"Ryan represents the most serious national challenger to the essential premises of the Left since Calvin Coolidge"

Steven Hayward, posting on PowerLine nailed it:

I’ll happily declare interest behind my enthusiasm for Paul Ryan: he’s read my Reagan and Churchill books.  And I’ve seen him up close and in person displaying his facility with the deeper principles of the American Founding, and his (correct) perception of how the Progressive Era represents the decisive break in American political thought. In this respect he has more depth than Reagan.  Forget the budget issues for a moment–Ryan represents the most serious national challenger to the essential premises of the Left since Calvin Coolidge.

Here is the full speech, thanks to Legal Insurrection

And from Gateway Pundit:

Romney Raises $1.2 Million in Three Hours Since of Picking Paul Ryan

The coming Civil War

The article below from The Washington Times, a verifiable source...

But, first, a note [from a Viet Nam veteran friend]:

There is precedent for active Army soldiers becoming involved in civil unrest situations.

Personal anecdote:  Baltimore riots, 06-14 April 1968

I was a member of B Company, 1st Battalion 58th Infantry, 197th Infantry Brigade, stationed at Ft. Benning, GA.  We were all (100%) Viet Nam combat infantry Veterans, used primarily as the aggressor force in training both the about-to-graduate OCS cadets from Ft. Benning and at West Point.

[We always won those contests, believe me!]

Our entire Battalion was activated, and the majority of us sent to Baltimore to quell that riot.  (We were also deployed to the riots at the 1968 Dem Convention in Chicago).

We arrived in Baltimore & deployed fully armed - weapons loaded, etc.

We mostly conducted squad-sized patrols.  Ran into, and actually had some fire fights with local Nat'l Guard soldiers who were looting.  There were KIAs involved - Guard soldiers, not ours. 

A few civilian casualties as well.

At the end, we conducted large-scale sweeps of neighborhoods.

For example, one evening our soldiers were deployed in single files, two (2) files deep, one behind the other, down a 6 block line in front of apartment houses.  Immediately behind our second file was a single file of police officers.  It looked like this:

6 blocks of apartments         aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Soldiers                              sssssssssssssss
Soldiers                              sssssssssssssss
Police                                 ppppppppppppppp

On order, we moved out.  Soldiers in line #1 entered each apartment and went to the top floor.  Soldiers in line #2 waited in the lobby area of each apartment.  Police waited at curbside in front.

Soldiers in line #1 then began, starting at the top floor, to enter each/every aparatment and remove the occupants, men/women/children & pets, and  bring them down to the lobby where the #2 line of soldiers received them.

The #2 line of soldiers then escorted the occupants out front, where they were seated on the curb by the police, who then went through the individual ID process, etc.

EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016
U.S. military officers are told to plan to fight Americans
The Washington Times Tuesday, August 7, 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/7/the-civil-war-of-2016/

It's now legal in the US for any financial institution to steal customer funds...and the customers have ZERO CLAIM TO THEIR OWN FUNDS once they are in the custody of the financial institution!

RED ALERT: It's Open Season on All Customer Funds

Posted by Ann Barnhardt, - August 10, AD 2012 3:33 PM MST

The NFA is collusion with the Banksters, government and judiciary have achieved their goal. The entire concept of "customer segregated funds" is officially, completely, legally dead.

Guys, it is OVER. I know that many of you are still cowering in normalcy bias, unable to deal with reality, unable to face the world as it is, but you have GOT to snap out of it. The marketplace is DESTROYED. You CANNOT be in these markets. All legal protections are now officially gone.

Do you remember how I told you about the Ponzi scheme that imploded in 2007 called "Sentinel Management Group" that stole over $500 million in customer funds? The NFA was the auditing regulator of Sentinel, and the NFA admitted after the Sentinel Ponzi imploded that they signed off on their audits even though the NFA claimed not fully understanding Sentinel's books or accounting methods. In other words, the NFA didn't really audit Sentinel at all - they just PRETENDED to audit them, drew up some forms, had some robosigners sign off, and then just hoped that when the shit hit the fan, everyone in the industry would be so terrified of the NFA that no one would hold the NFA accountable for their criminal malfeasance - or even talk about it.

Sentinel took customer segregated money and fraudulently used it as the collateral on a loan from Bank of New York Mellon for $312 million to fund their own in-house proprietary trading operations. When the Sentinel Ponzi collapsed, BNYM sued to go to the front of the line of creditors - ahead of the customers of Sentinel whose money was fraudulently used as collateral, which has now been "linguistically sanitized" into the word "hypothecated".

The federal appeals court ruled yesterday that not only does BNYM stay at the front of the line, but that using customer segregated funds as collateral is NOT a crime, and that co-mingling customer segregated funds with proprietary funds is NOT fraud.

Here is the Reuters piece.

Read this quote from the ruling, which is, in essence, the entire financial market paradigm being guillotined:

That Sentinel failed to keep client funds properly segregated is not, on its own, sufficient to rule as a matter of law that Sentinel acted ‘with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud' its customers.

U.S. Circuit Judge John D. Tinder

What this means is that even if Jon Corzine is somehow dragged into court by private citizens, because you know damn good and well that the Justice Department will never, ever touch him, Corzine now has a legal precedent, likely from a bribed or otherwise coerced Federal Appeals Court, explicitly stating that an FCM can use customer deposits to pay its debts, and that the customers themselves are subjugated and have basically no legal right to their own monies, no matter what the law says, or what legal assurances, claims or guarantees are made to that customer about their funds held with an FCM or any other brokerage or depository institution. The "secured" party at the front of the line will always be the mega-bank who made the fraudulent loan using the stolen customer funds as collateral.

In other words, all customer funds in the United States are now the legal property of JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, BNYM, or whichever megabank is the counterparty on the loans the FCM or depository institution takes out in order to fund its mega-levered proprietary in-house trading desks.

For the love of God, I don't know what more there could possibly be to say to snap you people out of your normalcy bias trance. You have GOT to get ALL MONIES out of the financial system NOW. This ruling sets precedence for every depository institution, not just futures brokerages. It is now legal in the United States for any financial institution to steal customer funds, borrow money against those funds for the uber-levered proprietary trading use of the financial institution, and the customers have ZERO CLAIM TO THEIR OWN FUNDS once they are in the custody of the financial institution.

