-thinking journalism is dead. These chuckleheads –
Adler, Ackerman, that toolbag Jeffrey Toobin – try sooo hard to swagger via
email, yet they come off less rebellious than Kenneth from 30 Rock. They’re the
Eddie Haskells of modern media: slobbering kittens reeking from the desperate
sweat of sycophancy."
7/22/10
What's
Happening
with
Seniors
Benefits
Art
Kelly,
60
Second
Activist
[From
My60SecondScoops.com
e-mail:
"The
Senate
defeated
59-39 an
attempt
by
Senator
Jim
DeMint
to
prevent
re-instatement
of the
federal
estate
tax.
The
'death
tax' is
now zero
but will
automatically
return
to 55%
next
year
unless
Congress
takes
action
to stop
it.
"An
'estate'
is what
is left
over
after
paying a
lifetime
of
taxes.
To tax
these
assets
all over
again is
greedy
government's
final
grab."]
7/22/10
Brigitte
Gabriel
Part 1
[4
minutes]
Americans
take
note.
[Gabriel
is the
former
news
anchor
of World
News for
Middle
East
television
and the
founder
of
AmericanCongressforTruth.com.
This
"must
see"
video
tells
you how
Lebanon's
open
border
and
multiculturism
led to
its
downfall--a
warning
for
Amerrica.
Also see
snopes.com:
Brigitte
Gabriel's
Speech
at Duke
University
and
if you
have the
time,
(46
minutes)
Interview
with
Brigitte
Gabriel
- Aug
12, 2006]
7/22/10
Future
of
Cap-and-Trade
Unclear
After
Reid
Abandons
Plan
FoxNews.com
[The
title
conveys
the
story. I
have
changed
the link
to
FoxNews.
com
where
the link
to the
article
is--with
the
intent
to give
you the
opportunity
to
sample
the
other
information
available
on that
site
today,]
too.
7/22/10
Rangel
summoned
by
special
ethics
panel
for
violations
McClatchy, Bloomberg Business
Week
"The formation of
subcommittee, which will consist of four Democrats and four Republicans, is
rare. The last time one was convened was in 2002 to handle the case of
former Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, who was under investigation in
connection with bribery, racketeering and tax evasion convictions.
"Traficant was
expelled from Congress, served seven years in prison and
unsuccessfully tried to get on the ballot to run for the House this
year.
"Rangel, D-N.Y., has been
under a lengthy probe by the House Committee on Standards of Official
Conduct for a series of ethics allegations that includes failing to report
hundreds of thousands of dollars in income and assets, improper use of
several rent-controlled apartments in his Harlem district, fundraising
efforts for a college center that bears his name, and failing to pay taxes
on property he owns in the Dominican Republic."
7/22/10
GM to buy
auto financing company AmeriCredit MSNBC.com
"DETROIT —
General Motors Co. will buy AmeriCredit Corp. for $3.5 billion, a deal that
allows the automaker to expand loans to customers with poor credit and offer
more leases, key areas where GM must grow to accelerate its
car sales.
"But the
acquisition, announced Thursday, also means that GM, which is 61 percent
owned by the U.S. government, is getting back into the business of making
risky loans. AmeriCredit is an independent
auto financing company that already works with about 4,000 GM dealers."
7/22/10
California School Spending Soared ... On Administrators
By Ed Carson, Investor's Business
Daily
"California schools, like the
rest of state and local government, have pleaded poverty as the recession and
housing bust abruptly ended the tax-revenue boom.
"But a study of 52 California
school districts by
Pepperdine University showed that K-12 spending rose 21.9% from fiscal
2003-2004 to 2008-2009, outpacing state income growth and inflation."
7/22/10
As the
Gulf
Absorbs
Oil
Spill,
Jindal
Blasts
Drilling
Moratorium
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today
{from
transcript]
RUSH: "Gulf
Boats
Having
Trouble
Finding
Any Oil:
US
Official
-- Some
750
boats
drafted
in to
scoop up
oil from
the Gulf
of
Mexico
are
having
'trouble'
finding
any
crude in
the sea.
... 'We
are
starting
to have
trouble
finding
oil,' US
point
man
Admiral
Thad
Allen,
who is
in
charge
of
handling
the
government's
response,
told
reporters.
The
boats,
which
have
been
drafted
in to
skim oil
off the
surface
of the
Gulf,
are
'really
having
to
search
for the
oil in
some
cases'
around
the area
of the
capped
well, he
added,"
just
can't
find it.
"Allen
said
some of
the
boats
used in
the
skimming
operations
were
being
brought
ashore
for
repairs,
as
attention
turned
more
towards
cleaning
up the
oil that
has
already
washed
ashore,"
which is
what
they
ought to
be
focusing
on. But
now our
lead
point
man
cannot
even
find the
oil.
They're
out
there
looking
for it,
and they
can't
find it,
and
they're
even
looking
deep.
If the
Gulf was
a
football
stadium,
the Gulf
of
Mexico
is the
seventh
largest
body of
water in
the
world,
contains
approximately
660
quadrillion
gallons
of
water.
That's
660 with
15
zeros.
If the
Gulf of
Mexico
was
represented
by the
Cowboy
stadium
in
Dallas,
the
largest
domed
stadium
in the
world,
the
amount
of oil
spilled
would be
about
the size
of a
24-ounce
can of
beer.
Yesterday in Lafayette, Louisiana, there was a rally for economic
survival
protesting
the
deepwater
drilling
moratorium
of the
Obama
regime.
Here is
Governor
Bobby
Jindal.
JINDAL:
The
president
of the
United
States
came
down
here,
met with
us in
person.
This is
what he
told
us. He
said
this to
me, he
said,
"Governor,
if
people
lose
their
jobs
because
of the
moratorium
they can
file a
BP
claim."
(laughter)
I said,
"Mr.
President,
with all
due
respect,
what if
BP
doesn't
pay?"
He said,
"Don't
worry,
governor,
they can
file an
unemployment
claim."
I said,
"With
all due
respect,
Mr.
President,
our
people
don't
want a
BP check
or an
unemployment
check.
We want
to go
back to
work!"
(cheers)
RUSH:
Governor
of
Louisiana,
Bobby
Jindal
taking
it to
President
Obama.
We don't
want a
check.
We don't
want
welfare.
We don't
want a
BP
check.
We don't
want an
unemployment
check.
We want
to
work.
Here is
the
second
bite
from
Governor
Jindal's
remarks.
JINDAL:
They
don't
understand
in
Washington,
DC.
They
literally
said to
us, the
administration
said to
us, "The
rigs
will
just
come
back."
The rigs
will
just
come
back,
like you
could
turn off
and on a
switch.
They
don't
understand,
once
these
rigs go
they're
gone for
years.
In
Louisiana
alone,
we'll
lose
20,000
jobs.
Across
the Gulf
Coast
tens of
thousands
of
additional
jobs.
That's
why
today is
so
important.
We need
our
voices
to be
heard.
We need
them to
understand
if they
hear
nothing
else
from us
today,
they
need to
hear us
say
this:
let us
go back
to
work.
We don't
want a
BP
check.
We don't
want an
unemployment
check.
We want
to go
back to
work
powering
the
American
economy.
RUSH:
That
represents
the
majority
of
thinking
throughout
this
country,
not just
Louisiana,
not just
down in
the Gulf
of
Mexico.
The
story on
this is
from the
Advocate
Acadiana
Bureau:
"Thousands
Protest
Drilling
Moratorium
at Rally
--
Thousands
attended
a rally
in
Lafayette
Wednesday
aimed at
convincing
the
Obama
administration
to lift
the
federal
offshore
drilling
moratorium,
which
officials
said
could
further
endanger
the
state
through
the loss
of tens
of
thousands
of
jobs.
The
'Rally
for
Economic
Survival'
was held
at the
Cajundome
and drew
about
11,000
people,
some
dressed
in their
oil
industry
uniforms,
others
in
shirts
bearing
messages
of
'Drill
Baby
Drill'
and 'No
Moratorium.'
... Lt.
Gov.
Scott
Angelle
served
as
master
of
ceremonies
and
fired up
an
already
lively
crowd,
proclaiming
that 'it
is time
to quit
punishing
innocent
American
workers
to
achieve
some
unrealistic
political
agenda.'"
If I'm
not
mistaken
he's a
Democrat.
Jindal,
of
course,
is a
Republican,
and "one
of 12
speakers
at the
two-hour
event,
pleaded
with
President
Barack
Obama to
'let our
people
work.'
The
rally
was in
opposition
to the
Obama
administration’s
ongoing
efforts
to
temporarily
block
deep-water
drilling."
Anybody doubt that this is purposeful? Anybody doubt the aim here is to
cause
harm?
Now,
have you
seen
much
about
this
rally?
Have you
seen
much
about
this in
the
so-called
media?
No. But
imagine
if this
rally
had been
an
anti-drilling
event?
Imagine
if
11,000
people
had
shown up
for an
anti-drilling
event.
Americans
forced
out of
work by
a regime
hostile
to
nonunion
workers
is
what's
going on
here.
If this
story
had
agreed
with the
media
and
agreed
with the
Obama
regime
template,
it would
have
been all
over the
news
last
night
and
today.
Instead,
Americans
will
hear a
federal
bureaucrat
was
fired
because
conservatives
are
racist.
7/22/10
Big
Brother
Arrives
Glenn
Beck
Television
Show
Segment
Today--transcript--video
"The biggest rerouting of the
nation's wealth in our history. The financial regulation that the president
signed into law yesterday is an unprecedented assault on our economy, our
ability to do business and, quite honestly, the republic as we know it — and
when combined with his other supposed legislative 'achievements,' it's on a
scale never before seen.
"This is Big Brother.
"Oh stop it, Glenn! You're
just fear-mongering. Wall Street needed to be reformed!
"Well, sure — among other
things — it did. But not this way.
"How can creating a protected
class of arbitrarily selected companies that are too big to fail help solve
anything?
"How does creating a special
path for financial institutions that fail, punish Wall Street?
"How can institutionalizing
bailouts mean that we'll have no more bailouts?
"Why do you need 2,300 pages
to say that you will no longer reward failure?
"How does punishing lenders
for irresponsible lending make it easier for the everyday American to access
cash when they need it?
"How does a government that is
15-digits in debt create an office of financial literacy with a straight face?
"How does a government with
75,000 pages of tax code that applies to every individual, successfully work
with other regulators to reduce undue regulatory burden?
"Hey Washington, some
regulators plus more regulators doesn't equal less regulation.
"How does a guy who can't
figure out how to pay his taxes and was involved in every step of the financial
collapse, Tim Geithner, head up something called the Financial Stability
Oversight Council? How do we give him the power to seize of any financial firm
that he finds "in danger of default"?
"Is this a constitutional
republic anymore?
"Not that Congress has a good
record of spending responsibly, but how can we institutionalize a credit line
for the Treasury so that Congress is completely irrelevant?
"When we're constantly being
injured by Congress, how can we take seriously a Bureau of Consumer Financial
Protection created by Congress? How can a bill that just creates a panel that
makes recommendations to an outside body like the Fed — that they're not
required to follow — be taken seriously at all?
"How can this bill be taken
seriously when it does absolutely nothing to touch Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
You remember Countrywide right? Evil, right? Making crazy loans to borrowers who
couldn't handle them? Remember that? Well, 90 percent of loans originated by
Countrywide were sold to Fannie Mae or backed by Ginnie Mae. If there were no
Fannie/Freddie/Ginnie — or any other outdated name you can think of — there
would be no Countrywide and likely no housing crisis or economic collapse.
"And speaking of Countrywide,
how can a bill written by Chris Dodd and Barney Frank possibly solve anything
when they were integral to the collapse at every level in the first place? It's
like asking Mel Gibson to write your company's rules on anger management and
racial tolerance.
"How can we stand by and
accept as financial regulation a bill that creates a cottage industry for
lawyers by making it easier to sue?
"How does the Fed, which
helped cause the crisis, get rewarded with more power because of it?
"How does the Treasury — which
helped bail everyone out after the crisis — get rewarded with more power because
of it?
"How does the SEC, which
missed the credit ratings fiasco, get rewarded with more power because of it?
"How can we be told there are
no bailouts in this bill, when we are throwing a billion dollars to states to
rehabilitate individual houses and stop crime? Or another billion dollars thrown
at people who lose their jobs? Is that not a bailout?
"How does creating a massive
government bureaucracy with the power to watch your bank account and track every
credit card account over your shoulder help your economic liberty? Big Brother
is watching your credit card.
"How does charging billions of
dollars in new fees on banks help an industry that has already been devastated?
"How do we pass a law that
passes the buck from the lawmakers to appointed bureaucrats to decide how the
financial regulation is implemented? None of this bill is defined — it just
takes 2,300 pages to outline different groups of people who later can figure it
out.
"What is wrong with America?
"All this week on radio, we
have been diving into a blueprint from the 1960s and we're going to talk about
it on television next week. There are people in and around the White House
following huge parts of this plan, as laid out over 30 years ago, consciously or
not.
"The fundamental
transformation of society comes in two distinct pieces. The first is 'a united
front against imperialism and for new democracy' built on a 'joint dictatorship'
of the working class and the poor. Class warfare anyone?
The second: 'Developing out of the
new democratic stage, socialism.' Remember, we are all socialists now according
to Newsweek magazine, so it might be hard to keep track of what phase we're
currently in.
"By the way, those aren't my
words describing the revolution, those are William Ayers' words along with the
rest of the Weather Underground.
"This isn't the new New Deal,
as much as it's an old, old idea. It's an idea that has been discredited for
decades among normal people, but an idea that so many around this president seem
to hold in reverence and still continue to borrow heavily from.
"We are being played like a
Stradivarius.
"The progressive movement
continues to move, and we continue to let it. Most of the media and our
politicians are anywhere from complicit to apathetic. We are entering a
dangerous and scary time, America.
"But, though I walk through
the valley of the shadow of death, fear no evil. As long as we have each other,
we keep our heads on straight and we our focus on our faith, our Founders and
disregard magic tricks, we will prevail."
7/21/10
Scientific
malfeasance
Dr.
Martin
Hertzberg,
Summit
Daily
News
7/21/10
Florida
doctors
to
consider
splitting
ties
with AMA
over
healthcare
reform
By
Julian
Pecquet,
The Hill
"The Florida Medical Association is
scheduled to consider the issue at its annual meeting next month. The House
of Delegates of the Florida Medical Association is scheduled to consider a
resolution severing ties with the American Medical Association because of
its support for the healthcare reform law.
"The Florida group will
consider the move at its annual meeting next month
"The scathing resolution takes
the AMA to task for having 'failed to achieve one single concession' in the
healthcare reform bill. It calls the organization’s efforts to repeal the
Medicare payment formula for physicians a 'fiasco' and accuses the AMA of
'failing to lead and represent America’s physicians and the American People
on the signature medical legislative issue of this century.'”
7/21/10
New
Docs:
173
Sweetheart
Loan
Deals
for 42
Fannie
and
Freddie
Execs
by Connie Hair, Human Events
"An investigation from
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), top Republican on the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee is uncovering the depth and breadth of the
scandals at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac at the very heart of America’s
financial meltdown.
"New documents released by
Issa show 173 sweetheart deal loans from Countrywide Financial Corporation
were given to 42 Fannie and Freddie employees as the company was negotiating
exclusive agreement to sell Fannie Mae billions of dollars in questionable,
sub-prime mortgages at a discounted rate.
"Among those receiving the
sweetheart deal loans were Jamie Gorelick, Vice Chair Fannie Mae, James
Johnson, Chairman and CEO Fannie Mae, Daniel Mudd, Vice Chair and COO Fannie
Mae and Franklin Raines, Chairman and CEO Fannie Mae. . . .
"'It is disturbing that
the very people charged with managing the stability of our housing and
mortgage markets were apparently co-opted by one of the largest sub-prime
lenders,' Issa continued. 'The decision not to include reform of Fannie Mae
and Freddie Mac in financial reform legislation underscores the importance
of investigating these influence buying efforts and presenting information
explaining Congress' clear obligation to act. I am committed to exposing
the full scope of how actions taken by Countrywide through its VIP program
and other lobbying efforts compromised federal government officials who
should have been more vigilant and skeptical about risky lending practices.'
"Issa sent a letter
yesterday to Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) General Counsel
Alfred M. Pollard raising concerns over the 173 Countrywide VIP loans given
to 42 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac employees, including three former Fannie
Mae CEOs, violated ethics rules and created a conflict of interest."
7/21/10
How
Financial
Reform
Discriminates
--
Unless
Your
Daughter
Goes to
Wellesley
By
Terence
P.
Jeffrey
CNSNews.com
7/21/10
Journolisters
Want to
Shut
Down
Fox!
(and
Wish
Rush
Death,
Too)
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
[T]here's
a story
at the
Daily
Caller,
which is
Chatsworth
Osborne,
Jr.'s
website,
it's an
update
on the
Journolist
and some
woman
who is a
producer
for a
station
that
carries
NPR
programming
said she
would
gladly
stand by
and
watch me
die
instead
of
rescue
me if I
was
having a
heart
attack.
She said
she
would
"laugh
loudly
like a
maniac
and
watch
his eyes
bug
out. I
never
knew I
had this
much
hate in
me, but
Limbaugh
deserves
[it],"
to die,
and I'd
be happy
to watch
him
die.
Now, the headline of the story: "Liberal Journalists Suggest Government
Shut
Down Fox
News." .
. .
"In
boasting
that she
would
gleefully
watch a
man die
in front
of her
eyes,
Spitz
seemed
to shock
even
herself.
'I never
knew I
had this
much
hate in
me,' she
wrote.
'But he
deserves
it.'
Spitz’s
hatred
for
Limbaugh
seems
intemperate,
even
imbalanced.
On
Journolist,
where
conservatives
are
regarded
not as
opponents
but as
enemies,
it
barely
raised
an
eyebrow.
In the
summer
of 2009,
agitated
citizens
from
across
the
country
flocked
to town
hall
meetings
to
berate
lawmakers
who had
declared
support
for
President
Obama’s
health
care
bill.
For most
people,
the
protests
seemed
like an
exercise
in
participatory
democracy,
rowdy as
some of
them
became.
On
Journolist,
the
question
was
whether
the
protestors
were
garden-variety
fascists
or
actual
Nazis."
. . .
[E]arlier
in this
in this
administration,
the
president,
his
hacks
targeted
me, his
party
targeted
me,
their
groups
targeted
me,
they're
all the
same.
They're
leftists
disguised
as
lawyers,
judges,
scholars,
professors,
teachers,
reporters,
anchors,
senators,
representatives,
legislative
aide,
congressional
staff,
federal
bureaucrats,
and on
and on.
There is
no
media.
We know
that
now.
There's
just an
incestuous
relationship
among
all
these
various
groups
and a
revolving
door
connecting
them
all.
And it
doesn't
help
that I
have put
a lot of
them out
of work.
. . .
"Jonathan
Zasloff,
a law
professor
at UCLA,
suggested
that the
federal
government
simply
yank Fox
off the
air. 'I
hate to
open
this can
of
worms,'
he
wrote,
'but is
there
any
reason
why the
FCC
couldn’t
simply
pull
their
broadcasting
permit
once it
expires?'"
Here's a
law
professor
at UCLA,
the FCC
does not
grant
Fox a
permit!
Fox does
not have
a
license.
Cable is
not
regulated
by the
FCC.
Local
stations
have
licenses,
but
network
-- ABC
doesn't
have a
license,
for
crying
out, CBS
doesn't.
NBC
doesn't.
Their
stations
do. We
here at
the EIB
Network,
we don't
have a
license.
Our
network
affiliates
have
licenses,
but we
don't.
We don't
have to
have a
license
to
operate
here.
The
government
could
not, as
these
people
want,
yank
us.
There's
a law
professor
suggesting
the
government
just
yank Fox
off the
air.
That in
itself
is
pretty
explanatory.
And
people
say,
"Rush,
they
don't
even
believe
in the
First
Amendment."
Of
course
they
don't
believe
in the
First
Amendment.
But they
will use
the
layers
of
constitutional
protection
to
insulate
them
from
what
they do,
permitting
them to
lie, to
fabricate,
to
character
assassinate,
whatever
they
wish to
do.
Democrats
and
their
front
groups
have
wanted a
race-based
political
battle
for
months
now,
starting
with
those
congressmen
who
walked
through
the Tea
Party
rally
and lied
about
the use
of the
N-word.
They
were
hoping
something
would
happen.
When it
didn't
they
made it
up. All
the
liberal
propagandizes
in the
media
who
reported
it as
fact
were
lying
through
their
teeth
and they
still
are.
The
NAACP
used the
same lie
about
the Tea
Party to
unleash
this
latest
round of
hate.
There's
one guy
who
could
stop it,
Thomas
Sowell
points
it out,
it's
Barack
Obama.
Barack
Obama
when he
finishes
office
he's
going to
have
further
divided
this
country
at every
level
than any
president
or any
other
individual
in the
history
of this
country.
And
isn't it
interesting
that the
so-called
media
ignore
all of
this.
Well,
it's not
interesting,
it's
factual.
They
ignore
all this
and
advance
the lies
of the
left.
7/21/10
The
SEIU’s
Friendly
Inquisitor
Kevin
Williamson,
NationalReviewOnline
NLRB
member
Craig
Becker
is
voting
on cases
related
to his
former
organization.
"Carole
Jean
Badertscher
was a
California
nurse
who just
wanted
to go to
work
and take
care of
her
patients
— but
the SEIU
was
determined
not to
let that
happen.
The
union’s
contract
with
Badertscher’s
employer,
the
Pomona
Valley
Hospital
Medical
Center,
had
expired,
and the
union
had
called a
strike
in
response.
Badertscher
and
other
nurses,
unwilling
to
abandon
their
patients
for the
sake of
a
stronger
SEIU
hand in
contract
negotiations,
resigned
from the
union
and went
to work.
