Saturday, December 1, 2012

Communist Party USA applauds reelection; Benghazi decisions; Fiscal cliff arguments; Gitmo and American prisons; American cities against UN Agenda 21

 “An enormous people’s victory.”
That’s how the political party of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels jubilantly celebrated the results of the 2012 presidential election in the United States, which will put Barack Obama in the White House for another four years.

The comment was in a report to the Communist Party USA national committee from the party’s chairman, Sam Webb. http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/communist-party-usa-celebrates-obama-win/
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The French politician who said Indian steel company ArcelorMittal should leave the country has told CNBC that his government is only acting like U.S. President Barack Obama.
Montebourg told CNBC after a meeting with trade unions in Paris: “Barack Obama's nationalized. The Germans are nationalizing. All countries are nationalizing. I've also noticed the British nationalized 6 banks.”  http://www.cnbc.com/id/50022833
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It would no doubt be controversial, but the idea of dissolving the fiscally struggling city of Detroit and absorbing it into Wayne County is being tossed around in Lansing.
“If we have to, that is one idea we have to look at. We really have to look at everything that is on the table,” Jones said. “Again, if this goes to federal bankruptcy, every employee down there will suffer, the city will suffer and the vultures will come in and take the jewels of Detroit and they will be gone.”  http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2012/11/28/state-senator-proposes-dissolving-city-of-detroit/
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  • “Those of us who strongly believe in the rule of law believe that in our country, if you don’t like the law, change it, or seek to change it -- don’t violate it,” he said.  “For a civilian, that’s called civil disobedience, for the president, it’s called violating your oath of office.” Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas). (AP)  http://cnsnews.com/news/article/gop-senators-offer-calm-and-reasonable-pathway-citizenship-illegal-aliens
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    President Obama hasn’t even begun his second term yet, but his administration is already struggling with a huge credibility problem on the Benghazi front. Journal correspondent Major Garrett that Obama “is not particularly concerned” whether Susan Rice misled the American people in a series of talk show interviews following the killing of US Ambassador Christopher Stephens and three other US personnel in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11.  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100191964/the-white-houses-benghazi-bungling-is-proving-a-disaster/
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    Speaking with Secure Freedom Radio host Frank Gaffney this week, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) alleged that the Obama administration has actively aided al Qaeda and follows the advice of the Muslim Brotherhood. Gohmert told Gaffney that anti-Muslim investigations are necessary because President Barack Obama made “horrendous decisions” in backing the “revolutions in Northern Africa and across the Middle East and to the Far East.” He chalked such decisions up to the administration listening closely to the advice of Muslim Brotherhood members  http://www.mediaite.com/online/gop-rep-gohmert-obama-admin-has-a-bunch-of-muslim-brotherhood-members-giving-them-advice/
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  • Mitch McConnell, the Senate Republican leader, says he “burst into laughter” Thursday when Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner outlined the administration proposal for averting the fiscal cliff.  He wasn’t trying to embarrass Geithner, McConnell says, only responding candidly to his one-sided plan, explicit on tax increases, vague on spending cuts.
    Geithner suggested $1.6 trillion in tax increases, McConnell says, but showed “minimal or no interest” in spending cuts. When congressional leaders went to the White House three days after the election, Obama talked of possible curbs on the explosive growth of food stamps and Social Security disability payments. But since Geithner didn’t mention them, those reductions appear to be off the table now, McConnell says. http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/mcconnell-burst-laughter-geithner-outlined-obamas-plan_664210.html
    ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Sen. Mary Landrieu and President Barack Obama can link arms on many pieces of the White House's proposed budget package, including raising taxes on higher-income Americans and spending more on infrastructure.
    But Ms. Landrieu, along with a notable handful of Democratic colleagues, parts ways with the White House on one increasingly thorny issue: the president's call to raise the estate tax as part of Washington's bid to strike a deficit-cutting deal before year's end.
    "This particular tax is inherently unfair," Ms. Landrieu said, adding that she would oppose any year-end deficit-reduction package that raises the estate tax. "That's a make-or-break for me." http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324020804578151430887301890.html?mod=ITP_pageone_1
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    Short on good options, here's one play GOP leaders might be able to make to regain some of the high ground and throw the White House back on its heels: Embrace Simpson/Bowles.  President Obama established a bipartisan debt commission with great fanfare in 2010.  Its leaders were Alan Simpson, a former Republican Senator, and Erskine Bowles, President Clinton's former Chief of Staff.  The panel was tasked with engineering a solution to right America's fiscal ship.  In the end, they produced a set of recommendations that received the blessing of a majority of its members.  The commission's blueprint drew a fair amount of criticism from conservatives, but was roundly blasted by liberals.  Liberal malcontents like Paul Krugman torched the plan with noteworthy ferocity.  The president shelved the recommendations, and they've been collecting dust ever since.  What did the proposal actually look like? Read more at http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2012/11/30/simpson_bowles
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  •  CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: It's not just a bad deal, this is really an insulting deal. What Geithner offered, what you showed on the screen, Robert E. Lee was offered easier terms at Appomattox, and he lost the Civil War. The Democrats won by 3% of the vote and they did not hold the House, Republicans won the house. So this is not exactly unconditional surrender, but that is what the administration is asking of the Republicans.

