The Future is for
the bold, for the daring and those who love enough to see
tomorrow through patriot eyes, hear the voices of the past
that guide them to the future and love this country with the
heart of a Christian warrior that embraces our obligation to
those who have cut the trail before us, those who by faith
are marching with us, and those who by grace shall possess
the rare gift of freedom it is our wont to leave them.
With absolute
gall U.S. President
Barack Obama said on
Friday that European
leaders face an
"urgent need to act"
to resolve the
region's financial
crisis as the threat
of a renewed
recession there
spells dangers for
an anemic U.S.
recovery five months
before elections.
Speaking a week
after a dismal U.S.
jobs report, Obama
said decisions about
how to solve the
euro zone crisis are
fundamentally in the
hands of Europe's
leaders and that
showing political
commitment will be a
"strong step."
"They understand the
seriousness of the
situation and the
urgent need to act,"
Obama told a news
conference.
He also urged the
U.S. Congress to
pass measures he
proposed last
September that would
create jobs in
construction and
state and local
governments, while
noting that private
sector employment
was looking better.
Obama's remarks on
the economy reflect
his lack of options
on jobs, the number
one issue for voters
in the Nov. 6
election. Tepid May
employment creation
that nudged the U.S.
jobless rate to 8.2
percent and other
recent downbeat data
have fanned concerns
that a gradual U.S.
recovery might be
running out of
steam, potentially
harming Obama's
hopes for
re-election.
President Barack
Obama’s deputies are
holding “hundreds”
of closed-door
meetings with a
jihad-linked
lobbying group that
is widely derided by
critics as a U.S.
arm of the
theocratic Muslim
Brotherhood.
The admission of
meetings with the
Council on
American-Islamic
Relations came from
George Selim, the
White House’s new
director for
community
partnerships, which
was formed in
January to ensure
cooperation by law
enforcement and
social service
agencies with Muslim
identity groups in
the United States.
“There is hundreds
of examples of
departments and
agencies that meet
with CAIR on a range
of issues,” he told
The Daily Caller,
after being asked if
his office refuses
to meet with any
Muslim groups.
CAIR is “the group
with the worst
record of deception
and the deepest ties
to terrorists,” said
Steven Emerson, the
director of the
Investigative
Project on
Terrorism, which
tracks the public
activities of
Islamist lobbying
groups.
Sen.
Rand Paul endorses
Mitt Romney [VIDEO]
Kentucky Republican
Sen. Rand Paul came
out and endorsed
Mitt Romney for the
presidency Thursday
night during the
broadcast of Fox
News Channel’s
“Hannity” program.
Paul’s move may seem
overdue, but his
timing was
complicated by the
fact that his
father, Texas Rep.
Ron Paul, stayed in
the GOP presidential
nomination contest
so long.
“Before you say what
I think you’re going
to say, did you
check in with your
congressman father?”
host Sean Hannity
asked.
“Well, you know, my
first choice had
always been my
father,” Paul
responded. “I
campaigned for him
when I was eleven
years old; he’s
still my first pick.
But you know, now
that the nominating
process is over,
tonight I am happy
to announce that I’m
going to be
supporting Gov.
Romney.”
“If you didn’t
support your father,
by the way,” Hannity
allowed, “I would
really question
family loyalty
there. And I think
it was totally
understandable.”
Paul said he had met
with Romney to
discuss his — and
his father’s —
concerns about the
need to audit the
Federal Reserve. “We
think there needs to
be more transparency
to the Fed, and more
oversight by
Congress,” he said.
“This is something
that Gov. Romney was
supportive of
throughout his
campaign, and also
was supportive of in
private to me.”
Sen. John McCain is
pressing the case
for a special
outside counsel over
recent White House
security leaks, even
as President Barack
Obama says it is
"offensive" and
"wrong" to claim his
White House would
deliberately do it
for political gain.
The president says
his administration
has "zero tolerance"
for the leaking of
sensitive
information. McCain
accuses the Obama
White House of
leaking the
information to
bolster the
president's standing
on national security
in an election year.
[Full Story]
While hundreds of travelers at a D.C. airport were gathered by their respective gates waiting for their flights, an “Honor Flight” of World War II veterans deplaned. Much to the members of the Greatest Generation’s surprise, they were met with a resounding round of applause and were cheered heartily by the crowd as they made their way through the terminal.
“It was just an outstanding day,” said one of the vets, Ed Cavanaugh. “It was the day of a lifetime, to be honest with you. The people who run the [Honor Flights] … are the finest group of people I’ve ever had the opportunity to work with. The trip that day was unreal.”
The Honor Flight was to commemorate the 68th anniversary of D-Day. Fox News interviewed Cavanaugh and another veteran to discuss the emotional moment:
A Wisconsin state employees union president let loose about the Tea Party the day after Gov. Scott Walker won his recall election, referring to gatherings as a “tea bag” and saying its members are “a bunch of haters…that want to go back to the 50s. White man rule.”
According to video posted online, Gilbert Johnson of the American Federation of State, County, Municipal Employees Local 82 was speaking at an Occupy Milwaukee rally. He praised its members for being multiracial and instructed everyone present to “hug” the person next to them:
You never see this at a tea bag, man. What you have is a bunch of haters, people that tell lies, people that want to go back to the 50s. White man rule. White man only
This is very interesting! I never thought about it this way.
The Lawyers' Party, By Bruce Walker
The Democratic Party has become the Lawyers Party.
Barack Obama is a lawyer. Michelle Obama is a lawyer. Hillary Clinton is a lawyer. Bill Clinton is a lawyer. John Edwards is a lawyer. Elizabeth Edwards was a lawyer.
Every Democrat nominee since 1984 went to law school (although Gore did not graduate).
Every Democrat vice presidential nominee since 1976, except for Lloyd Bentsen, went to law school. Look at leaders of the Democrat Party in Congress: Harry Reid is a lawyer. Nancy Pelosi is a lawyer. Great Article Read More
A convenience
store owner in
Canada turned the
tables on a pair of
would-be robbers by
using “bear spray”
to stop the crooks
in their tracks. As
of Friday, both men
were taken into
custody. However,
before the crooks
ended up in jail,
one of the robbers
was bent over the
store’s counter by
the owner and
spanked on his bare
butt. Yes, we said
spanked.
It was minutes
before closing time
when a pair of
hoodie-wearing,
masked crooks
entered the store in
a suburb of Ottowa.
They flashed knives
and demanded cash
from the owner Zhen
Yang. The
quick-thinking Yang
grabbed a can of
something typically
used to keep bears
away, a product
called “Counter
Assault.”
The powerful
pepper spray product
that stopped the
robbers in their
tracks is meant to
be used as bears
approach from a
great distance. You
can see just how
strong the spray is
when Yang deploys it
inside the store.
A former Weather Channel anchor is suing the network, claiming her status as an Air Force reserve officer got her fired.
Nicole Mitchell said this week her contract was not renewed in 2010 because Weather Channel management did not want to contend with the time she took off for her military duties, the Marietta Daily Journal reported. She has accused the Weather Channel and its parent companies of violating her rights under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994
Mitchell, who
holds the rank of
captain, was an
on-air meteorologist
for the network for
seven years. She
said the trouble
started after the
Weather Channel was
sold in 2008 to NBC
Universal and
private equity firms
Bain Capital and the
Blackstone Group
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg’s plan to
limit the size of
sugary drinks sold
in New York City is
getting some push
back from the
world’s largest
purveyor of soft
drinks. A Coca-Cola
executive tells
USA Today that
Bloomberg’s proposal
lacks scientific
evidence.
"There is no
scientific evidence
that connects sugary
beverages to
obesity," Katie
Bayne, Coca-Cola's
president of
sparkling beverages
in North American,
told the paper in an
exclusive interview.
Bayne said that at
the same time
obesity was rising
between 1999 through
2010, beverage
consumption of
sugary drinks was
dropping. She said
during the decade
sugars from soda
consumption fell 39
percent as the
percentage of obese
children rose 13
percent and obese
adults 7 percent.
ED
Note:
Coke should look at
the bright side.
While the mayor is
banning the Big Gulp
he is tantamount to
legalizing pot.
That means munchies.
Munchies means
thirst. Thirst
means two 16 oz
drinks instead of
one 32 oz. At
the prices charged
at convenience
stores that means
more money for store
owners.
Unfortunately, it
also means more drug
sales for Mexican
Drug Cartels and
more funding for
their new partners
Hezbollah and Hamas
who now control the
crime and drugs in
250 American cities.
Good job mayor
Bloomberg, when the
terrorists you are
helping to fund blow
us up we'll all die
a little thinner
thanks to you.
His job is on
the line for
stripping most
public workers
of their
collective-bargaining
rights, but
Wisconsin Gov.
Scott Walker is
sounding
confident about
his chances in
the recall
election today,
saying he isn’t
nervous because
“we did the
right thing.”
“We did it for
the right
reasons. Now
it’s up to the
voters,” the
Republican said
in an interview
Monday night
with Fox News’s
Greta Van
Susteren.
“We dared to go
where nobody
else has dared
before. And that
is to say to the
big government
union bosses,
who control
things . . .
you’re not in
charge anymore,”
Walker added
later when
pressed to
explain why he
is only the
third governor
in U.S. history
to have his
election
recalled by the
voters.
WASHINGTON – A U.S.
decision to send Air
Force F-22 Raptors
to the United Arab
Emirates apparently
is more than a mere
training mission,
according to
informed sources
close to the U.S.
intelligence
community,Joseph
Farah’s G2 Bulletin
reports.
The sources suggest
that despite
continuing technical
problems lurking
within the advanced
multi-purpose
fighter, the Raptors
are being staged in
the UAE in
preparation to
assist the Israelis
should they decide
to launch a military
attack on Iran’s
nuclear facilities.
Israel and the U.S.
believe the Islamic
republic is
developing nuclear
weapons.
The jets also would
be used to bolster
the military
capabilities of the
U.S.-backed Gulf
Arab countries
The 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals
cleared the way on
Tuesday for the U.S.
Supreme Court to
consider
California's gay
marriage ban,
declining an appeal
to revisit the case.
Of the Circuit
Court’s 25 judges,
only three
dissented.
Conservative jurists
Diarmuid O'Scannlain,
Carlos Bea, and Jay
Bybee indicated a
desire to rehear the
case but were
outvoted by a strong
majority of their
colleagues.
Same-sex couples in
California will not
be able to wed
immediately — the
ruling invalidating
Proposition 8 has
been stayed until
supporters of the
gay-marriage ban
have exhausted their
ability to appeal.
Supporters of the
2008 ban,
Proposition 8, have
lost two rounds in
federal court but
have made clear they
will appeal to the
U.S. Supreme Court
and hope for a
favorable response
from the
conservative-leaning
court.
The top U.S. court
could agree to hear
the matter in the
session beginning in
October, putting it
on track to decide
the case within a
year. It could also
decline to review
Prop 8.
A House
investigative
committee said
Tuesday it has
obtained new
information from
wiretaps related to
the Obama
administration’s
Operation Fast and
Furious that
suggests
high-ranking
officials know more
than they are
telling Congress
about the flawed
weapons sting.
The
announcement appears
to be the latest
attempt by GOP Rep.
Darrell Issa,
chairman of the
House Oversight and
Government Reform
Committee, to press
U.S. Attorney
General Eric Holder
into providing
Congress with more
information about
the operation and an
account of which
officials knew about
any problems -- and
when.
“The
wiretap applications
show that immense
detail about
questionable
investigative
tactics was
available to the
senior officials who
reviewed and
authorized them,”
Issa said in a June
5 letter to
Holder. “The close
involvement of these
officials -- much
greater than
previously known --
is shocking.”
Al-Libi,
known as a rock star
in the jihadist
world with his
videos and lectures
going viral on the
Web, was the
intended target of
the strike, U.S.
officials said.
The
strikes have been
increasingly
unpopular among
Pakistanis, but
successful in recent
years at taking out
terrorist leaders.
Pakistan has
evidence that Al-Libi
was in a house hit
by the U.S. drone
strike, but it was
initially unclear
whether he was
killed. A
U.S. official later
confirmed his death.
PresidentBarack
Obamais
previewing his next
strategy in the 2012
campaign — an
audacious effort to
paint former
Massachusetts Gov.Mitt
Romneyand
the majority GOP as
radical libertarians
that have abandoned
mainstream American
politics.
Since
2000, “we
[Democrats] haven’t
moved that much. …
What’s changed is
the Republican
Party,” Obama told a
group of wealthy
donors gathered
Monday night at a
New York town-house
owned by Marc Lasry.
Lasry is a
billionaire
equity-capitalist
who runs a $20
billion fund that
buys up the shaky
assets of failing
companies.
Republicans “have
gone from a
preference for
market-based
solutions to an
absolutism … [to] a
belief that all
regulations are bad;
that government has
no role to play,”
said Obama, who has
presided over record
unemployment of at
least 8.1 percent,
record deficits of
more than $1
trillion per year,
and a record $5
trillion increase in
the national debt.
Utah
Republican Rep.Jason
Chaffetzsaid
Tuesday that he
thinks House SpeakerJohn
Boehnerwill
be “sufficiently
embarrassed” by
Attorney GeneralEric
Holder’s
continued
stonewalling of
congressional
investigators on theOperation
Fast and Furiousscandal.
Holder has now
missed a Memorial
Day deadline to
provide documents to
Congress.
“In
an abundance of
caution, Speaker
Boehner [and] Eric
Cantor, our leader,
sent a letter to the
White House and
Attorney General
Holder asking them
to answer some very
basic questions –
that’s been nearly a
month,” Chaffetz
told the Fox News
Channel’s Bill
Hemmer when asked
Tuesday about what
happened to that
deadline. “I think
the speaker is
probably going to be
sufficiently
embarrassed by the
fact that the
attorney general is
also blowing him off
as they did with the
subpoena that was
issued in October. I
find it totally an
embarrassment, I
find it totally
wrong that the
attorney general
would just ignore a
subpoena.”
“You
can’t do that in
this country and get
away with it,”
Chaffetz added.
The Centers for
Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC)
recently denied knowing
of “a virus or
condition that would
reanimate the dead
(or one that would
present zombie-like
symptoms),” after a
series of instances
of cannibalism
across the country
were reported,
but remains silent
about the effect of
zombie-inducing
parasites that live
in human brains.
A 2008 piece by
Discover Magazine entitled,
“Zombie animals and
the parasites that
control them,” named
a single-cell
parasite primarily
found in cats, the Toxoplasma
gondii — which
alters the
brain-chemistry of
rats to make them
more likely to seek
out cats — as one
such parasite.
The Toxoplasma “thus
makes a rat more
likely to be killed
and the parasite
more likely to end
up in a cat — the
only host in which
it can complete the
reproductive step of
its life cycle,”
Discoverreported in
a separate piece.
The parasite can
also live in the
brain cells of
thousands of other
warm-blooded
animals, including
humans. The
Toxoplasma, when
living inside
humans, is linked to
causing significant
changes in behavior,
including
neuroticism,
increased aggression
and schizophrenia.
Everyday, we hear some
pretty grim
predictions about
the markets and the
economy. But this
is one of the more
comprehensive and
most gloomy outlooks
we've ever seen.
Raoul Pal expects a
series of sovereign
defaults, the
"biggest banking crisis
in world history",
and asserts that we
don't have many
options to stop it.
Pal previously
co-managed the GLG
Global Macro Fund.
He is also a Goldman
Sachs alum.
He currently writes
for The
Global Macro
Investor,
a research publication
for large and
institutional
investors.
A note on the
presentation; the
last slide is not
meant to suggest
that we're going
back to the economic
activity of 3000
years ago. It refers
to the 3000 year old
trade links between
the nations along
the Indian Ocean,
which Mr. Pal
believes will be the
center of world's
opportunities. Just
like the West 50
years ago, they have
"...low debts, high savings and
a young population".
Recent polls showing
Gov. Scott Walker
holding a 2-3 point
lead over Milwaukee
mayor Tom Barrett
indicate that the
governor will
triumph on Tuesday,
which would signal a
major blow to
organized labor and
provide a jolt to
Republican governors
nationally.
Mitt Romney
speaks with
supporters
of Gov.
Scott Walker
during a
March
campaign
stop.
(AP Photo)
It too, however, has
the potential to be
a pivotal, watershed
moment in the 2012
presidential
election, setting
the pace and
determining the
direction of the
race from now until
November that could
spell disaster for
President Obama.
If Walker is
re-elected, it will
embolden Republicans
across the country
and alert them that
a set of tough
positions on fiscal
issues, particularly
relating to pension
and benefits,
remains viable.
This is a
special report by
the Media Research
Center (MRC) that’s
been cross-posted on
The Blaze. The
original by Dan
Gainor and Iris
Somberg appears on
theMRC
website. You can
get a condensed
version of the
in-depth report by
reading the
executive summaryhere.
Say the name George
Soros and liberals
see dollar signs –
literally. The
world’s 22ndrichest
man, according to
Forbes, is now worth
$20 billion. But
Soros isn’t just
noteworthy for the
money he has – he’s
notable for the
money he has given
away. Since
launching his Open
Society Foundations
in 1984, Soros has
donated more than $8
billion to charities
around the world.
But instead of
gaining a mighty
reputation for his
philanthropy, or his
investment prowess,
Soros is reviled
abroad and
criticized here ...
read more
Only 34 percent of
those polled in the
May 29-30 telephone
survey see the
federal government
more as a protector
of rights. The poll
showed that 53
percent of Democrats
see the federal
government today as
a protector of
individual rights.
Most Republicans, 67
percent, and those
not affiliated with
either major
political party, 52
percent, see the
government instead
as a threat to
individual rights.
While slightly more
than half of
Democrats, 53
percent, see the
federal government
today as a protector
of individual
rights, most
Republicans, 67
percent, and those
not affiliated with
either major
political party, 52
percent, see the
government as a
threat to individual
rights instead.
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More Americans
call themselves
politically
independent than
at any point in
the last 75
years, according
to a new poll.
Those who do
align themselves
with a party
have become
sharply
polarized,
particularly on
issues important
in this year's
presidential and
congressional...[Full Story]
Republican
Congressional
candidate Jackie
Walorski leaned on
her record of
pragmatism in a
recent interview
with Newsmax.TV,
repeatedly
emphasizing her
“independent voice”
and affirming her
“passion to make a
difference.”
Walorski, who is one
of the National
Republican
Congressional
Committee’s "Young
Guns," pointed to
her history in the
Indiana State House
as an indication of
how she would
represent her
district in
Washington. “I have
been an independent
voice for the last
six years in
Indiana. I was in
the Indiana house, I
was elected in 2004
and I served until
2010. I went in
there to make a
difference and get
out,” explained
Walorski. “I
certainly did not go
there to pick up
Colts tickets.”
Ronald Kessler
reporting from
Washington, D.C.—
Last June, President
Obama appointed Vice
President Joe Biden
to root out wasteful
government spending.
But behind the
scenes, it’s a
different matter.
Every Friday, Biden
takes a helicopter
designated as Marine
Two from the vice
president’s
residence to Joint
Base Andrews in
Maryland and then
hops on Air Force
Two to fly back to
his home in
Delaware. At the end
of the weekend, he
returns on Air Force
Two, usually a
Boeing C-32.
During warm weather,
Biden regularly
returns to Andrews
on the airplane on
Saturdays to play
golf at the Air
Force base with
President Obama.
After the golf game,
he flies back to
Delaware and returns
to Washington on the
plane on Sunday
evening — all at
taxpayer expense.
Last week, the blog
China Defenseposted
two photos,
nearly identical,
with only one line
of text: “Just in
case you might get
confused, only one
bird below is the
J-20.”
Gizmodo magnifies
the pictures and
puts them
side-by-side for abetter
comparison:
The
J-20 stealth fighter
is the creation of
the Chengdu Aircraft
Industry Group for
the People’s
Liberation Army in
China. About a year
and a half ago, the
People’s Liberation
Armyconducted
its first tests of
the aircraft, which
is expected to be
fully operational
sometime between
2017 and 2019.
If
only one is a J-20,
can you guess the
other? According to
Gizmodo and others,it
is an F-22Raptor.
The two are eerily
similar, no? The
technology and
design of the
aircraft by Lockheed
Martin, Gizmodo
notes, is still
largely secret. If
that’s the case,
what do the
similarities between
these two photos
mean?
