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The Necessity of Repatriation

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La nécessité de rapatriement

re·pa·tri·ate; verb \(ˌ) rē-ˈpā-trē-ˌāt

repatriation: the process of returning a person to their place of origin or citizenship.

by, J. Schuyler Montague | sharia unveiled

1,400 years ago, a plague was released onto humanity. The likes of which the earth had never seen. It all began with the visions of a madman, suffering from delusions of grandeur and perhaps, too many tokes from the hukkah the night before. And as he awoke from his medicated slumber, he stumbled from the cave, told a story..and from this day, Islam was born.

Almost every nation on earth today is suffering from the associative symptoms of Islam. And how could we not be? After all, we all have millions upon millions of carriers among us with this disease. And, as with any disease, we must seek out a cure to ensure the survival of the masses.

While many today cannot even bring themselves to acknowledge, even by name, the enemy we are confronting..it should come as no surprise that Islam is rapidly spreading. And for some of us, these are the individuals ‘leading’ our nations.  That is, leading us down the path of submission and enslavement, no doubt. While others from the school of the ‘politically correct,’ seem to find solace in confronting the misnomers of: ‘Islamism, Islamists and “Radical Islam.”‘  Of which, there is no such thing…

There is no ‘..moderate and radical Islam..’  There is only Islam. There are no ‘..moderate and radical Muslims..’ There are only Muslims. Islam and Muslims. These are the two entities we confront. We are currently involved in a war, that only one side is fighting. So, it should come as no surprise that ‘they’ are winning. Within the studies of ‘Comparative Religion,’ truly, we cannot compare Islam to that of any other. Islam is not a parallel, alternate path, but rather, an opposing force. Only in Islam can we find: Faithful, devout Muslims.. murdering children, raping little girls, beheading Christians, stabbing and running over Jews, stoning women, enslaving blacks, executing atheists, stealing land from Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Yazidis and Jews, flying planes into buildings, blowing up trains and buses, throwing acid on women and suicide bombing children in schools. Admittedly, some of these crimes exist in our Western societies, but here is the difference. In ‘our’ societies, crime exists ‘in spite’ of our religions, not as a ‘result’ of them.

Have you ever noticed that Islam is the only ‘religion’ where its followers are constantly attempting to convince us that their religion is a ‘..religion of peace?..’  Never do we hear Buddhists, Hindus, Christians or Jews constantly trying to convince us that their religions are ‘..religions of peace..’ Well, Islam is the only religion that deems it necessary to do so. The rest of the world already knows that all of the other religions are ‘..religions of peace..’ because they see it in their actions, not their words. Personally, I do not care if you want to sit in your backyard and worship a rock. That is your prerogative. But when your God tells you to pick up that rock and hit me in the head with it, then ‘we’ have a problem.

Islam is a culture killer. Currently today, England, France, Germany, Sweden, Australia, Norway, India and many others are witnessing their cultures erode, right before their eyes. Cultures, all rich and pure, vibrant and enduring, resilient for thousands of years..almost a thing of the past. Even America, the baby among the nations, once a beacon of hope for the weary, has now seen the pendulum begin to reverse course. All of us are victims of the failed experiment of multiculturalism. Many European nations have already been given their ‘death’ date.  That is, the date at which their culture will no longer be the ‘majority’ culture in their country and Islam will reign supreme. A recent study conducted by the government of Britain concluded that Islam will become the dominant religion in their nation within the next 10-20 years. The shifting demographics of the entire world are an undeniable reality. Yet, our Western leaders continue to bring in the Muslim immigrants from the Middle East by the plane load. Muslim ‘immigration’ is the overt variable in the equation. The covert variable is Muslim ‘reproduction.’ The average reproductive rate of a Muslim woman is 8.1 children. The average reproductive rate for an American or European woman is currently 1.3 children. It’s only a matter of time. So, is this the world you wish for our children to inherit? Does it bother you at all, that the day will eventually arrive, where you are no longer here on this earth, but your daughter is? She will be forced to wear a burqa, bow down to allah and be beaten in the public square..

The resolution of repatriation is the only option, short of revolution, that can turn back the clock and save our nations for our future generations. It is a “just” and humane method of reclaiming and preserving our cultures. It is not only our right, but our duty as citizens of our nations, to protect and defend our way of life for our children. To not do so, would be a crime.

Repatriation. Here is how it would work:

1. We give all Muslims in our country 90 days advance notice that the process of repatriation is about to be initiated. It will be a peaceful, humanitarian effort with the ONLY objective being, the preservation of our own cultures. We will explain this very clearly to the Muslim demographic.

2. Each Muslim family will be able to choose which Middle Eastern/Arab country they would like to move to.

3. A general fund will be set up by our government to cover the costs of relocation for each family. Each Muslim man, woman and child will receive a specific, predesignated amount. For example, $10,000/US to each Muslim person. So, a family of 8 (mom, dad and 6 children) would receive $80,000/US.  This should easily cover all costs associated with relocation such as, air travel, shipping, obtaining new residency upon arrival, etc.

4. Any family refusing to relocate would be subject to apprehension and deportation, without collecting the travel allotment.

5. In exchange, all nations involved agree to open their doors to ALL persecuted Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, Yazidis, atheists, etc. currently residing in “Muslim” nations. This “exchange” should be welcomed by the Muslim nations. They will be taking in Muslims and getting rid of those ‘unwanted’ Christians, Jews, etc

 

This is obviously just a ‘rough draft’ framework for an expandable format. But, it can and must be done.  Neglecting to do so will eventually result in dire consequences for all of those involved. Many people are reaching their ‘breaking points’ as they see their nations reach the ‘tipping point.’ There is a ‘contingency plan’ in place..but, we prefer the method outlined above.

We completely acknowledge that we are a nation of immigrants. At some point in history, all of our families were immigrants. But here is the difference…

More often than not, our ancestors were “escaping” persecution, not seeking to spread it. Our ancestors were “seeking” freedom, not aiming to take it away. Our ancestors arrived with humbleness and humility.. not hatred and discourse.

And to anyone that thinks the cost of repatriation is too high..just wait until you see the cost of not doing so.

 

DEMAND REPATRIATION!

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Designated Terrorist Group CAIR is outraged that FOX News host Jeanine Pirro called for mass murder of Islamic jihadists

Hey Judge Jeanine, ‘You Go Girl!’ We’ve got your back.

Apparently, the head of FOX News agrees.

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Rotterdam’s Muslim mayor tells Muslims: ‘don’t appreciate West pack your bags & leave, fuck off’

Geert Wilders has been prosecuted for making similar comments.

via Rotterdam Mayor tells fellow Muslims who don’t appreciate West to ‘f*** off’ | Daily Mail Online.

The Moroccan-born mayor of Rotterdam has said Muslim immigrants who do not appreciate the way of life in Western civilisations can ‘f*** off’.

Ahmed Aboutaleb, who arrived in the Netherlands aged 15, spoke out in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris last week.

Appearing on live television just hours after the shootings, Mayor Aboutaleb said Muslims who ‘do not like freedom can pack your bags and leave’.

Labour politician Ahmed Aboutaleb, a former journalist who was appointed mayor of the Dutch city in 2008, is known for his straightforward stance on integration.

The 53-year-old won the praise of London-mayor Boris Johnson over his comments last week attacking fellow Muslims who move to Western nations but refuse to accept the Western way of life.

‘It is incomprehensible that you can turn against freedom,’ Mayor Aboutaleb told Dutch current affairs program Nieuwsuur (Newshour).

‘But if you don’t like freedom, for heaven’s sake pack your bags and leave.

‘If you do not like it here because some humorists you don’t like are making a newspaper, may I then say you can f*** off.

‘This is stupid, this so incomprehensible.  Vanish from the Netherlands if you cannot find your place here. All those well-meaning Muslims here will now be stared at’.

The mayor should start by clearing out the city he is now mayor of, conquered by Muslims.

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Muslim Congressman Andre Carson: Model U.S. Schools After Madrassas (video)

Andre Carson (Indiana) who we’ve profiled several times also stated that Muslims have been in the U.S. since its inception (lie), and he told those who think Muslims are plotting (which Carson basically admits), “Allah will not allow you to stop us.” (The Blaze picked up on this part of the speech and posted it). Be sure another Muslim congressman Keith Hakim Ellison and most Muslims living in America agree. Updated with short version below. Thanks to commenter Tater Salad for the tip.

Watch the full version below and see how a Muslim congressman thinks and panders to his co-religionists most of whom are not his constituents. Keep watching to the end to see Carson solicit money to help put Muslims in the mayor’s office and on various boards.

