Agenda 21 is making its way into American cities - my Boyne City Gazette column; EPA makes Obama's prediction come true

   At the time that President George W. Bush was signing on to UN Agenda 21 (never ratified by Congress)  Al Gore stated, ”Americans are going to have to face a wrenching transformation of Society” [in the effort to attain “sustainability].  President Obama's stated goal is a "transformation of America" as we know it.  It sounded so exciting to so many during Obama’s campaign.  It will serve us well to hear the thoughts of the icons of the “sustainability” agenda.  Professor Maurice King stated, "Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty, reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control."  The magazine Wild Earth wrote: Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental. The co-founder of Earth First! wrote: We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.  We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.  As the founder of UN Environment Programme said, “Isn’t the only hope for the planet that industrialized civilization collapse?”  “A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States, said Paul Erlich, Professor of Population Studies.  Americans, it is said, need to be taken down to a condition closer to average in the world.  Only then will there be social justice, the cornerstone of Agenda 21, the playbook for slowly molding an apathetic America into global governance.

   Little did we know at the time that in addition to transforming America to be no better than any other country, and redistributing the wealth of our hardest workers to global entities as well as to other Americans, our President apparently meant a transformation to sustainability in how we live.  His Executive Order forming the White House Rural Council is already regulating American farms and farmland in new and troubling ways.  His EPA adds to the threat.

   Carroll County, Maryland voted in 2011 to cancel the county’s membership in ICLEI (International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives), terminating their contract for the county’s “sustainability development director”.  Forming a Property Rights Council, the county stated that the rewritten development plan must once again protect private property rights and comply with the US Constitution.  Enough is enough for this county in the know!  ICLEI cities in Michigan includeTraverse City, Ann Arbor, Dearborn, Flint, Grand Rapids and Ferndale, their participation cloaked in terms of environmental stewardship and "sustainable development".  Provided software assists them in determining emissions, creating population “centers” and fighting “urban sprawl”.
   Unofficial reports indicate that at least 54 communities have withdrawn from ICLEI in 2011.  State legislatures have pushed back on Agenda 21, and Washington State created an Anti-Agenda 21 Caucus.  Repeal of Smart Growth Legislation is growing.  The Republican National Committee recently sponsored a “Resolution Exposing United Nation Agenda 21.”

.  The Heritage Foundation, as well as some in Congress has now acknowledged the threat of Agenda 21, in an article entitled “Agenda 21 and the Threat in Our Backyard.”  Democrats have initiated a website: democratsagainstagenda21.com, where people of all stripes can educate themselves to what is really going on in planning commissions in our country.  With both Democrats and Republicans working on the issue, activists are finally being seen as more than fringe conspiracy theorists.  As Americans have begun to study the UN Agenda 21 they have learned that once again the UN does not have the interests of America in mind.

   What should you be looking for in your community?  “Trained facilitators” will be used at “consensus meetings”, with those who would benefit by the regulations there to support their agenda.  There will be no real debate nor open discussions, just break-out groups.   Activities which may be deemed “unsustainable” include ski runs, grazing of livestock, agriculture, fencing of pastures, chemical fertilizers, herbicides, paved and tarred roads, railroads, modern hunting, logging, fossil fuels, dams, private property, cemeteries and sewers.  Do you really favor regulatory edicts and eminent domain actions by a government empowered by the UN and Agenda 21?   Our country must not be controlled by UN initiatives, but by American citizens continuing to improve their environment, as we always have, without losing America’s sovereignty.  

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The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.
The proposed rule — years in the making and approved by the White House after months of review — will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.  [As our President said during his campaign, "“If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”]

 

Administration leak alleged; Severability; American Community Survey; Unreasonable searches; Medicaid food stamp recipients; Zimmerman vs. gangbangers; "Kill Zimmerman" Twitter account; "Was good to let people know that no one can hide"; Selective Service System denies request for Obama's SS form; Supremes to take first vote today; Sworn affidavit marks Obama as foreign student sponsored by Bill Ayers' parents

Fox News reports: Former U.S. diplomat John Bolton alleged Thursday that the Obama administration leaked a story about covert Israeli activity in order to foil potential plans by the country to attack Iran's nuclear program. 

Foreign Policy magazine quoted government sources claiming Israel had been granted access to airfields in Azerbaijan -- along Iran's northern border.

"I think this leak today is part of the administration's campaign against an Israeli attack," Bolton claimed on Fox News. 

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/29/bolton-accuses-administration-leaking-story-on-israeli-planning-along-iran/#ixzz1qbRWppGe

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Richmond Tea Party reports: Some of the justices, particularly Justices Sotomayor and Ginsburg, seemed to suggest that the best way to show respect to Congress was to only strike limited portions of PPACA and nothing else.

Others suggested that, to truly show deference to Congress, the Court would need to strike the entire law because, to do otherwise, would be to leave Congress with a law they never passed or even intended to pass. Justice Kennedy said that if the Court struck down the mandate, but left the rest of the law standing, "we would have a new regime that Congress did not provide for, did not consider. That, it seems to me can be argued at least to be a more extreme exercise of judicial power than . . . striking the whole."

Justice Scalia seemed to echo this view, stating that "My approach would say if you take the heart out of the statute, the statute's gone. That enables Congress. . . . to do what it wants . . . .  It seems to me it reduces our options the most and increases Congress's the most."

Scalia said that there is no case where the Court has found the "heart" of a law unconstitutional and left the remainder standing, stating:     http://www.richmondteaparty.com/2012/03/supreme-court-healthcare-hearing-day-3-summary/

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Liberty Log reports: The American Community Survey: A government sanctioned assault on liberty  [Have you received yours?]

