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Top Republican Lawmakers Not Invited to State Dinner FOXNews - 3 hours ago by The Washington Times Among others, the president didn't invite his 2008 campaign rival, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, even though Obama the candidate pledged a post-partisan presidency.
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Arizona I got invited but I really can't make it this year. Lost my job. Can't afford the airfare. Maybe next year, Barry. I'll bring the Coke.
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New York Martha Stewart's comments about Sarah Palin are empty-headed and elitist and so is the White House state dinner. At a time when our nation is being allowed to give the terrorists a platform to spew on and Washington is building another platform on which to entertain elitists, radicals, and polititians who can be bought,coddled and bribed, we are planning to vote.
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Delaware State dinners should be inclusive events; leaving out prominent senators is no way to run a banana republic let alone a constitutional democracy.
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Rhode Island I don't want any taxpayer money going for this photo op. He has done NOTHING since he became president. Our troops are still dying. He still hasn't made a decision. He has flown here there and everywhere on our dime. It's time he stopped spending what we do not have. Now he wants to tax the wealthy to fund the war. Well, if he stopped flying and this dumbocrat congress stopped spending, we would have more than enough to protect our troops and the U.S.
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Michigan I'm sure hearts are broken all through the Republican party for not being invited. Actually I would consider it an honor not to be invited!
If the Democrats' health care grab ever becomes a reality, plenty of Louisianans will end up paying through the nose like the rest of us taxpayers.More
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"Mary Landrieu: now it is official. She is New Orleans' most expensive hooker."
"Maybe citizens of the state need to start recall procedures since your state is one of 18 that can do that to a sitting Senator. That would get her attention!!!"
"What stinks is Sen Mary Landrieu of LA sold her vote for cool $300 Million and she makes no bones about it. But isn't that vote bribery? Just because the money goes to state of LA -- the Dems party is buying votes. That is as dishonest as ya ya sisterhood stinky swamp!
On Saturday the Republicans debated that somebody has to pay for HC Medicare Gestopo bill. So who pays - well the States do and many states like CA, NJ, and NY are already broke.
For example Sen Lamar Alexander (R) of TN said on Saturday that his Dem Gov of TN will have to have ask TN State Legislature to raise taxes on payroll taxes (which TN doesn't have), increase sales tax and education fees to cover the cost of this nightmare.
Which got me to thinking - why aren't State GOVERNORS not screaming to high heaven about this HC bill? Who reports to who? Governors need to have a little heart to heart with their elected officals in the HOUSE & SENATE and call them on the carpet and lay down the law. Money to pay for this HC bill isn't falling out of the trees.
Clearly Capital Hill isn't listening to voters but maybe they'll start listen to their Governors who have to find the money. And if that doesn't work then these States Legislatures need to find constitutional ways to stop these 2,000 page bills coming out of DC."
"Senator Landrieu was very public in accepting a bribe. Is that not illegal? We KNOW her vote was purchased. There must be a law against accepting a bribe for a vote. After watching Katrina I believed Ms. Landrieu was incompetent and now I am sure she is incompetent. What do you call someone that accepts bribes, oh wait, I know that one. You call a person who takes bribes a Criminal. Yeah, that's the word, criminal."
"I have heard a perfect name for Mary Landrieu. Lee Majors was the "Six Million Dollar Man" Mary Landrieu is the "100 Million Dollar Whore "
A 15-year-old Egyptian girl, Dina el-Gohary, has written an emotional appeal to President Obama asking him to use his influence to save her father, Maher el-Gohary, who is being persecuted for his beliefs.
“Mr. President Obama, we are a minority in Egypt,” Dina writes, according to a report from the Assyrian International News Agency.
“We are treated very badly. … We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country.”
Dina and her father are Christian converts in a part of the world where conversion can mean death.
Coca-Cola is spearheading a coalition of more than 100 companies pushing a United Nations climate treaty to bind the U.S. to cap-and-trade emissions regulation, commit the world's wealthiest nations to a potential $10 trillion in foreign aid and, possibly, form a proposed international "super-grid" for regulating and distributing electric power worldwide.
