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		<title>Video: Sonnie Johnson on &#8220;Change the Game&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CEO of the Freedom Center's new website and activist program exposes the failure and racism of progressive policies.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cth.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-245691" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cth-450x274.jpg" alt="cth" width="291" height="177" /></a><em>Jamie Glazov, editor of FrontPage Magazine, interviews Sonnie Johnson, CEO of <a href="http://www.ctghq.org/">Change the Game</a> </em>[<span data-ft="{&quot;tn&quot;:&quot;K&quot;}" data-reactid=".10.1:3:1:$comment1500117523597345_1501080166834414:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"><span class="UFICommentBody" data-reactid=".10.1:3:1:$comment1500117523597345_1501080166834414:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.ctghq.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-reactid=".10.1:3:1:$comment1500117523597345_1501080166834414:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.$range1:0">ctghq.org] </a></span></span><em>&#8211; at the Restoration Weekend at The Breakers, West Palm Beach, FL, November 15th, 2015:</em></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sonnie2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-240323" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sonnie2.jpg" alt="sonnie" width="310" height="415" /></a>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Sonnie Johnson, the CEO and inspiration of <em>Change the Game</em> (<a href="http://www.ctghq.org/">ctghq.org</a>), the new website and activist program launched by the David Horowitz Freedom Center that sets out to expose the failure and racism of progressive policies and to use hip hop culture to reach constituencies previously untouched by conservative messages.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Sonnie Johnson, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>Thank you for having me. I have the feeling this will be the first of many.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>You have great intuition!</p>
<p>So let’s begin:</p>
<p>What is <em>Change the Game</em> all about and what inspired you to create it?</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>I never wanted to start my own project. I wanted to bring my talent to projects that currently exist, and I tried. It wasn&#8217;t long before I realized if I wanted to do something different, if I really wanted to change the conversation, I was going to have to do it myself.</p>
<p>Plus, there are a lot of black conservatives holding on by a thread. They are one Bundy Ranch, Trayvon Martin, and Michael Brown story away from leaving the conservative movement. We&#8217;ve lost some really great advocates already. They say they don&#8217;t have a home on the conservative side of the aisle. I wanted to provide that home.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Why has hip hop and its constituency been so insulated from conservative messages? Why have so many conservatives been insulated from hip hop?</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>Excellent question. If both sides asked themselves and answered honestly, we could actually have an honest conversation on race and culture.</p>
<p>In my very first &#8220;political&#8221; speech, I did a comparison between Jay-Z and Ronald Reagan. I took quotes straight from Reagan and mirrored them to lyrics by Jay-Z. I thought I was nailing my political coffin, but I wanted people to see we are saying the same thing. Every Tea Party speech I&#8217;ve ever given has hip hop symbolism or direct quotation. When conservatives don&#8217;t know the message is coming from hip hop, I get standing ovations.</p>
<p>When talking to lovers of hip hop, I don&#8217;t focus on blacks and social conservatism. While issues of black marriage, abortion, and protection of religious rights are important to me, I understand a single mother of three is more worried about not having her lights cut off than any of those issues.</p>
<p>If I want to talk to the hip-hop generation about inflation, I talk about my recent trip to the grocery store. If I want to talk about energy independence, I focus on the price of gas and the rise in electricity bills. If I want to talk about limited government, I talk about the heavy police presence and heavy taxation through the ticketing process.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t believe in utopia. We may never get on the same page and speak the exact same language. Damn it, that&#8217;s the purpose of a republic. We don&#8217;t have to like the same music, the same movies, or arrive at our principles by taking the same road. We just have to respect each other enough to fight for our freedom. After that, you do you and I&#8217;ll do me.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Why has there been a one-party monopoly of black voters for so long? Why has this monopoly occurred and what are its consequences?</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>If I were your average black conservative, this is where I would start to blame the Democrats. I would regurgitate how Democrats formed the KKK, started Jim Crow laws, and are the real racists. And I would be telling the truth, but I would still be highly ineffective in changing any minds in the black community.</p>
<p>There is a one-party monopoly in the black community because the Republicans don&#8217;t show up. They spend more money on polls and studies about engagement than actual engagement. When approached with fresh ideas (yes, I&#8217;m talking about you, Reince), they continue with the same tired policies of the past.</p>
<p>In this 2014 cycle, there is no real black engagement because the polls are calling for a Republican sweep. They don&#8217;t need the black vote. Having said that, I see you, Paul Ryan and Rand Paul. If the Republicans don&#8217;t want to listen to me, then they should at least follow the moves of some of their own.</p>
<p>Progressives were able to destroy the Republican legacy on civil rights issues because the Republicans weren&#8217;t there to defend it. Your average Republican starts every conversation with &#8220;Reagan said&#8230;,&#8221; like Reagan started the Republican Party. They only claim the party of Lincoln when trying to dismiss calls of racism.</p>
<p>Most Republicans don&#8217;t know the history of the Republican Party. They know the history of Ronald Reagan. How do you sell and defend a legacy you don&#8217;t know?</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> To be sure, progressives wear the mantle of caring about black Americans, but the historical record and empirical reality tell us quite a different and disturbing tale about the earthly incarnations of their ideas. Expand for us on what progressive policies have actually done to minorities and the poor in the inner city.</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>Wow, that question makes me want to give a highly historical answer. Or maybe biblical.</p>
<p>What I do best is make it about the people because those are the real victims of progressivism. Growing up, I never knew I was poor. I had three meals a day, a roof over my head, clothes on my back, and a loving family unit. My mother made me go to church and had very high expectation for my education. I didn&#8217;t know we lived below the poverty line.</p>
<p>Things start to change when people start telling you what you can&#8217;t do. Your parents say no to the latest trends due to financial restraints. Teachers tell you what you can&#8217;t do because of societal constraints. Your pastor tells you what you can&#8217;t do due to biblical restraints. Your race tells you what you can&#8217;t achieve due to racial constraints. More and more laws tell you what you can&#8217;t do because of criminal constraints. And no access to capital, training and financial education. What is left?</p>
<p>That&#8217;s when you get, &#8220;F&#8211;k the world!&#8221; As Wale would say, &#8220;If a young n&#8212;er can&#8217;t dribble, can&#8217;t rap, can&#8217;t act&#8230;he ain&#8217;t got no options.&#8221; That&#8217;s what progressivism breeds: a society of zero options. They want you to turn to government, but blacks, especially black males, have refused. They would rather enter the drug game and risk their life in the streets or behind bars than living under the thumb of government dependency.</p>
<p>People think young black males sell drugs for the money. No. They need the money to escape their current situation. They want to live a life not held down by the constraints of progressivism. Until conservatives take a money message, a true money message of capitalism, free markets, and entrepreneurship into the inner cities, they will progressively move towards further socialization, death and destruction.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>And so now we come full circle back to <em>Change the Game</em>, because you are all about using hip hop to help pull people out of the inner city trap and prison created and enforced by progressive policies. You have noted how hip hop, including gangsta rap, represents the rediscovery of the individual and how it complements the conservative message and the American Dream. Rappers like Ice T, Snoop Dogg and 50 Cent, as you have pointed out, are individuals who embody the capitalist reality and message. Enlighten our audience about this reality and how it &#8220;changes the game.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>First, I love that you used the word &#8220;trap.&#8221; Hip hop created that word to describe a street corner or hustle location. We know it&#8217;s a trap. The more it became a part of our vocabulary, the more it started to include public housing as a whole. I always want to point out that progressivism built those traps. Progressives wanted blacks all in one place to create a supply of workers. Now they value blacks as a supply of voters. That&#8217;s the real trap.</p>
<p>When Dr. Dre released &#8220;The Chronic,&#8221; he was cemented in hip hop history. It will always come up in conversation about the best hip hop albums ever. Recently, Dr. Dre sold his company <em>Beats by Dre</em> for over 2 billion dollars. I&#8217;m guessing if you ask Dr. Dre about the greatest decision in his life, it would be deciding to be a businessman instead of just an artist.</p>
<p>We are constantly talking about the failing school systems in America. If you care about the issue as more than just a talking point, then understand what it means for the kids having to come up through that failing system. The progressive public school agenda tells them America is unfair because they are black. They believe the nonsense.</p>
<p>Hip hop has become a vehicle to uplift a portion of black society. In addition to the artists, there are promoters, dancers, backround singers, bloggers, reporters, bookers, stylists, makeup artists, DJs, and the list goes on on; all getting paid from hip hop. It is a multi-billion-dollar industry nationwide. It all started at neighborhood parties and out of the back of car trunks.</p>
<p>Hip hop is Capitalism 101. Find a service that needs to be filled. Produce a product. Introduce it into the marketplace. Work hard to have the best product in the market. Receive financial success. They weren&#8217;t taught the basics in school, but they had no problem figuring it out naturally.</p>
<p>Hip hop artists today have taken it a step further. They own their labels, the rights to their music, the studio where they record, a clothing line, a brand of vodka, shoes, purses, perfumes, and even water. They have broken the progressive dogma of zero options.</p>
<p>What I want to do with <em>Change the Game</em> is move that same influence and drive towards all forms of industry. Science, math, electronics, and technology are the future and we aren&#8217;t preparing our kids. While hip hop is proof capitalism works, we can&#8217;t stop at having only music, sports, and Hollywood as access points out of poverty.</p>
<p>Listening to 50 Cent say, &#8220;If I can&#8217;t do it homie, it can&#8217;t be done&#8221; while trying to find the cure to cancer; to me, that&#8217;s &#8220;changing the game.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Let’s focus in on you for a moment. Sonnie, can you share with our readers a bit of your own background and journey? Tell us about your upbringing and youth. You were also once a Democrat. How did you ultimately find yourself on the conservative side and then as someone who, as a black American dealing with the issues confronting the black community, wanted to change the game?</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>I always wish I could say, &#8220;Two parent home. Stable upbringing. Move on.&#8221; Every time I tell my story people look at me with such sympathetic eyes. Like I must need a hug. No. My past didn&#8217;t break me; it made me.</p>
<p>My biological mother was addicted to drugs when I was born. She couldn&#8217;t take care of me. So, I went to live with my father. He was still running the streets and he couldn&#8217;t take care of me, either. That&#8217;s when I was given to my adoptive mother, my Angel.</p>
<p>I traveled between my mother in public housing and my father in a country house with no plumbing. I was eating government peanut butter one day and picking tomatoes off the vine the next. One night I&#8217;m going to sleep to the sound of gunshots and the next night I hear a thousand crickets at once. I had a very interesting childhood.</p>
<p>When I was 10, someone reported my mother to social services. Since I wasn&#8217;t her biological daughter, I was no longer allowed to live with my family. Everything I had ever know was taken away from me in an instant. (You know, the progressive zero options model.) My mother made me go to church, do my homework, and volunteer in the neighborhood. With my father, there were no rules, no guidelines and it didn&#8217;t take long before I started running the streets.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t stop running until I was diagnosed with Crohn&#8217;s at 17. Even then, my run became a jog; drinking, smoking, and partying all night. My illness kept me in check because I was constantly in the hospital but I had basically given up on life. Finally, I decided a scar on my stomach would be worth removing the pain and constant trips to hospital (yes, I suffered a year and a half because my vanity didn&#8217;t want a scar).</p>
<p>After six weeks of healing, I went to visit my friends, and they were right where I left them. They were all smoking, drinking, and having a good time. For the first time I thought there has to more to life than this &#8212; within 24 hours, I left Richmond. It was one of the best decisions I ever made.</p>
<p>My transition to conservatism started with another progressive zero options formula. Doctors told me for years I would never be able to get pregnant and if I did, I would never be able to carry full term. God thought differently. It&#8217;s why progressives hate Jesus and want him out of the public arena. Nothing crushes what you can&#8217;t do like believing in the great &#8220;I Am&#8221;; through the Son, all things are possible.</p>
<p>The day I found out I was pregnant with my daughter, my adoptive mother was called home to be with the Lord. That was the day my life changed. I fell on my knees and turned my life back over to God. And I promised my mother I wouldn&#8217;t try so hard to give my daughter the things I didn&#8217;t have that I would forget to give her the things I do have.</p>
<p>I had to ask myself some tough questions. How am I going to teach my daughter how to manage money when I barely know myself? How am I going to teach her about the laws of the land? Who will be her role model and what do I know about that person?</p>
<p>By the time my daughter was ready to go to school, I had given myself a stay-at-home mom education. I knew how to balance a budget and the cost of living outside your means. I understood the necessity of protecting and defend your home. All the lessons mothers learn when starting a family. But I also taught myself to run a website, web code, and some basic design. I read history, outside of the progressive context, and was introduced to Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Maggie Walker.</p>
<p>I started <em><a href="http://didshesaythat.com/">DidSheSayThat.com</a></em> and it&#8217;s been a hell of a ride ever since. At first, I didn&#8217;t know I was conservative. I didn&#8217;t understand what the term meant. If I didn&#8217;t seek the information, I never would have made the transition.</p>
<p>Looking at the black community, I always humble myself. I understand these lessons aren&#8217;t being taught in schools, in churches, in groups of friends or circles of acquaintances. I always remember myself at 17 and all the things I didn&#8217;t know.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t hold judgment against someone&#8217;s past; especially due to a lack of information or the knowledge that the information exists. I will, however, judge harshly those that know the truth, but choose to ignore. My journey to conservatism started with a hard knock life education, that&#8217;s where <em>Change the Game</em> starts the conversation.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Booker T. Washington is a central figure in your vision, and the last person the Left wants to talk about – or say anything good about. Why?</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>In 1912, the Tuskegee Institute graduated more self-made millionaires than Harvard, Yale and Princeton combined. Booker T. Washington exposed a truth progressives don&#8217;t want you to see. Fortunes are built by doers with intellect, not intellectuals.</p>
<p>When Washington first started Tuskegee, he was surrounded by former slaves. Now that they were freed men, they believed they should no longer have to work hard. Manual labor was now beneath them. Washington told them, &#8220;Now that you are freed men, you have to work twice as hard because you are now working for yourself.&#8221; If I asked you to break down conservatism, could you do it any better with one line?</p>
<p>Booker T. Washington advocated a money message. &#8220;At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.&#8221; It&#8217;s why I skip the social issues and focus on the pocket book.</p>
<p>Booker T. Washington understood progressives and their position in racial tension:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don&#8217;t want the patient to get well.</p></blockquote>
<p>Which is why I don&#8217;t put a focus on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. With <em>Change the Game</em>, I want to celebrate all the beauty in the hip hop culture while simultaneously trying to fix some of the issues that plague the black community. I don&#8217;t pretend blacks don&#8217;t have some legitimate grievances. The question is, do you want them solved or do you want to keep the civil rights lifetime job security in-tact?</p>
<p>But one of the greatest facts about Booker T. Washington is that he was actually born a slave. If you think about the modern civil rights movement, they are living off the souls of slavery, the lynchings of Jim Crow, and the water hoses of their parents and grandparents (not referencing those that actually suffered the abuse). They travel first class on their flight, have a car waiting at the airport and stay at a five-star hotel; all while screaming how unfair it is for the black man.</p>
<p>Booker T. Washington didn&#8217;t think about fair or unfair. He only considered results. If history repeats itself, I pray for another Booker T. Washington age in black America.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>What are some of the strategies you will utilize to change the game? You have stated that one of the crucial things to do is to win hearts within the black community by talking about the issues that matter to them &#8212; in terminology that resonates with them and that they can identify with. I think we can fairly say that conservatives have been a failure in this regard up till now.</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>I don&#8217;t want conservatives to come out with a rap song, &#8220;Can&#8217;t we all get along,&#8221; with a remix by Karl Rove. Actually &#8230; never mind.</p>
<p>I like Ayn Rand, so I hate contradiction in my world. I stand beside people who yell, &#8220;Protect the Constitution,&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t tread on me&#8221; and &#8220;Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.&#8221; Mention hip hop and they turn into progressives that would run every lyrical artist out of the country. Then these same people talk about the Left&#8217;s hypocrisy when it comes to the First Amendment. Check your own backyard first.</p>
<p>But what really pisses me off is when conservatives take a shot at hip hop but don&#8217;t want to defend their position against another conservative who likes hip hop. I&#8217;m not calling him a conservative, but Bill O&#8217;Reilly instantly pops into my head. He does a talking points memo about the &#8220;thug culture&#8221; in black America and brings on Beckel and Carville to check him where he&#8217;s wrong. Seriously? Then for a different perspective, he brings on a black progressive that dodges every question or a black conservative that agrees with his every talking point.</p>
<p>Bill O&#8217;Reilly has gotten Jessica&#8217;s Law on the books in over 45 states, but every talking point, race conversation, or serious attempt to change the focus of discussion towards healthy families, thriving communities, and a first class education falls on deaf ears. Every issue becomes an &#8220;us vs. them&#8221; battle to the death.</p>
<p>Especially with O&#8217;Reilly, everything is the fault of hip hop. I will give O&#8217;Reilly credit: He has tried to have a conversation with the hip hop community. Camron and Lupe Fiaso are the two interviews that pop into my mind, but I&#8217;m sure there have been others. But he invites them into a hostile environment where they are in a defensive mode instead of a conversation mode. They are expecting a fight with Bill O&#8217;Reilly.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll just throw this out there. Bill O&#8217;Reilly, if you want to stop wasting your breath having the same conversations and getting nowhere, maybe you should <em>Change your Game</em>.</p>
<p>BET recently ran a biopic look at hip hop in America. Obama was included in this three-part mini-series as a lover of the hip hop culture. (I&#8217;ll pause here for the right side of the aisle to insert a snide remark out loud or under their breath.) When the right thinks about hip hop culture, they think about what progressive radio has shown them. Every hip hop song isn&#8217;t about shaking your ass, pop, lock and drop it, selling drugs, or taking another human life. If you think it is, that&#8217;s why I left the pause especially for you. I&#8217;m never going to win you over and I really don&#8217;t care.</p>
<p>The easiest part about <em>Change the Game</em> is it is effortless. All I have to do is be me. I&#8217;ve a built a team around me; Kevin Daniels, Pudgy Miller, Tracy Connors, Javonni Brustow, Kira Davis, Tezlyn Figaro, Nadra Enzi and Chidike Okeem, and for them it&#8217;s effortless as well. We all care about the people more than we care about the politics or politicians. We aren&#8217;t looking at a single election or election cycle. We are in for a long-term Renaissance in black America; starting with winning the hearts of the people.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>So you gonna change the game?</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>My presence here shows God is faithful to his word. I will continue to pray for wisdom and strength, and by the Grace of God, we will <em>Change the Game</em>.</p>
<p>In Jesus&#8217; Name Amen.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Amen.</p>
<p>Sonnie Johnson, thank you for joining Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>And thank you for changing the game &#8212; and we wish you the best in achieving it!</p>
<p><strong>Johnson: </strong>Thank you.</p>
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<p><em>Don&#8217;t miss Sonnie Johnson&#8217;s powerful testimony in her video, </em><span id="eow-title" class="watch-title  " dir="ltr" title="A Trip Thru Liberalville"><em><strong>A Trip Thru Liberalville</strong>:</em> </span></p>
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		<title>David Horowitz Freedom Center Launches IsraelRevolt.org</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our new site will expose stories the mainstream media won’t about Israel and its enemies – and will call its enemies by their right names. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kotel1967.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-234160" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kotel1967.jpg" alt="kotel1967" width="333" height="244" /></a>Welcome to the all-new <a href="http://IsraelRevolt.org">IsraelRevolt.org</a>!</p>
<p>The launch of <a href="http://IsraelRevolt.org">IsraelRevolt.org</a> has been months in the making. Now it’s here, bringing you the latest and hottest coverage of Israel news, commentary from such luminaries as Caroline Glick, Robert Spencer, and Daniel Greenfield, among others, and pushback against anti-Israel bias in the media, on campus and in the non-profit world. <a href="http://IsraelRevolt.org">IsraelRevolt.org</a>’s team of reporters is dedicated to exposing stories the mainstream media won’t about Israel and its enemies – and to calling its enemies by their right names: Jew haters.</p>
<p>Israel isn’t just an issue for Jews and Christians across the globe. It’s an issue for anyone who believes in moral clarity. The fight between Israel and its enemies is a fight between light and darkness, and those who obscure that clear dichotomy undermine not only truth, but decency. Israel is a bastion of freedom, democracy, and human rights; its enemies are Islamist fascists and their morally relativistic enablers. The fight on behalf of Israel is the fight on behalf of Western civilization. We understand that, and we will never stop the war on its behalf.</p>
<p>That’s why <a href="http://IsraelRevolt.org">IsraelRevolt.org</a> isn’t just a news site. It’s a fighting site. We are looking to create a pro-Israel army – and we can’t wait for you to join it!</p>
<p>Israel Revolt has already been underway, quietly, on the home page of <a href="http://TruthRevolt.org">TruthRevolt.org</a>. You’ve seen our coverage of issues ranging from the Combined Jewish Philanthropies’ sponsorship of a student trip to Yassar Arafat’s grave to our battle against the Metropolitan Opera’s presentation of the anti-Semitic opera <em>The Death of Klinghoffer</em>. Our thousands of activists have already fought back against anti-Semitism at NYU and anti-free speech crackdowns at Brandeis. We – <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOIv6owDXYo">I personally</a> – have fought back against the sickening and morally bankrupt boycott, divest, sanctions movement against Israel. And we are winning.</p>
<p>But Israel Revolt demanded its own dedicated space. That’s what this is. We look forward to your participation in this fight. Because without you, the battle would be lost; with you, it can’t be.</p>
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		<title>Video: Raymond Ibrahim on Islam, Dictators, and Christian Persecution</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RaymondIbrahim.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224046" alt="RaymondIbrahim" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/RaymondIbrahim.jpg" width="248" height="144" /></a>Raymond Ibrahim, a Shillman Fellow at the Center, was recently interviewed on New Zealand’s Shine TV, a Christian station.  The ten-minute interview with host Allen Lee focuses on a wide range of topics, including Arab dictators versus Islamists and the phenomenon, historic and modern, of Christian persecution.</p>
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		<title>Sonnie Johnson: How to Change the Game</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Below are the video and transcript of Sonnie Johnson&#8217;s address at the Freedom Center&#8217;s West Coast Retreat, held at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California from March 21-23, 2014:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Sonnie Johnson:</strong> Hip-hop didn&#8217;t start &#8217;til late &#8217;70s, early &#8217;80s.  By then progressivism had already infiltrated our communities, and we have been going through birth pains in the hip-hop movement since then.  This year, this summer, three hip-hop artists came out with albums and I put these albums – they were my favorite albums of the summer – and I put them together into one coherent thought using the names.  And it tells you progressivism in black America and how we fight to get out of it.  The three albums were &#8220;A Good Kid in a Mad City Will Turn a Born Sinner into the Gifted.&#8221;  And that&#8217;s what happened.  We have good kids being raised in bad cities, and they take what they&#8217;ve been given, and they turn it into a gift, and they put it out as a product, and they sell it, and they become multi-millionaires.  And it is a beautiful thing.  It is capitalism.  It is the American dream.</p>
<p>So, I start off most of the time with a Sonnie-ism, so I want to give you guys a Sonnie-ism.  This is how I mix conservatism with hip-hop, and this is one of my favorites.  Created equal does not mean equal results.  Because I can&#8217;t flow like Jay-Z doesn&#8217;t make it Jay-Z&#8217;s fault.  And it&#8217;s a simple, basic concept that we all preach when we talk about the Constitution, when we talk about our founding principles.  That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re trying to get people to see.  But it goes straight over their head.  But if you put someone in that they listen to and they care about then they start to understand it a little bit better.  And that&#8217;s what we want to do. But we also have another thing, where we say we don&#8217;t talk about the game, we be the game.  So, we&#8217;re not gonna talk about it, we&#8217;re gonna show you how we change the game, so that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m up here to do that.  And I hope you like it.</p>
<p>This is how we plan on changing the game:</p>
<p>I&#8217;m a born sinner asking the Lord why me. He said it ain&#8217;t about you, so let it be.  And when I question my role, he didn&#8217;t send me a priest.  He sent another born sinner to sing to me.</p>
<p>J Cole cowrote me a love song.  Freedom of jail, a purchase or sale, daughter in the womb, momma angel raised from this hell.  It was the end before beginning.  How you gonna change the world, curled in all its traps and sinners.  Well as far as that go, it&#8217;s only natural.  I explain my plateau and what defines my name.</p>
<p>Short story.  No need to fit it all in.  I live a life of compromise.  Backsliding is sin.  It was expected.  See the hue of my skin.  This sickness in my body, I don&#8217;t want to go and party.  The devil claimed my soul wasn&#8217;t good for nobody.  My girl is out tricking, my dude&#8217;s out dying.  God bless me, would he see the doctors were denying.  Then he called my name, and I couldn&#8217;t stop crying. But I stood in defiance, see.</p>
<p>&#8216;Cause I&#8217;m gonna do me.  Not looking for no one&#8217;s goddess, not even from he. &#8216;Cause God wanted perfect. And in all honesty, I was not worth it.</p>
