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Monday, September 27, 2010

Home Prices Probably Cooled, U.S. Consumer Sentiment Declined

Gains in U.S. home prices probably slowed in July and consumer confidence this month cooled, restraining the biggest part of the economy, a pair of reports may show today.







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Rush: We’re in the midst of a diaster!

Greta talks to Rush about the state of the country, tea parties, the establishment vs the grass roots, etc. – but she really just lets him talk, which is a trait Hannity should pick up. But I digress. One question Greta asked got an immediate response on twitter. She asked what politician he admired most, which he chose to dodge for fear of making enemies. But he did start talking about Sarah Palin as someone he admires, and as soon as he did twitter lit up with "Rush says that Sarah Palin is the politician he admires most", which I will point out is not true. But it is clear that she has impressed him a lot, as I've heard him defend her quite often.

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Here's Comes Muslima Mouse

Disney caved CAIR won. Via WestwatcherDisneyland has agreed to allow a company intern to wear her religious headscarf at work, according to a Muslim rights group that intervened after the woman was told she would have to work in...







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Harry Reid Hates Sick Children… Nevada Kids Lose Health Care Because of Obamacare (Video)

What is it about the Obama-Pelosi-Reid regime?
Why do they hate sick children?

Harry Reid's Health Care Bill Is Forcing Insurance Companies To Drop Kids Health Care:

Nevada is not alone. Health plans in at least four other states have announced they're dropping children's coverage.
The Hill has more:

Health plans in at least four states have announced they're dropping children's coverage just days ahead of new rules created by the healthcare reform law, according to the liberal grassroots group Health Care for America Now (HCAN)…

Insurers including WellPoint and CoventryOne have announced in recent days that they're dropping children's coverage in California, Colorado, Ohio and Missouri.

Hat Tip Dan Riehl

Don't expect the Obama-loving state-run media to report on this.








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Does the United Methodist Church Really Support Saturday‘s ’One Nation’ March ?

The e-mails hit my inbox today almost as soon as Glenn started talking about the 10/2 rally this weekend and my story detailing who had joined on as supporters. The organization most were concerned about was the United Methodist Church (UMC). How could the UMC fall into the same category as the Democratic Socialists and support this Saturday's "One Nation Working Together" march? Could this be true?

Heeding Glenn's advice ("question with boldness"), some of you even contacted your local Methodist Bishop and denomination headquarters to see if the UMC had in fact officially endorsed Saturday's rally. The answers you received, and forwarded to me, were mixed: some said "no," while others were unsure. We take such claims seriously, so I began a little investigation.

Let me take you on a journey.

I first read the following statement last night while checking the New York Times for any news that might be important to you. The statement was couched in an article on this weekend's progressive 10/2 march:

"the march is co-sponsored by the United Methodist Church, the United Church of Christ, the National Baptist Convention and several Jewish organizations."

In the article, author Steve Greenberg makes the statement after speaking with a representative from the UMC (and after quoting a Methodist Reverend later in the story). I decided to check with the author about his story, and he was gracious enough to exchange multiple e-mails and several phone calls with me. Here is how he explains his story:

I was originally told by a p.r. person for the Oct. 2 march that the United Church of Christ, National Baptist Convention and United Methodist Church were backing the march. And I thought it would be interesting to speak with an official from the UMC about why they were backing the march because it seemed somewhat surprising that the Methodists would because they are not perceived to be as liberal as the United Church of Christ or the National Baptist Convention.

I had a good interview with someone from the United Methodist Church who told me that the church's General Board of Church and Society "had signed on as a partner." Because I wasn't very familiar with the inner workings of the Methodist church, I called back the next day just to double-check whether the endorsement by that general board meant that I could write that the overall United Methodist Church had endorsed the Oct. 2 march. And this official said, yes, it would be accurate for me to write that.

Evidently I was misinformed. Today Diane Degnan, a spokeswoman for the UMC, told me that one can only say that the UMC endorses something once the UMC's general conference has endorsed it. And here evidently the General Conference hasn't taken a position on the march, just the General Board of Church and Society has, with its endorsement.

That's interesting. And technical. So I called the church's headquarters and left a message with Rev. Stapleton, who was quoted in the Times piece as being a spokesperson and who had been quoted saying some things that could be considered supporting the march. I never received a response.

I then called the public relations person listed on the UMC's website, Diane Degnan, whom Greenberg references in his message to me. After an initial conversation promising she would do some digging, she called back and explained that, after speaking with several people, the UMC as a whole does not support the rally. Rather, "the General Board of Church and Society — which is the special advocacy agency of the United Methodist Church — endorses the principles of the event, but they are not a co-sponsor of the event." She added that as an agency and arm of the Church, the General Board of Church and Society does not speak for the entire denomination: "they only speak for their own agency."

I was still confused. I will admit I am not a Methodist, so the distinction to me seemed elementary. I called back and was passed along to Wayne Rhodes, director of communications for the General Board of Church and Society. Admittedly, Rhodes had to give me a lesson in the Methodist denomination — and he was patient and thorough in his explanation.

He explained that the Methodist Church does not have one single leader, but rather four general agencies and "12 or 13" general commissions spread out across the country. A single agency or commission cannot speak for the entire denomination — only a once-every-four-year General Conference can do that. "And certainly [the General Conference] didn't adopt any resolution related to the 'One Nation World March' [sic]," Rhodes said. So, he added, it would be "impossible" for Rev. Stapleton to speak on behalf of the entire Methodist Church.

Fair enough. But even if the Church as a whole isn't endorsing the march, why does the General Board of Church and Society does think it's okay to do so? According to Rhodes, the General Conference has ordered the Board "to support activities and to promote things that are consistent with" the denomination's principles. And since the march's core principles "are very consistent" with the denomination's positions on issues such as jobs, education, and work, the Board endorsed the march and has no problem doing so.

