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		<title>To Amnesty 5 Million</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The lawless Obamnesty has arrived.]]></description>
				<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>Mon, 27 Jan 2014 05:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Thornton]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pict.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217292" alt="pict" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pict-450x337.jpg" width="270" height="202" /></a>Tuesday night President Obama will deliver another campaign speech, this one marketed as the State of the Union address. As such, we can expect to hear, through the usual white noise of “I,” “me,” and “my,” vacuous bromides like “moving America forward,” and empty promises “to grow the economy, strengthen the middle class, and empower all who hope to join it,” as White House flack Dan Pfeiffer said. So after token references to economic growth, we can expect to be served heaping helpings of “income inequality” and “economic mobility,” the redistributionist chum for his hungry progressive base.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Is anybody surprised at once again experiencing the mendacity of hope? Is there anything we don’t know about the incompetence, arrogance, and political thuggery of this administration? Obama and the Democrats represent the toxic stew of old-style Progressive government by technocratic elites, Sixties grievance politics, stealth pacifism, guilt over America’s sins, class warfare, redistribution of wealth to buy votes, crony socialism for the progressive 1% to secure campaign-contribution kickbacks, and pork for public employee unions to garner votes as well as bucks. The wages of this faux populist elitism are a sluggish recovery, anemic economic growth, a real </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm" target="_blank">unemployment rate</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> of 13%, a 3% decline over the last decade in the workforce </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000" target="_blank">participation rate</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the monstrosity of Obamacare, the failure to exploit this country’s petroleum and natural gas riches, the looming bankruptcy of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and the explosion of debt and deficits to finance the whole disaster. In other words, precisely the policies guaranteed to stop economic growth and to weaken the middle class.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">As for foreign policy, it would be surprising to hear a whole lot about that on Tuesday night. Five years of Obama have seen American prestige and influence damaged across the globe. Enemies and rivals have been appeased and strengthened, friends and allies scorned and compromised. Russia and China are rushing to fill the vacuum left by American retreat. The Middle East in particular is one spark away from explosion. American lives and dollars have been squandered by Obama’s abandonment of Iraq and Afghanistan. Reliable if thuggish allies in countries like Libya and Egypt have been surrendered to jihadists or civil war. Our stalwart friend Israel has been bullied and endangered. Al Qaeda and its affiliates are rampaging across the region. And Iran––our enemy for 35 years, the most vicious and lethal state sponsor of terrorism, the murderer of thousands of Americans––currently is being not just appeased into becoming a nuclear power, but bribed with sanctions relief to do so. Given the brazen shamelessness of Obama, I fully expect him to ignore all those disasters on his watch, and in full Neville “peace in our time” Chamberlain mode, tout as a “breakthrough” his agreement with Iran that does nothing to stop the mullahs from acquiring the bomb.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Equally predictable will be the reaction to the speech. The Congressional Democrat shills and touts will pop up on the carefully crafted applause lines, while Joe Biden grins maniacally. The courtiers in the media will declare Obama’s reading of the words of others to be the greatest oratory since Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and carefully parse the banalities, clichés, tired jargon, preposterous claims, and outright lies for more signs of their messiah’s rhetorical, political, and intellectual brilliance. The far-left of the base, who differ from other Democrats only in their honesty about their statist intentions, will whine that Obama didn’t promise to raise taxes on the “1%” even more, dismantle the NSA, shut down Guantanamo, shutter every coal-fired electricity plant, go on a Keynesian spending binge, destroy our drones, and slash defense spending to the bone, as they cast longing gazes on Cherokee princess Elizabeth Warren.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But we know all that. For five years we conservatives have been like Cassandra, wandering desperately around Troy accurately predicting its destruction and being dismissed as insane. Or in our case, as racist, heartless, greedy, and downright evil. No amount of empirical evidence debunking the claims of income inequality and the lack of mobility, or explaining the adverse effects of raising the minimum wage, or detailing the ongoing collapse of Obamacare, or adding up the fiscal failures of stimulus spending, or exposing the sweetheart deals to “green energy” hustlers, or documenting Obama’s serial lies, has made much of a difference. His celebrity besotted, vulgar-rich 1% lifestyle on the taxpayer’s dime, his abuse of executive power to make or unmake laws for political advantage, his demonization of his political enemies and rivals even as he simpers piously about “civility,” his attempt to kill the Fox News messenger, his siccing of government agencies like the IRS and Department of Justice on conservatives, all have been amply publicized. And despite all that, his job </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_obama_job_approval-1044.html" target="_blank">approval numbers</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> average 43%, up over 3 points since December 2, when they should be at least 10 points lower, and heading south.</span></p>