<p>Then 50 said God give me style. God give me grace.  God give me style and God give me grace.  And God used 50 to put a smile on my face.  And J said kneel before God and pray for a better cause, sometimes to no avail, and that made me wake up and stop feeling sorry for myself. &#8216;Cause if I went to heaven I had to escape hell.</p>
<p>And Kanye. Jesus walks and I thought I&#8217;ve been afraid of God for so long.  What can I do to right my wrongs?  And this is where the song switches. Because God said speak, so I let spoken word flow from me.  I&#8217;m not a rapper, so lyrics don&#8217;t flow from me, but I&#8217;m a thinker, so a thousand thoughts flow from me.  God said speaker louder.  What do you want from me?  Then he put a tea party in front of me.</p>
<p>Now I&#8217;m no longer black.  My fam turned on me. &#8216;Cause I try to paint a picture of the world I see.  That&#8217;s the meaning of hip-hop.  What it&#8217;s supposed to be.  How did I turn into the enemy?  And on the other side it&#8217;s few that believed in me.  I wear my ghetto on my sleeve.  Ain&#8217;t no change in me.  I&#8217;m the rough cut that God made of me.  Exposing my diamond now &#8217;cause Cole sang to me.  Hip-hop sung me a love song.</p>
<p>Politics are archaic, formulaic with the outcome.  They don&#8217;t know.  They just studied the charts.  Me I studied my black.  The people studied their hearts.  I had a feelin&#8217; I was killin&#8217; with the speeches I was spillin&#8217; out.  I could change lives forever.</p>
<p>Keynote, big speech, Jay-Z is what I talk about.  It would have been mixed tape Jay Cole, but I was like, nah, I was wonderin&#8217; why you were full, when two years ago I was sayin&#8217; who dat.  Praisin&#8217; hip-hop for its switch up in rap.  But as my speech is slow, I thought they must be insane.  But Bannen said play the game and change the game.  And then I heard my love song.</p>
<p>&#8216;Cause I always believed in a bigger picture.  If I can get my people to stop the names, feel my core, I could open up doors.  Reintroduce honesty, show them they deserve more.  The difference between black leaders, poverty pimps, and whores.  I wasn&#8217;t asked to fall.  I was demanded to stand.  MLK on a mountaintop with a cross in his heart.  In his hand was a cross.  Not that civil right that you bought, so his statue removes Christ, and they call it art.</p>
<p>If this be my last essay, know it comes to my heart.  No apologies for embracing hip-hop as a art.  &#8216;Cause I&#8217;m here for a purpose, though I doubted to start.  I&#8217;m just a woman of the people, not above, but equal.  And for the greater good, destroy both sides of evil, so don&#8217;t cry for me.  This is a life I choose myself.  Just pray along the way I never lose myself.  And for those who said black conservatism is dead, I&#8217;ll go to hell to resurrect it, and I will be respected &#8217;cause hip hop writes me love songs.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Perazzo's alarming new pamphlet unveils this administration's mugging of American youth.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Obamas-war-on-the-young-11.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-204460" alt="Obama's-war-on-the-young-1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Obamas-war-on-the-young-11-233x350.jpg" width="233" height="350" /></a><em>In “Obama’s War on the Young,”  DiscovertheNetworks’ editor John Perazzo documents how badly young people aged 18-29, the President’s most enthusiastic demographic in his two elections, have been hurt by the agendas and philosophy of this administration.</em></p>
<p><em>Perazzo shows how this administration’s massive expansion of the national debt lays a crushing burden on young people who are going to be responsible for paying it. Obama’s dead economy has already brought about youth-unemployment levels exceeding anything we have witnessed in more than half a century. The crushing costs and substandard medicine associated with Obamacare will diminish young people’s quality of life for generations to come.</em></p>
<p><em>In higher education—the place where young people live—Obama has placed the federal government in charge of the student-loan industry, thereby causing both tuition costs and student debt levels to rise dramatically despite proposed “reforms.”  And finally, on the international stage, Obama’s policies of appeasement and retreat have allowed the Islamic jihad to go on the offensive, which means that young people will be fighting wars of survival tomorrow that could have been won today.</em></p>
<p><em>Young people have been mugged by Obama&#8217;s policies.  They may have called for &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;change&#8221; when helping elect him, but under his governance they have received a mortgage on their future they’ll spend a lifetime paying off.</em></p>
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<p><strong>Obama&#8217;s War On The Young</strong><br />
By John Perazzo</p>
<p>During the election of 2008, it was young voters who stood huddled in stadiums waiting for Barack Obama’s arrival and then cheered themselves hoarse with slogans such as “We are the change we’ve been waiting for.”  It was young people who made “hope” into a prayer as well as a political slogan and helped convince the rest of America that Obama was a savior of democracy.</p>
<p>And again in 2012, young people worked the phone banks and precincts for Obama, rocked the vote, and gave currency to the President’s campaign slogan that he represented the way <i>forward.</i></p>
<p>These voters, aged 18-29, were (except for blacks and Hispanics) the President’s most enthusiastic demographic, backing him by a whopping 66%-to-31% margin over John McCain in ’08,<a title="" href="#_ftn1"><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a> and by 60%-to-37% over Mitt Romney four years later.<a title="" href="#_ftn2"><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></a>  But unlike other groups, which might feel rewarded for their vote by redistributionist policies and initiatives such as immigration “reform,” young people have been hurt by the agendas and philosophy of this administration.  Barack Obama has put a lien on their future.  They’ve been mugged by his policies, even if they don’t realize it yet.</p>
<p>Despite their support, this administration’s massive expansion of the national debt lays a crushing burden on young people who are going to be responsible for paying it. Obama’s weak economy has already brought about youth-unemployment levels exceeding anything we have witnessed in more than half a century. Obama’s proposed minimum-wage hike, if passed, will inevitably—like every other minimum-wage hike—cause a rise in youth unemployment by pricing many young, inexperienced workers out of the job market. The crushing costs and substandard care associated with Obama’s signature healthcare-reform legislation will diminish young people’s quality of life for generations to come.</p>
<p>In higher education—the place where young people live—Obama has placed the federal government in charge of the student-loan industry, thereby causing both tuition costs and student debt levels to rise dramatically in a way that his proposed “reforms” will not change.  And finally, on the international stage, Obama’s policies of appeasement and retreat have allowed the Islamic jihad to go on the offensive, which means that young people will be fighting wars of survival tomorrow that could have been won today.</p>
<p><em>Crushing National Debt </em></p>
<p>During his 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama famously referred to George W. Bush as “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic” for having added, “by his lonesome,” some $4 trillion to America’s national debt over the previous eight years.<a title="" href="#_ftn3"><sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup></a>  Vowing that he would not “leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay,” Obama piously pronounced that it was morally unacceptable to “simply spend as we please and defer the consequences to the next budget, the next administration, or the next generation.” He pledged to “tak[e] responsibility right now &#8230; for getting our spending under control,” and promised to “cut the deficits we inherited by half” within four years.<a title="" href="#_ftn4"><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Obama’s words resonated powerfully with his supporters, particularly young voters—the taxpayers of tomorrow who would be forced to bear the immense financial burden of  continued increases in America’s national debt.</p>
<p>But here are the facts: When Obama took his Oath of Office on January 20, 2009, the total U.S. federal debt was $10.627 trillion. During his first term in office, the national debt not only continued to grow, but grew at a pace that was utterly without precedent: $3.98 billion of new debt <em>e</em><i>ach and every day</i>—or, to frame it another way, $67,245 of new debt <i>per second</i>.</p>
<p>By the start of Obama’s second term, in January 2013, the federal debt had skyrocketed to a once-unimaginable $16.433 trillion—a $5.81 trillion increase in just four years. By April 15 (tax day), the figure had reached $16.8 trillion.<a title="" href="#_ftn5"><sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup></a> Today, the U.S. government borrows an incredible 46 cents of every dollar that it spends.<a title="" href="#_ftn6"><sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup></a>  President Obama has clearly distinguished himself as the most profligate government spender in American history.<a title="" href="#_ftn7"><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>These figures are so astronomical that it is hard to comprehend their meaning, particularly for young people setting out to find jobs and begin adult lives.  One way of understanding the implications of these rising trillions in debt is to consider this: if we count married couples who file jointly as individual “tax units”—or house-holds—there are approximately 85 million tax units in the U.S., each owing a $196,000 share of the national debt.<a title="" href="#_ftn8"><sup><sup>[8]</sup></sup></a> Meanwhile, another 76 million Americans younger than 18 are steadily approaching the day when many of them will join the ranks of those taxpayers—at which time they, too, will be saddled with a share of the nation’s debt burden.<a title="" href="#_ftn9"><sup><sup>[9]</sup></sup></a> By then, however, that burden will be much heavier because the debt, by the Obama administration’s own projections, will continue to rise at a dizzying pace and will reach a predicted $20.3 trillion by the end of 2016, Obama’s last full year in office.<a title="" href="#_ftn10"><sup><sup>[10]</sup></sup></a> Approximately $9.7 trillion of that total will have been racked up during the Obama years, meaning that Obama’s debt, by itself, will be nearly equivalent to the combined debt of every previous president in American history, including the one whose spending habits Obama described as “irresponsible” and “unpatriotic.”</p>
<p>Today, U.S. taxpayers are already paying $237 billion in interest on the national debt each and every year.<a title="" href="#_ftn11"><sup><sup>[11]</sup></sup></a> This amounts to nearly $3,000<i> per taxpaying household, per year.</i><a title="" href="#_ftn12"><sup><sup>[12]</sup></sup></a> But the interest on the nation’s ever-mounting debt will exceed $1 trillion per year by 2022, according to Erskine Bowles, a co-chair of President Obama’s bipartisan deficit-reduction commission.<a title="" href="#_ftn13"><sup><sup>[13]</sup></sup></a> That would be more than the government currently spends on Medicare, Social Security, national defense, Medicaid, or any other safety-net programs that provide aid to the poor.<a title="" href="#_ftn14"><sup><sup>[14]</sup></sup></a> It would also be more than the government now spends on the Departments of Education, Agriculture, Homeland Security, Transportation, Labor, Energy, Justice, Housing, State, and Commerce, <i>combined</i>.<a title="" href="#_ftn15"><sup><sup>[15]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>In their 2012 book, <i>The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy, </i>economics professor Laurence Kotlikoff and finance writer Scott Burns put it succinctly: “U.S. generational policy has become a Ponzi scheme—a Ponzi scheme that’s on the verge of collapse.”<a title="" href="#_ftn16"><sup><sup>[16]</sup></sup></a> The ultimate victims of this cynical game are those currently under the age of 30, whom the Heritage Foundation has dubbed “the Debt-Paying Generation.”<a title="" href="#_ftn17"><sup><sup>[17]</sup></sup></a>  In the next 10 or 15 years, as they start families and try to buy a home and they first have to shoulder the $17-trillion (or so) debt run up largely by the Baby Boomer generation, they will wonder why the burden of repaying the debts of their better-off elders falls largely upon themselves and probably remember with bitterness the votes they cast for Barack Obama back in the day when they believed they were doing something idealistic.</p>
<p><i>Catastrophic Youth-Unemployment Levels</i></p>
<p>The prospect of shouldering a national debt they had no part in running up assumes that young people will find work to become taxpayers.  But that is not assured. Young people looking for their first jobs step into a stagnant, foundering economy that, due to the tax-and-spend policies of the Obama administration, has scarcely rebounded from the meltdown of 2008. Economist John B. Taylor reports that the current economic “recovery” has been four times weaker, on average, than all previous post-recession recoveries since the 1880s.<a title="" href="#_ftn18"><sup><sup>[18]</sup></sup></a> Between January 2009 (the month President Obama took office) and March 2013, the median income of all U.S. households fell by 6.5%, from $54,983 to $51,404.<a title="" href="#_ftn19"><sup><sup>[19]</sup></sup></a> During roughly the same period, the number of people participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Food Stamps) rose by about 50%, from 31.9 million to 47.8 million.<a title="" href="#_ftn20"><sup><sup>[20]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), fully 11.7 million Americans are currently out of work, a figure translating to a 7.6% unemployment rate.<a title="" href="#_ftn21"><sup><sup>[21]</sup></sup></a> But even this dismal statistic paints a deceptively rosy picture of the U.S. economy, for the overall labor-force participation rate (working-age people who are either working or actively looking for work) is an anemic 63.3%, the lowest figure in 34 years.<a title="" href="#_ftn22"><sup><sup>[22]</sup></sup></a> Just since the beginning of the Obama presidency, some 9.46 million people have been compelled to leave the labor force because there were no jobs for them to keep looking for; they gave up their job search entirely.<a title="" href="#_ftn23"><sup><sup>[23]</sup></sup></a> If they had elected to persevere in their fruitless job searches—thereby technically remaining in the labor force—the unemployment rate today would be well over 11%.<a title="" href="#_ftn24"><sup><sup>[24]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Yet the foregoing facts, grim as they are, do not begin to express the full magnitude of the economic disaster that Obama has created. In addition to the 11.7 million unemployed Americans, another 7.6 million are <i>under</i>employed, working part-time but seeking full-time jobs. (Factoring this latter group into the equation yields an un/underemployment rate approaching 14%, a more accurate  barometer of the nation’s desperate job situation.)<a title="" href="#_ftn25"><sup><sup>[25]</sup></sup></a>  As today’s young people enter the labor force, they will have to compete for jobs with these 19.3 million un- and under-employed.  It is a grim prospect.  The unemployment rate for the 18-29 group is currently 11.7%.  Factoring in another 1.7 million workers in that age group who have completely given up looking for work during Obama’s presidency and thus are no longer officially counted as “unemployed,”  the effective youth unemployment rate is actually 16.2%. Those who <i>are </i>working, meanwhile, find it increasingly difficult to make ends meet financially.  Just in the period between 2010 and 2012, the wages of young college graduates decreased by 8.5%.<a title="" href="#_ftn26"><sup><sup>[26]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Perhaps no youth-specific statistic is more depressing than the teenage unemployment rate of 24.5%, the highest figure since the government began tracking it in the late 1940s.<a title="" href="#_ftn27"><sup><sup>[27]</sup></sup></a> Demoralized by dim employment prospects, fewer teens than ever before are even trying to find jobs. Historically, between 45% and 55% of teenagers have participated in the labor force by either having or seeking a job; today, that figure is just 34%.<a title="" href="#_ftn28"><sup><sup>[28]</sup></sup></a> Why is that number significant?  Because economists have repeatedly found that an individual’s unemployment in youth is highly correlated with his or her subsequent earnings later in life.<a title="" href="#_ftn29"><sup><sup>[29]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p><i>A Minimum-Wage Hike That Would Make Things Worse </i></p>
<p>The President thinks that raising the federal minimum wage would help this situation.  In his 2013 State of the Union address, he called for raising it from $7.25 to $9.00 per hour.<a title="" href="#_ftn30"><sup><sup>[30]</sup></sup></a> “A family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line,” Obama  lamented. “That’s wrong.”<a title="" href="#_ftn31"><sup><sup>[31]</sup></sup></a> But most minimum-wage workers are unmarried people younger than 25. Fewer than 20% of them have a family to support. Often they are high-school or college students trying only to help pay their way, 60% work only part-time.<a title="" href="#_ftn32"><sup><sup>[32]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Minimum-wage jobs serve chiefly as a vital bottom rung on the economic ladder for many young people who have little or no prior work experience and want to get started in the job market.  Whenever the government raises the minimum wage by decree, however, every employer is forced to evaluate whether the extra expenditures on inexperienced and relatively unskilled workers can be justified. In some instances, employers simply may not be able to afford the higher pay rate and thus will either trim their work force or scale back the number of hours employees work. In other cases, employers may decide to hire more seasoned workers in order to increase the likelihood of getting an adequate amount of productivity in exchange for their financial outlay. Whatever their reason for cutting back, starter jobs for young people are jeopardized.</p>
<p>In 2011, labor economists William Even and David Macpherson released a study for the Washington, DC-based Employment Policies Institute, titled “Unequal Harm: Racial Disparities in the Employment Consequences of Minimum Wage Increases.” They found that because minimum-wage hikes remove the incentive for employers to hire workers with low skills and little experience, 16-to-24-year-old males are affected more than anyone else by such policies. Indeed, the authors report that historically, each 10% increase in a state or federal minimum wage has decreased employment by 2.5% for males in this age group as a whole, and by 6.5% for young black males in particular.<a title="" href="#_ftn33"><sup><sup>[33]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Hoover Institution economist Thomas Sowell concurs, “[T]he cold fact is that minimum-wage laws create massive unemployment among black teenagers,” regardless of economic conditions in the nation as a whole.<a title="" href="#_ftn34"><sup><sup>[34]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p><i>Obamacare Crushes Young People</i></p>
<p>Nowhere is the price young people will pay for this President’s policies clearer than in Obamacare.</p>
<p>All told, Obamacare calls for the enactment of some two dozen new or higher taxes, at least seven of which violate the president’s “firm pledge” not to raise taxes on anyone earning less than $250,000.<a title="" href="#_ftn35"><sup><sup>[35]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>FutureOfCapitalism.com editor Ira Stoll—using figures supplied by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office—calls Obamacare the largest tax hike in American history.<sup><sup><a title="" href="#_ftn36">[36]</a> </sup></sup>Obamacare stipulates that every business with 50 or more “full-time equivalent workers” (i.e., those who work 30 or more hours per week) must provide health insurance for each of its employees.<a title="" href="#_ftn37"><sup><sup>[37]</sup></sup></a> Any business that fails to do so will be required to pay a $2,000 annual penalty for each uncovered worker beyond 30 employees. (“By hiring the 50th worker,” the <i>Wall Street Journal </i>points out, “the firm pays a penalty on the previous 20 as well.”)<a title="" href="#_ftn38"><sup><sup>[38]</sup></sup></a>  In other words, business owners now have an incentive to limit their “full-time equivalent” work forces to 49 employees or fewer.<a title="" href="#_ftn39"><sup><sup>[39]</sup></sup></a>  This means that young people who might have been hired will now likely be passed over.</p>
<p>Obamacare further handicaps employers by compelling them to offer their workers only “qualified,” government-approved insurance plans with standardized benefits that will raise the cost of premiums dramatically.<a title="" href="#_ftn40"><sup><sup>[40]</sup></sup></a> The low-cost, so-called “mini-med plans” that many employers have until now provided for low-wage workers—of whom a high percentage were young people—will no longer be available under Obamacare.<a title="" href="#_ftn41"><sup><sup>[41]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Any worker who does not receive healthcare insurance through his or her employer must—on pain of a $2,085 annual penalty<a title="" href="#_ftn42"><sup><sup>[42]</sup></sup></a>—either purchase a plan through a state insurance exchange or enroll in Medicaid.<a title="" href="#_ftn43"><sup><sup>[43]</sup></sup></a> Obamacare will dramatically reduce the threshold of eligibility for Medicaid, thereby swelling the program’s rolls from about 70 million people to at least 95 million.<a title="" href="#_ftn44"><sup><sup>[44]</sup></sup></a> An enormous number of these will be young people who, in times past, could have gotten health insurance privately through their employers.</p>
<p>But because Medicaid pays doctors and hospitals only 56% of what private insurers pay for the same services, about half of all doctors (and a strong majority of specialists in every field) currently refuse to treat any Medicaid patients at all.<a title="" href="#_ftn45"><sup><sup>[45]</sup></sup></a> Not surprisingly, research shows that Medicaid patients consistently have poorer medical outcomes than those who have private insurance.</p>
<p>A 2013 survey by the American Action Forum, a think-tank headed by economist Douglas Holtz-Eakin, studied how Obamacare’s numerous mandates were likely to affect the cost of healthcare premiums in six major markets—Chicago, Phoenix, Atlanta, Milwaukee, Austin, and Albany—and concluded that young people’s premiums will rise by an average of 169%—more than those of any other demographic group. Galen Institute president and healthcare analyst Grace Marie Turner explains that young people will face disproportionately steep rate increases because Obamacare “limits how much insurers can use age and health status in calculating premiums.”<a title="" href="#_ftn46"><sup><sup>[46]</sup></sup></a> That is, youth and good health will no longer serve as factors that qualify an individual for less expensive coverage.</p>
<p>Paul Howard, director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress, explains yet another way that Obamacare’s ripple effects will decimate the healthcare industry: “Medicare pays about 80 percent of what private insurers do, Medicaid pays even less, about 60 percent of what private insurers do, so we’re asking them to do more, we’re paying them less. That trend is encouraging, for instance, older physicians to retire, it’s encouraging more physicians to throw up their hands.’’<a title="" href="#_ftn47"><sup><sup>[47]</sup></sup></a> In other words, while more Americans will now have healthcare “coverage” under Obamacare, they will, as a practical matter, have a difficult time finding doctors to treat them in a timely fashion. Instead, like so many people in other countries that have elected to institute government-dominated healthcare systems, young people today will have access not to a doctor, when they become ill tomorrow, but only to a spot on a very long waiting list, and when they get treated it will increaseingly be by a physician’s assistant or a nurse practitioner.</p>
<p>Economist Thomas Sowell explains, “Posterity is the ideal person to pay for things politically because posterity cannot vote, and so therefore whatever you put on them, by the time they get stuck with it, your [political] career will be over and there’ll be nothing they can do retroactively.”<a title="" href="#_ftn48"><sup><sup>[48]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p><i>Obama’s Education Policies Create Incompetence</i></p>
<p>Nothing could do greater damage to young people’s prospects for future success than a public education structure that fails to equip them with the intellectual skills they will need eventually to navigate the workplace. But the U.S. public school system has been a hindrance rather than a help. In 1994, the National Assessment of Educational Progress—a measure of students’ abilities in core academic subjects—found that scarcely one-third of fourth-, eighth-, and twelfth-graders could read with “proficiency.”<a title="" href="#_ftn49"><sup><sup>[49]</sup></sup></a> The figures haven’t gotten any better since then. In 2011, the SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) reading scores of graduating high-school seniors were the lowest on record,<a title="" href="#_ftn50"><sup><sup>[50]</sup></sup></a> while the combined reading and math scores of that same class declined to their lowest level since 1995.<a title="" href="#_ftn51"><sup><sup>[51]</sup></sup></a> According to the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA)—an evaluation of 15-year-old students in 34 countries (mostly in Europe and the Americas)—the U.S. today ranks a lowly 25th in math literacy, 17th in scientific literacy, and 14th in reading ability.<a title="" href="#_ftn52"><sup><sup>[52]</sup></sup></a>Black and Hispanic students have been particularly shortchanged by the public-education system’s inadequacies. In public high schools nationwide, 45% of black students and 43% of Hispanics (as compared to 22% of whites) drop out before their classes graduate.<a title="" href="#_ftn53"><sup><sup>[53]</sup></sup></a> But even many of those who do manage to get their diplomas are scarcely prepared for the challenges of higher education or the business world. Of all graduates in the class of 2011, only 11% of blacks and 15% of Hispanics were proficient in math, while just 13% of blacks and 4% of Hispanics were proficient in reading. The corresponding figures for whites—who had proficiency rates of 42% in math and 40% in reading—were better, but hardly inspiring.<a title="" href="#_ftn54"><sup><sup>[54]</sup></sup></a> In a 2006 survey, 72% of employers rated high-school graduates—regardless of race or ethnicity—as deficient in basic writing skills, and 54% rated them as deficient in mathematical abilities.<a title="" href="#_ftn55"><sup><sup>[55]</sup></sup></a> ACT, the national organization that administers college admissions tests, reports that fully 76% of all U.S. high-school graduates are “not adequately prepared academically for first-year college courses.”<a title="" href="#_ftn56"><sup><sup>[56]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>These devastating realities spell disaster for the millions of youngsters who, year after year, are forced to attend public schools that fail to properly educate them. Adults with substandard reading skills, for instance, are 4.5 times less likely to be able to earn a middle-class income than those who read proficiently.<a title="" href="#_ftn57"><sup><sup>[57]</sup></sup></a> Similarly, high-school dropouts go on to earn approximately 35% less than high-school graduates.<a title="" href="#_ftn58"><sup><sup>[58]</sup></sup></a> Over the course of a four-to-five-decade work life, these differentials amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars per individual—the difference between retiring with financial security, or destitute.</p>
<p>What has the President proposed to do about this national tragedy?  Spend more money.  He has described financial investments in public education as the centerpiece of a vital “national mission.”<a title="" href="#_ftn59"><sup><sup>[59]</sup></sup></a> But studies have repeatedly shown little correlation between money spent on schools and teachers and academic failure.  Between 1973 and 2008, for instance, the performance of 17-year-old high-schoolers on the math and reading portions of the National Assessment of Educational Progress—a federal initiative that quantifies students’ academic competence—was essentially unchanged, even as per-student spending on public education more than doubled (in present-day dollars).<a title="" href="#_ftn60"><sup><sup>[60]</sup></sup></a> American taxpayers currently spend some $12,550 annually on the education of each K-12 public-school student in the country, a figure exceeding that of every other nation on earth except Switzerland, Austria, and Norway.<a title="" href="#_ftn61"><sup><sup>[61]</sup></sup></a> And numerous U.S. cities—e.g., Washington, Baltimore, New York, Milwaukee—spend far more than $12,550 a year, even though they achieve dismal results. Perhaps the most remarkable case is that of Washington, DC, where the per-pupil cost of a public elementary and high-school education is an astonishing $29,400 per year<a title="" href="#_ftn62"><sup><sup>[62]</sup></sup></a>—nearly as much as the annual cost of an undergraduate education at Harvard.<a title="" href="#_ftn63"><sup><sup>[63]</sup></sup></a> Still, DC’s high-school students score lower on the SAT than do their counterparts anywhere else in the United States.<a title="" href="#_ftn64"><sup><sup>[64]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>If a lack of funding is not the problem, then what is? The answer to that question begins and ends with the teachers unions and their symbiotic relationship with the Democratic Party.  Contemporary teachers unions rank among the most powerful political forces in the United States. The National Education Association, for instance, employs a larger number of political organizers than the Republican and Democratic National Committees <i>combined</i> and has made almost $31 million in campaign contributions to political candidates since the early 1990s, while the American Federation of Teachers has given another $28 million to its  favored candidates. Of the $59 million in combined NEA and AFT campaign donations, more than $56 million (i.e., 95%) has gone to Democrats.<a title="" href="#_ftn65"><sup><sup>[65]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>By no means is the financial relationship between Obama and the Democrats on the one hand, and the teachers unions on the other, a one-way street. Knowing where their bread is buttered, Democrats, with near unanimity, have long embraced, advanced, and funded the educational and political agendas of those unions. No one has been more consistent in this regard than Barack Obama. During the 2008 presidential campaign, for example, Obama pledged to “recruit an army of new teachers” earning “higher salaries” and getting “more support.”<a title="" href="#_ftn66"><sup><sup>[66]</sup></sup></a> His massive 2009 stimulus package allocated an unprecedented $100 billion to public education, nearly twice the Department of Education’s annual budget.<a title="" href="#_ftn67"><sup><sup>[67]</sup></sup></a> And in 2012, the president implored America’s governors to do everything within their power to “invest more in education, invest more in our children and in our future”<a title="" href="#_ftn68"><sup><sup>[68]</sup></sup></a>—above and beyond the $600 billion per year that taxpayers were already spending on public schools.<a title="" href="#_ftn69"><sup><sup>[69]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>At first blush, these colossal expenditures seem to suggest a deep commitment by Obama and the Democrats to the academic success of young people. But in reality, such outlays are part and parcel of a political spoils system wherein the mandatory union dues which teachers pay are effectively laundered through those unions and ultimately deposited in the coffers of the Democratic Party, which in turn supports public policies that favor their union benefactors—a perpetual cycle of mutual payoffs that benefit the unions and the Democrats while doing <i>nothing whatsoever for schoolchildren.<br />
