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		<title>Palestinian Bloodlust Unleashed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Klein]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Palestinian leaders incite brutal synagogue killings in Jerusalem. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245561" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/ShowImage.ashx_-450x314.jpg" alt="ShowImage.ashx" width="358" height="250" /></a>Two Palestinian thugs, armed with cleavers, knives and a gun, invaded an orthodox synagogue in West Jerusalem early Tuesday during morning prayers, and proceeded to murder four Jewish worshippers in cold blood. At least a dozen others were wounded. Three of the murder victims were American citizens. The fourth was a British citizen. Three of the victims were also rabbis. Israeli police, arriving at the scene of the horrific massacre and exchanging gunfire with the Palestinians as they tried to escape, shot the murderers to death. But the horrible images of the slain and wounded worshippers with blood everywhere, drenching holy books, prayer shawls and walls of the synagogue, will live on for a very long time.</p>
<p>“To see Jews wearing tefillin and wrapped in the tallit lying in pools of blood, I wondered if I was imagining scenes from the Holocaust,” said Yehuda Meshi Zahav, the veteran leader of a religious emergency-response team as quoted by the <i>New York Times. </i>“It was a massacre of Jews at prayer.”</p>
<p>At least ten Jews have now been run over by cars and killed, or have been stabbed to death by Palestinians during the last month. Call this latest spate of violence the &#8220;Car Intifada,&#8221; as some Palestinian social media refer to it with a song by that name, or the &#8220;Knife Intifada,&#8221; as other Palestinians have coined it. Either way, Palestinian leaders have Jewish blood on their hands after exhorting their followers to commit such violent acts. The inciters to murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.</p>
<p>Predictably, Hamas praised the cowardly synagogue attack as a “heroic” act. Hamas&#8217;s leadership claimed that the brutal murders were justified as legitimate responses to Israeli actions. “There is no solution for the Palestinian question except through Jihad. Initiatives proposals and international conferences are all a waste of time,” a spokesman for Hamas declared. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera International to expect “more revolution in Jerusalem, and more uprising.&#8221;</p>
<p>A Hamas official posted <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ana.hor.bahaayaseen/photos/a.634911186630127.1073741830.263328473788402/671934452927800/?type=1"><span style="color: #0463c1;">an image of a grotesque poster</span></a> depicting the attack on his Facebook page. It showed Palestinians brandishing guns and a bloodied knife rampaging through a synagogue with bodies of Jews strewn on the floor and other Jews trying to flee the terror. In the evil perverted minds of Hamas jihadists and their ilk, the killing of Jews even while praying in their own synagogue far removed from the Temple Mount is a cause for great celebration.</p>
<p>Palestinian Authority President Abbas, whose talk of a &#8220;religious war&#8221; and other incendiary rhetoric helped to incite the latest in a series of violent attacks against Jewish civilians in Jerusalem and elsewhere, issued a formulaic condemnation of the synagogue killings. At the same time he continued his lie-ridden rant against Israelis:</p>
<blockquote><p>The president always condemns killings of civilians from any party whatsoever, and condemns the killing of worshipers today in one of the houses of worship in West Jerusalem, and also denounces all violent acts no matter what their source is, and demands an end to the ongoing incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the provocative acts by Israeli settlers as well as incitement by some Israeli ministers.</p>
<p>The presidency also confirms that it is time to end the occupation and end the causes of tension and violence, affirming our commitment to a just-based solution on the basis of a two-state solution, in accordance with the resolutions of international legitimacy, and maintain an atmosphere of calm and understandings that have been made with King Abdullah II and American Secretary of State John Kerry in Amman.</p></blockquote>
<p>Meanwhile, official Palestinian Authority television is reported to have broadcast disgusting images of Bethlehem residents handing out candy in the streets, to celebrate the attack. And an official spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah party, Ahmed Assaf, said that “the Jerusalem operation was a natural response to the Israeli violations.”</p>
<p>Secretary of State Kerry, who just a few days ago expressed his belief that tensions in Jerusalem were beginning to de-escalate, issued a strong condemnation of the synagogue murders. “To have this kind of act, which is a pure result of incitement, of calls for ‘days of rage,’ of just irresponsibility, is unacceptable,” Kerry said. “The Palestinian leadership must condemn this and they must begin to take serious steps to restrain any kind of incitement …This simply has no place in human behavior and we need to hear from leaders who are going to lead their people to a different place.”</p>
<p>Clearly, Abbas and his henchmen have not gotten Kerry’s message. And Hamas seeks to characterize the synagogue slaughters as delivering a very different type of message. Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas spokesman, wrote in a Facebook post: “We have the full right to revenge for the blood of our martyrs in all possible means.”</p>
<p>For his part, President Obama did personally condemn the bloody slaughters, saying “there is and can be no justification for such attacks against innocent civilians.” But, as usual, Obama tried to link an act of pure evil &#8212; the shedding of innocent blood of worshippers in their holy place of prayer &#8211; to the failed peace negotiations. He said that &#8220;it is all the more important for Israeli and Palestinian leaders and ordinary citizens to work cooperatively together to lower tensions, reject violence and seek a path forward towards peace.” Obama also continued his false moral equivalency narrative by noting that there has been violence committed on both sides. &#8220;Too many Israelis have died, too many Palestinians have died,” Obama said. That’s true, but it is the Palestinians who are at fault. They have rejected real peace, from the original United Nations two-state partition solution more than six decades ago until now, and have instead conducted a relentless campaign of violence against Jewish civilians.</p>
