So close, yet so far . . . . The US almost imported more HAMAS members!
The “sad” story of three HAMAS affiliated “scholars” finally came to an end Wednesday. In case you missed it (probably because it was buried by the MSM); three Fulbright Scholars from a university in Gaza were denied entry visas into the US after originally receiving them. If that sounds like a “Kerryism” from 2004 (I voted for the war funding before I voted against it), it is — only worse.
There are many unfortunate wrinkles in this story, from the US pandering to these supposedly ‘victimized’ residents of Gaza by carrying high-tech fingerprinting equipment to an Israeli checkpoint — just to facilitate visa interviews (that is an amazing personalized service that I am sure many US taxpayers would love to receive when they are preparing to travel abroad); to Secretary of State Rice making an absolute fool out of herself by “personally taking up the case” and publicly fronting out Israel in the process.
The jewel in this crown, however, is the fact that even after the Shin Bet warned of these “scholars” and their “potential” baggage (i.e. links to HAMAS), Rice pushed forward — only to eventually make the US once again eat crow on the international scene! From Haartez.com:
The United States has revoked the visas of three Palestinian Fulbright scholars whose cases were taken up personally by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice after Israel refused to let them leave Gaza for interviews, U.S. officials said Monday.
Visas for the three, along with a fourth Palestinian student from Gaza who had hoped to come to the U.S. under a different program, were approved after Rice intervened in June but were rescinded last week when new information about them was received, the officials said.
“There were four Palestinians who were issued visas about whom we then received additional information,” State Department spokesman Gonzalo Gallegos said.
“We decided that we needed to take a closer and harder look at them in light of the additional information we received,” said Gallegos.
He also said the visas were canceled under a prudential revocation clause in immigration rules that allows them to be rescinded based on information gleaned about the holders after they were issued.
“It does not preclude the applicants from reapplying for visas in the future,” he said.
Gallegos declined to comment on the nature of the new information about the four Palestinians, one of whom had actually arrived at Dulles International Airport outside Washington before he was told his visa had been revoked and was forced to return to Jordan.
Readers will be relieved to know that in the aftermath of this debacle, Sec. Rice has ordered a top-to-bottom review of the entire Fulbright Scholarship Program.
Maybe when the State Department dives into those files they will find more people that have come to the United States under the guise of “furthering their education” that are actually here to subvert our country and way of life (possibly via some sort of, umm, ahh . . . Grand Jihad?).
Maybe when they task some investigators, they will see that the (mostly unnamed in the MSM) Gaza University that these folks came from was the Islamic University of Gaza (IUG), which has been alleged here (amongst others) at Central Ohioans Against Terrorism, to be a bastion of HAMAS activity.
In fact, in the story on the Christian Science Monitor website, Mr. Abed and Mr. Abu Shaban give an excellent first hand account of what many terrorism experts in the US have known for a while,
“Mr. Abed and Abu Shaban suspect that their denial is related to having studied at Islamic University, where many of the professors and administrators are affiliated with Hamas.”
Thanks for giving it to us straight boys. We do appreciate your openness . . . on that one.
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August 11, 2008
He Died To Save His Comrades
He Died To Save His Comrades
By BRAD KELLY | Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Congress created the U.S. Army on June 14, 1784, and exactly 203 years later, Ross McGinnis was born.
As a kindergartner, Ross was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.
He gave one answer: a soldier.
And what a GI he turned out to be.
On June 2 — two weeks before he would have turned 21 — McGinnis was given the Medal of Honor, America's highest award for valor.
McGinnis reached Iraq in 2006, when as an Army gunner he helped sweep terrorists out of Adamiyah, near Baghdad.
Unfortunately, he was the 620th recipient to have it bestowed posthumously. Of the 3,448 people honored since President Lincoln signed off on the medal in 1862, McGinnis was only the seventh to receive it since the Vietnam War.
McGinnis displayed his heroism in the Iraq War — especially in December 2006. The private first class was part of motorized patrol in a northeast enclave of Baghdad. From his vantage in the gun turret, he spotted a grenade sailing at his Humvee.
The hand-held bomb flew past McGinnis, through the turret and into the vehicle, landing on the radio controls. He yelled out a warning to the four other soldiers riding inside, but they didn't have time to escape. He decided saving four lives was better than sparing one.
Sacrifice
Without hesitation, the 19-year-old smothered the live grenade with his body and absorbed the explosion, which killed him.
"He had time to jump out of the truck, which is protocol, but chose not to. He's a hero," said Maj. Michael Baka, who was two vehicles ahead of McGinnis in the patrol.
At the Medal of Honor ceremony, President Bush said: "His gallant action directly saved four men from certain serious injury or death. America will always honor the name of this brave soldier who gave all for his country."
The president spoke at the White House alongside McGinnis' parents, Tom and Romayne, and the hero's two sisters. Joining them were the four saved soldiers.
They saw Ross as a regular guy, a dependable friend with a big heart and a carefree spirit. They remembered that every time he left a room, he left everybody in it laughing.
"Ross did not become our hero by dying," wrote Tom and Romayne McGinnis in a statement. "He was a hero long before he died, because he was willing to risk his life to protect the ideals of freedom and justice that America represents."
Ross was born on June 14, 1987, in Meadville, Pa., and moved to Knox, north of Pittsburgh, when he was 3. He was an active kid, playing basketball, soccer and baseball as well as getting involved in the Boy Scouts.
McGinnis was never an honor roll student in high school, but he made his marks. He hoped to become a car technician.
In his eyes, joining the Army was a means to that end. In the service, he could serve his country, plus receive an education that would lead him to the car business.
McGinnis fulfilled his childhood dream by joining the Army when he was 17. After training at Fort Benning, Ga., McGinnis was assigned to the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company, 26th Infantry Regiment, in Schweinfurt, Germany. The outfit shipped out to Iraq in August 2006.
Col. Eric Schacht, the regiment's task force commander, says that of his 900 soldiers, McGinnis starred.
"He was always smiling, he had a positive attitude, he greeted leaders of the platoon with a sense of pride and urgency, and to top it all off he was born on the exact day the U.S. Army was created," Schacht told IBD. "He was born to be a soldier."
McGinnis excelled in weaponry, marksmanship and physical training. That prowess earned him a quick promotion from private to specialist. Maj. Baka inked the papers two hours before McGinnis died.
"I had four platoons, roughly 190 soldiers in my command," Baka said. "There were certain guys that would stand, out and McGinnis was definitely one of those men."
McGinnis was a surgeon with the M2 .50-caliber machine gun and was handpicked to serve as the gunner in the platoon sergeant's Humvee while out on patrol.
The patrol's mission outside of Baghdad was to secure Adamiyah, six square miles of violence.
"The area lacked a U.S. presence for eight months, and insurgent attacks, sniper fire, grenade contact and IEDs were all part of daily life in Adamiyah," Baka said.
The Americans took on the problem with daily motorized patrols through the quadrant's narrow streets. The Humvees became the terrorists' favorite targets.
On Dec. 4, McGinnis' six-vehicle platoon hit the Adamiyah road to restrict enemy movement. He had the team's back, manning the big gun on the last Humvee.
A terrorist on a nearby rooftop threw a grenade at McGinnis' vehicle. He tried to deflect the weapon, but missed it as it fell into the hatch.
He quickly yelled out, "Grenade!"
According to survivor accounts, McGinnis stood up and was preparing to jump out of the Humvee. But for the first time in his Army career, he did not follow protocol. "That is what the machine gunner is supposed to do," Baka said. "He's supposed to announce grenade, give a fair amount of time for people in the vehicle to react and then he's supposed to save himself. No one would have blamed him if he did that."
McGinnis knew that his brethren were unaware of the grenade's location and that they were in a combat-locked Humvee, which made escaping in enough time impossible.
In a split second, McGinnis had to process the threat and act. He pushed the gunner strap out from under him and laid his back right on top of the live grenade.
Baka recalls hearing an explosion, which at first he thought was right outside his own vehicle. Then the major got the news that the patrol's last vehicle was hit, and hit badly.
All four of the Humvee's doors had been blown off. Seeing the damage, Baka thought the platoon suffered a large number of casualties. On closer inspection, the company had lost just one brave soul.
As for the mission, it led to fewer terrorists and a safer Adamiyah.
'He Gave Me A Life'
Staff Sgt. Ian Newland was riding in McGinnis' vehicle.
"By all means I should have died that day. He gave me a life that he can't have now," Newland recalled in an interview. "The things people might take for granted, I'm able to appreciate and have these things all over again, every day, every hour, because of what Ross did."
Within 24 hours, Baka wrote up the recommendation for McGinnis' Medal of Honor. The hero was also awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and other honors.
The Medal of Honor goes to the bravest of the brave — a perfect characterization of Ross McGinnis.
"He sacrificed his life for his four brothers," Baka said. "In my mind, McGinnis is the definition of hero."
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By BRAD KELLY | Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Congress created the U.S. Army on June 14, 1784, and exactly 203 years later, Ross McGinnis was born.
As a kindergartner, Ross was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up.
He gave one answer: a soldier.
And what a GI he turned out to be.
On June 2 — two weeks before he would have turned 21 — McGinnis was given the Medal of Honor, America's highest award for valor.
McGinnis reached Iraq in 2006, when as an Army gunner he helped sweep terrorists out of Adamiyah, near Baghdad.
Unfortunately, he was the 620th recipient to have it bestowed posthumously. Of the 3,448 people honored since President Lincoln signed off on the medal in 1862, McGinnis was only the seventh to receive it since the Vietnam War.
McGinnis displayed his heroism in the Iraq War — especially in December 2006. The private first class was part of motorized patrol in a northeast enclave of Baghdad. From his vantage in the gun turret, he spotted a grenade sailing at his Humvee.
The hand-held bomb flew past McGinnis, through the turret and into the vehicle, landing on the radio controls. He yelled out a warning to the four other soldiers riding inside, but they didn't have time to escape. He decided saving four lives was better than sparing one.
Sacrifice
Without hesitation, the 19-year-old smothered the live grenade with his body and absorbed the explosion, which killed him.
"He had time to jump out of the truck, which is protocol, but chose not to. He's a hero," said Maj. Michael Baka, who was two vehicles ahead of McGinnis in the patrol.
At the Medal of Honor ceremony, President Bush said: "His gallant action directly saved four men from certain serious injury or death. America will always honor the name of this brave soldier who gave all for his country."
The president spoke at the White House alongside McGinnis' parents, Tom and Romayne, and the hero's two sisters. Joining them were the four saved soldiers.
They saw Ross as a regular guy, a dependable friend with a big heart and a carefree spirit. They remembered that every time he left a room, he left everybody in it laughing.
"Ross did not become our hero by dying," wrote Tom and Romayne McGinnis in a statement. "He was a hero long before he died, because he was willing to risk his life to protect the ideals of freedom and justice that America represents."
Ross was born on June 14, 1987, in Meadville, Pa., and moved to Knox, north of Pittsburgh, when he was 3. He was an active kid, playing basketball, soccer and baseball as well as getting involved in the Boy Scouts.
McGinnis was never an honor roll student in high school, but he made his marks. He hoped to become a car technician.
In his eyes, joining the Army was a means to that end. In the service, he could serve his country, plus receive an education that would lead him to the car business.
McGinnis fulfilled his childhood dream by joining the Army when he was 17. After training at Fort Benning, Ga., McGinnis was assigned to the 1st Battalion, Charlie Company, 26th Infantry Regiment, in Schweinfurt, Germany. The outfit shipped out to Iraq in August 2006.
Col. Eric Schacht, the regiment's task force commander, says that of his 900 soldiers, McGinnis starred.
"He was always smiling, he had a positive attitude, he greeted leaders of the platoon with a sense of pride and urgency, and to top it all off he was born on the exact day the U.S. Army was created," Schacht told IBD. "He was born to be a soldier."
McGinnis excelled in weaponry, marksmanship and physical training. That prowess earned him a quick promotion from private to specialist. Maj. Baka inked the papers two hours before McGinnis died.
"I had four platoons, roughly 190 soldiers in my command," Baka said. "There were certain guys that would stand, out and McGinnis was definitely one of those men."
McGinnis was a surgeon with the M2 .50-caliber machine gun and was handpicked to serve as the gunner in the platoon sergeant's Humvee while out on patrol.
The patrol's mission outside of Baghdad was to secure Adamiyah, six square miles of violence.
"The area lacked a U.S. presence for eight months, and insurgent attacks, sniper fire, grenade contact and IEDs were all part of daily life in Adamiyah," Baka said.
The Americans took on the problem with daily motorized patrols through the quadrant's narrow streets. The Humvees became the terrorists' favorite targets.
On Dec. 4, McGinnis' six-vehicle platoon hit the Adamiyah road to restrict enemy movement. He had the team's back, manning the big gun on the last Humvee.
A terrorist on a nearby rooftop threw a grenade at McGinnis' vehicle. He tried to deflect the weapon, but missed it as it fell into the hatch.
He quickly yelled out, "Grenade!"
According to survivor accounts, McGinnis stood up and was preparing to jump out of the Humvee. But for the first time in his Army career, he did not follow protocol. "That is what the machine gunner is supposed to do," Baka said. "He's supposed to announce grenade, give a fair amount of time for people in the vehicle to react and then he's supposed to save himself. No one would have blamed him if he did that."
McGinnis knew that his brethren were unaware of the grenade's location and that they were in a combat-locked Humvee, which made escaping in enough time impossible.
In a split second, McGinnis had to process the threat and act. He pushed the gunner strap out from under him and laid his back right on top of the live grenade.
Baka recalls hearing an explosion, which at first he thought was right outside his own vehicle. Then the major got the news that the patrol's last vehicle was hit, and hit badly.
All four of the Humvee's doors had been blown off. Seeing the damage, Baka thought the platoon suffered a large number of casualties. On closer inspection, the company had lost just one brave soul.
As for the mission, it led to fewer terrorists and a safer Adamiyah.
'He Gave Me A Life'
Staff Sgt. Ian Newland was riding in McGinnis' vehicle.
"By all means I should have died that day. He gave me a life that he can't have now," Newland recalled in an interview. "The things people might take for granted, I'm able to appreciate and have these things all over again, every day, every hour, because of what Ross did."
Within 24 hours, Baka wrote up the recommendation for McGinnis' Medal of Honor. The hero was also awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star, Purple Heart and other honors.