The court has ruled that once your money passes out of your PHYSICAL POSSESSION, and I mean PHYSICAL possession, it is no longer yours, and you have no legal claim or legal recourse to it when it is stolen. This includes BANK ACCOUNTS. Money in a bank is in the possession of the BANK, not you. Do you comprehend this? The entire system is utterly devoid of any integrity or genuine security and is breaking down catastophically before our very eyes. You HAVE to comprehend that your money sitting in an account is no longer legally yours. You have to force your brain to process and comprehend this, no matter how incomprehensible it may seem. IT IS OVER. This is Marxist hell. We have arrived.

This ruling and precedent will be used by every brokerage, every bank, every insurance company and every pension fund to deny you your money when the financial system finally collapses, be it on Monday, or be it two years from now.

DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

You have GOT to GET OUT.

And all of this goes straight back to the criminal mafia that is the National Futures Association, and the fact that they have not actually been auditing those firms who were in the "cosa nostra", and allowing Ponzi schemes to operate with full bureaucratic protection for decades. Sentinel. PFG Best. The legal precedent enabling this protection racket and blatant fraud and thievery is fully in force, and what Corzine did at MF Global is now legally PROTECTED.

This is ecomonic treason.

Treason is a capital offense, meaning that the death penalty is fully justified, warranted and on the table, should the day ever come when a Second American Republic is established, and with it the re-establishment of the rule of law and justice in this land.

UPDATE: Yes, the South Park "And . . . It's Gone" clip is now 100% factual. Here it is. It is clean. No dirty language, just the cold, hard reality of our dead civilization.

Gay ride

A veteran US law-enforcement official has filed a blockbuster discrimination lawsuit against Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, charging she pushed him aside to make way for a less-qualified woman who’s “enjoyed a long-standing relationship” with the anti-terror chief. . .

Big Sis Slapped With Discrimination Suit for Reportedly Favoring Gal Pals

Virgin Mary 'crosses the finish line' with Olympic gold runner

An Orthodox Christian, Defar entrusted her race to God with the sign of the cross and reached the finish line in 15:04:24, beating her fellow Ethiopian rival Tirunesh Dibaba, who was the favorite to win.

A teary-eyed Defar proudly showed the picture of the Virgin Mary with the Baby Jesus that she carried with her for the entire race.

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Starting in 2014, the private sector insurance business industry is gone

RUSH LIMBAUGH:

What you really do is you go out and you regulate these businesses out of business. You regulate them with Obamacare and new tax law, and then as these industries and the businesses in them start getting into real trouble, then you -- Obama, the destroyer -- go in as Robinhood, the white knight, and you're going to save the day! And the American people applaud! "He cares!" The architect of the problem, Barack Obama (and his Democrat Party target an industry) wreak great damage on it, and then volunteer to "save" it like they did the auto industry by taking it over.

And that perverted process has cost taxpayers billions of dollars. The president is warning the country that every other industry he crushes will get the same treatment. And what is one of the next industries to get this treatment? The private health insurance industry. That's one-sixth of the economy. That's going to be nationalized. That's already been done. That's Obamacare. Private sector health insurance, within three years, is gone. Starting in 2014, the private sector insurance business industry is gone.

See, I Told You So: Obama Says He Wants to Repeat Auto Takeover in Every Industry

2016: THE MOVIE

Last month my husband and I attended a private screening in Hollywood of Dinesh D'Souza's new movie about Barack Hussein Obama.

There is nothing more important than getting yourself and everyone you know into a theater to see it!

BREAKING! SB 249 Amended Into Massive Gun Ban

SENATOR YEE WANTS YOUR GUNS - STOP SB249 NOW

TAKE ACTION!

THE NIGHT WATCHMAN

Once upon a time the government had a vast scrap yard in the middle of a desert.

Congress said, "Someone may steal from it at night."

So they created a night watchman position and hired a person for the job.

Then Congress said, "How does the watchman do his job without instruction?"

So they created a planning department and hired two people, one person to write the instructions, and one person to do time studies.

Then Congress said, "How will we know the night watchman is doing the tasks correctly?"

So they created a Quality Control department and hired two people. One was to do the studies and one was to write the reports.

Then Congress said, "How are these people going to get paid?"

So they created two positions: a time keeper and a payroll officer then hired two people.

Then Congress said, "Who will be accountable for all of these people?"

So they created an administrative section and hired three people, an Administrative Officer, Assistant Administrative Officer, and a Legal Secretary.

Then Congress said, "We have had this command in operation for one year and we are $918,000 over budget, we must cut back."

So they laid-off the night watchman.

NOW slowly, let it sink in.

Quietly, we go like sheep to slaughter. Does anybody remember the reason given for the establishment of the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY during the Carter administration?

Anybody?

Anything?

No?

Didn't think so!

Bottom line is, we've spent several hundred billion dollars in support of an agency, the reason for which very few people who read this can remember!

Ready??

It was very simple... and at the time, everybody thought it very appropriate.

The Department of Energy was instituted on 8/04/1977, TO LESSEN OUR DEPENDENCE ON FOREIGN OIL.

Hey, pretty efficient, huh???

AND NOW IT'S 2012 -- 35 YEARS LATER -- AND THE BUDGET FOR THIS "NECESSARY" DEPARTMENT IS AT $24.2 BILLION A YEAR. IT HAS 16,000 FEDERAL EMPLOYEES AND APPROXIMATELY 100,000 CONTRACT EMPLOYEES; AND LOOK AT THE JOB IT HAS DONE!

(THIS IS WHERE YOU SLAP YOUR FOREHEAD AND SAY, "WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?")

34 years ago 30% of our oil consumption was foreign imports. Today 70% of our oil consumption is foreign imports.

Ah, yes -- good old Federal bureaucracy.

NOW, WE HAVE TURNED OVER THE BANKING SYSTEM, HEALTH CARE, AND THE AUTO INDUSTRY TO THE SAME GOVERNMENT?

