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	<title>FrontPage Magazine &#187; Larry Elder</title>
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		<title>Privatized Social Security: The Chilean Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Latin American country's citizens are retiring much richer than many Americans. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/00168.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235991" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/00168-389x350.jpg" alt="00168" width="260" height="234" /></a>The stock market reached a record high last week, closing over 17,000 for the first time. Good news, of course. As President John F. Kennedy famously said, &#8220;A rising tide lifts all boats.&#8221; But it sure helps if you own a boat.</p>
<p>In this case, the &#8220;boat&#8221; would be the dynamic American stock market.</p>
<p>But investors in the stock market disproportionately come from the top 1 percent, and they hold about 35 percent of all stocks and mutual funds. The next-richest 9 percent control about 45 percent. The remaining 90 percent have less than 20 percent. While nearly half of Americans have either direct or indirect investments in the stock market, half of Americans do not. And even for those who do, their home equity is still, by far, their largest investment.</p>
<p>President Obama wants to focus his remaining years in office on fighting &#8220;income inequality.&#8221; To do so, he has proposed things like &#8220;promise zones&#8221; where federal grants and tax incentives is supposed to spark development. He has promoted silly income-transferring schemes like &#8220;cash for clunkers&#8221; and &#8220;cash for caulkers,&#8221; and HAMP to help homeowners fight off foreclosure.</p>
<p>But there is something we could do immediately to help to increase the net worth of the bottom 99 percent — allow private accounts for Social Security.</p>
<p>Chile recently celebrated its 33rd year of private retirement accounts. Its then-secretary of labor and Chilean pension system, Jose Pinera, went on television day after day to explain to cabdrivers, housewives and construction workers the benefits of allowing private savings accounts.</p>
<p>Pinera successfully persuaded 93 percent of Chilean workers to invest their &#8220;social security&#8221; contributions in one of several types of managed portfolios. Those who feared the &#8220;risk&#8221; of the stock market could continue as they did before. While U.S. workers pay 12.4 percent of their wages into Social Security, Chileans put 10 percent (or up to 20 percent) of their earnings into a private fund, earning compound interest. On retirement, workers can choose a life annuity or make programmed withdrawals. Heirs inherit what&#8217;s left.</p>
<p>The result? Chilean workers averaged a near double-digit annual return on their money — 9.23 percent above inflation — over the first 30 years. In the U.S., Social Security nets a theoretical 1 to 2 percent return — less for newer workers. Not only do they allow private accounts for &#8220;social security&#8221; in Chile, but also in Australia and the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>Columnist John Tierney, writing in The New York Times in 2005, calculated what his retirement benefits would be if he&#8217;d paid into the Chilean system instead of Social Security.</p>
<p>He found he&#8217;d have three options: &#8220;(1) Retire in 10 years, at age 62, with an annual pension of $55,000. That would be more than triple the $18,000 I can expect from Social Security at that age. (2) Retire at age 65 with an annual pension of $70,000. That would be almost triple the $25,000 pension promised by Social Security starting a year later, at age 66. (3) Retire at age 65 with an annual pension of $53,000 and a one-time cash payment of $223,000.&#8221;</p>
<p>Social Security is an especially bad deal for blacks.</p>
<p>CATO Institute&#8217;s Michael Tanner writes: &#8220;The longer you live, the more money you get from Social Security. But African Americans have shorter life spans than whites. As a result, a black man or woman earning exactly the same lifetime wages, and paying exactly the same lifetime Social Security taxes as his or her white counterpart, will likely receive a far lower rate of return. A study by the nonpartisan RAND Corporation found that the rate of return for African-Americans was approximately one percent lower than that for whites. The result was a net lifetime transfer of wealth from blacks to whites averaging nearly $10,000 per person.&#8221;</p>
<p>Worse, the Supreme Court ruled long ago that one does not have a proprietary interest in his Social Security contributions. In other words, when the recipient dies, the &#8220;contribution&#8221; goes &#8220;poof.&#8221; With private accounts, the money can be bequeathed to a family member or to a charity.</p>
<p>So why not private Social Security accounts?</p>
<p>The late vice presidential candidate, Rep. Geraldine Ferraro, D-N.Y., opposed private accounts for Social Security. She said if one lacked the &#8220;knowledge and the wherewithal to manage your own private funds &#8230; you&#8217;re gonna be out of luck.&#8221; Out of luck?</p>
<p>Legendary investor Warren Buffett quotes his mentor, Benjamin Graham, who said: &#8220;In the short run the stock market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.&#8221; For the long term, prices reflect actual value, and investors who prudently and patiently &#8220;invest&#8221; in the stock market will have a much greater net worth and therefore realize the resources to enhance their comfort in their retirement years.</p>
<p>Democrats think Americans too stupid, too irresponsible and too impatient to manage their own Social Security contributions. Chileans can. Australians do. Many European and Latin American citizens do. But Americans, at least the bottom 99 percent, well, they&#8217;re just too stupid to join the party.</p>
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		<title>White People Be Playing the Race Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2014 04:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet the Left's white race hustlers. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Senator-Jay-Rockefeller-007.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-226230 alignleft" alt="Senator-Jay-Rockefeller-007" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Senator-Jay-Rockefeller-007-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>I&#8217;m old enough to remember when only black people called black people &#8220;Uncle Tom.&#8221; Democrats, however, long expanded the category of who can play the race card and on whom. Call them equal opportunity race-card players.</p>
<p>As with black race-card hustlers — say the Revs. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton or any given host on MSNB-Hee-Haw — white race-card players label others &#8220;racist&#8221; for the crime of disagreement. As with black race-card hustlers, white race-card hustlers need not name names when accusing someone of &#8220;racism.&#8221; And, as with black race-card hustlers, the mainscream media will not bother to ask the white race-card hustler to identify said racists.</p>
<p>Some examples:</p>
<p>Rep. Steve Israel, D-N.Y.: When recently asked if his Republican colleagues were racist, Israel responded, &#8220;Not all of them, no. Of course not. But to a significant extent, the Republican base does have elements that are animated by racism.&#8221; &#8220;Not all&#8221; implies one or more is &#8220;animated by racism.&#8221; He never bothered to name names, let alone what &#8220;animated&#8221; the racist(s). The host did not ask.</p>
<p>Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.: Only days ago, the soon-to-retire senator said that he can now speak out about the number of Republicans who oppose President Barack Obama because of his race: &#8220;It&#8217;s an American characteristic that you don&#8217;t do anything which displeases the voters, because you always have to get reelected here. I understand part of it. It has to do with — for some, it&#8217;s just we don&#8217;t want anything good to happen under this president, because he&#8217;s the wrong color.&#8221;</p>
<p>Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, now a Democrat: Crist recently said that &#8220;a big reason&#8221; he switched parties was because of the way &#8220;some&#8221; people in his former party — Republican — treated Obama: &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t be consistent with myself and my core beliefs, and stay with a party that was so unfriendly toward the African-American president.&#8221;</p>
<p>Feminist attorney Gloria Allred, Democrat: After the election of George W. Bush in 2000, Colin Powell and Condi Rice, formerly with the Reagan administration, were considered likely to join the new administration. Allred, who then hosted a Los Angeles radio show, referred to them (not by name) as &#8220;Uncle Tom types.&#8221;</p>
<p>Former President Jimmy Carter, Democrat: He attributed opposition to Obamamcare and other Obama policies to racism. &#8220;I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama,&#8221; said Carter, &#8220;is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he&#8217;s African-American.</p>
<p>Racism &#8230; still exists, and I think it&#8217;s bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the South but around the country, that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country.&#8221;</p>
<p>CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper: When asked by embattled Clippers&#8217; owner Donald Sterling whether there&#8217;s much prejudice in America, CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper replied, &#8220;Yes. &#8230; There&#8217;s institutional prejudice&#8221; in addition to the kind &#8220;that people have in their hearts.&#8221; In fairness to Cooper, Sterling did not ask him to name any &#8220;institution&#8221; — but it would have been helpful.</p>
<p>The Republicans-hate-blacks narrative remains crucial to maintaining the monolithic 95 percent Democratic black vote, without which the Democratic Party cannot succeed. Economist Thomas Sowell writes, &#8220;If Republicans can get just a fourth or a fifth of the black vote nationwide, that can shift the balance of power decisively in their favor.&#8221; As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in the presidential election.</p>
<p>The next time a Democrat or member of media speaks darkly about these anonymous Republican &#8220;racists,&#8221; ask this question: Don&#8217;t Israel and Rockefeller, currently in office, have a duty to &#8220;out&#8221; these racists? Why allow known bigots to remain in government? Doesn&#8217;t morality require Crist, running as a Democrat for his old job as governor of Florida, to identify and help remove these racist elected officials? Aren&#8217;t these Republican &#8220;racists&#8221; — whose IDs are being protected by their Democratic colleagues — detrimental to the interests of the nation and serving in violation of their oath to protect and defend the U.S. Constitution? Doesn&#8217;t this oath mean protecting and defending the rights of all constituents irrespective of race — and exposing the &#8220;racists&#8221; who refuse to do so?</p>
<p>Why protect them? Why conceal their identities? Out the SOBs!</p>
<p>But, no. Democrats would rather just brand unnamed Republicans as &#8220;racist,&#8221; no matter how absurd or outlandish the charge. Given this tepid five-year-old &#8220;recovery,&#8221; the Obama-loving/leftist media/academia/Hollywood crowd cannot, during this off-year election cycle, brag about economic growth. So look for more topic-changers like &#8220;income inequality,&#8221; climate change and the eternal struggle against the unknown &#8220;racist&#8221; obstructionists who sit across the aisle.</p>
<p>Sigh.</p>
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		<title>Snitchgate &#8212; Sharpton Is Still Lying</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 04:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real reason the MSNBC host "cooperated" with the FBI. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Al-Sharpton.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223683" alt="Al-Sharpton" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Al-Sharpton-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>If the Rev. Al Sharpton, the bigoted, anti-Semitic, non-tax paying race-hustling poverty pimp, had any credibility left, it just vanished.</p>
<p>The beneficiary of a lifetime of passes from our race-conscious mainscream media, Sharpton ran into an outlet not afraid of him — The Smoking Gun. They obtained material that exposed Sharpton as an FBI &#8220;informant.&#8221; Sharpton, of course, denies that this constitutes &#8220;snitching.&#8221; No, he says he &#8220;volunteered&#8221; to &#8220;cooperate&#8221; with the FBI — and for the most honorable of motives.</p>
<p>Why would the government-hating &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leader cooperate with the feds? Sharpton told Joe Scarborough, co-host of MSNBC&#8217;s &#8220;Morning Joe,&#8221; that he did so to root out &#8220;mob influence&#8221; in the record business. To this, the suppliant Joe Scarborough actually praised Sharpton, calling him &#8220;a great example.&#8221;</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the problem. The &#8220;great example&#8221; apparently cooperated to avoid going to prison for dealing drugs.</p>
