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Christian speech targeted as 'hate' 'Gays' pledge to 'pursue every method' of protesting flyers for school students

A campaign has been launched in Montgomery County, Md., to classify the speech of advocates for people who choose to leave the homosexual lifestyle as "hate speech," which then could be banned under a new law signed last year by President Obama.

"Hate speech is unwelcome in Montgomery County Public Schools," said an e-mail to the offices of Regina Griggs, national director of Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays & Gays, known as PFOX. "I would like to ask that you immediately cease distribution of your flyers at our public schools.

"We intend to pursue every method possible to protest your actions if you choose to continue," the message warned.

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'Satan's video game' makes Super Bowl appearance Ad's 'go to h---' line yanked, but play still rewards killing unbaptized babies

The Super Bowl ad claimed, "Hell awaits," and players who fire up "Dante's Inferno" on their Xbox 360 can dive right in to slay all sorts of demons and dark lords to save the girl from Satan's grasp.

There's even a level where players can take on knife-wielding unbaptized babies. Kill enough of them, and players will unlock an "achievement" called the "Bad Nanny" award.

The anticipated new release from video game maker Electronic Arts is only one of several console games to recently make a list of eight devilish titles compiled by Lance Christian of Alton, Ill., and reported by Susan Brinkmann of the Catholic group Living His Life Abundantly in a blog post titled "Gaming for Satan."

"This has been going on for the last 10 years, but especially in the most recent games," said Christian of the satanic trend in gaming. "It wasn't until last month when I said, 'enough is enough!' I'm a gamer, but I'm deep into my faith and I think God is showing me this so I can make other people aware of it."

"Dante's Inferno" came in No. 7 on Christian's list, but it was the only one to get the multi-million-dollar exposure of advertising during the Super Bowl.

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Reports: Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson to oppose radical SEIU appointee; Update: SEIU e-mail coordination

I filled you in last October on Craig Becker, the radical SEIU lawyer whom President Obama nominated for a slot on the National Labor Relations Board.

Well, in the wake of his abominable health care takeover sellout, beleaguered Democrat Sen. Ben Nelson is reportedly joining the GOP opposition to Becker. The Massachusetts Miracle increases the chances of torpedoing Becker's nomination.

Via The Hill:

Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson (D) on Monday announced he would oppose Craig Becker's nomination to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) -- a move that could ultimately scuttle Becker's confirmation indefinitely.

Senate Democratic leaders needed the help of their entire 59-vote caucus, plus one Republican defector, to invoke cloture this Tuesday on Becker's nomination, which has awaited a full Senate vote since the summer of 2009. But Nelson's decision to oppose the White House's top candidate for the job seriously threatens those plans, as it now appears Democrats will not have the votes they need to proceed as intended this week.

Nelson outlined his objections to Becker's nomination in a statement issued late Monday, stressing he felt the former AFL-CIO lawyer would "take an aggressive personal agenda to the NLRB, and that he would pursue a personal agenda there, rather than that of the Administration."

"This is of great concern, considering that the Board's main responsibility is to resolve labor disputes with an even and impartial hand," Nelson added. "In addition, the nominee's statements fly in the face of Nebraska's Right to Work laws, which have been credited in part with our excellent business climate that has attracted employers and many good jobs to Nebraska. Considering these matters, I will oppose the upcoming cloture motion and the nomination." ...

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Transparency??? The President's Blocking Off Shore Drilling And Not Telling US

During his State of the Union Address President Obama gave us hope that the US would finally tap its own resources to make us energy independent:

... But to create more of these clean energy jobs, we need more production, more efficiency, more incentives. That means building a new generation of safe, clean nuclear power plants in this country. It means making tough decisions about opening new offshore areas for oil and gas development. It means continued investment in advanced biofuels and clean coal technologies ...

Sadly like most of the promises coming from this President this pledge came with an expiration date. Only this expiration had a short window, only five days. When President Obama sent out his budget, it showed a decline in revenue from oil land leases, meaning he planned to be more restrictive in allowing off-shore-drilling than before.

But, as Billy Mays used to say, there's more.

... On its last business day in office, the Bush administration published a proposed draft of a five-year plan to lease areas in the Atlantic and Pacific waters for oil and natural gas drilling. The plan authorized 31 energy exploration lease sales between 2010 and 2015 for tracts along the East Coast and off the coasts of Alaska and California.

Hopes that America would soon develop vast untapped energy reserves were dashed when the incoming Obama administration ordered all federal agencies and departments to halt all such pending regulations until they could be reviewed by incoming staff. Incoming Interior Secretary Ken Salazar extended the public comment period by 180 days.

