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		<title>Rick Perry: Restore the 10th Amendment, Restore Freedom</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former governor of the Lone Star State sheds light on the path to liberty at Restoration Weekend. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong style="color: #232323;">Below are the video and transcript to Gov. Rick Perry’s keynote speech at the David Horowitz Freedom Center’s 20th Anniversary Restoration Weekend. The event took place Nov. 13th-16th at the Breakers Resort in Palm Beach, Florida. </strong></p>
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<p>David, as we gather here for this 20th anniversary celebration of the Freedom Center, it was similar circumstances that this country found itself in when you had the first Restoration weekend in 1994. Two decades ago Republicans had swept into power in both of the Houses, a revolution that changed the balance of power for the first time, Cleta, in 40 years. Twenty years later, Republicans again have won historic victories in the midterm elections and once again we are controlling both houses of Congress. In addition to picking up eight seats in the U.S. Senate, we picked up at least a dozen House seats, three governorships, several state legislative chambers. Today, Republicans control 68 of the 98 partisan state legislative chambers. That is the most in the history of our party. And we stunned the pollsters. It was a beautiful thing. We stunned the pollsters even more than we stunned President Barack Obama, who apparently doesn&#8217;t realize that November 4 even happened. He&#8217;s too busy representing those who didn&#8217;t vote to listen to those who did vote. But even if he didn&#8217;t hear the message, the American people delivered one. They said enough of the slow growth tax policies, enough of the smothering debt, they said enough to this colossal bureaucracy that we&#8217;ve seen, and these agencies of government that all too often are unaccountable to the people. They rebelled against government-run healthcare schemes, against a President who refuses to secure the border, and against bureaucracies that are broken, arrogant and abusive of power. That&#8217;s what the American people said Tuesday. The American people made it clear. They want a clean break from the economic policies that have slowed our recovery at home, and the foreign policies that Jim did an incredible job of laying out that have weakened our standing abroad.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m here to say that a congressional majority is a terrible thing to waste. The power that has been newly granted by the people must be used wisely to serve the people, that it&#8217;s not good enough to state what we are against. We must articulate what we are for. The election results leave us with a truly once in a generation opportunity to usher in an era of renewal and reform. You are here tonight through your commitment to the Freedom Center, and you&#8217;re going to be on the front lines of this battle. One of the ideas that has returned to the fore of the conversation, to the forefront of people&#8217;s minds, if you will, is the proper place of states within our constitutional system. Indeed, we have spent the last six years challenging edicts out of Washington that amount to federal control of our classrooms, our healthcare, and our environment and our economy. Washington&#8217;s assault on state sovereignty and individual freedom is a well-documented assault on the Constitution and, in particular, the Tenth Amendment. Some have ridiculed the binding power of the Tenth Amendment, but, of course, Jay, without that amendment, the Bill of Rights would have been incomplete, and the Constitution would never have been ratified. The question is whether Republicans in Washington, now in control, will pursue Washington-centric solutions to the problems that plague us, or will they look to and empower the states.</p>
<p>It was the liberal Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis who called the states laboratories of democracy which &#8220;tried novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.&#8221; Yet Brandeis&#8217;s political descendants have forgotten that lesson. In fact, they flipped it around trying these grand experiments in federal power, ostensibly for the common good. I like that Tocqueville observed that in the American system the actions of the federal government would be rare, but the reality is the federal government is involved in all kinds of things the Constitution doesn&#8217;t empower it to do, while ignoring basic responsibilities like securing our border. And it&#8217;s the states that are pushing back against federal overreach and the courts are starting to take notice.</p>
<p>In the infamous Obamacare case of 2012, Chief Justice Roberts upheld the law, but the Supreme Court also struck down the mandatory Medicaid expansion as a violation of the Tenth Amendment. Now a new Obamacare case is about to be heard. It uses the letter of the law to challenge the federal government&#8217;s use of subsidies on many of these healthcare insurance exchanges. Now we know that the federal government overstepped its powers. We know that, partly because we know there is now a new smoking gun: One Jonathan Gruber, one of the architects of Obamacare. In less than a week&#8217;s period of time the Washington sin of prevarication has come to be known as &#8220;Gruber-ing.&#8221; He said repeatedly, I think, what is there now, six videos that we have, that the federal government had to lie to the voters because we are too stupid to know what&#8217;s good for us. That shows exactly why the states are so important to defending individual freedom; because the states have stood up to the abuses of federal power in Obamacare. The law, as a matter of fact, it may collapse upon its own weight.</p>
<p>So if the states are these laboratories of democracy, I would suggest to you that Texas has found the formula for success. You know, it&#8217;s interesting, some people call it the Texas miracle, and I tell them, I said it&#8217;s not a miracle. I can&#8217;t explain a miracle. This I can explain. This is really pretty simple. This is not rocket science. You don&#8217;t spend all the money. Keep the taxes low, a regulatory climate that is fair and predictable, a legal system that doesn&#8217;t allow for over-suing, and accountable public schools so you&#8217;ve got a skilled workforce. This will work. It&#8217;ll work anywhere. Jay, it&#8217;ll even work in California, I swear to God, I&#8217;m telling you it will. And the results have been rather stunning. When you look at job creation, one-third, one-third of all the jobs created in the United States in the last 13 plus years have been in the Lone Star State. Over the last ten years, we have created four times more jobs than the state of New York, we have created nine times more jobs than the state of California. And some would say well it&#8217;s because you have all of that energy, and I will suggest to you we are glad we have that energy. America is glad we have that energy. But it&#8217;s not singularly the energy boom, that&#8217;s only part of the reason for our success. We&#8217;ve added jobs across the spectrum – 228,000 workers in education and healthcare, 156,000 in professional services, 162,000 in hospitality services, 130,000 in trade and transportation, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. I am particularly proud of the fact that as of January of this year, Texas became the number one high-tech exporting state in the nation, passing up California and the famed Silicon Valley. And we&#8217;ve been continuing to reach out to give California companies the opportunity to relocate to the great state of Texas, companies like Toyota, who moved their North American headquarters to Plano this last year, companies like Space-X, and we&#8217;re going to keep doing it.</p>
<p>And my point is, I want the Golden State to succeed. We need California to be a powerful, successful country. That was a Freudian slip. We would really like to bring them into the United States and be a part of this country. You know, for ten consecutive years now, Chief Executive Officer magazine has chosen Texas as the number one state to do business, and, thanks to the governor of this state, Rick Scott, they are doing a good job to push us. Rick Scott is an extraordinary governor, and Floridians were really wise to put this man back into office again because he really understands what the future of our nation, the future of this state is all about, and the focus on creating that environment, where the citizens of this state will be free.</p>
<p>Freedom is what this is all about. It is in the pursuit of freedom, and, on average, there is a thousand people every day moving to the state of Texas because they are in pursuit of freedom. Freedom from over-taxation, freedom from over-litigation, freedom from over-regulation. That is what needs to be the powerful Republican message as we go forward inside the boundaries of this country. And here are some of the results of those policies. Our crime rate is now the lowest that it&#8217;s been since 1968. We&#8217;re shutting prisons down in the state of Texas, not building them.</p>
<p>What&#8217;s the result of good, thoughtful public policy? There are those that would stand up and say you cannot have a growing economy and take care of your environment. That is an absolute false lie. Nitrogen oxide levels are down 63 percent in the state of Texas in the last decade, ozone levels are down by 23 percent during that same period of time, our carbon footprint which, by the way, is not a pollutant, but is down by 11 percent during that period of time because we understand that, even if it is, we want to make sure that we&#8217;re doing everything that we can to make that environment as pleasing as it can be for the future generations, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;ve done in the state of Texas. Part of that&#8217;s been because of policies that we&#8217;ve put into place to move old polluting types of engines, diesel engines, out of the fleets. Part of it&#8217;s been moving to that natural gas. That&#8217;s what can happen all across this country. This isn&#8217;t a miracle. It&#8217;s a model and it&#8217;s a model that will work anywhere. We are an increasingly diverse state. We got a little of something for everybody. We have Austin, Texas. As I told you, we are a diverse state. I refer to it as the blueberry in the tomato soup. And, David, I encourage you to visit from time to time. You can talk philosophy and tenure to the professors at the University of Texas. They would love to have you.</p>
<p>But, in all seriousness, can we do more? Yes. Should we try to do more? Absolutely. But what Texas shows is that with a rapidly growing economy all else becomes possible. Clearly Texas is a model that works, but we&#8217;re not alone. America has just experienced a great test of governing principles. In the days leading up to the 2014 mid-term elections, we were told that Republican governors were in trouble. You read it everywhere. You saw it on multiple outlets. Scott Walker&#8217;s public union reforms in Wisconsin, Sam Brownback&#8217;s tax-cutting in Kansas, Rick Scott&#8217;s pro-growth policies in Florida, all were going to be punished by the voters. For example, the campaign for America&#8217;s future said that seven Republican governors were now &#8220;being judged harshly by voters now that their right-wing policies had failed to deliver.&#8221; It went on to say that these states were laboratories for the kind of small government trickle-down economics that Senate candidates hoped to bring to Washington, impose on the nation, and there is a real danger that the failed experiments in these seven states will be brought to Washington by a Senate Republican majority. But the experiment wasn&#8217;t quite over, and the voters decided in a very powerful conclusion on November 4. Not only did six of those seven governors win re-election, but Republicans picked up governorships in solid states for Democrats like Massachusetts, Illinois, and even Maryland. And there were a lot of people, a lot of people that were responsible for those Republican victories including a number of you, if not all of you, in this audience tonight. Yet in the end it was the people who decided. They told fellow Americans that the experiment and conservative governance is a resounding success and they want more of it.</p>
<p>There were a few places that bucked the trend though. Jay, your California being one of them. See, I tell people, I say California, for example, is as liberal as Texas is conservative. But that is not an argument against federalism. In fact, California is an example of how the state&#8217;s Tenth Amendment powers work for liberals too. You think about this. California has some policies that no other state in the union have tried, and in most other states, don&#8217;t want to try. Take cap and trade, for instance. I mean, not even Barack Obama, in those heady early days of his first administration, could pass cap and trade, but California has it. And it&#8217;s making new companies like Tesla a lot of money, even as it is at the same time forcing a lot of companies out of that state.</p>
<p>Nearly 20 years ago, California also became the first state in the nation to legalize medical marijuana. In 2012, Washington and Colorado legalized marijuana entirely. This year Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia followed suit. The governor of Colorado said that he regrets it. Most conservatives oppose it. The federal government&#8217;s still fighting it, and the United Nations said this week that legalizing marijuana violates international law. But that is the beauty of the Tenth Amendment. I&#8217;m telling you, that is the beauty of federalism. If states can make their own decisions on matters of general policy, then we can have the kind of political diversity among the states that gives meaning to the pursuit of happiness. People can vote with their feet, they can vote with their pocketbooks, they can invest their dollars where they want, and that gives states an incentive to attract them, and to innovate. The reason welfare reform became so popular nationwide was because it succeeded in Wisconsin. The reason state provided healthcare is unpopular nationwide is they proved that it was costly in Massachusetts.</p>
<p>Some states want to cling to policies for various reasons. California is addicted to spending. Therefore, it&#8217;s addicted to debt and taxes. So, there&#8217;s a result. It&#8217;s losing people, and entrepreneurs, and homeowners, and that is another benefit of federalism. You can do what you want in your state. But you are forced at some point to pay the costs.</p>
<p>So, how do we ensure that the states protect and, I might say, regain their Tenth Amendment rights? One way is by continuing to fight the encroachments of the federal government. Whether bad laws like Obamacare, bad spending like the stimulus of 2009, or bad faith in immigration policy, but beyond that we can take political action. We can show the American people concrete results, how states work better, how states compete against each other, and, I might add, better than the federal government could do. And that&#8217;s exactly how Governor-elect Larry Hogan over in Maryland, that was the point that he made. He laid out the data. He showed people in that state how many people had left the state, how many billions of dollars it was costing the state because of the bad policies. If we show people the difference between conservative policies and liberal policies, I happen to think they&#8217;re going to demand conservative policies almost every time just as they did last Tuesday. And when people understand, when people understand that they have the power to choose these policies, they&#8217;ll resist. They&#8217;ll resist any attempt by the federal government to take that power away. There is a reason that people and states are included together in that Tenth Amendment. Individual liberty has shone brightest when it&#8217;s been protected from big government. Only successful states are strong enough to protect our freedom from those in Washington who think they know better. States are the essence of our national motto e pluribus unum, from many one. That is the common creed of the David Horowitz Freedom Center that defends it every day. They defend it now and I will suggest to you they will defend it 20 years from now. And that is what each of us must fight for every day.</p>
<p>God bless you, and thank you all for coming and being a part of this.</p>
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		<title>Texas: ISIS Terrorists Interested in Obama&#8217;s Open Border w/Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2014 20:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Greenfield]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama will have a strategy for this, right after his strategy for illegal alien amnesty.]]></description>
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<p>America is about to get a fresh supply of &#8220;unaccompanied minors&#8221;. They <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/08/29/online-posts-show-isis-eyeing-mexican-border-says-law-enforcment-bulletin/">won&#8217;t however be coming for the free stuff</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Social media chatter shows Islamic State militants are keenly aware of the porous U.S.-Mexico border, and are “expressing an increased interest” in crossing over to carry out a terrorist attack, according to a Texas law enforcement bulletin sent out this week.</p>
<p>“A review of ISIS social media messaging during the week ending August 26 shows that militants are expressing an increased interest in the notion that they could clandestinely infiltrate the southwest border of US, for terror attack,” warns the Texas Department of Public Safety &#8220;situational awareness&#8221; bulletin, obtained by FoxNews.com.</p>
<p>The three-page bulletin, entitled “ISIS Interest on the US Southwest Border” and dated Aug. 28 was released to law enforcement on Thursday.</p>
<p>“Social media account holders believed to be ISIS militants and propagandists have called for unspecified border operations, or they have sought to raise awareness that illegal entry through Mexico is a viable option,” states the law enforcement bulletin, which is not classified.</p></blockquote>
<p>Don&#8217;t worry, Obama will eventually have a strategy for this. Right after he works through his strategy for illegal alien amnesty.</p>
