tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27782130387737303652024-03-18T12:58:01.375-07:00Two Sisters From The RightSister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.comBlogger412125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-30409949148425047712012-06-30T10:10:00.000-07:002012-06-30T10:10:26.163-07:00WE'RE BACK! IMPORTANT GUEST EDITORIAL<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Dear Readers:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Due to illness, we have not been able to post on Two Sisters From The Right on Blogger for several months. We had instead continue to post best reads and articles on our Two Sisters From The Right page on Facebook. Today we received an excellent editorial from a citizen journalist and attempted to publish it, only to find that Blogger has made several changes to the templates and format with which we are not familiar.</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This GUEST EDITORIAL is very worth reading and passing on to your friends. Citizen journalists such as the author of this editorial are our most important form of communication because it is not tainted by media bias. Our time is running out and we must unite in an effort to Take America Back and to Defeat Barack Hussein Obama.</strong></span><br />
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The following comment is made by a physician with 20+ years of experience in academic settings, military facilities, private practice, emergency care, missionary work, and group practice who happens to be a believer and a veteran - if you find it informative or instructive, please pass it on;<br />
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Regarding the Supreme court ruling of June 28, 2012;<br />
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The Old Testament and New Testament both teach; Love thy neighbor as thyself.<br />
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Today's health care ruling will allow a law to stand which will continue to raise your neighbor's health care premiums - if they are employed.</strong></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span><div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span><div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Today's health care ruling will also make it more difficult for your unemployed neighbors to find work.<br />
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The ruling will also leave a law mostly intact which will possibly cause your neighbor without insurance to pay more than they would have had to pay in order to afford a policy if the law were not enacted - or pay a tax instead.<br />
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The law preserved today will sooner or later result in your elderly neighbor being denied certain medical procedures which their doctor believes to be medically necessary.<br />
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The law will not likely help your uninsured neighbor find health insurance which is more affordable than was available before but can prevent your neighbor's employer from being able to offer certain forms of care which other neighbors already rely upon.</strong></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span><div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> </strong></span><div><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The law will seem to legitimize a number of false claims made by the authors of the law including the false implication that this was the only way to get insurance for your neighbor who has a pre-existing condition (such a policy could have been agreed upon in a bipartisan fashion if the true goal of the law was to improve upon our current health care system).<br />
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Instead the law will certainly increase the future national debt to be burdened upon your neighbor's children and will also eventually result in decreased access to quality care for your neighbor's children.<br />
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The evidence for the above is so overwhelming that anyone who claims to be informed and yet continues to support the law is likely to be; subject to severe cognitive dissonance, excessively influenced by cult-figure hero worship, willfully suspending their disbelief of false claims made on behalf of the law, suffering from the emotional influence of identity politics or class bigotry, or simply hiding the fact that they only agree with the law on the basis that they are hoping it leads to a totally different health care system by undercutting the system which preceded the law (or some combination of these or similar factors).<br />
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Given the last statement, out of compassion, we should pray for our friends who either still support the law or do not yet understand why it is so harmful.<br />
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I am sure many of us were hoping the Supreme Court would do the heavy lifting for us so that the monumental task of educating many others in time for the November election would not fall so heavily upon us. <br />
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On a positive note; If we had to choose between a better ruling today and keeping the same president we now have for four more years or getting rid of the current president while keeping this ruling, that would be an easy choice.<br />
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I don't know about you, but I believe Providence has had a guiding hand in establishing this country for the betterment of the rest of the world and that being said, things could well be happening now for the purpose of waking us up and motivating us to do whatever is legally necessary to ensure that the liberties entrusted to us which have made this country strong will not be abated - at least not on our watch.<br />
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There are 130 days until the election. That gives us 40 days of preparation followed by a season (90 days) of focused action. I pray we will be blessed with the strength and resolve for this task. It will not be easy. The proponents of this silly law will spend much money and energy in a deliberate effort to confuse and mislead our neighbors as to what the stakes truly are. It is not up to the Supreme Court to stop them. It is up to us. </strong></span></div></div><!-- end of AOLMsgPart_1_14e212e9-7c8b-4177-bd0a-abf0b36f3ed9 --></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></div><div align="center"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong></strong></span></div>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com111tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-42702881960665617062012-04-03T19:44:00.000-07:002012-04-03T19:44:25.771-07:00Obama's America<div class="blog_title"></div><strong><br />
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<div style="margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 10px; position: relative; width: 100%;"><div class="blog_author"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><strong>By </strong></a><a class="story_subtext" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/author/136872"><strong>Yuval Levin</strong></a></div></div><br />
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<div style="clear: both;"><strong></strong></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83ooEh4hqo4ntXYVkxF6dIjxE5SMCpduWGUyGLaJonaFIXabp-kzv2AbzIvfWnAjIQl5YDihptI7jeEfuaxZ9kmI37IenW2mNsL3ghUrpes04PCYm5bMb59lJFysVqa-oI8FwoJwT_60/s1600/Obama's+America.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg83ooEh4hqo4ntXYVkxF6dIjxE5SMCpduWGUyGLaJonaFIXabp-kzv2AbzIvfWnAjIQl5YDihptI7jeEfuaxZ9kmI37IenW2mNsL3ghUrpes04PCYm5bMb59lJFysVqa-oI8FwoJwT_60/s400/Obama's+America.JPG" width="257" /></a><strong>On February 16, at a hearing of the House Budget Committee, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was asked by committee chairman Paul Ryan to describe the administration’s plans for addressing the mounting risk of a debt crisis. His </strong><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s29X6Wm0J1Q"><strong>reply</strong></a><strong> was: “We’re not coming before you today to say we have a definitive solution to that long-term problem. What we do know is we don’t like yours.”</strong><br />
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If all of Ryan’s cuts in the growth of spending were “applied evenly,” the president argued, then:</strong></div><blockquote><div><strong>The year after next, nearly 10 million college students would see their financial aid cut by an average of more than $1,000 each. There would be 1,600 fewer medical grants, research grants for things like Alzheimer’s and cancer and AIDS. There would be 4,000 fewer scientific research grants, eliminating support for 48,000 researchers, students, and teachers. Investments in clean energy technologies that are helping us reduce our dependence on foreign oil would be cut by nearly a fifth.</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>If this budget becomes law and the cuts were applied evenly, starting in 2014, over 200,000 children would lose their chance to get an early education in the Head Start program. Two million mothers and young children would be cut from a program that gives them access to healthy food. There would be 4,500 fewer federal grants at the Department of Justice and the FBI to combat violent crime, financial crime, and help secure our borders. Hundreds of national parks would be forced to close for part or all of the year. We wouldn’t have the capacity to enforce the laws that protect the air we breathe, the water we drink, or the food that we eat.</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>Cuts to the FAA would likely result in more flight cancellations, delays, and the complete elimination of air traffic control services in parts of the country. Over time, our weather forecasts would become less accurate because we wouldn’t be able to afford to launch new satellites. And that means governors and mayors would have to wait longer to order evacuations in the event of a hurricane.</strong></div></blockquote><div><strong>What the president is referring to, of course, are not cuts from today’s levels—let alone yesterday’s levels—in all of these programs, but cuts from the projected growth that would occur if the government were allowed to continue ballooning.</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" id="more" name="more"></a><strong>Instead of doing all these wonderful things, the Republicans want to reduce taxes, Obama argues. They want to let people keep more of what they earn, and we all know that those people will only waste that money rather than use it to support clean energy technologies and accurate weather reports. Every millionaire would get to keep $150,000 more of his money, the president claimed, and such people would no doubt use that money to pollute the air and undermine medical progress (because millionaires never support environmental and medical causes). Just think of how much more effectively the government could use that money:</strong></div><blockquote><div><strong>Let’s just step back for a second and look at what $150,000 pays for: A year’s worth of prescription drug coverage for a senior citizen. Plus a new school computer lab. Plus a year of medical care for a returning veteran. Plus a medical research grant for a chronic disease. Plus a year’s salary for a firefighter or police officer. Plus a tax credit to make a year of college more affordable. Plus a year’s worth of financial aid. One hundred fifty thousand dollars could pay for all of these things combined — investments in education and research that are essential to economic growth that benefits all of us. For $150,000, that would be going to each millionaire and billionaire in this country. This budget says we’d be better off as a country if that’s how we spend it.</strong></div></blockquote><div><strong>There is of course lots about all this that is simply dishonest and false. The Ryan budget doesn’t call for across the board cuts. And that budget calls for the Ways and Means Committee to propose a revenue-neutral tax reform that would lower rates while eliminating loopholes—so it wouldn’t deny the government revenue it now has but would seek ways to obtain it that are more conducive to growth (and of course those loopholes benefit the wealthy above all). But the dishonesty is not the most extraordinary thing about this speech. The most extraordinary thing is the basic vision of American life it lays out: The president talks as though the liberal welfare state were not crumbling all around him, as though his budget does not abide (indeed, prescribe) an unprecedented explosion of debt that will crush American prosperity in the coming decades, as though all the money earned by all Americans were simply a pot for the government to spend as it wishes and allowing people to keep more of their earnings were just one way to spend it.</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>He speaks as though the problem—our unsustainable entitlement state—were the solution, and as though the solution—a budget that restrains the growth of spending, modernizes and reforms our collapsing entitlement and welfare programs to avert their collapse, and charts a path toward economic growth—were the problem. In this upside-down, inside-out world, Barack Obama accuses Paul Ryan of putting the future of America’s younger generation in danger and inviting American decline.</strong></div><div><strong></strong></div><div><strong>A psychologist might call this projection. The president’s political advisors probably call it all they’ve got. Let us hope that voters will know what to call it this fall: reckless denial and cynical dishonesty from a failed president with nothing left to offer. Or, if we are lucky, perhaps the last straw.</strong><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>TWO SISTERS FROM THE RIGHT</strong></span></div></div></div></div>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-82422347708495384342012-03-18T19:47:00.000-07:002012-03-18T19:47:42.694-07:00I Am SO Sick!<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I received the following essay in the form of an email this morning. It was from the younger half of Two Sisters From The Right. Physically she's just fine, but her "illness" refers to her mental state as it regards politics. </span><br />
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<a href="http://standupforamerica.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/united-we-stand.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://standupforamerica.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/united-we-stand.jpg" width="215" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like her, I too am sick, as are millions of Americans. The very powerful Obama political machine has silenced our voices. Natural causes silenced one of Conservatism's greatest voices, Andrew Breitbart, but the powers that be in government, and the left wing, liberal mainstream media does not allow our voices to be heard. This is the reason why many of us have become "citizen journalists" and have turned to the Internet as a means to vent, and to express our frustrations and our concerns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is there time to reverse gears and plan another course? Presently there are no clear answers, but anything has to be better than what is happening now. Today we read that Mitt Romney has issued a directive to his staff to minimize the strife between candidates and to try to achieve party unity. We pray, for the sake of the GOP that others follow in his steps.</span><br />
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<em><a href="http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/2560.htm"><span style="color: #666666;">In Philippians 1:27, Paul makes this very clear: “Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.” That is, he says, “Live day by day in the Roman colony of Philippi as worthy citizens of your heavenly homeland.”</span></a></em><br />
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_1_c7093c11-6063-43e0-819d-819bd3fa4192"><span id="role_document" style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"> <div>Santorum, Romney and Gingrich make me SICK every time they slam each other (which they do every single day).</div><div> </div><div>If I were a presidential candidate, and if I had the best interest of the nation on my conscience (NOT my own personal gain), my message would be this: </div><ul><li>"I want to be president and I am qualified to be president. These are my policies; this is what I believe; and I hope you will vote for me. BUT.....at this time the most important thing for American voters to do is to make sure they rid their country of the most destructive administration they have ever placed in power. To that effect.....please note that <strong>ANY</strong> Republican candidate is a better option for the USA than another four years with a president who is consistently and recklessly destroying individual freedoms, tanking the economy, and shredding the Constitution."</li>
</ul><div> </div><div>I realize candidates can't express themselves that succinctly, but there are so many ways they can convey that message.......beginning by avoiding calling each other weak, untrustworthy, incompetent, etc. A united front is the ONLY thing that will ensure a GOP win. How can they expect American voters to get behind their efforts if all they do is bicker, criticize and complain? </div><div> </div><div>Voters need to feel that, if their favorite candidate is not nominated, either of the other two is a viable option. Instead, Santorum followers think Romney's weak and Gingrich is two-faced. Romney's followers think Santorum is wishy-washy.....etc. etc.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Meanwhile, the Democrats stand by champing at the bit.....ready to pounce on any and all stupid remarks that come out of Republicans' (or conservatives') mouths while they themselves are firmly united in their quest to destroy America as we know it.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div>Are Republicans so extraordinarily dense that they just don't see this? Do they not see that they are destroying themselves? </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>HOW can stupidity and mindlessness reign so supremely within the party that can save us while cleverness and quick-wittedness is so eminently employed by the bad guys? If this is truly a battle between good and evil, evil is going to triumph. And I believe it could have been avoided if Republicans had heeded a well-known biblical warning: <strong>"A house divided against itself cannot stand."</strong></div><div> </div><div><em>Sister Two</em> for <u>Two Sisters From The Right</u></div><div> </div></span><div></div></div>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-35443084416288524542012-03-16T22:20:00.000-07:002012-03-16T22:20:56.352-07:00Reads To Wake You Up!<div align="left" style="text-align: center;">HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY FROM TWO SISTERS FROM THE RIGHT!</div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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by <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/16/friday-night-news-dump-administration-to-move-forward-with-and-expand-contraception-mandate/"><span style="color: red;">Tina Korbe</span> - <span style="color: #073763;">Hot Air</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://zeldalily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/katleensebelius.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="http://zeldalily.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/katleensebelius.jpg" width="320" /></a>The administration this afternoon <a href="http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2012pres/03/20120316g.html">released</a> its “Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on preventive services policy.” Translation: President Barack Obama and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are moving forward with their controversial contraception mandate, which requires even religiously affiliated employers to provide their employees with insurance that covers contraception — even if those employers object to contraception on religious grounds.<br />
