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		<title>&#8216;The Great Betrayal&#8217; Defends Those Who Won’t Defend Themselves</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Horowitz’s new book unveils the Democrats' treachery in Iraq -- and the tragedy and bloodshed it spawned. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gb.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-246525" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gb-238x350.jpg" alt="gb" width="238" height="350" /></a><strong>To order &#8220;The Great Betrayal,&#8221; Volume III of David Horowitz&#8217;s &#8220;<a href="http://www.blackbookoftheamericanleft.com">Black Book of the American Left</a>,&#8221; click <a href="http://horowitzfreedomcenterstore.org/collections/books/products/the-black-book-of-the-american-left-volume-iii-the-great-betrayal">here</a>.<br />
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<p><em>Volume III: the Great Betrayal</em>, the latest installment of David Horowitz’s <em>Black Book of the American Left</em> (Second Thought Books, 2014), does what George Bush wouldn’t do: defend himself from a personalized left-wing onslaught. Horowitz’s book provides an understanding of the order of battle the Left used during the Bush administration to delegitimize Bush’s foreign policy and ultimately destroy Bush’s brand, and why it happened.</p>
<p>How this happened, and Bush’s ineffective response, isn’t just a nostalgic journey through the last decade. Bush’s ineffective response to the Left holds lessons for the incoming Republican congressional majority as well as GOP White House hopefuls who will face the same progressive buzzsaw. But <em>the Great Betrayal</em> also has tough lessons for American voters. Modern political debate isn’t conducted between two camps seeking the same goals through different means. It is a debate between two wholly opposed worldviews, and if Americans fail to realize the true nature of the Left, liberty is threatened. Will voters support candidates who understand this, or pick yet another nominee for President who seems not to understand?</p>
<p>As President Bush fought wars against Islamic terror from 2003-2009, first the institutional Left, and then the institutional Democratic Party fought a rhetorical war of destruction against Bush. “Yet the president has blundered in one particular way that cannot be attributed to internal foes,” Horowitz writes. “He has failed to sell the war adequately to the American people, and to answer the charges coming from his left flank. In the presidential television debates, for example, he chided Senator Kerry for saying the war in Iraq was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time. ‘This confuses people,’ the President said. It does more than that,” Horowitz chides.</p>
<p>Here we see classic Bush-clan caution with language. Deflecting Kerry’s charge with kind prose might be appropriate at the Kennebunk River Club, but in the modern national debate, something sharper is required. I encountered the same public relations strategy when I worked at the Justice Department during the Bush administration. One favorite tactic included – <em>Responding to the attack will just prolong the story</em>. That approach obviously failed because ten years later the story that President Bush was a failure is still going strong.</p>
<p>Another tactic was – <em>Responding will just lend legitimacy to the story</em>. The Bush administration failed to understand that the media environment was transforming in fundamental and permanent ways. The attack by a left-wing blog, purportedly not worthy of response, became a headline in the <em>New York Times</em> months later. Narrative was germinating amongst the activists on the far left, implanting among the many new left-wing blog sites, and eventually reaching full maturity in the papers and network media the Bush administration took seriously. Instead of confronting the leftist narrative in the seemingly outlandish blogosphere, the Bush administration allowed the attacks to mature unimpaired. What’s worse, when the attacks matured, as it did with Senator Kerry’s attack, Camp Bush seemed more comfortable debating intellectual points than responding with a mighty rhetorical fist in the nose.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the failure to fully comprehend the nature of the leftist attacks still haunts us. Those unrebutted attacks on Bush defined the 2008 election. “The domestic divisions over both wars were initiated by a radical left whose agendas went far beyond the conflicts themselves,” Horowitz begins <em>the Great Betrayal</em>. “[I]n 2008, the party nominated a senator from its anti-war ranks who became the 44<sup>th</sup> president of the United States.”</p>
<p>The history described in <em>the Great Betrayal</em> is particularly relevant over the next two years. Many in the Republican Party, particularly in Congressional leadership, seem not to understand the Left’s order of battle. Instead of recognizing the power of the new conservative media, they still seem to care what the <em>New York Times</em> says. Instead of recognizing the malignant pedigree of the current gang governing in Washington, some still use rhetorical slogans from a vanished time, such as making Washington “work” or “finding common ground.” Many in the GOP fully understand the new media battlespace and the genuine radicalism of the modern Democratic Party. Unfortunately, not everyone does, and <em>the Great Betrayal</em> documents the unashamedly radical anti-constitutional core of the modern Democrats.</p>
<p><em>The Great Betrayal</em> makes it clear that something more than differences of opinion characterize the dispute between left and right. Congressman Ron Dellums provides one example of many contained in the book. Horowitz takes readers back to the Reagan administration, when a communist regime, with Soviet oversight, was elongating runways on the Caribbean island of Grenada. The threat of a new Soviet client state able to launch bomber and fighter forces so close to America was too much for President Ronald Reagan. American military forces in 1983 invaded and extinguished the threat.</p>
<p>What the Marines found in Grenada is astonishing. Documents seized showed that Dellums had coordinated his domestic opposition to Reagan’s Grenada policy with the communist junta in Grenada, going so far as to provide draft reports for the regime to edit before being published by the House of Representatives. Horowitz describes the materials found on Grenada by the Marines, including a letter from Dellums’ chief of staff Carlottia Scott. The letter to the communist dictator said Dellums was “really hooked on you and Grenada and doesn’t want anything to happen to building the Revolution and making it strong.   . . . The only other person that I know of that he expresses such admiration for is Fidel.”</p>
<p>The emissary for these pro-communist efforts to undermine America? Current Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA). “Another document liberated by the Marines contained the minutes of a Politburo meeting attended by the Communist dictator and his military command. ‘Barbara Lee is here presently and has brought with her a report on the international airport that was done by Ron Dellums. They have requested that we look at the document and suggest any changes we deem necessary. They will be willing to make the changes,’” records <em>the Great Betrayal</em>.</p>
<p>There is no common ground to be found with someone like Barbara Lee. There is no language too strong to condemn the Left’s open collusion with the enemies of America, whether in 1983, 2004 or in the years ahead.</p>
<p>Dellums’ collusion with America’s enemies served as a taste of what was to come. Horowitz notes Dellums was “the first Sixties radical to penetrate the political mainstream.” After colluding with the communist enemies of America, Dellums went on to serve as Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, complete with the requisite security clearances.</p>
<p>The Left is still playing the long game against America. Why? Horowitz:</p>
<blockquote><p>“America is revolutionary because it is a society based on institutions and values that are inclusive, tolerant, democratic, anti-authoritarian, libertarian, and conservative (skeptical of majorities, based on a deeply held moral individualism).”</p></blockquote>
<p>I would submit it is even worse. There is now a clear and undeniable correlation between secular hostility toward religion and political ideology, excluding the small Muslim population in the United States. Those who tend to believe (or respect) in universal religious truths, tend to be on the right side of the spectrum. Those who demean, attack and deny universal religious truths tend to be leftists. Because America was founded on universal truths regarding the dignity of man, our nation is in the crosshairs domestically, and around the world.</p>
<p>In the past, particularly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, these attacks were directed elsewhere, and not as directly at core American institutions like the Constitution, religious liberty or the family. “What has changed is that the enemy is so nakedly the aggressor against us and not, for example, a hapless Third World people like the South Vietnamese,” notes Horowitz. “What has changed is not that our declared enemy is more evil than the Soviet enemy, but that he is more <em>transparently </em>failing to pay even lip service to ‘social justice’ and other left-wing values as the communists did.”</p>
<p>Horowitz can decode the left in ways natural Republicans cannot. He was of the left. What are unrecognizable sounds to Republicans are familiar melodies from Horowitz’s youth. <em>The Great Betrayal</em> examines the unbroken pedigree of the modern Left, the radical Islamists, those who drove the anti-Bush narrative of the last decade, and the Soviet apologists of a generation ago. Unless conservatives, constitutionalists, and American voters understand what Horowitz describes in <em>the Great Betrayal</em>, a timid approach to this threat may produce disasters anew we can’t yet contemplate.</p>