</i></p>
<p>Consider, for instance, the teachers unions’ unwavering opposition to voucher programs that would enable parents to divert a portion of their customary tax liabilities away from failing public-school systems, and to use that money instead for tuition at private schools where their children might actually have a chance to succeed academically. The teachers unions have attacked vouchers and President Obama, taking his cue from them, has derided the “tired rhetoric about vouchers” while exhorting taxpayers to keep paying more to “fix and improve our public schools.”<a title="" href="#_ftn70"><sup><sup>[70]</sup></sup></a> Notwithstanding his professed devotion to public education, however, the President has long sent his own children to the prestigious Sidwell Friends School in DC, a private facility where annual tuition costs exceed $33,000.<a title="" href="#_ftn71"><sup><sup>[71]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Yet another sacred cow of the teachers unions and President Obama is the famous Head Start program which is ostensibly intended to provide a boost—in the form of educational, nutritional, and health-related services—to more than a million disadvantaged three-to-four-year-old children before they enter elementary school.<a title="" href="#_ftn72"><sup><sup>[72]</sup></sup></a> This massive initiative, on which American taxpayers have spent more than $180 billion since its inception in 1965, provides tens of thousands of jobs each year for dues-paying members of the teachers unions.<a title="" href="#_ftn73"><sup><sup>[73]</sup></sup></a> And the President has marched in lock step with their demands for increased funding. His 2009 stimulus bill, for instance, earmarked an extra $1.1 billion specifically for Head Start services,<a title="" href="#_ftn74"><sup><sup>[74]</sup></sup></a> and his proposed 2014 federal budget asks for a record $9.62 billion in funding for Head Start.<a title="" href="#_ftn75"><sup><sup>[75]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>But what are taxpayers—or the children enrolled in Head Start, for that matter—getting in return for all this money? Two scientifically rigorous, longitudinal analyses, whose results were released in 2010 and 2012 respectively, indicate that Head Start has little to no effect on the participants’ cognitive abilities, socio-emotional development, or physical health; that whatever meager benefits may be detectable while children are actively participating in Head Start “almost completely disappear by first grade”; and that in some cases, access to Head Start has harmful effects on the children.<a title="" href="#_ftn76"><sup><sup>[76]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Such cautionary flags notwithstanding, the President’s 2014 budget, in fact, includes not only record-high outlays for Head Start, but also an additional $77 billion to fund a brand new “Preschool for All” initiative over a ten-year period.<a title="" href="#_ftn77"><sup><sup>[77]</sup></sup></a> The welfare of the children who serve as pawns in these schemes is irrelevant.  Joel Klein, the former chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, cuts to the heart of the matter: “[P]oliticians—especially Democratic politicians—generally do what the unions want. And the unions, in turn, are very clear about what that is. They want, first, happy members, so that those who run the unions get reelected; and, second, more members, so their power, money, and influence grow.”<a title="" href="#_ftn78"><sup><sup>[78]</sup></sup></a> The late United Federation of Teachers president Albert Shanker was even more candid when he stated: “When schoolchildren start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start representing the interests of schoolchildren.”<a title="" href="#_ftn79"><sup><sup>[79]</sup></sup></a> The same might be said of Barack Obama.</p>
<p><i>A Hostile Takeover of the Student-Loan Industry</i></p>
<p>Those young people who fight their way through an incompetent public school system to colleges and universities often incur crushing debt on loans to finance their degree. Two-thirds of graduating college seniors owe money on such loans. Their average debt is $27,253 per borrower—up from $17,233 in 2005.<a title="" href="#_ftn80"><sup><sup>[80]</sup></sup></a> Since 2009, the cumulative sum of all student loan debt has skyrocketed from $600 billion to more than $1 trillion, a figure surpassing even the nation’s total credit card debt.<a title="" href="#_ftn81"><sup><sup>[81]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Why are costs rising so steeply?  For decades prior to the summer of 2010, the most common way for students to borrow money for college was to deal with private lending institutions, most notably the Student Loan Marketing Association (known colloquially as Sallie Mae). Each time these lenders issued a student loan, they paid a fee to the federal government, which, in turn, assumed responsibility for covering the cost of any defaults.<a title="" href="#_ftn82"><sup><sup>[82]</sup></sup></a> Knowing that taxpayers would pick up the tab for bad loans, lenders relaxed their standards and made money readily available at rates far lower than what private lenders could have offered on their own—even to students with weak credit credentials.<a title="" href="#_ftn83"><sup><sup>[83]</sup></sup></a> This led, predictably, to record levels of borrowing.<a title="" href="#_ftn84"><sup><sup>[84]</sup></sup></a> Colleges and universities, reaping the windfall of this easy access to cash, had no incentive to keep their operating costs or tuition fees in check.<a title="" href="#_ftn85"><sup><sup>[85]</sup></sup></a> Consequently, since 1985, the cost of college tuition has been rising at more than 4 times the general rate of inflation.<a title="" href="#_ftn86"><sup><sup>[86]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Instead of trying to break this cycle by taking the government out of the equation and allowing the free market to operate, the Obama administration took precisely the opposite tack. Beginning on July 1, 2010, Obama signed into law a bill authorizing the U.S. Department of Education, which theretofore had been responsible for approximately one-third of college loans through its direct-lending program, to handle 100% of the nation’s federal student loans and grants.<a title="" href="#_ftn87"><sup><sup>[87]</sup></sup></a> In other words, the federal government—the very entity most responsible for having caused tuition and default rates to rise so steeply in the past—was now given carte blanche to run the federal student-loan industry as a monopoly. Said the <i>Wall Street Journal:</i> “As for the cost of college, expect it to become even less affordable as the subsidies keep flowing. The main achievements of this new legislation will be to give more power to government, and to transfer more of the costs and risks of college financing to taxpayers.”<a title="" href="#_ftn88"><sup><sup>[88]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Delinquency rates on student loans have risen steeply since the implementation of the new Obama program, from 12.4% on loans made between 2005 and 2007, to 15.1% on loans issued in 2010-12. According to the Chicago-based credit rating agency TransUnion, fully one-third of all outstanding student loans today are held by the riskiest borrowers, and more than half of student loan accounts—65.5 million of 128.8 million—are in deferment.<a title="" href="#_ftn89"><sup><sup>[89]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>One reason default rates typically soar in a government-run system is that when the government hires contractors to collect on its loans, it pays them simply for their time rather than for their results; i.e., the contractor gets paid merely for calling the borrower, even if that effort fails to result in a payment. Private lenders, by contrast, earn profits only when loans are actually paid back. Thus, as the <i>Wall Street Journal</i> notes, they have a far greater incentive “to do careful underwriting and aggressive collection.”<a title="" href="#_ftn90"><sup><sup>[90]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>The new Obama student-loan policy also introduces a new, income-based repayment program limiting the borrower’s repayments to 10% of his or her discretionary annual income (down from the traditional 15%), and forgiving any unpaid balance after 20 years (as opposed to the customary 25 years). (Public-service workers, who have long had the sweetest deal of all, will continue to have their unpaid balances forgiven after just 10 years.)<a title="" href="#_ftn91"><sup><sup>[91]</sup></sup></a> Common sense dictates that any system that forgives unpaid loans after a designated time period is inherently fraught with potential for squandering taxpayer money, even in cases where the borrower makes regular payments on his or her loan. Consider this example, offered by Chris Stirewalt of Fox News:</p>
<p>“If Suzy Creamcheese gets into George Washington University and borrows from the government the requisite $212,000 to obtain an undergraduate degree, her repayment schedule will be based on what she earns. If Suzy &#8230; takes a job as a city social worker earning $25,000, her payments would be limited to $1,411 a year after the $10,890 of poverty-level income is subtracted from her total exposure. Twenty years at that rate would have taxpayers recoup only $28,220 of their $212,000<br />
loan to Suzy.”<a title="" href="#_ftn92"><sup><sup>[92]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>The Obama student-loan system will not only encourage a steeper rise in tuition costs and a higher rate of loan defaults, but is also likely to result in the elimination of many thousands of private-sector jobs in the loan industry. In March 2010, six Democratic Senators—Thomas Carper (DE), Blanche Lincoln (AR), Ben Nelson (NE), Bill Nelson (FL), Mark Warner (VA) and Jim Webb (VA)—went so far as to write a letter expressing their concern about this to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.<a title="" href="#_ftn93"><sup><sup>[93]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p><i>Obama’s Foreign Policy Jeopardizes the Future of Young People </i></p>
<p>One of the most disturbing legacies President Obama will pass along to young Americans is an increasingly dangerous world—a world where, thanks in part to his foreign policies, America’s security has been weakened over the last four years, allowing Islamic extremists to make dramatic gains.  Ignominious withdrawals from battlegrounds in the War on Terror will be noted by jihadis anxious to go on the offensive against America; cutbacks in long range military preparedness will be noted by the Chinese, Russians and other international opponents.  As these policies bear poisoned fruit, young people will be forced to pay in the future for today’s weakness and appeasement.</p>
<p>The administration has signaled its intention to “get beyond” the War on Terror.  (Indeed, it advises that this term be replaced by “overseas contingency operations.”)<a title="" href="#_ftn94"><sup><sup>[94]</sup></sup></a> Most directly, it has withdrawn precipitously from Iraq, against the advice of field generals, which has allowed the Baghdad government to seek a closer alliance with the mullahs of Iran.  Similarly, in Afghanistan, which candidate Obama had called “the good war” in opposition to the bad one in Iraq,<a title="" href="#_ftn95"><sup><sup>[95]</sup></sup></a> there has been a rush for the exit which includes negotiation with the Taliban, the enemy, with its al-Qaeda allies, which caused the U.S. to go to war there in the first place.</p>
<p>A Talibanized Afghanistan and Iranized Iraq will put America in their gunsights.  The relief at today’s withdrawal from these troubled regions will turn to heartache for a future generation required to deal with the enemies there emboldened by Obama’s retreat.</p>
<p>But while he did not support the green revolution of the “Iranian Spring,” the President did support some of the revolutions of the Arab Spring, which have brought, not democracy, but greater power to Islamic extremists and jihadists throughout the Middle East. The President’s support for the Arab Spring may turn out to be the decision that most haunts the next generation. For instance, when Tunisian president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who had long been known for his pro-Western orientation, became the first Arab leader to fall to a popular uprising in early 2011, Obama announced that “the United States of America stands with the people of Tunisia,” whose “democratic aspirations” were “more powerful than the writ of a dictator.”<a title="" href="#_ftn96"><sup><sup>[96]</sup></sup></a> Foreshadowing what would subsequently occur in Egypt and elsewhere in the Arab world as the Arab Spring turned to winter, the Tunisian revolution resulted in the ascendancy of the Islamist Ennahda party, a Muslim Brotherhood offshoot that garnered 41% of the vote in parliamentary elections and is now ruling the nation.<a title="" href="#_ftn97"><sup><sup>[97]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Also in 2011, Obama, without congressional approval, provided military support for the Libyan rebels who sought to topple the regime of longtime dictator Moammar Qadhafi, a dangerous figure in the 1980s and 90s who had moderated his behavior in the aftermath of 9/11, relinquishing his weapons of mass destruction, and aligned his country against al-Qaeda.<a title="" href="#_ftn98"><sup><sup>[98]</sup></sup></a>  Since his regime was destabilized, in large part by the U.S. “leading from behind,” and Qadhafi himself was killed by rebels, Islamic radicalism in Libya has been on the rise.<a title="" href="#_ftn99"><sup><sup>[99]</sup></sup></a> The grimmest proof of its advance occurred on September 11, 2012, when al-Qaeda  terrorists attacked a U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi and murdered the U.S. ambassador and three other  Americans. In the aftermath of this attack, the administration steadfastly resisted characterizing it as an act of terror, so as not to contradict the 2012 Obama reelection campaign narrative that al-Qaeda was “on the run” and Islamic terrorism was in decline thanks to the president’s policies.<a title="" href="#_ftn100"><sup><sup>[100]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>But what may ultimately prove to be Obama’s most consequential foreign-policy move was his decision in early 2011 to withdraw U.S. support from longtime Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who, since taking power 30 years earlier, had cultivated a stable relationship with Israel and cooperated with U.S. objectives in the region.  Israeli lawmaker Binyamin Ben-Eliezer warned that Obama’s decision to abandon Mubarak constituted a “disaster” that would give “half of the seats in [Egypt’s] parliament” to the Muslim Brotherhood—the creator of Hamas and ideological godfather of al Qaeda—and would bring about “a new Middle East” dominated by “extremist radical Islam.”<a title="" href="#_ftn101"><sup><sup>[101]</sup></sup></a> Unfazed by such warnings, Obama welcomed Mubarak’s fall as a sign that “the moral force of nonviolence” had “bent the arc of history toward justice once more.”<a title="" href="#_ftn102"><sup><sup>[102]</sup></sup></a>  This “justice” led not to democracy, but to the Muslim Brotherhood and the presidency of   Mohammed Morsi, one of that organization’s high-ranking leaders.</p>
<p>Ben-Eliezer’s warnings turned out to be prophetic. Praising the Palestinian effort to “resist imperialism,” Morsi not only refused to pledge that his new government would officially recognize Israel’s right to exist, but also announced that Egypt’s historic peace treaty with the Jewish state would eventually have to be “revise[d].”<a title="" href="#_ftn103"><sup><sup>[103]</sup></sup></a> Candid about his preference for a government based on strict adherence to Islamic law, Morsi vowed that under his leadership, the substance of Egyptian law would be “the sharia, then the sharia, and finally, the sharia.”<a title="" href="#_ftn104"><sup><sup>[104]</sup></sup></a> Morsi also asserted that eagerness to develop closer ties with Iran was “part of [his] agenda” to “create a strategic balance in the region.”<a title="" href="#_ftn105"><sup><sup>[105]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Meanwhile, the Obama administration formalized ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, allowing, for the first time, State Department diplomats to deal directly with Brotherhood party officials in Cairo, where the international organization is based.<a title="" href="#_ftn106"><sup><sup>[106]</sup></sup></a> In addition to pledging foreign aid for the new regime, in January 2013 the administration sent Morsi’s government at least twenty F-16 fighter jets, which the Israelis fear will some day be used against them as Muslim Brotherhood power congeals throughout the Middle East.<a title="" href="#_ftn107"><sup><sup>[107]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>In 2013, when the Egyptian military removed Morsi from office, the Obama administration sat on the fence, not bothering to make a case for American interests in Egypt and how to attain them in a way that would increase the long term stability of the region and thus reduce the likelihood that young American soldiers would someday have to fight there.  The same hesitancy—born of  doubts about America’s moral right to act—was on view in the administration’s dithering over what to do in Syria as reports of chemical warfare attacks on civilians there surfaced in mid-2013, a stunning abdication of leadership in the face of a fire threatening to spread throughout the region.  As the White House dithered and backtracked, America’s prestige, which itself has been, until the Obama presidency, crucial to maintaining  international order, was undermined on a daily basis.</p>
<p>At the same time that it has enabled the transition of the Muslim Brotherhood from a shadowy opposition to a ruling elite in the Middle East, the Obama administration has also allowed the organization unprecedented power in the American foreign policy establishment. For instance, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s closest aide, Huma Abedin,<a title="" href="#_ftn108"><sup><sup>[108]</sup></sup></a> has three family members who are, or were, leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood. In fact, Abedin herself spent 12 years working for the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs, a Saudi-based Islamic think-tank whose agenda, as former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy explains, is “to grow an unassimilated, aggressive population of Islamic supremacists who will gradually but dramatically alter the character of the West” and “incrementally &#8230; infiltrate sharia principles in our law, our institutions, and our public policy.”<a title="" href="#_ftn109"><sup><sup>[109]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>In April 2009, President Obama appointed Arif Alikhan, a former prosecutor in the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s office, to a post in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A staunch opponent of  the war on Islamic terror, Alikhan was responsible for derailing the LAPD’s efforts to monitor suspicious activities within that city’s Muslim community, where numerous radical mosques and madrassas were known to exist, and where some of the 9/11 hijackers had received support from local residents.<a title="" href="#_ftn110"><sup><sup>[110]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>In 2011, President Obama appointed Imam Mohamed Magid,<a title="" href="#_ftn111"><sup><sup>[111]</sup></sup></a> who has served stints as vice president and president of the Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated Islamic Society of North America,<a title="" href="#_ftn112"><sup><sup>[112]</sup></sup></a> to be part of the DHS’s “Countering Violent Extremism Working Group.”<a title="" href="#_ftn113"><sup><sup>[113]</sup></sup></a> Claiming that media references to<i> jihad</i> as “holy war” constitute a “misuse” of the term, Magid has helped persuade government officials to purge some 700 documents and 300 presentations from its training materials and lesson plans—on grounds that they are allegedly insensitive to the feelings of Muslims.<a title="" href="#_ftn114"><sup><sup>[114]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Another notable Obama appointee was Rashad Hussain,<a title="" href="#_ftn115"><sup><sup>[115]</sup></sup></a> whom the president named as his deputy associate counsel and as a special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, a 57-country coalition that seeks to outlaw any and all criticism of Islam.<a title="" href="#_ftn116"><sup><sup>[116]</sup></sup></a> Hussain, who characterized the legal prosecution of Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist Sami Al-Arian as “politically motivated persecution,” published a 2008 paper rejecting the use of such terms as “Islamic terrorism” and “Islamic extremist.”<a title="" href="#_ftn117"><sup><sup>[117]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>In 2009, Obama appointed the Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.<a title="" href="#_ftn118"><sup><sup>[118]</sup></sup></a> The first veiled Muslim woman ever to serve in the White House, Mogahed has depicted supporters of violent jihad as people who crave freedom and democracy but “believe [that] their faith and their way of life is threatened … by the West.”<a title="" href="#_ftn119"><sup><sup>[119]</sup></sup></a> She also laments that “Islamophobia” is a “disease of racism” that “presents a grave danger to America as a whole.”<a title="" href="#_ftn120"><sup><sup>[120]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>The Obama administration’s appeasement of jihadists has had no discernible positive effect on U.S. relations with the Muslim world. A June 2010 Saban Center/University of Maryland/Zogby poll of respondents in six predominantly Muslim nations—Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Morocco, Lebanon and Jordan—found that between 2009 and 2010 the percentage of Middle Easterners who held a favorable view of President Obama and the U.S. had declined from 45% to 20%.<a title="" href="#_ftn121"><sup><sup>[121]</sup></sup></a> In April 2011, a Pew Research poll reported that only 20% of Egyptians had a positive opinion of the United States.<a title="" href="#_ftn122"><sup><sup>[122]</sup></sup></a> Three months later, a poll conducted by IBOPE Zogby International for the Arab American Institute Foundation found that in most of the countries surveyed, the percentage of people who had favorable attitudes regarding the United States had dropped to levels lower than they had been during 2008, the last year of the Bush Administration. For example, favorable ratings in Saudi Arabia had fallen from 41% to 30% since 2009, and in Egypt they had declined from 30% to 5%.<a title="" href="#_ftn123"><sup><sup>[123]</sup></sup></a> Moreover, a February 2013 Gallup poll found that 92% of Pakistanis disapproved of U.S. leadership, while an all-time low of just 4% approved.<a title="" href="#_ftn124"><sup><sup>[124]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>In the harsh light of these realities, young Americans today find themselves coming of age in a world more dangerous than ever before.  In part, this danger comes from the increasing power of radical Islam, as embodied in the movement of the Muslim Brotherhood from a marginal to a central institution in governments throughout the Middle East.  But it also comes from the administration’s willingness to see the U.S. as part of the problem and to be vigilant in searching for opportunities to apologize for America, even though such a defensive posture clearly incites our adversaries.</p>
<p>This danger is further exacerbated by the fact that President Obama has telegraphed, many times, his intent to dramatically scale back America’s military capabilities. In the summer of 2011, for instance, he authorized approximately $489 billion in defense cuts to be implemented over a ten-year period.<a title="" href="#_ftn125"><sup><sup>[125]</sup></sup></a> All told, he has cut or delayed more than 50 major weapons programs since taking office.<a title="" href="#_ftn126"><sup><sup>[126]</sup></sup></a> Notably, one budget item that Obama originally slated for the chopping block was America’s arsenal of 44 ground-based missile-defense interceptors, which the president tried to reduce to 30, although he was forced to change course abruptly when North Korea threatened to launch a nuclear attack against the United States in April 2013.<a title="" href="#_ftn127"><sup><sup>[127]</sup></sup></a></p>
<p>Weakness, apology, policy incoherence, a preening desire to be admired by forces that hate everything that America stands for—this is the wind that the Obama administration is sowing in foreign affairs.  Today’s young will reap the whirlwind.</p>
<p><i>Conclusion</i></p>
<p>President Obama has laid the groundwork for a future that will pose many substantial—even grave—challenges for young Americans as they come of age. He has propelled the U.S. national debt to heights that were previously inconceivable—and young people, as they enter the ranks of our nation’s taxpayers, will be saddled with the burden of paying off that debt for decades to come. In addition, Obama’s tax-and-spend fiscal policies have produced a stagnant, moribund economy where young people are already experiencing extremely high levels of unemployment and financial hardship. As a sop to those who view economics as a zero-sum game between victims and victimizers, the president has proposed minimum-wage hikes and living-wage laws that have a long track record of diminishing the employment and earning opportunities of young people. He has implemented a host of new, permanent taxes that will drain the wallets and sap the spirits of young Americans year after year, until the end of their lives. He has spearheaded the creation of a new, government-dominated healthcare system that clearly will be far less efficient and much more costly than the system it is replacing.  He has given responsibility for our education system over to the teachers unions. And he has made the world a more dangerous place by emboldening and even supporting Islamist radicals both at home and abroad, while betraying America’s closest ally, Israel, and weakening our nation’s defense capabilities.</p>
<p>These are President Obama’s poisoned presents to the young people whose support was so crucial to his election and re-election.  This is how he has repaid their hope—with changes that dim their future.</p>
