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Friday, January 27th, 2012
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a United States federal holiday marking the birthday of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, which is around the time of King’s birthday, January 15.    The floating holiday is similar to holidays set under the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, though the act predated the establishment of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by 15 years.

King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law.    The campaign for a federal holiday in King’s honor began soon after his assassination in 1968.   Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed on January 20, 1986.     At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays.    It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.

Monday, January 16, 8:00 – 10:00 AMThe annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday Breakfast will take place at
the Holiday Inn Downtown, 601 Main Street, in the Lynchburg Ballroom.

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Blacks Petition UN To Censure Obama and Democratic Party for Racism

Saturday, December 17th, 2011

 

BLACKS PETITION UN TO CENSURE OBAMA AND DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR RACISM

By Frances Rice

The NAACP, acting on behalf of President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party, launched an attack on Republicans with a false charge of racism because some states are trying to end voter fraud by requiring all voters to present identification when appearing at the polls to vote.  The NAACP did their grandstanding in front of the United Nations on December 10th, the day the UN declared to be “International Human Rights Day”.  The NAACP also announced that in January 2012, they will present a petition to the UN, claiming that Republicans want to “take away the right to vote” from “the elderly and working families of all colors.”   

Notably, the NAACP has voiced no objection over identification required to do business in a bank, board an airplane, get medicine from a pharmacy, use a credit card in retail stores, drive a car and a host of other things.  Even more telling, the NAACP is not targeting labor unions, major donors of the Democratic Party, even though unions require their own members to produce a photo ID in order to vote in union elections.  To see an article with more details about unions, click here.  

With aplomb the NAACP ignores who actually denied blacks the right to vote—the Democratic Party, the party that instituted those Jim Crow laws and poll taxes.  No concern is shown by the NAACP about voter fraud by Democratic Party operatives, such as ACORN that was prosecuted in several states.  There was nothing but silence from the NAACP when, on December 12th, two days after the NAACP’s stunt at the UN, the head of the Indiana Democratic Party, Dan Parker, resigned as St. Joseph County Prosecutor  Mike Dvorak  launched an investigation into allegations of election fraud that stemmed from the 2008 Democratic presidential primary.  According to reports, numerous signatures on petitions that placed then-candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton on the party’s primary ballot were allegedly forged and then certified by the St. Joseph County Voter Registration Office in South Bend.  Details about this investigation can be found by clicking here.  

In reaction to the efforts by the NAACP to smear Republicans as racist, the National Black Republican Association sent a petition to the United Nations, seeking a censure resolution against President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party for that party’s gross violations of human rights in contravention of the Charter of the United Nations and the United Nations’ International Convention on Civil and Political Rights.  That petition is shown below.  

It is time for the Democratic Party to be held accountable for their reprehensible election year strategy designed to keep blacks poor, angry and voting for Democrats.  

Frances Rice is a lawyer, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and chairman of the National Black Republican Association.  She may be contacted on the Internet at:  www.NBRA.info

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Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations
1st Ave & E 44th Street
New York, NY 10017

Dear Secretary K-moon:

We, African American citizens of the United States,

Considering the obligation of States under the Charter of the United Nations to promote universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and freedoms,

Recognizing the principles proclaimed in the Charter of the United Nations and the United Nations’ International Convention on Civil and Political Rights that States must create conditions whereby everyone may enjoy his civil and political rights, as well as his economic, social and cultural rights,

Herewith petition the United Nations to take the necessary measures to issue a censure resolution against the United States’ Democratic Party and the head of that party, President Barack Obama, for the gross violations of human rights committed against African American citizens of the United States by the Democratic Party (with charges one and two happening today and charges three through 25 happening in prior years), to wit:

Democrats:

