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Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On July 05, 2011:

(CNSNews.com) – Six months ahead of the scheduled withdrawal of the last U.S. forces from Iraq, June brought a somber reminder of an earlier time as well as concerns that the months leading up to the exit could produce a fresh increase in violence as insurgents and their supporters maneuver for influence.

U.S. Ambassador to Iraq James Jeffrey on Saturday accused Iranian security agencies of supplying lethal weapons to Shi’ite groups in Iraq but said the U.S. would not be intimidated by those behind the attacks.

Fifteen U.S. troops died in Iraq in June, more than in any single month since June 2009, according to a CNSNews.com database of U.S. military casualties in Iraq since the war began in 2003.

Moreover, 14 of those 15 deaths were combat-related. If that category of fatalities alone is taken into account, then June marked the deadliest month for U.S. personnel since August 2008, a time when the steadily dropping monthly death toll was heading towards single digits, in the aftermath of the troop “surge” that went into full effect a year earlier (see table).

There are currently some 47,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, down from a peak of around 170,000 at the height of the surge. December 31 is the deadline for their departure, although new Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during his confirmation process told a Senate committee he fully expects Baghdad to ask for some troop presence to remain beyond that date.

No formal request has yet been made public, however, and U.S. Forces-Iraq deputy Lt. Gen. Frank G. Helmick during a press roundtable on June 22 stated clearly that “our last order is to go to zero.”

Still, Jeffrey on Saturday reaffirmed that the U.S. would be willing, if asked, to keep some troops in Iraq into 2012.

Helmick said that attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces and Iraqi civilians have dropped fourfold since 2007, when they averaged some 400 each week. But he also acknowledged concern about an uptick in attacks in the south in recent months.

The U.S. combat-related deaths in June took place in four areas – Baghdad; Wasit, a province located southeast of the capital; Najaf, a key Shi’ite province south of Baghdad; and Diyala, the province located to the northeast of Baghdad and stretching to the Iranian border.

Of the 14 fatalities, nine were attributed to rocket attacks and five to improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The worst single attack occurred on June 6 – a rocket attack on a base near Baghdad airport that killed five soldiers assigned to the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kansas.

They were Spc. Emilio J. Campo Jr., of Madelia, Minn.; Spc. Michael B. Cook Jr., of Middletown, Ohio; Spc. Christopher B. Fishbeck of Victorville, Calif.; Spc. Robert P. Hartwick of Rockbridge, Ohio; and Pfc. Michael C. Olivieri of Chicago, Ill.

A sixth soldier injured in that attack, Spc. Marcos Cintron of Orlando, Fla., died at a medical facility in Boston on June 16.

The next deadliest attack took place on June 29, when three soldiers assigned to 2nd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment at Fort Hood were killed in a rocket assault on a base at Badrah in Wasit province, near the Iranian border. The Pentagon named them as Capt. Matthew Nielson of Jefferson, Iowa; Capt. David Van Camp of Wheeling, W.Va.; and Spc. Robert Tenney Jr. of Warner Robins, Ga.

On June 8, Pfc. Matthew England of Gainesville, Mo., died when enemy forces attacked his unit with an IED in Najaf province.

On June 13, Staff Sgt. Nicholas Bellard of El Paso, Texas and Sgt. Glenn Sewell of Live Oak, Texas were killed in an IED attack in Wasit province.

On June 26, Staff Sgt. Russell Proctor of Oroville, Calif. and Pfc. Dylan Johnson of Tulsa, Okla. died of wounds sustained in an IED attack in Diyala province.

Wasit no longer quiet:

The violence in Wasit has been an unusual development. According to the CNSNews.com database, Wasit was among the quietest provinces in Iraq over the full period of hostilities that began with the March 2003 invasion.

The very first combat death reported in the province, which stretches southeast of Baghdad to the border with Iran, was in June 2006, when Sgt. Daniel Crabtree of Canton, Ohio was killed in an IED attack on his Humvee.

Wasit was handed over to full Iraqi control in October 2008, and no further U.S. combat deaths were reported there until November 2009, when Staff Sgt. Briand Williams of Sparks, Ga. died from injuries sustained when insurgents attacked his unit with small arms fire.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Wasit during 2010 – Maj. Ronald Daniel Culver Jr. of Shreveport, La. died in an IED attack in May, and Pvt. David Finch of Bath Springs, Tenn. was killed by sniper fire in December.

In the first six months of this year, however, seven American soldiers have been killed in hostile circumstances in Wasit – compared to four over the entire 2003-2010 period.

Apart from the five deaths in two attacks in June, the remaining two combat fatalities were 1st Lt. Omar Vasquez of Hamilton, N.J. and Pvt. Antonio Stiggins of Rio Rancho, N.M., who died of wounds sustained in an IED attack on their unit on April 22.

Wasit was also the location of the one non-combat U.S. death reported during June. The Pentagon said the circumstances surrounding the June 26 death of Sgt. Matthew Gallagher of North Falmouth, Mass. were under investigation.

Iranian hand:

The main threat facing U.S. forces as the withdrawal draws nearer appears to be coming from Iranian-linked Shi’ite groups.

One such organization, Kata’ib Hezbollah, claimed responsibility for the June 6 rocket attack in Baghdad that killed six.

An unnamed U.S. military official quoted by the Associated Press said the type of weapon used in the June 29 rocket attack near the border with Iran also bore the hallmarks of a Shi’ite militia closely linked to Iran.

The U.S. State Department designated Kata’ib Hezbollah as a foreign terrorist organization in mid-2009, accusing it of posing a threat to stability in Iraq and of responsibility for numerous attacks against U.S., Iraqi and other targets since 2007.

Other Iranian-linked Shi’ite extremist groups active in Iraq are Asaib al-Haq (“League of the Righteous”) and the Promise Day Brigade.

Jeffrey told reporters at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on Saturday that Kata’ib Hezbollah and Asaib al-Haq “are basically nothing more than thuggish clones of their IRGC-Qods Force masters,” referring to the notorious Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ unit responsible for operations abroad.

Jeffrey accused the IRGC-Qods Force of providing “significantly more lethal weapons systems” to groups inside Iraq.

Iranian Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi was quoted by the official IRNA news agency Saturday as dismissing as “baseless” U.S. claims about Iranian involvement in fatal attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq.

Vahidi is himself a former head of the IRGC-Qods Force and in that capacity is wanted by the Argentinian authorities on suspicion of involvement in the 1994 suicide truck bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, in which 85 people were killed.”

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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-envoy-blames-iran-following-deadly-mo

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I. Saudis Say They'll Go Nuclear If Iran Does!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By Henry J. Reske-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/SaudisWellGoNuclearIfIranDoes/2011/07/01/id/402192?s=al&promo_code=C8B9-1

II. Iranians Say Their Missiles Can Already Reach U.S. And Israeli Bases!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-ON June 28, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/iranian-guard-official-our-missiles-can-already-reach-u-s-and-israeli-bases/

III. U.N. Chief Endorses U.S.-Bashing ‘Anti-Terror’ Conference Hosted by Iran!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/un-chief-endorses-us-bashing-anti-terror

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The President Must Stop Voting 'Present" on Iran!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-president-must-stop-voting-“present”-on-iran/

The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake

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Eric Holder Putting CIA Officers at Risk!

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Posted on NewsMax.com-By Ronald Kessler-On July 4, 2011:

After reopening Justice Department investigations into use of CIA enhanced interrogation, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. admitted that he had not read the memos of his own department’s lawyers explaining why no criminal laws had been violated.

Now, John Dunham, the assistant U.S. attorney in Connecticut assigned by Holder to re-investigate the cases, has concluded that the lawyers who closed the case were correct, and no criminal charges are warranted.

The re-investigation subjected former CIA officers to the chilling prospect of going to jail. As seven former CIA directors who served under Republicans and Democrats have said publicly, the probe sent a message to CIA officers that if they take risks in defense of their country, they may suffer consequences.

“If criminal investigations closed by career prosecutors during one administration can so easily be reopened at the direction of political appointees in the next, declinations of prosecution will be rendered meaningless,” the former directors wrote to President Barack Obama.

Such actions create “an atmosphere of continuous jeopardy,” they wrote.

As former Director of Central Intelligence Jim Woolsey, who signed the letter, told me, “For the attorney general to reopen those in the way that he has, says very clearly to CIA officers that, even if your boss tells you to do something and shows you that he has Justice Department support, and even if you’re investigated and cleared, it’s not over.”

This is not the first time Holder has embarrassed himself while pursuing a clearly partisan political agenda:

  • Holder said he opposed Arizona’s illegal immigration legislation but had not read the new law.
  • Holder decided to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in U.S. District Court in New York without asking the police or the FBI whether that would jeopardize the safety of New Yorkers. In the face of bipartisan congressional opposition, he later had to back down.
  • Holder testified that he believes the CIA’s enhanced interrogation methods such as waterboarding constitute “torture,” but he said he had not read classified reports that describe what those techniques entail.

If Alberto Gonzales, President George W. Bush’s attorney general, had engaged in such amateurish conduct, the press would have run him out of town. Indeed, it pounced on him over lesser fumbling, and he had to resign.

In a sign that Holder has not learned anything from his missteps, he is continuing an investigation by Dunham into the deaths of two detainees, despite the fact that two U.S. attorneys have already reviewed the cases and declined prosecution.

Just as the patriots who created America 235 years ago today took risks, CIA officers and FBI agents risk their lives every day to ensure that we remain the land of the free. Placing CIA officers in jeopardy for clearly political purposes is an affront to the cause of justice and undermines the safety of us all.

  • Ronald Kessler is chief Washington correspondent of Newsmax.com. He is a New York Times best-selling author of books on the Secret Service, CIA, and FBI. His latest, "The Secrets of the FBI," is to be released in August. View his previous reports and get his dispatches sent to you free via email. Go Here Now.”

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http://www.newsmax.com/RonaldKessler/ericholder-cia-jameswoolsey-KhalidSheikhMohammed/2011/07/04/id/402386

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I. Holder Orders Probe of CIA Al-Qaida Interrogations!-Posted on NewsMax.com-By The Associated Press-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/CIAInterrogationProbe/2011/06/30/id/402089?s=al&promo_code=C891-1

II. Video: Obama Seeks Affirmation from Our Enemies!-Posted on CNSNews.com:

http://www.cnsnews.com/cnsnewstv/v/49289

III. Waterboarding is Not Unconstitutional-Posted on American Thinker-ByWilliam A. Levinson-May 14, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/05/waterboarding_is_not_unconstit.htm

IV. National security experts blast attorney general’s claim that lawyers are America’s ‘most effective terror-fighting weapon’!-Posted on The Daily Caller-By Neil Munro-Updated on June 20, 2011:

http://dailycaller.com/2011/06/20/national-security-experts-blast-attorney-generals-claim-that-lawyers-are-americas-most-effective-terror-fighting-weapon/2/

V. Time to Fire Eric Holder!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On June 24, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/time-to-fire-eric-holder/

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Obama and Holder's Hidden Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/obama-and-holders-hidden-agenda/

When Did the American People Elect Eric Holder Commander in Chief?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/when-did-the-american-people-elect-eric-holder-commander-in-chief/

Democrats Covertly Target CIA and Intelligence Community Officers!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/27/democrats-covertly-target-cia-and-intelligence-community-officers/

Does Human Rights Law Apply to Terrorists?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/does-human-rights-law-apply-to-terrorists/

Why should terrorists be given the extraordinary protections that you and I have as American citizens?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/why-should-terrorists-be-given-the-extraordinary-protections-that-you-and-i-have-as-american-citizens/

Could Steps That Team Obama Has Taken Be Emboldening Terrorists?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/could-steps-that-team-obama-has-taken-be-emboldening-terrorists/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Jake

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Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On July 3, 2011:

Still more White House officials, including Attorney General Eric Holder, have ties to an effort funded by billionaire George Soros to push for a new, “progressive” U.S. Constitution.

WND previously reported how President Obama’s regulatory czar, Cass Sunstein, maintained extensive ties to Soros’ funding, particularly with regard to a movement that openly seeks to create a “progressive” consensus on what the U.S. Constitution should provide by the year 2020.

Now, it has emerged that Lisa Brown, Obama’s staff secretary, served as executive director of the Soros-funded American Constitution Society, ACS, a progressive legal organization that was behind the Constitution scheme.

Brown’s White House responsibilities include managing the flow of information, advice and decision-making between staff members and Obama.

Also, Holder has been closely tied to the ACS, serving on the group’s board of directors and even keynoting their 10thanniversary national convention earlier this month.

In 2008, Holder also keynoted their convention. At that event, he reportedly urged young lawyers to get involved in the liberal legal network, saying America would soon be “run by progressives.”

“The pendulum is starting to swing. America run by progressives. Really. It’s about to happen. So we’re going to be looking for people who share our values,” he stated, as captured in a YouTube video.

In April 2005, Sunstein opened up a conference at Yale Law School entitled “The Constitution in 2020,” which sought to change the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by that year.

The event was sponsored by Soros’ Open Society Institute and the Center for American Progress, which is led by John Podesta, who served as co-chair of Obama’s presidential transition team. Podesta’s center is said to be highly influential in helping to craft White House policy.

The Yale event on the Constitution was also sponsored by the ACS, which has been described as a group meant to counter the work of the Federalist Society, which has been at the forefront of the push for a more conservative judiciary since its launch in 1982.

The ACS is the main organization behind the movement to ensure a more “progressive” Constitution. It has received more that $2.2 million from Soros’ Open Society since 2002.

Brown, Obama’s staff secretary, wrote an entry on the blog for the “Constitution 2020” conference at Yale Law School in which she decried conservative interpretations of the Constitution.

She wrote: “Conservatives have captured the intellectual initiative in popular and even much elite discourse. Their success in framing and communicating fundamental conservative principles has contributed to real legal and political change over the last two decades. Will we allow narrow and sterile conservative interpretations of our Constitution’s vital principles and protections to reshape our national character and control our daily lives? Our answer, on this weekend and on every day of the coming years, is a resounding No.”

Like Holder, Sunstein, meanwhile, has spoken at numerous ACS events. For example, he was a speaker at a November 2003 symposium by the American Constitution Society of the University of Chicago School of Law, where Sunstein was a professor.

But it was the 2005 Yale event led in part by Sunstein that has been described as jumpstarting the movement for a“progressive” constitution.

Jeffrey Rosen, a law professor at George Washington University, wrote in a 2009 New York Times Magazine piece about so-called liberal justice: “If this new understanding of legal liberalism can be traced back to a single moment, it was in April 2005, when the American Constitution Society and other progressive groups sponsored a conference at Yale Law School called ‘The Constitution in 2020.’”

New 'Bill of Rights':

The Constitution 2020 movement has plotted a strategy for how liberal lawyers and judges might bring such a constitutional regime into being.

Just before his appearance at the Yale conference, Sunstein wrote a blog entry in which he explained he “will be urging that it is important to resist, on democratic grounds, the idea that the document should be interpreted to reflect the view of the extreme right-wing of the Republican Party.”

Sunstein has also been pushing for a new socialist-style U.S. bill of rights that, among other things, would constitutionally require the government to offer each citizen a “useful” job in the farms or industries of the nation.

According to Sunstein’s new bill of rights, the U.S. government can also intercede to ensure every farmer can sell his product for a good return while the government is granted power to act against “unfair competition” and monopolies in business.

All this and more is contained in Sunstein’s 2004 book, “The Second Bill of Rights: FDR’S Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More than Ever.”

In the work, Sunstein advanced the radical notion that welfare rights, including some controversial inceptions, be granted by the state. His inspiration for a new bill of rights came from President Roosevelt’s 1944 proposal of a different, new set of rights.

In his book, Sunstein laid out what he wants to become the new bill of rights, which he calls the Second Bill of Rights:

His mandates include the following:

  • The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; 

  • The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; 

  • The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return that will give him and his family a decent living;

  • The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an atmosphere of freedom from unfair competition and domination by monopolies at home or abroad; 

  • The right of every family to a decent home; 

  • The right to adequate medical care and the opportunity to achieve and enjoy good health; 

  • The right to adequate protection from the economic fears of old age, sickness, accident and unemployment; 

  • The right to a good education.

On one page in his book, Sunstein claims he is “not seriously arguing” his bill of rights be “encompassed by anything in the Constitution,” but on the next page he states that “if the nation becomes committed to certain rights, they may migrate into the Constitution itself.”

Later in the book, Sunstein argues that “at a minimum, the second bill should be seen as part and parcel of America’s constitutive commitments.”

  • With research by Brenda J. Elliott”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=316621

Note:  The following videos, articles and/or blog posts reveal how our American Constitution faces a 'progressive' threat, with the help of George Soros and the main stream media, along with a video regarding our Republic-You Decide:

I. George Soros assault on U.S. Constitution: ‘White House officials involved in rewriting nation’s founding document’!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On March 27, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=280277

II. The Elite Are Not Even Trying To Hide How Much They Hate The U.S. Constitution Anymore!-Posted on InfoWars.com-By The American Dream-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.infowars.com/the-elite-are-not-even-trying-to-hide-how-much-they-hate-the-u-s-constitution-anymore/

III. Exposing the Mindset of Modern Liberalism!-Posted on Commentary Magazine-By Peter Wehner-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2011/07/05/exposing-the-mindset-of-modern-liberalism/

IV. Video: TIME Magazine Asks: ‘Does the Constitution Still Matter?’-Posted on PatriotPost.US-On June 24, 2011:

http://patriotpost.us/perspective/2011/06/24/time-magazine-asks-does-the-constitution-still-matter/

V. The Constitution Matters: ‘A reply to Time magazine’s Richard Stengel.’-Posted on National Review Online-By THOMAS SOWELL-On June 28, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270584/constitution-matters-thomas-sowell

VI. CNN Analysts Want Constitution Modernized; Bash Second Amendment Wording, Electoral College!-Posted on News Busters-By Matt Hadro-On June 27, 2011:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2011/06/27/cnn-analysts-want-constitution-modernized-bash-second-amendment-wording-

VII. Video: Who Are The Al Qaeda Seven?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxg7LmlEQg

VIII. Video: “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H8I9pLmuyyA#at=13

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Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Posted on The Washington Examiner-By Byron York, Chief Political Correspondent-On June 30, 2011:

This is a disaster,” said Mark Miller, the Wisconsin Senate Democratic leader, in February after Republican Gov. Scott Walker proposed a budget bill that would curtail the collective bargaining powers of some public employees. Miller predicted catastrophe if the bill were to become law—a charge repeated thousands of times by his fellow Democrats, union officials, and protesters in the streets.