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Video: The Boston Blueprint (to conquer America)

It begins in the mosques. Watch it all. via apeacet. h/t EuropeNews

The Islamic Society of Boston mosques have been home to 11 members, including the Tsarnayev brothers, who are either dead, in jail, or on the run due to terrorist activity. Extreme Muslim leaders in Boston have established a blueprint to radicalize and brainwash America’s kids to become fighters…and this pattern is being replicated in communities all across the country.

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Muslim Mayor of Rotterdam: “If you don’t like freedom…leave”

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THE PATRIOT POST

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Jan. 14, 2015
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THE FOUNDATION

“[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments.” –Benjamin Rush, On the Mode of Education Proper in a Republic, 1806

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Obama’s Oil Boom?

In advance of his State of the Union speech on Jan. 20, Barack Obama and his propaganda machine are in high gear, claiming credit for, among other things, lower fuel prices. Though Obama has erected an insurmountable gauntlet to oil and gas exploration leases, he recently claimed, “We’re saving drivers about 70 cents a gallon at the pump.” Really? Who is “we”? And this week, after reaffirming his commitment to veto the Keystone XL pipeline project, Obama had the unmitigated audacity to again claim credit for the additional drop in prices: “America is the number one producer of oil, the number one producer of gas. That’s helping to save drivers about $1.10 a gallon at the pump over this time last year.” Recall if you will that when Obama entered office, gasoline cost about $1.60 per gallon. In four short years, on top of the deepening Obama recession, his severe constriction on oil production increased the price to more than $4.00 a gallon. Ahead of the 2012 election, Obama declared, “We can’t just drill our way to lower gas prices. … [Republicans] are dusting off their three-point plan for $2 gas.” Currently the average price for a gallon of gas is under $2 in 18 states. But for the record, oil production on government land is down 16% since 2009, while oil production on private land has increased 61%. Those gains are despite Obama’s obstruction of oil exploration.

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Anti-Gunners Snipe at a Patriot

“American Sniper,” the film based on the true story of Navy sniper Chris Kyle and his book of the same name, hits theaters Thursday. Kyle served with the SEAL Team 3 Sniper Element Charlie platoon and was the most lethal sniper in U.S. history. He accumulated 160 confirmed kills and another 95 probables, and was known to his enemies as Al-Shaitan Ramad (The Devil of Ramadi). Though he survived numerous harrowing encounters in Iraq, sadly, he was killed by a vet suffering from PTSD here in the States. That story is, in part, why the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence has provided a Facebook forum for anti-gun jackasses to swap spit over the movie and Kyle’s death. “Good Riddance,” jeered one. “What goes around comes around,” derided another. Chris Walker, executive director of 2nd Vote, said, “Americans' voices don’t end on Election Day, they continue with the dollars they spend every day. The companies and groups that are financially supporting outrageous comments like these need to explain why they continue to receive their support or risk a financial backlash as consumers might choose to take their money elsewhere.” Indeed, such hateful sentiment deserves scorn of its own.

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Coming to a State Near You: The Gun Safety-ers

Gun control should only mean hitting your target. So, facing numerous public debate defeats, gun grabbers have rebranded. They will target individual states and will refer to themselves as advocates of gun safety because it’s such a cuddly term. Who could be against gun safety? Sure, we’re all for gun safety: Always assume the gun is loaded, keep your finger off the trigger and never leave your firearms in a place where children could discover them – especially if the child is 75, in Congress and wants to mess with your guns. But the “safety” for which gun grabbers advocate is the iron fist of the government deciding who deserves the right to bear arms. President of Everytown for Gun Safety John Feinblatt told The New York Times that gun grabbers looked to the success of leftist crusades like same-sex marriage for their new strategy. “The arc of the marriage-equality movement started in the federal government, and got them the Defense of Marriage Act,” he said. “Then they went to the states and showed that if you can get the majority of the public on your side state by state, that will influence the courts and Congress in the end.” Of course, same-sex marriage advocates more often than not won by going to activist judges first, only later winning public opinion through guilt and intimidation. Let’s hope support for the Second Amendment is stronger than that. More…

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Goober Jimmy Carter Speaks About Charlie Hebdo Attack

The goober farmer stumbled into the national spotlight to talk about the Charlie Hebdo attack by defending Barack Obama and blaming Israel. “I don’t think there’s any need for criticism,” former president Jimmy Carter said of Obama’s decision to skip going to Paris. “The president sometimes can’t go where he’d prefer to go. He’s just come back from vacation so I think he’s probably got a lot on his desk.” See? According to the least successful president in American history, the president’s ways are higher than our ways. The next day, the addlepated ex-president blamed all attacks by violent Islamists on the Jews. Carter appeared on Jon Stewart’s comedy news show to say, “Well, one of the origins for it is the Palestinian problem. And this aggravates people who are affiliated in any way with the Arab people who live in the West Bank and Gaza, what they are doing now – what’s being done to them.” Two French Muslims attacked a French paper known for its blistering satire about any religion, including Jews, Christians and Muslims. And Carter says the attack has Israel written all over it?

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Even the King of England Had No Power to Suspend Laws

Depending on who you ask, Barack Obama has done what King George III never did. Joel Gehrke writes at National Review, “[A]n expert at the Law Library of Congress – a non-partisan branch of the Library of Congress that has advised Congress and the Supreme Court since 1832 – tackled a slightly different question: What would George III do when faced with a law he didn’t like? Not even the King of England at the time of the American Revolution had the authority to suspend laws unilaterally, the Law Library expert wrote in a memorandum to the Senate committee tasked with responding to President Obama’s recent executive orders on the enforcement of immigration law.” But yet, Obama claims he can unilaterally decide who his administration will deport and who will remain de facto citizens – even if they came into this country illegally. Obama has become the king the Founders warned about. More…

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The West Isn’t Really Standing With Charlie Hebdo

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The West certainly likes the idea of standing with the little paper that could. A week after jihadis murdered two cops and 10 employees of the French satire paper Charlie Hebdo, the streets of Paris thundered with the march of more than a million people supporting free speech and denouncing violent Islam – among them France’s François Hollande, Germany’s Angela Merkel and Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu. Meanwhile, the paper whose staff was obliterated a week ago published another edition that hit the newspaper stands in Paris this morning, selling out inminutes.

It seems the West will defend the right to state an opinion, no matter how unsettling or contrarian. (Well, unless you oppose any part of the Left’s agenda.) But already the signs of cultural rot show through the narrative. People are standing with Charlie today (or as the French say, “Je suis Charlie”), while the institutions that claim to defend the ideal of free speech are falling away.

This is a cultural double standard. The New York Times – once a paper that fought with the U.S. government all the way to the courts over whether or not it could publish materials deemed classified by the government – backed away from publishing the simple caricature of Muhammad because a group of radical Islamists might take their grievances to the court of violence and terror instead of public opinion.

“There are times for self-restraint, but in the immediate wake of the most threatening assault on journalism in living memory, you would have served the cause of free expression best by engaging in it,” Floyd Abrams wrote in a letter to the Times editor. Abrams was the lawyer who defended the Times during the Pentagon Papers trial.

While the White House admitted it was a mistake for the president to skip the Paris march, Press Secretary Josh Earnest can’t give a straight answer to reporters if Obama believes blasphemy is protected under the First Amendment. When asked if the White House gives its “absolute support” for the mockery of any world institution – sacred cow or no – Earnest replied, “There is nothing that the individuals at that satirical magazine did that justified in any way the kind of violence we saw in Paris last week. No. That is the most important principle that is at stake here. At the same time, it would not be the first time there was a discussion in this country about the responsibilities that go along with exercising the right to freedom of speech.”

So Earnest is only objecting to the level of violence against Charlie Hebdo? Would the White House condone a frivolous lawsuit to bully the paper into submission? Of course there are responsibilities that go along with the freedom of speech. But in the aftermath of a mass murder, the White House needs to reaffirm that free speech doesn’t apply only to banal conversations, but also to speech that enrages and offends.

Average Americans are just as petty and feckless as their leaders. Just last month, it was every citizen’s patriotic duty to see the trash film “The Interview.” This month, it’s every red-blooded Westerner’s assignment to share a picture of Muhammad that took a Frenchman no longer than five minutes to draw. It should go without saying that the freedom of speech applies to these works too, but we’re also cognizant of the fact that much blood and ink has been spilt over aesthetically bad work.

new poll asked Americans if it’s ever okay to blaspheme another religion. The results were not good for the First Amendment, as just 37% of the respondents agreed that blasphemy is protected speech, while 32% said no, and 31% had no clue.

So much for standing with Charlie.

