The Right Lane update 4.28.13

The pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, free markets and individual liberty

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington

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Mr. Obama, Stop Pretending the “Green Economy” is More Important than Real Oil for Real Americans!

Recent developments in the American petroleum sector have utterly exposed the rhetorical excesses of Obama, suggesting his speeches are designed towards supporting a certain ideology over known facts. During a period where Barack’s energy policy can be succinctly quoted as, “We can’t drill our way out,” huge advances are being made in stateside production, daily. In fact, America recently passed Saudi Arabia as the world’s #1 petroleum producer. Moreover, the EIA announced the US will be fully energy independent by the year 2035. It seems as if Obama is against developing new sources of native oil, given his recurrent embargoing of the industry. There are said to be few direct statistical correlations in economics, but one certainly stands out. Charles C. Mann declares this in What If We Never Run Out of Oil?:

…a basic truth: economic growth and energy use have marched in lockstep for generations. Between 1900 and 2000, global energy consumption rose roughly 17-fold, the University of Manitoba environmental scientist Vaclav Smil has calculated, while economic output rose 16-fold—“as close a link as one may find in the unruly realm of economic affairs.” According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States has experienced 11 recessions since the end of the Second World War. All but one were associated with spikes in energy costs—specifically, abrupt jumps in the price of oil.

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FBI informant: Taliban already in U.S.

I’m wondering what they’re waiting for.  A man who describes himself as an FBI informant and says he worked to infiltrate the world of terror sympathizers has told a Miami television station that members of the Taliban already are in the United States. It was the Taliban that controlled the largely ungoverned Afghanistan when the U.S. coalition went into that nation to clean out the influences that allowed Osama bin Laden’s agenda to thrive before the 9/11 terror attacks on the U.S. And the comments from South Floridian David Mahmood Siddiqui come just as the nation is breathing a sigh of relief over the death of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, and the capture of the other. “I am an informant and all I can tell you is that Talibans are walking freely right here in the soil of America right now, right now,” he told CBS4 in Miami. The interview was conducted by CBS4 Chief Investigator Michele Gillen.

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Giuliani: Department of Justice “Mind Boggling”

Republican outrage is rising over the decision to read teenage Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev his Miranda rights just as he was beginning to open up about the blast that killed three and injured about 270 people. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said it was “ridiculous” that a judge stopped the questioning while the 19-year-old was talking to FBI agents. And House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers called the decision to intervene a “God-awful policy.” Lawmakers are demanding to know why Tsarnaev, who has confessed to being involved in the planting of two bombs near the Boston Marathon finish line, was read his Miranda rights in the middle of his interrogation

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Look at the List of Terrorists The Bombers’ Mosque Has Spawned

The New York Times thinks the Boston bombers “self-radicalized” on the Web. But it didn’t look at their mosque, which has churned out other terrorists, too. USA Today, on the other hand, did look at their mosque — the Islamic Society of Boston — and found “a curriculum that radicalizes people,” according to a local source quoted in the paper’s investigation. “Other people have been radicalized there.” In fact, several ISB members and leaders have been convicted or suspected of terrorism, including:

• Abdurahman Alamoudi, the mosque’s founder and first president, who in 2004 was sentenced to 23 years in federal prison for plotting terrorism as al-Qaida’s top fundraiser in America.
• Aafia Siddiqui, an MIT scientist-turned-al-Qaida agent, who in 2010 was sentenced to 86 years in prison for planning a New York chemical attack.
• Tarek Mehanna, who in 2012 was sentenced to 17 years for plotting to use automatic weapons to murder shoppers in a suburban Boston mall.
• Ahmad Abousamra, an ex-mosque official’s son, who fled the country after the FBI charged him with conspiring with Mehanna to kill Americans.
• Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a mosque trustee and Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood leader banned from the U.S. after issuing a fatwa that OK’d killing U.S. soldiers.
•Jamal Badawi, a former ISB trustee who in 2007 was named an unindicted co-conspirator in a plan to funnel $12 million to Palestinian suicide bombers.

•In justifying mall attacks, the FBI said Abousamra stated “civilians were not innocent because they paid taxes to support the government and because they were kaffir (non-Muslims).”

