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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Obama’s Stimulus Plan Made Crisis Worse, Taleb Says

U.S. President Barack Obama and his administration weakened the country's economy by seeking to foster growth instead of paying down the federal debt, said Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "The Black Swan."







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Obama Promised Us Jobs. So where are they?

For your nighttime palette cleanser…

Remember back in those hoary days of 2008 when The Obammesiah promised he'd create "5 million jobs"? So, what happened? Where are all those new jobs, anyway?








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White House Cites State Secrets to Fight Lawsuit Over Assassination Program

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Saturday invoked the state secrets privilege which would kill a lawsuit on behalf of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an alleged terrorist said to be targeted for assassination under a U.S. government program.

In a court filing, the Justice Department said that the issues in the case are for the executive branch of government to decide rather than the courts.

The department also said the case entails information that is protected by the military and state secrets privilege.

The courts have sufficient grounds to throw out the lawsuit without resorting to use of the state secrets privilege, the Justice Department said in its filing.

"The idea that courts should have no role whatsoever in determining the criteria by which the executive branch can kill its own citizens is unacceptable in a democracy," the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights said in a statement. "In matters of life and death, no executive should have a blank check."

Al-Awlaki's father, through the CCR and the ACLU, filed the case in federal court in Washington.

The father has demanded that the government disclose a wide variety of classified information which could harm U.S. national security, Justice Department spokesman Matthew Miller said in a statement.

"It strains credulity to argue that our laws require the government to disclose to an active, operational terrorist any information about how, when and where we fight terrorism," said Miller.

Believed to be hiding in Yemen, al-Awlaki has become the most notorious English-speaking advocate of terrorism directed at the United States.

E-mails link him to the Army psychiatrist accused of the killings at Fort Hood, Texas, last year. Al-Awlaki has taken on an increasingly operational role in al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Justice Department filing said, including preparing Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab in his attempt to detonate an explosive device aboard a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day 2009.

Regarding the Christmas bomb attempt, al-Awlaki said in a May 23 interview with the media arm of AQAP that "No one should even ask us about targeting a bunch of Americans who would have been killed in an airplane," James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said in a declaration accompanying the Justice Department papers.

"Our unsettled account with America includes, at the very least, one million women and children. I'm not even talking about the men," Clapper's declaration quotes al-Awlaki as saying.

The lawsuit filed on the cleric's behalf seeks to have a court declare that the Constitution and international law bar the government from carrying out targeted killings; seeks to block the targeted killing of al-Awlaki; and seeks to force the U.S. government to disclose the standards for determining whether U.S. citizens can be targeted for death.

What al-Awlaki's father is seeking would be "unprecedented, improper, and extraordinarily dangerous," said the Justice Department filing, which neither confirmed nor denied the existence of a targeted killings program.

The lawsuit would necessarily and improperly inject the courts into decisions of the president and his advisers about how to protect the American people from the threat of armed attacks, including imminent threats, posed by a foreign organization against which the political branches have authorized the use of necessary and appropriate force, said the Justice Department filing.

If al-Awlaki were to surrender to the proper authorities, legal principles with which the United States has traditionally and uniformly complied would prohibit using lethal force or other violence against him, the department filing added.








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New Black Panthers Video Laughing About Voter Intimidation and Obama DOJ Dropping Charges

RWBNews:  New Black Panthers on video admitting what Coates testified to yesterday.  This is absolutely disgusting.  They brag about GW Bush charging them and when Obama came in his DOJ threw most of it out.  The Obama DOJ doesn't give a damn about the white man's voting system and said we can go back to the polls in 2012.  (That would be just in time for another Presidential election)  What a coincidence!



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Government Report Cites ACORN Offshoot for 'Ineligible' Payments, Grant Problems

An official report released this week says an ACORN offshoot group cannot properly account for how it has spent millions of federal dollars and recommends that the group repay the government and be put on standby mode until it cleans up its act.

