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Department Of Defense’s Death Spiral

http://www.ammoland.com/2013/11/department-of-defenses-death-spiral/#ixzz2kdUeKYZr

Published on Thursday, November 14, 2013

By Dr. Earl Tilford

“Of the four wars in my lifetime none came about because the United States was too strong.” –Ronald Reagan

The Center For Vision & Values

Grove City, PA –-(Ammoland.com)- The American armed forces are in a death spiral.

The potential danger far exceeds the health insurance debacle occurring in the rollout of the Affordable Care Act.

The Department of Defense is as susceptible to the effects of onerous, ideologically driven policies as the economy and the health system. The implications of the DoD’s death spiral are possibly even more devastating.

President Obama’s administration seems to be at war with its military leadership. In the past five years, Obama has sacked more senior officers than all other presidents combined. It wasn’t until the last 60 years that the United States was considered a top military power. Today, the American military is on the verge of becoming weaker than it was in 1939 when Hitler started his European rampage and Japan pushed its aggression into Asia.

The U.S. military’s descent into second-rate status already surpasses the “hollow force” of President Jimmy Carter’s era. After eight years of military cuts overseen by President Clinton, whose concept of defense had more to do with lawyers and juries than military strength, President George W. Bush found himself in the unfortunate position of having to respond to the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor. The initially superb response was then driven into a fantasyland of nation building in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Department Of Defense’s Death Spiral

In Oct. 2001, had the U.S. kept to the original plan, American forces would have left Afghanistan before the end of the year with al Qaeda crushed and Osama bin Laden captured or killed. One problem was not clearly identifying the enemy as al Qaeda and the nations or groups that supported them. Another problem was not deploying enough force to find, fix, and annihilate al Qaeda. As is well known, the“War on Terror” devolved into a long struggle during which the terrorists morphed into a worldwide network posing a global threat to American interests. Over time, the will of the American public weakened validating Gen. George C. Marshall’s contention that, “A democracy cannot fight a Seven Years War.”

The lack of a clearly defined strategic objective resulted in the move into Iraq. After a quick march to Baghdad the war could have ended with “mission accomplished” and a U.S. exit. Instead, the decision was made to remake Afghanistan and Iraq into bourgeois democracies; these were doomed objectives, given that neither society possessed a viable middle class, history of democratic politics, or a mindset inclined to accept fundamental human freedom and liberty. Forgetting that Afghanistan had long ago earned the reputation of being “the place where empires go to die,” the U.S. found itself in two wars simultaneously, fighting enemies adept at asymmetric strategies and who were determined to destroy infidel invaders.

While American commanders eventually concocted fairly effective operational strategies in Afghanistan and Iraq, in neither case did U.S. forces benefit from clear strategic goals or useful operational milestones. Salient lessons from Vietnam were forgotten: A strategy focused on “not losing,” rather than pursuing victory, results in defeat and small tactical victories cannot overcome a weak strategy. Meanwhile, a legion of lawyers, backed by policy wonks, looked over our commanders’ shoulders as they tried to figure out ways to defeat a tough collection of international enemies from the mountains of Afghanistan to the streets of Benghazi.

Moreover, because President Barack Obama has been unwilling to make the critical financial investment needed to keep the U.S. a top military power, the American defense establishment entered its current death spiral.

The Army is smaller than it was in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea. The Navy has half the combat vessels it had 15 years ago. American combat aircraft —Air Force and Navy— are rusting on the runways. The American nuclear arsenal, last updated in the early 1990s, ages while Russia modernizes its arsenal and China expands its global reach. Combat tested junior and mid-level officers and non-commissioned officers, vital to the future leadership of our armed forces, are opting for more promising careers elsewhere. Senior officers courageous enough to resist the inanity of politically correct polices are retiring—if they haven’t been forced out already.

The military weakness admired by the extreme left invites aggression from terrorists and possible hegemons in Teheran, Beijing, and Moscow. The potential costs of weakness are far greater than the expense of being strong.

— Dr. Earl Tilford is a military historian and fellow for the Middle East & terrorism with The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He currently lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama where he is writing a history of the University of Alabama in the 1960s. A retired Air Force intelligence officer, Dr. Tilford earned his PhD in American and European military history at George Washington University. From 1993 to 2001, he served as Director of Research at the U.S. Army’s Strategic Studies Institute. In 2001, he left Government service for a professorship at Grove City College, where he taught courses in military history, national security, and international and domestic terrorism and counter-terrorism.

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UK MINISTER: VIOLENCE THREATENS CHRISTIANITY WITH EXTINCTION IN AREAS

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(AFP) Christians are being driven out of some of the religion’s historic heartlands through discrimination and violence, a British government minister warned on Friday.

Sayeeda Warsi, the first Muslim woman to hold cabinet office in Britain, said religious persecution of all faiths “has become a global crisis.”

In an article for the Daily Telegraph newspaper, she noted recent attacks on churches and their congregations in Pakistan and Egypt.

“Christian populations are plummeting and the religion is being driven out of some of its historic heartlands,” wrote Warsi, whose family is originally from Pakistan.

“There is even talk of Christianity becoming extinct in places where it has existed for generations—where the faith was born.”

Warsi, a member of the unelected House of Lords and currently minister for faith at the Foreign Office, said perpetrators ranged from states to militants to ordinary people.

She urged a “cross-faith, cross-continent unity” to address the issue, “because a bomb going off in a Pakistani church shouldn’t just reverberate through Christian communities; it should stir the world.”

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OBAMA’S INSURANCE ‘FIX’ IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/14/Obama-s-Fix-is-Unconstitutional

by KEN KLUKOWSKI

Outlets are quoting Democratic operative Howard Dean saying of President Barack Obama suspending certain Obamacare requirements, “I wonder if he has the legal authority to do this.”

To remove all doubt: The Take Care Clause of the Constitution absolutely forbids any president from doing exactly what Obama did Thursday.

Obama said he would allow insurance companies to keep offering previously-offeredinsurance plans that Americans would like to keep. Nobody knows if this means all plans, or only some of them, and how the White House will make such determinations. He says he has “enforcement discretion” to make this change to the Affordable Care Act unilaterally, without consulting Congress.

This is a frightening claim of a sweeping power that is completely inconsistent with the Constitution. A president has “prosecutorial discretion” to prioritize which lawbreakers to prosecute in federal court, but there is no “enforcement discretion” to determine which laws on the books he will enforce.

Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution commands of every president: “he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Like every provision in the Constitution, it has a legal meaning—and that meaning is the Supreme Law of the Land, which Congress, the courts, and—yes—each president is bound by his oath of office to follow carefully.

Everyone should know from their high-school government classes that Article I of the Constitution gives Congress exclusive power to make federal laws, and Article II of the Constitution gives the American president the executive power to administer and enforce those laws. Article II then includes the language about how the president must faithfully execute those laws.

Among other things, the Take Care Clause was inserted in the Constitution to abolish the Royal Prerogative that the Framers of the American Constitution knew from their lives as Englishmen. It was the power of the king of England to disregard or effectively suspend Acts of Parliament. The king could not make laws, but he could shelve a law that Parliament had passed.

Obama’s announcement is a flagrant and undeniable violation of his constitutional duty under the Take Care Clause. The provisions of Obamacare causing enormous trouble forinsurance plans are mandatory, and only Congress can change those parts of the Affordable Care Act. Every day provides additional proof that Obamacare is a complete train wreck, but it is one regarding which only Congress can change the terms.

This president’s relationship to Congress is reaching toxic levels, due in large part to the regularity of his hyper-partisan rhetoric and ongoing disrespect. He is learning that the campaign tactics that enabled him to win two presidential elections are manifestly counterproductive when applied to the arduous task of governing, especially in a country as large and diverse as America.

It is not clear at this point whether anyone would have standing to sue over this matter in court. If the experts who are saying today that this unilateral move will only make matters worse are correct, someone might suffer an individualized injury that they could litigate.

President Obama should hope that doesn’t happen, because if a federal court can get past the procedural hurtles to reach the merits of the case, it’s an open-and-shut case that this president’s actions are unconstitutional—again.

Ken Klukowski is senior legal analyst for Breitbart News and coauthor of “Take Care, Now,” forthcoming from the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. Follow him on Twitter @kenklukowski.

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Obama’s Secret Treaty Which Will Merge America More Deeply Into The Emerging One World Economic System

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/obamas-trans-pacific-partnership-treaty-which-will-merge-america-more-deeply-into-the-emerging-one-world-economic-system/#ixzz2kgFZlcqM

by Michael Snyder

Did you know that the Obama administration is negotiating a super secret “trade agreement” that is so sensitive that he isn’t even allowing members of Congress to see it? The Trans-Pacific Partnership is being called the “NAFTA of the Pacific” and “NAFTA on steroids”, but the truth is that it is so much more than just a trade agreement. This treaty has 29 chapters, but only 5 of them have to do with trade. Most Americans don’t realize this, but this treaty will fundamentally change our laws regarding Internet freedom, health care, the trading of derivatives, copyright issues, food safety, environmental standards, civil liberties and so much more. It will also merge the United States far more deeply into the emerging one world economic system. Initially, twelve nations will be a party to this treaty including the United States, Mexico, Canada, Japan, Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam. Together, those nations represent approximately 40 percent of global GDP. It is hoped that additional nations such as the Philippines, Thailand and Colombia will join the treaty later on.

There are some very good reasons why Obama does not want the American people to know anything about what is in this treaty. This agreement will impose very strict Internet copyright rules on the American people, it will ban all “Buy American” laws, it will give Wall Street banks much more freedom to trade risky derivatives and it will force even more domestic manufacturing offshore.

It contains a whole host of things that Obama would be unable to get through Congress on his own. But he is hoping to spring this on Congress at the last minute and get them to agree to this “free trade agreement” before they realize all of the things that are contained in it.

The secrecy surrounding these treaty negotiations have really been unprecedented. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Kurt Nimmo…

“Since the beginning of the TPP negotiations, the process of drafting and negotiating the treaty’s chapters has been shrouded in an unprecedented level of secrecy,” Wikileaks notes in a statement on the release of the TPP draft. “Access to drafts of the TPP chapters is shielded from the general public. Members of the US Congress are only able to view selected portions of treaty-related documents in highly restrictive conditions and under strict supervision. It has been previously revealed that only three individuals in each TPP nation have access to the full text of the agreement, while 600 ’trade advisers’ – lobbyists guarding the interests of large US corporations such as Chevron, Halliburton, Monsanto and Walmart – are granted privileged access to crucial sections of the treaty text.”

And Obama reportedly is seeking “trade promotion authority” which would give him the ability to sign this treaty before Congress even votes on it…

Normally free -trade agreements must be authorized by a majority of the House and Senate, usually in lengthy proceedings.

However, the White House is seeking what is known as “trade promotion authority” which would fast track approval of the TPP by requiring Congress to vote on the likely lengthy trade agreement within 90 days and without any amendments.

The authority also allows Obama to sign the agreement before Congress even has a chance to vote on it, with lawmakers getting only a quick post-facto vote.

This is so insidious that it is hard to find the words to describe it.

In essence, Obama is trying to make a giant end run around Congress on dozens of different issues that are addressed by this treaty.

Fortunately, there are at least some members of Congress that are waking up to this. Earlier this week, a small group of Republicans and a small group of Democrats both sent Obama a letter condemning this “free trade” agreement…

Separate groups of House Republicans and Democrats on Tuesday condemned the Obama administration’s proposed sweeping free trade agreement with 11 Pacific nations, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Strongly worded letters to President Barack Obama Tuesday were signed by hardline tea partiers, true-blue progressives, and moderate, corporate-friendly lawmakers in both parties, indicating political trouble for a trade deal the administration had hoped to seal by year end.

This is one of the most important political issues facing our nation here at the end of 2013, and yet you hear next to nothing about this treaty on the mainstream news. If this treaty is approved, the United States will be permanently bound by the provisions of this treaty and will never be able to change them unless all of the other countries agree…

Countries would be obliged to conform all their domestic laws and regulations to the TPP’s rules—in effect, a corporate coup d’état. The proposed pact would limit even how governments can spend their tax dollars. Buy America and other Buy Local procurement preferences that invest in the US economy would be banned, and “sweat-free,” human rights or environmental conditions on government contracts could be challenged. If the TPP comes to fruition, its retrograde rules could be altered only if all countries agreed, regardless of domestic election outcomes or changes in public opinion. And unlike much domestic legislation, the TPP would have no expiration date.

Are you starting to understand just how dangerous this treaty is?

Let me give you just one example of how this treaty could directly affect you.

Do you remember SOPA?

There was a huge public backlash when the very strict Internet copyright provisions of SOPA were revealed to the public, and the American people loudly expressed their displeasure to members of Congress.

But now the provisions of SOPA are back. Most of them have reportedly been very quietly inserted into this treaty. If this treaty is enacted, those provisions will become law and the American people will not be able to do a thing about it.

And according to an article in the New York Times, there are all sorts of other disturbing things that have been slipped into this treaty…

And yet another leak revealed that the deal would include even more expansive incentives to relocate domestic manufacturing offshore than were included in Nafta — a deal that drained millions of manufacturing jobs from the American economy.

The agreement would also be a boon for Wall Street and its campaign to water down regulations put in place after the 2008 financial crisis. Among other things, it would practically forbid bans on risky financial products, including the toxic derivatives that helped cause the crisis in the first place.

Are you starting to grasp why the Obama administration is so determined to keep this treaty such a secret?

In addition, this “free trade” agreement will push the ongoing deindustrialization of America into overdrive. Every year, we buy hundreds of billions of dollars more stuff from the rest of the world than they buy from us. Tens of thousands of American businesses have been lost as a result, and millions of good jobs have been shipped overseas.

If you are not familiar with our “trade deficit”, you really should be. It is one of the issues at the very heart of our economic problems. Posted below is a short 3 minute video that briefly discusses the trade deficit and why it is so important…

Slowly merging our economy with the rest of the planet has been absolutely disastrous for America. Just consider the following statistics…

-Overall, the United States has run a trade deficit of more than 8 trillion dollars with the rest of the world since 1975.