The Tsarnaev brothers, who killed three and injured some 200 spectators, appeared to share that rationale. In 2009, ISB invited Yasir Qadhi to speak, even though the Saudi radical advocates turning the U.S. into an Islamic state and calls Christians “filthy” polytheists whose “life holds no value in the state of jihad.”

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SLAP MY HEAD ALERT: Muslim Mom Of Bombing Suspects In Fed’s Terrorism Database

U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two officials told The Associated Press. She called it “lies and hypocrisy” and said she has never been linked to crimes or terrorism. The CIA asked for the Boston terror suspect and his mother to be added to a terrorist database in the fall of 2011, after the Russian government contacted the agency with concerns that both had become religious militants, according to officials briefed on the investigation. About six months earlier, the FBI investigated Tamerlan Tsarnaev and his mother, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva, also at Russia’s request, one of the officials said.

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Jury Duty For Non-Citizens?

Really? What the heck. Are there are not enough citizens? This is ridiculous. California would allow noncitizens to serve on juries under a proposal being considered by state lawmakers, potentially expanding a fundamental obligation of American life to millions more people. The measure, which would apply only to legal residents, would make California the only state to open the jury box to noncitizens who meet all other requirements of service, according to legal experts. The proposal raises the question of what it means to be judged by peers in a state where more than one in seven residents is not a citizen. One of the bill’s authors, Assemblyman Bob Wieckowski (D-Fremont), said the proposal would help ensure an adequate pool of jurors [oops, the real reason?], help immigrants integrate into American society and make juries more representative of California. Juries “should reflect our community, and our community is always changing,” Wieckowski said. “It’s time for California to be a leader on this.” The Assembly passed the bill this week on a party-line vote, with most Democrats lining up in favor and Republicans standing in opposition. How does something so ludicrous become a "party line vote"?  Oh! Yes! California; the land of fruits and nuts!!

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GOP charges Obama officials lied on talking points; White House statements scrubbed terrorism, al-Qaida from Benghazi attack by Aaron Klein

JERUSALEM – Did CIA Deputy Director Mike Morell mislead lawmakers when he told senators in a briefing that references to terrorism and al-Qaida were removed from the White House’s Benghazi talking points in order to “prevent compromising an ongoing criminal investigation?” The claim of scrubbing terrorism from White House talking points for security reasons was also made to the news media by other officials within the CIA and by the office of the Director for National Intelligence. But those claims are now contradicted by a 46-page House Republican report probing the Benghazi attacks. In perhaps one of the most damning but until now unreported sections of the report, lawmakers who penned the investigation wrote they were given access to classified emails and other communications that prove the talking points were not edited to protect classified information but instead to protect the State Department’s reputation. “Contrary to administration rhetoric, the talking points were not edited to protect classified information,” states the Interim Progress Report for the Members of the House Republican Conference on the Events Surrounding the Sept. 11, 2012 Terrorist Attacks in Benghazi.

“Evidence rebuts administration claims that the talking points were modified to protect classified information or to protect an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI),” the report continues. The report charges that the talking points were “deliberately” edited to “protect the State Department.” States the report: “To protect the State Department, the administration deliberately removed references to al-Qaida-linked groups and previous attacks in Benghazi in the talking points used by [United Nations] Ambassador [Susan] Rice, thereby perpetuating the deliberately misleading and incomplete narrative that the attacks evolved from a demonstration caused by a YouTube video.”

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School claims right to censor pro-life 6th-grader - Outside of School

Administrators tell parents school will decide what students may say  by Bob Unruh

A charter school in Minnesota has told a parent that administrators claim the right to censor whatever they want of a student’s speech outside of class time, including a 6th-grader’s expression of her deeply held pro-life views. The result? A lawsuit over the school’s alleged violations of the student’s constitutional rights. Brian Bloomfield, executive director of the Nova Classical Academy in St. Paul told a parent, “The school has a right to censor students without violating their free speech.” He cited the Tinker and Hazelwood opinions from the U.S. Supreme Court as his support. He also cited “wikipedia” in writing, “In short, public schools have every right to prohibit student speech.” However, the lawsuit brought by the Alliance Defending Freedom said that’s exactly backwards. “Public schools should encourage, not shut down, the free exchange of ideas,” said ADF Legal Counsel Matt Sharp. “The law on this is extremely clear: free speech cannot be censored simply because it expresses a certain viewpoint that administrators don’t favor. The First Amendment protects freedom of speech for all students, regardless of their religious or political beliefs.” The ADF explained that the student, a minor identified as A.Z., and her friends had been discussing the issue of abortion after the topic of childbirth was raised in class. They decided to hand out pro-life fliers at lunchtime to friends who wanted information. One statement read: “Save the baby humans. Stop abortion.” “Students should not need a permission slip every time they wish to express their views on current events of the day,” said Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco. “We hope that Nova Classical Academy will revise its policy so that its students can exercise their constitutionally protected freedoms.”