<p>A &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; outtake from CBS&#8217; 2011 Sharpton profile shows correspondent Leslie Stahl aggressively questioning him about being an FBI &#8220;informant.&#8221; Sharpton admits &#8220;cooperating,&#8221; but says he did so to expose &#8220;crack houses&#8221; and corruption in boxing. They show the lying, shifty, obviously uncomfortable Sharpton dodging and deflecting — clearly unhappy with the line of questioning. He told Stahl that the FBI asked him &#8220;what I know about (boxing promoter) Don King, but said nothing about the mob in the record business, the reason he gave to Scarborough.</p>
<p>In 2002, HBO aired 19-year-old FBI hidden camera video of Sharpton with a self-described mobster and an undercover FBI agent posing as a Latin-American &#8220;businessman.&#8221; The three discussed promoting boxing matches and musical events. It also shows the undercover agent trying to convince Sharpton to play a middleman in a big cocaine buy. They discuss &#8220;4 million&#8221; in &#8220;coke,&#8221; a &#8220;six week&#8221; time frame, a price tag of &#8220;$35,000 a kilo&#8221; with &#8220;$3,500&#8243; to Sharpton for &#8220;every kilogram&#8221; brought in.</p>
<p>Sharpton, on tape, was agreeable to all terms.</p>
<p>Sharpton later said he agreed because he was scared. But, according to the New York Post, a former Sharpton aide said: &#8220;It was greed. (Sharpton) just wanted money.&#8221; Sharpton cut a deal. The ex-aide said: &#8220;Sharpton moved on it, and they sprung the trap on him right away. They got him. Al told me himself. He bit and took the bait. &#8230; Sharpton said they could do whatever they wanted with him after that.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span>&#8230; Either he worked for them or they put that news out there that he was into coke.&#8221; The &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leader who condemned drugs while attempting to deal them snitched to save his hide — nothing more, nothing less, nothing noble.</p>
<p>Days after CBS released its 2011 outtakes, late-night host Arsenio Hall welcomed Sharpton with a flattering introduction. Only days earlier, Hall admitted to another guest that Sharpton suckered him with the fraudulent Tawana Brawley affair. Yet, in talking to Sharpton, Hall never mentioned the drug tape, never asked about the shifting reasons for &#8220;informing.&#8221; This, of course, is precisely why Sharpton chooses venues like that where he&#8217;ll be licked to death.</p>
<p>The &#8220;civil rights&#8221; leader became famous by falsely accusing a man of raping Tawana Brawley, only to be held liable for defamation. Since then, Sharpton has compiled an impressive and lengthy rap sheet of race-card hustles. This includes Crown Heights, to take just one.</p>
<p>Sharpton turned a tragic auto accident into a racial incident after a 7-year-old black child was killed in Crown Heights (in Brooklyn) when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton derided Jews as &#8220;diamond merchants&#8221; and led 400 protesters through the Jewish section of Crown Heights, with one protester holding a sign that read, &#8220;The White Man Is the Devil.&#8221; There were four nights of rock- and bottle-throwing. A young Talmudic scholar was surrounded by a mob shouting, &#8220;Kill the Jew,&#8221; and was stabbed to death. A hundred others were injured. Sharpton bellowed, &#8220;If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.&#8221;</p>
<p>The &#8220;civil rights leader&#8221; has also managed to avoid jail despite being millions of dollars light in federal and state income taxes. The New York Post reported in 2011 that Sharpton &#8220;owe(d) the IRS $2.6 million in income tax and nearly $900,000 in state tax.&#8221; Sharpton&#8217;s money-losing non-profit &#8220;civil rights organization,&#8221; called the National Action Network, has failed to pay payroll taxes. Last year&#8217;s state and federal filings showed NAN had more than $1 million in deficits and owed $871,688 in unpaid payroll taxes, including penalties and interest.</p>
<p>Sharpton&#8217;s busy life includes a daily hour-long show on MSNBC and a three-hour daily radio show. Plus, he claims to put in a 40-hour workweek at NAN, still manages multiple TV, radio and live guest appearances around the country.</p>
<p>The IRS, should it turn its attention away from tea party applications, might be curious. How does Sharpton manage to do all this and<i>still </i>put in 40 hours per week to justify his $250K CEO salary? Celebritynetworth.com clocks him in at $5 million, plus.</p>
<p>Not bad for &#8220;no justice, no peace.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>&#8216;Lie of the Year&#8217; &#8212; Aided and Abetted by the Media</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How Obama was able to get away with his ObamaCare deceit for so long. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Obama-Rose-Garden-Obamacare.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-213536" alt="Obama-Rose-Garden-Obamacare" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Obama-Rose-Garden-Obamacare-413x350.jpg" width="289" height="245" /></a>PolitiFact has awarded their &#8220;Lie of the Year&#8221; to President Barack Obama for his promise that &#8220;if you like your health care plan, you can keep it.&#8221;</p>
<p>PolitiFact, a feature of the Tampa Bay Times, purports to rate the truthfulness of statements/assertions made by politicians. The accurate are rated &#8220;true,&#8221; then slide down the scale to &#8220;mostly true,&#8221; &#8216;half true,&#8221; &#8220;mostly false&#8221; and &#8220;false.&#8221; The biggest &#8220;lies&#8221; — the most egregious — are awarded, as PolitiFact puts it, a &#8220;Pants on Fire!&#8221; rating. (Full disclosure: As I recently wrote, PunditFact, its sister feature, recently gave me an undeserved &#8220;mostly false.&#8221;)</p>
<p>What&#8217;s puzzling is that PolitiFact, until now, called Obama&#8217;s statement &#8220;true&#8221; and later &#8220;half true.&#8221; In 2008 PolitiFact rated then-candidate Obama&#8217;s &#8220;you can keep it&#8221; statement as &#8220;true,&#8221; because &#8220;Obama is accurately describing his health care plan here.&#8221; As The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s James Taranto notes: &#8220;PolitiFact actually rated Obama&#8217;s promise as &#8216;true&#8217; on the grounds that in making the promise, he was making the promise. &#8230; In 2008 it was but a promise, which Obama might or might not have intended and might or might not have been able to keep.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then in 2009, when PolitiFact re-fact-checked the same statement, they rated Obama&#8217;s statement as &#8220;half true.&#8221; The Obamacare promise stayed stuck on &#8220;half true&#8221; even when PolitiFact again re-re-fact-checked it in 2012.</p>
<p>&#8220;By 2012,&#8221; writes Taranto, &#8220;we now know, it was a full-fledged fraud, but exposing it conclusively as such would have required a degree of expertise few journalists have. &#8230; Its past evaluations of the statement were not &#8216;fact checks&#8217; at all, merely opinion pieces endorsing Obamacare.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stupid, Obama is not. Why would he continue this blatantly false assertion about Obamacare, doctors and plans? He counted on the supposed media &#8220;watchdog&#8221; to look the other way, fall asleep or cheer him on.</p>
<p>Recall the comments by pundit Joan Walsh of leftwing Slate.com on the 2008 campaign trail: &#8220;I was struck, when I got to Iowa and New Hampshire in January, by how our media colleagues were just swooning over Barack Obama. That is not too strong a word. They were swooning.&#8221;</p>
<p>Two of America&#8217;s most influential newspapers admitted bias — belatedly of course — in their coverage of the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. The Washington Post&#8217;s ombudsperson, Deborah Howell, examined her paper&#8217;s 2008 election coverage: &#8220;The op-ed page ran far more laudatory opinion pieces on Obama, 32, than on Sen. John McCain, 13. There were far more negative pieces about McCain, 58, than there were about Obama, 32, and Obama got the editorial board&#8217;s endorsement. &#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;Stories and photos about Obama in the news pages outnumbered those devoted to McCain. Reporters, photographers and editors found the candidacy of Obama, the first African-American major-party nominee, more newsworthy and historic. &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>As to The New York Times, former executive editor and columnist Bill Keller, wrote: &#8220;If the 2012 election were held in the newsrooms of America and pitted Sarah Palin against Barack Obama, I doubt Palin would get 10 percent of the vote. However tempting the newsworthy havoc of a Palin presidency, I&#8217;m pretty sure most journalists would recoil in horror from the idea.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Times&#8217; ombudsman, Arthur S. Brisbane, acknowledged his paper is biased to the left: &#8220;Across the paper&#8217;s many departments &#8230; so many share a kind of political and cultural progressivism — for lack of a better term — that this worldview virtually bleeds through the fabric of The Times. As a result, developments like the Occupy movement and gay marriage seem almost to erupt in The Times, overloved and undermanaged, more like causes than news subjects.&#8221;</p>
<p>A we-know-best smugness explains Obama&#8217;s vision, but his protectors in the media help provide the means to pull it off. Surely people would jump at the chance to unload their current policies, described by Obama as &#8220;lousy&#8221; and &#8220;substandard.&#8221; Did the mainstream media spend much time in asking those with &#8220;substandard&#8221; policies whether they might, you know, prefer them?</p>
<p>Pre-Obamacare, 85 percent of Americans had health care coverage. According to an ABC News/Kaiser Family Foundation/USA Today survey, &#8220;88 percent of the insured rate their coverage as excellent or good&#8221; and &#8220;89 percent are satisfied with the quality of care they receive.&#8221; No, thought Obama, wait until these duped people learn to appreciate the superiority of the Obamacare product.</p>
<p>Obama now asserts that, &#8220;Thanks in part to the Affordable Care Act &#8230; the cost of health care is now growing at the slowest rate in 50 years.&#8221; Really? The Wall Street Journal, in its opinion page, says growth rates began declining more than 10 years ago and &#8220;bottomed out at 3.9 percent in 2009 — the worst year of the Great Recession, where it has stayed ever since.&#8221; This was, of course, <i>before</i>Obamacare was enacted in 2010.</p>
<p>The problem remains that the President — despite his best efforts — has failed to repeal an economics law of physics: There ain&#8217;t no such thing as a free lunch. Obamacare is no exception. Good luck in getting PolitiFact to fact check that.</p>
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		<title>Pelosi: I Never Met &#8216;Anybody Who Liked His or Her Plan&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2013 04:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Elder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pelosi-gregory-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-211247" alt="pelosi-gregory-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/pelosi-gregory-1.jpg" width="225" height="188" /></a>Asked whether she needed to apologize to the formerly insured who have lost their health insurance plans, former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, &#8220;Did I ever tell my constituents that if they liked their plan they could keep it? I would have if I&#8217;d ever met anybody who liked his or her plan. But that was not my experience.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pelosi, whose net worth — combined with her husband&#8217;s — is estimated between $35 and $180 million, never &#8220;met anybody who liked his or her plan&#8221;? Her out-of-touch comment reminds one of then-New Yorker film critic, liberal Pauline Kael. In 1972, after Republican Richard Nixon crushed Democrat George McGovern, 49 states to one, a shell-shocked Kael said, &#8220;Nobody I know voted for Nixon.&#8221;</p>
<p>Pelosi&#8217;s world is that of rich people and government workers whose health care plans are better than those of their counterparts in the private sector. How would she know that, according to a pre-Obamacare ABC News-Kaiser Family Foundation-USA Today survey, &#8220;88 percent of the insured rate their coverage as excellent or good&#8221; and &#8220;89 percent are satisfied with the quality of care they receive&#8221;?</p>
<p>Ms. Pelosi, meet Kristen Powers, Fox News analyst and a Democratic strategist. After her policy was canceled and her premiums doubled, Powers said: &#8220;My blood pressure goes up every time they say that they&#8217;re protecting us from substandard health insurance plans, because there is nothing to support what they&#8217;re saying. &#8230; I am losing my health insurance. &#8230; If I want to keep the same health insurance, it&#8217;s going to cost twice as much. There&#8217;s nothing substandard about my plan.</p>