The Medal of Honor goes to the bravest of the brave — a perfect characterization of Ross McGinnis.
"He sacrificed his life for his four brothers," Baka said. "In my mind, McGinnis is the definition of hero."
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Obama's Little Red Schoolhouse
Obama's Little Red Schoolhouse
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Schools: While Obama's children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education.
When Barack Obama collected the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers, he told the teachers that support for alternatives to the education monopoly amounted to "tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice."
He recently told an interviewer that he opposes school choice because "although it might benefit some kids at the top, what you're going to do is leave a lot of kids at the bottom."
Not being left behind are Obama's daughters, who attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. There, tuition ranges from $15,528 for kindergarten to $20,445 for high school. When asked about it during last year's YouTube debate, Sen. Obama responded that it was "the best option" for his children. They had a choice Obama would deny others.
Obama has been completely silent about the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The D.C. School Choice Act of 2003 established the federally funded voucher program that provides vouchers of up to $7,500 for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It lets students attend one of 60 participating nonpublic schools.
But it was funded only through the 2008-09 school year. Democrats such as D.C.'s delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, want to kill the successful program, which shows that money is not the root of a good education.
Norton and Obama seem oblivious to the fact that District school spending is at $13,400 per student — third-highest in the nation. Yet in 2007, D.C. public schools ranked last in math scores and second-to-last in reading scores for all urban public school systems in the U.S., according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Norton is leading the charge to block a mere $18 million in funding for the 2009-10 school year. This demonstration program serves some 1,900 students. A recent Education Department report found that nearly 90% of Opportunity scholarship students had higher reading scores than peers who didn't receive a scholarship.
Not surprisingly, there are five applicants for every opening.
April Cole-Walton's daughter attends St. Peter's Interparish School thanks to an Opportunity Scholarship. "If I could talk to Sen. Obama," she says, "I would say, 'Give me a choice and give my daughter a chance.' "
Fat chance. Obama instead offers support for things like universal preschool, based on the idea that the earlier the government gets its hands on our children, the better off they will be. The nanny state will spend more money and pay for more teachers.
Obama also wants to create something called the American Opportunity Tax Credit to provide a "free" college education by ensuring that the first $4,000 of college tuition is covered for students from lower-income families. Each student will be required to put in 100 hours of "voluntary" national service a year to get the money.
Obama's buddy, former Weatherman terrorist William Ayers, has plans for the same captive student audiences Obama wants to keep captive. Now a tenured Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Ayers works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
One of Ayers' descriptions for a course called "Improving Learning Environments" says a prospective K-12 teacher needs to "be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation."
For his course "Urban Education," Ayers writes: "In a truly just society, there would be a greater sharing of the burden, a fairer distribution of material and human resources."
All of this sounds like Obama's plans for "economic justice" and redistribution of the nation's wealth.
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has employed Ayers as a teacher trainer for the city's public schools. On his Web site, Obama describes Ayers as a "tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a 'respected advisor to Mayor Daley on school reform.' "
And a future secretary of education, perhaps?
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Monday, August 11, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Schools: While Obama's children enjoy the best education money can buy, he wants to deny inner-city children the education change we can believe in — school choice. He prefers cradle-to-diploma collectivist education.
When Barack Obama collected the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers, he told the teachers that support for alternatives to the education monopoly amounted to "tired rhetoric about vouchers and school choice."
He recently told an interviewer that he opposes school choice because "although it might benefit some kids at the top, what you're going to do is leave a lot of kids at the bottom."
Not being left behind are Obama's daughters, who attend the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. There, tuition ranges from $15,528 for kindergarten to $20,445 for high school. When asked about it during last year's YouTube debate, Sen. Obama responded that it was "the best option" for his children. They had a choice Obama would deny others.
Obama has been completely silent about the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
The D.C. School Choice Act of 2003 established the federally funded voucher program that provides vouchers of up to $7,500 for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. It lets students attend one of 60 participating nonpublic schools.
But it was funded only through the 2008-09 school year. Democrats such as D.C.'s delegate to Congress, Eleanor Holmes Norton, want to kill the successful program, which shows that money is not the root of a good education.
Norton and Obama seem oblivious to the fact that District school spending is at $13,400 per student — third-highest in the nation. Yet in 2007, D.C. public schools ranked last in math scores and second-to-last in reading scores for all urban public school systems in the U.S., according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
Norton is leading the charge to block a mere $18 million in funding for the 2009-10 school year. This demonstration program serves some 1,900 students. A recent Education Department report found that nearly 90% of Opportunity scholarship students had higher reading scores than peers who didn't receive a scholarship.
Not surprisingly, there are five applicants for every opening.
April Cole-Walton's daughter attends St. Peter's Interparish School thanks to an Opportunity Scholarship. "If I could talk to Sen. Obama," she says, "I would say, 'Give me a choice and give my daughter a chance.' "
Fat chance. Obama instead offers support for things like universal preschool, based on the idea that the earlier the government gets its hands on our children, the better off they will be. The nanny state will spend more money and pay for more teachers.
Obama also wants to create something called the American Opportunity Tax Credit to provide a "free" college education by ensuring that the first $4,000 of college tuition is covered for students from lower-income families. Each student will be required to put in 100 hours of "voluntary" national service a year to get the money.
Obama's buddy, former Weatherman terrorist William Ayers, has plans for the same captive student audiences Obama wants to keep captive. Now a tenured Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Ayers works to educate teachers in socialist revolutionary ideology, urging that it be passed on to impressionable students.
One of Ayers' descriptions for a course called "Improving Learning Environments" says a prospective K-12 teacher needs to "be aware of the social and moral universe we inhabit and . . . be a teacher capable of hope and struggle, outrage and action, teaching for social justice and liberation."
For his course "Urban Education," Ayers writes: "In a truly just society, there would be a greater sharing of the burden, a fairer distribution of material and human resources."
All of this sounds like Obama's plans for "economic justice" and redistribution of the nation's wealth.
Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley has employed Ayers as a teacher trainer for the city's public schools. On his Web site, Obama describes Ayers as a "tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a 'respected advisor to Mayor Daley on school reform.' "
And a future secretary of education, perhaps?
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Foreign Money Flowing Into Obama Campaign
Foreign Money Flowing Into Obama Campaign
Monday, August 11, 2008 11:29 AM
By: Jim Meyers
Record amounts of money from abroad are flowing into Barack Obama’s presidential campaign — and there is no easy way to determine if foreigners are making illegal donations.
Through June, Democrat Obama received $2.8 million in donations from foreign sources, according to federal election records obtained by The Hill newspaper.
That dwarfs the $381,809 that Republican rival John McCain received from abroad. It is also more than President Bush and John Kerry combined received in the 2004 presidential campaign. Bush took in $747,857 from foreign sources; Kerry got $550,834.
According to federal laws, contributors to federal, state and local elections must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with green cards.
But with many Americans living overseas and contributing to campaigns, making sure the donations are legal can be difficult. Foreigners often can get away with contributing to a campaign if they are willing to make false statements about their status.
“If a contributor lies to campaigns, that’s outside the control of the campaign,” Jan Baran, an elections and ethics lawyer with the firm Wiley Rein, told The Hill.
And Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission general counsel, said the ability to donate money via the Internet “has raised the ease with which someone could make a foreign national contribution.”
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Monday, August 11, 2008 11:29 AM
By: Jim Meyers
Record amounts of money from abroad are flowing into Barack Obama’s presidential campaign — and there is no easy way to determine if foreigners are making illegal donations.
Through June, Democrat Obama received $2.8 million in donations from foreign sources, according to federal election records obtained by The Hill newspaper.
That dwarfs the $381,809 that Republican rival John McCain received from abroad. It is also more than President Bush and John Kerry combined received in the 2004 presidential campaign. Bush took in $747,857 from foreign sources; Kerry got $550,834.
According to federal laws, contributors to federal, state and local elections must be U.S. citizens or permanent residents with green cards.
But with many Americans living overseas and contributing to campaigns, making sure the donations are legal can be difficult. Foreigners often can get away with contributing to a campaign if they are willing to make false statements about their status.
“If a contributor lies to campaigns, that’s outside the control of the campaign,” Jan Baran, an elections and ethics lawyer with the firm Wiley Rein, told The Hill.
And Larry Noble, a former Federal Election Commission general counsel, said the ability to donate money via the Internet “has raised the ease with which someone could make a foreign national contribution.”
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THE END (?) OF CHANGE
THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE FROM A CONSISTANT READER AND CONTRIBUTOR AND WE THANK YOU. TH/DAA
What do you think? Is it this bad or is this a scare tactic or both??!! Use your own judgment when reading articles as this. The contents are from the cyber world.
I am OPTIMISTIC that Americans will wake up before it's too late...
However, if we don't wake up, what kind of world will we hand over to our children?
This link below offers a poignant, yet chilling message. It's a 'must watch' video,
that lasts about 3 minutes, and needs to be forwarded all across America - PLEASE
watch it!
Don't leave the first screen, it will open automatically.
After the video finishes, click on 'Enter The Site' -- scroll down halfway to
see a map of the United States , that clearly defines where the Muslims
have set up Al-Qaeda terrorist cells in all but a few states. Can you afford to
ignore it?
Go To: http://www.usawakeup.org/
(YOU MAY HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT THE ADRESS AND THEN DO A SEARCH ON IT) BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE AND TRAILERS. IT WILL GIVE YOU SOME REAL INSIGHT AND GIVE YOU REASON TO VOTE AGAINST OBAMA.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free." - Ronald Reagan
What do you think? Is it this bad or is this a scare tactic or both??!! Use your own judgment when reading articles as this. The contents are from the cyber world.
I am OPTIMISTIC that Americans will wake up before it's too late...
However, if we don't wake up, what kind of world will we hand over to our children?
This link below offers a poignant, yet chilling message. It's a 'must watch' video,
that lasts about 3 minutes, and needs to be forwarded all across America - PLEASE
watch it!
Don't leave the first screen, it will open automatically.
After the video finishes, click on 'Enter The Site' -- scroll down halfway to
see a map of the United States , that clearly defines where the Muslims
have set up Al-Qaeda terrorist cells in all but a few states. Can you afford to
ignore it?
Go To: http://www.usawakeup.org/
(YOU MAY HAVE TO HIGHLIGHT THE ADRESS AND THEN DO A SEARCH ON IT) BUT YOU REALLY NEED TO SEE THE WHOLE PICTURE AND TRAILERS. IT WILL GIVE YOU SOME REAL INSIGHT AND GIVE YOU REASON TO VOTE AGAINST OBAMA.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children what it was once like in the United States when men were free." - Ronald Reagan
Russian Action 'Must Not Go Unanswered'
Cheney: Russian Action 'Must Not Go Unanswered'
Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:00 PM
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney says Russia's military actions in Georgia "must not go unanswered."
Cheney spoke Sunday afternoon with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "The vice president expressed the United States' solidarity with the Georgian people and their democratically elected government in the face of this threat to Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Cheney's press secretary, Lee Ann McBride, said.
Cheney told Saakashvili "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States, as well as the broader international community," McBride said.
Sunday, August 10, 2008 9:00 PM
WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney says Russia's military actions in Georgia "must not go unanswered."
Cheney spoke Sunday afternoon with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "The vice president expressed the United States' solidarity with the Georgian people and their democratically elected government in the face of this threat to Georgia's sovereignty and territorial integrity," Cheney's press secretary, Lee Ann McBride, said.
Cheney told Saakashvili "Russian aggression must not go unanswered, and that its continuation would have serious consequences for its relations with the United States, as well as the broader international community," McBride said.
Lieberman on McCain's VP Short List
Lieberman on McCain's VP Short List
Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:35 PM
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee eight years ago, is on Sen. John McCain's short list of VP candidates, according to a McCain campaign adviser.
“[McCain] loves Lieberman. And he is on the [short] list because Lieberman has never embarrassed anyone, never misspoken. The first rule is, don’t take someone who costs you votes,” the McCain adviser told the Financial Times.
Still, warned the adviser, Lieberman on the GOP ticket won't be easy, noting that the independent Lieberman caucuses with Democrats in the Senate.
“Conservatives would be pissed as hell – I think you would have a revolt, but sometimes John does what John wants to do,” the McCain adviser said.
Another McCain adviser told the Times that McCain wouldn't base his VP decision on “tactical considerations.”
“He can be pragmatic, but on the biggest decisions he tends to favor his instinct for the bigger picture,” the adviser said.
Lieberman’s office declined to comment, as did the McCain campaign.
Lieberman has consistenly said he wouldn't run for vice president on the GOP ticket.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:35 PM
Sen. Joe Lieberman, who was the Democratic vice presidential nominee eight years ago, is on Sen. John McCain's short list of VP candidates, according to a McCain campaign adviser.
“[McCain] loves Lieberman. And he is on the [short] list because Lieberman has never embarrassed anyone, never misspoken. The first rule is, don’t take someone who costs you votes,” the McCain adviser told the Financial Times.
Still, warned the adviser, Lieberman on the GOP ticket won't be easy, noting that the independent Lieberman caucuses with Democrats in the Senate.
“Conservatives would be pissed as hell – I think you would have a revolt, but sometimes John does what John wants to do,” the McCain adviser said.
Another McCain adviser told the Times that McCain wouldn't base his VP decision on “tactical considerations.”
“He can be pragmatic, but on the biggest decisions he tends to favor his instinct for the bigger picture,” the adviser said.
Lieberman’s office declined to comment, as did the McCain campaign.
Lieberman has consistenly said he wouldn't run for vice president on the GOP ticket.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved.
LIKE HITLERS ATTACK???
Monday, August 11, 2008 11:44 AM
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
On Oct. 3, 1938, Adolf Hitler's armies marched into Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. Germany said it was responding to separatist demands from the large German population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Germany.
Hitler's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.
On Aug. 7, 2008, Vladimir Putin's armies marched into South Ossetia, a part of Georgia. Russia said it was responding to separatist demands from the large Russian population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Russia.
Putin's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.
Encouraged by his occupation of Sudetenland, Hitler continued his designs on Czechoslovakia itself and invaded the rest of the nation a few months later.
Will history continue to repeat itself?