Conservative editor Rod Dreher says we only like the idea of standing with Charlie. “But what makes it kitschy is that we love thinking of ourselves standing in solidarity with the brave journalists against the Islamist killers,” he writes. “When the principle of standing up for free speech might cost us something far, far less than our lives, most of us would fold. You didn’t see liberals wearing ‘I Am Brendan Eich’ slogans; many on the Left think he got what he deserved, because blasphemers like him don’t deserve a place in public life. Nor did you see conservatives brandishing ‘I Am Brendan Eich’ slogans, because they feared they might be next.”

This is why the narrative about the Charlie Hebdo is so powerful. As Dreher points out, the cartoonists there were not reporting fact when they were killed. They were making satire. Yet, after their office was firebombed in 2011, after their colleagues were killed last week, the survivors felt so strongly about their work that they once again picked up their pens.

The world was watching. Normally, the paper prints 60,000 copies and sells half of them, but this edition would be printed three million times, translated into Spanish, English and Arabic, and distributed worldwide. The paper needed a remarkable cover.

Cartoonist Renald “Luz” Luzier drew the front page of the newspaper reborn. In a press conference unveiling the drawing, he said, “We needed a front page that would make us laugh. … I had Muhammad, he was holding a sign, ‘Je suis Charlie,’ and he was crying… And I wrote ‘all is forgiven’ above. And I cried. I drew and I cried and we had our f—ing homepage. I’m sorry, we drew him again.”

In an interview, Editor in Chief Gérard Biard explained the cartoon and the paper’s position: “It is we who forgive, not Muhammad.” Forgiveness is speech worth defending.

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TOP 5 RIGHT OPINION COLUMNS

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OPINION IN BRIEF

Harvard Professor Howard Mumford Jones (1892-1980): “Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.”

Columnist Ken Blackwell: “CBS News gave an early report on the terrorist attacks in Paris. It included this telling sentence: ‘A reporter for Britain’s Telegraph newspaper in Paris told Sky News that the first two officers to arrive, who were apparently unarmed, fled after seeing gunmen armed with automatic weapons and possibly a grenade launcher.’ Every American, every citizen of a free country, needs to read, and re-read that sentence. Here is the answer of liberals and socialists to the problem of domestic security. Let the police do it. Let the state protect you. Give all weapons to the professionals who are trained and who can be trusted. … When John Kerry arrives in Paris, he doubtless knows that France lacks a Second Amendment. But France has a National Anthem, the Marseillaise. And a memorable line in that stirring song is: Aux armes, concitoyens! To arms, Fellow Citizens! Now is the time to put self-defense on the international agenda. If your government does not believe in the right to keep and bear arms as a human right, then it probably doesn’t believe in your right to life, either.”

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Columnist Arnold Ahlert: “Yesterday, President Obama was poised to announce legislation that would shield companies from litigation if they shared computer data with the government in order to prevent cyber attacks. Opponents of the measure insist adequate safeguards are already in place. … Does the CENTCOM hack justify the further expansion of the federal government’s surveillance apparatus, or is it a conveniently exploitable moment? It would be far easier to determine the answer were it not for this president’s extra-constitutional urges, and the reservoir of ill-will built up by an administration mired in numerous scandals. Unfortunately, the line between legitimate national security needs and America’s devolution into a police state is getting increasingly blurred.”

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Comedian Argus Hamilton: “Joe Biden flew to Brazil last week to try to mend relations with Brazil’s government that’s angry over NSA spying. He has a natural curiosity for the country. After Joe landed, he told reporters he was thrilled to be in the Amazon, because he always wanted to see where books come from.”

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THE DAILY JOT THAT FREEDOM THING

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

 

That freedom thing


There was a reason why the early settlers and eventually the Founders of the United States left Europe: Freedom. No matter how the revisionists and deceivers try to rewrite the history of America, it was the desire to be free that led to the formation of these United States. Freedom of religion and freedom of speech. They go hand in hand. The freedom to own property and personal effects that are not to be intruded upon by government, the freedom to own weapons for self defense and to hold an overreaching government in check, the freedom to conduct your personal business in a lawful and private manner--these were essential to those who began this country. It's what makes Americans American.


The freedom to worship was not about tolerance for Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and so on. Those were considered foreign and strange practices by the early settlers and founders. It was about freedom to worship the God of the Jews and Christians, the God of the Bible, without being forced to worship the way the government wanted you to. You see, the Pilgrims, the Huguenots, the settlers at Jamestown had no other God, but God. Many were being persecuted by so-called "Christian" churches, by state run churches, by their respective governments for their desire to worship God the way they saw fit according to their faith as it was translated from the BIBLE. 


These folks would never had considered Islam even a religion because of the commandments in the Bible found in Exodus 20:3-17.  Number 1: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."  Number 2: "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any think that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me." It is found in the writings of the Pilgrims, for example, that they took this very seriously. 


Islam was hailed as a hostile and evil bunch by our founders. They knew full well and took seriously 2 Corinthians 6:14, "Be you not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship has righteousness with unrighteousness? and what partnership has light with darkness?" Islam was, and always has been, a threat to freedom everywhere it goes. It is incompatible with the American way of life. It is incompatible with representative government. It is oppressive and deadly. It does not qualify as religion in the spiritual sense, unless, of course, satanism is considered religion. How ridiculous have we become with this political correctness and tolerance? It defies common sense. It goes against that freedom thing.


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Mitch McConnell - dweebBy David Lawder. U.S. Senate Republicans on Tuesday said it was unclear if they could pass a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that blocks President Barack Obama’s immigration initiatives, raising an early stumbling block for the new Republican Congress.

Senate Republicans acknowledged that the measure, expected to win approval in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, may not get the 60 Senate votes needed to clear procedural hurdles erected by Democrats.


Republicans have a 54-46 Senate majority and would need to persuade some Democrats to vote against Obama’s executive action to lift the threat of deportation for millions of undocumented immigrants. The House measure is expected to ban money from being used to implement the order.

“If we can’t pass the House bill we’d have to come up with an idea of what could pass the Senate,” said John Cornyn of Texas, the Senate’s second-ranking Republican. (Read more about the GOP-controlled senate decision HERE)

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Obama’s Immigration Actions Raising Concerns

By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos. Nearly two months after President Obama announced his immigration executive actions, questions remain over whether the Department of Homeland Security can be ready to process millions of additional immigrants through an already-burdened system.

DHS is on a hiring spree as it sets an ambitious schedule – outlined in a recent memo from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the DHS agency in charge of processing the requests — for accepting new applicants.

The agency plans to begin accepting applications in late February under an expanded program for those who came to the U.S. illegally as children (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA). And the agency is looking to May to implement the biggest, and most controversial, plank of Obama’s plan – effectively legalizing potentially millions of parents of U.S. citizens and legal residents.

But the colossal effort, on a tight timetable, perhaps inevitably has some questioning whether they can pull it off. (Read more about the concerns on Obama’s immigration actions HERE)



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WHEN HAVE A PRESIDENT WHO REFUSE TO SEE THE DANGER OF OUR ENEMY,, PROTECTS THEM AND SUPPORT THEM HE HAS NOT KEPT HIS OATH OF OFFICE!
HE HAS GIVEN AID AND COMFORT TO THOSE WHO OUR AT WAR WITH US WHO DESIRE TO CONQUEROR US AND ENSLAVE US TO SHARIA LAW TO KILL US IF WE DON'T
ENSLAVE OUR WIVES, DAUGHTERS, ARE MOTHERS AND SISTERS TO SEXUAL SLAVERY THAT IS CALL TREASON!
AMERICAN'S WE ARE IN VERY DANGEROUS TIME FOR THE FIRST TIME WE ARE BEING ATTACK FROM WITH IN
OUR OWN GOVERNMENT AND IN OUR OWEN COUNTRY BY OUR ENEMY ISLAM IT'S BEEN WITH OBAMA'S HELP!
HERE IS THE QUESTION DO LOVE YOUR FREEDOM YOUR COUNTRY AND THE RULE OF LAW OUR CONSTITUTION
AND IT'S BILL OF RIGHTS! THEN YOU MUST DO AS OUR FOUNDER FATHERS DID FIGHT FOR IT AS AN AMERICAN AND A FREE PERSON
WE ARE WARRIORS FOR FREE EVERY LAST ONE OF US! TIME TO FIGHT FOR FREEDOM!
PRINCIPLES FOR A FREE SOCIETY

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By Charlie Spiering. Press Secretary Josh Earnest defended President Obama and White House officials for refusing to describe the terrorist attacks in Paris as a consequence of radical Islamic terrorism.

Earnest explained to White House reporters during the press briefing that this is a question of “accuracy.”

“We want to describe exactly what happened. These are individuals who carried out an act of terrorism, and they later tried to justify that act of terrorism by invoking the religion of Islam in their own deviant view of it,” he said.


