Obama does have blood on his hands now doesn’t he!
President Obama’s war on police is getting cops executed in their squad cars, on the same day he is releasing terrorists from Guantanamo.
Saul Alinsky is no doubt smiling from beyond.
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The New York Police Union Responds – (Video) “The Mayor Has Blood On His Hands”…
The New York Mayor and the Governor along with the US AG and the President and his inner circle all have blood on their hands!
WOW – Video Shows Entire Room of New York Police Turning Their Back On Mayor De Blasio Before Press Conference…
Support the NYPD and your people they are getting a bad rap and they are our last line of defense against the forces of evil!
Shocking new US minority: children living in households without federal aid
Written by Allen West on December 18, 2014
I often read stories which claim the U.S. economy is on its way back. However, the Dow Jones is not a true indicator of what’s happening down on Main Street.
Wages for Americans are still depressed and our workforce participation rate remains at a catastrophic almost 36-year low. The ruse of printing money and artificially keeping interest rates low can’t hide the truth forever — we no longer have a free market/free enterprise economy. We are entering the era of a government-driven economy.
And there’s another disconcerting aspect of our economy — the expansion of the welfare nanny-state and the dependency society, which is becoming generationally entrenched.
As CNS News writes, “The Census Bureau reported in a study released this week that 65 percent of American children lived in households taking aid from one or more federal program as of the fall of 2011. “Almost two-thirds (65 percent) of children,” said the Census Bureau, “lived in households that participated in at least one or more of the following government aid programs: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), Medicaid, and the National School Lunch Program.”
Now, I could be happier if this statistic included kids attending college who were receiving some type of financial aid — but then again, how much debt will they accumulate in an economy where they’re struggling to find a good paying job?
My concern is that the “new normal” seems to be that the temporary safety net is becoming a permanent hammock for subsequent generations. What are we teaching kids who grow up in government housing on government assistance?
And trust me, I lived in the inner city and back in the day, we black kids who lived in single-family homes kinda considered ourselves on a different scale. We watched our parents — notice I said “parents” — head off to work and at the dinner table tell us about what happened at work, while we told them about what happened at school. I remember the pride that swelled in my chest when Mom and Dad purchased their new cars with cash (of course they were old school and bought Lincolns – which actually are cool again).
Now, imagine the impact that had on us as their sons, as well as our extended family who grew up around Buck and Snooks. I grew up in the time of “layaway.” Kids in the inner city today are growing up in the time of “EBT.”
But perhaps most disturbing is the rapid rise of this dependency. As CNS News reports, “In 2003, according to the Census Bureau, there were a total of 72,658,000 children 17 and under in the United States, and 40,337,000 of these children — or 56 percent — lived in households receiving aid from one of more of these programs. That included 30,023,000 children in the National School Lunch Program, 18,175,000 in households on Medicaid, 8,287,000 in households on food stamps, 4,808,000 in households on WIC, and by 2011, there were 74,294,000 children 17 and under and 47,939,000 of these children — or 65 percent — lived in households receiving aid from one or more of these programs. That included 34,959,000 in the National School Lunch Program; 26,350,000 in households on Medicaid; 17,321,000 in households on food stamps; 6,350,000 in households on WIC; and 2,279,000 in households on TANF.”
So what is the ensuing result –and consequence – of having a minority of children living in households that have never taken federal assistance? In the future, they will be among a minority of adults. We will have established a permanent American dependency society – as opposed to that which makes American exceptional, the opportunity society.
Next year will be the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s Great Society –the ramifications of which I address in my book Guardian of the Republic. I believe that if we do a hard analysis of the “War on Poverty” and this progressive socialist big government policy response, we’ll see it clearly as an abject failure and one of primary victims — the family.
The statistics show that as marriages dissolve, poverty rises.
CNS News says, “As recently as 1970, according to the Census Bureau, 85.2 percent of American children were living with two parents. Of the 74,294,000 children 17 and under in the United States in the fall of 2011, 50,442,000 — or 68 percent — were living with two parents. However, 3,760,000 of those children were living with two parents who were not married, leaving only 46,682,000 children — or 63 percent — living with two married parents.
“The economic status of children living with cohabitating parents more closely resembled single-parent families,” the study said. After children living with a single parent, they were the most likely to be in poverty. Among children living with one parent, 40.9 percent were in poverty. Among children living with two unmarried parents, 37.3 percent were in poverty. And among children living with a guardian (including a grandparent or another relative), 29.8 percent were in poverty. But among children living with two married parents, only 14.0 percent were in poverty.”
