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		<title>Backlash Against de Blasio</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mayor23n-1-web.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248107" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mayor23n-1-web-450x299.jpg" alt="mayor23n-1-web" width="379" height="252" /></a>Cop-bashing </span><span class="zw-portion">New York mayor Bill de Blasio seems genuinely surprised at the ferocious backlash against him in light of the </span><span class="zw-portion">execution-style weekend killing of two local cops.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">After spending the past year in office attacking police, the</span><span class="zw-portion"> mayor is now scrambling to put the pin back into the grenade he threw into the local body politic. His crusade against the police goes back at least to his election campaign last year when he caustically criticized then-mayor Michael Bloomberg&#8217;s stop-and-frisk policy.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">De Blasio is appealing for calm and for a temporary suspension of the ugly anti-police protests his incendiary rhetoric has spawned.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Strangely, this far-left radical who, like his ally in the White House never puts politics aside for the benefit of the community, is now asking New Yorkers to do precisely that.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">So far the New York Police Department isn&#8217;t in a mood to forgive de Blasio who has teamed up with racial arsonist Al Sharpton to lay waste to what&#8217;s left of civil society in the Big Apple. Before the two murders Sharpton had been leading marches where the demonstrators chanted, </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;What do we want? Dead cops.&#8221; Taking cues from the Westboro Baptist Church, Sharpton followers showed up at one cop memorial service chanting and heckling the mourners.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">NYPD union leaders have asked de Blasio to skip police funerals and a</span><span class="zw-portion"> large gathering of cops turned their backs on the mayor as he showed up Saturday at the Brooklyn hospital where the lifeless bodies of officers Rafael Ramos, 40, and </span><span class="zw-portion">Wenjian Liu, 32, had been taken</span><span class="zw-portion"> after they were shot dead by an adherent of the Religion of Peace.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The shooter,</span><span class="zw-portion"> Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley</span><span class="zw-portion">, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-spencer/the-nypd-cop-killing-the-chickens-come-home-to-roost/" target="_blank" data-href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/robert-spencer/the-nypd-cop-killing-the-chickens-come-home-to-roost/" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link">was a Muslim</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> apparently upset at what he believed were the racist killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. and Eric Garner in Staten Island. He indicated he was planning to kill &#8220;pigs,&#8221; and as Robert Spencer notes,</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">Brinsley</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s Facebook page featured a photo of the Qur</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">an open to the eighth chapter, where Allah exhorts the believers to </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8216;</span><span class="zw-portion">strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8216;</span><span class="zw-portion"> (8:60).</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Since de Blasio was sworn in last New Year&#8217;s Day, New Yorkers have, in fits and starts, begun to realize that they elected a dangerously erratic Sandinista-loving radical as mayor. Although de Blasio&#8217;s reaction to the cop murders strikes many in the punditry as incompetent, they are being charitable. De Blasio&#8217;s behavior reflects his pathological,  hateful, profoundly anti-American ideology. He can&#8217;t conceal his contempt for those whose job it is to promote law and order.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This is what happens when a small-c communist becomes mayor of the nation&#8217;s greatest metropolis. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who helped turn New York from a crime-infested urban jungle into the relatively crime-free city his successors inherited, </span><a style="color: blue;" title="" href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/12/22/giuliani-propaganda-from-politicians-to-separate-communities-from-police-is-shameful-n1934682?utm_source=thdailypm&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl_pm&amp;newsletterad=thpm1" target="_blank" data-href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/12/22/giuliani-propaganda-from-politicians-to-separate-communities-from-police-is-shameful-n1934682?utm_source=thdailypm&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=nl_pm&amp;newsletterad=thpm1" data-type="1"><span class="zw-portion link">said it was</span></a><span class="zw-portion"> &#8220;shameful&#8221; for politicians to drive a wedge between police and the communities they serve.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;Police misconduct is a minor part of the problem. Community, serious violent crime is a much bigger part of the problem,&#8221; Giuliani said. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;The people who are saving black lives in the city are [you] the New York City Police Department. I&#8217;m not doing it. President Obama&#8217;s not doing it. Mayor De Blasio&#8217;s not doing it. He&#8217;s not out at night walking down housing developments and trying to save children from being killed. Police officers are doing the most, right now, in these very very poor communities and sometime</span><span class="zw-portion">s</span><span class="zw-portion"> they&#8217;re white communities, but where there are black communities and police officers are doing the most to save the children that are at greatest risk. The politicians with this propaganda separating the community from the police, are doing something that&#8217;s shameful and they have to stop doing that. The vast majority of police want to help and the politicians&#8217; rhetoric should reflect the truth, not propaganda.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;">But de Blasio isn&#8217;t anything like Giuliani or even like Bloomberg, his immediate predecessor, a micromanaging Big Gulp-grabber who now seems like an exemplar of common sense compared to the current mayor.</p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">De Blasio is in many ways President Obama&#8217;s &#8220;mini me,&#8221; except unlike Obama, he has loud critics in the media who for the most part has not been giving him a free ride.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But de Blasio hasn&#8217;t generated all of this racial hostility and antipathy toward cops on his own. He&#8217;s had a lot of help from </span><span class="zw-portion">President </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama who has been trying to kickstart a wave of </span><span class="zw-portion">civil unrest since even before he took office. The president&#8217;s</span><span class="zw-portion"> policy of trying to foment violent civil unrest is finally paying dividends.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Attacking the police, as Obama has been doing for years, isn&#8217;t exactly a courageous act. The police are easy targets for leftist agitators. Riling up minorities over real and imagined abuses is child&#8217;s play. Even Al Sharpton can do it.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">On the 2008 campaign</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">trail</span><span class="zw-portion">, the president belittle</span><span class="zw-portion">d</span><span class="zw-portion"> small town </span><span class="zw-portion">Americans, implying they were racist, a time-honored leftist smear of conservatives. &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">And it&#8217;s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren&#8217;t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Not too long after his inauguration in 2009</span><span class="zw-portion"> the new president </span><span class="zw-portion">mocked Cambridge, Mas</span><span class="zw-portion">s.</span><span class="zw-portion"> police by saying they </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">acted stupidly</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">by arresting Obama</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s close personal friend,</span><span class="zw-portion"> black liberal academic </span><span class="zw-portion">Henry Louis Gates Jr. This led to the seemingly pointless public relations event known as the so-called beer summit between James Crowley (the arresting officer), Gates, and Obama. There was never any evidence that Gates&#8217;s arrest had anything to do with his skin color. Arrester and arrestee agreed to disagree yet Obama succeeded in scoring points with his radical base. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Campaigning in 2010, Obama demonized non-Latinos.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;If Latinos sit out the election instead of saying, &#8216;We&#8217;re gonna punish our enemies, and we&#8217;re gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us&#8217; &#8212; if they don&#8217;t see that kind of upsurge in voting in this election &#8212; then I think it&#8217;s going to be harder. And that&#8217;s why I think it&#8217;s so important that people focus on voting on November 2nd.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">same year he </span><span class="zw-portion">invoked </span><span class="zw-portion">Rosa Parks and segregation in order to </span><span class="zw-portion">ridicule </span><span class="zw-portion">Republicans. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">We don</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">t mind the Republicans joining us,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama told the faithful. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In </span><span class="zw-portion">2012 </span><span class="zw-portion">Obama suggested if he failed to win reelection minorities would suffer. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">The notion that we</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">re all in this together, that we look out for one another</span><span class="zw-portion">–</span><span class="zw-portion">that</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s at stake in this election,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">he </span><span class="zw-portion">said</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">Don</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">t take my word for it. Watch some of these [Republican] debates that have been going on up in New Hampshire.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span><span class="zw-portion"> Later that year he added </span><span class="zw-portion">Republicans</span><span class="zw-portion"> &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">want to take us back to the policies more suited to the 1950s than the 21st century.</span><span class="zw-portion">”</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In 2012 he needlessly inserted race into the Trayvon Martin saga by saying, &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">if I had a son, he&#8217;d</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">look like Trayvon</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion"> </span><span class="zw-portion">Although the shooter who was eventually acquitted, so-called white Hispanic George Zimmerman, wasn&#8217;t a police officer, he was an authority figure of sorts as a neighborhood watch volunteer.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Working with Sharpton, the Obama administration sicced the left-wing community organizers of the Justice Department&#8217;s Community Relations Service (CRS) on the unsuspecting people of Sanford, Fla. after the death of Martin. Evidence established that Martin attacked Zimmerman, who avoided legal liability because he acted in self-defense.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Even after the </span><span class="zw-portion">acquittal Obama insisted on meddling. He said </span><span class="zw-portion">that </span><span class="zw-portion">“</span><span class="zw-portion">Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago,</span><span class="zw-portion">” </span><span class="zw-portion">and </span><span class="zw-portion">gave yet another </span><span class="zw-portion">lecture on race</span><span class="zw-portion">.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama vigorously milked the August death of Michael Brown at the hands of white Ferguson, Mo. police officer Darren Wilson. </span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed after he beat Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. At autopsy Brown</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s height was 6</span><span class="zw-portion">′ </span><span class="zw-portion">5</span><span class="zw-portion">″ </span><span class="zw-portion">and his weight was 289 lbs. </span><span class="zw-portion">The </span><span class="zw-portion">autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s gun during their fateful altercation.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama</span><span class="zw-portion"> dishonored his country by giving a speech at the United Nations citing Brown&#8217;s killing as something Americans should be ashamed of. After the grand jury refused to indict Wilson, Obama ramped up his rhetoric, claiming that racism is deeply rooted in American society.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A major difference between de Blasio and Obama is that the mayor doesn&#8217;t have the president&#8217;s silver tongue. Serious calls for de Blasio&#8217;s ouster are now coming from civic leaders throughout New York.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But don&#8217;t hold your breath waiting for de Blasio to resign. Radical leftists rarely give up power without a fight.</span></p>
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		<title>Senators Vow to Halt Obama&#8217;s Castro Odyssey</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But is Congress a match for the president's pen and phone?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-on-cuba.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247802" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/obama-on-cuba-450x300.jpg" alt="Barack Obama" width="375" height="250" /></a>Lawmakers opposed to President Obama&#8217;s sudden move to cozy up to Communist Cuba are vowing a full-court press to prevent official diplomatic recognition of the tropical prison republic from going forward.</p>
<p>But it is far from clear if lawmakers will be able to do much about Obama&#8217;s Cuban escapades. Presidents typically enjoy great latitude in foreign policy, especially concerning recognition of foreign governments. Lawmakers are probably on stronger ground in resisting repeal of the trade embargo that has been in place since the 1960s. On the other hand, Obama has a pen and a phone, as he likes to say, a reference to his brazen contempt for the rule of law and the strictures of the Constitution.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s dramatic actions are setting off a feeding frenzy as American companies salivate at the prospect of doing business in Cuba. Little do they realize that Cuba, a dilapidated Stalinist state that, thanks to the absence of good paying jobs, serves largely as a seedy sex tourism destination for Europeans and hardly has an economy at all. Some business restrictions were already eased by the U.S. around 2000. Some companies are allowed to sell medical equipment to the Cuban government. There is not much money to be made, at least not initially.</p>
<p>Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), who are both of Cuban ancestry, have made strong statements about their intentions.</p>
<p>Rubio said it mattered not a whit to him if &#8220;99 percent of people in polls&#8221; disagreed with his position. &#8220;Appeasing the Castro brothers will only cause other tyrants from Caracas to Tehran to Pyongyang to see that they can take advantage of President Obama&#8217;s naivete during his final two years in office.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rubio said he reserved the right &#8220;to do everything within the rules of the Senate to prevent that sort of individual from ever even coming up for a vote,&#8221; a reference to confirmation proceedings for a prospective U.S. ambassador to Cuba.</p>
<p>Menendez said he was &#8220;deeply disappointed&#8221; and that it was &#8220;a fallacy to believe that Cuba will reform because an American president opens his hands and the Castro brothers will suddenly unclench their fists.&#8221;</p>
<p>The chill in relations between the two countries has its roots in the Cold War.</p>
<p>Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, whose forces overthrew the comparatively mild authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista, tried to start a nuclear war with the United States and in 1963 openly called for the assassination of President John Kennedy and his brother Robert, the U.S. attorney general. War was only narrowly averted after the Soviet Union turned around ships that were carrying nuclear weapons to Cuba. A short time later one of Castro&#8217;s followers, a man named Lee Harvey Oswald, murdered President Kennedy in Dallas, Texas. Cuba is a longtime state sponsor of terrorism and has meddled militarily and otherwise in the affairs of its neighbors and in faraway countries such as Angola. President Reagan ordered an invasion of Grenada after its Marxist dictatorship grew too close to Cuba and he struggled heroically to aid the anticommunist contras in their war against the Cuban-backed Communist regime in Nicaragua.</p>
<p>Many conservatives in Congress and elsewhere are saying Obama is a weak leader.</p>
<p>For example, former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said on the Fox News Channel on Wednesday that Obama&#8217;s moves on Cuba constitute &#8220;appeasement&#8221; and are a &#8220;very, very bad signal of weakness and lack of resolve by the president of the United States.&#8221;</p>
<p>Bolton and others are correct in terms of how the U.S. is perceived abroad under Obama but this does not reflect weak leadership on Obama&#8217;s part. This president knows what he is doing and when given the opportunity to do the right thing reliably chooses to do the wrong thing. Obama is taking the country&#8217;s foreign policy in exactly the right direction in terms of his sinister ideology. Obama does not mean well. He does not, unlike traditional U.S. presidents, think of himself as the leader of the free world. He wants to fundamentally transform America inside and out and is quite content to enfeeble the nation by crippling its military, betraying its allies, and embracing its enemies.</p>
<p>All of this excitement follows the sudden release Wednesday of Alan Gross, a U.S. development worker held in a Cuban prison. (An intelligence operative loyal to the U.S. was also released as part of the deal. Details about that individual are scarce.) Gross is a garden-variety leftist who is being used by President Obama to justify establishing diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba.</p>
<p>Obama is repaying a debt to his Marxist friends and allies. Just as President Bill Clinton rewarded his neo-communist supporters by pardoning Marxist Puerto Rican terrorists, Obama is rewarding his Castro-admiring base by freeing Communist spies working for a hostile foreign power.</p>
<p>Gross was reportedly a subcontractor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, which is frequently a home for meddling left-wing activists. He reportedly worked on a program aimed at improving Internet access for Cuban Jews. Why the Obama administration would knowingly send an American into Cuba to perform services they had to have known were considered illegal by Cuban authorities is not clear. The free flow of information is a threat to any totalitarian regime, so a Cuban court convicted Gross of crimes against the state in 2011, sentencing him to a 15-year prison term.</p>
<p>Under a deal that Pope Francis, among others, helped to facilitate, Gross was <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/17/meet-the-cuban-five-at-the-center-of-the-blockbuster-u-s-announcement-on-cuba/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">exchanged</span></a> for the remaining three members of the so-called Cuban Five &#8212; Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, and Ramón Labañino &#8212; who had been held in U.S. prisons.  All five Cuban nationals were convicted of spying in 2001. They gathered information on Cuban exiles in the U.S. in order to lay the ground for violent action against them in the future. Hernández was also convicted of conspiring to commit murder.</p>
<p>As Gross prepared for his press conference Wednesday, there was a portrait of  Communist mass murderer Che Guevara <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/12/17/why-does-freed-cuban-prisoners-lawyer-have-a-picture-of-che-on-his-wall/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">clearly visible</span></a> in the Washington, D.C. office of Gross&#8217;s lawyer, high-profile attorney Scott D. Gilbert of Gilbert LLP. The bloodthirsty Guevara was minister of industry and president of the Cuban National Bank. He also administered kangaroo courts that condemned enemies of Fidel Castro&#8217;s regime to death. In other words, as Gross prepared his statement about being freed from a Cuban jail, an iconic photograph honoring Cuba&#8217;s most infamous jailer stared down at him.</p>
<p>Guevara, incidentally, wanted to annihilate the United States.</p>
<p>&#8220;If the nuclear missiles [from the missile crisis] had remained [in Cuba] we would have fired them against the heart of the U.S. including New York City,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The victory of socialism is well worth millions of atomic victims.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the press conference Gross maligned the U.S., <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/12/17/Freed-Prisoner-Alan-Gross-Slams-Two-Governments-Mutually-Belligerent-Policies"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pulling</span></a> a cowardly pox-on-both-your-houses stunt. Gross drew a moral equivalency between the U.S. and the ruthless authoritarian regime he just escaped:</p>
<blockquote><p>I also feel compelled to share with you my utmost respect for and fondness of the people of Cuba. In no way are they responsible for the ordeal to which my family and I have been subjected. To me <i>cubanos</i>,<i> </i>or at least most of them, are incredibly kind, generous and talented. <strong><i>It pains me to see them treated so unjustly as a consequence of two governments&#8217; mutually belligerent policies.  Five and a half decades of history show us such belligerence inhibits better judgment. Two wrongs never make a right. I truly hope that we can now get beyond these mutually belligerent policies and I was very happy to hear what the president had to say today.</i></strong> It was particularly cool to be sitting next to the secretary of state as he was hearing about his job description for the next couple of months. In all seriousness, this is a game-changer, which I fully support. [Emphasis added.]</p></blockquote>
<p>Who condemns his own countrymen as imperialist warmongers after they cut a deal to get him repatriated from the clutches of a dictatorship? And why would he use his opportunity in the spotlight to praise President Obama’s decision to normalize relations with the regime that he believes unjustly imprisoned him?</p>
<p>The whole thing doesn&#8217;t smell right. Clearly it was in the works for a long time.</p>
<p>Interestingly enough, Gross thanked Jill Zuckman of left-wing PR firm SKDKnickerbocker for helping to free him. SKDKnickerbocker also employs former resident Maoist in the Obama White House, Anita Dunn, and Democrat operative Hilary Rosen. Gross also thanked Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Communist-friendly lawmakers Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), and Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) for freeing him.</p>
<p>Those who follow President Obama&#8217;s policy initiatives already know that he delights in trading Americans who hate America for foreign terrorists and murderers who also hate America. Not so long ago there was the swap of U.S Army deserter and Taliban collaborator Bowe Bergdahl for five members of the Taliban&#8217;s high command.  Not exactly a good deal for America.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s next for Obama, who is hellbent to knock America down a few pegs?</p>
<p>Diplomatic recognition for Iran? At first glance such a development might seem unlikely, but Obama does harbor deep affection for hardline Islamic states. He aided Mohamed Morsi&#8217;s Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and during anti-government unrest that began in Iran in 2009, Obama effectively propped up the Islamist regime there by doing nothing to oppose it.</p>
<p>Anything could happen with Obama in his final two years in the White House.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mammoth spending bill would fund amnesty and Obamacare --- and could be voted on today.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/boehner-mcconnell.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247246" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/boehner-mcconnell-407x350.png" alt="boehner-mcconnell" width="329" height="283" /></a>A mammoth spending bill aimed at preventing a repeat of the last government shutdown is coming under heavy fire from conservative groups for green-lighting President Obama&#8217;s executive immigration amnesty and continuing to fund Obamacare.</p>