<p>Forget the speech. Forget yet once again cataloguing Obama’s crimes and misdemeanors. When we’re not preaching to the choir, we come off like the Ancient Mariner, a gray-beard loon grabbing voters’ sleeves to make them hear yet again the tale of the political albatross hanging around the country’s neck. We need to seize the opportunity created by the dissatisfaction with Obamacare, which has penetrated the fog of self-interest, ignorance, and indifference that helped reelect Obama. The strong likelihood that Obamacare will continue to hit more and more people in the wallet means that there will be a larger, more receptive audience come November’s midterm elections.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But Republicans have to be ready for that opportunity, with savvy, competent candidates and spokesmen who can explain the issues and link voter angst to the specific policies that created them, and who have workable alternatives to offer. They have to break the usual Republican circular firing squad, whether in Congress or the primaries, and concentrate their fire on the political enemy. They have to cleverly mock those who would whine about the metaphor in the previous sentence, and abandon the “preemptive cringe,” as Margaret Thatcher called it, they sometimes indulge when the other side squeals about “racism,” “war on women,” “polarization,” “incivility,” and “extremists.” Instead, they should model their responses on Ronald Reagan’s brilliant </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" title="" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi9y5-Vo61w" target="_blank">riposte</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to Jimmy Carter in the 1980 debate, “There you go again,” using the same tone of mild amusement at a sulky child’s tantrum.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And Republicans have to start dismantling the carefully crafted persona of Hillary Clinton––or “Planet Hillary,” as The New York Times Magazine absurdly put it in a worshipful profile––who currently is riding out Obama’s political storm in the safe haven of accolades, awards, Time magazine puff pieces, and $200,000 speeches from companies investing in the future. Republicans can’t let voters forget every gaffe, corrupt deal, and scandal from 1992 until today, or stop reminding them that she has no achievements other than buying her mediocre political career with the coin of humiliation at the hands of her philandering husband. Voters have to be reminded of her politicized opposition to the 2007 successful surge of troops in Iraq, and her public accusation that General Petraeus was lying about the evidence of that success. Most important, all Americans must never let anyone forget that on her watch 4 Americans died in Benghazi, while all she had to say was “What difference does it make!” after lying to a grieving father that an obscure moviemaker was to blame.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Whatever damage Obama can do in the next 3 years, 8 years of Hilary Clinton will make it worse. Every dysfunction inflicted on the country by 100 years of the progressive assault on limited government, self-reliance, and self-government will continue to worsen, while the debt clock ticks ever closer to the midnight of bankruptcy. Conservatives need to fight the next war, not refight the last one.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 04:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/bruce-bawer/ekstra-bladet-vs-lars-hedegaard/lars-hedegaard-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-180658"><img class=" wp-image-180658 alignleft" title="Lars Hedegaard" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Lars-Hedegaard.jpg" alt="" width="304" height="220" /></a>Cynical as I am about the media&#8217;s stance toward critics of Islam, even I was taken aback by an <a href="http://ekstrabladet.dk/112/article1932885.ece">article</a> that was posted Thursday evening on the website of the Danish newspaper <em>Ekstra Bladet, </em>and that I assume appeared in Friday&#8217;s print edition.</p>
<p>Headlined “Lars Hedegaard moves” and written by Bo Poulsen, the article began by informing readers that on the previous day the possessions of the Islam critic, who survived an assassination attempt last month at his apartment in the Copenhagen suburb of Frederiksberg, had been loaded into a moving van and driven off. The article is accompanied by a picture of the moving van outside Hedegaard&#8217;s former residence.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the kicker. Two <em>Ekstra Bladet </em>staffers, presumably Poulsen and a photographer, were in a car watching the moving men load the van, after which they followed it. And Poulson – here it is – <em>actually describes the route taken by the van. </em>If you plot the course of the van on Google Maps, to be sure, it looks rather meandering, as if the moving men were aware of the two reporters on their tail and were trying to shake them off.</p>
<p>Fortunately, the police intervened. Perhaps the moving men alerted them to the problem. In any event, a motorcycle cop pulled over the reporters&#8217; car. Poulsen is snide about it, describing the intervention sarcastically as <em>belejligt –</em> meaning “timely” or “convenient.” Poulsen is obviously indignant about the injustice of it all. “Without any justification, the driver was asked to show his driver&#8217;s license, even as they could see the moving van disappear over the horizon. After a few minutes the officer returned and said that everything was in order and that they could drive on.”</p>
<p>The reporters did so – but the cop followed close behind. After a short while he pulled them over a second time and “said in a not particularly convincing manner that he would like to see the driver&#8217;s license again, because &#8216;We can see that it&#8217;s been used in some connection or other, so we should double-check it.&#8217;”  Another five minutes or so went by. Then the cop came back with the license, pronounced again that everything was in order, and told the reporters that they were free to continue on their way.</p>
<p>“The two stops,” Poulsen writes with what certainly reads like righteous indignation, “had now detained <em>Ekstra Bladet</em>&#8216;s reporters for over ten minutes, and the distinctively green moving van was now far over the hills.”</p>