-The United States has lost more than 56,000 manufacturing facilities since 2001.

-Back in the year 2000, there were more than 17 million Americans working in manufacturing. Now there are less than 12 million.

-There are less Americans working in manufacturing today than there was in 1950 even though the population of the country has more than doubled since then.

-Back in 1950, more than 80 percent of all men in the United States had jobs. Today, less than 65 percent of all men in the United States have jobs.

-When NAFTA was pushed through Congress in 1993, the United States had a trade surplus with Mexico of 1.6 billion dollars. By 2010, we had a trade deficit with Mexico of 61.6 billion dollars.

-Back in 1985, our trade deficit with China was approximately 6 milliondollars (million with a little “m”) for the entire year. In 2012, our trade deficit with China was 315 billion dollars. That was the largest trade deficit that one nation has had with another nation in the history of the world.

-According to the Economic Policy Institute, America is losing half a million jobs to China every single year.

-According to Professor Alan Blinder of Princeton University, 40 millionmore U.S. jobs could be sent offshore over the next two decades if current trends continue.

Once upon a time, our great manufacturing cities were the envy of the entire planet. In fact, at one time Detroit actually had the highest per capita income in the United States.

But now Detroit is a rotting, decaying, festering hellhole that is completely bankrupt. And there are dozens of other formerly great manufacturing cities that are heading down the exact same path.

These “free trade” agreements are neither “free” nor “fair” when you really examine them, and they are absolutely eviscerating the middle class.

Please urge your representatives in Congress to block the Trans-Pacific Partnership. If this treaty does get approved, it is going to make a lot of our problems a whole lot worse.

About Michael Snyder

Michael T. Snyder is a graduate of the University of Florida law school and he worked as an attorney in the heart of Washington D.C. for a number of years. Today, Michael is best known for his work as the publisher of The Economic Collapse Blog (End of the American Dream. Michael and his wife, Meranda, believe that a great awakening is coming and are working hard to help bring renewal to America.

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Democrats Wanting to Distance Themselves From Obamacare Debacle Shouldn’t Get Off So Easy

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/democrats-wanting-distance-obamacare-debacle-shouldnt-get-easy/#ixzz2kf1ACpMU

by Richard Anthony

When I wrote my article titled Democrats Jump Ship over Obamacare, I was amused by Democrats trying to distance themselves from Obamacare, but as the awful reality of this horrible law affects more and more Americans, it seems that the Democrats who helped shove this down your throat are having second thoughts about the whole thing. Some of them are even going so far as to publicly say the President was wrong for misleading you and them about the whole thing. What about what they said when they were pushing this on us in 2009?

What unmitigated gall! Even the likes of Diane Feinstein are chiming in and trying to act like they are shocked and upset, and that insults my intelligence! Prior to the debut of the Affordable Care Act, Dianne Feinstein and all the rest of the Democrats have been defending this law like it was their child, and have been angry at Republicans for not wanting to pass it in the first place. They are still defending it against any effort by Republicans to either repeal it or defund it.

According to the Democrats, “You can huff and you can puff -but the Affordable Care Act is not going away!”

Now they act shocked and angry at the President because of what they helped him do to the American people. Are we supposed to take them seriously?

As I previously stated in other articles, every single Democrat who was in office at the time signed that law! Not one of them even read the bill before voting for it, and now because it’s going badly for them, they think that they can jump ship and try to distance themselves from it and the President? I don’t think so! They need to be held accountable, and it’s up to us to not let them get away with it.

For the last 5 years of the Obama occupation of the White House, progressive/liberal/democrat/Marxist’s have been acting more and more emboldened in their disdain for the will of the people they are supposed to be serving. Dianne Feinstein has tried to introduce gun control legislation more than once and has also attacked the 1st Amendment with Shield Laws. So forgive me if I don’t believe a word she says about Obamacare right now, she, like every Democrat in Washington D.C. is trying to save their political careers and their jobs right now. They are counting on you being too damn stupid to remember that they are the ones who did this to us in the first place. This law was forced on the American people. We were, in effect, violated against our will. This law is one of the main reasons the Tea Party was formed.

So, as the time for the 2014 elections draws near, I’m sure that more and more of those same Democrats who did this to us will try to convince you that they really didn’t want it in the first place. It’s up to us to not let them try to BS their way out of it. Rather, we must hold each and every single one of them responsible. Even Bill Clinton is going on record saying the President “misled” us and for him to keep his promise.

Remember folks, those Democrats who brought this down on us will say and do anything to keep their jobs at this point. It’s our job to make them pay for this, and the only thing they understand is to be voted out of office! Please feel free to give them a call and tell them that there is no excuse for this.

How can a reasonably intelligent person in America believe anything that a Democrat says right now?

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Democrat Minority Whip: Obama Grossly Misled American Public on Obamacare

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/democrat-minority-whip-steny-hoyer-barack-obama-grossly-misled-american-public-obamacare/#ixzz2keypowCm

by Suzanne Hamner

Victims of Obamacare are sharing their stories across the internet; by victims, I mean those individuals who have had their healthcare insurance policies canceled and hit with higher premiums and deductibles because of the Obamacare roll out. Some of these individuals favored health care insurance for all in the form of Obamacare while others did not support government intrusion into their private lives.

Because of this backlash, Obama made what is now being called a “fake apology” on national television. But, what how are the Democrats in Congress handling this “bungled” implementation of a “thrown together in a rush” health care fiasco? With the 2014 elections just around the corner, one Democrat is calling Obama’s guarantee of “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan, period” grossly misleading the American public.

Rep. Kurt Schrader (D-OR) stated on KGW-TV, “A lot of Americans, a lot of Oregonians, have stayed with the same policy for a number of years and are shocked that their policy got canceled.”

According to The Daily Caller:

“So I think the President saying you could stay with it and not being honest that a lot of these policies were going to get canceled was grossly misleading to the American public and is causing added stress and added strife as we go through a really difficult time with healthcare,” Schrader added.

Democratic Minority Whip Steny Hoyer acknowledged two weeks ago that Democrats had been aware that some people might lose their insurance plans when the law took effect, saying, “We knew there would be some policies that would not qualify and therefore people would be required to get more extensive coverage.”

At a Tuesday briefing with reporters, Hoyer said he disagreed with Schrader’s statement.

“Do I think he grossly misled? No,” Hoyer stated.

“I think the president was not precise, and I think that, he should have been precise,” Hoyer said. “We all should have been more precise.”

Wow! There is so much manure coming out of Washington these days that a couple of these Democrat Obama idolators needs to stand in the small garden plot my parents have to fertilize it for this spring’s planting season. They would have a bumper crop for sure!

It is nice to see that Schrader is calling Obama’s statement “grossly misleading;” however, Obama lied – not once, not twice, but repeatedly, in order to deceive the American public into accepting Obamacare for something it is not. The only reason America is going through a “really difficult time with healthcare” is because of the unconstitutional, atrocious Obamacare. Schrader is attempting to fool his constituency and the American public into thinking he is advocating for the citizenry. The only thing he is advocating for is keeping his seat in the House to be exempt from Obamacare and assist with the “nobility rule” of the American masses.

Steny Hoyer admitted that Democrats knew “there would be some policies that would not qualify

” resulting in individuals being required to purchase more extensive coverage. Translation:

“We knew some people had policies that covered what they needed but we wanted them to purchase more than what they needed because we know what is best for everyone where their health is concerned.”

I can see where single males might need that prenatal care coverage or contraceptive coverage and possibly baby murder coverage; after all, the pregnancy rate among single males is staggering. (Yes, this is heavy sarcasm.)

Hoyer, in contrast to Schrader, excuses outright lying by qualifying that the president and Congress “were not precise.” Hello? Hoyer? Anybody home in that brain of yours? I can see the lights are on but no one is answering the door!

These people think Americans are stupid. Video evidence abounds showing Obama making a precise, definitive, clear, unmistakable statement – “If you like your healthcare plan, you can keep your healthcare plan, period.” I pride myself on reading and verbal comprehension as it was drilled into me by first my mother, then my college professors and nursing instructors. Can someone please tell me where this statement is not precise and where this statement is unclear? Obama didn’t give all the details and hid from the American public the true effect of this healthcare monster. He engaged in deception and fraud.

Obama has been back-peddling and issuing qualifying statements in contrast to his “less than precise” statement, even to the point of denying making that definitive statement. This man thinks everyone in America is a fool and that video evidence is a lie. Everyone is lying; everyone is against him; everyone misunderstood. This is the repertoire of victim mentality.

Poor, poor Obama! He’s a victim of those nasty Republican, the terrorist Tea Party groups and those annoying Christians so we have to help him by supporting his anti-American agenda; if we don’t, we’ll be labeled as racists. Democrats act like their hands are tied by their political party. Democrats passed this law without a single Republican vote. Democrats passed this law without even reading it. Democrats chose to knowingly inflict injury on the American public. So, Democrats own this mess and no amount of “playing victim” can change that. There are no victims in Washington.

Schrader and Hoyer need to go; vote them out. Obama and his cronies knew when this law was passed millions of Americans would lose healthcare insurance they were satisfied with. Those Democrats who were elected after the law was passed knew weeks before implementation millions of Americans would lose healthcare insurance they were satisfied with. Schrader is hitting the band wagon early to keep his position. Hoyer, his nose still up Obama’s anus, really doesn’t give two shakes so he follows lead by issuing qualifying statements.

As time goes on and the full impact of Obamacare is exposed, there will be more manure, back-peddling, and qualifying statements issued all around in order that these deceiving Democraps can keep their seat of power. It all revolves around keeping themselves part of the “ruling nobility:” no more, no less. Sadly, they don’t care what they have to do to remain there even if it means selling out their constituents and all of America. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson would be so proud of this “New Deal – Great Society.”

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Obama Promoting Muslim Brotherhood “Stooge” Anne Patterson at State Department

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/11/obama-promoting-muslim-brotherhood-stooge-anne-patterson-state-department/#ixzz2keZTMUKq

by Tim Brown

If you haven’t had enough evidence that Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham need to be removed from office, along with their dance partner Barack Obama, this should be enough to convince you. United States Ambassador to Egypt Anne Patterson is now being considered as Obama’s pick for Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs.

Anne Patterson

According to Walid Shoebat, “One day after the now infamous CBS 60 Minutes piece about Benghazi, Senator Lindsey Graham (RINO-SC) threatened to put a hold on Obama administration nominees until he was granted access to State Department survivors of the attack. Graham has now agreed to release holds on two of those nominees. If there is one nominee Graham shouldn’t let off the hook, it’s one he did – the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt who is accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood during her tenure there.” Patterson most definitely was supporting the Muslim Brotherhood as we have documented at Freedom Outpost.

Foreign Policy reports:

Since October, the South Carolina Republican has vowed to block President Obama’s nominees from being confirmed by the Senate unless the administration makes more eyewitnesses of the September 2012 attack in Benghazi available to Congress. But a Graham spokesperson says her boss has made an exception for Anne Patterson, Obama’s pick for Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, and Gregory Starr, nominated to be Assistant Secretary of State for Diplomatic Security. Graham’s holds on all other administration nominees remain in place.

When asked if the State Department gave Graham anything in return for the lifted holds, the spokesperson said “no.” A State Department official concurred: “I don’t think there was anything — just acknowledgment of them as imp[ortant] posts.”

One must question why Ms. Patterson is being promoted.

Qatar Document indicates Bribes in U.S. Dollars

Shoebat adds, “In August of this year, it was learned that Hisham Barakat, Egypt’s Attorney General, received multiple complaints that Muslim Brotherhood leaders were receiving bribes from the U.S. embassy in Cairo. A Qatari document which we published at the time seemed to bolster these claims as several Muslim Brotherhood leaders were identified as having received monthly “gifts” (bribes) in U.S. Dollars. As we wrote at the time, the names on the Qatari document match many of the names identified in the complaints filed with Barakat. As the U.S. Ambassador at the time, Patterson should have been made to answer questions. Instead, less than three months later, she’s up for a promotion and Graham is lifting his hold on her nomination.”

Earlier this year, Raymond Ibrahim reported that Patterson was part of a Muslim Brotherhood “sleeper cell” and vowed to apply pressure to support the Muslim Brotherhood while at the same time telling Coptic Christians to stop protesting against the Muslim Brotherhood.

What’s not surprising was the fact that both Senator McCain and Graham traveled to Egypt following Mohamed Morsi’s removal of power and called for the release of the Muslim Brotherhood leaders. Anyone else getting the picture for whose side these guys are on? And they have the nerve to talk to us about terrorism!

As we have reported here, there is most definitely an Egyptian connection to the attacks in Benghazi, involving Morsi.

While Graham is making a blowing a lot of hot air over Benghazi (something we need to get to the bottom of, but yes, I think that is all he is going to do), I think the real motivation for his song and dance with the holdup over Patterson is his loyalties and the fact that an election year is coming up; one that many of us in South Carolina cannot wait for so that we can remove him from his senate seat.

It seems that in America what we are lacking are true statesmen who are willing to be called names and endure the ridicule of being politically incorrect to oppose this administration’s radical pro-Muslim Brotherhood foreign policy. Fortunately, we do have a few, but only a few.

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JAY LENO UNLOADS ON OBAMA IN DEVASTATING ‘TONIGHT SHOW’ MONOLOGUE

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2013/05/22/leno-unloads-obama-monologue

by CHRISTIAN TOTO

President Barack Obama is a nightmare for political comedians. He’s too cool, too smart, too … good at this whole leadership thing.

That was the bill of goods comedians sold us five years ago, an excuse which prevented them from mocking Obama as they did every previous Commander in Chief.

Jay Leno wasn’t buying that pile of horse manure.

Leno has consistently tweaked Obama in his Tonight Show monologues since the early days of the president’s administration, the same way Leno handled President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton.

This week, Leno turned up the heat to scorching levels while some of his peers resorted to full spin mode regarding Obama’s cascade of scandals. Tuesday night, Leno mocked Obama’s commencement address at Morehouse College as well as the president’s claim that he learned about the latest scandals hitting his administration from watching news reports.