The real conversation needed in America — the one Al Sharpton and the progressive left don’t want to have — heck, they don’t want you to know about — is the cultural issue of the breakdown of the American family, particularly the black American family.
And when I talk about the American family, I mean the traditional family of one man, a dad, and one woman, a mom, not Spouse 1 and Spouse 2. The progressive socialist march towards the redefinition of the American family has meant the decimation of traditional marriage and the horrific consequence will be meted out on the future generations of Americans.
And sadly, this issue has a direct relation to the case of Michael Brown, about which no one is allowed to speak, because it doesn’t fit the narrative.
Common Core: Leftist And Islamic Indoctrination
I agree 100% with this post and recommend that it be read by as many as possible.
By Lawrence Sellin Ph.D. ~
The fundamental transformation of the United States is a euphemism for destroying American values and traditions fostered by an unholy alliance of America’s radical left and militant Islam, in essence, to take down the country from within.
This totalitarian marriage of convenience is distinguished by the traits they share – their hatred of Western civilization and a belief that the United States is the embodiment of evil on earth. While Islamic radicals seek to purge the world of heresies and of the infidels who practice them, leftist radicals seek to purge society of the vices allegedly spawned by capitalism — those being racism, sexism, imperialism, and greed.
Central to the success of the America-haters is “submission,” either to the state or sharia, and a rejection of the belief that individuals “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.”
That is, the core of Western…
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A Thankless Task: The perils of fighting terrorism in a PC age
Virtually all politicians today have one thing on their minds votes and money to buy the votes. This means that they can not offend any faction no matter what that faction believes. Be it the Muslim problem the Blacks the LGBT the greens, peata, Agenda 21 or anyone else. When I ask them questions in person to any politician aon any of these subjects they claim a lack of knowledge and they will have to get back to me — which they never do! So we need to live with the problem until it gets so bad that they are forced to do something, hopefully it will not be too late!
No doubt a fear of accusations of “Islamophobia” explains the astonishing fact that the Sydney jihadist was not on any terror watch list, an omission that baffled the country’s prime minister. An open jihadist from Iran, Man Haron Monis had committed a series of offenses before this week. “How can someone who has had such a long and checkered history not be on the appropriate watch lists and how can someone like that be entirely at large in the community,” said Tony Abbott. “These are questions that we need to look at carefully and calmly and methodically.”
Australia’s security knew he was a threat but gave him a wide berth anyways, which is what one would expect in a political climate that punishes public figures for viewing the problem of radical Islam too clearly.
Abbott has been criticized for not taking “attacks on Muslims” in Australia seriously enough. Almir Colan…
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U.S. transfers four Guantanamo prisoners to Afghanistan
They will all be gone and back on the battlefield soon!
Franklin’s Warning ‘Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech,’ California Style
Free Speech is Free Speech and that is the FIRST Amendment with the SECOND Amendment the right to bear arms number two to protect number one. Both are under heavy assault from the progressives since it will be very very hard to complete the transformation of the United States into their vission of what the country should be like. And that vission is now very clear and it is a semi-free market system under total control by a central government that is in effect a single party. There is little difference between the DNC and the RNC at their core at some point they will merger and each will cast off the base. Leaving the reformed Democratic/Republican party 65% a small socialist party 15% and a small conservative party 20%. The old Democratic/Republican party dissolved prior to the US civil and if it reforms that may lead to the second US civil war. That would be a sad think but the assault on the bill-of-Rights is well under way and may not be stoppable!
By Tim Phillips and David Spady
Benjamin Franklin’s warning is perhaps more apt today than at any point in American history. In the past four years, the Democratic Party and the progressive movement have been dealt devastating losses at the ballot box, in large part because
voters rejected their policies as violations of fundamental liberties.
Yet rather than debate the merits of their policies, many on the left responded with a coordinated campaign to suppress free speech—primarily by intimidating, demonizing and silencing the people who opposed and defeated them. Examples include the Internal Revenue Services’ targeting of conservative nonprofit groups, Senate Democrats’ recent attempt to write a new constitutional amendment that would gut the First Amendment, and a host of other anti-free-speech efforts at both the state and federal level.
