A Palestinian State Is A Horrible Idea

A Palestinian State Is A Horrible Idea

By: J. D. Longstreet

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If you have been paying attention, at all, you know the US and Israel are on a collision course. Wait a minute! Let me make that a bit clearer. The Obama Administration is on a collision course with Israel, and by Israel I mean the coming Netanyahu Administration there.

The Obama Administration/Regime is supporting a state for Palestine. Netanyahu does not. (My money is on Netanyahu. As a matter of fact, I wish he were qualified to be President of the US and would agree to run in 2012. But, alas, it isn’t going to happen!)

Mrs. Bill Clinton, the US SecState, is going to be pushing Bebe, as hard as she can, toward a two-state deal. Bebe is not going to move. Threats will be made… SOME will be carried out. Money will be cut off. SOME money will be cut off. Our Christian/Islamic (?) President is already pouring billions into to Gaza for Hamas and he will get all persnickety about it. Bebe will not kow tow and kiss his feet. That will rankle Obama.

Look, the creation of a Palestinian state will do nothing to bring stability to the region. In fact, there will be more war, more instability, and more suffering.

A Palestinian state would effectively open up a front that starts ten miles from Tel Aviv and reaches 1,000 miles deep across the Arabian Peninsula to Teheran. That, alone, will be cause for Israel to go on their highest military alert and stay there 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In other words… all the time. The buffer zone Israel counts on to give her time to activate her reserves and get them mobilized will no longer exist. That short period of time, so vital for the defense of Israel, will be gone. Therefore, Israel will have no choice but to adopt what, for all practical purposes, will be a “state of war” as a normal, everyday, lifestyle.

There is a school of thought, in Israel, which says Israel would not be the first target of a Palestinian State military. That distinction, according to this theory, must go to the country of Jordan whose population is 80% Palestinian. This line of thinking has it that the Palestinians will want to complete the coup against the Hashemite Kingdom they began back in 1970. The Palestinian State will certainly want to clear the region of its one remaining moderate, western-oriented Arab state. Once that job is completed and their military enlarged by the “Jordanian/Palestinians,” THEN they can turn their attention to Israel.

How dimwitted is it for the US to put any trust in the government of a state whose children’s textbooks teach “holy war” against Israel?

Mrs. Clinton has been assuring the Middle Eastern states that the Obama Regime is determined to continue the Bush policy of two-states as a solution to the brawl between Israel and the Arab terrorists who insist on calling themselves Palestinians. Again, it is a dumb idea for the US. No matter the president… it is D U M B!

Lets see: Right now we have Syria, Iraq, and Iran giving us pain in the posterior and the Obama Regime is dead set on adding a fourth with a state of Palestine? Again, I ask, how dimwitted is this? But, I forget! We have the “creame de la creame” in DC, the “best and the brightest” of the academicians, many of whom seem to be educated beyond their collective abilities, concocting these schemes from left-wing dreams of “group-hugs” among nations.

So, we must ask ourselves just how prepared are the Arabs (aka Palestinians) for statehood, anyway? Has there been any preparation for oh, say, industrialization? How about their work on developing export markets? Have they given any thought to negotiating trade arrangements with their next-door neighbor, Israel? I think we all know the answer to all the above is… NO. So, it is safe, then, to assume that a state of Palestine would be wracked with poverty which will require billions of dollars in foreign aid from which the chieftains will bleed off their shares and get rich while piling up hordes of cash in numbered bank accounts far from the Middle East.

No, a Palestinian state will only ensure the continuation of war, terrorism, and bloodshed. The one thing we can be sure it will not bring to the Middle East is… peace.

J. D. Longstreet

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Conservative Palestine+Israel+Jews+Arabs+Americans

States’ Sovereignty Granted by the US Constitution

States’ Sovereignty Granted by the US Constitution
By J. D. Longstreet

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Every so often an issue comes along that continues to nag at me until it precipitates some sort of action. The “State Sovereignty Movement” has done that.

As I have observed over the past weeks and months the “State Sovereignty Movement” continues to sweep the nation with very nearly half the fifty states taking action through their respective state legislatures, I have become uneasy that I have not seen, nor heard, of any action emanating from the NC General Assembly.

I did a little research, on the web, and learned that the silence I sensed from Raleigh was just that… silence. So far, North Carolina has not taken up the matter, at least in public.