In fact, Rhodes said, the General Board of Church and Society went as far as telling fellow United Methodists to attend the rally in its e-newsletter, "Faith in Action." "We encouraged [United Methodists] to come to the march," Rhodes said, "because [it] is consistent with our principles." Rhodes directed me to the website where I could find this newsletter. The endorsement can be seen here, and the exact language states:

The United Methodist General Board of Church & Society endorses a march on Saturday, Oct. 2, to demonstrate re-commitment to change in the United States. … While GBCS has not been involved in planning the march or supporting it financially, GBCS encourages United Methodists to participate in the One Nation march because of its four core principles. [Emphasis added.]

That is slightly different than what I was told today by Diane Degnan. The above statement, in its entirety, says the Board is endorsing the event because of its principles, not just the principles themselves. In an email to me, Degnan highlighted the distinction:

The United Methodist Church is not sponsoring the rally in Washington, D.C. The General Board of Church and Society endorses the principles of this event; however, they are not a co-sponsor. They had no planning role and provided no financial support. While the General Board of Church and Society is an agency of the church, they do not speak for the denomination as a whole. [Emphasis added.]

An e-mail to Degnan seeking comment regarding the discrepancy was not returned in time for publication.

Interesting. But I digress.

So was the Board worried about being lumped in with some of the others that are endorsing the event, such as the Democratic Socialists? No. According to Rhodes, the gentleman who made the decision to encourage attendance did so "because many of the people we work in coalition with, who are involved in poverty ministries, are involved with this march." What are those organizations? Among those Rhodes mentioned are Jubilee USA, Pax Christi (a Roman Catholic organization), and Sojourners (Jim Wallis's organization). "These are very legitimate organizations," he said, and "if they're comfortable with it, I think we're fairly comfortable with it."

I then asked one final question: if the Board is easily confused with the entire Methodist Church, and since Rhodes cannot explain the inner workings of the denomination to everyone, why endorse such an event at all? Those inside the church will understand the distinction, he said. And even though "people outside of the church are going to be confused, there's no ifs, ands, or buts, about that," he's not too worried about people making the wrong assumption at the rally because "we're not even one of the major sponsors."

The entire issue, he explained, stems from Greenberg's confusion: "Amy Stapleton is not a spokesperson for the United Methodist Church. No one is a spokesperson for the United Methodist Church." Rather, Rev. Stapleton was making a personal statement when she was talking about the event, and he added that Stapleton doesn't even work for the Board, but rather for one of the "12 or 13" commissions mentioned above — specifically the General Commission on Religion and Race, which reports directly to the General Council. That, however, does not mean that the Board does not still support the march. It does.

And now the story has come full circle. This evening, Greenberg and the Times have issued a clarification (attached to the bottom of the original article):

An article on Monday about a coalition of liberal groups planning a rally in  Washington on Saturday, using information provided by a high-level minister for the United Methodist Church, referred incorrectly to the church's role in the event. A board within the United Methodist Church has endorsed the principles of the rally, but the overall church has not endorsed the rally. Also, after the article was published, the church's director of communications said that the minister, the Rev. Amy Stapleton, was not speaking on behalf of the church.

In all, that's a lot to digest. So let's recap:

  1. Amy Stapleton is not a spokesperson for the United Methodist Church — no one is.
  2. The General Board of Church and Society has endorsed the march and its principles, not the United Methodist Church as a whole.
  3. Diane Degnan went out of her way to point out that the Board only supports the march's principles — yet the endorsement given in the Board's e-newsletter says that the Board "endorses" the march and encourages participation "because" of the march's principles — it doesn't only support the principles themselves.
  4. The Times issued a clarification, and the author was either misinformed, misunderstood the church's way of governance, or made an unfair conclusion.
  5. The rally's core principles and the core principles of the UMC are aligned.
  6. The General Board of Church and Society is not concerned about the others who are supporting the rally.
  7. I am not a Methodist and needed this explained to me several times.

Clear? I hope so. Keep questioning with boldness.








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Report: Rahm Emanuel ‘Likely’ to Step Down This Week

No official announcement has come from the White House yet, but speculation is buzzing around Washington that chief of staff Rahm Emanuel will be leaving his post at the White House this week:

ABC News has learned that White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Friday — as Congress adjourns for recess — that he is leaving his post to explore a run for mayor of Chicago.

White House officials expect that President Obama will also name an interim chief of staff, perhaps senior adviser Pete Rouse, at the announcement.

The announcement is no surprise given that Emanuel has been eager to run for the Chicago mayor's office.  "One day I would like to run for mayor of the city of Chicago. … That's always been an aspiration of mine, even when I was in the House of Representatives," Emanuel said in April to Bloomberg's Charlie Rose.

With current Mayor Richard Daley retiring at the end of his term, Emanuel is the likely front-runner for the Democratic nomination.








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JOHN HINDERAKER: “The situation in Mexico is a disaster, and one that directly threatens our nation

JOHN HINDERAKER: "The situation in Mexico is a disaster, and one that directly threatens our national security. For reasons that I don't understand, most Americans don't seem to care, and the Obama administration reflects that apathy. Mexico makes Iraq look like Switzerland. Iraq is, I think, important to our security, but Mexico is much more so."









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Obama Omits ‘Creator’ From ‘Inalienable Rights’…Again

Just one week after President Barack Obama came under fire for omitting man's "Creator" as the source of his "inalienable rights" — as described in the U.S. Declaration of Independence — he's done it again. This time, the president was delivering remarks at a Democratic Party fundraiser in New York City, raising money for his party's midterm election races.

During the Sept. 22 fundraiser at New York's Roosevelt Hotel, President Obama told the audience:

[I]f we stay true to our values, if we believe that all people are created equal and everybody is endowed with certain inalienable rights and we're going to make those words live, and we're going to give everybody opportunity, everybody a ladder into the middle class, every child able to go as far as their dreams will take them — if we stay true to that, then we're going to be able to maintain the energy and the focus, the fight, the gumption to get stuff done."

Referring to "those words," the president encourages his audience to remember the Declaration of Independence, but once again fails to mention one of the documents most central ideas — that man's rights come from God, not government.  Instead, the president interprets the meaning behind the Declaration as one that grants government the authority to dole out "opportunity."