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It seems that while scientists who accept funding from oil companies are branded as bought-and-paid-for shills, those financed by renewable energy interests remain unchallenged authorities in their fields. More
A folder containing documents, data and emails purportedly "hacked" from Britain's Climate Research Unit (CRU) may be smoking gun proof of a worldwide conspiracy to exaggerate the existence, causation and threat of global warming. And the list of apparent conspirators includes many of the world's leading climate alarmists -- the very scientists on whose work the entire anthropogenic global warming theory is based... (Read Full Article)
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Texas This destructive bill is just because this idiotic president said he wanted a health care bill. It has nothing to do with us "THE AMERICAN CITIZENS". It has to do with the Democratic party and saving face. To HE** with the American Citizen. VOTE THEM OUT OF OFFICE. We need representatives not career politicians who are looking out for themselves more than for us.
Georgia It seems as if our representitives are either deaf and dumb or just plain stupid! They forget WE put them there and We WILL REMOVE THEM! It makes no sense to push a system that has already proven not to work in other countries!!! ARE YOU ALL ON DOPE? WAKE UP! GREED will get you nothing but grief in the long run. If peacfull demonstations will not get your attention, maybe NON-PEACEFULL ONES WILL.
Maryland The country is already bankrupt, there's some bad history being made. Do these politicians really hate America this much?
Indiana If we Americans refuse to participate what will happened? Fine us, say 500.00? Hard to pay if you have been laid off for over a year! Jail time? Our jails and correctional institutions are already overcrowded! Has the Democrats even thought about the long term consequences? Why not make it mandatory that whoever votes on this bill, and it passes into law, have this coverage for them and their family.
Pennsylvania The only congressman that tells the truth that I know of is Joe Wilson.
As if hyperactive Washington politicians haven’t already grabbed enough power by taking over banks and car companies and trying to control everybody’s health care, now they are getting closer to centralized bureaucratic control of the entire consumer credit market. Pending legislation to create a superpowerful Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA) would take an ax to financial freedom and significantly increase consumer costs. That’s not what most people would call “protection.
Vision of American decline – Washington Times – November 20 President Obama took his declining dollar to the Asia-Pacific economic conference, and he added to it a declinist opinion of America’s economy. His big message? Don’t count on American consumers to lead the world from recession to recovery and beyond. His second big message? In the United States, we must save more and spend less.
Fraud Nation – Human Events – November 20 Though private fraud gets the bigger headline (think Bernie Madoff), fraud in federal government programs is now so pervasive that even the Obama press is taking notice. The scope of fraud in all federal programs dwarfs the corruption in the private sector the media loves to sensationalize.
Consider the fraud in the Wall Street bailout. Here’s just one example.
‘You see, Pinocchio,” said the Blue Fairy, “a lie keeps growing and growing until it’s as plain as the nose on your face.”
Sadly, this simple lesson, once taught only to small children, must be taught again to “grown-ups” who have conditioned our culture, our politicians and even our armed forces to deny and ignore the grave threats we face. But today the lies are called “political correctness,” and the consequences can be death.
Far more dangerous than Maj. Nidal Hasan’s heinous act at Fort Hood is our collective refusal to see it for what it is: a terrorist act inspired by radical Islam. Radical Islam is made more dangerous because political correctness has conditioned us not to identify it as the source of terrorism....
Sons of old freemen, do we inherit their name alone?
“Is the old Pilgrim spirit quenched within us?
Stoops the proud manhood of our souls so low,
That Mammon’s lure or Party’s wile can win us to silence now?
Now, when our land to ruin’s brink is verging,
In God’s name let us speak while there is time;
Now, when the padlocks for our lips are forging,
Silence is crime."