    This idea -- there are not only no cuts in this, there's an increase in spending with a new stimulus. I mean, this is almost unheard of. What do they expect? They obviously expect the Republicans will cave on everything. I think the Republicans ought to simply walk away. The president is the president. He's the leader. They are demanding that the Republicans explain all the cuts that they want to make. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/11/29/krauthammer_on_fiscal_cliff_negotiations_republicans_ought_to_simply_walk_away.html 
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  • The administration also sought at least $50 billion in new economic stimulus spending.
    Obama's negotiators also sought the ability to raise the nation's borrowing limit unilaterally. Currently, Congress must approve an increase in the debt ceiling, and it was an impasse over that issue that brought the country perilously close to default in 2011. http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/30/us-usa-fiscal-offer-idUSBRE8AT02C20121130
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  • I begrudge no one their right to organize and join a union if they so choose. But these poor schlubs are being led down a primrose path to unemployment if they think that a burger or pizza joint can stay in business long if the workers are earning $15 an hour.
    New York Times:
    Fast-food workers at several restaurants in New York walked off the job on Thursday, firing the first salvo in what workplace experts say is the biggest effort to unionize fast-food workers ever undertaken in the United States. http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/11/29/burger-flippers-of-the-world-unite-the-seiu-drive-to-unionize-fast-food-workers/
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    This week the United Nations begins two weeks of climate talks in Doha, Qatar. The primary goal of these meetings is to draw President Obama into accepting a redistribution plan designed extract money from the U.S. economy in the form of a global warming tax and doling out the cash to Third World nations.
    Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/obamas_next_move_the_global_warming_tax.html#ixzz2DbCr3DpJ
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    Eight cities and counties announced a new commitment to protecting their communities from unavoidable climate change impacts, by being the first to participate in Climate Resilient Communities™ (CRC), the nation’s first comprehensive climate adaptation program for local governments, developed by ICLEI-Local Governments for Sustainability USA and launched this week.
    The following cities and counties (plus one development district) will receive cutting-edge online tools, technical support, and other resources from ICLEI to accelerate their efforts to prepare for climate impacts that already affect their regions:
  • Boston, Massachusetts
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • Flagstaff, Arizona
  • Grand Rapids, Michigan
  • Lee County, Florida
  • Miami-Dade County, Florida
  • San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)
  • Tucson, Arizona   http://lid.okstate.edu/news-1/other-water-topics/icleiusa-org-8-leading-cities-and-counties-commit-to-prepare-for-climate-change-impacts-by-participating-in-nation2019s-first-adaptation-program/
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  • U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin said on Oct. 2, 2012, that under President Barack Obama's directive, the federal Department of Justice will purchase the long-unused Thomson prison in northwestern Illinois, cutting a check and bypassing the objections of a veteran Republican U.S. House member who had blocked the sale. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-091115-guantanamo-terror-illinois-pictures,0,3130130.photogallery
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  • The Senate late Thursday night approved a Republican amendment that would prohibit the transfer of terrorist detainees from Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) to U.S. prisons.
    Ayotte said Thursday that she feared that those presumed terrorists would seek legal rights in U.S. courts. She added that the Gitmo facility is far more secure since it’s protected by the military.
    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said she opposed the amendment, which passed on a 54-41 vote, because there are already more than 100 terrorists being securely held in federal prisons today.
    “This is what our federal prisons do and they do it well,” Feinstein said before the vote.
    Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) questioned why Feinstein and others opposing the amendment would want to bring suspected terrorists to the United States during a time of war.
    “We don’t want these crazy bastards brought here to the United States,” Graham said. “They want to steal your way of life, not steal your car.“Have you lost your mind?”
    Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) called the amendment “veto bait” because President Obama said he’d veto the defense bill if it included this provision. http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/270239-senate-votes-to-prohibit-gitmo-detainee-transfers-to-us
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  • Retirement is an American's reasonable expectation. We put money into investment plans so that our work today funds our hard-earned leisure of tomorrow.
    But many in Washington see our investment accounts not as the expressions of well-planned, disciplined decisions but as untapped reservoirs of wealth they can drain to fix the problems that they caused.
    The tax protection that 401(k)s have now can be wiped out by grasping politicians who refuse to do what's right, which is to severely cut spending.


    Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112812-634984-401k-on-the-table-for-fiscal-cliff.htm#ixzz2Dhya2i8g
    One group of retirement plan professionals is warning that the hostilities might be closer than many of us think. The American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries launched on Monday, according to Reuters, "a media campaign intended to educate U.S. employers and workers that the federal government might consider changing the tax benefits of retirement savings accounts."

    Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112812-634984-401k-on-the-table-for-fiscal-cliff.htm#ixzz2DhxpjnTf
    Does Government Want To Drain Americans' 401(k) Plan?

    Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112812-634984-401k-on-the-table-for-fiscal-cliff.htm#ixzz2DhxUB1v3
    Retirement is an American's reasonable expectation. We put money into investment plans so that our work today funds our hard-earned leisure of tomorrow.
    But many in Washington see our investment accounts not as the expressions of well-planned, disciplined decisions but as untapped reservoirs of wealth they can drain to fix the problems that they caused.
    The tax protection that 401(k)s have now can be wiped out by grasping politicians who refuse to do what's right, which is to severely cut spending.
    The war on retirement, particularly 401(k)s, is quiet now. But that's because it's a cold war.
    And like the postwar tensions between the East and West, it could erupt at any time into a hot war.


    Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112812-634984-401k-on-the-table-for-fiscal-cliff.htm#ixzz2DhxLrYoi

Friday, November 30, 2012

Obamacare actions;


 
Combined with the rising cost of Obamacare, which is already forcing many US businesses to shed jobs, this will have a disastrous effect on the US economy. Small businesses will be especially hard hit, with large numbers of small business owners caught in the new tax bracket. Even the White House itself admits that more than 600,000 small businesses will be slammed hard by the new tax hike (hat tip: Keith Koffler). Other estimates, based on Treasury Department figures, suggest that up to 1.2 million businesses could be affected, threatening more than a million jobs.  http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100191962/britains-millionaire-exodus-is-a-wake-up-call-to-barack-obamas-high-tax-america/
 

And, no list of Obamacare lawsuits would be complete without mentioning the Oklahoma lawsuit challenging the illegal IRS rule by which the Obama administration will attempt to funnel tax credits and subsidies through federally-created exchanges, despite the law's stipulation that such premium-assistance can only be offered via state-run exchanges. This litigation is, in many ways, the most important of all the lawsuits. Without its insurance exchanges, and the accompanying subsidies, Obamacare will crash and burn.- http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/30/could-obamacare-go-the-way-of



[Please be advised: these are not my words, but those of the webmaster listed below. Thank you to all who followed up and contacted legislators last night and this morning. Over 700 emails were sent in! Your communication helped us defeat the Obama Health Insurance Exchanges in the Health Policy Committee this morning. The count was 5-YES, 9-NO, and 2-PASS. Not sure how each member voted but will update you later. Based on the content of the Speaker's Press Release, it sounds like he is not going to revisit the issue!

Here is the text of a Press Release the Speaker just sent out:

LANSING - Speaker of the House Jase Bolger, R-Marshall, issued the following statement regarding this morning's Health Policy Committee vote on a state-run health exchange:"The committee apparently was not able to get the answers to key questions or receive assurances about major concerns regarding costs for Michigan taxpayers, the ability to adopt a model the federal government wouldn't ultimately control or the ability to protect religious freedom for Michigan citizens. Because the committee could not be assured that a state exchange was the best way to protect Michigan's citizens, it is understandable why they did not approve the bill."  http://myemail.constantcontact.com/UPDATE--Exchanges-Voted-Down-in-Committee-This-Morning.html?soid=1101981946662&aid=q7-ggy0YpSU


 
For 40 years the party’s principal sources of energy and money — liberal activists, government-employees unions — have advocated expanding government’s domestic reach by raising taxes and contracting its foreign reach by cutting defense. Obama’s four years as one of the most liberal senators and his four presidential years indicate that he agrees. Like other occasionally numerate but prudently reticent liberals, he surely understands that the entitlement state he favors requires raising taxes on the cohort that has most of the nation’s money — the middle class.

The president once again avoided the term “tax rate” in his latest round of fiscal-cliff comments. He basically said, Let’s get this done before Christmas in a fair and balanced way. But what is balance? Another key point: Mr. Obama never mentioned spending cuts. Never. Not once. Yet Mr. Boehner has argued that the Republican revenue concession depends on some entitlement cuts as well as other spending reductions that would make up the trillion dollars or so in the across-the-board sequestration plan that appears to have been junked by both parties.  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334312/herbert-hoover-obama-larry-kudlow

In remarks on the Senate floor today, Alabama senator Jeff Sessions blasted President Barack Obama and congressional leadership for holding "secret" fiscal cliff negotiations. The Alabama senator insisted Obama is not serious about cutting spending--or cutting government waste. “In fact, the President is giving speeches calling for even more spending. On Tuesday, he gave a speech in which he said he wants to use the tax hikes to ‘invest in training, education, science, and research.’ Investment, of course, is just code for spending.”   http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/senator-blasts-secret-fiscal-cliff-negotations_664187.html

