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Obama Should Never Have Crossed This Line

June 12, 2012 by 9 Comments

President Obama face WH photo SC Obama should never have crossed this line

Recently, Barack Obama mysteriously ‘evolved’ his position on gay ‘marriage’ the day after his VP, Joe Biden, took the same position on national television. For someone who’s been avoiding the question for as long as he has, that’s a mighty quick evolution, I’d say.

All razzing aside, it’s blatantly apparent to anyone with two working brain cells that Obama was simply pushed into endorsing same sex ‘marriage’ by his loose lipped VP. It’s not the first time, nor will it likely be the last, that Joe Biden accidentally pushes his boss into taking a public stance that hurts him politically.

And hurt him, it did. He knew that it would, which is why he avoided taking that stance for as long as he did.

Despite the enduring support of the politically correct media and the hard left, the nation hasn’t taken kindly to having the gay agenda forced upon them by public institutions, the entertainment industry, and every level of government. Gays have become a politically and legally protected class, with super rights that other Americans do not possess.

This fact has not been lost on most Americans, who long ago matured enough to accept these people for who they are, but who balk at their insistence that we not only grant them the right to be, but that we also support their choice of lifestyle. And if we won’t willingly support it, by golly, they’ll get the government to force us to support it!

It’s a long-established fact that the black culture in America is more opposed to homosexuality than any other racial demographic in the nation. As a melanin-enriched American myself, I can personally vouch for that assertion. For what it’s worth, there’s one person in my large extended family who is gay, yet who has never come out of the closet with the family. Despite the fact that this man is one of the most outspoken liberals I have ever known, that is one line that he will not cross. Ever.

Whatever the roots of blacks’ anti-gay sentiments, I assure you, they’re very real, and that they represent the majority view in that community. That said, blacks have matured on the subject of homosexuality with the rest of the broader culture, but they have far less tolerance for its outward, in-your-face expression than other Americans.

Which brings us back to Barack Obama’s ‘evolved’ views on the subject. Because he’s a liberal’s liberal, who practices the usual class warfare of the left, he’s in the unenviable position of taking one side over the other in a battle of wills between two of his disparate constituencies. Both supported his election overwhelmingly, and he’s relying on both to support his re-election bid this fall. Who to choose? For Obama, the answer was always ‘neither’ because doing so would automatically alienate one of them.

Unfortunately for him, smooth talkin’ Joe made that choice for him. But why did he allow himself to be boxed into that corner at all? In my opinion, it’s because Obama doesn’t have the strength of character, nor the political instincts to know how or when to forcefully correct an underling who has embarrassed him in public. For all his ‘dazzling’ teleprompter reading ability, the man just cannot think on his feet and doesn’t have the personal skills to quickly assess a situation and turn it to his advantage like so many politicians do. Like so many other impulse decisions he’s made since being president, the ‘optics’ on this one are horrifying in the rear-view mirror.

He’s now broken faith with the one sector of his supporters who’ve identified with him more than any other. Already, black pastors across the country are denouncing his decision on gay ‘marriage’ and are counseling their congregations to stay home on election day. There’s no doubt whatsoever that Obama has finally gone a step too far for even his most ardent supporters. It’s a line he should not have crossed with blacks. Ever.

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More On Obama’s Socialist Ties

June 12, 2012 by 6 Comments

A multi-billion dollar media complex with thousands of reporters and researchers couldn’t do in 2008 what a conservative columnist and an army of bloggers did in a few months—uncover Barack Obama’s extensive ties to the Socialist New Party in the mid-1990s. The pertinacious Stanley Kurtz and Breitbart.com’s army of bloggers have uncovered not only Obama’s membership in this Left-wing abomination, but the fact that he signed a “Candidate Contract” and paid dues into the coffers of this group that sought to turn the United States into a socialist utopia. Furthermore, evidence has turned up that at about the same time, Obama had ties to the Chicago branch of the Democratic Socialists of America.

