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Mercy For Everyone But Pollard?

March 12, 2013

One of the ideals and hopes we have as Americans is equality under the law. Whatever is written into our laws is applied equally to all citizens.

Now, when it comes to espionage, there are different thresholds for different crimes against our nation, all dependent upon the damage to national security. Understandable indeed. But, when we find that there is a severe inequity in our treatment of spies from enemy States over friendly States...and an apparent favoritism of the former...we have an issue that must be resolved post haste.

Case in point: In 1985, Jonathan Pollard was indicted on one charge: One count of passing classified information to an ally, without intent to harm the United States. He was sentenced to Life in prison.

This was unprecedented.

No one in US History has ever received a life sentence for passing classified information to an ally, except Jonathan Pollard. He was never accused of, or indicted for treason. Nor was he ever indicted for harming the US. His only indictment was one count of passing classified information to an ally. The normal sentence this charge carries is 2 to 4 years. Yet, lacking benefit of trial and as the result of a government-violated plea agreement, Pollard received the same sentence as the infamous Aldrich Ames...a high-ranking CIA employee (the chief of counter intelligence in Eastern Europe and the USSR) who spied for the Soviet Union and was indicted for treason. A traitor who gave critical defense secrets to a US enemy, which resulted in the deaths of at least 11 US agents.

That screams inequity to me...

For your comparison, here are a few examples of how sentences were meted out to those who spied for:

American Allies - Peter Lee spied for China received 1 year in halfway house/ J. Reece Roth spied for China & Iran received 4 years/ Samuel Morison spied for Great Britain received 2 years (served 3 months)/ Philip Selden spied for El Salvador received 2 years/ Robert Kim spied for South Korea received 9 years.

American Enemies - Elsa Alvarez spied for Cuba received 3 years/ Mohammed Reza Alavi spied for Iran received 15 months/ Brian Horton spied for the Soviet Union received 6 years/ Hassan Abu-Jihaad spied for Al-Qaida received 10 years/ Troung Dinh Ung spied for North Vietnam received 15 years/ James Hall spied for Soviet Union & East Germany received 40 years/ Robert Hanssen spied for Soviet Union received Life sentence.

These few examples show a stark inequity of punishment for the crimes committed by Pollard. Additionally, the treatment of Pollard while incarcerated has been abhorrent. Pollard spent 7 years in solitary confinement. Jonathan Stuart Grassian, a psychiatrist who studies solitary confinement, found that common effects of solitary confinement include increased sensitivity to stimuli, hallucinations, and other changes in perception, as well as cognitive problems including memory loss, difficulty thinking, and impulsiveness. Those are the results for a much briefer period of solitary.

Pollard was also unjustly held for a year in a mental asylum for the criminally insane (which may have been the result of the prolonged period of solitary). There, he was routinely deprived of his clothing and eyeglasses in attempts to degrade and crush him.

The question is why? What's the reasoning for this cruel treatment? Why this interminable sentence? The disparity between this punishment and the sentences for other similar offenders, is immense.

It's time for our nation to show mercy to this man. And since Mr. Obama portrays himself to be a great friend to the Jewish State, why not show that friendship in a magnanimous move to either commute his sentence or straight out pardon Pollard?

Because, according to the Judeo-Christian Scriptures: Mercy is better than sacrifice (Hosea 6:6).

Shalom through strength...

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Kerry: Just As Fakakte* As His Boss

March 11, 2013

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." ~Frank Zappa

Well, Sec. of State John Kerry is off to a stupid start. And I say that with all due respect to the office...

His first speech was at the University of Virginia...where he spoke of the American "sacred" duty to address climate change for future generations (I'm sorry, I missed that one in our Founding documents). "Sacred"...really? That's odd terminology for a political representative to use. Not to mention disturbing, unless you are an Earth worshipper.

Then Kerry took off to Berlin...and displayed his lack of vast knowledge on religion and religious freedom. Kerry said, "In America, you have a right to be stupid." Well, THAT was a stupid thing to say...

That's his understanding of religious freedom in the US? If Kerry would have cracked a book and studied his predecessors, like Thomas Jefferson, our first Sec. of State, he would have understood (which he does not) the critical importance of religious freedom. Jefferson said regarding this issue, "For I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

I mention this quote due to the drivel that Kerry offered next...

Kerry:

"You have intolerance in a number of different kinds of religions or points of view in different things. I know that Islam is not represented by a lot of jihadists and others. I know it’s a beautiful religion. I’ve read more and more about it."

He's reading a book...now that's encouraging, but wait...

Kerry continued:
"I’ve been reading a book recently called No god but God, which is the history of the Prophet and where he came from and how it developed as a religion. It’s fascinating. If I went back to college today, I’d probably go back and be a comparative religion major and a comparative literature major, because those are the things that help you understand what makes people tick and how they’re working and how they think. But the important thing is to have the tolerance to say you can have a different point of view."

Aww, and to think we were encouraged.

The book he referred to is on the Useful Idiots reading list...it's written by Reza Aslan, an unofficial Iranian regime operative who researcher/scholar Robert Spencer calls a, "quintessential example of a deceptive Islamic supremacist who is widely taken as a "moderate," and is thus a good illustration of how people can be taken in by such snake-oil peddlers." In other words, he's a taqiyya-practicing Muslim (lies for the sake of Islam). Aslan is a Board member of the National Iranian American Council, and is regarded as an apologist for the Islamic Republic of Iran. Aslan has also requested that the U.S. Government negotiate with Ahmadinejad and Hamas...the head of a State Sponsor of Terrorism and a group listed on the State Dept. list of Terrorist Organizations.

Sounds moderate to me...

Over 20,000 deadly terror attacks have been committed by Islamic terrorists globally since 9/11. That's not "beautiful" but barbaric, Mr. Kerry.

Kerry clearly fits this fakakte* administration to a T. Like the bumbling Count Jester Biden, he'll keep us both amused and worried.

I will say Kerry was right about one thing: You have a right to be stupid in America...and he's already thoroughly proved that.

*Fakakte - Yiddish for screwed-up.

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REELTalk: Sequestration, Chavez & Injustice with JD Gordon & Vicki Behenna

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is former Spokesman for the DoD, JD Gordon to discuss the Sequestration. Was it more Obama Drama? And the death of Hugo Chavez...what will Iran and Sean Penn do now? PLUS, Vicki Behenna will share the story of her son Michael, the injustice perpetrated by his country upon him...and what we can do to help free this hero!!

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Will Obama Encourage The Third Intifada?

February 4, 2013

"He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.' ~Leonardo da Vinci

In just 2 1/2 weeks, Obama will land at Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel...something the self-proclaimed greatest helper of Israel of all American Presidents, has never seen necessary to do in over 4 years. Sounds more like an aversion than an affinity for the Jewish State to me...

The man (not representing the majority of American sentiment for Israel) has worked diligently to diss the Israeli PM (detailed in earlier articles). He has helped Israel's enemies keep the boot on Israel's neck concerning surrender of more Jewish Land. And more recently, he's been working overtime to arm the country whose new Parliament considers Israel its #1 enemy, with 16 F-16s and 200 Abrams tanks. How should Israel take that...as more from the Helper-in-Chief?

Israeli's Army Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz is recommending preparations for a Third Intifada (Palestinian uprising). There have been signs for some time that the Palestinian Authority (PA) was stirring up their minions to push the Israelis once again.

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REELTalk: ROCK-FUNK-R&B-JAZZin' It with Bryan Duncan

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is award-winning musician, songwriter and author: BRYAN DUNCAN. We're talking awesome eclectic styling, real right-where-you-live talk and Radio Rehab! And we'll be discussing his new CD project: Conversations. Call-in, say 'hey' or ask Bryan a question...It's a music experience that's unforgettable!

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Obama Visits Israel OR When Satan Came To Town

February 27, 2013

"False friends are worse than bitter enemies." Scottish Proverb

Well, well, well...over four years after taking office, the 'friend' of Israel is finally visiting the Jewish State. Why did he wait so long? Did he have trouble finding it on a map? The smartest man in the room was unable to figure out how to work his GPS or Google Earth?

No, there's no lack of comprehension nor mistake on Obama's part. The President's deliberate avoidance of visiting our only ally in the Middle East is no surprise to those of us who were paying attention since he declared his candidacy in 2007.

You'd have to be either incredibly stupid or intentionally blind not to have seen this administration's disdain and disrespect for Jews and the Jewish State. The empirical evidence is overwhelming. Not including the reprehensible acts and attitudes by Obama's minions, here's just a sampling of his detestable menu of machinations:

Obama spent 20+ years under the close tutelage of a man, Jeremiah Wright, who spewed hatred toward Jews for years in his sermons and included on the "Pastor's Page" in 2007 of his church newsletter, this remark from a member of Hamas: "I must tell you that Israel was the closest ally to the white supremacists of South Africa. In fact, South Africa allowed Israel to test its nuclear weapons in the ocean off South Africa. The Israelis were given a blank check: they could test whenever they desired and did not even have to ask permission. Both worked on an ethnic bomb that kills Blacks and Arabs."
Obama's friend Wright also helped lead the anti-Semitic Global March to Jerusalem...and Obama said nothing to dissuade him or renounce his acts.
Obama has great respect for Robert Malley, Mideast Director of the International Crisis Group (ICG). Over the years, Malley has penned numerous articles and op-eds condemning Israel, vindicating Palestinians, urging the U.S. to disengage from Israel, and recommending that America reach out to negotiate with its traditional Arab enemies such as Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas.
Obama chose an anti-Semitic military advisor, General Merrill "Tony" McPeak.
Obama has repeatedly removed Israel from the list of countries struck by terrorism.
Obama chose Ingrid Mattson, leader of a Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group ISNA (Islamic Society of North America), to recite a prayer during his January 2009 inauguration.
Obama has chosen a new Secretary of Defense (Chuck Hagel), with, what some would argue, a clear anti-Jewish past.
Obama has blamed Israel for the terror committed against it, and made that accusation through Biden, Panetta & Hillary.
Obama has attempted to 'fundamentally transform' the meaning of Passover by comparing the Muslim uprising to the Exodus. (Huh??)

