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Vote “NO!” on Obama’s Solicitor General Nominee - This is "very important", if you love America, support, and believe in our US Military! - oyh
http://yaf.org/blog/?p=402
FROM THE DESK OF FLAGG YOUNGBLOOD
Director of Military Outreach, Young America’s Foundation
Please call your U.S. Senators TODAY and urge them to vote “NO” on President Obama’s Solicitor General nominee, Harvard Law School Dean Elena Kagan.
Find Your Senators: click here
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC
While Obama believes students should have voluntary military service options on campus, Kagan fought all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to deny qualified students the opportunity to serve our country. In fact:
• Kagan considers the Solomon amendment, the law Congress passed and Bill Clinton signed to protect ROTC and military recruiters on campus, “a moral injustice of the first order.”
• Kagan characterizes our voluntary military’s recruiting policy as “deeply wrong” and “unwise.”
Even liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg disagrees with Kagan’s radical views on students’ military rights!
Call Your Senators: click here
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC
Get this—Kagan’s never argued a single case in any courtroom! That’s right—Obama wants someone with zero practical experience to defend all our laws before the Supreme Court!
Would you fly on a plane with an untrained pilot? Or, let an unskilled surgeon operate on you?
And, Kagan’s on Obama’s “short list” to fill the next vacancy on the Supreme Court.
PLEASE CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY!
Call the U.S. Capitol switchboard at (202) 225-3121 or (202) 224-3121 and ask for your Senators.
Or, call your Senators’ offices directly by viewing their contact info here.
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC
"Daily Motivations"
Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people. -- John D. Rockefeller
"Daily Devotions" (NASB and/or NLT)
Begin a Study of Deuteronomy These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel... in the wilderness (Deut. 1:1). To trust when faced with giants and walls does not come naturally.
"If we confess our sins to Him, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all wickedness." (1 John 1:9)
"The Patriot Post"
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." -- The Declaration of Independence
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot lift the wage-earner by pulling down the wage-payer. You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves." -- Presbyterian minister William J.H. Boetcker (1873-1962)
"Government has only two ways of getting money other than raising taxes. It can go into the money market and borrow, competing with its own citizens and driving up interest rates, which it has done, or it can print money, and it's done that. Both methods are inflationary." -- Ronald Reagan
"[N]ot all jobs are created equal. Valuable jobs provide products and services the free market supports; useless jobs provide products and services the free market would not support. Valuable jobs provide products and services that enrich quality of life, making it cheaper to live better; useless jobs provide products and services that have minor impact on quality of life. Here's the magic of private sector jobs. Imagine Bill owns a fruit stand. He sells his fruit for $2 per pound. Herman sees that Bill is doing well, and decides to open a fruit stand of his own. He figures he can undercut Bill and live on less of a profit margin, so he sells his fruit at $1 per pound. Pretty soon, Herman runs Bill out of business. It's tough for Bill. But meanwhile, customers are spending $1 less for their fruit than they were. They're spending that extra money at Bob's clothing store, keeping Bob employed -- and Bob can now hire Bill. The bottom line is this: The power of free enterprise creates competition that raises production, lowers prices, and makes lives better for consumers and producers. And that's true even if employment declines in the fruit stand business." -- columnist Ben Shapiro
"The Web"
Obama Intel Appointment Angers Israel Supporters
President Barack Obama's administration has sparked controversy with its choice for chairman of the National Intelligence Council — a former ambassador to Saudi Arabia who has staunchly supported anti-Israel views.
In his new post, Charles W. Freeman — who was ambassador from 1989 to 1992 and served during Operation Desert Storm — will be responsible for overseeing the production of National Intelligence Estimates and other intelligence data.
The Power Line blog observed that “Saudi shill” Freeman’s “loyalty to Saudi Arabia and his outside-the-mainstream views on the Middle East make him a strange choice for the post, to say the least.”
For the past 12 years, Freeman has been president of the Middle East Policy Council (MEPC), which has received funding from Saudi Arabia and lobbies on behalf of the Arab world.
Views expressed in the organization’s journal, "Middle East Policy," argue that the invasion of Iraq was launched to aid Israel, saying that “the war was an excuse to enlarge the U.S. strategic ‘footprint’ on top of the lakes of oil in the Gulf region and make life easier for Israel, starting with the easiest problem case, Iraq.”
The MEPC published what it called an “unabridged” version of “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by professors John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. That controversial 2006 essay asserted that American Jews have a “stranglehold” on the U.S. Congress which they exploit to tilt America toward Israel at the expense of broader national interests.