<p>&#8220;All of the things they say that are not in my plan are in my plan, all of the things they have listed. There&#8217;s no explanation for the doubling of my premiums other than the fact that it&#8217;s subsidizing other people. They need to be honest about that, that that&#8217;s the reason they don&#8217;t want to change it.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s because they&#8217;re basically taking the people who are responsible enough to get health insurance in the individual market and asking them to subsidize other people. So they&#8217;re taking young healthy people and asking them to subsidize other people.&#8221; Well, &#8220;shared sacrifice&#8221; — that&#8217;s the whole point behind Obamacare, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
<p>Democrats flat-out despise insurance companies. They&#8217;ve been called &#8220;immoral villains&#8221; (Pelosi), &#8220;deceptive and dishonest&#8221; (President Barack Obama), &#8220;fly-by-night&#8221; (former Gov. and DNC chair Howard Dean), &#8220;rapacious&#8221; (Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.) and &#8220;greedy&#8221; (Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev.).</p>
<p>Are health insurance companies any greedier than any other for-profit sector of the economy? In 2009, before Obamacare, profit margins for the network and communications equipment industry averaged 20.4 percent; Internet services and retailing was 19.4 percent; pharmaceuticals averaged 19.3 percent; railroads 12.6 percent; gas and electric utilities 8.7 percent; and food consumer products 6.7 percent. Health insurance and managed care companies? They averaged 2.2 percent.</p>
<p>Follow the money.</p>
<p>Of the political contributions by the, say, communications/electronic industry in 2012, $94.6 million went to Democrats, and $55.7 million to Republicans. But from 1990 to the current 2014 cycle, according to OpenSecrets.org, insurance companies gave 63 percent of their political donations to Republicans versus 37 percent to Democrats.</p>
<p>Obamacare is now more unpopular than ever, in large part because of broken promises. At the televised health care summit in February 2010, just before passage of Obamacare, then-Minority Whip Eric Cantor predicted millions would lose their coverage. He had the following exchange with the President:</p>
<p>Cantor: I don&#8217;t think you can answer the question in the positive to say that people will be able to maintain their coverage, people will be able to see the doctors they want, in the kind of bill that you are proposing.</p>
<p>Obama: &#8220;The 8 to 9 million people that you refer to, that might have to change their coverage &#8230; would find the deal in the exchange better.&#8221; Yet Obama still publicly assured people that &#8220;no one&#8221; would take away their policy, if they liked it.</p>
<p>Finally, Obama still gets a pass on a tale he repeatedly told to sell Obamacare. How many times did we hear that Obama&#8217;s mom, dying of cancer, had to fight with her carriers to pay her medical and hospital bills? The story, crucial to humanizing the fight, turns out to be bogus. According to a book by an ex-New York Times reporter, the sole dispute was between Obama&#8217;s mother and an insurance company over a disability policy his mother had taken out. The insurance company said she&#8217;d had a pre-existing condition when she applied for that policy. But her medical bills — and this is what Obama insisted they fought over — were in fact paid by her health care insurer, directly and without dispute.</p>
<p>Yes, our health care system &#8220;suffers.&#8221; But it suffers from a lack of free markets. The antidote is more competition — reducing barriers to entry, health savings accounts, giving individuals the same health care tax breaks as given to business, competition across state lines, and for tough cases, charity.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 04:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When "fact-checkers" can't be trusted. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/politifact-half-true.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-210731" alt="politifact-half-true" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/politifact-half-true-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>When PunditFact — the new offspring from the folks at PolitiFact — contacted me, they wanted sources for &#8220;all of the claims&#8221; in the following statement I made Nov. 4 on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Crossfire&#8221;:</p>
<p>&#8220;In 1900, at all three levels of government — federal, state and local — government took less than 10 percent of the American people&#8217;s money. Now, we&#8217;re talking about 35 percent, and when you add a dollar value to mandates, we&#8217;re talking almost 50 percent.&#8221;</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the problem? PunditFact rated the statement as &#8220;mostly false.&#8221; For added measure, PunditFact called the assertions &#8220;eye-popping.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, I was not &#8220;mostly false.&#8221; At worst, I was &#8220;mostly true.&#8221; Broken down, &#8220;all&#8221; of my &#8220;claims&#8221; consist of three assertions. They are:</p>
<p>1) On size of government in 1900: &#8220;Less than 10 percent.&#8221; PunditFact doesn&#8217;t bother to even mention their findings on this &#8220;claim&#8221; — no doubt because the number I gave is accurate. In essence, PunditFact admits I&#8217;m right.</p>
<p>2) On amount government now takes: &#8220;Now &#8230; 35 percent.&#8221; PunditFact admits I&#8217;m right.</p>
<p>3) On amount government takes at all levels when you &#8220;add a dollar value to mandates&#8221;: I said, &#8220;Almost 50 percent.&#8221; This requires judgment and assignment of value to things that are difficult to quantify. But there is a cost, even by the Elder-was-wrong experts PunditFact cited — and the cost is north of zero.</p>
<p>Yet PunditFact determined that since a) it is difficult to quantify the cost of mandates, and b) experts disagree, my entire statement — all three &#8220;eyepopping&#8221; assertions — are scored &#8220;mostly false&#8221;?! This is nonsense.</p>
<p>For added measure, PunditFact quoted one tax professor: &#8220;Mr. Elder&#8217;s statement is too vague to be useful for any purpose other than generating &#8216;hallelujahs!&#8217; from the choir he is preaching to.&#8221; Nice touch.</p>
<p>So I challenged PunditFact on my radio show, and to PunditFact&#8217;s credit, the editor agreed to an interview. After our interview, I sent him the following letter:</p>
<p>&#8220;Thanks again for coming on. You&#8217;re a stand-up guy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I respectfully and formally request that you re-visit your rating — in hopes that I will get a fair one. I made good arguments this evening in our interview — and you knew it.</p>
<p>&#8220;My quote consisted of three factual assertions.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;ve admitted that the first two were correct, leaving us with the &#8216;cost&#8217; of mandates as our only unresolved issue.</p>
<p>&#8220;Katie&#8217;s letter (Katie Sanders is the reporter who wrote the piece) spoke of fact checking &#8216;all&#8217; my &#8216;claims.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;In the &#8216;mostly false&#8217; fact check, you call my assertions — plural — &#8216;eye-popping.&#8217; Plural, of course, means you not only found my &#8216;almost 50 percent&#8217; claim &#8216;eye-popping,&#8217; but you had to have found at least one of my two other assertions &#8216;eye-popping,&#8217; as well.</p>
<p>&#8220;Katie said &#8216;all,&#8217; not &#8216;both.&#8217; &#8216;All,&#8217; to me, means three claims — not one, not two.</p>
<p>&#8220;Two of my &#8216;eye-popping claims&#8217; were true, but I still get &#8216;mostly false.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;You essentially said that it was the most &#8216;eye-popping&#8217; of my claims — so you gave it more weight. That is also unfair.</p>
<p>&#8220;First, PunditFact switched the goal posts from being concerned about &#8216;all&#8217; my assertions, to ignoring the two that check out.</p>
<p>&#8220;Second, why do you think the &#8216;almost 50 percent&#8217; part was the most &#8216;eye popping&#8217; assertion? I don&#8217;t. I&#8217;m willing to bet, as I said in our interview, that Katie was gob-smacked when she heard that in 1900 government took less than 10 percent and now it takes 35 percent! But this &#8216;eye-popping&#8217; (and truthful) assertion checks out and gets ignored. Suddenly, you focus only on the &#8216;almost 50 percent&#8217; part. Unfair.</p>
<p>&#8220;Finally, you say &#8216;you could find no expert&#8217; to corroborate the 50 percent number. Really? I offered Grover Norquist&#8217;s organization, and it assigns an even higher number to the cost of mandates. You rejected that. Nobody at the American Enterprise Institute? Nobody at the libertarian Reason Foundation? Nobody at Heritage? Nobody at the Competitive Enterprise Institute?</p>
<p>&#8220;I won&#8217;t even bring up the lenient grade you gave Ed Schultz when he exaggerated the number of teachers Gov. Chris Christie supposedly &#8216;fired&#8217; by over 30 percent — and still got a &#8216;half truth.&#8217;</p>
<p>&#8220;Soft on lefties, hard on conservatives?</p>
<p>&#8220;Please reconsider. I take my credibility quite seriously, and you&#8217;ve slammed my character and integrity. Stuff like this affects one&#8217;s stature and even career. You should have been more considerate and respectful.</p>
<p>&#8220;I treated you with courtesy and respect tonight. I hope you will do likewise.</p>
<p>&#8220;Larry.&#8221;</p>
<p>Media tells us that the lost and &#8220;schizophrenic&#8221; GOP cannot decide between the tea party and &#8220;more mainstream candidates.&#8221; But if liberal media bias didn&#8217;t exist, it wouldn&#8217;t matter whether they nominated Texas&#8217; Sen. Ted Cruz or New Jersey&#8217;s Christie. UCLA Professor Tim Groseclose, author of the media bias book &#8220;Left Turn,&#8221; says that in presidential elections, liberal media bias gives Dems an 8 to 10 point advantage out of the gate. Were the media truly &#8220;fair and balanced,&#8221; the voting electorate, writes Groseclose, would resemble red state Texas.</p>
<p>The old line goes, &#8220;You&#8217;re entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own set of facts. Yet leftwing fact-checkers give us leftwing &#8220;facts.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Barneys&#8217; &#8216;Racism&#8217; Threatens Jay-Z&#8217;s Street Cred</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Oct 2013 04:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Race demagogue Al Sharpton goes in for the kill. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jayz-1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-209144" alt="jayz-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jayz-1-431x350.jpg" width="259" height="210" /></a>&#8220;World War II Vets Under Attack by Blacks.&#8221; Can you imagine such a headline in The New York Times — or anywhere else, except perhaps some in underground racist tract?</p>
<p>But for the second time in three months, an 80-plus-year-old WWII veteran was murdered by black suspects. In Washington, 88-year-old Delbert Belton, who fought and took a bullet to the leg at the Battle of Okinawa, was beaten to death by two black teen suspects. The motive? Police describe the killing as a random attack. In Mississippi, 87-year-old Lawrence E. Thornton, a WWII vet who served as a Navy fireman on a minesweeper, was beaten to death by four black suspects. The motive was robbery.</p>
<p>Even if the vets were racially targeted — and there is no evidence that they were — it would be absurd to say that white World War II vets &#8220;are under attack&#8221; by &#8220;black people&#8221; because of the bad behavior of some individuals who happen to be black. Yet this is the reasoning the Rev. Jesse Jackson applied following the black teen&#8217;s death in the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin case. Jackson, angry when he heard the news of Martin&#8217;s death, said, &#8220;Blacks are under attack.&#8221;</p>
<p>This brings us to the accusation of &#8220;blatant prejudice and discrimination&#8221; by the upscale department store, Barneys New York.</p>
<p>In February, plainclothes NYPD cops stopped a black woman and falsely accused her of credit card fraud after she bought a $2,500 Celine handbag. The shopper filed a &#8220;notice of claim,&#8221; announcing her intention to sue. And in April, a black shopper used a debit card to buy a $349 Ferragamo belt. He, too, was falsely accused of fraud.</p>
<p>Now things get even more interesting.</p>
<p>Rapper and hip-hop mogul Jay-Z had entered into a deal with Barneys. A Jay-Z curated, limited-edition collection of designer clothes and accessories rolls out this holiday season, with part of the proceeds going to charity.</p>
<p>A hyper left-wing organization called Color of Change put out an &#8220;open letter&#8221; appealing to Jay-Z. Another group, Change.org, set up an online petition that calls on Jay-Z to denounce Barneys&#8217; &#8220;blatant prejudice and discrimination.&#8221; Some Jay-Z fans now call him a &#8220;sell-out&#8221; and &#8220;Uncle Tom&#8221; for giving cover to a racist institution for money. Through his website, Jay-Z said that before he reacted with &#8220;emotion,&#8221; he wanted to get the &#8220;facts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Enter the Rev. Al Sharpton, who never lets &#8220;facts&#8221; get between him and a race card.</p>
