Look to History. And you will find that almost every great empire and nation that fell aside from war, happened because of Moral decay. Those Nations peoples turned to Sodomy and Homosexuality. Corruptions, Lying, Greed and thievery. And now look at our Nation. Take a good hard look. We no longer have a Constitutional Government. We have an Executive branch that is clueless, And lies at every turn. A branch that trys to make its own laws when ever its conveneit. And ignores other laws when they are not of their choosing. A Congress or law making branch thats just a lip service for the executive branch. With no guts or back bone of its own. People who are so concerned with hanging on to their jobs that they are willing to sell their souls to keep them. And the corrupt power that goes with them. With no concern for the people,there rights, or freedoms. And now a Judicial Branch that no longer adheres to our Constitution or Gods laws. But just make up new ones so a small minority of perverted sinners can feel good about themselves. No we have no reasonable Goverment left. We anarchy. The Supreme Court in one swift Un-Holy and disasterous moment of 5 Ignorant Jusices have openned Pandora's box. The ramifications and unintended consequences of their collective stupidity will forever haunt and bring down this Nation. Now instead of just Gay marriage we will see an onslaught of Sodomy. Immediate family members wanting to marry. People wanting to marry animals, adults wanting to marry children, etc. And now because of this ruling the courts can't tell the others no. Because now we have no Moral standard to base anything on. And the Homosexual movement will now deliberately see out Churches and Pastors that they can get to refuse their marriages so they can claim fowl. And either get their tax exempt status's taken away or declare discrimination and hate speech. The only way such a perversion of Homosexuality and Sodomy can feel good about its sinful life, Is to totally silence the Church, Religion, and the Pulpit. So that they can call the lifestyles normal and natural. So in coming up with their Court decision those Justices have not only circumvented God and the Bible, But also our own Constitution. Which declares Freedom of Speech and Religion. Here just like with abortion. Abortion the premeditated murder of human life. Just because the vast number of men and women, mostly young feel no accountability or responsibility for their own sinful actions that led to an unwanted pregancy. So lets call it a health issue for women and to make these sinners feel ok about their collective abortions we will make it legal to murder babies. These is the same crazy, totally ludicrious thinking the Supreme Court is once again using here with Gay Marriage. We don't want anyone to feel bad about themselves or their sins or be offended. So lets give them what they want. We can offend God, And every living Christian or God fearing person. Or anyone else who believes in a right and true life. But how dare we offend these sinful, sick, selfish, minorities who want to corrupt us all. The Constitution explicitly says any power that isn't definely granted to the Federal Govt. goes to the States and the People. What part of this does the Scotus not understand. Or that God's laws are above all other laws and man. It figures we have a President who thinks hes a Messiah, Why not some Justices to. At this point anything the Scotus does won't matter. That have in whole taken away any direction, authority, or respect that they once had. Its the peoples time in this moment in History. And only the people themselves and their collective wills, faith,unity, and power can reverse all this tragedy. Its now or never people. To stand up and let your vioces be heard. And to be accountable to God, Family, and Country.
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US Officials Warn of ISIS Attacks on July 4What a way to live. Everyone is waiting for the shoe to drop, or should I say the bomb to drop, all the while attacking any and all of us who oppose jihad. Vicious cowards.
Tunisia jihadi was local break-dancing celebrity, fan of Real Madrid: “He went to mosque and prayed, but just like the other young men”“Yes, he went to mosque and prayed, but just like the other young men, he would then go to a cafe and play football with his friends.” The Tunisian jihadi who opened fire on tourists at a Tunisian beach resort on Friday, killing at least 39 people, most of them tourists, was reportedly a local “break-dancing star” and a fan of Real Madrid. Real Madrid is a football club. Real Madrid coaches Palestinian children in West Bank The Israeli ambassador to Spain was called “Jew dog” at a Real Madrid game. Israel’s ambassador to Spain says he was assaulted by slurs like “Jewish dog” and “dirty Jew” as they left a Madrid soccer match. Palestinian supporters claim that Portuguese... Saturday Night Cinema: Cornered (1945)Tonight’s Saturday Cinema feature is the 1945 little gem, Cornered, starring Dick Powell, Walter Slezak, Nina Vale, Micheline Cheirel, Morris Carnovsky, and Luther Adler. “A dark, morally ambiguous mission has Dick Powell ‘Cornered’ against evil.”
Jihad Porn: Devout French Muslim took SELFIE with beheaded victim *WARNING*This is what they do. They post their unimaginable savagery online to recruit other Muslims. The devout Muslim who opened fire on children in a Jewish day school in Toulouse, France posted the slaughter of little girls and boys moments after his murderous rampage. It’s what they do. Yassin Salhi sent the selfie using the WhatsApp instant messaging application to a North American phone number, said one of these sources. French delivery business owner Herve Cornara, seen here, was decapitated by jihadi Yassin Salhi, who left his severed head hanging from the fence of a U.S.-owned company near Lyon, police said. The severed head of his boss was found later on a chain-link fence, along with Muslim writings. Watch VIDEO: Horrific moment the Islamic State kills four gay men by throwing them from a roofIf the gay establishment agitated against the jihad the way they went after gay marriage, these men might be alive today, along with the other tens of thousands of gays persecuted and slaughtered under Islamic law. Here’s how the Islamic State celebrates the passage of gay marriage. Why isn’t the enemedia blaming SCOTUS the way they blame AFDI, Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Bosch Fawstin for jihad terror? Tunisian jihadi
Obama-backed Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt rejects Sisi’s call for coexistenceObama’s terror group in Egypt refused Sisi’s call for coexistence — how very Obama. Obama supports these bloody terrorists — even still.
Watch VIDEO: Amateur, terrifying, up-close footage of Tunisia beach shooting (WARNING — DISTURBING FOOTAGE)SEE IT: Terrifying, up-close footage of Tunisia beach shooting emerges online, as ISIS claims responsibility and killer is identified (WARNING — DISTURBING FOOTAGE)NY Daily News, June 27, 2015:
UK beefs up security after report of Islamic State bomb plotIn the wake of yesterday’s slaughter of British tourists in Tunisia, UK Prime Minister David Cameron said, “Islam is a religion of peace.”
Tunisia to close 80 mosques for inciting violence, after hotel attack @CBLDF
While Tunisia, a Muslim country, is closing mosques for inciting to jihad, the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) has blacklisted Bosch Fawstin, who was and is literally under fire and under death threats because he submitted a cartoon to our exhibit. CBLDF founder Michael Berger cowed and cravenly crowed that Pamela Geller has “openly advocated that every mosque in the US should be subjected to regular government inspections.” What we... Australian Prime Minister: Islamic State group is ‘coming after us’At least one world leader will state the obvious. One. “This is the grim reality the world faces now.”
And a head. Here’s the thing: for years my colleagues and I have been warning the West. We work tirelessly to rouse the slumbering masses. We were smeared, booed, hissed, defamed for trying to ward off this war. And still, even today, the campaign of personal attacks and destruction continues, because we oppose Islamic supremacism and jihad. It never should have come to this.
Tens of thousands of Iranian women have undergone FGM; “needs to be done otherwise a girl would have so much sexual desire it would be scandalous”Female genital mutilation (FGM) or clitoridectomy is an Islamic tradition, rampant in the Muslim world. Over 96% of the women in Egypt have been clitoridectomized. Back in 2008, devout members of the Egyptian parliament have made female genital mutilation (circumcision) legal again in Egypt. This has become a pressing issue here in America. The American Academy of Pediatricsproposed a resolution to begin to practice this barbaric mutilation in a multicultural, dhimmi effort — a “nick,” as it were. Whatever their twisted multi-culti, dhimmi intention, this would have given clitoridectomy the seal of approval by the American Academy of Pediatrics. There was uniform protest by counter-jihadists and other human rights groups to... Majority of 38 Tunisia Jihad Attack Victims are Britons: UK PM Cameron, “Islam is a religion of peace.”Islamic State claimed responsibility for the Tunisian attack.
The UK Prime Minister Cameron said, today’s jihad attacks are “not in the name of Islam. Islam is a religion of peace.” And today all the President of the United States could talk about was …. gay marriage. At this rate there is no way the West won’t be defeated.
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Churches could lose tax exemption over gay marriage
Lost in the celebrations over universal gay marriage, like abortion, being deemed a right found in the “penumbras and emanations” of the Constitution is the chilling effect the ruling has on religious liberty. In a telling exchange between the Obama administration’s Solicitor General Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. and Justice Samuel Alito, detailed by Tom Blumer at Newsbusters.com, in which Verrilli admitted that churches could lose their tax exemptions if they refuse to perform gay weddings:
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/06/churches_could_lose_tax_exemption_over_gay_marriage.html#ixzz3eMa1NAvb
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Americans are troubled with SCOTUS’s Decision on ‘same-sex’ marriage? Who is/are responsible?
Everyone must look at their family, their neighbors, their friends, their brothers and sisters in their Houses of Worship, and look into the mirror. Review yourself as to how you/they vote, it you/they vote, and to whom do you/they support and on what issues. What are you doing in helping?
President Obama has presented 2 SCOTUS nominees to the Senate and perhaps, upwards toward 50 or more for ‘confirmation’ or ‘rejection’ into the Federal Judiciary.
Current History reveals Democrats consistently support ‘left-wing’ and ‘anti-Christian’ value based nominees.
Among 2 Obama SCOTUS nominees, whom both were known as having histories of ‘left-wing’ and ‘anti-Christian’ opinions and values, several Republicans In Name Only (RINO) Republicans voted ‘AYE’ to ‘confirm’ these and other ‘left-wing’ and ‘anti-Christian’ value based Obama nominees.
On 8/06/2009, and on ‘confirmation’ votes of SCOTUS nominee, Sonia Sotomayor, 9 Senate Republicans voted ‘AYE’ to ‘confirm’ this nominee: Alexander (R-TN), Bond (R-MO), Collins (R-ME), Graham (R-SC), Gregg (R-NH), Lugar (R-IN), Martinez (R-FL), Snowe (R-ME), and Voinovich (R-OH). http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=1&vote=00262
On 8/05/2010, and on ‘confirmation’ votes of SCOTUS nominee, Elena Kagan, 5 Senate Republicans voted ‘AYE’ to ‘confirm’ this nominee: Collins (R-ME), Graham (R-SC), Gregg (R-NH), Lugar (R-IN), and Snowe (R-ME). http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00229
You may find many RINO Republican with high record votes representations contrary to (y)our GOP Platform. The GOP Platform is ‘right’ on fiscal, social, and national security issues. Many Republicans do not support (y)our Platform; but do receive Republican Party monies ‘solicited’ and ‘disbursed’ regardless of their support on Platform issues. https://cdn.gop.com/docs/2012GOPPlatform.pdf
Capitol Hill Republican leaders have gone astray from our GOP Platform issues. Conservative Republicans Christians must support Christian values. Otherwise, get out!
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Pentagon Ships Military Off to Battle 'Climate Change' 
In January 2012, Barack nObama said, "As we look beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ... we'll be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces." In other words, even though America's military is being downsized, our military prowess will remain untarnished. "[Y]es, our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats," he explained. Who knew that meant documenting the effects of climate change — even as terrorism-fueled crises in the Middle East rage on? According to The Washington Times, "Though stretched thin by the aftermath of two wars and the current fight against the Islamic State, the nObama administration has enlisted the Pentagon to measure the shrinking ice in the Arctic in the latest example of the president's climate agenda being extended to the military. A recent Government Accountability Office report examined the Defense Department's role in the Arctic, which increasingly will include 'monitoring the changing Arctic conditions,' such as ice levels." America's retreat — not climate change, as this administration posits — facilitated the Islamic State's rise. And pulling even more resources away from the real fight to wage war on a straw man isn't going to make them go away. -The Patriot Post
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Charleston and the Confederate Flag Battle With every murderous rampage committed by a sociopath, the Left exploits the tragedy to push its agenda of taking Liberty from all of us. In recent years, that's generally meant two things: gun control or racial grievance. The horrific murders of nine black Christians in Charleston by a white supremacist provided an opportunity to bring the two issues together.
