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 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
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Michael Makovsky
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 loose lips BIDEN RIDIN’ HIGH IN NEW POLL  
A Bloomberg News poll out today shows Vice President loose lips Joe Biden in a strong position if he does indeed mount a challenge to his party’s once-inevitable frontrunner. loose lips Biden was the pick of 25 percent of Democratic voters, just 8 points behind Clinton, who announced her candidacy nearly six months ago. loose lips Biden is one point ahead of left-wing heartthrob Sen. Bernie Sanders.
          But the worse news for Clinton is the poll also shows Clinton at her lowest favorability rating yet among the general electorate – 38 percent, down 10 points from April – with loose lips Biden riding to a new high of 49 percent. loose lips Biden is seen more favorably by Democrats, too. Seventy percent said they had a favorable opinion of Clinton compared to 80 percent for loose lips Biden.  -Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
America is mourning today the passing today of one of its true originals, Yogi Berra. He didn’t get the chance to play for his hometown St. Louis Cardinals, but had a legendary career as catcher and later manager of the New York Yankees. But Berra was really a philosopher in pinstripes. The NYP collected some of his best malapropisms, jokes and bits of wisdom, including the very best when one is facing uncertainty with difficult choices in life: “When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” How many of us have been sorry we failed to choose when we had the chance? RIP.  -Fox News 
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 The Most Distrusted Administration in History  
In 2006, a relatively unknown U.S. senator named Barack nObama told an audience at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, that one of the most important values a government should foster is openness and integrity. "In the end, if the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists — to protect them and to promote their common welfare — all else is lost," nObama said. In 2007, as a candidate for president, he announced a plan to restore trust in government. "The American people want to trust in our government again," he said. "We just need a government that will trust in us." Throughout his presidency, nObama has repeatedly made a big deal out of restoring trust in government. And in June 2014, he declared, "Government is simply the name we give to the things we choose to do together."
          How's all that Hope 'n' Change™ working out? nObama oversaw a government that lied about its care of veterans while awarding its top bureaucrats with bonuses. It targeted nonprofit conservative organizations though IRS investigations. nObama himself strong-armed wildly unpopular deals through Congress, such as nObamaCare and the treaty-that's-not-a-treaty condoning Iran's use of nuclear power. If these instances are not scandals, they are at least scandalous.
          And then on Saturday, Gallup released a poll that found Americans' distrust in government has grown. When nObama was first in office, 66% of Americans said there is widespread corruption in the halls of government. That number has climbed to 75% today. Nice work, nObama.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Francis Advocates for Social Justice Before Congress  
Pope Francis appeared before Congress today, the first time that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church has done so. The concern is that Pope Francis will be turned into a partisan tool. In essence, Barack nObama already has tried to place the papal seal on his homosexual and climate change agendas. In this speech before Congress, the pope exhorted the lawmakers to pursue social justice — for strengthening the family, the abolition of the death penalty and to fight against poverty through wealth redistribution. "It is important that today, as in the past, the voice of faith continue to be heard, for it is a voice of fraternity and love, which tries to bring out the best in each person and in each society," Francis said. "Such cooperation is a powerful resource in the battle to eliminate new global forms of slavery, born of grave injustices which can be overcome only through new policies and new forms of social consensus." In essence, the pope's comments advocated for big-government solutions to the world's ills, a position that confuses corporatism with capitalism. But while the subsequent headlines will blare that the pope spoke against conservative principles, it must be noted Francis slipped away from his itinerary last night to visit with the Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of nuns that care for the elderly. A Vatican spokesman told reporters that Francis visited the nuns in order to express support for the group's legal battle with the federal government over the contraception mandate in nObamaCare. So Francis is at least determined he won't only be a tool for nObama's agenda... -The Patriot Post  
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 Refugee Crisis Demands Coherent Foreign Policy  
{Pete Hoekstra} ~ Perplexed Washington establishment politicians fail to grasp the West’s need to develop an effective foreign policy in the Middle East to address the current refugee crisis... The U.S., largely through neglect, allows Islamists to inflict unspeakable genocide against innocent men, women, and children. The largely hands-off approach has resulted in hundreds of thousands of families fleeing Syria, as well hundreds of thousands more internally displaced persons in Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen, to seek freedom in Europe and elsewhere.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/refugee-crisis-demands-coherent-foreign-policy/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email092515&utm_medium=email
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 Former Congressman Frank Wolf: Indict Baghdadi & Jihadi John...  
{John Rossomando} ~ If Attorney General Loretta Lynch can indict the head of FIFA, global soccer's governing body, then she should be able to indict the Islamic State's self-described caliph... Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and "Jihadi John" for genocide, said former U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf. Wolf wrote to Lynch Sept. 8 calling on her to take action. He believes that the grisly murders of Americans Steven Sotloff, Peter Kassig, James Foley and the brutal torture and killing of aid worker Kayla Mueller give the U.S. jurisdiction to try Al-Baghdadi and "Jihadi John." "Given the overwhelming and publicly available evidence of genocide, I call upon your office to initiate a thorough investigation into individuals who may be criminally liable under U.S. law for genocide and other serious human rights abuses such as slavery," Wolf wrote. "... I would urge you to announce that even where there may not be jurisdiction to prosecute under U.S. law, you will endeavor to work with foreign prosecutorial authorities to initiate criminal proceedings in countries that may have legal jurisdiction."
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 California GOP Largely Abandons Immigration Position  
{/immigrationreform.com} ~ Last Sunday, delegates of the California Republican Party voted to substantially abandon the party’s position on immigration.... The changes to the platform were made at the party’s semi-annual convention in Anaheim, California. Notably, the term “illegal alien” was eliminated entirely from the vocabulary of the platform. Delegates to the California GOP convention also removed language stating that allowing illegal aliens to remain in the United States “undermines respect for the law” and added a disclaimer asserting California Republicans “hold diverse views on the subject.” Delegates also removed language supporting cross-deputizing state and county law enforcement to help federal officials enforce immigration law against criminal aliens from the platform. (Breitbart, Sept. 21, 2015) Language supporting guest worker programs for illegal aliens, however, was included with the omission of the requirement that workers have identification with biometric data.
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 Foreword to Brendan Brown’s ‘A Global Monetary Plague’  
{Alex J. Pollock} ~ Nothing else can or does create as much systemic financial risk as the Fed does by its monetary manipulations... Since the dollar is the dominant international currency, the risk is created not only for Americans, but for people all over the world. The scale of the current manipulation, or in Dr. Brown’s phrase, the “Great Monetary Experiment,” which the Fed is imposing on everyone, is unprecedented. But there is nothing new in the Fed’s creating systemic risk, and blundering while it’s at it. As the book relates in detail, this has been going on for nearly a century. For example, the “powerful global asset price inflation” of the mid-1920s was “fueled by the monetary disequilibrium created by the Benjamin Strong Fed.”  
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 Epic List Of nObama’s Lies Goes Viral…  
{conservativetribune.com} ~ President Barack nObama has only a fleeting acquaintanceship with the truth, and that is a generous assessment... In reality, nObama is quite possibly one of the biggest liars our nation has ever suffered in the White House. Far from being “the most transparent administration,” as he once promised, his cabal is extra-secretive about their actions and agenda, often covering up or lying about things that didn’t even need to be covered up or lied about. With so many lies and half-truths told by this president, it is sometimes hard to keep them all straight. Thankfully, somebody was kind enough to compile a list of some of the biggest whoppers nObama has told over the past seven years:
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 New Crop of Hilly's Benghazi-Related Emails Suddenly Surfaces  
{Cortney O'Brien} ~ The State Department has suddenly realized that it failed to hand over a "handful" of former secretary of state's emails that were directly related to the terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya... On Friday, the agency announced it would turn those over to the House Select Committee on Benghazi:        http://townhall.com/tipsheet/cortneyobrien/2015/09/25/new-hillary-emails-n2057064
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 Hilly Signed Off On Decision She Said She Was Not Involved in  
{Casey Harper} ~ A newly uncovered document shows that Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton personally signed off on a questionable employment decision she previously claimed she was not involved with... Top Clinton aide Huma Abedin was able to work for the Clinton Foundation, Department of State and the private consulting firm Teneo Strategies as a Special Government Employee (SGE). When questioned about the arrangement, Clinton denied any involvement, but new documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that Clinton personally signed off on the position change. Clinton signed the document March 23, 2012 to approve the change in title, according to the documents first reported by Politico.
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 JW: New State Department Documents Reveal Hilly Clinton Email Gap  
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch today released newly obtained Department of State documents showing a nearly five-month total gap in the emails former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton decided to return to the State Department late last year... The documents also show that one key State Department official did not want a written record of issues about the Clinton emails. The documents also raise new questions about the accuracy of representations made to Judicial Watch, the courts, Congress, and the public by the nObama administration and Clinton. The documents were produced under court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit Judicial Watch filed on May 6, 2015 (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00687)). The lawsuit was filed after the nObama State Department violated federal law and failed to respond to two separate FOIA requests, including a request for records about the actual production of the emails records by Clinton to the State Department. The first batch of documents obtained by Judicial Watch contains a heavily redacted email from State Department official Eric F. Stein to Margaret P. Grafeld, dated April 21, 2015, with the subject “HRC Emails.”  Stein is deputy director of global information systems at the State Department and Grafeld is deputy assistant secretary of global information systems. Stein reports to Grafeld that the “gaps” in Clinton’s emails include:
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 JW Exposes Hilly Clinton Lie  
{judicialwatch.org} ~ I’m sure you’ve seen and read the usual DC establishment talking heads professing confusion as to why Hilly Clinton would make the “mistake” in setting up a separate email system to conduct government business as secretary of state... Of course, these types never see the obvious answer – because she had something to hide!  And so did a lot of other nObama administration officials, some still running things at the State Department. If you have any doubt about this, please take a look at the new State Department records we released yesterday that reveal Hilly Clinton personally signed the authorization for Huma Abedin, her then-deputy chief of staff, to become a special government employee. The records also show that Abedin declined to provide complete information about her husband Anthony Weiner’s financial dealings. The records were uncovered as a result of a court order in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that seeks records about the controversial, to put it charitably, employment status of Abedin (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The records show also that Abedin used a clintonemail.com account to communicate about her special status. (We know only that Abedin had a clintonemail.com account to conduct business. Neither Clinton nor the State Department are telling who else from the State Department participated in this shady Clinton email system.)        http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/jw-exposes-hillary-clinton-lie/

 
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 It’s Official: Ground Zero Mosque DEFEATED!  
{PAMELA GELLER} ~ We did it! We the people. President nObama pushed for it, then-Mayor of NYC Michael Bloomberg supported it, the media actively campaigned for it... the elites in their increasingly fragile ivory towers stumped for the mosque. But the people stood up and fought it and won. Hey nObama, YES. WE. CAN. Photo above: One of our rallies against the Ground Zero mega-mosque. Never give up. Never give in. Never surrender. Here’s the Ground Zero mosque story. Watch this documentary, it tells the whole story. 
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What Next?
Michael Makovsky
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ It's been two weeks since a majority of Congress sought to register its disapproval of the Iran deal but fell short of the votes necessary to break a filibuster or override a presidential veto, and most politicians and commentators have moved on.
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     It's understandable to want a mental break after a long and hard-fought struggle. But the world hasn't taken a break. The consequences of the deal are already reverberating. 
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     On Monday, September 21, Iran self-inspected a key suspect nuclear weapons site without international inspectors present. "This deal is not built on trust," President nObama had told us. "It is built on verification." But apparently we trust Iran to carry out that verification. That same day, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a two-and-a-half-hour emergency meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin (followed by a meeting of Russian and Israeli military chiefs) to discuss Russia's military presence in Syria.
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     The front page of the Wall Street Journal on September 22 captured the new Middle East, with a picture of Netanyahu meeting Putin at the top, and below it the headline "Russia, Iran Team Up in Syria." Putin is depicted as the central player with whom sworn enemies Iran and Israel have to deal. And where is the United States? At best, watching from behind. At worst, making life more difficult for our friends and allies. We've become like William Macy in the 2003 movie The Cooler, whose very presence and proximity turns people's luck bad.
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     Such is the strategic reality that has emerged from the Iran deal. It has put an exclamation point on a collapse of American leadership that had been building during the entire nObama administration (and the last part of the Bush administration, too). It signaled a decisive reversal of decades of American dominance of the Middle East. Following our feckless blunders in withdrawing from Iraq, drawing but not enforcing a red line in Syria, and declaring quasi-war but doing very little against the Islamic State, the Iran deal was the straw that broke the camel's back of American credibility in the region. It blessed the emergence, 15 years hence, of a nuclear-weapons-capable and ballistic-missile-armed Iran, enriched and empowered a vehemently anti-American and anti-Israeli, terrorist-supporting regime, and spurred nuclear proliferation in the region.
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     What is to be done? We can mitigate some of the deal's costs in the near term, walk away from it as soon as possible, and act to prevent rather than enable or try to contain a nuclear-armed Iran. These must be fundamental elements of any successful U.S. national security policy. 
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How does one begin?
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     First, don't obsess about sanctions. Recognize that eagerness to do something can get in the way of doing what is needed. Sanctions can be an important tool of foreign policy, but they are a limited tool. Lawmakers concerned about the threat of Iran's nuclear program naturally gravitated toward sanctions as one of the few areas where the legislative branch can lead and set foreign policy. But this also gave many members of Congress an easy but ultimately ineffective out. Sanctions did not succeed in pressuring the regime in Tehran to cease its nuclear program. Even as they damaged Iran's economy, the regime continued installing new centrifuges. nObama was right when he said, "Sanctions alone are not going to force Iran to completely dismantle all vestiges of its nuclear infrastructure." Sanctions are only one supporting element of a new policy against Iran.
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     Second, stick to what works. The sanctions fixation obscured a strategy that actually has an empirical record of reining in illicit nuclear programs: a credible military threat. Tehran suspended parts of its nuclear program in 2003-04, when the mullahs worried they'd be next after the United States toppled Saddam Hussein. The Iraq war also led Muammar Qaddafi to destroy his nuclear program. More recently, in September 2012, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu drew a red line at Iran acquiring a bomb's worth—about 155 kilograms—of 20 percent enriched uranium. At the time, Iran was already dangerously close to this threshold; but it never crossed it. Hearing and, more important, believing Netanyahu's implicit threat, Iran chose to keep its stockpile from exceeding Israel's red line.
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     Third, the next president—especially if he or she wisely walks away from the deal—must use this credible military option not only to prevent Iran from going nuclear but also to confront Iran more broadly in the region. We can never be safe, nor can we ever regain international credibility, if Iran develops nuclear bombs or runs free as a dominant regional power. Attaining the capability to prevent these things will require freeing the U.S. military from the shackles of sequestration and boosting its capacity in the Middle East and beyond.
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     We have compared this period to the late 1930s, when the West, tired of war, failed to confront the strategic challenge of Nazi Germany. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin fiddled as Europe began to burn. But even in Baldwin's last year in office British military spending increased significantly, and it rose further under Neville Chamberlain, a total of 83 percent between 1936 and 1939. At least Chamberlain recognized that Britain had to rearm, even while he pursued appeasement.
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     nObama, however, is slashing defense budgets. After five years of sequestration, the United States is on course to have the smallest Army since 1940 and the smallest Navy since 1930. As a group of retired high-ranking military leaders put it in a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for Natioal Security Affairs: "Should the worst happen—should Iran threaten the security of our allies, should it decide, after 15 years, to sprint for a nuclear weapons capability—the U.S. armed forces will rise to challenge, but they will do so with less manpower, fewer capabilities, more antiquated platforms and a lower level of readiness than they have now or have had in a very long time." It is amazing—and appalling—that the United States will not have an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf as the Iran deal goes into effect. The United States must also continue efforts to develop weapons to defend against Iranian aggression—particularly missile defense systems—as well as, if necessary, to degrade and destroy their nuclear infrastructure, whether through cyber attack or the 30,000-pound, bunker-busting, Fordow-penetrating Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP).
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     Fourth, boost the military capability of Israel and of our Arab allies, while ensuring Israel retains its qualitative military edge. The United States can help Israel acquire the tools to be more self-reliant both in its offensive and defensive capabilities. Congress has a big role to play here. Congress, with nObama's support, has supplied Israel with financial aid for its Iron Dome system, which worked well in the war with Hamas in Gaza last year, but which will not suffice in the face of Hezbollah's tens of thousands of rockets and missiles. The United States can significantly augment Israel's missile defense capabilities, as well as work with it to improve its anti-mortar capabilities. American offensive help to Israel can begin with offering Israel MOPs and the spare B-52s that can deliver them. B-52s could also help Israel in a war with Hezbollah, which would surely be part of any conflict it has with Iran. Serious thought must be given to how else best to boost Israel's defensive and offensive capabilities, and to do so in a manner dramatic enough to signal Iran, as well as others, that we will stand by Israel.
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     Britain required a new leader, Winston Churchill, in 1940 to finally address the Nazi cancer. The United States needs a new leader as well, a Republican with a firm understanding of America's role in the world and the steel to pursue our interests properly and relentlessly. Still, re-armament helped provide the tools when Britain regained its will. When we have an American leader willing to restore America's place in the world and actually prevent a nuclear Iran, that president too must have the tools—as must the Israelis—to do the job.
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It’s IGNORANT to equate ISLAM…with TERROR?