And a Chicago man has set a new Guinness Book world record for the longest ferris wheel ride. He went 48 hours, 48 hours straight riding the ferris wheel in Chicago’s Navy pier. In fact, the only way to go around and around in circles that many times is to read the official report on Benghazi. That’s about the only way to go around and around.

Well, look at this. The White House, the White House has admitted that President Obama’s chief of staff had advanced warning the IRS was targeting conservative groups but never told the president. Well, President Obama says the first time he heard about the IRS scandal and the AP phone records scandal, first time he heard about it was from the media. See, that’s why President Obama holds press conferences: not to explain what’s going on, to find out what’s going on. To find out what – oh, of course.

And wouldn’t you know it, Leno’s ratings are on the rise these days.

The ratings leader in his time slot, Leno positively crushed Letterman and ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel in the just-released early May sweeps ratings.

It’s too late for Leno to save his job, which will fall to Obama sycophant Jimmy Fallon next year. Leno will go out the same way he served late night viewers for the past 20-plus years, poking fun at the president in true satirist fashion.

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New Catchphrase: “Substandard Coverage”

By Jerry Broussard

It is no secret that the Left has been redefining our language in order to make what they shove down our throats easier to swallow. For example;

They call a fetus in a mother’s womb;
- a globulin mass
- a mass of tissue
- a growth like a tumor
- etc., etc., etc..
They took a word meaning, “lighthearted (gay)” so that any reference to homosexuals would sound nice and something to desire.
“Reach across the aisle” has now become, “do it our way or we will demonize you out of existence”.
“Negotiate” no longer means;
- : to discuss something formally in order to make an agreement
- : to agree on (something) by formally discussing it
- : to get over, through, or around (something) successfully
According to the Left it now means “our way or the highway.”

There are so many more, but for this discussion, we want to look at their latest redefinition, “Substandard Coverage”.

No matter who is speaking, representing the Left, they have all been programmed to refer to health insurance plans that have been cancelled as “Substandard Coverage”, instead of what it really is; FORCED CANCELATIONS OF HEALTHCARE COVERAGE (those policies America was promised they could keep) BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE’S UNINFORMED, UNCARING, IGNORANT DEMANDED COVERAGE THAT A VERY FEW AMOUNT OF AMERICAN CITIZENS ACTUALLY NEED.

Of course, they pretend not to realize that by making that ridiculous statement, they are in fact saying to over 5 million people, “you are so stupid to make the choice of healthcare coverage you did, that we have to force you to get coverage WE DEEM as STANDARD”.

Never mind that you have been happy with that coverage and you;

no longer need coverage for pregnancy,
have never needed coverage for mental health,
never needed coverage to get off drugs,
or any of the other demands they think you need.

Never mind that you selected the plan you did because it fit your budget. Never mind that you calculated the risk of needing anything more and believed that you could cover the unexpected if necessary. Never mind that you don’t believe in abortion, or Birth Control medication, so not having it covered is fine with you. Why pay for coverage you will never need?

Insulting Americans has become an action the Left believe they are entitled to because, after all, they are so much smarter than the rest of us. They are convinced they own the right to make every decision for us in order to protect us from ourselves. That is the mindset of Socialist.

When confronted with such lunacy, they quickly respond with, “We’ve never heard any alternative”. I say, “Free people, making choices for their lives and families, that best meets their needs, budgets and lifestyles, is the alternative.”

While we are on the subject of an alternative, I will repeat what I have been saying for years now;

Repeal Obamacare 100%
Take the demands off the insurance companies of what they must include in their coverage.
Enact the legislation that the National Association for the Self Employed developed several years ago;
Allow self employed people to create non-profit groups so they can acquire GROUP coverage in multiple states like big corporations.
Under Group Insurance, preexisting conditions are covered because the insurance company spreads the risk across the group coverage.
Raise the qualifications so more people can get Medicaid.
Enable Self Employed people to write off their health care cost like any corporation.
- Special Note: The Self Employed are the nation’s largest employer.
Provide a way for hospitals to recoup their losses for treating uninsured and/or illegal people who come to them for treatment.
Enforce the laws on the books right now regarding people entering our country illegally.
Provide a tax break for families who have demonstrated responsibility by acquiring health care coverage.

It is not rocket science. Let the market forces work and this mess will be settled. The Health Care industry was never the mess the Left claimed. Yes, they had their issues. Some of them was related to treating so many illegal people using the Emergency Rooms as their primary care and never paying the hospital bills.

In bottom line is this: President Obama, and whoever is pulling his strings, are determined to gain control over all American lives so they can throw out our Constitution and install a Socialist/Collective Governance. It’s never been about health care for the poor. It has always been about control.

For those of us who know that, we have to constantly bring every discussion with the Left back to that basic fact. We want our country back. We want, and demand the small government our founders envisioned and enacted. We demand you get out of our lives, let the free market forces work like they were designed to do, with as little interference by any government entities. Enforce the laws on we have on the books, especially the laws covering legal and illegal entrance in our country. Honor the Bill of Rights as they were intended and written. Let us be the free people our founders intended, and God the Father desires. And all the people said, “_______”.

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OBAMACARE AD: ‘HOPE HE’S AS EASY TO GET AS BIRTH CONTROL’

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by JOHN NOLTE

A few weeks ago the taxpayer-funded Thanks ObamaCare campaign released the “Brosurance” ads, which featured young men drinking beer, doing keg stands, and asking “Got Insurance?” The same organization has since released new ads, this time aimed at young woman. One features a young woman holding birth control pills while standing next to a young man.The ad’s caption expresses how eager she is to have sex with someone she has apparently just met:

OMG, he’s hot! Let’s hope he’s as easy to get as this birth control. My health insurance covers the pill, which means all I have to worry about is getting him between the covers. I got insurance.

Another ad features a young woman standing with actor Ryan Gosling. The caption reads:

Hey Girl, you’re excited about easy access to birth control and I’m excited about getting to know you. She got insurance.

You’ve come a long way, baby.

In order for the ObamaCare insurance pools to work; young, healthy people, like those featured in these ads, must sign up in droves to pay for the older and sicker people that are certain to enroll. These ads are obviously aimed at making ObamaCare appear to be hip, edgy, and cool (if not a little sordid).

How hip, edgy, and cool ObamaCare will look after these young people feel the rate shock of reality is the very thing that will determine whether the president’s signature piece of legislation implodes, or not.

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CRIMINAL TERROR CHARGES FILED AGAINST OBAMA

WND EXCLUSIVE: http://www.wnd.com/2013/11/criminal-terror-charges-filed-against-obama/#jbGr3doEIHIem3uO.99

Alleges involvement with Muslim Brotherhood

JEROME R. CORSI

WASHINGTON –- Several prominent media sources in Egypt are now reporting that Egyptian lawyers have filed criminal terrorism charges in the International Criminal Court against President Obama in addition to the criminal terrorism charges previously filed in Egyptian courts against the president’s half-brother Malik Obama.

Malik Obama is quickly becoming a person of interest in Egypt for his alleged management of funds for a terrorist organization based in neighboring Sudan. A group of Egyptian lawyers, meanwhile have charged President Obama with crimes against humanity for his support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

The charges come as the criminal trial against former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi is scheduled to begin in Egypt in January 2014. Morsi facing charges that he supported the Muslim Brotherhood in acts of violence directed against the Egyptian people.

President Obama is likely to be a subject in Morsi’s criminal trial because of evidence the Obama administration used the U.S. Embassy in Cairo to provide direct financial support to key Muslim Brotherhood political operatives, with the full knowledge and complicity of the Morsi government, as WND was first to report in August.

Criminal complaints filed at ICC

The Egyptian newspaper El Watan has reported a group of Egyptian lawyers has submitted a complaint to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, charging Obama with backing the group that incited widespread violence in Egypt both before and after what is known in Egypt as the “June 30 Revolution.” The Egyptian army coup d’état removed Morsi from the presidency July 3.

As first reported by CBN News, the complaint names several top-ranking Muslim Brotherhood leaders, beginning with the head of the organization, Muhammad Badie, as well as Mohamed al-Beltagy, Essam al-Erian and Safwat Hegazi.

The complaint charges that Obama coordinated, incited and assisted the armed elements of the Muslim Brotherhood in the commission of crimes against humanity in the period from March 7 through Aug. 18 in Egypt.

The complaint specifies the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt persecuted the country’s Christian minority, including the torching, destruction and plundering of some 85 Christian churches. The regime also scapegoated the Christian Copts in Egypt for their support of the June 30 Revolution and the removal of Morsi from the presidency, the complaint asserts.

The complaint alleges Muslim Brotherhood incitement against the Copts resulted in the murder of a 10-year-old girl who was shot and killed as she walked back from Bible class, the murder of a young Coptic priest who was shot in front of his church in the Egyptian Sinai with his body found mutilated and beheaded, and the murder of two girls, aged 8 and 12, who were riddled with bullets as they attended a Christian church wedding.

The complaint further alleges that since the Muslim Brotherhood denounced the Copts, entire towns and villages have been emptied of Christians. More than 100 Christian families, for example, have been driven from the North Sinai city of El Arish.

Muslim Brotherhood supporters are accused of extorting Copts by making them pay tribute money to Islamic overlords, while those unwilling to pay were attacked, with their wives and children being beaten or kidnapped.

In a YouTube video, CBN News contributor Raymond Ibrahim reported from Egypt details of alleged atrocities committed by Muslim Brotherhood members against Christians in Egypt;

Criminal complaints against Malik Obama

Former PLO member and native Arabic-speaker Walid Shoebat reported on his website that Youm7 television in Egypt has now confirmed Ahmed Nabil Ganzory – in his capacity as a lawyer and agent for Sadik Rauf Ebeid, a physician residing in the United States and an officer in the Egyptian Air Force – filed a criminal complaint against Malik Obama with Egyptian Attorney General Hisham Barakat.

WND reported in September that the complaint called for Malik Obama to be placed on Egypt’s terror watch list because of his involvement as an owner and investment adviser for the Sudan-based Islamic Dawa Organization, or IDO, and the organization’s umbrella group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

The following is a direct translation from Youm7:

Dr. Ahmed Nabil Ganzory, in his capacity as lawyer and agent for Dr. Sadik Rauf Ebeid, and resident in the United States of America, filed a complaint with Egypt’s Attorney General Hisham Barakat, against Malik Obama, accusing him of supporting terrorism in Egypt and for his involvement in managing the Islamic Da’wa Organization (IDO). The complaint also asks to include Chancellor Tahani Al-Gebali to substantiate claims against Obama. …
Complaint No. 1761 for the year 2013 reported to the Attorney General asked the Egyptian High Court to consider the suspicious activity of a group called the Islamic Da’wa Organization (IDO), which is owned and managed by Malik Obama. This group is now being investigated by international bodies and the attached evidence proves beyond a reasonable doubt that a close link exists between Malik Obama and some of the most notorious characters already wanted for their involvement in terrorism, as is consistent with the pictures and reports attached. …
The complaint also asks the court to bring in Malik Obama – a resident of the United States – to be questioned in regards to the terrorist groups in Egypt, whether by inciting or participating with or in any form of support punishable by law. It seeks permission to declare Obama a defendant in his right outside Egypt diplomatically, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the case of non-appearance and compliance for the investigation, the complainant requests monitoring [Mr. Obama] by including his name on all Egyptian airports and ports, and take the necessary legal steps. [emphasis placed by Walid Shoebat]

In August, WND reported Tahani Al-Gebali, chancellor of the Constitutional Court of Egypt, substantiated the claims made against Malik Obama. On a television news programs in Egypt, al-Gebali asked the court to bring Malik Obama to Egypt for questioning as “one of the architects” of investments made by the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ganzory, the attorney who filed the criminal complaint against Malik Obama, was identified in a recent interview on El-Balad TV in Egypt as an Egyptian constitutional law expert.

In the interview, Ganzory claimed he has “what it takes to convict Obama’s brother in financing terrorism.”

“Malik Obama will be brought to face justice in Egypt if and when these charges are proven,” he said.

In an email to WND, Dr. Sadek Raouf Ebeid, the U.S. resident who brought the criminal complaint in Egypt against Malik Obama, explained an attempt to serve the complaint to Malik in Kenya failed because he was not in the country at the time.

Ebeid further explained his attorney, Ganzory, is currently preparing to serve the complaint to Malik in the U.S.

Arguing that President Obama is complicit in advancing the activities of his half-brother, Ebeid said evidence WND has published suggests Malik Obama received unprecedented assistance from the White House through retroactive approval of tax-exempt status for the Barack H. Obama Foundation, a 501(c)3 organization created by Malik Obama in the U.S.

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Caught on Tape: Obamacare Navigators Tell Applicants to “Lie

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My Fellow Blacks, Can I Criticize Our Dear Leader Now?

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By Taleeb Starkes
Clash Daily Guest Contributor

Before committing the blasphemous and daring act of openly criticizing Dear Leader, it is obligatory that I first purify my spirit by reciting Dear Leader’s prayer.

That way, the Black community doesn’t condemn my soul for placing critical thinking over Black solidarity. It’s common knowledge that Blacks who criticize Dear Leader are considered “sell-outs” while Whites are labeled “racists.”

Even the Congressional Black Carcass (oops) Caucus knows that Dear Leader is untouchable. Congresswoman Maxine Waters once confessed to a Detroit crowd:

“We don’t put pressure on the president, let me tell you why. We don’t put pressure on the president because ya’ll love the president. You love the president. You’re very proud…to have a black man [in the White House] …First time in the history of the United States of America. If we go after the president too hard, you’re going after us.”

In short, Dear Leader could authorize drone strikes in the hood and Blacks would accept it without question.

Herman Cain, on the other hand, isn’t even allowed to deliver pizzas there without being questioned.

Anyway, without further ado, in this manner I pray:

Our Father who art in the White House, hallowed be thy name. Thy Constitution-less Kingdom come, thy will be done, in America as it is in the hood. Give us this day, our daily handouts and forgive our criminality, although we won’t forgive the White man for criminalizing us. And lead us not into self-sufficiency, but deliver us from patriotism. For thine is the Constitution-less kingdom, and the power, and the glory forever and ever and ever and ever.