<p>The failed peace talks, the building of additional Jewish housing in Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem and the lies about purported Israeli plans to interfere with Muslim worship and invade their mosques serve only as pretexts for Palestinians to satiate their never-ending lust for Jewish blood. Obama’s anti-Israel bias blinds him to the incontrovertible fact that Palestinian leaders have refused to work together with Israeli leaders to lower tensions and reject violence as he has suggested. Only Israel is trying in good faith to lower the temperature and prevent a conflagration. Indeed, while Hamas leaders and Abbas have incited violence with blatant lies about alleged Israeli plans to attack the al-Aqsa Mosque, Prime Minister Netanyahu has tried to de-escalate tensions by even continuing to prevent Jews from exercising their fundamental human right to worship freely wherever they wish, including on the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site.</p>
<p>However, Prime Minister Netanyahu’s patience has just about run out. Now Jews cannot even pray safely in their own synagogues in the uncontested area of West Jerusalem. Such pathological Palestinian behavior must be stopped once and for all.</p>
<p>“This is the direct result of the incitement being led by Hamas and Abu Mazen [Palestinian Authority - PA President Mahmoud Abbas], incitement which the international community is irresponsibly ignoring,” Prime Minister Netanyahu said. “We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were met by reprehensible murderers. We will respond harshly,” he added.</p>
<p>The prime minister called for national unity in fighting against &#8220;those human animals who committed this massacre&#8221; and against Hamas, the Islamic movement, the Palestinian Authority and whomever else &#8220;disseminate libels against the state of Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>Demolition of the Palestinian murderers’ homes and arrests of any and all accomplices are first steps. Security will be beefed up all around Jerusalem. More restrictions may be needed on freedom of movement among at least certain segments of the Palestinian population living in Jerusalem. The two killers were residents of East Jerusalem who carried Israeli identification cards allowing them to travel throughout Israel. They also worked in Jewish neighborhoods. In addition, Israeli officials should bring pressure to bear on social media providers such as Facebook to monitor and immediately remove the kind of hate speech inciting violence against Jews, including babies, on sites that Palestinians are regularly frequenting. If necessary, Israel should use its technological prowess to block access to such sites.</p>
<p>Whatever measures Israel takes to protect its citizens against the Palestinians’ bloodlust should be fully supported by the United States. Anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council should be vetoed. UN Human Rights Council kangaroo investigations of alleged Israeli “crimes” should be met with U.S. withdrawal from this farcical body and de-funding. But that is not likely to happen, since President Obama’s thinking is in synch with the anti-Israel, moral equivalency mindset of the UN. When I asked the United Nations High Commissioner for Human rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein for his comment on the Jerusalem synagogue slaughters, he responded in a similar fashion to President Obama’s statement. He condemned any killings of civilians and said he hoped that calm can be restored. He would not criticize the incitements to violence by Hamas and other Palestinian leaders.</p>
<p>If, as expected, the Obama administration continues its campaign to undermine Prime Minister Netanyahu, rather than wholeheartedly support his fight against ISIS look-alikes such as Hamas and other Palestinian murderers of innocent civilians, the prime minister should go over Obama’s head and take his case directly to the American people. His message should be that Israel and America are fighting the same enemy. Israel’s battles against the Palestinian jihadists are inextricably linked with America’s fight against ISIS and other jihadists worldwide who want to destroy the freedoms we take for granted. He can start with a speech to a joint session of Congress, which large bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress would welcome, even if President Obama is displeased.</p>
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		<title>How Many Americans Will Die Because of the Bergdahl Trade?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2014 04:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ronn Torossian]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just how awful this deal is for our country.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/berg88.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233556" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/berg88-450x253.jpg" alt="berg88" width="302" height="170" /></a>As Time Magazine reported this week, “Asked whether the Taliban would be inspired by the exchange to kidnap others, a commander laughed. “Definitely.&#8221;</p>
<p>Once again, President Barack Obama has shown why he is a horrible President. A weak, impotent American president. Here are some quotes that are important to share in regards to just how awful this deal was for America:</p>
<p>“Swapping Bergdahl for illegal enemy combatants (terrorists, in common parlance) signaled unmistakably to Taliban and al Qaeda that Obama is determined to withdraw from Afghanistan no matter what the cost to the United States or those in Afghanistan fighting to remain free.” &#8212; John Bolton</p>
<p>“We all must be mindful that the United States has diplomatic, civilian, and military personnel deployed in other countries with both challenging security environments and active terrorist networks interested in targeting not just our facilities but our people. One of their greatest protections – knowing that the United States does not negotiate with terrorists – has been compromised.” &#8212; John Boehner</p>
<p>“I fear that the administration&#8217;s decision to negotiate with the Taliban for Sgt. Bergdahl&#8217;s release could encourage future terrorist kidnappings of Americans.” &#8212; U.S. Senator for Florida, Marco Rubio</p>
<p>“If you negotiate here, you&#8217;ve sent a message to every al Qaeda group in the world &#8211; by the way, some who are holding U.S. hostages today &#8211; that there is some value now in that hostage in a way that they didn&#8217;t have before.” &#8212; Mike Rogers</p>
<p>“By releasing these five top Taliban commanders, the U.S. is demonstrating that it is throwing in the towel in the long struggle against the Taliban and its al-Qaeda allies in Afghanistan.” &#8212; Jonathan S. Tobin</p>
<p>“This is an example of a signing statement where the President is taking power for himself that the law didn&#8217;t give him.” &#8212; Jeffrey Toobin</p>
<p>“While not as well known as Guantanamo inmates like 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the Taliban 5 were some of the worst outlaws in the U.S. war on terror. And their release will end up replenishing the diminished leadership ranks of the Afghan Taliban at a moment when the United States is winding down the war there.” &#8212; Eli Lake, Josh Rogin</p>
<p>“The idea that we&#8217;re now making trades, what does that do for every single soldier stationed abroad? It says the reason why the U.S. has had the policy for decades of not negotiating with terrorists is because once you start doing it, every other terrorist has an incentive to capture more soldiers.” &#8212; Senator Ted Cruz</p>