<p>Breathtaking.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s plain as day that Poulsen and his colleague were fully prepared to follow that van all the way to its destination, take a picture, and print the address – which would, of course, have been exceedingly helpful to anyone planning to make a second attempt on Hedegaard&#8217;s life, and would utterly have defeated the entire purpose of his move.</p>
<p>The very idea of following that van with the intention of revealing Hedegaard&#8217;s new address is beyond vile. It is a profoundly mischievous and potentially deadly act. Yet Poulsen seems incapable of imagining that he is doing anything remotely inappropriate. The tone of his article is that of a citizen – and member of the fourth estate – who has been deeply wronged by the law-enforcement establishment, in league with, and doing the bidding of, a racist, Islamophobic Enemy of the People. The clear implication of Poulsen&#8217;s article is that the police officer&#8217;s conduct was thoroughly unacceptable – that he had far exceeded his legitimate duties – and that any reasonable newspaper reader will feel the same way.</p>
<p>I was, as I say, thrown by Poulsen&#8217;s article. I shouldn&#8217;t have been. The unblushing zeal with which Norwegian journalists, in the wake of the Breivik atrocities, sought to link honest critics of Islam with a mass murderer provided a definitive demonstration of just how hostile many members of their profession are toward those of us who strive to tell the not-so-pacific truth about the Religion of Peace. Given what happened post-Breivik, it shouldn&#8217;t be surprising that a member of the mainstream media, whether in Norway or Denmark or anywhere else in Europe or North America, would be ready, willing, and eager to report in detail the movements of a van bearing the household goods of a septuagenarian fleeing his home because jihadists are out to murder him. Out to murder him, note well, because he – unlike the cowardly so-called journalists trailing the van – has the courage to speak the truth.</p>
<p>Poulson&#8217;s article closes with a simple statement: “Lars Hedegaard did not wish to speak to Ekstra Bladet.dk about his change of address.” No kidding! All I can say is, good for the Danish police, and shame on Poulsen and <em>Ekstra Bladet.</em></p>
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		<title>Ramadan Ding-Dong</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 04:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Obama’s Ramadan address is divorced from reality.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ob.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138656" title="ob" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ob.gif" alt="" width="378" height="258" /></a>As is customary, President Obama and wife Michelle released their <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/07/20/statement-president-occasion-ramadan">annual Ramadan greetings</a> last Friday. Also customary for Obama, it was full of platitudes about Islam’s supposedly invaluable contribution to American culture, and devoid of any acknowledgement of the dark reality of the Arab Spring that he helped facilitate.</p>
<p>The statement began:</p>
<blockquote><p>Michelle and I extend our warmest wishes to Muslim Americans and Muslims around the world at the start of Ramadan. For Muslims, Ramadan is a time of fasting, prayer, and reflection; a time of joy and celebration. It’s a time to cherish family, friends, and neighbors, and to help those in need.</p></blockquote>
<p>In ironic response, CNN posted this headline two days later: “<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/22/world/meast/iraq-violence/">Iraq Bombs Kill 25 People as Muslims Celebrate Ramadan</a>.” Similar headlines followed: “<a href="http://reportergary.com/2012/07/ramadan-fails-to-abate-syrian-violence/">Ramadan Fails to Curtail Syrian Violence</a>.” “<a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2012/07/21/muslims-begin-ramadan-fast-bombs-hit-thai-south">Muslims Begin Ramadan Fast; Bombs Hit Thai South</a>.” “<a href="http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=/data/international/2012/July/international_July476.xml&amp;section=international">7 Shot Dead in Karachi on First Day of Ramadan</a>.” So much for reflection, joy, and celebration.</p>
<p>Even if many Muslims around the world weren’t respectful of Ramadan, at least American officials in Guantanamo were. In deference to the Muslims who are vacationing – sorry, I mean <em>incarcerated</em> – there, they graciously <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CB_GUANTANAMO_SEPT_11_TRIAL?SITE=FLTAM&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE">postponed any court hearings</a> to allow the murderous 9/11 plotters their time of contemplation and joy.</p>
<p>Ramadan is also a reminder, the Obamas’ statement went on, “to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths.”</p>
<p>Not according to a group by the name of “Qaedat al-Jihad,” a branch of al Qaeda that has been described as one of the “affiliates of the Global Jihad movement.” <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4258440,00.html">This is <em>their</em> take on Ramadan</a>, delivered in their statement claiming responsibility for last Wednesday’s <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4257492,00.html" target="_blank">terror attack</a> against Israeli tourists in Bulgaria that killed seven and wounded dozens more:</p>
<blockquote><p>The month of Ramadan is a month of holy war and death for Allah. It is a month for fighting the enemies of Allah and God&#8217;s messenger, the Jews and their American facilitators… The holy war is not confined to a particular arena and we shall fight the Jews and the Americans until they leave the land of Islam.</p></blockquote>
<p>So much for our common humanity, “shared by all great faiths.” Holy war? That’s odd – Western academics and Muslim Brotherhood front groups here in America keep insisting that jihad is about “inner striving” and has nothing to do with holy war. Studying for a college exam is jihad. Raising your children well is jihad. Quitting smoking is jihad. Qaedat al-Jihad clearly didn’t get that memo.</p>
<p>In any case, Obama continued his Ramadan statement:</p>
<blockquote><p>This year, Ramadan holds special meaning for those citizens in the Middle East and North Africa who are courageously achieving democracy and self-determination and for those who are still struggling to achieve their universal rights.</p></blockquote>
