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Jimmy Carter Plans N. Korea Rescue Mission 'Very Soon'
By Rob Quinn
Possibly for the first and only time, Jimmy Carter and Dennis Rodman share a common goal: securing the release of Kenneth Bae , the Korean-American tour guide serving a 15-year sentence for allegedly trying to bring down North Korea’s government. The ex-president—who succeeded in a similar mission in 2010 —plans… …read more
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'America Has No Functioning Democracy,' Says Former Pres. Jimmy Carter
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter thinks Edward Snowden’s NSA leak was a good thing for America and believes the organization’s intelligence gathering methods are undemocratic. …read more
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Obama Slipping But Still Has Juice
By John Zogby, Contributor Democratic Presidents and Presidential contenders have a long history of bad summers. Jimmy Carter’s only term in office was pretty much undone by his famous “malaise speech” of 1979. Who can forget Michael Dukakis riding in the tank in 1988? Bill Clinton used a sworn deposition before a Special Prosecutor to school Americans on “what the definition of is is”. John Kerry went wind surfing, a sport enjoyed by tens of millions of Americans, while his exemplary military service was picked apart by his opposition and Barack Obama just hasn’t had a good summer yet. …read more
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Barack Obama: George W. Bush Fan Or Foe?
By Peter Brown
Prior to being elected President, Barack Obama came across as a real outsider hoping to bring change to a failing system personified in one man: then-President of the United States George W. Bush. Indeed, much of the criticism leveled against Bush was valid. He and the Congress had started long and costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq at a time when America could ill afford to be spending such amounts, given the precarious state of its public finances. Bush had made compromises with treasured civil liberties by passing the invasive Patriot Act and indefinitely detaining suspects at Guantanamo Bay. Some of these suspects at Guantanamo Bay had been tortured by the American authorities. George W. Bush had been a combination of the worst traits of Republicans and Democrats; he had combined the aggressive militarism and nationalism of Republicans, hated by many people worldwide, with the free spending ways of the liberal Democrats, leading to the worst public finances this nation had ever seen (that is, before Barack Obama’s presidency). He gave Obama a mess that unfortunately has been further complicated by Obama instead of cleaned up. Indeed, while many admired George W. Bush’s personal decency, as far as policy was concerned, many began to see Bush’s policies for what they were: disasters.
Many of these things should be no mystery to anyone after Obama rightfully criticized Bush over and over again in the 2008 campaign. It has been noted by some writers that Obama’s policies have been very oddly a continuation of much of what Bush’s policies were while he was in office. Of course, there have been differences as one would hope to see between a “conservative” Republican and a far-left Democrat, but the similarities have been uncanny. Obama has continued Bush’s interventionist ways and has compiled a record of spending that matches his largess.
That is why it was no surprise to see Barack Obama get up and roundly praise the man whom he had routinely condemned to get elected. To see him chum around with the former Presidents both left and right showed what a sham his criticisms of Bush had been. Bush was transformed from the almost devilish figure he had been to Obama in his early days to a man of “compassion and generosity,” a real example (in Obama’s eyes) of what a leader should be. It is clear that Barack Obama has joined the “world’s most exclusive club” and has forgotten the very reasons why he wanted to be elected in the first place. It was also no surprise to see George W. Bush praised by Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton in addition to Obama. Maybe this “conservative” President, this “Reaganite,” is a little more to the left than we had assumed. Maybe our current President is a little more of an insider and a statist than he appeared to be in order to get elected to the world’s most powerful office. Food for thought, at least.
F. Peter Brown is an Associate Editor
NKorea says it will indict American citizen
North Korea says it will soon indict an American detained for alleged hostile acts against the country.
A report from the official Korean Central News Agency on Saturday didn’t say when Kenneth Bae‘s trial will occur.
Bae’s indictment comes amid high tension between Pyongyang and Washington, with North Korea intensifying its war rhetoric against the United States and South Korea.