<p>Republicans in Congress are inexplicably rushing through a catch-all $1 trillion-plus spending bill to prevent the government from running out of money at midnight tonight. The measure, which would keep the government funded through the end of the federal fiscal year (Sept. 30, 2015), is being called a <i>cromnibus</i>, which is a portmanteau of <i>CR</i>, as in continuing resolution, and <i>omnibus</i>, as in omnibus legislation.</p>
<p>The measure contains hundreds of policy provisions including a new prohibition on the legalization of marijuana in the District of Columbia and new funding to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Ebola virus in West Africa. It would continue funding two wildly unpopular Obama initiatives, Obamacare and President Obama&#8217;s extra-legal immigration amnesty. The Department of Homeland Security would be funded only for a few months, allowing lawmakers to delay a fight over amnesty until springtime.</p>
<p>&#8220;Importantly, the bill does nothing to block President Obama&#8217;s unilateral, unlawful actions which include granting quasi-legal status, work permits and Social Security numbers to those who are in the country illegally,&#8221; said Heritage Action for America spokesman Dan Holler.</p>
<p>&#8220;I suppose we shouldn&#8217;t be surprised that it&#8217;s taken the Republicans all of 35 days to drop that ball in spectacularly disappointing fashion,&#8221; Jenny Beth Martin, co-founder of Tea Party Patriots said in a statement. &#8220;Make no mistake, this bill DOES fund Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty, and so much more.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure makes sure that illegal aliens benefiting from Obama&#8217;s amnesty receive Social Security benefits and spends almost $1 billion to help illegals integrate into communities across the country. It also blows apart the budgetary ceilings agreed upon by House Budget Committee Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) and Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.).</p>
<p>There is, of course, no reason for Republicans to pass in a frenzied rush an all-encompassing bill funding almost all of the federal government. They could easily draft a stopgap spending bill to carry them over to January when Republicans will control both chambers of Congress and have greater bargaining power in negotiations with President Obama.</p>
<p>But conservative critics say House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) have ulterior motives. Using the boogeyman of an impending government shutdown to keep lawmakers in line, the GOP leadership has been generating a false sense of urgency in order to get the omnibus legislation through. Boehner and McConnell, they say, have no intention of repealing Obamacare, so they are kicking the can into 2015.</p>
<p>Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.</p>
<p>The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans’ historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.</p>
<p>Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march. On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning 54 seats. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 246 out of 435 seats.</p>
<p>Opposition to the spending measure has grown steadily since the bill was unveiled Tuesday night but Republican leadership in the House says it is confident it can get the bill passed.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, 10 grassroots conservative groups have <a href="http://mobile.wnd.com/2014/12/grassroots-revolt-10-conservative-groups-call-for-boehner-mcconnell-to-resign/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">signed a letter</span></a> demanding that Boehner and McConnell be removed from their posts for collaborating with the president on amnestying 5 million illegal aliens.</p>
<p>William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration, said the pending bill betrays the values held by more than 70 percent of the people who cast ballots in the congressional elections last month.</p>
<p>“They’re mocking the public, and it’s a huge deception. We can’t allow that deception to prevail. What we need right now is, we need the phones ringing off the hook,” said Gheen. “Word in D.C. is Boehner is hell-bent on getting his plan through to help Obama with the budget, and American citizens out there now have less than 48 hours to respond and take action to change that.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Christmas has come early for the big spenders in Congress who have been experiencing long-term withdrawal from the earmark ban,&#8221; said Andy Roth, vice president of government affairs at the Club for Growth (a group that did not sign the letter). &#8220;This 1,603-page bill provides a &#8216;fix&#8217; for these jonesing politicians who carry water for their special interest buddies.&#8221;</p>
<p>A final vote on the spending legislation could come today.</p>
<p>Members of organized labor have come out against the bill. Teamsters Union president Jimmy Hoffa Jr. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/12/10/BLOOD-IN-THE-WATER-TEAMSTERS-JIMMY-HOFFA-JR-TO-CONGRESS-KILL-THE-OMNIBUS-BILL"><span style="color: #0433ff;">railed</span></a> against the measure because it &#8220;will slash the pensions of thousands of retirees who worked years for a pension that they thought would provide them financial security in their retirement years. That promise is now busted.”</p>
<p>“To add insult to injury, this Omnibus bill compromises highway safety by rolling back Hours-of-Service regulations, allowing truck drivers to work more than 80 hours per week – twice the normal 40-hour work week,” Hoffa added.</p>
<p>Yesterday House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi expressed reservations about the measure. “Once more, Republicans are working to stack the deck for the special interests against everyone else,” Pelosi said. She continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>Buried in the more than 1,600 pages of the omnibus package Republicans posted in the dead of night are provisions to put hard-working taxpayers back on the hook for Wall Street’s riskiest behavior. This provision, allowing big banks to gamble with money insured by the FDIC, opens the door to another taxpayer-funded bailout of big banks – forcing middle class families to bear the burden of Wall Street’s mistakes.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), normally a hyper-partisan member of the Democratic leadership, now opposes the bill. He is opposed to the proposed increases in caps for individual donors in elections that was slipped into the omnibus legislation.</p>
<p>Some of the more extreme left-wing members of Congress such as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/warren-leads-liberal-democrats-rebellion-over-provisions-in-1-trillion-spending-bill/2014/12/10/c5c915e4-80b5-11e4-9f38-95a187e4c1f7_story.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are opposed</span></a> to the omnibus for their own ideological reasons.</p>
<p>Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), currently the fringe-left favorite for the 2016 presidential nod, called the bill &#8220;the worst of government for the rich and powerful.&#8221;</p>
<p>The measure would ease some restrictions on derivatives trading which Warren says would help Wall Street and big banks. On the Senate floor she offered a self-serving version of history, saying the bill “would let derivatives traders on Wall Street gamble with taxpayer money and get bailed out by the government when their risky bets threaten to blow up our financial system.”</p>
<p>“These are the same banks that nearly broke the economy in 2008 and destroyed millions of jobs,” she said, ignoring the role that meddlesome regulations and left-wing public policies played in inflating the mortgage bubble that deflated around that time.</p>
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		<title>Uncovering Obama&#8217;s IRS Enemies List</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2014 05:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thousands of pages of smoking gun documents remain in legal limbo.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246694" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350-450x324.jpg" alt="1207-obama-bush-tax-cuts_full_6001-600x350" width="315" height="227" /></a>More proof has emerged that President Obama is using the IRS as a weapon against his perceived enemies as the administration abruptly canceled the release of 2,500 damning documents reportedly showing that the IRS illegally shared taxpayer files with the White House.</p>
<p>The existence of the documents is yet more proof that Obama maintains an extensive enemies&#8217; list and that he treats the IRS as his personal plaything while he closely collaborates with senior IRS officials <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/16752-irs-officials-visited-white-house-over-150-times-during-period-of-scandal"><span style="color: #0433ff;">who have practically taken up residence</span></a> with him in the White House. To Obama, the IRS is an instrument of political repression and taxpayer terror. Although it isn&#8217;t exactly breaking news that Obama is doing Machiavellian things with the IRS that the nearly-impeached President Nixon only fantasized about doing, hard documentary evidence of wrongdoing has been slow in coming.</p>
<p>The abortive document dump comes as former IRS mandarin Lois Lerner remains at liberty. Instead of becoming a long-term guest of the Bureau of Prisons, the unrepentant left-wing Democratic activist continues to live a life of luxury in Bethesda, Md., a fancy suburb of Washington, D.C. Despite the severity of her crimes, she doesn&#8217;t even have to wear a monitoring anklet. She hasn&#8217;t even been charged with breaking the law, an oversight that may be corrected by the incoming Republican-dominated Congress.</p>
<p>With Lerner taking the lead, Obama&#8217;s IRS targeted conservative “social welfare” nonprofits seeking tax-exempt status under section 501c4 of the Internal Revenue Code. Evidence establishes that hundreds of groups affiliated with the Tea Party movement were bullied and intimidated from engaging in constitutionally protected political activism. The IRS also subjected conservative groups seeking tax-exempt status to heightened scrutiny, harassment, and extended processing delays that may have hindered their activities during previous election cycles.</p>
<p>But now the Obama administration, which barely acknowledges the historic electoral whooping it received last month, has placed the 2,500 documents that are <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-balk-at-releasing-docs-showing-irs-sharing-tax-returns-with-white-house/article/2556890"><span style="color: #0433ff;">apparently not related</span></a> to Lerner&#8217;s escapades in limbo as it hides behind privacy laws that are supposed to protect taxpayers, as opposed to corrupt government officials.</p>
<p>The inspector general&#8217;s office for the U.S. Department of the Treasury is making the novel claim that privacy laws prevent the promised document release from taking place.</p>
<p>“All of the 2,043 pages of documents we have determined to be responsive were collected by the Secretary of the Treasury with respect to the determination of possible liability under Title 26 of the United States Code. These pages consist of return information protected by 26 U.S.C. § 6103 and may not be disclosed absent an express statutory exception,” the office indicated in a Dec. 1 letter.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department, which oversees the IRS, apparently hasn&#8217;t yet decided what to do with another 466 documents.</p>
<p>Dan Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action, was highly skeptical. Treasury is  using “sophisticated” lawyering to worm out of producing the documents.</p>
<p>Treasury Secretary Jack Lew acknowledges he is examining “potential liability” that his underlings violated the law by providing taxpayer information to the White House. Treasury is either “stonewalling” Cause of Action, or Lew “is incompetent” for only now getting around to investigating possible lawbreaking on a two-year-old case.</p>
<p>Asked about the case Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/03/watchdog-finds-thousands-docs-relating-to-improper-disclosure-taxpayer-data-to/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">claimed</span></a> he didn&#8217;t know about it. He said, apparently with a straight face, that the administration “very closely” follows rules shielding the IRS from political interference.</p>
<p>“I can tell you that, as a rule, that the Obama administration has been very rigorous in following all of the rules and regulations that govern proper communication between Treasury officials and White House officials and the Internal Revenue Service,” Earnest said.</p>
<p>Epstein says Earnest isn&#8217;t telling the truth. “We know for a fact that the IRS broke the law,” he said. “If there is any evidence that the White House requested (unauthorized taxpayer information), then people in the White House are going to be implicated,” he said.</p>
<p>The Treasury Department&#8217;s decision to stonewall just so happens to coincide with publication this week of a four-part series by the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/feds-balk-at-releasing-docs-showing-irs-sharing-tax-returns-with-white-house/article/2556890"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Washington Examiner</i></span></a> about the benefits and pitfalls of the federal inspectors-general system. The series details several occasions in which inspector generals &#8220;provided cover for agency managers seeking to avoid more rigorous evaluations.&#8221;</p>
<p>It goes without saying that Obama has been using the IRS improperly since he was sworn in as president. That&#8217;s the Chicago way.</p>
<p>Ask Catherine Engelbrecht, leader of the Houston-based good government group True the Vote. Since getting involved in the fight for ballot box integrity she has been <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/the-mounting-proof-of-an-irs-cover-up/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">subjected</span></a> to a slew of audits, surprise inspections, and all manner of bureaucratic harassment. Ask supporters of the Manassas, Va.-based Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty, whose tax-exempt charitable status was yanked by the IRS because it disseminated criticism of Democrats Hillary Clinton and John Kerry a decade ago.</p>
<p>Ask officials of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM). Obama&#8217;s IRS has admitted it illegally provided the group&#8217;s confidential donor information to its left-wing arch-enemy, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), which favors same-sex marriage. The IRS later agreed to settle a lawsuit by paying $50,000 in damages to NOM. The release of the tax filing, known as an IRS Form 990 was not the issue as such; in fact federal law requires 990s to be publicly disclosed.</p>
<p>But the IRS claimed one of its employees innocently neglected to redact the names and addresses of NOM’s donors before releasing the group&#8217;s amended 2008 Form 990 to an individual. The law requires groups like NOM to list top donors on Schedule B to the form. The information on Schedule B is supposed to be held in strictest confidence by the IRS. Unauthorized disclosure of confidential tax information is a felony that can lead to a five-year term of imprisonment, but Eric Holder’s Justice Department never got around to filing criminal charges in the case.</p>
<p>The egregious IRS leak allowed the HRC in February 2012 to post online NOM’s 2008 tax return and the names and contact information of NOM’s major donors, including Mitt Romney who became the Republican presidential nominee later that year. Making that normally confidential information public allowed progressive activists to harass and intimidate NOM’s donors, just as they had done in the wake of California’s Proposition 8 that affirmed traditional marriage in 2008. The most prominent victim of leftist venom was former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, who was forced out of his post because he dared to donate $1,000 to the “pro” traditional marriage side in the Prop 8 battle.</p>
<p>Left-wing activists call this kind of in-your-face harassment “accountability,” an Orwellian euphemism to be sure. Accountability actions focus on harassing and intimidating political enemies, disrupting their activities, and forcing them to waste resources dealing with activists’ provocations. It is a tactic of radical community organizers, open borders fanatics, and union goons. Taking a cue from Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse, they want to shut down, humiliate, and silence those who fail to genuflect before their policy agenda.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s IRS is all about accountability, but not in the way that normal, patriotic Americans use the term.</p>
<p><em>*Clarification: Mr. Brendan Eich&#8217;s contribution in support of Proposition 8 was published by the Los Angeles Times using state public records and was a separate incident from the IRS&#8217;s illicit disclosure of NOM donors. </em></p>
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<p>A week after grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., did their civic duty and resisted pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer, Al Sharpton and Ferguson riot leaders gathered at the White House yesterday to make plans to further exacerbate the racial tensions they created in order to cripple the economy and attack civil society.</p>
<p>These domestic subversives refuse to accept the official finding Nov. 24 that no probable cause existed to charge police officer Darren Wilson, who is white, in the Aug. 9 death of Michael Brown, who was black.</p>
<p>The finding of &#8220;no true bill&#8221; contradicts the Left&#8217;s preferred narrative that racist white cops are gunning down innocent blacks with impunity. The failure to indict Wilson, who has since resigned from the Ferguson police department, has driven left-wingers and racial grievance mongers into an exquisite state of apoplexy. They refuse to accept that the evidence considered by the grand jury overwhelmingly, indisputably demonstrated that Brown tried to seize Wilson&#8217;s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm. To put it more bluntly, there is proof that in their fateful 90-second encounter Brown tried to kill Wilson, even though the media has consistently identified Wilson as the aggressor.</p>
<p>But facts are rarely obstacles when left-wingers set their minds on something.</p>
<p>At the initial White House meeting of the Michael Brown truther brigade, Obama <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/1201/Ferguson-day-at-the-White-House-What-did-Obama-accomplish"><span style="color: #0433ff;">proceeded</span></a> from the demonstrably false assumption that a tragic injustice was done to the late teenaged thug. The president <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/12/01/remarks-president-after-meeting-elected-officials-community-and-faith-le"><span style="color: #0433ff;">said</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>As I said last week in the wake of the grand jury decision, I think Ferguson laid bare a problem that is not unique to St. Louis or that area, and is not unique to our time, and that is a simmering distrust that exists between too many police departments and too many communities of color. The sense that in a country where one of our basic principles, perhaps the most important principle, is equality under the law, that too many individuals, particularly young people of color, do not feel as if they are being treated fairly.</p></blockquote>
<p>To remedy this problem that was far less of a problem before Obama was inaugurated, the president announced he was appointing two left-wing establishment puppets to head a useless task force</p>
<blockquote><p>to reach out and listen to law enforcement, and community activists and other stakeholders, but is going to report to me specifically in 90 days with concrete recommendations, including best practices for communities where law enforcement and neighborhoods are working well together &#8212; how do they create accountability; how do they create transparency; how do they create trust; and how can we at the federal level work with state and local communities to make sure that some of those best practices get institutionalized.</p></blockquote>
<p>Even though there is no evidence of wrongdoing on the part of Darren Wilson, police officers are going to receive stricter scrutiny. Obama also proposed spending $263 million to put body cameras on cops.</p>
<p>Much of this soothing, focus group-tested Washington-speak sounds fairly innocuous until the guest list for the event is revealed. The same people who instigated the riots and looting in Ferguson <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/12/unreal-obama-meets-with-ferguson-riot-organizer-at-white-house-to-discuss-police-brutality/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">were in attendance</span></a> listening to the Community Organizer in Chief. Among the attendees were: Ashley Yates, Millennial Activists United; Rasheen Aldridge, Young Activists St. Louis; Brittany Packnett, St. Louis educator and activist; T-Dubb-O, St. Louis hip-hop artist; James Hayes, Ohio Students Association; Phillip Agnew, Dream Defenders; and Jose Lopez, Make the Road New York.</p>
<p>These people are the problem, not the solution. They had no business being at the table (but then again, neither does Obama).</p>
<p>Yates went so far as to go on record the month before the grand jury decision as saying violence would be a legitimate response to a non-indictment in the Darren Wilson case.</p>
<p>“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” Yates said at the time.</p>
<p>“We’re going to take our anger out on the people who have failed us, and if they are prepared to deal with that, then let them have at it,” he said.</p>
<p>New York&#8217;s radical mayor Bill de Blasio and Al Sharpton, whose racist, hate-filled rants <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1527"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have gotten Americans killed</span></a> on more than one occasion, were also in attendance at the White House yesterday.</p>
<p>The day before, Sharpton was in Ferguson pledging more violent protests. &#8220;You won the first round, Mr. Prosecutor, but don&#8217;t take your gloves off,&#8221; Sharpton said. &#8220;Justice will come to Ferguson.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not gonna stop marching and protesting until we do,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Sharpton isn&#8217;t even the most radical member of the leftist lynch mob screaming for Wilson&#8217;s blood.</p>
<p>The most explicit of the fire-breathing racist filth-purveyors in the Brown saga has to be professional white-hater and anti-Semite <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1325"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Louis Farrakhan</span></a>. Before an audience at Baltimore&#8217;s Morgan State University he <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/29/farrakhan-on-ferguson-well-tear-this-gdamn-country-up-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">promised</span></a> a violent uprising. If the demands of demonstrators who want Wilson dead are not met, “we’ll tear this goddamn country apart!”</p>
<p>Peaceful protests are only in the interest of “white folks,” said Farrakhan, who himself ought to be under constant FBI surveillance. “We going to die anyway,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Let’s die for something,” the Nation of Islam (NOI) head said to enthusiastic applause.</p>
<p>The parents of teenaged children need to show their kids how to lob Molotov cocktails, said Farrakhan, who is essentially the Islamic version of Obama&#8217;s longtime preacher Jeremiah Wright. “Teach your baby how to throw the bottle if they can. Fight,” he said, gesturing as if throwing an incendiary device.</p>
<p>Farrakhan said there is a “law of retaliation” in both the Bible and the Koran that demands the use of deadly force. “A law for retaliation,” he repeated while holding what appeared to be the NOI version of the Koran.</p>
<p>White Americans will only start taking black concerns seriously if blacks begin killing them, he said.</p>
<p>“As long as they [whites] kill us [blacks] and go to Wendy’s and have a burger and go to sleep, they’ll keep killing us,” said Farrakhan, who openly supports Islamic terrorist regimes abroad. “But when we die and they die, then soon we’re going to sit at a table and talk about it! We’re tired! We want some of this earth or we’ll tear this goddamn country up!”</p>
<p>Although President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder and their confederates in the media set the stage for the Ferguson-related civil unrest, publicly urging restraint and nonviolent protest on the one hand while claiming that police departments are hotbeds of racism that need to be reformed, Farrakhan attacked the two men for their perceived willingness to compromise.</p>
<p>Obama, Holder, and other black leaders show how out of touch they are with young blacks when they embrace what Farrakhan called &#8220;compromise.&#8221; By urging calm these leaders are betraying blacks and doing the bidding of “white people.”</p>
<p>“Tonight in Ferguson everybody is on edge,&#8221; Farrakhan said, implying the terror innocent citizens feel at the prospect of mob violence is a wonderful, useful thing.</p>
<p>In a way his comments echo those made a century earlier by Felix Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the Soviet secret police. &#8220;We stand for organized terror &#8212; this should be frankly admitted. Terror is an absolute necessity during times of revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whatever makes whites nervous furthers the fundamental transformation of the United States, as the Left sees it.</p>
<p>&#8220;White folks have never been on edge after they killed a black man. Tonight they’re on edge; so on edge that our president has come out from behind the curtain to ask young black people: ‘Cool it. That’s not our way.’” Farrakhan said. “I heard you, Mr. President; and I asked myself a question: What brings you out of the shadows?&#8221;</p>