<p>“One was the deputy minister of intelligence for the Taliban. One was the deputy minister of defense for the Taliban. These are no local level individuals. These are leaders and this is serious to put them back on the street.” &#8212; James Lankford</p>
<p>“At least when Israel releases terrorists to gain the freedom of one of its soldiers, the country’s leaders have the grace to treat the decision as a regrettable action made out of necessity and nothing to celebrate.” &#8212; Jonathan S. Tobin</p>
<p>“It&#8217;s very interesting to me that they would be willing to release five extraordinarily dangerous Taliban members in exchange for this soldier who apparently left his post.” &#8212; Senator Susan Collins</p>
<p>“We have now set a price. We have a changing footprint in Afghanistan which would put our soldiers at risk for this notion that ‘If I can get one, I can get five Taliban released.” &#8212; Mike Rogers</p>
<p>“Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.”&#8211; Cal Thomas</p>
<p>“If it was an isolated incident, then maybe you could just say, ‘Oh, this was an emergency situation.’ But what you have is a pattern of the administration ignoring the law, whether it’s health care, immigration or now national security. And obviously those sorts of patterns undermine our system of government.” &#8212; Rep. Mac Thornberry</p>
<p>“America has maintained a prohibition on negotiating with terrorists for good reason.” &#8212; James Inhofe</p>
<p>“Shame on the Obama administration for this &#8220;prisoner exchange.&#8221; It is sad that a U.S. soldier was a hostage for five years in the hands of the Taliban, but releasing five Taliban is wrong. These people will likely kill more of our troops, and this deal will encourage more hostage-taking.” &#8212; Sassan K. Darian</p>
<p>“Mr. Obama is more willing to negotiate with the Taliban than Congress.” &#8212; Joseph Curl</p>
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		<title>The Left-Wing Money Machine and the IRS&#8217;s War on Conservatives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2014 05:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report on the biggest donors and its implications for the IRS scandal. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/tnl.gif"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-219255" alt="tnl" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/tnl-258x350.gif" width="258" height="350" /></a><strong>To order David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin&#8217;s <em>The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money-Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America&#8217;s Future, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Leviathan-Left-Wing-Money-Machine-ebook/dp/B006OHIXK2">click here</a>.</em></strong></p>
<p>Of all the donors who contribute to political causes, no one is more vilified by the mainstream media than the Koch brothers for their &#8220;outsized&#8221; influence on the national debate. But according to <i><a href="http://OpenSecrets.org" target="_blank">OpenSecrets.org</a></i>, which complied a list of the &#8220;Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014,&#8221; the Koch brothers didn&#8217;t even make the top fifty. Meanwhile, none of the top ten donors and only two of the top 20 tilted toward Republicans, with the rest supporting Democrats and only a few on the fence. These findings are hardly surprising. As David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin revealed in their 2012 book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Leviathan-Left-Wing-Money-Machine-ebook/dp/B006OHIXK2" target="_blank">The New Leviathan: How the Left-Wing Money Machine Shapes American Politics and Threatens America’s Future</a>, the American right is severely outgunned by their leftist counterparts in the world of advocacy organizations. What is true of these groups is also true of political action committees and similar organizations, as <i>OpenSecrets</i> reveals. These facts only make the idea that IRS targeting of conservatives was &#8220;accidental&#8221; all the more ludicrous.</p>
<p>In <i>The New Leviathan</i>, Horowitz and Laksin demonstrate the massive disparity between political donations to the Left and Right. Regarding immigration policy, for example, they note that there are 117 progressive groups with an annual revenue of over $306 million dollars endeavoring to undermine traditional standards for citizenship and legalization, compared to only nine groups with a total of $15 million to defend those standards. On the environmental front, there are 552 groups with $3.56 billion in annual resources that promote greater government control over the environment, compared to only 32 groups with $96 million in annual resources promoting the preservation of private property and free-market solutions to the nation&#8217;s environmental problems.</p>
<p>This imbalance is further exacerbated by government funding that is disproportionately aimed at progressive organizations, even when conservative administrations have held sway in Washington, D.C. When Horowitz and Laskin add up the total amount of resources available to both sides of the ideological divide, it is easy to see why the nation is being pushed further and further leftward: there are 122 major leftist foundations with $104 billion worth of assets, compared to 86 conservative foundations, with just over $10 billion worth of assets. This ten-to-one ratio completely undermines the Left&#8217;s argument that conservative success is due to a massive funding advantage.</p>
<p>It is also instructive to compare the above statistics with recent IRS scrutiny of advocacy groups. During the IRS&#8217;s conservative targeting campaign, at least 292 conservative groups were selected for additional and unfair scrutiny between 2010 and 2012. The number of liberal groups subjected to the same scrutiny? Six.</p>
<p>Just recently, on Feb. 11, House Ways and Means Chairman Camp revealed that his committee’s continuing investigation discovered the IRS also singled out established conservative tax-exempt groups for audits. &#8220;We now know that the IRS targeted not only right-leaning applicants, but also right-leaning groups that were already operating as 501(c)(4)s,” he said in a statement.</p>
<blockquote><p>“At Washington, DC’s direction, dozens of groups operating as 501(c)(4)s were flagged for IRS surveillance, including monitoring of the groups’ activities, websites and any other publicly available information. Of these groups, 83% were right-leaning. And of the groups the IRS selected for audit, 100% were right-leaning.”</p></blockquote>