This nation is living on the residue of the economic growth begun in the 1950's and accelerated in the 1980's. That tidal wave of prosperity has ebbed. The United States has entered into a death spiral of unrestrained spending, excessive taxation, printing near worthless money, and stagnant economic activity.  Rather than be straightforward with the populace, the governing class is content to paper over the problem by the usual shell games of phony long-term spending cuts, more borrowing, and prevarications about the efficacy of raising taxes on "the rich."
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/the_governing_class_and_the_decline_of_america.html#ixzz2DhdOH95W

More than two months after an Islamist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi that left four Americans dead, including US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, we still don’t know what really happened that night — and, thanks to a secretive White House and an incurious Washington press corps, we probably never will. Not officially, that is.  (snip)  But unless this country has completely gone to the dogs, it’s inconceivable to me that a majority can stomach the notion that four Americans were murdered on sovereign American territory while the president of the United States took note, then rolled over and went to bed before flying to Las Vegas on a campaign swing, secure in the knowledge that the truth would never come out because it didn’t fit his media protectors’ beloved “narrative” that GM was alive and Osama bin Laden was dead.  http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/334325/benghazi-blowback-michael-walsh# 
 
The president’s insistence that Rice is, in essence, “his girl” and, therefore, untouchable, is uncharacteristically quaint and flies in the face of every feminist in the country. So much so, in fact, that left-leaning Washington analyst and columnist Kirsten Powers recently called Obama’s defense of Rice, “silly, sexist and paternalistic.” It seems Powers has given up the Kool-Aid, because she went on to pen: “Imagine George Bush saying that people criticized John Bolton because he was an ‘easy target.’ He wouldn’t.”  Why did Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ignore the State Department’s e-mail (leaked by Reuters) sent at 6:07 p.m. on September 11 crediting Anasar al-Sharia, a radical Islamist militia, with the consulate attack?
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/84348.html#ixzz2DesVX7BM

Rice has the highest net worth of executive branch members, with a fortune estimated between $24 to $44 million, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. A Free Beacon analysis of Rice’s portfolio shows thousands of dollars invested in at least three separate companies cited by lawmakers on Capitol Hill for doing business in Iran’s oil and gas sector.  “That Susan Rice invested in companies doing business in Iran shows either the Obama administration’s lack of seriousness regarding Iran or Rice’s own immorality,” said Michael Rubin, a former Pentagon adviser on Iran and Iraq. “Either way, her actions undercut her ability to demand our allies unity on Iran.” http://freebeacon.com/susan-rices-enrichment-program/
 
Here’s a perplexing pair of statistics: Compared with native-born Americans, immigrants are more likely to start a business — and they’re also more likely to depend on welfare. (snip)  Senator Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.), crunched numbers from the Department of Agriculture and found that the number of non-citizens on food stamps has risen to 1.634 million, roughly quadrupling since 2001. Moreover, in August, the Center for Immigration Studies found that 36 percent of immigrant-headed households received at least one major welfare benefit. Food assistance and Medicaid have become especially popular among immigrants.  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334337/immigrant-welfare-new-colossus-jillian-kay-melchior
 
Simply, under the terms of the order, the RNC cannot engage in ballot security efforts to combat voter fraud. This is part of the larger pattern of conservatives simply not understanding the way the left has manipulated the Machine.  Read my piece at Front Page for more warnings about the state of play. http://frontpagemag.com/2011/j-christian-adams/the-left-owns-the-election-law-industry/
 
Our culture now revolves around victims, and it long past time that the GOP exploited the favorite technique of the left. It is time to call hard working Americans an "endangered species."
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/11/work_is_for_suckers.html#ixzz2DhlYdk2M
 
(this is a sad example of how much control our government has over our welfare) The Drakes Bay Oyster Company has been in a seven-year fight with the federal government and environmental groups over whether it’s 40-year lease would be renewed this week. The Lunny family, which owns the oyster farm, was among a group of families that sold their ranch lands to the National Parks Service in the 1970s to protect them from developers, with the understanding they would get 40-year-leases renewed in perpetuity. After buying and operating the oyster farm without incident— they were even featured as outstanding environmental stewards by the National Parks Service— the Lunnys learned in 2005 they were accused of bringing environmental damage to an area the NPS and environmentalists were anxious to designate as the nation’s first federally recognized marine wilderness.   http://hotair.com/archives/2012/11/29/video-feds-shut-down-100-year-old-oyster-company-destroys-some-lives-and-dreams/

