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		<title>Poor Regulations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2014 04:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Ryan shines a light on the biggest victims of federal bureaucracy.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/red-tape_2810803b.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239013" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/red-tape_2810803b-450x334.jpg" alt="red-tape_2810803b" width="304" height="226" /></a>“Paul Ryan is moving to reframe the debate on regulations,” <a href="http://thehill.com/regulation/215486-paul-ryan-opens-new-front-in-war-on-poverty"><span style="color: #0433ff;">notes <i>The Hill</i></span></a>, “arguing that the nation’s poor are the real victims of the red tape spewing from Washington.” The Wisconsin Republican’s “Expanding Opportunity in America” initiative intends to address what the Obama administration calls “income equality,” which persists despite massive federal efforts.</p>
<p>According to the House Budget Committee majority staff, <a href="http://budget.house.gov/waronpoverty/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">at least 92 federal programs purport to help lower-income Americans</span></a><span style="color: #343434;">. These include dozens of education and job-training programs, 17 food-aid programs, and more than 20 housing programs. In fiscal year 2012, the federal government spent $799 billion on these programs. Ryan is hardly alone in charging that some of these programs hurt the poor. </span>He cites Creighton University economics professor Diana Thomas, who says that Department of Transportation regulations requiring rear-view cameras will impact low-income car buyers, who prefer to spend their money elsewhere.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #000000;">Those in the lowest fifth of income spend the greatest share of their incomes on energy. </span>Earners in the lowest income quintile spend 24 percent of their pre-tax income on energy, as opposed to 4 percent in the highest quintile. Therefore, as this analysis from the Manhattan Institute notes, “<a href="http://budget.house.gov/waronpoverty/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">America’s poorest citizens will be hurt most by the new EPA regulations</span></a>” on emissions and “it is the poor who will have their budgets squeezed as they struggle to pay for gas and electricity.”</p>
<p>Sofie E. Miller, senior policy analyst at the George Washington University Regulatory Studies Center,<i> </i>writes that federal<i> </i>regulations <a href="http://regulatorystudies.columbian.gwu.edu/opinion-paul-ryan-anti-poverty-plan-targets-regressive-regulation"><span style="color: #0433ff;">“often leave low-income Americans paying a heavier price than their neighbors.”</span></a> Energy standards for appliances “cause prices to increase and push some low-income consumers out of the market.” Likewise, Diana Thomas says “regulation has a regressive effect: It redistributes wealth from lower-income households to higher-income households by causing lower-income households to pay for risk reduction worth more to the wealthy.”</p>
<p><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://www.moneynews.com/Economy/Furchtgott-Roth-EPA-emission-carbon/2014/06/02/id/574557/">Diana Furchtgott-Roth, former chief economist for the Department of Labor</a></span> argues that new “cap and trade” environmental regulations “will reduce opportunities for the poorest Americans.” The regulations “impose real costs on the economy,” and deprive workers of  “the security of employment that comes from industrial activity.” Citing rent control, <a href="http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/stephanie-slade/2013/07/22/dc-and-new-yorks-real-estate-regulations-hurt-the-poor"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Stephanie Slade charges</span></a> that “<span style="color: #1a1a1a;">it’s liberals who continue to support laws that, whatever their intentions, have turned out to be disproportionately harmful to the poorest members of society.”</span></p>
<p style="color: #272727;"><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">As Patrick Fagan and Robert Rector observed nearly 20 years ago, it’s not exactly news that War on <a href="http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1996/06/bg1084nbsp-how-welfare-harms-kids"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Poverty programs such as Aid to Families With Dependent Children have been a bust</span></a>. </span>Welfare dependency “has a negative effect on the earnings and employment capacity of young men.” The more welfare income received in childhood, the lower the earnings as an adult, the very “income inequality” lamented by the Obama administration.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Beyond the consequences of those laws and regulations stands the regulatory establishment and its enormous cost. As the late William F. Buckley observed, a tax dollar cannot travel to Washington DC, go out on the town, and return intact to the needy in the form of benefits. Even low-income workers must support the vast bureaucratic establishment churning out regulations that Paul Ryan charges are detrimental to the poor.</p>
<p><span style="color: #1a1a1a;">His plan would require agencies to </span>conduct a “distributional analysis” on proposed regulations to see if they would have a disproportionate economic effect on low-income households or low-wage workers.  He wants block grants to replace federal welfare programs, expand the Earned-Income Tax Credit and make it work better. Ryan wants to get rid of regressive regulation and emphasize “evidence-based policy-making.”</p>
<p>Some Democrats welcome Ryan’s initiative but Chris Van Hollen, ranking Democrat on the budget committee, <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/24/paul-ryan-poverty_n_5616609.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">told reporters it was “nothing more than a block grant gussied up with some bells and whistles”</span></a> and “<span style="color: #272727;">would dramatically slash the resources available to help struggling families.”</span></p>
<p><span style="color: #272727;">Advocates of limited government might note that Ryan did </span>not announce plans to eliminate any federal agencies, not even the federal Department of Education, which dates from 1980 and was a payoff to the National Education Association for endorsing Jimmy Carter. Ryan wants to fix federal education funding and make it more flexible, so even if given the chance, his plan might not deliver. But as it gets the hearing it deserves, Americans might recall the back story, <span style="color: #272727;">the 50-year federal War on Poverty whose strategic weapons were federal spending and federal regulation.</span></p>
<p>On January 8, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson, famously declared a “War on Poverty.”  In his State of the Union address, LBJ said, <span style="color: #343434;">“Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it.” </span>Fifty years later, those curious about how the war came out should consult Sasha Abramsky, leftist author of <i>The American Way of Poverty</i> and who also writes for the <i>Nation</i>. Abramsky concedes that LBJ’s war “failed,” and “not since the Great Depression have so many people been beaten down by vast, destructive forces.”</p>
<p>He wants Obama to do it all again, only more so, a War on Poverty Mark II.  The enemy is the anti-tax, anti-government movement that has managed to convince people “that taxes are a mugging rather than an investment.” In this vision, government regulations and government spending are always the solution, and Big Brother always knows best.</p>