1.    Use what President Barack Obama described in his book “Dreams From My Father” as “plantation politics” to keep African Americans improvised and living in dilapidated communities with over 17% unemployment
2.    Keep poor African American children trapped in failing urban public schools
3.    Beat African Americans to death, cut them into pieces and burned them alive
4.    Burned down African Americans communities
5.    Bombed African Americans churches
6.    Lynched over two thousand African Americans
7.    Proudly endorsed the institution of slavery to enslave millions of African Americans
8.    Called Republicans “Nigger Lovers” for fighting for civil rights for African Americans
9.    Called the original Republican Party “Black Republicans”
10.    Killed African Americans outside the voting booth for voting for Republicans
11.    Killed white teachers who taught African Americans students
12.    Burned down African Americans schools
13.    Proudly called themselves “the Party of White Supremacy"
14.    Stacked the United States Supreme Court with pro-slavery and racist  judges
15.    Sponsored racist legislation from Jim Crow Laws to Black Codes and Fugitive Slave Laws
16.    Supported Judge John Ferguson in the case of “Plessy v Ferguson” & opposed the case of “Brown v. Board of Education”
17.    Praised the Dred Scott Decision that classified African Americans as “property”
18.    Fought against the integration of public schools
19.    Forced African Americans to sit in the back of buses and restaurants and in the balcony of movie theatres
20.    Killed little African Americans girls in their Sunday school classes
21.    Hanged African Americans by the neck until dead without a trial
22.    Formed terrorist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan to lynch and terrorize African Americans
23.    Denied employment to African Americans
24.    Refused service to African Americans in restaurants and other public facilities, such as parks and swimming pools
25.    Made reprehensible racist statements, including the following by President Lyndon Johnson:  “These Negroes, they’re getting pretty uppity these days and that’s a problem for us since they got something now that they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we got to do something about this, we’ve got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down and not enough to make a difference. For if we don’t move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there’ll be no way to stopping them, we will lose the filibuster and there’ll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It’ll be Reconstruction all over again….”

Historical references can be found in the book “Whites, Blacks and Racist Democrats” by Wayne Perryman and the NBRA Civil Rights Newsletter, copies of which are included with this petition.  This petition is submitted on behalf of African American citizens of the United States by Frances P. Rice, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Retired) and Chairman, National Black Republican Association.

Signature: ________________________________                Date: December 13, 2011

Copy Provided To: The Human Rights Council

 

BLACK REPUBLICAN: National Black Republican Association E-News

Darcy Richardson Qualifies for Missouri Democratic Primary

Friday, November 25th, 2011

The following is an e-mail sent to IPR by Darcy Richardson*:

FWIW, I qualified for the February 7th Democratic presidential primary in
Missouri yesterday. An “illegal immigrant” — I detest that term — from Iowa
traveled to Jefferson City to pick up my receipt for the qualifying fee from
the Democratic State Committee’s headquarters and delivered it to the
Secretary of State’s office! How cool is that?

By the way, it looks like anti-abortion activist Randall Terry also filed
for the primary.

Hope all is well.

With best wishes,

Darcy

*Because of Darcy’s past association with IPR and because of his status as one of the premier chroniclers of third party history, there is general agreement among IPR writers that we should cover Darcy’s primary challenge of Obama. I would like to do so in the future without always having to use this disclaimer. Speak now or forever hold your peace.

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Democratic Party News – Increased Intelligence Spending While President Obama Punishes Whistleblowers Who Report Waste.

Friday, September 9th, 2011

Jane Mayer’s recent New Yorker piece on the criminal prosecution of National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Thomas Drake reveals a sliver of the intelligence industrial complex costing Americans’ their money and their freedom.

Drake blew the whistle on the NSA wasting billions and sacrificing Americans’ privacy on what The New Yorker describes as a “.2 billion flop.” The program, Trailblazer, though intended to collect and analyze massive amounts of data, was a funding vehicle with “nothing to show for [itself] other than mounting bills.” NSA management rebuffed and retaliated against Drake and other public servants who pointed to a cheaper, ready-to-deploy program that contained privacy protections for Americans.

Trailblazer’s failure is a prime example of the endemic revolving-door intelligence spending policy that wastes taxpayer dollars by the billions. Mayer’s article describes the problem:

As the Trailblazer system stalled at the level of schematic drawings, top executives kept shuttling between jobs at the agency and jobs with the high-paying contractors. For a time, both [former NSA Director] Hayden’s deputy director and his chief of signals-intelligence programs worked at SAIC, a company that won several hundred million dollars in Trailblazer contracts.

The billions wasted on Trailblazer are a fraction of massively bloated intelligence budget – of which NSA makes up a third. The Washington Post’s Top Secret America profiled how, post-9/11, the intelligence industrial complex exploded, growing into something that cost American taxpayers .1 billion dollars in the Fiscal Year 2010. The details of where that money went are still classified, save to say .1 billion was the National Intelligence Program, which includes most intelligence agencies, and billion was for the Military Intelligence Program. We also know it’s more than double what was spent in 2001, which is no surprise considering the statistics the Post revealed last year:

1,271 government organizations
1,931 private companies working on counter-terrorism, homeland security and intelligence at about 10,000 locations across the U.S.;
since 9/11, 33 new building complexes built or under construction – that’s 17 million square feet of space;
50,000 intelligence reports a year, many of which are routinely ignored;
and over 850,000 people with top-secret security clearances.