Obama has dissed the Israeli PM Binyamin 'Bibi' Netanyahu as no US President has ever dared to...and more than once:

Obama failed to give Bibi the respect due a world leader...he would not allow any photos taken with the PM (but had no problem posing with the thug-o-crat Chavez in the past). Obama did the same to Bibi on another occasion...a public insult, and intended as such.
Upon reluctantly meeting with Bibi at the White House, Obama handed the PM 13 demands, key among those were a call to halt all new settlement construction in East Jerusalem (which belongs to Israel). According to the London Telegraph, when the Israeli PM delayed, Obama arose from his seat stating: "I'm going to the residential wing to have dinner with Michelle and the girls." And as he departed, Netanyahu was told to contemplate the error of his ways.

So, Obama's finally going. The timing reveals a few things:

He's not doing it out of respect for the Jewish State or their leadership...he has none for either.
He's doing it for a legacy.

He's already accomplished what he wanted with the US, by crushing our economy, diminishing our defense forces and becoming the healthcare proxy for granny and the kids. Now he wants to be the Messiah for all the sycophantic Jihadis in the Middle East by injecting venom into Bibi's ability to gather a coalition government...and help get an acquiescent leader into Israel that will fold like a cheap camera for a few faux promises.

So, Bibi...don't be fooled by his Cheshire cat smile...the Devil takes many shapes and forms: And you know THIS Devil.

Shalom through strength...

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Hey Dorothy: If They Only Had A Pair

February 26, 2013

It is time to wax veracious about one of the most disturbing and chilling realities in US history: When it comes to speaking the truth about Islam – our political class just doesn’t have a pair.

This gaggle of sniveling shills has demonstrated (ad nauseam) that they’d rather bestow sugary accolades upon Islam than discuss its hyper-anti-Semitic and misogynistic practices. Practices — by the way– that are profoundly rooted in Koranic dogma...

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Weeniewood: Mocking Jesus, Never Muhammed

February 25, 2013

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." ~William Shakespeare

Who doesn't like an Action/Adventure flick every once in a while? Hollywood LOVES to show off its muscle in every Action movie...you know, give 'em blood and gore, they'll want a whole lot more! But with all their Tough-Guy flicks, their recent parody on SNL (Saturday Night Live) proves...

Tinseltown is nothing but: Weeniewood!

NBC (just in time for Lent) parodied director Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Bastards" and the more recent "Django Unchained," over the weekend with a repugnantly violent, fictitious movie trailer (skit) about Jesus wreaking bloody retribution upon the Romans who killed him, titled: DJesus Uncrossed.

Oh those guys are such a bunch of kidders...trashing the central Figure of Christianity...it's such a knee-slapper!! After all, the TRUE religion of peace is safe, since no Biblical Christian will call for your death...or try to slaughter you.

So, the question arises: Well, for the sake of fairness, when is the trailer for Muhammed Goes Postal coming out? (Actually, he himself led 72 bloody campaigns against infidels like you and me, so that would be a documentary, not a parody.)

Have you seen a movie or TV skit critical or sarcastic about Muhammed? Of course not. In fact, you will NEVER see a flick with Muhammed in it, unless it is lying about who he was. But why, pray tell?

Because behind the writing, staging and post-production...they are lily livered invertebrates! As the bullies (the real cowards) they are...it's always easier to shove those who won't shove back. Mock those who won't retaliate. That describes the maturity of Christians.

But...it does NOT describe the violent tendencies of the followers of Muhammed and the Quran. If you happen to be an unbeliever in Islam...your death is called for if you even SPEAK Muhammed's name, no less mock him. And Hollywood knows this...and pulls up its frilly little bloomers and runs like little girls at the mention of mocking Allah's maniacal minion.

So up the sleeve of all those tough-guys is, in reality, a limp wrist? Yuppers...that's the result of no backbone.

Weeniewood: If you want my last vestige of respect, stop going back to WWII for your content. The Nazis are history. Try focusing on the present and reality...

Even if it means your head...ALLAH AKBAR, ladies!!

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Adoring Dorner: Liberals Can't Be Evil

February 22, 2013

So the mad monster, who made his foundation the unhinged whimsy of the Left, is now a Crispy Critter. Finally...

But what was revealed during the chase of this evil-doer was what the Left really thinks of itself and its ideology.

Creepy Christopher Dorner loved liberalism. It was unequivocal in his Manifesto. He lavished accolades upon Lefty media minions and heralded Obama and his crew. CNN and MSNBC did a quid pro quo with Dorner...he loved them...and they loved him right back. It just gives the nearest Kool-Aid drinker a thrill up their leg...ooOOOOooo

Meanwhile, four innocent people lay dead, numerous injured...all because a liar, who received justice for his lies, couldn't be a man and take it. He knew he lied, and when found guilty, the Lefty felt...as all Lefties do, since they and their worldview is superior to their opposition: Nothing evil they do is actually evil. They are too good to be evil.

Liberalism has two rules:

Liberals are always right.
If a Liberal is wrong, refer to rule one.

Sounds a whole lot like the Muslim terrorists we infidels are in constant defense against. They believe, via the Quran, that they are superior to the infidel. Therefore anything they do in their battle with us...that would ordinarily be perceived as evil: Is just, right and fair.

Hence, the Left's perception, and coverage, of Dorner. His battle was with non-Liberals. Their worldview is inferior, therefore by whatever means possible...get justice.

Saul Alinsky (a man who sent a thrill up Obama's leg) once said in Rules For Radicals (page 24): "The man of action views the issue of means and ends in pragmatic and strategic terms. He has no other problem; he thinks of his actual resources and the possibilities of various choices of action. He asks of ends only whether they are achievable and worth the cost; of means, only whether they will work."

Slaughtering innocent people to get your way...or get 'justice'...apparently made Dorner an Alinsky's "man of action". Nice.

And as 'Rev.' Al always shrieks: No justice, no peace...and Dorner now has an eternity of the later...

And that's what I call justice!

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REELTalk: Obamacare & Sequestration with Betsy McCaughey & JD Gordon

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews on February 21, 2013 @6PM ET, is former Lt. Governor for NYS, BETSY McCAUGHEY, to discuss Obamacare: How will it cause you harm! And columnist & former Spokesman for the DoD, JD GORDON will be with us to discuss the pending Sequestration and our National Security!!

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Brennan: Confirming A Chink In Our Armor

February 19, 2013

"You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes." ~C. Everett Koop

We're about to have a new CIA Director. Up on the confirmation block: John Brennan. He's currently Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, the Drone Czar...of Obama's killer Drone program.

Now, this is the administration that's vehemently against enhanced interrogation techniques (which it considers harsh, yet has provided critical info on terrorists)...but has NO problem blowing up terrorists and killing innocent civilians in the process. And those civilians include children.

Some totals for Drone attacks in Pakistan from 2009-2011:

2009 - 122 civilian deaths, including 39 children
2010 - 214 civilian deaths, including 20 children
2011 - 137 civilian deaths, including 11 children

For Pakistan alone (excluding Yemen & Somalia), from 2009-2011, a total 473 civilians were killed by these strikes, including 70 children. I included the total of children killed because, after all...with Libs: It's all about the children!

The drone vs. enhanced interrogation is not the only problem...

Brennan has many more troubling issues not widely known. According to a former colleague in the FBI, when Brennan was stationed in Saudi Arabia, he converted to Islam. Problem? For me, yes, due to the ideology. But for a PC-infested government, no. So, why is Brennan in the closet about his Muslim faith? (I could ask the same question of Grover Norquist, but I that's for another article.) Isn't Brennan proud of his new 'faith'? His boss has an affinity for it, so what's the problem?

To further confirm Brennan's covert love for his new ideology, I watched him in a video clip speaking to a Muslim audience at the White House, and here's the clip for your perusal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VQbAhqHoAo

Quite noticeable in the video of Brennan speaking Arabic to a Muslim audience was his change in demeanor when he touched his heart saying "Inshallah" translated Allah willing...

Then I viewed a clip of an interview of Brennan by my friend Jim Robbins of the Washington Times: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_

embedded&v=XRqecTQbR5g

It's clear that there is a serious and surreptitious problem with Brennan. Is he a Muslim hiding his identity from his infidel audience, using the doctrine of Taqiyya (lying to infidels for the sake of Islam)? His emotional response in taking umbrage for a completely legit question from Jim Robbins, is disturbing at least. Why did he refuse to answer? Did the question expose his paltering? Does he now don the thin-skinned veneer of terror-linked miscreants like CAIR, when you get too close to the facts?

If our leaders confirm Brennan for this critical national security position, they will have blood on their hands of whatever emanates from a man who fawns over a perverse ideology. A man, who conceals that he's a follower of the 'faith' that is responsible for some of the most heinous crimes against humanity in the last 1,400 years (remember...Hitler also had an affinity for Islam).

Confirming a chink in our armor is insidious. Here's hoping our representatives will not, in ignorance, allow these red flags to pass and eventually merge into a sea of innocent American blood. And make no mistake: If the Senate says "yay"...they will be accomplices to whatever his deeds may be.

Shalom through strength...

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Source Of Our Woes: One Flew Over The Liberals' Nest

February 15, 2013

"The madness of liberalism is that it always shifts the blame away from the perpetrators [of evil] to America. We are the only nation that has this developed sense of self-hatred, an irrational self-loathing that borders on the mentally insane." – Ellis Washington

The rhetoric concerning guns, the 2nd Amendment and mass shootings are focused on the wrong target. Those who feel (and I stress 'feel' since the arguments are based on emotion and void of facts) stricter gun laws would make everyone safer, may sound reasonable, but is neither rational nor carries any empirical evidence to support it.

