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Unless one is reading Webster’s dictionary or a Law Review journal, someone usually wants to read something entertaining or at least to a degree entertaining. I am sure that Larry the Cable Guy enjoys reading Field and Stream, whereas I prefer Western Horseman or looking at pictures of beautiful log homes with smoke pouring out of the chimney. With that said, I am pretty sure you cringed when you read the title to this piece. I do promise to make this interesting. It might not be happy reading, but it will be interesting. At the very least, it might make you begin thinking “Maybe this guy is on to something here”.

President Thomas Jefferson once said “A revolution every now and then is a good thing“. Are we on the brink of such an event in America? The base instinct of “fight or flight” is now permeating the minds of most Americans. I do not believe for a minute that this mindset was caused by events pre-dating this President. When the terror attacks of September 11 were foisted on the American people, we came together. In my lifetime, I hadn’t witnessed such an show of patriotism since 1979, with the seizing of our Embassy in Tehran. Before that, we of course endured the great attack at Pearl Harbor. In all those instances, America was galvanized into a mass of flag-waving patriots screaming, Go get the bad guys!

This time is different. Go ask a Vietnam Veteran: What was the biggest problem you encountered in Vietnam? Most will tell you, we could not tell who the enemy was. This is the case now in America. We know we’re under attack. In our heart of hearts, we know that something is wrong. The images of our faith in our God and Country, which we so closely cherish, are being destroyed. Almost daily, you heard a news report of another cross being torn down that has stood for some 50 or 75 years as a tribute to fallen soldiers. We know for a fact that our very economic system is being dismantled. We know that our heritage as proud Americans is under attack, for our very own President goes abroad and “APOLOGIZES” for our nation intervening when tyranny was gripping a foreign land. We also know that our liberty and freedom are now officially in jeopardy. But who can these fears be addressed to? Where do we go to scream ENOUGH!

Someone posted on Facebook the other day: I’m tired of pulling up Facebook and seeing all this political talk. I don’t like politics and I don’t want to read about politics when I go to Facebook. I don’t like discussing politics and it tends to divide families. The person that posted this is in his early twenties, and emblematic of so many of our young people in America today. To add to the mix, you have a person that I am Facebook “Friends” with who’s an attorney in California. This particular person is highly-educated, a sworn officer of the court and bar in California and he is gay. In our discussion of Governor Mitt Romney versus Barack Obama, he informs me that he isn’t interested in whether or not Barack Obama is legally eligible to actually be the President of the United States. He’s more interested in whether or not Romney discloses his tax returns.

From my perspective, in my own personal little world, I see that the youth do not care what happens to our nation and another group is more interested in ideology than the Constitution of the United States. And that’s the problem! We now have a society that is split. The Old Guard– those who have fought the wars in foreign lands and seen firsthand what can happen and how good we have it in America– has split with self-serving ideologues and apathetic young people over the very survivability of our nation. This Old Guard is witnessing the destruction of our nation and screaming about it. The problem is that they are the only ones hearing the screaming.

Yesterday, when Arizona’s Sheriff Joe Arpaio came with his case against the President’s birth certificate, the other day, there should have been screams that reverberated across America. The mainstream press should have had this information as headlines in every newspaper, and the lead story on every newscast. This should have been a big of a story as September 11 or Pearl Harbor. We are talking about a sitting President who might very well be sitting illegally! Let’s be very clear here: a group of seasoned detectives have worked with some of the top imaging experts, print experts and computer systems in America. They went through this document and proved beyond a shred of doubt that it is fake. And Brian Williams and Katy Couric say nothing? The New York Times and Washington Post say nothing? America says nothing? This, to me, is inconceivable. Had this happened fifty years ago, you would have had no less than 3 million people on the Washington, D.C. Mall demanding Congress look into this.

America, what has happened to your soul? What has happened to the pride we once felt as a nation? What has happened to duty, honor and country? You have Constitutionally-sworn officers of the court willing to look the other way because of ideology over our precious legal system. You also have the youth who are supposed to carry the banner of liberty and freedom into the future, but are unwilling to even discuss the issues. I believe that we have truly succumbed to tyranny and sin. How in God’s name did we get to this point?

In my humble opinion, we are at that point I spoke of earlier– “fight or flight.” Half of our nation feels this. When this group loses the final vestiges of hope, the instinct will kick in. It is human nature. These people, numbering into the millions and millions, will rise up. There are signs that they are beginning to do so now. I hear it in the barbershop and in the streets, I hear it on Facebook, Twitter and on blogs. Americans are angry, and they are about to vent that anger. I only pray they do so at the ballot box and not on the street. Are we truly beyond repair? I don’t think so. If we believe that– well, continue to pray and continue to fight the good fight. We might have a chance. I do have to say, at this moment in time, it’s looking dicey though.

