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		<title>&#8220;Biggest problem in our country is leadership&#8221; &#8211; Sen coburn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Whipple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Total economic collapse! At at time when we're borrowing nearly $2 trillion every year to pay for things that we don't absolutely need, Dr. Coburn explains how entitlement reform, true cuts to spending, lowering tax rates and broadening the base, are all needed in order to save our country for future generations. MSNBC's Morning Joe asks Dr. Coburn to explain the seriousness of our debt situation and what steps are needed to avoid total economic collapse.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Total economic collapse! At at time when we&#8217;re borrowing nearly $2 trillion every year to pay for things that we don&#8217;t absolutely need, Dr. Coburn explains how entitlement reform, true cuts to spending, lowering tax rates and broadening the base, are all needed in order to save our country for future generations. MSNBC&#8217;s Morning Joe asks Dr. Coburn to explain the seriousness of our debt situation and what steps are needed to avoid total economic collapse.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>For those who don’t like the Ryan budget for example, like the president, where’s their budget? Where is Harry Reid’s budget? Where is the Democrats in the senate’s budget?” – Sen. Marco Rubio  with Neil Cavuto</p>
<p>In <a href="http://usactionnews.com/2012/05/obama-railed-against-deficits-until-he-became-radical-record-breaking-big-spender/">2004 Obama said the “monstrous” deficits were “an enormous problem”</a> when the <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-10-14-deficit_x.htm">deficit was $413 billion</a>. In 2008 he said increasing the debt would burden our children and was unpatriotic. Every year of his term deficits have been over a TRILLION dollars. By the end of his first term he will have increased the debt more than all other presidents combined. Can we afford four more years of two faced, self serving fiscal insanity?</p>
<p>“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. … Increasing America’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here. Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.” – <em><strong>Barack Obama</strong></em></p>
<p>“Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, its time to try something new. Let’s invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt.” – President <em><strong>Barack Obama</strong></em> on his Office of Management and Budget website.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>“We’re spending twice as much money as we did in 2001. If you go back 15 years our deficit this year is bigger than what our entire budget was. That’s how out of control the federal government is. … There is a political reason we’re not having a budget. Everybody understands that. Nobody’s going to say it. .. because we don’t want to make the hard choices in an election year.” – Sen. Dr. Coburn</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJ1qzG0Ewk">Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mullen</a> said our national debt is our greatest threat to national security.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>“Whether one believes leaves in a large, very active government or something more limited, mathematically, the amount of debt we already have and the terrifying rate at which it is accumulating will lead to national ruin,” Gov. Mitch Daniels</p>
<p>“Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.” -Alan Greenspan</p>
<p>“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty or profusion and servitude.<br />
If we run into such debt, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our drink, in our necessaries and our comforts, in our labors and our amusements, for our calling and our creeds… [we will] have no time to think, no means of calling our miss-managers to account but be glad to obtain subsistence by hiring ourselves to rivet their chains on the necks of our fellow sufferers… And this is the tendency of all human governments. A departure from principle in one instance becomes a precedent for [another]… till the bulk of society is reduced to be mere automatons of misery… And the fore-horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follows that, and in its train wretchedness and oppression.” – (Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816</p>
<p>“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” – Vladimir Ilyich Lenin</p>
<p>“With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to issue money to defraud and plunder the people.” -  Friedrich Hayek</p>
<p>“Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.” – Alan Greenspan</p>
<p>“<a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/a_small_debt_produces_a_debtor-a_large_one-an/196799.html">A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy</a>” – <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/publilius_syrus/">Publilius Syrus quotes</a> (Roman author, 1st century B.C.)</p>
<p>“<a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotation/debt_is_the_fatal_disease_of_republics-the_first/190317.html">Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people</a>” – <a href="http://thinkexist.com/quotes/wendell_phillips/">Wendell Phillips quotes</a> (<a href="http://thinkexist.com/nationality/american_authors/">American</a> <a href="http://thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_abolitionists/">Abolitionist</a> and <a href="http://thinkexist.com/occupation/famous_orators/">Orator</a> whose eloquence helped fire the antislavery cause during the period leading up to the American Civil War. <a href="http://thinkexist.com/birthday/november_29/">1811</a>-<a href="http://thinkexist.com/birthday/february_2/">1884</a>)</p>