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		<title>The Hound of Jihad</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2014 05:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the victims of jihad continue to be hounded—even beyond the grave.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pc.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-215285" alt="pc" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/pc.jpg" width="280" height="175" /></a>The relentlessness of Islamic jihadi enmity for non-Muslims appears to know no bounds—sometimes even pursuing “infidels” beyond the grave.  While the West may hear of the more spectacular attacks on non-Muslims—bombed and burned churches and other places of worship, beheaded and slaughtered “infidels,” and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/largest-massacre-of-christians-in-syria-ignored/">wholesale massacres</a>—lesser known is the fact that, far from receiving succor, the survivors often continue to be targeted.</p>
<p>Thus, just last New Year’s Eve, December 31, 2013, as several “Christians were praising God in a field near their church building” in central Nigeria’s Plateau, Muslim ethnic Fulani gunmen arrived and <a href="http://morningstarnews.org/2014/01/once-widowed-christian-in-nigeria-loses-second-husband-to-muslim-extremists/">opened fire</a> on the worshippers, killing a 41-year-old mother of six children and a 14-year-old girl.</p>
<p>Kore Usman, a 34-year-old man, was also killed.  His 34-year-old wife, Faith Kore Usman, explains how he was her second husband to be killed by Muslims, widowing her twice over:</p>
<blockquote><p>My first husband, Davou Philip, was killed by Muslim Fulani herdsmen in Jol Village in Riyom Local Government Area in 2002,” she said. “I had only a son with him. However, God brought me and Kore Usman together [nine years ago], and we got married. God has blessed us with four children. <i>I thought my burden has been lifted as a widow, and now, again my second husband has been killed by Muslim gunmen” </i>[emphasis added].</p></blockquote>
<p>Such stories of the same Christian minority groups being attacked once, twice, three or even more times are not uncommon in the Muslim world.  Aside from the unrelenting woes of the Nigerian widow, consider some recent events in Pakistan.</p>
<p>After last September’s <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/bloody-weekend-trend-of-muslim-rage-against-infidels-continues/">bombing of the Church of All Saints in Peshawar</a>, where as many as <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/30875-christians-threatened-after-mourning-suicide-attack-victims-pastor-detained">171 died</a>—including many women and children—and 150 were injured, Agenzia Fides reported that,</p>
<blockquote><p>[T]he situation remains tense in the Pakistani society: not only tragedy but also horror. The Christians said they were ‘horrified’ by the rumors that link the bombs in Peshawar to the vast problem of organ trafficking: this is what some members of NGOs in civil society in Pakistan told Fides. Some of the ‘jackals,’ presumably local paramedics, seem to have taken advantage of the high number of deaths and injuries in order to steal the bodies of victims and <a href="http://www.fides.org/en/news/34381-ASIA_PAKISTAN_After_the_bombs_atrocities_against_Christians_organ_trafficking_concerning_victims_of_Peshawar#.UpFB-sSTioP">exploit them for the illegal organ trade</a>. ‘If this were true, it would mean that <i>there are criminals who are taking advantage of the suffering of Christian victims in a truly blasphemous and sacrilegious manner</i>,’ notes Fr. Mario Rodrigues, a priest of Karachi [emphasis added].</p></blockquote>
<p>In other words, and in keeping with the Islamic supremacist notion that <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-racism-muslim-blood-superior-to-infidel-blood/">non-Muslims are subhuman</a> “infidels” to be <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/are-slave-girls-in-islam-equivalent-to-animals/">exploited with impunity for the benefit of “superior” Muslim</a>s, even after being slaughtered by self-styled “jihadis,” the remains of slain Christians are used to make a profit and prevented a decent burial.</p>
<p>As for some of those who survived the church bombing in Pakistan, they were attacked, beat, and threatened with death for mourning the deaths of their loved ones <a href="http://www.bosnewslife.com/30875-christians-threatened-after-mourning-suicide-attack-victims-pastor-detained">too openly</a>: “A Pakistani Christian family was hiding Sunday, October 13, after allegedly receiving death threats for protesting against twin suicide attacks at a historic church in the violence-plagued city of Peshawar, in which their friends were killed.  According to one of these Christians, Muslim “militants” “<i>were angry that he was openly expressing grief at an anti-violence demonstration about the loss of his friends and those who were injured in the suicide attacks</i>” (emphasis added).</p>
<p>Thus, on the westernmost fringes of the Islamic world, in Nigeria, a Christian woman loses her husband to Muslim gunmen; and when she picks up the pieces of her life, remarries, and has several children, the same Islamic tribesmen gun down her second husband, even as he worships; to the eastern fringes of the Islamic world, in Pakistan, after a church is bombed, some of those killed are ghoulishly harvested for their organs while those who survived are attacked and threatened for daring to mourn too openly.</p>
<p>Such is the hound of jihad and its relentless enmity for “infidels.”</p>
<p><strong>Raymond Ibrahim is author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1621570258/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1621570258&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=uhurnetw-20"><i>Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians.</i></a></strong></p>
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		<title>Benghazi Victims&#8217; Families Demand Real Investigation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jan 2014 05:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Families of the fallen and military leaders call for action -- will Speaker Boehner respond? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jihadist-Hand-Sign.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-214390" alt="Jihadist Hand Sign" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jihadist-Hand-Sign-366x350.jpg" width="293" height="280" /></a><em>Monday, surviving family members of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya dispatched a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) criticizing Congress&#8217;s disorganized and inadequate inquiry into the tragic incident. Approximately 75 military and conservative leaders, including Freedom Center President David Horowitz, joined in calling for the formation of a congressional select </em><i>committee, equipped with subpoena authority, to provide a serious investigation into the attack. The full text of the letter follows. </i></p>
<p><strong>“To the living we owe respect. To the dead we owe the truth.”</strong> –Voltaire</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">The Honorable John Boehner<br />
Speaker, U.S. House of Representatives<br />
The Capitol, H-232<br />
Washington, D.C., 20515</p>
<p style="text-align: right;">January 6, 2014</p>
<p>Dear Speaker Boehner,</p>
<p>We write to express our grave concern over the failure of your House of Representatives to extract the truth from the Obama administration concerning the attack on our diplomatic and intelligence facilities in Benghazi, Libya; and, the brutal deaths of Ambassador Christopher Stephens, U.S. Foreign Service Officer Sean Smith, and security officers Ty Woods and Glen Doherty.</p>
<p>To date, five (5) different committees of the House have conducted separate hearings, uncovering information in a piecemeal fashion lacking professional investigators.  The five committees’ efforts are disjointed and uncoordinated.  The Obama administration has benefited from that dysfunctional process to hide the truth.  Hardly any Obama administration witnesses have testified – publicly or privately.  You have resisted repeated calls for the creation of a select investigative committee with subpoena authority. It appears that you are satisfied to allow that state of investigative incoherence and ambiguity to continue.  The last public hearing by any of the five committees was held in September – four (4) months ago.  The families of the dead who fought valiantly to protect the mission and their families, the survivors, and the American people deserve better from you and your Members of Congress. They deserve the absolute truth from their government. Your failure to get the truth and hold public officials accountable increases the possibility of other repeat attacks and additional failures to defend Americans abroad.</p>