In 2008, conservatives were called right-wing bigots for questioning Obama’s past (Kurtz was referred to as a “right-wing hatchet man” for bringing up Obama’s ties to the New Party). But with Obama moving the country towards European Democratic Socialism, leading us over the cliff of economic suicide (with Greece as our model), many in the mainstream public are taking a second look at conservatives’ siren song of Obama’s past socialist connections as the root of the economic destruction of our country.

 

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Who Voted For Scott Walker? Obama Supporters

June 12, 2012 by 3 Comments

Scott Walker Who Voted For Scott Walker? Obama Supporters

Fascinating results from the bitter Wisconsin recall election in which Republican Governor Scott Walker defeated the effort by Democrats and organized labor to remove him from the office to which he was elected in 2010.

In 2010, Scott Walker was elected governor over his Democratic opponent Tom Barrett by a margin of 5.77 percent. Enmity against Governor Walker was triggered by his 2011budget repair bill which increased contributions of government employees to their pensions and health care plans, ended most collective bargaining rights for government workers, and ended the automatic deduction of union dues from the paychecks of government workers.

In this week’s recall election, Governor Walker increased his margin of victory over the same opponent to 6.9 percent. So all the controversy over the budget repair bill actually increased Governor Walker’s popularity, with a larger voter turnout for the recall election than in 2010.

Exit polls conducted for and published by the New York Times reported that Wisconsin’s recall voters still favored President Obama over challenger Mitt Romney by 51 percent to 44 percent. But of the 51 percent favoring President Obama, fully 18 percent reported voting for Governor Walker. Thus about 9 percent of recall voters were Obama supporters who voted to retain Scott Walker, and this exceeded his overall margin of victory in the recall election.

Put another way, it appears that Governor Walker was able to win the recall election only because of significant support he received from Obama supporters. What does that tell us?

I think it tells us that a significant number of Obama supporters share the concern of Republican voters over the broken political process by which elected officials trade future underfunded pension and health care benefits in exchange for votes and political support from unions representing government employees.

Most elected officials just want to get re-elected, and don’t worry about future budget problems that will have to be faced by future elected officials because of the insufficiently funded pension and health care promises that were made in exchange for union votes and support.

But the ticking time bomb of underfunded pension and health care obligations for government retirees eventually goes off when the economy contracts, overall government revenues decline, the needs of the poor and unemployed increase, both health care expenses and life expectancies exceed projections, and the return on investments misses projected targets. Money gets diverted from the poor, children, and the elderly to meet pension obligations. And critics point out that the benefits received by government retirees greatly exceed the benefits received by the private sector taxpayers who are paying for them.

Most private sector workers if they have retirement plans at all, now have defined contribution plans, where they receive in benefits only what they and their employers have set aside for them, which is subject to market risk. In contrast, most state and local government employees can qualify for defined benefit plans by which they are entitled to stated future benefits without limit and regardless of market fluctuation, often indexed for inflation. And private sector workers typically make larger contributions to their health care coverage than unionized government workers.

The same budget crisis felt in Wisconsin because of rising health care and pension benefits is being felt in other states and local governments all across America. Elected officials in most of those jurisdictions will try to kick the problem down the road, to be addressed only after they are out of office.

But perhaps Governor Walker’s recall victory in Wisconsin will encourage some of them to take the political risk of trying to limit future government obligations now.

Coincidentally, on the same day that Wisconsin voters decided to stick with the governor who has taken that risk, voters in the California cities of San Jose and San Diego approved by large margins ballot initiatives opposed by employee unions to reduce retirement benefits for city workers. The mayors of both cities described the reductions in city employee pensions as essential.

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© Copyright 2012 Jan Ting

Jan Ting is a Professor of Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law and a former Assistant Commissioner for Refugees, Asylum and Parole, Immigration and Naturalization Service, U.S. Department of Justice. Jan can be reached at janting@temple.edu.