<p>Priorities are priorities.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/352675200-170802451.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236796" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/352675200-170802451-431x350.jpg" alt="352675200-17080245" width="281" height="228" /></a>Texas Governor Rick Perry <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/21/Our-Citizens-are-Under-Siege-Perry-Sends-National-Guard-to-Border"><span style="color: #1255cc;">announced</span></a> Monday afternoon that he is sending 1,000 members of the Texas National Guard to the U.S.-Mexican border. “Over the years I have repeatedly called on the federal government to live up to its responsibility of protecting this great nation by securing the border,” said Perry, who added that he will “not stand idly by while our citizens are under assault and little children from Central America are detained in squalor.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Under assault might be an understatement. According to Perry, more than 203,000 illegal aliens responsible for committing more than 640,000 crimes, including 3000 homicides, have been booked into Texas county jails since 2008. He further pointed out that the thousands of unaccompanied minors apprehended crossing the border comprise less than 20 percent of total influx and while enforcement agents are giving humanitarian aid to these children, “drug cartels, human traffickers and individual criminals are exploiting this tragedy for their own criminal opportunities.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perry’s contention about the percentage of children that illegally gain entrance to the United States was given substantial credence by the Obama administration itself. In a late Friday afternoon news dump aimed at minimizing media coverage, U.S. Border Patrol <a href="http://www.cbp.gov/sites/default/files/documents/SWB%20Family%20and%20UAC%20Apps.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">data</span></a> revealed that while the number of unaccompanied alien children crossing the border has doubled to 57,525 in the nine month period from the beginning of FY2013 to the present, what the agency refers to as “family units” has seen a <i>493 percent</i> increase from 9,350 to 55,420 over the same period. As the Daily Caller’s Neil Munro <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/18/white-house-hid-huge-spike-of-families-crossing-border/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">explains</span></a>, the far more explosive growth of these family units &#8220;has been hidden by White House and agency officials, who have tried to portray the influx as a wave of children fleeing abuse and violence.” He further notes this portrayal &#8220;has been picked up and spread by Democratic legislators, reporters and bloggers” in an effort to mute the public’s anger regarding the Obama administration’s failure to secure the border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other words, a de facto invasion becomes a “humanitarian” crisis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perry was forced to address that portrayal on Sunday with Fox News’s Brit Hume who <a href="http://radio.foxnews.com/2014/07/21/video-perry-to-deploy-national-guard-but-will-militarizing-the-border-actually-secure-it-top-of-the-stack-07-21-14/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">wondered</span></a> if sending the National Guard to the border would actually work when children who have “undergone these harrowing journeys to escape from the most desperate conditions in their home countries” are confronted by troops “who won’t shoot them and can’t arrest them.” Perry replied that Hume was talking about “two different things” and that it was necessary to “send the message back now so that we can staunch (sic) the bleeding” even as the humanitarian crisis that already exists is addressed. “The issue is with being able to send that message,” Perry said. “The visual of it is more important. We know that. We listen to those conversations&#8211;or, I should say, conversations are being monitored with calls back to Central America&#8211;and the message is, &#8216;Hey, come on up here, everything is great, they’re taking care of us,’ and that needs to stop.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The 1,000 troops are ostensibly a stopgap measure until Congress and the Obama administration address Perry’s request to hire 3,000 additional border patrol agents to work the Texas corridor. In a <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/09/obama-reveals-the-one-thing-he-and-gov-rick-perry-disagreed-on-during-border-crisis-meeting-calls-on-congress-to-act/#"><span style="color: #1255cc;">meeting</span></a> with Perry and other officials in Dallas on July 9, Obama made it clear that despite Perry’s request he act unilaterally to address the crisis, he would not do so. “He suggested, well maybe you just need to go ahead and act and that might convince Republicans that they should go ahead and pass the supplemental,” Obama said. “I had to remind him, I’m getting sued right now by Mr. Boehner apparently for going ahead and acting instead of going through congress. Well, here’s a good test case.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Nonsense. In 2006 George W. Bush <a href="http://kansasfirstnews.com/2014/06/15/national-guards-border-security-role-in-jeopardy/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ordered</span></a> 6,000 troops to the border, (a number that has since dwindled to a current level of approximately 300) and Obama could do the same were it not for the reality that he prefers holding such action hostage to Congress passing his massive $3.7 billion emergency funding package. It is a package <i>designed</i> to remain in legislative limbo, as Republicans <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-to-seek-38-billion-for-border-control-more-than-previously-signaled/2014/07/08/ac95a56e-06a9-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insist</span></a> the primary focus should be stopping the influx at the border, while Democrats demand that the “humanitarian” crisis &#8212; in the form of new facilities and legal services — be the first agenda addressed.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, the border remains a sieve.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus it was no surprise that Perry accused the federal government of paying &#8220;lip service” to the border crisis as he announced his deployment of “Operation Strong Safety.” He explained the National Guard will function as a “force multiplier on the ground and providing additional air assets beyond their current efforts.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Because Perry has been forced to take this action after repeatedly asking the Obama administration to do it, Texas, rather than the federal government, will be picking up the tab for the deployment, expected to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/lawmaker-texas-send-1000-guardsmen-border-24646712?singlePage=true"><span style="color: #1255cc;">cost</span></a> approximately $12 million per month. This arrangement also makes Perry the commander in chief of the troops unless Obama is willing to take over the mobilization at the federal level.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest made it clear that isn’t going to happen anytime soon, even as he characterized Perry’s efforts as symbolic. &#8220;Gov. Perry has referred repeatedly to his desire to make a symbolic statement to the people of Central America that the border is closed,&#8221; said Earnest. &#8220;And he thinks that the best way to do that is to send 1,000 National Guard troops to the border. It seems to me that a much more powerful symbol would be the bipartisan passage of legislation that would actually make a historic investment in border security and send an additional 20,000 personnel to the border.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Again, utter nonsense with a dollop of disingenuousness plopped on top. As the <i>Washington Post</i> <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-aides-were-warned-of-brewing-border-crisis/2014/07/19/8b5d2282-0d1b-11e4-b8e5-d0de80767fc2_story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveals</span></a>, &#8220;top officials at the White House and the State Department had been warned repeatedly of the potential for a further explosion in the number of migrant children since the crisis began escalating two years ago, according to former federal officials and others familiar with internal discussions.” And the very same Lackland Air Force base that was <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/17/us/us-sets-up-crisis-shelter-as-children-flow-across-border-alone.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">opened up</span></a> as a shelter for illegal youths in May, served in precisely the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/us/some-question-use-of-temporary-shelter-for-children-in-country-illegally.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">same capacity</span></a> more than two years ago. “There were warning signs, operational folks raising red flags to high levels in terms of this being a potential issue,” one former senior federal law enforcement official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the paper.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for Perry’s symbolic statement, it is far better than the no-so-subtle <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/07/16/feds-to-house-illegal-immigrants-at-multimillion-dollar-hotel/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">message</span></a> sent by the Obama administration as recently as last week. That’s when the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was on the verge of completing a deal with non-profit network <a href="http://bcfs.net/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">BCFS</span></a> to house as many as 600 illegal alien children between the ages of 12-17 at a resort hotel complex in Texas, replete with three swimming pools, lighted tennis courts, and a Jacuzzi. The deal fell through when the reality of taxpayers footing the bill for the resort—along with a combination of BCFS services and newly-hired workers that could have cost as much as <i>$50 million</i>—became a public relations nightmare.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">That would be the same Obama administration that <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/06/30/obama-admin-launching-information-campaign-to-tell-would-be-illegals-they-cant-stay-in-the-u-s/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">initiated</span></a> a public relations campaign in June to deter the massive influx of illegals from Central America. Americans might ask themselves which message resonates more: the notion that those getting into the country <i>might</i> not be able to stay here, or the one that lets those who do know there is a possibility they could be ensconced in a luxury hotel?</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet even that message pales in comparison to another agenda being <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2014/07/new-obama-rule-could-force-cities-to-house-illegals/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">pursued</span></a> by the Obama administration. A rule change known as the “Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing Rule” introduced by the administration in 2013 and set to take effect in October would give the administration vastly increased power over local zoning laws in any municipality that that accepts block grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The rule is backed by pro-amnesty advocates who see it as a vehicle allowing the administration to force those municipalities to house illegals.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus, it is unsurprising that Gov. Perry’s announcement was met with derision by Democrats who <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/rick-perry-texas-border-national-guard-109165.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> him of “militarizing&#8221; the border. “Militarizing our border is the wrong response to the arrival of children,” said Rep. Joaquín Castro (D-TX) in an email. “I remain hopeful that our state can provide a more helpful response than to send armed soldiers to greet children seeking refuge from violence.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Perry rejected that notion. So did Congressman Louis Gohmert (R-TX). “Our nation is being invaded in what the U.S. Commanding General of SOUTHCOM described as an &#8216;existential threat,’” he said in a statement.  As articulated in Article I, Section 10, of the United States Constitution, the State of Texas has the right to defend herself, as the largest invasion is coming into Texas.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Americans must decide which assessment is closer to the truth. Thus, a critical question arises: is the current fiasco occurring on our Southwest border a humanitarian crisis that has engendered an invasion, or an invasion that has engendered a humanitarian crisis? Our national sovereignty may depend on the answer.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The president's two-faced game of decrying the border crisis while making it worse. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-235931" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas.jpg" alt="pic_giant_061014_SM_Border-Crisis-in-Texas" width="242" height="206" /></a>As the orchestrated chaos at America’s southern border remains unrelenting, President Obama is doing what he does best: ignoring another crisis in favor of fundraising. And despite that fundraising taking place in Texas, the state hardest hit by the onslaught of illegal alien children, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/08/white-house-funding-border-policy-changes/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">insisted</span></a> Monday that Obama had no intention of visiting the border. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) was incensed. &#8220;President Obama needs a wakeup call &#8212; and visiting the border and seeing firsthand the severity of this ongoing crisis is that wakeup call,” he said in remarks prepared for airing on Senate floor.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">It’s not going to happen, and even Democrats are beginning to get exasperated. On Sunday, Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX), whose congressional district sits on the U.S.-Mexican border, <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/06/border-state-democrat-obama-one-step-behind-on-immigration/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">accused</span></a> the White House of being late to the game. &#8220;With all due respect to the administration, they&#8217;re one step behind. They should have seen this coming a long time ago,” Cuellar told CNN&#8217;s Candy Crowley on &#8220;State of the Union.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Actually they did, and not just recently. On January 29, 2014 an <a href="http://weaselzippers.us/190573-government-advertised-in-january-for-escorts-for-65000-illegal-alien-children-to-be-resettled/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ad</span></a> placed at the <a href="http://fedbizopps.gov/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">FedBizOpps.Gov</span></a> website was looking to procure escort services for <i>65,000 </i>Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs). Contained in the same ad was a far greater indicator of the Obama administration’s ultimate intentions once that crisis developed. Whoever provided the escort services was also expected to transport &#8220;these juveniles to Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) shelters located throughout the continental United States.” That would be the ORR whose mission is to &#8220;provide people in need with critical resources to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In other the words, the administration was not only anticipating a crisis before one developed, it had seemingly decided that the massive influx of illegals would be categorized as “refugees.” Yesterday the United Nations got into the act, <a href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2014/07/08/un-urges-us-to-designate-immigrants-as-refugees/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">urging</span></a> the administration to embrace that definition as a means of making thousands of illegals eligible for asylum, rather than sending them home. When asked whether the administration considered the current border assault a refugee crisis, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said it was “a humanitarian situation that requires urgent attention.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet urgent attention is exactly what is lacking, and the administration is citing the <a href="http://www.state.gov/j/tip/laws/113178.htm"><span style="color: #1255cc;">William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008</span></a> as the reason. Enacted by a Democratically-controlled Congress and signed by President Bush, the law offers additional protections to UACs who are not from Canada or Mexico. Those protections include an opportunity to appear at an immigration hearing, consult with an advocate, possibly retain counsel, and receive placement by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which is tasked with placing the child “in the least restrictive setting that is in the best interest of the child.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unfortunately for Obama, another Democrat has challenged his interpretation of the statute. &#8220;That law already provides the administration with flexibility to accelerate the judicial process in times of crisis,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) who helped craft the Act. “The administration should use that flexibility to speed up the system while still treating these children humanely, with compassion and respect.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Again, it’s not going to happen, and Sundance at the Conservative Treehouse website <a href="http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2014/07/04/ice-demands-unaccompanied-alien-children-uac-identifier-drop-use-of-the-word-alien-the-mass-disbursement-of-bus-loads-of-illegal-aliens-continue/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">nails down</span></a> exactly why. He explains that the Obama administration’s strategy of telling the public one thing, and doing exactly the opposite behind the scenes, is in full swing. &#8220;In the foreground we will continue to see President Obama and fellow travelers say they are opposed to the influx and committed to stopping it,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;However, in the background they are giving specific instructions to the federal agencies to continue promoting the process and affirming the intent.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Thus, as Fox News reports, Obama is &#8220;holding off on seeking legal changes to speed up the deportation process for illegal immigrant children.” Instead, the president is seeking a whopping $3.7 billion for housing, immigration judges, detention facilities, and legal aid, associated with latest influx of illegals. The AP <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/ap-sources-obama-backs-off-border-policy-24459521?singlePage=true"><span style="color: #1255cc;">lays out</span></a> the details—and plays a devious game in the process. They note the largest allocations include $1.1 billion &#8220;for the Department of Homeland Security to help deter border-crossers and increase enforcement,” $433 million &#8220;for Customs and Border Protection to cover overtime costs and for additional facilities to detain unaccompanied children while they are in Border Patrol custody,” and $1.8 billion &#8220;to the Department of Health and Human Services for the care of unaccompanied children, including shelter and medical care.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Note that the overwhelming amount of this spending is directed at maintaining a status quo that does <i>nothing</i> to address the ongoing assault on our borders. As for the level of seriousness, there is another $600 million dollar request in the package—for fighting wildfires in Western states. In the meantime, there is no timetable for speeding up the deportation process.