<p>On Sunday, December 29, 2013, the New York Times published a story concerning the Benghazi attacks that directly contradicts the sworn testimony of witnesses who appeared before various committees.  Besides the obvious New York Times editorial and political objectives of inoculating Hillary Clinton and her 2016 presidential campaign from further criticism of her failures as Secretary of State, the story contradicts objective truth and established facts in a way that confuses the public.  Your inaction and failure to lead on the Benghazi investigation directly contributes to the repetition of lies; a lack of accountability from responsible government officials; and the political advancement of persons who seek to continue to “fundamentally transform” the Constitution and our country.  The New York Times recent publication proves the Benghazi story is not “going away.”</p>
<p>Your oversight of the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation has been without any meaningful effect or result.  Not a single terrorist in this well-planned and executed military attack by radical Islamists has been apprehended.  Ahmed Abu Khattala, a ringleader of the attack, granted long interviews to reporters in Benghazi cafes, while the Obama administration – and you – have done nothing.  Nearly 16 months after the terrorist attack, the American public has no accountability and no plan of action from House leadership. The public is subjected to undisputed disinformation from a White House who calls the terror attack a “phony scandal.”  While the White House repeats false and misleading information, you continue to ignore claims, documented by Rep. Frank Wolf, of intelligence officers being intimidated with multiple, punitive polygraph examinations and harassing non-disclosure agreement demands.  If Benghazi is “phony” why are intelligence officers being threatened not to speak and subjected to polygraph exams? Why do you stand by passively?</p>
<p>Some analysts believe your inaction and passivity towards getting to the truth concerning Benghazi is because you were briefed on the intelligence and special operations activities in Libya as a member of the “Super 8.”   You may possess “guilty knowledge.”  We recall how then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi developed a form of “amnesia” concerning a documented briefing she received on so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” – later termed “torture” for political purposes.  Are you in the same position as your predecessor?  Are you dodging a legitimate, thorough, coordinated investigation of Benghazi because it will damage your political position as Speaker?</p>
<p>You should be embarrassed that members of Congress, and your own party, are forced to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with Obama administration agencies to get basic information about the Benghazi issue.  What a sad and pathetic statement about the operations of House standing committees looking into this tragedy that FOIA has become the last resort of even Republican Members seeking the truth!  Are you concerned that the scattershot and untimely efforts of the various committees may actually be doing more harm than good at documenting facts?  These are all examples of Republican leadership failures.  How are you accountable?</p>
<p>Rep. Mike Rogers and the Intelligence Committee seem to act as defense counsel for the Obama administration.  A recent Intelligence Committee weekly update note stated as fact that no arms shipments were being run from Libya, and that no intelligence officers were being coerced not to speak.  There is substantial evidence to the contrary on both counts.  Why does Rep. Rogers parrot the discredited falsehoods of the so-called “Accountability Review Board” (ARB)?  Conflicting accounts, testimony and evidence need to be investigated – not dismissed or ignored.  Don’t those contradictions and questions compel you, on behalf of the American people, to take any action to resolve the matter and get to the truth?</p>
<p>Aren’t you concerned that General Carter Ham was suddenly and prematurely recalled from AFRICOM, and then made statements at the Aspen Institute that directly contradicted the Obama administration’s position on the nature of the attack in Benghazi?  Why has General Ham not testified publicly before one of the House committees?</p>
<p>The New York Times story reports that the CIA was, in fact, collecting weapons in Benghazi.  If true, why was the CIA running a separate, parallel weapons program from the State Department’s $40 million collection effort?  Where did the CIA-purchased weapons go?  Is the Obama administration arming al Qaeda affiliated jihadists in Syria?</p>
<p>If you wished, you could have publicly engaged Rep. Devin Nunes concerning his November 6, 2013 letter to you, addressing the nine unanswered questions about Benghazi. Instead, there was thundering silence from your office. You have an opportunity to show strong leadership and resolve a national disgrace perpetrated by specific public officials. You are failing.</p>
<p>Your reluctance to lead and resistance to create a Select Committee on Benghazi must end.  More than 75% of all House Republicans – with the conspicuous absence of those in leadership or committee chairmen – have cosponsored Rep. Wolf’s Select Committee bill.  Few bills in this Congress demonstrate such overwhelming support from Republicans.  Additionally, the bill enjoys the support of national security advocacy groups, and the Wall Street Journal editorial board, among many others.</p>
<p>We urge you to bring the bill to the floor for a vote immediately to start effective oversight on this critical national security matter immediately. We have waited long enough. Your approach is not working.</p>
<p>Mr. Speaker, we call upon you to act now and create a Select Committee on Benghazi to investigate all aspects of the United States involvement in Libya, to include, but not be limited to the attacks of September 11, 2012. It must now also include the protracted cover-up the American people, the families of the fallen and those with loved ones serving overseas have endured. The new committee must have subpoena power, capable staff and Members from both parties who are committed to finding the truth, not playing politics.  The Committee must be staffed with new, professional, qualified and experienced investigators. It must have resources to conduct a thorough, comprehensive investigation and issue an exhaustive report before this Congress adjourns.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
<p>The Undersigned:<br />
(<em>Titles for identification purposes only</em>)</p>
<p><em><strong>Charles Woods, Father of Ty Woods</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Pat Smith, Mother of Sean Smith</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Michael Ingmire, Musician/Writer, Uncle to Sean Smith</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> and</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Adm. Jerome L. Johnson, USN Ret., former Vice Chief of Naval Operations</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Lt. Gen. E.G. “Buck” Shuler, Jr., USAF, (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Lt. Gen. Richard D. Lawrence, USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> LTG William G. Boykin, USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely, USA Ret, Chairman, Stand Up America</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Maj. Gen. Carroll D. Childers, USA (Ret), Ranger</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Maj. Gen. Thomas F. Cole, USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Maj. Gen. Richard M. Cooke, USMC (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Amb. Henry F. Cooper, Former Director, Strategic Defense Initiative</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> LTC Allen B. West (US