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The Obama Strategy: If You Can’t Beat ‘em, Sue ‘em

June 12, 2012 by 2 Comments

Sheriff Joe Arpaio speaking SC The Obama Strategy: If you cant beat em, sue em

If you were president, and your failed policies had resulted in an economy that was steadily sinking into the abyss of bankruptcy; an American citizenry whose lives, safety, and personal freedoms were left in a threatened state; and a list of emboldened enemies and alienated allies of your nation just a few months before your final public contest for re-election, what would you do?

Well, if you’re Barack Hussein Obama, the answer is abundantly clear; you simply enact the measures you know by heart, straight from a familiar page of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. You “pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” That is just what Mr. Obama and his administration have done as they project their failures onto one of their latest victims in a court of law. This time, the victim is none other than Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. We can easily speculate that this strategy not only provides a distraction from the current president’s failed policies, especially those concerning the securing of the southern U.S. border. But it also represents his attempt at a payback toward Sheriff Joe for doing a better job than he at securing the nation’s borders and a protective measure to secure the future votes of illegals as instant citizens who are provided plenty of incentive by Obama and his Democrat party to become loyal liberal voters for years to come.

Arpaio has fittingly been labeled as “America’s Toughest Sheriff” for good reason. He has taken his job very seriously and has realized that the geography of his jurisdiction has come with special obligations toward the citizens under his watch. The most obvious and immediate threat to our southwestern states, and Arizona in particular, is the rapidly Northward moving activity of the Mexican drug cartels. Especially in recent years, these brutal entities have been responsible for the kidnappings and executions of many U.S. citizens, the participation in illegal arms trades made possible by our own Attorney General Eric Holder, and the obvious transgression of engaging in their very profitable drug trade with the United States. Sheriff Joe has remained loyally committed to stopping illegal invaders into our states, many of whom violate other American laws, displace would-be American workers, and significantly contribute to the bankrupting of our public schools, hospitals, and social services.

Arpaio is a stoic figure in the law enforcement community, and his record stands for itself. He and his deputies singlehandedly apprehend 25% of all criminal illegal aliens in the U.S. each year. This fact essentially means that the sheriff has not only successfully protected his own state, but also the rest of the United States.

After Obama and Holder’s unyielding 3-year investigation of Sheriff Arpaio’s department for any wrongdoing, the have now filed a “racial profiling” suit against him, asking a judge to force the sheriff to relinquish control of his department to the Department of Justice. The Obama administration and their legions of doom have committed to investing millions of dollars to secure a victory in this court proceeding.

Sheriff Joe though, as usual, shows no signs of backing down. He takes his position of employment seriously, and his immovable stance to successfully fulfill his obligations serves to be an inspiration to Americans everywhere. This loyal public servant needs and deserves our support, and his continued service for the people of Arizona and the United States will benefit the safety, security, and well-being of all Americans.

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Maxine Waters Ethics Case To Go Forward

June 12, 2012 by 14 Comments

Maxine Waters Maxine Waters Ethics Case To Go Forward

It was in August of 2010 that the House Ethics Committee decided to proceed with charges against California Congresswoman Maxine Waters for contriving to procure “special favors” for the Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank. And although “Waters has done her damnedest during [these] three years to exploit as many legal technicalities as possible to try to get the investigation halted…” it now looks as though the jig might finally be up.

In 2008, Representative Waters set up a meeting between officials of the Treasury Department and members of a “trade association” of minority-owned banks. The meeting, however, consisted almost exclusively of OneUnited Bank executives who, to the surprise of the Treasury people, asked them for a $50 million dollar loan!

It seems the minority-owned OneUnited was in trouble. It also seems Maxine Waters’ husband, Sidney Williams, was on the board of OneUnited and owned $350,000 worth of the bank’s stock–stock that would have been worthless if the bank failed. The Congresswoman forgot to mention this minor point to Treasury when arranging the get-together.