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COVET: To desire or wish for, with eagerness; to desire earnestly to obtain or possess.

We’re all familiar with the Ten Commandments. We know they tell us not to worship other gods, don’t commit murder, adultery, steal, lie and cheat. But do you know what little old number ten on the list says?

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” 

What have Unions preached in America for the last 100-plus years? I can fully agree with the “working conditions” part of their sermon. But the part that I cannot agree with is the spewing of the rhetoric that General Motors earns too much money. Therefore you, “Mr. Assembly Line Worker”, shall demand more of what GM earns, or you will walk out. You will not be happy with the $20 an hour you’re earning now, you will want $30 an hour. That is more equitable.

For the last three and a half years, we have heard Barack Obama tell us how the ugly, greedy CEOs earn too much money. We have heard all about how anyone earning over $250,000.00 a year is rich. We have heard this class warfare drivel being strewn, from one end of America to the other, about how the rich need to pay their fare share– as if they don’t pay now!

What began as a few, disgruntled folks sitting in a little park in New York City swelled to millions of disgruntled Americans. They were sitting in parks, marching down streets, throwing bricks through windows and setting fire to police cars. They called themselves the 99-percenters. They have done this in Detroit, Atlanta, Oakland and most of the major cities. They have even managed to show up in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The common denominator in all of the above is a very basic desire of human nature to not be happy with what we have, but to covet what the other guy has.

In other words: I’m not happy with my 2002 Malibu, I want your 2010 Mercedes! You must have acquired that Mercedes through robbing the poor, or not paying enough to your employees, or manipulating the stock market. Heaven knows you could not have bought that with your money that you busted your tail for, you had to have stolen it, so I want it!

This is what the Union Bosses, this President and many throughout history have done. They have taken your basic instinct of desiring to get ahead in life and convinced you to not be happy with what you have, but to be envious of those that have more.

8 DAYS, AMERICA!

These are the numerical facts, America, according to all the Governmental Agencies you can find. Yes, I said ALL of them. Barack Obama can raise taxes on everyone earning over the magic, hated number of $250,000.00 a year. But guess what? This massive tax increase will earn us ( meaning America ) some $85 billion a year in additional revenue. The big secret is this: that tax increase will only run America for 8, EIGHT, (or any other way you want to write it) eight days. However, for that eight days worth of revenue, you have effectively put hundreds of thousands of tax-paying Americans out of work.

How many small business owners earn $400,000.00 a year? Why do I ask? Here’s the part Barack Obama doesn’t tell you: most of the people that earn that sort of income are small business owners with LLCs. The company ( ie: Owner ) pays taxes through a 1040 long form. This is the guy, for example, that owns a small welding company with four welders. He planned on hiring another one this year, but cannot do so now because of that tax increase. Or this family, which has owned Smith Tire Center for two generation in Middle America and has nine employees. Now they have to lay off one of their tire changers.

So why is Barack Obama doing this? Why doesn’t he take a page or two from Ronald Reagan’s play book on stimulating the economy toward growth?

Let’s say that your neighbor comes home with that pretty, new ski boat. It’s one thing to walk over and compliment your neighbor on his new boat. (The compliment makes the neighbor feel good and it is polite to do so.) It is quite another to walk over, look at the boat and be jealous over that boat. You begin to scheme and plot as to how to get a bigger or a better one. And of course, it is quite another thing to steal the boat and justify it by saying, ” Your boat was earned through less than honorable means”.

This is exactly what Barack Obama is telling us to do: he is inciting class warfare. He is telling the bulk of America that Bill Gates is evil because he has earned so much money. He is telling you that Ross Perot all but stole his wealth. He is telling you that Donald Trump is nothing short of a Jesse James or a Billy the Kid.

America, take a long, hard look at what Unions have done to our nation. To justify the Union Bosses to continue lining their pockets, they’ve told the workers to hate the owners. They’ve told them that they need to pillage the owners’ bank accounts. And what has happened? Most of those great jobs have gone overseas. You can’t expect General Motors to pay over $100 an hour in salary and benefits, and keep making Buicks that are affordable for the average American. Therefore, that Park Avenue is now made in Canada and that Dodge is made in Mexico. They were forced to do this because of labor cost from greedy and covetous Auto Workers’ Unions. It wasn’t so much the employees, but the bosses who went to the employee and taught them to covet what their employer had.

Covetousness will destroy America. The desire to take from Messrs. Gates, Buffett, Trump or Perot will kill American industry for good. Take the wealth from them and other job producers, and you ultimately kill the golden goose.