In turn,
she was
threatened
by the
union
bosses,
who
promised
to have
her
prosecuted
under
California’s
antique
professional-strikebreaker
statute,
which
was long
ago
pre-empted
by
federal
law.
Badertscher
and
other
nurses
were
told
that
they
would be
fined
and
could be
thrown
in jail
for
months.
"But there was more at stake in the case for the SEIU than the right to
bully
nurses
in the
Pomona
Valley.
The SEIU
local
had also
informed
hospital
employees
that
they
were
legally
required
to keep
paying
union
dues. If
the
hospital’s
employees
stopped
paying
their
dues,
the SEIU
chapter
would be
starved
of its
income —
and it
was not
about to
let that
happen.
The
national
SEIU,
which
takes a
piece of
the
locals’
dues,
would
take a
hit,
too. So
the
local
SEIU
bosses
distributed
a flyer
full of
false
and
misleading
information.
It read,
in part:
“You may
have
been
mislead
[sic]
into
believing
that you
are not
obligated
to pay
dues and
fees
during
the
period
of
negotiations.
This is
untrue
and
retroactivity
may
occur
prior or
upon
ratification
of the
contract.
Please
ask
yourselves
why all
the
anti[-SEIU]
leaders
are
still
paying
dues.
Could it
be they
don’t
want the
possibility
of owing
more in
a lump
sum?”
Translation:
The SEIU
owns
your
paycheck
and will
come
after
it.
When
Badertscher
sought
legal
relief
from the
threats
and
paycheck-plundering
of the
SEIU,
her
lawyers
did not
expect
to find
themselves
arguing
their
case in
front of
the man
who was
the
SEIU’s
own
chief
lawyer
until a
few
months
ago,
when
President
Obama
named
him to
the
National
Labor
Relations
Board.
Craig
Becker,
former
general
counsel
for the
SEIU,
was a
controversial
appointee
to start
with,
owing to
his
radical
and
anti-democratic
views on
union
power.
But
surely,
Badertscher’s
lawyers
thought,
he’d
recuse
himself
from a
case
involving
the SEIU.
"Becker refused to do so. In fact, he was part of a three-member panel
that
reviewed
the SEIU/Pomona
Valley
case,
and he
has made
it clear
that he
intends
to
continue
involving
himself
in cases
involving
his
former
employer."
7/20/10
Voting
System
and
Fraud
Prevention
Tradeoffs
By George Edwards and Joe Dugan,
GIAC2002.org
7/20/10
Military
voters
soon to
be
disenfranchised
- again
Eric
Eversole,
The
Washington
Times
Panther prejudice not the only problem at Justice
"By most accounts, the 2008
presidential election was a disaster for military voters. Thousands of them were
disenfranchised when their absentee ballots were sent to wrong addresses, lost
in the mail or mailed too close to the election for the ballot to be returned.
To make matters worse, thousands of ballots were rejected by local election
officials because the ballot - through no fault of the military voter - arrived
after the election deadline.
"Much of this disaster could
have been avoided by the Voting Section of the
Justice
Department, and without swift action, the Voting Section will cause a
similar disaster in 2010 despite congressional efforts to fix the problem. . . .
"The section's misfeasance was
more than Congress
could stand. In early 2009, a bipartisan group of senators and representatives
worked to pass the most comprehensive military-voter reform in 25 years. The
centerpiece of that reform was
Congress' decision
to remove the section's discretion in determining what constituted a reasonable
time period for mailing absentee ballots. . . .
"A law, however, is only as
good as the people who enforce it and, once again, the Voting Section is making
decisions that will disenfranchise military voters in 2010."
7/20/10
Obama's
pattern
of
rigging
the
rules
Quinn
Hillyer,
The
Washington
Times
"Barack Obama learned from
Saul Alinsky's
manual that the most essential tactic for expanding power is to make opponents
abide by the rules while never enforcing the rules against one's allies. That's
exactly what his
Justice
Department and other executive departments are doing in case after case, all
aimed at rigging the deck in favor of the political left.
"That's what the accompanying
column by Eric
Eversole is all about. Military voters are thought to tend rightward. The
Obamites at Justice - such as
Rebecca Wertz,
the deputy chief of Justice's Voting Section, whose remarks to the
National Association of Secretaries of State were referenced by
Mr. Eversole
- are thus encouraging secretaries of state to seek waivers so they can avoid
taking more steps to protect military voting rights. This is an affront to every
one of our servicemen abroad, and it should not be allowed.
"Rigging the deck is also what
the abandonment of a voter-intimidation case against New Black Panthers members
is all about. Indeed, one of the lawyers reported to have helped scotch the
Black Panther case,
Spencer Overton,
also is said to have played a big role in crafting Justice's policy encouraging
the waivers that could hamper military voting.
"Deck-rigging also is the aim
of the department's maneuverings to avoid directly blocking an anti-white voter
scheme in Noxubee County, Miss. It was the aim when the Obamites dropped a suit
that would have forced Missouri to clear its voting rolls of dead people and
other ineligible voters, such as felons. It's why Julie Fernandes, the deputy
assistant attorney general, reportedly told a roomful of associates never to
enforce that same anti-fraud provision anywhere in the country. It was the aim
when the Obamites bizarrely blocked a small town in North Carolina from adopting
the nonpartisan elections that its own black majority had voted for, on the
grounds that blacks can't be elected unless they are identified as Democrats.
"Changing the rules for
political advantage, without even benefit of legislation, is also the game the
administration is playing when imposing an electronic version of 'card check'
elections for union organizing and when creating a new tax break for big-money
plaintiffs' attorneys.
"All of this is unethical,
probably lawless and certainly obnoxious. But the obnoxiousness level is
particularly high when it comes to refusing to protect the voting rights of
servicemen risking their lives half a world away."
7/20/10
Independence Caucus
Presents Frank Anderson
"Tuesday, July 27, 2010 CHAPIN
LIBRARY 400 14TH Avenue N.
Myrtle Beach 7:00 pm-8:30
pm
"All persons involved in patriotic
organizations, tea party groups, 9/12 groups and other interested individuals
are invited to attend to hear Mr Anderson speak about the Independence Caucus
and how to win elections. He will be speaking specifically about how Jason
Chaffetz defeated a six term GOP Rino in Utah in the 2008 election even though
Congressman Chaffetz had only a fraction of the funding expended by the Big
Money Machine advertising made available to the 'prostituted' incumbents who are
feeding at the pig trough in Washington, DC."
7/20/10
Tea
Party
Caucus
Debuts
Wednesday
By Chad Pergram, FoxNews.com
"At least eight House members, all
Republicans, are joining the
Tea
PartyCaucus. The members
include Reps. Mike Pence of Indiana, Pete Hoekstra of Michigan, Paul Broun of
Georgia, Todd Tiahrt of Kansas, John Carter of Texas, Cliff Stearns of Florida
and Dan Burton of Indiana.
"Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota championed the effort by asking House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi ,D-Calif., late last week if she would allow lawmakers to
form such an organization."
7/20/10
Documents
show
media
plotting
to kill
stories
about
Rev.
Jeremiah
Wright
By
Jonathan
Strong,
The
Daily
Caller
"It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama’s political
career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama’s
pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites, the U.S. government
and America itself. Obama had once bragged of his closeness to Wright. Now the
black nationalist preacher’s rhetoric was threatening to torpedo Obama’s
campaign. . . . "In one
instance, Spencer Ackerman of the Washington Independent urged his colleagues to
deflect attention from Obama’s relationship with Wright by changing the subject.
Pick one of Obama’s conservative critics, Ackerman wrote, 'Fred Barnes, Karl
Rove, who cares — and call them racists.' . . .
"'I think it’s worth keeping
in mind that Obama is trying (or says he’s trying) to run a campaign that avoids
precisely the kind of thing Spencer is talking about, and turning this into a
gutter brawl would probably hurt the Obama brand pretty strongly. After all, why
vote for him if it turns out he’s not going change the way politics works?”
"But it was Ackerman who had
the last word. 'Kevin, I’m not saying OBAMA should do this. I’m saying WE should
do this.'”
7/20/10
Evidence
of
Collusion
Between
the
Media
and
Democrats
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
All you need to know is that Jeremiah Wright's a featured speaker
at the
NAALCP.
That's
all you
need to
know.
The
NAACP is
as
racist
an
organization
as there
has been
and is
in this
country
. . .
RUSH:The story is the Washington media behind the scenes. The story
is main
stream
coordination
with the
left.
All the
story
right
now has
at the
Daily
Caller
is crazy
lefties
and
bloggers
saying
intemperate
things.
The
point is
there is
ongoing,
daily
cooperation
or
conspiracy
or
collusion,
coordination.
There is
no
media.
The best
way to
say it
is there
is
nothing
that is
media as
you and
I think
of
media.
There
are no
reporters.
The
media is
simply
an arm
of the
left.
It is
the
Democrat
Party.
Look at
the
media as
having
been as
co-opted
as
academia.
It
doesn't
matter
whether
you find
somebody
named
Ezra
Klein at
the
Washington
Post or
David
Weigel
(wherever
he is at
the
Washington
Post) or
Anastas
Mikoyan
or
somebody.
They're
all
frauds.
Nothing is real, particularly anything that comes one of these people's
mouths
or is
written
by their
pens or
at their
typewriters,
computers,
what
have you
-- or
from
their
cameras.
Nothing
is
real.
They may
as well
be
elected
officials
or
campaign
consultants,
pure and
simple.
Nothing
more.
Now, I,
El
Rushbo,
have
instinctively
known
this for
most of
my life,
which is
why I
have
been
very
frustrated
over the
years
when
people
have
told me
that the
definition
of
conservative
success
will be
when the
mainstream
media
finally
sees it
our
way.
There is
no
mainstream
media!
There
are no
mainstream
media
reporters.
There is
no
journalism.
That's
not what
this
is. You
can call
it
propaganda.
You can
call it
coordination,
collusion.
It's
just
liberalism
and the
ruling
class
with a
different
branch:
People
who have
access
to
cameras,
microphones,
and
newspapers.
. . .
RUSH:
News
that
fits
gets
trumpeted
around
the
clock.
News
that
distracts
or
contradicts
the
agenda
gets
flushed
down the
memory
hole.
Look,
I'll
give you
a great
example
here. I
pulled
it
aside.
It is
Mary
Frances
Berry.
Mary
Frances
Berry is
a
professor
at the
University
of
Pennsylvania,
former
chair of
the US
Commission
on Civil
Rights.
She
writes
at
Politico,
quote,
"Tainting
the tea
party
movement
with the
charge
of
racism
is
proving
to be an
effective
strategy
for
Democrats.
There is
no
evidence
that tea
party
adherents
are any
more
racist
than
other
Republicans,
and
indeed
many
other
Americans.
"But getting them to spend
their
time
purging
their
ranks
and
having
candidates
distance
themselves
should
help
Democrats
win in
November.
Having
one's
opponent
rebut
charges
of
racism
is far
better
than
discussing
joblessness,"
and
she's
exactly
right.
Amazing
candor.
That's
the
strategy.
It's
worked
every
time
it's
tried. .
. .
RUSH:
There is no media. There are no reporters. That's the simplest
and
easiest
way to
understand
this.
You're
not
watching
news.
You are
not
tuning
in to
see what
has
happened
and be
told by
people
what has
happened.
You are
tuning
in to
propaganda
arms of
the
Democrat
Party or
the
American
left or
what
have
you, and
if you
stop and
think of
it that
way,
it's not
even
arguable.
Where do you see any contradicting reporting on global warming or on any
issue?
Where do
you see
any
alternative
reporting
or any
idea or
any
criticism
of the
standard
reportage?
You do
not.
The New
Black
Panther
Party?
Bob
Schieffer
(stammering),
"Oh, I
had no
idea
about
it."
ACORN
tapes,
Charlie
Gibson.
"Ha-ha-ha.
I don't
know
what
you're
talking
about."
It's "I
was on
vacation."
Schieffer
was on
vacation.
"I don't
know
what
you're
talking
about,"
and they
didn't.
They
probably
didn't.
7/19/10
We know
more
about
the
Tiger
Woods
sex
scandal
than
about
our own
president
Monty
Pelerin,
American
Thinker
"I think it is remarkable
that within a week of Tiger Woods crashing his Escalade, the press found
every woman with whom Tiger has had an affair. In the last few years, with
photos, text messages, recorded phone calls, etc. And, they not only knew
the cause of the family fight, but they even knew it was a wedge from his
golf bag that his wife used to break out the windows in the Escalade. Not
only that, they knew which wedge!
"And each and every day,
they gave America more updates on his sex-rehab stay, his wife's plans for
divorce, and the dates and tournaments he will play in.
"Obama has been in office
for over a year now, and this same press:
· Still cannot find any of
his childhood friends or neighbors,
· Or locate any of Obama's college papers or grades,
· Or how he paid for a
Harvard education,
· Or which country issued
his visa to travel to Pakistan in the 1980's,
· Or Barry Soretoro or even
Michelle Obama's Princeton thesis on racism.
· They just can't seem to
find them.
· Yet the public still
trusts that same press to give them the whole truth!"
7/19/10
Are
conservatives
suspicions
regarding
the
media
justified?
Yes.
By:
Laura
Curtis,
Washington
Examiner
"Howard Kurtz
whines that '[Conservative] candidates seem to regard it as an affront when
reporters challenge them on their past statements and inconsistencies, which is
a basic function of journalism. They are avoiding or limiting interviews with
all but the friendliest faces as a way of circumventing the press. And some of
them delight in skewering the mainstream media, a tactic that plays well with
their base.' It’s interesting that Kurtz doesn’t mention the Obama
administration’s attempt to
boycott Fox News, and its
ongoing complaints about that network.
"Conservative aversion to the media is indicative of a key fact about
conservatives. Unlike liberals, who continually try to implement big
government/socialist policies in spite of the fact that they fail every single
time they are tried, our media aversion proves that conservatives can be taught.
"We have been carefully educated by liberal journalists. This training
began back in 1993 when Kurtz’ employer, the Washington Post, informed us that
we were 'poor,
uneducated, and easy to command.' During the Clinton administration, we were
assured that all we cared about was Bill Clinton’s marital infidelity, and that
- to paraphrase Polanski apologist Whoopi Goldberg - it wasn’t perjury-perjury.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
"The lesson of how heartily most journalists seem to despise
conservatives has been reinforced by decades of selective coverage." [The
original article that can be reached by clicking the headline link, lists many
more examples.] .
7/19/10
Strange
Graham-Kagan
dance
The
Washington
Times
Why is this lone
Republican senator on the fence?
7/19/10
Sessions: ‘One Vote
Away From Banning Firearms’
by
Jason Mattera, Human Events
"Sen. Jeff Sessions told
HUMAN EVENTS that Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wasn’t forthcoming
during her confirmation hearings on whether the right to keep and bear arms
was settled, constitutional law. In light of that, the Alabama Senator said
that even many Democrats are uneasy about confirming Elena Kagan because
she, too, was cagey and evasive when asked if the Second Amendment applied
to individuals. We’re 'one vote' away from 'any city and any state in
America' completely 'ban[ning] firearms,' he warned."
7/19/10
Who's Telling
the Truth About Health Care?
Glenn Beck Television Show
Segment Today--Transcript--Video
7/19/10
The
Blame
Game
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Job Recession:
The White House has gotten into the habit of blaming everything on
Republicans. Nowhere is that more evident — or mistaken — than in the debate
over the extension of jobless benefits.
"President Obama, for
example, leveled an attack Monday at Republican lawmakers, essentially
saying they were denying extended unemployment benefits for millions of
jobless Americans. 'It's time to do what's right, not for the next election,
but for the middle class,' he said, implying that the GOP's only concern was
politics.
"We're not surprised. It's
in the grand tradition of political bad-mouthing to claim the opposition is
heartless and hateful. But the president forgets: It was the Democrats who
insisted on a new system for budgeting, to make sure the deficit didn't
grow. Republicans, in fact, support the $34 billion extension of jobless
benefits; they just want Congress to find an equivalent amount in cuts, as
required by the Democrats' own rules. . . .
"The New York Times, in a
headline Monday, asks: "Mystery for the White House: Where Did the Jobs Go?"
"What's mysterious about
it? The jobs were sucked into a vortex of expanding regulation, rising
taxes, soaring spending, government takeovers of key industries, and surging
deficits and debts that have created mass uncertainty among businesses and
the entrepreneurial class that does most of the hiring.
"Name-calling is no
substitute for the ugly truth: The Democrats' stimulus policies have failed
miserably."
7/19/10
Video
Proof:
The
NAACP
Awards
Racism
2010
Big
Government
"Context is everything.
"In this piece you will
see video evidence of racism coming from a federal appointee and NAACP award
recipient and in another clip from the same event a perfect rationalization
for why the Tea Party needs to exist.
"But first the context:
"For the
past week, Americans who consider themselves aligned with the Tea Party movement
have suffered the indignity of
being falsely labeled racist by the NAACP and their pro-bono publicity
managers,
the main stream media. The constant calls to 'repudiate
the racists from your ranks' have not only been insulting, but have also
served to force a false standard upon America’s fastest-growing and most vibrant
political movement that no other group could ever live up to nor would ever be
asked to live up to.
"While the media has chosen to
do the Democratic Party’s bidding in allowing for the NAACP to negatively and
falsely brand the millions strong, loosely affiliated tea party phenomenon as
'racist', the moral indignation over race and racism has taken center stage in a
summer of economic and political discontent.
"The NAACP, an undeniable
weapon in the Democratic Party’s arsenal, was more than happy to exploit this
nation’s sensitive racial schism for possible political gain. The Democratic
Party and the NAACP, needless to say, are playing with fire.
"From the beginning of the Tea
Party movement, the Left, its aiders and abettors at MSNBC, the NY Times and
other reliable left of center propaganda venues, raised race as the driving
force behind the movement, even though the evidence was never there. . . .
"[I]t got even more blatant
when Congressmen Andre Carson and John Lewis and other Congressional Black
Caucus members
staged a walk through the Tea Party crowd in front of the capitol the day
before the health care vote. They claimed they were threatened by a violent mob
and were subjected to the vile N word slur fifteen times. With the unpopularity
of the toxic health care bill that the majority of Americans did not want, the
Democrats needed a November strategy. Neutralizing the growing Tea Party
movement with charges of racism was clearly its post-health care reform vote
priority.
"What they did not expect was
that new media would successfully challenge the propaganda of the old media and
the Congressmen’s racial smear.
"First,
my $100,000 video challenge for any evidence of racism was met with
crickets. The CBC, looking for a fight, and taking to the airwaves to accuse the
Tea Party of racism made a 180 degree turn and went into hiding when challenged
on the truthfulness of the outrageous allegations. From camera hogs to ostriches
in snap of a finger.
"When the media chose to
ignore that Representatives Lewis and Carson’s story was falling apart, we dug
deeper. We found four
videos from the moment Rep. Carson claimed the racist Tea Party incident
occurred. The four videos, which include audio, show beyond a reasonable doubt
that the incident was a manufactured lie. That lie that was supposed to be the
centerpiece in the Democratic strategy to destroy the Tea Party. The videos had
been available on YouTube almost immediately after the incident occurred and
could have been found by any reporter interested in investigating the
truthfulness of Rep. Carson’s claim.
"While the media ignored these
newsworthy revelations, the CBC remained in hiding and ignored
a letter in good faith from the Tea Party Federation repudiating all forms
of racism, but also asking for the CBC’s help in investigating the Capitol Hill
incident. The silence from the CBC was deafening. . . .
"We are in possession of a
video from in which Shirley Sherrod, USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development,
speaks at the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner in Georgia. In her meandering speech to
what appears to be an all-black audience, this federally appointed executive
bureaucrat lays out in stark detail, that her federal duties are managed through
the prism of race and class distinctions.
"In the first video, Sherrod
describes how she racially discriminates against a white farmer. She describes
how she is torn over how much she will choose to help him. And, she admits that
she doesn’t do everything she can for him, because he is white. Eventually, her
basic humanity informs that this white man is poor and needs help. But she
decides that he should get help from 'one of his own kind'. She refers him to a
white lawyer.
"Sherrod’s racist tale is
received by the NAACP audience with nodding approval and murmurs of recognition
and agreement. Hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the
supreme judge of another groups’ racial tolerance.
[Original has a
video available to see here]
"The second video affirms the
real reason there is tension between the Democratic Party and a growing mass of
middle Americans — and it’s not because of race.
"The NAACP which has
transformed from a civil rights group to a propaganda arm of the Democratic
Party and social-justice politics, supports a new America that relies less on
individualism, entrepreneurialism and American grit, but instead giddily
embraces, the un-American notion of unaccountability and government dependence.
Shirley Sherrod, a federal appointee who oversees over a billion dollars of
federal funds, nearly begs black men and women into taking government jobs at
USDA — because they won’t get fired.
[Original has a
video available to see here]
"This is why the Democratic
Party is scared. This is why the NAACP is scared. This is why black
conservatives, previously marginalized as “Uncle Toms” by these progressive
bullies, and shamefully, the NAACP, are coming out of the woodwork to join and,
in many cases, lead the Tea Party movement.
"The emerging Tea Party nation
understands that the media has focused on the manufactured racial schism while
intentionally ignoring the schism between free market thinkers and government
expansionists, that the latter of which is brazen in its desire to transform
America into a European-model welfare state with a healthy dose of socialism.
"It’s unfortunate that the
NAACP’s recent resolution and false accusations have forced us to show you video
1 when video 2 is the bigger problem. That’s not to say video 1 is not a
problem, but this country can ill afford, in this time of economic peril, to
waste our time poking and prodding at the racial hornet’s nest that was supposed
to have been removed with this post-racial presidency. But now President Obama
and the modern-day Democrat party reveal they are anything but post-racial.