The real problem we now face, is another product of the 1960's rebellion. One based in nihilistic and self-serving worldviews that tainted all of academia. But none so perniciously as those against Psychiatry and the Mental Health Sciences.

We are replete, not only in NYC but in all cities, towns and villages across this nation...with a variety of mentally ill individuals among us thanks to the influence of several individuals. Psychiatrists David Cooper (South African trained Marxist revolutionary, working in Britain), R. D. Laing (from Scotland), Theodore Lidz (from America), Silvano Arieti (from Italy), but most influential in the US: Dr. Thomas Szasz.

One of their arguments was that "schizophrenia" and psychosis were understandable, and resulted from injuries to the inner self-inflicted by psychologically invasive "schizophrenogenic" parents or others; it was sometimes viewed as a transformative state attempting to cope with a sick society.

In other words: Being sane in an insane place. People trying to adjust to a crazy world, which made them 'appear' crazy. Those who were unable to cope with everyday life were seen as sane victims, in a sick society.

The answer from anti-Psychiatry believers? Set them free...they can take care of themselves.

This anti-psychiatry movement was the catalyst that brought about President John F. Kennedy's Community Mental Health Act of 1963, which led to the release of many mentally ill into our everyday communities. Today, between 30-50% of homeless people in the United States are people with mental illness. This push for deinstitutionalization had many advocates, but few as diligent as Thomas Szasz (and Citizens Commission on Human Rights [CCHR], an institution set up by Scientology and Szasz).

Anti-psychiatry advocates spread their corrupt ideas in many ways throughout society. One of those proponents was author Kenneth Kesey, who wrote "One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest". The book, play and movie were based partially on Laing's thinking. Kesey didn't believe that these patients were insane, but rather that society had pushed them out because they didn't fit the traditional ideas of how people were expected to act and behave. He used entertainment to portray an anti-psychiatry philosophy leading to a public disapproval with residential mental facilities resultant in further deinstitutionalization policies.

These 'progressive' thinkers viewed mentally ill individuals as having their dignity and freewill diminished by being categorized "mentally ill" and being confined. Their influence spread to Liberal academia and further infected politicos, who to this day continue to close State mental health facilities and release these perniciously unstable people into our midst...and the result has been catastrophic. Incident after incident of people being pushed in front of subway trains (147 last year), bludgeoned with a brick (Times Square 1999), mass murderers (Sandy Hook, Columbine, Aurora, etc), and more recently the shooting death of Chris Kyle & Chad Littlefield in TX by a mentally unstable man (who wanted to kill himself and his family in Sept., was institutionalized and released). All these found to have mental illness confirmed by their actions toward others and themselves.

So, what do many of these mentally ill do now that they're not inpatients? Well, your local State social workers drop them off at Malls, shopping centers and restaurants. They have even given them tickets to fly south for warmer climates. Isn't that precious?

Now, I believe in personal responsibility. Every individual is responsible for their behavior. That being said...having people who are clearly unable to function normally and are in need of therapy AND medication...I believe it is appropriate and condign to place a great deal of blame upon Liberals and their policies. These suffering individuals are being kept from leading normal lives because they are being used as pawns in another social experiment of the Left's failed ideology. Strategies that are favorable toward miscreants and any element of society that just might hurt innocent people.

The bottom line is this: Our woes have a source. It's not a weapon that can be locked and loaded. It's a disastrous ideology that continues to be implemented, expecting different results...yet the results remain the same.

I believe Einstein called that...insanity!

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REELTalk: SSL Show Some Love w/ Fr. Frank Pavone, Dr. Alveda King & Michael Moriarty

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews It's Valentine's Day so it's time to SSL Show Some Love: To the Unborn with Fr. Frank Pavone, Dr. Alveda King and Michael Moriarty. We're living in a hostile milieu toward the most vulnerable among us...so join us as we take a journey of love for the unborn. Fr. Frank Pavone, Dr. Alveda Kind and Michael Moriarty will share why and how we can display affection for the innocent. PLUS, managing editor of ClashDaily.com, Steve Pauwels, will show some love, as well! A 2 hours Love-Fest...don't miss a second!!

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Quartet's Interminable Cacophony: Road Map Phase I

February 12, 2013

"The senseless man does not know, fools do not understand." Tehillim / Psalms 92:6

Our culture...and world...is filled with a plethora of foolish timewasters. I guess that can always be said of mankind because of its nature. Fads/trends in music, fashion, dance and entertainment...distractions that can be costly but fleeting and benign. They affect the population in a cursory manner. We all indulge, but rarely are the consequences grave.

But, when leaders...and the so-called sage among us...band together to create serious plans that affect matters of life and death, based NOT upon facts but rather upon idealized notions which have no foundation in reality: EVERYONE will pay the piper.

Such is the case with the now infamous Quartet on the Middle East (UN, US, EU & Russia). After 54 sessions, spanning from 2002-2012, the misguided orchestra of political virtuosos devised a plan that has YET to be implemented. Their brilliant plan was the Road Map for Peace.

There's one itsy bitsy problem with the map: The very first part of the first sentence of Phase I has been ignored by the Palestinians. And that avoidance has been shared by the Map's designers.

Here's it is:

Phase I (as early as May 2003): End to Palestinian violence; Palestinian political reform; Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian cities and freeze on settlement expansion; Palestinian elections.

This phase was to be implemented "as early as 2003". The first requirement? "End to Palestinian violence."

This has NEVER occurred. NEVER!

From Israel's rebirth in 1948, the Jewish State's Arab/Muslim neighbors have brutally attacked the tiny nation and its civilians. The attacks have been interminable...though few have been reported in the Western media. And the so-called cease-fire or truces don't count...these are Islamic Hudnas. A hudna is more of an intermission. The show of violence directed toward civilians will continue WHEN the Islamists are refueled, rearmed and refreshed.

When the duly elected Islamic government of the PA (Palestinian Authority) complies, I'll tune back into the performance. Because so far, it's one bloody cacophony!

Shalom through strength...

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Benghazi Rhetoric: The New Normal

February 8, 2013

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something." -- Plato

If anyone had the displeasure to sit through the Benghazi Hearings...an exercise in futility...you were treated to what appears now to be their new normal talking points concerning any Embassy attack that happens under this president.

On Friday, in Ankara, Turkey...a homicide-bomber detonated a bomb outside the US Embassy, killing himself and an Embassy guard. Al-Qaeda, or a proxy of Iran, is suspected. But the media, in cooperation with Turkey's officials, said the bombing was linked to a leftist domestic militant.

Now get ready for a shocker...the White House and U.S. State Department said it's too early to determine who is behind the bombing. Why that sounds awfully familiar. Isn't that what this same White House and State said about Benghazi...months after the attack?

But perhaps they should just go with the now former Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton's brilliant statement: "What difference does it make?"

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said, "We strongly condemn what was a suicide attack against our embassy in Ankara...officials "do not know at this point who is responsible or the motivations behind the attack."

Oh, I don't know, Jay...Valentine's Day is coming...maybe it was a love crime.

For an administration that constantly lauds itself, and it's members, as being the most intelligent people in the room...why repeat this fatuous rhetoric? How is it that they are incapable of connecting simple dots?

These fiends loathe us because this is part of their worldview.
Their barbaric frame of reference dictates that they inflict fear (which is terror) via violence, to get their way.

They are unequivocal about who they are (Jihadists), and what they want to do (destroy us), so scratching your head on this is equivalent to scratching your tukis: You get the same result...Bupkis!

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said U.S. officials were "working closely with the Turkish national police to make a full assessment of the damage and the casualties, and to begin an investigation."

"Begin an investigation"? My GOSH...it appears, like Libya, these "investigations" are interminable. They never appear to come to a complete conclusion (as evidenced with Benghazi).

The American people deserve leaders that actually possess active gray matter and are capable of discerning the plain facts, so we as a country, are assured proper national defense. This is the LEAST we should expect from those given such venerable positions in our Republic.

This new normal rhetoric concerning anything that just might be connected to Islamic terrorism, is insulting to Americans. Despite this administration's sad assessment of America's grasp of who our enemy is: We actually KNOW who they are.

Now, Mr. President...how about you and yours?

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REELTalk: Immigration, Gang of 8 & Real Facts with Steven Camarota

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is Director of Research for the Center for Immigration Studies, Steven Camarota. Suddenly, after 4 years, Obama's administration is focusing on Immigration. But are we getting all the facts? Is this just another amnesty scam wrapped in compassion? Is this fair to those waiting to come here legally? Steven will give it to us straight! Plus, Law Enforcement expert Jim Kouri will join us to update us on the anti-gun movements across the country. Are our rights safe? Join us to find out! And much more...

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The PA: Blasting Their Way To Israel's Heart

January 5, 2013

"The existence of Israel is an error which we must put right. This is our opportunity to wipe out the disgrace which is Israel which has been with us since 1948. Our goal is clear- to wipe Israel off the map." ~Haji Abdul Rahman Arif, president of Iraq 1966-68, on a Radio broadcast, 1 June 1967

Let's try this scenario: Someone in your workplace says, "I want part of your cubicle and I want to work next to you, all you need do is say yes. If you don't, I will violently attack you, your family and friends until you agree." And they begin and continue to murder, maim and terrorize your world. And others, not involved in the situation, are pressuring YOU to comply in order to have peace in the office. No pressure on the perps, but rather on the victim.

What would you do? And what kind of neighbors/colleagues would they make? How would they negotiate their way through problems...with terror tactics until you acquiesce? What do you make of those pressuring you to surrender to these thuggish tactics? Does this appear rational?