The report from the inspector general for the Department of Housing and Urban Development reviewed how ACORN Housing Corporation -- now called Affordable Housing Centers of America -- has spent federal grant money over the past two decades. The report described the group's book-keeping as "problematic and unsupported," and claimed that more than $65,000 in "ineligible" salary expenses were charged to a federal grant last year, including costs for six employees after they were terminated.

The report said more than $19 million from HUD went to the organization since 1995, and that about 80 percent of the $3.25 million received between 2008 and 2009 went toward salaries.

"For continued approval as a HUD-approved housing counseling agency and for future awards consideration, AHC must bring its operations into full compliance with applicable laws," the IG report said, recommending that it be placed on "inactive" status by the federal housing department.

The study is the latest blow to the beleaguered low-income advocacy group ACORN and its offshoots. After Congress voted to cut funding to the main organization following the release of undercover videos that showed its workers appearing to help a couple posing as a pimp and prostitute, the organization's affiliates and chapters have been reorganizing under different names.  ...  read more »









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Thousands May Lose Job When Part of Stimulus Expires

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John Kerry: Democrats are in trouble because voters are stupid

Tell me what else this quote by the haughty John Kerry could possibly mean:
We have an electorate that doesn't always pay that much attention to what's going on so people are influenced by a simple slogan rather than the facts or the truth or what's happening
How can you take the above in any context whatsoever and conclude anything other than John Kerry is calling voters stupid? From the Boston Herald via memeorandum: John Kerry: Democrats' woes stem from uninformed voters. Ironically, who votes for bills without first reading them, eh comrade Kerry? Who's uninformed? Herald readers weighed in (via Legal Insurrection):
Speaking of Legal Insurrection, William Jaconson's blog has gone big time, getting cited by the Herald in their above piece:
Conservative political blogger William Jacobson, who writes Legal Insurrection, immediately pounced on Kerry's comments, saying that attitude is why voters are looking to shake up Capitol Hill by electing upstart candidates such as U.S. Sen. Scott Brown.

"It just continues the Democrats' theme that the reason people are upset is because they don't understand. They're not smart enough. That sort of rhetoric just gets people even more upset," said Jacobson.
Woohoo! Go William! As for Kerry, it is the ruling class mentality that he put on full display that is the cause of the Democrats downfall. More from Michelle Malkin, Hot Air, Weasel Zippers and JammieWearingFool
John Kerry leaving the liberal cocoon with his encounter suit to protect him from getting touched by the little people







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White House Seeks to Dismiss Suit Filed for Radical Cleric

The Obama administration on Saturday invoked the state secrets privilege which would kill a lawsuit on behalf of U.S.-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, an alleged terrorist said to be targeted for assassination under a U.S. government program.









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Top DOJ Voting Rights Official Testifies Before Congress, Calls Dismissal of Black Panther Case a 'T

As practically everyone knows by now, AG Eric Holder at the behest of Obama dropped all charges against members of the new black panther party that were intimidating white voters on camera at polling stations in Philadelphia. As Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes was quotes as saying: 'Never Bring Another Lawsuit Against a Black'
Justice Department prosecutor Christopher Coates testified before Congress yesterday after a year of stonewalling by the DOJ and against the wishes of the liberal political ruling class running the DOJ. His testimony was explosive to say the least. From The Politico:
A Justice Department prosecutor defied his superiors by testifying at a U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing Friday, where he leveled an explosive allegation: top officials in the department gutted a voter intimidation case against a fringe African American militant group because the suspects were black and their alleged victims were white.

The prosecutor, Christopher Coates, also said the downgrading of the case against the New Black Panther Party was evidence of a Justice Department culture which discouraged "race neutral" enforcement of civil rights laws, frowned on prosecuting minority perpetrators and folded under pressure from black and Latino rights groups. After President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder took office, the culture intensified, Coates told the panel, ultimately leading to his departure as chief of the voting rights section early this year.