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Obama Asks God to Bless an Abortion Factory

Obama, he didn’t do the keynote to Planned Parenthood, but he did show up and make a speech, and his comments were the first to Planned Parenthood by a sitting president. And he lauded ‘em. He praised their nearly 100 years of service to women. This makes me ill, by the way. That a president of the United States shows up at an abortion factory, essentially, and praises their work. You know what else he said? He said the opponents of abortion want to return to the 1950s. OBAMA: 

"Planned Parenthood is not going anywhere.  It's not going anywhere today. It's not going anywhere tomorrow.  (applause)  As long as we've got a fight to make sure women have access to quality affordable health care, and as long as we've got to fight to protect a woman's right to make her own choices about her own health, I want you to know that you've also got a president who's gonna be right there with you fighting every step of the way.  (cheers and applause)  Thank you, Planned Parenthood.  God bless you.  God bless America.  Thank you. (cheers and applause)"

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USDA to Ineligible Immigrants: We’ll Still Give Your Kids Food Stamps By Bill Hoffmann

Illegal immigrants can get food stamps on behalf of their eligible kids — without having to disclose their immigration status, according to documents uncovered by Judicial Watch. The food-stamps offer is spelled out in a Spanish language flyer provided by the United States Department of Agriculture to the Mexican Embassy. Judicial Watch said the flyer proves that the USDA is making “no effort to restrict aid to, identify, or apprehend illegal immigrants who may be on the food stamp rolls.’’  The flyer, part of the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, was made public in response to a Freedom of Information Act request made by Judicial Watch last July.  According to Judicial Watch, part of the statement, translated into English, emphasizes in bold and underlined words, “You need not divulge information regarding your immigration status in seeking this benefit for your children.” A USDA spokesperson insisted that illegal immigrants remain ineligible for food stamps.
“Non-citizens who are unlawfully present, are not, nor have they ever been, eligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits,” the spokesperson said when presented with the flyer.

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Obama Protects Islam At All Costs by John DeMayo

All over the world, Christianity is under attack. Muslim countries are murdering, torturing and incarcerating people for one reason, and one reason only, their Christian faith. Here in America our government sits on its collective hands and white washes or conveniently ignores the acts of violent Islamists that continue to plan to take more lives. Moreover, the very people entrusted with our Nations Security are protecting the financiers of this global attack on Christianity. It is no big secret that the Muslim Brotherhood has the ear of President Obama. Obama has spent the first four months of his second term working to infringe on constitutional gun rights because a mentally ill man murdered 26 people in Connecticut. Yet the lives taken here and abroad during his first term by acts of Muslim terror remain unaddressed. Taxpayer dollars continue to feed and comfort America’s enemies at Guantanamo Bay. Islamists with American educations walk the halls of our White House shaping American foreign policy and lobbying for additional protections for an ideology that kills Americans and has no plans to stop. The left wing media hell bent on attacking anything decent has become a propaganda machine for Islamists faulting everything American for the casualties that Islam continues to inflict on Christian communities. The people at Salon, MSNBC and CNN provide cover for these animals and sell the Obama anti-white, anti-Christian narrative that fuels Islamists dreams of hobbling America. Obama administration immigration policies and token border enforcement are providing a gateway for jihadists who no longer have to hide from federal authorities. Instead, they are welcomed, fed, housed and protected until they are able to execute more innocents.

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Obama’s Borrowed More Per Household ($53,616) Than Median Household Earns ($50,502)

Under President Barack Obama, the federal government’s debt has increased by an amount per household that exceeds the annual median household income. Since Obama’s first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2009, the federal debt has climbed $6,167,472,778,984.22. That equals about $53,616 for each of the 115,031,000 households the Census Bureau currently estimates are in the country. By contrast, the Census Bureau’s most recent estimate of the median household income was $50,502 (for 2011). If the federal government increased taxes sufficiently to take from the private sector the equivalent of $50,502 for every household in the country—that is, an amount that equals the median household income multiplied by the total number of households ($50,502 x $115,031,000), it would only take in $5,809,295,562,000.