<p>He’s referring off course to the Arab Spring, that glorious flowering of democratic freedom which has led to Islamic fundamentalists toppling regimes in Libya, Egypt, and elsewhere, threatening to create new Irans. Apparently this unsettling news hasn’t reached George Clooney’s house or golf courses, where Obama spends most of his time, because his rosy perspective on the Arab Spring doesn’t seem to align with its ugly reality.</p>
<p>Obama again:</p>
<blockquote><p>The United States continues to stand with those who seek the chance to decide their own destiny, to live free from fear and violence, and to practice their faith freely.</p></blockquote>
<p>Really? This hollow claim will come as something of a bitter surprise to the Iranian Green Revolutionaries he ignored three summers ago, and to dwindling Christian communities all across the Middle East who are now being targeted in the genocidal wake of the Islamist Winter he praises so lavishly.</p>
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		<title>Commentary: George Will Knocks it Out of the Park</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Peter Wehner The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering this weekend included some odd moments, some odd speakers, and some odd outcomes. But it also included some fine moments and impressive speeches — especially one fantastic address by columnist George Will. In his remarks, Will laid out the fundamental difference between conservatism and modern-day [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The Conservative Political Action Committee (CPAC) gathering this weekend included some odd moments, some odd speakers, and some odd outcomes. But it also included some fine moments and impressive speeches — especially one fantastic address by columnist George Will.</p>
<p>In his remarks, Will laid out the fundamental difference between conservatism and modern-day liberalism on the issue of equality of opportunity (which conservatives tend to support) vs. equality of outcomes (which liberals tend to support). This difference has led liberals to actively favor creating dependency on the state. Much of Will’s speech demonstrates why he believes this proposition is true.</p>
<p><em><strong><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/wehner/242511" target="_blank">Read more here.</a></strong></em></p>
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		<title>The Pennsylvania Lifeline to Hamas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the American Hamas terror lobby was shut down, its offspring are still flourishing.]]></description>
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<p>In 1981, future terrorist leader and spokesman Mousa Abu Marzook began building, within the United States, a network of violence supporting Palestinian-oriented groups, which would later become the basis for a well-financed Hamas infrastructure. Today, that network has been severely crippled. However, parts of it yet exist, all of which hail from the American propaganda wing of Hamas, the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), one of which is a chapter <em>of the IAP itself</em>.</p>
<p>On December 8, 2004, Joyce and Stanley Boim, an American couple, were awarded $156 million by a federal court jury for the murder of their teenage son, David, who had been shot and killed during a May 1996 Hamas terrorist operation in Israel. The four defendants who were found liable for the murder included three organizations, the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), and the Quranic Literacy Institute (QLI), and one individual, a Chicago resident named Muhammad Salah.</p>
<p>Of the three organizations, only the IAP was still in existence at the time of the trial. However, that would soon change, as then-Communications Director of the Chicago office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-Chicago) Ahmed Rehab, in January 2006, e-mailed this author <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=5681">declaring that the IAP was no more</a>.</p>
<p>In the time that the IAP was operating, from the years 1981 to 2005, the group had created a number of local chapters throughout the U.S., using aliases as names. These included the American Middle Eastern League for Palestine (AMELP) and the American Muslim Society (AMS).</p>
<p>Like the IAP, most of these groups are gone. However, there is still one chapter that is in operation, the American Muslim Society of the Tristate Area of Pennsylvania, New Jersey &amp; Delaware (AMS Tri-State).</p>
<p>AMS Tri-State was established in December 2000 and incorporated the following month, in January 2001. According to the Pennsylvania Department of State, the group’s <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/American_Muslim_Society_and_CAIR.html">corporation is still active</a>.</p>
<p>The registered address of AMS Tri-State is 1860 Montgomery Avenue, located in Villanova, Pennsylvania. It is the same address as the Foundation of Islamic Education (FIE), a satellite campus for Cairo, Egypt’s Al-Azhar University.</p>
<p>Since it began, AMS Tri-State has held board meetings at FIE and has held annual conferences at FIE. These conferences, which were co-sponsored by FIE, featured a number of leaders from various radical Muslim groups, including the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), the Muslim American Society (MAS), the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT).</p>
<p>The website address of AMS Tri-State was <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/American_Muslim_Society_and_CAIR.html">recently renewed</a>, as the expiration date of it has changed from December 16, 2009 to December 16, 2010. The Registrant, Administrative Contact and Technical Contact of the site is Iftekhar Hussain. According to the website of CAIR-Pennsylvania, of which Hussain acts as Chairman of the Board, Hussain is “currently serving as Secretary General of the American Muslim Society of the Tristate Area of PA, NJ &amp; DE.”</p>
<p>For Hussain to be involved with both groups is no strange coincidence, as the IAP was the parent organization of CAIR. CAIR was founded by three leaders of the IAP: IAP National President Omar Ahmad, IAP National Public Relations Director Nihad Awad, and AMS-Chicago President Rafiq Jaber, who later became IAP National President.</p>