When the president spoke to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's Annual Awards Gala on Sept. 15, many speculated he had inadvertently left out the word "Creator" when loosely quoting from the Declaration of Independence. "We hold these truths to be self-evident," Obama said at that event, "that all men are created equal, endowed with certain inalienable rights: life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That's what makes us unique."

Fox News' Bret Baier later reported that the White House clarified the remarks, claiming  President Obama "went off script and adlibbed when he made that mistake."

With the same omission made just one week later, it seems the latest "mistake" may have been intentional.








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Archie Comics Plans Obama, Palin Slugfest

Politics are quickly spreading to the pages of the nation's comic books.  While "Archie" learned "anything's possible" when President Barack Obama and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin made their debut sharing a friendly milkshake earlier this month, the comic's creators are promising to turn up the political heat with new stories featuring Obama and Palin duking it out in "The Fight for America."

According to Politico, Archie Comics plans to announce on Tuesday plans for multiple future covers carrying the Obama-Palin theme.  While Obama is dubbed "The Chicago Kid," Palin is declared "The Thrilla from Wasilla."

Archie Comics co-CEO Jon Goldwater told POLITICO that the company had received so much positive feedback on the first Obama/Palin cover (which made the rounds last week) they decided, why ruin a good thing?

"We sat around and talked and said, 'Holy toledo!' This is something that we should take a look at and bring the president back on the cover for." (He said he just reached out to both the Palin and Obama camps and predicted that "I'm sure that we're going to hear from them" about their comics).

"At the end of the day, President Obama and Sarah Palin completely come from opposite sides, but they both want the same thing: The best interests of the United States. And we figured Riverdale High School was a place they can unite," he said.








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Chrysler Fires 13 Workers Caught Boozing on Tape

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler Group LLC says it has fired 13 plant workers a Detroit TV station caught drinking alcohol and smoking what appeared to be marijuana during breaks.

Chrysler manufacturing chief Scott Garberding told WJBK-TV in a Sept. 22 report that the automaker identified some of the workers from Detroit's Jefferson North plant on tape and was pursuing the others.

The automaker said then that it was suspending the workers. On Monday, Chrysler said it fired them.

In a statement, Chrysler said the workers violated its code of conduct.

Chrysler says two other workers got one-month unpaid layoffs.








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Longer school year and additional funding on tap for Obama’s education reform?

RWB News:  With almost every study finding that parent involvement being the most important aspect in a childs education, it seems to make more sense to work on repairing that aspect rather than a longer school year and more regulations.

As reported by: MSNBC

WASHINGTON — Money alone isn't the cure for America's ailing school system, President Obama says.

Speaking to TODAY's Matt Lauer in the Green Room of the White House for nearly 30 minutes, Obama said that additional funding tied to significant reforms — including a longer school year and lifting teaching as a profession — is a much-needed fix.

"We can't spend our way out of it. I think that when you look at the statistics, the fact is that our per-pupil spending has gone up during the last couple of decades even as results have gone down," explained Obama, invited to appear by NBC as the network launched its weeklong " Education Nation" initiative.

"Obviously, in some schools money plays a big factor … ," Obama said, pointing out that schools in the poorest areas often don't have up-to-date textbooks. "On the other hand, money without reform will not fix the problem," Obama said.

Obama said his administration's "reform agenda" includes increasing standards, finding and encouraging the best teachers, decreasing bureaucracy and deploying financial resources effectively. Teachers who fail to live up to expectations need to be given a chance to improve, he said, while those who do not "have to go."

Obama repeated his support for a longer school year. He did not specify how long that school year should be, however he noted that U.S. students attend classes, on average, about a month less than children in most other advanced countries.

"The idea of a longer school year, I think, makes sense." He added it could "make a difference" in student performance.

Obama says his administration's Race to the Top initiative has been one of the "most powerful tools for reform" in many years. Through the program, states compete for $4 billion in funding by highlighting their plans for reform.

The president said he wants to work with teachers' unions, and he embraced the role of defending their members. But he said unions cannot and should not defend a status quo in which one-third of children are dropping out. He urged them not to be resistant to change.

Original story:  http://www.today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39378576/ns/today-parenting

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Overseas Stimulus Operations

By Bill Wilson

The stimulus worked! Just not here.

The irony for central planners never seems to cease. The U.S. and other developed nations, by spending and printing too much money — designed to fuel their own economies — are instead stimulating growth and inflation in emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil.

So reports Andy Xie at Marketwatch: "The deflation scare causes the central banks in the developed economies to sustain a loose monetary policy. It will fuel inflation in emerging economies. Through trade, currency markets, and ultimately inflationary expectations, inflation will hit developed economies."

So, contrary to conventional wisdom, emerging markets are not hurting from the U.S. financial meltdown and debt crisis. They are feeding off of it.

While the U.S. has seen slowing growth at an anemic 1.6 percent rate, China has seen a more-than-robust growth rate over 10 percent. India and Brazil both report 8.8 percent growth. India's inflation rate is 11.25 percent after spiking at over 16 percent this year. Brazil is at 4.49 percent, and China's rate is steadily rising too at a probably underreported 3.5 percent.

Xie calls it "stimulus leakage." Essentially, because of globalization, the easy money will go to where physical demand is hot. There is no requirement that newly printed dollars be invested domestically. Critics of the monetary and fiscal "stimulus" warned that it would fuel inflation, and it has — overseas. And sooner or later, those inflationary forces will come back home, warns Xie.

It may already have begun. According to the CNBC host Larry Kudlow, "The CPI over the past year is up 1.1 percent. Producer prices paid by businesses are up 3.1 percent. And import prices are rising 4.1 percent." Particularly, rising import prices helps explain overseas growth. Even though the prices of foreign goods are rising, U.S. consumers are still buying them, thus stimulating those economies overseas.

Moreover, with gold at an all-time high of about $1,300 an ounce, and other commodities like food rising rapidly, plus the dollar sinking, it is clear that those who have warned about deflation have missed the mark. Yes, there are deflationary forces, for example in the housing market, but falling home prices appear to be largely corrective from the housing bubble and have not brought about sinking prices in other assets.