The tax protection that 401(k)s have now can be wiped out by grasping politicians who refuse to do what's right, which is to severely cut spending.
The war on retirement, particularly 401(k)s, is quiet now. But that's because it's a cold war.   A website set up by the ASPPA advises account holders to tell lawmakers to "keep their hands off your retirement savings" and explains that "Congress needs to reduce the deficit, and part of deficit reduction will most likely be 'tax reform' that increases tax revenue" — the strong suggestion being that Washington is coming after Americans' 401(k)s.
Read More At IBD: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112812-634984-401k-on-the-table-for-fiscal-cliff.htm#ixzz2Dhzx4JVU



He's financially backed small business owners so they can get up and running, and has funded students' college educations through scholarship programs. And starting on January 1, he's leaving his stores to his employees. Though he could have turned a larger profit by selling to a chain, the store-owner said it wouldn’t be right not to share his wealth with those who had helped him the most.
'My employees are largely responsible for any success I've had, and they deserve to get some of the benefits of that,' he told the paper. 'You can't always take. You also have to give back.' (hmmmm…..fiscal cliff??)
 




 

Thursday, November 29, 2012

The consolidation of power; Obama the Lord and Savior; Just behead the Teabaggers; Obama not concerned about Susan Rice's lies; and more


Everyone needs to wake up and understand exactly what’s happening not only in the U.S., but across the world. We are witnessing the consolidation of power that historically precedes a war for absolute control.
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President says: TAX NOW, CUT 'LATER'  
[Just give Obama, once again, what HE wants!  He's "The WON", don't you know.  Does anyone out there "trust" that the spending will significantly decrease AFTER they have received their big tax increases?  Me neither, not without first blaming the Republicans for harming all Americans.  Democrats play dirty and Republicans are still not up to the task.] 
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Officials familiar with the White House position say Obama plans zero flexibility on his insistence on a higher tax rate for top earners. He plans to take what one aide called a “trust but verify” position: He will insist on a higher rate in the year-end deal. Then next year, during tax-reform negotiations, “the onus will be on Republicans to propose something that raises the same amount of revenue,” the aide said. “He’s going to pocket their rate hike on the top two brackets at first, and then he’s going to say to them in the 2013 process that we set up: If you think you can realize these same revenues in a different way, prove it to me.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/84364_Page2.html#ixzz2DcOt2ExA
It’s well established that Obamacare is sending the cost of health care skyrocketing. What’s less known is it will make trips to the grocery store more expensive and drive up the cost of pizza. All this is happening because nanny state zealots slipped a zinger into the measure just before it came up for a vote.

Read more: EDITORIAL: Obamacare's pizza price - Washington Times http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/23/obamacares-pizza-price/#ixzz2DQXlCQf1 
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As Washington wrestles with the roughly $600 billion "fiscal cliff" and the 2013 budget, the far greater fiscal challenge of the U.S. government's unfunded pension and health-care liabilities remains offstage. The truly important figures would appear on the federal balance sheet—if the government prepared an accurate one  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323353204578127374039087636.html?mod=opinion_newsreel
 