<p>In fact, some can make the claim that AMS Tri-State <em>is the parent organization</em> of CAIR-Pennsylvania, which was established in 2004. AMS Tri-State founding Secretary General Iftekhar Hussain served as CAIR-Pennsylvania Chairman; AMS Tri-State founding President Zaheer Chaudhry served as a CAIR-Pennsylvania board member; and AMS Tri-State founding Chairman Masood Ghaznavi <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/American_Muslim_Society_and_CAIR.html">served as a CAIR-Pennsylvania advisor</a>.</p>
<p>Remnants of Hamas, such as AMS and CAIR, exist as a cautious reminder of a violent movement that began in the 1980s and that persists to this day. Unfortunately, when the IAP was shut down in 2005, its offspring were left to flourish.</p>
<p>Unlike CAIR, though, which has grown to over 30 chapters across the United States, AMS Tri-State appears to be an oversight. The memory of David Boim, along with all the other innocents who have perished at the hands of Hamas, cannot be served by its continuance.</p>
<p>Why the IAP lingers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware is a mystery that can only be known to the group itself. And whatever the reason is, it cannot have anything but a sinister motive attached to it.</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of </em><a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/"><em>Americans Against Hate</em></a><em>, the founder of </em><a href="http://www.cairwatch.org/"><em>CAIR Watch</em></a><em>, and the spokesman for </em><a href="http://www.youngzionists.org/"><em>Young Zionists</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, Director of </em><a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/"><em>Militant Islam Monitor</em></a><em>, contributed to this report.</em></p>
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		<title>Cheney at CPAC: &#8220;Obama One-Term President&#8221; &#8211; Washington Times</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fresh off his weekend back-and-forth with the Obama administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney took his fight to the heart of the political right, making a surprise address Thursday to the Conservative Political Action Conference and telling them President Obama will be defeated in 2012. &#8220;I think Barack Obama is a one-term president,&#8221; he said. [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fresh off his weekend back-and-forth with the Obama administration, former Vice President Dick Cheney took his fight to the heart of the political right, making a surprise address Thursday to the Conservative Political Action Conference and telling them President Obama will be defeated in 2012.</p>
<p>&#8220;I think Barack Obama is a one-term president,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Mr. Cheney&#8217;s appearance was greeted by a standing ovation, with some even getting on top of their chairs.</p>
<p>&#8220;Unbelievable! Thank you!&#8221; shouted one, while a small group shouted, &#8220;Run, Dick, run.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;A run like that is almost enough to make me want to run for office. But I&#8217;m not gonna do it,&#8221; Mr. Cheney said.</p>
<p><a href="http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/18/cheney-surprises-cpac-obama-one-term-president/" target="_blank"><strong>Read more here.</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Charles Krauthammer: The Electorate vs. Obama&#8217;s Agenda &#8211; RealClearPolitics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON &#8212; &#8220;I am not an ideologue,&#8221; protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions. Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; &#8220;I am not an ideologue,&#8221; protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment to a set of political convictions.</p>
<p>Compare his 2010 State of the Union to his first address to Congress a year earlier. The consistency is remarkable. In 2009, after passing a $787 billion (now $862 billion) stimulus package, the largest spending bill in galactic history, he unveiled a manifesto for fundamentally restructuring the commanding heights of American society &#8212; health care, education and energy.</p>
<p>A year later, after stunning Democratic setbacks in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts, Obama gave a stay-the-course State of the Union address (a) pledging not to walk away from health care reform, (b) seeking to turn college education increasingly into a federal entitlement, and (c) asking again for cap-and-trade energy legislation. Plus, of course, another stimulus package, this time renamed a &#8220;jobs bill.&#8221;</p>
<p>This being a democracy, don&#8217;t the Democrats see that clinging to this agenda will march them over a cliff? Don&#8217;t they understand Massachusetts?</p>
<p>Well, they understand it through a prism of two cherished axioms: (1) The people are stupid and (2) Republicans are bad. Result? The dim, led by the malicious, vote incorrectly.</p>
<p>Liberal expressions of disdain for the intelligence and emotional maturity of the electorate have been, post-Massachusetts, remarkably unguarded. New York Times columnist Charles Blow chided Obama for not understanding the necessity of speaking &#8220;in the plain words of plain folks,&#8221; because the people are &#8220;suspicious of complexity.&#8221; Counseled Blow: &#8220;The next time he gives a speech, someone should tap him on the ankle and say, &#8216;Mr. President, we&#8217;re down here.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>A Time magazine blogger was even more blunt about the ankle-dwelling mob, explaining that we are &#8220;a nation of dodos&#8221; that is &#8220;too dumb to thrive.&#8221;</p>
<p>Obama joined the parade in the State of the Union address when, with supercilious modesty, he chided himself &#8220;for not explaining it (health care) more clearly to the American people.&#8221; The subject, he noted, was &#8220;complex.&#8221; The subject, it might also be noted, was one to which the master of complexity had devoted 29 speeches. Perhaps he did not speak slowly enough.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/05/dont_they_understand_massachusetts.html">RealClearPolitics &#8211; The Electorate vs. Obama&#8217;s Agenda</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some government officials insist on involving themselves with groups connected to terror?]]></description>