<p>“The fact is, we’ll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before. It took this nation 166 years until the middle of World War II to finally accumulate a debt of $95 billion.” – Ronald Reagan</p>
<p>“I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy: it keeps interest rates lower than they otherwise would be and frees savings to finance increases in the capital stock, thereby boosting productivity and real incomes.” – Alan Greenspan</p>
<p>When asked why the markets haven’t reacted to the US being on the precipice of collapse, Erskine Bowles said its because the US economy is  “<a href="http://www.usactionnews.com/2011/01/us-economy-is-just-the-best-horse-in-the-glue-factory/index.htm">the best lookin’ horse in the glue factory</a>.”</p>
<p>Alan Simpson (former senator from WY) and co-chair of Obama’s debt commission  <a href="http://www.usactionnews.com/2011/01/us-economy-is-just-the-best-horse-in-the-glue-factory/index.htm">said <em><strong>economic collapse</strong></em> <em><strong>will ‘be very swift and very dramatic’</strong></em>.</a></p>
<p>Former Treasury Secretary Rubin<a href="http://www.usactionnews.com/2011/02/u-s-debt-crisis-could-explode-at-anytime-says-former-treasury-secretary-rubin/index.htm"> said the debt crisis could explode any minute</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.usactionnews.com/2010/09/hillary-says-debt-is-a-national-security-risk/index.htm">Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told</a> the Council on Foreign Relations that our <a href="http://www.usactionnews.com/debt-clock/index.htm">national debt</a> is a national security risk echoing previous statements by <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrJ1qzG0Ewk">Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral Mullen</a>, head of U.S. intelligence – <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/13/nation/na-security-threat13">Dennis Blair</a>, and all of America’s <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE51B64820090212">intelligence agencies</a>.</p>
<p>“After the $700 billion bailout, the trillion-dollar stimulus, and the massive budget bill with over 9,000 earmarks, many of you implored Washington to please stop spending money we don’t have. But, instead of cutting, we saw an unprecedented explosion of government spending and debt, unlike anything we have seen in the history of our country.” – Michele Bachmann</p>
<p>“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover</p>
<p>“There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.” – Richard Feynman</p>
<p>“Many respected economists and statesmen believe our national debt is neither unwieldy nor a dangerous burden on the country. The trouble is that a vast majority of the American people think otherwise…. It violates basic American ideas of thrift and money management. These strong public feelings cannot be ignored forever.” – Morris K. Udall</p>
<p>“The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.” – John Adams</p>
<p>“All of the problems we’re facing with debt are manmade problems. We created them. It’s called fantasy economics. Fantasy economics only works in a fantasy world. It doesn’t work in reality.” – Michele Bachmann</p>
<p>“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt?’. The answer is yes, that’s what I’m telling you.” – Joe Biden</p>
<p>“Mr. Obama plans to boost federal spending 25 percent while nearly tripling the national debt over 10 years. Americans know that this kind of spending will have economic consequences, including new taxes being imposed by the new progressives.” – Karl Rove</p>
<p>“I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.” -  James Madison</p>
<p>“A politician cannot spend one dime on any spending project without first taking that dime from the person who earned it. So, when a politician votes for a spending bill he is saying that he believes the government should spend that particular dollar rather than the individual who worked for it.” Neal Boortz.</p>
<p>“There is no such thing as government money – only taxpayer money.” William Weld, quoted in Readers Digest.</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.usactionnews.com/debt-clock/index.htm">See your share of the debt and how fast it is rising.</a></h2>
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		<title>43 Catholic plaintiffs sue over Obamacare &#8211; Cardinal applauds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Whipple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan applauded 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools and church agencies for filing 12 lawsuits around the nation saying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate violates religious freedom.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan applauded 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools and church agencies for filing 12 lawsuits around the nation saying the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate violates religious freedom.</h3>
<p>His statement follows:</p>
<p>&#8220;We have tried negotiation with the Administration and legislation with the Congress &#8212; and we&#8217;ll keep at it &#8212; but there&#8217;s still no fix. Time is running out, and our valuable ministries and fundamental rights hang in the balance, so we have to resort to the courts now. Though the Conference is not a party to the lawsuits, we applaud this courageous action by so many individual dioceses, charities, hospitals and schools across the nation, in coordination with the law firm of Jones Day. It is also a compelling display of the unity of the Church in defense of religious liberty. It&#8217;s also a great show of the diversity of the Church&#8217;s ministries that serve the common good and that are jeopardized by the mandate &#8212; ministries to the poor, the sick, and the uneducated, to people of any faith or no faith at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Father Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life, also applauded the additional 12 lawsuits filed around the country in protest of the Health and Human Services mandate forcing employers to provide coverage for activities they find objectionable.