Barack nObama, as usual, weighed in on both. He called for more gun control, and then he denounced the Confederate flag flying on the grounds of the South Carolina capitol as a racist symbol. It's the latter that's become a rallying point for leftists as well as Republicans eager to shed the racist label.
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, said Monday, "It's time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds." Sen. Lindsey Graham, a GOP presidential candidate, and Tim Scott, the first black Republican senator elected in the South since Reconstruction, likewise called for its removal. That provides political cover for state Republicans to vote to take it down.
Of course, given the prominence of South Carolina in the presidential primary season, the Left media gleefully makes the Confederate flag an issue for Republicans every presidential cycle. -The Patriot Post
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HILLY FINDS ROOM FOR RACE AMID CASH RUN
Hastening to capitalize on the turbulent winds following the Charleston shootings, Hilly Clinton holds a discussion of the massacre and race relations in Missouri today. The open to press event was added to Clinton’s fundraising tour Monday and is sandwiched between a pair of private high-dollar Midwest donor stops and Wednesday’s star-studded concert for the Democratic front runner in New York. It comes a day after President nObama, who has not lived up to expectations on improving race relations, created a stir by using a racial epithet in an interview to express his frustration on the issue. Clinton’s campaign has been pushing race to forefront since the shootings and is holding today’s discussion in a church not far from Ferguson, where racial tensions boiled over last year. With the press allowed in, Clinton is again selectively surfacing on issues with direct appeal to her base, even as she avoids those where the direction of the political wind is less certain. -Fox News
Hastening to capitalize on the turbulent winds following the Charleston shootings, Hilly Clinton holds a discussion of the massacre and race relations in Missouri today. The open to press event was added to Clinton’s fundraising tour Monday and is sandwiched between a pair of private high-dollar Midwest donor stops and Wednesday’s star-studded concert for the Democratic front runner in New York. It comes a day after President nObama, who has not lived up to expectations on improving race relations, created a stir by using a racial epithet in an interview to express his frustration on the issue. Clinton’s campaign has been pushing race to forefront since the shootings and is holding today’s discussion in a church not far from Ferguson, where racial tensions boiled over last year. With the press allowed in, Clinton is again selectively surfacing on issues with direct appeal to her base, even as she avoids those where the direction of the political wind is less certain. -Fox News
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Flag controversy fades - While Clinton and her rivals pounced following the Charleston tragedy, a Republican 2016 field that has been taking intense flack for favoring a South Carolinian solution to the Confederate flag controversy, got one.AP: “Republicans with presidential aspirations rushed Monday to embrace South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol, eager to move past a vexing issue that challenges the GOP’s effort to win over the diverse coalition of voters it likely needs to win back the White House.”
[How Jeb dealt with Florida’s flag flap - WSJ: “When former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush quietly took down the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol in 2001, he was called ‘spineless’ and ‘racist to Southern people,’ and was accused of ‘pandering’ to African-Americans. He was also repeatedly warned he would be defeated in the next election…As Mr. Bush did throughout his two terms, from 1999 to 2007, he personally responded to several emails he received on the issue from constituents who condemned and hailed his decision…To those who attacked him for his decision, Mr. Bush responded tersely but politely, at times with deadpan humor, emails released earlier this year show.”]
Graham opts to heal his home state - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released a statement shifting from an earlier ambiguous position to a clear stance. Graham said, “I hope that, by removing the flag, we can take another step towards healing and recognition – and a sign that South Carolina is moving forward”
[WashEx’s David Drucker observes it was evident the political sand trap for Republicans over South Carolina’s flag controversy was causing high anxiety in the national party. “There was Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday, standing behind Gov. Nikki Haley in Columbia as she announced that the Confederate battle flag should come down…” ]
[How Jeb dealt with Florida’s flag flap - WSJ: “When former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush quietly took down the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol in 2001, he was called ‘spineless’ and ‘racist to Southern people,’ and was accused of ‘pandering’ to African-Americans. He was also repeatedly warned he would be defeated in the next election…As Mr. Bush did throughout his two terms, from 1999 to 2007, he personally responded to several emails he received on the issue from constituents who condemned and hailed his decision…To those who attacked him for his decision, Mr. Bush responded tersely but politely, at times with deadpan humor, emails released earlier this year show.”]
Graham opts to heal his home state - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released a statement shifting from an earlier ambiguous position to a clear stance. Graham said, “I hope that, by removing the flag, we can take another step towards healing and recognition – and a sign that South Carolina is moving forward”
[WashEx’s David Drucker observes it was evident the political sand trap for Republicans over South Carolina’s flag controversy was causing high anxiety in the national party. “There was Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday, standing behind Gov. Nikki Haley in Columbia as she announced that the Confederate battle flag should come down…” ]
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nObama’s Race War – Shabazz : Kill SC “Crackas And Their Families”
(rickwells.us) ~ On June 23rd nObama’s messenger in his campaign to promote anti-white hatred and racial anarchy among black American’s, the evil Malik Shabazz of the “New Black Panther Party,” called for the killing of white people and their families in a public Charleston, SC, rant... He opened with the typical chants to get the “crowd” fired up and get the juices of hate flowing faster and pumping harder, “Black Power, Black Power, by any means, by every means.” In Marxism the end is professed to justify the means. We know who and what nObama is, we know who these operatives are as well. nObama is entering the active assault stage of his plan to create order out of chaos, to become the American dictator. He’s got a year and a half left before his scheduled departure. He’s got that long to make sure he doesn’t have to relinquish power to anybody.
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Senate Snake Pit – These 48 GOP Traitors Voted For nObama
(rickwells.us) ~ The following list contains the names of the unworthy holders of the office of United States Senator who voted Tuesday to surrender the self-governing authority of the American people as well as much of their Congressional power... They voted to trust that the criminal Hussein nObama would be a benevolent dictator. These wholly purchased puppets, with their access, must have known at least as much as we lay people do, that they were voting to end American sovereignty. They cannot deny their actions based upon well-intentioned ignorance. They knew, Senator Sessions argued repeatedly on the floor of the Senate exposing their actions. They took deliberate action against our nation.
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nObama extending amnesty to illegals in prisons, jails
(Stephen Dinan) ~ The nObama administration has ordered agents to begin ignoring many of the illegal immigrants they encounter in local prisons and jails, as the president begins to implement a lesser-known part of his deportation amnesty program — a move that’s not sitting well with either side in the immigration debate... The move is a nod to sanctuary cities, who had begun to refuse to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. After having court challenges, Mr. nObama bowed to those cities, counties and states and announced the changes as part of his November 2014 amnesty policy. Agents will still troll local prisons and jails looking for immigrants, but they will no longer try to deport those with drug possession offenses, theft or fraud if it involved stealing an identity in order to further their unlawful presence in the country, the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/23/obama-amnesty-reaches-illegals-prisons-jails/
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Rush Is Right
(Erick Erickson) ~ This morning at 6:15 am ET, I will be on Fox & Friends. The kicking off point for the conversation is Rush Limbaugh’s comment that the Confederate flag is just the starting point for a leftwing assault on American culture at large... The left is led by a President who himself has said our nation is not really special. After all, every other nation thinks it is special too. In Colorado, black protestors have burned the American flag. Ironically, it was the American flag that Dylann Roof burned too. In California, public schools banned students wearing the American flag on clothing to avoid offending immigrants. The University of California at Irvine’s student government considered banning displays of the American flag on campus. But it is not about the flag. That was Rush’s point. He and we all see where this is headed. It’s like the gay marriage left. Ten years ago they were saying what they wanted was not marriage, but civil unions. Then they not only forced homosexual marriage down our throats, but are now driving from business any who dissent. On the cusp of an undemocratic victory, they are now starting to walk back all their talk about polygamy not being their next goal. http://www.redstate.com/2015/06/25/rush-is-right/
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Iran Demands More Nuke Concessions
(Adam Kredo) ~ Iran is insisting the United States and world powers deliver more concessions at the negotiating table, including consenting to demands that any final nuclear agreement last less than 10 years... The call for greater concessions was made in a speech Tuesday by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who accused the United States of “seeking to destroy Iran’s nuclear industry” and of being “on the opposite side of everyone in Iran.” Iran’s bid to pressure Western powers came amid reports that the United States promised in secret documents to deliver to Tehran “high-tech reactors and other state-of-the-art equipment” that would modernize and improve its nuclear program. This portion of the agreement appears to reverse decades of U.S. policy towards Iran.
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Democrat, GOP Trickery To Flood America With Foreigners
(rickwells.us) ~ Dick Morris joins J.D. Hayworth with some perspective on the deception that is going on regarding the TPP, TPA fast track and TiSA, the next bitter, anti-American pill that is being prepared for forced ingestion by the American people and the hands of their traitorous government... Hayworth points to a memo from the outlaw that runs Homeland Security, Secretary Jeh Johnson in which he claims to be enforcing immigration law by ignoring it and by releasing invaders to roam freely around the country. The technicality upon which Johnson and nObama are basing their lawbreaking this time around is a distortion of the definition of a refugee. The throwing open of those flood gates, in conjunction with the new open immigration made possible under fast track will truly change the composition of America and destroy our standard of living.
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nObama’s Mobster Brotherhood Includes Republicans Under...
(rickwells.us) ~ As most patriotic Americans have long ago concluded, our supposed two-party system is a failure and a fraud. It is wholly owned by anti-American forces that have used it as the mechanism by which to hijack our government... In addition to determining the candidates of both major parties through campaign contributions, they obstruct challengers through contorted ballot requirements and are on the verge of successfully destroying our nation. We the people have no representation. What exists is a single two-headed snake which is controlled by the moneyed global elites. It has a Marxist head that is the Democrat party, currently under the public personification of an emerging dictator in Hussein Obama and it has a Fascist head which has exposed its Republican form in the legislative branch under Boehner and McConnell. The fascists head was the one utilized to force the transformation to a new, unelected and unconstitutional subservience to a Pacific Union over the last couple of weeks by the Congressional puppets. http://rickwells.us/the-untouchables-obamas-mobster-brotherhood-includes-republicans-under-boehner-and-mcconnell/
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Protecting the right to hate preserves freedom
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) ~ The tragedy of a mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, last week, obviously motivated by racial hatred, has raised anew the issue of the lawfulness of the State expressing an opinion by flying a Confederate flag at the Statehouse... and the constitutionality of the use of the First Amendment to protect hate speech and hate groups. The State has no business expressing opinions on anything, and it is required to protect hate. Here is the law. Let’s start with the proposition that hatred of persons is a profound disorder, and it is no doubt motivated by far deeper errors of thought and judgment than admiration for a flag. I recognize that to some in our society, the Confederate flag represents resistance to federal authority enforced by military aggression; while to others, it represents racial oppression under color of law bringing about the worst violations of the natural rights of born persons in American history – namely slavery. To me, it represents both. Yet, the government has no business flying it. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/protecting-the-right-to-hate-preserves-freedom/
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Why there can be no coexistence with the left
(Erik Rush) ~ Assuming they can take a break from bitterly clinging to their guns and religion for a few minutes, I’m going to set a bona fide goal for those liberty-loving Americans out there with a passion for our founding principles and the Constitution... What may surprise some in that camp is that it’s the very same goal toward which those on the political left strive. At first blush, some of these patriots – perhaps many – will find this goal rhetorically indelicate, if not undemocratic, or even (dare I say it?) – “extreme.” The goal is simple, and it is as follows: We must utterly vanquish the political opponents we currently face. One can see why I said it’s identical to the ultimate goal of the left, and why they never articulate it openly. While they espouse love of country, liberty, the democratic process and say they believe we have as much of a right to our ideals and beliefs as they do theirs, these are patent deceptions. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/why-there-can-be-no-coexistence-with-the-left/
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Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea
(Walter Laqueur) ~ Vladimir Putin’s steely nationalist rule has raised fears in the West of a return to Soviet-style dictatorship in Russia. But what many outsiders fail to understand is that the country is still in a period of ideological transition, with a new national idea gradually emerging from the Marxism-Leninism of old... Among the more noteworthy aspects of this new “Russian idea” is the explanation it provides for the upheavals of the 20th century and the country’s perceived current decline. Unfortunately, as is often the case with such overarching narratives, Jews play a disproportionately significant role. Home to a prominent anti-Semitic tradition under the tsars, and again under the Communist regime that replaced them, Russia has long been seized by the “Jewish question.” During the Soviet Union’s first two decades, many among its key leaders were themselves Jewish—and Marx himself, of course, was of Jewish origin—but within the party apparatus, though less strong at the top than in the middle and lower echelons, there was a great deal of animosity toward Jews. http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/06/anti-semitism-and-the-new-russian-idea/
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(washingtonpost.com) ~ Now come Greeks bearing the gift of confirmation that Margaret Thatcher was right about socialist governments: “They always run out of other people’s money.” Greece, from whose ancient playwrights Western drama descends, is in an absurdist melodrama about securing yet another cash infusion from international creditors. This would add another boulder to a mountain of debt almost twice the size of Greece’s gross domestic product. This protracted dispute will result in desirable carnage if Greece defaults, thereby becoming a constructively frightening example to all democracies doling out unsustainable, growth-suppressing entitlements..