<p><i>John Perazzo is the managing editor of DiscoverTheNetworks.org, an encyclopedic guide to the political Left. He is also a contributing writer for FrontPage Magazine, and the author of </i>The Myths That Divide Us: How Lies Have Poisoned American Race Relations.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref1"><sup><sup>[1]</sup></sup></a> http://www.pewresearch.org/2008/11/13/young-voters-in-the-2008-election/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref2"><sup><sup>[2]</sup></sup></a> http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/07/fox-news-exit-poll-summary/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref3"><sup><sup>[3]</sup></sup></a> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kuTG19Cu_Q</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref4"><sup><sup>[4]</sup></sup></a> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrlMr0Bedo</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref5"><sup><sup>[5]</sup></sup></a> http://www.treasurydirect.gov/NP/debt/current</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref6"><sup><sup>[6]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/dec/7/government-borrows-46-cents-every-dollar-it-spends/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref7"><sup><sup>[7]</sup></sup></a> http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2012/06/14/president-obama-the-biggest-government-spender-in-world-history/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref8"><sup><sup>[8]</sup></sup></a> http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshbarro/2012/04/17/everything-about-this-drudge-headline-is-wrong/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref9"><sup><sup>[9]</sup></sup></a> http://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-03.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref10"><sup><sup>[10]</sup></sup></a> http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamas-budget-add-44-trillion-debt-next-four-years_650614.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref11"><sup><sup>[11]</sup></sup></a> http://dailycaller.com/2012/07/27/ten-inconvenient-truths-about-the-national-debt/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref12"><sup><sup>[12]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/4/generation-y-asks-why-us/?page=all</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref13"><sup><sup>[13]</sup></sup></a> http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2012/11/19/how-the-nations-interest-spending-stacks-up</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref14"><sup><sup>[14]</sup></sup></a> http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&amp;id=1258</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref15"><sup><sup>[15]</sup></sup></a> http://www.federalbudget.com/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref16"><sup><sup>[16]</sup></sup></a>  Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns, <i>The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and Our Economy </i>(570-71).</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref17"><sup><sup>[17]</sup></sup></a> http://blog.heritage.org/2013/01/11/generation-y-a-taste-of-what-is-to-come-for-generation-debt/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref18"><sup><sup>[18]</sup></sup></a> http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/10/economist-this-is-the-weakest-post-financial-crisis-recovery-since-the-1880s/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref19"><sup><sup>[19]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/pjc8uk6</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref20"><sup><sup>[20]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/qcdqpyh; http://preview.tinyurl.com/oyvprqz</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref21"><sup><sup>[21]</sup></sup></a> http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.ht</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref22"><sup><sup>[22]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/jvjctdt; http://tinyurl.com/bnkprjq</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref23"><sup><sup>[23]</sup></sup></a> http://cnsnews.com/news/article/record-89967000-not-labor-force-another-663000-drop-out-march</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref24"><sup><sup>[24]</sup></sup></a> http://dailycaller.com/2012/09/10/unemployment-would-be-11-2-percent-if-labor-force-same-as-when-obama-took-office/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref25"><sup><sup>[25]</sup></sup></a> http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref26"><sup><sup>[26]</sup></sup></a> http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/05/Losing-Hope-Effective-Millennial-Unemployment-Rate-At-16-2</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref27"><sup><sup>[27]</sup></sup></a> http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/12/youth-hardest-hit-in-obama-economy/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref28"><sup><sup>[28]</sup></sup></a> http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/12/youth-hardest-hit-in-obama-economy/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref29"><sup><sup>[29]</sup></sup></a> http://blog.heritage.org/2011/07/12/youth-hardest-hit-in-obama-economy/; http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/2/259.abstract</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref30"><sup><sup>[30]</sup></sup></a> http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/XLI/2/259.abstract</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref31"><sup><sup>[31]</sup></sup></a> http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/06/7-small-businesses-tells-us-how-obamas-call-for-an-increase-in-minimum-wage-would-affect-them-bad-bad-bad/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref32"><sup><sup>[32]</sup></sup></a> http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2003/11/05/living_wage_kills_jobs/page/full/; http://www.bls.gov/cps/minwage2011.htm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref33"><sup><sup>[33]</sup></sup></a> http://www.creators.com/opinion/walter-williams/minimum-wage-s-discriminatory-effects.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref34"><sup><sup>[34]</sup></sup></a> http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/333418/need-explain-thomas-sowell</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref35"><sup><sup>[35]</sup></sup></a>http://www.forbes.com/sites/ashleaebeling/2012/06/28/obamacares-7-tax-hikes-on-under-250000-a-year-earners/;</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref36"><sup><sup>[36]</sup></sup></a> http://reason.com/archives/2012/07/09/yes-actually-obamacare-is-the-biggest-ta</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref37"><sup><sup>[37]</sup></sup></a> When calculating compliance with the law, two 15-hours-per-week employees equal one 30-hour worker.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref38"><sup><sup>[38]</sup></sup></a> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324616604578304072420873666.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref39"><sup><sup>[39]</sup></sup></a> Betsy McCaughey, Decoding the Obama Health Law, 10.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref40"><sup><sup>[40]</sup></sup></a> Ibid., 22.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref41"><sup><sup>[41]</sup></sup></a> Ibid., 9.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref42"><sup><sup>[42]</sup></sup></a> Ibid., 20.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref43"><sup><sup>[43]</sup></sup></a> Ibid., 9.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref44"><sup><sup>[44]</sup></sup></a> http://cnsnews.com/news/article/record-704-million-enrolled-medicaid-2011-1-out-every-5-americans; http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/22/McConnell-Obamacare-Will-Increase-Medicaid-Rolls-By-25-Million</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref45"><sup><sup>[45]</sup></sup></a> Sally Pipes, <i>The Top Ten Myths of American Health Care</i>, 17-18.  Betsy McCaughey, <i>Decoding the Obama Health Law</i>, 41.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref46"><sup><sup>[46]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/feb/20/obamacare-will-hurt-young-people-most/?page=all#pagebreak</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref47"><sup><sup>[47]</sup></sup></a> http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/obamacare-premiums-doctors-retiring/2013/03/25/id/496255</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref48"><sup><sup>[48]</sup></sup></a> http://ibdtv.investors.com/510822-thomas-sowell-interview-politics-vs-economics-in-the-health-care-debate.aspx</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref49"><sup><sup>[49]</sup></sup></a> http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/main1994/96045.asp</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref50"><sup><sup>[50]</sup></sup></a>http://tinyurl.com/lys79ca</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref51"><sup><sup>[51]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/14/sat-reading-scores-at-all-time-low/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref52"><sup><sup>[52]</sup></sup></a> http://teachersunionexposed.com/international.cfm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref53"><sup><sup>[53]</sup></sup></a> http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/cr_48.htm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref54"><sup><sup>[54]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/lkoa85w</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref55"><sup><sup>[55]</sup></sup></a> http://www.nea.gov/research/toread.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref56"><sup><sup>[56]</sup></sup></a> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-failure-of-american-schools/308497/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref57"><sup><sup>[57]</sup></sup></a> http://www.nea.gov/research/toread.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref58"><sup><sup>[58]</sup></sup></a> http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/education/dropout-nation/by-the-numbers-dropping-out-of-high-school/; http://www.all4ed.org/files/archive/publications/HighCost.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref59"><sup><sup>[59]</sup></sup></a> http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-13/obama-requests-increase-in-u-s-education-spending-to-almost-70-billion.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref60"><sup><sup>[60]</sup></sup></a> http://nationsreportcard.gov/ltt_2008/ltt0002.aspx?subtab_id=Tab_3&amp;tab_id=tab1#chart; http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=66</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref61"><sup><sup>[61]</sup></sup></a> http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/sep/11/education-compared-oecd-country-pisa</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref62"><sup><sup>[62]</sup></sup></a> http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/25/d-c-public-schools-spend-almost-30000-per-student/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref63"><sup><sup>[63]</sup></sup></a> http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k79903&amp;tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup125619</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref64"><sup><sup>[64]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2005/aug/30/20050830-103030-6569r/?page=all</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref65"><sup><sup>[65]</sup></sup></a> http://teachersunionexposed.com/blocking.cfm; http://teachersunionexposed.com/dues.php</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref66"><sup><sup>[66]</sup></sup></a> http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Barack_Obama_Education.htm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref67"><sup><sup>[67]</sup></sup></a> http://reason.com/archives/2010/04/09/obamas-education-spending-fren</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref68"><sup><sup>[68]</sup></sup></a> http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/27/politics/obama-governors</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref69"><sup><sup>[69]</sup></sup></a> http://www2.census.gov/govs/school/09f33pub.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref70"><sup><sup>[70]</sup></sup></a> http://www.ontheissues.org/2012/Barack_Obama_Education.htm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref71"><sup><sup>[71]</sup></sup></a> http://www.sidwell.edu/admissions/tuition-and-fees/index.aspx</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref72"><sup><sup>[72]</sup></sup></a> http://www.clasp.org/admin/site/publications/files/headstartdata2008us.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref73"><sup><sup>[73]</sup></sup></a> http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2013/01/head-start-impact-evaluation-report-finally-released</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref74"><sup><sup>[74]</sup></sup></a> https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-05-10-00240.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref75"><sup><sup>[75]</sup></sup></a> http://earlyed.newamerica.net/blogposts/2013/early_learning_in_the_president_s_2014_budget_request-82100</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref76"><sup><sup>[76]</sup></sup></a> http://preview.tinyurl.com/pncqxu4; http://preview.tinyurl.com/c993mee</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref77"><sup><sup>[77]</sup></sup></a> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/obama-budget-education_n_3053564.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref78"><sup><sup>[78]</sup></sup></a> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-failure-of-american-schools/308497/?single_page=true</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref79"><sup><sup>[79]</sup></sup></a> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/06/the-failure-of-american-schools/308497/?single_page=true</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref80"><sup><sup>[80]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/b2l9baf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref81"><sup><sup>[81]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/knah8fr</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref82"><sup><sup>[82]</sup></sup></a>http://tinyurl.com/l2af3jz</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref83"><sup><sup>[83]</sup></sup></a>http://tinyurl.com/pncqxu4; http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Articles/Education_Inflation.asp</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref84"><sup><sup>[84]</sup></sup></a> http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Inflation_Articles/Education_Inflation.asp</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref85"><sup><sup>[85]</sup></sup></a> http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jborowski/government-overhaul-of-student-loans-likely-to-eli</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref86"><sup><sup>[86]</sup></sup></a>http://tinyurl.com/lm3k589</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref87"><sup><sup>[87]</sup></sup></a> http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2011/11/eat-the-debt-obamas-absurd-student-loan-program/; hhttp://tinyurl.com/koh3ese.php; Banks could continue to make private, non-guaranteed college loans, but because these are generally more expensive than guaranteed loans, the private student-loan industry was essentially driven to ruin.</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref88"><sup><sup>[88]</sup></sup></a> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703312504575141943090519772.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref89"><sup><sup>[89]</sup></sup></a> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/31/student-loan-debt-unsustainable_n_2593303.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref90"><sup><sup>[90]</sup></sup></a> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203440104574405154157021052.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref91"><sup><sup>[91]</sup></sup></a> http://www.sfgate.com/business/networth/article/Feds-take-over-student-loan-program-from-banks-3193888.php</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref92"><sup><sup>[92]</sup></sup></a> http://www.conservativeactionalerts.com/2011/11/eat-the-debt-obamas-absurd-student-loan-program/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref93"><sup><sup>[93]</sup></sup></a> http://www.freedomworks.org/blog/jborowski/government-overhaul-of-student-loans-likely-to-eli; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11loans.html?src=twt&amp;twt=nytimespolitics&amp;_r=1&amp;</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref94"><sup><sup>[94]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/cm3q3kp</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref95"><sup><sup>[95]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/think-tanked/post/is-afghanistan-still-the-good-war/2012/06/12/gJQALlUNYV_blog.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref96"><sup><sup>[96]</sup></sup></a> http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2011/10/08/170747.html; http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/jan/31/egypt-tunisia-will-of-the-people</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref97"><sup><sup>[97]</sup></sup></a> http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Anti-Semitic-rhetoric-increasing-in-Tunisia-under-MB</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref98"><sup><sup>[98]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/ldtxd93</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref99"><sup><sup>[99]</sup></sup></a> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/19/libya-islamists-gaining-strength-libyans-concerned-by-sectarian-violence_n_2909693.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref100"><sup><sup>[100]</sup></sup></a>  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1755</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref101"><sup><sup>[101]</sup></sup></a>  http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110203/D9L59U1G0.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref102"><sup><sup>[102]</sup></sup></a> http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/11/egypt.us.reaction/index.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref103"><sup><sup>[103]</sup></sup></a>  http://www.worldtribune.com/2012/08/15/morsi-looks-to-revise-1979-egypt-israel-peace-treaty/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref104"><sup><sup>[104]</sup></sup></a>  http://tinyurl.com/lk5bmzn</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref105"><sup><sup>[105]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/laygmlt;; http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/egypt-s-morsi-keen-to-renew-long-severed-iran-ties-235773</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref106"><sup><sup>[106]</sup></sup></a>  http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/070611-577509-editorial-the-us-legitimizes-a-terrorist-group.htm?p=1</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref107"><sup><sup>[107]</sup></sup></a> http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/121112-636671-obama-foolishly-arms-an-unstable-egypt.htm</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref108"><sup><sup>[108]</sup></sup></a>  http://tinyurl.com/kfobo8q</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref109"><sup><sup>[109]</sup></sup></a>  http://tinyurl.com/kwjp3c9; http://pjmedia.com/andrewmccarthy/2012/08/17/huma-abedins-muslim-minority-affairs-its-not-just-a-journal/?singlepage=true</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref110"><sup><sup>[110]</sup></sup></a>  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2401; http://tinyurl.com/k82r3n5; http://tinyurl.com/mmd7sx</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref111"><sup><sup>[111]</sup></sup></a> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2562</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref112"><sup><sup>[112]</sup></sup></a>  http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6178</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref113"><sup><sup>[113]</sup></sup></a> http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/hsac_cve_working_group_recommendations.pdf</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref114"><sup><sup>[114]</sup></sup></a> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/fbi-muslims-report-progress-over-training-materials/2012/02/16/gIQA7R7KIR_story.html</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref115"><sup><sup>[115]</sup></sup></a> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2563</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref116"><sup><sup>[116]</sup></sup></a> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7453</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref117"><sup><sup>[117]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/nywe5zr</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref118"><sup><sup>[118]</sup></sup></a> http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2428</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref119"><sup><sup>[119]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/pbw9jny;  http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref120"><sup><sup>[120]</sup></sup></a>  http://tinyurl.com/dep8n8</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref121"><sup><sup>[121]</sup></sup></a> http://www.salon.com/2010/08/05/muslims_3/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref122"><sup><sup>[122]</sup></sup></a> http://www.salon.com/2011/04/26/egypt_12/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref123"><sup><sup>[123]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/6carnvs</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref124"><sup><sup>[124]</sup></sup></a> http://tinyurl.com/awvszy3</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref125"><sup><sup>[125]</sup></sup></a>  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/DefenseStrategy/2012/01/05/id/423099</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref126"><sup><sup>[126]</sup></sup></a> http://blog.heritage.org/2012/05/02/in-pictures-defense-spending-plummets-under-obamas-budget/</p>
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<p><a title="" href="#_ftnref127"><sup><sup>[127]</sup></sup></a>  http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/08/when-naivety-clashes-with-real-world-north-korea-proves-benefits-of-missile-defense/</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How our protest against an anti-Israel extremist for UC Student Regent sparked a national conversation.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/student_uc_regent.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-199033" alt="student_uc_regent" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/student_uc_regent.jpg" width="270" height="218" /></a>The David Horowitz Freedom Center’s public opposition to an extreme anti-Israel candidate for UC Student Regent has helped to trigger a national conversation about the growing problem of anti-Semitism on college campuses.</span></b></p>
<p>UC Berkeley student Sadia Saifuddin was recently appointed student regent-designate for the University of California over protests by the Freedom Center and a few others who opposed her nomination on the grounds that her extreme anti-Israel views and activism with organizations known for their anti-Semitism make her unfit to represent all students in the UC system. The controversy sparked by the Freedom Center’s opposition has become national news.</p>
<p>During her years at Berkeley, Saifuddin was a leader in two Muslim Brotherhood-linked organizations, the Muslim Students Association and Students for Justice in Palestine, which regularly invite anti-Semitic speakers to UC campuses and sponsor an annual hate-week known as “Israeli Apartheid Week.” She was also an active participant in the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement which calls for the destruction of the Jewish state and led vicious attacks on Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz who has dedicated herself to protecting Jewish students from anti-Semitism on UC campuses.</p>
<p>In an open letter sent to the University of California Board of Regents, the Freedom Center’s chairman, David Horowitz, and director of campus campaigns, Jeffrey Wienir, urged the Board to reconsider their selection: “Appointing Sadia Saifuddin to the Board of Regents would be an offense to the ‘Principles of Community’ for UC Berkeley which are supposed to be core values in the UC system, and which call on UC students to ‘respect the differences as well as the commonalities that bring us together and call for civility and respect in our personal interactions,’’ the letter stated. “How is it respectful for the organizations that Sadia Saifuddin represents to sponsor ‘Israeli Apartheid Weeks’ which support terrorist organizations like Hamas and call for the destruction of the Jewish state?”</p>
<p>Despite the regents’ failure to reconsider their nomination of Saifuddin, the Freedom Center’s protests garnered widespread press coverage of Saifuddin’s questionable ties to anti-Semitic organizations and helped to raise awareness of the often-threatening environment confronting Jewish students on UC campuses.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/uc-regents-confirm-muslim-student-board-19691331">covering the story</a>, the Associated Press framed their coverage in light of the Freedom Center’s objections: “The University of California&#8217;s governing board confirmed its first Muslim student member Wednesday, despite some Jewish groups&#8217; claims that she marginalized Jewish students and promoted an anti-Israel agenda.” The AP story about Saifuddin’s controversial nomination was picked up by dozens of other newspapers and websites.</p>
<p>Numerous other publications and websites including <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/education/article/UC-regents-back-outspoken-Muslim-student-4671413.php"><i>The San Francisco Chronicle</i></a>, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-regents-uc-student-representative-sadia-saif-20130718%2C0%2C7402394.story"><i>The Los Angeles Times</i></a>, <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_23688198/muslim-uc-regent-sadia-saifuddins-confirmation-is-heartening"><i>The San Jose Mercury News</i>,</a> <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/170061#.UfXThaxt42A">IsraelNationalNews.com</a>, <a href="http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/69053/u.c.-regents-name-bds-proponent-to-student-spot/">JWeekly.com</a> and <a href="http://www.universityherald.com/articles/3921/20130718/uc-appoints-muslim-american-woman-board-jewish-groups-oppose-decision.htm"><i>The University Herald</i></a> picked up the story that Saifuddin’s confirmation was controversial because of her anti-Israel leanings and associations, with many directly citing the Freedom Center’s stance.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-regents-uc-student-representative-sadia-saif-20130718%2C0%2C7402394.story">an editorial</a> in the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, the editors offered their congratulations to Saifuddin but noted that the “one glitch” in her resume is her outspoken criticism of Israel which the editors labeled “the third rail of UC politics.” The <i>Times</i> editorial went on to quote David Horowitz’s statement in his open letter that &#8220;If [Saifuddin] were confirmed, it would set a dangerous precedent to encourage anti-Semitism on campus, which is already a big problem in the UC system.&#8221;</p>
<p>We may have lost the battle against Saifuddin’s confirmation as UC Regent. But by sparking a national conversation about how her anti-Israel activism and leadership in organizations known for their anti-Semitism should disqualify her for such a position, we are a step closer to winning the war.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor’s note: Below is the video and transcript of Gov. Rick Perry&#8217;s speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s Texas Weekend. The inaugural event took place May 3rd-5th at the Las Colinas Resort in Dallas, Texas.</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/65718340">Governor Rick Perry</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user15333690">DHFC</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none;"><strong>Rick Perry: </strong> And, David, it&#8217;s an honor to get to see you again and be in your presence.  And we&#8217;re certainly glad to have you here in Texas.  And even if your mailing address does continue to be in California.  (laughter)  I mean, really, California?  It &#8212; all the cool kids are moving to Texas, David.  (laughter)</span></p>
<p>But I&#8217;m just kidding because, I mean, God knows, if there is a place that needs David Horowitz, it is California.  (laughter) So, you know, the basic question I love to ask folks when I talk to people in California or Illinois or overseas, for that matter, is that, you know, what makes Texas so special?</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s a number of ways to go about that answer.  We are a unique culture.  We&#8217;re proud.  We are patriotic.  Fiercely dedicated to the values of individual freedom and responsibility.  We are a mix of backgrounds.</p>
<p>We are incredibly diverse state, culturally, ethically, philosophically.  No matter where you come from or what you believe, you can feel right at home in Texas.  Granted, if you&#8217;re a liberal, Austin&#8217;s probably about the only place that you&#8217;re going to feel really at home.  (laughter)</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s a great place and they love it there.  If you enjoy the finer things in life from world class orchestras to world class food, you can find it in Texas.  Same if you enjoy camping, fishing, hunting, hiking or even surfing, we have it all.</p>
<p>Of course, that&#8217;s what truly sets us apart over the last decade has been our economic climate.  And that&#8217;s something that we&#8217;ve worked very hard to develop, to cultivate.  It&#8217;s a climate built upon the fiscally conservative principles that have served us well through good economic times and throughout major national recessions.</p>
<p>CEOs are looking for something simple.  And that simplicity is predictability.  And in Texas, they know that they&#8217;re going to get just that.  They know they won&#8217;t be taxed into bankruptcy.  They know that they &#8212; that we have a low tax burden here.  That&#8217;s the foundation of this state&#8217;s tax philosophy.</p>
<p>We do that because we realize that more money in the hands of Texans is how you create more jobs in this state.  We realize that more jobs for hard working Texas tax payers means more options, more freedom, healthier Texas families.</p>
<p>People have gotten that message, too.  Our population continues to grow at somewhere north of 1,000 people every day move into this state.  Employers also know that they can put down roots in Texas.  That they won&#8217;t be tied up in miles and miles of government red tape.</p>
<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean that we don&#8217;t take care of our own.  That we don&#8217;t have appropriate regulatory climates.  As a matter fact, we&#8217;ve cleaned up our air in the last decade more than any other state in the nation during that same period of time.</p>
<p>But it&#8217;s proof that you can have thoughtful regulation and at the same time lift your environmental quality as well.  What it means is that we&#8217;re reasonable.  We&#8217;re efficient when it comes to the regulatory process.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t a &#8212; just take my word for it.  Ask people like Andy Puzder.  Andy was the CEO of Carl&#8217;s Jr.&#8217;s, headquartered out in California.  He said that opening a new restaurant in California takes eight months.</p>
<p>Eight months before you can even break ground to start the construction.  In Texas, it takes about six weeks.  That&#8217;s a big reason you&#8217;re seeing more Carl&#8217;s Jr.&#8217;s as you drive around, Pat.  I don&#8217;t know if you use that establishment or not but you&#8217;re going to see a lot more of them in Texas.</p>
<p>Employers know that the Texas court system, for instance, won&#8217;t allow for over suing.  Someone in the audience said a thank you as I walked in for &#8212; in 2003 we passed the most sweeping tort reform in the nation.  And there &#8212; and in 2011 we passed loser pay.</p>
<p>And again, sending the message (applause) that you can come to the State of Texas and you won&#8217;t be over sued.  The more time and money that&#8217;s spent in courtrooms is less time that you&#8217;re creating jobs in this state.</p>
<p>And then finally employers know that we have cultivated a work force that stands ready to fill any need as &#8212; that that employer may have.  Whether it&#8217;s on an assembly line, whether it&#8217;s on a sales line or whether it&#8217;s in a laboratory.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re about a decade into these efforts to improve our economic climate.  And I think the results speak for themselves.  <i>Foreign Direct Investment</i> magazine recently awarded Texas the 2012 Governor&#8217;s Award for being the most successful state in the nation in attracting foreign investment. And that publication is far alone in its praise for the Lone Star state.</p>
<p><i>Chief Executive</i> Magazine named Texas the country&#8217;s best state for doing business for the eighth consecutive year.  We&#8217;ve committed to making that nine, I would suggest to you, in the very short future.  (laughter)  Texas also received accolades from media outlets like <i>USA Today</i> and CNBC, <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Forbes,</i> <i>Site Selector</i> magazine.</p>
<p>More importantly than good press, though, is the fact that Texas continues to be the nation&#8217;s epicenter for job creation.  Texas employers have added more than a half million private sector jobs over the last two years alone.  A total of nearly 1.4 million jobs in the last ten years.</p>
<p>And as exciting as our present is, our future, I will suggest, is holding even more promise.  We remain very proud of our status as a national home to energy production.  Now, Mr. Hanley and I were talking about the energy industry in the State of Texas.</p>
<p>And we&#8217;re likely to find even more of that in the near future, I would suggest to you.  Though our healthy economy and strategic investment in research and young, innovative companies is what I want you to focus on just a bit.</p>