<p>However, the work of groups on the left side of the spectrum has gone virtually unimpeded for decades. Though they have made surrogate partisan politics an art form, operating as virtual arms of the Democratic Party, left-wing groups have never been subjected to the kind of crackdown that conservative groups have faced under the Obama administration. For example, <i>Media Matters for America</i>, funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, has served as both a mouthpiece and attack dog for the Democratic Party establishment since 2004. In 2012, emails obtained by the Daily Caller revealed that the Obama Justice Department was actively working with Media Matters to spin news and attack journalists reporting on department scandals. In 2013, President Obama easily converted his re-election campaign apparatus into the tax-exempt advocacy group Organizing for Action, which is now challenging the power and resources of the Democratic National Committee. In contrast, the small-time Tea Party group <i>True the Vote</i> struggled for three years to achieve tax-exempt status.</p>
<p>Thus, President Obama&#8217;s recent assertion that there&#8217;s not even a &#8220;smidgen&#8221; of corruption associated IRS is absurd and dishonest. There is also a great question as to whether any serious investigation of the case is being preformed at all. As both the <i>New York Post </i>and <i>Washington Post</i> rightly note, the Obama administration&#8217;s Justice Department is still purportedly engaged in an ongoing investigation, which should preclude the president from reaching any conclusion whatsoever. Yet the president has no apparent problem making pronouncements of innocence in advance of the facts. In fact, the Department of Justice has already declared no criminal charges are anticipated in the case.</p>
<p>Victims of the IRS are speaking out against the administration&#8217;s sham investigation. <i>The American Center for Law and Justice</i> revealed that the FBI didn&#8217;t ask to interview any of its 41 clients until December, seven months after the scandal broke, and still hasn&#8217;t interviewed a single one of them. Lawyer Cleta Mitchell, who represents several other targeted clients, also revealed that the FBI never interviewed any of her clients either. And despite promises to do so, the FBI declined to make lead investigator Valerie Parlave available to the House Oversight Committee.</p>
<p>For those familiar with the funding disparity between the Left and the Right, the persecution of conservative outsiders shouldn&#8217;t be any surprise. The Left is comfortable with the status quo and it covets its dominance over the coffers of political influence. When conservative Americans began to intensify their efforts in this arena, they paid the price &#8212; including by facing tens of thousands of dollars in abusive bureaucratic fines and litigation costs merely for exercising their civil and constitutional rights.</p>
<p>Unless conservatives recognize the enormity of the <i>New Leviathan</i> they are up against, the future only promises more of the same.</p>
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		<title>American Blood on Iranian Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iranian-mullahs.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217010" alt="iranian-mullahs" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/iranian-mullahs.jpg" width="350" height="263" /></a>“The worst part for me is that nobody remembers,” Mark Nevells <a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2013/10/22/news/bangor/the-worst-part-for-me-is-that-nobody-remembers-retired-carmel-marine-recalls-1983-beirut-bombings/">said last year on</a> the anniversary of the Hezbollah bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut.</p>
<p>A Marine had thrown his body in front of the truck to try stop the vehicle and afterward for<a href="https://bangordailynews.com/2013/10/22/news/bangor/the-worst-part-for-me-is-that-nobody-remembers-retired-carmel-marine-recalls-1983-beirut-bombings/"> five days</a>, Nevells and other Marines had dug through the rubble for the bodies of the men they had served with.</p>
<p>One of the first Marines on the scene <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/24/world/don-t-leave-us-trapped-men-cry.html">heard voices coming</a> from underneath the rubble. &#8220;Get us out. Don&#8217;t leave us.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Marines lost more people that day than at any time since Iwo Jima and the number of Americans murdered that day by a terrorist group was a record that would stand until September 11.</p>
<p>In Washington, the murder of 220 Marines and the Iranian, Ismail Ascari, who drove the truck full of explosives that tore through their barracks, are inconvenient truths and lost memories. And it has always been that way.</p>
<p>Before the attack, the NSA intercepted a message from Iranian intelligence in Tehran to the Iranian ambassador in Damascus <a href="http://the-case-against-iran.blogspot.com/2006/12/beirut-marine-barracks-bombing-and.html">ordering</a> “a spectacular action against the United States Marines.”</p>
<p>Mohsen Rafiqdoost, Khomeini’s bodyguard who helped found Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and served as Minister of Revolutionary Guards during the bombing, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/blog/former-minister-of-irans-revolutionary-guards-kill-the-americans/">boasted</a>, “both the TNT and the ideology, which in one blast sent to hell 400 officers, NCOs, and soldiers at the Marines headquarters, were provided by Iran.”</p>
<p>Today Mohsen is a millionaire and stands to make a huge profit from the flow of goods after Obama’s weakening of sanctions on Iran. He also boasts of being the “father of Iran’s missile program” though there are so many in Iran making that same claim that Iran’s missile program is undeniably a bastard.</p>
<p>The Marines who died in the bombing were lucky. Another Marine did not die as quickly.</p>
<p>Colonel William R. Higgins was captured by Hezbollah, the terrorist group acting as Iran’s hand in Lebanon, and tortured for months until his body was dumped near a mosque.</p>
<p>An <a href="http://information.iran911case.com/Exhibit_28.pdf">autopsy report</a> found that he had been starved and had suffered multiple lethal injuries that could have caused his death.  The skin on his face had been partially removed along with his tongue and he had also been castrated.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.meforum.org/blog/obama-mideast-monitor/2009/03/mitchells-two-deputies-dayton-and-hof">Fred Hof, a diplomat</a> who had been a friend of the murdered man, said, “I am one of a small handful of Americans who knows the exact manner of Rich’s death. If I were to describe it to you now – which I will not – I can guarantee that a significant number of people in this room would become physically ill.”</p>
<p>&#8220;The State Department, not the Defense Department, had the lead. That meant diplomacy, not military might. It meant no retribution, no retaliation, no rescue,&#8221; Robin L. Higgins, his wife, wrote.</p>
<p>Colonel Higgins’ wife and daughter sued Iran for the murder and won a $355 million judgment from seized Iranian assets. The court found that, “Although an act of cruel savagery, the mutilation of the Colonel&#8217;s body was apparently consistent with the Islamic Guard&#8217;s fulfillment of Iranian foreign policy.”</p>