In January, Greek voters gave power to the left-wing Syriza party, one third of which, the Economist reports, consists of “Maoists, Marxists and supporters of Che Guevara.” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, 40, a retired student radical, immediately denounced a European Union declaration criticizing Russia’s dismemberment of Ukraine. He chose only one cabinet member with prior government experience — a former leader of Greece’s Stalinist Communist Party. Tsipras’s minister for culture and education says Greek education“should not be governed by the principle of excellence . . . it is a warped ambition.” Practicing what he preaches, he proposes abolishing university entrance exams.
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Voters chose Syriza because it promised to reverse reforms, particularly of pensions and labor laws, demanded by creditors, and to resist new demands for rationality. Tsipras immediately vowed to rehire 12,000 government employees. His shrillness increasing as his options contract, he says the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are trying to “humiliate” Greece.
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How could one humiliate a nation that chooses governments committed to Rumpelstiltskin economics, the belief that the straw of government largesse can be spun into the gold of national wealth? Tsipras’s approach to mollifying those who hold his nation’s fate in their hands is to say they must respect his “mandate” to resist them. He thinks Greek voters, by making delusional promises to themselves, obligate other European taxpayers to fund them. Tsipras, who says the creditors are “pillaging” Greece, is trying to pillage his local governments, which are resisting his extralegal demands that they send him their cash reserves.
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Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s finance minister, is an academic admirer of Nobel laureate John Nash, the Princeton genius depicted in the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” who recently died. Varoufakis is interested in Nash’s work on game theory, especially the theory of cooperative games in which two or more participants aim for a resolution better for all than would result absent cooperation. Varoufakis’s idea of cooperation is to accuse the creditors whose money Greece has been living on of “fiscal waterboarding.” Tsipras tells Greece’s creditors to read “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the Spanish Civil War. His passive-aggressive message? “Play nicely or we will kill ourselves.”
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Since joining the euro zone in 2001, Greece has borrowed a sum 1.7 times its 2013 GDP. Its 25 percent unemployment (50 percent among young workers) results from a 25 percent shrinkage of GDP. It is a mendicant reduced to hoping to “extend and pretend” forever. But extending the bailout and pretending that creditors will someday be paid encourages other European socialists to contemplate shedding debts — other people’s money that is no longer fun.
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Greece, with just 11 million people and 2 percent of the euro zone’s GDP, is unlikely to cause a contagion by leaving the zone. If it also leaves the misbegotten European Union, this evidence of the E.U.’s mutability might encourage Britain’s “euro-skeptics” when, later this year, that nation has a referendum on reclaiming national sovereignty by withdrawing from the E.U. If Greece so cherishes its sovereignty that it bristles at conditions imposed by creditors, why is it in the E.U., the perverse point of which is to “pool” nations’ sovereignties in order to dilute national consciousness?
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The E.U. has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament whose powers subtract from those of national legislatures, a bureaucracy no one admires or controls and rules of fiscal rectitude that no member is penalized for ignoring. It does, however, have in Greece a member whose difficulties are wonderfully didactic.
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It cannot be said too often: There cannot be too many socialist smashups. The best of these punish reckless creditors whose lending enables socialists to live, for a while, off of other people’s money. The world, which owes much to ancient Athens’ legacy, including the idea of democracy, is indebted to today’s Athens for the reminder that reality does not respect a democracy’s delusions.
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Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West - 12 new articles
Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs: Islam, Jihad, Israel and the Islamic War on the West - 12 new articles
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Australia: Muslim teen in touch with Islamic State allegedly compiled hit list of people he wanted to behead
“When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks” — Qur’an 47:4 One might almost get the impression that all this had something to do with Islam, were it not for all our wise and learned leaders assuring us to the contrary, and feeding us a steady diet of Kardashians so that we stay fat, happy, […]
France, Kuwait, Tunisia attacks followed IS call to make Ramadan “calamity” for “infidels, Shi’ites & apostate Muslims”
“If the attacks were indeed an answer to ISIS spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani’s recent call for savagery,” the unnamed Fox News writer assures us, “it would represent a hideous perversion of Islam’s most holy period, which began June 17 and ends July 17.” Why is Fox editorializing in this manner in the middle of what […]
Strategies of Denial Revisited (Part II)
One of the ways, paradoxically, to deny or minimize the threat of Islam is to focus only on the Qur’an, and then on selective quotation from the handful of verses that appear to reassure, not threaten. There is 2.256 (“no compulsion in religion”) and 5.32 (an injunction against murder) without the considerable modifying of that […]
UK’s Cameron: Today’s jihad attacks are “not in the name of Islam. Islam is a religion of peace.”
This denial of what the jihad terrorists themselves explain is their guiding ideology, as if they don’t mean what they say or don’t understand their own religion, is hamstringing the West’s response to the jihad terror threat. With this willful ignorance, Cameron is leading his country to ruin. “Cameron: ‘This is not Islam; it’s a […]
Muslim MP: “British Muslims have nothing to apologise for when it comes to Islamic terrorism”
“Bolton MP Yasmin Querishi [sic] — who is a Pakistani-born Muslim — drew a comparison with the Charleston shooting last week, saying that, as white people didn’t have to apologise for the deaths, so Muslims shouldn’t have to apologise for Islamic terrorism.” This is so out of place as to be outrageous. Apologies are only a first step, […]
Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Michigan Professor Juan Cole Thinks the Charleston Race Murders Are My Fault
In PJ Media I take apart the latest farrago from a leader of the academic left. …University of Michigan professor Juan Cole, showing an imaginative reach that would arouse envy in J. K. Rowling, blames Roof’s murders on … Pamela Geller and me. He reveals how uninterested in truth and rational analysis the academic Left […]
Tunisia plans to close 80 mosques for inciting violence after hotel jihad attack
Tunisia’s government can recognize that preaching in mosques can incite violence. The government of the United States cannot. To do so would be “Islamophobic.” “Tunisia government says to close 80 mosques for inciting violence, after hotel attack,” Reuters, June 26, 2015: TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia plans within a week to close down 80 mosques that […]
U.S. troops face eating, drinking restrictions during Ramadan
Do U.S. troops fast during Yom Kippur? Lent? No? Why not? “U.S. Troops Face Eating, Drinking Restrictions During Ramadan,” by Jeryl Bier, Weekly Standard, June 26, 2015 (thanks to Pamela Geller): A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them […]
Kuwait mosque bomber screamed “Allahu akbar” before detonating his explosives
“Dealing with what’s happening requires going back to the root causes, which means tackling the ideology,” said Ghanem Nuseibeh. That is true, but in the U.S., John Kerry, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and everyone else in positions of political power and influence assure us that the ideology that inspires attacks such as these is absolutely […]
Vatican validates jihad terror, signs treaty recognizing State of Palestine
There is no “State of Palestine” at this time. This is part of the ongoing pressure upon Israel to create one. Creating one will be a great victory for the global jihad force, as a “State of Palestine” will inevitably be a new jihad base for renewed attacks against what remains of Israel. Events will […]
First they gave us the Patriot Act, but it turned out to be anti-Patriotic. Then they gave us the Freedom Act, which turned out to be anti-Freedom. Let's not forget about the Affordable Health Act, which turned out to be anti-affordable. It's all about the Orwellian 1984 - tell the proles we've never been at war with East Asia, but then tell them we've always been at war with East Asia. At least in that instance they actually told the proles that. In our time, they don't even bother to tell us anything; they just move forward without even acknowledging we exist. If we're dying of thirst, they won't even piss on us.
The latest fiasco is the Trans Pacific Partnership, a corporate combination of the North American Union (us, yes, we are a union now with Mexico and Canada, not a sovereign nation), the European Union, and the Asian Pacific Union. They claim it's about Trade, but the secret intent of it all is absolute control of the globe. Just picture the movie Springtime for Hitler, where he's dancing around his office with a beach ball painted as a globe, and he's merrily tossing it in the air, and perching it under his arm, as he waltzes around his desk, laughing and full of himself. He's the symbol for the current Corporate Combine that essentially is doing the same thing.
We as a Nation are not done yet. They may have passed this so-called Treaty, but they will have to implement it in the near future. That's where you come in. You must resist. You must point out to others the Fraud that will take place as the implementation of this commences. Stop obsessing on the Confederate Battle Flag, Peacock Jenner, Trans-sexual nonsense, Gay marriage, Genderless bathrooms, and all the pop culture trash that they lay before us as a distraction. They want us diverted from what's really going on - the destruction of the USA so they can roll in the NWO.
Get focused on the important stuff - bought and paid-for politicians, puppet presidents, economic warfare, medical tyranny, high tech gadgetry designed to rob us of our humanity, political correctness implemented to divide and conquer us, things of this nature; not baseball scores, movie titles, television buffoonery, video game drudgery, women's issues that are, by and large, bogus. Where are the women regarding the horrible abuse of other women in the Middle East? Nowhere; hiding under the table and putting us, the relatively harmless Western jerks, in the cross-hairs to make themselves feel good and powerful, while the real atrocities go unchecked.
When all is said and done, You Are The Resistance. Don't let this mockery of the USA be enforced. Support the Laws of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; not the laws of their god, the Evil One.
We all need to contact our local state representatives and flood our Governors offices. And the state attorney generals office. And tell them that we don't want our state recognizing the Supreme Courts ruling on gay marriages. This issue of marriage is completely a peoples right of choice and a States Right. Given by the Constitution. The Supreme Court does not have the right to force states to adopt their ruling. The Supreme Court overstepped their Judical Authority on this matter. Just like Obama oversteps his authority at every turn. We need to move fast and strong on this issue. No allowing same sex marriages. Get the word out people or we all live with this perverted, sinful, lifestyle.
By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net
The sun did indeed rise in the east this morning regardless of the ruling by the Supreme Court that same sex marriage is now legal in all 50 states and I drove around town yesterday…AFTER the ruling…and failed to notice even one pillar of salt.
In a 5-4 ruling, the Supremes decided that the same LEGAL standing…the same LEGAL protections and the same LEGAL benefits are to be extended to same sex married couples as are extended to opposite sex married couples.
It’s not the end of the world though you might have a different impression if you browse social media posts which include everything from the sky is falling to this is the end of our nation and the end of times.
Equal protection under the law has always been a hallmark of our Constitution and of our country although there are obviously some out there who believe those equal protections should extend only to those exactly like them.
Among those who are most distressed over the ruling are those who claim that this is an assault on religious freedom.
They are wrong in that interpretation as the ruling says nothing regarding nor does it interfere in any with religious precepts, religious doctrines or religious interpretations regarding marriage.
I’ll get back to that point shortly but before I do…
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EMAILS: HILLY WANTED MORE INTEL FROM SID
Wash Ex: “Roughly sixty new emails published by the committee Monday suggest Clinton relied heavily on what lawmakers have called ‘unvetted intelligence’ from [Sidney Blumenthal] in the months before and after the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi. Many of the emails indicate she implored Blumenthal to funnel information about Libya to her, despite her recent claims that her ‘old friend’ Blumenthal simply sent her ‘unsolicited emails.’”