So, being a good citizen, I decided that I ought to draw the attention of my State Representative and my State Senator to the “State Sovereignty Movement” and, while I was at it, the Governor of the Great State of North Carolina, as well. I patched together a letter and sent it by e-mail to all three. Below is the text of that letter:


Dear Representative, Senator, and Governor of North Carolina:

As you know a number of states in the US are re-asserting their state’s sovereignty under the 9th and 10th Amendments to the US Constitution as a means to stop or, at least retard, the uncontrolled expansion of the federal government’s power. As of this writing nearly half of the nation’s state legislatures are considering, or have representatives actually preparing to introduce, resolutions in their respective state legislatures, which re-assert the principles of the 9th and 10th Amendments to the US Constitution and, in particular, the idea that federal power is strictly limited to specific areas which are detailed in the Constitution and that all other governmental authority rests with the states.

It is my firm belief that the balance of power in this nation has tilted much too far, and for entirely too long, toward the federal government and I believe it is now time for the states to begin a restoration of that balance.

Please do not misunderstand. This is not a movement toward secession. I have no wish for such an end. My ancestors tried that and suffered greatly for it, as did this state. I have no interest in secession… at all.

Here is the gist of it: I am of the belief that the Founding Fathers of this country intended a balance of power between the states and the federal government. Their writings make it clear they did. For Instance, James Madison, the “Father of the Constitution,” wrote: ”The powers delegated to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, [such] as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce. The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people.” (From “The Federalist”)

I only suggest it is time for the State of North Carolina to re-assert her rights and tell the federal government enough is enough. We have had our fill of “unfunded mandates” and run away federal government. It is time, I believe, to tell the federal government that the state of North Carolina is tired of the US Congress passing legislation which dictates policy to North Carolina, and handing that policy down from Washington without adequate federal funding and with the federal government expecting, and intending, that the treasury of North Carolina bear the cost of those programs. Oftimes, those unfunded programs, are programs, which the people of the state of North Carolina had no real say, no real input, in approving. It is, I believe, time to tell the federal government to cease and desist mandates that are beyond the scope of it’s constitutionally delegated powers. Further, I believe the state of North Carolina should insist, as does the state of Arizona, that all compulsory federal legislation that directs states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or sanctions, or requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

The “State Sovereignty Movement” is sweeping the nation with some twenty states demanding the federal government operate within the powers granted it by the US Constitution. I am given to understand that Oklahoma, Washington, Hawaii, Missouri, Arizona, New Hampshire, Georgia, California, Michigan, and Montana will all, definitely, consider sovereignty bills this year. Some say there is a good chance they will be joined by Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Alaska, Kansas, Alabama, Nevada, Maine, and Pennsylvania. Legislators in those latter states have pledged to introduce similar bills this year.

I respectfully ask that you consider introducing/supporting a State Sovereignty Resolution in the NC Legislature this session. You know the budget constraints this state is suffering and you know the federal government is making it worse, not better, and, too, the current administration is likely to hand down even more unfunded mandates in the months just ahead.

I submit, Sir/Madam, the people of the state of North Carolina are frustrated with the federal government’s dictating how North Carolina spends her money. It is time, indeed, I believe past time, for the Tar Heel State to stand up for her rights, granted under the US Constitution, and demand that the federal government begin acting as the agent of the people of the states as the US Constitution intended and made clear.

I respectfully submit this concern as a citizen of the great state of North Carolina.

I have the good fortune to remain,

Your Obedient Servant,

So far, as of this writing, I have had an acknowledgement of receipt of the e-mailed letter only by the Governor’s office. It is entirely possible, and indeed, probable, that I will only hear about this from my Representative and my Senator the next time we meet. As we all three live in the same very small county it happens.

I mentioned in the letter that nearly half the states had taken, or were expecting to take, some sort of action soon on State Sovereignty. Later, I stumbled across a site that said some 31 states are committed to, or claiming to be, involved (to some degree) in the State Sovereignty Movement. If true, that is heartening.

There is no doubt the states have been relegated to second-class citizenship in the US. That is just WRONG!

I took a look in my crystal ball and, for the life of me, I could see no indication of the effect the sovereignty movement will have on future relations between the states and their “agent”… the federal government. Only time will tell.

However, I must tell you, it does this old southern boy’s heart "good" to see “State’s Rights” again brought to the fore in the United States.