Now who came to Waters’ assistance but Rush Limbaugh’s “Banking Queen,” Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank? Advising the congresswoman that her involvement in the affair might not look so hot to the House Ethics Committee, Frank offered to do the dirty work for her as OneUnited Bank was, after all, in his district. Frank later told the Committee:

“I said, look, it’s a Boston institution. You should stay out of it. It’s a legitimate constituency thing for me. You should stay away from this. It’s a legitimate thing for me to do, and you shouldn’t be involved,” Frank told the Globe, recounting his conversations with Waters.

Although it is against House rules to “use one’s power as a member for personal financial gain,” it’s apparently just FINE if one of your House colleagues does it FOR you.

At this point, Waters’ Chief of Staff—and grandson—Mikael Moore decided to lend a hand. He addressed numerous emails to the House Financial Services Committee, “…discussing with committee members details of a bank bailout bill apparently after Ms. Waters agreed to refrain from advocating on the bank’s behalf. The bailout bill had provisions that ultimately benefited OneUnited…” 

In the end, OneUnited was the only institution to receive a bailout–$12 million—through section 103-6 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. And that occurred only after Barney Frank had personally telephoned Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on behalf of the bank– a call which Frank later claimed to have “forgotten.” Perhaps it was the heat that Frank believed might be heading his way after the Republican blowout win in the election of 2010 that prompted his sudden decision to retire.

And now, after lengthy delays prompted by Waters’ unfounded claims of racism and violation of her due process rights, the Ethics Committee might finally get down to the business of charging this corrupt congresswoman with criminal abuse of the power of her office.

It should be noted that Waters has claimed she only lobbied on behalf of OneUnited in order to “[look] out for the interests of small and minority-owned banks.” And some thought Obama had a corner on the contempt-for-the-intelligence-of-others market.

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Intelligence Leaks: Same Problem, Different Results?

June 12, 2012 by 3 Comments

Barack Obama Phone SC Intelligence Leaks: Same Problem, Different Results?

In 2003, during the Bush administration, the late Robert Novak wrote a story about then-dictator Saddam Hussein’ attept to acquire “yellow cake” (an ingredient needed to make weapons grade nuclear material) from the African nation of Niger. The story centered around former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV. During the course of the story Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame Wilson was outed as a CIA operative. The disclosure of Plame’s activites as a working “covert” agent started a firestorm of criticism about the leak. It also unleashed a massive “witch hunt” for whoever revealed Plame’s name to Novak.

The Democrats and the mainstream media were screaming for someone’s head to roll because of the disclosure. Initially, Bush, Karl Rove (Bush’s Deputy Chief of Staff), and Vice President Dick Cheney were the main targets of the scrutiny. One political pundit even stated that he wanted to see Karl Rove “frog marched in handcuffs across the White House lawn to prison.” The disclosure of a CIA’s covert agent was punishable by 3 years in a Federal prison and a $10K fine. The search for the leak was intense and finally resulted in a Special Federal Prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, being appointed with the blessing of both the Democrats and the mainstream media. The media and the Democrats were out for the Bush administration’s blood and a great scandal to boot.

Even though Fitzpatrick took 3 years to investigate, the only person charged with anything was “Scooter” Libby, Dick Cheney’s Chief of Staff, for perjury. This happened even though Fitzgerald knew almost from the beginning that a deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, was the source for Novak’s article. Novak, by the way, suffered NO consequences at all. Bush, Rove, and Cheney were all exonerated by Fitzgerald’s investigation in which Bush had given his full cooperation.

What does this story have to do with today? The intelligence leaks coming out of Washington D.C. lately are affecting not one person but entire ongoing operations. This means that the security of the United States itself and the lives of many people may be in jeopardy. The Obama administration’s release of information to 2 Hollywood producers about the covert mission that killed Osama Bin Laden (including the name of the Seal Team 6 commander, the drone “kill” program in Yemen, and a few other juicy tidbits that should not have been released) has created speculation that the Obama administration released this classified information to benefit Obama for his reelection campaign.