Now the bill is law, and we have some very early evidence of how it is working. And for one beleaguered Wisconsin school district, it’s a godsend, not a disaster.

The Kaukauna School District, in the Fox River Valley of Wisconsin near Appleton, has about 4,200 students and about 400 employees. It has struggled in recent times and this year faced a deficit of $400,000. But after the law went into effect, at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, school officials put in place new policies they estimate will turn that $400,000 deficit into a $1.5 million surplus. And it’s all because of the very provisions that union leaders predicted would be disastrous.

In the past, teachers and other staff at Kaukauna were required to pay 10 percent of the cost of their health insurance coverage and none of their pension costs. Now, they’ll pay 12.6 percent of the cost of their coverage (still well below rates in much of the private sector) and also contribute 5.8 percent of salary to their pensions. The changes will save the school board an estimated $1.2 million this year, according to board President Todd Arnoldussen.

Of course, Wisconsin unions had offered to make benefit concessions during the budget fight. Wouldn’t Kaukauna’s money problems have been solved if Walker had just accepted those concessions and not demanded cutbacks in collective bargaining powers?

“The monetary part of it is not the entire issue,” says Arnoldussen, a political independent who won a spot on the board in a nonpartisan election. Indeed, some of the most important improvements in Kaukauna’s outlook are because of the new limits on collective bargaining.

In the past, Kaukauna’s agreement with the teachers union required the school district to purchase health insurance coverage from something called WEA Trust—a company created by the Wisconsin teachers union. “It was in the collective bargaining agreement that we could only negotiate with them,” says Arnoldussen. “Well, you know what happens when you can only negotiate with one vendor.” This year, WEA Trust told Kaukauna that it would face a significant increase in premiums.

Now, the collective bargaining agreement is gone, and the school district is free to shop around for coverage. And all of a sudden, WEA Trust has changed its position. “With these changes, the schools could go out for bids, and lo and behold, WEA Trust said, ‘We can match the lowest bid,’” says Republican state Rep. Jim Steineke, who represents the area and supports the Walker changes. At least for the moment, Kaukauna is staying with WEA Trust, but saving substantial amounts of money.

Then there are work rules. “In the collective bargaining agreement, high school teachers only had to teach five periods a day, out of seven,” says Arnoldussen. “Now, they’re going to teach six.” In addition, the collective bargaining agreement specified that teachers had to be in the school 37 1/2 hours a week. Now, it will be 40 hours.

The changes mean Kaukauna can reduce the size of its classes—from 31 students to 26 students in high school and from 26 students to 23 students in elementary school. In addition, there will be more teacher time for one-on-one sessions with troubled students. Those changes would not have been possible without the much-maligned changes in collective bargaining.

Teachers’ salaries will stay “relatively the same,” Arnoldussen says, except for higher pension and health care payments. (The top salary is around $80,000 per year, with about $35,000 in additional benefits, for 184 days of work per year—summers off.) Finally, the money saved will be used to hire a few more teachers and institute merit pay.

It is impossible to overstate how bitter and ugly the Wisconsin fight has been, and that bitterness and ugliness continues to this day with efforts to recall senators and an unseemly battle inside the state Supreme Court. But the new law is now a reality, and Gov. Walker recently told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the measure will gain acceptance with every day, week and month that goes by that the world doesn’t fall apart.”

In the Kaukauna schools, the world is not only not falling apart—it’s getting better.

Source:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/06/union-curbs-rescue-wisconsin-school-district

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I. Obama's labor union problem!

Posted on CNNMoney-By Nina Easton-On June 30, 2011:

FORTUNE—How many ways are there to sidestep Congress’ refusal to make it easier for unions to organize? Let us count them. No, better than that, let’s add yet another example—this one involving Delta Airlines—to the growing pile of end-runs around Congress to reward a constituency this White House badly needs at its side in next year’s presidential election.

Labor leaders bet big on an Obama victory in 2008, hoping Congress would enact, and the Democratic president would sign, “card-check”—legislation designed to turn around labor’s sagging membership rolls by ending secret-ballot elections in organizing drives. But card-check has never been able to pass the Senate—not even when Democrats took over Congress in 2006. Instead, presidential appointees friendly to labor are deploying agency muscle.

The latest example is taking place largely out of sight—at the National Mediation Board, a little known agency that oversees union elections for railroads and airlines. Late in 2010, flight attendants for the nonunion Delta and its unionized Northwest Airlines (acquired in a 2008 merger) voted thumbs down on joining the Association of Flight Attendants. The board—where two of the three members are former top union officials—reacted by investigating Delta for “interference” in the election, prompted by union claims that the company circulated too much literature.

Another vote is likely to follow, even though this was the third time Delta (DAL, Fortune 500) flight attendants had rejected the union. And here’s another twist: The union lost that November vote even after the NMB changed the rules—in place since the 1930s—to require that only a majority of those who vote, not a majority of the workplace, needs to sign off on unionization.

“They voted under new rules that the unions asked for,” Delta CEO Richard Anderson told Fortune via email. “They’ve done everything asked of them. And because they said no to union representation, their decisions aren’t being respected; they’re being held hostage.”

Two years after the merger, flight attendants are still operating under different pay scales, and face restrictions on transferring to new locations or changing jobs.

On average, nonunion Delta flight attendants take home 12% more than their unionized Northwest counterparts (based on a typical 75-hour-a-month schedule); they enjoy more generous profit-sharing and retirement matches from the company; and they don’t have to dole out $43 a month in union dues. (Delta ranked No. 1 among airlines in this year’s Fortune Most Admired Companies list).

Delta’s pilots and flight superintendents have been unionized for decades, but 85% of its workforce is nonunion—and employees ranging from meteorologists to aircraft maintenance technicians have turned their backs on unions nine times since the merger.

The Delta flight attendant vote offers a telling microcosm of why labor is so desperate to change the rules to make it easier to organize. Only 11.9% of all workers (and only 6.9% of private sector employees) belonged to unions in 2010, compared to 20% in 1983. In the Delta vote, the flight attendants union not only lost 13,000 potential new members, but also 7,000 Northwest flight attendants already paying dues. That’s a big financial hit.

Changing the rules is a strategy also deployed by the higher-profile National Labor Relations Board, where the President opted for a recess appointment of union lawyer Craig Becker after it became clear his confirmation would be blocked by Republicans (backed by alarmed business groups), along with a handful of Democrats. Last week, NLRB proposed sweeping new rules cutting the amount of time available to employers to make their case prior to a union vote—an action the Chamber of Commerce rightly denounced as a “another not so cleverly disguised effort to restrict the ability of employers to express their views” during a union campaign.

That move followed an NLRB action in April accusing Washington-based Boeing (BA, Fortune 500) of illegally investing in a $2 billion assembly facility for its 787 Dreamliner in South Carolina, creating 1,000 new jobs in that right-to-work state. The NLRB claims Boeing is retaliating against striking machinists at its Washington state factories. But South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley more accurately describes the NLRB action as an unprecedented attempt to mandate where a private company can create jobs.

Earlier this month AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka President warned Democratic politicians that they had better deliver for organized labor if they want financial help in the 2012 elections. “For too long, we have been left after Election Day holding a canceled check waving it about—‘Remember us? Remember us? Remember us?’...Well, I don’t know about you, but I’ve had a snootful of that shit,” Trumka declared. “If [political] leaders are not blocking the wrecking ball and advancing the interests of working families across the country, working people will not support them.”

It’s pretty obvious that’s the message the White House and its allies are hearing. But with the economy stuck in mud, it would make more sense to listen to these telling comments from Delta’s Anderson:

“Attacking American businesses directly undermines the administration’s stated goal of encouraging job creation and economic growth. Delta has created new jobs, but unfortunately this environment makes it difficult to predict what we will be able to do going forward.”

Source:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/30/news/economy/obama_labor_unions.fortune/index.htm

II. Biden Spews Communist Rhetoric at Union Rally!-Posted on GodFather Politics-By DOMINIC-On July 4, 2011:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/155/biden-spews-communist-rhetoric-at-union-rally/

III. National Education Association gives President Obama an early endorsement!-Posted on The Chicago Tribune-By Tara Malone, Tribune reporter-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/education/ct-met-nea-endorsement-vote-20110705,0,612955.story

IV. Governor Walker Signs Balanced Budget with No Tax Increases!-Posted on MacIver News Service-On June 26, 2011:

http://maciverinstitute.com/2011/06/governor-walker-signs-balanced-budget-with-no-tax-increases/

V. Victory in Wisconsin, but the Fight Goes On!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On June 16, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/06/16/morning-bell-victory-in-wisconsin-but-the-fight-goes-on/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

VI. Networks that Excused Nazi Signs for Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law Now Skim Over Its Vindication!-Posted on The Media Research Center-By Scott Whitlock-On June 15, 2011:

http://www.mrc.org/biasalert/2011/20110615125320.aspx

VII. The Judas Media!-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=43b350b9f6-EO_04_27_20114_27_2011&utm_medium=email

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Is President Obama inciting riots across the US?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/is-president-obama-inciting-riots-across-the-us/

Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Posted on GodFather Politics-By DOMINIC-On July 4, 2011:

Vice President Joe Biden visited Las Vegas this past Friday to speak at a Teamsters Rally. Biden fired up the more than 1,500 attendees with inflammatory remarks and misstatements against Republicans such as this,

“(Republicans) really believe that a strong U.S. economy rests upon an ever increasing accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of a few enlightened guys they think are smarter than you are,” Biden said. “You are the only thing that stands between the barbarians at the gate and them taking it all over.”

You’ve got to be kidding me, Biden. Are you sure you’re not talking about the Democrat party here? The Democrats and the Liberals are the ones who advocate raiding the private sector to fill their D.C. coffers with wealth and power only to redistribute it in such a way that enslaves a voting bloc and advances their own “enlightened” agenda.

Hard-working men and women like the Teamsters have been duped into believing the lies of the Left for years. The Las Vegas Review Journal quotes Rudy Gardner, 55, of Washington, D.C., as saying…

“I just liked what he was saying about how the rich are trying to kill the rest of the world… People are tired of what is going on.”

Dear Rudy, I’ve got news for you. You’ve got no idea “what is going on.” It’s the rich that create jobs, innovate, and make the world prosper. The Big Government Socialists, however, are living like parasites that will eventually kill their host. Those are the bad guys, Rudy.

And Biden knows better. He’s not stupid. He knows if he says the right things he will get the Unions to vote Democrat again in 2012.

I just hope conservatives will set the record straight and stop the Communist Rhetoric from destroying what’s left of our Republic.”

Source:

http://godfatherpolitics.com/155/biden-spews-communist-rhetoric-at-union-rally/

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I. Obama's Final Solution!

Posted on American Thinker-By James Lewis-On July 3, 2011:

President Barack Obama is the most dogmatic and dangerous leftist we have ever seen in this country.  He is not hard to understand.  Obama is very simple. 

All his ideas were frozen in concrete a hundred years ago by Marxist-Leninism around 1920. 

In Dreams from My Father, Obama celebrates third-world Socialism, but that’s just Marxist-Leninism with a racial overlay.  Obama’s ideas are all old and discredited.  They have failed from the Soviets to Cambodia.  North Korea is facing another mass famine today, so terrible that it can’t even feed its own army. 

That is yet another failure of Marxist-Leninism.  Over and over and over again.  For radicals it doesn’t matter.  You have to break a lot of eggs to make that omelet.

Just as Jimmy Carter kicked over the Shah, a crucial pillar of support for American and Israeli security thirty years ago, Obama has just done with Egypt. 

By forcing Mubarak to resign, Obama has sabotaged the Egypt-Israel peace treaty of the last 30 years.

Turkey has also radicalized, and nobody in the American media seems to be taking notice.  They must know the facts, but they are not telling us.

The United States is standing by or actively sabotaging the moderate Arab states while Turkey and Egypt fall into the“Death to Israel!” camp.  Those are the three biggest states, with three of the most modern armies in the Muslim world. 

It means that some 200 million people from moderate or friendly states have joined the rejectionist camp, and that Obama has actually reversed the progress toward peace made in 30 years.

It is significant that Jimmy Carter hasn’t said a word about the breakdown of a treaty he “negotiated” (or rather, Anwar Sadat and Menahim Begin did), which is the only foreign policy success of his presidency.  Jimmy Carter being who he is, his silence speaks volumes.  Carter is now a Hamas and Hezb’allah supporter. 

The only formal peace treaty of the last 30 years will be a dead letter if the Muslim Brotherhood takes over Egypt.

The window of opportunity for attacking Iran’s fast-moving nuclear and missile development has now closed.  This is equivalent to the Allies in World War II allowing Hitler to develop nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.  In the field of nuclear proliferation, if you don’t preempt, you are enabling proliferation

Obama has now reversed sixty years of American and Western efforts to reverse rogue nuclear proliferation.  The horse of Armageddon is out of the barn.

Read that sentence again if you didn’t quite get it the first time, because it’s the biggest, wildest gamble an American president has ever taken.

It is a world catastrophe, and as far as I can tell, it has been done with malice aforethought. 

At the same time, Obama has demanded, in public, that Israel give up defensible borders.  The so-called “1967 borders”are in fact the ceasefire lines of the 1948 War of Independence, which left Israel nine miles wide at the waist.  Obama has therefore actively legitimized sixty years of radical Islamist assaults designed to destroy Israel.

This must be purposeful.

When Obama publicly pushed Mubarak out of power, in the most flagrant act of public imperialism since the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia, scuttlebutt is that there was a heated argument with Hillary behind the scenes.  Obama must have been told what he was really doing in pushing over the biggest pillar of peace in the Middle East. 

I’ll bet he was told a hundred times by Admiral Mullen and General Petraeus, even by Hillary, and he did it anyway.  Malice aforethought.

Obama is thereby active aiding and abetting the whole “Death to Israel!” movement in the Muslim world.  The mullahcracy in Tehran celebrated the fall of the Egypt-Israel peace treaty, by sending two modern warships through the Suez Canal, where their anti-ship missiles can now deny maritime superiority to American and NATO vessels in the Eastern Mediterranean, where Israel happens to live.  At the same time, another phony “peace flotilla” against Israel’s coast is being organized, with Code Pink and Hamas elements involved. 

One of the ships is named The Audacity of Hope—against which Obama has made no public protest.  It is filled with Obama’s personal and political friends, just like the last one was.  

Egypt is no longer enforcing the arms blockade against Gaza, so that Hamas will get a flow of missiles if the “peace”flotilla succeeds.  The Israeli Navy that protects the coast is now vulnerable to Chinese anti-ship missiles positioned in Egypt, Gaza, and Lebanon.

Lt. Col (ret) Chuck Devore projects a coming blockade against Israel’s two main Mediterranean ports, cutting the major lifeline to Israel’s economy.  Egypt has stopped natural gas deliveries already.

Against American Jews, Obama is running his usual Big Lie game.  Liberal Jews are falling for it, because they never look at facts.  They just listen to the feel-good rhetoric. When war comes, they will blame the victim, because they will not be able to face themselves.

These moves will no doubt lead to a major war in the Middle East, which DeVore predicts for September of this year.  The purpose of Obama’s moves, at best, is to put so much murderous pressure on Israel as to force major territorial concessions to the radical rejectionist front.  That will put Obama in the driver’s seat.  By forcing Israel’s back to the wall, Obama and the left (in cahoots with radical Islamists) believe they can dictate a “permanent peace.”  

Obama wants to be the hero who created peace, forever and ever, in the Middle East.  As long as Israel is prepared to surrender as a defensible nation.

In the worst case, Obama is prepared to see the violent destruction of Israel. 

That’s what he is gambling with, along with a giant hole in NATO defenses in the eastern Mediterranean and Europe.  Obama is a high-stakes gambler with other people’s lives.

This leaves Netanyahu and the Israeli government in a deadly double-bind.  Israel’s back is against the wall.  Its strongest option is to go nuclear when Iran does.  Israel can do that simply by (a) making an official statement that it is a nuclear power, or (b) follow India and Pakistan thirty years ago by exploding a bomb.  However, if it makes either of those moves, Obama and the United States will turn against Israel at the United Nations, and place nuclear maniac Iranon the same moral footing as modern and democratic Israel.  Israel has consistently avoided revealing its nuclear power to avoid just this kind of dilemma.

One rational choice open to Israel is to defy Obama and attack Iran directly—Iran being the most suicidal regime since World War II Japan. 

Throughout human history there has never been a suicidal ideology equipped with nuclear weapons and missiles.  In the next six months it will probably happen.  When it does, the United States will do nothing.  The Arabs will go nuclear to protect themselves against Iran’s Shiite imperialism armed with a martyrdom creed and Armageddon weapons.

Since Israel’s nuclear weapons are only to be used as a last resort, it is possible that Israel will turn them against its most dangerous and suicidal tormentor, Iran.  With thirty years to prepare, no doubt Israel has thoroughly explored that Samson Option. 

However, Obama is quite capable of using the US military to protect Iranian nuclear weapons, rather than trying to stamp them out.

