When Dictatorships Thrive; Earmarks Good for Reid; Some States to Demand Proof of Eligibility Prior to Putting Candidates on Ballot; The Blessing of Self Government; Opps! He Misspoke on Obama's Birth Certificate; Kiss Your Charitable Donation Tax Break Good-bye; A Presidency to Nowhere

El Universal out of Caracas wrote: Any Venezuelans who believe that President Hugo Chávez has committed a crime and resort to the Attorney General Office to seek prosecution of the Venezuelan president will go from complainant to defendant, as provided for in two judgments issued by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice (TSJ).
The Supreme Tribunal of Justice authorized the Public Prosecution Office, led by Luisa Ortega Díaz, to dismiss two cases filed by Henry Ramos Allup and Rafael Marín, two leaders of Venezuelan opposition party Acción Democrática (Democratic Action); and by retired Navy Vice Admiral Iván Carratú and retired Colonel Pedro Soto against Chávez. Additionally, the top court "instructed" the Public Prosecution Office to "initiate a criminal investigation against the complainants." http://english.eluniversal.com/2011/01/20/en_pol_esp_anyone-accusing-chav_20A5014571.shtml
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ABC News writes: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told ABC News that earmarks will return to Capitol Hill despite President Obama's vow in last night's State of the Union to veto any spending bill that includes them. In an interview with ABC's Jonathan Karl, Reid launched a vigorous defense of pork, the pet projects that members of Congress insert into bills to benefit their home states. "I think it's taking power away from the legislative branch of government and giving it to the executive branch of government," Reid said of the president's plan. http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/state-union-backlash-harry-reid-earmarks-continue-health-care-repeal/story?id=12768086

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World Net Daily reveals: It could be a game-changer.
A plan in Arizona to require presidential candidates to prove their eligibility to occupy the Oval Office is approaching critical mass, even though it has just been introduced.
Within ten days after submittal of the names of the candidates, the national political party committee shall submit an affidavit of the presidential candidate in which the presidential candidate states the candidate's citizenship and age and shall append to the affidavit documents that prove that the candidate is a natural born citizen, prove the candidate's age and prove that the candidate meets the residency requirements for President of the United States as prescribed in article II, section 1, Constitution of the United States.

Read more: Game-changer! Arizona to pass 2012 eligibility law http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=255489#ixzz1C906iOnJ

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WTMJ4 of Milwaukee reported on Rand Paul's speech following the SOTU:  "There is no doubt the President came into office facing a severe fiscal and economic situation.
Unfortunately, instead of restoring the fundamentals of economic growth, he engaged in a stimulus spending spree that not only failed to deliver on its promise to create jobs, but also plunged us even deeper into debt.
The facts are clear: Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25% for domestic government agencies – an 84% increase when you include the failed stimulus. 
All of this new government spending was sold as “investment.”  Yet after two years, the unemployment rate remains above 9% and government has added over $3 trillion to our debt.
Then the President and his party made matters even worse, by creating a new open-ended health care entitlement.
So I’d like to share with you the principles that guide us.  They are anchored in the wisdom of the founders; in the spirit of the Declaration of Independence; and in the words of the American Constitution.
They have to do with the importance of limited government; and with the blessing of self-government.  [We Americans must be vigilant in order to keep it.]
http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/114634379.html
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USNews writes: President Obama's agenda spelled out in his well-received State of the Union address would boost spending an additional $20 billion and lead to higher taxes, according to a line-by-line analysis from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. [See photos of the Obamas behind the scenes.]  http://www.usnews.com/news/washington-whispers/articles/2011/01/26/obamas-plan-would-cost-another-20-billion
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Fox New reports: A celebrity journalist now claims he misspoke when he said last week that Hawaii’s governor told him he was unable to find President Barack Obama’s original birth certificate after a search of state and hospital archives.

Mike Evans told FoxNews.com on Wednesday he was remorseful and embarrassed that he appeared to have given the impression that he had discussed the search for Obama’s birth certificate with Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie. [For the record, he "appeared to have given the impression" by forthrightly saying he had been told.  Funny how that works.  And no one should be surprised that "someone" forced him to change his statement when our government is filled with Chicago thugs who know how to get the job done.]

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/26/celebrity-journalist-says-he-never-talked-hawaii-governor-obama-birth/#ixzz1CEsIQNt4

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy writes: A high-level committee that offered a plan for reducing the federal government's debt today issued a proposal that would radically change the way the tax code treats charitable gifts.
The proposal would essentially eliminate the charitable tax deduction.
In its place, all donations made by federal taxpayers would qualify for a 15-percent tax credit. But instead of that credit going to the taxpayer, it would be given to the charity receiving the donation in the form of a matching grant from the Internal Revenue Service.  [So, we generous Americans will cease to donate and then the government will become the distributor of our tax dollars to charity.  Aren't we in debt already?] http://philanthropy.com/article/Deficit-Plan-Would-Eliminate/125420/
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A Presidency to Nowhere - Dan Henninger of the Wall Street Journal: 

No president before Barack Obama has been so right and so wrong. When in his State of the Union speech Mr. Obama said, "This is our generation's Sputnik moment," citing the emergence of global competition from the likes of China and India, he was right. Minutes later he proposed to cover the country with high-speed rail and companies making solar shingles. High-speed rail and solar shingles? If that's the president's idea of meeting our Sputnik moment, then Houston, we have a problem. About halfway into the speech, I began to wonder: What is John Boehner thinking? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703293204576106234062909502.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion
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State of the Union Address;Government by Executive Order; "The" Austerity Committee; Democrats Want New Rule to Decide Who is Subpoened; Defunding the UN Relief Agency; Cass Sunstein Subpoened

[I admit to not being able to watch our President's address to the nation.  So I include here the thoughts of some dependable news outlets who have commented on the speech.  I quote foreign papers because we were assured that the world would love our new President.]
The UK Telegraph wrote: Tonight’s remarkably dull State of the Union address was dominated by President Obama’s heavily flawed vision for reviving the American economy, with plans that remain overwhelmingly mired in an outdated Big Government mentality, and which spectacularly failed to include a coherent strategy for eliminating America’s massive $14 trillion debt.
But the State of the Union is also traditionally a major opportunity to project US leadership on the world stage, and once again Obama has fallen short.
In 2010 I gave the president an F for the foreign policy section of his lacklustre first State of the Union address. His 2011 address was certainly no better. For the second year running, President Obama has demonstrated that he is no world leader, and frankly has little interest at all in foreign policy.

