Building the Perfect Beast: How the Political Class & Their Cronies Rig the System
by Lee Stranahan:
The Political Class has honed a dangerous skill, building the perfect undetectable fraud machine. Americans need to learn to spot these scams for their own protection and realize that the perpetrators can come from either political party and often work in cahoots with attorneys or big business.
Think about three seemingly unconnected news stories, all examples of costly or dangerously indictable fraud machines…
The economic collapse of 2008 was caused in part by relaxed mortgage rules that allowed borrowers to get a home loan without a down payment or even proof of income in some cases.
In the Pigford settlement, claimants were able to get $50,000 checks by asserting without proof that they had “attempted to farm.”
In a move strongly supported by the NAACP and other liberal advocacy groups, the Obama Department of Justice just stopped South Carolina’s plan to put in place some minimal ID requirements for voting. Currently voters in a number of states don’t need to show any photo ID or other identity checks in order to cast a ballot.All three stories are examples of systems that have been intentionally set up with such low standards that they invite fraud. But ingeniously, they have also been set up in a such a way that makes them almost critic-proof because the lack of standards makes detection of fraud nearly impossible. When the system is questioned, the defenders, creators and beneficiaries then point to the lack of “proof” of fraud as a reason to keep the status. Thus, a self-perpetuating fraud scheme is kept alive as long as possible.
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“Gender-free” Children: The Newest Fad in Public Education
By Lee Duigon:
Schools are urged to establish a “dress code to enable a student’s right to dress in accordance with their gender identity” and “the right to be addressed by one’s preferred name and pronoun” (p. 16). On the same page, the handbook recommends “access to safe restroom and locker room facilities that correspond to one’s gender identity”-in other words, teenage boys will be able to get into the girls’ locker and shower room by claiming that they “feel like a girl” today.
Schools should hire “staff with diverse gender identities and expressions” (p. 17)-yes, that seems like a good idea, doesn’t it? An even more amazing recommendation is that teachers should never address children as “boys and girls” anymore (p. 23).
“If students cling to traditional beliefs about gender,” (translation: Christian beliefs) says the handbook (p. 29), teachers ought to “challenge” them with questions-thus pitting children against adults in a debate. How often do you suppose children will win such debates? How often do you suppose they will even dare to try?
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In the de-cultured gulag of Canada in which I live if I were to comment freely about this article I would be charged with a ‘hate crime’ so instead you’ll have to imagine what I think.
Walid Phares: Illogical and dangerous for Obama to release Taliban from Gitmo
by The Right Scoop:
Walid Phares says that by releasing captured Taliban from Gitmo back to Afghanistan in hopes of creating the groundwork for future negotiations, Obama is making both an illogical and dangerous move that will only show the Taliban that they can manipulate us in the future.
He says that instead of trying to win the war, Obama is trying to end the war and setting up a scenario where the Taliban could easily best us should they not keep up their end of whatever bargain we think we’ve made with them:
Liberals Remain Blind to Their Biases
By David Limbaugh:
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As a conservative, I believe that many liberals proceed from good intentions, though I think their consistently horrendous results entitle us to some skepticism after a while even as to their intentions — or at least to their ability to see past their oppressive biases.
I don’t believe, for example, that they are racists because their policies harm minorities, though they often do. I don’t believe they automatically lack compassion just because their policies spread misery.
Yet many liberals do believe that conservatives are evil, uncompassionate racists because our policies don’t fit their self-serving, narrow, shallow parameters of “good intentions.”
Many leftists are so possessed by a need to be morally superior that they can’t abide the possibility that conservatives also have noble intentions. So it is that many who believe they are objective, fair, and reality-based are far less so than the objects of their scorn.
Puncture the cocoon of denial
By MARK STEYN:
Ring out the new, ring in the old. No, hang on, that should be the other way around, shouldn’t it? Not as far as 2011 was concerned. The year began with a tea-powered Republican caucus taking control of the House of Representatives and pledging to rein in spendaholic government. It ended with President Obama making a pro forma request for a mere $1.2 trillion increase in the debt ceiling. This will raise government debt to $16.4 trillion – a new world record! If only until he demands the next debt-ceiling increase in three months’ time.
At the end of 2011, America, like much of the rest of the Western world, has dug deeper into a cocoon of denial. Tens of millions of Americans remain unaware that this nation is broke – broker than any nation has ever been. A few days before Christmas, we sailed across the psychological Rubicon and joined the club of nations whose government debt now exceeds their total GDP. It barely raised a murmur – and those who took the trouble to address the issue noted complacently that our 100 percent debt-to-GDP ratio is a mere two-thirds of Greece’s. That’s true, but at a certain point per capita comparisons are less relevant than the sheer hard dollar sums: Greece owes a few rinky-dink billions; America owes more money than anyone has ever owed anybody ever.
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Obama’s foreign policy spin
By CAROLINE B. GLICK:
The failure of Obama’s foreign policies has been nowhere more evident than in the Middle East.
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Of course, the Middle East is not the only region where the deleterious consequences of Obama’s foreign policy are being felt. From Europe to Africa, from Asia to Latin America, Obama’s determination to embrace US adversaries such as Vladimir Putin and Hugo Chavez has weakened pro-US forces and strengthened US foes.
So how is that that while Carter was perceived by the majority of the American public as a foreign policy failure, a large plurality of Americans views Obama’s foreign policy as a success?
Obama’s success in hiding his failures from the American public owes to two related factors. First, to date the US has not been forced to contend directly with the consequences of his failures.