Our organizations, Americans for Prosperity, a nonprofit advocacy group that mobilizes grass-roots activists to support or oppose…
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The Approaching End of America
Prof. Paul Eidelberg
(December 2014 updated from June 2003)
What solidifies and sustains a society? Surely it’s morality. By morality I mean acting from motives larger than self-interest. Morality thus requires self-restraint as opposed to self-indulgence.
Although morality is first learned in the family, by the good example and teachings of parents, the family is not sufficient. Morality also requires the support of law. The law is designed to deter and punish as well as disgrace bad behavior and pernicious teachings. Without morality bolstered by public law, no society can long endure. This is why America is approaching its end.
Immorality and lawlessness are rampant in the United States. This decay may be attributed to the following causes:
* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by American colleges and universities, more precisely, by the moral relativism purveyed by the social sciences and humanities, where students are taught there are no objective standards of right and wrong, good and bad, decent or indecent.
* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by the American Supreme Court. The Court’s rulings tacitly deny the distinction between human and brute behavior, that is, between what is distinctively human vis-à-vis what is sub-human. What is done privately may now be portrayed publically. Hence the multibillion dollar pornography industry, the vulgarization of speech with obscenity, and the “I’m okay, you’re okay” adage that sanctions sexual perversions.
* To this new and permissive morality, add the Supreme Court’s greater concern for persons accused or convicted of crime, than for their victims. The Supreme Court has thereby undermined deterrence and effective law enforcement.
* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by America’s economic system, by its encouragement of greed and self-indulgence.
* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by the entertainment industry’s unbridled emphasis on sex and violence. Television has stultified the minds of young and old alike.
* Immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by making Americans more and more dependent on Government, which undermines the ethics of personal responsibility.
* Finally, immorality and lawlessness have been fostered by democracy itself! Its cardinal principles, freedom and equality, have been divorced from ethical and rational constraints. Carried to excess, freedom leads to licentiousness, while egalitarianism levels moral and intellectual distinctions and thereby undermines deference to excellence.
Meanwhile, egalitarian democracy nurtures an extreme cultural pluralism, which dissolves any solid sense national identity. Ponder the illegal influx of Hispanics across the southern border. They have surely been infiltrated by Islamists who will be welcomed by Muslim communities. They will bolster “sleeper” cells linked to Hezbollah, a proxy of Iran. America may be approaching another 9/11.
Islam aside, what has sustained America is economic prosperity. Should the U.S. suffer an economic depression comparable to that of 1929, the American edifice will collapse like a house of cards, for there is no effective morality, no cultural solidarity, to sustain widespread privation. One out of two families is broken. Respect for law has plummeted. The “ancient faith” that Lincoln saw in the Declaration of Independence has been shattered by the university-bred doctrine of relativism. A depression will trigger guerilla warfare by disaffected minorities in New York, America’s financial center. Savagery lurks in the hearts of millions, waiting, as was seen in Ferguson.
The Jews will be the first victims of this savagery. Israel-bashing and the pro-Palestinian madness on university campuses and even in the media is nothing but Jew-hatred, and this has surfaced without the calamity of a depression!
The ultimate basis of this Jew-hatred is a more or less unconscious hatred of the true source of morality, or rather, of laws of morality, the Torah. America may be deemed a Christian nation, but its media and the nihilistic doctrines underlying higher and lower education in America is at war with the God of Israel, in whose belief the Americans of 1776 waged the most salutary revolution in human history.
But that the President of the United States, the greatest power on earth, should be allied with the villains of the paltry Palestinian Authority, the spearhead of Islam’s war against Judaism and the Jewish people, signals America’s approaching end – unless, unless Israel, America’s most important ally, rises to the occasion.◙
Jeb Bush and Common Core
Written by Kelsey Harkness @ Daily Signal
Jeb Bush in New Port Richey, Fla., in 1998. (Photo: St. Petersburg Times/Tampa Bay Times/ZUMAPRESS.com/Newscom)
Jeb Bush has long advocated for all 50 states to adopt Common Core national standards.
Now that the former Florida governor has all but confirmed his plans to run for president in 2016, the issue threatens to overshadow his likely campaign.
Bush’s name, matched with consistently high polling numbers among potential 2016 Republican candidates, makes landing a seat in the Oval Office feasible. But in order to reach the general election—to perhaps take on Hillary Clinton—Bush must first overcome concerns about Common Core with conservative primary voters.