Army, Ret) former Congressman, FL</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Capt Joseph R. John, USNA ‘62, USN (Ret), Chairman, Combat Veterans For Congress PAC</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Debra Burlingame, Co-founder, 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Elaine Donnelly, President, Center for Military Readiness</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Dick Brauer, Col, USAF (Ret), Special Operation Speaks</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Tom Fitton, President, Judicial Watch</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Allen Roth, Secure America Now</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Joel A. Arends, Veterans for a Strong America</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Ginni Thomas, President, Liberty Consulting</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Catherine Engelbrecht, President, True the Vote</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Anita MonCrief, Black Voters Alliance</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> David Wallace, Restore America&#8217;s Mission</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Dr. James Pollock, Maj., USAF (Ret), OIF VETx2, SOCOM, Wounded Warrior Congressional Advocate</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> John J. Molloy, Chairman, National Vietnam &amp; Gulf War Veterans Coalition</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> James C. Harding, Col USAF (Ret) National Spokesman for Veteran Defenders of America</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Diane M. Sendlenski, Veteran US Air Force, Special Operations Speaks Coordinator</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> John G. B. Howland, Publisher, USNA-At-Large</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Katherine Cornell Gorka, Executive Director, The Westminster Institute</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Paul Caprio, Executive Director, Family Pac Federal</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> William L. Walton, Chairman, Rappahannock Ventures LLC</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Sandy Rios, Director of Governmental Affairs, American Family Association</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> David Horowitz, President, Freedom Center</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Peter Thomas, Chairman, The Conservative Caucus</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Rear Adm. Hugh P. Scott, MC, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Rear Adm. Bill McDaniel, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Rear Adm. John A. Moriarty, USN, (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Rear Adm. Robert B. McClinton, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Rear Adm. Don G. Primeau, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Brig. Gen. Michael Neil, USMCR (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Brig. Gen. Francis Hughes, USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Brig. Gen. John Zierdt, Jr., USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Brig. Gen. Michael T. Byrnes, USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Brig. Gen. William A. Bloomer, USMC (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Captain Kenneth Rauch, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Captain Peter A. Hewett, JAGC, U.S. Navy (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Captain James Knight, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Captain Roger W. Barnett, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Captain Gregory Streeter, USN (Ret) USNA ’58</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Col. G. Huntington Banister, USA (Ret), and former Acting Director, Selective Service System, 1994</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Col. S. Badiner, USMC (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Col. Gregory G. Raths, USMC (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Col. Joseph V. Potter, USAF (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Col. Rob Maness, USAF (Ret), U.S. Senate Candidate 2014, R-Louisiana</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Dan Bongino, 2012 Republican Nominee for US Senate, MD</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Lt. Col. Ken Benway, USA (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Lt. Col. Dennis B. Haney, USAF (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> CDR Randolph J. Horhutz, USNA &#8217;61, SC, USN (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Everett Woolum, CMSGT, USAF (Ret)</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Gregory J. Rose, USNA &#8217;73</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Thomas Corboy, USNA, ‘61</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Anthony R. Papandrea, USNA ‘61</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Raymond H. Clary, Jr., USNA ‘65</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> John W. Slagle, U.S. Navy Aviation veteran (Ret) Special Agent U.S.B.P. Anti-Smuggling Unit</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Sarah Folger White, Former Presidential Commissioner</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Dick and Patricia Schermerhorn, Appleton, WI</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Lee Boyland, Author, former military officer, entrepreneur, nuclear engineer</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Susan Creed Percy, Advocate for Military Families</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Dave Hollenbeck, retired CA Highway Patrol</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Paul F. Wirtz, Military family, OH resident</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> John Lillywhite, U.S. Citizen</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Gene Andrews, U. S. Citizen</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Mrs. Nancy Olbert, Supervisor Criminal Advocates, Daytona, FL State Attorney Office</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Dr. Frank Ingels, Military Defense Consultant, MSIC/TETRA Office</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Robert M. Trent, Senior Special Agent, USINS and former Marine and Vietnam combat veteran</strong></em><br />
<em><strong> Kelly Monroe Kullberg, Christians for a Sustainable Economy; OH resident</strong></em></p>
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		<title>Black-on-White Violence: The Forgotten Victims</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Aug 2013 04:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jack Kerwick]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember the national media mentioning these names?]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/victims.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-202452" alt="victims" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/victims-450x347.jpg" width="315" height="243" /></a>As the nation remembers Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, it should also note that while the self-appointed guardians of King’s legacy, the “anti-racists,” obsess over Paula Deen and liken Trayvon Martin to Emmet Till, they say <i>nothing </i>about interracial violence when it involves <i>black perpetrators</i> and <i>white victims. </i></p>
<p>Below is a select list of interracial atrocities committed by blacks against whites.  These forgotten victims are men and women, young and old.</p>
<p><b>Brad Heyka, Jason Befort, Aaron Sander, Heather Muller, “H.G.”: </b>In December of 2000, in Wichita, Kansas, over the course of hours, two brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr, robbed, beat, sexually tormented, and repeatedly raped three men and two women. They eventually shot all five victims, execution-style, in the backs of their heads before driving over their bodies with one of the victim’s pick-up truck.  “H.G.” survived. Wearing nothing but a shirt, shot and battered, she walked a mile until she found help.</p>