Critics of Obama have questioned his refusal to identify the terrorist actions as an act of radical Islamic terrorism. (Read more from this story HERE)

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New Footage of the Paris Attack


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Additional Footage of the Paris Attack Shows Terrorists Brutally Murdering Police Officer

[****CAUTION: THIS VIDEO SHOWS THE ACTUAL SHOOTING OF THE PARIS POLICE OFFICER****]

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Surviving Staff of Charlie Hebdo Publishes Defiant Issue TODAY

By Fran Blandy. The surviving staff of Charlie Hebdo will publish a defiant issue with a Prophet Mohammed cartoon on the cover Wednesday, a week after jihadist gunmen killed 12 people at the satirical weekly’s Paris office.

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls on Tuesday declared a “war against terrorism” and, amid a national outpouring of emotion, a packed parliament sang a stirring rendition of the national “Marseillaise” anthem, a first since the end of World War I.

The special sitting came after President Francois Hollande led a solemn ceremony paying tribute to three police officers killed in France’s bloodiest week in decades, while four Jews who were shot dead in one of the attacks in Paris were laid to rest in Israel.

“Our great and beautiful France will never break, will never yield, never bend” in the face of the Islamist threat that is “still there, inside and outside” the country, Hollande told weeping families and uniformed colleagues at the ceremony. (Read more from this story HERE)

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The government has for decades lied to us about the real unemployment rate among working age Americans.  Ovomit claims the number is dropping and is somewhere in the 6% range.  That is a bald face lie though all politicians do the same thing and here is proof.

Here is the source for the real numbers of unemployed, and surprisingly enough it comes from the US Dept of Labor. http://theeconomiccollapseblog...

The actual number of Americans who are eligible to work but not in the labor force in 2012 was actually 87 MILLION! According to the Federal Reserve Bank, there were 243 million working age people in America in 2012. That means the REAL unemployment rate in America is 36%.

You think our government is full of liars in both parties? Numbers don't lie, but people do, especially politicians.

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Wednesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Ending Broken Windows?
Matthew Hennessey
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 GOOD ECONOMIC NEWS MEANS HILLARY IS READY TO   EMBRACE nOBAMA POLICIES 
The Hill: “Hilly Clinton is ready to run on President nObama’s record when it comes to the economy. Clinton allies say that if the former secretary of State does in fact announce a second bid for the presidency this year, they expect that she’ll tether herself to a main slice of nObama’s legacy. A series of economic reports including Friday’s positive jobs numbers is adding to Democratic confidence that the economy will finally be a winner for nObama in his last two years in office, and that it will help the Democratic White House candidate in 2016. But even as Clinton embraces nObama’s economic record, they expect her to telegraph that more needs to be done to help the middle class, a message nObama will highlight in his State of the Union address later this month. They also predict that Clinton will present policies distinct from those of the nObama administration she served, and even her own husband’s administration, which is regularly credited with presiding over years of strong economic growth.”
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Politico reports that Democrats held 52 of the top 100 biggest spots for campaign contributions of 2014 with a combined effort of nearly $174 million as compared to $140 million to Republicans.] 
 -Fox News
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 HEADING TO PARIS, Hanoi KERRY CALLS CRITICISM FOR   MISSING MARCH ‘QUIBBLING’ 
Lambasted over President nObama’s decision not to join world leaders in Paris who marched to show unity against terrorism Sunday, the White House is attempting a belated rebound.
Fox News: “Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry called criticism that no top U.S. officials attended Sunday's massive march against terrorism in Paris ‘quibbling’ Monday, even as he announced a trip to the French capital later this week for talks on countering Islamist violence. Hanoi Kerry announced his plans at a press conference in the Indian city of Ahmedabad…’I would have personally very much wanted to have been [in Paris]," Hanoi Kerry said, "but couldn't do so because of the commitment that I had here and it is important to keep these kinds of commitments.’ When asked about criticism directed at the nObama administration for not sending a high-ranking official to take part in the march, Hanoi Kerry said, ‘I really think that this is sort of quibbling a little bit in the sense that our Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was there and marched, our ambassador [to France Jane Hartley] was there and marched, many people from the embassy were there and marched.’…Hanoi Kerry said he is going to France to reaffirm U.S. solidarity with America's oldest ally. He said as soon as he heard about the march, he asked his team what the earliest time was that he could go. ‘That is why I am going there on the way home and to make it crystal clear how passionately we feel about the events that have taken place there,’”  -Fox News
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 Schoen: nObama abdicated role -    New in Fox News Opinion, Fox News Contributor Doug Schoen writes that in deciding to stay home instead of standing with world leaders in Paris, President nObama has “morally abdicated his place as leader of the free world.” “To speak about the most serious terrorist attack on Western soil since 9/11 in between speeches about his free community college plan demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding for the gravity of the situation in Paris and, indeed, the world. To this end, it is not surprising that President nObama is the only Western leader who has refused to call this attack Islamic terrorism, even though President [Francois Hollande] has declared that France is it at war with radical Islam. And to not even send Vice President Loose Lips Joe Biden or Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry in his place shows a level of disrespect that makes me ashamed of our nation. We are at war with radical Islam. And President nObama needs to say it.”   -Fox News
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 White House omits ‘Islamic’ in announcing soft-sided event to fight   terror -   WashEx: “On Sunday the White House announced that President nObama will convene a "Summit on Countering Violent Extremism" on Feb. 18. By ‘violent extremism,’ the White House means the Charlie Hebdo and kosher grocery attacks carried out in Paris last week by Islamic jihadists. The White House has long made a point of leaving the word ‘Islamic’ out of discussions of Islamic terrorism, choosing instead to refer to it as ‘violent extremism.’… The summit will emphasize the soft side of the problem, seeking social scientists and other professionals to address the root causes of what administration officials refer to as a ‘really negative’ ideology.  -Fox News
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE... 
What time is it? Well, depends on who you ask. The Atlantic examines a unique and relatively unknown phenomenon that could have major implications over time, more precisely the evolution of time and the precise calendar. Demetrios Matsakis, the chief scientist for Time Services at the U.S. Naval Observatory, “believes that the world should abandon ‘leap seconds,’ the global fiction that keeps a year of Coordinated Universal Time the same length as a solar year.” Leap seconds derive from the evolution that humanity no longer relies on the sun and moon to determine time. As a result, the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service adds or subtracts a second to keep everything on time. Official policy as determined by the State Department leaves the United States against leap seconds. As to why, Matsakis said, “[Y]ou know [the leap second] exists. Your readers will know it exists for a month, then they’ll forget.” But for those who don’t account for it, including commercial software programmers, the results can be catastrophic. When the last leap second was added in 2012, Reddit, LinkedIn, Yelp and Qantas Airlines all suffered issues including flight delays. But such a slow gap will only be one minute between now and the end of this century, such a gradual march will be worth it Matsakis said.  -Fox News
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 Fight erupts over university's censorship of student speech 
(Michael F. Haverluck) - The censorship of student speech at Marquette University has drawn the attention of several outside organizations, with one legal team demanding the reinstatement of a professor...who blogged about an argument in which a teacher allegedly warned a student that any criticism of same-sex “marriage” and its related issues was banned. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, or WILL, has written a letter demanding that the school reinstate professor John McAdams to his tenured position because the university’s suspension over his advocacy for academic freedom violated the school’s own commitment to that cause, as well the professor’s contract. WILL’s letter noted that because of the extremely narrow confines of freedom of speech on campus, the university itself would be considered guilty of harassment.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/01/fight-erupts-over-universitys-censorship-of-student-speech/
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 Wall Street Journal No Longer Politically Correct on Islam 
(Bryan Fischer) - The Wall Street Journal is the most widely read newspaper in America. When it speaks, people listen. And they should, especially to today’s editorial on the dangers of Islam, written in the aftershock of the Muslim attack in Paris...The Journal points out that Syria has become the “Grand Central Station” of jihad, and quotes Andrew Park of Britain’s MI5: “A group of core al Qaeda terrorists in Syria is planning mass casualty attacks against the West…We face a very serious level of threat that is complex to combat and unlikely to abate significantly for some time.” In other words, Islam is at war with us, and the war is a long way from being over.       http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/01/wall-street-journal-no-longer-politically-correct-islam/
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 Andrea Tantaros Drops a Bombshell About nObama and Terrorism  
(conservativetribune.com) - Fox News Channel’s Bill O’Reilly was recently taken to school by fellow Fox News host Andrea Tantaros on a key issue surrounding the fight against terrorism and nObama’s soft stance toward radical Islam...The debate on whether the United States and the rest of the West are doing enough to stop the spread of Islamic terrorism has exponentially increased over the past week due to the cowardly terrorist attack that claimed the lives of ten journalists at the offices of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo. When O’Reilly asked Tantaros if it was true that America doesn’t have a hard and fast policy to defeat Islamic jihadists, Tantaros not only agreed, but took a bold step into the realm of truth.    http://conservativetribune.com/tantaros-bombshell-on-obama/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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 Judge Jeanine Pirro: We Need to Kill Them!  
(Joe Saunders) - Savaging the nObama administration’s sorry record of dealing with Islamist terrorism, Judge Jeanine Pirro warned Saturday night...that a six-year record of appeasement toward Islamists had only placed American lives in danger. “It is time for this to be over,” Pirro said in the beginning of her “Opening Statement” on “Justice with Judge Jeanine.”       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w2ZS231BAQ
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 Attacks of Radical Islam Know No Boundaries  
(Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein) - If these audacious and despicable attacks teach us anything, the lesson was summed up for us by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a video address to the French people... “The attacks of radical Islam know no boundaries … The terrorists want to destroy our freedoms and our civilization.” Another one of our strongest world leaders, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, echoed Netanyahu’s words, when he said, “The international jihadist movement has declared war … They have declared war on any country like ourselves that values freedom, openness, and tolerance … And we may not like this and wish it would go away, but it is not going to go away and the reality is that we are going to have to confront it.” As Christians and Jews, we are all part of this fight, and it is a fight we must engage in – and win – together. Our response must be clear and unambiguous, and we must speak with one voice. As Jews and Christians we should be just as quick to defend the principle of individual rights – a principle based on our shared Judeo-Christian heritage – as others are to attack them. We must be as quick to reject violence in defense of some misbegotten idea of faith as others are to resort to it. And we must redouble our efforts to fight terror wherever and whenever it occurs.       http://www.ifcj.org/site/News2?abbr=sfi_&page=NewsArticle&id=46117&news_iv_ctrl=3342&s_src=SFIEN&s_subsrc=EN11501XXEXXA&utm_campaign=sfi%20enews&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email
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 Yes They Are: U.S. Weapons Going to Iranian-backed Militias  
(Thomas R. Eddlem) - According to a damning report from Bloomberg News January 8, “U.S. weapons intended for Iraq’s beleaguered military are winding up in the possession of the country’s Shiite militias,” militias that are allied with Iran...nObama administration officials publicly denied the weapons transfers even as other nObama officials privately confirmed the transfers to Bloomberg. “We have no reason to believe that there is any effort by the Iraqi government to transfer U.S.-supplied weapons to Shia militia,” White House spokesman Alistair Baskey told Bloomberg News. Bloomberg posted one photo from Facebook of an Iraqi militia member with a U.S.-made Abrams tank draped in a Hesbollah flag. Hesbollah, which means “party of God” — a Lebanese Shiite political party that used guerrilla warfare and terrorism against Israel during its occupation of the Golan Heights — has been labeled a terrorist organization by the U.S. government. I don't believe this admin and they would cover up anyting negative towards them.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/19879-of-course-they-are-u-s-weapons-going-to-iranian-backed-militias
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 Holder, in Paris for terror talks, not seen at unity march  
(FoxNews.com) - Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry announced Monday that he would travel to Paris later this week amid sharp criticism that no top U.S. official attended Sunday's march against terrorism in the French capital...More than 40 world leaders marched arm in arm through Paris to rally for unity and freedom of expression and to honor the 17 victims killed over three days of terror attacks. However, neither President nObama nor Vice President Loose Lips Biden nor Hanoi Kerry were among them. Attorney General Eric Holder, in Paris to attend a meeting on fighting terrorism, also did not participate.       http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/11/holder-is-top-administration-official-in-paris-for-terror-talks-not-seen-in/
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 What is Ignorance, Tolerance and Corruption Breeding in America? 
(Bradlee Dean) - Friends, can you imagine our forefathers George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, etc. sitting across the table from the likes of Barack Hussein nObama, dinky Harry Reid, Nancy Pulosi, Hanoi John Kerry etc.?...They would be speaking two different languages, would they not? The forefathers advocated freedom by establishing the rights that God gave. On the other side of the table, we have the devil and his lawless minions distorting every word that our forefathers intended in an attempt to bring a people into bondage by enslaving them through slow and incremental encroachments. Our forefathers would call for a reformation with a call back to the Christian religion and morality, which are the essential pillars of American society!       http://patriotupdate.com/articles/ignorance-tolerance-corruption-breeding-america/
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 Oh Goodie: nObama To Host “Anti-Violent Extremism” Summit  
(nicedeb) - President No-Show will host an “anti-violent-extremism” summit next month. This will be worse than useless, because not only is nObama determined not to name the enemy that actually threatens us, thus not diagnosing the problem and making no headway toward solving it...But he will be tempted to name phantom “enemies” that pose no threat to anyone – just to be fair. “On February 18, 2015, the White House will host a Summit on Countering Violent Extremism to highlight domestic and international efforts to prevent violent extremists and their supporters from radicalizing, recruiting, or inspiring individuals or groups in the United States and abroad to commit acts of violence, efforts made even more imperative in light of recent, tragic attacks in Ottawa, Sydney, and Paris,” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said in a statement. If you think that nObama won’t use this as an opportunity crack down on conservative religious groups, you haven’t been paying attention for the past 6 years.       https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/01/11/oh-goodie-obama-to-host-anti-violent-extremism-summit/
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 nObama's math doesn't add up on free tuition, critics say  
(Brian Hughes) - President nObama’s plan to provide free tuition to community college students has landed with a thud among number crunchers, who argue that overburdened states cannot afford to fund the White House idea...As a political strategy, “free tuition” is as appealing a message as nObama could devise heading into his final two years in office. But when pressed on funding the measure, it gets messier for the White House. Even if nObama had the backing of Republicans to spend $60 billion in federal funds on the education program — he doesn’t — the White House still would have a money problem.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-math-doesnt-add-up-on-free-tuition-critics-say/article/2558466