<p>Anyone who has followed Farrakhan knows he is dangerously mental unstable even on a good day but his lack of sound mind has never prevented him from spreading his gospel of hate or from winning fans on the Left. Anyone who is honest will acknowledge that the American activist Left has a long history of embracing deranged cult leaders from Rev. Jim Jones of the Peoples Temple in Guyana and Charles Manson to Revs. Jeremiah Wright and Al Sharpton.</p>
<p>Insanity is not in short supply on the topic of Michael Brown. Following the announcement of the non-indictment a week ago, Michael Brown’s stepfather <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ferguson/burn-this-bitch-down-879056"><span style="color: #0433ff;">urged an angry mob</span></a> consisting of several hundred protesters to “Burn this bitch down!” This incitement to riot committed by Louis Head was captured on video.</p>
<p>Head, by the way, <a href="http://gotnews.com/breaking-cops-michaelbrown-stepfather-inciting-ferguson-race-riot-blood-gangbanger/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is a member</span></a> of the notorious criminal street gang known as the Bloods. This may help to explain why photos exist showing Brown flashing Blood gang signals and why Brown&#8217;s family wore red, the Bloods&#8217; color, to his funeral. Head has two felony narcotics convictions. When released on parole, he violated probation and was remanded to state prison.</p>
<p>Strong-arm robbery is apparently a favorite crime in Brown&#8217;s family. Both Head and Brown&#8217;s mother Lesley McSpadden are themselves <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Michael-Brown-family-merchandise-brawl-687543"><span style="color: #0433ff;">being investigated</span></a> by Ferguson police for the Oct. 18 robbery and assault of three vendors who were selling &#8220;Justice for Mike Brown&#8221; merchandise. A police report indicated 20 to 30 people rushed the sellers, taking $400 in cash and $1,500 in goods. McSpadden herself reportedly punched one of the vendors, Brown&#8217;s grandmother Pearlie Gordon.</p>
<p>The night of the announcement a minimum of 10 businesses and two police cars were destroyed or damaged by fire in Ferguson, and police arrested 61 individuals. Inexplicably on Nov. 24 Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon ordered the Missouri National Guard to stand down. Nixon had mobilized the Guard to deal with potential post-announcement unrest. Perhaps Obama&#8217;s people, who believe that blacks are entitled to riot at perceived injustices, got to him.</p>
<p>On the evening of the announcement, a 20-year-old man named Deandre Joshua <a href="http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/19621-was-murdered-ferguson-man-a-grand-jury-witness"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was killed and set on fire</span></a> in his car, mere feet from where Brown died months before. Joshua, a friend of Brown&#8217;s robbery accomplice Dorian Johnson, may have been a grand jury witness who corroborated Wilson&#8217;s story. One theory is he was killed in retaliation for his testimony.</p>
<p>Johnson is the recidivist lowlife who gave birth to the Big Lie that Brown tried to surrender to Wilson and was then gunned down by the police officer in cold blood. Even though Johnson&#8217;s false testimony was ultimately demolished by the evidence, scientific and otherwise, it helped to spur the &#8220;Hands Up, Don&#8217;t Shoot&#8221; protest movement.</p>
<p>It could be argued that Johnson is at least as morally culpable of attempting to murder Wilson as Brown was because Johnson tried to frame Wilson. If Wilson had been convicted of murder he could have faced the death penalty for murder. Supporters of Wilson are <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2014/11/26/Darren-Wilson-Allies-Want-Perjury-Charges-For-Dorian-Hands-up-Don-t-shoot-Johnson"><span style="color: #0433ff;">trying to obtain</span></a> a least a small measure of justice by having Johnson indicted for perjury but these efforts seem pointless in the current political climate.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Left is now trying to inflict as much pain as possible on black Americans in order to drive them to open revolt. The more black businesses are burnt to the ground, the better, in their view. Anyone killed in the process can be celebrated as a martyr for the cause.</p>
<p>Citing the purchasing power of black Americans, activists have been urging blacks and others to boycott retailers. Those involved in the Black Friday protests at big-box stores and sophomoric &#8220;die-ins&#8221; in major cities across the country four days ago are the same people who show up at Occupy Wall Street protests and demonstrations supporting minimum wage increases. The Left excels at recycling its activists. More actions were scheduled for yesterday, informally dubbed Cyber Monday, supposedly the biggest e-commerce sales day of the year.</p>
<p>Profit-generating businesses that communities need in order to survive are fair game in this effort to stamp out the parts of civil society that the Obama junta hasn&#8217;t gotten around to obliterating yet. This sick vengeance directed against people who had nothing to do with the demise of Michael Brown is justified because, as a Sixties radical once wrote, “The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.” To left-wing sociopaths, innocent people are mere pieces on a chessboard.</p>
<p>Saul Alinsky-inspired groups have been busy agitating this holiday season.</p>
<p>As this writer <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">previously reported</span></a>, the remnants of the ACORN activist empire have been deeply involved in the unrest in Ferguson. Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE), a nonprofit group, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN). President Obama used to work for ACORN, and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE has been active in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>We now learn that an ACORN successor group was involved in recent post-grand jury decision unrest in Brooklyn, N.Y. New York Communities for Change (NYCC), another offspring of ACORN, <a href="http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/48/dtg-downtown-ferguson-protest-2014-12-05-bk_37_48.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was involved in</span></a> disruptive demonstrations alongside Al Sharpton’s group, National Action Network. The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson-related actions.</p>
<p>But there is some good news.</p>
<p>There is evidence that ordinary Americans are beginning to fight back against all this mindless, destructive activism by left-wingers who want to hurt blacks and the American system as a whole.</p>
<p>An Internet video that has gone viral shows angry employees trying to get to work last Wednesday <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/11/29/Driver-Confronts-Ferguson-Protesters-for-Making-Him-Late-to-Work-Deal-With-it-the-Right-F-ing-Way"><span style="color: #0433ff;">giving activists</span></a> blocking a highway a major dressing-down.</p>
<p>&#8220;I gotta go to Ross right now, homie,&#8221; Tyree Landrum said on Interstate 5 near San Diego. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t get there, I&#8217;m gonna get fired. I got six f***ing kids to feed, I gotta get this car off the&#8230; Day goes on homie. M*****f***ers get shot every f***ing day. Deal with it the right f***ing way, not like this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Landrum appears in the video yelling at a road-blocking protester. &#8220;I&#8217;m about to lose my f***ing job, and you guys are f***ing out here protesting?&#8221;</p>
<p>A woman wearing medical scrubs was shown leaving her vehicle and joining in the yelling. &#8220;Arrest them!&#8221; the nurse shouted. &#8220;We have doctors and nurses that have to save lives here.&#8221;</p>
<p>Landrum told reporters he works three jobs. When an activist put a megaphone in his face, Landrum fought back.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m like get this bullhorn out of my face,&#8221; he said. &#8220;At that point I was confused, frustrated, and completely angry.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m nobody special,&#8221; Landrum said. &#8220;Just doing what I thought was right.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tyree Landrum&#8217;s expletive-laden protest against demonstrators trying to deprive black men like him of a living is eloquent testimony to the desperation that normal Americans feel in the face of the crazy race-hatred and chaos that the Left has unleashed in this country.</p>
<p>If righteous explosions like Landrum&#8217;s start breaking out more regularly on the fruited plain, the Left won&#8217;t have a chance.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APTOPIX-Ferguson_Schu29.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-246026" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/APTOPIX-Ferguson_Schu29-450x298.jpg" alt="APTOPIX Ferguson_Schu(29)" width="350" height="232" /></a>Grand jurors in Ferguson, Mo., refused to indict local police officer Darren Wilson yesterday, heroically resisting pressure from President Obama on down to lynch an innocent police officer who fought off a violent attacker.</p>
<p>The decision is infuriating left-wingers across America because it rebuts the underlying assumption they embrace which is that white police racism caused the death of Michael Brown, a young black thug who tried to seize Wilson&#8217;s gun in an attempt to do the officer harm.</p>
<p>As fresh rioting was already underway in the St. Louis area, the decision also angered President Obama who could barely contain his hostility in a disgraceful, unprecedented television appearance following the release of the announcement about the non-indictments. Obama urged activists to refrain from using violence. The president himself bears direct responsibility for fomenting the combustible situation, however.</p>
<p>The county’s elected prosecuting attorney, Robert McCulloch, calmly explained the process in detail last night that the grand jury employed in choosing not to return indictments in five potential charges from first-degree murder to lesser offenses.</p>
<p>McCulloch is a white Democrat who has come under heavy fire from race-baiting members of his own political party. His partisans hate him because he does not share their antipathy for police officers, and presumably, because he is the wrong color. McCulloch easily secured the Democratic nomination for his office in a primary election four days before Brown was killed. In that contest, he handily beat former state public defender Leslie T. Broadnax, a black woman, by a margin of 71.4 percent to 28.6 percent.</p>
<p>McCulloch said many witnesses gave testimony that was not believable. Witnesses fabricated events, admitted they were in error, clung to discredited factual accounts, or gave evidence inconsistent with the physical evidence.</p>
<p>McCulloch said grand jurors were &#8220;the only people who heard every witness &#8230; and every piece of evidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These grand jurors poured their hearts and soul into this process,&#8221; he said. The grand jury consisted of nine whites and three blacks and was meeting every week since Aug. 20 to hear evidence in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. The panel convened for 70 hours and heard from 60 witnesses.</p>
<p>Perhaps in a conciliatory gesture to those who wanted Wilson strung up, McCulloch referred to the death of Brown and the events surrounding it as tragic. Obama too used the word <i>tragic</i>.</p>
<p>But that is the wrong word.</p>
<p>Recall that Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 by white police officer Darren Wilson after he attacked Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown&#8217;s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. At autopsy Brown&#8217;s height was 6&#8242; 5&#8243; and his weight was 289 lbs. As previously reported, autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson&#8217;s gun during their fateful altercation.</p>
<p>Brown&#8217;s death was not tragic. He was a villain. The evidence shows that he initiated potentially deadly force against an officer of the law and suffered the consequences of his actions. Grand jurors only needed a little bit of evidence to indict Officer Wilson. The evidence needed only to establish that probable cause existed to charge Wilson with a crime. The prosecution couldn&#8217;t even satisfy that low legal bar. The Wilson case may never have made it to a grand jury at all were it not for the antics of left-wing racial grievance groups working with and taking directions from the Obama administration.</p>
<p>The decision not to indict Wilson is not a tragedy. Far from it. The decision is just, proof that the grand jury system that was created to prevent governments from railroading unpopular defendants still works.</p>
<p>The tragedy is that Wilson had to be subjected to a three-month-long circus in which he was wrongfully accused of being a racist, murdering cop. He was demonized in the media day in and day out, a process that continues in the nation&#8217;s newsrooms even after last night&#8217;s announcement.</p>
<p>Petulant, as America&#8217;s childish Commander-in-Chief is wont to be when he fails to get his way, Obama sounded angry that grand jurors failed to indict Officer Wilson. The plot by Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Obama operative Al Sharpton to lynch Wilson in the courts failed.</p>
<p>Coming across like a Latin American <i>caudillo</i>, Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/11/24/president-obama-delivers-statement-ferguson-grand-jurys-decision"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sounded disgusted</span></a> with Ferguson police and police forces across the nation in a press briefing last night.</p>
<p>Instead of accepting the grand jury&#8217;s wise decision, Obama set about stoking the flames. After spending months stirring up racial antagonism, Obama pontificated as if an innocent bystander of the events.</p>
<p>The decision &#8220;was going to be subject of intense disagreement not only in Ferguson, but across America, so I want to just say a few words suggesting how we might move forward,&#8221; he said, without noting that Wilson&#8217;s use of justifiable force against Brown became a national issue at his instigation.</p>
<p>Ignoring the fact that the death of Michael Brown had everything to do with his threatening, abusive behavior and absolutely nothing to do with his race, Obama implied cops hate minorities.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need to recognize that the situation in Ferguson speaks to broader challenges that we still face as a nation,&#8221; Obama said, even though no broader challenges that we face as a nation played a role in Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact is, in too many parts of this country, a deep distrust exists between law enforcement and communities of color,&#8221; he said, without noting that he and his comrades-in-arms in the world of community organizing have created distrust and disharmony where none previously existed.</p>
<p>Obama then blamed white people for Michael Brown attacking Darren Wilson.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of this is the result of the legacy of racial discrimination in this country,&#8221; Obama said even though there is no evidence that the residue of racial discrimination played any role in Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>&#8220;And this is tragic, because nobody needs good policing more than poor communities with higher crime rates,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;The good news is we know there are things we can do to help, and I’ve instructed Attorney General Holder to work with cities across the country to help build better relations between communities and law enforcement.&#8221; Obama said this even though the case at hand provided no evidence that there is a problem between communities and law enforcement.</p>
<p>The president then pivoted to make a pitch for affirmative action in police departments:</p>
<blockquote><p>That means working with law enforcement officials to make sure their ranks are representative of the communities they serve. We know that makes a difference. It means working to train officials so that law enforcement conducts itself in a way that is fair to everybody. It means enlisting the community actively on what should be everybody’s goal, and that is to prevent crime.</p></blockquote>
<p>These are mere policing platitudes Obama is lip-syncing as he advances the notion that only black police officers are suited to work in black communities. We do not know that it makes a difference. In fact, enforced diversity can be deadly.</p>
<p>We know that in the rush to furnish communities with cops of the correct skin color corners are likely to get cut and <a href="http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2014-08-27.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">people will die</span></a> as a result. Economist John Lott found in a 2000 study that the apartheid approach to police staffing led to increases in violent crime, especially in black neighborhoods. This is because the forced lowering of standards put less-qualified officers of all skin colors on the streets.</p>
<p>Even though the justice system ultimately worked in Ferguson, Obama pretends there is still a problem because there aren&#8217;t enough blacks in the local constabulary, in his view. He urged communities &#8220;interested in working with this administration and local and state officials to start tackling much-needed criminal justice reform,&#8221; even though the Brown-Wilson saga does not prove any reform of the criminal justice system is needed.</p>
<p>Obama continued ignoring the facts, insisting there is a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the past several decades &#8230; but what is also true is that there are still problems and communities of color aren&#8217;t just making these problems up,&#8221; Obama said, again ignoring that there is no evidence of a problem.</p>
<p>&#8220;Those who are only interested in focusing on the violence and just want the problem to go away need to recognize that we do have work to do here, and we shouldn’t try to paper it over,&#8221; he said without proving there is any work to be done. &#8220;Whenever we do that, the anger may momentarily subside, but over time, it builds up and America isn&#8217;t everything that it could be.&#8221;</p>
<p>It is as if the <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/understanding_obamas_ebola_psychosis.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">psychosis</span></a> our troubled president suffers from regarding Ebola, the virus Obama is lovingly importing from West Africa, has spread to other issues as well. Only Obama and his fellow travelers say there is a problem in Ferguson.</p>
<p>The mass hysteria over Michael Brown&#8217;s death that Obama and his allies generated continues.</p>
<p>It is yet another success for America&#8217;s first Alinskyite president.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245774" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/obama2-450x281.jpg" alt="President Obama Delivers Remarks On Executive Action Immigration Reform" width="388" height="242" /></a>Ignoring the brutal, historic slap-down angry American voters gave his party this month, President Obama unveiled plans for a unilaterally imposed amnesty that will shield an estimated 5 million illegal aliens from deportation.</p>
<p>Whether Republicans, now in possession of a thunderous mandate to fight Obama tooth and nail, will fight this despotic usurpation of the lawmaking powers of Congress remains to be seen.</p>
<p>Obama doesn&#8217;t care. He is pressing on, hoping to fill America with millions of new Democrat voters. And he&#8217;s going to kill American jobs in the process.</p>
<p>&#8220;We expect people who live in this country to play by the rules,&#8221; said the president. The address from the White House came yesterday, which just so happened to be Revolution Day (also known as Civil War Day) in Mexico.</p>
<p>&#8220;We expect those who cut the line will not be unfairly rewarded,&#8221; the president continued. Yet Obama went on to propose just such a reward in the form of a special &#8220;deal&#8221; for unlawful immigrants:</p>
<blockquote><p>So we’re going to offer the following deal: If you’ve with been in America more than five years. If you have children who are American citizens or illegal residents. If you register, pass a criminal background check and you’re willing to pay your fair share of taxes, you’ll be able to apply to stay in this country temporarily without fear of deportation. You can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. That’s what this deal is.</p></blockquote>
<p>Strangely, Obama, who routinely flouts the Constitution, still acknowledges some limits to his power. The deal, he said, does not apply to recently arrived illegal aliens or illegals who have yet to sneak into the country.</p>
<p>&#8220;It does not grant citizenship or the right to stay here permanently, or offer the same benefits that citizens receive,&#8221; Obama said. &#8220;Only Congress can do that. All we’re saying is we’re not going to deport you.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether the benefits illegal aliens receive are as generous as benefits that citizens receive is beside the point. Illegal aliens are already eligible for extensive benefits from the government and Obama is a big believer in getting poor people addicted to welfare. No serious person believes illegals won&#8217;t have access to social programs.</p>
<p>In the address Obama played semantic games. What he&#8217;s doing is not an amnesty, he said:</p>
<blockquote><p>Amnesty is the immigration system we have today. Millions of people who live here without paying their taxes or playing by the rules, while politicians use the issue to scare people and whip up votes at election time. That’s the real amnesty, leaving this broken system the way it is. Mass amnesty would be unfair.</p></blockquote>
<p>The former part-time adjunct constitutional law lecturer has it wrong. A failure to enforce a law isn&#8217;t tantamount to amnesty. Amnesty is an official governmental act of forgiveness that excuses a violation of the law. Being in a state of legal limbo in which law enforcement hasn&#8217;t yet called your number isn&#8217;t the same as amnesty.</p>
<p>Nor is the immigration system broken, at least not in the way Obama means.</p>
<p>When progressives say the system is broken, they mean it is functioning in a less than optimal manner, failing to capture every single prospective illegal alien available to wade across the Rio Grande or walk across the nation’s largely undefended border with Mexico. To them, immigration policy is a taxpayer-subsidized get-out-the-vote scheme for Democrats and the best reform they could imagine would be to abolish America’s borders altogether. Obama&#8217;s new amnesty plan is a step in this direction.</p>
<p>It is also a profoundly cynical move that rewards lawbreaking and begets future immigration amnesties. It will spell electoral death for the Republican Party in coming years because Latinos, who are believed to comprise the bulk of the illegals, have traditionally shown a strong preference for the Democratic Party and its left-of-center public policies. The amnesty for 5 million illegals is likely just the beginning. The government recently issued a procurement order seeking a contractor to make as many as 34 million immigration documents over the coming five years.</p>
<p>During his address, Obama quoted the Book of Exodus, saying:</p>
<blockquote><p>Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger &#8212; we were strangers once, too. My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too.</p></blockquote>
<p>But the immigrants in question are not the legal immigrants of the past who followed the rules when they came to this country. They are invaders who broke the law and who continue to break the law by being here. America is not, nor has it ever been, a nation of illegal immigrants.</p>
<p>To qualify for relief from deportation, individuals will have to register with the government, pass criminal and national security background checks, pay their taxes, and pay a processing fee, according to a White House handout. Applications can&#8217;t be filed until early next year.</p>
<p>Parents of U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents as of the date of the announcement are eligible, provided that they are not &#8220;enforcement priorities&#8221; and have been present in the U.S. since Jan. 1, 2010. Also eligible are individuals who arrived in this country before Jan. 1, 2010 and before turning 16 years old, regardless of how old they are now. Processing times for certain categories of green card applicants will be accelerated. Recent arrivals who entered the country after Jan. 1 of this year will not be eligible to apply.</p>
<p>Obama lapdogs were ecstatic about the planned amnesty.</p>
<p>Echoing Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) who absurdly compared Obama&#8217;s executive order to the Emancipation Proclamation, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) asked, &#8220;Does the public know that the Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order?&#8221;</p>
<p>Except that the Emancipation Proclamation freed categories of slaves, innocent people victimized by an abhorrent institution, not illegal aliens who took it upon themselves to invade the country and abuse the goodwill of Americans. The only thing the two executive orders have in common is that a president signed them.</p>
<p>Republicans are deeply split on the amnesty issue so anyone expecting Republican lawmakers to give Obama a well-deserved rhetorical mauling two weeks after the GOP crushed Democrats in midterm elections will be disappointed in coming days. That&#8217;s not what the emasculated party of Lincoln does because it is terrified of being called racist for opposing the nation&#8217;s first (half) black president.</p>