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A long time ago, schools taught American history, not Politically Correct American history, as mandated, for example, by California law — which forbids the use of any textbooks that do not emphasize the roles of women, blacks, Hispanics, gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and the transgendered.
And a long time ago, most Americans knew what America stood for and taught it to the next generation. In other words, even conservatives have largely forgotten either the distinctive American values system or how to communicate it. Meanwhile the Left has been utterly clear about what leftism stands for and has used the schools, the news media, and the entertainment industries to transmit its values.  http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/334100/seeing-no-evil-dennis-prager#
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Barack Obama: From Beginning to End  Because he was as horrible, as disdainful of the Constitution and of decency, fair play and good judgment, as he was in the first four years, imagine what he can do now that he needs not worry about re-election. A look back serves as a reminder of how bad he has been already, so that good Americans can start figuring how to counter the worse Obama still to come. Herewith, then, lines from either opening or closing paragraphs of my prior columns on the Occupier in Chief, to remind us, as if we needed it, what we're dealing with.  http://spectator.org/archives/2012/11/27/barack-obama-from-beginning-to
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Proving yet again that liberalism is an ideology based on hate and rage, liberal talk show host Mike Malloy said earlier this week that the “angel of the Lord” should kill everyone in the Tea Party by cutting their heads off, The Blaze reported Tuesday.
“These Tea Bag bas***ds who by the way, I just wish they would all just go away -- or, like in Passover, I just wish there was an angel of the Lord that would pass over -- instead of killing the first born in all the households of Egypt just wipe out all the Tea Baggers,” he said.
“Just, you know, the terrible swift sword, just lob their heads off,” he added, while making exaggerated "swishing" sounds. http://www.examiner.com/article/liberal-talker-mike-malloy-angel-of-the-lord-should-behead-tea-party-members
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In response to a question from reporter Major Garrett on whether the Obama administration's mishandling of Benghazi raises "core questions of basic competency," press secretary Jay Carney revealed that Barack Obama "is not particularly concerned" about whether Susan Rice misled the American people:
"What the president is worried about, Major, is what happened and why in Benghazi. He is not particularly concerned about whether the ambassador or I went out and talked about the fact that we believed extremists might have been responsible. And whether we named them as al Qaeda or not does not--no, it certainly doesn't have any bearing on what happened and who was responsible as that investigation was continuing on Benghazi." http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/wh-obama-not-particularly-concerned-whether-susan-rice-misled-american-people_664134.html
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Rick Warren, one of the nation’s most prominent pastors, told Fox News he is extremely concerned about recent attempts in the media to deify President Obama. He was especially disturbed comments made by comedian Jamie Foxx who called the president “our Lord and Savior.”  http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/rick-warren-says-obama-deification-is-blasphemy.html
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The United Nations is poised to officially recognize the state of Palestine, an unprecedented international endorsement that would enable the Palestinians to prosecute Israeli officials for what the Palestinians claim are war crimes. http://freebeacon.com/undue-recognition/
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Few Americans realize it, but the United Nations is driving to take control over the Internet. You remember, the folks who want a worldwide income tax and who put Syria and Iran on their Human Rights Committee.
And if delegates have their way at next week’s World Conference on International Telecommunications in Dubai, the man in charge of the Web will be a Soviet-trained apparatchik from Cold War days. http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/will_thugs_rule_the_web_SqCcY5FRYuamr4kMZ9APWL
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Morale for our soldiers is the lowest it’s been in decades.  Instead of providing our troops with the best equipment and a decisive mission, we are sullying them with egregious rules of engagement [such as rubber bullets, and not being able to fire until fired upon, or just taking guns away from our soldiers while allowing the Afghanis to carry them and to kill us.  In a case involving a discharged Marine from Oceanside, a military court next week will consider the decades-old military statute that makes it a crime to attempt suicide.], the homosexual agenda, sensitivity training [pro-Islam], and other social engineering activities.  There is one more burden that Obama has added to their list of problems; green energy mobiles! 
One of the most preposterous aspects of the sequester is that it randomly cuts the Pentagon’s budget across the board, treating naval ships and green energy programs equally.  As Tom Coburn noted in his recent report on the Defense budget, “Department of Everything,” there are numerous wasteful programs within the DOD.  Most prominently, Coburn discovered that the DOD ran 116 green energy initiatives in 2010, more than the EPA or the Department of [Green] Energy. [Let that sink in.  This is another example of our dictator-like President getting his agenda fulfilled via rules and regulations, not Congress.  Don't forget that Obama told NASA that one of their main missions was Muslim outreach!Specifically, the Navy and the Air Force have been investing in fueling their fleets with biofuels.  All branches have been co-opted into using “green building codes.” http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/28/the-military-is-not-the-place-for-green-social-engineering/
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Officials familiar with the White House position say Obama plans zero flexibility on his insistence on a higher tax rate for top earners. He plans to take what one aide called a “trust but verify” position: He will insist on a higher rate in the year-end deal. Then next year, during tax-reform negotiations, “the onus will be on Republicans to propose something that raises the same amount of revenue,” the aide said. “He’s going to pocket their rate hike on the top two brackets at first, and then he’s going to say to them in the 2013 process that we set up: If you think you can realize these same revenues in a different way, prove it to me.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2012/11/84364_Page2.html#ixzz2DcOt2ExA

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

White House press secretary Jay Carney on Monday declined to elaborate on President Barack Obama’s plans to wage a grassroots messaging campaign in conjunction with the negotiations over the so-called fiscal cliff.
“It would ruin the fun if I gave you all the details now,” Carney said. [It does not surprise me that he and the Administration see this as a game - not a critical move for American]  http://freebeacon.com/its-all-fun-and-games/
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Judicial Watch (JW) received Osama bin Laden’s burial records from the U.S. Navy today as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit from July 18.  The records confirmed that bin Laden was given “full Islamic burial honors” when he was buried at sea. However, the released documents failed to include the “prepared religious remarks” read at the burial, which was requested.
The U.S. Navy informed JW that the burial remarks, bin Laden’s post-mortem pictures, and videos were left out because of “operational security.” http://freebeacon.com/judicial-watch-receives-access-to-bin-laden-records/
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Texas School Teaches Boston Tea Party as An Act of Terrorism 