 
Ending Broken Windows?
Matthew Hennessey

     (city-journal.org) - It’s hard to miss the irony: the same people who have called for an end to Broken Windows-style policing in New York City now blast cops for engaging in a work slowdown. According to the New York Post, the NYPD essentially stopped writing tickets for minor offenses in the week following the December 20 assassination of officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu. A New York Times editorial called the slowdown a “public act of extortion” and called on the leaders of the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association to abandon it. “Do your jobs,” the Times said. “The police are sworn public servants and refusing to work violates their oath to serve and protect.”

     Perhaps the Times should first resolve for itself what the cops’ job is. In a July 2014 editorial titled BROKEN WINDOWS, BROKEN LIVES, the Times  called for “a serious discussion of the future” of Broken Windows, which, it said, has “pointlessly burdened thousands of young people, most of them black and Hispanic, with criminal records.”

     The Times and other critics have never understood Broken Windows and how it brought crime down in New York, Los Angeles, and other cities. Some claim—falsely—that no study has shown it to be effective in reducing crime. They say that crime was going down anyway in the 1990s, due to the booming economy and the waning of the crack epidemic. The NYPD, on this view, simply rode that wave, and the crime reductions that we associate with Broken Windows were merely coincident with the strategy, not the result of it. “Correlation does not imply causation,” they intone, but anyone who lived in New York City in the late 1980s and early 1990s—criminals especially—can testify to the changed attitudes of the NYPD during that period and the resultant effect on civic life. Correlation may not imply causation, but it doesn’t rule it out, either.

     Any reluctance now by cops to enforce against quality-of-life offenses such as public urination, solicitation, and subway-fare jumping—whether the result of anger at Mayor de Blasio or concern about the threats coming in against the department—is a detriment to the city. If it persists, it would mark a glaring contrast with the practices of the last 20 years, during which the NYPD trained a new type of cop, one who aggressively acts to stop crime for the benefit of all—including the 54 million tourists that now visit the city each year. Of course, cops will still arrest criminals and detectives will still solve crimes—after they happen. What they may not do is go out of their way to prevent crime from happening in the first place, which was the great contribution of Broken Windows to the life of the city, to the annoyance of both liberals and libertarians. “The Broken Windows metaphor is one of deterioration,” wrote NYPD commissioner William Bratton and Manhattan Institute senior fellow George Kelling, an original proponent of Broken Windows. “A neighborhood where minor offenses go unchallenged soon becomes a breeding ground for more serious criminal activity and, ultimately, for violence.”
 
     Through quality-of-life enforcement, among other reform measures first adopted in the nineties, the NYPD brought crime in New York City to historic lows. Broken Windows is a key part of the difference between a proactive police force and a reactive one. It’s the difference between cops that look for ways to stop criminals from victimizing neighborhoods and ones that sit in patrol cars drinking coffee and waiting for a 911 call to come in. That commitment to dynamic policing permeated the department, from the cop on the beat to the commissioner. Now, thanks to a year of official slander, public protests, and outright lies, the culture of results and accountability that made the NYPD the finest police force in the world could be at risk.