Despite the staggering numbers, the request for Fiscal Year 2012 – made public for the first time in history in February – is even greater: billion for the National Intelligence Program.

However, even with tens of billions of their dollars at stake, the American people are still largely in the dark about how their money is spent, with a few exceptions thanks to whistleblowers who couldn’t stand to see Americans’ privacy and security sacrificed for money.

The Department of Defense Inspector General Report substantiating Drake’s concerns about massive NSA waste and illegality is still secret.

The total amount being spent on Intelligence this fiscal year is still secret.

The details of the FY 2012 appropriations request are secret because the Office of the Director of National Intelligence claims disclosing the details “could harm national security.” (By the way, that’s the same argument former CIA director George Tenet employed to keep secret even the total budget request number, a number that, as Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists highlighted, the current Director of National Intelligence released.)

When the first total intelligence spending number was released for FY 2010, after a decades-long battle led by transparency advocates, Congressional Leaders committed to reducing overspending. Then-Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) assured taxpayers that:

I intend to identify and remove any waste and unnecessary duplication in the intelligence budget and to reduce funding for lower-priority activities . . . it is clear that the overall spending on intelligence has blossomed to an unacceptable level in the past decade.

Yet, Feinstein sat on the Intelligence Committee during the Trailblazer debacle, when the total intelligence budget numbers were still secret. Meanwhile, the whistleblower who helped expose Trailblazer for the money pit that was has been charged with violating the Espionage Act and is set to stand trial on June 13th.

Taxpayers are funding the retaliatory prosecution.

Written by Kathleen McClellan.

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Democratic Party News – The Left’s Sexual Abuse Of Children.

Monday, August 29th, 2011

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Years ago there was an incendiary article in our local free newspaper. It was called, Berkeley’s Dirty Little Secret.

The article exposed an unseemly aspect of the 60’s, one that isn’t touted in the flattering history books. The dirty little secret was the widespread sexual abuse of children.

While parents were ingesting copious amounts of drugs, while they were off picketing and protesting, there was no one to look after the children. With communal living, the newest roommate took advantage of all that freedom by preying on the little ones. And with the nuclear family an oppressive relic of the past, sketchy lovers and others had easy access to the kids.

With the 60’s over, have the progressives given up their corruption of the innocent? No; they are just sneakier about it. They camouflage abuse with lofty concepts, such as “diversity ” and “social justice.”

The left is a shapeshifter movement; like a chameleon, the radicals change their appearance to adapt to the times. The left has morphed into many different life forms since its roots in Marx.

In the 60‘s, the progressives were in-your-face revolutionaries. They were the Black Panthers carrying machine guns and donning military fatigues; they were the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Weather Underground and their bloody trail of destruction.

When the radicals grew up, many of them infiltrated the universities, schools, media, and government. Even the churches and the synagogues have not been immune. In fact, the leftists have wormed their way into every aspect of society.

Now the Bill Ayers and the Van Joneses of the world masquerade as men of impeccable character. Ayers, domestic terrorist and mad bomber, has metamorphosed into Dr. Ayers, tenured Professor in Education.

Ayers was smart enough to know what every totalitarian regime understands: to control the populace, focus on the children. This is why the SS mandated that children over 10 must join the Hitler Youth.

Rather than directly recruit children as foot soldiers, the left does something more insidious: the left poisons children’s minds through, for instance, the garbage in the media. But while kids can turn off the boob tube, there’s nothing that they or their parents can do when the public schools turn into instruments of corruption. Exhibit A: “sex education.”

In today’s public schools, kids are inundated with sexual material. We’re not talking sex education here, but sex saturation.  

The debasement of children’s minds through sex education was concocted about a hundred years ago by Germany’s Frankfurt School. The socialists launched a cultural revolution to corrupt the West so badly that it would “stink,” in their words. Some of their methods would be destroying the family, stripping parents of power, and forcing sex education into the schools.

Sex education has mutated from, in my day, animated films of sperms swimming toward eggs to an outright violation of children’s innocence. Nine-year-olds learn to put condoms on bananas; middle school children squirm at talks about sex change operations. By high school, free condoms are in plentiful supply.

The federal government and progressive states, such as California, are big cheerleaders for children becoming sexual junkies. The One-World loving UN has chimed in with proclamations declaring children’s “right” to masturbation. And the deluded dupes running today’s public schools follow in lockstep.

The sexual immersion in today’s public schools doesn’t just stimulate kids to experiment with the opposite sex; it cajoles them to consider a gay or bi or polyamorous lifestyle. 

Being gay appears more and more appealing as schools hold assemblies where gay teachers and teens offer guidance and support. And all of those special services and attention cast a magnetic spell on some children hungry for a sense of identity and belonging.