As with all Americans we “Southerners” get a lot of things wrong. But we have been right on the issue of “State’s Rights” all along. See, southerners had a bit more than just a signature invested in the creation of the Constitution, itself. There was never any doubt, in our minds, about who “the greater” and who “the lesser” was/is in this association of states and federal government. I must tell you, I am more than a little pleased to find the names of several northern and western states, and even northeastern states, included in the list of the names of the states involved in the State Sovereignty Movement.

Washington would do well to take notice, serious notice, of this movement. The Congress and the President may have forgotten, but it is “the boss” filing this complaint. It is very easy to sit in Washington and spend North Carolina’s money, or the money of the folks from Texas or Oklahoma. But, believe me when I tell you that we have been paying attention and we do not like having our state’s treasuries looted by a heavy-handed federal government.

The current Congress would do well to read up on the “Ordinance of Nullification” passed by my home state of South Carolina in 1832. You can read it for yourself HERE. Suffice it to say State Sovereignty is NOT a NEW issue in this country. It appears we will have to visit it yet again.

J. D. Longstreet

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Conservative+States+Sovereignty+Constitution

The High Price of Climate Lies ... by Alan Caruba

The High Price of Climate Lies
By Alan Caruba

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The global warming hoax didn’t happen over night. It is generally dated from an appearance before Congress by Dr. James E. Hansen in 1988 predicting a dramatic rise in the Earth’s temperature based on the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. At that time, Dr. Hansen, Director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, warned that steps had to be taken quickly to reduce CO2 emissions.

Ever since then, Hansen has been active in his effort to convince everyone that he’s right and condemning anyone an opposing point of view. “The science is settled” has been the mantra of men like Hansen and, of course, the bilious Albert Gore of “An Inconvenient Truth” fame.

The background music has been supplied by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that has merrily falsified alleged scientific data to advance the hoax while the UN Kyoto Protocol imposed limits on CO2 emissions. Most of the nations that signed it have largely ignored it, discovering that it harms their economies. The U.S. avoided signing, but Americans have elected a President who is utterly devoted to this “solution” to a problem that does not exist.

In “Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don’t Want You to Know”, co-authors, Patrick J. Michaels and Robert C. Balling, Jr., the former a professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia and the latter a professor of the climatology program in the School of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University, lay out just how the actual science has been deliberately distorted and politicized.

Two factors have been at work. One is money. Much of the funding for climate research comes from the U.S. government. To get that funding, the science has to fit the political agenda of whatever administration was in power. The second factor is media coverage of the issue. Journalism thrives on bad news and, after gleefully reporting a coming ice age in the 1970s they embraced an apocalyptic global warming and the vocal environmental movement in the 1980s.

Despite the fact that the Earth, based on weather satellite data, is now ten years into a distinct cooling cycle, the mainstream media continues to embrace global warming as real along with the cries to end the use of coal for the generation of electricity. Coal, one of the most abundant and inexpensive sources of energy in America, accounts for just over fifty percent of all the electricity Americans use daily.

“Climate of Extremes” points out that “As virtually all global warming science is a publicly funded enterprise, political dynamics must in part be involved. At the simplest level, global warming is just one of many scientific issues competing for funding. AIDS and cancer, for example, are competitors.”

There is an additional factor that cannot be ignored. “The reward structure in academia—promotion, tenure, and salary—is based on the quality and quantity of peer-reviewed research. The requisite level and number of publications for tenure is virtually impossible to achieve without substantial public funding.”

In short, environmental extremism was very good for the careers of those who kept attributing everything from allegedly endangered polar bears to the shrinking snow cover on Mount Kilimanjaro to global warming while warning against it.

While Al Gore grew rich and famous working the global warming hoax, it seemed like everyone, including prestigious organizations like the American Association for the Advancement of Science wanted to get in on the act. On June 15, 2004 they put together a panel of U.S. climate scientists to discuss global warming, but the panel was totally composed of its advocates and no dissenters. By that time, however, a Gallup poll revealed that a plurality of Americans had concluded that the news reports were exaggerations.

By then, even prestigious journals such as “Science” and “Nature” had totally disgraced themselves by publishing allegedly peer-reviewed articles about global warming. National Geographic continues to publish comparable nonsense.

Thanks to the ardent efforts of countless environmental organizations, global warming had been totally integrated into the thinking of those inside the Beltway so that millions of taxpayer dollars, then and now as part of the stimulus package have been spent to prove what the actual science demonstrates is bogus.

Indeed, on March 8-10, the second annual International Conference on Climate Change will take place in New York, bringing together several hundred climatologists, meteorologists, economists, and others to further dismember the hoax.