Last April, Salazar said President Obama told him regarding the comment period "to make sure that we have an open and transparent government" and to make sure that DOI was "maximizing the opportunity for the public to give us guidance on what it is they want us to do" about expanding domestic energy exploration and development.

Well, the public provided no small amount of guidance. The Interior Department announced in September it had received more than 530,000 comments. It did not say, however, how many supported or opposed expanded drilling. It's now four months after the close of this extended comment period, so where are the results? What happened to the open and transparent process? ...

Starvation by Stimulus: Federal Receipts Are Dropping Faster Than Obama Admin, CBO Can Sharpen Their Pencils

White House Budget Director Peter Orszag and Congressional Budget Office Director Doug Elmendorf have a problem: They can't revise their budget estimates quickly enough to account for the continued bad news about tax collections arriving daily from the Treasury Department. Luckily for them, but unfortunately for taxpayers, an establishment media obsessed with PDS (Palin Derangement Syndrome), TDS (Tebow Derangement Syndrome), and TPDS (Tea Party Derangement Syndrome) isn't paying any meaningful attention to the problem.

Back in August of last year, the CBO guesstimated that collections during fiscal 2010 will amount to $2.264 trillion. That guesstimate assumed a 7.5% increase over the $2.105 trillion collected in 2009, and clearly depended heavily on a revival in private-sector economic growth and employment.

Well, economic growth has occurred. The problem is that it's the government that has grown, while the private sector has shrunk. Additionally, according to the Establishment Survey published by Uncle Sam's Bureau Labor Statistics, seasonally adjusted total employment has continued to fall.

Thus, CBO dropped its estimate of fiscal 2010 receipts in projections it released in late January to $2.175 trillion. The collections guesstimate in the Obama administration's budget is actually a bit lower:

Planned Parenthood Pushes Sexualization of Ten-Year-Olds

One indication that moonbattery is not just misguided but evil is that progressives have an obsession with corrupting children. This is why, under our Hopey Changey regime of pure moonbattery, our federal "Safe Schools Czar" is a militant pervert associated with NAMBLA. It's also the reason for this:

""" A new report by the International Planned Parenthood Federation is advocating that children as young as 10 be given extensive sex education, including an awareness of sex's pleasures."""

This latest push to sexualize 10-year-olds provides yet another opportunity for moonbats to open fire on Christianity, which they once again equate with Islam. Complains the federally funded abortion mill's report (PDF):

""" Young people's sexuality is still contentious for many religious institutions. Fundamentalist and other religious groups the -- Catholic Church and madrasas (Islamic schools) for example -- have imposed tremendous barriers that prevent young people, particularly, from obtaining information and services related to sex and reproduction. Currently, many religious teachings deny the pleasurable and positive aspects of sex and limited guidelines for sexual education often focus on abstinence before marriage ..."""

Understandably, since abstinence does not produce costumers, Planned Parenthood disapproves of it -- even among children.

According to PP, their 10-year-old potential customers are "sexual beings" in need of "comprehensive sexuality education." Therefore sex ed should present sexuality as a "positive force for change and development, as a source of pleasure, an embodiment of human rights and an expression of self."

Michelle Turner, president of the Maryland-based Citizens for a Responsible Curriculum, notes that once again progressives are trying to shove parents out of the picture, the better to impose their social engineering. Ed Mechmann, spokesman for New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, observes that PP is attempting to undermine traditional values -- and that PP makes money selling contraception and abortion.

Obama Getting Desperate On Health Legislation, Convening Summit

In a sign that smacks of incredible desperation regarding his signature, and outsourced, legislation -- and also shows that he still does not comprehend that the economy and jobs are the top issues facing this country -- Obama made a big announcement during his little interview with Katie Couric, a time period in which most football fans probably switched the channel to the Puppy Bowl rather than listen to this drivel

... President Obama said Sunday that he would convene a half-day bipartisan health care session at the White House to be televised live this month, a high-profile gambit that will allow Americans to watch as Democrats and Republicans try to break their political impasse. ...

In other words, another forum for Obama to push his stale, tired, and unpopular ideas and plans. We will be treated, not that many people will watch, to a long winded teleprompter speech, a cute grandstanding event. Hey, whatever happened with that jobs summit Obama convened back in December?

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Palin's 6 Words vs. Media's Ignorance to the Real News

The media and the Left cannot let a Sarah Palin appearance go by without trying to find something--anything--to discredit her. It's become not only predictable, but downright funny. The latest drive-by assault on Palin--that she wrote 6 words on her hand--is being treated like a national scandal.