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“The President’s policy respects religious liberty and makes free preventive services available to women,” she said. ”Today’s announcement is the next step toward fulfilling that commitment.” <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/16/friday-night-news-dump-administration-to-move-forward-with-and-expand-contraception-mandate/"><span style="color: red;"><strong>MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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by <a href="http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/03/13/obama-administration-defunds-texas-medicaid-over-planned-parenthood/"><span style="color: red;">Steve Jordahl</span></a> - <a href="http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/03/13/obama-administration-defunds-texas-medicaid-over-planned-parenthood/"><span style="color: #073763;">CitizenLink</span></a><br />
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The Lone Star State has completely defunded Planned Parenthood and other providers of elective abortions. Congress, meanwhile is looking into allegations that Planned Parenthood affiliates nationwide have committed Medicaid fraud. Late last week, the federal Department of Health and Human Services announced it will withhold Medicaid dollars from Texas unless it allows Planned Parenthood to have some of the money.<br />
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That’s the money the Texas Women’s Health Program relies on to provide low-income women with breast cancer screenings and other preventive services.<br />
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“Our Legislature decided in 2011 that we were not going to fund abortions or abortion affiliates of Planned Parenthood, and this administration basically doesn’t care,” Gov. Rick Perry said, adding that the administration is violating the 10th Amendment.<br />
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott may take it to court.<br />
“Greg has clearly said that if they continue to go after the State of Texas that he will sue to defend our constitutional right to administer this program,” Perry said. <a href="http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/03/13/obama-administration-defunds-texas-medicaid-over-planned-parenthood/"><span style="color: red;"><strong>MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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Should you vote for Barack Obama or the Republican candidate in 2012? Here's a little quiz to help you decide!<br />
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<a href="http://thetshirtgame.com/nobama_anti_obama_republican_conservative_political_humor_satire_black_bkgd.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://thetshirtgame.com/nobama_anti_obama_republican_conservative_political_humor_satire_black_bkgd.gif" width="200" /></a> 1) The <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/03/14/cbo-health-law-estimate-shows-much-higher-spending-beyond-first-10-years/" target="_top"><b>latest report from the CBO</b></a> shows that the one decade cost estimate for Obamacare has almost doubled from 900 billion to 1.76 trillion dollars, it will add 700 billion dollars to the deficit over its first 10 years, 3-5 million people will lose their health care, and 30 million people still won't have health coverage -- and history has shown that CBO projections of this sort almost always turn out to be optimistic. So, do you want the American health care system to be decimated by Barack Obama?<br />
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2) Do you want to see gas prices rise as fast as possible while Barack Obama slow walks offshore drilling, blocks the Keystone Pipeline, and opposes ANWR?<br />
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3) Obama's stimulus may have been the single most wasteful expenditure in human history. It cost more than the <i>"<a href="http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/the-top-six-problems-with-the-stimulus/" target="_top"><b>Marshall Plan, the Louisiana Purchase, and putting a man on the moon</b></a>"</i> combined and yet, numerous critics correctly predicted that it wouldn't work. Do you want more stimulus bills like that one in the future? <a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/03/16/your_15_question_quiz_on_whether_to_vote_for_obama_in_2012/page/full/"><span style="color: red;"><strong> MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/team_obama_rewards_egypts_islamists.html">Team Obama rewards Egypt's Islamists</a></span></div><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6g78hyjNcNah76vJioeEMMr0qjSDHoIM0qgQ3AVgXJthizLpDopzSzir-FntMZLq_aX5nOH-yv8NCEhWTCUG-P_9huaHwA8z0HPmLmqVyzTGWwYCo-5UtqDFShtcMiuxDwqDNqqvKro11/s400/USAID.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6g78hyjNcNah76vJioeEMMr0qjSDHoIM0qgQ3AVgXJthizLpDopzSzir-FntMZLq_aX5nOH-yv8NCEhWTCUG-P_9huaHwA8z0HPmLmqVyzTGWwYCo-5UtqDFShtcMiuxDwqDNqqvKro11/s320/USAID.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Earlier this week, the newly elected Egyptian Parliament adopted a resolution calling for a belligerent policy toward Israel that would put a formal end to three decades of peaceful relations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Among other things, the resolution urged the deportation of Israel's ambassador to Cairo, a halt to the export of Egyptian natural gas to Israel, a re-examination of the Camp David peace accords, adoption of ''all forms of resistance'' against the Jewish state and mobilization of the Arab League in opposition to the "Judaization of Jerusalem." </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">For good measure, the Parliament also gave a green light to direct assistance to the Palestinians in the context that the "Zionist regime is the primary enemy of Egypt."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">This chilling turnabout of Egyptian foreign policy was engineered by a coalition of Islamist parties -- the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafists -- plus leftist parties.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Zionist Organization of America immediately </span></span><a href="http://www.pitchengine.com/zionistorganizationofamerica/zoa-calls-on-pelosi-delegation-in-egypt-to-condemn-egyptian-parliament-call-for-ending-peace-treaty--designating-israel"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">sent word</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> to a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Cairo, urging the lawmakers to take up this issue with Egyptian authorities and to warn them that formalization of the resolution as government policy would mean an immediate cutoff of U.S. aid.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">It turns out, however, that ZOA President Morton Klein, in his appeal to House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who's heading the visiting <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD1">American</span> delegation, may just be whistling in the dark.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Because no sooner had the new Egyptian Parliament formulated its hostile stance toward Israel than the State Department nevertheless proceeded with plans to reopen the multi-billion-dollar U.S. aid pipeline to Egypt -- with Pelosi's full approbation. <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/team_obama_rewards_egypts_islamists.html"><span style="color: red;"><strong>MORE</strong></span></a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><em>A<span style="color: black;"> trial balloon that failed to rise above the president's rhetorical gutter.</span></em></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/image/i.LYQ2MNm7Xs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="http://www.bloomberg.com/image/i.LYQ2MNm7Xs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: black;">On Thursday, Reuters </span><span style="color: black;">reported</span><span style="color: black;"> that Britain and the U.S. have reached an agreement to release oil from the nations' oil reserves. The report states that the idea originated with the Obama administration and that "Britain would respond positively" to a formal request.</span><br />
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<span><span style="color: black;">The report was immediately </span><span style="color: black;">denied</span><span style="color: black;"> by a White House spokesman and </span><span style="color: black;">questioned</span><span style="color: black;"> by some oil analysts.</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="color: black;">Such a move would be a reprise of a similar failed effort less than a year ago. However, given </span><span style="color: black;">pressure</span><span style="color: black;"> from Democrats and bad </span><span style="color: black;">polling</span><span style="color: black;"> for President Obama on fuel prices, the initial report is easier to believe than the White House's denial. Indeed, the denial did not say that this was not a topic for discussion between Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, but simply that there was no actual agreement.</span></span><br />
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<span><span><span style="color: black;">The burst of activity, including how quickly the administration had a response ready, had the distinct air of a "trial balloon," something that panicky administrations resort to when out of ideas. <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/16/obamas-oily-desperation-redux"><strong><span style="color: red;">MORE</span></strong></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-84014656336954141112012-03-15T07:25:00.000-07:002012-03-15T07:25:23.389-07:00Bring Them Home!<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/2/18/1234946451833/US-troops-set-out-on-a-pa-001.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/2/18/1234946451833/US-troops-set-out-on-a-pa-001.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">No one denies that the War in Afghanistan began in retaliation for the sneak attacks of September 11, 2001.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What soon became known as Bush’s War became Obama’s War in 2009 when the newly elected president decided to escalate the war by sending more troops in an attempt to create a surge such as the one in Iraq.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, the Obama administration was not as well advised or prepared to take this step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Obama launched the surge without any clear military strategy for the end of the war.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When George W. Bush ordered the strikes on Afghanistan, most of us believed that his objective was to destroy the Taliban and to capture Osama bin Laden. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We supported this objective and we supported our troops. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although the eventual capture of bin Laden came during Obama’s tenure in office, he eluded capture because the Pakistani government protected him all along while pretending to be America’s ally and accepting American foreign aid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bush’s failure came not in failing to capture bin Laden, but rather in attempting to “nation build” in Afghanistan.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">A cursory glance at the history of the Afghan people will show that for the most part, Afghans have for centuries been fiercely proud of their land, religion and ancestry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They value their independence, and their loyalty is first to their local leaders and their tribe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Afghanistan is inhabited by various ethnic groups who don’t share the same language, customs or traditions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people of Afghanistan have never identified with national unity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">It is ludicrous to attempt to force a Western style democracy on them because they will not accept it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Democracy and Islam do not mix well. The concept of a national identity is quite a fragile one for the Afghan people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Religion is the common thread that binds all these people. Islam is followed by almost all Afghans and it dominates much of their personal, political, economic and legal lives. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Two Sisters From The Right believe that after 10 years of war it is time to begin withdrawing our troops from Afghanistan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Barack Obama’s timeline of 2014 for a complete withdrawal is simply not acceptable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Enough American blood has been shed, and enough American lives have been lost in a country where it is obvious the people no longer welcome our presence, if they ever did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The reaction of the Afghans to the act of mistakenly burning a few Korans which had already been desecrated by other Afghans is a very graphic hint that religious zealotry is predominant in that country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That incident sparked a rash of violence among the Afghans which lasted several weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It resulted in 30 deaths, and afforded the corrupt Afghan President Karsai <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the opportunity to capitalize on the people’s rage and win approval points from his opponents. <o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Two Sisters believe that Barack Obama should not have apologized to Karsai.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A simple, “It was a mistake,” should have sufficed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead Americans appeared to be groveling for forgiveness. Obama’s idea of diplomacy seems to always come in the form of an apology, making the United States appear weak.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">The recent “massacre” of civilians by one soldier was a tragedy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karsai’s calling for putting him on trial in Afghanistan is a travesty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two Sisters agree that the soldier should be tried in a military court, and be taken out of the country as soon as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As tragic as the murder of women and children was, the Afghans reaction once again brought to the surface how the situation in Afghanistan is rapidly unraveling.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As of April 2011, at least 858 U.S. soldiers had died in the Afghanistan war since Barack Obama took office in January 2009. That equals 60 percent of the 1,427 American soldiers killed so far in the 10-year war in that country at the time. Be it obstinacy or lack of military knowledge, the fact is clear that Barack Obama’s foreign policy in Afghanistan has been a complete failure.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Just yesterday when Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, arrived in Afghanistan for talks with US and Afghan military leaders, there was an attempt on his life by a would be suicide attacker, yet at the joint meeting American Marines were asked to turn in their weapons and enter a room with hostile Afghans unarmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how one of the most influential persons in the world is protected?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Considering the fact that several Americans have been killed by their Afghan counterparts one wonders who was making the decisions there and why.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">One reason that Barack Obama was elected was that he ran as an anti-war candidate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, it was he who escalated the war in 2009.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten years into the war, two thirds of all Americans want to see an immediate troop withdrawal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two Sisters From The Right have always supported the American military, and it is because of our great respect and concern for them that we join with those who want to see an end to our involvement in Afghanistan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We won the war in Afghanistan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Taliban was thrown out of Afghanistan and Navy Seal Team Six captured and executed the elusive Osama bin Laden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There isn’t any more to be gained by remaining there.<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of the recent and well publicized events and the escalating violence in Afghanistan, the issue of troop withdrawal has become a talking point with politicians.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We reproach anyone in either party who uses the issue of troop withdrawal to attempt to gain votes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are talking about human lives here, real patriots and American heroes who have put themselves in harm’s way in a remote corner of the world because they answered their country’s call to duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Ten years at war is just too long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Instead of apologizing to Karsai we should be forcing him to clean up his corruption.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve given the Afghans the training and the tools to fight off the Taliban if that is what they wish. We’ve done enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve lost too much. The time has come to declare victory and to bring our troops home!<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, known collectively as the Bill of Rights, were adopted as a single unit two years after ratification of the Constitution. Dissatisfaction with guarantees of freedom listed in the Constitution led the founding fathers to enumerate personal rights as well as limitations on the federal government in these first 10 amendments. The Magna Carta, the English bill of rights, Virginia's 1776 Declaration of Rights, and the colonial struggle against tyranny provided inspiration and direction for the Bill of Rights. </span><a href="http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/statesrights.