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<p>The issue of terrorism is broadcast every day over the airwaves. Yet, so many of our government officials are clueless about it. How else would a leader from the Islamic Society of North America and the Council on American-Islamic Relations – two groups singled out by the Justice Department for their involvement in the financing of Hamas – be invited to a sitting Governor’s State of the State Address? Regardless of the reason for the invitation, it was a dangerous oversight.</p>
<p>[For the purpose of this piece, I would like to state the definition of “unindicted co-conspirator,” per the Federal Courts Law Review (FCLR): “The term ‘unindicted co-conspirator’ refers to any person who allegedly ‘agreed with others to violate the law but who is not being charged with an offense and who, consequently, will not be tried or sentenced for his criminal conduct.’” An “unindicted co-conspirator” is exactly how it reads, <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=33247">a co-conspirator who has not been indicted</a>.]</p>
<p>The Islamic Society of North America or ISNA held its most recent national convention – its 46th annual convention – in Washington, D.C., this past year in July. Participating at the event was the normal crop of Muslim radicals. They included Siraj Wahhaj, an “unindicted co-conspirator” of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; Zulfiqar Ali Shah, the former South Asia Director of KindHearts, a Hamas fundraising group that was shut down by the FBI in February 2006; and Naeem Muhammad, a U.S. staff member of Islamic Relief, a “charity” that the Israeli government has claimed is a front for Hamas. The latter two participated as “Moderators.”</p>
<p>Another “Moderator” at the event was an individual by the name of Safaa Zarzour. At the time, he sat on the Board of Directors of ISNA as the Chairman of ISNA’s Council of Islamic Schools of North America (CISNA) and served as the Program Chair of the ISNA Education Forum. Today, he <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Safaa_Zarzour.html">holds the lofty position of ISNA National Secretary General</a>, as he was named as such last month. This is certainly no ‘badge of honor.’</p>
<p>ISNA is a function of the extremist Muslim Brotherhood overseas. Amongst ISNA’s founders is convicted terrorist Sami al-Arian, who established the group with alumni from the Muslim Students Association (MSA).</p>
<p>From May 2007 through November 2008, ISNA was named by the United States Justice Department as an “unindicted co-conspirator” for two federal trials dealing with the transfer of millions of dollars to Hamas. The defendants consisted of leaders of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF), the now defunct American financing wing of Hamas created by then-global head of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzook. In the end, all of the defendants were found guilty of all charges.</p>
<p>ISNA is not the only co-conspirator from the HLF trial that Zarzour has associations with. He has also been <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Safaa_Zarzour.html">involved with the Council on American-Islamic Relations</a> (CAIR); he was the founding Chairman of CAIR’s Chicago, Illinois office. CAIR-Chicago was established in November 2002, and Zarzour served the group as Chairman (President) through January 2009.</p>
<p>During the trial, the Justice Department showed proof that CAIR was one of four organizations that made up the American Palestine Committee, a Hamas umbrella organization set up and led by Marzook. The goal of the committee was to raise money for Hamas from American shores.</p>
<p>Through CAIR, Zarzour had come in contact with another of the HLF “unindicted co-conspirators,” <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/Safaa_Zarzour.html">the Imam and Director of the Mosque Foundation, Jamal Said</a>. Located in Bridgeview, Illinois, the Mosque Foundation is the former spiritual center of the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), CAIR’s parent organization that was shut down in 2005 after it was found liable for the May 1996 murder of American teen, David Boim, by Hamas.</p>
<p>It is because of CAIR’s connection to Hamas that the FBI recently made the decision to cut ties with the group – ties with CAIR’s national headquarters and all of its local chapters. According to reports, prior to the HLF trial, the FBI had “formal contact” with the group via “liaisons.”</p>
<p>However, regarding CAIR, it seems other government entities aren’t as concerned as the FBI. Indeed, just this past November, Zarzour received a community service award for “Outstanding Contributions to Chicago’s Arab Community” from the Mayor of Chicago, Richard Daley.</p>
<p>And it was only last month that Zarzour was invited to attend Indiana Governor Mitch Daniel’s State of the State Address. A smiling picture of Zarzour with the Indiana State Assembly in the background is currently being propagated on ISNA’s national website.</p>
<p>Groups and individuals tied to terrorism have no place in the American governmental process – locally, statewide or nationally. Unfortunately, some government officials have given them a place. This, despite the myriad of evidence that is readily available to the public, let alone these officials themselves.</p>
<p>If CAIR is shunned by the FBI, isn’t it common sense that all government agencies and entities would follow suit? And if a leader of CAIR is now the head of ISNA, shouldn’t ISNA be shunned as well?</p>
<p><em>Joe Kaufman is the Chairman of </em><a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/"><em>Americans Against Hate</em></a><em>, the founder of </em><a href="http://www.cairwatch.org/"><em>CAIR Watch</em></a><em>, and the spokesman for </em><a href="http://www.youngzionists.org/"><em>Young Zionists</em></a><em>.</em></p>
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<p><em>Beila Rabinowitz, the Director of </em><a href="http://www.militantislammonitor.org/"><em>Militant Islam Monitor</em></a><em>, assisted with this report.</em></p>