Wow, after saying Dear Leader’s prayer, I now feel Blacker than ever, and I’m suddenly having second thoughts about criticizing him. Maybe I should just shut up and embrace today’s rationing of “Hope and Change.” Besides, Dear Leader has a strong disdain for dissenters.

In fact, according to the book Double Down: Game Change 2012:

“Obama had little patience for the ‘professional left,’ and vanishingly close to zero for what one of his senior African American aides, Michael Strautmanis, referred to as ‘professional blacks’ (as opposed to black professionals).”

The disobedient “professional blacks” need to throw themselves at Dear Leader’s feet and beg for mercy. As evidenced by the (more than) 90% Black turnout for him in 2008 and 2012, he’s our savior.

Therefore, in 2016, we Blacks should focus on raising that ninety percent to one hundred percent. Can we do it? Of course! We simply need to invoke Dear Leader’s original campaign slogan, “Yes, we can!”

Granted, the Constitution limits presidents to two consecutive terms, however, that antiquated piece of tissue has yet to derail Dear Leader’s agenda. Perhaps, he’ll eventually suspend it. So, again, “Yes we can!”

Despite having his only begotten “if i had a son” martyred by America’s racism, Dear Leader still showed his socialistic love for the country by instituting his ‘Holy Grail,’ commonly known asObamacare.

My gripe (and I use that term with humility) with Dear Leader is that his repeated assurance of “if you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance” has turned out to be an outright lie. Dear Leader and his disciples knew that the law would actually cause many to lose insurance.

Black media sites such as Thegrio.com (MSNBC’s product) and Theroot.com (Washington Post’s product), are amongst his many liberal scribes that are characteristically downplaying the lie. Essentially, they’re arguing that a few eggs had to be cracked to make the Obamacareomelet.

The protectionism isn’t surprising since their primary duty is to hide the fact that Dear Leader has no clothes.

Even so, outside of the palace walls, his subjects weren’t granted Obamacare waivers like his cronies. As a result, millions of cracked eggs are appearing in real time and very few omelets.

Realizing that the natives were becoming restless, Dear Leader decided to implement damage control.

He reached out to those millions who were abandoned by their insurers and simply declared, “I am sorry.” Although his disingenuous apology seemed to satisfy Black media, it adversely affected me.

Noticeably, he didn’t apologize to the families (such as mine) whose insurance premiums increased by several hundred percent, even though his website stated that a typical family would save up to $2,500 annually. Adding insult to injury, my family, like many others, doesn’t qualify for any ‘gap closing’ subsidy.

Apparently, being the working poor isn’t poor enough to garner sympathy from Dear Leader.

In 2008, Dear Leader’s website stated:

“For those who have insurance now, nothing will change under the Obama plan – except that you will pay less. Obama’s plan will save a typical family up to $2,500 on premiums by bringing the health care system into the 21st century: cutting waste, improving technology, expanding coverage to all Americans, and paying for some high-cost cases.”

Will my creditors understand that my non-payment is due to my bloated insurance premium? Would an “I am sorry” gesture to them suffice?

No, it wouldn’t!

That is why Dear Leader can keep his apology — especially since I couldn’t keep my insurance premium and others their basic insurance.

Nevertheless, while Dear Leader is apologizing, please apologize for weaponizing the IRS, the Benghazi failure, Fast and Furious, and the other scandals.

Oh wait, I think that I’ve said too much. I had better recite Dear Leader’s prayer again.
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Obama’s Army: British jihadist in Syria “I say to the United States, your time will come, and we will bleed you to death…”

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By GJWHG

These are the people Obama has decided to support and give weapons to. Syrian jihadists who say things like “… United States, your time will come, and we will bleed you to death…”

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This is one for the ages. President Reagan was a man unequaled in this present age. The following video needs to be played often and with as many people as possible.

Need to be uplifted today? Then watch this video, ans if possible, with as many young people as possible.

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WATCH: George W. Bush Thanks Our Veterans

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Katie Pavlich

Former President George W. Bush, who is an avid supporter of our troops, veterans and wounded warriors, has released a special Veteran’s Day message on behalf of the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

Since leaving the Oval Office in 2009, Bush has dedicated the majority of his free time helping Vets.

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Still More Evidence of Socialist at Work in America

Maryland Democrats In Annapolis Seek To Strip Mayor’s Office of Its Powers After Republican Wins Mayoral Race…

A coup d’état, how progressive.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Days after a Republican was elected mayor of Annapolis, City Council members say they will revisit legislation that would strip the mayor’s office of much of its power.

Democratic Alderman Ross Arnett of Ward 8 tells The Capital he will introduce a charter amendment to move Annapolis to a council-manager style of government. The city manager would report directly to the City Council, not the mayor.

Under Arnett’s legislation, the mayor’s post would be largely ceremonial. The mayor would retain a single vote on the council. Arnett says the change would stabilize the city’s management.

If the measure is approved, it would mean the Democratic-dominated council would be removing the powers of the first Republican mayor elected since 1997.

Last week, Republican Mike Pantelides defeated Democratic incumbent Josh Cohen.

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Veteran’s Day Salute

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Written on Monday, November 11, 2013 by David L. Goetsch

Veteran’s Day is a special day for our country and for me personally. Every November 11th, I find a quiet place where I can be alone for a few minutes to think, pray, and remember. I suspect I am not alone among veterans in needing a few moments to myself once a year to think my own thoughts and recall my own memories. Like many veterans I still find it difficult to adequately explain to people who have not served in uniform what my time in the military means to me and the impact it has had on my life. All of the baseball caps I wear carry the letters “USMC” just above the brim. People have asked me, “Why do you wear nothing but Marine Corps hats?” The best answer I can give to this question is, “If you have to ask that question, you wouldn’t understand the answer.”

The older I get the more meaningful my military service becomes to me. In fact, every Veteran’s Day as I pray for those who did not return or who returned broken in body or spirit, I thank God that I made the right decision and joined the Marine Corps at a time when service in any branch of the military was anathema to most of my peers. Joining the military today is viewed as a good thing, but that was not the case in the late 1960s and early 70s.

Part of my personal Veteran’s Day ritual is to contemplate a brief statement expressed by John Stuart Mill many years ago. Somehow Mill’s words seem to grow more powerful, more meaningful, and more relevant with each passing year:

“War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing that is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.”

I think the reason Mill’s words resonate with me is because when I joined the Marine Corps at the end of two years of college, several of my professors called me a “fool” as well as other things unprintable in a respectable journal. To them I became a symbol of insanity and a target of leftwing derision. I suppose it did not help that I gave back as well as I got, but my verbal combativeness only confirmed their opinion of me as a misguided war monger.

Last night I watched a moving story on the nightly news about the reception given to a company of Marines returning from Afghanistan. As the Marines deplaned and walked into the airport terminal, they were greeted by a huge crowd that had turned out to honor, welcome, and thank them. My immediate reaction was, “What a difference a few decades can make. Thank God things have changed.” I was proud of the community that welcomed these Marines home and happy for the Marines. They deserved the appreciation they received and much more.

Those of my generation who served in the military did not receive this type of welcome when they returned from overseas or, in the lingo of the time, when they came “back to the world.” I served during America’s most unpopular war. Soldiers, sailors, Marines, and Airmen of my generation returned from Viet Nam not to welcoming crowds but to rioting protesters dripping with derision, yelling epithets, and carrying signs with messages that read “baby killer,” “Nazi,” “war monger,” and worse. The animosity of the anti-war crowd during the Viet Nam era toward anyone in uniform was so vitriolic that some military personnel stopped wearing their uniforms off base. Jeering crowds would yell “shame, shame, shame” at young men in uniform. But the shame of this turbulent time rested not with those who served in the military but with—to paraphrase john Stuart Mill—those miserable creatures who scorned, derided, and harassed America’s warriors.

Things have changed in America since those turbulent days of the Viet Nam era. In most communities military personnel and veterans are treated as they should be: with dignity, respect, and appreciation. There are even former draft dodgers, anti-war activists, and underground subversives who have since recanted their former beliefs, apologized, and expressed regret for their behavior toward military personnel during the Viet Nam era. One of them is a friend of mine who tells me he dreads Veteran’s Day every year because he is embarrassed by his former life as a draft dodger and anti-war militant. What I appreciate about my friend—and one of the reasons I can accept him as a friend—is his honesty. He has looked me in the eye and admitted with great sorrow that his anti-war activism was based more on personal preservation and selfishness than a philosophical aversion to war. If this man could live his life over, he would be first in line to serve his country.

My hope for you—my fellow veterans—is that on this November 11th you are given the type of reception the company of young Marines returning from Afghanistan was recently given. You deserve it. No matter whether you earned the Medal of Honor or spent your entire tour of duty handing out boots in a supply billet, you are a hero. Why? Because when you took that step forward, raised your right hand, and swore to defend the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic you put your life on the line for your country. From the moment you took the oath, the military was free to send you wherever it wanted to do whatever was needed. Whether your oath led to combat duty or a service billet is irrelevant. What matters is that you stepped forward and signed up to serve our country. John Stuart Mill would be proud of you, and so am I. My message for veterans on November 11th is this: Because of your selfless service to our country, I admire you, I respect you, I salute you, and I thank you. No matter what else you do in life, for the rest of your life you can stand tall, look the world in the eye, and say with pride, “I served.” God bless you for your service to our country.

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A Veteran’s Perspective on this Veteran’s Day 2013

While He’s Away: A Poem About Being Gone

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While I’m away

The mission’s first

We’ll put our best against their worst

But victory will fail to quench my thirst

While I’m away

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While I’m away

The silence settles in

The mood is calm, the air is thin

My kingdom for one morn’ of childrens’ din

While I’m away

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While I’m away

Diminished dawns

The flock is far, the shepherd gone

The sheep will grow and graze and carry on

While I’m away

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While I’m away

Fools worship golden cows

With laps aflame and loins aroused

Let God protect our covenant of sacred vows

While I’m away

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While you’re away

I start a new routine

The laundry’s neat, the house is clean

But soon I miss the manly mess unseen

While you’re away

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While you’re away

Our things break down

With no one to repair around

In projects left undone our lair abounds

While you’re away

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While you’re away

The evil freaks

Through sudden cricks and eerie creaks

Our settling house at nighttime speaks, I’m scared

While you’re away

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While you’re away

It’s not the same

I’m thankful for the few who came

To help me play this sacrificial game

While you’re away

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While he’s away

I’m turning ten

This milestone never comes again

I understand, but struggle now and then

While he’s away

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While he’s away

I run the bases

Looking in the stands for faces

Sad to see the empty spaces left

While he’s away

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While he’s away

I lose my teeth

And sleep with them at night beneath

The pillow where I cry myself to sleep

While he’s away

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While he’s away

It makes me sad

Sometimes I’m a little mad

How come others get to have my dad

While he’s away?

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While he’s away

I’ll start to walk

And look up for my daddy’s gawk

But nowhere will I find his eyes to lock

While he’s away

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While I’m away

Their father’s not around

I’ve taught them though, one comfort sound

Another Father always keeps them found

While I’m away

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From One Veteran to Another, “Happy Veteran’s Day”

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JOHN MCNAUGHTON PAINTING

This may become a classic.

If you are familiar with John McNaughton’s paintings, you will love this one. This is his latest—his opinions on the current situation are stated very clearly by his paintbrush and his comments below, but no comment is really needed.

“As an artist I am reminded of the old saying “Nero fiddled while Rome burned.” History believes that Nero himself may have set the great fire that burned a part of Rome during his leadership. Afterwards, he blamed it on the Christians who suffered great persecution under his rule. I see great similarities to what we are experiencing today. Obama fiddled, while the people witnessed the demise of America . Only The Lord can cause the revival needed to save America . Pray for our country.” – JOHN MCNAUGHTON

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GREAT NEWS: BLACK GOLD: Massive Oil Discovery Is Deathblow For Saudis

http://girlsjustwannahaveguns.com/2013/11/black-gold-massive-oil-discovery-deathblow-saudis/#QWhs5UFB43KBuMlh.99

By GJWHG

It’completely ignoring it…

It is 6 times larger than the Bakken, 17 times the size of the Marcellus formation, and 80 times larger than the Eagle Ford shale.

All told the recent discovery outside a sleepy Australian town contains more black gold than in all of Iran, Iraq, Canada, or Venezuela.

The current estimates of 233 billion barrels are just 30 billion barrels shy of the estimatedreserves in all of Saudi Arabia.

Now, one renowned international energy expert predicts the proven reserves will be much bigger.

“The find may land at 300 or 400 billion barrels, making it one of the greatest unconventional oil discoveries any of us will see in our lifetimes,” says Dr. Kent Moors and advisor to six of the top 10 oil producers and active consultant to 20 world governments.

“It represents a bona-fide redrawing of the global energy map as we know it,” Moors says, “and the mainstream media is completely ignoring it.”

This massive find has been likened to the Bakken and Eagle Ford shale oil projects in the U.S., which have created legitimate boom times in Texas and North Dakota.

Even at the lowest estimate, Coober Pedy is set to make Australia a net oil exporter; at the higher estimate, Australia would become one of the world’s biggest oil exporters.

“What we’re seeing up there is a very, very big deposit,” says South Australia’s mining minister, Tom Koutsantonis, “This is a key part to securing Australia’s energy security now and into the future.”

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Homeless Mom Sent to Jail for Sending Her Kid to a Good School

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By Onan Coca

As a parent of three wonderful children, one of my greatest concerns is making sure that they are educated well. I want my children to enjoy the best education that I can afford to give them, and the most opportunities that might come along with that education. It’s not just me, either. Every parent I know and have had this discussion with says the same thing – they want to make sure their children get the best education they can possibly get.

Many of us take that idea for granted.

Many of us live in suburban areas where good schools (or at least acceptable schools) are the norm. Many of us have the means to ensure that our children can attend a school that is doing its job to educate, while also keeping our children as safe as possible. Many of us have the ability to find an alternate solution to our kid’s school if we have to.

Some parents do not have these blessings.

Some parents are forced to send their children to failing schools with dangerous problems.

Parents like Tonya McDowell. The 34-year-old, who was homeless when she was charged with felony larceny last year, said she wanted the best education possible for the boy.

