Here is the new link for the purchase of my 28 page booklet: 
http://www.blurb.com/my/book/detail/4365072-i-m-proud-to-be-an-american

 

 I'm Proud to be an American, available for preview and purchase at http://www.blurb.com/b/4321763-i-m-proud-to-be-an-american
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So, Attorney General Eric Holder approved a search warrant targeting Fox News’s James Rosen for the crime of journalism with malice aforethought. Then the Justice Department shopped around for a judge who would keep the surveillance of professional and private e-mails secret. Then the department fought the public disclosure of the warrant since it wanted the flexibility to continue the investigation “for many years.” Then, according to Daniel Klaidman of the Daily Beast, Holder read the details of this operation in The Post over breakfast and the reality began to “fully sink in.” “Holder knew that Justice would be besieged by the twin leak probes,” Klaidman wrote, “but, according to aides, he was also beginning to feel a creeping sense of personal remorse

No, Holder’s signature is not ideology; it is incompetence. He has spent five years learning from mistakes. It has been an expensive education.

The review of Justice Department abuses relating to the press is being conducted by . . . Holder. A special counsel in this case would be appointed by . . . Holder. The FBI probe of the IRS scandal was ordered by . . . Holder. In all these cases, the restoration of public trust depends on an attorney general worthy of public trust.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/michael-gerson-eric-holders-tenure-marked-by-incompetence/2013/05/29/f570e7ba-c881-11e2-9245-773c0123c027_story.html

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A Justice Department official tells Playbook: “Attorney General Eric Holder will hold meetings with several Washington bureau chiefs of national news organizations in the next two days as part of the review of existing Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters. This review, which was A Justice Department official tells Playbook: “Attorney General Eric Holder will hold meetings with several Washington bureau chiefs of national news organizations in the next two days as part of the review of existing Justice Department guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters. This review, which was announced by President Obama last Thursday, is consistent with the Attorney General’s long standing belief that protecting and defending the First Amendment is essential to our democracy. [Now that's a good one!]  http://www.politico.com/playbook/

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Attorney General Eric Holder's plans to sit down with media representatives to discuss guidelines for handling investigations into leaks to the news media have run into trouble.

The Associated Press issued a statement Wednesday objecting to plans for the meetings to be off the record. "If it is not on the record, AP will not attend and instead will offer our views on how the regulations should be updated in an open letter," said Erin Madigan White, the AP's media relations manager.
The New York Times is taking the same position. "It isn't appropriate for us to attend an off-the-record meeting with the attorney general," executive editor Jill Abramson said in a statement.  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/29/holder-runs-into-roadblocks-on-off-the-record-meetings-on-leaks/

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DNC Communications Director: News
Organizations That Refuse Holder’s
Off-the-Record Meeting ‘Forfeit
Their Right to Gripe’  [Really?]
http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=737805

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Columnist Charles Krauthammer on the “O’Reilly Factor” Tuesday night said the “biggest scandal of all” regarding the Benghazi attacks on Sept. 11, 2012, has yet to emerge.

“I think there is a bigger story here, here’s the one that will in time come out,” Krauthammer said.  ”The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is: What was the president doing in those eight hours?” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/29/krauthammers-potentially-damaging-theory-benghazis-biggest-scandal-of-all-has-yet-to-be-uncovered-see-what-it-is/

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When the American mission in Benghazi, Libya was attacked on September 11th, 2012, only one person had the positional authority, legal mandate, and communications apparatus to give the order to defend our personnel on the ground: the President of the United States.

The President did not give that order, and four Americans died in Benghazi that day. All the rest of the nonsense to which we have been treated–from prepared talking points, congressional hearings, and finally to the outright lies–matter not when compared to the ignominious moments in which the President of the United States refused to do his job. http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/05/29/Blame-the-President-for-Benghazi

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Vandals have attacked two of Britain’s most celebrated war memorials, apparently daubing them with the word “Islam” and covering over inscriptions. The RAF Bomber Command War Memorial and the Animals in War  [Nothing to see here folks, what difference does it make?] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10082647/War-memorials-vandalised.html

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Osama Bin Laden 'blew himself up with suicide belt after Navy SEAL shot him in the thigh' claims terror leader's former bodyguard

• Nabeel Naeem Abdul Fattah said he'd not wanted to 'give himself up to US'
• He accused President Barack Obama of lying in his account of victory
• Claimed Bin Laden always wore explosive belt in last ten years of his life

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2332058/Osama-Bin-Laden-blew-suicide-belt-Navy-SEAL-shot-thigh-claims-terror-leaders-bodyguard.html#ixzz2UgIrG5fV
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Guantanamo guard converts to Islam, demands release of detainees Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gitmo-guard-converts-islam-demands-release-detainees-article-1.1357918#ixzz2Um9Jf0uI
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Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) appeared on Fox News Sunday to say he has no regrets about pushing the IRS to perform one of those very special conservatives-only audits upon Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS group.  He didn’t single them out because they’re political enemies, you see.  He just chose them for a bureaucratic beatdown because he thought they’d make a good example to all the other nonprofit organizations, liberal and conservative alike: http://www.humanevents.com/2013/05/28/senator-durbin-redefines-the-dated-first-amendment/
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IRS’s Shulman had more public White House visits than any cabinet member http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=737843
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Students at the University of Colorado – Boulder (UCB) signed an enormous thank you card to the Internal Revenue Service for its apparent harassment of conservative groups during the lead-up to President Obama’s reelection.