Nuclear proliferation to the Arab states is now a certainty.  The Sunni Arabs are far more afraid of Iranian aggression than they fear Israel.  Israel has no aggressive intentions, and they all know it.  The Arabs never felt they needed nukes before.  But when Iran gets its nukes and missiles, the Saudis and Gulf Arabs will import them from Pakistan, possibly along with Pakistani army units in case of Iranian ground invasion.  Iran’s Shiite radicals believe they should control the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and during the Khomeini years, they tried to overthrow the Saudi monarchy during the hajj.

The Pentagon has just released a humiliating admission that Obama’s vaunted anti-missile defense for Europe against Iranian missiles  is never going to work.  George W. Bush negotiated workable anti-missile missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic, in the path of Iranian missiles to Europe’s capital cities.  Obama sabotaged that plan, leaving Aegis naval ships in various places as a fig leaf.  The Pentagon has admitted that Europe is now undefended.  Obama’s purpose may be to force Europe to turn against Israel at the United Nations.

The Iranians are blatantly celebrating, and they are now explaining that both the Little Satan and the Great Satan (the United States) will soon be at their mercy.

This is Obama’s Final Solution to the Jewish problem.  Charles Krauthammer has defined it eloquently, but not completely.

Israel is now surrounded by lethal enemies on all sides.  Egypt has collapsed.  Lebanon has surrendered to Hezb’allah.  Iran and Syria are in cahoots to achieve Khomeini’s absolutist aims.  Israel’s Mediterranean coast is now threatened by Chinese anti-ship missiles, and its two lifeline ports are vulnerable to a blockade.  Even Jordan is in the grip of a struggle among radical Islamists, Bedouins, and Palestinians. 

If all of Israel’s enemies launched their missiles at the same time, the only option for Israel would be to go nuclear.

If Obama wanted to deliberately sabotage American power and Western security in the Middle East, he could have done nothing more destructive.  What Obama has done to the American economy, he has now done to the Middle East.  The only rational purpose for this strategic sabotage is to place all the decision power in Obama’s own hands.  The irrational purpose, if there is one, is to destroy the security of the United States and its closest allies in the Middle East and southern Europe.  

All of America’s allies, including Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, must be worried sick.  If the United States destroys its own European defenses, what is to stop it from destroying its Asian defenses?  Just as the Arab countries will soon go nuclear, so will Japan, South Korea, and possibly Taiwan.

By meeting with Ahmadinejad, Russia and China have jumped on what they judge to be the winning side.  They have been sitting on the fence, because they don’t want an Islamic martyr regime with nukes next door.  Iran is only one hour’s flight by airplane from Russia.  Yet today, they have switched to an active pro-Iranian position. 

It is the biggest communist gamble since World War II and Mao’s Great Leap Forward.

Obama’s only skill is to be a community agitator, Alinsky-style.  To that end he has his own house Jews, like Southern plantations used to have their own house blacks.  They pop up all over leftist fronts like J Street and other fronts. 

The media try to legitimize those frauds, just like they legitimized a small minority of radical feminists decades ago.

What we are seeing today with Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin today is a “high-tech lynching,” just as Clarence Thomas said at his Senate hearing about the way the media abused him with rumors of sexual misbehavior.  High-tech lynching.  Keep that in mind, because that’s who these people are.  They don’t lynch people by accident, but with a very clear purpose.  They are ruthless, and they have no decency. 

Domestically their purpose is to intimidate you and me, just as the KKK did in the Jim Crow South.

Media lynchings create an atmosphere of fear by hanging specific scapegoats from a tree. 

Watch it happen to Palin, Bachmann, Herman Cain, and everybody who becomes uppity against Obama.  That is how the left aims to win a second term that Obama desperately wants.

Obama’s Jewish problem is the existence of millions of Jews who feel loyal to (a) a genuine belief in God, or (b) a genuine love for Israel, or (c) both. 

Obama is fine with self-labeled Jews if they are atheist leftists, and they are willing to risk Israel being erased from the planet.  Some of his best friends are Jews In Name Only, as long as they are detached from Israel.  And other religions, natch.

For Obama, America and Israel should not exist.  They get in the way of his utopian nightmares.  That’s Obama’s Final Solution to the Jewish Problem.

It’s also his solution to every other problem.

Obama is fundamentally a very simple, extreme ideologue.  He has only one answer.

Everything Obama does comes straight from the most stilted and destructive clichés of the left.  The man has never had an original idea in his life, and wouldn’t recognize one if it were served up on a plate with arugula.  He is intellectually locked in concrete.

Free nations and free faiths are still the targets of the totalitarian left, because America and Israel prove them wrong every day they survive and thrive, and make life better for millions of people.  The signs now look more dangerous than they have in the last sixty years.  The totalitarian left is on the march again, with Islamic radicalism as its ally.

Israel’s fate is therefore our own future as well.”

Source:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/07/obamas_final_solution.html

II. Obama's labor union problem!-Posted on CNNMoney-By Nina Easton-On June 30, 2011:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/30/news/economy/obama_labor_unions.fortune/index.htm

III. Top spy points finger at Panetta friend!-Posted on America’s Surival-By Wes Vernon-On June 20, 2011:

http://www.usasurvival.org/ck06.20.2011.html

IV. U.S. Designates Israel as Country That Tends ‘To Promote, Produce, or Protect’ Terrorists!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Edwin Mora-On June 29, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/us-designates-israel-country-tends-promo

V. Is the ‘Peace Process’ the Road to War?-Posted on Israel National News-By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/145221#replies

VI. Obama Inspired Ship to Join IHH Gaza Flotilla!-Posted on Israel National News-By Gavriel Queenann-On June 3, 2011:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144733#replies

VII. U.N. Chief Endorses U.S.-Bashing ‘Anti-Terror’ Conference Hosted by Iran!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Patrick Goodenough-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/un-chief-endorses-us-bashing-anti-terror

VIII. Iran sends submarines to Red Sea in move that could anger Israel!-Posted on Israel News-By Reuters-On June 7, 2011:

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/iran-sends-submarines-to-red-sea-in-move-that-could-anger-israel-1.366500

IX. Obama's DoD Nominee Caught in 1-World Scheme!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On June 21, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=313305

X. Panetta: Obama Can Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On June 13, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/panetta-obama-can-use-military-without-c

XI. Podesta: Obama Can Use ‘Armed Forces’ To Push Progressive Agenda-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On November 18, 2010:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/podesta-obama-can-use-armed-forces-to-push-progressive-agenda/

Note What follows are web sites that contain a series of videos that bring to light a most startling revelation, which is that the collapse of Soviet Communism was in fact a staged deception to mislead the West and open the way for Russia's domination of the free world, along with exposing KGB connections in America-You Decide:

I. The Untold Story About The Collapse of Communism!-Posted on YouTube.com-By TheSpiritOfTruth-On May 19, 2006:

https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=F37A04E836694EF6&annotation_id=annotation_972225&feature=iv

II. The KGB Connections in America!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGfN3WRA0Vc&feature=watch-now-button&wide=1

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Progressives and Communists Are Out of the Closet Together!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/progressives-and-communists-are-out-of-the-closet-together/

Is President Obama inciting riots across the US?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/is-president-obama-inciting-riots-across-the-us/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Is Israel the next Arab Facebook Campaign?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/03/30/is-israel-the-next-arab-facebook-campaign/

The President Must Stop Voting “Present” on Iran!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/the-president-must-stop-voting-“present”-on-iran/

The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/the-military-pays-the-price-for-obama’s-agenda/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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They walked in tandem, each of the ninety-two students filing into the already crowded auditorium. With their rich maroon gowns flowing and the traditional caps, they looked almost as grown up as they felt..

Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and Moms freely brushed away tears.

This class would NOT pray during the commencements, not by choice, but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it.

The principal and several students were careful to stay within the guidelines allowed by the ruling. They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families.

The speeches were nice, but they were routine until the final speech received a standing ovation.

A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone. He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then, it happened.

All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly SNEEZED !!!!

The student on stage simply looked at the audience and said,

'GOD BLESS YOU'

And he walked off the stage...

The audience exploded into applause. This graduating class had found a unique way to invoke God's blessing on their future with or without the court's approval.

Isn't this a wonderful story? Pass it on to all your friends.........and

GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

This is a true story; it happened at the University of Maryland .



Oh, how I wish THIS one would take off and FILL the whole Country!!
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Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 2, 2011:

A federal court in Tacoma, Wash., has been asked to order that the names of signatories of a state petition seeking to protect traditional marriage be redacted to protect them from death threats from homosexual activists.

“What is becoming increasingly evident,” said James Bopp of the James Madison Center, “is that some groups and individuals, certainly a minority, have resorted to advancing their cause, not by debating the merits of the issue but by discouraging participation in the democratic process itself.

“The First Amendment was designed to ensure that all groups, whatever their persuasion, could participate fully in our republic,” he said. That breaks down when some groups or individuals are cowed into silence for fear that they or their families will be targeted or threatened if they speak up.”

How does the nation get into this condition? Read “The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised as Freedom”

The issue is the some 138,000 Washington state residents who signed a petition in 2009 to repeal a law that gave same-sex partners all the legal rights of married couples. The petition forced a referendum vote in November of that year in which voters decided to sustain the law.

But because the state considers such petitions “public records,” homosexual activists are demanding the names and addresses of the signers in order to post them on the Internet and “publicize on their web sites, in searchable format, the identities of every person who signed the … petition,” according to a new filing seeking nondisclosure of the names.

The groups announcing the plans were KnowThyNeighbor.org and WhoSigned.org, according to the filing.

The filing on behalf of Protect Marriage Washington explains the real problem is the documentation of actual threats that have been made against those who support traditional marriage, a litany of what the Los Angeles Times described as a “vengeful campaign.”

Among the documented threats:

“I will kill you and your family.”


“Oh my God, This woman is so f---ing stupid. Someone please shoot her in the head, again and again. And again.”


“I’m going to kill the pastor.”


“If I had a gun I would have gunned you down along with each and every other supporter…”


“We’re going to kill you.”


“You’re dead. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon … you’re dead.”


“I’m a gay guy who owns guns, and he’s my next target.”


“I warn you, I know how to kill, I’m an ex-special forces person.”


“Get ready for retribution all you bigots.”


"Burn their f---ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers.”

The evidence included churches marred by graffiti, swastikas on lawns and walls, bricks thrown through windows and doors, adhesive poured into locks, suspicious packages of white powder sent in the mail – “all for nothing more than supporting traditional marriage.”

“On two occasions, both in Washington state, a group called Bash Back! boldly accepted credit for vandalizing houses of worship, writing in one case, ‘when we [graffitied your walls] and glued all the doors shut, we threw open our own doors and tattooed those words on hour (sic) hearts. Welcome to our world s---heads.’”

According to the filing, “When some activists could sense that intimidation was not working … they resorted to threatening the families – even the children – of supporters. In one case, the perpetrator threated to ‘kill’ the supporter’s child and the whole family; in another, to ‘harm’ the supporter’s family; and in another, to rape the supporters’ daughter.”

The reason for the demand for the names and addresses was made clear earlier, according to the filing.

“In an obvious attempt to dissuade people from signing the … petition, two homosexual advocacy groups – Massachusetts-based KnowThyNeighbor.org and Washington-based WhoSigned.org – announced their intentions to obtain the identities of every person who signed the petition; to publicly expose the persons on their respective web sites; and to make their web sites ‘accessible and searchable.’

“Dave Ammons, communications director for Defendant Sam Reed, posted a blog entry on the Secretary of State’s web site explaining that the alleged reason for wanting to publicly expose … petition signers was to get ‘voters to think twice about signing’ … and to allow opponents to ‘be able to talk with their neighbors and townspeople who signed to explain the ramifications.’”

Homosexual promoters have stated publicly they want to post the personal contact information on the Internet so that activists can find them for “uncomfortable conversations.”

“We’ve got affidavits from more than 60 people who were targeted, harassed. There are newspaper reports of more cases. This seems to be a concerted campaign … to attack and stifle the opposition through harassment,” Bopp earlier told WND.

When the court case originated, a judge ruled in favor of the signers’ privacy, but the ruling was overturned by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The U.S. Supreme Court then said that the petitions are open records in general but did not determine the specifics of this controversy.

The current request is for a federal court ruling that instructs Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed not to publish the names and addresses.

According to a statement from Bopp, “The question is, Why do they want them? Not only is it unclear what purpose it would serve to release the names at this point, there is also a very good reason not to release them. Together with its briefing to the court, Protect Marriage Washington presented hundreds of pages of documented examples of threats and reprisals directed at supporters of traditional marriage, not only in Washington but across the country. The evidence includes death threats, extensive vandalism, overt threats of destruction of property, arson and threats of arson, intimidating emails and phone calls, hate mail, mailed envelopes containing white suspicious powder, blacklists, loss of employment and job opportunities, and gross expressions of anti-religious bigotry, including vandalism and threats directed at religious institutions and religious adherents – all for doing nothing more than standing up for traditional marriage.”

The federal court filing said, “The evidence compiled is overwhelming in demonstrating a ‘pattern of threats’ and ‘specific manifestations of public hostility’ … against those who have, often out of a sense of religious conviction, voiced opposition to the homosexual movement. At their core, however, these reprisals are not so much anti-religions as anti-democratic.’

“When dialogue and disagreement degenerate into the thuggery of intimidation and retaliation, civility is lost, and with it our liberties,” it warned.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317681

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Manning The Barricades for Virtue and America!-Posted on The Patriot Updae-By Floyd Brown-On July 2, 2011:

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/manning-the-barricades-for-virtue-and-america

II. India’s Health Minister Calls Homosexuality a Western ‘Disease’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By MUNEEZA NAQVI, Associated Press-On July 5, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/indias-health-minister-calls-homosexuali

III. Senator Says Defense of Marriage Act ‘On Wrong Side of History!’-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Katie Bell-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/senator-says-defense-marriage-act-wrong

IV.  NFL Pro Bowler David Tyree Doesn't Regret Gay Marriage Stance!-Posted on Charisma News Online-By Jennifer LeClaire-On June 29, 2011:

http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/31424-nfl-pro-bowler-david-tyree-doesnt-regret-gay-marriage-stance

V. Obama Praises Homosexual ‘Spouses’ in Gay Gathering at White House!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Fred Lucas-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-praises-homosexual-spouses-gay-gat

VI. We Need Marriage: ‘Gay marriage is a distraction from the real issue!’-Posted on National Review Online-By MONA CHAREN-On June 28, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270592/we-need-marriage-mona-charen

VII. NOM Pledges $2 Million to Reverse NY Gay Marriage Law!-Posted on Charisma-By Jennifer LeClaire-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/31394

VIII. Presidential Candidate Bachmann Would Back Federal Amendment Banning Gay Marriage!-Posted on Christian Post-By Lawrence D. Jones, Christian Post Reporter-On June 26, 2011:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/presidential-candidate-bachmann-would-back-federal-amendment-banning-gay-marriage-51592/

IX. NY Catholic Bishops Now Expect Efforts ‘to Enact Gov’t Sanctions Against Churches’!-Posted on CNSNews.com-By Terence P. Jeffrey-On June 25, 2011:

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/ny-catholic-bishops-now-expect-efforts-e

X. David Tyree: Gay Marriage Will Lead To 'Anarchy'!-Posted on MyFoxNY.com- By NewsCore-On June 16, 2011:

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/david-tyree-gay-marriage-will-lead-to-anarchy-20110616-ncx

XI. County Democratic chairman distances party from official's KKK reference!-Posted on VCStar.com-By Timm Herdt-On June 29, 2011:

http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/jun/29/county-democratic-chairman-distances-party-from/?partner=popular

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Obamanites Get Violent in Support of the Agenda!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/obamanites-get-violent-in-support-of-the-agenda/

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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THIS " STRAGGLE " HAS BEEN GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY SINCE 1946. NOW IS COMING TO A HEAD.

THERE ARE OVER 30 ORGANIZATIONS IN THE US TRYING TO BRING DOWN AMERICA, AS WE KNOW IT,

AND WHAT WE FOUGHT FOR. THE UN MAYBE ONE OF THEM! WE IN THE TEA PARTY NEED TO KNOW

WHO TO TRUST. TEA PARTY MEMBERS NEED TO LOOK IN TO THESE GROUPS, AND PEOPLE IN OFFICE

IN THE  U.S.GOVERNMENT ~ AND TELL US MEMBERS

OF THE T. PARTY. THIS IS WHAT YOU SHOULD BE

DOING NOW. LOTS OF WORK TO DO, BEFORE 2012.4063341002?profile=originalBE CAREFUL WHEN YOU GO TO MEETINGS, SEE WHO

IS TAKING NOTES .

 

 

GOD BLESS AND GUARD AMERICA !!

 



 

 

 

 

 

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Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 2, 2011:

Two members of Congress have begun to express doubts about Barack Obama’s eligibility in statements that constituents have forwarded to WND, including one from Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who said, “Any circumvention of these constitutional requirements would be a slap in the face to the rule of law and our very democracy.”

The second comment came from Rep. Blake Farenthold, R-Texas, who told a constituent that it appears the courts should be resolving the issue, not Congress, but he wonders what claims can be brought to Obama’s doorstep.

The comments suggest that members of Congress are breaking away from recommendations from the Congressional Research Service on how to dismiss such questions.

WND reported earlier how Jerry W. Mansfield, an information research specialist in the Knowledge Services Group of the CRS, issued a memo to prepare members of Congress to rebut and defuse questions constituents were asking regarding Obama’s presidential eligibility under the natural-born citizen requirement of the Constitution.

WND has posted the CRS memo on Scribd.com for download.

Attached to the memo was an attack piece published by FactCheck.org to dismiss claims that Obama’s short-form Certification of Live Birth, originally published during the 2008 presidential campaign by DailyKos.com, was a forgery.