Ms. McDowell is no saint. She was also convicted of selling drugs and has had other run-ins with the law, but that’s not really the point, is it?

Ms. McDowell will now spend the next five years in prison for “stealing” about $15K in “free” services from the city of Norwalk, CT. How one steals “free” services is still up for debate. What is not up for debate is the ridiculous punishment for attempting to get her child the best education she could. All over the United States millions of children of illegal aliens are provided with a free education every day, and none of their parents face prison.

Ms. McDowell and her son were homeless at the time of her arrest, but her last address had been in Bridgeport, CT. Authorities say she fraudulently listed the home of her child’s sitter as her own to enroll her son in the Norwalk, CT elementary school that he attended. Ms. McDowell says that she was living in Norwalk on a part-time basis because they were using the town’s homeless shelter as a residence.

Stories like this one are where the liberal’s cries of “fighting poverty” fall short. As conservatives we advocate for school choice, which would allow poor families like Ms. McDowell’s to enroll in the best schools they can find access to. Liberals fight to keep these families in failing schools, which simply perpetuates the cycle of poverty. Why are liberals so against giving the poor a way out of poverty? It’s simply disgusting.

No matter the reason, the prosecution of Ms. McDowell for trying to give her son a better education is a complete miscarriage of justice and a waste of taxpayer dollars. The good people of Connecticut likely spent more prosecuting her for her “crime” than they did in educating her son. Now her son will be without his mom for at least the next five years, all because she wanted him to have a chance to get out of poverty.

Give the poor hope – give them school choice!

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At Fundraiser, Obama Admits To Be “Remaking The Courts”

http://conservativebyte.com/2013/11/fundraiser-obama-admits-remaking-courts/#RhCX7KJMzf0TvFWK.99

Posted on November 8, 2013

One of the consequences of the 2012 election.
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Yep, at a fundraiser in Texas last night, President Obama said his administration is “remaking the courts.”

Here’s the full quote for context via a WhiteHouse.gov transcript:

We were able to reform our financial system so that the likelihood of taxpayer-funded bailouts is a lot less than it was. We were able to expand funding for young people going to college. We were able to expand national service for young people who want to serve. We fought long and hard for consumer protections that weren’t there before.

As Lisa mentioned, we are remaking the courts. I know that we’ve got some lawyers here, and here in Texas sometimes people feel a little frustrated about the pace of appointments here in Texas. But you should know that in addition to the Supreme Court, we’ve been able to nominate and confirm judges of extraordinary quality all across the country on federal benches. We’re actually, when it comes to the district court, matching the pace of previous Presidents. When it comes to the appellate court, we’re just a little bit behind, and we’re just going to keep on focused on it.

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CNN THROWS IN THE TOWEL; MOVES AWAY FROM NEWS

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/11/08/CNN-Throws-In-Towel-moves-away-from-news

by JOHN NOLTE

CNN appears to be throwing in the towel, at least when it comes to being a cable news channel. With its ratings and reputation sinking, CNN announced Friday that the third-place network will be investing heavily in everything except serious news-gathering. This new focus will be towards “a variety of unscripted formats, including other travel shows, and ‘immersive’ nonfiction programs.” This also includes documentary films like “Blackfish.”

CNN still says that its “bread and butter” will always be breaking news. But it is in that arena that the network has been hit hardest. Once upon at time, even when Fox News dominated in the ratings, CNN would still come in first when big news broke. America was still turning to CNN when it mattered.

Today, Fox News not only dominates the everyday ratings but retains that domination during big news events, such as the Boston Marathon bombing and this week’s off-year elections. Moreover, during big news, CNN is now losing to low-rated MSNBC.

The writing on the wall is clear: CNN simply will not survive if it attempts to continue on as a cable news network. Years of left-wing bias have cost the network its “Most Trusted Name In News” status, as has a series of factual bungles during big news events. During the Trayvon Martin story, both of these liabilities came out in full force.

CNN’s desperation move to reinvent itself as something closer to the Discovery Channel is going to come at a huge price in the last remaining area CNN can boast about: profits. Despite its low ratings, CNN has always been hugely profitable. That is about to change. CNN is now in a position where it must go all in:

We are investing at CNN, part of a strategic decision to broaden it beyond politics and breaking news,” Time Warner C.E.O. Jeff Bewkes said on a call with investors. “These programming investments will put pressure on its margins, but will bring new advertisers to CNN.”

In fact Time Warner C.F.O. John Martin—who will take over Turner Broadcasting in January—cautioned investors that as a result of the investments, CNN may not see income growth for years.

“Financially, we don’t break out network by network, but I will tell you directionally, CNN’s operating income this year is down, and that is because of proactive decisions by [CNN president] Jeff Zucker and the new team there to try and invest in the programming in many, many dayparts,” Martin said. “Going forward, we will continue to evaluate what the right level of investment is for CNN. The expectation is going to be on a multi-year basis this thing is going to go back to growth.”

Other than “The Lead with Jake Tapper” and programming outside of the news arena (Anthony Bourdain, “Blackfish, etc.), CNN is a dying network loaded with unappealing anchors who are abysmal at delivering in-depth, objective news coverage.

Now CNN has been forced to risk it all to become something else.

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http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/08/muslim-student-pitches-a-fit-over-these-awesome-halloween-costumes/#ixzz2kBeTQJcg

Muslim student pitches a fit over these awesome Halloween costumes

A controversy has broken out at Washington University in St. Louis over a Facebook photo apparently showing five students dressed up for Halloween as a Navy SEAL team capturing Osama bin Laden with garish neon water guns.

The photo was originally posted on Facebook on Oct. 30 with the title “Halloween ’13 Amurrica!!” reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The photo shows three dudes in camouflage attire surrounding a kid also in camo garb who is sporting a long, fake beard and turban. There’s also a guy in the background holding up an American flag.

Washington University student Mahroh Jahangiri later objected to the photo because she views mimicking the American military’s killing of Osama bin Laden as a hateful Muslim stereotype.

“As a Muslim-American who has been subjected to taunts of ‘dirty paki’ and ‘get the fuck out of WU and America’ on this campus, the reasons why this photo are offensive are painfully obvious and represent a broader, more aggressive (and apparently violent) Islamophobia rampant here at WashU and in the United States,” Jahangiri has explained on her Facebook page.

“This photo makes a costume of the lives of the thousands of civilian Muslim men who have been murdered during our ‘War on Terror’ and the countless others who have been mutilated, robbed, and stabbed to death in hate crimes across the United States,” she also rants.

“This is disgusting and cannot be tolerated on this campus. There are very few Muslim students on this campus, and our voice is not loud enough. For those of you who had not heard of this until now, now you have. What are we going to do to change this?”

School officials at Wash. U. have sided earnestly with Jahangiri.

No fewer than three high-ranking functionaries at the school including the chancellor, Mark S. Wrighton, signed a statement saying they are “disappointed and saddened” about the awesome Halloween stunt, notes the Post-Dispatch. The statement called the image “entirely inconsistent with who we are as an institution, our values and the way in which we engage in the world around us.”

The statement from the administrators begs the question: exactly what is the image of Washington University? Without question, the school is famous for promoting massive amounts of anal sex.

Now the article gets really NSFW

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I Am a Marine

US Marine Corp, Happy Birthday and Thank You!

by Leslie Deinhammer

About Leslie Deinhammer

Leslie Anne Deinhammer, conservative, proud wife of a Marine Corps veteran and author of How To Visit A Loved One In The Hospital transitioned from healthcare marketing to hospital chaplaincy left the… More

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For 238 years they have stood guard, beheld the whites of the eyes of the enemy and surmounted evil. They are honored to do it. The few, the proud is not solely a slogan, it is certainty. For little pay, accolade or fanfare they serve valiantly, protect the vulnerable and garner peace. On November 10^th, Americans get to say thank you. Thank you to those who exemplify Semper Fidelis, the always faithful, the Marines.

Equipped with a sense of duty, men and women voluntarily enlist; the appeal being a sense of belonging, a cause greater than themselves – the collect, the brotherhood, the Corps.

Depending on their city of origin, recruits arrive at MCRD San Diego or Parris Island. Upon arrival recruits are stripped of their civil liberties and inalienable rights, quickly appreciating both. They now exist at the will of their drill instructor. They learn in the Corps Marines are neither black nor white. Marines come only in shades of green – light green or dark green. No sense of entitlement is tolerated, liberties are earned and advancement meritorious. They must warrant the title Marine and the Eagle, Globe and Anchor. Only upon the honorable completion of Marine Corps boot camp are these bestowed.

Marines serve the greater good -not your secular humanist’s greater good. Marines serve the God, Corps and Country.

Serving Country greatly differs from serving the State.

The State mandates. The State regulates. The State controls. The State giveth, the State taketh away. The State removes God from the vernacular of the people. The people are soulless masses who parasitically consume precious resources – masses who must be systematically corralled, educated and groomed from cradle to grave. It is the masses who must feign gratitude at the feet of the polity for what little rights they have.

In deference to totalitarianism, Country embodies national identity, sovereignty, home. People are not the people, they are individuals, families, businesses, congregations who exert choice, self-determination and will.

Marines fight, die for the Midwestern farmer, the retired schoolteacher, the Hollywood anti-war zealot – not for masses as defined by Marx.

The brotherhood of the Corps motivate each other, invoking the “Lore of the Corps” and the valor of Marines who came generations before. Stories of the leathernecks, devil dogs, the blood stripe, the bravery of Dan Daly, credited for saying, “Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” and one, Chesty Puller, “So they’ve got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those bastards won’t get away this time!” (Sorry for the language, but I didn’t think it was appropriate to use asterisks in this instance.)

They carry on and loyally fight despite three hot square meals being sequestered to two, their families denied death benefits and the issuance of girly unisex covers. The Marine Corps has long survived the fire of despots, the demonization by peacenik progressives and the follies of the apologist presidents. May they continue to do so for generations to come.

So Happy Birthday Marine Corps. Thank you. The nation will sleep well knowing that you are on watch.

Read the rest of this PolitiChicks.tv article here: http://politichicks.tv/column/us-marine-corp-happy-birthday-thank/#WjyrLx7voSQ4KB5J.99

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Another Example of the Growing Police State

Dad Calls Cops on Son to Teach Him a Lesson, Cops Shoot Son Dead

A father’s attempt to teach his son a lesson for taking his truck without permission ended in tragedy Monday after a local police officer shot the teenager dead.

James Comstock told the Des Moines Register he called the police on his son Tyler after the latter took the former’s truck in retaliation for refusing to buy him cigarettes.

Ames Police Officer Adam McPherson reportedly spotted the lawn care company vehicle and pursued it onto the Iowa State University campus, where a brief standoff ensued after Tyler allegedly refused orders to turn off the engine.

McPherson eventually fired six shots into the truck, two of which struck Tyler who was later pronounced dead.

The official report claims the action was necessary in order “to stop the ongoing threat to the public and the officers.”

Tyler’s dad says he was unarmed at the time.

“So he didn’t shut the damn truck off, so let’s fire six rounds at him?” exclaimed Gary Shepley, Tyler’s step-grandfather. “We’re confused, and we don’t understand.”

James said his son had his fair share of minor troubles with the law, and was distraught over a recent breakup with his girlfriend, but was in the process of turning his life around, and was working on obtaining his GED at Des Moines Area Community College.

“He was a smart kid. He made his own computers. He was interested in IT,” James told the Register.

The family’s demands for answers got even louder following the revelation that a member of the Ames police department suggested twice that officers call off the chase.

“He took off with my truck. I call the police, and they kill him,” James said. “”It was over a damn pack of cigarettes.”

McPherson is currently on paid leave pending the results of his department’s investigation.

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Obamacare by Morning: Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood Perform Hilarious Obamacare Skit during CMAs

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Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood get a little political during the CMAs and perform a hilarious skit on Obamacare.

During the show Brad screams in pain and says he “twerked” his back. After Carrie helps him out with the actual definition on twerking, she suggest he signs up for Obamacare.

Watch this video to see what happens after that. Hilarity ensues.

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Viral Video Shows Children Reacting To Gay Marriage Proposals

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Viral Video Shows Children Reacting To Gay Marriage Proposals

The following is a 16 minute video of various aged children viewing homosexuals proposing marriage. Then they are questioned about their perspectives on homosexual people and how they are viewed by various groups of people and religious institutions.

This is very disturbing to me. It reflects the deliberate programming of our children by Progressives determined to shape their minds and perspectives. It demonstrates the success the Progressives have had with their Social Engineering.

This video shows us the moral decline of America because it focuses on children s understanding of homosexuality.

For those of you who are Christians, this video may be something you might want to view with your children and then have a DISCUSSION (no lectures) to determine what they think, or may have been taught them in public schools. For those of you who are Youth Ministers, you too may want to show this video with your youth group and conduct a very honest and open discussion.

Please pray for America’s children everyday. The Church, Freedom and a moral society is always a generation away from extinction.

Jerry Broussard

http://conservativevideos.com/2013/11/viral-video-shows-children-reacting-gay-marriage-proposals/

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Another Devotional by Dr. David Jeremiah

The Price of Worship

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” – Romans 12:1

Recommended Reading: Romans 6:12-20; 12 Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires. 13 Do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness. 14 For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? By no means! 16 Don’t you know that when you offer yourselves to someone to obey him as slaves, you are slaves to the one whom you obey-whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness? 17 But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. 18 You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

19 I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness. NIV

Imagine this Old Testament conversation: “John, I am headed to the temple to offer a sacrifice for something I did earlier this week. Could you give me one of your blemish-free lambs to offer? I only have one and need to keep him for breeding.” Or consider this modern-day conversation: “Mary, I made a commitment to donate blood at the blood drive. Could you go in my place and donate a pint of blood for me?”

What’s wrong with these questions? It’s obvious—the person who has an obligation or commitment doesn’t want to make a sacrifice to fulfill his duty. And yet that negates the very notion of sacrifice. A personal sacrifice costs something; “sacrifice” means we have less than before. That is consistent with Paul’s words in Romans 12:1 where he urges us to make ourselves a “living sacrifice.” Imagine asking someone, “Could you give your life to Christ in my place? I’d like the benefits but am not crazy about the cost involved.”