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		<title>Take No Prisoners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2014 04:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Latest book by David Horowitz provides modern battle plan for conservatives.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/horowitz_prisoners.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239536" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/horowitz_prisoners-450x318.jpg" alt="horowitz_prisoners" width="318" height="225" /></a><strong>To purchase David Horowitz&#8217;s new book, <em>Take No Prisoners</em>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621572560/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1621572560&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkId=ZLFKIO3OORHJOL6H">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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<p>Ten pages into David Horowitz’s new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621572560/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1621572560&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=pjmedia-20&amp;linkId=ZLFKIO3OORHJOL6H"><em>Take No Prisoners: The Battleplan for Defeating the Left</em></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Take-No-Prisoners-Battle-Defeating/dp/1621572560"> </a>(Regnery, 2014), I realize putting dog-ears on pages with important quotes for this review is hopeless. I’ve placed a dog-ear on every page. By the end, the whole book might be dog-eared.</p>
<p>If there was a single book to add to the swag-bag for the attendees at the 2016 Republican National Convention in Cleveland, <em>Take No Prisoners</em> is the book. Not only is the book helpful in understanding the modern political battlespace, as Horowitz makes clear throughout, the delegates who will be in Cleveland are sorely in need of help.</p>
<p>Many still think elections are won or lost because one side has better ideas than the other. Election losers convinced that they had better ideas harbor all sorts of excuses for their loss — the media, economic earthquakes, silly character attacks.</p>
<p>Recall in 2012 the relentless and unopposed effort to define Mitt Romney as beholden to the richest of the rich, out of touch with most Americans. Republicans delivered wet noodle complaints that the attacks were “class warfare” and “divisive.” Horowitz:</p>
<blockquote><p>These were weak and whiny responses, all too familiar from previous Republican campaigns. Common to both was failure to address the specific charges . . . The term “class warfare” is a polite way of discussing a real problem, namely leftist agendas in national politics. But politeness protects others – in this case, opponents who are busy defaming you as mean spirited and selfish. . . it fails to hold your adversaries accountable for what they have actually done and are likely to continue doing if elected.</p></blockquote>
<p>And what of the zinger that Obama was “divisive?” Horowitz:</p>
<blockquote><p>Complaining about “divisive politics” is not only futile, it is incomprehensible. Elections are by nature divisive. They are competitions between winners and losers. They are about defeating opponents. Why wouldn’t they be divisive??</p></blockquote>
<p>The strongest part of <em>Take No Prisoners</em>, is how Horowitz matches his skill as a word-smith with real campaign choices. Every Horowitz book is characterized by brilliant writing, and sharp word choices. <em>Take No Prisoners</em> is about how Republicans have dropped the ball on writing the national narrative, and how they can get it back by crafting words and tactics that counter the left’s mastery of the process.</p>
<p>Many in the GOP and conservative movement might not like the taste of Horowitz’s medicine. A party raised on the primacy of ideas and policies will feel uncomfortable with the smashmouth suggestions in <em>Take No Prisoners.</em> I’ve heard the complaints — ‘we don’t want to become them’ — a complaint more convenient when the threats to liberty were less advanced. It’s also a complaint that misses the mark as a matter of fact:</p>
<blockquote><p>Behind Republican failures at the ballot box is an attitude that reflects an administrative rather than political approach to election campaigns. Republicans focus on policy proposals rather than electoral combat and the threat posed by their opponents. Administrative politicians are more comfortable with budgets and pie-charts than with the flesh and blood victims of their opponent’s policies and ideas. When Republicans do appeal to the victims of Democrat’s policies, those victims are frequently small business owners and other job creators – people who in the eyes of most Americans are rich.</p></blockquote>
<p>At the root of this strategic mistake is the belief among many Republicans that the two parties still share the same goals, but have divergent ways to get there. News flash: Democrats like John F. Kennedy and Scoop Jackson no longer exist. The Democrats have been taken over by messianic progressives seeking to craft the world in their own image. “Republicans do not hope to change the world. They are too mindful of the human catastrophes that have been brought about by those who do,” the former Communist Horowitz writes because he knows it all too well.</p>
<blockquote><p>As a result of this attitude, conservative’s emotions are not inflamed as progressives’ are when confronting those with whom they disagree. The conservative instinct is to search for common ground and to arrive at practical measures to address public problems. That is why they take a lot of time explaining to voters how their proposals might work. But by the time they reach them, many voters are not listening.</p></blockquote>
<p>This may be the central dividing line between the establishment and the Tea Party — a division Horowitz notes is more a question of tactics than goals.</p>
<p>I regularly encounter this aversion to the fight, despite the fact I receive emails and expressions of thanks from lawyers across Holder’s Justice Department. Lawyers trapped inside DOJ are filled with gratitude that I (and a few others) aggressively shine a light on Holder’s misbehavior and radicalism. Some GOP alumni of the DOJ grumble that it hurts the institution or goes too far.  But the good people still trapped inside a radicalized Justice Department, who see the disappearance of standards which governed the place for decades, are thankful. Even leaders of the Department of Justice during the age of Reagan are on the side of sunshine, not in the camp of those giving Eric Holder quarter. Horowitz didn’t name his book <em>Take no Prisoners</em> by accident.</p>
<p>Horowitz’s prescription: 1) Put the aggressors on defense. 2) Throw their victims in their faces. 3) Start the campaign now because they already have.</p>
<p>Horowitz dissects the left’s machine — not just the electoral tactics from the 2012 election and the inadequate GOP response, but the interplay between narrative, words, tactics, and ultimately questions involving race.</p>
<p>Race has become the central organizing energy behind the progressive domination of the Democrat party, and the defeat of the GOP. Race is the word that makes Republicans scatter in terror. Some Republicans have decided that the best approach to racial issues is to give the race agitators what they want.</p>
<p>This rewards evil. Organizing Americans on racial lines is evil. Hundreds of thousands of Americans lost their lives to eradicate polices that treated people differently because of skin color. Horowitz:</p>
<blockquote><p>When all is said and done, this racial Teflon is the reason that Republicans lose elections. . . . If conservatives are unable to repel and neutralize these squalid Democratic attacks, they can’t hold Democrats accountable. They can’t hold Obama accountable, and by extension they can’t hold any progressive accountable. Because this is how they fight. . . Any form of counterstrategy to these Democratic offensives must take the form of an attack.</p></blockquote>
<p>Horowitz is right.</p>
<p>Here’s an example. The NAACP is a morally bankrupt organization. They held the moral high ground a half century ago and helped end racial evil. But in 2014, they thrive on scaring and tricking minorities into being afraid. They herd minorities into solid electoral blocks by telling them Republicans seek to disenfranchise them by passing voter ID. They lie to minorities to scare them the same way white southerners stirred cultural fear of black men a century ago because they posed a predatory threat to southern women. That Voter ID disenfranchises blacks in 2014, and black men in 1914 were a predatory threat to white women, are both racially motivated lies designed to stoke fear and paranoia of the opposite race.</p>
<p>It’s time that the GOP go on offense against the racial lies the Democrats use to defeat them at the ballot box.</p>
<p>But will they? I’m not so sure. There are many who think the best way to respond to a lie is to flee because the lie is effective.</p>
<p>Horowitz describes this lack of GOP unity:</p>
<blockquote><p>Internal dissention not only blunts Republican attacks, it hands Democrats convenient stick to beat them with. No one on the Right thinks this is an advantageous situation. . . . What Democrats have that Republicans lack is the power of a unifying idea. . . . That idea – the idea of changing the entire framework of the nation’s life, of ‘making a better world’ – is what unifies the Left and gives it power.</p></blockquote>
<p>Horowitz concludes that politics has become religion to progressives, and when you oppose their politics, you stand in the way of their religious crusade. Until the Republicans understand that merely talking about pie charts and policy proposals cannot defeat messianic attacks, they will continue to lose Presidential elections.</p>
<p>After a GOP primary debate in South Carolina in February 2012, I was driving back to the hotel with PJ Media’s Roger Simon. Roger was inclined to go for Romney. I was partial to Newt Gingrich. Roger wanted a victory in November, and so did I. We just got there different ways. “I fear Romney doesn’t understand the left,” I told Roger. If you don’t understand the modern progressive left, you won’t defeat them, and that’s what Take No Prisoners is designed to do: Educate those who don’t understand the modern left, and provide a way to defeat them.</p>
<p>Romney’s dog would end up proving me right in 2012.</p>