It sounds innocuous enough, but the internet is full of stories of overzealous Census Bureau employees harassing citizens with late night door knocks and threatening phone calls.  A common thread seems to be that when citizens push back, contact a reporter or complain to their congressional representative, the Census Bureau backs down.  I should also point out that unless the person at your door is escorted by an actual law enforcement representative and a court order, you the citizen are under no legal obligation to speak to them.  My guess is they do not want the court fight so if you push back hard enough, albeit politely without breaking any laws yourself, they eventually get the hint.
I cannot for the life of me understand why these folks think they can delve so deeply into the private lives of citizens.  Why they feel it is appropriate to collect data on the living, working and driving habits of regular folks.  More to the point, who do these people think they are; harassing citizens at all hours with phone calls, home visits, threatening letters and threats of legal action?  The folks doing this are literally worse than collection agencies.  They attempt to justify their actions by repeating the talking point that not providing the information will prevent your neighbors and community from receiving their “fair share” of federal funding.  So I am supposed to allow them to invade my privacy so the government can better redistribute my money?   Not to put too fine a point on it but that is simply not going to happen.  [What are some of the intrusive questions?  When was your home built? Do you have a flush toilet?  How many vehicles are kept at your home?  Which fuel is most used? What did you pay for your electricity and gas last year?  What is your monthly rent, or the cost of your monthly mortgage, real estate taxes and insurance? Do you have a 2nd mortgage? Do you have serious difficulty concentrating, remembering or making decisions?  Have you ever served in the Armed Forces?  I for one will be contacting my representative if and when I get one of these forms.]   http://libertylog.org/?p=2573
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The NYT reported: Published: August 19, 2010

The Republican Party isn’t taking on the census itself, the count of the United States population made every 10 years, but the more comprehensive American Community Survey.  

But the Republican National Committee resolved this month that the Census Bureau behaves “exactly as a scam artist would, asking very personal questions,” and called the survey “a dangerous invasion of privacy,” and “overreaching and intimidating.” The committee said the Census Bureau was “spending millions of tax dollars to violate the rights and invade the personal privacy of United States citizens.”

The resolution invokes the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches and notes that the Constitution mandates a count only every 10 years — to reapportion seats in the House of Representatives. The party is demanding that the bureau either scrap the American Community Survey or make participation voluntary. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/us/politics/20census.html
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Free Beacon reports: After an audit of 24,355 non-Medicaid food stamp recipients in New Hampshire, the report shows 2,200 hold a primary address outside of the state. [...]
“We are up to a potential in that program alone of up to $41 million worth of payments that may be questionable,” said House Speaker Bill O’Brien.
The report also cites cases of incarcerated or deceased residents getting benefits, including one where the recipient may have been dead since 1983. http://freebeacon.com/nearly-10-percent-of-n-h-food-stamp-recipients-have-out-of-state-address/

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Examiner asks: Last weekend in the city of Chicago alone, gangbangers slaughtered ten people and wounded another forty. The youngest fatality is only six years old. The youngest person wounded is only one-year-old. Many of the victim were pedestrians sprayed with bullets in drive by shootings. The national news has said nothing about this.
So why does one shooting in Florida warrant weeks of national news? Why has there been thousands of articles a day, for the last four days, about one single shooting?

Continue reading on Examiner.com Zimmerman was on the ground being punched when he shot Trayvon Martin - Charleston Charleston Conservative | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/charleston-conservative-in-charleston-sc/zimmerman-was-on-the-ground-being-punched-when-he-shot-trayvon-martin#ixzz1qbMsi5N3

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Expose Obama reports: Barack Obama has remained silent as the usual suspects have been busy stirring up hate aimed at George Zimmerman,the Florida Hispanic involved in the shooting death of 17 year-old Trayvon Martin. Now the anger has taken a new twist,breaking out on Twitter with an account named “Kill Zimmerman.”It features an image of Zimmerman in crosshairs. http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/03/29/kill-zimmerman-twitter-account-launched/

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The Smoking Gun reports: The comedian Roseanne Barr last night tweeted the home address of George Zimmerman’s parents to her 110,000-plus Twitter followers, only to delete the posting after “not fully understanding that it was private not public.”  Barr, who deleted her tweet in the face of criticism from some Twitter followers, noted that she first thought it “was good to let ppl know that no one can hide anymore.”  That stance quickly changed, with Barr reporting, “But vigilante-ism is what killed Trayvon. I don’t support that.”  [Say - what?]  By tweeting the Zimmermans’s address, Barr appears to have violated Twitter rules that state, “You may not publish or post other people's private and confidential information, such as credit card numbers, street address or Social Security/National Identity numbers, without their express authorization and permission. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/roseanne-barr-zimmerman-tweets-893416

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Expose Obama writes: The Selective Service System has declined Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s request to see the original copy of Barack Obama’s Selective Service registration form. 

“This Agency has no evidence that President Obama’s 1980 registration is not authentic,” wrote Richard S. Flahavan,associate director of public &intergovernmental affairs

Apparently refusing to take seriously Arpaio’s investigation,Flahavan referred the sheriff to the FBI. http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/03/29/forgerygate-feds-refuse-to-release-obama-draft-docs-to-sherrif-joe/

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------AP News reports: While the rest of us have to wait until June, the justices of the Supreme Court will know the likely outcome of the historic health care case by the time they go home this weekend.
After months of anticipation, thousands of pages of briefs and more than six hours of arguments, the justices will vote on the fate of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in under an hour Friday morning. They will meet in a wood-paneled conference room on the court's main floor. No one else will be present.
In the weeks after this meeting, individual votes can change. Even who wins can change, as the justices read each other's draft opinions and dissents.
But Friday's vote, which each justice probably will record and many will keep for posterity, will be followed soon after by the assignment of a single justice to write a majority opinion, or in a case this complex, perhaps two or more justices to tackle different issues. That's where the hard work begins, with the clock ticking toward the end of the court's work in early summer. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20120330/D9TQLQDO0.html

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Pravda in Russia reports: Retired United States Postal Worker Allen Hulton recently signed a sworn affidavit for the Maricopa County, Arizona Cold Case Posse convened by Sheriff Joe Arpaio, attesting under oath, to conversations with Mary Ayers, the mother of Bill Ayers. He made his testimony public in a three hour long taped interviewed on March 19^th, 2012. Mr. Hutton, by signing an affidavit has subjected himself to laws regarding perjury, not something to be taken lightly as telling the truth is now for him a requirement of law.