Hello!! Anybody Home?

Signed....The Night Watchman

The U.S. Economy in One Chart

INFOGRAPHIC:

The U.S. Economy in One Chart

“Better health care. Pricier pizza."

“I have two options, I can stop offering coverage and pay the $2,000 fine, or I could keep my number of staff under 50 so the mandate doesn't apply,” she told Legal Newsline. Nichols added that the law may cost her between $20,000 to $30,000 extra in taxes. “Obamacare is making me think about cutting jobs instead," she said.

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Dem doc donor: Getting rid of 'ugly black babies' helps taxpayers

But...wouldn't those babies end up as taxpayers someday? And, wait: Isn't the president...never mind, he's actually kinda cute...

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Do the rich pay their “fair share”?

The answer to this question should start with an agreement on an accepted definition of fair. But those who assert that the rich do not pay their fair share have not provided such a definition.13

Here is how the federal income tax burden was distributed in 2009 (the most recent year for which data are available):14 

So what is a “fair share”? The U.S. tax system is more progressive than that of any other advanced economy. Higher-income workers already pay a substantially disproportionate amount of the income tax relative to their share of income. The top five percent pay 44 percent more in taxes than the bottom 95 percent, while 47 percent of tax filers pay no tax at all. The bottom 50 percent of filers pay only 2.3 percent of taxes, and the bottom quintile gets money back.

Based on these facts, how does one make a case that the rich are not paying their fair share?

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The real scandal in this election

Wayne Allyn Root:

Obama’s College Classmate: ‘The Obama Scandal Is at Columbia’

The Cloud

Apparently, it's not a good place to be!

The other forgotton soldier

SaveAVet.org

Military & Law Enforcement Working Dog Rescue & Support

Former Spielberg VP: Obama threatened Chelsea Clinton

Most people in the US, especially Democrats, believe that the Obama Birther Movement was started by Republicans and or the Tea Party. They believe it is a smear campaign aimed to tarnish the image of their hero of change. But they may be shocked to learn that the Birther Movement was actually started by former President Bill Clinton and Hillary back in 2008.

In an exclusive interview by WND, Bettina Viviano was a vice president with Amblin Enterntainment, Steven Spielberg’s company, before launching her own film production company in 1990. In 2008, Viviano was asked to produce a documentary about voter fraud within the Democratic Party. At the time, she says she was not a Democrat or a Republican and in fact had never voted in an election. She went into the project with the sole purpose of producing the best and most accurate documentary possible.

During the documentary process, Viviano says that she quickly became aware of just how dangerous and insidious the Obama campaign was. A number of the Democrats she interviewed refused to appear on camera and told her that their lives and property had been threatened by people working with the Obama campaign.

She also heard former President Bill Clinton say that Obama was not eligible to be president because of his lack of birth records. In fact, she said it was common knowledge around many top Democrats. Bill Clinton has often said that he would go public with the information when the time was right.

Before that could happen, his close friend and head of the Arkansas Democratic Party, Bill Gwatney was murdered in his office and then someone told Bill that he was next if he said anything about Obama’s eligibility. In the video below, she said that Clinton was not intimidated until someone associated with the Obama campaign told him that his daughter Chelsea would be next if he opened his mouth. From that point on, the Clinton’s remained silent about Obama’s birth certificate or lack thereof.

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The KFPS Royal Friesian Horse

An utterly awesome spectacle best viewed full-screen!

In the future, with the vote of one more justice, the New Deal settlement might be significantly modified

Precedent and the Health Care Decision

How did a SELF-ADMITTED homeless drug addict become President of the United States?

THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENT

DEFINITELY worth re-posting!

The one thing about George W. Bush that the media refuses, to this day, to write about--in fact, in a video (conveniently since removed from YouTube) of the 2004/2005 hearings on Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae--is this...(and the Congressional Black Caucus called it a would-be "economic lynching")!

The one book that would transform the United States of America

A couple of years ago, I was driving and listening to one of the founders of Real Clear Politics being interviewed on talk radio.

He was asked to pick just one book that would revolutionize the understanding of economics in this country (in other words, turn the tide completely away from the standard, government-issued Marxist crap taught in schools these days) and here it is:

The Foundation for Economic Education presents:

Henry Hazlitt's 1946 ECONOMICS IN ONE LESSION

PREFACE: This book is an analysis of economic fallacies that are at last so prevalent that they have almost become a new orthodoxy. The one thing that has prevented this has been their own self-contradictions, which have scattered those who accept the same premises into a hundred different “schools,” for the simple reason that it is impossible in matters touching practical life to be consistently wrong. But the difference between one new school and another is merely that one group wakes up earlier than another to the absurdities to which its false premises are driving it, and becomes at that moment inconsistent by either unwittingly abandoning its false premises or accepting conclusions from them less disturbing or fantastic than those that logic would demand.

There is not a major government in the world at this moment, however, whose economic policies are not influenced if they are not almost wholly determined by acceptance of some of these fallacies. Perhaps the shortest and surest way to an understanding of economics is through a dissection of such errors, and particularly of the central error from which they stem. That is the assumption of this volume and of its somewhat ambitious and belligerent title. . .

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Tea Party Protest Announced: Occupy The Truth August 18th, Cleveland, OH

Breaking Announcement: “Occupy the Truth” March For Peace & Justice Set For Cleveland, Ohio

Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, August 4, 2012, 12:52 PM

PRESS RELEASE
August 4, 2012, 1 p.m. EDT
Tea Party Protest Announced: Occupy The Truth August 18^th, Cleveland, OH
—–Director of Hating Breitbart, Andrew Marcus, and Blogger Powerhouse Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit announce a Tea Party Protest “Occupy The Truth” set for August 18^th in Cleveland, Ohio—–

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ISLAMOPHOBIA

Exposing the Islamophobes

If an asset is not FULLY liquid and available to you, then it isn't really yours at all

On 401ks

Posted by Ann Barnhardt - August 3, AD 2012 7:26 PM MST

 

401k plan of attack: 
 
1. STOP MAKING CONTRIBUTIONS if you haven't already.

2. Liquidate it. Pay the "penalty". Would you rather pay a penalty or have it all stolen? Or possibly replaced with a "government savings account" comprised of Treasury paper which will probably default or be confiscated long before you are ever allowed to "tap it", and will NOT be able to be passed to your heirs should you croak, but will instead be resorbed back into the collective? Oh, and don't bother whining to me about the "tax consequences". Paying income taxes to this satanic baby-killing Christ-hating government is now, absolutely MORTAL SIN. Why, why, why would you pay taxes?