There’s actually a word for what schools are doing; it’s a form of recruitment called “queering.” This term became widely known after Obama appointed Kevin Jennings as his School Czar. Jennings became notorious in Massachusetts for his “queering” of teens through instructing them on hard-core practices such as fisting and water sports.

But the news gets worse. The latest craze (and I do mean craze) is teaching “gender diversity” to children as young as five. Gender diversity means that since gender is socially constructed, children are free to change their gender whenever the spirit moves them.

Close to home, an Oakland public elementary school recently held a two-day training on gender diversity. Kindergarten through first grade kids explored the question, “Boy, girl or both?” while perusing the picture book, “My Princess Boy.” 

Second and third graders were informed that gender diversity was natural; that it appears throughout nature and in the animal kingdom. The fourth and fifth graders were treated to the song, “All I want to be is me,” while being told that they “can be a boy, a girl, both or neither.” And lest you think this type of brainwashing only happens in Berkeley and Oakland, there are national organizations working hard to bring this to a classroom near you. 

The progressives, of course, don’t publicize such training as queering or gender bending. In classic doublespeak, they cloak the programs in noble terms, such as “safety training,” and “anti-bullying.” (Thus, Kevin Jennings’ position in the Obama Administration has been carefully crafted as “The Assistant Deputy Secretary in the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.”)

But while the training is supposedly about safety, the issues quickly become focused on sexual minorities. There’s no help for the Christian child bullied for his beliefs, or the abstinent teen teased mercilessly for waiting until marriage.

Somehow the safety issues always return to the gay, bi, or trans youth. Perhaps this is a way to control and intimidate the sexual majority; certainly, it forces more sex talk into the curriculum.

Regardless of how the left spins it, children being forced to listen to one uncomfortable, repellant sex talk after another, is not safety. It’s also not education. It’s actually a state-sanctioned form of child abuse.

This is another of the left’s dirty little secrets: the ease in which they will use and abuse children for their radical agenda. Back in the 60‘s, the secret was the molestation of kids in places like Berkeley. Today, it’s the widespread exploitation of children in the public schools.

Sexual misconduct isn’t just creepy Uncle Henry touching and exhibiting. Abuse exists on a continuum from exposing a child to inappropriate sexual materials and asking sexually intrusive questions, all the way to incest and rape.

Notice the disturbing parallels between the creepy uncle and today’s schools. Uncle Henry may force a child to look at pornography; how is this any different in a child’s mind than the child being required to sit through sexual talks and films, beginning in elementary schools?

The demented relative will tutor the child that sex is pleasurable; that he’s doing this for her own good. Note the similarity to teachers advising kids that it’s okay, even desirable, to have sex with whomever; that kids, in fact, have a “right” to it.

Abuse often happens in secret, with the predator twisting and contorting his true intent. Notice the parallel to teachers introducing shocking and confusing sexual information to children, unbeknownst to parents.

Of course, the left has worked overtime to make sure parents are left out of the picture. Liberal courts have determined that parents don’t need to be notified or consenting for sex talk. In schools today, parents have little or no say in what their children are exposed to. 

Teachers force-feeding kids a steady diet of sexual information confuses and corrupts them. At least when it comes to the creepy uncle, most kids know, on some level, that what the relative is doing is wrong. 

But teachers are in positions of authority; they are guardians of the public trust. Schools violate this trust and abuse their power by using it to brainwash kids. And this is how brainwashing works: forcing a person to remain in a disturbing situation where propaganda is repeated over and over again, until finally the victim becomes desensitized and compliant.

By focusing on the youth, the left creates the perfect victim. Sexually abused children may lose their ability to say no – or even to recognize when it’s appropriate to say no. Exposing them to sex at an early age plants permanent images in their brains, ones that stimulate them to become hooked on thrills, sexual and otherwise.

The sexualization of school children isn’t simply a difference of opinion between the right and the left. It’s a difference between right and wrong.

Teaching school children to become hooked on pleasure; coaxing them to try sexual practices that may sicken, even kill them; giving them license to change their genders. . . Is there a person in their right mind who can’t see that this isn’t just inappropriate; it is downright evil? 

Those in charge of the sexualization of children are our postmodern Frankensteins; they have engineered mad plans to steal the bodies and souls of our children.

Why? For so many reasons: cultural Marxism; social control; desensitization. . . maybe even because the same was done to them when they were too young to object; maybe, shorn of strong arms to guard and guide them, they were victims of abuse and neglect in those communes and broken families so long ago.