<p>Like Higgins, William Francis Buckley, the CIA station chief, was also captured and tortured for months. On video tapes released by his Hezbollah captors, he was incoherent and his mind had been broken by the horrors inflicted on his ravaged body and his soul.</p>
<p>&#8220;They had done more than ruin his body,&#8221; CIA Director William Casey said. “His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was horrific, medieval and barbarous”</p>
<p>Imad Mughniyah was reportedly one of Buckley’s main interrogators and Iran passed along messages offering to trade Buckley in exchange for weapons sales.</p>
<p>Robert Stethem, a Navy diver, was brutally murdered when Hezbollah terrorists took over TWA flight 847. The Iranian-backed terrorists, one of whom was Imad Mughniyah, beat and kicked him to death.</p>
<p>&#8220;They were jumping in the air and landing full force on his body. He must have had all his ribs broken,&#8221; Uli Derickson, the stewardess, described. &#8220;I was sitting only 15 feet away. I couldn’t listen to it. I put my fingers in my ears. I will never forget. I could still hear. They put the mike up to his face so his screams could be heard by the outside world.&#8221;</p>
<p>Stethem’s screams, like those of the other American victims of Iran, have yet to be heard in Washington.</p>
<p>After <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/us-embassy-attacks-and-bombings-recent-history-782665">the bombing of the</a> American embassy in Beirut, the terrorist group that took credit for the attack warned, “This is part of the Iranian revolution&#8217;s campaign against imperialist targets throughout the world.”</p>
<p>It may be tempting to dismiss all this as ancient history, but the terror never stopped. In 1996, 19 Air Force airmen were killed in the bombing of the Khobar Towers <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/22/AR2006122200455.html">with another truck bomb</a>. “The Khobar Towers bombing was planned, funded, and sponsored by senior leadership in the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the judgment in yet another case by victims of terrorism against Iran found.</p>
<p>President Clinton responded to the Iranian act of terror with a conciliatory message to Mohammad Khatami, another newly elected phony reformer playing the part of the President of Iran</p>
<p>&#8220;The United States has no hostile intentions towards the Islamic Republic of Iran and seeks good relationships with your government,&#8221; Clinton wrote. &#8220;In order to lay a sound basis for better relations between our countries, we need a clear commitment from you that you will ensure an end to Iranian involvement in terrorist activity.&#8221;</p>
<p>The Iranians rejected the call for peace and Clinton, who had earlier told advisors, “I don’t want any pissant half-measures”, backed down, as he usually did when confronted with Islamic terror.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/10/opinion/bergen-iran-al-qaeda/">The 9/11 Commission found evidence</a> that the majority of the &#8220;muscle&#8221; operatives who would terrorize the crews and passengers had &#8220;traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001.&#8221; After September 11, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/10/opinion/bergen-iran-al-qaeda/">top Al Qaeda officials</a> fled to Iran as part of its policy of covertly allowing Al Qaeda terrorists to travel across its border <a href="http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,664967,00.html">without passport stamps</a>. The <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/interviews/newjohnson.html">key figure in th</a>e cooperation between Iran and Al Qaeda <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/15/iranian-minister-honors-al-qaeda-mentor-hezbollah-s-imad-mugniyah.html">was once again Imad Mughniyah</a> who met with and influenced Osama bin Laden.</p>
<p>The 1998 indictment of Al Qaeda <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/014/760sezag.asp?page=2">stated that the</a> terrorist group had “forged alliances with the National Islamic Front in the Sudan and with representatives of the government of Iran, and its associated terrorist group Hezbollah, for the purpose of working together against their perceived common enemies in the West, particularly the United States.”</p>
<p>After the Israelis finally took out Mughniyah with a bomb in his headrest, Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared, “The pure blood of martyrs like Imad Mugniyah will grow hundreds like him.”</p>
<p>Last week, even while the pro-Iran leftist activists of MSNBC and the Huffington Post were furiously defending Obama’s Iran nuke sellout, the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs placed a wreath on Mughniyah’s grave thereby pledging allegiance to everything that the terrorist mastermind stood for.</p>
<p>Even as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani boasted that the nuclear deal meant that the United States and other world powers had &#8220;surrendered before the great Iranian nation&#8221; and its true ruler, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, described the United States as “Satan” and declared it an enemy; the cloud of wishful thinking still lingers in Foggy Bottom breathed by the career diplomats of the State Department.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter, whose empowerment of the Ayatollah Khomeini left his hands covered in the blood of Americans murdered by Iranian terror, has come out to praised Obama and Kerry for “doing the right thing” while warning that sanctions on Iran would be a “devastating blow”.</p>
<p>All these horrific acts of terror took place as a result of Jimmy Carter’s appeasement of Iran. What blood price will be exacted for Obama’s appeasement of Iran?</p>
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		<title>Temporary Workers to Flood America with Gang of 8 Bill</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2013 04:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Schumer-and-Graham.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192416" alt="Schumer-and-Graham" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Schumer-and-Graham-450x330.jpg" width="270" height="198" /></a>If the new Senate immigration bill, S.744, passes, approximately 1.6 million new foreign temporary workers will be given legal status in the first year alone. That’s a number even higher than was estimated for the defeated 2007 immigration bill, according to a new study.</span></b></p>
<p><a href="http://cis.org/gang-of-eight-bill-doubles-temporary-worker-flow">According to study from the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS),</a> 1,590,833 extra foreign temporary workers will be approved for legal status in the first year after the bill&#8217;s passage, and more than 600,000 extra foreign temporary workers will be approved over current levels for temporary legal status yearly after that. The 2007 McCain/Kennedy bill only increased the number of foreign temporary workers by about 125,000 over 2007 levels.</p>