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The 10th Amendment states: <em><strong>"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."</strong></em></span><a href="http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/statesrights.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 2</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At the Constitutional Convention in 1787, delegates represented state governments that had become autonomous centers of power. The Constitution avoided a precise definition of the locus of sovereignty, leaving people to infer that the new charter created a divided structure in which powers were allocated between the central government and the states in such a way that each would be supreme in certain areas. </span><a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/states_rights.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3</span></a><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>State Rights are</em> a<em> doctrine and strategy in which the rights of the individual states are protected by the U.S. Constitution from interference by the federal government.</em></strong> </span><a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/states_rights.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4</span></a></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">States Rights have been an issue which has concerned America during various periods in our history. It was the Tenth Amendment which formed the basis of the doctrine of states' rights that became the ante-bellum rallying cry of the Southern states, which sought to restrict the ever-growing powers of the federal government. The principle of states' rights and state sovereignty eventually led the Southern states to secede from the central government that they believed had failed to honor the covenant that had originally bound the states together. </span><a href="http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/statesrights.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the 1930's the New Deal policies under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt substantially increased the size and the power of the federal government. In the 1940's the issue of states rights was raised again as the Southern "Dixiecrats" challenged Democrat President Harry S. Truman when he called for a more aggressive civil rights policy. Democrats in the South unitedly decided that their "states' rights" platform called for continued racial segregation and denounced proposals for national action on behalf of civil rights. </span><a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/states_rights.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the 1960s segregationists again argued for state sovereignty, and developed programs of massive resistance to racial integration in public education, public facilities, housing, and access to jobs. Beginning in the 1960s, other states' rights proponents started stressing the need for local control of government. One reason was the introduction of federal welfare and subsidy programs. The concern was that along with federal money would come federal control.</span><a href="http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/states_rights.aspx"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 7</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the 1980s the fears that many held that the encroaching powers of the federal government would take away the sovereign rights of states became a great concern. President Ronald Reagan agreed with the public that the federal government was becoming too involved in state government affairs. As a result, a major focus of his administration was to reduce the size and power of the federal government. States were given more authority to experiment with policy initiatives, especially social programs, which had previously been directed from Washington. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 2008 Americans of both parties began to fear the abuse of power by the Obama administration, and a grassroots a movement which became know as second Tea Party took root. The Tea Party movement called for three basic principles: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Adherence to the Constitution of the United States</span></li>
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</ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which brings our discussion to the main issue we face today. Early in March, nine Republican attorney generals denounced the Obama administration's abuse of power. </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gop-attorneys-general-litigate-push-back-against-obama-200746821.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“You’re seeing now a federal government that’s doing everything in its power to circumvent the Bill of Rights,” South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson said during a press conference during the Washington, D.C. meeting of the Republican Attorneys General Association.</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_550933653"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We are constantly being forced to sue the federal government to protect our states,” added Florida AG Pam Bondi.</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gop-attorneys-general-litigate-push-back-against-obama-200746821.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;">Washington is waging an “across the board regulatory assault” on state governments, said Virginia’s AG, Ken Cuccinelli, who organized the event. This “administration repeatedly shows disdain for the law … the states, and the Constitution,” he said. “It is absolutely </span><span style="color: black;">unprecedented.”</span></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/gop-attorneys-general-litigate-push-back-against-obama-200746821.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Barack Obama’s legal impositions on states should be recognized by voters in November, Cuccinelli said. “It is important for them to understand what is at at stake in this election. … It is literally the rule of law itself.”</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39413.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In July of 2010 AG Eric Holder and the Justice Department, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix against the state government and</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39413.html" target=""><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gov. Jan Brewer</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (R-Ariz.),</span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39413.html"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> arguing that the new state law violates the Constitution by claiming authority over immigration policy, which has historically been the jurisdiction of the federal government. </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The law requiring voters to present proper identification in order to vote was enacted simply to prevent voter fraud. It is a law that is popular with most Texans except those Democrats who count of fraudulent votes for their election. Although voter fraud is prevalent throughout the nation, it is particularly significant here in Jim Wells County, Texas where we live. </span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot, writes about voter fraud in Texas: <em>"In Texas, AN EPIDEMIC of voter fraud is harming the electoral process and it's time we rooted it out. Of course, voter fraud is no newcomer to the Lone Star State. Six decades ago, the votes "found" in Jim Wells County's infamous Ballot Box 13 helped Lyndon Johnson squeak into the U.S. Senate. Maybe none quite so dramatic, but other instances of "election irregularities" on both sides of the political aisle have plagued Texas since that 1948 primary. And the fraud continues. Just since last summer, my office has been involved in prosecuting several voter fraud cases across the state. Last month, three people, including a Texarkana City Council member were</em> <em>indicted in Bowie County for illegally handling mail-in ballots for seniors and other voters during the November 2004 general elections."</em></span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holder's speaker in this case is Assistant AG Thomas Perez for the Civil Rights division of the DOJ. Claiming that the law discriminates against Hispanics, Perez boldly refutes the word of Texas AG Abbott stating that, "The department concluded there is little evidence of voter fraud in Texas warranting the legislative changes." As Texas residents we are particularly perplexed by a New Yorker's summation of voting conditions in Texas. The audacity to challenge the word of our own Attorney General is typical of the arrogance of the Obama administration.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For those readers who are not aware of the new law, it simply requires voters to present a form of photo identification when voting. This can include a driver's license, a military ID, a U.S. citizenship certificate, a U.S. passport or a license to carry a concealed handgun. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Acquiring a state issued Texas I.D. card is a very simple process and one that can be completed before the November election. The items needed are proof of citizenship and cash or a money order to pay the fee. The ID is obtainable at the Texas Department of Public safety and it takes very little time. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/How%20to%20Get%20a%20Picture%20ID%20in%20Texas%20%7C%20eHow.com%20http://www.ehow.com/how_8180193_picture-id-texas.html#ixzz1oyV7QPFR"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The state of Texas, along with many others, requires a state-issued ID to check into a hotel, to board airplanes, to cash checks and to complete several other day-to-day activities</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. It is not much to ask that a picture ID be provided in order to vote.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is at stake here of course is that the law takes away the element of fraud from those unscrupulous politicians who would cheat their way into elected office. As of just a few weeks ago we were reading about irregularities that have surfaced regarding Barack Obama and the 2008 presidential elections. </span><a href="http://www.redcounty.com/content/no-surprise-eric-holder-blocks-new-texas-voter-id-law"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hispanic population is growing at a rapid pace. In states like Texas, the Hispanic vote will become more and more important for a candidate to win office. Democrats are terrified at losing this support. It is no coincidence that before this election, Holder is doing what he can to claim that Texas - led by Republicans - is trying to deny minority (read Hispanic) voters the right to cast a vote.</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We find it insulting to the Hispanic population of Texas to have Eric Holder consider them so gullible that they will fall for his ploy. Hispanics in Texas and other states are increasingly discovering that their philosophy of life and beliefs fall more in line with those of the Republican party and not the Democratic party of their forefathers who kept them under the thumb of the </span><a href="http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Patron+system"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"patron system"</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. This system did not permit Hispanics in Texas the upward mobility and personal independence needed to succeed, and which was richly deserved. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Perhaps Eric Holder, Obama, and that entire Chicago backroom politics system under which they operate, need to take a serious look at the world around them and realize that people want to put an end to crooked politics. They are tired of being manipulated. The intention behind the Texas voter ID law is to eliminate voter fraud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holder and Obama need to cease attempting to create problems among Texans. Their plot to pit Hispanics and non-Hispanics against one another will fall flat in a state where the lines which once divided them are being quietly erased. We have a saying in Texas, DON'T MESS WITH TEXAS. It started out as a campaign to stop littering our streets and highways, but it has become synonymous with our state. It is a strong message which conveys to those who would interfere with our state's sovereignty to back off and let Texans govern themselves. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Politicians are crisscrossing the country making promises they can't possibly keep. We worry about Obama's apologies to the very Muslims who sneakily attacked us on our soil on September 11, 2001. GOP voters seem as divided as ever and it will take divine intervention or a great love of country to unite them all against Obama. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>We read insatiably searching for answers, seeking a glimmer of hope, but so far, what we read only adds to our worries. We don't like sounding pessimistic, but fear for our nation's future is overwhelming. We offer no answers, we do not pretend to have solutions, we'd like for you to read these selections and give us your opinion. If you are a member of Facebook,</em></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/maria.v.pearson?ref=tn_tnmn#!/pages/Two-Sisters-From-The-Right/142620392450595"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <strong>Two Sisters From The Right</strong></span></em></span></a><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> has a page by the same name and we welcome your input.</em></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/11/breaking-us-soldier-held-after-rampage-15-afghan-civilians-killed/"><strong>Breaking: US soldier held after rampage, 15 Afghan civilians killed</strong></a></span></div><br />
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/11/breaking-us-soldier-held-after-rampage-15-afghan-civilians-killed/"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ed Morrissey</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> - HOT AIR</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is simply awful, if true — and </span><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-soldier-detained-after-opening-fire-on-afghans/2012/03/11/gIQAFFlW4R_story.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it appears it is</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:</span><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A U.S. soldier was taken into custody in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, a few hours after he opened fire on Afghan civilians, killing 15, U.S. and Afghan officials said.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shooting took place at approximately 3 a.m. as a lone soldier left a checkpoint in Kandahar province’s Panjwai district and opened fire on civilians in two villages, said Javed Faisal, the director of the provincial government’s media center.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Citing preliminary reports, Faisal said at least 15 people were killed and five were wounded. Provincial authorities said they were awaiting news from an investigative team sent to the villages before releasing a definitive death toll. </span><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/03/11/breaking-us-soldier-held-after-rampage-15-afghan-civilians-killed/"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></blockquote><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/03/09/the_lefts_war_on_christianity/page/full/">The Left's War on Christianity</a></strong></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it’s founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous. — </span><a href="http://rightwingnews.com/quotes/the-25-best-quotes-about-liberals/" target="_top"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hugh Hewitt</span></b></a><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Most liberals in this country tend to treat Christians one of two ways: either with open, sniggering contempt or if they think they need their votes, they tend to switch over to hamhanded and grotesque pandering. That’s not to say that there aren’t liberal Christians, there are plenty of them, but they’ve just become accustomed to being treated by their fellow liberals like the sort of refuse you scrape off your shoes after a long walk through a cow pasture. — <b><a href="http://rightwingnews.com/uncategorized/liberal-contempt-for-christians/" target="_top">John Hawkins</a></b></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Liberalism is so unrelentingly hostile to Christianity that it's virtually impossible to be both a devout Christian and a devout liberal at the same time. To be a liberal Christian means you either have to completely gut your religious beliefs to make them compatible with your political inclinations or alternately, you have to spend your days cowering with your eyes down while your fellow liberals demean, smear, and mock everything you should hold dear. <strong><a href="http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/03/09/the_lefts_war_on_christianity/page/full/"><span style="color: red;">READ MORE</span></a></strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has introduced a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act of Congress, “it is the sense of Congress” that such an act would be “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/our-choice-impeachment-or-dictatorship/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In an exclusive WND column</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo claims that Jones introduced his </span><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.CON.RES.107:"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">House Concurrent Resolution 107</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in response to startling recent comments from Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This week it was Secretary of Defense Panetta’s declaration before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he and President Obama look not to the Congress for authorization to bomb Syria but to NATO and the United Nations,” Tancredo writes. “This led to Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., introducing an official resolution calling for impeachment should Obama take offensive action based on Panetta’s policy statement, because it would violate the Constitution.” </span><a href="http://www.wnd.com/2012/03/obama-impeachment-bill-now-in-congress/?cat_orig=us"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every time trouble has erupted in Iran against the regime—1999, 2003, and, most recently, 2009—university students have been at the forefront of protests. This is partly why Iran’s current president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has been battling over control of Iran’s biggest institution of higher learning for the last three years. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I previously reported in these pages (“</span><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/phd-torture_614773.html"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A Ph.D. in Torture</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">”), Ahmadinejad sought to snatch control of the university from Rafsanjani under the pretext that the university sided with the reformists in the 2009 presidential elections. In March 2010, Ahmadinejad won his first victory when he managed to get the university’s status changed by limiting a chancellor’s tenure to two four-year terms, which would force out conservative politician and Rafsanjani proxy, Abdollah Jasbi, who had been serving almost thirty years. Rafsanjani tried to outmaneuver Ahmadinejad by transforming the university into a religious endowment in order to shield Azad from state interference, but Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, intervened to block this move. Eventually, Jasbi was forced out in January 2012. </span><a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/power-struggle-iran_633384.html"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><em><strong>The results showed that while both blacks and whites saw anti-black racism decreasing over the decades, whites saw race relations as a 'zero sum game' where they were losing out as blacks gained the advantage.</strong></em></span><br />