<p>The Obama campaign <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/16/simon-schuster-to-capitalize-on-romney-hates-dogs-craze-sweeping-nation/">aggressively</a> went after Romney because he once put his dog in a car carrier designed for the purpose on the exterior of his station wagon. I saw bumper stickers, usually on cars driven by women, saying “Dogs for Obama.” Republicans laughed at the attack on how Romney treated his dog, not thinking it was serious.</p>
<p>Never mind the chutzpah of the Obama campaign attacking Romney for his treatment of his dog — all from a man who <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/LowellPonte/Obama-Autobiography-dog-Romney/2012/04/20/id/436539/">used to eat them</a>. Had someone in the Romney campaign crafted a witty well worded response that alluded to Obama’s past, the whole matter would have boomeranged back on Obama. How many hundreds of thousands of voters, voters who didn’t pay attention to conservative media, would have said – “huh!? Obama ate a dog?”</p>
<p>Had someone in a 2008 campaign crafted a witty well worded response that alluded to Obama’s past other than the dog eating, we might never have been stuck with him.</p>
<p>Instead, the rational shrugged off the dog on the roof attack as silly.  We’ve been laughing at the silliness of the left for 30 years, not thinking it was serious. In the meantime, the very unserious views we laughed at are now policy.</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky’s Rule Number Five understands this: “RULE 5: Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions.” When your opponent is ridiculing you, you are in very dangerous territory, and there is only one effective response. Fire must be used against fire.</p>
<p>Horowitz lays out an architecture in <em>Take No Prisoners</em> for conservatives to operate in the modern political battlespace. Among the key points are “in political warfare, the aggressor usually prevails. Position is defined by fear and hope. The weapons of politics are those that evoke fear and hope. Victory lies on the side of the people.”</p>
<p>The details are in the book. And if Republicans want to reverse a string of electoral losses in 2016, let’s hope Republicans read it.</p>
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		<title>Senate Democrats and a Cop Killer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2014 05:53:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6a00d83451d94869e201a51095c501970c.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-220001" alt="Debo Adegbile" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/6a00d83451d94869e201a51095c501970c-429x350.jpg" width="257" height="210" /></a></span>On Monday we will learn a great deal more about what sort of party the Democrats are in 2014.  Senator Harry Reid will move the nomination of the brazen race radical Debo Adegbile to the floor of the Senate for a vote. Adegbile is the President’s nominee for the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the Justice Department, one of the most powerful appointments in the executive branch.</p>
<p>We will learn if Senator Mark Pryor (D-AR) and Senator Kay Hagan (D-NC) share the values of their constituents, or the values of the radical secularists in the administration.  While at the NAACP, Adegbile authored a brief to strip members of the Hosanna Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church of the right to practice their faith and appoint ministers of the church as they saw fit. Adegbile argued to the Supreme Court that Christian churches shouldn’t continue to enjoy the same constitutional protections of the “ministerial exception” as churches had for centuries.  He argued that the government should have a say in church theology and who could be a minister of a Christian church.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Adegbile didn’t want churches to enjoy the full and free exercise of religion.  The United States Supreme Court rejected Adegbile’s arguments, 9-0.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Church attendance in North Carolina and Arkansas is among the highest in the nation, and Hagan and Pryor should reject Adegbile, just as every member of the Supreme Court did.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Adegbile also has a racial history entirely hostile to the values of citizens of West Virginia, Montana, Alaska and Louisiana.  Citizens in those states believe in school discipline and not deciding who gets admitted to college based on an applicant’s skin color.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yet, Adegbile has aggressively pushed a fringe racial agenda and would use the power of the Justice Department to do so if Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV), John Walsh (D-MT), Jon Tester (D-MT), Mark Begich (D-AK) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) vote for him Monday afternoon.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While at the NAACP, Adegbile fought against school discipline.  He argued that more black children were being disciplined compared to their percentage in the population, so naturally school discipline must be racially discriminatory.  At the Justice Department, if he is confirmed, expect him to litigate this nutty idea using the heavy boot of the federal government.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If Adegbile is confirmed, schools will be afraid to punish unruly children and more students who need order in their lives will experience chaos.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Adegbile has also fought to keep a woman out law school because she is white.  Abigail Fisher was denied admission to the University of Texas simply because she is white, and Debo Adegbile has worked hard at the NAACP to keep her out.  He has filed legal briefs with the Supreme Court and managed a nationwide litigation campaign to support racial discrimination in education.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If the Senators from West Virginia, Montana, Alaska and Louisiana vote to confirm a man who has fought to judge people by the color of their skin, and not the content of their character, they will not be representing their constituents.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Last week, the Republican Senator from Pennsylvania and the African-American Democrat District Attorney penned a joint Wall Street Journal editorial – </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304610404579401483616494254?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702304610404579401483616494254.html" target="_blank">The Justice Nominee and the Cop Killer.</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">  The cop killer to whom they refer is Mumia Abu Jamal – black panther, murderer, and hero to the left.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A stack of national police organizations also oppose Debo Adegbile’s nomination over his representation of Abu Jamal, including the Fraternal Order of Police.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Debo Adegbile voluntarily chose to help Mumia in his efforts to escape the death penalty for murdering Philadelphia police officer Danny Faulkner.  Jamal murdered Faulkner in cold blood, and then turned his America hating rhetoric into celebrity status.  Like Debo Adegbile’s NAACP, Jamal rants on public radio about structural racism in America.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Mumia, so the fable goes, was prosecuted because he is black.  Because he is black, he could not get a fair trial, he will tell you.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is precisely this racially paranoid rot that attracted Adegbile and his NAACP to Mumia’s cause.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As Senator Toomey and District Attorney Seth Williams wrote:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But it is one thing to provide legal representation and quite another to seize on a case and turn it into a political platform from which to launch an extreme attack on the justice system. When a lawyer chooses that course, it is appropriate to ask whether he should be singled out for a high-level national position in, of all things, law enforcement.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Adegbile and his NAACP raised money off of the leftist murderer&#8217;s celebrity.  Adegbile and the NAACP did more than represent the murderer in court, they allied with his racial grievances.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So what will Pennsylvania’s other Senator do?  Will Democrat Bob Casey side with the man attracted to helping a cop killer, or, will he side with his constituents and vote against Debo Adegbile’s nomination?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We will find out this coming Monday at 5:30 when the vote on Adegbile’s nomination reaches the floor of the Senate.  Just 20 years ago, nobody with Adegbile’s radicalized race history would even be nominated.  The Clinton administration had the sense to pull the nomination of Lani Guinier, a crackpot who was nominated for the same office as Adegbile.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Amazingly, Guinier’s primary sin was to advocate for race quotas in hiring.  She didn’t attack Christian churches and didn’t represent unrepentant black panther cop killers.  She didn’t have anywhere near the radicalized record of Debo Adegbile.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">So Monday we will learn whether any pockets of sanity exist among Senate Democrats, or whether the values of the folks back home no longer matter in 2014.</span></p>
<p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: After this article was published, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) announced his opposition to the Adegbile nomination.</p>
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		<title>The Elastic Clause of the Constitution</title>
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<p>If college students listened to Mark Levin or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Rush-Revere-Brave-Pilgrims-Time-Travel/dp/1476755868">Rush Limbaugh</a>, they would receive a better American history education than they are getting from their professors. I <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Emory-College-Republicans/336452723042661">recently spoke at Emory University</a>, where one student defended all of President Obama’s unconstitutional actions by invoking the Elastic Clause of the Constitution.</p>