In the viral video, posted on YouTube Tuesday, conservative pundit Caleb Bonham asked students to sign the large card that read “Thank you IRS! Tea Party Deserves it!”

“I’m asking people if they want to sign my board thanking the IRS for targeting conservative tea party and religious organizations,” Bonham explained in the video.

Several students enthusiastically added signatures and personal messages.

“Yes, totally,” responded one student. “I read about that. I thought it was pretty funny that the IRS was doing the right thing but the wrong thing at the same time.”

“I love discrimination,” chimed in another student. http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4770

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There is a long history of complaints about czars by whichever party does not occupy the White House at the time, but the advisers have become a particular target of the right wing during the Obama administration, and the 11th-hour budget deal eliminated his health care, climate, urban affairs and auto-industry czars.

But on Friday night, Obama declared that he intends to ignore that part of the budget legislation, issuing a relatively rare "signing statement" after he inked the budget deal in which he argued that the legislative effort to eliminate those positions was an unconstitutional infringement on the executive branch.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/15/obama-czars-signing-statement_n_849963.html

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A New Kind of Problem: The Common Core Math Standards

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A set of guidelines adopted by 45 states this year may turn children into "little mathematicians" who don't know how to do actual math. 

They implemented Common Core this year in our school system in Tennessee. I have a third grader who loved math and got A's in math until this year, where he struggles to get a C. He struggles with "explaining" how he got his answer after using "mental math." In fact, I had no idea how to explain it! It's math 2+2=4. I can't explain it, it just is.

The second email came from a teacher in another state:

I am teaching the traditional algorithm this year to my third graders, but was told next year with Common Core I will not be allowed to. They should use mental math, and other strategies, to add. Crazy! I am so outraged that I have decided my child is NOT going to public schools until Common Core falls flat.

Let's look first at the 97 pages of what are called "Content Standards." Many of these standards require that students to be able to explain why a particular procedure works. It's not enough for a student to be able to divide one fraction by another. He or she must also "use the relationship between multiplication and division to explain that (2/3) ÷ (3/4) = 8/9, because 3/4 of 8/9 is 2/3."

It's an odd pedagogical agenda, based on a belief that conceptual understanding must come before practical skills can be mastered. As this thinking goes, students must be able to explain the "why" of a procedure. Otherwise, solving a math problem becomes a "mere calculation" and the student is viewed as not having true understanding. 

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/why-the-new-common-core-math-standards-dont-add-up/265444/
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Here is the correct book cover: 

My book is a simple but hard-hitting, 26 page booklet.

The following subjects are covered along with many photos: our Representative Republic, the three branches of government, the Bill of Rights, The Emancipation Proclamation and Republican efforts to end slavery and pass the Civil Rights Act, WWII and the Holocaust, American inventions, Obamacare and the Supreme Court decision, Common Core, UN Agenda 21, man made global warming and green energy, and basic Rules for Life. In short, it is what is good about America.  It is hard hitting, and not for those in elementary school.

 

 Well, the book's title has been changed to I'm Proud to be an American, available for preview and purchase at http://www.blurb.com/b/4321763-i-m-proud-to-be-an-american

Here is part of just one page in the book:
SOME THINGS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING THAT YOU PROBABLY  WON'T LEARN IN SCHOOL

1) Many scientists realize that Planet Earth has had many Ice Ages and Global Warming, every 10,000 years, during its 4.5 billion years of existence.  Since we have not been keeping track of weather for billions of years,  we cannot really say that what is happening now is anything new.  The scientists "fixed" their data by starting their study just when the Earth was finished with the last cold spell and was starting to warm up again.  The way a computer program is set up helps to get the results desired.  Man was not alive when the first global warming occurred, so he did not cause the global warming in the past, and may contribute very little to it now.   "You can't fool Mother Nature", meaning that warm and icy cycles are normal.  That's Mother Earth for you!  So don't be scared by what you might learn at school about it being all our fault.
2) These environmental laws might destroy our economy.
3) Windmills don't work when the wind stops, they kill many birds, they make people living nearby sick, they heat the ground and they create more greenhouse gases than they save.
4) Those fancy new lightbulbs that we are encouraged and forced to buy are actually dangerous.  You must stay 2-3 feet away from the bulb because being closer may damage your skin!  They contain mercury, so if a bulb breaks we must get out of the room in a hurry and have an expert come to clean it up, because mercury is dangerous.  Just think how these burned out bulbs will harm our landfills. 
5) Electric cars can only go 40 miles, and they pollute the Earth more while they are being produced than a gasoline-run car will during its lifetime.  The energy used to recharge the car adds more pollutants to our air than just driving a normal car.
6) An Ice Age may have actually begun.  Shhh!  Those who make money and tax you because of of Global Warming don't want you to know!
7) Ethanol is made of corn and soy beans.  Making us use Ethanol in our cars reduces the amount of corn we have to feed humans. Others in this World accuse us of starving their citizens because they now do not have enough food.  Destroying grasslands to plant more corn and soybeans destroys key breeding grounds for ducks and other wildlife and also puts more carbon into the air.  Massive amounts of water are used in the making of ethanol.
8) Government has mandated low-flow shower heads, and low water use by our toilets.  This causes us to take longer showers and to flush twice.
9) America has the largest reserves of gas and oil in the world.  Our President won't allow us to go get it.  So we buy our oil from our enemies, making them richer.
10) Surprise!  There are far more polar bears in Alaska now.  They just moved to a different location.  And the moose in Alaska love to hang out near the Alaska Pipeline, because it is a little warmer there.
11) Scientists have a reason to promote Manmade Global Warming, for they get millions of dollars in research funds to study it.  Nay-sayers get none.
12) In 2002, a room of the Smithsonian displayed one entire wall charting the cooling of our globe over the last 60 million years.  Science magazine in 1975 predicted  "a full-blown, 10,000 year ice age".
13) Stoking panic about warming helps get some politicians reelected.
14) Greenland, which might be warming a bit now, was once green!  Our planet MAY have a temperature increase of  .1%, if that.
15) China pollutes the planet so much that what little we can do makes almost no difference.
16) The scientific community manipulated data and destroyed evidence in order to "prove" themselves right, and this was dubbed the Climategate scandal.  Learn about it.
17) 30,000 scientists are considering suing Al Gore for fraud
18) An England high court  found 9 key scientific errors in Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth, and won't allow it to be shown in their schools without that fact being presented.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3310137/Al-Gores-nine-Inconvenient-Untruths.html
19) The Global Warming Policy Foundation recently wrote: ‘We could be in for a cooling period that lasts 200-250 years. The period of low solar activity could start in 2030-2040.’