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Yet note something far more important: last weekend, Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/03/ICE-to-No-Longer-Refer-to-Unaccompanied-Minors-as-UACs"><span style="color: #1255cc;">issued</span></a> a calculating directive to its personnel. According to an internal ICE email obtained by the Center for Immigration Studies and shared with Breitbart News, usage of the term “UAC” is to be discontinued and replaced with “unaccompanied children.” The email goes even further. “The appropriate messaging on documents should be using the term : unaccompanied children all lower case. (Unless capitalizing would be grammatically correct),” the email states.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Less than a week later, the Associated Press has taken its cues, as the leftist impulse to control the narrative takes hold. That impulse was <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/04/opinion/kohn-immigration-words/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">abetted</span></a> to the point of absurdity by radical leftist Sally Kohn who contends the words “illegal immigrants,” or “illegals” are the equivalent of calling black Americans the n-word, and gay americans the f-word. &#8220;Today, most people find the n-word and the f-word incredibly offensive,” she explains. &#8220;Let&#8217;s hope that most if not all people will feel the same way about the words ‘illegals&#8217; and &#8216;illegal immigrants&#8217; in the not too distant future.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As for the reality of speeding up the deportation process, Obama claims he will get to it, and the Republican House is reportedly working on an effort to change the 2008 law. But the president knows for certain the Democratically-controlled Senate that passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill last summer isn’t about to alienate its pro-amnesty constituency. A senior Democratic staffer in the Senate <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-deport-children-20140706-story.html#page=1"><span style="color: #1255cc;">illuminated</span></a> pre-ordained reality regarding Obama’s ostensible effort. &#8220;He can&#8217;t get it passed,” the staffer insisted.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And because Obama can’t get anything resembling an enforcement bill passed, the spending package is in jeopardy as well—which may be exactly what the president wants. That reality was inadvertently revealed by the <i>Washington Post:</i></p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Republicans argue that Obama must stop the flow of illegal immigrants to the border and ensure that the entire border is secure before focusing on the tens of thousands who are already in detention facilities there&#8230;Democrats, meanwhile, say that the first step must be to provide more funding to pay for new detention facilities and legal services to work through the debilitating backlog of children who are already at the border. Providing an influx of money for detention centers and to pay for additional judges, several Democrats have argued, is more urgent than altering the 2008 law in terms of addressing the current crisis.</p>
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<p style="color: #232323;">Such a stalemate aligns perfectly with a president far more interested in paying lip service to the nation’s problems than dealing with them, even as it allows him to once again paint Republicans as the obstructionist party for failing to embrace the “bigger picture” of comprehensive immigration reform.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">As an added bonus, the president can get back to his fundraising. Fundraising that includes <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/211488-white-house-talks-tough-on-immigration-ahead-of-texas-trip"><span style="color: #1255cc;">visits</span></a> to Dallas and Austin, where he will be <a href="http://austin.culturemap.com/news/city-life/07-06-14-president-obama-austin-fundraising-trip-traffic-robert-rodriguez-events/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">rubbing elbows</span></a> with pro-amnesty Hollywood stars at events where ticket prices range from $5,000 to $32,400. One of those fundraisers will be at the Austin home of Mexican director Robert Rodriguez, whose movie “Machete” <a href="http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/07/obama_heads_to_texas.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">depicts</span></a> the murders of people opposed to illegal immigration. Obama has even <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/07/08/obama-offers-to-meet-with-perry-in-texas-on-border-crisis-after-criticism/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">agreed</span></a> to meet with Texas Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday in Dallas to discuss the current crisis.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Dallas is more than <a href="http://www.travelmath.com/drive-distance/from/Dallas,+TX/to/Nuevo+Laredo,+Mexico"><span style="color: #1255cc;">400 miles</span></a> from the Mexican border.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">In the meantime, the crisis continues unabated. Illegal immigrant children afflicted with tuberculosis, scabies, chickenpox and lice <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/todd-starnes-illegal-immigrant-children-have-lice-so-severe-they-can-be-seen-crawling-down-their-faces-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">remain</span></a> at Lackland Air Force base in Oklahoma, illegal alien criminals are being released in <a href="http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/07/todd-starnes-illegal-immigrant-children-have-lice-so-severe-they-can-be-seen-crawling-down-their-faces-video/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Virginia</span></a> and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/07/08/Sheriff-Feds-Releasing-Criminals-Deported-10-15-Times-into-Arizona"><span style="color: #1255cc;">Arizona</span></a>, the <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-protesters-no-buses-murrieta-20140707-story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ongoing protests</span></a> in Murrieta, CA threaten to escalate, and a leaked DHS internal report from ICE <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/07/07/Leaked-Internal-DHS-Report-Admits-Lack-of-Deportation-Significant-Factor-in-Border-Crisis"><span style="color: #1255cc;">reveal</span></a>s that only 0.1 percent of the Central American minors illegally entering the U.S. were deported in FY2013.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">And amidst it all, the restrictions the Obama administration are attempting to impose on members of Congress and the media are astounding. The HHS is telling <i>members of Congress</i> visiting the immigration detention center at Lackland that they cannot take pictures, use recording devices, or interact with staff or children. On Thursday when the media’s tour begins, they will be subjected to the same restrictions.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">The Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2014/07/08/mrcs-bozell-denounces-media-rolling-over-accepting-stringent-restrictions-"><span style="color: #1255cc;">offers</span></a> the proper perspective on this administration’s efforts. &#8220;Imagine after Katrina that reporters are getting ready to go to New Orleans, and the Bush administration says to reporters, now one thing: no recording devices, no questions, no interacting with staff or children, no photos, and no interviews, but other than that you can cover Katrina,” he said yesterday on Fox&#8217;s “Your World with Neil Cavuto.” “The response would be that this is the statement of a dictatorship,” Bozell added.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">This is indeed Obama’s Katrina moment with one giant difference: the same mainstream media that completely excoriated George W. Bush as indifferent at best, and <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/race-an-issue-in-katrina-response/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">racist</span></a> at worst for flying above the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina remain appalling passive in the face of transparent insensitivity borne of nothing more than crass political calculation. &#8220;We&#8217;re not worried about those optics,” <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/white-house-not-worried-about-optics-obama-bypassing-texas-border"><span style="color: #1255cc;">said</span></a> White House spokesman Josh Earnest responding to a reporter who asked him if the Obama administration should be worried about how it will look for the president to be in Texas and avoid the border. Americans might ask themselves what kind of leader sees thousands of Third World children as “optics.” Or perhaps more accurately, political props for advancing a pro-amnesty agenda.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Texas Senator Ted Cruz sat down with Dinesh D&#8217;Souza for the filmmaker&#8217;s new documentary &#8220;<a href="http://www.americathemovie.com">America: Imagine the World Without Her</a>.&#8221; &#8220;America,&#8221; produced by Academy Award-winning producer Gerald R. Molen, offers a look at a world in which America never existed &#8212; and shows the true importance of the United States.</em></p>
<p><em>The film debuts today in select theaters and will be released nationally July 2. Click <a href="http://www.americathemovie.com/showtimes/">here</a> for showtime and theater information.</em></p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2014 04:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610.png"><img class=" wp-image-226312 alignleft" alt="613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/613-drug-cartel-message-billboard-610-450x301.png" width="315" height="211" /></a>The title of the May 23, 2014 “The Daily Mail” article sounded a clear warning:</span></p>
<p><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2637789/threatening-cartel-billboards-warning-police-choose-silver-lead-come-complete-hanging-mannequins-appearing-texas.html">&#8220;A chilling message from the cartels: Billboards with hanging mannequins warning cops to choose &#8216;silver over lead&#8217; appear in Texas&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The sub-title of the article provides context for the title and the article:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Two billboards along highways in El Paso, Texas were vandalized and had mannequins hanging off of them</i></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><i>One reads &#8216;silver or lead&#8217; in Spanish which is taken to mean that police and business owners can either take drug cartels&#8217; bribes or die</i></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><i>Worries spreading that cartels that have ruled Mexican border towns with violence may be headed north</i></p></blockquote>
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<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To provide a bit of background, many similar signs have, for years, been posted in Mexico warning the public and especially police, judges and prosecutors that they will either submit to bribery (silver) by the cartels or be shot dead (lead) by the cartels.  In Mexico mutilated bodies of those who were brutally tortured, killed and dismembered by the cartels for non-compliance are often hung off of bridges or billboards.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In El Paso, next to one of the billboards, was a mannequin attired in a black suit hanging from a noose &#8212; chillingly similar to the way that actual bodies are often displayed south of the U.S./Mexican border.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The news report noted that there are concerns that the violence is heading north.  Indeed, the violence has already headed north &#8212; although, thus far, not to the extent we have seen in Mexico.  However, when talking about the violence “heading north” it may well be that for the Mexican cartels “north” may include states located far from the U.S./Mexican border such as New York.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On May 20, 2014 the New York City Council conducted a hearing focused on the skyrocketing increase of heroin inundating New York City.</span></p>
<p>CBS News reported on that hearing in an article: <a href="http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/20/special-narcotics-prosecutor-to-address-heroin-epidemic-at-city-council-hearing/">&#8220;Special Narcotics Prosecutor Addresses Heroin Epidemic At City Council Hearing.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>Here is how the CBS report began:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>That’s the warning from the city’s special narcotics prosecutor, Bridget Brennan, who told a City Council hearing Tuesday that the amount of heroin sold by New York City-based drug traffickers is skyrocketing.</i></p>
<p><i>“So far we’ve seized 288 pounds (in 2014), and that’s in four and a half months — compared to last year, when during the entire year we seized about 177 pounds,” Brennan said. ” … Obviously, we’re going to surpass last year.”</i></p>
<p><i>This year’s heroin seizures have already exceeded those in every year dating back to 1991, WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>The report went on to note:</p>
<blockquote><p><i>Roughly 35 percent of heroin seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration nationwide since October was confiscated in New York state, according to the Times.</i></p>
<p><i>Mexican cartels apparently smuggle the drug up north in tractor-trailers. At rest stops near New York City, the heroin is off-loaded to cars and taken to mills in the Bronx and upper Manhattan, where it is processed and packaged, the Times reported.</i></p></blockquote>
<p>On October 12, 2012, an extensive New York Times article,  <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/nyregion/on-roosevelt-avenue-in-queens-vice-remains-a-stubborn-presence.html?_r=0">&#8220;Roosevelt Avenue, a Corridor of Vice,&#8221;</a> focused on Jackson Heights, a neighborhood in New York City where narcotics trafficking and illegal immigration are inextricably linked along with prostitution, identity theft and the creation of fraud identity documents.</p>
<p>Inasmuch as many of those who commit many of these crimes are aliens, it would make sense for ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to work cooperatively with other law enforcement agencies to combat these crimes.  However, ICE lacks adequate resources and the administration has demonstrated an unwillingness to effectively enforce the immigration laws.</p>
<p>Further complicating matters are the sanctuary policies of the City of New York.  Police officers are prohibited from notifying ICE when they encounter suspected illegal aliens.</p>
<p>For the second half of my 30-year career with the former INS, I was assigned to the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force.  I spent an inordinate amount of time conducting investigations and making arrests in Jackson Heights.  Bad as things were back then, today&#8217;s situation eclipses what I personally encountered when I was an INS Senior Special Agent.</p>
<p>On September 3, 2013 I joined Congressman Lou Barletta on the campus of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida to participate in a town hall meeting on immigration sponsored by Radio Station WNDB.  C-SPAN covered of our discussion and posted it under the title:<a href="http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314823-1">&#8220;Immigration Policy &amp; Homeland Security.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During our discussion I made the point that the best metric for determining border security was the price and availability of cocaine and heroin.</span></p>
<p>I also raised that point when I was was <a href="http://video.foxnews.com/v/3581676227001/marine-jailed-in-mexico-shines-light-on-relationship-with-us/?playlist_id=940325739001#sp=show-clips">interviewed</a> by Brian Kilmeade on Fox &amp; Friends on May 22<sup>nd</sup> to discuss the arrest of an American Marine who was arrested by Mexican law enforcement officials.</p>
<p>As a rule, transnational criminal organizations, especially narcotics trafficking organizations, put thugs from their home countries in charge of operations in cities across the United States to maintain control over the drugs and the proceeds from the sale of those drugs.  Criminal organizations want to work with those they are most familiar with.  They also know that if they use individuals from their home countries, the criminal organizations can easily take reprisals against the family members of those they send to the United States.  Reprisals are often swift and incredibly brutal.  This helps keep the “employees” of these organizations obedient.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Because New York State is currently the recipient of such a high percentage of the Mexican heroin it is likely that the violence perpetrated by the cartels may well become highest in New York.  The most likely victims of that violence are likely to be members of the ethnic Latino communities where cartel members live and operate.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is hardly “anti-immigrant” for law enforcement elements being brought to bear against aliens who violate our laws.  Yet this is the fatuous claim often made by the immigration anarchists who are eager for a massive amnesty program for unknown millions of illegal aliens. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Shortly after taking office, New York City&#8217;s Mayor De Blasio made the astonishing statement that he would provide illegal aliens with identity documents.  I addressed this ill-conceived proposal in an article for Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.capsweb.org/blog/nyc-mayor-determined-give-illegal-aliens-id-cards">&#8220;NYC Mayor Determined to Give Illegal Aliens ID Cards.&#8221;</a></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Suspects who are arrested are always fingerprinted and photographed to document the arrest and to attempt to determine the true identity of those taken into custody.  Criminals and terrorists use multiple aliases as camouflage to conceal their true identities.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Aliens who claims to not have identity documents may truly not have identity documents or may seek to create a new false identity because their true names are on criminal or terrorist watch lists.  It is bizarre that politicians often herald the arrest of those who create false identity documents, describing such documents as dangerous to public safety and national security, while declaring their cities and states to be “sanctuaries” for illegal aliens and may offer to provide driver&#8217;s licenses to such illegal aliens whose identities cannot be verified.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On May 2, 2013 I was </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/05/02/immigration-expert-system-much-worse-shape-people-think">interviewed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by Megyn Kelly of Fox News about the immigration component to the Boston Marathon terrorist bombing. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On November 21, 2013 the Washington Times published a report, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/nov/21/committee-examines-reports-mexican-drug-cartels-us/">Mexican drug cartels exploit asylum system by claiming ‘credible fear.’</a><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">”</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That article served as predication for a House Judiciary Committee hearing on December 12, 2013 on the topic, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://abcnews.go.com/blotter/al-qaeda-kentucky-us-dozens-terrorists-country-refugees/story?id=20931131">“</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/113th/hear_12122013.html">Asylum Abuse: Is it Overwhelming our Borders?</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Advocates for “comprehensive immigration reform” or other such programs, attempt to minimize the significance of America’s borders and immigration laws by referring to aliens who evade the inspections process as simply being “undocumented.”  In reality, aliens who evade the inspections process are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">un-inspected</i><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</i></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In fact, when I was an INS agent, my colleagues and I referred to the method of entry of aliens who evaded the inspections process as being EWI (</span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">E</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ntry </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">W</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">ithout </span><b style="line-height: 1.5em;">I</b><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">nspection).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">That inspections process is mandated by our immigration laws and by commonsense.  It is the equivalent of a homeowner looking through the peephole on the front door before admitting a stranger into his home.  It was identified as a critical issue by the 9/11 Commission that focused on how to enhance that process to prevent the entry of terrorists.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">No reasonable person would willingly board an airliner if he (she) saw fellow passengers who had evaded the TSA inspections process boarding the plane they were about to travel on. (No one wants a window seat on a cruise missile!)  Yet today we are unwittingly forced to live among unknown millions of illegal aliens who evaded the inspection process conducted at ports of entry.  That inspections process is designed to prevent the entry of aliens whose presence poses a threat to national security, public safety or in other ways, the wellbeing of our citizens, our communities and our country. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Among the provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act is </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docview/slb/html/slb/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-29/0-0-0-1956.html">Title 8, United States Code, Section 1182</a>.<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> It contains a list of the categories of aliens who are to be prevented from entering the United States.  It has nothing to do with race, religion or ethnicity but everything to do with the safety and well-being of America and Americans.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">America&#8217;s borders and immigration laws are </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">supposed</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to represent our first line of defense and last line of defense against international terrorists and transnational criminals shielding, our nation and our citizens.  Of course this can only happen if our borders are made secure and our immigration laws are effectively enforced and administered.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If ever there was a time for our nation&#8217;s leaders to order, “Shields up” this is it.</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 13:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>There&#8217;s <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/04/texas-women-running-away-from-wendy-davis/?utm_source=co2hog&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29">good news and bad news for Wendy Davis </a>in Texas. The good news is that she&#8217;s losing among women by 8 percent. That&#8217;s good news because she&#8217;s losing men by 21 percent.</p>
<p>However her unfavorable ratings are fairly consistent among genders, with a 46 percent unfavorable among women and a 48 percent unfavorable among men.</p>
<p>Her favorability rating however is actually slightly lower among women than men, 33 to 32. Yes, men like Wendy Davis slightly more than women, but no one particularly likes her.</p>
<p>The Democrats thought that they had a sure thing in Texas with Wendy Davis. They didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>Progs began abandoning Davis when she strayed from the herd on gun control and then on her signature brand, abortion. That left her with money and not a whole lot less.</p>
<p>The left found Wendy Davis temporarily convenient as a symbol for the War on Women, but it&#8217;s doubtful that they were ever all that invested in her. Texas won&#8217;t be cracked with a Wendy Davis and they knew it.</p>
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<p>The Democrats putting everything they had behind Wendy Davis in a state where their only ace in the hole are Latino voters was not their best plan. Davis was known for one thing and one thing only, abortion.</p>
<p>Latinos, like African-Americans, tend to poll pro-abortion where the option exists, for obvious social reasons involving  high rates of single mothers, but culturally they&#8217;re a long way from the pro-abortion cheerleading of Planned Parenthood and Wendy Davis.</p>
<p>The Abortion Barbie image appealed to liberal funders, but<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Texas/2014/03/5/Wendy-Davis-Loses-Half-of-Border-Counties-to-Pro-Life-Democrat"> it didn&#8217;t play all that well with a chunk </a>of <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/John-Gizzi/wendy-davis-gizzi-texas/2014/03/06/id/556393">the Democratic Party&#8217;s base</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>Davis won the Democratic primary with 79 percent of the vote over token opposition.</p>
<p>Little-noted by the national press, however, was that Davis was beaten in 26 counties with strong populations of Hispanic-Americans. In counties such as Jim Hogg, Zapata, and Presidio, Davis, who had more than $11 million in her campaign kitty, lost to political unknown Reynaldo &#8220;Ray&#8221; Madrigal.</p>
<p>According to a report filed at the Texas Ethics Commission, he also raised and spent no money on his campaign.</p>
<p>Texas Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Wendy Davis woke to some unsettling numbers along the Texas/Mexico border today. Of the 14 counties along the Rio Grande, Davis lost seven—including heavily Hispanic Webb and Hidalgo Counties. Davis Challenger Reynaldo “Ray” Madrigal’s prediction may have come true to an extent—Wendy has a pro-life Catholic problem and may not hold the support of motivated Latino voters by default.</p></blockquote>
<p>Democrats blew a lot of money on Davis and they&#8217;re faced with a problem. Their candidate&#8217;s selling point, abortion, has little relevance in a bad economy to anyone except Emily&#8217;s List. And Wendy Davis is not the ideal rallying point for Latino voters whom they need to come out.</p>
<p>Wendy&#8217;s only hope is a purely negative campaign, but she has tried that already and it backfired. She tried walking away from her abortion stance and was mocked for her trouble.</p>
<p>Between her clumsy attempts to pander on guns and abortion, her liberal backers abandoned her because she no longer represented their values. Now she&#8217;s become another sacrificial horse and the Dem plan to turn Texas blue rests entirely on illegal alien amnesty.</p>
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<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/why-the-rise-of-wendy-davis-could-actually-spell-trouble-for-texas-democrats.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217115" alt="why-the-rise-of-wendy-davis-could-actually-spell-trouble-for-texas-democrats" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/why-the-rise-of-wendy-davis-could-actually-spell-trouble-for-texas-democrats-424x350.jpg" width="297" height="245" /></a>Wendy Davis, the Texas state senator running for governor, became a liberal superhero last June when she filibustered a bill to prohibit abortions after 20 weeks. (This was the <i>good</i> filibuster, not that awful filibuster three months later by Ted Cruz &#8211; <i>that</i>was just grandstanding.)</p>
<p>Apart from her enthusiasm for abortion (and you have to admit, abortion is really cool), the centerpiece of Davis&#8217; campaign is her life story. Also the fact that she&#8217;s a progressive woman who doesn&#8217;t look like Betty Friedan.</p>
<p>In a typical formulation, Time magazine said Davis was someone who could give the Democrats &#8220;&#8216;real people&#8217; credibility,&#8221; based on &#8220;her own personal story &#8212; an absent father, a sixth-grade-educated mother, a teen pregnancy, followed by life as a single mom in a mobile home, then community college and, at last, Harvard Law School.&#8221;</p>
<p>The headlines capture the essence of Wendy-mania:</p>
<p>CNN: Wendy Davis: From Teen Mom to Harvard Law to Famous Filibuster</p>
<p>Bloomberg: Texas Filibuster Star Rose From Teen Mom to Harvard Law</p>
<p>The Independent (UK): Wendy Davis: Single Mother From Trailer Park Who Has Become Heroine of Pro-Choice Movement</p>
<p>Cosmopolitan: Find a Sugar Daddy to Put You Through Law School!</p>
<p>Actually, that last one I made up, but as we now know, it&#8217;s more accurate than Davis&#8217; rags-to-riches life story.</p>
<p>The truth was gently revealed in the Dallas Morning News this week. Far from an attack, this was a puff-piece written by Wayne Slater, rabid partisan Democratic hack and co-author of the book, &#8220;Bush&#8217;s Brain.&#8221; (He is not an admirer of Bush&#8217;s brain.) It would be like Sean Hannity breaking a scandal about Ted Cruz.</p>
<p>The first hint that Slater was trying to help Davis get ahead of the story and tilt it her way is his comment that Davis&#8217; life story is &#8220;more complicated&#8221; than her version &#8212; i.e., completely the opposite &#8212; adding, &#8220;as often happens when public figures aim to define themselves.&#8221;</p>
<p>Actually, the truth is much simpler than her story. Also, be sure to look for that &#8220;as often happens&#8221; excuse the next time a Republican gets caught lying about his resume.</p>
<p>Slater&#8217;s peculiar obsession with whether Davis was 19 or 21 when she got her first divorce, and exactly how long she lived in a trailer home, is meant to deflect attention from something much more problematic: the huge whoppers Davis told.</p>
<p>Her big lies were about the obstacles she had to overcome and how she overcame them, not about how old she was at the time of her first divorce.</p>
<p>She claims she was raised by a single mother, went to work at age 14 to support her family, became a single mother herself in her teens, and then &#8212; by sheer pluck and determination &#8212; pulled herself out of the trailer park to graduate from Harvard Law School!</p>
<p>The truth is less coal-miner&#8217;s daughter than gold-digger who found a sugar daddy to raise her kids and pay for her education.</p>
<p>Point No. 1: Davis&#8217; family wasn&#8217;t working-class. Her father owned a sandwich shop and a dinner theater, which puts Davis solidly into middle-class land.</p>
<p>Point No. 2: No one who works at MSNBC would know this, but <i>everyone</i> whose parents run a family business starts work at age 14, if not sooner.</p>
<p>Point No. 3: Her parents were separated, but that is not the commonly accepted meaning of &#8220;single mother.&#8221;</p>
<p>Point No. 4: As for being a single mother at age 19 &#8212; she wasn&#8217;t a &#8220;single mother&#8221; in the traditional sense, either. She was married at age 18, had a child at 19 and divorced her first husband, a construction worker, at 21. (He couldn&#8217;t afford tuition at Harvard.)</p>
<p>So she got married young? That isn&#8217;t a hard-luck story. Well into the 1950s, nearly half of all first-born children were born to married women under the age of 20.</p>
<p>But Wendy Davis&#8217; harrowing nightmare of poverty and sacrifice wasn&#8217;t over yet.</p>
<p>Just a few years after her first divorce, Wendy was on the make, asking to date Jeff Davis, a rich lawyer 13 years her senior, who frequented her father&#8217;s dinner club. In short order, they married and had a child together.</p>
<p>The next thing Jeff Davis knew, he was paying off her college tuition, raising their kids by himself and taking out a loan to send her to Harvard Law School.</p>
<p>(Feminists rushed to the stores to buy the shoes Davis wore during her famous filibuster. I&#8217;d like the shoes she was wearing when she met her sugar daddy.)</p>
<p>Then Wendy left her kids with the sugar daddy in Texas &#8212; even the daughter from her first marriage &#8212; while she attended Harvard Law.</p>
<p>Slater says Davis&#8217; kids lived with Jeff Davis in Texas while she attended law school. Wendy Davis claims her girls lived with her during her first year of law school. Let&#8217;s say that&#8217;s true. Why not the other two years? And what was the matter with the University of Texas Law School?</p>
<p>Sorry, MSNBC, I know you want to fixate on how many months Davis spent in the trailer park and her precise age when the first divorce went through. And that would be an incredibly stupid thing for conservatives to obsess on, if they were, in fact, obsessing on it. But I&#8217;m still stuck on her leaving her kids behind while she headed off to a law school 1,500 miles away.</p>
<p>The reason Wendy Davis&#8217; apocryphal story was impressive is that single mothers have to run a household, take care of kids and provide for a family all by themselves. But Wendy was neither supporting her kids, nor raising them. If someone else is taking care of your kids and paying your tuition, that&#8217;s not amazing.</p>
<p>Hey &#8212; maybe Jeff Davis should run for governor! He&#8217;s the one who raised two kids, including a stepdaughter, while holding down a job and paying for his wife&#8217;s law school. There&#8217;s a hard-luck story!</p>
<p>Mr. Davis told the Dallas Morning News that Wendy dumped him as soon as he had finished paying off her Harvard Law School loan. &#8220;It was ironic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.&#8221;</p>
<p>In his defense, a lot of people are confused about the meaning of &#8220;ironic.&#8221; That&#8217;s not &#8220;ironic.&#8221; Rather, it&#8217;s what we call: &#8220;entirely predictable.&#8221;</p>
<p><i>It&#8217;s ironic &#8212; my car stopped running right after I ran out of gas.</i></p>
<p>It&#8217;s ironic &#8212; my house was broken into, and the next thing I knew all my valuables were missing.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s ironic &#8212; I was punched in the face right before my nose broke.</p>
<p>In his petition for divorce, Mr. Davis accused his wife of adultery. The court made no finding on infidelity, but awarded him full custody of their underage child and ordered Wendy to pay child support.</p>
<p>Wendy boasted to the Dallas Morning News: &#8220;I very willingly, as part of my divorce settlement, paid child support.&#8221; Would a divorced dad get a medal for saying that?</p>
<p>In response to Wayne Slater&#8217;s faux-&#8221;expose,&#8221; naturally Davis put out a statement denouncing &#8230; her probable Republican opponent, Greg Abbott. Again, Slater wrote the story. But Davis blathered on, blaming Abbott for the Dallas Morning News story and complaining that he hasn&#8217;t &#8220;walked a day in my shoes.&#8221;</p>
<p>About that she&#8217;s certainly right. Greg Abbott could never walk a day in her shoes or anyone else&#8217;s. He&#8217;s a paraplegic confined to a wheelchair.</p>
<p>I guess Wendy could teach him a lot about suffering.</p>
<p>Davis also said these attacks &#8220;won&#8217;t work, because my story is the story of millions of Texas women &#8230;&#8221; Yes, for example, Anna Nicole Smith. Though at least Smith had the decency not to ask for a paid education.</p>
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<p>Wendy Davis is a hero because she wore pink sneakers while holding a filibuster in support of murdering children. Then Melissa Harris Perry wore tampon earrings on MSNBC in support of Wendy Davis and also became a hero. It&#8217;s easy to be a hero these days.</p>
<p>Now Wendy Davis is heroically running for governor in Texas and the media keeps calling her heroic <a href="http://legalinsurrection.com/2014/01/uh-oh-wendy-davis-life-story-not-what-it-seems/">because of her amazingly heroic life story</a>.</p>
<blockquote><p>A single mother working two jobs, she met Jeff Davis, a lawyer 13 years older than her, married him and had a second daughter. He paid for her last two years at Texas Christian University and her time at Harvard Law School, and kept their two daughters while she was in Boston.</p>
<p>When they divorced in 2005, he was granted parental custody, and the girls stayed with him. Wendy Davis was directed to pay child support.</p>
<p>In his initial divorce filing, Jeff Davis said the marriage had failed, citing adultery on her part and conflicts that the couple could not overcome. The final court decree makes no mention of infidelity, granting the divorce solely “on the ground of insupportability.”</p>
<p>When she was accepted to Harvard Law School, Jeff Davis cashed in his 401(k) account and eventually took out a loan to pay for her final year there….</p>
<p>Over time, the Davises’ marriage was strained. In November 2003, Wendy Davis moved out.</p>
<p>Jeff Davis said that was right around the time the final payment on their Harvard Law School loan was due. “It was ironic,” he said. “I made the last payment, and it was the next day she left.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Wendy Davis&#8217; amazing heroic life story includes heroically using her husband as an ATM to pay for Harvard, heroically cheating on him, heroically divorcing him after using him to get the last loan payment and heroically dumping their kids on him.</p>
<blockquote><p>A former colleague and political supporter who worked closely with Davis when she was on the council said the body’s work was very time-consuming.</p>
<p>“Wendy is tremendously ambitious,” he said, speaking only on condition of anonymity in order to give what he called an honest assessment. “She’s not going to let family or raising children or anything else get in her way.”</p></blockquote>