<p>Citing the Elastic Clause could indeed justify a wide range of administration actions, except for one problem – it doesn’t exist.</p>
<p>But you couldn’t tell that to the student at Emory University who came to my speech last week on Obama’s abuses of power. He persisted in defending the actions through the Elastic Clause, as if the be-all, end-all provision was common knowledge.</p>
<p>From the sound of it, the Elastic Clause must be common knowledge in faculty lounges.</p>
<p>The Elastic Clause, he persisted, gives the president the power to address a wide range of issues through executive prerogative. It allowed the government, he said, to adapt to new circumstances unlike the age when the Founders wrote the Constitution.</p>
<p>Of course the Founders did include an “elastic clause” of sorts, namely Article V, which gives the people and the states the power to amend the Constitution.</p>
<p>But he wasn’t speaking of something quite so stiff and formal. He wasn’t referring to something that required broad assent. He was referring the Elastic Clause that allows the president to swiftly respond to needs as they arise – sort of like Mussolini and Mugabe did.</p>
<p>He was serious. He really believed the Elastic Clause was real. But the constitutional literacy of a different student was even worse. With a straight face, she defended the exercise of executive power and the issuance of executive orders as constitutional because of the inaction of Congress.</p>
<p>“It’s part of the Constitution that if the Congress doesn’t act, then the president can issue executive orders to fix something,” was her argument.</p>
<p>Even more frightening, the person saying this is an officer of the campus Democrats. A little totalitarian in training.</p>
<p>Naturally, this was all quite an eye opener. I’m no fool when it comes to the institutional left and their corrosion of the system. But to have a student debate me over a verifiably fictional constitutional provision, to have a student presume I was the one making things up when I said the Elastic Clause didn’t exist – that blazed new territory.</p>
<p>All of this illustrates the dangerous rot occurring on campus, facilitated in large part by the faculty. All signs point to their success. Students are learning the lexicon of the institutional left and producing tragic-comedy like <a href="http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2014/02/25/black-ucla-law-students-complain-about-equality/">complaining about equalit</a>y at UCLA, and worse. My appearance at Emory was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.horowitzfreedomcenter.org/">David Horowitz Freedom Center</a> and the College Republicans. Recognize that groups like these are fighting an uphill battle on campus. But without them, college campuses would be intellectually monolithic.</p>
<p>The talk at Emory wandered into the small discrete psychological components of tyranny as described brilliantly in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Gulag-Archipelago-1918-1956-Investigation/dp/0813332893"><em>Gulag Archipelago</em></a>. No doubt Mr. Elastic Clause and College Democrat Vice President Edict had never heard of the Nobel Prize winning description of where elastic ideas can lead.</p>
<p>Solzhenitsyn’s great book of the 20th century describes the <em>small ideas</em> of totalitarianism, and the camouflaged embryonic consent that individuals give to tyranny over time. Tyranny isn’t just about gruel with potato peelings day after day and bullets to the back of the head.</p>
<p>I presume Mr. Elastic Clause and Ms. College Democrat Officer will never read <em>Gulag</em>, but if they did, they would learn the story of Georgi Osorgin. Osorgin was imprisoned in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solovki_prison_camp">Solovetsky Islands</a> in the early 1920s. The date was important because American leftists (such as some Democrats of the 1960s) like to pin the mass murder system only on Stalin. But Solzhenitsyn documents that the gulags were a necessary part of Lenin’s vision of the International Brotherhood. Without terror, his system would not work.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Osorgin was to be shot, but he begged his jailers for a few more days because his wife was coming to visit him at the gulag. Osorgin’s wife visited him, then as her boat pulled away from Solovetsky Island, keeping his part of the bargain, he undressed to be shot. Niceties were part of the gulag in the early days because nobody really knew where the fledgling system was headed.</span></p>
<p>Solzhenitsyn:</p>
<blockquote><p>But still, someone did give them those three days. The three Osorgin days, like other cases, show how far the Solovetsky regime was from having donned the armor of a<em>system</em>. The impression is left that the air of Solovki strangely mingled extreme cruelty with an almost benign incomprehension of where all this was leading, which Solovetsky characteristics were becoming the embryo of the great Archipelago and which were destined to dry up and wither on the bud. After all, the Solovetsky Islands people did not yet, generally speaking, firmly believe that the ovens of the Arctic Auschwitz had been lit right there and that its crematory furnaces had been thrown open to all who were ever brought there. (But, after all, that is exactly how it was!)</p>
<p>People there were also misled by the fact that all their prison terms were exceedingly short: it was rare that anyone had a ten-year term, and even five was not found very often, and most of them were three, just three. And this whole cat-and-mouse trick of the law was still not understood: to pin down and let go, and pin down again and let go again. . . .</p>
<p>Here too, on the first islands of the Archipelago, was felt the instability of those checkered years of the middle twenties, when things were but poorly understood in the country as a whole. Was everything already prohibited? Or, on the contrary, were things only now beginning to be allowed? Age-old Russia still believed so strongly in rapturous phrases! And there were only a few prophets of gloom who had already figured things out and who knew when and how all this would be smashed into smithereens.</p></blockquote>
<p>I explained to the students that a <em>written</em> Constitution, free from the phony Elastic Clause and power for a president to issue edicts, is what keeps them free. It is what lets them have fun and have a good life. Structural constraints on the power of government allow people to experience joy, worship God, build dreams and fulfill potential. Our Constitution does not have an Elastic Clause for a very good reason. It was established to be <em>inelastic</em> absent the consent of three quarters of states. It was established to lay down fundamental ironclad <em>restraints</em> on the power of government, especially the executive branch.</p>
<p>Some are <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2012/09/23/why-the-fuss-obama-has-long-been-on-record-in-favor-of-redistribution/">trying to redefine freedom</a> away from this ideal and toward freedom from want.</p>
<p>That it is becoming fashionable to reject our particularly American version of freedom deserves an overpowering response.</p>
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		<title>Stop Giving Obama Radicals the Benefit of the Doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 05:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/samanthapower.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-216905" alt="samanthapower" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/samanthapower.jpg" width="288" height="179" /></a>In the Spring of 2011, National Security Council staffer Samantha Power sent emails to top Pentagon officials.  Her emails contained GPS coordinates in Libya.  She demanded that the Pentagon launch immediate air strikes on top of these coordinates, no questions asked. Power, you see, had friends in NGOs on the ground in Libya looking to borrow American might for a moment or two.</p>
<p>Her emails were ignored at the Pentagon.  But her cavalier and hasty email demand that American airmen be launched on a dangerous mission to benefit her friends might seem incompetent and reckless.</p>
<p>But like so much about the age of Obama, Republicans mistake leftist ideology for incompetence.  In the five decades-old orthodoxy of the foreign affairs left, pilots in supersonic jets with laser guided missiles are most appropriately used in small ways, and to serve small causes.  To radicals like Power, American might should be used for their political ends, and the old conventions on target selection, chains of command and strategic aims are obsolete.</p>
<p>So admit it Republicans: you’re confused.  You can’t understand why President Obama’s policies and his nominations are so radical.  It doesn’t make sense, you think, for him to pick extremist nominees who would have radical skeletons that would have disqualified them in any other administration.</p>
<p>You also can’t understand why he continues to lurch left on almost every foreign and domestic issue.</p>
<p>Get over it.  It isn’t 1990 anymore, and leftist radicalism is a prerequisite for jobs in this administration, not a disqualifier.  Leftist radicalism is the administration’s reason for existence.</p>
<p>This is why Obama chose John Kerry as Secretary of State.  Kerry first distinguished himself as a stooge for America’s enemies.  In his first campaign for Congress, Kerry <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1346">said</a>, “I&#8217;m an internationalist. I&#8217;d like to see our troops dispersed through the world only at the directive of the United Nations.”  He even travelled to Europe to hold talks with North Vietnamese Communists while American soldiers were dying in Vietnam.  His views about American power didn’t moderate over the years, as he continued to aid America’s enemies.  Now he is Secretary of State.</p>
<p>Until the Republican Party understands that these extreme leftist policies and personnel choices are core deliberate features of the Obama era, they will never learn to combat them.</p>
<p>It isn’t enough to express shock that someone like Tom Perez would be nominated as Labor Secretary with his extremist history.  The Obama administration isn’t afraid of your shock and strongly worded letters.  The administration is instead marching forward into a bold future without you.  When they march right over you, they assume you will complain.</p>