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		<title>Peggy Noonan: The Obama Contradiction &#8211; WSJ.com</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you watch a president give a State of the Union Address on television, you&#8217;re always watching three people: the president at the podium, and the vice president and House speaker on the rise behind him. As a TV shot it&#8217;s awkward. The vice president and the speaker have been instructed by media professionals not [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>When you watch a president give a State of the Union Address on television, you&#8217;re always watching three people: the president at the podium, and the vice president and House speaker on the rise behind him. As a TV shot it&#8217;s awkward. The vice president and the speaker have been instructed by media professionals not to let their eyes do what they want to do, which is survey the doings in the chamber. Instead they must stare unwaveringly at the back of the president&#8217;s head. This is so that they appear to be fascinated by what he&#8217;s saying, as if he&#8217;s so interesting that they can&#8217;t take their eyes off him. It&#8217;s also so that you, the viewer, don&#8217;t become distracted by wondering whom they&#8217;re looking at in the audience.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s uncomfortable for them, and boring. You, as a member of the TV audience, get to watch the president. The speaker and the vice president get to think, &#8220;Huh, he&#8217;s getting a little gray in the back.&#8221; The reason Nancy Pelosi often seems a little dart-eyed in these circumstances is that she&#8217;s always trying to get a look at the chamber when she thinks the camera isn&#8217;t on her. Joe Biden seems happy to be the fascinated person with crinkly eyes and shining teeth. But for Mrs. Pelosi it&#8217;s a challenge. This is her chamber, all her people are here, and she wants to be looking at John Boehner&#8217;s face and Harry Reid&#8217;s and see who&#8217;s cheering and who&#8217;s wearing what.</p>
<p>But the three-shot the other night was also the president&#8217;s problem. It underscored that he gave the first year of his presidency to the Democrats of Congress, that they wrote the costly and unpopular health-care and spending bills.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704878904575031563325226450.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_BelowLEFTSecond">The Obama Contradiction &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>The Spender-in-Chief&#8217;s Fiscal Freeze Follies</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are more loopholes in Obama's proposed “spending freeze” than in an Olympic volleyball net. ]]></description>
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<p>There are more loopholes in President Obama&#8217;s proposed “spending freeze” than in an Olympic volleyball net. Gargantuan government entitlements (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) are exempt. A half-trillion in unspent stimulus money is exempt. Foreign aid is exempt. The Democrats&#8217; proposed $154 billion jobs bill (Stimulus II) is exempt.</p>
<p>Pet federal education programs will be exempt (including $4 billion for the White House “Race to the Top” standards initiative and an additional $1.35 billion he just requested in the 2011 budget). Green jobs spending will be exempt. (Obama proposed $10 billion in new clean energy spending earlier this month.) Electorally driven tax-credit expansions will be exempt. The <a style="border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; font-weight: normal ! important; font-size: 100% ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important; background-image: none; padding-top: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt;" href="http://www.creators.com/opinion/michelle-malkin.html#" target="_blank">health care</a> takeover plan is not included. As even The New York Times reported, the “estimated $250 billion in savings over 10 years would be less than 3 percent of the roughly $9 trillion in additional deficits the government is expected to accumulate over that time.”</p>
<p>Which amounts to a molecule in a drop of the ocean of red ink in which American taxpayers have been drowning.</p>
<p>The current Spender-in-Chief unveiled details of this lofty new work of political fiction on Monday with more fanfare than a new “Twilight” title. It was supposed to be the centerpiece of the State of the Union address. But by Tuesday morning, Obama&#8217;s illusion of fiscal discipline had been shredded left, right and center. By Tuesday afternoon, irritated White House spokesman Robert Gibbs was already downplaying the gimmickry. It&#8217;s just something Obama will “mention,” Gibbs bristled.</p>
<p>After campaign videos of Obama repeatedly deriding “hatchet”-wielding spending freezes spread like Kudzu across the Internet, official White House blogger Jared Bernstein tried to control the widespread hypocrisy charges:</p>
<p>“During the campaign, you may recall that John McCain touted option 1 — the hatchet approach of an across-the-board freeze.</p>
<p>“The President was critical of that approach then, and we would be critical of it now. It&#8217;s not what we&#8217;re proposing. To the contrary, the entire theory of the President&#8217;s proposed freeze is to dial up the stuff that will support job growth and innovation while dialing down the stuff that doesn&#8217;t. Under our plan, some discretionary spending will go up; some will go down.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s a big difference from a hatchet. …</p>
<p>“President Obama deeply understands the various imperatives of this moment in time, even if they don&#8217;t always point in the same direction.”</p>
<p>So, he had a hatchet on Monday when he wanted headlines praising his return to austerity in the wake of the GOP&#8217;s Massachusetts Senate victory; a scalpel on Tuesday when he needed to mollify the big-government left. What will he wield at the State of the Union address on Wednesday night? A variable-speed Dremel rotary tool?</p>
<p>Some conservative Beltway analysts are cheering Obama&#8217;s fiscal freeze follies as a step in the right direction, a rhetorical victory and a “good start.” Pardon me for not joining in the standing ovation for the latest performance of White House kabuki theater. Praising the president for carrying on the charade of budget reform because a few piddling cuts are real is like complimenting the Naked Emperor&#8217;s fingernails: So he didn&#8217;t have any clothes. At least his cuticles were real. It&#8217;s a start!</p>
<p>Moreover, who believes this freeze will last for the entire, cynically timed three-year period that the White House announced fewer than 72 hours ago? McDonald&#8217;s French fries have a longer shelf life than Obama&#8217;s pledges of fiscal accountability. All it&#8217;ll take is one more bad jobs report, one Chicken Little Congress-induced panic, to drop the budget restrictions faster than reality dad Jon Gosselin&#8217;s ex-girlfriends.</p>