<p><b>Channon Christian, Christopher Newsom: </b>In 2007, this young couple was carjacked in Knoxville, Tennessee by four men and one woman.  Both were raped—Newsom anally, Christian anally, vaginally, and orally.  The former was shot and his body set on fire. The latter was suffocated over a span of hours inside of garbage bags—after she was forced to ingest bleach so as to remove traces of her assailants’ DNA.</p>
<p><b>Sherry West, Antonio Santiago: </b>On March 21 of this year, this woman and her 13 month-old baby son were both shot while going for a walk in their Brunswick, Georgia neighborhood. The mother survived the bullets to her ear and leg.  Little Antonio, however, died instantly when the bullet entered his face.</p>
<p><b>Joshua Heath Chellew: </b>At the end of June, this 36 year-old man was attacked by four teenagers at a gas station outside of Atlanta, Georgia. In trying to escape the beating that he was suffering, Chellew was fatally struck by a passing car.</p>
<p><b>Jonathan Foster: </b>On Christmas Eve, 2010, 12 year-old, Jonathan Foster was abducted from his home in Houston, Texas by a 44 year-old woman, Mona Nelson.  The latter bound Foster and then murdered him with <i>a blowtorch. </i> She discarded his body in a ditch along the road where it was found four days later.  Foster’s remains were so badly charred that his corpse had to be identified by his dental records.</p>
<p><b>Delbert “Shorty” Benton:  </b>Just last week, the 89 year-old veteran of World War II was beaten to death by two teenagers armed with flashlights. Benton was making his way through the parking lot of one of the places that he regularly frequented when he was attacked.</p>
<p><b>Chris Lane: </b>The 23 year-old Australian was in the States visiting his girlfriend. While on a run, some reportedly “bored” teenagers shot him in the back.  Lane died shortly afterward.  The thugs had a history of expressing hostility toward whites, and at least one of them was said by police to have laughed and danced upon being arrested.</p>
<p><b>Fannie Gumbinger: </b>This 99 year-old Poughkeepsie, New York woman died last week when a 20 year-old burglar murdered her in her home.  Police say she suffered “multiple injuries.”</p>
<p>There is no shortage of people who will defend the deafening silence of the “anti-racists” with respect to these interracial horrors on the grounds that, supposedly, they had <i>nothing</i> to do with color.  Black criminals seek out whites, it is often said, simply because whites are perceived as having more in the way of material goods.</p>
<p>Yet if this is true, then color or race most certainly <i>does</i> have something to do with these attacks: black criminals <i>profile</i> whites.  But if there is nothing illegitimate about black predators (or others) profiling whites as “privileged,” “advantaged,” “racist,” etc., then neither can it be said—as it is always said by “anti-racists”—that there is anything illegitimate about whites profiling blacks.</p>
<p>Only hypocrisy, illogic, or some combination of the two could make one suggest otherwise.</p>
<p>Another common criticism centers on the alleged irrelevance of the race of perpetrators and victims. After all, it is <i>the murder</i> that should be condemned; the color of murderer and murdered of no consequence.</p>
<p>Ah. So, if this is the case, then “racism” should never come under attack at all, for it isn’t, say, the color of the Klansmen and the black victims that they lynched that is blameworthy, but <i>the lynching </i>itself.</p>
<p>There isn’t a single “anti-racist” who would dream to reason thus.</p>
<p>One reason that black-on-white violence should be discussed is that it is both ubiquitous and evil.  The blacks responsible for it constitute but a tiny percentage of the national population, and yet they are several times more likely than their white counterparts to engage in interracial violence.</p>
<p>Another reason that black-on-white cruelty must be brought out into the open is that it is a reality that can only weaken the false narrative of unrelenting White Oppression and perpetual Black Suffering that has been used by demagogues and opportunists to prop up the destructive policies that they’ve promoted <i>in the name </i>of combating “racism.”</p>
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		<title>The 53% vs. the 99%</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Shapiro]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Obama doesn't believe that only 47% of Americans are victims.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Obama-Waves-Goodbye-to-Press-600x385.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-144842" title="Obama-Waves-Goodbye-to-Press-600x385" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Obama-Waves-Goodbye-to-Press-600x385.gif" alt="" width="375" height="249" /></a>This week, <em>Mother Jones</em> launched what might best be termed a September surprise: a secret tape of an off-the-record Mitt Romney fundraiser from May in which he stated, “There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what.”</p>
<p>Parts of this are artfully worded and true; parts are inartfully worded and true. Romney is exactly correct that almost half of the American population believes that they are victims – let’s call them Group A. He is also correct that 47% of Americans do not pay any federal income tax – let’s call them Group B. He is wrong to suggest that everyone in Group B is in Group A. And he’s wrong to suggest that everyone in Group A is in Group B. There are plenty of people who pay federal income tax who believe in the victimology that lies at the root of American leftism.</p>
<p>In truth, Barack Obama doesn’t believe that just 47% of the American population is victimized. He believes, as does his shock force in the Occupy movement, that 99% of Americans are victimized by some shadowy 1%. Overlooked in his infamous “you didn’t build that” speech is a far more troubling notion: the notion that success in America comes from luck. As he put it, “I&#8217;m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. There are a lot of smart people out there. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. Let me tell you something – there are a whole bunch of hardworking people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.”</p>
<p>Surely Obama is correct in individual cases; there are certainly some smart, hardworking people who have failed miserably on the financial front. But most Americans were not successful because they found a back door to success. They are successful because they made smart decisions and worked hard. Obama, however, believes that there is some sort of perverse cronyism at work in American success stories, and that without a similarly cronyistic government to be your best friend, your father figure, your banker, you will fail.</p>
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		<title>Getting Over 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2012 04:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Tapson]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Behind the "Day of Service" rebranding of the fateful day. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mayhome615x380.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-143592" title="mayhome615x380" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mayhome615x380.gif" alt="" width="375" height="253" /></a>Eleven years ago, nineteen fanatical Muslims turned hijacked aircraft carrying hundreds of terrified passengers into missiles targeting symbols of American economic might. Nearly 3000 innocents died horribly that day, including hundreds of courageous, selfless first responders making a superhuman effort to rescue their fellow citizens. And for years, when the anniversary of that day rolls around, <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/09/2011910125513799497.html">progressives</a> and their <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/cair-america-needs-to-move-on-from-911-attacks/">Islamic allies</a> have been rolling their eyes and urging Americans to “get over it.”</p>