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Acts Chapter 5 relates the account of how the Christians were raising such a fuss in Jerusalem by preaching, casting out demons and healing the sick that the religious leaders had them put in prison. But an angel of the Lord let the apostles out, telling them to preach the gospel in the temple. Finally, the Captain of the Guard and the officers caught them and brought them before the council. Verses 28 and 29 say the high priest asked them, "Did not we straightly command you that ye should not teach in this name? And behold, ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine, and intend to bring this man's blood upon us. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men."
On the night of April 18, 1775, Founding Fathers John Hancock and John Adams were at the home of Lexington, Massachusetts pastor and militia leader Rev. Jonas Clarke. Paul Revere warned them of the coming British. And in the morning of April 19th, British Major John Pitcairn faced a small company of minutemen, shouting: "Disperse, ye villains, lay down your arms in the name of George, the Sovereign King of England." From the company led by Rev. Jonas Clarke and Deacon John Parker, Pitcairn heard these words: "We recognize no Sovereign but God and no King but Jesus!" Pitcairn opened fire and the American Revolution began.
Jonathan Trumbull, the governor of Connecticut during the Revolution, wrote, "If you ask an American who is his master? He will tell you he has none, nor any governor but Jesus Christ." And John Adams wrote: "The general principles upon which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity." Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence wrote in a letter to James McHenry November 4, 1800, "Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore, who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure...are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments."
These Founding Fathers were great men of faith. They understood that obedience to God and His principles were necessary for prosperity, both personal and collective. They knew that a nation based on Christian principles would stand the test of time and they warned profusely that without Christian morals the Republic could not subsist. The day of which they warned is upon us as a nation. Our failing Christian morals and acceptance of all religions and all practices is become our demise. Where are the men like Jonas Clarke and John Parker who will preach the power of God's word from the pulpit and stand in the midst of certain death to defend it as part of their nation's legacy?
Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!
Bill Wilson Word of Life Ministry www.dailyjot.com
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Hasan’s Islamist worldview should be central to trial
On Saturday, President Obama urged Congress to hold off investigating the Fort Hood massacre in order to let law enforcement and military authorities do their work. Mr. Obama said the ongoing investigation “will look at the motives of the alleged gunman, including his views and contacts.” But if Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan saw himself as a jihadist warrior, we may never hear about it at his trial. The defense, judge and even prosecution may have an interest in keeping the shooter’s radical worldview under wraps. Maj. Hasan will be on trial, but jihadism will not.
Why Obama Nixed the Ft. Hood Probe – Dick Morris – November 17 As he flew to Asia on Saturday, President Obama told the media in Alaska that he opposes a congressional investigation into the Fort Hood massacre, saying that we must “resist the temptation to turn this tragic event into political theater.” Yet, even as he was posturing against political theatrics, he had just decided that the prosecution of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed would proceed on the greatest of public stages — New York City. View Full Article
Media’s excuses for Hasan’s mass murdering – WND – November 17 From Fort Hood, Texas, on Nov. 11 came the news that the United States Army has charged Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan with 13 counts of premeditated murder. This came only two days after the state of Virginia executed Muslim mass murderer John Allen Muhammad, for the killing of 10 people in Maryland, D.C. and Virginia. Former Harvard professor, author and political columnist Daniel Pipes has written: View Full Article
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“The higher jobless rate could be the new normal” reads the headline of a recent AP report. Further down we read:
“Even with an economic revival, many U.S. jobs lost during the recession may be gone forever and a weak employment market could linger for years.”
The report’s message is clear. It will be a long time before we recover our former prosperity. Things, in fact, may never be as good as they used to be, at least not in our lifetimes.
The future is now Steve McCann - AMERICAN THINKER The credibility and economic future of the the United States, as viewed by the international financial community, has never been at such a low point. Most people are oblivious to the consequences. More S Devaluing the dollar by trashing private healthcare Eric Singer - AMERICAN THINKER It is not a coincidence that the dollar's decline relative to other currencies and gold has accelerated over the last three months as healthcare legislation has loomed closer.More
Pushing Health Reform When Job Losses Are Rising – Human Events – November 16 Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than if they let it fail. Bill Clinton speaking to the Senate Democrats’ lunch on Nov. 10 cited his party’s big losses in 1994 after Congress failed to pass his health care legislation as evidence that Democrats would suffer more from failure to pass a bill than from disaffection with a bill that was signed into law.