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GUILTY: Obama, Clinton Ballot Petition Fraud

Liberals lie. These people will be seen as heroes among the left.  A jury in South Bend, Indiana has found that fraud put President Obama and Hillary Clinton on the presidential primary ballot in Indiana in the 2008 election. Two Democratic political operatives were convicted Thursday night in the illegal scheme after only three hours of deliberations. They were found guilty on all counts. Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. was found guilty of felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud and forgery, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe was found guilty of felony forgery counts and falsely making a petition, after being accused of faking petitions that enabled Obama, then an Illinois Senator, to get on the presidential primary ballot for his first run for the White House. Morgan was accused of being the mastermind behind the plot.

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Dubai Rapist Gets His Butt Kicked by U.S. Female Sailor

An off-duty U.S. navy sailor wrestled a Dubai bus driver to the ground and beat him into submission after he tried to rape her at knifepoint on Jan. 19, a courtroom heard Wednesday. The woman, 28, was on 24-hour shore leave in Dubai when she was attacked by a bus driver after he picked her up from the Mall of the Emirates shopping center. “I noticed he did not take the main road and when I asked him he told me not to worry,” she said, according to the Daily Mail. He then stopped where several other buses were parked and tried to kiss her. After she refused, he pulled out a knife and tried to rape her.

Prosecutors said that she knocked the knife from his hand, broke it in two, bit him in the hand, forced him to the ground and locked him between her thighs, the Daily Mail reports.

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Holder Calls Amnesty a 'Civil Right'

During a April 24th speech to the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Attorney General Eric Holder said that creating a "pathway to earned citizenship" was a "civil right.” 

"Creating a pathway to earned citizenship for the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in this country is essential. The way we treat our friends and neighbors who are undocumented – by creating a mechanism for them to earn citizenship and move out of the shadows – transcends the issue of immigration status. This is a matter of civil and human rights. It is about who we are as a nation. And it goes to the core of our treasured American principle of equal opportunity."

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The Right Lane update 4.26.13

The pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, free markets and individual liberty

"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington

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Americans Seem to Be Taking Terrorism in Stride   

A Commentary By Scott Rasmussen  

The news from Boston over the past couple of weeks has been the stuff of nightmares.

Homemade bombs killing and injuring innocent people at a high-profile public event were followed by a massive manhunt. People in the surrounding suburbs were ordered to stay inside, businesses closed, and SWAT teams overwhelmed a typically quiet community. The Boston police commissioner warned everyone: "We believe this is a terrorist. We believe this is a man that's come here to kill people."

When it was over, two out of three voters believed the bombing suspects received support, encouragement and training from terrorist organizations. One of the more amazing aspects of the story, however, has been the measured reaction of the American people. There was appropriate shock, grief and concern as the news was first reported, but little panic. Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of a horrific and incomprehensible atrocity, the public kept the situation in perspective.

Shortly after the bombing, Rasmussen Reports found that 54 percent of voters still believe economic concerns are a bigger threat to the nation than terrorist attacks. That's virtually unchanged from the perspective before the Boston Marathon attacks. Following the bombing, 37 percent believe the United States and its allies are winning the War on Terror. That's down a few points from before the bombing, but the numbers reflected an ongoing trend rather than a significant change.

That steady perspective is found not because people are ignoring the realities. Seventy-one percent think that another attack is at least somewhat likely in the coming year. Sadly, many have come to accept the fact that there will periodically be similar stories of horror and grief. Only 11 percent think it is possible to make public places completely safe from terrorist attacks like the one in Boston.

These concerns are balanced by a degree of confidence in our nation's ability to respond. Nine out of 10 Americans believe law enforcement did a good job handling the situation. The media didn't fare quite as well, but 55 percent thought reporters did a good job keeping the public informed. Given the general public perceptions of the media, that's practically a ringing endorsement. The public also is generally comfortable with some of the new technologies being used. The value of video surveillance cameras was on display, as TV outlets repeatedly showed images of the brothers identified as suspects. Eighty-seven percent believe these tools help law enforcement officials. By a 2-1 margin, they also think the use of surveillance cameras make public areas safer. So far, the public believes that the value of these tools is appropriately balanced against the threats to individual liberties. In evaluating these trade-offs, 28 percent believe our legal system is too concerned with individual rights; 24 percent say it's too concerned with public safety, and 29 percent believe the balance is about right. It's hard to imagine a more evenly balanced assessment.