<p>Sharpton, of course, shot to fame by falsely accusing a white man of raping a black teenager; was in the middle of the Crown Heights riots (&#8220;If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house&#8221;); once called the black mayor of New York an &#8220;N-word whore&#8221;; and spoke of whites moving into Harlem as &#8220;interlopers&#8221; and Jews as &#8220;diamond merchants.&#8221; He steps in to calm the waters?!</p>
<p>&#8220;Some people want to make this about Jay-Z,&#8221; Sharpton told reporters, &#8220;No, this is about Barneys first.&#8221; He demanded Barneys &#8220;bring the data&#8221; to prove that when expensive purchases are made, the store investigates white and minority shoppers equally.</p>
<p>Barneys, warned Sharpton, better gather the information quickly and not use the busy holiday season as an excuse. &#8220;We&#8217;ll march all the way down to your store,&#8221; said Sharpton. &#8220;I&#8217;ll serve turkey right on the corner.&#8221;</p>
<p>For race hustlers and the eternally aggrieved, Barneys did not unfairly treat a handful of shoppers. No, it&#8217;s an institutional problem. Anecdotes equal evidence. The election and reelection of President Barack Obama has not stopped so-called &#8220;civil rights leaders&#8221; from treating America like it&#8217;s still the back-of-the-bus &#8217;50s.</p>
<p>For those who argue racism remains a deep and persistent problem, consider this. Attorney Johnnie Cochran argued that the LAPD had it out for O.J. Simpson because, according to Cochran, Simpson broke the final taboo by marrying a blond, blue-eyed white woman. A few years ago, &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; ran a sex-themed promo during Monday Night Football. It featured blond actress Nicollette Sheridan and prominent football wide-receiver Terrell Owens. Clad only in a white towel, Sheridan teased and flirted with Owens.</p>
<p>The Federal Communications Commission claimed it received 50,000 complaint letters — a tiny amount compared to total viewership. But a Freedom of Information request discovered that, in fact, the FCC received fewer than 2,000 letters, with less than 100 — or less than 5 percent of that total — saying anything about race.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s do the numbers. Out of 17,000,000 viewers, 2,000 bothered to write. Of that, only 100 complained about the promo being racially offensive. That comes to about 5 percent of the .01 percent that wrote — or a little over .0005 percent of viewers.</p>
<p>Now the discriminated Barneys&#8217; customers have already sought legal counsel. Barneys has announced an investigation. Without waiting for the results, Barneys&#8217; CEO issued an apology. To ensure that the store keeps its &#8220;commitment to fairness and equality&#8221; and &#8220;zero tolerance for any form of discrimination,&#8221; Barneys has retained a respected &#8220;civil rights expert.&#8221;</p>
<p>Just tell us it isn&#8217;t Sharpton.</p>
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		<title>Chris Noth: Another ‘Brain Dead&#8217; Actor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2013 04:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/chris-noth-6.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-208474" alt="chris-noth-6" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/chris-noth-6-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>Add another actor to the list. Chris Noth, currently starring in &#8220;The Good Wife,&#8221; played Detective Mike Logan on &#8220;Law &amp; Order&#8221; and &#8220;Law &amp; Order: Criminal Intent,&#8221; and &#8220;Mr. Big&#8221; on &#8220;Sex and the City.&#8221; Noth has now outed himself — as yet another liberal. Worse, his moronic anti-GOP, anti-tea party comments put him into the category of &#8220;brain dead&#8221; Hollywood liberal, to use an expression from playwright David Mamet.</p>
<p>Noth, unhappy with the partial government shutdown, tweeted this thoughtful analysis: &#8220;Highest level of racism was shown yesterday when Republicans forced a shutdown of our government. Mostly because our President is black.&#8221; Naturally, he weighed on the tea party: &#8220;Every tea party member should be horsewhipped.&#8221; Get it? Opposition to Obamacare &#8230; is racist!</p>
<p>Mamet, in 2008, wrote an article for the &#8220;Village Voice&#8221; called &#8220;Why I Am No Longer a Brain-Dead Liberal.&#8221; He described his conversion from the typical Noth-like Hollywood mindset:</p>
<p>&#8220;As a child of the &#8217;60s, I accepted as an article of faith that government is corrupt, that business is exploitative and that people are generally good at heart. These cherished precepts had, over the years, become ingrained as increasingly impracticable prejudices. Why do I say impracticable? Because although I still held these beliefs, I no longer applied them in my life. &#8230; I began reading not only the economics of Thomas Sowell (our greatest contemporary philosopher) but Milton Friedman, Paul Johnson and Shelby Steele, and a host of conservative writers, and found that I agreed with them: A free-market understanding of the world meshes more perfectly with my experience than that idealistic vision I called liberalism.&#8221;</p>
<p>Noth confidently displayed his bigotry toward Republicans and the tea party because he knows that where he works most people think just like that — or they&#8217;re are smart enough to shut up if they don&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Ben Shapiro, attorney and talk show host, wrote &#8220;Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV.&#8221; Conservative actors, writers, producers and staffers, Shapiro writes, are blatantly discriminated against: &#8220;The television industry is &#8230; ideologically xenophobic. Most conservatives in Hollywood don&#8217;t work today, at least not openly. That&#8217;s not because conservatives are untalented or unqualified or incapable of empathy, as many on the left ridiculously contend. It&#8217;s because liberals employ a mirror form of McCarthyism on a large scale.&#8221;</p>
<p>In fairness to Noth, many Americans feel hostility toward Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., and the House Republicans, and blame them for the partial shutdown. But Ted Cruz led the charge &#8220;mostly because our President is black&#8221;?!</p>
<p>Since 1976, there have been 17 &#8220;shutdowns&#8221; — not counting the latest — for a total of 110 days. In 15 of these cases, Democrats controlled the House. Were the Dems &#8220;hostage takers,&#8221; &#8220;terrorists&#8221; and &#8220;anarchists&#8221;?</p>
<p>The shutdown was about Obamacare. Teamsters head James Hoffa, an Obamacare supporter, wrote a letter to Obama in which he said that Obamacare threatened the 40-hour workweek. Warren Buffett agreed that Obamacare should be &#8220;scrapped,&#8221; and he warned of our healthcare market becoming &#8220;less and less competitive.&#8221; Did they criticize Obamacare &#8220;mostly because our President is black&#8221;?</p>
<p>Noth believes Republican/tea party opposition to Obama is rooted in racism. How many of his Hollywood homies back Obama <i>because </i>he is black? Did Noth tweet about fellow actor Samuel L. Jackson? Jackson explained why he supported the then-Senator from Illinois in 2008: &#8220;I voted for Barack because he was black. &#8216;Cuz that&#8217;s why other folks vote for other people — because they look like them.&#8221;</p>
<p>Since Noth is concerned about &#8220;racism,&#8221; one wonders how he feels about a recent poll that asked Hispanic, black and whites this question: As between Hispanics, blacks and whites, which group is most racist? More Americans (37 percent) believe most blacks are racist, versus 15 percent saying most whites are racist and 17 percent believing Hispanics are racist. Even blacks consider blacks the most racist. Thirty-one percent of blacks, according to the poll, said blacks are the most racist, 24 percent said whites and 15 percent said Hispanics. Mr. Noth, does this mean that blacks&#8217; hostility toward President George W. Bush was &#8220;mostly because our President was white&#8221;?</p>
<p>Polls have long asked Americans if they would vote for a black person for president. In 1960, about 40 percent said yes. By 1980, 80 percent said yes. More recently, in a 2006 Times/Bloomberg poll, 97 percent said yes. But more Democrats (at 4 percent) than Republicans (at 3 percent) ruled out voting for a black candidate.</p>
<p>Reckless charges of racism are standard operating procedure for the Hollywood left. But the election and re-election of the first black president presents a challenge. When the evidence demonstrates the declining significance of race, how can leftists continue to complain about its alleged significance? Answer: expand the definition of &#8220;racism.&#8221; At one time, hostility toward a race made one a racist. Today, mere opposition to a policy — providing a black president is on the other side — makes one not only a racist, but one in need of a &#8220;horsewhipping.&#8221;</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130831_obama_syria_statement_605.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-203259" alt="Obama Syria" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130831_obama_syria_statement_605.jpg" width="288" height="229" /></a>Sen. Barack Obama snatched the 2008 democratic nomination from Sen. Hillary Clinton for many reasons, none more important than Obama&#8217;s opposition to the Iraq War.</p>
<p>All of Obama&#8217;s major opponents — Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C. and then-Sen. Clinton, D-N.Y. — had voted for authorization for war. Obama, then an Illinois state senator and a candidate for the U.S. Senate gave a speech in October 2002. He called it &#8220;a rash war&#8230; based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.&#8221; Sen. Obama pre-emptively criticized President George W. Bush in 2007 for possibly taking military action against Iran&#8217;s suspected nuclear sites — should he do so without congressional approval. Such an action, Obama said then, would be in violation of the Constitution unless the President obtained congressional approval.</p>
<p>Flash forward. March 2011. President Obama joins the French and British in bombing Libya during that country&#8217;s civil war. Libya had surrendered its weapons of mass destruction to the Bush administration in early 2004, fearing the same fate as the arrested and jailed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Obama describes the Libyan campaign as &#8220;humanitarian,&#8221; but also consistent with our &#8220;core interests.&#8221; He does not go to Congress.</p>
<p>Today, Obama supports military action against the Syrian government because it &#8220;crossed a red line&#8221; in its civil war by reportedly using chemicals to kill some 1,400 Syrians. Initially, Obama said he had authority to strike without Congress&#8217; approval, and that he did not intend to seek their permission. Time was of the essence, he said. The use of chemicals, says Obama, violates &#8220;international norms&#8221; requiring intervention — and by the U.S. alone, says Obama, if necessary.</p>
<p>Then the British Parliament, for the first time since 1782, refused to give the prime minister authority for military action. Here, polls find Americans are overwhelmingly against military force in Syria. Obama abruptly announced that he would seek congressional approval — but said he retained the power to act and refused to say whether he&#8217;d do so should Congress vote no.</p>
<p>Where was Obama&#8217;s concern about chemical weapons during the 2002 debate on military action in Iraq? Obama opposed it despite Saddam&#8217;s assumed possession of WMD and his use of chemical weapons on the Iranians and his own people. Of the intelligence community&#8217;s assumption that Iraq possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons — with the acquisition of nuclear weapons just a matter of time — Obama had no doubt:</p>
<p>&#8220;I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein.</p>
<p>He is a brutal man. A ruthless man. A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power. He has repeatedly defied U.N. resolutions, thwarted U.N. inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity. He&#8217;s a bad guy. The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama opposed the Iraq War because &#8220;even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.&#8221; Yet after 9/11, 90 percent of Americans expected a similar attack within 6 months to a year. Apart from using chemicals on his own people, Saddam was shooting at the British and American planes patrolling the &#8220;no-fly&#8221; areas protecting the Kurds and other ethnic groups; paying $25K to families of homicide bombers; stealing from the Oil-for-Food program; and was in violation of a number of U.N. resolutions to declare what he has done with his WMD and his nuclear program.</p>
<p>Still Obama called Iraq a &#8220;dumb war&#8221; orchestrated as &#8220;the cynical attempt by Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair, weekend warriors in (the Bush) administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama also opposed the Iraq War for reasons that seem to apply to a Syrian intervention. &#8220;I know that an invasion of Iraq,&#8221; he said then, &#8220;without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaida.&#8221; Wouldn&#8217;t striking Syria &#8220;fan the flames of the Middle East? And isn&#8217;t al-Qaida on the side of the &#8220;rebels&#8221; — the side we support?</p>