And this is the final legacy of the abused child: that he can use his pain to help others. He can become a beacon of light to people in darkness.

Or he can do the opposite: he can become darkness itself; he can grow up to be a monster. And in today’s progressive classroom, under the pretense of justice and fairness, he can do monstrous things to others.

Written by Robin of Berkeley.

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Democratic Party News – America’s Ten Most Dangerous Cities and their Mayors.

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

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Here are America’s Ten Most Dangerous Cities and their Mayors:

1. Flint, Michigan
Dayne Walling, Democrat, term 2007- present.

2. Detroit, Michigan
Dave Bing, Democrat, term 2009 – present.

3. Saint Louis, Mo.
Francis G. Slay, Democrat, term 2001 – present.

4. New Haven, Ct.
John DeStefano, Democrat, term 1994- present.

5. Memphis, TN.
AC Wharton, Democrat, term 2009 – present.

6. Oakland, CA.
Jean Quan, Democrat term 2011- present.

7. Little Rock, Ark.
Mark Stodola, Democrat, term 2007 – present.

8. Baltimore, Md.
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Democrat,  term  2010 – present.

9. Rockford, Illinois
Lawrence Morrisey, Independent term 2005 – present.

10. Stockton, CA.
Ann Johnston, Democrat, term 2009 – present.

Anyone see a patteren here?

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Democratic Party News – The Obama Administration’s No New Energy Policy.

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

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The Memorial Day weekend traditionally marks the beginning of the summer driving season but this year Americans are looking at the prices at the pump and reconsidering the cost of a vacation via the great American highway. Four dollar a gallon gasoline has folks tightening their belts rather than loosening their collars and relaxing for a week or two this summer. There are numerous forces affecting the price of gas, including monetary policy and the war on terror premium, but the principal economic force driving these prices is future supply concerns and growing demand around the globe.

Even before the BP blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, in April of last year, the Obama administration embarked on a policy to reduce domestic oil production. In point of fact, President Obama signed an executive order banning drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska, fully one month before the BP disaster. Additionally, in the wake of the poorly handled BP disaster, the President signed a drilling ban in the Gulf to “assess” the safety of deep water drilling. Subsequently, that ban was lifted but the number of permits issued since the ban ended is less than a dozen due to the bureaucratic backlog, which is moving at less than half fast speed. 

The loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs along the Gulf Coast is not the only result of this “permitorium.” The shut down of the offshore drilling industry means that future domestic oil production will fall at a time when global demand (from China and India) is rising. The exciting advancements of technology, like the application of horizontal drilling and multi-stage hydraulic fracturing technology, to unleash our onshore American natural gas and crude oil simply can’t overcome a plan that cripples the fundamentals required by companies to put deals together to explore, drill, find, and produce oil and natural gas, too. When that happens, you get less of the supply to go around. It is a tried and true economic theorem that if you reduce the supply of a commodity, higher prices are the result. Once again, the American family pays the price.

Currently, 56% of the U.S. trade deficit is the result of oil imports. Two hundred billion dollars of American wealth is transferred overseas every year to countries that don’t like us very much. If current Obama Administration policies don’t change soon these numbers will only get bigger. Regardless of these numbers the Obama Administration only wants to hear about green energy.

Some activists have always dreamed of the day when the world is powered by green energy. The problem with this fantasy is that the technical challenges involved make this an impossible dream. If you include hydroelectric power, the total output of green energy is less than 3% of the total energy produced in the U.S. Wind power needs natural gas as a back up to be practical; and solar, while it sounds good, is only 20% efficient for the very best panels. The higher cost of these solar panels results in a cost per kilowatt-hour of more than twice the current value of a natural gas fired power plant. Energy security is only an empty pipe dream if you are banking on sources other than oil and natural gas to do the heavy lifting to fuel America for decades to come. Simply put, there is nothing coming down the pipe that can turn green energy into reality, unless one wants the American people to make sacrifices. 

Speaking of pipelines, for more than three years the U.S. State Department has tied up the building of an oil pipeline from Canada with bureaucratic lethargy. This pipeline would bring oil to the U.S. from a dependable ally that has not had any political turmoil for more than two hundred years.  Instead the administration would rather send billion to Brazil to assist them with their off shore drilling projects.

Recently, the President has been speaking out of both sides of his mouth when it comes to production of our energy resources. The message given is “let’s drill” while regulatory hurdles are placed in front of the drilling. From where or whom is this mentality derived?  Is it ignorance or arrogance? The Obama Administration doesn’t have the slightest understanding of oil and gas law, contracts, and the role of geology in the process. They don’t understand how deals are done, and it is hurting America.