Other than all this, you can believe everything you are taught....
Ask what caused the Earth to heat up and to cool down through the millenia when man was not here to make it happen.  Ask how animals have evolved in order to survive change.  Do question what you are taught in school, always!  Do your own research!  
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Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private emails, a law enforcement official told NBC News on Thursday.

I am troubled by the possibility that leak investigations may chill the investigative journalism that holds government accountable," Obama said. "Journalists should not be at legal risk for doing their jobs."  [Now that's a good one, Barack!  A LEADER would have told his minions to follow the law, and would have actually overseen the work ethics of the DOJ.]  http://openchannel.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/23/18451142-holder-okd-search-warrant-for-fox-news-reporters-private-emails-official-says?lite
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And then the news: “I have raised these issues with the attorney general, who shares my concern. So he has agreed to review existing Department of Justice guidelines governing investigations that involve reporters, and will convene a group of media organizations to hear their concerns as part of that review. And I have directed the attorney general to report back to me by July 12th.”  [So now the man who did the dirty deed and lied about that fact to Congress is going to investigate himself.  That ought to work well.  And its par for the course.] http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/obama-orders-doj-review-of-leak-investigations/
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“Look, I know a lot of you think I’m really busy and you don’t want to bother me,” the President reportedly told his staff in an Oval Office meeting. “But cc me anyway. It’s good for me to keep up on what’s going on around here.”

“It’s not good when I turn on the news and they’re talking about something at the White House and I’m like, whoa, when did that happen?” Mr. Obama added. “I think cc’ing me would go a long way toward fixing that.”

“Maybe put a Post-It note on your computer saying, ‘CC POTUS,’ so you don’t forget,” he said as the meeting broke up. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/05/obama-asks-staff-to-start-ccing-him-on-stuff.html

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“Why was the culture such under your watch that an employee felt comfortable targeting conservative groups?” Gowdy [continued asking Shulman]: “Did you investigate that?”

“From my reading of the report, um, I can’t tell if it was political motivation or if it was tone-deaf, somebody trying to expedite a way –” Shulman [of the IRS] started.

“You still don’t know that this was political?”

“Excuse me?”

“You still don’t know that this was political?”

“I defer to the inspector general.”

“Well, I’ll tell you this, Mister Shulman, your predecessor said that he wasn’t sure if it was partisan and that requires the listener to be as stupid as the speaker.” http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/05/22/the-tense-exchange-between-rep-trey-gowdy-and-the-former-irs-head-youve-been-waiting-for-and-it-doesnt-disappoint/

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Lois Lerner Sued Christian Coalition In Largest FEC Action in History – Then Was Promoted to IRS Where She Targeted Conservatives (Video)

Under the direction of Lois Lerner, the Federal Election Commission sued the Christian Coalition in the 1990s. She harassed the Christian Coalition for three election cycles. She lost her case. Lerner even asked one conservative during the case if Pat Robertson prayed over him. (Sound familiar?)

 http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/05/breaking-lois-lerner-sued-christian-coalition

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The IRS scandal provides Republicans and conservatives with the opportunity to repeal and replace Obamacare now. The House Republican majority should refuse to fund the expansion of the IRS necessary to manage Obamacare. Without that funding, and hiring thousands of additional agents, the IRS cannot even begin to manage Obamacare.

President Obama may throw a fit. He may refuse to sign funding bills to keep the federal government open. No matter. Let him close his government down if he wants. Nobody wants the IRS playing political games with their health care and health records, like it did with the constitutional rights to freedom of speech and Equal Protection of Tea Party and conservative organizations. Contribute to the Republican Party? Attend a Tea Party protest? Good luck getting your Obamacare health insurance tax credit application approved. Good luck finding a doctor the government will pay to do that operation your kid needs. http://spectator.org/archives/2013/05/22/time-to-go-for-the-kill

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Juan Williams: The Obama Administration Has Criminalized Journalism

[Does this mean, Juan, that your eyes are finally open?]
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nathan-roush/2013/05/21/juan-williams-obama-administration-has-criminalized-journalism#ixzz2U9qIEFBS
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If you know of an organization that believes it has been targeted by the I.R.S, please forward that information and all supporting material to my office in care of my Director of Public Affairs, Rusty Hills, at hillsr@michigan.gov so that we can provide this information to U.S. Representative Dave Camp, Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, for his review.