Meanwhile, the true cost of the global warming hoax lives on in idiotic government mandates for blending ethanol with gasoline or demands for “alternative energy” (wind and solar) unsuited to providing anywhere near the billions of megawatts the U.S. requires to function. If a “cap and trade” proposal regarding greenhouse gas emissions passes Congress, an invisible, baseless tax on energy will be imposed on all Americans.

We have all been lied to by a shameless confederation of scientists, their professional publications, their formal organizations, and politicians seeking to use this big scare to advance their careers and agendas. The problem for all of them is that the real science does not support global warming and never did.

Real scientists, branded dissenters, skeptics, and deniers, held true to the principles of science, knowing that it would eventually end this vast and terrible hoax.

Alan Caruba writes a daily blog at http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/. Every week, he posts a column on the website of The National Anxiety Center, http://www.anxietycenter.com/.

© Alan Caruba, March 2009

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Global+Warming+Climate+Change+Religion+Pagan+Socialism+Ethanol+carbon+Tax+hoax

Obama Giveth And Obama Taketh Away!

Obama Giveth And Obama Taketh Away!
J. D. Longstreet

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About those tax breaks Obama promises. You might want to prepare, in advance, for your income tax filings the next year because, as I understand it, that tiny increase in your “take home pay”, as a result, will be treated as income the next year and you WILL have to pay taxes on it. In other words… you’ll have to give the money back.

When I heard this explained, I roared in laughter! I actually laughed until my eyes teared up! Every few minutes, when it would came to mind again, I’d break out laughing again. It never fails to amaze and amuse me at how utterly gullible, and even stupid, the American people can be.

Obama is running a shell game on the country and people are actually trying to guess under which walnut shell the pea is located. It never occurred to anyone there was never a pea on the table to begin with. But the rules of the game say you let the suckers win the first round… (The tax break from The Benevolent One…Obama) and then you take it back… and a hell of a lot more… as the suckers try to guess the location of the pea, which isn’t even on the table any more.

I know, I know. You’re ticked off at me, already. (Those of you who have read this far.) I understand. Really, I do! Nobody likes to have his or her stupidity held up for the world to see. I understand that. I’d be embarrassed too, had the messiah taken me in as he did so many of you.

I don’t count myself any “brighter” than the average guy. What I have is experience. I’ve been around for a long time now and I have been interested in politics since the 2nd World War. I have watched national politics, and politicians, and I have observed the games they play and the way they manipulate people. I must tell you Obama is a past master at manipulation. The guy is, as my mother would say: “full of himself.” The guy has an ongoing love affair with himself. He understands the sole reason for your existence, and mine, is to serve him. Plus… he is quite pleased with that arrangement.

During the campaign, someone mentioned that it was interesting to watch Obama’s eyes as Obama watched the crowds watching HIM! He feeds on it. As a gas explosion sucks all the oxygen from a room, Obama will suck all the energy out of a room. He is one of the most frightening men I have ever seen in my long lifetime.

So what’s next? A lot!

I know the folks down in south Texas are not going to want to hear this but as soon as is practicable, the Amnesty Bill will be back… and this time it will pass. Obama and the democrat/socialists want the votes. And they will get them. Of course, if the worldwide recession brings on the full collapse of the Mexican government, as some experts are forecasting, hordes of illegal aliens from Mexico will flood north across the border into the US pushing us to the brink of disaster. Then comes chaos and anarchy. (And the new US Attorney General wants to relieve Americans of those “Scary-Looking" Assault Weapons!)

The Obama Administration has only just begun. Look at what is on the agenda:

The Amnesty Bill (It won’t be called that but that will be what it is.)
Gun Control (This will induce some sort of Ammo Tax and Ammo Tracking program to learn who buys ammo and what kind, etc.)
Universal Healthcare (including lowering reimbursements for Medicare and Medicaid)
The “New” Fairness Doctrine (It won’t be called that… but that is what it will be.)
Massive Tax increases (They say on the wealthy…but, hey, “you know what” rolls downhill… and so do tax increases!)
Another Vietnam (in Afghanistan. Look for a military draft proposal to begin circulating in the not to distant future)
Cap and Trade (This is the CO2 reducing program. Even though CO2 is absolutely necessary for life on this planet, it is now deemed a pollutant! How bright is that, huh?)
End Global Warming (The globe isn’t warming. At least Obama has an easy one here. Ending something that doesn’t exist is imminently easy!)

