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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “Politics and the Economy,” which took place at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>When I was coming into this weekend I wasn&#8217;t even fully ready because I was like, wow, what an election we just had. Wow.  Then day three of Restoration Weekend and I&#8217;m like, wow, there is so much more to be done, and it&#8217;s so funny, this is the third year that I&#8217;ve been part of Restoration Weekend thanks to David and Michael Finch, and for years and years many of my friends who are here from Orange County, Marilyn, Cathy Grimmer, Paul and Sally Bender had said, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to go to Restoration Weekend, no matter what the outcome of the election.  We go there and we leave feeling revived and ready to fight more.&#8221;  After this particular weekend I was thinking to myself, a weekend might not be long enough.  We should maybe start, David, Restoration Week. I don&#8217;t know.  Michael&#8217;s going to kill me for saying that.</p>
<p>We have a really great panel today.  We have two of the foremost minds of the conservative movement.  Their brains are so big that I&#8217;m intimidated to be on stage with them.  I&#8217;m going to introduce them both from left to right and they don&#8217;t need introductions, you all know them so I&#8217;ll make this quick.  Michael Barone, obviously a senior political analyst for the <i>Examiner</i>, Fox News contributor and the author of the <i>Almanac of American Politics</i>.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Co-author.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Co-author, foremost author, right?  Then second, Stephen Moore, long-time writer and editorial writer and columnist with <i>The Wall Street Journal</i>.  Now he&#8217;s the Chief Economist of the Heritage Foundation and I think his most impressive credential, because I&#8217;m biased, is that he&#8217;s also a columnist for the <i>Orange County Register</i> so, just saying.  We&#8217;re going to start our panel off with opening remarks.  We&#8217;ll start with Steve and then we&#8217;ll move to Michael with kind of their thoughts on what&#8217;s next on politics and the economy.  Then we&#8217;ll ask a couple of questions and then open it up for you all to get your questions answered as well.  Steven, let&#8217;s start with you.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Okay, so let me give you my quick &#8212; Michael is obviously the Dean of Politics.  I&#8217;m going to give you just a quick seven or eight minute kind of sketch on what&#8217;s going on with the economy.  Some of you have seen these slides before, and I&#8217;m sorry if I&#8217;m a little bit repetitive of what I said last year, but I think this is such an important message.  Let me just start by saying this, I&#8217;m incredibly bullish on the U.S. economy.  I think we&#8217;re going to see an incredible, especially after this election, I think we&#8217;re going to see a big burst out of growth.  We&#8217;ve been stuck in this 2 percent rut on growth now for six years.  This has been an incredibly weak recovery but because of a lot of factors I talk about, I just think we&#8217;re really prepped for a big recovery.  As I said last year, but I&#8217;ll repeat this, the one industry that has really almost carried the rest of the economy on its back for the last six years has been this oil and gas boom.  It&#8217;s not a surprise to anybody in this room by now.  This is an incredible expansion we are living through.  Politics is so rich with irony.  The irony of Barack Obama&#8217;s Presidency is that he will have presided over the biggest oil and gas boom in American history and this is a president who hates the oil and gas industry.  If you look at this chart you can see what&#8217;s going on here.  The red line is all employment in every industry outside of oil and gas over the last six years, and you can see the big decline obviously in employment that happened during the great recession of 2008 and 2009 and you can see what a really flimsy recovery this has been, and it has taken us so long to get back to zero.  By the way, this goes through the end of 2013.  If it went through today, we&#8217;re right back about zero; so that is to say it took us six years but we finally recovery of every job that was lost during the recession.  That&#8217;s a pretty, pretty long and slow recovery process.</p>
<p>Now look at the blue line. That&#8217;s the oil and gas industry, and it&#8217;s interesting, I was giving a talk this summer to the Oklahoma and Texas Oil and Gas Drillers Association.  By the way, I think that may even be more conservative than this group here and so I started off my speech by saying, &#8220;Congratulations, you&#8217;re the people who reelected Barack Obama.&#8221;  They weren&#8217;t real happy but without this boom, there is no way that Barack Obama would have ever been reelected because the economy would have still been in a recession in 2012.  Now what&#8217;s interesting about this boom are a couple of things.  It is not &#8212; as you know, Michael, my mentor was the Great Julian Simon and Julian Simon taught us that natural resources don&#8217;t come from the ground or from the earth. they come from the human mind.  This boom in oil and gas is such a perfect example of what Julian talked about; that the ultimate resource is the human mind because this massive amount of energy we have in this country.  It&#8217;s not as if all of a sudden overnight God endowed America with all this oil and gas. It has been there for hundreds of thousands of years.  This is a testament.  This breakthrough is a testament to incredible technological prowess.  Wild cat or entrepreneurs, most of this energy was not found by Chevron and Exxon and so on, but smaller oil drillers just went out there and found this stuff, and it&#8217;s also a result of incredible technology.  We&#8217;re just seeing technologies that have changed this industry in such a massive, massive way.</p>
<p>Now what&#8217;s interesting about this story are a couple of things.  One is that if we get this right, and I said this last year &#8212; actually I misspoke last year.  Last year I said if we get this right within five years, the United States of America is going to be energy independent.  That is to say we are going to be selling more of this stuff than we buy and that&#8217;s true, I&#8217;m going to stick with that.  It&#8217;s quite plausible that by the Year 2020 if not before, the United States will be a net exporter of oil and gas, and as you know, that is a complete game changer with respect to our economy, and it&#8217;s a game changer, by the way, with respect to our National Security.  If we can actually sell this stuff rather than buy it; you know that you&#8217;ve been reading about this, ISIS gets about $5 million a day, $5 million a day from petro dollars.  We are funding the people that are trying to kill us so if we don&#8217;t have to buy this stuff, it changes the whole geopolitical situation, but I&#8217;ve changed my tune on this.  I would simply say this.  I kind of underestimated how big this is.  Before I said five years from now we&#8217;re going to be energy independent.  Five years from now we&#8217;re going to be energy independent.</p>
<p>My new line on this is five years from now the United States of America; this great, great, great country of ours is going to be the energy dominant country in the world, the energy dominant country in the world.  The thing that&#8217;s amazing about this, if you look at that incredible boom &#8212; just think about this ladies and gentlemen, think about how big this would be and could be if you actually had a president who liked this industry.  This has happened at a time when Barack Obama is doing everything possible behind the scenes to completely decapitate this industry.  For example, the pipeline issue is a big one and, by the  way, we don&#8217;t just need the Keystone Pipeline, obviously we do; we need pipelines all over this country to get the oil and gas that we have to every area of the country and around the world where we need it.  So that&#8217;s number one, Obama is not allowing virtually any new pipelines to be built.</p>
<p>Second of all as you know, if you look at this oil and gas boom on that chart, almost all of that, 98 percent of that boom is happening on private land.  Almost none of it is happening on federal.  In fact, I saw a statistic the other day that we&#8217;re actually drilling less today on public land than we were six or seven years ago.  If we were to open up federal lands &#8212; and I&#8217;m not talking about drilling on Yosemite or Yellowstone or the precious national parks that are environmentally sensitive; I&#8217;m just talking about drilling on forest land and so on that&#8217;s basically vacant.  If we were able to do that we could literally raise trillions of dollars of revenue of the next ten years to repay our national debt or to do other things to raise revenues.  We could practically eliminate the corporate income tax and replace that with money that we could get from drilling on federal land.</p>
<p>So that&#8217;s the second one, and the third one that&#8217;s so important and that we should all be paying attention to is these new EPA Regulations that President Obama is talking about, and this insane deal that President Obama supposedly signed with the Chinese.  Did you all follow this that the Chinese are now going to agree to reduce their carbon emissions by 25 percent by the year 2030?  That is the biggest bald-faced lie I have ever heard.  The Chinese are not going to reduce their carbon emissions.  They are laughing at us today in Beijing.  The Chinese are building a new coal burning fire plant every month in China so they are using fossil fuels. They&#8217;re going to burn this and they said to Obama, &#8220;Yeah, you go back to the United States and you cut your carbon emissions by 25 percent and we&#8217;ll do the same,&#8221; wink, wink, wink.  That isn&#8217;t going to happen.  This is just unilateral economic disarmament by the United States, and let me make another point about this because I think it is such an important issue.  I think a lot of you probably know this but can anybody in this room tell me what country of all the industrialized nations in the world, which country has reduced its carbon emissions the most over the last six years.  We have.  How many of you know that?  The United States. If you read the school books or read the newspapers you would know that.  We have reduced our carbon emissions more than any other country.  Wait a minute, how could that possibly have happened?  How could that possibly be true?  We didn&#8217;t do cap and trade.  We didn&#8217;t do, I don&#8217;t think we ever signed the Kyoto Treaty.  I don&#8217;t think we ratified it.  We didn&#8217;t have a carbon tax, all these things that all these sanctimonious Europeans said that they did.  We&#8217;ve cut our carbon emissions more than they have and I think you all know the reason why &#8212; because we&#8217;re converting electricity to natural gas.  Natural gas has become the number one source of electricity in the United States; it just surpassed coal.  Natural gas is a wonder fuel.  It is like this amazing wonder fuel.  Think about this; 1) It is abundant, we have hundreds of years&#8217; worth of natural gas in this country; 2) It is made in the USA; 3) It&#8217;s incredibly cheap; and 4) It&#8217;s a clean burning fuel.  Now why in the world would anybody be against natural gas?</p>
<p>But you know what&#8217;s amazing, the environmentalists have turned against natural gas; they&#8217;re against it even though it reduces greenhouse gasses.  Stunning, isn&#8217;t it?  I&#8217;ll make one last point about this.  If you look at electricity production today in America, because you all know this – the master resource is energy.  You can&#8217;t produce anything without energy and everything that we have, a major component of that is cheap and affordable energy.  Well if you look at our electricity today, where do we get our electricity today?  I just told you the number one source of electricity today is natural gas.  The number two source of electricity is coal.  So they don&#8217;t want natural gas, right, because they don&#8217;t want fracking.  The second source of electricity in the United States is coal.  They don&#8217;t want coal; they&#8217;re shutting down coal mines all over the country.  The third source is nuclear power.  They hate nuclear power.  The fourth source is an incredibly good, very affordable source of renewable energy, which is what?  What&#8217;s the number one source of renewable energy in American today?  I heard somebody say it. Hydropower.  Actually hydropower is a very good source of energy.  They hate hydropower too.  Why do they hate hydropower?  Because then don&#8217;t want dams, it&#8217;s going to kill the fish.  So any form of electricity production that actually works they&#8217;re against.  This leads me to an important point that I want to make.</p>
<p>You know, David, at this conference we&#8217;ve been talking a lot about the sinister elements in America today, the communists and the Jihadist and the &#8220;so-called progressives.&#8221;  I want to make a point to you that I think is really important.  I would make the argument to you that the most dangerous movement in the world today is not all of these other groups, and I&#8217;m not saying they&#8217;re not dangerous.  The most dangerous movement in the world today is the Radical Green Movement.  These people are absolutely crazy.</p>
<p>So I&#8217;m going to just kind of move on and make a couple of other quick points.  This is the crux of my argument about the economy, and this drives liberals crazy, so I want just two or three minutes to walk you through this.  If you look at this chart, the way I put it is the last 50 years there have been two great economic crises in America.  The first of course was the late-1970s and early-1980s when the United States went through what I call a mini depression.  We all remember that period.  You all remember 20 percent mortgage interest rates and 14 percent inflation and the fact that in the late-70s and early-80s America was truly deindustrializing, and if actually you read about what liberals and even a lot of conservatives were saying at that time, you remember this, Michael: America is an empire in decline, the Japanese are going to take over and actually the Soviet Model works better than ours does and so on.  That was the kind of environment that Ronald Reagan took over in and of course, in 2008 Barack Obama took office during an incredible economic crisis.  There&#8217;s no question about it.  We had lost six million jobs, the real estate bubble had burst, and half of the banks in America had collapsed.  So when Barack Obama walked into the White House, he walked into office in an incredible crisis, as he says ever speech that he gives.</p>
<p>Now here is what makes this experiment so interesting.  These two presidents used diametrically opposite approaches to dealing with the crisis, right?  So you all know the Reagan formula. It was to cut tax rates; it was to get government spending under control.  He worked with Paul Volker to slay inflation by cutting the money supply, and in a sense what Ronald Reagan did was he empowered workers and entrepreneurs and businesses to rebuild the American economy, the supply side recovery.  Barack Obama came in and did exactly the opposite, right?  Barack Obama used every single page out of the Keynesian playbook and, by the way, I&#8217;m not going to blame this just on Obama.  I would say the last year and a half or two years of the Bush Administration were a disaster too. So what did we do in response to the 2008 crisis?  Well, we bailed out big banks, insurance companies and auto companies.  We passed an $850 billion dollar so-called spending stimulus bill.  We had ObamaCare.  We had tax increases on the rich.  We borrowed $7 trillion, in six years we have borrowed $7 trillion.  This is a Keynesian&#8217;s dream, right?  We threw everything in the Keynesian playbook at that recession.  If you look at this chart, what I think is really interesting and I don&#8217;t think liberals have a good response to this.  What this chart is showing you is that the U.S. economy has grown by 2 percent under Barack Obama under his Keynesian formulation.  In fact, I think I wrote a piece on this for you guys are OCR.  You can see, so the economy has grown by 11½ percent over that period.</p>
<p>Now that&#8217;s decent but then you look at what happened under President Reagan.  Under Ronald Reagan the economy didn&#8217;t grow at 11½ percent over the recovery period; it grew at nearly 25 percent.  Now that&#8217;s a big, big difference ladies and gentlemen, that&#8217;s a huge difference.  That means, and what the number there you&#8217;re looking at, what that means, and if I updated that to today &#8212; because I don&#8217;t have the last two quarters on here. The underlying point of this chart is if the U.S. economy had grown as rapidly under Barack Obama&#8217;s recovery as it did under Ronald Reagan&#8217;s, the GDP national output and national income of this country would be $2 trillion larger today, $2 trillion.  That&#8217;s a massive number. If we were to give that $2 trillion to every single family &#8212; by the way, that&#8217;s year after year after year we&#8217;d be $2 trillion larger.  If we didn&#8217;t have that growth gap and we prorated that money to every family in America, the average family in America today would have $15,000.00 more income. $15,000.00 more income.  Now here is the amazing part about this.  The average family in America doesn&#8217;t have $15,000.00 more income in this recovery.  I think most of you know this.  The average median income family in the United States has $1,500.00 less income than when this recovery, so-called recovery, began.</p>
<p>Now why is that so important?  I think that single statistic may more than anything else explain why the Democrats had their heads handed to them a week and a half ago. Barack Obama was saying just ten days before the election, &#8220;Every single statistic shows improvement while I&#8217;ve been President.&#8221;  Well he left out the one that Americans care the most about.  What Ronald Reagan used to call &#8220;real take home pay&#8221; and &#8220;real take home pay&#8221; has been reduced and not increased over Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, and that explains in my opinion, Michael, why 51 percent of Americans today say that the United States of America is still in a recession – because for half of the Americans it still is a recession.  When you&#8217;re losing income relative to inflation, you&#8217;re not feeling better about things; you&#8217;re feeling worse and that&#8217;s a point we have to hammer home over and over again.  One quick final point.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Okay, real quick though.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Okay, just the states.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Michael wants to talk about something.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>No, I know. I agreed not to be too long, but this is so important.  No, I just got to do the Texas thing.  So this is just the last point.  If you really want to understand the superiority of our ideas versus their ideas, we&#8217;ve got such a great, great experiment here in the United States, and it turns out the four largest states in America, two red states, Texas and Florida are obviously red states.  The two biggest blue states are California and New York.  Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong about this Michael but I believe one out of three Americans lives in those four states.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>That&#8217;s right.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>So those are the states that really matter and the basic bottom line here is that these red states, and this is what my book is about, the red states are incredibly outperforming the blue states.  You know this, migration pattern – there is a huge migration out of the Midwest and out of the Northeast into the South and to states like Phoenix and Utah and so on, and this is what liberals cannot, they cannot explain this because they kept saying, &#8220;Look, they want higher minimum wages, higher tax rates on the rich, don&#8217;t allow drilling, more regulation&#8221; and so on.  All of these things were supposed to create a worker&#8217;s paradise for the workers.  What they can&#8217;t explain is if that&#8217;s the case why are people leaving those states and what this chart is showing you is that over the last 15 years, for every job that was created in California and New York, three to four jobs were created in Texas and Florida.  Look, what&#8217;s the income tax rate today in Texas and Florida?  Zero.  How many in this room are Californians or New Yorkers?  Do you know what your highest income tax rate in California and New York is today?</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Don&#8217;t remind us.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>13.5%.  This stuff matters.  I debated Paul Krugman on this about a month ago, about the economy.  I showed him this chart and I said Paul, you&#8217;ve got the Nobel Prize in economics.  Please explain to me if your ideas are so much superior to ours, what explains this, and you&#8217;ll love this, Michael. He said, &#8220;Well there&#8217;s a very simple explanation.&#8221;  He said people are leaving because of the weather, because of the weather.  Now, actually, as with everything &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>The last year that Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex had something like 90 consecutive days of triple digit weather.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Exactly, you took my &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>I&#8217;d like to have Paul Krugman mow some lawns in that weather.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>I said to Krugman, well, Paul, that&#8217;s an interesting theory, that you say you know people, and by the way, there is some truth to that. People want to live in warmer places, and I said if that&#8217;s the thing, if this is all driven by weather, Paul, you&#8217;ve got the Nobel Prize, please explain this to me, why are people leaving San Diego and going to Houston?  He had no answer.  I&#8217;m going to stop there.  Thank you very much.  It&#8217;s been a pleasure.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Thank you Steve, and all right, Michael, ready to give us the political scoop?</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Well I&#8217;ll try to give you my view of a couple of important things, including some reflections on the dialogues that have been going on here at the Restoration Weekend.  I can&#8217;t resist beginning with some census data because I can&#8217;t think of anything more interesting to do than to plow through historical census data, make tables and things like that.  Steve&#8217;s economic tables are no match for this and the match is my home State of Michigan versus the State of Texas.  When I was growing up in Michigan everybody said well Texas is going to progress, inevitably. They will get big labor unions and so forth.  They&#8217;ll have business corporations that will cooperate with the unions.  They&#8217;ll get big government.  They&#8217;ll have an income tax, they&#8217;ll be like us in Michigan and so forth – census date.  In 1970, Michigan had nine million people.  In 2010, 40 years later, Michigan had ten million people.  A little bit of growth over 40 years, not spectacular.  In 1970 Texas had 11 million people.  Just a little bit bigger than Michigan.  In 2010 Texas had 25 million people.  Explain that Professor Krugman.  You got cold winters in Michigan, but you sure got hot summers in Texas and you actually have some cold winters there too.  Anybody that&#8217;s moving to Texas for the weather is deluded.  So let me just make three major points here that have been to some extent inspired or amplified by what I&#8217;ve been hearing, listening and talking to people with about at the Restoration Weekend.</p>
<p>The first is about the macro economy in which I do not consider myself to be an expert by any means.  I do know that there was a congressman from New York that said if you tax something you get less of it; if you subsidize something you get more of it.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Would that be Jack Kemp?</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Yeah and Jack had the right idea.  Obviously we want to get the macro economy growing again.  Some conservatives are saying okay we&#8217;ll just reduce rates on the high end like Reagan did and that will be fine.  I think we need something more than that.  For one thing, tax rates are not as high as when Reagan entered office.  There&#8217;s less to be cut, but I think we&#8217;ve got to do something else.  We&#8217;ve got to lower some tax rates.  We&#8217;ve got to get rid of some of the really hostile and anti-growth regulatory things and the crazed religion of the Radical Greens.  I think we also have to try to do something about family formation.  If we want to unleash human capital &#8212; and Steve has written about this recently.  I don&#8217;t know if his former colleagues at the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> editorial board are a little miffed at you, but one of the things that I think is holding us back to some extent, although it&#8217;s difficult to quantify, is family formation or the lack thereof.  All the sociological studies show that children raised in two-parent families do better by all sorts of metrics from crime to economic growth and productivity.  No, I don&#8217;t want to say anything negative about single parents and so forth.  But almost 50 years ago Pat Moynihan wrote his family report and he said that we&#8217;ve got a real crisis because 25 percent of black children are born out of wedlock.  The figure today is 70 percent.  The figure for all children is 40.  That is higher form of magnitude than what Moynihan was looking at justifiably, presciently, with alarm back in 1965, so what can we do.  The Tax Code doesn&#8217;t automatically shape behavior.  I think there are ways society can send signals.  When you look back in history people like us like to talk about declines of morals.  There are also increases in moral behavior that occur in various ways.  The United States in 1820 was a nation of drunks.  Basically alcohol consumption was cut by about two-thirds over the next 40 or 50 years.  That was an advance in human capital among other things.</p>
<p>We had senators like Mike Lee, Marco Rubio, others talking about child tax credit increase, other things to send money and signals to people to try to encourage family formation, to encourage two-parent families to give kids the advantage.  I think that there are a lot of other ways that we can think about this in terms of economics; but that&#8217;s one way to send a signal, that&#8217;s one way to give what Cass Sunstein calls a &#8220;nudge,&#8221; which in this case I think is useful.  So I think that we ought to be thinking about that and those of you who are active, and many of you are, in the voluntary sector, those of you who create organizations who work and organizations to try to foster better behavior, I think this is something many of you probably already are thinking about: how do we strengthen that kind of behavior because there&#8217;s a lot of human capital over the last generation that could have been created and wasn&#8217;t created.  That&#8217;s a problem.  We&#8217;d like to do better in the next generation, and how are we going to do this?</p>
<p>The second point I want to make is in another sense about the new generation and that&#8217;s taking a look at the election data, and this one was kind of fun to take a look at.  I was always a little dismayed at reading the number on President Romney, is to take a lot at two groups that we&#8217;ve been told are going to be a larger part of the electorate in years hence, and they are, and that we were told were going to be part of an inevitable during natural and permanent Democratic Party majority in America – the Hispanics and the Millennials.  If you made straight line extrapolations from the 2008 exit pole you might very well have thought that.  Both those groups, Hispanics, a term invented by a census bureaucrat circa 1970; Millennials, people born after 1980 or the 18 to 29 year-old-age group among voters, voted approximately two to one for Barack Obama in 2008.  They will be a larger part of the electorate.  My move to amend the Constitution to raise the voting age to 35 is barred &#8212; and permanently barring from the vote anyone born after 1980, our chances for that solution has been missed.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>I wouldn&#8217;t be able to vote.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>There you go, okay, sorry about that.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>No it&#8217;s all right, it&#8217;s all right.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>I&#8217;ll listen to your recommendation and start voting.  Those things having failed, those groups were going to go by, and you have writers like <i>National Journal&#8217;s </i>Ron Brownstein, who is a very talented guy, talking in addition about the non-white majority – divides electorate into whites and non-whites and says there will be a non-white majority.  Well let&#8217;s see how that&#8217;s working out.  Let&#8217;s start off with the Millennials.  In 2008 they voted 66/32 to Barack Obama.  Expressing that vote as a democratic margin as percentage of the total electorate.  Take the democratic popular vote margin among Millennials as a percentage of the total electorate. It&#8217;s 7 percent of the total electorate.  Barack Obama&#8217;s margin among the total electorate that year, 7 percent.  Essentially all of this popular vote margin came from them.  What has happened in years since.  Well the Millennials down there in their parents&#8217; basements have not been doing so well.  They were told that there was hope and change – that Obama was a with-it sort of person and he was cool and the other people weren&#8217;t and so forth.  In 2012 the Obama margin among Millennials goes down to 60 to 38.  That&#8217;s actually the biggest decline arithmetically among any age group so there is some decline.</p>
<p>It brings to mind the fact of the baby boomer, the fate of the baby boom generation politically, which I guess I&#8217;m part.  I&#8217;d like to say that the good news is that the baby boom generation is going to die out.  The bad news is I&#8217;m going to die about the same time.  The baby boom generation was 50/50 in the Nixon/McGovern race when the rest of the country was 63/36 for Nixon.  In 2012, 40 years later the baby boom generation voted for Mitt Romney, so people are affected by the changes and the things they see in their life as well as by some of the conservatizing forces perhaps of growing older, perhaps wiser, but in any case, the initial vote is not destiny.  Where were the Millennials in this election?  Take a look at the Exit Poll, the national vote for House of Representatives, it was 54/43 Democratic.  Express that as a percentage of the total electorate, Democratic margin as a percentage of the total electorate is 1.5 percent, 7 percent in 2008, 1.5 percent.  Millennial turnout will be higher in the general election than it was in the off-year election, so 1.5 percent translates to about 2 percent general election terms.  That&#8217;s a handicap for republicans.  They&#8217;ve got to carry their age groups by a larger margin in order to win, they did so, winning 52/45 House popular vote overall in this year in 2014 as well as 2010.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s happened to the Millennials in large part it&#8217;s a lot of human capital that&#8217;s not being achieved, that&#8217;s not finding an outlet.  I think one of the things I have felt is that there is a misfit between the Millennial generation and the way that they want to customize their own world.  Set up their own Facebook page and all this stuff, iPod list, that&#8217;s pretty antique now.  The tension between that and the centralized command and control policies of the Obama Administration. Those are policies that were initially crafted by people in an industrial age – 40,000 people worked at the Ford Rouge Plant.  You had a huge union local, it had 60,000 members.  You had a corporation that was one of the largest in the world.  The building was built in 1916 to 1918 at a cost of $1 billion which was actually a lot of money then.  I went around the Ford Rouge Plant in a car this summer – it&#8217;s 5.0 miles to drive around the perimeter of that place.  That is an artifact of the Industrial Age.  So individuals are small cogs in large machines, that&#8217;s what you do, big government, the centralized experts Jonathan Gruber will take care of you, you&#8217;re too stupid to take care of yourself, that&#8217;s the Industrial Age policies.  That&#8217;s a bad fit with this generation.  We&#8217;re not in an industrial age, we are in an information age.  The Ford Rouge Plant is a symbol of the Industrial Era, this is a symbol of the Information age.  It&#8217;s got more data in here than the Ford Rouge Plant ever processed and these policies aren&#8217;t working for them.  I think they&#8217;re waking up to that.  White Millennials are a significant Republican margin of this election.  The black under 30 voters.  Actually male blacks under 30 actually are moving towards Republicans more than their elders.  So I think that there&#8217;s some hope there. They are looking for something.</p>
<p>The Republicans have an opportunity, they sure don&#8217;t have a mandate. But they&#8217;ve got an opportunity for getting in touch with these people for policies that will enable them to find work, to earn success in ways that maximize their own special talents – their own individual interests.  The contribution that that individual uniquely can make to society.  The other side&#8217;s programs don&#8217;t give you any access to society.  The other side&#8217;s program don&#8217;t give you any access to that – you&#8217;re just a cog in a large machine.  These programs &#8212; I think conservatives can come up with a couple of programs that allow human capital to flourish in ways that are particular to the individual.  I think there&#8217;s an opportunity there.</p>