     A new class of police officers was sworn in just last week. They enter an institution in flux. We will find out shortly whether the NYPD’s culture of excellence can survive the current crisis.

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Standard and Poor, the financial rating credit company, has been around since the 1860's but they were recently introduced to the "Chicago Way" of governance.  Tasked with issuing ratings for the debt of public and private companies, the company was the first to recognize that America's growing debt is a ticking time bomb that could explode on taxpayers and investors alike.  On August 5, 2011, the company downgraded the US's sovereign debt from AAA to AA+.  The Obama administration promised revenge and have extracted it.

Immediately upon issuing the change in ratings then Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner threatened the Chairman of the company by promising the government would hold S&P "accountable" and their conduct would be "looked at very carefully."  Two years later, Eric Holder's "Justice Department" did just that by filing a civil lawsuit against the company claiming they were responsible for the financial meltdown of 2008 because of their ratings of mortgage-backes securities.  Other major credit rating agencies that issued similar, if not the very same ratings on the same financial instruments, were left alone.

The company tired to protect its reputation by fighting the allegations in court.  Facing the opposition of the unlimited resources of the federal government and the threat of massive fines by the innovative thinking of DOJ's lawyers, the company was forced to seek a settlement, a move the New York Times declared "support[s] the conclusion that it is futile to fight government fines." The paper detailed how lawyers for the federal government "invoked an obscure federal law passed a quarter-century ago after the savings and loan scandals. The law, the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, or Firrea, requires a lower burden of proof than criminal charges and empowers prosecutors to demand unusually large penalties: up to $1.1 million per violation.” Faced with the threat of billions of dollars of fines, the company appears to have capitulated.  

This president has increased America's debt load by a staggering $7 trillion dollars in only six years.  The White House has sent a stark message to Wall Street -- ignore the growing debt crisis or face a similar wrath.  S&P tried to warn us of the coming storm.  For that they shouldn't be punished but they should be hailed.  