<p>There &#8212; I think during the presidential race someone made the comment that, &#8220;Gosh, come on, it&#8217;s easy being governor of the State of Texas.  I mean, that&#8217;s like going, playing poker and drawing four aces, right?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s not quite that easy, sir,&#8221; as I told him.  (laughter)  I said, &#8220;It&#8217;s not quite that easy in the State of Texas.&#8221;  The point they were making is you&#8217;ve got all that oil and gas so obviously your economy&#8217;s going to be good.</p>
<p>In 1984, right before Texas teetering on the brink and going down on a long, long journey downward economically, oil and gas made up approximately 14% of our Gross State Product.</p>
<p>Today, after all of the massive amounts of gas and oil that have been discovered over the course of the last five and six years in particular with George Mitchell&#8217;s extraordinary innovation of hydraulic fracturing and the hor &#8212; or the directional drilling that&#8217;s going on.</p>
<p>All of the shale gas that has been found, the Eagle Ford and the Barnett shale, the Haynesville and even in the old Permian Basin, renov &#8212; rejuvenated.  Even with all of that, and oil at close to $100 a barrel, oil and gas industry makes up less than 10% of the Gross State Product in the State of Texas today.</p>
<p>This state has exploded in a very diverse way.  In biotechnology and medical technology and manufacturing.  And after today at the N.R.A. I&#8217;m pretty sure we&#8217;re going to get some more weapons manufacturers moving into the State of Texas.  (applause)</p>
<p>Last year Batelle reached a study &#8212; released a study that said that Texas was the top job creator in biotech.  That trend will only increase as we go into the future.</p>
<p>Just a couple of months ago GlaxoSmithKline announced that they were going to join up with Texas A&amp;M University in a private sector effort there and public &#8212; profit partnership, expending $91 million to create a new vaccine facility at that university that is going to be able to address issues not only of terroristic threats but also pandemic events that can occur in the world.</p>
<p>So in Texas you&#8217;re going to see the ability to address.  Historically it took nine months to go from one strain to another strain because it was an egg-based concept.  An egg-based process.  And they have developed a process of which it&#8217;s cell-based.  And now they can go from one strain to another strain in 45 days.</p>
<p>Soon in Texas there will be a process in place to create vaccines so that half a world away where Third World countries are being decimated by diseases or viruses and to save literally the potential of millions of lives, that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re about in this state.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve created here because we&#8217;ve been innovative and we created an environment where entrepreneurs know that they can risk their capital and have a chance to have a return on their investment.  We&#8217;ve helped start-up companies keep their discoveries that are made here in Texas, instead of going to either coast.</p>
<p>That was historically when our universities came up with a great innovation it took off for the coast because that&#8217;s where the money was.  That&#8217;s where the technology and the researchers to take it to the next step, the gap funders, if you will.</p>
<p>That is truly changing and has changed where those companies are staying in Texas.  As a matter of fact, we are recruiting those mature companies from either coast to the State of Texas now.  (applause)</p>
<p>You think about, historically Texas has been a place where innovation did occur, whether it was the integrated circuit at T.I., whether it was during the space race of the &#8217;60s at Johnson Space Center, whether it was &#8212; again, I mentioned George Mitchell and that unlocking of the vast energy resources around the world.  That came from Texas technology.</p>
<p>And whether we&#8217;re on the cutting edge of energy or biotech or communications or commerce or privatized efforts to get our world back into space, Texas is going to be at the forefront of that movement.</p>
<p>The question before us now is how do we preserve and improve our economic health in the years to come?  Probably the biggest obstacle that we have, and this is part of human nature, is our own success.  With our economy surging, our revenues our collections are on a very steep upward trajectory primarily based on sales tax here in the State of Texas.</p>
<p>And that&#8217;s led a lot of people, whether it was in the media, the newspaper, the television and our own legislature, to make the case that the time for fiscal conservatism is over.  They all talk about how much extra money we have floating around these days.</p>
<p>Of course, they&#8217;re ignoring that it&#8217;s our policies of restraining spending and limiting taxes that have led to that economic success.  They&#8217;re also ignoring the fact that there is no such thing as extra money.</p>
<p>And the tough decisions that we will make this session are no different than the tough decisions that we made in previous legislative sessions.  We still have to prioritize, we have to separate wants from needs.  We still have to think about what&#8217;s in the best interest, the long-term best interest of our communities and our state.</p>
<p>We still need to make good decisions now to ensure that we remain the economic power that we have grown to be.  And other states aren’t going to make it easy.  I saw Bobby Jindal today as we were passing.  And Bobby&#8217;s in the process of trying to do away with the personal income tax in Louisiana.</p>
<p>And I told him, I said, &#8220;You&#8217;re going to make me really uncomfortable if you do that.&#8221;  (laughter)  He said, &#8220;Good.&#8221;  And I said, &#8220;Awesome.&#8221;  I said, &#8220;That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re about to compete against each other.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the future of this country, I will suggest to you.  To Washington to recognize these laboratories of innovation that we have in this country, to allow these states to compete against each other, to get away from this one-size-fits-all whether it&#8217;s on social issues or whether it&#8217;s financial decisions and economic decisions.</p>
<p>Allow the states to come up with the answers that they need, that they want for their people.  That&#8217;s the way that we make America strong again.  (applause)  This administration, and frankly this Congress, is &#8212; will continue to try to force these foolish, costly mandates down our throats.</p>
<p>And when we don&#8217;t go along with them is really, they&#8217;ll chide us and they will say that we&#8217;re not being properly cooperative, was the words that the President used this last week.  That&#8217;s how President Obama described it.</p>
<p>He said that we were not properly cooperative.  And I know that he did not mean that as a compliment but I took it as one.  (laughter)  I actually took it as a compliment.  I am not properly cooperative with them on that issue of Obamacare.</p>
<p>We said no to setting up a state exchange.  (applause)  And it&#8217;s only a state exchange.  It&#8217;s only a state exchange in name only.  They call it a state exchange but here are all the rules and this is what you have to &#8212; it has to look like this.  It&#8217;s totally and absolutely mandated by Washington, D.C.</p>
<p>We also refused on multiple occasions the idea of expanding Medicaid in the State of Texas.  (applause)  Medicaid expansion, simply put, is just misguided.  It is ultimately a doomed attempt to mask the shortcomings of Obamacare.</p>
<p>Just this week we started seeing warning signs across this country of insurance companies, insurance premiums going to skyrocket.  We&#8217;re hearing rumblings about a lot of people losing their jobs, Pat, because of Obamacare.</p>
<p>We realized early on that pouring millions of dollars into this broken system was foolish.  I made the example, David, that putting more people into Medicaid was no different than putting more people on the Titanic knowing how that was going to end up.  I mean, it truly is a place that is going to bankrupt your state if you participate in that.</p>
<p>Think about what&#8217;ll happen when the case loads explode.  It will be a massive disaster across this Texas.  I mean, across this country.  Excuse me.  And we are our own country, so to speak.  (laughter) We have a marketing campaign, David, that&#8217;s called Texas:  A Whole Other Country.  (laughter)  And some people get disturbed about that.  But it&#8217;s a fun thing.  So.</p>
<p>But anyway, I want to share with you in wrapping up what fiscally conservative, thoughtful policies, what having freedom, for me, and I think freedom for our founding fathers was about freedom from over taxation, freedom from over regulation, freedom from over litigation.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s the pillars of a powerful economy.  For a little over a decade now we have put those into place in this state.  And let me share with you one of the byproducts that&#8217;s powerful.  And I want to share it with you in a bit of a &#8212; not in an anecdotal way but in just a story that reflects the point.</p>
<p>In 2001, in the spring of 2001 I&#8217;d been governor for six months.  And we got the call that one of the great names in the corporate world was considering relocating their corporate headquarters either in Chicago or Dallas-Fort Worth.  Boeing.</p>
<p>Boeing was moving out of the Pacific Northwest.  We became ecstatic.  We gathered up all of our staff and the economic development division, the Department of Economic Development and said, &#8220;We must go win this.&#8221;</p>
<p>Was only a hundred and &#8212; I think 135 jobs total.  But it was just the cache, it was the name of getting Boeing to come to Texas.  What a powerful message that would&#8217;ve been.  Well, we made a lot of smoke and not much fire and we found that we weren&#8217;t very good at economic development.  And Chicago was the winner.</p>
<p>But we came back and sometimes in defeat is how you become stronger.  I&#8217;m hoping that&#8217;s the case, anyway, Pat.  (laughter)  Sometimes in defeat it is how you become stronger.  We came back to Austin, Texas, and we analyzed our economic development effort in this state and realized that we weren&#8217;t very good at it.  And that we were cumbersome, we were not flexible, we didn&#8217;t have the ability to attract, we didn&#8217;t have incentive programs.</p>
<p>And that next legislative session in 2003 we created the Texas Enterprise Fund which is an incentive program to be able to lure these companies into the State of Texas.</p>
<p>We collapsed the Department of Economic Development into a trusteed agency and moved it into the governor&#8217;s office so it could very quickly move and be flexible without a board to have to go through.  And to work directly with the governor&#8217;s office.</p>
<p>We put into place the most sweeping tort reform in the nation during that legislative session and we filled a $10 billion budget shortfall without raising taxes to send the message that we truly were going to be responsive to businessmen and -women and not just say, &#8220;Oh, we can&#8217;t make the hard decisions.  We&#8217;re going to have to raise your taxes.&#8221;</p>
<p>And over the course of the next years we stayed, adhered to those principles.  Oh, and as an aside, about a year after that Boeing thing went down, we heard through very well placed sources that one of the reasons, a strong reason that the decision makers at Boeing chose Chicago was because the spouses of the decision makers felt that the cultural arts were more expansive in Chicago to their liking than in Dallas-Fort Worth.</p>
<p>Now, I&#8217;m not going to make that argument today whether that&#8217;s true or not.  But that was the perception.  And so much in this business perception is reality.  Here&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to fast forward with you in just a moment and go to 2011, a short decade later.</p>
<p>In Texas, Fort Worth has built a new museum of modern art.  The Kimbell has expanded greatly.  The Basses have built one of the great symphony halls in the world.  Dallas has finished two performing arts facilities.</p>
<p>The AT&amp;T, the Meyerson.  Nasher moved their sculpture gardens to Dallas.  The American Film Institute now is headquartered in Dallas.  Austin, Texas, the little government and university town, has a new museum of modern art.</p>
<p>They have the ba &#8212; the Long Center of Performing Arts.  The Topfers built a new wing onto the Zachary Theater.  San Antonio is building a new performing arts facility.  And Houston tonight has more theater seats available than any other city in America outside of New York City.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s happened in a decade.  And it&#8217;s happened, I will suggest strongly, because we&#8217;ve allowed the private sector to keep more of what they earn.  And they made the right decisions about putting that money into those charitable causes, into the cultural arts.</p>
<p>Today I can assure you as we recruit from New York or from the Silicon Valley or from Illinois.  As a matter of fact, I was in Chicago just ten days ago inviting those people to come.  That our cultural arts today are expansive and they get to keep more of what they work for.</p>
<p>That is a powerful message.  It&#8217;s what America needs to be talking about.  We need to have this great discussion across this country about red state policies and blue state policies.  (applause)</p>
<p>And if we do that, if we will stand up and unabashedly and when &#8212; courageously stand up and say, &#8220;These are the policies that will allow you to live free.  These are the policies that will allow your family to be secure.  This is the way that your family will have a better future.&#8221;  We will have an America for the next generation that we are proud of and that truly is a beacon for all the world.</p>
<p>Thank you and God bless you.  (applause)</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Editor’s note: Below is the video of the panel discussion &#8220;Reviving the Cause,&#8221; featured at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 2013 West Coast Retreat. The event was held February 22nd-24th at the Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes, California. A transcript of the discussion follows.</em></p>
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<p><a href="http://vimeo.com/60629340">Reviving the Cause</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user15333690">DHFC</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong> If we are talking about reviving the cause, we must be talking as conservatives about issues that maybe aren&#8217;t being articulated, our core values possibly being neglected.  As I asked Larry in the last session, what is it that the Republicans don&#8217;t want to talk about?  There seemed to be a manner of doing things that the Republicans are very comfortable with.  You can read about this in David&#8217;s new pamphlet, &#8220;Go for the Heart.&#8221;  You can read about a lot of this.  There is the &#8220;What We Need to Revive&#8221; and there&#8217;s the &#8220;How to Revive It.&#8221;</p>
<p>For example, the Tea Party comes along.  Is our tent big enough?  Do the Republicans even want these people in the tent?  What about social conservatives, libertarians, all the different flavors of conservatives, religious conservatives?  I mean, is the tent big enough for everybody?  That&#8217;s one thing.</p>
<p>Second of all, you can talk about the borders.  Are Republicans too nice to talk about the borders?  Are Republicans too nice to talk about what&#8217;s going on in the inner city?  And most of this can be laid at the feet of Democrats who have run our big cities.  What about preferences, the liberal racism of low expectations?  Is this being articulated?  That&#8217;s just a few.  There are hundreds more, I&#8217;m sure, and I will turn it over to my panelists now.</p>
<p>Scott Johnson, what do you think about the topic &#8220;Reviving the Cause?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson:</strong>  I think many of us &#8212; I certainly feel like everything I thought I knew about politics and presidential elections was proved false in the past campaign and folks who are smarter than I, who are running Romney&#8217;s campaign, I think that applies double to them, and I won&#8217;t go through the theses such as that in a reelection campaign.  Just for example, it&#8217;s a referendum on the incumbent, and we clearly had a failed president here, and if Romney presented himself as a plausible alternative, he would be elected.  And that accounted for the campaign&#8217;s apparent allergy to ideas and its failure to offer a comprehensive critique, Horowitz style, of the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>So I just want to enumerate a few of the factors very briefly that I think bring us to where we are today as a predicate for going forward.  The first, I think it would be helpful if our folks would get a handle on the technological superiority of the Obama campaign.  In this case, the Obama campaign, it was a pretty well kept secret during the campaign, but they have now put something like their playbook online under the heading &#8220;Inside the cave.&#8221;  I bring this along as exhibit A.  I have an exhibit B; don&#8217;t let me forget.  But exhibit A sets forth the incredibly sophisticated use of social media and online fundraising by the Obama campaign.</p>
<p>The Obama campaign raised online something like $690 million according to Joshua Green in a good article about this in &#8220;Business Week,&#8221; and most of that $690 million was raised through scientific &#8212; if there&#8217;s such a thing as political science, the Obama campaign discovered it.  And their $690 million that was raised online was largely through a vast panoply of e-mail solicitations, many of which we received in our Power Line inbox and regularly made fun of on the site &#8212; I would say misreading what was going on.  We weren&#8217;t the target audience, but they tested these emails for maximum production down to the subject line of the solicitation and to the correct amount to ask for in the e-mail and the level of hysteria to pitch it at.</p>
<p>And as I say, this is with incredible success and it can only be appreciated now, but do you all know, for example, what the most effective subject line in the e-mail solicitations of the Obama campaign, in the last campaign, was?</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong>  Wasn&#8217;t it &#8220;Hi&#8221; or something?</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> &#8220;Hey,&#8221; h-e-y, &#8220;Hey&#8221; was the subject heading and I just hope our folks get a handle on it.  It&#8217;s not my expertise, but the folks who get paid for a living to do this really need to get a handle on it. That&#8217;s number one.  Number two, I would say &#8212; and here&#8217;s my exhibit B &#8212; is the genius of the Democrats.  If there&#8217;s one vulnerability that I thought Governor Romney did not have, it was a bad character or a scandal in his past and yet, the Obama campaign managed to kill the Romney campaign before it got up and running through those, what I thought were ridiculous personal attacks on his business career and so on.</p>
<p>And it seemed to me are repeat. I worried about it at the time, but I thought, given the fact that the Romney campaign wasn&#8217;t responding specifically to those ads in the battleground states where they were running and so on, that I should discount my own fears, but I think they killed the Romney campaign with many critical voters in the battleground states.  And so, my second factor here is the genius of the Democrats in blackening and tarring the reputation and character of people who are of sterling character.</p>
<p>And in that category, I would put bob Dole.  It happened to him in 1996 before his campaign got up and running with a television campaign that was orchestrated by &#8212; an advertising campaign that was orchestrated by Dick Morris before Dole ever formally got the nomination.  The same thing happened this time around in retrospect and when I refer to the genius of the Democrats, I want to cite exhibit B, David Horowitz&#8217;s pamphlet, &#8220;Go for the Heart, How Republicans Can Win.&#8221;  David is thinking hard about it. He&#8217;s thought long and hard about the genius of the Democrats and he&#8217;s thought long and hard about how we can respond.  I think he&#8217;s got the beginnings of a response here.</p>
<p>The third Point I would make is demography.  Hey, we&#8217;re in California. I don&#8217;t mean to belabor the point, but the electorate has shifted at the presidential level and national elections has shifted away obviously from the Republican Party.  In the current issue of &#8220;Commentary,&#8221; Michael Gerson and Peter Wehner make this point really graphically in a way that stuck out at me.  They say &#8220;If this country&#8217;s demographic composition were the same last year as it was in 2000, and you held the percentages of the vote among the demographic groups stable, Romney would now be president.&#8221;</p>
<p>That&#8217;s as of 2000, just 12 years ago.  &#8220;If it was still the same as it was in 1992, Romney would have won in a rout.  If he had merely secured 42% of the Hispanic vote, rather than his pathetic 27%, Romney would have won the popular vote and carried Florida, Colorado and New Mexico.&#8221; Wehner and Gerson conclude that Republicans have a winning message for an electorate that no longer exists.  I hoped that weren&#8217;t true in the last campaign, but it&#8217;s important to take account of that, I think, going forward, in some way.  I don&#8217;t have the answer.</p>
<p>The last point I wanted to make was about dependency.  I think one of the keys to what&#8217;s going on where we are right now &#8212; and this is a point, Nicholas Eberstadt makes in a book he&#8217;s just written and in a column that was just posted online yesterday that really, really warrants a close examination, but something seems to be happening in terms of how Americans view dependence on government.  And you can see this &#8212; I mean, the Obama campaign is promoting &#8212; the Obama administration, in alliance with the Obama campaign, is promoting this government dependency, the explosion of Medicaid, food stamps, Social Security Disability, welfare, and just over the horizon, Obamacare.</p>
<p>Eberstadt has observed &#8212; and this was in his column yesterday &#8212; a growing dependence on government handouts despite declining unemployment rates.  In other words, government dependency goes up even while the reported unemployment rate is ticking down.  Eberstadt says &#8220;Although we&#8217;re entering the fourth year of recovery from our Great Recession, the number of Americans seeking entitlement benefits from the government continues to increase.  Something is happening,&#8221; and whatever it is that&#8217;s happening is &#8212; rebounds to the amplification of the Democratic constituency.</p>
<p>But we are also undergoing, it seems to me, a fundamental transformation that was the professed aim of the Obama campaign in 2008, and we saw it graphically during the campaign in another theme that I also thought was laughable, &#8220;The Life of Julia,&#8221; that you&#8217;ve all probably seen, but it was an interactive graphic that was literally a cradle-to-grave illustration of the glories that would be conferred by the government on this featureless woman whose sole role in life appeared to be to accrue dependency on others in the course of her life, which &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong>  Scott, excuse me a second.  Let me turn it over to Ralph, so we can keep it going.</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson:</strong>  Okay, thanks.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> But I am making notes of what you&#8217;re saying and I want to come back to a couple of these points.  Ralph Reed, why don&#8217;t you pick it up from there and I will come back to Scott a little later.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed:</strong>  I would just amplify and put an exclamation mark on some of the things that Scott has been talking about and if you can go online, I would definitely look it the &#8220;Inside the Cave&#8221; document.  I think for some people who are not political operatives, some of it gets a little in the weeds, but I think it would still be good to have an impressionistic understanding of some of the very unique things that they did.  Now, if I can start off, I want to give you some encouraging things to reflect upon.  First of all, I don&#8217;t think the cause is dead; I think we lost an election.  But I think we lost an election to an incumbent president who had $1 billion, Air force One and no primary.</p>
<p>And not only in the last 220 years has nobody beaten anybody with that set of circumstances; I can promise you, having done this for 33 years and worked on non-presidential elections, no one ever will, okay, unless you&#8217;re Herbert Hoover and it&#8217;s 1932, if you&#8217;re an incumbent who doesn&#8217;t have a challenge in your own party, and you&#8217;re able to take all your money over two years and put it all on the target of the other party&#8217;s nominee, unless you&#8217;re dumb &#8212; and his team isn&#8217;t &#8212; you&#8217;re probably going to win.</p>
<p>Now, even with that victory, he was the first incumbent president to get a lower share of the popular vote in his reelection than he got the first time around since Woodrow Wilson in 1916.  If you look state by state, his margin fell everywhere.  Florida, which he won by 242,000 votes four years ago, he won by 74,000; Ohio, which she won by give or take 230,000 votes, he won by give or take 140,000.  In every battleground state, his margin dropped.  He got 2.4 million fewer votes of 18-to-29 year-old voters; he got 950,000 fewer votes from African Americans.  He was the first incumbent president to get a lower share of the electoral vote than he got when he was initially elected since Andrew Jackson in 1828.</p>
<p>So we lost, but you can&#8217;t look at the polling and see a ratification of his agenda.  It&#8217;s just simply not there.  When voters were asked in the exit polls &#8220;Do you believe that government is too big and is doing too much?&#8221; or &#8220;Do you believe that government should be doing more?&#8221; by a margin of about 58 to 42, they said &#8220;Government was too big and was doing too much.&#8221;</p>
<p>So then the question becomes why did we lose and what can we do to fix it?  And I may not be able to get all of this in the initial presentation, but I think there are four things and some of these will be difficult truths, but if we don&#8217;t get about these four things, we&#8217;re going to be back here four years from now talking about why we lost that election.  The first is we have to have an agenda for the country that makes it clear what we&#8217;re for and not just what we&#8217;re against.  Everybody knows we were against the failed Obama stimulus, but I don&#8217;t think people know what our plan is to create 10 million new jobs.  Everybody knows we were against Obamacare, but they don&#8217;t know what our alternative is.</p>
<p>One of the reasons why Ben Carson&#8217;s speech at the National Prayer Breakfast when so viral like a wildfire was because he actually laid out some very specific policies.  He said &#8220;Let&#8217;s give everybody who&#8217;s below the poverty line a subsidy to set up a health savings account and let them go out and buy private insurance.  If they want to get covered, they can get covered.  If they simply want to pay out of pocket, they can pay out of pocket,&#8221; but he didn&#8217;t just get up there and trash Obama.  He got up there and said what he was for.</p>
<p>I remember when I was at the Christian Coalition working with then-minority whip Newt Gingrich in &#8217;93, &#8217;94, and everybody was saying &#8220;Look, we don&#8217;t need to put anything out there that they can shoot at.  We just need to run against Bill Clinton, run against the Crime Bill, run against Hillary Care.&#8221; And Newt, to his credit said, &#8220;No.&#8221;  He goes &#8220;We&#8217;ll win 35 seats if we say what we&#8217;re against; we&#8217;ll win 60 seats if we say what we&#8217;re for.&#8221;  And that was the beginning of the contract with America and we don&#8217;t have time to develop that agenda today, but I think if you look at the Eric Cantor&#8217;s speech too &#8212; I guess it was AEI the other day; I think it was AEI &#8212; he laid out some good policies.</p>
<p>I think Marco Rubio is putting some good things forward. I think some initial ideas are we pass the child tax credit in the contract with America, doubled it under Bush.  I&#8217;d like to increase the child tax credit again, index it for inflation.  I&#8217;d like not to just ameliorate the marriage penalty; I&#8217;d like to eliminate it.  I like Arthur Laffer&#8217;s idea in his op-ed in &#8220;The Wall Street Journal&#8221; the other day where he talked about a transitional lower marginal tax rate for people who are moving from dependency to work and independence.</p>
<p>Senator Johnson talked last night about the brutal hit that people take when they earn an additional dollar when they could be making more on benefits. So you could say &#8220;Hey, look, instead of being on Medicaid, instead of being on food stamps, we&#8217;ll give you over a transitionary period a lower marginal rate as you move from dependency to self-reliance and work.&#8221;</p>
<p>Secondly, we need to get back to the grassroots.  They didn&#8217;t just out-hustle us online, folks; they out-hustled us on the ground.  If you look it the last survey by the Pew Research Organization, 24% of all the voters in the battleground states &#8212; all the voters &#8212; said that they got a personal home visit from an Obama campaign volunteer, one out of four.  18% said that about a Romney campaign volunteer, so that 6% gap is important and it&#8217;s critical.</p>