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

ia-1.jpg?width=230“So part of our job, together, is to work to reject such extremism that infects too many of our young people. Part of that effort must be a continued rejection by Muslims of those who distort Islam to preach intolerance and promote violence, and it must also involve a rejection by non-Muslims of the ignorance that equates Islam with terror.”

Those were Obama’s words at the United Nations (of thugs, thieves and despots) just a couple of days ago. He stood up there, just like he did a couple of years ago when he said that “the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam” and said that non-Muslims must reject the IGNORANCE that equates Islam with terror.

It’s IGNORANT to equate ISLAM…with TERROR?

Oh really?

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Hollywood Propagandists Enshrine Lies in History

I just watched the trailer for Robert Redford’s latest film, “Truth,” due out October 16th. The film depicts the 2004 forged documents scandal that ended journalist Dan Rather’s career with CBS. Redford stars as the newsman.

The movie is based on the book “Truth and Duty: the President, the Press, and the Privilege of Power” by Mary Mapes, the former 60 Minutes producer who also lost her job over the fake National Guard memos.

Allow me to briefly summarize the shoddy journalistic practices employed at CBS, about which an entire book could be written, for the benefit of those too young to remember Rathergate. For starters, the scandal should really be called Mapesgate because Mapes was primarily responsible for the unethical behavior at CBS. She was absolutely obsessed with the idea that President Bush shirked his duty in the Texas Air National Guard, which she just knew to be true. How fortunate Mapes was to meet a man named Bill Burkett, who happened to provide her the proof she had always wanted.

Sadly, Burkett suffered from the world’s first confirmed case of Bush Derangement Syndrome. Besides having once had a nervous breakdown, he had also advanced other baseless accusations against Bush during the 2000 campaign as well as when he was governor of Texas. Burkett claimed to have documents revealing that young Lieutenant Bush had gone AWOL in 1972, though he kept changing his story as to where he got them. Mapes fell in love with the documents and rushed them to air, despite the fact the network’s own expert would not vouch for them.

In a clear case of coordination, Mapes then called strategist Joe Lockhart, a high-ranking consultant with the Democratic Kerry campaign, to ask him if he’d be interested in talking to Burkett. Totally unethical. She should have been fired just for that. Even Mapes’s own father said of her: “I’m really ashamed of my daughter, what she’s become. She went into journalism with an ax to grind, that is, to promote feminism—and radical feminism, I might say—and liberalism.”

Just don’t accuse Mapes of having an agenda. She hates that.

Within hours of the broadcast, sharp-eyed Americans noticed that the memos appeared to have been written using Microsoft Word. Although Mapes and Rather stubbornly refused to admit that they were forgeries, both were eventually canned.

Mapes was lucky enough to get a book deal out of it. I didn’t waste my time or money reading it, but apparently the gist of it is—stop me if you’ve heard this one—that she’s the victim, that she was just speaking truth to power, and that the story was solid even if it was based on false documents. That may sound silly, of course, but people have to understand that in those days dissent wasn’t racist, it was the highest form of patriotism. And by dissent, I mean making crap up to swing an election.

That’s the book that will soon be dramatized on the big screen. Am I the only one in America who’s tired of Hollywood enshrining lies in our collective history through the use of propagandistic movies?

Too many of us learn about history through cinema, a pitfall we should all try to avoid. We shouldn’t confuse movies for depictions of actual historical events. Besides the fact that they’re meant to entertain, most of them are also made by loony leftists.

In that regard, “Truth” reminds me of another cinematic abortion released five years ago called “Fair Game,” which supposedly told the story of Joe Wilson and his CIA officer wife Valerie Plame. Its depiction of events was so far removed from reality that it can only be called fiction.

When the Washington Post asked Joe Wilson about the film’s veracity, he said something very telling its defense—“For people who have short memories or don’t read, this is the only way they will remember the period.” How’s that for honesty? I think what he’s saying is that even though “Fair Game” may not align with the historical record, in time it will become the historical record. People who just didn’t pay much attention to the story, or were born after the fact, will conjure up images of “Fair Game” when they think of Plamegate.

And they will think that they saw events as they really happened. What a terrible disservice.

 In real life, Joe Wilson was sent by his wife Valerie Plame to Niger to investigate reports that the Iraqi government was purchasing or attempting to purchase uranium. In July 2003, he wrote an op-ed for the New York Times saying that he hadn’t found any evidence to support that conclusion. Shortly thereafter, columnist Robert Novak mentioned Wilson’s wife’s name in an editorial, thus blowing her CIA cover. Wilson and others jumped to the conclusion that the White House was punishing him for his stand against the Iraq War. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to investigate the leak. He actually already knew at the beginning of the investigation that the perp was Richard Armitage, second in command at the State Department and a critic of the Iraq War. Fitzgerald launched an investigation into a question to which he already knew the answer, and eventually tripped up White House aide Scooter Libby, who lied under oath about the matter. Libby went to prison while Armitage was never even charged.

Who plays Armitage in the film? No one. He never appears on screen and his name appears only in a textual epilogue. Also, Libby is the leaker and he did it to put Plame’s life in jeopardy. In other words, the real story of the Plame leak was scrapped in favor of a fantasy. In time, few will remember that it isn’t true.

No film has used subterfuge to influence public opinion about an historical event quite like Oliver Stone’s 1991 blockbuster “JFK.” It supposedly tells the true story of District Attorney Jim Garrison of New Orleans, the only man ever to charge anyone for President Kennedy’s murder. As it turns out, the man he put on trial, businessman Clay Shaw, also happened to be innocent. The case Garrison’s office assembled against him was a textbook example of reckless prosecution. After a lengthy trial, the jury deliberated for just 54 minutes before returning a verdict of not guilty.

But that’s not how Stone tells the story. In Stone’s film, Garrison is the hero. His investigation meets stiff resistance from the federal government, presumably because Kennedy’s killers are still very much in power. The assassination is a conspiracy of epic proportions, involving top military brass, defense contractors, the CIA, FBI, Dallas Police, Vice President LBJ, anti-Castro Cubans, the Office of Naval Intelligence, and even the President’s own Secret Service. Lee Oswald not only didn’t act alone, he didn’t act at all. Just a patsy. Oswald was conveniently “sheep-dipped” to look like an unstable Marxist then placed in proximity to the murder so the real killers could make a clean get-away.

The Chicago Tribune editorialized, “The danger is that Stone’s film and the pseudo-history it so effectively portrays will become the popularly accepted version.” Very true, and there’s no doubt that Stone intended to make his film an historical reference that would guide public memory of the assassination. Released with the film was a companion book sent to thirteen thousand teachers across the country. To think that any teacher would present the film to her class as truth! But I’m sure some did and do.

Stone offered an insight into his thinking in an introduction he wrote for a book by Fletcher Prouty, the archetypal crackpot and basis for the mysterious Mr. X character portrayed in “JFK.” Wrote Stone: “Who owns reality? Who owns our history? He who makes it up so that most everyone believes it. That person wins.”

Clearly, the truth isn’t nearly as important to Stone as being the master of the narrative, a task made all the more easy when you happen to be a big Hollywood director with a movie studio at your fingertips. The rest of us aren’t so lucky.

History matters. It matters enough that Hollywood should make an effort to tell the story the way it really happened, or at least to label fiction as such. In the meantime, it’s up to the rest of us to watch historical films with a discerning eye.


Read more at http://patriotupdate.com/hollywood-uses-propagandistic-films-to-enshrine-lies-in-history/
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AMERICA HAS BECOME A SHAMELESS COUNTRY

President Obama Addresses the United Nations General Assembly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMgRqkF2tbo

Without a doubt our country is govern by a shameless President that is driven by his sycophantic and sociopath ideology.   It is deplorable that a mindset exists which allows us to think, that simply because we are Americans and born within our borders, we are somehow entitled to enjoy a greater degree of respect and dignity, but we are not prepared to acknowledge the birthright of the world community to live as they wish and elect their own president and have the right to self-determination.

The issue is not terrorism. It is injustice! America has been unjust and dishonest in its dealings with other nations. Our history of military interventions for the only purpose of controlling the natural resources of foreign nations is huge and it was done to protect the interest of the US multinational corporations; For many years our leaders lie and deceived the American people to seek our support and send our soldiers to fight wars for the interest of the US corporations; all these wars were provoked by our government and we paid the price with the lives of thousands of our soldiers and the trillions of Dollars expended that resulted of this huge national debt of over 18 trillions Dollars.  

Now, there's one thing  we might ask, who is worst the politicians that deceive us and commit all these crimes and send our soldiers to die for the corporations or we the people that have done nothing to stop these criminals.   Everybody complains about the politicians and what they done to our country, the poverty, the homeless and the lack of good paying jobs. Everybody says politicians suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t come from a foreign country; they come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It's what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you're going to get selfish, ignorant sycophants leaders.

The time has come to change this path of self-destruction and establish a new moral leadership in our country responsible to the people of this country and stop all foreign interventions, wars will be declare by congress not the President, the time has come to respect the rights of all nations and stop being the world’s bully; our place in the world community is to seek cooperation to help other countries to be self-sufficient and care for their own people the best they can, but not to dictate or control the political affairs of other countries, nor seek motives to invade and control other nations natural resources.

Help us to restore moral responsibly in America. http://billmoyers.com/episode/bernie-sanders-breaking-big-moneys-grip-elections/. Become an activist for Bernie Sanders.

http://billmoyers.com/episode/steve-fraser-new-robber-barons/    

America is the bully of the Free World.

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1999-03-01/bully-free-world

Obama is a pathological liar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cse5cCGuHmE

 Obama a President without a shame. Master of deception

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK7JEYqIfw4

Obama has amnesia or he is stupid or a complete ignorant.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMgRqkF2tbo

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Tuesday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Another Cynical Democratic 
"Citizenship USA" Voter Drive
Michelle Malkin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 President Xi Needs an Uncomfortable Visit to U.S.  
Last year, Barack nObama visited China in an effort to rally support for an international treaty on climate change and underscore the economic opportunities the two countries have in working together. Oh, how things have changed. Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington, DC, this week, and the issues facing the two countries are more ... awkward. The Chinese stock market plummeted at the end of August due to an opaque, centrally planned economic system, which rocked the global economy. China continues to grow belligerent in the Pacific, laying claim to vast swaths of the South China Sea, and sending ships to steam off the Alaskan coast while nObama visited the Arctic Circle. Furthermore, the country has detained American Sandy Phan-Gillis since March on charges of "spying and stealing state secrets." This comes at a time when the U.S. strongly suspects it was China that stole the data of millions of federal employees and everyone who applied for a security clearance. "Denying ourselves engagement with the Chinese would deny ourselves the ability to advance our interests and to make clear to China where we stand,"said Ben Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communications. "We won't paper over those differences." We're not holding our breath. After all, nObama's paper tiger diplomacy has created room for China to flex its might toward America. An uncomfortable visit would do much to restore America's spine in the relationship, so it's too bad it's going to be a lavish "state visit" instead.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Hilly Flip-Flops on Her Keystone Pipeline Legacy   On Tuesday, Hilly Clinton expounded a bit on the legacy she formed while secretary of state. She's previously boasted of playing a "leading role" in starting the review process for building the proposed Keystone pipeline, which was designed to transport crude oil from Canada to American refineries in the Gulf of Mexico. It's been gummed up in bureaucratic review since 2010, though Clinton said then she would be "inclined" to approve it. But now, she wants the pipeline buried. "I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone pipeline as what I believe it is — a distraction from important work we have to do on climate change," Clinton told a crowd in Iowa. "Therefore I oppose it." Clinton's decision was not based on principles good for the economy, but rather political gain with her ecofascist base. Fellow Democrat candidate Martin O'Malley said, "On issue after issue, Secretary Clinton has followed — not forged — public opinion. Leadership is about stating where you stand on critical issues, regardless of how they poll or focus group." (The ironic thing is the public supports the Keystone pipeline by an overwhelming margin.) The result of Clinton's inaction as secretary resulted in lost jobs and lost economic activity. Now, after the Left has stonewalled the project for years, Clinton wants to simply sweep it aside. Furthermore, she had the "courage" to make this announcement while the media focused squarely on PopeFrancis' visit.   -The Patriot Post  

