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The Fraud Came In Like a Human Wrecking Ball . . .Newsboy Posthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-41425663784639068862014-04-11T10:48:00.000-05:002014-06-06T20:14:59.363-05:00NEWS and OPINIONS

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● Obama defends himself on Russia after Mitt Romney's criticism

● NYT reporter: Obama admin 'greatest enemy of press freedom'

● NSA chief to Carter: Don't worry, we're not reading your emails

● OBAMA: Crimea seizure act of Russian 'weakness'

● Man Jumps On Subway Tracks To Retrieve Phone, Walks Away After Being Run Over By Train!

● POLL: 78% Favor Proof of Citizenship Before Being Allowed to Vote

● PEW Poll: Next generation will be over 50% non-white

● Donald Rumsfeld: A "Trained Ape" Could Manage War Better Than Obama (Video)

● Michelle Obama: 'There Were Actually Laws in America that Allowed Discrimination Against Black People Like Me'

● Has NASA found a new Earth? Astronomer discovers first same-sized planet in a 'Goldilocks zone'

● COPS: Group Of Teen Girls Smash Woman In Face With Brick, Rob Boyfriend On Philly Street

● Authorities expect Wash. mudslide death toll to rise

● Malaysia Airlines defends text to families as China demands satellite data
● Danish zoo at heart of giraffe uproar kills 4 lions

● Sailor, civilian suspect dead in Navy base shooting
● KURTZ: Dems slam Nate Silver for Senate prediction
● IRS rules Bitcoin is 'property,' subject to tax

● Prosecution in Pistorius murder trial wraps

● New home sales cool in February amid harsh winter

● Obama daughters seem unimpressed on trip to China
● First lady, family members reportedly cause headaches at Beijing hotel

● Obama still disputes Romney's claim that Russia top 'geopolitical foe'
● Dem retreat? Reid drops controversial IMF provisions from Ukraine bill

● Woman faked quintuplet pregnancy for months

● Friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect threatened FBI agent, prosecutor says

● U.S. woman trumpeting Venezuelan 'Chavismo' becomes lightning rod for opposition

● Redskins' owner ripped for Native American foundation

● Medical marijuana may alleviate some MS symptoms

● Workers made 'unbelievable' find in brush bin

● Obama reportedly plays 'nuclear war game' with world leaders at summit

● Are Secret Clinton White House Tapes Lost to History?

New Orleans Times-Picayune (NOLA.com News Feed)

Wesley Pruden: When killing gets a sanction

Lori Borgman: The parade you don't want to miss

Celia Rivenbark: A shot in the arm for sane folks everywhere

Inside the Beltway: Still hating congress; The Perils of Colbert; A Moment of Fairness + more

Suzanne Fields: At Last, the Season of Hope

Rich Lowry: The equal-pay canard

Mona Charen: Integrity Lives

Diana West: Enforcing Islamic law at Brandeis

Jonah Goldberg: Klein, Krugman offer biased views of confirmation bias

Paul Greenberg: Hooray for snooping!

Dave Weinbaum: The impending invasion of Europe: Who's vulnerable?

David Limbaugh: Obama's Politicized, Lawless Executive Branch

Michael Barone: If You Think the Sky is Falling, Check out the Prophecies of the 1970s

Michelle Malkin: The Legacy of Obama's Illegal Alien Aunt

Charles Krauthammer: Thought police on patrol: Is the Left's intolerance totalitarianism?

Victor Davis Hanson: The new Inquisition by intolerant leftist Torquemadas

Sharon Randall: Parting ways with stuff, making space for more memories

Bernard Goldberg: Hope and Change. Really?

Inside the Beltway: Ready to rumble in the Granite State; Perry-fied; Republicans inching away? + more

Bill Gertz's Inside the Ring: Hagel releases our cyber warfare plans to China; Russia's ICBM warning; Chinese subs near Japan

A. Barton Hinkle: You can have my knife when you pry it from my cold, dead hands

Andrew Malcolm: If you're fat, stand-by for federal text messages to change your eating habits

Bob Tyrrell: Student Unrest in Springtime

Cal Thomas: Kerry's folly

Larry Elder: Why Kerry Let the 'Palestinians' Make a Fool Out of Him

Debra J. Saunders: The GOP's Legacy Underdog

Michael Reagan: The Talk Radio Party

Judge Andrew Napolitano: A Government Admission of Wrongdoing

Jay Ambrose: Picky, picky, picky? No, serious, serious, serious

Cathy Young: Russia, a victim of its own past

Ann Coulter: Competition for thee, but not for me

George Will: A stronger Constitution would limit the U.S' spending habit

Thomas Sowell: It can be done: Passionate about race issues but no race hustler was he

Ben S. Carson: Stop the petty squabbles or there will be liberal dominance

Ana Veciana-Suarez: It's not about Gywneth Paltrow; it's about our insecurities and need to compare

Michelle Malkin: The Meltdown of the Obama Genderhawks

Roger Simon: Doris Kearns Goodwin: Lincoln Was Actually Sexy

Ron Hart: Putin tells Obama: 'Crimea river'

Andrew Malcolm: White House of selfie-loving Obama now frowns on others' selfies

Emily Miller: Harry's hypocrisy: What key Dem senate leaders are hiding

Inside the Beltway: Grover and friends take on the IRS; Parsing the cheating lawmaker; The great Clinton tour + more

Jonah Goldberg: What principles rule the GOP?

Paul Greenberg: Very well, alone!

Betsy McCaughey: Dems Like Money Only When It's Spent On Them

John Stossel: Taxing Life Away

Nat Hentoff: Former inmates learning to avoid going back to their cells

Kathleen Parker: I was condemning Southern stereotypes, not reinforcing them

Dick Morris: Investigate 2012 vote fraud

Walter Williams: How to Assist Evil

Alicia Colon: The incredible hypocrisy of 21st Century feminism

Tom Purcell: Privacy? Surely You Jest!

Froma Harrop: U.S. and Canada: Together at Last?

Inside the Beltway: 'Best looking attorney general' getting hitched; Rahm-a-rama; Run Scott run + more

Cal Thomas: Focus on what works

Byron York Ammo for anti-Obamacare ads is plentiful, if GOP knows where to look

Bernard Goldberg Libs Who Have Forgotten How to be Libs

Paul Greenberg: A blow for liberty

Wesley Pruden: Boiling a rival in an artist's oil

Mona Charen: Press Gets It Wrong Again on Mass Shooting

Rich Lowry: The new conformity

Debra J. Saunders: Mozilla CEO Eich Caves In

David Limbaugh Leftist Thought-Gangsters Strike Again

Dennis Prager: Uninstall Firefox

Dana Milbank: How can Congress cure political ills? Smoke some marijuana

Thomas Sowell: A Halo for Selfishness

Mark Steyn: Celebrate Conformity!

Gina Barreca: Gwyneth needs to recouple with reality

Mitch Albom: Player right to be at baby's opening day

Lenore Skenazy: Helicoptered to the Ivies

Bernard Goldberg: CNN: The Place to Go for a Few Laughs

Inside the Beltway: Selfies and stinkburgers test a casual White House

A. Barton Hinkle: Zoning's racist roots still bear fruit

Diane Dimond: Pets Help Solve Crimes

Star Parker: Lifting campaign spending limits helps democracy

Bruce Bialosky: Banks Play Ball with Government to Hand Over Your Assets

Debra J. Saunders: Get Thee Behind Me, Satan --- But First, Write a Check

Kathleen Parker: Harry Reid, apologize publicly

Jack Kelly: Affordable Care Act's wording haunting Obama administration

David M. Shribman: The effects of showering more money on politics are harder to predict than you might think

George Will : Tax reform's uphill push

Obama Begins to Say Good-Bye - James Oliphant, National Journal

Sebelius Exit Steps on Obamacare Good News - Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

A Legacy of Incompetence and Deception - Jonathan Tobin, Commentary

What Sebelius' Resignation Really Means - Brian Beutler, New Republic

Dems Look to Make Sebelius the Scapegoat - Erick Erickson, FOX News

How Not to Seem Rich While Running for Office - Mark Leibovich, NYT Mag

Chris Christie Ain't Got It - Philip Klein, Washington Examiner

Sebelius Is Resigning Because Obamacare Won - Ezra Klein, Vox

Why Sebelius Is President Obama's Rumsfeld - Jeremy Lott, Rare

In China, Warning Signs - David Ignatius, Washington Post

The IRS Scandal Comes Into Focus - Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal

Health Care Nightmares - Paul Krugman, New York Times

Sebelius Hands Republicans an Opportunity - Ben Domenech, Federalist

The Sebelius Legacy - Jonathan Cohn, The New Republic

What I Would Have Said at Brandeis - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Wall Street Journal

CEO's Downfall a Lesson to Execs: "Stay Boring" - Claire Zillman, Fortune

Thought Police on Patrol - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post

Opposition to Gay Marriage Isn't Like Racism - Conor Friedersdorf, Atlantic

We Should Be in a Rage - Charles Blow, New York Times

Dems Wage War on Women's Intelligence - David Freddoso, DC Examine

rDeclassify the CIA Report - Sens. Feinstein & Rockefeller, Washington Pos

tJeb, the Ambivalent Bush - Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal

Clinton Leans on Bill, Barack to Sell Candidacy - Byron York, DC Examiner

Carter's Wrong to Blame Obama, Clinton - Aaron David Miller, CNN

CBS, Special Interests & the State of the Media - Sharyl Attkisson, Fox News

Stephen Colbert a Smart Choice for CBS - Hank Stuever, Washington Post

Letterman's Replacement Colbert Isn't Funny - Kyle Smith, New York Post

Lois Lerner Will Be Heading to Prison - National Review

How the Supreme Court Blowtorched Democracy - The Nation

Premium Spike: Obamacare Costs NH - New Hampshire Union Leader

Congress, Extend Unemployment Benefits, Again - Los Angeles Times

Another Republican Circus - Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Tsunami Alert: Obamacare Driving Voters - Chris Stirewalt, FOX News

Why Obama Hit Pause in the Middle East - Joe Klein, Time

John Kerry Blames Israel for His Own Mess - John Podhoretz, New York Post

Cowboys and Indians Against Keystone - Bill McKibben, Politico

If You Think Sky Is Falling, Check Out the 70s - Michael Barone, Examiner

Bush Is Really a Stalking Horse for Rubio - Russ Smith, Splice Today

History to Impeach John Roberts - Brent Budowsky, The Hill

Don't Make Me Laugh, Mr. Holder - Andrew McCarthy, National Review

Why We're in a New Gilded Age - Paul Krugman, New York Review of Books

Dems' Revolting Equal-Pay Demagoguery - Ruth Marcus, Washington Post

Can Clever Campaigns Save Democrats in 2014? - Molly Ball, The Atlantic

Obamacare Will Remain a Problem for Dems - Karl Rove, Wall St. Journal

Who's Afraid of an Active President? - Jeff Shesol, The New Yorker

Amend the Constitution to Control Spending - George Will, Wash Post

GOP Budget: An Assault on the Middle Class - Rep. Steve Israel, CNN

Dems' Koch Habit Won't Help Them in November - Ed Rogers, Wash Post

Memo to Kerry: Stay Strong on the Middle East - Steven Spiegel, LA Times

Pity the Palestinians? Count Me Out - Norman Podhoretz, Wall St. Journal

How Obamacare Revolutionizes Health Insurance - Klein & Emanuel, Vox

Is Jindal's Replacement Plan a Turning Point? - Peter Suderman, Reason

Where GOP Is Right and Wrong on Poverty - Nicholas Kristof, NY Times

Chattering Class Won't Be Enough for Jeb - Debra Saunders, SF Chronicle

Sharpton Made the Best of a Scary Situation - Errol Louis, CNN

The Shame of Brandeis - Charles Cooke, National Revie

wSmart Power for the 21st Century - Lanny Davis, The Hill

IRS at the Crossroads - Wall Street Journal

The Truth About the Pay Gap - New York Times

Obamacare's True Numbers Reveal Failure - Las Vegas Review-Journal

Four Presidents Mark an Equal-Rights Milestone - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

For Obama Presidency, Lyndon Johnson Looms Large - Peter Baker, NYT

The Meltdown of the Obama Genderhawks - Michelle Malkin, New York Post

Women Can't Celebrate Equal Pay Day - Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg

Republicans May Avoid Ghost of Senate Elections Past - John Sides, WP

Obamacare: It's Working! - Tim Dickinson, Rolling Stone

How Many Obamacare Enrollees Were Uninsured? - Avik Roy, Forbes

Sharpton's Shady Snitch Story - Harry Siegel, New York Daily News

Scandal Loves a Clinton - Frank Rich, New York Magazine

Call Climate Change What It Is: Violence - Rebecca Solnit, The Guardian

The Democrats' Fake Problems - Jim Geraghty, National Review

Mozilla Gives Rise to a Useful Backlash - Holman Jenkins, Wall St. Journal

Republicans Kiss Votes From Women Bye - Dana Milbank, Washington Post

Dems' Desperate War-on-Women-Baiting - S.E. Cupp, New York Daily News

Steps We Must Take to Improve Pay Equity - Sandra Fluke, Huffington Post

Government Can't Fix Real Gender Pay Gap - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg

Playing Hockey With Putin - Thomas Friedman, New York Times

WH Unleashes Captain Obvious & Secretary Shuttle - Ron Fournier, NJ

The Liberal Arc of U.S. Policy - Matt Grossmann, Washington Post

Obamacare on Life Support - Noemie Emery, Washington Examiner

Jeb Bush in the Vortex - Maureen Dowd, New York Times

Rise of the Same-Sex Marriage Dissidents - Mollie Hemingway, Federalist

The Idea of a Gay Mafia Is Ridiculous - Bryan Lowder, Slate

Liberals' Mob Rule - Kirsten Powers, USA Today

Once a Race Hustler, Now a Snitching Race Hustler - Charles Hurt, WT

Global Warming Scare Tactics - Nordhaus & Shellenberger, New York Times

Lois Lerner's Bad Week - New York Post

Time to Expose the CIA's "Dark Side" - Los Angeles Times

Enhanced Interrogation Worked - Investor's Business Daily

In India, a Pivot to Hindu Nationalism? - Christian Science Monitor

Repeal Obamacare? Forget About It - Julian Zelizer, CNN

So Who Are the "Uninsured," Anyway? - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg

General Motors' Cobalt Crisis - Joe Nocera, New York Times

What Did the Obama Team Know About GM? - Jim Geraghty, Natl Review

Supreme Court Makes U.S. More Corruptible - Gary Younge, The Guardian

The Color of Obama's Presidency - Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine

Why Everything Has to Be About Race Now - Robert Tracinski, Federalist

Donald Rumsfeld's Battle With the Truth - Richard Cohen, Washington Post

The Myth About Women's Pay - Perry & Biggs, Wall Street Journal

Why Republicans Are Wrong About the Pay Gap - Irin Carmon, MSNBC

Gosnell Abortion Film Too Much for Kickstarter - Phelim McAleer, NY Post

If Bush Fears "Mudfight," He's Not Ready - Byron York, DC Examiner

Al Sharpton's American Hustle - Lloyd Grove, The Daily Beast

Americans Don't Trust Silicon Valley - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today

Illiberal Left Lacks Confidence in Its Ideas - James Taranto, Wall St. Jrnl

Supreme Court's War Against Citizens - Katrina vanden Heuvel, Wash Post

Left's Hostility to Political Speech - Thomas Sowell, Investor's Business Daily

Conservative Logic on the Mozilla Firing - Brian Beutler, The New Republic

Pluralism and the Case of Brendan Eich - Ross Douthat, New York Times

Republicans' Clueless Ploy to Woo Women - Joan Walsh, Salon

How Politics Makes Us Stupid - Ezra Klein, Vox

How Vox Makes Us Stupid - David Harsanyi, The Federalist

Whiff of Elitism Could Be Problem for Jeb Bush - Jason Riley, FOX News

The Return of the Anti-Liberal Left - Michelle Goldberg, The Nation

How Climate Change Conquered the American Campus - Paul Tice, WSJ

Repeal Obamacare? Forget About It - Julian Zelizer, CNN

So Who Are the "Uninsured," Anyway? - Megan McArdle, Bloomberg

General Motors' Cobalt Crisis - Joe Nocera, New York Times

What Did the Obama Team Know About GM? - Jim Geraghty, Natl Review

Supreme Court Makes U.S. More Corruptible - Gary Younge, The Guardian

The Color of Obama's Presidency - Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine

Why Everything Has to Be About Race Now - Robert Tracinski, Federalist

Donald Rumsfeld's Battle With the Truth - Richard Cohen, Washington Post

The Myth About Women's Pay - Perry & Biggs, Wall Street Journal

Why Republicans Are Wrong About the Pay Gap - Irin Carmon, MSNBC

Gosnell Abortion Film Too Much for Kickstarter - Phelim McAleer, NY Post

If Bush Fears "Mudfight," He's Not Ready - Byron York, DC Examiner

Al Sharpton's American Hustle - Lloyd Grove, The Daily Beast

Americans Don't Trust Silicon Valley - Glenn Reynolds, USA Today

A Familiar Script in Ukraine - New York Times

The Equal Pay Ruse: Deceptive Stats - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Time to Expose the CIA's "Dark Side" - Los Angeles Times

Labor Stacks Deck But Workers Keep Leaving Unions - DC Examiner

More Obfuscation on Benghazi - Michael Mukasey, Wall Street Journal

It's Time to Act on Climate Change - Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker

The Game Is Up for Climate Change Believers - Charles Moore, Telegraph

Gay Marriage and the Role of a CEO - Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times

The New Pitchfork Persecutors - John Fund, National Review

Mozilla Made the Wrong Decision by Letting Eich Go - Yitz Jordan, Quartz

Will Christie's Political Style Be His Undoing? - Ryan Lizza, New Yorker

Selective Political Scandal Addiction - Ron Christie, The Daily Beast

Health Care Data Leave Republicans Exposed - Juan Williams, The Hill

Obamacare Will Be Replaced - Sen. Mike Lee & Ben Sasse, DC Examiner

Dems Hate Money in Politics (Wink, Wink) - Francis Barry, Bloomberg

How to Fight Back Against Supreme Court - Cenk Uygur, Huffington Post

The Next Governor of Texas? - Michael Warren, Weekly Standard

A Contentious Interview w/Rahm Emanuel - Isaac Chotiner, New Republic

The Spread of "Debate Is Over" Syndrome - Joel Kotkin, OC Register

Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework - Dana Goldstein, The Atlantic

Can Putin Be Countered? - Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest

Putin's Czarist Folly - Robert Service, New York Times

Brennan Must Defend CIA's Interrogation Program - Marc Thiessen, WP

What We Need to Fix the Climate Crisis - Jedediah Purdy, The Daily Beast

Public Doesn't Share Dem Obsession w/Warming - Byron York, Examiner

Hannitys on the Bench - Simon Lazarus, The New Republic

Roots of Totalitarian Liberalism - Scott Johnson, Power Line

Real Mystery Is Why Mozilla Hired Eich - James Surowiecki, New Yorker

Celebrate Conformity! - Mark Steyn, SteynOnline

Neither Female Nor Male - Julia Baird, New York Times

Restoring Free Speech - Robert Samuelson, Washington Post

Todd Starnes: Jesus Card Not Welcome In Nazareth School

Jackie Gingrich Cushman: The Color of Georgia

Victor Davis Hanson: The New Inquisition

Derek Hunter: Harry Reid – The Democrats' Democrat

Larry Elder: Why Kerry Let the Palestinians Make a Fool Out of Him

Judge Andrew Napolitano: A Government Admission of Wrongdoing

John Ransom: The Progressive Progression: Content of Character, Color of Skin, Cup Size

Michael Reagan: The Talk Radio Party?