<p>About one third of these new foreign temporary workers will be approved for H-1B visas, or they will be family members of those approved for H-1B visas. The study estimates that about 125,000 more H-1B visas will be approved over the current levels if S.744 passes. Furthermore, about 400,000 extra family members of H-1B visa holders will also be approved. An <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-1B_visa">H-1B Visa</a> allows US employers to temporarily employ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_worker">foreign workers </a>in specialty occupations, like information technology.</p>
<p>On a conference call introducing the study, Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions, one of the most outspoken critics of the bill, stated that such a massive increase in foreign temporary workers will only make it even tougher for US workers to find jobs in an already difficult economic environment.</p>
<p>“This report from CIS is a bombshell,&#8221; he said.</p>
<blockquote><p>To my surprise, and no doubt the surprise of many, the Gang of Eight immigration bill doubles the annual number of guest workers from today’s level a much larger increase than any of us had imagined. It adds four times more guest workers than the rejected proposal from 2007. Yet today’s employment situation is far worse than when Congress considered the 2007 proposal. This large increase in guest workers guarantees that Americans’ wages will remain stagnant and that the unemployed will remain unemployed. This legislation surges the number of low-wage workers at the expense of the poor and middle class.</p></blockquote>
<p>Congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama echoed those sentiments. He pointed out that the problem comes down to basic knowledge of supply and demand.</p>
<p>“It’s a matter of economics. If you have a large influx of legal immigrants, that increases the supply of labor.”</p>
<p>Whenever the supply of anything goes up, the price of that corresponding unit goes down. In this case, increasing the supply of labor would decrease wages, according to Brooks’ argument.</p>
<p>Senator David Vitter of Louisiana asked rhetorically how adding millions of new workers would relieve the unemployment crisis for American workers. “How do we expect to improve our unemployment statistics, by adding millions of temporary workers to our labor force? We must make securing our borders and stopping the flow of illegal immigrants into our country our principal focus,” Vitter said.</p>
<p>On the flip side, the last several years, H-1B visas have been exhausted quickly by American companies. According to a story from Daily Tech, H-1B visas <a href="http://www.dailytech.com/Nearly+All+H1B+Visas+Used+for+2013+Tech+Companies+Push+for+Increased+Availability/article24913.htm">nearly hit their limit</a> for 2013 in the middle of 2012.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/current-h1b-visa-system-incredibly-disruptive-microsoft/article4647817.ece">Microsoft</a>, as an example, has been lobbying the government to increase the number of H-1B visas for years.</p>
<p>Jessica Vaughan, who authored the study for CIS, acknowledged that H-1B visas are generally exhausted every year, but said that while increasing the number of those approved maybe good for companies like Microsoft, it doesn’t mean that increasing that number, especially as dramatically as proposed in the bill, would be good for American workers.</p>
<p>It’s been noted many times that the last four plus years have a part of the worst recovery from any recession in the history of the nation. Unemployment is hovering near eight percent only due to a statistical anomaly which doesn’t count those that have been unemployed for extended periods of time. With those counted, the unemployment rate would be well into double digits. With that economic environment, adding millions of new foreign temporary workers will only place an even greater burden on those Americans already struggling to find work.</p>
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		<title>Americans Trust Actors Most</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 04:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[They read lines. And we like them.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/beng.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-189382" alt="beng" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/beng.jpg" width="251" height="201" /></a>According to a new poll from Reader’s Digest, Americans know who they trust: actors. The most trusted person in America: Tom Hanks, producer of the great series <i>Band of Brothers</i>, and actor in not-so-great movies like <i>Larry Crowne</i> and <i>Castaway</i>. Hanks also happens to be a wild leftist – he once stated, “Back in World War II, we viewed the Japanese as ‘yellow, slant-eyed dogs’ that believed in different gods. They were out to kill us because our way of living was different. We, in turn, wanted to annihilate them because they were different … Does that sound familiar to what’s going on today?” When he came under fire, Hanks told the truth: “Look, I’m an actor. I’m not a politician. I’m not a statistician. I’m not a legislator.”</p>
<p>But he <i>is </i>trusted.</p>
<p>And he’s not the only one. Clocking in at number two was Sandra Bullock, star of <i>The Blind Side</i>. What has Bullock done to earn trust? Nobody knows, but we sure like her onscreen. Also in the top ten: Denzel Washington (<i>Flight</i>), Meryl Streep (<i>The Iron Lady</i>), Steven Spielberg (director of <i>Lincoln</i>), Alex Trebek (host, <i>Jeopardy!</i>), and Julia Roberts.</p>
<p>Hollywood is heavily overrepresented on the list as a general matter. A full 40 of the top 100 people on the list are chiefly cultural figures from television or movies. Ubiquity is what matters.</p>
<p>Now, no one can tell us much about why actors and actresses should be trusted. But that’s how our brain biology works. Hollywood understands something that the Republican Party doesn’t: presentation matters. People trust Tom Hanks because he reads lines that make him trustworthy, and because he has a trustworthy face. For the same reason, Tim Roth isn’t on the list – he plays a villain, and he looks like he should be cast as the villain.</p>
<p>Hollywood uses the power of that trust to leverage its values down our throats, too. Hollywood and the media have created heroes for us. Ben Affleck (who appears at #45 on the list) is a huge fan of Howard Zinn’s and a big supporter of President Obama’s. Ellen Degeneres (#18) is obviously one America’s most high-profile advocates for same-sex marriage.</p>
<p>Hollywood matters. But the GOP seems to think it doesn’t. Top members of the GOP pretend that the only town that matters is Washington, D.C., when in truth, the only town that really matters is Hollywood. That’s where views are shaped and formed. That’s why Barack Obama spends so much time there – not just because that’s where the money is, and not just because he uses the image consultants that shape Tinseltown, but because he understands that he needs Hollywood to push his messaging.</p>
