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"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

"Fascism -- a philosophy or government system marked by stringent socioeconomic control" - Webster's II New Collegiate Dictionary

 "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." -- Article X,  Bill of Rights, U.S. Constitution

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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'

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.

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  "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

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?

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

  "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

 [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

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

  "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

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

8/29/10 Palin in Ascendance, Liberals Admit Defeat Jennifer Rubin, CommentaryMagazine.com

8/29/10 Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph.co.uk

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

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

  "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."

8/27/10 How 'Brilliant' Can President Obama Be? By JEFFREY S. HOWARD, Investors.com

8/27/10 a.m. The only way to see Glenn tonight [Glenn Beck that is. This is not the usual hyperlink]

8/26/10 Drug cartel suspected in massacre of 72 migrants

By MARK STEVENSON and E. EDUARDO CASTILLO, MyWay

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

 "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

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

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

8/24/10 Media Nearly Silent as ObamaCare Proponents Drop Deficit, Cost Savings Claims

  "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

Matthews: "Suppose they built this thing right square over....right over the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  "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. . . .

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.

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.’"

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8/18/10 American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks

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

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

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

8/17/10 'Atlas Shrugged': The CliffsNotes Today By SCOTT S. POWELL Posted 06:34 PM ET, Investor's Business Daily

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

8/15/10 American Muslims Debate Loyalty to America By Eileen F. Toplansky. American Thinker

  "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. ...

  "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

  "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.

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

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 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

  "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.

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

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

  "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

8/9/10 Soros steps up his war against American energy independence

Ed Lasky, American Thinker

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?

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

By BETSY MCCAUGHEY, The Wall Street Journal

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

  "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

8/4/10 No mosque By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr., The Washington Times

Look for Country Class to overrule Ruling Class

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:

  "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

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

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 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.'"

7/29/10 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

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

  "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

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:

7/25/10 Clarice's Pieces: Know When to Hold 'Em

  "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. . . .

7/24/10 Senate Energy Debate is Still all About Cap-and-Trade

By Phil Kerpen, FoxNews.com

  "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

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

by Greg Gutfeld  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

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

7/21/10 New Docs: 173 Sweetheart Loan Deals for 42 Fannie and Freddie Execs

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

  "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

· 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’

7/19/10 The Blame Game Investor's Business Daily

7/19/10 Video Proof: The NAACP Awards Racism 2010

by Andrew Breitbart, Big Government

  "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

  "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

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

  "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

7/16/10 Far-left Think Progress Fabricates Examples of Tea Party Racism for Bogus Video By Lachlan Markay, NewsBusters

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

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

7/14/10 Sarah Palin attacks NAACP over 'racist' tea party motion By Robert Winnett, Telegraph.co.uk

  "'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

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

7/12/10 Health Care Rationing Obama Believes In

  "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

  "'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

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

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.

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

7/10/10 One Job Forward, Two Jobs Back

BY Andrew B. Wilson, WeeklyStandard.com

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

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."

7/6/10 TSA to Block "Controversial Opinion" on the Web

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."

7/6/10 He can't resist: Obama bashes Founders on the 4th of July Jeannie DeAngelis, American Thinker

7/6/10 Former DOJ Attorney Alleges "Lawlessness" in Civil Rights Division Political Punch

  "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.'”

7/5/10 I’ll Take a Double-Dip, Smart####

 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

  "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 by Marinka Peschmann, Big Government

  "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

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

7/3/10 A silver platter of GOP talking points for November

Neil Braithwaite, American Thinker

  "Let's review some tasty silver platter entrees:

• Over $800 billion in stimulus spending that hasn't worked,

• Using TARP funds to cherry-pick which banks survive and which don't
• 9.7% unemployment when Obama promised it wouldn't go above 8%
• Bypassing federal bankruptcy laws and regulations to take over GM and Chrysler - using taxpayer money
• A "pay czar" deciding how much corporate executives can earn
• Almost three million jobs lost since Obama took office - when he promised to add four million by the end of 2010
• Passage of a health care bill against the majority will of the American people - many states are now challenging the bill as unconstitutional
• A slow and incompetent response to the Gulf oil spill - still leaking thousands of gallons a day over 70 days later
• Obama's deep water oil drilling ban will cost thousands of American jobs
• Failure to secure our Southern borders while suing Arizona for trying to protect its citizens
• A national debt increase of almost $3 trillion since Obama took office
• A federal debt that will represent 62% of the nation's economy by 2011 - with estimates of 100% in ten to fifteen years
• Pending cap and trade legislation laced with energy cost and job loss issues
• Democrats pushing a financial regulation reform bill that protects financial firms and ultimately hurts consumers - also being challenged as unconstitutional
• Democrats became the first House majority that failed to pass an annual budget resolution since the Congressional Budget Act was adopted in 1974
• Democrat tax increases slated for 2011 that will further harm taxpayers, the economy and job growth
• Numerous pay-to-play political scandals
• Obama's promise not to raise taxes on those making less than $250 thousand - already broken
• A weak and dangerous foreign and domestic terrorism policy

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

  "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

7/1/10 Kagan Won't Take a Stand in Favor of the Declaration of Independence Rush Limbaugh Show Today

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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

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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

By: David Freddoso, WashingtonExaminer.com

  "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.