"They have not pursued the goal of equal protection of the law for all people," he said.
Democrats were aghast at Coates coming to testify so they came up with the idea of creating a farce in inviting comedian Stephen Colbert to testify in character. (Video: Congress descends into a farce as comedian Stephen Colbert testifies in character) More from Fox News:
The Justice Department is ignoring civil rights cases that involve white victims and wrongly abandoned a voter intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party last year, a top department official testified Friday. He called the department's conduct a "travesty of justice."
Not to liberals it isn't. Of course, the Colbert farce was picked up by the state-run MSM more than the Coates hearing. From Instapundit:
DISTRACTION: So, yesterday reader John Mark Williams suggested that the Colbert testimony was intended to distract from coverage of Christopher Coates' testimony about the Justice Department's racism scandals. If so, it's worked. Front page of Daily Caller: Colbert. Drudge led with Colbert until the news of the Klein & Zucker firings came out. Limbaugh led off today talking about Colbert. NRO has covered Colbert at The Corner, but not Coates. Washington Examiner headline: Colbert. Looking around other sites, I see more about Colbert than Coates. Hot Air and Power Line did better.
But let me quote the Power Line treatment: "Coates's testimony is a bombshell. It exposes a couple of Obama administration scandals at once. One involves the Obama administration's attempt to cover up the rationale for burying the case against the NBPP. The other involves the Obama administration's support for the racially based administration of justice. Coates's testimony is suggestive of other scandals as well. You probably won't be hearing much about it on the broadcast news tonight or in the papers tomorrow, but we all should do everything we can to get the word out."
It's a narrative thing. But the blogosphere is abuzz about the Coates testimony:
Nice Deb: Christopher Coates Testifies to the United States Civil Rights Commission
Big Government: U.S. Commission on Civil Rights: Testimony of Christopher Coates
Big Hollywood: Stephen Colbert: Dem's Trained Clown Trotted Out to Distract From Obama DOJ Scandal
Michelle Malkin: Culture of corruption: New Black Panther Party voter intimidation
The Daily Caller: That's the big quote from the non-Colbert news of the day …
The Jawa Report: NBP: Watch former DOJ Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates
Weasel Zippers: Christopher Coates Testimony on New Black Panther Party
Confederate Yankee: Our Racist Executive Branch
National Review: Re: Coates Testifies at Civil Rights Commission
Gateway Pundit: Obama Justice Department Accused of Racial Prejudice
Verum Serum: Bombshell: Obama DOJ Enabling Voter Registration Fraud?
Maggie's Farm: Equal Justice For All  —  Are all Americans entitled to equal protections under the law?
Ed Morrissey also has a good post on the case: Coates: Obama appointee told me to stop pursuing race-neutral enforcement of Voting Rights Act


Previously:
U.S. Civil Rights Commission hearing erupts into shouting over Black Panther case
Dishonest: Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) writes letter to AG Eric Holder demanding that he re-file "criminal" charges against the New Black Panthers to cover his a$$ after claiming to not know of the case and getting booed by constituents
Video of Bob Schieffer: I Didn't Ask Holder About Black Panther Case Because 'I Just Didn't Know About It'
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Julie Fernandes: 'Never Bring Another Lawsuit Against a Black'
Video: Megyn Kelly (FoxNews) Destroys Kirsten Powers (D) On Black Panther Case
Video: Constituents erupt in anger and disbelief as Rep Brad Sherman (D-CA) claims not to know of release of Black Panther criminals
Irony: Eric Holder who refuses to prosecute black criminals wants to sue Arizona for racial profiling
Video: New Black Panther Party Leader Admits That 2008 Voter Intimidation Effort Was Coordinated From The Top Down
Video: New Black Panther Party that Obama set free hearts Osama Bin Laden
Leonard Pitts Jr: I'm going to ignore black panthers calling for death of white babies, and instead write a whole column on how hateful Mel Gibson is
Video of the Black Panther that Obama let loose: "you want freedom, you going to have to kill some crackers. You going to have to kill some of their babies"
Racism: Former Justice Department Lawyer Accuses AG Eric Holder of Dropping Black Panther Case for Racial Reasons
Obama Justice Department Drops Complaint Against Black Panthers Who Blocked Polls, Wielded Weapons - Part 2
Obama Justice Department Drops Complaint Against Black Panthers Who Blocked Polls, Wielded Weapons







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JOHN KERRY: Dems Are In Trouble Because Voters Are Stupid….