<p>They’re weary of being bummed out by reminders of 9/11. They wish we’d forgive and forget that it happened. Stop bringing it up and “<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=harsh%20my%20buzz">harshing their buzz</a>.” Move on, move forward. Some of those people simply don’t grasp that we must not forget because we are still at war with the enemy that attacked us that morning; the rest are very much aware that we <em>are</em> still at war, and they want us to forget because they are <em>siding</em> with that enemy.</p>
<p>It may seem impossible for many to believe that that morning could be forgotten – just as it once seemed impossible to believe that our government could erase words like “jihad” and “Islamist” from our national security lexicon, preventing us from even naming or describing the enemy; or that our government could deem a terror attack on our own soil to be “<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/06/military-growing-terrorist-target-lawmakers-warn/">workplace violence</a>” and whitewash it of its Islamic motivation; or that an American President could <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-cairo-university-6-04-09">announce</a> that one of his duties was to “fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear”; or that he could proclaim us one of the world&#8217;s largest Muslim countries.</p>
<p>President Obama signed a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/09/07/presidential-proclamation-national-days-prayer-and-remembrance-2012">proclamation</a> last week designating Friday, September 7 through Sunday, September 9, 2012 National Days of Prayer and Remembrance. “Those who attacked us sought to deprive our Nation of the very ideals for which we stand,” the proclamation states. He is referring to al Qaeda, but the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6386">Muslim Brotherhood</a> too seeks to deprive us of our ideals. The Brotherhood seeks the end of a free, capitalist, democratic America no less than al Qaeda does. And yet the President has literally invited them into our White House and has supported them in Egypt throughout the Arab Spring, including a $1 billion aid package to the new Egyptian regime.</p>
<p>So September 7-9 are National Days of Prayer and Remembrance. What about 9/11 itself? In a quiet, seemingly innocuous gesture three years ago, President Obama <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/President-Obama-Unveils-United-We-Serve-Calls-on-All-Americans-to-Commit-to-Meaningful-Volunteer-Service-in-Their-Daily-Lives/">designated 9/11</a> as “The National Day of Service and Remembrance.” But the “Remembrance” part seems to be an afterthought, because the idea was to get Americans to “engage in meaningful <em>service</em> to create change&#8230; in four key areas”: education, health, energy/environment and community renewal. None of those seems to have anything to do with honoring 9/11, but that was the point: Muslim-American playwright Wajahat Ali (and one of the writers behind the <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=977">Soros</a>-funded “<a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2011/mark-tapson/smear-inc-silencing-the-critics-of-islamic-supremacism/">Fear, Inc.</a>” report that smeared anti-jihadists as Islamophobic bigots) <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wajahat-ali/the-redefining-of-muslim_b_271863.html">wrote</a> in the <em>Huffington Post</em> at that time that “we are trying to move away from focusing on 9/11 as a day of horror, and instead make it a day to recommit ourselves to national service.”</p>
<p>Why? Because in order for Islamists and the radical left to advance their agenda of dismantling American exceptionalism and recasting America as the villain in our history books, they need Americans to put 9/11 behind us, let the victims slip from our memories, ignore that we are still at war with an enemy that danced in the streets to celebrate the attacks, and turn a blind eye to the fact that our civilization is under assault by a subversive <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Stealth-Jihad-Radical-Subverting-America/dp/B005CDV22U/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1347251793&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=stealth+jihad">stealth jihad</a>.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[The victims the media sheds light on -- and the victims it ignores.]]></description>
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<p>Spearheaded by Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the massive, escalating protests over Trayvon Martin&#8217;s February 26th death in Florida—protests featuring desperate <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thousands-marchers-hit-street-protest-trayvon-martin-death-article-1.1053875">pleas</a> to “stop the killing of our children”—continue to rivet the nation&#8217;s collective attention. By contrast, the death of 63-year-old Tommie Lee Caldwell a few weeks earlier created no such stir. One morning this past December, Caldwell, an African American who was caring for his terminally ill wife, was stabbed and then <a href="http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/man-gunned-down-at-home,-wife-robbed-120711-r2">shot</a> in the back of the head by an intruder inside his Detroit home. If you&#8217;re like most people, you&#8217;ve never heard of Mr. Caldwell prior to this moment. His murderer was black—not a “<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294600/playing-race-card-again-jonah-goldberg">white Hispanic</a>” like George Zimmerman—so the guardians of “civil rights,” like Jackson and Sharpton, were spared the trouble, at least in that instance, of having to gin up a national referendum on America&#8217;s unyielding, ubiquitous racism.</p>
<p>The “civil rights” crowd was likewise silent two months ago when a 19-year-old African American named Joshua Brown—angered over a dispute with a black Detroit woman named Almanda Talton—shot and <a href="http://www.freep.com/article/20120218/NEWS01/202180387/Preliminary-exam-moved-to-March-in-12-year-old-Kade-jah-Davis-shooting">killed</a> the woman&#8217;s 12-year old daughter, Kade&#8217;jah Davis, a sixth-grade honor student. No doubt, that youngster&#8217;s name is unfamiliar to you as well. Neither is it likely that you&#8217;ve heard of Eyanna Flonory or her 2-year-old son Amani, both of whom were <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20023717-504083.html">murdered</a>, along with two other black victims, by a pair of black gunmen in Boston. Nor is it conceivable that many readers could name any of the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/19/10-dead-chicago-shootings-_n_1362604.html">ten</a> people who were killed (or the forty who were wounded) by gang violence in Chicago during the recent St. Patrick’s Day weekend—or, for that matter, the two who were killed (in addition to the twelve who were wounded) by a spray of <a href="http://miami.cbslocal.com/2012/03/31/2-dead-12-hurt-in-mass-shooting-in-north-miami/">gunfire</a> in south Florida just this past Friday.</p>
<p>In stark contrast to the Trayvon Martin killing, none of the horrors that befell the aforementioned black victims prompted anything even remotely resembling a media sensation. No massive rallies were held in memory of the dead. Jesse Jackson did not <a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-trayvon-martin-case-jesse-jackson-20120323,0,2131299.story">lament</a> that “blacks are under attack”; that “killing us is big business”; and that few people really understand “just how hard it is to be black in America.” Luminaries like Carmelo Anthony, Lebron James, P. Diddy, Jamie Foxx, and Arsenio Hall did not <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/slideshow/tributes-tweets-pour-support-trayvon-martin-16015159">tweet</a> expressions of outrage to their millions of “followers.” Celebrities like Spike Lee and <a href="http://foxnewsinsider.com/2012/03/30/celebs-speak-out-on-trayvon-martin-case-use-twitter-to-post-private-information-of-george-zimmerman-and-family/">Roseanne Barr</a> did not use their respective Twitter accounts to publicly <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/spike-lee-retweets-george-zimmermans-home-address/">post</a> the home address of any of the perpetrators. Entertainers like Chaka Khan did not produce any <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/27/trayvon-martin-chaka-khan_n_1383055.html">music videos</a> in honor of the slain. And the president of the United States did not feel compelled, as he did in the wake of Trayvon Martin&#8217;s death, to <a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/puts_trayvon_in_son_light_gkEIxhonrsgzwv2ejtpzGL">urge</a> all Americans “to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen.”</p>