Georgia is one of the two countries that have split off from the old Soviet Union and most firmly reached out to the West. Now Putin is testing whether the West will respond to an overt Russian military attack on a part of Georgia, doubtless paving the way for a full scale invasion, perhaps in the coming days. One immediate Russian move would be to use its newfound military leverage to force Georgia to give up Abkhazia, another province with a large Russian population.
Russia has encouraged migration by ethnic Russians into its satellite empire ever since Stalin's days and now is using the provinces with large Russian populations to foment discord in nations that lean to the West.
The United States and the European Union must not turn away at this crucial moment in history. The U.S. should take visible steps to bolster Georgia, including the dispatch of supplies, materials, and other manifestations of our determination not to let this nation be invaded.
Russia's goal in this imperialism is to intimidate any nation on its borders into rejecting overtures from the West and to try to prove that the West will offer no real protection against Russian military designs.
NATO should speed consideration of Georgia's application for admission and should extend its security umbrella to include the struggling democracy.
If the United States appeases Russia now, it will pay the same price British Prime Minister Nevelle Chamberlain paid in the 1930s. This invasion must not be allowed to stand or, at the very least, it must be contained to south Ossetia and not allowed to lap over into the rest of Georgia.
© 2008 Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
By: Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
On Oct. 3, 1938, Adolf Hitler's armies marched into Sudetenland, a part of Czechoslovakia. Germany said it was responding to separatist demands from the large German population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Germany.
Hitler's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.
On Aug. 7, 2008, Vladimir Putin's armies marched into South Ossetia, a part of Georgia. Russia said it was responding to separatist demands from the large Russian population that lived there and that she was merely honoring their desire for reunion with Russia.
Putin's tanks took over a vital part of an independent country that had largely rejected his overtures and allied itself with the West. Neither Britain nor France nor the United States did a thing to stop him.
Encouraged by his occupation of Sudetenland, Hitler continued his designs on Czechoslovakia itself and invaded the rest of the nation a few months later.
Will history continue to repeat itself?
Georgia is one of the two countries that have split off from the old Soviet Union and most firmly reached out to the West. Now Putin is testing whether the West will respond to an overt Russian military attack on a part of Georgia, doubtless paving the way for a full scale invasion, perhaps in the coming days. One immediate Russian move would be to use its newfound military leverage to force Georgia to give up Abkhazia, another province with a large Russian population.
Russia has encouraged migration by ethnic Russians into its satellite empire ever since Stalin's days and now is using the provinces with large Russian populations to foment discord in nations that lean to the West.
The United States and the European Union must not turn away at this crucial moment in history. The U.S. should take visible steps to bolster Georgia, including the dispatch of supplies, materials, and other manifestations of our determination not to let this nation be invaded.
Russia's goal in this imperialism is to intimidate any nation on its borders into rejecting overtures from the West and to try to prove that the West will offer no real protection against Russian military designs.
NATO should speed consideration of Georgia's application for admission and should extend its security umbrella to include the struggling democracy.
If the United States appeases Russia now, it will pay the same price British Prime Minister Nevelle Chamberlain paid in the 1930s. This invasion must not be allowed to stand or, at the very least, it must be contained to south Ossetia and not allowed to lap over into the rest of Georgia.
© 2008 Dick Morris & Eileen McGann
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Reparations By Another Name
SINCE A FEW OF CITIZENS ARE DESCENDANTS OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS (NOTED IN HISTORY AS 'BLACK IRISH'), IS REPARATIONS DUE THEM ALSO? AND WHAT OF THE BROKEN PROMISES TO THE UTES, NAVAJOS, APACHE, WHAT ABOUT THEM??
Reparations By Another Name
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Election '08: Barack Obama says Washington shouldn't just offer apologies for slavery, but also "deeds." Don't worry, he says, he's not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don't be.
'I consistently believe that when it comes to . . . reparations," Obama recently told a gathering of minority journalists, "the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
A few days later, he clarified his remarks, saying he's not calling for direct cash payments to descendents of slaves, but rather indirect aid in the form of government programs that will "close the gap" between what he sees as white America and black America.
He says government should offer "universal" programs — such as universal health care, universal mortgage credits, college tuition, job training and even universal 401(k)s — that "disproportionately affect people of color."
In other words, reparations by another name.
Obama knows that if he pushes too hard on reparations, he might scare off white voters. So he couches race-specific welfare as "universal" social programs that appeal to broad-based political coalitions — "even if they disproportionately help minorities," he confides in his book, "Audacity of Hope."
Obama has a name for his scheme: "universal strategies."
"An emphasis on universal, as opposed to race-specific, programs isn't just good policy," he wrote. "It's also good politics."
Maybe so. But not all his plans for reparations are roundabout. His book and Web site outline a separate plan calling for essentially a government bailout of the inner cities. Among other things, he proposes:
• Doling out faith-based grants "targeting ex-offenders."
• Subsidizing supermarket chains that relocate to the inner city to deliver "fresh produce" to blacks, helping wean them off unhealthy fast food.
• Imposing "goals and timetables for minority hiring" on large corporations whose work forces are deemed too white.
• Continuing to fund the Community Development Block Grant program, Head Start and HUD public housing subsidies.
• Funding Small Business Administration loans for minority businesses who train ex-felons, including gangbangers, for the "green jobs" of the future, such as installing extra insulation in homes.
• Doubling the funding for federal after-school programs such as midnight basketball.
• Subsidizing job training, day care, transportation for inner-city poor, as well as doubling the funding of the federal Jobs Access and Reverse Commute program.
• Expanding the eligibility of the earned income tax credit to include more poor, and indexing it to inflation.
• Adopting entire inner-city neighborhoods as wards of the federal government.
• Spending billions on new inner-city employment programs, including prison-to-work programs.
This is just a down payment on the "economic justice" Obama has promised the NAACP — financed by "tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth," he says in his book.
And the indirect aid he's proposing now could quickly turn into cash transfers once Obama is safely ensconced in the White House.
Claiming "blacks were forced into ghettos," Obama is certainly sympathetic to the idea of reparations. His church has actively petitioned for them for decades. And he's strongly suggested there's a legal case to be made for them.
"So many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow," he said. "We still haven't fixed them."
He assumes the economic gap is a legacy of discrimination and largely unrelated to personal responsibility. He also makes it seem things haven't gotten better for blacks.
In this, Obama is intellectually dishonest. In his book, he cites statistics showing a 70% rise over the past two decades in the number of "Latino families considered middle class," but never cites one stat showing the even more impressive gains of the black middle class. He complains about low black wages, but never mentions the quantum leap in black home-ownership rates.
Why? Such stats would undermine his case for roundabout reparations. Even if it were true, he says, "better isn't good enough."
"The problems of inner-city poverty arise from our failure to face up to an often tragic past," Obama said.
Now it's payback time.
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Reparations By Another Name
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 4:30 PM PT
Election '08: Barack Obama says Washington shouldn't just offer apologies for slavery, but also "deeds." Don't worry, he says, he's not talking about direct reparations. Relieved? Don't be.
'I consistently believe that when it comes to . . . reparations," Obama recently told a gathering of minority journalists, "the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds."
A few days later, he clarified his remarks, saying he's not calling for direct cash payments to descendents of slaves, but rather indirect aid in the form of government programs that will "close the gap" between what he sees as white America and black America.
He says government should offer "universal" programs — such as universal health care, universal mortgage credits, college tuition, job training and even universal 401(k)s — that "disproportionately affect people of color."
In other words, reparations by another name.
Obama knows that if he pushes too hard on reparations, he might scare off white voters. So he couches race-specific welfare as "universal" social programs that appeal to broad-based political coalitions — "even if they disproportionately help minorities," he confides in his book, "Audacity of Hope."
Obama has a name for his scheme: "universal strategies."
"An emphasis on universal, as opposed to race-specific, programs isn't just good policy," he wrote. "It's also good politics."
Maybe so. But not all his plans for reparations are roundabout. His book and Web site outline a separate plan calling for essentially a government bailout of the inner cities. Among other things, he proposes:
• Doling out faith-based grants "targeting ex-offenders."
• Subsidizing supermarket chains that relocate to the inner city to deliver "fresh produce" to blacks, helping wean them off unhealthy fast food.
• Imposing "goals and timetables for minority hiring" on large corporations whose work forces are deemed too white.
• Continuing to fund the Community Development Block Grant program, Head Start and HUD public housing subsidies.
• Funding Small Business Administration loans for minority businesses who train ex-felons, including gangbangers, for the "green jobs" of the future, such as installing extra insulation in homes.
• Doubling the funding for federal after-school programs such as midnight basketball.
• Subsidizing job training, day care, transportation for inner-city poor, as well as doubling the funding of the federal Jobs Access and Reverse Commute program.
• Expanding the eligibility of the earned income tax credit to include more poor, and indexing it to inflation.
• Adopting entire inner-city neighborhoods as wards of the federal government.
• Spending billions on new inner-city employment programs, including prison-to-work programs.
This is just a down payment on the "economic justice" Obama has promised the NAACP — financed by "tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth," he says in his book.
And the indirect aid he's proposing now could quickly turn into cash transfers once Obama is safely ensconced in the White House.
Claiming "blacks were forced into ghettos," Obama is certainly sympathetic to the idea of reparations. His church has actively petitioned for them for decades. And he's strongly suggested there's a legal case to be made for them.
"So many of the disparities that exist in the African-American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow," he said. "We still haven't fixed them."
He assumes the economic gap is a legacy of discrimination and largely unrelated to personal responsibility. He also makes it seem things haven't gotten better for blacks.
In this, Obama is intellectually dishonest. In his book, he cites statistics showing a 70% rise over the past two decades in the number of "Latino families considered middle class," but never cites one stat showing the even more impressive gains of the black middle class. He complains about low black wages, but never mentions the quantum leap in black home-ownership rates.
Why? Such stats would undermine his case for roundabout reparations. Even if it were true, he says, "better isn't good enough."
"The problems of inner-city poverty arise from our failure to face up to an often tragic past," Obama said.
Now it's payback time.
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Iran's Time Bomb
THERE IS A TIME WHEN ACTION MUST BE TAKEN AND THAT TIME IS NOW. THE FEAR TO ME IS THAT IF WE END UP WITH OBAMA WE WILL SHORTLY LOSE OUR NATION VIA INSURRECTION OR INVASION VIA SUIT CASE NUKES OR INTERCONTINENTAL MISSILES FROM OUR KNOW ENEMIES.A THOUGHT FROM DAA.
Iran's Time Bomb
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Geopolitics: Summer vacations, Olympic Games and even election campaigns must not distract us from the frightening reality that Iran is building a nuclear bomb and that it may soon be too late to do anything about it.
The U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China offered Iran a generous package of incentives last week hoping to convince the mullahs that developing a nuclear weapon is not in their interest. Iran's answer? A vague promise of a "final response" somewhere down the line.
It's obvious that Tehran is stalling. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows that the most serious nation in the group — the U.S. — is going through a change of administrations, and that all he has to do is wait. If Barack Obama wins — and Iran 's leaders clearly believe he will — then game over. Obama won't be nearly as tough or as resilient as President Bush, or even France's Nicolas Sarkozy.
That's the game we're playing. Iran has doubled to 6,000 the number of high-tech centrifuges it has working to turn raw yellowcake uranium into highly refined nuclear material that can be used in a bomb. And tests of its Shahab-3 missiles, capable of reaching Europe, show Tehran is serious about its threats.
Three separate resolutions have been voted by the U.N. Security Council calling on Iran to halt its uranium-refinement program. Iran answers no and gets away with it. The reason, sad to say, is our "allies" in getting Iran's compliance are half-engaged at best.
China's daily need for oil is growing by half a million barrels a year. It's also building a blue ocean navy to rival ours. Think it wants to help?
Russia, meanwhile, has hundreds of billions of dollars worth of construction projects in Iran. And just last week, it released a strategic plan, "Concept to Develop the Russian Armed Forces until 2030," that recognizes the U.S. as the world's sole superpower and one of Russia's biggest threats.
Here are two major members of the Security Council, each viewing the U.S. as a potential foe and neither wanting to upset Iran. From them we can expect no help.
As for Europe, another new report reveals that its exports to Iran have surged 18% the past year. So much for economic sanctions the European Union claims to want.
That leaves only two serious players at the table across from Iran — the U.S. and Israel. We're already engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we've reportedly sent two more aircraft carriers to the Gulf and Red Sea to join the two battle groups there now.
But as the military sends one message, the State Department sends another. "Iran has a way out if they ever wish," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week about Tehran's intransigence, "but we will seriously pursue sanctions if they don't."
Talk about sanctions isn't enough — especially if we can't get Russia and China to go along.
In recent days, Iran's rhetoric has hardened, including a threat to shut the waterway through which a quarter of the world's oil travels. "Closing the Strait of Hormuz for an unlimited period of time would be very easy," said Iranian Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of the radical Revolutionary Guards.
Those who still think Iran poses no threat should think again. So should those who think time is on our side. Iran has repeatedly threatened to get rid of Israel, and three weeks have already passed since Mohamad ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared that Iran could have a bomb "within six months" — just in time for a new American president to take office.
Given the uncertainty and danger, Israel is reportedly doing what it must — prepare to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. It has conducted war games in the Mediterranean and gone on a global buying spree to build up its arsenal of attack jets and submarines.
Israel says it can take out Iran's nukes, and there's no reason to doubt that. If it does, the U.S. should be prepared to give any aid Israel needs — including using those powerful Gulf battle groups.
Michael Rubin, an expert on Iran and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has observed that "Iranians play chess while Americans play checkers."
There is no excuse for us to get into a position where we're staring dumbfounded at the game board when Ahmadinejad, having finally developed a nuclear weapon, shouts "checkmate!"
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Iran's Time Bomb
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Friday, August 08, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Geopolitics: Summer vacations, Olympic Games and even election campaigns must not distract us from the frightening reality that Iran is building a nuclear bomb and that it may soon be too late to do anything about it.
The U.S., Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China offered Iran a generous package of incentives last week hoping to convince the mullahs that developing a nuclear weapon is not in their interest. Iran's answer? A vague promise of a "final response" somewhere down the line.
It's obvious that Tehran is stalling. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad knows that the most serious nation in the group — the U.S. — is going through a change of administrations, and that all he has to do is wait. If Barack Obama wins — and Iran 's leaders clearly believe he will — then game over. Obama won't be nearly as tough or as resilient as President Bush, or even France's Nicolas Sarkozy.