Sincerely,

Bill Schuette
Attorney General, Michigan

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Tennessee Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said today that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius may be breaking federal law by raising private [funds] to help implement the federal health care law and compared her actions to the Iran-Contra scandal.  http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2013/may/11/sebelius-fundraising-obamacare-may-be-illegal-alex/

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius was criticized last week for soliciting private contributions to Enroll America, a non-governmental organization run by former Obama campaign operatives.

The real monkey business is what the secretary is doing with taxpayers' money — pouring it into community organizations.

The pretext is that community organizations will do a better job than government employees in enrolling the uninsured in ObamaCare. But the likelihood is that these community organizations will steer the uninsured into the Democratic Party.

And beware. The Senate immigration bill tries to repeat this unsavory use of community organizations. It pays community organizations to educate immigrants about American civics and the path to citizenship.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-viewpoint/051513-655994-sebelius-pours-taxpayer-money-into-community-groups.htm#ixzz2TrbfnW
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Labor unions are breaking with President Obama on ObamaCare.

Months after the president’s reelection, a variety of unions are publicly balking at how the administration plans to implement the landmark law. They warn that unless there are changes, the results could be catastrophic.

Read more: http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/300881-labor-unions-break-ranks-on-health-law#ixzz2Tvgh5LGj -----------------------------------

Colorado Undersheriff: DHS told police to monitor “people who take The Bible literally”  http://www.glennbeck.com/2013/04/12/colorado-undersheriff-dhs-told-police-to-monitor-people-who-take-the-bible-literally/

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Yusuf Ibrahim, a Muslim man, targeted and murdered two Coptic Egyptian Christian men who lived and worked in New Jersey. He beheaded them and cut off their hands. [What?  YOu mean you have heard nothing about this?  You thought the LOndon beheading was the first?] http://www.westernjournalism.com/muslim-beheads-christians-in-nj-mainstream-media-silent/

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When Saudi Arabia announced three months ago that girls as young as 10-years old would now be allowed to marry, Iran decided to drop the age limit even further.

Iranian Christian news service Mohabat News reports a member of the Iranian Parliament (Majiles) Mohammad Ali Isfenani, "we must regard 9 as being the appropriate age for a girl to have reached puberty and qualified to get married. To do otherwise would be to contradict and challenge Islamic Sharia law."

Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/329317#ixzz2Tf4u13o8
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A new survey reveals the dramatically changing face of religion in America, with the number of Muslims in the U.S. soaring 67% in the decade since the 9/11 attacks.

Data released Tuesday from the 2010 U.S. Religion Census shows Islam was the fastest growing religion in America in the last 10 years, with 2.6 million living in the U.S. today, up from 1 million in 2000.

Mormonism too saw remarkable growth, with a 45% increase in adherents. It added nearly 2 million members since 2000, bringing their number in the U.S. to 6.1 million.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/number-muslims-u-s-doubles-9-11-article-1.1071895#ixzz2Tg6QAAdf
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                                           KEYSTONE PIPELINE

House Passes GOP Bill To Bypass President To Speed Approval Of Keystone XL Oil Pipeline  http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/05/23/house-passes-gop-bill-to-bypass-president-to-speed-approval-of-keystone-xl-oil-pipeline/

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Barack Obama and his Culture of Corruption

Our President stated while campaigning, “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us”, and “voting is your best revenge”.  The culture of Barack Hussein Obama’s Administration was so well laid out with these directives that they are being faithfully executed without his even having to ask for them to be.

   Barack Obama pledged that “transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.”  With all due disrespect to Nancy Pelosi, I am also recalling that she declared  that Republicans in Congress at one time were plagued by a “culture of corruption at the expense of the American people.” 

   President Barack Hussein Obama and his “culture of corruption” have exceeded even that of the Nixon Administration.  It is fascinating that the media, who have covered for his every misstep and made excuses for every instance in which he has thwarted both Congress and the Constitution, should all of a sudden wake up and complain, because this time it is they who have been wronged when the Department of Justice wiretapped the phones of the AP.  That changes everything.  Now they are angry and seem to be more ready to actually investigate instead of just repeating everything they are told by a classic prevaricator.  As pastor Martin Niemöller said, in part, in the time of Germany’s takeover by Hitler, (and no, I am not accusing Obama of genocide): 

“First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.”

   Our President grew up being indoctrinated in the belief that America is not a good country.  He says of his time in Indonesia where he studied the Koran, “I was a little Jakarta street kid.”  He has exclaimed that the sound of the Islamic Call to Prayer is “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”  It is certain that he was not taught to love America while being educated in an Infidel-hating country and culture.  

   When back in America he admittedly chose his friends in college by picking out the most radical ones; he spent decades attending the church of a man who famously preached "God d___ America!", saying after 9/11 that our "chickens had come home to roost"; and he befriended a Weather Underground member, Bill Ayers, who bombed public buildings to protest the Viet Nam War.  He worked as a Community Organizer, using Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

   Once elected President, he appointed a long list of his radical friends to recognized government posts including the Cabinet.  He also appointed many of them as his Czars, who are not authorized nor overseen by Congress.  In those positions they wrote many new rules and regulations, many against the direct votes of Congress.  They were following in the footsteps of their leader, who has repeatedly countermanded the votes of Congress by writing his many Executive Orders.