Put it all together, and the picture that emerges is a nation that has grown to accept the reality of terrorism and occasional terrorist acts. It's also a nation that is moving forward rather than cowering in fear.

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White House: Clinton’s 'Signature' on Benghazi Docs Doesn't Mean She Knew of Them By Fred Lucas

The White House dismissed the signature of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on documents ignoring security concerns in Benghazi, calling it “protocol” for government official “signatures” to appear on documents they did not sign.  “It is standard protocol that cables originating from the department in Washington go out under the authority of the current Secretary of State with their signature, i.e. their name, typed at the bottom,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Wednesday, using his fingers for quote marks when he said “signature.” He continued. “This practice has been in place throughout this administration and across prior administrations, both Democratic and Republican.” A report by five House committees released Tuesday found that Senior State Department officials, including Clinton, approved reductions in security at the facilities in Benghazi, Libya. The report cites an April 19, 2012, cable bearing Clinton's signature acknowledging a March 28, 2012, request from then-U.S. Ambassador to Libya Gene Cretz for more security, yet allowing further reductions. Yes, when I sign a document it does not mean I read it.  Right!  Then why require the signature?

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Obama: Citizenship ‘Expresses Itself Through Our Government By Fred Lucas

President Barack Obama told donors at a Democratic National Committee fundraising event at a private residence in Dallas, Texas, on Wednesday that Americans express their citizenship and obligations to one another “through our government,” among other areas. Spoken like a true Communist.  Do you express your citizenship and obligations to each other through government?  If so how?

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Congress tries to extract itself from Obamacare suicide pact. Hilarity ensues by David Freddoso.

Don’t tell anyone about those secret talks! Politico’s story today on members of Congress desperately trying to exempt themselves and staff from Obamacare is great. But if you missed the earlier piece on the topic, you might think it too focused on the delicate process as members and staff attempt to extract themselves from the suicide pact that is Obamacare. It’s equally important to understand the reasons they’re trying to get out of it.  In brief, this story demonstrates why Obamacare’s insurance exchanges are a lousy deal for most Americans — particularly those who had insurance through an employer before the law passed. Back when Obamacare was still just someone’s bad idea, employers were providing better insurance at lower prices than what Obamacare is going to provide. Now that Obamacare is out there and (in theory anyway) prepared next year to catch the debris that falls out of the employer insurance market, thousands of companies are just going to start dumping people’s health insurance. This is where the whole “if you like your health plan you can keep it” business falls apart. The average family plan costs employers something like $15,000 per year, whereas the penalty for a large company not providing insurance for employees is about $3,000 per worker. Do the math. This isn’t just about greedy corporations, either — Washington State is considering doing this to its employees, and don’t be surprised if a lot of state and municipal governments follow suit. Are you going to stand for this?

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Are We Hearing the Death Rattle of Liberalism?  by Gary DeMar

It seems that liberalism is gaining the upper hand. In fact, it seems that liberalism has the upper hand. Not so fast. Empire-building is a tenuous and risky business. Every empire that has tried to expand its territory eventually collapsed because the center could not hold. Adolf Hitler’s dream of a thousand-year Reich turned to dust in less than 20 years. The supposed inevitability of world Communism did not come about. The image of docked rusty submarines was a fitting image of the inherent hollowness of a planned economy. The Soviet Union would have collapsed sooner if the West had not propped it up with aid. Eastern Europe is no longer in the Soviet Orbit. Who would have thought such a thing was possible? The Berlin Wall came tumbling down.

Peggy Noonan is seeing what she describes as “Obama Fatigue.” The curtain is slowly being pulled away and the people are beginning to realize that there is no Great Wizard of Obama. There’s just some guy who’s been getting away with all types of bad policies and poor decision making because the mainstream media saw him as “the farthest thing from George Bush.” He was their political god. The media elites said so. He was the Second Coming of Abraham Lincoln and FDR. He, too, will fade away. The Fort Hood massacre was covered up by the Administration and the media. There were warning signs, but the pro-Islamic government of Obama chose to ignore them and attributed the murders to “workplace violence.” The American people know better.