Debra J. Saunders: The GOP's Legacy Underdog

Matt Towery: To Capture Senate, GOP Needs Southern "Home Cooking" with Baked Alaska for Dessert

Steve Chapman: A Democratic Dilemma on Legalizing Pot

Cliff May: The Mideast Peace Process Peters Out

Emmett Tyrrell: Student Unrest in Springtime

Rebecca Hagelin: Culture Challenge of the Week: Tax Tyranny

Peter Morici: Five Takeaways from the GM Safety Debacle

Daniel J. Mitchell: Member of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers Admits White House 77 Cents Pay Gap Claim Is Bogus

Charles Payne: Cooking Oil is the New Snake Oil

Michael Schaus: GM Doubles Down on Chevy Volt's Failure

Mike Shedlock: Shiller Drinks the Kool-Aid

Bill Tatro: GMAC is Back, and Dumber Than Ever

Larry Provost: Cruz Control: Stopping Islamic Terrorists at the UN

Nicholas Vardy: My Weekend Visit to What Could Be the Next Russian Front

Ann Coulter: Competition For Thee, But Not for Me

Jerry Newcombe: What Would the Framers Think of Evicting Churches from NYC Schools?

Ashley Pratte: The Sham Behind the Paycheck Fairness Act: Objectification in Disguise

Mark Nuckols: Putin Running Out of Easy Land Grabs

Armstrong Williams: The Exploitation of College Athletes

Michael Schaus: Dems Bribe Women with Dollars and Drugs

John Stossel: Taxing Life Away

Walter E. Williams: How to Assist Evil

Dr. Ben Carson: Keeping Conservatives Focused on the Big Picture

Brent Bozell: How TV Censorship Works for Democrats

Jonah Goldberg: What Principles Rule the GOP?

John Ransom: Yes, I Hate the Cable Company Too

Bob Barr: Switzerland Points Way to Fully Homogenized Society

Terry Jeffrey: Will 'Health Care' Kill American Medicine?

Ben Shapiro: The Rise of American Totalitarianism

Austin Bay: Czar-Commissar Putin's Creeping War Of Aggression

Paul Greenberg: Death Comes to the Bishop

Donald Lambro: Vladimir Putin's Cat and Mouse Game with Obama

Rachel Marsden: Cuban Twitter Project was a Tweet in the Dark

Jacob Sullum: Free Speech v. The Collective

John Kass: Researchers Diagnose Conservatism, But is There a Cure?

Daniel J. Mitchell: The Lesson We Should Learn from the Fort Hood Shooting

Erica Wanis: The Pro-Life Movement's Last and Best Hope

Charles Payne: Deserved or Simply Overdue?

Carrie Schwab Pomerantz: Saving for Retirement: How Much Is Enough?

Ralph Benko: A Modest Proposal: Should Puerto Rico Consider Joining The Russian Federation?

Mark Skousen: My Interview with Financial Guru Jim Rogers in Singapore

Mike Shedlock: Ukraine Parliament Erupts in Violent Brawl As Russian Loyalists Stir Anxiety

Phil Kerpen: Democratic Budget Exposes New Obamacare Lie

Crystal Wright: Mozilla's CEO Resignation and the Gay Lobby's Double Standard

Larry Provost: Mickey Rooney's Greatest Roles: Patriot and Man of Faith

Paul Greenberg: Very Well, Alone!

Ashley Pratte: Lady Thatcher—Remembering Her Courage and Conviction

Chuck Norris: 3 Lessons Our Politicians Should Learn From Fort Hood

Michael Barone: Ukrainians, and Americans, are the Children of History

John Ransom: Without the Selfie Obama Would be Doomed

Hank Adler: Unionizing College Athletics Will Hurt Everyone

Pat Buchanan: The New Blacklist

Kerri Toloczko: Obama, Comcast, and Crony Capitalism

Bill Murchison: Anti-Liberal Liberals

Susan Stamper Brown: R-S-P-E-C-T, R-I-S-P-E-C-T, Whatever...

Michael Schaus: Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder Pushes to Track American Gun Owners

Doug Fabian: How is 2014 Turning Out for You So Far?

Tom Purcell: Privacy? Surely You Jest!

Daniel J. Mitchell: The Golden Rule of Spending Restraint

Charles Payne: Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz

Roger Schlesinger: If We Keep Overlooking Everything, There Won't Be Anything Left to See

Bill Tatro: A Little Fatherly Advice

Chris Versace: The March Quarter is over, Be Prepared for the Current One

Mike Shedlock: Euro-Socialists Revolt Against Pro Business Prime Minister

Scott Erickson: Anti-Gun Advocates Use Fort Hood Shooting to Advance Agenda

Todd Starnes: Do Gay Rights Trump Religious Rights? Supreme Court Won't Hear Wedding Photographers' Case

Ryan Williams: NCAA joins other "employers," horse collared by Big Labor's NLRB

Nita Ghei: The Sucker Generation

Harry R. Jackson, Jr.: Elder Care is a Family Affair

Michael Brown: I Hate to Say I Told You So

Rick Santorum: What the U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Conceals

Kurt Schlichter: "Jeb Bush 2016 Is a Surefire Winner," Says Local Unicorn

Star Parker: Fewer Limits on Campaign Contributions Strengthens America

Jeff Jacoby: Money in Politics? McCutcheon's Foes Don't Always Say No

Mike Adams: A Faculty Revolution Against Free Speech

Cathy Reisenwitz: Paul Ryan Budget Gets Into the Gimmick Game

John Ransom: How Far Will the Fed Dope Dealers Go?

Katie Kieffer: An Amazing Love Story

Terry Paulson: Easy Doesn't Do It

Rachel Alexander: Dangerous Erosion of Freedom as Obama Cedes Control of the Internet

Matt Barber: Fort Hood, Gun-Free Zones and 'Progressive' Insanity

Larry Provost: Sens. Casey, Landrieu, Manchin: Your Time To Act Is Now

Nick Sorrentino: Hedge funds' secret weapon is ex-Obama aide

Chris Edwards: What Do American Indians Deserve: Name Changes or Policy Changes?

Michael Tanner: Jeb v. Hillary?

Daniel J. Mitchell: The Obama Administration Engages in Contortions to Claim that Obamacare Is a Success

Mike Shedlock: French Socialists Revolt Against Prime Minister, Threaten Vote of No Confidence

Michael Schaus: Obama's Mind-Numbing Address to the Gullible
Newsboy Posthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-53185887456632192082011-05-02T10:15:00.005-05:002014-05-03T12:26:47.949-05:00Spotting Forged Documents for Dummies In these two pictures it is easy to see that the signatures on the document come from different sources. The resolution on the Dunham signature (at top) is higher than the resolution of the Sinclair signature (below) which is composed entirely of "big" pixels.

A very easy comparison illustrating that the latest Obama Birth Certificate is a manipulated forgery.

CLICK TO VIEW DOCUMENT! | CLICK FOR 2nd VIEW! | CLICK FOR PDF Format!Newsboy Posthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-48274498194385023902011-04-26T14:30:00.005-05:002014-05-03T12:26:47.945-05:00Obama's Columbia Transcripts Revealed?We've had this document awhile now and we have neither disclosed, or provided to Wikileaks or OpenSecrets.

But now that the Donald seems on the verge of spilling the beans, we've decided it's time to go public, so we can scoop, or "Trump" him.

We can't know for sure whether this is genuine, but in light of the rest of the history that is slowly being revealed, (e.g., by Stanley Kurtz), these Columbia transcripts that the president has refused to release look quite plausible.

We can't see anything here that jumps out as to why he wouldn't want us to see them. It's not like we're learning anything much new about him.

He did have a rough semester in the fall of '82, but he seems to have bounced back nicely by focusing on courses the final semester that were more in his wheelhouse. So as far as we are concerned, it looks like the real deal to us.

CLICK DOCUMENT TO ENLARGE:

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h/t Rand Simberg (BTW, the document is Satire)Newsboy Posthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-2786804916348350992010-12-09T08:36:00.000-06:002014-05-03T12:26:47.939-05:00this st would be real interesting if we

Newsboy Posthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-57498611496556787562010-08-27T18:33:00.000-05:002014-05-03T12:26:47.951-05:00Vince Vance's Music Video, "I am New Orleans"

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 Vince Vance's music video, "I am New Orleans," is a musical collage of sights and sounds of the city released for the fifth anniversary of Katrina.
YouTube Video: "I Am New Orleans" - Running Time: 4:55 minutes

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Vince Vance & The Valiants [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vince_Vance] are a country pop and rock and roll musical group from New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. The current Vince Vance, Andy Stone, is the last original member of the Valiants. He was born Andrew John Franichevich Jr. The group is known primarily for the singles "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts on six separate occasions, reaching its peak of #31 in 2000, and "Bomb Iran", which was "The Most Requested Song in the United States", according to Billboard, in 1980 for several weeks during the height of the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

 The early years through 1979

The current Vince Vance, Andrew John Franichevich Jr.(Andy Stone), was born January 31, 1950, in Oakland, California, to Melvina Anne "Molly" and Andrew John Franichevich of Croatian nationality, and was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Little is known about Vance's personal life, but at one point he had been a high school teacher, and had even found time to write a children's book and poetry. The Valiants fronted for the Allman Brothers at the Warehouse Concert Venue on New Year's Eve 1971, their founding year. They hit the road the following year and among other gigs, played at the "Soda Pop Festival" in Indiana before about 250,000 music fans, the Super Dome Mardi Gras Concerts in 1975 and 1976, as well as numerous other concerts and club date around the US. The Valiants recorded their first record with Cosimo "Cosmo" Matassa (Fats Domino, Ernie K Doe, Benny Spellman, Erma Thomas et al.) at Cosmo's recording studio in 1972. The Valiants also played and "jammed" with such as Johnny Winter, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chubby Checker, Doctor John, REO Speedwagon, Little Richard, Charlie Daniels, and Rory Gallagher, Chuck Berry at Billy Bob's in Ft Worth among many others.

Website: http://www.vincevance.com/

Vince Vance's music video, "I am New Orleans," is a musical collage of sights and sounds of the city released for the fifth anniversary of Katrina.

VIDEO: "I Am New Orleans" - Running Time: 4:55 minutes

http://www.icompositions.com/music/song.php?sid=147572

Song Information:
Released: Aug 26, 2010 11:52 PM

 Category: Spoken Word
 File Type: .mp3

 File Size: 3.15 MB Plays: 89
 License: No derivative works allowed
'I Am New Orleans' is one of your favorites.

Here is a first for you all:

 Here is a hit in the making. For the Fifth Anniversary of Katrina's assault on The City that Care Forgot, I took a look back at what the City of New Orleans really is. I tried to tell the truth. I didn't want to gloss over the fact that we have many corrupt politicians. However, I wanted to express the resilience of a people that will never be conquered. Well, evidently I did. I am not being haughty, but this song has gotten 25,000 hits on Youtube and many more than that on the other video outlets where it is posted.

 Newspaper columnist, Stephen Sabludowsky, says it the best in his article. Here it is with a live interview of me:http://bayoubuzz.com/buzz/latest-buzz/47937-vince-vance-creates-new-orleans-video-for-katrina-5th-anniversary

 Lyrics: "I Am New Orleans"

© 2009/2010 Vince Vance

I'm American, European and African... all by chance
I'm Satchmo, Jumbo, Fountain, Fats,'Fess* and Vince Vance
I'm the roux in your gumbo; I'm the rice in your beans
I'm the levee that will never break; I am New Orleans.
My blood is the River, my heart is the Quarter
I'm a corrupt politician; a slave that was martyred
A girl who lost her way and a Bourbon Street Queen
A Streetcar Named Desire; I am New Orleans.
I'm praying in the Cathedral; I'm living in sin
I never sleep from the bustle or the fear I live in
I smell like French Bread; my snowball's nectar cream
In a city that care forgot; I am New Orleans.
I'm stronger from lies; I'm bigger than The Dome
I'm the Saints; I'm the sinners;I am a place called Home
I'm sweating in December; I'm purple, gold and green
I'm Catholic and I'm voodoo; I am New Orleans.
I'm Dixieland Jazz; I'm Redfish Court-Bouillon**
I'm The Blue Room at The Roosevelt, The Knights of Babylon"
Throw me something. Mister!" I hear y'all scream
At the parade that never ends; I am New Orleans.
I'm coffee and beignets, a ferry to Old Algiers,
I'm the Best Bank, Metry, St. Bernard, I drink Abita Beer
I'm a Jambalaya of People seasoned with pralines
I'm Mardi Gras on Canal Street; I am New Orleans.
I was sold by the French and saved by Ole Hickory
There's water all around me, but I can never come clean
I'm eight feet below sea level and I'm slipping out to sea

 Katrina changed me forever, but I am still New Orleans.
They tried to call me Chocolate City, but I'm really White and Black
You can drench me with oil, but you can bet I'm coming back
I'm the healer Dr. Mary and All of Blaine Kern's dreams
I'm a cemetery angel; I am New Orleans.

* (Satchmo: Trumpeter Louis Armstrong; Jumbo: Trumpeter Alois Hirt; Fountain: clarinetist Pierre "Pete" LaFountaine, Jr.; Fats: Pianist/Composer Antoine Domino; 'Fess: Professor Longhair, pianist/composer Henry Roeland Byrd)

** (popular cajun recipe - pronounced: `coo – bee – yawn)
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Vince Vance's Music Video, "I am New Orleans"
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Is Obama a Muslim?

We present the facts - You decide.

This photo was taken as Obama prepares for Islamic prayer, shortly after deciding that the White House would not be to observing our National Day of Prayer.

♠ His biological father was a Muslim.
♠ His stepfather was a Muslim.
♠ As a child Barry was enrolled in school as a Muslim in Jakarta Indonesia.
♠ Barack Hussein 0bama's first and middle names are Arabic Muslim names.
♠ 0bama recited the opening lines of the Muslim call to prayer, which includes a vow of fidelity to Islam, in flawless Arabic on a radio program. - Nikolos Kristoff, NYTs, 3-06-07
♠ On that same program he said he thinks the call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on earth."
♠ Obama belonged to Rev. Wright's (a former Muslim) church for twenty years. Many congregants are Muslims.
♠ Obama said that the U.S. is "one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
♠ Obama holds Muslim celebrations in the WH but canceled the National Day of Prayer.
♠ President Obama's religious adviser, Eboo Patel, once deemed the United States "the ideal place for the renewal of Islam."
♠ Obama does not give gifts on Christmas.
♠ Obama doesn't celebrate his birthday.
♠ Obama falsely attributes Muslim participation in the founding of America.
♠ Obama required that the cross be covered when he gave a speech at Notre Dame.
♠ Christian symbol covered up during Obama's Georgetown speech
♠ Obama's first major speech in office was a "Muslim outreach" speech in Cairo Egypt. "The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.
♠ Obama gave strong support to the Cordoba House community center and mosque to be built at the Ground Zero site of Sep. 11, 2001 at a dinner celebrating the day's end of the first day of Ramadan at the WH.
♠ Obama tasked NASA with a mission of "Muslim outreach."
♠ Obama referred to his faith as "my Muslim faith" in an interview with George Stephanopolous. (video 0:12)
♠ Barack Obama Mocks And Makes Fun Of The Bible (video 2:09)
♠ Obama: " We are no longer a Christian nation . . . " (video 1:27)
♠ As a newly elected Illinois State Senator Obama sponsored Bill SR0110 in the 90th General Assembly to declare November 1, 1997 to be Islamic Community Center Day. See the whole bill here.