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<div class="article-break"><div class="advertisement"><div class="ad-border top"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><div class="ad-holder"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <noscript><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/cdg.ws/article;pos=3;section=article;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/cdg.ws/article;pos=3;section=article;tile=3;sz=300x250;ord=123456789?" width="300" height="250" border="0" alt=""></a&g</noscript></span></div></div></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/03/11/weekend-political-wrap-up"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weekend Political Wrap-Up</span></a></h2><div class="byline"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By </span><a href="http://spectator.org/people/james-antle" rel="author"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">W. James Antle, III</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="summary"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Ron Paul </span><a href="http://vigop.com/2012/03/vi-gop-2012-caucus-results-coming-soon/#disqus_thread" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">won</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the popular vote in his first primary or caucus -- the Virgin Islands -- but Mitt Romney still ended up walking away with most of the delegates. Dave Weigel </span><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/03/11/the_virgin_islands_caucuses_how_ron_paul_lost_by_getting_more_votes.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">explains</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. That was pretty much the theme of the weekend. Rick Santorum</span><a href="http://spectator.org/blog/2012/03/10/santorum-wins-kansas"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">won</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Kansas Republican caucuses easily. But Romney did just well enough to keep the state from being winner-take-all for Santorum, nabbing seven delegates, and then pulling in delegates from Guam, the Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Romney also prevailed in this weekend's voting in the seemingly never-ending Wyoming caucuses. Romney got the most delegates this weekend, 39-33, extending his lead.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. The </span><a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/73844.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">math</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">essentially favors Romney at this point, but because the counts are inexact -- a lot of unbound delegates still out there, plus caucuses where the delegate allocation has a confusing relationship with the popular vote totals -- it isn't clear how much so. Tim Carney </span><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/how-math-virtually-guarantees-romneys-nomination/416016" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">lays out</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> the realistic best-case scenario for Romney, Sean Trende the </span><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/03/09/romney_really_might_not_have_the_delegates_by_june.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">worst case</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Either way, Santorum and Newt Gingrich stand a much better chance of denying Romney a majority than overtaking him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. Gingrich stands a chance of winning Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday. If he doesn't? Initially, it seemed he would consider dropping out, but now he is insisting that he won't. Obviously, how well he does and where he places will be important. But a Southern strategy can't just consist of South Carolina and Georgia.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. Rasmussen shows both Romney and Santorum winning national pluralities against President Barack Obama.</span><br />
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</tbody></table><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Link Savoie, a retired military, Korea / Vietnam veteran and a veterans advocate has written an excellent article for </span></em><a href="http://www.dailyworld.com/article/20120308/OPINION/203080313"><em><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Daily World</strong></span></em></a><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. We came across this article while researching the apologies that Barack Hussein Obama issued to the Afghan people after American soldiers mistakenly burned Korans which had already been desecrated by having writing on them, We agree with every word that Mr. Savoie has written. It had been our intention to just publish the cartoons and satire that Obama's apology has inspired, but this article was just too good not to share. </span></em><br />
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"If they're to burn the Quran, we don't want them here. They will never be forgiven for betraying the holy book."a statement of an Afghan police officer. That same police officer who turns his head now and spits when he sees a U.S. military convoy roll by.<br />
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"I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident. I extend to you and the Afghan people my sincere apologies," President Barack Obama's three-page apology letter to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai.<br />
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"It was fine to fight along-side the Americans. But, after the Muslim holy books were burned at a U.S. base, I detest them," a 25-year-old Afghan soldier said.<br />
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on with business. We've got to create a situation in which al-Qaida is not coming back," a statement Ambassador Ryan Crocker gave to CNN. I wonder if Crocker is aware that these riots prompted the British and French to recall hundreds of international advisers from all Afghan ministries. They are concerned about the safety of their citizens. That is the attitude President Obama should have about the American military.<br />
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The sad part of this entire situation is that President Karzai's demands are being met. He wants the American soldiers who are responsible for burning those alleged religious documents punished. As quick as President Obama apologized to the Afghan people, an investigation by Marine Gen. John Allen, the commanding officer in Afghanistan, revealed that the Qurans inadvertently burned by U.S. troops were previously defaced with extremist messages and placed in an office. The books were mistaken for trash and taken to a burn pit and destroyed. The investigation by Gen. Allen indicated that the soldiers were careless "but there was no ill will. For the soldiers, it will be serious. They could lose rank or face reprimands."<br />
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Since the Muslim religious material was mistakenly burned with other military documents on Feb. 20, six American soldiers were assassinated due to the burning incident. They were killed by a number of Afghan police and soldiers, or militants disguised in their uniforms who are turning their guns on their foreign allies. Not once did our administration demand an apology for the killing of our soldiers. It is obvious that the Obama administration appears to care more about not offending the Afghans. So there it is, America. Everybody and his brother want the United States "occupiers" out of Afghanistan, our allies are dropping out of the fighting and furnishing support only. The only person who wants to remain in that country is President Obama and Crocker.<br />
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Columnist Cal Thomas recently brought up a good point. Since President Obama has announced the deadline for the withdrawal of surge-level troops in Afghanistan for later this year, maybe it's time to pull all U.S. forces out now and leave Hamid Karzai to his fate. No matter how soon or how long we remain in Afghanistan, al-Qaida is patient enough to wait until the Americans leave and they will gain total control anyway.<br />
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So what's the point in our troops remaining and continue to fight under restrictive and self-imposed rules of war while the enemy does not?<br />
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<em><span style="color: #666666;">Link Savoie is retired military, Korea / Vietnam veteran and a veterans advocate. Reach him at</span></em> <a href="mailto:linkvfwla@aol.com">linkvfwla@aol.com</a><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight during our daily perusal we came across this classic Dennis Miller piece on Breitbart Big Hollywood, and thought we'd share with those who've not read it. We normally watch our language on Two Sisters because we know a kid or two who read it, but this is Dennis Miller and we won't censure him. It wouldn't be Miller without the colorful language. We have eliminated one word as we do not take the Lord's name in vain. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rest in Peace, Andrew Breitbart. You were a torch bearer for the conservative movement and you will be sorely missed. Thankfully many are dedicated to continue your work. For all we will mourn your passing, you are now in a better place.</span></em><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUBgv7SZs_9JiLsl5KnPiwMi925VQUghlcAPp9gSvb0XhwuDOtvrFoXlZZU8Y958LTq-1aeI8CyuLyHOwj6Al3C6gGWTv-DJZlfI7Ez8Guw3DlDOgRkB9RBwSR8CaOPRkkM2b5Zbtw6Y/s1600/dennis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdUBgv7SZs_9JiLsl5KnPiwMi925VQUghlcAPp9gSvb0XhwuDOtvrFoXlZZU8Y958LTq-1aeI8CyuLyHOwj6Al3C6gGWTv-DJZlfI7Ez8Guw3DlDOgRkB9RBwSR8CaOPRkkM2b5Zbtw6Y/s320/dennis.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I wanted to say a few words about a man who infrequently expressed himself in a few words, Andrew <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_0">Breitbart</span>. I had to wait a few days until his death took, as the reverb of his lack thereof was at least as pronounced as the active throb of 99% of all the living humans I’<span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_1">ve</span> encountered in my life.<br />
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Andrew filled me with a strange mixture of shame and pride. Shame that I <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_2">wasn</span>’t even in the ballpark as far as his Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon-sized balls and pride that what I believed inside was the largely the same as he believed and if I was aping the notes of someone that noble, I must at least be near Consequential-<span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_3">ville</span>.<br />
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I don’t want to overplay our connection as I feel some people do with departed heroes. Andrew was such a stand-up guy I would be ashamed to concoct a level of intimacy with him that did not exist. That being said, I believe I actually gleaned Andrew’s essence in toto about 15 minutes after meeting him for the first time.<br />
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I picked up all the surface <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_4">nazz</span> immediately. <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_5">Whipcrack</span>-sharp, <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_6">Shandling</span>-funny, and that charisma you can only exude by not trying. But then his raison d’<span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_7">etre</span> hit me about a quarter hour in like a pool cue across the forehead in a bar fight. He was talking about a specific injustice in the news and he snapped into protector mode. He <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_8">wasn</span>’t going to accept bullying against people who <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_9">couldn</span>’t defend themselves. Big boy on big boy <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_10">bloodsport</span>? Yeah, he loved it like Spaniards love the bull ring. But if it <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_11">wasn</span>’t a fair match he’d be there in a shot and immediately let you know they’d have to kill him first.<br />
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He was a noble <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_12">shit</span> disturber. If he <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_13">wasn</span>’t raking the muck he would lay his cloak down on it and allow you to pass... that is, if you warranted it, if you deserved it. Andrew was one of those cool few that you could describe as righteous and not be inferring any sort of narcissism on their part.<br />
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Spending time with him was like watching the first 6:05 of the movie “<span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_14">Patton</span>” on a perpetual loop. “When you put your hand into a pile of <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_15">goo</span> that used to be your best friend’s reputation...well, you’ll know what to do.”<br />
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I’m not even going to presume to tell you his mantle can be passed to anyone. That’d be like me telling you to imagine that “<span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_16">Patton</span>” speech with <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_17">Adrien</span> <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_18">Brody</span> instead of George C. Scott. ........ Andrew made Achilles look like a shut in and it caught up to him. I do know this though, <span class="RadEWrongWord" id="RadESpellError_19">Rockne</span> just crashed in a wheat field a few days ago and the rest of us are going to all have to do our job just a little better if we are to balance out the loss of this truly consequential man.<br />
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Copyright <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/05/dennis-miller-andrew-breitbart-tribute">Breitbart Big Hollywood</a> - March 2012Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-89088984472371911992012-03-06T23:36:00.000-08:002012-03-06T23:36:41.294-08:00Mixed Bag Tuesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o-fbSujwnFPY31cMXfmydbMSxNRyuLR_Ng_1_u62VUMFcwlQMmWgnFr4xOCbXphMo9iOXnKytY7SUrABxsL7DY6HYvk2HOGt5EqF-tIidFeSwzpRGheq5hYx7vFE44rRgPr5F86F0Ok/s1600/Mixed+bag.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6o-fbSujwnFPY31cMXfmydbMSxNRyuLR_Ng_1_u62VUMFcwlQMmWgnFr4xOCbXphMo9iOXnKytY7SUrABxsL7DY6HYvk2HOGt5EqF-tIidFeSwzpRGheq5hYx7vFE44rRgPr5F86F0Ok/s320/Mixed+bag.JPG" width="246" /></a></div><em><span style="color: #cc0000;">We thought we'd bring a mixed bag of news today. They're not quite the news that the main stream media is covering, with the exception of course of the Republican primaries. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">The first story was chosen, selfishly. We need to know that the apparent candidate can have a shot at defeating Obama. We chose the George Will story for the same reason. Hopefully the GOP does have a plan B to defeat Obama. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Carbonite story was chosen because readers need to know that not all Americans agree with the companies that pulled their advertisments from the Rush Limbaugh show. The hypocrisy was too much to bear as well as the double standards applied to one commentator and not others.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">We decided to go with the Tim Tebow story because we feel that everyone needs a "feel good" story now and again, and Tim Tebow is like a blast of fresh air in a stagnant environment.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="color: #cc0000;">To tell the truth, we are so happy to see Dennis Kucinich lose in the primary that we just had to provide those who dislike him as much as we do to read about his defeat. In all, an eclectic mix of best reads not seen often on TV.</span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: large;"><strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-not-write-mitt-romney-off-yet/2012/03/05/gIQAXfyYtR_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions">Do not write Mitt Romney off yet</a></strong></span><br />
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Eight months ago, President Obama was losing the debt debate with congressional Republicans. His approval rating was approaching an all-time low, with support collapsing among independents and fading among Democrats. “I think it would be a good idea,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), “if President Obama faced some primary opposition.” <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/do-not-write-mitt-romney-off-yet/2012/03/05/gIQAXfyYtR_story.html?wprss=rss_opinions"><span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Investors Flee Carbonite After Limbaugh Announcement</strong></span><br />
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On Saturday, Carbonite <a class="kLink" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/06/investors-flee-carbonite-after-limbaugh-announcement/#" id="KonaLink0" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">CEO </span><span class="kLink" style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">David</span></span></a> Friend released <a href="http://www.carbonite.com/en/blog/A-Message-from-Carbonite-CEO-David-Friend-Regarding-Ads-on-Limbaugh" target="_blank">a statement</a> on his company’s website declaring that Carbonite had decided to “withdraw” advertising from Rush Limbaugh’s radio show in the wake of his <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/06/2012/03/03/2012/02/29/limbaugh-georgetown-co-ed-wanting-to-be-paid-for-sex-a-slut-a-prostitute-video/">controversial remarks</a> involving Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke because it will “ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse”:<br />