Clinton cash dash - Bloomberg: “Clinton is set to attend 26 fundraisers between Monday and July 3, including 11 in New York City, according to a review of her public schedule and newly obtained invitations. Many events come with a recommended contribution of the $2,700 legal maximum for her primary campaign or require attendees to raise at least $27,000. After the quarter ends, the Clinton campaign is required to file disclosures with the Federal Elections Commission. Allies have tried to downplay expectations, stressing that because Clinton is only accepting primary cash, the total may not be as impressive as the first quarter of President Barack nObama’s 2012 re-election campaign.”
Hilly hires potential veep’s staffer - BuzzFeed: “The latest high-profile Latina hire by Clinton is Betsaida Alcantara, who is leaving the communications department at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to join the Clinton campaign as director of media planning….[HUD Secretary Julian Castro] has often been floated as a possible vice presidential nominee to join Clinton should she win the Democratic nomination…” -Fox News
Wash Ex: “Roughly sixty new emails published by the committee Monday suggest Clinton relied heavily on what lawmakers have called ‘unvetted intelligence’ from [Sidney Blumenthal] in the months before and after the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi. Many of the emails indicate she implored Blumenthal to funnel information about Libya to her, despite her recent claims that her ‘old friend’ Blumenthal simply sent her ‘unsolicited emails.’”
Clinton cash dash - Bloomberg: “Clinton is set to attend 26 fundraisers between Monday and July 3, including 11 in New York City, according to a review of her public schedule and newly obtained invitations. Many events come with a recommended contribution of the $2,700 legal maximum for her primary campaign or require attendees to raise at least $27,000. After the quarter ends, the Clinton campaign is required to file disclosures with the Federal Elections Commission. Allies have tried to downplay expectations, stressing that because Clinton is only accepting primary cash, the total may not be as impressive as the first quarter of President Barack nObama’s 2012 re-election campaign.”
Hilly hires potential veep’s staffer - BuzzFeed: “The latest high-profile Latina hire by Clinton is Betsaida Alcantara, who is leaving the communications department at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to join the Clinton campaign as director of media planning….[HUD Secretary Julian Castro] has often been floated as a possible vice presidential nominee to join Clinton should she win the Democratic nomination…” -Fox News
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AND NOW A WORD FROM CHARLES
“Had the flag not existed or been on the ground of the capitol this massacre would have happened in any case. But it’s the standard liberal impulse, something happened really bad. So there’s got to be a problem, there has to be a solution, we must do something, even if the something is entirely irrelevant.” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here. -Fox News
“Had the flag not existed or been on the ground of the capitol this massacre would have happened in any case. But it’s the standard liberal impulse, something happened really bad. So there’s got to be a problem, there has to be a solution, we must do something, even if the something is entirely irrelevant.” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here. -Fox News
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Database Hack at OPM Even Bigger Than Thought
The Office of Personnel Management has officially said only 4.2 million federal employees were affected by the database intrusion by China. But CNN is reporting that number is much, much higher, as the FBI Director told the Senate recently that an estimated 18 million Americans were affected. This number includes former and current government employees and even people who only applied for government work.
Let's be clear: The nObama administration's lack of leadership contributed to this intrusion and its lack of leadership will make the situation worse. In a June 17 press conference, nObama spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that nObama is standing behind OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, who just happened to be National Political Director for nObama's 2012 re-election campaign. "Director Archuleta, in one of her first priorities that she identified after taking that job, was to upgrade the OPM computer network, particularly their cyber defenses," Earnest said. "And this is obviously an ongoing process, and the president does have confidence that she is the right person for the job." Archuleta had a job, but she didn't do the job. Now some of the most sensitive employee data in the nation is in Chinese hands.
nObama could have prevented the hack — or at least lessened the effect of the attack — by being a strong leader, making tough decisions, following through with his promises and nominating qualified leaders. But his character is only emboldening enemies. -The Patriot Post
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Here Come the Gun Control Crusaders After Charleston
Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) are at it again. After the Sandy Hook massacre, Toomey — a gun-owning, NRA A-rated politician — jumped on Barack nObama's bandwagon and introduced legislation that would toughen the nation's background check legislation. The bill was defeated 54-46 in 2013, but Manchin and Toomey told The Washington Post Tuesday night that they would like to revive the bill in response to the massacre in Charleston. Nothing like standing on the caskets of victims to advance a few extra yards in the political game. Toomey, when he appeared on MSNBC Wednesday morning, admitted the bill is mostly a crapshoot. "Honestly, I don't want to build up any false expectations," he said, "I'm not aware that we have the votes to do what Sen. Manchin and I attempted. Is it possible that some portion of that, some subset of what we focused on is possible? Honestly, probably not likely." Still, it shows the tenacity of the forces driving gun control. Every time a front page blares that a crime was committed with a gun, there will be another call for gun restrictions. And the politicians will blow the dust off their tired gun control bills in hopes that maybe this atrocity will have the emotional clout to carry it through. -The Patriot Post
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AIM Responds to Supreme Court Decision on nObamacare
(Roger Aronoff) ~ The Supreme Court bent over backwards today in an attempt to save nObamacare from its own tortured language by reinterpreting the statute, making the plain phrase “Exchange established by the state” signify both the state and federal exchanges... The mainstream media, in turn, are triumphal, having helped sway the final decision. We have repeatedly written about The New York Times’ biased reporting regarding the King v. Burwell case and nObamacare in general. Today, the Times’ Editorial Board came out and said what Americans already knew, having read many of this paper’s farcical health care columns masquerading as reporting. The Times condemned the plaintiffs as having spearheaded a “blatantly political effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act,” called the case an “ideological farce dressed in a specious legal argument,” and claimed “the court should never have taken review of it to begin with.” “The somersaults of statutory interpretation they [the Justices of the Supreme Court] have performed …will be cited by litigants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence,” concludes Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/aim-responds-to-supreme-court-decision-on-obamacare/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email062615&utm_medium=email
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Rules of Engagement Amount to an Impeachable Dereliction of Duty
(Andrew McCarthy) ~ David and Jonah are obviously right that the immoral rules of engagement (ROE) the commander-in-chief has imposed on our troops have encouraged Islamic State jihadists to endanger civilians – not that terrorists need much encouragement in that regard... As David observes, this turns the laws of armed combat on their head. I’ve been venting about this for a number of years now. The driving purpose of international humanitarian law is the protection of civilians. What makes honorable combatants honorable, and what triggers the international-law protections they are owed if captured, is their adherence to venerable standards requiring that they, among other things, identify themselves as soldiers, carry their weapons openly, and confine their combat operations to legitimate military objectives. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/our-immoral-rules-of-engagement-amount-to-an-impeachable-dereliction-of-duty/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email062615&utm_medium=email
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backstabber Boehner $5 million, Ryan $2 Million, McCon-nell $9 Million – Any Doubt Why TPA Passed?
(rickwells.us) ~ The politicians like to keep the money trail brushed as clean of their footprints as possible, to make it less blatantly obvious that they are exchanging votes for “campaign” cash... Money talks in DC. In our current government it is the only language other than Orwellian double speak which is understood. backstabber John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Mike McCarthy and other House members did quite well for themselves financially in the pursuit of their corporate masters’ dreams of overthrowing the United States government. Anyone who wonders how millionaires or billionaires are made on a Congressional salary can get some good insight from this information, published by Maplight.org. ( http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/114-hr-1314/6832028/total-contributions.table?sort=asc&order=%24+From+Interest+Groups%3Cbr+%2F%3EThat+Supported&party[D]=D&party[R]=R&party[I]=I&vote[AYE]=AYE&vote[NOE]=NOE&vote[NV]=NV&voted_with[with]=with&voted_with[not-with]=not-with&state=&custom_from=10%2F01%2F2012&custom_to=09%2F30%2F2014&all_pols=1&uid=53150&interests-support=K1000-F2100-F1100-F3100-F5100-F3300-D2000-H4300-J1100-J1200-C4100-T5100-M2300-G2900-E1620-E1600-A1000-F3200-B1000-F1400-E1110-M1000-F3400-C5120-H4100-F2300-E1100-C5140-G4300-T7100-E1140-A3000-A2000-E1150-A5000-G4500-C2100-C1100-A4000-A1300-T2310-G2100-C5110-G2400-T6200-T2100-G2820-M2100-C5130-C4300-A1400-C2000-F5000-H4500-G2600-M5000-B6000-G5210-C5000-A2300-G4000-A1500-G1000-T1200-C5100-A1600-G5000-A5200-C2400-A4200-G2300-G5290-A4100-M3300-M1500-G1200-M8000-H2000-M1300-C2600-B5200-M3100-G4100-G4600-E1220-H4000-C4600-M2400-G4800-C0000-M9000-T9000-C1300-H4600-A3100-G2200-X5000-G1100-A4300-E4100-C4000-T8300-M2200-T6000-A0000-M0000-M1600-T2000-G5280-M4200-M3200-T2400-G4400-M3600-T7000-M4300-M3000-M3500-T1000-M1700-G3500-G1300-J4000-E1230-G1400-M2250-X3300-A6500&interests-oppose=J1100-J1200-L1300-L1500-J7400-C5120-C5140-LM100-JE300-H1700-L1200-LT000-LT300-L1100-LG100-LC100-A6000-LM150-J7300-LG000-X7000-J7200-JH100-J7000-L0000-J3000-JI200&from=10-01-2012&to=09-30-2014&source=pacs-nonpacs&campaign=congressional&politicians= )
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Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriage Is a Constitutional Right
(Katie Pavlich) ~ The Supreme Court has struck down state bans on gay marriage and has ruled 5-4 same sex marriage is a constitutional right. Same sex couples can now marry in all 50 states and states must perform same sex marriages... Marriages performed in each state are to be recognized in all states. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion and Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the dissent, joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. As My wife said and I agree, this is the beginning of the end times. http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/06/26/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-state-bans-on-gay-marriage-n2017268?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=.
Supreme Court Gets Slapped On Gay Marriage By Franklin Graham
(Norvell Rose) ~ Many of the 1.7 million people who like Franklin Graham’s Facebook page are giving a big thumbs-up to his reaction to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision... That message was posted by the head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association shortly after the high court ruled 5-4 that same-sex couples have a nationwide right to marry, no matter what individual states or their residents might say. As of this writing, more than 130,000 people have liked Graham’s statement, which reads in part: “With all due respect to the court, it did not define marriage, and therefore is not entitled to re-define it.” And the number of Facebook likes for the pastor’s reaction is growing rapidly.
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Judicial Activism From Supreme Court on Marriage
(Ryan T. Anderson) ~ Today is a significant setback for all Americans who believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, democratic self-government, and marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong... It should not have mandated all 50 states to redefine marriage... This is judicial activism: nothing in the Constitution requires the redefinition of marriage, and the court imposed its judgment about a policy matter that should be decided by the American people and their elected representatives. The court got marriage and the Constitution wrong today just like they gotabortion and the Constitution wrong 42 years ago with Roe v. Wade. Five unelected judges do not have the power to change the truth about marriage or the truth about the Constitution. At the federal level, the First Amendment Defense Act is a good place to start. It says that the federal government cannot discriminate against people and institutions that speak and act according to their belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. States need similar policies. Recognizing the truth about marriage is good public policy. Today’s decision is a significant setback to achieving that goal. We must work to reverse it and recommit ourselves to building a strong marriage culture because so much of our future depends upon it. http://dailysignal.com/2015/06/26/judicial-activism-from-supreme-court-on-marriage-heres-how-to-respond/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogvq3IZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4IT8VkI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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(Jeff Dunetz) ~An exclusive Associated Press report has revealed the U.S. and its P5+1 allies are prepared to reward Iran with the latest cutting edge, advanced tech equipment if the terrorist nations cuts its programs which enable it to produce nuclear arms... What this document reveals is this is no longer a pact intended to stop the Iranian nuclear program. It’s degenerated into a deal to let the Iranians perfect their nuclear program with international assistance and under international protection. One of the draft appendices entitled “Civil Nuclear Cooperation,” promises to replace Iran’s nearly completed heavy-water facility at Arak (which if completed will be able to produce enough plutonium for several nuclear weapons/year) with less menacing light-water nuclear reactors. It also details how the U.S. and its partners would supply Iran with the nuclear fuel needed to run the reactors, remove the expended fuel, “and offers help in the ‘construction and effective operation’ of the reactors and related hardware. It also offers to cooperate with Iran in the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear medicine, research, and other peaceful applications.” And as the centrifuges are being developed they’ll be spinning non-nuclear elements, but once they’re perfected the Iranians will be able to use them to enrich uranium. Therefore the P5+1 powers will literally be investing in helping Iran achieve a zero breakout. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-iran-nuke-deal-gets-worse-every-day.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f9d46de708-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-f9d46de708-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-f9d46de708-291705165
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Behind the French "Peace Initiative"
(Bassam Tawil) ~ The latest missile to split the skies over the Middle East is not a rocket; it is the French "peace" initiative... No one in the Middle East has the slightest doubt that whatever its objective may be, it will not promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It is a desperate attempt by the French government to buy a few more days of quiet from its Muslim community, especially from the members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist organizations to which it gave birth -- all waiting for the order to run riot through the streets of France. We, the Palestinians, have suffered, and continue to suffer, from the creation of the Islamist terrorist organizations within the Palestinian Authority territory; it is they who keep us from reaching a peace agreement with the Jews.