Carter’s failures were impossible to ignore because the blowback from them was immediate, unmistakable and harsh. His betrayal of the shah of Iran led directly to the takeover of the US Embassy in Tehran and the hostage crisis. Carter could not spin to his advantage the daily stories about the hostages. He could not influence CBS Evening News anchor Walter Cronkite’s decision to end every broadcast by reminding viewers how many days the hostages had been in captivity.
So, too, the consequences of Carter’s weakness in confronting the Soviet Union were impossible to ignore or minimize with images of Soviet tank columns invading Afghanistan dominating the news.
To date, Obama’s foreign policy failures have yet to explode in a manner that can make the average American aware of them.
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The message is simple: Don’t listen to the Republican Party Establishment
Daren Jonescu:
The Republican and media Establishments have joined hands in an attempt to lead America buoyantly, triumphantly off the cliff into the bottomless pit of civilizational dissolution. They have fought their version of the good fight, prematurely creating the optics, and, if all goes well, the dynamics, of a two-man race, where in fact there are six men and a woman.
They have settled all their chips on the two candidates who are least conservative, most establishmentarian, and, in their actions and rhetoric, most pragmatic and unprincipled. And they have done everything within their considerable power to disseminate the irrational narrative that now, before a single vote has been cast, life stinks for anyone who is not in one of the two anointed camps.
So what else is new?
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Our Growing Police State
By Matt Holzmann:
Last week, the FBI released its preliminary crime statistics for the first half of 2011, and across the nation violent crimes dropped 6.7% while property crimes dropped 3.7%. This continues a downward trend that dates back to the 1970′s.
Many of the violent crimes reported this year have been sensational. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and Federal Judge John Roll were targeted by a lone, crazed gunman and there were a number of other gruesome crimes. The Giffords/Roll shooting was brought to an end by a bystander. The Ft. Hood massacre on November 5, 2009, which killed 13 American soldiers and wounded 29 others was brought to an end by two base police officers using conventional sidearms and procedures. The warning signs for this terrorist attack, the first on American soil since 9/11, were ignored and yet it was the local cops on the beat who faced and dealt with a terrible crime.
Every case one can think of was resolved by conventional methods. And yet the police powers of government on a local and national level have been growing at an alarming rate. And despite a dissonant data base there is a growing trend towards militarization of police forces and of an invasive state security apparatus.
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IDF’s unparalleled record of sparing civilians in counter-terrorism operations
IDF’s unparalleled record of sparing civilians in counter-terrorism operations
“If You Said You Were a Christian, They Killed You”
by Anna Mahjar-Barducci:
Nigerian Christians are under attack. On Christmas day, the Islamist group Boko Haram targeted churches in Nigeria’s capital, killing 40 innocent people. Boko Haram — literally “Western Education is a Sin ” — opposes whatever comes from the West, such as education, culture and science, and considers Christians as an obstacle to building an Islamic caliphate.
Boko Haram has recently increased its attacks against Christian Nigerians, who make up 48.2% of the country’s population. Last November, of Boko Haram killed 150 Christians and bombed 11 churches. “It was a direct attack against Christians. Members of Boko Haram asked: ‘Are you a Christian or a Muslim’ If you said you were a Christian, they killed you. […] I saw someone who was slaughtered like a lamb in front of a church,”said a representative of the Christian Association of Nigeria.
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The Center for American Progress’ Jihad Against the Free World
by Daniel Greenfield:
The colors of the American flag are red, white and blue, but the colors of the Center for American Progress are red, white and green. Red for the left and green for Islam.
The Center for American Progress is not just any organization. Headed up by John Podesta, a co-chairman of Obama’s transition team and backed by a 38 million dollar annual budget, it is George Soros’ most ambitious attempt to turn his Shadow Party into a shadow government. CAP is the organization with the single greatest influence on the Obama White House and its foreign and domestic policy.
CAP is more than just another think tank; it’s a lever for shifting the Democratic Party further to the left, bought and paid for by George Soros and a roster of secret donors whose names are not made public by the secretive and powerful organization. Those who buy influence with it also get anonymity as part of the package.
But the Center is more than a rogue billionaire’s brand of progressivism turned into talking-point groupthink by Washington insiders. It is a link between the American left and the Muslim right, articulating the Islamist agenda as a vehicle for the foreign policy of the post-American left.
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Arpaio fights back against those calling on him to step down
by The Right Scoop:
This is what I love about Sheriff Arpaio, that he won’t be bullied out of office. As these rhetorical thugs in Arizona are trying to ride the coattails of the DOJ’s attack by calling for Arpaio to step down, Arpaio simply responds “Never!”:
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Support the Sacketts: EPA Suit Goes to Supreme Court
by Mark Hyman:
Michael and Chantell Sackett were building their dream home on less than two-thirds of an acre of land near Priest Lake in northern Idaho. They owned a small business nearby and had been looking forward to the day when they could stop renting — they purchased the property in 2005 for $23,000. In 2007, gravel was being laid in preparation for the pouring of a concrete foundation.
However, construction screeched to a halt upon the order of three agents of the Environmental Protection Agency. The property was a federally protected “wetlands,” the Sacketts were told, and they were served with a compliance order to immediately restore the property to its prior condition.
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Stealth Jihad From Our Own Administration
WALID SHOEBAT:
Our friend David Wood over at www.answeringmuslims.com exposes and explains the administrations policy on Islam and counter terror. With common sense one can only deduce our president is a stealth Jihadist.
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