If
you ever thought you
couldn’t win by
losing, here’s a
story for you. Even
though Meghan Vogel
came in last place
in the recent Ohio
D-III 3,200-meter
state finals, she
came out as the
winner.
With
just 50 meters left
in the race, Vogel —
a junior who had
earlier won the
1,600-meter race —
noticed that one of
her opponents,
sophomore Arden
McMath, collapsed in
front of her. It was
obvious McMath
couldn’t finish, so
Vogel did what the
rules say she can’t:
she helped McMath to
the finish line
despite facing a
disqualification.
And
as the two limped
along, the crowd
roared. Luckily for
the rest of the
world, the act of
sportsmanship was
caught on video:
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Oklahoma Republican
Sen. James Inhofe
plans to highlight a
little-known speech
by an EPA regional
administrator who
admitted on video
that the Obama’s
administration’s air
regulations will
kill the coal
industry.
“Lisa
Jackson has put
forth a very
powerful message to
the country. Just
two days ago, the
decision on
greenhouse gas
performance standard
and saying basically
gas plants are the
performance standard
which means if you
want to build a coal
plant you got a big
problem. That was a
huge decision,”
Region 1 EPA
Administrator Curtis
“Curt” Spalding
says, in footage
filmed at Yale
University.
“You
can’t imagine how
tough that was,”
Spalding continued.
“Because you got to
remember if you go
to West Virginia,
Pennsylvania, and
all those places,
you have coal
communities who
depend on coal. And
to say that we just
think those
communities should
just go away, we
can’t do that. But
she had to do what
the law and policy
suggested. And it’s
painful. It’s
painful every step
of the way.”
Over
the weekend, the
white Lieutenant
Governor of Texas,
David Dewhurst
challenged his
opponent in the
Texas Senate race,
Ted Cruz, to a
debate — in Spanish.
Cruz, the
Cuban-American
former Texas
Solicitor General,
said he would prefer
to debate in
English.
Univision reportedthat
Dewhurst made the
challenge to
Cruz. ”I would
welcome a debate
with Lt. Gov.
Dewhurst in any
form,” Cruz told the
Spanish-language
network. “But I
think we would have
a better debate if
we did the debate in
English.”
He
explained that as a
second generation
Cuban American, he
grew up speaking “Spanglish.”
“My
Spanish is a
situation many of
your viewers will
recognize, which is
that as a second
generation
immigrant, my dad
came from Cuba when
he was a teenager
not speaking
English. And I grew
up here speaking
Spanglish,” Cruz
said, shouting out a
phrase in half
English, half
Spanish to
illustrate his
point.
The mayor has
spoken: No
super-size
sweetened drinks
will be sold in
New York City if
he has his way,
but most
Americans oppose
that idea.
A new Rasmussen
Reports national
telephone survey
finds that 65
percent of
American adults
oppose a law
that would ban
the sale of any
cup or bottle of
sweetened drink
larger than 16
ounces. Just 24
percent favor a
law like the one
Mayor Michael
Bloomberg has
proposed as a
way to fight
obesity. Eleven
percent (11
percent) are
undecided about
it.
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These kinds of news
reports sparked
rumors
saying zombies were
quite real and
walking around the
city. Perhaps these
stories are what
prompted theCDC
to formally announcethis
weekend that there
is no virus that is
turning people into
zombies.
The fact that the
government tells us
there is no “Zombie
Virus” apparently
did not reach
everyone. It also
did not stop some
foolish people in
Miami from trying to
scare strangers into
thinking that
zombies were roaming
their town and
randomly attacking
humans. One person
dressed in “typical
zombie attire” and
began barking and
chasing people as
his accomplice
recorded the action:
On June 7, the
Department of
Homeland Security
(DHS) is holding a
gay-themed event
called the June
Pride Ceremony. The
hour-long gathering,
scheduled to take
place from 12:30
p.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
will feature DHS
Secretary Janet
Napolitano as a
guest speaker, among
others. The purpose
of the event is to
commemorate June
Pride Month, while
also marking “a year
of significant
progress for DHS
Pride and for the
LGBT community.”
According tothe Federal
Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) web
site, DHS Pride,
the group behind the
event, is an
employee association
that represents
gays, lesbians,
bisexual and
transgendered
individuals working
within DHS’s ranks.
The organization
seeks to showcase
how
these individuals work diligently to
secure the U.S. Here
aresome
of the goalsthe
group works towards,
as per its web site:
Identify and
address issues
particularly
affecting Gay,
Lesbian,
Bisexual and
Transgender
employees of the
Department.
Support and
guide the
Department in
the development
and
implementation
of effective
policies and
practices for
the elimination
of
discrimination
on the basis of
sexual
orientation and
gender identity
in all
Departmental
activities.
Serve as a
resource and
point of contact
for its members,
for those
seeking or
considering
employment with
the Department,
and for other
interested
individuals or
groups regarding
LGBT issues and
activities at
DHS.
AsThe
Blaze has reported,
President Barack
Obama has been doing
damage control among
African American
pastors since his
official endorsement
of same-sex marriage
last month. But his
efforts to put faith
leaders at ease
apparently haven’t
resonated with
everyone, as a group
of influential black
pastors are
appealing
to Attorney General
Eric Holder to setup
a meeting for them
with the president.
The groups maintains
that Obama’s
endorsement has
“broken their
hearts.”
“President Obama is
the fulfillment of
our dreams for our
sons — and he has
broken our hearts by
using his power and
position to endorse
as a civil right
something that is
simply wrong,” wrote
the Rev. William
Owens, the founder
and president ofthe
Coalition of African
American Pastors (CAAP). ”I
would pray you have
enough residual
respect for this
group of clergy, to
agree to meet with
us and other
national leaders to
discuss our concerns
over your and
President Obama’s
endorsement of gay
marriage as a civil
right.”
President Obama’s
ambitious plan for
stepped up
government
regulation of the
oceans includes an
unreported effort to
cede U.S. oceans to
United Nations-based
international law,
WND has learned.
The plan was
previously a pet
project of Secretary
of Defense Leon
Panetta, whose
ocean-zoning scheme
was partnered with a
globalist group that
also aimed to hand
over U.S. oceans to
U.N. governance.
Obama’s plan is
still in draft form.
It calls for an
executive order to
be issued for a
National Ocean
Policy that will
determine how the
ecosystem is managed
while giving the
federal government
more regulatory
authority over any
businesses that
utilize the ocean.
The executive order
is to be based on
the recommendations
of Obama’s
Interagency Ocean
Policy Taskforce,
created in 2010 also
by executive order.
The dust is nowhere
near settled in the
complicated case
surrounding
17-year-old Trayvon
Martin’s death. This
morning, ABC’s “Good
Morning America”
added a bombshell to
the case when the
show offered a
first-time look at
George Zimmerman‘s
alleged injuries on
the night of
Martin’s demise.
Mediaite describes
newly-released
images that
purportedly show
Zimmerman’s bloodied
head in the moments
following his
violent spat with
the teenager:
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) —
A judge says George
Zimmerman can be
released on $150,000
bail as he awaits
trial for the
shooting death of
Trayvon Martin.
The
judge says there is
a possibility
Zimmerman will be
allowed to go out of
state because of
worries about his
safety, but details
need to be worked
out among the
attorneys and law
enforcement.
Circuit Judge
Kenneth Lester says
Zimmerman cannot
have any firearms,
drink alcohol or use
drugs and must
observe a curfew.
Zimmerman will also
have to wear an
electronic
monitoring device.
The judge says
Zimmerman will not
be released Friday.
Yet today’s Quinnipiac poll
finds Romney favored
over Obama on the
issue of …immigration(by
a margin of 43% to
39%, about the same
lead that Romney has
on “the economy”).
He’s ahead byfifteen
pointson
the immigration
issue among
independents. … So
why is a “pivot” on
immigration needed,
again? … What good
is Hispandering if
it wins Romney New
Mexico but costs him
Ohio? …
On Bill Press’
Thursday radio show,
simulcasted on
Current TV,
Minnesota Democratic
Rep. Keith Ellison
responded to Florida
Republican Rep.
Allen
West’s accusation that
members of the
Congressional
Progressive Caucus
are “communist.”
Even though Westlater
claimedthe
remarks were taken
out of context by
The Palm Beach Post,
Ellison — a co-chair
of the progressive
caucus — took to the
airwaves to
challenge West, and
likened his comments
to former Wisconsin
Sen. Joseph
McCarthy’s crusade
against supposed
communist
infiltration of the
U.S. government.
Ellison echoed U.S.
Army head counsel
Joseph Welch’s 1954
rebuttal to
McCarthy.
“I think that he had
us in mind,” Ellison
said. “But just like
Joe McCarthy was
deluded and seeing
phantoms and you
know, all kinds of
crazy stuff, who is
the guy that said,
‘Sir, have you no
decency?’ OK, so
that’s what I feel
like saying to my
colleague from
Florida, from the 22ndCongressional
District of Florida,
‘Sir, have you no
decency?’”
ED Note: Actually
two notes on this
one. First, I
didn't know that
Bill Press was still
alive let alone on
the radio. Second,
this statement from
an Islamist who has
sworn before his
god, that he will
kill Christians
(infidels) destroy
the US Constitution
in favor of Sharia
law, and is
committed to
world-wide jihad
until he and his
fellow Muslims reign
supreme.
The Obama
administration is
silently diverting
$500 million to the
Internal Revenue
Service to implement
President Barack
Obama’s signature
piece of
legislation, the
Patient Protection
and Affordable Care
Act,according
toThe
Hill.
The funds represent
only a fraction of
what is needed for
the agency to
implement the health
care law, and the
funds have been
provided outside of
the normal
appropriations
process.
“The law contains
dozens of targeted
appropriations to
implement specific
provisions,” The
Hill reports. “It
also gave the
Department of Health
and Human Services (HHS)
a $1 billion
implementation fund,
to use as it sees
fit.”
The president of the
American Islamic
Forum for Democracy
(AIFD) has some
harsh words for
opponents of his
appointment to the
U.S. Commission on
International
Religious Freedom (USCIRF).
“You could actually
use the list of
people protesting
us, it’s a pretty
good list of some of
the leaders of the
Islamist movement in
America,” Zuhdi
Jasser, who has been
a vocal opponent of
political Islam,
told The Daily
Caller.
Last week 64 Muslim
organizations —
including Council on
American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) and
the Muslim Public
Affairs Council (MPAC)
— expressed “deep
concern” with
Jasser’s appointment
in aletterto
Senate Minority
Leader Mitch
McConnell, Hawaii
Democratic Sen.
Daniel Inouye and
Illinois Democratic
Sen. Dick Durbin.
The scandal-plagued
chairman of the
North Carolina
Democratic Party has
been suspended from
the host committee
of President Barack
Obama’s 2012
convention in
Charlotte,according
to a tweetfrom
a reporter with the
Raleigh-based News &
Observer newspaper.
David Parker,
chairman of the
Democratic Party in
North Carolina, is
under fire amid
allegations that he
helped facilitate a
plot to cover up
claims of sexual
harassment by a
former staffer who
left the party last
year.
The move excises an
embarrassment for
the Obama
re-election
campaign, which sees
the Tarheel State as
a must-win in
November. The
president won North
Carolina by just
three-tenths of one
percent in 2008,
leaving no cushion
to offset subsequent
political damage
caused by high
unemployment and
debt numbers.
News & Observer
reporter John Frank
tweeted that party
chairman David
Parker has been
“temporarily
suspended” from the
88-member panel,
which consists of
local politicians
and business
leaders. The
committee is helping
fund and organize
the convention.
During his Thursday evening broadcast, Glenn Beck interviewed WallBuilders founder and “The Jefferson Lies” author, David Barton. The two discussed what drove Thomas Jefferson and dispelled some long-held myths about the Founding Father.
For Jefferson, “it all goes back to God,” Barton said. This statement prompted the story of the “Jefferson Bible” and rumors that Jefferson was, in some way, anti-religious. Barton brushed off this idea as nonsense and went on to explain how history has been twisted.
The research arm of Louis Farrakhan’s radical Nation of Islam has released a new e-book defending President Barack Obama and his family against attacks from “very influential people within America’s political arena.” The document, “President Barack Obama: Evil Spoken Of,” was promoted and distributed on Thursday through the organization’s official media outlet, Final Call.
“President Obama has been called vile names, and both he and his wife have been referred to in words and characterized in graphical depictions in a disgraceful manner never before accorded to an American president and first lady,” the introduction to the book reads (despite the fact that a simple Google search shows the harsh images that were attributed to President George W. Bush as well).
The National
Organization for
Women (NOW) is
attempting, onceagain,
to do what no other
group has been able
to accomplish — get
radio giant Rush
Limbaugh off the
air.
On Thursday, the
women’s advocacy
group announced a
renewed protest
campaign —”Enough
Rush”
— to bring Limbaugh
down.
“He is going to be
whining and calling
us out about his
First Amendment
rights” Terry
O’Neill, president
of NOW, told The
Daily Caller about
how she expects
Limbaugh to react to
their campaign.
“There is nothing in
the Constitution
that says Rush
Limbaugh gets $38
million a year for
being on a radio
show.”
The group, which
Limbaugh often
jokingly refers to
as the NAGs
(“National
Association of
Gals”), is rallying
their chapters for a
day of protest on
May 18th.
Taxpayers in Minnesota ended up paying $70 million more than they needed to for electricity in 2011 because of “green” energy mandates, according to the Minnesota Rural Electric Association (MREA).
“Taxpayers already pay a high price to subsidize wind energy through billions in federal grants, loan guarantees and tax credits that prop up the ‘windustry,’” Tom Steward writes for the Minnesota State News.
“Now the bill for state renewable energy mandates is coming due with hundreds of thousands of Minnesota electric co-op and utility customers picking up the tab,” he adds.
Occupy Wall Street has continuously been accused of anti-Semitism since the movement’s inception in September 2011. While some could argue that these instances are merely anecdotal, The Blaze has documented them and, at the least, they constitute a disturbing pattern that’s worth addressing.
This week, as The Algemeiner noted, there’s a new anti-Jewish Occupy story brewing after the group’s Facebook page hosted a curious image. The picture, which has now been removed, is a cartoon showing a Jewish man driving a car — but it’s not just any vehicle.
In his right hand, the man is holding President Barack Obama’s severed head. This is apparently an attempt to showcase that the Israeli state has complete control over the American government. Then, the steering wheel is the United Nations’ official symbol — again, an attempt to show Israel as having dominion over and “driving” the international community.
MSNBC’s
Martin Bashir took
the time to slam
Mitt Romney for
allegedly lying,
while using the Book
of Mormon to lecture
the Republican
presidential
candidate about the
tenets of a moral
character. According
to Bashir, Romney
has told three lies
over the past few
days (about Ted
Nugent’s
endorsement,
unemployment under
President Obama and
the media’s leftist
tilt) — an offense
punishable by
“eternal damnation.”
“It doesn’t matter how many times he hears the truth, Mitt Romney prefers to tell lies,” Bashir said, going on to call the leading GOP candidate “Mitt the Mendacious.”
But his excoriating rant wasn’t done there, as he turned to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to more fully reprimand Romney for his alleged offenses. The Huffington Post has more:
Then, he [Bashir] wondered how Romney would be punished for lying, and whipped out the religious text of Romney’s faith.
“In Section 63, in verse 17 of the Doctrine and Covenants of the Mormon Church we find this: ‘All liars, and whosoever loveth and and maketh a lie, and the whoremonger, and the sorcerer, shall have their part in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death,’” Bashir said. “And from the Book of Mormon to Nephi, Chapter 2, Verse 34 we find this: ‘Woe unto the liar, for he shall be thrust down to hell.’”
There is growing
talk that if former
House Speaker Newt
Gingrich drops out
of the race and
"suspends" his
campaign, he may
throw his support
behind Rick Santorum
in an effort to deny
Mitt Romney the GOP
nomination.
And, for the moment,
Gingrich is not
yielding to the slew
of establishment
endorsements for
Mitt Romney.
Gingrich told CBS
News' "Face the
Nation" Sunday that
Romney has no lock
on the nomination
and the math doesn't
show him getting the
1,144 delegates
easily to clinch the
nomination.
A leading Gingrich
campaign official
also suggested this
weekend that their
camp may work with
Santorum to stop
Romney from getting
the nomination as
the former House
Speaker made clear
he could back either
Santorum or Romney
if they were to win
the nomination.
"If Rick Santorum
becomes the nominee,
I'll help him,"
Gingrich said. "We
are all committed to
defeating Barak
Obama. We think his
re-election would be
a disaster for the
country."
Santorum offered a
similar sentiment
about Romney's
difficulty in
getting the required
delegates.
NBC has revealed that it is launching an internal investigation into the “editing process” surrounding the conversation between George Zimmerman and a police dispatcher (shortly before Trayvon Martin was shot), where Zimmerman appears to volunteer racial information.
Exposed by Fox News and Newsbusters, NBC played the conversation on the “Today Show” as: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.”
The unabridged version is:
Zimmerman: This guy looks like he’s up to no good. Or he’s on drugs or something. It’s raining and he’s just walking around, looking about.
Dispatcher: OK, and this guy — is he black, white or Hispanic?
The difference between what ‘Today’ put on its air and the actual tape? Complete: In the ‘Today’ version, Zimmerman volunteered that this person ‘looks black,’ a sequence of events that would more readily paint Zimmerman as a racial profiler. In reality’s version, Zimmerman simply answered a question about the race of the person whom he was reporting to the police. Nothing prejudicial at all in responding to such an inquiry.
According to Mediaite, a source at Current TV said the former Countdown host went through eight different car services while working at the network, complaining that the drivers “smelled” and “talked to him.”
Furthermore, though Olbermann’s $250,000 studio was built to his exact specifications, he allegedly refused to use the set when there were lighting problems back in December. Not only that, but he refused to let guest hosts use the elaborate studio.
Current TV is also claiming that Olbermann refused to publicize the network and the show when he wasn’t hosting his program (and he took about half of January and February off). They say he even barred his staff from sending out related Twitter updates, and prevented guest hosts from promoting the show. (Jealous that they would get better ratings, perhaps?)
Rep. Corrine Brown, the Democratic congresswoman from Florida who was unable to remember the name of a white murder victim this week, lashed out at a local reporter Friday when asked about the incident.
During an appearance on CNN Wednesday, Brown was asked whether she and her fellow black colleagues would be as concerned about the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin if he hadn’t been black. The Blaze was one of the first outlets to feature the clip, which quickly went viral.
“Oh let me tell you something. We had an incident in my area where a young white female was murdered and I was just as concerned, absolutely, I care about all of the children,” Brown responded.
But when CNN host Brooke Baldwin asked Brown what the victim’s name was, Brown stammered and was unable to come up with it.
Former Obama administration green jobs czar Van Jones said Saturday the Occupy Wall Street movement essentially “saved the entire country from destruction.”
Jones made the comments in Los Angeles ahead of his appearance at an “All in for the 99%” training event, saying Occupy “disrupted the narrative” as both parties “barreling toward more austerity.”
“[The] Occupy movement pretty much saved the entire country from destruction,” Jones said in an interview posted online. “Both political parties were barreling toward more austerity, more cutbacks, more pain for the people and more — basically both political parties had managed to converge on this idea of basically no rules for the rich, no rights for the poor, no middle class to speak of. That was basically the agenda, the question was just how much pain how fast.”
“Occupy Wall Street came on and completely disrupted the narrative,” he said. All the ‘austerity, austerity, cut, cut, cut’ stuff went away and suddenly even Republicans had to talk about income inequality and that whole theme. Occupy Wall Street really kind of, like, helped us to hit a reset in the country.”
ED Note: What is this guy smoking. The only thing that these OWs saved us from is a soap shortage. Many reporter indicated they smelled so bad even the rats left their camp. When even the cock roaches leave you stink.
Shedding what many have described as an awkward sense of humor, Mitt Romney got some laughs in Wisconsin this weekend while mocking Obama’s claim to be the 4th best president.
“Have you heard he said he actually thinks he’s done a great job, and he says only Abraham Lincoln– Lincoln!– FDR, and Lyndon Baines Johnson compare. I mean this was not said on Saturday Night Live, alright, he said this on the main stream media, and you ask yourself, how can that be?”