<p>Wendy Davis really is the perfect poster child to campaign for abortion. I wonder which of her daughters she wishes she would have killed.</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/122713-national-Conrad-Barrett-knockout-game-hate-crime.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214146" alt="122713-national-Conrad-Barrett-knockout-game-hate-crime" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/122713-national-Conrad-Barrett-knockout-game-hate-crime-280x350.jpg" width="224" height="280" /></a>First came the shock. Then disbelief. Then the questions: Why him? Why now? Why did Attorney General Holder choose to file hate crime charges against a white man in Texas for allegedly playing the Knockout Game against a black man?</p>
<p>And the biggest question of all: When will public officials and the media stop ignoring &#8212; and denying &#8212; the black mob violence and black on white crime that exists exponentially out of proportion?</p>
<p>As examples, many point to recent episodes of large scale black mob violence; smaller but lethal cases of black on white crime; and even more <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">bouts of the Knockout Game.</a></p>
<p>Let’s start in Los Angeles, two weeks before Christmas. At first seemed it like nothing: The Los Angeles Times called it a <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">fraternity brawl among 25 people with no particular racial </a>identity at a local hotel and no one hurt. The local CBS affiliate talked to the fraternity president who also downplayed the violence: It was just a few guys trying to “impress the females.”</p>
<p>By the next day, a different picture emerged: More than 1000 people were fighting in and out of the hotel. Before during and after the party. Video showed one person throwing a large metal table into a crowd of party -goers. People got hurt, at least one person was hospitalized for stitches.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">local ABC affiliate cobbled it together</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>According to hotel management, the fight broke out between two different fraternities. Police said everything from fists, tables and chairs were thrown. Some witnesses said fights occurred on several floors of the hotel. They also said police used pepper spray on the crowds.</p>
<p>&#8220;It was pretty bad. The whole party was engulfed in pepper spray. You could feel it in your lungs,&#8221; said one witness.</p>
<p>Authorities say the pepper spray was used when the partygoers refused to cooperate.</p></blockquote>
<p>Other hotel residents said the violence and commotion went on all night inside the hotel.</p>
<p>The party was sponsored by a black fraternity at Cal State Long Beach. No one was arrested.</p>
<p>Near Charlotte, North Carolina, four black people are under arrest in the shooting death of Marcus Kauffman, a volunteer firefighter and expectant father. Kauffman died a few days before Christmas.</p>
<p>At the University of Michigan, three black people were charged in December with  the murder of a medical student during a home invasion robbery.</p>
<p>On December 15, Dustin Friedland and his wife were leaving a New Jersey mall when a group of black people allegedly killed him and took his SUV. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">The New York Daily News</a> filled in a few blanks:</p>
<blockquote><p>Friedland, a beloved husband and lawyer from Hoboken, had just finished loading holiday gifts into his silver 2012 Range Rover when two men ambushed him so they could steal the SUV. He never had a chance — the men shot him four times before he had a chance to resist or question his greedy attackers.</p></blockquote>
<p>Police arrested four black people are few days before Christmas and charged them with murder.</p>
<p>Many public officials and members of the media deny there is any kind of systematic problem with black mob violence or black and white crime. Their sympathetic denials do not protect them.</p>
<p>In Washington, D.C.,  in December, several black people severely beat a CNN news producer walking the two blocks from his home to work at 4 a.m. He said he will never walk in that neighborhood again.</p>
<p>In Minneapolis at the Mall of America, several black people beat and robbed one of the area’s more visible liberal politicians. <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Just about a month after Mark Andrew finished second</a> in the November race for mayor of Minneapolis, he was sitting in a Starbucks when someone grabbed his phone and ran out of the store.</p>
<blockquote><p>As Andrew ran after the thief, two young women waiting outside the coffee shop tackled him, and one began beating him on the head and face with a club.</p>
<p>Andrew said he jumped back to his feet and physically restrained one attacker while the other continued striking him. They yelled, “We’re going to kill you! We’re going to kill you!”</p></blockquote>
<p>When police arrived, the two black women said they were the victims: Andrew had attacked them. That story did not hold up very well and the two were arrested.</p>
<p>Andrew was taken to the hospital where he received nine stitches. The third person is still at large. They don’t have to worry too much: Andrew is not mad at them: “I think there’s redemption for everybody,&#8221; said Andrew. &#8220;So we’ll try to find a way for them to get in a place where they can turn their lives around.”</p>
<p>So far Andrew and his social reformers have not had much success with that in Minneapolis. The Mall of America has been the site of several examples of black mob violence. Many documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence/dp/1938067061/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It.</a></p>
<p>Here’s how one resident describes the New Minneapolis:</p>
<blockquote><p>Formerly bustling suburbs like Robbinsdale and St. Louis Park have turned into ghettos. Malls, restaurants and shops are few and far between in downtown areas.</p>
<p>Even the Mall of America is under assault. Go there on a Saturday afternoon and you&#8217;ll see gangs of blacks with colors flying and pant legs rolled up.</p>
<p>They ogle, whistle at and harass white women, even following them around. They occupy the food courts, which are a constant source of intimidation and mayhem.</p>
<p>Last January, some 200 blacks got into a violent chair throwing fracas at one of the food courts. It quickly spread to other areas, forcing<br />
stores to close their gates and paying customers to flee. There was cell phone video all over the Internet, showing conclusively that the combatants were black.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ll never know if there were any arrests made or charges filed because the print and broadcast media had little to say.</p></blockquote>
<p>And downtown Minneapolis and the campus of the University of Minnesota have been the site of several recent examples of black mob violence and black on white crime.</p>
<p>In December, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Minneapolis police told a Chinese exchange student</a> they were “too busy” to investigate the whereabouts of her stolen computer, even though she had located it using a built-in GPS device.</p>
<p>Several black people had assaulted her, knocked her out, and taken her computer several days before. Campus police followed up on the lead and found the computer. They arrested one person, who said he took the computer but someone else assaulted her.</p>
<p>She is just one of dozens of victims of black on white and black and asian violence near the campus. The University of Minnesota school paper reports that black students are unhappy the assailants are identified by race &#8212; as is required in the Cleary law for reporting violence on college campuses. They say they are being profiled.</p>
<p>Down in Jacksonville, Florida, a “massive” Christmas night fight and riot erupted in and out of a movie theater after 600 black people &#8212; many waiting to see a Nelson Mandela movie &#8212; tried to gain free admission by rushing the ticket taker.</p>
<p>Private security and police used tear gas on the rioters. According to the Florida Times-Union out of Jacksonville:</p>
<blockquote><p>One of the young suspects refused orders to leave and began to incite the crowd yelling, “—  — you, crackers, I ain’t going nowhere,” according to her arrest report. Most of the crowd was black, while several officers were white.</p></blockquote>
<p>According to <a href="http://newsone.com/2817326/600-people-involved-in-movie-theater-brawl/">NewsOne.com, a black web site, “the pepper spray</a> is what apparently sparked the brawl that broke out.”</p>
<p>Some would say the riot provoked the pepper spray, not the other way around.</p>
<p>During the 90 minutes it took to get the fighting under control, several of the rioters threatened attacked police, including Jaquade Marquis Miller.</p>
<p>When Miller appeared before a judge, his mother told the court he was a good boy and this was not like him. She later told reporters her son was crying and scared.</p>
<p>Instead of sending him to jail, Miller agreed to take an eight-week course in accountability from a group called <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Save Our Sons. The program teaches accountability,</a> “healthy choices” and “gives them a chance to vent,” said SOS leaders.</p>
<p>Jacksonville has been the scene of several episodes of recent large scale black mob violence.  In 2012, 300 black people stormed a Wal-Mart, looted it, videoed it, and ran away as police arrived. But not before the chaos was captured on video.</p>
<p>On Memorial Day 2013, hundreds of black people were involved in large scale violence at the beach. Much of it on video.</p>
<p>Self-described youth advocate, Donteacia Seymore of Jacksonville, told First Coast News this kind of violence happens a lot in Jacksonville: “But it was a reminder that this is something that&#8217;s common. It&#8217;s prevalent. It&#8217;s not going away,&#8221; Seymore said.</p>
<p>Chicago residents and police report at least two episodes of large scale black mob violence over the holiday season. In the suburb of Orland Park, dozens of black people were fighting and destroying property at a local mall. Five people were arrested. The reporters at the local Patch outlet were careful to avoid the racial issue, but its readers were not:</p>
<blockquote><p>How does one comment on this and NOT sound racist or some stereotype. You can&#8217;t. So I won&#8217;t try.  Though some liberal will say I&#8217;m being racist or stereo typical but I&#8217;m not the ones who named their children &#8220;Shat-I-Vanna&#8221; SERIOUSLY?! Then raised her in a way to think this was an appropriate way to behave. Sadly, all too often stereotypes exist for a reason. You may call it a stereotype or racist while I call it STATISTICS. See, no way to reply to this TRUTHFULLY and not sound like some dumb ass clan member, so I won&#8217;t try. Sorry, if the truth hurts. People are too afraid to speak the truth these days.</p></blockquote>
<p>Over at America’s best cop blog: Second City Cop, readers learned about 500 black people “wilding” at Chicago’s North Riverside mall a few days after Christmas.</p>
<blockquote><p>When the wilding started in the mall. I would have estimated about a 500 hundred Amish thugs fighting and running like savages. Store locked their doors and security waited until about 25 squad cars from the surrounding areas came and cleared the mall.</p>
<p>They were not really Amish. And readers report neither episode received much attention in the local news.</p></blockquote>
<p>In Syracuse over the weekend, eight black people were arrested at the Destiny USA mall after police and security responded to a “large fight.” One of the people arrested, a 14-year-old boy, <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">allegedly swung a knife at police</a>.</p>
<p>Many in Syracuse said it reminded them of a similar incident at the same mall last year, when police were called to another large fight involving black people. When police attempted to detain a 15-year-old suspect, he resisted. Two of his friends attacked the officers.</p>
<p>After he was subdued and arrested, police found a sawed-off shotgun in his long coat. Three shotgun shells were found next to the body of an unconscious person at the scene of the fight.</p>
<p>Also over the weekend, police found one man dead when they responded to reports of a large fight of over 100 black people near New Haven, Connecticut. Neighbors said two things: It happens a lot. And it has been going on for a long time.</p>
<p>In <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Indianapolis in December, the last of 11 black people were arrested</a> in connection with a series of home invasion robberies and sexual assaults. A few days before Christmas, two white women were allegedly murdered by a black disgruntled former employee of the family business.</p>
<p>Indianapolis is the site of frequent and intense black mob violence, including mayhem at the annual Indiana Black Expo, documented in <a href="http://www.amazon.com/White-Girl-Bleed-Lot-Violence/dp/1938067061/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1388370340&amp;sr=8-1">White Girl Bleed a Lot: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore it</a>.</p>
<p>No account of the racial violence over the last several weeks would be complete without mentioning the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Knockout Games, and how they are still happening</a>. (Or not, if you work for CNN, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, MSNBC and other media outlets.)</p>
<p>From <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">Brooklyn, Columbus, Rochester, Milwaukee, Harlem, Florence</a> and other places, reports of spontaneous, unprovoked, black on white racial violence continue to come to flood conservative news sites.  And continue to be denied in many &#8212; but not all &#8212; popular press outlets.</p>
<p>Recent <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">large scale black mob violence &#8211;often at night after the clubs close</a>, or in the day at black high schools  &#8212; has also been reported in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Tulsa, Washington, Baton Rouge, Middletown (Connecticut), Pittsburgh, Tifflin, Peoria, Oakland, Long Island, Rochester, Roanoke, among others.</p>
<p>What recently received the most attention were the (pick one) 300, 400, 500, or 600 “teens” rampaging through Kings Plaza mall in Brooklyn &#8212; the same neighborhood  where 10 black people surrounded a white couple in a car at a stoplight and beat them in November.</p>
<p>For two hours on the day after Christmas, “the teenagers stole merchandise, assaulted security guards, and broke candy jars. A group of teenage girls were caught on camera fighting and shouting while security guards tried to break them up.”</p>
<p>Merchants reported widespread panic and property damage, so much so that many were forced to close their doors to protect their customers and merchandise.</p>
<p>The New York Post made a perfunctory attempt to convince its readers this was not another example of black mob violence. It reported “A tall white guy with a grey bubble coat was wearing a ski mask and a skull cap and he had his hand under his coat like he was holding a gun.”</p>
<p>But videos, social media and members of law enforcement tell a different story: This was a black crowd at mall with a large black clientele. <a href="http://chicksontheright.com/posts/item/25160-flash-mob-of-400-teenage-lunatics-at-a-brooklyn-mall-hey-here-s-an-idea">Chicks on the Right tracked</a> down some of their Facebook postings.</p>
<blockquote><p>“[Kings Plaza] was on tilt today but n-ggas wasn’t catching me,” Ray Ray Sextana posted on Facebook.</p>
<p>Another teen, Mark Wallace, posted, “S–t was crazy at Kings Plaza. So the security started shutting down the mall and kicking all teens out but it was so much of us they couldn’t get control.”</p>
<p>He added,“F–ked up my middle finger tryna fight them bitch ass security guards.”</p></blockquote>
<p>At least viewer at the <a href="http://whitegirlbleedalot.com/december-black-mob-violence/">ABC news affiliate in New York was having trouble figuring it all </a>out: “Just wondering, but why are there so many variations on what happened Thursday? Some say claim that there were hundreds of teenagers, that nothing was stolen or it was just these group of girls fighting.”</p>
<p>A few days later, a group of black people beat and robbed a man for his iPhone. The NBC affiliate posted pictures of the suspects. Law enforcement officials in Brooklyn say this happens every day in their borough.</p>
<p>Cops on the beat in Brooklyn, Chicago, Houston, and other cities laugh when they read the denials or see them on television news: There are too many witnesses, too many videos, too many victims, too much damage, for people to deny the existence of large scale black mob violence and black on white crime, they say.</p>
<p>Many black media outlets are way past the denials &#8212; and now into explaining why it is happening. This article from the Atlanta Black Star is as good as anything you can find in Ebony, Jet, The Grio, One News, Huffington Post Black Voices, The Field Negro, or dozens of other black media outlets: <a href="http://atlantablackstar.com/2013/11/26/5-reasons-young-black-men-resort-violence/">5 Reasons Young Black Men Resort To Violence.</a></p>
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		<title>Texas Mega-Church Leader Partners with Muslim Brotherhood Front</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bob-Roberts.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-192726" alt="Bob Roberts" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Bob-Roberts.jpg" width="245" height="169" /></a>On June 9, the <i>Clarion Project</i> reported that the U.S. envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/obama-official-share-stage-three-islamists">will be speaking at an Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) regional conference</a>, sharing the stage with at least three Islamists. But there are some other featured guests: ISNA’s interfaith allies, including Pastor Bob Roberts of NorthWood Church in Texas.</p>
<p>ISNA is identified in a <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memorandum</a> as one of its fronts. The U.S. government also listed ISNA as a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity when it designated the group an <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in the Hamas-financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation. The so-called “charity” was another U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity that, in the <a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/43380629-2009-order-on-Holy-Land-Foundation-unindicted-coconspirator-list.pdf">words</a> of Judge Jorge Solis, “operated from within ISNA.” ISNA <a href="http://www.isna.net/articles/Press-Releases/ISNA-STATEMENT-OF-POSITION-Who-we-are-and-what-we-believe.aspx">denies</a> it has “ever been subject to the control of…the Muslim Brotherhood.”</p>
<p>ISNA’s <a href="http://www.isna.net/south-central-conference.html">South Central Conference</a> will be held in Dallas on June 15. The event will feature an interfaith panel that includes its Community Outreach Director, Mohamed Elsanousi, who attended a Muslim Brotherhood-linked <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/3699/white-house-rep-attends-event-hosted-by-mb-figure">conference</a> in Mauritania last year.</p>