<p>Despite running a virtually content-free campaign, on Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning at least 53 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 244 out of 435 seats. In the new year Republicans will control at least 31 state governors&#8217; mansions and at least 68 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber). In at least 23 states Republicans will control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature. Democrats can make the same claim about only 7 states.</p>
<p>The election was arguably, depending on the psephological metrics used, the worst showing for the Democratic Party in its history.</p>
<p>Despite the newly enfeebled status of the Democrats, the House GOP&#8217;s response was predictably weak. Instead of righteously inveighing against the grave threat that Obama&#8217;s actions pose to the republic, on Twitter the official House Republican feed meekly exhorted the president to cooperate with them.</p>
<p>&#8220;We need a real fix, not a quick fix. Let&#8217;s fix our broken immigration system together,&#8221; read one GOP tweet. Another said, &#8220;Mr. President, stop acting alone. Let&#8217;s work together.&#8221; Maybe the GOP&#8217;s communications professionals would like to roast some s&#8217;mores and sing Kumbaya with the president.</p>
<p>And Obama must be quaking in his jackboots. Even after six years of getting beaten to a pulp, constantly sucker-punched by the nation&#8217;s Alinskyite president, congressional Republicans still aren&#8217;t anywhere close to grasping what he really is. They continue to treat Obama as if he&#8217;s a legitimate, sincere president who actually wants to do what&#8217;s best for America. They foolishly believe Obama cares about his falling public approval numbers and his presidential legacy. They refuse to acknowledge that he is a radical revolutionary figure hellbent on destroying, or in his own words, fundamentally transforming, the U.S. They actually seem to think Obama is interested in negotiating with them to find policy solutions that benefit the country. Many elected GOPers appear not to have an inkling that embracing amnesty is the same as signing a death warrant for the Republican Party.</p>
<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who supports amnesty in principle but is under intense pressure from conservative lawmakers, is trying to put down a rebellion in his own House GOP conference. Although Obama has previously protested that he is not a king or an emperor, &#8220;he&#8217;s sure acting like one,&#8221; Boehner, who may face a challenge to his speakership in January, said yesterday.</p>
<p>Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was characteristically vague.</p>
<p>&#8220;If President Obama acts in defiance of the people and imposes his will on the country, Congress will act,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Retiring Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told <i>USA Today</i> earlier this week that Obama&#8217;s amnesty could spark civil unrest. &#8220;The country&#8217;s going to go nuts, because they&#8217;re going to see it as a move outside the authority of the president, and it&#8217;s going to be a very serious situation.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see &#8212; hopefully not &#8212; but you could see instances of anarchy &#8230; You could see violence,&#8221; Coburn said. Obama will be behaving like &#8220;an autocratic leader that&#8217;s going to disregard what the Constitution says and make law anyway.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Instead of having the rule of law handling in our country today, now we&#8217;re starting to have the rule of rulers, and that&#8217;s the total antithesis of what this country was founded on,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Here&#8217;s how people think: Well, if the law doesn&#8217;t apply to the president &#8230; then why should it apply to me?&#8221;</p>
<p>House Appropriations Committee chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/393119/hal-rogers-obama-republican-mark-krikorian"><span style="color: #0433ff;">appears to have taken the wrong lesson</span></a> from the electoral bloodbath this month that set Democrats back 150 years. Although voters delivered the message that they want Obama stopped, Rogers interprets the election as a mandate for surrender.</p>
<p>&#8220;I believe a major consequence of this election is a loud and clear mandate from the American people for Washington to stop the gridlock, work together across ideological lines and start producing real accomplishments on their behalf,&#8221; Rogers wrote in an op-ed.</p>
<p>Rogers wants Congress to pass a long-term funding bill called an omnibus appropriations bill before the government&#8217;s authority to spend money expires on Dec. 11. It would keep the government operating for the rest of the federal fiscal year which runs to Sept. 30, 2015.</p>
<p>There will be &#8220;an extraordinary amount of work to do when the new Congress convenes in January &#8230; but there simply won&#8217;t be the political bandwidth available to address these pressing issues if Congress is bogged down in old battles and protracted to-do lists.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some Republicans have proposed defunding the parts of the government that would process amnesty-related paperwork.</p>
<p>Separately, Rogers has made the absurd suggestion that Congress approve a big, all-encompassing spending bill now and then rescind amnesty-relating funding next year. Rescissions happen but they&#8217;re relatively rare. Why bother giving Obama a green light to proceed with the amnesty now in the hope of slamming on the brakes in the new year?</p>
<p>The real problem with enacting an omnibus spending bill, <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/393119/hal-rogers-obama-republican-mark-krikorian"><span style="color: #0433ff;">according to</span></a> Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, is that such a funding measure &#8220;would enable Obama to complete his lawless amnesty scheme.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rogers insists that the amnesty cannot be stopped through the appropriations process.</p>
<p>It would be &#8220;impossible to defund President Obama&#8217;s executive order through a government spending bill,&#8221; House Appropriations Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Hing said yesterday, explaining that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is funded by user fees.</p>
<p>It is a facile, easily disproved argument. USCIS, an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), is part of the federal government. It was created by Congress and Congress can do anything it wants to it. It can give it money, take money away from it, give it a spanking, or order it to stand on one leg and bark like a dog.</p>
<p>In a development overshadowed by the unveiling of the amnesty, DHS <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/20/us-usa-ebola-immigrant-protection-idUSKCN0J41JS20141120"><span style="color: #0433ff;">announced</span></a> yesterday that it will grant &#8220;temporary protected status&#8221; to up to 8,000 people from the Ebola-afflicted African countries of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. These visitors may apply for work permits for 18 months. Unlike ordinary recipients of temporary protected status, these Ebola refugees will not be allowed to travel to their home countries and then return to the U.S., in order to prevent the spread of Ebola.</p>
<p>Or so the story goes. If Obama can find a way to let them stay in the U.S., he&#8217;ll do it.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-rioter-tear-gas-AP.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245445" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-rioter-tear-gas-AP-382x350.jpg" alt="ferguson-rioter-tear-gas-AP" width="314" height="288" /></a>The FBI is warning that extremist protesters will probably threaten or physically attack police officers or federal agents when a grand jury investigating the death of Michael Brown decides whether to indict the policeman who shot him.</p>
<p>Brown, an 18-year-old black male, was killed in Ferguson, Mo., on Aug. 9 by white police officer Darren Wilson after he beat Wilson and tried to grab his handgun. Brown&#8217;s defenders characterize him as a gentle giant even though a few minutes earlier he was captured on video committing a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store, roughing up a much smaller clerk in the process. <a href="https://docs.zoho.com/writer/ropen.do?rid=xmy6uee2106fbacd545978b48f5d6490642a4#bookmark=http://www.stltoday.com/online/pdf_ce018d0c-5998-11e4-b700-001a4bcf6878.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">At autopsy</span></a> Brown&#8217;s height was 6&#8242; 5&#8243; and his weight was 289 lbs. As previously reported, autopsy results were consistent with witness accounts that Brown reached for Wilson&#8217;s gun during their fateful altercation.</p>
<p>Grand jurors&#8217; decision about whether Wilson will face criminal charges could be handed down at any time. Some activists are not content to wait. A group called RbG Black Rebels <a href="http://www.westernjournalism.com/ferguson-agitators-put-a-price-on-officer-darren-wilsons-head-as-protestors-prepare-for-war/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">is offering</span></a> a $5,000 reward to anyone who provides the location of Wilson, who has reportedly gone into hiding. Taking a page from Niccolo Machiavelli, the Renaissance era courtier who urged the powerful to kill not only their enemies but also their families of their enemies, the group is also offering $1,000 for information on the whereabouts of Wilson&#8217;s close relatives.</p>
<p>Whenever the grand jury acts, loathsome leftists like Al Sharpton will be there to further stir the pot. Mob rule, that is Marxist mobocracy, is the model of governance preferred by Marxist community organizers like Sharpton and Barack Obama. Civil unrest is an opportunity, not a tragedy. The more bodies, the better.</p>
<p>The FBI&#8217;s expectation of violence shouldn&#8217;t surprise anyone. Radical leftists have long held that terrorizing people leads to change. Violence is part of the Left&#8217;s stratagem for sociopolitical change. Just one tool in the box. As one organizer in Ferguson recently <span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/17/Organizers-Train-Newly-Minted-Protesters-in-St-Louis">said</a></span>, &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to get change in this society unless white people are just a little bit afraid.&#8221;</p>
<p>The organizer is echoing the words of the late neo-communist activist Richard Cloward. As I explained in my book, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><i>Subversion Inc.</i></span></a>, Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven devised a strategy to force change by flooding the nation with welfare recipients.</p>
<p>Cloward wanted the poor to rise up violently against The System. Poor people would benefit more than other groups &#8220;from a major upheaval in our society,&#8221; he said. The poor only make progress &#8220;when the rest of society is afraid of them.&#8221;</p>
<p>As tensions rise in Ferguson and other cities across America in anticipation of the grand jury announcement, the FBI reportedly issued an intelligence bulletin to law enforcement agencies all over the country. The FBI is warning that extremist protesters &#8220;will likely&#8221; threaten and possibly attack police officers or federal agents.</p>
<p>Electrical or water treatment facilities could be targeted and &#8220;hacktivists&#8221; like the group Anonymous could carry out cyber-attacks against authorities, ABC News reports.</p>
<p>&#8220;The announcement of the grand jury&#8217;s decision &#8230; will likely be exploited by some individuals to justify threats and attacks against law enforcement and critical infrastructure,&#8221; the FBI stated in the recent memo. &#8220;This also poses a threat to those civilians engaged in lawful or otherwise constitutionally protected activities.&#8221;</p>
<p>The FBI said it believes &#8220;those infiltrating and exploiting otherwise legitimate public demonstrations with the intent to incite and engage in violence could be armed with bladed weapons or firearms, equipped with tactical gear/gas masks, or bulletproof vests to mitigate law enforcement measures.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course the use of the verb <i>infiltrating</i> is curious. These people won&#8217;t be hijacking the protests, as the FBI implies. They already run the show.</p>
<p>The union goons, Afrocentrist militants, open-borders advocates, leftover ACORN activists, and Occupy Wall Street thugs are all allies of President Obama and they are already on the ground in Ferguson, as they have been for months. Their violent so-called protests which involve Molotov cocktails and urine are no more legitimate in our constitutional republic than assassinations, thuggery, and bribes.</p>
<p>These terrorists want roughly the same things that Obama wants. It is an open question whether the terrorists in question are pro-Obama or perhaps to the political left of Obama, which is possible but hard to conceptualize given Obama&#8217;s radicalism.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a statewide state of emergency yesterday and activated his state&#8217;s National Guard in anticipation of civil disorder following the grand jury&#8217;s decision in the Darren Wilson case. &#8220;Regardless of the outcomes of the federal and state criminal investigations, there is the possibility of expanded unrest,&#8221; Nixon states in Executive Order 14-14.</p>
<p>While some may applaud Nixon for being proactive, it is important to recall that he is responsible, at least in part, for any unrest that follows because he has engaged in race-baiting and has pandered to the mob that is now screaming for Wilson&#8217;s blood.</p>
<p>And let there be no doubt which side the Obama administration is on: rampant chaos, civil unrest, and bloodshed. The Obama administration&#8217;s disingenuous disavowals of violence don&#8217;t persuade anyone: Obama and his radical colleagues want Ferguson to burn for political reasons. The White House doesn&#8217;t give a fig about the outside agitators who have been streaming in to the St. Louis area from Chicagoland and beyond. They are the president&#8217;s comrades-in-arms.</p>
<p>If Obama weren&#8217;t in the Oval Office, he himself would be in the streets of Ferguson right now doing everything in his power to polarize and demonize Darren Wilson and maximize criminal anarchy.</p>
<p>Remember that Obama&#8217;s Attorney General, Eric Holder, sent scores of FBI agents to desperately scour Ferguson for non-existent proof of racial animus by local police. He also sent in the Saul Alinsky Division of the DoJ, the Community Relations Service (CRS), to help disturb the peace. Under Holder, CRS mediators are community organizers paid by taxpayers to facilitate civil unrest.</p>
<p>As Alinsky wrote in <i>Rules for Radicals</i>, a community organizer must stir up disorder. The organizer’s first job is “community disorganization” by manufacturing crises in order to inflame the community. The organizer must “create the issues or problems,” which is exactly what the Obama administration and allies like Al Sharpton have done in Ferguson in the complete absence of evidence that Michael Brown suffered an injustice at the hands of local police.</p>
<p>A community organizer must “rub raw the resentments of the people of the community,” Alinsky wrote, and “fan the latent hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression.” <i>Overt expression</i>, of course, is leftist-speak for politically motivated violence.</p>
<p>The organizer must “agitate to the point of conflict” because without friction and controversy “people are not concerned enough to act,” Alinsky wrote. Having harangued the community out of its feelings of complacency, the organizer then directs its rage at specific targets and scapegoats, providing “a channel into which the people can angrily pour their frustrations.”</p>
<p>Even now Holder is trying to ramp up tensions in the black community. Nothing else can explain his outrageous, downright kooky comparison of would-be cop killer Michael Brown to lynching victim Emmett Till.</p>
<p>Till was brutally tortured and murdered on Aug. 24, 1955 in Money, Miss. He reportedly flirted with a white woman in a grocery store. Four days later two white men abducted him, beat him, gouged out an eye, shot him in the head, and dumped his weighted-down body in a river. In a shameful miscarriage of justice, an all-white jury acquitted Till&#8217;s killers who later admitted their guilt to <i>Look</i> magazine, knowing that the double jeopardy rule precluded a second prosecution for their crimes.</p>
<p>Although Holder <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/remarks-attorney-general-eric-h-holder-jr-emmett-till-tree-planting-ceremony-us-capitol"><span style="color: #0433ff;">didn&#8217;t mention</span></a> Brown or Ferguson in his prepared remarks yesterday at a tree planting ceremony commemorating Emmett Till, he worked Ferguson in during remarks to MSNBC, echoing his infamous accusation that America is &#8220;a nation of cowards&#8221; on the topic of race.</p>
<p>&#8220;The struggle goes on and it&#8217;s not only Ferguson,&#8221; Holder <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/holder-on-ferguson-the-struggle-goes-on-359945283533"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told</span></a> the barely watched cable TV network. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>There are other communities around our country where we are dealing with relationships that are not what they should be, be they officials in their communities that they are supposed to serve. Or really on a more personal level there is an enduring legacy that Emmett Till has left with us that we have to still confront as a nation.</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder won&#8217;t admit that Brown was a vicious 18-year-old thug because his ugly ideology will not allow it. Brown was a victimizer and Till was a victim. Just about the only thing Till and Brown have in common is that they are both dead.</p>
<p>Holder&#8217;s bizarre analogy brings into clearer focus why the Department of Justice <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/07/doj-invites-cop-hating-pro-hamas-protester-to-police-reform-meeting-in-ferguson-video/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">invited</span></a> a deranged 27-year-old Islamist named Bassem Masri to share his thoughts on police reform in light of events in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Masri calls police &#8220;pigs,&#8221; supports the terrorist group Hamas, and said he hoped the recently deceased comedian Joan Rivers would &#8220;burn in hell&#8221; for siding with Israel in its ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.</p>
<p>During protests in Ferguson, Masri aggressively needled police officers. After VonDerrit Myers, another black teenage male, was shot Oct. 8 by a local cop, Masri baited officers. &#8220;Get the f*** out of here with your coward ass boys! Your life is in danger, homie, you gotta go,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m praying for your death, and your death and your death,&#8221; Masri told individual officers.</p>
<p>In another cop-baiting episode, Masri compared police to the murderous Islamic State (ISIS). &#8220;I see ISIS in front of me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Hamas? They&#8217;re real men. You go stand with Hamas and see if you&#8217;re going to stand a day.&#8221;</p>
<p>Masri was in the news when he shut down a live CNN broadcast in Ferguson on Oct. 20. &#8220;You&#8217;re all run by Zionists,&#8221; Masri shouted at a CNN correspondent. &#8220;They&#8217;re all run by Israel, so they&#8217;ve all got to go,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>Masri is Eric Holder&#8217;s idea of a model citizen. He&#8217;s the kind of person Obama and friends want to be a vital part of the democratic process &#8212; whether he votes or not.</p>
<p>Ferguson, St. Louis, and other cities across the country could soon be at the mercy of an army of unbalanced extremists like Bassem Masri. That&#8217;s exactly what the Obama administration wants to happen.</p>
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		<title>Washington Braces for Amnesty</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245357" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G-450x340.jpg" alt="pic_giant_111014_SM_Barack-Obama-G" width="377" height="285" /></a>Republicans in Congress are struggling to put together a strategy to combat President Obama&#8217;s expected unilateral immigration amnesty as the administration moves closer to pulling the amnesty trigger by year&#8217;s end.</p>
<p>Their deliberations came as Vice President Joe Biden <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/11/15/readout-vice-presidents-central-america-events-today"><span style="color: #0433ff;">met</span></a> Saturday with Guatemalan President Otto Perez Molina, Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, and Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren. One of the topics was how to facilitate even more immigration from those poor Third World countries to the United States.</p>
<p>Biden said next month the U.S. would create what the White House called &#8220;an in-country refugee/parole program in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, to allow certain parents who are lawfully present in the United States to request access to the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program for their children still in one of these three countries.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although fighting President Obama&#8217;s unprecedented threatened power grab by allowing a shutdown of the federal government is a possibility, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/16/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSKCN0J00U320141116"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Republican lawmakers acknowledge</span></a> they haven&#8217;t warmed to the idea.</p>
<p>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t solve the problem,&#8221; Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, said on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;But look, we&#8217;re having those discussions&#8230; We&#8217;re going to continue to meet about this. I know the House leaders are talking about, the Senate leaders are talking about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Republicans are looking at different options about how best to respond to the president&#8217;s unilateral action, which many people believe is unconstitutional, unlawful action on this particular issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>On ABC&#8217;s &#8220;This Week&#8221; House Deputy Majority Whip Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was cool to the idea of a shutdown. &#8220;I think the president wants a fight. I think he’s actually trying to bait us into doing some of these extreme things that have been suggested. I don’t think we will.&#8221;</p>
<p>U.S. Rep. Bill Flores (R-Texas) is opposed to a shutdown. &#8220;There’s a wide diversity of thought as to how effective that would be,&#8221; he said. A shutdown &#8220;is not a good solution.&#8221;</p>
<p>One of the less appealing suggestions is to sue Obama. There is a huge problem with legal standing and is it by definition an abdication of the constitutionally-stipulated power of the purse held by Congress. Lawmakers don&#8217;t have to go to court to stop Obama.</p>
<p>Many House conservatives <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/14/us-usa-immigration-republicans-idUSKCN0IY2H320141114"><span style="color: #0433ff;">want Congress to ban</span></a> the funding needed to implement Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty. Others would attempt to keep the agencies implementing the amnesty on a short leash by appropriating funding for them on a short-term basis, theoretically allowing them to withhold immigration funds without shutting down the government.</p>
<p>&#8220;The power of the purse is what&#8217;s given to the House,&#8221; said Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.). &#8220;That’s the check that we have against the White House. To the extent that that&#8217;s the lever we have, that&#8217;s the lever we&#8217;ll use.&#8221;</p>
<p>Most elected Republicans still seem blissfully unaware that the the last shutdown in October 2013 was an unmitigated public relations success for Republicans even though it might not have felt that way at the time. Setting aside the relentless media propaganda that falsely painted the shutdown as a massive Democratic tactical victory, the episode sent the unmistakable message that GOPers were champions of freedom of choice in health care.</p>
<p>The shutdown boosted GOP public approval numbers all the way through the election this month, helped to revive the fight against Obamacare as millions of Americans were having their health insurance policies abruptly canceled, and helped to set the stage for the Republicans&#8217; historic trouncing of the Democrats in congressional elections. The shutdown was an extended, cost-free infomercial for the GOP that reminded Americans that Republicans were on their side on an issue that mattered to them. In other words, it derailed what had seemed like an unstoppable leftist narrative that the always-unpopular Obamacare was a done deal and that resistance to it was futile.</p>
<p>Those gun-shy Republicans who oppose a government shutdown at all costs are never quite able to explain why, if the shutdown was so bad for the GOP, Republicans are now on the march.</p>
<p>On Nov. 4 the GOP flipped control of the 100-seat U.S. Senate, winning at least 53 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 244 out of 435 seats. In the new year Republicans will control at least 31 state governors&#8217; mansions and at least 68 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber). In at least 23 states Republicans will control the governorship and both houses of the state legislature. Democrats can make the same claim about only 7 states.</p>
<p>Republican leaders have been talking out of both sides of their mouths on the amnesty issue for months.</p>