Romney was presumably referring to the president’s “60 Minutes” interview back in December, where, when asked what his administration had accomplished, Obama replied that they had “saved” the country from a depression, rescued the auto industry, and “decimated” al-Qaeda, among other things.
However, he continued: “The issue here is not going to be a list of accomplishments…I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president, with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln.”
Radical left-wing activist Bill Ayers apparently stopped by Occupy Union Square in New York City on Friday and shared a little bit of what gets him going each day: Ending capitalism.
“I get up every morning and think, today I’m going to make a difference,” Ayers said in a video clip posted online. “Today I’m going to end capitalism. Today I’m going to make a revolution. I go to bed every night disappointed but I’m back to work tomorrow, and that’s the only way you can do it.”
Former Alaska Gov.
Sarah Palin will be
the guest hosting on
NBC's "Today" show
this Tuesday.
"I
see this as a good
opportunity to bring
an independent,
common-sense
conservative
perspective to NBC.
We’re 'going rogue'
and infiltrating
some turf for a
day,” Palin told
Breitbart News.
Meanwhile this week,
Katie Couric will be
filling in for Robin
Roberts on ABC's
"Good Morning
America." Palin and
Couric squared off
in that
controversial
interview on the
2008 campaign trail.
Palin
had a brief response
to Breitbart News's
request for comment
about the fact that
she will be
competing with
Couric: "Game on."
A
Virginia middle
school teacher
recently forced his
students to support
President Barack
Obama’s re-election
campaign by
conducting
opposition research
in class against the
Republican
presidential
candidates.
The 8th grade
students, who attend
Liberty Middle
School in Fairfax
County, were
required to seek out
the vulnerabilities
of Republican
presidential
hopefuls and forward
them to the Obama
campaign.
“This assignment was
just creepy beyond
belief — like
something out of
East Germany during
the Cold War,” one
frustrated father,
who asked for his
family to remain
anonymous, told The
Daily Caller.
The assignment was
for students to
research the
backgrounds and
positions of each of
the GOP candidates
for president and
find “weaknesses” in
them, the parent
explained. From
there, students were
to prepare a
strategy paper to
exploit those
weaknesses and then
to send their
suggestions to the
Obama campaign.
Liberty teacher
Michael Denman, who
declined to comment,
unveiled the
assignment in
mid-January when he
broke the Civics
Honor’s class into
four groups, one for
each Republican
candidate. The
students were then
to collaborate as a
group and research
the backgrounds of
their assigned
candidate.
The attack on
American military
computer networks
has been so
thorough, and so
successful, security
experts now say the
U.S. should quit
trying to stop it,
and assume spies are
already inside.
Security experts
testifying before
the Senate Armed
Services said last
week that it’s time
the U.S. stopped
building up its
computer defense,
and start
retaliating against
nations accessing
U.S. networks.
The attacks on
governmental and
private defense
networks has been
non-stop for years,
and last year the
Pentagon declared it
now regards
cyberspace as a
military-operable
domain.
The 2011 U.S. strategy
for operating in
cyberspace says
that cyberspace
is no different than
land, sea, air, and
space. This means
the military is
silently building a
“cyberforce” to
safeguard America’s
data.
Islamists, led by
the Muslim
Brotherhood, are
gaining even more
power in Egypt! They
control Egypt’s
parliament, are
considering running
a candidate for
president (despite
previous pledges
they wouldn’t do so)
and now the AP
reports they will be
in the majority on
Egypt’s panel to
create a new
constitution:
“Egypt’s newly
empowered Islamists
have tightened their
grip, giving
themselves a
majority on a
100-member panel
tasked with drafting
a constitution that
will define the
shape of the
government in the
post-Hosni Mubarak
era … Led by the
Muslim Brotherhood
to victory in
parliamentary
elections,
fundamentalists now
have their eyes set
on the next prize:
the presidency. The
new constitution
will decide whether
Islam will gain even
more strength in
Egypt, abandoning
decades of secular
traditions that made
the nation a top
U.S. ally and a
bulwark against
extremism.”
Egyptian security
forces have
prevented Iranian
agents from bombing
an Israeli ship as
it passed through
the Suez Canal,
according to the
Egyptian daily Al-Ahram.
The Iraniansreportedly
hiredtwo
Egyptians to carry
out the
attack, Susleiman
Razek Abdul-Razek
and Salameh Ahmed
Salameh,offering
them50
million Egyptian
pounds (roughly $8.3
million US). The
two men then tried
to pay another to
act in their place,
but are now denying
any involvement in
the matter
whatsoever.
Egypt has threatened
to prosecute anyone
found to be
attacking Israeli
targets in
coordination with
the Iranians, but
Israeli officials
also point out that
the Egyptian
territory of the
Sinai peninsula is
becoming a safe
haven for Iranians
and terrorist groups
of all shades.
On Monday’s “CBS
This Morning,”
former Vermont Gov.
Howard Dean broke
with Democratic
Party ranksonce
againon
the issue of
ObamaCare. But this
time, he did it in
the terms of how he
thinks the Supreme
Court will view the
law.
Host Charlie Rose
asked Dean, a
physician and former
Democratic
presidential
candidate, if he
thought the
individual mandate
would ultimately be
declared
unconstitutional.
“I actually think
that’s what they’re
most likely to do
before, of course,
we’ve heard any
arguments,” Dean,
the former chairman
of the Democratic
National Committee,
replied. “I can’t
imagine how they’re
going to decide this
isn’t right yet. And
you’ll have lawyers
talking about the
arcane legal
question. But yeah,
I don’t believe
they’ll support
that. And they
certainly aren’t
going to do it from
the bench today.”
“I do believe that
it’s likely the
individual mandate
will be declared
unconstitutional,”
he continued.
“[Justice Anthony]
Kennedy will
probably side with
the four right-wing
justices. But I’d be
very surprised if
they — I think
Kennedy will switch
sides and it will be
5-4 in favor of
severing that
finding from the
rest of the bill.
The question is
going to be, is this
individual mandate
question — can that
be considered
separately from the
rest of the bill?
And I think it will
be.”
WASHINGTON (The
Blaze/AP) — The
Supreme Court will
begin hearing
arguments on Monday
over President
Barack Obama’s
contentious health
care overhaul, the
Patient Protection
and Affordable Care
Act, derisively
labeled “Obamacare”
by its opponents.
Here is a look at
how the case will
unfold before the
court in
question-and-answer
form:
Q: What’s this all
about?
A: The Supreme Court
is hearing a
challenge to the
Patient Protection
and Affordable Care
Act, which is
Obama’s signature
domestic
achievement. Passed
by Congress in 2010,
its aim is to
provide health
insurance to more
than 30 million
previously uninsured
Americans, while
trying to restrain
costs and prevent
disruptions to the
majority already
with coverage.
Opponents say the
law is
unconstitutional;
their chief argument
is that Congress
does not have the
power to force
unwilling Americans
to buy health
insurance or pay a
fine.
New
audio has been
uncovered by
Buzzfeed reportedly
showing him praising
fuel efficiency
mandates. And it
certainly won’t help
him erase the
Etch-A-Sketch
phenomenon.
The
audio, which is said
to be from a 2007
town hall meeting,
features someone
sounding a lot like
Romney answering a
question about fuel
efficiency
standards. It is
slightly hard to
hear the original
question, but the
man reported as
Romney repeats it
and says, in part,
“what can you do
about automotive
efficiency and would
you consider
mandates of some
kind on automotive
efficiency?”
“And
the answer,” he
says, “is would I
consider them,
yeah.”
He
goes on to explain
that certain
requirements haven’t
really worked,
especially because
they haven’t applied
to trucks and SUVs.
“I’m
hopeful that with $3
gasoline being
charged by Hugo
Chavez, and
Ahmadinejad, and
Putin and others,
that you’re going to
see Americans slowly
but surely move to
vehicles that are
far more fuel
efficient, and
you’ll see our
manufactures start
competing on the
basis of fuel
efficiency.”
“I
sure hope you‘re
going to see more
and more hybrids and
much better fuel
economy because it’s
a must,” he ads. “We
have to make our
automobiles far more
fuel efficient.”
Footage of Rick
Santorum spouting
off at a New York
Times reporter
indicates that the
media could be
wearing on the
former Pennsylvania
Senator.
In a
back-and-forth with
The New York Times’
Jeff Zeleny aired on
Monday’s “CBS This
Morning,” Santorum
challenges the
premise of one of
the reporter’s
questions posed in a
rope line in
Wisconsin on Sunday.
According to Zeleny,
Santorum said his
chief competitor for
the GOP nomination,
former Massachusetts
Gov. Mitt Romney, is
the “worst
Republican” to run
against President
Barack Obama.
Santorum, meanwhile,
insisted that his
comments about
Romney had been
taken out of
context.
Transcript as
follows:
ZELENY: You said
Mitt Romney is
the worst
Republican in
the country. Is
that true?
SANTORUM: What
speech did you
listen to?
ZELENY: Right
here up. Said
he’s the worst
Republican –
SANTORUM: Stop
lying. I said he
was the worst
Republican to
run on the issue
of ObamaCare.
And that’s what
I was talking
about.
ZELENY: You said
he’s the worst
Republican –
SANTORUM: For
every speech I
give, I said
he’s uniquely
disqualified to
run against
Barack Obama on
the issue of
health care.
Would you guys
quit distorting
what I’m saying
in?
ZELENY: Do you
think he’s the
worst Republican
–
Warning:
Strong men will need
hand kerchief.
Kleenex stock went
up seven points when
when it was
announced Glenn
was going to see
this movie.
In
December, The Blaze
first reported about
“October
Baby,” a feature
film that focuses
upon the intensely
controversial issue
of abortion.
On Friday, the
movie opened in 350
select theaters
across America,
offering the rare
opportunity to
explore a subject
matter that often
makes people on all
sides of the debate
squirm. Last week,
we interviewed Jason
Burkey, 29, who
plays the male lead
(also named “Jason”)
in the film.
Before getting into
Burkey’s take on the
project, let‘s
briefly delve into
the movie’s plot and
synopsis. “October
Baby” recaps the
story
of a beautiful 19-year-old
college
freshman named
Hannah (played by Rachel
Hendrix).
Despite her youth
and good looks, she
has always had a
sense that something
was missing in her
life — a sense that
she doesn’t really
have a right to
exist.
The New York Postreported
Sundaythat
a city-funded
nonprofit group has
been teaching
homeless New Yorkers
to “homestead”
vacant city-owned
buildings by
breaking into them,
establishing
residency and hoping
the courts will
allow them to stay.
“The best time to
enter a building is
in the late hours,”
a Picture the
Homeless board
member told a group
of homeless men and
women a few weeks
ago. “You make sure
you have your proper
tools. You remove
the chains and
padlock, and then
you go in.”
The Bronx-based
Picture the
Homeless, which is
run by and for
homeless New
Yorkers, has
collected at least
$240,000 in city
funding during the
last five years, the
Post found.
The group’swebsiteoffers
a32-page
reportto
justify its
activities, blaming
“NYC’s laissez-faire
free-market strategy
for dealing with
empty buildings and
lots” for the living
conditions of
homeless New
Yorkers.
On January 26, the
group helda
press conferenceto
launch the report.
The event included a
supportive speech by
Hunter College urban
affairs professor
Tom Angotti. He said
vacant buildings
available for
homeless invasions
include “a lot of
buildings in areas
that you might be
surprised at, that
are very classy
areas — very high
rent … and they’re
there for
speculation.”
A spokesperson for
Village Voice Media,
the privately held
media company that
operates
Backpage.com,
complained about
a ”one-sided
demonization” of its
Craigslist-like
website on Thursday.
The Daily Caller was
asking whether its
“adult” ad section
contributes to the
entrapment of women
and teens in sex
slavery.
According to New
York Times columnist Nicholas
Kristof,
Backpage.com earns
its parent
company $22 million
per year with an
immense collection
of online
prostitution
advertisements. The
website, Kristof
alleged, serves
about 70 percent of
all online
prostitution
advertisements in
the nation.
Along with
“buy/sell/trade” and
“community” ads,
Backpage maintains
extensive ads for
such categories as
“escorts,” “body
rubs,” “dom &
fetish,” “ts”
[transsexuals],
“male escorts” and
“adult jobs.”
Village Voice
general counsel Liz
McDougall told TheDC
that “human
trafficking online
is not a Backpage.com-specific
problem, and
eliminating an adult
category from
Backpage.com would
exasperate the
problem, not
contribute to a
solution.”
According to The
Polaris Project,
a Washington,
D.C.-based
organization focused
on ending slavery,
an estimated 100,000
underage children
are involved with
sex trafficking each
year in America.
Mitt Romney picked
up the support over
the weekend of Utah
Sen. Mike Lee, a
favorite lawmaker of
tea party activists.
Lee — who had never
held office before —
was elected to the
U.S. Senate in 2010.
His support for
Romney in the
Republican
presidential race is
a big get for the
former Massachusetts
governor, who has
struggled to win
over the
conservative
grassroots.
“Mike has been
fighting on the
frontlines to repeal
Obamacare and
restore fiscal
sanity in
Washington,” Romney
said.
In a statement, Lee
said, “If
Republicans want to
repeal President
Obama’s
unconstitutional
health care plan,
restore limited
government and
individual liberty,
they must unite
behind Mitt Romney.”
SEOUL, South Korea
(AP) — President
Barack Obama told
Russia’s leader
Monday that he would
have more
flexibility after
the November
election to deal
with the contentious
issue of missile
defense, a candid
assessment of
political reality
that was picked up
by a microphone
without either
leader apparently
knowing.
Outgoing Russian
President Dmitry
Medvedev said he
would pass on
Obama’s message to
his successor,
Vladimir Putin,
according to an
audio recording of
comments the two
leaders made during
a meeting in Seoul,
South Korea. Obama
and Medvedev did not
intend for their
comments to be made
public.
Once
they were, the White
House said Obama’s
words reflected the
reality that
domestic political
concerns in the both
the U.S. and Russia
this year would make
it difficult to
fully address their
long-standing
differences over the
contentious issue of
missile defense.
Obama, should he win
re-election, would
not have to face
voters again.
“Since 2012 is an
election year in
both countries, with
an election and
leadership
transition in Russia
and an election in
the United States,
it is clearly not a
year in which we are
going to achieve a
breakthrough,” White
House deputy
national security
adviser Ben Rhodes
said.
HONOLULU (AP) —
Director James
Cameron has
returned to the
surface of the
Pacific Ocean
after traveling
to Earth’s
deepest point.
The director of
“Titanic” and
other films used
a specially
designed
submarine called
“Deepsea
Challenger” to
dive nearly
seven miles.
He spent time
exploring and
filming the
Mariana Trench,
about 200 miles
southwest of the
Pacific island
of Guam.
He completed his
mission Monday
morning local
time, Sunday
evening on the
U.S. East Coast,
according to
Stephanie
Montgomery of
the National
Geographic
Society.
Swiss engineer
Jacques Piccard
and Don Walsh, a
U.S. Navy
captain, are the
only others to
reach the spot.
They spent about
20 minutes there
during their
1960 dive but
couldn’t see
much after their
sub kicked up
sand from the
sea floor.
Atheists, agnostics
and freethinkers
“invaded”
Washington, D.C.
this weekend to show
politicians and the
American public,
alike, that their
voices matter in the
political sphere. The
Blaze already told
you about the
Secular Coalition
for America’s
lobbying training
that we attended on
Friday morning. This
event was just one
of the many
celebrations and
meetings surrounding
the “Reason
Rally” —
supposedly the
largest gathering of
non-believers and
skeptics in world
history.
The rally, which
included performers,
speakers, activities
and plenty more, was
intended to
celebrate
non-theism, while
taking aim at faith
and religion in the
public square.
Although the overall
tone was focused
upon atheist
empowerment (and the
vast majority of
individuals we spoke
with were respectful
and willing to
speak candidly about
their beliefs),
off-color comments
and anti-religious
sentiment were
prevalent among
those taking the
stage.
Turkey’s Jews are
outraged after an
advertisement for
Biomen shampoo
featured Hitler
urging men to buy
the product.
“If you are not
wearing a woman’s
dress, you should
not use her shampoo
either,“ Hitler
”says.” The
advertisement
concludes: “Here it
is, a real man’s
shampoo, Biomen,“ as
though Hitler is the
model ”real man.”
According to theDaily
Mail,
“Turkey has long had
an apparent
fascination with
Hitler, as the Nazi
leader’s
autobiography Mein
Kampf became a
bestseller in the
country in 2005.”
Mr
Medvedev's stark
message to Moscow's
traditional ally
came only hours
after US President
Barack Obama
announced plans to
send "non-lethal"
aid to the Syrian
rebels and new waves
of violence swept
the battle-scarred
country.
Russia has been
facing mounting
Western and Arab
calls to step up
pressure and stop
delivering arms to
President Bashar
al-Assad's regime
after a year of
violence that the
opposition says has
claimed more than
9100 lives.
Moscow on Wednesday
backed a non-binding
Security Council
statement after
vetoing two previous
resolutions. But it
did so only after
making sure the text
contained no
implicit threat of
further action
should Mr Assad fail
to comply.
Overnight, Mr
Medvedev appeared to
be aiming his words
at Mr Assad directly
by warning of dire
consequences if
Damascus ignored Mr
Annan's peace plan.
Any
future Iranian
attacks in response
to threats by Israel
or the West will be
much more complex
and devastating than
the recent terror
attacks in India and
Bangkok, the Islamic
regime warned
Saturday.
At
the same time, Iran,
fearing American
firepower, is trying
to drive a wedge
between the United
States and Israel by
suggesting that, if
Israel attacks
Iran’s nuclear
facilities and the
U.S. stays out of
it, Washington need
not fear Iranian
retaliation. Israel
and the U.S. are
already at odds
about attacking
Iranian nuclear
facilities, with
President Obama
demanding that
sanctions be given
time and Israeli
Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
warning that time is
running out.
Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei, who
recently praised
Obama’s statement
that America is
looking for a
diplomatic solution
to the Iranian
nuclear crisis, has
in effect for the
first time provided
a way out for Obama
in case of a
conflict with Israel
while at the same
time warning about
the consequences if
the U.S. also
attacks.
A
Fars News Agency
analysis said
Saturday that if the
U.S. is drawn in
militarily, Iran
will counterattack
against U.S. bases
in the region and
interests worldwide.
Fars News Agency, a
media outlet of the
Revolutionary Guards
of Iran, has the
imprimatur of the
Iranian government.
Atheists, agnostics
and freethinkers
“invaded”
Washington, D.C.
this weekend to show
politicians and the
American public,
alike, that their
voices matter in the
political sphere. The
Blaze already told
you about
the Secular
Coalition for
America’s lobbying
training that we
attended on Friday
morning. This event
was just one of the
many celebrations
and meetings
surrounding the “Reason
Rally”
— supposedly the
largest gathering of
non-believers and
skeptics in world
history.
The rally, which
included performers,
speakers, activities
and plenty more, was
intended to
celebrate
non-theism, while
taking aim at faith
and religion in the
public square.
Although the overall
tone was focused
upon atheist
empowerment (and the
vast majority of
individuals we spoke
with were respectful
and willing to
speak candidly about
their beliefs),
off-color comments
and anti-religious
sentiment were
prevalent among
those taking the
stage.
(The Blaze/AP) —
President Barack
Obama is opening his
pitch for faster
work to lock down
nuclear material
that could be used
by terrorists with
an up-close look at
the nuclear front
lines along the
heavily militarized
border with volatile
North Korea.
Obama arrived in
Seoul on Sunday
morning, local time,
for three days of
diplomacy. In the
midst of an election
year focused on
economic concerns at
home, Obama has
designed a rare Asia
visit that features
time in just one
country. He’ll use
much of the time to
keep pressure on
North Korea to back
off a planned rocket
launch and return to
disarmament talks.
A bookstore in
Canada has sold out
of an Islamic
marriage guide that
instructs Muslim men
on how to beat their
wives, according to
theToronto
Sun.
Among the advice
dispensed in “A Gift
for the Muslim
Couple” is to “beat
by hand or stick”
and “pull [her] by
the ears.” The
husband may also
withhold money to
exert control,
though should
“refrain from
beating her
excessively.”