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Scalia Slams Roberts on SCOTUS nObamacare Ruling
(Sarah Fisher) ~ Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a "fiery" dissent opinion the Supreme Court decision today to uphold federal subsidies to the states in the King v. Burwell decision. And his ire was directed at Chief Justice John Roberts... In a fiery dissent, Scalia lashed out at Chief Justice John Roberts for his key vote to save a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that allowed the federal government to provide healthcare subsidies to Americans in 34 states that did not set up their own healthcare exchanges. "We should call this SCOTUScare," Scalia wrote in the dissent. The center of the ruling was the phrase "established by the state" and whether or not the law meant what it LITERALLY SAID, which is that only the states that established healthcare exchanges were eligible for federal subsidies.
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IS THERE STILL HOPE FOR AMERICA?
(Leo Hohmann) ~ As the Supreme Court came down with its 5-4 decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, the supporters of the movement danced and celebrated their historic victory... Dozens of Christian leaders such as Franklin Graham, James Dobson and John Hagee had already signed a petition before the ruling assuring the Supreme Court that they would defy any decision that came down redefining the 6,000-year-old definition of marriage. “A totally unbelievable decision yet totally believable for our society as we are definitely in the swirly mode headed down the toilet,” said Pastor Mark Biltz, author of “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs.” “The Bible says as it was in the days of Lot so will it be when the Messiah comes. The sewer floodgates are opening for all filth to come pouring in. “The very fabric of what makes up a moral society is being ripped apart. As a nation we are becoming more and more narcissistic.” In opting to redefine marriage the Supreme Court did “a 180-degree turn away from the biblical intent for marriage — as the Court also pushed aside states’ rights and voters’ voices,” said Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary near Charlotte, North Carolina. He said the decision throws away God’s meaning for marriage. https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14e31151355923dc?compose=14e31a521fe886c3%2C14e31ab42a5bee3e
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On nObamacare, John Roberts helps
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The court says the ACA’s stipulation that subsidies are to be administered by the IRS using exchanges “established by the State” should not be construed to mean what it says. Otherwise the law will not reach as far as it will if federal exchanges can administer subsidies in states that choose not to establish exchanges. The ACA’s legislative history, however, demonstrates that the subsidies were deliberately restricted to distribution through states’ exchanges in order to pressure the states into establishing their own exchanges.
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The most durable damage from Thursday’s decision is not the perpetuation of the ACA, which can be undone by what created it — legislative action. The paramount injury is the court’s embrace of a duty to ratify and even facilitate lawless discretion exercised by administrative agencies and the executive branch generally.
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The court’s decision flowed from many decisions by which the judiciary has written rules that favor the government in cases of statutory construction. The decision also resulted from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s embrace of the doctrine that courts, owing vast deference to the purposes of the political branches, are obligated to do whatever is required to make a law efficient, regardless of how the law is written. What Roberts does by way of, to be polite, creative construing (Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting, calls it “somersaults of statutory interpretation”) is legislating, not judging.
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Rolling up the sleeves of his black robe and buckling down to the business of redrafting the ACA, Roberts invents a corollary to “Chevron deference.”
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Named for a 1984 case, Chevron deference has become central to the way today’s regulatory state functions. It says that agencies charged with administering statutes are entitled to deference when they interpret ambiguous statutory language. While purporting to not apply Chevron, Roberts expands it to empower all of the executive branch to ignore or rewrite congressional language that is not at all ambiguous but is inconvenient for the smooth operation of something Congress created. Exercising judicial discretion in the name of deference, Roberts enlarges executive discretion. He does so by validating what the IRS did when it ignored the ACA’s text in order to disburse billions of dollars of subsidies through federal exchanges not established by the states.
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Chevron deference does for executive agencies what the “rational basis” test, another judicial invention, does for legislative discretion.
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Since the New Deal, courts have permitted almost any legislative infringement of economic liberty that can be said to have a rational basis. Applying this extremely permissive test, courts usually approve any purpose that a legislature asserts. Courts even concoct purposes that legislatures neglect to articulate. This fulfills the Roberts Doctrine that it is a judicial function to construe laws in ways that make them perform better, meaning more efficiently, than they would as written by Congress.
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[Bernstein: Why the Affordable Care Act is so messed up]
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Thursday’s decision demonstrates how easily, indeed inevitably, judicial deference becomes judicial dereliction, with anticonstitutional consequences. We are, says William R. Maurer of the Institute for Justice, becoming “a country in which all the branches of government work in tandem to achieve policy outcomes, instead of checking one another to protect individual rights. Besides violating the separation of powers, this approach raises serious issues about whether litigants before the courts are receiving the process that is due to them under the Constitution.”
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The Roberts Doctrine facilitates what has been for a century progressivism’s central objective, the overthrow of the Constitution’s architecture. The separation of powers impedes progressivism by preventing government from wielding uninhibited power. Such power would result if its branches behaved as partners in harness rather than as wary, balancing rivals maintaining constitutional equipoise.
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Roberts says “we must respect the role of the Legislature” but “[A] fair reading of legislation demands a fair understanding of the legislative plan.” However, he goes beyond “understanding” the plan; he adopts a legislator’s role in order to rescue the legislature’s plan from the consequences of the legislature’s dubious decisions. By blurring, to the point of erasure, constitutional boundaries, he damages all institutions, not least his court.
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NPS Removes Battle Flag From Battlefield
The hive mind appears to be taking over. While we can at least understand the push to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol grounds, the rush to jerk it from all store shelves or any public view is astounding. From the “General Lee” of Dukes of Hazzard fame, to Apple pulling Civil War games from the App Store, to the National Cathedral removing stained glass over the mere presence of the Confederate flag, the reaction quickly became absurd. Now, the nation’s first National Military Park, Chickamauga, a park established in 1890 for reconciliation between veterans of the Confederate and Union forces after the War Between the States, has removed Confederate battle flags from its gift shops. Gettysburg has done so as well. Undoubtedly there was a memo from the National Park Service requiring this asinine measure — in order to propagate Obama’s race-bait narrative. It has been said that ignorance is bliss, but the fact is, ignorance is miserable.
Meanwhile, Obama no doubt will be promoting his race bait later today when delivering the eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who, again, supported the flying of the Confederate flag at the SC capitol. If black lives really matter, then why does Obama not deliver eulogies for the other 20 blacks murdered every day on average, most by other blacks? Simple: It doesn’t fit the race-bait narrative.
Finally, of course, the American flag flew over those 13 rebellious states before the Confederate battle flag was ever flown. Better get that American flag down next.
Clinton Strings Along Investigators With Hidden Emails
We’re still trying to grasp all we don’t know about Hillary Clinton’s cannon of destroyed documentation. On Thursday, the State Department admitted that nine full emails and six partial emails that Clinton lackey Sidney Blumenthal handed over to the Select Committee on Benghazi were not in the reams of printed emails Clinton dumped on the department. Clinton had to have known this. Earlier this year, Clinton said she handed over all the emails regarding her tenure as secretary of state, though she admitted that she destroyed half of her emails because they were “private.” Clinton swears she told the truth, but it was not the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the events leading up to the day when jihadists killed four Americans in Benghazi. “This has implications far beyond Libya, Benghazi and our committee’s work,” Benghazi Committee Chair Trey Gowdy said. “This conclusively shows her email arrangement with herself, which was then vetted by her own lawyers, has resulted in an incomplete public record. … The revelation these messages were not originally produced to the State Department by Clinton is significant and troubling.” The emails show that Clinton was encouraging Blumenthal to send her intelligence reports on Benghazi, despite Clinton’s claim that the reports were unsolicited. So why is the State Department cooperating with the Benghazi investigation now? It’s very possible Hillary, Blumenthal and Co. are contriving these releases as a red herring designed to tie up Republican political capital on an issue that may be a nonstarter. Barack Obama did the same thing with his birth certificate.
House Republicans Mull Impeachment of IRS Head
Last February, Barack Obama glibly claimed there was “not even a smidgen of corruption” at the IRS. A month later, at the height of the scandal over the IRS targeting conservative nonprofits, the agency destroyed 422 backup tapes that might have contained 24,000 of Lois Lerner’s emails. Here’s what the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee learned at their hearing yesterday: Yes, the IRS knew of significant gaps in the public record. Yes, Congress issued a preservation order and a subpoena. But still, records were destroyed. Furthermore, eight days after former chair of the House Ways and Means Committee David Camp sent a letter to the IRS in June 2011 inquiring about the targeting of Tea Party groups, Lerner’s hard drive somehow crashed. Tim Camus, the deputy inspector for investigations, calls the whole email-destroying frenzy an “unbelievable set of circumstances.” As for Republican lawmakers, they think the unbelievable set of circumstances is grounds for the impeachment of IRS commissioner John Koskinen. A Republican on the House Oversight committee told National Review, “We’ve briefed the leadership’s counsel, and I think that they’re open to it, but it’s the type of thing where this town is like, ‘oh, that’s not how we do things, it’s not really been used lately.’ But, quite frankly, we really haven’t had executive branch officials behave this way like we do now.”
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SCOTUS Endorses Same-Sex Marriage
By John J. Bastiat
Continuing to goose-step onward in its blitzkrieg against Rule of Law in America, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today in favor of allowing homosexuals the “right” to marry. The ruling effectively invalidates bans on same-sex marriage remaining in 14 states and mandates that homosexuals can marry anywhere in the U.S. The importance of this ruling, especially for Christians, cannot be overstated. Nor can the damage done to the Third Pillar of Liberty.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion in the other three major homosexual-rights cases over the past 20 years, wrote the majority opinion. He was joined, of course, by the reliably liberal clown act that is the leftist side of the bench: Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Rather than rehash the sordid trail of this abrogation of Rule of Law, we thought we’d let the dissenting justices (who wrote four separate dissents) address the issue themselves:
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote:
“Petitioners make strong arguments rooted in social policy and considerations of fairness. … But this Court is not a legislature. Whether same-sex marriage is a good idea should be of no concern to us. Under the Constitution, judges have power to say what the law is, not what it should be.”
We do note here, however, the irony of Roberts' statement in light of yesterday’s atrociousObamaCare ruling.
Roberts continued, “Although the policy arguments for extending marriage to same-sex couples may be compelling, the legal arguments for requiring such an extension are not. The fundamental right to marry does not include a right to make a State change its definition of marriage. And a State’s decision to maintain the meaning of marriage that has persisted in every culture throughout human history can hardly be called irrational. In short, our Constitution does not enact any one theory of marriage. The people of a State are free to expand marriage to include same-sex couples, or to retain the historic definition.”
“But for those who believe in a government of laws, not of men, the majority’s approach is deeply disheartening.”
“Supporters of same-sex marriage have achieved considerable success persuading their fellow citizens — through the democratic process — to adopt their view. That ends today. Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law.”
“The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judgment. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or this Court’s precedent.”
Justice Antonin Scalia noted:
“This is a naked judicial claim to legislative — indeed, super-legislative — power; a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government.”