<p>Hispanics – Brownstein likes to lump together all &#8220;non-whites.&#8221;  I think this is misleading.  Hispanics and Asians, the people that fall into these categories, do not share the history experiences and heritages of Black Americans, which are, as many Black Americans will tell you, they are unique and they are absolutely correct in saying that.  They&#8217;re not behaving that way.  When Asians come to this country these days they don&#8217;t see separate drinking fountains marked off for them and they aren&#8217;t prevented from voting and in fact, what we&#8217;ve got is very different numbers.  If you look at the Hispanics, they go 67/31 Obama, 2008, 71/27 Obama, 2012.  They don&#8217;t like the self-deportation comment of Mitt Romney and so forth.  This election they&#8217;re moving in the other direction.  You look at the Exit Poll. It&#8217;s 62/36 for Democratic candidates for the House nationally.  But this aggregated by state.  One of the things you see, about 40 percent of Hispanics live in California, New York and New Jersey.  They were voting over 70 percent on average for the Democratic Party.  They are increasing Democratic margins that would exist if there were not a single Hispanic in any of those states.  If you are looking at the rest of the country, you&#8217;re seeing a different pattern.  In Rick Perry&#8217;s Texas, John Cornyn carried Hispanics 49/48, Greg Abbott got 44 percent here in Florida, Rick Scott got 38.  In Kansas and in Georgia, states with growing Hispanic percentages that some Democrats think are going to carry those states for them, Hispanics voted for the Republican, Nathan Deal, David Purdue, Pat Roberts.</p>
<p>My observation is that Hispanics are voting more like their white neighbors than their black neighbors and depending on the state they&#8217;re in.  I think that once again here are people that are looking for opportunity.  Here are people that are disproportionately in their younger years.  Here is human capital; potential human capital that is being under-utilized in this economy and these individuals are not being given an opening under this Administration&#8217;s policies so I think that once again there is significant opportunities and the idea that this is a totally non-white 90/10 democratic majority is simply factually wrong.  I could add that the Asian numbers show a flip from 73/26 Obama 2012 to 50/49 Republican.  I&#8217;m not sure that&#8217;s good data.  Sorry folks we&#8217;d love to believe it but I think that you&#8217;ve got small and potentially unrepresentative samples, but I think it&#8217;s an interesting mix and some of you are in situations like that.</p>
<p>Let me move on to my third topic that I want to talk about and that is one that I know evokes controversy or strong feelings in this room and that is immigration.  I think again there is a potential to unleash and enhance human capital in the United States, which we are in danger of missing, which people on the other side of the political fence are in danger of missing, and I think we have a set of immigration laws that have built on a system, that is built on a series of laws, 1924, passed 90 years ago, 1965, passed 49 years ago.  We inadvertently got a system that prefers extended family reunification of mostly low-skill people to admission of high skill people.  We&#8217;ve got a system now which we&#8217;ve got to lobby for declaring legalization of illegals, primarily low-skilled, and there&#8217;s an effective lobby for that.  There&#8217;s an effective lobby for increasing the number of H1BVs, as they tend to tie high-skilled people to a particular firm.  Microsoft wants you to work.  Apple wants you to work.</p>
<p>I think we should take this opportunity, the fact that it&#8217;s obvious that we need to change our immigration laws, to take a new approach and not just do patch work.  I&#8217;m not going to get into arguments here about what we do about seasonal farm workers, that&#8217;s a collateral issue.  I think that one of the things we&#8217;ve seen now, unlike 2006 and 2007, which is when the sort of design of the bill that passed the Senate in 2013 was formulated.  That&#8217;s a period when most of us thought we were going to have an unending surge of migration, especially low-skill migration from Latin America and some of us thought the best thing we can do is regularize it through some legalization.  We thought also that our high tech system was going on fine, we didn&#8217;t have any problems there and we thought that we had plenty of demand for low skill workers because the economy was growing.  Well, the surge in that migration from Mexico to the United States from 2007 to 2012 was zero, we don&#8217;t have that problem, and I think the argument is stronger today in my opinion than it was then, that says that legalization measures incentivize illegal immigration, which wouldn&#8217;t otherwise occur.  I think prior to 2007 it was going to occur anyway.  I think now we saw with the influx of Central Americans in the Rio Grande that there is an argument that undercuts the argument for legalization or at least suggests caution.</p>
<p>What I think is most important is to encourage high-skill immigration.  Steve and I disagree, I don&#8217;t think we need a lot of low-skill people right now, new people.  He thinks we always do.  I think we always need high skilled people in this country and I think if you want to maximize human capital in the United States or in the world, we want high-skilled people in this country, as many as we can get.  We&#8217;ve got a system where we admit a grudging amount of them, tied to particular firms.  I think we might do better if we let in high-skilled people, people who can demonstrate that they have high skills and abilities and let them see what they can do in something that we have here despite the effects of the current Administration, which is called the free enterprise system, a free economy and work their way up there.  I see as a model of the systems of our Anglosphere cousins Canada and Australia.  Canada and Australia have high-skill immigration.  They have point systems.  I had a chance to talk here with Senator Sessions and I said to him, let&#8217;s look at how Canada and Australia do this.  Can something like this be adapted to the United States?</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Canadians and Australians don&#8217;t want us to do this.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Well, a Canadian diplomat in Washington said to me please, please do not adopt our Canadian immigration system.  We want these high-skilled people in Vancouver and Calgary and Toronto and Montreal.  We don&#8217;t want them going to the United States.  We want them in Canada and Australia wants them in Australia.  I have a lot of affection for Canada or Australia but I say let&#8217;s give them a fight.  I think that we should try to restructure this so that instead of extended family reunification of low-skill people we move towards high skilled people that have demonstrated their abilities and so forth in this country.</p>
<p>As I look back over the three things I&#8217;m talking about, let&#8217;s liberate the economy from high taxes, but also incentivize family behavior that we&#8217;re not sure we can fully influence but at least move people towards behavior that tends to maximize human capital.  Present opportunities to growing groups of the electorate like Hispanics and Millennials so to maximize their human capital and to exchange our immigration system and not just tinker with band aids and stuff on the 90-year-old legislation and the 49-year-old legislation but actually reframe our immigration law.  Take this opportunity to proclaim that we are a land of the free, home of the brave and we have open arms to people who come here with high skills and want to contribute to the United States and the world through becoming Americans.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>I think that, Michael, microphones are going to be going around in a second.  I&#8217;m going to ask a quick question.  Having just moved out from my parents&#8217; basement, thanks Ally and Paul, and being Hispanic and a Millennial, I&#8217;d like to talk kind of specifically about some of those policies the Republicans just took to Congress, both houses.  If you were in a room advising John Boehner and Mitch McConnell and the leadership in the Republican Party, what would you advise them they should do going out the gate in 2015 and what would you advise them not to do?</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Well the first thing, how many of you have been following this issue, this esoteric issue of corporate inversions of companies that are leaving and I say this is actually a real crisis in this country, and I don&#8217;t think a lot of the politicians quite understand what&#8217;s going on here.  If we don&#8217;t fix our corporate tax system &#8212; and most Americans have no idea about the corporate tax system and I don&#8217;t think Barack Obama understands this either.  Our corporate tax, as most of you in this room know, we have the highest statutory corporate tax in the world.  We&#8217;re at 40 percent and it&#8217;s interesting.  If you look over the last 25 years it used to be, Michael, if you go back to 1990 the rest of the world was at about 45 percent.  You know what&#8217;s happened over the last 25 years?  The rest of the world is adopting Reaganonics – Ireland, England, Canada, they are cutting their rates very sharply and so it used to be we were 5 percentage points below the world average.  Today we&#8217;re 15 to 20 percent above the world average.  That doesn&#8217;t work anymore.  I describe this as a Head Start program for every country that we compete with, right?  It&#8217;s true and I would even make the case it is unpatriotic to support a 40 percent corporate tax.  The people who are harmed by this tax are not big, rich Wall Street fat cats who own stock, although it does reduce returns to sharers, but there&#8217;s a lot of really good evidence by some of my friends at the American Enterprise Institute and some of my colleagues at Heritage, that the people that are hurt the most by this high corporate tax when companies leave is American workers.  This affects their wages and affects their job opportunities, so I would make the case by that and if I could do one thing overnight I would say, let&#8217;s just get rid of the corporate income tax, right?  Let&#8217;s just get rid of the corporate income tax and tax it to the shareholders when they earn it as capital gain.</p>
<p>But if we can&#8217;t do that there is a mandate in my opinion, there is a necessity we get that corporate tax rate down to 20 to 25 percent because if we do not do this and if we do not act quickly &#8212; you&#8217;ve seen what&#8217;s happened in the last nine months.  Think about the companies.  Burger King. Burger King is leaving the United States.  Walgreen&#8217;s wants to leave.  Pfizer wants to leave.  I could name four or five other major Fortune 100 companies that are essentially renouncing their United States citizenship and leaving the United States and as you said, going to Canada, going to Ireland.  In Ireland the highest corporate tax rate is 4½ percent.  That means you can change your location from, say, New York to Dublin, and you can cut your corporate income tax by two-thirds.  Companies have a charge to maximize their return to their shareholders so that would be the number one thing – get rid of the corporate income tax and then number two, let&#8217;s just blow up the whole income tax and start over with a flat tax.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>I agree with both of those things and I think you know that, but how to Republicans send that credibly to Obama when he spent his entire Presidency demonizing corporations and saying they&#8217;re the Devil.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Let me just make one quick comment about this.  I believe one of the biggest, one of the turning points in this election &#8212; and correct me if I&#8217;m wrong you guys because you know politics better than I do.  That imbecilic comment that Hillary Clinton made seven days before the next.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>When she was giving her Elizabeth Warren imitation?</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Exactly.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>No there is going to be a very spirited competition if those two run against each other because we don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s going to carry Salem.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>My only point in bringing that up is I do believe Brian that the big problem with the Democrats today, the Democrats today are anti-business, right?  They are anti-business.  My old boss Dick Army, you know Dick Army was the House Majority Leader, he used to say, and he said it so perfectly, liberals love jobs and they hate employers.  Liberals love jobs and they have employers.  You can&#8217;t have one without the other.  This is where I think it gets to your point about Millennials saying, wait a minute, the Democrats said they were going to create all these jobs.  When is the last time?  Just a thought I want to put in your head.  When is the last time this President in the last six years said anything good about business?  When has he said, he is the same President who said two years ago, &#8220;you didn&#8217;t build that,&#8221; so that anti-business sentiment is the ruination of the Democratic Party in my opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Well, Steve starts off right with the populist to appeal and cut the corporate income tax.  You&#8217;re absolutely right on the arguments intellectually and I think there is a political avenue to do this and an openness to do this.  There is a lot of low-hanging fruit off there – the Keystone XL Pipeline, vote on a bunch of things where you&#8217;re going to get, by the way, a bunch of Democrats, 31 House Democrats voted for the Keystone Pipeline last week and so forth, that it&#8217;s a 70 percent issue.  You&#8217;ve got a bunch of 70 percent issues, but I guess I would just reiterate my thinking on the immigration thing.  I really think that we have an opportunity to change the trajectory of incoming immigration and so forth in the world in the years ahead.  I wrote this book, <i>Shaping Our Nation:  How Surges in Migration Transformed American Politics</i> and it&#8217;s about internal migrations and it&#8217;s about immigration migrations.  We&#8217;ve had these unexpected surges of migration.  Nobody in 1965 was predicting huge migration from Latin America.  We actually imposed a limit of something like 60,000 Mexicans a year in the &#8217;65 Act, did you know that?  It didn&#8217;t turn out to be very effective because of family reunification provisions and because of illegal immigration.  Migration from Mexico was ten times that approximately between 1982 and 2007 and then it stops and that&#8217;s a historic pattern too.  You get these surges that last one or two generations, they stop.  I want the next surges to be high-skilled people from around the world.</p>
<p>One of the statistics that I saw recently and perhaps appropriate of last night&#8217;s meeting was that the percentage of people in the United States &#8212; like some of President Reagan&#8217;s statistics this may be wrong, so I want to be fact checked on this.  The data was that of people born in Africa, that doesn&#8217;t include the President, people born in African in the United States today is something like 47 percent of them have college degrees and moving on to their accounting degree and getting that and we see that in Washington, DC.  Michelle Obama, that Minnesota gets the Somalians, we&#8217;ve got the Ethiopians and it&#8217;s better for our metro area.  But anyway, that&#8217;s an interesting data point.  Let&#8217;s get the high-skilled people across the world because it&#8217;s better for our country and a more prosperous, more creative America is better for the world.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>You know Michael I was in &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>It&#8217;s better for people all over the world because they in many ways have often been free riders on advances made in the United States and the people of the United States who make advances, who have economic success are also major supporters, not only through taxes and foreign aid but much more importantly through voluntary activities that have helped people around the world.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>I was just going to say, I got in a taxi in Washington, DC about two weeks ago and the driver was an Ethiopian and he kept staring at me, and he kept looking back at me, he had this big smile on his face, &#8220;You&#8217;re on Fox News, aren&#8217;t you.  I watch Fox News every day.&#8221;  I&#8217;m like these are our kind of people.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>All right let&#8217;s go to some questions from the audience.  We have a microphone in the back.</p>
<p><strong>Rep. Michele Bachmann: </strong>Thanks.  You guys are so brilliant and I want to thank you and I just want to see me too to Steve.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Michele you are irreplaceable in the United States Congress.  We love you.  You are awesome!  We need you to run against Mark Dayton for Governor of Minnesota.</p>
<p><strong><strong>Rep. Michele Bachmann</strong>: </strong>No I just want to say how much I love and underscore exactly what you said – in my former life I was a federal tax litigation attorney, before I came to the U.S. Congress and I think again this is a plus-up area where Republicans can go on offense in the next two years against Hillary Clinton or whoever the nominee is, because this is a job creations tax.  That&#8217;s what the Corporate Tax Code is, it&#8217;s a tax on job creation and we need to frame it in such a way so that people know that what we want to do is get rid of these job killing taxes and have job creation taxes and I&#8217;ll give you one perfect example based upon inversions.  Two weeks before the 2012 Election I sat down with all of the medical device industry in Minnesota from the baby startups all the way to the King Daddy which was Medtronic and all of them could be predictive.  They saw that this could very well go the way of Barack Obama and the way of the medical device tax and so they&#8217;d been out looking in Europe and other countries to see where they could move their industries, and they were very frank.  They said if we don&#8217;t take this election in 2012, we&#8217;re out of here because we&#8217;ve got better places to go for industry and so Medtronic is one of those companies that announced an inversion and then the Treasury Department came back and was basically going to cancel all those inversions but it&#8217;s human nature.  People go where they can make the income so I think this is a target rich environment for us to go on offense and I think we&#8217;ll get Millennials.  I think that we should compete for every bit of space for every voter because it&#8217;s about every voter, their job.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Let me make a broader point because I think that what you said is so important.  Tell me if you think I&#8217;m wrong about this, Michele, but I think Republicans have an incredible opportunity right now with the old Reagan blue collar industrial union workers; because think about that.  Put it like this, Michael.  How can Tom Steyer coexist in a party with unionized blue collar workers? Tom Steyer is trying to deindustrialize America.  He wants to destroy the jobs of pipe fitters, welders, electricians – he wants to destroy the jobs of Teamsters.  Your and my party, Michele, you&#8217;re the person to do this.  We ought to be going into these union halls, I&#8217;m serious, and we should be saying, we&#8217;re the ones who are trying to save your jobs.  It&#8217;s these wacko Green Environmentalists who are trying to destroy your jobs, right?  That should be our message.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>A question from Senator Sessions.</p>
<p><strong>Sen. Jeff Sessions: </strong>Thank you, just briefly.  I recall having met with a Canadian who runs their system of immigration.  They are very happy with it. They are very pleased.  At a hearing two years ago in the Judiciary Committee, the Microsoft representative and group pushing for high-tech visas praised the Canadian system.  I said, well, Mr. Microsoft, I&#8217;ll adopt the Canadian system today.  Do you agree to that?  What do you think his answer was?  He had this rueful smile, and the reason was they made a deal.  They got their deal on the big bill.  La Raza and the businesses who want lower-skill workers and the political groups that want family reunification.  They made a partnership so that the package itself was unacceptable, in my opinion, so I guess I would say if we can break this bunch from their unholy comprehensive alliance and focus on the Canadian-type system, which gives points if you &#8212; millions of people speak English in the world.  If you&#8217;ve got two people to apply to American, why not choose the one who already speaks English?  Have we got two young people in Honduras and one has two years of college and one is a high school dropout, why not let the scholar get in?</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve got data to show that people with two years of education who come to America almost always succeed.  Data shows that people who come to American without a high school degree, without language skills, almost always remain in poverty for generations.  So I guess, Michael, I think you&#8217;re on the right track.  I also am dubious about some of the things they say.  Microsoft just laid off 18,000.  Facebook, Mr. Zuckerberg, they only have 7,000 people.  This is not a big job industry.  If you travel the state like I do, and go in to business after business, it&#8217;s incredible the amount of robotics we&#8217;ve got.  We&#8217;re going to have more widgets made with fewer people every year for the next 30 years.  So we&#8217;ve got to think about how our people can be able to take the few jobs that exist out there, and we want to have their pay go up and not down.  So anyway, I&#8217;ve gone too long.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>I think that this is a great example, Senator, that we are in an area where we need good policy instead of good lobbying.  There&#8217;s a lobby for H1Bs because they stay with my company and you got indentured servitude or something like it.  But high skill hasn&#8217;t got a lobby.  It has got to find one.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Why don&#8217;t we get a question over here and let&#8217;s walk to this side of the room too so there are a couple of questions over here.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Yeah, one thing you haven&#8217;t mentioned and please address it, is the toll on human beings of the Green Agenda.  The world and our country came into fruition on oil, on energy.  Nothing works, no one gets a better life without the energy to propel it.  If you look at the Green Agenda, as a matter of fact I live in Austin.  We have a little tabloid that&#8217;s called <i>The Austin Chronical.</i>  Yeah you laugh, but it&#8217;s amazingly effective.  They had some smartly groomed black kids calling green the new black, displayed on the cover of last&#8217;s week&#8217;s <em>Chronical</em>.  This is a lie.  It&#8217;s all a lie.  If you take away the energy, Africa stops.  They have no chance of ever getting out from under the chains of and if you look at China, what has propelled them forward at break neck speed?  Energy, energy, energy and they take that all away and would you please address that because that&#8217;s one of the human tolls of the Green Agenda.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>So I just got back my, it&#8217;s a great point.  I just got back from Zimbabwe.  My niece is a Peace Corps volunteer in this little village really out in the middle of nowhere.  When you were talking I was thinking about this because this village, they are incredibly great people.  I just fell in love with these people but you know, they&#8217;re living almost literally like it&#8217;s the 16<sup>th</sup> Century and you know what they don&#8217;t have in this town?  Electricity, electricity. You can&#8217;t do anything if you don&#8217;t have electric power, and for our government, for Barack Obama to run around the world telling these countries they should use fossil fuels, use less fossil fuels, that&#8217;s immoral, right?  He&#8217;s basically saying he wants to keep these countries poor and that&#8217;s a message we need to get through to people.</p>
<p>Just one other quick little story: we lost our electricity last summer when we had a big storm in Northern Virginia and I wrote a piece in the <i>Wall Street Journal, </i>and it got a huge response, and I just said what happened when the Morris electricity went out.  I have three kids, two teenagers who I don&#8217;t like very much and then I have an 11 year old but my teenagers when the electricity went out, they thought the first few hours were really cool. We had a fire and we had candles and so on and I&#8217;ve got to tell you.  After the first day, because we were without electricity for 72 hours, my kids were like screaming how do people live without electricity, my God they didn&#8217;t have any screen, they didn&#8217;t have cell phones.  The point is if we let the Green Agenda go forward as these people want to do, we&#8217;re going to have rolling brownouts and blackouts in this country.  If you want to see the American people get angry, it&#8217;s going to be when that happens.  If you turn out the lights, people get pretty upset.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>Good morning, two quick points.  I find myself not surprised that once again I agree with Senator Sessions.  Good morning Senator.  Alan Greenspan testified before Chuck Shumer on April 30, 2009.  It&#8217;s just two sentences, I want to read this because I think we have too many high-tech workers from foreign countries competing with American high-tech workers which disincentivizes kids from going into those fields.  This is from Greenspan&#8217;s testimony.  &#8220;Greatly expanding our quotas for the highly skilled with lower wage premiums of the skilled over the lesser skilled.  Skill shortages in America exist because we are shielding our skilled labor force from world competition.  Quotas have been substituted for the wage pricing mechanism and in the process&#8221; &#8212; this word amazes me &#8212; &#8220;we have created a privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.  Eliminating such restrictions would reduce at least some of our income and equality.&#8221;  We need to get more American kids into those high tech industries, item number one.  Item number two, if you go to the UN web site you will find that they predict the two fastest ways of increasing remittances flowing from the U.S. to the Third World, sustainability, green, and in that comprehensive reform. We need to understand that our laws were based on the concept of protecting American lives and American jobs, first and foremost.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Michael, what are your thoughts.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m so concerned about protecting high-skill people from competition.  I think high skills are not are zero sum game.  Andrew Carnegie did not suffer because John D. Rockefeller was successful in business.  You got one immigrant and the other is the son of a confidence man.  You can make an argument I think particularly at the stage of employment that we have now.  Steve would not agree with it, but that low-skill employment is the zero sum game for the people and you let in more low-skills from other countries you drive down wages of low skill people in this country.  I think there&#8217;s something at least marginally to that.  High skill people are going to create and do things that you central planners didn&#8217;t think up.  They&#8217;re going to actually figure out new things and Andrew Carnegie figured out new things, the poor boy from Scotland.  So I&#8217;m for letting a lot of competition bloom with high-skilled people and I don&#8217;t think they ever crowd each other out.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Here&#8217;s why that&#8217;s completely wrong to say that our high-skilled workers or immigrants are taking jobs from American high-skilled workers.  There&#8217;s a very simple reason why that&#8217;s completely wrong.  It&#8217;s because 36 percent of the businesses in Silicon Valley that hire American high-tech workers were founded by immigrants.  So if the immigrants didn&#8217;t come here a lot of those businesses wouldn&#8217;t exist in the first place.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>What we&#8217;ve seen with a lot of Hispanic voters &#8212; the one seriously contested Senate race was a state with above national average Hispanic percentage, was in Colorado and in Colorado the Democrats, partly through an effort of very rich people putting together a pretty smart political operation that&#8217;s won the major offices there, they imposed a gentry liberal, my friend Joe Cochran&#8217;s phrase, a gentry liberal program: gun control.  Hispanic voters recalled one of the state senators that voted for it in Pueblo County, 42 percent Hispanic county.  They were going to have an anti-fracking referendum.  They decided to take that off the ballot because it was polling so badly they were going to get licked 80/20 or something like that.  Abortion absolutism, Senator Mark Udall became known by the liberal media as Mark Uterus, ran half his ads, the NARAL pro-choice ad said that there would be no contraceptives available in Colorado if Cory Gardner was elected to the U.S. senate.  We now have a chance to fact check that prediction since Gardner was elected and we&#8217;ll see if there are any condoms available in Colorado.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Along with their marijuana.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Well I&#8217;m not going to go there.  They are rejecting that agenda.  The question is do Republicans have an agenda that can go forward and that can help them maximize their human capital.  Help them achieve their dreams.  Help them earn success.  I think we&#8217;ve been trying up in the platform, a lot of you in the audience are working at this sort of thing.  Can&#8217;t give you a fast formula but I think there are Republicans working on it.  I think that we&#8217;ve got to get going and the other low hanging fruit.  What Michele mentioned, the medical devices tax.  We have these wonderful industries that produce things like prosthetics that enable wounded veterans to live full lives in a way that wouldn&#8217;t have ever been possible before and what does this crowd do? They want to tax it.  I think that there are a lot of opportunities here.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Well Michael let me just give you one, Hispanics are an obvious one but let me just put up one thought about black Americans.  Anybody in this room from Illinois?  A few.  What a great race, Bruce Rauner won one of the most important races in the country this year, and what&#8217;s interesting about Bruce Rauner, this is a near billionaire hedge fund manager.  They tried to run their own Mitt Romney campaign against him.  Here&#8217;s what interesting about Bruce Rauner.  I think every Republican in the country should take a page out of his book.  You know what he did?  Bruce Rauner spent a lot of his time going into black churches, black neighborhoods, black schools and he had a couple of messages.  One of the things he said, which every Republican should do when we&#8217;re talking to black audiences.  What have the Democrats done for you?  Really, what have the Democrats done for black American?  Nothing.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>No, I&#8217;m from Detroit and I&#8217;ve seen what happens.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>Yeah, right, exactly.  That was his point and what Bruce Rauner said is you elect me Governor of this State – I&#8217;m going to clean up your neighborhoods, I&#8217;m going to give you school choice, I&#8217;m going to clean up your schools, I&#8217;m going to give you jobs and you know what?  Bruce Ronner got 20 percent of the black vote in Illinois, so we can win a bigger percentage of black Americans with a message of economic growth.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Barone: </strong>Well, and here&#8217;s an Hispanic message.  California and Texas, we&#8217;ve been looking at the number of jobs.  Both of those states in the 2010 census were about 36 percent Hispanic.  Texas Hispanics get better test scores than California Hispanics.  Texas is non-union, non-ed run schools do a better job than California&#8217;s Teacher Union runs schools, okay?  Texas Hispanics make more money than California Hispanics.  Texas Hispanics have lower unemployment than California Hispanics.  We have a test case on whose policies help Hispanic people in American and I think also there&#8217;s a spirit of, well there&#8217;s a spirit of enterprise.  There&#8217;s also a cultural spirit.  When you go to Texas the people in Texas look at somebody that&#8217;s got stereotypical Latino features, they say that&#8217;s a Texan.  When rich Californians see somebody with that figure they hand them the keys to the car because they assume it&#8217;s a valet parking attendant.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Moore: </strong>So the message here, folks, is we have to make America look more like Texas and less like New York and California.</p>
<p><strong>Brian Calle: </strong>Except for the weather, except for the weather.  Thank you all very much for taking the time to listen to us and let&#8217;s give one more round of applause to our great panel.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour takes us into the heart of Qur'anic darkness. ]]></description>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor&#8217;s note: Below are the video and transcript to Ronald Kessler&#8217;s address at the Freedom Center&#8217;s Dec. 10, 2014, gathering of the Wednesday Morning Club. </em></p>
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<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Thank you so much for having me.  And it&#8217;s a real honor to be with such sophisticated people who understand everything, know everything.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And as you can tell from the titles of my books, I like to probe secret organizations, secret subjects.  And this sometimes gets me into trouble.</p>
<p>One of my books, called &#8220;Moscow Station,&#8221; revealed that a KGB archivist had defected from Russia to the FBI.  And I knew that he was safe, and revealing this would not jeopardize him.  But nevertheless, the FBI started a leak investigation.  And I heard about it from the inside.  I heard the agents were going to come out and try to interview me.</p>
<p>And I went through in my mind how I would greet them &#8212; I would offer them coffee, I would schmooze them.  And of course, I would try to develop them as sources.</p>
<p>And a few days later, I was in my house in Potomac, Maryland, which is a quiet suburb; very few people ring the bell.  And I had this idea &#8212; since I&#8217;ve written so many books about the FBI, and covered it for so long, and interviewed so many agents, that I have an idea of what FBI agents look like, which is pretty silly.</p>