>>> Here’s How People Reacted to Jeb Bush’s 2016 Announcement, in 36 Tweets
Bush’s longstanding support for Common Core is no secret: Over a year ago, Frederick M. Hess, an education expert at the American Enterprise Institute, predicted that if he decided to run for president, “Common Core could be his Romneycare.”
What is Common Core?
Common Core standards were created by the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, and funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal, supported by the Obama administration, was to increase education standards in America.
Among conservatives, however, the issue one of the most controversial. Several politicians have flip-flopped on the issue, pulling their support or even abandoning the standards in their states.
The Heritage Foundation is among the organizations that have rallied against Common Core.
The crux of the argument, as laid out by Heritage’s Lindsey M. Burke and Jennifer A. Marshall, is this:
National standards are unlikely to make public schools accountable to families; rather, they are more likely to make schools responsive to Washington, D.C. Furthermore, a national accountability system would be a one-size-fits-all approach that tends toward mediocrity and standardization, undercutting the pockets of excellence that currently exists.
>>> More: Why National Standards Won’t Fix American Education
Many of Bush’s deep-pocketed GOP allies—so-called “establishment” Republicans like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—don’t see eye-to-eye with conservatives on the issue.
Federal incentives like Race to the Top grants and No Child Left Behind waivers for states that adopted Common Core topped off what critics call “a national takeover of education policy.”
A reform-minded governor
Bush’s backstory with Common Core standards is two-fold.
During his eight-year tenure as the Sunshine State’s governor, he led one of the most successful education reforms in the country. In fact, his efforts were so effective, education experts are still trying to analyze them to this day.
Schools and districts in Florida are now graded on a straightforward A-to-F scale where parents easily understand that it’s better to have a child in an A-rated school than one that received an F.
Parents also have access to education tax credits, private school choice for special-needs students, virtual education, charter schools and public school choice.
In addition, transparency about school performance enables parents to be well informed, holding schools accountable to parents.
Education experts often argue that no one has a greater, more genuine interest in a student’s education than their parents.
But as Burke, Heritage’s leading expert on education policy pointed out, what worked in Florida might not work on a national scale. She said:
Gov. Bush was a leader on education reform in Florida during his tenure. Florida, in fact, has stood as a model for other states. The challenge for national policymakers is to recognize that what worked well in one state might not work as well in another, and that states need flexibility to find out what works best for the unique students who reside there.
Promoting Common Core
The challenge for national policymakers is to recognize that what worked well in one state might not work as well in another. @lindseymburke
In a 2011 Wall Street Journal op-ed co-authored with former New York City schools chancellor Joel Klein, Bush praised the standards, stating:
The Common Core State Standards define what students need to know; they do not define how teachers should teach, or how students should learn. That is up to each state. And they are built on what we have learned from high-performing international competitors as well as the best practices in leading states.
Over the course of the next three years, Bush, with the Foundation for Excellence in Education, an education policy think tank that Bush founded and chairs, encouraged state legislators to adopt the standards.
For example, in early 2013, Bush and his foundation set out to remind Oklahoma state legislators of the “myths” surrounding Common Core.
He sent them an in-depth email, which can be viewed in its entirety here. In it, they wrote:
There is a lot of misinformation flying around about Common Core State Standards. Below is a roundup of recent articles, opinion pieces and posts by policy advisors, debunking Common Core myths and highlighting voices in the transition to these new standards. You’ll also find quotes from teachers weighing in on Common Core and see how state and business leaders are supporting the higher standards.
Bush’s new tone
More recently, Bush has toned down his support.
In a speech last month at the 2014 National Summit on Education Reform—just one week before Thanksgiving when he pondered a presidential run with his family—Bush argued, “The rigor of the Common Core State Standards must be the new minimum in the classrooms.”
But in the same speech, he also made it a point to acknowledge the disagreement on the issue—something he has been criticized in the past for ignoring.
Even if we don’t all agree on Common Core, there are more important principles for us to agree on. We need to pull together whenever we can. It starts with a basic question: If we were designing our school system from scratch, what would it look like?
I know one thing: We wouldn’t start with more than 13,000 government-run, unionized and politicized monopolies who trap good teachers, administrators and struggling students in a system nobody can escape.
We would be insane if we recreated what we have today.
So let’s think and act like we are starting from scratch.
Whether his 2016 campaign will try to downplay his support for Common Core or remain true to his position is not yet clear, but one thing is for certain: A Bush on the 2016 presidential ticket will once again bring education to the forefront of the national debate.
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