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Bush warns of threats to freedom, economic growth
Former President George W. Bush, outlining plans for a new public policy institute, says America must fight allowing the federal government to take control of the private sector, declaring that too much government intervention will squelch economic recovery and expansion.
With the Obama administration establishing far-reaching controls in the auto, real estate and financial sectors, Mr. Bush said that "the role of government is not to create wealth, but to create the conditions that allow entrepreneurs and innovators to thrive."
Delivering a speech on the campus of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, future home to the George W. Bush Presidential Center, the former president sought to explain his decision to have the federal government intervene at the beginning of the economic downturn last fall. While many economists credit that early action with halting the economic freefall, Mr. Bush says the only answer to returning America to prosperity is to remove government controls on the private sector and continue to force open markets to U.S. goods.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/12/bush-warns-threats-freedom-economic-growth/
Recanvassing shows NY-23 race tightens even as Rep. Bill Owens is sworn into House seat
Conservative Doug Hoffman conceded the race in the 23rd Congressional District last week – down 5,335 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted on election night, thinking he had barely won his stronghold in Oswego County. As it turns out, neither was true.
Undercounting of votes, and other irregularities raise questions about who won. Democrats hurried to swear Owens in so that he could vote for Pelosi’s Health care scheme.
If recounts prove Hoffman the victory Owens would be removed from office.
http://connect.syracuse.com/user/mweiner/index.html
After spending binge, White House says it will focus on deficits
Obama plans to announce in next year's State of the Union address that he wants to focus extensively on cutting the federal deficit in 2010 – and will downplay other new domestic spending beyond jobs programs, according to top aides involved in the planning.
The president's plan, which the officials said was under discussion before this month’s Democratic election setbacks, represents both a practical and a political calculation by this White House.
Democrat lobbyist Steve Elmendorf says the White House focus on deficit reduction could easily kill the cap-and-trade effort. “I think this means cap-and-trade has to go to the backburner,” he said.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29471.html
Opinion:
Outrageous Liberal actions continue for America
Liberals work hard at proving my contention they should never be allowed any voice in matters dealing with our waging wars against our enemies.
Today we get word the Obama administration will betray America again by bringing the worst Islamic terrorists to the US for trial. The action is unconscionable and indefensible. These terrorists chose unilaterally to declare war not only on the US, but on all civilization. Radical Islam has repeatedly affirmed its dedication to the concept of slaughtering any and all people who do not embrace their narrow view of religion.
Now Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder, will bring terrorists into a US court of law for trial – rather than trying them before a military tribunal.
Here is the breaking news:
“Self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to New York to face trial in a civilian federal court, an Obama administration official says.
“The official said Attorney General Eric Holder plans to announce the decision later in the morning.
“Bringing such notorious suspects to U.S. soil to face trial is a key step in President Barack Obama's plan to close the terror suspect detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Obama initially planned to close the detention center by Jan. 22, but the administration is no longer expected to meet that deadline.
“The New York case may also force the court system to confront a host of difficult legal issues surrounding counter-terrorism programs begun after the 2001 attacks, including the harsh interrogation techniques once used on some of the suspects while in CIA custody. The most severe method — waterboarding, or simulated drowning — was used on Mohammed 183 times in 2003, before the practice was banned.
“The actual transfer of the detainees from Guantanamo to New York isn't expected to happen for many more weeks because formal charges have not been filed against most of them.”
This incredible decision by the Obama administration demonstrates why liberal Democrats are unfit for involvement in defense matters. They have no clue and insist on confronting terror and other acts of war as matters of criminal law – an inability or unwillingness to accept the reality of the fact that terrorists and prisoners taken on a battle field, are not common criminals.
Meanwhile, Administration officials and military spokesmen continue to duck and dodge when discussing the case of the Islamic Major who shot down people at Ft Hood a week ago.
Plain speaking and honest actions are needed as never before. Would someone please send the Obama administration a memo explaining we are at war and that radical Islam is intent on world domination?
Buddy
The day’s top blogs:
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/56879
Intel Committee Republican Says Administration is Withholding Information on Fort Hood Attack
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Christopher Neefus
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), the ranking Republican on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said Monday that the Obama administration has been withholding “critical information” on the Fort Hood murders allegedly committed by Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan.
Hoekstra is demanding that the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency and the Director of National Intelligence preserve documents relating to the incident for use in possible future congressional investigation.
"President Obama said people should not jump to conclusions about what happened at Fort Hood, but the administration is in possession of critical information related to the attack that they are refusing to release to Congress or the American people," Hoekstra said in a statement. "I intend to push for intense review of this and other issues related to the performance of the intelligence community and whether or not information necessary for military, state and local officials to provide for the security of the post was provided to them."
The Michigan lawmaker sent a letter Saturday to the top administration intelligence officials, saying he saw “serious issues” with their performance related to the Fort Hood murders, and indicating that the intelligence community had refused to comply with his request to review certain information related to the case.