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Tuesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
"On & Off The Radar"
Burt Prelutsky
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
~~~lll~~~
 
 UN Moves Forward With Anti-Gun Treaty  
Moving crews have packed up desks, lamps, chairs, office supplies and other personal items of numerous Democrat Senate and House offices now vacated after November's election. But in a suite of offices located directly across from the Senate Floor, there were relics from the list of bills that passed the U.S. House and sat without action inside dinky Harry Reid's office. Somewhere in that stack likely sits an anti-gun treaty signed by Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry. To his credit, outgoing-Senate Majority Leader dinky Harry Reid likely knew the United Nation's Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) (full text here) would never meet the two-thirds majority requirement for ratification. But as of Christmas Eve, the treaty has gone into effect internationally. The UN General Assembly first approved the ATT in April 2013 and Hanoi Kerry signed it on Sept. 24, 2013, amid criticism from the Republican side of the upper chamber's aisle.  -The Patriot Post 
 
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 Civic Virtue in Decline  
As we enter 2015, it's worth looking back on some key cultural indicators from 2014. Here is one bad omen: According to a 2014 Associated Press-GfK poll, Americans' sense of civic virtue is in serious decline. "I don't see any recovery," said Rutgers University Professor Cliff Zukin. "The people who were 40 two decades ago aren't as engaged as the people who were 60 two decades ago. This generational slippage tends to continue." The poll was a reprise of questions asked in 1984, and it focused on six civic-oriented activities: voting, volunteering, jury service, reporting crimes, knowing English and keeping on top of news and public issues. Only voting and volunteering were embraced as enthusiastically as they were 30 years ago, yet even those numbers are not particularly encouraging. Only 28% of Americans consider volunteering a "very important obligation." And while 75% characterize voting a central obligation of citizenship, talk is cheap: Voter turnout in the last presidential election dipped to 57.5% of eligible citizens compared to 62.3% in 2008. Voter turnout in 2014? The 36.4% of eligible citizens who bothered to vote represented the lowest turnout in any election cycle since World War II. -The Patriot Post 
 
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 MITT’S QUALMS ABOUT GOP FIELD DRIVING POTENTIAL RUN 
The $100 million question in the Republican Party today is what flipped Mitt Romney’s switch to the “on” position for another presidential run? Coverage of the 2012 nominee’s field-scrambling announcement to a group of donors on Friday that he was considering another run has focused on Romney’s thoughts on how he would run -- less scripted, more nimble, etc. -- but in a weekend conversation with Fox News, the former Massachusetts governor shed new light on why he went from his “no” of a year ago to a definite “maybe.”
          Romney’s rationale is rooted in his concern that no one in the field of announced or soon-to-be announced candidates looks equal to the task of facing down presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton and her sprawling campaign apparatus, expected to raise and spend at least $2 billion spread across multiple groups. Romney told Fox News that no one is the field is “better prepared and in a better position” to take on Clinton’s campaign. That’s a pretty bold statement about a field that includes not just Jeb Bush, but also four sitting governors and three U.S. senators.
           While Romney was quick to praise the qualities of the individual candidates themselves, he argued that given Hilly’s huge head start, his unmatched fundraising prowess, ready-to-activate national organization and near-universal name recognition might be necessary to keep the GOP from getting steamrolled. Though Romney put no timetable on his decision, he clearly sees time running short for his party. The famed Iowa Straw Poll is just eight months away and the fundraising hurdles and logistical challenges for candidates starting from scratch are steep indeed. If Romney doesn’t see another candidate who he thinks is ready to compete, he’s ready to run. -Fox News  
 
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 Rubio for... governor? -   Miami Herald: “Marco Rubio is expected to run for president. All that’s really in doubt is the year: 2016, 2020, 2024? What’s not uncertain is that the U.S. senator has a tough decision to make: does he make a longshot bid and give up his seat or does he run for president and then seek reelection? Either way, there’s increasing political chatter that Rubio is well-positioned to run for governor in 2018. And then, if he wins, there’s a good chance Gov. Rubio will run for president — 2020 would be attractive if a beatable Democrat is president. The next presidential year, 2024, an open-seat year, would be more likely. He’ll only be 52.” 
-Fox News  
 
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 Carly back to N.H. -   Boston Globe: “Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard chief executive who unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in California, will return to New Hampshire next month as she explores a potential Republican bid for president next year. Fiorina is scheduled to give a keynote talk at a Feb. 10 ‘Politics and Eggs’ breakfast, an event sponsored by the New England Council that has become a rite of passage for presidential candidates.” 
-Fox News  
 
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1.
 Congress Respond to the President’s Radical Change in Cuba Policy  
(Ana Quintana) - On Tuesday, December 16, President nObama announced that the U.S. would begin to normalize relations with Cuba. This dramatic policy shift follows the release of American aid worker Alan Gross, who was held hostage for over five years by Castro’s regime, in exchange for three Cuban spies...Choosing to normalize relations with a regime whose chief export has been an aggressive anti-American foreign policy will not advance U.S. interests, let alone facilitate a democratic transition on the island. With the pending economic collapse of Venezuela—Cuba’s primary benefactor—the regime would have lost its main revenue source and, ultimately, its ability to govern under communism. Furthermore, by deciding to normalize relations, the President has justified the regime’s aggression during the Cold War, mass murder, brutal torture, and fomenting of Leftist insurgencies throughout Latin America and Africa.      http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2014/12/how-congress-should-respond-to-the-presidents-radical-change-in-cuba-policy
2.
 Are low oil prices good or bad?  
(Vaclav Smil) - What do those commentators want? When oil prices reached the all-time peak (in current dollars) of $145.31 on July 3, 2008 (using the West Texas Intermediate, WTI, oil values), they claimed that a rise to $250 a barrel was imminent...and that it would bring the end of modern high-energy economies — but by December 23, 2008, the WTI oil price was down to $30.28, dropping by 79 percent in less than half a year. Now, when the prices are falling, some so-called experts see no downward perimeters, and the very people who yesterday blamed OPEC for pushing prices too high are now wondering why the cartel (which has never had any easy control of the market) does not step in, drastically cut its output, and arrest the price fall because (in a white is black reversal) low oil prices are now widely seen as deeply disruptive.       http://www.aei.org/publication/low-gas-prices-good-bad/
3.
 Lights out  
(James V. DeLong) - His current series is called The Change, and it starts off with a simple premise: one day, electricity stops working. What happens next is not pretty...Stirling is a ruthless realist, and without electricity our civilization is about a week from cannibalism. Heat and water disappear, cars and trucks don’t run, planes fall out of the sky, supermarkets exhaust their few days of food, and the economic system collapses because money, which now mostly consists of electronic blips, vanishes. Since no way exists to move food to people or people to food, some in calorie-rich rural areas survive, but few others, and everywhere within 30 miles of a city becomes a dead zone. The die-off exceeds 99.5 percent. Stirling is not alone in his conclusions about the consequences of a grid blackout. In 2009, historian William Forstchen, who has written some careful alternate history novels with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, published One Second After, the story of a town in North Carolina following a devastating electromagnetic pulse (EMP) event. These works have been followed by a slew of other tales of survival, or lack thereof, in a world without electricity.       http://www.aei.org/publication/lights_out/
4.
 Congress Implicated In nObamacare Scandal  
(judicialwatch.org) - They didn’t fess up willingly. But after we applied the appropriate pressure, government officials responsible for operating the Washington D.C. nObamacare “Small Business Exchange” have finally admitted that Congress is taking advantage of health benefits its members and staff are not entitled to claim...At least 12,359 members of Congress, congressional staffers, and their spouses and dependents currently purchase health insurance in D.C.’s Small Business Exchange even though Congress far exceeds D.C. law’s 50-employee limit for participating in the exchange. That’s why we filed a lawsuit in October on behalf of Kirby Vining, a D.C. taxpayer, against the D.C. Health Exchange Authority.  In a court filing, the D.C. government conceded that, under D.C. law, the U.S. Congress is not permitted to obtain insurance through the District’s Small Business Exchange. But members of the political class, true to form, do not believe the rules apply to them. How do we know?       http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/congress-implicated-in-obamacare-scandal/
5.
 Can America stop Paris-style terror from coming here? 
(Pamela Geller) - As France reels from two bloody terrorist attacks in as many days, Pamela Geller warns this is just the beginning and unless Americans take action, “Such attacks are coming here.”...In an exclusive interview with WND, the author of “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance” painted a dire picture of the Western future. Even after the most devastating terrorist attacks in French history, Geller judged that “no European nations are doing anything against Islamization at this time, and I don’t see any indication that any will in the near future.” “There is absolutely no evidence that they’re backing away from efforts to impose ‘hate speech’ laws,” Geller told WND. “In fact, just [earlier this week] a Canadian imam called for the criminalization of satirical cartoons of religious leaders.”
6.
 Tens of thousands march to honor victims of Paris attack  
(FoxNews.com) - "Today, Paris is the capital of the world," said French President Francois Hollande. "Our entire country will rise up toward something better."...Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas were among the leaders attending, as were top representatives of Russia and Ukraine. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and British Prime Minister David Cameron were alongside Hollande at the front of the crowd, Sky News reports. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is in Paris this week to attend a meeting on fighting terrorism, but did not participate in the march. There are also no known reports of members of Congress attending the event. Ya, right, nObama and the USA, will stand next to French.        http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/01/11/are-charlie-thousands-to-march-to-honor-victims-paris-attack/
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 Fox News Airs ‘Stossel’ Special on HOLLYWOOD HYPOCRITES 
(Daily Surge) - Fox News kicked off 2015 by re-airing a hugely-popular special by John Stossel called “Hollywood Hypocrites.” The featured production, taken from Jason Mattera’s New York Times bestselling book Hollywood Hypocrites...The Devastating Truth About Obama’s Biggest Backers, highlighted a cast of characters in Tinseltown whose sanctimonious lectures bear little resemblance to the way they actually conduct themselves day-to-day. Stossel had Mattera on to talk about three hypocrites in particular: Harrison Ford, Bruce Springsteen, and Jon Bon Jovi — their duplicities exposed on the pages of Hollywood Hypocrites. As Stossel pointed out, Han Solo got his chest waxed on camera to bring awareness to climate change and the environment. It was a stunt for a conservationist group, which is fine and all. Except for this inconvenient detail — Ford at the time owned seven aircraft, including a helicopter, and has stated on the record that he often flies up the coast just to grab a cheeseburger. A cheeseburger!       http://linkis.com/dailysurge.com/2015/Eegu8
8.
 NEA Funds “Dead Cops NOW!” Group  
(theminorityreportblog.com) - We’re long on record as being opposed to the National Education Association (NEA). They are nothing short of an enemy of the state.  Some of our readers think we’re a little over the top on that call. We’re not...Today’s story will demonstrate, once again, that the NEA is Public Enemy #1. The NEA is funding a group in Wisconsin called Wisconsin Jobs Now, a group that has nothing to do with education – so it’s not “for the children” – rather, they are an anti-Scott Walker front group that, when they’re not demonstrating against one of the best governors in the nation, are organizing angry, anti-police protests. The same kind of people who are marching shouting for dead cops NOW!       http://www.theminorityreportblog.com/2015/01/10/nea-funds-dead-cops-now-group/
9.
 Did You Know There Are Muslim ‘No-Go’ Zones In The USA  
(Lauren Richardson) - It starts off innocently enough with them wanting to share a neighborhood with like-minded, religious thinking community dwellers. They slowly grow larger, and incorporate more Muslims into the area, and begin buying up property as fast as it becomes available or leasing it...Then they install their own courts, government, justice and punishment system, Sharia law. At that point threats are aimed at anyone living in the neighborhood that is non-Muslim. These areas have been formed with ‘ethnic cleansing’ harassment tactics; forcing existing residents out of their homes by Muslim provocation and fear of property damage and physical harm. It’s very effective, and the results advantageous to the Muslim community in establishing another ‘no-go Sharia controlled zone.’ In the U.S., Dearborn, Michigan: Over 100,000 Muslims, 45% of the city has settled into their first ‘no-go’ zone. The city and police officials have been sued in many cases that allege discrimination “against Christians” effectively by the authorities applying Sharia law. Dearborn-Dar-al-Islam, (a place governed by Islamic Sharia law). The new idea of ‘no-go’ and ‘no-entry’ is significant, and shockingly being upheld. They provide weapons and guards and government officials in their own societies. They build what they want on their compounds. They have schools inside that their kids are educated in. They are taught their religion in school. No separation of Church (mosque) and State. If Americans don’t wake up and get their heads out of the sand fast, what’s quickly overtaking Europe will consume the United States. Muslim religious beliefs do not supersede state and federal laws; the Constitution is the law of the land. And yet, we are being invaded, and nothing is being done to stop them.       http://truthuncensored.net/there-are-muslim-no-go-zones-in-the-usa/