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The lawsuits represent 43 plaintiffs, including the Archdioceses of New York, Washington, D.C. and St. Louis, the Michigan Catholic Conference, and several dioceses.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&#8220;These new actions mean there are now 23 lawsuits filed against this assault on religious freedom,&#8221; said Father Pavone, whose organization was the fourth to file suit against the mandate. &#8220;Since Priests for Life launched its lawsuit in February, we have urged other organizations and dioceses to do the same. When there are multiple federal lawsuits on the same issue in different parts of the country, this can create the potential kind of conflict that the Supreme Court may be more likely to resolve.&#8221;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Besides suing Kathleen Sebelius and the HHS, Father Pavone and Priests for Life are helping organize rallies nationwide to stand up for religious freedom on Friday, June 8. The Priests for Life team is organizing the rally in New York City.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&#8220;The fact that the New York Archdiocese is now part of the legal assault on this mandate will, I am sure, create renewed interest and participation in our June 8 rally. We invite all to take part.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Why Obama Failed</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[[V]oting Obama out of office ought to be a no-brainer to anybody who's not a committed and ideological Big Government socialist. Polls show a huge majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. But Obama gets almost none of the blame, and a majority like him. If you were on a sinking ship and the captain stood there saying, "No worries. It never sinks," how much support would you give this captain?]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>[V]oting Obama out of office ought to be a no-brainer to anybody who&#8217;s not a committed and ideological Big Government socialist. Polls show a huge majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. But Obama gets almost none of the blame, and a majority like him. If you were on a sinking ship and the captain stood there saying, &#8220;No worries. It never sinks,&#8221; how much support would you give this captain?</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>by Michael J. Hurd, Ph.D.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-21522" title="marx_equals_barack" src="http://usactionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/marx_equals_barack-300x150.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="150" />In a recent campaign speech, Obama said: &#8220;See, the question is not whether things will get better &#8212; they always do… The question is whether together, we can muster the will &#8212; in our own lives, in our common institutions, in our politics &#8212; to bring about the changes we need.”</p>
<p>This is a revealing statement. It reveals the assumption of all liberals and socialists, Obama included, that the money will always be there. Will a wrecked economy improve? &#8220;They always do.&#8221; This implies that the economy will get better, no matter what the government does to it.</p>
<p>Tell this to people in Communist or former Communist countries. Or to people living under religious or fascist dictatorships. The government throttles these economies to no end. The only economic growth that ever takes place is to the benefit of the rulers &#8212; mainly because of places like the United States, from whom they can beg, borrow and steal.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s beyond foolish to assume the economy can get better no matter what. To think this is to assume that economic growth and wealth creation happen automatically. This explains the attitudes of liberals like Obama. They resent &#8220;the rich&#8221; and people who have more because they got &#8220;more than their share&#8221; of the inevitable wealth. There&#8217;s no concept that somebody works to create the wealth, and maintain wealth and profit once it&#8217;s there. This is the attitude of a spoiled adolescent or a moocher. It&#8217;s not an attitude we should find in a President of the United States.</p>
<p>Liberals passed ObamaCare on the assumption that the American economy will keep on growing as it always has. Three years into Obama&#8217;s term, and it&#8217;s still not happening. The government is totally bankrupt and the currency is imperiled by the unprecedented and almost unimaginable national debt. There&#8217;s no money to pay for Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, the most expensive parts of the government. This is before the demand for these programs rises due to the aging of the population over the coming two decades. And it&#8217;s before ObamaCare, which will put millions more Americans (ultimately everyone) on government insurance, the most expensive social program in human history.</p>
<p>How much debt are we supposed to sustain? Hundreds of millions of trillions? What&#8217;s higher than the trillions? Do our economists even know? On our current course of little to no economic growth, and exponential growth in government spending, we&#8217;re going to get there sooner than you think.</p>
<p>Obama has criticized the idea of &#8220;American exceptionalism.&#8221; American exceptionalism refers to the idea that Americans are somehow different, that Americans are somehow better than everyone else. But this is the very thing Obama implies when he says that the American economy will come back, no matter what. He&#8217;s suggesting that America is somehow above the stagnation, unemployment and ruin that befell all other socialist countries and nationalist economies throughout the world. It can&#8217;t happen here, right?</p>