"Yet again, the juxtaposition
of the real video evidence shown here versus the mainstream media’s straight
faced reportage of the NAACP’s baseless accusations demonstrates that, once
again, the American main stream media has asserted itself as the number one
enemy of the truth, when the facts don’t fit the left-wing narrative. Like the
NAACP, it has become no better than Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson in its
willingness to exploit race for political ends and their unflinching support of
the Obama’s left-wing agenda."
7/19/10
The Ruling Class, Big Clique, and "Why Don't the Republicans Do X?"
Rush Limbaugh Television Show Segment Today--Transcript
RUSH: Once in a while -- it doesn't happen very often -- once in a while
you stumble across an article, an essay that demands to be widely disseminated.
This one that I stumbled across is from the July-August issue of the American
Spectator, and the title is: 'America's Ruling Class and the Perils of
Revolution.' It's by Angelo Codevilla. Ladies and gentlemen, it prints out to
16 pages. Have you read it, Snerdley? It prints out to 16 pages. I could read
the whole thing to you, and only I have the ability to probably do that without
boring you to tears and sending you elsewhere. But I'm not even going to try to
do that. It is so good, it is so timely, it is so thorough and complete, it's
difficult to cherry-pick. It's difficult to pick a couple or three pull quotes
to give you an idea. The reason this appeals to me is that it dovetails with
something that I have been trying to explain for 20 years on this program, and
it's come to a head now with the election of Obama. And, you know, for 20 years
I have gotten the question, "Rush, why don't the Republicans do X?" And I have
struggled to come up with answers to this question. Every time I'm asked, I
search for a different answer.
"One of the things I've always settled on to try to explain to people is
that people never really get out of high school. That the whole concept of the
big clique and wanting to be part of it dominates everybody's life: the quest
for power, the quest for acceptance, the quest to be in the "in" crowd, however
it's defined. I've told you over the years that one of the reasons the
Republicans are whatever the way they are in Washington is because Washington is
a culture and a place that is run and dominated, not just politically, but
socially, and I've always said that this is crucial to understand, 'cause this
is the big clique aspect. Washington is dominated politically and socially by
Democrats, by the left. The Republicans also live there. Everybody wants to
get along with who you live next to, and in Washington, the center of power in
the world, everybody wants to be in the ruling class. The ruling class is the
subject of this piece by Angelo Codevilla, who is professor emeritus at Boston
University. It is just a wonderfully written and crafted piece.
"Here's a couple pull quotes, but again, getting into various pull quotes
will not do this piece justice:" [I also will not further quote from Rush for
the same reason. Feel free to click the headline link and read it.]
7/18/10
Obama
Trying
to Shift
Oil
Spill
'Off the
Front
Page,'
Senator
Says
FoxNews.com
"Louisiana Republican Sen.
David Vitter on Sunday accused President Obama of trying to move the BP oil
disaster 'off the front page,' urging the public not to forget about the spill
and the cleanup just because a new well cap seems to be working.
"As Obama and his
family wrap up their vacation in Bar Harbor,
Maine, Vitter noted that the president had not visited his state since early
June. Speaking on 'Fox News Sunday,' Vitter said Obama's 'political motivation'
seems to be that he wants to sweep the crisis under the rug.
"'I'm afraid he's decided to
deal with this issue, at least politically, by not coming back here and trying
to move it off the front page rather than dealing with the situation
forcefully,' Vitter said. 'He was coming here on a pretty regular basis. ... He
hasn't done that in Louisiana since June 4. That's personally disappointing to
me.' . . .
"Vitter said Sunday that "it'll take years" for the region to clean up the spill
and recover from the
economic damage.
"'I hope everyone in the
nation realizes that so we just don't forget about this story once the flow is
stopped,' he said. 'I also hope President Obama realizes that. ... Even if this
flow is stopped permanently, we have major challenges ahead.'"
7/18/10
NYT:
Obama
Wrong
About
People
Being
Able To
Keep
Existing
Health
Coverage
By Noel
Sheppard,
NewsBusters
"Remember all those
promises President Obama made assuring Americans that they'd be able to
keep their current healthcare plans under reform legislation he was
championing?
"Well, the New York
Times
reported Sunday that could come at a huge additional cost to many
that may be impractical.
"Much more surprising
is the Times pointed out that this wasn't what Obama promised.
"Although none of the
following will shock those intelligent enough to see through the bait
and switch as it was occurring, those in the media that aided and
abetted this scam should be deeply ashamed: . . .
"As opponents of this awful
legislation regularly informed the citizenry, costs would certainly rise
producing a condition where folks would have to pay more if they wanted to keep
their existing coverage.
"The President and his Party
promised otherwise, and their minions in the media assisted in making the sale
to the American people.
"Of course, and not
surprisingly, the New York Times was part of the syndicate misrepresenting the
facts.
"Are their consciences being
cleared by telling their readers the truth months later as the legislation they
helped pass begins to take hold?"
7/18/10
Arizona's
admirable
immigration
law
By Pat McDonough, The Baltimore Sun
The statute mimics
federal law and should be a national model
"The myths, misinformation and
misleading rhetoric directed at Arizona's new immigration law are overwhelming.
The Arizona law is nothing more than a duplication of portions of the existing
federal Immigration Act, which has been in power for many years. However, that
power has not been executed by numerous presidents, both Democrat and
Republican. As a result, the states have had to enact their own legislation in
order to protect citizens from the burdens created by illegal aliens.
"The federal Immigration Act has been challenged numerous times and found
to be constitutionally sound. The constitutional scholar residing in the
White House should know that if the federal version has passed muster, then
certainly its replica in Arizona will receive the same judicial response.
Clearly, the
Obama administration's frivolous lawsuit is a political witch hunt.
"U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, who promptly demonized the Arizona
law before he even read it, does not include a complaint regarding the racial
profiling allegations. Mr. Holder knows the Arizona law contains firm language
protecting human rights, which even surpasses its federal counterpart's clause.
(The application of the Immigration Act has produced a minuscule number of
complaints by alleged victims of racial profiling.)"
7/18/10
Obama
lied,
babies
died
Jeannie
DeAngelis,
American
Thinker
"It's hard to comprehend
that intelligent people believe Obama speaks the truth. A simple question:
If an individual encourages
coldly tossing
a barely breathing infant into a laundry room to die and uses the upholding
of the original intent to kill the baby as an excuse, is it logical to
assume such a person has a high regard for truth?
"Barack Obama supports
killing
the unborn and if by chance the infant should happen to 'burden the
original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform
an abortion' by refusing to die, Barry disagrees with providing a helpless
being medical care. Plain and simple, Obama is cold and heartless.
"If
lying were an art, Barack would be its master. Liberal pro-choice
advocate Barack Obama 'successfully opposed including language in the
[health care reform] bill to prevent federal subsidies for abortions.' The
President intended to quietly advance an 'abortion-expanding agenda through
administrative decisions.'
"When it appeared a few sentimental pro-lifers jeopardized Obamacare, it
didn't
take much to sway the easily fleeced Bart Stupak and seven left-leaning
lackeys. In order to pass health care reform the President lied to gullible
pro-life Democrats, signed a phony executive order, and swore health care
would not fund abortion.
"Obama might as well have pulled a dirty tissue out of his pocket, called
it an executive order and after getting the credulous to agree, crumpled it
up and filed it in the 'easily deceived' category.
"After health care reform passed, taxpayer monies are now going directly
to abortionists in Pennsylvania to make sure murder is amply funded."
7/17/10
Deputy
Assistant
Attorney
General
Julie
Fernandes:
DOJ Not
to
Enforce
Voter
List
Integrity
as Law
Requires
Newsmax.com
e-mail
"Another important role for
the DOJ is that they make sure voter registration lists are up to date and
accurate as required by a law passed by Democrats and Republicans. It is the
job of the DOJ to enforce this law.
"Yet, regarding voter list
integrity, the Voting Rights Section of DOJ led by Obama appointee, Deputy
Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes, informed DOJ lawyers:
"We have no interest in
enforcing this provision of the law. It has nothing to do with increasing
turnout, and we are just not going to do it.
"No Justice
Department, be it Clinton or Bush, has ever announced that it would be so
overtly political and/or refuse to enforce a part of the law.
"Democrats and Republicans
alike know that without an accurate voting list, it is difficult to have an open
fair and honest election. Senator and former Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee Chris Dodd (D-CT) was co-author of the legislation that required these
lists to be maintained and updated.
"Currently the lists are full
of those who have died or moved. This allows the dead to vote and the living to
double vote. An example of the latter is in 2000, when studies showed that
thousands of New York City residents also voted in Florida which almost resulted
in Al Gore winning the 2000 Presidential Election.
"The Obama Justice
Department, through political appointees such as Fernandes, will stop at nothing
to illegally tip the balance for Democrats this fall in the 2010 election."
7/17/10
Wall
Street
reform
that
isn't
Washington
Examiner
"President Obama lauded Senate
passage of the Dodd-Frank financial overhaul, saying that "because of this bill,
the American people will never again be asked to foot the bill for Wall Street's
mistakes." That statement is untrue. Instead of ending tax-paid bailouts of
politically favored corporations that are "too big to fail,"
"Dodd-Frank makes the process
permanent. The only thing Dodd-Frank has changed on bailouts is this: Before the
bill was passed, bailouts had to be approved by Congress, as with the $700
billion Troubled Asset Relief Program first proposed by President Bush and then
extended by Obama. But in the future, thanks to Dodd-Frank, instead of
congressional votes, Treasury Department bureaucrats will unilaterally decide
under the bill's 'orderly liquidation process' how much of the taxpayers' money
to hand out to troubled firms."
7/17/10
Changing
Stance,
Administration
Now
Defends
Insurance
Mandate
as a Tax
By
ROBERT
PEAR,
The
New York Times
"When Congress required most
Americans to obtain
health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating
a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the
requirement as an exercise of the government’s 'power to lay and collect taxes.'
"And that power, they say, is
even more sweeping than the federal power to regulate interstate commerce."
7/17/10
Obama's
Anti-Business
Policies
Are Our
Economic
Katrina
By
Mortimer
B.
Zuckerman,
U.S.
News &
World
Report
His gratuitous and
overstated demonization of business is exactly the wrong approach
"The growing divide and
tension between the Obama administration and the business world is a cause for
national concern. As Clive Crook wrote in the Financial Times, Obama is
'a president under business attack.' He is certainly under sharp criticism and
for good reason: He has lost the confidence of much of the business community,
whose worries over taxes, the dramatically increased costs of new regulation,
and a general perception that the administration is hostile toward them and may
take yet harsher steps, are holding back
investment and growth.
In the midst of a weak economy accompanied by levels of unemployment
unprecedented since the Great Depression, it is critical that the government in
Washington appreciate that confidence is an imperative if the business community
is to invest, take risks with start-ups, and altogether get the economy going
again to put the millions of unemployed back to productive work.
"This is what businessmen do
when they are free to conduct business. For example, in the two decades of the
1980s and 1990s, the United States created 73 million new private sector
jobs—while simultaneously losing some 44 million jobs in the process of
adjusting its economy to international competition. That was a net gain of some
29 million jobs.
"A stunning 55 percent of the
total workforce at the end of these two decades was in a new job, some
two-thirds of them in
industries that paid
more than the average wage. By contrast, continental Europe, with a larger
economy and workforce, created an estimated 4 million jobs in the same period,
most of which were in the public sector (and the cost of which they are
beginning to regret).
"How could America achieve
this? It is because of the get-up-and-go culture that reflects individualism,
courageous entrepreneurialism, pragmatism, adaptability, and innovation. This
adventurous spirit outlived the passing of the frontier and still inspires and
nourishes millions, including our young and our newcomers. No other country has
a population so habituated to self-help, self-improvement, and even
self-renovation in a manner that carries over into business life. . . .
"[O]ne unfortunate pattern
that has emerged in the last 18 months is to lay all the blame for our
difficulties only on the business community and the financial world. This quite
ignores the role of Congress
in many areas, but most glaringly in forcing Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the
Federal Housing Administration to back loans to people who could not afford
them. And not to mention the role of the
Securities
and
Exchange
Commission,
which in 2004 sanctioned higher levels of leverage for financial firms, from 12
times equity to over 30 times equity.
"This predilection to blame
business is manifest in the unnecessary and provocative anti-business sentiment
revealed by President Obama in a recent speech that was supposed to be seeking
the support of the business community for a doubling of exports over the next
five years. 'In the absence of sound oversight,' he said, 'responsible
businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded
businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might
harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to
bring down the entire financial system.' This kind of gratuitous and overstated
demonization of business is exactly the wrong approach. It ignores the
disappointment of a stimulus program that was ill-designed to produce the jobs
the president promised—that famous 8 percent unemployment ceiling.
"But it's not just the
rhetoric that undermines the confidence the business community needs to find if
it is to invest. Consider the new generation of regulatory rules, increased
bureaucracy, and higher
taxes created by the
Obama administration. For example, the new financial regulation bill includes
nearly 500 "rule-makings," studies, and reports, compared with just 14 in total
for the controversial Sarbanes-Oxley bill, passed after the financial scandals
of Enron and WorldCom. The disillusionment has spread to the Business
Roundtable, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Federation of
Independent Business (NFIB), which represents small businesses that normally
account for roughly 60 percent of job creation."
7/17/10
American
politics
has
caught
the
British
disease
Janet Daley, Telegraph.co.uk
Under Barack
Obama, the phenomenon of class resentment is a live political issue
"When
David
Cameron
visits
the
United
States
this
week, he
will
find a
country
whose
national
political
argument
has
become
more
like our
own in
Britain
than
probably
he – and
certainly
I –
would
ever
have
imagined.
For
America
has
learned,
thanks
to
Barack
Obama's
crash
course
in
European-style
government,
about
the
titanic
force of
class
differences.
The
president's
determination
to
transform
the US
into a
social
democracy,
complete
with a
centrally
run
healthcare
programme
and a
redistributive
tax
system,
has
collided
rather
magnificently
with
America's
history
as a
nation
of
displaced
people
who were
prepared
to risk
their
futures
on a bid
to be
free
from the
power of
the
state."
7/16/10
The
Obamacare
Abortion
Lie Is
Up
Kathryn
Jean
Lopez,
National
Review
Online
"Douglas
Johnson from the National Right to Life Committee
points out this afternoon that the federally funded
Maryland high-risk pool was going to use
federal funds for abortion coverage in their new Pre-existing Condition
Insurance Plan (PCIP), too. Just like in
Pennsylvania and
New Mexico.
"(National Right to Life Committee has looked through five states'
documentation, and an abortion-funding siren has gone off in three of them.)
"After NRLC, NR, the House Republican leader, and others highlighted this
from the Pennsylvania and New Mexico plans this week, the
Department of Health and Human Services
finally issued a release yesterday assuring that they will, in fact, issue
guidelines forbidding abortion coverage in the Obamacare federally funded PCIP
state programs.
"And today, the National Women's Law Center, among
others, are upset with the administration for saying they'll do such a thing.
"Which means the lie is up: Obamcare never prohibited abortion
funding. It's a matter of administrative discretion.
"The Obama administration and other Democrats have been hawking the myths
that
a) there is some kind of global Hyde amendment that forbids all federally funded
abortions and b) the executive order solves all problems.
"If a and b were true, how were any state plans approved that were
covering abortions?
"The truth of the matter is
that news today that Maryland was planning on funding abortions in their
high-risk pool is but the tip of the iceberg. Don't be surprised if another
story drops. And if it's not a high-risk pool. And the administration will have
to provide a new myth or actually act — as HHS is saying it plans to — to
prohibit that which is not currently prohibited.
"But don't expect them to
admit they've been lying to us all this time."
7/16/10
The
Kenya
connection
The
Washington
Times
Obama
administration efforts in Africa may violate federal law
"The Kenyan president wants a
new constitution, one that opens the door to abortion on demand. President
Obama is
willing to use
U.S.
taxpayer dollars to persuade voters to approve the updated governing document,
which would loosen regulations designed to protect the unborn, establish Muslim
family courts and create a right to homosexual marriage. It's not unusual that
Kenyan President
Mwai Kibaki would see enactment of the provisions as a 'government project,'
but Mr. Obama
is on shaky legal ground when he commits
U.S. government
resources to it.
"On Aug. 4,
Kenya's 12.3 million
registered voters will be asked a simple question: 'Do you approve the proposed
new constitution?' It is doubtful that many will have the opportunity to read
the entire 206-page document, which was created by a committee of experts whose
consultants and office equipment were bankrolled with $580,381 in grants from
the
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Section 26 of the proposal explicitly allows a 'trained health professional' to
snuff the life of an unborn baby at any stage of a pregnancy. 'It is a radical
departure from existing law,'
Rep.
Christopher H. Smith, New Jersey Republican, told
The
Washington Times.
"Under the Siljander
Amendment, a provision of federal appropriations law, it is illegal to use
foreign aid to 'lobby for or against abortion.'"
7/16/10
Here's
What You
Haven't
Heard
About
the Oil
Crisis
Ann Kane, American Thinker
"In a
video hitting the blogosphere
today, real ordinary citizens tell their side of the Gulf oil crisis.
Project Shining City has created the thirty-two minutes long video.
Embedded inside it are shocking revelations about how the Obama
administration and BP are ignoring a hurting people. . . .
"An interviewer
talks about locals being laid off from their regular jobs in
retaliation for their attempts to clean up the beaches for
themselves. In place of local help, 'day laborers' are bused in to
do the 15 minutes on, 45 minutes off clean-up. . . .
"The
interviewer tells us there is a media gag order down there, so
many citizens will not come forward with what they know for fear
of losing any job they may be holding onto.
7/16/10
Far-left
Think
Progress
Fabricates
Examples
of Tea
Party
Racism
for
Bogus
Video
By
Lachlan
Markay,
NewsBusters
"Liberal activists are
so desperate to paint the Tea Party as racist that some, apparently, are
willing to fabricate evidence and fallaciously draw unsupported
conclusions to support their point.
"Lee Fang, a writer for the far-left blog Think Progress, recently posted
a video purporting to show racism at Tea Parties. But the video was a
total fraud. It took statements out of context, claimed racism where
there really was none, claimed liberal plants were authentic members of
the movement, and even used video from 2006, three years before the
movement existed!
"Liberal writers at
the Nation and the
Huffington Post, as well as former Fox News cohost
Alan Colmes all trumpeted the Think Progress video as evidence of
Tea Party racism, despite the easily-verifiable evidence to the
contrary."
7/16/10
Hillsborough
honors
women
who
helped
fallen
Tampa
officers;
two
faced
criticism
Janet
Zink
and
Jessica
Vander
Velde,
Times
Staff
Writers,
TampaBay.com
7/15/10
Energy
Needs
Left
High And
Dry
Investor's
Business
Daily
"As the job-killing
deepwater drilling ban continues offshore, our interior secretary defends an
onshore ban imposed in Utah. If we could drill in places like that, maybe
oil wouldn't be gushing a mile under the Gulf of Mexico.
"The 64-million-gallon
question in the Gulf oil spill is why we were drilling 5,000 feet down in
the first place. The administration line, as expressed by the president in
his recent Oval Office speech, is that oil resources on land and just
offshore are running out. The falsity of that claim can be seen in the
battle over 77 oil leases in Utah. . . .
"'This IG report shows
that assertion to be false.'
"Also false is the
assertion that there's no more oil to be found on dry land. Some of these
parcels are in or near the Green River Formation, an oil-rich region in
Colorado, Utah and Wyoming that has been called the Persia of the West."
7/15/10
Students
Ordered
to Stop
Praying
Outside
Supreme
Court
Building
By Todd
Starnes,
FoxNews.com
"According to Nate Kellum, senior counsel with the Alliance Defense Fund, a
police officer 'abruptly' interrupted the
prayer and ordered the
group to cease and desist.
"'They were told to stop praying because they were violating the law and they
had to take their prayer elsewhere,' Kellum told FOX News Radio. . . .
"'The Court does not have a policy prohibiting prayer,' said public information
officer Kathy Arberg in an email to FOX News Radio."
7/15/10
It's
Time for
a Closer
Look
into
Whether
Felons
Voted in
2008,
Minnesota
GOP
Chairman
Says
By Ed
Barnes,
FoxNews.com
"The chairman of the Minnesota
Republican Party called Thursday for a massive, eleventh-hour investigation into
allegations of illegal voting by felons in the state's bitterly contested 2008
Senate election.
"The move comes on the heels
of a report by a conservative watchdog group that the number of illegal votes
greatly exceeded the 312-vote margin that made Al Franken a U.S. senator -- and
barely two months before the records will be destroyed."
7/15/10
Attention,
Democrats!
The
Senate
Is Now
in Play.
William
Galston,
The New
Republic
"As if
things
weren’t
bad
enough
for
Democrats,
something
I didn’t
believe
possible
six
months
ago has
happened:
The
Senate
is now
in play.
You
don’t
believe
it, dear
reader?
Let’s
look at
the
numbers.'
7/15/10
Iconic
America
vs.
Reality
Glenn
Beck
Television
Today
[Read
the
original
or watch
the
original
video
to see
the
title's
significance.]
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA:
There are some folks out there who are, frankly, bearing false witness, but I
want everyone to know what health insurance reform is all about... you've heard
that this is all going to mean government-funding of abortion. Not true. This is
all — these are all fabrications that have been put out there in order to
discourage people from meeting what I consider to be a core ethical and moral
obligation.
GLENN BECK: This was
the last sticking point keeping Democrats from ramming this bill through.
Pro-life Democrats would not sign on to a bill that federally funded abortions.
They were called the "Stupak 13" because they were led by Congressman Bart
Stupak. He finally sold out when he accepted the president's word that he'd do
an executive order to block federally funded abortions.
Well, here's the news today:
"The Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to
set up a new high-risk insurance pool that will cover any abortion that is legal
in the state."