Instead, a flight to relative safety has occurred. In addition to gold, government-backed debt and securities have seen a rise, including mortgage-backed securities and treasuries. So, besides overseas economies, one of the primary beneficiaries of the easy money "stimulus" has been government. Go figure.

As explained by Congresswoman Kathy McMorris Rodgers writing for Forbes, "Since 2008 the Fed has kept short-term interest rates at nearly 0 percent and bought about $1.4 trillion in mortgage-linked securities and debts. The main reason for these policies is to stimulate borrowing in the private sector, including — whenever necessary — shifting the cost of toxic assets from Wall Street to the taxpayer."

McMorris Rodgers continues, "This hasn't worked, however. In the second quarter of 2010, for instance, bank lending dropped by $96 billion, even while bank profits surged by $22 billion. This seems counterintuitive, but there's a strange logic to it: With the private sector engulfed in so much uncertainty because of the government's spending, borrowing, and bailouts, banks are reducing credit to businesses, while increasing their purchase of government debt. The banks take in low-cost funds from the Fed and then lend it back to the government at a higher rate. This produces a small profit that — when done on a large enough scale — can become quite lucrative, indeed."

So, another "asset" that has seen expansion in the U.S. has been government debt. This too has stimulated overseas investors, with so much foreign investment in U.S. treasuries. According to the U.S. Treasury, about $4.065 trillion of the national debt is held overseas, 30 percent of the total $13.4 trillion debt. That means almost a third of all interest paid on the debt goes overseas.

Right now, the White House Office of Management and Budget says total interest payments are currently $188 billion annually. But by 2020, annual interest payments will rise to $840 billion, much of which will be to foreign investors.

So, the more government grows, the more wealth is transferred overseas every year — and the more those emerging economies will grow. When combined with the trade deficit, by the end of the decade, it will be more than half a trillion dollars every year being transferred overseas.

As that occurs, the U.S. has little choice but to inflate the currency to just to keep dollars in circulation domestically, since it has done little to encourage investment and capital creation. It has the second highest corporate tax rate in the world, making the nation is globally uncompetitive. Policy makers are not encouraging domestic investment from overseas, except to soak us. These trends will not be easy to reverse, but it is clear they must be brought into balance if Americans are to keep their standard of living, find new jobs, and continue to be a prosperous economy.

Congress must reduce taxes to encourage investment and job creation here in the U.S., and simultaneously begin paying off the debt. At the same time, it must discontinue its ultra-easy monetary policies. In the global marketplace, the "stimulus" is only funding emerging markets that are already white-hot when growth needs to be incentivized here at home.

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House Majority Whip James Clyburn Suffers Bout Of Insanity


Its something sad to see but it seems that Congressman James Clyburn is suffering from some sort of disorder that fries his brain cells, or maybe he is suffering from the early stages of dementia, or possibly his Underoos are too tight. Whatever the malady, the house majority whip had another public bout of insanity today.

In an an interview published Monday on an African-Americans news site, TheGrio.com, Clyburn took his best shot at convincing black voters to get energized and come out in big numbers for Democratic party candidates. But instead of coming out with something logical, Clyburn spewed something that showed his showed his diminished mental capacity. If the GOP wins the house they will begin an investigation to prove President Obama was born outside the United States.

Clyburn, the third-ranking Democrat in the House, said Republicans will grind the government to a halt by issuing subpoenas against the Obama administration over a number of issues if they take power. He predicted that "gridlock" in Congress would "define" Obama's first term if Republicans win the House, but expressed confidence his party would prevail.

Clyburn noted that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the ranking Republican on the House Oversight panel, has said will will issue "subpoenas everywhere" if Republicans win the majority.

"The White House will be full-time responding to subpoenas about where the president may or may not have been born, whether his mother and father were ever married, and whether his wife's family is from Georgetown or Sampit," Clyburn said in . "That will define the next two years of the president's administration.
Of course Congressman Issa's office replied diplomatically without pointing out Clyburn's malady.
Issa has promised to ramp up his probes into the Obama administration, but his spokesman said he would not pursue the "birther" controversy and that the congressman has not spoken about the issue.

"The Democratic Caucus doesn't take Jim Clyburn seriously – Americans shouldn't take his ridiculous claims seriously either," said Issa spokesman Kurt Bardella in an e-mail. Bardella noted that Issa has already released his "blueprint for oversight" that focuses on investigating the expansion of government.
Congressman Clyburn went on to blame conservative media for the birther phenomenon and said others could rebut those views if the Fairness Doctrine, a government policy abolished in the 1980s that required broadcasters to give both sides equal time on political programs, was still in place. Of course has forgotten the guru of birtherism Philip Berg is a long time Democrat.

Poor Congressman Clyburn, it is so obvious he is losing touch with reality, well either that or deliberately making up stories to scare voters.  But I would never accuse an honorable man like James Clyburn of deliberately trying to scare voters, so it obviously must be some sort of brain disorder.
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Here we go: Rahm Emanuel likely to announce Friday that he’s leaving WH to run for Chicago mayor

Bye.

No surprise. Although no final decision has been made because of family considerations, ABC News has learned that White House officials are preparing for Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel to announce on Friday — as Congress adjourns for recess — that he is leaving his post to explore a run for mayor of Chicago. White [...]

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Fwd: Pentagon on computer super-worm that’s been attacking Iran’s nuke program: Er, no comment



Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Easily the most fascinating story of the past week, but it's so tech-heavy that I don't trust myself to even summarize it properly, let alone opine on it. Let's start slow, with the official American non-response: The Pentagon is refusing to comment on widespread accusations that it is responsible for coordinating a cyber-attack against Iran's [...]

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Fwd: Census could mean redistricting gains for Republicans



By Shane D'Aprile for The Hill  http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/redistricting/121021-florida-up-in-new-redistricting-estimate

Florida could gain two House seats and New York could lose two seats according to a new projection of congressional districts based on population data.