“So it is not of special importance to me what the law says about marriage. It is of overwhelming importance, however, who it is that rules me. Today’s decree says that my Ruler, and the Ruler of 320 million Americans coast-to-coast, is a majority of the nine lawyers on the Supreme Court.”
“The opinion in these cases is the furthest extension in fact — and the furthest extension one can even imagine — of the Court’s claimed power to create ‘liberties’ that the Constitution and its Amendments neglect to mention. This practice of constitutional revision by an unelected committee of nine, always accompanied (as it is today) by extravagant praise of liberty, robs the People of the most important liberty they asserted in the Declaration of Independence and won in the Revolution of 1776: the freedom to govern themselves.”
“These [precedent] cases ask us to decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment contains a limitation that requires the States to license and recognize marriages between two people of the same sex. Does it remove that issue from the political process? Of course not. It would be surprising to find a prescription regarding marriage in the Federal Constitution since, as the author of today’s opinion reminded us only two years ago (in an opinion joined by the same Justices who join him today): ‘[R]egulation of domestic relations is an area that has long been regarded as a virtually exclusive province of the States.’”
“But the Court ends this debate, in an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law. Buried beneath the mummeries and straining-to-be-memorable passages of the opinion is a candid and startling assertion: No matter what it was the People ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment protects those rights that the Judiciary, in its ‘reasoned judgment,’ thinks the Fourteenth Amendment ought to protect.”
“But what really astounds is the hubris reflected in today’s judicial Putsch. The five Justices who compose today’s majority are entirely comfortable concluding that every State violated the Constitution for all of the 135 years between the Fourteenth Amendment’s ratification and Massachusetts' permitting of same-sex marriages in 2003.”
“They have discovered in the Fourteenth Amendment a ‘fundamental right’ overlooked by every person alive at the time of ratification, and almost everyone else in the time since. They see what lesser legal minds — minds like Thomas Cooley, John Marshall Harlan, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Learned Hand, Louis Brandeis, William Howard Taft, Benjamin Cardozo, Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Jackson, and Henry Friendly — could not.”
Justice Clarence Thomas explained:
“The Court’s decision today is at odds not only with the Constitution, but with the principles upon which our Nation was built. Since well before 1787, liberty has been understood as freedom from government action, not entitlement to government benefits.”
“Yet the majority invokes our Constitution in the name of a ‘liberty’ that the Framers would not have recognized, to the detriment of the liberty they sought to protect. Along the way, it rejects the idea — captured in our Declaration of Independence — that human dignity is innate and suggests instead that it comes from the Government. This distortion of our Constitution not only ignores the text, it inverts the relationship between the individual and the state in our Republic.”
“Petitioners argue that by enshrining the traditional definition of marriage in their State Constitutions through voter-approved amendments, the States have put the issue ‘beyond the reach of the normal democratic process.’ But the result petitioners seek is far less democratic. They ask nine judges on this Court to enshrine their definition of marriage in the Federal Constitution and thus put it beyond the reach of the normal democratic process for the entire Nation.”
“The majority’s inversion of the original meaning of liberty will likely cause collateral damage to other aspects of our constitutional order that protect liberty.”
“Aside from undermining the political processes that protect our liberty, the majority’s decision threatens the religious liberty our Nation has long sought to protect.”
We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.
The impact of this ruling will be felt far and wide. It won’t be simply Christian bakers, florists and photographers who are assaulted by the Rainbow Mafia for daring to have their own conscience. Christian churches, schools, agencies and so on will soon be in the crosshairs for opposing this heretofore undiscovered constitutional right. This is only the beginning.
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OPINION IN BRIEF
Charles Krauthammer: “[T]here’s a deeper reason for this rush to banish Confederate symbols, to move them from the public square to the museum. The trigger was not just the massacre itself, but even more tellingly, the breathtaking display of nobility and spiritual generosity by the victims' relatives. Within 48 hours of the murder of their loved ones, they spoke of redemption and reconciliation and even forgiveness of the killer himself. It was an astonishingly moving expression of Christian charity. Such grace demands a response. In a fascinating dynamic, it created a feeling of moral obligation to reciprocate in some way. The flag was not material to the crime itself, but its connection to the underlying race history behind the crime suggested that its removal from the statehouse grounds — whatever the endlessly debated merits of the case — could serve as a reciprocal gesture of reconciliation. The result was a microcosm of — and a historical lesson in — the moral force of the original civil rights movement, whose genius was to understand the effect that combating evil with good, violence with grace would have on a fundamentally decent American nation. America was indeed moved. The result was the civil rights acts. The issue today is no longer legal equality. It is more a matter of sorting through historical memory. … Perhaps we can learn a lesson from Arlington National Cemetery, founded by the victorious Union to bury its dead. There you will find Section 16. It contains the remains of hundreds of Confederate soldiers grouped around a modest, moving monument to their devotion to ‘duty as they understood it’ — a gesture by the Union of soldierly respect, without any concession regarding the taintedness of their cause. Or shall we uproot them as well?”
SHORT CUTS
Feel the burn: “Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.” —Justice Antonin Scalia in dissent in theObamaCare case
Another zinger: “Justice [Antonin] Scalia quips acidly that ‘we should start calling this law SCOTUScare,’ but the better term is RobertsCare. By volunteering as Nancy Pelosi’s copy editor, [John Roberts] is making her infamous line about passing the law to find out what’s in it even more true than she knew at the time.” —Wall Street Journal
Upright: “Here is John Roberts, chief oracle of the United States of America, from Thursday’s King v. Burwell decision: ‘Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them. If at all possible, we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter.’ … [I]magine for a moment if a Supreme Court justice argued that the Defense of Marriage Act was passed to improve marriage rather than destroy it so we must focus on the former rather than the latter and uphold any retroactive provisions the Bush administration cooked up to make that law work.” —David Harsanyi
Gloating: “After multiple challenges before the Supreme Court, the Affordable Care Act is here to stay.” —Barack Obama
The BIG Lie: “The Supreme Court ruled that the millions of Americans … be able to keep their affordable coverage.” —DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Unfortunately, as a taxpayer funding ObamaCare, YOU may not be able keep your plan or your doctor, and on average, YOUR family premiums are going up almost $3,000.)
Non Compos Mentis, part I: “For the second time, the Affordable Care Act has been upheld by the Supreme Court. … There wasn’t even a dissenting opinion, as I understand it. Or so far we haven’t seen it.” —Nancy Pelosi
Non Compos Mentis, part II: “The Supreme Court ruled against a Republican-led tax hike for 6.4 million Americans!” —Sen. Debbie Stabenow
And last… “At a fundraiser, President Obama complained that the public has ‘forgotten his successes.’ Forgotten? We’re still working on forgiving.” —Fred Thompson
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Interview with 2nd Victim of Okla Muslim Beheader: ‘He Started Slicing My Neck’ ‘Shouting in Arabic’Here’s what the media didn’t tell you about the devout Muslim who beheaded his co-worker Collen Hufford and attempted to behead a second victim, Traci Johnson. Here is the Facebook page of the devout Muslim who beheaded a female co-worker and attempted to behead a second. It is all about Islam. Here’s his last post:
Landmark anti-BDS law passes final Senate legislative hurdleThe vicious Jews such as Alissa Doctoroff, Edith Everett, Jim Joseph Foundation, Carole and Saul Zabar, Charlene Seidle, Karen Adler, Leichtag Foundation, the Bronfman Foundation, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, Alan B. Slifka Foundation, David Hochberg, Dr. Gabor T. Herman, Geoffrey Biddle, Joel Greenblatt, Murray Koppelman, Peter Stein and all the other anti-Jewws that fund BDS will be made to answer for their sins. Our campaign to out these quislings and destroy the Jew-hatred movement is bearing fruit.
Ramadan in China: Least 18 Killed In Jihad Attack on Police HQRamadan Bomb-a-thon day 8, dateline China. At least 18 people have died after Chinese Muslims attacked police with knives and bombs at a traffic checkpoint. China, Russia, Europe, Australia, Syria, Iraq, America, Canada — everywhere it’s the same regardless of color, nationality or sock color. Jihad is jihad. The dhimmis at IBT describe the attackers as Chinese Muslims (Uighurs) “who are seeking independence” — in other words, an Islamic State — just like the Muslims who are waging bloody jihad in Thailand, Kenya, Nigeria, the Philippines, Gaza, Judea, Samaria, Chechnya, Russia, Iraq, Syria ……
ISIS Attacks Christians in LebanonNext up: Lebanon in the cross-hairs. The Islamic State means to cleanse the region of all non-Muslims and religious minorities, in accordance with Islamic law (sharia).
American Muslim ISIS Supporters Focusing on US Attacks, Study SaysNot that we needed a study to tell us what we see happening every day. And yet the elites want to blame, attack, put down those of us who oppose jihad terror and savagery. “Stay quiet and you’ll be okay” — those were Mohammed Atta’s words to his passengers on 9/11. And that’s exactly what the media, political and academic elites are telling us to do now. “Individuals charged with ISIS-inspired terrorism in the U.S. cannot be profiled.” Thanks to Muslim groups who dictate Obama’s domestic-terror policies.
Muslim Rape gangs were targeting schools 5 years ago, authorities did nothingThey did nothing and they still do nothing. One of the victims did a comprehensive interview with me here and here. She had over 100 names of rapists and traffickers, but the police “didn’t have time” to take all the names.
They school never questioned who was taking her out or why. They did nothing. But they did ban Robert Spencer and me from visiting the UK, because our... FBI Rounding Up Islamic State SuspectsThe investigation of the jihad attack on the AFDI Art Exhibit in Garland, Texas continues to bear fruit and smoke out American terror cells. Law enforcement is rounding up jihad-supporting Muslims — a “mounting threat of domestic attacks inspired by the Islamic State.”
Boston Marathon jihadi murderer: “I am Muslim. My religion is Islam”The victims of the Boston jihad bombing didn’t fall for Dzhokhar’s hollow apology, a feeble attempt to save his own worthless life. Victims React to Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apology: ‘Nothing Sincere’
Judge George O’Toole told Tsarnaev he had embraced a cruel God, heeded the jihadist “siren song” and engaged in “monstrous self-deception” to carry out the bombings.... Obama Offers to Give Iran Nuclear ReactorsThe treachery and treason of Obama and his enemy administration is shocking. This is surreal — we are going to give Iran nuclear reactor parts to keep it from making a bomb? Madness. America is in so much trouble …. and the band plays on. His own advisors, as bad as they are, have denounced Obama’s serpentine submission to the Iran Islamic Republic of Iran. Five former members of President Obama’s inner circle of Iran advisers have written an open letter condemning Obama’s Iran deal, saying it “fall[s] short of meeting the administration’s own standard of a ‘good’ agreement” and laying out a series of minimum requirements that Iran must agree to in coming days for them to support a final... Former CAIR-Canada Official Represents Egyptian Muslim BrotherhoodHamas-CAIR is a Muslim Brotherhood organization, so this is no surprise. What is unforgivable is that the enemedia continually ignores the subversive activity of Hamas-CAIR, and treats it as if it were a genuine civil rights organization.
Newsmax: “75 Most Influential Jewish Republicans”Newsmax has issued it’s list of the “75 Most Influential Jewish Republicans”, and yours truly emerges at …. #60. Although how Geraldo Rivera makes this list is beyond me. If he’s a Jew or a Republican, I’m a monk. And if he’s influential, I’ll eat my hat. Outside of that misstep, it’s an interesting list.
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UK’s Cameron: Today’s jihad attacks are “not in the name of Islam. Islam is a religion of peace.”
This denial of what the jihad terrorists themselves explain is their guiding ideology, as if they don’t mean what they say or don’t understand their own religion, is hamstringing the West’s response to the jihad terror threat. With this willful ignorance, Cameron is leading his country to ruin. “Cameron: ‘This is not Islam; it’s a […]
Muslim MP: “British Muslims have nothing to apologise for when it comes to Islamic terrorism”
“Bolton MP Yasmin Querishi [sic] — who is a Pakistani-born Muslim — drew a comparison with the Charleston shooting last week, saying that, as white people didn’t have to apologise for the deaths, so Muslims shouldn’t have to apologise for Islamic terrorism.” This is so out of place as to be outrageous. Apologies are only a first step, […]
Wife of France jihad killer: “We are normal Muslims. We do Ramadan.”