That's the game we're playing. Iran has doubled to 6,000 the number of high-tech centrifuges it has working to turn raw yellowcake uranium into highly refined nuclear material that can be used in a bomb. And tests of its Shahab-3 missiles, capable of reaching Europe, show Tehran is serious about its threats.
Three separate resolutions have been voted by the U.N. Security Council calling on Iran to halt its uranium-refinement program. Iran answers no and gets away with it. The reason, sad to say, is our "allies" in getting Iran's compliance are half-engaged at best.
China's daily need for oil is growing by half a million barrels a year. It's also building a blue ocean navy to rival ours. Think it wants to help?
Russia, meanwhile, has hundreds of billions of dollars worth of construction projects in Iran. And just last week, it released a strategic plan, "Concept to Develop the Russian Armed Forces until 2030," that recognizes the U.S. as the world's sole superpower and one of Russia's biggest threats.
Here are two major members of the Security Council, each viewing the U.S. as a potential foe and neither wanting to upset Iran. From them we can expect no help.
As for Europe, another new report reveals that its exports to Iran have surged 18% the past year. So much for economic sanctions the European Union claims to want.
That leaves only two serious players at the table across from Iran — the U.S. and Israel. We're already engaged in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we've reportedly sent two more aircraft carriers to the Gulf and Red Sea to join the two battle groups there now.
But as the military sends one message, the State Department sends another. "Iran has a way out if they ever wish," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week about Tehran's intransigence, "but we will seriously pursue sanctions if they don't."
Talk about sanctions isn't enough — especially if we can't get Russia and China to go along.
In recent days, Iran's rhetoric has hardened, including a threat to shut the waterway through which a quarter of the world's oil travels. "Closing the Strait of Hormuz for an unlimited period of time would be very easy," said Iranian Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of the radical Revolutionary Guards.
Those who still think Iran poses no threat should think again. So should those who think time is on our side. Iran has repeatedly threatened to get rid of Israel, and three weeks have already passed since Mohamad ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, declared that Iran could have a bomb "within six months" — just in time for a new American president to take office.
Given the uncertainty and danger, Israel is reportedly doing what it must — prepare to strike Iran's nuclear facilities. It has conducted war games in the Mediterranean and gone on a global buying spree to build up its arsenal of attack jets and submarines.
Israel says it can take out Iran's nukes, and there's no reason to doubt that. If it does, the U.S. should be prepared to give any aid Israel needs — including using those powerful Gulf battle groups.
Michael Rubin, an expert on Iran and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, has observed that "Iranians play chess while Americans play checkers."
There is no excuse for us to get into a position where we're staring dumbfounded at the game board when Ahmadinejad, having finally developed a nuclear weapon, shouts "checkmate!"
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Justice, American-Style
Justice, American-Style
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Thursday, August 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Jurisprudence: Over international objections, a foreign-born killer of American citizens is executed in Texas. Would this be allowed to happen in the administration of "citizen of the world" Barack Obama?
It took 15 years, but Mexican-born Jose Medellin, who confessed to and was convicted of participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers in 1993, was executed Tuesday after a four-hour delay while the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal based on the alleged denial of his right to contact the Mexican consulate for legal assistance under a 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention.
In 1993, Medellin confessed to participating in the rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, who were sodomized and strangled with their own shoelaces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime. He and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row.
The International Court of Justice, formerly the World Court, ruled in 2004 that U.S. courts should review the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners on death row because of the alleged treaty violation. The ICJ ordered — yes, ordered — the U.S. to "provide, by means of its own choosing, review and reconsideration of the conviction and sentence of Medellin and the others."
Texas authorities argued that Medellin never sought Mexican consular protections until four years after he was arrested. By then, he had already been tried for capital murder and rape, convicted and condemned. The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals upheld the conviction on the grounds that Medellin hadn't complained of any violation of his consular rights under the treaty, and therefore had waived them.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court gave the final word on Medellin's appeal. Writing the 6-3 majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts, whose confirmation Sen. Obama voted against, said that a Texas court, or any American court, is not under any obligation to obey and be subservient to any foreign court.
"(N)ot all international law obligations automatically constitute binding federal law enforceable in the United State courts," Roberts wrote. He noted that giving "the judgments of an international tribunal a higher status than that enjoyed by many of our most fundamental constitutional protections" was never a consideration of those who wrote the U.S. Constitution.
Ted Cruz, solicitor general of Texas, applauded the high court's decision. "The United States Constitution vests sovereignty in the Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the president, the 50 states, and ultimately, in We the People," he said. "Had Medellin prevailed, American sovereignty and independence would have been gravely undermined."
The type of justices a President Obama might nominate would defer to the ICJ and welcome the intrusion of foreign law and foreign entities into U.S. jurisprudence.
In a speech in South Africa recently, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued that if judges can consult law review articles and such in the U.S., "why not the analysis of a question similar to the one we confront contained in an opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the German Constitutional Court or the European Court of Human Rights?"
Justice Stephen Breyer, another citizen of the world, recently said: "We see all the time . . . how the world really — it's trite but it's true — is growing together. The challenge (will be) whether our Constitution . . . fits into the governing documents of other nations."
Whether our Constitution fits?
For our part, we think that the Constitution and our laws belong to the American people, to be changed through and by our elected legislatures. And we think that those who assault, rape and murder American citizens should be tried in American courts under American laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court rightly decided that Medellin received full due process under American law for the rape and murder of these young Americans. But one or two Obama appointees to the Supreme Court and we could have a situation where the American criminal justice system becomes subject to an international veto.
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Jurisprudence: Over international objections, a foreign-born killer of American citizens is executed in Texas. Would this be allowed to happen in the administration of "citizen of the world" Barack Obama?
It took 15 years, but Mexican-born Jose Medellin, who confessed to and was convicted of participating in the rape and murder of two Houston teenagers in 1993, was executed Tuesday after a four-hour delay while the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a final appeal based on the alleged denial of his right to contact the Mexican consulate for legal assistance under a 1963 treaty known as the Vienna Convention.
In 1993, Medellin confessed to participating in the rape and murder of Jennifer Ertman, 14, and Elizabeth Pena, 16, who were sodomized and strangled with their own shoelaces. Medellin bragged about keeping one girl's Mickey Mouse watch as a souvenir of the crime. He and four others were convicted of capital murder and sent to Texas' death row.
The International Court of Justice, formerly the World Court, ruled in 2004 that U.S. courts should review the convictions of Medellin and 50 other Mexican-born prisoners on death row because of the alleged treaty violation. The ICJ ordered — yes, ordered — the U.S. to "provide, by means of its own choosing, review and reconsideration of the conviction and sentence of Medellin and the others."
Texas authorities argued that Medellin never sought Mexican consular protections until four years after he was arrested. By then, he had already been tried for capital murder and rape, convicted and condemned. The Texas Criminal Court of Appeals upheld the conviction on the grounds that Medellin hadn't complained of any violation of his consular rights under the treaty, and therefore had waived them.
Earlier this year, the Supreme Court gave the final word on Medellin's appeal. Writing the 6-3 majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts, whose confirmation Sen. Obama voted against, said that a Texas court, or any American court, is not under any obligation to obey and be subservient to any foreign court.
"(N)ot all international law obligations automatically constitute binding federal law enforceable in the United State courts," Roberts wrote. He noted that giving "the judgments of an international tribunal a higher status than that enjoyed by many of our most fundamental constitutional protections" was never a consideration of those who wrote the U.S. Constitution.
Ted Cruz, solicitor general of Texas, applauded the high court's decision. "The United States Constitution vests sovereignty in the Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court, the president, the 50 states, and ultimately, in We the People," he said. "Had Medellin prevailed, American sovereignty and independence would have been gravely undermined."
The type of justices a President Obama might nominate would defer to the ICJ and welcome the intrusion of foreign law and foreign entities into U.S. jurisprudence.
In a speech in South Africa recently, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg argued that if judges can consult law review articles and such in the U.S., "why not the analysis of a question similar to the one we confront contained in an opinion of the Supreme Court of Canada, the Constitutional Court of South Africa, the German Constitutional Court or the European Court of Human Rights?"
Justice Stephen Breyer, another citizen of the world, recently said: "We see all the time . . . how the world really — it's trite but it's true — is growing together. The challenge (will be) whether our Constitution . . . fits into the governing documents of other nations."
Whether our Constitution fits?
For our part, we think that the Constitution and our laws belong to the American people, to be changed through and by our elected legislatures. And we think that those who assault, rape and murder American citizens should be tried in American courts under American laws.
The U.S. Supreme Court rightly decided that Medellin received full due process under American law for the rape and murder of these young Americans. But one or two Obama appointees to the Supreme Court and we could have a situation where the American criminal justice system becomes subject to an international veto.
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August 8, 2008
Demand That Democrats Allow Drilling
TO REINFORCE OUR NEED TO DRILL EACH OF US SHOULD CALL OUR FEDERAL BOOBS AND LET THEM KNOW OUR FEELING OR LET EACH OF THEM HAVE NO HEAT IN THEIR HOMES AND FORCE THEM TO USE BICYCLES TO GET TO WORK OR EVEN BETTER RICKSHAWS. DAA
Demand That Democrats Allow Drilling
Thursday, August 7, 2008 5:13 PM
By: Mike Reagan Article Font Size
Republicans have their backs against the wall, facing a bloodbath on Election Day that will leave the party in shambles and the nation in the hands of the worst conglomeration of demagogues, scoundrels and loony leftists ever put together in our nation’s history.
When you’re fighting for your life, you have two choices: whimper about your plight while the other side cuts you to pieces, or fight as if your life depends on it, which of course it does.
Dark as the outlook for survival may seem, there is a ray of light that if taken advantage of can not only save the GOP, but turn it into a rout of the Democrats that could make Election Day a victory celebration for the Republicans instead of a mournful wake.
The Democrats, who have long shown a shocking talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of near certain victory, are now trying mightily to commit political suicide, yet the majority of elected Republicans are either too blind to see a golden opportunity handed to them on a silver platter, or too stupid to take advantage of it.
Think about it, the vast majority of Americans — almost 80 percent of them — are angry and demanding that Congress allow drilling for oil here in the mainland United States, offshore and in Alaska, and the Democrats are thumbing their nose at them and adamantly refusing to lift the ban on drilling.
Their leadership is so committed to preventing the commonsense, long-term solution to the energy crises that they not only refuse to allow a vote on the measure, but skip town without addressing the crisis, with the speaker of the house gadding off to Florida and elsewhere to sell her worst-selling book (a pitiful 2,700 or so copies sold thus far, according to Matt Drudge) while her fellow Americans groan under the burden of $4.00 a gallon gasoline.
Her motto isn’t Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake” — it’s more like let the people buy my book and keep shelling out $4 a gallon for gas.
That’s a gift from the gods, a life-saving issue that puts the pro-drilling Republicans on the right side of the year’s hottest political controversy, and provides them with a weapon they can use to draw the majority of voters to their side and save the party from an impending electoral disaster.
Pushed to the limit, it can make Election Day 2008 a banner day in the party’s history.
That was obvious to me the minute I saw which way the wind was blowing. Here was the issue that puts the GOP solidly in league with the American people. When I talked with Texas Congressman John Carter on the phone I told him the media was not going to present the GOP’s position on the matter, so the Republicans had to do the job themselves in a way the media could not ignore.
They had to dramatize their stand.
I told Rep. Carter that with the Democrats fleeing town in droves the Republicans in both houses needed to get back to the Hill and by their presence there in the empty House and Senate chambers demonstrate the Democrats’ shameful refusal to respond the demands of the American people,
I said they should demand that the vacationing Democrats come back now and respond to the people’s wishes for a solution. I also said that the president needed to call the Democrats back to deal with the crisis.
I added that the media would have to cover the event, thus dramatizing the Democrats’ flight from Washington in the middle of a crisis facing every American. He agreed with me and went to the leadership and they agreed, and the resulting GOP response is getting the media’s begrudging attention.
It’s not enough, however.
This needs to be a party-wide strategy. The entire Republican House membership and all their Senate Republican colleagues need to be on the Hill now, making the case for Congress to reconvene now as loud as they can. And the president needs to call the Congress back into session and demand that the Democrats act to put an end to the crisis now.
This is a golden opportunity, and if the GOP fails to take full advantage of it they will deserve it if the voters go with Democrats in November. The American people are with the Republicans on the most important issue of our time.
The question is, are the Republicans on their side and willing to lead them in the fight to use all the oil resources the Lord has given us in such great abundance and which now are untapped beneath our feet because the Democrats won’t allow us to drill down to get it.
Republicans can unite to fight and win. Or they can do what they seem to do best these days, cringe and surrender.
It’s up to them.
© 2008 Mike Reagan
Demand That Democrats Allow Drilling
Thursday, August 7, 2008 5:13 PM
By: Mike Reagan Article Font Size
Republicans have their backs against the wall, facing a bloodbath on Election Day that will leave the party in shambles and the nation in the hands of the worst conglomeration of demagogues, scoundrels and loony leftists ever put together in our nation’s history.
When you’re fighting for your life, you have two choices: whimper about your plight while the other side cuts you to pieces, or fight as if your life depends on it, which of course it does.
Dark as the outlook for survival may seem, there is a ray of light that if taken advantage of can not only save the GOP, but turn it into a rout of the Democrats that could make Election Day a victory celebration for the Republicans instead of a mournful wake.
The Democrats, who have long shown a shocking talent for snatching defeat from the jaws of near certain victory, are now trying mightily to commit political suicide, yet the majority of elected Republicans are either too blind to see a golden opportunity handed to them on a silver platter, or too stupid to take advantage of it.
Think about it, the vast majority of Americans — almost 80 percent of them — are angry and demanding that Congress allow drilling for oil here in the mainland United States, offshore and in Alaska, and the Democrats are thumbing their nose at them and adamantly refusing to lift the ban on drilling.
Their leadership is so committed to preventing the commonsense, long-term solution to the energy crises that they not only refuse to allow a vote on the measure, but skip town without addressing the crisis, with the speaker of the house gadding off to Florida and elsewhere to sell her worst-selling book (a pitiful 2,700 or so copies sold thus far, according to Matt Drudge) while her fellow Americans groan under the burden of $4.00 a gallon gasoline.