A newly created Superintendence of Costs and Prices seeks to control the profits of private companies, said Noel Álvarez, the president of the Venezuelan Federation of Trade and Industry Chambers (Fedecámaras), Venezuela's main business association. "It appears that the only goal of this agency is to control corporate profits and prices of goods and services," the business leader added. http://usa-presidents.org/barack-obama-news/state-of-the-union-2011-barack-obama-gets-another-f-as-a-world-leader-telegraph-co-uk-blog
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Fox News wrote about some of his statements, among other things: 

His most hypocritical: "Thanks to the tax cuts we passed, Americans’ paychecks are a little bigger today."

These were tax cuts he opposed up until the very final moment when it became clear he had no real choice but to pass, largely because of an informed electorate. But the truth was he had desired to eliminate those cuts since his days on the campaign trail.

His most ridiculous: "This is our generation’s Sputnik moment."

This analogy was bad from the start. "Sputnik" was the failed first effort of the Soviets. Americans should not, and will not want a 'Sputnik moment'."

His most tired: "We’ll invest in... especially clean energy technology"

Will he relaunch a cap-and-trade pursuit? It appears as though these types of ideas were roundly defeated in November.

His most dishonest: "We passed reform that finally prevents the health insurance industry from exploiting patients."

His first promise he will likely break: "If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it."

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/01/25/surprising-ridiculous-moment-review-obamas-state-union-speech/?cmpid=cmty_email_From_the_Most_Surprising_to_the_Most_Ridiculous_Moment_--_A_Review_of_Obama%27s_State_of_the_Union_Speech 
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JewishWorldReview writes: What a bother having to deal with Congress, public opinion, elections, the whole complicated web that the Founders in their antiquated vocabulary referred to as the consent of the governed.
How much simpler to pass your own laws. Just call them executive orders or administrative rules, official regulations, whatever designation applies. Hesto, presto, a provision nixed after long hours of tedious debate and much public furor can be enacted by arbitrary decree. It's so much quicker that way, and nobody needs to know. At least till the public wakes up.
In place of the messy, unpredictable democratic process, let an expert make the decisions. No fuss, no muss, no votes, not even a discussion. Just a decision. Problem solved. There, see how easy that was? Who needs all those old checks and balances, anyway? They just get in the way and upset people. Knowing what's going on so often does. http://www.jewishworldreview.com/cols/greenberg012111.php3?printer_friendly
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Fred Barnes writes: This [the House Energy and Commerce Committee] will be the austerity committee in the House of Representatives. .  .  .Said Michigan's Fred Upton: " If you want to spend money on an entitlement, you need to pay for it with a mandatory spending reduction. .  .  . You may have a great idea for a new program. That’s fine. Just tell us how you will pay for it by reducing spending.
"The committee will no longer consider bills that authorize spending of “such sums as may be necessary.” [With that] we simply cede discretion to the appropriators. Well, no more. .  .  . Every program the committee authorizes or reauthorizes must have a sunset.
"The committee will no longer consider commemorative legislation. We all support motherhood and apple pie and successful collegiate sports teams. I would submit that none of us needs a congressional resolution to prove it. We as members and our staffs have bigger and better things to do." Upton, 57, first elected to the House in 1986, has morphed into a ferocious conservative reformer with his selection as a committee chairman.
Which leads us to the Republican hearings strategy. It elevates the role of House committees and makes their public hearings the chief vehicle for attracting attention to the wrongheadedness of Obama’s policies and—to a lesser extent, I suspect—the virtues of Republican alternatives. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/dock_536870.html
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The Daily Caller writes: Top GOP oversight official Rep. Darrell Issa is responding forcefully to a push by his foil on the House oversight committee to give Democrats input on which congressional subpoenas he issues, including the ability to force a committee vote on subpoenas. Issa’s saying the proposal would grant Democrats “unprecedented new powers to obstruct oversight.”

The issue is crucial because the power of congressional subpoena – now held by Issa as the incoming oversight committee chairman – grants Republicans almost unlimited authority to access documents of the Obama administration and compel testimony by key officials.
Cummings is proposing a new rule for the committee that would require Issa to request his concurrence to every subpoena issued. If concurrence were not granted, the minority could force a full committee vote on whether to issue the subpoena. Cummings says this would codify the practice of past oversight committee chairman. [As Barack Obama famously said after being elected: "I won".  Poor leadership and elections have consequences.]
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/25/issa-responds-to-democratic-push-to-rein-in-subpoena-power/#ixzz1C49IuMhu
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Big Peace writes: The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold hearing today on “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional Action,” including recommendations to stop funding the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Perhaps now that the U.S. debt crossed 14 Trillion dollars, would be a good time to stop funding this corrupt organization that fosters the Palestinian “refugees” problem and funds Hamas. http://bigpeace.com/rehrenfeld/2011/01/25/time-to-stop-un-relief-funding/

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Spectator writes: Controversial 'energy and environment czar' Carol Browner, a former commissioner of the Socialist International who was appointed to a non-existent position to avoid Senate confirmation testimony, is stepping down from her post.
Rumors that this move is calculated to avoid testifying under oath to a House oversight committee are of course being circulated by people who know precisely what they are talking about. http://spectator.org/blog/2011/01/25/brown-out-on-browner-testimony
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Politico writes: House Republicans have summoned the White House regulatory chief to be the first administration official to appear before the Energy and Commerce Committee this year.
Cass Sunstein, administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, will be called next Wednesday to field questions from the Oversight Subcommittee about President Obama’s new executive order on regulatory review, Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) told reporters Thursday.

That order – issued this week – calls for a government-wide review of federal rules and regulations with the goal of eliminating those that stifle job creation and economic growth.  [I admire the courage and the research of Glenn Beck.  You should know that for good reasons, he considers Cass Sunstein to be the most dangerous man in America because of his far left beliefs.  I'm sure George Soros would then be number two.  I will be addressing this man and his influence on the world this year.]