<p>But nevertheless, the bell rang, I opened the door.  And there were these two very intense-looking young men with narrow ties, white shirts.  And I said &#8212; well, where have you guys been?  I&#8217;ve been expecting you, come on in.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And they looked at me a little &#8212; almost a little afraid, a little strangely.  And they held out these pamphlets, the &#8220;The Watchtower.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>I like a challenge.  The fact that these are secret organizations, and also very important organizations that can engage in abuses that are so important to our national security &#8212; all that attracts me.  And in the case of the Secret Service, it is really the most secret of all the organizations, even more so than the CIA or the FBI, both of which I&#8217;ve written about.</p>
<p>And I began with a tip about mismanagement by the Secret Service.  And then, as I got into it, I found that was really the tip of the iceberg.  But at the same time, I got the cooperation of the Secret Service.  I think they felt that I would tell an honest story, which is what I try to do.</p>
<p>For example, with the FBI, when they do good, as they have since 9/11 &#8212; we have not had a successful foreign terrorist attack since 9/11, and it&#8217;s largely because of the FBI that I say that.  And that is unusual in journalism today, even though I&#8217;m actually much younger than Michael thinks.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But on the other hand, when they engage in abuses, I reveal that.  In the case of the FBI, I revealed that William Sessions, the FBI director, had been engaging in abuses of all kinds, and I exposed that.  And that led to his dismissal by President Clinton.</p>
<p>In the case of the Secret Service books, I&#8217;ve now written two.  They both reveal the deficiencies in the agency and also what agents see behind the scenes.  I know this is too tawdry for all of you to hear, but there&#8217;s quite a bit that they see.</p>
<p>For example, actually before the first chapter, I began with a prologue which reveals that Bill Clinton has a mistress who has been unofficially codenamed by agents &#8220;Energizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And Energizer was chosen because the first letter of every family&#8217;s codename is always the same.  So in the case of the Clintons, Bill is &#8220;Eagle,&#8221; and Hillary is &#8220;Evergreen.&#8221;  And so the mistress, busty blonde mistress, became &#8220;Energizer.&#8221;</p>
<p>And as soon as Hillary leaves the home in Chappaqua, Energizer shows up.  Unlike Hillary, who&#8217;s so nasty to agents that being assigned to her detail is considered a form of punishment &#8211;</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>&#8211; the mistress is very nice to agents.  She&#8217;ll even bring them cookies sometimes.</p>
<p>One day, during the summer, she brought cookies, she drove up to the gate.  The agents are instructed not to ever ask for her ID or log her in, whereas even Clinton relatives have to be logged in.  And she held out this platter of cookies through the window of her vehicle to the agent.  And he noticed that she was wearing a low-cut tank top.  And he described in great detail her breasts, that they&#8217;re enhanced.  There was no question in his mind.  And so we have every single detail in this book, &#8220;The First Family Detail.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the case of Hillary, she&#8217;ll just make life miserable for agents.  She&#8217;ll blow up at them.  They can never do anything right.  She&#8217;ll even complain when the limousine goes over a bump in the road.  Being assigned is considered the worst assignment in the Secret Service to be assigned to Hillary&#8217;s detail.</p>
<p>And so yes, these stories are titillating; yes, they&#8217;re revealing.  But they also tell you something about our leaders and who we should be electing for President.  Should we elect someone who treats other people in such a shabby way, who at the same time claims to be compassionate, to care about the little people?  She&#8217;s going to be a champion of the middle class?  And yet, she cannot treat agents who are there to protect her, and even take a bullet to protect her, with decency.</p>
<p>And people just, you know, sort of ignore this.  They look at how well someone speaks, they look at what someone promises.  They&#8217;ll ignore the track record &#8212; for example, the fact that President Obama spent 20 years listening to the anti-white, anti-America, anti-Israel rantings of Reverend Wright.  People just &#8212; you know, they&#8217;re in denial.</p>
<p>My most liberal friends, my most liberal family members, say they would&#8217;ve walked out if they&#8217;d heard that, in any situation.  And yet, Obama exposed his kids to that, as well as, of course, Michelle, who was even more entranced by Reverend Wright.</p>
<p>Joe Biden &#8212; he goes back to his home in Wilmington several times a week on Air Force Two.  And that has cost our taxpayers $1 million since he took office.  And this is in the book.  I got it from the Air Force under the Freedom of Information Act.  And yet, nobody in the mainstream media has picked this up.</p>
<p>You know, it&#8217;s one thing to go back home a few times a year.  But he has a job in Washington, he has a home, paid for by taxpayers, in Washington, with five navy stewards who make pastries every night and cater to all of his wishes.  Both homes have pools.  He has no business going back and forth, sometimes even twice a day, on Air Force Two.  Sometimes, he&#8217;ll even go back to Wilmington, and then come back just for the day to play golf with Obama at Andrews Air Force Base, and then go back to Wilmington.</p>
<p>The fact that he has a pool is intriguing.  Because he has a habit of skinny dipping.  And this offends female Secret Service agents.  They signed up to take a bullet for the President, but not to see Joe Biden run around naked.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And on top of all that &#8212; and this is probably the worst of all &#8212; when he goes up to Wilmington, Biden instructs his agents to keep the military aide with the nuclear football for unleashing a nuclear counterstrike at least a mile behind in the motorcade.  Biden, like most politicians, is fixated on his image.  He wants to maintain the image of the regular Joe, working-class guy.  So he doesn&#8217;t want to have a long motorcade when he goes to Wilmington.</p>
<p>But the result is that if Obama were taken out, we would be defenseless against a nuclear attack.  Because, of course, there wouldn&#8217;t be time for the nuclear football to catch up with Biden.  Height of irresponsibility.  The worst judgment you can imagine.  And again, the mainstream media have ignored this revelation in the book.</p>
<p>The book is nonpartisan.  It says that Obama and his wife do treat agents with respect and consideration.  On the other hand, agents have been dismayed to overhear Michelle urge her husband to be more aggressive in attacking Republicans and in siding with blacks in racial controversies, which of course we see him do over and over again.</p>
<p>And I think that certainly has contributed to the violence and the rioting.  Because he&#8217;s essentially sanctioning the idea that we&#8217;re all racists.  And of course, that goes back to Reverend Wright.  That was exactly his mindset.  And we&#8217;re seeing it now with President Obama.</p>
<p>Going back to President Johnson &#8212; he was probably the most outrageous of all.  When he was Vice President, he was late for an appointment with JFK.  The agent was driving him along Pennsylvania Avenue &#8212; it was rush hour.  And he told his agent to drive up on the sidewalk to get there faster.  Well, the sidewalk was full of people coming out of office buildings.  The agent refused, of course, as he should&#8217;ve.  And Johnson took a newspaper and hit this agent on the head and said &#8212; you&#8217;re fired.  This is all on the record; at least half of the material in the book is on the record.</p>
<p>Johnson was having sex with five of his eight secretaries.  One time his wife, Ladybird, caught him having sex in the Oval Office with one of his secretaries.  And Johnson blew up at the Secret Service and said, you should&#8217;ve warned me, and insisted that they install a buzzer system to warn him in the future, if he was having sex and Ladybird was in the area.</p>
<p>He would also sit on the toilet and defecate as he&#8217;s being briefed by aids.  He would give press conferences in Texas and begin urinating in front of female reporters, as well as male reporters.  Of course, none of this was ever reported at the time.</p>
<p>The first time that the press began to report the sexual activities and other unpleasant activities of presidents and candidates was with Gary Hart, with the Donna Rice incident.  But actually, that was just the tip of the iceberg.  Agents who were protecting Donna Rice found that Hart&#8217;s buddy, Warren Beatty, would arrange to have these gorgeous starlets show up at Warren Beatty&#8217;s home in LA.  And Hart would go there, and they&#8217;d all jump in a hot tub.  Not with Warren Beatty, just the girls.  And Gary Hart &#8212; they&#8217;d jump in the hot tub, the girls would undress.  They&#8217;d stay overnight.  And the agents would go &#8212; there&#8217;s a 10, there&#8217;s a 9, there&#8217;s a 10, there&#8217;s a 9.  They were just totally overwrought by the gorgeous starlets.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter, again, was this guy who pretended to be a jolly peanut farmer, a man of the people, a populist.  But behind the scenes, he was so nasty to agents that he would tell them he didn&#8217;t want them to say hello to him in the morning on the way to the Oval Office.  It was just too much bother to say hello back to another human being.  What kind of a person is that?</p>
<p>And he would pretend to carry his own luggage in front of the cameras, to try to show that he&#8217;s a man of the people.  But then, as soon as the cameras were gone, he would give the luggage to aides to carry, or the luggage was empty in the first place.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Carter would sometimes show up in the Oval Office at 5:00 in the morning and tell the Press Office to tell the press that he was in there working hard for the American people at 5:00 a.m.  But then he&#8217;d nod off to sleep on the couch in the Oval Office.</p>
<p>So, you know, again and again, we fall for these charades.  And the press just keeps focusing on the horserace.  They don&#8217;t look at character.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s something that we look at in our daily lives all the time.  We don&#8217;t choose a friend who would be nasty to other people, we don&#8217;t choose a new employee who would treat other people indecently.  And yet, here we have people who, you know, just cannot be trusted.  And it comes out eventually in their policies and in the way they interact with the country.  The other side is that the &#8212; in this book &#8212; the Secret Service has become so lax, and engages in so much corner-cutting, that everywhere you look, they&#8217;re really risking an assassination.</p>
<p>One thing in the book that hasn&#8217;t been picked up by the press is that on a regular basis, agents under pressure from either the Bush or the Obama White House or from campaign staffs will let people into events without magnetometer or metal detection screening.  It&#8217;s just like letting passengers into an airplane without doing that.  And if everybody did that, they would be fired and possibly prosecuted.</p>
<p>But the Secret Service management &#8212; it&#8217;s the management that&#8217;s at fault, not the agents, who really are brave and dedicated; they&#8217;ll take a bullet for the President &#8212; but the management has this arrogant culture that says &#8212; we&#8217;re the great Secret Service, we can take care of any problem.  We don&#8217;t have to even lock the front door of the White House.  And therefore, we can let people into events without magnetometer screening.</p>
<p>And when I confronted a high-ranking Secret Service official about this, he hemmed and hawed.  First he was saying &#8212; you know, now we have magnetometers, it&#8217;s much safer.  And I said &#8212; well, what about the times when you don&#8217;t use them, when you let people in under pressure?  Because there&#8217;s a line outside, and the staff says &#8212; let them in, let them in; and sure enough they let them in.</p>
<p>And then he started making excuses.  They&#8217;re wonderful at making excuses.  And he said &#8212; well, you know, if someone comes in without magnetometer screening, we keep those people further back.  Well, of course, in one second, you could have five terrorists come in with grenades and run from the back of an event and take out the President.  These are things that are just common sense.</p>
<p>And when you see what the Secret Service said after the penetration of the White House by Gonzales, which was &#8212; first of all, they lied about where he was apprehended &#8212; they said that he was stopped at the door; he actually penetrated the whole White House. They said he was not armed; that was a lie, he was armed with a knife.  And then they said &#8212; the Secret Service director, Julia Pierson, said that the agents exercised tremendous restraint in not killing him.  Well, is that what they&#8217;re there for, to exercise restraint?</p>
<p>I can tell you, FBI officials were horrified at that comment and laughing at it.  Because absolutely, he could&#8217;ve had explosives, he could&#8217;ve had WMD.  They wouldn&#8217;t know it until the White House was blown up.  And you have to use lethal force if everything else has failed.</p>
<p>And why did it fail?  Well, the guy who was supposed to release a canine unit, as they call them &#8212; and I did interview a canine unit when I was doing the book &#8212; they introduced me to one, and he went around and found explosives &#8212; that guy was on a personal cell phone call in his van.</p>
<p>But why would all this happen?  Why would you have agents hiring prostitutes?  Why would you have the uniform division letting the Salahis, the glamorous couple, into the White House; along with a third intruder, Carlos Allen, which is a story that I also broke &#8212; why would they be doing that?  Because you have this broken management culture.  And these agents say &#8212; well, management is breaking the rules.  They&#8217;re taking risks with assassinations; why should we do whatever we feel like doing?</p>
<p>This is just basic in any organization, that if you don&#8217;t maintain the right standards at the top, the whole place is going to crumble.  And that includes the infrastructure.  They don&#8217;t polygraph agents the way the FBI does, they don&#8217;t have the latest intrusion devices at the White House itself.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s this myth that somehow if you push the perimeter of the White House gate further back, somehow we&#8217;re not going to have access to the President.  Hey, nobody has access to the President, unless they have an appointment and have been cleared by the Secret Service.  And I don&#8217;t see that there&#8217;s anything to be lost by pushing that perimeter back.</p>
<p>You could have 30 ISIL terrorists come in with grenades from all directions.  And to keep the perimeter where it is now is simply asking for trouble.</p>
<p>The question often is asked of me &#8212; how do I get them to cooperate?  Usually, I water-board them, that works pretty well.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But I think that, as I said before, I do tell an honest story.  They respect that.  I think it&#8217;s pretty unusual in journalism today, given all the slant that you see.  And also, I&#8217;m genuinely interested in what they do.  I love to hear about profiling.  Before it became a nasty word, I broke the first story about FBI profiling in 1985.  And I think they think I already have a lot of sources, I already know a lot.  And they figure they might as well cooperate.</p>
<p>In my previous book, the secrets of the FBI, Bob Mueller, the FBI director, personally approved giving me access to their most secret tool, which is how they break into homes and offices to plant bugging devices &#8212; all court-authorized, of course.  But it&#8217;s an incredible story.  And let&#8217;s say they want to break into an embassy or some other secure location, or a mafia home, they will essentially case the joint for about two weeks beforehand.  They&#8217;ll watch who goes in, who goes out.</p>
<p>And on the night of the break-in, they&#8217;ll have agents watch at the homes of those people to make sure they don&#8217;t go back to the premises.  And if they do, oh, there&#8217;ll be a little traffic accident, or there&#8217;ll be a little ticket written.  Because the agents might dress in police uniforms in order to delay anybody going back.</p>
<p>The agents will bring in their own dust, in case they disturb any dust on a coffee table or a desk.  They will take a photo of any dog on the premises, and show that photo to a veterinarian who&#8217;s on contract.  And he prescribes just the right amount of tranquilizer to shoot into the dog with a dart gun.  And at the end of the break-in, they wake up the dog, because they don&#8217;t want any sleepy dogs around to create suspicion.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s say they want to put bugs in an office suite.  They&#8217;ll go in during the day and take control of one of the elevators; they go to elevator school.  And they&#8217;ll go up on the roof of the elevator in the middle of the night, get off, go in the suite, put the bugs in.  And they actually showed me a real bug, it&#8217;s about the size of a postage stamp.  And it will record for 20 hours, or transmit, as you wish.  And then, during the day, they&#8217;ll get back in the elevator, they&#8217;ll come back.  They&#8217;ll go out wearing business suits, and nobody&#8217;s the wiser.</p>
<p>And then, one other technique is &#8212; let&#8217;s say they want to put a bug in a home in the middle of the night.  They will take a photo of the front of the house.  They&#8217;ll blow that up into a huge tarp, drape that over the front of the house, so that any bystanders walking by will think that&#8217;s the front of the house.  But in fact, the agents are behind the tarp, defeating the alarms, defeating the lock systems; and they&#8217;ll put the bugs in.</p>
<p>And just one anecdote about this is they were to put bugs in a mafia hangout in Philadelphia.  It was an electronics store that was actually a front for the mafia.  And they couldn&#8217;t go &#8212; they didn&#8217;t want to go in the back door to put in bugs, because often that could be booby-trapped.  So they would have to go in the front.  But the front overlooked an all-night bar.</p>
<p>So how do they go in without being seen by the patrons?  They borrowed a city bus.  The agents got on the bus.  They rode in front of the premises.  They got out, they put the hood of the bus up to make it look as if it had broken down.  They went in, they defeated the locks and the alarm systems.  The bus then went around the block to pick them up.</p>
<p>And it went by a bus stop.  And there were two patrons in the bar waiting for the bus.  And the bus went whizzing by them, and they were furious.  And they went running for the bus.  And they got in as the agents were getting in, in front of the premises.  And the agents were all from different offices, including from this secret team called Tac-Ops that puts in bugs.  And they didn&#8217;t realize that these guys don&#8217;t belong with them.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>So then, a few of the agents, started taking off their weapons and their pit walkie-talkies, and these guys got scared, you know.  And they started ringing to get off &#8212; ding-ding-ding, let me off, let me off.  And the agent who was driving the bus said &#8212; hey, guys, stop bothering me, I&#8217;m having enough trouble driving this bus.</p>
<p>But then, another agent got up, and he had a shotgun over his shoulder.  And they started ringing again &#8212; ring, ding-ding-ding, let me off, let me off.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>And finally, the agent who was driving figured out what was happening.  Let them out, they went running down the street, and nobody ever heard from them again.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>One other book that I did is mentioned in the New York Times today, and other publications, because the Senate Intelligence Committee&#8217;s report cites my interaction with the CIA when I did this book, &#8220;The CIA At War,&#8221; along with a New York Times reporter.  So it couldn&#8217;t be too bad if a New York Times reporter was involved.  And has the spin that somehow the CIA was leaking material about what they had done with the enhanced interrogation and how effective it was to me and to this New York Times reporter.</p>
<p>Well, the reality is I went to the CIA to get cooperation in the book.  They arranged a number of interviews on a lot of subjects.  Some of the interviews had to do with this.  It wasn&#8217;t as if I was being bamboozled by the CIA.  I corroborated what I used with the FBI.  But the implication is if the White House agrees to an interview, or the CIA or another institution agrees to an interview, somehow that means you&#8217;re already being propagandized and you shouldn&#8217;t listen to anything.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s in fact what this Democratic staff did.  They refused to interview any of the CIA officials or officers involved in this whatsoever.  And in addition, they excluded the Republicans.</p>
<p>So the whole thing is a joke.  And what they have done is they&#8217;ve cherry-picked a few things, an email here, an email there.  That&#8217;s not the way you present how an investigation proceeded, you know.  If you think of gathering facts about any subject, it&#8217;s a very complex process.  You know, you may be impressed by one fact, you may hear about a fact and ignore it.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the way the whole Watergate investigation proceeded.  I sat next to Carl Bernstein during Watergate at the Washington Post.  Woodward would come over every night, and they would write their stories together.  I would overhear what they were saying &#8211; they were knocking on doors until midnight.  And you see some critics on the right who are claiming that they embellished what they did, that they made up Deep Throat, that they didn&#8217;t really reveal the important stories.</p>
<p>That is B.S.  Because I was there, I saw what they did.  And they never claimed that Deep Throat gave them everything, but rather every now and then, he would give them a clue.  He would say &#8212; you&#8217;re on the right track.  And given the fact that the reporters and the Post were really, really scared of what might happen &#8211; they were being threatened by Mitchell &#8211; this reassurance and these clues every now and then helped their investigation.</p>
<p>And I actually was the first to present real information indicating who Deep Throat was before he came out.  I was doing another FBI book called &#8220;The Bureau.&#8221;  I went to interview Mark Felt, who turned out to be Deep Throat, in California.  And his daughter greeted me and said &#8212; you know, there&#8217;s this guy, Bob Woodward, who was out here about a year ago.  And he went to lunch with my father.  And you know what?  He came in a white limousine, but he had the limousine parked 10 blocks away, and then he walked to our house.  Well, that was a tipoff right away this is Deep Throat.  There&#8217;s no way Woodward would&#8217;ve done that otherwise.</p>
<p>And this daughter was sort of a flowerchild; she didn&#8217;t even recognize who Woodward was.  She knew he was a reporter, but didn&#8217;t know anything about Watergate and whatnot.</p>
<p>So, I&#8217;ve been into a lot of interesting subjects.  One other subject is in one of my books, just about the FBI&#8217;s counterintelligence program, the only book about how they catch spies.  I interviewed Karl Koecher and his wife, Hana, in Prague after they had been caught by the FBI and returned to Czechoslovakia.</p>
<p>Karl was a mole in the CIA, you don&#8217;t hear much about it.  But he was a very effective mole.  And one of his methods, besides being a very high-level translator, was that he and his gorgeous blonde wife, Hana, would go to orgies and sex parties with White House people, Defense Department people.  And of course, those people would feel compromised, because they were at these parties that they shouldn&#8217;t be attending.  Because they could be blackmailed.  And so they would get bits of information from them, as well as enjoying the parties.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Hana actually &#8212; Hana enjoyed the parties more than Karl.</p>
<p>The first part was where they refused to cooperate because of &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> (Inaudible) was just gossip.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Oh, yeah.  Well, they are not supposed to talk about what they see behind the scenes.  And that&#8217;s just an understanding.  And after I revealed the prostitution scandal, they required agents to sign documents saying that they would not disclose anything.</p>
<p>And so, yeah, I would say the majority did not want to talk about that.  But others did.  And you know, it&#8217;s a legitimate point to say that maybe protectees would be a little more cautious about having agents near them if they think they&#8217;re going to reveal what they&#8217;re doing in their private lives.  But the other side is &#8212; A, we should know about the character of our leaders and prospective leaders; and B, if they&#8217;re engaging in something, some kind of subterfuge which they could be blackmailed for, they shouldn&#8217;t be running for office in the first place.</p>
<p>And in fact, when you&#8217;re talking about having sex, the agents are not there anyway.  For example, with Monica Lewinsky, she was in the Oval Office with Bill Clinton; the agents never saw what was actually happening.  So that&#8217;s my, you could call it, excuse for revealing these secrets.</p>
<p>And of course, the other side of exposing the shortcomings, the corner-cutting, is that they could change these practices overnight.  It&#8217;s not like when the AP revealed that the CIA had a source in Yemen who was telling them about prospective plots to blow up airplanes.  In that case, there was not news.  The CIA was doing its job.  There was no abuse.  There was no failure.  Just the opposite &#8212; it was a success.  And by compromising that source, we lost potential lives.  Because that source could no longer report on what was happening.  I thought that was outrageous.</p>
<p>But in the case of the Secret Service, they could change these practices overnight, they could stop the corner-cutting.  They could ask for more money, which I think is necessary.  Their budget is only $1.6 billion a year, which is the price of one stealth bomber.  And yet, they not only protect the President and others, the Vice President; but they also do counterfeit investigations and other financial investigations.</p>
<p>So there was an expose in the classic sense, where you hope for reform.  And I think it is contributing to the understanding of what&#8217;s wrong with the Secret Service.  It&#8217;s not just some error here and there; it&#8217;s a culture that has to be changed.  And I think the only way to do that is to bring in a director who was from the outside, such as a former high-ranking FBI official, who will shake things up, who will not be beholden to interests within the agency, who will understand that &#8212; yes, you have to polygraph agents, which is what the FBI does.  And that&#8217;s my purpose in writing these books.</p>
<p>Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Oh, hello?  Over here.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Oh, sorry.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> That&#8217;s okay.</p>
<p>You talked about the Energizer for Bill. But what about Hillary?  What&#8217;s she up to?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Well, maybe she&#8217;s so nasty because she&#8217;s not up to anything, you know.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>She is not up to anything.  You know, there are rumors about her being a lesbian, and agents say that&#8217;s not true.  But I have a whole chapter in the book about Hillary&#8217;s nastiness.  It&#8217;s just unbelievable, including her chief of staff, who&#8217;s been in the news because her husband was &#8212; is Anthony Weiner.  Just as nasty, you know.  Do you know who I am, she would say to an agent when she doesn&#8217;t have proper ID.  Just high-handed arrogance.  Nasty, nasty people.  It&#8217;s unbelievable.</p>
<p>And you know, you wonder &#8212; there are so many millions of people in this country who have qualifications that are similar, who are lawyers, who are not people who are nasty to people, and who understand that companies actually do create jobs.  And she said companies don&#8217;t create jobs.  You understand that you should not respect your enemies.  She said we should respect our enemies.  What kind of a &#8212; who would vote for anybody like that, even for dogcatcher?</p>
<p>You know, that&#8217;s how broken our politics is.</p>
<p>Yes?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Well, I have a question, just quickly &#8212; it sort of goes to Georgette&#8217;s question &#8212; and then my real question.  But does Hillary know about the Energizer?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Well, she does now.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>But, you know, agents feel that they have a political partnership, and it&#8217;s not a real marriage.  And that&#8217;s why they&#8217;re staying together.  That&#8217;s why she stays with Bill.  You know, she&#8217;s power-hungry.  That&#8217;s what she wants.  And she&#8217;ll overlook all of this in order to achieve power.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Okay.  My initial question is &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Your real question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> &#8212; it became apparent after 9/11 that there wasn&#8217;t a lot of cooperation between the FBI and the CIA.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Right.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> There was a lot of rivalry and competition.  So I&#8217;m wondering, has that changed?  What is the state at the relations between these two agencies?</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> That has totally changed.  And now, if you don&#8217;t cooperate, you&#8217;re in trouble.  Whereas before, it was the other way around.  Part of the problem was there was the so-called wall that said that you can&#8217;t &#8212; CIA can&#8217;t talk to the FBI and vice-versa, which is just something that a bureaucrat under Janet Reno came up with.  It was not based on any legal precedence whatsoever.  Previous cases had gone down to appeals without any problem.  But he just decided to write this, and then they all accepted it.  And so they stopped talking to each other, it was unbelievable.</p>
<p>But now, Bush established the Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia, where CIA and FBI sit side-by-side, 24 hours a day, analyzing information.  So they&#8217;re talking to each other all day long now.  And there is very good cooperation.  And that&#8217;s one reason we have not had another attack.</p>
<p>Every few months, you see in the papers arrests by the FBI of terrorists.  And that&#8217;s the bottom line.  That&#8217;s why &#8212; that&#8217;s the result of this cooperation and the result of the FBI&#8217;s efforts and CIA&#8217;s efforts.  And yet, all we hear in the press is demonizing these people, who are working to protect us, who are not paid a whole lot compared with what they could get in the private sector.  And it&#8217;s just outrageous, in my opinion.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> I would like your comments, please, on the First Ladies, the last several First Ladies, of what the agents think about them; as well as their spouses.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Right.  Well, the first First Lady that comes to mind is Pat Nixon.  She had a big alcohol problem.  It got worse when they left the White House.  One time, at San Clemente, an agent heard rustling in the bushes at night.  He cocked his shotgun.  And it turned out it was Pat Nixon, totally drunk, crawling on the ground, trying to find her house.</p>
<p>And she and Nixon never talked.  They would play golf together, but they wouldn&#8217;t say a word throughout the whole golf game.</p>
<p>Nixon was a very strange guy, as you might&#8217;ve surmised.  One day, he was watching TV at San Clemente.  An agent was watching through a window at the home.  And Nixon was feeding his dog dog biscuits.  And then he took one of the biscuits and put it in his mouth and ate it.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Oh, my God.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Another time &#8212; you know, he loved to have fireplaces going all through the summer.  And at one time, he forgot to open the damper.  And so the whole house filled with black smoke.  And there was something about &#8212; let&#8217;s see, how&#8217;s this go?  One of the agents said &#8212; where is the son of a bitch, referring to Nixon?  Didn&#8217;t know where Nixon had gone.  And Nixon overheard this, you know.  And Nixon said &#8212; son of a bitch is over here.</p>
<p>So, Nixon did have a sense of humor.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>Betty Ford also had, as you know, both a drug and a drinking problem.  Sometimes she would be so inebriated when she was in the White House, they&#8217;d have to actually hold her as she went out of Air Force One.  Ford seemed to be oblivious to all this.</p>
<p>But to her credit, when she left the White House, she not only went to a rehab center, but she established the Betty Ford Clinic.  And agents admire that.  She&#8217;s spent a tremendous amount of time establishing that to help other people.  So unlike Pat, who never helped anybody with this problem, Betty Ford did.</p>
<p>Ford, of course, had this reputation of being clumsy.  The press beat up on him all the time.  And that was another myth.  He was a former high school football player.  He was a remarkable skier.  The Secret Service would assign their best skiers to go skiing with him in Colorado.  One of the agents would ski backwards to sort of taunt him.</p>