His testimony states Mary and Tom Ayers (Parents of Bill ''I don't regret setting bombs" Ayers) were sponsoring Barack Obama as a foreign student, and financially supporting his education.

If correct, and Obama was introduced to Hulton as a Foreign Student, this means Barack Hussein Obama would have been using a Foreign Passport to get and prove his foreign student status for entrance into Occidental College, Columbia, and later Harvard Universities. Because Hulton has signed an Affidavit, this cannot be disregarded as mere hearsay; it is instead evidentiary in nature.

The significance of this development may not be immediately apparent until one recognizes American law regarding citizenship status. Citizenship laws as expressed in Title 8 of the United States Code states the use of a Foreign Passport constitutes adult recognition of relinquishment of American Citizenship: http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/29-03-2012/120917-barack_obama_foreign_student-0/

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Obamacare changes the relationship of the Federal Government to the individual in the very fundamental way; EPA limits could end construction of coal-fired plants - just as Obama promised; Circuit court judges sign Recall Scott Walker petition; JFK's flea market; Obama's lack of originality in speech; Cruel and unusual punishment; Eligibility bill offered in AZ; Forbidden words on school test material; Now it is "a bi-partisan bill" and an "individual responsibility"; US won't state that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel; High-fat diets may not be causing heart disease

Redstate writes: As the clock approached 11, Kennedy spoke again, sending shockwaves through the legal community. He stated matter of factly, "The reason this is concerning, is because it requires the individual to do an affirmative act. In the law of torts our tradition, our law, has been that you don’t have the duty to rescue someone if that person is in danger. The blind man is walking in front of a car and you do not have a duty to stop him absent some relation between you. And there is some severe moral criticisms of that rule, but that’s generally the rule.

“And here the government is saying that the Federal Government has a duty to tell the individual citizen that it must act, and that is different from what we have in previous cases and that changes the relationship of the Federal Government to the individual in the very fundamental way.”

It was the quote heard round the world. It is what the tea party movement, libertarians, conservatives, and so many private citizens have been saying. It was an expression of what nearly every legal scholar on television has pooh-poohed as the troglodyte rhetoric of plebeians not educated enough to understand their own founding compact.

That Justice Kennedy expressed something so obvious to so many Americans that so many well educated legal analysts have mocked for two years as an outmoded view of the constitution put forward only by hicks, rubes, and the racist middle class tea partiers not cool enough to defecate on police cars like the Occupy Wall Street hipsters should deeply, deeply trouble every radio station, newspaper, and television news network along with the American people.

Just how out of touch are the people the news media relies on as legal experts used to help form both their and their audiences’ opinions? More so, is it not abundantly obvious that legal experts let their own partisanship shape their opinions? http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/28/sinners-in-the-hands-of-anthony-kennedy/

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Redstate reports: The Environmental Protection Agency will issue the first limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants as early as Tuesday, according to several people briefed on the proposal. The move could end the construction of conventional coal-fired facilities in the United States.
The proposed rule — years in the making and approved by the White House after months of review — will require any new power plant to emit no more than 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt of electricity produced. The average U.S. natural gas plant, which emits 800 to 850 pounds of CO2 per megawatt, meets that standard; coal plants emit an average of 1,768 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt.

Whether it be in the form of directing you to purchase a product you don’t wish to buy, telling religious organizations what they have to allow, or making electricity unaffordable, the cancerous growth of regulations presents the greatest danger to our liberty. Until the Congress decides to man up and take back the power that it has relinquished we are in a death spiral as a free people.  [Obama stated in 2008, “If somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can, it’s just that it will bankrupt them.”]  http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2012/03/27/the-obama-administration-outlaws-new-coal-fired-powerplants/
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American Thinker writes: An investigation reveals 29 sitting circuit court judges in Wisconsin sign a union-driven recall drive targeting Republican Governor Scott Walker. Newspapers and radio-TV news are outraged -- OUTRAGED! -- that jurists put their names to such an overtly political document, showing their utter lack of impartiality -- bias, if you like. Media painstakingly name all 29 judges, city-by-city, and spank them for their partisanship.
What happens when another inquiry turns up the fact at least Wisconsin 25 journalists in just a single 10-newspaper chain also signed the politically-charged petitions to recall the governor?

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/signing_anti-walker_petition_affirms_journalists_bias.html#ixzz1qPcUb0pU

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CBS NY reports: Exclusive: The Stunning JFK Airport Baggage Scandal; 200 Thefts Per Day

Sources: Baggage Handlers, Jetway Workers, Security All In On Ongoing Scam

“The belly of the airplane has become like a flea market for airport employees. They go in there and go through all the luggage unencumbered, unchecked,” JFK security lawyer Kenneth Mollins said.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/03/26/exclusive-the-stunning-jfk-airport-baggage-scandal-200-thefts-per-day/ 

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Weekly Standard reports: Thomas Buch-Andersen, host of the Danish TV show Detektor, mocked President Obama's political rhetoric in a recent episode. "Obama used a metaphor from boxing to explain Denmark's role in the world," says Buch-Andersen, introducing the segment.
He then roles the tape. "That's fairly typical of the way that Danes have punched above their weight in international affairs," President Obama says at a press availability in the Oval Office with Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt of Denmark.
The tape roles yet again. "We have no stronger ally than the Netherlands," says Obama. "They consistently punch above their weight." [It seems these two lines were used at every opportunity with the head of every country visiting the White House.  I think Obama forgot that it is all on video....]  http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/danish-tv-host-mocks-obama-his-rhetoric_634403.html
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Free Beacon writes: Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia humorously invoked the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids cruel and unusual punishments, when discussing the Obamacare legislation during oral argument today at the Supreme Court.
JUSTICE SCALIA: Mr. Kneedler, what happened to the Eighth Amendment? You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?
(Laughter.)
JUSTICE SCALIA: And do you really expect the Court to do that? Or do you expect us to — to give this function to our law clerks?
Is this not totally unrealistic? That we are going to go through this enormous bill item by item and decide each one?  http://freebeacon.com/scalia-likens-obamacare-to-cruel-and-unusual-punishment/
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Expose Obama reports: Western Journalism has released an exclusive must watch video of today’s (March 27,2012) news conference at the Arizona Capitol announcing new legislation based on Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s investigation findings.
State Representative Carl Seel,who introduced the bill,was joined by Sheriff Joe Arpaio,State Senator Lori Klein,and others in support of the bill. Important new information was revealed during the news conference including a request by Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the current head of the Selective Service Board to investigate the criminal forgery committed in the case of Barack Obama’s Selective Service registration. Inaddion,Carl Seel reveals some of the resistance that other Republicans are creating to stop the bill from even heading to a vote. http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/03/28/video-sheriff-joe-arpaio-press-conference-at-arizona-capitol/
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[In the "you can't make this up" category], Redstate reports: Recently, the New York City public school system put out guidelines to providers of test materials to the district. The guidelines included a list of naughty words that should not be included in the materials, so as not to stress out, offend, or cause boo-boos to the children of the city, who are mainly made of glass it would seem. Among the no good, very bad words were “birthday”, “dinosaur”, “Halloween”, and references to junk food, swimming pools, and computers.