<p>For decades, though, Republicans have abandoned the playing field in Hollywood. Hollywood, back in the 1930s and 1940s, was a far more evenly-split town in terms of politics. That’s because many of the corporate heads who made Hollywood profitable supported Republicans. But with the rise of television, all of that shifted – advertising agencies, based in New York and staffed by creative young liberals, began to exert more and more power in the industry. In the early 1970s, Hollywood made a complete break with the American people on politics, swinging hard to the left to appeal to youth – whom, they claimed, were more valuable viewers than older folks.</p>
<p>That shift left Republicans out in the cold. Richard Nixon, instead of wooing allies in Hollywood, went to war with it. In 1971, he tried to file antitrust lawsuits against the networks. “If the threat of screwing them is going to help us more with their programming than doing it, then keep the threat,” Nixon said. “As far as screwing them is concerned, I’m very glad to do it.”</p>
<p>The Nixon years polarized Hollywood even further, so much so that by the time a real Hollywood insider, Ronald Reagan, became president, Republicanism was a dirty word. Today, that feeling has been bred into the genetic code of Hollywood.</p>
<p>Republicans must find a way to break that cycle. If they don’t, they’re doomed to massive failure in the culture war. Imagistics matter. Emotional manipulation matters. That’s what Hollywood does best. It’s why we like Leonardo DiCaprio (#80), even if we’ve never met him and he turns out to be a tool personally. Hollywood creates friends for us. And then our friends help define how we think.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>While trying to blame Republicans, Obama is threatening that the sequestration cuts will be allocated in order to hit average Americans, including Obama voters, where they will most feel it.</p>
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		<title>Americans Don&#8217;t Trust the Media</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 04:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Gallup Poll reveals three-in-five Americans have little faith in the Fourth Estate.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MSNBClogo.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-145237" title="MSNBClogo" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/MSNBClogo.jpg" alt="" width="324" height="126" /></a>In a thoroughly unsurprising revelation, a Gallup Poll <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/157589/distrust-media-hits-new-high.aspx" target="_blank">released</a> on Friday shows that 60 percent of the American public has &#8220;little or no trust in the mass media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly.&#8221; Gallup further notes that the 20-point gap between negative and positive views represents an all-time high. And while Americans tend to pay more attention to the news during a presidential election year, only 39 percent are following the news closely this year, compared to 43 percent in 2008.</p>
<p>According to Gallup, most of the decline is driven by Republicans and Independents. Only 26 percent of Republicans and 31 percent of Independents express either a great deal, or fair amount of trust in the Fourth Estate. Both number represent record lows and a significant drop from last year. Independents are also far more negative this year than in 2008, implying they are very dissatisfied in their ability to get accurate and unbiased coverage of the election campaign. Overall, Democrats remain most trusting of the media and Republicans the least. Media trust by Independents fell below 50 percent in 2004, and has declined steadily ever since.</p>
<p>The key number here is the one reached by taking the opposite figure of those paying close attention to the news. If only 39 percent of the public is paying close attention, that means more than three-out-of-five Americans remain largely unaware of what is going on around them. As for mainstream media bias, the numbers are not <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/149624/Majority-Continue-Distrust-Media-Perceive-Bias.aspx" target="_blank">even close</a>. For the 60 percent of Americans who perceive media bias, 47 percent of them say the media are too liberal, while only 13 percent say they are too conservative.</p>
<p>Who&#8217;s right? No doubt the fallback position for many Americans, especially those who work in media, would be that bias is in the eye of the beholder. Certainly that is true to some extent. Americans&#8217; experience with media is anecdotal by nature. No one watches every news show, reads every newspaper, or listens to every radio broadcast disseminated on a daily basis throughout the nation. Furthermore, there is something called the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_exposure_theory" target="_blank">&#8220;selective exposure theory,&#8221;</a> which is the idea that people tend to interact with media sources that reinforce their pre-existing views, and avoid those that conflict with, or challenge, those views.</p>
<p>Yet a 2005 <a href="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/Media-Bias-Is-Real-Finds-UCLA-6664.aspx" target="_blank">study</a> conducted by Tim Groseclose, a UCLA political scientist, and co-author Jeffrey Milyo, a University of Missouri economist and public policy scholar, reveals that while coverage by public television and radio is conservative, compared to the rest of the mainstream media, almost all major media outlets tilt to the left. &#8220;I suspected that many media outlets would tilt to the left because surveys have shown that reporters tend to vote more Democrat than Republican,&#8221; said Groseclose. &#8220;But I was surprised at just how pronounced the distinctions are.&#8221; Milyo was equally adamant. &#8220;Overall, the major media outlets are quite moderate compared to members of Congress, but even so, there is a quantifiable and significant bias in that nearly all of them lean to the left,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The authors used 21 research assistants to examine 10 years of U.S. media coverage. They kept close track of the number of times each media entity referred to various think tanks and/or policy groups, such as the left-leaning NAACP, or the right-leaning Heritage Foundation. Of the 20 major media outlets studied, 18 scored left of center. CBS&#8217;s &#8220;Evening News,&#8221; The <em>New York Times</em> and the <em>Los Angeles Times</em> ranked the second, third and fourth most liberal media sources, respectively. Number one was the news pages of <em>The Wall Street Journal. </em> The only two sources on the right side of the equation were Fox News<em>&#8216;</em>s &#8220;Special Report With Brit Hume,&#8221; and <em>The Washington Times.</em> The most centrist outlets were &#8220;NewsHour With Jim Lehrer,&#8221; CNN<em>&#8216;s</em> &#8220;NewsNight With Aaron Brown&#8221; and ABC&#8217;s &#8220;Good Morning America.&#8221; The study focused on news, omitting op-eds and editorials from the equation &#8212; which is why <em>The</em> <em>Wall Street Journal,</em> whose editorial page is decidedly  conservative, got the top slot on the left side of the equation, the authors explain.</p>