3. If you can't liquidate it, take out a loan on the balance. Take out the maximum possible loan, and then set up the repayment schedule on the longest possible term.

Now, let's talk about all of you out there who are not permitted by your employer to liquidate your 401k. That decision rests with the PLAN ADMINISTRATOR, who is your employer, be it an individual or a board.

What kind soulless, psychopathic monster would refuse to let their own employees have access to their own money? What POSSIBLE reason could there be for a business owner or a board to refuse to fill out a few forms, sign at a few documents and just let people have their own money?

If your employer will not let you out of your 401k, you need to sit down and think long and hard about who you are working for, and why you are working for them, because they are, by definition, bad people.
Finally, what lesson can we learn from this? How about this: If you don't have access to something, if you cannot take physical possession of it, if all you have is someone telling you that they are taking care of your money, which you cannot touch or have access to - THEN IT ISN'T YOUR MONEY, AND IT NEVER WAS. In short, you have been conned.

If your employer won't let you liquidate your 401k, that means that your employer has CONNED YOU by telling you that they were paying you a wage of X, when in reality it was less than X by the amount of your 401k contribution amount. Go sit down and figure it out. Back out your 401K contributions off the top of your pay as if they never existed. THAT is your actual wage, if your employer refuses to let you out. Would you have ever agreed to work for that wage?

For those of you who come out on the other side of this collapse and war, you must always remember that if an asset is not FULLY liquid and available to you, then it isn't really yours at all, and you have to assume that all such arrangements are nefarious and must be rejected.

The Obama Campaign is suing to keep military votes from counting

They can fight...they can die...they can be maimed...but they can't vote!

Wonder why not?

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Who is covering up Obama's shady past and why?

WHO IS BARACK OBAMA?

Glenn Beck fills Dallas Cowboy Stadium, helps poor, media ignores

Tens of thousands serve in Dallas for Restoring Love, media ignores

“CBS News is reporting 65,000 people show up at Dallas Cowboy stadium on Saturday. Now, I just want to give this some perspective. CBS News is the same organization that said 87,000 people showed up at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. So 65,000 according to CBS News, 65,000 were at the stadium and only 87,000 were on the ‑‑ in the mall, that’s ‑‑ well, here’s the difference, I should point out: All the people that showed up, the 87,000 people that showed up in the mall were enormously fat,” he joked.

GBTV: Glenn Beck: Mercury One Food Drive

Ahmadinejad: WE MUST DESTROY ISRAEL

In a speech published on his website Thursday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the ultimate goal of world forces must be the annihilation of Israel.

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Watch topless women get arrested

Thanks to Atlas Shrugs:

FEMEN STRIKES AGAIN!

My first report on FEMEN (and other feminist groups):

Getting Naked to Change the World

We just finished Part One of HUMAN TRAFFICKING and I must say it will put a whole new perspective on the goings on above...really.

Chick-fil-A LA (San Fernando Valley) and around the USA! - UPDATES

This is "my" Chick-fil-A where I spent several hours in terrible (but dry) heat today--wouldn't have survived it without the company providing ice-cold water in plastic cups from big jugs set up on a table outside. Don't be deceived: the line went for a LONG way behind what you see in this picture (Northridge, California) provided by a friend, Ari David and his wife:

Gwilym and Ari David sent this from Los Angeles to
Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit

Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day – as it is being called was the idea of former Arkansas governor and Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee. But as protests against Chick-fil-A swelled across the country, dozens of groups and prominent individuals joined in support of the company.

From
GatewayPundit

MASSIVE LINES at Chick-fil-A on “National Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day” (Updated)

Wendy’s Restaurants in North Carolina Stand With Chick-fil-A

From
PowerLine

Chick-fil-A, live from Peabody (and Minneapolis)

Will post more links as I find them!

A great day in America!!!

From
KHOU-TV Channel 11
HOUSTON, TEXAS

Big crowds gather at local restaurants for ‘Chick-fil-A appreciation day’

From
Republicans for Black Empowerment
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA

Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day 036

From
DAILY MAIL ONLINE
UNITED KINGDOM

Chick-fil-A fans fight back: Thousands swarm drive-through lanes to support fast food chain at center of gay marriage firestorm

LOTS OF PHOTOS!

Here’s a map of the Chick-fil-A visits Legal Insurrectionists have sent photos or videos from thus far:

Legal Insurrection readers’ Chick-fil-A photos

POSTSCRIPT:

Cruz-ing to a Bruising, Catered by Chick-fil-A

Chick-fil-A 'Set a World Record'

Chick-fil-A confirms 'record-setting day' on 'Appreciation Day'

Republican Senator Marco Rubio attacks Michele Bachmann

Caroline Glick: The Muslim Brotherhood's American defenders

For their efforts to warn about and perhaps cause the administration to abandon its reliance on Muslim Brotherhood front groups to inform it about the nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, Bachmann and her colleagues have been denounced as racists and McCarthyites. These attacks have not been carried out only by administration supporters. Republican Senator John McCain denounced Bachmann from the floor of the Senate. Republican Senator Marco Rubio later piled on attacking her for her attempt to convince the administration to reconsider its policies. Those policies again place the most radical members of the US Muslim community in charge of the US government's policies toward the Muslim Brotherhood and other jihadist movements.

It is clear that the insidious notion that the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate and friendly force has taken hold in US policy circles. And it is apparent that US policymaking in the Middle East is increasingly rooted in this false and dangerous assessment.