<p>Other participants include Rabbi Joshua S. Taub of <a href="http://www.emanuelbeaumont.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=360&amp;Itemid=1126">Temple Emanuel</a> and Cristina Warner, the Campaign Director of the Shoulder-to-Shoulder Campaign, an ISNA-allied interfaith coalition. ISNA is so proud of Shoulder-to-Shoulder that its success was a top talking point of senior officials when they <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/isna-discusses-interfaith-success-with-erdogan/">met with the Islamist Prime Minister of Turkey.</a></p>
<p>The most high-profile interfaith speaker at the ISNA regional conference is Pastor Bob Roberts of <a href="http://www.northwoodchurch.org/">NorthWood Church</a>, a critic of “Christian Zionists.” As <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/ryan-mauro/texas-mega-church-welcomes-islamists-to-global-faith-forum/">reported last month,</a> Pastor Roberts’ NorthWood Church is holding its own Islamist-stocked interfaith event called the <a href="http://www.globalfaithforum.com/">Global Faith Forum</a> in November. Pastor Roberts’ speakers include ISNA officials, former senior Saudi officials and a former director-general of Al-Jazeera.</p>
<p>The <i>Clarion Project</i>’s <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/obama-official-share-stage-three-islamists">original article on the event</a> provides insight into some of the fellow speakers of Pastor Roberts, Rabbi Taub and Cristina Warner.</p>
<p>The keynote speaker is Dr. Jamal Badawi, who will also be on panels about Sharia and having a healthy family. His record includes praise for Hamas, “combative jihad,” and justifying the physical disciplining of wives (or, as he says, “a gentle tap on the body” for disobedience). His name also appears in <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/case_docs/1083.pdf#page=2">a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood phonebook from 1992</a> and he hangs out with Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi. The radicalism of his resume is strong enough to prompt counter-terrorism expert Patrick Poole to ask, <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/16/homeland-insecurity-why-is-jamal-badawi-still-allowed-inside-the-united-states/">&#8220;Why is Jamal Badawi Still Allowed into the United States?&#8221;</a></p>
<p>ISNA official Yusuf Ziya Kavakci will be handling the opening remarks, leading a prayer and joining Badawi for the panel on Sharia. He used to lead a mosque that <a href="http://globalmbreport.org/?p=3577">an article in 1999 said</a> “is considered to be one of the most active centers of Hamas activity in the United States[.]” The mosque was linked to the Holy Land Foundation, the aforementioned U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity that was housed by ISNA and shut down for financing Hamas.</p>
<p>The notorious Imam Siraj Wahhaj is listed as an invited speaker at the event. His radicalism is unquestionable. He has preached that “America is the most wicked government on the face of the planet Earth.” America, he told his audience, is a “garbage can” that he prays “crumbles.” Unlike some Islamists, he <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/laura-l-rubenfeld/democrats-embrace-siraj-wahhaj-supporter-of-cop-killer-al-qaeda-and-hamas/#_edn1">doesn&#8217;t hide his desire for Sharia Law in America</a>.</p>
<p>“If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate. If we were united and strong, we’d elect our own emir and give allegiance to him. Take my word, if eight million Muslims unite in America, the country will come to us,” he said.</p>
<p>The book <i>Muslim Mafia</i> quotes Wahhaj even condoning violence. “We don’t need to arm the people with 9mms and Uzis. You need to arm them with righteousness first. And once you arm them with righteousness first, then you can arm them,” he said, as well as “I will never tell people, ‘Don’t be violent.’ That’s not the Islamic way.”</p>
<p>Wahhaj’s rhetoric lines right up with the private words of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood. The <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 memorandum</a> that identified ISNA as one of its fronts said its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.”</p>
<p>Page 21 of the document states:<i> </i>“[W]e must possess a mastery of the art of ‘coalitions’, the art of ‘absorption’ and the principles of ‘cooperation.’” That is the context that ISNA’s interfaith alliances need to be put in.</p>
<p>After my last article on NorthWood Church was published, a reader emailed me to say that he posted it to the Facebook page of the church and the personal page of Pastor Roberts. It didn’t take long for it to be deleted. Ignorance is no longer an excuse.</p>
<p><em>This article was sponsored by the <a href="http://www.theird.org/">Institute on Religion and Democracy.</a></em></p>
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		<title>Texas Mega-Church Welcomes Islamists to &#8216;Global Faith Forum&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 04:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even a former Saudi intelligence chief is coming.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/index.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-190169" alt="index" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/index.jpg" width="330" height="153" /></a>The 3,000-member NorthWood Church of Keller, T.X. is holding a <a href="http://www.globalfaithforum.com">“Global Faith Forum”</a> in November. In yet another Islamist-attended interfaith event, Christians will hear from a former Saudi intelligence chief, a former director-general of Al-Jazeera, officials from U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities and the non-Muslims who embrace them.</p>
<p>Pastor Bob Roberts. Jr. is known for his efforts to build-bridges with Muslims. He spoke at the <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/mark-d-tooley/christ-at-an-israeli-checkpoint-2/">&#8220;Christ at the Checkpoint&#8221; conference</a> put together by Palestinian Christians at Bethlehem Bible College. So did Florida Pastor Joel C. Hunter, who has been negative attention for his <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/florida-megachurch-pastor%E2%80%99s-islamist-associations">association</a> with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity. Hunter is also critical of “Christian Zionists.”</p>
<p>An article posted on Hunter’s website <a href="http://www.pastorjoelhunter.com/?p=877">reports</a> how the “Christ at the Checkpoint” audience, including students from Wheaton and Eastern Universities, “were moved by the testimony of Palestinian men and women who shared the pain and suffering they experience on a daily basis caused primarily by the continuing occupation.”</p>
<p>Pastor Roberts reacted to the anti-Islam Innocence of Muslims video by <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/09/megachurch_pastor_bob_roberts.html">suggesting</a> that governments crack down on its distribution. He said, “There is a ‘clear and present’ danger the U.S. courts have ruled in regard to freedom of speech—I think that has to extend globally.” <em><br />
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<p><em>In January, NorthWood Church </em><a href="http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/01/18/4559022/muslims-christians-will-gather.html">hosted</a><em> Azhar Azeez, Vice President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). ISNA is an </em><a href="http://media.radicalislam.org/misc/pdf/List+of+Unindicted+HLF+Co-conspirators.pdf">unindicted co-conspirator</a> in a major terrorism-financing trial. Federal prosecutors labeled ISNA a U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entity, a fact confirmed by the Brotherhood’s own secret documents.</p>
<p>In November, his church’s Global Faith Forum will bring the spotlight to his interfaith efforts and those involved in them. Event speakers include Rep. Kay Graner (R-TX), former South Carolina Governor David Beasley and <i>Christianity Today </i>editor Mark Galli, but they aren’t the main attractions.</p>
<p>The conference website’s home page proudly advertises Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to the U.S. from 2005 to 2007, as a main speaker. Before that, he was the Saudi foreign intelligence chief from 1977 to 2001, making him a top figure in Saudi Arabia’s proliferation of Wahhabism around the world for over 20 years. He represented a Sharia-based government that <a href="http://www.persecution.org/category/countries/middle-east/saudi-arabia/">persecutes Christians.</a></p>
<p>Faisal Bin Muammar was an advisor at the Saudi Royal Court and Secretary-General of the Riyadh-based King Abdul Aziz Center for National Dialogue.</p>
<p>Safi Kaskas is a co-founder of East West University in Chicago and a “strategy consultant for a number of business organizations in the USA and Saudi Arabia.” He is a member of the Association of Muslim Social Scientists. A <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/Muslim_Brotherhood_Explanatory_Memorandum">1991 U.S. Muslim Brotherhood memo</a> identifies AMSS as one of “our organizations and the organizations of our friends.” The memo says its “work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within.” The AMSS is also closely linked to the <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/mb-front-succeeds-partnering-us-universities">International Institute of Islamic Thought.</a></p>
<p>Another main speaker is Professor John Esposito, one of the top non-Muslim <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1443/john-esposito-reputation-vs-reality">supporters</a> of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood network. He is a frequent guest speaker at their events and was a witness for the defense in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation.</p>
<p>The aforementioned Azhar Azeez is again speaking. He is the Vice President of ISNA and has been on its Executive Council since 2002. He is also the senior National Director of Islamic Relief USA, a charity <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/200-million-us-islamic-charity-linked-muslim-brotherhood">linked to the Muslim Brotherhood.</a></p>
<p>Wadah Khanfar was the director-general of Al-Jazeera from 2006 to 2011. Al-Jazeera’s extremism is <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/stopping-al-jazeera-america">well-documented</a>. The Arabic station even gives Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi a weekly show.</p>
<p>Ayatollah Ahmad Iravani is President of the <a href="http://www.csime.org/">Center for the Study of Islam and the Middle East.</a> He’s also been a teacher for 10 years at the Catholic University of America. He graduated from Qom, Iran and has taught Sharia Law in Tehran. He’s also participated in Catholic-Muslim dialogues called “A Common Word” that <a href="http://www.islamicpluralism.org/1490/distorted-dialogue-at-the-washington-national">includes allies</a> of Qaradawi.</p>
<p>Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh is a member of the <a href="http://clclt.com/charlotte/a-closer-look-at-the-north-american-imams-federation/Content?oid=2371729">North American Imams Federation</a>. Radical imam Siraj Wahhaj has <a href="http://www.americansagainsthate.org/NAIF_Alumni.html">served</a> on the Board of Trustees. Its <a href="http://imamsofamerica.org/">website</a> lists Ashrafuz Zaman Khan as its President. Bangladesh has <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/former-leader-icna-be-charged-war-crimes">charged</a> him with war crimes from his days in the Islamist group Jamaat-e-Islami.</p>
<p>Dahlia Mogahed is from the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and is a friend of the U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities. In 2008, she <a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/1904/dalia-mogahed-a-muslim-george-gallup-or-islamist">said</a> that CAIR and ISNA were designated as unindicted co-conspirators by the federal government in order “to silence, you know, institution-building among Muslims. And the way o do it is [to] malign these groups. And it’s kind of a witch hunt.”</p>
<p>Suhail Khan is a former Bush Administration official and Senior Fellow for Christian-Muslim Understanding at the Institute for Global Engagement. He has been accused of helping U.S. Muslim Brotherhood entities gain influence in the Bush Administration after 9/11 and of <a href="http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/islamist-fifth-column-american-conservative-union">having Brotherhood ties himself.</a> He denies that the Muslim Brotherhood even exists in America.</p>
<p>Rev. Jack Sara is President of Bethlehem Bible College and Pastor with the Evangelical Alliance Church in the Holy Land. The College put together the “Christ at the Checkpoint” conference and has a <a href="http://www.emeu.net/media/bulletin_february_12.pdf">long relatonship</a> with <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/ryan-mauro/israel-haters-invade-wheaton-college/">Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding.</a></p>
<p>It wouldn’t be surprising if Pastor Roberts didn’t know who he was dealing with. After all, he <a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2012/09/megachurch_pastor_bob_roberts.html">cited</a> Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi as a “key Islamic leader” condemning anti-American violence. The desire for interfaith credentials seems to surpass the desire to have a standard.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dems lay the ground work for the next Alamo in hopes of turning the Lone Star State blue. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/dgreenfield/the-lefts-quest-for-texas/redistricting-illustration-2/" rel="attachment wp-att-179876"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179876" title="redistricting-illustration" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/redistricting-illustration1-450x322.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="193" /></a>In 1960, Nixon beat Kennedy in California following up on Eisenhower’s decisive wins over Adlai Stevenson. Nixon won California again in 1968, beating out Humphrey, and then McGovern in 1972. Ford held on to California in 1976, Reagan won it decisively in two elections and Bush held on to it against Dukakis.</p>
<p>All that ended in 1992. No Republican has won California since.</p>
<p>With the largest number of electoral votes in the country, California played a decisive role in Republican presidential victories.  Texas, with the second largest number of electoral votes, a state which leaned Democrat around the same time that California learned Republican, has become the ace in the hole. And if the Democrats can turn Texas blue, then it may be a long time until we see a Republican in the White House.</p>
<p>Jimmy Carter was the last Democrat to win Texas and he was the Democrat who lost Texas. But today’s Democrats are hoping that Hillary Clinton can win Texas back.</p>
<p>On paper Texas does not seem very shaky. Mitt Romney, a Massachusetts moderate, pulled in better numbers than McCain and nearly matched George W. Bush’s numbers in 2000. Romney performed even better than Ronald Reagan did when he first took Texas in 1980. That alone is a sign of how red Texas has gotten in the last thirty years.</p>
<p>So why worry? Demographics are one reason. Texas is approaching the same demographic tipping point as California. Even with Republican 4/10 Latino vote scores, the Texas future is inevitably tilting in a Democratic direction even without the proposed illegal alien amnesty. The demographic tipping point won’t arrive in 2016, but the voter registration and community organizing tipping point might.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7787">Battleground Texas is the new Democratic strategy</a> for doing to the Lone Star State what General Santa Anna tried to do in his time. Their strategy depends on heavy doses of voter registration and community organizing. The two are largely interconnected in urban areas where the Democratic Party’s political machine links together social services, community groups and bloc votes.</p>
<p>In 2012, that machine took a great leap forward by merging community organizer tactics with dot com data mining operations and corporate email lists for a technocratic community organizing machine. With both sides crediting voter turnout and smart data for the win, the Democratic Party is feeling bold enough to head on into Texas.</p>
<p>Battleground Texas may be bravado, a feint to put the Republican Party on the defensive and get it to commit valuable resources to fighting for its formerly safe territories, but it may also be the real deal as a Democratic Party convinced that it can name its own price and do anything with a bunch of emails and a lot of PACs sets the stage for the next Alamo.</p>
<p>Jeremy Bird, Obama’s national campaign field director, who scored big with voter registration in western swing states like Colorado and Nevada, is hoping to help Battleground Texas do the same thing. But Battleground Texas’s actual executive director is Jenn Brown, an Obama campaign veteran, without much local experience, and while its digital director, Christina Gomez, does have that experience, its digital footprint is underwhelming, from its sloppy website to its chummy insider Twitter accounts.</p>
<p>Battleground Texas is mainly talking about itself and its plans for making Texas blue. That may feed the dreams of its New York and California donors, but there’s little there to appeal to non-partisan Texans. Battleground Texas has the usual spin about racial underrepresentation and voting rights indicating that its only real strategy is the race card. And while the race card has yet to wear out, expecting it to tilt Texas over in time for 2016 may be unrealistic.</p>
<p>While Bird promises that he can turn Texas into another Virginia, Texas is a very different place than Virginia. Battleground Texas smacks of an elitist national attempt to bypass the Texas Democratic Party with a lot of college students and not a whole lot of knowledge of the battleground territory. Unlike the old Obama organization which did its dirty work without constantly boasting about it, Battleground Texas has a borrowed ten-gallon hat full of bravado and not a whole lot of cattle, people or anything else to show for it.</p>
<p>Is Battleground Texas overreaching with its plans to spend tens of millions of dollars for a long shot plan to shift Texas? Tellingly Bird is counting on California and New York donors to buy into his plan to turn Texas blue. Texas doesn’t have a shortage of rich Democrats willing to plow money into the party. One of them is financing the Giffords gun control PAC. And yet Bird seems to think that not enough Texas donors will be willing to help Battleground Texas cover its grandiose budget. And that may be because even Texas liberals know that a grand project for the state this decade will be wasted money and effort.</p>
<p>Romney won Texas by 1.2 million votes. Those are formidable numbers and countering them will take big budgets and armies of volunteers that will have to go well outside their Austin comfort zones. Obama picked up Austin’s Travis County, Dallas County, Houston’s Harris County and El Paso County. Voter registration could no doubt find new voters there or duplicate voters, as the Dem machine has a way of doing, but it’s not as if the machine hasn’t already done a pretty thorough job of finding Dem voters in Houston, Austin and Dallas.</p>
<p>While the Democratic Party may be betting that forcing the GOP to fight for Texas will divert their resources, an extensive Democratic engagement with Texas may divert theirs even more. Battleground Texas offers a big dream to lure bicoastal billionaires into splurging money that Democrats could use to win actual battleground states.</p>