Words of LIFE - Weekly Devotional The Lessons of Fort Hood
by James Robison
"Then I heard the Lord asking, 'Whom should I send as a messenger tothis people? Who will go for us?' I said, “Here I am. Send me.'" (Isaiah 6:8)
Betty and I watched the memorial service from Ft. Hood on Tuesday, honoring our soldiers in such a powerful and meaningful way. I don’t know when I have been so emotionally moved. As I looked at the memorials of those killed – a photo of the deceased in front of an empty pair of boots with the downward-aimed rifle, capped by the camouflage helmet – tears welled up in my eyes. I thought of the parents, husbands, wives, brothers, sisters and children, somehow feeling the emptiness in their lives like an irreplaceable void.
And to think of the horrific way in which it occurred—right here in the homeland, in the center of our largest military base. As I looked at those helmets and boots, I couldn’t help but think of all the precious sons and daughters who were found lying in some sandy foreign battlefield, or perhaps near some insane, improvised explosive device. For those memorials, there is honor and respect, but they do not typically include the leading General, Secretary of Defense and even the President of the United States publicly paying last respects. Gratitude is expressed to the families, but the general public doesn’t see each instance that the most priceless and precious gift is laid down for the greatest gift any of us any of us ever experience—the gift of life and the freedom to live it in a meaningful way.
I was deeply moved as Gen. Casey referred to the Scriptures as “God’s Holy Word” and noted that these verses are read at the departure of everyone we lose in the Armed Services. From the book of Isaiah: “Whom will I send, and who will go for us?” And of course, our soldiers answer, “Here am I. Send me.”
Yes, this is what our Armed Forces in this great nation of America, this “one nation under God,” have always willingly said. We have said it in defense of everything sacred, dear, meaningful and appropriate since the birthing of this nation. I found it amazing that this general would so openly refer to God in the Scriptures and couldn’t help but wonder how long it will be before someone voices their opposition to it, just as they have to any reference to God in our schools and public places.
These critical forces controlled by all that is committed to destroying true freedom will not stop trying to limit the true defenders of faith and freedom in every possible way. They constantly harass those who shout truth from the housetops. They do not want it on the airwaves and they do not want it spoken in worship assemblies and houses of faith if it affects their destructive purposes.
Many of those who are leading our country away from our freedom that was purchased and protected at such great cost seem unaware that they are doing this. I believe they are deceived. Forces of evil are continually waiting to find places to express their deadly intentions. We must understand that everything opposing true freedom and genuine faith in God was born in the pit of destruction and carried by voices of deception.
Earlier this week, I was meditating on the Scriptures. God was correcting His people in Isaiah for not being fruitful and not caring for the fertile field He had given them and the productive potential He had entrusted to their care. He talked about how the hedges and walls of protection would be broken down and the once-productive ground would be trampled. God went on to say that there is great sorrow for those who tow their sins behind them with ropes made of lies and drag wickedness behind them like a cart. 1
They even mock God and say, “Hurry up and do something. We want to see what You can do. Let the Holy One of Israel carry out His plan. We want to know what it is.” 2
Through his prophet Isaiah, God laments, “What sorrow for those who say that evil is good and good is evil, that dark is light and light is dark, that bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter. What sorrow for those who are wise in their own eye and think themselves so clever. What sorrow for those who are heroes at drinking wine and boast about all the alcohol they can hold. They take bribes to let the wicked go free, and they punish the innocent.” 3
These verses warn people of the judgment that will surely come to those who live deceived and deceiving, controlled not only by the spirit of this world but the spirit of darkness and destruction. It’s important to keep in mind that this chapter precedes the chapter from which General Casey read; the passage read at the loss of every soldier.