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47901.html#ixzz1C90iIIff

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More Government Jobs in Health Care; Government Jobs in Detroit; Defunding the UN Human Rights Council; We Pay for Fannie and Freddie Lawsuits Against Law Breakers; The Chinese Pianist at the White House;

The LA Times writes: Provided it survives legal and legislative challenges, the health care reform law extends insurance coverage to 30 million Americans. And aging baby boomers are expected to double the population of elderly by 2030. Will we have enough doctors to accommodate them?

A June 2010 report issued by the American Assn. of Medical Colleges says no. In a model that accounts for the influx of newly insured patients, increasing utilization of doctor visits, decreases in physician working hours, modest growth of the resident workforce and greater use of nurse practitioners and physician assistants, a 130,600-physician shortage is anticipated by 2025, half of which will be primary-care doctors.

Even now, it can be challenging to find a primary-care doctor accepting new patients, and the current estimated shortage is only 7,400. Imagine the task in 2025. Few realize that these residency programs are mostly funded through Medicare and other government programs, and since 1997, the number of federally supported positions — and thus the annual number of freshly credentialed doctors — has been capped by Congress. Universal healthcare will succeed only if there are enough physicians to render it. [Well - that is one solution to the problem!  There just won't be enough doctors - so that will be like having death panels, won't it? Our waiting time to see a doctor will rival those of any country with Socialized Medicine.]
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-wertheim-mdshortage-20110124,0,1134878.story
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The Denver Post: The Obama administration has become so concerned about the slowing pace of new drugs coming out of the pharmaceutical industry that officials have decided to start a billion-dollar government drug development center to help create medicines.

The health and human services secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, sent a letter to Congress on Jan. 14 outlining the plan to open the new drug center by October — an unusually rapid turnaround for an idea first released with little fanfare in December.  [This fits right in with Obama's belief that it is the government who should be the job provider.]

Read more: Federal agency to spearhead new drug-development center - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_17171570?source=rss#ixzz1BssZgLCj
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The Detroit New writes: The Mackinac Center for Public Policy is wringing its hands over the state of the city in a recent tidbit that bemoans the steep "Detroitification" of...well, Detroit.
Apparently coined a few years ago by some other guy at the Mackinac Center, the term "Detroitification" refers to the so-called "hollowing out" of private industry to, as the piece puts it,  "prop up" an unsustainable government.

Jan. 21, Michigan Capitol Confidential: In Detroit's case, six of the top 10 employers are not private businesses at all, but government entities: public schools, the city government, the U.S. government, Wayne State University, the State of Michigan and the U.S. Post Office.  [Overwhelm the system so that citizens look to government to be the savior - where have I heard that before?]

 http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/01/policy_experts_fret_over_the_c.html

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The Hill writes: Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill that oversight would be a key function of the panel, particularly funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) that is "a waste of taxpayer dollars."
"I'd like to make sure that we once and for all kill all U.S. funding for that beast," she said last month. "Because I don't think that it advances U.S. interests, I don't think that that's a pro-democracy group, it's a rogue's gallery, pariah states, they belong there because they don't want to be sanctioned." [I'll add that Obama "turned us in" as violators of human rights because people have lost their mortgages.  That is equal to beheadings, killings, imprisonment and deaths?  Just asking.]
http://thehill.com/news-by-subject/foreign-policy/139563-the-world-from-the-hill-un-funding-an-early-target-for-house-republicans
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The NYT explains that you and I paid $160 million in defending execs at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac:  We are defending the mortgage finance companies and their former top executives in civil lawsuits accusing them of fraud. The cost was a closely guarded secret until last week, when the companies and their regulator produced an accounting at the request of Congress. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/business/24fees.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=tha2&adxnnlx=1295874315-dsTNNIqKYfywA/VmtezrTQ
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The New York Post reveals:  Chinese-born pianist Lang Lang gave a musical shout out to America-hating patriots in his homeland when he played at the White House state dinner last week. During his performance, Lang tinkled the ivories with the famous anti-American propaganda tune "My Motherland" -- the theme song from the Chinese-made Korean War movie "Battle on Shangangling Mountain."
Chinese President Hu Jintao, the guest of honor at the dinner, surely recognized the melody. The song has been a favorite anti-American propaganda tool for decades.
Lang apparently knew exactly what he was playing.

The 1956 film "Battle on Shangangling Mountain" depicts Chinese troops pinned down under enemy fire on the mountain. Then reinforcements arrive and the troops attack the US soldiers, whom the Chinese refer to as "jackals."
The song Lang played in front of Hu and President Obama includes the verse: "When friends are here, there is fine wine/But if the jackal comes/What greets it is the hunting rifle."
Lang said in a TV interview that he played the song to reflect Chinese pride.
"I think playing the tune at the White House banquet can help us, as Chinese people, feel extremely proud of ourselves and express our feelings through the song," he told the Chinese network Phoenix TV.
Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/sour_note_at_hu_fete_sU6ZLyo3xXs8F1mmr6kmSN#ixzz1BzH6eSgz

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 [And what did the White House say about all this?  Could it be possible that the Chinese powers are as clueless in "gift-giving" and protocol as is Obama?- and were we once again duped by our adversaries?]  As reported by the LA Times: A spokesman for the Obama White House says any suggestion that it's an insult to play a patriotic Chinese song that refers to American troops as "jackals" in the U.S. president's house is "just flat wrong." http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/01/lang-lang-china-my-motherland-hu-obama.html
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The New York Post writes: The song, Lang Lang said afterward, showed world leaders that "our China is formidable, that our Chinese people are united." Though he assured fans he chose the song himself, it's unthinkable he would have performed it without Beijing's explicit approval.
So China has embarrassed Obama abroad [by sinking the Climate Pact in 2009 while Obama was at the meeting, and unveiling their stealth fighter jet only when our Defense Secretary Gates was visiting China]. This time they came into our house -- literally Obama's home, and metaphorically the seat of American power.