<p>The American people are not paying attention. Slightly more than half are ready to vote for his reelection, in an economy that has actually worsened under his watch. No Republican president and probably no other Democratic president would ever have enjoyed such a free ride. Too many Americans are just not<em> thinking</em>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not suggesting that the opposition, Mitt Romney, is any inspiration. Of course he isn&#8217;t. But voting Obama out of office ought to be a no-brainer to anybody who&#8217;s not a committed and ideological Big Government socialist. Polls show a huge majority of Americans think the country is on the wrong track. But Obama gets almost none of the blame, and a majority like him. If you were on a sinking ship and the captain stood there saying, &#8220;No worries. It never sinks,&#8221; how much support would you give this captain? Or would you look for another leader, or perhaps take matters of survival into your own hands, instead?</p>
<p>Liberals like Obama are in a bind. They hate the rich and they hate wealth. But the definition of a growing economy is wealth production. In a thriving economy, of 4 or even 6-8 percent growth a year, you see (1) the rich getting richer and (2) the poor and middle class getting richer. These are the trends. In a declining or stagnating economy, the rich stay rich while the poor and the middle class get poorer. That&#8217;s what we see happening now. Obama points to the fact that the rich are still rich and says, &#8220;See? I told you so. The rich need to pay more taxes.&#8221; This will not change a thing, and will only make matters worse.</p>
<p>Taxes have to actually be lowered. Of course the rich will get the biggest tax cuts &#8212; because they already pay for most of what the government does! Economic freedom will raise the standard of living for everyone. Socialism and government interventionism don&#8217;t do a thing, other than hamper or reduce the strength of the economy. Obama&#8217;s policies tend to freeze everything in place. The rich don&#8217;t mind this too much, at first, but the poor and middle class are the first to feel it. They&#8217;re the ones who will feel the inflation. Government welfare programs cannot save them, because government welfare programs do not raise the standard of living and can never hope to cover the cost of lost economic growth by all this Big Government interventionism in the economy.</p>
<p>The absence of a &#8220;populist&#8217; or &#8220;blue collar&#8221; revolution for free market capitalism shows just how ignorant most people are, and how woefully ignorant their teachers, talking head intellectuals, and professors have been. The current President, a former professor himself, is the worst one of them all.</p>
<p>Can the economy get better and can the debt crisis be reversed? Of course they can. But not through anything Obama has done, or is proposing. To start with, we have to reverse every single thing Obama has done in office. Then we have to start reversing all the other things previous governments &#8212; Republican and Democratic &#8212; have done to hamper or harm the economy. We have to stop this cycle of insanity whereby government intervenes, makes things worse, the people scream &#8220;do something!&#8221; and the government proceeds to make it even worse.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need a bloody revolution, and we don&#8217;t need to overthrow our system of government. But we do need to radically reverse and revise almost all of our government policies of the last century in particular. Obama was supposed to bring &#8220;change,&#8221; but in reality he brought more of the same. A lot more of it. If most Americans are so convinced that the country is headed in the wrong direction, why can&#8217;t they see Obama as part of the problem?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Dr. Hurd has a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Psychology, Saybrook Institute, San Francisco, CA, November 1991. Degree awarded With Distinction. Master’s of Social Work (M.S.W.), Clinical, The University of Maryland at Baltimore, May 1988. Bachelor’s of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, May 1985. Distinguished Psychology Student Award, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude. Dr. Hurd blogs at <a href="http://www.drhurd.com/">DrHurd.com</a></em></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many of you have heard of this new form of mob violence? The enemedia has kept this one hush hush. It is hard to imagine the kind of wicked blitzkrieg the media would be conducting if these SA-inspired brownshirts were tea partiers (!) - Atlas Shrugs]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>How many of you have heard of this new form of mob violence? The enemedia has kept this one hush hush. It is hard to imagine the kind of wicked blitzkrieg the media would be conducting if these SA-inspired brownshirts were tea partiers (!) &#8211; Atlas Shrugs</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>From<a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/05/leftist-jackboots-target-groups-rushed-into-the-restaurant-with-baseball-bats-and-beat-patrons-blood.html"> AtlasShrugs.com</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/05/leftist-jackboots-target-groups-rushed-into-the-restaurant-with-baseball-bats-and-beat-patrons-blood.html"><br />