The new report released overnight from Election Data Services (EDS) provides more good news for Republicans, who hope to win back the House this fall and were already well positioned for redistricting battles in state Houses across the country.

EDS, a bipartisan firm that specializes in the Census and redistricting for state and local governments, found six states could gain a seat ahead of 2012: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington state. GOP-friendly Texas could gain four new congressional seats.

On the losing end would be New York and Ohio, which are now both expected to lose two seats. And eight states are projected to lose a single seat: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The data highlights the importance of the 37 governors races being contested this year, as well as legislative battles. Big Republican gains in state Houses and governors races could help the GOP draw new district lines that could give their party more seats in the House of Representatives.

Polls suggest the GOP, which took over New Jersey's governor's house in 2009, is poised to make gains in the governors race. Republican candidates are favored according to polls in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois ad Texas.

The surprises in the new report where Florida and New York. Previous estimates had New York, where Democrats have gained several House seats in recent elections, losing only one seat. Florida, perhaps the most important battleground state in the country, was previously estimated to gain only a single seat.

Even though it tracks with previous population trends, the shift of a seat from New York to Florida was a surprising one, according to Election Data Services President Kimball Brace. The estimates are based on newly released census data from earlier this summer, and the shifts in both Florida and New York are noteworthy given the redistricting dynamic at play there.

Republicans enjoy a fairly comfortable majority in Florida's State Legislature, which controls the redistricting process in the state. But the outcome of a competitive governor's race between Rick Scott (R) and Alex Sink (D) could be critical in November. Should Sink win, she would wield a veto over the state's congressional redistricting plan and offer state Democrats at least one prominent statewide voice in what is expected to be another messy Florida redistricting battle.

Sink leads by 1.6 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of polls for the race.

In New York, the GOP is well within striking distance of regaining its majority in the state Senate. That comes against the backdrop of a governor's race that could end up much closer than expected.

The new population data also reveal a number of states teetering on the edge of either losing or gaining another seat. Slight shifts in population could save Missouri a congressional seat, or lose one for Oregon. Right now, the estimates for both states rely on a population shift of fewer than 40,000 people.

In Texas, Republicans already in control of 20 of the state's 32 House seats are poised to once again control all the levers of redistricting power.

If Republicans can keep control of the State Legislature, which is in play this fall, and Gov. Rick Perry (R) can fend off a challenge from Houston Mayor Bill White (D), the GOP will be in prime position to draw additional districts to its advantage.

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Census could mean redistricting gains for Republicans

By Shane D'Aprile for The Hill  http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/redistricting/121021-florida-up-in-new-redistricting-estimate

Florida could gain two House seats and New York could lose two seats according to a new projection of congressional districts based on population data.

The new report released overnight from Election Data Services (EDS) provides more good news for Republicans, who hope to win back the House this fall and were already well positioned for redistricting battles in state Houses across the country.

EDS, a bipartisan firm that specializes in the Census and redistricting for state and local governments, found six states could gain a seat ahead of 2012: Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Utah and Washington state. GOP-friendly Texas could gain four new congressional seats.

On the losing end would be New York and Ohio, which are now both expected to lose two seats. And eight states are projected to lose a single seat: Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

The data highlights the importance of the 37 governors races being contested this year, as well as legislative battles. Big Republican gains in state Houses and governors races could help the GOP draw new district lines that could give their party more seats in the House of Representatives.

Polls suggest the GOP, which took over New Jersey's governor's house in 2009, is poised to make gains in the governors race. Republican candidates are favored according to polls in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Illinois ad Texas.

The surprises in the new report where Florida and New York. Previous estimates had New York, where Democrats have gained several House seats in recent elections, losing only one seat. Florida, perhaps the most important battleground state in the country, was previously estimated to gain only a single seat.

Even though it tracks with previous population trends, the shift of a seat from New York to Florida was a surprising one, according to Election Data Services President Kimball Brace. The estimates are based on newly released census data from earlier this summer, and the shifts in both Florida and New York are noteworthy given the redistricting dynamic at play there.

Republicans enjoy a fairly comfortable majority in Florida's State Legislature, which controls the redistricting process in the state. But the outcome of a competitive governor's race between Rick Scott (R) and Alex Sink (D) could be critical in November. Should Sink win, she would wield a veto over the state's congressional redistricting plan and offer state Democrats at least one prominent statewide voice in what is expected to be another messy Florida redistricting battle.

Sink leads by 1.6 percent in the Real Clear Politics average of polls for the race.

In New York, the GOP is well within striking distance of regaining its majority in the state Senate. That comes against the backdrop of a governor's race that could end up much closer than expected.

The new population data also reveal a number of states teetering on the edge of either losing or gaining another seat. Slight shifts in population could save Missouri a congressional seat, or lose one for Oregon. Right now, the estimates for both states rely on a population shift of fewer than 40,000 people.

In Texas, Republicans already in control of 20 of the state's 32 House seats are poised to once again control all the levers of redistricting power.

If Republicans can keep control of the State Legislature, which is in play this fall, and Gov. Rick Perry (R) can fend off a challenge from Houston Mayor Bill White (D), the GOP will be in prime position to draw additional districts to its advantage.

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Pentagon on computer super-worm that’s been attacking Iran’s nuke program: Er, no comment

Hmmmmmmmmmm.

Easily the most fascinating story of the past week, but it's so tech-heavy that I don't trust myself to even summarize it properly, let alone opine on it. Let's start slow, with the official American non-response: The Pentagon is refusing to comment on widespread accusations that it is responsible for coordinating a cyber-attack against Iran's [...]

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More on Stuxnet, its intended target and its potential genesis.

A Newsy.com video recommended by an IBCR reader. 

 

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In her email, the reader asks a very good question:

I just read your blog post on the Struxnet virus. I really enjoyed learning more about the background of this powerful worm. If the intended target was indeed Iran's nuclear power plant, then should we view the bug as successful execution of cyber warfare? After all, the best way to stopping your enemies is by hindering their ability to wage war.