What is most astonishing is that Obama has turned the other cheek so often he's spinning like a top. [And we are enabling the rise of China, who wants to "control" us, as I was told while visiting there about 12 years ago.]

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/musical_insult_evNNqzbcBAzi6BPUpEGRkJ#ixzz1C3NvdWQG

Examiner.com Column; ACORN Operative on Dem National Committee; 2009 Stimulus a Huge Failure; China Buying American Bank; "Harry's Law" a Progressive Limbaugh-smackdown Show; 2/3 of UN Grants Eaten up by Corruption

Following is my column in the Traverse City Examiner online newspaper:    http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-traverse-city/senator-stabenow-begins-to-read-the-obamacare-bill
I read with interest the item in the Detroit News about Stabenow's push to repeal the 1099 requirement which is part of Obamacare.  She has obviously read at least this part of the bill by now, and also has obviously been hearing from her constituents about the exteme time and expenses involved in this one method Obamacare sought to rake in more money to pay for the program.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110120/POLITICS03/101200482/Stabenow--Repeal-business-expenditure-rule-in-health-care-overhaul#ixzz1BmUbQdUo

I wonder when she might read about and reconsider the fact that in order for the CBO to say the law will save money, we taxpayers now are taxed on Obamacare for 4 years before we begin getting it.  I wonder what she might have to say about the fact that if waivers have been given to over 200 of Obama's favored companines, mostly those with large unions, then those who don't get the waivers are being unfairly treated.  Has your company applied for a waiver?  And why wouldn't you? The laws are not supposed to favor just one group of people after all.

Finally, I would like Ms.Stabenow to consider, since Obamacare is supposed to be so wonderful, having the entire government accept Obamacare for themselves as well as for all of us regular citizens who demanded that it not be enacted.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Daily Caller reveals: A longtime ACORN operative is about to take over the reins of the Democratic National Committee as its executive director – just in time to begin initial preparations for President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign.
The activist in question is Patrick Gaspard. He currently holds the title of White House political affairs director, the same title Karl Rove held in President Bush’s administration.
Gaspard comes from the same world of radical left-wing community organizing that shaped Barack Obama. Gaspard is well schooled in the brutal, street-smart organizing tactics taught by the late Saul Alinsky, author of Rules for Radicals. He’s the hatchet man Obama sent to New York over a year ago to strong-arm then-Gov. David Paterson into dropping his reelection campaign. As executive director running the DNC’s day-to-day operations Gaspard will oversee Organizing for America, a project of the DNC supposedly modeled on Alinskyite organizing principles. (Former Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine will remain as general chairman of the DNC.)

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/22/acorn%e2%80%99s-man-takes-over-the-democratic-party%e2%80%99s-war-machine/#ixzz1Bri2e100

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The Washington Examiner writes: The Ways and Means Committee in the new GOP-majority House released a report titled "It's Official: On Unemployment and Jobs, Democrats' 2009 Stimulus Was a Huge Failure."

Currently, there are 130.7 million jobs. Since passage of the stimulus, 47 of the 50 states have lost jobs; overall, the private sector has seen 1.8 million jobs disappear.
Note as well that unemployment is slightly above what the White House predicted it would be if the Obama stimulus program was not passed as emergency legislation. Any honest assessment of the stimulus has to consider the possibility that flawed economics, kickbacks to unions and other Democratic special interests, corruption and an inefficient bureaucracy simply swallowed all the jobs for which those billions were supposed to pay. In fact, job creation exceeded the White House's expectations in only one area: The District of Columbia created almost twice as many jobs as the White House anticipated. In other words, thanks to the stimulus, the only sector creating new jobs is the federal government.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/2011/01/voodoo-economics-tote-jobs-obamas-stimulus#ixzz1Brj8MXIW

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CHICAGO—China's biggest bank signed an agreement that would make it the first Beijing-controlled financial institution to acquire retail bank branches in the U.S., though regulators could still block the deal.

Under the deal, Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., by some measures the world's largest bank, agreed to acquire a majority stake in Bank of East Asia Ltd.'s U.S. subsidiary. ICBC will pay $140 million for an 80% stake.

Signed in Chicago on the last day of Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit to the U.S., the move, comes as both Beijing and Washington are calling for greater commercial ties between the two countries. 

If ICBC's deal to acquire Bank of East Asia's U.S. subsidiary goes through, Americans could walk into the retail branches, open check and savings accounts and, most significantly for many investors, open yuan accounts to trade the currency.  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704754304576096002767228880.html?mod=WSJ_hp_LEFTWhatsNewsCollection

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Enough is enough! As newsbusters reports: Monday's premiere episode of NBC's new legal drama "Harry's Law" took a cheap shot at conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh.
As the show's star Kathy Bates argued for the legalization of drugs while her client was being cross-examined by a totally hapless district attorney, she claimed the idea was first raised by Republicans, "When the party had thinkers, before it was hijacked by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, a drug addict himself" (video follows with partial transcript and commentary):

Even TV critic Tim Goodman was unimpressed with the theatrics as he noted in his Tuesday review "Harry's Law is a Crime Against Good Television":

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/23/rush-limbaugh-called-drug-addict-nbcs-new-legal-drama-harrys-law#ixzz1Bsqa586g

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GENEVA (AP) — A $21.7 billion development fund backed by celebrities and hailed as an alternative to the bureaucracy of the United Nations sees as much as two-thirds of some grants eaten up by corruption, The Associated Press has learned.

Much of the money is accounted for with forged documents or improper bookkeeping, indicating it was pocketed, investigators for the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria say. Donated prescription drugs wind up being sold on the black market. [Will we ever learn?]

Read more: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/AP-Enterprise-Fraud-plagues-global-health-fund-972977.php#ixzz1Bsr2phPg

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Inspire Web Magazine; Pursuit of Happiness; Health Care Problem Solved by Maxine;

Fox News Reports: State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual's birth documentation without the person's consent, Abercrombie spokeswoman Donalyn Dela Cruz said Friday.

"There is nothing more that Gov. Abercrombie can do within the law to produce a document," said Dela Cruz. "Unfortunately, there are conspirators who will continue to question the citizenship of our president."  [Well, we all knew this was coming, and also that Barack Obama will not authorize the release of his birth certificate.  Abercrombie did, however, state that the record is not to be found - has disappeared.]