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http://www.nypost.com/f/print/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/deadly_denial_nta2v3RwY9bjnkRWrAyoJP
Deadly denial
RALPH PETERS
As President Obama belatedly appears at Fort Hood today, will he dare to speak the word "terror?"
He won't use the word "Islamist." If he mentions Islam at all, it'll be to sing its praises yet again.
We've already learned that Islamist terrorist Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan attended the Northern Virginia mosque of Imam Anwar al-Aulaqi, a fiery al Qaeda supporter who later fled the United States. We know that Hasan's peers, subordinates and patients repeatedly raised red flags that his superiors suppressed. We know he was a player on Islamist-extremist Web sites. The FBI's uncovering one extremist link after another.
But to call this an act of terrorism, the White House would need an autographed photo of Osama bin Laden helping Hasan buy weapons in downtown Killeen, Texas. Even that might not suffice.
Islamist terrorists don't all have al Qaeda union cards in their wallets. Terrorism's increasingly the domain of entrepreneurs and independent contractors. Under Muslim jurisprudence, jihad's an individual responsibility. Hasan was a self-appointed jihadi.
Yet we're told he was just having a bad day.
Our politically correct Army plays along. Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey won't utter the word "terrorism." The Forces Command Public Affairs Office guidance for officers never mentions "Islam" or "terror," leaving you unsure whether there was a traffic accident down at Fort Hood, or maybe an outbreak of swine flu.
Meanwhile, the media try to turn Hasan into a victim. A sickening (and amateurish) Washington Post article portrayed him as a poor, impoverished minority living in a $320-a-month rathole apartment and driving a down-market car -- as if the squalor made him a terrorist.
Squalor he chose to live in, by the way: As a major drawing added professional pay for his medical credentials, plus his benefits, Hasan made a six-figure income. And he was single, without college loans or medical bills. Has anybody asked where the money went? I'll bet a chunk of it disappeared in cash donations to hard-core Islamist causes. Will a single journalist track the missing bucks?
It gets worse: On Sunday evening, a ranking officer in Hasan's medical chain of command raced to cover her butt. Asked why the killer was promoted to major after receiving career-killer performance reviews at Walter Reed, the officer claimed that Hasan faced the same promotion board requirements as everyone else.
Liar, liar, uniform on fire: A dirty big secret in our Army has been that officers' promotion boards have quotas for minorities. We don't call them quotas, of course. But if a board doesn't hit the floor numbers, its results are held up until the list has been corrected. It's almost impossible for the Army's politically correct promotion system to pass over a Muslim physician.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, one of the few lawmakers willing to whisper the word "terrorism," needs to call the officers who sat on Hasan's promotion board before the Senate, put them under oath, then ask if Hasan made major because of minority-quota requirements.
This corrupt (and now deadly) affirmative-action system does a severe disservice to the bulk of minority officers, who make the grade on quality and professionalism. It leaves other officers wondering if the new guy who just showed up in the unit is a "real" officer or an affirmative-action baby.
Ditto for our government's unwillingness to take on Muslim extremists on US soil. Blathering about freedom of religion, we foster hate speech. By protecting the fanatics, we betray the peaceful majority of our Muslim citizens, leaving them afraid to speak out, since the feds shield the fanatics in charge of their mosques and communities.
Let's be clear: Maj. Hasan's terrorism should not result in a witch hunt against Muslim service members. But soldiers who happen to be Muslims must be subject to the same level of scrutiny and discipline as those of other faiths.
Just as we'd expect the Army to get rid of a disruptive white supremacist, we need to cashier anyone who espouses violent Islamist extremism -- as Maj. Hasan did, again and again.
We won't. Because Islamist terrorism doesn't exist. Just ignore the dead and ask our president.
Ralph Peters' latest book is "The War After Armageddon."
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Losing Our Republic
Matt Patterson
What emerged from the House on Saturday night was a malignant, Republic-killing tumor. It left me wondering about the tea party movement, and how much effect it has really had in this whole affair...Having spoken to a number of GOP players on the Hill this last week, I can assure my readers of two things. One: Congressional Republicans, their staff, and their allies are focused and determined. They are fully aware of the dangers of ObamaCare and are working 24/7 to secure its defeat. And two: there just aren't enough of them. Our Republic is passing from history. It's now up to the Senate to preserve it -- or else administer the last rights.
At a November 4th presentation by GOP congressional leadership on their alternative health care plan, Eric Cantor & Co. seemed energized and upbeat, both about their own plan and about the other side's chances -- more than one said flatly that the Dems "don't have the votes" to pass their bill. That confidence seemed justified as late as Friday afternoon, with the Wall Street Journal reporting that "Democrats estimated they were 10 to 15 votes short of getting to a majority of 218."
On Saturday night, November 7, the Democratic bill passed 220-215. One Republican, Anh "Joseph" Cao of Louisiana, voted "yes."