Bipartisan outrage is intense, and a Special Federal Prosecutor, outside the authority of Eric Holder’s Justice Department, needs to be appointed to find out what really happened and who is responsible. Whoever leaked this information needs to publically tried and sentenced to discourage any more ” loose cannons” from giving away state secrets for political gain. These leaks are far worse than the Valerie Plame/Wilson affair and need to be punished much more severly.

Let’s hope that justice and due diligence is pursued as eagerly as was the witch hunt from 2003-2006 for a source that was already known at the beginning of Patrick Fitzgerald’s investigation. Let’s see if the mainstream media and the Democrats are as concerned about seeing justice served in this case as they were just a few short years ago. “Scooter” Libby paid one hell of a price for perjury (lying) back then. Will some from the much-worshipped Obama administration be held to the same “justice”, or is this too going to fall the way of other Obama scandals?

By the way, Attorney General Eric Holder, “Scooter” Libby went to prison because of lying. Are you going because you have lied to Congress, or does justice in this country only apply to Republicans?

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Allen West: “Just Getting Started”

June 12, 2012 by 14 Comments

This is a great new ad for Congressman Allen West. (Editor’s note: this is not intended to be an endorsement of any kind for the Congressman.)

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Time To Police The Government

June 12, 2012 by 7 Comments
Congress Time to Police the Government

The balance between the police and the policed is getting way out of whack — and we better restore it now.

I speak of a spate of new technologies — high-tech cameras, satellites and now, drones being flown over U.S. soil — that are giving police and government way too much power over the average Joe.

Our country was founded by people who were wary of government power, you see. They were wary of government do-gooders attaining too much control, as they knew that absolute power always corrupts absolutely.

So they implemented checks and balances to limit that power.

They knew, too, however, that human nature is imperfect — that there will always be crooks, murderers and con men and that government must provide average, law-abiding citizens with basic protections against those who seek to do them harm.

Thus, our Constitution was designed to strike a proper balance between police and government agencies and the citizens they police.

The Fourth Amendment in the Bill of Rights, for instance, guards against unreasonable searches and seizures. It requires probable cause and a judicially sanctioned warrant before the police are permitted to enter one’s home.

The idea was to protect the liberties of the average Joe by putting the burden on police and government agencies. Better that 10 guilty men go free than to convict a single innocent man.

This proper balance between the police and the policed worked well for many years. But technology is upending that balance.

Consider: Back in the ’50s and ’60s, when my father was a young man, there were speed traps, just as there are now.

When one driver saw a police car hiding behind shrubs, he flashed his high beams at oncoming drivers to warn them to slow down. The policed collaborated against the police and all was well.

The police had it tough back then. To gauge a driver’s speed, an officer had to work a manual stopwatch, then do math. The process was so imprecise, the odds weren’t bad that the ticket would be tossed out in court or reduced to a lesser charge.

Now the police have precise VASCAR and radar technologies. Hidden speed cameras are popping up all over the place. New technologies are even making it possible to monitor speeds using satellites!

While such technologies may benefit drivers by slowing traffic at dangerous intersections, there is a downside: The average Joe will soon be helpless in the face of small-town police who use such technologies to establish lucrative, high-tech speed traps.

But as technology upends the balance between the police and the policed, that is the least of the average Joe’s worries.

Did you know our federal government is using unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) — much like the drones it uses to monitor and kill enemies overseas — to monitor U.S. citizens?

Did you know, says Investor’s Business Daily, that the EPA is conducting surveillance on farmers in Nebraska and Iowa, looking for violations of the Clean Water Act?

Did you know that the Federal Aviation Administration has loosened restrictions on the use of drones by the nation’s 18,000 local police departments?

How long will it be before quiet little planes monitor our speed and everything else we do?

How long before illegal searches, forbidden by the Fourth Amendment, are commonplace?

We must stop the drones now.