<p>Scott was talking about their online operation.  They spent $110 million online to Romney&#8217;s $20 million.  They aired 10 times as many ads on Spanish-language television and radio as the Republican Party and Romney combined.  And if we let this slip away for one more cycle, it&#8217;ll be gone for a generation.  You look at every new technology, whether it was radio in the &#8217;20s and &#8217;30s, which FDR figured out how to dominate with the Fireside Chat; you look at television, which John F. Kennedy figured out how to dominate in 1960; and until Reagan came along and we had a candidate who knew how to stand on a tape mark, and look into a camera and connect, they were able to dominate that medium for really 20 years until Reagan came along.  And if they do it with the Internet, and they&#8217;ve now done it two cycles in a row, they will win a generation.  So those are some of the things that I think we need to do and I will try to elucidate some more as we do the Q&amp;A.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Great, Ralph, thank you very much.  Mr. Horowitz?</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> Yes, we just elected a president, a failed president, who left 23 million people unemployed, the slowest recovery ever, added $5 trillion to the national debt, turned Iraq, in which 4,000 Americans gave their lives and many more sacrificed their bodies, gave it to Iran, our mortal enemy, and he won.  And the one conclusion you can draw from that is that politics is not driven by reason; it&#8217;s driven by emotions.  And Republicans, their campaigns are all based on presenting policies, presenting a logical positions and a logical argument.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s symbolized for me in the Ryan planned.  Paul Ryan is a very smart man.  He&#8217;s done his homework; he knows more about government and budgets than almost anybody in public life, and he put up a plan, an economic plan, on the assumption that that will show that we actually are an alternative, that we&#8217;re positive we can do it.  The problem with that is one, it does present targets when it&#8217;s a detailed plan like that to demagogues and the Democratic Party is a demagogue party.  The other problem is &#8212; well, first, how many people in this room that could describe the Ryan plan, know what it is?</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> They can&#8217;t.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> Okay, enough said, two-two.  I couldn&#8217;t.  That&#8217;s the problem.  It doesn&#8217;t affect the voters one iota.  It presents a target.  And the third problem is that the Democrats are going to destroy the messenger and that&#8217;s what happened to Romney, a guy who&#8217;s bulletproof.  I mean, he was too good a person.  They were so good, they couldn&#8217;t even mention their personal lives, which would have appealed to the 70 million people watching, how he stood by his wife with MS and all these terrible ordeals.  So unlike their Democratic counterparts, it was too private.  I mean, these are really decent people and they were portrayed &#8212; $100 million or $200 million was spent to portray Romney as a predator, an uncaring individual somebody who sent jobs overseas.</p>
<p>Even our guys, even Newt Gingrich, and of course, Rick Perry, attacked his business, which was really a business of taking failed companies and making them work.  You can&#8217;t explain these things.  You have nine-second sound bites basically, and when you&#8217;re up against an emotional (inaudible), a lot of conservatives are just feeling depressed, and so the problem is the electorate.  The problem is there are, what &#8212; 47% of the people are takers.  I bet everybody in this room takes a government dollar one way or another, right?  We&#8217;re all sort of geriatric so Social Security, the big one.  We have billions of veterans who sacrificed, who earned the money that they&#8217;re taking from the government.</p>
<p>But anyway, we&#8217;re Republicans, so the taking thing &#8212; and of course, it has an impact and of course, if you go low down where the EBT [cornholers] are, here&#8217;s the problem, and I&#8217;ll do &#8212; the demographic thing is very simple.  70% of Asian Americans voted for Obama.  Now, Asian Americans are entrepreneurial, they are traditional, family oriented.  They share our Republican values and why did they vote for Obama?  Well, there was an interesting poll by CNN and the CNN poll had four categories.  Does he share your values, do you agree with his policies and another just like that, and the fourth was, does he care about you?  And Romney won the first three by 54%, but on the caring issue, Obama won by 80%.  This is a man who left our heroes to die in Benghazi because he didn&#8217;t give a damn.  This guy doesn&#8217;t care about &#8212; I mean, this is a guy who is setting records for playing golf, spending fortunes on his vacations, while the country suffers.  He doesn&#8217;t care, but they projected caring.</p>
<p>And how did they do it?  The political battle is always a battle about the underdog.  Everybody&#8217;s looking for somebody to protect me, somebody to take care of me, somebody who cares about me versus the bad guys.  That&#8217;s all it&#8217;s about; that&#8217;s what the political war is about.  All these other things are helpful.  It&#8217;s helpful if you have an idea of how to make the economy work, that&#8217;s helpful, but when the rubber meets the road, it&#8217;s this issue of who cares about me, who&#8217;s going to represent me?</p>
<p>Most people don&#8217;t subject themselves to the political life.  I mean, they&#8217;re enjoying themselves, okay?  (Laughter).  Most people, they don&#8217;t pay attention to any of these things, so to argue policies, it&#8217;s part of the process, but that&#8217;s not what&#8217;s going to get them.  They want to &#8212; who can I trust among all these people who are very untrustworthy, these politicians?  Who can I trust most to stand up for me?   And the way you communicate that is by attacking the other guy as the predator, just the way they did to Romney.  Democrats are morally bankrupt; they&#8217;re philosophically bankrupt. Their policies don&#8217;t work.   I remember Nancy Pelosi getting up there and saying &#8220;Well, we did Social Security&#8221; and I said &#8220;Bankrupt,&#8221; and &#8220;We did Medicare&#8221; and &#8220;They&#8217;re bankrupt,&#8221; and now we&#8217;re going to triple down with Obamacare.  It doesn&#8217;t &#8212; they don&#8217;t think that way.  All right.  (Laughter).  Ah!</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Yes, I can take over from here and give you a break.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> So how do you care?  You look it the Republican Convention.  The Republican Convention was all about opportunity.  Everybody had a life story about how they started out poor or whatever and worked their way up and we want to preserve the opportunity society.  The Democratic Convention was all about the victims of these opportunity people.  It was about a war against women and the war against minorities and the war against the poor, and that worked.  That is what works, and if you &#8212; you cannot &#8212; what&#8217;s our defense?  I mean, they&#8217;re attacking the 1%.  Notice how they did that, by the way.  The campaign was all going to be about Obamacare until the unions &#8212; and Mallory Factor is going to talk about the unions &#8212; these communist unions, and that&#8217;s what they are.  I know the people that run them; they are communists.</p>
<p>They put millions of dollars into the Occupy Wall Street movement and they had &#8212; of course, we were all looking because we&#8217;re the logical people.  We&#8217;re the people who look at the real world.  You see all these idiots out in the street defecating, raping each other, burning things down, and Obama and Pelosi and the Democratic Party are saying &#8220;Yes, they&#8217;re expressing their&#8221; &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> &#8220;We&#8217;re with you.&#8221;  They said &#8220;We&#8217;re with you; we&#8217;re with you.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> &#8220;We&#8217;re with you,&#8221; but what did they do?  They changed the dialogue, the debate, the conversation, to the 1% and the 99%.  Now, look, the Republican Party has been painted into the corner of defending the 1% and there&#8217;s a good reason for that, because it&#8217;s the 1% that makes everything else go.  That&#8217;s the reality, but you can&#8217;t argue that; you&#8217;ll be cut to ribbons.  People don&#8217;t understand that.  You say, &#8220;Oh, well, Bill Gates has $70 billion&#8221; or whatever the heck he has.  &#8220;Look, he created hundreds of thousands of jobs; he transformed the way we live.&#8221;  It doesn&#8217;t make a difference.  I say &#8220;What is he going to do with $70 billion and why can&#8217;t he give it to&#8221; &#8212; so it just will never work.</p>
<p>We defended big job creators.  I mean, we did a good job of that, right?  But who are the job creators?  They&#8217;re rich people in terms &#8212; I mean, they&#8217;re not &#8212; I mean, there are a lot of [new] class people, but the average American is going to see them as rich people.  You cannot play defense in politics and we are always playing defense. What you have to do is you have to nail them and it&#8217;s very easy to nail them. I mean Detroit, they &#8212; the Democrats have destroyed an entire city; they&#8217;ve driven millions of people out of it. It&#8217;s bankrupt.  What is it, $44 billion &#8212; a city in debt?  It&#8217;s got the highest crime rates.  All the Democratic cities have the highest crime rates in the world.</p>
<p>And there&#8217;s millions of poor black and Hispanic children who are having their lives &#8212; life opportunities crushed out of them in Democratic Party-run schools all over, every major school system.  And there was a teachers&#8217; strike in Chicago, great, the Democratic city in Chicago where Obama Emanuel is mayor, and what was the strike about?  It wasn&#8217;t about pay because they&#8217;re very well paid.  It was &#8212; they didn&#8217;t want their pay connected to their performance.  (Laughter).  That was the issue.  No Republican mentioned it and it happened right in the middle of the campaign.  Nobody said anything.  Christie actually did mention it, but nobody would understand what he said.  I mean, he is our most articulate &#8212; I have to say &#8212; person out there.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> David, let me move it along right from that point.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Let me move it along right from that point because I&#8217;m going to feed up something here for Scott and then Ralph and David very quickly.  I see this gift given to the Republican Party.  It&#8217;s called the Tea Party and to me, it&#8217;s a gift, but then the Republicans turn and hand a gift to a left media that says &#8220;They&#8217;re a bunch of racist whites.  It&#8217;s not that they are fiscal conservatives standing up and articulating fiscal conservatism; it&#8217;s that they&#8217;re a bunch of racist whites.&#8221;  And what do the Republicans do?  To me Ralph, here&#8217;s what they do &#8212; expunge, expunge, expunge, keep to the fringe as much as possible.  That&#8217;s what I think.  I think that they&#8217;ve been given a gift and there are many flavors of conservatism that should be in the tent. And Ralph, before I go to you, Scott, what are your thoughts on the Tea Party&#8217;s inclusion or exclusion?</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> It&#8217;s an incredible story.  The Democratic response aligned with David&#8217;s description of what&#8217;s going on was the imputation of racism and these fabricated non-events that were exposed by really Andrew Breitbart who put $100,000 out there for anyone who could produce audio or video recording of alleged racist insults being hurled at the black Democratic congressman as they went to vote on Obamacare in the House.  I think the Tea Party represents the base of the Republican Party.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong>  And does the Republican Party know that, in your view?</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson:</strong> Well &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Let&#8217;s be honest now. (Laughter).</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong>  No!</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson:</strong>  I don&#8217;t know what they &#8212; and I would just say that the election of Tea Party candidates in 2010, the result of that election, Josh, seemed to me kind of to prick the fever, and it brought us back to a status quo in which holding the House of Representatives left the dynamics in favor of the incumbent in a way that Ralph described, but on the other hand, it let the fever subside, but I think to the great detriment of the party, and that the folks who were elected, they are hard to absorb because they are principled as opposed two wanting to go along to get along.  It will take some leadership on the elected folks on our side who have the seniority to do something about it, to incorporate them.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Okay. Well, let me turn it over to Ralph.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph: </strong> I think that the treatment of the Tea Party by the establishment of the party is just further evidence that there are two political parties in America, one evil, and the other stupid &#8212; (Laughter) &#8212; because if tens of millions of people showed up on your door when you were flat on your back having just lost an election by a land slide, and in two elections, lost the presidency by &#8212; you got fewer electoral votes than any Republican has have gotten since Goldwater against Johnson, and you&#8217;ve lost the House and the Senate. And millions of people stand up and they say &#8220;We&#8217;re for fiscal responsibility, we&#8217;re for limited government, we&#8217;re for government balancing its checkbook every month, just like we have to balance ours,&#8221; and we go &#8220;Oh, really?  Pow!&#8221;</p>
<p>But I think this &#8212; I&#8217;m optimistic because the same was true of social conservatives when they poured into the party in the &#8217;80s and &#8217;90s.  The same was true of the sort of Goldwater-Reagan movement.  The establishment always mistakes growing pains for shrinking pains.  If you pour new wine into old wine skins, the wine skins rattle, but it&#8217;s okay because it&#8217;s growing.  I think what we&#8217;ve got to do now, candidly, is we&#8217;ve got to grow more.</p>
<p>You were talking, Scott, about &#8212; I think it was the Wehner-Gerson piece, that if Romney had gotten the same share of the vote among different subgroups that he got against Obama, that he would have won in &#8217;92 and 2000.  I will give you an even more sobering data point, which is that if Ronald Reagan had gotten the same share of each voter group in 2012 that he got in 1980, he loses because the electorate in 1980 was 88% white; in 2000, it was 78% white; in 2012, it was 72% white; and in 2020, it&#8217;s going to be 65% white.  And you can&#8217;t win an election &#8212; win 59% of the white vote and 20% of the minority vote.  It just isn&#8217;t going to work anymore.</p>
<p>So I think what we ought to do, instead of being in &#8220;No, but&#8221; party, which is to the Tea Party &#8220;No,&#8221; and then to everybody else, young people, women, Hispanics, African Americans, other minorities, &#8220;We want you but &#8212; we want you, but you&#8217;re leeches, you&#8217;re moochers, you&#8217;re takers, okay?&#8221;  What we need to be calm is a &#8220;Yes and&#8221; party.  When the Tea Party shows up, we embrace them, we say &#8220;Yes,&#8221; and then we say to others who don&#8217;t always feel welcome in our ranks &#8212; do you know that a higher percentage of Latinos self-identify as conservatives than whites?  44% of Hispanics on Election Day said they were conservatives.  Romney got 27% of them.  There is something wrong.  They share our values, they&#8217;re entrepreneurial; 2 million of them own and operate small businesses.  There are real opportunities there, so I think yes, we need to embrace the Tea Party and then we need to do more.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Excellent.  All right.  David, a couple of quick thoughts on the Tea Party and then I will open it up.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong>   Now, I&#8217;d like to comment, this is the trap.  The left, the Democratic Party, is a racist party. In their calculus, if you have brown skin, you are one of them, you&#8217;re on board for them; if you have white skin, you&#8217;re a reactionary and a lot of Republicans just fall into that trap the same way &#8212; no.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Right.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:  </strong> The Hispanics are conservative.  I gave the example of the Asians because, I mean, it&#8217;s obvious and ridiculous that 70% of Asians vote for Obama.  The problem is the messaging; the problem is the &#8212; and to some extent, the messenger.  I mean, it&#8217;s great that we&#8217;ve now have two stars of the party, Rubio and Cruz, who are Hispanic, but that &#8212; and the key is not pandering to the Democratic demand sheet on immigration or anything like that.  The key is conveying that you care.</p>
<p>There are millions of Hispanic kids in the LA schools and it&#8217;s a scam; it&#8217;s just a scam.  Those kids are never going to &#8212; they&#8217;re not going to learn English.  I mean, I had a kid who actually was in a charter school, actually was in the Palisades because they bus kids from South Central.  (Laughter).  The liberals are very &#8212; anyway, put the kids on the bus for an hour and a half, put them in a place where they can only feel envy and that&#8217;s just terrible.</p>
<p>But my kid, in the fifth grade, he didn&#8217;t know where to put a period.  He didn&#8217;t know what a subject and a predicate was.  So I &#8212; we explained it to him and I&#8217;m thinking what about the Hispanic kids in this class?  They&#8217;re never going to learn English.  Somebody has to take up their cause.  Why isn&#8217;t the Republican Party taking up their cause?  There isn&#8217;t a Republican in sight in the school system in a major city in this country, not one.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> David, David, wait a minute.  Are we afraid to talk about the liberal racism of low expectations?  I&#8217;m going to give you a public service announcement.  In my kid&#8217;s school &#8212; and he won&#8217;t be in this school for a long &#8212; the PTA meetings are in Spanish.  What about the liberal racism of low expectations, David?  Are we afraid to talk about any of this?</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong>  I think it&#8217;s good, but it&#8217;s a little too complicated for people to understand.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Got it.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> It&#8217;s racism.  You have 50% of the kids are dropping out of school, or whatever it is.  Only 40% graduate and half of those are functionally illiterate and these teachers are being paid for showing up and you can&#8217;t fire them and you can&#8217;t reward good teachers.  It&#8217;s a really simple, simple argument, but nobody is making it.</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> Well, I don&#8217;t think we are.  I think Marco Rubio actually talked about it in his response to the State of the Union.  The media made a big deal about the water bottle, but if you look at what he actually said, it was exactly that and look, we have a model.  We don&#8217;t have to go back 50 years.  In 2004, we won 44% of the Hispanic vote &#8212; 54% of the Hispanic vote in the all-important state of Florida because we had a candidate who said three things.  &#8220;Number one, I don&#8217;t believe family values end at the Rio Grande; number two, my vision for the future of this country includes you; and number three, I reject the soft bigotry of low expectations.&#8221;  That&#8217;s a direct quote, written, by the way, by Gerson.  If you get up and say that, you can connect with these voters.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong>  Someone has to have guts.</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> If you&#8217;re trying to win a primary and hit Rick Perry and talk about [self]-deportation, and then you don&#8217;t get on Spanish-language TV the until October, you might as well slit your wrists and get in a warm bath because you&#8217;re not going to do well among that constituency.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong>  Okay. Let&#8217;s go to some questions.  Diane, you have some of them?</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:  </strong> Let me just say, I think this is all the good news.  (Laughter).  I mean, this is the &#8212; well, Republicans ran such a stupid, lame campaign that it&#8217;s just going to take a margin to get &#8212; we lost by how many million votes, just a few million votes, just with 2% are 3%, so that&#8217;s the good news.  We don&#8217;t have that far to go.</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> Well, it if that&#8217;s the good news, I&#8217;m uplifted; I&#8217;m absolutely uplifted.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong> There&#8217;s division, I think, in the party on social issues which haven&#8217;t been addressed.  I was speaking to somebody at David&#8217;s Florida event about gay marriage and I could not believe the differences in our two views.  We are both fiscal conservatives, but we&#8217;re not both social conservatives, and I believe that social conservative values have to be promoted if we&#8217;re going to try to mend the party and there may be those who leave the party because of that, but Ralph, I would especially like to hear from you about that &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> I beg to &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong> &#8212; and you, David.  (Laughter).</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> And you, David.  (Laughter).</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong>  I&#8217;d like to differ; I disagree with you.  The Republican Party has always been a very unwieldy coalition full of libertarians, authoritarians.  It&#8217;s just got everything.  (Laughter).  And Republicans disagree about everything.  What has unified them &#8212; the way they won elections throughout the Cold War was there was an enemy that everybody understood was an enemy to their values, and they also understood the Democratic Party could not be trusted to defend them.  Now, I think if the Republicans will start being aggressive against the Democrats, and call them the racists that they are, and hold them up for their exploitation of these kids in the schools &#8212; they run the schools as a jobs program for adults and a slush fund for their party; that&#8217;s what it is about &#8212; that will cause all these internal fractious divisions to diminish.  People will understand, we&#8217;ve got to defeat the enemy, but we&#8217;re not portraying them as an enemy.  Now, nobody laid a glove on Obama.  These people are a menace to everything that we stand for, even when we disagree.  And that&#8217;s what I would put on the front burner and let people argue these things locally.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong>  Let me let Scott jump in here for a minute.  Scott, what do you think about what David is saying within the question with regard to (inaudible)?</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> It&#8217;s interesting.  I mean, David describes the unwieldy coalition of the Republican Party and I think about the roots of the Republican Party going back to 1854. Those are the words that Lincoln used to describe the formation of the Republican Party after the collapse of the Whig Party as this wild coalition formed from [nativists] and abolitionists and so on.  Go back to the platform of the Republican Party in 1856.  It staked its future on two propositions.  The first was opposition to the expansion of slavery in the territories.  The second was opposition to polygamy.  And it seems to me that those themes are the themes, adapted to present circumstances, that will bear the future of the Republican Party as well.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Ralph Reed?</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed: </strong> Yes, I think that if you want to try to grow the party by kicking social conservatives in the teeth and suggesting that they&#8217;re kind of the problem &#8212; we lost an election.  You were 27% of the electorate, you voted 78% for Romney and only 21% for Obama.  That&#8217;s what self-identified evangelicals did, okay?  So if you look at Romney&#8217;s vote, 47% of his entire vote came from those voters.  So if I understand this correctly, we&#8217;re going to go to those people who voted 80/20 for our guy and say &#8220;Leave because you&#8217;re the problem.&#8221;  And not only is it not true, we commissioned in faith and freedom, a post-election survey by Public Opinion Strategies, which polls in more congressional districts and Senate races than any single firm in the country on the Republican side of the aisle.  And in the midst of us looking at the data, I asked one of them, I said &#8220;Could you just &#8212; for kicks, could you e-mail me the top issue burdens for single millennial women?  These are single women under the age of 30, okay, who we lost by 37 points.  I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s a bad performance.</p>
<p>The number one issue, 42%, jobs and the economy; number two issue, healthcare, 23%; number three issue, education, 12%; number four issue, foreign policy, 7%.  Before you got to any reproductive issue, any cultural issue, it was abortion, it was at 7%, so you can&#8217;t argue that were underperforming among millenials and single women because of that issue.  You can argue that if you tried to send a message of equivocation on where you stand on these issues, that you lose.  Now look, I do think how you talk about them matters; I think tone matters.  I guess it was Oscar Wilde who said &#8220;Sometimes when you tell somebody that they&#8217;re going to hell, they tend to leave the room and go support somebody else.&#8221;  If we could talk about the positive of stronger families and marriages, instead of the negative, I think we could do a lot better among all voters.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> All right. Yes, and social conservatives, libertarians, the Tea Party, I think we need a very, very big tent, evangelicals, everyone, go ahead.  Yes, sir?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:  </strong> I would like to have a comment from you regarding Boehner and how he caved in on one hand, and the other thing is do we really have to listen to Karl Rove and the rest of the pundits who are, I think, totally misled the electorate?  (Applause).</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Well, why don&#8217;t I start with David on this one?  David, what do you think about the question there?  It&#8217;s certainly a good one.  I know there are 50 states; I know we&#8217;ve run some elections trying to win like five in my view, but I think there&#8217;s 50 states.  What do you think, David?  I think the question is &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong>  Well, I think there&#8217;s a huge &#8212; Republicans have a huge problem with the consulting class, but it&#8217;s an endemic problem for Republicans because Republicans tend to regard politics as just another business.  They are not missionaries in the sense that Democrats are missionaries and a lot of the &#8212; I don&#8217;t want to go into the particular problems.  I think this (inaudible) Rove&#8217;s comments, he shouldn&#8217;t have made the comments.  I agree with Charlie Cook that that was a bad idea, but I don&#8217;t think what Rove is doing on this issue is bad.  The Tea Party &#8212; I mean, we have a lot of bad candidates and it&#8217;s wrong to just single out the Tea Party because it had a lot of good candidates, but Rove and his and his Crossroads supported the Tea Party candidates, including Sharron Angle and Christine O&#8217;Donnell.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a disgrace that the Republican Party would run &#8212; the Democrats have lots of people like this, but they don&#8217;t have the problem that we have of an adversarial media.  So I think that vetting people and being competitive in the primaries, and not just leaving the primaries to just sort themselves out, is fine.  I don&#8217;t have any problem with Rove and I am distressed to see the animosity within the ranks, and I&#8217;ve seen this, but I never saw Republicans do such a bloodletting, attack a Democrat the way Miller attacked Ollie North in the Virginia race years ago.  I mean, I&#8217;m not talking about that &#8212; I&#8217;d wait for Republicans to say &#8220;Boo&#8221; to a Democrat publicly, but when it&#8217;s another Republican, what do they call Romney, a vulture?  Was that Perry or &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> No, we&#8217;re very dressed up and very polite, David, and it&#8217;s getting us unelected.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> Towards them, but &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> It&#8217;s getting us unelected; it&#8217;s getting us unelected, in my view.  Ralph, I&#8217;m going to have you handle this question from this gentleman who has been waiting a while.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed: </strong> This is what the Republican Party needs to do.  First, figure out what you stand for and then give &#8212; promise Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz 100% backing for everything that they are representing, all of their negotiations in unfortunately rather stereotypical immigration reform.  Let them take the lead and get john McCain not to say much of anything.  Just go along with Marco Rubio.  (Laughter).  But let &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> What are your thoughts?</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed: </strong> I think everybody is talking about how Obama may want to stay out of camera range for the good of immigration reform.  I think we could say the same thing about John McCain candidly, but look, I think we are doing that.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s an accident that Marco Rubio was selected to deliver the State of the Union response.  I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s an accident that it&#8217;s not the President of the United States, it&#8217;s not the Speaker of the House, it&#8217;s not the Senate Majority Leader who holds the fate of immigration reform in this Congress in their hands.  It&#8217;s a sophomore US senate from Florida who doesn&#8217;t chair a committee, who doesn&#8217;t have a leadership post.  And you mark my words &#8212; you mark my words &#8212; it if Rubio and his allies in the Senate do not get the enforcement triggers that they are requiring, he will walk. In a New York minute, he will walk.  So I think we&#8217;re getting better messengers.</p>
<p>The good news for us is that if you compare where we are today at this conference after the 2012 election to where we would have been at this conference after the &#8217;76 election, we are significantly better off.  I mean, we were, at that time at 37 in the US Senate, 144 in the House.  We were down to 18 governors after Watergate. Reagan, when he went to SeaPac in 1977 and delivered that famous speech about unfurling a banner of bold colors and not pale pastels, he actually proposed in that speech that he would be open to changing the name of the Republican Party.  That&#8217;s how damaged the brand was.  Many said we should just go start a third party.</p>
<p>So we&#8217;re better off empirically.  We control the House, we have 30 governors.  We have control of both legislatures in 24 states to their 13.  Okay.  We lost an election, it happens.  It&#8217;s a free society; these things happen.  But compared to where we have been at other benchmarks, &#8217;93, &#8217;75, much stronger.  And look at our bench, not just Rubio, not just Cruz, Susannah Martinez &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong> Right.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed: </strong> &#8212; [Nicky Haley], Tim Allen, the first African American Republican US senator from the &#8212; Tim Scott, I&#8217;m sorry &#8212; from the south since reconstruction.  What was I thinking of, &#8220;Home improvement?&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong>  Exactly.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong> The actor, the actor, that&#8217;s right.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed: </strong> I&#8217;m sorry, I&#8217;m in California.  (Laughter).  We have the best bench that we have ever had in my career, so be encouraged.  We&#8217;ve got a lot of work to do, but we&#8217;ve got more to work with after a defeat that I can ever remember.</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member: </strong> How do you explain the difference between the 2010 election and the 2012 election?  If you look it the results of the 2010 election, it was truly historic and as a matter of fact, in many, many respects, it was probably more historic than the Republican revolution of &#8217;94, and we&#8217;re only literally two years away from that.  And I personally think the Tea Party had probably more to do with the success of the 2010 election and I realize that the 2010 election was not the personality contest that the general election was, but I would just like to hear your input on it and I think that might be able to &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Scott?</p>