<p>A Democratic struggle for Texas backed by big money and bigger ambitions may be another case of fighting a land war in Asia or more aptly, the Blitzkrieg into Russia, with some initially deceptive successes leading to wasted resources and national defeat.</p>
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		<title>Sharia Education in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 04:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michelle Malkin]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2013/michellemalkin/sharia-education-in-texas/burqa-13/" rel="attachment wp-att-179825"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-179825" title="burqa" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/burqa-382x350.jpg" alt="" width="306" height="280" /></a>Texas is a right-minded red state, where patriotism is still a virtue and political correctness is out of vogue. So how on earth have left-wing educators in public classrooms been allowed to instruct Lone Star students to dress in Islamic garb, call the 9/11 jihadists &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; and treat the Boston Tea Party participants as &#8220;terrorists&#8221;?</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the dirty little secret: Despite the best efforts of vigilant parents, teachers and administrators committed to academic excellence, progressive activists reign supreme in government schools.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s because curriculum is king. The liberal monopoly on the modern textbook/curricular market remains unchallenged after a half-century. He who controls the textbooks, teaching guides and tests controls the academic agenda.</p>
<p>That is how the propagandistic outfitting of students in Islamic garb came to pass in the unlikely setting of the conservative Lumberton, Texas, school district. As Fox News reporter Todd Starnes noted this week, a 32-year veteran of the high school led a world geography lesson on Islam in which hijab-wrapped students were banned from using the words &#8220;suicide bomber&#8221; and &#8220;terrorist&#8221; to describe Muslim mass murderers in favor of the term &#8220;freedom fighter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Madelyn LeBlanc, one of the students in the class, &#8220;told Fox News that it was clear her teacher was very uncomfortable lecturing the students. &#8216;I do have a lot of sympathy for her. &#8230; At the very beginning, she said she didn&#8217;t want to teach it, but it was in the curriculum.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>But the headline-grabbing injection of moral equivalence into social studies and American history is just the tip of the education iceberg.</p>
<p>Top-down federalized &#8220;Common Core&#8221; standards are now sweeping the country. It&#8217;s important to remember that while teachers-union control freaks are on board with the Common Core regime, untold numbers of rank-and-file educators are just as angered and frustrated as parents about the Big Ed power grab. The program was concocted not at the grassroots level, but by a bipartisan cabal of nonprofits (led by lobbyists for the liberal Bill Gates Foundation), statist business groups and hoodwinked Republican governors. As I&#8217;ve reported previously, this scheme, enabled by the Obama administration&#8217;s &#8220;Race to the Top&#8221; funding mechanism, usurps local autonomy in favor of lesson content and pedagogical methods.</p>
<p>One teacher described a thought-control training seminar in her school district titled &#8220;Making the Common Core Come Alive.&#8221; A worksheet labeled &#8220;COMMON CORE MIND SHIFTS&#8221; included the following rhetorical muck:</p>
<p>—The goal of curriculum should not be the coverage of content, but rather the discovery of content.</p>
<p>&#8230; If done well, Common Core will elevate our teaching to new heights, and emphasize the construction of meaning, while deepening our understanding of our students.&#8221;</p>
<p>—&#8221;In our classrooms, it is the students&#8217; voices, not the teachers&#8217;, that are heard.&#8221;</p>
<p>Blah, blah, blah. In practice, Common Core evades transparency by peddling shoddy curricular material authored by anonymous committees. It promotes faddish experiments masquerading as &#8220;world-class&#8221; math and reading goals. Instead of raising expectations, Common Core is a Trojan horse for lowering them. California, for example, is now citing Common Core as a rationale for abandoning algebra classes for 8th graders. Common Core&#8217;s &#8220;constructivist&#8221; approach to reading is now the rationale for abandoning classic literature for &#8220;informational texts.&#8221;</p>
<p>Claims that Common Core bubbled up from the states are bass-ackward. A shady nonprofit group called &#8220;Achieve Inc.,&#8221; stocked with federal-standards advocates who&#8217;ve been around since the Clinton years, designed the materials. They were rubber-stamped by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and subsidized by the Gates Foundation.</p>
<p>In states like Texas, which <em>rejected </em>Common Core, similar secretive alliances prevail. The Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative, a nonprofit group led by government officials, designed the &#8220;CSCOPE&#8221; curriculum now used in 80 percent of the state&#8217;s schools. The state Board of Education, local schools and parents were denied access to the online CSCOPE curriculum database — which was exempted from disclosure rules. In fact, dissemination of the lessons was considered a crime until earlier this month. Only after parents and teachers across the state blew the whistle on radical CSCOPE lesson plans (including designing a new flag for a socialist lesson) did the state take steps to rein in the CSCOPE zealots.</p>
<p>Grassroots activists in Indiana, Alabama, Utah and nearly a dozen other states are now educating themselves and their state legislatures about the centralized education racket, whether it&#8217;s under the guise of Common Core or any other name. Last week, in response to a passionate parent-driven protest, the Indiana state Senate passed legislation to halt Common Core implementation. Anti-Common Core bills are moving through the Alabama state legislature, where lawmakers are especially concerned about how Common Core&#8217;s intrusive database gathering would violate student privacy.</p>
<p>As Texas goes, so goes the nation. The fight against the federalization of academic standards is a national education Alamo.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 04:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But what is the future of student tracking devices? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2012/arnold-ahlert/student-wins-tracking-id-case/sf8id07fe0jopnr4-rszw514/" rel="attachment wp-att-166897"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-166897" title="SF8ID07FE0JOPNR4-rszw514" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/SF8ID07FE0JOPNR4-rszw514-441x350.jpg" alt="" width="265" height="210" /></a>In San Antonio, Texas, high school sophomore Andrea Hernandez has been <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/22/christian-student-wins-reprieve-in-forced-tracking-chip-case/">granted permission</a> by a federal district court judge to continue attending school, despite her refusal to wear a student-tracking ID badge that continually monitors the whereabouts of every pupil on campus. Hernandez and her father filed a lawsuit after John Jay High School principal Robert Harris threatened Andrea with expulsion for refusing to wear the badge. He also stopped her from petitioning her fellow students against wearing one. The judge, who issued a restraining order on both counts, <a href="http://www.kens5.com/news/John-Jay-student-wins-restraining-order-over-student-tracking-IDs-180451911.html">ruled</a> Harris&#8217;s actions were a violation of Hernandez&#8217;s rights to freedom of speech and the free exercise of religion. Hernandez will also receive compensation, the amount of which will be determined during a trial, according to court documents.</p>
<p>Beginning October 1, students at John Jay High School, as well as Anson Jones Middle School, have been <a href="http://rt.com/usa/news/texas-school-id-hernandez-033/">required</a> to attend school wearing photo-ID cards equipped with radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips that track every pupil’s location. Educators insist that such a program is necessary to stem rampant truancy devastating school funding. District spokesman Pasqual Gonzalez <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/wear-radio-chip-or-leave-school-tells-students/">contends</a> the district could gain $2 million in additional state funding by improving attendance. If the program is deemed successful, the “Student Locator Project” will be <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/student-expelled-for-refusing-spychip/">implemented</a> in 112 schools in all, affecting nearly 100,000 students.</p>
<p>Hernandez, who is religious, wants no part of it. She <a href="http://www.goddiscussion.com/104442/high-school-student-faces-expulsion-for-refusal-to-wear-device-she-believes-is-satanic/">insists</a> that constant RFID monitoring is satanic, labeling the badge as the “mark of the beast,” in reference to one of the interpretations of Christian biblical prophecy outlined in the Book of Revelations.</p>
<p>Her resistance, as well as that of other students, has reportedly been met with pressure from instructors, along with bans preventing those students from participating in certain school functions. Students also reported being refused entry into common school areas, such as the library and the cafeteria.</p>
<p>Hernandez faced another consequence as well. “About two weeks ago when I went to cast my vote for homecoming king and queen, I had a teacher tell me I would not be allowed to vote because I did not have the proper voter ID,&#8221; Hernandez said during an <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/wear-radio-chip-or-leave-school-tells-students/">interview</a> with World Net Daily. &#8220;I had my old student ID card which they originally told us would be good for the entire four years we were in school. He said I needed the new ID with the chip in order to vote.&#8221;</p>
<p>Deputy Superintendent Ray Galindo emphasized the new requirement in a letter sent to the family. “We are simply asking your daughter to wear an ID badge as every other student and adult on the Jay campus is asked to do,” it read. Yet he added threats to the message. “I urge you to accept this solution so that your child’s instructional program will not be affected. As we discussed, there will be consequences for refusal to wear an ID card as we begin to move forward with full implementation.”</p>
<p>Andrea&#8217;s father, Steve, wasn&#8217;t buying it. “He told me in a meeting that if my daughter would proudly wear her student ID card around her neck so everyone could see, he would be able to quietly remove her chip from her student ID card,” he revealed. “He went on to say as part of the accommodation my daughter and I would have to agree to stop criticizing the program and publicly support&#8230;it. I told him that was unacceptable because it would imply an endorsement of the district’s policy and my daughter and I should not have to give up our constitutional rights to speak out against a program that we feel is wrong.”</p>
<p>The program is also redundant. The two schools have a total of 290 surveillance cameras, yet apparently officials believe even that level of monitoring is insufficient to keep track of school attendance. Thus, a follow-up letter informed Hernandez she would be expelled on November 26.</p>
<p>Enter the <a href="https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/victory_court_grants_rutherford_institute_request_to_stop_texas_school_from">Rutherford Institute,</a> which aided the Hernandez family with their suit. Their attorneys filed a petition for a temporary restraining order, as well as immediate injunctive and declaratory relief, alleging that the school’s actions violate Andrea’s rights under Texas’ Religious Freedom Act, and the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.</p>
<p>After the judge granted the restraining order, John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute, was pleased, albeit with reservations. “The court’s willingness to grant a temporary restraining order is a good first step, but there is still a long way to go&#8211;not just in this case, but dealing with the mindset, in general, that everyone needs to be monitored and controlled,” he said in statement.</p>
<p>There is a far longer way to go than most Americans realize. Despite the existence of a <a href="http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/coppa1.htm">law</a> known as the Children&#8217;s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, requiring websites to get parental consent before gathering information about users under the age of 13, monitoring students in school is seemingly exempt from the statute. Thus, “Tag and Track” RFID systems have been <a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/10/08/big_brother_invades_our_classrooms/">sold</a> to school systems across the country by a variety of vendors, including AIM Truancy Solutions, ID Card Group and DataCard. Moreover, the Houston, TX, school district has been using RFID chips to monitor students on 13 campuses since 2004.  Schools have also embraced GPS tracking software in computers, and closed-circuit television system (CCTV) video camera systems.</p>
<p>And Texas isn&#8217;t alone. The AIM Truancy Solutions’ GPS tracking program has also been adopted in Baltimore, MD, and is now being tested by the Anaheim, CA Union High School District, where 75 seventh- and eighth-graders with four or more unexcused absences have &#8220;volunteered&#8221; to be tracked, in order to avoid prosecution, or a potential stint in a juvenile hall.</p>
<p>Furthermore, despite the contentions of school officials, monitoring is about much more than attendance. The San Antonio school system received a $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to install a CCTV system in school cafeterias, and embed bar codes on food trays, to monitor children&#8217;s eating habits as a means of preventing childhood obesity. “We’re going to snap a picture of the food tray at the cashier and we will know what has been served,” said Dr. Roberto Trevino of the San Antonio-based Social and Health Research Center.</p>
<p>Then there is abuse. In 2003, parents of students at the Livingston Middle School in Overton County, TN, filed a federal lawsuit alleging school administrators illegally recorded 10- to 14-year-old girls undressing for basketball practice in nearby changing areas. Five years later, the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a school may not install security cameras inside locker rooms, where students have an expectation of privacy. In 2010, Blake Robbins, a Harriton High School sophomore in Pennsylvania’s Lower Merion School District, reported that a school official confronted him for engaging in “improper behavior”&#8211;at his home! As the story unfolded, it was revealed that the laptops the school issued to high-school students came equipped with special software that enabled school administrators to spy on students and their families. Officials claimed it was necessary to prevent the computers from being stolen&#8211;yet they also admitted parents and students were never told about the &#8220;remote access&#8221; software.</p>
<p>In San Antonio, Heather Fazio, executive director of Texans for Accountable Government, contends the district has not been willing to take steps to listen to parental concerns over the RFID chips. “The school board refuses to put it on the agenda or hold a forum where the matter can be debated publicly,” she said.</p>
<p>Nonetheless, some parents were <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/12/texas-school-district-defends-use-student-tracking-mart-id-card/">supportive</a> of the plan. &#8220;You never know when a disaster is going to happen and to know where your child is at least you have that card to know where your kid&#8217;s at all times,&#8221; Michelle Esquivel told FOX 29. &#8220;I&#8217;m always worried about my daughter being at school,&#8221; said Ernest Castro.</p>
<p>A hearing on the preliminary injunction is scheduled for this week. For now, Hernandez remains at John Jay. Rutherford Institute president Whitehead illuminated the stakes. “Regimes in the past have always started with the schools, where they develop a compliant citizenry. These ‘Student Locator’ programs are ultimately aimed at getting students used to living in a total surveillance state where there will be no privacy, and wherever you go and whatever you text or email will be watched by the government.”</p>
<p>It’s far worse than that. There is a paradigm shift occurring in America, spearheaded by a couple of generations so inured to modern technology, they have never <em>known</em> anything resembling personal privacy. There was a time, a few short years ago, where the idea of surveilling children at all times would have been considered an outrage by an overwhelming majority of Americans. Yet in this case, district spokesman Gonzalez characterized Steven Hernandez as the the &#8220;lone protester” regarding the usurpation of his daughter&#8217;s Constitutional rights. Even the American Civil Liberties Union rebuffed Hernandez, because organization officials didn’t feel the case “has the potential to achieve broad and lasting advances in civil liberties.”</p>
<p>They were not alone. Despite concerns cited by the website <a href="http://chipfreeschools.com/">ChipFreeSchools.com</a>, including a position paper put together by groups such as the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Big Brother Watch, Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom, Constitutional Alliance, Freedom Force International, Friends of Privacy USA, the Identity Project and Privacy Activism, the only concern cited was the idea said no students should be subjected to the “chipping” program “unless there is sufficient evidence of its safety and effectiveness.”</p>
<p>In other words, safety and effectiveness trump the right to privacy. Whitehead noted that the argument used by government officials is that a person has no expectation of privacy in a public school, or on the sidewalk outside the building. He reveals the absurdity of such thinking. “If a student is walking down the hallway and talking to his girlfriend, should the school have the ability to read their lips to see what they are talking about?” he asks. “What’s the difference between that and being an animal in a zoo?” If the usurpers prevail, very soon there will be no difference at all.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/day-20-CA-state-line-wide.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-147428" title="day-20-CA-state-line-wide" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/day-20-CA-state-line-wide.gif" alt="" width="375" height="261" /></a>California was once the land of opportunity, but it is going down the tubes. Several of California&#8217;s prominent cities have declared bankruptcy, such as Vallejo, Stockton, Mammoth Lakes and San Bernardino. Others are on the precipice, and that includes Los Angeles, California&#8217;s largest city. California&#8217;s 2012 budget deficit is expected to top $28 billion, and its state debt is $618 billion. That&#8217;s more than twice the size of New York&#8217;s state debt, which itself is the second-highest in the nation.</p>