<p>But on the other hand, Ford &#8212; especially after he left the White House &#8212; turned out to be incredibly cheap.  He would tip caddies in California a dollar or two dollars.  He would have bellhops with carts full of luggage for both of them at the Plaza New York, and he would tip a dollar.  He would try to get gifts.  He would try to, you know, take golf sets from people in Japan who invited him for talks.  So that was the other side of Gerald Ford.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s see, who else?  Well, Ronald Reagan and Nancy.  Ronald Reagan was just as genuine as he appeared to be on TV, just as gracious.  He would &#8212; whenever he went into Air Force One, he would greet the pilots and the copilots in the cockpit.  Jimmy Carter did that only once during his whole four-year term.</p>
<p>One day, Reagan was coming down &#8212; about to go into the elevator in the residence in the White House.  And an aide came up and told him about the Donna Rice affair with Gary Hart, and it was going to be in the paper the next day.  And Reagan said &#8212; well, boys will be boys.  And then he went up in the elevator with this agent.  And then he said to the agent &#8212; but boys will not be President.</p>
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<p>Nancy could be cold and difficult.  Of course, she was very loyal to her husband.  She seemed to not like it when he would schmooze with agents.  And she would give him instructions &#8212; you know, you wear your gloves, you wear your hat.  And sometimes he would agree, and sometimes they would get in a fight over it.</p>
<p>And one time actually, at the ranch, they were about to go horseback riding, which Reagan loved to do, and she didn&#8217;t like it so much.  She liked to be with her friends in Beverly Hills.  And he would ring a bell for her to come out to go horseback riding.  She wasn&#8217;t coming out.  So he went inside.  And next thing agents knew was that the telephone reception at the house, at the ranch, had stopped.  And it turned out that Reagan had seen her talking to one of her friends in Beverly Hills on the phone, and just got enraged, and took the phone and threw it on the floor.  And so, that was the end of the telephone connection.</p>
<p>So, Reagan was human, like all of us.  I interviewed agents who were with him after he left office.  He would make it a point of going out to schmooze with them.  And then, of course, when he got Alzheimer&#8217;s, they started to notice the difference.  But that was only after he left office, not when he was in the White House.  He remembered the names of every agent and was, you know, the genuine article.  And I think that is reflected in the success of his presidency.  Because people do sense &#8212; you know, I think, even with Hillary, even without knowing what goes on behind the scenes &#8212; people do sense that she&#8217;s not a very nice person.</p>
<p>Any other First Ladies that you wanted to ask about?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> The Bushes.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Ah.  Well, Laura was just beloved by agents.  She would make it a point of going back to the ranch the day after Christmas Day, so that the agents could be with their families, and would ask about their families.  George Bush, very similar.</p>
<p>Of course, he loved to go running, and the agents would have to assign their fastest runners.  When his father, George H.W. Bush, was Vice President, he was in the Vice President&#8217;s residence at the Naval Observatory.  And during the day, the naval stewards, as I said, would make pastries and cookies.  And then they would hide them, because the agents would come out in the middle of the night and steal some of them.</p>
<p>So one morning, at 3:00 a.m., one of the agents was looking for the cookies in the kitchen.  And he heard this voice behind him &#8212; where are the cookies?  And he turned around, it was George Bush.  And so, together they went looking for the cookies.</p>
<p>(Laughter)</p>
<p>They had them together with milk.</p>
<p>And Barbara Bush &#8212; same.  Very decent.  She would even offer to do the laundry of agents when they were up at Kennebunkport.  She would make sure that agents wore hats.  If they didn&#8217;t have a hat, she would insist that her husband go and get his hat and give the hat to the agent.  Just very, very decent, admirable people.  And we need more of those in the White House.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Speaker:</strong> Think we have time for one last question.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong> Hi.  I just would like to have your comments on what appears to me to be an increasingly governmentalized media, especially television, and how it seems to resemble Pravda more than the media I was used to.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Yeah.  You know, I&#8217;m just as perplexed as you are.  I can&#8217;t understand it.  It&#8217;s just a trend.  You could say it&#8217;s because of more pressure because of the Internet.  But that doesn&#8217;t excuse anything.</p>
<p>And I think the Washington Post, as Michael mentioned, has been doing a very fair job lately.  It&#8217;s really turned around.  And I think ultimately, that&#8217;s going to help its circulation and its pickup on the web.  Because people do want to be able to trust the information that they get.  New York Times, not so much.  Quite the opposite.</p>
<p>But you know, it perplexes me.  Why would Rolling Stone, for example, run the story without talking to the so-called assailants of this woman who claimed she was raped?  How could anybody in his right mind not do that?  You know, it&#8217;s beyond me.  Maybe they&#8217;re on marijuana, I don&#8217;t know.</p>
<p><strong>Unidentified Speaker:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Ronald Kessler:</strong> Thank you.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Gov. Rick Perry’s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p>David, as we gather here for this 20th anniversary celebration of the Freedom Center, it was similar circumstances that this country found itself in when you had the first Restoration weekend in 1994. Two decades ago Republicans had swept into power in both of the Houses, a revolution that changed the balance of power for the first time, Cleta, in 40 years. Twenty years later, Republicans again have won historic victories in the midterm elections and once again we are controlling both houses of Congress. In addition to picking up eight seats in the U.S. Senate, we picked up at least a dozen House seats, three governorships, several state legislative chambers. Today, Republicans control 68 of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers. That is the most in the history of our party. And we stunned the pollsters. It was a beautiful thing. We stunned the pollsters even more than we stunned President Barack Obama, who apparently doesn&#8217;t realize that November 4 even happened. He&#8217;s too busy representing those who didn&#8217;t vote to listen to those who did vote. But even if he didn&#8217;t hear the message, the American people delivered one. They said enough of the slow growth tax policies, enough of the smothering debt, they said enough to this colossal bureaucracy that we&#8217;ve seen, and these agencies of government that all too often are unaccountable to the people. They rebelled against government-run healthcare schemes, against a President who refuses to secure the border, and against bureaucracies that are broken, arrogant and abusive of power. That&#8217;s what the American people said Tuesday. The American people made it clear. They want a clean break from the economic policies that have slowed our recovery at home, and the foreign policies that Jim did an incredible job of laying out that have weakened our standing abroad.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m here to say that a congressional majority is a terrible thing to waste. The power that has been newly granted by the people must be used wisely to serve the people, that it&#8217;s not good enough to state what we are against. We must articulate what we are for. The election results leave us with a truly once in a generation opportunity to usher in an era of renewal and reform. You are here tonight through your commitment to the Freedom Center, and you&#8217;re going to be on the front lines of this battle. One of the ideas that has returned to the fore of the conversation, to the forefront of people&#8217;s minds, if you will, is the proper place of states within our constitutional system. Indeed, we have spent the last six years challenging edicts out of Washington that amount to federal control of our classrooms, our healthcare, and our environment and our economy. Washington&#8217;s assault on state sovereignty and individual freedom is a well-documented assault on the Constitution and, in particular, the Tenth Amendment. Some have ridiculed the binding power of the Tenth Amendment, but, of course, Jay, without that amendment, the Bill of Rights would have been incomplete, and the Constitution would never have been ratified. The question is whether Republicans in Washington, now in control, will pursue Washington-centric solutions to the problems that plague us, or will they look to and empower the states.</p>
<p>It was the liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who called the states laboratories of democracy which &#8220;tried novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.&#8221; Yet Brandeis&#8217;s political descendants have forgotten that lesson. In fact, they flipped it around trying these grand experiments in federal power, ostensibly for the common good. I like that Tocqueville observed that in the American system the actions of the federal government would be rare, but the reality is the federal government is involved in all kinds of things the Constitution doesn&#8217;t empower it to do, while ignoring basic responsibilities like securing our border. And it&#8217;s the states that are pushing back against federal overreach and the courts are starting to take notice.</p>
<p>In the infamous Obamacare case of 2012, Chief Justice Roberts upheld the law, but the Supreme Court also struck down the mandatory Medicaid expansion as a violation of the Tenth Amendment. Now a new Obamacare case is about to be heard. It uses the letter of the law to challenge the federal government&#8217;s use of subsidies on many of these healthcare insurance exchanges. Now we know that the federal government overstepped its powers. We know that, partly because we know there is now a new smoking gun: One Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of Obamacare. In less than a week&#8217;s period of time the Washington sin of prevarication has come to be known as &#8220;Gruber-ing.&#8221; He said repeatedly, I think, what is there now, six videos that we have, that the federal government had to lie to the voters because we are too stupid to know what&#8217;s good for us. That shows exactly why the states are so important to defending individual freedom; because the states have stood up to the abuses of federal power in Obamacare. The law, as a matter of fact, it may collapse upon its own weight.</p>
<p>So if the states are these laboratories of democracy, I would suggest to you that Texas has found the formula for success. You know, it&#8217;s interesting, some people call it the Texas miracle, and I tell them, I said it&#8217;s not a miracle. I can&#8217;t explain a miracle. This I can explain. This is really pretty simple. This is not rocket science. You don&#8217;t spend all the money. Keep the taxes low, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, a legal system that doesn&#8217;t allow for over-suing, and accountable public schools so you&#8217;ve got a skilled workforce. This will work. It&#8217;ll work anywhere. Jay, it&#8217;ll even work in California, I swear to God, I&#8217;m telling you it will. And the results have been rather stunning. When you look at job creation, one-third, one-third of all the jobs created in the United States in the last 13 plus years have been in the Lone Star State. Over the last ten years, we have created four times more jobs than the state of New York, we have created nine times more jobs than the state of California. And some would say well it&#8217;s because you have all of that energy, and I will suggest to you we are glad we have that energy. America is glad we have that energy. But it&#8217;s not singularly the energy boom, that&#8217;s only part of the reason for our success. We&#8217;ve added jobs across the spectrum – 228,000 workers in education and healthcare, 156,000 in professional services, 162,000 in hospitality services, 130,000 in trade and transportation, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. I am particularly proud of the fact that as of January of this year, Texas became the number one high-tech exporting state in the nation, passing up California and the famed Silicon Valley. And we&#8217;ve been continuing to reach out to give California companies the opportunity to relocate to the great state of Texas, companies like Toyota, who moved their North American headquarters to Plano this last year, companies like Space-X, and we&#8217;re going to keep doing it.</p>
<p>And my point is, I want the Golden State to succeed. We need California to be a powerful, successful country. That was a Freudian slip. We would really like to bring them into the United States and be a part of this country. You know, for ten consecutive years now, Chief Executive Officer magazine has chosen Texas as the number one state to do business, and, thanks to the governor of this state, Rick Scott, they are doing a good job to push us. Rick Scott is an extraordinary governor, and Floridians were really wise to put this man back into office again because he really understands what the future of our nation, the future of this state is all about, and the focus on creating that environment, where the citizens of this state will be free.</p>
<p>Freedom is what this is all about. It is in the pursuit of freedom, and, on average, there is a thousand people every day moving to the state of Texas because they are in pursuit of freedom. Freedom from over-taxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation. That is what needs to be the powerful Republican message as we go forward inside the boundaries of this country. And here are some of the results of those policies. Our crime rate is now the lowest that it&#8217;s been since 1968. We&#8217;re shutting prisons down in the state of Texas, not building them.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the result of good, thoughtful public policy? There are those that would stand up and say you cannot have a growing economy and take care of your environment. That is an absolute false lie. Nitrogen oxide levels are down 63 percent in the state of Texas in the last decade, ozone levels are down by 23 percent during that same period of time, our carbon footprint which, by the way, is not a pollutant, but is down by 11 percent during that period of time because we understand that, even if it is, we want to make sure that we&#8217;re doing everything that we can to make that environment as pleasing as it can be for the future generations, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done in the state of Texas. Part of that&#8217;s been because of policies that we&#8217;ve put into place to move old polluting types of engines, diesel engines, out of the fleets. Part of it&#8217;s been moving to that natural gas. That&#8217;s what can happen all across this country. This isn&#8217;t a miracle. It&#8217;s a model and it&#8217;s a model that will work anywhere. We are an increasingly diverse state. We got a little of something for everybody. We have Austin, Texas. As I told you, we are a diverse state. I refer to it as the blueberry in the tomato soup. And, David, I encourage you to visit from time to time. You can talk philosophy and tenure to the professors at the University of Texas. They would love to have you.</p>
<p>But, in all seriousness, can we do more? Yes. Should we try to do more? Absolutely. But what Texas shows is that with a rapidly growing economy all else becomes possible. Clearly Texas is a model that works, but we&#8217;re not alone. America has just experienced a great test of governing principles. In the days leading up to the 2014 mid-term elections, we were told that Republican governors were in trouble. You read it everywhere. You saw it on multiple outlets. Scott Walker&#8217;s public union reforms in Wisconsin, Sam Brownback&#8217;s tax-cutting in Kansas, Rick Scott&#8217;s pro-growth policies in Florida, all were going to be punished by the voters. For example, the campaign for America&#8217;s future said that seven Republican governors were now &#8220;being judged harshly by voters now that their right-wing policies had failed to deliver.&#8221; It went on to say that these states were laboratories for the kind of small government trickle-down economics that Senate candidates hoped to bring to Washington, impose on the nation, and there is a real danger that the failed experiments in these seven states will be brought to Washington by a Senate Republican majority. But the experiment wasn&#8217;t quite over, and the voters decided in a very powerful conclusion on November 4. Not only did six of those seven governors win re-election, but Republicans picked up governorships in solid states for Democrats like Massachusetts, Illinois, and even Maryland. And there were a lot of people, a lot of people that were responsible for those Republican victories including a number of you, if not all of you, in this audience tonight. Yet in the end it was the people who decided. They told fellow Americans that the experiment and conservative governance is a resounding success and they want more of it.</p>
<p>There were a few places that bucked the trend though. Jay, your California being one of them. See, I tell people, I say California, for example, is as liberal as Texas is conservative. But that is not an argument against federalism. In fact, California is an example of how the state&#8217;s Tenth Amendment powers work for liberals too. You think about this. California has some policies that no other state in the union have tried, and in most other states, don&#8217;t want to try. Take cap and trade, for instance. I mean, not even Barack Obama, in those heady early days of his first administration, could pass cap and trade, but California has it. And it&#8217;s making new companies like Tesla a lot of money, even as it is at the same time forcing a lot of companies out of that state.</p>
<p>Nearly 20 years ago, California also became the first state in the nation to legalize medical marijuana. In 2012, Washington and Colorado legalized marijuana entirely. This year Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia followed suit. The governor of Colorado said that he regrets it. Most conservatives oppose it. The federal government&#8217;s still fighting it, and the United Nations said this week that legalizing marijuana violates international law. But that is the beauty of the Tenth Amendment. I&#8217;m telling you, that is the beauty of federalism. If states can make their own decisions on matters of general policy, then we can have the kind of political diversity among the states that gives meaning to the pursuit of happiness. People can vote with their feet, they can vote with their pocketbooks, they can invest their dollars where they want, and that gives states an incentive to attract them, and to innovate. The reason welfare reform became so popular nationwide was because it succeeded in Wisconsin. The reason state provided healthcare is unpopular nationwide is they proved that it was costly in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Some states want to cling to policies for various reasons. California is addicted to spending. Therefore, it&#8217;s addicted to debt and taxes. So, there&#8217;s a result. It&#8217;s losing people, and entrepreneurs, and homeowners, and that is another benefit of federalism. You can do what you want in your state. But you are forced at some point to pay the costs.</p>
<p>So, how do we ensure that the states protect and, I might say, regain their Tenth Amendment rights? One way is by continuing to fight the encroachments of the federal government. Whether bad laws like Obamacare, bad spending like the stimulus of 2009, or bad faith in immigration policy, but beyond that we can take political action. We can show the American people concrete results, how states work better, how states compete against each other, and, I might add, better than the federal government could do. And that&#8217;s exactly how Governor-elect Larry Hogan over in Maryland, that was the point that he made. He laid out the data. He showed people in that state how many people had left the state, how many billions of dollars it was costing the state because of the bad policies. If we show people the difference between conservative policies and liberal policies, I happen to think they&#8217;re going to demand conservative policies almost every time just as they did last Tuesday. And when people understand, when people understand that they have the power to choose these policies, they&#8217;ll resist. They&#8217;ll resist any attempt by the federal government to take that power away. There is a reason that people and states are included together in that Tenth Amendment. Individual liberty has shone brightest when it&#8217;s been protected from big government. Only successful states are strong enough to protect our freedom from those in Washington who think they know better. States are the essence of our national motto e pluribus unum, from many one. That is the common creed of the David Horowitz Freedom Center that defends it every day. They defend it now and I will suggest to you they will defend it 20 years from now. And that is what each of us must fight for every day.</p>
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<p><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption">This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by <strong>Michael Finch</strong>, the president of the David Horowitz Freedom Center. He was joined by <b>Morgan Brittany</b>, Conservative TV and Movie Star, <b>Nonie Darwish,</b> author of “The Devil We Don’t Know” and <b>Mell Flynn,</b> the president of Hollywood Congress of Republicans.</span></span><span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"></span></p>
<p>The <em>Gang</em> gathered to discuss <strong>Obama&#8217;s Revolution in America</strong>, analyzing how the Radical-in-Chief is tearing the foundations of the country down from every angle (<strong>starts at the 9:30 mark</strong>). The episode also focused on <span id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" tabindex="0" data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}"><span class="hasCaption"><em>Feinstein&#8217;s Destructive Torture Charade</em>, </span></span><em>Ferguson and an Arsonist-in-Chief</em>, and much, much more:</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2014 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Mark Durie explains why ISIS's new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by <a href="http://www.markdurie.com/"><b>Dr. Mark Durie</b></a>, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking, </strong>explaining why ISIS&#8217;s new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Edward L. Dalcour unveils the nightmare spawned by Islamic "theocracy."]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> and joined by author and lecturer <strong>Dr. Edward L. Dalcour.</strong></p>
<p>Dr. Dalcour came on the show to discuss <strong>Sharia Law: Draconian Legal System</strong>, unveiling the nightmare spawned by Islamic &#8220;theocracy.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss this week&#8217;s second episode in which guest-host <strong>Louis Lionheart</strong> interviews <a href="http://www.markdurie.com/"><b>Dr. Mark Durie</b></a>, a theologian, human rights activist, pastor of an Anglican church, and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.</p>
<p>Dr. Durie came on the show to discuss <strong>Islamic Human Sex-Trafficking, </strong>explaining why ISIS&#8217;s new sex-slave pamphlet references Islamic texts.</p>
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		<title>Robert Spencer Announces Candidacy for President</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Robert Spencer’s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Robert Spencer: </strong>This a momentous occasion actually, because I&#8217;ve decided to take this opportunity as I stand before so many patriots and lovers of freedom to announce my candidacy for the Presidency of the United States. Now, you might think this is a joke and of course it is. I have no political experience, I&#8217;ve never held elected office, never even run for office. I have no organization, no staff and no money. I am not now and have never been a member of the Washington establishment. In other words, I&#8217;m just the man for the job.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a serious point that I&#8217;m making here. The point is that the problem is not Barack Obama. The problem is not the Democrats. Barack Obama and the Democrats are just symptoms of the problem. The problem is an entrenched Washington establishment that keeps failing again and again and yet it keeps on applying the same failed solutions to problems. Presidents come and presidents go, but this establishment is forever and no matter how many times its remedies fail, it keeps on applying them without an ounce of self-reflection.</p>
<p>What we need is a massive housecleaning. What we need is a genuine outsider elected with a mandate to do this housecleaning, to really open up the windows in the State Department and let in the sunlight and clear out all these failed ideas that are doing nothing less than leading this nation into disaster.</p>
<p>The entrenched establishment is operating, of course in all areas but I&#8217;m going to concentrate on foreign policy because if we don&#8217;t stop making some of the major foreign policy mistakes that we are making, then we won&#8217;t have to worry about domestic policy before too long.</p>
<p>Chief among these is the millions that we are showering upon the Palestinians and the so-called peace process. Obama of course blames Israel for failing to make peace and blames the failure of peace talks on the so-called settlements in the West Bank and gives the impression that he believes or wants us to believe that if this settlement construction is stopped then peace will ensue and everything will be okay.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s just one word to show that that is obviously howlingly false and that one word is Gaza. We heard this song before. In 2005, we were told that the occupation was the problem and if Israel withdrew from Gaza the Gazans would pursue peace. Mortimer Zuckerman spent $14,000,000 to buy the greenhouses that the Israelis had constructed in Gaza in order to give them to the Palestinians so they would have gainful employ. The Palestinians gratefully received the greenhouses and immediately gutted them and converted them into weapon smuggling tunnels between Sinai and Gaza to get weapons to Hamas.</p>
<p>Obama and John Kerry want us to withdraw, want Israel to withdraw from Judea and Samaria, that is the West Bank, and they say the same things that we heard about Gaza. This will bring peace. This time, this withdrawal from this occupation, this is the one that&#8217;s going to do it and everything that will happen after that will be the result of the good benefits that come from this occupation. In other words, it will take the wind out of the Jihadi sails all together.</p>
<p>We saw that this didn&#8217;t work and yet keep trying it again. Why would the establishment of a Palestinian state now after the Muslims rejected it in 1948, rejected it in 2000, rejected many other times, why is it going to bring peace now? How could it when the goal of Israel&#8217;s total destruction which Hamas has repeatedly and recently reiterated still remains? Why would another Israeli withdrawal accomplish what the others never have?</p>
<p>And of course, Israel is not the only victim of our fantasy-based policy making. Another one is us, the American taxpayer. Another false assumption that is the basis of policy after policy is that poverty causes terrorism. Late in 2013 the U.S. and Turkey announced what they call the global fund for community engagement and resilience and John Kerry said that this will provide more economic opportunities for marginalized youth at risk of recruitment into Jihad groups.</p>
<p>Now look, we just saw on the news this morning another beheading of the U.S. hostage, Peter Kassig, Abdul-Rahman Kassig, whose conversion to Islam did not save him because he was still considered as a military veteran to be an American Crusader. The people who beheaded him, the people who were standing there in that video and issuing warnings to the United States and the free world, they were considering themselves to be the warriors of the law. They were considering that they were at the vanguard of a global revolution that will bring the law of God to the world and defeat the enemy infidel powers. Do you really think that if we gave them an opportunity to say, “Welcome to McDonald&#8217;s, may I take your order please,” that they would give it all up? That they would turn away from what they think is a glorious struggle in which they are the soldiers of God for a job at Walmart? It&#8217;s not going to happen. This is just going to be more hundreds of millions of dollars down the drain.</p>
<p>Not only that, but study after study has shown that terrorists are actually better educated and wealthier than their peers. Just yesterday the news came that another doctor from the UK fled the country and has joined the Taliban. He&#8217;s a doctor. He was well off, even with the socialized healthcare system in Britain. But nonetheless he went to Jihad.</p>
<p>Beyond the waste of money, our foreign policy is characterized these days by an appalling incoherence. Take Obama on Syria. The president of course has long wanted to take out Bashar Assad, but he&#8217;s been stymied by the fact that the only significant opposition to the Assad regime are, of course, Islamic Jihadis. The so-called vetted moderates. Some of the vetted moderates last year ransacked churches and drove Christians out of their homes in three Syrian towns. But now Obama is actually pursuing the strategy of removing Assad because he thinks that Assad is causing the Jihadi recruitment. So if we take out Assad then the Islamic State will melt away. We won&#8217;t even have to fight it. The raison d&#8217;être for the terrorists will be gone. Now he actually thinks this despite the fact that the Islamic State has made it clear that they don&#8217;t intend to stop with toppling Assad but they want to control not only all of Syria, but all of Iraq as well as Kuwait, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan and continue on after that. And so, the main problem with this idea is this. If he removes Assad he creates a power vacuum. What is the force that is the only one in position to take advantage of that power vacuum? The Islamic State. And so what he&#8217;s saying is in order to defeat the Islamic State we have to give the Islamic State what it wants and let it win. This is insane. And this is the policy of the United States government.</p>
<p>Now, this is all part of the idea that if we bring democracy to the Middle East, then peace will once again ensue, and so the United States decided to pursue a policy of toppling the dictators that we had previously supported in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein of course was first to go, and then Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt, Gaddafi in Libya. Of course, he was never a friend of the United States, but the idea was the same. That if these people were gone and the people in those countries had self-determination, then they would establish Western-style secular republics and once again there would be peace. Instead, of course there&#8217;s been chaos. The people that Barack Obama turned out to be supporting in Egypt and Libya were Muslim Brotherhood. They are in Syria as well. They did not want to establish western style secular republics but Sharia regimes. They did do so in Egypt for a year and they so alienated their own people that 30 million took to the streets and toppled them at that point. And yet, this policy is still in place and we are still pursuing it.</p>
<p>So, when I get to the Oval Office on January 20, 2017, and I promise never to put my feet on the desk, I will begin to sweep away all this and implement new policies.</p>
<p>First of all, no more aid, no more U.S. aid, not a penny to countries that engage in Sharia oppression. Just recently a Muslim mob murdered a Christian couple accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. And a Pakistani Christian leader called on Obama to make U.S.A. to Pakistan contingent upon the repeal of Pakistan&#8217;s blasphemy laws by which so many innocent people have been victimized, brutalized, murdered. Of course Obama ignored it but he should not have ignored it. He should have implemented it immediately and gone farther than that. There should be no more aid to any country or group that allows for or advocates the Sharia oppression of women and non-Muslims and that curtails the freedom of speech in accord with Islam&#8217;s prohibition on criticism of Islam.</p>
<p>And as for the Palestinians, they should get nothing at all, nothing, until they stop the genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV, teach their children that Israel must exist, that they have a right to that land, that it&#8217;s their land and that they must live peacefully with the Israelis. There is appalling genocidal incitement on Palestinian TV on a regular basis and it&#8217;s funded by us. This has to stop.</p>
<p>My second executive order will be to require that government intelligence and law enforcement agencies speak honestly and tell the truth about the threat we face. Of course, we know, as Geert Wilders reminded us yesterday, that immediately after a Jihad plot or a Jihad attack these days, Barrack Obama, John Kerry, David Cameron in the UK, a host of other leaders rush to the airwaves to tell us this has nothing to do with Islam. Well, they have nothing to do with rationality and common sense. And the problem is that this fantasy kills people. In Fort Hood the superiors of Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the Ford Hood Jihad murderer. They knew that he was in touch with Anwar al-Awlaki, the Jihad leader in Yemen. They knew that he himself was preaching Jihad and frightening his coworkers by preaching it. What did they do? Did they reprimand him? Did they fire him? Did they demote him? Did they prosecute him? No, they promoted him and praised him and said U.S. troops can learn a lot from him about Islam. And you know what? They did. But the lesson has still not been learned and the unreality still prevails.</p>