And it's a similar story in
New Mexico: "In New Mexico, the new $37 million high-risk pool began enrolling
individuals on July 1. They will start receiving benefits in August, including
elective-abortion services, according to the state insurance department's
website. Once a deductible is paid, 80 percent of the elective abortion is
covered."
Wasn't this was supposed to be
about taking care of those who don't have health care? We want to help the poor,
the sick, the under-privileged. Now, this is our priority? To make sure the
abortion centers are set-up and funded? Is the ink even dry on that
executive order? . . .
And here's more news today:
The Senate just passed the 2,300-page financial reform bill. Do we know
everything in this bill? I can tell you that it doesn't inspire confidence when
I hear the president thank the two crooks largely responsible for creating the
first financial crisis, for helping draft the new bill that's supposed to fix
everything: Chris Dodd and Barney Frank.
These guys helped collapse
Fannie and Freddie and worked with community organizing groups like ACORN to
give people loans who didn't qualify for them. Well, good news: Not only have we
not fixed the problem or punished the people, we've allowed Chris and
Barney to institutionalize that method in the bill, to collapse our economy.
Their bill includes 20
"offices of minority and women inclusion" throughout government agencies, which
would make sure banks made a certain amount of loans to minorities. If that
sounds familiar, it is. It's exactly what led to the first financial crisis:
Loaning by anything other than merit.
In fact, the bill is loaded
with measures that have nothing to do with the financial crisis, but instead
cater to the agendas of labor unions and other Democratic interest groups. It
creates an entire new consumer protection agency that would give employment
opportunities and funding for Democrat and social activist community organizing
groups like ACORN. A financial stability oversight council is established, that
will have power to punish any company it deems to be 'too big to fail,' not just
banks. They can also declare if a company is 'non-bank financial firm' — the
distinction is completely arbitrary and made by bureaucrats.
The president no longer has to
go through pesky Congress for takeovers or bailouts. Congratulations Congress,
you are another step closer to irrelevance!
7/15/10
Rush Limbaugh Show Segments Transcripts Today
7/14/10
Poll:
Gulf
Coast
Residents
Oppose
Drilling
Moratorium
By GARY
LANGER,
ABC News
ABC
News-Washington Post Poll Finds 72% of Gulf Residents Disapprove of
Government's Response to BP Oil Spill
"There was broad
criticism of the
federal government's spill response in the affected counties (72
percent rated it negatively), and even
steeper criticism of BP (82 percent said it has done a bad job; this
poll was completed before the new cap was in place). In sharp contrast,
more than six in 10 residents rated their local and state governments'
responses positively.
"Obama
himself was unpopular in the area: 24 percent approved of his
response to the spill (vs. 41 percent nationally) and 35 percent
approved of his job performance overall, vs. 50 percent of all
Americans. Some of that related to basic partisanship. Residents in the
affected counties lean more toward the Republican Party than do all
Americans. But even among those who lean toward the Democratic Party,
Obama's spill response was seen more negatively in the affected counties
than in the rest of the country overall. . . .
"[H]owever much oil
has sullied the Gulf and its beaches, most residents continued to
support offshore drilling. The six-month moratorium was particularly
unpopular in
Louisiana, where 72 percent opposed it. This declined to 51 percent
in the rest of the affected counties and 39 percent in the country
overall.
"Whatever happens with
the moratorium (revised by the administration this week, and still the
focus of a court battle), residents in these Gulf counties were at least
as likely as Americans overall to say the offshore drilling in U.S.
coastal waters should be increased (23 percent Gulf Coast, 21 percent
nationally) or kept the same (50 percent Gulf Coast, 44 percent
nationally) . .
"Economic concern
showed up in another measure: Nationally, 32 percent of Americans said
the economy, bad as it is, still is getting worse. In the oil spill
counties, that spikes to 45 percent. . . .
"This was not limited
to the spill itself; residents of these Gulf counties also were 8 to 16
points less apt to approve of Obama's performance across a range of
other issues. Republican House candidates lead Democrats by a 21-point
margin in these counties (it's a dead heat nationally). And residents of
the affected counties were 16 points more apt than all Americans to say
they'd like to see the
Republican Party take control of Congress."
7/14/10
Sarah
Palin
attacks
NAACP
over
'racist'
tea
party
motion
By
Robert
Winnett,
Telegraph.co.uk
"The former
US
vice-presidential candidate urged President Obama and his wife Michelle, to
'repudiate' the allegation and 'set the record straight'.
The National Association for the
Advancement of Coloured People (NAACP) has passed a motion condemning the
tea party movement – which is closely linked to the right wing of the
Republican Party – for being racist. . .
"'The charge that Tea Party
Americans judge people by the colour of their skin is false, appalling, and is a
regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand.,' she said.
"Mrs Palin added that the tea
party movement was 'beautiful' and full of 'equality loving patriots'. . . .
"[T]he tea party movement has
quickly risen to also become an influential voice on the right.
"It was initially established
to campaign against high taxes and big government but its remit has increased
and it now lobbies against anything perceived to be a threat against the
interests of Americans."
7/14/10
Yankees'
'Boss,'
George
Steinbrenner
recalled
as
passionate,
giving
By
Ronald
Blum,
The Sun
News,
The
Associated
Press
7/14/10
Is This
Ridiculous
Steinbrenner
Story
Really
the Best
You Can
Do?
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
Rush:
Here's how bad things are for the left and the American media.
All they
have to
complain
about,
the best
they can
come up
with is
to
pretend
that
they are
offended
by
clever
comments
made by
me about
a wildly
successful
fellow
capitalist,
George
Steinbrenner,
who, up
until
now, has
been
despised
by the
American
left.
The
American
left and
the
media
did
nothing
but
portray
George
Steinbrenner
negatively.
Here was
a guy
that was
evil, he
was a
temperamental
dictator,
he made
illegal
campaign
contributions
to
Richard
Nixon
and he
was
engaged
with
hoodlums
and so
forth,
had to
be
suspended
from
baseball
by the
commissioner,
Fay
Vincent.
The
media
despised
George
Steinbrenner.
I praise
him as a
fellow
capitalist.
"In 2005, the Yankees became the first professional sports
franchise
to be
conservatively
estimated
as being
worth
over one
billion
dollars,"
all due
to one
man,
George
Steinbrenner.
And so,
this is
how bad
it is
for the
left.
The best
shot
they can
take is
to
complain
and to
pretend
that
they
were
offended
by
brilliant,
clever,
funny
comments
made by
me about
a fellow
successful
capitalist,
a
capitalist
that
they
have
portrayed
negatively,
that
they
hated,
that
they
characterized
as a
dictator,
as evil
and
temperamental.
Why,
there's
a story,
I forget
where,
USA
Today,
New York
Times,
about
how
horrible
it was
to work
for
George
Steinbrenner
if you
were in
the
front
office.
He'd
fire you
if you
didn't
get the
lunch
order
correct.
He's in
the back
page of
the
tabloids
in New
York.
Steinbrenner
was
their
favorite,
favorite
whipping
boy.
And then
to --
(interruption)
pardon?
Who's
whining
about
me?
Well,
the
Associated
Press,
the New
York
Daily
News,
the New
York
Post,
Yahoo
News,
it's
everywhere,
Snerdley.
It's all
over
network
television.
. . .
George Steinbrenner was able to grow the New York Yankees
from a
$10
million
franchise
to being
worth at
least
$1.2
billion,
and
along
the way
he made
a lot of
African-American
millionaires.
As a lot
of
capitalists
do,
everybody
around
Steinbrenner
got
wealthy.
And to
show
that
Steinbrenner
had all
kinds of
street
cred
while
making
these
African-American
millionaires
rich and
wealthy,
he fired
a bunch
of white
guy
managers.
I mean
this
guy's
got
street
cred
like you
couldn't
find
anywhere
else in
sports.
"In 2005, the Yankees became the first professional sports franchise to
be
conservatively
estimated
as being
worth
over one
billion
dollars,"
all due
to one
man,
George
Steinbrenner.
. . .
Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page
Story #1: Billboard
Compares
Obama to
Hitler
and
Lenin
Rush: From Des Moines, Iowa: "A
billboard
created
by an
Iowa tea
party
group
that
compares
President
Barack
Obama to
Adolf
Hitler
and
Vladimir
Lenin is
drawing
sharp
criticism
-- even
from
fellow
tea
party
activists
who have
condemned
it as
offensive
and a
waste of
money.
... The
co-founder
of the
roughly
200-person
group
said the
billboard
was
intended
to send
an
anti-socialist
message.
But Bob
Johnson
admitted
Tuesday
that the
message
may have
gotten
lost
amid the
images
of
fascist
and
communist
leaders."
Now,
have you
seen the
picture
of the
billboard?
Yeah,
I've
seen
it. You
got
Hitler
called
National
Socialism,
you got
Obama
called
Democrat
Socialism,
and then
Lenin's
over
there,
Marxist
Socialism.
What's
fascinating
to me
here is
that
people
are all
hacked
off and
outraged
and
offended
that
anybody
would
dare
compare
Obama to
Hitler,
but
apparently
nobody
has a
problem
with
Obama
being
compared
to
Lenin.
7/14/10
New
Black
Panthers,
You're
Free To
Go --
Not So
Fast,
Arizona
by
Ann Coulter, Human
Events
7/14/10
CONSERVATIVE
DISCUSSION
GROUP TO
HAVE
COFFEE
WITH
PARTY
LEADERS!
7/13/10
Live from
the
Gulf:
Obama
Team
Blocks
Media
from Oil
Spill
The
Heritage
Foundation
"There
are two
real
stories
here,
and we
do
appreciate
Cooper
bringing
one of
them to
light.
The
media
should
of
course
not be
blocked
by the
federal
government
from
safely
reporting
on the
spill
and its
effects.
The
heartbreaking
images
of oil
soaked
pelicans,
turtles,
tarballs
and
destroyed
marshes
achieve
one
important
goal –
to
remind
Americans
of the
disaster
the
federal
government
is
ignoring.
To this
day, the
media
continue
to have
unnecessarily
limited
and
prohibitive
access
to the
disaster
area,
including
reporters
being
hassled
on
public
streets.
NPR
reported
yesterday
on a
reporter
who was
asked to
reveal
the
images
on his
camera,
and his
social
security
number
by
members
of the
local
police,
FBI and
BP.
"But there is a second story.
"The second story is that
while national reporters are fighting the Obama administration’s lack of
transparency, they’re not reporting the Obama administration’s
lack of competence. Every minute a correspondent scuba dives into the Gulf
to reveal that oil is, well, murky, or an anchor shows you another tarball, we
miss out on real journalistic oversight.
"The Obama administration is
making catastrophic decisions every day that are crippling the Gulf Coast
environment and economy, yet this story is not being told.
A
team of experts from The Heritage Foundation, without any credentials, were
able to move along the coast unfettered, interview officials, fisherman, port
workers and experts to discover major mistakes being made in the response
efforts. These stories do not require a pristine camera shot, but rather some
old fashioned investigating."
7/13/10
NAACP
Approves
Resolution
Calling
Tea
Party
'Racist'
FoxNews.com
"Tea Party members have challenged claims that their activists accosted black
lawmakers in March and no visual evidence has been produced depicting a racist
attack. Dallas Tea Party founder Phillip Dennis said 'there was no proof' of
racist behavior at the event and that the movement welcomes minority members.
"'We don't care about the pigment of one's skin,' he said. Dennis
accused the NAACP of playing the 'race card' and called the organization
'irrelevant.'
"The nearby St. Louis Tea
Party had an all-hands-on-deck response to the NAACP's plan. The group has
drafted a resolution of its own condemning the civil rights group for reducing
itself to a 'bigoted' and 'partisan attack dog organization.'
"In a matter of hours, the St.
Louis group fired off to the NAACP the statement demanding the organization
withdraw its 'bigoted, false and inflammatory' resolution. The missive accused
the NAACP of resorting to political tactics and urged the IRS to reconsider
whether it can continue to qualify for tax-exempt status. . . .
"St. Louis Tea Party organizer
Bill Hennessy wrote on the group's website Tuesday that the Tea Party stands for
smaller government and fiscal responsibility, and accused the NAACP of
abandoning black America.
"'When you look at the crime
and poverty and family breakdown of the African-American community ... you see a
half-century of failure by the NAACP," he wrote. "None of those persistent
problems was caused by the Tea Party movement, yet the principles of the Tea
Party are exactly what's needed to wind down the multigenerational destruction
in the African-American community.
"'The NAACP was once a vital
weapon in the war against segregation and oppression. All that's left is a
bigoted and malicious shell that does far more harm than good for people'"
7/13/10
Let's
End
Racial
Division
and
Unite
Around
American
Exceptionalism
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Transcript
RUSH:
George
Bush did
not want
a
divided
country.
I don't
want a
divided
country.
I want
the
greatest
damn
country
on the
face of
the
earth.
I want
everybody
in this
country
to be
proud
and love
the fact
that
they're
Americans,
and I
want
everybody
in this
country
to have
opportunity.
I love
people.
I want
them to
have the
best
opportunity.
I want
everybody
to
realize
the
great
opportunity
being an
American
is, and
it
breaks
my heart
to learn
that so
many
millions
of
people
born in
this
country
are told
and
raised
and
educated
that
they
have no
chance.
That's
practically
near
criminal,
and I
know
it's not
people
on my
side
that are
doing
that
kind of
teaching
and
educating.
It's
somebody
else.
And it's
time it
all
stopped.
RUSH: Look
at me.
The
United
States
did not
invent
slavery.
The
United
States
invented
freedom.
Somebody
name for
me a
country
on earth
that
ever
fought a
civil
war to
make men
equal.
What
other
country
on the
face of
the
earth
has so
many
laws
against
discrimination?
You
can't
find
one.
7/13/10
Suing
America
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Democratic governors warn
of an apocalyptic November if the administration pursues its war on Arizona.
They fear defeat by people who want jobs, not 'comprehensive immigration
reform.'
"The main topics at the
National Governors Association's summer meeting were supposed to be jobs and
the economy. Instead, the buzz was about immigration and the political
consequences of Washington's mindless suing of a sovereign state for daring
to enforce federal immigration law. . . .
"New Mexico Gov. Bill
Richardson defended the Justice Department's lawsuit and admitted its
political motivation. 'Policywise it makes sense,' says the term-limited
Democrat, 'and Obama is popular with Hispanic voters, and this is going to
... move them nationally.'
"Actually, it makes no
sense, politically or legally, not when the El Paso City Hall gets shot up
and Arizona ranchers get killed in a flood of illegal aliens and drug
cartels battling for turf. Americans want jobs and their borders secured.
They don't want to get shot at in the unemployment line.
"We've said the push for
de facto amnesty is motivated in part by a desire for a vast new bloc of
Democratic votes. The joke in some Washington circles is that the phrase
'illegal aliens' has been replaced in the administration by 'undocumented
Democrats.' . . .
"So when President Obama's
Justice Department sues Arizona, he is really suing America and the American
people. 'I'd be willing to bet a lot of money that almost every state in
America next January is going to see a bill similar to Arizona's,' said
Republican Gov. Dave Heineman of Nebraska.
"And a lot more Republican
governors will be around to sign them into law."
7/12/10
Health
Care
Rationing
Obama
Believes
In
By
Nat Hentoff, Real Clear Politics
"As a
reporter,
I do not
use
euphemisms
- such
as
calling
murderous
terrorists
'militants'
or
'activists.'
And as
an
American,
I can
exercise
my First
Amendment
right to
say
plainly
that
President
Obama is
a liar
with
regard
to our
new
health-care
law,
often
referred
to as
Obamacare.
"When a number of critics of
Obamacare, including myself, warned that it would bring the rationing of
treatments, medications and research into new procedures, the president said to
the American Medical Association (June 15, 2009) that this rationing charge was
a 'fear tactic.' . . .
"'Once the centralized
planning of medical delivery is complete - with cost-containment boards
controlling the standards of care and the extent of coverage for both the
private and public sectors - insurance companies, HMOs and the government will
be able to legally discriminate against the sickest, most disabled and most
elderly in our country. In other words, those whose care is most expensive.'
"For what to watch for during
the reign of Berwick, whom Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen
Sibelius recently glorified as 'absolutely the right leader for this time' (CNSNews.com,
May 26), I bring back Michael Tanner:
"In the British Health Service
Berwick loves, '750,000 patients are awaiting admission to NHS hospitals. ...The
latest estimates suggest that for most specialties, only 30 to 50 percent of
patients are treated within 18 weeks. For trauma and orthopedic patients, the
figure is only 20 percent. ... Every year. 50,000 surgeries are canceled because
patients become too sick on the waiting list to proceed.'
And, again unlike the president,
Berwick tells it like it frighteningly is in a June 2009 interview for the
magazine, Biotechnology Healthcare:
"'It's not a question of
whether we will ration health care. It is whether we will ration with our eyes
open.'
"There are many reasons why it
is vital for Americans to vote in the midterm elections - and, of course, in
2012, to prevent a second term for the most dangerous and incompetent president
we have ever had - but for many Americans, it is particularly important this
year to vote against supporters of Obamacare. The question for many voters
should be whether, in the years ahead, they will be in condition to vote if they
are on waiting lists for government-controlled health care.
"More of us are learning that
during the Obama administration, it is essential to continually keep our eyes
open on all it does."
7/12/10
Obama
Ban
Kneecaps
Gulf
Coast
Economy
by Connie Hair, Human Events
"'With new contracting
severely restricted in the Gulf of Mexico as a result of the uncertainties
surrounding the offshore drilling moratorium, we are actively seeking
international opportunities to keep our rigs fully employed,' said Diamond
Offshore President and CEO, Larry Dickerson. 'We greatly regret the loss of U.S.
jobs that will result from this rig relocation.'
"The announcement came as a
group of Congressmen toured Grand Isle, La., to get a first-hand look at the
local impact of the spill.
"'The greatest damage that’s going to happen in Louisiana -- that’s
already happening -- is to jobs and the economy,' Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) told
HUMAN EVENTS after the site visit. 'The moratorium on deepwater drilling which
actually has now failed in court twice but nonetheless just the delay -- the
uncertainty of all this -- we’re already seeing crews stack their rigs and move
on.'
"Despite
the 5th
Circuit
Court’s
refusal
to
reinstate
the
deepwater
drilling
ban last
week,
Obama’s
vow to
pursue
the ban
through
appeals
or
reinstate
the ban
in
defiance
of the
court
keeps
companies
and
workers
sitting
idle.
"'The people of Louisiana are winning the battle in court against the
federal
government,
but
we’re
still
losing
the war
because
of the
uncertainty,'
Fleming
said.
'There’s
an
uncertainty
that the
federal
government
won’t
back off
and
allow
drilling
to go
forward
as it
should
and it’s
killing
thousands
of jobs
and is
having a
devastating
impact
on the
state of
Louisiana.'
. . .
"'While
there is
no
official
moratorium
on
shallow
water
drilling,
there
are no
permits
being
given
for the
shallow
water
drilling
so we
have to
call
that a
de-facto
moratorium,”
Fleming
said.
'When
you ask
the
officials,
and I
have,
and you
ask them
is there
a
moratorium
on
shallow
water
drilling
-- and
they
define
that as
500 feet
or less
-- they
say,
‘No,
everything’s
going
fine.’
But when
you talk
to the
drillers
they
say,
‘Well,
we fill
out all
the
forms
and we
submit
all the
forms
but we
get no
permits.’'
. . .
'Right
now, of
course,
the
obstruction
is the
administration,'
Burgess
said
after
the
tour’s
conclusion.
'In
fact,
BP, in
this
instance,
has
agreed
to pay
for the
rocks
and has
the
rocks
sitting
in
barges
on the
Mississippi
River
apparently
waiting
on the
okay
from the
Corps of
Engineers
and the
Environmental
Protection
Agency
to build
the rock
berms.'
"And the rocks -- bought and paid for by BP -- continue to sit on the
barges.
"'It’s sad that they’re fighting this oil spill but they’re also fighting
the
inertia
of the
administration
federal
bureaucracies
which
compounds
the
tragedy,'
Burgess
said.
"Burgess says the administration still has not used its emergency powers
to react
to the
crisis.
"'The most frustrating thing is we have the administration with the power
under
the Oil
Pollution
Act to
enact
emergency
powers.
We hear
people
say
things
like,
‘All
hands on
deck’
but you
come
down
here and
it’s
anything
but all
hands on
deck,'
Burgess
said.
'The
real
tragedy
is the
local
leaders,
the
mayors
and the
parish
council
folks
have
plans in
mind to
protect
their
area the
best
they
know how
-- they
are the
folks
most
familiar
with the
area --
and
they’re
prevented.'
.
"Fleming warned that at the
end of the day the most enduring damage to the region in the wake of the spill
could be inflicted by the federal government.
"'When history is written on
this episode, what I suspect... it will be all of the economic damage that’s
been created mostly by the federal government itself in terms of the moratoria
and potentially very onerous regulations -- that the real damage will actually
occur as a result of the administration and Washington itself,' Fleming said.
7/12/10
Obama
Economy
Sends
Americans
to Their
Mattresses
MICHAEL BARONE, TownHall.com
"People seem to be
following this investment strategy. Step one: Go to Mattress Discounters and
buy the biggest mattress you can find. Step two: Take it home, and stuff all
your money in it. Step three: Lie down, and get some rest.
"This hurts the economy,
but it's a rational response to the Obama Democrats' public policies. And
that's not just the view of their political opponents.
"Consider the plaint of
Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg, head of the Business Roundtable, which has been
playing footsie with the Obama administration for most of the last 18
months. 'By reaching into virtually every sector of economic life,'
Seidenberg recently wrote, 'government is injecting uncertainty into the
marketplace and making it harder to raise new capital and create new
businesses.'