Her husband has done Ramadan in a grand fashion this year. In any case, her statement is refreshing: apparently the journos found her before the local imam could be found to say that he knew Salhi only slightly, and that the killer never came to the mosque and wasn’t a good Muslim. “Yassin Salhi: Everything […]
Kuwait: Islamic State murders 13 in jihad suicide attack at Shi’ite mosque
Ramadan is in full swing today, with jihad strikes in France, Kuwait and Tunisia. Sunni-Shi’ite Jihad Update: “Suicide attack claimed by ISIS kills 13 at Kuwait Shiite mosque,” Reuters, June 26, 2015: DUBAI: Militant group ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide attack on a Shiite mosque in Kuwait that killed 13 people, according a statement […]
France: Loud explosion as Muslims with Islamic State flags storm factory, behead man
“The person arrested was allegedly carrying a flag of the Islamic State and he said he was a member of the IS.” The Islamic State has, of course, declared that it would be carrying out jihad attacks in the West, and has called for attacks in particular against the “spiteful and filthy French.” It has […]
Kuwait mosque bomber screamed “Allahu akbar” before detonating his explosives
“Dealing with what’s happening requires going back to the root causes, which means tackling the ideology,” said Ghanem Nuseibeh. That is true, but in the U.S., John Kerry, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and everyone else in positions of political power and influence assure us that the ideology that inspires attacks such as these is absolutely […]
Vatican validates jihad terror, signs treaty recognizing State of Palestine
There is no “State of Palestine” at this time. This is part of the ongoing pressure upon Israel to create one. Creating one will be a great victory for the global jihad force, as a “State of Palestine” will inevitably be a new jihad base for renewed attacks against what remains of Israel. Events will […]
Tunisia: Islamic State jihadis murder at least 27 at resort hotels
The majority of the victims appear to have been British Infidels on vacation, sure that all would be well since, after all, it is a Religion of Peace. “At least 27 tourists dead in Tunisian hotel attacks as gunmen ‘shoot people on sunbeds’ along beach packed with western holidaymakers,” by Thomas Burrows and John Hall, […]
France: President of gas factory targeted in Islamic State attack is Shi’ite Iranian
Could its Shia leadership have been why it was targeted by members of the Islamic State, a Sunni group that has declared jihad against Shi’ites as well as against the West (and particularly France)? Or was it targeted simply because it is a gas factory, and the pious killers were hoping for a gas explosion […]
Raymond Ibrahim: Where’s the Pope’s Encyclical on Christian Persecution?
Pope Francis recently released a new encyclical. Portions of it deal with environmentalism, global warming, and climate change. Naturally, this has prompted controversy. It’s noteworthy that Francis didn’t merely make a passing comment on global warming during this or that sermon, but that he issued a papal encyclical on the matter. Encyclicals are much more formal and […]
"When Good Caves In To Evil, A Nation Is Destroyed "
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Looks like our invincibly arrogant Supreme Court is on a Progressive roll--a veritable steamroller of errant and overreaching Delphic rulings quite at odds with our Constitution.
On the heels of the Court's outrageous ruling yesterday on Obamacare, here it goes again by "ruling" that same-sex marriage is a "constitutional right". Huh? Constitutional right? This ruling is much more than mystifying; it is subversive.
While the same-sex ruling was entirely predictable--no less so than the Obamacare, aka SCOTUScare, ruling yesterday--I am no less stunned by this judicial quackery and lawlessness.
Thinking I may have missed something along the way, this morning I carefully re-read my copy of the Constitution, and for the life of me I couldn't find marriage of any kind defined as a "constitutional right". Nowhere! In fact, marriage isn't even mentioned in the text.
Per the 10th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, any power not specifically/expressly delegated by the States to the federal government remains with the States and the People. Thus, defining marriage is a State power and same-sex marriage is constitutional ONLY if the individual State and its citizenry says it is. This isn't rocket science, folks. It's the law. And the obscene misapplication of the 14th Amendment's ""equal protection" clause yet again cannot nullify the authority of the 9th and 10th Amendments. Only a constitutional amendment can do that.
Just what Constitution are these Progressive judicial oligarchs reading? Have they even read the Constitution? And, if so, do they at all regard the US Constitution as the supreme law of the land? Obviously not. Clearly, Judicial Supremacy has virtually supplanted Constitutional Supremacy. And therein lies the seed of our self-destruction.
Wouldn't it be splendid--indeed, principled and courageous--were the States to exercise their lawful authority by NULLIFYING this outrageous judicial usurpation of State sovereignty? Without spine and political courage at the State level, the US Constitution is, without question, D-E-A-D and this "constitutional republic" but an illusion.
Until this judicial tyranny is stopped, what precious remains of this tattered constitutional republic will be relegated to the dustbin of history.
I do not see a good end to this lawlessness. As to a remedy, let our Founders be our guide ...
After yesterday and especially this morning. The ruling by a Supreme Court gone amuck. Has thoroughly shown that we have a totally disfunctional government. That every branch has been corrupted. When the Supreme Court once again infers that it not only knows more then God almighty. But has the power to overrule God. We are all in trouble. Their ruling on Abortion was bad enough and just as Un-Holy. But this defies all logic. And unfortunately the very few in that cesspool they call Washington DC, Who are good men and women. Who truly do believe in our Country, and God. Who are true Christians are outnumbered. No election is going to change much of anything. Only we the people can do that. If our Country falls, If all our Freedoms are taken away, If our very God and religious rights are kept from us. We Only Have Ourselves to blame for allowing it to happen. The time is here. It has finally come Who will actually stand up For Their God, Their Family, Their Country, for our Republic. Who will say enough is enough. Who will say, You've pushed me far enough but not one inch farther. Who is really ready to commit to our endeavor to restore our God, Country and way of life that was founded some 200+ years ago. I am!! Are you. I'm waiting.
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Did Nikki Haley really cave to political correctness in now agreeing that the Confederate flag be taken down from the North Carolina statehouse?
And why are Conservatives all bent over that flag being taken down?
There are plenty of people out there turning themselves inside out trying to make a case for leaving that flag flying and they’re using the flag’s design to justify it.
I have seen thousands of comments and posts regarding the Confederate flag over the last week or so and many of them are along these lines…“Neither the design nor the content of the flag has anything to do with racism, slavery, hatred or white supremacy. Nothing.”
That of course, is correct…there IS nothing in the DESIGN of the Confederate flag that denotes racism. But…is the design of the rebel flag all there is to it?
Look…I know about the Confederate flag design…
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POLL: BUSH, RUBIO HEADED FOR FACE-OFF
A new WSJ/NBC News poll shows a narrowing gap between GOP frontrunner Jeb Bush, and political protégé Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Seventy-five percent of Republicans say they could see themselves supporting Bush, versus 22 percent who couldn’t. The five point gain from the April’s (70 percent – 27 percent) poll shows promise for the former Florida governor’s rebranding as Jeb! instead of Jeb Bush. But for Rubio news is even better. While Bush tops the list as the candidate the most people could support, nearly a quarter of people who still say they couldn’t support him. Rubio’s support comes second in the poll at 74 percent, but only 15 of voters say they couldn’t support him. Rubio’s numbers haven’t changed since the April poll, an indication his dialogue has kept him in steady favor with voters. The poll was also conducted after Bush’s campaign officially kicked off showing that his launch didn’t give him much of a surge ahead of the competition. -Fox
A new WSJ/NBC News poll shows a narrowing gap between GOP frontrunner Jeb Bush, and political protégé Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Seventy-five percent of Republicans say they could see themselves supporting Bush, versus 22 percent who couldn’t. The five point gain from the April’s (70 percent – 27 percent) poll shows promise for the former Florida governor’s rebranding as Jeb! instead of Jeb Bush. But for Rubio news is even better. While Bush tops the list as the candidate the most people could support, nearly a quarter of people who still say they couldn’t support him. Rubio’s support comes second in the poll at 74 percent, but only 15 of voters say they couldn’t support him. Rubio’s numbers haven’t changed since the April poll, an indication his dialogue has kept him in steady favor with voters. The poll was also conducted after Bush’s campaign officially kicked off showing that his launch didn’t give him much of a surge ahead of the competition. -Fox
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Walker tax plan dispels GOP myths - National Review: “[Scott Walker’s] tax policy helps address the GOP’s biggest weakness, the perception that it is the party of the rich and doesn’t ‘care about people like me.’ Polls since 2012 have consistently shown that Americans think the economy is unfairly tilted toward the rich and that the Republicans are the party of the rich. A tax policy that essentially says America isn’t doing enough for rich people is unlikely to help the GOP nominee in 2016.” -Fox News
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Say, That Gruber Guy Actually Did Work Closely With nObama
Remember Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor who served as a key architect of nObamaCare? The one who mocked "the stupidity of the American voter" as he and his elitist buddies crammed the law down our throats? The one whose string of condescending remarks on nObamaCare's deceptive core were caught on video and released to the public? Naturally, Barack nObama tried to throw Gruber under the bus once he had become politically inconvenient, dismissing him as "some adviser who never worked on our staff" and had little to do with crafting nObamaCare. But according to a series of emails sent from the House Oversight Committee to The Wall Street Journal, Gruber had quite a lot to do with nObamaCare after all. "His proximity to HHS and the White House was a whole lot tighter than they admitted," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the House Oversight Committee. "There's no doubt he was a much more integral part of this than they've said. He put up this facade he was an arm's length away. It was a farce." Indeed, Jeanne Lambrew, a top administration official at HHS, thanked Gruber for being an "integral part" in foisting nObamaCare on the nation. And Gruber was in contact with the highest level nObama advisers on the law, from Lawrence Summers to Peter Orszag to Jason Furman to Ezekiel Emanuel. This is simply more confirmation of nObamaCare's foundation of lies. As if we needed any more proof. -The Patriot Post
. SCOTUS and the Raisin Hope for Property Rights
Marvin Horne of Fresno, California, has been vindicated. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that if the Raisin Administrative Committee was going to take Horne's raisins it needed to compensate the farmer. In Horne v. Department of Agriculture, Horne refused to give up his raisins to the Raisin Administrative Committee and the agency was fining him at the tune of $695,000. The committee is a New Deal-era program designed to control the supply of raisins so the prices remain artificially high. It would take a portion of farmers' grapes and either donate them to school lunch programs or sell them overseas. Farmers used to be compensated, but then the payout dwindled to nothing. The Ninth Circuit Court originally ruled in favor of the administrative committee, saying the Constitution's Taking Clause only covered real estate, but Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion, ruled, "Government has a categorical duty to pay just compensation when it takes your car, just as when it takes your home." This ruling comes 10 years after the bungled SCOTUS ruling in Kelo v. New London, which said the city of New London could take the home of Susette Kelo and give her property to a private developer. Currently,Kelo's pink home is demolished and the lot stands empty. While the raisin ruling is a step in the right direction, it will take years before the government fully moves past Kelo and respects the property of the citizens. -The Patriot Post
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ISIS Mutants Become More Sadistic as They Lose Ground In Syria
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) ~ For months now, ISIS militants have been getting their asses kicked by Kurdish fighters in Syria. In fact they’ve been on a losing streak since the YPG defeated the them in Kobane back in January... Kurdish troops in Syria have managed to retake around two dozen towns and villages in the country’s northeast with the help of coalition airstrikes. Last week, Kurdish forces liberated Tal Abyad, a key ISIS outpost that was an access point to its self-declared capital of Raqqa. Now they’ve captured an ISIS-held military base thirty miles from Raqqa. As Islamic State ghouls have lost ground, they’ve also lost whatever shred of humanity remained in their black and shriveled souls. These horrific recent stories from Iraq and Syria include drownings, electrocution, sexual slavery and the torture of children. The headlines range from terrible — to the stuff of nightmares.