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Ǿbämá Loves the 'Muslim Call to Prayer'

On February 27, 2008, speaking to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, Bäяáçk Ħūššéiŋ Ǿbämá said the Muslim call to prayer is "one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."Ǿbämá recited the Muslim call to prayer, the Adhan, "with a first-class [Arabic] accent.

"The opening lines of the Adhan (Azaan) is the Shahada:"
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
Allah is Supreme! Allah is Supreme!
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that there is no god but Allah
I witness that Muhammad is his prophet?

"Allah Akbarالله أَكْبَر Allah Is Great

According to Islamic scholars, reciting the Shahada, the Muslim declaration of faith, makes one a Muslim. This simple yet profound statement expresses a Muslim's complete acceptance of, and total commitment to, the message of Islam. Ǿbämá chanted it with pride and finesse. - NY Times
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"I am a Muslim," Ǿbämá Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Ǿbämá in January, 2010, in which President Ǿbämá told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda. Adul Gheit claimed Ǿbämá told the Arabs to show patience. Ǿbämá promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel. - Full Story
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Let Me Translate: We Don't Believe Him - or You

American Thinker - By C. Edmund Wright - August 22, 2010

Memo to the ruling class media: We are not ignorant or stupid. We've not forgotten Jeremiah Wright. It's not that we don't "know" what faith Obama subscribes to -- it's more that we don't believe him. Or you. Sorry. Not buying.
Besides, sometimes we just like to tweak you with our poll answers -- and use any poll as an excuse to "vote against Obama" in any way, shape or form.
Frankly, it has been equal parts comedy and insult to watch the ruling class media haplessly wrestle with the reality that millions of Americans believe Obama to be a Muslim. They are so clueless.
As if we needed any more proof-- this is simply another positive dose that the ruling class media and the country are divided by a huge gulf of philosophy, reality and experiences. And they are just beside themselves that a country that was concerned that Obama's (Christian?) pastor is a crazy nut in the spring and summer of 2008 can totally forget about all that in the summer of 2010 and call Obama a Muslim.
They so miss the point. We have forgotten none of that. If fact, apparently now more Americans are deciding to look into all of this and process it in light of Obama's actions.
So allow me to help the media out on this thorny confusing issue:
We know you claim him to be a Christian. We know Obama has at times claimed to be a Christian. We know Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Church claims to be some kind of Christian denomination. We simply doubt it. And the more we watch all of you, the less we are inclined to believe any of it.
(And by "we," I mean folks who would respond "Muslim" or "not sure" to your poll questions).
We also know his father was a Muslim. We know his stepfather was a Muslim. We know that under Sharia Law, he is a Muslim, and that much of the Muslim World regards him as a Muslim. We know his mother was an atheist. We know Obama sent a bureaucrat out to claim that NASA's top mission was Muslim outreach. We know he skipped the Boy Scout's 100th Anniversary bash. We know he's had a couple Freudian slips pertaining to his faith. We know he has called the Islamic call to prayer the most beautiful sound on earth.
We know that in light of all of this, some sycophantic White House spokesperson has the gall to say how "obvious" Obama's Christianity is. Depends on what the meaning of "obvious" is I guess.
There's more. So much more:
We know Jeremiah Wright rejects America's Founding principles -- which are consistent with what we call Christianity -- and many of us believe our founding principles were Divinely inspired. Moreover, we know that Obama is on board with Wright on this -- at least to the point of claiming that our Constitution is flawed in how it grants individual rights and liberty. We happen to think that rights Obama wants to curtail come from our Creator.
We know Obama has appointed proud and unabashed Marxists into his government. We happen to know that Marxism is by definition anti-Christian. We know he has confiscated wealth of others to redistribute to his union thug friends under false pretenses. We know he turned his back on Iranian protestors in lieu of an Islamic regime. We know he publicly defers to folks like Chavez and Saudi royalty more than he does Texas and Arkansas governors. On and on we could go here.
So what is so blamed obvious?
The only thing obvious here is that if Obama is a Christian, he is absolutely awful at walking out his faith. Or -- as might be said at any basic tent revival -- he done "backslid." (does anyone in the media have any idea what either of those phrases mean?)
In other words, we are paying attention to what is real and to what you are reporting -- and the two aren't jiving.
Answering a Poll
Another dynamic here is how the average person contemplates poll question answers. I know that in the isolated sanitized academic world of the ruling class - you tend to look at every poll answer as an equal entity. You tend to look at every answer as a window into the soul and understanding of each responder -- and you assume each responder has given equal thought to your little poll.
You over estimate your importance in our lives.
Frankly, we like to mess with your head sometimes. Had I been polled by Time or the Pew Research group, I'm sure I would have said "Muslim." Do I really believe he is a Muslim? I frankly hadn't given it a lot of thought until now -- but I know he's not a Christian under any definition with which I am familiar.
I know he's a Marxist. I know he hates America. I know he is at the very least sympathetic to Muslims. He has a Muslim sounding name, by the way.
Further, I know that for all of your bashing of George Bush and Sarah Palin over their overt Christianity, it will tick you off if I say I don't believe Obama to be one. For all of your protestations that there's nothing wrong with being a Muslim, you will panic if we think your guy is one. I know you better than you know us.
So to register my displeasure with Obama's "Christianity" and to simply irritate you, I would have answered "he's a Muslim" to your precious poll. It's my way of voting against Obama before November 2010 and 2012.
And certainly I am not alone in this thinking.
And none of us are stupid or ignorant or forgetful. We simply understand that we "shall know them by their fruits." Of course, many in the ruling class ignorant media probably think we are gay bashing when we say that. More proof of how out of touch you are.

Can you hear us now?
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My Muslim President Obama: Why members of

the Islamic faith see him as one of the flock.

Forbes - By Asma Gull Hasan
I know President Obama is not Muslim, but I am tempted nevertheless to think that he is, as are most Muslims I know. In a very unscientific oral poll, ranging from family members to Muslim acquaintances, many of us feel, just as African-Americans did for the non-black but culturally leaning African-American President Bill Clinton, that we have our first American Muslim president in Barack Hussein Obama.
I know it's odd to say this. At first, I thought I was the only Muslim engaging in this folly, and I am reluctant to express it lest right-wing zealots try to use "Muslim" as a smear and cite my theory as proof of an Islamic traitor in the White House or some such nonsense. But, since Election Day, I have been part of more and more conversations with Muslims in which it was either offhandedly agreed that Obama is Muslim or enthusiastically blurted out. In commenting on our new president, "I have to support my fellow Muslim brother," would slip out of my mouth before I had a chance to think twice.
"Well, I know he's not really Muslim," I would quickly add. But if the person I was talking to was Muslim, they would say, "yes he is." They would cite his open nature and habit of reaching out to critics, reminiscent of the Prophet Muhammad's own approach, and also Obama's middle name, Hussein. Most of the Muslims I know (me included) can't seem to accept that Obama is not Muslim.
Of the few Muslims I polled who said that Obama is not Muslim, even they conceded that he had ties to Islam. These realists said that, although not an avowed and practicing Muslim, Obama's exposure to Islam at a young age (both through his father and his stint in Indonesia)

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Yes, Obama Is A Muslim (by non-halachic standards

and Lenny Bruce)

thejewishweek.com - by Jonathan Mark - 08/20/2010

As an Orthodox Jew, I believe that membership in a religion is not casual but legal, something like American citizenship (if you support the good people of Arizona). You can't just cross the Rio Grande and vote in Phoenix. There is a rigerous citizenship process, a conversion process, or there is Judaism's singular qualification -- being born to a Jewish mother.
But according to my non-Orthodox "Progressive" friends, religion is as religion does, you are what you feel, what you seem, and to the left of Conservative Jews (though surely soon for Conservative Jews, too), you are Jewish if your father was. Intermarried people, technically non-Jews, who never converted, are allowed to participate in the Sabbath services of many liberal synagogues. The Jewish people are filling up with "illegal aliens" given amnesty. Non-Jews claim Jewish credentials by virtue of how they act, not what they actually are.
There are always stories in the papers about soldiers who've been killed while serving in the Israeli army but who can't be buried in Jewish cemetaries because these tragic soldiers are not Jewish, and therefore must can only be buried in non--Jewish cemetaries. There always follows an uproar from non-halachic Jews -- how dare we not bury them in the cemetaries where they want to be buried after what these soldiers did for the Jewish State!
Boy, are the Orthodox mean. Don't they know that religion has nothing to do with being Jewish?
By those modern and widespread standards in the Jewish community, where someone's religion is not judged by legality but by feelings and sympathy, then I'm getting more comfortable with the idea that Obama is a Muslim. Sure, he is technically a Christian, I know, he spent more than 20 years in Trinity Church in the pews of his spiritual mentor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the crude anti-Semitic and anti-American friend of Louis Farrkahn. You can't choose your family but yes, you can choose your mentors.
I know, Obama is a Christian by virtue of his maternal family, his mother was a Christian.
And yet, by the modern Jewish standards of patrilinial descent, no questions asked, no-fault religion, Obama is a Muslim.
He is Muslim by patrilineal descent and what seems to be Islamic halacha.
As an op-ed contributor wrote in The New York Times in 2008, "In Islam, however, there is no such thing as a half-Muslim. Like all monotheistic religions, Islam is an exclusive faith. As the son of the Muslim father, Senator Obama was born a Muslim under Muslim law as it is universally understood. It makes no difference that, as Senator Obama has written, his father said he renounced his religion. Likewise, under Muslim law based on the Koran his mother's Christian background is irrelevant."
There is no provision in Judaism to renounce your religion, either.
So Obama is a Muslim because of his father -- patrilineal descent -- is one legitimate "halachic" position, although the topic has become so politicized it has rarely been seriously explored in most newspapers, Jewish or otherwise. The idea that Obama might be a Muslim was so quickly branded a slur by the left and the Obama camp, in particular, and protecting Obama had become uppermost in the minds of so many journalists, that most Americans haven't been exposed to an intelligent "comparative religion" discussion about this. The topic is often handled with a schoollyard brush-off, even in usually serious newspapers, by usually serious people: "He's not a Muslim, and you're stupid for saying so."
Yet, for those of us who like our religion discussed at length and with seriousness, what about the assertions in the Times' paragraph? Maybe if the topic was dealt with intelligently and properly -- not politically -- it wouldn't still be an issue going the wrong way in the polls for Obama a full two years later.
And what of the "non-halachic" point of view?
If service in the IDF, or working and living among the Jewish people, is the criteria, Obama had for years lived and studied and prayed among Muslims as a youth in Indonesia. As president, he has served the Islamic people by the shameless pro-Islamic tilt of his Cairo speech "to the Islamic world" in which he linked modern Zionism to the aftershock of the Holocaust instead of telling the Islamic world that Jews are an indigneous people in the Land of Israel; by severely pressuring Israel but not the Palestinians; by treating Prime Minister Netanyahu with greater contempt than any Israeli leader has ever been treated by any president; by eliminating terms such as "jihad" and Islamic terror" from official government usage; by having one person in his administration refer to Jerusalm as Al-Quds, and another deny Islamic motivation to obviously Islamic motivated acts of terror (such as in Fort Hood), and by yet another Obama-appointee teling Al-Jazeera that Obama told him that one of the main jobs of the director of NASA, our space program, is to reach out to the Islamic world, a responsibility that somehow eluded Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy when we first put men into space.
By every halacha-be-damned modern Jewish colloquial standard of who is a "member of the tribe," Obama is a Muslim, every bit as much as he is a Christian. Two religions are OK in most modern Jewish homes, with Christmas trees and menorahs sharing the same living room, and Obama's childhood living room was both Islamic and Christian. He rejected neither, though Islam became politically inconvenient, which why he didn't use his middle name Hussein publically until he was safely elected and inaugurated as "Barack Hussein Obama." And that is why the centerpiece of his foreign policy became outreach to the Islamic world while threatening Israel if they so much as built an apartment house in a Jewish neighborhood in Jerusalem, while Obama made zero demands on the Palestinian Abbas.
I'm not the only one who sees this. An increasingly number of Americans do, as well. WIth the end of legalistic standards of identification within almost all ethnic and religious groups, Americans are figuing, yeah, this guy sure seems like a Muslim. The protective ring of liberal journalistic propaganda that immunized Obama, at least for a while, is wearing off.
Americans are a practical people. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...
According to a new poll from the highly respected Pew Research Center, with interviews in both English and Spanish, nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) now say Obama is a Muslim, up from 11% in March 2009.
Only about one-third of adults (34%) say Obama is a Christian, down sharply from 48% in 2009. Fully 43% say they do not know what Obama's religion is. And this survey was completed in early August, before Obama's favorable comments about the Ground Zero mosque.
It's not just Republicans, though leftists would prefer that you think so. According to Pew, "the number of independents who say Obama is a Muslim has also increased significantly (up eight points)," and "fewer Democrats today say he is a Christian (down nine points since 2009). Say that again? Even fewer Democrats say Obama is Christian.
Sixty percent of those who say Obama is a Muslim said they came to that conclusion through the media, the overwhelmingly liberal media. The people see and hear Obama in action, with 11 percent being more specific, saying it is not the media as intermediary but they figure Obama is a Muslim from his own "words and behavior," reports Pew.
Are Americans really as stupid as some politicians, Jewish leaders and journalists would have you believe? How is it that the more Americans know about Obama, the more Americans think he is Muslim?
Many Americans grew up with the old Lenny Bruce routine on "Jewish and Goyish." As Lenny said, "Dig: I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish.... Kool-Aid is goyish.... Pumpernickel is Jewish, and, as you know, white bread is very goyish. Instant potatoes--goyish. Black cherry soda's very Jewish. Macaroons are very Jewish--very Jewish cake. Fruit salad is Jewish. Lime jello is goyish. Lime soda is very goyish."
By Lenny Bruce standards, we can say that Obama is as Islamish as lime jello is goyish.
Of course, as a Jew who respects halacha and the legal codes of other religions, I know full well that Obama is a Christian by matrilineal descent, that he was raised in a two-religion home to understand and love both Islam and Christianity. He probably tilts toward Islam now because perhaps he resents how for so many years, fighting to reach the top, he could only admit to Christianity, forced by politics or (a lack of a courage) to deny his father. Now he is a free to be as he chooses.
My non-Orthodox friends who have drummed it into my head that a Jew is anyone who sort of seems like it, halacha and technicalities be damned, so I'm increasingly of the belief that, yes, Obama is a Muslim -- actually, like many children of intermarried parents, he is both Christian and Muslim. There have been numerous articles in Jewish papers regarding Chelsea Clinton's marriage to a Jew, and how Jewish that child might be, even if that child is officially a Methodist.
In a very real sense, Obama is that child. Like Chelsea's child, the father looms.
OK, OK, Obama's a Christian, please don't waterboard me, I'll confess. I'm not saying Obama prays to Allah, eats Halal, or is in any way a religious Muslim. Hardly. But I've been taught by my Reform, Secular and intermarried friends that a Jew doesn't have to believe in God, or daven, or eat kosher, or be in any way observant, or even have a Jewish mother to be Jewish. These Jews can even go to church and marry a Christian (as did Obama), and raise their children as Christians. These sort of Jews can followed around by a private detective for a month and provide no evidence of being Jewish, but they can be very Jewish deep down, feeling profoundly connected to the Jewish people, coming through when they sense that they are needed by the Jewish people. Many of us have no problem calling people like that Jewish.
We can call Obama a Muslim by that standard. Obama now seems to sense that the Islamic people need him, the Palestinians need him, the Muslims who wish that the evil disgrace of Islamic fascism would just go away, those embarrassed Muslims need him. Obama has responded.
But, in the process, the American people have been responding to something about Obama, too.

How do you say "walks like a duck and talks like a duck" in Arabic?

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Understanding Obama's Muslim Roots

cashill.com - By Jack Cashill

To understand why President Barack Obama endorsed the Ground Zero Mosque—before he didn't endorse it—a look at his various parents and their ideological roots might be in order. Much has been made about the Kenyan Obamas and their Muslim heritage, but it has become increasingly clear that Barack Sr. probably never even saw little Barry until he visited the boy and his family in Hawaii ten years after the boy's birth. Still, the Obamas matter since President Obama has pulled much of his identity from them. For obvious political reasons, however, he has been skittish about their faith. "In reality,...

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The Rev. Franklin Graham Says President Obama was 'Born a Muslim' (And Is Still One)

ABC News - By Bradley Blackburn

On the heels of a new poll suggesting that nearly one in five Americans incorrectly believes that President Obama is a Muslim, one of the nation's most prominent evangelical leaders has weighed in with a seemingly lukewarm endorsement of the president's Christian faith. The Rev. Franklin Graham waded into the discussion with his own controversial explanation of why people wrongly believe the president is a Muslim. Graham, who prayed with Obama in a session with his father, Billy Graham, earlier this year, was asked whether he has any doubts about Obama's self-avowed Christian faith. "I think the president's problem is...

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From: The Obama File by Beckwith: http://www.theobamafile.com/index.htm

From the 'Religion' section:http://www.theobamafile.com/ObamaReligion.htm
and 'Islam' section: http://www.theobamafile.com/_Islam/ObamaIslamIndex.htm

The United States Library of Congress has selectedTheObamaFile.com for inclusion in its historic collectionof Internet materials.http://www.theobamafile.com/LibraryOfCongress.html.