The reality is that there is plenty of domestic hydrocarbon energy to be produced if only the government would get out of the way and let us go and get it. According to the government’s own estimates of the technically recoverable undiscovered petroleum resources of the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Alaska totals 68 billion barrels of oil and 342 trillion cubic feet of gas, or a combined total of 128 billion barrels of oil equivalent. This does not even include the large potential reserves of the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). Simply put, 128 billion barrels of potential oil is what the Obama administration is restraining the United States from developing. Failing to aggressively open up these resources for leasing, by moratorium or “permitorium,” the failure and delay in granting permits to drill is a total fiasco of government. Only a radical environmental ideologue could appreciate the logic of this policy that throws the energy security of our nation under the bus. 

The demand for oil is not going away just because some bureaucrats have the ill-conceived or ill-informed idea that all our energy needs can be met by green energy. The Energy Information Agency (EIA) places our daily petroleum consumption at almost 21 million barrels a day. By 2030, the EIA projects that the consumption will grow to 23 million barrels a day. If we were the only country using oil this would not be a problem but we aren’t.

Global demand for oil is growing as a result of the modernization efforts underway in India and China. China is now Saudi Arabia’s biggest customer. In fact China is laying down 600 miles of four-lane concrete highway every year and to populate that highway they are producing 14,000 new cars every day. The Department of Defense (DoD) began studying the growth of these emerging economies and late last year published it’s bi-annual report called the Joint Operating Environment (JOE). In that report it states the following:

A severe energy crunch is inevitable without a massive expansion of production and refining capacity. Energy production and distribution infrastructure must see significant new investment if energy demand is to be satisfied at a cost compatible with economic growth and prosperity.

Apparently no one in the Obama White House read that report. The fact of the matter is that we need to be encouraging the oil and natural gas industry to find new sources of domestic energy; it should be a national imperative. Other countries are getting into the energy producing game, thanks to shale oil and shale natural gas. We will eat their dust if we fail to provide the energy our economy needs. We can say adios to energy and economic security and global competitiveness for generations to come.

Written by Elizabeth Ames Jones.

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Democratic Party News – PATRIOT Act Is Not Legal?

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

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The House and the Senate have passed a four-year renewal of the PATRIOT Act:

“The bill approved Thursday renews three terrorism-fighting tools that authorize court-approved roving wiretaps, access to business and other records relevant to a terrorism investigation, and the monitoring of so-called “lone wolf” terror suspects.”

The bill was shepherded through the Senate by Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said:

“Although the PATRIOT Act is not a perfect law, it provides our intelligence and law enforcement communities with crucial tools to keep America safe and thwart terrorism.”

Gee! Isn’t it incredible that Democrats once thought that the “Nazi” Bush and his evil Goebbels, Dick Cheney, were “shredding the Constitution” and turning America into a “fascist state,” but now they regard the PATRIOT Act as a thoughtful, useful, necessary piece of legislation.  Reid even went so far as to accuse libertarian Rand Paul (R-KY) of “trying to protect terrorists” for his objections to provisions in the bill.

If you feel like Alice in Wonderland, wait — it gets even weirder still:

Because President Barack Obama is traveling in Europe, a White House official said the bill will quickly be signed into law using an autopen, a machine that replicates the president’s signature.”

Now, according to my reading of the Constitution, this is totally illegal. Article 1, Sec. 7 of the Constitution quite clearly states:

“Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to THE President of the United States: If HE approve HE shall sign it…” (emphasis mine).

There is absolutely no doubt that the Constitution requires the bill be presented to the person occupying the office of the presidency — not have his signature artificially put on the bill by machine.

Art. I, Sec. 7 also stipulates that if the bill is not signed or vetoed within ten days, it becomes law without the president’s signature. One could argue that if the fake signature is equivalent to no signature, the bill will become law anyway — but under that scenario the bill would remain invalid for ten days, thereby allowing the “crucial” provisions of the PATRIOT Act to lapse for a ten-day period. The purpose of the machine-signing is ostensibly to avoid the lapse.

This is yet one more example of the absolute contempt that Obama, the “former constitutional law professor” has for the actual Constitution. However, from my perspective lawyers defending clients charged with evidence collected under the PATRIOT Act have a good chance of challenging and excluding any evidence collected against their clients during the ten-day period without an actual presidential signature, when the law is, in fact, invalid.

Written by Michael Filozof.

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Democratic Party News – Barack Obama And The Game Of Politics.

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

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It’s isn’t that the self-named President Barack Obama is actively trying to force the USA into the latest Socialist State, it’s not that he appears to be giving all the advantages to the monstrous Muslim Brotherhood with American money.