<p>Another <a href="http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/jesse.shapiro/research/biasmeas.pdf" target="_blank">study</a> conducted in 2010 by University of Chicago economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro looked at the different language used by Democrats and Republicans in Congress to describe various issues as a means of determining which way newspapers lean, and why. They concluded that &#8220;consumer demand responds strongly to the fit between a newspaper’s slant and the ideology of potential readers, implying an economic incentive for newspapers to tailor their slant to the ideological predispositions of consumers.&#8221; That would seem to support a mutually-reinforced selective exposure theory. Yet unlike Groseclose and Milyo, they came to no conclusions regarding an overall slant of newspaper coverage.</p>
<p>Neither did David D’Alessio, a communications sciences professor at the University of Connecticut at Stamford, who reviewed 99 studies of campaign news coverage over 60 years. He <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/how-biased-is-the-media-really/2012/04/27/gIQA9jYLmT_story.html" target="_blank">wrote</a> a book, “Media Bias in Presidential Election Coverage 1948-2008: Evaluation via Formal Measurement,&#8221; in which he concludes that news reporting is evenly split “because that’s where the people are, and that’s where the [advertising] money is&#8230;There’s nuance there, but when you add it all and subtract it down, you end up with nothing.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nothing is an interesting word. Or more accurately &#8220;omission.&#8221; How does one quantify the stories the major media deliberately choose not to run at all? For example, as outlined in a previous <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/a-hurricane-of-hatred-for-republicans/" target="_blank">c</a><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/a-hurricane-of-hatred-for-republicans/" target="_blank">olumn</a>, in order to maintain the fiction that Republicans are a &#8220;racist&#8221; political party, MSNBC chose to omit from its coverage all the speeches made by minorities at the Republican convention. CBS News <a href="http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view/20110217cbs_complicit_in_news_coverup" target="_blank">spiked</a> a story about its own reporter Lara Logan being sexually assaulted by a mob of Egyptian men in Tahrir Square, because it would have interfered with the &#8220;Arab Spring&#8221; narrative that the Obama administration desperately wanted to be true. As for the president himself, the same media that more than willing to <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mitt-romneys-prep-school-classmates-recall-pranks-but-also-troubling-incidents/2012/05/10/gIQA3WOKFU_story.html" target="_blank">dug up</a> a 47-year-old story about Republican Mitt Romney cutting a prep school classmate&#8217;s hair (implying Romney targeted the classmate because he was supposedly suspected to be gay), remains almost pathologically incurious regarding a president whose past remains a vague, even after nearly four years in office.</p>
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		<title>It Pays Not To Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Tait Trussell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staying home and collecting a government check has never been so appealing.]]></description>
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<p>The benefit to millions of people for not working has risen dramatically during Obama’s Great Recession. Staying home and collecting a government check has never been so appealing.</p>
<p>The picture of a desperate, straggling army of jobless poor—magnified by the lefty news media&#8211; is a distortion of reality. The benefit of <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1971477">not working increased</a> from $10,000 to $15,000 a year for millions of Americans. Moreover, it unquestionably actually increased joblessness, the major political football of 2012.</p>
<p>Of course, some Americans are needy. Many are searching honestly for work. The monthly unemployment insurance payment on average was $864 in 2006. It <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1971477">jumped to $2,667</a>, however, in 2010, economist Kevin Hassett writes. On an annual basis that would be over $32,000. That’s more money than the average annual pay for a barber, a fast-food supervisor, a teacher’s assistant, a security guard, a library technician, a nurse’s aide, a veterinarian assistant, a parking lot attendant, a home health aide, a floral designer, a diet technician, a bartender, a sports referee or umpire, and dozens of other <a href="http://www.bls.gov/bls/blswage.htm">occupations</a>, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics pay data.</p>
<p>The number of Americans in “poverty” (as defined by the government) in 2010 was 46 million. The official national poverty rate for 2010—the most recent figure—was 15 percent, according to the <a href="http://www.census.gov/newsroom/releases/archives/income_wealth/cb11-157.html">U.S. Census</a> Bureau. Since 2007, the safety net for the financially needy has “expanded radically,” as Kevin Hassett, puts it. Hassett is a senior fellow and director of economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Hassett quotes Casey E. Mulligan, economics professor at University of Chicago as saying the percentage of the country’s population in poverty rose by only 0.6 percent from 2007 to 2010. Amazing, considering the hard-times economy.</p>
<p>Spending outlays to help the poor expanded not only because of the long economic rough patch but because the requirements for eligibility expanded so generously for most programs. Those in need can’t say they have been given short shrift when spending per person, not just total spending has increased so dramatically. Professor Mulligan developed a chart showing the average amount of assistance per unemployed or under-employed from 2006 to 2010 for individuals under age 65. It’s extensive.</p>
<p>The chart includes consumer loan charge-offs (of credit cards, mortgages or other debts), home retention actions (which seek to help keep borrowers in their homes while mitigating risk for banks. One type of home retention action is loan modification, in which servicers modify one or more mortgage terms. Another type is a payment plan. In this case, no terms are contractually modified, but borrowers are given time to catch up on missed payments (or are allowed to show they can meet amended terms); other government transfers, such as Supplemental Security Income, which pays limited-income people who are disabled or blind, and food stamps, plus the Child and Adult Care Program, which makes reimbursements for meals in day-care facilities.</p>
<p>As recently as last fall, Obama was offering mortgage relief to hundreds of thousands, following up on his previous failed foreclosure relief proposals.</p>
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