Well, that is precisely what has been happening since the day of Israel's rebirth as a nation. Their Arab/Muslim neighbors...who vehemently resisted Israel's land being returned to the Jews...have terrorized the tiny Jewish State since its restoration.

Sadly, even US administrations who have been staunch allies of the Jewish State, have...in the face of the interminable violence against innocent Jews...pressured Israel to surrender their land for nonexistent peace. And yet, despite the empirical evidence proving land-for-peace is an unmitigated failure...world governments, including the US, continue to pressure the victim to surrender instead of the perp to cease.

And so the game continues with different players...

Sec. of State nominee, Sen. John Kerry, is already making his voice heard on the Mideast peace talks. At his confirmation hearing he said, "My hope is...my prayer is that perhaps this can be a moment where we can renew some kind of effort to get the parties into a discussion to have a different track than we have been on over the last couple of years."

Hope and reality are world's apart, in this instance. Since Kerry will be speaking on behalf of this administration, NOTHING will change in their perspective on Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). Obama's peeps have been mum on the daily violence perpetrated against Israel and their civilians, and they will again twist Israel's arm on the non-issue of Jews building on Jewish land.

More innocent Israelis will be brutalized and/or die, the perps of the PA and their ilk will again escape culpability for the hostile milieu. And the world will again join in a cacophony of veiled hate allowing the PA to show 'neighborly love' the only way they know how: By blasting their way to Israel's heart.

Here we go for four more hopeless and changeless years...

Shalom through strength...

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REELTalk: Iran, Nukes and the Rest of Us with Reza Kahlili

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is author and former Iranian Revolutionary Guard member who worked undercover as a CIA agent: REZA KAHLILI. This administration may be ignoring Iran, but we’re not…Reza will update us on the Mullah’s activities. Ahjad is stalling again...but he hasn't ceased barreling toward his goal of a nuclear Iran. Managing Editor for ClashDaily.com Steve Pauwels joining us to discuss the Boy Scouts lifting the ban on gay leaders? PLUS, ever wonder why Liberals are so irrational? We'll explain it and more!!

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Benghazi Hearings: For The Courage Impaired

January 30, 2013

"To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men." ~Abraham Lincoln

If you were waiting with baited breath for the Benghazi hearings on Capital Hill for truth to be revealed...you're about to pass out...

The House and Senate Hearings were a grandiose display of the spinelessness of the former Grand Old Party.

The revolting display of fawning fools from the GOP was enough to be a mass emetic! With the exception of Sen. Rand Paul...and Senators Johnson and McCain (in a minor way), you would have thought it was the Hillary 2016 campaign committee. There were so many tongues licking her boots, her foot looked like a Medusa...

The interminable accolades emanating from the mouths of the GOP members looked more like a DNC convention than a fact-finding mission.

Besides a few legit questions, which were sandwiched in-between kisses, the House Hearing was not worth the time. The few that showed some moxie were in the Senate.

The first credit (and a minor one) goes to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who began to directly grill Sec. of State Hillary Clinton with this exchange:

Sen. Johnson: "We were misled that there were supposedly protests and then something sprang out of that, and assaults sprang out of that. And that was easily ascertained that that was not the fact. The American people could have known that within days, and they didn't know that."

Clinton: “With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest, or was it because of guys out for a walk one night who decided they’d go kill some Americans? What difference, at this point, does it make?”

Sen. Johnson did not respond, tragically.

The second credit goes to Senator John McCain, who is good friends with Clinton...so you know it was a wee bit softball, but nonetheless he held her feet to the fire. He did ask one poignant question: "Were you aware of the classified cable from Chris Stevens that the US Consulate in Benghazi could not survive a sustained assault?"

She wasn't...how convenient....

Undoubtedly, the only one who spoke truth to power was Sen. Rand Paul: "One of the things that disappointed me most about the original 9/11 is that no one was fired. We spent trillions of dollars, but there were a lot of human errors. These are judgment errors and the people who make judgment errors need to be replaced, fired, and no longer in the position of making these judgment calls. So, we have a review board -- review board finds 64 different things that we can change. A lot of them are common sense and should be done, but the question is it's a failure of leadership that they weren't done in advance. And four lives were cost because of this. I'm glad that you're accepting responsibility. I think that, ultimately, with your leaving, you accept the culpability for the worst tragedy since 9/11. And I really mean that. Had I been president at the time, and I found that you did not read the cables from Benghazi, you did not read the cables from Ambassador [Chris] Stevens, I would have relieved you of your post. I think it's inexcusable.

"Not to know of the request for securities, really, I think, cost these people their lives," he added. "Their lives could have been saved had someone been more available. Had someone been aware of these things -- more on top of the job."

One Senator unequivocally cared enough about these 4 lives, to tell the truth, demand real answers...and to hold Clinton accountable. One Senator. ONE! Is this what we all hauled our tired tukises over to the polls, to receive?

Mickey Mantle once said, "A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide."

Welcome to the NEW GOP: The 'gang' on the Hill!

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Admonishing A Terrorist, Like Spitting in the Wind

January 28, 2013

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein

I love naive people...they approach the world in such a childlike manner. The only problem occurs when they are in a position of authority...and we, and our friends, receive the consequences of their actions.

Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi said in 2010: "No reasonable person can expect progress on this track. Either (you accept) the Zionists and everything they want, or else there is war. This is what the occupiers of the land of Palestine know – these blood suckers who attack the Palestinians, these warmongers, these descendants of apes and pigs."

This statement has never voluntarily been renounced or retracted by Morsi. Sadly, it took the NY Times to bring attention to Morsi's statements before he became president, for the State Dept. to address this issue.

Egyptian authorities subsequently issued two statements, the first of which said the comments were taken out of context, but stressed Morsi's commitment to full respect for religions and freedom of belief and worship. Their second statement said the Egyptian government rejects "all forms of discrimination and incitement to violence or hostility on the basis of religion."

Hmm...72% of the Egyptian government are extreme supporters of Sharia Law which does NOT permit religious tolerance of any religion except Islam, so their second statement is moot. But some segments of our government have more faith in their words...

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters: "That statement was an important first step to make clear that the type of offensive rhetoric that we saw in 2010 is not acceptable, not productive, and shouldn't be part of a democratic Egypt."

Really, Ms. Nuland? "An important first step?"

First, these statements did NOT come from Morsi. Second, they engaged in paltering. The comments were NOT taken out of context. In what context would they have been appropriate? This is what Morsi believes and that's precisely why he made those comments.

Nuland continued: "That said, we look to President Morsi and Egyptian leaders to demonstrate in both word and in deed their commitment to religious tolerance and to upholding all of Egypt's international obligations."

That statement clearly demonstrates that the State Dept. is utterly clueless to the true nature of the Muslim Brotherhood, their history or their commitment to their creed: "Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations."

To Ms. Nuland and her low-info comrades: Your naiveté may be quaint to your colleagues, but it is highly pernicious to the US and our only Middle Eastern ally, Israel. Diplomatically admonishing a Muslim terrorist is like spitting in the wind...and your faces have unequivocally been drenched.

Shalom through strength...

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White Guilt Created Te'o Tale

January 25, 2013

By now, most people have heard of the fairytale cyber-romance of the Notre Dame Star and his Stanford sweetheart. And thanks to Deadspin.com, we know it was a ruse.

Putting aside whether Manti Te'o was part of this scam or was duped...or, as the 'nobody ever sins, they're just sick' crowd is putting it, he probably has delusional disease...one must wonder: How, in an age of the greatest access to information, did major media outlets end up with egg on their faces?

Were these journalists so mesmerized by this athlete that they forgot how to type or do a simple search? Or was it a case of pre-senile dementia?

Or, perhaps, it was something more pervasive and crippling that kept these fearless reporters from fighting for "truth, justice and the American way"?

I believe it was the latter...a paralysis created by individuals riddled with guilt. A type of guilt felt by some white people for the racist treatment of people of color by some whites historically. Today we refer to this as 'White Guilt'.

White Guilt is the only rational explanation why professional and well-respected news organizations such as ESPN and Sports Illustrated would report repeatedly on a story...following it for months/years...and never bother to discover whether ANY of the story or characters were real.

Would this have happened if Tim Tebow had done this? Um...no freakin' way!! They would be digging so deep, we'd know his BMs since he was 5 years old. Why? Because Tebow is white. Why wasn't an investigation done on Te'o? Because Te'o is NOT white.

Ahhh...welcome to the NEW America, where they cure and recompense historical racism WITH racism. Nice...

Of course, all these Sports Networks are scrambling now...looking for a skirt to hide under. Someone will pay for duping these geniuses. They may not even realize why they did what they did with Te'o, having been conditioned by progressives in the media all their lives...but a lesson must be learned here:

Nothing fruitful ever comes from acting out of guilt...no matter your hue.

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REELTalk: Jihad & Christian Persecution with Raymond Ibrahim

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is Author and Middle East Expert RAYMOND IBRAHIM. The media has stopped talking about Jihad, but our enemies are not finished. Raymond, author of The Al Qaeda Reader, will give us insights into the Islamic world's continues Jihad against the West. And, we'll discuss his upcoming book, Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians. Don't miss this critical update. PLUS, what happened at the Benghazi Terror Hearings? Will there be justice? I'll be taking your calls!!

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The Feel Good + The Steal Good = Captivity

January 22, 2013

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

~Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

In the wake of the Newtown, CT shooting, leaders across the nation (specifically Democrat) have focused on the Constitution. Not to uphold it, but rather to find a way to violate it without the knowledge of the electorate (present company excepted).

Now, allow me to preface my opinion with this: All crime that destroys innocent life is wrong. I'm using comparisons to make a point. And, due to the axiomatic lingo, I'm forced to refer to people here as black or white. That said...