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 Iran Prepares to Annex Iraq  
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told his nation Tuesday that Iran and Iran alone has the military might in the Middle East to keep the Islamic State at bay. The remarks came during a military parade commemorating the start of the 35-year-old Iraq-Iran War. "[If] terrorists begin to expand in the region, the only hope will be Iran's army and the Revolutionary Guards," Rouhani said. And does anyone think they would leave if they came in to wipe out the Islamic State? Rouhani continued, saying the West had little influence in the struggle: "Today, our armed forces are the biggest regional power against terrorism." Seeing how the United States' proxy fighters are doing against the Islamic State, the Iranian president might just be correct. The fight against the Islamic State has ground to a standstill in Iraq, as an offensive to retake Ramadi from the Islamic State has been delayed. So the U.S. turns to Syria, where only a handful of American-trained Syrian rebels are still in the fight. Many of the fighters were delayed in Turkey, but when they returned, they handed over their weapons to the al-Qaida affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra. This was exactly the worry many people had in giving arms and training to proxy fighters. As Marco Rubio said: Our military "was not built to conduct pinprick attacks." If we want to take a simplistic route to foreign policy and focus our whole attention to the short term — dealing with the Islamic State — then maybe we should just give Iran $150 billion. Oh, wait...  -The Patriot Post  
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 EMAIL NEWS WIPES HILLY’S SECOND RESET  
Hilly Clinton’s furious effort to refocus her struggling campaign on something other than the scandals that have dogged it from the start just ran smack into a brick wall.
          First, the WaPo reported that Clinton had misrepresented why she turned over emails from her private server. It wasn’t routine records keeping as Clinton claimed, but the discovery of her secret email server more than a year ago that triggered the request for her documents and her eventual compliance. That dropped just as Clinton hit the Des Moines Register for a meeting with editors and she was caught flat-footed.
          The shambles of her initial claims about her email is nearly complete. Pro tip: When you are busted being shady, don’t be shady in your explanation.
          Clinton was hoping to get back to her new focus: trying to paint herself as more liberal than the nObama administration (seriously!) as she pushes for a huge increase in refugees from the Syrian civil war and for – quite suddenly – the rejection of a new oil pipeline from Canada. Clinton’s goal is to paint herself as left of Vice President loose lips Joe Biden.
          It’s revealing that Clinton has set her new ideological position in the space between loose lips Biden and the Democrats’ version of Ron Paul, Sen. Bernie Sanders. That’s a weird space, dude. And it’s one in which a general election bid would have a cramped launch pad, to say the least. She must really be worried about defeating a historically weak field to torch so many general election votes.
          Transparent, rapid-fire pandering is usually bad news, but it’s still better than being reduced to legalistic dissembling in front of a gaggle of reporters. Yet there Clinton was, watching the second reset of her second campaign fall apart like cheap shoes in a rainstorm.
          But her bad day wasn’t over yet. Not by a long shot.
          Bloomberg was about to report that the FBI probe into Clinton’s handling of secret documents as secretary of state had unlocked the more than 30,000 documents that Clinton in March had declared destroyed.
          The sounds of heads exploding in Brooklyn could be heard across the land.
          Remember that Clinton took the brazen step of destroying evidence she said would exonerate her. She claimed she handed over all official emails and destroyed the rest in the interest of her family’s privacy. It would clear her name against allegations of ethical and national security misconduct, but she didn’t want anyone nosing around her and her husband’s emails.
          It sounded absurd, but hey, if the server was “wiped” or shredded, cooked on high in a microwave for an hour and then dumped into the Marianas Trench, there wasn’t anything that could be done about it.
          Unless Clinton was foolish enough to have deemed the emails gone when they really weren’t and when the server itself wasn’t in her custody. Which now, it appears, was the case. She was bluffing.
          As Stephan Dinan reports, though, the FBI isn’t exactly advertising its findings. The agency is refusing even to discuss the investigation with the State Department, which was ordered by a judge to try to collaborate with the Justice Department to determine what might be recovered from Clinton’s email.
          How, when and if the contents of the once-secret server are made public are all open questions. But, if the emails Clinton said she ordered be destroyed have been recovered and if that discovery is confirmed, the emails can be had by congressional investigators.
          It goes like this: The first and most immediate threat to Clinton’s campaign and, potentially, her freedom is the possibility of criminal prosecution for knowingly mishandling state secrets. If she is even charged with a crime for her email practices, she’s toast. And if the emails she said would “remain private” reveal any sensitive government business, she’s burnt toast.
          But even if the emails Clinton wanted destroyed yield no charges for her or her intimates, they will certainly be sought by the House committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi terror attack. And that’s where the risk of the discovery of something not criminal but politically devastating comes into play.
          Outside of the real, but still unlikely chance that Clinton would get popped for national security violations, the existential threat to her bid to return to the White House is in her and her husband’s convoluted and ethically dubious moneymaking practices of the past decade. If the committee gets evidence that supports the claims that Clinton did inappropriate favors for patrons while in office, that’s probably a death knell, depending on how gross of a violation.
          And then there’s the embarrassment factor of what was said by Clinton and her top aides in unguarded conversations.
          Gulp…  -Fox News   
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 Republicans Try Once More to Defund Amnesty  
{fixthisnation.com} ~ House Republicans, no doubt feeling the heat generated by Donald Trump’s anti-establishment presidential campaign, are vowing to take another shot at defunding nObama’s amnesty... A group of 170 House Republicans known as the Republican Study Committee has devised a plan to cut funding to White House programs that provide work permits and legal status to undocumented immigrants. “The president did not follow the law when he did this, and we need to fully defund his illegal actions,” said Rep. Bill Flores, the chairman of the committee. Flores is supposed to meet with Republican leaders this week to offer up the group’s proposal, which would give Congress another point of disagreement on the fall spending bill. If Republicans and Democrats fail to come together on a bill by September 30, the government will go into partial shutdown. Already, many conservatives in the House and Senate have promised not to yield when it comes to funding Planned Parenthood. With the addition of this immigration proposal, fireworks are inevitable.
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 nObama’s dangerous drive to make US combat troops co-ed  
{Betsy McCaughey} ~ President nObama is already weakening our military by shedding troops, weapons and ships... But even these cuts aren’t as dangerous as his misguided crusade for a gender-blind military. “Valor has no gender,” nObama naively announced. True, but strength, speed and sharpshooting accuracy are gender-specific. A new 9-month, $36 million study conducted by the Marine Corps shows that the overwhelming majority of women Marines underperform on tasks such as running while wearing 100 pounds of gear, or carrying a wounded buddy to safety, or firing an M4 rifle to stop the enemy’s grenade. These politically incorrect facts should make the nObama administration reconsider zealously opening all combat jobs to women.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obamas-dangerous-drive-to-make-us-combat-troops-co-ed/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email092415&utm_medium=email
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 Govt Shutdown Threats Looming, Senate to Vote on Spending Bill  
{Raven Clabough} ~ President nObama’s refusal to cooperate with Congress has compelled Republicans to take matters into their own hands to avoid a government shutdown... Unfortunately for Republican leaders, these efforts are placing them at odds with their conservative colleagues. And while it may be politically savvy for Democrats to hold Republicans over a barrel or let them take the fall for the resulting government shutdown, creating a proverbial rock or hard place dilemma for the GOP, it is once again a loss for the American people and a win for the nObama administration. Congress has until September 30 to pass a spending bill in order to avoid a government shutdown on October 1. The debate surrounding a spending bill has been contentious, as a number of lawmakers have called for an end to funding for Planned Parenthood after controversial videos revealed its illegal and barbaric practice of harvesting fetal organs. Democrats, meanwhile, are refusing to approve a bill that does not remove the spending limits known as the sequester.
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 Time to Dismantle the UN Human Rights Council  
{Jagdish N. Singh} ~ Like it or not, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is a big flop... It does not care a fig for what it is supposed to do: promote and protect human rights in general, and freedom of association, assembly, expression, belief and religion, sexual preference and women's rights and the rights of racial and ethnic minorities in particular. The past record of the UNHRC shows it has overlooked rights violations in a large part of the world in general and the Middle East in particular. The UNHRC has notoriously been obsessed with inventing rights violations by Israel, the Middle East's only democracy, where women and minorities -- the most oppressed sections in most of the nations in the world -- enjoy equality in law and practice both. Since March 2006, when the UN General Assembly brought the UNHRC into existence, it has condemned Israel 61 times, compared to just 55 condemnations of all other nations in the world combined.
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 nObama Throws Christian Refugees to Lions  
{Raymond Ibrahim} ~ The fate of those Iraqi Christians who had fled from the Islamic State only to be incarcerated in the United States has finally been decided by the nObama administration... they are to be thrown back to the lions, where they will likely be persecuted, if not slaughtered, like so many Iraqi Christians before them. Fifteen of the 27 Iraqi Christians that have been held at a detention center in Otay Mesa, California, for approximately six months, are set to be deported in the coming weeks. Some have already been deported and others are being charged with immigration fraud. Many of the Iraqi Christian community in San Diego -- including U.S. citizen family members vouching for the refugees -- had hopes that they would eventually be released. Mark Arabo, a spokesman for the Chaldean community, had argued that "They've escaped hell. Let's allow them to reunite with their families." One of the detained women had begged to see her ailing mother before she died. The mother died before they could reunite, and now the daughter is to be deported, possibly back to the hell of the Islamic State.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6564/obama-christian-refugee
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 Carly Fiorina’s Post-Debate Abortion Ad is Intense—and Effective  
{Amy Miller} ~ Carly Fiorina killed it during the last debate. Polling has her in second place behind Donald Trump, marking a whopping 12% increase in support from earlier this month... Considering she very nearly didn’t make the cut for CNN’s GOP throwdown, I think we can all afford to throw her props. Love her, hate her, or have questions about her, registered voters have spoken—they want to see more. It’s not surprising; many pundits predicted that all Carly needed to raise her profile within the crowded Republican field was a chance to steal the spotlight. She did it. Her star is rising, and she’s using the opportunity not only to hit back at her most vocal opponents, but to bolster her conservative bona fides before a divided voter pool. It’s a continuation of the strategy she used earlier this summer—when her polling numbers sat below 5%—but it’s still effective. This time around, Fiorina is rebooting the conversation on abortionwith a new Carly for America PAC ad that lashes out against Democrats who refused to acknowledge the existence of the Planned Parenthood sting videos after she referenced them in the CNN debate.       http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/09/carly-fiorinas-post-debate-abortion-ad-is-intense-and-effective/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29        
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 Hilly: Media should be covering up for Politicians more  
{Daniel Greenfield} ~ Hilly Clinton has a closet full of skeletons and she doesn't want anyone poking around them, but how much more can the media cover up for Hilly anyway?... Very difficult hurdles. Like not getting a US ambassador killed. Or having a husband that can keep his pants on for longer than 5 minutes. Or the time she laughed about helping a vicious rapist who beat a 12-year-old girl into a coma get off. Is the media supposed to hide a serious medical condition from voters? Is Hilly really going down this road? Who defines what information is? The media isn't supposed to be deciding what information best serves democracy. That's how we got to this perverse point of comprehensive media bias. The media is supposed to provide information and let the public decide.  
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 nOBAMA’S GENOCIDAL TREASON  
{Daniel Greenfield} ~ No government has the blood of more American soldiers on its hands today than the government of Iran. From Lebanon to Afghanistan to Saudi Arabia to Iraq, Iran has been killing American soldiers for decades... 241 in Beirut. 19 at the Khobar Towers. Over 500 in Iraq and Afghanistan. The last time the United States officially fought Iran was under Reagan. But Iran has never stopped killing Americans. There is no reason to believe that it will stop once it has the nuclear weapons that nObama is helping its leaders obtain. The last time left-wing radicals aided the nuclear program of an open enemy of the United States, they were put on trial for it. The sentencing judge at the time said that because “the nature of Russian terrorism is now self-evident” there was no further room for claims that no harm had been done.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/260196/obamas-genocidal-treason-daniel-greenfield
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 Senators Block Spending Bill Defunding Planned Parenthood...  
{Melissa Quinn} ~ A government spending bill that prohibited Planned Parenthood from receiving federal dollars for one year and kept the government operating failed in the Senate today... The continuing resolution, introduced earlier this week by Senate Republican leaders, fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance in the upper chamber after senators blocked the measure, 47-52. The vote occurred just hours after Pope Francis delivered a historic address before a joint session of Congress.        http://dailysignal.com/2015/09/24/senators-block-spending-bill-defunding-planned-parenthood-for-one-year/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohsqvLZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATcZjMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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 backstabber John Boehner Will Resign From Congress  
{Josh Siegel} ~ House Speaker John Boehner announced to Republican lawmakers this morning that he will resign as speaker and from Congress at the end of October, according to news reports... The news came as a surprise even though Boehner has faced renewed pressure from conservatives who want to use a must-pass spending bill to strip Planned Parenthood of its federal funding. “Americans deserve a Congress that fights for opportunity for all and favoritism to none,” Michael A. Needham,  chief executive officer of Heritage Action for America, the lobbying affiliate of The Heritage Foundation, said in a prepared statement. “Too often, Speaker Boehner has stood in the way.”
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Another Cynical Democratic 
"Citizenship USA" Voter Drive
Michelle Malkin
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     {townhall.com} ~ There's only one time when you can depend on the chronically backlogged, recklessly inefficient Department of Homeland Security to perform smoothly: election season.
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     While hundreds of thousands of visa overstayers and deportation fugitives remain on the loose, federal bureaucrats at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) are hastily recruiting tens of thousands of foreigners for the nObama administration's new "U.S. citizenship and immigrant civic integration" campaign.
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     For the past week, the agency has staged more than 200 naturalization ceremonies for more than 36,000 new citizens. In partnership with the Interior Department (the same one that blocked American veterans from visiting war memorials during the 2013 federal government standoff over spending), the feds hosted camera-ready events at national parks -- and encouraged their new political pawns to post propaganda photos across social media.
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     Local law enforcement agencies have a hell of a time getting hold of federal agents to help screen and detain criminal aliens. Fingerprint databases spread across DHS, the State Department and the Justice Department still don't talk to each other. There's still no comprehensive database to track the exits and entries of temporary visa holders -- let alone any functional system to kick out overstayers and keep them out.
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     But never mind all that! The nObama administration is here at the ready to provide new "customer service enhancements" this week so that "naturalization applicants will be able to use credit cards" to pay their $595 naturalization and $85 biometric fees. DHS has also formed a new partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to provide temporary office space to USCIS" and to "provide services to communities with significant numbers of immigrants who are not located near a USCIS office. Services will include biometrics collection, case interviews and information presentations."
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     Wait, that's not all. The same government that wasted billions of dollars on the botched federal nObamacare website for Americans has helpfully set up "new interactive practice civics tests" to help their new future voters secure a permanent Democratic ruling majority. The election-year naturalizers will have the test ready "in English ... with other languages to follow" soon.
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     Make no mistake: Cultural assimilation into American life isn't their goal. Political exploitation is.
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     Did you know that the nObama White House released $10 million in taxpayer money to 40 of its favorite left-wing groups in 26 states to facilitate the expedient citizenship drive? The amnesty-championing Asian Americans Advancing Justice is just one of the social justice recipients involved in pushing green card holders to naturalize -- not to show their patriotism, but to march in partisan lockstep so that "political candidates will no longer be able to ignore this growing political force." ACORN lives.
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     How carefully will the nObama DHS conduct its background checks of citizenship applicants before the election? If history is any guide, we already know the answer: as carefully as the EPA protects rivers in Colorado!
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     Remember: In the 1990s, the Clinton administration first turned immigration policy into a massive Democratic voter recruitment machine through the Citizenship USA program. Naturalization officers simply abandoned background checks wholesale. Former House Judiciary Committee chief counsel David Schippers recounted how a "blatant politicization" of the then-INS took place during the 1996 presidential campaign, during which the White House pressured the agency into expediting citizenship to thousands of aliens whom the White House counted as likely Democratic voters.
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     "To ensure maximum impact," Schippers reported, "the INS concentrated on aliens in key states -- California, Florida, Illinois, New York, New Jersey and Texas -- that hold a combined 181 electoral votes, just 89 short of the total needed to win the election." In all, he determined, "more than a million aliens would be naturalized in time to vote in the 1996 election."
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     In 2003, an Immigration and Naturalization Services center in Laguna Niguel, Calif., solved massive backlog problems by putting tens of thousands of applications through a shredder. In 2006, I exposed how some high-immigrant regions rewarded adjudication officers with bonuses for rubber-stamping as many applications as possible without regard to security. And under President nObama, a whistleblower told Judicial Watch how the administration had abandoned required background checks in 2012, instead adopting "lean and lite" procedures to try to keep up with the flood of amnesty applications spurred by nObama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) directive, which grants illegal aliens a two-year deferment from deportation.
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     The dysfunctional DHS can't control our borders. It has failed to prevent massive fraud in our asylum, student visa, visitor visa, business visa, tech worker visa and immigrant investor green card programs. And the department is overwhelmed with paperwork from 10 million applicants for nObama's executive amnesty waivers. But when it comes to signing up new potential Democratic voters in droves, the feckless feds run a NASCAR-ready well-oiled machine.
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      Suicidal Republicans who continue to hand over the open-borders keys to their hit-and-run opponents reap what they sow.
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Hillary’s High Liar Act Without a Net

By Craig Andresen – The National Patriot and Right Side Patriots on cprworldwidemedia.net

yoga-7.jpg?width=212Another day and yet another of Hillary’s email sandal lies has been exposed. Her campaign staff is surely removing all sharp objects from her reach and no doubt, they have also relieved her of her shoe strings.

Hillary’s favorable ratings are sinking fast…down to but 38% a 7 point drop since May, her favorable rating, among democrats, is now down 11 points since May and since May, Hillary’s support from women has now dropped below 50%.

I expect any day now the call to abandon ship will be issued because, as though Trey Gowdy needs any more ammunition, Hillary’s emails are the gift that keeps on giving.

On Saturday, it was revealed or leaked that once again, Hillary lied. Previously, she had stated that she had turned over all…ALL of her work-related emails to the Department of State. Not only did she state it…she signed a sworn statement under penalty of perjury to it.

I, Hillary Rodham Clinton, declare under penalty of perjury that the following is true and correct:
1. While I do not know what information may be “responsive” for purposes of this law suit, I have directed that all my e-mails on clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records to be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.
2. As a result of my directive, approximately 55,000 pages of these emails were produced to the Department on December 5, 2014.
3. Cheryl Mills did not have an account on clintonemail.com. Huma Abedin did have such an account which was used at times for government business.

Hillary, adding to the growing list of offenses, has now committed perjury because, it has been discovered that an email chain, between her and General Petraeus, had NOT been handed over as ordered by a federal judge but that’s not the biggest news coming from this particular breech of the law.

The BIG news is…who handed over this latest string of emails…

READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE!!!