Bae is the sixth American detained in North Korea since 2009. U.S. citizens detained in North Korea often have been released following visits by high-profile Americans, including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
A North Korean official earlier told The Associated Press that Bae will likely get a harsh punishment — possibly the death penalty — for an alleged attempt to overthrow Pyongyang’s government.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox World News
Video: Michael Savage Attacks Leftist Actor
By NewsEditor
Specifically, he attacks Ben Affleck, who directed the award-winning Jimmy Carter tribute/movie titled “Argo.”
Taxpayers Shell Out Nearly $3.7M For Ex-presidents
WASHINGTON — Former President Bill Clinton’s 8,300-square-foot Harlem office near the Apollo Theater costs taxpayers nearly $450,000. George W. Bush spends $85,000 on telephone fees, and another $60,000 on travel. Jimmy Carter sends $15,000 worth of postage — all on the government’s dime.
The most exclusive club in the world has a similarly exclusive price tag — nearly $3.7 million, according to a new report from the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. That’s how much the federal government spent last year on the four living ex-presidents and one presidential widow.
Topping the list in 2012 was George W. Bush, who got just over $1.3 million last year.
Under the Former Presidents Act, previous inhabitants of the Oval Office are given an annual pension equivalent to a Cabinet secretary’s salary — about $200,000 last year, plus $96,000 a year for a small office staff. Taxpayers also pick up the tab for other items like staff benefits, travel, office space and postage.
The $3.7 million taxpayers shelled out in 2012 is about $200,000 less than in 2011, and the sum in 2010 was even higher. It’s a drop in the bucket compared with the trillions the federal government spends each year.
Read More at OfficialWire . By Josh Lederman.
Former Presidents Cost Taxpayers Big
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In addition to George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Jimmy Carter are federally-subsidized — and the tally isn’t cheap. President who cost $1.3 million last year
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Caddell Unloads On ‘Racketeering’ GOP Consultants
Pat Caddell, the Fox News Contributor and Democrat pollster who engineered Jimmy Carter’s 1976 Presidential victory, blew the lid off CPAC on Thursday with a blistering attack on “racketeering” Republican consultants who play wealthy donors like “marks.”
“I blame the donors who allow themselves to be played for marks. I blame the people in the grassroots for allowing themselves to be played for suckers….It’s time to stop being marks. It’s time to stop being suckers. It’s time for you people to get real,” he told the audience that included two top Republican consultants.
Caddell stole the show as a panelist in the breakout session titled “Should We Shoot All the Consultants Now?” He spoke with a fire and passion that electrified the room. When the session began the large room was half filled, but as word spread of the fireworks going on inside, the audience streamed in. By the end, it was standing room only.
Breitbart News spoke with Caddell prior to his talk, and he promised he would deliver a “brutal critique” of the Republican establishment and its political consulting class. He did not disappoint, pulling no punches with an unyielding evisceration of a small group of Republican consultants, the Romney campaign, the Republican National Committee, and Karl Rove’s Crossroads GPS Super PAC.
“When you have the Chief of Staff of the Republican National Committee and the political director of the Romney campaign, and their two companies get $150 million at the end of the campaign for the ‘fantastic’ get-out-the-vote program…some of this borders on RICO [the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act] violations,” Caddell told the crowd. “It’s all self dealing going on. I think it works on the RICO thing. They’re in the business of lining their pockets.”
Read More at breitbart.com . By Michael Patrick Leahy.
The Comical, Central Planning Fantasy That Is 'Market' Monetarism
From 1979 to 1982, then Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker foisted the now discredited policy of monetarism on the U.S., and the world more broadly. Somewhat happily its utter failure ensured Jimmy Carter’s loss in the 1980 elections, but more perilously this blatant form of central planning so wrecked the Reagan and Thatcher economies (it was practiced by the Bank of England during the same period) that both of these 20th century titans were nearly reduced to a term each as president and prime minister. Notably, in the fall of 1982, Volcker threw this most cruel of economic experiments into the ‘dustbin’ of history, hopefully never to be heard from again. Until now. …read more
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Men Earn Less Under Obama Than Carter
New findings show that the real earning power of men is on the decline, with most earning less today adjusting for inflation than they did when Jimmy Carter was president 34 years ago.