Chicago, IL, Obama's adopted hometown, had the highest murder rate in the nation last year. The 2012 number was 513. Higher than any other State in the Union. The majority of those murders were black-on-black. Black thugs, with illegal guns, killing unarmed, law-abiding black citizens.

So, here's a question: Why the hue and cry for whites murdering white people, but not a mention of black-on-black crime?

It seems that mass murderers are always white. But, if someone of African descent committed the crime in Newtown, would we even be talking about this right now? The answer is unequivocally NO.

Why? Because the Liberal media is permanently plagued with a fatal case of White Guilt, which never has an equitable result. Anything done out of guilt never has a profitable outcome, but rather ends up exacerbating the problem.

The MSM won't mention black-on-black crime out of fear of being labeled racist (something they often employ on their opposition). Yet, thousands of innocent Americans of darker skin hue who...thanks to a combination of those with a penchant for the Ruling Class (Marxists) and those who live by emotion (Liberals)...are prevented from protecting themselves from these miscreants. And this, as in all things liberal, emboldens the criminals.

With no fingerprints, they are able to keep blacks killing blacks at an alarming rate...and assure thugs that they can rape, pillage and kill because the law-abiding are defenseless. Then whip the masses into a cry for even more restrictions on their rights. And...

We have a winner!!. The joining of these too forces: Liberals (the 'Feel Good' crowd) and Marxists (the 'Steal Good' crowd), are both targeting the 2nd Amendment. And putting all other rights aside: Without the right of self-defense, all other rights are moot!

The empirical evidence, when factored into the discourse, always bolsters the right of the citizen to bear arms. Not for hunting...as Libs love to parrot...but rather for self-defense, as the Framers intended.

The rush to legislation (or Executive Orders) that is now taking place, will further UNDERMINE liberty and embolden the nefarious, now strutting like peacocks. The Feel Good crowd has succeeded in making citizens feel bad about the only thing that stands between them and tyrants/criminals: Guns.

Noah Webster once said, in An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (Philadelphia 1787):

"Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops that can be, on any pretence, raised in the United States. A military force, at the command of Congress, can execute no laws, but such as the people perceive to be just and constitutional; for they will possess the power, and jealousy will instantly inspire the inclination, to resist the execution of a law which appears to them unjust and oppressive."

Disarming the citizens is ALWAYS done piecemeal. It's how Creeping T (creeping tyranny) occurs. Law by law. Precept by precept. Fiat by fiat. Decree by decree. Until we begin to reflect the very captivity our forefathers died to prevent.

Protecting the 2nd Amendment, protects your freedom. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition...

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REELTalk: Guns & Money with Michael Walsh, Andrew Malcolm & John Lott Jr.

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is Authors & Columnists MICHAEL WALSH (NY Post, National Review) & ANDREW MALCOLM (Investors.com). The Debt Ceiling saved a $1T coin? The Inauguration plans, are all Americans included? New Gun Control laws by Executive Order? And Author JOHN LOTT JR. will join us to talk guns and what the anti-gun extremists hope to gain now! And I'll be taking your calls, don't miss a minute!!

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2nd Amendment Debate: Rights vs. Creeping T

January 16, 2013

"I ask, Sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason, Co-author of the Second Amendment during Virginia's Convention to Ratify the Constitution, 1788

Our Founders were perspicacious men. What they established 237 years ago has brought peace and freedom to millions, to the chagrin of Tyrants, Ruling Class wannabes and their ilk of every stripe.

These prescient designers based the founding of the world's greatest experiment upon immutable principles...not amorphous ideas that change with the shifting winds of man's whimsy. These precepts, based upon inalienable rights, set the solid, unshakeable foundation that has served our republic well for more than 2 centuries. This is not to say that these principles have not been challenged...they have...and have stood the test of time and nimrods, since our inception.

The difference between those challenges and today's is the people. Today they bully their way to grab the narrative...and pretend to use facts, but rather use half truths or lies cloaked as truth, in order to reason with the citizenry.

Clearly, if you've ever encountered those on the wrong side of this debate (and the wrong side is that which is against the Constitution), you'll find that not everyone in the anti-gun movement realizes that creeping tyranny (Creeping T) is the impetus behind their view...but it is indeed the big money Marxists, like Soros and his ilk, that are masquerading as the civilized, concerned community.

Those of us who love our Constitution, would be glad to debate opponents of the 2nd Amendment. But there's a problem: We come to the contest ready to lay out our arguments, with empirical evidence. They, on the other hand, are unable to come with integrity...because they refuse to reveal their true agenda: To ban all guns. Period. So they often bring intimidation via slander to the table...

And, as Socrates once said, "When the debate is lost, slander is the tool of the loser."

I'm simply going to deal with the most misused and abused clause, by those afflicted by Hoplophobia (the morbid, irrational fear of guns): Militia.

Here is the Second Amendment of our Bill of Rights:

"A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed."

But it was NOT left to interpretation by those who live in a Silly Putty nebulous world...

Many in the anti-gun movement interpret "Militia" to mean the military or national guard. EAAAAAAAHHHH!!! (Buzzer sound) I'm sorry, that answer is incorrect.

According to the Federalist Papers, written by John Jay, James Madison and Alexander Hamilton...what the Founding Fathers (authors of the 2nd Amendment) considered a "Militia" to be was "All able bodied men" not a government power or agency.

Not a good enough answer for the 'only Cops and the Military should have guns' crowd?

Okee Dokee...how about another brainiac by the name of St. George Tucker, a lawyer, Revolutionary War militia officer, legal scholar, and later a U.S. District Court judge (appointed by James Madison in 1813), who wrote of the Second Amendment in his popular edition of Blackstone's Commentaries of the Laws of England (with Notes of Reference to The Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States and of the Commonwealth of Virginia [1803]):

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, and this without any qualification as to their condition or degree, as is the case in the British government."

And in the Appendix:

"This may be considered as the true palladium of liberty... The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Whenever standing armies are kept up, and the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction. In England, the people have been disarmed, generally, under the specious pretext of preserving the game: a never failing lure to bring over the landed aristocracy to support any measure, under that mask, though calculated for very different purposes. True it is, their bill of rights seems at first view to counteract this policy: but the right of bearing arms is confined to protestants, and the words suitable to their condition and degree, have been interpreted to authorise the prohibition of keeping a gun or other engine for the destruction of game, to any farmer, or inferior tradesman, or other person not qualified to kill game. So that not one man in five hundred can keep a gun in his house without being subject to a penalty."

(Did you catch the part the earth-embracers should love: "The right of self-defense is the first law of nature." That's pretty organic...)

Tucker's evidence is unequivocal: The 'militia' clause was NOT intended to restrict the right to keep arms to active militia members, but he speaks of a broader right: The right to self-defense.

The facts, ad nauseum (but apparently not enough to penetrate the heads of Hoplophobics), have been presented by far greater people than I...but the point is clear for those who are mentally capable of comprehension:

Concerning the 2nd Amendment, the Founders and I agree: This is MY right to stop Creeping T.

God Bless the US Constitution!

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Hagel: Continually Misunderstood Or True Hater Of The Jew?

January 14, 2013

"The political reality is that... the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here.... I've always argued against some of the dumb things they do, because I don't think it's in the interest of Israel.... I'm not an Israeli senator." ~Sen. Chuck Hagel

Dictionary.com defines an Anti-Semite as a person who discriminates against or is prejudiced or hostile toward Jews. Throughout history, those who have disdained the Jewish people, have always found ways to express their hate using terminology that is ambiguous enough to cover their true feelings of hate, and yet express that emotion to their fellow fiends.

Chuck Hagel is an artist in this medium...

Terms/phrases like "the Jews", "The Jewish Lobby", to name a few...seem to roll off Hagel's forked tongue. His dismissive attitude toward the Jewish community while Senator in Nebraska is duly noted by the Jewish Community in the state. But here are a few more bits of evidence that undergirds Hagel's disdain:

Hagel, who served as president and CEO of the World USO from 1987 to 1990, expressed intense opposition to the USO Haifa Center during a tumultuous 1989 meeting with Jewish leaders, according to multiple sources involved in the fight to keep the post open. “He said to me, ‘Let the Jews pay for it’,” said Marsha Halteman, director for military and law enforcement programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).
In 2006, CAIR wrote in praise of Hagel: "Potential presidential candidates for 2008, like Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Joe Biden and Newt Gingrich, were falling all over themselves to express their support for Israel. The only exception to that rule was Senator Chuck Hagel …" [Council on American-Islamic Relations, 8/28/06]
In 2007, the NJDC (National Jewish Democratic Council) questioned Hagel's then bid for the White House by citing the following:
- In October 2000, Hagel was one of only 4 Senators who refused to sign a Senate letter in support of Israel.
- In November 2001, Hagel was one of only 11 Senators who refused to sign a letter urging President Bush not to meet with the late Yassir Arafat until his forces ended the violence against Israel.
- National Review wrote about Hagel's stance on Israel in 2002: "There's nothing Hagel likes less than talking about right and wrong in the context of foreign policy. Pro-Israeli groups view him almost uniformly as a problem. "He doesn't always cast bad votes, but he always says the wrong thing, "comments an Israel supporter who watches Congress. An April speech is a case in point. "We will need a wider lens to grasp the complex nature and consequences of terrorism," said Hagel. He went on to cite a few examples of terrorism: FARC in Colombia, Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines, and the Palestinian suicide bombers. Then he continued, "Arabs and Palestinians view the civilian casualties resulting from Israeli military occupation as terrorism." He didn't exactly say he shares this view — but he also failed to reject it."
- In June 2004, Hagel refused to sign a letter urging President Bush to highlight Iran’s nuclear program at the G-8 summit.
- In December 2005, Hagel was one of only 27 who refused to sign a letter to President Bush to pressure the Palestinian Authority to ban terrorist groups from participating in Palestinian legislative elections.
- In August 2006, Hagel was one of only 12 Senators who refused to write the EU asking them to declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization.