We may be asking if Iran's nuclear facility was the worm's intended target, but shouldn't we also be asking who was responsible for creating a virus capable of potentially wiping a nation's defense system?

Whoever developed this code had a big target in mind. 

Suggestions are that the Stuxnet worm came either from the U.S., or Israel, on the basis that the worm targets specific systems and utilizes specific weaknesses in the Windows operating system that your garden variety hacker probably wouldn't have the resources to exploit. Iran has already been affected. However, this site suggests that Iran's problems with Stuxnet have now passed, and that the worm has begun infecting systems elsewhere on the Asian continent.

What leads me away from this thing having an American genesis is the potential for collateral damage.  The intended target runs a software-and-hardware combination that is similar in plants around the world.  The sophistication of the development team necessitates that they would recognize this, and such risk-taking just doesn't jive with my sense of this administration.  Your mileage may vary.

Stay tuned.  I don't think this story is over by a long shot.  Somewhere in the world, a very dangerous facility is being run by a bunch of careless idiots.  Stuxnet is likely to find its way there, and the damage could be spectacular.








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San Francisco considering banning toys in Happy Meals for some reason

Nannytopia.

Explain this to me. I can understand the campaign against Joe Camel because (a) kids who try smokes are old enough that their parents aren't supervising them 24/7 anymore and (b) ciggies are addictive, so once kids are tempted to try, it's not easy to get them to quit. In other words, kids at that [...]

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Houston Voter Fraud Heats Up: “Out of 25,000 Registrations, Only 1,793 Appeared to be Valid”

RWB News: I'd say file this under "You Can't Make This Stuff Up" but apparently in Houston, you can make this stuff up…These stats are UNBELIEVABLE.  STAGGERING.  And if the GOP, DOJ, MSM etc. don't investigate this quickly then the same thing could happen in November & beyond.  An article from The Weekly Standard summed it up: "Most of the findings focused on a group called Houston Votes, a voter registration group headed by Steve Caddle, who also works for the Service Employees International Union. Among the findings were that only 1,793 of the 25,000 registrations the group submitted appeared to be valid. The other registrations included one of a woman who registered six times in the same day; registrations of non-citizens; so many applications from one Houston Voters collector in one day that it was deemed to be beyond human capability; and 1,597 registrations that named the same person multiple times, often with different signatures. Caddle told local newspapers that there "had been mistakes made," and he said he had fired 30 workers for filing defective voter registration applications. He could not be reached for this article."

Original article:  Washington Examiner

Every two years for the past decade and more, reports of voter fraud have been on the increase during election campaigns around the country. That is not coincidental.

Since passage in 1993 of the National Voter Registration Act – aka "Motor Voter" – by the Democratic Congress that led to the 1994 GOP takeover, ACORN and a bunch of other radical liberal activists groups, many financed by George Soros, have been steadily growing their ability to increase vote counts for their candidates by stuffing ballot boxes with illegal votes on election day.

To get just a taste of how deeply devious the Left's tactics are in subverting elections, check out this report by Leo Vaquez, the Harris County, Texas, Voter Registrar. Here's a partial list from that report of the many ways one leftist group, Houston Votes, has tried to register thousands of illegal voters in recent months:

• Houston Votes has turned in 25,640 applications.

• Houston Votes applications have generated 7,193 "new" voter records.

• Houston Votes applications have generated 3,531 applications which were rejected by the SOS for failure to match TDL/SSN.

• Houston Votes has submitted 1,597 multiple applications (two or more applications for same person).

• Houston Votes has submitted 1,014 applications for pre-existing voters.

• Houston Votes applications have generated 1,030 Notices of Incomplete.

• Houston Votes has submitted 25 non-citizen applications.

• Houston Votes has submitted 325 too young applications.

• Houston Votes applications have generated 129 felon rejection of applications (although not the responsibility of volunteer deputy to determine).

• Houston Votes has submitted 1,133 applications where the No ID box was checked.

• Houston Votes has presented the Tax Office with 1,323 applications later than the five day statuatory deadline.

The Right has been a little slow to realize the awesome scope and intensity of this campaign to subvert the democratic process, but citizens groups are springing up all over the country now to fight for honest elections. Minnesota Majority is one such group and you can read Jeff Davis's Examiner oped on the epic fraud that wracked the 2008 Minnesota election here.

Truethevote.org is another group battling for honest elections, and they've produced an excellent YouTube video that focuses specifically on the problem in the Houston, Texas, area, as well as on the situation nationwide:

Click here to view the embedded video.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Massive-nationwide-vote-fraud-is-the-rotten-fruit-of-ACORN-activism-103202244.html#ixzz10lwQ4trT

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NAACP: Obama has done more than Clinton; Today’s America is like Nazi Germany(video)

NAACP: Obama has done more than Clinton; Today's America is like Nazi Germany(video)


NAACP: Obama has done more than Clinton; Today's America is like Nazi Germany(video)
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The main goal of NAACP Leader Ben Jealous is "uniting" the people....just ask him. Like the rally the NCAACP is helping organize this weekend in DC where he is "uniting" the NAACP, Union Thugs, Pro Illegal Immigration groups and groups that sponsor terrorist.....you can't make this stuff up.







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Woah! AFL-CIO Prez Trumka: “We Need to… Re-establish Popular Control Over the Private Corporations”

Woah! Radical AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka is calling for the leftist leaders in government to take control over private industry.

Can we call them "socialists", yet?

"We need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations."

The AFL-CIO blog reported:

With the economy continuing to stagger and job creation not moving quickly, "working people are justifiably angry and frustrated" as they approach the Nov. 2 elections, says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Trumka and Working America Executive Director Karen Nussbaum, New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, Eric Alterman, journalist and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, and moderator Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor and publisher of the Nation, led a panel discussion—Which Way for the Working Class? Elections 2010 and Beyond—Friday afternoon in New York City.

More than 400 people attended the event at the Great Hall at Cooper Union.