<p>Acting unilaterally on immigration would be &#8220;a big mistake&#8221; akin to &#8220;waving a red flag in front of a bull,&#8221; McConnell said. Such action &#8220;poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>But McConnell also said he&#8217;s not willing to use Congress&#8217;s spending power to stop amnesty. Right after the election he seemed adamant that he would not abide a  government shutdown.</p>
<p>House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), whose speakership is likely to be challenged by conservative lawmakers in January, also said unilateral action would &#8220;poison the well.&#8221; Boehner warned Obama, &#8220;when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he&#8217;s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.</p>
<p>On the weekend Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/224304-dhs-chief-obama-immigration-order-in-final-stages"><span style="color: #0433ff;">confirmed</span></a> that planning for Obama&#8217;s executive amnesty, along with other changes to the immigration system, is almost complete.</p>
<p>&#8220;We’re in the final stages of developing some executive actions,&#8221; Johnson said. &#8220;We have a broken immigration system. The more I delve into it, the more problems I see.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, it is a leftist lie to say that the immigration system is <i>broken</i>. When progressives say the system is broken, they mean it is functioning in a less than optimal manner, failing to capture every single prospective illegal alien welfare case available to wade across the Rio Grande or walk across the nation&#8217;s largely undefended border with Mexico. To them, immigration policy is a taxpayer-subsidized get-out-the-vote scheme for Democrats and the best reform they could imagine would be to abolish America&#8217;s borders altogether.</p>
<p>The system is doing what it was designed to do: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society. The radicals’ goal today is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it was in the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded leftist reforms of that era’s immigration laws through Congress.</p>
<p>The current immigration system is congested, overwhelmed, and under attack by the sheer volume of illegal aliens that Democratic policies have been bringing to the U.S. The problem isn&#8217;t so much the legal regime governing immigration but the years of non-enforcement at the border, coupled with Obama&#8217;s brazen attempts to recruit illegals from Latin America, luring them with promises of government largesse such as food stamps.</p>
<p>Most analysts haven&#8217;t noted that if Obama acts unilaterally on immigration, he is likely to do long-term damage to the electoral prospects of the Democratic Party. The voters of Oregon, a longtime Democrat stronghold, <a href="http://apnews.myway.com/article/20141116/us-immigration-oregon-3fe495c4ab.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">delivered a stark warning</span></a> on illegal immigration to the president&#8217;s party in the election a fortnight ago.</p>
<p>Even as Oregonians easily approved Measure 91, a ballot proposition legalizing possession, cultivation, and recreational use of marijuana, and added to Democrat majorities at the state level, they overwhelmingly rejected Measure 88 which would have sustained a state law giving driver&#8217;s licenses to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>The vote to legalize pot was 55.6 percent in favor to 44.4 percent against but the vote to overturn the statute providing driver&#8217;s licenses was a lopsided 66.4 percent to repeal compared to just 33.6 percent to uphold the law. The statute was approved last year without much opposition by state lawmakers and signed into law by Gov. John Kitzhaber, a Democrat.</p>
<p>As of a month ago, the illegal alien lobby <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Voters-61-in-Progressive-Libertarian-Oregon-Likely-to-Reject-Driver-s-Licenses-for-Illegals"><span style="color: #0433ff;">had outspent</span></a> the other side by a 10-to-1 margin.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was really the epitome of a grassroots effort,&#8221; Cynthia Kendoll, an activist for the successful &#8220;No&#8221; side told reporters. &#8220;There&#8217;s such a disconnect between what people really want and what&#8217;s happening.&#8221;</p>
<p>Mark Krikorian of the respected nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the thumping voters gave Measure 88 was proof that the groups supporting endless accommodations for the illegal aliens invading this country are hopelessly out of touch. &#8220;It really highlights how this issue is not a Republican-liberal issue like, say, taxes and abortion, but an up-down issue, elites versus the public.&#8221;</p>
<p>As if on cue, left-wing elitist Marshall Fitz of the Center for American Progress (CAP), dropped by to smear those who voted against Measure 88 as racist, monobrowed, dimwits.</p>
<p>&#8220;Is there an instinct toward security, hunkering down and against welcoming the other?&#8221; Fitz said. &#8220;That&#8217;s part of human nature. But that doesn&#8217;t mean instincts can&#8217;t be overcome by reason.&#8221;</p>
<p>Decent, patriotic Americans are infuriated by the kind of smugness and condescension exuded by open-borders radicals like Fitz and Obama who glibly equate opposition to illegal immigration to xenophobia and racism. They are intensely angered when they are told by the leftists of the media day in and day out that if you support enforcement of immigration laws you&#8217;re a bad person. The accusation grates because Americans are among the most tolerant and generous in the world, and beyond any doubt the most accepting of immigrants.</p>
<p>People like Fitz and his former boss CAP founder John Podesta, who is now a senior advisor in the Obama White House, seem unable to fathom just how disgusted law-abiding Americans, including legal U.S. immigrants, are by illegal immigration and the coddling and granting of special privileges to illegals.</p>
<p>The issue of illegal immigration isn&#8217;t a powder keg ready to blow both major political parties to bits. It&#8217;s more like a stage coach in an old Western movie loaded with liquid nitroglycerin. One bad bump on the road and &#8212; <i>kaboom</i>! &#8212; those guiding it across the frontier are vaporized. Obama&#8217;s hugely unpopular executive amnesty threatens to render Democrats a spent force for decades. Whether Republicans will be smart enough to stay clear of the Obama-created debacle-in-waiting remains to be seen.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245174" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap-450x337.jpg" alt="ferguson-palestine-occupation-ap" width="336" height="252" /></a>The same violent protesters in Ferguson, Missouri demonstrating against the killing of Michael Brown have also been taking it to the streets in Detroit and elsewhere to press for the release of a Palestinian terrorist who killed two Israelis.</p>
<p>Activists are blackmailing the grand jury that is now hearing evidence against Wilson. If the grand jurors refuse to indict Wilson, radical activists are promising even more mayhem. The message is unmistakable: indict the cop, and there will be peace; don&#8217;t, and Ferguson will burn.</p>
<p>Brown is the young, black, 6&#8217;4&#8243;, 292-pound man who was killed by white police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. When media outlets describe Brown they usually omit the fact that he viciously assaulted Wilson and tried to seize his handgun, presumably in an effort to do the officer harm. Journalists also tend to downplay the fact that minutes before Brown attacked Wilson he robbed a convenience store.</p>
<p>The Palestinian terrorist is Rasmea (also spelled Rasmieh) Odeh who was convicted by a Detroit jury on Monday of immigration fraud. Prosecutors accused Odeh of killing Israelis in the Sixties and then lying about it in U.S. immigration papers.</p>
<p>Odeh <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/case/652"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was previously convicted</span></a> in Israel &#8220;for her role in the 1969 bombings of a supermarket and the British Consulate in Jerusalem, which were carried out on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a designated terrorist organization,&#8221; according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism. Prosecutors said one of the supermarket bombs killed two people and injured others. Odeh received a sentence of life imprisonment but was released after 10 years as part of a prisoner swap.</p>
<p>Odeh used to live in Michigan and resided in Chicago until her bail was revoked Monday. In Chicago she was employed as associate director of the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6462"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Arab American Action Network</span></a> (AAAN), which was founded by terrorist promoter Rashid Khalidi and his wife, Mona. Khalidi, a Columbia University professor and former director of the PLO&#8217;s press agency, is a well-known friend of Barack Obama. AAAN, which is hostile to Israel, claims &#8220;to challenge government policies that violate the civil, political and human rights of the Arab American and Arab immigrant community.&#8221;</p>
<p>The seditious collaboration in Ferguson between anti-American left-wingers, some of whom are well-funded, and anti-American Islamofascists isn&#8217;t all that unusual in U.S. politics but it receives scant attention from the media.</p>
<p>Leftist and Islamist groups routinely work together in the U.S. Not many on the activist Left are wary of their comrades&#8217; working relationship with Muslim totalitarians who would joyfully slit their atheist, infidel throats upon coming to power. One such leftist, Meredith Tax, <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2013/matthew-vadum/a-leftists-harsh-words-for-the-unholy-alliance/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">acknowledged</span></a> in a book last year that aligning with Islamic fundamentalists was a terrible idea.</p>
<p>But Tax is a very rare bird. Most leftists see America&#8217;s enemies as their natural allies, so when an opportunity for a working partnership arises they seize it with gusto. As they see things, whatever it takes to advance so-called social justice is justified.</p>
<p>As a Sixties radical once wrote, &#8220;The issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, whatever the cause, whether inner city blacks or illegal aliens or women, it is merely a pretext for action. It is an opportunity to advance the real cause which is the accumulation of the power needed to foment and effectuate revolutionary change.</p>
<p>Rana Baker, a writer at Electronic Intifada, <a href="http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/rana-baker/palestinians-express-solidarity-people-ferguson-mike-brown-statement"><span style="color: #0433ff;">explained</span></a> the Marxist, identity politics-driven rationale for this cooperation between American leftists and Islamic supremacists in Ferguson. In an article filled with politically correct drivel she wrote:</p>
<blockquote><p>Unsurprisingly, many of the police deployed to crush unarmed protesters demanding justice for the brutal murder of eighteen-year-old black American Mike Brown are Israel-trained. Despotic tactics Palestinians largely associate with Israel’s colonial military, such as teargassing protesters and harassing journalists, have all been implemented in Ferguson. Although Ferguson and Palestine are two different contexts, both places and their people are fighting against white supremacist regimes of oppression which continue to view them as &#8220;disposable others&#8221; and act accordingly &#8230; it is the moral responsibility of every Palestinian to support and foster relations with the struggles of the oppressed all over the world.</p></blockquote>
<p>No one who follows the Left should be shocked to learn that Ferguson has been dominated by rent-a-mobs in recent weeks, complete with leftist astroturfers determined to stir the pot.</p>
<p>Groups endorsing Ferguson October, last month&#8217;s festival of leftist looting and self-righteous posturing in the beleaguered St. Louis suburb, included a hodgepodge of activist organizations &#8211;many of them Saul Alinsky-inspired pressure groups &#8212; that have little or nothing to do with Ferguson, Michael Brown, or Darren Wilson. The only thing these labor movement and Occupy Wall Street activists had in common was that they were left-wing.</p>
<p>Among them were: Action for the Common Good; Advancement Project; Alliance for a Just Society; Amnesty International; CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities (Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence); ColorOfChange.org; Catholic Worker; Chinese Progressive Association; Coalition of Black Trade Unionists; Code Pink; Divestment Student Network; Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation; Fighting Against Natural Gas (FANG); Gamaliel Foundation; International Socialist Organization (ISO); Juvenile Urban Multicultural Program (at Syracuse University); Korean American Resource &amp; Cultural Center; LeftRoots; Million Hoodies Movement for Justice; National Domestic Workers Alliance; National Network for Arab American Communities; National Organization for Women (NOW); New Black Panther Party; New Economy Coalition; PICO National Network; Progressive Democrats of America; Sierra Student Coalition (a project of the Sierra Club); St. Louis Palestine Solidarity Committee; Universal African Peoples Organization; United for Peace and Justice; US Action; US Palestinian Community Network; Veterans for Peace; and Working Families Party.</p>
<p>Many of these groups <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1237"><span style="color: #0433ff;">have taken money</span></a> from radical billionaire George Soros. Those on his payroll include Advancement Project, Gamaliel Foundation, NOW, and US Action.</p>
<p>Lee Cary has also <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/11/behind_the_dont_shoot_coalition_in_ferguson_.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">painstakingly detailed</span></a> at American Thinker the 45 organizations that are now placing demands on police agencies in the St. Louis area. The groups, which are part of the Don&#8217;t Shoot Coalition, are <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/11/ferguson-protestors-deliver-rules-of-engagement-to-police/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">attempting to define</span></a> the rules of engagement between law enforcement and activists to make it easier for radicals to set Ferguson on fire in the event Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p>Remnants of the ACORN activist empire are involved in organizing unrest in Ferguson.</p>
<p>Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (<a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">MORE</span></a>), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit, is the rebranded Missouri branch of the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010. That ACORN state chapter reconstituted itself in December 2009 as MORE under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters. President Obama used to work for ACORN and he represented it in court as a lawyer.</p>
<p>MORE <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/10/is_acorn_behind_violent_unrest_in_ferguson.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">has been active</span></a> in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest. MORE believes that protesters should be given a blank check to inflict whatever harm they wish on the community in pursuit of social justice.</p>
<p>MORE is also a recipient of taxpayer funding &#8212; and to no one&#8217;s surprise &#8212; it is not a good steward of those dollars. MORE received $21,000 for its &#8220;foreclosure prevention&#8221; efforts but &#8220;did not fully comply&#8221; with the rules, according to the St. Louis city comptroller&#8217;s &#8220;fiscal monitoring review&#8221; <a href="https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/comptroller/documents/audits/upload/3586_001.pdf"><span style="color: #0433ff;">released</span></a> a few days before Brown was shot.</p>
<p>MORE&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-ordower/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Jeff Ordower</span></a>. Ordower, an outspoken vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN and oversaw ACORN&#8217;s Midwest operations. He was also an SEIU organizer in Texas.</p>
<p>The Working Families Party, founded in New York State in the 1990s by ACORN members, is also involved in Ferguson. It endorsed Ferguson October but the extent of its on-the-ground involvement was unclear at time of writing.</p>
<p><span style="color: #222222;">All these superficially distinct groups have come together in Ferguson to pay homage to violent criminals &#8211;a murderer of Israelis and a would-be murderer of a police officer&#8211; for two reasons.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">First, because Rasmea Odeh and Michael Brown are model citizens, according to the leftist worldview. Radical activists see them and their disruptive, antisocial behavior as representing the best that humanity has to offer.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">Second, because banding together and pooling their power to disrupt society helps to create strife and chaos. The subsequent crises can be leveraged to promote the kinds of change that leftists would like to see.</span><br style="color: #222222;" /><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="color: #222222;">As the old radical said, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.</span></p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Amnesty By Blackmail</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president embraces the "by any means necessary" strategy for his radical agenda. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obamapng.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244794" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Obamapng-450x337.png" alt="Obamapng" width="373" height="279" /></a>Ignoring voters&#8217; historic coast-to-coast repudiation of his disastrous policies this week, President Obama is now threatening to move forward unilaterally with a massive immigration amnesty by the end of the year.</p>
<p>At his first post-election press conference Wednesday, instead of embracing conciliation as a responsible adult might do, Obama, the petulant Chicagoland thug, pulled a switchblade. Obama tried to blackmail newly emboldened congressional Republicans, vowing to enact amnesty through executive fiat if Congress doesn&#8217;t play ball.</p>
<p>Republicans&#8217; newly won control of the Senate and enhanced majority in the House of Representatives means the Republicans who just gave Obama&#8217;s Democratic allies a savage electoral beat-down are now in a better position to give Obama the unprecedented immigration amnesty he wants. As the president said,</p>
<blockquote><p>So before the end of the year, we&#8217;re going to take whatever lawful actions that I can take that I believe will improve the functioning of our immigration system &#8230; at the same time, I’ll be reaching out to both [incoming Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell, [House Speaker] John Boehner, and other Republican as well as Democratic leaders to find out how it is that they want to proceed. And if they want to get a bill done &#8212; whether it’s during the [approaching] lame duck [session of Congress] or next year &#8212; I&#8217;m eager to see what they have to offer.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although McConnell and Boehner have been all over the map on immigration amnesty in recent months, since the election they have said they will not be pushed around by the president on the issue of amnesty.</p>
<p>Acting unilaterally on immigration would be &#8220;a big mistake&#8221; akin to &#8220;waving a red flag in front of a bull,&#8221; McConnell said. Such action &#8220;poisons the well for an opportunity to address a very important domestic issue.&#8221;</p>
<p>Boehner also said unilateral action would &#8220;poison the well.&#8221; The House Speaker warned Obama, &#8220;when you play with matches, then you take the risk of burning yourself, and he&#8217;s going to burn himself if he continues to go down this path.&#8221;</p>
<p>Contrary to what Obama said, there are virtually no lawful actions Obama can take on amnesty, but the president has always viewed laws as speed bumps on the road to social justice. The wily former part-time adjunct constitutional law lecturer promised to ignore the separation of powers prescribed by the U.S. Constitution and implement Third World-style government-by-decree. He said:</p>
<blockquote><p>But what I’m not going to do is just wait. I think it’s fair to say that I’ve shown a lot of patience and have tried to work on a bipartisan basis as much as possible, and I’m going to keep on doing so. But in the meantime, let’s figure out what we can do lawfully through executive actions to improve the functioning of the existing system.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama, a master of rhetorical tricks, hasn&#8217;t actually been patient. He already illegally granted an amnesty benefiting certain categories of illegal aliens. A recently uncovered government procurement order suggests his administration may be planning to issue 34 million work visas and green cards without the required legal authorization from Americans&#8217; elected representatives in Congress.</p>
<p>As for reaching out to the GOP, Obama is lying as usual. He has no interest in working with congressional Republicans. He has only slightly more interest in working with congressional Democrats. He&#8217;s a megalomaniacal, authoritarian leader who is only comfortable when he&#8217;s calling the shots.</p>
<p>Reporter Jon Karl embarrassed Obama during the presser by pointing out that &#8220;Mitch McConnell has been the Republican Leader for six years, as long as you’ve been President.&#8221; Karl continued, &#8220;But his office tells me that he has only met with you one-on-one once or twice during that entire six-year period.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama didn&#8217;t acknowledge that fact and awkwardly segued into a discussion of sharing some Kentucky bourbon with Sen. McConnell even though he admitted he didn&#8217;t know if McConnell drinks bourbon.</p>
<p>Parts of Obama&#8217;s strange prepared statement were laced with practiced platitudes as the nation&#8217;s Chief Executive dismissed the election results as irrelevant:</p>
<blockquote><p>Still, as president, I have a unique responsibility to try and make this town work. So, to everyone who voted, I want you to know that I hear you. To the two-thirds of voters who chose not to participate in the process yesterday, I hear you, too. All of us have to give more Americans a reason to feel like the ground is stable beneath their feet, that the future is secure, that there’s a path for young people to succeed, and that folks here in Washington are concerned about them. So I plan on spending every moment of the next two-plus years doing my job the best I can to keep this country safe and to make sure that more Americans share in its prosperity.</p></blockquote>
<p>Of course people who do not vote can&#8217;t actually be called &#8220;voters,&#8221; but thinking has never been the strong suit of this man who thinks &#8220;Austrian&#8221; is a language and who celebrates &#8220;Cinco de Quatro.&#8221; In Obama&#8217;s disordered mind he didn&#8217;t really lose, even though he proudly boasted mere weeks ago that the election would be seen as a referendum on his administration. “I’m not on the ballot this fall &#8230; but make no mistake, these policies [of mine] are on the ballot — every single one of them,” he said on the campaign trail.</p>
<p>Obama doesn&#8217;t seem to accept the new Republican majorities in both houses of Congress as politically legitimate, as J. Christian Adams <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/11/06/decoding-the-president-listening-to-two-thirds-who-didnt-vote/">argues</a>. This contempt for Americans who don&#8217;t toe the leftist line is part of the Left&#8217;s deep-seated hatred of the American system of governance. Adams explains:</p>
<blockquote><p>It is a favorite fable among far-left groups like the Advancement Project and Demos that more voters is always good and fewer voters is always bad. They firmly believe that the path to a progressive policy wonderland is to get everyone with a heartbeat to vote.  This is part of an even older fable that the &#8216;system&#8217; robs the underclass of power through laws, rules, racist constructs and oppressive societal structures – like having to make the effort to register to vote, for example.</p></blockquote>
<p>It&#8217;s all the usual blatherskite we&#8217;ve come to expect from Saul Alinsky-inspired community organizers. If they win, they shout to the heavens that they&#8217;ve secured a thunderous mandate from We The People; if they don&#8217;t win, they try to discredit the results.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s quite a contrast from the way Obama acts when his side wins.</p>
<p>Days after Obama&#8217;s first inauguration he brazenly flaunted his new political legitimacy in a closed-door meeting with congressional leaders. Republicans would have to do his bidding because, as he baldly stated, &#8220;I won.&#8221;</p>
<p>Republicans still have to submit to the Dear Leader because he claims to have a mandate from the whole of the American people.</p>
<p>As his approval ratings continue to plummet Obama seems oblivious to the contempt that normal, patriotic Americans feel for him as they lose their jobs and their health care because of his socialist meddling. And he cannot seem to fathom the brutal, historic thrashing his party received in congressional elections on Tuesday.</p>
<p>On Tuesday the GOP flipped control of the Senate, winning at least 52 seats as of this writing. The House GOP increased its majority, winning at least 242 seats. Republicans captured governors&#8217; mansions in &#8211;of all places&#8211; Democrat-dominated Massachusetts, Illinois, and Maryland, and will control at least 66 of the 99 state legislative chambers across the country (Nebraska&#8217;s legislature has only one chamber).</p>