"Or take a look at Obama
backer Nate Silver's fivethirtyeight.com Website. 'Why aren't businesses
hiring?' asks tax lawyer Hale 'Bonddad' Stewart. 'Uncertainty: There has
been a tremendous amount of change over the last 12 months. Businesses are
still trying to figure out what this means for their bottom line. Until
there are firm answers, they will freeze hiring.'
"In other words, the Obama
Democrats' vast expansion of the size and scope of government -- and the
threat that they may pass even more such legislation in a lame duck session
of Congress after the November election -- has chilled the animal spirits
that John Maynard Keynes said were the driving force for economic growth.
"Instead of stimulating
the economy, the Obama Democrats' policies have shocked it into immobility.
People are lying on their mattresses, waiting for the next shock. At least
one is definitely coming: The Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year,
which means that high earners can be sure they will very soon keep less of
what they make."
7/11/10
First rig
sails away over drilling ban
By JENNIFER A. DLOUHY,
Chron Business
Lawmakers and
experts fear loss is only the start of offshore exodus
"Diamond Offshore announced Friday that its Ocean Endeavor drilling rig
will leave the Gulf of Mexico and move to Egyptian waters immediately — making
it the first to abandon the United States in the wake of the BP oil spill and a
ban on deep-water drilling.
"And the Ocean Endeavor's exodus probably won't be the last,
according to oil industry officials and Gulf Coast leaders who warn that other
companies eager to find work for the now-idled rigs are considering moving them
outside the U.S."
7/11/10
President Obama's
policy time bombs
By
CHRIS FRATES &
BEN WHITE,
Politico
"President Barack Obama has
long boasted about the transformative change he’s bringing to the country.
"But by the time those reforms
finally arrive, he could be long gone from the White House.
"Some of Obama’s biggest
promises won’t go into effect until long after his first term — and in some
cases, well past a second. In fact, buried deep within some of the Democrats’
most significant reform bills are dozens of policy time bombs set to blow at
more politically convenient times.
"The Democratic reform
triumvirate — health care, Wall Street and energy — is filled with provisions
designed to front-load policy benefits and delay political pain. . . ."
7/11/10
We Will Not Be Silenced’: Democrats Produce Documentary Alleging Rampant Vote
Fraud by Obama Campaign vs. Hillary in 2008 Primaries Hot Air
"We want to be heard and let
the country know how our party has sanctioned the actions of what we feel are
Obama Campaign 'Chicago Machine' dirty politics. We believe this infamous
campaign of 'change' from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus
packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote,
scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them
out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote,
which is, of course, all documented in 'We Will Not Be Silenced.'. . .
"It is our opinion there never
before has been such a 'dirty' campaign; the campaign that has broken the hearts
and spirits of American voters, who once believed in the Democractic voting
system.
"We are not angry liberals; we
are disappointed Democrats, who love our country and feel the DNC needs to stand
for truth, care about its voter base and stop committing actions worse than what
we only thought possible of the worst Republicans. The DNC and the Obama
Campaign need to be held accountable for the catastrophe of the 2008 Democratic
Primary. We must right their wrongs…after all, this is America, the Land of the
Free, where every American has the right to a fair, honest voting process, and
to have his or her vote counted…
"Expect Eric Holder to
investigate these “irregularities” in 3 – 2 – never."
7/11/10
Democratic governors point finger at D.C.
By Jonathon Martin, Politico
"Democratic governors facing grim budget choices, lingering unemployment and
angry voters are pointing a finger at their colleagues in Democratic-controlled
Washington to explain this year’s toxic political climate."
7/11/10
"Megyn Kelly: 'Racist Media Satan'"
"Megyn's show was able to
uncover that our current Department of Justice has issued an edict that would
prevent the department from any involvement in prosecuting voter intimidation
cases in which the victims were white and whose initiators were black. A
policy implemented once Eric Holder and the other political appointments were in
place following the coming to power of the Obama administration.
"Her tenacity in unveiling
each new wrinkle that was revealed this week to the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights provided her an exclusive amongst America's larger media. An exclusive on
a story, that I might add, should have been front page news for the major
newspapers and top of hour feeds for the 24/7 newsers. Four days after her
original exclusive interview a highly rated fellow Fox broadcaster, Glenn Beck,
finally provided the first corollary coverage. Yet the New York Times,
Washington Post, CNN, MSNBC, and all the major networks, have yet to pen their
first word of coverage.
"Had Kelly been covering the
dismissal of a case against two Ku Klux Klan members, every paper in America
would've pinged it. Further had the Justice Department issued an edict to ignore
any further cases of voter intimidation by whites in which the victims were
black, riots would've broken out in most of the nation's urban centers.
"She has endured pathetic
treatment from the Department of Justice on the matter. She along with (J
Christian Adams,) Mr. Beck, myself and my morning listeners coast to coast have
been slimed as racist for even relaying some of the basic information she has
brought to light. . . .
"[P]erhaps if the former
Air America hosts, and dried up sportscasters that those other networks employed
were able to be half as intellectually honest as Kelly is, they wouldn't be. Of
course they aren't so it's easier to slander Kelly as a racist media 'satan'
than to adjust their shoddy, agenda-driven practices.
[Emphases added.]
"The biggest scandal to date in
the Obama administration is his own Justice Department's edict to enforce a
racist and discriminatory policy against Americans based on the skin color of
the parties involved. It is a scandal that Eric Holder should be brought before
Congress to answer for. (As should all of the political appointees that played a
hand in the decision.)"
7/11/10
Lawmaker calls for probe of arrests of pamphleters at Arab International
Festival
By Sean Delaney, Press & Guide
Newspapers
"A Michigan lawmaker is asking
the Attorney General’s Office to investigate an incident involving four
Christian missionaries who were arrested June 18 at the Arab International
Festival in Dearborn after talking to festival-goers about religion.
“Both the Constitution of
Michigan and the United States guarantee the right of every person to enjoy
free speech and practice their religion freely, just as these men were
doing,” said Rep. Tom McMillin, R-Rochester Hills. 'Those rights can't be
just pushed aside for political correctness or to accommodate certain
circumstances or locations.' . . .
“These men should not be
punished for exercising their inalienable rights,” McMillin said.
"'It cannot be said that
we were arrested for causing a disturbance, because we did not approach
anyone, rather everyone with whom we spoke first approached us,' Wood said
in the online blog. 'It cannot be said that we were harassing anyone,
because the moment anyone said ‘stop talking to me’, we would stop talking
to them. And it cannot be said that we were spreading hate speech, because
we said virtually nothing about Islam at all.”
7/10/10
Is Obama
intentionally
out to
destroy
America’s
Economy?
George
Edwards
and Sam
Shanely,
Giac2002.org
"Let’s list some of the examples of the
actions he [Obama] has sponsored, blocked or dawdled with that have filtered
past the media people responsible for covering up for him and
whom we should likewise be outraged with. In my opinion, any reasonably
intelligent person looking at them could come to only one of two conclusions: he
is either the dumbest most ineffective person that this planet has ever seen or
so thoroughly misguided that he wants to completely destroy the America that
most of us loved. Unfortunately, I believe the last is the only rational
conclusion.
"While
huge numbers of Americans continue to be unemployed Obama and his fellow
travelers have ignored their plight for the first one and a half years of his
Presidency, put their all behind a Trillion dollar health care plan the
majority did not want and now will not allow the so-called stimulus proceeds to
be touched to extend unemployment benefits—insisting it only will be done with
further spending or not at all.
"Now
that his health care plan has passed, Obama is placing amnesty for twelve to
twenty million illegal aliens ahead of our unemployed. That would only more
thoroughly wreck the U.S. economy.
"He
continues to press 'cap and trade' which, by his own words, he fully knows will
push energy prices out of sight although the so-called crisis of “global
warming” has been discredited. Raising energy prices in addition to reducing
purchasing power raises all prices as well because of the increased costs to
transport goods.
"The
failures to act and bureacratic obstacles raised by Obama’s troops in the Gulf
cleanup has been breathtaking. The damage to not only the Gulf state’s economy
but the entire nation’s that this has and will result in is overwhelming. In
case you haven’t been following the frequent reports, see the footnote below.*
"Include
with this, Obama’s executive order shutting down all oil well drilling activity
in the gulf that is estimated to cause 20,000 to 60,000 people in the region to
lose their jobs. This will also cause owners of the massively expensive,
slow-to-construct drilling rigs to move never to return or at best further
destroy the economy of at least three Gulf States for years and further harm the
entire economy of The United States.
"Surely,
when all these are added together, we must ask the question:
'Is Obama intentionally out to destroy America’s financial underpinning and
thereby our Constitutional Republic by forcing the indebted states, the
unemployed and bankrupt businesses to turn to his Federal Government for bail
outs in return for every individual and every entity trading in their freedoms
for a Socialistic form of government ? ' Unfortunately I see no reasonable
alternative conclusion."
7/10/10
Karl
Rove on
Black
Panther
Case:
White
House
'Thumbing
Its
Nose' at
Voter
Rights
FoxNews.com
"The White
House is 'thumbing its
nose' at one of the most fundamental American rights by not investigating
allegations that the Justice Department wrongly abandoned a 2008 voter
intimidation case, former Bush adviser Karl Rove charged on Friday.
"In
an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on 'America Live,' Rove
accused White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs of not telling the truth' when
he said Thursday that he was not looking into allegations that the DOJ wrongly
dismissed a case against the New Black Panther Party. He also accused the
administration of 'thumbing its nose at one of the most essential rights
Americans have.'
"'Of course they're aware of this,'
Rove said. 'I can't imagine that when the
attorney general makes
such a controversial decision, that they would have not discussed this with the
White House.'
"Former Justice attorney J. Christian Adams testified before the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights on Tuesday that his former employer not only abandoned the voter
intimidation case for racial reasons last year, but had instructed attorneys in
the civil rights division to ignore cases that involve black defendants and
white victims."
7/10/10
Blather
in
Kansas
City
By
Chad
Stafko,
American
Thinker
"After 18 months as Chief
Executive of this nation, the President continued to lay the blame for our
economic woes on former President George W. Bush. Obama said, 'This
recession was the culmination of a decade of irresponsibility-a decade that
fell like a sledgehammer on middle class families.'
"Imagine if after
spending 18 months on the job, an executive of a company continued to blame
his predecessor as production continued to slide. Would the stakeholders
and or the Board of Directors be satisfied with such an attitude? Hardly.
They would demand to see what has been done to alleviate the situation and
the results of those actions.
"What Obama can show us
is an unemployment rate that has risen on his watch to just under 10
percent. He can speak of government spending and deficits that are without
parallel in our nation's history and a massive leadership debacle during our
nation's largest environmental disaster. Add to those a plummeting level of
confidence in him and his leadership, as evidenced by the
latest Gallup poll
in which only 46 percent of Americans approved of his job as President. All
of this has occurred under his administration not that of George W. Bush.
How's that for job performance?
"Just as when the President lied
about not having available oil reserves last month in his televised address
to the nation regarding the BP oil spill, he told another outright lie in
Kansas City. It was so blatant that it was almost humorous. Note the
President's words, 'So our goal has never been to create another government
program, our goal has been to spur growth in the private sector.'
"Really? Does any sane
person who even casually follows politics or watched the 2008 presidential
campaign believe this? Four words -- 'government health care reform' or to
be more accurate 'universal health care'. When the President signed this
into law he created one of the largest government programs this country has
ever known. It is essentially the mother of all government programs.
"He ran on this
very platform
during his campaign. What he said in Kansas City about not wanting to
create another government program is completely false. Creating universal
health care, essentially ran by the government, was a primary goal of his
presidency. How amazing it is that the man can say 'our goal has never been
to create another government program/ with a straight face.
"Further lunacy was heard
when President Obama proclaimed in his Kansas City speech, 'And we are
guided by a simple idea: Government doesn't have all the answers.'
"Does this President
expect me to believe this? The words of our President speak of one thing,
while his actions are the complete opposite. This is a President who has
championed a massive increase in government expansion and regulation across
multiple industries. His actions tell us that, in fact, he does believe
government has all the answers.
"Perhaps the icing on the
cake was not any of the words that the President uttered, but the location
in which this speech was given. It was at the company headquarters for
Smith Electric Vehicles, which received $32 million in government stimulus
and produces electric moving trucks. The President proudly hailed that the
company just hired its fiftieth worker -- but at quite a cost.
"Obviously the company
had some workers before the stimulus, but just to be kind, suppose they
didn't. A little basic math tells us that each worker was produced with
just over $600,000. Why would you brag about creating one worker for every
$600,000? Again, this is being kind, as some of these individuals were
already working for the company. If the stimulus actually only produced an
additional twenty workers, then those workers were each added for about $1.5
million of taxpayers' money."
7/10/10
One Job
Forward,
Two Jobs
Back
Another triumph of Obamanomics.
"The
Great
Obamanomic
Job
Creation
Machine
rumbled
into
action
again
over the
Fourth
of July
weekend,
promising
to spend
as much
as
$2 billion
to
support
creation
of 1,585
'permanent'
jobs by
two
solar
energy
companies.
That
comes to
a
potential
cost of
over
$1.25
million
per
job."
7/9/10
The
Obama-Pelosi
Lame
Duck
Strategy
By
JOHN FUND, The Wall Street Journal
"Democratic House members are
so worried about the fall elections they're leaving Washington on July 30, a
full week earlier than normal—and they won't return until mid-September. Members
gulped when National Journal's Charlie Cook, the Beltway's leading political
handicapper, predicted last month 'the House is gone,' meaning a GOP takeover.
He thinks Democrats will hold the Senate, but with a significantly reduced
majority.
"The rush to recess gives
Democrats little time to pass any major laws. That's why there have been signs
in recent weeks that party leaders are planning an ambitious, lame-duck session
to muscle through bills in December they don't want to defend before November.
Retiring or defeated members of Congress would then be able to vote for sweeping
legislation without any fear of voter retaliation.
"'I've got lots of things I
want to do' in a lame duck, Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D., W. Va.) told reporters in
mid June. North Dakota's Kent Conrad, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee,
wants a lame-duck session to act on the recommendations of President Obama's
deficit commission, which is due to report on Dec. 1. 'It could be a huge deal,'
he told Roll Call last month. 'We could get the country on a sound long-term
fiscal path.' By which he undoubtedly means new taxes in exchange for extending
some, but not all, of the Bush-era tax reductions that will expire at the end of
the year.
"In the House, Arizona Rep.
Raul Grijalva, co-chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, told
reporters last month that for bills like "card check"—the measure to curb
secret-ballot union elections—'the lame duck would be the last chance, quite
honestly, for the foreseeable future.' . . .
"Other lame-duck
possibilities? Senate ratification of the New Start nuclear treaty, a federally
mandated universal voter registration system to override state laws, and a
budget resolution to lock in increased agency spending.
"Then there is pork. A Senate
aide told me that "some of the biggest porkers on both sides of the aisle are
leaving office this year, and a lame-duck session would be their last hurrah for
spending."
7/9/10
Obama
Moratorium
Denied
Again;
Dems
Slam
Drilling
Commission
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today
RUSH: "A federal appeals
court...."
Rare
good
news
here,
folks.
"A
federal
appeals
court
has
rejected
the
regime's
effort
to keep
a
six-month
deepwater
drilling
moratorium
in
place.
A
three-judge
panel of
the
fifth US
Circuit
Court of
Appeals
ruled
soon
after a
Thursday
afternoon
hearing
in a
lawsuit
filed by
companies
that
opposed
the
drilling
ban.
The
interior
department
[of the
regime]
said the
moratorium
was
necessary
while it
studied
deepwater
drilling
risks in
the wake
of the
BP oil
spill,"
putting
who
knows
how many
hundreds,
maybe
thousands
of
people
out of
work,
and the
regime
is out
there
saying
they're
pro-business.
So the
regime
had its
head
handed
to 'em
twice
now. A
federal
judge
and an
appellate
court
has
rejected
Obama's
bid to
keep his
drilling
moratorium.
Will
this
stop
Obama?
That's
the
question,
and I'm
being
quite
serious.
This is a regime and an administration that has demonstrated countless
times
its
cavalier
attitude
toward
law and
the
Constitution,
and
we'll
just see
what the
regime
tries to
do in
response
to
this.
The Wall
Street
Journal
has a
piece
today on
this
entitled,
"The
White
House
Gets
Drilled
-- How
ideologically
stacked
is
President
Obama's
offshore
drilling
commission?
So much
that
even
many of
his
fellow
Democrats
can't
support
it. Five
Democrats
on the
Senate
Energy
Committee
last
week
delivered
an
embarrassing
rebuke
to the
White
House,
voting
with
Republicans
to have
Congress
set up
an
'independent'
commission
to
investigate
the BP
disaster,
bypassing
the
President's
appointees.
Offered
by
Wyoming
Republican
John
Barrasso
to
broader
oil-spill
legislation,
the
amendment
that
passed
the
committee
on an
15-8
vote
charges
the
Democratic
and
Republican
leaderships
with
naming a
10-person
commission.
"It emphasizes that appointees should have 'technical expertise in
offshore
oil
exploration,
health
and
safety,
and
environmental
protection.'
Mr.
Obama
gets to
name
only the
chairman."
Now
listen
to this:
"By
contrast,
the
President's
seven-member
commission
contains
not a
single
expert
on
drilling
or
petroleum
engineering
and is
instead
loaded
with
such
anti-oil
and
antidrilling
activists
as
Natural
Resources
Defense
Council
President
Frances
Beinecke
and
former
Florida
Senator
Bob
Graham."
It's
like
putting
somebody
from the
Sierra
Club
with
nothing
more
than a
liberal
activist
group,
same
thing
with the
Natural
Resources
Defense
Council!
It's no
different
than a
left-wing
version...
They're
global
warming
hoaxers.
I don't
know how
to
describe
them.
These
are the
people
that
wanted
to ban
your
SUVs.
They're
like the
Sierra
Club, ad
these
are the
people
Obama
put on
his
commission.
They
don't
have one
thing
good to
say
about
oil or
drilling,
and they
don't
know
anything
about
it.
7/9/10
To err
on the
side of
freedom
is no
error
Ted
Nugent,
The
Washington
Times
Gun rights keep Americans safe
"In the otherwise universally
recognized perfection of the American experiment in self-government, where evil
monsters like Che
Guevara and Mao
Zedong are routinely worshipped by the very imbeciles that these historical
murderers would have slaughtered unhesitatingly, to a
community-organizer-in-chief whose terminal rookie agenda is maniacally to spend
our way out of debt and drop charges against clear and present criminal New
Black Panther thugs threatening voters in Philadelphia, to black-robed idiots
claiming Americans have no right to self-defense, where pimps, whores and
welfare brats party hearty with the mindless fantasy that Fedzilla will wipe
their butts eternally, ad nauseam . . . .
"Since the 1960s LSD-inspired
goofiness of peace and love, I have always been convinced that the gun-control
issue has been the tip of the culture-war spear. Why the peaceniks still deny
the truth that more guns equal less crime, in spite of the tsunami of global
evidence from every imaginable source, is one of mankind's greatest mysteries.
"From the Nazi gun-banner's
dream of herding 6 million defenseless Jews onto the death trains to the
no-guns-or-gunpowder-allowed IRA bombings and shoot-'em-ups in Bono's
Ireland to Idi
Amin's unstoppable slaughter of unarmed victims in
Uganda, Chicago
Mayor Richard
M. Daley still fails to grasp the self-evident truth that gun bans and
preposterous buyback programs are just the stuff of gangbangers' dreams. Who
doesn't get this stuff? Liberal, dopey denial cultists, that's who."
7/9/10
Harry
Potter
and
Sharia
law
D.L.
Adams,
The
Washington
Times
Honor killings may not be on
the big screen, but a celebrity angle is getting them big coverage
"On July 2,
CNN reported, "The
father and brother of a Harry Potter actress will appear in court later this
month in Manchester,
England, on
charges of threatening to kill the young star." The family is Muslim, and the
suspected motives are clear -
Afshan Azad,
who played Harry's classmate
Padma Patil
in the popular movies - was dating a Hindu.
"Popular publications
including
Entertainment Weekly,
People and
US Weekly are all
covering this disturbing but not unprecedented case, bringing a horrifying fact
of life in Europe and across the world to the attention of people who don't
immerse themselves in news and politics.
"Though the assault on
Miss Azad by
her father and brother is in the spotlight, such cases are hardly new. . . .
[Numerous instances follow in the article.]
"According to Islamic
doctrine, adherents are in a state of perpetual and universal conflict and war
with nonbelievers.
"According to 'Reliance of the
Traveller,' the definitive book of Sharia law, leaving Islam (apostasy) requires
a death sentence: 'When a person who has reached puberty and is sane voluntarily
apostasizes from Islam, he deserves to be killed.'
"Behavior considered
'un-Islamic' is also cause for execution, according to Sharia law: 'Someone
raised among Muslims who denies the obligatoriness of the prayer, zakat, fasting
Ramadan, the pilgrimage, or the unlawfulness of wine and adultery, or denies
something else upon which there is scholarly consensus and which is known as
being of the religion thereby becomes an unbeliever (kafir) and is executed for
his unbelief.'
"Islamic doctrine and law
allow murder of family members and non-Muslims (kafirs). . . .
"'The following are not
subject to retaliation: a Muslim for killing a non-Muslim ... a Jewish or
Christian subject of the Islamic state for killing an apostate from Islam
(because a subject of the state is under its protection, while killing an
apostate from Islam is without consequences) ... a father or mother (or their
fathers or mothers) for killing their offspring, or offspring's offspring.'
"The multitudes of Harry
Potter fans are likely now to do some reading on the subject of Islam, perhaps
researching the doctrine of Islam - Koran, Sira, Hadith or even Sharia law. They
will not likely be pleased with what they discover.
"The barbaric assault against
Miss Azad by
her father and brother should be a catalyst for millions of Harry Potter fans
across the world who know nothing about Islam to learn about this cruel and
oppressive ideology.