<p>Also, the Boston Marathon. The FBI disregarded, as Michele Bachmann told us yesterday, disregarded intelligence it received from the Russians about the bombers. The Russians said they were Jihadis. Right around this time, the FBI on orders from the Obama administration was removing all mention of Islam and Jihad from counter-terror training materials and had fired people who trained FBI members, including me, about the motives and goals of the Jihadis. And so they were being taught that Jihad is a benign spiritual struggle that ought to be encouraged. The Russians said this guy, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is a Jihadi and they probably thought, oh how nice, and didn&#8217;t do a thing. And so more people were killed and some people were maimed for life and it is the result of this unreality.</p>
<p>We also have to end the exaggerated deference being paid toward mosques and the fact that the Islamic Society of Boston, which was not only where the Tsarnaev brothers went, but where you saw the Jihad video yesterday that Michele had, and that video was produced by a member of the Islamic society of Boston. Aafia Siddiqui went there. She&#8217;s serving 86 years for plotting to murder American soldiers in the name of Islam and Jihad. Tarek Mehanna went there. He&#8217;s doing 17 years for aiding al Qaeda, and the mosque itself was founded by Abdurrahman Alamoudi who is now in prison for funding al Qaeda. And yet the only time the FBI had been there was for outreach. Outreach. In other words, reassuring Muslims that the U.S. government is not Islamophobic. People are dying because of these things.</p>
<p>I will likewise as president call upon Muslim groups to renounce the aspects of Sharia that contradict constitutional freedoms. The U.S. government should call upon advocacy groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations to renounce in a sincere and genuine manner any intention at any point in the future to replace the U.S. Constitution with Sharia. And to implement in American mosques and Islamic schools, in a transparent and open way that is easily able to be inspected, programs to teach against this understanding of Islam that these groups ostensibly reject but have done nothing to counter. Did you know that the United Arab Emirates is more realistic about this threat right now than the United States? The UAE is cracking down on Muslim Brotherhood groups, and yesterday it listed as terrorist organizations a number of Brotherhood-linked groups around the world, including the Council on American Islamic Relations. Meanwhile, CAIR is meeting with FBI agents and with administration officials and is the go-to group for the mainstream media about Islamic issues. The UAE knows better.</p>
<p>Coming to an abrupt end on January 20, 2017 will also be all U.S. government cooperation with such groups and with any groups linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. As Wilders said yesterday, we also have to end immigration from Muslim countries into the United States. This is a simple matter of national security. It will of course be condemned as racism, but the harsh reality is that you cannot tell peaceful Muslims from Jihadis in any discernible manner. And so it is simply ridiculous and suicidal to continue to import whole communities of Muslims from hot Jihad areas like Somalia and Syria and Pakistan into the United States and drop them down into American communities. The strife has already begun in those communities and it&#8217;s going to get worse.</p>
<p>We need to reconfigure our internal alliances, which are based on old and outmoded cold war models. I mean, for example, we&#8217;re depending on Turkey to do so much to aid in the fight against the Islamic State, and yet the Turkish government has actually refused when John Kerry asked them to stop the oil sales by the Islamic State, which is financing their Jihad, the Turks said no. And the Turks are allowing ready passage of Jihadis through Turkey into the Islamic State and from the Islamic State through Turkey into Europe. And ultimately, no doubt into the United States.<br />
And finally, we must begin a Manhattan Project to find new sources of oil and viable and new energy sources so that we end our foreign policy dependence upon states that aid and support Jihad. And of course, this means all of the options that are available. Offshore drilling, pipelines from Alaska and Canada, fracking, concerted research to find alternatives to petroleum. This should have been done on September 12, 2001, and every day we don&#8217;t do it is another day we lose that we could have started to turn this thing around.</p>
<p>And for the truth to prevail, there&#8217;s one more thing above all that we have to fight against. It&#8217;s a stronger enemy than the Islamic Jihadis, and stronger than Russia and China. And that is, of course, the entrenched culture that comes from the left, the culture of self-hatred that denigrates everything American and exalts the most inveterate America haters as heroic and underdogs striving valiantly against brutal behemoths like Israel. That entrenched culture is the foremost obstacle to our defense against Jihad terror, and it&#8217;s a never-ending tale of obfuscation about a genuine threat and slander of those who call attention to it. And we need to call upon the educational establishment to reject the revisionism and self-hatred that dominates textbooks today and more and more comes out every day about this. And to teach that Western civilization and culture are seriously threatened and worth defending. Islamic Jihadis are counting upon and calculatingly employing the rhetoric of inclusion and multiculturalism to gain for themselves <span style="color: #404040;">entrée</span> into highest levels of influence in the United States government, in the media, as well as the final edit of discussion on these issues in American textbooks. We have to demand a stop to this, relearn our own history, value it and teach it to our own children, teaching them to revere and not find new ways to deride those who built the political and legal institutions of this country.</p>
<p>Since I&#8217;ll never get a chance actually to deliver an Inaugural Address, I&#8217;ll end with an excerpt from the one I had prepared: We do not seek war with Muslim nations. If war is brought to us however, we will defend our nation, our allies, our freedom and our families. We will not be subjugated. We will never be subjugated. This is a different kind of war from the wars we&#8217;ve fought in the past. It is an ideological war and a war fought by believers in certain ideas rather than by soldiers from particular nations. And so we will, therefore, fight this new kind of war in a new kind of way. No nation of the world will be a friend to the United States if it holds the beliefs that led to the heinous attack on this nation on 9/11 and others after it. I invite and call upon the Muslims of the world to choose a society based on the principles of the freedom of speech and the equality of rights before the law of which the United States has been the foremost exponent. And make no mistake, we will defend those principles and we will prevail. Thank you.</p>
<p>Question over here? Richard?</p>
<p><strong>Questioner: </strong>First of all, I want to let you know that you have five pledged delegates from the new Red State of Illinois.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> The bandwagon is moving!</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Okay. The description before by Mike Finch of what groups are comfortable and where our people might be comfortable, there is a group within the Republican Party that wouldn&#8217;t be comfortable here. That&#8217;s the Grover Norquist wing which accomplished some serious infiltration during the Bush administration and David, really, and his organization, were the first to point that out and make that an issue. I would make a serious suggestion which is you draft what you have, put it in the form of a statement and provide that to all the potential Republican candidates for president and let&#8217;s see who&#8217;s serious about this issue.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you, Richard. You know, that&#8217;s actually the idea of my framing it in this way. I&#8217;m hoping that these things, it seems to me this is just common sense matters of policy that should have been implemented right after 9/11 and I would hope that some candidates will have the courage to take them on. Yes, sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Good morning, Robert.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Good morning, Mr. Cutler.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Thank you so much, sir. I just want your forbearance instead of asking a question, just a fast comment. You were talking about the Tsarnaev brothers. And you know, yesterday I spoke about immigration. What most people don&#8217;t know &#8212; and this is why I&#8217;m so concerned about the single-minded focus on the Southwest border &#8212; the Tsarnaev brothers apparently committed fraud when they applied for political asylum. Yet their sister was first arrested about one month ago for threatening, it seems to be a family pattern, of blowing up her ex-boyfriend. Now, this isn&#8217;t lowhanging fruit. This is fruit in the basket. Why in the world were these folks still out and among us when they could have all been rolled up for having committed apparent fraud.</p>
<p>What I want people to understand is that if we don&#8217;t go after the integrity of the immigration system, not only admitting them, but providing political asylum and other abilities to embed themselves, we&#8217;re in deep trouble.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> So what I suggest is don&#8217;t limit it to the Southwest border, folks. Think of immigration as a system and that&#8217;s where we&#8217;ve got to hammer the politicians. Don&#8217;t let them give you the copout of just looking at the border. They need to address the entire system. And thank you for indulging my comment.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. That&#8217;s extraordinarily important. The refugee resettlement program, which heavily favors Muslim communities and brings, as I said, whole communities and puts them in the middle of American towns and cities. That has nothing to do with the Southern border at all. It&#8217;s a matter of people flying in to the country by the sanction and invitation of the immigration service and the State Department and so on. And this has to be addressed.</p>
<p>Yes sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Ken Abramowitz. Thank you for your comments. You didn&#8217;t mention anything about Iran. Iran has promised to kill everyone in America. Death to America. Death to America. Do you see any non-military solution to the Iranian situation?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> A military solution to the Iranian situation would be very difficult.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Do you see a non-military solution?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Oh, a non-military solution. No. I think that the strategy that the Israelis are apparently pursuing of strange accidents happening to Iranian nuclear scientists and strange technical failures at Iranian nuclear plants is very good and I hope that it continues on a larger scale. Militarily it would be very difficult to go into Iran. It&#8217;s a lot more formidable than Iraq or Syria or Afghanistan. And of course, now, with the impossible rules of engagement that the military is saddled with and the weakness of the military as has been explained here at this point after 13 years of war, it would be very difficult to get involved in Iran at this point. But I do think that there are other ways and ultimately will probably need to bomb some of the nuclear facilities as well.</p>
<p>Yes ma&#8217;am.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> So much of what&#8217;s happening with the Jihadis is related to social media and my question is does anybody have the authority to require this social media to shut down and is that a good idea in your opinion?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Does any &#8212; I didn&#8217;t hear.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Does anybody have the authority to request that the social media shut this down and in your opinion is that a good idea?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s a good idea. I know that they are recruiting in social media and in Facebook and Twitter you can see Islamic State supporters and, of course, I was just this morning working on Jihad Watch and saw the video of the beheading readily there. You Tube took it right down, but it was up at another site and I&#8217;m not sure that this should be stopped. Because I&#8217;m a strong advocate of freedom of speech in general but, this is not really a matter of freedom of speech, it is propaganda from an enemy during wartime. The problem is that I&#8217;m afraid that if you say to Facebook and Twitter that you need to stop the accounts of extremists, that they&#8217;ll stop mine. And those of people like us, rather than those of the Islamic State and other Jihadis. If we had a sane society and a sane group of people at the head of those organizations then it might be different, but not in the present climate.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Does Islam exist without Jihad and Sharia?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Islam does not exist without Jihad and Sharia. There has never been a form of Islam that did not include the teaching that Muslims must fight against non-Muslims and impose Islamic law upon them and Islamic law denies them basic rights. There is no sect, no school of law, no understanding of Islam that has ever been in history that did not teach that. And so the idea that this is a tiny minority of extremists who have twisted and hijacked the teachings of the religion is absolutely false on the face of it.</p>
<p>Yes sir.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> As we have a head of the CIA who is a self-admitted Muslim, do we have a Muslim in the White House?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, you know, the head of the CIA is not actually a self-admitted Muslim. He is apparently a Muslim. John Guandolo, who was an FBI agent for many years, he says that when he was in the Bureau it was an open secret and it was well known that Brennan had converted while he served in Saudi Arabia. But Brennan has never actually publically addressed this either to confirm or deny it. And there was a story in, I believe, the <em>New Yorker</em>, a lengthy story about our counter terror apparatus a few years ago that identified a high level counter terror official as a convert to Islam, and that&#8217;s probably Brennan, but he has not openly admitted this. In any case, is Barack Obama a Muslim? I don&#8217;t know. He doesn&#8217;t answer my emails or return my calls. But I can tell you that, of course, in terms of Islamic law he is a Muslim because his father was a Muslim and his stepfather was a Muslim. He himself says that he got in trouble for making faces during Quran class. In one of his autobiographies he says this. In Quran class. In Indonesia you only went to Quran class if you were a Muslim. The Christians didn&#8217;t go to Quran class. Later on, of course he joined Reverend Wright&#8217;s church and during the 2008 campaign somebody called Reverend Wright&#8217;s church and said I&#8217;m a Muslim but I&#8217;d like to join your church. Is it okay? Can Muslims be members of your church? And they said, oh yes, absolutely.</p>
<p>And so, the thing is, ultimately though we do not know what Barack Obama&#8217;s personal beliefs are and I&#8217;m not sure he has any except for certainly Marxism and socialism. But there&#8217;s no doubt that everything about his foreign policy has been in line with the Muslim Brotherhood agenda, every aspect of it. And you can say, well no, he killed Bin Laden and al-Awlaki. Well sure. The Muslim Brotherhood has a different strategy.   They do not generally pursue violence. They won the election in Egypt and took power. They didn&#8217;t bomb everything in Egypt and take power. It was a difference of strategy however, not of goal. And everything about the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s goal to bring Islamic law to various countries, Barack Obama has aided. So, whether he&#8217;s doing that because he is himself a Muslim or just because he thinks that Islamic law is a good thing for societies and that seems to be clear. I don&#8217;t think it makes really a difference in terms of his policies.</p>
<p>Yes ma&#8217;am.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> When Hillary runs do you think it&#8217;s a good idea that our side would introduce her connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, Huma Abedin, that whole section and would that be a beneficial route to take against her?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, the first way I&#8217;ll answer that is to say that if the Republicans bring up Hillary&#8217;s connections to the Brotherhood and Huma Abedin&#8217;s connections to the Brotherhood during the campaign, it will backfire on them and they will be denounced as racists and bigots and hate-mongers  and so on. And so that is never going to happen. But what does need to happen in a larger sense is that there needs to be a general challenge to the idea that any talk about this is racism and bigotry and hatred and we have to stop tolerating it on the right. And all too often we do and people in the Republican establishment, they&#8217;re either with Grover Norquist as has been said and Grover Norquist is tied to the Brotherhood, or they are too afraid because they don&#8217;t want this controversy and they don&#8217;t want these charges of racism and bigotry so they&#8217;re too afraid to touch this issue. But that comes with a high price. As I said before, people are being killed because of our refusal to confront this issue honestly and so if we do not take it on, then it is only going to make things worse in the long run. It has to be confronted sooner or later.</p>
<p>Yes sir</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Good morning. Thank you very much for that very informative presentation.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> I come here to learn a lot more than what I get from other places, but as I listen to your presentation, why isn&#8217;t this the same as what happened to our country regarding communism which started slowly and Congress finally had open hearings to bring it the forefront of the American people? Why don&#8217;t we have something like that now? Because it seems to me the only way to get the Americans on board is to get Congress to have open hearings. Now certainly there are going to be those on the left that disagree and those on the right that are going to be different, but this is not different to me than communism but for one thing. These are groups that are not attached to countries. Communism was. So why not have open hearings in Congress to bring it to the American people?</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Well, the answer is because it actually is a lot like the communist threat in the sense that the left was in terms of the communist threat and is in terms of the Jihad tied in with the enemy. And you know, you say there were congressional hearings and of course there were. But then, after that came the demonization of every opposition to communism as McCarthyism. And that persisted until the Berlin wall fell. And I remember all the time I was growing up and until I was 27 when it fell, knowing that fierce opponents of communism were stigmatized in the American mainstream and demonized and David Horowitz knows that very well from his own experience.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> But that&#8217;s the boldness of leadership. That&#8217;s the boldness of a Michele Bachmann. People like her that can do that.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Yeah. Well, we don&#8217;t bold have leaders now.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> And once you have a people that take [inaudible] of the world who give this after and don&#8217;t hear the demonization and characterization.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I couldn&#8217;t agree more. We need them. We do not have them. I hope that such leaders will emerge. But the sophistication of the propaganda apparatus to demonize and stigmatize anyone who speaks out about this threat and to marginalize them in the mainstream, it is much more sophisticated now than it was even during the Cold War. And so, I think that&#8217;s one of the reasons why these leaders have not emerged. That it is just political suicide to take on this problem. Pamela Geller and I had a conference at CPAC a few years ago that we called Jihad: The Political Third Rail. You know, the third rail in the New York subway is the one if you touch it you die. And that&#8217;s how most of our politicians regard this. But I do believe that&#8217;s wrong. They should not be playing this game and letting these people get away with this. We need a Reagan. I hope he emerges.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> We have time to make one more question? How about Sandy Usher up front.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> There it is.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Oh. Thank you. Robert, I liked the idea over here of you putting it in a bulletin point. So in putting it on your web site so that I can download it and pass it around.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> I will.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> And I also want to tell everybody let&#8217;s pass it around. We&#8217;ve heard it. Let&#8217;s get it out there. We don&#8217;t have those bold leaders. And I send loads of Christmas cards every Christmas. I never send one without some bullet point information. There&#8217;s too much ignorance going on out there. That stamp costs a lot of money. I want to make it worthwhile. And, Robert, even you dear Robert, use the word mistake. This is no mistake, it&#8217;s design.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> Oh yes. Absolutely.</p>
<p><strong>Questioner:</strong> Yes. Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Robert Spencer:</strong> It&#8217;s a mistake in application but I have no doubt that it is on purpose. And actually Thomas Patrick brought this up a couple days ago in the same connection. I don&#8217;t know if he&#8217;s here now, but in any case, the fact is that during the 2008 campaign Barack Obama was seen reading The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria, and he was very much engrossed in the book. He was carrying it to one airplane to wherever else he was going with his finger in his place. He wasn&#8217;t going to miss a minute in reading this book. Now, I don&#8217;t know if you know the book, but The Post-American World is about how if we want world peace, we have to weaken America, militarily, politically and economically and bring it down to the level of all the other countries and not have any super powers in the world and then there will be peace.</p>
<p>When Pamela Geller and I wrote the book The Post-American Presidency about Obama in 2010, we were arguing that that was the strategy he was pursuing, the Post-American World strategy to weaken America in order to bring about this chimera of world peace. And I think we&#8217;ve been abundantly proven correct in the four years since then.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Congressman Jim Bridenstine&#8217;s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Rep. Jim Bridenstine: </strong>A lot of people might remember, it wasn&#8217;t too long ago, I went down to a military base in my state called Fort Sill.  I went down there to visit with the commanding general, and the reason I went is because the Department of Defense is being gutted right now.  The fires brigades and the air defense artillery folks that work down there, they&#8217;re getting cut drastically, and so I went down there and I wanted to meet with the commanding general, and when I was down there I said, hey, I&#8217;d like to take a visit of the UAC facility that&#8217;s here at Fort Sill, and the commanding general said you can go, but I&#8217;m not going to go with you.  If you would, by show of hands, do you remember this incident by chance, if you&#8217;d raise your hand if you&#8217;re remember.  I went down to Fort Sill to visit the UAC facility and I got rejected.  I got rejected.  Here I am a member of Congress, a representative of the people, a federal representative of the people going to a federal facility and seeing a federal mission, and they told me I couldn&#8217;t come in. They said you could come back in three weeks.  In three weeks you can come back and we&#8217;ll take you on a tour, and I said I&#8217;ve got to talk to somebody in your chain of command because this is not right, and you know what they said, they said, sorry, here&#8217;s the number for the guy in my chain of command and it was the Deputy Director of Communications, who also told me you&#8217;ve got to wait three weeks and we&#8217;ll take you on a tour, to which we immediately said, I told my staff I&#8217;m not one of these guys that runs to the media for every opportunity.  I don&#8217;t do that, but in this particular case, the First Amendment was given to us for a purpose, and it&#8217;s to petition the federal government, and I never realized that as a member of Congress I would be one of the people having to petition the federal government using the First Amendment.</p>
<p>In the next week and a half, we did 72 interviews on television. Seventy-two.  We were tired, but I can tell you this, after a week and a half we get an email from Health and Human Services and they said we&#8217;d like to take you on a tour of the HHS facility at Fort Sill housing the unaccompanied alien children.  It only took 72 interviews and a week and a half, and then they sent another email, and I&#8217;d ask everybody to get quiet because what this next email said is critically important.  I want you to listen to this.</p>
<p>The next email we got from HHS said we&#8217;re going to take you on a tour, but you can&#8217;t ask any questions, you can&#8217;t talk to the personnel that work there, you can&#8217;t talk to the staff, you can&#8217;t talk to the children, you can&#8217;t talk to the medical personnel.  We&#8217;re going to show it to you but you can&#8217;t ask any questions, to which we responded with an email of our own that we&#8217;re going to treat your restrictions the way the president is treating the law of the United States as a suggestion, and we gave them a list of everybody we expected to talk to once we got inside of this facility, and we got in and we started asking questions.  The No. 1 question I asked was how many children here have been abused.  We had a great panel with Dr. Fleming and Louie Gohmert and Jeff Sessions regarding the crisis on the southern border and immigration.  We had this great conversation.  Loved every minute of listening to these great folks talk about this issue, but here is why I have such a big concern.  The reports coming out of Lackland Air Force Base is as many as a third of the young girls had been abused, and when I talk about abuse I&#8217;m talking about sexual, I&#8217;m talking about horrible things that have happened to these young girls, and by the way they&#8217;re 12 years old.</p>
<p>So I wanted to find out in my state at Fort Sill the HHS facility how many of the children there had been abused, and I asked them, how many have been abused?  Well, we don&#8217;t have those numbers.  So I asked somebody else, how many children here have been abused?  Well, we don&#8217;t have those numbers.  I couldn&#8217;t get an answer.  Finally I asked a contractor and the contractor said it&#8217;s well over 25 percent, and then another contractor said, sir, it is well over 25 percent, and friends, here&#8217;s what everybody in this room needs to understand, the question is where is this abuse occurring?  It&#8217;s not happening in these facilities.  The abuse is occurring on the way to the United States, and the reason it&#8217;s occurring is because the children that were coming across our southern border, they already have parents that have been smuggled into the United States illegally, hundreds of thousands of them in 2014, and they made a decision that they want their family to come, including their children, and so they hire a coyote down in Mexico, and the coyote goes down to Central America to bring the children up to the northern border, and here&#8217;s what happens, and people in this room understand this.  The GAO has indicated, has said that we have operational control of over 44 percent of our southern border.  That means 56 percent of our southern border is not under operational control, and if we don&#8217;t control it, friends, somebody else does.  In this particular case, it&#8217;s controlled by drug cartels, transnational criminal organizations and when those children get to the northern border of Mexico, the southern border of the United States, then those transnational criminal organizations say we need more money.  If you&#8217;re going to come into the United States &#8212; and by the way, if you control the southern border of the United States you can make a ton of money, and they are doing it.</p>
<p>And so the children get up there, and the organized crime says they need $10,000.00 and we&#8217;ll let you across the border.  How many of these children do you think have $10,000.00 on them?  They call their parents, their parents don&#8217;t have $10,000.00.  They barely had enough money to pay the coyote, and ultimately the children have to come up with $10,000.00 and the drug cartels will get their money.  So they force the children into slave labor.  The force the children into prostitution.  Some of the children disappear altogether and it goes from smuggling into human trafficking, and some of the children just get killed.</p>
<p>People don&#8217;t realize it, friends, but there are, estimates are 70,000 to 100,000 dead bodies in Northern Mexico as a direct result of our open southern border.  We talk about all the crisis in the Middle East, Syria and Iraq.  Horrible stuff happening there, but on our southern border we&#8217;ve got 100,000 dead bodies just south of our border, and friends, here&#8217;s the deal.  When the organized crime starts making all of this money, which they are making a ton of money right now, they destroy civil society in northern Mexico.  Friends, if you&#8217;re a judge, and I know Louie Gohmert is a judge, you understand this as well as anybody.  If you&#8217;re a judge, a police officer, a politician, a mayor in northern Mexico, in many cases you are either on the payroll of the organized crime or you are dead, which is why there&#8217;s this 70,000 to 100,000 dead bodies, many in mass graves in northern Mexico right now.  The southern border is a national security issue as much as it is anything, and I&#8217;m going to talk for a second about civilized society and how it&#8217;s being lost because we&#8217;re unwilling to actually enforce the law.  The Secure Fence Act, which was passed before I got there, requires 100 percent operational control of the southern border, and yet the president doesn&#8217;t enforce that law.</p>
<p>But here&#8217;s the situation, I used to mention in the bio, I&#8217;m a Navy pilot.  I flew combat in Afghanistan in 2002.  I flew combat in Iraq in 2003. In 2010, I joined a reserve squadron and I started flying counter-narcotics missions in Central and South America.  My squadron alone, VAW77, the world famous Night Wolves, we used to bust $2 billion worth of cocaine every year on the high seas, $2 billion.  My squadron was one of many units in the military that did this kind of operation.  My squadron got eliminated.  That means $2 billion worth of cocaine is coming into our country that didn&#8217;t use to come into our country and $2 billion worth of cash is going to organized crime in northern Mexico and Central America.  What do you think that does to those countries?  And by the way, my squadron was one of many military units that have been cut under the sequester, and it is decimating the Department of Defense, in ways right now that the American public doesn&#8217;t realize, but I&#8217;ll give you an example.</p>
<p>Nicaragua calls the United States and they say we&#8217;re losing our civil society here in Nicaragua, our judges, our politicians, our police officers.  We&#8217;ve got high crime rates.  The organized crime is controlling our country.  We need your help with some counter drug operations, to which the United States says, sorry, can&#8217;t help you.  Who does Nicaragua call next?  The Russians.  The Russians are more than happy to provide the intelligence surveillance reconnaissance assets.  The Russians are more than happy to provide the ships on the ocean, to do the counter-narcotics operations.  The only thing the Russians are asking in return is military basing.  Do they want military basing for those assets to encounter drug operations?  No.  They want military basing for long-range strategic bombers in our hemisphere, and by the way, Nicaragua is not the only country in our hemisphere under negotiations for long-range strategic bombing for Russian bombers right now.  You&#8217;ve got Cuba and Venezuela.  Friends, all of this is a national security issue.</p>
<p>The other day, I looked up Homeland Security.  There&#8217;s leaked information from Homeland Security of how many folks have come across the southern border from Guinea and Sierra Leone and Liberia.  Friends, it&#8217;s almost 500 people that have been caught coming across the southern border in 2014 from those three countries which have the greatest outbreak of Ebola.  Almost 500 people caught.  The GAO says that one out of every five gets caught, which means there&#8217;s thousands in this country from those countries that are just unaccounted for completely.  Friends, the southern border of the United States is a national security issue.  It&#8217;s a national health security issue, and here&#8217;s the important thing I want everybody in this room to take away: The children are victims.  It is not their fault, and we don&#8217;t not like them.  The humanitarian thing to do, the right thing to do, the thing that will save lives and protect them is to enforce the law.</p>
<p>So when you think about foreign policy and national security, friends, it starts right here at home and I just talked about Nicaragua and the Russian military basing that is potentially going to occur there because of our absence, and I want to be really clear about what Russian is up to.  They&#8217;ve invaded Georgia.  They’re occupying South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.  They&#8217;re moving the borders towards Tbilisi.  They&#8217;ve got 80,000 troops in Armenia.  They&#8217;ve cancelled energy contracts with Azerbaijan.  That&#8217;s all in the south caucuses.  You go over to Eastern Europe, the Baltic States.  Remember the Baltic States enthusiastically joined the European Union and NATO at the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Well, because of that Russia had to cut off their energy in the dead of winter.  People had to suffer.  People had to die.  In Poland in the Czech Republic they were building a missile defense shield.  Why were they building a missile defense shield in Poland?  It had nothing to do with the Russians.  It’s because Iran is building longer range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads and the Europeans said, we’ve got to have a missile defense shield to which Vladimir Putin said, if you keep building that missile defense shield, he said this through his generals, he said, we&#8217;re going to have nuclear war in Poland and the Czech Republic, and I&#8217;m sure everybody in this room remembers when the President of the United States met with Medvedev after that incident. He said wait until after my next election.  I&#8217;ll have the flexibility to bring down that missile defense shield and guess what happened.  He got elected.  The missile defense shield came down and then the Russians moved very quickly to give Edward Snowden asylum.  Friends, here is the lesson, and every lesson of history teaches this: Weakness is provocative and the more we demonstrate weakness the more we will be taken advantage of and the more provocative the enemies of the United States will be.</p>