Women, however, are doing much better, taking home more than they did in the late 70s, although they still earn less overall than their male counterparts.
In 1979, according to Face the Facts, a project of George Washington University, the median weekly wage for men 16 and older was $844, compared to $832 in 2011.
The youngest male workers have been hit the hardest. Those in the 16-24 age group have seen their real weekly wages plummet from $566 in 1979 to $455 in 2011, a drop of $111 a week.
Read more at Newsmax. By Lisa Barron.
Video: Obama State Department To Honor Islamist Anti-Semite
By Daniel Noe
The Obama State Department is going to honor Islamist anti-Semite Samira Ibrahim as a “Woman of Courage.” Apparently, posting anti-Semitic tweets and cheering the 9-11 terrorists is seen as courageous to this White House.
Jimmy Carter: Grandson Thanked By Obama For ’47 Percent’ Tape (VIDEO)
By The Huffington Post News Editors
Former president Jimmy Carter told CNN’s Piers Morgan that President Obama personally thanked his grandson for his role in the release of the infamous video of Mitt Romney‘s “47 percent” remarks last week.
“When James went to meet President Obama, President Obama ran across the room, embraced him and thanked him profusely for his time, by the way,” Carter said in an interview airing Thursday evening.
The meeting, which Politico reported last week, occurred during Obama‘s post-State of the Union trip to Georgia to tout his education proposals.
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What Rand Paul Missed In His Foreign Policy Speech
By Louis Woodhill, Contributor
Mitt Romney’s defeat in the 2012 elections has prompted considerable Republican soul-searching. After all, Barack Obama had delivered the worst economic performance since Jimmy Carter (if not Herbert Hoover), and he still won a clear victory. …read more
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Former presidential yacht subject of court fight
The owners of the former presidential yacht Sequoia are asking a Delaware judge to prevent a lender from seizing it.
Sequoia Presidential Yacht Group claims in a Chancery Court lawsuit filed late last week that FE Partners reneged on a $5 million loan agreement in a “dastardly” plan to take control of the historic vessel.
Washington, D.C.-based FE Partners says the lawsuit is grossly inaccurate and without merit.
The Delaware lawsuit was filed after a New York judge dismissed a similar complaint last month on jurisdictional grounds. Both parties are Delaware limited liability companies.
The Sequoia plaintiffs claim that FE Partners lent only half the $5 million that was promised, leaving them in financial distress and subject to “trumped up” default claims that allow FE Partners to buy the yacht at a fire-sale price of $7.8 million.
According to the plaintiffs, the 104-foot Sequoia, built in 1925, is the longest-serving presidential yacht in American history. It was the official yacht for presidents from Herbert Hoover through Jimmy Carter.
The Sequoia was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987 and is currently docked at a marina about a mile south of the U.S. Capitol. The yacht is available for rental, at about $10,000 per charter.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Fox US News
Leftist Judge Rules Against Ballot Security To Prevent Election Fraud!
31 years ago, the RNC entered into a consent agreement to settle a lawsuit brought by the DNC not to peruse suspected voter fraud or prevent voter fraud. The RNC has been held to that consent agreement to this day. Each time they go to court to remove the consent agreement, a particular judge comes out of retirement to rule against the RNC requests.
New Jersey District Judge Dickinson R. Debevoise, appointed by Jimmy Carter, ruled to keep in place a 30-year-old restriction against the RNC “which is national in scope, limiting the Republican National Committee ‘s ability to engage or assist in voter fraud prevention”
The judge cited voter suppression of minorities outweighing the impact of voter fraud.
There are serious reasons for concern of voter fraud:
1) Pew Research Center states in 2012 –
“Voter registration in the United States largely reflects its 19th-century origins and has not kept pace with advancing technology and a mobile society. States’ systems must be brought into the 21st century to be more accurate, cost-effective, and efficient.