My suggestion to you is this: do what the Bible says to do. Be happy with what you have. It’s one thing to want to be successful, pray for it and work your tail off to get it. It is quite another to lust and covet, and then decide to take from those that have and give it to those that have not.

by John Nolte
Breitbart News- Big Journalism

This piece of video came to us from The Barricuda Brigade and is well worth a look. Anderson Cooper, John King and David Gergen report on the Obama campaign’s shameful and desperate behavior with respect to Mitt Romney and Bain Capital in about as honest a way as you could hope for. The meaty part begins at the 2:30 mark:

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By Susan Crabtree
The Washington Times
July 11, 2012

Mitt Romney and Republicans are taking sharp issue with President Obama’s assertion earlier this week that leftist Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was not much a security threat to the United States.

“I was stunned by his comments, and shocked by them,” Mr. Romney said during a Fox News interview. “This is Hugo Chavez, this is Venezuela. This is Chavez who invited Iran in, who has invited Hezbollah. Hezbollah, of course, being a surrogate and proxy for Iran would potentially have access to weapons that could be used against us.”

In an interview with a Miami television station Monday, Mr. Obama said Mr. Chavez, a sharp and outspoken critic of U.S. policy in the hemisphere, does not represent a serious national security threat to the United States.

“Overall, my sense is that what Mr. Chávez has done over the last several years has not had a serious national security impact on us,” Mr. Obama said.

White House spokesman Jay Carney has remained mum on why the president made the comments about Mr. Chavez. During a briefing with reporters Wednesdasy, Mr. Carney referred a question about the president’s comment to the State Department.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Florida Republican and a surrogate for GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney, said she was taken aback by the president’s comments and said it seems like Mr. Obama is “blithely unaware of Chavez’s hatred for our nation, including his efforts to promote anti-American regimes across the Western Hemisphere undermining our foreign and security policies.”

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Source: The Blaze
July 11, 2012, 3:59pm EDT

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to repeal President Barack Obama’s health care law, a largely symbolic move that has virtually no chance of moving forward.

Five Democrats crossed the aisle to join 239 Republicans in voting to overturn the Affordable Care Act: Rep. Mike Ross (Ark.), Reps. Mike McIntyre and Larry Kissell of North Carolina, Rep. Dan Boren (Okla.) and Rep. Jim Matheson (Utah). Not a single Republican voted to keep the law. The final vote count was 244 to 185.

The Democrat-controlled Senate has made clear any similar repeal effort will not succeed, and Obama has vowed to veto any such bill that reaches his desk.

The House vote comes two weeks after the Supreme Court upheld the law’s constitutionality. It was the 33rd time Republicans have voted to scrap the law in whole or in part since its passage in 2010.

by John Nolte
Breitbart News- Big Journalism
July 10, 2012

For weeks, all we’ve heard in reference to the media/Obama-led attacks against Romney’s so-called outsourcing and offshore accounts is the following: “Romney needs to respond… Romney doesn’t have a response… It’s time for Romney to respond.” Across the media spectrum, we’ve heard this from Obama’s Media Palace Guards on Twitter, in op-eds disguised as straight news, and from television’s talking heads. The media has quite purposefully turned this call for Romney to respond into an incessant drumbeat. But…

It’s a trap.

You see, the outsourcing charge is a bald-faced lie and the offshore-account charge is nothing more than a smear. It was the Washington Post that started the outsourcing lie and it was an Occupy-supporter in Vanity Fair who started the offshore-account smear.

A lie is a lie is a lie.

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by Gregory D. Chang
Breitbart News- “Big Government”
July 6, 2012

Would you like to purchase a home for pennies on the dollar? We all would, but that is too bad, because President Obama is reserving that privilege for large venture capital firms or, as he likes to call them, “vulture capitalists.” Strange, since one of the main thrusts of the Obama campaign is that Mitt Romney is a so called “vulture capitalist”; and a new ad by a pro-Obama super-PAC, Priorities USA Action, claims Romney profited off the backs of the middle-class by bankrupting businesses, with the tag line “If Romney Wins, The Middle-Class Loses.”

The plan is to create large pools of foreclosed homes, known as REOs (real estate owned), currently held by Fannie Mae, that will be sold off to venture capital firms and banks at rates that are highly discounted from their real value. These entities would then be required to hold these homes for a specified period, likely ten years or more, while they rent them out at market rates: a lucrative growth industry, as each day more home owners are converted into renters by these same foreclosures.

The upshot: Obama, who claims Romney has assaulted the middle-class by bankrupting corporations for profit as the head of venture capital firm Bain Capital, has created a path for venture capital firms exactly like Bain Capital to profit directly from the bankruptcies of individual middle-class citizens who have lost their homes in the ongoing housing crisis. This constitutes a frontal assault on the “ownership-society” and the middle-class and will result in a massive transfer of wealth from the public to the private sector. Since public sector equals the collective taxpayer, it is unclear why we would want to cut financial institutions and “vulture capital” firms dream deals on these homes instead of individuals.