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From an Online Poster:

He's a cultural Muslim, the way someone like me is a cultural Catholic—I left the church but still have the connection in many ways.
His 20 years in Rev. Wright's church (where he'd have us believe he slept through every sermon, I guess) show his real religion is the Marxist/Black Liberation creed. Marxism has been combined with all kinds of ideas—including Islamic ones—into this kind of loose idea of "black freedom."
Obama attended Wright's church because of the need to be part of the culture, so he'd be seen as "one of us" by his constituents when he was a community organizer.
Were he a Muslim he wouldn't have said the "clinging to guns and religion" line. He believes in some of what Islam says, some of what Christianity says, but don't tell me you're a Christian but take 18 months to NOT find a church where you can worship.
He's an atheist (says this atheist) who has a strong emotional and cultural connection/bias toward black Muslims. His true feelings are obvious—watch how he talks about Islam, and then how he talks about Christianity, if you can find him doing so. He invited gays to the White House Easter event, but not to the Muslim one—pretty obvious who he wants to kiss up to and who he wants to tick off.
Muslims see him as one of the flock because in the political part of the Islamic world—the one we have to worry about most—he basically IS a Muslim, for all intents and purposes. He's got their back, he FEELS connected to them, even if he doesn't believe in their religion. It's an important distinction, and in the end it means he's on their side.

by Darkwolf377
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Is Barack Obama Really A Saudi / Muslim "Plant" in the White House? (Video)

Saturday, August 21, 2010 YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jhx_2TqffE&feature=player_embedded

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THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN ONE PHOTO . . . . . .

The history of the entire world, from the beginning of mankind,
illustrated beautifully in just one photo.

We're not kidding!

Yep . . . . that about says it all !!

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As We Learned About Obama, People Said it Didn't Matter

The Fundamental Transformation of America.

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said it didn't matter.

When Obama wrote a book and said he was mentored as a youth by Frank, (Frank Marshall Davis) an avowed Communist, people said it didn't matter.

When it was discovered that his grandparents, were strong socialists who sent Obama's mother to a socialist school where she was introduced to Frank Marshall Davis. He was later introduced to young Barrack Hussein Obama -- people said it didn't matter.

When people found out that Barrack Hussein Obama was enrolled as a Muslim child in school and his father and stepfather were both Muslims, people said it didn't matter.

When he wrote in another book he authored "I will stand with them (Muslims) should the political winds shift in an ugly direction" people said it didn't matter.

When he admittedly, in his book, said he chose Marxist friends and professors in college -- people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled to Pakistan , after college on an unknown national passport, people said it didn't matter.

When he sought the endorsement of the Marxist Party in 1996 as he ran for the Illinois Senate, people said it didn't matter.

When he sat in a Chicago Church for twenty years and listened to a preacher spew hatred for America and preach black liberation theology, people said it didn't matter.

When an independent Washington organization, that tracks Senate voting records, gave him the distinctive title as the "most liberal senator," people said it didn't matter.

When the Palestinians in Gaza set up a fund raising telethon to raise money for his election campaign, people said it didn't matter.

When his voting record supported gun control, people said it didn't matter.

When he refused to disclose who donated money to his election campaign, as other candidates had done, people said it didn't matter.

When he received endorsements from people like Louis Farrakhan and Mummar Kadaffi and Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

When it was pointed out that he was a total newcomer and had absolutely no experience at anything except community organizing, people said it didn't matter.

When he chose friends and acquaintances such as Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn who were revolutionary radicals, people said it didn't matter.

When his voting record in the Illinois senate and in the U.S. Senate came into question, people said it didn't matter.

When he refused to wear a flag, lapel pin, and did so only after a public outcry, people said it didn't matter.

When people started treating him as a Messiah and children in schools were taught to sing his praises, people said it didn't matter.

When he stood with his hands over his groin area for the playing of the National Anthem and Pledge of Allegiance, people said it didn't matter.

When he surrounded himself in the White house with advisors who were pro-gun control, pro- abortion, pro-homosexual marriage and wanting to curtail freedom of speech to silence the opposition, people said it didn't matter.

When he aired his views on abortion, homosexuality and a host of other issues, people said it didn't matter.

When he said he favors sex education in Kindergarten, including homosexual indoctrination, people said it didn't matter.

When his personal background was either scrubbed or hidden and nothing could be found about him, people said it didn't matter.

When the place of his birth was called into question, and he refused to produce a birth certificate, people said it didn't matter.

When he had an association in Chicago with Tony Rezco--a man of questionable character and who is now in prison and had helped Obama to a sweet deal on the purchase of his home -- people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that George Soros, a multi-billionaire Marxist, spent a ton of money to get him elected, people said it didn't matter.

When he started appointing White House Czars that were radicals, revolutionaries, and even avowed Marxist/Communist, people said it didn't matter.

When he stood before the Nation and told us that his intentions were to "fundamentally transform this Nation" into something else, people said it didn't matter.

When it became known that he had trained ACORN workers in Chicago and served as an attorney for ACORN, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed cabinet members and several advisors who were tax cheats and socialists, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed a Science Czar, John Holdren, who believes in forced abortions, mass sterilizations and seizing babies from teen mothers, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Cass Sunstein as Regulatory Czar who believes in "Explicit Consent," harvesting human organs without family consent, and allowing animals to be represented in court, while banning all hunting, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Kevin Jennings, a homosexual, and organizer of a group called gay, lesbian, straight, education network as Safe School Czar and it became known that he had a history of bad advice to teenagers, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Mark Lloyd, as Diversity Czar, who believes in curtailing free speech; taking from one and giving to another to spread the wealth; who supports Hugo Chavez, people said it didn't matter.

When Valerie Jarrett was selected as Obama's Senior White House Advisor and she is an avowed Socialist, people said it didn't matter.

When Anita Dunn, White House Communications Director said Mao Tse Tung was her favorite philosopher-- and the person she turned to most for inspiration, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Carol Browner as Global Warming Czar, and her being a well known socialist working on Cap and trade as the nations largest tax, people said it didn't matter.

When he appointed Van Jones, an ex-con and avowed Communist as Green Energy Czar, who since had to resign when this was made known, people said it didn't matter.

When Tom Daschle, Obama's pick for health and human services secretary could not be confirmed, because he was a tax cheat, people said it didn't matter.

When as President of the United States , he bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia , people said it didn't matter.

When he traveled around the world criticizing America and never once talking of her greatness, people said it didn't matter.

When his actions concerning the Middle-East seemed to support the Palestinians over Israel , our long time ally, people said it didn't matter.

When he took American tax dollars to resettle thousands of Palestinians from Gaza to the United States, people said it didn't matter.

When he upset the Europeans by removing plans for a missile defense system against the Russians, people said it didn't matter.

When he played politics in Afghanistan by not sending troops early-on when the Field Commanders said they were necessary to win, people said it didn't matter.

When he started spending us into a debt that was so big we could not pay it off, people said it didn't matter.

When he took a huge spending bill under the guise of stimulus and used it to pay off organizations, unions, and individuals that got him elected, people said it didn't matter.

When he took over insurance companies, car companies, banks, etc., people said it didn't matter.

When he took away student loans from the banks and put it through the government, people said it didn't matter.

When he designed plans to take over the health care system and put it under government control, people said it didn't matter.

When he claimed he was a Christian during the election and tapes were later made public that showed Obama speaking to a Muslim group and 'stating' that he was raised a Muslim; was educated as a Muslim; and that he is still a Muslim -- people said it didn't matter.

When he set into motion a plan to take over the control of all energy in the United States through Cap and Trade, people said it didn't matter.

When he finally completed his transformation of America into a Socialist State , people finally woke up--- but it was too late. Add these up one by one and you get a phenomenal score that points to the fact that Barrack Hussein Obama is determined to turn America into a Marxist-Socialist society.

All of the items in the preceding paragraphs have been put into place. All can be documented very easily. Before you disavow this do an internet search. The last paragraph alone is not yet cast in stone. You and I will write that paragraph. Will it read as above or will it be a more happy ending for most of America ?

If you are an Obama Supporter don't be angry with me because I think Barrack Hussein Obama is a socialist. Far too many facts support he is indeed a Socialist.

If you seek the truth you will be richer for it. Don't just belittle the opposition.. Search for the truth. Democrats, Republicans, Independents, Constitutionalists, Libertarians all need to pull together or watch the demise of a free democratic society.

Pray for Americans to seek the truth and take action for it will keep us FREE. Our biggest enemy is not China , Russia , North Korea , and Iran our biggest enemy is a contingent of politicians in Washington DC . The goverment will not help, so we need to do it ourselves.

Question....will you delete this, or pass it on to others who don't know about O'bama"s actions and plans for the U S of A, so that they may know how to vote in November, and the ensuing years?

It's your decision.Newsboy Posthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-6092003034192391932010-08-04T16:21:00.000-05:002014-05-03T12:26:47.953-05:00151 Known JournoListers Have Have Been Exposed, and Fallout!

Of the 400 participants in the now infamous JournoList Listserve, the following 151 names are confirmed members of the now-defunct email list.

They are vile propagandists masquerading as unbiased journalists, and to millions of Americans they are considered traitors for aiding and abetting Ǿbämá's Marxist agenda.

List of 75, to 107, to 122, to 135 — has now grownto '151 Known JournoListers' and Their Affiliations:

PHOTOS, WE'VE GOT 101 PHOTOS!

Warning: These pics are not graphic, but this sinister cabal of psuedo-reporters are so inwardly and outwardly ugly that some viewers could become nauseated. Click here if you feel prepared!

Spencer Ackerman - Wired, FireDogLake, Washington Independent, Talking Points Memo, The American Prospect
Thomas Adcock - New York Law Journal
Ben Adler - Newsweek, POLITICO
Mike Allen - POLITICO
Eric Alterman - The Nation, Media Matters for America
Marc Ambinder - The Atlantic
Greg Anrig - The Century Foundation
Ryan Avent - Economist
Dean Baker - The American Prospect
Nick Baumann - Mother Jones
Josh Bearman - LA Weekly
Steven Benen - The Carpetbagger Report
Ari Berman - The Nation
Jared Bernstein - Economic Policy Institute
Michael Berube - Crooked Timer, Penn State University
Brian Beutler - The Media Consortium
Lindsay Beyerstein - Freelance journalist
Joel Bleifuss - In These Times
John Blevins - South Texas College of Law
Sam Boyd - The American Prospect
Ben Brandzel - MoveOn.org, John Edwards Campaign
Shannon Brownlee - Author, New America Foundation
Will Bunch - Philadelphia Daily News
Rich Byrne - Playwright
Jonathan Chait - The New Republic
Lakshmi Chaudry - In These Times
Isaac Chotiner - The New Republic
Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic
Michael Cohen - New America Foundation
Jonathan Cohn - The New Republic
Joe Conason - The New York Observer
Lark Corbeil - Public News Service
David Corn - Mother Jones
Daniel Davies - The Guardian
David Dayen - FireDogLake
Brad DeLong - The Economists' Voice, University of California at Berkley
Ryan Donmoyer - Bloomberg News
Adam Doster - In These Times
Kevin Drum - Washington Monthly
Matt Duss - Center for American Progress
Gerald Dworkin - UC Davis
Eve Fairbanks - The New Republic
Henry Farrell - George Washington University
Tim Fernholz - American Prospect
Dan Froomkin - Huffington Post, Washington Post
Jason Furman - Brookings Institution
James Galbraith - University of Texas at Austin
Kathleen Geier - Talking Points Memo
Todd Gitlin - Columbia University
Ilan Goldenberg - National Security Network
Arthur Goldhammer - Harvard University
Dana Goldstein - The Daily Beast
Andrew Golis - Talking Points Memo
Jaana Goodrich - Blogger
Merrill Goozner - Chicago Tribune
David Greenberg - Slate
Robert Greenwald - Brave New Films
Chris Hayes - The Nation
Don Hazen - Alternet
Jeet Heer - Canadian Journalist
Jeff Hauser - Political Action Committee, Dennis Shulman Campaign
Michael Hirsh - Newsweek
James Johnson - University of Rochester
John Judis - The New Republic, The American Prospect
Foster Kamer - The Village Voice
Michael Kazin - Georgetown University
Ed Kilgore - Democratic Strategist
Richard Kim - The Nation
Charlie Kireker - Air America Media
Mark Kleiman - UCLA The Reality Based Community
Ezra Klein - Washington Post, Newsweek, The American Prospect
Joe Klein - TIME
Robert Kuttner - American Prospect, Economic Policy Institute
Paul Krugman - The New York Times, Princeton University
Lisa Lerer - POLITICO
Daniel Levy - Century Foundation
Ralph Luker - Cliopatria
Annie Lowrey - Washington Independent
Robert Mackey - New York Times
Mike Madden - Salon
Maggie Mahar - The Century Foundation
Dylan Matthews - Harvard University
Alec McGillis - Washington Post
Scott McLemee - Inside Higher Ed
Sara Mead - New America Foundation
Ari Melber - The Nation
David Meyer - University of California at Irvine
Seth Michaels - MyDD.com
Luke Mitchell - Harper's Magazine
Gautham Nagesh - The Hill, Daily Caller
Suzanne Nossel - Human Rights Watch
Michael O'Hare - University of California at Berkeley
Rodger Payne - University of Louisville
Josh Orton - MyDD.com, Air America Media
Rick Perlstein - Author, Campaign for America's Future
Nico Pitney - Huffington Post
Harold Pollack - University of Chicago
Katha Pollitt - The Nation
Ari Rabin-Havt - Media Matters
Joy-Ann Reid - South Florida Times
David Roberts - Grist
Lamar Robertson - Partnership for Public Service
Sara Robinson - Campaign For America's Future
Alyssa Rosenberg - Washingtonian, The Atlantic, Government Executive
Alex Rossmiller - National Security Network
Michael Roston - Newsbroke
Laura Rozen - POLITICO, Mother Jones
Felix Salmon - Reuters
Greg Sargent - Washington Post
Thomas Schaller - Baltimore Sun
Noam Scheiber - The New Republic
Michael Scherer - TIME
Mark Schmitt - American Prospect, The New America Foundation
Rinku Sen - ColorLines Magazine
Julie Bergman Sender - Balcony Films
Adam Serwer - American Prospect
Walter Shapiro - PoliticsDaily.com
Kate Sheppard - Mother Jones
Matthew Shugart - UC San Diego
Nate Silver - FiveThirtyEight.com
Jesse Singal - The Boston Globe, Washington Monthly
Ann-Marie Slaughter - Princeton University
Ben Smith - POLITICO
Sarah Spitz - NPR
Adele Stan - The Media Consortium
Paul Starr - The Atlantic
Kate Steadman - Kaiser Health News
Jonathan Stein - Mother Jones
Sam Stein - Huffington Post
Matt Steinglass - Deutsche Presse-Agentur
James Surowiecki - The New Yorker
Jesse Taylor - Pandagon.net
Steven Teles - Yale University
Mark Thoma - The Economists' View
Michael Tomasky - The Guardian
Jeffrey Toobin - CNN, The New Yorker
Rebecca Traister - Salon
Tracy Van Slyke - The Media Consortium
Paul Waldman - Author, American Prospect
Dave Weigle - Washington Post, MSNBC, The Washington Independent
Moira Whelan - National Security Network
Scott Winship - Pew Economic Mobility Project
D. Brad Wright - University of NC at Chapel Hill
J. Harry Wray - DePaul University
Kai Wright - The Root
Holly Yeager - Columbia Journalism Review
Rich Yeselson - Change to Win
Matthew Yglesias - Center for American Progress, The Atlantic Monthly
Jonathan Zasloff - UCLA
Julian Zelizer - Princeton University
Avi Zenilman - POLITICO

h/t BuckeyeTexan

Caveat Lector "Let the reader beware" - Remember to look for these names in the byline.

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JournoList Fallout Coverage:

♠ The Daily Caller - The Daily Caller's coverage of the now-defunct liberal listserv Journolist's 2008

♠ Daily Caller: I Witnessed Obama Worshipping At Jeremiah Wright's Church

♠ Kathleen Parker - Journolist flap shows a destructive 'gotcha' mentality

♠ Big Government - From JournoList to Shirley Sherrod: The Left's Default Response Is

♠ David Warren - Detached Observers - Ottawa Citizen

♠ Big Journalism - Put Up or Shut Up, Ezra: Why Is JournoList Founder Klein Whining About Tucker

♠ Documents show media plotting to kill stories about Rev. Jeremiah Wright - It was the moment of greatest peril for then-Sen. Barack Obama's political career. In the heat of the presidential campaign, videos surfaced of Obama's pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, angrily denouncing whites

♠ News Busters - JournoList Revelations Suggest Founder Ezra Klein Not Accurate

♠ Jonah Goldberg - JournoList & the Liberal Mother Ship: Open Conspiracy Is No Longer Merely Ajar

♠ Journolist Archives prove Media coordinated assault on Sarah Palin to secure Obama election - Hillbuzz

♠ What's So Bad about the JournoList? - Jay Cost

♠ The unbearable whiteness of being on Journolist - Thomas Lifson

♠ Journolist Equals Journalistic Corruption - John Guardiano

♠ Obama Campaign Adviser Participated on JournoList - Laura Ingraham

♠ Daily Caller Provides More JournoList Fodder: List-Serv Members Coordinate To Destroy Sarah Palin

♠ IBD Editorial: JournoLism's Bias

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Among the individuals who were part of the controversial "JournoList" e-mail group were activists with ties to the White House and a socialist group closely linked for years to President Obama.

Other members of JournoList were activists from a far-left think tank that has been partnered with ACORN and was founded with input from Obama.

↔ Ǿbämá King Maker — Billionaire George Soros

The group, Demos, may have been instrumental in securing the appointment of Obama's former "green jobs" adviser, Van Jones, who resigned after it was exposed he funded a communist organization.