<p>Regime change in Syria, says Obama, is not the goal. Rather, the objective is a &#8220;shot across the bow,&#8221; designed to dissuade the Syrian government from further use of chemical weapons. U.S. credibility is on trial now that Obama foolishly talked about the &#8220;red line,&#8221; which, if crossed, would &#8220;change his calculus.&#8221;</p>
<p>But advisors and experts are, at best, uncertain about whether launching some missiles from an aircraft carrier will have any real effect in Syria. A symbolic strike, which appears to be the President&#8217;s intention, could be interpreted by our enemies as weakness. &#8220;But,&#8221; as then-Illinois State Sen. Barack Obama said on Iraq, &#8220;we ought not — we will not — travel down that hellish path blindly.&#8221;</p>
<p>One more thing — Syria is a client state. How about we cut to the chase and have the debate we should be having: Whether to go to war against Iran, the world&#8217;s leading exporter of terrorism?</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jun 2013 04:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unemployment.jpg"><img class=" wp-image-194030 alignleft" alt="unemployment" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/unemployment-450x339.jpg" width="270" height="203" /></a>The recent Obama administration scandals shift the spotlight from the economy. Yet the recovery remains depressingly sluggish, with the labor force participation rate at a 34-year low as millions of able-bodied, able-minded Americans simply stopped looking for work.</p>
<p>With President Obama in the fifth year of his presidency, let us examine the effect of the stimulus program, tax hikes, Obamacare and additional regulation on the economy. It isn&#8217;t pretty.</p>
<p>For the richest Americans, their net worth has fully recovered. For the non-rich, the recovery tells a very different story. At the start of &#8220;recovery&#8221; in 2009, the mean net worth of the lower 93 percent of households was $139,896. By the close of 2011 — the latest year available — it had fallen 4 percent, to $133,817. Food stamp usage sets new records. So far this fiscal year, over 22 million households have received food stamps, up from less than 15 million in 2009. While the stock market has recovered, most Americans have not. The biggest investment for most Americans is their home and the equity in average home remains 28 percent below its 2006 peak.</p>
<p>How does this recovery compare to other post-World War II recoveries?</p>
<p>An Associated Press article said: &#8220;Since World War II, 10 U.S. recessions have been followed by a recovery that lasted at least three years. An Associated Press analysis shows that by just about any measure, the one that began in June 2009 is the weakest. &#8230; Economic growth has never been weaker in a postwar recovery. Consumer spending has never been so slack. Only once has job growth been slower. More than in any other post-World War II recovery, people who have jobs are hurting: Their paychecks have fallen behind inflation.&#8221; According to Wall Street Journal economist Stephen Moore, &#8220;We&#8217;ve had the worst, by far — not by a little bit, by far — the worst recovery from a recession since the Great Depression.&#8221;</p>
<p>Before President Obama entered office, the national debt stood at about $9.9 trillion. It is now estimated at $17.4 for 2013. Obama added more debt in his first term than President George W. Bush did in two terms. And to what end?</p>
<p>What about Obamacare, marketed as way to provide the uninsured with health care coverage — all while &#8220;bending the cost curve&#8221; down?</p>
<p>During last year&#8217;s presidential campaign, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said, &#8220;Everybody will have lower rates.&#8221; But according to independent analysts, those purchasing insurance through an individual plan — the way about 10 percent of Americans currently get their insurance — will likely see substantial rate hikes.</p>
<p>The state of California recently released estimates showing increases from 64 to 146 percent.</p>
<p>Economist Jonathan Gruber designed the Massachusetts plan known as Romneycare. Obama hired Gruber to design Obamacare. In November 2009, Gruber told The Washington Post&#8217;s Ezra Klein: &#8220;What we know for sure the bill will do, is that it will lower the cost of buying non-group health insurance.&#8221; After Obamacare passed, Minnesota, Colorado and Wisconsin hired Gruber as a consultant to estimate the impact of ObamaCare on their states. For Colorado, Gruber found that individual policy buyers would pay 19 percent more. For Minnesota, he estimates an increase of 29 percent. For Wisconsin, he expects a 30 percent increase.</p>
<p>Obamacare also applies to full-time workers and defines them as working 30 hours or more. So many employers are simply reducing hours of employees to get under than threshold. Reuters found that half of the Walmarts they recently surveyed have hired <i>only </i>temporary employees. One Walmart manager in Alaska says: &#8220;Everybody who comes through the door I hire as a temporary associate. It&#8217;s a company direction at the present time.&#8221;</p>
<p>What about the Obama tax hike on the &#8220;rich&#8221;?</p>
<p>The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco just released a report that called Obama&#8217;s tax hikes a &#8220;drag&#8221; on the economy: &#8220;Surprisingly, despite all the attention federal spending cuts and sequestration have received, our calculations suggest they are not the main contributors to this projected drag. The excess fiscal drag on the horizon comes almost entirely from rising taxes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama has also imposed billions of dollars in new regulations. According to the Heritage Foundation, regulatory costs increased by almost $70 billion during the first term of the Obama administration.</p>
<p>Bottom line: The policies of this tax, spend and regulate administration have produced an anemic recovery. Head-in-the-sand partisans try to explain it away by blaming Bush, the &#8220;unpaid for wars,&#8221; recalcitrant House Republicans or the luck of the draw. Compared to five years ago, 8 million more people are no longer in the workforce today. Twenty-three million are underemployed, meaning people are working fewer hours than they would like or have accepted a job for which they are over-qualified.</p>
<p>The one silver lining is this: Obama&#8217;s left-wing collectivism is getting a full airing — and it is not working. Obama has inadvertently taught — or in some cases re-taught — one of the most important laws of economics: There ain&#8217;t no such thing as a free lunch. Not even in a rock-star administration.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/obama1-420x215.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-193197" alt="obama1-420x215" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/obama1-420x215.jpg" width="302" height="214" /></a>The scandals surrounding the Obama administration come down to one common theme — that the ever-growing size and scope of our federal government gives it enormous power over virtually every aspect of our lives, power that in the wrong hands can be used to reward supporters, exact revenge and punish enemies. In education, health care, transportation, energy, disaster relief, welfare, commerce, work and salary rules, and on and on, the federal government plays an outsized role completely inconsistent with the Founding Fathers&#8217; notion of a limited government that allows maximum personal liberty.</p>
<p>In 1900, government at all three levels — federal, state and local — took about 10 percent of the people&#8217;s money. It now takes nearly 50 percent.</p>
<p>On what basis should Americans — especially those who did not vote for Barack Obama — feel that the President will guard their interests, especially when apparently vindictive actions have been taken under his watch?</p>
<p>The IRS admits to, and has apologized for, targeting conservative groups. The second article of impeachment against Richard Nixon accused him of using the IRS to go after political enemies. Incredibly, the IRS commissioner of the office in charge of tax-exempt organizations from 2009 to 2012 — when the conservative groups were targeted — is now the director of the IRS Affordable Care Act office, responsible for ObamaCare tax compliance.</p>
<p>The Justice Department, in apparent violation of policy, subpoenaed the phone records of as many as 100 reporters without notifying their employer, The Associated Press. And the DOJ subpoenaed the phone records of a Fox reporter, as well as the phone records of his parents.</p>
<p>Now every president fights with the media, whose job description supposedly requires them to serve as watchdog over government. It is why the First Amendment protects &#8220;freedom of the press.&#8221; But how many administrations have openly and repeatedly stated contempt for a particular news channel, the way Obama and his aides have publicly attacked the Fox News Channel?</p>
<p>Early in his administration, Obama complained, &#8220;I&#8217;ve got one television station entirely devoted to attacking my administration.&#8221; He told Rolling Stone: &#8220;The golden age of an objective press was a pretty narrow span of time in our history. Before that, you had folks like (William Randolph) Hearst who used their newspapers very intentionally to promote their viewpoints. I think Fox is part of that tradition — it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of view. It&#8217;s a point of view that I disagree with.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a point of view that I think is ultimately destructive for the long-term growth of a country that has a vibrant middle class and is competitive in the world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Fox News is &#8220;ultimately destructive&#8221;?</p>
<p>Then-White House senior adviser David Axelrod said that the Fox News Channel was &#8220;not really a news station&#8221; and that much of the programming is &#8220;not really news.&#8221; Similarly, former White House Communications Director Anita Dunn said about Fox: &#8220;We don&#8217;t need to pretend that this is the way that legitimate news organizations behave.&#8221;</p>
<p>A few days later, calling Fox &#8220;a wing of the Republican Party,&#8221; Dunn said: &#8220;They take their talking points, put them on the air; take their opposition research, put them on the air. And that&#8217;s fine. But let&#8217;s not pretend they&#8217;re a news network the way CNN is.&#8221; Dunn also said, &#8220;I mean the reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party,&#8221; and told Time Magazine: &#8220;It&#8217;s opinion journalism masquerading as news. They are boosting their audience, but that doesn&#8217;t mean we are going to sit back.&#8221;</p>
<p>How despicable do Democrats find Republicans? A recent CNN poll found 76 percent of Democrats <i>still </i>believe President Bush &#8220;deliberately misled&#8221; the country into the Iraq War. And Obama defenders say Bush &#8220;used&#8221; the IRS to &#8220;target&#8221; the NAACP. Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., even offered up this Bush/Hurricane Katrina conspiracy: The President, you see, dragged his feet during Katrina so that black New Orleanians would leave the state and take their Democratic votes with them. Frank called this alleged Bush scheme &#8220;ethnic cleansing by inaction.&#8221;</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the answer? Tone down the rhetoric? Elect morally superior human beings? Vote for &#8220;common sense&#8221; moderates?</p>
<p>No. Let&#8217;s agree that neither side trusts &#8220;the other side.&#8221; Let&#8217;s agree that neither side thinks much of the goals and motives of their political opponents. Let&#8217;s agree that the bigger the government, the more money and power it takes from its citizens. So where does this leave us? It takes us back to a founding principle of this country: limited government. By reducing the size of government, we limit the amount of damage &#8220;the other side&#8221; can do when in charge.</p>
<p>It isn&#8217;t that smaller government is more trustworthy or transparent. Among other attributes, a smaller government allows the commander in chief to focus on job one — that of protecting the American people against enemies. For both Obama-haters and Bush-haters, a smaller government reduces the amount of influence and control the &#8220;wrong side&#8221; has over the other. A win-win.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s War on Father&#8217;s Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the holiday became a yearly reminder of progressives' assault on minorities.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Black-father-and-son-from-clipart-j0428644.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192421" alt="Lifestyles" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Black-father-and-son-from-clipart-j0428644-450x329.jpg" width="270" height="197" /></a>&#8220;We know the statistics,&#8221; said President Barack Obama, &#8220;that children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and 20 times more likely to end up in prison. They are more likely to have behavioral problems, or run away from home, or become teenage parents themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Journal of Research on Adolescence found that even after controlling for varying levels of household income, kids in father-absent homes are more likely to end up in jail. And kids that never had a father in the house are the most likely to wind up behind bars.</p>