Well, you get the picture… right? We can only hope!

Someone, somewhere, the other day, referred to Obama’s style of governing as “Command and Control Government.” That pegged it, exactly. Of course, the SOCIALISTS have been doing this for almost a hundred years now. They call it “Central Planning.” Same thing!

When all this gets to the Senate and the House I hope they understand that if they pass all these hits on “Big Business”… you know, the companies that own all those industries in America… all those industries that provide ALL THOSE JOBS FOR AMERICANS… Yeah! THOSE COMPANIES…that those industries will pick up and leave the US.

Look, if I was the CEO of one of the top corporations in America today, I would have teams out scouting the globe looking for suitable places to move my company… lock, stock and barrel. There are countries on this planet drooling at the prospect of getting those jobs and that money injected into their economies and they will bend over backwards to make big business and big industry feel right at home. In fact, if those countries are smart they will have teams of their own scouting the world of big business, in the US, making it known that they would happily welcome the relocation of a business to their climes and they stand ready to reciprocate with what ever concessions that company requires or wishes.

On the other hand, us poor slobs left to pay the taxes, so the government will have the money to pay for Obama’s schemes, are going to get the brunt of the hurt. Joblessness. When the companies leave… so do the jobs. No jobs means no salaries. No salaries means no money to pay taxes. No money to pay taxes means the government will have to make some more money. I mean… they will have to print more money. With each new dollar bill printed the value of the dollars in your wallet goes down. We call that inflation. Your money will be virtually worthless. So, what little money you may have will buy practically nothing.

What is the REAL VALUE of a US one dollar Federal Reserve Note today? Compare it against the “silver spot price.” Some estimates put the real value of a one-dollar note at between five cents and seven cents.

OK, OK. So they tell us the dollar is really ONLY a unit of measurement. (Like an inch, or a pound, or a gallon, or a mile.) I understand that. But, in the real world the value of the dollar is decided when you exchange your dollars for goods and services. I am afraid, in the not too distant future; the goods and services your dollars will purchase will decrease drastically.

Do you see the vicious cycle here? That is where we are headed. But, never fear, the government WILL tax whatever money you manage to make through your labor.

One morning Americans will awake to realize that the government is taking between 80 and 90 percent of the money they make every payroll cycle! When that happens, dear heart, don’t whine, and don’t complain, and don’t moan. Americans asked for it… and Americans brought it on themselves. Americans will be treated like a child with an allowance because that is what Americans said they wanted when they voted for Obama and the democrats/socialists in Congress. When you hire the fiddler, you have to pay the fiddler. Payment time is almost here.

Americans said they wanted the government to take care of them and the government is more than happy to comply. They will suckle you from the cradle to the grave. That is another reason we conservatives call it a “Nanny State.”

The left in America is finally going to realize their dream of a European style socialist state in America. But so many American are “history challenged” they don’t realize that European style socialism has been allowed to exist only because the United States was a capitalist society providing the money and a HUGE market, and, most importantly, the military power for European security. The US became the police force of the world keeping not only The States safe for democracy, but also keeping Europe safe for socialism! Even Canada, our next door neighbor, came to be known as the “kinder, gentler, nation” simply because the United States was their southern neighbor, their “Big Brother”, with all the muscle, and Canada knew the US would never allow anything to happen to them.

Well, that is about to end. When it does, and it will be very soon now, which country will provide the security for the Europeans states? Scarier still, which country will provide security for the United States? If I had my druthers, I’d immediately make a deal with Israel to provide the military security for the United States! Maybe we could get a package deal and lease the IDF and the Mossad from Israel? Do you think?

The bottom line is… I’d rather be broke and free than be rich and a slave! The “Obamanation” will not be a free nation. We are losing our freedom, bit by bit, by bit every day under this Obama administration.

Some of you got your backs bowed at the freedom(s) you lost under The Patriot Act. So did I. So, allow me to inquire: Why haven’t the democrats/socialists in Congress, and our socialist President, revoked, or repealed, the Patriot Act? They have the power. They have the control. For all intents and purposes, they OWN the law making machinery. They don’t need a single republican or conservative vote to get rid of the Patriot Act. But I see no action, not even a whisper about the possibility of repealing the Patriot Act. None! Why? They haven’t, and they won’t, because the Patriot Act can be very helpful, very useful, to the democrats/socialists in power in the US today.