<p>Then we get to Ukraine, Yanukovych.  This was Thanksgiving.  It was a year ago.  Yanukovych was trying to enter into an agreement with the European Union.  It was social reform, political reform, economic reform.  He wasn&#8217;t joining the European Union, but it included trade, and if you remember Vladimir Putin himself flew to Kiev on our Thanksgiving Day and he said if you sign that agreement we&#8217;re going to cut your energy off, and remember it was going into winter.  It was Thanksgiving Day and they did this before December 31, 2005.  In Ukraine people suffered, people died, they did it in 2009 as well.  So now Yanukovych makes the decision okay I&#8217;m going to align with Moscow temporarily.  Why?  Because he wants to keep energy for his people through the winter.  His people revolt.  Why?  They want freedom.  They want independence.  As people revolt Kiev gets set on fire and then Russia uses that as an excuse to invade and occupy Crimea and make no mistake, regardless of what the State Department says, Russia is now occupying broader eastern Ukraine.  That is happening right now and let&#8217;s talk about where else Russia is active. They&#8217;re helping the Assad regime in Syria, propping them up.  The Mullahs in Iran.  They&#8217;re going around the sanctions because Russia is enabling it.  19,000 nuclear centrifuges in Iran.  I&#8217;m sorry, there is no peaceful nuclear program that needs 19,000 nuclear centrifuges, and under the President&#8217;s P5+1 Joint Plan of Action they&#8217;re going to continue to allow Iran to enrich uranium with 9,000 plus nuclear centrifuges. They&#8217;re not even mentioning the heavy water reactor for plutonium in Iraq. The facility in Parchin which is responsible for creating the devices that can fly on long-range missiles, and I&#8217;m talking about of course nuclear capabilities. None of these are being talked about in the P5+1 Joint Plan of Action on Iran and I&#8217;m going to anchor here for one second.</p>
<p>There is a reason what the President is doing right now to accommodate Iran is wrong and it is because it is extremely dangerous and destabilizing for the best ally the United States has in the Middle East, Israel.  And I will say this on Israel, the Land of Judea and Samaria is not occupied territory.  It belongs to the Jewish people who have had a relationship with that land for over 4,000 years.  And neither the President of the United States or the United Nations has any authority to give that land away.  Only Israel has the authority to negotiate over the land that belongs to Israel, period, end of story.  So you think about what&#8217;s happening in the world and you see that weakness is indeed provocative.  When you think about what Russia is doing, and by the way here&#8217;s an easy answer on the Russian issue.  People don&#8217;t realize this.  Russia relies on energy for 53 percent of its revenue to the Kremlin.  Fifty-three percent of the revenue to the Kremlin is from the export of energy and 84 percent of that energy is going to Eastern Europe, who by the way send ambassadors to my office in Washington, D.C. asking us to send our energy because they no longer want to be dependent on Moscow.  There is an easy way to solve this crisis.  We could dry up 53 percent of Russia&#8217;s revenue simply by exporting American energy.  And interestingly, it&#8217;s not Moscow that&#8217;s preventing us from exporting American energy.  It&#8217;s Washington, D.C.  Friends there are solutions here and, by the way, here&#8217;s the thing: That&#8217;s not a sanction, that&#8217;s allowing the free market to be free, and I know people in this room believe in free markets.  It doesn&#8217;t require firing a shot. It doesn&#8217;t require a sanction, and, oh, by the way, Russia has recently seen fit to send long-range bombers to the Gulf of Mexico.  I don&#8217;t know if you guys have read these reports, and interestingly they&#8217;re defense minister came back and said, well, that&#8217;s not going to work as long as energy prices are about $80.00 a barrel.  We can&#8217;t afford to do this.  Friends energy prices are going to come back and it&#8217;s up to the United States to actually fill the void that everybody understands is happening in Eastern Europe as it relates to energy.</p>
<p>I want to, I&#8217;m going to close here.  I know Ann told me not to take a long time so I&#8217;m not going to take a long time.  I want to close here. Actually, I&#8217;m going to say one thing.  I have to talk about ISIS.  I have to talk about the Middle East and then I&#8217;m going to close.  I flew combat in Afghanistan in 2002.  I flew combat in Iraq in 2003.  Our Americans, in 2002, or, actually, I don&#8217;t &#8212; it was early in the war &#8212; we damaged a guy named al-Zarqawi.  He was a Lieutenant to Osama Bin Laden.  You guys probably remember al-Zarqawi.  It was compliments of a 500-pound bomb, compliments of the United States Air Force, that damaged al-Zarqawi, and as a Navy pilot that pains me to say that the Air Force dropped that weapon, and I say that with all due respect to Governor Rick Perry who&#8217;s in the front row here who&#8217;s an Air Force pilot himself.  We&#8217;re good, he says we&#8217;re good.  Thank you. sir.  But here&#8217;s the important thing: al-Zarqawi was in Afghanistan, he was part of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. He was a Lieutenant to Osama Bin Laden, and when we damaged him, his ribs, his leg &#8212; he went to Uday Hussein&#8217;s hospital in Iraq.  That&#8217;s where he went to get his care, and at Uday Hussein&#8217;s hospital he got cured and then he became the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and ultimately he was killed compliments of two 500-pound bombs of the United States Air Force, but not before he trained his own lieutenant, al-Baghdadi, who now is the leader of ISIS.  Friends, this is an al-Qaeda affiliated force.  All of the authorities necessary to destroy it currently exist, and the President shouldn&#8217;t go on TV and give us a laundry list of everything he won&#8217;t do and, oh, by the way, when he gives us that laundry list he&#8217;s giving it to the enemies of the United States.  What he should do is he should go on TV and tell us what he&#8217;s already done to eliminate this threat, and it could have been eliminated, and if you go back to 2006 when Obama was a senator, he said these words.  He said a precipitous withdraw from Iraq would lead to &#8220;chaos, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, genocide.&#8221;  He said it would engulf broad swaths of the Middle East and endanger the United States of America.  Senator Obama in 2006.  Then he ran for President.</p>
<p>Well that message wasn&#8217;t going to work when you&#8217;re running for President, so then he said it was an unjust war.  That we took our eye off the ball, which was Afghanistan, and he&#8217;s going to be the President that would end this war.  Then he became President, and if you look at what happened next, he had his own Iraq team.  Ambassador Crocker, General Petraeus.  They said keep 20,000 to 24,000 troops in Iraq.  Keep them because we&#8217;ve had all these gains from the surge.  If you remember the Iraqi economy was growing. Things were at peace.  You had an inclusive government, stability and his team said keep 20,000 to 24,000 troops.  You have to have that or else we&#8217;re going to lose the gains of the surge, and the President said, no, I promised something else, give me a different plan, and they come back with a different plan, and they said keep 10,000 troops.  It&#8217;s going to require more risk.  By the way, when they say more risk, for those of us in the military that means more of us are going to suffer.  It will require more risk, but we can sustain the gains of the surge with 10,000 troops.  The President said, no, I promised something else.  Then it was the President himself in a phone call with Malaki who said that any status of forces agreement we come to has to be ratified by the Iraqi Parliament, and, friends, for those of us in the military the status of forces agreement is how we have diplomatic immunity.  It is how when we fight in a foreign country we fall under American law not under foreign law, and that&#8217;s critically important if you want to have a foreign fighter.  And the President, in a phone call with Malaki &#8212; historically all the status of forces agreement is, is an exchange of diplomatic letters.  It&#8217;s our State Department and their diplomats saying we&#8217;re going to exchange diplomatic letters, Americans have diplomatic immunity.  That&#8217;s all it had ever been, but because the President wanted a zero-two presence in Iraq, ultimately he said it has to be ratified by the Iraqi Parliament, knowing full well that the Iraqi Parliament can&#8217;t agree on what day of the week it is, let alone how many American troops need to be in Iraq.  The agreement was scuttled.  Every last troop came home.  And just as Senator Obama predicted in 2006, chaos, terrorism, ethnic cleansing, genocide.  It engulfs broad swaths of the Middle East and it&#8217;s a danger to the United States of America.</p>
<p>Al-Baghdadi has said himself that the next confrontation will be directly against the United States of America.  Friends, al-Qaeda was a terrorist organization.  ISIS is a caliphate.  It has an army.  It is well trained.  It is well financed.  It is well equipped.  They&#8217;re recruiting from throughout the world and they are looking for people that have American passports, and indeed they have recruited hundreds of Americans to join their ranks, many of which the administration has already admitted have come back to the United States.  Friends, this is a very real threat.  It has to be taken seriously, and what I will tell you is this: This idea that we are going to train and equip so-called &#8220;moderate Syrians&#8221; is not gonna work.  Here&#8217;s what they said, we&#8217;re gonna have 5,000 troops in a year; 5,000 moderate Syrian rebels in a year.  By the way, a lot of them have already fled and turned over weapons to ISIS and 5,000 &#8212; I gave a speech, in fact, I talked to Mike at the Red State Convention down in Fort Worth, Texas.  I hear a clap for Fort Worth. And at the time in that speech I was talking about how dangerous ISIS was because they&#8217;ve got 15,000 troops in their army.  Well now the CIA unclassified is saying that it&#8217;s 30,000 troops in a matter of just a couple of months, and again now they&#8217;ve got heavy armor, American tanks, Abrams Tanks, with ISIS flags flying on the top.  This idea that we&#8217;re gonna train and equip so-called moderates, it hasn&#8217;t worked.  If you look at what weapons they have right now, it&#8217;s because we train and equip the Iraqi Army, which fled at the first conflict.  Friends, this is going to require American leadership, and this is a critically important thing that America has to understand.  Without us, it&#8217;s only going to grow, and the longer we wait the worse it gets, and I want to be clear again why this is so dangerous not only to us, but ISIS has its sights set on Israel.  This is a threat to Israel, our greatest ally in the Middle East.</p>
<p>Now, sure.  I would like to, I&#8217;m gonna close now.  At this time I really am.  I see Mike standing over here.  I might take a few more minutes just to upset Ann Coulter.  Okay here&#8217;s a &#8212; I&#8217;m in such trouble.  When I first got elected a friend of mine came to me and he said, he worked really hard, he delivered all kinds of signs throughout the neighborhood.  I challenged an incumbent Republican in a Republican primary which is very difficult and it&#8217;s very hard to find friends when you&#8217;re doing that, but this guy was loyal to me from day one, he worked really hard and we overcame millions of dollars and 11 years of incumbency, and he said I will never ask from you for anything, but I just want one thing I said, and he said, it&#8217;s the only thing that I will ever ask for, he said I want you to get a group, a bipartisan group, Republicans and Democrats alike, and I want you to go down to Arlington National Cemetery and sit there for an hour together and reflect on all the sacrifice that has been given for this nation, and a couple of months ago we made that happen.  Four hundred thousand markers.  Hill after hill, row after row, mile after mile.  Freshman class Republicans and Democrats alike reflecting on the sacrifice and, friends, that is a very small portion of all the sacrifice that has been given for this great country.  One of the markers, there is a gentleman named Martin Treptow who fought in World War I.  Ronald Reagan talked about him in his first inaugural address, and he died on the Western Front delivering messages back and forth between battalions, and when they recovered his body they found on him a journal and in that journal they found these words.  It said &#8212; and he was a barber from Illinois who got drafted.  His words said:  &#8220;America must win this war.  Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure.  I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone.&#8221;</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t just a few weeks ago now I went down to a funeral for a friend of mine who died in the Middle East, and this was in Georgia, and my whole squadron &#8212; he got, he was sent, what we call individual augmentation.  He&#8217;s a Navy pilot, but he got sent on the ground to the Middle East, and there he died.  So we were at his funeral.  My whole squadron, VAW77, the Night Wolves, my squadron, which no longer exists to do the counter-drug operations that I&#8217;ve already talked about, but all the Night Wolves gathered and we spent time talking about our friend.  The last time I saw these guys I was just a pilot in the squadron and here I am with my buddies and now I&#8217;m a member of Congress.  Thanks.  And they looked at me and they said, &#8220;Jim, our country is in peril.  We have threats all over the world that will change the landscape for the next generation,&#8221; and it&#8217;s not just foreign, it&#8217;s also domestic.  They said, &#8220;We are willing&#8221; &#8212; they&#8217;re not with 77 anymore, but they&#8217;re all still serving in the reserves somewhere &#8212; &#8220;we are willing, but we&#8217;ve got to have leadership.  We need somebody that will stand up and tell us what needs to be done, &#8217;cause right now we are not feeling it.&#8221;  Friends there is an entire country of people who served this nation in uniform and every single one of them feels the way Martin Treptow felt when he wrote that in his journal and I got to tell you as a member of Congress who&#8217;s serving his first term, I got to tell ya, that is the one thing more than anything else that gives me hope and I really do have a lot of hope.  What is right about America, and I know this has been said before, can fix what is wrong about America and there&#8217;s an entire nation of people that are willing to do the right thing knowing that we need to handoff to the next generation what we ourselves inherited.  Thank you so much for having me.  It&#8217;s an honor to be here.</p>
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<p>Below is the video of a talk given by <strong>Robert Spencer </strong>in April, 2014, at a <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/">Global Faith Institute</a> event in Omaha, Nebraska. A brief note from Spencer accompanies the video:</p>
<p><em>&#8220;Omaha is the site of the <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joeherring/susie-buffetts-muslim-brotherhood-romance-1/">Tri-Faith Initiative</a>, featuring Jews and Christians being dangerously naive about the Muslim Brotherhood ties of the Muslims with whom they are partnering. But because the initiative is <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joeherring/susie-buffetts-muslim-brotherhood-romance-1/" target="_blank">backed by the daughter of one of the richest men on earth</a>, few dare to take it on — with the notable exception of <a href="http://globalfaithinstitute.org/about/dr-mark-christian/" target="_blank">Dr. Mark Christian</a> of the Global Faith Institute, an ex-Muslim who ran away from certain death for his apostasy to safe haven in America, as have many others who cherish their freedom and liberty — only to find the same oppressive force he fled following him to America’s heartland.&#8221;</em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unveiling the mindset of the Islamic terrorists who killed over 130 children in Peshawar. ]]></description>
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<p>In the recent <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/pakistan-school-massacre/pakistan-school-attack-taliban-militants-kill-more-140-peshawar-n269011">Taliban terror attack</a> against a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, Islamic terrorists killed more than 130 children. The atrocities include the beheading of children and the Taliban dousing a teacher with gasoline, burning her alive in front of her students who were forced to watch.</p>
<p>The horrifying nature of this latest Taliban atrocity serves as yet another reminder of infanticide and child sacrifice being key ingredients of Islamic terror. The long and grotesque record of Hamas’ and Arafat’s child-killing machines serves as a morbid testament to that phenomenon.</p>
<p>To shed light on why Islamic Jihadists target children, Frontpage is running <em>The Glazov Gang’s </em>special two-part series with<em> <strong>Dr. Anna Geifman</strong>, </em>the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Death-Orders-Terrorism-Revolutionary-International/dp/0275997529">Death Orders</a> and one of the world’s leading experts on child-sacrifice by death cultures.</p>
<p>In this special series, Dr. Geifman delivers a profound analysis on <strong>Hamas and Terrorists’ Child Sacrifice, </strong>explaining why Islamic terrorists — and totalitarians in general — target children. Though her main focus is on Hamas as well as on Soviet terror, her analysis gives us a profound insight into the infrastructure of the Taliban mind and how its savagery against children in a Pakistani school satiates its yearnings.</p>
<p>Dr. Geifman’s research unveils the true nature not only of the Islamic death culture, but of all death cultures, and explains why they sacrifice their enemy’s children — as well as their own.</p>
<p>See both interviews below:</p>
<p><strong>Part I:</strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to a panel discussion on the new Freedom Center initiative &#8220;<a href="http://www.ctghq.org">Change the Game</a>,&#8221; which was featured at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>About four years ago I met my political soulmate.  We were young.  We knew nothing.  We came straight from the ghetto, and we saw the problems in our community.  And we fell under our elders, as youths should do, and we listened to their advice, and we did what they said until we said, you know what?  Y’all don’t know what y’all doing.  It’s time for us to start doing something on our own.</p>
<p>For four years when I need prayer, when I need counsel, when I’m down, when I’m knocked out, when I have no breath left, when I feel like I can’t fight anymore, I call this man, and he prays with me, he counsels me, he gives me advice, and then in the end he says, it’s your job now and lays everything on my footsteps.  And because he did that, I feel strong enough to take it on.  Mr. Kevin Daniels.</p>
<p><strong>Kevin Daniels: </strong>When I met Sonnie four years ago, she was right, we had no idea what we were getting ourselves into, but it’s something, when you find someone that you believe in so much, that God gives you the foresight to see not what that person is but what that person could become, and I walk with her side by side with what she is trying to do.  She has a huge vision, and she’s going to share it, and everyone else is going to share their pieces in it.  But being able to walk with her through this journey has been great for me.  And she is a jewel.  She is a diamond in the rough.  And with the vision that she laid out for Change the Game, I’ll just give a brief overview of it, then I’ll step aside.</p>
<p>It’s an ambitious vision.  A lot of people said that it can’t be done.  A lot of people said that we shouldn’t do it.  And when you look at, from the right and from the conservatives and Republican movement, they talk a lot about not engaging this population of people because they’re not going to support us anyway. It’s a waste of time, it’s a waste of money.  Sonnie disagrees with that, as well as I, because in these communities that we’re going after, that we’re targeting, there’s a lot of people that are like Sonnie and I, that may not have gotten the right start, but the finish, the potential, the possibilities that they all have is something that we’re really going to push with Change the Game.</p>
<p>When we launched this project &#8212; we launched in September, September 2, right, Tracy?  September 2 we launched the web site.  Three months later when you go on the Internet and you look at the organizations that have similar structures that we do, we are ranked No. 2 in the nation in that, and we haven’t even gotten started yet.  So far our activities have been web site primarily.  We do radio interviews, well, they do radio interviews, and you won’t see me doing any of that stuff.  I’m a behind the scenes guy.  But when we leave here, we are going to implement a ground game where we are going into these historically black colleges and universities, we’re going into these inner city neighborhoods, and we’re going to push the twin pillars of freedom and liberty everywhere that we go.  And we’re going to be very strategic and deliberate in our actions.  I’m not a big fan of activity with no goals.  So we’re setting goals.  We’re going to be very targeted in our efforts.  But not only that, the umbrella of the Freedom Center, there’s a lot of projects that are up underneath it, and we want to make sure that we don’t operate independently of them.  So we’re going to connect with TruthRevolt, we’re going to work with FrontPage, we’re going to work with everyone that’s up underneath that umbrella to try to undergird them so we can all reach that same goal.  David is here now, and he has a great vision with the Freedom Center, and we’re going to connect with all those different organizations so we can move the needle forward.</p>
<p>Now when people say that this thing won’t work, they look at Sonnie, they see how she’s dressed, they look at Kevin, they see how he’s dressed, they look at the suits and the dresses, but someone had to engage us.  Someone had to empower us.  Someone had to give us the information that we needed in order for that light to be turn on in our lives, in our eyes, so that we can understand what conservative principles are and what they mean, and then how to apply it to our lives and live it.  My background is, I was born and raised in Westchester County, New York, lived in Section 8 housing for the first 17 years of my life, parents separated when I was six, my mother died of AIDS when I was 15 years old.  I attempted to go to college, didn’t work out that well.  I didn’t have a great foundation.  How many more people in these inner cities have a similar story?  How many people in these inner cities have a similar story to myself and Sonnie, as well as the other panelists that are up here?</p>
<p>So before we launched the web site September 2, a week prior we launched a Liberalville video.  We’re not going to call Chicago, Illinois &#8212; there’s too many cities out there to name.  But what Sonnie did four years ago, and it’s ironic that she mentioned four years ago when we met, because she created this video called Liberalville that we didn’t actually release until August of this year.  And so when we look at Liberalville, Sonnie says something very powerful in there.  She says I want to show you what I see when you remove the Democratic elite.  She goes on to talk about eight individuals, eight characters in the Liberalville video, and she doesn’t look at what they are and what they’re doing. She looks at the possibilities that this individual has, and that’s what we’re looking at doing when we look at people.  We have initiatives &#8212; taking people to street corners, to corner offices &#8212; that&#8217;s an initiative that we have where we’re going to push entrepreneurship, we’re going to push small business to these communities because these communities need an economic base.  We’re going to push education, school of choice, and I can run down a list of things that we’re going to do, but we’re going to have an aggressive, ambitious agenda.  So I encourage you all to go to the web site that Tracy’s going to talk about soon, but look at this video Liberalville.  It’s about three minutes long, and it’s a spoken word piece.  And look at the foresight that Sonnie had back then, and then look at what’s happening in these inner cities and these communities now.  There’s one that just came to mind.  She’s talked about the politician, and we all know what’s going on in Ferguson right now.  But she said back then, she said the politician has no desire until shots are fired and people need someone to blame.  Sonnie was talking about this years ago.  The vision that she is laying out for Change the Game, what we’re going to do when we leave this Restoration Weekend is going to be impactful, and we are No. 2 now, but we’re coming for that No. 1 spot.  So that organization that is there, they got to move to the side.  So thank you for your time.  I think you all for your support.  Appreciate what you’re doing, and thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>Okay. About two years ago or three years ago I was in Providence, Rhode Island, just one of my kind of very first events that I went to, and I really didn’t know anyone so I was kind of always by myself, and I’m walking down this hall, and I hear, “Sonnie freaking Johnson!”  And it stopped me in my tracks.  I stopped in my tracks.  And I turn around, and this girl is standing there, and she said, “We’re going to be best effing friends,” but she used the word.  And I, oh my gosh, this big bubble of personality, this big bubble of light, and for the last three years she has helped to sharpen me mentally.  We talk about everything.  Hardly do we ever agree, but we are friends first and foremost before anything started with us working together.  Last year she had the chance to operate her panel, and she said I want you to come and be on my panel.  It took me less than two seconds to say of course, if you need it, you got it.  Now, we work together with Change the Game, and she is going to show you the awesomeness that is Ms. Tracy Connors.</p>
<p><strong>Tracy Connors: </strong>All right.  I wanted to give everybody a brief tour of the site. If you haven’t been there, I suggest going.  You might not like everything that you see, but that’s not the point.  David came to me and said, “Hey, I hear there’s a web site called Buzz Feed.  Could we get something like Buzz Feed going on?”  I still don’t think he’s ever visited Buzz Feed, but we said okay, we can do something like that.  I apologize about the dimensions on this right now, but this is our main page.  So you can see, hang on, this is unacceptable.  Yeah, it’s cutting off part of the page.  All right there we go.  Now you can see the page.  All right.  Now I’ll make it bigger.  There we go.  Okay.  So as you can see, you probably don’t think you’re on a political web site at all, right?  Anyway, so we’ve got stories about pop culture mixed in with stories about news and issues that we care about and we think we can reach our readers with and the audience that we’re bringing in.  So the people that care that the BET just cancelled one of their favorite shows, they’re going to go and read this story, and then over on the side they’re going to find commentary by Sonnie, which you can’t see over here, where it’s talking about Jimmy Fallon insulting Mia Love, but not in the way that you would think.  So it’s a way to get people into our world that would never come and visit to begin with.</p>
<p>When you get to go to the site &#8212; which is ctghq.org, or for those who struggle with initials, it’s changingthegame.org as well you can get there &#8212; you search around and you’ll see that on the sides, you can catch it kind of a little bit, you’ll be confronted with our issues section and our knowledge section of the site.  And this is where we’re really pushing the things that Kevin touched on and Sonnie talked about.  So we find stories that we can put an entertaining spin on but to deal with these kind of issues.  And then for people that aren’t totally familiar with everything we’re talking about we’ve started to build out a whole section where they can learn some history that they might not have known, understand basic economics, read speeches, read our founding documents, learn more about the progressive movement, and if they don’t understand the language we’re using, I put together an entire dictionary of political words and phrases, and it’s linked back in articles, and we use stuff that we think, hey, the average person might not know what that means.  So let’s never talk down to our audience.  Let’s make sure they have all the information we can possibly share with them.</p>
<p>And we’ve got a great selection of videos too so if you’re looking for that Liberalville video that Kevin talked about, you’ll find it in the videos section.  And now, speaking of videos, I’ve got one to show all of you guys to catch you up on what we’ve been doing.</p>
<p><b>[Video Recording]</b></p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>I have to share a moment of clarity with you real quick.</p>
<p>I’m guessing the moment should have came,<br />
When my brain was lit on fire with facts and names,<br />
I had never known.<br />
I’m guessing you will all question the lesson I learned,<br />
To turn me to the right side or the white side,<br />
Depending on who asks.<br />
I’m guessing that’s why you look surprised,<br />
That instead of pulling out a prerecorded line,<br />
From my talking points bag,<br />
I rhyme instead.<br />
I’m guessing some are saying, &#8220;She’s on a college campus.<br />
She should be serious.&#8221;<br />
I am.<br />
So serious in fact, to give you my moment of clarity,<br />
First I have to give you all of me.<br />
Poetry.<br />
I stopped one step short of asking for a beat.<br />
Now back to this moment of clarity of which I speak.<br />
I always get asked the same question.<br />
What made you a conservative?<br />
I hate that damn question.<br />
Apathy, indifference or frustration,<br />
Five years later God speaks, revelation,<br />
Time has been wasted on irrelevant procrastination,<br />
Because my moment didn’t come from man.<br />
My moment didn’t come from the church.<br />
My moment didn’t come from politics.<br />
My moment didn’t come from culture.<br />
My moment started with the people.<br />
How much death could we take?<br />
How much poverty could we embrace,<br />
Where hopes and dreams are at stake?<br />
How many God-given talents would we waste,<br />
And the only place that I can find,<br />
Voices that sound like mine,<br />
That cry the same tears,<br />
Experience the same fears,<br />
With the same goals and aspirations,<br />
The same drives and calculations,<br />
The same observations,<br />
That make hope and change negligible as an actual destination,<br />
Are in hip-hop.<br />
So I rhyme because I’m serious,<br />
I rhyme because I’m furious.<br />
I don’t care who doesn’t like it.<br />
I need young ones to hear this:<br />
We are dying.<br />
Whether we kill our babies in the womb,<br />
Or follow drugs to the tomb,<br />
Or lay unemployed in our mother’s living room,<br />
Whether we pull triggers and kill our own reflection,<br />
Or use the haves and have-nots in our selection,<br />
Or destroy the lives of others due to our own depression.<br />
If you want to talk police brutality,<br />
Then stop pushing gun laws that lessen citizens&#8217; protection,<br />
Because we are dying.<br />
And that’s my moment clarity.<br />
And if I had to say it without rhyme,<br />
There would be tears in my eyes and a frog in my throat,<br />
And I wouldn’t be able to cope,<br />
Because when I say that we’re dying,<br />
I don’t mean it as a political trope,<br />
We are dying,<br />
Leaving our streets blood soaked.<br />
Enough.</p>
<p>And that’s why I do what I do.  That’s why I created Change the Game.  To me this isn’t about politics.  This isn’t about garnering political favor.  I am tired of seeing people I love die.  I am tired of seeing people I love incarcerated.  I am tired of seeing people who look like me don’t feel like they’re a part of the America that I know blood has been split for them to be a part of.  That is why this is so important.  I don’t care if you like hip-hop.  It is not meant for you to like. It is meant for me to take a conservative message into the black community and show them there is a methodology to stopping the death in our communities.  And that’s what I will do until I have no more breath in my body.</p>
<p><strong>[End of video recording]</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>And so as you can see, I have my right hand and my left hand thoroughly taken care of.  Two of my favorite people in the entire world, Kevin Daniels and Tracy Conners.  So I’m going to take a few minutes to speak now, and then we’re going to go ahead and introduce the rest of the panel, and we’re going to have some fun.  But I want to take a few minutes to speak on some things before we go.</p>
<p>I guess we’re in a celebratory mood.  We got to see the Republicans take over the Senate, and we got to see a lot of House seats, state House seats, change over.  We got to see Republicans become governors in states we never thought we would never see a republican governor in.  Even though I’m sad that Maryland went red, and I live in Virginia and we’re still blue.  So I was a little upset and hurt by that.  If we are getting close to Maryland I’m scared, and I might be looking for a place to relocate.  West Palm Beach is very nice this time of year.</p>