Now, Hagel is either ostensibly a moron, since he appears to be so misunderstood in his communications concerning Jews...which is impossible since he heroically rose to the rank of Sergeant in the US Army during the Vietnam War. Or he is a furtive Jew-hater reminiscent of some of his ancestors in Germany, who already held his dismissive disdain for the Jews which allowed for the rise of Hitler to power...and the eradication of 6 million Jews from the earth.

Either way...he is too troubling to be leading the Pentagon. Service in our Armed Forces does not automatically qualify one for the political appointment of Secretary of Defense. As a supporter of our Military, I say there are many veterans who are brilliant leaders and patriots. But one who can serve under a President with Obama's abhorrence for our Military and his long-held disdain for the Jewish people (J Street doesn't count), should not be honored with such a position.

Our Military, and our country, deserves better.

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REELTalk: The Cakeman Cometh - Chris Cassone from Cake to Rock to Patriot

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is singer, songwriter, recording engineer and Cakeman: CHRIS CASSONE. A man who's 'I'm with the band' became 'Cake for the band', and took it on a Musical journey bringing him back to the values of a Patriot! PLUS, we'll be talking about Benghazi, Jew-Hater Chuck Hagel for Sec. of Defense, and When does Art cross the line from expression to assault? I'll be taking your calls, so join us!

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Hamas: How Cowards Fight

January 8, 2013

"Hamas and other terror organizations are guilty of committing two crimes: hiding behind civilians [in Gaza] while firing on civilians in Israel." ~Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli PM

The dictionary defines 'coward' as a person who lacks courage in facing danger, difficulty, opposition or pain. Sadly, in our culture today, we have too many examples of this term. But there are clearly two levels of cowards: One stays away from confrontation altogether...never joining the fight. The other targets the innocent, from behind the innocent.

The later describes Hamas, the majority party of the Palestinian Authority (PA): The government chosen by the 'palestinian' people.

The coward has many tools...but here are three in Hamas' stash:

1. Terrorism is the tool of cowards. It is utilized by weenie males who are afraid to meet real men on the battlefield. This is one of the weapons in Hamas' arsenal. They perpetrate homicide bombings, targeting innocent Israeli men, women and children in order to kill or wound some...and inflict fear upon the remainder of the Jewish population.

2. Human-shields is another tool of the coward. Hamas fire rockets from within densely populated areas (like schoolyards, neighborhoods and hospitals) of the Gaza Strip, provoking Israel to target the launchers. But as soon as the terrorists launch the rockets, they run for cover into underground bunkers, leaving innocent 'palestinian' civilians vulnerable. Their hopes are that Israel will accidentally kill these innocents so they can claim that Israelis target civilians.

3. A liberal, Jew-hating Media is a tool of the coward. Every time Hamas (or their ilk) carries out a terrorist attack on innocent Israelis, the media is silent. But as soon as the IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) defends its people by trying to target the perpetrators, the media suddenly finds its cameras and reports it to a low-info world...that is already tainted with an anti-Semitic mindset. The fact that Israel was attacked by Hamas gets OOPSIE lost in their news stories and it appears that Israel is the perp.

Gandhi once said, "A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

If the world is looking for Hamas, and the people who put them in power, to ever be loving neighbors to Israel...don't look in Gaza: You'll be gravely disappointed.

Shalom through strength...

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Korean Veterans Honored: The Forgotten Finally Remembered

January 7, 2013

"Our nation honors her sons and daughters who answered a call to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met". ~Plaque of the Korean War Veterans Memorial

For the first time, in the 124-year-old New Year's Day Parade, the Pentagon put a float in Pasadena's Tournament of Roses to commemorate the veterans of what has become known as "The Forgotten War."

Well, it's about freakin' time...

The Korean War was fought from June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953. The United States suffered 39,940 deaths during the Korean War, 92,134 wounded, 8,176 MIA and 4,439 POW. A tremendous sacrifice for freedom.

Yet, the Congress authorized the Vietnam War Veterans Memorial (Nov. 1, 1955 - April 30, 1075) before the Korean War Veterans Memorial...and only after pressure.

The Pentagon jumped at the opportunity to sponsor the float because they were trying to kick off the events marking the 60th anniversary of the July 1953 armistice that halted the conflict but never declared peace. They were hoping to raise awareness and respect for this forever forgotten military campaign.

"Forgotten"? Yes, forgotten even as it was taking place. The citizens carried on their daily lives unaffected by or having to think about the war. Bear in mind this was before TV was ubiquitous in the American home. Unlike the Vietnam which was the first war in which nightly battle scenes were played out in America's living room (albeit played out with a slant by the media [even then], but that's another story).

But now, perhaps, these brave and faithful warriors will finally be recognized for their sacrifice for freedom...defending a country they never knew and a people they never met...in the name of liberty.

God Bless the Korean War Veterans...and ALL US Veterans...grateful Americans will NEVER forget you.

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REELTalk: Erik Rush, Ruth White & Stacy Swimp, 2013 What's Ahead?

Joining Audrey Russo for tonight's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is Columnist, Commentator and Author, ERIK RUSH. Former Presidential Candidate, Author and Radio Talk Show Host, RUTH WHITE. President of the Frederick Douglass Society and Speaker for Project 21, STACY SWIMP. This is one 'Bring It Bureau' who will assess the Fiscal Cliff, John Kerry for Sec. of State, Iran's Nuclear pause, Gun Control in wake of Newtown. We've got a full menu...and we'll be taking your calls!

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Canonizing A Killer: When Art Crosses The Line

January 2, 2013

"Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity." ~W. Clement Stone

The beauty of the world's greatest experiment is the freedom based upon inalienable rights...given by the Creator, not the State, which makes them so. Among those being freedom of speech. But even in this great freedom, there are limitations. You can't yell fire in a crowded theater, for one.

But what is too often overlooked is the fact that with freedom comes responsibility. The responsibility to know when something is legal and when it's ethical...and the wisdom to know the difference.

Sadly, many in the arts (and as a performing artist and as a former illustrator, I know)...there is a tendency to abuse this form of expression by avoiding responsibility for behavior.

Case in point...a controversial Italian artist's new exhibit has a statue depicting Hitler kneeling in prayer placed at the center of what was the largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-controlled Europe. The artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan is titled 'Him'.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Israel director, Efraim Zuroff, called it "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims". He continued, "As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth."

I concur with Mr. Zuroff. And I believe it's beyond cruel and inhumane.

Portraying the leader of the barbaric, anti-Semitic Germanic movement...who exterminated 6 million Jews (and 5 million non-Jews)...kneeling in prayer, is disparaging enough. But to place this villain right in the middle of what was once a Jewish ghetto from which many Jews were transported to death camps, crosses the line between expression and intent to inflict injury. To depict this maniacal monster as a saintly, merciful and humble being is to spit upon the graves of those he exterminated...and to mock those who barely survived the Shoah.

This behavior is not freedom of expression but rather utilizing the rich communication of art as a weapon to diss the dead and eviscerate the hearts and minds of the wounded...victimizing them yet again.

We are not islands unto ourselves. What we do and say does indeed affect others. And where most things are legal...they are not necessarily ethical, compassionate, humane or responsible.

Mark Twain once said:

"It is curious - curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare."

It's sad that Mr. Cattelan could utilize his God-given gifts to communicate...yet failed to have the courage to do what was morally right...and responsible.

An artist journeys deep within to touch the souls of his viewers/audience. One might reasonably assume Mr. Cattelan was actually sharing his own inner affection for a fiend and his Final Solution. Because to conclude otherwise...would be irresponsible.

Shalom through strength...

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December 31, 2012 - January 1, 2013

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REELTalk: Thriller The Life Zone with Kenneth del Vecchio

Joining Audrey Russo for tonight's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is Critically Acclaimed Filmmaker & Bestselling Author, Kenneth del Vecchio. Kenneth has written, produced and directed nearly 20 feature films that star 75+ film and TV stars, including multiple Academy Award and Emmy winners such as Robert Logia and Charles Durning. His new flick is a brilliant, shocking and must-see thriller! PLUS, I'll be discussing the Fiscal Cliff, the Left's emotional response to the shooting in Newtown, and Michael Moore's anti-Gun rant...don't miss it!

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December 24-25, 2012

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EVEN THOUGH HE DESERVES IT

December 21, 2012

Fast and Furious , as well as Benghazi--are unambiguously impeachable offenses. These two events demonstrate a high level of fecklessness, incompetence and dereliction of duty on behalf of the Commander in Chief.

But don't look for House Republicans to drop the "I" anytime soon. Why? Because they simply lack the cojones to impeach America's first black president--even though he deserves it.

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REELTalk: PC Seasonal Lunacies with Brad Stine/Music by the Maccabeats

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is comedian & actor BRAD STINE to talk about the War on Christmas and other PC-lunacies of the season and the years. Also joining the discussion is comedian JACK SIMMONS. PLUS, we'll get a visit from the MACCABEATS both a Jewish music group and an a cappella phenomena. And want to bless someone for Christmas/New Year? We have some veteran's visiting to help you with ideas! Sure to be an amazing show!

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FINGER OF CULPABILITY

December 18, 2012

In the aftermath of the devilish massacre in Newtown--the the finger of culpability must not only be directed at the convoluted perpetrator, Adam Lanza--but also at the left-wing demagogues who created the most vulnerable and lethal environment possible for our children--"gun-free zones."---Burgess Redding for OIB

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Come 2043: I Want My Cracker Credits

December 17, 2012

"The Great Society...is a place where men are more concerned with the quality of their goals than the quantity of their goods." ~Lyndon B. Johnson, Speech, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 22, 1964

Yesterday the Census Bureau projected that by 2043...White people, or Crackers, will no longer be in the majority.