10.
 6 Times The nObama Admin Said Its Job Was to Promote Islam  
(Ben Shapiro) - The real problem, according to the nObama administration, is lack of leadership in defending Islam...There are some individuals that are using a peaceful religion and grossly distorting it, and trying to use its tenets to inspire people around the globe to carry out acts of violence. And we have enjoyed significant success in enlisting leaders in the Muslim community, like I said, both in the United States and around the world to condemn that kind of messaging, to condemn those efforts to radicalize individuals, and to be clear about what the tenets of Islam actually are.  And we’re going to redouble those efforts in the days and weeks ahead. This, of course, is not the first time the nObama administration has discovered a duty to illuminate the inherent beauty and wonder of Islam. Over and over again, the nObama administration, in high culturally imperialist dudgeon, has attempted to explain to the world the true meaning of Islam. This prove without a shadow of doubts that nObama is a Muslim.       http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/01/08/6-times-the-obama-administration-said-its-job-was-to-promote-islam/
"On & Off The Radar"
Burt Prelutsky
 
     (burtprelutsky.com) - When some people dismiss others as low information voters, they’re not always being fair. For instance, I heard from a lot of readers in 2012 complaining that Mitt Romney didn’t bring up nObama’s Benghazi cover-up in the debates, but I pointed out that because the mass media had done such a good job of ignoring the story that if Romney had mentioned Benghazi, most of the viewing audience would have assumed he was speaking in tongues.

     I mainly knew about it because Fox News had done such a good job of covering the story. But being a successful cable station doesn’t compare to being a major network when it comes to the number of viewers. But as good as Fox is, I still wish it had competition from a cable station that didn’t waste our time with the likes of Juan Williams, Alan Colmes, Geraldo Rivera, Bob Beckel and Mark Hannah. We would get plenty of divergent viewpoints if they concentrated solely on Republicans. Pitting Ted Cruz against John McCain or Rand Paul against Marco Rubio would be a great improvement over watching Juan Williams do his impression of a minstrel man, rolling his eyes in mock horror whenever Bret Baier, Steve Hayes or Charles Krauthammer, disagrees with one of his inane statements.

     Although I get a lot of my news from Fox, I wish they had someone whose sole function is to follow up on things that have been lost in the wake of subsequent events. For instance, when Boko Haram kidnapped those 300 Nigerian school girls, I heard that nObama had sent a few hundred soldiers in to assist in the search, and then I heard nothing more about it. Are the soldiers still looking? Is anyone?

     According to Gallup’s latest poll, nObama’s approval rating has soared to 47%. The theory is that a lot of people applauded his re-opening diplomatic relations with Cuba. Even if they disagree with me and Marco Rubio about that bit of executive action, how is it that millions of us have apparently decided after six years of nObamaCare and the Benghazi, Operation Fast & Furious, VA and IRS scandals that they no longer mattered?

     Mark Twain once joked that he didn’t lie because he didn’t have a very good memory. It seems to me that Barack nObama lies because he doesn’t think we have very good memories, and the same goes for the likes of Nancy Pulosi, dinky Harry Reid, Josh Earnest and Jonathan Gruber. When nearly everything we say or do is recorded on video, you would think they would straighten out their acts, but, apparently, unless you watch Fox, you’d have no idea that these people lie, if for no other reason than to stay in practice.

     But maybe nObama is wise to take our ignorance for granted. After all, even after drawing and then quickly erasing red lines with Russia and Syria, and allowing Iran to make a monkey out of him at the negotiating table, our Commander-in-chief has proven himself to be, in the words of my friend Steve Maikoski, the Great Capitulator.

     In other news, we are told that Justin Bieber is worth $200 million. We have also heard that Oprah Winfrey is worth two billion and Warren Buffet is worth roughly 35 billion. I know it’s just a figure of speech, but I wish we would learn to just say these pinheads have an awful lot of money without suggesting they are worth a plugged nickel.

     After dismissing the movie, “Whiplash,” as a waste of time, a friend let me know he planned to see it because he liked “drum music,” and I congratulated him on coming up with a new and unique oxymoron. But after sitting through 16 other DVDs provided by the studios, all seeking my vote in the WGA award competition, I am wondering why movies even pay editors. When the new releases average 150 minutes, it’s hard to imagine that any footage ends up on the cutting room floor. You would have thought editors had gone the way of those guys who used to provide dialogue titles for silent movies.

     Speaking of movies, I can’t say I was disappointed with “Unbroken,” the story of Louis Zemperini, who first survived 47 days at sea after his plane was shot down during WWII and then, according to Laura Hillenbrand’s book, suffered daily beatings by a sadistic Japanese POW camp commander for two long years. It didn’t ring true in the book and didn’t in the movie.

     It was hard enough to survive in Japanese captivity without having to endure constant torture and no medical attention. I even wrote to Ms. Hillenbrand asking if she had actually managed to confirm what she was told or had simply accepted what Zemperini said as gospel. After all, rumor has it that men, even those in their 90s, have been known to brag to women. So far, I haven’t heard back.

     Because it’s been preying on my mind for years, I would like someone to explain why “Peanuts” has enjoyed such lasting success. I never thought it was a funny comic strip. Not funny or clever or thoughtful, and, what’s more, I thought Snoopy was a bore, even when he went up against the Red Baron. What have I been missing?

     I once heard that the best definition of an optimist was a professional accordionist with a pager. But I have come to believe that Alan Jay Lerner, the lyricist and librettist best known for “Brigadoon,” “Gigi,” and “My Fair Lady,” should have his picture next to the word in the dictionary. This is a man who married for the first time when he was 21 years old. By the time he died 46 years later, at the age of 67, he had been married seven more times. What’s more, he was married for 43 of those years, meaning he averaged less than six months between getting a divorce and once again tying the knot. If that’s not optimism, I don’t know what it is. Well, maybe insanity.

     Because some of my more concerned readers continue to ask how I am doing in the aftermath of the surgery on my hand and arm last January, I am happy to report that the rheumatoid arthritis is no longer plaguing me.

     However, I did suffer an attack of the gout recently. My only prior experience with the condition was seeing old Laurel and Hardy or Charley Chase comedies in which men suffering from the gout would be shown with his inflamed foot wrapped in a Turkish towel. But in spite of the towel, someone was sure to step on his aching foot or slam a car door on it.

     I thought it was very amusing until I was the guy who felt like he had a pin cushion sewn up in his big right toe. I never assumed I would have anything more in common with King Henry VIII than the fact we had both been married more than a couple of times -- though not as often as Alan Jay Lerner -- our occasional disagreements with the pope and our roguish little beards. Too bad it couldn’t have stayed that way.

     Believe me, the gout is no joke. The joke is that it’s commonly referred to as the rich man’s disease and somehow I got it!
 
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DO YOU THINK WE HAVE A PROBLEM IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? IT SEEM TO ME THAT WE DO!

PRINCIPLES FOR A FREE SOCIETY

 

On the heels of several Islamic terrorist attacks around the world, Nancy Pelosi names a Muslim, yes, a MUSLIM, to House Intelligence Committee

Andre-CarsonTalk about inviting the fox into the hen house! I thought Republicans ran the Congress? Why is this bitch naming anyone to anything Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced in a closed-door meeting she would name the first Muslim lawmaker, Andre Carson, to the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

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Politico  A senior Democratic aide said Rep. André Carson of Indiana would be named in the “coming days” to the key national security-focused panel. The California Democrat told lawmakers of the appointment during the members’ weekly caucus meeting.

Carson would be the first Muslim to serve on the committee and was the second Muslim to be elected to Congress. He already serves on the House Armed Services Committee and worked for the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center — the clearinghouse established by the federal government to streamline data sharing between the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice and the military.

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The intelligence committee will most likely tackle a series of high-profile international crises during the 114th Congress, including the threat of Islamic militants and Ukraine. Carson’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

The announcement comes in the wake of a terrorist attack in Paris by Islamic extremists that left 12 people dead. World leaders gathered on Sunday for a 1 million person “solidarity” protest against the violence that targeted French Jews and journalists.

 

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DO YOU THINK WE HAVE A PROBLEM IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? IT SEEM TO ME THAT WE DO!

PRINCIPLES FOR A FREE SOCIETY

 

On the heels of several Islamic terrorist attacks around the world, Nancy Pelosi names a Muslim, yes, a MUSLIM, to House Intelligence Committee

Andre-CarsonTalk about inviting the fox into the hen house! I thought Republicans ran the Congress? Why is this bitch naming anyone to anything Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi announced in a closed-door meeting she would name the first Muslim lawmaker, Andre Carson, to the House’s Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

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Politico  A senior Democratic aide said Rep. André Carson of Indiana would be named in the “coming days” to the key national security-focused panel. The California Democrat told lawmakers of the appointment during the members’ weekly caucus meeting.

Carson would be the first Muslim to serve on the committee and was the second Muslim to be elected to Congress. He already serves on the House Armed Services Committee and worked for the Department of Homeland Security’s Fusion Center — the clearinghouse established by the federal government to streamline data sharing between the CIA, the FBI, the Department of Justice and the military.

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The intelligence committee will most likely tackle a series of high-profile international crises during the 114th Congress, including the threat of Islamic militants and Ukraine. Carson’s office didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

The announcement comes in the wake of a terrorist attack in Paris by Islamic extremists that left 12 people dead. World leaders gathered on Sunday for a 1 million person “solidarity” protest against the violence that targeted French Jews and journalists.

 

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Ohio: Muslim shot & killed at airport after attacking cops with knife

Lost in the war Muslims are waging in France, were acts of jihad being waged right here in America. Last week, via Man armed with knives killed by police at Ohio airport: cops – NY Daily News.

A 41-year-old Ohio man armed with several knives tried to buy a plane ticket with a fake ID before being gunned down by police after lunging at an officer with a blade outside the Columbus airport, police said.

Hashim Hanif Ibn Abdul-Rasheed had parked illegally outside the ticketing terminal and was acting bizarrely as he tried to buy a ticket to an undisclosed location Wednesday afternoon. He showed off a woman’s ID to try and make the buy at one point before he was rebuffed, cops said.

Airport police called a tow truck to remove the illegally parked vehicle from the departures lane just before 1 p.m. Wednesday when Abdul-Rasheed returned.

“The man initially spoke with the officer then suddenly produced a knife and lunged at the officer, attempting to stab him,” the Port Columbus International Airport said in a statement. “The officer fired at the suspect, who momentarily dropped to the ground and then got back up and continued advancing towards the officer. A backup officer responded at which point the suspect quickly moved towards him with the knife forcing the officer to retreat backwards towards the terminal entrance where a third officer was positioned. The third officer shot multiple times, striking the suspect, ending the attack.”

When cops searched Abdul-Rasheed’s body, they discovered “additional knives.” Police called in a bomb squad to investigate the car and a search turned up “suspicious items,” officials said.

The entire incident was captured on surveillance video, police said. The shooting remains under investigation.

The disturbance caused some delays of just over an hour and an area of the ticketing lobby was closed off as the car was searched for explosives.

Police haven’t described the man’s motive.

“At this point this is just a violent encounter between an armed man and the officers here,” Columbus Police Sgt. Rich Weiner told reporters.

 

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