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By Arthur Delaney
The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress will file a civil lawsuit over President Barack Obama’s invoking of executive privilege in connection with Operation Fast and Furious, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over documents relating to a congressional inquiry into the failed gun-trafficking investigation. But the Justice Department has declined to prosecute Holder because the president invoked executive privilege to shield the documents.

“That’s why we’re also going to file in district court a civil suit over the issue of executive privilege,” Boehner said, adding that Republicans would file the suit sometime in the next few weeks.

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By Arthur Delaney
The Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress will file a civil lawsuit over President Barack Obama’s invoking of executive privilege in connection with Operation Fast and Furious, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

The House of Representatives voted on Thursday to hold U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over documents relating to a congressional inquiry into the failed gun-trafficking investigation. But the Justice Department has declined to prosecute Holder because the president invoked executive privilege to shield the documents.

“That’s why we’re also going to file in district court a civil suit over the issue of executive privilege,” Boehner said, adding that Republicans would file the suit sometime in the next few weeks.

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By Deirdre Walsh, Terry Frieden and Tom Cohen
CNN
12:49 PM EDT, Wed June 27, 2012

Washington (CNN) — The U.S. House will proceed with a vote Thursday on holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for withholding documents involving the failed Fast and Furious weapons crackdown, Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday.

“We’re going to proceed,” Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters. “We’ve given them ample opportunity to reply.”

His comment came the day after House Republicans rejected another offer by the White House and Justice Department to turn over some documents sought by congressional investigators.

Administration and justice officials met Tuesday with senior aides to Boehner and House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa to try to head off the House vote, which could bring the unprecedented contempt citation of a sitting attorney general.

A senior House Republican aide said the offer to let congressional investigators see some of the requested documents in return for dropping the contempt measure was insufficient.

According to a summary provided by a senior administration official and a Justice Department official familiar with the discussions, the Justice Department offered to give Congress access to some of the documents generated between February 4, 2011, when the Justice Department initially told Congress there was no inappropriate activity, and December 2, 2011, when it acknowledged the program was “fundamentally flawed.”

“We reached out and showed them a representative sample of the documents so they could see firsthand the types of communications in contention,” said the administration official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

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By Robert Quinn
The Western Center For Journalism

“The only people who don’t want to disclose the truth are those with something to hide.”

Those words of Barack Obama, spoken in August 2010 on Long Island, NY, were self-incriminating; for he uses deception ranging from silence to sarcasm to suppression to the barring of anyone from viewing any document that may refute his claim of Presidential eligibility.

Deception 1:

In 2008, he let a fraudulent, ineligible Hawaiian short-form “Certification of Live Birth, of approx. 13 bits of information, be posted on the “Daily Kos” website as proof of his Presidential eligibility. At the same time, he was aware, as a Constitutional teacher, that only a long-form Certificate of Live Birth, of approx. 41 bits of information, was valid for one seeking the Presidency. Notably missing from his COLB were the names of the birth hospital, attending physician, and birth witnesses….information required in determining presidential eligibility. His birth certificate number was “blacked” out, ignoring the COLB warning that “ANY ALTERATION INVALIDATES THIS CERTIFICATE.” Obama deliberately lied, claiming his COLB was a true copy of an eligible birth certificate in the Hawaiian Health Dept. files; for if they did match, it meant both were COLB’S and therefore both ineligible for a Presidential aspirant. He continued this deception until April 2011, seducing a Nation he had sworn to serve. We are speaking of criminal fraud!

Deception 2:

In 2009, he publically displayed a letter he sent to Kapi”olani Medical Center in Hawaii, stating he was born there. The Hospital’s Chief Operating Officer, Martha Stewart, only confirmed to Hawaiian State Senator Sam Slom that a copy of Obama’s letter hangs “in the Administrative Section, away from public view” and the original is stored for “safe-keeping and preservation”, but she would not allow him to view it. The Hospital has no public memorial to Obama’s birth. The first African-American President of the United States names a birth hospital, yet can’t get that hospital to confirm. Also, some family members claimed he was born in Hawaii’s Queens Medical Center. In reality, a damning fact stands out. Not one Hawaiian hospital claims to be Obama’s birth hospital. I repeat-not one.

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by Peter Ferrara, Contributor
Forbes.com

The U.S. has never before had a President who thinks so little of the American people that he imagines he can win re-election running on the opposite of reality. But that is the reality of President Obama today.

Waving a planted press commentary, Obama recently claimed on the campaign stump, “federal spending since I took office has risen at the slowest pace of any President in almost 60 years.”