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Immigration

Modern Immigration Wave Brings 59 Million to U.S., Driving Population Growth and Change Through 2065

Views of Immigration’s Impact on U.S. Society Mixed

U.S. Foreign-Born Share Projected to Hit Record Milestone by 2065Fifty years after passage of the landmark law that rewrote U.S. immigration policy, nearly 59 million immigrants have arrived in the United States, pushing the country’s foreign-born share to a near record 14%. For the past half-century, these modern-era immigrants and their descendants have accounted for just over half the nation’s population growth and have reshaped its racial and ethnic composition.

Looking ahead, new Pew Research Center U.S. population projections show that if current demographic trends continue, future immigrants and their descendants will be an even bigger source of population growth. Between 2015 and 2065, they are projected to account for 88% of the U.S. population increase, or 103 million people, as the nation grows to 441 million.

These are some key findings of a new Pew Research analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data and new Pew Research U.S. population projections through 2065, which provide a 100-year look at immigration’s impact on population growth and on racial and ethnic change. In addition, this report uses newly released Pew Research survey data to examine U.S. public attitudes toward immigration, and it employs census data to analyze changes in the characteristics of recently arrived immigrants and paint a statistical portraitof the historical and 2013 foreign-born populations.

Immigrants and Their Descendants Accounted for 72 Million in U.S. Population Growth from 1965 to 2015; Projected to Account for 103 Million More by 2065

Post-1965 Immigration Drives U.S. Population Growth Through 2065

Immigration since 1965 has swelled the nation’s foreign-born population from 9.6 million then to a record 45 million in 2015.1 (The current immigrant population is lower than the 59 million total who arrived since 1965 because of deaths and departures from the U.S.)2By 2065, the U.S. will have 78 million immigrants, according to the new Pew Research population projections.

The nation’s immigrant population increased sharply from 1970 to 2000, though the rate of growth has slowed since then. Still, the U.S. has—by far—the world’s largest immigrant population, holding about one-in-five of the world’s immigrants (Connor, Cohn and Gonzalez-Barrera, 2013).

Between 1965 and 2015, new immigrants, their children and their grandchildren accounted for 55% of U.S. population growth. They added 72 million people to the nation’s population as it grew from 193 million in 1965 to 324 million in 2015.

U.S. Foreign-Born Population Reached 45 Million in 2015, Projected to Reach 78 Million by 2065This fast-growing immigrant population also has driven the share of the U.S. population that is foreign born from 5% in 1965 to 14% today and will push it to a projected record 18% in 2065. Already, today’s 14% foreign-born share is a near historic record for the U.S., just slightly below the 15% levels seen shortly after the turn of the 20th century. The combined population share of immigrants and their U.S.-born children, 26% today, is projected to rise to 36% in 2065, at least equaling previous peak levels at the turn of the 20th century.

The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act made significant changes to U.S. immigration policy by sweeping away a long-standing national origins quota system that favored immigrants from Europe and replacing it with one that emphasized family reunification and skilled immigrants. At the time, relatively few anticipated the size or demographic impact of the post-1965 immigration flow (Gjelten, 2015). In absolute numbers, the roughly 59 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1965 and 2015 exceed those who arrived in the great waves of European-dominated immigration during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Between 1840 and 1889, 14.3 million immigrants came to the U.S., and between 1890 and 1919, an additional 18.2 million arrived (see Table 1 for details).

After the replacement of the nation’s European-focused origin quota system, greater numbers of immigrants from other parts of the world began to come to the U.S. Among immigrants who have arrived since 1965, half (51%) are from Latin America and one-quarter are from Asia. By comparison, both of the U.S. immigration waves in the mid-19th century and early 20th century consisted almost entirely of European immigrants.

Latin American and Asian Immigration Since 1965 Changes U.S. Racial and Ethnic Makeup

Post-1965 Immigration Wave Reshapes America’s Racial and Ethnic Population MakeupAs a result of its changed makeup and rapid growth, new immigration since 1965 has altered the nation’s racial and ethnic composition. In 1965, 84% of Americans were non-Hispanic whites. By 2015, that share had declined to 62%. Meanwhile, the Hispanic share of the U.S. population rose from 4% in 1965 to 18% in 2015. Asians also saw their share rise, from less than 1% in 1965 to 6% in 2015.

The Pew Research analysis shows that without any post-1965 immigration, the nation’s racial and ethnic composition would be very different today: 75% white, 14% black, 8% Hispanic and less than 1% Asian.

The arrival of so many immigrants slightly reduced the nation’s median age, the age at which half the population is older and half is younger. The U.S. population’s median age in 1965 was 28 years, rising to 38 years in 2015 and a projected 42 years in 2065. Without immigration since 1965, the nation’s median age would have been slightly older—41 years in 2015; without immigration from 2015 to 2065, it would be a projected 45 years.

Asians Projected to Become the Largest Immigrant Group, Surpassing HispanicsBy 2065, the composition of the nation’s immigrant population will change again, according to Pew Research projections. In 2015, 47% of immigrants residing in the U.S. are Hispanic, but as immigration from Latin America, especially Mexico (Passel, Cohn and Gonzalez-Barrera, 2012), has slowed in recent years, the share of the foreign born who are Hispanic is expected to fall to 31% by 2065. Meanwhile, Asian immigrants are projected to make up a larger share of all immigrants, becoming the largest immigrant group by 2055 and making up 38% of the foreign-born population by 2065. (Hispanics will remain a larger share of the nation’s overall population.) Pew Research projections also show that black immigrants and white immigrants together will become a slightly larger share of the nation’s immigrants by 2065 than in 2015 (29% vs. 26%).

The country’s overall population will feel the impact of these shifts. Non-Hispanic whites are projected to become less than half of the U.S. population by 2055 and 46% by 2065. No racial or ethnic group will constitute a majority of the U.S. population. Meanwhile, Hispanics will see their population share rise to 24% by 2065 from 18% today, while Asians will see their share rise to 14% by 2065 from 6% today.

Sources of Immigration to the U.S., by Era

From Ireland to Germany to Italy to Mexico: Where Each State’s Largest Immigrant Group Was Born, 1850 to 2013

The United States has long been—and continues to be—a key destination for the world’s immigrants. Over the decades, immigrants from different parts of the world arrived in the U.S. and settled in different states and cities. This led to the rise of immigrant communities in many parts of the U.S.

The nation’s first great influx of immigrants came from Northern and Western Europe. In 1850, the Irish were the largest immigrant group nationally and in most East Coast and Southern states. By the 1880s, Germans were the nation’s largest immigrant group in many Midwestern and Southern states. At the same time, changes to U.S. immigration policy had a great impact on the source countries of immigrants. In 1880, Chinese immigrants were the largest foreign-born group in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Nevada. But with the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese immigrants were prevented from entering the U.S. As a result, other immigrant groups rose to become the largest in those states.

By the early 20th century, a new wave of immigration was underway, with a majority coming from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. By the 1930s, Italians were the largest immigrant group in the nation and in nine states, including New York, Louisiana, New Jersey and Nevada.

The composition of immigrants changed again in the post-1965 immigration era. By the 1980s, Mexicans became the nation’s largest immigrant group; by 2013, they were the largest immigrant group in 33 states. But other immigrant groups are represented as well. Chinese immigrants are the largest immigrant group in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Indians are the largest immigrant group in New Jersey. Filipinos are the largest immigrant group in Alaska and Hawaii.

For more, explore our decade-by-decade interactive map feature.

For the U.S. Public, Views of Immigrants and Their Impact on U.S. Society Are Mixed

For its part, the American public has mixed views on the impact immigrants have had on American society, according to a newly released Pew Research Center public opinion survey. Overall, 45% of Americans say immigrants in the U.S. are making American society better in the long run, while 37% say they are making it worse (16% say immigrants are not having much effect). The same survey finds that half of Americans want to see immigration to the U.S. reduced (49%), and eight-in-ten (82%) say the U.S. immigration system either needs major changes or it needs to be completely rebuilt.

Half Say Immigrants in the U.S. Are Making Crime, the Economy Worse, but Food, Music and the Arts Are BetterThe public’s views of immigrants’ impact on the U.S. vary across different aspects of American life. Views are most negative about the economy and crime: Half of U.S. adults say immigrants are making things worse in those areas. On the economy, 28% say immigrants are making things better, while 20% say they are not having much of an effect. On crime, by contrast, just 7% say immigrants are making things better, while 41% generally see no positive or negative impact of immigrants in the U.S. on crime.

On other aspects of U.S. life, Americans are more likely to hold neutral views of the impact of immigrants. Some 45% say immigrants are not having much effect on social and moral values, and 56% say they are not having much effect on science and technology. But when it comes to food, music and the arts, about half (49%) of adults say immigrants are making things better.

U.S. adults’ views on the impact of immigrants on American society also differ depending on where immigrants are from. Some 47% of U.S. adults say immigrants from Asia have had a mostly positive impact on American society, and 44% say the same about immigrants from Europe. Meanwhile, half of Americans say the impact of immigrants from Africa has been neither positive nor negative.

European and Asian Immigrants Viewed Most PositivelyHowever, Americans are more likely to hold negative views about the impact of immigrants from Latin America and the Middle East. In the case of Latin American immigrants, 37% of American adults say their impact on American society has been mostly negative, 35% say their impact is neither positive nor negative, and just 26% say their impact on American society has been positive. For immigrants from the Middle East, views are similar—39% of U.S. adults say their impact on American society has been mostly negative, 39% say their impact has been neither positive nor negative, and just 20% say their impact has been mostly positive on U.S. society.

Many Americans say that immigrants to the U.S. are not assimilating. Two-thirds of adults say immigrants in the U.S. today generally want to hold on to their home country customs and way of life, while only about a third (32%) say immigrants want to adopt Americans customs. The survey also finds that 59% of Americans say most recent immigrants do not learn English within a reasonable amount of time, while 39% say they do.

The nationally representative bilingual survey of 3,147 adults was conducted online using the Pew Research Center’s American Trends Panel from March 10 to April 6, 2015, before the current national discussion began about national immigration policy, unauthorized immigration and birthright citizenship. The survey has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.4 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

The Profile of Today’s Newly Arrived Is Markedly Different than that of New Arrivals in Previous Decades

The Number of Immigrants Coming to the U.S. Peaked in 2005The rewrite of the nation’s immigration policy in 1965 opened the door to new waves of immigrants whose origins and characteristics changed substantially over the ensuing decades. As a result, newly arrived immigrants in 2013 (those who had been in the U.S. for five years or less) differ in key ways from those who were new arrivals in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

Overall, the number of newly arrived immigrants peaked in the early 2000s: Some 8 million residents of other countries came to the U.S. between 2000 and 2005. The number of recent arrivals declined after that, to about 6 million for the years 2008 to 2013, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of federal government data.

Perhaps the most striking change in the profile of newly arrived immigrants is their source region. Asia currently is the largest source region among recently arrived immigrants and has been since 2011.3 Before then, the largest source region since 1990 had been Central and South America, fueled by record levels of Mexican migration that have since slowed. Back in 1970, Europe was the largest region of origin among newly arrived immigrants. One result of slower Mexican immigration is that the share of new arrivals who are Hispanic is at its lowest level in 50 years.

Compared with their counterparts in 1970, newly arrived immigrants in 2013 were better educated but also more likely to be poor. Some 41% of newly arrived immigrants in 2013 had at least a bachelor’s degree. In 1970, that share was just 20%. On poverty, 28% of recent arrivals in 2013 lived in poverty, up from 18% in 1970. In addition, fewer of the newly arrived in 2013 were children than among the newly arrived immigrants in 1970—19% vs. 27%.

Yet on several other measures, the characteristics of the newly arrived today are returning to those of the newly arrived in 1970. On gender, 51% of the newly arrived in 2013 were women, compared with 47% in 2000 and 54% in 1970. In terms of geographic dispersion, half of new arrivals in 2013 lived in one of four states: California, Florida, New York or Texas. Nearly two-thirds of new arrivals lived in those four states in 1990, up from a third in 1970. California alone had 38% of recently arrived immigrants in 1990, but the share has since declined, to 18% in 2013.

Unauthorized Immigration

This report’s estimates and projections of foreign-born residents in the U.S. comprise both legal and unauthorized immigrants. However, the numbers for each status group are not broken out separately except where stated.

In 2014, 11.3 million unauthorized immigrants lived in the U.S., according to the latest preliminary Pew Research estimate (Passel and Cohn, 2015). That estimate is essentially unchanged since 2009, as the number of new U.S. unauthorized immigrants roughly equals the number who voluntarily leave the country, are deported, convert to legal status or (less commonly) die.

According to Pew Research estimates going back to 1990, this population rose rapidly during the 1990s and peaked in 2007. The number of unauthorized immigrants declined during the recession of 2007-2009 before stabilizing. Illegal immigration from Mexico has been the main factor in these changes in the U.S. unauthorized immigrant population, though Mexicans remain by far the largest unauthorized immigrant group.

For more Pew Research analysis of unauthorized immigration, seehttp://www.pewhispanic.org/topics/unauthorized-immigration/

Roadmap to the Report

The report is organized as follows: Chapter 1 provides an overview of the nation’s immigration legislation, with a focus on key changes since 1965. It is accompanied by aninteractive timeline highlighting U.S. immigration legislation since 1790. Chapter 2explores the impact of post-1965 immigration on the nation’s demographics up to 2015 and provides a look forward at the future impact of immigration with new Pew Research population projections through 2065. Chapter 3 looks at the post-1965 flow of immigrants through the lens of the recently arrived, exploring changes in the group’s origins and other characteristics. Chapter 4 explores the U.S. public’s views of immigration and immigration policy. Chapter 5 provides a statistical portrait of the nation’s immigrants from 1960 to 2013 and is accompanied by an online interactive statistical portrait of the foreign born and an online interactive exploring the top country of origin among immigrants in each state from 1850 to 2013. Appendix A explains the report’s methodology, including for the population projections. Appendix B contains a U.S. immigration law timeline.Appendix C includes 1965 to 2065 population tables, and Appendix D contains the survey topline.

A Note on Terminology

“Foreign born” refers to persons born outside of the United States, Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories to parents neither of whom was a U.S. citizen. The terms “foreign born” and “immigrant” are used interchangeably in this report. Unless otherwise noted, recent arrivals include all the newly arrived regardless of their legal status, that is, both legal immigrants and unauthorized immigrants. However, in Pew Research Center survey data, “immigrant” is defined as someone born in another country, regardless of parental citizenship.

“Recent arrivals” or “newly arrived immigrants” refer to foreign-born persons who arrived within five years of the census enumeration or date of the survey. Unless otherwise noted, recent arrivals include all the newly arrived regardless of their legal status, that is, both legal and unauthorized immigrants.

“Legal immigrants” are those who have been granted legal permanent residence; those granted asylum; people admitted as refugees; and people admitted to the U.S. under a set of specific authorized temporary statuses for longer-term residence and work. This group includes “naturalized citizens,” legal immigrants who have become U.S. citizens through naturalization; “legal permanent resident aliens,” who have been granted permission to stay indefinitely in the U.S. as permanent residents, asylees or refugees; and “legal temporary migrants” (including students, diplomats and “high-tech guest workers”), who are allowed to live and, in some cases, work in the U.S. for specific periods of time (usually longer than one year).

“Unauthorized immigrants” are all foreign-born non-citizens residing in the country who are not legal immigrants. This definition reflects standard and customary usage by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and academic researchers.

Immigrant generations living in the U.S. are as follows: “First generation” refers to the foreign born (see above for definition). “Second generation” refers to people born in the U.S. who have at least one immigrant parent. “Third-and-higher generation” refers to people born in the U.S. with U.S.-born parents.

“U.S. born” refers to individuals who are U.S. citizens at birth, including people born in the United States, Puerto Rico or other U.S. territories, as well as those born elsewhere to parents who were U.S. citizens. The U.S.-born population encompasses the second generation and the third-and-higher generation.

References to all racial groups, including “Other,” refer to only non-Hispanics. References to specific racial groups, such as Asians, blacks and whites, include only single-race individuals. Asians do not include Pacific Islanders, unless otherwise noted. Hispanics are of any race.

“College completion” refers to those who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree. Prior to 1990 it refers to those who have completed at least four years of college.

Persons finishing “some college” have finished at least some college education, including those completing associate degrees. Those completing any college at all, including less than one year, are designated as finishing some college.