How short their memory is. For that last year we've witnessed numerous examples of President Obama's staged press events and town halls--most recently the Politico reported on Obama's preselected questions for an Organizing for America forum on February 5, 2010:

The four pre-selected questions Obama took were the exact issues he stressed this week: health care, small businesses, jobs and education, in that order.

Obama is rarely seen without a teleprompter and in the off chance his speech writers can't put together a masterpiece for him, it's a disaster.

So, let's take a walk down memory lane, shall we, because, the MSM seems to have forgotten the online town hall debacle and the control the Obama White House has had on them since the 2008 election. In addition, American Spectator previously reported:

Using a screen is nothing new for Obama; almost nothing he said in supposedly unscripted townhall events during the presidential campaign was unscripted, down to many of the questions and the answers to those questions. Teleprompter screens at the events scrolled not only his opening remarks, but also statistics and information he could use to answer questions.

Also forgotten were the preselected reporters, in addition to his complete reliance on the teleprompter--Palin was dead-on when she said, referring to Obama, that he was "A charismatic guy with a teleprompter."

Palin spoke for over 40 minutes and only used note cards; but the media pounces over 6 keywords written on her hand--not even answers but words. Andrew Bretibart is right when he stated, "It's you that sucks."

To the MSM, so willing to assail Palin, I have a question. Why do you write your questions down?Can't you memorize them? You only get one question to ask during a press conference, maybe a follow-up. What's wrong? You need to write it down. Interesting.

Finally, rather than trump up Palin stories, couldn't the MSM concern itself with some real news?For example, in 2009 Obama's policies set a number of "records", including record bank failures, record foreclosures even with assistance, record car dealership closings, and record lows in air travel.

And the one that poses the most threat to Americans--record terror attacks since 2001. Then there is the newly breaking story of Tim Geithner's problems with the AIG bailout--now that's a scandal.

Planned Parenthood's Superbowl Battle

There is just something about this Tebow Superbowl ad that seems to have really gotten under the skins of the pro-abortionist groups like Planned Parenthood and others. I think its because they perceive that their whole agenda has been called out and they were left rocking backwards on their heels. A lot of the pro-choice groups are crying foul that we have to be 'exposed' to something as damnable as a story about a mother who was advised to have an abortion%85 but chose not to... in "contravention doctors' orders" (ala Rachel Maddow).

Apparently, such divisive matters should not be presented to us during the Superbowl%85 far better to focus on what unites us: clever beer commercials and scantily clad women and the occasional wardrobe malfunction.

I think I know what is really going on, why they are so hostile. I think it is because they understand that their agenda can only be furthered when it happens under the radar. The worst thing in the world, from their perspective, is that the topic be out in the open. Like the cockroach and termite, their only hope is that no one notices while they do their nasty work, for if someone did, out would come the spray. And light is the medium by which they are spotted. ...

How would the legalization of same-sex marriage affect your liberty?

Let me just quickly review how traditional marriage supporters are being treated in the prop 8 trial by Judge Walker. ECM sent me this article from National Review.

Excerpt:

""" Take, for example, Walker's resort to procedural shenanigans and outright illegality in support of his fervent desire to broadcast the trial, in utter disregard of (if not affirmatively welcoming) the harassment and abuse that pro-Prop 8 witnesses would reasonably anticipate.

[...]Take the incredibly intrusive discovery, grossly underprotective of First Amendment associational rights, that Walker authorized into the internal communications of the Prop 8 sponsors...

[...]Take Walker's insane and unworkable inquiry into the subjective motivations of the more than seven million Californians who voted in support of Prop 8. """

But the thing I want to focus on is the way that same-sex marriage would reduce the liberties of people who believe in traditional marriage, because this is something that is never discussed.

Consider this article from Jewish scholar Dennis Prager about the effects on your liberties that would occur if same-sex marriage became the law of the land.

Excerpt:

""" Outside of the privacy of their homes, young girls will be discouraged from imagining one day marrying their prince charming -- to do so would be declared "heterosexist," morally equivalent to racist. Rather, they will be told to imagine a prince or a princess. Schoolbooks will not be allowed to describe marriage in male-female ways alone. Little girls will be asked by other girls and by teachers if they want one day to marry a man or a woman.

The sexual confusion that same-sex marriage will create among young people is not fully measurable. Suffice it to say that, contrary to the sexual know-nothings who believe that sexual orientation is fixed from birth and permanent, the fact is that sexual orientation is more of a continuum that ranges from exclusive heterosexuality to exclusive homosexuality. Much of humanity -- especially females -- can enjoy homosexual sex. It is up to society to channel polymorphous human sexuality into an exclusively heterosexual direction -- until now, accomplished through marriage. But that of course is "heterosexism," a bigoted preference for man-woman erotic love, and therefore to be extirpated from society.