I’m convinced that many liberals hold the view that what Nidal Malik Hasan did was deserved. We’re hearing similar sentiment by members of the liberal elite on Boston. The two bombers are “victims” of American Exceptionalism. These are not views that result in empire-building. They are signs of a collapsing edifice. The Boston Marathon massacre was not stopped. It should have been. If the bombings had occurred on GWB’s watch, we know how the media would have reacted. We saw what they did to him after 9/11. As more information comes out about the bombings, the dangerous ineptitude of this administration is being exposed. People are getting restless. They’re beginning to wake up as if from a drug induced coma. They might not be saying it out loud (yet), but they’re asking themselves, “What are we paying these guys for?” The oldest brother was questioned by the FBI. Even Russian security agencies warned us.

The liberal center cannot hold. The media gatekeepers are deserting their posts. The news cannot be controlled. The abortion-’doctor’ story out of Philadelphia shows that the media can no longer suppress news that prove embarrassing to the liberal media and their political gods.  Cultural indicators show that America’s moral base is crumbling. These pockets of degeneracy will self-destruct over time. A preoccupation with entertainment, fashion, sex, drugs, and moral indifference cannot last. While their disintegration takes place, other segments of society are growing families, taking control of their children’s education, reducing debt, and advocating a moral lifestyle as a way to long-term cultural and economic success. A so-called prestigious degree isn’t worth what people are paying for it.

Entrepreneurship is the new Harvard. As a business owner, I never ask a prospective employee where he or she went to college. So while the current worldview becomes more consistent with its bankrupt operating assumptions, we need to counter the disintegration with a counter culture full of optimism, opportunity, self-government, self-reliance, and family and community solidarity. It’s going to be painful for a time, but we’re outbreeding, outthinking, and outworking them. They’re living off borrowed capital. Hang in there. It’s always darkest before the dawn. Keep on, never quit, be resolute!

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Creating a Climate of Moral Darkness by Bradlee Dean

The Supreme Court has been legislating from the bench for the past 50+ years, unlawfully and unconstitutionally stepping outside of their scope of power. This branch has become a treacherous bureaucracy, which grows more corrupt day-by-day, robed in black, and giving the impression that they are a law unto themselves, when in fact they are not! In June 2011, the Supreme Court struck down a California law that would have banned selling “violent” video games to children, stating the games are protected under “free speech.” Some of these games teach kids to kill cops, shoot up schools, and to kill other students while being rewarded in hell for their crimes. There are also games that teach kids to steal cars, rape women, and even shoot John F. Kennedy for a chance to win a $10,000.00 prize. And America wonders why we have such a high crime rate.

“Liberty is the right to do what the law permits,” said Charles Montesquieu. Yet in America today, the present Supreme Court calls it freedom of speech to allow kids to learn how to break the very laws the Court should be enforcing. It is government’s purpose to “restrain men from sin” (transgression of God’s Law; 1 John 3:4), not to encourage it.  Crime should be deterred, not encouraged or advocated. In 1980 the Supreme Court stated the following in Stone v. Graham, “If the posted copies of the Ten Commandments are to have any effect at all, … it will be to meditate upon, perhaps to venerate and obey, the Commandments. This is not a permissible state objective.” What?! The Court doesn’t want children to obey the Ten Commandments, which teaches them not to kill, steal, dishonor their parents, lie, etc.? Parents, who have a moral and natural obligation to be the first line of defense, should not allow their children to play violent video games no matter who said it was okay. If they did so, the Court wouldn’t even consider such a ridiculous notion!

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Obama Sure Is Making Alinsky Proud

President Obama can take credit for Americans’ knowledge of Saul Alinsky.

Too bad the Main Stream Media cared more about electing a black man who espoused their values than they did the truth–we might have known a little bit about Obama and his inspiration. Saul Alinsky was both evil and brilliant. If you have any doubt of Alinsky’s abject nature, consider his quote in the preface of his book, Rules for Radicals:

Lest we forget at least an over-the-shoulder acknowledgment to the very first radical: from all our legends, mythology, and history (and who is to know where mythology leaves off and history begins—or which is which), the first radical known to man who rebelled against the establishment and did it so effectively that he at least won his own kingdom—Lucifer.