When Obama released an image of a Hawaiian “Certificate of Live Birth” on April 27, after years of stating that the document was not available, the Hawaii’s Department of Health and governor’s office refused to confirm for WND that the image released was an accurate representation of the state’s records.

WND previously has reported statements from members of Congress that apparently are based on arguments presented in the material provided by CRS, most of them obfuscating the difference between “citizen” and “natural -born citizen” and simply making assumptions about Obama for which the evidence is lacking.

Goodlatte’s comments were reported on the From the Trenches World Report. His office declined to respond to many requests from WND over a period of several days to elaborate on them.

According to writer Mark Schumacher at From the Trenches, Goodlatte’s constituent response was that a president’s qualifications – a natural-born citizen, 35 years of age and a resident in the U.S. for 14 years – have “traditionally been verified by public record and vetting done by the parties. It is crucial that any president-elect meet the eligibility criteria as determined by the U.S. Constitution and provide the necessary assurances of eligibility.”

But he said there is no office or agency in the government that now does any sort of examination of the qualifications.

“I believe that there should be a more formal process of review and validation as a matter of routine certification of candidates. The office of the presidency is undermined if Americans don’t have confidence that the candidates for the highest office in the land are qualified for the position as required by the Constitution,” he explained.

While he noted Obama “recently released to the public the long-form version of his birth certificate,” … concerns “have been raised about the validity of the birth certificate as well as the claim that the president has been using a Social Security number previously issued.”

He said those concerns have been raised “with the relevant oversight committees in Congress and if there is enough evidence and more experts reach the same conclusions then these claims will lead to an investigation.”

He noted his support for a previous proposal in Congress that would have required a candidate’s birth certificate and other documentation “necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility.”

“The United States is a nation based on the rule of law. The Constitution clearly sets forth the qualifications for the office of president, members of the House and Senate, and members of the federal judiciary. Any circumvention of these constitutional requirements would be a slap in the face to the rule of law and our very Democracy. I believe that our Constitution is a solemn contract between the American people and their government,” he wrote.

That congressional proposal was by U.S. Rep. Bill Posey, whose H.R. 1503 said:

“To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require the principal campaign committee of a candidate for election to the office of President to include with the committee’s statement of organization a copy of the candidate’s birth certificate, together with such other documentation as may be necessary to establish that the candidate meets the qualifications for eligibility to the Office of President under the Constitution.”

Farenthold’s comments came via email in response to a constituent questioning Obama’s qualifications. The email was forwarded to WND. His office also declined to respond to WND requests for comment.

The email said that while “a lot about Obama doesn’t pass the smell test,” the concern was about what Congress has the authority to do.

“Many of the issues, like the birth certificate, are within the jurisdiction of the courts, not Congress. Our power over the president is impeachment for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors.’ We learned from Clinton that lying, even under oath, probably doesn’t rise to those standards ... so I’m looking for the crime. Perhaps his violation of the war powers act? It’s something my colleagues and I are considering,” the email said.

There appear to be a growing number of questions about Obama. Instead of resolving issues, the image that Obama released to the public on April 27 has raised new ones. For example, during an interview by NBC News’ national investigative correspondent Michael Isikoff, former Hawaii health department chief Chiyome Fukino, who has claimed to have examined the “original” documentation in the state archives, said the original document was “half typed and half handwritten.”

But statement conflicts with the document that Obama released on April 27 from the White House, which his staff members described as “proof positive” of a Hawaiian birth. Only the signatures and dates are “hand-written,” not half the document.

http://whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

Also, since then, a long list of experts have challenged the validity of the document Obama released. An extensive report from Mara Zebest, who has contributed as author or editor to dozens of books on computer software, reported this image clearly is a fraud.

In fact, with the release of an image of the Hawaiian “Certificate of Live Birth” April 27, some critics charge that he proved his ineligibility, because the document lists Barack Obama Sr. as his father.

A significant number of analysts have concluded that the understanding of “natural-born citizen” at the time it was used in the Constitution was a person born of citizen parents. Obama Jr.’s father was not a citizen of the United States.

The Constitution states: “No Person except a natural-born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President.”

Since the term “natural-born citizen” is not defined in the Constitution, “Where’s the Birth Certificate: The case that Barack Obama is not Eligible to be President” author Jerome Corsi drew from the writings of Swiss diplomat Emerich de Vattel, whose work is known to have influenced the Founding Fathers. Vattel wrote in “The Law of Nations” in 1758, “The citizens are the members of the civil society, bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority; they equally participate in its advantages. The natives or natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens.”

Corsi said that during research for his book he found the only U.S. Supreme Court case directly on point is Minor v. Happersett, from 1874, in which the court said, “It was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives, or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.”

Even Senate Resolution 511, passed in 2008 to declare that John McCain was a natural-born citizen, specified a natural-born citizen would have to be born of two U.S. parents. McCain’s birth in the Panama Canal Zone was regarded by the Senate as an exception that the Founders would have supported. The Senate reasoned that a person should not be disqualified from running for president because the parents were serving in the defense of the nation, Corsi said.

Among the sponsors of that statement was a junior senator named Obama.

The resolution includes two references to “Americans” or “American Citizens” as parents.

Among the statements from members of Congress:

  • Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz.: “Thank you for your recent e-mail. Senator Obama meets the constitutional requirements for presidential office. Rumors pertaining to his citizenship status have been circulating on the Internet, and this information has been debunked by Snopes.com, which investigates the truth behind Internet rumors.”

  • Sen. Mel Martinez, R-Fla.: “Presidential candidates are vetted by voters at least twice – first in the primary elections and again in the general election. President-Elect Obama won the Democratic Party’s nomination after one of the most fiercely contested presidential primaries in American history. And, he has now been duly elected by the majority of voters in the United States. Throughout both the primary and general election, concerns about Mr. Obama’s birthplace were raised. The voters have made clear their view that Mr. Obama meets the qualifications to hold the office of president.”

  • Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio: “President Obama has provided several news organizations with a copy of his birth certificate, showing he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. Hawaii became a state in 1959, and all individuals born in Hawaii after its admission are considered natural-born United States citizens. In addition, the Hawaii State Health Department recently issued a public statement verifying the authenticity of President Obama’s birth certificate.”

  • U.S. Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite, R-Fla.: “The claim that Barack Obama is not a citizen of the U.S. is false. This rumor is simply election year politics.” She referred questioners to Snopes for documentation.

  • Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.: “The courts have held that President Obama is a natural-born American citizen. Moreover, in December 2008, the Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit challenging Mr. Obama’s eligibility to serve as president, concurring with three other federal courts in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Washington. The courts have confirmed the determination of state officials in Hawaii that health department records prove that Barack Obama was born a U.S. citizen in Honolulu.”

  • Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.: “President Obama demonstrated his citizenship during his campaign by circulating copies of his birth certificate, which showed he was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961.”

  • Sen. Robert Casey, D-Pa.: “I am confident that Mr. Obama meets all the constitutional requirements to be our 44th president. Mr. Obama has posted a copy of his birth certificate on his campaign website and submitted an additional copy to the independent website FactCheck.org. The birth certificate demonstrates that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1961, thereby making him a natural-born citizen eligible to be president.”

  • U.S. Rep. Wally Herger, R-Calif.: “As you know, some questions were raised about whether President Obama is a natural born citizen. There was a recent lawsuit arguing that he is not eligible for the Presidency for this reason. I understand that the Supreme Court considered hearing this lawsuit, but it ultimately turned down the request to have the case considered before the full court. I further understand that the director of Hawaii’s Department of Health recently confirmed that President Obama was born in Honolulu and has personally verified that her agency has his original birth certificate on record. As you know, the U.S. Congress certified his election on January 8, and he was sworn into office on January 20, 2009. While I may disagree with President Obama on a multitude of issues, he has been elected as President of the United States through a fair process and has shown sufficient documentation, via a state birth certificate, that has been verified as being authentic. In short, therefore, I do not believe sufficient evidence was brought to light to conclude that President Obama was ineligible for the office.”

  • Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, “The Constitution and federal law require that, among other things, only native-born U.S. citizens (or those born abroad, but only to parents who were both American citizens) may be President of the United States. In President Obama’s case, some individuals have filed lawsuits in state and federal courts alleging that he has not proven that he is an American citizen, but each of those lawsuits have been dismissed. This includes a recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to not review an “application for emergency stay” filed by a New Jersey resident claiming that the President is not a natural born citizen because his father was born in Kenya. Furthermore, both the Director of Hawaii’s Department of Health and the state’s Registrar of Vital Statistics recently confirmed that Mr. Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961 and, as such, meets the constitutional citizenship requirements for the presidency. If contrary documentation is produced and verified, this matter will necessarily be resolved by the judicial branch of our government under the Constitution.”

  • Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa.: “On June 13, 2008, the Obama campaign released a copy of his birth certificate after numerous claims were made about his eligibility to hold the office of President. The released copy created additional questions, because it contained a blacked out department file number and was apparently missing a seal, and it was impossible to detect raised text, a common characteristic of official documents. There were satisfactory answers to such questions, however: the department file number had been blacked out to prevent hackers from breaking into the Health Department’s system, and the State places the seal on the back of the certificate. The website Factcheck.org investigated the matter and provided high-resolution photos taken at multiple angles that revealed the raised text and the seal on the back of the document. ... Accordingly, it has been concluded that President Obama has met the constitutional qualifications to be President of the United States.”

  • U.S. Rep Vic Snyder, D-Ark.: “According to State of Hawai’i officials, the Hawai’i State Department of Health has President-elect Obama’s original birth certificate on record in accordance with that state’s policies and procedures.
  • Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn.: “The U.S. Constitution is our nation’s supreme law and cannot be circumvented for any reason. It is my understanding that state officials in Hawaii have attested to the validity of President Obama’s birth certificate showing that he was born in that state, which would make him a U.S. citizen. I also have read that both of Hawaii’s major newspapers ran birth announcements in August 1961 documenting President Obama’s birth in Honolulu. Based on these documents, most members of Congress from both parties appear satisfied that the president is a U.S. citizen. That would preclude any effort to remove him through the impeachment process, which requires a majority in the House of Representatives and two-thirds of the Senate, on the basis of his constitutional eligibility for office.”

  • Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., “As a senator representing Colorado, I want to speak very clearly on this issue. President Barack Obama is a ‘natural born’ citizen of America, and he is eligible to be our nation’s Commander in Chief. The legality of his birth certificate has been verified by numerous federal agencies, third party investigative groups, national media outlets, and primary source documentation. The United States Department of State and the Hawaii Department of Health have both verified the legality of the ‘Certification of Birth’ document provided by President Obama. In addition, highly regarded ‘fact check’ websites such as factcheck.org, snopes.com, and politifact.com support the findings of the federal agencies through their own independent investigations.”

  • Sen. Mark. R. Warner, D-Va., “The facts have consistently shown that President Obama was born in the United States. As a natural-born American citizen, he is fully eligible to serve as president of our country.”
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., “Article II, Section 1 of the U.S. Constitution specifies the qualifications for this executive office. It states that no person except for a natural born American citizen is eligible to run for President of the United States. Also, the candidate must be at least thirty-five years of age and have resided in the United States for at least fourteen years. President Obama meets these constitutional requirements. If you were not already aware, on April 27, 2011 the White House released a copy of President Obama’s long form birth certificate. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on August 4, 1961. According to the Fourteenth Amendment, all persons born in the United States are considered citizens of the United States. Under these criteria, President Obama, a 47-year old U.S. citizen, who has resided in the United States for longer than fourteen years, is eligible to be President.
  • Sen. Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., “Independent and official investigations as well as legal proceedings have validated President Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as President of the United States. The Health Director and Head of Vital Statistics for the state of Hawaii (an official source) has also examined and declared the authenticity of the birth certificate and most recently President Obama released his full birth certificate. If change is to take place it’s likely to come in the form of an election. This is part of the reason everyone needs to make sure we vote for the people who will represent our views correctly. This is also why we must continue to talk to our friends and relatives in other states about their own elected officials and encourage them to let their voices be heard.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317693

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Congresswoman: 'Citizen' same as 'natural born citizen'!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 6, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=319345

II. Video: National Press Club: Obama's Forged Birth Certificate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLW9pK1p4KM&feature=player_embedded

III. Senator: Constitution doesn't define presidential eligibility!-Posted on WND.com-On July 4, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=318769

IV. Joseph Farah’s Exchange With Forbes Media Columnist Regarding Obama's Eligibility!-Posted on WND.com-By Joseph Farah-On July 2, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317753

V. What did Congress know about ‘natural-born citizen’?-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317705

VI. Video: Illegal Obama "Propped Up" By Congress!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw&feature=player_embedded

VII. Bogus Obama document 'bigger than Watergate'!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317353

VIII. Does WND's reporting rule out an Obama Kenya birth?-Posted on WND.com-By Jerome R. Corsi-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=316265

IX. Stunning numbers want Congress to probe Obama's eligibility!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On June 26, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=314585

X. George Soros’ Money Could Tip Elections in All 50 States!-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Michael Oberndorf-On July 1, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/george-soros-money-could-tip-elections-in-all-50-states/

XI. Soros meddles in courts, attempts to buy Leftwing judges!-Posted on National Examiner-By Anthony Martin-On June 27, 2011:

http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-national/soros-meddles-courts-attempts-to-buy-leftwing-judges

XII. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&utm_campaign=43b350b9f6-EO_04_27_20114_27_2011&utm_medium=email

Note: What follows is my recent blog post that contains emails that I forwarded to our NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich and Senator Tom Udall on or about June 12, 2011, which I also forwarded to the President and all other NM State Officials, their responses and my own response to them, along with other articles and/or blog posts and videos relating to this disturbing issue:

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetrated-in-american-history/

Note:  My following blog post contains numerous other articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newly-released-colb-be-a-forgery/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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Independence Day

I’d like to remind everyone this Independence Day, including agnostics and atheists, that the author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, believed in natural law and nature’s God, without allusion to supernatural revelation. Also, I’d like to remind everyone that the cutting edge of science believes consciousness is elemental and universal, cannot be divided or separated, and is eternal—has all the attributes of “God.”  Nothing can exist without consciousness. The Declaration states, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” equal in what other than consciousness?  Some of us are more consciously aware than others.  You can’t change that.  So much for socialism.

 

On this Independence Day, the President of the United States pushes collective salvation and welcomes the Muslim Brotherhood, after taking an oath that he would protect and defend the Constitution.  We are witness to the fact that for twenty years The President’s minister was the Reverend Wright who “god damned” America.  Witness Obama’s support of the making of a second Holocaust.

 

Can we, the people of the United States, so limit our conscious awareness that we can ignore “Higher Law,” the background of American constitutional law?  We are presently being tested. Regardless of your religious faith, your Tea Party membership, or any other organized effort, at this point in time, if you are not willing to look within for your answers and act, Independence Day has no meaning.  Right now, you are as good as a slave of the state.

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HOPKINS COUNTY, KY—At the onset of the 4th of July weekend, Kentucky residents and many travelers stopping to fill up will at the pump will be facing even higher costs per gallon due to a rise in the gas tax, say officials.Starting on Friday, July 1st, the gas tax across the state will be rising by close to two cents a gallon. After the jump up, Kentuckians will pay an average tax of approximately 28 cents per gallon instead of the current 26 cent tax per gallon.After the addition of federal tax costs to gas prices, this means that drivers across the commonwealth will be paying just shy of 50 cents a gallon as of this weekend and beyond.In total, members of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet estimate that the statewide rise will produce an additional $57 million for highway maintenance and road work.While the tax increase is said to be variable, a potential reduction in gas costs will likely correlate with the price of overall wholesale expenses.
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Obama's Independence Day Message

By John W. Lillpop

Given Barack Obama's penchant for tearing down America and Americans at every possible opportunity, do not be surprised if the Anointed One delivers an apology for the 4th of July.

I envision an Obama Independence Day apology speech to sound something like this:

My Fellow World Citizens:

Two hundred thirty five years ago, on July 4, 1776, a small band of angry white Christian males declared their independence and established a new nation, one that was supposed to bring hope and comfort to human kind all across the world.

Regrettably, instead of providing a beacon of hope for the world to rely on, right wing extremists established a nation of renegade capitalists who have started wars and oppressed hundreds of millions of innocent people in order to secure wealth.

Those right wing extremists, now celebrated in much of America as courageous freedom fighters and patriots guided by the divine power of Jesus Christ, have brought more war, poverty, and death to the world than any other demographic in human history.

Those right wing extremists stole property and assets rightfully belonging to subjects of the British Empire.

Those right wing extremists marched relentlessly, seizing all land between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in the name of "Manifest Destiny" which was their naive way of saying "Jesus made us do it."

Those right wing extremists slaughtered innocent people of color and took away their land and condemned them to live like captured animals.

Those right wing extremists forced English and Christianity down the throats of all people conquered.

Those right wing extremists imported millions of Africans to work as slaves and be considered subhuman because of their race.

Descendants of right wing extremists continued the legacy of treachery by starting world wars and using a devastating nuclear weapon that killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Japanese civilians.

Descendants of right wing extremists created a system of capitalism that rewards greed and punishes compassion.

Descendants of right wing extremists created a system of opportunity and prosperity that unfairly embarrasses and humiliates nations, once considered our allies, who cannot match the greed that lurks in the heart of American capitalists.

Descendants of right wing extremists implemented their racism through Jack Crow laws and mob lynching.

Descendants of right wing extremists continued to treat black people as subhuman through government-sponsored discrimination in education, employment, and housing.

Descendants of right wing extremists invaded Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq in the name of spreading freedom when the real objective was oil and other interests considered vital, economically, to the United States.

On and on the list of transgressions by descendants of right wing extremist goes, making America the most despicable and loathsome nation in human history.