</article><article><blockquote><em>Even though Mr. Limbaugh has now issued an apology, we have nonetheless decided to withdraw our advertising from his show. We hope that our action, along with the other advertisers who have already withdrawn their ads, will ultimately contribute to a more civilized public discourse.</em></blockquote></article><article>However, it hasn’t done much to contribute to his company’s stock price. Since the market opened on Monday through its close today, Carbonite stock (<a class="kLink" href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/06/investors-flee-carbonite-after-limbaugh-announcement/#" id="KonaLink1" style="position: static; text-decoration: underline !important;"><span style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: static;"><span class="kLink" style="color: green; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: 400; position: relative;">NASDAQ</span></span></a>:<a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=NASDAQ%3ACARB" target="_blank">CARB</a>) has plummeted nearly 12 percent, outpacing the drop of the <a href="http://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC" target="_blank">NASDAQ index</a> in that same time period by nine-and-a-half points. It was also <a href="http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3021-losennm-loser.html" target="_blank">one of the biggest decliners</a> on the NASDAQ on Tuesday. <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/06/investors-flee-carbonite-after-limbaugh-announcement/#ixzz1oPTt6dUP"><span style="color: red;">READ MORE</span></a><br />
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<em>“The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. The next and most urgent counsel is to take stock of reality.”</em><br />
<strong>— William F. Buckley, Sept. 11, 1964 </strong><br />
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<strong>On that evening 48 years ago — it was still summer, early in the presidential campaign — Buckley, whose </strong><a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/223549/our-mission-statement/william-f-buckley-jr"><strong>National Review magazine</strong></a><strong> had given vital assistance to Barry Goldwater’s improbable capture of the Republican nomination, addressed the national convention of the conservative Young Americans for Freedom. Buckley told his fervent acolytes that “when we permit ourselves to peek up over the euphoria” of Goldwater’s nomination, we see that it occurred “before we had time properly to prepare the ground.” </strong><br />
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<strong>He then sobered his boisterous audience: “I speak of course about the </strong><a data-xslt="_http" href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Zwsu73A3yUsC&lpg=PP1&dq=let%20us%20talk%20of%20many%20things&pg=PA74#v=onepage&q=September%2011&f=false"><strong>impending defeat of Barry Goldwater</strong></a><strong>.” He urged “the necessity of guarding against the utter disarray that sometimes follows a stunning defeat.” Goldwater’s doomed campaign should, Buckley said, be supported because it plants “seeds of hope, which will flower on a great November day in the future.” They did, 16 Novembers later. </strong><br />
<strong>Buckley understood the possibility of constructive defeat. He also understood the need to economize conservatism’s energies. </strong><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-can-stop-obama-one-way-or-another/2012/03/02/gIQAjq6bmR_story.html"><span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/mar/03/tebow-talks-bible-verses-ministering-tebowing/"><span style="font-size: large;">Tebow talks Bible verses, ministering and Tebowing</span></a></strong><br />
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by <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/staff/richard-n-velotta/" rel="author" title="Richard N. Velotta staff page"><cite>Richard N. Velotta</cite></a> - <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/mar/03/tebow-talks-bible-verses-ministering-tebowing/"><span style="color: orange;"><strong>The Las Vegas Sun</strong></span></a><br />
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Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow went deep Saturday night, inspiring thousands of church worshipers who came to hear him tell football stories and how his experiences have made him an inspirational Christian man in the National Football League.<br />
Tebow spent about 45 minutes talking with Kevin Odor, senior pastor of Canyon Ridge Christian Church, in an interview that tied in to several Bible verses.<br />
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In the first of two Saturday services, more than 4,000 people — hundreds of them wearing Tebow’s No. 15 Broncos jersey — crammed into Canyon Ridge’s cavernous auditorium. Odor said before the interview that 1,000 more were logged on to the church’s website, watching a live streamed broadcast of the service. <a href="http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/mar/03/tebow-talks-bible-verses-ministering-tebowing/"><span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/06/one-loser-no-closers"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;"><strong>One Loser... No Closers</strong></span></a><br />
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</article><article><h2><span style="font-size: small;"><em>As Democrat Rep. Dennis Kucinich lost a primary contest in Ohio, Super Tuesday produced three winners, one loser, and a Republican Party still in search of a nominee.</em></span></h2></article><article>Frontrunner Mitt Romney won Idaho, Virginia, Vermont, Alaska, and his home state of Massachusetts. Rick Santorum, who had dropped in national polls in recent days, scored victories in Oklahoma and Tennessee, and continued his dominance in the Great Plains with a win in North Dakota. Newt Gingrich took his home state of Georgia.<br />
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Ohio was called for Romney, who enjoyed a narrow but crucial victory. The only candidate who failed to win anywhere was Ron Paul, who has fought hard to win delegates but has yet to take a single state primary or caucus. <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/06/one-loser-no-closers"><span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></article><article></article><article></article><article></article><article></article><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</article></div></div></div>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-60474624646674312792012-03-06T01:29:00.001-08:002012-03-06T01:36:31.180-08:00The Battle Goes On: Rush, Bibi and The Cardinal<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>The outcome of the three articles we bring you today can affect the</em></span> <span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>rest of our lives. While many are focused on the results of the Republican campaign for the presidency, it is important for informed Americans to know that there are other stories to cover which are crucial to our future. Our freedom of speech and our freedom of religion are under attack by this dictatorial presidency. Our promises to Israel since that country attained sovereignty are not being kept and our government appears to be siding with the very barbarians who attacked us on 9/11. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Note that Barack Hussein Obama has taken an adversarial position in each case. As the Michael Ramirez cartoon at the bottom of the page indicates, one simply cannot trust a president who speaks out of both sides of his mouth and seldom tells the truth.</em></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div>by <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2012/03/05/get-rush-campaign-isnt-about-what-he-said#ixzz1oKAHxslX"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Brent Bozell</span></a><br />
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Rush Limbaugh was broadsided last week for attacking a star witness for the Democrats who demanded government force insurers to subsidize contraceptives. He called 30-year-old Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute.”<br />
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Let’s all agree Limbaugh crossed a line. He agrees. He posted an apology to Fluke “for the insulting word choices.” The scandal-ette should be over.<br />
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So why are the Left and the media still pushing and publicizing a campaign for advertisers to dump the Limbaugh show and end his career? Because it has little to do with his words. This is all about disingenuous politics. Liberals want this government-mandate controversy to be not about religious liberty, which is devastating, but about contraceptives, which works in their favor.<br />
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That is intellectually dishonest.<br />
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They want to position conservatives as “anti-women.” That’s as ugly as it is untrue.<br />
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But Limbaugh’s words gave them the opening they needed – and they pounced. <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-bozell/2012/03/05/get-rush-campaign-isnt-about-what-he-said#ixzz1oKAHxslX"><span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a><br />
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</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="drop">D</span>espite the White House’s rather successful efforts to reframe the media and congressional debate over the HHS “contraceptive mandate” as a right-wing jihad against “women’s health” — a cynical ploy aided and abetted by Rush Limbaugh’s one-man circular firing squad — the real battle against the mandate and in defense of religious freedom has continued. </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">A March 2 letter from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, to his brother bishops usefully and succinctly outlined the current state of affairs, which amounts to unremitting stonewalling from the Obama administration. <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292554/battle-continues-beyond-rush-george-weigel"><span style="color: red;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><br />
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by <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/05/national/w193302S59.DTL"><span style="color: #0c343d;">Amy Teibel</span></a>, <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/05/national/w193302S59.DTL"><em><span style="color: black;"><strong>Associated Press</strong></span></em></a><br />
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</div>Israel's prime minister on Monday vigorously asserted his country's right to defend itself against the nuclear threat emanating from Iran, warning that time was growing short and declaring he wouldn't "gamble with the security of the state of Israel."<br />
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Benjamin Netanyahu's tough talk in a speech to thousands of American Jewish supporters was his strongest suggestion yet that he wouldn't hesitate to launch a unilateral pre-emptive attack on Iran. It differed starkly in tone from President Barack <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/barack-obama/">Obama's</a> appeal earlier in the day to give diplomacy and sanctions more time to work before resorting to force.<br />
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Israel has "patiently waited" for diplomacy and sanctions to work but time is working against that approach, Netanyahu told a record gathering of the America Israel Public Affairs Committee, the pro-Israel lobby in Washington. <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2012/03/05/national/w193302S59.DTL#ixzz1oKEhKJhw"><span style="color: red;">READ MORE</span></a><br />
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<span class="field-content" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/03/02/levin-tells-media-go-hell-you-re-not-going-succeed-driving-rush-limba"> </a></span><br />
<span class="field-content" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/03/02/levin-tells-media-go-hell-you-re-not-going-succeed-driving-rush-limba"><h2 class="title"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Mark Levin Tells Media 'Go to Hell' - 'You’re Not Going to Succeed in Driving Rush Limbaugh From the Airwaves'</span></h2></a></span></div><span class="views-field-name"><label class="views-label-name"> By: </label><span class="field-content"><a href="http://newsbusters.org/bios/noel-sheppard.html" title="View user profile.">Noel Sheppard</a></span></span> <span style="color: blue;"> </span><a href="http://newsbusters.org/"><span style="color: blue;">Newsbusters</span></a><br />
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"You’re not going to succeed in driving Rush Limbaugh from the airwaves...In fact, I think I speak for tens of millions of Americans when I say you can go to hell" (<a href="http://www.therightscoop.com/levin-to-cnn-msnbc-and-other-leftist-media-you-can-go-to-hell/">video available here</a>, partial transcript follows)<span class="field-content"></span><br />
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</div><div class="summary"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbsQVii3_ecLLeoPql4-NmJMCEPImHo3Aw1A2pdjpQNssElCQaIumRC4wsC-8oXLIpWNnUIO4z6tCKADcky1xS-HGaqZtbDJIWqsD0Weqfo3MVrj-_BTJRXY33pAhC29MuHciYX9r2wQ/s1600/Jay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbsQVii3_ecLLeoPql4-NmJMCEPImHo3Aw1A2pdjpQNssElCQaIumRC4wsC-8oXLIpWNnUIO4z6tCKADcky1xS-HGaqZtbDJIWqsD0Weqfo3MVrj-_BTJRXY33pAhC29MuHciYX9r2wQ/s320/Jay.jpg" width="228" /></a>Thanks to the Republican presidential race, political correctness has taken a beating it won't recover from.</div></div>All around me I hear nothing about this presidential primary campaign but those onomatopoeic grr words. You know the ones…grimacing, grinding, griping, grouching, grousing, grudging, grumbling, grumping. Romney's chauffeur is parking the Cadillac too conspicuously and Gingrich's bellhop is collapsing under the weight of his baggage and Santorum's priest is tripping over his cassock and Paul's wizard is suffocating under his hood. No one is any good and you don't need a crystal ball to see Obama's Inaugural Ball.<br />
But to be honest, I am having the time of my life. Perhaps foolishly, I have stopped keeping score of the hassling and the tussling between the guys. Whoever wins will have my vote unless his name is Paul, on his road to non-intervention in Damascus, in which case my anti-anti-Semitism will prevail over my anti-anti-Constitutionalism. I can sleep at night with either Romney or Gingrich or Santorum as President, with the added bonus that Romney may put me to sleep by day as well.<br />
My overall sense remains one of exultation. These candidates may or may not defeat Obama, but two of them, Gingrich and Santorum, have accomplished a far more significant victory, one which may hold greater ramifications. Between them they are dismantling, piece by brittle piece, the structure of political correctness that has stifled our debate in this society for decades. <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2012/03/02/i-stand-uncorrected"><span style="color: red;">Read More</span></a><br />
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<h1><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jondrasik/2012/03/03/andrew-breitbart-how-do-we-replace-the-irreplacable/"><span style="font-size: large;">Andrew Breitbart: How Do We Replace the Irreplaceable?</span></a></h1><span class="postheader">by <strong><a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/author/jondrasik"> John Ondrasik </a></strong></span><br />
<div id="lazyload_post_1">I loved Andrew Breitbart.<br />
Ironically, it took an Andrew Breitbart to give me the courage to say publicly that I could love an Andrew Breitbart.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5sv7jCZc2AbabZz958YwdcMEQGbuDVacpfkR4g7SZyP9xXDHAYcQapzSbSg1eBpLOKRct8rYH8isne4uUP8RgP5wX3a50s7mXL-DEc2iVMqMdWeaSKNl8oyaLq0EZ9vCM9Xpn5vyB6jY/s1600/Andrew.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5sv7jCZc2AbabZz958YwdcMEQGbuDVacpfkR4g7SZyP9xXDHAYcQapzSbSg1eBpLOKRct8rYH8isne4uUP8RgP5wX3a50s7mXL-DEc2iVMqMdWeaSKNl8oyaLq0EZ9vCM9Xpn5vyB6jY/s1600/Andrew.png" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>Andrew had the back of those who, worried about a backlash to their livelihood. He was the bodyguard, the kid who stood up to the bullies. He was the bouncer you couldn’t elbow out of the doorway.<br />
His best friend was his childhood pal and business partner, Larry. For many of us, though, Andrew was our best friend. If we didn’t have a brother, he filled that void. If we needed a mentor, he fit the bill. If we desired a third child, there was Andrew. For all of his incredible energy and gifts, it was, at times, like caring for a wild-eyed teenager with no sense of time and space. We didn’t mind taking him in, in fact, we arm-wrestled for the chance.<br />
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Many of us, including Andrew, live and lived for our nation’s military. I’ve often asked young American soldiers how they deal with the death of a buddy in combat. How do you keep going, do your job, continue to live and push forward? The answers are all profound and different. I will never have the courage of our nation’s bravest, but for the first time in my life, I have a sense of that empty foxhole. That notion, that though the fight is right, a chunk of me is gone — never to be filled.<br />
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There are great stories floating around about Andrew, and I have them too. I’m just too sad to lay them out. <a href="http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/"><span style="color: red;">Read More</span></a><br />
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<h1><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/wapo_laces_obama-netanyahu_summit_with_anti-israel_poison_pills.html#ixzz1o6qyXqVZ"><span style="font-size: large;">WaPo laces Obama-Netanyahu summit with anti-Israel poison pills</span></a></h1><span class="home_author" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/03/wapo_laces_obama-netanyahu_summit_with_anti-israel_poison_pills.html#ixzz1o6qyXqVZ">Leo Rennert</a></span><br />