Now upon that news, I sat back and thought: Finally...Crackers will get what we've been robbed of for years.

Allow me to elucidate...

Those of us with less melanin in our skin (by birth, not by choice), have had to pay for the crimes of...in most cases of those of no relation...for decades. We've had money forcibly taken from us (taxes for subventions) to help assuage the guilt of perhaps decedents of the criminals.

Personally...that blows!

That 'equalizer', known as entitlements, has no end date...and just keeps growing for those in the minority. So this news is a WOO HOO for whitey!! Now those of us who have suffered unjustly under the discriminatory rules since our birth...should get Cracker Credits!!

And since the Census Bureau is part of the government...and therefore they just couldn't be wrong...AND since I may not be alive in 2043...

I want my Cracker Credits NOW!

Where do I apply?

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REELTalk: America's Got Talent 2011 Winner Landau Murphy Jr.

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is the winner of 2011 America's Got Talent LANDAU EUGENE MURPHY JR. He'll share his amazing story and some of the music from his first CD, That's Life...and his new Christmas CD, as well!! Plus later, I will be talking about S. Korea's dance sensation PSY Gangnam Style hate...don't miss a minute!!

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Maniacal Machinations: Offend Our Allies, Embrace Our Enemies

December 11, 2012

For those who have suggested or insisted that Barack Obama had no Foreign Policy (FP)...I beg to differ. From his first speech in Cairo, he knew exactly what he was doing. He not only sent a message orally but symbolically.

We must look back here, to look 'forward'...

His statements in his A New Beginning speech, to which he invited the Muslim Brotherhood, clearly castigated the West for promoting its values and not honoring the precepts of Muslims and Islam.
His invitation of the Muslim Brotherhood was a serious red flag to many countries in the Middle East...especially the now fallen (or shoved out by Obama) Mubarak, who was a pro-American leader that honored Egypt's agreements with Israel.
His mea culpa tour (on our dollar), brought the disgrace of a genuflecting US President before despots and fiends near and far.
And his silence during true revolutions (Iran's Green Movement) and his vociferous support of faux uprisings (Arab Spring) have made it unequivocal that this man...although useful to our enemies...knows exactly what he's doing.

Naiveté you may say? More like maniacal machinations...

This administration has dissed our allies since day one...here's a partial list: Israel, India, Poland, the Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Columbia, Australia, Norway, Switzerland, Great Britain and Brazil. And like his VP Joe the Gaffe-Meister: He's also the gift that keeps on giving...tsuris.

This should be a no-brainer, but...

Our allies are our allies for good reason. They agree with democracy (having a form of the same) and they strive for the same goals with similar values as their foundation.
Our enemies are named so for good reason. They are often draconian despots who care little for life (except their own), liberty, or the pursuit of happiness (except their own). They rule from a foundation of values that are the antithesis of our own. They do not seek freedom nor peace...which simply makes for solid enemies.

Four more years of this meshugass...and we won't ever again have to worry about having to take on a conflict unilaterally...we'll have no choice.

Shalom through strength...

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'Tis the season

December 10, 2012

It's rather apropos that Time Magazine will announce Sandra Fluke as "Person of the Year for 2012" just before Christmas.

After all--'tis the season to be a ho, ho, ho!!!

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REELTalk: Experience The River with Michael Neale

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is award-winning songwriter, author & performer MICHAEL NEALE. Need a refreshing? Find yourself immersed in lives of John Clarke and his son Gabriel, on what should have been an ordinary day in the wilderness near their home. Then in one moment, life changed for everyone--forever. Don't miss this exciting dip in the River Experience!

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FAIL TO UNDERSTAND

December 5, 2012

Liberals (such as Gov. Chris 'Krispy Kreme' Christie) who espouse the so-called virtues of multiculturalism and religious tolerance fail to understand that Sharia law is the violent antithesis of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.---Burgess Redding writing for OIB

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Hudna Is No Truce, But A Trick

December 3, 2012

So, while Hillary and Barry are sticking their thumbs under their uber-smelly armpits in a gloat-fest for a truce, the truth escapes the super geniuses...

So, Hamas agreed to a Hudna. The West, using the wrong dictionary, pressures Israel to accept what they believe to be a ceasefire, a truce. But they are deceived.

The Taqiyya-tongued terrorists know that a hudna is quite different than a truce. Hudna has a distinct meaning to Islamic fundamentalists, knowledgeable in their history: Their prophet Mohammed struck a legendary, 10-year truce or hudna with the Quraysh tribe, but quickly built up his military power until he could overcome the Quraysh tribe and 3 years later did exactly that. He broke the treaty. Arafat used this as his model for 'peace' deals with Israel. And so his brethren continue to follow the ways of their prophet.

The current example is what we saw between Israel and Hamas just before Thanksgiving. But will it go the way every other agreement has gone in the past dealing with the Palestinian Authority? You can bet your hudna on it...

It's been reported that Iran is feverishly re-arming Hamas, with the help of their puppet Assad...how Mohammed-like.

Going sidebar: Isn't it interesting that despite the hatred the different sects of Islam have for one another...they all unite when it comes to destroying Israel and the West. Iran is Shia. Hamas is Sunni. Assad is Alawi. Kumbaya!

Back from sidebar: Is the Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu aware of the true meaning of hudna? Indeed he is...but the pressure is incredible upon him to agree and the hopes are that the world just might...this time...pay attention when Hamas breaks the agreement.

I appreciate the PM's position, but I believe the only way to deal with vermin is not to negotiate, but rather exterminate.

Dead pests shoot no rockets.

Shalom through strength...

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REELTalk: Islamist Update with Ryan Mauro

Joining Audrey Russo for this week's REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews is National Security Analyst for RadicalIslam.org RYAN MAURO. The media is quiet or evasive on the behavior of Islamists present in the nation. Should we be worried? Has politics' incursion into our national security truly put us in literal peril? We'll learn the answer as well as what Islamists are up to globally!

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Morsi's Machination Or Muslim Brotherhood MO?

November 28, 2012

On Thanksgiving, while most Americans were filling their tummies with Turkey and their hearts with gratitude...the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) minion Morsi was filling himself with hubris and assuming the sweeping powers of a Pharaoh in Egypt.

Where are the Ten Plagues when you need them...

According to Ynetnews.com, Morsi also decreed that all decisions he has made since taking office in June and until a new constitution is adopted are not subject to appeal in court or by any other authority. A move that positions Morsi above oversight of ANY kind. He already possesses legislative powers that followed the powerful lower chamber being dissolved days before he took office June 30.

Couldn't anyone see this coming? Well, Obama and his peeps were too busy falling all over themselves to blow kisses and accolades at Morsi for his 'role' in the ceasefire the very day before the Pharaoh made his decree...AWKWARD!

Now, is this Morsi's machination...or is this just the same old MB modus operandi (MO)?

Let's look quickly at the MB, and at Mori's role within the terror group, to get a handle on this:

The MB was Founded in 1928 by the Egyptian schoolteacher/activist Hasan al-Banna (a devout admirer of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis), the MB is one of the oldest, largest and most influential Islamist organizations in the world.
The MB credo: "Allah is our objective; the Quran is our constitution, the Prophet is our leader; Jihad is our way; and death for the sake of Allah is the highest of our aspirations." This credo has never been renounced.
Gamal Nasser (who preceded Sadat & Mubarak) outlawed the MB because it was determined to overthrow the Egyptian government.
Morsi was first recruited to the Muslim Brotherhood in the United States while studying for his PhD in engineering at the University of Southern California.
Morsi helped to establish and served as a member of Egyptian Resist the Zionist Project Committee and was a member of the Anti-Zionist Committee in Al-Sharqia Governorate.
Under Morsi, and since the fall of the Mubarak regime, there's been a clear increase in attacks on Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority, who have been the victim of repeated murderous attacks, terrorist bombings and other assaults over the years, with numerous Copts murdered.

Well, you might expect a horde like this administration, who lies like a rug...would be shrewd enough to know that the MB was lying about their agenda...kind of like Barry does. But alas and alack, in true useful idiot style...they bought the moderate propaganda: Hook, line and sinker. Obama and his ilk sucked up the Taqiyya rhetoric like a Dyson Root Cyclone vac.

Morsi's power-grab is NO surprise, nor does it go awry from the MB's course. The MB is an Islamist, anti-Semitic, West-hating gaggle with a draconian determination to see Islam rule, through Sharia Islamic Law, throughout the globe: A global Caliphate.

It's unequivocal, from the empirical evidence, that this usurping of power is both Morsi's machination in line with the MB MO.

And now we and our only ally in the region (Israel) must deal.

Shalom through strength...

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SO-CALLED CHAMPIONS

November 26, 2012

The so-called champions of the middleclass (liberal politicos) have waged a vicious and protracted battle to keep Walmart out of New York City. This conflict, of course--is being waged at the behest of union leaders who are livid over the fact that the nation's largest retailer is non-union.

Sadly, these public officials (instead of allowing Walmart--which saves the average family of four $3,000 a year--to operate in NYC) rather genuflect at the altar of those who finance their political careers--union bosses.

Champions of the middleclass: LMAO!

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November 22-23, 2012

Thanksgiving Proclamation

Issued in 1789

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:

A PROCLAMATION

Plaque on the right side of

Federal Hall National Memorial, NYC

"Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor — and Whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me 'to recommend to the

People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.'

"Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be — That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks — for his kind care and protection of the People of this country previous to their becoming a Nation — for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war — for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed — for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.

"And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions — to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually — to render our national government a blessing to all the People, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed — to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord — To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and Us — and generally to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.

"Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.

George Washington

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Political Hags Wag The Dog For Barry

November 21, 2012

"When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser." ~Socrates

Don't ever play cards with a Liberal...they only have one card in the deck: The Race card!