"The early communist Leon
Trotsky famously said, 'You may not be interested in war, but war is interested
in you.' The observation is accurate, as is this modernization: 'You may not be
interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you.'"
7/9/10
Muslim
Enclaves
U.S.A.
Posted
by
Ryan Mauro,
FrontPageMag.com
"It seems almost unthinkable,
but Islamist groups are, as we speak, hard at work creating Muslim
states-within-states in the U.S. Indeed, this process has been unfolding for a
long time across the Western world,
through the creation of
isolated Muslim enclaves in both rural and urban areas, as well as through
the designation of “no-go
zones” where governments admit to having little authority over Muslims
living there, essentially leaving them to function as autonomous regions.
"Daniel Pipes has
tracked numerous examples since 2004 of Muslim groups working to create
communities based solely on Islam and run by Sharia law. As
discussed by David Kennedy Houck in 2006, 'Although such concepts are
antithetical to a free society, U.S. democracy allows the internal enclave to
function beyond the established boundaries of our constitutional framework.'
"For example, one such
community, Gwynn Oak, has been
created in Baltimore,
Maryland, consisting of Muslim immigrants
and African-American converts."
7/8/10
How the
Expiring
Bush Tax
Cuts
Affect
You
by Bill Bischoff, Yahoo! Finance,
provided by

"You may
have
been led
to
believe
that
only
individuals
in the
top two
brackets
will
face
higher
federal
income
taxes
when the
Bush
cuts go
bye-bye.
Not
true!
Unless
Congress
takes
action
and
President
Obama
goes
along,
rates
will go
up for
everyone
-- not
just a
sliver
of the
wealthiest
Americans.
The
current
six rate
brackets
of 10%,
15%,
25%,
28%, 33%
and 35%
will be
replaced
by five
new
brackets
with the
higher
rates of
15%, 28,
31%, 36%
and
39.6%.
Just a
few
months
ago, it
seemed
like a
safe bet
that
Congress
would
make a
fix to
keep the
existing
10%,
15%, 25%
and 28%
rate
brackets
to help
out
lower
and
middle-income
folks.
That bet
is now
looking
iffy.
"Right now, the maximum
federal rate on long-term capital gains and dividends is only 15%. Starting next
year, the maximum rate on long-term gains will increase to 20%. The maximum rate
on dividends will skyrocket to 39.6% unless action is taken to limit the rate to
20%, as the president has repeatedly promised. Plan on 39.6%, and hope I'm
wrong.
"Right now, an unbeatable 0%
rate applies to long-term gains and dividends collected by folks in lowest two
rate brackets of 10% and 15%. Starting next year, those folks will pay 10% on
long-term gains and 15% and 28% on dividends (compared with 0% now) unless a
change is made. Otherwise, taxes on long-term gains and dividends will go up for
everyone.
"Right now, the standard
deduction for married joint-filing couples is double the amount for singles. For
this, we can thank the Bush tax cuts, which included several provisions to ease
the so-called marriage penalty. The penalty can force a married couple to pay
more in taxes than when they were single. Starting next year, the joint-filer
standard deduction will fall back to about 167% of the amount for singles unless
Congress takes action and the president approves. We don't know if that will
happen. If not, lots of lower and middle-income couples will face higher tax
bills.
"Now, the bottom two tax
brackets for married joint-filing couples are exactly twice as wide as those for
singles. That ratio helps keep the marriage penalty from biting lower- and
middle-income couples. Starting next year, the joint-filer tax brackets will
contract, causing higher tax bills, unless a change is made.
"Before the Bush tax cuts, a
nasty phase-out rule could eliminate up to 80% of a higher-income individual's
itemized deductions for mortgage interest, state and local taxes, and charitable
donations. The rule was gradually eased and finally eliminated this year. Next
year, it will be back in full force unless Congress takes action -- which is
unlikely. So if you itemize and have adjusted gross income above about $170,000
($85,000 if you use married filing separate status), be ready for this phase-out
rule to take a toll.
"Before the Bush tax cuts,
another nasty phase-out rule could eliminate some or all of a higher-income
individual's personal exemption deductions. The rule was gradually cut back and
finally eliminated this year. But it will be back with a vengeance next year
unless Congress blocks it. So be ready for another tax hike if your adjusted
gross income exceeds about $252,000 if you file jointly; about $168,000 if
you're single; about $210,000 if you're a head of household; or about $126,000
if you use married filing separate status. (For 2010, personal exemption
deductions are $3,650 each, and they will be about the same next year.)
The Bottom Line
"The Bush tax cuts don't just
offer tax relief to the wealthiest Americans. They offer it to just about anyone
who pays federal income taxes. Their scheduled demise next year will raise the
tax bill of nearly every taxpayer, unless Congress makes changes and the
president jumps on board."
7/8/10
Defending Israel takes more than hugs
Mike Pence and Gary Bauer, The
Washington Times
"The alliance between our
nation and Israel
has deep and enduring roots, yet since taking office, President
Obama has torn
apart the ties that bind. Despite a meeting this week with Israeli Prime
Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu that by many accounts was cordial, much still remains to
be done to restore the friendship between our two countries.
"The modern nation of
Israel was
established as the clock struck midnight in Jerusalem on May 14, 1948. Eleven
minutes later, President
Harry Truman,
rejecting the advice of Secretary of State
George Marshall
and most of the foreign-policy establishment, recognized the newly restored
Israeli nation. The next day, Arab states declared war on
Israel in an effort
to kill the new nation in its crib.
"Since then, under Israeli
prime ministers and American presidents of both parties, the friendship has
endured. Both countries believe in the dignity of every human being. Both
nations believe in fundamental human rights - freedom of speech, assembly and
dissent. We share values rooted in the rich soil of Judeo-Christian
civilization; we face hatred from similar enemies.
"The Israeli people are
overwhelmingly pro-American, and Americans express affection for
Israel at levels
that are rivaled only by our feelings toward
Great Britain.
In the wake of the Sept. 11 attack, Americans were shocked to see street
celebrations break out in parts of the Middle East, with dancing crowds
celebrating the pain inflicted on us. But we were comforted to see Israelis cry
along with us, lower their flag and declare a day of mourning as we buried our
dead. Israelis understood very well what had happened to America.
Proportionately, more Israelis were killed by Palestinian jihadists during the
intifada than we lost on Sept. 11.
"It is against the backdrop of
this cherished alliance that the realization is slowly taking shape in both
Israel and the
U.S.
that Mr. Obama
is the most anti-Israel
president ever to occupy the Oval Office.
"In the 17 months since taking
the oath of office, the president methodically has moved the
United
States away from our friend
Israel while
reaching out to the most thuggish regimes in the Middle East. He sends letters
offering friendship to Iranian President
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, a man who says
Israel will be
"wiped off the map," while at the same time disrespecting
Mr.
Netanyahu. . . . [Following this, the article points out many other stupid
incidents.]
"Time and time again, the
pattern is the same. The world is being sent a clear and unmistakable signal:
This administration will not stand with
Israel against the
circling vultures. The
Obama administration's policies are undermining our ally, emboldening
Israel's enemies and
making a Middle East war more, not less, likely. By endangering Israeli
security, Mr.
Obama is also making America less safe. Our alliance with
Israel is not a
liability; it is an asset. Together with other free nations, we are defending
our shared values.
"A group of respected world
leaders and academic figures, including former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria
Aznar and former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo, met in Paris recently.
They boldly asserted, 'There is no West without
Israel.' They are
right. Israel is the
'tip of the spear' of Western democratic values in a dangerous neighborhood of
thugs, jihadists and dictators. The weakening of the Israeli nation does not
help America. It puts us more at risk. Undermining a 62-year alliance with
Israel doesn't win
friends for the
U.S.
- it makes every nation question the value of aligning with America. After all,
if America will break with its most cherished ally, what other nation could rely
on our promises?
"We are entering dangerous
waters.
Iran
is marching forward with its nuclear program. NATO member Turkey appears to have
realigned against
U.S.
interests and toward a new alliance with
Iran
and Syria. The
president's policies toward
Israel are damaging
an alliance that now more than ever needs to be strong. Meeting with
Mr.
Netanyahu and treating him with respect this week was a good start. But much
work still remains to be done."
7/8/10
Gibbs
Silent
on
Sanctuary
Cities
Rush
Limbaugh
today
REPORTER:
There
are
dozens
of
so-called
sanctuary
cities
that
have
their
own
policies
that
might
potentially
conflict
with
federal
law,
something
that's
led
Governor
Brewer
to say
that if
Arizona
is in
violation
of
federal
law then
so are
these
localities.
So my
question
is why
did the
president
only ask
DOJ to
look at
Arizona
and not
everywhere?
GIBBS:
Let me
see if I
can get
-- I
don't
know the
answer
to that
but I
will try
to seek
some,
uh, some
answer
on, uh,
some
answer
on
that. I
don't
know.
7/8/10
What the
Liberal
Media
Are
Missing
Glenn
Beck
Today
BECK: The question comes up
over and over again: How does 20 percent of this nation control the other 80
percent?
Ignore it. Deflect it. Redirect it
— don't address it. That is the liberal media and Obama administration's way to
deal with fundamentally transforming an unwilling American population, without
answering to them.
Poll after poll shows that just 20
percent of this nation considers themselves very or somewhat liberal. That's
compared to 42 percent who are very or somewhat conservative. The rest are
somewhere in between, but with only 38 percent of independents now supporting
Obama, the vast majority of what's left are center-right. . . .
CHARLES BOLDEN,
ADMINISTRATOR, NASA: He wanted to expand our international
relationships, and third and perhaps foremost he wanted me to find a way to
reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim
nations to help them feel good about their historic contributions to science and
engineering, to science, math and engineering. . . .
BECK: Is this story
on any network other than Fox News? It’s non-existent. The story wasn't covered
by The New York Times, The Washington Post, “NBC Nightly News”, “ABC World News”
or “CBS Evening News.”
Next story: Months after slandering
the Palin family and providing sleaze ammo to the mainstream media with which to
slime the family for weeks, Levi Johnston has now apologized for lying about the
Palins. Johnston claimed Sarah Palin complained about her job as governor, was a
poor parent and that "there was a lot of talk of divorce in that house." If it
not for Fox News and Talk Radio, you'd never know that these claims are untrue.
Next story: The Department of Justice
(DOJ) successfully prosecutes two New Black Panther Party members for their
videotaped role in voter intimidation, but bizarrely drops the case before
sentencing. The DOJ prosecutor in the case resigns and claims the dismissal was
racially and politically motivated. On top of all of that, another video
surfaces of one of those Black Panthers publicly encouraging blacks to "kill
crackers" and "some of their babies,” which seemingly lends credence to his
conviction. Not only does no one else cover it, but state-run Russian TV puts
Panther chairman Malik Shabazz on to smear Fox for daring to cover it:
UNIDENTIFED FEMALE ANCHOR, RT:
Fox News attacking the Black Panthers? All day, Fox News had updates on a case
of alleged voter intimidation that took place during the 2008 presidential
election. It involved members of the New Black Panther Party who allegedly
intimidated voters who looked like they wouldn’t vote for now-President Obama.
So why is Fox obsessed with a two-year old story?
Joining me to help discuss this is
Dr. Malik Shabazz, chairman of the New Black Panther Party. . . .
BECK: Wednesday,
Obama did an end-run around Congress, ensuring there would be no hearings on his
appointment for director of Medicaid and Medicare when he used a recess
appointment to install another Harvard socialist and anti-capitalist radical.
Wait, I shouldn't call him a radical — oh wait — we have his own words on this?
I smell another Van Jones. We'll get to that later.
At the White House Press briefing on
Wednesday, a reporter from CNS News had the audacity to dare bring up Donald
Berwick's solidly anti-capitalist ideology with spokesman Robert Gibbs. Gibbs
shifted into high deflect and redirect gear instantly:
ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE
PRESS SECRETARY: Look, this is somebody who is uniquely and supremely
qualified to run an agency –
FRED LUCAS, CNS REPORTER:
But it would have been politically troublesome in an election year to have all
these comments aired out about rationing, redistribution and Dr. Berwick had
talked about in the past?
GIBBS: Is there like
a secret comment book that somehow you got that nobody else got and you just
read a couple of them to me? And somehow they wouldn't have come out? Did he —
did he say things like "rationing happens today; the question is who will do
it"? Did he say that? Did he say that? . . .
BECK: Ah, the always
glib Robert Gibbs. Did Berwick say things like "rationing happens today; the
question is, who will do it?" Yes, he did. Berwick's exact quote was: "The
decision is not whether or not we will ration care. The decision is whether we
will ration care with our eyes open." . . .
As for Gibb's question to CNS News
reporter Fred Lucas, "is there like, a secret comment book that you got that
nobody else got,” let me help you out here, Bobby. There are things called
television, radio and the Internet. Sometimes people use magic recording devices
to hear what someone said at a later date.
Meanwhile, as an admirer of Britain's
single-payer system Berwick also said:
DONALD BERWICK: Any
health care funding plan that is just, equitable, civilized and humane must —
must — redistribute wealth from the richer among us to the poorer and the less
fortunate. Excellent health care is by definition re-distributional.
BECK: But will the
ever-glib Gibbs, ever address what anyone actually said? No. He'll just attack
the next person who dares bring up anything uncomfortable to this
administration. As I pointed out all throughout the health care debate, I told
you that this so-called reform was nothing but redistribution of wealth and
rationing. I was called a paranoid lunatic for saying it. Now, you've heard it
from Obama's hand-picked appointee to head up the program.
And here's how the website,
Mediaite.com concluded their coverage of the exchange: "The lesson? Robert Gibbs
won't entertain baseless questions from reporters who haven't done their
homework. And when he does, he makes enough of an example out of them to keep
the rest of the Press Corps on their toes."
What baseless questions?
Berwick did talk rationing and redistribution — that’s hardly baseless. . . .
But don't look for anyone else
in the media to point that out. They're still working on ignoring, deflecting
and redirecting.
7/7/10
Obama's
Unconfirmed
'Recess'
Appointee
to Run
Medicare
Advocated
Rationing,
Redistribution
of
Wealth
By
Terence
P.
Jeffrey,
Editor-in-Chief,
CNSNews.com
"Berwick,
a
professor
at
Harvard
Medical
School
and CEO
of the
Institute
for
Healthcare
Improvement
(a think
tank),
has
expressed
his
disdain
for
free-market
medicine
and his
'love'
for
Great
Britain’s
government-run
health-care
system,
while
advocating
health-care
rationing
and
using
the
health-care
system
to
redistribute
wealth."
7/7/10
Dem
Baucus
joins
GOP in
blasting
Obama
CMS
recess
appointment
By Mike
Lillis,
The Hill
"'As if shoving a
trillion-dollar government takeover of healthcare down the throat of a
disapproving American public wasn't enough, apparently the Obama administration
intends to arrogantly circumvent the American people yet again by
recess-appointing one of the most prominent advocates of rationed healthcare to
implement their national plan,' Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
said in a statement.
"McConnell criticized
Democrats for not holding a confirmation hearing for Berwick, and suggested the
party was trying to avoid tough questions about the healthcare reform law.
"'Democrats haven't scheduled
so much as a committee hearing for Donald Berwick, but the mere possibility of
allowing the American people the opportunity to hear what he intends to do with
their healthcare is evidently reason enough for this administration to sneak him
through without public scrutiny.' . . .
"The critics say that he would
ration care in the name of cutting costs — and threaten the well-being of
seniors as a result. . . .
"The Republicans have another
take, with Barrasso calling the move 'an insult to the American people' that
makes 'a mockery of [Obama's] pledge to be accountable and transparent.'
"McConnell agreed, saying that
'Americans' worst fears' about health reform are 'being realized every day.'
"'The fact that this
administration won't allow the man charged with implementing the president's
plan to cut $500 billion out of Medicare to testify about his plans for the care
of our nation's seniors is truly outrageous,' he said."
7/7/10
The
Massachusetts
Health-Care
'Train
Wreck'
By
JOSEPH RAGO, The Wall Street Journal
The
future of ObamaCare is unfolding here: runaway spending, price controls, even
limits on care and medical licensing.
"President Obama said earlier
this year that the health-care bill that Congress passed three months ago is
"essentially identical" to the Massachusetts universal coverage plan that
then-Gov. Mitt Romney signed into law in 2006. No one but Mr. Romney disagrees.
"As events are now unfolding,
the Massachusetts plan couldn't be a more damning indictment of ObamaCare. The
state's universal health-care prototype is growing more dysfunctional by the
day, which is the inevitable result of a health system dominated by politics."
7/7/10
Are
Overdue
Reports
Concealing
ObamaCare
Impact
On
Medicare?
By
PETER
FERRARA,
Investor's
Business
Daily
"Every year, the Annual
Report of the Social Security Board of Trustees comes out between mid-April
and mid-May. Now it's July, and there's no sign of this year's report.
What is the Obama administration hiding?
"The annual report
includes detailed information about Social Security and its financing over
the next 75 years, produced by the Office of the Actuary of the Social
Security Administration.
"The Congressional Budget
Office reported last week in its Long Term Budget Outlook that Social
Security was already running a deficit this year. According to last year's
Social Security Trustees Report, that was not supposed to happen until 2015,
with the trust fund to run out completely by 2037.
"With the disastrous Obama
economy, the great Social Security surplus that started in the Reagan
administration is gone completely.
"Every year, the federal
government has been raiding the Social Security trust funds to take that
annual surplus and spend it on the rest of the federal government's runaway
spending, leaving the trust funds only with IOUs backed by nothing but
politicians' promise to pay it back when it's needed. Now even that annual
surplus is gone."
7/7/10
Department of
'Social Justice'? Glenn Beck Show Segment
BECK: Here we
are picking up the slack for the rest of the media again; they seem fairly
disinterested in the New Black Panther case that was dropped by the Justice
Department and Eric Holder. . .
SAMIR SHABAZZ: I
hate white people — all of them. Every last iota of a cracker — I hate him.
. . .You're going to have to kill some crackers. You're going to have to
kill some of their babies.
BECK: OK, I
think he hates white people. He doesn't like one iota of them. In fact, he
wants to kill them. He also seems upset at black men in African garb who are
with white women. Wow. And the Justice Department just let this guy walk?
Now, I'm not a justice
expert, but I am a thinker. This doesn't really sound like justice. Maybe
it's this new thing 'social justice' I keep hearing progressives talk about.
Nancy Pelosi cries about the rhetoric of the Tea Party; the media tried to
paint people who want a restoration of our Constitution as racist or violent
— but this man is both. Calling for people to kill white people and babies —
and the DOJ does nothing.
They go after the 'racist
police officers' in Arizona and this 'racist law' well, injustice maybe. I
mean, I'm called a racist by various progressive blogs and critics because I
support policies like the Arizona immigration law. Yet the DOJ can just walk
away from these racists and Bill Clinton can excuse Robert Byrd's KKK past
as just getting votes. Robert Byrd's actual KKK past can be forgiven, but
being for smaller government makes you a racist? . . .
J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS,
FORMER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT LAWYER: Well listen, this is not
firsthand, but I was told by section management that NAACP members or
staffers were talking with a voting section attorney in March of 2009 and
asking when is this case getting dismissed? Which of course is interesting
to hear for the first time that someone is thinking about dismissing the
case that you're in the middle of building.... It seemed strange.
BECK:
There has to be some reason for the flip, because seeing video the guy who
wants to kill white people, standing with a club outside a polling location
really doesn't help the defense's case. Maybe it was a little favor for all
the support the New Black Panthers gave Barack Obama during the election. I
interviewed their top guy leading up to the election and, in one of the
creepiest moments on TV, he called Barack Obama the only hope for America's
salvation:
MALIK SHABAZZ, NEW BLACK
PANTHER PARTY: If you had to understand that your ancestors had
been in slavery and bondage for 300 years, that your ancestors had been
denied the right to become policemen, firemen, attend schools and get
mortgages, how would you feel if...
BECK: I'll tell
you — I would feel — I'll tell you, I would feel — I would feel so
unbelievably proud that that country has made so much progress that the
richest woman in America is Oprah Winfrey and possibly the next president is
also an African-American. I'd feel pretty darn good that we've made an awful
lot of progress. . .
But let me back up for a
minute and take a look at who this president is surrounding himself with —
his circle of influence. We know about ACORN's use of intimidation tactics.
The president has made it clear that he's walking in lockstep with ACORN:
THEN-PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE BARACK OBAMA: And I definitely welcome ACORN's input. You
don't have to ask me about that. I'm going to call you even if you didn't
ask me.
BECK: And
remember what Bertha Lewis recently told her people:
BERTHA LEWIS, ACORN:
It is going to dwarf the internment during World War II.
They are coming and they
are coming after you.
BECK: The
president has also made it clear how closely he works with SEIU:
OBAMA: Just
imagine what we could do together. Imagine having a president whose life
work was your work.
And SEIU has not hesitated
to use intimidation and violence:
ANDY STERN, SEIU:
We took names. We watched how they voted. We know where they live.
BECK: The
president hired Van Jones — and they knew who he was:
VALERIE JARRETT, WHITE
HOUSE SENIOR ADVISER: Van Jones, we were so delighted to be able to
recruit him into the White House. We have been watching him really — he's
not that old — for as long as he's been active out in Oakland —
BECK: Jones was
head of Ella Baker Center and started the communist STORM organization whose
manual stated: 'Revolutionaries need to be militant in street actions. As
leaders in the fight for liberation, we should be role models of
fearlessness before the state and the oppressor.' They also said: 'Marches
were be militant and confrontational, regularly defying police commands and
occasionally plunging through police lines and barricades.'
So the president had no
problem associating with militants who intimidate.
But militant intimidation
can sometimes go one step further and become terrorism. Bill Ayers founded
the terrorist organization The Weather Underground. Jeff Jones, also of The
Weather Underground, helped draft the stimulus package through the Apollo
Alliance. Bernadine Dohrn, Bill Ayers' wife, was part of the Gaza flotilla
and they partnered with Jodie Evans from Code Pink.