This, dear friends, is unarguably a good thing. Take, for example, birthdays. Did you know that some people don’t celebrate birthdays? And since they don’t celebrate them, they would obviously be emotionally distressed to consider that other people do. Tsk, tsk. Likewise, Halloween might evoke paganism, and everyone knows school children are vehemently and actively opposed to such talk, ever since the Great Pagan and Gradeschooler War of nineteen aught seven.

Swimming pools and computers, you would imagine, are banned because some people don’t have one or both of these things, and might therefore forget what two plus two equals when presented with the horrible reality that some people do.  It’s scary words too, like “slavery”, “terrorism”, “space aliens” and Lady Gaga (but I repeat myself). All in the interest of protecting virgin minds from seeing words on tests they see every day in life and, indeed, the normal course of their classrooms.  http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2012/03/28/birthdays-dinosaurs-and-slavery-oh-my/

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Weaselzippers reports: The Obama administration is now referring to Obamacare as a “bi-partisan bill” and calling the unpopular individual mandate “a Republican idea,” following three days of tough questioning by the Supreme Court.

He also referred to the individual mandate as the “individual responsibility” clause of the bill, in an attempt to distance the administration from the term individual mandate. http://weaselzippers.us/2012/03/28/hyper-spin-white-house-suddenly-calls-obamacare-a-bi-partisan-bill-the-individual-mandate-a-republican-idea/
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Q:  Is it the view of the — of the United States that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, notwithstanding the question about the embassy — the location of the U.S. embassy?

MS. NULAND:  We are not going to prejudge the outcome of those negotiations, including the final status of Jerusalem.

Q:  Does that — does that mean that you do not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel?

MS. NULAND:  Jerusalem is a permanent-status issue.  It’s got to be resolved through negotiations.

Q:  That seems to suggest that you do not regard Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.  Is that correct or not?

MS. NULAND:  I have just spoken to this issue – http://barenakedislam.com/2012/03/28/obama-lied-in-2008-now-he-refuses-to-recognize-jerusalem-as-the-capital-of-israel/

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American Thinker reports: As we skeptics have seen, the global warming enthusiasts often had more enthusiasm than science.  Climate science is a young science, and it doesn't know all that much about the climate.  Not yet.  The same was true back when heart disease became the number-one killer in the years immediately after World War II.  What was killing all those middle-class Americans?  Ancel Keys decided that it was the saturated fat in foods, and he couldn't wait for the results of his research -- people were dying.  So he persuaded the government to fight cholesterol with low-fat diets right away.  When the research results came in, they were close to the Folgers taste test: "no difference."  But by then, big budgets and reputations were committed to the idea that a high-fat diet causes heart disease, and the government couldn't change its mind. 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_science_of_half-baked_ideas.html#ixzz1qPdwmlbU

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Obama on the individual mandate; You can make people buy broccoli, or a burial plot; These people are not stupid; IRS to hire 10,000 agents for health care provisions; Obama backers whipping up mobs; A Christian revolt in San Francisco; Boys in hoodies, and Mr. President's campaign; There is room for socialists and communists; Cheney should not have received heart because "he tends to stir controversy"; Obama Administration to work hand-in-glove with UN to pass a new "Small Arms Treaty"; Flash mob over Travon; House Dems' plan is for $6 trillion more in deficits

"...it does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds..." -- Samuel Adams  

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UK Daily Mail's US editor writes: At issue today was the so-called 'individual mandate" - the federal government's act of compelling Americans to buy health insurance. It is the centrepiece of the Affordable Health Care Act - aka Obamacare - which is the signature achievement of Obama's presidency thus far.
But back during the 2008 campaign, Obama argued strenuously against the individual mandate. In a debate in South Carolina, he said: "A mandate means that in some fashion, everybody will be forced to buy health insurance. ... But I believe the problem is not that folks are trying to avoid getting health care. The problem is they can't afford it. And that's why my plan emphasizes lowering costs."
In February 2008, he said that you could no more solve the issue of the uninsured with an individual mandate than you could cure homelessness by ordering people to buy a home: http://harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/03/supreme-irony-obamacare.html
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CBS reports: “Could you define the market — everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, therefore, everybody is in the market; therefore, you can make people buy broccoli,” Scalia said.
Verrilli responded that buying food in the supermarket is “unpredictable and often involuntary,” unlike purchasing health insurance.
Scalia compared that line of thinking to forcing someone to buy a car“[I]f people don’t buy cars, the price that those who do buy cars pay will have to be higher,” the Supreme Court justice said. “So you could say in order to bring the price down, you are hurting these other people by not buying a car.” http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/03/27/you-can-make-people-buy-broccoli-scalia-goes-after-health-care-law/
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Daily Caller writes: While Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. made the Obama administration’s case for the constitutionality of the individual mandate in the health care law Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia interrupted and lectured Verrilli about American consumers, saying “These people [are] not stupid.”
Justice Elena Kagan, a former solicitor general appointed by President Obama to the high court, sided with Verrilli in arguing that young people should be required by the federal government to purchase health insurance because others will subsidize their health care in the future.
Scalia shot back, arguing that young people will make the decision to buy health insurance eventually and do not need to be forced by the federal government to engage in commerce.
The transcript of the exchange is below:

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/27/justice-scalia-to-obamas-solicitor-general-were-not-stupid/#ixzz1qPZw9o87

As Justice Samuel Alito asked, what is to stop Washington from compelling you to buy a burial plot? Or, as others have asked, a GM car to rescue Detroit? Or stocks and bonds to prop up Wall Street?