Worshipping God involves many sacrifices: time, money, energy, our will, and our decisions. We should count the cost before making the commitment (Luke 14:28-33).

“Consecration is resolution that is not afraid of sacrifice.” – Unknown

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A Devotional by Dr. David Jeremiah

Worship … and Serve

”Then Jesus said to him, “Away with you, Satan! For it is written, ‘You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve.'”

Matthew 4:10

Recommended Reading: Matthew 4:1-11; 4:1 Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the desert to be tempted by the devil. 2 After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry. 3 The tempter came to him and said, “If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread.”

4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'”

5 Then the devil took him to the holy city and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. 6 “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down. For it is written:

“‘He will command his angels concerning you,

and they will lift you up in their hands,

so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.'”

7 Jesus answered him, “It is also written: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.'”

8 Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor. 9 “All this I will give you,” he said, “if you will bow down and worship me.”

10 Jesus said to him, “Away from me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God, and serve him only.'”

11 Then the devil left him, and angels came and attended him. NIV

In his book Called to Worship, Vernon Whaley writes, “True worship embraces love for the people of God—demonstrated through service…. Our worship of God cannot be isolated from the real world or trapped inside the walls of our ‘secret place.’ It must impact us to reach out to and at times confront the culture around us.”

In the New Testament the Pharisees knew much about God and His Law, but they didn’t have compassion for the people around them. When the Lord Jesus healed someone on the Sabbath, the Pharisees were critical. But true worshippers exhibit a God-like behavior that touches the lives of others in service. When we truly worship God, we’re transformed into His likeness and become people who reach out to others and serve them. When we enter into the needs of other people and begin to minister to them, we recapture the sense of the wonder of who God is.

Sing a song of praise to the Lord today. Find a way to serve God and touch the lives of those around you.

When God’s people turn their hearts to biblical worship, there will be social change. And with that change comes ethical and moral accountability.

Vernon Whaley

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Obama Secret Service Agent: “It’s Worse Than People Know… and I’m Not Trying to Scare You Either”

http://www.infowars.com/obama-secret-service-agent-its-worse-than-people-know-and-im-not-trying-to-scare-you-either/

By Mac Slavo
SHTFplan.com
November 6, 2013

You may have your suspicions about what’s going on behind closed doors at the White House.

But according to one of President Obama’s former body guards it’s much worse than we can even imagine.

Dan Bongino has protected numerous Presidents over his career, including President Obama. He has been within ear-shot of many a discussion in the Oval Office, but up until this administration has stayed out of the lime light. Apparently, however, the activities of this administration are so abhorrent that he could no longer keep quiet.

Bongino is so upset with what he witnessed that he is now running for Congress because he feels it’s the only way to take America back from the sycophants who have made every effort to enrich themselves with money and power at the expense of the American people.

How bad is it?

We’re in a lot of trouble.

The President sees government – and I think it’s because of his lack of experience and maybe community organizing in the past – as this shiny new toy.

For all the disagreements I had with Clinton, Carter and Bush there were always limits… there was that line you just didn’t cross… We cross it seemingly every day. We’re lost in the scandals…

The Jamie Dimon shakedown at Chase… the HHS scandal.. Kathleen Sebelius shaking down thehealth care industry for money… the IRS… it’s to the point where these scandals in and of themselves would be huge back-breaking scandals [but] are just lost in the scandal fog of this administration…

It’s worse than people know… and I’m not trying to scare you either.

This is coming from someone who has stood next to Presidents for his entire career.

The implications are absolutely terrifying, especially considering how bad the publicly known scandals already are. Can you imagine what’s happening outside the view of Americans?

This is not about Republican or Democrat, it’s about liberty, pure and simple, and this administration has done more to damage our individual rights than any that has come before it.

Bongino expresses this succinctly when discussing the NSA scandal and the administration’s use of the information acquired by government snoops all over the country.

You give the government information and it will be abused. It is not a matter of if it’ll be abused, it’s only a matter of when…

When the line between the personal self and the public self… when that line is determined by the government that keeps your information in a trove for release any time they need it, how are you free?

..the bottom line is, having worked inside the government, it will be abused. It is only a matter of time.

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We are all doing something wrong. The catch is not “if” we’re doing something wrong. It is “are your private wrongs impacting on my civil liberties?” If not, the government has no business in your life… it’s a red herring…

If you’re not doing something wrong? The question is only whether your private wrongs that have no effect on anyone else become exposed for the government’s benefit.

…It’s only a matter of time before someone slaps an email on your desk from fifteen years ago… and says ‘look what we got against you.’

Remember, when the key is held by someone else liberty means absolutely nothing. That personal and private self are being evaporated.

Make no mistake. They – and that especially includes this administration and/or agents acting under their directives and initiatives – will use everything they can against you when it suits them.

The prerogative has always been to destroy anything or anyone who threatens the establishment. We’ve seen it time and again with this, as well as past, White House administrations and Congressional membership.

Now, more than ever before, they will start targeting those who speak out against them and jeopardize their agenda.

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Ex-Secret Service agent Dan Bongino quit after witnessing first-hand the horrors inside the bubble of the Obama administration, where the president is comfortably excluded from the effects of his poor policies. Check out his upcoming book “Life Inside the Bubble: Why a Top-Ranked Secret Service Agent Walked Away from It All” available on Amazon.

Also, check out Alex Jones’ interview with Mr. Bongino where he shared his views on how politicians in both political parties have become so corrupt, that any focus on prescriptive policies for a better tomorrow have been lost.

This article was posted: Wednesday, November 6, 2013 at 5:52 am

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We have all heard the old joke, how can you tell when a Politician is lying? Their mouth is moving. Funny right? Not so much anymore. It’s not funny when your government and president continue to boldly lie to your face time after time after time, and no one is responsible for anything. I, for one, am just about at my breaking point, and I think many other Americans feel the same way.

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Dormant Christians Living Alongside Mindless Cowards

http://clashdaily.com/2013/11/dormant-christians-living-alomgside-mindless-cowards/#8ZpE1hrR9AXVFc8P.99

By Neisha Potter
Clash Daily Guest Contributor

Did you hear about the craze in Bordentown, New Jersey and their preposterous decision to remove Christmas carols from their school Christmas play? Great, let’s watch our children sing Lady Gaga and Katy Perry at the school Christmas play this year because THAT would be appropriate! There comes a point where we have to stand our ground as a nation, moreover, as believers in Jesus Christ. Society will devise an array of excuses not to give Him praise.

So what Christmas is not the exact birth date of our Lord; the simple fact that Christmas is a national holiday which recognizes that Jesus was born is monumental. Removing the celebration of Christmas does not change the historical fact that he existed and was born to the Virgin Mary any more than disowning the celebration of Easter because it is not the exact day of his resurrection; my concern rest in the removal of acknowledgement, not the event.

Singing Christmas songs does not dictate your eternal state any more than celebrating Christmas, but let’s remove Christ from society even more by rescinding the national recognition of that fact that He came. We removed prayer and bibles from schools, so why not eradicate the celebration of his birth, forbid Christmas carols, ban Christmas lights in the streets and jump on the ban wagon of Happy Holidays because Merry Christmas is offensive. We are evolving into a nation where there is no place for Christ, and if the mention of his name is offensive, we will ban that too.

Take a good look at other countries where people are martyrs for their faith because the government has banned their freedom to worship the one true God! We are a weak nation, conforming to other religions and beliefs instead of standing up for our own. We should be steadfast in our faith; therefore, we will not be altering our faith to accommodate yours. It is not oppression folks; it is called remaining faithful and steadfast to the One who died to save, Jesus Christ.

Do you honestly believe Iraq would alter their beliefs in order to accommodate a Christian simply because being Muslim offends you? Of course not! They will stick you in a ten foot hole and set you on fire because they do not like the ring tone on your phone. The United States of American is multicultural and people should not be treated differently due to diversity, but we should not have to conform as Christians to accommodate nonbelievers and other faiths.

Society calls this equal rights, diversity, tolerance and freedom, but I think society is mindless cowards. What kind of risks do we face as a society without Jesus Christ as our foundation? Oh’ wait, did you just mention China?

Christians are losing their privilege every day; without caution we will be the persecuted church. “Continue to remember those in prison as if you were together with them in prison, and those who are mistreated as if you yourselves were suffering” (Hebrews 13:3). It is our responsibility to stand against those who are trying to tyrannize our faith. Society is concerned with oppression, but what about the coercion over the Christian population? Over the last fifty years we have removed bibles, prayer and biblical teachings from education.

We are not allowed to speak of Christ in the workplace, Christian and Christmas music is forbidden in many places, we are persecuted for disagreeing with same-sex marriage, debates linger about removing One Nation under God from the Pledge of Allegiance (this is removed in some schools already), ongoing debates about removing In God We Trust from US Currency and placing your right-hand on the bible in a court of law is no longer required when placed under oath and now the removal of Christmas carols from our schools, so tell me again that we are not losing Christian rights and privilege.

Keep on living a dormant Christian life and the recognition of Christ will be so far removed from society that we will cease to have the right to worship him in the comfort of our own home. We should celebrate the birth, death and resurrection of our Lord daily, yet if an opportunity arises where we can recognize his existence on a national level, then we should fight for it – be a part of it and cease the devils attempts of having power over the people of this nation by removing the recognition and celebration of the Holy One. Christianity should remain ineradicable to our societal foundation.

Ephesians 6:12 (NIV), “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”

Matthew 7:24-27 “Therefore, everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, and streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”

Rodeo 2013 019 Neisha Potter is a married mom of three. Potter graduated from Dallas Baptist University with a BAS in Christian Ministry and Psychology.

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Obama Lies Because He Thinks the American People are Stupid Enough to Believe Him

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Benghazi, LIE! Hillary Clinton said, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” AMERICANS DIED!

NSA Spying, LIE! Not just spying on foreign communications but spying on you and me, AMERICANS. Collecting our emails, social media activities, phone calls and keeping the information on file WITH NO INTENTION OF STOPPING!

IRS Targeting, LIE! Suppressing any individual or Organization that opposes the Administration.

Fast and Furious, LIE! Illegal gun running program that provided weapons to Drug Cartels & Terrorists but no big deal. AMERICANS DIED!

Obamacare, LIE! LIE! LIE! Even though Obama’s entire campaign was based on his promise, “You can keep your current plan” repeated over and over again. See for yourself.

Are you starting to see a pattern here?

But now that Millions of Americans are having their Insurance Plans canceled, they had to come up with a new LIE to try to make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy but this one doesn’t make you all warm and fuzzy, at least it shouldn’t, and almost instantaneously every Lefty in Washington started reciting it. So what are they saying? The ground work for this LIE was laid by Obama himself at a talk he gave yesterday, 10/30/13, in Boston.

So what did he, and now all the rest, say? With no apology or no “I was wrong” he just stepped up and basically said you can keep your plan as long as it meets the requirements and if your plans are being canceled it’s not because of Obamacare but rather because the plan you had was lousy. Your insurance company was charging you for a lousy plan and now they have to cancel it and offer you a better plan at a lower rate. He went on to say that the reason those plans were not available in the new Healthcare Marketplace is because “no one was going to buy those lousy plans”, even though Millions of people already have.

Here is the way I see this. What he is really saying is this is not our fault, it is the fault of the Insurance companies for selling you a lousy plan in the first place and you are too stupid to even know you had a lousy plan, and we know better than you do what is best for you, so when you get canceled, now you will have to go to the Healthcare Marketplace and buy a new, more expensive, higher deductible plan because I need at least 2 Million people to sign up for my monstrosity of an attempt to Socialize Healthcare for it to work and if it’s going to take me getting your insurance canceled, so you have no insurance at all, to force you to do that, I am ok with that.

This, my friends, just flat pisses me off and it should absolutely piss you off too. Who the hell does he think he is? If you continue to support such actions and believe that what he and his Administration is doing is being done with your best interests at heart because they care about you, then do me favor. Call Santa Claus for me and tell him I want a new Government for Christmas because you must have Santa’s cell phone number on your speed dial.

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Is A Race War Occurring?

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By Taleeb Starkes
Clash Daily Guest Contributor

Dr. Thomas Sowell, the intellectual juggernaut, recently concluded that a Black and White race war is in effect. He stated, “Initial skirmishes in that race war have already begun, and have in fact been going on for some years. But public officials pretend that it is not happening, and the mainstream media seldom publish it at all, except in ways that conceal what is really taking place.”

The Peoples’ Colonel, Allen West, echoed Dr. Sowell’s sentiment and further added, “We were supposed to be living in a post-racial America since we elected the first ‘African-American’ president. That’s hardly the case.”

Even though these gentlemen are demonized in the Black community for not being Grievance Industry members or stockholders, I respect them tremendously. They are straight-shooting realists, and as Black men, understand that racial solidarity shouldn’t supersede critical thinking. Moreover, Sowell and West want to do what’s right for America instead of what’s best for a few Americans.

Despite my admiration, I disagree with their assessment that the continued Black-on-White violence indicates a present or future race war. A race war requires at least two engaging races; the reoccurring Black/White intra-racial violence is overwhelmingly one-sided (Black). Seemingly, since the Zimmerman acquittal, this lopsided dynamic of Blacks attacking Whites has become more noticeable. The latest victim was an 87-year-old WWII veteran who was fatally assaulted last week and robbed in his driveway by four Black teens.

Still, I maintain that it’s not a race war.

It’s payback.

This payback is encouraged by the victimization mindset that’s deeply rooted in the Black community. Analogous to Critical Race Theory, which is taught in many schools, this mindset instills the notion of racism being so pervasive that no amount of individual effort can overcome it. Additionally, Whites are branded as universal oppressors who consistently use institutionalized racism as a weapon of mass (Black) destruction. Thus, any Black-on-White offense is regarded as payback for White persecution, and the crime may even be excused as P.T.S.D (Post Traumatic Slavery Disorder).

Actor Jamie Foxx exemplified this mindset while promoting his movie (Django). He joyously proclaimed, “I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that? And how black is that?” Imagine a White actor saying, “I get to whip Black people in the movie. How great is that?”