Obama’s brought new wars to America and his biggest victory to date is that he controls a mainstream media that makes so many believe that what he is doing—and is going to do—to the USA is inevitable.

Where Obama is leading the USA is not inevitable. To borrow a line from admirable Lieutenant Colonel (US Army, retired) U.S. Representative from Florida’s 22nd Congressional District Allen West, there Obama is blowing smoke so much smoke up our collective wazoos.

Politics. That’s all Soetoro is playing when he’s not playing golf on anniversaries like yesterday’s Memorial Day.

To see the path clearly one has only to be the recipient of incessant Internet DNCC messages as CFP is. . . ”Just more” will help the Democrats slay the bedraggled, old, racist dinosaur called GOP. “Just ”  will defeat the Republicans who are owned by big oil — and if you send your sawbuck by midnight, you will get a signed picture of the Pocket Messiah.

While the mood is set by a mainstream media warning us that websites critical of Obama will soon and inevitably be shut down, Obama, by default, cuts us the odd break. His recent trip to an unsuspecting Britain Isles was a showcase that proved for once and all to the masses how useless and self-aggrandizing politicians like he and British Prime Minister David Cameron really are.

With cameras capturing the big moment, both “leaders” played ping pong with teenagers, proving that little boys may grow tall but they stay small in every other way.

The duo arrogantly sent word out to the masses that they were “kinda” like Reagan and Thatcher. There is no such thing as “kinda” when you can merely try to copy but never be the real thing.

It is true Obama didn’t seem to know the year when he signed 2008 beside his Barry Soetoro signature at Westminster Abbey, and true that he kept right on yapping when the orchestra struck up at the Buckingham Palace State Dinner

True, too that when she’s not pretending to care about the lovable, gene-impacted obese junior in your life that Michelle spends the majority of her time, thinking of what dress to wear.

But the truth is Barack and Michelle are doing no different than they have always done since gaining the White House, living dolce vita at everybody else’s expense.

Don’t get caught up in the hopeless scenario that there is no competition for Obama in 2012.  It’s early days yet.

The oft repeated rumour that Obama cannot be defeated is a legend being built on daily by astroturf; yet another falsehood masquerading as fact.

With ACORN and unions not being there to cheat, Mickey Mouse could be recruited from the childhood nursery, run as president and win.  Mickey at least comes with a provable pedigree and doesn’t chew gum at the funerals of tornado victims.

Don’t lose heart along the way to November 2012. Keep your powder dry and keep your eye on the big picture.

Don’t fall for the latest media scare tactic but stand your ground. 

For all of Barry Soetoro’s technicolor dreams, America is still the most cherished and most free nation on earth.  God is still in his Heaven and your family still comes first.

Obama will keep playing his game, but it’s a game of politics dependent on the belief that the destruction of America is inevitable.

It’s still the Game of Politics, the one that’s changed from being the art of compromise to what Obama and his handlers have made it: A Mug’s Game.

Written by Judi McLeod.

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Democratic Party News – Barack Obama Betrayed Black America.

Thursday, August 4th, 2011

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When Barack Obama was elected as the president of the United States, black liberals dreamily believed that the numerous maladies in the black community would cease to exist. They believed that his election was indicative of a vigorous wind of political and social change that was blowing across the country. Barack Obama himself vowed that his election would demarcate the conclusion of grisly “politics as usual” from the commencement of political and democratic freshness. However, as this administration continues on, it is abundantly clear that Obama has not only failed to deliver in a general sense, but he has also completely betrayed his most loyal constituency – the black community.

After passing a gargantuan stimulus plan that was supposed to fix the economy, the unemployment rate continued to rise – until it only recently began falling. Although we are currently at an 8.7 percent unemployment rate, the rate in the black community is at an unpardonably enormous 16.1 percent – the highest of any ethnic group in the country. It is also important to note that black unemployment was lower under Bush than it has been at any point during Obama’s administration. In point of fact, black unemployment was even lower under Bush than it was under Clinton.

More egregious than the high rate of black unemployment is the fact that Obama has been completely disconnected with the black community. He has failed to articulate any policy that would deal with the crisis that is evident in urban America.  Rather, Obama is much more focused on articulating and enacting policies about issues that are close to his heart, such as allowing gays to serve openly in the military, as well as becoming a potent mouthpiece for the immoral Arab scam to steal Israeli land and annihilate the Jewish people.