From the book: News report: New Act of Terrorism
A local militia, believed to be a terrorist organization, attacked the property of private citizens today at our nation’s busiest port. Although no one was injured in the attack, a large quantity of merchandise, considered to be valuable to its owners and loathsome to the perpetrators, was destroyed. The terrorists, dressed in disguise and apparently intoxicated, were able to escape into the night with the help of local citizens who harbor these fugitives and conceal their identities from the authorities. It is believed that the terrorist attack was a response to the policies enacted by the occupying country’s government. Even stronger policies are anticipated by the local citizens. http://www.libertynews.com/2012/11/texas-school-teaches-boston-tea-party-as-an-act-of-terrorism/
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Employee payroll taxes are scheduled to rise nearly 50 percent in 2013 absent action by lawmakers, and there is a growing sense that both parties might be willing to let that happen.  [This, from the Administration which vows to never increase the taxes on the middle class, nor on those who either pay no taxes or actually get a check from us because they don't pay taxes.  http://freebeacon.com/the-coming-middle-class-tax-hike/
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While the Democrats are demanding that we raise taxes on the rich, they are stridently demanding that we extend the Bush tax cuts for the rest of American taxpayers (or non-taxpayers).  The irony is that Democrats spent several years during the Bush years protesting how the Bush tax cuts were nothing but handouts for the rich.  Now, they are correctly asserting that if we don’t extend the Bush tax cuts, low and middle income earners will be severely hit.  Woops!
Now that those tax rates for the bottom half of income earners are slated to expire, Democrats are suddenly waking up to the fact that the Republican tax rates have sustained millions of families for over a decade.  Instead of using the impending expirations as a weapon to leverage tax hikes on the rich, Democrats ought to muster the courage to credit Bush for those tax rates in the first place.
It’s time to repudiate the lie of Bush’s tax cuts for the rich; it’s time they give Republicans credit for alleviating the income tax burden on millions of Americans. http://www.redstate.com/2012/11/27/the-lost-irony-in-the-tax-debate/
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“There will be a hold” until the Obama administration fully answers lingering questions surrounding the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Ayotte told a group of reporters Tuesday afternoon during a conference organized by the Foreign Policy Initiative (FPI). http://freebeacon.com/hold-on-amb-rice/
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The cries of racism from the left are a part of politics these days it seems. Whether it’s John McCain questioning the handling of the Benghazi debacle by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, or Mitt Romney “niggerizing” Barack Obama by saying the president’s campaign was “angry and divisive” as MSNBC genius Prince Madonna Seal Touré so eloquently suggested, it seems the left can find racism wherever they please.
In fact, they can even find racism in turkey. Let that sink in for a minute: turkey is now a sign of racism.
Slate recently republished an article from 2010 saying how racist white meat is. The writer babbles on about white bread and its white history, then pivots to white turkey meat …seriously:  http://www.ijreview.com/2012/11/23250-eating-white-turkey-meat-now-means-your-are-racist/




Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Communists have won in America; Obama's hyperactive regulators are back at it; Redistribution is not free; Ohio's Solydra -like investment; and more


[Because it is Obama himself who told Putin that after the election, he would have more "flexibility", and because he was going to make the world love us again, this article in Prava is relevant:]-The Communists have won in America with Obama but failed miserably in Russia with Zyuganov who only received 17% of the vote. Vladimir Putin was re-elected as President keeping the NWO order out of Russia while America continues to repeat the Soviet mistake.
After Obama was elected in his first term as president the then Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin gave a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January of 2009. Ignored by the West as usual, Putin gave insightful and helpful advice to help the world economy and saying the world should avoid the Soviet mistake.
Recently, Obama has been re-elected for a 2nd term by an illiterate society and he is ready to continue his lies of less taxes while he raises them. He gives speeches of peace and love in the world while he promotes wars as he did in Egypt, Libya and Syria. He plans his next war is with Iran as he fires or demotes his generals who get in the way.
O'bomber even keeps the war going along the Mexican border with projects like "fast and furious" and there is still no sign of ending it.  He is a Communist without question promoting the Communist Manifesto without calling it so. How shrewd he is in America. His cult of personality mesmerizes those who cannot go beyond their ignorance. They will continue to follow him like those fools who still praise Lenin and Stalin in Russia.  Obama's fools and Stalin's fools share the same drink of illusion. http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/19-11-2012/122849-obama_soviet_mistake-0/
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GOP warns of shutdown over filibuster

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/84195.html

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-Obama Donors Got $21,000 in Government Money for Every $1 They Gave
http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/obama-donors-got-21000-in-government-money-for-every-1-they-gave/