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Japan Won't Apologize to China Over Boat Arrest



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TEN STATES ABOUT TO SUFFER in the U.S./China Trade War….



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McCarthy follows up on 'Pledge' by targeting Dem leadership in address

Republicans called on Democratic leadership to implement their proposed policies while damning the ones Congress has already passed.









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How far gone are the House Democrats?

So far gone that Rep. John Conyers was the voice of reason yesterday. Well, temporarily. Byron York reports on the Colbert embarrassment:
The subcommittee is chaired by Rep. Zoe Lofgren, but Rep. John Conyers is chairman of the larger Judiciary Committee. In that role, he has a seat on the subcommittee, and he spoke up early in the hearing. To the surprise of many observers, Conyers used his







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Big Bird vs. First Lady

I know, I know, birfers suck. But it's funny. I just can't help myself.


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As Jon Stewart once said, you're allowed to laugh at him

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Andrew Breitbart Nails Bill Maher: You're Not a Libertarian, You're a Socialist

Andrew Breitbart on Friday exposed Bill Maher for not being the Libertarian he claims to be, but a socialist instead.

When push came to shove, a seemingly embarrassed Maher didn't protest.

In the middle of a heated discussion on HBO's "Real Time" about healthcare reform legislation passed earlier this year, Maher vehemently defended the program.

This led Breitbart to smartly observe, "So you're officially not a Libertarian anymore, right? I mean, this position has run so far from the Libertarian position. Is this, so you admit that you have more of a, you know, European socialist leaning perspective on this issue?"

When the audience laughter subsided, a clearly stunned Maher acknowledged, "I'm not afraid to say European socialism works" (video follows with transcript and commentary): 

AMY HOLMES, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: In point of fact, Democrats did talk about healthcare endlessly. President Obama went out on the stump talking about, "Pass this bill, pass this bill." Bill Clinton said once it was passed it would become popular. Bill Clinton now, he confesses that he made a mistake, that it has not become more popular.

BILL MAHER, HOST: It's been kicked in for two days...

HOLMES: It's become less popular, and here's why.

MAHER: ...and most of it doesn't kick in till 2014. Could we wait till people see it before we can judge whether it's popular?

HOLMES: You're asking why...

(AUDIENCE APPLAUSE)

MAHER: Please, sorry.

HOLMES: But you're asking why Democrats are not campaigning on this. Because in the next 40 days with a bill that is hugely unpopular, it's not good for their re-election process.

MAHER: It would be popular if they would talk about it. They could have, if they could stand up for what they believe they could have passed Medicare for all. That's what they should have done. What they should have said is insurance companies have a million other things to insure. They insure your car and your house and if it rains and there's a flood and an earthquake and Betty Grable's legs and a million other things. They don't need to also insure life. Life should be off the table.

HOLMES: They talked endlessly about it and their agenda was rejected by the American people, that's a simple fact.

MAHER: Because they're stupid.

And here's where it got good. Readers are strongly advised to watch the video to see Maher's expression when Breitbart nails him: 

ANDREW BREITBART: So you're, you're officially not a Libertarian anymore, right? I mean, this position...

MAHER: Well..

BREITBART: ...has run so far from the Libertarian position. Is this, so you admit that you have more of a, you know, European socialist leaning perspective on this issue?

(AUDIENCE LAUGHTER)

BREITBART: Why is that funny?

The look on Maher's face at this moment said it all: 

MAHER: I'm, I'm not afraid, it's not, I'm not afraid to say European socialism works.

Exactly. Quite a strange position for a man that claims to be a Libertarian. 

In the end, Bill Maher has been hiding behind a Libertarian veil for years, but the reality is he's liberal through and through.

No self-respecting Libertarian would support the government expansion Maher does. Far from it.

And on September 24, 2010, Andrew Breitbart exposed Maher for what he really is. 

Nicely done, Andrew. Bravo! 








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Conservative students forced to leave campus

A group of students were escorted off of campus after getting approval to set up shop….Once the school found out they were conservatives they were kicked off.