Trumka said it is vital to channel working-class anger away from Fox News and Tea Party extremists who are delivering

a cynical, deeply dishonest and incoherent message—that big government is somehow to blame for the current crisis that the budget deficit will eat our children, and that illegal immigrants took all the good jobs.

However, he added, "The good news is they haven't bought into right-wing ideology. They are just confused about who to blame." But:

We have to offer working people something other than the dead-end choice between the failed agenda of greed and the voices of hate and division and violence.

…In the short term, said Trumka, the labor movement has to "recapture the moment and take control of the national conversation." Building for the future,

we need to fundamentally restructure our economy and re-establish popular control over the private corporations which have distorted our economy and hijacked our government. That's a long-term job, but one we should start now.

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Video: CNN Pushes A Homosexual Church, "If Gays Left The Church, There Would Be No Church Left "

More agenda journalism from the Clinton News Network:
"The universe is healing itself?" When you hear gobbledygook like that, the false prophet warning should go up real quick. 
1But there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the sovereign Lord who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves. 2Many will follow their shameful ways and will bring the way of truth into disrepute. 3In their greed these teachers will exploit you with stories they have made up. Their condemnation has long been hanging over them, and their destruction has not been sleeping. - 2 Peter 2 (NIV)
2Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. - 2 Timothy 4 (NIV)
Pretty much describes leftism. By the way, isn't there enough gay agenda items afoot without CNN piling on already?







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Gore Grocery Bags Make You Sick

DENVER -- They are good for the environment, but reusable grocery bags are also a breeding ground for bacteria.
 
Many responsible shoppers carefully choose their groceries and put them into the same cloth or plastic bags over and over again on every trip to the store.
 
"Did you ever wash your grocery bags?" asked Call7 Investigator Theresa Marchetta.








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Mexican Mayor Stoned to Death in Drug-Plagued State

A small-town mayor and an aide were found stoned to death Monday in a drug-plagued western state, the fifth city leader to be killed in Mexico since mid-August.









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Obama and Biden to student-age voters: Help!

Obama and Biden will rally students at two universities to try to recapture some of the excitement of 2008







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School‘s Reading List Includes Rapper 50 Cent’s Memoir

In an attempt to get more kids to spend time reading this summer, a New York school district "freshened up" its summer reading recommendations to include titles and topics administrators thought teens would be interested in.  Included among these: rapper 50 Cent's "From Pieces to Weight."

Students of the Rochester School District were encouraged to read the rapper's memoir which depicts (in graphic detail) the rapper's early life embroiled in the New York City drug trade and utilizes rough language and violent depictions that fans of 50 Cent's music are undoubtedly familiar with.  "If it's a situation where everything in the book is mother this and mother that, then of course it's inappropriate," Rev. Marlowe Washington, head of the Rochester Literacy Movement told the city's Democrat and Chronicle.  "We have to understand what will get the kids interested, but there has to be a balance of how far we will go with that."

Though she's never read the book, school administrator Beth Mascitti-Miller said that district staff picks books for the list and will review them if there are complaints from the community.  "We want to make sure we're putting appropriate material on the list," she said. "You want to get kids interested, but you also want to make sure they have plenty of choices and that you're not endorsing anything that might not be appropriate."

Perhaps most controversial about the 50 Cent book is the author himself, known for explicit and often vulgar lyrics about drugs, sex and violence. Some of his songs include the sound of rounds of bullets being fired in the background.

The text of the book is no different. Described on its back cover as a "violent and introspective memoir," it documents his childhood in Jamaica, Queens County, his experience selling drugs and his ultimate rise to stardom.

Scenes of the book depict violent gun fights, and the book makes liberal use of R-rated expletives.

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Just days before Socialist Saturday, unions remind Americans of Obama roots

Aesop, meet Obama.

Just days before Socialist Saturday (see #hashtags below), a series of union-related events are beginning to become large enough of an embarrassment to the Obama administration that they may be hard for the media to ignore any longer.

With the abrupt departure of SEIU über-boss Andy Stern, the rejection (and subsequent departure) of his hand-chosen successor, Anna Burger, the President's friends at the Service Employees International Union have been increasing their media presence lately—and not necessarily in a good way.

The revelations and arrest of a SEIU member in Washington state for forging signatures on a ballot initiative to raise taxes, the Wisconsin SEIU activist who bragged about the media's complicity in helping to defeat GOP gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker, as well as the revelations of what appears to be an unbelievably large amount of voter registration fraud in Texas, all must have Democrats feeling a little queasy about being seen too close to the President and his fuscha friends.

To make embarrassing relationships even worse comes this news from over the weekend:

Federal agents searched homes of anti-war activists in Chicago and Minneapolis on Friday in an investigation of possible links with terrorist organizations in the Middle East and South America.

About 20 FBI agents spent most of the day searching the Logan Square residence of activists Stephanie Weiner and Joseph Iosbaker, Weiner said.

In Jefferson Park, neighbors saw FBI agents carrying boxes from the apartment of community activist Hatem Abudayyeh, executive director of the Arab American Action Network. In addition, Chicago activist Thomas Burke said he was served a grand jury subpoena that requested records of any payments to Abudayyeh or his group.

"The warrants are seeking evidence in support of an ongoing Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation into activities concerning the material support of terrorism," said Steve Warfield, spokesman for the FBI in Minneapolis, where six additional homes were searched Friday.

If you don't see the connection yet, try this:

Weiner, who said she and her husband for years have been active in labor causes and the anti-war movement, complained the search was an attempt to intimidate her and other activists.

"We aren't doing anything differently than we have in 20 years," said Weiner, a teacher at Wilbur Wright College. Iosbaker is a staff member at the University of Illinois at Chicago and a union steward for Service Employees International Union Local 73.

Burke said he received a grand jury subpoena requesting records of payments to Abudayyeh's organization as well as two groups among the State Department's list of foreign terrorist organizations, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

The subpoena also requested "items relating to trips to Colombia, Jordan, Syria, the Palestinian territories of Israel." Burke said he toured Colombia eight years ago with members of an oil workers union there.