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<div class="article_body"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3JNguKyqWdxVDK7BpZjvbbsAF3JNp72GqwBrEuldPYhfsBnT4zVIfAcBRO0xcwajDd27YHzwP1CJUm7E-WmkYbSyIfKHzv2xt7aQCbdCmJESCB5EXRovkl_Gy27_8HMhuUPohU5oTyk/s1600/Netanyahu+and+O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-3JNguKyqWdxVDK7BpZjvbbsAF3JNp72GqwBrEuldPYhfsBnT4zVIfAcBRO0xcwajDd27YHzwP1CJUm7E-WmkYbSyIfKHzv2xt7aQCbdCmJESCB5EXRovkl_Gy27_8HMhuUPohU5oTyk/s1600/Netanyahu+and+O.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">In the run-up to President Obama's summit with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, the president gave an <span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD3">interview</span> to </span></span><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/03/obama-to-iran-and-israel-as-president-of-the-united-states-i-dont-bluff/253875/"><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">Atlantic Magazine</span></span></a><span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;"> during which he ratcheted up his warnings that the United States is prepared to use military force, if necessary, to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: times new roman, times;"><span style="font-size: small;">"When I say we're not taking any option off the table, we mean it," Obama declared. Asked to elaborate on what options he has in mind, he replied: "It includes a military component." That's news, coming from a president of the United States.</span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The conservative think tank's annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and other federal programs that were "traditionally provided to needy people by local organizations and families." <a href="http://news.investors.com/Article/600452/201202080802/government-dependence-jumps-under-president-obama.htm"><span style="color: red;">READ MORE</span></a></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gallup released a memo earlier this week titled, "</span></strong><a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/152486/Election-Stands.aspx"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where the U.S. Election Stands Now</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">," comparing past presidential approval ratings with each candidates reelection results. Gallup concluded:</span></strong><br />
<blockquote><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This historical pattern suggests that Obama would need to see his job approval rating climb to 50% to be in a comfortable position for re-election. History shows that by March of the election year, all winning presidents in the modern era, including George W. Bush, had job approval ratings above 50%, and all losing presidents had job approval ratings below 50%. This suggests that where Obama stands by next month may be an important indicator of his ultimate re-election chances. </span></strong><a href="http://www.blogger.com/Gallup%20released%20a%20memo%20earlier%20this%20week%20titled,%20%22Where%20the%20U.S.%20Election%20Stands%20Now,%22%20comparing%20past%20presidential%20approval%20ratings%20with%20each%20candidates%20reelection%20results.%20Gallup%20concluded:"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></blockquote><strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">President Obama “reinforced” his stance on the controversial contraception mandate while speaking at the Democrats’ annual retreat at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. today, Senate Democrats said.<br />
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“The power to decide whether or not to use contraception lies with a woman – not her boss,” said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y. “What is more intrusive than trying to allow an employer to make medical decisions for someone who works for them?” <span id="goog_1959901795"></span></span></strong><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/08/report-obama-doubles-down-on-new-contraception-rule-at-democratic-retreat/"><span style="color: red;"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">READ MORE<span id="goog_1959901796"></span></span></strong></span></a><br />
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The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 39% of Likely U.S. Voters believe the government should require a church or religious organization to provide contraceptives for women even if it violates their deeply held beliefs. Fifty percent (50%) disagree and oppose such a requirement that runs contrary to strong beliefs, while 10% more are undecided.<br />
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Fifty-six percent (56%) of male voters are against the government requiring contraceptive coverage in a case like this. Female voters are almost evenly divided on the question. Sixty-five percent (65%) of Catholic voters oppose this requirement, as do 62% of Evangelical Christians, and 50% of other Protestants. Most non-Christians (56%) support the Obama Administration ruling. </span></strong><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/08/rasmussen-majority-opposes-obama-contraception-mandate-on-religious-organizations/"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></div><strong><br />
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The outsourcing announcement came during an election campaign in which Obama’s allies frequently lash former Massachusetts Gov. </span></strong><a href="http://topics.dailycaller.com/politics/mitt-romney.htm"><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mitt Romney</span></strong></a><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> for supposedly exporting jobs, and only two weeks after Obama showed he had little understanding of outsourcing in the high-tech sector.<br />
“I don’t know your husband’s specialty, but I can tell you there’s a huge demand around the country for engineers,” he told the wife of a laid-off engineer in Fort Worth, Texas. Obama then volunteered himself to find a job for the engineer, who was laid off three years ago. </span></strong><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2012/02/09/obama-export-adviser-exports-jobs/#ixzz1lrwD1TbU"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>READ MORE</strong></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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Our objective in the November election is clear:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ANYONE BUT OBAMA</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everywhere in America cities and towns are missing <br />
their useful idiots. They are ony useful to Socialist causes.<br />
If you're missing your local idiot, most can be found in <br />
some infested park in some city in America with the OWS<br />
Movement. If not there, college campuses are filled with <br />
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<strong>(CNN)</strong> -- Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels is to give the Republican Party response to the State of the Union speech on Tuesday night. Below is a transcript of the speech.<br />
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<strong>Daniels</strong>: Greetings from the home of Super Bowl XLVI.<br />
The status of loyal opposition imposes on those out of power some serious responsibilities: to show respect for the presidency and its occupant, to express agreement where it exists.<br />
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Republicans tonight salute our president, for instance, for his aggressive pursuit of the murderers of 9/11 and for bravely backing long overdue changes in public education. I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the first lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.<br />
On these evenings, presidents naturally seek to find the sunny side of our national condition. But when President Obama claims that the state of our union is anything but grave, he must know in his heart that this is not true.<br />
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The president did not cause the economic and fiscal crises that continue in America tonight, but he was elected on a promise to fix them, and he cannot claim that the last three years have made things anything but worse. The percentage of Americans with a job is at the lowest in decades. One in five men of prime working age and nearly half of all persons under 30 did not go to work today.<br />
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In three short years, an unprecedented explosion of spending, with borrowed money, has added trillions to an already unaffordable national debt. And yet the president has put us on a course to make it radically worse in the years ahead.<br />
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The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.<br />
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The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. In fact, it works the other way: A government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class and those who hope to join it.<br />
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Those punished most by the wrong turns of the last three years are those unemployed or underemployed tonight and those so discouraged they've abandoned the search for work altogether. And no one's been more tragically harmed than the young people of this country, the first generation in memory to face a future less promising than their parents did.<br />
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As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder. We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots. We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.<br />
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In our economic stagnation and indebtedness, we're only a short distance behind Greece, Spain, and other European countries now facing economic catastrophe. But ours is a fortunate land. Because the world uses our dollar for trade, we have a short grace period to deal with our dangers. But time is running out if we're to avoid the fate of Europe and those once-great nations of history that fell from the position of world leadership.<br />
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So 2012 is a year of true opportunity, maybe our last, to restore an America of hope and upward mobility and greater equality. The challenges aren't matters of ideology or party preference. The problems are simply mathematical, and the answers are purely practical.<br />
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An opposition that would earn its way back to leadership must offer not just criticism of failures that anyone can see, but a positive and credible plan to make life better, particularly for those aspiring to make a better life for themselves. Republicans accept this duty gratefully.<br />
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The routes back to an America of promise and to a solvent America that can pay its bills and protect its vulnerable start in the same place. The only way up for those suffering tonight, and the only way out of the dead end of debt into which we've driven, is a private economy that begins to grow and create jobs, real jobs, at a much faster rate than today. Contrary to the president's constant disparagement of people in business, it's one of the noblest of human pursuits. The late Steve Jobs -- what a fitting name he had -- created more of them than all those stimulus dollars the president borrowed and blew.<br />
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Out here in Indiana, when a businessperson asks me what he can do for our state, I say, "First, make money. Be successful. If you make a profit, you'll have something left to hire someone else, and some to donate to the good causes we love."<br />
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The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy, or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands, or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature, is a pro-poverty policy. It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach that breaks all ties and calls all close ones in favor of private-sector jobs that restore opportunity for all and generate the public revenues to pay our bills.<br />
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That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates, a pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise could be used to hire somebody. It means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy has gotten in years.<br />
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There's a second item on our national must-do list: We must unite to save the safety net. Medicare and Social Security have served us well, and that must continue. But after half and three- quarters of a century, respectively, it's not surprising they need some repairs. We can preserve them unchanged and untouched for those now in or near retirement, but we must fashion a new, affordable safety net so future Americans are protected, too.<br />
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Decades ago, for instance, we could afford to send millionaires pension checks and pay medical bills for even the wealthiest among us. Now, we can't, so the dollars we have should be devoted to those who need them most.<br />
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The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing. Listening to them much longer will mean that these proud programs implode, and take the American economy with them. It'll mean that coming generations are denied the jobs they need in their youth and the protection they deserve in their later years.<br />
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It's absolutely so that everyone should contribute to our national recovery, including of course the most affluent among us. There are smart ways and dumb ways to do this: The dumb way is to raise rates in a broken, grossly complex tax system, choking off growth without bringing in the revenues we need to meet our debts. The better course is to stop sending the wealthy benefits they do not need, and stop providing them so many tax preferences that distort our economy and do little or nothing to foster growth.<br />
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It's not fair and it's not true for the president to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions. They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down time and time again by the president and his Democratic Senate allies.<br />
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This year, it falls to Republicans to level with our fellow citizens about this reality: If we fail to act to grow the private sector and save the safety net, nothing else will matter much. But to make such action happen, we also must work, in ways we Republicans have not always practiced, to bring Americans together.<br />
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No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.<br />
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As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat. If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed, over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category. If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro- growth economic policy, there'll never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.<br />
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As a loyal opposition, who put patriotism and national success ahead of party or ideology or any self-interest, we say that anyone who will join us in the cause of growth and solvency is our ally, and our friend. We will speak the language of unity. Let us rebuild our finances, and the safety net, and reopen the door to the stairway upward; any other disagreements we may have can wait.<br />
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You know, the most troubling contention in our national life these days isn't about economics, or policy at all. It's about us, as a free people. In two alarming ways, that contention is that we Americans just can't cut it anymore.<br />
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In word and deed, the president and his allies tell us that we just cannot handle ourselves in this complex, perilous world without their benevolent protection. Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.<br />
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A second view, which I'll admit some Republicans also seem to hold, is that we Americans are no longer up to the job of self- government. We can't do the simple math that proves the unaffordability of today's safety net programs, or all the government we now have. We will fall for the con job that says we can just plow ahead and someone else will pick up the tab. We will allow ourselves to be pitted one against the other, blaming our neighbor for troubles worldwide trends or our own government has caused.<br />
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2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong. The year we strike out boldly not merely to avert national bankruptcy, but to say to a new generation that America is still the world's premier land of opportunity. Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen; who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them; who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in, and to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.<br />
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We will advance our positive suggestions with confidence, because we know that Americans are still a people born to liberty. There is nothing wrong with the state of our union that the American people, addressed as free-born, mature citizens, cannot set right. Republicans in 2012 welcome all our countrymen to a program of renewal that rebuilds the dream for all, and makes our "city on a hill" shine once again.Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-29082363197845018442012-01-23T21:55:00.000-08:002012-01-23T21:59:30.801-08:00Obamanisms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAARn5HH91JXbWGeMSZn1zXtJ9qq9e8IfnOfh6hPUvRd71fhSL1r_b01IaqH7A3RQpHywVc5BqvFYMGW47NX6FoDb-ccD9QvJHDqReVRaaDXedz_CLu3jbSFG8rw15xwf4aHD9UHCnfgQ/s1600/2012-01-23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAARn5HH91JXbWGeMSZn1zXtJ9qq9e8IfnOfh6hPUvRd71fhSL1r_b01IaqH7A3RQpHywVc5BqvFYMGW47NX6FoDb-ccD9QvJHDqReVRaaDXedz_CLu3jbSFG8rw15xwf4aHD9UHCnfgQ/s1600/2012-01-23.jpg" /></a></div><h1 align="center" class="entry-title"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em></em></span> </h1><h1 class="entry-title"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em>After Governor Rick Perry dropped out of the race for the presidency, Two Sisters From The Right cannot endorse any of the remaining candidates. We are still a conservative blog, but have decided that until the November election we will be members of the growing ABO Party, (Anyone But Obama). It is baffling that there are still Americans who would reelect this America hating president. Our mission is to bring to the attention of our readers, and hopefully those with whom our links are shared, the dangers to our nation and to us as Americans that another four years of Barack Hussein Obama presents. As we find groups of stories that don't get much coverage in the MSM, we will bring you the headlines, and the links. Please join us in this effort to Save OUR Country. God Bless The USA.</em></span></h1><div class="entry-title"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em><strong>Two Sisters From The Right</strong></em></span></div><h1 class="entry-title"><span style="font-size: small;"></span> </h1><h1 class="entry-title"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/01/obamas-government-vs-your-family.php"><em>Obama’s Government vs. Your Family</em></a></span></h1><div class="entry-title"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: blue;"><span class="meta-sep">by</span> </span><span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/01/obamas-government-vs-your-family.php" title=""><span style="color: blue;">John Hinderaker</span></a> <span style="color: red;">-</span><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/01/obamas-government-vs-your-family.php"><span style="color: red;"> POWERLINE</span></a></span></em></span></div><div class="entry-title"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