<p>Tupac Shakur, the rapper killed in an unsolved and possibly gang-related murder, once said: &#8220;I know for a fact that had I had a father, I&#8217;d have some discipline. I&#8217;d have more confidence.&#8221; Tupac admitted he began running with gangs because he wanted structure and protection: &#8220;Your mother cannot calm you down the way a man can. Your mother can&#8217;t reassure you the way a man can. My mother couldn&#8217;t show me where my manhood was. You need a man to teach you how to be a man.&#8221;</p>
<p>Where have all the fathers gone?</p>
<p>When I was a child, my father and mother often complained about &#8220;people going on the county,&#8221; a term they used for the rare young mother in our neighborhood who relied on government welfare. My parents, who often disagreed politically, saw eye-to-eye in their opposition to what they called wrongheaded incentives that encourage people to have children without marriage. &#8220;The worst thing that ever came down the pike,&#8221; Dad would often call &#8220;county money.&#8221;</p>
<p>In &#8220;Dear Father, Dear Son,&#8221; my latest book, I write about my rough, tough World War II Marine staff sergeant father, whose gruff exterior I mistook for lack of love. Born in the Jim Crow South of Athens, Ga., he was 14 at the start of the Great Depression.</p>
<p>He never knew his biological father. The man with the last name of &#8220;Elder&#8221; was one of his mother&#8217;s many boyfriends, only this one stayed in my dad&#8217;s life a little longer than the others. A physically abusive alcoholic, Elder would give my father&#8217;s mom money from his paycheck to ensure it would not blow it on booze and gambling. After a couple of days, Elder would get drunk and demand his money back. She would refuse. He would beat her and take the money back.</p>
<p>My father witnessed this ugly scenario over and over. &#8220;Why she just didn&#8217;t give him the damn money,&#8221; Dad told me, &#8220;I&#8217;ll never understand.&#8221;</p>
<p>One day, my father, then 13, came home from school, and his mom&#8217;s then-boyfriend accused him of making too much noise. They quarreled. His mother, siding with the boyfriend, threw my father out of the house. He never returned.</p>
<p>Growing up, I watched my father work two full-time jobs as a janitor. He also cooked for a rich family on the weekends and somehow managed to go to night school to get his GED. When I was 10, my father opened a small restaurant that he ran until he retired in his mid-80s. &#8220;Hard work wins,&#8221; Dad would tell my brothers and me. &#8220;The world doesn&#8217;t owe you a living.&#8221; My parents drilled into us the importance of education and self-reliance. &#8220;Go out into the world unprepared,&#8221; Dad would say, &#8220;and you&#8217;re going to get your behind kicked and your feelings hurt.&#8221;</p>
<p>Studies back up the link between the explosive growth in government welfare — begun in the &#8217;60s — and the increase of out-of-wedlock births.</p>
<p>In 1960, 5 percent of America&#8217;s children entered the world without a mother and father married to each other. By 1980 it was 18 percent, and by 2000 it had risen to 33 percent. Today, the number is 41 percent. For blacks, out-of-wedlock births have gone from 25 percent in 1965 to 73 percent today. The ethnic group with the next-highest percent of births to unmarried mothers is that of Native Americans, at 66 percent. For whites, out-of-wedlock births stand at 29 percent. For Hispanics, out-of-wedlock births are at 53 percent.</p>
<p>In every state, a woman with two children &#8220;makes&#8221; more money on welfare than were she to take a minimum wage job. The array of federal and state programs amounts to over $60K spent for every poor household. But because of costs, the recipient household ends up getting far less.</p>
<p>How do we know that the welfare state creates disincentives that hurt the people we are trying to help? They tell us. In 1985, the Los Angeles Times asked whether poor women &#8220;often&#8221; have children to get additional benefits. Most of the non-poor respondents said no. When the same question was asked of the poor, however, 64 percent said yes.</p>
<p>People, of course, need help. A humane society does not ignore those who cannot or even will not fend for themselves. But good faith does not substitute for sound policy. The welfare state is an assault on families.</p>
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		<title>Five Decades of Lies Help Dems Create Monolithic Black Vote</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 04:34:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Elder]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why keeping blacks ignorant of history remains crucial to the Left's future. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/larry-elder/five-decades-of-lies-help-dems-create-monolithic-black-vote/minorityturnout/" rel="attachment wp-att-185283"><img class=" wp-image-185283 alignleft" title="Minorityturnout" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Minorityturnout.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="150" /></a>As recently as 1956, nearly 39 percent of blacks voted Republican in that year&#8217;s presidential election. After the Civil War, Abe Lincoln&#8217;s Republican Party easily carried the black vote — where blacks were allowed to vote. Unwelcome in the Democratic Party, most blacks voted Republican and continued to do so through the early part of the 20th century. It wasn&#8217;t until 1948, when 77 percent of the black vote went to Harry Truman, who had desegregated the military, that a majority of blacks identified themselves as Democrats.</p>
<p>Yet, as a percentage of the party, more Republicans voted for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats. For his key role breaking the Democrats&#8217; filibuster and getting the act to pass the stalled Senate, Republican Sen. Everett Dirksen, a conservative from Illinois, landed on the cover of Time magazine. President Lyndon Johnson called Dirksen &#8220;the hero of the nation.&#8221; The Chicago Defender, then the country&#8217;s largest black daily newspaper, applauded Dirksen&#8217;s &#8220;generalship&#8221; for helping to successfully push through the bill.</p>
<p>Older black voters sometimes explain they&#8217;re opposed to Republicans because of the &#8220;racist&#8221; Southern strategy. But Richard Nixon speechwriter Pat Buchannan, credited with inventing the &#8220;Southern strategy,&#8221; considered the Democratic Party the party of the racists. Buchanan said: &#8220;We would build our Republican Party on a foundation of states&#8217; rights, human rights, small government and a strong national defense, and leave it to the &#8216;party of [Democratic Georgia Gov. Lester] Maddox, [1966 Democratic challenger against Spiro Agnew for Maryland governor George] Mahoney and [Democratic Alabama Gov. George] Wallace to squeeze the last ounces of political juice out of the rotting fruit of racial injustice.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>But before that, another pivotal event occurred that helped the GOP-as-racist meme. In 1960, during the presidential campaign, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested following a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Atlanta. Hundreds of other protestors were released, but King was jailed on a trumped-up probation violation for failing to have a Georgia driver&#8217;s license.</p>
<p>King&#8217;s aides reached out to then-Vice President and Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon. They also reached out to the Democratic nominee, John F. Kennedy. Bobby Kennedy called the Atlanta judge handling the case. Shortly after that call, the judge released King. Nixon, according to Harry Belafonte, a King supporter, &#8220;did nothing.&#8221; Is that true?</p>
<p>Nixon, it turns out, had a much closer relationship with King than did Kennedy.</p>
<p>In the Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., records show considerable handwritten notes and correspondence between Nixon and King. This includes a 1957 letter from King acknowledging their previous meetings, which thanked Nixon for his &#8220;assiduous labor and dauntless courage in seeking to make the Civil Rights Bill a reality,&#8221; and praised him for his &#8220;devotion to the highest mandates of the moral law.&#8221;</p>
<p>But in 1960, on the eve of the election, Nixon was in a tough spot. Nixon&#8217;s public silence might be misconstrued as acceptance of King&#8217;s arrest. On the other hand, as a candidate for his boss&#8217;s job, Nixon worried about the political costs of appearing ungrateful if he chastised President Dwight Eisenhower for not taking stronger action. Eisenhower, however, was content to let the Justice Department handle the matter.</p>
<p>According to historian and presidential biographer Stephen Ambrose, while Nixon made no public comments, he telephoned Attorney General William Rogers to find out if King&#8217;s constitutional rights were being infringed, thus opening the door for federal involvement. Nixon, a lawyer, was concerned about the ethics of calling a judge to get him to release someone.</p>
<p>Nixon, writes Ambrose, told his press secretary: &#8220;I think Dr. King is getting a bum rap. But despite my strong feelings in this respect, it would be completely improper for me or any other lawyer to call the judge. And Robert Kennedy should have known better than to do so.&#8221; That Bobby Kennedy, also a lawyer, nevertheless made a phone call to the judge did not alter the issue of whether it was appropriate. In retrospect, an easy call, but not at the time.</p>
<p>Two million pamphlets titled, &#8220;&#8216;No Comment&#8217; Nixon Versus a Candidate With a Heart, Senator Kennedy,&#8221; were distributed in black churches. Never mind that in 1956 Nixon revealed he was an honorary member of the NAACP. Or that Nixon pushed for passage of the &#8217;57 civil rights bill in the Senate. Or that Time magazine wrote that Nixon&#8217;s support for civil rights incurred the wrath of one of his segregationist opponents, Sen. Richard Russell, D-Ga., who sarcastically called Nixon the NAACP&#8217;s &#8220;most distinguished member.&#8221;</p>
<p>But the GOP-is-racist meme can be heard nightly on MSNB-Hee Haw and in political science and history classes all over the country. Actor Morgan Freeman calls the tea party racist. Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., tells us that the GOP wants to &#8220;literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.&#8221;</p>
<p>Keeping blacks ignorant of history remains crucial to this caricature of the Republican Party — and to the monolithic Democratic black vote. Not so black and white, is it?</p>
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		<title>Jim Carrey: Not ‘Dumb &amp; Dumber,&#8217; Just Ignorant</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 04:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief history on American gun rights for the Canadian high school drop-out. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/larry-elder/jim-carrey-not-dumb-dumber-just-ignorant/jimc-4_3_r536_c534/" rel="attachment wp-att-183493"><img class=" wp-image-183493 alignleft" title="jimc-4_3_r536_c534" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/jimc-4_3_r536_c534-450x338.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="203" /></a>Gun control advocate comedian/actor Jim Carrey becomes the latest Hollywood leftie to trash legendary actor and former NRA head Charlton Heston. About his new anti-Heston parody song, Carrey tweeted: &#8220;&#8216;Cold Dead Hand&#8217; is abt u heartless motherf — kers unwilling 2 bend 4 the safety of our kids. Sorry if you&#8217;re offended by the word safety.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lyrics include: &#8220;Charlton Heston movies are no longer in demand, and his immortal soul may lay forever in the sand. The angels wouldn&#8217;t take him up to heaven like he&#8217;d planned, &#8217;cause they couldn&#8217;t pry that gun from his cold, dead hand. It takes a cold, dead hand to decide to pull the trigger, takes a cold, dead heart and as near as I can figger, with your cold, dead aim you&#8217;re tryin&#8217; to prove your di— is bigger &#8230; .&#8221; You get the idea.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s be charitable — call Carrey ignorant, not stupid.</p>
<p>The Canadian high school dropout can be forgiven for his ignorance about American history, including the NRA&#8217;s role in helping blacks defend themselves against violent white racists. He claims Heston&#8217;s movies are &#8220;no longer in demand.&#8221; Perhaps this exposes Carrey&#8217;s lack of religiosity. But he should know that every Easter, for the last 40 years (except 1999), broadcast television has aired &#8220;The Ten Commandments.&#8221; Heston plays Moses. And it&#8217;s a ratings winner.</p>
<p>Heston&#8217;s other career roles include John the Baptist, Ben-Hur, El Cid and Michelangelo. Care to stack Heston&#8217;s body of work next to Carrey&#8217;s Ace Ventura (&#8220;Pet Detective&#8221;) or his Lloyd Christmas (&#8220;Dumb &amp; Dumber&#8221;)?</p>