<p><strong>Audience Member:</strong>  &#8212; lead a roadmap to how we deal with 2014.  And do the skies look a little brighter for 2014?</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong>  Scott Johnson, Why don&#8217;t you chime in on this one?</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> I will be brief and defer to Ralph on this, but in an off-year election, the composition of the electorate is going to be more favorable to Republicans than it is in a national election.  The highly motivated, well informed voters tend to turn out in greater proportion as a whole of the electorate in the off-year election.  And I tried to say in my original remarks that I thought that the &#8212; in the first question that Josh raised, that the impact of the Tea Party was to deflate the opposition to Obama and Obamacare that was represented in that election.  And it seems to me [we have] had a deflating effect that&#8217;s reflected in the 2012 election and the aftermath.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph:</strong> Yes, I mean, a completely different electronic.  I mean, its 89 million votes versus 130 million votes.  You had a roughly 5% party advantage for the GOP in &#8217;10 versus a 6% Democratic advantage in &#8217;12, okay?  You also had candidate performance issues. I think Mitt Romney got better as a candidate and I think he would have been a very good president, but I think the 47% video was his [macaca].  I think when he got recorded saying that, and wasn&#8217;t able to explain it quickly, I think it was very difficult.</p>
<p>And then finally, and most critically from a macro-political standpoint, was the fact that the economic and political environment had shifted pretty dramatically.  You look at right track, wrong track, in November of &#8217;10 versus November of &#8217;12, it&#8217;s maybe a right track, wrong track minus-5 in &#8217;12 versus maybe minus-40 in &#8217;10.  Look at real personal income, up by 1.6% in &#8217;12, in part because they were priming the pump, we know that, but down in &#8217;10, so things like consumer confidence, unemployment, everything.  If you go back and really look at it from about July 1 on with unemployment numbers falling, gas prices falling, consumer confidence rising, the right track, wrong track changed from around July on, and it was just enough to save them, meaning Obama.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Go ahead, David, real quickly.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong> I just wanted to pick up on one point you made about national security.  Since 1945, Republicans have never won a national election where national security wasn&#8217;t a prime issue, and it was totally absent from this campaign, and that has to be restored.  And the reason &#8212; I&#8217;ll just do this very briefly &#8212; is because Bush and Rove failed to defend the Iraq war in 2003 when the Democrats betrayed it.  Instead of sticking them with their betrayal of our troops in the field and saying that, they had the submarine mentality.  They went under the radar and that allowed the Democrats &#8212; because of course, all wars are going to have mismanagement and so forth &#8212; allowed the Democrats to turn a necessary war that they had supported as a party into a bad war, and to change their disloyalty into patriotism.  So Romney and his &#8212; you can&#8217;t blame in individual here because it was everybody, and his advisors wanted him not to appear a warmonger &#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster:</strong> Right.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz: </strong>  &#8212; not to appear too aggressive.  And so I will say I read Ryan Paul&#8217;s speech at the Heritage.  I think he has it exactly right, that we have to &#8212; we cannot remake the world a la &#8220;The Weekly Standard.&#8221;  We can&#8217;t remake the world, but we do need to be aggressive in our defense of Americans and American interests.  That is the right &#8212; and it&#8217;s going to take &#8212; I hope for four years that there&#8217;s a Republican voice out there all the time, harping on Benghazi, harping on turning over the Middle East to the Muslim Brotherhood and the infiltration of the Obama administration by Muslim Brotherhood operatives.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Well, David, I think I know a guy over here who might be able to do those things for you.  This is Senator Ron Johnson, and he would like to ask the last question of our panel today.</p>
<p><strong>Senator Ron Johnson:  </strong> Actually, I really wanted to make a couple of points in response to your question, and you&#8217;re right in terms of the number of voters, but let me just tell you what happened in Wisconsin because I am asked all the time and I actually meant to make this point last night.  How could we have Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin?  It&#8217;s pretty simple.  In my election, there were 2.2 million voters.  In Scott Walker&#8217;s recall, 2.5 million, and in the presidential, over 3 million.  Now, If you aren&#8217;t even engaged enough to get involved in the Scott Walker recall election in Wisconsin, how informed are you?</p>
<p>And that gets back to the primary point &#8212; and this is a Rush Limbaugh term &#8212; low-information voters; this is a political process.  You have to inform, you have to persuade, you have to win the argument, and we&#8217;re not doing that, and the only way we can do that is in a coordinated, unified approach.  I mean, it is depressing how we eat our own; it is depressing how we don&#8217;t have that strategy.</p>
<p>And David, I&#8217;m right onboard with you in terms of we&#8217;ve got to go on the attack.  We&#8217;ve got to point out the victims, but we have to do it incredibly carefully and with an incredibly coordinated effort.  Obama, in his first election had 29 behavioral psychologists making sure that everything he said was poll-tested and it was just right. If we go off too fast and too half-cocked with one individual saying it the wrong way, that individual, like a Todd Aiken, will be hung around the rest of our necks.  So that&#8217;s why it&#8217;s so crucial that we get together with a strategic planning process and we lay this thing out and we prioritize the issue.  We&#8217;ve got to be talking about the same issue at the same time using the same language.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re on defense right now.  Obama is pushing the agenda.  We&#8217;ve got the House and it&#8217;s got to be the House that leads the way in terms of us pushing our agenda, and that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been trying to do for two years, but we&#8217;re not exactly strategic yet, but it&#8217;s groups like this, it&#8217;s individuals like you, talking to a Boehner, talking to a O&#8217;Connell, about &#8220;Come on, boys, let&#8217;s get your act together because the only way this thing works, the only way we break through the communication barrier against Obama&#8217;s bully pulpit is a highly strategic, highly coordinated attack.&#8221;  And I agree with you, it&#8217;s an attack, but it&#8217;s got to be smart, it&#8217;s got to be poll-tested, it&#8217;s got to be focus-grouped and we&#8217;ve got to say it the right way.</p>
<p><strong>David Horowitz:</strong> Amen.  (Applause).</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> Excellent.  All right, gentlemen, are we all set?  All right, thank you very much.</p>
<p><strong>Scott Johnson: </strong> Thanks for having me.</p>
<p><strong>Josh Brewster: </strong> &#8212; Scott Johnson, David Horowitz, and Ralph Reed, and thank you.</p>
<p><strong>Ralph Reed: </strong> Thank you.  (Applause).</p>
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<p><strong>To sign the Freedom Center’s  petition to stop the Islamist witch-hunt against Rep. Michele Bachmann,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt">click here</a>. To read and order Frank Gaffney’s pamphlet, <em>The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration</em>, </strong><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/"><strong>click here</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p>
<p>From her position on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., dared to question the Muslim Brotherhood’s infiltration of our government – and because of it, her job may be in danger.</p>
<p>But Dr. Jamie Glazov, managing editor of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/">Frontpagemag.com</a>, and author of <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/WND-Books/United-in-Hate-Hardcover">“United in Hate: The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror”</a> and <a href="http://superstore.wnd.com/books/High-Noon-for-America-The-Coming-Showdown-Paperback">“High Noon for America: The Coming Showdown,”</a> is coming to her defense, not only claiming that her concerns have been “vindicated” by recent events, but also leading the charge to keep her fearless questions before Congress.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/bulls-eye-on-bachmann-over-islamist-threat">As WND reported</a>, Bachmann was among five outspoken Republicans who last year became a lightning rod for controversy after she pressed for an investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on the federal government and pointed to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, as a possible Brotherhood influence on U.S. policy.</p>
<p>At the time, Democrats and Republicans alike rushed to Abedin’s defense, and since then a petition boasting 178,000 signatures was created by the left-leaning People for the American Way, demanding House John Speaker Boehner boot Bachmann from her post on the Intelligence Committee.</p>
<p>“In service to ugly Islamophobic fear mongering,” the petition states, “Bachmann continues unabated in her unfounded and irresponsible attacks on dedicated public servants – a witch hunt that has targeted Huma Abedin, a key aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and now includes allegations that President Obama may be aiding the rise of global Shariah law.”</p>
<p>Glazov says the real witch hunt, however, has been the targeting of Bachmann for asking questions that might be hitting too <a id="_GPLITA_3" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/dare-to-question-islamism-in-u-s-lose-your-job/#">close</a> to the truth.</p>
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<p>Therefore, Glazov is promoting <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt/">a new counter-petition on FrontPageMag.com</a> called <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt/">“Stop the Islamist Witch Hunt Against Rep. Bachmann.” </a>“Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is under attack for voicing concern over critical national <a id="_GPLITA_2" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/dare-to-question-islamism-in-u-s-lose-your-job/#">security issues</a> that no other elected leader wants to acknowledge, and now her position on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence may be at stake,” the petition states. “We must fight back. America needs Michele Bachmann and her fearless leadership keeping watch over our interests at home and abroad, and the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is the best place for her to fulfill this task.”</p>
<p>“In the long run,” conservative author David Horowitz added, “the battle that Michele Bachmann is waging on the House Intelligence Committee may be more important to the well-being and security of Americans than all the battles over budgets and debt ceilings combined.”</p>
<p><em><a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt/">Sign the petition demanding Bachmann keep her position to ask the tough questions about Islamism in America.</a></em></p>
<p>Glazov was further interviewed by terrorism analyst for CBN News Erick Stakelbeck about the need for the counter-petition.</p>
<p>Glazov told Stakelbeck an Egyptian magazine has since named six Muslim Brotherhood infiltrators in the Obama administration, calling the article a “complete vindication” for Bachmann.</p>
<p>“One of the names she mentioned that she is concerned about is Mohammed Elibiary,” Glazov said. “This guy, Islamic cleric, is on the <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/02/dare-to-question-islamism-in-u-s-lose-your-job/#">Homeland Security</a> Advisory Council – what is he doing there?</p>
<p>“In 2004 he goes to give a speech at a night that is giving tribute to the Ayatollah Khomeini,” Glazov continued. “What is he doing there? [Khomeini] is an Islamist mass murderer. Imagine if one of us had been at a conference giving tribute to Adolf Hitler. Should we be in the government?”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2013/01/egyptian-mag-affirms-brotherhood-infiltration-of-white-house/">As WND reported</a>, the report Glazov mentioned comes from Egypt’s Rose El-Youssef magazine, which on Dec. 22 said the six infiltrators turned the White House “from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.”</p>
<p>The Egyptian article was <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3869/egyptian-magazine-muslim-brotherhood-infiltrates">translated and reported by the Investigative Project on Terrorism</a>, or IPT.</p>
<p>The article named Arif Alikhan, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for policy development; Mohammed Elibiary, a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council; Rashad Hussain, the U.S. special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference; Salam al-Marayati, co-founder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, or MPAC; Imam Mohamed Magid, president of the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA; and Eboo Patel, a member of President Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based Neighborhood Partnerships.</p>
<p>Stakelbeck’s interview with Glazov can be seen below:</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/manifesto-puts-hillary-chief-in-saudi-plot/">As WND reported</a>, Abedin worked for an organization founded by her family that is effectively at the forefront of a grand Saudi plan to mobilize U.S. Muslim minorities to transform America into a strict Wahhabi-style Islamic state, according to an Arabic-language manifesto issued by the Saudi monarchy. Abedin <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/another-huma-link-to-muslim-brotherhood/">also was a member of the executive board of the Brotherhood’s Muslim Student Association</a>.Advocates for an investigation of the Muslim Brotherhood’s influence on the U.S. government argued a simple reading of security clearance guidelines in reference to Huma Abedin’s family would warrant investigation.</p>
<p>The Muslim Brotherhood was established in the 1920s following the collapse of the Ottoman Turkish empire, with the intent of helping establish Islamic rule worldwide. <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf">Its stated goal for the U.S.</a> is “a kind of grand jihad” aimed at “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within” so that “Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.”</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: To watch <em>The Glazov Gang</em> discuss the problem of Suhail Khan and the Muslim Brotherhood in the Conservative movement in America, see below:<br />
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		<title>Video: Jamie Glazov Defends Michele Bachmann</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frontpage editor exposes the unholy alliance fueling the vicious witch-hunt against a heroic truth-teller.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/video-jamie-glazov-defends-michele-bachmann/here-12/" rel="attachment wp-att-173926"><img class=" wp-image-173926 alignleft" title="here" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/here.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="166" /></a><strong>To sign the Freedom Center&#8217;s  petition to stop the witch-hunt against Rep. Michele Bachmann,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt">click here</a>. And  please spread the word about this petition far and wide!</strong></p>
<p>Frontpage&#8217;s editor Jamie Glazov recently joined Robert Spencer on his show on <a href="http://www.abnsat.com/">ABNSat.com</a> to discuss the attacks against Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Unholy Alliance behind them. Dr. Glazov sheds light on the dark forces that engender this kind of vicious attack on a heroic truth-teller. Watch the whole interview below:</p>
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<p><strong>To read and order Frank Gaffney’s pamphlet, <em>The Muslim Brotherhood in the Obama Administration</em>, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Stop the Witch Hunt Against Rep. Bachmann &#8212; on The Jamie Glazov Show</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Robert Spencer discusses the Freedom Center's new petition to defend a heroic Congresswoman. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/frontpagemag-com/stop-the-witch-hunt-against-rep-bachmann-on-the-jamie-glazov-show/dhfc-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-174577"><img class=" wp-image-174577 alignleft" title="dhfc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dhfc1.jpg" alt="" width="210" height="175" /></a><strong>To sign the Freedom Center’s  petition to stop the witch-hunt against Rep. Michele Bachmann,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt">click here</a>. And  please spread the word about this petition far and wide!</strong></p>
<p><a id="_GPLITA_3" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/jamie-glazov/the-jamie-glazov-show-7/#">Join</a> <em>The Jamie Glazov Show</em> that aired on Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 8-9 pm Pacific (11-12 pm EST) on Blog Talk Radio. We discussed the Freedom Center’s new petition: <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt/">Stop the Witch Hunt Against Rep. Bachmann</a>. We were joined by:</p>
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<p><strong>Robert Spencer</strong>, the director of Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and the author of twelve books, including two <em>New York Times</em> bestsellers, <em>The Truth About Muhammad</em> and <em>The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)</em> (both Regnery). His latest book is <em>Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins</em> (ISI).</p>
<p>See Robert&#8217;s Frontpage article: <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/michele-bachmann-attacked-and-vindicated/">Vindicated Bachmann Under Attack</a>.</p>
<p>To listen to the program, <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2013/01/23/the-jamie-glazov-show">click here</a>.</p>
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<p>Or go to: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2013/01/23/the-jamie-glazov-show">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2013/01/23/the-jamie-glazov-show.</a></p>
<p><strong>Editor’s note: Frontpage’s editor Jamie Glazov also recently joined Robert Spencer on his show on <a href="http://www.abnsat.com/">ABNSat.com</a> to discuss the attacks against Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Unholy Alliance behind them. Watch the whole interview below:</strong></p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/caroline-glick/the-lefts-new-campaign-to-destroy-a-friend-of-israels-michele-bachmann/dhfc/" rel="attachment wp-att-174412"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-174412" title="dhfc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/dhfc.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="250" /></a><strong>To sign the Freedom Center’s  petition to stop the witch-hunt against Rep. Michele Bachmann,  <a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt">click here</a>. And  please spread the word about this petition far and wide!</strong></p>
<p>Israel has many passionate supporters on Capitol Hill, particularly on the Republican side of the aisle. These are men and women who are deeply committed to Israel and understand that Israel is the US&#8217;s only reliable ally in the Middle East and America&#8217;s most vital ally in the world today in light of the rise of radical Islamic regimes, movements and leaders.</p>
<p>Now that Obama has officially entered his second term in office, Israel enters a period unlike any it has experienced before. It will face a hostile US president who does not fear the voters. Moreover, it faces a US president who is so hostile to Israel that his first serious act after his reelection was to appoint Chuck Hagel Defense Secretary, (and John Brennan CIA Director).</p>
<p>As I <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/01/chuck-hagel---its-the-anti-ame.php">wrote</a> last week, I believe that Israel will not be the hardest hit by Obama&#8217;s &#8220;transformative&#8221; foreign policy over the <a id="_GPLITA_0" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/01/the-lefts-new-campaign-to-dest.php#">next</a> four years. As an independent state, Israel has the ability to diversify its network of strategic allies and so mitigate somewhat the hit it will take from the Obama administration. The US, and first and foremost the US military, will not be so fortunate.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly, Israel&#8217;s biggest defenders in the US Capitol are also the most outspoken allies of the US military and the most concerned about maintaining America&#8217;s ability to remain the most powerful nation on earth both economically and militarily. They are as well, Obama&#8217;s most outspoken critics on the Hill.</p>
<p>For their outspoken criticism, and their competence, these men and women have been targeted for political destruction by Obama and his allies. <a id="_GPLITA_1" title="Click to Continue &gt; by Text-Enhance" href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2013/01/the-lefts-new-campaign-to-dest.php#">Last</a> November we saw this leftist machine outgun and so defeat Cong. Allen West in Florida and Joe Walsh in Illinois. Both men <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/08/israel----obamas-wedge-issue.php">were targeted</a> by Obama&#8217;s smear machine that included, among other things, J-Street endorsements of their opponents, and rancid attacks against them.</p>
<p>One of the voices that Obama&#8217;s machine has spent millions of dollars trying to silence is that of Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann.</p>
<p>As a member of the House Select Committee on Intelligence, and as a contender in the Republican presidential primaries, Bachmann has been one of Israel&#8217;s most passionate and articulate defenders and one of Obama&#8217;s most effective critics on everything from federal spending to Obama&#8217;s abandonment of the US-Israel alliance to his opening of the US federal government and intelligence apparatuses to members of the Muslim Brotherhood &#8211; that is to members of a movement dedicated to the destruction of the American way of life.</p>
<p>For her efforts, Rep. Bachmann has been the target of repeated media smear campaigns, often joined by skittish Republicans like John McCain who failed to recognize the danger of the Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s rise in Libya and Egypt, and failed to understand the danger that the penetration of the US federal government by Muslim Brotherhood members constitutes to US national security.</p>
<p>I have had the privilege and pleasure of meeting with Rep. Bachmann on several occasions over the years. She is one of the most intelligent women I know. And her grasp of the nature and importance of the US-Israel alliance is extraordinary. So too, her understanding of the challenges to US national security is clear, educated and sophisticated.</p>
<p>Watch for instance these speeches that she has delivered in recent months.</p>
<p>The day she announced her candidacy for President:</p>
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<p>And at the Values Voters Summit shortly before the Presidential election:</p>
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<p>In the past, every time that I have written about Cong. Bachmann, I have been bombarded with comments from readers who say that they cannot believe I can support her, since they claim, she is such an extremist. But Cong. Bachmann is not an extremist at all.</p>
<p>What she is is a victim of a very successful smear campaign undertaken by people who recognize her talent, conviction, intelligence and effectiveness. They set out to destroy and marginalize her, just as they set out to destroy and marginalize Mitt Romney and West and Walsh and many others, because they perceive these leaders as a threat to their agendas.</p>
<p>Today Cong. Bachmann is the target of a new leftist <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/michele-bachmann-petition_n_2472682.html">smear campaign</a>, organized by the far Left People for the American Way. The campaign involves a petition that has reportedly been signed already by 178,000 people demanding that House Speaker John Boehner expel Rep. Bachmann from the House Select Committee on Intelligence.</p>
<p>The proximate cause for the petition is a <a href="http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2012/07/the-muslim-brotherhoods-americ.php">series of letters</a> Bachmann and five other (wonderful and similarly courageous) Congressional colleagues penned to the Inspectors General of the Departments of Homeland Security, the Defense Department, the State Department, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice asking for the IGs to conduct an investigation of the ties senior officials in these departments have with the Muslim Brotherhood.</p>
<p>For her efforts, Bachmann was condemned not only by the Left, but by Senator John McCain as a bigot and a McCarthyite.</p>
<p>But she is none of these things. And last month, her concerns were borne out when the Egyptian magazine Rose al Youssef published an article about Muslim Brotherhood operatives in senior positions in the Obama administration. According to the article, these operatives have transformed the US &#8220;from a position hostile to Islamic groups and organizations in the world, to the largest and most important supporter of the Muslim Brotherhood.&#8221; (<a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3868/a-man-and-6-of-the-brotherhood-in-the-white-house">Here</a> is the Investigative Project on Terrorism&#8217;s translation of the article.)</p>
<p>Among those mentioned in the articles are some of the officials that Bachmann named in her letters last July. Far from waging a McCarthyite, bigoted witch hunt against guileless American citizens, as the Egyptian article makes clear, her concerns were founded in fact and totally reasonable.</p>
<p>Before Obama was reelected, I heard repeatedly that supporters of Israel like Alan Dershowitz, Ed Koch, and Haim Saban who had properly criticized Obama&#8217;s hostility towards Israel but then supported his reelection bid, did so because they believed that by supporting him, they would be in a position to pressure him to support Israel in his second term. According to this line of reasoning, these men and others like them believed that Obama would listen to them in his second term if &#8211; but only if &#8211; they supported his reelection against a candidate who was clearly more supportive of Israel than Obama.</p>
<p>By appointing Hagel as Defense Secretary, Obama made clear even before he was sworn in for his second term that this assumption was completely wrong. By supporting his reelection they supported giving Obama four years to lead American foreign policy unconstrained by the need to feign support for Israel. When you empower your enemies, your enemies are empowered.</p>
<p>By the same token, when you support your friends, your friends are empowered. Rep. Bachmann is a friend of Israel&#8217;s. And she is an American patriot committed to doing everything in her power to protecting the US and defending and maintaining America as the indispensable nation.</p>
<p>In response to the PFAW&#8217;s petition, the David Horowitz Freedom Center, with which I am proud to be formally associated as the Director of its Israel Security Project, launched a counter-petition to Speaker Boehner voicing support for Bachmann. If you are a US citizen, please take a few moments to sign the petition.</p>
<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.net/witch-hunt/">Here is the link.</a></p>
<p>For further reading on the campaign against Bachmann see Andy McCarthy in National Review h<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/338122/mccain-s-mideast-blunders-andrew-c-mccarthy">ere</a>, and Robert Spencer in Frontpage Magazine <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/michele-bachmann-attacked-and-vindicated/">here</a> and <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/why-michele-bachmann-is-right-about-keith-ellison-2/">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: Frontpage’s editor Jamie Glazov also recently joined Robert Spencer on his show on <a href="http://www.abnsat.com/">ABNSat.com</a> to discuss the attacks against Rep. Michele Bachmann and the Unholy Alliance behind them. Watch the whole interview below:</strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Gaffney discusses his new Freedom Center pamphlet that exposes just how deeply Islamists have infiltrated the White House. ]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s guest was Frank Gaffney, who discussed his new Freedom Center pamphlet that exposes just how deeply Islamists have infiltrated the White House. To read and order the pamphlet, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/frank-gaffney/the-muslim-brotherhood-in-the-obama-administration/">click here</a>.</p>
<p>To listen to the program,<a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/09/19/the-jamie-glazov-show"> click here</a>.</p>
<p>Or go to: <a href="http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/09/19/the-jamie-glazov-show">http://www.blogtalkradio.com/radio-jihad/2012/09/19/the-jamie-glazov-show</a>.</p>
<p>See you Tuesday night!</p>
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		<title>Andrew C. McCarthy Publishes &#8216;Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The antidote to the delirious Arab Spring narrative.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/117412.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144612" title="117412" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/117412.gif" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>The David Horowitz Freedom Center is pleased to announce the publication of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spring-Fever-Illusion-Democracy-ebook/dp/B0097F4B8Q">Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy</a>,</em> by bestselling author and commentator, Andrew C. McCarthy, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Freedom Center, our East Coast branch.</p>