</a>EXCERPTS:</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>At first, the group that claims responsibility, the Anti-Racist Action Group, focused on just one table, then decided that it wasn&#8217;t enough to beat whom they consider their sworn enemies, but also other placid suburbanites who just happened to be enjoying the Irish fare served at Winston&#8217;s. When the owner of the restaurant took on one of the hoodie thugs physically, tackling him, he was beaten by five of the thugs.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>But it wasn&#8217;t the tea party or Republicans. It&#8217;s the media&#8217;s dahlings &#8212; the left. And their victims were a reviled group. So that makes it okay? The left is certainly ratcheting things up on the order of pre-Nazi reign. Yes, these leftist jackboots are attacking a group that no one will stand with, but who is next on their list of victims?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Which means people can get beat up and eventually killed in the name of &#8220;social justice&#8221;, and nobody in the business of reporting about it, cares. In fact, you get the feeling they kind of digg it.</p>
<p>Pathetic.</p>
<h2><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/05/leftist-jackboots-target-groups-rushed-into-the-restaurant-with-baseball-bats-and-beat-patrons-blood.html">FULL ARTICLE</a></h2>
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		<title>Pics from the anti-NATO march you won&#8217;t see in the establishment media</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 15:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with Occupy Chicago's May Day march, yesterday's Anti-NATO march brought out the extremists. And I have more photographs that the establishment media won't ever consider using. - Marathon Pundit]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>As with Occupy Chicago&#8217;s May Day march, yesterday&#8217;s Anti-NATO march brought out the extremists. And I have more photographs that the establishment media won&#8217;t ever consider using. &#8211; Marathon Pundit</h3>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-21513" title="USSR flag" src="http://usactionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/USSR-flag-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></p>
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<p>Another commie group, <a href="http://www.workers.org/">the Workers World Party.</a></p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-21514" title="Workers World Party" src="http://usactionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Workers-World-Party.jpg" alt="" width="320" height="310" /></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[How the California Teachers Association betrayed the schools and crippled the state - City Journal]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>How the California Teachers Association betrayed the schools and crippled the state &#8211; City Journal</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-21510" title="Teachers-unions-lockers" src="http://usactionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Teachers-unions-lockers-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>Troy Senik at <a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-association.html">City Journal</a></h3>
<p><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-association.html"><br />
</a>EXCERPTS:</p>
<p>&#8230; CTA—now the single most powerful special interest in California—organized a “State of Emergency” week to agitate for higher taxes in one of the most overtaxed states in the nation. A CTA document suggested dozens of ways for teachers to protest, including following state legislators incessantly, attempting to close major transportation arteries, and boycotting companies, such as Microsoft, that backed education reform.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Seen as a national leader in the classroom during the 1950s and 1960s, the country’s largest state is today a laggard, competing with the likes of Mississippi and Washington, D.C., at the bottom of national rankings.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>CTA began its transformation in September 1975, when Governor Jerry Brown signed the Rodda Act, which allowed California teachers to bargain collectively.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In 2009, the union’s income was more than $186 million, all of it tax-exempt.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>CTA had spent more than $210 million over the previous decade on political campaigning—&#8230;. outspent the pharmaceutical industry, the oil industry, and the tobacco industry <em>combined</em>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>CTA also funds a wide array of liberal causes unrelated to education, with the goal of spreading around enough cash to prevent dissent from the Left.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2><a href="http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_2_california-teachers-association.html">FULL ARTICLE</a></h2>
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		<title>Exposing Communist China&#8217;s Forced Abortion and Gendercide Policies [Graphic]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 12:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accuracy in Media's investigative video team sat down with Reggie Littlejohn of Women's Rights Without Frontiers to discuss China's rampant forced abortions and gendercide. Remember when VP Joe Biden said of China "Your policy has been one which I fully understand -- I’m not second-guessing -- of one child per family." ]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Accuracy in Media&#8217;s investigative video team sat down with Reggie Littlejohn of Women&#8217;s Rights Without Frontiers to discuss China&#8217;s rampant forced abortions and gendercide. Remember when <a href="http://townhall.com/tipsheet/elisabethmeinecke/2011/08/22/biden_says_he_fully_understands_chinas_one-child_policy">VP Joe Biden said of China</a> &#8220;Your policy has been one which I fully understand &#8212; I’m not second-guessing &#8212; of one child per family.&#8221;</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Editor&#8217;s note: The remarks by Joe Biden originally recorded at <a href="http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/texttrans/2011/08/20110821131809su0.2135279.html#axzz1VmAAsnbj">usembassy.gov </a>have been edited to remove Biden&#8217;s comments about the one child policy.</p>