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/the_mandate_supreme_jeopardy_moMCOnc6NN1KyxXUdqak7H#ixzz1qPfqhFjV

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Examiner reports: Following the heated debate and passage of Obamacare, the Treasury Department reported that the U.S. Internal Revenue Service -- an agency under the direction of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner --  would hire upwards of 10,000 more agents to enforce several provisions of the far-reaching health care program, according to a government report.
With the IRS set to take a significant role in the new health care law signed by President Barack Obama on national television, that part of the Obamacare plan continues to worry those who have little faith in government efficiency, especially when Americans' privacy issues are involved, according to the American Society for Effective Healthcare. 
Many security experts fear that Americans' patient information will be vulnerable to unauthorized access and distribution with perpetrators being outside hackers or IRS insiders.

Continue reading on Examiner.com Obamacare: Citizens' medical records security may be breached, report warns - National Law Enforcement | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/law-enforcement-in-national/obamacare-citizens-medical-records-security-may-be-breached-report-warns#ixzz1qKRzdmJJ

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American Thinker reports: In another historic first, President Obama's backers are actively whipping up mobs.  Not just the Occupoopers of Wall Street, but also Twitter mobs, Facebook mobs, and flash mobs.
Every active conservative should spend some time on social media sites to see liberals whipping each other into a frenzy.  Know your enemy -- and if you don't like the word "enemy" (I don't), consider what Saul Alinsky calls you. You may not consider yourself their enemy, but that's how they think about you.  Ignore it at your peril.
The Obama campaign loves to boast about its use of  Facebook and Twitter to push The One over the top last time.  With Facebook claiming 700 million members, the potential for political mayhem is huge.
This is David Axelrod's specialty of astroturfing.  Obama has become O'mobba: he is the first president in history to give his official public blessing to "idealistic" anti-capitalist mobs.
There is no doubt that these organized "spontaneous" mobs will be used in the election campaign.  Be prepared to face nasty, vicious lowbrow mobs with iPhones and iPads. 

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/obama_becomes_omobba.html#ixzz1qPfKF3bP

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The Gateway Pundit reports: Wow!… They didn’t expect this…

When the Obama Administration attacked religious freedom in America with their new HHS mandate they certainly didn’t expect to see a Christian revolt… In San Francisco!

Up until now, the TEA party, a secular group, has been the central force defending freedom against Obama’s governmental power grabs. If this rally is an indication, religious groups may form a second front in this war for freedom. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/whoa-christians-hold-huge-protest-against-obamas-hhs-mandate-in-san-francisco/

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World Net Daily posts: BOYS IN THE HOODIES

Douse the flames, Mr. President!

Pat Buchanan: Why doesn't Obama give a Tucson-type speech over Trayvon incident?

Addressing the Sanford, Fla., incident, black Muslim Minister Louis Farrakhan tweeted: “Where there is no justice, there will be no peace. Soon, and very soon, the law of retaliation may … be applied.”
The New Black Panther Party has issued a “Wanted Dead or Alive” poster featuring the face of George Zimmerman, the man who shot Martin, and printed up a flier saying Martin was “murdered in cold blood.”
When Panther leader Mikhail Muhammad was asked if this could ignite an explosive situation that has already seen death threats drive Zimmerman and his father from their homes, Muhammad cursed and said Zimmerman “should be fearful for his life.”
Demanding “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,” the Black Panther leader offered $10,000 for Zimmerman’s capture and called for 5,000 black men to run him down.
“If the government won’t do the job, we’ll do it,” he warned.
Spike Lee helpfully tweeted Zimmerman’s home address. [Buchanan should have noted that the Obama campaign itself is selling Obama hoodies!  And don't forget their Obamacare - still a BFD tshirts.]
 http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/douse-the-flames-mr-president/
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Glenn Beck reports: Francis Fox Piven [of Cloward and Piven fame, with a plan to "bring down America] told an audience Left Forum 2012, “There is room for all of us. Religious leftists, people who think peace is the answer, those who think that wholesome food is what we really need, ecologists and old-fashioned Democrats, Democratic Socialists, Socialists and Communists.” http://www.glennbeck.com/2012/03/23/frances-fox-piven-yeah-we%E2%80%99re-working-with-the-communists/

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Media Research Center reports: You see how far we have come - that some think government should interfere in private health insurance decisions? To think that political pundits, for that is who they are, not only used age, but political ideology, as the determiner for health care is outrageous and dangerous.] Sinking to a new low in their disdain for Dick Cheney, the hosts on Monday's NBC Today wondered if the former vice president should have received a recent heart transplant, with Ann Curry declaring at the top of the broadcast: "...even though he has waited longer than most to receive his donor heart, some are questioning whether someone that old should be getting one..." [Listen to the audio]
Fellow co-host Matt Lauer described Cheney as "somebody who tends to stir controversy," who "can cause all kinds of controversy if he orders a cup of tea."
In the report that followed, NBC's left-wing chief medical editor Dr. Nancy Snyderman sounded like a one-person death panel, as she fretted: "...this has raised a lot of ethical questions, moral  questions, about whether the Vice President, in fact, should have received his heart against – ahead of other people. And, raises the question, how old is too old to receive such a precious transplant?" http://www.mrc.org/biasalerts/nbc-did-controversial-dick-cheney-really-deserve-heart-transplant
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Pruden Politics reports:  Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently announced the Obama Administration will be working hand-in-glove with the UN to pass a new “Small Arms Treaty.”