   It has become believable that our President, having placed his appropriately radical friends in powerful positions, did not need to be told of everything they do.  In fact he didn’t want to know what they were doing.  What better way to be able to say, “I don’t know anything about that!”  That he tells bald-faced lies to defend his own actions has been repeatedly proven.  It’s as if he doesn’t know that audio and video of his speeches exist. This same President who recently told The Ohio State University graduates that they should reject those who warn of government tyranny is now embroiled in actions which can only be described as government tyranny.  Our government is attempting to intimidate those of us who do not agree with the agenda of Barack Obama.  The very definition of tyranny is absolute power, and this President is attempting to have it, going so far as to lament that he is being restrained by the Constitution.

   The list of scandals about which Barack Obama is defending himself include but are not limited to:

1) “Fast and Furious”, the gun-running program allowing American guns into Mexico and then losing track of the weapons

2) His secret and personally chosen enemy kill lists

3) The power to indefinitely detain any American he chooses to detain, directly against our Constitution

4) The 4 Benghazi deaths and the “stand down” order given, while falsely blaming an American’s video.  Obama’s recent release of “all” emails regarding this subject omitted the emails of the first two days immediately following the deaths in Benghazi. We still do not know what Barack Obama was doing after Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta were told by him to do what needed to be done.

5)  The newly admitted IRS scandal of targeting conservative organizations and the leaking of that private information to the media for their use.  This went so far in one case as to demand that a conservative group who trains high school and college students, Lynchpins of Liberty, to divulge the name of every single young person whom they trained.  And now our President is threatening any critics in Congress to “treat (the IRS) with the responsibility it deserves and in a way that doesn’t smack of politics or partisan agendas.” Now that’s funny!  Add to this intimidation the fact that it is the all-powerful IRS who will monitor us and tax us on Obamacare.  The IRS is currently defending a class action lawsuit from companies which claim that the IRS stole more than 60 million medical records of more than 10 million Americans.

6) And last but not least is the newest scandal - the DOJ tapping the phones of AP reporters, and allegedly the phones in our House of Representatives' cloak room as well.

   All of this can be expected when a President so carefully chooses his Administration members that he does not have to lead them at all.   He just lets them do what he knows they will do, and he can thus try to keep his hands clean.   He is either lying again, he is an Empty Suit, or he is unwilling, uninterested or unable to actually control his own Administration. 

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Rerunning a still relevant column from January 2010

   To the Petoskey News Review:  The recent Guest Commentary by your former Editor Kendall Stanley begs for a response from a conservative who believes in the following statement by President Gerald Ford:  "A government big enough to give you everything you need is big enough to take from you everything you have".  Stanley offends conservatives by saying that "Republicans have shown us they don't care about health care and there is nothing to be gained by even attempting to reform the system".  His insinuation that those who don't believe that Universal Health Care is the answer are somehow deficient in either intellect or humanity, or both, is offensive.  After eliminating illegal aliens, those who turn down employer offered insurance and those who have failed to enroll in Medicaid and S Chip, we come to a more reasonable number needing government aid, and they could receive health care in free clinics and emergency rooms across this land. Care, not insurance, is key. The notion that this health care bill will still fail to cover 10 million people while controlling the health care policies and care of ALL Americans is proof enough that this is about more than health care.  It is about an ever-expanding and controlling government which results in the loss of liberty for Americans. 

   The idea that Republicans are so morally challenged that they should be excluded even from the debate and legislation which affects 16% of our economy defies the fact that Congress works for ALL the people, not just for those who currently hold the majority. In a Constitutional Republic, the majority does not rule as a Dictator does.  85% of Americans actually like their current health care plans, and 61% are not in favor of Obamacare.  Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are rife with fraud. Fixing these problems would require no new laws.  We may like our current Medicare, but it, like Medicaid and Social Security, is nearly bankrupt.

   Speaking about the expense of the bill is no “guise. We will be taxed for 4 years prior to receiving any benefits, while continuing to pay for our current insurance. Who could believe that this proposed bill can insure up to 30 million more citizens with apparently no additional cost?  Another section of the bill calls for 111 new government agencies, for which we will have to pay for office space, salaries, and pensions.

   As to the stated “guise” of “death panels”, Sarah Palin referred to certain sections of the legislation as such to bring attention to the probable results of the bill.   The Comparative Effectiveness Research “panel”, for instance, will decide which medical care is worthy of coverage. Dr. Ekzekiel Emanuel, Obama’s  health care adviser, has pertinent beliefs, giving us insight into what Obama has in mind with this bill. Emanuel has said: "Doctors take the Hippocratic Oath too seriously".  And, "The youngest and oldest of us with poor prognoses should have their chances at further life attenuated (weakened)".  As Obama has coached us, “Don’t tell me words don’t matter.  Just words…”  Death Panel as a euphemism for the lack of good care is one that can be demonstrated by the facts.

   Obamacare is steering care away from private insurers toward government control.  Obama's promise that we would be able to keep our current insurance was perhaps true - until and unless we get a new job.  At that time we will be forced onto the government plan.  Meanwhile many employers are refusing to employ more than 50 people, just to avoid the government penalty of not providing insurance, while other companies are deciding to drop their insurance in favor of paying the fines instead.  I ask again just why, if health CARE is the goal, that Obama did not declare that government will provide for the care or insurance of those who are NOT currently covered. Of course, the answer is that Barack Obama and his Progressives want to have the control over Americans.