Any advocacy of man-woman marriage alone will be regarded morally as hate speech, and shortly thereafter it will be deemed so in law.

Companies that advertise engagement rings will have to show a man putting a ring on a man's finger -- if they show only women fingers, they will be boycotted just as a company having racist ads would be now.

Films that only show man-woman married couples will be regarded as antisocial and as morally irresponsible as films that show people smoking have become.

Traditional Jews and Christians -- i.e. those who believe in a divine scripture -- will be marginalized. Already Catholic groups in Massachusetts have abandoned adoption work since they will only allow a child to be adopted by a married couple as the Bible defines it -- a man and a woman.

Anyone who advocates marriage between a man and a woman will be morally regarded the same as racist. And soon it will be a hate crime. """

You can already see it happening in many places. Just this week Dr. J blogged about how Princeton University promotes or sponsors LGBT speakers who advocate for open marriage, but they won"t promote or support a student group that favors abstinence.

Comments will be strictly moderated in keeping with Obama's hate crimes law.

Christian Doctors Group Says Abstinence Study Conforms to What Parents Want

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A national Christian doctors organization is applauding a new study showing how abstinence education is more effective than either comprehensive sexual education or teaching only about contraception. They say the results coincide with polling data showing parents favor teaching their children abstinence.

Dr. David Stevens, the head of the 16,000-member Christian Medical Association, said he appreciated the new study, published in the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine.

Science has finally caught up with logic and what parents have known for centuries by empirically demonstrating that equipping teens to abstain from sexual activity is an effective way to prevent teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases," he said.

Stevens told LifeNews.com: "It is notable that John B. Jemmott III, the University of Pennsylvania professor who led the federally funded study, candidly admitted, 'I think we've written off abstinence-only education without looking closely at the nature of the evidence.'"

"What we should learn from this experience is that while science itself is objective, scientists themselves can be biased and can mislead the public and policy makers," he said.

Stevens pointed out that a survey from Zogby International shows that when parents become aware of what abstinence education versus comprehensive sex education actually teaches, support for abstinence programs jumps from 40% to 60% while support for comprehensive programs drops from 50% to 30%.

Some 59 percent of parents said more funding should go to abstinence education; 22% said more should go to comprehensive sex education."

Stevens said it is time for abstinence education opponents to realize that abstinence education is effective.

"Many groups and individuals up until yesterday had relentlessly railed against abstinence programs as totally ineffective, even counterproductive," he said. "They had used their own studies to convince many legislators, including President Obama, to eliminate federal funding for abstinence programs altogether, in the process depriving teens and their parents from a potent resource that can mean a lifesaving difference."

He concluded: "It turns out that when it comes to educating their children on matters of sex, Mom and Dad really do know best."

Related web sites:

Christian Medical Association - http://www.cmda.org

Feds claim authority to regulate in-state commerce

The federal government is claiming in court documents demanding the dismissal of a gun-law challenge in Montana the authority to regulate in-state commerce under the Constitution's Commerce clause.

But the plaintiff in the case says the court needs to review that provision in its amended form -- since the 10th Amendment, adopted after the Commerce Clause, can be viewed as modifying the Constitution's provisions regarding the regulation of commerce, specifically granting additional authority to states.

The argument is arising in a lawsuit filed in Montana against U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and others. The complaint seeks a court order that the federal government stay out of the way of Montana's management of its own firearms within state boundaries.

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Lila Rose assaulted by Planned Parenthood escort

At approximately 11:50am on Thursday, December 17th, 2009, Live Action President Lila Rose was struck by a male uniformed Planned Parenthood escort. The attack occurred on a public sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood affiliate located at 1691 The Alameda in San Jose, California.

Lila Rose was visiting the abortion clinic with a group of about 20 students and three adults to pray and provide information to women who might be open to abortion alternatives.

According to a police report filed at the scene, supported by several witnesses, the following interaction took place between Miss Rose and the uniformed Planned Parenthood escort:

Rose, from the public sidewalk: "Sir, are you familiar with the abortion procedure?"

Escort approaches Rose rapidly from Planned Parenthood parking lot, says, "You idiot. You've caused so much trouble. You piece of crap."

Rose offers to show Escort a picture: "Can I show you a picture of what it really does to a baby?"

The Escort strikes Miss Rose's hand, knocking literature and Bible to the ground. Rose steps further back on sidewalk, Escort steps towards Rose.

Escort, visibly shaking, says, "It's a woman's choice!"