<p>Something like what, exactly? Presumably the president was referring to the popularly accepted cartoon version of the Zimmerman-Martin confrontation, a narrative that essentially went like this: A racist, aggressive white vigilante (later identified as a “white Hispanic”) relentlessly “hunted down,” as Florida Congresswoman Federica Wilson <a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/its-all-about-race-now/">explained</a> it, an unarmed “sweet young boy … like a dog” and mercilessly executed the child because his black skin and the hooded sweatshirt (“hoodie”) he was wearing gave him the appearance of being a potential criminal who “didn&#8217;t belong” in the gunman&#8217;s neighborhood. In short, a deadly brew of racial profiling on the one hand, and “walking while black” on the other, had claimed yet another innocent black victim.</p>
<p>It is reasonable to assume that Congresswoman Wilson, like Jackson and Sharpton, is genuinely troubled by the enormous number of African American lives that are prematurely snuffed out in acts of senseless violence each year. Homicide is, after all, the <a href="http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.11688/pub_detail.asp">leading cause</a> of death for black males aged 10-24, and the second leading cause of death for black females aged 15-24; African Americans as a whole are <a href="http://www.aclu.org/capital-punishment/case-against-death-penalty">six times</a> as likely as whites to die at the hands of a murderer, and young black men in particular are fully fifteen times as likely to be murdered as their white male counterparts. These are tragedies of inexpressible magnitude.</p>
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		<title>Who Is Happy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dennis Prager]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The top traits of people content and satisfied with life.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/happiness.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-125391" title="happiness" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/happiness.gif" alt="" width="375" height="243" /></a>After 25 years of lecturing on happiness, writing a book on the subject (&#8220;Happiness Is a Serious Problem&#8221;) and devoting an hour of my radio show every week for the last 13 years to happiness, here are some conclusions about who is happy.</p>
<p><em>People who control themselves.</em></p>
<p>Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.</p>
<p><em>People who are given little and earn what they have.</em></p>
<p>That is why lottery winners are rarely happier than those who have far less money — they didn&#8217;t earn their newfound wealth. And they are often less happy after their win than they were before it.</p>
<p>So, too, those who get used to receiving unearned material benefits (such as government entitlements) are likely to be unhappier than they were before receiving those benefits — and much less happy than those who have earned whatever they have. That is why the entrepreneur who has worked day and night for years is usually happier than the person who inherited vast wealth.</p>
<p><em>People who do not see themselves or their group as victims.</em></p>
<p>Virtually every person can legitimately see himself as a victim — of an unloving upbringing; of bullies in school; of a loveless, or just plain bad, marriage; of financial problems; of membership in a victim group; of health problems; and of so much else. But however valid the fact of one&#8217;s victimhood, perceiving oneself primarily as victim is the road to misery.</p>
<p>If the primary conclusion you have reached after years of therapy is that you are a victim, you really are a victim — of lousy therapy.</p>
<p>The post-&#8217;60s labeling as victims of virtually everyone except WASP males (blacks, women and Hispanics, etc.) has exponentially increased unhappiness in America.</p>
<p><em>People who rarely complain.</em></p>
<p>Complaining not only ruins everybody else&#8217;s day, it ruins the complainer&#8217;s day, too. The more we complain, the more unhappy we get. Want to raise children who will be happy adults? Teach them not to whine.</p>
<p><em>People who have close friends.</em></p>
<p>Close friends not only prolong people&#8217;s lives; but on a day-to-day basis they contribute more to most adults&#8217; happiness than even their children do.</p>
<p>From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.</p>
<p><em>People who are in a good marriage.</em></p>
<p>A good marriage — having a real partner in life — is so contributive to happiness that it is almost enough. Almost.</p>
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		<title>The Left&#8217;s Blind Eye to Non-Western Suffering</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:34:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Last Thursday, Voice of America reported one of the saddest stories of the last few years: about half of all girls in Kenyan slums apparently give their bodies to older men in trade for sanitary napkins.  As health educator Lydiah Njoroge, a field officer for the Freedom for Girls Program, explained,</p>
<blockquote><p>The least [expensive] in the market is 40 shillings … a packet that has eight pieces in it.  So, because this girl cannot afford 40 shillings – their mother, their parents are poor, they have other things to provide food and shelter – sanitary towels are not a priority.  So the girl just goes [and] has sex with an older man, most of the time not the same man – they would have one this month, another one next month, so they are very, very at risk of having HIV.</p></blockquote>
<p>This story was largely buried in the media.  Instead, the media focused on issues like Israel’s “occupation” of Palestinian Arab-populated areas; Rick Santorum’s opinions on birth control; and, of course, the evils of those GOPers who didn’t want to extend the payroll tax cut.  Can you say priorities, anyone?</p>
<p>The left’s incessant self-criticism of Western society has two major effects.  First, it undermines the pride and power of Western civilization, opening it to attacks from barbarians at the gates.  Second, it forces focus to Western civilization, leaving those suffering in other parts of the world to suffer their fates in silence.  When we worry about whether Catholic churches in American should have to pay for the pill in the United States, that’s attention we should be spending on the need for better education – and hell, cheap tampons – in Kenya.  When we agonize over Susan G. Komen’s funding of Planned Parenthood, that’s focus we could be directing at serious world problems.</p>
<p>Barack Obama was correct when he stated during his 2008 campaign that Americans are self-centered.  But even his criticism of Americans was self-centered.  Here’s how he put it:</p>
<blockquote><p>We can&#8217;t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times &#8230; and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That&#8217;s not leadership. That&#8217;s not going to happen.</p></blockquote>
<p>But Obama, like the rest of the left, has it exactly backwards.  Of course people in other parts of the world think about their own material situations.  But they don’t think about whether Barack Obama is keeping his home heated. They think about their lack of tampons, and whether they need to trade their bodies to keep clean.  Obama suggests that the West has sinned by having a high living standard; in fact, the West has sinned by beating itself up for high living standards, when its real goal should be extending those living standards abroad.</p>
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		<title>A Memorial to the Victims of Communism</title>
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<p><strong>[This article is reprinted from the <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/">National Post</a>]</strong></p>