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/21/hawaii-wont-release-obamas-birth-info/#ixzz1BljeN8GU

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Islam Exposed writes: The latest edition of al Qaeda’s English-language web magazine offers readers a new fatwa from American-born jihadi leader Anwar al-Awlaki, instructions on how to destroy buildings using gas lines, and a primer on the AK-47 rifle, in what is “Inspire”‘s slickest production to date. The fourth issue of “Inspire” a publication of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), the terror organization’s Yemeni branch,follows three previous installments in the past year that gave instructions on the killing American civilians, and boasted about the failed “printer bomb” cargo plane plot that originated in Yemen. A young American citizen from North Carolina named Samir Khan apparently began editing and publishing the on-line magazine after relocating to Yemen. http://islamxposed.eu5.org/2011/01/18/leaked-latest-edition-of-al-qaedas-english-language-jihadist-web-magazine-inspire/

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Rep. Lewis says 'Pursuit of Happiness' makes Obamacare constitutional.
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As "Maxine" says: regarding Obamacare

"Let me get this straight . . . .

We're going to be "gifted" with a health care
plan we are forced to purchase and
fined if we don't,

Which purportedly covers at least
ten million more people,
without adding a single new doctor,
but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents,

written by a committee whose chairman
says he doesn't understand it,

passed by a Congress that didn't read it but
exempted themselves from it,

and signed by a President who smokes,

with funding administered by a treasury chief who
didn't pay his taxes,

for which we'll be taxed for four years before any
benefits take effect,

by a government which has
already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare,

all to be overseen by a surgeon general
who is obese,

and financed by a country that's broke!!!!!

'What could
possibly go wrong?" 

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The NYT writes of Ms. Piven (of Cloward and Piven - those ultra-left professors who wrote some time ago about how to destroy America as she was founded): Ms. Piven came under additional scrutiny when she wrote in the liberal magazine The Nation this month that unemployed people should be staging mass protests.
Her assertions that “an effective movement of the unemployed will have to look something like the strikes and riots that have spread across Greece,” and that “protesters need targets, preferably local and accessible ones,” led Mr. Beck to ask on Fox this week, “Is that not inciting violence? Is that not asking for violence?” Videos of fires in Greece played behind him.
“That is not a call for violence,” Ms. Piven said Friday of the references to riots. “There is a kind of rhetorical trick that is always used to denounce movements of ordinary people, and that is to imply that the massing of people itself is violent.” http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/business/media/22beck.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&adxnnl=1&emc=tha29&adxnnlx=1295702090-PkVQqYcDk83sp/VMKY0kmw
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The Obama Birth Certificate Question Hits the MSM: More Democrat Language; Historic Repeal; Eric Holder Allows Child Endangerment; Trump Comments

[Newly seated Hawaii Governor Neil Abercrombie declared that since he knew Obama's parents, he would clear up the birth certificate question.  Oops!  According to the Daily Mail he is under increasing pressure to clear up the question.]
The UK Daily Mail writes: Abercrombie said on Tuesday that an investigation had unearthed papers proving Obama was born in Hawaii in 1961.
He told Honolulu's Star-Advertiser: 'It actually exists in the archives, written down,' he said.
But it became apparent that what had been discovered was an unspecified listing or notation of Obama's birth that someone had made in the state archives and not a birth certificate.
And in the same interview Abercrombie suggested that a long-form, hospital-generated birth certificate for Barack Obama may not exist within the vital records maintained by the Hawaii Department of Health.
Abercrombie was asked: 'You stirred up quite a controversy with your comments regarding birthers and your plan to release more information regarding President Barack Obama's birth certificate. How is that coming?'
He acknowledged the birth certificate issue would  have 'political implications' for the next presidential election 'that we simply cannot have'.  [Indeed.  I bet our President just loves this guy.] 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348916/Hawaii-governor-says-Obamas-birth-record-exists-produce-it.html#ixzz1BfohI3lp

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[Because this is now openly being discussed, I bring to you a web archive of interest concerning comments made by Obama during his run for Senator.]
In a syndicated report, published Sunday, June 27, 2004, by the Kenyan Standard Times, available at:

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm

The AP reporter stated the following:

*Kenyan-born US Senate hopeful, Barrack Obama, appeared set to take over the Illinois Senate seat after his main rival, Jack Ryan, dropped out of the race on Friday night amid a furor over lurid sex club allegations.*

This report explains the context of the oft cited debate, between Obama and Keyes in the following Fall, in which Keyes faulted Obama for not being a ‘natural born citizen’, and in which Obama, by his quick retort, “So what? I am running for Illinois Senator, not the presidency”, self-admitted that he was not eligible for the office. *Seeing that an AP reporter is too professional to submit a story which was not based on confirmed sources (ostensibly the Obama campaign in this case), the inference seems inescapable: Obama himself was putting out in 2004, that he was born in Kenya.* http://www.ety.com/HRP/americana/kenyanborn.htm  
[I'm sure that someone somewhere has the video/audio clip of this debate, so we should know soon enough if the AP was correct in its reporting at the time.  If so, it begs the question of why they  did not reminded America of this when Obama was running for President.  Oh, yet - we know why.]

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Legal Insurrection reports: In a fundraising e-mail supporting Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the seat vacated by Ted Kennedy, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) referred to then-candidate, now-Senator Scott Brown, as a "far-right tea-bagger."  [The words of Democrats defines them, and inspires their voters.] http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/
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Legal Insurrection opines: Obamacare was "historic."  Do a Google News search, and there are hundreds if not thousands of references to the "historic" nature of the legislation.

But do a similar search for the House vote repealing this historic legislation, and the term "historic" is used only to describe the legislation, not the vote.

So tell me, how many other times in history has the House of Representatives voted to repeal historic legislation? 