A “high school completer” refers to those who have at least obtained a high school diploma or its equivalent (such as a General Educational Development certificate, or GED). Prior to 1990 it refers to those who have completed at least four years of high school.

Throughout this report, the term “Latin America” refers to Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean and Mexico; references to “Central and South America” in Chapter 3 do not include the Caribbean, but do include Mexico, unless otherwise noted. In referring to countries of origin, “South and East Asia” refers to only those regions, while “Asia” refers to the full continent (see Recent Arrivals: Data Sources in Appendix A).

  1. These and other estimates and projections in this report may differ from census data in Chapters 3 and 5; see the methodology in Appendix A. ↩
  2. Among the nearly 59 million immigrants who have arrived in the U.S. since 1965, Pew Research estimates that 43.4 million still live in the U.S., some 10.8 million departed the U.S., and 4.3 million died. In 2015, about 1.5 million of the 1965 foreign-born population still lived in the U.S. ↩
  3. Measured on the basis of those arriving in the past five years, immigrants from Asia outnumbered those from Central and South America in 2011. On the basis of those arriving in the past year, Asia immigrants supplanted those from Central and South America in 2008. ↩
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Who really is conservative ?

If you want to see the cumulative voting record for our congressmen, go to the Congressional conservative voting chart site.   It lists the % of conservative (and liberal) votes for each member of congress.

For instance, John Boehner's record was 11% !!!    Kevin McCarthy's was 67%.

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Who really is conservative ?

If you want to see the cumulative voting record for our congressmen, go to the Congressional conservative voting chart site.   It lists the % of conservative (and liberal) votes for each member of congress.

For instance, John Boehner's record was 11% !!!    Kevin McCarthy's was 67%.

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Donald Trump on Health Care (sic) Reform

"Everyone's going to be taken care of and the government's going to pay for it."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2015/09/28/donald-trump-on-obamacare-on-60-minutes-everybodys-got-to-be-covered-and-the-governments-gonna-pay-for-it/?utm_source=followingweekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20150928

Pelley: How do you fix it?

Trump: There’s many different ways, by the way. Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, “No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private. But–”

Pelley: Universal health care.

Trump: I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not. Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.

Pelley: The uninsured person is going to be taken care of. How? How?

Trump: They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably—

Pelley: Make a deal? Who pays for it?

Trump: —the government’s gonna pay for it. But we’re going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.

So TEA Party, how does the Donald's plan differ from Obamacare or any other socialized medicine scheme? How will those of us who reject "mainstream" medicine with its dangerous drugs and toxic vaccines be able to obtain health care? How can he claim "most it's going to be a private plan..." if the govt (taxpayers) pay for it?

IMHO, it is time for the TEA Party to call out the Donald for being a crony socialist!

And while we are at it, let's make sure our TEA Party friends who have been mesmerized by the Donald get their heads back on...

What do you think?

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Stop Plutocracy-Stand for America's freedom

By: Juan Reynoso, WTP Activist -  texusa2016@gmail.com

Truth and knowledge diffused among the people are necessary for the reclamation and preservation of our Democracy, rights, freedom and liberties.  www.represent.us

Wake up Americans. For the record, I Am, not a Democrat or Republican;   I am here to tell the truth and serve the American people and humanity. The 2016 elections should not be about political ideologies or the parties; it is about our economic freedom and the preservation of our Republican and Democracy.

 http://robertreich.org/post/3317811319

Something is wrong with the American people, from politicians to the average American, it seems that they have amnesia; they are complete ignorant or plain stupid; because they are in complete denial about President Ronald Reagan legacy. Reaganomics was the beginning of what we got today “The GOP NEOCON WARMONGERS” that under the pretense of promoting a conservative system of government they created a Plutocracy run by the oligarchs and the slavery of the American working class.

The big accomplishment of the GOP NEOCONS is the brainwashing of the Republican party,  using Ronald Reagan’s legacy, Via the mainstream news media the propaganda machinery of the oligarch and the Republican party neocons, they feed the American people their unchecked misinformation and disinformation about Ronald Reagan accomplishments, the Republican Party Neocon Elite has even shanghaied the emotional support of everyday ordinary Republican party members and the American people into taking this non-sensible “Reaganomics”, political indoctrination against their own best economic and self-interests and supported the cut taxes for the super-rich, all of the free trade ill policies that destroyed the American dream and the military interventions that cost the lives of thousands of American soldier, trillions of Dollars of national debt and the demise of our economic to support and defend the interest of the US multinational corporations in foreign countries

Fellow American wake up,  this is the Ronald Reagan score card - On taxes; during the 1950s and early 1960s, the top bracket income tax rate was over 90% for the super-rich and the economy, middle-class, and stock market boomed so please do not let the GOP NEOCONS lie and deceive you with their propaganda that the rich will create jobs for Americans if we cut their taxes.

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Reaganomics killed America's middle class

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/19/reaganomics_killed_americas_middle_class_partner/

A Simple Economic Truth America's Super Rich don’t want you to know

http://www.alternet.org/simple-economic-truth-americas-super-rich-dont-want-us-know-about

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/how-the-gop-became-the-party-of-the-rich-20111109

The truth about taxes.

http://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-tax-rates-2012-5

 

Ronald Reagan score card on military intervention.

30 years on: The legacy of Reagan's invasion of Grenada

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/25/invasion-grenadaronaldreagan.html

Iran contra- Reagan and Bush criminal liability.

http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB365/

Lost History: Reagan-Bush Crime Syndicate

https://consortiumnews.com/archive/lost7.html

The Iran-contra affair – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

https://www.google.com/#q=Iran%E2%80%93Contra+affair+-+Wikipedia%2C+the+free+encyclopedia

Iraq confession and cover-up

http://www.democracynow.org/2004/6/9/the_reagan_saddam_connection_we_create

The Mena Arkansas-Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Drug Connection

http://www.dldewey.com/columns/menaf.htm

Ronald Reagan was a Drug Dealer

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/06/16/347209/-Ronald-Reagan-was-a-Drug-Dealer

New evidence links George Bush to Los Angeles drug operation

http://www.bwbadge.com/bush.htm

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Monday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The Debate That Shouldn’t Be Ignored
Chris Skates
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 nObama Uses Pope for Political Point  
In a rare instance when someone comes to the U.S. from Cuba not floating on a homemade raft, Pope Francis will arrive at John Base Andrews at 4 p.m. today for his six-day visit to the United States. In his first visit to the U.S., Francis will address the UN, visit a correctional facility in Philadelphia and meet with Barack nObama. Francis is controversial, not necessarily because of his doctrine — which does raise questions — but because of how the media, which does a dismal job covering religion, has portrayed him. For example: In July 2013, the media breathlessly reported that Francis, when asked about homosexuality, responded, "Who am I to judge?" But the larger context was that Francis started his statement saying, "If someone is gay and he searches for the Lord and he has good will..." See, morality and faith are still in play, and the pope opposes same-sex marriage. Still, many people reject the nuance of Francis' statements, one of them being nObama. When the executive greets the pope, by his side will be LGBT advocates, openly homosexual Episcopal priest Vicky Imogene Robinson and a group of nuns that helped lobby for nObamaCare. While the pope speaks of liberation theology, a similar philosophy embraced by nObama's former pastor Jeremiah Wright, the Holy See objected to these guests, saying images from the event could imply that the pope endorses those practices. But everything is political for nObama. Nuance or no, he will use Francis' visit as a way to further his ideology.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Climate Alarmists Want Dissenters Imprisoned  
On Sept. 1, twenty professors and climate scientists wrote a letter to Barack nObama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch and science czar John Holdren praising their regulatory assault on fossil fuels. That wasn't the point of the letter, however. The disgruntled authors encouraged a more crushing strategy the White House should use to speed up compliance to nObama's climate change agenda. The group stated, "We appreciate that you are making aggressive and imaginative use of the limited tools available to you in the face of a recalcitrant Congress." But... "One additional tool — recently proposed by Senator Sheldon White house — is a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) investigation of corporations and other organizations that have knowingly deceived the American people about the risks of climate change, as a means to forestall America's response to climate change." In other words, why not just prosecute and imprison those darn skeptics getting in the way?
          Specifically, the authors cite RICO's success in taking on the tobacco industry, adding, "[I]t is imperative that these misdeeds be stopped as soon as possible so that America and the world can get on with the critically important business of finding effective ways to restabilize the Earth's climate, before even more lasting damage is done." As climate blogger Steve Goddard retorted, "They might want to consult with the Pope about this. The Vatican has considerable experience arresting heretics." Investor's Business Daily's Kerry Jackson put it best: "[W]e could be wrong about global warming. It might all be as the alarmists claim. We acknowledge this. Science is not static but always moving. Let's see what it tells us. Yet has any true believer ever renounced his global warming faith or conceded that there is even the slightest chance that he might be just a bit wrong?" Who exactly are acting like cultish fanatics?
          Oh, and by the way, George Mason University Professor Jagadish Shukla, a leader of the letter writers, reportedly profited from government climate grants to the tune of $1.5 million.   -The Patriot Post  
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 Trump, Carson and the Islamic Controversy  
Over the last several days, the Leftmedia have worked themselves into a tizzy over two particular presidential candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, following comments that were made — and not made — about Muslims. It’s one of those "gotcha" moments when a candidate must choose between speaking what he believes, dodging the question or simply not saying anything. Regardless of how the candidate answers, they will catch heat for it, primarily because they are Republicans.
          During a town hall meeting in New Hampshire, a questioner accused Barack nObama of being a Muslim, of not being American and stated, “We have [Muslim] training camps growing where they want to kill us, that’s my question. When can we get rid of them?” 
          Trump didn't respond the way many in the Leftmedia thought that he should have. He didn't rebut the questioner’s accusations about nObama's religion or citizenship. (After all, Trump himself once questioned nObama's citizenship.) Instead, Trump answered the question vaguely, stating, "We're going to be looking at a lot of different things, and a lot of people are saying that and saying that bad things are happening out there. We're going to be looking at that and plenty of other things.”
          To be sure, Trump could have answered the question better, and he could have taken the bait to address the man’s accusations. But he didn't — or rather, deliberately chose to ignore the accusations from the man because he foresaw the media onslaught that would surely follow. In his own words, Trump told ABC News, "If I would have challenged the man ... to put it mildly the media would have accused me of interfering with that man's right of free speech. ... A no win situation, do we agree?”    
-The Patriot Post  
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 WHAT WALKER (AND EVERYONE ELSE) GOT WRONG ABOUT 2016  
The Scott Walker campaign autopsy will drag on for a bit longer elsewhere, but we will spare you the viscera.
          The real work is already done, anyway. Josh Kraushaar (here) and Liz Mair (aggregated here) had already determined the causes of death before most in the political press had even finished snark-Tweeting.
          So, enough about the roadkill. Let’s talk about the road.
          What squashed Walker wasn’t so much about bad staffing or unpreparedness as it was about his fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of his party in this cycle.
          Walker looks like a good alternative to Jeb Bush if Ted Cruz is on the other side. But what if the outer boundary is actually Donald Trump or Ben Carson
          Second-place Carson is currently running laps around Trump on the issues of sharia law and creeping Islamism. While Trump is trying to get off the topic, Carson is denouncing willful P.C. blindness to the issue.
          If you knew these would be the dominant issues of late September, would you have been bullish on Walker in the spring?
          With so many voters so deeply despairing about the nature of the government and the state of the republic, Walker-like “reform” doesn’t sound so attractive. Revolt is the thing in the GOP these days.
          Many have tried to rigidly apply the 2012 template to the 2016 stakes – including Walker’s campaign. And while there are similarities, 2016 looks different: the nature and size of the field, the compressed schedule, the perceptions of Hilly Clinton’s vulnerability and, most of all, a deeper sense of dread among party activists.
          Here’s a way to think about it. When the 2012 GOP nominating cycle was entering its darkest days, Newt Gingrich was warning of creeping sharia. It seems like Carson is picking up where he left off, but with more vigor. It took a while in the 2012 cycle to get to brutal attacks on rivals’ immigration stances. In this cycle, it’s where Trump started.
          It’s not so much that Walker peaked too soon, it’s that it’s much later in the cycle than we think.
          Given the bloody war that has raged in the GOP since the last presidential cycle, this ought not to surprise us. But it certainly has, and no one more than Walker.  -Fox News  
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 nObama, Islamic Global Plot To Conquer The West...  
{rickwells.us} ~ Jim Simpson, an author and writer for American Thinker, has been sounding the alarm on the war on America, along with the Center for Security Policy... and working to stop the Trojan horse refugee resettlement efforts into the United States. In an interview earlier this month with Joe Miller, the former Republican Alaska Governor who is now a radio host, Simpson exposed the invasion for what it is, describing it as the regime and their enablers attacking the West in an effort to infuse their Islamic culture over ours, to “bring in third-world people from all over the world to dilute our culture” and our country “unrecognizable.” He noted the anti-American Ted Kennedy’s 1980 Refugee Act as being one of the chief tools being utilized towards our destruction. He described the purpose of that legislation as also being “to bring in people with no experience of American concepts of the rule of law, of individual freedom, of religious freedom, people with no concept and, frankly, a lot of people with no interest in adopting the American way of life other than to suck up welfare resources.”
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 UK Defence Secretary: “Harder by the day” to stop jihad terror attacks  
{Robert Spencer} ~ PROTECTING Britons from terror attacks is “becoming harder by the day”, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon warned yesterday... Intelligence experts have also warned that the Islamic terror threat is yet to peak. Mr Fallon told a London think-tank the slaughter of 38 tourists, including 30 Britons, on a beach in Tunisia in June shows how difficult it is to defend “our people”. And he warned that terrorists and other states are “catching up” with Britain, whose technological edge on the battlefield is being eroded.
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 US-trained rebels gave their weapons to al-Qaeda...  
{Robert Spencer} ~ Pentagon-trained rebels in Syria are reported to have betrayed their American backers and handed their weapons over to al-Qaeda in Syria immediately after re-entering the country... Fighters with Division 30, the “moderate” rebel division favoured by the United States, surrendered to the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jabhat al-Nusra, a raft of sources claimed on Monday night. Division 30 was the first faction whose fighters graduated from a US-led training programme in Turkey which aims to forge a force on the ground in Syria to fight against Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/09/us-trained-rebels-gave-their-weapons-to-al-qaeda-immediately-on-entering-syria
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 Iran Promises to Violate Nuke Deal  
{Adam Kredo} ~ Multiple senior Iranian officials have vowed in recent weeks to violate the recently inked nuclear accord that aims to constrain the Islamic Republic’s contested nuclear enrichment program... according to multiple comments by top Iranian leaders. Iranian leaders, including President Hassan Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, have said that the country has “no intention” of abiding by a United Nations Security Council Resolution that encompasses the deal and other restrictions on Tehran’s rogue activities, according to these comments. These officials said that Iran views the recent Iranian nuclear deal secured in Vienna as separate from the resolution endorsing the deal and further prohibiting Iran from developing advanced ballistic missiles and purchasing other types of arms, according to the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI, which issued a report compiling recent statements by Iran. The agreement, which was made earlier this year, is a non-binding set of resolutions focused on Iran’s nuclear program. The deal was transferred to the United Nations and officially endorsed as UNSRC 2231.
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 Texas Rep Introduces Bill To Suspend Refugee Importation...  
{rickwells.us} ~ It looks like someone in Congress other than Senator Jeff Sessions is finally standing up to the lawless Hussein nObama and his orchestrated importation of Muslims into America... his pursuit of transforming America away from a white majority Christian nation to one more reflective of the third world he was raised in. Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) has introduced a bill into Congress that would halt the resettlement of refugees in the country until a thorough assessment of the costs and dangers of the process is conducted. It seems like an obvious first step to the average American possessing basic common sense but saying no to the outlaw in the White House is not something that the Congress has proven to be very good at.        http://rickwells.us/not-so-fast-obama-texas-rep-introduces-bill-to-suspend-refugee-importation-pending-cost-and-threat-evaluations/
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 Insanity on Steroids!  
{Paul Driessen} ~ The Middle East is imploding. Islamic State butchers are annihilating Christian and other communities. Putin is sending arms to Assad... Under the nObama-Iran nuclear deal, the mullahs will get $100+ billion to expand their proxy terror war on Israel and the West. Saudi Arabia has 100,000 empty air-conditioned tents but won’t take any of the millions who’ve been driven from their homes. Neither will most of the other 22 Arab League nations or 57 Organization of Islamic Cooperation member countries. Instead, millions of mostly Muslim migrants, militants and refugees are heading to Europe – with limited money, education, job skills, or desire to assimilate. They demand entry into EU countries whose energy, economic, employment and welfare systems are already foundering or nearing collapse.
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 America unprepared for Devastating 'Black Swan'  
{F. Michael Maloof} ~ Supply-chain disruptions often are the result of adverse weather, unplanned telecom outages, data breaches or even cyber hacking... However, the one “Black Swan” event that would make these instances pale by comparison and result in a cascading disruption is a natural or man-made electromagnetic pulse event. A “Black Swan” is an event regarded at the time of its occurrence as unprecedented and unexpected but later, in hindsight, understood to have been inevitable. An EMP is in that category, since scientific experts repeatedly warn that a major EMP event is not a question of if, but when.
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 'Wake Up!' Muslim persecution of Christians abetted by the West  
{Raymond Ibrahim} ~ Not only is the Islamic State (IS) persecuting Christians but so are the U.S.-supported “rebel” forces, which the nObama administration assures are “moderate.”...  According to a recent NPR report, “With backing from U.S. allies, like Turkey and Saudi Arabia, this U.S. supported rebel coalition fights both the Syrian regime and the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS. But the coalition has extremists in its own ranks who have mistreated Christians and forced them out of their homes”—just as IS has done. In response, Mideast Christian leaders made clear that, far from expecting the West to intervene on their behalf, they merely wish that the West stops arming, supporting, or simply facilitating the Islamic terrorists making their lives a living hell—as plainly spelled out in a Christian Today article titled, “Syrian Christian leader tells West: ‘Stop arming terror groups who are massacring our people.”
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 Christian Gospels, The Muslim Quran All Say The Temple Mount Is...  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ In the latest attempt to de-legitimize the Jewish connection to Israel, Jerusalem and the site of the two holy temples to God...  the Palestinians under the leadership of President Abbas is trying to remove any claim Israel has to Mount Moriah, the Temple mount and Jerusalem the city it sits in, saying “[the Jews] no right to defile” the site with “their filthy feet.” Abbas further urged violence by saying,  “We salute every drop of blood spilled for the sake of Jerusalem.” If Abbas cared about the truth, he would remember that in the ancient texts the ancient Greeks, Romans, Christians, and even the ancient Muslims reported that Jerusalem and Temple Mount were Jewish lands.
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 Evidence US Is Backtracking on Iran Stance, Restarting Negotiations... 
{Ruthie Blum} ~ The U.S. could be easing its policy on sanctions relief for Iran and restarting negotiations with the Islamic Republic, theMiddle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reportedon Monday... According to the report, the fact that foreign ministers of the P5+1 and Iran are set to meet with their Iranian counterpart in New York next week to “examine the recent developments of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)” is evidence of this potential shift. At a joint press conference in Berlin on Sunday with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, U.S. Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry announced that he would meet Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on September 28 – on the margins of the UN General Assembly – to discuss “Iran and other matters.”
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The Debate That Shouldn’t Be Ignored
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     {townhall.com} ~ Last week a political debate was held and how the results of that debate are interpreted by voters could have significant impact on their quality of life. Who voters select as the winner of that debate, and the election which follows in just forty-one more days, could be a significant indicator of the mood of the nation. I’m talking about Kentucky’s gubernatorial election and as I predicted in this space in May, it should be a wonderfully accurate bellwether of national elections to come.
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     That’s because this Kentucky election has all the stark contrasts in policy views, proposed remedies, and voter metrics that we’ve become familiar with in the Presidential race. The contrasts were on display in the debate.
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     Economy- When asked about the current democratic governor’s expansion of Medicaid, Conway’s answer was a typical kick the can down the road solution of revisiting whether or not the state could pay for the increased entitlement in 2021. Bevin met the issue head on. Though some voters will likely balk at losing their new benefits, Bevin vowed to end the program and use those funds to find a more efficient (and likely privatized) method to insure as many of the current beneficiaries as possible. When asked repeatedly about other budgetary shortfalls, Conway’s answer was either to ride out the bad times and hope they get better, or raise taxes. Bevin emphasized the importance of removing as many obtrusive regulations on job creators as possible (Bevin supports “right to work” which contrary to accusations, has proven very beneficial for both union and non-union workers) and thus expand the tax base via employing more Kentuckians
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     Energy- File this one under “credit where credit is due.” As Kentucky Attorney General, Conway did join a couple of lawsuits against the EPA as a counter to that agencies very real “war on coal”. However, Conway made certain to tout the need for “environmentally responsible” energy generation. Read that as a nod to one of his significant campaign contributors, the Sierra Club (two large donors having recently given this same Sierra Club 105 million dollars to help them wage that war on coal). Bevin recognized the essential role that coal must play as the lowest cost provider of electricity in this nation, and said Kentucky must not allow the EPA and its allies to run roughshod over Kentucky’s coal industry.
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     Education-There was significant disagreement on this topic, with Bevin favoring less funding for Universities and colleges (that that this author would purport have become more and more indoctrination centers for liberal political views) and maybe a little more for trade schools that train students to enter the one segment of the economy that seems to be adding jobs, tradesmen. At the same time, Bevin stated that the new governor needs to find better ways to spend existing tax dollars, as opposed to seeking higher taxes, so that those funds can be poured blindly down an education rabbit hole. Conway called Bevin mean and anti-education and made the classic democratic tie-in between spending more money on education and actually achieving superior educations for students. History over the last three decades has proven that a false premise. Conway went on to assert that once Kentucky students receive this superior education, fueled by tax dollars, and I suppose common core indoctrination, great jobs will supposedly follow. This answer is likely why the teachers union bused in legions of Conway supporters at the recent political rally at Fancy Farm.
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     Social Issues- Obviously the recent incident that thrust Kentucky into the national spotlight was discussed at length. In case you don’t know, it was the Kentucky Constitutional Amendment upholding traditional marriage, which Attorney General Conway refused to defend before the Supreme Court, which came before the US Supreme Court in the Obergfell decision this past June. At the time Conway stated that he wanted to save the taxpayers the money it would cost to appeal, but he also stated that he personally found the amendment discriminatory. He hasn’t said if he thinks 75% of Kentuckians who voted for the amendment are discriminatory.
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     As to metrics, Kentucky has trended towards red statehood in national elections but has been firmly blue when it comes to selecting governors. If Kentucky is willing to buck this trend and elect Matt Bevin, it should bode well for the 2016 elections.
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"To disarm the people...was the best and most effectual way to enslave them." -warning of George Mason, Father of the Bill of Rights 
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"Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." 