<em></em></span></div><div class="entry-content"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Today Barack Obama released a </em></span><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/01/22/statement-president-roe-v-wade-anniversary"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>proclamation</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> commemorating the 39th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the low water mark of American constitutional jurisprudence since the Dred Scott case. Obama’s proclamation was not widely noted, except in circles that take (as Scott put it long ago) the sacramental view of abortion. But I happened to read it, and was struck by this brazen bit of Obama BS. </em></span><a href="http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/01/obamas-government-vs-your-family.php"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Read More...</em></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: blue;">By <span class="fn" style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/22/curl-the-truly-dismal-state-of-the-union/?page=all#pagebreak">Joseph Curl</a></span></span><span class="org fn"> <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/22/curl-the-truly-dismal-state-of-the-union/?page=all#pagebreak"><span style="color: red;">- The Washington Times</span></a></span></em></span><br />
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<span class="org fn"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>There is one person — one American among the 300 million of us — who is not to blame for the state of the union. Everyone else, each of you, in some small or large way, bears some share of the blame, but not this guy. Not one little bit.<br />
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This guy is </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/barack-obama/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Barack Obama</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>. He is not the least bit to blame for the dismal state of the U.S. economy. </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/george-w-bush/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>George W. Bush</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> is, for sure, and that evil </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/dick-cheney/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Dick Cheney</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>, oh, no doubt. </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/house/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>House</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> Speaker </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/john-boehner/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>John A. Boehner</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> — evil, too — is, of course, to blame. But guess what? So is </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/senate/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Senate</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> Majority Leader </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/harry-reid/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Harry Reid</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>, </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/house/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>House</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> Democratic Leader </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/nancy-pelosi/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Nancy Pelosi</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>, and every Democrat in the </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/house/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>House</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em> and </em></span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/senate/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Senate</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>. </em></span><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/22/curl-the-truly-dismal-state-of-the-union/?page=all#pagebreak"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Read more...</em></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: red;"> </span> <br />
<strong><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100130000/why-are-barack-obama%e2%80%99s-critics-so-smart/"><span style="color: black;">Why are Barack Obama’s critics so smart?</span></a></strong> </em></span></span><br />
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<span class="byAuthor">By <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/nilegardiner/" rel="author" title="Posts by Nile Gardiner">Nile Gardiner</a></span><span class="lastUpdated bylineCategory"><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/category/world/" rel="category tag" title="View all posts in World">World</a> - <a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100130000/why-are-barack-obama%e2%80%99s-critics-so-smart/"><span style="color: red;">The Telegraph</span></a></span><br />
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<span class="lastUpdated bylineCategory">Prominent Obama-backer<a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/"> Andrew Sullivan</a> has a rather pompous piece in this week’s edition of Newsweek, which the magazine has subtly headlined on its cover page: “Why are Obama’s critics so dumb?” You can read the whole article <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/01/15/andrew-sullivan-how-obama-s-long-game-will-outsmart-his-critics.html">here </a>at The Daily Beast, but his conclusion pretty well sums up the entire piece, which reads a lot like a desperate White House press release.</span><br />
<span class="lastUpdated bylineCategory"> ---------------------------------------</span></em></span></span></div><iframe id="pmtracker" src="" style="height: 1px; position: absolute; top: -100px; width: 1px;"></iframe><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>In response to Sullivan’s provocative article, which has stirred up a good deal of debate in America, here are five reasons why President Obama’s conservative critics are significantly smarter in their approach and thinking than his failing Left-wing administration in Washington: </em></span><a href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100130000/why-are-barack-obama%e2%80%99s-critics-so-smart/"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Read more...</em></span></a>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-81027070095695822612012-01-23T20:02:00.000-08:002012-01-23T20:02:05.469-08:00NUGENT: Fast and Furious stinks<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-nIqgqCFrY8LzSbB0A8iidFICUTCkSETK_TO2WhDoChaJ3GvDiZzx5bPI-k3gjxRE7EXC0de4AM0prNv_hiwEKch-SMv_8KSZjr-9oEaiTvKi4hWMLXzKPVQTp7RUsDzzaqyrrP327U/s1600/Nuge.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo-nIqgqCFrY8LzSbB0A8iidFICUTCkSETK_TO2WhDoChaJ3GvDiZzx5bPI-k3gjxRE7EXC0de4AM0prNv_hiwEKch-SMv_8KSZjr-9oEaiTvKi4hWMLXzKPVQTp7RUsDzzaqyrrP327U/s320/Nuge.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>In January of 2007 I had the privilege to attend Governor Rick Perry's Inaugural Ball. It was a black tie affair and my escort, my son, even purchased a new tuxedo for the event which he of course wore with a traditional pair of black cowboy boots. The night before and all that day Austin had been hit with a horrendous ice storm and we doubted that we could even travel to our hotel across from the Convention Center, even though my son lived in NW Austin because the roads were closed or covered in ice.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>As the evening progressed, I was anxious to see and hear Ted Nugent. The only thing I knew about "The Nuge", as my son referred to him,was that he "plays a mean guitar." I hadn't expected the rocker to appear at the inaugural ball wearing a cutoff T-shirt bearing the Confederate flag. Not only was it offensive to some because of the symbolism of slavery that the Confederate represents, but a very large number of attendees were Hispanics and Nugent made some rather offensive remarks about non English speakers. To say the least, I wasn't very impressed. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>The next time I saw him was on a television interview, and although he seemed to be a bit over the top in his speech, I found myself agreeing with what he had to say. I began to read about Ted Nugent being a gun and hunting enthusiast, and his passion for America and for our freedoms. I also learned that he and Governor Perry were friends.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>On April 25, 2009 I attended the very first Tea Party hosted by Glenn Beck, and held at The Alamo Plaza, in San Antonio. Ted Nugent was one of the celebrities there, and he completely amazed the crowd with his awesome rendition of the National Anthem. In 2010 I was once again privileged to see Ted Nugent play the National Anthem at the Super Sunday Rally for Rick Perry and Sarah Palin at the Berry Center in Cypress, Texas. Each time I saw him perform and heard him speak he had the same freedom loving message, and his passion for our country was unequaled by any other celebrity I'd ever heard. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Ted Nugent is a gun owner and a firm believer in the second Amendment. When I saw that he had written an article on Fast and Furious for the Washington Times, I knew that this was a message we needed to bring to our readers at Two Sisters From The Right. Enjoy!</em></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Gun-smuggling scheme another reason to distrust government</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/19/fast-and-furious-stinks/"><span style="color: #073763;">by Ted Nugent</span></a> - <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/19/fast-and-furious-stinks/"><span style="color: #073763;">Washington Times</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><span style="color: #073763;">The United States of America has turned into bizarro land. Think of this: Our very own </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives/"><span style="color: #073763;">Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives</span></a><span style="color: #073763;"> (</span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/bureau-of-alcohol-tobacco-firearms-and-explosives/"><span style="color: #073763;">ATF</span></a><span style="color: #073763;">), under the direct guidance of the attorney general of the United States - America’s top cop, mind you - not only allowed, but encouraged American gun dealers to sell about 2,000 guns to known punks involved in the drug trade in order to trace the guns to Mexican drug cartels. If you think that’s unbelievably nuts, get a load of this: The suspected goons who bought the guns were not even placed under law enforcement surveillance.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">This is analogous to the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/drug-enforcement-administration/"><span style="color: #073763;">Drug Enforcement Administration</span></a><span style="color: #073763;"> knowingly allowing international dope pushers to sell heroin on American streets without placing the dope dealers under surveillance in hopes that somehow, some way, the dope pushers would enable the </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/drug-enforcement-administration/"><span style="color: #073763;">DEA</span></a><span style="color: #073763;"> to trace the heroin back to some dirty, cave-dwelling Afghan opium poppy farmer so we could then poison the farmer’s poppy fields. Wait a minute, let’s not give this crackpot administration any more loony ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">In all of its bureaucratic buffoonery, the ATF lost control of the weapons. Of course it did, as there were no electronic tracing components on the guns. Our less-than-esteemed attorney general, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/eric-h-holder-jr/"><span style="color: #073763;">Eric H. Holder Jr.</span></a><span style="color: #073763;">, to whom the ATF reports, claimed not to know a thing about this brain-dead operation.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">What kind of inebriated idiot would hatch an evil scheme such as this and then believe that, somehow, the guns could be traced to Mexican drug cartels without an electronic tracing component? This isn’t some low-ranking bureaucratic village idiot but a high-ranking government bureaucratic idiot who is paid by U.S. taxpayers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">It’s not as if the drug cartels needed any more guns. An estimated 35,000 Mexicans have been slaughtered in recent years in drug-related violence. What could an additional 2,000 guns provide the already heavily armed drug cartels, which get all the fully automatic machine guns they could possibly want from their own military and Central American gunrunners? Are you kidding me?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">We should be given the names of the bureaucratic idiots at ATF who hatched this criminal idea and the bureaucratic punks who authorized it. They shouldn’t just be fired. They should be prosecuted and put in a cage with other gunrunning thugs. That’s what this was: a </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/us-government/"><span style="color: #073763;">U.S. government</span></a><span style="color: #073763;">-sanctioned gun-smuggling scheme.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Meanwhile, because the bureaucratic punks in Washington who hatched and approved this terminally brain-dead gunrunning idea have not been charged with a crime, all across America, law-abiding citizens must comply with onerous gun restrictions that make them victims. Great. Punish the good guys. That seems to be standard operating procedure in Barack Obama’s and Eric Holder’s America.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">More guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens ultimately ensures more dead bad guys - not more guns in the hands of violent dope dealers. I want an attorney general who declares open season on the recidivistic, violent punks who victimize law-abiding Americans.</span><br />
<span style="color: #073763;">Americans addicted to common sense have always had a healthy disdain for government bureaucrats addicted to power. Our instinctual distrust for government is further fueled by </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/topics/eric-h-holder-jr/"><span style="color: #073763;">Mr. Holder</span></a><span style="color: #073763;">’s ATF Operation Fast and Furious. At its core it was stupid, sinister, evil and criminal.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">The only thing fast and furious that ought to happen is a full-on murder investigation by the FBI of the government goons who hatched, authorized and now are covering up this brain-dead, criminal scheme, which ended up costing the life of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763;">Fast and Furious stinks. It smells just like Watergate did, only worse.</span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jan/19/fast-and-furious-stinks/">Ted Nugent is an American rock ‘n’ roll, sporting and political activist icon. He is the author of “Ted, White, and Blue: The Nugent Manifesto” and “God, Guns & Rock ‘N’ Roll” (Regnery Publishing).</a></span></em>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2778213038773730365.post-132389523451897802012-01-22T13:53:00.000-08:002012-01-22T13:53:06.404-08:00Two Sisters Endorse!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxHW__Aa9rmH0JxQT44ncmYR1A0hxC1Ns-4SoTcrZpkBQkS2u695e4QxQX2Thcsp1m87r-k8e3L8NS2EjINPed4JMRz1ALl0IJ30rvSPJRqihcUpRUpEr2mpv3XgyNdcMwJcXLHg5qe4/s1600/anybody+but+O.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAxHW__Aa9rmH0JxQT44ncmYR1A0hxC1Ns-4SoTcrZpkBQkS2u695e4QxQX2Thcsp1m87r-k8e3L8NS2EjINPed4JMRz1ALl0IJ30rvSPJRqihcUpRUpEr2mpv3XgyNdcMwJcXLHg5qe4/s400/anybody+but+O.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>On Wednesday before leaving town for a couple of days, we posted an article, enthused and encouraged by our fellow Rick Perry supporters that the Governor's campaign was gaining momentum in South Carolina. Thursday was a day full of activities for these two sisters, and we did not watch television or hear news all day. By the time we arrived at our destination we were met with the news that Governor Perry had decided to suspend his campaign for the presidency of the United States. Words fail to express the overwhelming feeling of sadness and disappointment which engulfed us. Not having a computer with us we reached for the iPhone and there, in black and white, we read the confirmation from our friends on various support groups on Facebook that Governor Perry had indeed decided to end his quest just prior to the South Carolina debate.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>We really need time to read, research, reassess and collect out thoughts, before we write our final words on Governor Rick Perry's campaign. At this time we don't endorse any candidate but we continue to encourage everyone to vote to save the United States of America and to defeat Barack Hussein Obama. Meanwhile, we bring to our readers the Governor's own words of gratitude and farewell.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Two Sisters </em></span><br />