<p>What the Obamites are really afraid of, and haven’t seen from most in the Republican Party, are effective counter-attacks to their radicalism.  They are afraid of the most radical policy units inside their government being defunded by the House.  They are afraid of the impeachment of lower-level federal officials who abuse power, such as IRS or DOJ employees, by the House.  They are afraid of rough power being met with rough power.</p>
<p>But the Obamites don’t have much to worry about.  One can’t stop what one can’t even recognize.</p>
<p>Many won’t even attach a name to what we are all witnessing: leftist radicalism.  So step one to effectively stopping Obama is to stop giving his radical nominees and radical policies the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>How?</p>
<p>First, purge the word “incompetence” from your lexicon.  Never use it on another Fox News hit.  Never write it again. The Obama administration policies, ranging from Fast and Furious, to the New Black Panther dismissal, to the debacle of Obamacare, are not incompetent follies.  They are instead representative of ideological desires deliberately implemented through the mechanisms of power available to this administration.</p>
<p>Fast and Furious emerged because of hostility to the constitutional right to bear arms.  The New Black Panther dismissal happened because the civil rights industry today doesn’t think civil rights laws should be used against “people of color.”  Every nutty and seemingly dumb Obama policy has a genesis in ideological radicalism.</p>
<p>These and other seemingly dumb Obama administration decisions are features; they are not glitches.  Stop treating them like glitches.</p>
<p>Second, stop assuming we enjoy a measure of immunity from their radical policies because “they would never get away with it.”  History is filled with victims who failed to act in time.  Assuming that America enjoys a unique cultural ability to resist the ideological aims of the new left is a dangerous assumption.</p>
<p>History never stops turning the soil and what seemed impossible not long ago is always possible.  Had you brought up fears in 2005 that the federal government would take over General Motors, shut down coal plants, destroy secured creditor rights of Chrysler bondholders, or taken over the health care system, polite company would have moved to the other side of the room. &#8220;Couldn&#8217;t happen here,&#8221; would have been the response.</p>
<p>Third, listen to what they plainly say they want to do.  What about “fundamentally transform America” didn’t you understand?  What about the numerous open public appearances together with Eric Holder and the radical race hustler Al Sharpton makes you think they are not simpatico?  When radicals say they plan to transform the nation and hobnob (or <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2010/john-perazzo/wiping-the-smirk-off-stewarts-face/">pardon</a>) the most destructive extremists in America, you better pay attention.</p>
<p>This is not your grandfather’s Democratic Party.</p>
<p>Right now the nomination of Debo Adegbile to run the Justice Department Civil Rights Division is before the Senate Judiciary Committee.  Adegbile was the former NAACP Legal Defense Fund head.  In that role, he oversaw the defense of the cop-killing Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal.  The Fraternal Order of Police has demanded that President Obama withdraw the nomination.</p>
<p>Adegbile has pushed every other crackpot racial theory popular among the civil rights industry.  His career has been characterized by attacking school discipline policies and employer background checks as racially motivated.  He fought to keep Abigail Fisher out of the University of Texas Law School merely because she was white.</p>
<p>Just a decade ago, this radical racialist background would have been a disqualifier for any nominee to the Justice Department.  But today, radicalism is a prerequisite for the job.</p>
<p>Adegbile’s racial radicalism is so far from the mainstream that even Democratic senators such as Mark Pryor from Arkansas should question his nomination. Surely even some Democrats have a problem with a man who volunteered to help a black panther who killed a cop?</p>
<p>The radicalism of the administration is on open and continuous display for anyone to see.  Attorney General Holder and President Obama routinely meet with the race hustler Al Shaprton.  Holder has spoken at Sharpton’s National Action Network convention.  Sharpton has been invited to the White House for behind-closed-doors policy debates with top Justice Department officials.</p>
<p>Don’t forget, Sharpton’s past would disqualify him from even obtaining a security clearance.  His racially motivated lies about Tawana Brawley are just a start. He led racially motivated rallies against Jewish-owned Freddie’s Fashion Mart in New York City. Afterwards, Ronald Smith went in with a gun, told the black customers to leave, and then burned the store down killing one.  Sharpton was also the primary instigator of the 1991 Crown Heights riots where Orthodox Jews were attacked randomly and Yankel Rosenbaum was murdered.  Sharpton even led rallies calling Jews “diamond merchants.”</p>
<p>No worries. Sharpton’s past has produced lots of White House invitations and plenty of high profile administration love.  Sharpton is not embraced by the Obama administration in spite of his radical past. He is being embraced because of it.</p>
<p>Yet Republicans seem unable to comprehend this central feature of the age of Obama.</p>
<p>Consider Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. As Jonathan Tobin has <a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2012/12/26/why-israel-bashers-love-hagel-iran-anti-semitism/">noted</a>, Hagel had two qualifications that resulted in his nomination for Secretary of Defense – his distaste for Israel and his willingness to make nice with Hamas and Iran.  Nevertheless, most media outlets focused on Obama’s bipartisan willingness to nominate the former Republican senator from Nebraska.  His extremist views toward Israel were largely ignored.</p>
<p>Obama has profited by extremist actions and the radicalism of nominees being ignored throughout his administration.  The extent of the radicalism places the GOP in unfamiliar territory.  Many in leadership still behave and speak as if they are dealing with a president from the Democratic Party of the Kennedy era.  This impotent response will complete the job for the radicals and ensure the fundamental transformation they seek.  Radicals who are treated like moderates are free to implement policy without scrutiny or exposure.</p>
<p>A small percentage of Americans share the views of the radicals in the Obama administration.  Failing to label radicals as radicals means this deep wellspring of American opposition to their policies will remain untapped. Failing to recognize a radical official as a radical means the administration official enjoys a measure of undeserved mercy.  Assuming that President Obama is unaware of the radical backgrounds of his nominees or the radical policies of his agencies risks our national future.  So stop giving the radicals the benefit of the doubt.</p>
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		<title>Seven More Reasons to Impeach Eric Holder</title>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/holder.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-199415" alt="holder" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/holder-450x299.jpg" width="315" height="209" /></a><strong>To order J. Christian Adams&#8217; pamphlet <em>Ten Reasons to Impeach Eric Holder</em>, <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=WY6LJDB7J48Y">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Power is never vested in just one man. Even the powers of the man in the Oval Office depend on internal checks and balances. A president alone cannot violate the law. His cabinet has to aid him in that task. The man who stands at Obama&#8217;s side, the man who aids and abets his lawbreaking more than any other, is Attorney General Eric Holder.</p>
<p>Holder is the man who is truly accountable for Obama&#8217;s lawlessness because it is his responsibility to hold Obama accountable. Instead Holder has descended into entirely new areas of lawnessness. Instead of acting to enforce the law, he has become the enemy of the law.</p>
<p>Over a year ago, I penned <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frontpagemag-com/ten-reasons-to-impeach-eric-holder/" target="_blank">Ten Reasons to Impeach Eric Holder</a>.  In that David Horowitz Freedom Center pamphlet, I documented how Attorney General Eric Holder has corroded the rule of law, abused power and deserved to be impeached.  Since the publication of the pamphlet, Holder has provided multiple new reasons why he is unfit to serve as Attorney General.</p>
<p>Instead of moderating, instead of adopting a more centrist approach after the publication of that pamphlet in Spring 2012, Holder has radicalized even further.</p>
<p>This should be unsurprising to anyone who has followed Holder’s career.  Holder is driven by a radical progressive view of the law, and by contempt for conservatives.  He is hostile to the rule of law, at least as traditionally understood by Americans.</p>
<p>Holder once said to a gathering of the American Constitution Society the “nation must be convinced that it is a progressive future that holds the greatest promise for equality and the continuation of those policies that serve to support the greatest number of our people.”  Progressivism, with all of its bending of the plain meaning of words, of ends justifying means and its hostility toward constitutional restraints on the power of government, enchants our Attorney Gneral.</p>
<p>Projecting, he also said conservatives “have made a mockery of the rule of law.”</p>
<p>But Holder’s record demonstrates it is he who has made a mockery out of the rule of law.  His tenure at the Justice Department overflows with abuse of power, appeals to racial division, and disregard of the constitutional balance of powers.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Taking Sides in George Zimmerman Trial and Federal Threats</span></b></p>