Disguised as an “International Arms Control Treaty” to fight against “terrorism,” “insurgency” and “international crime syndicates,” the UN Small Arms Treaty is in fact a massive, GLOBAL gun control scheme. http://www.prudenpolitics.com/index.php/pruden/showcase_web/ad_rand_paul_hillary_commits_to_un_small_arms_treaty?utm_source=SABER-3&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2854
----------------------------------------------------------------- Local10 News reports: North Miami Beach police said surveillance video shows dozens of high school students demonstrating in the Trayvon Martin case Friday ransacking a Walgreens store.
The incident occurred during a walkout from North Miami Beach Senior High School in support of Martin, 17, who was fatally shot in Sanford. Protesters have been calling for the arrest of George Zimmerman, 28, who has not been charged because he claimed self-defense in the shooting, according to police. [As they said, they were just trying to make a point, and they were mad.  Those who did not go in are embarrassed by their fellow students' behavior.]  http://www.local10.com/news/Police-Trayvon-protesters-ransack-store/-/1717324/9719674/-/xctonpz/-/index.html
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The Hill reports: House Democrats on Monday night introduced their 2013 budget plan to compete with the Republicans' proposal on the chamber floor this week.
Sponsored by Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, the $3.6 trillion proposal is not expected to pass, but nonetheless provides the Democrats with a comprehensive plan to distinguish their policy priorities from those of Republicans this election year.
The budget adds $6 trillion to deficits over 10 years, compared to $6.4 trillion for the president. It contains $643 billion less in spending, and $219 billion less in revenue. http://thehill.com/blogs/on-the-money/budget/218333-house-dems-introduce-36t-budget-plan
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The proof is in the rare mineral; Tea Party at Supreme Court gathering; Obama a "pretty face"; Obama campaign takes $29,000 from Palestinians; Limbaugh's advertisers being threatened by surveillance and more; Travon being exploited; Black on black crime worse; "Cracker" tshirts; "We the People" could end; Obama pays off families of those killed in Afghanistan;

The UK Daily Mail reports: Is this finally proof we're NOT causing global warming? The whole of the Earth heated up in medieval times without human CO2 emissions, says new study

• Evidence was found in a rare mineral that records global temperatures
• Warming was global and NOT limited to Europe
• Throws doubt on orthodoxies around 'global warming'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2120512/Global-warming-Earth-heated-medieval-times-human-CO2-emissions.html#ixzz1qK4EDTZV
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Youtube video: The sister of one of my high school friends leads quite a wonderful, active group of Tea Party activists in Laguna Beach, California.  Last Friday she was part of a group of thousands who gathered in Washington D.C. to ask for the repeal of Obamacare by the Supreme Court.  What?  You didn't hear that people were there en masse for their cause?  You didn't hear that Hermain Cain joined the group of speakers?  I imagine the mainstream media WILL show the group asked by the White House to go to protest while the court is considering that appeal.  Have you ever heard of a President of the United State CALLING for protests?  Me neither.  The video of Linda Dorr's speech follows:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ2zIoUpYJU&feature=BFa&list=UU0D0lOOLtUgR67fLqfyslzw&lf=plcp
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Things are changing!  Now even a magazine such as Forbes opines: After the first three plus years of the presidency, it is painfully clear that Barack Obama was a “pretty face,” and “glib speaker” and a lightweight liberal politician with a community organizer/radical background. The American people should be outraged at this man’s behavior and even his candidacy. Why are they not? Because of the misinformation delivered by sympathetic liberal/mainstream media who loves his nonsensical form of governing. 

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/prospernow/2012/03/24/is-there-an-imposter-in-the-white-house-an-excerpt-from-hope-is-not-a-strategy/

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World Net Daily reports: Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are listed in government election filings as having donated $29,521.54 to Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign. Donations of this nature would violate election laws, including prohibitions on receiving contributions from foreigners and guidelines against accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election, Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, told WND in response to a query. http://www.wnd.com/2008/08/71431/
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Mediate reports: On Monday afternoon, America Live host Megyn Kelly spoke with Mark Stevens, the founder of the global marketing firm MSCO and an advertiser for Rush Limbaugh‘s radio program who says his company has been targeted by people who want to put him out of business for his connection to the outspoken conservative host. 
You don’t have to strap on a suicide bomber’s belt to engage in terrorism,” he told Kelly, “Terrorism derives from the term ‘to invoke fear in people.’ They’ve called my people and my company, they’ve called the women at my company, and told them they’re women haters, the most horrible terms. They’ve told me — these are tens of thousands of emails, by the way, most of them are positive but the small group — they’ve told us that we’re under surveillance. The email subject line says ‘citizen of the internet,’ ‘police of the Internet,’ ‘Mark, you’re in danger,’ ‘your house is going to be surrounded by buses,’ ‘your business is going to be destroyed,’ ‘your people are in trouble.’ This is terrorism. Why don’t we start calling it what it is?” http://www.mediaite.com/tv/limbaugh-advertiser-tells-megyn-kelly-coordinated-effort-to-ruin-my-company-is-internal-american-terrorism/
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Daily Caller reports: Former NAACP leader C.L. Bryant is accusing Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton of “exploiting” the Trayvon Martin tragedy to “racially divide this country.”
“His family should be outraged at the fact that they’re using this child as the bait to inflame racial passions,” Rev. C.L. Bryant said in a Monday interview with The Daily Caller.
The conservative black pastor who was once the chapter president of the Garland, Texas NAACP called Jackson and Sharpton “race hustlers” and said they are “acting as though they are buzzards circling the carcass of this young boy.”
Jackson, for example, recently said Martin’s death shows how “blacks are under attack” and “targeting, arresting, convicting blacks and ultimately killing us is big business.”  (SEE ALSO: Jesse Jackson says Trayvon Martin ‘murdered and martyred’)
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Daily Caller reports: “The epidemic is truly black on black crime,” Bryant (former NAACP leader) said. “The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/former-naacp-leader-accuses-sharpton-and-jackson-of-exploiting-trayvon-martin/#ixzz1qK51YrJc