<p>One year after riding into town on a wave of adulation and ambition, Obama has lost his “swagga.” His pre-State of the Union appearances have been listless and perfunctory. His dependence on a teleprompter — even for a standard 6-minute stump statement at an elementary school — is now the butt of universal mockery. And his political machine has been forced to lay down enough fake Astroturf support to cover a football field.</p>
<p>This is the time to nail the phonies in the White House, not to beg for meetings in hopes of bipartisan problem-solving. There&#8217;s little triumph in Obama&#8217;s empty “concessions” on the need to cut spending. They are fueled not by sincere commitment to reining in Washington&#8217;s appetites, but by craven political self-preservation.</p>
<p>The president has lately regressed into his “I will fight for you” campaign sloganeering — by which, of course, he means, “I will fight for me.” There will be no hands reaching across the aisle. Obama&#8217;s too busy using them to point fingers at everyone else for his own political meltdown.</p>
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		<title>Paul D. Ryan: A GOP Road Map for America&#8217;s Future &#8211; WSJ.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jacob Laksin]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address, President Obama will declare a new found commitment to &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221; to cover the huge spending and debt he and congressional Democrats have run up in his first year in office. But next Monday, when he submits his actual budget, I fear it will rely on gimmickry, commissions, [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address, President Obama will declare a new found commitment to &#8220;fiscal responsibility&#8221; to cover the huge spending and debt he and congressional Democrats have run up in his first year in office. But next Monday, when he submits his actual budget, I fear it will rely on gimmickry, commissions, luke-warm spending &#8220;freezes,&#8221; and paper-tiger controls to create the illusion of budget discipline. Meanwhile, he and the Democratic congressional leadership will continue pursuing a relentless expansion of government and a new culture of dependency.</p>
<p>America needs an alternative. For that reason, I have reintroduced my plan to tackle our nation&#8217;s most pressing domestic challenges—updated to reflect the dramatic decline in our economic and fiscal condition. The plan, called A Road Map for America&#8217;s Future and first introduced in 2008, is a comprehensive proposal to ensure health and retirement security for all Americans, to lift the debt burdens that are mounting every day because of Washington&#8217;s reckless spending, and to promote jobs and competitiveness in the 21st century global economy.</p>
<p>The difference between the Road Map and the Democrats&#8217; approach could not be more clear. From the enactment of a $1 trillion &#8220;stimulus&#8221; last February to the current pass-at-all costs government takeover of health care, the Democratic leadership has followed a &#8220;progressive&#8221; strategy that will take us closer to a tipping point past which most Americans receive more in government benefits than they pay in taxes—a European-style welfare state where double-digit unemployment becomes a way of life.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703808904575025080017959478.html">Paul D. Ryan: A GOP Road Map for America&#8217;s Future &#8211; WSJ.com</a>.</p>
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		<title>After Brown victory, Obama struggles to control message &#8211; AP</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the president&#8217;s State of the Union address coming up on Wednesday, the White House appears to be struggling to find its feet. Republican Scott Brown&#8217;s surprise victory in liberal Massachusetts has dominated the national conversation in the last week and made Obama&#8217;s goal of signing health care reform impossible before the big speech. Now, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>With the president&#8217;s State of the Union address coming up on Wednesday, the White House appears to be struggling to find its feet. Republican Scott Brown&#8217;s surprise victory in liberal Massachusetts has dominated the national conversation in the last week and made Obama&#8217;s goal of signing health care reform impossible before the big speech.  Now, even Obama&#8217;s apparent attempt to soothe voters&#8217; budget-deficit concerns by proposing a three-year freeze on some federal spending is being met with ridicule from both the right and the left.</p>
<p>The plan Obama will propose breaks down as follows:</p>
<p>- Freeze discretionary spending on non-security-related programs and government agencies whose budgets are set annually by Congress. Affected programs could include subsidies for farmers, child nutrition, and national parks.</p>
<p>- Exempt from the freeze would be budgets for federal entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, as well as the budgets for the Pentagon, the Veterans Administration, the Department of Homeland Security, and foreign aid.</p>
<p>The administration claims this will save the country $250 billion over the next decade, or about 3% of the $9 trillion deficits the U.S. is expected to accumulate over that period.</p>
<p>Conservatives have mocked the freeze as not doing nearly enough to get to the root of the country&#8217;s economic problems. The right-leaning blog RedState.com chided the effort, saying that it would have &#8220;virtually no impact on the financial standing of the United States of America.&#8221; On her Twitter page, right-wing commentator Michelle Malkin compared the freeze to &#8220;promising to slow down from 250 mph to 249.9.&#8221; House Minority Leader John Boehner likened the plan to &#8220;announcing you&#8217;re going on a diet after winning a pie-eating contest.&#8221;</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100126/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1077">After Brown victory, Obama struggles to control message &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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