In a 2007 address, Freeman stated that “Israel no longer even pretends to seek peace with the Palestinians” and decried “the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by an Israeli occupation,” The Wall Street Journal reported.
The MEPC’s political action group publishes a book that teaches children that Muslims discovered the New World. It cites two sources that claim Muslims reached the Western Hemisphere in pre-Columbian times and spread throughout the Americas.
When explorers reached the New World, according to the sources, they met “Iroquois and Algonquin chiefs with names like Abdul-Rahim and Abdallah Ibn Malik.”
Freeman maintained business ties to the bin Laden family and their Saudi Binladen Group construction conglomerate even after the 9/11 attacks. He said in an interview with The Associated Press less than a month after Sept. 11 that he was still “discussing proposals with the Binladen Group — and that won’t change.”
Regarding the terrorist attacks, Freeman said at a 2002 conference that Osama bin Laden “almost certainly” perpetrated 9/11, the hijackers “probably” were recruited in Saudi Arabia, and Americans should ponder “what might have caused the attack.”
Freeman has also created concern over his views on China, saying in 2006 that the specter of a Chinese threat to the U.S. is nothing more than “a great fundraiser for the hyper-expensive advanced weaponry our military-industrial complex prefers to make.”
Freeman also opined that the Chinese government exercised “overly cautious behavior” regarding the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests that led to a massacre of demonstrators.
Freeman was on the international advisory board of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation, which is owned by the Chinese government, while it was doing business with Iran, according to the Weekly Standard.
In 2006, the Chinese firm reportedly agreed to a multibillion-dollar deal with the state-owned Iranian oil company that may violate U.S. sanctions against the Islamic Republic.
Members of the pro-Israeli community have privately criticized Freeman’s appointment, according to The Washington Times.
“Freeman is well-known for his hostility toward Israel, but what's more substantively troubling . . .. is the obvious inappropriateness of hiring a well-known advocate for the interests of Middle Eastern autocracies to produce national intelligence estimates for the Obama Administration,” Jeffrey Goldberg wrote in The Atlantic.
And House Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia said: “Freeman’s past associations and positions on foreign policy are deeply alarming. His statements about the U.S.-Israel relationship raise serious questions about his ability to support the administration’s attempts to bring security, stability, and peace to the Middle East.”
Stand Up for Capitalism!
Don’t let the U.S. bear the prefix “once-great.”
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDIwZDU2NWEzZmE0MjA3ZGJjODVjNjlmNjA2MmE4MzE=
By Mona Charen
I find myself tuning into CNBC these days. This is unusual for me, as business news bores me. I’m one of those whose eyes glaze at the mention of credit/default swaps, futures trading, and derivatives markets. But now, with the Obama/Pelosi/Reid troika attempting to remake our nation, I will submit to chatter about all of those things as long as I am treated to some full-throated defenses of capitalism.
If ever there were a time when our market economy deserves a little coddling and a soft pillow under its head, it is now. Battered by a financial meltdown, a plunging stock market, declining trade, and frightened consumers, now would be the time to cut corporate tax rates (which are among the highest in the world), reverse the “mark to market” rule for valuing assets, temporarily increase unemployment compensation and Medicaid (with sunset provisions), and keep taxes low. When Barack Obama agreed last autumn that it was not a good idea to raise taxes during a recession, it seemed that he was at least enough of a moderate to understand the importance of markets. One can no longer indulge that hope. Like blasts from a machine gun, Obama has announced higher taxes on the owners of small businesses (the most productive individuals), higher taxes on the energy industry (through the cap-and-trade system), green mandates on the auto industry that will increase the cost of each vehicle, a bailout of mortgagers that will increase the cost of mortgages down the road, increased unionization (which reduces jobs), a repeal of the successful welfare reform of the 1990s, and a rhetorical assault on Wall Street that leaves investors edgy.
The Democrats scoff when you use the “s” word (socialism). It’s a bogeyman, they argue. Not so. If by socialism, you refer to the sort of government-heavy economies that characterize most of Europe, then we are clearly headed there about as fast as Flight 1549 was headed for the Hudson River.
By the sheer size of the budget they are pushing, Obama/Pelosi/Reid are increasing the share of the American economy that will be controlled by the government. Government spending accounts for more than 50 percent of the economies of France and Sweden and more than 45 percent of the GDPs of Germany and Italy. As recently as 2006, the federal government’s share of America’s GDP was 21 percent (with another 11 percent for state and local governments). Now it is approaching 40 percent and likely to grow significantly beyond that if Obama and Co. have their way on health care reform, universal pre-K to college education, and other programs.