Her motto isn’t Marie Antoinette’s “let them eat cake” — it’s more like let the people buy my book and keep shelling out $4 a gallon for gas.
That’s a gift from the gods, a life-saving issue that puts the pro-drilling Republicans on the right side of the year’s hottest political controversy, and provides them with a weapon they can use to draw the majority of voters to their side and save the party from an impending electoral disaster.
Pushed to the limit, it can make Election Day 2008 a banner day in the party’s history.
That was obvious to me the minute I saw which way the wind was blowing. Here was the issue that puts the GOP solidly in league with the American people. When I talked with Texas Congressman John Carter on the phone I told him the media was not going to present the GOP’s position on the matter, so the Republicans had to do the job themselves in a way the media could not ignore.
They had to dramatize their stand.
I told Rep. Carter that with the Democrats fleeing town in droves the Republicans in both houses needed to get back to the Hill and by their presence there in the empty House and Senate chambers demonstrate the Democrats’ shameful refusal to respond the demands of the American people,
I said they should demand that the vacationing Democrats come back now and respond to the people’s wishes for a solution. I also said that the president needed to call the Democrats back to deal with the crisis.
I added that the media would have to cover the event, thus dramatizing the Democrats’ flight from Washington in the middle of a crisis facing every American. He agreed with me and went to the leadership and they agreed, and the resulting GOP response is getting the media’s begrudging attention.
It’s not enough, however.
This needs to be a party-wide strategy. The entire Republican House membership and all their Senate Republican colleagues need to be on the Hill now, making the case for Congress to reconvene now as loud as they can. And the president needs to call the Congress back into session and demand that the Democrats act to put an end to the crisis now.
This is a golden opportunity, and if the GOP fails to take full advantage of it they will deserve it if the voters go with Democrats in November. The American people are with the Republicans on the most important issue of our time.
The question is, are the Republicans on their side and willing to lead them in the fight to use all the oil resources the Lord has given us in such great abundance and which now are untapped beneath our feet because the Democrats won’t allow us to drill down to get it.
Republicans can unite to fight and win. Or they can do what they seem to do best these days, cringe and surrender.
It’s up to them.
© 2008 Mike Reagan
Pro-Obama Group Threatens Republican Donors
THIS ARTICLE IS WELL WORTH READING, OBAMA IS GETTING TO BE KNOWN AND WHAT THE FOLKS SEE IS NOT WHAT THEY WANT. IN DESPERATION FACTIONS HAVE COME UP WITH A MYRIAD OF PLANS TO SUPERIMPOSE THEIR DESIRES INTO THIS CAMPAIGN. BE CAREFUL AND USE YOUR GOOD GOD GIVEN THOUGHT PROCESSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE. DAA
Pro-Obama Group Threatens Republican Donors
Friday, August 8, 2008 11:08 AM
By: Jim Meyers
A new left-wing organization that wants to help elect Barack Obama president is sending letters to nearly 10,000 major donors who contribute to Republican causes, threatening them with potential legal problems if they finance conservative groups.
The nonprofit organization, Accountable America, is even offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the criminal conviction or fines of at least $10,000 for violations of campaign finance laws or other statutes by a conservative group, according to The New York Times.
Accountable America is led by Tom Matzzie, former Washington director of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, and its research director is Judd Legum, who served that role in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Matzzie called the organization’s effort “going for the jugular.” He told The Times, "We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground.”
The warning letter being sent to potential donors “is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives,” The Times reports.
If a conservative group do run ads attacking Obama, Matzzie says his group plans to run ads countering it exposing the donors behind the anti-Obama message.
Matzzie’s group has so far raised only $200,000, but he said he hopes to raise more than $500,000 by next week and $2 million overall.
Republican strategist Chris LaCivita doubts the group will succeed in scaring off donors, saying “they’re not going to be intimidated by some pipsqueak on the kooky left.”
Matzzie previously headed the Campaign to Defend America, which has run ads against Republican presidential candidate John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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Pro-Obama Group Threatens Republican Donors
Friday, August 8, 2008 11:08 AM
By: Jim Meyers
A new left-wing organization that wants to help elect Barack Obama president is sending letters to nearly 10,000 major donors who contribute to Republican causes, threatening them with potential legal problems if they finance conservative groups.
The nonprofit organization, Accountable America, is even offering a $100,000 reward for information that leads to the criminal conviction or fines of at least $10,000 for violations of campaign finance laws or other statutes by a conservative group, according to The New York Times.
Accountable America is led by Tom Matzzie, former Washington director of the liberal activist group MoveOn.org, and its research director is Judd Legum, who served that role in Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Matzzie called the organization’s effort “going for the jugular.” He told The Times, "We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground.”
The warning letter being sent to potential donors “is intended as a first step, alerting donors who might be considering giving to right-wing groups to a variety of potential dangers, including legal trouble, public exposure and watchdog groups digging through their lives,” The Times reports.
If a conservative group do run ads attacking Obama, Matzzie says his group plans to run ads countering it exposing the donors behind the anti-Obama message.
Matzzie’s group has so far raised only $200,000, but he said he hopes to raise more than $500,000 by next week and $2 million overall.
Republican strategist Chris LaCivita doubts the group will succeed in scaring off donors, saying “they’re not going to be intimidated by some pipsqueak on the kooky left.”
Matzzie previously headed the Campaign to Defend America, which has run ads against Republican presidential candidate John McCain in Ohio and Pennsylvania.
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August 7, 2008
You Don’t Know Barack Obama
You Don’t Know Barack Obama Until You Read This Book.
This new book — "The Case Against Barack Obama" is published by the same group that brought you "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry" — the book that defeated John Kerry in 2004.
Already the liberal media has condemned "The Case Against Barack Obama" because it could change the outcome of the election.
Make no doubt about it, Barack Obama is the media's darling, the fresh face of the Democratic ticket. But what does Barack Obama really stand for — and will his extreme liberal agenda and complete inexperience in global affairs endanger the country?
That's what David Freddoso, investigative reporter and National Review Online columnist, examines in "The Case Against Barack Obama."
Has any major candidate for president of the United States ever received less critical examination than Barack Obama? Who is this man, who was only elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004?
How did someone with his meager record of accomplishment become the Democratic nominee for president? How did someone with the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate and long-standing relationships with a former terrorist, a racist minister, and the corrupt operators of Chicago Machine politics end up as a supposed beacon of a newer, cleaner, bipartisan politics?
Investigative reporter David Freddoso has the answers. Doing the legwork that the mainstream media has neglected, applying a critical eye while the media swoons before the Obama-messiah, and posing the hard questions that Obama needs to answer, Freddoso reveals a politician as calculating as any other, a far-left Democrat who goes beyond "abortion rights" to supporting de facto infanticide, whose "new politics" amount to Chicago-style hardball overlain with lofty rhetoric, and who, from his positions of power, has helped his patrons.
In "The Case Against Barack Obama", you’ll learn:
How Obama’s friendship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright was no accident, but a carefully thought-out personal and political decision
The inside story of Obama's association with terrorist Bill Ayers wouldn’t matter — an exposé of the insular radical chic of Chicago's Hyde Park politics
The real story of Obama as a puppet of Mayor Daley's corrupt Chicago political machine
What Obama really did for convicted developer Tony Rezko
Debunking the myth of Obama’s "new" politics: how Obama won his first election by throwing all of his competitors off the ballot
The new 'Dirty Politics': how underhanded politics sabotaged Obama's opponents in his 2004 Senate race
A story Obama would like to stay buried in Chicago: how he used his clout as a U.S. senator to save the corrupt Cook County Political Machine when reformers of both parties tried to challenge the entrenched political bosses
How Barack Obama opposed a bill banning infanticide-by-neglect — a stance too extreme even for Nancy Pelosi. (Freddoso has an exclusive interview with the nurse central to the case.)
Why the National Abortion Rights Action League says Obama is the most pro-abortion candidate they have ever backed
How Obama has repeatedly steered taxpayer money to campaign donors
And much, much more.
Sober, fair, and thoroughly researched — and all the more powerful and provocative because of it — "The Case Against Barack Obama" removes the halo from a man less qualified, and more radical, than the mainstream media has let you know.
Find out why electing this man as our Commander-in-Chief could be the most dangerous decision in American history.
David Freddoso covers Capitol Hill for National Review Online, and was previously a political reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report and Human Events. A graduate of Notre Dame and the Columbia School of Journalism, he lives in Washington, D.C.
Obama’s Muslim Connection Won’t Go Away
Obama’s Muslim Connection Won’t Go Away
Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:15 PM
By: Jim Meyers Article Font Size
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s ties to Islam is a story line that is not going away, according to a recent analysis by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
“Rumors that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim whose patriotism was questionable first appeared on blogs and in e-mail messages,” PJE noted.
“In March, the rumors began to show up in the press, though only minimally.”
PJE’s News Coverage Index found that media reports about these rumors accounted for 0.4 percent of the “campaign newshole” from mid-March to mid-April.
But coverage has steadily increased since then, and accounted for 3.8 percent of the campaign news from mid-June to mid-July.
Obama has denied he is a Muslim or ever was a practicing Muslim.
The basis of the “rumor” germinates with Obama’s father, who was a Muslim, though Obama claims he was non-practicing. Adding to the mix is Obama’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama, which is an Arabic name.
Obama’s biological father disappeared from his son’s life soon after he was born and returned to his native Kenya.
Obama’s Kansas-born mother and her second husband, an Indonesian who was also a Muslim, moved from Hawaii to Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, in 1967. Obama lived there from ages 6 to 10.
Reports dating back as far as early 2007 held that Obama was educated at a radical Islamic school in Indonesia.
Press accounts revealed that in fact, Obama first attended a Catholic school for almost three years. However, his mother registered him in the school as a Muslim.
Some press reports indicated that Obama attended a radical madrasa, a school for radical Islamics. But that story was found to be untrue.
In the wake of that controversy, the Los Angeles Times sent a reporter to Jakarta to ferret out the truth.
The Times report, published on March 16, 2008, revealed:
• A close boyhood friend of Obama, Zulfin Adi, said Barack "was a Muslim. He went to the mosque."
• Obama's first-grade teacher at a Catholic school, Israella Dharmawan, said: "Barry (Barack's nickname) was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his father was Muslim."
• In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered as a Muslim. At the school, Muslim students attended weekly religion lessons about Islam.
Some of these details have been confirmed by Obama himself. In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Koran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."
Earlier this year, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed: "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
But the facts suggest that statement is not exactly true.
Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes wrote on FrontPageMag.com that his research led him to conclude that "Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian stepfather."
After the Los Angeles Times conducted its own investigation, Gibbs amended his previous statement on behalf of Obama, telling the Los Angeles Times: "Obama has never been a practicing Muslim," the key word being "practicing."
After the Los Angeles Times report, Obama’s hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, came to his rescue, publishing its own story about Obama’s Indonesian years less than two weeks after the Times report.
The Tribune said they had re-interviewed Obama’s boyhood friend Adi. He told the Tribune he was not sure Obama had been a practicing Muslim. The Tribune also claimed it conducted “interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends” — all who indicated that Obama “was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia.'"
Despite heated denials — perhaps fueled by his attendance at Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakan’s Million Man March — doubts linger about Obama’s religious status.
For example, The New Yorker magazine’s recent controversial cover depicting Obama in traditional Muslim clothing — sandals, robe and turban – reflects those doubts.
The PJE’s News Coverage Index examines about four dozen news outlets to determine what is being covered and what is not.
Many of the news accounts surrounding this story have reported stories debunking the belief that Obama was or still is a Muslim. Nevertheless, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 12 percent of respondents believed the candidate is a Muslim.
Poll results released in mid-July by Newsweek magazine showed that 26 percent of respondents believe Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator on a Koran, 26 percent believe he was raised as a Muslim, and 39 percent believe he attended an Islamic school as a child growing up in Indonesia.
While rebuffing reports of his ties to Islam, Obama has insisted there is “nothing wrong” with being a Muslim.
But any perceived link between Obama and Islam could be detrimental to his campaign, polls show.
A survey by Fox News/Opinion Dynamics conducted when Mitt Romney, a Mormon, was a Republican presidential candidate found that 32 percent of voters said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who is Mormon — while 45 percent said they would be less likely to vote for a Muslim.
And a poll by the Pew Research Center disclosed that 35 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Muslims.
© 2008 Newsmax. All rights reserved
Thursday, August 7, 2008 12:15 PM
By: Jim Meyers Article Font Size
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s ties to Islam is a story line that is not going away, according to a recent analysis by the Project for Excellence in Journalism.
“Rumors that Barack Obama was a secret Muslim whose patriotism was questionable first appeared on blogs and in e-mail messages,” PJE noted.
“In March, the rumors began to show up in the press, though only minimally.”
PJE’s News Coverage Index found that media reports about these rumors accounted for 0.4 percent of the “campaign newshole” from mid-March to mid-April.
But coverage has steadily increased since then, and accounted for 3.8 percent of the campaign news from mid-June to mid-July.
Obama has denied he is a Muslim or ever was a practicing Muslim.
The basis of the “rumor” germinates with Obama’s father, who was a Muslim, though Obama claims he was non-practicing. Adding to the mix is Obama’s full name, Barack Hussein Obama, which is an Arabic name.
Obama’s biological father disappeared from his son’s life soon after he was born and returned to his native Kenya.
Obama’s Kansas-born mother and her second husband, an Indonesian who was also a Muslim, moved from Hawaii to Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, in 1967. Obama lived there from ages 6 to 10.
Reports dating back as far as early 2007 held that Obama was educated at a radical Islamic school in Indonesia.
Press accounts revealed that in fact, Obama first attended a Catholic school for almost three years. However, his mother registered him in the school as a Muslim.
Some press reports indicated that Obama attended a radical madrasa, a school for radical Islamics. But that story was found to be untrue.
In the wake of that controversy, the Los Angeles Times sent a reporter to Jakarta to ferret out the truth.
The Times report, published on March 16, 2008, revealed:
• A close boyhood friend of Obama, Zulfin Adi, said Barack "was a Muslim. He went to the mosque."
• Obama's first-grade teacher at a Catholic school, Israella Dharmawan, said: "Barry (Barack's nickname) was Muslim. He was registered as a Muslim because his father was Muslim."
• In the third grade, Obama transferred to a public school, where he was also registered as a Muslim. At the school, Muslim students attended weekly religion lessons about Islam.