Doesn't that make the repeal vote historic? http://legalinsurrection.blogspot.com/
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Expose Obama writes: A 2006 law that requires the U.S. Justice Department to deploy a high-tech system for catching child pornographers has identified hundreds of thousands of criminal suspects — and collected extensive evidence pointing to the locations of their child victims.
Yet, despite knowledge of this evidence, Attorney General Eric Holder has refused calls to take serious action.
Now, a Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee, and a government oversight panel on the warpath, could finally force Holder to explain two years of inaction that left thousands of children in danger. http://www.exposeobama.com/2011/01/20/investigate-eric-holder-for-going-easy-on-child-pornography/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=280c0ff02b-EO_01_20_20111_20_2011&utm_medium=email
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Politico writes: As Washington returns to normalcy after the pomp and circumstance of Wednesday's state dinner, businessman — and perennial "maybe" presidential candidate — Donald Trump isn't happy about the night's festivities. 
He called in to "Fox & Friends" and unleashed.
"For us to be holding state dinners for people who are just totally manipulating their currency ... is hard to believe," said Trump. "You don't give dinners to the enemy and that's what they're doing."

If it were up to a President Trump? "I would say, 'Get off your plane, come to my office and let's talk.'" (Trump has made China the subject of many criticisms of late). http://www.politico.com/click/stories/1101/trump_knocks_state_dinner.html
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States' Rights; National ID for the Internet; Detroit to Close Half It's Schools; "We Got To Pass This [Financial] Bill to Find Out What's in IT"; Economists Ask for Repeal of Obamacare

The Montgomery Adviser writes: Robert Bentley began his term as Alabama's governor Monday with a promise to the people to be a servant leader like Jesus and a warning to the federal government that he won't let it force policies on his state.
"We will work with the federal government when we can, but they will not dictate our every move," he said to loud applause. "As elected representatives we answer to you the people of Alabama, not to politicians and bureaucrats in Washington. I will defend our right to govern ourselves under our own laws and to make our own decisions without federal interference," he said to more loud applause. http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20110117/NEWS/110117026/New+governor+warns+federal+government+
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American Thinker writes: The White House cybersecurity adviser joined Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to announce what amounts to a national ID card for the Internet.

Their plan is straightforward. Instead of logging onto Facebook or one's bank using separate passwords established with each individual company or website, the White House will take the lead in developing what it calls an "identity ecosystem" that will centralize personal information and credentials. This government-approved system would issue a smart card or similar device that would confirm an individual's identity when making online credit-card purchases, accessing electronic health care records, posting "anonymous" blog entries or even logging onto one's own home computer, according to administration documents.

Officials insist this would be a voluntary program and deliver significant benefits to the public. [Don't volunteer.  It will be voluntary only for a while, I presume.] http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/the_dangerous_internet_passpor.html

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When you hear that Detroit is coming back, consider this news from the Detroit News:  Detroit Public Schools would close nearly half of its schools in the next two years, and increase high school class sizes to 62 by the following year, under a deficit-reduction plan filed with the state.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110112/SCHOOLS/101120356/Without-aid--DPS-may-close-half-of-its-schools#ixzz1BPOSDk91

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The Daily Caller reports on Rush Limbaugh: “You know what my answer would be if I were John Boehner – and of course I’m not John Boehner,” Rush Limbaugh said. “If I were John Boehner and I was constantly being peppered by the press corps, ‘What are you going to cut, what are you going to?’ You know what I would say? ‘We got to pass the bill first to find out what’s in it.’”
According to Limbaugh, if the media was satisfied by that answer from Pelosi, it should be good enough for Boehner.  http://dailycaller.com/2011/01/19/limbaugh-offers-answer-for-boehner-on-spending-cut-question-we-got-to-pass-the-bill-first-to-find-out-whats-in-it/

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CNS News writes: As the House prepares debate on the future of the $1 trillion health care overhaul enacted last year, 200 economists have asked members of Congress to repeal the act. “To promote job growth and help to restore the federal government to fiscal balance, we, the undersigned, feel that it would be beneficial to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” the economists said in a letter to Congress.
The letter includes the signatures of Douglas Holtz-Eakin and June O’Neil, both former directors of the Congressional Budget Office; Arthur Laffer, the first chief economist for the Office of Management and Budget, Brian Wesbury, former chief economist of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress; and William Niskanan, former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and chairman emeritus of the libertarian CATO Institute
At a minimum, it will add $1 trillion to government spending over the next decade,” the letter stated. “Assertions that these costs are paid for are based on omitted costs, budgetary gimmicks, shifted premiums from other entitlements, and unsustainable spending cuts and revenue increases. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/200-economists-ask-lawmakers-repeal-obam
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Enough Is Enough!

There is a lot of talk now about "inflammatory language", with new legislation being suggested to put a halt to our freedom of speech. From http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2011/01/democrats-will-introduce-legislstion-outlawing-inflammatory-language: /Democrats will introduce a bill this week to rip apart the US Constitution.  Rep. Robert Brady (D-PA) will introduce legislation making it a federal crime for a person to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a Member of Congress or federal official."

You will see and hear the Democrats talking about how many more on their side of the aisle have actually been threatened by kooks.  I am going to write today about the Democrats' declaration that it is the talk radio hosts on the right, Fox News, and other conservatives who have used so-called inflammatory language.  To hear them talk, only conservatives use such language.  I beg to differ, as I have before, beginning with our President's comments about bringing a gun to the fight, and comments asking his Hispanic voters to "punishing their enemies".  Now Nancy Pelosi calls the shootings in Tucson a "tragic accident".  What??

1)  As reported by American Thinker: Just a few months ago Democratic pollster Mark Penn was chatting with Chris Matthews on MSNBC: 

PENN:  President Clinton reconnected [with the American voters] through the [Oklahoma City Bombing] and --

Chris MATTHEWS:  Because of the bombing down there.