<p>Meanwhile, President Obama is scheduled to meet today at the White House with congressional leaders to discuss legislative matters, including amnesty.</p>
<p>But if Obama really believes he has the power to enact an amnesty by presidential decree, why bother having such a meeting? The president&#8217;s phone and pen ought to suffice to rewrite immigration laws.</p>
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		<title>Republicans Conquer the Senate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2014 05:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But will they stand up to President Obama? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/r.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244588" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/r-450x282.jpg" alt="U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell waves to supporters with his wife Elaine Chao at his midterm election night rally in Louisville" width="348" height="218" /></a>Republicans wrested control of the U.S. Senate from Democrats last night, setting the stage for potentially dramatic legislative showdowns with President Obama during the final two years of his already-catastrophic presidency.</p>
<p>After a GOP electoral wave wiped out several Democratic senators who supported Obamacare, around 11:15 p.m. Eastern time major media outlets projected Republicans would hold at least 51 seats in the Senate in January. In the approaching 114th Congress both chambers will be under GOP control and in a position to hinder Obama&#8217;s agenda if lawmakers so choose. It also clears the way for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to become the Senate&#8217;s first Republican majority leader since Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) left the post at the beginning of 2007.</p>
<p>The first big confrontation between Obama and Congress, a massively unpopular immigration amnesty that could trigger a major constitutional crisis, is already on its way. Several hours before the first polls closed in the East, ABC News reported that White House officials said the president would move forward with an executive order on immigration reform “no matter how big a shellacking Democrats&#8221; got Tuesday.</p>
<p>And what a shellacking Democrats received.</p>
<p>In Arkansas challenger Tom Cotton (R) picked off incumbent Mark Pryor (D). In Colorado Cory Gardner (R) defeated incumbent Mark Udall (D).</p>
<p>In Georgia, David Perdue (R) dispatched Michelle Nunn (D). Perdue garnered more than 50 percent of the vote, thereby avoiding a runoff election. The seat is currently held by retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R).</p>
<p>In Iowa Joni Ernst (R) triumphed over Bruce Braley (D), a sitting congressman. The seat is now held by retiring Sen. Tom Harkin (D). In Kansas, incumbent Pat Roberts (R) beat back a fierce challenge from Greg Orman, an Independent with close ties to Democrats.</p>
<p>In the Bluegrass State, incumbent Mitch McConnell (R) easily bested challenger Alison Lundergan Grimes (D), Kentucky&#8217;s current secretary of state. Grimes refused in the closing days of the campaign to say if she voted for Obama for president.</p>
<p>In Montana Steve Daines (R) defeated extreme-left candidate Amanda Curtis (D). The seat is now held by John Walsh (D) who was embroiled in a plagiarism scandal.</p>
<p>Incumbent Jeanne Shaheen (D) in New Hampshire fended off a challenge from Scott Brown (R) who represented Massachusetts in the Senate from 2010 to 2013.</p>
<p>North Carolina incumbent Kay Hagan (D) was taken out by Thom Tillis (R). South Carolina&#8217;s Tim Scott (R) triumphed over Joyce Dickerson (D) to become the first popularly elected black senator in the South elected since Reconstruction.</p>
<p>In West Virginia U.S. Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R) beat Natalie Tennant (D) to take the seat of retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D).</p>
<p>Some races were unresolved at press time. Incumbent Mark Warner (D) and Ed Gillespie were separated by only 12,000 votes in Virginia. Results were not yet available in the showdown between Alaska&#8217;s Dan Sullivan (R) and incumbent Mark Begich (D).</p>
<p>In the House, Republicans added to their majority.</p>
<p>In New York&#8217;s 21st district, which borders Vermont to the East and Canada to the North and West, Elisa Stefanik (R) defeated Aaron Woolf (D). At age 30, Stefanik becomes the youngest woman to win a seat in the U.S. House, shattering the previous record set in 1973 by then-31 year old Elizabeth Holtzman, a Democrat, also from New York State.</p>
<p>Despite the larger GOP majority, it is far from certain if John Boehner (R-Ohio) will keep his job as Speaker of the House in January. There was a half-hearted challenge to Boehner&#8217;s leadership in January 2013. Conservative lawmakers are much angrier now after Boehner spent the past two years largely ignoring their concerns, and other candidates for his job may emerge.</p>
<p>Conservatives <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/conservatives-ready-to-torment-gop-leaders-112270.html">have fired</a> early warning shots across the GOP establishment&#8217;s bow. Right-leaning lawmakers intend to press a wish list for the new GOP-controlled Senate after two years of obstruction by outgoing Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.). On the list is Obamacare repeal, border security, work for welfare requirements, and approval of the long-delayed Keystone XL oil pipeline.</p>
<p>Conservatives were enraged when earlier in the election cycle the GOP establishment targeted insurgent, Tea Party-backed conservatives for defeat, throwing the full force of the party apparatus at those who challenged sitting Republican lawmakers. However, not a single Senate challenge to any Republican incumbents succeeded.</p>
<p>Republicans enjoyed great success in governor races across the nation.</p>
<p>There were three shocking upsets. Charlie Baker (R) defeated Martha Coakley (D) in the Massachusetts governor&#8217;s race. In Illinois incumbent Pat Quinn (D) fell to challenger Bruce Rauner (R) and in Maryland Lieutenant Gov. Anthony Brown (D) was taken out by Larry Hogan (R). The current governor of Maryland is term-limited Martin O&#8217;Malley, a Democrat with presidential ambitions.</p>
<p>In Wisconsin incumbent Gov. Scott Walker (R) outlasted challenger Mary Burke (D). In Florida incumbent Gov. Rick Scott (R) thumped former Gov. Charlie Crist (D). In Kansas incumbent Gov. Sam Brownback (R) fended off a strong challenge from Paul Davis (D).</p>
<p>In New Mexico incumbent Gov. Susana Martinez (R), a rising star in the GOP, crushed Gary King (D). In Texas Greg Abbott (R) whooped abortion evangelist Wendy Davis (D).</p>
<p>Colorado incumbent John Hickenlooper (D) was locked in a close contest with Bob Beauprez (R) at press time.</p>
<p>All in all, it was a great night for Republicans, but not necessarily for conservatives.</p>
<p>No one expects Senate Republicans to do much of anything other than to meekly oppose President Obama&#8217;s agenda and pay lip service to repealing Obamacare, a radical left-wing instrument of socioeconomic leveling posing as a health care system.</p>
<p>McConnell, who has been promising for the past two years to repeal Obamacare &#8220;root and branch,&#8221; is signaling resignation. In 2012 McConnell said that Obamacare could be repealed with 51 votes through the budget reconciliation process because it was passed that way. However, last week McConnell said that he will not press for full Obamacare repeal in the incoming Congress. &#8220;It would take 60 votes in the Senate. Nobody thinks we&#8217;re going to have 60 Republicans and it would take a presidential signature. No one thinks we&#8217;re going to get that.&#8221; Instead, he wants to propose votes on the repeal of unpopular parts of the statute &#8220;and see if we can put it on the president’s desk.&#8221;</p>
<p>Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), who easily won reelection yesterday, has warmed up to the proposed so-called DREAM Act which would provide amnesty for young illegal aliens. Last week Cornyn said that illegal immigrant DREAMers who &#8220;are guilty of nothing other than coming with their family&#8221; ought to be allowed to &#8220;serve in the military&#8221; and &#8220;earn American citizenship.&#8221;</p>
<p>Both McConnell and House Speaker Boehner have sent mixed messages on amnesty for illegal aliens even though lawmakers have repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks.</p>
<p>Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus predicted last week that a GOP-controlled Senate would stop Obama&#8217;s &#8220;un-American&#8221; amnesty. &#8220;It&#8217;s unconstitutional, illegal, and we don&#8217;t support it,&#8221; Priebus said.</p>
<p>Obama may not wait for the new Congress to be seated before he takes executive action to deal with the estimated 11 million illegal aliens in the country.</p>
<p>“White House officials are saying that you can expect the president to set an aggressive, and defiant tone [Wednesday],&#8221; ABC&#8217;s Jon Karl reported yesterday. &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to see any mea culpas, no big firings, no change in direction.”</p>
<p>Karl added, “officials tell me the president is prepared to aggressively pursue his agenda using his power of executive authority, where he can&#8217;t work with Congress, and the big one is going to be on immigration reform.&#8221;</p>
<p>A large-scale amnesty would be a profoundly cynical move that would reward lawbreaking and beget future immigration amnesties. It would also spell electoral doom for the Republican Party in coming years because Latinos, who are believed to comprise the bulk of the illegals, have traditionally shown a strong preference for the Democratic Party and its left-of-center public policies.</p>
<p>Whether Republicans will stand up to President Obama is an open question.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2014 04:56:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They likely gave us ObamaCare -- could they give us President Hillary Clinton? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lkj1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243959" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/lkj1-450x230.jpg" alt="lkj" width="297" height="152" /></a>Voting by illegal aliens and other non-citizens is so prevalent throughout the nation that it gave us Obamacare, according to a disturbing new study.</p>
<p>And if illegal voting by non-citizens, who tend to support Democratic Party candidates and who heavily supported President Obama, could tip the scales in the 2008 congressional elections, it can do so again in congressional elections next week and in the presidential contest in 2016. In 2008 one report estimated that as many as 2.7 million non-citizens were registered to vote nationwide.</p>
<p>The academic report, to be published in the December issue of <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379414000973"><i>Electoral Studies</i></a>, continues the ongoing demolition of the Left&#8217;s narrative that voter fraud is a figment of paranoid Republicans&#8217; imagination. Democrats cling religiously to their mantra that voter fraud doesn&#8217;t exist or is of little consequence because they have difficulty competing electorally without vote fraud. Fraud helps Democrats eke out victories in close races, which helps to explain their vehement opposition to commonsense electoral integrity measures like purging dead people from voter rolls or requiring photo ID for voting.</p>
<p>The findings of Jesse Richman and David Earnest, two political science professors at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., confirm that voter fraud is commonplace and widespread, something that honest, as opposed to <i>engaged</i> or <i>left-wing</i>, scholars have known for years.</p>
<p>&#8220;In spite of substantial public controversy, very little reliable data exists concerning the frequency with which non-citizen immigrants participate in United States elections,&#8221; the authors write.</p>
<p>The academics got their data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) which contains what they term a &#8220;large number of observations (32,800 in 2008 and 55,400 in 2010) [that] provide sufficient samples of the non-immigrant sub-population, with 339 non-citizen respondents in 2008 and 489 in 2010.&#8221; Using CCES data from 2008, they tried &#8220;to match respondents to voter files so &#8230; [they] could verify whether they actually voted.&#8221;</p>
<p>Although non-citizen participation &#8220;is a violation of election laws in most parts of the United States, enforcement depends principally on disclosure of citizenship status at the time of voter registration,&#8221; they write. This new study &#8220;examines participation rates by non-citizens using a nationally representative sample that includes non-citizen immigrants,&#8221; a first in voting studies, they claim.</p>
<p>The authors found that non-citizens favor Democratic candidates over Republican candidates and that non-citizen voting probably changed 2008 outcomes including Electoral College votes and the partisan makeup of Congress.</p>
<p>&#8220;We find that some non-citizens participate in U.S. elections, and that this participation has been large enough to change meaningful election outcomes including Electoral College votes, and Congressional elections,&#8221; according to Richman and Earnest.</p>
<p>&#8220;Non-citizen votes likely gave Senate Democrats the pivotal 60th vote needed to overcome filibusters in order to pass health care reform and other Obama administration priorities in the 111th Congress,&#8221; the authors write.</p>
<p>In other words, non-citizen voters likely started America down the path to ruin by providing critical votes in Congress to promote President Obama&#8217;s catastrophic policy agenda.</p>
<p>Although &#8220;[m]ost non-citizens do not register, let alone vote &#8230; enough do that their participation can change the outcome of close races,&#8221; Richman and Earnest wrote in a recent oped in the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2014/10/24/could-non-citizens-decide-the-november-election/"><i>Washington Post</i></a>.</p>
<p>North of 14 percent of non-citizens in both the 2008 and 2010 samples reported being registered to vote. &#8220;Our best guess, based upon extrapolations from the portion of the sample with a verified vote, is that 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in 2008 and 2.2 percent of non-citizens voted in 2010,&#8221; they write.</p>
<p>Non-citizens favored Democrats in 2008 and Obama won upward of 80 percent of the votes of non-citizens in the 2008 CCES sample. The authors write:</p>
<p>&#8220;[W]e find that this participation was large enough to plausibly account for Democratic victories in a few close elections &#8230; Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) won election in 2008 with a victory margin of 312 votes. Votes cast by just 0.65 percent of Minnesota non-citizens could account for this margin. It is also possible that non-citizen votes were responsible for Obama’s 2008 victory in North Carolina. Obama won the state by 14,177 votes, so a turnout by 5.1 percent of North Carolina’s adult non-citizens would have provided this victory margin.&#8221;</p>
<p>The authors&#8217; paper is consistent with other credible reports of non-citizen voting. For example, Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler (R) unveiled a study in 2011 showing that almost 5,000 illegal aliens cast votes in the U.S. Senate election in that state in 2010.</p>
<p>Non-citizen voting, for better or worse, has been part of the American experience for a long time.</p>
<p>In the late 1700s and first half of the 1800s various states allowed non-citizens to vote. In some states individuals who intended to become U.S. citizens were allowed to vote but historically the alien suffrage movement has failed to get much of a foothold. By the mid and late 1800s states had largely outlawed voting by non-citizens. It has long been a crime for non-citizens to vote in national elections.</p>
<p>Non-citizens are allowed to vote in some elections in a handful of jurisdictions across the country. For example, Takoma Park, Md., a Washington, D.C. suburb burdened with an aging hippy population, has allowed non-citizens &#8211;including illegal aliens&#8211; to vote in local elections since 1992. But similar enclaves of Sixties radicals permitting non-citizen voting tend to have small populations and are few and far between.</p>
<p>Some left-wingers say that election fraud is justifiable because in a sense it compensates the poor for having little political power. Radical activists laid the foundation for illegal voting by non-citizens at the beginning of Bill Clinton&#8217;s presidency.</p>
<p>Marxist academics and activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven were the architects of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 which opened the door to an explosion of voter fraud across America. The NVRA, also called the Motor-Voter law, forces states to register to vote anyone applying to renew a driver&#8217;s license or obtain welfare or unemployment compensation benefits. State employees are now forbidden by law from asking would-be registrants for proof of U.S. citizenship.</p>
<p>The NVRA also compelled states to allow mail-in voter registration, which made it easy for left-wing activists to enter false names on the voter rolls without any kind of contact with a government official. States were also under orders not to purge important Democratic constituencies such as the dead and criminals from voter rolls for a minimum of eight years.</p>
<p>It is unclear how much fraud takes place as a result of mail-in voting. Such fraud, which takes place during the registration stage and the voting stage, has barely been examined by scholars.</p>
<p>But the Motor-Voter law, notes journalist John Fund, has &#8220;fueled an explosion of phantom voters.&#8221;</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s exactly what it was intended to do.</p>
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		<title>Obama Prepping Amnesty for 34 Million?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2014 04:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama8.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243483" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/obama8-450x304.jpg" alt="obama8" width="252" height="170" /></a>The Obama administration may be planning to issue 34 million work visas and green cards in coming weeks without the required legal authorization from Americans&#8217; elected representatives in Congress, according to a recently uncovered government procurement order.</p>
<p>If 34 million individuals were amnestied the U.S. population would grow by more than a tenth. The U.S. Census Bureau currently estimates the nation&#8217;s population at a little over 319 million. There is no official count of illegal aliens present in the United States but 11 million is one widely circulated estimate. <a href="http://www.capsweb.org/press-releases/illegal-aliens-estimated-20-38-million">Some studies</a> put the figure as high as 38 million.</p>
<p>The procurement order is a smoking gun suggesting that President Obama intends to plunge the nation into a grave constitutional crisis after Election Day by using executive orders to unilaterally enact an amnesty affecting millions of undocumented aliens now unlawfully present in the United States. The prospective amnesty could also impact aliens who have yet to arrive in the country.</p>
<p>Congress has repeatedly refused to grant the amnesties that Obama seeks, but the president refuses to take no for an answer, pressing on regardless of how much damage he inflicts on the country.</p>
<p>A large-scale amnesty would be a profoundly cynical move that would reward lawbreaking and beget future immigration amnesties. It would also spell electoral death for the Republican Party in coming years because Latinos, who are believed to comprise the bulk of the illegals, have traditionally shown a strong preference for the Democratic Party and its left-of-center public policies.</p>
<p>The amnesty that Obama promised his radical political base had been widely expected to take place after Labor Day last month but in the summer the president took significant political heat over the plan and the still-ongoing invasion of the southern border by illegal aliens &#8211;many of them unaccompanied minors and gang members &#8212; from Central America. Obama then apparently decided to delay the executive action until after next month&#8217;s elections in hopes of not sabotaging Democrats&#8217; efforts to hang onto control of the U.S. Senate.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s scheme came to light when Breitbart News <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/19/Exclusive-Obama-Admin-Quietly-Prepares-Surge-Of-Millions-Of-Immigrant-IDs">uncovered</a> a draft request for proposals that appears to provide broad outlines of the president&#8217;s extra-legal amnesty scheme two weeks before congressional elections that may place both chambers of Congress in the hands of Republicans.</p>
<p>The Oct. 6 procurement document prepared by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) requires that prospective documentation vendors be able to handle a &#8220;surge&#8221; scenario involving 9 million ID cards in a one-year period “to support possible future immigration reform initiative requirements.” This means the USCIS is gearing up to more than double the baseline quantity of green cards and work permits it issues.</p>
<p>USCIS will need at least 4 million cards a year and an extra 5 million cards in 2016 under the &#8220;surge&#8221; scenario. “The guaranteed minimum for each ordering period is 4,000,000 cards,&#8221; according to the document. &#8220;The estimated maximum for the entire contract is 34,000,000 cards.”</p>
<p>USCIS is purchasing materials needed to make Permanent Residency Cards (PRC), also referred to as green cards, as well as Employment Authorization Documentation (EAD) cards that have been issued under Obama&#8217;s legally questionable Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. It is unclear how many of each kind of card USCIS would issue.</p>
<p>Jessica Vaughan of the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies said the USCIS document “seems to indicate that the president is contemplating an enormous executive action that is even more expansive than the plan that Congress rejected in the &#8216;Gang of Eight&#8217; bill.”</p>
<p>&#8220;Even four million combined green cards and EADs is a significant number, let alone the &#8216;surge&#8217; contemplated by USCIS,&#8221; according to the article by investigative reporter Jonathan Strong of Breitbart News. &#8220;For instance, in the first two years after Obama unilaterally enacted DACA, about 600,000 people were approved by USCIS under the program. Statistics provided by USCIS on its website show that the entire agency had processed 862,000 total EADs in 2014 as of June.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/10/20/Obama-Admin-We-May-Need-Millions-Of-Ids-For-Any-Number-Of-Reasons">brushed off</a> the apparent significance of the request for proposals.</p>
<p>“Solicitations of this nature are frequent practice for all USCIS contracts and allow the Agency to be prepared for fluctuations in the number of immigration applications received, which can arise for any number of reasons,” USCIS spokesman Christopher Bentley yawned.</p>
<p>Republicans lawmakers bristled.</p>
<p>Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Alabama), a longtime amnesty opponent, said the request for proposals is a “startling confirmation of the crisis facing our Republic.”</p>
<p>Kevin Smith, an aide to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), who along with the congressional GOP leadership supports some kind of immigration amnesty, said Boehner rejects the Obama plan. “The Speaker has made perfectly clear to the president that it is unacceptable for him to unilaterally re-write immigration law on his own and the Speaker will never support this type of action,” Smith said.</p>
<p>Although amnesty remains deeply unpopular among the American public at large, the activist Left wants the illegal aliens present in the U.S. to be processed because they see them as future Democratic voters. In addition, many labor unions, such as SEIU (which has executives focused solely on immigration issues) see today’s illegals as future union members. Business lobbies favor amnesty because they crave the cheap, largely unskilled labor.</p>
<p>The radicals’ goal is to use immigration to subvert the American system, just as it has been since the 1960s when the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) shepherded reform of that era’s immigration laws through Congress. The concept is simple: Flood America with people who don’t share Americans’ traditional philosophical commitment to the rule of law, limited government, and markets, in order to force changes in society.</p>
<p>President Lyndon Johnson at least allowed the lawmaking process to function, signing the immigration reforms of the day into law after they had worked their way through Congress.</p>
<p>President Obama isn&#8217;t that patient. He doesn&#8217;t care what Congress does. He&#8217;s got a pen and a phone &#8211;and now a request for proposals involving 34 million immigration documents &#8212; with which to fundamentally transform America.</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Deadly Ebola Lies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2014 04:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What drives the falsehoods: Ideology or incompetence?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/457317190.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243262" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/457317190.jpg" alt="US-HEALTH-EBOLA-PROTEST" width="260" height="230" /></a>President Obama&#8217;s lies about the communicability of the truly terrifying Ebola virus are recklessly putting American lives at risk.</p>
<p>And yesterday Obama did the unthinkable: he cancelled a precious campaign fundraiser to address an issue of intense interest to the American people. At a photo-opportunity disguised as an emergency cabinet meeting the president did what he always does: he lied and lied and lied.</p>