JournoList – a listserv comprised of several hundred liberal journalists and like-minded professors and activists – shut down earlier this month amid reports members of the news media used the group to discuss minimizing negative publicity surrounding Obama's radical ties.

Among the known members of JournoList was Jared Bernstein, chief economist to Vice President Joe Biden.Another member was Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect. Kuttner is also one of five founders of the George Soros-funded Economic Policy Institute and a distinguished senior fellow of Demos.

WND previously reported on the links between the Obama administration and Demos.Demos originally recommended the Obama administration hire Van Jones, also a Demos personality.According to Demos' own website, while Obama was a state senator in 1999, he served on the working group that founded Demos.

Months before Obama hired Jones in March 2009, Chuck Collins, an associate of Soros and a longtime leftist activist linked to socialist causes, penned a piece for Demos recommending the White House hire Jones. Collins is director of the Tax Program for Shared Prosperity at Demos.Through a socialist party, Obama may be more closely linked to Collins.

Researcher Trevor Loudon of the New Zeal blog dug up official newspapers of the socialist-oriented New Party that list Collins as among the party's founding builders in its fall 1994 edition. Collins is listed with approximately 100 other activists in an article entitled "Who's Building the New Party?"

WND previously reported on newspaper evidence showing Obama was a member of the New Party, which sought to elect members to public office with the aim of moving the Democratic Party far leftward to ultimately form a new political party with a socialist agenda.

Also, in an exclusive e-mail interview, Marxist activist Carl Davidson, a New Party founder, recounted to WND Obama's participation with his New Party organization.

JournoList Members Part of Socialist GroupKuttner, meanwhile is linked to a socialist group, the Democratic Socialists of America, or DSA, with which Obama also has deep ties.Also, scores of known members of the JournoList group are linked to DSA.Kuttner himself addressed DSA's November 1989 national convention in Maryland.

Loudon found that in 1990, DSA was selling a list of pamphlets, including "Democratic Promise: Ideas for Turning America in a Progressive Direction," by both Kuttner and DSA founder Michael Harrington.In 1998, DSA's official publication described Kuttner as a "socialist."Kuttner helped found, with at least a dozen other members of DSA, the highly influential "progressive" umbrella group Campaign for America's Future.

Among the founders of the group was Joel Rogers, a principal founder of the socialist New Party in which Obama was reportedly a member.Three other Campaign for America's Future founders – James Galbraith, Todd Gitlin, and Michael Kazin – were members of the JournoList group.Also part of JournoList was the publication Mother Jones, which includes on its board reported DSA member Adam Hochschild.

Loudon notes the Economic Policy Institute, part of JournoList, is led by DSA member Larry Mishel.Institute members have joined the Obama administration, including William Spriggs, a senior adviser in the Department of Labor, and Rebecca Blank, under secretary for economic affairs in the Department of Commerce.

Also, institute staffer and JournoList member Jared Bernstein is now Biden's economic adviser.Also on Journolist was the editor of the Nation magazine, Katrina vanden Heuvel, an institute trustee who presides over an editorial board that includes DSA members Norman Birnbaum, Barbara Ehrenreich and Deborah Meier.

Loudon's blog lists dozens of other DSA members or affiliates who are part of the JournoList group.Obama Connected to Socialist GroupTop Democratic Socialists of America members have been closely linked for years to Obama, WND previously reported.

Obama himself spoke at a forum organized by the group at the University of Chicago in early 1996 called "Employment and Survival in Urban America."Quentin Young, considered the father of the U.S. single-payer movement, is a longtime Democratic Socialists of America activist. He has had a relationship with Obama, particularly in the 1990s, when he reportedly advised Obama on health care.

Young was reportedly present at a 1995 meeting at the home of former Weather Underground terrorist William Ayers who was said to have launched Obama's political career.Young has been active in Chicago socialist circles and was previously accused of membership in a communist group. In 1992, Chicago's branch of the DSA awarded Young, a member, with their highest honor – the Debs Award.

In a 2008 article in the official Communist Party USA magazine, Young noted Obama previously expressed support of a single-payer universal health-care program, although he later waffled when asked about his position.

As an Illinois state senator representing a mostly black district on the south side of Chicago, Obama publicly supported universal health care. He also co-sponsored the Bernardin Amendment, which did not pass but would have amended the Illinois State Constitution to add health care to the list of basic rights for residents.Meanwhile, Obama spoke at the March 29, 1998, memorial service for Chicago DSA member Saul Mendelson.

Timuel Black, a member activist, mediated political disputes on behalf of Obama in the 1990s and was reportedly involved in Obama's campaign committee during his successful 2004 Senate race.Longtime member activist Arnold Wolf was a member of "Rabbis for Obama" and has held fundraisers in his home for Obama, including a function in 1995 that was aimed at introducing Obama to the Hyde Park activist community.

Eliseo Medina, international executive vice president of Service Employees International Union, has been honored by DSA. During the most recent presidential campaign, Medina served on Obama's National Latino Advisory Council.

WND reported Medina, speaking at a 2009 Washington, D.C., conference, declared granting citizenship to millions of illegal aliens would expand the progressive electorate and help ensure a progressive governing coalition for the long term.

WorldNetDaily - By Aaron Klein

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JournoList IS a Big Deal: Trying to Control theMessage

for Liberals

The smarty pants set, breezily dismiss the contents of JournoList, the group made up of hundreds of mainstream journalists, bloggers, activists and Democrat policy wonks. The reasoning goes this way: how is it shocking that a bunch of like-minded people want to get together and chat? I mean, that's just human. They're young and liberal and brash, who cares?

Except, in this case, these people are in positions of power in the mainstream media.

Politics Daily's Matt Lewis reports this:Regardless, the record shows Time Magazine's Michael Scherer had very harsh words for FOX — a point that would be less relevant had Scherer not recently won a seat on the board of directors of the White House Correspondents Association.

Why does this matter? As you may recall, there is a battle taking place to determine which media outlet will get Helen Thomas' front-row seat for White House briefings. Many believe that Fox News should get the seat.

As FishbowlDC recently reported, the White House Correspondents Association's "board plans to make final decisions by August 2nd…"One wonders if Scherer, who holds the "magazine" seat on the board will recuse himself from the vote, based on the notion that his past comments imply he cannot fairly help decide this matter.

A seat on the board is powerful. According the the White House Correspondent Association's website, "A nine-member board of directors, elected by correspondents, addresses access to the chief executive; coverage arrangements; work space arrangements; logistics and costs for press travel to accompany a president on the road.

"The stakes are high, and in a close election, one vote might matter.

Also, there is, you know, the small thing of journalists claiming to be objective. Think the list should be dismissed as irrelevant?

Let's see, folks from the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazine. These are not children. These are people we're supposed to respect as objective, "smart" (a friend said this about the whole notion of "smart": I do get weary of the left needing to apply the word "smart" to themselves all the time. To make that distinction, "a smart…conversation"as opposed to all the stupid ones that don't involve them. because if they don't involve them, they are by definition stupid…), and fair.Uh huh.

The JournoList story is important. It demonstrates a inbred, ideological group-think that drives the modern media in both print and on TV.These people are not satisfied to control those mediums, though. They stink at radio and they're challenged online, so they (many of them) want to eliminate their ideological competition and feel justified in doing so.

NewsBusters.org - By Melissa Clouthier

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You Might Be a Liberal if

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1. You don't like Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin and of course, Rush Limbaugh.

2. You won't watch Fox News because it's 'fair and balanced.'

3. You think that consenting adults can engage freely in every activity except capitalism.

4. You think a terrorist attack on America should be handled by civilian courts.

5. You feel that global warming is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islam.

7. You believe Sean Penn makes sense, and Alec Baldwin makes even more sense.

8. You would like to give socialized health care a shot in America even though it's been a catastrophic failure everywhere else it's been implemented.

9. You like Bill Maher, Al Franken, Michael Moore, and of course, NY Times' Paul Krugman.

10. You use the words neo-cons, wing-nuts, and flying monkey right at least three times on any given day.

11. You have more nice things to say about countries like Cuba and France than you do about your own country.

12. You believe the best way to fix the government screwing something up in the market is with...drumroll, please...more government intervention.

13. You get all worked up when the man who organized the mass slaughter of 3,000 innocent Americans has a little water poured on his nose and mouth.

14. You aim to achieve racial equality in society by advancing policies that treat certain people differently solely because of their race (i.e. affirmative action).

15. You would like to give socialized health care a shot in America even though it's been a catastrophic failure everywhere else it's been implemented.

16. Your idea of a fair tax system is one where some individuals are forced to pay in at much higher percentages than others just because.

17. You consider Rush Limbaugh to be a disgusting, racist, unintelligent pig even though you have never actually heard him speak before.

18. You scream and holler that the US government isn't setting aside enough money to feed impoverished nations around the world, yet you have never sent even one dime of your own stash to help.

19. You feel that global warming is a bigger threat to our country than radical Islam.

20. You think that consenting adults can engage freely in every activity except capitalism.

21. You think that the only acceptable hate crime is Christian bashing.

22. You think we never gave peace a chance.

23. Sean Penn makes sense to you. Awec Bawdwin makes even more sense.

24. You want to outlaw cigarettes and legalize marijuana.

25. If you use the words "xtians", neo-con's" or "wing-nuts" at least four times in any given day.

26. You say Have a Great Winter Solstice, Happy Kwankza, Merry Ramadan and think saying Merry Christmas is just wrong.

27. You think that the words "to promote the general welfare" in the Constitution mean to promote welfare generally.

28. You believe that even though the top 20 percent of taxpayers pay 80 percent of income taxes, that the rich are not paying their "fair share."

29. You think that Rush Limbaugh's listeners are mindless "dittoheads," but you have never doubted anything that you heard from Michael Moore.

30. You believe that rich people should not be allowed to contribute so much money to candidates for office (except for George Soros).

31. You have no problem with Hollywood movie starts flying around in private jets to give speeches on the evils of SUVs.

32. You're protesting President Bush for what YOU THINK he will do to harm innocent civilians, but the million or so murders Saddam Hussein HAS committed are not relevant to you.

33. You Sweden has the ideal society.

34. You think Martin Sheen is an actor who is smart enough to engage in political discussion. Ronald Reagan should never have been elected President because he's just an actor, for crying out loud.

35. You believe the amount of money it will cost each individual citizen to pay for the WAR is important to consider. The amount of money welfare, food stamps, and medicare cost each individual citizen is irrelevant, and selfish to consider.

36. When people try to discuss the current administration with you, your face becomes red, you raise your voice and use the words: "idiot" and "oil" repeatedly.

37. You think Helen Thomas is an intelligent, gutsy lady and a dynamite reporter.

38. You think all war is evil. And Jimmy Carter is a voice a reason.

39. You're still not clear about what exactly was wrong with Communism.

40. Your parents paid for you to go to an expensive private college and five years later you still spend more time protesting than earning a living.

41. You don't like the sight of guns or soldiers, even in a Disney movie.

42. You think the criminal has more rights than the police who arrest this criminal, unless the crime is sexual harassment, or racism.

43. You think only white people can be racist.

44. You think Maxine Waters and Sheila Jackson Lee are articulate geniuses but Justice Clarence Thomas, Dr. Alan Keyes and Dr. Walter Williams are dolts.

45. You think that the Constitution is a living document and should be changed but the writings of Karl Marx are "written in stone"

46. You think burning the United States flag should be Constitutionally protected but burning a cross should be outlawed.

47. You think that tax cuts hurt poor people and are uncompassionate but taking 30% from their paychecks is compassionate

48. Your idea of hell is having to mind your own business and not meddle in other people's lives.

49. You believe that posting the "Ten Commandments" in schools will hurt the children, but putting "Heather Has Two Mommies" or "Ask Alice" (on the internet) won't.

50. You think that the American Dream could have only been accomplished in the '60s.

51. You think that conservatives have no sense of humor then shudder at the idea of a Clinton joke.

52. You actually do believe that Clinton doesn't know the definition of the words "alone", "is", or "correct".

53. You believe that Columbus is a mean-spirit bringer of genocide, and never should have explored to the new world, which meant that no one would have religious or taxation freedom whatsoever.

54. You think that the only way the tragedy in Littleton, CO could have been avoided was to restrict the access of the guns, two of which were bought on the black market.

55. You actually think the multicultural movement of the '90s works better than organized religion.

56. You don't want the Christian Right imposing their morality on you, but you want to impose big government on everyone else because they won't do the right thing.

57. You're a liberal if you can't see the irony in your own beliefs.

58. You believe Peter Jennings is a very educated and intelligent man.

59. You can actually believe everyone around Bill Clinton is lying, but Bill Clinton himself is telling the truth.

60. You point to God's forgiveness of King David in reference to Bill Clinton but "forget" to read the rest of the scripture about the ruin that he inflicted on his family, his kingdom and himself.

61. You think that the only acceptable hate crime is Christian bashing.

62. You want to make the rich "pay their fair share" but leave Ted (more people have been killed in my car than in an American nuclear power plant) Kennedy and Dick Gebhardt out of the definition of the rich.

63. Your idea of compassion is giving a homeless person a shopping cart but expecting them to accept the responsibilities of life is mean spirited, racist, bigoted, etc. ad nauseum.

64. You think Princess Diana was compassionate for hugging poor children and children with AIDS (while "forgetting" about her getting in her limo and driving away) but Mother Teresa makes you uncomfortable.

65. You think that "dumbing down" America's school kids is compassionate but holding them to high educational standards is "mean spirited", racist, bigoted, etc. ad nauseum.

66. You think that Teddy Kennedy, Jesse Jackson and the KKK don't have anything in common (at least the KKK is honest about their goals).

67. You think that people need to be punished for good choices and rewarded for bad ones.

68. You're a liberal if you think what Hitler did to the Jews is horrible but the "Christian Right" is dangerous and needs to be done away with.

69. You don't see the parallel between yourself, Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin and Chairman Mao.

70. You believe that the "700 Club" are a group of fakes or actors but the people on "The Jerry Springer" show are real people.

71. You actually refer to the Reagan and Bush Presidencies as one Presidency.

72. You think that affirmative action is the only way to solve racial problems in America.

73. You think the best way to care about a disease is to wear a ribbon.

74. You think that pouring blood on a $1,500 fur coat is a sure-fire way to get your message across, but if anyone protests outside an abortion clinic, they're extremists!

75. If Sean Hannity makes no sense and Alan Colmes makes perfect sense.

76. You voted for Mondale in 1984 thinking that raising your taxes was a good idea.

77. You refer to listening to Jesse Jackson or Sam Donaldson as "equal time".

78. You make snide remarks to guys for looking at women but champion Clinton's right to do whatever he wants with his interns.

79. You think the impeachment vote was 'just about sex'.

80. You think all the attacks against Republicans are justified, but got outraged about the Willie Horton incident.

81.You actually think Clinton 'only inhaled'.

82. If the last 'good old president' you remember was Carter.

83. You condemn Dan Quayle for misspelling potato and then ignore the witticisms of Al Gore (who are these people?)

84. You think Alec Baldwin was justified in his protest on the Jay Leno show.

You actually think there IS a way that the Republicans can poison the water supply to certain people, and destroy the ozone layer.

85. You believe any of the conspiracies such as that the AIDS virus was started by the government or that certain products cause sterility in black males, but think "The X-files" is too far fetched.

86. You think that Watergate and Iran-Contra was a travesty of justice, but anything against Clinton is partisan!

87. You believe VH-1 when they tell you that warning labels were put on by "Conservatives led by Tipper Gore"

88. You believe Clinton's 'change of heart' after the sudden switch in the 1994 election.

89. You use the words "right wing extremist" at least four times in any given day.

90. You think that bombing on Iraq couldn't have possibly had anything to do with the impeachment vote... then why did they stop as soon as the vote was done?

91. You think that the four cops who beat Rodney King should have been thrown in jail forever, but the four thugs who beat Reginald Denny should have fair justice.

92. You complain that your community has too many white people and the Catholic church you go to doesn't have enough ethnicity, but you're the first one with a for sale sign in your yard when blacks start moving in.

93. You called Vietnam Veterans "baby killers" but think that allowing a woman to suck her baby into a sink is a constitutionally protected right.

94. You think that Joe Camel and big tobacco are out to kill your babies, but allowing a babies brain to be sucked out of its skull when it's 1/3 of the way out of the birth canal is paramount to a free society.

95. You scream if a CEO sleeps with an employee but think that Clinton receiveing oral sex from an Intern is just fine.

95. You believe that Clinton was forced to lie under oath by the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy"

97. You think that Ken Starr is the devil's helper for calling Monica's mother to testify but believe that Ollie North's wife and minister being called before the grand Jury was fair.

98. You believe Clinton's numbers about the number of jobs created and don't credit it to the businesses given opportunities in the 1980s.

99. You know no recorded economic history (e.g. the massive stagflation and recession) before the Reagan Era.

100. You think sexual harassment is rampant, date rape pervasive, domestic violence common and Paula Jones is lying.

101. You get mad when rape victims' sexual history is plastered all over the news media, but think Paula Jones' sexual history "must be made public."

102. You hate Hillary jokes.

103. You hate Monica jokes.

104 You pale at the execution of child killers, but defend the killing of unborn children as an expression of choice.

105. You fully support women who have "exercised their right to choose" when they abort in the 3rd trimester, but think Amy Grossberg should get the death penalty before the trial even goes to court.