PENN:  -- "the president [Obama] seems removed, and it wasn't until that speech that [Clinton] re-clicked with the American public.  Obama needs a similar kind of event." http://www.americanthinker.com/printpage/?url=http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/01/the_dangerous_internet_passpor.html

2)  Should the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee be under investigation for Terroristic Threatening? 
They used the Bulls-eye Map during the House Races like Palin did.
http://www.postonpolitics.com/2010/04/democrats-our-bullseye-targets-on-house-districts-are-not-like-palins-crosshair-targets/

3) When Congressmen decided to avoid the underground tunnel to go from their offices to the Capitol for the health care vote, enabling them to grandstand, to mingle with and to invite conservatives' misbehavior while linked arm in arm, "a white racist teabagger [I ask if you all know what this horrible twist to the Tea Party name actually means] actually spat on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver", (D-MO) they reported.  [I'm so sure this would not inspire violence against those tea baggers, eh?]
http://www.rollcall.com/news/44438-1.html : Roll Call reported:
“They were shouting the N-word,” Carson said. “It was like a page out of a time machine.” Carson said Capitol Police surrounded the group and escorted them across the street to the Capitol.
And staffers and Members reported seeing Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) slurred for being a homosexual and a protester spitting on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.), another African-American lawmaker. [This statement was never substantiated by a single person, leaving a $100,000 reward for evidence unspent. But it did make a great, inflammatory, hateful story against conservatives.]

4) Some very inflammatory rhetoric against Rep Gabrielle Giffords was posted two days before the shooting by the Daily Kos founder Markos Moulitsas, because she voted against Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. The posting: “My congresswoman voted against Nancy Pelosi. And is now dead to me.”  This posting was removed after the shooting.

5)  They used the term “bull-s-eye” to target her and other moderates, using a United State map.

6)  Nancy Pelosi, inducing hatred: They'll take food out of the mouths of children in order to give tax cuts to the wealthiest. (about Republicans)

7)  Death Of A President (a movie about George W. Bush's assassination.)- Exclusive Interview - Gabriel Range.  [No one condemned the making of this horrific movie.]

"Distorting reality to reveal a greater truth"  [But of course!] http://www.spike.com/video/death-of/2781301

8) Recently on CNN's John King: "Before we go to break, I want to make a quick point. We were having a discussion about the Chicago mayoral race. My friend Andy Shaw used the term 'in the crosshairs' in talking about the candidates. We're trying, we're trying to get away from that language. Andy is a good friend, he's covered politics for a long time, but we're trying to get away from that kind of language." http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/01/18/cnn_apologizes_for_guest_using_term_crosshairs.html


I end with a little reported, but quite inappropriate statement by a Republican:  GOP congressional hopeful Allen West urged tea partyers to make Democratic U.S. Rep. Ron Klein “scared to come out of his house.” [I am sure the organized bus loads of SEIU Union people in front of one of the bankers' homes during the financial meltdown hate-mongering caused that President and his family to be afraid to come out of their home as well.  This was a true example of a mobilization for hate, fear and intimidation - not simply a passing statement.]

As someone once said: "America was founded on political argument and free exchange of ideas; Nazi Germany was founded on just the opposite – government control of speech and ideas."

Democrat Pleas; Card Check, Nonprofit Housing Advocacy Group; Union and Public Education

Congressman Robert Andrews (D-NJ) said, "I'm not accusing them of doing anything improper if they do bring it up. But good judgment would say: Let's extend this period of healing before the House returns to something as divisive as health care." Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) told the Washington Post: "I would hope that we would let some time go by before we get back on track with this conversation, but it's their call."  
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Yahoo News reveals: The National Labor Relations Board on Friday threatened to sue Arizona, South Carolina, South Dakota and Utah over constitutional amendments guaranteeing workers the right to a secret ballot in union elections.
The agency's acting general counsel, Lafe Solomon, said the amendments conflict with federal law, which gives employers the option of recognizing a union if a majority of workers sign cards that support unionizing.
The amendments, approved Nov. 2, have taken effect in South Dakota and Utah, and will do so soon in Arizona and South Carolina.
Business and anti-union groups sought the amendments, arguing that such secrecy is necessary to protect workers against union intimidation. They are concerned that Congress might enact legislation requiring employers to allow the "card check" process for forming unions instead of secret ballot elections.   http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110114/ap_on_re_us/us_unions_secret_ballots ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Detroit Free Press reports: Thanks to his nonprofit housing advocacy group, Collins and 149 other homeowners bought back their property at the Wayne County [Detroit] Treasurer's tax auction in October, in most cases for a fraction of what they owed in back taxes.
The feat, accomplished for the modest sum of $194,000, got noticed by other groups.
"We have hundreds of millions of dollars being thrown at the foreclosure problem in Michigan with less than impressive results," said Lisa Nuszkowski, outgoing director of the Michigan Foreclosure Task Force.
Read more: Coalition saves 150 homes from tax auction block with $194,000 | freep.com | Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20110109/NEWS06/101090510/Coalition-saves-150-homes-from-tax-auction-block-with-194-000#ixzz1AZTJf9RK
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Townhall writes about: "Kids Aren't Cars" is a new short film series set for release February 1st. Using examples from the Midwest, it documents the impact organized labor has had on the American education system, creating a one-size-fits-all assembly line model that leaves students behind and treats teachers equally, stifling innovation and improvement.
See the trailer here.
Our government education system has been spending more and more each year, yet the results have been the same. While unions demand higher spending - which of course ends up in the pockets of their members - money is not fixing the problem.
Those that have been in the trenches gave shocking interviews - stories of money grabs by adults while children are left behind. An executive director of a literacy clinic in Detroit - where high school graduates go to learn how to read - compared the actions of the school board to the Ku Klux Klan. "If they were sitting up there in Klan robes," she said, no one would be tolerating what is going on, but the effect is the same. [Eight of the 9 school board members are black.]
We tell the story of two Indiana teachers recognized state-wide for their impact on students, only to be fired literally the next day because they lacked seniority. http://townhall.com/columnists/KyleOlson/2011/01/17/new_film_documents_unions_destruction_of_public_education
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Piven Fomenting Violence; Nancy's Accident; Arizona Tshirts; Levin's Challenge; Tea Party Member Threatened

Reported by The Nation in the 1960's (None of the words below are mine): She’s considered by many as the grandmother of using the American welfare state to implement revolution. Make people dependent on the government, overload the government rolls, and once government services become unsustainable, the people will rise up, overthrow the oppressive capitalist system, and finally create income equality. Collapse the system and create a new one. That‘s the simplified version of Frances Fox Piven’s philosophy originally put forth in the pages of The Nation in the 60s.