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<div class="date"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span></div><div class="entry-content"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Today I am suspending my campaign for President.</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Anita and I have been blessed by the many supporters who have believed in our conservative vision for the country. </strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Although I will no longer be on the campaign trail, I will continue to champion conservative principles: a Washington that is humbler with a federal government that is smaller, real tax reform that can spur economic growth, and a renewed commitment to fiscal discipline so the future of this country is not mortgaged on a mountain of debt.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>As we return to Austin and the Texas I love, I am proud to continue as governor of this great state and will work every day to make Texas a better place to do business and create jobs for all Texans.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>We cannot thank you enough for your generous support which enabled our campaign to champion these conservative values.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>God bless.</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Rick Perry</strong></em></span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong><u>Text of Governor Perry’s Remarks</u></strong></em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Thank you. As I have stated numerous times on the campaign trail, this campaign has never been about the candidates.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I ran for President because I love America, our people and our freedom. But the mission is greater than the man. </strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>As I have traveled across this great country: from New Hampshire to California, from Iowa to Florida, and to numerous states in between, I have discovered a tremendous purpose and resiliency in our people.</strong></em></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong> </strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>They have never lost hope despite current circumstances.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>They haven’t stopped believing in the promise of America or the American Dream.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Americans are down, but we can never be counted out. We are too great a people. What is broken in America is not our people, but our politics.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>And what we need is a Washington that is humbler, with a federal government that is smaller so our people can live freer.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I entered this campaign offering a unique perspective: a governor who has led a large state leading the nation in job creation, an executive leader who has implemented conservative policies, a son of tenant farmers born with little more than a good name, but who has experienced the great possibilities of freedom.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>But I have never believed that the cause of conservatism is embodied by any one individual. Our party, and the conservative philosophy, transcends any one individual. It is a movement of ideas that are greater than any one of us, and that will live beyond our years.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>As a former Air Force pilot, I know we can’t lose track of the ultimate objective in carrying out our mission, and that objective is not only to defeat President Obama, but to replace him with a conservative leader who will bring about real change.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Our country is hurting with more than 13 million unemployed, nearly 50 million on food stamps and a debt of more than $15 trillion and growing.</strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>We need bold, conservative leadership that will take on the entrenched interests and give the American People their country back.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I have always believed the mission is greater than the man.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>As I have contemplated the future of this campaign, I have come to the conclusion that there is no viable path to victory for my candidacy in 2012.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Therefore, today I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich for president.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I believe Newt is a conservative visionary who can transform our country.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>We have had our differences, which campaigns inevitably bring out. And Newt is not perfect, but who among us is?</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>The fact is, there is forgiveness for those who seek God and I believe in the power of redemption, for it is a central tenet of my own Christian faith.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>And I have no question Newt Gingrich has the heart of a conservative reformer, the ability to rally and captivate the conservative movement and the courage to tell the Washington interests to take a hike if it’s what is best for the country.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>As a Texan, I have never shied away from a good fight, especially when the cause was right.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>But as someone who has always admired a great Texas forefather — Sam Houston — I know when it is time for a “strategic retreat.”</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>So I will leave the trail, return home to Texas and wind down my 2012 campaign organization. And I will do so with pride knowing I gave myself fully to a cause worthy of our country.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>And as I head home, I do so with the love of my life by my side, a woman who makes every day a good one when she is by my side, my wife Anita.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Thank you Anita for all you have done.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I also want to thank my son Griffin, my daughter Sydney, and my daughter-in-law Meredith for standing with us in this great effort.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>With a good wife, three wonderful children, and a loving God in my life, things will be good no matter what the future holds.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I’m proud of the policies we put forward to the American people and believe they provide the right path forward for our party and our nation: overhauling Washington and returning power to state and local governments and to the people, creating energy jobs and energy security, cutting spending and eliminating unnecessary federal agencies and cutting taxes to a flat, fair 20 percent. </strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>And I will continue to fight for these conservative reforms because the future of our country is at stake and the road we are traveling today – President Obama’s road – endangers our future.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I want to thank some wonderful individuals who have stood by my side in this state: Katon Dawson, Ambassador Wilkins, and a strong and good man serving you in Congress, Mick Mulvaney.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I want to thank all my supporters from across the country, in particular Governor Bobby Jindal, Steve Forbes and Governor Sam Brownback, as well as Senator Jim Inhofe, Congresswoman Candice Miller and Congressman Sam Graves.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>And I want to say a special thanks to three distinguished veterans who have joined me on the campaign trail: Medal of Honor awardee and Navy SEAL Mike Thornton, Navy Cross recipient Marcus Luttrell and Purple Heart recipient, Marine Captain Dan Moran.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I began this race with a sense of calling.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I felt led into this arena to fight for the future of this country.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I feel no different today than I did then, knowing a calling never guarantees a particular destination, but a journey that tests one’s faith and character.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>So now the journey leads us back to Texas, neither discouraged nor disenchanted, but instead rewarded for the experience and resolute to remain in the arena and in the service of a great nation.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Our country needs bold leadership and a real transformation.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>We must rise to the occasion and elect a conservative champion to put our nation back on the right track. </strong></em></span><br />
<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>And this I know, I am not done fighting for the cause of conservatism. In fact I have only begun to fight.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.</strong></em></span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #45818e; font-size: x-small;">Posted on January 19th, 2012 </span></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the country awaits the revelations coming from Newt Gingrich's former wife, and the destructive effects that his adultery and divorce brought upon his family, Rick and Anita Perry are an example of how two people can honor their marital vows and work as a team in the public arena. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> You won't hear the media say it. As usual, the media has chosen to ignore Rick Perry, but he is having a great outpouring of support in South Carolina. His strong performance in the South Carolina debate, and the message that as the only Washington outsider he brings to the country are being heard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">America cannot sustain another four years of a Barack Obama presidency. Hopefully people have learned their lesson that the experiment of electing someone with no governing experience is a complete failure. We have all suffered as a result. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We Two Sisters From The Right endorse Governor Rick Perry as the presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2012. However, we encourage all conservatives, Republicans, undecideds, and patriots who love America, to vote AGAINST Barack Obama in November of 2012. </span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gov. Rick Perry Calls for An End to Obama’s War on the States, Promotes Low Flat Tax, Overhaul of Washington Bureaucracy and Investment in American Jobs</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – Texas Gov. Rick Perry stood out as a solid conservative and the only true Washington and Wall Street outsider left in the GOP race, and decried the Obama administration war on South Carolina and other states’ efforts to pass Voter ID, immigration and other laws and policies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“This administration is out of control,” Gov. Perry said. “The state of Texas is under assault by federal government. South Carolina is at war with this federal government and with this administration. What this Justice Department has done, not only have they taken them to task on Voter ID, they’ve also taken them to task on their </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">immigration law, and then the most egregious thing is the National Labor Relations Board coming into a right-to-work state and telling the state of South Carolina, ‘We’re not going to let a private company come in here.’ That is irresponsible, I will suggest to you it’s unconstitutional, and when I’m the president of the United States, the states are going to have substantially more rights to take care of their business and not be forced by the EPA, or by the Justice Department for that matter, to do things that are against the will of the people.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During tonight’s debate, sponsored by Fox News, <em>The Wall Street Journa</em>l and the South Carolina Republican Party, Gov. Perry laid out his commitment to overhauling Washington, cutting taxes to a flat and fair 20 percent and sparking American job creation. The debate highlighted Gov. Perry’s experience creating more than a million net new jobs during the last 11 years as the governor of the state of Texas, which is the 13th largest economy in the world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In response to the bickering between the other candidates on the stage, Gov. Perry said, “This is a great example of the insiders that are having a conversation up here, and the fact of the matter is this: Washington, D.C., needs to leave the states alone and let the states decide this issues and don’t do it from Washington, D.C.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the last several months, Gov. Perry has traveled the country sharing his plans to get America working again and emphasizing his commitment to bringing the change the American people want to see to Washington, D.C., as president. The governor’s <em>Uproot and Overhaul Washington</em> plan establishes a part-time Congress, and calls for cutting congressional sessions, staffs and salaries in half. The plan puts an end to bailouts and earmarks, and is designed to stop the out-of-control Washington spending that has put our nation more than $15 trillion in debt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gov. Perry also touted his <em>Cut, Balance and Grow</em> plan, which creates a simpler, flatter and fairer 20 percent personal and corporate tax rate; reigns in federal spending; and calls for a federal Balanced Budget Amendment. He has also laid out an <em>Energizing American Jobs and Security </em>plan designed to take advantage of our domestic energy resources, making the cost of electricity and fuel cheaper and more predictable, revitalizing manufacturing and reducing our country’s dangerous dependence on hostile foreign oil sources.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“We need to cut the tax rate down to where people feel confident that they can risk their capital and have a return on their investment,” Gov. Perry said. “That’s the reason that I’ve laid out a simple and flat tax of 20 percent with their home mortgage deduction and charitable deduction and local taxes deducted, get rid of capital gains tax, get rid of the tax on Social Security benefits and then take 20 percent of that and mail your check in. Even Timothy Geithner can get his taxes in on time with that type of a system.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Getting America back to work again — that’s what I’ve done for 11 years as the governor of the 13th largest economy in the world. A million jobs that have been created in my state because we have created that climate where job creators know they can go out and risk their capital and have a return on their investment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“As the president of the United States, that’s what I’m going to do. Walk into Washington, D.C., work towards a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution and work to make Congress a part-time body so they stay less time in Washington, D.C., go back home and get a real job like everybody else has, and live under the laws that they pass.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tonight, we are delighted to bring you a behind the scenes account of yet another Iowa caucus experience. Bettina Viviano is a staunch, tireless supporter of Governor Perry's, and we are honored that she has consented to allow us to print her Iowa report</span>. <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Bettina too was a member of Rick Perry's Iowa Strike Force.</span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two Sisters From The Right has found a world wide audience and we pride ourselves in bringing you honest reporting regarding the political process in the United States. Bettina, a producer and filmmaker worked, and continues to work on the documentary </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <strong><a href="http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com%2F&h=8AQH5ASUSAQEQCWasnvY_h73njhPb6SWqTqu--U2dzlbRsQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We Will Not Be Silenced</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></strong></span> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span class="caption"><a href="http://www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.com/" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: small;"><em>www.wewillnotbesilenced2008.co<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break"></span>m</em></span></a> <span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></span><span class="caption" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is her vast experience investigating fraudulent politics which gives her observations such credibility.</span></div><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you Bettina for traveling to Iowa and being a force for good, when when we as Americans increasingly find ourselves battling the forces of evil which make a mockery of our Constitution and our established democracy. How we wish more Americans had your dedication!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our message to all of our conservative readers is that <strong>United Behind The Man With The Vision</strong>, we can be triumphant in November 2012. That man is Texas Governor Rick Perry.</span><br />
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<strong><em></em></strong></span><span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>THIS IS THE CAUCUS FRAUD MY PARTNER WAS TALKING ABOUT. I think it SUCKS that the Democrats vote in OUR caucuses. After making my caucus fraud documentary in 2008, we have tried repeatedly to get caucuses OUTLAWED because they are hotbeds of fraud. When I was on the drive to the caucus, my partner on the film, Patrick Hickey from Houston, called and told me the fraud was happening in Iowa.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>From Bettina - Her thoughts on the Iowa caucuses, after seeing first hand what was taking place. It shocked us, I know it will shock readers as well. </em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="color: #0c343d;">1) Santorum and Newt PANDERED to the Ethanol Lobby. The Ethanol people sent out a brochure before the caucuses and they of course hate Perry because he didn't pander to them. He comes from an oil state. If you go to a gas station in Iowa, the gas is cheaper but it is 85% ETHANOL. It's bad for your car, and it's bad for the economy. Newt is an Ethanol LOBBYIST. He took $300,000 from the Ethanol Lobby. And Santorum gave a speech PANDERING LITERALLY to Ethanol. That is a big part of it</span><strong>.</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>2) I spoke at a caucus that was 2 hours outside of Des Moines. It was a pain in the ass, but I drove out there <span style="color: #0c343d;">and back. On the drive out there, Patrick Hickey from Houston called me and told me that they all had indications that the SAME caucus fraud we saw in 2008 was going to happen in Iowa <u>on OUR SIDE</u>. You do know how easy it is to commit fraud in caucuses, right? Because we all lived through it. I stayed to watch my votes counted and Perry won. In all three precincts I was at Perry was no less than third. My two girlfriends were at caucuses in my area and saw the same thing. I will never believe this was real, and there were tons of Democrats there.</span></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>3) I totally believe that every single thing that has happened in this race has been to one by one take out the challengers to Romney. The problem for Romney is that Perry has big guns like Steve Forbes, Bobby Jindal, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, etc. who support him and the Texas cash keeps rolling in. And, Perry has never lost an election and it's pretty hard to get him to quit.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0c343d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><strong>I pray to God every single day that there will somehow be a massive conservative uprising of support for Perry because I truly believe it's the only way we get rid of Romney and beat Obama. - BV</strong></em></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bettina, we're right with you on that prayer. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is wrong with a country that WANTS candidates to pander to special interest groups? Who would have ever imagined that we, The United States of America would have to endure a tyrannical presidency? How could anyone have imagined that we would give rise to a socialist administration? When are the American voters going to wake up? WHY is the GOP resorting to tactics once known to be the trademark of Democrats? There are too many questions and not enough answers. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana;"><strong><em>Two Sisters From The Right</em></strong></span>Sister One and Sister Twohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09906343210776991835noreply@blogger.com8