The prophet Isaiah said he, along with the people, were the ones undone, had unclean lips, and wanted God to touch their lips to make them clean. God told him that he removed the guilt and forgave him. Then the Lord asked, “Who will I send, and who will go for us?” Isaiah answered, “Here am I. Send me.”
Believe it with all your heart: Our soldiers are defending this freedom and our soldiers have died not only to protect the freedom here at home, but they have died on foreign battlefields to see other nations and people set free. No other nation on earth has spilled so much blood to stop slavery, oppression, tyranny, dictatorship and evil.
There is no question that we have many issues that should concern us. Every church leader and national leader needs to lift his and her voice to call our nation back to the principles that made us great. It is high time for every person who holds truth and freedom dear to stand up and call every party, every politician and every person in this nation back to principles that made us great and are necessary to keep us great.
Forty-eight years ago, when I was only 18 years old, I answered the call of God to proclaim His truth to the ends of the earth. I said, “Here am I. Send me.” Nearly 30 years ago, God showed me that most Christians live as prisoners in the Promised Land. I recognized that as a highly-visible preacher, I had allowed defeat to become a recurring fact in my own life. I was not living full of the Spirit and love of God. I had a gift, but I wasn’t living in freedom. When I began to proclaim the freedom and fullness we should live in as believers, churches and lives were impacted. I stood boldly against the evil forces in our land, within the church and the ever-building nuclear threat. In many ways, the nation was impacted and began to take a stand against the horrible menace of Soviet communism and aggression.
I have shared only with a few people, but in the weeks after having hip replacement surgery in September, a horrible, deadly, evil force manifest in my body. Staph infection exploded like a time bomb. In two hours, I went from being able to walk and move freely to being unable to move. I reached a point where I couldn’t lift a cup of water. It took a repeat surgery to do everything possible to drive out the infection.
For weeks, my precious wife (I call her Nurse Betty) has given me IV’s every eight hours to fight this horrible invading force. As I have walked on this journey, God has done a deep and meaningful work in my life. He has shown me that evil must not be tolerated because there are forces of evil committed to destroy everything meaningful and precious to us. As Christians, and hopefully as true Americans, we must never march in step with those destructive forces that can explode in any moment, just as it did at Fort Hood.
There is mounting evidence that Major Nadil Malik Hasan was lurking, waiting for the right moment to commit the first terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Like a staph infection harbored within our bodies, the vicious force waits for the opportunity to destroy life. This is why evil must not be tolerated – not in our military, not in our neighborhoods and not in our personal lives. We must see it as the destructive force that it is and deal with it. We may walk as I will, with a limp, but know that only God can free us from the power of evil. Liberty begins first in us and then spreads like the light of dawn to the world around us.
Our soldiers give their lives to save life. They give their lives just as the good cells in my blood are capturing an enemy and destroying it with the assistance of antibiotics, medical care and the prayers of many friends. Every dangerous foe needs to be identified, isolated and eliminated. That’s a fact of life in the human body and it’s a fact of life on this earth. If a doctor cannot diagnose infection, he cannot deal with it. If our leaders do not recognize evil in our country, and if the church doesn’t wake up and begin to deal with it, then our future is bleak and our days as a free people and a prosperous nation are numbered.
With a broken heart, I am crying out, “Wake up, church! Wake up, America!” The government is not the answer. Politicians are not the answer. The truths of God’s Word and the time-tested principles that never fail are the solid foundation on which we must rebuild. Join me in earnest prayer, not only for the comfort of the families suffering loss, but for a nation to have the wisdom to return to God so that every one of us can say boldly and bravely like our soldiers, “Here am I, send me. I will stand as a light set on a hill. I will not hide under a bushel of conformity and religious tradition. I will be unashamedly an ambassador for Christ. I will not bow. I will not bend. I will worship God and exalt him to the highest!”
Every moment we live enjoying freedom’s blessing, let us diligently seek to share it with those less fortunate and with those who do not know our living Lord Jesus.