<p>Soon after George Zimmerman shot Trayvon Martin in Florida on February 26, 2012, Eric Holder took the side of the racial mob calling for vengeance for Trayvon Martin.  After the shooting, the racialist anti-Semite head of the New Black Panther Party – Malik Zulu Shabazz – and a gang of uniformed New Black Panther Party members, were calling for the seizure of George Zimmerman.  Just<a name="1404bc321b1f5aba_1404b9851e53577d__GoBack"></a> after the black panther rallies, Rev. Al Sharpton travelled to Florida to agitate for George Zimmerman’s arrest.</p>
<p>Eric Holder’s Justice Department did not stand silently by.  Instead, they devoted time and resources to aid the racial mob, including the New Black Panther Party.</p>
<p>A little known component of the Justice Department, the Community Relations Service, or “CRS,” travelled to Florida and helped the protesters.  For example, CRS helped to facilitate a police escort for college students to travel forty miles to participate in a rally seeking the arrest of George Zimmerman.</p>
<p>DOJ documents reveal thousands of dollars in travel costs and manpower devoted to helping the mob seeking the seizure of George Zimmerman off the street.  The New Black Panther Party produced wanted posters for Zimmerman and offered an award for his illegal seizure.  One member of the New Black Panthers said the bounty would be paid if Zimmerman were seized, “dead or alive.”</p>
<p>DOJ officials met privately with protesters and gave them advice how to conduct their protests.  Other components of Holder’s Justice Department met with the Sanford police and elected officials and strongly “suggested” that the city take a second look at charging Zimmerman.</p>
<p>The DOJ Community Relations Service is supposed to act as a neutral party to provide a buffer during heated disputes.  They aren’t supposed to take sides.  But a black teenager was dead, and the shooter was a “white-Hispanic,” according to NBC News, and therefore Holder took sides.</p>
<p>The rest is history.  Because of DOJ and New Black Panther pressure, that “second look” by law enforcement officials led to the prosecution of George Zimmerman for the murder of Trayvon Martin.  Even Al Sharpton admitted to Tom Joyner that everyone knew the case lacked merit. But in the age of Holder and Obama, the law isn’t used like it once was.  The law is no longer the great leveler.  Instead, it is a weapon for those in power to satisfy the demands of their racially inflamed faction, to prosecute a man who exercised self-defense against a bloody and unwarranted physical attack.  The law, to Holder, is a means to punish those on the wrong side of the racial divide, a divide Holder has helped to create.</p>
<p>Holder erased any doubt about his racial radicalism soon after the jury acquitted George Zimmerman of all charges.  Holder appeared before a number of racially homogeneous audiences, including the black sorority Delta Sigma Theta, and announced that the Justice Department would consider civil rights charges against George Zimmerman.  Never mind that the Federal Bureau of Investigation already concluded that Zimmerman did not act with any racial animus toward Trayvon, an necessary element under the federal law.</p>
<p>But law doesn’t matter to Holder the same way it matters to the rest of us.  Law is what once protected us from people like Holder.  But to Holder, law is a nuisance to be cast aside when he seeks applause from the all-black sorority audience at the Delta Sigma Theta convention.  Gaining approval from, and fostering excitement in, a racial faction is more important to this attorney general than whether an American should face down the federal government because he is a disfavored “white-Hispanic” to that racial faction.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Failure to Indict Black Panthers</span></b></p>
<p>Holder’s involvement in the Zimmerman matter was not confined to the outrageous meddling by the DOJ, as we have seen.  Holder also failed to act against crimes in Florida possibly committed by the racial mob demanding action against Zimmerman.</p>
<p>Holder announced to the loud applause of the Delta Sigma Theta convention that his DOJ may charge George Zimmerman with federal civil rights charges.  As usual, Holder has given the New Black Panther Party a pass on the same civil rights laws.</p>
<p>When the New Black Panther Party conspired to have George Zimmerman seized off the streets, dead or alive, they likely violated the exact same law under which Holder may yet charge Zimmerman.  Section 245 of Title 18 protects people from being attacked or seized off the streets in part because of their race.  And the Panthers made no secret of their racial hostility toward Zimmerman.  Section 249 of Title 18, another civil rights law Holder will use to investigate Zimmerman, prohibits conspiracies to harm someone with a racial animus.</p>
<p>These federal civil rights laws could be used against the New Black Panther Party for actions they took during the mob protests in Florida even easier than they can be used against George Zimmerman.</p>
<p>But will Attorney General Holder announce the opening of an investigation against Malik Zulu Shabazz and his anti-Semites in the New Black Panther Party? Of course not, because we know well Holder’s reluctance to enforce the law against them.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Contempt of Congress</span></b></p>
<p>Eric Holder has demonstrated contempt for the rule of law, but also contempt for Congress.  Holder&#8217;s contempt for the legitimate constitutional oversight authority of the Congress is so extreme, that the House of Representatives voted to find him in contempt of Congress on June 28, 2012. Even House Democrats voted to find Holder in contempt of Congress.</p>
<p>After the vote, House Speaker John Boehner said, “But no Justice Department is above the law and no Justice Department is above the Constitution, which each of us has sworn to uphold.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Holder’s Justice Department behaves as if it is above the law, and appears to show no loyalty to the Constitution, oath or no oath to uphold it.</p>
<p>The contempt vote by the House was preceded by many months of attempting to obtain documents to find out the truth about the Fast and Furious gunrunning program concocted and managed by Holder’s Justice Department.   In Fast and Furious, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms allowed guns to be purchased in the United States for ultimate transportation into Mexico by drug cartels.  In Mexico, these guns were used to kill hundreds of Mexicans, and were also found where U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered.</p>
<p>While the DOJ was allowing guns to flow into Mexico, President Obama was complaining that American guns were killing Mexicans, and advocated for restrictions on the Second Amendment.  Naturally, Obama never bothered to tell anyone that Holder’s own Justice Department was responsible for the flow of weapons.</p>
<p>When the House Oversight Committee sought to obtain Justice Department documents about who developed this bloody scheme, Holder obstructed Congress.  The historic contempt finding against Holder formalizes what many Front Page readers have long known about the Attorney General of the United States: that he holds in low regard American traditions, norms and institutions.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Failure to Prosecute IRS Officials</span></b></p>
<p>Attorney General Holder has failed to prosecute a single IRS official that feloniously leaked private tax information of Tea Party and conservative groups to the media.  IRS officials have been shown to not only improperly have targeted conservative groups for heightened scrutiny for IRS 501(c)(3) tax exemption applications, but to have actually leaked the information contained in those applications to the political enemies of the applicants.</p>
<p>Consider IRS official Cindy Thomas.  Thomas is the manager of exempt organizations at the IRS office in Cincinnati.  Thomas illegally released the tax applications of nine conservative groups to the left-wing website ProPublica, an organization that includes President Obama’s old friend, Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates.</p>
<p>Other leaks included information leaks against pro-marriage groups to radical gay-marriage groups.  Information contained in the IRS 501(c)(3) applications ended up in the hands of radical groups dedicated to defeating the pro-marriage groups.</p>
<p>These actions by IRS officials are federal felonies.  Holder has an obligation to have them investigated and charged, but instead has done nothing.  The victims of IRS abuse haven’t even been interviewed by the FBI.  FBI Director Robert Muller was completely unaware of the status of any DOJ investigation in testimony before Congress.  He couldn’t even name who was investigating the matter.</p>
<p>Moreover, prosecution of IRS leakers would be a simple matter.  Leaking information constitutes the crime.  It doesn’t not require the complicated burden of proving racial animus, as any federal prosecution of George Zimmerman would entail. Simply, for charges not to have been filed against an IRS official by now means Holder doesn’t seem to care much about the IRS targeting of conservative groups.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">DOJ Vendetta Against Fox News and James Rosen</span></b></p>
<p>Eric Holder authorized a criminal investigation against James Rosen of Fox News.  This provides an example where progressives often engage in projection.  During the Nixon years, the left would claim Nixon had a vendetta against certain reporters and used law enforcement against them.  We find the fulfillment of that plot in the age of Obama and Holder through the DOJ actions against Fox News.</p>
<p>James Rosen had reported on various national security issues.  These revelations angered the White House and the Justice Department launched a criminal investigation in response to the reports.  They sought to discover the sources behind Rosen’s reporting.</p>
<p>Under DOJ guidelines, the Attorney General must personally approve any subpoenas of news reporters.  When I was at the Justice Department, I sought and obtained the personal approval of the Attorney General in a matter I was investigating.  But before a subpoena can issue against a reporter, DOJ rules require a number of steps.</p>