Flashing our high beams won’t matter a whit once the balance between the police and the policed gets that far out of whack.

©2012 Tom Purcell. Tom Purcell, a freelance writer is also a humor columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune- Review, and is nationally syndicated exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate. For more info contact Cari Dawson Bartley at 800 696 7561 or email cari@cagle.com. Email Tom at Purcell@caglecartoons.com.

 

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Dream Act, Other Immigrant Entitlements Officially Dead

June 12, 2012 by 4 Comments

Border Patrol SC Dream Act, Other Immigrant Entitlements Officially Dead

Congress’ job performance rating is 10 percent. Lawyers’ popularity stands about the same. And although there’s no official ranking for whining, entitlement-seeking aliens, I can’t image that they do better than Congress or attorneys.

So it’s no surprise that when Daniela Peleaz, a Florida high school alien student, her lawyer Nera Shefer and U.S. Representative David Rivera (D-FL.) held a Capitol Hill press conference last week, everyone ignored them.

Rivera used the occasion to introduce his tedious Studying toward Adjusted Residency Status (STARS) legislation. I say “tedious” because Rivera’s is another in a long list of DREAM Act-type bills than Democrats and Republicans have soundly defeated for more than a decade. In these turbulent months leading up to the November election, STARS has no chance —none! — of even getting to the House floor for a vote.

Peleaz, although introduced as a DREAM Act poster girl because of her good grades and valedictorian status, is instead representative of aliens for whom nothing is ever enough. To date, Peleaz has already benefited from taxpayer fully subsidized K-12 education and recently had a deportation order stayed, largely because of the Obama administration’s prosecutorial discretion policy. Peleaz still yearns for more. She wants you to underwrite millions of aliens’ university tuition fees.

I have extremely bad news for Peleaz, as well as for the others who advocate for illegal immigrants selfish causes. According to well-placed Capitol Hill insiders, namely Congressional legislative aides who know what’s going on behind the scenes, the agenda to promote more immigration and alien benefits is deader than a doornail.

Democratic leaders have effectively nixed a DREAM Act vote or anything remotely resembling legislation that would give citizenship to illegal alien teens that go to college or join the military. The same terminal fate awaits dozens of pending bills promoting more visas for foreign-born workers.

I’d like to report that Congress finally came to its senses to realize that rewarding illegal immigration and promoting more of if it is unfair to American citizens. And I wish I could say that Congress did that math and discovered that with only 69,000 jobs created in May, adding more overseas workers to the population hurts unemployed Americans’ job chances. Sadly, however, I must tell you what you have already probably figured out. The decision to end discussions on the DREAM Act and to authorize additional visas is—surprise, surprise—politically motivated.

The Democrats don’t have the votes. And going into November when all but the most secure congressional incumbent seats will be at risk why, the thinking goes, swim against the tide?

Ethnic identity lobbyists such as La Raza that demand liberalized immigration legislation aren’t satisfied with partial bills like the DREAM Act. Broader legislation, however, like comprehensive immigration reform means certain death for office seekers.

As for Pelaez, she’s off to Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League institution. Because of its lofty standing among elitists, I’ll wager that Dartmouth was misguidedly impressed with Pelaez’s alien status and all the hoopla surrounding her.

In case Pelaez has you buffaloed too, here’s something to consider. Every year, Dartmouth receives about 20,000 applications and rejects more than 90 percent. Since it’s expensive and time consuming, few apply to Dartmouth frivolously. Among the 19,000 rejections are thousands of qualified Americans. But in this fall’s freshman class Pelaez, an alien, will take one of their places.

©2012 Joe Guzzardi and Capsweb.org – Joe Guzzardi is a Californians for Population Stabilization Senior Writing Fellow. Contact Joe at joeguzzardi@capsweb.org. 

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Rush’s Take On Obama’s ‘Private Sector Doing Fine” Comments

June 12, 2012 by 2 Comments

Watch this interesting take on Obama’s latest gaffe.

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