Rose says, "What about the baby's choice?"

Escort says, "It's not a baby!" Escort turns around and walks away.

Police were called and interviewed the victim and several witnesses. Rose sustained no injuries from the attack. Charges of assault and battery are pending. There have been no apologies.

Live Action maintains a strong commitment to non-violent public discourse. We expect Planned Parenthood will respond to their escort's attack by publicly disavowing the use of violence.

Gallup: 64% say media did fair or poor job as watchdog on Obama's 1st year

... Most Americans appear unimpressed by the media's performance as government watchdog in the first year of the ... Obama administration. A third say the media have done an "excellent" or "good" job of filling this important role of a free press, 37% say their performance has been "fair," and 27% rate it "poor." ...

The plurality of Americans (43%) say the news media's performance as watchdog under Obama is on par with how it did during previous administrations; however, by 31% to 21% the remainder tilt toward believing the media has done a worse, rather than better, job under Obama. ...

New housing sales "unexpectedly" fall 7.6% in December

Reuters falls back on its favorite adverb when delivering bad economic news, in one of the most expected events in economic journalism:

... Sales of newly built U.S. single-family homes fell unexpectedly in December, data showed on Wednesday, the latest indication that the government-led housing recovery might be losing some steam.

The Commerce Department said sales fell 7.6 percent to a 342,000 unit annual rate from an upwardly revised 370,000 units in November. It was the second straight month that new home sales declined.

Analysts polled by Reuters had expected new home sales to increase to a 370,000 unit annual pace from November's previously reported 355,000 units.

U.S. stock indexes fell on the data, while government bond prices held at higher levels.

"This isn't good news. It should put some pressure on the market, especially coming after the disappointing outlooks we saw," said Dan Cook, senior market analyst at IG Markets in Chicago. ...

How "unexpected" could this possibly be? In the last four weeks. we've learned that:

* US "nexpectedly" lost 85,000 jobs in December

* Overall home sales "unexpectedly" dropped 16% in November

* Foreclosures rose "unexpectedly"

* New housing starts fell "unexpectedly" in December

* Builder sentiment "unexpectedly" fell this month

* Home resales "unexpectedly" plunged in December faster than ever before

Honestly, considering all of these other indicators, a rise in new-home sales would have been flabbergasting. ...

Protests Brew As Planned Parenthood Abortion Clinic Nears Opening Date - Seen for what it is an abortion mill.

Planned Parenthood is set to open its largest abortion center later this year in Texas, but opponents of the procedure have already started a wave of protests they hope will lead the organization to reconsider.

Located in Houston, the building--which will encompass 78,000 square feet--will be the largest facility offering abortions in the Western world.

A group of some 1,200 pro-lifers already held a silent protest outside the construction site on the Martin Luther King holiday, and some of them suggested the clinic was put in a minority neighborhood to target those mothers for abortion services, according to media reports.

One of the protesters on hand, Lou Engle, a Kansas City preacher, told the local ABC station that 76 percent of abortion clinics are in Hispanic and black American neighborhoods.

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MLK's Niece: Planned Parenthood Wrongly Associates MLK With Their Mission

Dr. Alveda King - Please visit www.priestsforlife.org/africanamerican and view the Martin Luther King, Jr. PDF about Planned Parenthood. My uncle didn't even attend their awards ceremony. He didn't write the speech. Could a man who warned against the evils of infanticide in his Letter From A Birmingham Jail; who said "the Negro cannot win if he is willing to sacrifice the future of his children for immediate personal comfort and safety," whose father was staunchly prolife; who said "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere support abortion and killer chemicals called "safe" birth control? Dr. King did support natural family planning. He did teach youth to live purposeful lives. He did not and would not support abortion and sterilization! ...

Planned Parenthood Founder: Large Families Should Kill Infants

Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger wrote the following in a book titled, "Woman and the new race":

The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.

Note that she is not talking about abortion here but rather talking about BORN children. I am sure that some people reading this post are thinking that this statement is a fabrication or a distortion. If that is you, I would direct you to this scan of the page from her book here the statement is found:

... "Sake of those who find difficulty in adjusting old-fashioned ideas to the facts. The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it. The same factors which create the terrirble infant mortality rate, and which swell the death rate of children between the ages of one and five, operate even more extensively to lower the health rate of the surviving members" ...

Now you would think that Planned Parenthood would distance themselves from Margaret Sanger and try to salvage their image but that has not been the case.

Planned Parenthood proudly gives out annual awards in Sanger's name:

... The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) Maggie Awards recognize exceptional contributions by the media and arts and entertainment industries that enhance the public's understanding of reproductive rights and health care issues, including contraception, sex education, teen pregnancy, abortion, and international family planning.