<p>&#8220;Here’s what we know about Ebola: That it is not like the flu,&#8221; Obama <a href="http://dcist.com/2014/10/video_president_obama_reminds_every.php">told his groupies</a> in government and the media in reassuring tones.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is not airborne. The only way that a person can contract Ebola is by coming into direct contact with the bodily fluids of somebody who is showing symptoms. In other words, if they don’t have symptoms, they’re not contagious.&#8221;</p>
<p>To demonstrate his fearlessness, Obama bragged about canoodling with health care professionals:</p>
<blockquote><p>I want to use myself as an example just so that people have a sense of the science here. I shook hands with, hugged, and kissed not the doctors, but a couple of the nurses at Emory [University Hospital, where Ebola patients are treated] because of the valiant work that they did in treating one of the patients. They followed the protocols, they knew what they were doing, and I felt perfectly safe doing so. And so this is not a situation in which, like a flu, the risks of a rapid spread of the disease are imminent. If we do these protocols properly, if we follow the steps, if we get the information out, then the likelihood of widespread Ebola outbreaks in this country are very, very low.</p></blockquote>
<p>The White House website <a href="http://m.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/10/15/president-obama-provides-update-our-response-ebola-us">repeats</a> Obama&#8217;s lies: &#8220;You can only get the Ebola virus by direct contact with: Body fluids of a person who is sick with or has died from Ebola; Objects contaminated with the virus; Infected animals.&#8221;</p>
<p>My <a href="http://capitalresearch.org">Capital Research Center</a> co-worker, Dr. Steven J. Allen, happens to be an expert on the Ebola virus and he says Obama is not telling the truth. Allen earned his Ph.D. in biodefense from George Mason University&#8217;s College of Science in 2007.</p>
<p>Although Ebola is indeed spread by means of body fluids there&#8217;s a catch.</p>
<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t how long it can last on surfaces or as droplets in the air so when President Obama said earlier this month you can&#8217;t get it from sitting beside someone on a bus that was a total lie,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;You can get the disease from such a small number of viral particles that logic says you can get it from someone coughing in your vicinity.&#8221;</p>
<p>In other words, Ebola can spread through the air, contrary to Obama&#8217;s remarks. This helps to explain why health care professionals who value their lives wear hazmat suits that look like astronaut gear when dealing with Ebola-infected patients.</p>
<p>Allen offered a brief primer on Ebola. He explained that currently there are five main varieties of the Ebola virus, but not all five can infect humans. &#8220;What used to be called &#8216;Ebola Zaire&#8217; is now just called Ebola,&#8221; he said. &#8220;When Ebola is unqualified it means Ebola Zaire.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ebola causes patients to bleed throughout their bodies, particularly as it attacks organs such as the liver and spleen and causes them to fail. Even if you survive an encounter with Ebola you can still end up with infertility, arthritis, and other problems related to organ failure.</p>
<p>Some Obama critics like Allen characterize the president&#8217;s behavior as examples of incompetence.</p>
<p>&#8220;It is Obama&#8217;s ideology that makes him incompetent,&#8221; Allen said. &#8220;Public health is supposed to be about fighting infectious disease and protecting people from environmental dangers. We have the Environmental Protection Agency to cover the environment and the Centers for Disease Control is supposed to be for infectious disease.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Obama people, continuing a long-developing trend, have reinvented public health to mean control over personal behavior such as what you eat, whether you have guns in the house, whether you drive drunk,&#8221; Allen explained.</p>
<p>&#8220;Some of these concerns may be legitimate but the CDC is supposed to be dealing with infectious disease, not personal behavior. Anything else is mission creep and getting away from protecting us as was intended when the CDC was created.&#8221;</p>
<p>Truth-averse left-wingers have been shrieking for days that Republican lawmakers in Congress are somehow to blame for Obama&#8217;s Ebola outbreak because they supposedly cut its budget. It&#8217;s another lie.</p>
<p>&#8220;At $7 billion, the Centers for Disease Control 2014 budget is nearly 200 percent bigger now than it was in 2000,&#8221; according to investigative journalist Michelle Malkin. &#8220;Those evil, stingy Republicans actually approved CDC funding increases in January larger than what President Obama requested.&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite its massive budget, the CDC is barely responding to Ebola and the polio-like enterovirus D68 that was likely brought into the U.S. by the illegal Central American immigrants who have been fast-tracked across the southern border under the administration&#8217;s Democratic voter importation program. An aggressive response to these lethal viruses is out of the question because it might stigmatize or offend members of certain ethnic groups, after all.</p>
<p>Malkin <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2014/10/14/the-centers-for-everything-but-disease-control/">aptly dubs</a> the worse-than-useless CDC as &#8220;The Centers for Everything But Disease Control.&#8221; In her words the CDC is a &#8220;power-hungry busybody brigade of politicized blame-mongers.&#8221; She&#8217;s right.</p>
<p>In the Obama era the CDC has pushed a dizzying array of social-engineering proposals that have nothing to do with disease. These nanny state initiatives include a federal universal motorcycle helmet law, a study of video games and television violence, a &#8220;national action plan&#8221; to prevent accidents in children&#8217;s playgrounds, and studies and campaigns “promoting positive community norms” and “safe, stable, nurturing relationships (SSNRs)” in homes and schools.</p>
<p>But actual success in the real world is of secondary importance to leftists. Only intentions count.</p>
<p>Obama praised several officials including Homeland Security adviser Lisa Monaco and his perpetually bungling CDC Director Tom Frieden, who has been busy more or less full-time in recent weeks issuing clarifications of his infelicitous, inaccurate statements from the previous day.</p>
<p>Obama said the officials have done an &#8220;outstanding job&#8221; so far, but that with flu season upon us and Department of Homeland Security officials also working on combatting ISIS, &#8220;they also are responsible for a whole bunch of other stuff.&#8221;</p>
<p>Despite all the fabulous work Frieden, who used to labor for then-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on vital projects like limiting the size of soda pop servings, Obama <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/16/politics/obama-ebola-czar/index.html">is warming</a> to the idea of appointing an &#8220;Ebola czar&#8221; to coordinate the government&#8217;s response to the crisis that his boneheaded policies have created.</p>
<p>Frieden has been coming under increasingly heavy political fire in recent days. It doesn&#8217;t help that he has no idea what he&#8217;s doing, Allen said.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The problem with Frieden is he is a prohibitionist zealot who is clueless about the threat we are currently facing. He has no expertise in public health as properly understood.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama may jettison Frieden to reduce the growing political heat he has been feeling as result of the Ebola crisis he has caused.</p>
<p>&#8220;It may make sense for us to have one person &#8230; so that after this initial surge of activity, we can have a more regular process just to make sure that we&#8217;re crossing all the T&#8217;s and dotting all the I&#8217;s going forward,&#8221; Obama said.</p>
<p>Although quarantining infectious patients has been practiced with impressive results ever since the invention of medical science, Obama refuses to halt travel to the U.S. from Ebola-afflicted parts of the world, even from Ebola-devastated Liberia, home of the patient who recently succumbed to the disease at a Texas hospital.</p>
<p>Defying common sense, Obama says a &#8220;flat-out travel ban is not the way to go.&#8221;</p>
<p>Critics point to Obama&#8217;s stubborn refusal to stop residents of Liberia and other affected countries from visiting the U.S. as incompetence or a lack of leadership.</p>
<p>This criticism may be unfair. Obama is more likely acting out of principle.</p>
<p>Obama&#8217;s neo-Marxist, identity politics-infused worldview holds that America is an imperial power that has victimized other nations merely by being wealthy and powerful. Meanwhile, Obama romanticizes backward countries like those former colonies in Ebola-rich West Africa and views imposing a travel ban on their citizens as adding insult to the grievous injuries that the perpetually guilty United States has inflicted on them.</p>
<div style="color: #222222;">The president has no compunction putting American lives at risk and subordinating their interests to those of West Africans.</div>
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<div>Obama seems to forget that his chief duty under the Constitution is to protect the American people.</div>
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		<title>Would-Be Cop Killer Is New Ferguson Hero</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lynch mob finds a new pretext for unleashing its violence. ]]></description>
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<p>More than two months after a black man was killed trying to wrest a handgun away from a white police officer, left-wing protesters continue to perpetrate acts of violence with relative impunity in and around Ferguson, Mo. where the incident happened.</p>
<p>Reports <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ferguson-october-police-arrest-17-in-st-louis-demonstrations/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">indicate</span></a> 17 people were arrested during weekend demonstrations as activists geared up for even more violence and vandalism in the St. Louis suburb that has been under siege by cop-hating radicals more or less continuously since the Aug. 9 shooting death of Michael Brown.</p>
<p>Activists in Ferguson are also upset that a different 18-year-old black man <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786043/High-school-student-dead-shot-16-times-duty-police-officer-St-Louis-10-miles-Michael-Brown-killed.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">was shot</span></a> and killed in a separate incident last week by a police officer in the St. Louis area. VonDerrit Myers Jr. was shot dead in St. Louis City, reportedly after shooting at an officer three times during a chase. Myers was wearing a monitoring ankle bracelet as a condition of bail from a gun case months ago. After Myers&#8217;s death, activists reportedly broke windows, burned a U.S. flag, and attacked journalists.</p>
<p>Thousands of protesters converged on Ferguson over the weekend, according to reports. The out-of-state visitors included anti-war radicals left over from the Sixties, seminarians, college students, and fast food workers imported from Chicago, Nashville, and elsewhere.</p>
<p>Community organizers are also hard at work attempting to destabilize Ferguson and the surrounding region.</p>
<p>On the weekend, protesters were &#8220;attempting to storm&#8221; a business and were &#8220;throwing rocks at the police,&#8221; according to St. Louis Police Chief Sam Dotson.</p>
<p>Some activists have made it clear that they are willing to use force to get their way.</p>
<p>&#8220;We still are knee deep in this situation,&#8221; said rap artist and community organizer Tef Poe, whose real name is Kareem Jackson.</p>
<p>&#8220;We have not packed up our bags, we have not gone home,&#8221; said Poe. &#8220;This is not a fly-by-night moment. This is not a made-for-TV revolution. This is real people standing up to a real problem and saying, &#8216;We ain&#8217;t taking it no more.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Organizers of the &#8220;Ferguson October&#8221; protests <a href="http://fergusonoctober.com/about/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">falsely claim</span></a> that blacks are routinely gunned down by white police officers. Their website states:</p>
<blockquote><p>Our country can no longer deny the epidemic of police violence facing Black and Brown communities. Mike Brown is now part of a long list of people like John Crawford, Ezell Ford, Eric Garner, Oscar Grant and countless others who have been unjustly killed by police. Their lives mattered. Join Hands Up United, Organization for Black Struggle, Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment and our partners in Ferguson from October 10-13th for a weekend of resistance. We’re hosting a series of public events—marches, convenings and panels— to build momentum for a nationwide movement against police violence.</p></blockquote>
<p>But in reality these protests have little to do with justice for Brown, the 18-year-old shot in the August incident. Their purpose is to intimidate local authorities, including the grand jury that is sitting to decide if police officer Darren Wilson should be charged in the shooting of Michael Brown. Activists are demanding criminal charges against Wilson regardless of the evidence.</p>
<p>The grand jury is expected in coming weeks to determine if Wilson, a decorated white policeman, will face criminal charges for killing Brown, a young black man who reportedly attacked him minutes after robbing a convenience store. Ferguson has been plagued by violent demonstrations since the shooting. Hundreds of people, including individuals police call &#8220;outside agitators,&#8221; have been arrested in nearly continuous protests since Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>Radical left-wing agitators billing themselves as civil rights activists <a href="http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/matthew-vadum/ferguson-braces-for-lynch-mob-revival/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">promise</span></a> more mayhem and deadly violence if the grand jury declines to indict Wilson in the shooting of Brown.</p>
<p>The politically correct lie that a helpless 6&#8217;4&#8243; 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, is alive and well. In the minutes before the altercation with Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime.</p>
<p>These Ferguson demonstrations that have been blessed by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, help to reinforce President Obama&#8217;s narrative that America is a deeply, systemically racist nation that needs to be fundamentally transformed. They also help to put race relations in the spotlight weeks away from the midterm congressional elections in which Democrats appear poised to receive an electoral shellacking.</p>
<p>Obama and congressional Democrats are desperate and it shows. They need racial strife and resentment in order to rev up their voters. They see the prospect of hanging onto control of the U.S. Senate slipping away a little bit more each day. They have no achievements from recent years to speak of so they prefer to keep the talking heads of the mainstream media busy discussing make-believe problems such as income inequality, imaginary racism, the GOP&#8217;s alleged war on women, the name of the Washington Redskins football team, how global warming is more of a threat to the civilized world than the Islamic State, and how Republicans supposedly caused ebola outbreaks by not giving in to President Obama&#8217;s budgetary requests.</p>
<p>On Monday noted Marxist academic <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=813"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Cornel West</span></a> was arrested in Ferguson.</p>
<p>He visited the city for propaganda purposes, specifically, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/13/cornel-west-arrested_n_5977870.html?utm_hp_ref=tw"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to be taken</span></a> into custody in front of TV cameras. “It’s a beautiful thing to see people on fire for justice, but I didn’t come here to give a speech,” West said Sunday evening. “I came here to go to jail.”</p>
<p>West, unlike most of his fellow protesters in Ferguson, is at least honest about his intentions.</p>
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		<title>Ferguson Braces for Lynch Mob Revival</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2014 04:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Darren Wilson isn't indicted, radical activists promise mayhem.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-2.37.46-AM.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242814" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Screen-Shot-2014-10-10-at-2.37.46-AM-450x326.png" alt="Screen Shot 2014-10-10 at 2.37.46 AM" width="317" height="230" /></a>Police in Ferguson, Mo. are preparing for the mayhem and deadly violence that radical activists are promising if a grand jury declines to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting of Michael Brown two months ago.</p>
<p>A grand jury is expected to determine next month if Wilson, a decorated white policeman, will face criminal charges for killing Brown, an 18-year-old black man who reportedly attacked him minutes after robbing a convenience store. The St. Louis suburb has been plagued by violent demonstrations since the Aug. 9 shooting. Hundreds of people, including individuals police call &#8220;outside agitators,&#8221; have been arrested in nearly continuous protests since Brown&#8217;s death.</p>
<p>The politically correct lie that a helpless 6&#8217;4&#8243; 292-lbs. Brown was shot in cold blood, arms raised while attempting to surrender to white Wilson, instead of the less convenient truth that Brown was beating the cop while reaching for his gun, won&#8217;t die. In the minutes before the altercation with Wilson, Brown was captured on video bullying a much smaller East Indian shopkeeper during a robbery, an act that some might consider a hate crime.</p>
<p>Local agitators connected to the former Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) <a href="http://organizemo.org/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">are knee-deep</span></a> in the unrest in Ferguson. Missourians Organizing for Reform &amp; Empowerment (MORE) has been active in the protests and in efforts to free jailed demonstrators so they can continue vandalizing businesses, intimidating perceived adversaries, setting fires, throwing projectiles and urine at cops, and engaging in the Left&#8217;s usual modes of so-called nonviolent protest.</p>
<p>The MORE front group&#8217;s executive director is longtime ACORN organizer Jeff Ordower. Ordower, a vote fraud apologist, previously ran Missouri ACORN. Under orders from ACORN&#8217;s national headquarters the Missouri chapter incorporated itself separately as MORE in December 2009.</p>
<p>State authorities are holding two to three meetings a week <a href="http://stlouis.cbslocal.com/2014/10/08/report-missouri-authorities-planning-for-riots-if-ferguson-cop-not-indicted-in-browns-death/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">to draft plans</span></a> to deal with riots should they materialize.</p>
<p>“We know outside groups visited us in August,&#8221; St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar said. &#8220;We are expecting that different people will come in from outside the St. Louis area.&#8221;</p>
<p>Ferguson Mayor James Knowles said he is afraid that “the unrest is going to be far beyond the city of Ferguson” if Wilson is not indicted.</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/08/ferguson-protest-leaders-rally-new-york-michael-brown-shooting">Activists say</a></span> if Wilson is cleared by the grand jury, rioting will follow.</p>
<p>Ferguson protest leader Tef Poe told Reuters to expect &#8220;carnage&#8221; if an indictment is not handed down. “There is a lot of explosive energy.”</p>
<p>“If they can’t serve justice in this, the people have every right to go out and express their rage in a manner that is equal to what we have suffered,” said Ashley Yates, who co-founded Millennial Activists United. Yates, who spoke at a New York rally alongside activists from Hands Up United and the Organization for Black Struggle, was arrested last week during a demonstration in Ferguson. The rally took place in the same ballroom where Malcolm X was murdered in a hail of gunfire in 1965.</p>
<p>“We’re going to take our anger out on the people who have failed us, and if they are prepared to deal with that, then let them have at it,” Yates said.</p>
<p>Poe said that although Americans have often expected “casual revolution,” Ferguson may be “the moment when we can’t do that.”</p>
<p>Poe urged his fellow activists to die for the cause, browbeating what he termed the &#8220;intellectual set&#8221; who contemplate race relations but “didn’t show up and didn’t want to get shot when the teargas came out.”</p>
<p>“Don’t come to Ferguson if you aren’t ready to die,&#8221; Yates said. &#8220;Stay at home, as it could happen.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I can say this with 100 percent certainty: all three of us have had moments in the street where we realized we could die right there,” Yates said.</p>
<p>Answering claims that activists had encouraged rioting, Poe said, “No, you incited a riot by leaving Mike Brown’s body on the street for four and a half hours.”</p>
<p>More protests are expected in Ferguson over this weekend.</p>
<p>Activists are also demanding that Bob McCulloch, the prosecuting attorney in the case, recuse himself. They claim he is biased in favor of the police. They also want the mayor and police chief Tom Jackson to resign for supposedly mishandling the case.</p>
<p>Although they won&#8217;t admit it publicly, Obama administration officials are praying for the worst.</p>
<p>Attorney General Eric Holder has been deliberately fanning the flames of racial discontent in Ferguson. It&#8217;s good for revving up the Democrats&#8217; political base in time for the November elections that could hand control of the U.S. Senate to Republicans.</p>
<p>Despite the continuing absence of any evidence whatsoever that race was a factor in the shooting of Brown, the Department of Justice has been conducting a race-baiting witch hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson. It is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House.</p>
<p>To add an aura of legitimacy to the witch hunt, the U.S. Conference of Mayors held a symposium on the events in Ferguson at Bill Clinton&#8217;s presidential library in Little Rock, Ark.</p>
<p>Attorney General Holder <a href="http://m.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/slay-joins-holder-clinton-in-calling-for-sensitivity-collaboration-after/article_e1d34c15-c00e-5b9d-8341-2dbfea6441f1.html?mobile_touch=true"><span style="color: #0433ff;">wasn&#8217;t shy about</span></a> discussing the Obama administration&#8217;s rather frightening plans to use the Ferguson crisis as a pretext for bringing local police forces under greater federal control.</p>
<p>&#8220;The events in Ferguson reminded us that we cannot and must not allow tensions, which are present in so many neighborhoods across America, to go unresolved,&#8221; said Holder who announced his intention to resign his post two weeks ago.</p>
<p>Holder told participants at the conference Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Justice&#8217;s broad review of police training, techniques, and tactics ought to be expanded &#8220;to provide strong, national direction on a scale not seen since President Lyndon Johnson&#8217;s Commission on Law Enforcement nearly half a century ago.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Obama administration never, ever lets a crisis go to waste.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-THOMAS-PEREZ-LABOR-SECRETARY-facebook.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-242127" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/o-THOMAS-PEREZ-LABOR-SECRETARY-facebook-450x300.jpg" alt="Thomas Perez, Assistant Attorney General" width="306" height="204" /></a>President Obama is considering nominating his far-left labor secretary to replace outgoing Attorney General Eric Holder, according to media reports.</p>
<p>Illegal alien enabler Thomas Perez would not be an improvement over Holder, the scandal-plagued left-wing attorney general who has taken the Department of Justice to new lows of corruption and lawlessness. Perez, who previously ran the DoJ&#8217;s civil rights branch, would likely be a Holder clone or worse.</p>
<p>“Perez fits all the qualities that Eric Holder had: A lack of ethics, disrespect for the rule of the law, and placing ideology first,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.</p>
<p>“Tom Perez was one of the reasons we need civil rights investigation at the civil rights division,” Fitton said. “He was the point man in terms of enforcing law in [a] racially biased manner.”</p>
<p>Perez hasn&#8217;t won friends outside of his radical circles during his time at the Labor Department.</p>
<p>“Perez has been charged with enforcing existing labor law. Unfortunately, he’s chosen only to enforce the law when it applies to employers, not to the Administration’s union allies,” according to Ryan Williams of Worker Center Watch. He continued:</p>
<blockquote><p>While the politicization of federal agencies is running critique of the Obama administration, the Justice Department is the one agency that should remain above the fray of politics, and Perez has demonstrated that he is incapable of serving as a neutral arbiter of the law.</p></blockquote>
<p>Patrick Semmens of the National Right to Work Foundation, said that he didn&#8217;t think Perez was capable of enforcing the law impartially.</p>