<p>So we have a lot of things to celebrate, but I want to question how we celebrate.  So please indulge me for a moment, and I want to talk about Mia Love.  Let’s see if you’ll be clapping when I finish.  I love Mia Love.  I had the opportunity of meeting her and speaking with her and hearing her conservative principles, and last time when she ran she told me the struggle she was having with having conservatives come and back her, getting help for her race.  She lost.  So instead of giving up, she said I’ll do it, and I’ll do it my way.  I’m not going to wait until campaign season.  I’m going to keep going from where I finished and never stop.  So this year when she ran, we all cheered.  Until the next morning.  And I got up, and I scrolled through my Facebook page, and I scrolled through Twitter, and there was not a mention of her conservative principles.  There was no mention of what she had fought for and how hard she had fought to get where she was.  There was no mention of her story.  There was no mention of her fight.  There was no mention of her tactics.  The only mentioned about Mia Love was she was black, she was a woman, she was a Mormon, and she was a Republican.  And everybody cheered.  And then they say, I’m glad we’re not the party of identity politics.</p>
<p>I don’t believe we are the party of identity politics.  What we are is reactive.  Whatever progressives do, we react.  So they ignore Mia Love, so we take it upon ourselves to make sure that everyone knows her name.  And that’s cool because if we don’t do it, who is going to do it?  But we don’t talk about her principles. We don’t talk about any of those things.  No, we stay on the identity of it because we want them to know that we are not racist.  Guess what?  They’re still calling you racist.  It does not work.  It is a fallacy that I have watched for four years, time and time again.  And it’s very funny because we have their playbook.  We have Alinsky&#8217;s &#8220;Rules for Radicals.&#8221;  We know what they’re going to do before they do it.  So what have we done to Mia Love?  And that’s a serious question.  What have we, as conservatives, done to Mia Love.  We have painted a bull&#8217;s-eye on her back.  All they have to do now is destroy her because it’s not about her policies, it’s not about her principles, it’s not about her fight, it’s not about her struggle, it’s not about her tactics, it is about her.  What do they do?  They target, they ridicule, they separate, they demonize and they destroy, and we give them the targets.</p>
<p>I’ll give you an example of this from something that happened in the last two years with Cliven Bundy.  Instead of making it about government against the people, which was the issue, instead of making it about private property, which was the concept, instead of making it about liberty and justice and big government coming in and crushing the individual &#8212; no.  We didn’t make it about those things.  We made it about Cliven Bundy.  So as soon as Cliven Bundy opens his mouth and says something stupid, we lose everything.  Because it’s no longer about what we’re fighting for. Now they have someone to demonize.  Do you remember how many times they put his face everywhere?  And they took what we had as a perfectly good message, and they destroyed us with it.  And the funny part was yet again we gave them the target by making it about the individual.  In this we know what they’re going to do, and we must become the people that no longer play by their rules and their game, hence change the game.</p>
<p>See?  I told you all.  It’s a question of whether or not you’ll like it at the end.  Because it’s an uncomfortable truth.  You want to feel good.  You have this joy.  You want it expressed, but we have to understand how we’re expressing it.  We can’t be them and beat them.  We can’t do it.  So we know what happens next.  Everyone knows what happens next.  The road will be paved for Hillary, and we will have a war on women, and we will have a war on race, and there will once again be a war on poverty, and we’re going to have more separation.  They&#8217;re going to say again that you hate the rich.  As soon as a Republican dares decide that they want to cut something: &#8220;You will hate the rich! you hate them!&#8221; I mean the poor.  [Laughter.]  You hate the poor. But it turns into, &#8220;You hate the poor! You hate minorities! You hate women! You hate dogs!&#8221;  I’m guessing they’re going to tell you you hate whatever it is they want to throw at you at that moment. So we know what’s coming.  Do we wait and do we react to this?  Or do we say not this time?  Because I’m on the not this time bandwagon.  I can&#8217;t sit by and watch it anymore when I know what happens next.  So if no one else is going to say it, then I’ll be the one to say it.  If I say it alone, I’ve done it before.  It doesn’t bother me one bit.</p>
<p>They’re coming at us, and instead of this time us saying &#8212; anyone remember Andrew Breitbart?  Andrew &#8212; if you have ever seen Hating Breitbart, he has this excellent piece in Hating Breitbart, and he has all these progressives standing around him, and they’re yelling in his face, they’re calling him racist, they’re calling him this, they’re calling him that, and Andrew, cool as a cucumber, said, “And?”  One word had never been so powerful to me in my entire life because I knew what he meant.  I’m not wasting my time playing these games with you.  You still never answered my question about whatever it was he was asking at the time.  I’m not going to sit here and play your games.  You can call me all the names you want.  Still, would you like to answer my question anytime in that response?  What that does is it takes away their argument because you don’t care.  In order for them to be effective, you have to care.  So when they call you names, you have to get offended.  When they call you out of character, then you have to say, &#8220;But I’m not!&#8221;  &#8220;All Republicans are racist!&#8221;  &#8220;We have Mia Love!&#8221; The same point still applies.  We aren’t moving the needle.  We aren’t changing anything.  Didn’t we have Clarence Thomas before?  Didn’t we have Condoleezza Rice?  Did any of that change anything?  What makes you think mere Love is going to change something?  Not politically speaking.  Good gracious, I love the woman. Go to Congress, do what you do.  I’m talking from the progressive point of view.  It’s not going to change them.  So we know their tactics, we know where they’re coming at.  So this is what we’re going to do for next year.  Trust this little bit of this vision for you guys.  We love capitalism and we’re not running from it.  You say we love the rich, yes we do.  So those of us who are not rich yet, we’re on our way.</p>
<p>We have some stuff we got to make up, and we’re not there yet, but I tell you one thing, we’re hustling every day of the week to get there.  And you’re not going to make us feel bad about it.  You’re not going to make me feel sad about it.  You’re not going to make me cry about it.  People who want to live in the situation of poverty, people who want to live in public housing, people who want food stamps, people who want welfare, you are perfectly fit to be a Democrat.  We don’t want you.  You can stay all day long, and it’s fine with us.  What we want is the get up, get out and get something generation.  We want the ones who are not satisfied with what they have.  We want the ones who say, you know what?  This isn’t going to be my life.  One day, I’m going to be in the governor’s office like Kevin Daniels.  One day I am going to run The Blaze, and I’m going to do investigative work, and I’m going to shake up Texas.  One day I am going to start writing a blog that makes everyone stand up and take notice so when my Karen Davis piece comes out it’s 2,000 hits instantly.  Those are the people we want.  Those are the people we’re going after.  And this is how we’re doing it.  Come and eat at our table.</p>
<p>You say we’re the party of the rich.  Think about how good the food tastes over here.  And we’re not asking you to bring anything, just yourself.  We don’t care about your past.  We don’t care about your situation.  We don’t care about any of that.  We got a place open at our table for you to sit down and eat.  The only condition that we put on to you coming and eating at our table is that next time we’re coming to your house to eat at your table because that’s what we do.  You come eat with us, you become part of a family.  You get a network.  You get a backdrop.  You get not just politics, you get prayer.  You get acceptance.  You get people who care about what’s going on in your family life, not just what’s going on in the polls.  You get something that a lot of us in the black community definitely don’t get from Democrats, that’s why they didn’t show up in this last election.  We have the table, and we’re opening that table for you to come and eat with us.  Our table starts with Change the Game at the web site.  Come and eat from our politics.  Come and eat from our culture.  Come and eat from our history.  Come and eat from our economics.  Come and eat from our spoken word.  Come and eat until you are so full you have no choice but to say get up and let somebody else come and have a seat.  That’s how we want you to eat because then we know you walk away feeling inspired, feeling empowered.  So what do you do?  You go make your own table.  And then you start feeding the people around you.</p>
<p>Do you know the best way to cut welfare?  Make people not want to be in poverty.  That way there’s no congressional vote, there’s no demonization, it’s none of that because you have people who willingly leaving the system because they want something more.  They see the American dream, and now they know that they can be a part of it.  Where they saw no route before, they saw no way before, impossibility like they told me a thousand times it can’t be done &#8212; ha-ha.  We got our table.  It can be done.  Those doubts should not exist.  Come and eat with us.  The simplicity of it.  And that’s what we’re going to do next year as far as our overall mission and our overall focus.  We know they’re going to demonize us, we know they’re going to hate us, we know that some people like where they are and they’re going to want to stay where they are.  But we know that a lot of black people like money, a lot, especially when you didn’t have it growing up.  So that’s our message, an economic message, a platter full of food to eat, a family that you become a part of, an American dream realized.  And to me that encompasses what Change the Game is.</p>
<p>So that’s what we plan on doing going forward, and that’s my vision of how we’re going to do this, not distracted when they want to call us names.  We’re going to stand in their face and say, and you still haven’t answered my question about school choice, you’re just a show for the conservatives.  You still didn’t answer my question.  We’re not going there.  If that’s the conversation you want to have then you can go to your table and have that conversation.  Don’t come over here with that.  So that’s what we’re going to do.  I’m going to stop because you all know how I get if I don’t.</p>
<p>So what I want to do now is in addition to my right and my left hand, I started to build a tent.  And I love the idea of &#8212;  Tracy created this wonderful graphic for  me, and I absolutely adore it, so I wanted to make sure everyone got to see it.  That’s our Change the Game tent.  That’s our table.  It signifies to me, I loved it the moment I saw it, but I said I have to start filling this tent.  So I had to pick some of my favorite people, and I wanted people who were already active, I wanted people who had already been beaten down, I wanted people who had already took their strikes and were still fighting.  Those that didn’t give up, those that refuse to give up, come to eat at my table.  Those are the kind of people that I love.</p>
<p>So I’m going to introduce to you all them one by one.  I’m going to let each one of them talk, and then we’re going to have some fun.  First up, I want to, from Washington D.C., he is PopGlitz, he is DC Pundit, and he’s one of my favorite people because his favorite place to go is Democrat headquarters, Javonni Brustow.</p>
<p><strong>Javonni Brustow: </strong>Hello, everyone.  I wanted to go over the reason why I’m a Republican because I felt that I am the elephant in the room, and that needed to be addressed.  As we know, Sonnie Johnson’s project, Change the Game, is about minority outreach, and I felt who else would be better than the super minority in the room to go over there.  So I live in liberal Washington as we know.  I’m a writer and a conservative that is pretty visible in both conservative circles and in Democrat headquarters.  Why I put myself through that, sometimes I have no idea.  I get beat up on a daily basis, but such is life.  That’s what I chose.  For starters, I am a Republican based on my hard work.  It’s not something that’s taught by the left.  If I were to listen to Democrats, I feel that they would let me know that by myself being in DC and where I am, I wouldn’t be able to hang around there for long.</p>
<p>I was able to spend the last couple days with Ann Coulter, and for me to be around her as I took pictures and sent it back through social media over the last few days, the responses that I got were absolutely unbelievable.  If I were to listen to my liberal followers, they would let me know that Ann would have flown up here on the dais on her broom with her witch hat, and I probably would have been shot and wouldn’t make it out of Florida.  I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen.  I work out every day, I think I could take her, a couple pounds give or take, I don’t know.</p>
<p>I have beaten every Democrat stereotype.  I have to deal with the question of how did you end up in the Republican Party?  What went wrong?  I know so many liberal politicians, and it’s the same thing, and they’re like, okay, when that’s done, you can come over here.  It hasn’t happened yet.</p>
<p>My thing is that I have &#8212; when I was a teenager I worked three jobs in order to move into my first place, which was a luxury apartment building.  Again, that was not easy.  Hard work is just one of my things.  For anyone who’s ever questioned what type of work ethic that I have, I feel like that is the basis or the crux of the Republican Party.  It’s about hard work.  I had a very hard-ass family.  They were very tough, and if anyone were to question if I actually work, those are like fighting words for me.  Aside from Change the Game, I do have an entertainment site, a political site.  I just joined Hip-Hop Republican, I’m with the Examiner.</p>
<p>I’m working 24 hours a day, and as for any of the arguments about racism and discrimination, they’ve never played any part in life for me.  I’ve never accepted excuses.  They don’t make any sense because I’m always too busy working.  I don’t have time to go over statistics.  Thank you.  When I turn on MSNBC and I see Al Sharpton speaking and I’m hearing about how awful things are &#8212; number one, I wouldn’t be able to get out of bed if I listened to him.  It’s too depressing.  But with that being said, I don’t have the time to look at it.  I have things to do. I work with staff, I have staff, and again, 24 hours a day.  I don’t drink coffee until 1:00 in the morning for nothing every night.</p>
<p>So that’s that, hard work, and the other thing, I wanted to mention: gay marriage.  Now, I don’t want to be shot up here.  I know that’s a form of profanity, and be nice because I can hear gag reflexes.  What I wanted to mention is that, in case no one’s noticed, I don’t think that I have to go over that, but I think that I would like to have a long-term relationship, and one of the arguments that I tend to have is, they say, well, you’re in a party that doesn’t like you.  And I said well, what are we, 12?  I think that I last stopped caring about anyone’s opinion in high school.  And I just explained to someone earlier, I said I went to four schools.  One closed for money laundering.  I moved around a couple times.  And I have never seen any of these people since then, which means that I am pretty sure that I have come out successful.  I think that’s really all that matters, and I don’t think that the government has any type of say in the end result of my life or anyone else’s life, period.  So a sheet of paper for anything really does not make that much of a difference.  If you decide to do something, I can have an attorney and say at the end of the day this is my shit, this is yours, when it is over you don’t touch my shit over here, and I will not touch yours over there.  End of discussion.  No one’s opinion mattered, and, again, the government, it didn’t matter.  I didn’t care.  In fact, I was engaged before, and I don’t think I even ever looked up to find out if it were legal.  I didn’t care.  I said I guess whenever it happens, hey, I have an attorney on speed dial.  That will be it.  But I just wanted to explain myself and how I’ve become a Republican, and that there is a myriad of people in demographics that are within the party.  So wanted to thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>The very first time I met with Javonni I didn’t know what to expect.  He had me laughing for three hours.  He is one of the funniest people that I have ever met in my entire life, and I am so proud to have him part of our team.</p>
<p>Now, our cowboy, because I told him, I said you kind of fit the stereotype, Billy.  Your name is Billy, dude, come on.  But if you don’t know this man, you might remember that some Obamacare people down in Texas got their money revoked. Obamacare &#8212; what are they called? &#8212; the navigators.  They got all of their financing snatched.  That’s my cowboy.  And now you can see him as a regular on Dana Loesch&#8217;s TV show on The Blaze, and he’s one of my favorite people in this entire world, Lawrence Billy Jones III.</p>
<p><strong>Lawrence Jones: </strong>Thank you for having me, and I want to thank my big sis for just inviting me to break bread with you guys and just talk about some issues.  I’m going to be very brief because we want to have some fun.  Years ago Frederick Douglass had given a speech, and he was really rallying the people in Washington DC to make a difference, and there were a lot of young people there.  And one of them, after the speech was over, Frederick Douglass, he was tired, and he was just ready to get back home, and that one child came up to him.  He said, Mr. Douglass, &#8220;Mr. Douglass, what can I do? How can I get involved? How can I make a difference?&#8221;  And Frederick Douglass gave him three words &#8211; agitate, agitate, agitate.</p>
<p>And when I joined my big sis’ organization I was pretty skeptical about joining any organization, but I knew that she knew what the real mission was, and she said, Lawrence, your name is going to be the community agitator.  And that’s exactly what I do.  I come from a background, my mom was 16 when she had me.  We had never had anything the easy way.  Everything was about working hard.  Ninth grade I was recruited by the Democratic Party to work for Obama.  They flew me out to DC.  We laid the groundwork to get him elected, working with Organizing for America, and they told me, sir, I don’t care what you believe, but you can never be a conservative because you are black.  Even though I agreed with the ideology, you could never be a conservative.</p>
<p>Well, we never had anything easy.  I had my first job when I was 15.  I was working at a leasing agency, and my godmother was white, and I said look, you’re different.  Well she said, I’m a Republican, and you see things just like me.  It was at that moment that I opened myself to what Republicans in the conservative movement were doing, and I figured out that I was lied to.  Oh, I was pissed.  I was mad as hell.  Y’all don’t understand, when I worked for the Democrats I did research.  I’m a private investigator by trade, and I dug up dirt.  I went after conservatives because I thought they were on the other side.  But when I got mad at liberals, they had something coming.</p>
<p>I spent two years traveling with organizations like Freedom Works trying to get the conservative message out there, and I was speaking from my investigative skills that we have to expose the left for what they really are.  We know what they’re about.  It’s about power, money and greed and whatever they need to do to deceive you to believe that Republicans and conservatives are against you, they will do it.</p>
<p>And I’m speaking this speech, and the crowd is like, what is he talking about?  And this man comes up to me, and he says, I need to really introduce you to somebody, and he introduces me to James O’Keefe.  I spent the next year undercover in the Democratic Party in Battleground Texas, and because of that we shut down the whole Navigator program in the state of Texas.  You can have Obamacare, but you can’t sign up in Texas.</p>
<p>And so back to my mission.  And been on cable news.  And that’s all fine and dandy.  Giving speeches is all fine and dandy, but if we cannot attract a different generation of leaders, if we cannot go to all communities across America, then we have done nothing.  And so what I do, I don’t come with my suit and tie on to those communities. I come with my Jordans, my Nikes, I come with sweats sometimes on, my cowboy boots and my hat, and I agitate the community because what is the problem today?  And we see this in Ferguson.  People are angry, but they’re mad at the wrong people.  And so it’s time for a new generation of leaders that aren’t afraid to go into different types of communities.  You know, I didn’t accept the RNC job because, like I told them, y’all trying to have a one night stand with black voters, and game recognize game.  You will never get them to vote for you if you just come during election time.  And so I go into these communities, and I agitate them.  You see what your congressman is doing?  Yeah, he’s black, too.  Do you realize he’s voting against your community?  What?  I got it on tape, you want to see it?  Do you see that when they sign you up for Obamacare they are storing your personal information then selling it out for political purposes?</p>
<p>What we have to realize is that we have a group of people that once they get sick and tired of being sick and tired, they will change the way they vote.  Once they get tired of being on food stamps, on housing, when they get tired of the government taking their money, when they get tired of staying in failing schools, they will change the way they vote.</p>
<p>It was when I realized that my parents worked for every single thing that we had and that my 16-year-old mother married my father and they built the family together, and nobody was going to rob me from that, that I changed the way I believed.  We got to get it, conservative, because we’re hooraying about this conservative victory that’s just taken place, but like I said on The Blaze the other day, we didn’t do anything.  We did absolutely nothing.  Candidates went around the country campaigning against Obama.  We didn’t really present our proposal.  That’s what we have to do conservatives.  The battle is not over yet.  We have to go into these communities, agitate, let them know who’s really against them, and once we expose the Democratic Party, the liberals and progressives for the frauds they are, it’s game over.  Time to change the game.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>And they keep trying to tell me I’m the only one.  All right, Ms. Kira. I bonded with her in a cornfield.  It’s true.  Look, everybody would laugh when they hear that.  No, we bonded in a cornfield, literally out in the middle of nowhere, and I found that just like me and Tracy, me and Kira don’t agree on everything.  But she is my favorite person on this earth to disagree with. Five minutes after our disagreement, we have a scotch in hand.  That’s my Kira Davis.</p>
<p><strong>Kira Davis: </strong>Yeah, you can clap for that.  Okay, thank you, Sonnie.  Yes, we did.  That’s a true story.  We did meet in the middle of a cornfield, and maybe I’ll tell that to you to you later if you want to hear it.  But one of the reasons that we don’t always agree on everything, my background’s a little different.  I’m actually an immigrant.  I immigrated from Canada at the age of 17.  I was born to a black American father and a white Canadian mother, and I was raised in eastern Canada for most of my life.  I didn’t meet my own father until I was ten years old.  He had left before my mother even knew she was pregnant.</p>
<p>But when I was ten, I had the opportunity to travel to the United States for the first time, a place I had only ever seen on TV.  I knew there were other black people, I just didn’t know where they were.  So I was really excited.  I flew by myself, and my dad’s family picked me up in Boston.  I got off the plane at Boston Logan Airport.  First time I ever set foot on American soil.  And I will never forgot how it smelled and felt and looked.  It was so different than where I had come from, a rural kind of fishing community, and it was vibrant.  There were so many different types of people I had never seen, black and brown and orange and yellow, and yeah, people with &#8212; and I was so amazed at how you could go anywhere and buy anything.  I know a lot of people are surprised to hear a Canadian say that, but Canadians don’t have the same kind of freedom that Americans have.  This brand of freedom we have in this country is very unique.  It’s unique to us.  It really does need to be protected.  I don’t think you realize that until you travel outside, but I remember that moment of all of those sights and sounds and smells coming down on me and thinking to myself, I’m going to be an American someday.</p>
<p>And from that moment on, it was my goal in life to become an American.  And I left home as soon as I could.  I came to school here in the U.S. and went to school in Iowa.  I met my husband there.  We married.  It still took ten years and thousands of dollars to get my citizenship, but I did it the right way.  It’s a privilege to be an American.  I can’t emphasize enough how honored I am to be American, and when I began serving in the black community, my husband and I had an after-school program, we would invite children to come and use computers, and we would tutor them and mentor them for free.  And I was, even though I was very passionate about America, I still was a socialist liberal because you’re in Canada you’re just by default hockey and socialism, they just go together.</p>
<p>And I realized, I’m serving this community, I’m realizing, all these policies that I have supported my whole life, I’m watching how they work, and they don’t.  And I just thought one day, I can’t do this anymore.  I’m not helping these kids, I’m distancing them from success with the politics of victimization and by telling them that white people don’t want you in their places.  I wasn’t incentivizing them, they were just becoming cogs in the machine.  And so it was during that time that I realized, no, I really am a conservative.  This is what I believe.  I started studying American history, and when I read the constitution for the first time, mind blown, like this is one of the most inspired documents on the face of the planet, the Bible, the Constitution of the United States of America.  Which is not an accident, which is not an accident.  They go hand in hand.</p>
<p>But I want to wrap up because we want to do some Q&amp;A. We want you guys to know how we view things as black Americans so that you might not be able to do what we do, but that you know what we want to do so you can at least support us, and that’s who we’re going to win this battle, that’s how we’re going to win back this country, by understanding we can’t all be on all fronts.  This is a war, but you have to know which battle you’re in.  Pick that battle, and do it.  So we’re in this battle, and so we want you to know a little bit about what we want to do. But before I go, this is what I want to say.  When I came here, even though as a teenager I was still pretty liberal, I still had the innate sense that there was something very special about the brand of freedom that is America, and now I tell my kids, look, just by being born in this country you are already five steps ahead of the game.  You’re already five steps ahead simply by accident of birth.  You need to nothing more than be born here to have more than almost everybody on this planet.  I don’t care if you live in the hood or the suburbs, it’s the same thing.  I say this all the time.  America doesn’t owe you an opportunity, America is the opportunity.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>One think I would ask is that you have a menu because in the beginning you said when you started this that we really need to know how to address the attacks, and you have given us some good examples today, and I appreciate that immensely.  So I would say at that table you need a menu for us, something that perhaps the Horowitz group can continue to share with us on how to handle some of these situations and issues.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>I will gather all my blog posts because basically that’s what I write about.  Continuously, personally, me, I have no choice but the two-pronged  approach because while I’m talking to the black community, I also have a conservative base, and my base doesn’t understand when I’m talking to the community, and my community doesn’t understand when I’m talking to the base.  So I always do a two-pronged approach.  I always will make sure that I have an argument that’s framed that fits the black community, and I have an argument that’s framed that conservatives can understand.  The problem is when people hear this they call it pandering.  No.  It’s knowing who your audience is.  It is the first step of owning any business or running any venture or anything else you do.  If you don’t know who your audience is, you will fail.  So I always take into account who it is I’m talking to.  It doesn’t matter, you’re going to get Sonnie Johnson either way.  That part of it isn’t going to change.  But I am aware and alert enough to understand that, and I will do that.  I will make that something that I do and make sure that, I guess I’ll work with David to see how we can make it available for everyone to be able to grab hold of it.</p>
<p><strong>Kira Davis: </strong>In the next few years it’s going to be really important, there’s going to be a lot of these young groups, these kids coming up, groups like us that will need your support.  So yeah, you might not be able to go into the hood and walk in and talk to people, and that’s fine, that’s okay.  But to find the people who are doing that and support them, that support is as valuable as a dynamic personality like a Sonnie Johnson.  So just keep that in mind as we move forward.  Find someone you like and can support and throw everything behind them.  It’s going to be more important than ever.  The field is ripe for the picking, and we’re on our way to a big win in 2016 if we can hold that.</p>
<p><strong>Lawrence Jones: </strong>Kira has been nice, but some conservatives just need to shut up when it comes to &#8212; seriously, and this is where Sonnie’s little bro comes into effect.  There are a lot of conservatives, some of them are black conservative, that are screwing it when it comes to race relations and going into these different communities because they do not know what to say.  If you don’t know what to say, shut up, it’s okay.  Get behind organizations that know exactly what they’re doing.  The RNC is not one.  They fail.  Okay.  So what we need is for people all across that are in Freedom Center to continue to support this movement.  It is proven, there’s a track record there where people are beginning to change their minds.  They’re listening in whether it’s a podcast, radio show or TV show because they want to know what these type of conservatives are talking about.  Thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson: </strong>As you can see, I am a lucky girl.  I am a happy girl, and David wasn’t here to hear this, but I am a sharp girl.  We look forward to 2015, and we’re going to show America how restoration starts with Change the Game.  Thank you all for coming.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to the panel discussion “The ObamaCare Battle,” which took place at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event was held Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p><strong>Larry Kawa: </strong>We’re going to be talking today a little bit about executive overreach.  It’s a phenomenon I think that America has become fatigued by.  The one good thing for the President about having so many scandals is each one of his next scandals kind of eclipses the previous scandal, so you can’t even think about it anymore.  The one that we’re here to talk about primarily today – we’ll start off with and then I have a couple other surprise scandals at the end I’ll throw in – is the employer mandate.  It’s one that’s been very near and dear to my heart, and thanks to the tremendous help of Judicial Watch, we’re doing very well at trying to enforce that component of the law, and I’m here today to start off by introducing to you my dear friend who is the president of Judicial Watch who does many, many things, only one of which is the great thing that he is doing to help with my lawsuit, which I will get to later in the program.  I’d like to take a moment to introduce to you Mr. Tom Fitton.  Tom, if you could please come up here.</p>
<p><strong>Tom Fitton:</strong> I thank you very much everybody, and I just have to be careful with talking to people at these meetings because I get as outraged as you do, and that’s what motivates us at Judicial Watch, and I joke, and it’s only half a joke.  I go to the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Outrage, and the pews are much more full these days, and there is a crisis in Washington.  It’s a crisis of lawlessness that others have already spoken about at this panel, and we could talk about Benghazi.  Judicial Watch has worked doing the work of Washington in getting the truth out on Benghazi, getting the truth out on the IRS scandals and also getting the truth out on Obamacare, and we’ve all seen this Gruber comment where he said that lack of transparency is a huge political advantage.  That’s Gruber’s point, and he got, what, $400,000.00 from the Health and Human Services to help push Obamacare, but that’s the guiding principle of President Obama, so the focus on Gruber is actually a misdirection, and our focus ought to be on President Obama.  He is the king of non-transparency.  He is the king of secrecy, secrecy that would probably have Nixon staring with his mouth agape, “Why didn’t I have his lawyers?”</p>