Thus began the first of the Ten Amendments, or Bill of Rights, which were approved SEPTEMBER 25, 1789.


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"The Father of the Bill of Rights" was George Mason of Virginia.

George Mason was the richest man in Virginia, owning 15,000 acres.

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When George Washington was chosen to be the Commander of the Continental Army,George Mason was drafted by the citizens of Virginia to fill Washington's place in the Continental Congress.

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George Mason wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights which Jefferson drew from to write the Declaration of Independence.

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George Mason stated before the General Court of Virginia:

"The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth."

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George Mason's phrase was mirrored by Jefferson's:

"The laws of nature and nature's God."

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At the Constitutional Convention,George Mason called for an end of the slave trade, desiring to immediately ban any more slaves from being brought into the country and that slavery should not spread into new states. He called slavery a "slow poison" and argued for the gradual emancipation of all slaves.

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On August 22, 1787, George Mason stated:

"Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven upon a country. As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, they must be in this.

By an inevitable chain of causes and effects, Providence punishes national sins, by national calamities."
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George Mason argued in favor of citizens being armed, as he stated atVirginia's Ratifying Convention, 1788 (3 Elliot, Debates at 380):

"When the resolution of enslaving America was formed in Great Britain, the British Parliament was advised...to disarm the people; that it was the best and most effectual way to enslave them; but that they should not do it openly, but weaken them, and let them sink gradually, by totally disusing and neglecting the militia."

George Mason remarked on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (The Papers of George Mason, 1725-1792, ed Robert A. Rutland, Chapel Hill, 1970):


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(European countries should not) be ignorant of the strength and the force of such a form of government and how strenuously and almost wonderfully people living under one have sometimes exerted themselves in defense of their rights and liberties 

and how fatally it has ended with many a man and many a state who have entered into quarrels, wars and contests with them."

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George Mason was one of 55 founders who wrote the U.S. Constitution, but was one of the few who refused to sign it because it did not end the slave trade and did not put enough limits on the Federal Government's power.

He warned that the federal judiciary would attempt to usurp powers from the state governments.

Other anti-federalists included:  

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Virginia Governor Patrick Henry;
Future Governor of Massachusetts Samuel Adams;
Future 5th U.S. President James Monroe
Richard Henry Lee;
Robert Yates; George Clinton;Melancton Smith; Arthur Fenner; James Winthrop; Luther Martin; and the famous woman writer, Mercy Otis Warren.

Thomas Jefferson also advocated many anti-federalist views.
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George Mason and the other anti-federalists tried to prevent the Constitution from being ratified as they feared that too much power concentrated into the hands of the Federal Government would result in the same trampling of individual rights that King George III perpetrated.

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 "The National Government was itself the creature of the States... Yet today it is often made to appear that the creature, Frankenstein-like, is determined to destroy the creators." 


George Mason's
 opposition to the Constitution cost him his friendship with George Washington.   

When the Constitution was ratified, George Mason led the effort to insist that limitations or "Amendments" put in place which would restrict the power of the new Federal Government.

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George Mason stated:

"There is no declaration of rights, and the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitution of the several states, the declarations of rights in the separate states are no security."
 
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George Mason's role was acknowledged by Jefferson, April 3, 1825:

"The fact is unquestionable, that the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution of Virginia, were drawn originally by George Mason, one of our greatest men, and of the first order of greatness."

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George Mason is commemorated by a bas-relief of him in the chamber of the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The Preamble of the Bill of Rights stated:

"The States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...

RESOLVED...that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States."

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George Mason originally suggested the wording of the First Amendment be:

"All men have an equal, natural and unalienable right to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that no particular sect or society of Christians ought to be favored or established by law in preference to others."

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In a glimpse into his personal life, George Mason recorded his wife's death March 9, 1773, inside their 1759 Family Bible:

"About three o'clock in the morning, died at Gunston-Hall...Mrs. Ann Mason, in the thirty-ninth year of her age; after a painful and tedious illness of more than nine months, which she bore with truly Christian Patience and resignation, in faithful hope of eternal Happiness in the world to come...

For many days before her death she had lost all hopes of recovery, and endeavour'd to wean herself from the affections of this life, saying that tho' it must cost her a hard struggle to reconcile herself to the hopes of parting with her husband and children, she hoped God would enable her to accomplish it...

An easy and agreeable companion, a kind neighbor, a steadfast friend, a humane mistress, a prudent and tender mother, a faithful, affectionate and most obliging wife; charitable to the poor and pious to her Maker, her virtue and religion were unmixed with hypocrisy or ostentation."

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George Mason wrote in his Last Will and Testament:

"I, George Mason, of "Gunston Hall", in the parish of Truro and county of Fairfax, being of perfect and sound mind and memory and in good health, but mindful of the uncertainty of human life and the imprudence of man's leaving his affairs to be settled upon a deathbed, do make and appoint this my last Will and Testament.

My soul, I resign into the hands of my Almighty Creator, whose tender mercies are over all His works, who hateth nothing that He hath made and to the Justice and Wisdom of whose dispensation I willing and cheerfully submit, humbly hoping from His unbounded mercy and benevolence, through the merits of my blessed Savior, a remission of my sins."
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Pope Francis, Dorothy Day, and the Redistribution Delusion.
by Mona Charen, September 24, 2015
 
Pope that mentions Dorothy Day is a pope that rocks,” tweeted Neera Tanden of the left-leaning Center for American Progress. Tanden might have wished to reel back that praise if she had known that Day, though a prominent pacifist and socialist, was also a fervent opponent of abortion, birth control, Social Security, and the sexual revolution.
 
It’s fitting that Pope Francis should have invoked Dorothy Day among his pantheon of great Americans — she’s a symbol of where leftists always go wrong. This pope is going wrong in the same way. The Left’s delusions of “social justice” seem indomitable — impervious to evidence.
 
The pope lauded Day for “her social activism, her passion for justice, and for the cause of the oppressed, [which] were inspired by the gospel, her faith, and the example of the saints.”
 
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Before Pope Francis' visit to United States of America I did not know nothing about Dorothy Day and other "Catholic" Communists. Pope Francis in his speech to US Congress mentioned an American "Catholic" Communist Propagandist and Agitator Dorothy Day saying that we should look up to her. So I checked the Internet and found many shocking things about her and her heavy activity in Communist Subversion of America. 

I wanted also to know reason why Pope Francis would not use much better Catholic example for all American People and why he did not mention continuous holocaust of abortion, children body parts sold by Planned Parenthood, gay marriages and other things, then I stumbled on this shocking info regarding one Liberation Theology Icon and Pope Francis:

Pope Francis lifted 29-year suspension on liberation theology icon a Central American priest the Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockman who was suspended by the Vatican in the 1980s for his involvement in the political activities of Nicaragua’s Communist Sandinista movement.

Looks like that Rev. Brockman was one of those Communists who massively disrespected Pope John Paul II during his visit to Nicaragua, by encouraging the crowd to catcall and shout down the voice of Pope John Paul in his outdoor address. Looks like that Rev. Miguel D’Escoto Brockman was in that time the Foreign Minister in the Sandinist Communist Government according to this report from NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/03/05/world/pope-says-taking-sides-in-nicaragua-is-peril-to-church.html

 

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ENOUGH…I’M TIRED AND YOU SHOULD DAMN WELL BE TOO
by Guest Post • May 24, 2015
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By John Velisek USN (Ret)

I think back on the days of my childhood, days when all the kids in the neighborhood I lived in would get together for a game of stickball. All colors, all nationalities, everyone would play. Some better than others, but everyone would play until our mothers called us home at dark for dinner. The only break would come when the ice cream truck came by, and if someone didn’t have the dime for ice cream, someone else would buy it for them.

Times have changed, but the basic principles of how I was brought up have stuck with me. It doesn’t make for a tranquil way of life these days. There is a choice which must be made by every one of our citizens. Do we keep those old values, or do we toss them to the side for a more modern way of living our lives?

For me, I’ve had enough. There are certain things I am tired of:

I’m tired of partisan politics, of politicians working only to line their pockets and those of family and friends.

I’m tired of election promises never kept and the lying that has somehow become an accepted part of their everyday lives.

I am tired of state and federal masters who believe they have the authority to decide what I may say or do, whether I am allowed to carry a gun or favor Christianity over Islam.

I am tired of the “It Takes a Village” mindset which claims special insight in what our children should learn and how they must be taught.

I am tired of a federal government that shatters the Constitution and Bill of Rights to protect us from ourselves. I am tired of regulations that cost money, jobs and cause damage to the country in order that some crony or lobbyist can make a bundle.

I am tired of people wanting something for nothing and blaming others for the life that they made for themselves.

I’m tired of voters being called uninformed when they are really just stupid, lazy or greedy.

I am tired of being called racist because I am against illegal immigration. We are a country of laws, or used to be. Illegal is illegal. What part of that gets lost on the administration and media? Our Republican lawmakers have lost the integrity and backbone their constituents expect them to have.

I am tired of being told that in our modern culture, family does not matter. The foundation of this country was based on Christian principles. If you want that to change, count me out. I don’t care about your new ideas, or new way of life. It doesn’t matter to me. If that offends you, I am NOT sorry and I will NOT change.

I am tired of people being perpetually offended; offended by anything you say or do. The new buzzword is “microagression”. What exactly is that, other than a way to silence the people who disagree with today’s victim class. It won’t work. I and many others will not be cowed into silence.