Peggy Noonan aptly summarized in last weekend’s Wall Street Journal the take away by the still holding majority of Americans living in the real world:

“There is, now, a house-of-cards feel about this administration. It became apparent some weeks ago when the President talked on the stump – where else? – about an essay by a fellow who said spending growth [under Obama] is actually lower than that of previous Presidents. This was startling to a lot of people, who looked into it and found the man had left out most spending from 2009, the first year of Mr. Obama’s Presidency. People sneered: The President was deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture! But you know, why would he go out there waiving an article that could immediately be debunked? Maybe because he thought it was true. That’s more alarming, isn’t it, the idea that he knows so little about the effects of his own economic program that he thinks he really is a low spender.”

What this shows most importantly is that the recognition is starting to break through to the general public regarding the President’s rhetorical strategy that I’ve have been calling Calculated Deception. The latter is deliberately using a misleading argument to paint a false picture. That has been a central Obama practice not only throughout his entire presidency, but also as the foundation of his 2008 campaign strategy, and actually throughout his whole career.

Rest assured, Ms. Noonan, that the President is not as nuts as he may seem at times. He knows very well that he is not a careful spender. His whole mission is to transform the U.S. not into a Big Government country, but a Huge Government country, because only a country run by a Huge Government can be satisfactorily controlled by superior, all wise and beneficent individuals like himself. That is why he is at minimum a Swedish socialist, if not worse. Notice, though, how far behind the times he and his weak minded supporters are, as even the Swedes have abandoned Swedish socialism as a failure.

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By Patrick Hobin
Newsmax.com

The long feud between “America’s toughest sheriff” and the nation’s president just got longer.

Sheriff Joe Arpaio said Friday’s move by President Barack Obama to give amnesty to children of illegal immigrants is politically motivated and will encourage more Mexicans to cross the border but that he will still enforce all immigration laws in his state of Arizona.

“It seems to be politically motivated,” Arpaio told a Phoenix ABC News affiliate. “I would rather see the president let the Congress decide what to do with this issue and other illegal immigration problems.”

For the Maricopa County sheriff, this is yet another battle in a simmering war with the White House. Last December, the Justice Department released a scathing report accusing Arpaio and his office of committing a wide range of civil rights violations against Latinos. Justice Department investigators said the abuses included a pattern of racial profiling.

The Justice Department also accused Arpaio’s office of a pattern of discrimination and carrying out heavy-handed immigration patrols based on racially charged citizen complaints.

The report was a result of the department’s three-year investigation of Arpaio’s office amid complaints of racial profiling and a culture of bias at the agency’s top level.

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By Matthew Boyle
The Daily Caller

Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King said Friday that he plans to sue the Obama administration to halt implementation of its newly announced selective illegal immigration law enforcement policy. He told Mike Huckabee on the former Arkansas governor’s radio program Friday that he successfully sued his own state’s governor — and won — over a similar separation-of-powers issue.

“I will tell you that — I’m not without experience on this — I’m prepared to bring a suit and seek a court order to stop implementation of this policy,” King said

“I have done it once in the past successfully when then-Governor Tom Vilsack thought he could legislate by executive order — and the case of King vs. Vilsack is in the books. And that individual, by the way, is now the Secretary of Agriculture. I wonder if he’s not counseling the president on his legal proceedings.”

Huckabee followed up, asking King: “You plan to sue this administration for implementing something that you believe should have required legislative process and approval?”

“That is correct,” King replied

The Iowa Republican is vice-chairman of the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement.

On Friday morning, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the Obama administration’s plan to selectively enforce illegal immigration law by refusing to deport illegal aliens brought to the U.S. as “young children” — effectively an administrative version of the DREAM Act.

“Our nation’s immigration laws must be enforced in a firm and sensible manner,” Napolitano said in a statement. “But they are not designed to be blindly enforced without consideration given to the individual circumstances of each case.”

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Source: AP News

The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin granting work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives. The election-year initiative addresses a top priority of an influential Latino electorate that has been vocal in its opposition to administration deportation policies.

The policy change, described to The Associated Press by two senior administration officials, will affect as many as 800,000 immigrants who have lived in fear of deportation. It also bypasses Congress and partially achieves the goals of the so-called DREAM Act, a long-sought but never enacted plan to establish a path toward citizenship for young people who came to the United States illegally but who have attended college or served in the military.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was to announce the new policy Friday, one week before President Barack Obama plans to address the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials’ annual conference in Orlando, Fla. Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney is scheduled to speak to the group on Thursday.

Obama planned to discuss the new policy Friday afternoon from the White House Rose Garden.

Under the administration plan, illegal immigrants will be immune from deportation if they were brought to the United States before they turned 16 and are younger than 30, have been in the country for at least five continuous years, have no criminal history, graduated from a U.S. high school or earned a GED, or served in the military. They also can apply for a work permit that will be good for two years with no limits on how many times it can be renewed. The officials who described the plan spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss it in advance of the official announcement.