The 160-page book’s
description says it
“deals with the
subject of marriage
and after marriage
relationship, as
well as the various
pitfalls of
marriage, causes of
breakdown and their
causes.” It was
being sold at
Islamic Books and
Souvenirs in
Toronto. The store’s
manager told the
Toronto Sun it had
been sold out for
some time. The owner
refused to comment
to the newspaper.
The office of Dick
Cheney has informed
the Associated Press
that the former vice
president
is recovering after
a heart transplant
surgery Saturday.
CBS News reportsthat
the statement said
Cheney had been on
the transplant list
for 20 months and is
now recovering in
the Intensive Care
Unit of Inova
Fairfax Hospital in
Falls Church,
outside of
Washington.
Cheney did not know
the identity of the
donor, but the
statement
read ”Although the
former Vice
President and his
family do not know
the identity of the
donor, they will be
forever grateful for
this lifesaving
gift.”
MSNBC reportsthat
in 2010, Cheney had
a left ventricular
assist device
implanted for
treatment of
end-stage heart
failure.
Update (7:22
p.m.)
AP notes that Cheney
suffered a heart
attack in 2010, his
fifth since the age
of 37. He had bypass
surgery in 1988, as
well as two
subsequent
angioplasties to
clear narrowed
coronary
arteries. In 2001,
he had a special
pacemaker implanted
in his chest.
A new witness to the
Trayvon Martin
shooting has come
forward, claiming
the Florida teen did
in fact attack
neighborhood watch
volunteer George
Zimmerman, according
to media reports.
Zimmerman has said
he shot the
17-year-old in
self-defense, though
Martin was
reportedly carrying
only a bag of
Skittles and an iced
tea when he was
killed. Despite a
loud national
outcry, Zimmerman
has not been
arrested or charged
in Martin’s death.
According to Tampa
Bay Fox affiliateWTVT-TV,
what the witness
says he saw could
bolster Zimmerman’s
claim that he shot
Martin in
self-defense:
“The guy on the
bottom who had a
red sweater on
was yelling to
me: ‘help,
help…and I told
him to stop and
I was calling
911,” he said.
Trayvon Martin
was in a hoodie;
Zimmerman was in
red.
The witness only
wanted to be
identified as
“John,” and
didn’t not want
to be shown on
camera
KANDAHAR,
Afghanistan (AP) —
The United States
has paid $50,000 in
compensation for
each Afghan killed
and $11,000 for each
person wounded in
the shooting spree
allegedly committed
by a U.S. soldier in
southern
Afghanistan, an
Afghan official and
a community elder
said Sunday.
The sums, much
larger than typical
payments made by the
U.S. to families of
civilians killed in
military operations
in Afghanistan, come
as the U.S. tries to
mend relations
following the
killing rampage that
has threatened to
undermine the
international effort
here.
Army Staff Sgt.
Robert Bales is
accused of sneaking
off his base on
March 11, then
creeping into houses
in two nearby
villages and opening
fire on families as
they slept.
U.S. investigators
believe the gunman
returned to his base
after the first
attack and later
slipped away to kill
again, American
officials have said.
Bales has beencharged
with 17 counts of
premeditated murderand
other crimes and
could face the death
penalty if
convicted.
HAVANA (AP) —
Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez was in
Cuba on Sunday to
begin radiation
therapy treatment
one month after
undergoing surgery
that removed acancerous
tumor.
Chavez was met by
Cuban President Raul
Castro as he arrived
at Havana’s airport
on Saturday night.
Venezuelan
television showed
Chavez saluting as
he stepped off the
plane holding hands
with one of his
daughters, and then
embracing Castro.
Chavez said before
leaving Venezuela
that he would start
the treatments on
Sunday. He has been
recovering from a
Feb. 26 surgery in
Havana that he said
removed a tumor from
the same spot in his
pelvic region where
another tumor was
extracted eight
months earlier.
On
Sunday’s broadcast
of “Fox News
Sunday,” host Chris
Wallace asked
Wisconsin Republican
Rep. Paul Ryan
whether he would be
open to the prospect
of accepting the
Republican
vice-presidential
nomination.
Ryan
gave the standard
line that he had
given when asked
about his prospects
to be the GOP
presidential nominee
last year — that he
wanted to remain
active in his role
in the House of
Representatives.
“Well, I’m already
the point guy for
doing it in the
House,” Ryan said.
“I just don’t know
the answer to your
question, Chris. It
is not a bridge I
have even come close
to crossing. It is a
decision that
somebody else makes
a long time from
now. And, quite
honestly, I am
focused on doing my
job in Congress,
which I think is
important, which is
to give the country
and alternative
choice of two
futures on how we
save and strengthen
America, how we save
the American dream
from what I think is
this path the
president has put us
on to debt and
decline. So, I can’t
answer that
question. I haven’t
given enough thought
to that.”
But
Ryan didn’t close
the door completely
to the possibility,
saying he would
“consider” it.
“I
would have to
consider it, but
it’s not something I
am even thinking
about right now
because I think our
job in Congress is
pretty important,”
Ryan said. “And what
we believe we owe
the country is if we
don’t like the
direction the
president is taking
us, which we don’t —
we owe them a
specific sharp
contrast and a
different path they
can select in
November and doing
this in Congress is
really important.
That’s why I think I
have a real good job
right now.”
That
contrast, according
to the House Budget
Committee chairman,
boiled down to
steering the country
away from
“government
dependency.”
A
Gannett Media
executive was
red-faced this
weekend after nine
of her employees
were caught doing
exactly what their
paper had exposed 29
circuit judges for
doing: trying to
bring down
Republican Gov.
Scott Walker.
The
Post-Crescent
newspaper in
Wisconsin posted a
story earlier this
month revealing that
about12
percentof
Wisconsin’s
county-level
judiciary had signed
a petition to recall
the governor. That’s
a problem because
the trial-level
judges are supposed
to remain above the
political fray.
Genia
Lovett, the
president and
publisher of The
Post-Crescent
newspaper, called
the story “watchdog
journalism” at its
finest.
But
just days after the
big article, Lovett
admitted in anopen
letter that
25 supposedly
unbiased Gannett
Wisconsin Media
journalists,
including nine
employees at the
Post-Crescent, also
had signed recall
petitions. Gannett
Wisconsin Media owns
the Post-Crescent
newspaper.
“It
was wrong, and those
who signed were in
breach of Gannett’s
Principles of
Ethical Conduct for
Newsrooms,” Lovett
wrote. “The
principle at stake
is our core belief
that journalists
must make every
effort to avoid
behavior that could
raise doubts about
their journalistic
neutrality.”
Obama hates Republicans so much that he will even lie about Republican Rutherford B Hays our 19th President.
President Obama took aim Thursday at one of his Republican predecessors: Rutherford B. Hayes.
Speaking about the need to develop new sources of American energy in Largo, MD, Obama used our 19th president as a failure of forward-thinking leadership.
“One of my predecessors, President Rutherford B. Hayes, reportedly said about the telephone: ‘It’s a great invention but who would ever want to use one?’” Obama said. “That’s why he’s not on Mt. Rushmore.”
“He’s looking backwards, he’s not looking forward. He’s explaining why we can’t do something instead of why we can do something,” Obama said. “The point is there will always be cynics and naysayers.”
The best part: Obama got it wrong. Hayes was actually a huge fan of the telephone. Via Politico:
New York Magazine’s Daily Intel does the legwork and finds that, contrary to Obama’s assertion that our 19th president dismissed the telephone as useless, Rutherford B. Hayes was quite enthralled by the device.
The curator of the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center responds to Obama’s quip:
She then read aloud a newspaper article from June 29, 1877, which describes Hayes’s delight upon first experiencing the magic of the telephone. The Providence Journal story reported that as Hayes listened on the phone, “a gradually increasing smile wreathe[d] his lips and wonder shone in his eyes more and more.” Hayes took the phone from his ear, “looked at it a moment in surprise and remarked, ‘That is wonderful.’”
In fact, Card noted, Hayes was not only the first president to have a telephone in the White House, but he was also the first to use the typewriter, and he had Thomas Edison come to the White House to demonstrate it.
LifeNews hasuncovered
a real doozywhen
it comes to abortion
rights activism. On
a website titled “RH
Reality Check” (with
the “RH” standing
for “Reproductive
Health”),
progressive writer
Jessica delBalzo has
a headline that is
sure to bring
precisely zero
surprise to many
pro-life activists,
but may also
scandalize moderate
pro-choicers. The
headline reads, “I
Love Abortion:
Implying Otherwise
Accomplishes Nothing
for Womens’ Rights.”
I
love abortion. I
don’t accept it.
I don’t view it
as a necessary
evil. I embrace
it. I donate to
abortion funds.
I write about
how important it
is to make sure
that every woman
has access to
safe, legal
abortion
services. I have
bumper stickers
and buttons and
t-shirts
proclaiming my
support for
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PALM BEACH, Fla. –
As the president’s
campaign
acknowledges it’s in
trouble of losing
the November
election, radio
giant Rush Limbaugh
has dubbed Barack
Obama “the chief
lunatic” in
Washington.
The Obama campaign
is now using
unflattering polling
data in a plea for
more
donations.Campaign
manager Jim Messina
sent out an e-mail
last night saying,
“According to the
latestWashington
Post-ABC News poll,
if the general
election were held
today, we would lose
to Mitt Romney. Let
me say that again:
According to this
poll, if the general
election were today,
we would lose.”
“If the idea of a
President Romney
scares you, it’s
time to own a piece
of this campaign –
donate $3 or more
today,” he added.
Anotherpoll
by the New York
Times and CBShas
similar results
showing Obama’s
approval rating
dropping
“substantially in
recent weeks” down
to 41 percent, and
that has political
analysts taking
notice.
President
Obama took
aim Thursday
at one of
his
Republican
predecessors:
Rutherford
B. Hayes.
Speaking
about the
need to
develop new
sources of
American
energy in
Largo, MD,
Obama used
our 19th
president as
a failure of
forward-thinking
leadership.
“One of my
predecessors,
President
Rutherford
B. Hayes,
reportedly
said about
the
telephone:
‘It’s a
great
invention
but who
would ever
want to use
one?’” Obama
said.
“That’s why
he’s not on
Mt.
Rushmore.”
“He’s
looking
backwards,
he’s not
looking
forward.
He’s
explaining
why we can’t
do something
instead of
why we can
do
something,”
Obama said.
“The point
is there
will always
be cynics
and
naysayers.”
The best part:
Obama got it
wrong. Hayes was
actually a huge
fan of the
telephone.
ViaPolitico:
New York
Magazine’s
Daily Intel
does the
legwork and
finds that,
contrary to
Obama’s
assertion
that our
19th
president
dismissed
the
telephone as
useless,
Rutherford
B. Hayes was
quite enthralled
by the
device.
The curator
of the
Rutherford
B. Hayes
Presidential
Center
responds to
Obama’s
quip:
She then
read
aloud a
newspaper
article
from
June 29,
1877,
which
describes
Hayes’s
delight
upon
first
experiencing
the
magic of
the
telephone.
The
Providence
Journal
story
reported
that as
Hayes
listened
on the
phone,
“a
gradually
increasing
smile
wreathe[d]
his lips
and
wonder
shone in
his eyes
more and
more.”
Hayes
took the
phone
from his
ear,
“looked
at it a
moment
in
surprise
and
remarked,
‘That is
wonderful.’”
In fact,
Card
noted,
Hayes
was not
only the
first
president
to have
a
telephone
in the
White
House,
but he
was also
the
first to
use the
typewriter,
and he
had
Thomas
Edison
come to
the
White
House to
demon
A
Tennessee man
described as an
Obama “fanatic” has
been convicted of
threatening to kill
Arizona Sheriff Joe
Arpaio and his
family, possibly in
connection with the
lawman’s
investigation into
the president’s
eligibility for
office.
Adam Eugene Cox, 33,
of Knoxville, was
arrested Jan. 27 in
connection with
graphic online
threats that came to
light last October.
Cox’s threats
included: “I plan to
kill Arpaio first.
He will be filled
with a thousand
bullet holes before
the year is out. I
promise you this. He
won’t f**k with
Obama. He will be
buried 10 feet under
and his whole family
will be murdered
along with him.”
Authorities say
Cox’s postings
indicate – and his
own mother confirms
– that Cox is a
“fanatical
supporter” of Obama,
and Arpaio’s ongoing
investigation into
the legitimacy of
the president’s
purported birth
certificate may have
been the reason
behind the threat to
kill the sheriff.
The MacIver
Institute in
Wisconsin has been
closely following
the pro-union
protests that
started in that
state last year. And
it’s done a great
job of bringing to
light interesting
stories (remember
the fake doctor
notes?). And it
hasn’t disappointed
with one of its
latest videos, which
takes you inside the
courtroom as
protesters try and
mount a defense for
why they disobeyed
police in August and
refused to vacate
the capitol.
The video below does
a good job of laying
out the story, so I
won’t bore you by
repeating details.
But what I will say
is this: the
protesters were
eventually found
guilty ($200 fine
plus court costs),
and just wait until
you hear their
defense.
Ed Note: If
this is the
pro-union brain
trust - the Union is
in trouble.
NEW YORK (The
Blaze/AP) — Like it
or not, your
relationship with
Google has recently
become a lot more
intimate. According
to a recent poll of
favored search
engines, it’s also
likely to remain the
one you turn toward
on a daily basis.
Although there have
been many concerns
over Google’s
expanding data
collection ability
from its recently
combined privacy
policies, there are
still measures you
can take to protect
your privacy as much
as possible.
(Related: French
regulator: Google’s
new privacy policy
violates EU
standards)
Google said
combining policies
for its various
services was for the
sake of simplicity
and to improve your
experience on sites
such as Gmail,
Picasa, Google Plus
and YouTube. But
there’s a business
reason as well.
Google gets a chance
to use the data it
collects to tailor
ads that align more
precisely with your
interests, and those
personalized ads are
among the most
lucrative for the
company.
The main focus of
the new regulations
proposed last year
was on the operation
of farm equipment.
The DOT was trying
to mandate that
anyone operating a
piece of mechanized
farm equipment be
subject to the same
rules that apply to
drivers of
semi-tractor
trailers. These
changes would have
essentially blocked
all young people who
work on family farms
from operating even
the smallest tractor
or truck, unless
those people would
be able to pass the
stringent tests and
maintain the
detailed logs that
are required of
truckers.
These rules would
also open the door
for the potential
unionization of all
farm workers in
America. Even family
farm workers.
With a goal of
retaking the Senate,
keeping the House
and sending
President Barack
Obama packing,
former House
Majority Leader Dick
Armey tells
Newsmax.TV that
conservatives must
zero in on issues
like high gasoline
prices to win in
2012.
He said super PACs
like his
organization’s
FreedomWorks for
America will almost
certainly make those
2012 issues the
focus in races
against Democrats.
The Texas
Republican, who
chairs FreedomWorks,
said in an exclusive
interview on Tuesday
that conservatives
should point out
that the high gas
prices — which some
experts say could
reach $5 a gallon
this summer — are
buoyed by a
combination of
excessive
restrictions imposed
by the U.S.
Environmental
Protection Agency,
and bad decisions
like Democratic
opposition to the
Keystone XL Pipeline
project.
In 2010 alone,
Wired’s Threat Level
explains, thegovernment
sent more than
24,000 National
Security Lettersto
Internet service
providers and other
companies such as
credit and financial
institutions.
Letters such as
these come with a
gag order in place,
which requires the
companies to stay
mum on the fact that
the government was
seeking to acquire
information on
individuals.
One company served
with an NSL earlier
this year is pushing
back on this request
for silence. Wired
reports that it
wants to tell its
customers that their
information has been
requested by the
government and give
them the opportunity
to take it to court,
should they wish.
This “minor
defiance,” Wired
states, has caused
the government to
file a request that
the company, which
remains unnamed, be
forced to remain
quiet because
speaking out “may
endanger the
national security of
the United States.”
Wired has more on a
case that it
believes “shed a
little light” on
NSLs post-9/11 when
they were reformed
to not require a
court order and come
with forced gag
orders on companies:
Records filed by
Obama for America
with the Federal
Election Commission
indicate that the
president’s
re-election campaign
shelled out at least
$345,353 to
commission “The Road
We’ve Traveled,” a
17-minute campaign
documentary by
Academy
Award-winning
director Davis
Guggenheim, set for
release Thursday.
The price comes out
to more than $20,300
per minute.
Two separate
payments were made
to “Guggenheim Short
Film” in Washington,
D.C. — one for$162,834 and
another for
approximately $182,159 – according
to FEC documents.
Katie Hogan, deputy
press secretary for
the Obama campaign,
refused to provide
any additional
information about
the documentary’s
funding stream or
whether a public
relations firm was
authorized to speak
about the film
project.
It is likely that
there are additional
costs associated
with the
documentary, such as
advertising and
promotional
expenses, but Obama
for America also
would not comment on
that possibility.
A lot
has been said about
President Obama’s
impromptu Al Green
song that he belted
out for a fundraiser
last month. The
video went viral,
and even the
president’s critics
recognized the
president can sing.
And if you were
watching “American
Idol” on Wednesday,
you would have seen
it all over again.
That’s because one
of the contestants,
Elise Testone, chose
the Al Green song
that Obama
resurrected, “Let’s
Stay Together.” And
during a pre-taped
segment, one of the
guest mentors,
Will.i.am of the
Black Eyed Peas,
couldn’t help but
note that Obama had
belted out the tune.
He suggested a sing
off, and seconds
later, the show was
playing Testone and
Obama side-by-side.
Here’s how it went
down:
Comedian Bill Maher
just can’t keep his
name out of the
headlines — a fact,
I assume, he’s more
than content with.
After all, any
publicity is good
publicity, right?
Following plenty of
drama over his own
disparaging words
about women, Maher
has waded into the
Sandra Fluke vs.
Rush Limbaugh waters
over the past week
to share his
assessment of the
controversy. Inan
interview with ABC’s
Jake Tapper, the
comedian drew
distinctions between
himself and
Limbaugh, while
seemingly doubling
down on his past
negative commentary.
“No one died. A guy
made a bad joke. A
bad joke because it
was a disgusting
sentiment that he
was evoking, and
also because it
wasn’t even a joke,”
he said. “He’s a
stupid fat f–k who’s
not funny.”
The New York
Times has rejected a
full-page anti-Islam
advertisement that
mirrored a scathing
anti-Catholic
advertisement the
newspaper published
on March 9.
According to The
Daily Caller, a
March 13 letter sent
by the Times to the
parody’s sponsor,
activist Pamela
Geller, said the
$39,000 anti-Islam
ad was rejected
because “the fallout
from running this ad
now could put U.S.
troops and/or
civilians in the
[Afghan] region in
danger.”
Bill Donohue,
president of the
Catholic League,
accused the Times of
having a double
standard and
told DC that The
Time’s was based on
“either
[anti-Catholic]
bigotry or fear [of
Islamic violence],
and they’ve painted
themselves into that
corner.”
DC adds:
Donohue said the
frequent claims
of intellectual
honesty by Times
employees would
compel them to
address the
double standard
if they weren’t
“shameless.”
TheDC asked
Robert Christie,
the Times’
senior
vice-president
for corporate
communications,
if the Times’
decision is a
surrender to
violence and
also an
incentive for
additional
threats of
violence.
However,
Christie
declined to
discuss the
paper’s
decision, and
referred TheDC
to the letter
sent by the
Times to Geller
and her
organization,
Stop the
Islamization of
Nations.
Asia Bibi’s tale has
been a long and
tragic one. The
Pakistani woman has
been detained for
nearly three years
after being charged
with blasphemy for
allegedly
disparaging the name
of the Prophet
Mohammed. The
penalty for talking
negatively about
Islam’s leader?
Death.
The Blazeoriginally
shared Bibi’s storyin
November 2010.
Since, there have
been a number of
updates, but none of
them have led to the
Christian mother of
five’s release. Her
high-profile case
has even led Pope
Benedict XVI to
appeal for mercy.
She is the first
woman to be given
the death penalty
under Pakistan’s
controversial
blasphemy laws.
Bibi, 42, was
originally scheduled
to be put to death
by hanging on Nov. 8
2010, butthe
intense debatesurrounding
her detention has
helped keep her
alive. Rather than
admitting fault,
Bibi claims that it
was her co-workers —
whom she has
forgiven — who
wrongly made claims
against her.