Fellow world citizens, I stand before you today as the new president of the United States, committed to ending the legacy of right wing treachery and replacing it with a policy that takes wealth from the successful and gives said wealth to the mediocre and poor.

My administration is committed to slapping a great deal of that "Yankee" arrogance off the faces of right wing extremists so that America can once again be an obedient, nothing special force that works to be liked by other nations.

Know, too, that CHANGE is the objective of my administration.

YES WE CAN! become a nation of followers and mediocre citizens.

Being second best is America's new "Manifest Destiny" under my administration.

Thank you and praise be to the United Nations, Europe, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and President Manuel Zelaya and his family.

Allah willing, of course!


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Happy 4th, OBTW, We Lost Our Constitution!

Obama To Bypass Constitution To Increase Debt
Cornyn: Obama Bypassing Congress on Debt Limit is 'Crazy Talk'
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Obama To Cancel U.S. Constitution

(FoxNews) - Schools and universities across the country on Friday will celebrate the signing of the U.S. Constitution, a portion of which is seen here. But plans to commemorate the day at many federal agencies contacted by Fox News remain unclear.

Sen. John Cornyn warned President Obama on Sunday to not even consider interpreting the Constitution's Fourteenth Amendment to bypass Congress and raise the debt limit without its approval.

"That's crazy talk. It's not acceptable for Congress and the president not to do their job and to say somehow the president has the authority then to basically do this by himself," Cornyn, R-Texas, a former judge on the Texas Supreme Court, told "Fox News Sunday."

The proposal that Obama re-interpret Section 4 of the Fourteenth Amendment to justify raising the $14.3 trillion debt limit has been gaining traction in Democratic circles since Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner told reporters that the Constitution's language could support the president's raising the limit without congressional approval.

'The validity of the public debt of the United States, authorized by law, including debts incurred for the payments of pension and bounties for services in suppressing insurrection or rebellion' -- this is the important thing -- 'shall not be questioned,' " Geithner read during a discussion hosted by Politico in May.

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and others on Capitol Hill reportedly acknowledged that the idea is percolating, and had been presented to the president.

"It's certainly worth exploring. I think it needs a little more exploration and study," he said during a conference call with reporters held Friday.

Without addressing efforts to invoke the Constitution, Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said Sunday the president and congressional negotiators shouldn't even be discussing a debt deal privately.

"Congress is the constitutional place for this to be decided," said Sessions, who is the ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee.

Asked during a press conference Wednesday whether the debt limit was constitutional, the president glossed over the question, saying, "I'm not a Supreme Court justice, so I'm not going to put my constitutional law professor hat on here."

http://teaparty.org/article.php?id=989

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Is Anthony Weiner’s Wife A Spy?

What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On July 1, 2011:

A CIA/FBI agent was responsible for creating the first al-Qaeda training manual from classified military sources; he covertly moved up through the ranks undetected until the al-Qaeda spy, Egyptian born Ali Mohamed, was finally discovered. Though arrested in 1998, Mohamed’s whereabouts and legal status remain unknown. The Fort Hoodjihadist, Nidal Malik Hasan, benefited from the same faulty screening.

The Jordanian-born “reformed” jihadist Humam Al-Balawi deceived some anxious CIA agents concerning the whereabouts of Ayman al-Zawahiri. As he passed their guard, he detonated a suicide belt, killing the agents. We were the first to translate the sinister plan of this Taliban spy, which was missed by the CIA but was advertised on his Arabic website for the whole Arabic world to read:

When I drive my car at a traffic police station …my surroundings change by a push of a flash button. I will find myself martyred as I drive a booby trapped Laurie with a bomb heading towards the pagan guards…

Why isn’t the CIA monitoring the Arabic words and connections of these people?

Whether it’s the CIA or the military, sophisticated surveillance is proving inadequate and proper background checks of Middle Easterners aren’t being done. Each example serves as another case in point. What makes us think that the State Department updated its virus protection program? Even more disconcerting than Ali and Al-Balawi is Hillary’s “aide” and Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin, who has been with Hillary since 1996; we believe she was never properly screened and is well positioned to exploit her American connections for the benefit of Islamic radicals.

To be concerned about Huma’s access to sensitive information is an issue that will most likely garner unsolicited curses from “sensitive” Americans who are enamored with her. These same people ignore this diva’s familial ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. Lt. Col. Robert Anderson’s detailed reports aimed at getting Army intelligence to investigate Ali Mohamed — and have him court-martialed — were also ignored.

Huma is even more potentially dangerous; she can leak State secrets. She is closely associated with her Muslim Brotherhood family and even joined Hillary at an event with Saleha Abedin – Huma’s mother – at Dar El-Hekma University in Saudi Arabia. Also present was a close associate of Saleha – Suheir Qureshi. Qureshi’s name later appeared in several prominent Arab newspapers when it was revealed that she belonged to a list of 63 members of the secret female arm of the Muslim Brotherhood named The Sisterhood.

The full list was later revealed; Huma’s mother is on it. Huma’s brother – Hassan Abedin – also collaborates with Omar Naseef and Sheikh Yousuf Qaradawi, two of the most influential terror supporters in the world.

Yet, as detractors argue “guilt by association,” they unwittingly strengthen our case, since this is what the FBI useswhen investigating federal employees: “Character,” “Associates,” “Reputation,” and “Loyalty to the United States” (CARL). This checklist was never applied to Huma, who still associated with her family. Dismissing all this as “guilt by association” ignores a tough question:

Other than Huma Abedin, has there ever been a case whereby a family member who either belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood or was a prominent Islamist did not denounce a Muslim female relative who married a non-Muslim male?

It’s a question with only one answer; her family made an exception for her because Huma has a higher calling.

Westerners erroneously compare the Middle East mindset with that of the Midwest and fail to understand the Muslim worldview. They do not comprehend the seriousness of a Muslim “daughter” or “sister” marrying a Jewish male, especially since the Islamic Shariah Faculty in Kuwait has deemed Huma’s marriage to a male Jew null and void.

While Westerners portray the Sisterhood as a simple “mule service,” our own detailed research – which will be released shortly – reveals male supervisors as official members along with their wives/daughters; the list includes spies who proudly disclosed their heroic acts during Israel’s wars with Egypt. Others are Nazi-style propagandists; Nazi affiliates from the time of the Brotherhood’s inception; Hijab advocates in Europe; prominent doctors; popular conspiracy theorists and media icons that closely emulate the Goebbels propaganda machine of Nazi Germany.

The group’s influence spans several international organizations from the United Nations to the United States to womens advocacy groups worldwide; its influence is immense. Overlooking this group – and by extension, Huma Abedin – is not dissimilar from ignoring Able Danger’s revelations about Muhammad Atta prior to 9/11.

Any doubting Thomas must acknowledge the validity of the Sisterhood list, because it follows the same agenda and direction shown on the Brotherhood’s official website; it has been confirmed by Egyptian security services as well as top experts, including the Arab Center for Studies, headed by researcher Abdul Rahim Ali.

To give you a taste of this bitter herb, we will examine a single name before we publish all 63. Take Najla Ali Mahmoud, who is supervised by her husband Mohammed Aidalmrsi, member of the Guidance Bureau and the current leader of theJustice and Freedom Party (the Brotherhood’s new propaganda name). He recently appeared on national television and explained why “Egypt needs to ban Western dress” and how “no one with a full mental faculty can believe in the Trinity.” He even condemned Egyptian monuments as “idols.” It differs from the Taliban only in that it has a Western propaganda machine.

Will Egypt do to the Sphinx as the Taliban did to the Buddhist statues in Bamyan? Will Egypt perpetrate a holocaust on Coptic Christians who are already portrayed as having a mental deficiency for believing in the Trinity?

And while this Goebbles runs his propaganda machine, the naysayers demand evidence of Huma’s membership in this notorious group. Would someone appoint the daughter of Magda and Joseph Goebbels as the Deputy Chief of Staff forCordell Hull—the Secretary of State during World War II—arguing that she is not a member of the Nazi Party?

It is also not “racist” nor even inaccurate to compare the Muslim Brotherhood with the Nazis; Hassan Al-Banna, the grandfather of Tariq Ramadan (Ramadan’s ban from the U.S. was lifted by Hillary) collaborated with my grandfather’s associate and Hitler henchman Haj Amin Al-Husseini, who became the Muslim Brotherhood leader after the war. Neither has the Brotherhood repented; they still take pride in their collaboration with the Nazis.

And while the House of Representatives debated whether to cut off funds for Obama’s military campaign in Libya, whichaids the Brotherhood-backed rebels, Clinton challenged Congress over its position asking, “Whose side are you on?”

This is a question Hillary should ask herself.

Even the team that was set up by the State Department’s policy designed to “engage the moderate Muslim world” was infiltrated without even screening its contributor, the Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer and – Egyptian by heritage – Ground Zero Mosque Imam, Sheikh Feisal Abdul Rauf who only moderates his tone in English.

Promoting a moderate Muslim Brotherhood is like promoting “Capitalistic-Communism” to defeat Russia during the Cold War or even a “pro-Jewish Nazism” during WWII. A more current and real-life example is “Chrislam.”

Hillary’s “inclusion policy” may have brought in spies, and this is how she plans to soften the Muslim Brotherhood?

Hillary’s use of oxymoronic formulas to combat terrorism is worse than the moronic path taken by the likes of Humam Al-Balawi, who killed his enemy while we bolster the confidence of ours.

Huma Abedin was never properly screened, and unless this diva answers some tough questions, the issue we set forth regarding the failure to screen her, is an ironclad case that the State Department is broken — and American lives may be in danger.

  • Walid Shoebat is the author For God or For Tyranny. Ben Barrack is a talk show host on KTEM 1400 in Texas and maintains the website BenBarrack.com.”

Source:

http://floydreports.com/is-anthony-weiners-wife-a-spy/

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Weiner’s In-Laws and the Secret Muslim Brotherhood Connections Revealed!-Posted on FloydReports.com-By Walid Shoebat and Ben Barrack-On June 15, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/weiners-in-laws-and-the-secret-muslim-brotherhood-connections-revealed/

II. Did Weiner Secretly Convert to Islam to Marry a Muslim?-Posted on Floyd Reports-By Guest Writer-On June 9, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/did-weiner-secretly-convert-to-islam-to-marry-a-muslim/

III. 48th Annual Muslim Brotherhood-linked ISNA Convention, July 1-4 USA!-Posted on Creeping Sharia-By creeping-On July 1, 2011:

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/

IV. Obama's Plan to Islamicize America!-Posted on Israel Today-By Victor Mordechai-On June 28, 2011:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22844/language/en-US/Default.aspx

V. Is George Soros Forging a Closer Alliance With the Muslim Brotherhood?-Posted on The Blaze-ByTiffany Gabbay-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/is-george-soros-forging-a-closer-alliance-with-the-muslim-brotherhood/

VI. The Obama Administration Opens Formal Contacts With the Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on National Review Online- By Andrew C. McCarthy-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/270864/obama-administration-opens-formal-contacts-muslim-brotherhood-andrew-c-mccarthy

VII. Clinton Admits We Are Now Reaching Out to the Muslim Brotherhood!-Posted on The Blaze-By Jonathon M. Seidl-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/clinton-admits-we-are-now-reaching-out-to-the-muslim-brotherhood/

VIII. Clinton Hosts Islamic World Forum For Obama In D.C.-Posted on Judicial Watch-On April 11, 2011:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2011/apr/clinton-hosts-islamic-world-forum-obama

IX. Before Obama-Clinton Was One of the Worst Presidents Ever!-Posted on American Thinker-By Stella Paul-On June 22, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/clinton_unzipped_one_of_the_worst_presidents_ever.html

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The Islamic Infiltration: Inside Our Government, Armed With Our Secrets!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/01/15/the-islamic-infiltration-inside-our-government-armed-with-our-secrets/

Muslim Brotherhood Declares War on America-Will America Notice!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/12/muslim-brotherhood-declares-war-on-america-will-america-notice/

Is President Obama in on the Uprising in Egypt?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/01/is-president-obama-in-on-the-uprising-in-egypt/

Godfather of The Islamic Revolution!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/godfather-of-the-islamic-revolution/

Sen. Obama's Radical Islamic Past and Ties to Terrorist Groups!

http://WeroInNM.blogtownhall.com/2009/04/17/sen_obamas_radical_islamic_past_and_ties_to_terrorist_groups.thtml

What we haven’t been told about the President’s background!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/03/what-we-haven’t-been-told-about-the-president’s-background/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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About Being Born Again

Is all doom and gloom?  In what you hear, there is a lot missing. For this Fourth of July celebration, here is a message of hope and renewal. I ask that you spread the word. The end of this world is the beginning of a far better world.

 

The signs all point to the world we know being over.  In its place, the President of the United States has given his blessing to the Muslim Brotherhood, to a religious belief that desires to do away with all who do not agree; his blessing to an anti-capitalist autocracy and zero personal liberty the President calls “collective salvation.”

 

With the new year in 1975 my life was over. Not that I planned it, but on Good Friday 1975, I left my Texas life and headed for Miami, Florida, departed my old life on the day Christians commemorate as the day Christ was crucified, arriving in Miami on Easter Sunday, the day Jesus rose from the dead.  It was an omen of things to come.

 

I’m not a Christian. I’m a secular humanist, defined as one with a set of beliefs that promote human values without specific allusion to religious doctrines.  Further, my beliefs are defined as anarchy. I’m one who regards the absence of all direct or coercive government as a political ideal and that proposes the cooperative and voluntary association of individuals and groups as the principal mode of organized society. In other words, I believe in the “Higher Law,” the background of American constitutional law, the law President Obama wants to “fundamentally” change.  I believe that Jesus is my redeemer. Why do I have to be a Christian?

 

When I departed, in search of a new life, I looked within and discovered who I really was. I didn’t adhere to Christian dogmas and doctrines.  Events took place that made me know the power that lies within, which I attributed to a higher power.  With regard to religious doctrines and dogmas, which comes first the chicken or the egg?  My life story tells you that I was born again when I looked within for answers.

 

With the world on fire, my life is as good as it gets. All of my dreams have come true.  Let us now turn to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 6, Jesus said, “in earth as it is in heaven.” We find a consistent correspondence between planetary alignments and the archetypal patterns of human history. Astrologers geometrize God—and more lately the cutting edge of science, shining new light at this crucial time. Astrologer Jeanne Avery, in The Rising Sign, under Aquarius Rising, “He becomes the water-bearer by walking to the beat of a different drummer. He may be the person to bring back information that has been lost to civilization for centuries. . . He knows where the fruit grows and where the spotlight can hit. He is not one to hide his light under a bushel (from Matthew 5:15).  I’m Aquarius rising, and a messenger.

 

Connecting the dots, getting back to Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount, in Matthew 6 he said, “But seek ye first the kingdom of God.” Jesus talks about God in heaven but there are omissions.  He warns of wolves in sheep’s clothing, and specifically when he said, “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in” (Mt. 23:13).

 

With respect to what Jesus said—and our archetypal patterns—in Astrologer’s Handbook, under Aquarius, we read, “Individuals born under the sign of brotherhood”—hello!   Are we to follow The President of the United States and the Muslim Brotherhood to slavery—or to Jesus’ teaching?  Aquarians “have as their symbol the water- bearer, who spills out to mankind the life-force and spiritual energy;” and, under Aquarius: “There is no affectation or snobbery in the Aquarian personality, but a dislike of spurious imitation and hypocrisy in any form. Aquarians operate as equals among equals. . .” Straight from the Bible, why do the authorities deny it? It is all about control. Again, which comes first the chicken or the egg?

 

Keeping the above in mind, in Matthew 2, with regard to Jesus’ birth (at the beginning of the Age of Pisces) “wise men from the east,” the Magi, followed the Star of Bethlehem to Jesus’ place of birth.  The Magi were Persian astrologers. Astrologer’s Handbook, under Pisces: “Pisces is a sensitive sign and those born under it are extremely responsive to the thoughts and feelings of others. They unconsciously absorb the ideas and mental outlook of those around them.  They desperately want to do the right thing, but as a rule they do not have strong willpower. Therefore, they are easily influenced by external factors.” Get real! The explanation fits with the reason for the crucifixion. It is all about control.  And interestingly, the symbol for Pisces is two attached fish swimming in opposite directions, exactly what is taking place at this time.

 

The Age of Pisces fading into history.  Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.

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What’s wrong with this picture?

Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On July 1, 2011:

“There were eight attempts by members of Congress during the years Barack Obama was developing a power base and running for president to remove the Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural-born citizen,” suggesting an organized strategy, according to a new video.

The video documentary was produced by Carl Gallups, the senior pastor at Hickory Hammock Baptist Church for more than 24 years with a long history of community and law enforcement involvement.

Gallups was a Florida law enforcement officer for 10 years, a youth minister before that and is a national and international youth evangelist with outreaches across the United States and in Canada since 1989. He’s also on the board of regents at the University of Mobile and hosts several weekly radio programs in the northwest Florida region.

Documentation for his video comes from a variety of congressional records showing that beginning June 11, 2003, and continuing through the most recent effort, Feb. 28, 2008, there were eight proposals targeting that constitutional requirement.

The video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw&feature=player_embedded

He outlines the specifics:

  • June 11, 2003, Rep. Vic Snyder, D-Ark., brought HJR 59. It was intended to “permit persons who are not natural born citizens of the United States, but who have been citizens of the United States for at least 35 years, to be eligible to hold the offices of president and vice president.”

  • Sept. 3, 2003, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., brought HJR67, which would have done the same as Snyder’s, only the requirement to be a citizen was lowered to 20 years.

  • Feb. 25, 2004, Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., brought S.B. 2128 to “try to counter the growing Democratonslaught aimed at removing the natural born citizen requirement.” But it defined NBC as someone who was born in and is subject to the United States,” which was not the understanding of the framers of the Constitution.