The policy will not lead toward citizenship but will remove the threat of deportation and grant the ability to work legally, leaving eligible immigrants able to remain in the United States for extended periods. It tracks closely to a proposal offered by Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida as an alternative to the DREAM Act.

“Many of these young people have already contributed to our country in significant ways,” Napolitano wrote in a memorandum describing the administration’s action. “Prosecutorial discretion, which is used in so many other areas, is especially justified here.”

The extraordinary move comes in an election year in which the Hispanic vote could be critical in swing states like Colorado, Nevada and Florida. While Obama enjoys support from a majority of Hispanic voters, Latino enthusiasm for the president has been tempered by the slow economic recovery, his inability to win congressional support for a broad overhaul of immigration laws and by his administration’s aggressive deportation policy. Activists opposing his deportation policies last week mounted a hunger strike at an Obama campaign office in Denver, and other protests were planned for this weekend.

The change is likely to cause an outcry from congressional Republicans, who are sure to perceive Obama’s actions as an end run around them. Republicans already have complained that previous administration uses of prosecutorial discretion in deportations amount to back-door amnesty. Romney and many Republican lawmakers want tighter border security measures before considering changes in immigration law. Romney opposes offering legal status to illegal immigrants who attend college but has said he would do so for those who serve in the armed forces.

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By David Limbaugh
Townhall.com

I saw it with my own eyes on a video clip that Sean Hannity played. At a speech in Baltimore, President Obama laughingly dismissed the notion that he is responsible for our nation’s current spending orgy. Seriously.

Sporting a wide grin, Obama said, “I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits.” He must think this subject is a real knee-slapper. He continued: “I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. We had a surplus; they turned it into a deficit, built in a structural deficit that extends for decades. … We signed $2 trillion in spending cuts into law. I laid out a detailed plan for a total of $4 trillion in deficit reduction. … But even when you account for the steps we took to prevent a depression and jump-start the economy … spending under my administration has grown more slowly than under any president in 60 years.”

A fascinating question is whether Obama actually believes this fantasy or he and his disciples are laughing at us, as well.

Yes, he’s had some delusional enablers who have argued that he has been fiscally frugal, having actually slowed the rate of government spending. Yes, you read that correctly.

But how do these enablers make such a claim — in print, no less? Well, the best I can figure is that they say that the deficit for Bush’s final fiscal year was above $1 trillion and that hence Obama’s $1 trillion deficits thereafter constitute continuing the status quo; he’s not increasing the level of the deficits.

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by Paul Bedard
The Washington Examiner- “Secrets”

It’s heading for a fourth consecutive No. 1 spot on the New York Times non-fiction best-seller list, but the mainstream media–including the NYT–is ignoring the anti-Obama book “The Amateur,” by former New York Times Magazine editor Ed Klein.

The publicist for Regnery Publishing charged to Secrets that the media is blackballing the author and book to protect the president. “Klein’s got the hottest book in America and is getting blackballed by the networks and other national news outlets,” said Keith Appell. “This is beyond bias. This is an in-kind contribution to the Obama campaign.”

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By Dave Boyer
The Washington Times

President Obama reacted indignantly Friday to accusations that his aides may have leaked classified details of successful anti-terrorism operations to bolster his national security credentials for the fall reelection campaign.

“The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive,” Mr. Obama told reporters during a press conference at the White House. “It’s wrong, and people I think need to have a better sense of how I approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office.”

Mr. Obama also called on Congress to pass his initiatives to spur hiring of government employees, claiming “the private sector’s doing fine” but state and local governments should be hiring more teachers and first-responders in the face of a still-weak economy.

Lawmakers in both parties this week called for a special prosecutor to investigate the national security leaks, including a report that detailed the government’s efforts to launch cyberattacks at computers involved in Iran’s uranium-enrichment program, the campaign of U.S. drone attacks in the Middle East and the “hit list” of terrorists that was reportedly reviewed personally by Mr. Obama.

House Homeland Security Chairman Peter T. King, New York Republican, has called the leaks “amateur hour” and said the reports “are like press releases coming from the Oval Office.”

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Diane Feinstein, California Democrat, complained Thursday about an “avalanche” of leaks on national security matters.

“This has to stop,” Mrs. Feinstein said. “When people say they don’t want to work with the United States because they can’t trust us to keep a secret, that’s serious.”

Mr. Obama downplayed calls for an independent investigation, saying his administration is capable of rooting out leakers. He implied that any such leaks may have come from people who no longer work for the government.

“My attitude has been zero tolerance for these kinds of leaks and speculation,” Mr. Obama said. ” We have mechanisms in place, where if we can root out folks who have leaked, they will suffer consequences. We will conduct thorough investigations, as we have in the past.”