<h3>the press never questioned Obama over his support for allowing doctors to kill live babies that survived abortion procedures. Obama’s history with abortion is not pleasant. As a senator in Illinois he argued for a law that would allow survivors of abortion to die without medical treatment.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Obama quoted the Bible and leaned on his supposedly &#8220;Christian&#8221; faith to support raising taxes on some Americans to give it to others which is theft. At least he didn&#8217;t even attempt to use his &#8220;phony theology&#8221; to try to support the idea of killing babies outside the womb.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>From ‘<a href="http://blogs.chicagotribune.com/news_columnists_ezorn/2008/08/bornalive.html">What you need to know about the `Born Alive’ controversy and Barack Obama</a>‘ in a August 20, 2004 article at the Chicago Tribune:</p>
<p>Here’s some of what Obama said on April 4, 2002 during floor debate in the Illinois Senate:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The source of the objections of the (Illinois State) Medical Society (was that this proposal) puts the burden on the attending physician who has determined, since they were performing this procedure, that, in fact his is a non-viable fetus; that if that fetus, or child—however way you want to describe it—is now outside the mothers’ womb and the doctor continues to think that it’s non viable but there’s,  let’s say, movement or some indication that, in fact, (the fetus is) not just coming out limp and dead, that, in fact, they would then have to call a second physician to monitor and check off and make sure that this is not a live child that could be saved….. The only plausible rationale, to my mind, for this legislation would be if you had a suspicion that a doctor – the attending physician – who has made an assessment that this is a non-viable fetus and that, let’s say for the purposes of the mother’s health, …that labor is being induced, that that physician a) is going to make the wrong assessment and b) if the physician discovered, after the labor had been induced, that, in fact, he made an error, or she made an error, and, in fact, that this was not a non-viable fetus but, in fact, a live child, that that physician or his own accord or her own accord would not try to exercise the sort of medical measures and practices that would be involved in saving that child. Now if—if you think that there are possibilities that doctors would not do that, then maybe this bill makes sense. But I suspect –and my impression is that the Medical Society suspects as well –that doctors feel that they would be under that obligation, that they would already be making those determination and that ,essentially adding an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physicians to induce labor and perform an abortions. Now if that’s the case… I think it’s important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Pro life activist <a href="http://www.jillstanek.com/">Jill Stanek</a> noted then senator <a href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=45553">Obama’s 10 reasons for supporting infanticide</a> in an article on WorldNetDaily.com in January of 2008. Among the reasons was #10:</p>
<blockquote><p>“10. Babies who survive abortions are not protected by the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution.</p></blockquote>
<p>Obama, the sole opponent ever to speak against BAIPA, stated on the Illinois Senate floor on March 30, 2001:</p>
<blockquote><p>I just want to suggest … that this is probably not going to survive constitutional scrutiny.Number one, whenever we define a previable fetus as a person that is protected by the equal protection clause or the other elements in the Constitution, what we’re really saying is, in fact, that they are persons that are entitled to the kinds of protections that would be provided to a – child, a 9-month-old – child that was delivered to term. …</p>
<p>I mean, it – it would essentially bar abortions, because the equal protection clause does not allow somebody to kill a child, and if this is a child, then this would be an anti-abortion statute. For that purpose, I think it would probably be found unconstitutional.”</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>More recently Obama has raised the ire of Catholic groups. Cliff Kincaid wrote in a previous article about Obamacare rules violating religious conscience:</p>
<blockquote><p>The administration claims there is a religious exemption in the mandate, but the bishops say it is so narrow that it fails to cover the vast majority of faith-based organizations, including Catholic hospitals, universities and service organizations that help millions every year. “Ironically,” they say, “not even Jesus &amp; his disciples would have qualified.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The bishops <a href="http://usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/conscience-protection/index.cfm">go on</a>, “Now that the Administration has refused to recognize the Constitutional conscience rights of organizations and individuals who oppose the mandate, the bishops are now urging Catholics and others of good will to fight this unprecedented attack on conscience rights and religious liberty.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Interestingly, The Washington Post, as Father Swink indicated, agrees with the bishops. The paper <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/respecting-religious-exemptions/2012/01/22/gIQA0ZESJQ_story.html">said</a>, “In this circumstance, requiring a religiously affiliated employer to spend its own money in a way that violates its religious principles does not make an adequate accommodation for those deeply held views. Having recognized the principle of a religious exemption, the administration should have expanded it.”</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So why would the administration pick a major fight with the Catholic Church? There are two main reasons. (1) The administration wants to please its progressive and feminist, secular pro-abortion base. (2) The administration believes Catholics are divided on the issue and will ignore their leaders and follow Obama.</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Obama administration also put its abortion advocacy above sex trafficking victims. Lifesite News reported:</p>