Some of these details have been confirmed by Obama himself. In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Father," Obama mentions studying the Koran and describes the public school as "a Muslim school."
Earlier this year, Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs claimed: "Senator Obama has never been a Muslim, was not raised a Muslim, and is a committed Christian."
But the facts suggest that statement is not exactly true.
Middle East Forum director Daniel Pipes wrote on FrontPageMag.com that his research led him to conclude that "Obama was born a Muslim to a non-practicing Muslim father and for some years had a reasonably Muslim upbringing under the auspices of his Indonesian stepfather."
After the Los Angeles Times conducted its own investigation, Gibbs amended his previous statement on behalf of Obama, telling the Los Angeles Times: "Obama has never been a practicing Muslim," the key word being "practicing."
After the Los Angeles Times report, Obama’s hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune, came to his rescue, publishing its own story about Obama’s Indonesian years less than two weeks after the Times report.
The Tribune said they had re-interviewed Obama’s boyhood friend Adi. He told the Tribune he was not sure Obama had been a practicing Muslim. The Tribune also claimed it conducted “interviews with dozens of former classmates, teachers, neighbors and friends” — all who indicated that Obama “was not a regular practicing Muslim when he was in Indonesia.'"
Despite heated denials — perhaps fueled by his attendance at Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakan’s Million Man March — doubts linger about Obama’s religious status.
For example, The New Yorker magazine’s recent controversial cover depicting Obama in traditional Muslim clothing — sandals, robe and turban – reflects those doubts.
The PJE’s News Coverage Index examines about four dozen news outlets to determine what is being covered and what is not.
Many of the news accounts surrounding this story have reported stories debunking the belief that Obama was or still is a Muslim. Nevertheless, a recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 12 percent of respondents believed the candidate is a Muslim.
Poll results released in mid-July by Newsweek magazine showed that 26 percent of respondents believe Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator on a Koran, 26 percent believe he was raised as a Muslim, and 39 percent believe he attended an Islamic school as a child growing up in Indonesia.
While rebuffing reports of his ties to Islam, Obama has insisted there is “nothing wrong” with being a Muslim.
But any perceived link between Obama and Islam could be detrimental to his campaign, polls show.
A survey by Fox News/Opinion Dynamics conducted when Mitt Romney, a Mormon, was a Republican presidential candidate found that 32 percent of voters said they would be less likely to vote for a presidential candidate who is Mormon — while 45 percent said they would be less likely to vote for a Muslim.
And a poll by the Pew Research Center disclosed that 35 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of Muslims.
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EXPERIENCE, WELL YES! 143 DAYS EN TOTO
From the time Barack Obama was sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged 143 days of experience in the Senate.
That's how many days the Senate was actually in session and working. After 143 days of work experience, Obama believed he was ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan. 143 days. I keep leftovers in my refrigerator longer than that.'
Obama Welshes on Hillary Promise
Obama Welshes on Hillary Promise
Hillary and Bill Clinton are privately fuming about the second-class treatment they have received from Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama.
When Obama and Hillary "kissed" and made up during their unity rally in June, both made a private pledge to each other to help raise $500,000 from their donors for the other's campaign.
Though deep in debt, Hillary quickly fulfilled her promise. But cash-rich Obama has yet to cough up the dough from his backers.
"Hillary has done her part in that regard," a Hillary adviser told Time. "Obama has not."
Then there was the warm and fuzzy call between Bill Clinton and Obama. Obama told Clinton he wanted to sit down with the popular former president, the most successful Democratic president since FDR. But Clinton aides say Obama has never folowed up on the verbal invitation.
These and other details on the deteriorating Clinton-Obama relationship are laid out in a Time magazine report.
Bill Clinton's comments to ABC News are symptomatic of his and Hillary's icy relationship with Obama. Asked during his trip to Africa if Obama was qualified to be president, Clinton stubbornly refused to answer affirmatively.
A Hillary adviser told TIme, "It's not a great relationship, and it's probably not going to become one."
Reportedly, Hillary seriously doubts that Obama can beat McCain come November. And she is thinking of keeping her name in nomination and demand a vote at the party's Denver Convention.
Hillary wants to remind voters and the media that she was the alternative to Obama, a important point that
could be brought home on Election Day.
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Hillary and Bill Clinton are privately fuming about the second-class treatment they have received from Democratic presumptive nominee Barack Obama.
When Obama and Hillary "kissed" and made up during their unity rally in June, both made a private pledge to each other to help raise $500,000 from their donors for the other's campaign.
Though deep in debt, Hillary quickly fulfilled her promise. But cash-rich Obama has yet to cough up the dough from his backers.
"Hillary has done her part in that regard," a Hillary adviser told Time. "Obama has not."
Then there was the warm and fuzzy call between Bill Clinton and Obama. Obama told Clinton he wanted to sit down with the popular former president, the most successful Democratic president since FDR. But Clinton aides say Obama has never folowed up on the verbal invitation.
These and other details on the deteriorating Clinton-Obama relationship are laid out in a Time magazine report.
Bill Clinton's comments to ABC News are symptomatic of his and Hillary's icy relationship with Obama. Asked during his trip to Africa if Obama was qualified to be president, Clinton stubbornly refused to answer affirmatively.
A Hillary adviser told TIme, "It's not a great relationship, and it's probably not going to become one."
Reportedly, Hillary seriously doubts that Obama can beat McCain come November. And she is thinking of keeping her name in nomination and demand a vote at the party's Denver Convention.
Hillary wants to remind voters and the media that she was the alternative to Obama, a important point that
could be brought home on Election Day.
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August 6, 2008
Say Watt, Senator?
Say Watt, Senator?
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Energy Policy: Barack Obama wants a million electric cars on the road by 2015. Where's he going to plug them in? John McCain has the answer — a renewable energy source called nuclear power.
Speaking Tuesday in Lansing, Mich., Sen. Obama set a goal of putting 1 million plug-in gas-electric hybrid cars, capable of getting 150 miles per gallon of gasoline consumed, on the road by 2015.
To help power them, Obama also said he wanted 10% of our electricity to come from renewable sources by 2012 and 25% by 2025.
Actually, about 20% of our electricity already comes from a renewable resource — nuclear power — and John McCain wants to up that percentage significantly.
Obama has opposed increased use of non-polluting nuclear power and the reprocessing of spent fuel rods into new fuel, not to mention the storage of radioactive waste in the geologically safe and stable facility being built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Unlike Obama, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats now on vacation — as in the vacation their constituents increasingly can't afford because of high energy costs — John McCain is for all forms of energy, as long as they're produced domestically.
"We all know nuclear power isn't enough and drilling isn't enough," McCain rightly said Tuesday, as he stood in front of the cooling towers of Michigan's Fermi II nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Erie near the Ohio border. "Solving our national energy crisis requires an all-of-the-above approach."
DTE Energy's Fermi II, named for Enrico Fermi, the first physicist to split the atom, is one of three nuclear plants in Michigan that supply about 25% of the state's electrical needs. McCain wants to build 45 new nuclear power plants nationwide by 2030 to meet a demand for electricity that is expected to rise 25% by then.
McCain recalled his service aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and noted: "I knew (nuclear power) was safe then, and I know it's safe now." As he has pointed out, U.S. sailors have sailed aboard nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers for more than five decades without ill effects or accidents. No American sailor, past or present, glows in the dark.
Safety and waste-storage concerns have been mentioned by Obama as reasons he is not a nuclear proponent. No doubt nuclear critics inside and outside his camp will say, "Wait a minute! Didn't the Los Angeles-class nuclear power submarine USS Houston leak radioactive water earlier this year?" Yes, it did, about the same amount of radioactivity as a 50-pound bag of fertilizer emits.
Since the U.S. Navy commissioned the world's first nuclear-powered sub, the USS Nautilus, in 1954, there hasn't been a single nuclear reactor accident on any of its nuclear-powered vessels. There currently are 102 nuclear reactors aboard 80 Navy combat vessels.
"Sen. Obama has said that expanding our nuclear power plants 'doesn't make sense for America,' " McCain said at Fermi. "He also says no to nuclear storage and reprocessing. I couldn't disagree more.
"I have proposed a plan to build additional nuclear plants. That means new jobs and that means new energy. If we want to enable the technologies of tomorrow like plug-in electric cars, we need electricity to plug into."
As Nicolas Loras and Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation note, uranium is considered a finite resource like coal and oil, but it can be recycled and reused. It's a renewable resource, and the French, the British and, yes, even the Japanese recycle their spent nuclear fuel.
Using the French method of reprocessing, the U.S. could recycle its 58,000 tons of used fuel to power every household for 12 years.
As even Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder who gained prominence in the 1960s by opposing nuclear testing, told a House committee in April 2005: "Nuclear energy is the only non-greenhouse-gas-emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels and satisfy global demand for energy."
Barack Obama, call your office.
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Energy Policy: Barack Obama wants a million electric cars on the road by 2015. Where's he going to plug them in? John McCain has the answer — a renewable energy source called nuclear power.
Speaking Tuesday in Lansing, Mich., Sen. Obama set a goal of putting 1 million plug-in gas-electric hybrid cars, capable of getting 150 miles per gallon of gasoline consumed, on the road by 2015.
To help power them, Obama also said he wanted 10% of our electricity to come from renewable sources by 2012 and 25% by 2025.
Actually, about 20% of our electricity already comes from a renewable resource — nuclear power — and John McCain wants to up that percentage significantly.
Obama has opposed increased use of non-polluting nuclear power and the reprocessing of spent fuel rods into new fuel, not to mention the storage of radioactive waste in the geologically safe and stable facility being built at Yucca Mountain in Nevada.
Unlike Obama, Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats now on vacation — as in the vacation their constituents increasingly can't afford because of high energy costs — John McCain is for all forms of energy, as long as they're produced domestically.
"We all know nuclear power isn't enough and drilling isn't enough," McCain rightly said Tuesday, as he stood in front of the cooling towers of Michigan's Fermi II nuclear power plant on the shores of Lake Erie near the Ohio border. "Solving our national energy crisis requires an all-of-the-above approach."
DTE Energy's Fermi II, named for Enrico Fermi, the first physicist to split the atom, is one of three nuclear plants in Michigan that supply about 25% of the state's electrical needs. McCain wants to build 45 new nuclear power plants nationwide by 2030 to meet a demand for electricity that is expected to rise 25% by then.
McCain recalled his service aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and noted: "I knew (nuclear power) was safe then, and I know it's safe now." As he has pointed out, U.S. sailors have sailed aboard nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers for more than five decades without ill effects or accidents. No American sailor, past or present, glows in the dark.
Safety and waste-storage concerns have been mentioned by Obama as reasons he is not a nuclear proponent. No doubt nuclear critics inside and outside his camp will say, "Wait a minute! Didn't the Los Angeles-class nuclear power submarine USS Houston leak radioactive water earlier this year?" Yes, it did, about the same amount of radioactivity as a 50-pound bag of fertilizer emits.
Since the U.S. Navy commissioned the world's first nuclear-powered sub, the USS Nautilus, in 1954, there hasn't been a single nuclear reactor accident on any of its nuclear-powered vessels. There currently are 102 nuclear reactors aboard 80 Navy combat vessels.
"Sen. Obama has said that expanding our nuclear power plants 'doesn't make sense for America,' " McCain said at Fermi. "He also says no to nuclear storage and reprocessing. I couldn't disagree more.
"I have proposed a plan to build additional nuclear plants. That means new jobs and that means new energy. If we want to enable the technologies of tomorrow like plug-in electric cars, we need electricity to plug into."
As Nicolas Loras and Jack Spencer of the Heritage Foundation note, uranium is considered a finite resource like coal and oil, but it can be recycled and reused. It's a renewable resource, and the French, the British and, yes, even the Japanese recycle their spent nuclear fuel.
Using the French method of reprocessing, the U.S. could recycle its 58,000 tons of used fuel to power every household for 12 years.
As even Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder who gained prominence in the 1960s by opposing nuclear testing, told a House committee in April 2005: "Nuclear energy is the only non-greenhouse-gas-emitting power source that can effectively replace fossil fuels and satisfy global demand for energy."
Barack Obama, call your office.
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Obama Finds An ACORN
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: The man who includes being a community organizer on his short resume has a long association with a far-left group that would organize our communities into socialist gulags.
In 1995, Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar balked at implementing the federal motor voter law out of concern that letting people register via postcard and blocking the state from pruning voter rolls might invite vote fraud.
A young lawyer, a community organizer himself, sued on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) and won. The young lawyer was Barack Obama. Acorn later invited Obama to train its staff.
When Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave Acorn grants to fund its agenda and voter registration activities.
Acorn has been in the lead in opposing voter ID laws and other efforts to ensure ballot integrity. Acorn has been implicated in voter fraud and bogus registration schemes in Ohio and at least 13 other states. Acorn staffers will presumably be out registering voters again this year.
Obama also opposes voter ID laws. He believes they disenfranchise voters. Last year, Obama put a hold on the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky for a seat on the Federal Election Commission. It seems von Spakovsky, as an official in the Justice Department, had supported a Georgia photo ID law. Acorn espouses the leftist view that voter ID laws are racist.
In addition to subverting American democracy to promote a leftist agenda, Acorn's radical agenda amounts to "undisguised authoritarian socialism." wrote Sol Stern in the 2003 City Journal article, "Acorn's Nutty Regime for Cities."
Acorn opposed welfare reform and opposes securing American borders to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Acorn was heavily involved a few years back in opposing Rudy Giuliani's efforts to privatize failing New York schools.
Acorn also has been in the lead supporting the "living wage" and opposing efforts by big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart to bring the bounty and benefits of free-market capitalism to inner cities.
Wal-Mart has faced resistance to its plans to expand into urban centers — most notably Chicago and Los Angeles — where unions and liberal orthodoxy remain strong. Opponents there charge that such big-box stores exploit workers, depress wages and drive out community businesses.
Acorn, Obama's former client, supported a big-box living-wage ordinance vetoed by Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley to require stores of at least 90,000 square feet operated by firms with $1 billion or more in annual sales nationwide to pay workers a minimum of $10 an hour plus $3 in benefits.
Critics such as Acorn, who complain that Wal-Mart employees live paycheck to paycheck, forget that many of Wal-Mart's customers also live paycheck to paycheck and seek quality merchandise at decent prices, which is why 100 million people shop there every week.