Read more: The Washington Times

Source:
PatDollard.com

Excerpted from TIME POLITICS: With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose … Last week’s anemic job-creation and economic-growth data was sandwiched between two Bill Clinton specials: in one television interview, the 42nd President lauded Romney’s business record as “sterling”; in another, he veered from the Obama line on the extension of Bush-era tax cuts …

The failure to unseat Wisconsin’s Republican governor Scott Walker in a recall election was another bad sign for Democrats since it will rev up conservatives nationwide, including the kind of millionaires who gave big bucks to Walker’s effort … Veteran Democratic strategists from previous presidential bids and on Capitol Hill now wonder if the Obama re-election crew is working with the right message … The White House remains on a rough political trajectory, with a potentially adverse Supreme Court decision on the Obama health care law looming, additional bad economic news from Europe coming and more worrisome polling pending …

Another danger for the President: the media freak show. Stalking that circus’ center ring is Matt Drudge, whose caustic website continues to help drive the news cycle with an emphasis on negative, mocking items about Obama and Vice President Joe Biden and their wives. The latest sign of Drudge’s potency: Ed Klein, the author of the virulently anti-Obama book The Amateur, was barred from major TV appearances and mostly ignored by the mainstream media, but the book’s prominence on Drudge’s website propelled it to the No. 1 slot on the New York Times nonfiction list.

What City Councils Are Banning in …

New York City’s Mayor Michael Bloomberg may be making the biggest splash for trying to rid the Big Apple of Big Gulps, among other sugary drinks (see Health, page 20), but other cities have their likes and dislikes too. Here’s a rundown of the most recent bans:

Going, going, gone

Read more: PatDollard.com

by Ken Crow

As they walked down the steps of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a lady asked a venerable, old politician, “Doctor, what form of government have you given us?”

He replied,”I have given you a Republic, Madam, if you can keep it.”

That politician, as you probably know, was none other than Benjamin Franklin.

The greatest threat to our republic is a corrupted electoral process. This isn’t a matter for debate. Not when the signs of it are everywhere: The New Black Panthers intimidating and harassing voters, thousands of folks (some of them disceased) voting two, three (or more) times. We have a serious problem. According to many Attorneys General across America, organizations like ACORN assisted illegal voters to participate in the 2008 elections. And it’s well known that Barack Obama stole the state of Ohio in that election, too.

Florida’s Attorney General and Secretary of State recently began purging their voter rolls– they simply wanted to clear the deceased voters from the records and certify that those remaining were legally able to vote. For their pains they received a cease and desist order from our corrupt U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder. Yes, he’s decided that he wants dead people to vote in Florida. Holder also claimed that trying to take illegal people off the voter rolls is racist.

We all know what happened in Philadelphia during the last election. The New Black Panthers stood on the steps of polling stations, thumping their bats in their hands and intimidating white voters. Although charges were brought against these men and they pled guilty, the then-new Attorney General ordered all charges dropped. The result? These thugs got away with felony voter intimidation.

That’s what we’ve seen happening all across America in recent years: countless instances of voting infractions occurring. We can’t allow this to stand! As a nation, we must insist on an honest and fair electoral Only American citizens should be allowed to vote.

The simplest solution to this dilemma is implementing a standard Voter ID law in all 50 states. Currently, seven states require voters to produce an ID when voting. It only makes sense: we’re required to show an ID when writing a check, using a credit card, purchasing alcohol or boarding an airplane. So why, if Holder’s intentions are honest, should requiring a citizen to show a photo ID when performing the most sacred duty we have as American citizens be questioned?

Restoring America Project Super PAC has committed to getting a voter ID law implemented in every state. Will it be easy? NO! This battle will be a hard-fought and a very expensive one. Basically, we know that it will take a couple hundred thousand miles on the road, thousands of meetings with State Senators and House Members. It will take hundreds of meetings with Secretaries of State and Lieutenant Governors.

Here’s the good news, though– seven states down leaves only forty-three more to go! Iowa, for example, is very close to joining those seven states. Its State House recently approved voter ID legislation; the Senate voted it down– by only one vote. But Restoring America Project believes that we can win the two Senate seat needed to gain a majority, this November, with a bit of work and money. Once this happens, we’ve been told that in the next session, the bill will pass and Iowa’s governor will sign it into law. Chalk up another state for the ID program!

Restoring America Project is devoting the next four years to battling on your behalf, America. Like you, we want to prevent illegal voters from casting ballots in our elections! We don’t want a system corrupted by the ballots of deceased voters, or legitimate voters being intimidated by thugs at the polling place door. We want every voter to go to the polls in the confidence that their ballot will count. We as voters have a sacred right to feel that confidence, since millions of Americans died to allow us to do so!