I am tired of people believing I have to apologize for being a Christian Atheists out there who get so upset about someone being a Christian, I ask why? If God doesn’t exist, why does being a Christian make you so angry? Here’s a fair test: tell a Muslim that his religion is wrong, and let’s see what happens.

I am tired of a school system which indoctrinates rather than educates. Don’t indoctrinate our children into acceptance of socialism or homosexuality. Alumni who give to these systems are just as guilty as those who teach in them or run them. And parents, take the time to see what they are teaching your kids; from global warming nonsense to sex they are teaching your kids things that will make you angry. Stand up and opt out. You should decide what your child needs to know and what he is to be taught.

I am tired of slavery. My family never owned any, I never lived through it and no one alive has either. If there are reparations to be paid, they won’t get a dime from me. The first slaveholder in America was a black man and the slaves were rounded up by blacks in Africa and sold to him by Muslims. Ask those people to pay.

I am tired of Bowe Bergdahl being treated as a victim or hero, while Amir Hakmati languishes in a prison in Iran. Mr. President, do what is right by having a Rose Garden ceremony for Amir, with his parents and Amir standing next to you.
I am tired of class warfare. The middle class has been devastated over the past six years. Redistribution, like all other aspects of socialism does not work, never has and never will.

There is so much more. It is time for this administration, and all politicians to wake up to the fact that people in this country are fearful of where it is going; that all people, black and white want the opportunity of a better life for their children. It is up to us, the people of this country to stand up and tell those who believe they are above the law that there will be a reckoning.

Responsibility, accountability and respect must be integral to the education of our children and citizens. Today, our priorities are in free-fall. The nation is falling into third world chaos as a result of the deliberate actions of the New World Order crowd. No victims, no excuses. The time is now, and only time will tell what the citizenry of this country really wants.

Those quiet days of summer and ice cream still await. What will you do to bring them back?

John C. Velisek USN (Ret.)
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"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us, Christianity and Religion are identified..." -Chief Justice John Marshall, May 9, 1833
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"The power to tax involves the power to destroy," wrote Chief Justice John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819.

No one had a greater impact on Constitutional Law than John Marshall.

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He was born SEPTEMBER 24, 1755, and was home schooled as a youth.

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At the beginning of the Revolutionary War, John Marshallserved with the Culpeper Minutemen.

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He joined the Continental Army and served as a captain in the Virginia Regiment under General George Washington, enduring the freezing winter at Valley Forge.

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John Marshall later described George Washington:

"Without making ostentatious professions of religion, he was a sincere believer in the Christian faith, and a truly devout man."

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John Marshall studied law at the College of William and Mary under Chancellor George Wythe.

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John Marshall was elected a U.S. Congressman from Virginia, and became Secretary of State underPresident John Adams.

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John Adams nominated John Marshall to the Supreme Court, where, on February 4, 1801, he swore in as the fourth Chief Justice.

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He served 34 years on theSupreme Court, which met in thebasement of the U.S. Capitol Building.

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John Marshall served as Chief Justice during the administrations of: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson.

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Every Supreme Court session opens with the invocation:

"God save the United States and this Honorable Court."

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John Marshall decided in favor of the Cherokee Indian nation, stating the Indian Removal Act was unconstitutional and that Indians should be allowed to stay in Georgia.

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The Indian Removal Act had been hurriedly pushed through a Democrat controlled Congress in 1830.

Protesting the Indian Removal Act were Christian missionaries, led by Jeremiah Evarts, being joined by New Jersey Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen and Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett.

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Despite deciding in favor of the Indians in the case ofWorcester v. Georgia, 1832, the Supreme Court had to rely on the President to enforce its decision.

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Democrat President Andrew Jackson refused, as the popular apocryphal quote attributed to him was:

"John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!"

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The Federal Government proceeded to send its military to remove over 46,000 Native Americans from their homes and forcibly relocate them west.

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This left 25 million acres vacant in the Democrat-controlled South into which slavery could be expanded.

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John Marshall helped write over 1,000 decisions.

A Federalist, John Marshall was at the fulcrum of balancing the separate powers of government with the need to respond to immediate issues to keep the country united, often rendering decisions favoring a more powerful Federal Government.

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Opposite of John Marshall on the political spectrum were the Anti-Federalists who favored reserving more power to the State Governments, such as: Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, George Mason, Richard Henry Lee, James Monroe, Mercy Otis Warren, George Clinton, and Luther Martin.

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These were concerned a trend was beginning of which Washington warned in his Farewell Address, September 19, 1796:

"If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any way particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates.

But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.

The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield."

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According to tradition, the Liberty Bell cracked while tolling at John Marshall's funeral, July 8, 1835.

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A hundred years after John Marshall's death, the Supreme Court moved in 1935 out of the basement of the Capitol into its own building. This coincided with court's increased usurpation of the role of Congress by issuing decisions which effectively legislated from the bench.

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A statue of John Marshall is in the lower floor of the Supreme Court Building.

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Inside the Supreme Court chamber are Adolph A. Weinman's marble friezes depicting lawgivers throughout history, including John Marshall.

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Also depicted in the frieze is Moses holding the Ten Commandments.

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Moses is also in the center above the Supreme Court's east portico holding two stone tablets.

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A story about John Marshallwas originally published in theWinchester Republicannewspaper, and recounted in Henry Howe's Historical Collections of Virginia(Charleston, South Carolina, 1845, p. 275-276; Albert J. Beveridge, The Life of John Marshall, Boston & New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919, Vol. 4, The Building of the Nation, 1815-1835):
 
"There is, too, a legend about an astonishing flash of eloquence from Marshall - 'a streak of vivid lightning' - at a tavern, on the subject of religion.

The impression said to have been made by Marshall on this occasion was heightened by his appearance when he arrived at the inn.
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The shafts of his ancient gig (carriage) were broken and 'held together by switches formed from the bark of a hickory sapling'; he was negligently dressed, his knee buckles loosened.

In the tavern a discussion arose among some young men concerning 'the merits of the Christian religion.'

The debate grew warm and lasted 'from six o'clock until eleven.'

No one knew Marshall, who sat quietly listening.
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Finally one of the youthful combatants turned to him and said: 'Well, my old gentleman, what think you of these things?'

Marshall responded with a 'most eloquent and unanswerable appeal.' He talked for an hour, answering 'every argument urged against the teachings of Jesus.'

'In the whole lecture, there was so much simplicity and energy, pathos and sublimity, that not another word was uttered.' The listeners wondered who the old man could be.

Some thought him a preacher; and great was their surprise when they learned afterwards that he was the Chief Justice of the United States."

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Chief Justice John Marshallcommented May 9, 1833, on the pamphlet The Relation of Christianity to Civil Government in the United States written by Rev. Jasper Adams, President of the College of Charleston, South Carolina (The Papers of John Marshall, ed. Charles Hobson, Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2006, p, 278):

"Reverend Sir, I am much indebted to you for the copy of your valuable sermon on the relation of Christianity to civil government preached before the convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Charleston, on the 13th of February last.

I have read it with great attention and advantage. The documents annexed to the sermon certainly go far in sustaining the proposition which it is your purpose to establish.

One great object of the colonial charters was avowedly the propagation of the Christian faith. Means have been employed to accomplish this object, and those means have been used by government..."

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John Marshall continued:

"No person, I believe, questions the importance of religion to the happiness of man even during his existence in this world. It has at all times employed his most serious meditation, and had a decided influence on his conduct.

The American population is entirely Christian, and with us, Christianity and Religion are identified. It would be strange, indeed, if with such a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity, and did not often refer to it, and exhibit relations with it.

Legislation on the subject is admitted to require great delicacy, because freedom of conscience and respect for our religion both claim our most serious regard.

You have allowed their full influence to both. With very great respect, I am Sir, your Obedt., J. Marshall."

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John Marshall's daughter said her father read Alexander Keith'sEvidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion derived from the Literal Fulfillment of Prophecy(Edinburgh: Waugh & Innes, 1826, 2nd ed.).

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The Life of John Marshallby Albert J. Beveridge (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1919, Vol. IV, p. 70), stated:

"John Marshall's daughter makes this statement regarding her father's religious views:

'He told me that he believed in the truth of the Christian Revelation... During the last months of his life he read Alexander Keith on Prophecy, where our Saviour's divinity is incidentally treated, and was convinced by this work, and the fuller investigation to which it led, of the supreme divinity of our Saviour.

He determined to apply to the communion of our Church, objecting to communion in private, because he thought it his duty to make a public confession of the Saviour.'"

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Albert J. Beveridge continued inThe Life of John Marshall(referencing Bishop William Meade's Old Churches, Ministers and Families of Virginia, 2 Vols., Richmond, 1910, Vol. 2, p. 221-222):

"He attended (Episcopal) services. Bishop William Meade informs us, not only because 'he was a sincere friend of religion,' but also because he wished 'to set an example.'

The Bishop bears this testimony:

'I can never forget how he would prostrate his tall form before the rude low benches, without backs, at Coolspring Meeting-House (Leeds Parish, near Oakhill, Fauquier County) in the midst of his children and grandchildren and his old neighbors.'

When in Richmond, John Marshall attended the Monumental Church where, says Bishop Meade,

'he was much incommoded by the narrowness of the pews... Not finding room enough for his whole body within the pew, he used to take his seat nearest the door of the pew, and, throwing it open, let his legs stretch a little into the aisle.'"

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John F. Dillon wrote in John Marshall-Life, Character and Judicial Services-As Portrayed in the Centenary and Memorial Addresses and Proceedings Throughout the United States on John Marshall Day, 1901 (Chicago: Callaghan & Company, 1903):

"John Marshall Day, February 4, 1901, was appropriately observed by exercises held in the hall of the House of Representatives, and attended by the President, the members of the Cabinet, the Justices of the Supreme and District courts, the Senate and House of Representatives, and the members of the Bar of the District of Columbia...

The program, prepared by a Congressional committee acting in conjunction with committees of the American Bar Association and the Bar Association of this District, was characterized by a dignity and simplicity befitting the life of the great Chief Justice..."

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After an invocation delivered by John Marshall's great-grandson, Rev. Dr. William Strother Jones of Trenton, N.J.,Chief Justice Fuller made introductory remarks for John Marshall Day, February 4, 1901:

"The August Term of the year of our Lord eighteen hundred of the Supreme Court of the United States had adjourned at Philadelphia... However, it was not until Wednesday, February 4th, when John Marshall...took his seat upon the Bench..."

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U.S. Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh then stated on John Marshall Day, February 4, 1901:

"The centennial anniversary of the entrance by John Marshall into the office of Chief Justice of the United States...

Under his forming hand, instead of becoming a dissoluble confederacy of discordant States, became a great and indissoluble nation,

endowed with...the divine purpose for the education of the world...securing to the whole American continent 'government of the people, by the people, and for the people'...

Venerating the Constitution...as 'a sacred instrument'...we have lived to see...such generous measures of political equality, of social freedom, and of physical comfort and well-being as were never dreamed of on the earth before..."

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U.S. Attorney General Wayne MacVeagh continued his remarks on John Marshall Day, February 4, 1901:

"Let us, on this day of all days...acknowledge that nations cannot live by bread alone... We have heretofore cherished, the Christian ideal of true national greatness;

and our fidelity to that ideal, however imperfect it has been, entitled us in some measure to the divine blessing, for having offered an example to the world for more than an entire generation of how a nation could marvelously increase in wealth and strength and all material prosperity while living in peace with all mankind...

We all believe that the true glory of America and her true mission in the new century...is what a great prelate of the Catholic Church has recently declared it to be: to stand fast by Christ and his Gospel;

to cultivate NOT the Moslem virtues of war, of slaughter, of rapine, and of conquest, but the Christian virtues of self-denial and kindness and brotherly love...

Then we may some day hear the benediction: 'Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren ye have done it unto me'...

The true mission of nations as of men is to promote righteousness on earth...

and taking abundant care that every human creature beneath her starry flag, of every color and condition, is as secure of liberty, of justice and of peace as in the Republic of God.

In cherishing these aspirations...we are wholly in the spirit of the great Chief Justice; and...so effectually honor his memory." (Dillon, Vol. 1, p. 7-42)

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray gave an address onJohn Marshall Day, February 4, 1901, in Virginia:

"Gentlemen of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and of the City of Richmond:

One hundred years ago today, the Supreme Court of the United States, after sitting for a few years in Philadelphia, met for the first time in Washington, the permanent capital of the Nation;

and John Marshall, a citizen of Virginia, having his home in Richmond, and a member of this bar, took his seat as Chief Justice of the United States...

Chief Justice Marshall was a steadfast believer in the truth of Christianity as revealed in the Bible. He was brought up in the Episcopal Church;

and Bishop Meade, who knew him well, tells us that he was a constant and reverent worshipper in that church, and contributed liberally to its support, although he never became a communicant..."

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray continued his John Marshall Day remarks:

"All else that we know of his personal religion is derived from the statements (as handed down by the good bishop) of a daughter of the Chief Justice, who was much with him during the last months of his life.

She said that her father told her he never went to bed without concluding his prayer by repeating the Lord's Prayer and the verse beginning, 'Now I lay me down to sleep,' which his mother had taught him when he was a child;

and that the reason why he had never been a communicant was that it was but recently that he had become fully convinced of the divinity of Christ, and he then

'determined to apply for admission to the communion of our church objected to commune in private, because he thought it his duty to make a public confession of the Saviour

and, while waiting for improved health to enable him to go to the church for that purpose, he grew worse and died, without ever communing.'" (Dillon, Vol. 1, p. 42, 47, 88)
 
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New Hampshire Supreme Court JudgeJeremiah Smith gave stated on John Marshall Day, February 4, 1901:

"And this brings us to what is...the great distinguishing feature in Marshall's life; the real secret of his extraordinary success...that is his high personal character...

John Marshall was pre-eminently single minded. His whole life was pervaded by an overpowering sense of duty and by strong religious principle. A firm believer in the Christian religion, his life was in accord with his belief." (Dillon, Vol. 1, p. 162)

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Charles Elliott Perkins, nephew of Harriet Beecher Stowe and President of the Connecticut Bar Association stated:

"As a man, Marshall appears to have been as near perfection in disposition, habits, and conduct as it is possible for a mortal man to be...He had no vices and, I may almost say, no weaknesses.

In spite of his eminent talents, his high positions, and his great reputation, there was no tinge of conceit...

His charities were constant and great. He bore no malice toward those who offended or injured him.

He was a sincere Christian and believed in and obeyed the commands of the Bible." (Dillon, Vol. 1, p. 330)

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U.S. Rep. William Bourke Cockran spoke of John Marshall to the Erie County Bar Association in Buffalo, New York:

"Aside from the establishment of Christianity, the foundation of this republic was the most memorable event in the history of man...

And if the foundation of this government be the most momentous human achievement of all the centuries, then clearly the appointment of John Marshall to the Chief Justiceship of the United States was the first event of the last century no less in the magnitude of its importance than in the order of its occurrence." (Dillon, Vol. 1, p. 404-405)

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U.S. Senator and former Maryland Governor William Pinkney Whyte said of John Marshall:

"Would you not call a man religious who said the Lord's Prayer every day? And the prayer he learned at his mother's knee went down with him to the grave.

He was a constant and liberal contributor to the support of the Episcopal Church.

He never doubted the fact of the Christian revelation, but he was not convinced of the fact of the divinity of Christ till late in life.

Then, after refusing privately to commune, he expressed a desire to do so publicly, and was ready and willing to do so when opportunity should be had. The circumstances of his death only forbade it...

He was never professedly Unitarian, and he had no place in his heart for either an ancient or a modern agnosticism." (Dillon, Vol. 2, p. 2-3)

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Commissioner of Customs Nathan Sargent wrote in Public Men and Events from 1817 to 1853 (Philadelphia, 1875, Vol. 1, p. 299), that John Marshall's "name has become a household word with the American people implying greatness, purity, honesty, and all the Christian virtues."

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U.S. Rep. Horace Binney of Pennsylvania (Dillon, Vol. 3, p. 325), stated that John Marshall "...was a Christian, believed in the Gospel, and practiced its tenets." 