How can they oppose "low" wages for Wal-Mart employees while in effect supporting higher prices for Wal-Mart customers? They can because they believe the socialist orthodoxy that capitalism is bad, government is good and that the solution to poverty is to make everyone equally poor.
Wal-Mart gives people what they want at a price they can afford. It believes a fair wage is one agreed upon between employee and employer. It is the poster child for roll-up-your-sleeves capitalism. It is efficient, innovative, successful and nonunion — everything government is not — and is opposed for all these reasons.
Advocates of the so-called living wage see their efforts as putting money directly into workers' pockets. But it merely transfers money from one person's pocket to another person's pocket. This is classic socialist income redistribution — not economic justice, but economic extortion.
In the real world, companies that pay workers more than the value of the goods and services they produce go out of business. Workers should be paid what their labor is worth, not what their lifestyle requires.
On his Web site, Obama embraces Acorn's socialist goal, pledging to "raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation to make sure that full-time workers can earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs such as food, transportation and housing."
That money would come from taxpayers and business owners or, as Marx would say, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY | Posted Wednesday, August 06, 2008 4:20 PM PT
Election '08: The man who includes being a community organizer on his short resume has a long association with a far-left group that would organize our communities into socialist gulags.
In 1995, Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar balked at implementing the federal motor voter law out of concern that letting people register via postcard and blocking the state from pruning voter rolls might invite vote fraud.
A young lawyer, a community organizer himself, sued on behalf of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (Acorn) and won. The young lawyer was Barack Obama. Acorn later invited Obama to train its staff.
When Obama served on the board of the Woods Fund for Chicago with Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers, the Woods Fund frequently gave Acorn grants to fund its agenda and voter registration activities.
Acorn has been in the lead in opposing voter ID laws and other efforts to ensure ballot integrity. Acorn has been implicated in voter fraud and bogus registration schemes in Ohio and at least 13 other states. Acorn staffers will presumably be out registering voters again this year.
Obama also opposes voter ID laws. He believes they disenfranchise voters. Last year, Obama put a hold on the nomination of Hans von Spakovsky for a seat on the Federal Election Commission. It seems von Spakovsky, as an official in the Justice Department, had supported a Georgia photo ID law. Acorn espouses the leftist view that voter ID laws are racist.
In addition to subverting American democracy to promote a leftist agenda, Acorn's radical agenda amounts to "undisguised authoritarian socialism." wrote Sol Stern in the 2003 City Journal article, "Acorn's Nutty Regime for Cities."
Acorn opposed welfare reform and opposes securing American borders to stem the flow of illegal immigrants. Acorn was heavily involved a few years back in opposing Rudy Giuliani's efforts to privatize failing New York schools.
Acorn also has been in the lead supporting the "living wage" and opposing efforts by big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart to bring the bounty and benefits of free-market capitalism to inner cities.
Wal-Mart has faced resistance to its plans to expand into urban centers — most notably Chicago and Los Angeles — where unions and liberal orthodoxy remain strong. Opponents there charge that such big-box stores exploit workers, depress wages and drive out community businesses.
Acorn, Obama's former client, supported a big-box living-wage ordinance vetoed by Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley to require stores of at least 90,000 square feet operated by firms with $1 billion or more in annual sales nationwide to pay workers a minimum of $10 an hour plus $3 in benefits.
Critics such as Acorn, who complain that Wal-Mart employees live paycheck to paycheck, forget that many of Wal-Mart's customers also live paycheck to paycheck and seek quality merchandise at decent prices, which is why 100 million people shop there every week.
How can they oppose "low" wages for Wal-Mart employees while in effect supporting higher prices for Wal-Mart customers? They can because they believe the socialist orthodoxy that capitalism is bad, government is good and that the solution to poverty is to make everyone equally poor.
Wal-Mart gives people what they want at a price they can afford. It believes a fair wage is one agreed upon between employee and employer. It is the poster child for roll-up-your-sleeves capitalism. It is efficient, innovative, successful and nonunion — everything government is not — and is opposed for all these reasons.
Advocates of the so-called living wage see their efforts as putting money directly into workers' pockets. But it merely transfers money from one person's pocket to another person's pocket. This is classic socialist income redistribution — not economic justice, but economic extortion.
In the real world, companies that pay workers more than the value of the goods and services they produce go out of business. Workers should be paid what their labor is worth, not what their lifestyle requires.
On his Web site, Obama embraces Acorn's socialist goal, pledging to "raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation to make sure that full-time workers can earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs such as food, transportation and housing."
That money would come from taxpayers and business owners or, as Marx would say, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.
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WHY NOT AN UP-OR-DOWN VOTE????
Dear David:
No fair up-or-down votes on lifting Congressional bans on domestic oil drilling!
While the American people suffer from record-high gas prices, that is the message -- loud and clear -- from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her liberal colleagues!
In fact, Pelosi and Company are so dead set against alleviating the pain Americans are feeling at the pump that she hurriedly banged down the gavel, adjourned Congress and FLED from Washington for a five-week vacation.
And, when a group of conservative legislators tried to speak directly to the American people about the need for Congress to address our nation's energy crisis before skipping town, Pelosi ACTUALLY turned off the microphones, shut off the cameras and turned out the lights!
Right now, many Americans can't afford to go on vacation because of the high price of gasoline. But that didn't stop Nancy Pelosi from taking her five-week summer recess.
In defense of her egregious actions, all she could do several days ago was rant:
"I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet. I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuses for their failed policy."
"Trying to save the planet?" How many people will have to suffer before she declares the world safe?
And moreover, what "failed policy" is Pelosi talking about? President Bush and conservative legislators are calling for the REVERSAL of a 30-year policy of limiting domestic drilling. They are trying to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil by responsibly increasing our domestic supply.
How can a policy that hasn't been implemented in 30 years be a "failed policy?" Is Pelosi that out of touch with the 70% of the American people who support more domestic drilling?
Well guess what? Pelosi and her minions might be able to run but they can't hide (Members of Congress have fax machines in their district offices too).
And we're not going to let Pelosi get away with her callous obstruction while Americans are suffering, in large part, because Pelosi objects to any and all new domestic drilling!
Despite what Nancy Pelosi may think, this is not the former-Soviet Union! Nancy Pelosi cannot single-handedly repress free speech and callously disregard the will of the American people.
She needs to be put in her place and told this is not the way things work in the United States of America!
President Bush has the power to call Congress back into session and Congressional leader have that power as well!
And together, we're going to MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS -- RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW! We're going to demand that Pelosi's Politburo be brought back into town -- kicking and screaming if necessary -- for one purpose and one purpose alone; a fair up-or-down vote on lifting Congressional bans on domestic drilling!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the House and Senate!
Tell them in no uncertain terms that the American people want them back in Washington DC and that there WILL BE NO VACATION for them until they hold a fair up-or-down vote on lifting Congressional prohibitions on domestic drilling!
President Bush has the power to call them back into town! They have the power to call themselves back into town! Tell our elected officials that they serve the American people and we REFUSE to wait until September just so they can come back to Washington and continue stalling this vote! Tell them their employers want them back at work and we want them back now!
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Here's the Play-By-Play
Question: Why would Pelosi shut down the microphones, chase away the C-SPAN camera crews and turn off the lights while Members of Congress were still speaking on the floor?
Answer: Simply put, Pelosi and her liberal colleagues do not want you and your fellow Americans to hear the other side of the debate. She blatantly was suppressing the speech of opposing points of view?
John Gizzi with Human Events gives us some of the sad and sordid details:
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted repeatedly to shut down lawmakers from making the five-minute speeches that traditionally mark the closing of a House session. Angry conservatives on the Republican side rebelled, turned on microphones that the speaker had shut off, and kept the House press gallery in operation as more and more reporters came by to see what on earth was happening...."
"This was war, all right. And as Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona, one of the leaders of the Republican revolt told me, 'The speaker wouldn't let us have the five-minute speeches because she didn't want the day dominated on the floor by speeches pointing out she has not allowed a vote on a single measure to permit greater oil exploration for the past two months. This is our answer to the Orange Revolution and our modern day Boston tea party.'"
Gizzi continues:
"'Word spread that the speaker -- who was never actually here on the floor -- was going to shut down the House press gallery,' a breathless Shadegg told me in a call from the floor, 'But rules are clear that the gallery can't be shut down if a Member is there. So a bunch of us have been taking turns -- we're 'human shields,' keeping the press gallery going.' Along with Shadegg, the 'human shields' included House GOP Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.), and Texas Reps. Ted Poe and John Carter.
"'You cannot repress free speech, Madame Speaker,' declared Shadegg, adding that the intense protest to keep the floor and press gallery alive were critical because 'every day without oil production, the American people are hurt. It destroys the lives of the poorest Americans, those with the oldest cars, the worst mileage, and sometimes the longest commutes. That's the point we are making.'"
This point bears repeating.
Traditionally when Congress adjourns, Members are allowed to make five-minute speeches before going home. But Pelosi DIDN'T WANT THEM TO SPEAK! So she shut down the microphones and turned off the lights -- even though she had no clear right to do it.
Nancy Pelosi is out of control! Her blind allegiance to a Socialist philosophy has warped her judgment!
We need to send Nancy Pelosi a message and let her know exactly WHO IS IN CHARGE -- THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the House and Senate!
Tell them in no uncertain terms that the American people want them back in Washington DC and that there WILL BE NO VACATION for them until they hold a fair up-or-down vote on lifting Congressional prohibitions on domestic drilling!
President Bush has the power to call them back into town! They have the power to call themselves back into town! Tell our elected officials that they serve the American people and we REFUSE to wait until September just so they can come back to Washington and continue stalling this vote! Tell them their employers want them back at work and we want them back now!
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National Watermelon Month... The Lunatics Appear to Have Taken Over The Asylum!
Just to put some perspective on just how out of touch Pelosi and Company are, consider the following statement from Tony Perkins with Family Research Council:
"Of the 290 laws passed this Congress (which comes dangerously close to the lowest number ever), 30 percent of them just name post offices. Congress also took the time to recognize July as 'National Watermelon Month' and officially classify dirt as a natural resource. It is little wonder that Congress's approval rating is in the single digits -- nine percent -- for the first time ever."
The Pelosi Politburo had the time to declare July "National Watermelon Month." The Pelosi Politburo had the time to classify dirt as a national resource, but didn't have the time or inclination to call a vote on the most pressing issue facing the American people TODAY!
Is THAT how you "save the planet?"
It would appear the lunatics have taken over the asylum! But at least some of our elected officials have gotten the message.
Republican Leaders John Boehner and Roy Blunt put together a memo asking President Bush to call Congress back into session.
The memo reads in part:
"It's not a request we make lightly. But the American people are suffering. The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. We've called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies."
And some are answering the call. According to ABC News:
"House Republicans tell ABC News that at least 30 members of Congress... are flying back to DC from their Districts today and tomorrow to attend a special debate on energy policy. This 'session' is scheduled for Monday, August 4th beginning at 10 am ET. As expected, no Democrats will participate."
And where does President Bush stand?
John Gizzi recounting a conversation with Congressman Mike Pence:
"'I spoke with a key aide and made it clear he should urge the President to call Congress back and deal with the energy crisis.' Pence would not say who the aide was, but noted that the response to his admonition was 'very positive.'"
Congressman Wally Herger told Gizzi:
"'We're doing everything we can to get President Bush to bring Congress back. As to the White House's attitude on making this rare-but-constitutional step, Herger said, I'd say that right now, it's rising on his [Bush's] agenda.'"
And if you're asking; 'when will President Bush act,' the answer should be obvious.
He's waiting to hear from you.
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President Bush has the power to call them back into town! They have the power to call themselves back into town! Tell our elected officials that they serve the American people and we REFUSE to wait until September just so they can come back to Washington and continue stalling this vote! Tell them their employers want them back at work and we want them back now!
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Dare We Say Socialism?
We're actually at a pivotal moment in our nation's history.
And we're playing a very sick game of "chicken."
Make no mistake, Nancy Pelosi is the leader of a group of legislators who are pushing a far-Left -- dare we say Socialist -- agenda that has infected the Democratic Party!
And she's staring down the American people... standing her ground... hoping you and I will flinch first!
Want proof?
Look no further than this recent statement on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Maxine Waters to the President of Shell Oil:
"This liberal will be all about SOCIAL____ (abrupt pause) uhhhh... uhhh... (pause) will be about... (pause) basically taking over and the government running all your companies."
Or how about this statement by Congressman Maurice Hinchey:
"Maybe they'd be willing to have these companies owned publicly... owned by the people of the United States."
Waters and Hinchey aren't even attempting to obscure the fact that they want to nationalize our industries -- THAT'S SOCIALISM!
And what about Pelosi?
She KNOWS that if she can get away with single-handedly obstructing a vote on the one thing that can relieve the suffering of Americans without being run out of town on a rail -- namely lifting prohibitions on domestic drilling -- she can probably get away with anything!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized Blast Fax messages to President George W. Bush and each and every Member of the Leadership of the House and Senate!
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"All That Is Necessary For Evil To Triumph Is For Good Men To Do Nothing." - Edmund Burke
Some of our elected leaders are not about to let Pelosi get away with it!
Congressman Shadegg sent an e-mail out which read in part:
"We're not giving up... Over 70% of Americans favor increased domestic drilling. Republicans believe that a viewpoint held by a majority of the public deserves, at the very least, a vote on the floor of the people's house. Congressional Democrats have repeatedly admitted, by requesting that President Bush open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, that an increase in supply will decrease prices. Yet, over the past several months, they have barred from the floor any legislation seeking to increase domestic supply--and now, they've gone on vacation. This isn't just about gas prices; this is about our economic and national security. ..."
"My colleagues and I are committed to an energy policy that increases the domestic supply of fossil fuels to power the American economy of today, and aggressively pursues a variety of alternatives, including solar, nuclear, wind, and hydropower, to drive the American economy of tomorrow. We can, and we must, lower energy prices, create American jobs, and cease our funding of Hugo Chavez and other unfriendly governments. Speaker Pelosi may believe that Americans can wait until September for relief, but if you ask the average family of four, living paycheck to paycheck, relief can't come soon enough."
Shadegg is RIGHT!
This battle is about more than gasoline prices, and yes, even the suffering of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck!