Research commissioned by the Pew Center on the States highlights the extent of the challenge:
- Approximately 24 million—one of every eight—voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or are significantly inaccurate.
- More than 1.8 million deceased individuals are listed as voters.
- Approximately 2.75 million people have registrations in more than one state.”
2) The American people support voter ID laws by an overwhelming 74% (Washington Post.)
Hispanic Americans support voter ID laws by an overwhelming 71 % (Pew Research Center.)
3) The presidential election of 2000 was won by only 500 votes.
4) Local elections can be won by just a handful of votes.
5) People who believe their vote does not count or will be canceled out by fraud are unlikely to bother to vote.
Multiple left leaning groups are being criminally investigated for voter fraud schemes in the swing state of Florida.
6) 160 counties in the U.S. have more registered voters than people living in those counties.
Question: Have you seen any documented examples of voter suppression?
They appear to only be in Michelle Obama’s dreams.
Judicial Watch challenged her accusation, but it went unanswered.
Scott Gessler, CO Sec of State stated: “These accusations are built on a foundation of sand,” referring to voter suppression. He also states that the opposition to voter ID is well-financed and organized. “Disenfranchisement hysteria is, frankly, silly”
During a 1981 gubernatorial election in New Jersey, concern was raised over voter suppression; and the Democratic National Committee sued the RNC. That one incident in NJ 30 years ago came with a “consent decree”, stipulating that the RNC was prohibited from pre-election “ballot security” activates:
As modified in 1987, the Decree defined “ballot security activates” to mean “ballot integrity, ballot security or other efforts to prevent or remedy vote fraud.
One section is particularly disturbing. Areas where minorities are living are in particular off limits for voter fraud protection measures. What message does this send to the DNC? Answer: Voter fraud will be allowed in minority areas; please target your efforts in those neighborhoods as this court is giving you a get-out-of-jail free card:
(e) refrain from undertaking any ballot security activities in polling places or election districts where the racial or ethnic composition of such districts is a factor in the decision to conduct, or the actual conduct of, such activities there and where a purpose or significant effect of such activities is to deter qualified voters from voting; and the conduct of such activities disproportionately in or directed toward districts that have a substantial proportion of racial or ethnic populations shall be considered relevant evidence of the existence of such a factor and purpose;
It should come as no surprise that voter fraud issues are rampant in the swing states districts where minorities make up a large percentage of the population.
Furthermore, the Court held that the RNC was barred from asserting this argument because the RNC willingly entered the Decree as a means of settling the initial 1981 lawsuit and the RNC again consented to the Decree, as modified, in 1987. The District Court also held that the Decree did not violate the First Amendment because, under the Decree, the RNC is free to communicate with state parties about subjects other than ballot security. Additionally, the Court noted that the First Amendment applies only to state actions and does not prevent private parties from agreeing to refrain from certain types of speech.
Prior to the 2012 elections, the RNC again attempted to have the consent decree vacated. An Obama-appointed Judge Joseph Greenway, Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit, denied the petition.
This past week’s ruling on Monday, January the 14th by the SCOTUS to refuse to hear the case brought by the RNC to end the consent order suggests there will be no end to rampant voter fraud; this ruling is an open invitation to the DNC and it’s affiliates to perpetrate fraud with no repercussions, accountability, or scrutiny.
Obama won the 2012 election by 400,000 votes in 4 swing states. All of these states had precincts that had statistical miracles of 99% of the vote going to Obama and voter registration numbers far in excess of their actual population counts. Additionally, all of these same states had claims of voter machine errors changing individual votes cast from Romney to Obama. With the RNC’s hands tied, barring them from any action to remedy the situation, we are bound for more of the same in the upcoming 2014 and 2016 election cycles.
No U.S. citizen should ever have to wonder if their vote was canceled out by a fraudulent vote. The system is set up to fail the legitimate voter; we demand integrity, full transparency, and accountability in our elections!
What is the solution to this predicament? See my article Addressing Voter Fraud – A 14 Point Plan For 2013. Force action by your State Representatives and Governors, or be content to be obsolete.