So homegrown terrorists
are literally deciding where to send your tax money.
7/7/10
Meet the
New
Black
Panther
Eric
Holder
Dropped
Charges
Against
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
RUSH:
Now, get
this.
As you
know,
the
lawsuit
against
the New
Black
Panthers
for
voter
intimidation
in
Philadelphia
has been
dropped,
and one
of the
line
lawyers,
one of
the line
attorneys
at DOJ
who's
quit
says he
was told
to drop
it
because
the DOJ
is not
going to
pursue
black
defendants.
In 2009,
Philadelphia,
during a
street
festival,
the New
Black
Panther
Party
Philadelphia
chapter
leader
"King
Samir
Shabazz."
This is
one of
the guys
Holder
dropped
charges
against.
His name
is "King
Samir
Shabazz"
and he's
speaking
about
white
people
at a
street
festival
in
Philadelphia,
2009.
This is
after
the
election.
This is
after...
Have you
heard
this,
Snerdley?
This is
after
the
election.
This is
after
the
voter
fraud
that
happened
in 2008.
SHABAZZ:
I hate
white
people.
All of
them!
Every
last
iota of
a
cracker,
I hate
him!
You want
freedom?
You're
going to
have to
kill
some
crackers!
You're
going to
have
kill
some of
their
babies.
RUSH:
All
right,
so
that's
King
Shamir
Shabazz.
Now, you
know,
something
that's
occurred
to me.
Snerdley,
help me
out
here.
Am I
correct
or
incorrect
in
observing
that
anger in
the
African-American
community
is much
more
intense
since
Obama's
election?
We were
supposed
to be
just the
opposite.
We were
supposed
to have
all of
this
unity
and
postpartisanship
and
postracial
administration.
Obama
won the
election,
and
here's
one of
the New
Black
Panther
guys out
there at
a
street.
Here,
listen
to this
again.
King
Samir
Shabazz,
2009,
Philadelphia
street
festival,
one of
the guys
against
whom
charges
were
dropped.
SHABAZZ:
I hate
white
people.
All of
them!
Every
last
iota of
a
cracker,
I hate
him!
You want
freedom?
You're
going to
have to
kill
some
crackers!
You're
going to
have
kill
some of
their
babies.
RUSH:
And
there
still
aren't
any jobs
out
there.
There no
money.
People
don't
have any
money,
don't
have any
jobs.
The
"stash"
has run
dry.
Well, it
hasn't
run dry,
but 48%
of the
stimulus
has been
spent;
42%
percent
remains
unspent.
(interruption)
What,
the
"real"
Black
Panther
party
has
denounced
these
guys?
So
there's
a real
black
panthers?
Yeah?
These
are the
New
Black
Panthers.
They
have
been
denounced
by the
real
Black
Panthers.
Yeah?
Well, I
guess
that's
encouraging.
Good.
So the
real
Black
Panthers,
who are
no
strangers
to civil
unrest
themselves;
they say
that the
New
Black
Panthers
are over
the
top.
Whew.
Okay,
well, I
can
breathe
easier.
It's
great to
have
that
perspective.
The current Black Panthers think these guys talking about killing white
babies
and
crackers
and
freedom
-- which
is
amazing
'cause
after
the
election,
folks, I
mean
after
the
election
of Obama,
the
anger
and the
rage
here,
stunning,
isn't
it?
It's
overwhelming.
This is
not
supposed
to
happen.
You look
at the
polling
data,
this
country
is
divided.
Obama
has come
and he
has
divided
this
country.
Look at
the
polling
data on
him, his
approval
numbers
on his
issues,
issue by
issue.
I
predicted
this. I
predicted
it,
Snerdley.
Even on
this
program
we had
people
calling
before
the
election,
"Rush,
don't
you
think
maybe
the
election
of a
black
guy will
end
racism,
'cause
people
will see
that
we've
changed
and
we're a
decent
country?"
I said,
"No,
it's
only
going to
get
worse,
because
any
criticism
of Obama
will be
called
racist,
and the
race
industry
and the
race
hustlers
are
going to
fund-raise
off of
it, get
media
attention
out of
it. It's
going to
be worse
than
ever."
So I
guess
this
sound
bite
from
just
last
year by
King
Samir
Shabazz
of the
New
Black
Panther
Party
sorta
gives an
illusion.
But as
Snerdley
has
pointed
out: The
real
Black
Panthers
have
said the
New
Black
Panthers,
that's a
little
much
even for
them.
Until we
hear
from the
Weather
Underground,
though,
and Bill
Ayers,
the
jury's
still
out.
. . .
RUSH:
Now, we
got this
whistleblower
and his
name is
J.
Christian
Adams
and he's
out
testifying.
He's
talking
to the
media.
He's
talking
to
committees,
congressional
committees.
He's
explaining
his
case.
Not
being
covered
outside
of Fox
News and
talk
radio,
the
conservative
blogs.
But he's
making
it
perfectly
clear
why
individually
or as a
group
the New
Black
Panthers
are not
being
pursued
here. I
saw
Abigail
Thernstrom,
who's a
brilliant
civil
rights
-- I
think
she's a
lawyer,
but
she's on
our side
of
things.
She
thinks
it's
kind of
a waste
of time
to go
after
the New
Black
Panther
thing,
there's
far
worse
things
going on
in the
Justice
Department
today
than
this.
But I
disagree
with
that in
a
political
sense
only
because
this is
so
easily
understandable.
You
don't
need to
be a
think
tank
scholar;
you
don't
have to
have 14
master's
degrees
and
doctorate
degrees
in order
to
understand
this.
If you
want to
delve
deeply
into
some of
the
other
abuses
of power
in the
Justice
Department
you
might
have a
tougher
time
making
the
case.
But this
one,
this is
very
simple.
People
were
intimidated
against
voting
by the
New
Black
Panthers,
and the
Justice
Department
said,
"We're
not
going to
pursue
charges
against
black
people."
How more
simple
to
understand
their
motive
as that?

7/6/10
Obammigration The
Washington Times
The federal
government is surrendering our southern border
"It's President
Obama's policy
not to secure America's southern border. Yesterday, his administration filed
suit against Arizona for its new law to try to enforce immigration statutes
already on the books. This comes after the administration brought legal action
against the Grand Canyon State for a 2007 law that strips business licenses away
from companies that violate immigration laws. It's clear the
White House is
working to make states defenseless against an illegal invasion."
Pia Malbran, CBS Evening News
"The Transportation Security
Administration (TSA) is blocking certain websites from the federal agency's
computers, including halting access by staffers to any Internet pages that
contain a 'controversial opinion,' according to an internal email obtained by
CBS News.
"The email was sent to all TSA
employees from the Office of Information Technology on Friday afternoon."
"It appears the President
of the United States can't contain his disdain for America's historical
roots. On Independence Day, instead of stressing the awesome concepts of the
Declaration of
Independence, Obama managed to turn a BBQ into an opportunity to
disparage our founders, foster class warfare and further division.
"On
July 4th the Commander-in-Chief invited the military to a White
House cookout and then used the occasion to skewer the Founding Fathers.
Rather than depicting America as 'one nation, under God, with liberty and
justice for all,' once again Barack-the-great-divider separated America into
factions and brought up a time in our history where, in his view, America
lacked, 'civil rights and voting rights,
workers' rights
and women's rights.'
"A casually dressed Obama, who couldn't make Memorial Day at Arlington
Cemetery,
appeared on the balcony high above the active-duty military and their
families who were waving flags and wearing red, white and blue face
paint. [With the words:] . . .
We celebrate the principles
that are timeless, tenets first declared by men of property and wealth
but which gave rise to what Lincoln called a new birth of
freedom in America-civil rights and voting rights,
workers' rights
and women's rights, and the rights of every American. And on this
day that is uniquely
American we are reminded that our Declaration, our example, made us
a beacon to the world.
"Eerily comfortable on a
balcony delivering a speech to the crowd below,
Obama surreptitiously served up the founding fathers of this nation like
shish kabob, disparaging them as merely 'men of property and wealth.' Then
Obama, who
identifies himself with a great president who freed slaves rather than
made new ones, in an underhanded way elevated Abraham Lincoln above the evil
white men who dared to own property and accumulate personal wealth with a
simple qualifying 'but.'
"For Obama, the 'birth of freedom' at our nation's founding doesn't quite
cut the hot dog mustard. Instead Barry relishes what followed: 'civil
rights, voting rights, workers' rights and women's rights,' and hopefully
soon, illegal immigrants' rights. Apparently, in the president's mind,
'social justice' is what makes us 'uniquely American.'
"Obama's words indicate a view that addendums to independence are far
superior to the miracle of our nation's birth and the genius of the men who
founded this nation.
"It is a travesty that an ungrateful, misguided American president
implied America's freedom is 'a beacon to the world,' merely because of
women's suffrage and workers' rights.
"Our nation's greatness was and is exhibited by the fact that dirt poor
men like Samuel
Adams and men of "wealth and property" like Thomas Jefferson believed so
much in freedom that, unlike Barack Obama, of
one mind and one accord
America's founders put aside many differences to lay the foundation for our
nation's liberty and glorious, God-given independence.
"ABC News'
Jason Ryan reports: A former trial attorney in the Justice
Department’s Civil Rights Division today blasted top officials at the Justice
Department for dismissing a lawsuit against members of the New Black Panthers
Party in an voter intimidation case from election day 2008. The attorney J.
Christian Adams described the Justice Department’s voting right section as
'lawless' before a hearing of the US Commission on Civil Rights, which is
investigating the 2008 incident where two Black Panther members stood outside of
a Philadelphia polling location allegedly yelling racial slurs while one of the
men brandished a nightstick. . . .
"Adams testified that his
superiors had stated that they had little interest in bringing cases against
black defendants. 'The section doesn’t want to protect white voters.'”
7/6/10
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner: New Black Panthers harassed black GOP'er too
Kerry Pickett, The
Washington Times
7/6/10
Maha Rushie Issues Steele Fatwa By Rush Limbaugh
RUSH: Cynthia Tucker, ABC's This Week, Sunday, roundtable, they
discussed Michael Steele. And, by the way, this woman is the editorial
director of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, and she has been for a
long, long time. "Cynthia you once called Michael Steele an affirmative
action hire gone bad." By the way, she can say this because she's
African-American. Here's what she said.
TUCKER: Michael Steele is a self-aggrandizing gaffe-prone
incompetent who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black. Of
course the irony is that he never would have been voted in as chairman of
the Republican Party were he not black.
RUSH: Same with Obama. . . .
RUSH: Our nation's capital remains paralyzed while
awaiting my fatwa on Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele.
Now, remember, folks: All of these liberals, all these media people in their
heart of hearts want the Republicans to fire Steele so they can run around
out there and write about the Republicans firing a black guy. The one thing
that's happening here is there clearly is an effort to manipulate the
Republicans as there always is and are doing, quote, unquote, "the right
thing" morally and ethically and of course the right thing as far as the
Democrats are concerned is doing something about which the Democrats and the
media can then write embarrassing things about the GOP. That's what they
wish to do is report, "Republicans fired a black guy!" . . .
all of you out there demanding Steele's ouster, how about
demanding a filibuster of Elena Kagan at the same time, at least until
September so we can take the time to educate the American people as to who
this woman is? Beyond that, and that is my official fatwa, I now pass the
baton for the ultimate decision of Michael Steele's fate to the magisterial
General Colin Powell. Go ask him. In fact, I can't wait for the sound bite.
"General Powell, what's your reaction to Limbaugh saying that you need to
decide the fate of Michael Steele?"
RUSH: You talk about Elena Kagan? For crying out loud, folks,
nobody's even asked her any softball questions! I mean that's how bad it has
been. Maybe they'll ask Kagan what to do about Michael Steele, except
they're through asking Kagan questions. They didn't even ask her one
softball question. That's how lame it was. Now, the fact that I am allowing
General Colin Powell to decide Steele's fate shows my leadership skills, it
shows that I can delegate. And it also shows that I am nothing like our
teleprompter messiah. If I were like Obama I would appoint a commission to
report back to me by the end of the year after the elections on what to do
about Michael Steele. And I would pick as members from my commission people
who never heard of him nor ever heard of the Republican National Committee.
At least that's what I would say. Now, all of Washington was paralyzed
waiting for me to issue my fatwa on Michael Steele. Let's see now if the
media carries all of my comments, including my damning criticism of liberal
Democrats Byrd, Obama, Bite Me, and Clinton. By the way, speaking of
Clinton, I remind you again, let's not forget who his mentor was, the
segregationist J. William Fulbright, Senator from Arkansas. That's Clinton's
self-professed mentor.
7/6/10
1932 All Over
Again? Glenn Beck
Television Show Segment Transcript
By Jayme Evans,
Canada Free Press
"The United States of America
is in great peril. Absent drastic and immediate intervention, America as we know
it will cease to exist. Americans are quite adept at the art of denial. But, if
we don’t begin to recognize the gut-wrenching truth that we screwed things up
by putting an illegitimate usurper in the most powerful office on Earth and that
said usurper has been systematically dismantling and destroying our economy,
military, middle-class, social structure and Constitution, it’s game over.
"The
numbers
don’t
lie.
While
Obama
spins
rising
GDP and
a
falling
unemployment
rate as
proof
that his
economic
policies
are
making
our
economy
stronger,
the
Thief-In-Chief
is
engaging
in a
campaign
of
bald-faced
lies and
he knows
it. Our
economy
is
essentially
dying,
the
victim
of
institutionalized
chaos
and
growing
uncertainty.
The only
thing
keeping
it alive
at this
point is
money
seized
from
those
who
earned
it and
given to
those
who
didn’t,
while
the
government
coerces
them
into
buying
cars, or
appliances
to prop
up the
federal
government,
or its
major
propagandists
and
campaign
contributors
at
General
Electric
and SEIU."
7/5/10
Independence and the Right to Private Property
"[T]he Declaration [of
Independence] lists the pursuit of happiness as one of man’s primary
inalienable rights. The founders believed that liberty, happiness, and
property were inextricably tied together.
"Over the years, the
American occupation with private property has not receded. Indeed, the
question of private property remains a central part of our national
political conversation. The political rhetoric may not always reflect it,
but if one scratches the surface of arguments surrounding universal
healthcare; entitlements; budgetary deficits; business regulation;
cap-and-trade, or even abortion, one will find an argument involving the
God-given right to private property.
"The founders, of course,
did not understand property simply to mean one’s possessions. Property was
understood to include the fruit of one’s labor; it included a man’s
conscience—the things he believed and thought, and the ideals he held dear.
James Madison wrote that individuals have a property, 'In their opinions and
the free exercise of them.' As well as 'a property of peculiar value in his
religious opinions and in the profession and practice dictated by them.' In
short, 'as man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally
said to have a property in his rights.'
"The founders were then of
the same mind as John Locke, who wrote in his 'Second Treatise on
Government:' 'The great and chief end therefore, of men united into
commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation
of their property.'
"Like the founders,
conservatives believe that the free market must be regulated by the rule of law
and by those civil institutions responsible for building and maintaining an
individual’s character. In other words, any business must conform to both
criminal and civil laws, (which must be enforced), must be held to contractual
obligations, and must respect the private property of other citizens.
Conservatives also share the conviction of the founders that citizens raised
with a sense of Judea/Christian morality and educated in civic virtue--as
opposed to moral relativism and secular progressivism--will tend not to need the
eyes of Uncle Sam looking over their shoulder.
"There are, alas, a great many
Americans that tend toward the progressive view that in order to achieve 'social
justice' the government ought to own, well, everything.
"John Adams perhaps put it
best when he said: 'The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property
is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and
public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.'”
7/5/10
President
Obama
Votes
Present
on
Immigration
Reform
"In the real world, however,
as Stephen Dinan at the
Washington Times reported, Homeland Security Assistant Inspector General
Frank Deffer recently told the House Judiciary Committee’s immigration
subcommittee, 'Adding 12 million more people to the system would be the mother
of all backlogs. Clearly to us the systems could not handle it now. It’s going
to take a few years, so it’s something for Congress to consider…'
"Meanwhile, playing politics
with immigration prevails regardless of the realities on the ground. The Service
Employees International Union (SEIU), for instance, who advocates legalization,
released what appears to be a political
statement after President Obama’s speech, 'The only way we can deliver the
immigration solutions that a vast majority of Americans support is if
Republicans stop obstructing… It’s time for Republicans… to stand up and lead,'
the SEIU said, which was odd considering President Obama is not Republican and
the House and Senate are controlled by Democrats.
"In the meantime, with or
without comprehensive immigration reform, beneath President Obama’s lofty
rhetoric, he was accomplishing something that is paramount to all
politicians—getting votes."
7/5/10
NASA
Chief:
Next
Frontier
Better
Relations
With
Muslim
World
FoxNews.com
"NASA Administrator Charles
Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of
America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim
world.
"Though international
diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit,
Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those
ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better
interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel."
7/4/10
Americans
Strongly
Support
Ideals
from
Declaration
of
Independence
Rasmussen
Reports
"The Declaration of
Independence, written primarily by Thomas Jefferson, asserts that 'we are all
endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.' The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone
survey finds that 88% of American Adults agree with this phrase. Only six
percent (6%) do not.
"The following sentence dives
deep into the focus of government, stating, 'Governments derive their only just
powers from the consent of the governed.' Two-thirds (68%) agree with this
statement while 13% disagree and 19% are not sure.
"However, one of the most
depressing realities in today’s world is that only 21% of voters nationwide
believe that the federal government now enjoys the
consent of the governed."
7/4/10
Islamist
leader
Burhan
Hanif
tells
Aussie
Muslims
to 'shun
democracy'
By
Sally
Neighbour,
News.com.au
7/4/10
NKorean
killed
for
spreading
Gospel
By HYUNG-JIN
KIM,
ASSOCIATED
PRESS
WRITER,
SeattlePI
"Like most North
Koreans, Son Jong Nam knew next to nothing about Christianity when he
fled to neighboring China in 1998.
Eleven years later, he died
back in North Korea in prison, reportedly tortured to death for trying to spread
the Gospel in his native land, armed with 20 bibles and 10 cassette tapes of
hymns. He was 50."
7/4/10
Egypt
FM: Arab
League
will
declare
Palestinian
state if
peace
talks
fail
haaretz.com
"The Arab League will turn to the United
Nations Security Council to declare an independent Palestinian state
if peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians do not bear fruit
by September, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit told the
Egyptian daily al-Masry al-Youm on Saturday."
7/3/10
The
Fourth
of July:
What We
Should
Be
Celebrating
By Hal
Gershowitz
and
Stephen
Porter,
Big
Government
"What, in fact, we are
celebrating is not just the meaning of life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness embodied in the Declaration. Equally as important is the form of
government that was established and then enshrined in the Constitution adopted
in 1787 as the foundation and source of legal authority for the United States.
What was provided to us by the Founders is captured by an exchange (perhaps
apocryphal) between a bystander and Benjamin Franklin. At the end of the
Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia a woman awaiting some announcement of
the results that had been produced asked Franklin: 'What have we got, a
republic or a monarchy' to which he responded, 'a republic, if you can keep it.'
"It is important to note that
he did not answer 'a democracy or a democratic form of government.' The
distinction between the two is important and worth considering, particularly
this year. In a 'democracy,' majority rules with no protections against
absolute and unlimited power. It was 'tyranny by majority' that the framers
feared could run roughshod over the inalienable rights of the individual
envisioned in the Declaration. Jefferson, in particular, feared the excesses to
which a mere majority could go. He said, 'an elective despotism was not the
government we fought for.' . . .
"This year in particular we
can see what a large enough majority can do. We need not repeat here all of the
mandates and impositions included in health care reform, but we must, at least,
mention the requirement in the law that every American must purchase health
insurance or be subject to a penalty. This new federal requirement is
predicated upon the Constitutional provision that gives to Congress the power to
regulate interstate commerce.
"The political left, always
seeking to impose more and more government control over our lives, is once again
attempting to stretch the meaning of interstate commerce beyond what the framers
could possibly have imagined and clearly beyond what they had intended. The
Constitution grants only certain limited powers to the Congress and then
reinforces that limitation in the one-sentence-long Tenth Amendment (the last
amendment in the Bill of Rights), which states 'The powers not delegated to the
United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are
reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.'
"As we have seen, this is a
far cry from the views of today’s Congress. Virtually everything in our daily
lives seems to be subject to the interference of, or regulation by, the federal
government.
"This is a Republic we have
been given, 'if' as Franklin is reported to have said, 'we can keep it.'
Keeping it means knowing what it is to be fortunate enough to live in a republic
such as that bequeathed to us by the founders, and how important that is to
maintaining both our freedom from the oppressive government our founders feared
and the liberty necessary to pursue our individual dreams."
7/3/10
Shooting
Down the
Constitution
Bill
O'Reilly,
TownHall.com
"Even a simple guy like me can
figure out these words from the U.S. Constitution: 'The right of the people to
keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.' That's contained in the Second
Amendment. So why did four Supreme Court justices this week vote to infringe on
the right to bear arms?
"The court ruled 5 to 4 that
76-year-old Otis McDonald, an African-American Democrat who lives in Chicago,
can own a handgun. McDonald, a retired working-class guy, sued the city for
taking away his right to protect himself. McDonald was blunt: He said his
neighborhood is full of thugs who threaten his well-being and the city cannot
control the situation. So he has to protect himself from harm.
"But
Justices
John
Paul
Stevens,
Stephen
Breyer,
Sonia
Sotomayor
and Ruth
Bader
Ginsburg
basically
told
McDonald
to take
a hike.
They
opined
that
guns
cause a
lot of
damage
to
society;
therefore,
if a
city
wants to
ban
them, it
can. But
that is
a policy
belief,
is it
not?