On Friday, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D.-Ohio)...Ohio, where some districts had 108% voter turnout...said the following at a Capitol Hill press conference, "There is a clear, a clear in my opinion, sexism and racism that goes with these comments that are being made by, unfortunately, Senator McCain and others...she continued, "All of the things that they have disliked about things that have gone on in this administration they have never called a male unqualified, not bright, not trustworthy. I don’t recall it ever happening..."

"Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said that McCain and other "men" should not be allowed to "attack" or “batter this woman" Rice. "What unmitigated gall for these men to attack the permanent representative to the United Nations Susan E. Rice.

Nice try, ladies...and I use the term ladies loosely here...but asking an adult, male or female, to be accountable for their actions...especially in esteemed positions for a nation, is not "battering".

And we're concerned with 4 dead Americans, or did you conveniently forget that while you're busy for Barry, wagging the dog?

As an adult woman, I'm appalled by your vile behavior. When there are actually women who have been "battered" and "attacked"...shame on you all for diminishing such crimes by utilizing those terms in your cheap political game of blaming men (especially white men) for everything.

What's the matter....can't take the heat? Do you need a T level check? Because I know that men stir your cauldron, as well.

I thought you wanted to be equal to men.

So, ladies, take it like a man. And leave your tawdry race card back in the deck...in the castle with the flying monkeys.

It's just a broom-ride away...

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GOP: JOBS FOR ALL

November 20, 2012

Despite the shrill emanating from certain conservative sectors that the Republican Party needs to do a better job reaching those on the lower rungs of the socio-economic ladder--the GOP must never capitulate to knee-jerk banalities.

Sure--the party can do a better job of attracting those on the public dole--but not by enticing them with more handouts, subventions and free stuff. But rather--by articulating to them that their lives can be greatly enriched by a thriving free-market which provides financial opportunities to all individuals willing to work hard.

In short--the Republican Party needs to be the party of Jobs for All--as long as you are willing to get off your lazy a**.

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REELTalk: Islamist Threat on the West with Nonie Darwish

Joining Audrey Russo for REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews in this Post-Election Show is Author, Speaker and activist Nonie Darwish. An Egyptian-born American woman, a former Muslim who will alert us on the Islamist threat upon our nation. Does the creeping of Sharia mean Sharia Law? Is this the REAL War on Woman? You bet it is...and Nonie will lay out the truth!

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Racist Media: Ignoring The Devastation On Cracker Island

November 14, 2012

Two weeks into the aftermath of Sandy...the North East's Katrina, and many here in the NY area are wondering: Where's the media coverage of the devastation?

Here's the answer: We are all just TOO white to be important in this country anymore...

The scientific term is albophobia: The fear of white people. How did it take hold in America? With the help of ignorant, self-hating White people trying to make interminable recompense for the sins of (in most cases) past, unconnected people with the same amount of melanin in the skin. Our nation, like every other nation on this Earth, has committed transgressions against different people groups. Are all nations and skin hues guilty? You bet...because all nations are inhabited by mankind (and womankind).

But in the case of America...who has arguably been blessed far beyond any nation...the majority has forgotten from Whom those blessings emanated and it has caused a plague of guilt beyond that of other nations for our transgressions. And has resulted in a self-flagellation that waxes worse and worse as time progresses.

News flash: ALL discrimination is wrong...but, apparently, the media didn't get the memo...

Gradually, over time, the Liberal MSM has erased the importance of anything that concerns lighter skin-hued people in this country. Quota-based job loses against Caucasians, Caucasian murders...and since the majority of Caucasians are Christian, any offense toward Christians are ignored or mocked.

And years of this has culminated in what we are seeing in Staten & Long Island (Cracker Island), in particular: Crackers don't count, even when they crumble.

The MSM media has done a disgraceful journalistic job covering the disastrous results of Sandy. First for political expediency (and as you read this, it continues). And second, because of the plague of what I'm calling: Crackerphobia.

The only way for discrimination to cease in ALL forms: EVERYONE must stop committing it!

And that includes the kind of hate and dismissiveness pointed at those of us who were given less melanin by the Creator.

Let's hope the Media's case of Crackerphobia subsides, so the victims of Sandy finally get the attention and help they require.

Because after all: Crackers are people too!

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Not Morning In America, But MOURNING In America

November 12, 2012

Yes, I will recognize that it wasn’t Reagan’s Morning in America that was the result of Tuesday's election, but half the country is in Mourning in America.

There’s a lot that can be said about this past Tuesday’s election…but we’ve all heard the blather and blaming ad nauseum by now.

I believe this election spoke unequivocally about the depth of wantonness in the souls of at least half the electorate. Half the voters chose the love of nation and for the good and benefit of their fellow citizens. And by a razor-thin edge, they lost.

The other half proved that the NEA successfully completed their carefully plotted hit job on the American Public school system. A crop of illiterate, feel-good, American Idol addicts that, in the greatest information age known to man…chose to be vacuous and vulnerable to every wolf in a designer suit and a paltering promise on his tongue. People who displayed chosen blindness, deafness and selfish self-serving behavior…they were voting for instant gratification…a big papa, a genie in a lamp, Santa Claus. And make no mistake, what we sow, we reap…nothing is free. The myopic, gluttonous, Me-first generation will reap what they’ve sown, in slavery to big Papa…

And as they refused to heed our warnings, so will their cries for help be unheeded.

A friend sent a quote to me, which was so spot on I have to share it:

"Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of the 'new, wonderful, good society' which shall now be Rome's, interpreted to mean: more money, more ease, more security, more living fatly at the expense of the industrious." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

I concur…but, let me add, I also hold Caesar culpable.

Peter Hitchens (conservative brother of the late Christopher Hitchens) wrote the following in conclusion of the election of Obama: "And now the US, like Britain before it, has begun the long slow descent into the Third World. How sad. Where now is our last best hope on Earth?"

I believe the last, best hope for this world still lies in America. But it's time for some soul-searching. If those of us who knew what the truth was and failed to share it with our neighbors because we assumed that believing was all that was required to prevail...we were tragically wrong. Conservatives do NOT have a platform problem, we have a communication problem. It was the reason we lost this race and it will continue to be the reason for many more loses if we fail to correct one major flaw: We love to use the name of Reagan, but fail to share the same as Reagan.

He knew his plan was the right one for America...and he never backed down from that. What he DID do was, as the Great Communicator, find a way to tell those on the opposing side: Our plan is good for YOU and good for all Americans...come join us!

We know our plan is good (I hope)...now let's work hard for the next four years to communicate that plan.

Let's honor the Gipper's memory...and bless America again.

Let's turn our mourning...into morning once more, in America!

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REELTalk: Post-Election J.D. Gordon & Andrew Malcolm

Joining Audrey Russo for REELTalk edition of Changing Worldviews in this Post-Election Show is former DoD Spokesman for the Western Hemisphere & Columnist J.D. Gordon & Columnist for Investor's Business Daily Andrew Malcolm. What's ahead for the Great American Experiment? Tune in to find out...

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Oslo Accords: Dead Before It Breathed Its First Breath

November 7, 2012

"After the Oslo Accords were signed, I went to Tunisia to visit him [Arafat] in July. I told him: 'We disagree. I don't support this agreement. It will harm us. [Arafat] told me: 'By Allah, I will drive them crazy. I will make these [Oslo] Accords a disaster for them [Israel]. It won't be in my lifetime, but you will see the Israelis run away from Palestine. Have a little patience...The Al-Aqsa Brigades [Fatah terrorist wing] were founded and armed by him [Arafat] as a reply, as a counterweight to the historic mistake of the Oslo Accords." ~Al-Quds al-Arabi Editor-in-Chief, Abd al-Bari 'Atwan

This week in a special meeting of the Knesset to memorialize the murder of Yitzhak Rabin, Knesset Speaker, Reuven Rivlin declared the death of the Oslo Accords...the project Rabin was remembered for.

I believe Mr. Rivlin is correct...but I believe it was dead before it began...

A brief history on the agreements:

The Oslo Accords were a series of agreements adjudicated between the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO, acting as representatives of the Palestinian people) in 1993 as part of a peace process between the two sides. It was formally called the Declaration of Principles. Despite the great expectations voiced in the Accords and in the succeeding agreements promising similar normalization of Arab-Israeli relations, to this day the problem has not been resolved.

The main reason for the failure was...despite Mr. Rabin's sincere and honorable intensions: His 'peace' partners were anything BUT...

I do not question Mr. Rabin's sincere love for Israel nor his desire to see lasting peace in the Jewish State. But when you make a business deal, you wouldn't agree to work with known thieves...so why make agreements with liars, thieves and people who school their children in bloodthirsty hatred of you and your people?

A contract like that is certainly headed for breach.

Since the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993, 1,526 innocent Israelis have been murdered (and countless others seriously injured) by their wanna-be neighbors and 'partners in peace'. A tragedy but not unexpected when considering that those committing the violence continue to school their children in lies and hatred toward the people with which they SAY they want to live at peace. And, as you read this, their violent attacks on Jewish civilians continues unchallenged by the West.

With all due respect to the memory of Mr. Rabin, the Oslo Accords were never viable because they lacked one important element: A sincere and viable peace partner in the Palestinians (PLO). When the veracity is one-sided in a contract, that agreement is moot.

And this one was dead before it breathed its first breath.

Shalom through strength...

Comments: audrey@audreyrusso.com

WHAT AMERICA NEEDS

November 6, 2012

What America needs is a leader who loves, respects and venerates his country--not one who travels abroad and apologizes for it in front of tyrants, despots and Islamo-dictators.

What America needs is Mitt Romney.

Comments: pete@operationironballs.com

PLEASE, KEEP THIS IN MIND

November 5, 201