<p>Speaking of character, Heston, a cinema rock star, remained married to his college sweetheart, Lydia, for 64 years. Carrey, on the other hand, followed the well-worn Hollywood path: Get famous; get rich; dump the first wife/mother of your kid(s), who stood by you during the tough times; and act out your social life in the tabs to the embarrassment of your kid(s).</p>
<p>This might surprise Carrey, but there was a time when actors, like Heston, supported a cause that threatened both their careers — and their lives.</p>
<p>In 1963, on the day of Martin Luther King&#8217;s &#8220;I Have a Dream&#8221; speech, six men appeared on a television roundtable to discuss that day&#8217;s March on Washington. These men were singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte; James Baldwin, author of the bestselling civil rights call-to-arms &#8220;The Fire Next Time&#8221;; writer/producer/director Joseph Mankiewicz; and actors Sidney Poitier, Marlon Brando and Heston.</p>
<p>When asked, at this &#8217;63 roundtable, why he joined this struggle for equal rights for blacks, Heston said: &#8220;Two years ago, I picketed some restaurants in Oklahoma, but with that one exception — up until very recently — like most Americans I expressed my support of civil rights largely by talking about it at cocktail parties, I&#8217;m afraid. But again, like many Americans this summer, I could no longer pay only lip service to a cause that was so urgently right, and in a time that is so urgently now.&#8221;</p>
<p>Back then, many entertainers refused to stick their necks out. Contemporary actors like Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis (&#8220;The Campaign&#8221;) take no risk by mocking the Koch brothers, whose offense is making contributions to Republican candidates. But &#8217;63 was a time when the infamous communist witch hunt, known as the Hollywood Blacklist, was just loosening its career-ending grip. In many states, it remained illegal for blacks and whites to marry. It was before the Civil Rights Act of 1964.</p>
<p>Just two months earlier, black civil rights activist Medgar Evers was murdered in Mississippi. Eight years earlier, in 1955, Emmett Till, a black boy from Chicago visiting relatives, was murdered in Mississippi, supposedly for making a pass at a white woman. One year earlier, three Mississippi civil rights workers turned up dead in a horrific episode memorialized in the movie &#8220;Mississippi Burning.&#8221; And &#8220;Bloody Sunday&#8221; took place two years later, in 1965, when authorities brutally attacked civil rights marchers as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Photographs and televised images of bloodied and severely injured men and women horrified the world.</p>
<p>A World War II Army staff sergeant, Heston served as a radio operator and aerial gunner. When he died in 2008, Time magazine movie critic Roger Corliss wrote: &#8220;In the era of the movie epic, (Heston) was the iconic hero, adding to these films millions in revenue, plenty of muscle and 10 IQ points. &#8230; Heston was the alpha and omega of movie manhood — our civilized ancestor, our elevated destiny. &#8230; El Cid is up there with Lawrence of Arabia &#8230; passionate, eloquent, with a visual and emotional grandeur. &#8230; From start to finish, Heston was a grand, ornery anachronism, the sinewy symbol of a time when Hollywood took itself seriously, when heroes came from history books, not comic books.&#8221;</p>
<p>The world, Mr. Pet Detective, could use a few more &#8220;heartless mother — kers&#8221; like Heston.</p>
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		<title>Gun Problem or Fatherless Problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2013 04:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The face of gun violence in America is not Sandy Hook. It's Chicago. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/larry-elder/gun-problem-or-fatherless-problem/single-black-mother/" rel="attachment wp-att-173896"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-173896" title="single-black-mother" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/single-black-mother.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="139" /></a>The face of gun violence is not Sandy Hook. It is Chicago.</p>
<p>In 2012, President Barack Obama&#8217;s adopted hometown had 506 murders, including more than 60 children. Philadelphia, a city that local television newscasters frequently call &#8216;Killadelphia,&#8221; saw 331 killed last year. In Detroit, 386 people were murdered.</p>
<p>Since 1966, there have been 90 school shootings in the U.S., with 231 fatalities. Yes, Sandy Hook shocked us. But the odds of a child being killed at a school shooting are longer than the odds of being struck by lightning.</p>
<p>Of the 11,000 to 12,000 gun murders each year, more than half involve both black killers and black victims, mostly in urban areas and mostly gang-related. The No. 1 cause of preventable death for young black men is not auto accidents or accidental drowning, but homicide.</p>
<p>Rapper/actor Ice T (&#8220;Cop Killer&#8221;) and I attended the same high school. In the 1991 John Singleton film &#8220;Boyz n the Hood,&#8221; the teenagers attend that school, and car-cruise the South Central Los Angeles boulevard after which the school is named.</p>
<p>Crenshaw High opened in 1968. By the time Ice-T left, less than a decade later, Crenshaw had become, in the rapper&#8217;s words, &#8220;a Crip school&#8221; — meaning one controlled by that street gang. Because of the school&#8217;s reputation for violence, Time Magazine called it &#8220;Fort Crenshaw.&#8221; A powerhouse in basketball and football, the school lost its accreditation 2005, before getting it back in 2006 on a short-term basis.</p>
<p>In 1970, I was part of the second graduating class in the new school&#8217;s history. Some kids, who started with me in the 10th grade, did not finish. But it was the exception rather than the rule. By 2012, only 51 percent of Crenshaw&#8217;s students graduated.</p>
<p>What happened?</p>
<p>Dads disappeared. Or, more precisely, to use Bill Cosby&#8217;s term, the number of &#8220;unwed fathers&#8221; exploded.</p>
<p>In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote &#8220;The Negro Family: A Case for National Action.&#8221; At the time, 25 percent of blacks children were born out of wedlock, a number Moynihan called alarming. Fast forward to the present, 72 percent of black children are now born out of wedlock. In fact, 36 percent of <em>white children </em>are born out of wedlock. Of Hispanic children, 53 percent are born outside of marriage.</p>
<p>In &#8220;Boyz n the Hood,&#8221; Tre, played by Cuba Gooding Jr., has an active father in his life.</p>
<p>Doughboy, played by Ice Cube, was raised without a father. His mother resents him because she dislikes his father. On the other hand, Gooding&#8217;s hardworking, responsible father, played by Laurence Fishburne, stays on his son. He warns him against hanging out with the wrong people and that becoming a street criminal was a trap. He lectures his son that &#8220;any fool with a (penis) can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.&#8221;</p>
<p>Studies show that children of divorced parents can have outcomes as positive as those coming from intact homes, provided the father remains financially supportive and active in his children&#8217;s lives.</p>
<p>But what happens without dads in the &#8216;hood?</p>
<p>In 1979, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that fatherless kids were twice as likely to drop out of school and that girls who grew up without dads were 2.5 times more likely to become pregnant teenagers.</p>
<p>Rutgers University sociology professor David Popenoe published &#8220;Life Without Father&#8221; in 1996, where he describes the &#8220;massive erosion&#8221; of fathers in America. Popenoe concluded that boys raised without fathers were more likely to have problems with drugs, alcohol, behavior and social interactions. Several studies during the &#8217;90s found that disruption in family structures was a predictor of children&#8217;s gang involvement.</p>
<p>Many on the left dismiss the importance of fathers as &#8220;right-wing,&#8221; blame-the-victim propaganda. Well, the late rapper Tupac Shakur, in the posthumously released documentary &#8220;Resurrection,&#8221; said: &#8220;I know <em>for a fact </em>that had I had a father, I&#8217;d have some discipline. I&#8217;d have more confidence.&#8221; He admits that he starting hanging out with gangs because he wanted to belong to a family structure, and it offered structure, support and protection — the kind of thing we once expected home and family to provide.</p>
<p>The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don&#8217;t have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child. Preparing for the future requires dedication. It requires deferring gratification, precisely the kind of &#8220;discipline&#8221; that Tupac admitted he lacked because he grew up without a father.</p>
<p>Doing what you <em>want </em>to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard. Dads, by getting up and going to work each day, send a powerful message every day to their children: Hard work wins. There are no short cuts. The outcome is unknowable. But the effort is entirely within your control.</p>
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		<title>Comparing Republicans to Nazis &#8212; Who Started it?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2012 04:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The long history of the left disgracing the victims of the Holocaust. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/5451822649_4a8fbb414e.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143920" title="5451822649_4a8fbb414e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/5451822649_4a8fbb414e.gif" alt="" width="375" height="241" /></a>Maybe comparing Republicans to Nazis started with the 1964 Goldwater/Johnson presidential race.</p>
<p>Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater accepted an invitation to visit an American military installation located in Bavaria, Germany. On &#8220;CBS Evening News&#8221; hosted by Walter Cronkite, correspondent Daniel Schorr said: &#8220;It is now clear that Sen. Goldwater&#8217;s interview with Der Spiegel, with its hard line appealing to right-wing elements in Germany, was only the start of a move to link up with his opposite numbers in Germany.&#8221; The reaction shot — when the cameras returned to Cronkite — showed the &#8220;most trusted man in America&#8221; gravely shaking his head.</p>
<p>Or maybe it began when Goldwater accepted the Republican nomination, and Democratic California Gov. Pat Brown said the &#8220;stench of fascism is in the air.&#8221;</p>
<p>Or maybe the Republicans-as-fascists narrative really jump-started during the 1968 presidential campaign. For commentary at the political conventions that year, ABC hired left-wing pundit Gore Vidal and matched him with conservative pundit William F. Buckley. If the network was looking for fireworks, they were not disappointed. Quarreling with Buckley over the impact of anti-Vietnam War dissidents, Gore called Buckley a &#8220;crypto-Nazi.&#8221; Incensed, Buckley fired back: &#8220;Now listen, you queer, stop calling me a crypto-Nazi, or I&#8217;ll sock you in your goddamn face and you&#8217;ll stay plastered.&#8221;</p>
<p>More recently, former Vice President Al Gore said: &#8220;(George W. Bush&#8217;s) executive branch has made it a practice to try and control and intimidate news organizations, from PBS to CBS to Newsweek. &#8230; And every day, they unleash squadrons of digital brownshirts to harass and hector any journalist who is critical of the president.&#8221;</p>
<p>Entertainer and liberal activist Harry Belafonte, when asked whether the number and prominence of blacks in the Bush administration suggested a <em>lack </em>of racism, said, &#8220;Hitler had a lot of Jews high up in the hierarchy of the Third Reich.&#8221;</p>
<p>Then-NAACP Chairman Julian Bond pulled out the Nazi card in 2004 while criticizing congressional Republicans and the White House: &#8220;They preach racial equality but practice racial division. &#8230; Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and Confederate swastika flying side by side.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bond later clarified whom he meant by &#8220;they.&#8221; Speaking at historically black Fayetteville State University in North Carolina in 2006, Bond said, &#8220;The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side.&#8221;</p>
<p>Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who dared to rein in excessive public employee compensation packages, received the full Nazi treatment.</p>
<p>The hard-left blog Libcom.org wrote: &#8220;Scott Walker is a fascist, perhaps not in the classical sense since he doesn&#8217;t operate in the streets, but a fascist nonetheless. &#8230; He is a fascist, for his program takes immediate and direct aim at (a sector of) the working class &#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 04:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Income disparity as bad as slavery? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RichardKind0375.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-137508" title="RichardKind0375" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/RichardKind0375.gif" alt="" width="375" height="266" /></a>Richard Kind is a funny, talented actor. I had the pleasure of working with him when I did a cameo on the show &#8220;Spin City,&#8221; where Kind co-starred. He was thoughtful and helpful on set, even though I was a dreaded non-lefty.</p>