   Cuts of $400 billion are recommended for Medicare, producing several results: some doctors will retire or stop seeing Medicare patients because of the reductions in reimbursements for their services. Some hospitals, especially those in small communities such as ours, will be most vulnerable to cuts in payments.  This could certainly ration care for us all.

     To say that Republicans don’t favor malpractice suits is outrageous, nearly libelous, and patently ignorant of the facts.

   Rarely have I seen such a biased, derogatory and factually compromised opinion as this one. Words do matter, indeed.

Conservative Corner returns for one day!

I continue to learn the news for myself, and as usual I like to keep track of the patterns and actions of this Administration over time.  With that in mind, I wrote the following well researched column.  It always amazes me as to how much this President is trying to do to America. - Conservative Corner

Observations of Obama and Democrats in Congress since his reelection:

1)      President Obama touted Obamacare as the cure for some “folks” not having health insurance.  In truth, it is fraught with problems, including the recently learned fact that due to a “glitch”, many families who can't afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the job will not be able to get financial assistance from the government to buy private health insurance on their own. In addition about 7 million Americans will just lose their employer-provided insurance.  Unions which back Obama are now surprised to learn that new health care premiums are surprisingly high.  Our government is having trouble finding people who will agree to sit on the 15-member Death Panels mandated by Obamacare.  Who would want to be underpaid to have their names on the regulations that ration care?  ​The law states that taxpayer-financed subsidies can only be funneled through state-based exchanges, and not through federal ones. Since 26 states have refused to create the health care exchanges upon which the whole law depends, the whole law is in trouble. 

2)      President Obama formed his Jobs Council so that he could look so caring and so involved in job creation during the election cycle.  He has now disbanded the Jobs Council after having met with them only once in the last year, even though unemployment remains high (youth unemployment is 13%) and economic activity is so low as to have some predicting a double-dip recession.  As companies either reduce employees’ hours to part time, or only hire part time workers in order to avoid the Obamacare tax, employees are being harmed and our President will once again pretend to care.  He does, however, continue to expand the number of government jobs.

3)      In the recent fiscal cliff deal, Obama crowed that he got the Republicans to back down by raising the amount Americans can earn without being “evil” from $250,000 to $400,000.  He thereby got a lot more money to spend without having to outline proposed budget cuts or passing a budget.  He seems not to have noticed the Republican victory: the “evil” Bush Tax Cuts are now permanent for 99% of Americans. 

4)      During his first month in office in 2009, Obama signed an Executive Order to close Gitmo within one year.  Following his reelection, he has closed the office which was tasked to close the prison down.

5)      President Obama hid from us one of the first items on his agenda if he were to be reelected: gun control.  His approach, however, will not keep guns from the hands of criminals, but will infringe on the Constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans.  As former Detroit News columnist Bill Johnson wrote, “The unintended consequences of weapon-control requirements could actually trigger a reduction in registrations and increase guns purchased via the underground market. They would not affect the criminal use of guns, or the ability of the criminally insane to get their hands on a weapon of their choice. 

      6)      During his gun control speech, Obama said that if it keeps just one child from dying, gun control is             necessary, that it is the number one duty of a President to protect children.  We should ask, however, why it is not his duty then to prevent the killing of hundreds of thousands of children via abortion.  He defends the practice of partial birth abortions, as well as letting those children who survive abortion attempts to just be put in a hospital closet and left to die, as his votes as an Illinois Senator prove.  I will add that it is my understanding that the first job of a President is to keep America safe from its enemies. 

7)      This President also hid from us the fact that one of his first orders of business would be to attack Global Warming as manmade, in spite of there having been warming cycles every 10,000 years during our planet’s history.  Democrats on the Capitol Hill Climate Task Force are asking more than 300 companies, including the NFL, Wal-Mart, and the NBA, to submit suggestions for federal actions.  At the same time, the UN has admitted that solar flares are responsible for much of global warming, while much of the scare tactics employed by Obama just simply are not true, including that  wild fires and hurricanes are more prevalent over the last decades.  Currently Obama is proposing to approve the Keystone Pipeline, but only in exchange for Cap and Trade taxation and fees.

8)      While spouting that Border Control is of utmost importance, President Obama will on March 15 shut down the Air Force’s Air Defense Radar Systems along the U.S./Mexico border, leaving it more vulnerable to attacks from low flying aircraft and low altitude missiles.  This move comes months after his Executive Order which provided amnesty to millions of illegals, in direct conflict with the vote of  Congress.

9)      During the debates and his campaign, Obama and Democrats pictured the good and decent Mitt Romney as the devil, the filthy rich jobs killer who enabled the death of a woman with cancer.  As it turns out, a “filthy rich” man was just named by him to be Secretary of State, John Kerry.  Another “filthy rich” man, Jack Lew, was named by him to be Secretary of the Treasury despite the fact that he has bank accounts in the Caymans, just as the evil Mitt Romney does.  The jobs Romney “killed” allowed many thousands more to keep their jobs via his Bain Capital investments.  While earning money in America never before was evil, it is now evil when done by the “wrong” people.  Consider the irony of the Democrats sharing a $40,000 per plate dinner hosted by George Clooney to castigate the evil rich Republicans!  During the campaign Romney divulged that GM, which we bailed out, was to be exporting many of its jobs to China.  Obama in effect called him a liar.  Two months later, it is now public knowledge that GM is outsourcing many jobs to China.   Obama’s second largest raiser of funds is the CEO of a company much like Bain - Ariel Capital Management, which owns a large stake in Accenture, which is the nation’s best outsourcer.