<p>Democrats control California&#8217;s Legislature, and its governor, Jerry Brown, is a Democrat. California is home to some of America&#8217;s richest people and companies. It would then appear that the liberals&#8217; solution to deficit and debt would be easy. They need only to raise taxes on California&#8217;s rich to balance the budget and pay down the debt — or, as President Barack Obama would say, make the rich pay their fair share.</p>
<p>The downside to such a tax strategy is the fact that people are already leaving California in great numbers. According to a Manhattan Institute study, &#8220;The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look,&#8221; by Thomas Gray and Robert Scardamalia (October 2012), roughly 225,000 residents leave California each year — and have done so for the past 10 years. They take their money with them. Using census and Internal Revenue Service data, Gray and Scardamalia estimate that California&#8217;s out-migration results in large shares of income going to other states, mostly to Nevada ($5.67 billion), Arizona ($4.96 billion), Texas ($4.07 billion) and Oregon ($3.85 billion). That&#8217;s the problem. California politicians can fleece people in 2012, but there&#8217;s no guarantee that they can do the same in 2013 and later years; people can leave. Also, keep in mind that rich people didn&#8217;t become rich by being stupid. They have ingenious ways to hide their money.</p>
<p>California has one-eighth of the nation&#8217;s population but one-third of its welfare recipients.</p>
<p>According to Businessweek, &#8220;it is one of the few states that continue to provide welfare checks for children once their parents are no longer eligible.&#8221; There&#8217;s nothing new about the handout strategy. As far back as 140 B.C., Roman politicians found that the way to win votes is to give out cheap food and entertainment, what came to be known as &#8220;bread and circuses.&#8221;</p>
<p>Given the widespread contempt for personal liberty and constitutional values, there might be a way for California politicians to solve their fiscal mess. They can simply stop wealthy people from leaving the state or, alternatively, like some Third World nations, set limits on the amount of assets a resident can take out of the state. This would surely be within their jurisdiction and would not raise any constitutional issues, because it would serve a compelling state purpose. In other words, if California were to set up border controls to stop people, as East Germans did at Checkpoint Charlie, before they cross the state line, such action would be protected by the 10th Amendment.</p>
<p>The fact that many Californians have managed to get their assets out of the state complicates the issue. Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution authorizes Congress &#8220;To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.&#8221; This is known as the commerce clause. There&#8217;s no question that people who pull up stakes and leave California affect interstate commerce; California has less tax revenue, and recipient states have more. What California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris might do is sue Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Oregon in the federal courts for enticing, through lower taxes and less onerous regulations, wealthy California taxpayers.</p>
<p>Were California to take such measures and have a modicum of success, one wonders how many Americans would be offended by such an encroachment on personal liberty. After all, how would forcing an American to remain in a state differ in principle from forcing him to purchase health insurance?</p>
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		<title>The Radical Judges Who Struck Down Texas&#8217; Voter ID Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 04:37:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Vadum]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just in time for the November election. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Picture-13.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-142334" title="Picture-13" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Picture-13.gif" alt="" width="375" height="246" /></a>Left-wing judges-for-life struck down a new Texas law yesterday that requires voters to present photo identification before voting.</p>
<p>The decision was one of two odious Texas-related federal court rulings handed down this week. Both seem likely to inject a liberal dose of chaos into the upcoming election in a state known for its legendarily robust election fraud.</p>
<p>&#8220;Chalk up another victory for fraud,&#8221; Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Thursday. &#8220;Today, federal judges subverted the will of the people of Texas.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;If this ruling stands, more Americans &#8211; particularly those who are minorities or poor &#8211; will be subject to having their votes stolen in the state of Texas this fall,&#8221; said Horace Cooper, a former constitutional law professor who is now Adjunct Fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research. Cooper is also author of the report, <a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/PR-Voter_Fraud_Victims_080112.html">&#8220;Victims of Voter Fraud: Poor and Disadvantaged are Most Likely to Have Their Vote Stolen.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>The short version of the ruling in <em>Texas v. Holder</em> (the long version is <a href="http://brennan.3cdn.net/34fc1686e97aea6382_twm6iikbj.pdf">available here</a>) is that poor people, many of whom are not white, will somehow be inconvenienced by the state&#8217;s requirement that voters actually prove who they are before exercising their sacred democratic rights. Would-be voters &#8220;who possess none of the underlying forms of identification will have to bear out-of-pocket costs&#8221; in order to obtain acceptable ID, according to the judicial decision.</p>
<p>&#8220;The law was clearly intended to benefit Republicans; for example, a handgun permit is considered an acceptable form of ID but a university ID is not,&#8221; left-wing <em>Nation</em> reporter Ari Berman wrote as violins played poignantly in the background.</p>
<p>Berman and his comrades don&#8217;t care that election fraud has long been a serious problem in Texas and that whenever a vote is fraudulently cast, it has the effect of canceling out a lawful vote. In 2008 one report <a href="http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2008/10/study-calls-into-question-numb.html">estimated</a> that as many as 2.7 million non-citizens were registered to vote nationwide and that 333,000 of those non-citizens were registered to vote in Texas. Making things worse, the state&#8217;s political culture is &#8220;a mix of the worst of Old South Dixieland politics and Latin American politics,&#8221; said the report&#8217;s author, David Simcox, former chairman of the nonpartisan Center for Immigration Studies.</p>
<p>Probably the most famous example of Lone Star State electoral larceny is a 1948 Democratic primary runoff in which future president Lyndon Johnson magically transformed a 20,000-vote loss into an 87-vote victory. It is worth noting that even the <em>New York Times</em> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/02/11/us/how-johnson-won-election-he-d-lost.html?pagewanted=all&amp;src=pm">seems to concede</a> that the failed &#8220;War on Poverty&#8221; president stole that U.S. Senate race.</p>
<p>Months before the black-robed politicians issued their Berman-approved fiats, Eric Holder&#8217;s Justice Department denied &#8220;pre-clearance&#8221; for the Texas law under the federal Voting Rights Act. Such advance approval is required before the law can go into effect because many years ago there used to be race-based discrimination in Texas &#8212; so officials in the state can never, ever, ever be trusted to conduct elections fairly.</p>
<p>It is entirely possible that representatives of ACORN-like radical groups lobbied the Department of Justice behind the scenes to push it into taking action on the Texas voter ID law.</p>
<p>It has been <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2011/12/08/acorn-visits-obama-white-house ">already been established</a> that left-wing so-called civil rights groups quietly met with DOJ officials to press them on electoral integrity issues. Project Vote (i.e. the ACORN affiliate that used to employ President Obama), Demos, Lawyers&#8217; Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Brennan Center for Justice, Fair Elections Legal Network, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund all participated in DOJ pow-wows.</p>
<p>Left-wingers have also apparently been pushing the Obama White House to ignore laws that promote honest elections. Former ACORN lawyer Estelle H. Rogers, now advocacy director at Project Vote, and a parade of former ACORN officials have held high-level meetings at the executive mansion. Chances are they weren&#8217;t there to hand in their NCAA tournament brackets.</p>
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		<title>ACORN Political Money Laundering in Texas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-branded state chapter continues its financial shenanigans. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ACORN.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138548" title="ACORN" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/ACORN.gif" alt="" width="375" height="255" /></a>The taxpayer watchdog group Cause of Action is accusing the former Texas branch of ACORN of illegally diverting charitable funds for political activity benefiting Democrats.</p>
<p>ACORN’s Texas chapter may have changed its name but it still appears to be involved in the same kinds of financial shenanigans that made the radical group synonymous with corruption and sleaze. President Obama used to work for ACORN and represented it in court as an attorney.</p>
<p>There are two ACORN spinoff groups allegedly involved in the scheme.</p>
<p>They are the Texas Organizing Project (TOP), classified by the IRS as a 501c4 “social welfare” organization, and its sister group, the Texas Organizing Project Education Fund, a 501c3 charitable organization. The two legally separate nonprofit corporations were both created in December 2009, around the time Congress banned federal taxpayer funding of ACORN. ACORN was infamous for its embrace of the brutal in-your-face political tactics espoused by <em>Rules for Radicals</em> author Saul Alinsky.</p>
<p>Cause of Action says TOP used funds transferred to it by TOP Education Fund for political activity – a huge no-no according to federal tax law. This kind of accounting sleight-of-hand was standard operating procedure for the racketeers who ran the relentlessly corrupt ACORN network.</p>
<p>TOP and TOP Education Fund are engaging “in improper political activities under the radar of the IRS,” <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/07/19/taxpayer-watchdog-calls-on-irs-to-probe-re-branded-texas-acorn-branch/">said</a> Dan Epstein, executive director of Cause of Action. Epstein’s group is asking the IRS “to investigate these groups for potential abuses of their tax-exempt status, and to hold them accountable for any violations they find.”</p>
<p>In a letter to Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration J. Russell George, Cause of Action states that the TOP Education Fund handed over about $640,000 –almost 80 percent of its revenues— to TOP in 2010. Among other things TOP has been promoting the candidacy of Mary Ann Perez, a Democrat seeking office as the state representative for House District 144 (Houston).</p>
<p>The reason this could be a big deal is because donors to 501c3 charities like the TOP Education Fund are entitled to deduct donations from their taxes on the theory that their money is being used to benefit society. Groups like TOP that are recognized under section 501c4 of the tax code are allowed to be a bit more nakedly political. The thinking is that political activities don’t benefit society as a whole so donors do not get to deduct donations to such groups from their taxes.</p>
<p>Using tax-exempt money for non-tax-exempt purposes amounts to partisan money-laundering, something ACORN routinely practiced.</p>
<p>With its 370-plus affiliated organizations, ACORN participated in what congressional investigators called a “shell-game of corporate financing” that enabled ACORN “to commingle funds and potentially divert federal monies into partisan activities in violation of federal law.”</p>
<p>As I reported in my book, <a href="http://tinyurl.com/vadumbook"><em>Subversion Inc.: How Obama’s ACORN Red Shirts are Still Terrorizing and Ripping Off American Taxpayers</em></a>, one progressive movement insider described ACORN as possibly “the most brilliantly orchestrated criminal organization set up in many a year.”</p>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s War on Low-Income Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To take a shot at Texas, the administration will take away $17 million in funding for poor women's health care. ]]></description>
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<p>The Obama administration has gone to the defense of Planned Parenthood with its decision to cut funding for a Texas health program for low-income women, a decision which comes as the nation’s largest abortion provider faces mounting allegations of widespread fraud.</p>
<p>In June 2011 the Texas legislature passed a law <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/state-issues/212301-texas-defies-obama-administration-bars-abortion-providers-from-state-medicaid-program">barring</a> Planned Parenthood clinics and other “affiliates of abortion providers” from participating in Texas’s Women’s Health Program (WHP), a state program that provides women’s health services to approximately 130,000 low-income women</p>
<p>However, since its passage in 2011, the Obama administration has steadfastly maintained that the Texas law violates federal Medicaid regulations requiring that women have a choice in medical care.</p>
<p>The state of Texas has strenuously argued that under federal law, states administer Medicaid and have the right to set the criteria for providers in the program. As a spokeswoman for Texas Health and Human Services <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/state-issues/212301-texas-defies-obama-administration-bars-abortion-providers-from-state-medicaid-program">said</a>, “That is what Texas is doing.”</p>
<p>In fact, Texas is just one of 11 <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577206692451108960.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">states</a> to have eliminated or decreased funding to Planned Parenthood affiliates in 2011.</p>
<p>For example, New Jersey has cut $7.5 million of Title X funding from Planned Parenthood and redirected it to health centers that do not provide abortions; New Hampshire has declined to renew a $1.8 million contract with Planned Parenthood; and Indiana has voted to prohibit state funding of Planned Parenthood and other entities that provide elective abortions.</p>
<p>These and other efforts have served to cost Planned Parenthood &#8212; which receives 46 percent ($487 million) of its $1 billion annual budget from government grants and Medicaid &#8211; about $80 million at the state level.</p>
<p>Not surprisingly then, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which funds 90 percent of WHP’s $40 million budget, has been threatening to discontinue funding WHP unless Texas fully funds Planned Parenthood as a provider for the program.</p>
<p>Those threats have now become a reality as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/09/obama-administration-ends-funding-for-texas-health-program-over-states-abortion/">announced</a> that the Obama administration will not extend WHP’s Medicaid funding when the program’s renewal expires on March 31.</p>
<p>For his part Texas Governor Rick Perry has pledged to find state money to keep WHP afloat &#8212; despite the state running a $15 billion deficit &#8212; but was quick to decry the “clear demonstration of the political motivation behind this decision.”</p>
<p>That motivation may be directly traced to the fact that despite Planned Parenthood accounting for only two percent of WHP’s 2,500 Medicaid providers, the organization stands to lose $17 million if it is excluded from the Texas program.</p>
<p>The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) CEO, Cecile Richards, laid the blame of the Obama administration’s decision squarely at the feet of the Texas state government, <a href="http://www.kvue.com/news/local/Planned-Parenthood-Funding-Rally-draws-supportes-and-detractors-142567585.html">saying</a> that it was now “throwing hundreds of thousands of folks off of basic preventive care.”</p>
<p>It should be noted that Planned Parenthood claims that 90 percent of the “basic preventative care” provided by its clinics centers on contraceptive counseling, birth control, screenings for breast and cervical cancer, and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases.</p>
<p>Of course, many believe that performing abortions remains the fundamental service provided by Planned Parenthood, a belief buttressed by a 2007 <a href="http://www.jillstanek.com/PlannedParenthoodEmpireWeeklyStandard%5B1%5D.pdf">report</a> on the organization that found that one out of three clients who walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic go on to have abortions.</p>
<p>As such, proponents of the Texas law argue that WHP funds should be going to healthcare agencies that &#8212; unlike Planned Parenthood clinics &#8212; provide comprehensive primary and preventative care, including prenatal care, breast cancer treatment, and mammograms.</p>
<p>For Planned Parenthood, the Texas decision is just the latest in a series of setbacks for the nation’s largest provider of abortions, one that performs over 300,000 such procedures a year.</p>
<p>That menu of troubles includes Planned Parenthood affiliates coming under criminal <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577206692451108960.html?mod=googlenews_wsj">investigation</a> by prosecutors and regulatory agencies in Arizona, Indiana, Alabama, and Kansas for allegations of fraud and misuse of health-care and family-planning funds.</p>
<p>These allegations include overbilling for prescription drugs; improperly claiming services as family planning-related; billing for medically unnecessary services; billing for multiple initial prenatal care visits; and incorrectly billing initial, follow-up, and postpartum services.</p>
<p>In California and Texas, two federal “whistleblower” lawsuits have been filed by two former Planned Parenthood employees alleging massive Medicaid fraud.</p>
<p>In the Texas lawsuit, the Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) is <a href="http://lufkindailynews.com/news/local/article_2ca03240-5506-11e1-938b-001871e3ce6c.htm1">alleged</a> to have engaged in a fraudulent $6 million billing scheme that charged 87,000 reimbursement claims to Medicaid for services patients did not receive and which were not covered by Medicaid.</p>
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