An election board
ruled Thursday that
Indiana Sen.Dick
Lugar,
the longest serving
Republican in the
Senate, is no longer
eligible to vote at
the home he used to
live in.
The Daily Caller
first reported in
January that Lugar
has not lived in
Indiana since 1977.
Lugar and his wife
have resided in the
upscale Washington
suburb of McLean,
Virginia for the
last three decades.
The Marion County
Elections Board
voted 2-1 that Lugar
is no longer a
resident and will
not be allowed to
vote there. The
decision came in
response to a
complaint filed by
fraudinvestigatorand
tea party activist
Greg Wright, who has
been trying to bring
attention to Lugar’s
residency for
months.
The
Occupy Wall
Street movement
is entering the
phase where it
“makes trouble.”
“We’ll
see action
against the
banks, against
the
corporations.”
Different forms
of protests that
will engage many
people.
Occupy
was helped by
“sympathetic”
press coverage.
Leftist professor
and activist Frances
Fox Piven last week
predicted the Occupy
Wall Street movement
is entering the
phase where it
“makes trouble” and
will soon be taking
action against banks
and other
institutions.
“It may well be that
the Occupy movement
is now in its second
phase, in the phase
where itmakes
trouble, in
the phase where itthreatens
to shut down
institutions,”
Piven said. “The
Occupy movement has
moved into the
neighborhoods of our
cities, it has moved
into the schools….This
spring, we’ll see
action against the
banks, against the
corporations.”
If you are concerned
about increased
tracking of your
movements on the
Internet, here’s a
function that could
at least give you
the peace of mind of
knowing who is
watching where you
go. Mozilla Firefox
has developed an
add-on for its web
browser that will
show you in
real-time the
third-parties that
are tracking your
Internet activity.
Mozilla describes
the add-on named
“Collusion” as an
experimental feature
that will show you
“how that data
creates a spider-web
of interaction
between companies
and other trackers.”
PC World has more onhow
the add-on works:
Ever wonder who is
booking Sandra Fluke
— the contraception
advocated paraded
around by Nancy
Pelosi — on all
those media
appearances? And
ever wonder if
there’s something
bigger going on with
her? Bill O’Reilly
is and he has a
theory: the White
House is behind it
all. And now he’s
uncovered a little
nugget that plays
right into that
theory: Fluke is
being represented by
a PR firm partially
run by a former
Obama adviser.
O’Reilly made his
case by first
detailing who has
been booking Fluke
with various media
outlets — a
mysterious man named
“Mike.” Strangely
enough, O‘Reilly
can’t track Mike
down, and now, Fluke
is being represented
by someone from the
progressive PR firm
SKDKnickerbocker,
where Anita Dunn —
the former Obama
communications
director — is amanaging
director.
New data shows a
shocking trend:
Banks are
foreclosing on
religious
institutions at an
alarming rate. Much
like individuals who
lose the capability
to continue paying
their mortgages,
churches, too, are
feeling the
financial crunch. In
fact, since 2010,
more than two
hundred houses of
worship have
experienced
foreclosures.
Since 2010, 270
churches have
been sold after
defaulting on
their loans,
with 90 percent
of those sales
coming after a
lender-triggered
foreclosure,
according to the
real estate
information
company CoStar
Group.
In 2011, 138
churches were
sold by banks,
an annual
record, with no
sign that these
religious
foreclosures are
abating,
according to
CoStar. That
compares to just
24 sales in 2008
and only a
handful in the
decade before.
I was a sophomore in
college when I first
saw the movie. I
remember sitting
cross-legged in
front of the screen
while wearing a
white undershirt and
khaki pants. I
cried.
How can you not shed
a tear when you see
innocent children
talking about having
to kill family
members and being
captured to take
part in a mad man’s
war? I never forgot
the images.
Those images were
the result of the
nonprofit Invisible
Children — a group
fighting to end the
atrocities of Joseph
Kony in Uganda. He
and his Lord’s
Resistance Army (LRA)
captures the
helpless children,
forces them to
fight, and kills and
rapes others.
Clearwater, FL - A recent video, “Kony 2012”, went viral recording tens of millions of views over the last few days. At the same time, I am celebrating six years since my release from Uganda’s infamous Luzira Prison. One of the allegations made against me by the Ugandan government and the media was that I was in east Africa searching for international terrorist Joseph Kony to collect a $2.5 Million bounty. The problem with that statement is that I was not “searching” for Joseph Kony because my Congolese colleagues knew where Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) were camped.
In 2006, a group of experienced Congolese fighters, to include a chief of the Ituri people, and two Ugandans were offered a contract by the Chief of Military Intelligence (CMI) in Uganda to search for Joseph Kony who had kidnapped, killed, mutilated, and disrupted life among the people in Northern Uganda. The small group of Congolese militia knew Kony’s exact location but the CMI refused to pay them the promised $37,000 until Kony was captured and returned to Uganda. When that deal fell through the same men asked me to draft a strategic plan to enter and exit the Garamba Forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo (“Congo”) and provide financing. The plan was developed and set in motion.
As the Congolese left Kampala, one of their group was discovered to have a weapon in a canvas bag slung over his shoulder. A crowd surrounded the young man who when threatened by the size of the crowd and the police, volunteered my name. Within an hour or two of his arrest a truck carrying a dozen or more police dressed in riot gear arrived at my front gate. I was arrested and charged with “terrorism”, a capital crime, because of my political activity in eastern Congo and among Born-again pastors and churches in Uganda.
The consensus in Uganda among academics, many members of the media, and church leaders was that the government did not want Kony captured because he served the purposes of four-term President Yoweri Museveni who is from a tribe in Southeast Uganda. Kony created violent unrest among tribesmen, women and children in the northern region of Uganda that historically provided political leadership to the nation; Kony generated a steady influx of Faith Base Organizations (“FBO”) and Non-Governmental Organizations (“NGO”) who brought valuable foreign currency into the nation; and the demand for Kony’s capture provided incentives for foreign governments to increase funding, training and technology to the Ugandan People’s Defense Force (UPDF). Joseph Kony for all intents and purposes was the proverbial goose who laid eggs of gold for Museveni’s Uganda.
I was released from Luzira Prison on March 27, 2006.
And now folks, you know the rest of the story and why Peter Waldron was called a "terrorist".
The U.S. Air Force
is pulling nine
cargo aircraft from
military operations
to support President
Barack Obama’s
stepped-up visits to
campaign events.
The five
medium-capacity
C-130s and four
heavyweight C-17s
will be used to
ferry security
vehicles, armored
limousines and
communications gear
into cities ahead of
Obama’s campaign
appearances.
In the months before
November, the
president is
expected to fly into
multiple cities per
week, and speak at
multiple sites per
day. On Mar. 8, for
example, the
president will fly
to Richmond, and
then drive over to a
Rolls-Royce
aircraft-parts
factory. That
evening, he’ll fly
down to Houston,
Texas.
His wife, Vice
President Joe Biden
and many of his
cabinet secretaries
are using the Air
Force’s fleet of VIP
aircraft to visit
more states as theelectionseasonspeeds
up.
The nine cargo
aircraft will begin
operations in April,
said Maj. Michelle
Lai, communications
officer for the Air
Force’s 89th Airlift
Wing. “They’ll stand
down in November
2012,” she said.
The Air Force
allocated extra
aircraft to support
President George W.
Bush when he was
running for
re-election in 2004,
she added.
Warren Buffet’s
wealth has become
synonymous, in the
minds of many
leftists, with what
they consider the
evils of an unfair
tax code. But is the
tax code unfair, or
is Buffett engaging
in unscrupulous
practices?Bloomberg
News reports
that Buffett’s
Berkshire Hathaway,owns
an airplane companythat
has been sued by the
Federal Government
for no less than
$366 million in back
taxes. Here’s the
details:
NetJets Inc.,
the
private-plane
company owned by
Warren Buffett’s
Berkshire
Hathaway Inc. (BRK/A),
was countersued
by the U.S. over
$366 million in
taxes and
penalties.[...]
Claiming the
federal Internal
Revenue Service
wrongfully
assessed a
so-called ticket
tax — an excise
tax on payments
made in exchange
for air
transportation —
to private
aircraft owners
maintaining
their own
planes, the
Columbus,
Ohio-based
company demanded
refunds and
abatements.
The federal
government, in a
revised answer
and countersuit
filed yesterday
in federal court
in Columbus,
rejected NetJets’
claims and
alleged that
four of the
company’s units
owe unpaid taxes
and penalties. NetJets
Aviation Inc.
owes more than
$302.1 million,
and another
unit, NetJets
International,
is liable for
$52.9 million,
the U.S. said.
Executive Jet
Management Inc.
owes $10 million
while NetJets
Large Aircraft
owes $1.19
million, the
U.S. claimed.
New Jersey Gov.
Chris Christie got
into a shouting
match during a town
hall Thursday,
calling a man in the
audience an “idiot”
and telling him to
“shut up.”
According to theNew
Jersey Star-Ledger,
William Brown, a
34-year-old law
student and veteran,
had been repeatedly
shouting at Christie
in opposition to a
proposed merger of
two New Jersey
universities. Video
of the incident
shows him asking the
governor to “please
consider veteran
students and
non-traditional
students like
myself.”
“If you decide what
you want to do is
put on a show today,
let me tell you
something, I can go
back and forth with
you as much as you
want,” Christie said
to applause. “And
let me tell you
something, after you
graduate from law
school, you conduct
yourself like that
in a court room,
your rear end’s
gonna get thrown in
jail, idiot.”
“Wind farms in the
Pacific Northwest –
built with
government subsidies
and maintained with
tax credits for
every megawatt
produced – are now
getting paid to shut
down as the federal
agency charged with
managing the
region‘s electricity
grid says there’s an
oversupply of
renewable power at
certain times of the
year,”Q13
Foxreports.
Keep in mind, as
mentioned in the
above, these
companies were built
with government
subsidies and have
been maintained with
tax credits. To put
it plainly: the
government is
offering to
compensate companies
that it subsidized
and then ordered to
stop doing what they
were subsidized to
do in the first
place.
Does any of this
make sense?
“The problem arose
during the late
spring and early
summer last year,”
Fox explains, “Rapid
snow melt filled the
Columbia River
Basin. The water
rushed through the
31 dams run by the
Bonneville Power
Administration
[BPA], a federal
agency based in
Portland, Ore.,
allowing for peak
hydropower
generation. At the
very same time, the
wind howled, leading
to maximum wind
power production.”
As the White House
struggles to garner
support for
Obamacare as it
approaches Supreme
Court arguments on
the new health care
law, the
administration is
not leaving anything
to chance — not even
forces from heaven
above.
Yes,
on Wednesday, White
House officials
reportedly called on
dozens of nonprofit
leaders to aid them
inorganizing
a prayer vigil
outside the court –
right when justices
plan to hear
arguments for three
days beginning March
26.
In a push that hopes
to shape public
opinion on the issue
at the very center
of the battle for
the White House and
Congress, advocates
and officials set
their strategy to
win favor in motion.
White House
officials, however,
deny they are trying
to influence others
or garner support by
facilitating rallies
outside the Supreme
Court.
When a yankee like
Mitt Romney makes it
down South, expect
some mocking to take
place.
“No self-respecting
Southerner should
vote for Romney
after what he said
on @100WAPI
yesterday,” said
Alabama radio host
Matt Murphyin
a tweet Friday.
Romney’s sin? Inan
interview with
Birmingham radio
hostLeland
Whaley on Thursday,
the former
Massachusetts
governor admitted
that after a long
day of campaigning,
“I try to eat some
cold cereal at the
end of the day.”
In anemailto
The Daily Caller,
Murphy explained
that in the South,
“there’s no such
thing as ‘cold
cereal.’ It’s just
cereal! ‘Hot cereal’
doesn’t exist. If
you want ‘hot
cereal’ in Alabama,
you order oatmeal or
grits.”
“While my tongue was
planted in cheek,”
Murphy said, “I
think the comment
speaks to the
southern
disconnect.”
From Glenn Beck:
On Monday, Glenn
welcomed two guests
with quite a lot to
say on the subject
of energy prices to
dissect the Obama
administration’s
“misleading facts
about oil prodcution.”
The first of these
was Jack Gerard,
President and CEO of
the American
Petroleum Institute
(API). The second
was the founder of
Cross Consulting and
Services and author
of
the book “Secret
Weapon,” Kevin
Freeman:
Freeman, meanwhile, runs a company known simply as Freeman Global
Holdings, LLC.,
which operates at
the global level
trying to gauge
world markets for
clients. His book
alleges that foreign
countries
deliberately
sabotaged the United
States economy
Kevin Freeman is
considered one of
the world’s leading
experts on the
issues of Economic
Warfare and
Financial Terrorism.
He has consulted for
and briefed members
of both the U.S.
House and Senate,
present and past
CIA, DIA, FBI, SEC,
Homeland Security,
the Justice
Department, as well
as local and state
law enforcement. He
has traveled
extensively with
research trips to
Russia and China and
throughout Europe
and the Americas.
One of the few
Americans with the
distinction of
having been a
terrorist’s defense
attorney has been
named number three
in command at the
Justice Department.
Attorney General
Eric Holder
announced Assistant
Attorney General for
the Civil Division
Tony West’s
promotion to Acting
Associate Attorney
General last week.
Harvard- and
Stanford-educated
with a long legal
career, West also
has the distinction
of having defended
American terrorist
John Walker Lindh,
the American Taliban
member sentenced to
20 years in prison
after being captured
in Afghanistan
fighting on the
enemy’s side in
2001.
“The American people
need to know who is
controlling the
debate in the
Justice Department
about terrorist
detainees, how they
are treated and
where they are going
to be tried.” Tom
Fitton, president of
Judicial Watch
explained to The
Daily Caller.
The United States
can lawfully kill
terrorism suspects
abroad, including
American citizens
who pose an
immediate threat and
can’t be captured,
Attorney General
Eric Holder said.
Holder’s comments,
in a speech today in
Chicago, marked the
Obama
administration’s
highest-profile
defense of killings
that target terror
suspects since an
American drone
strike in Yemen last
September killed
Anwar al- Awlaki, a
U.S.-born al-Qaida
recruiter and
propagandist.
Holder didn’t
justify specific
killings. Under U.S.
law, the United
States can kill
specific senior
leaders of al-Qaida
and associated
groups, Holder said
in remarks released
by the Justice
Department. He also
described
circumstances that
would justify the
use of lethal force
against a U.S.
citizen who is a
senior operational
leader of al-Qaida
or associated forces
and is “actively
engaged in planning
to kill Americans.”
Sandra Fluke’s appearances on-camera thus far, as well as Rush Limbaugh’s well publicized reaction to her Congressional testimony, have turned her into a martyr for the Left. But as TheBlaze has reported, holes still remain in her story. For instance, Fluke is really 30-years-old (not the 23 that has been reported), and specifically went to Georgetown to fight their contraception policy – far from the innocent, wide-eyed victim she’s tried to portray herself to be.
But perhaps more revealing than what Fluke has publicly said is what she has declined to say. Her testimony before Congress, for instance, included precisely zero references to recreational sex or to abortion. Instead, Fluke would have her audience believe she’s only interested in non-sexual reasons for needing contraceptive pills – such as treating ovarian cancer. According to one study, the number of people to whom this applies is about 14 percent of all contraceptive users
It’s Super Tuesday,
which means today is
the busiest day yet
of the 2012
Republican race for
president with 419
delegates up for
grabs in 10 states
across the country.
“We’re feeling
good,” former
Pennsylvania Sen.
Rick Santorum said
Monday on a
conference call with
news outlets
including The Daily
Caller. “Not just
about Ohio. We’re
feeling good about
all of Super
Tuesday.”
“There’s a great
opportunity for us
given the amazing
fact that just came
out today that we’re
being outspent here
in the state of Ohio
12 to 1,” Santorum
said, comparing the
money being spent by
his campaign and
political action
committees on his
behalf to rival Mitt
Romney.
Santorum
Leading in Three
Delegate-Rich States
With voters in 10
states heading to
the polls on Super
Tuesday, the latest
surveys show Rick
Santorum leading in
three of the four
states with the most
delegates in play
where Santorum is on
the ballot —
including crucial
swing state Ohio.
The latest Suffolk
University poll,
released on Monday,
has Santorum with 37
percent of the vote
in Ohio, which has
66 Republican
delegates. Mitt
Romney has 33
percent, Newt
Gingrich has 16
percent, and Ron
Paul is fourth with
8 percent.
In Tennessee, which
has 58 delegates,
Santorum leads with
35 percent in the
latest American
Research Group (ARG)
poll, with Romney at
31 percent, Gingrich
at 20 percent, and
Paul at 9 percent.
Santorum also leads
in Oklahoma (43
delegates) with 37
percent, ahead of
Romney with 26
percent, Gingrich
with 22 percent, and
Paul with 9 percent,
according to an ARG
poll released on
Sunday.
Maryland’s goal to
control the amount
of firearms carried
by residents is
unconstitutional,
according to U.S.
District Judge
Benson Everette.
A decision in
Woollard v. Sheridan
on Monday made by
Maryland’s U.S.
District Court
upholds that the
Second Amendment
“right to bear arms
is not limited to
the home.”
Therefore, Maryland
citizens should not
be required to
submit a “good and
substantial reason”
when applying for a
concealed carry
permit.
Woollard’s case
charged the state
police
superintendent and
members of the
Handgun Permit
Review Board for
putting the burden
of proof on a
citizen and wrongly
denying Woollard’s
application in 2010.
“People have the
right to carry a gun
for self-defense and
don’t have to prove
that there’s a
special reason for
them to seek the
permit,” Woollard’s
attorney, Alan Gura,
told the Associated
Press. Gura has
fought handgun bans
in the District of
Columbia and
Chicago.
In a preview for an interview slated to air this Monday at 9:00 p.m. ET, CNN’s Piers Morgan slammed guest Michele Bachmann for being “judgmental.” The former GOP presidential candidate didn’t take the dig lying down, however, and blasted back by calling the media personality “rude.”
“Me?! Hardly! Hardly! Hardly!” Bachmann said in response to Morgan’s critique. “Well that’s rude! That’s absolutely rude!”
Morgan, who found Bachmann’s assertion incredulous, defended himself: “I’m not being rude, but you’ve been very, very outspoken.”
“I believe in traditional values,” the Congresswoman argued. “I believe in marriage between a man and a woman and I don’t think that’s bigoted.”
Occupy Wall Street has always had cutting edge gadgets and tech-savvy activists. Expensive Apple products were a signature of the movement from the start of the Zuccotti Park Occupation on September 17th, 2011.
But now Occupy has stepped up its digital game from laptops and webcams to a full-fledged “tactical propaganda vehicle.” It made its inaugural voyage around New York City last weekend.
After much ado from the Occupy movement that it would be protesting the highly anticipated G-8 economic summit (originally meant to be held alongside the NATO Summit) this May in Chicago, the venue for G-8 has in fact been changed to Camp David instead.
According to The Chicago Tribune, White House confirmed the change in an official statement:
“In May, the United States looks forward to hosting the G-8 and NATO Summits. To facilitate a free-flowing discussion with our close G-8 partners, the president is inviting his fellow G-8 leaders to Camp David on May 18-19 for the G-8 Summit, which will address a broad range of economic, political and security issues.
With all the talk of holding radio talk show hosts accountable lately, it’s probably worth bringing you what liberal firebrand Mike Malloy said last week as storms ravaged the South. According to a clip from his March 2 show, it seems the storms are God’s way of getting back at them for not believing in science. Or something.
“Their God … keeps smashing them into little grease spots on the pavement in Alabama, and Mississippi, and Arkansas, and Georgia, and Oklahoma,” Malloy says in his broadcast from Friday. “You know, the Bible belt, where [in a mocking voice] they ain’t gonna let no goddamned science get in the way, it says in the Bible, blah blah blah blah blah. So, according to their way of thinking, God with his omnipotent thumb reaches down here and so far tonight has smashed about 20 people into a grease spot on highway 12, or whatever the hell highway they live next to.”
The new ABC series
“GCB” was marred by
controversy from the
start. The series
was originally
titled “Good
Christian Bitches,”
then watered down to
“Good Christian
Belles,” and then
totally sanitized to
“GCB.”
Now the show, which
is characterized as
“Desperate
Housewives” goes to
Texas, is being
ridiculed by
Christian and
conservative groups
as “a sex-filled
attack on
Christians,
conservatives and
Texans.”