In spearheading an initiative to investigate and change this state of affairs, Rep. Bachmann and her colleagues should be congratulated, not condemned. And their courageous efforts to ask the relevant questions about the nature of Muslim Brotherhood influence over US policymakers should be joined, not spurned by their colleagues in Washington, by the media and by all concerned citizens in America and throughout the free world.

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He's not a "natural born" citizen and he's on the wrong side of a very important national security issue...not a good combination!

Do you want to know when the "economic collapse" is going to happen?

Just open up your eyes and take a look.  The "economic collapse" is already happening all around us. . .

The economic collapse has been happening, it is happening right now, and it will be getting a lot worse.  Yes, there will be moments of great crisis.  We saw one of those "waves" back in 2008 and another "wave" is rapidly approaching.  But all of the waves are part of a process that is continually unfolding. . .

The following are 65 signs that the economic collapse is already happening all around us. . .

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It isn’t looking bright for Attorney General Eric Holder, even if Obama can manage a victory in November

GOP Report Blames Five ATF Officials for Fast and Furious

We knew it was coming and now it is here

Rationing Begins: States Limiting Drug Prescriptions for Medicaid Patients

Thanks, Obama!

Federal Court finds Obama appointees interfered with New Black Panther prosecution

A federal court in Washington, DC, held last week that political appointees appointed by President Obama did interfere with the Department of Justice’s prosecution of the New Black Panther Party.

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The most corrupt administration in the history of the United States of America.

"Fasten your seat belts, it's gonna be a bumpy ride"

11 Signs That Time Is Quickly Running Out For The Global Financial System

(Quote from "All About Eve" spoken by Bette Davis.)

The next Sarah Palin?

Will Pam Bondi Be The Next Vice President Of The United States?

8 Reasons Why It Might Actually Happen

Obamacare medical device tax killing jobs in the industry

A prediction come true:

A funny thing happened on the way to the passage of the health care bill. Congress had to pay for it. So, they cobbled together a couple billion here, wrung from taxing small-money business investments via crippling paperwork, and a couple billion there, taken from the wallets of tanning salon denizens. One of those taxes, forecasted to bring in $29 billion over 10 years, hits the medical device industry. Congress exempted such items as contacts and eyeglasses to prevent the tax hike from touching everyday purchases, but that doesn’t mean people won’t feel the cost in other ways, as Yonkman’s story illustrates.

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Romney's Jerusalem speech: "The contrast with Obama could hardly be more dramatic."

Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes quoted in PowerLine ... READ MORE

Check out Jonah Goldberg in the comments!

Lookin' good for Romney, bad for Obama.

NEW: GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY NETWORK

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TAKE ACTION NOW - STOP MEDIA BIAS!

Watch and see how the MSM covers --or doesn't-- this huge win for religious freedom

Hugh Hewitt:

I have said since the Obamacare decision came down that one of the silver linings is that we would get a ruling on the HHS regs from SCOTUS before this was through, and that ruling will either uphold the Religious Freedom Restoration Act or strike down the HHS regs on Free Exercise grounds.

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Have you heard of TeaPartyInsider.com ?

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The Tea Party Movement is unique in that it has no central control, nor any national leader. While this has been labeled both a strength and weakness, the model has thus far served the Tea Party quite well. It was immensely successful in the 2010 elections when forty of its candidates won election to Congress and the Senate. With the Movement's backing, the GOP realized its largest electoral gains since 1946.

Unquestionably, the Tea Party is attempting to play a major role in deciding who will emerge victorious from the 2012 elections. Given the unparalleled challenges facing the nation, the Movement realizes that there has never been a better opportunity to sell its ideas, advance its limited government agenda--- and flex its muscles to achieve another smashing electoral success.

And that work has already begun, as there are Tea Party Caucuses in both the Senate and House of Representatives, and jockeying for Tea Party backing in the presidential primaries in full swing.

With an expert staff leveraging close relationships with national Tea Party leaders, political commentators and presidential contenders, TeaPartyInsider is ideally situated to be the best source of accurate information for up to the minute developments and expert analysis on aspects of the Tea Party Movement.

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U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is preparing for “massive civil war” in America

Private Investigator Doug Hagmann goes on to say that

his sources tell him the concerns of the DHS stem from a collapse of the U.S. dollar and the hyperinflation a collapse in the value of the world’s primary reserve currency implies to a nation of 311 million Americans, who, for the significant portion of the population, is armed.

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AUGUST 3rd, WASHING D.C.: RALLY TO REPEAL OBAMACARE

SIGN PETITION!

In America today, there is very little that you can actually do without getting some sort of a "license" or a "permit" first

The American Dream: 19 Examples Of How Control Freaks Are Killing America With Their Completely Ridiculous Regulations

HAVE A CHIP ON YOUR SHOULDER?

Russian media magnate Dmitry Itskov is heading "Avatar," a tremendously ambitious and far-reaching multidisciplinary research project that aims to achieve immortality in humans within the next three decades. He plans to do it by housing human brains in progressively more disembodied vehicles, first transplanting them into robots and then, by the year 2045, by reverse-engineering the human brain and effectively "downloading" human consciousness onto a computer chip.

THE AVATAR PROJECT

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1st:"CHICK-FIL-A APPRECIATION DAY"

THE AMERICAN DREAM

"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit. We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that. We operate as a family business ... our restaurants are typically led by families; some are single. We want to do anything we possibly can to strengthen families. We are very much committed to that"

Chick-fil-A does not discriminate.

They serve anyone that wants a chicken burger and they are open to hiring anyone. It is just that the CEO of the company does not think gay marriage is a good idea (along with half of the rest of America) and this absolutely infuriates the politically correct crowd.

Want to know how you can help?

Wednesday, August 1st, has been designated as "Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day". I encourage all of you to go out and buy a chicken burger that day to show your support of free speech. If we don't stand up for free speech now, soon it will be totally gone. Already, the name of Jesus is becoming a forbidden word all over America. Just consider the following examples. . .