<p>In 1968, naive anti-establishment American and Canadian students considered  themselves courageous for locking supine university presidents in their offices,  throwing computers out of windows and even burning out-of-favour academics’  research work. They knew that in the free, indulgent West, their childish parody  of a revolution would result in nothing more than a suspension from their  studies.</p>
<p>In the same year truly courageous Moscow academic <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/11/remembering-a-dissident/">Yuri Glazo</a>v signed the  famous “letter of the twelve,” protesting illegal arrests and trials of  dissidents, knowing full well that this real act of revolution would result in a  suspension of his human rights.</p>
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<p>Glazov was predictably fired, meaning he was henceforth unemployable and  deemed a “parasite” on the state. Warned by a friend, he narrowly avoided  imprisonment on a trumped-up narcotics-dealing charge. Finally, through a stroke  of luck, Glazov came with his family to the West, and in 1975 took up residence  in Halifax as chair of the Russian Studies department at Dalhousie University, a  position he held until shortly before his death in 1998.</p>
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<p><strong>[Yuri Glazov's family shortly before departure from Russia. From left to right: son Greg, Yuri, daughter Elena, wife Marina and son Jamie.]</strong></p>
<p>An outstanding Canadian, Glazov deserves recognition, and so do many other  brave dissidents for whom Canada has been a refuge. Nine million Canadians —  that’s almost a third of us according to the 2006 census — came to these shores  from communist-ruled countries. Many are now dead or very old. Their descendants  deserve to see their sacrifices acknowledged and Canadians exposed to the full  panoply of communist atrocities.</p>
<p>Prospects for educating Canadians about the human toll exacted by communism  through their stories will brighten when a long-sought Ottawa Memorial to the  Victims of Totalitarian Communism is completed, a project singled out for  endorsement in the recent Throne Speech.</p>
<p>This memorial isn’t just a good idea, like an also-promised national  Holocaust memorial, it is a necessary idea.</p>
<p>The exhaustively researched Holocaust is in no danger of being forgotten. The  highest term of opprobrium in Western culture, whether from leftists or  rightists (rightly or wrongly) is “Nazi,” not “communist.” That’s not because  Nazis and communists have been compared and Nazis found to be worse. It’s  because people don’t know how bad communism was and is.</p>
<p>In 2006 the Swedish Ministry of Education initiated programs teaching the  crimes of communism because a poll had revealed only 10% of Swedish youth could  identify the Gulag. Canadian youth would not fare better. All educated Canadians  associate the word “Auschwitz” with “genocide.” The equally horrific “Holodomor”  is more likely to draw a blank stare.</p>
<p>Why has communism escaped the moral condemnation Nazism attracts in such  exuberant degree? In recent years several scholars have addressed the question  and provided a litany of reasons, amongst them:</p>
<p>z  Stalin was a war ally and therefore escaped the postwar censure he  deserved;</p>
<p>z  Only since the fall of the Berlin Wall has the most damaging data emerged;  by then witnesses were aging and focused on economic priorities;</p>
<p>z  There was no Nuremburg, no Truth and Reconciliation moment for communism  as there was for other genocidal regimes;</p>
<p>z  Communist propaganda machines are extremely efficient at positive branding  (Trudeau bought in; his fawning patronage of Fidel Castro was beyond  contemptible).</p>
<p>But all reasons pale beside the glaring failure of left-wing intellectuals to  admit — and to teach — that communism isn’t simply an unfortunate contingency of  socialist passion but an ideology as immoral and implacably ruthless and  dramatically consequential as Nazism.</p>
<p>Actually it is more than intellectuals’ failure, which suggests passivity; it  was, and is, active avoidance. Yuri Glazov was proud to become a Canadian  citizen, but was shocked and chagrined at the ignorance and even denial of  communism’s crimes he found amongst his fellow academics. As his son Jamie  Glazov noted in his 2009 book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/United-Hate-Romance-Tyranny-Terror/dp/1935071076">United in Hate: the Left’s Romance with Tyranny  and Terror</a>, “[W]hile we were cherishing our newfound freedom, we encountered &#8230;  intellectuals in the universities who hated my parents for the story they had to  tell &#8230;”</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Left-wing intellectuals’ laundering of the truth about communism has  translated into a vast lacuna in the teaching of 20th century history in our  schools — one we can only hope the new memorial will help to fill.</p>
<p>The word “memorial” is somewhat misleading, though, suggesting that communism  is a closed historical chapter. The fall of the Berlin Wall notwithstanding,  communism in one guise or another still determines the fate of millions of  hapless people around the globe. Victims in communist regimes are still starved,  imprisoned, tortured and denied the most basic of human rights.</p>
<p>“Centre”? “Testament”? It is not too late to find a word to remind  communism’s ongoing victims that right-thinking Canadians know the truth and  will not abandon them.</p>
<p><strong>To learn more about Yuri Glazov and the Yuri Glazov Memorial Award, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/03/11/remembering-a-dissident/">click here.</a></strong></p>
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		<title>Law &amp; Order and Double Standards &#8211; by Jamie Glazov</title>
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<p>Almost every time I tune in to the show <em>Law &amp; Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU)</em>, there is some kind of grotesque and pathetically cheap leftist message being perpetuated. Recently, as most of us know, the show <a href="http://www.freedomslighthouse.com/2009/12/glenn-beck-responds-to-attack-by-law.html"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">had a character</span></a> verbalize a connection between a psychotic murder and the fans of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Bill O’Reilly. The connection, naturally, is that these three individuals are “a cancer spreading ignorance and hate.”</p>
<p>The other day another episode I watched launched a ferocious attack on a religion and, surprise, surprise, it wasn’t Islam. The producers didn’t take the road less traveled. You know, the one on which you confront the real dangers facing us but risk attracting lawsuits and death threats and, well, you know, putting your job and life at stake and stuff like that. Why bother doing all that when you can just dip into the trendy liberal moral sewer and attack the Catholic Church — with no consequences to your own career and personal well-being? The Catholic Church is so evil, you see, that absolutely nothing will happen to you after you attack it.</p>
<p>In this particular episode, a Catholic priest molests boys and the Church covers it all up. The script offers a politically correct delicacy in which the seal of confession is portrayed as a vile rule created by horrid men for the purpose of institutionalizing abuse and tyranny. There are no complexities, nothing to be said about the sacredness and importance of a priest having the obligation of keeping a confessed sin a secret. It’s all just so simple and, of course, <em>evil</em>.</p>
<p>Suffice it to say that the subject of this show is a reality in terms of the abuse of young boys by certain Catholic priests and its subsequent cover-up. These crimes have been investigated, exposed, and punished. And they should continue to be investigated, exposed, and punished. So as the topic for a show on television, it’s clearly warranted and legitimate.</p>
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