  • Sept. 15, 2004, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., brought HJR 104, “to make eligible for the office of president a person who is not a natural born citizen of the United States but has been a United States citizen for at least 20 years.”

  • Jan. 4, 2005, Conyers, D-Mich., HJR2, the same as Rohrabacher’s.

  • Feb. 1, 2005, HJR15, Rohrabacher, to require only 20 years citizenship to be eligible for the office of president.

  • April 14, 2005, Snyder, HJR42, requiring 35 years’ citizenship.

  • Feb. 28, 2008, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., tried to attach to SB 2678, Children of Military Families Natural Born Citizen Act, an amendment clarifying what “natural-born citizen” includes. Obama and then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., were sponsors.

Gallups reports that finally, on April 10, 2008, “unable to alter or remove” the requirement, the Senate changed the focus of the issue, with Senate Resolution 511, which addressed Sen. John McCain’s qualifications as a “natural-born citizen.”

Obama's qualifications never were reviewed:

After his election, Gallups points out, Obama held a secret meeting with eight of the nine justices of the U.S. Supreme Court – from which no public information was released. The meeting was held even though there were legal challenges in which Obama was a defendant pending before the Supreme Court at the time. The attorneys for the plaintiffs never were told of the meeting or invited to participate in what critics have described as extrajudicial contact between the court and a defendant.

WND previously reported on another link between Obama and a campaign to change the constitutional provision. It came from an associate lawyer in a Chicago-based firm whose partner served on a finance committee for then-Sen. Barack Obama. She advocated for the elimination of the U.S. Constitution’s requirement that a president be a “natural-born” citizen, calling the requirement “stupid” and asserting it discriminates, is outdated and undemocratic.

The paper was written in 2006 by Sarah Herlihy, just two years after Obama had won a landslide election in Illinois to the U.S. Senate.

Herlihy was listed as an associate at the Chicago firm of Kirkland & Ellis. A partner in the same firm, Bruce I. Ettelson, cited his membership on the finance committees for both  Obama and Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., on the corporate website.

The article by Herlihy was available online under law review articles from Kent University when it originally was the subject of reports but later was removed.

Herlihy’s published paper reveals that the requirement likely was considered in a negative light by organizations linked to Obama in the months before he announced in 2007 his candidacy for the presidency.

The natural born citizen requirement in Article II of the United States Constitution has been called the “stupidest provision” in the Constitution, “undecidedly un-American,” “blatantly discriminatory” and the “Constitution’s worst provision,” Herlihy begins in her introduction to the paper titled “Amending the Natural Born Citizen Requirement: Globalization as the Impetus and the Obstacle.”

She concludes that the “emotional” reasons to oppose changing the Constitution will prevail over the “rational” reasons demanding a change.

The current American perceptions about the effects of globalization and the misunderstanding about what globalization actually is will result in Americans deciding that naturalized citizens should not be president because this would, in effect, be promoting globalization, Herlihy wrote.

“Although this argument is admittedly circular, because globalization is the thing that makes the need to abolish the requirement more and more persuasive, Americans’ subsequent perceptions about globalization are the very things that will prevent Americans from embracing the idea of eliminating the natural born requirement.

“Logical Americans are looking for a reason to ignore the rational reasons promoted by globalization so that they may vote based on their own emotions and instincts,” she wrote.

In the body of her argument, Herlihy said the constitutional provision simply is outdated.

“Considering that the Founding Fathers presumably included the natural born citizen clause in the Constitution partly out of fear of foreign subversion, the current stability of the American government and the intense media scrutiny of presidential candidates virtually eliminates the possibility of a ‘foreigner’ coming to America, becoming a naturalized citizen, generating enough public support to become president, and somehow using the presidency to directly benefit his homeland,” she wrote.

“The natural born citizen clause of the United States Constitution should be repealed for numerous reasons. Limiting presidential eligibility to natural born citizens discriminates against naturalized citizens, is outdated and undemocratic, and incorrectly assumes that birthplace is a proxy for loyalty,”she wrote.

Many of the reasons for keeping the limit, she wrote, “are based primarily on emotion.”

Source:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317705

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts and videos relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

I. Video: Illegal Obama "Propped Up" By Congress!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3aCfR8rmrw&feature=player_embedded

II. Bogus Obama document 'bigger than Watergate'!-Posted on WND.com-By Bob Unruh-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=317353

III. Video: TIME Magazine Asks: ‘Does the Constitution Still Matter?’-Posted on PatriotPost.US-On June 24, 2011:

http://patriotpost.us/perspective/2011/06/24/time-magazine-asks-does-the-constitution-still-matter/

IV. The Constitution Matters: ‘A reply to Time magazine’s Richard Stengel.’-Posted on National Review Online-By THOMAS SOWELL-On June 28, 2011:

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270584/constitution-matters-thomas-sowell

V. ‘White House officials involved in rewriting nation’s founding document’!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On March 27, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=280277

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

The Greatest Fraud Perpetrated in American History!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/the-greatest-fraud-perpetrated-in-american-history/

Was there a conspiracy to put Obama in the White House?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/03/03/was-there-a-conspiracy-to-put-obama-in-the-white-house-2/

Congress report concedes Obama eligibility unvetted!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/congress-report-concedes-obama-eligibility-unvetted/

DC knows that Obama is ineligible for office!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/dc-knows-that-obama-is-ineligible-for-office/

Could the President’s newly released COLB be a forgery?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/could-the-president’s-newly-released-colb-be-a-forgery/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65KZIqay4E&feature=related

Semper Fi!

Jake

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July / 2011


The Parklands
by: Bob Hill

Kentuckians can enjoy 4,000 acres of parks around Louisville

The pride, history, and diverse geography of Kentucky have long been on broad display in its many parks.

Its state parks stretch from the Big Sandy River to the Mississippi River, celebrating the state’s archeological treasures, its Civil War heritage, and its green mountains, water-carved caves, and heavily used lakes.

Its national parks and park sites bring to focus the role of Kentucky in American history: Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park; the Trail of Tears National Historic Trail.

Louisville—the state’s population center—has also enjoyed a strong legacy of parks, including those created by Frederick Law Olmsted that have enriched the city for more than 100 years.

That legacy is now being extended with an almost 4,000-acre, more than 20-mile-long park system being created along Floyds Fork Creek on the eastern and southern edge of Louisville running from Shelbyville Road to Bardstown Road.

It will stretch along meandering Floyds Fork through a still mostly open area of Louisville that was ripe for development, and will become part of a larger, 100-mile “loop” of parks around Louisville.

The new park—actually a series of four interconnected parks—will continue to unite Kentucky’s woods, water, and vibrant history in a more than $100 million recreational and preservation project that’s been recognized as one of the most creative in the United States.

Called The Parklands of Floyds Fork, and described as an outdoor classroom rich with natural history, the system is being created through a public-private effort of 21st Century Parks, a land trust called Future Fund, and Louisville Metro Parks. It was aided by $38 million in federal funding secured by Sen. Mitch McConnell and a $10 million pledge from Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear. More than $50 million in private donations have also been raised.

The four parks will include 100 miles of new trails and overlooks for hiking, biking, and horseback riding, and a scenic park drive for those who want to stay in their cars.

Staff members and park rangers will guide people to more than 20 miles of canoe trails, playgrounds, dog parks, fishing sites, historic homes, old growth forest, designated natural areas, and athletic fields.

Standing on one of the ridges above Floyds Fork, the long valley spreads out below, leaving little sense there are more than 1 million people living within 60 miles—or that 200-year-old beech trees are rising skyward just a few miles away.

And tying the Kentucky historical knot, Floyds Fork was named for John Floyd, a 1770s Kentucky pioneer and surveyor who fought with Daniel Boone and George Rogers Clark, and became a Revolutionary War privateer and one of Kentucky’s early military, judicial, and civic leaders before being killed by Indians in 1783 while on a trip to a salt lick near what is now Shepherdsville.

Birth of a Dream
Daniel Jones, chairman and chief executive officer of 21st Century Parks, says the project was born 10 years ago when the Olmsted Parks Conservancy invited community leaders to a meeting to discuss the strategic value of parks.

Included in the meeting were Brigid Sullivan, Louisville Metro Parks director, Bill Juckett, chairman of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy, and David Jones, Humana co-founder and Dan Jones’ father.

“They asked many questions that I don’t remember,” says Dan Jones, “but one stuck with me: ‘What should our generation be doing that would have the same impact as the Olmsted Parks?’

“After thinking about it for a few months, I decided that we should do what they did: get out ahead of the development curve and buy enough land to build a systemic, world-class addition to Louisville’s public park system.”

Jones says he asked Dan Church of Louisville’s Bravura design firm to create a “mini-master plan” to outline the possibilities and challenges of such a park—a plan funded by a $35,000 grant from the C.E. & S. Foundation. The results were encouraging.

“It looked doable to me,” Jones says.

He took that plan to his father, who has long been involved in civic projects in Louisville, and his father arranged a meeting between then Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson and his advisor Mary Lou Northern.

It all came together when Dan Jones met with Steve Henry, former Kentucky lieutenant governor and president of the nonprofit Future Fund, which since the early 1990s had been buying land along Floyds Fork to preserve and protect it. Those purchases had been funded, in part, by the Jones family, the Humana Foundation, Mary Bingham, and Steve Henry.

“We began to build a partnership there as well,” says Jones of Henry, adding that his initiative to buy land along Floyds Fork was a key to the eventual success of creating the park.

Park momentum grew from there. Dan Jones organized regular meetings with the mayor’s office, Future Fund, and Metro Parks—and in 2004 he formed 21st Century Parks.

The Philadelphia landscape architecture firm Wallace Roberts & Todd created a master plan that Louisville’s Bravura firm helped shape and implement.

Within seven years almost 70 parcels of land—ranging from a few acres to almost 600 acres—would be added to The Parklands mosaic; a map in 21st Century Parks’ Main Street office would show the piecework progress, and what parcels were needed next.

Gradually the pieces all came together: the planning, the fund-raising, the initial planting of trees, the building of new stone walls, the renovation of historic sites.

Although only partly open, the park has already been honored with three awards: The Merit Award from the National Park Service, an Honor Award in Analysis and Planning from the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the 2010 Place Maker Award from the Foundation for Landscape Studies.

With its Creekside Playground and Sprayground for kids already opened at the north edge of the park this spring—and its full completion date set for 2015—the new system will soon be an integral part of the Kentucky landscape.

As The Parklands of Floyds Fork Web site—go to www.theparklands.org—proudly proclaims: “This is not a park. This is a work of art created from oak, hickory, limestone, and shale…This is gonna be unique.”

Bob Hill’s Floyds Fork Journal serves as an ongoing conversation about the people who first cleared and settled that land, in a sense preserving it for us today as The Parklands. You can read his journal online at www.theparklands.org/category/bob-hills-journal.


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WHAT THE VISITOR WILL FIND

The four interconnected parks of The Parklands of Floyds Fork will run from Shelbyville Road to Bardstown Road—each with a specific name and mission.

The northern-most park—called Beckley Creek Park and created partly from the William F. Miles Park—will offer a canoe launch, walking trails, fishing ponds, community gardens, picnic pavilions, a splash park where children can play in the hot summer sun, a Gheens Foundation Lodge, and the 3,500-square-foot PNC Achievement Center for Education and Interpretation, which will provide classrooms, visitor interpretation, and displays.

Blending modern and traditional architecture, the new structures at the site will include black-barn wood siding, stone walls, and exposed wood ceilings. The nearby 20-acre Egg Lawn, built in the shape of a hen’s egg and designed as a Floyds Fork Great Lawn, will be used for many athletic, kite flying, and community events.
Directly south of Beckley Creek Park will be Pope Lick Park, which will have canoe launches, a retreat house, a long system of trails and sports fields—along with a view of the Pope Lick railroad trestle that arches over the land.

Floyds Fork will then wander through Turkey Run Park, which will provide a renovated silo and barn, scenic overlooks, extensive horse, hiking, and mountain biking trails, and the historic Stout House built on property once owned by Daniel Boone’s brother, Squire Boone.

Broad Run Park, the southern-most in the chain and very close to Bardstown Road, will display waterfalls, dramatic vistas, a picnic pavilion, a long meadow, and—completing the vision, if not the plan—a children’s playground and splash park similar to the ones at the north edge of the park off Shelbyville Road, almost 22 miles away.



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IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN

So you’re looking at a map of more than 20 miles of diverse but interconnected land along a stream that zigzags its way across the Louisville landscape, you’ve been handed a general plan—and your mission is examine every acre of the land and discover what is interesting about it—stone walls, big trees, notable ecological communities, waterfalls, cliffs. You must find the “landscape stories” that will help you “read” the landscape to determine its land-use history.

Where do you begin?
For Michael Gaige, natural areas manager for The Parklands of Floyds Fork, it began by literally walking, riding, or paddling a canoe over and through every acre. “All my work here,” he says, “was built on wandering.”

Gaige, a student of geology, knew The Parklands were actually first formed about 450 million years ago when much of Kentucky was below a shallow tropical sea south of the equator.

As the earth’s surface literally shifted and heaved—and an incalculable number of brachiopods, bryozoans, and corals died—calcium-rich limestone layers formed, the same layers we now see in the fossil-rich bottoms of Floyds Fork.

Over tens of millions of years, Gaige says, as rainwater steadily washed over the soft limestone, a river was formed, a long valley was created, and a new park where visitors will soon come to learn of those fossils was born.

“The area is unique,” says Gaige, who already leads tours of those fossil beds, “in that it captures a large chunk of geologic history in a small area.”

Gaige passed on his knowledge of the land and its ancient history to Parks Director Scott Martin and the design team, who over long meetings with many of the park developers had to shape all the master planning, fact finding, and input into four continual parks.

Martin says that along with having great planning, the work required large amounts of public input; the park will preserve thousands of acres of land, but it will also lead hundreds of thousands of visitors a year into the area, so some conflict seemed inevitable.

One vital key after that, he said, was to get all those various ideas and pieces connected: “The power of this park lies in its connectivity.”

A second key was to let the geographic and natural areas be your guide, and, finally, take a good look at what has already been developed in the area in the way of roads, houses, and infrastructure, and see how that relates to the park as well.

Martin says building a park of this scope and scale in a Floyds Fork setting is very unusual. “There has been a lot of open space preservation with land already set aside, but it’s very rare in our country’s history to plan one of this size.

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Posted on The Patriot Updae-By Floyd Brown-On July 2, 2011:

This a Fourth of July we are reflecting on the Founding Father’s intensive study of the Roman civilization. Knowing history, they embraced Rome’s virtues and eschewed her vices. The Founders understood the currents of history, which gave us a collective heritage unrivaled.

Sadly, we as a nation are turning our backs on the morality that made America special.

The country has convulsed in the past 30 years as a new modern morality has supplanted the currents of culture built nearly two thousand years ago along the shores of Galilee. This new culture is not yet fully defined, but we stand horrified as we peer into the future.

The culture of the Roman world was brutal and nasty. Ironically, we see its worst practices reviving with vigor. Please give us a moment as we recount a history seldom taught today’s students.

The Roman Empire had a twisted view about the value of human life. These views were banished by the ascendency of Christ’s teaching. Infanticide was both legal and encouraged in ancient Rome. Pagan societies, such as the Carthaginians, Romans and Greeks went so far as to kill their children outside the womb, sometimes as a religious sacrifice to their gods. According to Plutarch, the Carthaginians “offered up their own children, and those who had no children would buy little ones from poor people and cut their throats as if they were so many lambs of young birds; meanwhile the mothers stood by without a tear or moan.”

We see a modern American society, which looks at children as a burden, and a generation of mothers who have decided by their own “choice” to sacrifice a generation. Population control is now an international objective.

Roman views on homosexuality were closer to today’s views than many realize. Pundit Nathaniel Blake characterizes it this way: “But, the Roman conception of same-sex relationships was very different than that of the modern West. The most important factors in the Roman view seem to have been the status and role of the partners. The Romans did not consider homosexual or heterosexual identities as exclusive from one another. While bisexuality was common, strict homosexuality was all but unknown. Unlike the modern view, social class mattered a great deal in the acceptability of homosexual relations. The upper classes were much more likely to indulge in homosexual acts, and masters had the sexual use of their slaves.”

It was common to see an older man who held dominance over a younger male, using him for sexual pleasure.

It was not until the teachings of Christ and Saint Paul conquered Rome and Western Europe that sodomy was outlawed. But alas much has changed. Now sodomy is once again legal, and some states believe these acts deserve celebration in the most public of ceremonies, the wedding.

Finally, we see the debasement of money and profligacy of the state. Today taxpayers fund stadiums for the “games.” Roman emperors don’t hold a candle to the US Congress and the Federal Reserve in the looting of the public coffers and destruction of money.

In this, Roman Emperor Caracalla comes to mind. In addition to murdering his brother, Caracalla is mostly remembered for granting Roman citizenship to every Freeman in the empire. Caracalla’s goal was to broaden the tax base to pay for his extravagant spending. He raised the inheritance tax so he could double public salaries and win the allegiance of the legions. His public works are still on display today. If you visit Rome, you can see the ruins of the gigantic “Baths of Caracalla.”

His final contribution rivals the Federal Reserve. The silver denarius was an innovation in sound money introduced by Emperor Augustus. It was 95 percent silver like America’s pre- 1964 coinage, and the denarius lead to greatly improved honest trade around the empire. Caracalla, in his drive to increase spending, changed it to a coin with only 50 percent silver.

It took later emperors to debase it as far as the Federal Reserve has debased America’s currency. By 268 AD the denarius was only 0.5 percent silver. The result was predictable, as prices rose throughout the empire by up to 1,000 percent. Soon the “barbarians” hired by the emperor as mercenaries would not accept the denarius as payment, and insisted on being paid in gold.