<blockquote><p>For over a decade, we have achieved an amazing left-right, religious-secular, bicameral, bipartisan consensus, unified in combating sex and labor trafficking at home and worldwide without promoting abortion.</p>
<p>Until today.</p>
<p>In what can only be described as an unconscionable abuse of power, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2011/11/23/2011/11/01/bishops-may-sue-obama-admin-for-denying-grant-over-abortion/">the Obama Administration has engaged</a> in what amounts to bid rigging; denying taxpayer funds to a demonstrably superior organization—the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)—with an exemplary ten year track record of performance that scored significantly higher in independent HHS reviews than two of the three NGOs that got the grant.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration’s discriminatory practice of funding NGOs that provide or refer for abortions even when they fail to win a competitive process is not only unjust, unethical and in violation of conscience laws (Weldon Amendment and Coats-Snowe), but it severely undermines public—and Congressional—confidence and support for what is an otherwise laudable program.</p>
<p>If you are a Catholic, or other faith-based NGO, or a secular organization of conscience, there is now clear proof that your grant application will not be considered under a fair, impartial, and transparent process by the Obama Administration.</p>
<p>The Obama Administration’s bias against Catholics is an affront to religious freedom and a threat to all people of faith.</p></blockquote>
<p>The Democrat National Committee even went so far as to send a <a href="http://www.terryforpresident.com/documents/dnc.pdf">veiled threat </a>to TV stations <a href="http://usactionnews.com/2012/01/dnc-tries-to-hide-obama-record-on-abortion-tells-tv-stations-not-to-run-ads/">to keep anti-Obama graphic abortion ads from running</a>.</p>
<p>The gruesome abortions by abortionist Kermit B. Gosnell highlight the real world results of what Obama was defending. From a <a href="http://usactionnews.com/2011/01/cbs-news-reports-on-abortion-%E2%80%9Chouse-of-horrors%E2%80%9D-as-thousands-prepare-to-march-for-life/">story about Gosnell</a> by Cliff Kincaid:</p>
<blockquote><p>The D.A. says the doctor killed seven babies after they were delivered alive.”</p>
<p>The report by correspondent Elaine Quijano on the “house of horrors,” which had been operating for 30 years, included these revelations:</p>
<ul>
<li>Children were born and then killed by putting scissors in <img title="neck_cut_in_aborted_baby" src="http://usactionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/neck_cut_in_aborted_baby-300x230.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="230" />the back of their neck and snipping their spinal cord.</li>
<li>One woman, 41-year-old Carnamaya Mongar, died in 2009 after receiving an overdose of anesthesia.</li>
<li>Photos from inside the clinic show unsanitary, squalid conditions with jars and bags of aborted fetuses.</li>
<li>Fetal remains were found in a refrigerator that the employees used to store their lunches.</li>
<li>The abortionist, Kermit B. Gosnell, has been named in 46 lawsuits, but his clinic had not been inspected by state officials since 1993.</li>
<li>None of the employees had any medical training. A high school student was employed as an anesthesiologist.</li>
<li>The doctor used unsterilized instruments, infecting patients with venereal disease and often punctured uteruses and intestines.</li>
</ul>
</blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>By <a href="../2012/01/2012/01/about/">Michael Whipple</a>, Editor <a href="../2012/01/2012/01/">usACTIONnews.com</a></h3>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 11:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Imagine a system under which an individual arresting officer stood to become personally wealthy by collaring an asset-rich defendant and railroading him on suspicion of something-or-other.</h3>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h3>by <a title="View all posts by Walter Olson" href="http://www.cato.org/people/walter-olson" target="_blank">Walter Olson</a> at Cato@Liberty</h3>
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<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-21501" title="capital pirate flag" src="http://usactionnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/capital-pirate-flag-167x300.jpg" alt="" width="167" height="300" />We at the Cato Institute have warned <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/feds-take-in-billions-with-forfeiture-powers/">time</a> <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/feds-propose-forfeiture-as-immigration-employer-sanction/">and</a> <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/another-asset-forfeiture-outrage/">time</a> <a href="http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/asset-forfeiture-abuse-threatens-fair-trial-in-copyright-case/">again</a> of the dangers of civil forfeiture laws, which empower law enforcement authorities to seize cars, money, houses and office equipment alleged (often on a flimsy basis) to have been used to advance unlawful conduct. Even if no related criminal charges are brought — or even if the defendant manages convincingly to beat those charges — the law enforcement agencies often assert a right to keep the property, giving it back, if at all, only after costly litigation. In the mean time, finding a lawyer to fight the process can be difficult because the government has seized the assets that would ordinarily be used to pay that lawyer.</p>