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THE NAME OF THE GAME

"The name of the game being played against Chick-fil-A involved ending the discussion, by ruling one side of this important social debate completely out of order, and dismissing their beliefs as unworthy of respect. All resistance to gay marriage is instantly transmuted into personal hatred of gay people. On the other hand, criticism of traditional marriage proponents cannot be viewed as hateful, no matter how angrily it might be expressed. It’s a rigged heads-we-win, tails-you-lose game. . ."

In the end, we will end up just like North Korea if we are not very careful.

The Entrepreneurs Hour

Hugh Hewitt today: Three entrepreneurs join me in hour three today

SHOW TRANSCRIPTS

The story of jobs

EconomicFreedom.org

"It's not about jobs, it's about entrepreneurs. The only way to grow the economy is to truly learn how to grow entrepreneurs."

--Michael Gerber, World’s #1 Small Business Guru (creator of "E-Myth")

Government surveillance of Americans — off-the-radar and under wraps — is growing at an exponential rate

...there was a “key decision made shortly after 9/11, which began to rapidly turn the United States of America into the equivalent of a foreign nation for dragnet blanket electronic surveillance.”

Yes, something changed after 9/11 and we ended up with a president who NEVER replaced his Muslim name "Hussein" with a Christian name as most do when they undergo a religious conversion (as he professes to have done).

Although Drake’s accusations seem astounding, they corroborate allegations made by Binney only a week earlier. Speaking at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York City earlier this month, Binney addressed a room of thousands about the NSA’s domestic spying efforts. But in a candid interview with journalist Geoff Shively during HOPE, the ex-NSA official candidly revealed the full extent of the surveillance program.

“Domestically, they're pulling together all the data about virtually every U.S. citizen in the country and assembling that information, building communities that you have relationships with, and knowledge about you; what your activities are; what you're doing. So the government is accumulating that kind of information about every individual person and it's a very dangerous process,” Binney said.

Drake and Binney’s statements follow the revelation that law enforcement officers collected cell phone records on 1.3 million Americans in 2011. More news articles are emerging every day suggesting that the surveillance of Americans — off-the-radar and under wraps — is growing at an exponential rate.

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

When members of our military and law enforcement start taking these things seriously, so do I.

A former CA Highway Patrol officer forwarded to me the following email he received:

"When I first started watching this video I thought it was BS, then at 7 minutes into the clip I became curious,and concerned.

Thought I would forward this for your take."

Semper Fi,
Bill

So then I forwarded it to a former Army combat infantry Veteran who has current direct connections = Association linked closely with active duty combat infantry units both Germany & U.S.

He says this:

"I can not say with certainty that the item here is totally legit.

However, what I can say with some confidence is that at least some of the active duty infantry folks with whom I am close have told me they have been assigned to attend more than one session involving control of civilian populations, including how to disarm, etc. These classes have taken place over the past 90-120 days.

When the active duty folks have asked why they are being assigned to attend this specific training, they are simply told it is basic continuing education. But there is talk among the ranks on this topic.

Just in case you're interested, here's the article (which has the video) they were discussing:

Troops Ordered To Kill All Americans Who Do Not Turn In Guns

The UN Arms Trade Treaty that has been identified by observers as a flagrant threat to the second amendment and which Barack Obama is determined to sign has its roots in a 1961 State Department memorandum which explains how the United Nations will oversee “complete disarmament” of the American people under the ruse of preventing war. The UN Arms Treaty has caused so much controversy because it outlines a plan to target “all types of conventional weapons, notably including small arms and light weapons,” according to Forbes’ Larry Bell.

Former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton also warns that the agreement “is trying to act as though this is really just a treaty about international arms trade between nation states, but there is no doubt that the real agenda here is domestic firearms control.”

So what do you think?

It's an urban legend that the government launched the Internet

Somebody, please: tell Obama! If a teacher told their students as many falsehoods as Obama keeps telling the citizens, they'd be fired (well, in the old days they would've been fired).

WSJ:

Contrary to legend, it wasn't the federal government, and the Internet had nothing to do with maintaining communications during a war.

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HAT TIP: Hot Air.

FBI document issued 5/17/12 warning of theater attacks disappears

"Many thanks to Julio Rausseo for getting this information out."


7/21/2012 -- FBI theater attack warning issued on May 17, 2012


VIDEO

SHOCK: United Airlines employees kicked disabled vet's service dog...twice!

This happened at Dulles Airport in Washington. These employees should be charged with a crime and dismissed. This is not acceptable!

Sarge, his service dog, was kicked once at the ticket counter and then once again on a shuttle.

And that's not the only shocking thing that happened:

Jim said the stress was overwhelming and asked a customer service representative for help because he had trouble reading a reservation email.

"He said, 'Just read it' and I said, 'Sir I can't read it,' and he said, 'What are you retarded?'" Jim recalls. "Prior to this I told him I have a brain injury and PTSD, I'm a disabled vet, this is my second night here; I need help."

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If Obama and the Democrats are re-elected in November, look for 25% unemployment because Atlas will have shrugged.

Mr. President the business of America is Business NOT Government

by Dick McDonald

I take President Obama’s latest slam against small business people personally.  I was a small business man for 30 years and during that time I did over 2,000 private placements to raise the capital to feed several million cattle. During that time the only obstacle I faced was government.  If it wasn’t SEC compliance, it was tax law concerns. If it wasn’t agricultural department red tape it was slaughter house regulations.

I conducted this business as a tennis shoe cowboy in Encino CA with the help of 2 or 3 clerical help.  To tell me I had to thank my lucky stars for government’s help is pure Marxian propaganda on the part of Obama.  Government restricted and limited my capabilities and opportunities at every turn. I won’t thank government I will fight it in the future to limit its powers.

With the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley and Dodd Frank legislation I couldn’t afford to do what I did for 30 years as it would cost me $200,000 to $400,000 for EACH private placement even before I attempted to get an investor.  No wonder start-ups have slowed and unemployment is sky rocketing; raising money for new ventures is limited to only the very wealthy who can afford the cost of these new regulations. Let’s face it, these regulations favor the very wealthy contrary to the BS Obama is selling the middle-class and poor people.

If Obama and the Democrats are re-elected in November, look for 25% unemployment because Atlas will have shrugged.

No strings?