Even the White liberals who proudly display their “Hope & Change” bumper stickers and “Justice for Trayvon” sympathies can’t escape the perception that Whites are inherently racist. In fact, White liberals are viewed as Whites who simply internalize their racism, whereas White conservatives are considered shamelessly racist. Either way, the victimization mentality emphasizes that “good and bad” Whites are simply opposite sides of the same racist coin.

Naturally, the Black-on-White paybacks rarely receive condemnation from the Black community, Black Press, Oval Office, or Grievance Gurus. Any form of denunciation will quickly lead to the questioning of one’s “blackness.”

Undoubtedly, White resistance is surfacing. I believe that this observation sparked Dr. Sowell’s article. However, this mounting White backlash isn’t a violent endeavor; it’s an awareness campaign and shedding of White Guilt.

The timely book, “White Girl Bleed A Lot’: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It,” which was referenced by Sowell and West, correctly categorized this phenomenon as racial violence. Indeed, it is racial violence, and author Colin Flaherty documents hundreds of violent episodes along with the mainstream media’s deliberate silence.

I’m not surprised that the mainstream media conveniently overlooks this pattern of racial violence. After all, it conflicts with their portrayal of Blacks as permanent victims who are incapable of being aggressors against Whites. Once again, the mainstream media is spitting at the public and reporting it as rain.

Dr. Sowell said that he was appreciative that old age may spare him from seeing a race war. I say, enjoy the remainder of your earthly time because there is and will not be a race war. Besides, a 63% White population versus a 13% Black population would be more of a slaughter than war.

Hopefully, Dr. Sowell does live long enough to see Allen West run on a presidential ticket.

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Taleeb Starkes is the author of an Amazon #1 Best Seller book that confronts the subculture within the BLACK community titled, “THE UN-CIVIL WAR: BLACKS vs NI**ERS.” Find Taleeb on Twitter

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The President Who Has Done the Most Damage

by Dennis Prager

I have been broadcasting for 31 years and writing for longer than that. I do not recall ever saying on radio or in print that a president is doing lasting damage to our country. I did not like the presidencies of Jimmy Carter (the last Democrat I voted for) or Bill Clinton. Nor did I care for the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. Bush. In modern political parlance “compassionate” is a euphemism for ever-expanding government.

But I have never written or broadcast that our country was being seriously damaged by a president. So it is with great sadness that I write that President Barack Obama has done and continues to do major damage to America. The only question is whether this can ever be undone. This is equally true domestically and internationally.

Domestically, his policies have gravely impacted the American economy. He has overseen the weakest recovery from a recession in modern American history. He has mired the country in unprecedented levels of debt: about $6.5 trillion dollars in five years (this after calling his predecessor “unpatriotic” for adding nearly $5 trillion in eight years). He has fashioned a country in which more Americans now receive government aid — means-tested, let alone non-means tested — than work full-time.

He has no method of paying for this debt other than printing more money — thereby surreptitiously taxing everyone through inflation, including the poor he claims to be helping, and cheapening the dollar to the point that some countries are talking another reserve currency — and saddling the next generations with enormous debts. With his 2,500-page Affordable Care Act, he has made it impossible for hundreds of thousands, soon millions, of Americans to keep their individual or employee-sponsored group health insurance; he has stymied American medical innovation with an utterly destructive tax on medical devices; and he has caused hundreds of thousands of workers to lose full-time jobs because of the health care costs imposed by Obamacare on employers.

His Internal Revenue Service used its unparalleled power to stymie political dissent. No one has been held accountable. His ambassador to Libya and three other Americans were murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya. No one has been blamed. The only blame the Obama administration has leveled was on a video maker in California who had nothing to do with the assault.

In this president’s White House, the buck stops nowhere. Among presidents in modern American history, he has also been a uniquely divisive force. It began with his forcing Obamacare through Congress — the only major legislation in American history to be passed with no votes from the opposition party. Though he has had a unique opportunity to do so, he has not only not helped heal racial tensions, he has exacerbated them. His intrusions into the Trayvon Martin affair (“If I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon”) and into the confrontation between a white police officer and a black Harvard professor (the police “acted stupidly”) were unwarranted, irresponsible, demagogic and, most of all, divisive.

He should have been reassuring black Americans that America is in fact the least racist country in the world — something he should know as well anybody, having been raised only by whites and being the first black elected the leader of a white-majority nation. Instead, he echoed the inflammatory speech of professional race-baiters such as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. He has also divided the country by economic class, using classic Marxist language against “the rich” and “corporate profits.” Regarding America in the world, he has been, if possible, even more damaging. The United States is at its weakest, has fewer allies, and has less military and diplomatic influence than at any time since before World War I.

One wonders if there is a remaining ally nation that trusts him. And worse, no American enemy fears him. If you are a free movement (the democratic Iranian and Syrian oppositions) or a free country (Israel), you have little or no reason to believe that you have a steadfast ally in the United States.

Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important and longest standing Arab allies, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. Both the anti-Muslim Brotherhood and the anti-Iran Arab states have lost respect for him.And his complete withdrawal of American troops from Iraq has left that country with weekly bloodbaths. Virtually nothing Barack Obama has done has left America or the world better since he became president. Nearly everything he has touched has been made worse.

He did, however, promise before the 2008 election that “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” That is the one promise he has kept.

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Fox News’ Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower

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Of all people surprised that I became an evangelical Christian, I’m the most surprised.

Kirsten Powers

[ posted 10/22/2013 2:21PM ]

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Just seven years ago, if someone had told me that I’d be writing for Christianity Today magazine about how I came to believe in God, I would have laughed out loud. If there was one thing in which I was completely secure, it was that I would never adhere to any religion—especially to evangelical Christianity, which I held in particular contempt.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church in Alaska, but my belief was superficial and flimsy. It was borrowed from my archaeologist father, who was so brilliant he taught himself to speak and read Russian. When I encountered doubt, I would fall back on the fact that he believed.

Leaning on my father’s faith got me through high school. But by college it wasn’t enough, especially because as I grew older he began to confide in me his own doubts. What little faith I had couldn’t withstand this revelation. From my early 20s on, I would waver between atheism and agnosticism, never coming close to considering that God could be real.

After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 to 1998. The White House surrounded me with intellectual people who, if they had any deep faith in God, never expressed it. Later, when I moved to New York, where I worked in Democratic politics, my world became aggressively secular. Everyone I knew was politically left-leaning, and my group of friends was overwhelmingly atheist.

I sometimes hear Christians talk about how terrible life must be for atheists. But our lives were not terrible. Life actually seemed pretty wonderful, filled with opportunity and good conversation and privilege. I know now that it was not as wonderful as it could have been. But you don’t know what you don’t know. How could I have missed something I didn’t think existed?

Very Open-Minded

To the extent that I encountered Christians, it was in the news cycle. And inevitably they were saying something about gay people or feminists. I didn’t feel I was missing much. So when I began dating a man who was into Jesus, I was not looking for God. In fact, the week before I met him, a friend had asked me if I had any deal breakers in dating. My response: “Just nobody who is religious.”

A few months into our relationship, my boyfriend called to say he had something important to talk to me about. I remember exactly where I was sitting in my West Village apartment when he said, “Do you believe Jesus is your Savior?” My stomach sank. I started to panic. Oh no, was my first thought. He’s crazy.

When I answered no, he asked, “Do you think you could ever believe it?” He explained that he was at a point in life when he wanted to get married and felt that I could be that person, but he couldn’t marry a non-Christian. I said I didn’t want to mislead him—that I would never believe in Jesus.

Then he said the magic words for a liberal: “Do you think you could keep an open mind about it?” Well, of course. “I’m very open-minded!” Even though I wasn’t at all. I derided Christians as anti-intellectual bigots who were too weak to face the reality that there is no rhyme or reason to the world. I had found this man’s church attendance an oddity to overlook, not a point in his favor.

As he talked, I grew conflicted. On the one hand, I was creeped out. On the other hand, I had enormous respect for him. He is smart, educated, and intellectually curious. I remember thinking, What if this is true, and I’m not even willing to consider it?

A few weeks later I went to church with him. I was so clueless about Christianity that I didn’t know that some Presbyterians were evangelicals. So when we arrived at the Upper East Side service of Redeemer Presbyterian Church, I was shocked and repelled by what I saw. I was used to the high-church liturgy of my youth. We were meeting in an auditorium with a band playing what I later learned was “praise music.” I thought, How am I going to tell him I can never come back?

But then the pastor preached. I was fascinated. I had never heard a pastor talk about the things he did. Tim Keller’s sermon was intellectually rigorous, weaving in art and history and philosophy. I decided to come back to hear him again. Soon, hearing Keller speak on Sunday became the highlight of my week. I thought of it as just an interesting lecture—not really church. I just tolerated the rest of it in order to hear him. Any person who is familiar with Keller’s preaching knows that he usually brings Jesus in at the end of the sermon to tie his points together. For the first few months, I left feeling frustrated: Why did he have to ruin a perfectly good talk with this Jesus nonsense?

Each week, Keller made the case for Christianity. He also made the case against atheism and agnosticism. He expertly exposed the intellectual weaknesses of a purely secular worldview. I came to realize that even if Christianity wasn’t the real thing, neither was atheism.

I began to read the Bible. My boyfriend would pray with me for God to reveal himself to me. After about eight months of going to hear Keller, I concluded that the weight of evidence was on the side of Christianity. But I didn’t feel any connection to God, and frankly, I was fine with that. I continued to think that people who talked of hearing from God or experiencing God were either delusional or lying. In my most generous moments, I allowed that they were just imagining things that made them feel good.

Then one night on a trip to Taiwan, I woke up in what felt like a strange cross between a dream and reality. Jesus came to me and said, “Here I am.” It felt so real. I didn’t know what to make of it. I called my boyfriend, but before I had time to tell him about it, he told me he had been praying the night before and felt we were supposed to break up. So we did. Honestly, while I was upset, I was more traumatized by Jesus visiting me.

Completely True

I tried to write off the experience as misfiring synapses, but I couldn’t shake it. When I returned to New York a few days later, I was lost. I suddenly felt God everywhere and it was terrifying. More important, it was unwelcome. It felt like an invasion. I started to fear I was going crazy.

I didn’t know what to do, so I spoke with writer Eric Metaxas, whom I had met through my boyfriend and who had talked with me quite a bit about God. “You need to be in a Bible study,” he said. “And Kathy Keller’s Bible study is the one you need to be in.” I didn’t like the sound of that, but I was desperate. My whole world was imploding. How was I going to tell my family or friends about what had happened? Nobody would understand. I didn’t understand. (It says a lot about the family in which I grew up that one of my most pressing concerns was that Christians would try to turn me into a Republican.)

I remember walking into the Bible study. I had a knot in my stomach. In my mind, only weirdoes and zealots went to Bible studies. I don’t remember what was said that day. All I know is that when I left, everything had changed. I’ll never forget standing outside that apartment on the Upper East Side and saying to myself, “It’s true. It’s completely true.” The world looked entirely different, like a veil had been lifted off it. I had not an iota of doubt. I was filled with indescribable joy.

The horror of the prospect of being a devout Christian crept back in almost immediately. I spent the next few months doing my best to wrestle away from God. It was pointless. Everywhere I turned, there he was. Slowly there was less fear and more joy. The Hound of Heaven had pursued me and caught me—whether I liked it or not.

Kirsten Powers is a contributor to USA Today and a columnist for Newsweek/The Daily Beast. She is a Democratic commentator at Fox News.

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The Conservative Alternative to Obamacare

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Jim DeMint

November 1, 2013 at 6:30 am

Dear friends,

We’ve been very critical of Obamacare because it’s hurting Americans. But that has caused some to ask, “What’s your alternative?”

The truth is, we’ve always had alternatives, but our critics weren’t ready to listen. Now, the disastrous rollout of Obamacare has a lot of people asking for alternatives to government-run health care. And conservatives are ready.

With each passing day, it becomes clearer that Obamacare will not reduce premiums for average American families, bring down health care spending, or truly improve health care in this country. Instead, people are receiving notices from their insurance companies that their policies are being canceled or their premiums are skyrocketing.

At The Heritage Foundation, we are envisioning a health care system where you and your family come first.

What if you could choose and control your own health insurance? What if you could buy the insurance and health care services you want and need? What if your health insurance didn’t go away when you changed jobs?

The good news is, all of these things are possible. There can be life after Obamacare—and it doesn’t mean going back to the status quo that we had before. We can move ahead, taking the best health care system in the world and making it even better.

Our experts in the Center for Health Policy Studies have put together a new paper that explains how these conservative ideas work. It includes:

How we will help people with pre-existing conditions
How we will help you keep your health insurance when you change jobs
How we can lower costs and improve health care quality—no matter what your income is
How we can honor people’s faith and protect the right of conscience in health care

We are excited to share this set of commonsense solutions with you—not just because they are good public policy solutions, but because they bring hope. We have hope for life after Obamacare, and these policies would give you back control over your own health care.

Now that’s worth working toward. I hope you’ll join us.

Jim DeMint

Read the Morning Bell and more en español every day at Heritage Libertad.

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Japan’s ‘toxic’ monster creeping towards US

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By Maxim Lott

Published November 01, 2013

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A NOAA model from Sept. 23 shows that a vast though disperse field of debris from a tsunami that struck Japan in 2011 is likely still dispersed north of the Main Hawaiian Islands and east of Midway Atoll. (NOAA)
The 5 Gyres Institute, which monitors plastic pollution out at sea, said it found an abandoned boat, a tire, and a traditional Japanese tatami matt floating in the Pacific — all part of the massive debris field from the tsunami. (5GYRES.ORG)
The 5 Gyres Institute, which monitors plastic pollution out at sea, said it found an abandoned boat, a tire, and a traditional Japanese tatami matt floating in the Pacific — all part of the massive debris field from the tsunami. (5GYRES.ORG)
A giant dock from Japan that recently washed ashore in Oregon — carried across the Pacific after being torn loose by the tsunami.(NOAA)
An aerial view of debris from the 8.9 magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami that struck northern Japan. (U.S. NAVY)

An enormous debris field is creeping toward the U.S. in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that shook Japan in 2011, killing nearly 16,000 people and launching 1.5 million tons of floating objects into the sea.