Burke, a former school custodian-turned-stay-at-home father, belongs to the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, a group mentioned in subpoenas and search warrants issued Friday to activists in Minneapolis.

Burke said he knows Weiner, Iosbaker and Abudayyeh from years of involvement in demonstrations and activities in Chicago. Most of the people whose homes were searched or who were issued subpoenas attended anti-war rallies at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., he said.

Actually, Joe Isobaker is a bit more than a SEIU "steward" as described above, he's an active Chief Steward with the 24,000-member SEIU Local 73 and is an activist, as well as writer for Fight Back magazine, a Marxist magazine that states [emphasis added]:

We are not "neutral" or "even-handed" in our coverage. We are opposed to exploitation, discrimination, and oppression. We hold that the rich class of people who run the economy and government of this country are unfit to rule. We support all movements that challenge their power and privilege.

The writers and staff of Fight Back! are activists and organizers - in the trade unions, low-income community, oppressed nationality movements, on the campuses, and in other people's movements. We welcome articles, letters, comments and criticisms. Some of us working to put out this paper are members of Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

The FBI's raids over the weekend appear to be in relation to the communist Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), "a revolutionary socialist and Marxist-Leninist organization in the United States" that is seeking an end to America's free-enterprise system:

We Exist to Organize for Revolution and Socialism

We are Marxist-Leninists who believe that capitalism—as a system centered on private accumulation and profit—is inherently a system of inequality, injustice, and war. We want a social system where social wealth is not in the hands of a few billionaires, but is controlled by the people. We seek both economic and political democracy. However, genuine democracy is not possible unless the multi-national working class holds the reins of society. Human needs cannot replace profit as the driving force of society unless the people control their workplaces, their schools, their neighborhoods, and the institutions of government.

We support the existing socialist countries and believe that socialism is the only solution for the future of humanity. However, we recognize that major contradictions exist in building socialism. We continue to look to both the summations of socialists around the world and to our own practice to deepen Marxist-Leninist theory and practice to guide us in making revolutionary change here in the United States.

The Freedom Road Socialist Organization has links (literally) to both the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine [background here] and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) [background here], the two groups on the State Department's list of terrorist organizations.

In addition to the Chicago raids on Saturday, the FBI conducted raids in Minneapolis. One of the "activists" whose home was raided was Jessica "Jess" Sundin.

According to RBO:

Sundin belongs to AFSCME 3800, "which represents university clerical workers" at the University of Minnesota. Sundin works in the university's Physiology Department.

She is also a member of Freedom Road Socialist Organization.

On March 20, 2010, Sundin, "an important organizer of the anti-war movement," led "protests against the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan."

In January 2009, Sundin, Tracy Molm (University of Minnesota Students for a Democratic Society) and Sarah Martin (Grandmothers for Peace and Women Against Military Madness) were among seven antiwar protesters acquitted on charges of trespassing in March 2008 at a Minneapolis National Guard recruiting office.

    Jess Sundin, a defendant who has traveled to Iraq, described conversations with an Iraqi man who was later killed by U.S. soldiers. Her testimony also criticized deceptive recruiting practices meant to entice low income youth with promises of financial rewards and career advancement."The reality is that less than one third of National Guard soldiers [ever] receive money for college," said Sundin. "Veterans make only 85 cents for every dollar that non-veterans make. And one third of all homeless people are veterans. Recruits are being lied to."

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On October 18, 2008, Sundin and Burke were the speakers for FRSO's National Conference, "War, Socialism and the People's Struggle."

The event announcement promised: "We will also be talking about how to build a revolutionary media that serves the people, grassroots organizing, building a revolutionary organization and the direction for the people's struggle in 2009."

Another union member whose home was Meredith Aby, a teacher in the social studies department at Jefferson High School in Bloomington, MN.  As a member of both the FRSO as well as the Bloomington Federation of Teachers, Aby is also a member of the FRSO and an advisor to the school's Debate and Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR) clubs.

[Via RBO] Aby has taught an AP U.S. Government course at JHS.

    Students will examine who governs and to what ends with an ethical lens emphasizing citizenship, integrity, and responsibility. Students will evaluate the government's decisions and institutions in relation to the students' ethical criteria.Students will develop criteria for evaluating public policy choices and through the use of oral and written language develop the ability to synthesize social science data to support a coherent argument.

    Students will identify important political, social, and economic issues in American life and evaluate the impact of these issues on American political processes and institutions through time.

Readings for the course include those by historian and Socialist Charles Beard and New Left mentor, C. Wright Mills.

[snip]

On May 18, 2010, Aby was arrested in a Saint Paul "protest at the office of U.S. Representative Betty McCollum to demand that she vote against a $33 billion request for additional funding for the war in Afghanistan." Aby and five others "refused to leave the office after McCollum would not meet with the delegation.

Despite the revolutionary goals of these Marxist-Leninist activists and the FRSO's links, the radicals are maintaining that they are the victims of an oppressive government.  In other words, they are being  victimized by the FBI for doing nothing more than engaging in peaceful protests.

So, like any good activists are wont to do when feeling oppressed (or when caffeine-deprived), they are planning to protest their oppression.

Hard to Control the Anger?

Several protesters plan to demonstrate at FBI and federal buildings in Chicago and Minneapolis today and Tuesday, according to activists. This comes after FBI raids made here and Minneapolis in an effort to find possible terrorist connections.

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"It's hard to control the anger that we feel, " said Joe Iosbaker who said a search of his home by the FBI Friday was an attempt to intimidate him and his wife and silence the peace movement.

[Somehow, we don't think Mr. Isobaker's and his revolutionary friends are going to be silenced at all.]

As the communists come together with the President's Organizing for America and a whole host of  leftist groups in Washington this Saturday (four weeks away from the mid-term elections), this news couldn't come at a worse time for the President.

With incidents of radical union activists supporting socialist revolution, allegedly engaging in forgery and fraud to potentially steal elections, it reminds Americans that there are radical Marxist-Leninists throughout the country who are members of the peace movement, the union movement (working in schools and universities), and all of them are working very hard to "transform America."

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