No, dear reader, we’re not JUST writing of the loss of money in all those government bailouts and loans and nationalizations hitting us on an almost weekly basis. No. Read the fine print. You will see the freedom we Americans are losing already tops the three trillion dollar budget Obama sent to the Congress a few days ago.

We Americans owe an apology to all the men and women who, over the years, have given their very lives, who actually fought, bled, and died to secure and to preserve those freedoms for us. We have insulted them. It is the greatest of all insults. It is to say their sacrifice had no meaning. Their lives had no value and their deaths had even less meaning. From Valley Forge to Baghdad they shed their blood to protect and preserve America’s freedom. Now we tell them, and their descendants, it was all in vain.

Free Americans have spoken. They have chosen this pathetic end to the glorious dream that was America.

J. D. Longstreet

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Conservative+US+Obama+Taxes+Freedom+Collapse

Conservatives Launch Campaign For Free MARKET HEALTH REFORM

Conservatives Launch Campaign For Free MARKET HEALTH REFORM
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CONSERVATIVES FOR PATIENTS’ RIGHTS LAUNCHES MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR CAMPAIGN PROMOTING FREE-MARKET HEALTH REFORM SOLUTIONS
March 3, 2009, Washington, D.C.

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Conservatives for Patients’ Rights (CPR) today launched a multi-million dollar campaign to promote free-market health care reform solutions as the debate begins in Washington, D.C. The organization is led by Rick Scott, Co-Founder and Chairman of Solantic Corporation and the Founder and former CEO of Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corporation; a company he helped make into one of the largest and most successful health care providers in the world. The campaign will be a multi-phased, national grassroots initiative to educate the public about the necessary elements for meaningful health care reform.

“Any meaningful health care reform must be rooted in the patient-centric principles of choice, competition, accountability, and personal responsibility. Any program that doesn’t include these free market principles and has Washington bureaucrats making decisions instead of doctors and patients is not meaningful health care reform,” Scott said.

The CPR initiative launches today with a national advertising campaign including a three-week, $500,000 television ad buy on CNN and FOX News (in the DC market) and on popular radio talk shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. The campaign will also target website readers at Politico, Real Clear Politics, National Review Online, and the Fox News website. The second phase of the campaign will focus on the effects of nationalized health care.

“Early indicators here in our country are deeply concerning. The stimulus bill included a national health board similar to the one in Britain that could potentially lead to bureaucrats making health care decisions rather than patients and their doctors,” Scott said.
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conservative+universal+healthcare

UN Treaty Says Children’s Rights Outweigh Parental Rights.

UN Treaty Says Children’s Rights Outweigh Parental Rights!!
This treaty would ban spanking, home schooling, and even church attendance …if the kids reject them!
By: J. D. Longstreet

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What we are writing about here is... the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. This horrific UN treaty has been around for a good 20 years now and 193 countries have signed on to it. Only two countries have not signed it. The US and Somalia! (Go figure!)

The Clinton Administration signed it but it was never sent to the Senate for ratification. It was understood, at the time, that it had a snowball’s chance of being ratified by a Senate with a teaspoon full of common sense. But common sense is something in extremely short supply in the Senate, and the House, for that matter, these day. It is almost certain to be ratified if brought up before the socialist Senate we have today. And... guess what? California democrat (What else), Barbara Boxer, is pushing to have it brought up in the Senate for consideration. More than likely she will have her way.

The bottom line is… the treaty would, first and foremost, strip mothers and fathers of their parental rights! And it would strip the US of its sovereignty and reclassify this country as a vassal state of the United Nations which, of course, means our constitution would be totally useless as we would be ruled by the UN… not by our own laws.

Experts who have studied the document say: “…the treaty, which creates "the right of the child to freedom of thought, conscience and religion" and outlaws the "arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy," intrudes on the family and strips parents of the power to raise their children without government interference.

Why is this treaty so dangerous to the sovereignty of the United States? A few days ago I wrote of the “Supremacy Clause” in our Constitution. I inferred that it was a dangerous few words. Well here is WHY it is dangerous: Because of the Supremacy Clause, in Article VI of the Constitution, all treaties are rendered "the supreme law of the land," superseding preexisting state and federal statutes. Any rights or laws established by the U.N. convention could then be argued to hold sway in the United States.

So who will say how you can rear and how you can teach your kids? A committee appointed by the UN and sitting in Switzerland, will make the parental decisions for you, for the parents of children in all countries signatory to the treaty. That’s who!