Such manipulations by Roman leaders are legendary, but Americans who fail to understand history are doomed to repeat it. The moral and financial collapse of Rome lead to a renaissance of morality and the “Christian Era.”

We can only hope that the accelerating American collapse leads to a return of the time tested honest culture that celebrates life, prudently shuns sexual immorality, and with commerce flourishing after a return to honest money.

But until that day arrives, we will continue to fight for these virtues until our last breath.

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I. Our Founders vs. NBC and New York Atheists!

Posted on Town Hall-By Chuck Norris-On June 28, 2011:

In a few days, on July 4, we once again will commemorate the work and courage of America’s 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Few words are as inspiring as those that rallied patriots in 1776:

When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed...

Rights endowed by their Creator (“Nature’s God”) and secured by government?

That doesn’t exactly sound like yesterday’s news or today’s understanding of God and government.

Consider these two headlines from just this past week: “NBC dumps ‘under God’ from Pledge at U.S. Open” and “New York Atheists Angry Over ‘Heaven’ Street Sign Honoring Sept. 11 Victims.”

In November 2005, an MSNBC poll asked, “Should the motto ‘In God We Trust’ be removed from U.S. currency?” In March 2004, a CNBC poll asked, “Should the words ‘under God’ be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance?” Then, despite the fact that more than 80 percent responded in the negative to both of those questions, NBC twice omitted the words “under God” from a patriotic montage in which children recited the Pledge of Allegiance during the start of the recent U.S. Open golf tournament. NBC later apologized for the omission after nationwide outrage, but the damage already had been done.

Similarly, Fox News reported last week that some New York City atheists are demanding the removal of a street sign, newly dedicated to honor seven firefighters killed in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They say the new street sign, “Seven in Heaven Way,” which was posted in Brooklyn outside the firehouse where the firefighters once served, is a violation of the separation of church and state.

Posting a street sign with the term “heaven” on it is a violation of the separation of church and state?

We definitely don’t live in our Founders’ world anymore, but that doesn’t mean we have to abandon the very principles on which they founded our republic.

Freedom of religion and expression (including religious expression) was so fundamental and important to our Founders that they mandated the liberty in the very first part of our Bill of Rights. Whether on street signs, in congressional corridors or at sporting events, government is called to protect (not prohibit) our right to religious practice and speech. As Thomas Jefferson said, “a Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government ... and what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.”

Luckily, we have a Bill of Rights. But the threats against it are constant and growing. The wording of the Bill of Rights is not ambiguous. But people who want to expand the power of government keep chipping away at, modifying and replacing what it actually says.

In 1823, near the end of his life, Jefferson similarly wrote: “On every question of construction (of the Constitution), let us carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

The phrase “separation of church and state” actually comes from a letter Jefferson wrote in 1802 to the Danbury Baptists. He told them that no particular Christian denomination was going to have a monopoly in government. His words a wall of separation between church and state” were written not to remove all religious practice from government or civic settings, but to prohibit the domination and even legislation of religious sectarians. The Danbury Baptists had written to him seeking reassurance that their religious liberty would be guaranteed, not that religious expression on public grounds would be banned.

Liberals would have you believe it establishes a “separation of church and state.” But that phrase appears nowhere in the First Amendment, which actually reads, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

(Part of the article above is from my most recent New York Times best-seller, “Black Belt Patriotism,” now revised and available in paperback.)”

Source:

http://townhall.com/columnists/chucknorris/2011/06/28/our_founders_vs_nbc_and_new_york_atheists_part_1_of_2/page/full/

II. Our Founders vs. NBC and New York Atheists! (Part 2 of 2)-Posted on WND.com-By Chuck Norris-On July 4, 2011:  

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=318489

III. Citizens Against Religious Bigotry Stand up to NBC for Removing Under God from our Pledge of Allegiance!-Posted on Citizens Against Bigotry-On July 1, 2011:

http://www.citizensagainstreligiousbigotry.org/

IV. NBC Pledge of Allegiance Apology Not Enough for Family Research Council!-Posted on Charisma New Online-By Gina Meeks-On June 24, 2011:

http://www.charismamag.com/index.php/news/31386

V. NBC Apologizes For Omitting ‘Under God’ In Video Of Children Reciting Pledge Of Allegiance!-Posted on The Blaze-By Scott Baker-On June 20, 2011:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/nbc-apologizes-for-omitting-under-god-in-video-of-childen-reciting-pledge-of-allegiance/

VI. Harvard: July 4th Parades Are Right-Wing!-Posted on USNews.com-By PAUL BEDARD-On June 30, 2011:

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/06/30/harvard-july-4th-parades-are-right-wing

VII. Are Christianity and Patriotism Compatible?-Posted on ReadingEagle.com-By Bill Uhrich-On June 26, 2011:

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=316557

VIII. Father’s Day and the Importance of Marriage!-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-On June 17, 2011:

http://blog.heritage.org/2011/06/17/morning-bell-fathers-day-and-the-importance-of-marriage/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=Morning%2BBell

IX. David Tyree: Gay Marriage Will Lead To 'Anarchy'!-Posted on MyFoxNY.com- By NewsCore-On June 16, 2011:

http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/david-tyree-gay-marriage-will-lead-to-anarchy-20110616-ncx

X. Barack Obama, George Soros and the Religious Left!-Posted on American Thinker-By Jason Lee-On June 12, 2011:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/06/barack_obama_george_soros_and_the_religious_left.html

XI. The Judas Media-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

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XII. Video: Ronald Reagan's Tribute to Patriotism!

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Faith of Our Forefathers!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/faith-of-our-forefathers/

Have the “power elite” and pseudo-experts covertly sold us corruption disguised as freedom?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/09/have-the-“power-elite”-and-pseudo-experts-covertly-sold-us-corruption-disguised-as-freedom/

American Flag Clothing Sparks New Protest!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/american-flag-clothing-sparks-new-protest/

Who owns our supposedly fair and balanced airwaves and news outlets?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/10/21/who-owns-our-supposedly-fair-and-balanced-airwaves-and-news-outlets/

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

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May You & Yours Have A Great & Safe 4th of July Weekend.

Please Keep Our Troops & Their Families In Your Thoughts & Prayers.

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

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Posted on National Review Online-By THOMAS SOWELL-On June 28, 2011:

The Fourth of July may be just a holiday for fireworks to some people. But it was a momentous day for the history of this country and the history of the world.

Not only did July 4, 1776, mark American independence from England, it also marked a radically different kind of government from the governments that prevailed around the world at the time — and the kinds of governments that had prevailed for thousands of years before.

The American Revolution was not simply a rebellion against the king of England, it was a rebellion against being ruled by kings in general. That is why the opening salvo of the American Revolution was called“the shot heard ’round the world.”

Autocratic rulers and their subjects heard that shot — and things that had not been questioned for millennia were now open to challenge. As the generations went by, more and more autocratic governments around the world proved unable to meet that challenge.

Some clever people today ask whether the United States has really been “exceptional.”

You couldn’t be more exceptional in the 18th century than to begin your fundamental document — the Constitution of the United States — with the momentous words, “We the people.”

Those three words were a slap in the face to those who thought themselves entitled to rule and who regarded the people as if they were simply human livestock, destined to be herded and shepherded by their betters. Indeed, to this very day, elites who think that way — and they include many among the intelligentsia, as well as political messiahs — find the Constitution of the United States a real pain because it stands in the way of their imposing their will and their presumptions on the rest of us.

More than 100 years ago, so-called “Progressives” began a campaign to undermine the Constitution’s strict limitations on government, which stood in the way of self-anointed political crusaders imposing their grand schemes on the rest of us. That effort to discredit the Constitution continues to this day, and the arguments haven’t really changed much in 100 years.

The cover story in the July 4th issue of Time magazine is a classic example of this arrogance. It asks of the Constitution,“Does it still matter?”

A long and rambling essay by the magazine’s managing editor, Richard Stengel, manages to create a toxic blend of the irrelevant and the erroneous.

The irrelevant comes first, pointing out in big letters that those who wrote the Constitution “did not know about” all sorts of things in the world today, including airplanes, television, computers, and DNA.

This may seem like a clever new gambit but, like many clever new gambits, it is a rehash of arguments made long ago. Back in 1908, Woodrow Wilson said, “When the Constitution was framed there were no railways, there was no telegraph, there was no telephone.”

In Mr. Stengel’s rehash of this argument, he declares: “People on the right and left constantly ask what the framers would say about some event that is happening today.”

Maybe that kind of talk goes on where he hangs out. But most people have enough common sense to know that a constitution does not exist to micro-manage particular “events” or express opinions about the passing scene.

A constitution exists to create a framework for government — and the Constitution of the United States tries to keep the government inside that framework.

From the irrelevant to the erroneous is a short step for Mr. Stengel. He says, “If the Constitution was intended to limit the federal government, it certainly doesn’t say so.”

Apparently Mr. Stengel has not read the Tenth Amendment: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Perhaps Richard Stengel should follow the advice of another Stengel — Casey Stengel, who said on a number of occasions, “You could look it up.”

Does the Constitution matter? If it doesn’t, then your freedom doesn’t matter.

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I. Video: TIME Magazine Asks: ‘Does the Constitution Still Matter?’-Posted on PatriotPost.US-On June 24, 2011:

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II. An Exceptional Debate: ‘The Obama administration’s assault on American identity’!

Posted on National Review Online-By RICHARD LOWRY & RAMESH PONNURU-December 2010 Issue:

It’s almost a commonplace on the left that conservatives are “nihilists” for their opposition to President Obama. It’s opposition for opposition’s sake, an unprincipled exercise in partisan obstruction — mindless, toxic, destructive. When directed at Obama, “no” is an indefensible word, devoid of philosophical content.

Another, different charge has traditionally been leveled at conservatives — that they are “radicals.” This criticism was made of National Review right at the beginning. Conserva tives want to tear down the state, overturn precedent, reverse the direction of history. They are imprudent and incautious in their pursuit of a blinkered ideological agenda, in other words fundamentally unconservative.

So conservatives get it coming and going. Our opposition to the Left is deemed nihilistic and our affirmative agenda radical. These dueling critiques point to a paradox at the heart of American conservatism. We aren’t Tories, concerned with preserving the prerogatives of an aristocratic elite or defending tradition at all costs. Instead, we’re advocates of the dynamism of an open society. Through most of human history and still in many places in the world, that would make us the opposite of conservatives. Not in America.

What do we, as American conservatives, want to conserve?

The answer is simple: the pillars of American exceptionalism. Our country has always been exceptional. It is freer, more individualistic, more democratic, and more open and dynamic than any other nation on earth. These qualities are the bequest of our Founding and of our cultural heritage. They have always marked America as special, with a unique role and mission in the world: as a model of ordered liberty and self-government and as an exemplar of freedom and a vindicator of it, through persuasion when possible and force of arms when absolutely necessary.

The survival of American exceptionalism as we have known it is at the heart of the debate over Obama’s program. It is why that debate is so charged. In his first year, Obama tried to avoid the cultural hot buttons that tripped up Bill Clinton and created the “gays, guns, and God” backlash of 1994. But he has stoked a different type of cultural reaction. The level of spending, the bailouts, and the extent of the intervention in the economy contemplated in health-care and cap-and-trade legislation have created the fear that something elemental is changing in the country. At stake isn’t just a grab bag of fiscal issues, but the meaning of America and the character of its people: the ultimate cultural issue.

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To find the roots of American exceptionalism, you have to start at the beginning — or even before the beginning. They go back to our mother country. Historian Alan Macfarlane argues that England never had a peasantry in the way that other European countries did, or as extensive an established church, or as powerful a monarchy. English society thus had a more individualistic cast than the rest of Europe, which was centralized, hierarchical, and feudal by comparison.

It was, to simplify, the most individualistic elements of En glish society — basically, dissenting low-church Protestants — who came to the eastern seaboard of North America. And the most liberal fringe of English political thought, the anti-court “country” Whigs and republican theorists such as James Harrington, came to predominate here. All of this made Amer ica an outlier compared with England, which was an outlier compared with Europe. The U.S. was the spawn of English liberalism, fated to carry it out to its logical conclusion and become the most liberal polity ever known to man.

America was blessedly unencumbered by an ancien régime. Compared with Europe, it had no church hierarchy, no aristocracy, no entrenched economic interests, no ingrained distaste for commercial activity. It almost entirely lacked the hallmarks of a traditional post-feudal agrarian society. It was as close as you could get to John Locke’s state of nature. It was ruled from England, but lightly; Edmund Burke famously described English rule here as “salutary neglect.” Even before the Rev olution, America was the freest country on earth.

These endowments made it possible for the Americans to have a revolution with an extraordinary element of continuity. Tocqueville may have been exaggerating when he said that Americans were able to enjoy the benefits of a revolution without really having one, but he wasn’t far off the mark. The remnants of old Europe that did exist here — state-supported churches, primogeniture, etc. — were quickly wiped out. Amer icans took inherited English liberties, extended them, and made them into a creed open to all.

Exact renderings of the creed differ, but the basic outlines are clear enough. The late Seymour Martin Lipset defined it as liberty, equality (of opportunity and respect), individualism, populism, and laissez-faire economics. The creed combines with other aspects of the American character — especially our religiousness and our willingness to defend ourselves by force — to form the core of American exceptionalism.

II.

Liberty is the most important element of the creed. To secure it, the Founders set about strictly limiting government within carefully specified bounds. Im mediately upon the collapse of British government in America, the states drew up written constitutions and neutered their executives. They went as far as they could possibly go to tame the government — indeed, they went farther, and had to start over to get a functioning state. But even this second try produced a Constitution that concentrated as much on what government could not do as on what it could.

The Founders knew what men were capable of, in the positive sense if their creative energies were unleashed and in the negative sense if they were given untrammeled power over others. “It may be a reflection on human nature,” Madison wrote in a famous passage in Federalist No. 51 describing the checks in the Constitution, “that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.”

The Constitution’s negative character reflected its basic goal: to protect people in their liberty. In stark contrast, European constitutions, even prior to World War II, established positive rights to government benefits. As Mary Ann Glendon notes, these differences “are legal manifestations of divergent, and deeply rooted, cultural attitudes toward the state and its functions.”

This framework of freedom made possible the flourishing of the greatest commercial republic in history. As historian Walter Russell Mead notes, over the last several centuries of the West, three great maritime powers have stood for a time at the pinnacle of the international order: the Dutch, then the English, and finally us. All three had powerful navies and sophisticated financial systems, and were concerned primarily with increasing national wealth through commerce.

Consider the very beginning. John Steele Gordon reminds us in his book An Empire of Wealth that the Virginia Company — a profit-seeking corporation — founded Jamestown. In New En gland, the Puritan merchants wrote at the top of their ledgers, “In the name of God and of profit.” Even before the Revolution, we were the most prosperous country per capita in the world.

In a telling coincidence, the publication of Adam Smith’s world-changing free-market classic, The Wealth of Nations, coincided with the Declaration of Independence in 1776. Many of the Founders read the book. Without the medieval encumbrances and the powerful, entrenched special interests that plagued other countries, the United States could make Smith’s ideas the basis of its economic dispensation. Gordon writes, “The United States has consistently come closer to the Smithian ideal over a longer period of time than any other major nation.”

In the latitude provided by this relatively light-handed gov ernment, a commerce-loving, striving, and endlessly inventive people hustled its way to become the greatest economic power the world has ever known.

In America, there really hasn’t been a disaffected proletariat — because the proletariat has gotten rich. Friedrich Engels had it right when he carped that “America is so purely bourgeois, so entirely without a feudal past and therefore proud of its purely bourgeois organization.”

The traditional Marxist claim about the U.S. was that it was governed by the executive committee of the bourgeoisie. This was not intended as a compliment, but it was largely true. Look at the archetypal American, Benjamin Franklin, whose name comes from the Middle English meaning freeman, someone who owns some property. Napoleon dismissed the British as “a nation of shopkeepers”; we are a nation of Franklins.

Abraham Lincoln, a de facto Founding Father, is an exemplar of this aspect of America. “I hold the value of life,” Lincoln said, “is to improve one’s condition.” There are few things he hated more than economic stasis. He couldn’t abide Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a nation of yeoman farmers living on their land forevermore, blissfully untouched by the forces of modern economic life. (Appropriately enough, Jefferson died broke.) Lincoln captured the genius of American life when he said, “The man who labored for another last year, this year labors for himself, and next year he will hire others to labor for him.”

That sentiment is at the heart of the American economic gospel. American attitudes toward wealth and its creation stand out within the developed world. Our income gap is greater than that in European countries, but not because our poor are worse off. In fact, they are better off than, say, the bottom 10 percent of Britons. It’s just that our rich are phenomenally wealthy.

This is a source of political tension, but not as much as foreign observers might expect, thanks partly to a typically American attitude. A 2003 Gallup survey found that 31 percent of Amer icans expect to get rich, including 51 percent of young people and more than 20 percent of Americans making less than $30,000 a year. This isn’t just cockeyed optimism. America remains a fluid society, with more than half of people in the bottom quintile pulling themselves out of it within a decade.

And so we arrived in the 21st century still a country apart. Prior to its recent run-up, total government spending was still only about 36 percent of GDP in the U.S. In Europe, the figure was much higher — 44 percent in Britain, 53 percent in France, and 56 percent in Sweden. (The difference is starker when only non-defense spending is compared.)

Politically, we have always been more democratic, more populist than other countries. Edmund Burke said of the low-church Protestants who flocked here, “They represent the dissidents of dissent and the protest wing of the Protestant religion.” The Scotch-Irish who settled the hinterlands were even more cussed. It wasn’t very easy to tell any of these people what to do, as colonial governors learned to their regret.