This Week Pray for those impacted by the attack at Fort Hood. Pray for wisdom in our leadership and Divine intervention in the lives of those on the battlefield.
Prayer "Lord, grant us your mercy and peace. Spare us from the evil that seeks to kill, steal and destroy. Send your peace upon the earth. In the name of Jesus, amen."
It isn't every day that a visiting leader from a strategically
vital US ally is brought into the White House in an unmarked van
in the middle of the night rather than greeted like a friend at the front door;
is forbidden to have his picture taken with the President;
is forced to leave the White House alone, through a side exit;
and is ordered to keep the contents of his meeting with the President secret. "
Caroline Glick
Obama’s failure, Netanyahu’s opportunity
– JWR – November 13 by Caroline Glick
s Once again, US President Barack Obama has demonstrated his intention of “putting light” between America and Israel. His hostility towards Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu during the latter’s visit to Washington this week was breathtaking. It isn’t every day that you can see an American President leaving the Prime Minister of an allied government twisting in the wind for weeks before deciding to grant him an audience at the White House.
If a photograph is worth a thousand words, a sharp newspaper cartoon is often worth the book. One Israeli cartoonist depicts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the missus arriving at the White House to meet with President Obama. Mrs. Netanyahu knocks at the front door with the explanation: “We just happened to be in the neighborhood.” Another cartoon depicts the prime minister pulling up at the White House, and telling the driver to wait: “I’m not sure they’re at home.”
Obama is running the most extremist administration in American history. It's chockfull of wild-eyed bizarros. More
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"Here we are faced with a difficult dilemma: a slight rebound economy in 2011-2012 would secure BHO re-election. We could then just close this chapter as all the writings about BHO would be useless. If the economy would continue as it is today, BHO is an one-termer. Period.
My point is, we can call him and his cabals extremists. But in the end, unless, God forbid, there is a majot terrorist attack on American soil, all that matters is the bread and butter issue. Obama won in 2008 was largely due to his "tax cut for 95% of American people" mantra."
"Mr Lewis, America faces one of it's greatest challenges in Mr Obama and his administration of radicals. They are on the offense. They hold the proactive power. They know their plans and the tactics they'll use. America is left to nimbly respond. What's more compelling is that a third or fourth of America is in the bag for his handouts. They wait dull eyed and slack jawed for his next heaving of table scraps all the while mindless of the very deep hole in our economy from which those table scraps come. They are a drag on the forces of independence and liberty and a protection to BHO and his cronies. Finally, Mr Obama is a particularly deceptive extremist because superficially he says Presidential sounding stuff or he's very quiet. He's an expert of spin. He shares nothing of his true self or his thoughts. He is truly the man of questionable intent behind the curtain."
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"If it is true that America elected a Napoleon, remember this: Napoleon's various campaigns cost 4 million European lives before it ended at Waterloo. That's a lot of bloodshed. And where is our Wellington? After all, we're talking about the "me too" Republicans, the ones who "never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."
Poll after poll indicates that official Washington is held in very low regard by the American people. One reason is that our leaders are seen as out of touch with the realities confronting ordinary folks - and with what those folks' common sense suggests are appropriate responses to such realities.
There could scarcely be a more graphic example of that disconnect - and its ominous implications - than the contortions the U.S. government is now going through in the wake of the murder of 13 people and the wounding of dozens more at Fort Hood last week.
For example, the FBI declared immediately after the attack that it was not an act of terrorism. Other officials are promoting the idea that it is simply a case of an individual afflicted by post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or deranged by the prospect of an upcoming deployment to a war zone.
Mr. Obama insists that we should reserve judgment, evidently because the facts are open to varying interpretations.
Such statements are an affront to most Americans' intelligence which commonsensically applies a prosaic form of the scientific method: They look for the explanation that best fits the facts.