Based on the novel
“Good Christian
Bitches,” the series
revolves around
Amanda, a former
Dallasite who moves
back home with her
children after her
husband dies in a
car crash (while
engaging in oral
sex, mind you) and
finds that her
former Bible
quoting, big-haired,
wealthy friends are
less than welcoming.
Israel's Benjamin
Netanyahu on Tuesday
winds up a
high-profile US
visit focused on
Iran's perceived
nuclear threat after
warning that his
country would not
live in the "shadow
of annihilation."
Netanyahu was to
meet with US
Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton and
visit the US
Congress a day after
keenly-watched talks
with President
Barack Obama against
the backdrop of
speculation over a
possible Israeli
strike on Iran.
"Unfortunately,
Iran's nuclear
program has
continued to march
forward. Israel has
waited ... for
diplomacy to work,
we've waited for
sanctions to work.
None of us can
afford to wait much
longer," Netanyahu
told some 13,000
attendees late
Monday in a speech
before the AIPAC
pro-Israel lobbying
group.
"As prime minister
of Israel I will
never let my people
live in the shadow
of annihilation."
'I should be able to
express moral views
without being
slandered, accused
of hate speech'
Christian actor
Kirk Cameron was a
guest on “Piers
Morgan Tonight” over
the weekend to
discuss
“Monumental,”
his new project on
the roots of America
coming to theaters
later this month,
when the British
host of the program
suddenly turned
subject and asked
Cameron his views on
homosexual marriage.
Cameron’s calm
answer explaining
his view that
marriage “was
defined by God a
long time ago … one
man, one woman for
life” has drawn
a firestorm of
criticism from
fellow celebrities,
homosexual
organizations and
even rock musician
Nikki Sixx, who
blasted Cameron as
“a–hole of the week”
for his answer, and
Roseanne Barr, who
called Cameron “an
accomplice to murder
with his hate
speech.”
The Obama White
House held a formal
news conference last
year to announce
“proof positive” of
Barack Obama’s
Hawaii birth, posted
his “birth
certificate” online
and has been busy
making fun of anyone
who doesn’t believe
that story ever
since.
But 37 percent of
Republican primary
voters in Ohio, 38
percent of them in
Georgia and a
startling 45 percent
of them in Tennessee
simply don’t believe
it.
Another large
percentage, some 1
in 5, have doubts so
that they cannot say
for sure they
believe him.
The results come as
the voters will be
making their choice
tomorrow for their
favorite GOP
candidate to oppose
Obama, the
presumptive Democrat
nominee for the
presidency this
fall.
When you saw
“invisible car” in
the headline of this
story, I’m sure a
yeah right
slipped out from
some of your mouths.
But I’m not kidding.
The whole thing
is a “publicity
stunt,”
writes Mashable,
in order to show how
the new Mercedes
F-Cell hydrogen car
has zero emissions
(save for water).
The clever line is
that it’s
essentially
“invisible to the
environment.” And
while that is up for
debate (after all,
what about all the
coal burned to
manufacture the
parts for the car?)
the truth is the
video below shows
how it’s at least
nearly invisible to
the naked eye.
One of the five million intelligence emails published by whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Monday suggested that Israel has already eliminated, at least temporarily, Iran's ability to produce a nuclear weapon.
The emails were sent and received by analysts and agents working for the Texas-based private intelligence organization Statfor. In one email, an analyst cites a "confirmed Israeli intelligence agent" as saying:
"The Israelis already destroyed all the Iranian nuclear infrastructure on the ground weeks ago."
Addressing the fact that tensions between Iran and Israel are mounting amid reports that the Jewish state is preparing to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities, the agent is quoted as saying:
"I think this is a diversion. The current 'let's bomb Iran' campaign was ordered by the [European] leaders to divert the public attention from their at home financial problems."
Stratfor is widely regarded as a reliable intelligence source, and has contracts with many Fortune 500 corporations. Stratfor also works with the US government, and is believed to have an extensive intelligence network spanning the globe.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta took to the Hill Tuesday to lobby budget hawks to get the nation’s debt under control by cutting spending and entitlements, not defense.
“You can’t meet the challenge that you’re facing in this country by continuing to go back at discretionary spending,” Panetta told lawmakers at a Senate Budget Committee hearing.
“That’s less than a third of federal spending. If you’re not dealing with the two thirds that is entitlements spending, if you’re not dealing with revenue and you keep going back to the same place, frankly you’re not going to make it, and you’re going to hurt this country’s security,” Panetta said.
Democratic Senator Kent Conrad, the committee chairman, has said that given the country’s fiscal crisis more savings must be found in the core defense budget, and that it would be impossible to address the nation’s deficit without doing so. Ranking Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions agreed with Panetta that America‘s budget can’t be balanced with just Pentagon cuts and the escalating costs of entitlement programs must be addressed.
Left to Right: Harry Dent, Robert Prechte, & Gerald Celente
Despite recent reports that the U.S. economy is “recovering” and that there are signs of economic growth, some analysts are less than thrilled with what they see in the near future. In fact, they’re downright scared.
Harry Dent, author of “The Great Crash Ahead,” believes that the global debt bubble is going to burst and when it does, there will be a massive market crash. It should be noted that this is a revision of his earlier prediction that a crash would hit in 2012. He says he modified his forecast because the global central banks have been pumping the markets with so much money, stocks have been given a temporary boost. But he warns that as soon as the short-lived boost comes to an end, the crash will be hard.
Wyoming Republican
state legislator
David Miller has
introduced a bill to
prepare his state
for a doomsday
scenario in which
the nation's economy
and social structure
completely collapse.
"Things happen
quickly sometimes —
look at Libya, look
at Egypt, look at
those situations,"
Miller told the
Star-Tribune. "We
wouldn't have time
to meet as a
legislature or even
in a special session
to do anything to
respond."
Miller's bill seeks
to create a
state-run continuity
force that would
study and prepare
Wyoming for
potential national
or worldwide
catastrophes. One
specific component
of the bill calls
for the state to
look into the
possibility of
issuing its own
currency in the
event the U.S.
dollar collapses.
"If we continue down
this course, this is
the way any society
ends up — with a
valueless currency,"
Miller told the
Star-Tribune.
Miller's original
bill would have
appropriated $32,000
for the task force,
but the state's
Joint Appropriations
Committee has
already cut the
number in half. Six
other states have
attempted a similar
currency creation
effort in recent
years — and all have
failed. While
Miller's bill may
sound a bit extreme,
there have been
genuine concerns
about the
devaluation of U.S.
currency in recent
years. Last year,
the International
Monetary Fund
predicted that
China's economy
would overtake that
of the U.S. in five
years.
Stunning: the Left
Gets It Right – This
From The Daily
Beast?
From one end of the
muslim world to the
other, Christians
are being murdered
for their faith.
We hear so often
about Muslims as
victims of abuse in
the West and
combatants in the Arab
Spring’s
fight against
tyranny. But, in
fact, a wholly
different kind of
war is underway—an
unrecognized battle
costing thousands of
lives. Christians
are being killed in
the Islamic world
because of their
religion. It is a
rising genocide that
ought to provoke
global alarm.
The portrayal of
Muslims as victims
or heroes is at best
partially accurate.
In recent years the
violent oppression
of Christian
minorities has
become the norm in
Muslim-majority
nations stretching
from West Africa and
the Middle East to
South Asia and
Oceania. In some
countries it is
governments and
their agents that
have burned churches
and imprisoned
parishioners. In
others, rebel groups
and vigilantes have
taken matters into
their own hands,
murdering Christians
and driving them
from regions where
their roots go back
centuries.
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WASHINGTON (AP) —
Republican Rick
Santorum is looking
to capitalize on a
string of stunning
victories that
snapped his
four-state losing
streak and raised
new questions about
front-runner Mitt
Romney’s clout with
conservatives.
Romney shrugged off
his poor showing,
but his losses
Tuesday in Missouri,
Minnesota and
Colorado laid bare
his stubborn
weakness just when
it looked as if his
party was beginning
to embrace him.
Bringing up the rear
of the Santorum
surge: Newt
Gingrich, the former
House speaker who
mostly skipped the
contests and
finished at or near
the back of the pack
in all three states.
Santorum cast the
results as a victory
for a purer form of
conservatism than
Romney has offered,
heard more clearly
by voters across the
nation’s midsection
without a deafening
TV air war that the
former Massachusetts
governor has
dominated.
Joe Weisenthal is
the intrepid finance
writer over at
Business Insider.
He’s usually more
plugged in than a
Chevy Volt. So when
he looks at a chart
and says he feels
“something is about
to happen,” it’s not
a bad idea to pay
attention. And
that’s just what he
did.
I‘ll let Weisenthal
explain what he’s
seeing;
The above chart is
the VIX. Sometimes
it’s called the
“fear index”.
Whatever you want to
call it, it’s a
quick way of looking
at how much
investors are
willing to pay for
downside protection
in the market. Right
now, complacency is
high, and nobody
wants to pay much
for “insurance.”
Once again, we‘re
getting close to
what’s been a floor
for the index (since
the crisis) and so
it seems inevitable
that something is
going to come along
and jolt everyone
awake. [Emphasis
added]
Read More:
State and local
officials in surging
numbers are telling
Washington they
simply won’t
cooperate with any
plans to detain
Americans the
federal government
may choose to
describe as
“belligerents.”
The issue centers on
provisions in the
National Defense
Authorization Act of
2012, signed by
President Obama, for
the indefinite and
rights-free
detention of those
Washington cites as
belligerents,
whether American
citizens or not.
WND reported whenRep.
Daniel P. Gordon Jr.immediately
drafted a resolution
in the Rhode Island
legislature to
express opposition
to the sections of
the NDAA “that
suspend habeas
corpus and civil
liberties.”
Now theTenth
Amendment Centerconfirms
that the resistance
to the federal
bureaucracy is
catching on.
As America prepares
to draw down from
wars abroad, it
faces a new conflict
as a vicious drug
war spills across
our southern border
with Mexico.
Former Border Patrol
Agent Zachary Taylor
told The Blaze just
how grave the threat
really is.
Taylor broke down
the imminent dangers
and expanded upon
the case that the
U.S.-Mexico border
has become the soft
underbelly of U.S.
homeland defense.
It’s not just an
immigration problem,
Taylor insisted, but
also a major
national security
vulnerability.
A
former US Border
Patrol Agent
himself, Taylor says
all these threats
have been
exacerbated by
current Obama
administration
policies and
deliberate
distortions by much
of the media.
A
three-judge panel of
the 9th U.S. Circuit
Court of Appeals
today ruled that
Proposition 8,
through which voters
in California
defined marriage in
their state
constitution as
being between one
man and one woman,
is unconstitutional.
The 2-1 ruling
upheld the district
court decision by
Judge Vaughn Walker,
a homosexual who was
in a position to
benefit from his own
decision.
The appeals court
had heard arguments
that the vote in
2008 by Californians
should not be
allowed to stand.
Voters approved
Proposition 8
shortly after the
state’s Supreme
Court had tried to
mandate homosexual
“marriage.”
Jimmy
Carter-appointee
Stephen Reinhardt
and Bill
Clinton-appointee
Michael Hawkins
joined in the
majority opinion.
Randy Smith,
appointed by George
W. Bush, dissented.
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s
military-backed
prime minister says
Cairo will not halt
its crackdown on
foreign nonprofit
groups despite what
he calls threats to
cut off aid from
Western and Arab
countries.
Egypt’s campaign
against
pro-democracy and
rights groups began
late last year with
raids by security
forces on their
offices. On Sunday,
judges referred 19
Americans and 24
others to trial on
accusations they
illegally used
foreign funds to
foment unrest in the
country.
The U.S. has
threatened to cut
some $1.5 billion in
aid to Egypt over
the dispute.
Kamal el-Ganzouri
said Wednesday that
Western countries
“turned against us”
after the crackdown
began.
The STOCK Act would
do little to address
the problem of
insider trading on
Capitol Hill, says
Hoover Institute
fellow Peter
Schweizer.
“My biggest concern
is enforcement,”
Schweizer told The
Daily Caller.
He cited the example
of former Louisiana
Democratic Rep.
William Jefferson,
who famously stored
$90,000 in cash
bribes in his
freezer.
“He had been taking
bribes,” Schweizer
explained. “The FBI
heard about this, so
they did everything
they were supposed
to do. They got a
search warrant from
a federal judge and
they went in and
searched his
congressional
office. … Congress
went absolutely
ballistic and said
this was an
infringement of
constitutional
rights and authority
and there were
actually threats to
cut the FBI budget
as a result of doing
this.”
Acknowledging that
it is “not good for
Democrats” to go
“head-to-head” with
“any church,” Senate
Majority
Leader Harry
Reid told The Daily
Caller that he and
his Democratic
caucus “totally”
support
President Barack
Obama forcing
religious
institutions to
cover contraception
in employee
health insurance plans or
pay a federal fine.
Catholic bishops
across the country
are speaking out
against this
provision of the
health care law.
TheDC asked Reid if
he thinks it is a
good idea,
politically, for the
president to go
against the Catholic
Church on the issue.
“Of course it’s not
good for the
Democrats to go
head-to-head against
any church, so we
certainly don’t
intend to do that,”
Reid said at the
Capitol on Tuesday.
“But we had a good
discussion in our
caucus today and the
caucus totally
supports the
president. I do.”
Addressing reporters
with Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell and
other Senate
Republican leaders,
Texas Republican
Sen. John Cornyn
said the GOP will
attempt to “repeal”
the provision.
A jury convicted
former Pennsylvania
House Democratic
leader Bill DeWeese
on Monday of theft,
conspiracy, and
other charges, but
he said he would not
give up his seat and
would continue to
seek reelection, the
Philadelphia
Inquirerreported.
“I certainly feel I
did nothing wrong,” DeWeese
insisted after a
12-person jury found
him guilty of five
of six charges
brought against him
by the state
Attorney General’s
Office. He was
acquitted of one
theft charge.
The legislator said
that he believed a
jury from his
district of
southwestern
Pennsylvania would
have acquitted him
of all charges and
that he hoped they
will vote for him
again this year.
There’s been no
shortage of coverage
— and controversy —
over Chrysler’s
Super Bowl
ad featuring Clint
Eastwood titled
“Halftime in
America.” The spot,
meant to encourage
and inspire
Americans, centers
on Detroit’s
resilience (you can
read our full
coverage and watch
the video here).
While Eastwood and
his handlers
have incessantly claimed
the ad wasn’t
political, others
disagree. Nola.com explains
the
drama surrounding
the ad:
Though some
people liked it, the
Chrysler Super Bowl
commercial in which
Clint Eastwood
channels “Morning in
America”-era Ronald
Reagan on behalf of
Detroit’s attempted
comeback caused some
viewers to just go
off.
Said Karl Rove on
Fox News:
“I’m a huge fan of
Clint Eastwood, I
thought it was an
extremely well-done
ad, but it is a sign
of what happens when
you have
Chicago-style
politics, and the
president of the
United States and
his political
minions are, in
essence, using our
tax dollars to buy
corporate
advertising.”
CNN cameras were
following Mitt
Romney as he was
shaking hands with
supporters at a
Colorado campaign
event. The cable
news channel’s
Anderson Cooper
and Donna Brazile were
chatting about
Tuesday‘s caucus
results as they
watched Romney’s
Secret Service
detail abruptly
moved the candidate
to one side while a
man was hustled from
the room.
We later learned
that the man was
attempting to cover
the candidate with a
“glitter bomb:”
When Kylie Bisutti
won the Victoria’s
Secret Model Search
in 2009, she was
elated. Considering
her initial
excitement, some may
be scratching their
heads to hear that
the model, now 21,
has decided to turn
her back on the
profession that once
brought her such
immense fulfillment.
She’s citing her
Christian beliefs as
the reason for her
departure.
“Victoria’s Secret
was my absolutely
biggest goal in
life, and it was all
I ever wanted
career-wise,” she
explained. “But the
more I was modeling
lingerie, and
lingerie isn’t
clothing, I just
started becoming
more uncomfortable
with it because of
my faith.”
Initially, posing in
sexy lingerie wasn’t
a major problem for
her. But after two
years of posing in
provocative garb,
she began to feel
more compelled than
ever to change
course.
Additionally, she
maintains that her
husband should be
the only individual
to see her body so
openly (Bisutti
married right before
beating out 10,000
other contestants in
the well-publicized
model search).
Those haunting words
by a former DEA
chief about
our painfully vulnerable
borders ring of
truth — a truth you
will not find in the
mainstream media —
and head straight to
the heart of the
matter Glenn Beck
will discuss on
Tuesday night’s
episode of The Glenn
Beck Program on GBTV.
During his Monday
evening broadcast,
Glen delivered
viewers a sneak peak
at what he warns
will be a disturbing
yet vitally
important segment
that examines the
breeding grounds of
“rape, murder and
dismemberment” along
the U.S.-Mexico
border. Without
sugar coating, Glenn
promises to unveil
the real world of
Mexican drug
cartels, their
collaboration with
known middle east
terrorist groups
such as Hezbollah
and the “systematic
evil” running
rampant, east to
west, along our
compromised borders
with Mexico.
Glenn explains that
Americans have been
mislead, by both the
Bush and Obama
administrations,
into believing that
the situation along
the border is far
better than it truly
is. He will also map
out how and why
these insurgents
ultimate goal is to
cause great harm to
America.
Glenn will reveal
what network
television has yet
to — the truth about
the drug cartels who
are in bed with
Islamic extremists
Two American
brothers of a
Mexican casino
magnate who is
wanted in the U.S.
on drug and fraud
charges have been
making large
contributions to
President Barack
Obama's re-election
campaign,The
New York Timesreports.
The casino owner,
Juan Jose Rojas
Cardona, whose
nickname is "Pepe,"
fled bail in Iowa in
1994 and remains
wanted on drug and
fraud charges. He
has been linked to
violence and
corruption in
Mexico, the Times
reports.
The State Department
in 2009 said he may
have been involved
in the assassination
of a business rivals
and making illegal
campaign donations
to Mexican
officials.
Meanwhile, his
brothers and other
family members since
last year have been
making significant
donations to the
Obama campaign,
totaling more than
$200,000. When The
New York Times asked
the Obama campaign
about the Cardonas,
officials said they
were unaware of the
brother in Mexico,
and late in the day
told the Times they
were returning all
money.
Former U.N.
Ambassador John
Bolton says the
situation in Egypt,
where authorities
announced Monday 19
Americans and 24
other employees of
nonprofit groups
will be tried on
accusations they
illegally used
foreign funds to
foment unrest in the
country, is
“approaching a kind
of hostage crisis.”
Bolton also told Fox
News the Obama
administration is
doing “precious
little” to resolve
the predicament.
“They have now made
it plain they will
charge them — I
wouldn’t place any
money on the odds of
a fair trial in
Egypt. I certainly
wouldn’t want to see
them in an Egyptian
jail,” Bolton told
Fox’s Greta Van
Susteren. “So I
think the situation
is approaching a
kind of hostage
crisis here. And
from all that we can
see behind the
scenes — which is
where the activity
should be — the
administration has
done precious little
to protect these
Americans.
“I think the fact is
that the government
of Egypt — and it’s
not just the
military here — I
think you have to
take into account
the Muslim
Brotherhood-dominated
parliament sees a
weak, indecisive
president,” he said.
“This is a way to
make political
points in the
Egyptian context.
And they are
apparently not
afraid of what the
U.S. reaction will
be — that is a
prescription for bad
news.”
Turning to Syria,
Bolton noted the
administration has
misjudged President
Bashar Assad’s
determination to use
violence against
protesters of his
regime “from the
beginning” and said
China and Russia’s
vetoes of a U.N.
resolution
condemning the
government in
Damascus were
“entirely
predictable.”
Former Tucson Drug
Enforcement
Administration chief
Tony Coulson told
The Daily Caller
that Attorney
General Eric Holder
either knew guns
were walking
during Operation
Fast and Furious, or
should have known
about the deadly
practice.
“[Fast and Furious]
was driven locally
and it was driven
from Arizona, from
the ground up, I
mean it was not much
oversight,” Coulson
said in a phone
interview. “And, I
mean, I can only
speak to the
reporting, but
people all the way
up to the attorney
general knew what
was going on.”