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We must “Guard The Change” says Obama; Another attack caught on tape by thugs at a public forum (vid

RWB News: Is this what Obama meant by starting a "Private Army"? We have a citizen that is assaulted once again by a Thug of the "New" democratic party. The citizen is minding his own business taping his Governor speaking in a public forum when he gets assaulted by a member of the African American Alliance.  I guess this is what Obama meant when he said to black law makers "we must guard the change". I think what he meant by the word "guard" is protecting the thugs the Democrats have spreading the "change" for them by any means possible.

We have a case currently being investigated (you would not know about this if you watch the Liberal media)  that involves Black Panthers intimidating voters at a polling station where a former lawyer for the DOJ is testifying that these particular thugs are being protected and shown special treatment by the Obama administration because the victims were white.

We recently seen a group of conservative students get bullied off a college campus by administration because they were setting up a booth for a conservative club on campus. A booth that these students received permission for but when the administrator found out they were conservative she asked them to leave……In your face "thug" style.

We have had ACORN thugs recently tearing up a bank because Obama says they are evil. Union thugs going to the private homes of bank employees to protest scaring their children. Government thugs strong arming a Louisiana parish president telling him not to talk to media. We have had gang members going door to door campaigning for Democrats scaring residents.  SEIU hoods beat up a black republican at a townhall and have no charges filed on anyone…more protection by a corrupt administration. Bused in union thugs creating chaos and then getting booed out of townhall events. A handicapped women assaulted at a townhall by union thugs. Another man gets assaulted and his shirt tore off at a townhall by union thugs and last but not least a group of militant school kids praising Obama on video like he were a dictator…..Just to name a few accomplishments of implementing a "private" army and "guarding" the "change" phase I…..more to come.

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Without a gunshot; German Chancellor Merkel says Germany will become a Islamic State

RWB News: This is very scary. They are taking over countries using only "political correctness" The most telling part of this article is a quote taken from Muammar Gaddafi who recently stated that "There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without sword, without gun, without conquest. We don't need terrorists; we don't need homicide bombers. The 50 plus million Muslims (in Europe) will turn it into the Muslim Continent within a few decades."

As reported by Europenews

Chancellor Angela Merkel said that Germans have failed to grasp how Muslim immigration has transformed their country and will have to come to terms with more mosques than churches throughout the countryside, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung daily.

"Our country is going to carry on changing, and integration is also a task for the society taking up the task of dealing with immigrants," Ms. Merkel told the daily newspaper. "For years we've been deceiving ourselves about this. Mosques, for example, are going to be a more prominent part of our cities than they were before."

Germany, with a population of 4-5 million Muslims, has been divided in recent weeks by a debate over remarks by the Bundesbank's Thilo Sarrazin, who argued Turkish and Arab immigrants were failing to integrate and were swamping Germany with a higher birth rate.

The Chancellor's remarks represent the first official acknowledgement that Germany, like other European countries, is destined to become a stronghold of Islam. She has admitted that the country will soon become a stronghold.

In France, 30% of children age 20 years and below are Muslims. The ratio in Paris and Marseille has soared to 45%. In southern France, there are more mosques than churches.

The situation within the United Kingdom is not much different. In the last 30 years, the Muslim population there has climbed from 82,000 to 2.5 million. Presently, there are over 1000 mosques throughout Great Britain – - many of which were converted from churches.

In Belgium, 50% of the newborns are Muslims and reportedly its Islamic population hovers around 25%. A similar statistic holds true for The Netherlands.

It's the same story in Russia where one in five inhabitants is a Muslim.

Muammar Gaddafi recently stated that "There are signs that Allah will grant victory to Islam in Europe without sword, without gun, without conquest. We don't need terrorists; we don't need homicide bombers. The 50 plus million Muslims (in Europe) will turn it into the Muslim Continent within a few decades."

The numbers support him.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Paul L. Williams, Ph.D., is the author of The Day of Islam: The Annihilation of America and the Western World, The Al Qaeda Connection, and other best-selling books. He is a frequent guest on such national news networks as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, MSNBC, and NPR. Visit his website athttp://thelastcrusade.org/. (…)

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