<p>McCarthy describes Spring Fever as “an alternative way to understand what is happening in the Middle East, an antidote to the delirious ‘Arab Spring’ narrative.” It shows that Islam is a culture and civilization distinct from and hostile to the West, and that far from being a fringe ideology, radical Islamic supremacism is the dominant interpretation of Islam in the Middle East and the driving force behind the anti-democratic events that have occurred there in the last two years, particularly the recent attacks on U.S. embassies and the murder of U.S. personnel.</p>
<p>Andrew McCarthy is recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent authorities on national security, law-enforcement, and the domestic threat posed by radical Islam.  He is a former attorney for the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York, best known for leading the successful prosecution against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.</p>
<p>Andrew’s first New York Times bestseller was <em>Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad </em>(Encounter Books, 2008), a critically acclaimed account of the Blind Sheikh investigation.   His   next book, <em>The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (</em>Encounter Books, 2010) centered on the Muslim Brotherhood’s  “civilization jihad” against the West, its entrenched and expanding network of groups and individuals of influence; and its collusion with the hard Left in an ongoing assault against America’s liberty culture.</p>
<p><em>Spring Fever</em> is being published as an original e-book to capture the urgency of breaking news in the Middle East and to capture too the domination, happening on the ground and in real time, of the  “Arab Spring” movement by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups.</p>
<p>As Director of the Philadelphia Freedom Center, McCarthy administers its popular speaker series, its campus programs including this year’s Islamic Apartheid Week, and its publications. He  also writes columns and blogs for <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/">FrontPageMag.com</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Buy <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Spring-Fever-Illusion-Democracy-ebook/dp/B0097F4B8Q">Spring Fever</a></em> today.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n%3A133140011%2Ck%3Adavid+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank">Click here</a>.</strong></p>
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		<title>Andrew C. McCarthy Joins The Freedom Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2012 04:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bestselling author and conservative commentator comes aboard as Executive Director of our East Coast branch. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/McCarthy.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143109" title="McCarthy" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/McCarthy.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="269" /></a>The David Horowitz Freedom Center is proud to announce the addition of bestselling author and commentator, Andrew C. McCarthy, to its staff. Andrew will assume the position of Executive Director of the Philadelphia Freedom Center, our East Coast branch.  As director of the Philadelphia Freedom Center, Andrew will administer its popular speaker series, its campus programs including this year&#8217;s Islamic Apartheid Week, and its publications. He will also write columns and blog for <a href="http://FrontPageMag.com" target="_blank">FrontPageMag.com</a>.  Craig Snider is now the Chairman of the Philadelphia Freedom Center.</p>
<p>Andrew McCarthy is a bestselling author, a widely syndicated conservative commentator, and one of the nation’s preeminent authorities on national security, law-enforcement, and the domestic threat posed by radical Islam.  He is a former attorney for the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York, best known for leading the successful prosecution against Omar Abdel Rahman, the “Blind Sheikh,” who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and plotted to conduct simultaneous attacks on the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the United Nations complex, and the FBI’s lower Manhattan headquarters. Andrew later wrote the Justice Department’s 650-page brief when the Blind Sheikh appealed his conviction and defended the case in a successful two-day argument before the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.</p>
<p>Following the 9/11 attacks, Andrew supervised the U.S. attorney’s command post near Ground Zero, helping launch the largest investigation in American history, involving hundreds of law-enforcement and intelligence agents.</p>
<p>After leaving the Justice Department as the Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in charge of the Southern District of New York’s upstate division, he served as a Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Defense. He has been an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School and at his alma mater, New York Law School.</p>
<p>Andrew’s first New York Times bestseller was <em>Willful Blindness: A Memoir of the Jihad </em>(Encounter Books, 2008), a critically acclaimed account of the Blind Sheikh investigation, including the challenges of political correctness; the government’s resistance to the idea that terrorism is motivated by Islamic fundamentalism; and the folly of attempting to deal with a national security threat as if it were a mere criminal justice problem.</p>
<p>His next book, <em>The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America (</em>Encounter Books, 2010) centered on the Muslim Brotherhood’s  “civilization jihad” against the West, its entrenched and expanding network of groups and individuals of influence; and its collusion with the hard Left in an ongoing assault against America’s liberty culture. In addition to being a New York Times bestseller, The Grand Jihad was number one on Amazon.</p>
<p>As many analysts have observed, The Grand Jihad accurately presaged the Islamist uprising popularly known as the “Arab Spring.” That story continues in Andres’s new book, Spring Fever: The Illusion of Islamic Democracy. Released in September by Encounter Books, Spring Fever describes how the Arab Spring has become a Muslim Brotherhood winter.</p>
<p>Andrew is a longtime contributing editor at National Review, writing weekly columns and posting regularly at NRO’s popular blog,” The Corner.” He is also a columnist for PJMedia, writing its “Ordered Liberty” blog. He has authored two pamphlets in Encounter’s well-regarded “Broadside” series: How the Obama Administration Has Politicized Justice (No. 7) and How Obama Embraces Islam’s Sharia Agenda (No. 18).   Andrew is regularly featured as a commentator on a wide array of national television, radio, and Internet broadcasts.</p>
<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: See Andrew McCarthy&#8217;s recent Frontpage interview with Jamie Glazov on <em>&#8220;Huma Abedin, Islamist Connections and Willful Blindness,&#8221;</em> <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/jamie-glazov/huma-abedin-islamist-connections-and-willful-blindness/">here</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
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		<title>Government Unions: How They Rob the Taxpayer, Terrorize Workers, and Threaten our Democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A searing new exposé from the Freedom Center reveals the true agenda of public service unions.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Picture-12.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142268" title="Picture-12" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Picture-12.gif" alt="" width="240" height="351" /></a>Frontpage is pleased to present <em><a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=VTHBEILHBPR4">Government Unions: How They Rob the Taxpayer, Terrorize Workers, and Threaten Our Democrac</a>y</em><strong>,</strong> which uncovers the shocking truth of public service unions&#8217; corruption, thuggery, and political radicalism, and their war against capitalism and the American middle class.</p>
<p>Written by investigative journalist Matthew Vadum, this searing new exposé<em> </em>tells of the backroom dealings between public service union officials and venal politicians, the infiltration of these unions by neo-communists deeply hostile toward America and anxious to &#8220;break the system,&#8221; and the alliances they have formed with discredited groups such as ACORN and Occupy Wall Street and with Barack Obama himself. Vadum also shows how the public service workers unions are providing the muscle for the White House&#8217;s effort to force America into a hard-left turn toward socialism which guarantees that they themselves will &#8220;own&#8221; an ever growing piece of the economy.</p>
<p><strong>Read the pamphlet below or order your copy by clicking <a href="https://secure.donationreport.com/productlist.html?key=VTHBEILHBPR4">here</a>. </strong></p>
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		<title>Caroline Glick Joins David Horowitz Freedom Center</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Jerusalem Post's Senior Contributing Editor comes aboard to direct our Israel Security Project.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/caroline-glick1.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138329" title="caroline-glick1" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/caroline-glick1.gif" alt="" width="375" height="270" /></a>The David Horowitz Freedom Center is pleased to announce the hiring of Caroline Glick as the Director of its Israel Security Project.  Glick is a Senior Contributing Editor of <em>The Jerusalem Post</em> and serves as adjunct senior fellow for Middle Eastern Affairs at the Center for Security Policy in Washington, D.C.  She is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Shackled-Warrior-Israel-Global-Jihad/dp/9652294152"><strong>Shackled Warrior: Israel and the Global Jihad</strong></a> (2008). She has degrees from Columbia University and Harvard University, served as Assistant Foreign Policy Advisor to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1997-98, and regularly briefs senior administration officials and members of Congress on issues of joint Israeli-American concern. She lives in Jerusalem.</p>
<p>As the Director of the Israel Security Project Caroline will contribute regular columns to FrontPageMag.com, speak at the Center’s Restoration Weekend and West Coast Retreat and author a series of pamphlets about the Middle East “conflict.” As Freedom Center President David Horowitz commented, “Caroline dramatically increases our ability to cover events in Israel and in the region as a whole in an informed way.  Her journalism has always been marked by passionate commitment and a sharp intelligence.”</p>
<p>The Freedom Center has also expanded its reach in Washington, D.C. with the new Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson and Jon Kyl Lecture on National Security.  The lecture series will be presented twice a year as a joint program of the Center for Security Policy and the David Horowitz Freedom Center.   The lecture program is named in honor of two of the U.S. Senate’s leading defenders of America&#8217;s national security: Senator Henry M. (Scoop) Jackson (D-WA), who served in the Senate from 1953 to 1983, and Senator Jon Kyl (R-AZ), who has served in the Senate from 1995 to 2012.</p>
<p>The first lecture was presented by Caroline Glick on Thursday, July 19<sup>th</sup> at the U.S. Capitol with introductory remarks by Senator Kyl.</p>
<p><strong>Freedom Center pamphlets now available on Kindle: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref%3dnb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-text&amp;field-keywords=david+horowitz&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;ajr=0#/ref=sr_st?keywords=david+horowitz&amp;qid=1316459840&amp;rh=n:133140011%2ck:david+horowitz&amp;sort=daterank" target="_blank">Click here</a>.  </strong></p>
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		<title>Monica Crowley Speaking in Los Angeles, July 12, 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fox News' titan coming to discuss her new book at the Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/monica.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-135443" title="monica" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/monica.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="409" /></a><strong>Editor’s note: Monica Crowley will be speaking at the Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club on </strong><strong>Thursday, July 12, 2012 in Los Angeles. For more info, <a href="http://monicacrowley.eventbrite.com/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p><strong>To mark this special occasion, Frontpage interviewed Monica Crowley about her new book.</strong></p>
<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Monica Crowley, a political and foreign affairs analyst for the Fox News Channel who hosts the nationally syndicated radio program <em>The Monica Crowley Show</em>. She has also been a regular panelist on <em>The McLaughlin Group</em>. She served as foreign policy assistant to former president Richard Nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994, and has written two bestsellers about her experiences: <em>Nixon Off the Record</em> and <em>Nixon in Winter</em>. She has also written for the <em>New Yorker</em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>Newsweek</em>, and the <em>New York Post</em>. She holds two master&#8217;s degrees and a doctorate from Columbia University. She is the author of the new book, <a title="http://www.amazon.com/What-Bleep-Just-Happened-ebook/dp/B006IY9HS8" href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Bleep-Just-Happened-ebook/dp/B006IY9HS8" target="_blank">What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior&#8217;s Guide to the Great American Comeback.</a><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Monica Crowley, welcome to Frontpage Interview. It is an honor and privilege to speak with you.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley: </strong>Thanks for having me, Jamie.  It&#8217;s an honor for me to join you.  You guys do heroic work.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book and what it is about.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley:</strong> I wrote this book for several reasons.  First, I surveyed all of the destruction and despair wrought by Team Obama and their fellow leftists and thought, &#8220;Are we supposed to just to accept this??  Just accept radically redistributionist economic policies, unprecedented spending, record-breaking deficits and debt, non-existent economic growth, socialized medicine, and American decline abroad?  Just lie back and take it?  Oh hell, no!&#8221;  I wrote this book to reinforce the notion that America CAN be saved from this assault&#8212;-and that she is WORTH SAVING. Obama may be doing his best to turn America the Exceptional into America the Also-Ran, but he didn&#8217;t count on us running a great defense.</p>
<p>Second, I wrote it because if you have only listened to the mainstream media, you have only received a small&#8212;and very distorted&#8212;part of the Obama-era picture.  I put together the entire Obama domestic policy record with the entire foreign policy record&#8212;and when you see all of the evidence amassed in one place, it&#8217;s devastating.  Part of the power of the book is seeing the sheer volume of leftist madness to which he’s subjected us.  Never before have we had a president so hellbent on redistributing ALL of our greatness, not just here at home, but abroad. I wanted to shine a light not just on the policies he&#8217;s implemented but on the very sophisticated leftist psychology he and his team have used to get it done.</p>
<p>I also made the book really funny, because in the age of Obama, if we don&#8217;t laugh, we cry, and there&#8217;s no crying in a book by Monica Crowley.</p>
<p>And finally and most importantly, I wanted to create a new template for America in the 21st century.  Obama did it from the left in 2008, and now it&#8217;s our turn.  I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.  President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.  But Reagan served 30 years ago.  If we&#8217;re going to have any hope of getting America back on the rails, we&#8217;ve got to take his positive embrace of conservatism and bring it into the 21st century.  Like Reagan, we know we&#8217;re in a war for the future of America.  And like Reagan, we join the battle joyfully and with the full confidence that we can win the battle of ideas and bring America back.</p>
<p>This book is the fun, spirited, optimistic battle cry of the new Happy Warrior!</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong>  Tell us about that title!  How did you come up with it&#8212;-and what does the &#8220;Bleep&#8221; really stand for?</p>
<p><strong>Crowley:</strong> I was going to call it <em>Fifty Shades of Obama</em> but then thought better of it.</p>
<p>One day last summer, I was having dinner with a good friend.  I told her that I wanted to write another book but wasn&#8217;t quite sure as to what its focus should be.  We then started talking about how epically weird the last few years under Obama have been.  Every day, we were getting hit with a new piece of insane leftist social engineering or some new policy to take down American power or prestige abroad&#8212;a rapid-fire assault I call &#8220;Barack-a-mole.&#8221;  Our enemies were getting olive branches, our allies were getting dissed, and millions of Americans were being moved into government dependency at home.  &#8220;What the (bleep) just happened?&#8221; I sighed.  She looked at me and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s your title.&#8221;  And so it came to be.  Of course, I used an actual unprintable word.  I thought I&#8217;d let each reader supply his or her own favorite profanity.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Expand for us on the disasters that have occurred under Obama in your view&#8212;and why he has behaved as he has.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley:</strong> Obama doesn&#8217;t run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says, &#8220;Socialist.&#8221;  But his policies, actions, words, background, and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.  As a technical matter, economic fascism (government control of the means of production without ownership) more accurately describes what Obama is carrying out than socialism (government ownership of those means of production), but &#8220;fascism&#8221; and &#8220;socialism&#8221; are highly charged words&#8212;and arguments over the labels often obfuscate the reality of the policies.  Obama has engaged in extreme government-directed redistributionism to undermine the free market, generate widespread dependency, and further centralize state power.</p>
<p>In the end, the term matters less than his policies and their effects.  This is a man who spent his formative years learning at the knees of assorted communists, from his mother and father to Frank Marshall Davis to the Marxist professors and sundry socialists he admitted he sought out while in school to the self-avowed Communists (Van Jones, &#8220;green jobs&#8221; czar), Mao admirers (Anita Dunn, communications director) and radical redistributionists (Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar) he appointed as president.  He spent a good deal of time mastering the art of Saul Alinsky&#8217;s tactics for advancing the socialist revolution.  In 2007, he said of his years learning Alinsky&#8217;s methods, &#8220;It was that education that was seared into my brain.  It was the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.&#8221;  Indeed.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>:  You say he then made it to the big stage and governed strictly according to that redistributionist ideology in which he was so steeped.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley: </strong>Without a doubt.  Obama never made a mystery of who he was or what he believed.  He employed those revolutionary tactics as a Chicago community organizer and then moved on to pull more formal levers of power.  Once he seized the brass ring in 2008, it was &#8220;Katie, bar the door.&#8221;  He immediately put the redistributionism of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson on steroids: he spent trillions of dollars&#8212;particularly on “stimulus” and other spending projects which stimulated nothing but government, added an unprecedented $5 trillion to the national debt, and engaged in massive social engineering in every major part of the U.S. economy (the financial sector, the industrial base, the energy sector, and health care).</p>
<p>He moved to divide Americans based on class, race, and gender; after all, if Americans are pitted against each other, they are too distracted to focus on what he&#8217;s doing.  He has deliberately and quickly moved the United States toward a European-style social democratic state, despite the fact that those nations are currently imploding from decades of socialist redistributionism.  Obama&#8217;s intent is to expand government dependency in order to ultimately create a permanent Democrat voting majority.  Any other American president would&#8217;ve been flipping his lid over the kind of chronically high unemployment we&#8217;ve suffered.  Not Obama.  The more folks unemployed, the more dependency being created.  And if this were allowed to go on, supported by the redistributionist agenda, America would be truly altered.  (This is, by the way, what he meant when he spoke about &#8220;change.&#8221;)</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monica Crowley's new book exposes the sheer volume of leftist madness to which Obama has subjected us.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/monica.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-135443" title="monica" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/monica.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="409" /></a><strong>Editor’s note: Monica Crowley will be speaking at the Freedom Center’s Wednesday Morning Club on </strong><strong>Thursday, July 12, 2012 in Los Angeles. For more info, <a href="http://monicacrowley.eventbrite.com/">click here</a>.</strong></p>
<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Monica Crowley, a political and foreign affairs analyst for the Fox News Channel who hosts the nationally syndicated radio program <em>The Monica Crowley Show</em>. She has also been a regular panelist on <em>The McLaughlin Group</em>. She served as foreign policy assistant to former president Richard Nixon from 1990 until his death in 1994, and has written two bestsellers about her experiences: <em>Nixon Off the Record</em> and <em>Nixon in Winter</em>. She has also written for the <em>New Yorker</em>, the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>Newsweek</em>, and the <em>New York Post</em>. She holds two master&#8217;s degrees and a doctorate from Columbia University. She is the author of the new book, <a title="http://www.amazon.com/What-Bleep-Just-Happened-ebook/dp/B006IY9HS8" href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Bleep-Just-Happened-ebook/dp/B006IY9HS8" target="_blank">What the (Bleep) Just Happened?: The Happy Warrior&#8217;s Guide to the Great American Comeback.</a><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Monica Crowley, welcome to Frontpage Interview. It is an honor and privilege to speak with you.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley: </strong>Thanks for having me, Jamie.  It&#8217;s an honor for me to join you.  You guys do heroic work.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Let’s begin with what inspired you to write this book and what it is about.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley:</strong> I wrote this book for several reasons.  First, I surveyed all of the destruction and despair wrought by Team Obama and their fellow leftists and thought, &#8220;Are we supposed to just to accept this??  Just accept radically redistributionist economic policies, unprecedented spending, record-breaking deficits and debt, non-existent economic growth, socialized medicine, and American decline abroad?  Just lie back and take it?  Oh hell, no!&#8221;  I wrote this book to reinforce the notion that America CAN be saved from this assault&#8212;-and that she is WORTH SAVING. Obama may be doing his best to turn America the Exceptional into America the Also-Ran, but he didn&#8217;t count on us running a great defense.</p>
<p>Second, I wrote it because if you have only listened to the mainstream media, you have only received a small&#8212;and very distorted&#8212;part of the Obama-era picture.  I put together the entire Obama domestic policy record with the entire foreign policy record&#8212;and when you see all of the evidence amassed in one place, it&#8217;s devastating.  Part of the power of the book is seeing the sheer volume of leftist madness to which he’s subjected us.  Never before have we had a president so hellbent on redistributing ALL of our greatness, not just here at home, but abroad. I wanted to shine a light not just on the policies he&#8217;s implemented but on the very sophisticated leftist psychology he and his team have used to get it done.</p>
<p>I also made the book really funny, because in the age of Obama, if we don&#8217;t laugh, we cry, and there&#8217;s no crying in a book by Monica Crowley.</p>
<p>And finally and most importantly, I wanted to create a new template for America in the 21st century.  Obama did it from the left in 2008, and now it&#8217;s our turn.  I developed the concept of the Happy Warrior as a rallying cry for those of us who want to restore America to its great foundational principles: individual freedom, personal responsibility, fiscal restraint, and economic liberty.  President Reagan was the quintessential Happy Warrior, and no one loves, respects, and admires Reagan more than I do.  But Reagan served 30 years ago.  If we&#8217;re going to have any hope of getting America back on the rails, we&#8217;ve got to take his positive embrace of conservatism and bring it into the 21st century.  Like Reagan, we know we&#8217;re in a war for the future of America.  And like Reagan, we join the battle joyfully and with the full confidence that we can win the battle of ideas and bring America back.</p>
<p>This book is the fun, spirited, optimistic battle cry of the new Happy Warrior!</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong>  Tell us about that title!  How did you come up with it&#8212;-and what does the &#8220;Bleep&#8221; really stand for?</p>
<p><strong>Crowley:</strong> I was going to call it <em>Fifty Shades of Obama</em> but then thought better of it.</p>
<p>One day last summer, I was having dinner with a good friend.  I told her that I wanted to write another book but wasn&#8217;t quite sure as to what its focus should be.  We then started talking about how epically weird the last few years under Obama have been.  Every day, we were getting hit with a new piece of insane leftist social engineering or some new policy to take down American power or prestige abroad&#8212;a rapid-fire assault I call &#8220;Barack-a-mole.&#8221;  Our enemies were getting olive branches, our allies were getting dissed, and millions of Americans were being moved into government dependency at home.  &#8220;What the (bleep) just happened?&#8221; I sighed.  She looked at me and said, &#8220;That&#8217;s your title.&#8221;  And so it came to be.  Of course, I used an actual unprintable word.  I thought I&#8217;d let each reader supply his or her own favorite profanity.</p>
<p><strong>FP: </strong>Expand for us on the disasters that have occurred under Obama in your view&#8212;and why he has behaved as he has.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley:</strong> Obama doesn&#8217;t run around wearing a Carrie Bradshaw-esque nameplate necklace that says, &#8220;Socialist.&#8221;  But his policies, actions, words, background, and associations speak louder than any ID necklace ever could.  As a technical matter, economic fascism (government control of the means of production without ownership) more accurately describes what Obama is carrying out than socialism (government ownership of those means of production), but &#8220;fascism&#8221; and &#8220;socialism&#8221; are highly charged words&#8212;and arguments over the labels often obfuscate the reality of the policies.  Obama has engaged in extreme government-directed redistributionism to undermine the free market, generate widespread dependency, and further centralize state power.</p>
<p>In the end, the term matters less than his policies and their effects.  This is a man who spent his formative years learning at the knees of assorted communists, from his mother and father to Frank Marshall Davis to the Marxist professors and sundry socialists he admitted he sought out while in school to the self-avowed Communists (Van Jones, &#8220;green jobs&#8221; czar), Mao admirers (Anita Dunn, communications director) and radical redistributionists (Cass Sunstein, regulatory czar) he appointed as president.  He spent a good deal of time mastering the art of Saul Alinsky&#8217;s tactics for advancing the socialist revolution.  In 2007, he said of his years learning Alinsky&#8217;s methods, &#8220;It was that education that was seared into my brain.  It was the best education I ever had, better than anything I got at Harvard Law School.&#8221;  Indeed.</p>
<p><strong>FP</strong>:  You say he then made it to the big stage and governed strictly according to that redistributionist ideology in which he was so steeped.</p>
<p><strong>Crowley: </strong>Without a doubt.  Obama never made a mystery of who he was or what he believed.  He employed those revolutionary tactics as a Chicago community organizer and then moved on to pull more formal levers of power.  Once he seized the brass ring in 2008, it was &#8220;Katie, bar the door.&#8221;  He immediately put the redistributionism of Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson on steroids: he spent trillions of dollars&#8212;particularly on “stimulus” and other spending projects which stimulated nothing but government, added an unprecedented $5 trillion to the national debt, and engaged in massive social engineering in every major part of the U.S. economy (the financial sector, the industrial base, the energy sector, and health care).</p>
<p>He moved to divide Americans based on class, race, and gender; after all, if Americans are pitted against each other, they are too distracted to focus on what he&#8217;s doing.  He has deliberately and quickly moved the United States toward a European-style social democratic state, despite the fact that those nations are currently imploding from decades of socialist redistributionism.  Obama&#8217;s intent is to expand government dependency in order to ultimately create a permanent Democrat voting majority.  Any other American president would&#8217;ve been flipping his lid over the kind of chronically high unemployment we&#8217;ve suffered.  Not Obama.  The more folks unemployed, the more dependency being created.  And if this were allowed to go on, supported by the redistributionist agenda, America would be truly altered.  (This is, by the way, what he meant when he spoke about &#8220;change.&#8221;)</p>
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