That most concentrated part of the junk field is easily broader than Texas and centered approximately 1,700 miles off the Pacific coast, between California and Hawaii, although the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hasn’t published more precise estimates. The agency estimates that the trash overall is scattered across an area in the ocean about three times the size of the continental United States.

The debris ranges from pulverized particles to entire docks that washed over from Japan, to intact boats, motorcycles, soccer balls, traditional Japanese flooring, and even some Japanese sea creatures never seen on the U.S. West Coast. “High windage” items reached the Pacific Northwest as early as winter 2011. Smaller debris is “sailing” here on the tides — NOAA estimates that the widely scattered detritus may show up intermittently along shorelines for a long period of time, over the next year or more.

In addition to physical junk, a wave of slightly radioactive water released from the broken Japanese Fukushima nuclear reactor is predicted to reach shore in 2014 — but scientists point out that it is so diluted that it is harmless.

‘We’re finding that all kinds of Japanese organisms are growing on the debris.’

– John Chapman of the Marine Science Center at Oregon State University

In one of the more dramatic photos of debris, two rooftops and an upside-down boat can be seen floating in the ocean. In another, a giant dock from Japan washed ashore in Oregon.

Even more interesting may be what’s living on the dock.

“At first we were only thinking about objects like the floating docks, but now we’re finding that all kinds of Japanese organisms are growing on the debris,” John Chapman of the Marine Science Center at Oregon State University told FoxNews.com.

“We’ve found over 165 non-native species so far,” he added. “One type of insect, and almost all the others are marine organisms … we found the European blue mussel, which was introduced to Asia long ago, and then it grew on a lot of these things that are coming across the Pacific … we’d never seen it here, and we don’t particularly want it here,” he said, arguing that it could be “invasive” and displace current marine life.

Many other creatures have been found, too.

“In the debris we found the Northeastern sea star … as well as a type of brown algae that’s used to make miso soup. We’d never seen it here before.”

Chapman added that the migrant creatures took scientists completely by surprise.

“We thought, ‘the Pacific can’t be crossed by living organisms from Japan’ … and we were wrong, very wrong,” he said, adding that while a journey across the Pacific typically kills whatever clings to it, there were just so many pieces of debris launched by the tsunami that some were bound to take paths favorable to whatever organisms were on it.

“It wasn’t just the humans that were thrown around, it was these other things on the shore as well,” he said.

And he expects to see more creatures, because lot of debris is still out floating in the Pacific, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and to people who have been out to look for it.

“We found an abandoned boat, a tire, and a tatami matt — that’s traditional Japanese flooring made of woven reeds,” Stiv Wilson of the 5 Gyres Institute, which monitors plastic pollution out at sea, told FoxNews.com. Gyres was on an expedition to the “North Pacific Garbage Patch,” an area with few ocean currents where tons of plastic garbage accumulates, and that’s where he found the Japanese debris.

“We found a fishing vessel that was barely above water. It had Japanese characters on it and was made of fiberglass. On the front of the boat we found a rope that was ripped, so the tsunami wave probably hit it and tore it from dock. Then the wave must have hit it against something else, because the stern and the motor were missing.”

Gyres said he and his team also brought a Geiger counter with them to measure radiation.

“We didn’t find anything irradiated, we were getting inconsequential readings. I think there’s a little fearmongering about it.”

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration agrees, and reports on its site: “Radiation experts agree that it is highly unlikely that any tsunami-generated marine debris will hold harmful levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear emergency.

Some debris in West Coast has been tested by the states, including items known to be from the tsunami, and no radioactive contamination above normal was found.”

That’s fortunate, as fisherman report seeing more debris lately.

“We have been seeing more and more,” Glen Spain, Northwest regional director of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations, told FoxNews.com.

“The major hazards of this stuff is that it can carry invasive species, like the pier that washed up. And the bigger stuff can be a navigational hazard.”

The next wave of debris will likely hit shores soon, Chapman noted.

“With winter and spring winds — that’s when it generally shows up. We’re going into that season again soon,” he said.

The author of the piece can be reached at maxim.lott@foxnews.com or on twitter at @maximlott.

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Inside China: Nuclear submarines capable of widespread attack on U.S.

By Miles Yu

Chinese state-run media revealed for the first time this week that Beijing’s nuclear submarines can attack American cities as a means to counterbalance U.S. nuclear deterrence in the Pacific.

On Monday, leading media outlets including China Central TV, the People’s Daily, the Global Times, the PLA Daily, the China Youth Daily and the Guangmin Daily ran identical, top-headlined reports about the “awesomeness” of the People’s Liberation Army navy’s strategic submarine force.

PHOTOS: Take that, China — check out the U.S. Navy’s nuclear submarines

“This is the first time in 42 years since the establishment of our navy’s strategic submarine force that we reveal on such a large scale the secrets of our first-generation underwater nuclear force,” the Global Times said in a lengthy article titled “China for the First Time Possesses Effective Underwater Nuclear Deterrence against the United States.”

The article features 30 photos and graphics detailing, among other things, damage projections for Seattle and Los Angeles after being hit by Chinese nuclear warheads and the deadly radiation that would spread all the way to Chicago.

China’s sub fleet is reportedly the world’s second-largest, with about 70 vessels. About 10 are nuclear-powered, and four or more of those are nuclear ballistic submarines capable of launching missiles.

Heavily influenced by Soviet naval models that stressed underwater forces, China’s nuclear submarine development began with the reverse-engineering of a Soviet Golf-class conventional-powered sub in the 1950s.

In the 1980s, China developed its first ballistic missile sub, the Type 092 Xia-class, which has 12 launch tubes for the Julang (Giant Wave)-1 missiles. The JL-1 had a limited range and failed multiple test launches.

In 2010, a new class of missile sub, the Type 094 Jin class, entered the service. It is capable of launching 12 to 16 JL-2 missiles with a range of about 8,700 miles, covering much of the continental U.S. with single or multiple, independently targetable re-entry vehicle warheads.

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Chinese calculations for nuclear attacks on the U.S. are chillingly macabre.

“Because the Midwest states of the U.S. are sparsely populated, in order to increase the lethality, [our] nuclear attacks should mainly target the key cities on the West Coast of the United States, such as Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego,” the Global Times said.

“The 12 JL-2 nuclear warheads carried by one single Type 094 SSBN can kill and wound 5 million to 12 million Americans,” the Global Times reported.

China also has developed land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles — notably the DF-31A, which has a range of 7,000 to 7,500 miles.

“If we launch our DF 31A ICBMs over the North Pole, we can easily destroy a whole list of metropolises on the East Coast and the New England region of the U.S., including Annapolis, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Portland, Baltimore and Norfolk, whose population accounts for about one-eighth of America’s total residents,” the Global Times said.

All the state-run press reports stressed the point that the PLA’s missile submarines are now on routine strategic patrol, “which means that China for the first time has acquired the strategic deterrence and second strike capability against the United States.”

“Our JL-2 SLBMs have become the fourth type of Chinese nuclear missiles that threaten the continental United States, after our DF-31A, DF-5A and DF-5B ICBMs,” said the Global Times.

• Miles Yu’s column appears Fridays. He can be reached at mmilesyu@gmail and @Yu_miles.

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Watch President Obama Promise 23 Times That You Can Keep Your Health Plan Under Obamacare

http://www.businessinsider.com/obama-on-obamacare-if-you-like-your-plan-you-can-keep-it-2013-10#ixzz2jPDYVjeT

JOSH BARRO

New York Magazine has put together a supercut of President Obama promising that, under the Affordable Care Act, if you like your health plan, you can keep it. Twenty-three times in all from 2008 to 2010.

Usually, the president used the same formulation: A variation on “If you like your plan, you can keep your plan.” But New York also found this quote from September 2010: “If you’re happy with what you’ve got, nobody’s changing it.” This does not wash with the White House’s recent excuse that Obamacare didn’t change your plan, insurance companies did.

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Barack Obama’s DHS Advisor Mohamed Elibiary: “America is an Islamic Country”

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/10/barack-obamas-dhs-advisor-mohamed-elibiary-america-islamic-country/#ixzz2jMCzD7Oq

by Tim Brown

I was alerted earlier today on Facebook that Barack Obama’s Muslim Brotherhood member and Department of Homeland Security advisor Mohamed Elibiary has claimed that the United States is an Islamic Country. Perhaps, he thinks so because he is a Muslim Brotherhood member and an Islamist, Barack Obama, is the President. Well I have news for him.

Mohamed Elibiary

Friends of FreedomOutpost.com, I cannot be silent, nor politically correct when it comes to this issue, so I will state it openly: Barack Obama and Mohamed Elibiary are engaging in taqiyya(1). They are deceiving the American people about Islam. They are deceiving them about our history.Granted, there are many that could claim that our Founders, at least many of them were of the Masonic persuasion, rather than specifically Christian (For more on this, I recommend Dr. Gary North’s Conspiracy in Philadelphia, which you can download for free by clicking here), but that does not take away from the Christian, not Islamic, heritage of America.

Mohamed Elibiary is described as:

Mohamed Elibiary is the founder of Lone Star Intelligence, LLC. He has advised numerous federal, state and local law enforcement organizations on homeland security-related matters. In 2009 he was acknowledged in a Congressional Research Service report for advising the Information Sharing Environment Program Management Office on the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative. In 2010 he testified before Congress on “Working with Communities to Disrupt Terror Plots.” In 2011 he was awarded the Louis E. Peters Memorial Award, the FBI’s highest public service award for “his extraordinary contributions to specific cases in support of the FBI’s counterterrorism mission.” In 2012 the Office of the Federal Public Defender, a division of the U.S. Court, recognized Mohamed for his “tremendous service” leveraging his Homegrown Violent Extremism expertise in the United States vs. Daniel Patrick Boyd counter-terrorism case.

I was unable for some reason to embed Elibiary’s tweet, or mine for that matter (You can access my Twitter, as well as Elibiary’s by clicking the blue links. So here is a screenshot:

I further commented on Facebook here.

I called him out on engaging in taqiyya, just as Janna Brock did on his support of the Muslim Brotherhood, which led to his removing the R4BIA from his Twitter account. Elibiary is a coward and demonstrated that by removing the symbol from his Twitter account because of pressure. I will not back away from my claims that he is an Islamist and all those of the Muslim Brotherhood are as well. They have over a 1,400 year track record, following in the footsteps of their non-prophet Mohammed, the murdering, thieving pedophile.

I told Elibiary he was engaging in taqiyya, and he knew it. I also pointed out that I have addressed the true founding of this country with the Mayflower Compact, which he had no explanation for. Facts are stubborn things.

Elibiary, like all Islamists, promote the teachings of a pedophile, and I pointed that out. Mohamed Elibiary, along with Barack Obama, all members of the Mulism Brotherhood and those who espouse Islam in our government, should be tried as traitors and when found guilty of treason, executed under the law.

Is my desire that they be executed? No. My desire is that they would come to the knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ and that they would repent, but seeing that they are more concerned with advancing their caliphate and not the best interests of the United States, then I see no alternative for them. This man certainly does not belong in a position in which he advises on Homeland Security.

In fact, notice his tweet. He says that the law of the land is an “Islamically compliant constitution.”

Really? Then pray tell Mohamed, who is the Lord mentioned in the “Year of our Lord” at the end of the Constitution? Is it Allah? Is it Mohammed? No, it’s the risen Son of God, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is our Lord, but you refer to him as only a prophet, and a bastard child at that! Your prophet is dead and your god, Allah, is a perversion of the true and living God.

Additionally, if our constitution is Islamically compliant, then why is your boss’ federal attorney threatening people with prosecution and imprisonment for pointing out the truth about Islam, something they clearly do not have authority to do under the First Amendment of the very constitution you are claiming as your own? Furthermore, why aren’t you calling out people like Bill Killian who is intimidating Americans with regard to Freedom of Speech? It really isn’t too Islamic compliant, is it?

In fact, Elibiary’s claims strike me as such outright lying, that I am compelled to challenge him. Mr. Elibiary, I challenge you to debate, very open and public to demonstrate your claims that the United States is Islamic and her Constitution are Islamic compliant. I challenge you anywhere, anytime to put your money where your mouth is and let’s see who really knows their history. Let’s see who is speaking for their lying prophet and who is willing to engage in an honest view of America’s history. (This challenge has been tweeted to Mr. Elibiary. We’ll see if he will play the man and respond.)

Our founding fathers fought Mohammedans like you and your boss. Our veterans have fought communist sympathizers and Marxists in both World Wars and Vietnam, like those in the Obama administration. I challenge you Sir to an open debate. If you are not willing to deal with it openly and in a public forum where we can speak, then perhaps you might want to engage here on Freedom Outpost. Either way, I challenge you to man up! Stop hiding behind your Twitter account and provide the evidence to back up your claims. Until then, you are nothing more than a mouthpiece for a fascist “religion” that is founded on the teachings of a demon possessed pedophile.

About Tim Brown

Husband to my wife. Father of 10. Jack of All Trades. Christian and lover of liberty. Residing in the U.S. occupied Great State of South Carolina. Follow Tim on Twitter.

(1) In Islam taqiyya تقية (alternative spellings taqiyeh,taqiya, taqiyah, tuqyah) is a form of religious dissimulation, or a legal dispensation whereby a believing individual can deny his faith or commit otherwise illegal or blasphemous acts while they are at risk of significant persecution.

This practice was emphasized in Shi’a Islam whereby adherents may conceal their religion when they are under threat, persecution, or compulsion. Taqiyya was developed to protectShi’ites who were usually in minority and under pressure. In the Shi’a view, taqiyya is lawful in situations where there is overwhelming danger of loss of life or property and where no danger to religion would occur thereby.

The term taqiyya does not exist in Sunni jurisprudence. In the Sunni view, denying faith under duress is “only at most permitted and not under all circumstances obligatory”. However, there are examples of practicing taqiyya among Sunnis where it was necessary.

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