Named after Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, the annual awards cover the following categories: advertising, broadcast media and video, magazine, music, new media, newspaper, and radio. ...

Planned Parenthood even names their clinics after her.

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Osama to Obama: We Take Credit for Crotchbomber

... Osama bin Laden claimed responsibility for the December 25 failed bombing of a U.S.-bound plane and promised more attacks on the United States, in an audio tape Al Jazeera said on Sunday was of the Al Qaeda leader.

Bin Laden, speaking days ahead of major international meetings on how to deal with militancy in Afghanistan and Yemen, said the attempt to blow up the plane as it neared Detroit was a continuation of al Qaeda policy since September 11, 2001.

"The message sent to you with the attempt by the hero Nigerian Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab is a confirmation of our previous message conveyed by the heroes of September 11," bin Laden said on the tape in a message addressed "from Osama to (U.S. President Barack) Obama."

"If it was possible to carry our messages to you by words, we wouldn't have carried them to you by planes," bin Laden said. ...

Obama To Trot Out More Bribes And Empty Promises During SOTU 2010

... President Obama will propose in his State of the Union address a package of modest initiatives intended to help middle-class families, including tax credits for child care, caps on some student loan payments and a requirement that companies let workers save automatically for retirement, senior administration officials said Sunday. ...

... By focusing on what one White House official calls "the sandwich generation" - struggling families squeezed between sending their children to college and caring for elderly parents - Mr. Obama hopes to use his speech on Wednesday to demonstrate that he understands the economic pain of ordinary Americans. The proposals also include expanded tax credits for retirement savings and money for programs to help families care for elderly relatives. ...

Obama's Bank Tax Is Unconstitutional!

... And what the bank tax is is an unconstitutional Bill of Attainder.

The constitution bars bills of attainder in Section 9 of Article I: "No Bill of Attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."

This was a truly revolutionary departure from English law, which had featured Bills of Attainder since the fourteenth century. But when the framers met in Philadelphia to write the constitution, they unanimously decided to ban them. Despite the contentiousness of much of the constitutional debate, there was not one objection raised to the ban.

Thanks to this legal innovation, most of us are not very familiar with attainder. Basically, it is a criminal conviction by the legislature rather than the judiciary, circumventing due process protections of the accused. It is closely linked with "ex post facto" law making, since often the person was punished despite not having violated any law at all.

There is not a lot of US legal precedent when it comes to bills of attainder. But what there is suggests that a bill of attainder might be said to have five elements: ...

Planned Parenthood Wants To Kill Haiti's Orphans Before They Are Born

... "Jim Sedlak of the American Life League and STOPP International notes that the funds are being raised supposedly to provide "family-planning services" and products in Haiti.

"You know, when people are out in the street and they can't get food and they can't get water, the last thing in the world that they need is family-planning services," he laments. "But Planned Parenthood has seen this as a way to make money, as a way to siphon off some of the donations that could be going to legitimate relief services."

Jim Sedlak 1Sedlak describes the kinds of services International Planned Parenthood offers in Haiti.

"According to their information they've done the full range of family-planning services, which means providing the abortifacient contraceptives, providing emergency contraception, also handing out condoms and other kinds of things," he explains..." ...

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Is Recent Astroturf Campaign Part of Dept of Justice Propaganda Unit?

... Is the Department of Justice engaging in fraud, or is it simply trying to hide its propaganda? Those of you wondering how DOJ uses your tax dollars to enforce our nation's laws might be interested to learn that Eric Holder has apparently hired former Democratic campaign bloggers to work at the department in what appears to be a secret propaganda unit. According to a story at The Muffled Oar website, the bloggers are housed in the Office of Public Affairs (the press office). Their job is to place "anonymous comments, or comments under pseudonyms, at newspaper websites with stories critical of the Department of Justice, Holder and President Obama." One of the bloggers is former DNC and John Edwards staffer Tracy Russo, whose name was featured prominently on the department's introduction of its new website on October 1.

At the same time that DOJ was refusing to answer questions about its outrageous dismissal of the voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party and apparently paying government employees to post anonymous or pseudonymous comments or comments under false names attacking critics of the administration, the department declared that it was launching its new website "to increase openness and transparency in government." In fact, Russo claims it is "just the first step towards creating the most open, accessible, and transparent Justice Department possible." If that is true, how can DOJ justify these anonymous/pseudonymous postings? The misrepresentation is clearly material or DOJ wouldn't go to such lengths to engage in it. ...