The facts - which are becoming ever more numerous by the day - are that the perpetrator of these crimes, Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan, is "a devout Moslem" who, as such, has had to follow at least since 2001 the dictates of the theo-political-legal and seditious program that authoritative Islam calls Shariah. One of those dictates is that the faithful must engage in jihad, or holy war, to achieve the submission of unbelievers to Islam.
Consider the following, partial but illustrative listing of behavior that speaks to Hasan's dangerous proclivities:
During his posting in the Washington area, Hasan attended one of the most virulently Shariah-adherent mosques in America, Fairfax County's Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center. He publicly expressed admiration for its one-time imam, Anwar Al-Awlaki - an exponent of jihad associated with two of the perpetrators of the 9/11 attacks.
Hasan repeatedly tried to proselytize his psychiatric patients - many of whom genuinely did have PTSD - to convert to Islam, prompting complaints from a number of those he was treating.
He apparently authored blog postings that favorably depicted suicide bombings who go to their heavenly virgins shouting "Allahu Akhbar!"
According to the New York Times, "about a year ago" in the course of his work towards a masters degree at the military's health sciences university, Hasan "gave a Power Point presentation...titled 'Why the War on Terror is a War on Islam.'" The London Telegraph reports he "even told classmates that Islamic law trumped the U.S. Constitution."
Hasan gave away his belongings immediately before the shootings, saying to one recipient "I am going away" - an act of charitable form of cleansing consistent with Shariah's injunctions to would-be shaheeds (martyrs).
The New York Times also reports that, in the words of a friend, the night before the shootings, Hasan felt he should quit the military because, "In the Koran, you're not supposed to have alliances with Jews or Christian or others, and if you are killed in the military fighting against Moslems, you will go to hell."
As troubling as these indications of Maj. Hasan's embrace of Shariah are, even more alarming is the inaction of the Army in the face of those of which it was informed.
Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters scorched the Army's leadership, saying: "For the first time since I joined the Army in 1976, I'm ashamed of its dereliction of duty. The chain of command protected a budding terrorist who was waving one red flag after another. Because it was safer for careers than doing something about him."
What is really frightening, though, is the prospect that our civilian and military leaders may think it "safer for their careers" to persist in the politically correct but mendacious contention that there is no link between murderous actions like Hasan's and adherence to authoritative Islam's Shariah program.
That is the line of the Moslem Brotherhood - an organization sworn to "the destruction of Western civilization from within."
If the U.S. government cannot come to grips with the reality that authoritative Islam is rooted in Shariah, that Shariah demands its adherents engage in supremacist jihad, and that jihad is - pursuant to Shariah - intended to inflict terror on its victims, it will be wholly unable to defeat an enemy bent on its destruction.
And official Washington will only further alienate the American people who have the eminent sense to appreciate that, while not all Moslems (in or out of uniform) embrace Shariah and its obligation to wage jihad, those that do are our mortal enemies. The latter have no more business in our military than does their program in our country.
Sen. Joe Lieberman has the right idea. Announcing on "Fox News Sunday" that he would launch an investigation in the Senate Homeland Security Committee, the Senator declared that:
"If Hasan was showing signs, saying to people that he had become an Islamist extremist, the U.S. Army has to have zero tolerance. He should have been gone."
Under those circumstances, the least the Army can do is ensure that his victims - both those who now are gone and those wounded in his attacks - receive Purple Hearts for the losses they incurred at the hands of the enemy.
Frank Gaffney is President of the Center for Security Policy in Washington DC, and host of the nationally syndicated program, Secure Freedom Radio.
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"The Health Care Bill is nearly the opposite of prohibition, except that required a constitutional ammendment, in that one told us what we could not do and the other tells us what we have to do. The Pelosi bill will criminalize so many people, they will have to cart people to jail in cattle cars."
"Disregard of the Constitution has been going on in Washington for a long time, by members of both parties. However, it has accelerated since the early 1900, when Congress enacted the federal income tax, and with the administrations of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson. In truth, neither party pays more than lip service to the Constitution these days, with a few courageous individual exceptions. Business has been too good, the money too easy for the technicalities of a musty two-hundred some odd-year old document written by a bunch of dead white men. One could just as well have listed GOP politicians, who contrary to upholding strict constructionalist principles, have only been a little less hasty in their disregard of the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Founding documents than the Democrats.