Where in
the
Constitution
does it
say that
if guns
become a
menace
to
society
they can
be
banned?
Where
does it
say
that?
"The
Founding
Fathers
well
understood
the need
for
individual
protection.
Under
King
George,
British
soldiers
routinely
threw
Colonial
families
out of
their
homes
using a
bogus
law
called
the
"Quartering
Act."
Also,
the
colonists
had
little
protection
from
harm
because
there
was no
federal
authority
and
state
governments
were in
their
infancy.
The
founders
also
recognized
that
armed
rebellion
was a
possibility
even
after we
threw
the
British
out. So
they
allowed
the new
American
citizens
the
right to
"bear
arms" as
protection
and,
indeed,
wanted
the
folks to
form
"militias"
in case
of
emergency.
. . .
"My opinion on gun control
changed drastically when I saw the chaos in New Orleans following Hurricane
Katrina. Armed bands of looters in boats cruised the city taking pretty much
anything they wanted because the local police presence had collapsed. If you had
remained in town in order to protect your property, you would have been at the
mercy of these looters unless you had the firepower to ward them off. That is
why all Americans have the right to bear arms.
"It is depressing to think
that the Ruth Bader Ginsburgs of this world do not care a whit about the welfare
of Otis McDonald and other Americans who find themselves at risk. For Ginsburg,
it is all about her liberal philosophy -- not what benefits the American people.
"The Supreme Court is just one
justice away from giving Ginsburg and her leftist crew the power to completely
usurp the Constitution. Be very afraid."
7/3/10
MSM Wall
Protecting
Obama
Gulf Oil
Spill
Response
Cracks
With
Latest
AP
Report
By
P.J.
Gladnick,
NewsBusters
"Read this amazing AP
report and keep in mind that it is no longer just conservative sources that
are harsh in their criticisms of the Obama Gulf oil containment efforts:
NEW ORLEANS — BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints
that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and making little use of
the fishing boats and volunteers available to help clean up what may now be
the biggest spill ever in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Coast Guard said there have been 107 offers of help from 44
nations, ranging from technical advice to skimmer boats and booms. But many
of those offers are weeks old, and only a small number have been accepted.
The vast majority are still under review, according to a list kept by the
State Department.
"Ouch! But the criticism of the poor reponse of the Obama
administration response to this crises becomes even more heated:
A report prepared by investigators with the House Committee on Oversight
and Government Reform for Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., detailed one case in
which the Dutch government offered April 30 to provide four oil skimmers
that collectively could process more than 6 million gallons of oily water a
day. It took seven weeks for the U.S. to approve the offer.
"Even the credibility of the Coast Guard is being called into
question:
Billy Nungesser, president of Louisiana's hard-hit Plaquemines Parish,
said BP and the Coast Guard provided a map of the exact locations of 140
skimmers that were supposedly cleaning up the oil. But he said that after he
repeatedly asked to be flown over the area so he could see them at work,
officials told him only 31 skimmers were on the job. "
7/3/10
Catastrophism collapses
Lawrence
Solomon,
Financial
Post
"Last week’s G8 and G20 meetings in
Toronto and its environs confirmed that the world’s leaders accept the
demise of global-warming alarmism."
7/3/10
A silver
platter
of GOP
talking
points
for
November
Neil
Braithwaite, American Thinker
"Let's review some tasty
silver platter entrees:
"There's a lot more entrees,
but they won't all fit on just one silver platter."
7/2/10
The
Obama
Tax Trap
The Wall
Street
Journal
How
some Republicans are preparing to walk right into it.
"'Next year when I start
presenting some very difficult choices to the country, I hope some of these
folks who are hollering about deficits step up. Because I'm calling their
bluff."
"That was President Barack
Obama, the heretofore unknown deficit hawk, all but announcing the other day the
tax trap that he's been laying for Republicans. . . . Mr. Obama's plan has been
to increase spending to new, and what he hopes will be permanent, heights. Then
as the public and financial markets begin to fret about deficits and debt, he'll
claim that the debt is "unsustainable" and that the only "responsible" policy is
to raise taxes."
7/2/10
Six
Months
to Go
Until
The
Largest
Tax
Hikes in
History
From
Ryan
Ellis,
Americans
for Tax
Reform
7/2/10
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Segments
Today
[Including
below]
It's
Payback
Time:
The
Obama
Economy
is a
Purposeful
Disaster
and
Democrats
Laud
Robert
Byrd,
Rewrite
His
History
with the
Klan
Byrd
didn't
have a
"fleeting
association"
with the
KKK.
7/2/10
Why Is
the Gulf
Cleanup
So Slow?
Paul H.
Rubin,
The Wall
Street
Journal
There are obvious actions to speed things up, but the
government oddly resists taking them.
"As the government fails to
implement such simple and straightforward remedies, [listed above in the article
itself] one must ask why.
"One possibility is sheer
incompetence. Many critics of the president are fond of pointing out that he had
no administrative or executive experience before taking office. But the
government is full of competent people, and the military and Coast Guard can
accomplish an assigned mission. In any case, several remedies require nothing
more than getting out of the way.
"Another possibility is that
the administration places a higher priority on interests other than the fate of
the Gulf, such as placating organized labor, which vigorously defends the Jones
Act.
"Finally there is the most
pessimistic explanation—that the oil spill may be viewed as an opportunity, the
way White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said back in February 2009, 'You
never want a serious crisis to go to waste.' Many administration supporters are
opposed to offshore oil drilling and are already employing the spill as a tool
for achieving other goals. The websites of the Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth
and Greenpeace, for example, all feature the oil spill as an argument for
forbidding any further offshore drilling or for any use of fossil fuels at all.
None mention the Jones Act.
"To these organizations and
perhaps to some in the administration, the oil spill may be a strategic
justification in a larger battle. President Obama has already tried to severely
limit drilling in the Gulf, using his Oval Office address on June 16 to demand
that we 'embrace a clean energy future.' In the meantime, how about a cleaner
Gulf?"
Mr. Rubin, a professor of
economics at Emory University, held several senior positions in the federal
government in the 1980s. Since 1991 he has spent his summers on the Gulf.
7/2/10
Media blackout for Black Panthers
By The Washington Times
Explosive racist
allegations ignored by poodles in the press
"Where is
the New York
Times? Where is
The
Washington Post? Where are
CBS and
NBC? A whistleblower
makes explosive allegations about the
Department of Justice; his story is backed by at least two other witnesses;
and the allegations involve the two hot-button issues of race and of blatant
politicization of the justice system. A potential constitutional confrontation
stemming from the scandal brews between the
Justice
Department and the
U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights. A congressman highly respected for thoughtfulness and
bipartisanship has all but accused the
department of serious impropriety. By every standard of objective
journalism, this adds up to real news."
7/2/10
School
District
Sued for
Banning
Bibles
on
Religious
Freedom
Day
By Diane
Macedo,
FoxNews.com
7/2/10
Terror
-- and
candor
in
describing
the
Islamist
ideology
behind
it
Charles
Krauthammer,
The
Washington
Post
"There's
a final
reason
the
administration's
cowardice
about
identifying
those
trying
to kill
us
cannot
be
allowed
to pass.
It is
demoralizing.
It
trivializes
the war
between
jihadi
barbarism
and
Western
decency,
and
diminishes
the
memory
of those
(including
thousands
of brave
Muslims
--
Iraqi,
Pakistani,
Afghan
and
Western)
who have
died
fighting
it."
7/2/10
Women's
Role in
America's
Founding
Glenn
Beck
Show
Segment
Today--Transcript
7/2/10
White
House
releases
staff
salary
data
By Jordan
Fabian, The Hill
"The White House on Friday
released the salaries of its staff members ranging from its lowest-level
employees to chief of staff Rahm Emanuel.
Emanuel, press secretary Roberts
Gibbs, senior adviser David Axelrod and senior adviser Valerie Jarrett make
the top salary amount of $172,200 per year. Three staffers have their
salaries listed as $0.
"In total, the White House
pays its staff $38,796,307."
[Click this article's title link
to see the salaries versus the staff people.]
7/1/10
Kagan
Won't
Take a
Stand in
Favor of
the
Declaration
of
Independence
Rush
Limbaugh
Show
Today
BEGIN
TRANSCRIPT
RUSH: Grab audio sound bite
three.
Play
this.
This is
a
question
from Tom
Coburn
yesterday.
He asked
her
about
the
whole
business
of
natural
rights.
She's
not
sure!
She is
not sure
on the
Declaration
of
Independence.
Yesterday
Tom
Coburn
(R-OK):
"Do you
agree
that the
natural
right of
resistance
and
self-preservation
-- the
right of
having
and
using
arms for
self-preservation
and
defense.
He
didn't
say that
was a
constitutional
right.
He said
it's a
natural
right.
I'm
asking
with
you: Do
you
agree
with
that?"
KAGAN:
Senator
Coburn,
t-t-to
be
honest
with
you, I
-- I --
I don't
have a
view of
what are
natural
rights,
independent
of the
Constitution.
And my
job as a
justice
will be
to
enforce
and
defend
the
Constitution
and
other
laws of
the
United
States.
COBURN:
So you
wouldn't
embrace
what the
Declaration
of
Independence
says,
that we
have
certain
God-given,
inalienable
rights
that
aren't
given in
the
Constitution?
That
they're
ours and
ours
alone
and that
government
doesn't
give
those to
us?
KAGAN:
Senator
Coburn,
I
believe
that the
Constitution
is an
extraordinary
document,
and I'm
not
saying I
do not
believe
that
there
are
rights
pre-existing
the
Constitution
and the
laws,
but my
job as a
justice
is to
enforce
the
Constitution
and the
laws.
RUSH:
And to
hell
with the
Declaration
of
Independence.
She is
basically
just
throwing
the
whole
concept
of
natural
law down
the
toilet
and
flushing
it. She
is
throwing
the
Declaration
of
Independence
down the
toilet.
"We are
all
endowed
by Our
Creator
with
certain
inalienable
rights,
among
them,
life,
liberty,
and the
pursuit
of
happiness."
She was
asked if
she
believes
that and
she
essentially
said
she's
not
sure.
She
wouldn't
even
commit
to the
idea
that
human
beings
possess
certain
inalienable
rights
preexisting
the US
Constitution,
and that
is the
best
person
Obama
could
find to
become
the next
associate
justice
of the
US
Supreme
Court.
RUSH: So somebody just asked me a question in the
e-mail:
"So,
Rush, I
listened
to what
you said
about
Kagan,
the
Declaration,
the
Constitution,
Obama on
the
Statue
of
Liberty.
So your
point
is, we
have
somebody
here
explicitly
rejecting
the
founding
of the
country
and
originalism
of the
Constitution
who's
gonna
sail
through
the
Senate
confirmation
process?"
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you
see
anybody...?
Coburn
is
making
noises
about
maybe
filibustering.
Quin
Hillyer
today,
American
Spectator
has a
piece
that
they
ought to
do a
temporary
filibuster
and
announce
that
they're
an going
to have
filibuster.
Not
permanently
but just
until
September
so the
American
people
can
learn
who this
woman is
because
they're
not
being
informed
who she
is by
virtue
of the
confirmation
hearings.
People
need to
understand
that any
vote for
Kagan is
a vote
for
Obama's
agenda:
The
individual
mandate,
cap and
trade,
vote
against
the text
of the
Constitution.
Kagan is
who is
controversial,
not me,
and not
those of
us
making
these
allegations
about
her.
She's
the one
who's
controversial.
This is
the back
of the
hand to
the
American
people.
This is
a back
slap,
slap of
the hand
to the
law and
the
founding.
It's
being
treated
with
contempt.
That
they
think it
deserves.
7/1/10
Obama
Tears at
Fabric
of
America
Rush
Limbaugh
show
BEGIN
TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Look at the Blago
trial.
Obama
was
right in
the
middle
of
selling
his own
Senate
seat.
Right in
the
middle
of it.
There is
testimony
in a
trial.
Obama
and Rahm
Emanuel,
they
were in
the
middle
of it.
We've
got
Blagojevich
saying
that
Obama's
more "Tony'd
up" than
he,
Blagojevich,
is,
meaning
Rezko,
meaning
"this
guy is
in
deeper
with
Rezko
than I
ever
could
be."
This is
trial
testimony,
this is
under
oath,
and
everybody
is
yawning
about
it.
Here we
have a
career
lawyer,
well
spoken
by the
sound
the
sounds
of him.
I've
seen the
guy.
I've
seen J.
Christian
Adams.
He's
very
clean,
he's
very
articulate,
and he's
sitting
there
and he's
saying
(paraphrased),
"We were
told to
drop the
case
because
we're
not
going to
pursue
voter
intimidation
cases
against
black
defendants.
We have
black
attorney
general,
we have
a black
president,
and
(yawning)."
Yawn.
It's just the natural course of events each and every day. We have the
Supreme
Court
hearings
for
Elena
Kagan.
This is
another
outrage.
We have
a woman
who
yesterday,
or the
day
before,
was
asked,
"Did you
write
this?"
"Well,
Senator,
let me
explain."
"Did you
write
it? I
just
asked:
Did you
write
the
memo?"
"Senator,
let me
explain
to
you."
"Look, I
just
want to
know:
Did you
write
the
memo?"
"Senator,
the
question
here
is..."
"No, no,
no.
Would
you
please
answer?
It's a
yes or
no: Did
you
write
the
memo?"
"Well,
it is in
my
handwriting."
Duh?
Nothing?
Today
this
nominee
says, "I
don't
know
about
inalienable
rights.
I don't
know
about
that.
Eh, I
don't
care
about
that. I
only
care
about
what's
in the
Constitution.
Natural
law? No,
no, no.
I don't
think
you
would
want me
to judge
cases on
the
basis of
natural
law.
No."
Arlen Specter said, "We're not learning anything here." Coburn: "Did you
think it
would be
okay for
the
government
to tell
people
they had
to eat
three
vegetables
and two
fruit
servings
every
day?"
"Well,
just
because
a law is
silly
doesn't
mean
it's
unconstitutional."
What?
We got
somebody
being
nominated
who
wants to
join the
notion
that the
government
can tell
us what
to eat
daily?
Now we
have
this
whistle-blower.
And
there's
a yawn,
there's
no
public
outcry
-- and I
know
why.
Because
the
media is
not
making a
big deal
of it.
It's not
on
television.
It's on
Fox, the
Department
of
Justice
thing
is. The
Kagan
hearings
are so
boring
that
they're
not even
being
covered
on TV
anymore.
We're
watching
the
dissolution
of the
fabric
that has
kept the
country
together
for
years,
and it's
a big
yawn.
7/1/10
Kagan
the
conqueror
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner,
The Washington Times
GOP has yielded to a symbol of Obama's socialist coup
"The Republicans have failed -
once again. The Senate
confirmation hearings on
Elena Kagan's
nomination to the
Supreme Court have been a farce. Republican senators refused to challenge
thoroughly and aggressively
Ms. Kagan's
transnational, leftist agenda. Instead, they hardly laid a glove on her.
"This is inexcusable.
Ms. Kagan is
one of the most radical nominees to sit on, potentially, the
highest court
in the land. She is a postmodern academic cultural Marxist. Like
Justice Sonia
Sotomayor (the "wise Latina"),
Ms. Kagan
thinks social engineering trumps constitutional self-government: In her view,
the role of the courts is not to enforce laws passed by elected legislatures;
rather, it is to impose social policy from the top down, negating or
circumventing popular will. Call it judicial tyranny masquerading as enlightened
activism.
"As a policy aide in the
Clinton
administration,
Ms. Kagan deliberately manipulated medical findings to rationalize support
for partial-birth abortion - the barbaric practice of crushing the skull of a
baby coming out of the mother's womb. In other words, she distorted science to
justify mass infanticide.
"As the dean of
Harvard Law
School, Ms.
Kagan prevented military recruiters from coming on campus. The reason: She
publicly opposed the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy, which prohibits openly
acknowledged gays and lesbians from serving in the military. She argued that it
amounted to discrimination and a violation of civil rights. Repealing 'don't
ask, don't tell,' however, is not about social justice. It is about transforming
our military - the finest, most effective fighting force in the world - to
advance the radical homosexual agenda. Having openly gay service members would
undermine morale and cohesion; the interests of a vital
Democratic
Party constituency are to take precedence over the military's institutional
mission. It represents the triumph of ideology over centuries of experience and
military custom.
"Yet, when
Saudi Arabia
contributed $20 million to establish an Islamic studies and Shariah program at
Harvard,
Ms. Kagan
remained silent. Her opposition to supposed "homophobia" extends only to the
U.S. military.
When it comes to Shariah law and its practice of murdering gays and lesbians -
never mind stoning adulterers and enslaving women -
Ms. Kagan's
liberalism takes a back seat to multiculturalism. She is a craven hypocrite who
despises traditional America.
"Moreover, her decision to bar
military recruiters was not simply a matter of political judgment. It was an act
of treason. At the time, America was fighting two bloody wars in
Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Our troops were dying.
Ms. Kagan
sought to deny access to potential military recruits when they were most
needed."
7/1/10
Damning
report
on oil
spill
response
"The Democratic congressional
majority has had little stomach for its duty of overseeing the Obama
administration. Unfortunately, this has resulted in strictly partisan oversight
as Republicans on the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee step into
the vacuum. But at least there’s someone keeping an eye on this administration,
because the press hasn’t always been so hot on it.
"Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.,
the committee’s ranking member, has announced he will release a report later
today on the oil spill response. It appears to bolster criticisms from both the
Left and the Right that have rained down on the administration since this
disaster began."
[Click the headline link to
read the rest and the damning details.]
7/1/10
Banishing
God From
Our
Classrooms
By Glenn
Beck
Glenn Beck: [T]here are
stories like this out of Arlington High School in Massachusetts:
A student there named Sean
Harrington noticed something odd: There were no American flags in the classroom
and no Pledge of Allegiance was recited. Sean decided to try and get flags put
back in the classroom and to have students start reciting the Pledge of
Allegiance again. Seems like a benign request, right? Not in Massachusetts. It's
been three years — three years — since Sean took up the oh-so-controversial
fight of getting American flags back in American classrooms.
Sean finally got them to
relent on the flags, but the Pledge has been a different story. The principal,
Charles Skidmore, finally agreed to lead the Pledge, not in class but in the
foyer for those who wish to attend. The school said: "The principal wanted to be
very respectful about the Pledge and be sensitive to the Supreme Court ruling
that students are not forced to say the Pledge. He wanted to be sensitive to the
diverse group of students we have."
Diverse group of students? Look, if
you don't want to say the Pledge, whatever, you don't have to. But what part of
that "diverse group" of students doesn't want to recite it?
How did we even get to a place
where we are even having this debate? The Pledge of Allegiance? The flag in
class? Really? Where was the tipping point on this? Do the majority of people
think the Pledge is offensive or is this a bogus tipping point? Who exactly is
offended?
The school originally rejected
Harrington's request because, "some educators are concerned that it would be
hard to find teachers willing to recite it." Really? That's even worse! If
that's true and teachers won't recite the Pledge, then maybe it's time to start
firing teachers. My 4-year-old recites the Pledge and that's one reason my kids
are not in public school. . . .
Do you remember when
Red Skelton recited the Pledge?
RED SKELTON:
I — me, an individual, a committee of one — pledge —
dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity — allegiance
— my love and my devotion — to the flag — our standard, Old
Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there is respect because your
loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job —
of the United — that means that we have all come together —
States — individual communities that have united into 48 great states;
48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided with
imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common cause and that's love for country —
of America and to the Republic — a republic, a state in which
sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern.
And government is the people and it's from the people to the leaders, not from
the leaders to the people — for which it stands. One nation —
meaning, so blessed by God — indivisible — incapable of being
divided — with liberty — which is freedom, the right of power
to live one's life without threats or fear or any sort of retaliation —
and justice — the principle or quality of dealing fairly with others —
for all — which means, boys and girls, it's as much your
country as it is mine.
Glenn Beck: Some think there
was a tipping point in 1962 when the Supreme Court first ruled that a voluntary
—- voluntary — prayer at the start of each school day was unconstitutional
because, the court said, it amounted to state sponsorship of prayer. What was
the offensive, voluntary prayer New York schools recited?
"Almighty God, we acknowledge
our dependence upon Thee and beg Thy blessings upon us, our teachers and our
country."
Oh, the horror! I feel for all
the atheists who had to sit through that divisive indoctrination. . . .
As we've reduced our exposure
to God since the 1962 court ruling, I contend we've all but forgotten God. It's
what led us to some big problems. Let me show you what David Barton found when
he looked into this: SAT scores began falling, pre-marital sexual activity among
teens skyrocketed and the number of violent crimes rose rapidly. Coincidence?
Progressives have fought this
fight for decades, because the less people rely on God, it creates a dependency
vacuum. And guess who's there to fill the void: government and the unions. It
gives them more power over you.
6/30/10
Kagan
Won't
Admit
Writing
Memo She
Admits
is in
Her
Handwriting
By Rush
Limbaugh,
his show
today
HATCH:
But did
you
write
it?
KAGAN:
-- is
certainly
--
HATCH:
Is that
your
memo?
KAGAN:
The
document
is
certainly
in my
handwriting.
RUSH:
That's
unbelievable!
Gee
whiz.
Do you
think
this is
how her
interview
went to
become
the dean
of
Harvard
Law?
Don't
you
think
you need
to be a
little
bit more
forthcoming
in a
interview
for the
Supreme
Court
than you
do at
Harvard
Law?
Look at
how long
it took
him, 27
seconds.
She
won't
say she
wrote
it, but
she
admits
in her
handwriting.
She will
not
admit
that she
wrote
it.
'Well,
I...
Yeah,
the
document's
certainly
in my
handwriting,'
and
don't
forget
the
substance
here.
This
woman
was
arguing
for the
political
necessity
of
partial-birth
abortion
rather
than
listening
to what
medical
experts
were
saying
about
it.
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