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How Obama’s FEMA Criminally Botched the Hurricane Recovery Effort    Obama’s win came in part because the media and a Springsteen-loving governor portrayed him as dedicated to relief for those hit by Hurricane Sandy. The reality however is that Obama made some routine photo op stops. FEMA, along with the Red Cross, failed abysmally at Hurricane Sandy relief efforts, and that story wasn’t told before the election because the people in a position to tell it had no power and the media wanted Obama to win. Afterward the story is slowly trickling out.  http://frontpagemag.com/2012/dgreenfield/how-obamas-fema-criminally-botched-the-hurricane-recovery-effort/
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From Afghanistan to the economy, the to-do list facing the president of the United States is extensive and overwhelming.Townhall breaks down the challenges Obama inherited ... from himself. townhall..com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2012/11/23/obama_discovers_inheriting_your_own_mess_is_hard
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President Obama's hyperactive regulators went on hiatus in 2011 to get through Election Day. Now with his second term secure, they're about to make up for lost time and then some.  The delay violates multiple federal laws and executive orders that require an agenda every six months, so we thought readers might like a rough guide to the regulatory flood that is about to roll through the economy.
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The security of national borders is an essential component of modern sovereignty, and all the more important in the age of terrorism. Getting the southern border under control should not be a bargaining chip but rather an end in itself—and a crucial one.  Our legal immigration system has grown aimless and counterproductive and is increasingly disconnected from both America’s economic interests and its -ideals. And although illegal immigration has slowed significantly in recent years (thanks to both a weaker economy and greater enforcement), truly stemming the flow and deciding how to address the 11 million who are here without legal permission is a daunting challenge.  http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/praise-half-measures_663835.html
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Why increasing unemployment aid is prolonging the recession. Redistribution is not free. Redistribution depresses employment, aggregate spending and GDP, by implicitly punishing the successful and implicitly rewarding the unsuccessful.  http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/doubt_of_the_benefit_t2et33QZLok2Q8iP4zJXQL

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No campaign is perfect, and there are plenty of things that the Romney campaign could have done better. But Mitt Romney chose the road less traveled, by addressing the entitlement state head-on. http://www.forbes.com/sites/aroy/2012/11/24/thanks-mitt-romney-for-campaigning-on-big-ideas/
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One of Cincinnati’s largest employers fired approximately 150 employees Wednesday for failing to get a required flu shot.
Read more: http://www.wlwt.com/news/local-news/cincinnati/TriHealth-fires-150-employees-for-not-getting-flu-shots/-/13549970/17523386/-/3khe3s/-/index.html#ixzz2DHx0mlUO
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Last week, the owner of an Arizona gun shop made national headlines after it was reported that he had posted a sign and taken out a full page ad in a local newspaper that banned Obama supporters from entering his store.  One week later, Cope Reynolds is cashing in on the attention. http://cnsnews.com/blog/gregory-gwyn-williams-jr/gun-store-owner-who-banned-obama-supporters-says-business-booming
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In 2010, President Barack Obama highlighted A123 Systems during a White House press conference saying, "This is what's possible in a green energy economy."
The president's words have been prophetic, but not in the way he envisioned. A123 Systems has become a study in government-subsidized failure.
A123 Systems, which has its headquarters in Massachusetts but extensive automotive operations in Michigan, has its own list of issues. And, like Solyndra, the Obama administration trumpeted A123s Michigan battery plant in Livonia as the future of the green economy.
Most recently, the Detroit Free Press reported that A123 Systems received $946,830 from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of its $249.1 million grant on the same day it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/17973
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This extensive government largess has produced a number of unintended -- though not necessarily unforeseeable -- negative consequences.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/approaching_crunch_time_on_the_student_loan_debacle.html#ixzz2DKpjBZlJ
For a number of years now, a number of critics of the American system of higher education have rightly insisted that there is a "bubble" in the system, with more and more students running up loans in amounts they will find difficult to pay back.  This bubble has been fueled by the federal government's lavish subsidization of the student loan program (which was nationalized four years ago), in a way similar to how the housing bubble was fueled by government agencies pushing subprime mortgages.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/approaching_crunch_time_on_the_student_loan_debacle.html#ixzz2DKpb1Kej
For a number of years now, a number of critics of the American system of higher education have rightly insisted that there is a "bubble" in the system, with more and more students running up loans in amounts they will find difficult to pay back.  This bubble has been fueled by the federal government's lavish subsidization of the student loan program (which was nationalized four years ago), in a way similar to how the housing bubble was fueled by government agencies pushing subprime mortgages.
This extensive government largess has produced a number of unintended -- though not necessarily unforeseeable -- negative consequences.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/approaching_crunch_time_on_the_student_loan_debacle.html#ixzz2DKpRHrhf
For a number of years now, a number of critics of the American system of higher education have rightly insisted that there is a "bubble" in the system, with more and more students running up loans in amounts they will find difficult to pay back.  This bubble has been fueled by the federal government's lavish subsidization of the student loan program (which was nationalized four years ago), in a way similar to how the housing bubble was fueled by government agencies pushing subprime mortgages.
This extensive government largess has produced a number of unintended -- though not necessarily unforeseeable -- negative consequences.


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/11/approaching_crunch_time_on_the_student_loan_debacle.html#ixzz2DKpRHrhf