The political sands had obviously shifted a lot in the days and hours leading up to the vote. Who knows what Pelosi and Obama promised those wavering Democrats should their "yes" vote cost them reelection in 2010? Lucrative post-congressional jobs like ambassadorships? Threats, arm-twisting, bribes...all part of the legislative sausage-making process, I know. Unfortunately, what emerged from the House on Saturday night was no sausage, but instead a malignant, Republic-killing tumor.
It left me wondering about the tea party movement and how much effect it has really had in this whole affair. There was much chest-thumping in conservative circles after the August town hall uprisings, much talk that the demonstrations had put the fear of God into congressional Democrats. Maybe. And yet since then, liberal health care bills and plans have continued to coalesce on Capitol Hill. Now one has passed the House. The momentum, it seems, is with the President and his party.
This is so for two reasons, I think. One: as I was going to work in downtown Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning -- the day of the "House call" protests -- I emerged from my train into Union Station and beheld the protesters, who were then gathering and preparing for their march on Capitol Hill just a few blocks a away.
I spoke to a number of them. They were uniformly middle-class, middle-American folks, whole families, whole neighborhoods of them. They looked and acted so nice. These are the kind of people who would bake you a tray of brownies if you weren't feeling very well...in other words, not intimidating in the slightest.
I tried to imagine myself as a Democratic congressman with this group outside my office. I would listen to their complaints, of course, but in the end, nothing more. Why? I would conclude (correctly) that I had more to fear from my own Left than from these nice folks.
So that is one reason health care "reform" continues its unholy march toward the President's desk. The other? Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) put it best in a phone interview last Thursday. The Dems, he says, have "the courage of their convictions" in regard to health care. They are true believers. They are going to push this forward, regardless of the electoral consequences. My own suspicion is the same: that Pelosi and the Democratic leadership are perfectly willing to march their party off a cliff if it means achieving the long-held liberal dream of government health care.
Having spoken to a number of GOP players on the Hill this last week, I can assure my readers of two things. One: Congressional Republicans, their staff, and their allies are focused and determined. They are fully aware of the dangers of ObamaCare and are working 24/7 to secure its defeat. And two: there just aren't enough of them.
Our Republic is passing from history. It's now up to the Senate to preserve it -- or else administer the last rights.
Matt Patterson is a National Review Institute Washington Fellow and the author of "Union of Hearts: The Abraham Lincoln & Ann Rutledge Story." His email is mpatterson.column@gmail.com.
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http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/16800
The union of Nefarious Elitist Asses uses taxpayer dollars to praise radicalism, promote communism, and implant progressive, humanist values in public education curriculums
NEA Website Promotes Communist Guide Books for the Violent Overthrow of the U.S. Government
Jerry A. Kane
The NEA’s (National Education Association’s, a.k.a. Nefarious Elitist Asses’) recommended reading list includes two books by Brother O mentor and communist community organizer Saul Alinsky that advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. government.
The Democrat-controlled teachers’ union praises Alinsky’s Reveille for Radicals and Rules for Radicals as “an inspiration to anyone contemplating action in their community! And to every organizer!”
The following book quotations are from the NEA website:
“The Radical does not sit frozen by cold objectivity. He sees injustice and strikes at it with hot passion. He is a man of decision and action.
“Society has good reason to fear the Radical. Every shaking advance of mankind toward equality and justice has come from the Radical. He hits, he hurts, he is dangerous. Conservative interests know that while Liberals are most adept at breaking their own necks with their tongues, Radicals are most adept at breaking the necks of Conservatives.... He will fight conservatives whether they are business or labor leaders.
“Radicals precipitate the social crisis by action—by using power... The Radical recognizes that constant dissension and conflict is and has been the fire under the boiler of democracy. He firmly believes in that brave saying of a brave people, “Better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!”
“The Radical may resort to the sword but when he does he is not filled with hatred against those individuals whom he attacks. He hates these individuals not as persons but as symbols representing ideas or interests which he believes to be inimical to the welfare of the people… That is the reason why Radicals, although frequently embarking upon revolutions, have rarely resorted to personal terrorism.”
The union of Nefarious Elitist Asses uses taxpayer dollars to praise radicalism, promote communism, and implant progressive, humanist values in public education curriculums.
In truth, the union of Nefarious Elitist Asses has been waging an ideological war in the public schools against America’s free market principles and Judeo-Christian tradition since 1918.
Samuel L. Blumenfeld aptly identifies the NEA as a “Trojan Horse” in American Education:
“A child in an American public school is little more than a guinea pig in a psych lab, manipulated by a trained “change-agent.” All of this is being done with billions of federal dollars in the greatest scam in human history. If Americans put up with this much longer, they will deserve the ruin they are paying for.”
Blumenfeld’s warning of ruination is sorely needed. For if Americans don’t stop the union of Nefarious Elitist Asses from indoctrinating public school children, they will definitely deserve the workers’ “paradise” that awaits them.
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