Some even go so far as to suggest that the government will decide how you punish your kids for, oh, say, smoking dope, or… even if you CAN punish your child. The government will decide, if you can make you kids go to church, or not allow them to go to the prom, etc. Parents will no longer be able, legally, to make those decisions. The government will do it.

Ask Steven Groves, a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, what he thinks. He will tell you: “To the extent that an outside body, a group of unaccountable so-called experts in Switzerland have a say over how children in America should be raised, educated and disciplined -- that is an erosion of American sovereignty." He is absolutely correct.

None of this matters as Senator Boxer has made it clear she intends to push, energetically, to get the treaty ratified by the US Senate. There is reason to believe the Obama administration will side with Boxer on this and push it through the Senate to ratification.

We are convinced this is all a part of the push for that “One World Government” we continually warn about in this space.

There is an excellent report on this at Fox News. Com HERE.

J. D. Longstreet

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Conservativ+Children+ Families+Parents+Rights+US+Constitution+Law e

Obama: Pants on Fire ... by Alan Caruba

Obama: Pants on Fire!

By Alan Caruba

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There is simply no point going forward without acknowledging a simple truth. President Barack Obama is a shameless liar.

One always feels constrained to pass judgment on a President, assuming that he has access to information only his office can possess. Then there’s the long campaign in which, in theory, the candidate was thoroughly vetted by the mainstream media.

In truth the MSM made almost no attempt to investigate the rather thin resume and biography of Obama. If you think about it, he had already written two biographies by the time he ran for office. One assumes he thought himself the only subject worth writing about.

The media, with a few notable exceptions, became a group of swooning teenage girls. They made those of us who had been fulltime journalists cringe.

Several books were published about Obama during the campaign and one of the best was by Dr. Jerome Corsi, a political scientist, and the data he unearthed or was unable to unearth depicts a pathologically deceitful man. The world has yet to have seen Obama’s real birth certificate, nor any evidence of his school and college records. There is no paper trail for Obama and you can be sure that is no accident.

Even when he served as editor of the Harvard Law Review, Obama contributed just one article to it, but where he secured the funds to attend, first Columbia University and then Harvard remains a mystery too. There is some testimony to the effect that it came from Saudi patronage. Why the Saudis would give support to a professing Christian is another mystery, if in fact the story is true.

Obama is a mean-spirited liar. When he announced the withdrawal of troops from Iraq he never once used the word “victory” even though he was addressing an audience of military personnel.

Iraq is unquestionably a victory for our military. It is now a functioning democracy.

Moreover, 50,000 troops will remain in what is called a training or “protective” capacity. That is far less than the 140,000 we had at one time, but it’s hard to call it a full withdrawal. Not once! Not once did Obama make any reference to former President Bush’s achievement.

And some troops, perhaps 14,000, will transfer to Afghanistan. Obama is going to discover that Afghanistan will become his war. Those of us who think it is a very bad war, far worse than the Iraq expedition, will be as vocal as he was about “Bush’s war.”Bush conquered a relatively modern nation, but Afghanistan is the wild lands ruled by tribes. Right beside it is Pakistan, coming apart as this is written, the prey of the Taliban who want to turn this nuclear-armed nation into a 7th century redoubt from which to wage war. Afghanistan is essentially a counterinsurgency operation and they take years to achieve any success and, as often as not, fail. Ask the Russians.

All those billions and trillions being conjured up by the financial wizards that Obama has surrounded himself with are completely disconnected to his claims of millions of new jobs, a quick turnaround of the economy, or any other of his many lies to justify the borrowing, taxing and spending that will leave this nation far worse off than any deficit he faced when taking over the office.

It is for this reason that the Dow plunges every time he speaks in public about the economy. As he begins his third month in office, more and more ordinary, common sense people are beginning to distrust him as much as I have for a very long time.

He is no friend to investors who are thunderstruck by his ineptitude.

He is no friend to the banks that suffered from the toxic assets the Democrats put in motion with their idiotic demand that loans be made to those who everyone knew would never pay them back.

He is no friend to corporate America.

He is no friend to small business owners whose taxes will rise.

He is no friend to the working man whose increasing unemployment can be traced in part to his performance in office and the policies he has announced.

He is no friend to Israel, our most important ally in the Middle East.

He is no one’s friend except Michelle’s and she is his Lady MacBeth.

He is the worst kind of liar; one who does not care if the lie is revealed.
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