Coulson, who ran the
DEA’s Tucson office
during Fast and
Furious’
implementation, told
TheDC he learned
that the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco,
Firearms and
Explosives was
letting guns walk
back in 2009 or
2010. He said he
learned this from
people who were
working in the
Phoenix Immigration
and Customs
Enforcement office.
He didn’t know it
was called “Fast and
Furious,” but said
it was widely known
guns were walking.
The office of the
Chief of Chaplains
of the U.S. Army
forbade Catholic
chaplains from
reading, in Sunday
masses, a letter
about a
controversial Obamacare
mandate from the
Catholic Church’s
military archbishop.
The move, which
amounts to the head
of Roman Catholic
military chaplains
calling the Obama
administration
un-American, will
set the stage for a
philosophical
conflict between
Catholic soldiers
and their
commander-in-chief.
In the forbidden
letter, Archbishop
Timothy Broglio
encouraged Catholics in
military
congregations to
disobey a federal
government mandate —
part of President
Obama’s health care
overhaul — requiring
Catholic employers
to provide health
coverage that
includes
“sterilization ,
abortion-inducing
drugs,
and contraception.”
“[T]he
Administration has
cast aside the First
Amendment to the
Constitution of the
United States,”
Archbishop Broglio
had written,
“denying Catholics
our Nation’s first
and most fundamental
freedom, that of
religious liberty.”
Peter van Uhmis
the Netherlands’
chief of defense. He
knows the art of
war. But despite
being a man of the
sword, he’s not a
bloodthirsty soldier
with an insatiable
desire to kill as
some would like to
characterize those
in the military.
Instead, he is a
distinguished man
with a craft. And in
an inspiring TED
talk recently, he
explained why he
“chose the gun.” And
he even brought one
on stage.
“Ladies and
gentleman, I share
your goals,” he said
while holding a
rifle. “I share the
goals of the
speakers you heard
before. I did not
choose to take up
the pen, the brush,
the camera. I chose
this instrument. I
chose the gun.”
“Let us cherish the
fact that most of
you have never been
close to a gun,” he
added. Why? “It
means the
Netherlands is a
peaceful country.
The Netherlands is
not at war. It means
soldiers are not
needed to patrol our
streets.”
Unemployment
Tricks: Jobs Claim
Made by 'Shrinking'
Workforce
Last week, the
White House claimed
that unemployment
dropped for the
fifth consecutive
month to 8.3 percent
— the lowest it has
been in nearly three
years — after adding
243,000 jobs,
according to the
Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
But financial
experts are saying
the figures may have
been manipulated —
and that the
significant drop in
employment was
because of the fact
that the federal
agency charged with
computing key
economic data has
significantly
decreased the number
of Americans in the
workforce.
“If you hold the
workforce
participation rate
constant over the
past year,
unemployment would
be about 8.9 percent
instead of 8.3
percent,” GOP
economist Matt
McDonald of Hamilton
Place Strategies
said Monday on
CNBC’s Squawk Box.
"So it is a weird
number that is out
there, and I think
people have to be
looking at that
carefully.”
The same Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS)
report that showed
unemployment
dropping to 8.3
percent showed total
workforce
participation — the
number of people
either working or
looking for work —
declining by 1.2
million people in
one month.
Residents and
businesses in the
Georgetown area of
Washington, D.C.,
are banding together
through their
neighborhood
association to
install surveillance
cameras pointed
toward public spaces
in an effort to
deter crime and
provide video
evidence should
criminal activity
occur.
But as the group
moves forward with
this plan, privacy
concerns have
surfaced among some
of its members and
advocacy groups,
especially as the
group figures out
protocol for when
footage will be
viewed and by whom.
The battle over the
Obama
administration’s
contraception
mandate continues
to heat up. On
Monday, Bill
Donohue, president
of the
Catholic League,
made some bold
proclamations
regarding just how
hard the Catholic
Church plans to
fight the
government’s requirement that
religious-affiliated
schools
and organizations cover
contraceptives and
abortion-inducing
drugs.
“Never before,
unprecedented in
American history,
for the federal
government to line
up against the Roman
Catholic Church,” said
Donohue.
“This is going to be
fought out with
lawsuits, with court
decisions, and, dare
I say it, maybe even
in the streets.”
Here, Donohue is
potentially calling
for Catholics and
supporters of
religious freedom to
join in peaceful
protest against the
mandate. Similar
action (peaceful
marches and events) has
been taken in
New York City, where
religious groups
have converged to
fight a local ban on
the use of public
schools for worship.
Ed Note: This is a
battle that every
Pro-Life American
must be involved
in. Forcing us to
help murder Children
is no different than
the orders received
by Nazi Soldiers who
were ordered to kill
the Jews. the
difference is that
Hitler was stopped
after murdering six
million Jews - This
holocaust has
claimed the lives of
fifty million. I
cannot and will not
succumb to this the
tyranny of being
forced to murder a
baby. Obama is
insane - He has
become a seditionist
and both his
loyalties and sanity
need to be put on
trial.
The FBI has been
paying closer
attention to
“sovereign citizen”
extremists around
the country out of
concerns that they
will react violently
when they interact
with government
officials. But if
you dig deeper, the
FBI’s attention
raises questions
about why focus on
this group as
opposed to others.
But first, whos are
sovereign citizens?
They’re a mixed bag.
Some reject their
U.S. citizenship and
don’t recognize
government
authority, like laws
and taxes. But
others don’t, and
are more concerned
with private
property. The
website
Sovereigncitizens.org explains:
Our goal is to
educate and inform
the American public
about the very real
threat to the United
States of America as
we have known it –
coming from many
different
institutions that
make up our
government and
policy
infrastructure. We
hope to teach those
who wish to remain
free how to
recognize this
threat and disarm it
in their
communities.
We do NOT endorse
non-payment of taxes
or violence to
achieve these
changes. We do NOT
endorse giving up a
social security
number and we do NOT
endorse violence
against the police
or the government. [Emphasis
added]
In January, we
reported about the
Colorado woman who
was ordered
by a district court
judge to
comply with
prosecutors’ wishes
and decrypt her
laptop, a ruling
that defense lawyers
say violates her
Fifth Amendment
rights. Now, Wired
reports Ramona
Fricosu might have conveniently
forgotten her
password.
Wired writes:
The authorities
seized the Toshiba
laptop from
defendant Ramona
Fricosu in 2010 with
a court warrant
while investigating
alleged mortgage
fraud. Ruling that
the woman’s Fifth
Amendment rights
against compelled
self-incrimination
would not be
breached, U.S.
District Judge
Robert Blackburn
ordered the woman in
January to
decrypt the laptop
“It’s very possible
to forget
passwords,” the
woman’s attorney,
Philip Dubois, said
in a telephone
interview. “It’s not
clear to me she was
the one who set up
the encryption on
this drive. I don’t
know if she will be
able to decrypt it.”
Senate Majority
Leader Harry
Reid, following
a recent anti-piracy
legislative debacle
with SOPA and PIPA,
will lead his second
effort of 2012 to
push
Internet-regulating
legislation, this
time in the form of
a new cybersecurity
bill. The expected
bill is the latest
attempt by the
Democrats to broadly
expand the authority
of executive branch
agencies over the
Internet.
Details about the
bill remain shrouded
in secrecy. Clues
available to the
public suggest that
the bill might be
stronger than
President Barack
Obama’s
cybersecurity
proposal, which was
released in May
2011. Reid said that
he would bring the
bill — expected to
come out of the
Senate Homeland
Security and
Government Affairs
Committee, chaired
by Connecticut
independent Sen. Joe
Lieberman — to the
floor during the
first Senate work
period of 2012.
A classified meeting
behind closed doors
in October 2011
between key Senate
committee leaders
with jurisdiction
over cybersecurity
and White House
officials, took
place at the request
of the Obama
administration.
Lieberman, in an interview with
The Hill in October,
said that past
Senate cybersecurity
bills were
considerably
stronger than the
White House
proposal.
Diversity advocates
are bombarding
Alabama with
adjectives.
Left-wing groups are
trying to intimidate
companies into
joining them in
lobbying against the
state’s successful
and popular
immigration reform
law, which has
already prompted a
large number of
illegal immigrants
to flee the state.
The reform has also
opened up jobs for
thousands of
Americans and also
helped cut the
state’s unemployment
rate.
The anti-Alabama
campaign complements
a broad effort by
President Barack
Obama to spur
turnout by Hispanic
supporters for his
November re-election
effort.
The popular reform,
dubbed HB56, is “a
travesty of justice
… a debacle … an
assault of the civil
rights of Latinos,”
claimed Janet
Murguia, CEO of the
National Council of
La Raza.
Although the
bipartisan law has
helped many
African-Americans
find jobs vacated by
illegal workers,
NAACP Senior Vice
President for
Advocacy Hilary
Shelton condemned it
as “a misguided,
heinous and racially
and ethnically
discriminatory law.”
Greece’s coalition
government has
finally agreed to
cut civil service
jobs, announcing
15,000 positions
would go this year,
amid mounting
international
pressure to agree on
austerity measures
needed to secure
major new debt
agreements.
The announcement
Monday signals a
shift in Greece’s
policy, as state
jobs have so far
been protected
during the country’s
acute financial
crisis, which
started about two
years ago. Public
Sector Reform
Minister Dimitris
Reppas said the job
cuts would be
carried out under a
new law that allows
such firings.
Naturally, this
hasn’t gone over
well with the
unions.
Unions have called a
24-hour general
strike for Tuesday,
in response to the
new austerity
measures, while
about 4,000
protesters joined
protest rallies
organized in central
Athens by left-wing
opposition parties.
Greece is racing to
push through the
tough reforms –
which have yet to be
agreed to by
Greece’s coalition
partners – to clinch
a €130 billion ($170
billion) bailout
deal from its
European partners
and the
International
Monetary Fund (IMF)
and avoid a March
default on its bond
repayments.
During an appearance
on Hannity’s
America, Ann Coulter
shared her view that
Mitt Romney is the
“most conservative”
candidate left out
of the four and
thus, conservatives
“should be
celebrating” the
notion that he could
become the
Republican nominee.
Coulter heaped on
the praise, calling
Romney “appealing”
and “gentlemanly” in
addition to
comparing him to
conservative icon
Ronald Reagan.
Mediaite adds:
Hannity and Coulter
turned to the
President for a bit
after, talking about
the damage money
going to Solyndra
and large spending
numbers under the
President. Coulter
noted that despite
this, it is still
“very, very hard to
take out an
incumbent
President,” which is
why she would like
to see New Jersey
Governor Chris
Christie as vice
president. Hannity
countered that he
preferred Sen.Marco
Rubio. Coulter liked
that idea, “but
Christie, that’s
once in a
generation.” Hannity
liked him but
couldn’t see him as
second to anyone.
“But that’s why I
like him!” Coulter
countered
President Barack
Obama’s deputies
announced late
Monday night that
they would help
so-called “super
PACs” raise
unlimited amounts of
political cash from
wealthy Americans to
support his November
campaign, following
several months of
disappointing fundraising efforts.
Obama has loudly
— and often —
opposed super
PACs. His
campaign manager
justified the
about-face as a
defensive measure.
“We decided to do
this because we
can’t afford for the
work you’re doing in
your communities,
and the grassroots
donations you give
to support it, to be
destroyed by
hundreds of millions
of dollars in [GOP]
negative ads,” said
a late-night email
from campaign
manager Jim
Messina.
“The stakes are too
important to play by
two different sets
of rules,” he said
in a 11:17 p.m. mass
mailing sent out
after the
publication
deadlines for many
morning newspapers
had passed.
The announcement
provides tacit
permission from
Obama for many
wealthy Democratic
supporters in the
high-tech, media and
culture sectors to
write huge checks to
Democratic super
PACs. Those funds
will likely be used
to launch negative
TV ads against the
GOP’s eventual
presidential
nominee.
In what can be
described as another
“Oh, that Joe
Biden!” moment, the
Vice President
admitted before a
crowd of students at
Florida State
University Monday
morning that
government
intervention in the
free market and
providing subsidies
for students to
attend college has
led to an increase
in college tuition.
“Good morning Mr.
Vice President,” one
Florida State
student began during
a Q&A session, “I
was wondering how do
you feel about the
idea that government
subsidies and
interference with
the free market, for
example, by
artificially
increasing
availability of
student loans is at
least partially
responsible for
rising tuition
costs.”
“And now we‘re
facing a possible
student loan bubble
and subsequent
collapse just as
we’re coming out of
the housing crisis,”
the student said.
“Well, say the first
part of your
question again about
how we’re
artificially
creating what?” Vice
President Joe Biden
asked.
“By manipulating
variables in the
free market and
giving out
government subsidies
that maybe is
partially
responsible for
rising tuition
costs,” the student
clarified.
Ed Note:
The Communists in
Russia had their
"Uncle Joe" we have
ours. Uncle
Joe Biden
“In another setback
for President
Obama’s clean energy
loan programs, the
recipient of more
than a half-billion
dollars in federal
loans is laying off
workers at their
Delaware and
California
operations [emphasis
added],” Bryan Tau
of Politico reports.
Fisker Automotive, a
California-based
electric car
company, is laying
off an “undisclosed
number” of staff to
try to reserve
enough capital in
order to qualify for
more federal help
from the Department
of Energy, according
to a Delaware state
development
official.
Wait a minute. The Fisker
Automotive?
That’s right, that Fisker
Automotive: a
company backed by an
Al Gore-associated
venture capital firm
that was awarded
a $529
million federal loan
guarantee in April,
2010.
This is the same
government-assisted
automaker that
outsourced
manufacturing jobs
to Finland because,
“There was no
contract
manufacturer in the
U.S. that could
actually produce our
vehicle,” the car
company’s founder
and namesake
told ABC News. ”They
don’t exist here.”
Now they are laying
off workers in both
Delaware and
California.
Monday was President
Ronald Reagan’s
101st birthday, and
the Heritage
Foundation launched
a Facebook app
using the new
OpenGraph technology
to commemorate the
occasion.
The app allows users
to write messages
to Reagan — yes, to
the late President
Reagan — and wish
him a happy
birthday. Heritage
ran a “soft launch”
of the app last
Tuesday. As of late
Monday evening,
Heritage had
collected 5,367
signatures with the
app.
Heritage
communications
director Rory Cooper
told The Daily
Caller that the
Washington, D.C.
think tank was
looking to
commemorate the
event in a manner
different from the
previous year’s
centenary
celebration.
“We worked with
Facebook to make
sure we could get
the OpenGraph
technology in time
for Reagan’s
birthday,” said
Cooper. ”They were
great about
understanding what
we were looking to
do.”
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To See "Missing The
Gipper" done the
weekend of his
death.
The two couldn’t
stand further apart
from one another on
the ideological and
theological
spectrum, which was
illustrated when
they clashed in a
tense on-air debate
over the
presence of a Jesus
statue on federal
land in Montana. In
addition to this
subject, the two
tussled over the
presence of Moses in
the U.S. Supreme
Court as well.
The situation was so
intense that Gaylor,
clearly overwhelmed
by Sekulow’s
opinions on
church-state issues,
resorted to calling
her opponent “a
bully” who
misinforms the
public.
There’s a reason FOX
chose to bring these
individuals in to
debate the Jesus
statue. To begin,
the FFRF, an atheist
group, has been the
main force behind an
attempt to have the
relic removed from
federal lands, while
the ACLJ, a
right-leaning,
pro-faith legal
non-profit, has been
the primary source
working against the
atheist groups’
actions (the latter
organization helped
gather
70,000 signatures in
support of the
statue).
Conservatives from across the country will be descending upon the nation‘s capitol later this week for the American Conservative Union’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).
Occupy protesters organized by the Washington DC Metro Council of the AFL-CIO are set to greet them.
The conference is a major yearly gathering for conservative college students, activists and organizations, featuring workshops and speeches led by conservative leaders. Just to name a few of this year’s speakers: Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, Marco Rubio, Laura Ingrahm, Ann Coulter and our own S.E. Cupp. To mark the occasion, Washington D.C.’s AFL-CIO posted this message titled “Occupy CPAC” on its website Friday:
Coming off weeks of
alternately
attacking Newt
Gingrich and
President Barack
Obama, the Romney
campaign switched
gears on Monday and
came out swinging
against former Sen.
Rick Santorum, who
looks to be Romney’s
toughest competition
in the three primary
contests on Tuesday.
Minnesota and
Colorado hold their
caucuses on Tuesday,
and Missouri holds a
non-binding primary
that day. Polls
suggest that
Santorum could
perform strongly,
especially in
Missouri and
Minnesota.
In Minnesota,
Santorum actually
edges Romney 29
percent to 27
percent. In
Colorado, he holds a
distant second place
14 points behind
Romney, but leads
Gingrich by 8
points, suggesting
that he may be
taking the place of
the former speaker
of the House as the
Romney alternative.
In Missouri,
Gingrich is not on
the ballot — having
not filed the
necessary paperwork
— leaving an opening
for Santorum.
GOP front-runner
Mitt Romney coasted
to victory in the
Nevada caucuses with
all the suspense of
a casino card dealer
taking on a group of
tourists from the
Midwest in a hand of
five-card stud.
“I think it’s
obviously good news
for Romney, but it
has already been
factored into the
equation,” observed
political analyst
and Democratic
pollster Doug Schoen
in an exclusive
interview with
Newsmax Saturday
night. “It is more a
ratification of
something that was
expected than any
fundamental change
in the race.”
GOP strategist and
Fox News contributor
Bradley A. Blakeman
tells Newsmax that
the Nevada vote was
significant in terms
of helping the
former Massachusetts
governor overcome
questions about
whether he is
conservative enough
to carry the GOP
torch into the
general election
Supreme Court
Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg has caused
a storm of
controversy by
saying in a
television interview
that the people of
Egypt should not
look to the United
States Constitution
when drafting their
own governing
document because
it’s too old and
there are newer
examples from which
to draw inspiration.
“I would not look to
the U.S.
Constitution if I
were drafting a
constitution in the
year 2012,” Ginsburg
said in the
interview, which
aired on Jan. 30 on
Al-Hayat TV.
Her comments have
stunned writers
across the
conservative
blogosphere, though
many major media
outlets have not
given much attention
to it.
In the interview,
she argued that the
United States has
the “oldest written
constitution still
in force in the
world,” so instead
“you should
certainly be aided
by all the
constitution-writing
that has gone one
since the end of
World War II.”
“I might look at the
constitution of
South Africa,”
Ginsburg said. “That
was a deliberate
attempt to have a
fundamental
instrument of
government that
embraced basic human
rights, had an
independent
judiciary.”
“The message is the
same across all
religious groupings
and beliefs: This is
none of the
government’s
business,” CHQ
observed in
announcing its
results.
Although the new
Department of Health
and Human Services
policy under
Obamacare exempts
those directly
involved in
religious work, such
as churches,
temples, mosques,
etc., from the
requirement, it
orders religious
affiliates such as
hospitals, social
service agencies,
and colleges to
provide the
coverage.
The CHQ poll asked:
“A new U.S.
Department of Health
and Human Services
policy requires
religious
organizations to
provide coverage of
abortion-inducing
drugs,
sterilization, and
contraceptives in
their health plans,
and religious
hospitals to provide
those services, even
when some or all of
those practices
violate their
conscience. Is this
a proper extension
of government power
over religious
institutions?"
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Sunday the shooting of former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords should have sparked a national dialogue about gun laws.
Bloomberg, a political independent and longtime advocate for gun control, made his comments on NBC’s “Meet the Press” hours before his gun control ad with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino was scheduled to air during the Super Bowl.
“You’d think that if a congresswoman got shot in the head, that would have changed Congress’ views,” Bloomberg told NBC’s David Gregory, who asked why the issue of gun control has been “overtaken by the politics of indifference.”
Ed Note: I agree with Mayor Bloomberg. How could we let a Congresswoman get shot in the head and not take measures on gun control. I believe that we should pass gun laws requiring every citizen to be armed and be proficient in shooting. If we can mandate health insurance certainly we can mandate protection insurance (Smith and Wesson Style - sort of like Blue Cross Blue Shield with a kick). Imagine if everyone there had been armed. We could have shot this nut long before he killed all those people. Good thinking Mike. That's why you're the man.