10)  President Obama, who made radical union-loving appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while Congress was still in session, has just been told by a Federal judge that those actions were unconstitutional.  He is ignoring the edict, of course.  In jeopardy are not only those people appointed, but the hundreds of regulations they have passed which benefit the unions in America.  Many lawsuits, for which we the people will pay, will ensue.

11)  President Obama has championed the cause of Muslims while in office. Just this week he and the Democrat Senate approved the sale of F-16 fighter jets, along with the scientific technology inherent in them, to our enemies – the Muslim Brotherhood which largely controls Egypt.  This puts the Jews in Israel in much more danger of being annihilated, as Ahmadinajad and other Muslims consistently pledge to do.

12)  Federal agencies are required in April and October to release an accounting of proposed legislation which will have a significant economic impact.  This President’s administration did not do this until late in December, 2012, thereby hiding from voters what he intended to do.

13)  Avoiding disclosure prior to the election, while the law requires a budget to be passed each year, no budget has been passed for three years, because the budget choices in it might have diminished Obama’s and Democrats’ reelection chances.

14)   On January 31, 2012, the White House declared that they would now allow non-profit organizations like churches to NOT provide birth control against their religious beliefs.  In a move that will fool few people, our government said that the churches will buy the insurance policies and it will be the insurance companies which will provide birth control, not the churches.  What?  This new edict leaves out the companies owned by Christians, like Hobby Lobby, having to provide coverage or face $1.3 million a day in fines.  Lawsuits are proceeding, probably going to the Supreme Court.

15)   President Obama has declared that it is ethical and moral for him to have a kill list which includes American citizens, with absolutely no oversight.  While his American targets who have become enemy combatants should have no protection from our Constitution, neither should the enemy terrorists who are not American citizens, but that is not how Obama see it.  Beyond that, he believes that Congress has no right to approve or judge his decision-making process.  Obama condemned in the strongest language the “enhanced interrogation” techniques used at Gitmo, but then declared it is moral to instead just kill possible terrorists without having the chance to gain information from them.  

16)  The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects us against unreasonable government searches and seizures. However, now within 100 miles of the U.S. border the U.S. government can take an electronic device, search through all the files, and keep it for a while for further scrutiny – without any suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever.  As described on Electron Frontier Foundation:  “for doctors, lawyers, and many business professionals, these border searches can compromise the privacy of sensitive professional information, including trade secrets, attorney-client and doctor-patient communications, research and business strategies, some of which a traveler has legal and contractual obligations to protect. For the rest of us, searches that can reach our personal correspondence, health information, and financial records are reasonably viewed as an affront to privacy and dignity and inconsistent with the values of a free society.”

17)   A further reach into the right to privacy of Americans, the Obamacare regulation which encourages our doctors to be able to even ask us if we have a gun in our house, will allow our government to put that information into their data base, assisting in this case Barack Obama to add to what Representative Maxine Waters describes as “an organization that contains the kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life.  That's going to be very, very powerful.” At this time many school systems are adding the gun question to student surveys.  We should warn our children not to answer that question.

18)  Barack Obama has now declared that it is the duty of Americans, the “evil rich” to provide for everyone not just a home, but a safe place to live.  He says we don’t have a spending problem, we have a revenue problem. Federal agencies shall adopt a consensus on the basic concept of a healthy home: “building off eight characteristics, including dry, clean, pest free, safe, contaminant free, well ventilated, and well maintained and thermally controlled – and encourage adoption of this consensus across federal agencies, tribal governments, state and local governments, and non-governmental organizations.”  The evil rich are not through paying.  It is only FAIR, don’t you know.
19) Just this week Obama also declared that every 4 year old should have free daycare, even though the statistics prove that Head Start has really not done much good.  But so  what?  It is just the money of the evil rich which will pay for it.  It's that income redistribution, and fundamentally changing America agenda.

Today I bid you all farewell, not with news of the day, which I hope you will get each day from http://elephantstrunkandmore.blogspot.com/, but with a rerunning of a column I wrote for the Boyne City Gazette in June of 2011.  It describes the Cloward and Piven Strategy.  It is my hope that more Americans will bother to learn about this strategy now that we can more easily see that its principles are being accomplished.  It is important to the future of our country to understand what is happening before our very eyes.

Never give up the fight for America and her best ideals.  Perhaps the ways of our President will show its full measure of harm to us quickly in this term so that we will once again be eager for a change in 2014 and 2016.  Perhaps the unengaged and uninformed conservatives will finally rise up.  Putting us back together again will be a long and difficult endeavor.  

Thank you all for staying with me these 4 1/2 years.  I hope I have made a difference.  You may see some of my writings at the above mentioned site in the future.  God bless you all, and may God bless America.

  In the 1960s, two radical Columbia University professors, Cloward and Piven, wrote the The Cloward and Piven Strategy, detailing how to force “political change through orchestrated crisis, seeking to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, stressing the system, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.”

   The welfare system was the first target of the Cloward and Piven strategy, using violent demonstrations to achieve desired results. In NYC one of every three people ended up on the welfare rolls, sending the city into bankruptcy and turning welfare from a limited-time expectancy into a lifetime entitlement. The drain on local resources persists indefinitely, just as planned.

 In 1970 ACORN was established – the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, which has been responsible for widespread criminal activity countrywide.  As divulged by Townhall, they successfully used the following Cloward-Piven Strategy to get more Democrat voters:

 1. Register as many Democrat voters as possible, legal or otherwise, and help them vote, multiple times if possible.

2. Overwhelm the system with fraudulent registrations using multiple entries of the same name, names of deceased, random names from the phone book, even contrived names.