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The Smoking Gun reports what this exploitation creates: Expanding the definition of “cracker,” a t-shirt featuring the photo of the man who shot Trayvon Martin is now available for purchase. The shirt has a picture of George Zimmerman and the words “- - Cracker.” http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/trayvon-martin/cracker-tshirt-759832

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The Morning Journal of N. Ohio reports: An editorial in the Morning Journal of N. Ohio opines:
The United States Supreme Court starts hearing oral arguments in the challenge to Obamacare.
It boils down to this: If the court sides with the president and upholds Obamacare, then more than 200 years of “We the People” ends.  A new era opens in which, increasingly, we mere people must do as we’re told, or pay whatever penalty The Government will extract from us. That starts with forcing Catholic institutions to provide employees with health insurance that covers, for free, contraception, sterilization and abortion against the religion’s core moral beliefs.
The government “of the people, by the people, for the people” that Abe Lincoln admired, will be turned upside down, and eventually we’ll have The Government that will “shove the people, bite the people and force the people” to do whatever The Government wants.
Tomorrow, as the Supreme Court ponders Obamacare, the Obama Administration reportedly has arranged for demonstrations that, according to The Wall Street Journal, include a “‘prayerful witness’ encircling the Supreme Court.” It didn’t say whether the prayers would be led by Obama’s old friend, the Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright.
By what stretch of the imagination does the Executive Branch of our government rightfully surround the co-equal Judicial Branch’s headquarters with a partisan crowd sent to pressure the Judicial Branch to do the will of the Executive?
Has American government come to this: that President Obama, the community organizer in chief, sends his goons into the street to extort a favorable decision from the nation’s highest court? http://morningjournal.com/articles/2012/03/25/opinion/mj5954547.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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The families of the dead received the money Saturday at the governor's office, said Kandahar provincial council member Agha Lalai. Each wounded person received $11,000, Lalai said. Community elder Jan Agha confirmed the same figures.

They were told that the money came from U.S. President Barack Obama, Lalai said.  [This is not surprising during the its-all-about-me Presidency.]

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/25/afghan-official-us-paid-50000-to-each-victim-shooting-sprees-family/#ixzz1q8A0YRrc

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Obama's call for protesters at Supreme Court; Monday with the Supremes; Union goons becoming violent, targeting individuals; Obama ignores the white boy set on fire by blacks; After reelection, Obama will have more flexibility; Pay-offs to Afghans come "from Obama"; Obama causes surging gun sales; Separating American citizens from those in Marxist countries; Obama's probable massive hoax and fraud; Get your "Health Reform - Still a BFD" tshirts - from the Obama campaign; Black Panther Party offers $10,000 bounty; NYC nonprofit teaching homeless to take over vacant city-owned buildings

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette - on-duty

An editorial in the Morning Journal of N. Ohio opines:  [monday], the United States Supreme Court starts hearing oral arguments in the challenge to Obamacare.
It boils down to this: If the court sides with the president and upholds Obamacare, then more than 200 years of “We the People” ends.  A new era opens in which, increasingly, we mere people must do as we’re told, or pay whatever penalty The Government will extract from us. That starts with forcing Catholic institutions to provide employees with health insurance that covers, for free, contraception, sterilization and abortion against the religion’s core moral beliefs.
The government “of the people, by the people, for the people” that Abe Lincoln admired, will be turned upside down, and eventually we’ll have The Government that will “shove the people, bite the people and force the people” to do whatever The Government wants.
Tomorrow, as the Supreme Court ponders Obamacare, the Obama Administration reportedly has arranged for demonstrations that, according to The Wall Street Journal, include a “‘prayerful witness’ encircling the Supreme Court.” It didn’t say whether the prayers would be led by Obama’s old friend, the Rev. Jeremiah “God Damn America” Wright.
By what stretch of the imagination does the Executive Branch of our government rightfully surround the co-equal Judicial Branch’s headquarters with a partisan crowd sent to pressure the Judicial Branch to do the will of the Executive?
Has American government come to this: that President Obama, the community organizer in chief, sends his goons into the street to extort a favorable decision from the nation’s highest court? http://morningjournal.com/articles/2012/03/25/opinion/mj5954547.txt?viewmode=fullstory
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Monday: Anti Injunction Act (AIA): Very technical arguments expected on a key question that could punt this whole issue down the road 3-4 years. At issue is a federal law (the AIA)  that says that courts can’t consider a challenge to  a tax until that tax is actually assessed.

If the Supreme Court rules that the AIA applies to the health care law then no challenge to the individual mandate can be heard until after 2014, when it goes into effect, unless Congress acts. One appeals court in Richmond dismissed a challenge to the mandate based on the AIA, and one very conservative judge on the DC Court of Appeals came to the same conclusion in a dissenting opinion. Neither the challengers nor the government believe the AIA should apply, so the court hired a lawyer to argue a position that neither of the other parties would argue  -  that the challenge to the individual mandate is premature and can only be brought once it goes into effect in 2014.