<p>In recent days a crop of especially outrageous forfeiture stories has been making headlines:</p>
<ul>
<li>Nashville’s WTVF <a href="http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18241221/man-loses-22000-in-new-policing-for-profit-case" target="_blank">exposed</a> a <a href="http://overlawyered.com/2012/05/he-couldnt-prove-it-was-legitimate/" target="_blank">pattern</a> in which some rural Tennessee police agencies stop out-of-state motorists and then seize any large amounts of cash found on the grounds that the motorists could not prove they were not involved in drug trafficking or some other unlawful activity. <a href="http://www.newschannel5.com/story/18241221/man-loses-22000-in-new-policing-for-profit-case" target="_blank">Read the story</a> and decide whether you would feel more secure driving in Monterey, Tenn. or Monterrey, Mexico</li>
<li>It’s hard to top the Tennessee story, but Cato Media Fellow Radley Balko has <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/20/asset-forfeiture-wisconsin-bail-confiscated_n_1522328.html" target="_blank">just published a <em>Huffington Post</em> expose</a> of how Wisconsin police seize cash intended for bail money, on the grounds that police dogs sniffed drug residue on it — even though a victim family was able to establish in one instance that the cash had just come from bank ATMs.</li>
<li>George Will, the syndicated columnist and 2010 <a href="http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v32n4/cpr32n4-1.html" target="_blank">Friedman Prize keynoter</a>, has a blistering <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-government-is-the-looter/2012/05/18/gIQAUIKVZU_story.html" target="_blank">new column</a> (“When government is the looter”) on the combined effort by “piratical” federal officials and police in Tewksbury, Mass. to confiscate the Caswell Motel, whose elderly owner has been charged with no crime but whose inexpensive lodgings have sometimes been used by drug dealers. More in this strongly worded <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/motel-owner-faces-asset-forfeiture-despite-innocence/2012/02/10/gIQAb3aaIR_story.html" target="_blank"><em>Washington Post</em> editorial</a>.</li>
</ul>
<p>Imagine a system under which an individual arresting officer stood to become personally wealthy by collaring an asset-rich defendant and railroading him on suspicion of something-or-other. Now imagine instead that it’s the police department as a whole that faces the same corrupting temptation. Why do the courts stand for it?</p>
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		<dc:creator>Mike Whipple</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving out wealth creators and importing potential destroyers may seem like national suicide, but it's a winning formula for mansion-dwelling, Marxist politicians. - American Thinker]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Driving out wealth creators and importing potential destroyers may seem like national suicide, but it&#8217;s a winning formula for mansion-dwelling, Marxist politicians. &#8211; American Thinker</h3>
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<h3>By <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/stella_paul/">Stella Paul</a> at <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/whispering_the_truth_in_obamas_america.html">American Thinker</a></h3>
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</a>EXCERPTS:</p>
<p>&#8220;Obama&#8217;s destroying the economy,&#8221; she told me; then she looked nervously around at our hyper-Blue State neighbors.  &#8220;I feel like I have to whisper, or they&#8217;re going to come and arrest me.&#8221;</p>
<p>Welcome to Obama&#8217;s America 2012, a joy-free zone in which the best and brightest youth are flocking to a Communist dictatorship, because they see more hope of economic opportunity there.</p>
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<p>But many of the most driven, entrepreneurial types &#8212; the kind of unstoppable hustlers who built America &#8212; are bolting and may never return.</p>
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<p>Yes, for the crime of donating to Obama&#8217;s opponent, Frank VanderSloot is getting the full Roto-Rooter treatment, just like Joe the Plumber. Remember Joe?</p>
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<p>Meanwhile, back in the former land of the free, Obama plays the same cynical game, intimidating and threatening opponents, so that even a frightened mother in the supermarket feels like she has to whisper.</p>
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<p>But a million whispers sounds like a roar. Let&#8217;s roar.</p>
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<h2><a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/whispering_the_truth_in_obamas_america.html">FULL ARTICLE</a></h2>
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		<title>The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 09:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Clinton called Obama an amateur. Telling revelations in Ed Klein's new book about Obama's inner circle and insights the mainstream media won't talk about. Pajamas Media interviews Ed Klein about details revealed in the book.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Bill Clinton called Obama an amateur. Telling revelations in Ed Klein&#8217;s new book about Obama&#8217;s inner circle and insights the mainstream media won&#8217;t talk about. Pajamas Media interviews Ed Klein about details revealed in the book.</h3>
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