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Saturday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Yom Kippur: Sandy Koufax's '
Sermon on the Mound'
Michael Freund
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Sanders smashes Hilly’s crowd count -  WaPo: “When Clinton appeared on [University of New Hampshire’s] campus…two days earlier, about 600 people came to see her at a forum about college affordability…Sanders’s event, which his campaign said drew more than 3,000 people, was held at a time more convenient for students.”  -Fox News  
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 ACID TEST FOR backstabber BOEHNER, MCCON-NELL  
WaPo: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) and House Speaker backstabber John Boehner (R-Ohio) both say the government won’t shut down. But with fewer than five working days before the fiscal year ends, neither has explained how they intend to stop that from happening.  Instead, Republicans have made precious little progress in managing a political revolt within their own party that threatens both backstabber Boehner’s leadership and the GOP’s ability to keep the government open. Congressional staff and lawmakers speculate that the only way to avoid a shutdown will be for the House to vote in the final hours of Sept. 30, the deadline for a spending deal.”
          [You don’t know me - backstabber Boehner tells Politico Republican donors understand what the conservative group after his head doesn’t: he’s a conservative but not a miracle worker. “‘[T]he idea that I’m the establishment, that I’m some RINO, is just laughable.’” backstabber Boehner said.]  -Fox News  
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 No coup plan… yet -  Susan Ferrechio writes: “Even some of the staunchest anti-establishment Tea Party Republicans in the House admit they don't have a viable plan to unseat House Speaker backstabber John Boehner. And despite an increase in Capitol Hill hallway chatter about a shake up,… conservatives admit they aren't planning to call for such a vote and will likely leave backstabber Boehner alone, even if the spending legislation ends up including Planned Parenthood funding…. House Republicans appear instead to be shifting their anger to the Senate and its majority leader, Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., who has been unable to pass key GOP legislation send from the House. House Republicans are urging McCon-nell to change the filibuster rules in the Senate so that legislation can pass with 51 votes instead of 60.”  -Fox News  
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 LIKE, HOW BIG OF A SPIDER ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?  
Goshen [Indiana] News: A 9-year-old boy suffered minor head injuries when the car he was in collided with a school bus Friday afternoon. And according to police, the crash was caused, at least in part, by a spider. Kosciusko County Deputies and officers with the Syracuse Police Department arrived on the scene at 4:18 p.m. and located a 9-year-old boy lying outside a Dodge Avenger that had collided with the school bus. Initial investigation from the scene, indicates that the boy's mother,Angela K. Kipp, 35, had been backing the vehicle from her driveway. Kipp told authorities had jumped from the vehicle after discovering a spider on her shoulder as the vehicle was still in reverse. The 9 year old then climbed from the rear seat to the front driver's seat and attempted to activate the brake pedal but instead depressed the throttle. … Officers also stated that there were no children aboard the school bus.”  -Fox News  
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 Senator Sessions Urges Restraint, Caution As To Import Terrorist  
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) is the chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest. There’s arguably nobody in a better position to speak with authority and legitimacy than he about the Syrian refugee debacle... and the invasion that is being imposed upon the American people by the illegitimate nObama “government.” On Monday Sessions issued a statement in response to the announcement by Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry that the U.S would be flooded with non-assimilating Muslim imports from parts unknown, to the tune of nearly 200,000. He answered the question of how this would impact the numbers of imported third peasants from other regions with what was essentially an easily anticipated “not in the slightest.” These numbers will be in excess of those generous regime entry policies regarding annual resettlement of asylees, illegal border-crossers, foreign workers, and global green card recipients. Senator Sessions wrote and published on his Senate website:        http://rickwells.us/senator-jeff-sessions-urges-restraint-caution-as-kerry-obama-conspire-to-import-potential-terrorist-army/
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 Clinton Cover Up Expands To...  
{rickwells.us} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) was angered by the refusal of the FBI to provide information as to the status of their investigation into former Secretary of State Clinton’s secret personal email system... A month ago U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan instructed the State Department to contact the FBI for assistance with a Freedom of Information Act request from Judicial Watch regarding the employment arrangement of Hilly Clinton’s top aide Huma Abedin. He also requested the State Department to report on the arrangements which were made for information sharing regarding the ongoing investigation. The FBI replied by letter on Monday, that there would be no information forthcoming, refusing to follow the Judge’s orders, and citing a policy of not revealing details of an ongoing investigation as the basis for their decision.        http://rickwells.us/clinton-cover-up-expands-to-include-fbi-obstruction-refusal-to-obey-district-judges-request-for-transparency/
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 Massive Incompetence or Collusion – nObama’s Syria Policy   
{Paul E. Vallely (MG US Army, Ret.) and Scott W. Winchell} ~ Five Hundred Million Dollars for how many trained rebels? Four, five, or six?... How could you not know exactly how many were trained at less than ten? Because that too is a lie: a half billion dollar set of lies and failures. This is not just colossal ineptitude that borders on criminal negligence, it is much worse. What if General Austin’s testimony is masking an even larger, more embarrassing failure, that if revealed would expose the true intentions of the nObama Administration regarding Syria? Yes, it is!
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 Let’s Give The Average-Joe A Hand  
{Merrill McCarthy} ~ Recently, hanoi John Kerry announced the U.S. is adding an additional 15,000 refugees in 2016 and another 15,000 in 2017 to an already bloated Refugee Resettlement program which currently settles 70,000 a year in the U.S... So, that means by 2017, we will be placing 100,000 refugees in communities across the country. It is up to Congress to approve the appropriations to pay for this new program. Now may be the time for citizens to wake up and deliver a clear message that they do not want Congress to approve. How about starting with: It is doubtful that anyone in authority really appreciates the level of outrage that is building every day. People do not want the unvetted horde of “Syrians” to enter without proper security clearance. It seems like the average Joe watching the nightly news has a better understanding of an enemy threat and the way to deal with it than our State Department. Watching the news, he sees thousands of fighting age men storming through Europe.
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 Don't let Hilly shift blame for nObamacare's failure  
{Phil Kerpen} ~ Health insurance premiums are rising because of nObamacare.  And there is still one year left of the assorted reinsurance programs designed to mask premium increases, suggesting next year’s jumps will be even more eye-popping... That’s a political and logistical disaster for the Democrats who wrote the law and tied their political fortunes to its success. But rather than admit their law is too restrictive and come to the table to negotiate bipartisan reforms, Democrats and their insurance industry allies have decided on a cynical strategy: scapegoating drug companies. Mrs. Clinton promptly tweeted the conveniently timed Times article, adding: “Price gouging like this in the specialty drug market is outrageous. Tomorrow I'll lay out a plan to take it on.”  Of course, the plan is to call for price controls, while ignoring and downplaying the real nObamacare-created causes of rising insurance costs.        http://www.americancommitment.org/content/dont-let-hillary-shift-blame-obamacares-failures
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 Boosted by nuke deal, Iran ups funding to Hizb’Allah, Hamas  
{Pamela Geller} ~ More of the poison fruit of nObama’s nuke deal, and a stunning indictment of his presidency as a whole... nObama is directly responsible for this increased funding of these bloodthirsty jihad terror groups. Since the deal was signed, Iran has significantly increased its financial support for two of the largest terror groups in the region that have become political players, Hamas and Hezbollah. In the years before the deal was signed, the crippling sanctions limited this support, which had significantly diminished along with Iran’s economy. But Tehran’s belief that tens, or hundreds, of billions of dollars will flow into the country in the coming years as a result of sanctions relief has led to a decision to boost the cash flow to these terror organizations. This support, for example, has enabled Hezbollah to obtain highly developed new armaments, including advanced technologies that many militaries around the world would envy.
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 Iran's self-inspections at Parchin are Meaningless  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ On Monday the Associated Press (AP) reported that air, soil, and dust samples have been taken from the Parchin nuclear site, but it was Iranian nuclear experts with no IAEA staff present, who took the collection... IAEA chief Yukiya Amano claims that the collection was done according to the IAEA guidelines, because everything was observed buy the UN nuclear agency on TV monitors. Access is needed needs to clarify the nature and scope of Iran’s past nuclear weapons work. What were the possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s atomic program? They need to establish what the Iranians did and how far they got, which are the prerequisites to setting up a a baseline for an inspection regime against future violations. The nObama administration had promised lawmakers that IAEA inspectors would be able to inspect Parchin and resolve all PMD issues before any final deal was inked. But that didn’t happen; instead they allowed Iran to sign a secret side deal with the IAEA permitting the Iranians to self-inspect the facility rather than grant IAEA inspector robust access.
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 Not Waiting For Nuke Deal Cash, Iran Upping Terrorist Money...  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ One of the worries about the crap-sandwich known as the P5+1 deal with Iran is that the rogue regime will take the $150 billion dollars of cash it will get as part of the deal and give most of it to its terrorist puppets... Well that fear should be erased because the terrorist-supporting regime isn’t waiting to get the cash bonus, it is already upping its funding of terrorist groups. In anticipation of the nObama concession windfall, since the deal was signed Iran has greatly upped its military contributions to Hamas and Hezbollah. According to the Times Of Israel: With the new cash, Hezbollah which already has 150,000 rockets pointed at Israel, has been able to secure advanced technology weapons:
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 50 New Pages of Top Clinton Aide Emails Released  
{Kemberlee Kaye} ~ Monday Judicial Watch released 50 new pages of emails from top Hilly Clinton aide, Huma Abedin... Released as a result a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit instigated by Judicial Watch, the emails are from the clintonemail.com server and were penned during Former Secretary Clinton’s tenure at the Department of State. To be clear, the emails are not part of the FBI’s investigation into Hilly Clinton’s home-brewed email server. They were found in the Department of State’s records, but contain an address on the clintonemail.com domain. Judicial Watch asserts the State Department is intentionally delaying release of emails recently submitted by Abedin. As Judicial Watch notes, the emails show Clinton was not the only one using her non-secured server.       http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/09/50-new-pages-top-clinton-aide-emails-released/
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 Refugee Crisis Demands Coherent Foreign Policy  
{Pete Hoekstra} ~ Perplexed Washington establishment politicians fail to grasp the West's need to develop an effective foreign policy in the Middle East to address the current refugee crisis... The U.S., largely through neglect, allows Islamists to inflict unspeakable genocide against innocent men, women, and children. The largely hands-off approach has resulted in hundreds of thousands of families fleeing Syria, as well hundreds of thousands more internally displaced persons in Iraq, Libya, Lebanon, and Yemen, to seek freedom in Europe and elsewhere. Under a misguided veneer of humanitarianism, some legislators are now rallying to accept more of those seeking refuge without first addressing the delusional policy that created the problem in the first place. Continuing down such a path will only exacerbate the situation, as we will find when Iran becomes an accepted player in world affairs.       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4980/refugee-crisis-demands-coherent-foreign-policy
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Yom Kippur: Sandy Koufax's '
Sermon on the Mound'
Michael Freund
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ This Yom Kippur marks the 50th anniversary of one of the most seminal moments in post-war American Jewish life, an event that occurred — or, to be more precise, one that didn't — which had a profound impact on how US Jewry came to feel about itself and its place in society.
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     In 1965, the Day of Atonement coincided with October 6, the date on which the Los Angeles Dodgers were going up against the Minnesota Twins in the first game of baseball's World Series.
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     The Dodgers' best pitcher, Sandy Koufax, was expected to lead the charge for the team. With a dazzling overhand curveball that seemed to defy gravity and a blazing fastball that was virtually unhittable, it is no wonder that Koufax was dubbed by Hall of Famer Ernie Banks as "the greatest pitcher I ever saw". Or, as Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci once wrote, "Koufax was so good, he once taped a post game radio show with Vin Scully before the game."
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      But Koufax wasn't just a baseball superstar. He was also a Jew from Brooklyn and a proud one at that. And although he was completely secular, he found himself facing a dilemma: stand by his teammates and play or respect the sanctity of the day.
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     Koufax chose the latter, sitting out the first game (which the Dodgers went on to lose). His choice caused a sensation among an entire generation of American Jews, from the most observant to the least active. It underlined that Jews need not feel discomfort about their identity while taking part in American public life.
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     After all, if young Sandy Koufax could place fidelity to tradition ahead of pitching in the World Series without fear of a backlash, then clearly America was a place where Jews could assert their identity more securely than previously thought.
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     In an interview, Jane Leavy, author of the New York Times bestselling book "Sandy Koufax: A Lefty's Legacy", told me that, "Sandy's decision not to pitch had a tremendous impact on the American Jewish community, on G0D knows how many Bar Mitzvah boys whose rabbis always summoned Koufax as an example of why they should be in shul (synagogue) not on a baseball field on the High Holidays, on those rabbis who have sermonized at length on Koufax's impact on the American Jewish community, and on countless Jews—practicing and cultural—who saw in Koufax an exemplar of Jewishness, refuting negative stereotypes in his actions and his being."
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     Don't forget: Koufax's decision came just twenty years after the Holocaust and at a time when many American Jews were still subject to discrimination in hiring and housing and fearful of being identified as "too Jewish".
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Suddenly, their fears seemed to be a thing of the past.
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     As historian Rabbi Berel Wein told the New York Jewish Week last year, "When Sandy Koufax stated that he would not pitch on Yom Kippur, many Jews in America stood a little taller and had a better sense of self-worth and Jewish pride. That was as true in the Orthodox observant community as it was in the general Jewish community."
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     Koufax's decision "influenced that generation of American Jews to become more publicly assertive and to be less ashamed of their Jewishness. The decision of Koufax to do the Jewish thing so publicly and in such a quintessential American setting as the World Series pumped a new confidence into that generation of American Jews."
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     Koufax also helped to shatter the common stereotype that Jews and sports did not mix, or that the People of the Book could not excel on the playing field. In that sense, he paved the way for greater acceptance of Jews in American society.
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     Despite the renown which followed his decision not to pitch, to this day it remains unclear what Koufax's reasons were, or what he did on that fateful Yom Kippur.
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     Leavy told me, "I believe that it was a reflexive, dutiful decision for him. He did it out of respect for his parents, then alive, his community, his sense of right and wrong."
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     "From his point of view," she said, "it was no big deal because after all, the Dodgers had Don Drysdale to start in his place and so they flip-flopped in the starting rotation. I think he was surprised by the response of the Jewish community and a bit embarrassed by his elevation to the ranks of a New American Patriarch."
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     Drysdale did indeed start the game, but he gave up seven runs in 2 2/3 innings. When Dodger manager Walter Alston made his way to the mound to take Drysdale out of the game, the pitcher handed him the ball, smiled and said, "I bet right now you wish I was Jewish, too."
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     Koufax returned for the next game, which he lost, but rebounded in Game 5 of the series, when he pitched a complete game shutout. After just two days rest, he started the decisive seventh game, throwing a three-hit shutout to win the championship for the Dodgers, as well as his second World Series Most Valuable Player award.
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     Koufax, who is an extremely private person, has shied away from publicity, especially since his retirement due to an arthritic arm in 1966, and has rarely spoken in public about his decision not to pitch on Yom Kippur. Nor has he chosen to clear up the mystery of how he spent the day.
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     According to an article that appeared in a local St. Paul, Minnesota, newspaper prior to the start of the 1965 World Series, Koufax had left the team's hotel in order to attend Yom Kippur services and said that he wouldn't watch or listen to the game on the holy day.
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     And on the afternoon of Yom Kippur, Rabbi Bernard Raskas of Temple Aaron in St. Paul told his congregants that Koufax had attended services with them that morning but that he hadn't wanted to violate the ballplayer's privacy by singling him out in front of everyone.
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     Leavy, however, is adamant. "I do not believe he went to shul. As I stated in my book, I believe he stayed at the team hotel and spent the day alone."
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     Whatever may have happened that day, by refusing to play on Yom Kippur, Sandy Koufax inadvertently entered American Jewry's record books as a national figure, a courageous and confident Jew who did not let his professional success overwhelm his tribal loyalty.
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     His demurral despite the high stakes involved amounted to a "Sermon on the Pitcher's Mound", a timeless lesson in maintaining a sense of perspective on what is truly important in life.
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     Despite his career ending after just 12 seasons, Koufax later became the youngest player inducted into Baseball's Hall of Fame, and many consider him to be one of the greatest left-handed pitchers in the game's history.
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     But for many American Jews who were struggling to decide which part of their identity took precedence, Sandy Koufax will be remembered not so much for the pitches he threw as for the ones he chose not to.
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