Over the next year, we will be traveling extensively to meeting with lawmakers. When necessay, on your behlaf we’ll strong arm those who don’t see our point of view. And we will support the opponents of any lawmaker who doesn’t believe that we need Voter ID laws. Yes, we’ll get tough on anyone who refuses to defend our Republic with laws that protect our elections.

Please visit our website (www.restoringamericaproject.org), especially the Issues section. Remember, this project will be ongoing. It could take several years (and millions of dollars) to complete. We do need your financial support, your prayers and your warm wishes. Also, if you feel as though you’re called to pitch in, we need volunteers to do research. Please send us an email, which can be easily done at the above website.

Together, Patriots, we will defend our Republic. Our events will win more voters to our side of the aisle. And we will succeed in cleaning up this corrupted electoral system that allows too many folks to vote that should not be voting.

Feel free to contact me. Ken Crow ( kencrow@restoringamericaproject.org )

Source: ConstitutionClub.org

May 29, 2012

DIDN’T THE NAZIS AND COMMUNISTS TRY THIS SORT OF THING TOO?

Back on Valentine’s Day, I wrote an article entitled “REGIME LAUNCHES ‘TRUTH TEAMS’ – ARE OBAMA YOUTH CAMPS NEXT?” in which I not only provided links to the Regime’s various websites on which everyday Americans could turn in their friends and relatives for having the audacity to question the veracity of Barack Hussein Obama – but I also included a baker’s dozen of obfuscations, fabrications and outright lies told by the O-man in the months just prior to the Regime’s creation of its so-called “Truth Teams.”

I’m sorry, but Barack Obama creating a “truth” team is like Bill Maher teaching a Sunday School class. Or Michael Moore becoming a personal trainer and bringing out a new diet plan. Get the picture? Credibility? ZERO.

After the O-man’s whole “truth” team thing started to receive constant ridicule – particularly the Regime’s hysterical “Attack Watch” website – the “Truth Teams” began to operate on the down low.

Read more: ConstitutionClub.org

By Josh Lederman and Emily Goodin

The Hill, Ballot Box blog

 
Four in ten Democratic voters chose someone other than President Obama on Tuesday in primaries in Arkansas and Kentucky.

In Arkansas, John Wolfe — a perennial, long-shot candidate — took 41 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary, with 71 percent of precincts reporting. Obama came in just under 60 percent. The Associated Press did not call the race for Obama until close to midnight.

And in Kentucky, 42 percent of Democrats chose “uncommitted” rather than cast a vote for the incumbent president. Obama took 58 percent, with 99 percent of precincts reporting.

With turnout low, Obama did get more total votes than presumptive Republican nominee Mitt Romney, who won his primary with almost 67 percent of the vote. Obama had more than 118,600 votes to about 117,100 for Romney.

Obama’s nomination for a second term by the Democratic Party has never been in danger. But the large number of defections is bad optics for Obama, highlighting widespread discontent with his administration among Democrats who come from conservative states.

A felon incarcerated in Texas took 41 percent of the vote from the president when Democrats in West Virginia cast ballots in the primary earlier in May.

The results in both Kentucky and Arkansas were not unexpected; both are solid red states. In 2008, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) won Kentucky with 58 percent and Arkansas with 59 percent.

by David Limbaugh
TownHall.com
May 18, 2012

People have asked what Obama could possibly have been thinking to announce the final step in his “evolution” in favor of same-sex marriage right after another state resoundingly rejected the notion and despite the fact that most Americans oppose it.

Whether or not Joe Biden forced Obama’s hand on the issue, which I doubt, there is little question that Obama was going to make the announcement. The only question was when.

Many assume he decided to do it before the election to increase his fundraising among Hollywood liberals and other leftists. But all the funds in the world might not help if you are going to campaign on policies that are unpopular with the voters. So what gives?

The question isn’t how popular same-sex marriage is; it’s what percentage of people will pick their presidential candidate based on Obama’s announced change in position.

Everyone paying attention knew already that Obama favors same-sex marriage, and his actions — which should speak louder than his words — have strongly supported it, as his Justice Department has been at war against states outlawing the practice. Only certain trusting and naive people believed Obama when he said he was evolving — as opposed to pretending to oppose same-sex marriage for political reasons until he decided to make his announcement.

But his announcement did embolden and energize the LGBT community and its strong advocates. It looks as though it sparked an increase in his fundraising, at least for now, and it is likely that it will help intensify his turnout among social liberals and other strong leftists.

What about the downside? How many people did he alienate with this move? Well, some are saying that he threw the black community under the bus in favor of his gay constituency. But I’m betting Obama is banking on the fact that it will take a lot more than that to keep blacks from voting for him. So he took a calculated and probably minimal risk there.

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