Later, in the 19th century, the Federalists tried to create a kind of aristocracy. They got rich and set themselves up as grandees. Knowing that many members of this self-designated ruling class started life in the same state they had, their neighbors didn’t take kindly to these pretensions. The Federalist party wasn’t long for this world — a lesson in how poorly elite condescension plays in America.

Today, we still have more elections for more offices more often than other countries. Even many judges and law-enforcement officials are elected. In the federal government, political appointees have greater sway over the civil service than is the case in other developed countries. As Edward C. Banfield and James Q. Wilson have written, “There is virtually no sphere of ‘administration’ apart from politics.”

In Europe, the opposite is the case and has become more so with the rise of the European Union. Brussels is arrogating more decision-making to itself, removed from the locus of democratic accountability in individual nations. When important EU questions are put to the voters in referenda, there is only one correct answer, and when nations vote the “wrong” way, elections are held over and over again until they succumb. This European-style politics of bureaucratic, elite high-handedness is dangerous in its undemocratic nature and anathema to the American char acter.

We have managed to preserve a remarkable national spirit. At over 70 percent, more Americans express pride in their country than Western Europeans do in theirs. In terms of demography, we are the youngest advanced country in the world, and our population continues to grow as that of Western Europe is projected to decline.

Americans are more religious than Europeans. In the 18th century, American religious dissenters supported overthrowing state-supported churches because it would allow them to compete on an even playing field with other denominations. In that competition, America saw an explosion of religious feeling and became the most evangelical country in the world.

Religion gained authority and vitality from its separation from the state, and religion-inspired reform movements, from abolitionism to the civil-rights movement, have been a source of self-criticism and renewal. Today, 73 percent of Americans believe in God, compared with 27 percent of Frenchmen and 35 percent of Britons, according to a 2006Financial Times survey.

All of this means that America has the spirit of a youthful, hopeful, developing country, matched with the economic muscle of the world’s most advanced society and the stability of its oldest democratic institutions.

This national spirit is reflected in our ambitious and vigorous foreign policy. We were basically still clinging to port cities on the eastern seaboard when we began thinking about settling the rest of the continent. There never was a time when we were an idyllically isolationist country. We wanted to make the continent ours partly as a matter of geopolitics: France, Spain, and Britain were wolves at the door. But throughout our history, we have sought not just to secure our interests abroad, but to export our model of liberty.

This missionary impulse is another product of the American Revolution, which took English liberties and universalized them. The Founders thought we would play an outsized role in the world from the very beginning. We would be an “empire of liberty,” Jefferson said. He believed that the flame of liberty, once lit on our shores, would inevitably consume the world.

This strain in American thought was expressed throughout the 20th century in the democratic idealism of Wilson, FDR, and Carter. At its best, this tendency has been tempered by prudence and realism so as to avoid foolish adventurism. Reagan exemplified the appropriate mix, as he avoided (with the painful exception of Lebanon) risky foreign interventions at the same time he ushered the Soviet Union to its grave through a shrewd combination of hard and soft power.

But make no mistake: America is still a martial nation with a no-nonsense, hit-back-harder Jacksonian temperament when challenged. Historically, it has responded to attacks, whether at Fort Sumter or Pearl Harbor, with overwhelming force and the maximum plausible effort to spread our democratic system. In this sense, George W. Bush’s response to 9/11 — two foreign wars, both justified partly as exercises in democratization — was typically American.

Our defense spending constituted half of the world’s defense spending in 2003. With a few exceptions (the British, the Canadians), we are the only Western nation that is able and willing to conduct major combat operations overseas. Even when Afghanistan was considered “the good war” by the rest of the world, we had to do most of the heavy lifting.

None of this is to say, of course, that America is perfect. No nation can be. But one can only regard with wonderment what America stands for and all that it has accomplished in its amazing, utterly distinct adventure in liberty.

III.

There have always been those who take exception to American exceptionalism. Europeans developed a cottage industry in travel writing about America, most of it — although not all, with Tocqueville the most important ex­ception — scandalized by the riotous freedoms of these restless, stubborn, commerce-crazy, God-soaked barbarians. The Amer ica of these portraits was simultaneously primitive and decadent: “grotesque, obscene, monstrous, stultifying, stunted, leveling, deadening, deracinating, roofless, uncultured,” as James Ceaser summarizes the critique inReconstructing America. Many of America’s European critics hoped that, over time, America would lose its distinctiveness. It would become just another developed Western country: more centralized, more elitist, more secular, less warlike, and less free. In short, a quieter, more civilized place.

The American Left has shared this maddened perplexity at its country’s character and this hope for its effacement. Marxists at home and abroad were always mystified by the failure of socialism in the U.S. They thought that, as the most advanced capitalist society, we would have had the most restive proletariat. Instead we have had a broad and largely satisfied middle class. Even our unions, in their early history, were anti-statist, their radicalism anarchistic rather than socialist. At the Progressive convention of 1912, Jane Addams saw “a worldwide movement toward juster social conditions” that “the United States, lagging behind other great nations, has been unaccountably slow to embody in political action.”

Hence the search for foreign models. In the early 20th century, the Left was fascinated with all things German and brimmed with enthusiasm for Bismarck’s welfare state. Woodrow Wilson, in a sentiment typical of progressive intellectuals, deemed Bismarck’s creation an “admirable system”; he was less admiring of the American Founding. Herbert Croly, the founder of The New Republic and one of the most significant progressive intellectuals of the era, was another Bismarck admirer. Croly advocated rule by “expert social engineers” to bring to these shores the best innovations of the modern dictatorial movements taking over in Europe.

New Deal intellectuals gushed over Bolshevism in the 1930s. FDR Brain Truster Stuart Chase enthused, “Why should Rus sians have all the fun of remaking a world?” His statement captured the utopian underpinnings of the progressive project and the yearning for the kind of radical remaking of society that was readily attainable only in countries that gave themselves over entirely to the state. The other model was Italian fascism, which New Dealers studied closely and in important respects aped.

The New Deal was a watershed, but America didn’t lurch all the way to socialism. The power of the central government increased, a welfare state was born, and unionization advanced. But even in the midst of the Great Depression, typically Amer ican attitudes still prevailed. In a 1935 Gallup survey, Americans by a wide margin thought the government was spending too much.

After World War II, a Left that had been gaining strength in Europe for decades finally realized its social-democratic ambitions. The U.S. followed a different course. In the academy, a perverse version of American exceptionalism took root: an exceptionalism of criminality, conquest, and oppression. Amer ica was special only in its misdeeds and failings; all cultures were to be celebrated except our own. The exceptionalism of Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky, in milder form, occupied the commanding heights of our education system. It has worked to trash our Founding, to wipe out our historical memory, and to create a guilty conscience among our ruling elite.

In politics, however, the country’s progress away from its character continued to be “unaccountably slow.” American government continued to grow, particularly during the Johnson and Nixon years; the states became ever more one of the federal government’s key client groups rather than checks on its power. But the individualistic American character began to reassert itself after its mid-century dormancy. Americans saw the stagflation of the 1970s as an indictment of Big Government rather than a crisis of capitalism. Ronald Reagan won the presidency of a nation that, by European standards, was still a freewheeling cowboy economy and democracy — and made it even freer.

Deregulation exposed unions to competitive pressures that they could not survive. The U.S. quickly came out of its post-Vietnam defensive crouch. And religion, rather than fading away, became more publicly assertive in response to perceived threats. Bill Clinton’s Democratic presidency did more to confirm than to alter these trends.

The Left’s search for a foreign template to graft onto America grew more desperate. Why couldn’t we be more like them — like the French, like the Swedes, like the Danes? Like any people with a larger and busier government overawing the private sector and civil society? You can see it in Sicko, wherein Michael Moore extols the British national health-care system, the French way of life, and even the munificence of Cuba; you can hear it in all the admonitions from left-wing commentators that every other advanced society has government child care, or gun control, or mass transit, or whatever socialistic program or other infringement on our liberty we have had the wisdom to reject for decades.

IV.

President Obama’s first year in office should be seen in the context of contemporary liberalism’s discomfort with American exceptionalism.

The president has signaled again and again his unease with traditional American patriotism. As a senator he notoriously made a virtue of not wearing a flag pin. As president he has been unusually detached from American history: When a foreign critic brought up the Bay of Pigs, rather than defend the country’s honor he noted that he was a toddler at the time. And while acknowledging that America has been a force for good, he has all but denied the idea that America is an exceptional nation. Asked whether he believed in American exceptionalism during a European trip last spring, Obama said, “I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exception alism.” (Is it just a coincidence that he reached for examples of former hegemons?)

In this respect the president reflects the mainstream sentiment of American liberals. We do not question the sincerity of his, or their, desire to better the lot of his countrymen. But modern liberal intellectuals have had a notoriously difficult time coming up with a decent account of patriotism even when they have felt it. From Richard Rorty to Todd Gitlin, they have proclaimed their allegiance to a hypothetical, pure country that is coming into being rather than to the one they inhabit.

Given the liberal gestalt, it is perhaps unsurprising that every important aspect of American exceptionalism has been under threat from President Obama and his allies in Washington. Obama has frankly and correctly described their project as to change the country fundamentally.

On those occasions when Obama places himself in the con text of American history, he identifies himself with the post-Wil sonian tradition — with, that is, the gradual replacement of the Founders’ design. He seeks to accelerate it.

Already we are catching up to the European norm for government power. In 2010, government spending in the U.S. will reach an estimated 44 percent of GDP. With entitlements for the elderly on a path to explode with the retirement of the Baby Boomers, the trend is toward more convergence. In a strange reversal, last year it was an American president urging continental Europeans to spend more to combat the recession. Two of his highest priorities would drastically, and probably irreversibly, expand the government’s footprint.

American liberals have long been embarrassed about our country’s supposedly retrograde policies on health care and energy, especially compared with Europe’s nationalized health insurance and carbon rationing. So they tried to use their un precedented power after the 2008 elections to bring the U.S. into line. They sought to limit carbon emissions. That legislation would simultaneously represent a massive indirect tax increase, an extension of the tentacles of government regulation into every sector of the economy, and an empowerment of new bureaucratic instruments to control and direct economic development.

Obama’s health-care policy would change the relationship of people to government, probably forever, by further nationalizing our system. It would have the federal government, for the first time, order all Americans to purchase a specified product. And socialized health-care systems in other lands have become endless warrants for more taxing and spending, as both are justified as necessary to delivering adequate health care. Once the public is hooked on government health care, its political attitudes shift leftward. (The system’s flaws, such as rationing, tend to be attributed to underfunding, so that even discontent with it ends up entrenching it.)

Free labor markets have been an expression of American individualism and a contributor to American dynamism. But President Obama has attempted to upend seven decades of American labor law in order to make it easier for unions to collect new members. Democrats hope to reverse the unions’ decline. Tellingly, after the United Auto Workers helped wreck GM and Chrysler, the Obama administration handed it a large share of control over the two companies.

Corporations, meanwhile, are also becoming more dependent on government handouts. Rivalry between business and political elites has helped to safeguard American liberty. What we are seeing now is the possible emergence of a new political economy in which Big Business, Big Labor, and Big Government all have cozy relations of mutual dependence. The effect would be to suppress both political choice and economic dynamism.

The retreat from American exceptionalism has a legal dimension as well. Obama’s judicial nominees are likely to attempt to bring our Constitution into line with European norms. Here, again, he is building on the work of prior liberals who used the federal courts as a weapon against aspects of American exceptionalism such as self-government and decentralization. In creasingly, judicial liberals look to putatively enlightened foreign, and particularly European, opinion as a source of law capable of displacing the law made under our Constitution.

Liberal regulators threaten both our dynamism and our self-government. They are increasingly empowered to make far-reaching policy decisions on their own — for instance, the EPA has the power to decide, even in the absence of cap-and-trade legislation passed by Congress, how to regulate carbon emissions. The agency thus has extraordinary sway over the economy, without any meaningful accountability to the electorate. The Troubled Asset Relief Program has turned into a honeypot for the executive branch, which can dip into it for any purpose that suits it. Government is increasingly escaping the control of the people from whom it is supposed to derive its powers.

Inevitably, the transformation of America at home is being accompanied by a shift in its policies toward the rest of the world. Since the 1940s America has been the crucial undergirding of the international order. Its power and sway are a stabilizing influence in every region of the world, and it provides international public goods, from the policing of sea lanes to humanitarian interventions. It is also, in keeping with its missionary history, the chief exponent of liberty in the world.

Obama is turning his back both on the overarching vision of freedom and on the prudence, and mislabeling his approach “realism.” He has been positively allergic to the word “demo cracy.” His administration has shown very little interest in defending human rights around the world, whether in China or in Cuba. During the Iranian election crisis, he was even cooler to the protesters in the streets than the Europeans were.

His hesitance to advocate American ideals is not a return to the realpolitik of Nixon or the first Bush. A deep naïveté informs his policy. He believes that our enemies can be persuaded, merely through sweet talk and blandishments, to abandon their cold-blooded interests and their most deeply held ambitions. This is impossible without developing the kind of leverage over them in which Obama seems to have little interest. Yes, Reagan negoti ated with the Soviets, but only when they had a leader who was a reformer and the arms build-up and the prospect of SDI had tilted the correlation of forces — to use the Marxist argot — in our direction. Under the sway of Obama’s anti-idealism, the U.S. is less interested in serving as a champion of liberty; his policies will also reduce our power, and thus our effectiveness should we choose to wield it again.

In many of Obama’s performances overseas (the Nobel acceptance speech is an exception), there has been a dismaying defensiveness. It’s almost as though he doesn’t think we deserve to stand up for our ideals or for our interests, and believes that our record of sins, hypocrisies, and affronts makes a posture of apologetic passivity the only appropriate one. This posture raises a disturbing possibility: that the waning of America’s civilizational self-confidence is part and parcel of the change Obama is effecting.

In Europe, we see a civilization that is not willing to defend itself: nations that will surrender their sovereignty, cultures that will step aside to be supplanted by an alien creed, peoples that will no longer make the most meaningful investment in the future by reproducing. There is a sense that history is over and Europeans are just waiting for someone to turn out the last light in the last gallery of the Louvre.

The popular revolt against Obama’s policies is a sign that Americans are not prepared to go gentle into that good night. Other factors are of course in play — most important, the weak economy — but the public is saying “No” to a rush to social democracy.

Although the conservatives, libertarians, and independents who oppose Obama’s health-care initiative may not put it in quite these terms, they sense that his project will not just increase insurance premiums but undermine what they cherish about America. Those Americans who want to keep our detention facility at Guantanamo Bay think it necessary to protect our security — but they also worry, more profoundly, that our leaders are too apologetic to serve our interests. Americans may want change, even fundamental change, but most of them would rather change our institutions than our national character.

It is madness to consider President Obama a foreigner. But it is blindness to ignore that American exceptionalism has homegrown enemies — people who misunderstand the sources of American greatness or think them outdated. If they succeed, we will be less free, less innovative, less rich, less self-governing, and less secure. We will be less.

As will the world. The Europeans can afford a foreign policy devoted nearly exclusively to “soft power” because we are here to defend them and mount the forward defense of freedom. Who is going to do that for us, when we are no longer doing it for ourselves? Who will answer the call when America is no longer home?

If our politics seems heated right now, that is because the central question before us is whether to abandon our traditional sense of ourselves as an exceptional nation. To be exceptional is of course not to be perfect. The old anti-imperialist saying — “My country right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right” — has considerable wisdom. But Americans are right not to want to become exceptional only in the 230-year path we took to reach the same lackluster destination as everyone else.

Source:

http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=M2FhMTg4Njk0NTQwMmFlMmYzZDg2YzgyYjdmYjhhMzU

III. Why Constitutional Conservatism Is Ascending-Posted on American Thinker-By Mark J. Fitzgibbons-On December 10, 2010:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/12/why_constitutional_conservatis.html

IV. Why is America Exceptional?-Posted on The Heritage Foundation-By Matthew Spalding,  Ph.D.-On October 1, 2010:

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/09/why-is-america-exceptional

V. Video: “A Republic, If You Can Keep It”!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=H8I9pLmuyyA#at=13

VI. CNN Analysts Want Constitution Modernized; Bash Second Amendment Wording, Electoral College!-Posted on News Busters-By Matt Hadro-On June 27, 2011:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matt-hadro/2011/06/27/cnn-analysts-want-constitution-modernized-bash-second-amendment-wording-

VII. George Soros assault on U.S. Constitution: ‘White House officials involved in rewriting nation’s founding document’!-Posted on WND.com-By Aaron Klein-On March 27, 2011:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=280277

VIII. The Judas Media!-Posted on Floyd Reports-Guest Writer-On April 27, 2011:

http://floydreports.com/the-judas-media/?utm_source=Expose+Obama&am...

Note: What follows are two 2008 articles and/or blog posts that revealed the then Senator Obama’s patriotism or lack of prior to being elected as our President-You Decide:  

I. The Meta-Messages in Obama’s Patriotism Speech-Posted on American Thinker-By Lee Cary-On July 2, 2008:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_metamessages_in_obamas_pat_1.html

II. Senator Obama’s Patriotism – a Veteran’s Perspective-Posted on BOPAC Report-By zachjonesishome-On July 2, 2008:

http://zachjonesishome.wordpress.com/senator-obama’s-patriotism-a-veteran’s-perspective/

Note:  My following blog posts contain numerous articles and/or blog posts and videos that relate to this disturbing issue-You Decide:

Is it important to understand the Marxist assault on the foundations of our system?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2011/01/27/is-it-important-to-understand-the-marxist-assault-on-the-foundations-of-our-system/

American Flag Clothing Sparks New Protest!

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/10/american-flag-clothing-sparks-new-protest/

Where Is America Today?

http://weroinnm.wordpress.com/2010/05/26/where-is-america-today-2/

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“Food For Thought”

God Bless the U.S.A.!

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Semper Fi!

Jake

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