Any intellectually honest person in America must look at Obama’s demonstrable disregard for black issues and come to the unavoidable conclusion that black America is the very least of Obama’s concerns. So obvious is this fact that even some of Barack Obama’s most ardent supporters in the black intelligentsia have begun voicing strident denunciations of the president. The latest assault on Obama from his left-wing compatriot Cornel West is evidence of this phenomenon.

Although West’s critique of Obama was partly personal and laden with his characteristically asinine divisive racial rhetoric, there was some substance to his criticism to which left-wing Obama cheerleaders in the black community remain willfully blind. West accused Obama of being “a black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a black puppet of corporate plutocrats.”

While West foolishly assumes that support for black issues and being in favor of business are mutually exclusive, the unstated and basic premise in West’s critique is that Obama does not care enough about, and expresses no interest in, black people and black issues. As absurd as the rest of his intellectually messy ramblings are, West is right about that fundamental point.

Obama’s sycophants are used to writing off all criticism of the president coming from whites as racist, and they are equally used to describing all criticism from black conservatives as being the puerile rants of Uncle Toms obsequiously looking for approval from “the white man”; however, although Cornel West is one of the black left’s most revered academics, they would much rather write him off as entirely crazy than to admit that any criticism he has of Barack Obama contains even a scintilla of merit.

Big Government is the Problem, Not the Solution.

By arguing that Obama has betrayed the black community, I am not arguing that Obama needs to spend his time carving out black-specific governmental policies. Manifestly, the black-specific liberal policies that have been attempted in the past have done nothing more than stimulate a metastasizing of the very social cancers that they were designed to treat. My argument is, however, that Obama has failed to enact the economic policies that would provide the necessary environment for blacks to fend for themselves independent of government – despite the fact that he presented himself during his campaign as someone who was inimitably skilled and uniquely well-positioned to do so.

Without attempting to cater to blacks specifically, President Reagan managed to create economic prosperity throughout the entire country which, in point of fact, benefited blacks more than it did whites. The facts cannot be disputed: Reaganomics had a salubrious effect on the black community, whereas Obamanomics is having an unequivocally deleterious effect on black economics and the black community at large.

Obama Is Not The President of African Americans?

One of the talking points formulated by Obama’s apologists in the media is the notion that Obama is not the president of black America. They argue he is the president of the United States of America. This pathetically feeble argument exists for the sole purpose of deflecting legitimate criticism of Obama’s failure to meet the needs of the black community.

The fact of the matter is that Obama is the president of African Americans, just as he is the president of white Americans. It takes a shocking display of intellectual dishonesty to suddenly release Obama of any responsibility for black America, especially when previous presidents have always been held responsible for their treatment of the black community.

In 1998, the Nobel-Prize-winning writer Toni Morrison gave Bill Clinton the honorary moniker of “America’s first black president” because, according to her, he “displayed almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald’s-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas.”

Leaving aside the recognizably insulting view of what constitutes blackness in Morrison’s perverse mind, had white, southern Clinton possessed all these qualities while presiding over 16.1 percent unemployment, I am positive that this endearing nickname would never have been created – much less believed by black liberals for many years until the emergence of Obama.

By contrast, the left, with unutterable alacrity, vociferously argued that George W. Bush’s less-than-stellar handling of Hurricane Katrina was indicative of his incurable allergy toward black skin. Even largely apolitical rapper Kanye West took the time out to accuse Bush of not caring about blacks. The fact that Bush packed his administration with exceptionally well-qualified minorities was completely disregarded when the black left gave Bush his failing report card. One can only imagine the panic-stricken cries of racism that would have been heard for years if Bush had overseen 16.1 percent black unemployment.

It is nothing more than liberal hypocrisy to see the crisis evident in the black community under Obama’s watch and simply respond with the contemptible shibboleth stating, “Obama is not the president of black America; he’s the president of the United States of America” – especially when every other president in recent history has been critically judged on their treatment of the black community.

Can Republicans Argue Back?

If the Republican Party cannot effectively communicate to blacks the obvious fact that Obama has been working diligently on all the trivial left-wing issues close to his heart, yet has completely neglected to address the glaring emergency occurring in his “own” community, then the Republicans are destined to – and deserve to – lose the black vote in 2012.

The black community is looking for political change. Yes, Obama is black, but he has proven that his liberalism takes preeminence over his blackness. Liberalism cannot save black America. If Republicans cannot capitalize on this crisis in leadership that Obama has provided and offer a concrete alternative message to the black community as to why conservatism is the answer, it’s safe to say Republicans will never capture the black vote.

The opportunity to make powerful racial public policy arguments is now. Republicans pass up this pristine opportunity at their own political peril.

Written by Chidike Okeem.

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