106. You think trees have feelings, animals can conceptualize and the fetus is a blob of protoplasm.

107. You wear a red ribbon to show your support for a cure for AIDS but oppose all animal experimentation needed to find that cure

108. If you hear a news report of a man beat nearly to death because he is a minority or gay and you rally about punishing the bigot who committed the terrible act BUT, if you hear a news report of a man beat nearly to death for his money, and you start talking about the poor disadvantaged person who is forced to commit such acts to survive.

109 . You are convinced that Frank Capra films and Norman Rockwell paintings are lies and distortions but "Platoon," "Dances with Wolves" and "Thelma and Louise" are realistic.

110. You thought Walt Disney was saccharine sweet and terminally cutesy-pie - until it made Pocahontas.

111. You think a moment of silent prayer at the beginning of the school day constitutes government indoctrination and an intrusion on parental authority, while sex education, condom distribution and multiculturalism are values-neutral.

112. You agonize over threats to the natural environment (acid rain, toxic waste) but are oblivious to threats to the social environment (pornography, promiscuity, and family dissolution).

113. You are appalled at all the money being spent investigating the alleged illegal activities of Bill Clinton, but insist that investigating 75 charges (74 which were dismissed as unfounded) charges against Newt Ginrich was "the only just thing to do."

114. You want to outlaw cigarrettes and legalize marijuana

115. You want to legalize cocaine and outlaw handguns. You think cops are pigs and criminals are products of their environment.

116. You believe the National Rifle Association helps criminals while the American Civil Liberties Union protects the innocent.

117. You think Rush Limbaugh is responsible for the Oklahoma City bombing but are outraged by suggestions that Ted Kaczynski (the suspected Unabomber) and Al Gore have anything in common.

118. You just know that everything Rush Limbaugh says is a lie but you have never listened to him.

119. Jesse Jackson makes sense to you. Barbra Streisand makes even more sense.

120. You think Herblock cartoons are funny and Janet Reno is totally hot.

121. You believe corporate profits are obscene but government spending is too low and the American people are undertaxed.

122. You see cartoons condemning religions and making fun of Christianity as funny and an expression of free speech, but think the cartoon B.C. should be banned.

123. You think deficits are caused by tax loopholes.

124. You think AIDS is spread by insufficient funding.

125. You consider the Catholic bishops noble and idealistic when they oppose capital punishment and welfare cuts but dangerous fanatics trying to legislate their theology when they defend the right to life.

126. You are convinced that proponents of welfare reform hate the poor and opponents of affirmative action hate minorities, but AIDS activists who bash the Pope and People for the American Way types who go psycho over Protestant "fundamentalists" are guardians of democracy.

127. You attribute every minority problem to entrenched, institutional racism and the legacies of slavery and segregation.

128. You think the black middle class is a myth created by Newt Gingrich.

129. You view race riots as justifiable expressions of rage over injustice and fail to see the similarities between a black mob burning a Korean store and a white mob in the Jim Crow era lynching a black man.

130. You don't understand all of the whining about affirmative action and are more than willing to sacrifice someone else's employment or education opportunity to assuage your guilt.

131. You marched against American involvement in Vietnam, thought the Gulf war was unnecessary but believe 25,000 U.S. troops in Bosnia are vital to our national interests.

132. You see no correlation between welfare and the rise of illegitimacy, judicial leniency and surging crime rates, or addiction and an entertainment industry that glorifies drug abuse. But you believe Richard Nixon is responsible for everything horrible that's happened in the past quarter-century.

133. You think those child-abusing, religious fanatics at Waco had it coming but the illegal immigrants roughed up by California deputies - after leading them on a high-speed chase - are the victims of the decade.

134. You continually say that conservatives have no sense of humor, but after reading this page, think that I am cold and mean-spirited.

Newsboy Posthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3940451639862292660.post-23553528952141598822010-08-03T17:49:00.000-05:002014-05-03T12:26:47.935-05:00Mainstream Media Coverage Slim on NASA, Black Panther StoriesLast year, it was Van Jones and ACORN that slipped under much of the media's radar.

But despite pledges to pay closer attention to the "polemic world of talk radio, cable television and partisan blogs," two new stories have taken their place in the annals of things not much reported.

One is NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's claim that one of the space agency's primary missions is to improve relations with Muslim countries. The other is the ongoing investigation into why the Justice Department dropped its case against New Black Panther Party members accused of intimidating voters on Election Day 2008."

The media don't have any credibility when they don't cover the big stories," said Dan Gainor, vice president for business and culture at the conservative Media Research Center. Gainor suggested both stories appear to have all the makings of news value.

Bolden has previously come under criticism for overseeing a halt to the agency's moon-mission Constellation program, and his lengthy interview with Al Jazeera last month raised all kinds of alarms with former NASA staffers -- not only did he claim Muslim outreach as his portfolio, but he called NASA an "Earth improvement agency" and said the United States cannot go beyond low-Earth orbit without international help. His predecessor, Michael Griffin, said that is false, despite his professed admiration for Bolden.

In the New Black Panther case, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a year into its investigation and on Tuesday heard groundbreaking testimony from a former official who claims the Justice Department dropped it in part because it refuses to go after black defendants in civil rights cases.Only a few national media outlets reported the NASA story. They included CNN and Slate -- and little else. The three broadcast networks' nightly news programs did not mention the controversy, though ABC News did run a blog on the White House response.

The New York Times and Washington Post also did not carry any straight news piece on the subject. The Washington Post website, though, did carry a blurb online that linked to a FoxNews.com piece as well as an opinion blog on Wednesday. The Los Angeles Times carried a blog on Thursday, comparing the lack of media response to Wile E. Coyote waiting for his rocket pack to go off. "Silence. Nothing," the piece said.

The Black Panther coverage was a bit more robust. The New York Times covered J. Christian Adams' testimony on Tuesday, as did CNN, and The Los Angeles Times noted it briefly. The Philadelphia Inquirer provided significant coverage of the developments -- the alleged voter intimidation occurred in Philadelphia. The Associated Press ran a story on July 1 before the testimony.

The three nightly network news programs did not run the story. The Washington Post did not provide any original coverage -- it ran the July 1 Associated Press story and provided one paragraph on the case Wednesday online with a link to The Times story.

The Black Panther issue rose to the level of the White House press briefing on Wednesday when a reporter asked Press Secretary Robert Gibbs about it. But he waved it off."I haven't paid any attention to it," Gibbs said.So will these stories flame up or fade?

Rick Edmonds, a media business analyst with The Poynter Institute, said both stories are worth reporting on, but empathized with outlets that might be skeptical of whether the stories have crossed the threshold of newsworthiness."When the Civil Rights Commission actually does something then maybe (the Black Panther case) kicks up to being a story," he said. "It's a question of how firm and significant the news to date in both those instances are."Edmonds, who acknowledged he was not familiar with either story before being asked about them, said they have an obvious appeal to audiences "dubious" about the Obama administration since they reflect poorly on Obama appointees.

Gainor said that with the investigation ongoing, the Black Panther story could eventually attract more coverage. He guessed the NASA issue could dissipate, though he questioned why.Bolden, in his interview, listed three priorities and "none of them involve the word space," Gainor said. "How is that not news?"

A NASA spokesman on Tuesday claimed Bolden was referring to his outreach priorities, not his priorities overall, and that space exploration is still the No. 1 mission. It's unclear whether the White House or NASA will face pressure to say any more.

The radio silence is similar to the media environment before the Obama administration and Congress essentially cut ties last year with ACORN following a series of undercover videos that appeared to show local ACORN offices offering help to two conservative activists posing as a pimp and prostitute. The same goes for the non-coverage of then-White House green jobs adviser Van Jones, whose controversial past -- and signing of a petition in support of 9/11 conspiracy theorists -- led to his resignation.

After both incidents, The New York Times public editor in September wrote a column acknowledging that The Times "stood still" as the ACORN and Jones stories developed. It noted that The Associated Press also reported that the Census Bureau cut ties with ACORN without mention of the sting videos.

The Times piece said the newspaper may have "trouble" dealing with stories that start in talk radio and cable and blogs but "needs to be alert to them or wind up looking clueless or, worse, partisan itself."However, the public editor in March ran a new column suggesting it got overly worked up on the ACORN story -- citing the tremendous damage the issue did to ACORN's infrastructure and the fact that activist James O'Keefe "almost certainly" did not dress as an outrageous pimp in the ACORN offices themselves, though he dressed as one in media appearances.

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Mainstream Media Coverage Slim on NASA, Black Panther Stories

The shocking new documentary, "We Will Not Be Silenced" will be featured in the context of the fraud-thuggery-malfeasance that occurred against Hillary Clinton (during the 2008 Primaries) was/is part of the pattern of Voter Right Fraud and Intimidation that is found in the 'Land of Hope and Change.

'What happened in 2008 in the Democratic Caucus and Primaries was the precursor to the New Black Panther intimidation in Philadelphia in the November general election. And it has all been ignored. 'Til now.Referring to the controversial 2008 Democrat presidential primary, Carolyn Tackett asks, "Was Barack Obama selected rather than elected?."

Fox & Friends had an explosive interview with Gigi Gaston, a writer/director who has made a documentary outlining the rampant voter fraud perpetrated by the Obama campaign during the 2008 primaries against Hillary Clinton. Gaston is a lifelong Democrat whose grandfather was a Democratic governor of Massachusetts…

Gaston is not some partisan hack but someone who cares deeply about the election process and democracy. Gaston presents compelling evidence in We Will Not Be Silenced that Barack Obama was selected by the DNC, not elected by the people.

Gaston's website explains that she began investigating to debunk the claims of vote fraud:

As Americans, we expect certain liberties and rights that were granted us by our forefathers, who wrote documents like the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. "We the people" expect that these fundamental rights will always be protected. However, in the current Democratic Presidential Primary, this has not been the case. We believe The Democratic National Committee (DNC) made a grave error by depriving American voters of their choice of Hillary Clinton as Democratic nominee. Senator Clinton, by all accounts, except caucuses, won the Primary Election and, therefore, should be the 2008 Democratic Nominee.

That didn't happen, due largely to illegitimate and illegal acts. We have interviews of many accounts from caucus states recounting threats, intimidation, lies, stolen documents, falsified documents, busing in voters in exchange for paying for "dinners," etc. There are at least 2000 complaints, in Texas alone, of irregularities directed towards the Obama Campaign, that have lead to a very fractured and broken Democratic Party.

This documentary is about the disenfranchising of American citizens by the Democratic Party and the Obama Campaign. We the People have made this film. Democrats have sent in their stories from all parts of America. We want to be heard and let the country know how our party has sanctioned the actions of what we feel are Obama Campaign "Chicago Machine" dirty politics.

We believe this infamous campaign of "change" from Chicago encouraged and created an army to steal caucus packets, falsify documents, change results, allow unregistered people to vote, scare and intimidate Hillary supporters, stalk them, threaten them, lock them out of their polling places, silence their voices and stop their right to vote, which is, of course, all documented in "We Will Not Be Silenced."

"We Will Not Be Silenced" is about the people who fight back by simply telling their stories: Teachers, professors, civil rights activists, lawyers, janitors, physicists, ophthalmologists, accountants, mathematicians, retirees – all bound together by their love of America and Democracy. They will tell us their experiences and how they feel betrayed by their own party.

They will discuss how their party has disenfranchised them and how, when they saw and reported multiple instances of fraud, everyone turned a blind eye. Rather than support and protect the voices and votes of its loyal members, the DNC chose to sweep this under the rug by looking the other way, or using ceremony and quasi-investigations to assuage angry voters. It is our opinion there never before has been such a "dirty" campaign; the campaign that has broken the hearts and spirits of American voters, who once believed in the Democractic voting system.

We are not angry liberals; we are disappointed Democrats, who love our country and feel the DNC needs to stand for truth, care about its voter base and stop committing actions worse than what we only thought possible of the worst Republicans. The DNC and the Obama Campaign need to be held accountable for the catastrophe of the 2008 Democratic Primary. We must right their wrongs…after all, this is America, the Land of the Free, where every American has the right to a fair, honest voting process, and to have his or her vote counted…

We Will Not Be Silenced

On March 4, 2008, the Clinton campaign began sounding the vote fraud alarm, writing in part:

The campaign legal hotline has been flooded with calls containing specific accusations of irregularities and voter intimidation against the Obama campaign. This activity is undemocratic, probably illegal, and reflects a wanton disregard for the caucus process.

The three most egregious categories are:

1) Irregularities: Prematurely Taking Precinct Convention Packets by Obama Campaign

Numerous calls have shown that Obama supporters prematurely removed convention packets from polling places. Packets may not legally given out until 7:15 PM or when the last voter has cast a ballot in the primary. The Texas State Party warned the Obama campaign in writing that they may not take these packets early or remove them from the polling locations. The Party directed that these irregularities be reported to law enforcement "since they amount to criminal violations." The Party stated "removing convention packets . . . will not be tolerated…

2) Voter Intimidation: Lock-out of Clinton caucus goers by Obama Campaign

Numerous calls have been received that the Obama campaign has taken over caucus sites and locked the doors, excluding Clinton campaign supporters from participating in the caucus. The Clinton supporters have been unable to enter the premises to caucus. In at least one instance, law enforcement was called and forcibly opened the caucus site.

3) There are numerous instances of Obama supporters filing out precinct convention sign-in sheets during the day and submitting them as completed vote totals at caucus.

This is expressly against the rules. The sign-in sheets were copied by the Obama campaign from the Texas Democratic Party website and taken by supporters to various polling places to sign-up caucus goers prior to the start of the caucuses.

A 2008 post on MyDD describes what one caucus official saw:

I was a volunteer field organizer in El Paso, Texas and investigated irregularities for three weeks after the election.

As a Democratic Coordinated Campaign Regional Director in 1996 and as a volunteer on campaigns in the 1990s, I have the ethical obligation to report what I saw in Texas.
Then California 22nd CD Republican candidate Tom Bordonaro famously tried to suppress the vote by phone banking under a false name, many of us in the Capps campaign immediately said that we would walk away from a campaign if our side were similarly unethical.

That moment kept replaying through my head election night in El Paso. Simply put, the Obama campaign made Tom Bordonaro look ethical.Lois Capps is correct when she wrote that Sen. Obama is inspiring. However, many of the actions of his campaign that I witnessed and investigated are criminal.

I know this information is jarring, and puts DNC delegates in an uncomfortable situation, but if the time comes for delegates to endorse or get behind a consensus candidate, this information should be available. As I wrote to Rep. Capps, I apologize for not illuminating this earlier.My observations in Texas were that caucuses were broadly illegitimate. In a few well-run counties, Hillary's caucus vote was the same or better than the popular vote, but in chaotic counties, she fell behind by double digits. While Texas is the only state to have both a binding popular vote and a caucus vote, we saw similar results in Washington State, where Obama's numbers plunged in the unofficial primary compared to the caucuses.

This stands out: only four major Texas counties were orderly enough to report most of their caucus results election night, and in three of these, caucus preference mirrored the popular vote (HRC popular/caucus): El Paso (69/75), Austin/Travis (37/34), San Antonio/Bexar (56/57). In the case of Austin, I have read reports that that both sides ran their caucuses well.

These counties had exceptional organizations, but it should not take heroics to run a fair election.

On election night in El Paso, it became obvious that the Obama field campaign was designed to steal caucuses. Prior to that, it was impossible for me to imagine the level of attempted fraud and disruption we would see…

We saw stolen precincts where Obama organizers fabricated counts, made false entries on sign-in sheets, suppressed delegate counts, and suppressed caucus voters. We saw patterns such as missing electronic access code sheets and precinct packets taken before the legal time, like elsewhere in the state. Obama volunteers illegally took convention materials state-wide, with attempts as early as 6:30 am. Some of this was presented in a press release from Clinton Campaign Counsel Lyn Utrecht, but I witnessed worse than what she disclosed.

In one example of fraud that I witnessed, one of my precinct captains, an elderly Hispanic woman, called me to report that BHO supporters had illegally seized control of the convention. During our series of phone calls, Mrs. "A." reported that the Obama people took the convention materials and did not have a legal election of officers. Like nearly all of El Paso, BHO people would have lost such an election in this majority-Hillary, Hispanic, mostly elderly precinct convention.

The Obama people ordered Mrs. A. to sit across the room during the delegate calculation, and excluded Hillary supporters from the process. Mrs. A. overheard an Obama supporter call in a false delegate count to Austin. In a 13 delegate precinct where Obama should have won approximately 4 delegates, the Obama supporters attempted to award 19 delegates to Obama. This was not innocent. During my attempts at cell phone diplomacy, the Obama "chair" hung up on me, and refused to talk to the ethical Obama organizer I was paired with at another precinct convention.

As with all major attempts at fraud that we identified, this delegate count was rectified in private at the county TDP headquarters, according to TDP rules, but there were no public charges or sanctions. It is my opinion that people should be in jail, but there is not a mechanism for this sort of prosecution, certainly not within TDP rules.

Although I have only volunteered in one state, virtually every Clinton staffer I have talked to has similar stories from other caucus states. While the Hillary field campaign operates and feels very much like typical Democratic campaigns, the Obama campaign is something new to Democratic politics…

Ironically, only in very well-organized areas like El Paso were we able to even identify the scale of the attempted irregularities. In these areas, we were also able to rebuff most attempts at fraud, correct fraudulent delegate counts, and protect our voters. In less well-organized areas, we did not have enough eyes and ears to identify or stop fraud, and our numbers plunged.

Although affidavits have not been made public, I have copies and records of the voter complaints for which I did interviews. Although the Hillary campaign has not gone public with evidence of fraud, the national legal team has approximately 200 such affidavits and 2000 voter complaints. The campaign intends to win the popular vote without airing these charges in public, but I suspect the campaign will provide authorities with this evidence upon request.