<p>The President began his presidency with the premise: we’ll be the most transparent administration in history, and when we do this healthcare law, C-Span’s gonna be at the table and anyone promoting the drug companies, that will be on C-Span and all the special interests will be held accountable as a result of the transparency he committed to.  Well, we all know how that turned out, and Judicial Watch had to sue to get information about those meetings at the White House.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to get information about how many people are participating in Obamacare.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to find out about the propaganda efforts behind Obamacare.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to find out about the navigators behind Obamacare.  Judicial Watch has had to sue to find out about the security of the healthcare web site.  Transparency is a bad word with the Obama administration, and so Gruber, he’s a sidebar issue, and we need to focus on the stonewalling and the secrecy of this administration.</p>
<p>Today the administration opened up healthcare.gov for the next enrollment period next year.  Well, the information about the pricing of the insurance policies was released last night to the New York Times.  Guess when the election was, and the New York Times reports that unless you change your healthcare plan, you’re going to get an increase of 20 percent, and that was a data dump to the New York Times on the Friday after this election.  Now, they knew those numbers long before, and they would not release them prior.  When did Obamacare open last year?  October 1<sup>st</sup>.  This year the middle of November.  Guess when the notices were allowed to be sent out by the Obama administration from the states telling people what they needed to do in terms of the next year’s healthcare plan?  Guess what day the letter was approved; November 5<sup>th</sup>, the day after the election.  So, it’s outrageous but you know what?  It puts people in jeopardy.  It means people may be double enrolled.  It may be people don’t have healthcare.  It may be people don’t know what the opportunities are to protect themselves in case of catastrophe as a result of the health insurance that we’re all paying for being made available to them.  So this transparency is more than just about the operations of government, and we want government to operate well.  It’s about protecting people and making sure that the government’s accountable and that we have the ability to govern ourselves.</p>
<p>Now, I say we had to sue, but why did we have to sue?  Where was the media?  Where is Congress?  Frankly, where are honest people in the federal government?  And, we found out why we had to sue, and, by the way, every lawsuit is an indication they’re violating the Freedom of Information Act.  We don’t sue because there’s no case to be had, it’s because they’re not following the law, and we know that the cover up is significant.  We know the number of signups.  How many people do you think signed up the first day of Obamacare?  It’s was a big controversy, right?  No one asked about it.  We did.  We sued.  One person signed up the first day of Obamacare. One person.  Well, there was a little bit of a controversy in the documents we obtained because someone said maybe two people signed up.  I want you to think about if we knew one person signed up the first day of Obamacare back in October of last year as opposed to the summer of this year when we obtained the information, how different the debate would have been.  We were able to get documents showing the PR campaign, the propaganda effort, hundreds of millions of dollars going to Obama-connected PR firms to “do behavioral change.”  We found that money was being pushed out, especially in the seven days before the 2010 election.  Again, where is the oversight by Congress?  We found out information about the security of the Obamacare web site.  Think about that.  The documents we have show that the Obama administration knew before the opening of healthcare.gov last year that it was an unsecure web site.  The details they refused to divulge to Congress, but we got the details from them.  Essentially, any joke of a hacker could upload an Excel spreadsheet or an Excel type of program and just gum up the works.  They weren’t tracking what the security flaws were.  I mean anyone who owns a business, anything related to IT, you’re looking for problems, you basically have to keep a list of what the problems are so you can address them all.  They weren’t even doing that and, in fact, they knew it was insecure, and what were the fix-it dates for them?  Months after the healthcare.gov was opened, months.  So, I can tell you if you’re putting information on healthcare.gov, you’re putting your personal information at risk, and, tying it back to the IRS scandal, guess who collects your information about whether you have health insurance, thanks to the individual mandate.  The IRS, and guess who they click with to make sure everyone’s on the same page; this healthcare.gov web site.  So, this unsecure web site – with the IRS web site and services which are also not terribly secure – my gosh, a hacker’s dream.  So, forget about K-Mart or Target or all those businesses who are being dragged and maybe criminally prosecuted by this administration.  Their criminal neglect of our privacy and their knowing neglect in putting our privacy at risk so they wouldn’t have to deal with the political consequences of admitting that the web site screwed up is really beneath contempt.</p>
<p>But, on top of the lack of transparency we’ve got the law breaking.  Now, the debate is whether we repeal Obamacare.  The public wants Obamacare repealed, but let me tell you what the dirty little secret is.  It has been repealed.  The Obamacare of 2010 is no longer in existence.  Now, it’s been repealed, in part, correctly as a result of legislation passed by Congress, signed into law by the President, but also the President himself has repealed it, taking the role of judge, legislature, and President all at once.  And, as Larry indicated most famously – well, perhaps most famously now – with the pushing back the statutory deadline on the employer mandate, and in the case of Dr. Carlisle, his business.  He was doing the right thing.  He prepped.  He knew this employer mandate was coming down the line.  He spent a good deal of money and a good deal of time that could have otherwise been spent pursing, expanding his business further, which is already tremendously successful, and so Obama says, “The law doesn’t apply to me.  I don’t have to follow the law, and I can just, without any cause, any authority, just ignore it.”  He’s out of all of his money.  He has standing, and we sued to challenge his ability to do that, and in that lawsuit, in highlighting it, we talked about this old U.S. Grant quote saying, “The best way to ensure the repeal of a bad law is to enforce it vigorously,” and President Obama has learned that and that’s why, at least, there’s like 24 changes to the law he’s unilaterally made in absolute violation of the law.</p>
<p>And let me tell you, this lawlessness has ensnared everyone else.  Congress, we have sued the District of Columbia over Congress’s participation in the small business exchange.  The House of Representatives, the small business exchange that DC has, limited to people with 50 employees or under.  You literally have to list – because I know because we’re a District of Columbia business, Judicial Watch, we’re located there – to apply in the exchange you have to list every employee and their birthdate.  Guess how the House of Representatives did it?  They just wrote Congress, birthdate 1994 – maybe there was a political statement there – nothing else.  Guess how many employees the House and the Senate have together; 20,000.  So, we get these forms that a representative of the House and the Senate made attesting under oath that they employee less than 50 people.  So, I want you – just a little activism – ask your member, do you have healthcare under this Obamacare exchange?  Do you know that it was obtained through fraudulent means, and what are you gonna do about it?  Maybe that’s one thing for the Republican Congress to do, heal thyself.  The lawlessness includes the judiciary where you had, frankly, Chief Justice Roberts rewrite Obamacare in order to save it, and the lawlessness extends to us where we’re forced to obey laws that weren’t passed by Congress.  There’s nothing to justify them other than raw power being exercised by the President, but we have to follow them in order to get health insurance.</p>
<p>So, the lawlessness of President Obama isn’t just about President Obama, it ensnares us all, and we’re happy to do the work to kind of bring back our ability to govern ourselves, but talking about Obamacare lawlessness, talking about Obama lawlessness, doesn’t really cover it.  The system is broken down.  Judicial Watch did all this great work that is talked about with Obamacare with the Benghazi and the IRS, and I’m proud of our work and pleased to have done it, but what an outrage that it was this little old group in Judicial Watch that’s asking questions about how many people are enrolled in Obamacare.  Why are we asking the questions?  Why are we suing in court?  This President doesn’t believe he is subject to the law.  We know that from other discussions.  The agencies he runs don’t think they’re accountable to the people, and Congress signs checks with their eyes closed and shows up like a fire department after the house burns down and yells &#8220;fire.&#8221;  Meanwhile, previously, we’re giving gasoline and matches to the 3-year-old in the house and wondering why the house burned down.  Really, when there’s no control like that, that’s not self-government and, in my view, we’ve got the appearances of self-government.  You vote.  There are elections, but if Congress goes back, doesn’t want to conduct any oversight, just gives blank checks to unelected bureaucrats, and if the President doesn’t think he is accountable to the law, if you think that’s self-government, it isn’t.  So, we present a way forward through this independent activity – lawsuits direct at lawsuits@govermentlawlessness, using the law to get transparency and accountability – and that’s the way forward.  We’ve got to get our government back under control.</p>
<p>Talk about policy is almost irrelevant in the meantime and actually dangerous because the criminal class is running Washington.  It’s a racket, and until there’s an honest game going on, we shouldn’t play it, and the way to play it and to make it more honest is to get that accountability back and that ought to be the focus of any new Congress, both honest Democrats and Republicans, and that ought to be the focus of what we’re doing here as a movement and I really appreciate Mr. Horowitz’s approach to what’s going on in Washington.  A) He’s not in Washington and he recognizes the crisis, and if we recognize the crisis this doesn’t mean oh, it’s insurmountable as a result.  It means that at least we know what the problem is so we’re not fooling ourselves with wasted efforts on silly things that don’t impact the fundamentals.</p>
<p>And so when I hear Mitch McConnell, for instance, saying, “Well, we need 60 votes to repeal Obamacare, and it’s not gonna happen.”  Well, why is that?  Where is the can-do attitude?  Maybe it will happen.  Obamacare has been repealed.  Who knows, the Supreme Court may rule later this year that the subsidies are illegally being given to people in certain faiths and it’s eviscerated, and Democrats may say, “Well, what’s there to save, let’s repeal it.”  It’s that sort of proactive leadership.  It’s that we’ve got to get something done, and I tell you, Obamacare is destroying our healthcare system.  People will die because of it.  Our house is burning.  We need to protect the family and the treasures, and Congresses need to understand the importance of that, and if it means making sure the President follows the law through a lawsuit that gets a law that we don’t like implemented, so be it.  And if it means that members of Congress and their staff have to pay more money for Obamacare, so be it, but we’ve got to protect ourselves.</p>
<p>So, these are nonpartisan issues.  Corruption, transparency, there’s a reason President Obama talks about transparency.  I know it’s the big lie of his administration because he appeals to people who support him as well, and I can tell you, having worked with groups on the left, they like transparency too.  They don’t understand that when you have a big government and big money transparency is very hard to achieve, but they like it in theory.  Take it for what it’s worth.  So, there are ways to reach across the aisles that don’t require us to leave our principles at the door, but getting government under control, making sure that the politicians are accountable to the people, making sure that businesses aren’t being – in the case of President Obama’s insurance commissar, Kathleen Sebelius – being shaken down to support Obama’s third-party group Enroll America.  I mean, Sebelius was out there campaigning on government time, violated the Hatch Act; first cabinet official in U.S. history.  Hatch Act prevents you from campaigning as a government official on government time.  She should have been fired.  Obama left her in.</p>
<p>I mean this is a crisis and Judicial Watch, I think, is recognizing it and has a way forward to address it, and I appreciate Dr. Carlisle’s participation with us because without a client we can’t do the lawsuit so it’s just great work, and I have to say, do not let up.  Hold your members to account and don’t let them say, “Well, this is the plan.”  No, they’re individually accountable, and it’s about time the individual members be accountable to you, and this is the story I want to leave you with:  Larry Carlisle is a business man down here in Florida, a successful businessman, and he is not cowed by the fact – he is a business man who is not a politician, not a public policy expert – that he can’t talk to politicians in Washington about what they’re supposed to do and what ideas they need to pursue or to lawyers at Judicial Watch.  I’m not a lawyer, but telling them, “Well, hey this is an idea.  Why don’t we do this?”  It’s that sort of, hey, you’re citizens of this grand republic and you need to participate too and don’t be shy about holding those politicians to account, and my guess is most of you are significant enough in your communities to get members of Congress to return your calls, and you should be pushing these issues.  So, with that, I can talk forever about Obama corruption and the situation in Washington.  I’ll end my remarks, and I encourage you to support Judicial Watch, obviously. We’re 300,000 active supporters, by the way.  You wouldn’t know that, would you, but isn’t that a sign to conservatives looking for a way forward, Republicans, honest Democrats? Wow, this Judicial Watch, all they do is talk about transparency, accountability in government, rule of law, and look at all the support they’re getting.  Is there a lesson there?  I think there is.  Thank you very much.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Reagan: </strong>I’m actually here as eye candy.  And today I’m not even worried about Obamacare ‘cause I’m on Medicare, and those of you who are on Medicare with me, you know exactly what I’m talking about.  And so what I, it’s the younger generation has to understand what’s going on.  And, what really kinda, excuse me, ticks me off is, I’d like to see Obamacare rolled back and gotten rid of ‘cause I don’t want my 26-year-old child living in the home anymore.  Does anybody have your 26-year-old child living at home?  Get them the hell out.  You know how I became an empty nester?  I bought another house and moved to it.  My son’s still living in the old house wondering where his parents went.  That’s what you need to do.</p>
<p>But I tell you, up here, because then we all go back, and I would really suggest this, ‘cause we all know the story, but we really have to bring another generation of people in who are going to be paying that 20 percent increase in their care and you really need to sit them in a room, the young generation, and let them listen to a speech my father gave back in 1962 on socialized medicine because he warned us back in 1962 what was gonna happen and, guess what, it happened and we’re all here now with socialized medicine with Obamacare.  My wife earlier this year, it&#8217;s interesting, she had to have rotator cuff surgery and so she went down to have her MRI done and she went for the MRI and they said, well, Mrs. Reagan your insurance, you still haven’t paid the full deductible on your insurance, but the reality of it is that, can you just give us a check for $350.00?  She said why?  She said because we’ll actually make a bigger profit if you give us a check for $350.00 than if we charge your insurance company for the MRI we’re gonna give you.  So my wife wrote a check for 350 bucks, got the MRI and then went and had the shoulder surgery a couple of weeks later and then the outpatient surgery center billed the insurance company $87,000.00 for rotator cuff surgery.  I mean, our system needs help.  I think we all agree to that.  But having socialized medicine is not the answer.</p>
<p>And what I really think about and Tom, maybe you could answer this question, Larry, ‘cause I go out and speak on this, I think that members of Congress, I think the insurance companies, I think the banking industry, I think every major industry in this country, oil and gas, you name it, I think they are scared to death of this administration and what might happen to their industry if in fact they go after the President of the United States of America, and I think we all saw that and see that what happened with the whole IRS scandal.  And they’re absolutely scared to death.  I mean you have an insurance industry today who doesn’t say anything about what’s going on because what do they get?  They got a reinsurance policy.  So they are guaranteed 100 percent of their losses are recovered in the first 2 or 3 years of Obamacare.  They got bought off before they went in the game so when they talk about too big to fail, they’ve now insured them against being too big to fail so we’ll never face that again.  There are so many things that are in fact going on, like one of the best reactions to one of the tweets I sent out &#8212; and by the way, David, are you here, or Michael Finch &#8212; should be #freedomcenter, just to let you know.  One of the biggest reactions I got is one time you were talking about, Tom, about Congress living up to the law that they passed on to us and the tweet that I sent out was “How would you feel if every member of Congress was made to pee in a bottle before and after every vote?”  And if you didn’t pass the pee test, then your vote didn’t count.  I think that’s, I’d like to see that law passed tomorrow.  Because I really think sometimes after they vote, don’t you think, my God would they pass the drug test themselves?  But again, it’s going to take all of us and really staying in touch –</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong>I know at least one who would fail.</p>
<p><strong>Michael Reagan: </strong>Yeah.  Yeah.  But it’s really upon us to stay on top of our members of the House, members of the Senate, but also be really educating the youth of America as they come out of that 26-year-old and started having to pay the fees and pay the prices here and with their prices going up.  It’s not getting cheaper and the death panels are there.  They’re all there.  We know that now.  Now it’s a matter of getting it out and we can’t just sit back and say, well, wait a minute, the dominant media is not going to cover it.  No, they’re not gonna cover it.  They’re never gonna cover it.  So, it’s up to us to be screaming from the mountain tops and doing something about it and as I said this morning when I was speaking, you can’t just come to these events, listen to Tom, listen to Larry, listen to David, listen to Mike, listen to Michele Bachmann, listen to Ann Coulter, listen to everybody and then go home and say that was a wonderful time, I had the greatest time of my life at the Breakers, and listen to all these great speakers and go home and do nothing.  You’ve gotta go home and do something.  Because if you go home and do nothing, then Obama wins.  If you go home and do nothing, the left wins.  And that’s what they’re counting on is for you to come to this, go home, and do nothing.  And so through your support of the Freedom Center is one thing, but you also have to be vocal at home.  You have to be involved at home.  And you have to be educational at home.  And if you do that, then we will win the day.  If we don’t do that and we just show up for these conferences, we are going to lose the day and let me tell you, the world cannot afford for America to lose.  My God, where are the Canadians gonna go now for healthcare?  So I’ll turn it back to you, Larry.</p>
<p><strong>Larry Kawa: </strong>So many scandals and lies out there.  It’s hard to pick one that’s really your favorite.  So, just last night I get back to my room and I decide it would be interesting to do another FOIA request before I get into mine briefly.  So I said, they say that the Keystone Pipeline, the President didn’t want to agree to it yet because he was waiting for some research, he’s always waiting for something, waiting for some research to come back so I go on the Department of Energy’s FOIA request, like most people probably do at midnight, go into their Carlsbad Division and I look under the Waste Isolation Pilot Program to complete my FOIA request and it says to complete this you need to have RB Media.  It’s a government subcontractor.  So, I said okay, I go to RB Media, go on rbmediasolutions.com, you’re welcome to go on your phones right now, and go on rbmediasolutions.com, a government subcontractor.  So I’ll read to you what it says on their web site, “Notice,” this is their landing page, “We apologize for the downtime over past several weeks.  Our server was attacked by an Islamic group and we are in the process of getting everything back in order.”  It’s hard not to mention fun stuff like that.  This is a government subcontract.  But in any event, getting back on point, back in March 2013 I spent money on legal fees to make sure that my business, which is an orthodontic business in Boca Raton, was compliant with a law that I didn’t agree with, the Obamacare law.  I might not like it, but I have respect for the Constitution, I’m a law-abiding citizen, so I paid some lawyers to make sure that my business is in compliance with the law.  Being that I have more than the required minimum of 50, I am technically a large employer, it affects me and a few more months go by, July 2, 2013 on his first day of an 8-day-long, $100 million trip that the taxpayer paid for to Africa, as he flees his own country, our Commander in Chief, decides he’s gonna tweet.  He tweets that he is going to wave the employer mandate.  Now that’s a head scratcher.</p>
<p>It says in the law that it shall go into effect January 1, 2014.  How does that happen?  Well, the day goes on and there’s a blog post from the Department of the Treasury, later memorialized by IRS Memorandum 2013-45 standing behind him saying we agree with his tweet; even though it says it nowhere in the law, we’re gonna change it to be January 1, 2015.  Now, it doesn’t say may, it says shall.  I’m not good at a lot of things, but English I’m okay with.  Shall go into effect and now suddenly it’s not.  I want to remind you that the purpose of any type of executive action is only one.  It is to better enforce the existing laws.  Let’s just go back to the basics of the Constitution.  Article 1 says that only Congress can make or change a law.  Article 2 says only the President has an affirmative fiduciary duty to enforce the existing laws.  Therefore, there’s nothing you could do by executive action to better enforce a date of January 1, 2014 by making it a year later making it January 1, 2015.  Now, there’s a question that I often see asked in the news, which I still haven’t seen the right answer to.  The question is, if this president hasn’t done anymore executive orders than any other president, he’s done less than 200, so did George W. Bush, how you gonna claim that he’s a tyrant?  Why is he ruling by executive fiat?  Well, here’s the answer, which I’ve learned from Tom and his group, terrific group, I’ve been educated along the way, it’s because there are other types of executive actions other than executive orders.</p>
<p>If you want to see every president’s executive orders, it’s not hard.  Go on Wikipedia.  Put in the two words and they’ll list them for every president.  However, tweets, blog posts, signing statements, and inter-department memorandums are also executive actions that carry with it a very similar authority.  So, contrary to popular belief, the employer mandate was not waived by executive order.  It was waived by executive action.  Now if you, this is really the kicker, if you added up all of the executive actions that this present president has done compared with other presidents, it blows away everything all the other presidents have done combined.  Just like the amount of increase in the national debt this president has done.  In six years he’s accumulated as much debt as 233 years of the United States of all these other presidents, 43 other presidents.  Well, he’s also broken the record with executive actions, not necessarily executive orders, but they have the same force and effect.  He has poked his finger in the eye of the Constitution and I had had enough and that’s when I called up Tom and the rest of the group at Judicial Watch and they graciously agreed to take the case and defend both me and defend the Constitution and you might say, well, why doesn’t Congress do something?  Well, in order to bring a lawsuit, I want you to bear in mind that the judicial branch under Article 3 of the Constitution only resolves actual disputes or controversies.  They do not step into the legislative system and resolve controversies between the executive branch and the legislative branch.  It’s not like two children are coming to their mom, that’s the courts, and saying come on, he said, she said.  It doesn’t work that way.  You have to have standing.</p>
<p>And with due respect to John Boehner who has said that he is going to bring a case on the employer mandate, I wish him the best of luck at trying to show that he has standing, injury.  Injury is only one of three components of standing.  You also have to show that the cause of your injury is an executive overreach and you have to show remedy.  You have to show that the courts can patch the bleeding by intervening.  My injury is the fact that I spent thousands of dollars of my money to make sure that my business was in compliance with a law that I didn’t agree with and all that I ask of the President is to simply do the same thing that I did.  Obey the law.  But I guess I was asking a little bit too much.  He governs by his mood ring.  Every day he looks at it and, well I would say he would look at what color it is, but like everyone would say, I’m a racist; the color of his mood ring, okay.  So then he decides what the law’s gonna be each day.  Well, when he waived the employer mandate on July 2, 2013, the reason that he brought it up was because he said large employers, like myself, need transition relief.  Nobody asked for it.  I didn’t ask for it.  Never even heard the phrase before he made it up; he’s got some good catchy phrases, he’s a wordsmith, but if you want to give transition relief, don’t give it to large employers, give it to the people that really need it, the average working American with calloused hands.  Waive the individual mandate.  I didn’t hear anything about that.</p>
<p>So, he waives the employer mandate and one question I have about the employer mandate is, how can you both love creating jobs, while you want to punish the job creators?  The liberals have the jargon down.  They say eat the rich, the wealthy, let’s punish them.  Nobody ever got a job from a poor man, right?  So, do you think it makes it easier or harder to create jobs, when you put more bricks in the knapsack of success of those who do so?  So, I think that’s really a message that needs to resonate with the left.  I doubt that they want to cover stuff like that, but if they really want to show the truth, that’s one way.  But, in terms of their ability to help get the truth out, let’s just say, I don’t want to say that they lie, but they’re a little bit challenged in that respect.  I think that they should be more willing to get out stuff like what Judicial Watch does, like what Michael Reagan talks about when he goes around the country speaking, and explain stuff like this, and understand why, when you hear the President say, I am going to do everything to make things a better America, and if Congress won’t agree with me, I’m going to go ahead, as a Congress of one, and just march forward and do it alone, like some sort of renegade James-Dean version of Congress.  That’s not how the Constitution was written.  If you want to, oh I love you, too, Mike.  Thank you.  That was very kind of you.  I really appreciate that.  And I can’t marry you.  I’m already married, come on.  Not in this state.  That was a very sweet thing, but in any event, there is a lot of stuff like that that goes on.</p>
<p>And I also want to let you know there’s another interesting thing that you’ll see, and I know I’ve got to be brief.  The Department of Defense was blamed by the President for having no strategy on ISIS.  You may remember that he said that the reason he had no strategy on ISIS is because he was waiting for options and direction from the Department of Defense, and they just never got back to him on it.  So, listen, stuff happens.  You get busy, right?  So I said, you know what?  I’m walking by my Jeep.  I have a bumper sticker on it and it says on the back, what would Reagan do?  There’s a picture of your dad, not you, Michael.  So, I said he would trust, but verify.  So, I sent that on my iPhone and I do a Freedom of Information Act request, requesting for all communications between the Executive Branch and the Department of Defense.  Somebody should ask, what did you say?  There’s a lot of stuff going on with this ISIS thing, you might have heard about.  Normally, these things take about a year, to a year and a half to get back; 8 weeks later I get a response from the Chief of the Pentagon, FOIA Division, and I thought Christmas came early.  I mean, it basically said that we have gone &#8212; and by the way if you want to see it, I have a catchy little web site I have.  Fortunately, the President let it lapse.  It was obamaforpresident.org, from the same great minds &#8212; feel free to go on your iPhones now and check it, if you want &#8212; that had healthcare.gov.  They let his main campaign web site lapse, so I took it and I posted this response, signed by &#8212; oh, this is like the Ginsu.  Don’t answer yet.  I’ve also got votehilary.com and hilaryforpresident.com.  Yes, for real.  Go on it.  You’ll see videos of me.  Okay?  Who says we don’t have social media?  So, I posted this response, signed by the Chief of the Pentagon’s FOIA Division.  So, I call him up.  I say, you know, I thought Christmas came early.  I mean, this basically nails the President to the cross.  It says there is absolutely no communication, at all, between the Department of Defense and the Executive Branch.  I said am I missing something?  This just sounds too good to be true, and Hannity covered this last Thursday, by the way.  I think you’ll hear more about it.  It sounds too good to be true.  Could there be classified documents that are missing?  He says no.  He says we actually took it upon ourselves to expand the scope of your request, something they never do, and we searched for ISIS strategy, ISIL strategy, Iraq strategy and Syria strategy, not only with the Executive Branch, like you asked, but we also searched the entire National Security Council.  I said who’s we?  He says me.  I looked through every one of the emails for Secretary of State John Kerry and his deputy, National Security Advisor Susan Rice and her deputy.  I went through Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and his deputy, Robert Work.  There was nothing.  I went through CENCOM Central Command and all of their nine combatant command divisions, nothing at all.  He goes, the only thing that we were more surprised about, than having zero results, is thinking that you are the only one that asked.  So, I said well maybe this time, you got lucky.  So, in closing, I don’t want to jeopardize my friendship with Mike.  I know you guys are on a short runway here.  I’m going to skip Q&amp;A, if that’s okay with Mike, and thank you guys for your time.  Please visit the web site.  You’ll see everything else about what we’re doing.  Enjoy the rest of your day.</p>
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		<title>How Language Shapes Freedom and Tyranny — on The Glazov Gang</title>
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<p style="text-align: left;">In this special two-part-series, <em>The Glazov Gang </em>brings together two freedom fighters from totalitarian environments to unveil the links between linguistics and liberty.</p>
<p>In the first episode, <strong>Kai Chen</strong>, China’s Basketball Superstar and the author of <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/One-Billion-Journey-Toward-Freedom/dp/1425985025">One In A Billion: Journey Toward Freedom,</a> </i>joins the Gang to discuss <strong>How Language Shapes Freedom and Tyranny</strong><em>, </em>analyzing the links between linguistics and liberty.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">In the second episode, <strong>Nonie Darwish, </strong>a modern day freedom fighter and the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Devil-Dont-Know-Revolutions/dp/1118133390"><em>The Devil We Don’t Know: The Dark Side of Revolutions in the Middle East,</em></a> joins the Gang to discuss: <strong>How Arabic Stifles Individualism and Freedom<em>, </em></strong>shedding light on how the Arabic language impedes psychological growth and sabotages the path to democracy:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>1. Kai Chen:</strong> <strong>How Language Shapes Freedom and Tyranny.</strong></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">2. <strong>Nonie Darwish:</strong> <strong>How Arabic Stifles Individualism and Freedom<em>.</em></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2014 05:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The significance of Islam's teaching to smile in unbelievers' faces, but to curse them in one's heart.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was guest-hosted by Scholar of Islam <strong>Louis Lionheart </strong>and joined by Scholar of Comparative Religion<strong> <strong> <strong>Anthony Rogers.</strong> </strong></strong></p>
<p>Mr. Rogers joined the show to discuss <strong>Allah: The Greatest Deceiver?</strong>, analyzing the significance of Islam&#8217;s teaching to smile in unbelievers&#8217; faces &#8212; but to curse them in one&#8217;s heart. The discussion occurred within a focus on <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: Their Application,</strong> in which Mr. Rogers dissected a religion&#8217;s teachings and their earthly incarnations.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss <strong>Part I</strong> of this discussion with<b> Anthony Rogers</b>, in which he discussed <strong>Islamic Literary Sources: What They Are, </strong>focusing on the theological materials that Muslims base their beliefs on.</p>
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