Hamas is to blame for Israel's failure to aid Gazans

After the earthquake in Haiti, some observers say Israel has traditionally been quick to dispatch aid to natural-disaster victims in distant lands while ignoring the suffering of people much closer to its borders, namely the Palestinians in Gaza, for whose welfare it bears responsibility.

Indeed, Gaza and Tel Aviv are separated by an hour's drive. Gaza and Sderot are five minutes apart, but you have to fly 14 hours to reach Haiti. Yet the main culprit responsible for the Gazans' condition is Hamas, which maliciously sacrifices the population's welfare in the Strip because of its war on Israel. For this reason, the distance between the two disaster areas is irrelevant when discussing the justness of the aid mission.

First, let's remember some facts before criticizing the relief mission for the victims in Haiti. Israel and the Israel Defense Forces gave Gazans the option to be treated at a field hospital near the Erez crossing (both during Operation Cast Lead and afterward). Who prevented this? That's right, Hamas. The IDF transferred hundreds of thousands of tons of food and medical aid to Gaza even while Qassam rockets and Grad missiles were falling on schools and the hospital in Ashkelon. Hamas intercepted these deliveries. The reason that more missiles and explosives - rather than food and medicine - are smuggled through tunnels connecting Gaza and Egypt is, once again, Hamas. The group is also preventing the import of critical building materials to refurbish damaged infrastructure, oddly claiming that this is not one of its priorities.

This is all intended to perpetuate the ruin in Gaza. Also, Hamas prefers to invest in rearmament rather than civilian infrastructure.

Nonetheless, Israel must continue to aid the residents of Gaza with food and medicine. In parallel, it must continue to apply military force to defend Israeli citizens in every way against rockets fired by Hamas. It must hit every enemy without mercy.

As for rescue missions abroad, there are at least three reasons why it is prudent to send aid to any area hit by massive casualties from natural disasters and crimes by brutal gangs. The first is what distinguishes us from other nations: the Jewish culture and tradition that command us to preserve life, not just in Israel. The second reason is that we are the remnants of a nation that has suffered and been persecuted for more than 2,000 years while the world remained silent. The third reason is that Israel's standing in world public opinion is not stellar, so aid missions and the like can help here.

Aid to disaster victims around the world portrays a different Israel than the one depicted in the media - the Israel that systematically oppresses nations and kills innocent civilians. The aid arriving from tiny Israel also strengthens the Jewish community worldwide. The presence of the flag, an officer, a soldier and a doctor from Israel sends a message to other nations that if we can, so can you. After the collapse of Israel's public-relations apparatus, such humanitarian deeds in disaster zones remain the only means to buttress Israel's standing in the eyes of world public opinion.

Those who continue to criticize Israel for its alleged unwillingness to extend aid to the people of Gaza need to take into account the possibility that they are supporting Hamas' baseless accusations and its modus operandi - shooting at schools and hospitals, starving the local Palestinians, and using hospitals as bunkers during war. This, of course, is not an academic conclusion. It's food for thought.

The Astroturf Presidency

Who is Ellie Light?

I predict you'll start seeing the question as a popular bumper sticker soon (a la "Who is John Galt?" ... and voila, someone has already made a t-shirt!).

It's a handy rhetorical rejoinder the next time the White House or your nutroots neighbors and co-workers try to tar the Tea Party or any other grass-roots revolts against President Obama as phony, top-down operations.

When Obama's Soros-funded, Big Labor-directed, K Street-organized goons engage in classic projection and you need a glib way to call out the pot calling the kettle black, just snap back:

Who is Ellie Light?

A Cleveland Plain Dealer blog first broke the story over the weekend of a "suspicious" letter-writer named "Ellie Light" who submitted more than a dozen pro-Obama letters to the editors in recent weeks using addresses from Philadelphia to California and all points in between. Open-source-optimizing blogger Patterico has added much more information on both "Donald Trump Astroturfing" ("a letter published in multiple places from one person claiming to live in multiple cities") and "David Axelrod Astroturfing" ("identical letters published in multiple places claiming to be from different people").

Kudos to the Plain Dealer for smoking out the initial ringer and Patterico and his readers/tipsters for delving deeper. But so much for the rest of the vaunted gate-keepers of the Fourth Estate, eh?

The bogus letters are just the latest example of Obama theater -- doctors in costumes, town hall stage props, trumped-up Obamacare anecdotes, kiddie proxies, etc., etc., etc.

Underscoring this administration's dependence on centrally planned, teleprompter-dependent perpetual campaigns of manufactured support, the other half of Obama's Astroturf Twin Power - David Plouffe - will soon rejoin Chicago cronies David Axelrod, Valerie Jarrett, and the rest to rescue the Democrats in a new expanded role as outside White House adviser.