<p>First, the DOJ must seek the information through less restrictive means.  So if it could identify the leaker without subpoenaing the papers of James Rosen, DOJ rules required them to do so. Second, the DOJ is supposed to try to work out an arrangement with the news organization.  But the Justice Department kept the investigation of Fox News secret, and so therefore never tried to “work out” any resolution.</p>
<p>Eric Holder was supposed to sign off on any press subpoena under DOJ guidelines.  This requirement ensures accountability and protects Americans from an out of control administrative state that can seek press subpoenas as a routine matter.  Yet Holder delegated this authority in the Rosen matter to a deputy.  He said, without a trace of irony, that the reason he did so is because the investigation also included interviews to determine if Holder himself was the source of the leak!</p>
<p>But merely authorizing criminal investigations against Fox News reporter James Rosen wasn’t the worst thing Eric Holder’s Justice Department would do in the saga.  The worst was yet to come.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Perjury Before Congress on Rosen Investigation</span></b></p>
<p>Eric Holder also lied before Congress about the Rosen matter.  On May 15, 2013, Holder was asked if he knew anything about investigations of reporters by his DOJ.</p>
<p>“With regard to potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material, that is not something that I have ever been involved, heard of, or would think would be a wise policy,” Holder said.</p>
<p>When Holder gave this testimony, he was “involved” in and “heard of” potential prosecution of the press for the disclosure of material.   Holder knew about various investigations of journalists and was involved in them.  His under-oath testimony before Congress was demonstrably false and misleading.  The House Judiciary Committee would issue a report reaching the same conclusion.</p>
<p>Eric Holder cannot be trusted to tell the truth, even when under oath and when the entire nation is watching him.</p>
<p><b><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Manipulation of 2012 Elections and Opposition to Election Integrity</span></b></p>
<p>The gravest and most long lasting damage that Eric Holder has done to the nation is his manipulation of the electoral process, particularly before the 2012 presidential election.</p>
<p>Eric Holder allowed that election to take place with over 4,000,000 ineligible voters on the rolls.  The left-leaning Pew Foundation issued a report showing that voter rolls around the country were polluted with dead and ineligible voters.  Holder is obliged to enforce federal laws which require states to remove these ineligible voters from the rolls before a federal election.</p>
<p>Instead, Holder has a philosophical objection to these laws and he refuses to enforce them.  Failure to remove ineligible voters allows people to vote multiple times in multiple states.  It allows dead voters to remain on the rolls to be voted by family members or others who know they have died.  Felons who have not been removed from the rolls will also be allowed to cast illegal ballots.  Since Holder alone has power to prosecute federal election crimes, we cannot count on him to do anything about voter fraud in federal elections.</p>
<p>Consider Meloweese Richardson in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Richardson admitted on camera to news reporters that she voted multiple times for President Obama in 2012 and 2008.  She voted in the names of people who spent time at her house as well as family members.  She was unapologetic.</p>
<p>Voting twice for president is a federal crime.</p>
<p>Yet, to this day, Eric Holder has not prosecuted Richardson for violation of federal law.  After all, she voted for the President, and some people get breaks from this Attorney General, and others get threats.  It all depends on who you are or what you look like, not how you behaved.  It is true that Ohio brought charges against Richardson. But there are federal issues at stake separate from the state concerns.</p>
<p>The arrogance of Melowese Richardson is a symbol of what a nation with Attorney General Eric Holder will produce. Her brash unrepentant arrogance for voting six times for President Obama sounds like Eric Holder’s unrepentant testimony before the House Oversight Committee on Fast and Furious.</p>
<p>Like Richardson, even after Holder is found to be contemptuous of the law, there are no apologies.  At her sentencing, Richardson blustered that she did it all for her beloved President out of a deep allegiance.  Holder acts contemptuously toward Congress and the rule of law for the same reason.  It is all about power, power for President Obama and his revolutionary transformation of America.</p>
<p>Meloweese Richardson didn’t care if the law was perverted as long as President Obama held power – and neither does Holder.  If IRS officials committed federal crimes to target Tea Party groups, so be it.  They are the enemies of the progressive President and deserve a pass.  If the New Black Panthers violated federal civil rights laws, so be it.  They were fighting to stoke racial tensions and threaten an innocent man because of his race.  If Holder’s DOJ intimidates Fox News, so be it.  Fox News provides the most objective coverage of the Obama administration and deserve the pain.</p>
<p>Eric Holder is the Ivy League schooled lawyer representing the hopes and dreams of the progressive mob and race hustlers.  He displays the same contempt for the law as does the mob calling for racial vengeance. He is skilled at using power and position to protect political friends and harm political enemies.  Holder’s version of justice is foreign to these American shores, and to our American age.</p>
<p>Eric Holder is a menace to the rule of law and the individual liberty it protects.  He should not only be run out of his office, but hounded forever by liberty-loving Americans exposing his behavior until he is bereft of clients after he leaves the Justice Department.</p>
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		<title>The New York Times and New Black Panthers Protect Election Lawbreakers</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Decent Americans seeking to improve the election process are smeared and slandered by the paper's lies. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/new-york-times-building.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145742" title="new-york-times-building" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/new-york-times-building.gif" alt="" width="375" height="258" /></a>Once upon a time in America, if a group of citizen volunteers set out to help election officials detect problems with the voter rolls, they would have been praised.  If a group of citizen volunteers had detected scores of dead people on the voter rolls they would have received broad accolades from all corners of America.</p>
<p>Once upon a time in America, we esteemed law abiding citizens who helped law enforcement detect law breakers – especially when it comes to the sanctity of elections.</p>
<p>But this isn’t the America we used to know.  Instead, when election integrity groups like Houston-based <a href="http://www.truethevote.org/">True the Vote</a> help detect countless problems with American elections – including people who illegally voted twice in the 2008 Presidential election from different states – they are slandered and attacked by the <em>New York Times</em>, academia and formerly relevant civil rights organizations.</p>
<p>When the Pew Charitable Trust <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/other-races/210327-pew-study-2-million-dead-americans-on-active-voter-rolls">reports</a> that there are 2,000,000 ineligible voters on the rolls, nothing happens.  But when volunteers seek to find and remove them, they <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/09/the-long-and-disreputable-history-of-repressing-the-black-vote/262744/">are attacked</a> as racists.</p>
<p>Something has indeed changed.</p>
<p>The 2012 election will have something never before seen in American elections – ordinary citizens in every corner of the country analyzing the voter rolls to see if dead and ineligible voters remain registered.  On election day, volunteers will fan out across thousands of American polling places armed with pen and paper and record what happened.</p>
<p>For exercising this noble civic undertaking, the headlines of the <em>New York Times </em><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/22/opinion/voter-harassment-circa-2012.html?_r=0">scream</a> “Voter Harassment Circa 2012.” The <em>Times</em> tells us “a Tea Party group, True the Vote, descends on a largely minority precinct and combs the registration records . . . nonexistent [voter fraud] is used as an excuse to reduce the political rights of minorities, the poor, students, older Americans and other groups that tend to vote Democratic.”</p>
<p>This is an outright lie.  And it might be shocking if it weren’t published on the pages of a newspaper with a long history of publishing lies, such as those fed through the pen of <em>Times </em>reporter and <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stalins-Apologist-Walter-Duranty-Timess/dp/0195057007">Stalin stooge Walter Duranty</a>.  The <em>Times </em>has no data that cleaning up the voter rolls affects “minorities” and “the poor,” but emotional dog whistles work better than reason or facts.</p>
<p>Then the <em>Times </em>lies about the election day poll observation activities of citizen volunteers: “In 2009 and 2010, for example, the group focused on the Houston Congressional district represented by Sheila Jackson Lee, a black Democrat. . . . That didn’t stop the group from sending dozens of white “poll watchers” to precincts in the district during the 2010 elections, deliberately creating friction with black voters.”</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/1001-exhibit_tp2_jpg_610x343_crop_upscale_q85.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-141572" title="1001-exhibit_tp2_jpg_610x343_crop_upscale_q85" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/1001-exhibit_tp2_jpg_610x343_crop_upscale_q85.gif" alt="" width="375" height="240" /></a><a href="http://events.nationalgeographic.com/events/locations/center/museum/">National Geographic Explorer’s Hall</a> in Washington D.C. has hosted some of the most prestigious exhibits in America.  Previous exhibits have included the Chinese terracotta warriors, as well as the <em>James Caird</em>, the lifeboat Sir Ernest Shackleton miraculously sailed from Antarctica to South Georgia Island in 1916.  Currently it is hosting a curious exhibit through February 2013 entitled “1001 Inventions: Discover the Golden Age of Muslim Civilization.”  This high tech, slickly produced exhibit explicitly seeks to debunk the “myth” that the dark ages were dark.</p>