History may remember this fight over domestic drilling in a greater context... as a pivotal battle in our fight to maintain "our economic and national security" -- indeed our sovereignty as a nation!
And while we can applaud legislators like Shadegg and Blunt and Boehner and Pence for taking the fight to Pelosi; their actions will not make the difference!
The actions of the American people will determine the final outcome!
If good men and women do nothing, Pelosi will succeed!
Together, we must take action right here and right now!
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No fair up-or-down votes on lifting Congressional bans on domestic oil drilling!
While the American people suffer from record-high gas prices, that is the message -- loud and clear -- from Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and her liberal colleagues!
In fact, Pelosi and Company are so dead set against alleviating the pain Americans are feeling at the pump that she hurriedly banged down the gavel, adjourned Congress and FLED from Washington for a five-week vacation.
And, when a group of conservative legislators tried to speak directly to the American people about the need for Congress to address our nation's energy crisis before skipping town, Pelosi ACTUALLY turned off the microphones, shut off the cameras and turned out the lights!
Right now, many Americans can't afford to go on vacation because of the high price of gasoline. But that didn't stop Nancy Pelosi from taking her five-week summer recess.
In defense of her egregious actions, all she could do several days ago was rant:
"I'm trying to save the planet; I'm trying to save the planet. I will not have this debate trivialized by their excuses for their failed policy."
"Trying to save the planet?" How many people will have to suffer before she declares the world safe?
And moreover, what "failed policy" is Pelosi talking about? President Bush and conservative legislators are calling for the REVERSAL of a 30-year policy of limiting domestic drilling. They are trying to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil by responsibly increasing our domestic supply.
How can a policy that hasn't been implemented in 30 years be a "failed policy?" Is Pelosi that out of touch with the 70% of the American people who support more domestic drilling?
Well guess what? Pelosi and her minions might be able to run but they can't hide (Members of Congress have fax machines in their district offices too).
And we're not going to let Pelosi get away with her callous obstruction while Americans are suffering, in large part, because Pelosi objects to any and all new domestic drilling!
Despite what Nancy Pelosi may think, this is not the former-Soviet Union! Nancy Pelosi cannot single-handedly repress free speech and callously disregard the will of the American people.
She needs to be put in her place and told this is not the way things work in the United States of America!
President Bush has the power to call Congress back into session and Congressional leader have that power as well!
And together, we're going to MAKE SURE IT HAPPENS -- RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW! We're going to demand that Pelosi's Politburo be brought back into town -- kicking and screaming if necessary -- for one purpose and one purpose alone; a fair up-or-down vote on lifting Congressional bans on domestic drilling!
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Tell them in no uncertain terms that the American people want them back in Washington DC and that there WILL BE NO VACATION for them until they hold a fair up-or-down vote on lifting Congressional prohibitions on domestic drilling!
President Bush has the power to call them back into town! They have the power to call themselves back into town! Tell our elected officials that they serve the American people and we REFUSE to wait until September just so they can come back to Washington and continue stalling this vote! Tell them their employers want them back at work and we want them back now!
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Here's the Play-By-Play
Question: Why would Pelosi shut down the microphones, chase away the C-SPAN camera crews and turn off the lights while Members of Congress were still speaking on the floor?
Answer: Simply put, Pelosi and her liberal colleagues do not want you and your fellow Americans to hear the other side of the debate. She blatantly was suppressing the speech of opposing points of view?
John Gizzi with Human Events gives us some of the sad and sordid details:
"Speaker Nancy Pelosi attempted repeatedly to shut down lawmakers from making the five-minute speeches that traditionally mark the closing of a House session. Angry conservatives on the Republican side rebelled, turned on microphones that the speaker had shut off, and kept the House press gallery in operation as more and more reporters came by to see what on earth was happening...."
"This was war, all right. And as Rep. John Shadegg of Arizona, one of the leaders of the Republican revolt told me, 'The speaker wouldn't let us have the five-minute speeches because she didn't want the day dominated on the floor by speeches pointing out she has not allowed a vote on a single measure to permit greater oil exploration for the past two months. This is our answer to the Orange Revolution and our modern day Boston tea party.'"
Gizzi continues:
"'Word spread that the speaker -- who was never actually here on the floor -- was going to shut down the House press gallery,' a breathless Shadegg told me in a call from the floor, 'But rules are clear that the gallery can't be shut down if a Member is there. So a bunch of us have been taking turns -- we're 'human shields,' keeping the press gallery going.' Along with Shadegg, the 'human shields' included House GOP Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.), and Texas Reps. Ted Poe and John Carter.
"'You cannot repress free speech, Madame Speaker,' declared Shadegg, adding that the intense protest to keep the floor and press gallery alive were critical because 'every day without oil production, the American people are hurt. It destroys the lives of the poorest Americans, those with the oldest cars, the worst mileage, and sometimes the longest commutes. That's the point we are making.'"
This point bears repeating.
Traditionally when Congress adjourns, Members are allowed to make five-minute speeches before going home. But Pelosi DIDN'T WANT THEM TO SPEAK! So she shut down the microphones and turned off the lights -- even though she had no clear right to do it.
Nancy Pelosi is out of control! Her blind allegiance to a Socialist philosophy has warped her judgment!
We need to send Nancy Pelosi a message and let her know exactly WHO IS IN CHARGE -- THE AMERICAN PEOPLE!
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National Watermelon Month... The Lunatics Appear to Have Taken Over The Asylum!
Just to put some perspective on just how out of touch Pelosi and Company are, consider the following statement from Tony Perkins with Family Research Council:
"Of the 290 laws passed this Congress (which comes dangerously close to the lowest number ever), 30 percent of them just name post offices. Congress also took the time to recognize July as 'National Watermelon Month' and officially classify dirt as a natural resource. It is little wonder that Congress's approval rating is in the single digits -- nine percent -- for the first time ever."
The Pelosi Politburo had the time to declare July "National Watermelon Month." The Pelosi Politburo had the time to classify dirt as a national resource, but didn't have the time or inclination to call a vote on the most pressing issue facing the American people TODAY!
Is THAT how you "save the planet?"
It would appear the lunatics have taken over the asylum! But at least some of our elected officials have gotten the message.
Republican Leaders John Boehner and Roy Blunt put together a memo asking President Bush to call Congress back into session.
The memo reads in part:
"It's not a request we make lightly. But the American people are suffering. The consequences of continued congressional inaction on gas prices are unacceptable. We've called on the Speaker to call Congress back into an emergency session this month and schedule a vote on the American Energy Act. We must continue to make a stand until the Speaker complies."
And some are answering the call. According to ABC News:
"House Republicans tell ABC News that at least 30 members of Congress... are flying back to DC from their Districts today and tomorrow to attend a special debate on energy policy. This 'session' is scheduled for Monday, August 4th beginning at 10 am ET. As expected, no Democrats will participate."
And where does President Bush stand?
John Gizzi recounting a conversation with Congressman Mike Pence:
"'I spoke with a key aide and made it clear he should urge the President to call Congress back and deal with the energy crisis.' Pence would not say who the aide was, but noted that the response to his admonition was 'very positive.'"
Congressman Wally Herger told Gizzi:
"'We're doing everything we can to get President Bush to bring Congress back. As to the White House's attitude on making this rare-but-constitutional step, Herger said, I'd say that right now, it's rising on his [Bush's] agenda.'"
And if you're asking; 'when will President Bush act,' the answer should be obvious.
He's waiting to hear from you.
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Dare We Say Socialism?
We're actually at a pivotal moment in our nation's history.
And we're playing a very sick game of "chicken."
Make no mistake, Nancy Pelosi is the leader of a group of legislators who are pushing a far-Left -- dare we say Socialist -- agenda that has infected the Democratic Party!
And she's staring down the American people... standing her ground... hoping you and I will flinch first!
Want proof?
Look no further than this recent statement on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congresswoman Maxine Waters to the President of Shell Oil:
"This liberal will be all about SOCIAL____ (abrupt pause) uhhhh... uhhh... (pause) will be about... (pause) basically taking over and the government running all your companies."
Or how about this statement by Congressman Maurice Hinchey:
"Maybe they'd be willing to have these companies owned publicly... owned by the people of the United States."
Waters and Hinchey aren't even attempting to obscure the fact that they want to nationalize our industries -- THAT'S SOCIALISM!
And what about Pelosi?
She KNOWS that if she can get away with single-handedly obstructing a vote on the one thing that can relieve the suffering of Americans without being run out of town on a rail -- namely lifting prohibitions on domestic drilling -- she can probably get away with anything!
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"All That Is Necessary For Evil To Triumph Is For Good Men To Do Nothing." - Edmund Burke
Some of our elected leaders are not about to let Pelosi get away with it!
Congressman Shadegg sent an e-mail out which read in part:
"We're not giving up... Over 70% of Americans favor increased domestic drilling. Republicans believe that a viewpoint held by a majority of the public deserves, at the very least, a vote on the floor of the people's house. Congressional Democrats have repeatedly admitted, by requesting that President Bush open the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, that an increase in supply will decrease prices. Yet, over the past several months, they have barred from the floor any legislation seeking to increase domestic supply--and now, they've gone on vacation. This isn't just about gas prices; this is about our economic and national security. ..."
"My colleagues and I are committed to an energy policy that increases the domestic supply of fossil fuels to power the American economy of today, and aggressively pursues a variety of alternatives, including solar, nuclear, wind, and hydropower, to drive the American economy of tomorrow. We can, and we must, lower energy prices, create American jobs, and cease our funding of Hugo Chavez and other unfriendly governments. Speaker Pelosi may believe that Americans can wait until September for relief, but if you ask the average family of four, living paycheck to paycheck, relief can't come soon enough."
Shadegg is RIGHT!
This battle is about more than gasoline prices, and yes, even the suffering of Americans who are living paycheck to paycheck!
History may remember this fight over domestic drilling in a greater context... as a pivotal battle in our fight to maintain "our economic and national security" -- indeed our sovereignty as a nation!
And while we can applaud legislators like Shadegg and Blunt and Boehner and Pence for taking the fight to Pelosi; their actions will not make the difference!
The actions of the American people will determine the final outcome!
If good men and women do nothing, Pelosi will succeed!
Together, we must take action right here and right now!
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Obama’s Views Not Consistent With Christianity
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Obama’s Views Not Consistent With Christianity, Conservative Says
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
By Allison Aldrich, Correspondent
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) (AP File Photo)Washington (CNSNews.com) - Americans should question Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) commitment to Christianity based on his “disregard” for unborn life, well-known black conservative author and activist Star Parker said.
“Based on his disregard and disrespect for human life, we should question his insistence that he’s a Christian. It is inconsistent with the biblical world view to think that not only is abortion okay, but he goes so far as to support partial-birth abortion,” Parker told CNSNews.com in an interview.
Parker, who is president of CURE, a think-tank that focuses on issues of race and poverty in America, said in addition to abortion, she is concerned about America’s dependence on welfare and the consequences that Obama’s support for such policies will have in the U.S.
“There’s a problem in this hardcore, left philosophy of Barack Obama that people keep dismissing,” said Parker. “I think [Obama’s social policies] will destroy what’s left of the black family. Socialism doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for individuals, it doesn’t work for families and it doesn’t work for our society. Our society cannot coexist with socialism.”
Parker, a one-time single mother on welfare who worked to become one of the nation’s top conservative speakers, said she hopes that the race of the expected Democratic nominee will not be a factor when other black conservatives decide who to support in the presidential election.
“I would never support someone just because of their race, and I certainly wouldn’t support a hardcore, leftwing, liberal Marxist, as Barack Obama is,” Parker said. “You cannot put the principles that we say we hold dear on the sidelines because race is now a factor.”
Parker said she believes race is one issue that should be left out of the voting booth this November.
“It’s the principles of America that have made America great, not the ethnicity of the people that develop those principles and put them into law and establish this great nation.”
Parker spoke at the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Leadership Conference on Monday.
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JimH at 01:47 PM - August 06, 2008
Go girl! Ms Parker is right on! Unfortunately, I fear Mr. Obama will win, not because he is right, but because we have so few "Star Parkers" and the few we have are being squelched by the main stream media. God bless you and your dear ones. God bless the USA.
MomaJ at 12:48 PM - August 06, 2008
After what Ms. Parker stated, what is left to say?
Obama’s Views Not Consistent With Christianity, Conservative Says
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
By Allison Aldrich, Correspondent
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) (AP File Photo)Washington (CNSNews.com) - Americans should question Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) commitment to Christianity based on his “disregard” for unborn life, well-known black conservative author and activist Star Parker said.
“Based on his disregard and disrespect for human life, we should question his insistence that he’s a Christian. It is inconsistent with the biblical world view to think that not only is abortion okay, but he goes so far as to support partial-birth abortion,” Parker told CNSNews.com in an interview.
Parker, who is president of CURE, a think-tank that focuses on issues of race and poverty in America, said in addition to abortion, she is concerned about America’s dependence on welfare and the consequences that Obama’s support for such policies will have in the U.S.
“There’s a problem in this hardcore, left philosophy of Barack Obama that people keep dismissing,” said Parker. “I think [Obama’s social policies] will destroy what’s left of the black family. Socialism doesn’t work. It doesn’t work for individuals, it doesn’t work for families and it doesn’t work for our society. Our society cannot coexist with socialism.”
Parker, a one-time single mother on welfare who worked to become one of the nation’s top conservative speakers, said she hopes that the race of the expected Democratic nominee will not be a factor when other black conservatives decide who to support in the presidential election.
“I would never support someone just because of their race, and I certainly wouldn’t support a hardcore, leftwing, liberal Marxist, as Barack Obama is,” Parker said. “You cannot put the principles that we say we hold dear on the sidelines because race is now a factor.”
Parker said she believes race is one issue that should be left out of the voting booth this November.
“It’s the principles of America that have made America great, not the ethnicity of the people that develop those principles and put them into law and establish this great nation.”
Parker spoke at the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Leadership Conference on Monday.
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JimH at 01:47 PM - August 06, 2008
Go girl! Ms Parker is right on! Unfortunately, I fear Mr. Obama will win, not because he is right, but because we have so few "Star Parkers" and the few we have are being squelched by the main stream media. God bless you and your dear ones. God bless the USA.
MomaJ at 12:48 PM - August 06, 2008
After what Ms. Parker stated, what is left to say?
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