In a chilling and almost unbelievable editorial again in The Nation (‘Mobilizing the Jobless,’ January 10/17, 2011 edition), she calls on the jobless to rise up in a violent show of solidarity and force. As before, those calls are dripping with language of class struggle. Language she and her late husband Richard Cloward made popular in the 60s.

‘So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations, sit-ins and unruly mobs?’ she writes. ‘After all, the injustice is apparent. Working people are losing their homes and their pensions while robber-baron CEOs report renewed profits and windfall bonuses. Shouldn’t the unemployed be on the march? Why aren’t they demanding enhanced safety net protections and big initiatives to generate jobs?’ [Emphasis added] http://pumabydesign001.wordpress.com/2011/01/02/frances-fox-piven%E2%80%99s-new-year%E2%80%99s-message-bring-on-the-violence/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELvINNajtCQ   Here is Francis Fox Piven on CSpan2, saying that she has "considerable respect for non-violence - as it protects the protesters.  This is a violent country, this is a violent government.  Violence should not be used "unless its a big part of your strategy."  She said this when asked about the Tea Party's policy of non-violent protesting.[My words: Perhaps Obama and the Democrats and media have just not done their research - or they surely would have talked about this direct call to violence - right?]
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As Canada Free Press writes [and assuring her a 2nd most amazing quote on my 2011 list]: Lord in Heaven, you can’t make this up.  Yesterday, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, deposed Speaker, Nancy Pelosi (D-Mars), called the deliberate and premeditated killing of six people – the Tucson massacre – an “accident.”  Specifically, Madame said, quote:

“This resolution is a fitting tribute.  It is a great resolution.  Please, read it again and again.  Carry those names in your heart.  Remember, each of these people because, again, a tragic accident took lives, wounded people in the expression of ideas.”

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[Do you rally think we are not being manipulated?  I deliver to you most of the Big Journalism article, for it is instructive.]: Did it seem odd to you that even the Fox all-star panel would have us believe that the President with the most micromanaged image in recent memory had no control or influence whatsoever over the preparation, format, and tenor etc. of the commercialized, pep rally memorial we witnessed this week, and that the White House can blame the embarrassment entirely on the University of Arizona?  The entire event was about Captain Greek Columns - who gave a half hour speech – and his time to shine and show off his magical healing abilities. 
“Togethere We Thrive” sure sounded a lot more campaign like than memorial like. Usually the themes for memorials – assuming they’re meant to feature those we’re supposedly remembering – are not about “thriving” or “prospering” or anything of that sort. It was a jarring oddity. Now we have an idea where it came from. Not only did the slogan for this Obama 2012 campaign kickoff, ”Together We Thrive,” originate from President Obama’s campaign organization Organizing for America, but it was the title of a post calling for revolution:
“For too long Americans have been set one against the other.  It is a side affect of a free market society,” Berry IV posted.  “How can profits be maximized, how can I get the work down for the lowest possible costs.  This continually sets one group against the other, especially in the blue collar sectors of America.  It has become part of the American Business model, whether it was indentured servants, slaves picking cotton, sharecroppers, the industrious people that built the railroads or today’s migrant workers.  As long as we remain divided, fighting for the scraps that America has to offer it will be one group against the other.
“What I see in Obama is a chance for revolution. (Italics CFP’s).  A chance for every group to be heard; A chance to live the American dream that has been denied to so many…
“In a previous career, I was the global leader of Diversity for a global fortune 500 corporation.  I have studied the affects of diverse groups working together and the results can not be denied.  Together we Thrive!
Revolution was just a metaphor, you say, not a call for political violence?  Doesn’t matter anymore, apparently.
But worst of all is that according to Judi McLeod of the Canada Free Press, at the bottom of the t-shirts is the DNC slogan “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote.”
Here’s what McLeod reports:

University of Arizona brass did not originate the “Together We Thrive” T-shirt.  They merely recycled it for Obama—and recycled it in time for what should have been a dignified Memorial for the dead.
If you were a mourner who took home a “Together We Thrive” T-shirt have a look at the bottom of your shirt.  “Rocking America and Rocking the Vote” is a common theme of the DNC,  and it’s right there on your Memorial T-shirt memento.
Welcome to the era of Obama, where cheering and standing ovations, for the first time in history, became part of the Requiem for the Dead.

If that is true – and it should be easily verifiable as thousands of people now possess those shirts – I’m not sure how that will be explained;  the University of Arizona distributed and reportedly purchased the shirts – but not without the knowledge or approval of the President’s team. Article taken from Big Journalism - http://bigjournalism.com URL to article: http://bigjournalism.com/klarrey/2011/01/15/together-we-thrive-originated-from-violent-political-rhetoric-t-shirts-contained-rocking-the-vote-dnc-slogan/
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Conservative radio talk show host Mark Levin has put out a stunning challenge to those left-wing media personalities accusing conservative talk radio stars and Sarah Palin of encouraging murder.
First, he offered $100,000 to Chris Matthews to find any example where Sarah Palin or Levin himself had "promoted the murder of anybody." The allegation came on the heels of a specific allegation by left-wing Pima County Sheriff insisting Rush Limbaugh was at fault, while MSNBC's Keith Olbermann demanded Palin "repudiate her own part in amplifying violence and violent imagery in politics.  Levin, of course, is also a former Justice Department official, which gave his second challenge a crisp note: He's waiting for a very specific allegation "because I'm going to sue." In federal court.  http://spectator.org/blog/2011/01/13/mark-levins-100000-challenge-t
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As NewsBusters previously reported, a survivor of last week's Tucson shootings issued a death threat to a Tea Party member Saturday in the middle of a taping for a town hall meeting to be aired on ABC's "This Week."
For some reason, ABC World News Saturday in its report about the gathering chose to omit the seriousness of the threat and that it was made to a Tea Partier (video follows courtesy Mark Finkelstein with transcript)

Read more: http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/01/15/abc-world-news-reports-threat-its-tucson-town-hall-omits-it-was-made-#ixzz1BFM71S5j
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[Enough is enough!  I am inspired to begin listing the "inflammatory" words of those on the Left, including those of our President.]