<p>“Tom Perez as Attorney General is a scary thought,&#8221; Semmens said. &#8220;If Perez is allowed to operate the Department of Justice the way he has run the Labor Department, he will consistently put the priorities of the president’s key political backers ahead of the rights of regular Americans.&#8221;</p>
<p>A former top aide to the late Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.), Perez became labor secretary last year only after barely surviving a confirmation vote in the Senate. Before that he served as the nation&#8217;s top civil rights enforcer at the DoJ. Like Barack Obama, Perez graduated from Harvard Law School, long a hotbed of radical leftist activity.</p>
<p>He told AFL-CIO leaders that if Martin Luther King were alive today, “He would join with you … in calling for passage of the Employee Free Choice Act” — legislation that would drastically tilt workplace elections in favor of labor. He said the “civil rights movement and the labor movement are … essentially the same.”</p>
<p>Perez sides with America&#8217;s enemies in the Global War on Terror. He apparently supports Islamic terrorists and the imposition of Shariah law in America.</p>
<p>Perez seems to favor Saudi-style anti-blasphemy laws. In Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries offenders are condemned to death merely for insulting Islam.</p>
<p>Disturbingly, at a congressional hearing Perez pointedly refused to rule out bringing such laws to America. At a meeting of the House Judiciary Committee’s panel on the Constitution in 2012, Perez would not say whether he would uphold the religious speech protections in the First Amendment in the future.</p>
<p>“Will you tell us … that this administration’s Department of Justice will never entertain or advance a proposal that criminalizes speech against any religion?” Rep. Trent Franks (R-Ariz.) asked four times to no avail.</p>
<p>Perez, like so many Obama administration officials, believes that America is a seething hotbed of “Islamophobia,” filled with ignorant racist rubes who irrationally fear the Muslim religion. He has worked with hardcore Islamist groups such as the terrorist-linked Islamic Society of North America and applauded Islamists for lobbying against airline security measures.</p>
<p>Like Holder and Obama, Perez is obsessed with race.</p>
<p>“I wish discrimination were a thing of the past,&#8221; Perez said in 2012 when he headed the DoJ&#8217;s Civil Rights Division. &#8220;I wish we were living in post-racial America. I wish my phone were not ringing. But regrettably, it’s ringing off the hook in the voting context. It’s ringing off the hook in the hate crimes context and in so many other contexts.”</p>
<p>During his time at DoJ, members of the Civil Rights Division <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2011/12/19/DOJ-Conspiring-with-ACORN-Connected-Project-Vote"><span style="color: #0433ff;">conspired</span></a> with ACORN-affiliated Project Vote to weaken electoral integrity-related law enforcement. Voter ID laws, in his twisted view, are racist, calculated to deprive people of color of their voting rights.</p>
<p>While at DoJ, Perez led the Obama administration’s assault on voter ID laws leading up to the 2012 election. As a member of the Montgomery County, Md. Council in 2003 he tried to compel governments to accept fraud-prone <i>matricula consular</i> ID cards issued by Mexican consular offices.</p>
<p>Perez is also a past president of Casa de Maryland, a notorious advocacy group for illegal aliens funded by George Soros and the late Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez. As director of clinical law programs at the University of Maryland School of Law in Baltimore, in 2003 Perez whined about the difficulty he claimed illegal aliens and new legal immigrants have getting welfare benefits. “Many people remain eligible for S-CHIP and Medicaid who don’t get access because of language barriers,” he said.</p>
<p>Under Perez, the DoJ refused to prosecute hate crimes committed against white Americans. He was reportedly instrumental in the Justice Department’s dismissal &#8211;over the objections of the government attorneys handling the matter&#8211; of a case involving two Philadelphia-based members of the New Black Panther Party who brandished weapons and intimidated white voters on Election Day 2008.</p>
<p>An inspector general <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/watchdogs-slam-presidents-perez-power-play/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">found</span></a> that Perez believed voter protection statutes “did not cover white citizens.” A House Oversight Committee investigation determined he used his private email account to do government business, a practice that allows the user to evade transparency laws. Perez was also criticized for nixing a $200 million whistle blower lawsuit because it could undermine so-called &#8220;disparate impact,&#8221; a controversial legal principle regarding discrimination.</p>
<p>Perez believes the government should require racial discrimination in order to benefit those the Left deems to have been historically oppressed. He favors the use of affirmative action in hiring at higher education and healthcare facilities. Perez appeared to argue that medical doctors should push for racial quotas in the hiring process because racial diversity among physicians somehow improves healthcare outcomes.</p>
<p>Perez believes that medical schools should lower admission standards for black applicants because they are more likely to practice in so-called underserved communities than whites.</p>
<p>He played a major role in enacting the Church Arson Prevention Act, legislation based on the false premise that black churches were being targeted with disproportionate frequency by arsonists.</p>
<p>He has targeted Maricopa County, Ariz. Sheriff Joe Arpaio for legal harassment because he doesn’t like Arpaio’s tough-on-crime approach, especially with respect to illegal aliens.</p>
<p>Perez is proud of his role in inflating the mortgage bubble. He’s a fierce defender of financial affirmative action programs that forced banks to lend money to uncreditworthy borrowers.</p>
<p>Perez openly holds business people in contempt, treating them as morally inferior. He likens bankers to Ku Klux Klan members, arguing that racial discrimination is afoot whenever a member of a minority group is turned down for a loan. The only difference between bankers and Klansmen is that bankers discriminate “with a smile” and “fine print,” but they are “every bit as destructive as the cross burned in the neighborhood,” he said.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re a radical leftist hellbent on fundamentally transforming America, Perez should be your choice to succeed Eric Holder as the nation&#8217;s attorney general. For the rest of America, however, Perez would be a poor pick to ensure that anything resembling justice and fairness is returned to the DoJ.</p>
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		<title>Eric Holder, A Legacy of Race-Based Radicalism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama's body man calls it quits.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hold.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241853" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hold-413x350.jpg" alt="hold" width="291" height="247" /></a>Attorney General Eric Holder is at long last relinquishing his cabinet post after nearly six unprecedented, catastrophic years of racial demagoguery and gangsterism.</p>
<p>Holder, who announced yesterday that he will leave office when a replacement is selected, will leave behind what is probably the most ugly and toxic legacy of any attorney general ever in the history of the republic.</p>
<p>Although he has all the moral authority of disbarred Duke Lacrosse prosecutor <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/Articles/Nifong%20Disbarred%20Now%20How%20About%20Some.html">Mike Nifong</a>, Holder knows he is immune to criticism because he is black and a radical leftist. He is a protected, pampered member of the ruling class and his arrogance knows no bounds. He ignores court orders and gives congressional overseers the finger.</p>
<p>Holder has transformed the U.S. Department of Justice into a racial grievance incubator, an intensive care unit for kooky, authoritarian ideas that should have died after the 1960s. The DoJ, especially its rotten, totally corrupt Civil Rights Division, is a lawyerly commune for revolutionaries who oppose the very idea of the rule of law. Critical Legal Theory and Critical Race Theory govern much of what goes on in the department.</p>
<p>It is no exaggeration to say that Holder leaves death and destruction behind after saturation-bombing the Constitution, orchestrating criminal activity in order to whip up public support for policy changes, fomenting racial tension and violence, persecuting political opponents and disfavored industries, obstructing justice, and enforcing laws arbitrarily and capriciously and in a manner calculated to benefit his friends and allies.</p>
<p>It was all too predictable. Holder was the official assigned to vet President Bill Clinton&#8217;s 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001. Among those pardoned were former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans. He was deeply involved in Clinton&#8217;s pardons of fugitive financier Marc Rich and Puerto Rican terrorists. Holder is an archetype, a living, breathing embodiment of American political corruption.</p>
<p>&#8220;The news that Holder is going to resign should be bittersweet to anyone who cares about racial equality and the rule of law,&#8221; <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/09/25/goodbye-eric-and-goodridance/?singlepage=true">says</a> <em>Injustice</em> author J. Christian Adams, a lawyer who used to work at the DoJ.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;The damage he has already done to the country leaves a turbulent wake that is ill-matched to the financial reward awaiting him at a shameless and large Washington, D.C., law firm. Our country is more polarized and more racially divided because of Eric Holder. He turned the power of the Justice Department into a racially motivated turnout machine for the Democratic Party. That was his job in this administration, and he did it well.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Holder’s time in office &#8220;represents the beginnings of a post-Constitutional era, where the chief law enforcement officer of the United States serves to dismantle legal traditions,&#8221; according to Adams.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Holder is the first attorney general to whom law seemed to be an option, a suggestion on the way to a progressive future. Most folks, and most lawyers, who didn’t devote daily attention to him might not have noticed the ground shifting during his tenure. But shift it did, and very deliberately.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Activism, as opposed to enforcing the law, is the proper role of the nation’s chief law enforcement officer, according to Holder. “Any attorney general who is not an activist is not doing his or her job,” he pontificated earlier this year.</p>
<p>Holder is about race, race, and race. It&#8217;s what gets him up in the morning. His sick fixation on skin color is notable even in an administration jam-packed with racial obsessives and identity politics-driven Marxists. He brands those who oppose him as racists. This is usually enough to shut up most Republican lawmakers.</p>
<p>Holder has called America “essentially a nation of cowards,” because most Americans don’t share his radical left-wing multiculturalist views on race.</p>
<blockquote><p>“We, average Americans, simply do not talk enough with each other about race. It is an issue we have never been at ease with and, given our nation’s history, this is in some ways understandable…. This nation has still not come to grips with its racial past … ”</p></blockquote>
<p>So America remains a deeply racist nation, just as biased against blacks as it was in the Jim Crow era, as Holder sees it. Government-mandated racism such as affirmative action programs and other special treatment for minorities is desperately needed, in his view.</p>
<p>As attorney general, Holder refused to prosecute the New Black Panther Party members who openly brandished weapons at a Philadelphia polling station in 2008 in order to intimidate white voters. He also refused to enforce electoral integrity laws and ferociously opposes voter ID laws because he alleges they discriminate against minorities. He supports affirmative action programs, which by definition, of course, are racist because they discriminate against white Americans. He stood behind the egregious &#8220;Pigford&#8221; settlement, a vote-buying scheme that handed out government cash to black farmers whether or not they suffered discrimination at the hands of federal agriculture officials.</p>
<p>Justice isn&#8217;t blind with Holder. It has rose-colored eyeglasses.</p>
<p>Under Holder, the Department of Justice sent taxpayer-paid community organizers down to Sanford, Florida, to generate mobs to agitate against the so-called white Hispanic, George Zimmerman, since-acquitted of the murder of black juvenile delinquent Trayvon Martin. The agency has done the same thing in the case of Michael Brown, an 18-year-old black man shot dead after accosting a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri.</p>
<p>Of course, Holder is the first black U.S. attorney general, a fact he loves to repeat over and over again in speeches and media interviews, as if his race were a <em>bona fide</em> job qualification.</p>
<p>But he is also the first U.S. attorney general in memory to openly declare that he works only to protect the interests of what he calls &#8220;my people,&#8221; or those who share his skin color. White Americans with civil rights complaints are not a priority in Holder&#8217;s Justice Department.</p>
<p>Holder possesses an off-putting combination of creepy self-righteousness, cockiness, hatred of country, and racist contempt for white Americans that makes him the darling of the activist Left and the mainstream media that refuses to report on his many, many misdeeds.</p>
<p>Holder is not We The People&#8217;s lawyer. He is a talented political fixer who would be perfectly at home in Al Capone&#8217;s Chicago. He serves as a personal <em>consigliere</em>, or mob lawyer, to President Obama, the highest elected gangster in the land. And he will never double-cross the <em>capo di tutti capi</em>. He will bend and twist any statute into pretzels, torture any legal precedent into obedience, and strong-arm anyone who gets in his way.</p>
<p>Holder is the legal ringleader for today’s Democrats and their culture of corruption. After being held in criminal contempt of Congress in June 2012 –the first such citation against a sitting attorney general in American history– he is just a few steps away from being impeached in the House of Representatives and tried in the Senate for the high crimes and misdemeanors he has committed against the American people.</p>
<p>A formal impeachment resolution, H.Res. 411 accuses Holder of wrongdoing in connection with his involvement in the Fast and Furious scandal (that reportedly left hundreds of Mexicans and a U.S. border patrolman dead), refusing to enforce the Defense of Marriage Act, refusing to prosecute IRS officials who leaked confidential GOP donor tax information, and providing misleading testimony to Congress about whether he approved invasive investigative tactics against reporters like James Rosen of Fox News.</p>
<p>This morally bankrupt racketeer ought to spend the rest of his life in prison. Probably nothing will happen to him. Rumor around Washington has it that President Obama wants to put Holder on the Supreme Court.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Holder ally and professional racial huckster Al Sharpton <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/al-sharpton-says-hes-helping-pick-the-next-attorney-general-2014-9">boasts</a> that he is playing a significant role in selecting Holder&#8217;s successor.</p>
<p>He says his so-called civil rights group, the tax-evading National Action Network, is &#8220;engaged in immediate conversations&#8221; with the Obama White House as officials consider a replacement for Holder.</p>
<p>Sharpton drooled over Holder, calling him the &#8220;best&#8221; attorney general ever on civil rights-related issues.</p>
<p>&#8220;The resignation of Attorney General Eric Holder is met with both pride and disappointment by the Civil Rights community,&#8221; said the Jew-hating man who orchestrated the Tawana Brawley rape hoax years ago.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are proud that he has been the best Attorney General on Civil Rights in U.S. history and disappointed because he leaves at a critical time when we need his continued diligence most.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>The fact that racial arsonist Sharpton holds Holder in such high regard speaks volumes.</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 04:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BN-ER866_ObamaU_G_20140924132401.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-241786" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/BN-ER866_ObamaU_G_20140924132401-450x300.jpg" alt="BN-ER866_ObamaU_G_20140924132401" width="311" height="207" /></a>President Obama used an opportunity on the world stage this week to encourage America&#8217;s enemies to continue promoting the tired old left-wing narrative that the U.S. is an irretrievably racist hotbed of injustice.</p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Instead of just focusing on the topic of the day, namely, what the U.S. government is planning to do to undermine </span><span class="zw-portion">the extraordinarily brutal </span><span class="zw-portion">Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS)</span><span class="zw-portion">,</span><span class="zw-portion"> Obama suggested that his own country&#8217;s race relations problems are on par with leading world crises. And Islam is perfectly innocent. Only bad people who aren&#8217;t </span><span class="zw-portion" style="font-style: italic;">real</span><span class="zw-portion"> Muslims are causing trouble in the world.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It&#8217;s bread and circuses, with America&#8217;s own Caesar running the show.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">According to Obama, the </span><span class="zw-portion">killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown, a black man, by a white police officer in Ferguson, Mo., in itself is proof that race relations are poisonous in the United States. As the Left sees it, </span><span class="zw-portion">Brown was the latest in a long line of helpless black victims mowed down by racist cops who are part of America&#8217;s corrupt criminal justice system. It&#8217;s just more left-wing sloganeering, staples of which are k</span><span class="zw-portion">nee-jerk cop hatred and making excuses for black criminals.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Anti-American fanatics, such as the Iranians, </span><span class="zw-portion">have used the events in </span><span class="zw-portion">Ferguson as propaganda to defame</span><span class="zw-portion"> the United States. Obama is telegraphing to the Islamist totalitarians that they are on the right track and have entirely legitimate criticisms.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">I realize that America</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s critics will be quick to point out that at times we too have failed to live up to our ideals; that America has plenty of problems within its own borders</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; Obama told </span><span class="zw-portion">the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday in a speech that focused on foreign policy and national security issues.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">This is true</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he told the gathering of delegates from nations that enslave people, chop off their hands and heads, mutilate their genitals, and sanction the gang rape of infidels, women, and youngsters. He continued:</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri &#8212; where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So, yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.</span></p>
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<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Apart from the vile moral equivalency, that is, the implied comparison of the Brown shooting with Islamist atrocities, Obama never bothered to point out that </span><span class="zw-portion">there is still not even a scintilla of evidence that what transpired last month in Ferguson was in any way racially motivated. Investigators keep digging and coming up empty-handed.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Nor did he point out that his administration is leading the way, trying to inflame racial and ethnic tensions. </span><span class="zw-portion">Egged on by violent left-wing mobs and race-obsessed profiteers like Obama allies Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson Sr., </span><span class="zw-portion">t</span><span class="zw-portion">he U.S. Department of Justice is conducting a race-baiting witch hunt aimed at the entire police force in Ferguson.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">It is nothing more than a taxpayer-funded Democratic Party voter registration drive disguised as a civil rights investigation. </span><span class="zw-portion">Such hoaxes are the stock in trade of the radical community organizers who run the Obama White House.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">But it&#8217;s a costly hoax. </span><span class="zw-portion">At least 40 federal agents have reportedly been on the ground in the St. Louis area desperately searching for proof of racial animus on the </span><span class="zw-portion">part of Darren Wilson, the decorated Ferguson police officer who shot Brown Aug. 9 after the suspected gang member beat him and tried to take his handgun.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">That figure of two-score agents is apparently more than the Obama administration has assigned to all the other major scandals embroiling the administration combined. Those other scandals include Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Benghazi bungling, IRS persecution of conservative groups, New Black Panther Party voter intimidation charges, the Fast and Furious gun-running episode, and the NSA&#8217;s domestic spying.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">The rest of Obama&#8217;s UN speech consisted of bromides and inane mantras about the Islamic world he holds so dear.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Although Islam has been generating terrorists and Islamic supremacists for over a millennium, Islam&#8217;s been done wrong by those who have hijacked it, Obama argued.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">A &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">more lethal and ideological brand of terrorists</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion"> have </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">perverted one of the world</span><span class="zw-portion">’</span><span class="zw-portion">s great religions</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said. These terrorists are &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">employing the most brutal methods to intimidate people within their communities</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said, without mentioning that his allies in SEIU and Saul Alinsky-inspired activist groups do much the same to American communities.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama glossed over the centuries of Islamic irredentism and religious violence to claim that, notwithstanding the often-graphic verses of the Holy Koran, that &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">Islam teaches peace.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8221; In his view, &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">Muslims the world over aspire to live with dignity and a sense of justice</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said without mentioning that to many Mohammedans the world over justice consists of Jews&#8217; and Christians&#8217; severed heads on public display.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Obama even said that &#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">we reject any suggestion of a clash of civilizations</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; even though a clash of civilizations is precisely what is taking place.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">Now that Obama&#8217;s approval ratings on national security and terrorism have taken a beating, the president feels he needs to sound like an actual president who cares about the good of the nation and is willing to use the nation&#8217;s military might in a just cause.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">What ISIS is doing is outrageous, Obama complains. But his </span><span class="zw-portion">hatred of ISIS is conditional, based on polling. As long as voters are concerned about ISIS, he&#8217;ll pretend to be concerned about ISIS.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">No God condones this terror</span><span class="zw-portion">,&#8221; he said</span><span class="zw-portion">. </span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span><span class="zw-portion">No grievance justifies these actions. There can be no reasoning &#8212; no negotiation &#8212; with this brand of evil. The only language understood by killers like this is the language of force. So the United States of America will work with a broad coalition to dismantle this network of death.</span><span class="zw-portion">&#8220;</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">This is likely the same pep talk Obama gave to former IRS enforcer Lois Lerner as she geared up to harass and intimidate Tea Party nonprofits.</span></p>
<p class="zw-paragraph" style="color: #000000;"><span class="zw-portion">In Obama&#8217;s eyes, o</span><span class="zw-portion">nly American conservatives, not medieval Islamic savages, are permanent foes worthy of eternal enmity.</span></p>
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