—SAUL ALINSKY

Consider also that Saul Alinsky was quite open about his embrace of, albeit evolved, Marxism:

Few of us survived the Joe McCarthy holocaust of the early 1950s and of those there were even fewer whose understanding and insights had developed beyond the dialectical materialism of orthodox Marxism.

Yes, Alinsky had the sinister audacity to call the McCarthy trials the “Joe McCarthy holocaust”! Never mind that there was a literal threat within America as the Communist Party was infiltrating universities and, to some degree, entertainment. Naming this time in our history a “holocaust” is to disdain of the real sufferers of the Nazi holocaust and should be repellant to all Americans. Even worse, Obama admonished Israeli college students this year during his visit to their country that Israel “has the wisdom to see the world as it is, but also the courage to see the world as it should be.” In doing so, the president was quoting Saul Alinsky to those young Jews…a subversive and heinous, and obviously intended tactic. A man’s character may be understood by those he strives to emulate: Obama emulates and follows Saul Alinsky, an evil, Marxist, power-hungry radical. Enough said.

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Federal judge whacks Obama; Threatens to overturn 'amnesty' policy for young illegal aliens by Garth Kant

A federal judge has a message for President Obama: Stop bypassing Congress on immigration. Obama issued a directive in June 2012 halting the deportation of many young illegal aliens after Congress refused to pass the DREAM Act, which would have provided conditional permanent residency to young illegal's. A federal judge in Dallas is now threatening to reverse that directive. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said Tuesday that he will likely rule in favor of a lawsuit seeking to overturn the new policy. He has asked both sides to file additional arguments by May 6. The administration’s policy directs U.S. Immigration and Customs, or ICE, agents to defer deportation for illegal aliens under 30 who entered the country before the age of 16, are in school or have a high school diploma, haven’t been convicted of a felony, significant misdemeanor or multiple misdemeanors and are not a threat to public safety or national security. The ICE agent union challenged the policy, arguing that the Obama administration is disciplining agents who enforce federal immigration law.  The president of that union, the National Immigration and Customs Enforcement Council, also said the policy is being abused.

In his April 8 testimony, Christopher L. Crane said, “Officers are applying the directive to people detained in jails, not kids in school.” He told the court, “It is now the story in the jails for aliens to use to avoid arrest and deportation.”

Those aliens appear to be taking advantage of the policy with great success. National Review found, “Since the policy took effect in August 2012, the Obama administration has approved 268,361 applications for ‘deferred action’ status, and denied just 1,377 – an approval rate of 99.5 percent.” While critics argue the policy is ineffective in securing the border, Judge O’Connor indicated it’s also illegal for the Obama administration to tell immigration agents not to arrest an illegal alien who is a low priority.  “The court finds that DHS (Department of Homeland Security) does not have discretion to refuse to initiate removal proceedings,” Judge O’Connor wrote.

O’Connor issued a court order stating that Congress, not the president, sets priorities for arresting illegal aliens and that the law requires them to face deportation. A recent analysis by Politico based on U.S. Census and Pew Research Center estimates of illegal alien populations by state brings into question the Democrats’ motivation for what they call comprehensive immigration reform – also dubbed “amnesty” by critics. After crunching the numbers, Politico said the immigration proposal now in Congress would give Democrats a decisive advantage at the polls for a generation or more. It would happen by “pumping as many as 11 million new Hispanic voters into the electorate a decade from now in ways that, if current trends hold, would produce an electoral bonanza for Democrats and cripple Republican prospects in many states they now win easily.” William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, or ALIPAC, told WND the legislation would “completely wipe out the center-right group of people that have governed America for over 200 years. And it would replace true conservatives with illegal immigrants willing to vote for anyone willing to give them more power and control.”

Gheen believes the DHS policy is in response to a drop in illegal immigration after the economy began plummeting into recession in 2008 and states began cracking down on illegal immigration.

“If the ICE agents can win their case and we can stop amnesty, the American public may get one more shot at this in the 2014 election, in which case we could restore the reversal of illegal immigration,” he said.

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"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country; he should lisp the praise of liberty, and of those illustrious heroes and statesmen, who have wrought a revolution in her favor." --Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

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