My own sense is that this information should not be withheld from delegates, since it both casts the Obama campaign as stunningly unethical, and it severely undermines the general credibility of caucuses. It also points out that perception and reality are upside down. The campaign that will "do anything to win," including the illegal acts documented in affidavits, is not Hillary's .…

I am positive that any Democrat who witnessed what I did would stand against Sen. Obama now, and I have faith that some endorsements like Rep. Capps's are temporary. This is wrenching for a Democratic activist like me who has served on county and Assembly District committees, but I cannot support a candidate with a criminal campaign.Expect Eric Holder to investigate these "irregularities" in 3 – 2 – never.

IT'S NOVEMBER OR NEVER.

H/T Hot Air

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NAACP: "We Will Not Allow U to Send Bigots into the Capitol"

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) posted a threatening warning on Twitter yesterday adressed to millions of Tea Party activists as news broke of statements by the NAACP accusing the Tea Party of being a racist group led by "hardcore white supremacists."

Not only did the NAACP smear the Tea Party Movement today by passing a resolution against fabricated "racist" acts – But, now the NAACP is threatening the millions of tea party patriots on Twitter.

Msg to Tea Party: We will not allow u to send bigots into the Capitol, call civil rts heroes epithets & act like you didnt send em #NAACP101 about 16 hours ago via twidroid

The NAACP is holding its 101st anniversary convention in Kansas City this week. A resolution falsely accusing the Tea Party of being a racist organization is scheduled to be voted on today by the group.

The convention's theme is "One Nation, One Dream" which ties in with the name of a new leftist coalition the NAACP co-founded called "One Nation" whose goal is to mobilize voters against the Tea Party and in favor of the radical leftist agenda of Barack Obama and the Democrat party.

The New Black Panther Party has threatened the Tea Party-style rally being held by talk show host Glenn Beck on August 28 at the Lincoln Memorial.The threatening message posted on Twitter by the NAACP refers to alleged incidents in March when several Black Democrat Congressmen accused Tea Party protesters of screaming "n*****!" at them at the Capitol. One Congressman also accused the protesters of spitting on him.

No evidence or witnesses were ever produced to support the claims. No arrests were made, even though Capitol police were all around that day.A $100,000 reward for proof of the alleged racist attacks offered by Andrew Breitbart has gone unclaimed.Video does exist of the NAACP calling a Black man who was beaten and called "n*****" by union goons at a Tea Party protest an "Uncle Tom" and other racist terms.

H/T Free Republic - Free Republic Comments

♠ NAACP Accuses Tea Partiers of Racism
NAACP adopted a resolution Tuesday condemning "racist elements" in the Tea Party movement and calling on the movement's leaders to repudiate bigotry, despite claims from Tea Partiers that the measure is just a political ploy. The nation's leading civil rights group took up the language at its annual convention in Kansas City, Mo. The resolution initially said the NAACP would "repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties" and stand against the movement's attempt to "push our country back to the pre-civil rights era,"...FOX News

♠ Tea Party Is Dealt The Race Card
Racial Politics: The NAACP, in crafting a resolution condemning racism in the Tea Party movement, seems to have forgotten those Black Panthers with clubs intimidating voters and wanting to kill white people. The "angry mobs" that reshaped the 2010 political landscape are angry white racist mobs, at least according to a resolution proposed by the NAACP at its annual convention this week in Kansas City, Mo. The resolution calls on "all people of good will to repudiate the racism of the Tea Parties, and to stand in opposition to its drive to push our country back to the pre-civil rights... IBD Editorial - 56 replies

♠ Sarah Palin: The Charge of Racism: It's Time to Bury the Divisive Politics of the Past
Sarah Palin Facebook: The Charge of Racism: It's Time to Bury the Divisive Politics of the Past I am saddened by the NAACP's claim that patriotic Americans who stand up for the United States of America's Constitutional rights are somehow "racists." The charge that Tea Party Americans judge people by the color of their skin is false, appalling, and is a regressive and diversionary tactic to change the subject at hand. President Reagan called America's past racism "a legacy of evil" against which we have seen the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights. He condemned any sort of racism, as all...Sarah Palin Facebook - 37 replies

♠ Obama and NAACP, what's up with all the race-baiting?
I got news for the NAACP they are already irrelevant. Those millions of people who celebrated on the streets in November 4, 2008 believed in their heart it is proven that America is not a racist country. American people advanced a colored person all the way to the Presidency. NAACP – it is mission accomplished... Every incident of racism should be prosecuted on an individual basis. If there is a racist on the street it is not because America is racist, but because the individual is racist... All these millions who celebrated the first African American President on November 4,...
Big Bureaucracy

♠ Breitbart Exposes the 'N Word' Lie on Hannity
Andrew Breitbart appeared on 'Hannity' to show the video footage he has obtained showing no members of the Tea Party protest shouted racial slurs at black congressmen on March 20. The false charge was used as justification for the NAACP to label the Tea Party movement as racist. - breitbart.tv

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How a Major Story Becomes a 'Non-Story'

THE QUOTE: Obama's appointee, NASA Administrator and former astronaut Charles Bolden said:"Obama wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering.

"The Evolving Story - FOX News: Next Frontier for NASA: Fixing Muslim Relations -NASA administrator says Obama has assigned America's space agency with the task of helping to improve U.S. relations with Muslim world

Commentary Aftermath -Byron York - NASA's Mission: Building Ties to Muslim World?

Elliot Abrams - Is It NASA's Job to Make Muslim Nations 'Feel Good'?

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Farewell to spaceSummary of the Damning Quote on Online News Website:FOX NEWS: NASA Chief: Next Frontier BetterRelationship With Muslim World

FoxNews.com - July 05, 2010NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said in a recent interview that his "foremost" mission as the head of America's space exploration agency is to improve relations with the Muslim world.Though international diplomacy would seem well outside NASA's orbit, Bolden said in an interview with Al Jazeera that strengthening those ties was among the top tasks President Obama assigned him. He said better interaction with the Muslim world would ultimately advance space travel."When I became the NASA administrator -- or before I became the NASA administrator -- he charged me with three things.

One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science ... and math and engineering," Bolden said in the interview.

The NASA administrator was in the Middle East last month marking the one-year anniversary since Obama delivered an address to Muslim nations in Cairo. Bolden spoke in June at the American University in Cairo -- in his interview with Al Jazeera, he described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.

"It is a matter of trying to reach out and get the best of all worlds, if you will, and there is much to be gained by drawing in the contributions that are possible from the Muslim (nations)," he said.He held up the International Space Station as a model, praising the contributions there from the Russians and the Chinese.However, Bolden denied the suggestion that he was on a diplomatic mission -- in a distinctly non-diplomatic role." Not at all. It's not a diplomatic anything," he said.

He said the United States is not going to travel beyond low-Earth orbit on its own and that no country is going to make it to Mars without international help.Bolden has faced criticism this year for overseeing the cancellation of the agency's Constellation program, which was building new rockets and spaceships capable of returning astronauts to the moon. Stressing the importance of international cooperation in future missions, Bolden told Al Jazeera that the moon, Mars and asteroids are still planned destinations for NASA.

**THE SHOCKWAVES ACROSS THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA!**

Nexis Search: July 7, 2010
The Article: Byron York - NASA's Mission: Building Ties to Muslim World?

BYRON YORK: The NASA Non-Feeding Frenzy.

From a Nexis Search of Media Coverage of this Story:

Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the New York Times: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program in the Washington Post: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on NBC Nightly News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on ABC World News: 0.
Total words about the NASA Muslim outreach program on CBS Evening News: 0.

Nada!, Nothing! Zero!

If you were to receive your news from any one of these outlets — NYTWPNBCABCCBS — or even all of them together, and you heard about some sort of controversy involving the Obama administration redefining the space agency's mission to feature outreach to Muslim countries, your response would be, "Huh?"

Among all the news these distinguished outlets have seen fit to cover in recent days, the NASA story has not made the cut.Doesn't fit the narrative.

H/T InstaPundit - Glenn Reynolds

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"I am a Muslim," Obama Tells Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit

WTF! An Islamic Coup on the White House! - What's Next? sharia law!

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.

↔ (Shown Above) President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose for a photo during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in New York with Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and H.E. Laila Kamal El Din Salah

[Thanks to Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs for compiling this interesting, but to no one's surprise — bit of disturbing news.
- Newsboy Post Staff]

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, in which President Obama told him that he was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the stepson of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.

Finally, during the week of 14-18th of January 2010, just on the eve of my winter tour to the US, Rachel picked up a Nile TV broadcast in which Egyptian Foreign Minister Abul Gheit said on the "Round Table Show" that he had had a one on one meeting with Obama who swore to him that he was a Moslem, the son of a Moslem father and step-son of Moslem step-father, that his half-brothers in Kenya were Moslems, and that he was loyal to the Moslem agenda. He asked that the Moslem world show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic American problems (Healthcare), that he would show the Moslem world what he would do with Israel. (more here)

This is according to Israel Today here. Here is the passage from the May 2010 issue of "Israel Today." It is on page 3 in an article titled "Obama, a 'Strategic Catastrophe,'" by Aviel Schneider:

The feeling among the Israeli public is that Obama is appeasing the Muslim world at the expense of Israel. "The American President told me in confidence that he is a Muslim," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Nile TV.

That could explain why Obama has instructed that the term "Islamic extremism" no longer be used in official government documents and statements. Furthermore, the US is now accusing Israel of harming American interests in the Middle East. General David Petraeus, the head of US Central Command, said Israel's intransigence on resolving the conflict with the Palestinians is endangering US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even the US Congress considers Obama's behavior toward Netanyahu humiliating. Three-quarters of the House of Representatives, 337 of 435 members, signed a bipartisan letter to Clinton expressing "deep concern over recent tension" between the two countries, and demanding that it be smoothed over quickly and in private.

"Obama is a real problem for Israel," a senior official told told Yediot. "He is Israel's biggest strategic catastrophe." The newspaper also quoted another official who believes that for the first time Washington has switched sides. "The Obama White House is putting pressure only on Israel but does not expect anything from the Palestinians," he said. "These American demands are unacceptable."

Egyptian minister: Obama told me he is a Muslim - News that Matters, hat tip PV

Obama told me he is still a Muslim, who supports the Muslim agenda.
This was a statement by Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit on Nile-TV. It was made on the «Round Table Show». This is the statement recorded:

Adul Gheit said he had a one-on-one meeting with Obama, where the US President told him that He was still a Muslim, the son of a Muslim father, the step son of Muslim stepfather, that his half brothers in Kenya are Muslims, and that he was sympathetic towards the Muslim agenda.

Adul Gheit claimed Obama told the Arabs to show patience. Obama promised that once he overcame some domestic issues, like the Health care reform, he would show the Muslim World how to deal with Israel.
Source: Israeli magazine, Israel today.

This is akin to an SS officer getting elected president during WW II. Every country in the free world must be cognizant of such a catastrophic sea change in the leadership of the free world (as witnessed by events over the past year). This changes everything. He took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and yet he has gone around the world promoting Islam, the sharia (Islamic law).

The alleged exchange between Obama and Gheit would almost certainly have happened in early January 2010, when Gheit was in Washington, D.C. regarding "Mideast peace talks."
On Thursday, January 7, 2010, the Associated Press reported that "Clinton and Mitchell [were] scheduled to meet" with Gheit on Friday, January 8, 2010: ABC news here.

On Friday, January 8, 2010, Hillary Clinton and Gheit spoke with each other. The U.S. Department of State has provided video before the meeting: Department of State here.

On Saturday, January 9, 2010, NPR spoke with Gheit about his visit: NPR.org (much thanks to Grant for the links).

This is devastating news, and yet no media is covering it.

A stealth jihad on the White House. Remember, during his campaign, I and others were excoriated for using Obama's middle name. We were accused of implying he was a crypto-Muslim. We could not discuss his background, his Islamic schooling, his ties to Islam. However, I have meticulously documented his Muslim background in my soon-to-be-released book: The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America (buy it now).
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Pamela Geller's soon-to-be-released book
"The Post-American Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America" - Buy it Now

H/T ATLAS SHRUGS - Pam Geller

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Arizona Decision Assault on Liberty!

We'll Remember November 2nd

Yesterday's federal court decision to enjoin enforcement of the Arizona immigration law is the latest example of a virtually unchecked renegade federal government waging war against the states and against the liberties of its citizens.

We've seen that Obama will exercise any power he can get away with, from strong-arming secured creditors and favoring unions as he gobbled up automakers to making a mockery of due process with his Oval Office shakedown of BP. But he might have reached a new low with his assaults on the sovereignty of the people of Arizona.

Indeed, Judge Susan Bolton's disgraceful decision to grant an injunction against Arizona's new immigration law is, in the words of Mark Levin, "abominable," but let's not forget that this case wouldn't have been before Judge Bolton if Obama's Justice Department hadn't initiated it.

And let's not pretend that Obama's motives are anything other than political, the law and the rule of law be damned. He told Sen. Jon Kyl in a private meeting that he was unwilling to secure our borders because it would decrease his chances to pass "comprehensive immigration reform."So when Arizona attempted to exercise a little self-help and work on securing its own border by passing a law carefully crafted to mirror the federal immigration law and encourage its enforcement, the all-powerful Obama feds came down on it like a furious king against his disobedient subjects.

In a saner world, freedom lovers could have rested easy, knowing that an impartial, Constitution-respecting judge would summarily reject the administration's unlawful scheme to thwart Arizona's sovereignty by superimposing its own nonenforcement policy.

But in her decision, Clinton appointee Bolton demonstrated how dangerous judicial activism can be to our individual liberties and democratic processes. It's one thing for a court to invalidate a law because it doesn't pass constitutional muster; it's quite another for it to misstate the facts, the legislation and the Constitution to reach a preordained decision.

Just consider three outrages of this decision highlighted by other commentators, any of which, individually, makes a mockery of justice. Andy McCarthy properly observes that Judge Bolton stretched the federal pre-emption doctrine to absurd limits. Under Bolton's specious reasoning, state law must be struck down not only if it is inconsistent with federal law, which the Arizona law is not, but also if it somehow contradicts federal law enforcement practices. Because the Obama feds refused, as a matter of policy, to enforce their own law against illegal immigration, the state could not be allowed to pass a law promoting enforcement. Note that nothing in the actual Constitution or case law justifies such an extrapolation of pre-emption doctrine. But such trifles don't impede an administration and court determined to keep the immigration floodgates open at any cost.

Mark Levin notes that Judge Bolton correctly enunciated the rigorous legal standard required for a plaintiff to succeed in a "facial challenge" to a law's constitutionality but then proceeded to ignore the rules she had just affirmed. She acknowledged that for the federal government to have prevailed, it would have had to show the law could never be applied in a constitutional fashion. That is, "a facial challenge must fail where a statute has a 'plainly legitimate sweep.'But she ignored that limitation on her authority, just as she violated another principle she paid lip service to in her opinion: that the court was not to speculate about hypothetical cases.

Heather Mac Donald exposes Judge Bolton's acquiescence to the Obama administration's "carefully cultivated fiction" that the administration's primary motive with the lawsuit was to prevent the application of the law to legal aliens. The judge ignored uncontroverted testimony and legal briefs from Arizona officials stating that only people who were reasonably suspected to be illegally in the country would be required to prove their legal status. So to protect legal aliens from a law that doesn't apply to them, she refuses to apply the law to illegals.

Cynical observers of the political scene lazily dismiss each unfolding Obama outrage as merely Washington politics as usual. But with this administration, we're witnessing power grabs that are different in kind rather than degree.Our liberties depend on our preserving the integrity of the Constitution and the mechanisms it established to deter tyranny. To the extent we dismantle those safeguards, we imperil our freedoms.

When the political class is filled with those who are ideologically committed to certain political ends irrespective of the legality of the means used to achieve them, our system of checks and balances breaks down, which is one reason John Adams warned, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

November's elections cannot come fast enough.

David Limbaugh - July 29, 2010

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Eleven Big Stories the Mainstream Media Intentionally

Missed in 2009

Newsboy Post covered these stories, as expected, but the state-run networks and press organizations buried the following items to aid and abet Bäяáçk Ħūššéiŋ Ǿbämá and the Democratic Party. Read what was hidden from 98% of Americans who were kept busy "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," but not from the astute readers of the Newsboy Post.

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Boys in mini-skirts, "hot" lesbian "b*tches," it's all a part of government-promoted GLBT "youth pride" Boston

(1) Kevin Jennings' -"Your" Safe Schools Czar

Kevin Jennings' Legacy: 'Gay Youth Pride' in Boston - President Obama's "safe schools czar," Kevin Jennings, is a former schoolteacher who advocated promoting homosexuality in schools and was forced to admit he had poorly handled an incident in which a student told him he was having sex with older men. Jennings has since been tied to a pornographic suggested reading list for 7th graders that was designed by the organization he founded and directed for over a decade, and dozens of members of Congress have called for his ouster.The photo at right is of a young man dressed as a woman marching in Boston's annual, government-supported homosexual "Youth Pride Parade." Shame on homosexual activist Kevin Jennings founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) and President Obama's new appointee to head up the "Safe Schools" program in the Department of Education. Jennings is a vicious anti-Christian bigot (he said "[F--k] 'em and "Drop dead!" to the "religious right") who capitalized early on the idea of promoting homosexuality in schools under the guise of "safety." One very "unsafe" event that should have resulted in Jennings' banishment from the world of education was "Fistgate" [warning: very graphic language"] All photos courtesy of MassResistance.org.GLSEN's corporate sponsors include Eastman Kodak, Ernst & Young, PepsiCo and Time Warner. Eastman Kodak defended its sponsorship as an expression of its commitment to "diversity." Secretary of Education Arne Duncan also said he stood by Jennings earlier this year, before this material was exposed in-depth on Fox News, talk radio and conservative blogs. Where are the vaunted watchdogs of the Fourth Estate to follow up now?TAKE ACTION: Call Education Secretary Arne Duncan at 202-401-3000 and urge him to withdraw Jennings' appointment as Assistant Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools. Or e-mail him at: email@example.com. Also, contact President Obama at 202-456-1414 and your U.S. Senators and Congressman (202-224-3121/202-225-3121) and urge them to press for the withdrawal of Jennings' appointment. We don't want radical, anti-Christian bigots setting policies affecting America's schoolchildren.