<p>Fast forward to this year&#8217;s White House Correspondents&#8217; dinner. Pleased to be invited, Kind gave an interview to The Hollywood Reporter. After praising President Barack Obama as &#8220;the smartest man in the room,&#8221; Kind offered his opinion on what issue he &#8220;cares most about&#8221;: &#8220;The disparity between the ultra-rich and the next level is as disgraceful as anything that has gone on in our history. Now maybe some of them can control my life, my career, my employment, but I have to tell you something is wrong. I don&#8217;t know how it got wrong, but something is wrong.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The next level&#8221;? What does that even mean? &#8220;As disgraceful as anything that has gone on in our history?&#8221; Right up there with slavery, the World War II relocation camps for Americans of Japanese descent and the fact that the race-hustling Rev. Al Sharpton has a television show on MSNB-Hee Haw?</p>
<p>First, despite the primacy of Kind&#8217;s concern, most Americans do not care about the &#8220;wealth gap.&#8221; Only 15 percent of Americans, according to a Gallup poll, consider this an important issue. Far more Americans worry about economic growth and unemployment — as opposed to worrying about whether someone has more stuff than they do.</p>
<p>Besides, what exactly is the gap? Is it getting bigger or smaller? What is the appropriate gap? How does the United States compare to other countries?</p>
<p>According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (a consortium of 34 economically developed countries): &#8220;In OECD countries today, the average income of the richest 10 percent of the population is about nine times that of the poorest 10 percent.&#8221; In the United States, the gap between the top 10 percent and the bottom 10 percent is 14 to one — about the same as the gap between the rich and the poor in Israel and Turkey. For countries like Mexico and Chile, the gap is 27 to one.</p>
<p>True, the wealth gap grew over the last 20 years, but the so-called &#8220;Great Recession&#8221; was less than kind to the rich. From 2007 to 2009, the top 1 percent&#8217;s share of the national income declined from 23.5 percent to 18.12 percent — a drop of 23 percent.</p>
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		<title>Democrats to Blacks: Stay Angry, Vote Democratic</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 04:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Left, hate equals power. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/image_xlimage_2010_03_R9384_CHARLES_RANGEL_VOTE_332010.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-136664" title="image_xlimage_2010_03_R9384_CHARLES_RANGEL_VOTE_332010" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/image_xlimage_2010_03_R9384_CHARLES_RANGEL_VOTE_332010.gif" alt="" width="375" height="259" /></a>Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., once said: &#8220;George (W.) Bush is our &#8216;Bull&#8217; Connor — and if that doesn&#8217;t get to you, nothing will be able to get to you. It&#8217;s time for us to be able to say that we&#8217;re sick and tired, we&#8217;re fired up and we&#8217;re not going to take it anymore.&#8221;</p>
<p>Connor was a racist sheriff who sicced dogs and water hoses on civil rights workers in the &#8217;60s. Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., says Republicans &#8220;want to literally drag us all the way back to Jim Crow laws.&#8221;</p>
<p>The tactic is as obvious as it is insulting. Tell black voters that &#8220;they&#8221; are out to &#8220;get them&#8221; — and pull that lever for us Democrats so we can resist their racist attempt to undermine your success.</p>
<p>Never mind that this kind of anger wrapped in paranoia — assuming that others are out to get you — is precisely the formula to undermine your own success.</p>
<p>Accomplished entrepreneurs say one of the keys to success is the assumption and the confidence that you can influence the outcome.</p>
<p>Anger is an opponent of success.</p>
<p>The movie &#8220;Red Tails&#8221; is a fictionalized film of the Tuskegee airmen, the brave black fighter pilots of World War II. They overcame racism and fought for their country in a segregated military that considered them unequal.</p>
<p>In one scene, a Tuskegee pilot goes into an officers&#8217; club in Italy. He is taunted and told &#8220;whites only.&#8221; He starts a fight and ends up in a military jail, possibly facing court-martial.</p>
<p>His commanding officer, played by Terrence Howard, confronts the aviator whose anger threatened the mission: &#8220;What am I going to do with you? Everything&#8217;s a fight, isn&#8217;t it? It must be so goddamned exhausting being you. You know something &#8230; ? You&#8217;re a punk. You remind me of one of those kids from a comic strip. Walking around, pushing your sleeve up one arm, hand balled in a tight fist. Walking and looking at the world through a squint, always looking to knock something down just because it&#8217;s standing.</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s right there,&#8221; says the CO, pointing his finger to the temple of his officer&#8217;s head. &#8220;It&#8217;s right there. You really want to knock something down? Try using that. Because I will tell you straight, I don&#8217;t have anything against you. I have the highest expectations for you. Lieutenant &#8230; I need everyone on this next mission, and you&#8217;re lucky you&#8217;re the best damn pilot we&#8217;ve got.</p>
<p>Report to your unit.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Obsession with Race and &#8216;Disrespect&#8217; for Obama</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[How soon the vile behavior directed toward President Bush is forgotten. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/obama-news-conference.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-135511" title="obama-news-conference" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/obama-news-conference.gif" alt="" width="375" height="250" /></a>Last week, a &#8220;right-wing activist&#8221; (according to Michael Eric Dyson, guest-hosting for Ed Schultz on MSNBC) interrupted President Barack Obama as he explained his executive order that bars deportation for at least 800,000 illegal aliens who came to America — &#8220;brought to this country by their parents&#8221; — before the age of 16.</p>
<p>As Obama stood in the White House Rose Garden and outlined the plan, Neil Munro, a reporter with a conservative website, shouted, &#8220;Why do you favor foreigners over American workers?&#8221; Based on his colleagues&#8217; reaction, one would have thought he&#8217;d thrown a shoe at the President. Reporters and pundits called him unprofessional, rude and even racist for interrupting Obama.</p>
<p>Never mind Munro asked a legitimate question — one that probably wouldn&#8217;t have even occurred to amnesty-supporting media: Will this harm the job prospects for struggling young American citizens? (Nor has anyone had the chance to ask Obama why, only a year ago, he told a Univision audience that he lacked the power to suspend student deportations via an executive order.)</p>
<p>Munro, for his part, claims he assumed the President had concluded and wanted to get in his question. Obama holds few press conferences, a matter of frustration to the White House press corp. When a president restricts access to the press, the newshounds grow restless and become more aggressive — at least they should.</p>
<p>In a 1987 article titled, &#8220;Why Do Grown Men and Women Shout at President Reagan?&#8221; The Associate Press wrote: &#8220;They do it for a living &#8230; shouting, badgering Reagan for one last word. It even takes place at ceremonies (including) the Rose Garden. &#8230; They &#8230; blame &#8230; Reagan and his aides, who have sharply curtailed opportunities for the press corps to engage the President under more civil circumstances.&#8221; Longtime White House correspondent-turned-columnist Helen Thomas often crossed the line when giving commentary that only masqueraded as inquiry. When &#8220;questioning&#8221; President George W. Bush, Thomas made it clear she opposed the Iraq War and accused President George W. Bush of starting &#8220;a war for oil.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Munro&#8217;s case, MSNBC contributor Julian Epstein asked: &#8220;Would the right wing be doing this if we had a white president there? &#8230; We&#8217;ve never had a president heckled so disrespectfully. We&#8217;ve never had this otherness afforded to any other president. And I think the right wing is going to have some explaining to do, because to me, it seems patently obvious.&#8221;</p>
<p>Imagine, lessons in civility from the network that gave a show to the race-hustling incendiary, the Rev. Al Sharpton. This &#8220;civil rights activist&#8221; became famous by falsely accusing a white man of raping a black teenage girl. Sharpton helped foment the 1991 Crown Heights riots, a three-day outburst of mostly black-driven, anti-Semitic violence that one Columbia University professor called &#8220;a modern-day pogrom.&#8221; Sharpton once called David Dinkins, the black mayor of New York City, a &#8220;n—ger whore.&#8221; MSNBC also gave a show to Ed Schultz, who once called conservative radio host Laura Ingraham a &#8220;right-wing slut.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Economy: Obama Brags About Treading Water</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Larry Elder]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/unemployment.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-135061" title="unemployment" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/unemployment.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>After President Barack Obama said, &#8220;The private sector is doing fine,&#8221; he later quickly regrouped. &#8220;The economy is <em>not </em>doing fine (emphasis added). That&#8217;s the reason I had the press conference.&#8221; But Obama said he was particularly concerned about losses in the <em>public </em>sector. The cluelessness is absolutely stunning. Obama is wrong about both the private and public sector.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s assessment of the economy reminds many of 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain&#8217;s characterization of the economy. In September 2008, the investment firm Lehman Brothers was collapsing. Wall Street was shaking as the yet-to-be-declared recession deepened, but McCain said: &#8220;I think, still, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. But these are very, very difficult times.&#8221;</p>
<p>The reaction to McCain was harsh. His opponent, then-Sen. Obama, pounced: &#8220;We just woke up to news of financial disaster, and this morning he said that the fundamentals of the economy are still strong? Sen. McCain, what economy are you talking about?&#8221;</p>
<p>The Washington Post said: &#8220;Sen. Barack Obama seized on McCain&#8217;s assessment of the health of the economy, blasting the Republican for being &#8216;disturbingly out of touch&#8217; with the reality that everyday Americans face. &#8216;I just think he doesn&#8217;t know,&#8217; Obama said in Grand Junction, Colo. &#8216;He doesn&#8217;t get what&#8217;s happening between the mountain in Sedona where he lives and the corridors of Washington where he works.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s look at the facts.</p>
<p>In McCain&#8217;s case, unemployment at the time was 6.1 percent and rising. The economy was experiencing &#8220;negative growth.&#8221; But in Obama&#8217;s case, he correctly states we are in recovery. &#8220;The truth of the matter is,&#8221; said the President, &#8220;we have created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months.&#8221;</p>
<p>To paraphrase my grandfather, &#8220;Is Obama bragging or complaining?&#8221;</p>
<p>Last month, the economy produced a pathetic 69,000 jobs. The National Bureau of Economic Analysis revised last quarter&#8217;s gross domestic product growth downward to a paltry 1.9 percent.</p>
<p>Economist John Lott points out: &#8220;Thirty-six months into the recovery and the private sector hasn&#8217;t even made up half the jobs lost during the recession, let alone make up for the fact that there are about 7.6 million more working age people than when the recession started. What about the 4.2 million that were lost between when Obama became president and February 2010? The &#8216;growth&#8217; just replaces what was lost during the first part of his administration. Let alone the 8.8 million private-sector jobs that were lost between when the recession started.&#8221;</p>
<p>Do the math.</p>
<p>It takes 150,000 new jobs per month just to keep pace with population growth, those coming into the market from high school and college. Obama&#8217;s 4.3 million jobs divided by 27 months comes to an average of about 159,000 jobs over that stretch. That is treading water, not even close to the number it takes to make a dent in the 8.2 percent unemployment.</p>
<p>What about the supposedly suffering public sector?</p>
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