NOT.

Campus Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum, reported that in 2006, someone at The Harvard Crimson wondered if something was up: No Strings Attached? [on Alwaleed's $20 million gift to Harvard]

Today, this delicate dance is no longer necessary:

Want to Know Just How Close the Muslim Brotherhood Is to the Obama Admin?

But it does explain why Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal would first contact Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Manour who would then contact Harlem lawyer Percy Sutton to wield his influence at Harvard to get Obama in.

Harlem lawyer Percy Sutton – whose clients included Malcolm X – explained that Islamic radical Khalid Abdullah Tariq al-Mansour, “one of the world’s wealthiest men,” asked him to write a letter of recommendation to Harvard Law School for then relatively unknown Barack Obama.

In the video, Sutton says he was introduced to Obama by al-Mansour, a Saudi citizen, who “was then raising money” for Obama.

Sutton described al-Mansour as being from Texas, saying al-Mansour was the “principal adviser to one of the world’s richest men,” most likely Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal.

Did radical Muslims help send Obama to Harvard?

The media's direct intervention to PREVENT a proper vetting of candidate Obama -- LA Times Withholds Video of Obama Toasting Former PLO Operative at Jew Bashing Dinner -- meant that the deal was sealed.

All these machinations mean there were some pretty high stakes involved.

Getting a friend of Islam in the White House was only the beginning.

2 myths about "the rich"

CNBC:

The presidential election has given us two myths about the rich. First, that their incomes, and income inequality, are at all-time highs. Second, that the wealthy pay less in taxes than ever, and lower taxes than the rest of us.

A recent report from the Congressional Budget Office, however, suggests that both may be false.

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HOW TO PREPARE FOR AN ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATION

Dennis Kennedy, TWAW [The Well Armed Woman] fan and Director of Training for Counter Terrorism Institute of America wrote an article on preparing for an active shooter situation. This article has been widely distributed and published you all are free to share with his blessing.
http://combat-terror.com/library/Active_Shooter_Training.pdf

Active Shooter Training for Citizens

By Dennis Kennedy

 

The recent shootings at Trolley Square, Virginia Tech and the Omaha Mall remind us that violence can strike at any time and in any place. These types of events are not unusual. They occur everywhere. They happen in churches, malls, schools and workplaces. They will happen again. Have a plan.

Whether you carry a gun or not, these are some precautions that everyone can take to be better prepared if it happens to you.

Family Emergency Plan - BEFORE any emergency occurs, develop a Family Emergency Plan. This plan may be used for any emergency. Keep it simple, such as developing a rendezvous point in the event you are separated. Have an alternative plan. No matter where you are, a simple plan is better than no plan.

Situational Awareness - Be AWARE of your surroundings and situation. NOT paranoid, just aware. Keeping the cell phone jammed in your ear 24/7 is not being AWARE. Even if you see something that does not seem right, leave and call police.

Find an EXIT - When out in public, look for and know how to get to the nearest TWO exits. Don’t concern yourself that they may be marked EMERGENCY, EMPLOYEE ONLY or ALARMED. You are going to use them anyway in an emergency.

Breakage - If you are trapped in an active shooter situation and there are no door exits but windows are available, BREAK THEM! Use whatever is available up to and including your firearm to break glass doors or windows to escape the threat!

Move - If you hear gunfire or see the shooter, immediately go to the nearest exit and AWAY from the shooter. The farther away you get, the safer you will be.

Lock It - If you are trapped in a location that has no exit, lock yourself and others inside. Use belts, electrical cords, rope or whatever is quickly available to secure the door. Barricade the door with furniture, desks or store displays. Be quiet and stay away from the doors. Do NOT open the doors for others once you are secured. Shooters have been known to pound on the doors pretending to be victims, begging for entry.

Stay put until the police break in to rescue you.

Fight Back! If you are trapped, cannot escape and the shooter makes entry into your location, FIGHT BACK! Immediately ATTACK with chairs, tables, fire extinguishers, books or whatever you have on hand. Everyone in the room must ATTACK, tackle him, bite, claw, stab or choke. If you do not fight back, savagely and with overwhelming force he will methodically kill everyone.

Armed Citizens - If you are armed with a firearm at the scene of an active shooter, your FIRST responsibility is to get your family to safety. Help others along the way if you can but immediately MOVE your own family out of the area first.

Call 911 - ASAP, get on the phone and give 911 the shooters description, location and type of weapon, if known. Give the dispatcher YOUR location and description. Make certain to tell the dispatcher that YOU ARE ARMED. The dispatcher may try and get you to put your weapon away. REFUSE and tell dispatch you will remain armed as long as the threat is active.

Take Cover - Place yourself between the shooter and others that may be with you. Have someone else talk on the phone. Your focus needs to be on the shooter.

Police Confrontations-If you are confronted by the police, keep your weapon muzzle pointed down. Raise your non-shooting hand up near your face in the SURRENDER position. Yell loudly at the officer “I am NOT the shooter”! Do EXACTLY and IMMEDIATELY whatever the officer orders you to do. Expect to be taken down at gunpoint and treated like the bad guy. Be thankful they didn’t shoot you. Don’t take it personal. What actions you took can be sorted out afterwards. If an officer asks you to help, comply and do as you’re told.

Additional thoughts:

1. Carry a good small flashlight whether you carry your gun or not.

     

2. Carry enough ammo.

3. Carry a working cell phone

4. Know trauma care. That is to say, know how to treat gun shot wounds and other injuries with whatever is on the scene. The police are trained to go straight to the shooter. They will NOT stop to help until after the shooter is stopped. You will be left to help yourself and others.

5. Be a good witness. Be prepared to give a coherent statement to the police about the incident.

6. Keep your mouth shut if you were forced to use deadly force. Only give a generic statement such as “he tried to kill me/us and I was forced to defend myself/us”. Stick to the 5th Amendment until you have a lawyer by your side. Remember, there will most certainly be a civil lawsuit coming. Keep your mouth shut. Protect your own civil rights. If you need to discuss it with someone, tell your lawyer or your clergy. Those are protected communications.