(2) Van Jones - Self-avowed Marxist and Anarchist

White House Green Jobs adviser Van Jones resigned from his post in September after weeks of pressure over his radical past. A former self-avowed Marxist and anarchist, Jones signed a 2004 petition that suggested the U.S. government was involved in the Sept 11. terrorist attacks. The New York Times and Washington Post ignored the story until Jones' resignation, which occurred in the middle of the Labor Day weekend.

(3) The A.C.O.R.N. Tapes

Filmmakers James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles, posing as a pimp and a prostitute, went undercover to the offices of the community organizing group ACORN in the summer. They secretly videotaped employees instructing them in how to falsify tax forms and seek illegal benefits for 13 "very young" girls from El Salvador whom the pair said they wanted to import to work as child prostitutes. New videos emerged daily, but the mainstream media ignored the growing scandal for days, even as federal agencies began severing their ties with the group and members of Congress cried for an investigation.

(4) Science Czar John Holdren

President Obama's "science czar," John Holdren, floated a number of lethal policies to shrink the human population -- including compulsory abortions and other Draconian measures -- in science textbooks he published in the 1970s. Though the news spread widely through the blogosphere, the mainstream media never touched the controversy. Click here to see a slideshow of the radical ideas he proposed.

(5) Climate-Gate

Hackers broke into the servers at a prominent British climate research center and leaked years' worth of e-mails onto the Web, producing what some skeptics of man-made climate change said was "smoking gun" evidence of collusion among climate scientists. One e-mail referenced a plan to "hide the decline" in global temperatures, as another lamented the "travesty" that temperatures had not increased over the past decade. Prominent climate scientists discussed blackballing skeptics and admitted to dumping data to avoid public scrutiny. The head of the Climatic Research Unit at Britain's East Anglia University stepped down amid the uproar that followed. But the television networks ignored the story for so long they even got scooped by Comedy Central.

(6) Politicizing the NEA - Communications director Yosi Sergant

A senior official at the National Endowment for the Arts encouraged artists to promote President Obama's political agenda in a conference call he organized with the White House. The NEA's communications director Yosi Sergant eventually resigned in August amid accusations that the grant-making organization was becoming politicized. The administration called it a "teaching moment," but the media didn't seem to catch the lesson.

(7) Chas Freeman - Obama's appointee to the National Intelligence Council

Chas Freeman, the Obama administration's appointee to chair the National Intelligence Council, had major conflicts of interest with the Saudi and Chinese governments as a private citizen. He referred to Tibetan Buddhist protests against the communist government in China as a "race riot," and said the Chinese had been "overly cautious" in killing hundreds of protesters in the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989.But Freeman drew special ire for his fierce and open criticism of what he called Jewish "colonists" in Israel. Even as prominent members of Congress blasted the appointment, the New York Times covered the story only after Freeman had already withdrawn his name for consideration.

(8) Tea Party Protests

In the wake of the bank bailouts and the federal stimulus package, some critics of the Obama administration's economic crisis plans urged citizens to mail tea bags to their congressmen as a form of protest, recalling the Boston Tea Party and unjust taxes imposed by the British before the American Revolution. The Tea Party movement grew to include massive protests, as tens of thousands of Americans joined in on Tax Day. After utterly ignoring the movement for weeks, the mainstream media finally caught up to the story, but mostly used their coverage as an occasion for sexual puns and frathouse humor.

(9) Democratic Stimulus - Conservative Red Districts Shafted

A December study from George Mason University showed that Democratic districts have received nearly twice as much stimulus money as Republican districts -- and the cash has been awarded without regard to how badly an area was suffering from job losses or income problems. Blue districts garnered the majority of the $787 stimulus package, getting an average of $439 million per district to the Republican average of $232 million.

(10) Stephanie Villafuerte - Obama's U.S. attorney nomination debacle

Liberal journalists were also AWOL on the Obama White House's U.S. attorney nomination debacle in Denver. What, you hadn't heard of it? You're not alone. Nominee Stephanie Villafuerte withdrew earlier this month after Colorado Republicans, immigration enforcement activists, Denver Post investigative reporter Karen Crummy and Denver talk show host Peter Boyles raised bright red flags about the culture of corruption in her office.Villafuerte is entangled in the railroading of Denver Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Cory Voorhis — whom federal prosecutors tried to punish after he blew the whistle on sweetheart deals for criminal illegal aliens during the 2006 gubernatorial campaign. A jury acquitted Voorhis of all federal charges. He's trying to get his job back. At least one of his supervisors has admitted lying.Villafuerte served on then-Democrat gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter's campaign team while on leave from the Denver District Attorney's office, and from all Denver Post news accounts was deeply involved in the witch hunt against Voorhis.Villafuerte and the Justice Department evaded critics as long as they could, but when U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, pressed Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for answers on Villafuerte's meddling, the stonewall crumbled. There's still a raft of unanswered questions about the cover-up and the feds' dangerously lax policies toward criminal illegal aliens.

(11) New Black Panther Party

Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz - Attorney-at-War and head of N.B.P.P.Speaking of the corrupted DOJ, where's the heat on crime-coddling Attorney General Eric Holder for his continued obstructionism in the New Black Panther Party Election Day voter intimidation case? In a highly unprecedented move, Holder and his political appointees dropped default judgments against the NBPP's billy-club-wielding thugs who threatened white poll workers and voters in Philadelphia last November. The nonpartisan U.S. Commission on Civil Rights has demanded answers and issued subpoenas to find out why the cases were abandoned after the George W. Bush administration had won them. The DOJ has ordered its employees not to comply or cooperate. And over the holidays, the DOJ veteran voting rights section chief who originally handled the case was unceremoniously evicted from the Washington, D.C., office and moved to South Carolina. One of the NBPP bullies was a local Democratic official. Another of the defendants, NBPP head Malik Shabazz, has decried the probe as a racist "political witch hunt" against Holder. Grievance hustlers are counting on liberal journalists to give them cover. A nation of cowards, indeed.http://www.newblackpanther.com/staff.html

SOURCES: FOX News & Michele Malkin

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Nutty Kathleen Parker's Follow-Up to

Her Column 'First Female President.'

"I Feel Their Pain, Cousin," sez Kathleen.In the days since I suggested that President Obama's rhetorical style mimics feminine tropes, I've been informed of the following:

One, a black man cannot show anger in public lest he be considered an Angry Black Man.

Two, to suggest that a black man has any feminine characteristics, even when framed as an "evolutionary achievement," is to emasculate and reduce him to a figure from Jim Crow days.

These were the two most common complaints I heard in the column's wake. Some of those who wrote were polite, self-identifying African Americans who sort of agreed with my point but wanted to help me see things a different way. Others were not so civil.Do I think people are too sensitive? Yes. Do I think I may have overstepped the line? No. It's a column, not a dissertation. And my thesis, bouncing off the notion that Bill Clinton was the first black president, is serious only insofar as you really think Clinton is black.

But I also recognize that my life experience is different from that of most African Americans. And that experience allows me both the luxury of seeing people without the lens of race, but also (sometimes) to fail to imagine how people of other backgrounds might interpret my words.

As my Post colleague Jonathan Capehart wrote on the PostPartisan blog -- and explained to me in a telephone conversation -- black men are held to a different standard than whites. They are practiced in keeping their emotions under wraps. They can't "go off," as some have urged Obama to do in response to the gulf oil spill.I hadn't thought of it this way, but I take Jonathan and others at their word that it's a fact of life for African American men.You'll have to take me at my word when I say that I don't view Obama exclusively as a black man -- no matter what he said on his census form. Not only is he half-white, but also he has managed to transcend skin color, at least from where I sit.

As a sidebar, there's another reason I don't see him as only black. He is my cousin. I had intended to save this nugget for a future column, but now seems as good a time as any to brag.I learned of this surprising family link when a cousin conducting genealogical research contacted me recently: "And by the way, did you know you're kin to Barack?"

Apparently, we are descended of brothers whose parents -- Johann Pieter Straub and Anna Maria Barbara Hoffman -- emigrated from Germany to the colonies about 1733. According to the family grid, Obama and I seem to be eighth cousins once removed.I am proud to be Obama's cousin. But that bond doesn't blind me to his -- and our -- flaws. In my earlier column, I sought only to offer one possible reason the president is paying such a high price for his response to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. American culture is complicated, and gender expectations play an important part.

Like it or not, that includes not only our more progressive contemporary thinking about such matters but also our less progressive history. Together, this mix of ideas forms a minefield that leaders must traverse.Consider: In the days leading up to the president's Oval Office address about the gulf crisis, there was a lot of talk about the "style" of Obama's response. On MSNBC, Donny Deutsch argued that he "just doesn't emote."

Many people seemed to have a hankering for one particular emotion: Not the Bill Clinton "I feel your pain" kind but the "Take-BP-Behind-the-Woodshed-and-Make-Them-Pay" kind. They wanted an action figure in the hyper-masculine mode, not George W. Bush but the Terminator.In fits and starts, Obama had given it to them. He wanted to know "whose ass to kick," he told us. He wanted them to "plug the damn hole." Press secretary Robert Gibbs assured us that in discussions with Obama he, indeed, had "seen rage from him."Then the president gave his Oval Office speech. And the collective reaction was, "That's it?! Where's the outrage?!?!"

Obama elected to employ a certain type of rhetoric in the Oval Office that put him in line with feminine rhetorical traditions and at odds with historical precedent and the expectations for his gender. Such a choice ultimately may prove to be a crucial step forward toward a better world. But the backlash against his rhetoric suggests we're not there yet.Speaking as a cousin, and a not-so-sensitive columnist-citizen, I'm pulling for him to do better.

The Washington Post - By Kathleen Parker [firstname.lastname@example.com]

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Our First Female President: Bäяáçkie Ħūššéiŋie

Ǿbämá

If Bill Clinton was our first black president, as Toni Morrison once proclaimed, then Barack Obama may be our first woman president.Phew. That was fun. Now, if you'll just keep those hatchets holstered and hear me out.

No, I'm not calling Obama a girlie president. But . . . he may be suffering a rhetorical-testosterone deficit when it comes to dealing with crises, with which he has been richly endowed.

It isn't that he isn't "cowboy" enough, as others have suggested. Aren't we done with that? It is that his approach is feminine in a normative sense. That is, we perceive and appraise him according to cultural expectations, and he's not exactly causing anxiety in Alpha-maledom.

We've come a long way gender-wise. Not so long ago, women would be censured for speaking or writing in public. But cultural expectations are stickier and sludgier than oil. Our enlightened human selves may want to eliminate gender norms, but our lizard brains have a different agenda.Women, inarguably, still are punished for failing to adhere to gender norms by acting "too masculine" or "not feminine enough." In her fascinating study about "Hating Hillary," Karlyn Kohrs Campbell details the ways our former first lady was chastised for the sin of talking like a lawyer and, by extension, "like a man."Could it be that Obama is suffering from the inverse?

When Morrison wrote in the New Yorker about Bill Clinton's "blackness," she cited the characteristics he shared with the African American community:"Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."If we accept that premise, even if unseriously proffered, then we could say that Obama displays many tropes of femaleness. I say this in the nicest possible way. I don't think that doing things a woman's way is evidence of deficiency but, rather, suggests an evolutionary achievement.Nevertheless, we still do have certain cultural expectations, especially related to leadership. When we ask questions about a politician's beliefs, family or hobbies, we're looking for familiarity, what we can cite as "normal" and therefore reassuring.

Generally speaking, men and women communicate differently. Women tend to be coalition builders rather than mavericks (with the occasional rogue exception). While men seek ways to measure themselves against others, for reasons requiring no elaboration, women form circles and talk it out.Obama is a chatterbox who makes Alan Alda look like Genghis Khan.

The BP oil crisis has offered a textbook case of how Obama's rhetorical style has impeded his effectiveness. The president may not have had the ability to "plug the damn hole," as he put it in one of his manlier outbursts. No one expected him to don his wetsuit and dive into the gulf, but he did have the authority to intervene immediately and he didn't. Instead, he deferred to BP, weighing, considering, even delivering jokes to the White House Correspondents' Association dinner when he should have been on Air Force One to the Louisiana coast.

His lack of immediate, commanding action was perceived as a lack of leadership because, well, it was. When he finally addressed the nation on day 56 (!) of the crisis, Obama's speech featured 13 percent passive-voice constructions, the highest level measured in any major presidential address this century, according to the Global Language Monitor, which tracks and analyzes language.

Granted, the century is young -- and it shouldn't surprise anyone that Obama's rhetoric would simmer next to George W. Bush's boil. But passivity in a leader is not a reassuring posture.Campbell's research, in which she affirms that men can assume feminine communication styles successfully (Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton), suggests holes in my own theory. She insists that men are safe assuming female styles as long as they meet rhetorical norms for effective advocacy -- clarity and cogency of argument, appropriate and compelling evidence, and preempting opposing positions.

I'm not so sure. The masculine-coded context of the Oval Office poses special challenges, further exacerbated by a crisis that demands decisive action. It would appear that Obama tests Campbell's argument that "nothing prevents" men from appropriating women's style without negative consequences.Indeed, negative reaction to Obama's speech suggests the opposite. Obama may prove to be our first male president who pays a political price for acting too much like a woman.And, perhaps, next time will be a real woman's turn.

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Holy Smokes!! Kathleen Parker makes a not-too-veiled assertionthat "president" Obama is gay — calling him a "Girly Man"

This is truly fascinating, or would be, if Kathleen Parker wasn't a crazy person, so listening to her is often like finding yourself in a Victorian insane asylum with Renfield, cringing as he devours flies and other bugs. Like "apartment creeper" Maureen Dowd, and a broken clock, Parker's right about two times each day, and lucid every week or so.

In a new piece discussed by the excellent NeoNeocon site, Kathleen Parker waxes about how feminine "president" Obama is in his approach to the presidency. She discusses his constant use of the passive voice, the way he blames problems on other people, and includes reference to the unusual amount of dithering, apologizing, and generally weak and prostrate behavior he engages in.

Kathleen Parker, we don't know what women you know or are spending your time around, but Obama's behavior is not typical for the women we're proud to call our friends. No — Obama acts much more like one of the little twinks we know in Boystown. Gay men who take responsibility for nothing, only want to party, want high level positions for the status of having fancy business cards, and can't be relied upon for ever keeping any promises or doing anything they're supposed to do.

WOMEN we know are more like Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, Jan Brewer, Nikki Haley, Michele Bachmann, Meg Whitman…all of whom give "president" Obama nightmares and probably keep his delicate, sorry, self up late at night wondering what they're all plotting against him that day.Obama wanted to be president so he could fly around on a private jet, wear the most expensive clothes, host lavish parties where no expense is spared and every entertainer he wanted could be booked.

If that's not a gay man, then Kathleen Parker's clearly never had a mug of frozen Acai berry cooler

at Sidetracks on Showtunes Night.Comparing Obama to women is an insult to women, especially to lesbians. If any of the lesbians we know were president right now, there would be no oil leak in the Gulf floor. "Get out of the way and give me the keys to a sub, and this will be the end of that," we easily imagine any of them saying. Lesbians can fix anything. And make it look hella easy, too. God bless every last one of them.

Obama's not "our first female president" as Parker claims…he's our first fop of a president since James Buchanan. Who, incidentally, was criticized for being too fixated on parties, entertaining, wearing dandy suits, and spending an odd amount of time with Vice President William Rufus King (whom the press nicknamed at the time, "Aunt Fancy"). King was the Kal Penn of the Buchanan White House."

President" Obama is the very worst of all the caricatures of the gay community, which is a shame because he could be a strong role model for gay black men in particular, especially others like him who are married to women and maintaining the tragic "Down Low" lifestyle.

Since Parker's one of those Leftists who thinks she's inordinately clever, the way Dowd thinks of herself as well, as gay men here in Boystown we can clearly see what she's doing by calling Obama a "female president". She's hinting that she knows the truth about him, but doesn't want to out him directly, so instead she goes the roundabout route in calling him a woman…which is meant to be a pejorative against men in most cases.

Dowd did something like this earlier in the year by writing a strange piece all about Obama's odd fascination with his "basketball buddy" Reggie Love, and how Obama makes time almost every day to "horse around" with him instead of spending time with his daughters, or doing important things like "presidenting". Dowd winked and nodded and thoroughly amused herself in that piece, the way "journalists" before the Civil War danced around the topic of "Aunt Fancy", Buchanan's own "basketball buddy".

All of this reads to us like old Photoplay magazines talking about the odd feminine traits of Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, Troy Donahue, and Anthony Perkins — where the people writing those articles clearly knew what was up, but wrote tongue-in-cheek about these guys because there was only so much they could get away with in print working for Photoplay.

That's sure what it feels like Parker and Dowd are doing on a regular basis…and we wish instead of comparing the "president" to women (at the expense of women), they'd just start writing about how foppish, lazy, spoiled, and like the very worst of Boystown Obama is.

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