We are rapidly narrowing the gap with Europe. This represents policy nirvana for the Democrats. They adore the sclerotic, slow-growing, cradle-to-grave security of the European Union. But do most Americans really want to go there? We will emerge from this downturn. But if the Democrats succeed in using it as an excuse to impose a huge new welfare state, we will not emerge as the same country.
Per capita economic output has been much higher in the United States than in the European Union. Our growth rates have been consistently higher since the Second World War. Until this recession began, America’s unemployment rate was half of Europe’s, and our unemployed spent less time jobless than did Europe’s. European industry has certainly contributed to world prosperity, but cannot match the United States for innovation, dynamism, freedom, or wealth creation. And the Europeans are failing the most basic test of vitality — they are demographically disappearing. That’s one reason why the term “once-great” applies to places like Great Britain and France.
Yes, there’s a recession on and it’s deep. Capitalism is not perfect (though one harbors the suspicion that if government had not, in effect, subsidized risky mortgage lending we would not be in this position). But with all its defects, capitalism remains the greatest engine of prosperity the world has ever witnessed. Just in the last 25 years, hundreds of millions of people, principally residing in China and India, who had been close to destitution and starvation are driving cars, sipping lattes, and chatting on cell phones thanks to free-market reforms. Countries with few natural resources other than the brains of their people — like Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Japan — have become economic powerhouses by permitting the free market to work its magic.
Here at home, the U.S. has been able to dramatically improve standards of living not just for the wealthy (they do fine in every country) but for ordinary people. Hard work has been rewarded, not punished. And the free market has given us everything from computers and iPods to Prilosec and the Mayo Clinic.
It didn’t seem possible six months ago that capitalism in the United States could be in danger. If Obama/Pelosi/Reid have their way, the U.S. too will bear the prefix “once-great.”
Obama’s Economic Advisory Board Packed with Donors - Can we believe anything Obama espouses on values? - oyh
President Barack Obama’s newly appointed Economic Recovery Advisory Board includes members who could likely have benefited from economic advice themselves.
One is Penny Pritzker, founder of Pritzker Realty Group, whose Chicago-area bank was shut down after it invested heavily in subprime mortgage loans. The Office of Thrift Supervision closed Superior Bank and its 18 branch offices in July 2001 after the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said its financial situation had “rapidly deteriorated.”
A sharp rise in defaults by borrowers with subprime mortgages is blamed in large part for the recent economic meltdown.
Another member of Obama’s board is Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of General Electric Co., whose shares recently fell to an 18-year low amid anxiety over a possible downgrade for the firm’s credit worthiness.
But most troubling perhaps is the fact that 11 of the board’s members donated or raised significant amounts of money for Obama and Democrats in the last election, The Washington Times reported exclusively on Thursday.
Obama described members of the Economic Recovery Advisory Board as “distinguished citizens outside the government” who would “bring a diverse set of perspectives and voices from different parts of the country and different sectors of the economy to bear in the formulation and evaluation of economic policy.”
But Craig Holman, legislative director for Public Citizen, a nonpartisan watchdog group, told the Times: “It is distressing to see the president turning to his heavy finance hitters as consultants.”
Board member Mark Gallogly, director of Dana Holding Corp., bundled $200,000 in donations for Obama, and Pritzker — with an estimated worth of $2 billion — raised $200,000.
Member Robert Wolf, president and chief operating officer of the American arm of UBS Investment Bank, raised $500,000 for Obama. The Swiss-based bank is now at the center of a tax evasion investigation by the Justice Department and the Internal Revenue Service.
A Senate committee is seeking to force the bank to release its list of American clients suspected of using offshore accounts to avoid U.S. taxes.
Eleven of the board’s 16 members personally donated a total of $262,698 to Obama and other Democrats during the 2008 election campaign, according to the Times. The AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union,
which are both represented on the board, accounted for $3.6 million in donations.
The AFL-CIO’s representative, the organization’s secretary-treasurer, Richard Trumka, was involved in a Clinton-era federal probe into a money-laundering scheme.
According to court documents, Trumka helped divert $150,000 in union funds to Teamsters President Ron Carey’s 1996 re-election campaign through a liberal consumer-advocacy group.
Trumka invoked his Fifth Amendment rights and refused to testify before a federal grand jury and a House subcommittee.
Obama’s advisory board is headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, and his staff director is economist Austan Goolsbee — who in March 2007 wrote a New York Times article defending subprime mortgages.
"The e-mail Bag"
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