7. When you write your statement look up Utah law [substitute your own location] regarding use of force and include the exact same words that match what action you were forced to take. “I reasonably believed the force was necessary because...”

6. You have the RIGHT to keep and bear arms. You have a RESPONSIBILITY to train and become proficient with your firearm.

USE OF FORCE [research the law in your location]

76-2-402 Utah Code Annotated

Force in defense of person

Reasonably believes force is necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury:

1. Actions must be reasonable.

2. Force must be necessary.

3. Must show a significant threat of death or serious bodily injury.

A person is not justified:

     (a) If he initially provokes the use of force.

     (b) Is attempting or committing a crime.

     (c) Was the aggressor.

These events happen. They happen in churches, malls, schools and work places. They will happen again. If you are going to carry a firearm, be responsible and BE PREPARED.

About the author-Dennis Kennedy is Director of Training for the Counterterrorism Institute of America, LLC. Dennis is a 25 year veteran law enforcement Instructor and military special operations weapons NCO. He is a Utah POST certified Firearms Instructor as well as NRA Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor and Utah BCI Concealed Firearms Permit Instructor. He can be contacted via his company web site at:

www.combat-terror.com

Conservative scholars find loophole in wording of Obamacare--could send it back to court or Congress

A pair of conservative scholars believe they might have found a loophole in the wording of the Affordable Care Act which could wind up sending the law back to court, if not Congress.  In their paper, authors Jonathan Adler (Case Western Reserve University) and Michael Cannon (the Cato Institute), contend that the exact language of the law circumscribing the funds used to subsidize the state-run health exchanges now stands to severely undermine the rest of the law in light of how many governors have said they won’t be setting up these marketplaces in their states.

HEALTH ACTION NETWORK

Because Darkness Hates the Light – ROLL CALL!

Updates on the front lines of conservative blogging from ZILLA OF THE RESISTANCE

OBAMA’S KENYAN BIRTH RECORDS DISCOVERED IN BRITISH NATIONAL ARCHIVES

Evidence discovered shows British Protectorate of East Africa recorded Obama’s birth records before 1963 and sent returns of those events to Britain’s Public Records Office and the Kew branch of British National Archives.

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Saudis help finance Twitter...FOX...and Barack Hussein Obama

Did you know:

TechCrunch: More On That $300 Million Saudi Investment In Twitter: It’s Not New...

Saudis ...also happens to be the second-largest shareholder in News Corp., the parent company of the Fox News Channel.

VIDEO: Saudi Prince Alwaleed got Obama into Harvard.

What's next?

BREAKING: Investigators discover a flaw in Hawaii’s law that allows a foreigner to obtain a Hawaii birth certificate

[Arizona Sheriff Joe] Arpaio told WND he intends to move the investigation and the new information to a higher authority within the federal government because of what he calls an imminent threat to national security and U.S. immigration laws. The threat is posed by a flaw in Hawaii’s law discovered by his investigators that allows a foreigner to obtain a Hawaii birth certificate.

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LIBOR-gate Explodes: What will Obama Do About His Banker Connections?

"The largest financial scandal in the world today."

The entire explosive LIBOR-gate package has "Barack Obama and Tim Geithner" written all over it, and could well explode right under Obama's political nose before the Sept. 3 Democratic Convention. . .

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A recent editorial in the British Medical Journal recommends dehydrating dementia patients to death to save money

Coming soon to an Obamacarehood near you:

Gateway Pundit

The liberals never stop.

The Clinton Casualties

A "Casualty" is defined as anyone threatened with harm or actually harmed because of their knowledge of and/or involvement in one or more of the Clinton Scandals.

The following is a partial list of a large number of persons who who are presumed to be "Casualties" of the various Clinton scandals. President Clinton had promised his political supporters in Arkansas he will devote a lot of time going after detractors who pursued him on Whitewater and other ethical questions. (USA Today, November 8, 1996). It is a partial list because new addditions are added regularly and the full extent of being associated with Bill Clinton is not completly known.

The accounting of these mysterious deaths began in 1994 when in a letter to congressional leaders, former Rep. William Dannemeyer listed 24 people with some connection to Clinton who had died "under other than natural circumstances" and called for hearings on the matter. Dannemeyer's list of "suspicious deaths" was largely taken from one compiled by Linda Thompson, an Indianapolis lawyer, containing the names of 34 people she believed died suspiciously and who had ties to the Clinton family.

Some of the "Casualties" were openly murdered, but many were killed in such a way so that their deaths could be ruled accidents or suicides. This was especially true if they died in Arkansas where the medical examiners routinely ruled apparent murders as either accidents or suicides when it suited political purposes. In fact, this was so common that it was often referred to as "Arkancide" or "Arkansas Suicide".

"An apparent pattern of violence and intimidation has befallen a number of men and women with ties to Bill and Hillary Clinton, their partners in business, law and politics, and people investigating their affairs..." (The Arizona Republic, June 7, 1994)

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Email Mitt now!

PLEASE, EVERYONE:
Go here and tell Mitt he's got to fight back:
http://www.mittromney.com/forms/suggestions

Michele Bachmann strikes back!

BOMBSHELL

New evidence: The mysterious death of Obama "staffer" Alex Okrent - UPDATE

Who Is Dead Obama Staffer Alex Okrent?


This is not the first homosexual man close to Obama who has died!

Among the members of the gay “DLC” were Obama and TUCC’s choir director, Donald Young, an openly gay man who reportedly had a sexual relationship with Obama. Two other gay members of the church were Larry Bland and Nate Spencer. Young and Bland were brutally murdered, execution style, in late 2007. Bland was murdered on November 17, 2007 and Young on December 24, 2007. The latter was killed by multiple gunshot wounds. Spencer reportedly died on December 26, 2007, official cause of death: “septicemia, pneumonia, and HIV.”

IS OBAMA GAY?


UPDATE:

Chicago Tribue: Autopsy "inconclusive"

Mitt: Will we win?

Did you know...

"If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen" -- Obama (7/14/12)

The Connection between Fast and Furious and the Trayvon Martin Case

American Thinker: Taking Down the Second Amendment