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[I urge you all to go to this site to watch the 2 minute video.  This is a new and terrible day in America, and the mainstream media just won't show you].  Redstate reports: Workforce Fairness is releasing a series of videos chronicling left-wing intimidation, including showing up at people’s houses to harass them and their families. We’re pleased to debut the first of the videos here at RedState. The videos document a growing trend in American civic discourse — the use of intimidation against private citizens to punish dissent.
Archbishop Chaput of Philadelphia, in a Lenten Letter to his pastoral flock, said that evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant and then tries to silence good. The secular left, having preached tolerance for years, is proving the Archbishop true with their new found intolerance for opposing views. Witness opponents to Proposition 8 in California actively targeting for harassment supporters of Proposition 8. Witness union goons showing up on the doorsteps of private citizens to scare them into submission. Witness Media Matters For America targeting American supporters of Israel and attacking them as “Israel Firsters,” questioning their loyalty to the United States. The only time anyone wants to shut down opposing views is when the opposing views are winning.
Like Media Matters, the unions are threatening and bullying businesses. They are threatening private citizens. Threatening the livelihood of businesses and individuals, unions, Media Matters, and the left are intending to shut down the opposition through fear of a loss of livelihood. http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/03/26/the-left-no-longer-finds-dissent-patriotic/
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Redstate notices differences: Early March in Kansas City Missouri, a 13 year old White boy was chased to his doorstep by two Black boys, who doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire, while yelling, “This is what you deserve, White boy.”
Unlike the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin situation, this attempted immolation of a 13 year old boy was CLEARLY motivated by racism on the part of the criminals.
Yet, this horrific story disappears down the memory-hole as soon as the media can dispense with it. The race-baiters have nothing to say about the racism involved. Jackson, Sharpton, Farrakhan, and Obama have nothing to say. No teachable moments here, apparently.
Right Mr. Obama? No wisdom for you to dispense using this Black-on-White hate crime as a convenient backdrop?
I guess when victims “look like” your fictitious son, you must rise to the occasion use them to serve your Leftist aspirations. But when victims look like my sons, you have nothing to say. http://www.redstate.com/irondiopriest/2012/03/24/boy-burned-in-racial-attack-but-he-doesnt-look-like-obamas-fictitious-son-so-nevermind/
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American Thinker opines: As a mother, my capacity for empathy does not stop at only those who physically resemble my children.  Sadly, the president, who touts empathy as one of the most important qualifications for a Supreme Court justice, signals  that his capacity for empathy does not extend to all American citizens, but is focused on those of African-American descent or Muslim heritage.
While there were all sorts of indications that Obama was entering office with personal biases, the first hint that these would play a role in his decisions as POTUS was when his Justice Department dropped the charges against the New Black Panthers charged with voter intimidation for swinging billy clubs at voting sites in 2008.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/03/the_empathizer-in-chief_needs_to_do_some_serious_soul-searching.html#ixzz1qDyD7G8f

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ABC News picks this up on an open mic:
President Obama: On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved but it’s important for him to give me space.
President Medvedev: Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you…
President Obama: This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility.
President Medvedev: I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/03/president-obama-asks-medvedev-for-space-on-missile-defense-after-my-election-i-have-more-flexibility/
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Fox News reports:  The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a U.S. soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said Sunday.

The families of the dead received the money Saturday at the governor's office, said Kandahar provincial council member Agha Lalai. Each wounded person received $11,000, Lalai said. Community elder Jan Agha confirmed the same figures.

They were told that the money came from U.S. President Barack Obama, Lalai said.  [This is not surprising during the its-all-about-me Presidency.]

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/25/afghan-official-us-paid-50000-to-each-victim-shooting-sprees-family/#ixzz1q8A0YRrc

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Business Insider reports: We'd heard a few times lately that the gun stocks (mostly Ruger and Smith & Wesson) had been surging lately, thanks to strong gun sales, but we have to thank Eddy Elfenbein for alerting us to how extreme the moves have been lately. Ruger is up 14% from the Wednesday close after the gun company announced that it literally could not keep up with demand.
Since last summer, the stock has nearly tripled.
So what's going on? Apparently it has something to do with fears that in a second Obama term -- which appears more likely than it did several months ago -- that stricter firearm controls would be put in place, and so the time to get guns is now.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-sales-are-booming-shares-of-ruger-and-smith-and-wesson-are-surging-2012-3#ixzz1q8BXkamp

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American Thinker adds: What does this mean in a country where the President and the Attorney General are dedicated to draconian gun control laws, in spite of recent SCOTUS rulings in Heller and McDonald?  This Administration relishes the use executive fiat to bypass Congress, and enact new federal regulations to further their own hard left progressive agenda. We can expect a multi- front assault on gun owners, gun registration, ammunition sales, and firearm distributors, much like the Administration's brutal regulatory attacks on the fossil fuel and power production industry.  (How much are you paying at the pump this weekend?)

What separates America citizens from becoming like the docile socialist cattle of Europe and the UK is our constitutional right to own firearms. Obama and his Marxist leaning czars necessarily fear firearms in the hands of free citizens. Only a government "of the people" embraces the responsible firearm ownership of its citizens.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/an_armed_citizenry_and_its_enemies.html#ixzz1q8EXQfx3

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Washington Times Writer Jeff Kuhner on TruNews: Obama has Perpetrated a Massive Hoax and Fraud upon the American People; Obama Document Fraud Biggest Scandal in American History; Much Bigger than Watergate; Everything Obama Has Done Could be Illegal; American Media Silent - Part 2 of 2 - 3/22/2012 - http://www.BirtherReport.com
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Fox News reports: Remember what Vice President Biden said about Obamacare? He said it was a “big f***ing deal.”
Well, now the Obama campaign is hoping to turn the vice president’s vulgarity into cash for the 2012 presidential race. They’re selling t-shirts with Biden’s naughty words emblazoned across the front. “Stand with President Obama by reminding your friends and family that health care reform is still a BFD,” the campaign declared. “Health Reform – Still a BFD,” the t-shirt reads. It’s yours for $30.   
http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/obama-campaign-selling-vulgar-t-shirts.html
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NY Daily News reports: The new Black Panther Party offered a bounty of $10,000 Saturday for the “capture” of a Florida neighborhood watch captain. [Here we go again, using the Critical Race Theory which states that racism will never die and the whites will never be done paying back for the fact that hundreds of years ago some white men had slaves sold to them by their own black leaders.  New details are emerging that this "killer" may indeed have been defending himself.  But there is no time to wait for details and for a trial.  It suits Al Sharpton and his cronies to ramp up the hatred.]

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/black-panther-rage-10g-capture-trayvon-killer-article-1.1050370#ixzz1q83hG6bA

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Daily Caller reports: The New York Post reported Sunday that a city-funded nonprofit group has been teaching homeless New Yorkers to “homestead” vacant city-owned buildings by breaking into them, establishing residency and hoping the courts will allow them to stay.
“The best time to enter a building is in the late hours,” a Picture the Homeless board member told a group of homeless men and women a few weeks ago. “You make sure you have your proper tools. You remove the chains and padlock, and then you go in.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/26/nyc-funded-group-teaches-homeless-to-break-enter-squat/#ixzz1qDvYjtRI

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