<p>The exhibit purports to provide examples of innovations from Muslim civilization, and some of the claims may come as a surprise to those familiar with the Wright Brothers or Yuri Gagarin.</p>
<p>I recently visited “<a href="http://www.1001inventions.com/dc/">1001 Inventions</a>” which was housed on the same floor as a fantastic Titanic exhibit.  I purchased entry to the museum at a ticket booth staffed by Rebecca Head, a National Geographic employee.  Perhaps assuming I was heading to see the Titanic exhibit, Head pushed attendance at 1001 Inventions  &#8211; “There is a really great exhibit on Muslim inventions you should see.”</p>
<p>The exhibit begins with star power – a short movie starring Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley.  Kingsley plays a librarian who faces a trio of young uniformed (presumably British) students seeking information about “the dark ages.”</p>
<p>Kingsley’s character bristles at the children’s characterization, critical of those “filling your head with such nonsense and ripping down the good of former civilizations.”</p>
<p>But “everyone knows the Greeks and Romans invented everything!” one child replies.</p>
<p>Kingsley’s librarian doesn’t equivocate – “some of the most important discoveries” were made by “Muslim civilizations.”</p>
<p>Harry Potter-style magic takes over, and Kingsley is transformed with beautiful flourish from an English librarian into the exotic turban wearing historical figure of Al-Jazari.  The children are enthralled, both on the screen, and in the audience.</p>
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<p>Al-Jazari informs the three children that a grand civilization “that stretched from Spain to China” was responsible “for some of the most important discoveries” in the world.  These include, according to Kingsley’s transformed Al-Jazari, devices such as the camera.</p>
<p>And herein lies the most fascinating characteristic of the entire exhibit – the slipperiness of its language.  Indeed, language throughout the exhibit, as we shall see, becomes a way to trick attendees.  Cleverly chosen words nudge readers toward unsupported conclusions.  Myth mingles with science.  Rumor becomes history.</p>
<p>Consider the &#8220;invention” of the camera.  Al-Jazari, portrayed masterfully and magically on screen by Kingsley, says “he” was responsible for explaining “how our eyes work” and developed camera obscura. Even if it is historically accurate that Al-Jazari pioneered camera obscura, the slithery language of the screenplay generates an inference that Al-Jazari is somehow legitimately involved in the chain of inventions culminating in my Nikon 35mm.</p>
<p>I was reminded of George Orwell’s <em>Politics and the English Language</em> when he wrote: “But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.”</p>
<p>Kingsley’s Al-Jazari fulfills Orwell’s warning in the film when he introduces another Muslim inventor, Abbas Ibn Firnas, who “dared to dream man could fly 1000 years before the Wright Brothers.”</p>
<p>Outside the theater, Firnas is featured in a flight exhibit.  Firnas is “said to be the first person who tried to fly.  His first attempt which has passed into legend took place when he leapt from the minaret of the Great Mosque in Cordoba.  Equipped with a glider with wooden struts, he managed to fly and landed more or less unharmed.  [His] next flight was more ambitious.  From the top of a nearby hill, he launched himself and his flying machine, apparently gliding for some distance before falling, a problem blamed on the lack of a tail.”</p>
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<p>Notice all of the tricks of language.  He was the first “who <em>tried</em> to fly,” and “passed into <em>legend</em>,” “<em>more or less</em> unharmed,” the “flying machine,” (implying moving parts), and “<em>apparently</em> gliding for some distance.”  Naturally he also diagnosed that that cause of his failure was the want of a tail. The exhibit neglects to inform us about whether he applied this fix to his “machine.”</p>
<p>The exhibit also features an interactive game for children where they can help Firnas fly by flapping their arms.</p>
<p>This all might seem harmless, but consider the argument I had with my 8-year-old after leaving the exhibit.  She was convinced that the Wright Brothers were not the first to fly, and instead it was Firnas launched from the mosque at Cordoba a millennium ago.  This would not be the only instance when thought corrupted the language of the exhibit, which in turn corrupted thought, at least among the more impressionable.</p>
<p>The short introductory film with Kingsley playing Al-Jazari goes on to tell the three on-screen students (and the many children in the theatre) that the 1001 inventions include medical devices, ideas or unspecified things which somehow led to the compass and GPS satellite navigation and the very Industrial Revolution itself.</p>
<p>Al-Jazari hands the children a book called “1001 Inventions: Muslim Heritage in Our World” and urges them plainly to “spread the word.”</p>
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		<title>The Left Owns the Election Law Industry</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[J. Christian Adams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the system is rigged to help radicals win elections.]]></description>
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<p>Before the 2000 presidential election, most Americans assumed the mechanics of elections functioned smoothly. The thirty-six day battle for the presidency demonstrated otherwise.  Today, most Americans still assume the institutions, firms and foundations that fight about election law disputes are equally matched and similarly funded as between left and right. That is a dangerously incorrect assumption, especially with the 2012 election fast approaching. From an election administration perspective, the 2012 presidential election is already upon us.  And the Left is fully engaged.</p>
<p>Like so many other institutions, whether academia or the media, leftists dominate the field of election law, and the consequences are immediate and devastating. Worst of all, hardly anyone has noticed that these scores of leftist election experts enjoy a largely unopposed battlefield.</p>
<p>Leftist foundations, litigators and organizations have established permanent structures designed to alter election outcomes through policy advocacy and strategic litigation. Project Vote, DEMOS, the Asian American Legal Defense Fund (AALDF), the Brennan Center for Justice, the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, the Advancement Project, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO), League of Women Voters, Asian Pacific American Legal Center and Common Cause are some of the groups that push election law in a direction hostile to conservatives, and the rule of law. Not surprisingly, money tainted by George Soros also flows downstream through various groups and institutes to the cause.</p>
<p>Literally hundreds of individuals man permanent stations, full time, at these groups.  They benefit from tens of millions of dollars in funding. They bring lawsuits under federal and state statutes ranging from the Voting Rights Act, Motor Voter law and the Help America Vote Act. They station teams of election observers in polling places around the nation every election to fuel their litigation and their media efforts.  Almost nobody opposes their efforts.</p>
<p>Their efforts pay off over and over again.  Whether preventing Michigan or Colorado secretaries of state from purging the voting rolls of dead voters in 2008, or grandstanding about purported “voter intimidation” when law-abiding citizens in Houston, Texas deploy retirees to serve as poll watchers in 2010, these leftist groups are affecting the outcomes of elections.</p>
<p>Activists posing as nonpartisan academics, like Michael Waldman of the Brennan Center or Tova Wang of DEMOS, disingenuously claim voter fraud doesn’t exist.  Wang is particularly dishonest. She released a report after the 2010 elections that there was no voter fraud. Wang’s conclusion came only two days after the election, hardly enough time for the careful study necessary for such a sweeping conclusion.  Nevertheless, sycophants in the media lapped it up.</p>
<p>What do conservative groups have to oppose this coordinated leftist strategy of lies and litigation? Virtually nothing. The best effort is an <em>ad hoc</em> group of Republican lawyers. Other embryonic efforts have sprung out of the Tea Party movement, such as True the Vote in Texas or the Election Integrity Project in California. Like so many other things, conservatives are justifiably too busy making money or raising families to commit to a cause.</p>
<p>Of course there are some excellent Republican lawyers, but they often focus on high paying clients, and they don’t represent a permanent counterweight to the enormous leftist election law structures.  They assemble just before the election then disperse, like minutemen.  The Tea Party groups are making enormous strides, but they haven’t been through the whirlwind of a presidential election yet, certainly not one with a community organizer at the top of the ticket.</p>
<p>No permanent engine of intellectual opposition exists to the leftist election law industry.</p>
<p>In contrast, the leftist election law practitioners have permanent structures. They are well funded.  They have resources, offices and hardwired networks. Eager leftist law students clamor volunteer time, seeking to change the world, like so many at their age do. The courtroom practitioners enjoy vibrant academic support from leftist law professors. And as I know from firsthand experience, they have the full weight of the Eric Holder-run Justice Department behind them.</p>
<p>When it comes to constructing the legal environment of election law, full-time leftists are the most engaged and energetic. They know how to beat part-time conservatives, either by mastery of the law, or by dominance of everyday attention to control the narrative.</p>
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