The Rev. Al Sharpton offered up support for the Obama admin’s contraceptive mandate on “Morning Joe” today. While hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski characterized the mandate as a government “overstep,“ Sharpton said it helps protect individuals who work at religious institutions and he called it a ”principled decision.“ He even went as far as to cite ”separation of church and state.”
Sharpton’s main argument is that employees who disagree with “the dogma and theology of the church” should still be able to be protected, equally, under the law.
Ed Note: Sharpton is an idiot. Had any conservative made that kind of argument they would have been laughed off of the air. But Sharpton will preobably be lauded for his courage. After all it does take great courage for an idiot like Sharpton to go on live TV everyday. Does the old Windows "What would you do with a brain if you had one" come to mind?
(AP) — The portrayal of a young Asian woman speaking broken English in a Super Bowl ad being run by U.S. Senate candidate Pete Hoekstra against Michigan incumbent Debbie Stabenow is bringing charges of racial insensitivity.
GOP consultant Nick De Leeuw flat-out scolded the Holland Republican for the ad.
“Stabenow has got to go. But shame on Pete Hoekstra for that appalling new advertisement,” De Leeuw wrote on his Facebook page Sunday morning. “Racism and xenophobia aren’t any way to get things done.”
A media consultant who has advised Democrats also thought it could prove problematic.
Ed Note: Well call me racially insensitive right along with Hoekstra. I think it is a great ad. Go Pete!
Chrysler made news with a moving Detroit-centric Super Bowl advertisement last year, and it looks like they’ve done it again. Titled “It’s Halftime in America,” the advertisement aired during halftime of Super Bowl XLVI and features Clint Eastwood narrating a powerful presentation intertwining commentary on the idea of halftime in the game, American economy, Detroit and automobile industry, followed by a positive message moving forward. Despite producing the video and paying for it’s high Super Bowl air time cost, the word “Chrysler” is not heard in the advertisement.
“This country can’t be knocked out with one punch. We get right back up again, and when we do the world is going to hear the roar of our engines. Ya, it’s halftime in America, and our second half is about to begin,” Eastwood says as he drifts off camera and the Chyrsler, Jeep, Dodge and Ram logos appear.
ATLANTA (The Blaze/AP) — Georgia’s top court struck down a state law that banned advertising for assisted suicides — a measure that sought to prevent this type of suicide without expressly banning it — siding on Monday with four members of a suicide group who said the law violated their free speech rights.
The Georgia Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling found that the law violates the free speech clauses of the U.S. and Georgia constitution. It means that four members of the Final Exit Network who were charged in February 2009 with helping a 58-year-old man with cancer die won’t have to stand trial, defense attorneys said.
Georgia law doesn’t ban assisted suicide as whole, but a law made in 1994 bans people from publicly advertising suicide. The law makes it a felony for anyone who “publicly advertises, offers or holds himself out as offering that he or she will intentionally and actively assist another person in the commission of suicide and commits any overt act to further that purpose.”
Ed Note: I hope these judges practice what they preach?
Upcoming GBTV Report on Mexico Border Will Show Horrific Violence and InstabilityIf you watch the Glenn Beck Show on GBTV this Tuesday at 5PM, you will learn about the frightening– and immediate– threats coming across the U.S.-Mexico.
Of course, the mainstream media refuses to tell you the real story. They claim a need to shield the public from the horrific violence, and fall into politically correct narratives.
GBTV will tell you the truth about the border, including the following shocking revelations:
1) Al Qaeda-style terrorism tactics, including beheadings and extensive body mutilations, have become standard tactics for the bloodthirsty drug cartels at the U.S. border.
Arnaud de Borchgrave
has a unique take on
world affairs,
journalism and
national security.
The 85-year-old, who
has worked as a
journalist for 62
years, writes two
columns a week,
leveraging his huge
network of contacts
around the world. He
also manages a
department focused
on transnational
threats at the
Center for Strategic
and International
Studies, a public
policy institute
focused on national
security and
international
affairs.
In an interview with
The Daily Caller’s
Ginni Thomas, de
Borchgrave discusses
what he believes to
be the biggest
threats to the
nation, what new
breakthroughs he is
seeing around the
corner and much
more.
What is the biggest
threat to the U.S.
that people do not
recognize
sufficiently?
The Obama
administration's
decision to require
Catholic-affiliated
institutions to
cover contraceptives
and sterilization in
their employee
healthcare plans — a
practice that
violates a core
Catholic belief — is
turning into a major
political
miscalculation for
Democrats in the
midst of an election
year.
The ruling, which
could burden
universities such as
Notre Dame and
hospitals with huge
fines if they don't
comply, has prompted
anger among some
liberal and
progressive
Catholics, as well
as traditional
conservatives and
evangelicals.
They say it forces
them to choose
between a moral and
social question —
providing medical
care in many
communities to the
poorest of the poor.
Catholic hospitals
roughly care for
one-sixth of the
U.S. population
annually, according
to several studies.
The ruling has been
the subject of two
letters read on
Sundays from
Catholic pulpits
around the nation.
And it's stirring
anger in key
constituencies in
vital swing states
such as Michigan,
Ohio, and
Pennsylvania, where
a concentration of
decades-old Catholic
hospitals and
universities
provides vital
services in many
cities and towns.
Former New York
Mayor Rudy Giuliani
still isn't
endorsing Mitt
Romney for
president.
Despite Romney's win
in Florida and
Nevada this weekend,
Giuliani told Bob
Schieffer on CBS'
"Face the Nation"
Sunday he still had
reservations about
Romney.
And Giuliani
suggested serious
issues divide
Gingrich and Romney.
Here's the key take
from Giuliani:
"There is a
difference. They
have some big
differences over
Romneycare. They
have big differences
over taxes.
"Newt's plan on
taxes is better than
Gov. Romney's plan,
it's . . . bolder.
"Newt is much more
willing to make
dramatic changes in
the way the
government
operates."
Asked by Schieffer
why he still won't
endorse Romney,
Giuliani responded:
"[Romney] has
changed his position
on virtually
everything,"
Guiliani said. "He
was a traditional
moderate Republican,
strong on fiscal
matters,
conservative, strong
on foreign policy,
but basically
socially moderate.
And he changed all
that."
While Clint Eastwood‘s halftime speech seems to be the Super Bowl ad that everyone’s talking about, Chevy’s end of the world commercial has been getting good feedback as well.
From everyone except Ford that is, who seems to be the odd man out in this year’s Super Bowl commercial wars.
If you haven’t seen it yet, Chevy’s ad plays on the Mayan-predicted apocalypse that many fear will occur this year. Over the smooth voice of Barry Manilow singing “Looks Like We Made It,” the ad shows a Chevy Silverado driven by a man with dog emerging from the rubble of a post-apocalyptic city. At the commercial’s climax, the man greets other chevy drivers eating Twinkies at a meet-up where he asks “Where’s Dave?”
“Dave drove a Ford,” says a saddened fellow Chevy driver:
One of our most clicked-on stories of last year was the story of the Peoria, Illinois Carp Hunters, a group of fisherman who decided to dress up in gladiator-like costumes and kill invasive Asian carp with swords while being pulled behind a boat. Now they’re back with even more footage and, better yet, even more weapons. You don’t want to miss this.
Digging and playing in beach sand presents a greater risk of getting sick than does swimming or sun tanning, according to a new study led by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
“Researchers surveyed some 5,000 beach visitors and found that those who dug in the most contaminated sand were twice as likely to fall ill with diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach aches,” reports the Los Angeles Times. “Those who had been buried in the sand showed an even greater tendency to get sick.”
Researchers for the EPA, the University of North Carolina, and Johns Hopkins University claim that polluted beach sand contains more pathogens (i.e. infectious agents) than the surf.
Denver Broncos
quarterback and
devout evangelical
Christian Tim Tebow
is hinting that one
day he may seek a
post-football second
career in politics.
In an interview
broadcast Saturday
night, the unabashed
religious
conservative said he
could one day
explore politics "if
it's something I
care about."
"I don't know -- it
could be something
in my future," Tebow
said, speaking to
Dave Feherty -- host
of the Golf
Channel's "Feherty
Live." "If it's
something I care
about, possibly."
“A lot of people are
praying for me, a
lot of people are
encouraging me,”
Tebow continued.
“Ultimately I know
that my goal and my
platform through the
game of football
isn’t just to score
touchdowns and win
games. You know,
it’s about being a
great role model and
setting an example
for the next
generation. My
ultimate goal is to
be an athlete that
some mom or dad can
look at their son
and daughter and
say, ‘That’s someone
who’s trying to do
it the right way,
that’s someone who’s
trying to live with
character."
Though Tebow has
sparked controversy
on the left over his
strong religious
views, conservative
pundits and
politicians have
embraced the
University of
Florida graduate.
Texas governor Rick
Perry compared
himself to the
athlete during a
debate, saying "I
hope I am the Tim
Tebow of the Iowa
caucuses."
Mitt
Romney heads into
the next phase of
the Republican
presidential
nominating contest
carrying a big win
under his belt,
after reasserting
his frontrunner
status with a
crushing victory
over Newt Gingrich
in Florida.
However, Romney and
the rest of the
Republican
candidates will have
to fine-tune their
approach as they
enter the bevy of
contests scattered
all across the
country in February,
starting in Nevada
this Saturday.
There are no
historically
decisive primaries
on the horizon, no
big-ticket behemoths
that are considered
make-or-break for a
primary candidate.
Instead, the
candidates face what
could be a drawn-out
race for delegates,
one that will force
the campaigns to
make more strategic
decisions about
where and when to
allocate resources.
The head of the
House Oversight and
Government Reform
Committee is
threatening to hold
Attorney GeneralEric
Holderin
contempt of Congress
if he fails to
comply with
congressional
subpoenas for
documents.
Holder has until
Feb. 9 to comply.
In a four-page
letter to Holder,
Committee ChairmanDarrell
Issa,
R-Calif., claims the
Department of
Justice has
"misrepresented
facts and misled
Congress," which
began its
investigation of
Operation Fast and
Furious one year
ago.
Issa wrote
that Holder's
"actions lead us to
conclude that the
department is
actively engaged in
a cover-up" because
it refuses to comply
with previous
subpoenas.
"If the department
continues to
obstruct the
congressional
inquiry by not
providing documents
and information,
this committee will
have no alternative
but to move forward
with proceedings to
hold you in contempt
of Congress," Issa
warned in the
letter.
This
shocking
video
(uploaded
to
YouTube
by
someone
not
friendly
to the
Tea
Party)
shows
Memphis
talk
radio
host
Thaddeus
Matthews
insulting
and
humiliating
Republican
congressional
candidate
Charlotte
Bergmann
on air.
And that’s
being kind.
Matthews
quickly
became upset
with
Bergmann
when she
wouldn’t
answer
directly
about any
affiliation
with the Tea
Party. Then
he launched
into a
16-minute
argument
filled with
curse words
and
accusations
that added
up to her
being too
close to
whites and
not really
having the
interest of
the black
community in
mind.
Eventually,
Bergmann
bowed out of
the
conversation,
and that’s
when
Matthews
really let
her have it
— not only
did he
accuse her
of being a
“token
negro” for
white’s, but
he also
slipped in
references
about Martin
Luther King
and even
refused to
shake her
hand because
he was
afraid her
“whiteness”
would rub
off on him.
Ed Note:
This is the
type of
ignorant son
of Beliel
that sets
back race
relations
about 100
years.
What this
loud mouth,
bombastic,
ignorant
bigot is
doing on the
radio is
beside me.
This is
obviously
the
afro-centric
version of
the KKK.
Where is the
American
left on this
loud mouth
bigot,
calling him
down for his
hate speech,
his foul
mouthed
rant,
excoriating
this deer in
the
headlights
candidate.
The only
good thing
to come out
of this is a
lesson.
If Ms
Bergmann is
smart she
will learn
from this
exchange
that this is
how bigots
and race
bullies
operate and
the next
time she
will be
prepared.
She should
carry a very
small boat
horn with
her.
They come in
small
aerosol cans
that will
fit in your
purse.
Next time
somebody
starts with
this crap -
tell him
simply "You
mess with
the bull you
get the horn
... air horn
that is."
Blow his
ears right
off the side
of his head.
Researchers, as part
of the National
Consortium for the
Study of Terrorism
and Responses to
Terrorism (START)
under the Department
of Homeland
Security, are trying
to come up with a
way to better
predict where and
when terrorist
attacks would happen
on U.S. soil.
To start, the
researchers from
the University of
Maryland
and University of
Massachusetts-Boston mapped
all events
considered terrorismsince
1970 to 2008 in the
United States
(below). This
established areas
they deemed
terrorism “hot
spots” but also
revealed that
terrorism is
actually “widely
dispersed”. So
widely dispersed
that every state has
experienced some act
of terrorism in some
form, according to
the report. The
report defines a hot
spot as an area
where more than the
average number of
terrorist attacks
have taken place —
the average for the
U.S. is six.
LONDON (AP) — Four
British men
radicalized by a
U.S.-born Muslim
cleric pleaded
guilty on Wednesday
to involvement in an
al-Qaida inspired
plot to spread
terror and cause
economic damage by
bombing the London
Stock Exchange at
Christmastime.
The
men were among nine
defendants facing
trial in London over
an alleged plot to
attack the exchange
and several other
high-profile targets
in December 2010.
All had initially
pleaded not guilty
to all the charges
against them.
But
on Wednesday four of
the defendants
pleaded guilty at
Woolwich Crown Court
to involvement in
the Stock Exchange
plot, and the five
other British
Muslims to lesser
charges.
Mohammed Chowdhury,
21; Shah Rahman, 28;
Gurukanth Desai, 30;
and Abdul Miah, 25,
all admitted
preparing for acts
of terrorism by
planning to plant an
improvised explosive
device in the
toilets of the
London Stock
Exchange.
Israel’s diplomatic
and military
correspondents got
quite the surprise
watching the live
feed of the Senate
Intelligence
Committee when
Chairman Dianne
Feinstein (D-Calif.)
revealed the head of
the Mossad had made
a secret visit to
Washington earlier
this week to hold
talks with senior
U.S. officials.
The
item led the “Mabat”
main newscast on
Israel’s
government-run
network IBA on
Tuesday evening and
was the headline on
Ha’aretz newspaper’s
website.
The
travels of Mossad
Director Tamir Pardo
are usually kept
secret and in fact,
the name of the head
of the Mossad and
Shin Bet [Israel’s
version of the FBI]
were up until a few
years ago kept
secret from the
public.
Rep.
Allen West (R-FL)
has made headlines
for criticizing
Democratic leaders
including President
Barack Obama, House
Minority Leader
Nancy Pelosi, and
Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid.
“This
is a battlefield
that we must stand
upon. And we need to
let President Obama,
Harry Reid, Nancy
Pelosi and my dear
friend, chairman of
the Democrat
National Committee,
we need to let them
know that Florida
ain’t on the table,”
West said last
Saturday at a
Lincoln Day Dinner
in West Palm Beach,
Florida.
Rep.
West went on to say
that Democratic
leaders should take
their message of
“economic
dependency” and “get
the hell out of the
United States of
America.”
Apparently, his
comments proved too
much forThe
Five’s
co-host BobBeckel.
“I’m
going to try to be
as calm here as I
possibly can here in
deference to my
friends here at this
table,”Beckelsaid.
“In
my 30 years of
politics, I have
never heard anything
more disgraceful in
my life. I think
that Allen West owes
an apology to a lot
of people. He’s
lucky to have that
seat in the first
place. I’ll tell you
this, Mr. West; When
you start shooting
your mouth off like
that – and I admire
the fact that you
were in the military
and you served your
country. I
understand that,”Beckelsaid.
Ed Note: In
the first place
these anti-American
leftists advocating
the demise of the
Constitution should
get out of the
country. Two,
Beckel has said on
many occasions that
real Christians and
Constitutionalists
are un American.
Very little
difference in the
two statements
accept that
when Beckel calls
people un-American
who are to the right
of Stalin, he is
calling them
traitors.
Conservative
filmmaker James
O’Keefe vowed in an
interview with The
Daily Caller on
Tuesday to continue
making sting videos
to expose waste and
fraud in government
despite criticism
from liberals who
have attacked him
over the tactics he
uses.
O’Keefe and his
group Project
Veritas most
recently made news
in January by
producing a video
during the New
Hampshire primary
showing how easy it
is for someone to
commit voter fraud.
“Absolutely,”
O’Keefe said, when
asked if observers
can expect more
videos soon from his
organization.
He had tough words
for the liberal
activists who claim
he and his
operatives broke the
law with their New
Hampshire video by
successfully
obtaining ballots in
the name of dead
voters in the state
because there is no
voter identification
law.
“There is a long
tradition of turning
people who expose
the ineptitude of
government into
political
prisoners,” he said.
“But it’s just
un-American.”
A coalition of
liberal groups
including People For
the American Way,
Daily Kos and
Granite State
Progress on Thursday
plan to submit more
than 100,000
petitions to New
Hampshire’s attorney
general asking him
to investigate
O’Keefe for the
video.
Ed Note:
Typical left - don't
worry about the
corruption O'Keefe
exposed - just
prosecute the
investigator for
getting to the
truth. We must
find a way to stop
these people they
are insane.
South Carolina
Republican Sen.Jim
DeMintis
just saying “no” to
compromise with
liberals.
“I can guarantee you
the [Super Bowl]
coaches are not
telling their
players to go out on
the field and
cooperate and
compromise with the
other team,” DeMint
said at The Heritage
Foundation’s
Blogger’s Briefing
Tuesday, during a
discussion about his
new book “Now
or Never.”
“There is a reason
for that, the other
team has an opposite
goal, they are there
to beat you,” he
said.
According to the
Senate’s most
conservative member
— as measured by the
National Journal —
an atmosphere of
competition over
compromise is as
poignant in the
nation’s capitol as
it has ever been.
Compromise, to
DeMint, is simply
unrealistic.
In the South
Carolina senator’s
Super Bowl analogy
of Washington, the
two teams are
divided along
ideological, yet
incompatible lines.
“One team believes
in centralized
economic and
political power,
collective planning,
concentration here
in Washington,”
DeMint explained.
“The other team —
while it has been
maybe erratic in
supporting those
principles we
believe in —
believes in the
decentralized
individualistic
approach to America.
It is very difficult
to compromise with
another team that
does not have the
same goal of limited
government,
individual liberty.”
Iowa Republican Sen.
Chuck Grassley
accused President
Obama of dictatorial
behavior in a floor
statement Thursday,
saying that his
recess appointments
were not the first
acts he has taken to
circumvent the
constitutional
system of checks and
balances.
“President Obama’s
decision to bypass
the constitutional
advice and consent
of the Senate is not
an isolated
incident,” Grassley
said, according toprepared
remarks.
“It is merely the
latest escalation in
a pattern of
contempt for the
elected
representatives of
the American people
and the
constitutional
separation of
powers.”
Obama appointed
Richard Cordray as
the director of the
Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau
while the Senate was
in recess, after the
Senate indicated
that they would not
confirm his
nomination.
Grassley accused the
president of
“usurping
legislative powers”
by overriding and
working around
Congress when
possible. This,
Grassley argues, is
in violation of the
Constitution.
President Barrack
Obama is set to
announce a new
package of
regulations and
draft bills intended
to provide cheap or
free mortgage
refinances to
middle-class
homeowners across
the country.
If implemented, the
election-year gambit
would reduce
mortgage holders’
payments’ by a few
hundred dollars per
month, according to
an administration
statement.
The prospect of
monthlysavingsmay
translate into
additional votes for
Obama’s 2012
campaign.
Approximately 10
million people owe
more on their
mortgages than their
houses are worth.
However, those
savings would be
deducted from banks’
revenues, reducing
their funds
available for
commercial
investment needed to
spur the economy.
Banks’ executives
are being pressured
to cooperate with
the new push, partly
because Obama has
stepped up federal
investigations of
banks’mortgage-selling
divisions prior to
the crash.
The offer of cheap
mortgage refinances
is possible because
interest rates are
already at historic
lows, despite huge
government
borrowing.
A retired U.S.
lieutenant general
who made comments
some consider
disparaging to Islam
withdrew Monday from
speaking at a West
Point prayer
breakfast after a
progressive
veterans’ advocacy
group — VoteVets.org
— along with the
Council on
American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR)
asked the Army chief
of staff to rescind
the invitation.