A reminder from my August 21, 2009 column on Corporate Shills for Hope and Change:

... continued on Michelle Malkin's site ...

Prop 8 On Trial: The battle for "marriage equality" is all about "the children" too

... The battle for "marriage equality" is all about "the children" too - using them, that is, to guilt us all into submission.

Children are pawns in the Leftist strategy of social deconstruction and dominance. As Prop 8 attorney Brian Raum revealed during his cross-examination of Ms. Zia, the Sapphic scribe had previously described marriage as a "patriarchal institution," stating in print that she and her partner had only married in 2004 to defy the "fundamentalist, warmongering regime in Washington."

That doesn't sound very loving, does it?

At one point, Boies asked Zarrillo why he and Mr. Katami hadn't had kids. "Paul and I believe an important step for us to have children is to be married," Zarrillo replied. That's certainly a noble sentiment. But Boies's defiant use of the verb "to have" with regard to gay couples and children begs a question we're not allowed to ask: exactly how do gay couples "have" children? Why not use the more appropriate verb "adopt," or "raise," or "have a surrogate child?"

Letitia Peplau, another "expert" on couple relationships, suggested that a major societal benefit of "marriage equality" is that same-sex couples wouldn't "have" children out of wedlock. Prop 8 attorney Nicole Moss responded by asking Peplau if she agreed that gay men and lesbians do not have children accidentally. "Can two lesbians spontaneously impregnate each other?" Peplau stammered. "Not to my knowledge, no." ...

Dozens of Women to Lead Post-Abortion, Silent No More Effort at March for Life

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- It has become a hallmark of every March for Life in January in the nation's capital and for good reason. That's the gathering of women who have had abortions who yearn for the opportunity to encourage their peers to not make the same mistake they did by having an abortion after an unplanned pregnancy.

From housewives to businesswomen to average Janes and famous people like actress Jennifer O'Neill and Martin Luther King Jr. niece Alveda King -- women from all walks will be present for the Silent No More event.

These courageous women from across the country will testify to their abortion experiences this Friday afternoon in front of the Supreme Court building.

At the site of the landmark where the legalization of abortion began, they will tell about the lives of children who came to an end.

"The Silent No More Awareness Campaign was born of the grief, pain, and suffering that those of us who have had abortions know all too well," says Georgette Forney, a co-founder of the group who has her own personal abortion experience.

"We are growing in number because women have found that abortion is not the answer, it's the problem," she tells LifeNews.com.

Fr. Frank Pavone, the director of Priests for Life will join Forney and other post-abortive women as the March for Life reaches the top of Capitol Hill.

He finds their personal witness more compelling than anecdotes from abortion advocates who claim abortion is good for women.

"The empty slogans of the child-killing industry avoid the realities of abortion," he stated. "The Silent No More Awareness Campaign lives and breathes those realities every day. One can't help but be moved and motivated by their stories."

Janet Morana, another co-founder of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign says the post-abortive women's group will be more visible at the March for Life this year.

"In addition to our signature 'I Regret My Abortion' and 'I Regret Lost Fatherhood' signs, we have distributed across the country over 45,000 new signs that say, 'Women Do Regret Abortion' and 'Men Regret Lost Fatherhood.' The message is simple, but in the lives of our members, profound," she told LifeNews.com.

Since the launching of the Silent No More Awareness Campaign in 2003, 3,423 women and men have shared their testimonies publicly at over 489 gatherings in 48 states and seven countries.

More than 6,200 people are registered to be Silent No More. Raising awareness about the hurtful aftermath of abortion and the help that is available to cope with the pain are two of the campaign's goals.

Related web sites: Silent No More Awareness Campaign - http://www.SilentNoMoreAwareness.org

Louisiana Legislature Floating Bill Making Obamacare Illegal in State

Louisiana State Senator A.G. Crowe (R, Slidell) is introducing a bill for the 2010 legislative session in Baton Rouge that would make Obamacare illegal if it violates state laws, effectively making Obamacare null and void in the Pelican State.

Senator Crowe states that his bill "provides that no law or rule shall compel, directly or indirectly, any person, employer or health care provider to participate in any health care system or health insurance."

Crowe's proposed Senate Bill (download .pdf file) begins as follows:

... HEALTH CARE. Prohibits state or local governmental coercion of any Louisiana employer, health care provider, or individual to compel participation in any health care system or health insurance plan. ...

Crowe insists that Obamacare violates Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution and "is therefore unconstitutional." He also feels that the president's plans violates the 10th Amendment among others.

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