3. Make the system difficult to police by lobbying for minimal identification standards.

   Rules for Radicals, written by Saul Alinsky in 1989, became the go-to book for those interested in fomenting progressive revolution. With the intent to create a crisis, it was suggested: "Pick the Target, Freeze It, Personalize It, Polarize it."  Remember these rules while reading current events.

   
   Then along came Barack Hussein Obama, almost out of nowhere. Having been deeply influenced in childhood by his mentor (self-proclaimed Communist Frank Marshall Davis);  employed as a community organizer and attorney for ACORN; befriending unrepentant, bomb-throwing Weather Underground's Bill Ayers; and maturing in the thugocracy which is Chicago politics, Obama was uniquely qualified to sell his Hope and Change mantra.  Who could be against that? Those interested in reading the full story can go to: http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html 

   "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1989 book Rules for Radicals. “When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.”

   Obama openly campaigned for “fundamental change” for America, and Michelle Obama proclaimed: “Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation."  I agree with the President that words, indeed, do matter.  Our country is being fundamentally changed as promised: bail-outs; government take-over of private companies; the breaking of legal contracts; stimulus spending mostly on government jobs; an increasing social and socialist agenda in our schools; wildly unpopular government healthcare; Obamacare waivers to many unions; and unemployment compensation now reaching almost two years; higher taxes on the horizon; promotion of amnesty for illegal aliens before border security; federal lawsuits against states; dropping prosecution of blatant Black Panther intimidation at voting centers; and tasking NASA to make Muslims feel better about their historic contribution to science, among others. 

   We must also remember that Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's Chief-of-Staff, once declared that Rule #1 is to "never let a serious crisis go to waste."

    It really doesn't matter if this is coincidental - or if it demonstrates the above strategies in action.  Either way, our country is in great crisis!  The Socialists are openly demonstrating at various protests in America, for they believe that this is their time.  Only we can save our Republic – by educating ourselves, exercising our rights as citizens, and supporting those who believe in American greatness.

http://rense.com/general81/ligun.htm

* In 1929, the Soviet Union established gun control. From 1929 to 1953, about 20 million dissidents, unable to

defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated. This doesn't include the 30 million 'Uncle Joe' starved to

death in the Ukraine.


* In 1911, Turkey established gun control. From 1915 to 1917, 1.5 million Armenians, unable to defend 

themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Germany established gun control in 1938 and from 1939 to 1945, leaving a populace unable to defend itself 

against the Gestapo and SS. Hundreds of thousands died as a result.


* China established gun control in 1935. From 1948 to 1952, 20 million political dissidents, unable to defend

 themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Guatemala established gun control in 1964. From 1964 to 1981, 100,000 Mayan Indians, unable to defend 

themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Uganda established gun control in 1970. From 1971 to 1979, 300,000 Christians, unable to defend themselves

 were rounded up and exterminated. The total dead are said to be 2-3 million


* Cambodia established gun control in 1956. From 1975 to 1977, 1-2 million 'educated' people, unable to 

defend themselves, were rounded up and exterminated.

* Defenseless people rounded up and exterminated in the 20th Century because of gun control: 56 million at a

bare minimum.

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Gun Control & Genocide http://www.mercyseat.net/gun_genocide.html

Down through history, governments have disarmed their citizens only to tyrannize those citizens once they were disarmed.

The following chart documents just a few examples from recent history where "gun control" laws were enacted and then tyranny by the government proceeded.

*Click on a country in the chart in order to learn about what occurred in that country.
GOVERNMENT GENOCIDE CAMPAIGNS AND THE
"GUN CONTROL" LAWS THAT HELPED SLAUGHTER 56 MILLION PEOPLE

PERPETRATOR GOVERNMENT	DATE	TARGET	# MURDERED (ESTIMATED)	DATE OF GUN CONTROL LAW	SOURCE DOCUMENT
Ottoman Turkey	1915-1917	Armenians	1-1.5 million	1886-1911	Art. 166, Penal Code Art. 166 Penal Code
Soviet Union*	1929-1953	Anti-Communists / Anti-Stalinists	20 million	1929	Art. 182 Penal Code
Nazi Germany** & Occupied Europe	1933-1945	Jews, Gypsies, Anti-Nazis	13 million	1928-1938	Law on Firearms & Ammunition, April 12 Weapons Law, March 18
China*	1949-1952 1957-1960 1966-1976	Anti- Communists Rural Populations Pro-Reform Grou	20 million	1935-1957	Arts. 186-7, Penal Code Art. 9, Security Law, Oct. 22
Guatemala	1960-1981	Maya Indians	100,000	1871-1964	Decree 36, Nov 25 Decree 283, Oct 27
Uganda	1971-1979	Christians Political Rivals	300,000	1955-1970	Firearms Ordinance Firearms Act
Cambodia	1975-1979	Educated Persons	1 million	1956	Arts. 322-8, Penal Code

* The law(s) mentioned are part of an older/or wider body of law on and regulation of private firearms ownership ** For a complete translation of these laws, including regulations specifically banning Jews from owning any weapons and a side-by-side comparison of the Nazi Weapons Law with the U.S. Gun Control Act of 1968, see "Gun Control": Gateway to Tyranny, J.E. Simkin & A. Zelman, 1992; available from JPFO