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Land seized and sold in a controversial Supreme Court case
(Benjamin Weingarten) ~ As eminent legal scholar and takings expert Richard Epstein notes at National Review, June 23, 2015 marks the 10 year anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial cases relating to private property, in Kelo v. City of New London... For those unfamiliar with the case, in a five-to-four decision the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo that New London, Connecticut could use the power of eminent domain to seize private property from its owners and sell it to developers as part of a broader economic development plan. Specifically, the Court ruled that the development of the property would qualify as a “public purpose,” constituting a “public use,” thereby representing a Constitutional taking pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, given the public benefits to be gained through the developer’s use of the seized land. While government has a right to take private property for public use if it provides just compensation, the case proved highly controversial because the government was taking private property — specifically homes — from several parties, and not using it for say a public school or public transportation, but rather selling it to another private party that claimed it could generate greater economic activity from the property. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/06/10-years-later-heres-what-happened-to-the-land-seized-and-sold-to-developers-in-a-controversial-supreme-court-case/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Investigation Exposes AMP Leaders' Ties...
(investigativeproject.org) ~ Federal investigators shut down a massiveHamas-support network in the United States between 2001 and 2008, prosecuting some elements and freezing the assets of others... But the Investigative Project on Terrorism finds that many of the same functions – fundraising, propaganda and lobbying – endure, now carried out by a group called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The IPT investigation identified at least five AMP officials and speakers who worked in the previous, defunct network called the "Palestine Committee." It was created by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance Hamas' agenda politically and financially in the United States. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4891/investigation-exposes-amp-leaders-ties-to-former
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Senate Approve Fast-Track For Second And Final Time
(Connor D. Wolf) ~ The Senate approved for a second time Wednesday a measure granting President Barack nObama fast-track authority in a move that will greatly increase the chances of eventually passing his massive international trade deal... Trade Promotion Authority, also known as fast-track, has been the primary point of tension for the president and many within his own party. The measure passed just a day after the Senate approved a procedural move to cut off debate and now just needs to be signed by the president — which he is likely to do. With fast-track the president could submit a finalized trade deal to Congress, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that could not be amendment or filibuster and only need a straight up or down vote. The trade deal, which the president is negotiating between 11 other countries, has attracted a lot of criticism with many arguing it will benefit corporations and special interests at the expense of working Americans and the environment. http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/24/senate-approve-fast-track-for-second-and-final-time/
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nObama wants Iran Nuke Deal To Keep A Promise To Muslims
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Many have claimed that Barack nObama is recklessly pursuing a nuclear deal with Iraq because he wants a foreign policy achievement for his presidential legacy... According to Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the US that claim is true, but not in the way people may think. He is not trying to preserve his legacy to the American People, he is trying to preserve his legacy to the Muslim world by keeping the promise he made during his 2009 speech at Cairo University in Egypt. President nObama's speech in Cairo was historic. No other President has gone to a foreign nation to so publicly throw a strong ally under the bus., he gave unprecedented support for the Palestinians and recognized Iran's right to nuclear power, downplayed the role of terrorism, and made Hamas look like a rowdy Boys Glee Club. Former Ambassador Oren related in recent Foreign Policy article that every policy move made by the nObama administration toward the Muslim world was signaled in that speech. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/obama-demanding-iran-deal-as-its-his.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=043689f390-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-043689f390-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-043689f390-291705165
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The Scorpion, The Frog and The Pope
(Susan Warner) ~ Pope Francis recently declared Palestine to be a state. Thus, he writes a new chapter in the divisive history between Catholics and Jews... The history of the Catholic Church is a two-thousand year old story of anti-Judaism, conspicuous by frequent massacres, murders, forced conversions, torture, pogroms, expulsions, demonization and other unspeakable acts of violence and offense. The fable of the Scorpion and the Frog illustrates the notion that certain acts are not merely random chance but are as predictable as a "DNA" profile. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6034/pope-francis-jews-israel
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Another Kind of Unity
(Haviv Rettig Gur) ~ Edward Grossman’s essay captures in an impressionistic sweep the intertwined fears, joys, and dangers that make up the present-day Israeli experience... Looming over it all is the distant yet imminent Persian menace—a menace that, Grossman fears, Israel’s fractured political class may not be up to. Hence his call for a new politics of unity in the Jewish state. While the essay neatly captures much of the Israeli condition, something important is missing. Grossman’s question, “Can Israel Unite?” seems to be premised on the assumption that the factional nature of Israeli parliamentary politics somehow mediates and reflects a deeper absence of solidarity within Israeli society itself. But in an important sense, in the most important sense, Israel is already unified, however masked that fact may be by our arguably worsening culture of political divisiveness, problems of social marginalization, growing economic and educational disparities, and all the other challenges we face. http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2015/06/another-kind-of-unity/
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Nation’s poor to the FCC: ‘We’re way ahead of you’
(Mark Jamison) ~ Last week the FCC adopted a proposal that, according to the agency, takes “significant steps to modernize its Lifeline program.” Lifeline is a 30 year-old telecommunications subsidy program for low-income households... After 30 years, you would think that the program has made a demonstrable impact on making “phone service affordable for low-income Americans,” as the FCC put it. You would be wrong. As I think most American’s would agree, the FCC is right for caring about the poor, but the agency’s plan doesn’t put that care into action. Despite Chairman Wheeler’s statements to the contrary, as quoted in the National Journal, this isn’t a partisan issue. It’s an evidence issue.
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nObama’s Actions on Immigration Lack Accountability
(Michael Cutler) ~ On June 17, 2015 the Subcommittee on National Security and the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Rules conducted a joint hearing concerning “A Review of the President’s Executive Actions on Immigration.”... Inspector General (IG) John Roth testified at this hearing along with Sarah R. Saldaña, the Director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and León Rodríguez, the Director of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services). For those not familiar with the federal government, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is comparable to “Internal Affairs” where police departments are concerned. Before we begin to consider the Inspector General’s testimony and what it tells us about the administration’s use of what is claimed to be “prosecutorial discretion,” I want to begin by calling attention to what I hope is obvious to everyone: The Congressional Subcommittee on National Security was one of the two subcommittees that called this hearing, thereby reenforcing the nexus between immigration and national security — a nexus that was identified by the 9/11 Commission. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/michael-cutler/obamas-actions-on-immigration-lack-accountability/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1c83ac2404-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1c83ac2404-156509103
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Importing a Potential Epidemic
(Arnold Ahlert) ~ By now most Americans are familiar with the nObama administration’s ongoing effort to force-feed amnesty for illegals to a largely recalcitrant American public... The most egregious part of this effort occurred during last year’s border “surge” when the administration not only embraced the admittance of tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) into our nation, but the purposeful andsecret dispersal of them into all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. What Americansdon’t know is that the nObama administration ignored Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines that apply to legal immigrants and prevent the unvaccinated, or those with a “communicable disease of public health significance,” from entering the country. As a result, it is quite possible the outbreak of unknown diseases or those mostly eradicated in the U.S. for quite some time is no coincidence. The administration’s stance on the issue? A combination of silence, denial, or blame-shifting to the anti-vaxxer crowd. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/importing-a-potential-epidemic/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1c83ac2404-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1c83ac2404-156509103
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The Creepy
Consequences of Oppression Chic
Michelle Malkin
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The spray-tanned con artist, who resigned this week as head of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of (Artificially) Colored People, is the inevitable outcome of academia’s cult of manufactured victimhood.
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College campuses have been grooming a cadre of professional minority fakers and fraudsters for decades.
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The notorious pretendians Ward Churchill and Elizabeth Warren faked their Native American status to bolster their faculty credentials at the University of Colorado and Harvard, respectively. It was a mutually beneficial racket for all poseur parties involved. Churchill and Warren basked in their tenured glory. The schools racked up politically correct points for adding the right flavors to their employment rolls.
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Churchill was specifically granted a “special opportunity” position that his school created to increase “diversity” on the teaching staff. Warren falsely listed herself as a minority professor in a law school directory. Harvard officials eagerly touted Warren’s bogus background, the Boston Herald reported, to “bolster their diversity hiring record in the ’90s as the school came under heavy fire for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male.” Based solely on what Warren later admitted was unsubstantiated “family lore,” the Fordham Law Review called her the “first woman of color” at Harvard Law.
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The pressure to conform and cash in on the cult of oppression chic is even more virulent among the student body. Race-based affirmative action is a primary catalyst.
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Take Vijay Chokal-Ingam, brother of TV star Vera Mindy Chokalingam. He pretended to be black in 1998-99 in order to gain admission to St. Louis University School of Medicine.
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“In my junior year of college, I realized that I didn’t have the grades or test scores to get into medical school, at least not as an Indian-American,” he wrote. “So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes and applied to medical school as a black man. … Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African-American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school.”
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From the moment they apply to the nation’s elite institutions of higher learning, applicants are rewarded for playing up racial division, ethnic strife and identity politics.
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“I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant,” Dario Guerrero bragged in The Washington Post last fall. “They gave me a full scholarship.”
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In the 1990s, top-tier schools introduced a “diversity essay” requirement for undergrad admissions. The online “Common Application” used by hundreds of colleges and universities directs prospective students to “describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.”
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More recently, the University of California at Berkeley mandated that all graduate school hopefuls supply a “personal history statement” with “information on how you have overcome barriers to access opportunities in higher education.”
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And that’s not enough. Applicants for every U.C. Berkeley graduate program must provide “evidence of how you have come to understand the barriers faced by others, evidence of your academic service to advance equitable access to higher education for women, racial minorities and individuals from other groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education, evidence of your research focusing on underserved populations or related issues of inequality, or evidence of your leadership among such groups.”
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These “progressive” schools then herd their young charges into color-coded dorms and segregated academic departments, where they can stew even deeper in their “otherness” and gripe about “white privilege.”
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We’ve moved from “separate, but equal” to “separate is superior.”
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In addition, I’ve chronicled dozens of cases of minority students over the years who have faked hate crimes when they were dissatisfied with their level of systemic oppression. Instead of being punished, many of these p.c. performance artists have been praised by college administrators and faculty for “raising awareness” of social injustice.
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Is it any wonder, then, that lying liar Rachel Dolezal learned from historically black Howard University to loathe the skin she was born in?
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After receiving a full art scholarship based on her portfolio of “exclusively African-American portraiture,” she reportedly encountered bigotry from campus officials who had assumed she was black when she applied. She lost a lawsuit against the university in which she described an atmosphere “permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult” for being white. Soon after, according to her family, she began to make her creepy transition and continues to “identify as black.”
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If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. If you can’t make it, fake it. In the ivory tower, the most afflicted and the most offended are at the top of the food chain.
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Oppression Olympics breeds grievance grifters.
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By Oscar Y. Harward
(Y)our GOP, as an organization, has serious problems with their leadership. The Washington based RNC, Capitol Hill GOP leaders, and others have their own Political Action Committees (PAC).
You will find the Republican National Committee (RNC), Republican National Congressional Committee (RNCC), the National Republican Senatorial Committee (RNSC), Senate Majority Leader, Mitch McConnell, Speaker of the House, John Boehner, and others are all requesting, calling, writing, and begging, etc. for Republican Party dollars.
As American individuals and others send GOP dollars in, the monies are dispersed as they choose; based only on the Republican Party candidates registration. PAC leaders direct this money in support of their own favorite candidates; not as to whether they support the Republican Party and/or the GOP Platform. The only requirement is that the candidate support the leadership, regardless of how moderate of even liberal their votes represent.
All candidates for reelection and all new candidates for election should be required to show their support on all ‘divided’ issues of 80%.
Divided issues should be rated on whether the issue is opposing opinions between Conservative Republicans v. Liberal Democrats. With that, the GOP will see a more secure group of legislators on Capitol Hill.
When Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-RI) was up for reelection in 2006, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (RNSC) sent some $3 Million into his campaign for his campaign. The record will show that on ‘divided’ issues,
Sen. Chafee voted with Democrat Party Liberals some 90% of the time compared to Conservative Republicans some 10% on ‘divided’ issues. That was a wasted $3 Million dollar donation of ‘precious’ GOP money on Platform issues.
You can take the most ‘liberal’ voting Republican record on Capitol Hill and see these GOP organizations disperse GOP monies to their campaigns; while at the same time, reject candidates who can prove their support of the GOP Platform on the issues.