If we had a nation of people who knew and believed in their Constitution, and were prepared to uphold it by whatever means necessary, then maybe we'd have a chance to revive our Republic as it once stood. However, many schools no longer even teach civics, and recent surveys have disclosed that American students know little of their history and civic values.
Are we a post-Constitutional Republic? I fear we are. I very much hope I am mistaken, but how is one to find one's way home if one does not know the way? We have the map, the Costitution and other founding documents, but if we will not use it, it is of little use to us and cannot guide the way."
"Last paragraph: "I'm afraid Congress has not only misread the Constitution, but they've also misjudged the American people."
Misjudged yes, misread no.
The Marxists know exactly what the Constitution says, and are seeking to overturn it. They want to end the American Republic experiment that has worked better than any government model in history, and replace it with the failed Social-Democratic model of Old Europe, at best, or more likely the Soviet model that was incompetent, corrupt, and genocidal. "
States Should Define Limits of Fed Governments Powers
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"A clarion call. I only wish this article could find its way into just one MSM publication on Veteran's Day. My pulse is pounding after reading it."
"Awesome article. To bad this is not on the front page of every newspaper, so the uninformed citizen can be awakened from their pathetic stupor."
"Your words disturb as they should. But I have but one question for all: why has George Soros not be "outed" and condemned loudly and rigorously and repeatedly by the collective Jewish society? Why has his name not been linked forever and ever with what he is, what is attempting to pull off, and his early beginnings? Why is his face not portrayed as the face of the snake in the garden? Is it because his "progressivism" has effectively perfumed the air about him to the extent that it has completely removed the stink?"
"EVERY word of this article is true and trenchant."
"Lewis is absolutely correct in pointing out Obama's response to the massacre, which revealed what we all need to know about his CORE. A normal Commander In Chief would have summoned his INNER fortitude, his INNER outrage at such a heinous attack on his armed forces. NOT Obama. This IS because as good a chameleon as he is, he also cannot separate his real feelings of allegiance to ALL things Islam.
It took this heinous onslaught to place the kibosh on any tales being spun that Obama is a patriotic American. He is indeed twinning his inner demons-his fealty to Islam AND his absolute need for revenge on all things American- in all his policy making. He is indeed preparing-bit by bit-to enslave his subjects. What makes this all possible is that the Democratic leaders at this juncture in history are totally on board.
IF the country does not dissolve into a civil war I will be surprised. It is hardly impossible that more episodes such as these will not create a mega backlash. Tragic, but no less true. I weep for my country where everything once seemed possible, where I was able to raise a family to great success....that ship has sailed. "
Pelosi Bill: 45% Top Tax Rates Coming – November 8
If the House healthcare bill becomes law, small businesses and the wealthiest, most productive Americans can expect to pay massive new taxes.
The bill also includes hidden fees and “excise” taxes that will fall heavily on the elderly. Under the Pelosi bill, citizens reporting income over $500,000 and married couples earning more than $1 million would be slapped with a 5.4% surtax on all income above those thresholds.
Misconceptions That Mar Medical Care 11/06/2009 06:19 PM ET - A number of confusions plague discussions of the economics of medical care. A confusion between prices and costs has allowed politicians in various countries to be able to claim to be able to bring down the cost of health care, when in fact they only bring down the individual patient's ... More »
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Obama’s Silence on China – by Matt Gurney
President Obama this week embarked on his first trip to China, but so far he has little to show for his visit. Wrapping up a three-day stay in the Asian powerhouse, the president secured impressive photo ops, spouted lofty rhetoric, and made vague statements about future plans. Yet he has done absolutely nothing to defend American interests or to stand up for the Chinese people who continue to suffer under communist tyranny.....
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