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Obama Keeps His Promise…

By Dr. Kevin "Coach" Collins

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In a surprising acknowledgement of the truth, the Associated Press has reported that “Four out of 5 U.S. adults struggle with joblessness, near poverty or reliance on welfare for at least parts of their lives, a sign of deteriorating economic security and an elusive American dream.” The damning report, based on what the AP calls exclusive survey data, continues with “…the widening gap between rich and poor and loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs as reasons for the trend.”

Given Barack Obama’s latest “pivot” toward the problems of unemployed Americans – which by some accounts was his 19th announced such “pivot”- the AP’s swerve into the truth is encouraging.

Obama’s pious speeches emphasizing that his highest priority is rebuilding the “ladders of opportunity” aside, the AP’s reports  that whites now see their futures evaporating on his watch. White Americans (who are 68% of our population) are more pessimistic today than at any time in the past 25 years, with over 60% of white Americans describing our economy as “poor.”

In a rarely seen and very stinging acknowledgement of the truth from our mainstream media, the AP reports that white insecurities and economic fears are “more pervasive than is shown in government data..” More than 75% of whites who are at or near 60 years old suffer anxiety over their financial future.

Other important findings from this “cat out of the bag” report are equally damning of Barack Obama’s fraudulent “fight for America’s [white] middle class.”

  • More than 19 million whites are living under the $23,021 per family of four poverty line.
  • Poor whites in America make up 41%, or double that of poor blacks.

This is not to say that non-whites are free from economic worries: The AP also reports that 90% of non-whites feel themselves to be financially at risk. Nevertheless, the biggest increases in the rate of poverty by ethnic group are being experienced by whites, with 76% enduring at least some periods of joblessness or dependence on public assistance during their lifetime.

The statistics included in this report are stark refutations of Obama’s claims to be working to make our lives better. He ran on a promise to fundamentally change America, and he is fulfilling his promise. Those who voted for him and the media who lied for him are getting what they voted for. Now even his cheerleaders at the Associated Press have started to report the truth. Maybe that light at the far end of the tunnel is sunlight; but maybe it’s another truck driven by Obama. Time will tell.    

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Western Journalism

Low Taxes Earn Florida No. 1 Rank In Wealth Migration

By Breaking News

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This article was originally published by watchdog.org.

A new study by Travis H. Brown called “How Money Walks” explores how people and money migrate from one state to another. And although the exact causes are difficult to nail down, one thing is clear: Americans are moving from high-tax and heavily regulated states to low-tax states with less regulation.

That’s according to the data Brown gathered from the Internal Revenue Service Division of Statistics and the U.S. Census Bureau.

Since 1992, no other state has benefited more from wealth migration than Florida.

An estimated $95.6 billion poured into the state economy, dwarfing Arizona’s next highest gain of $28 billion.

Almost half of Florida’s capital influx came by way of New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

Read More at Human Events . By William Patrick.

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Poll: 34 Percent Of Americans Believe That The First Amendment Goes Too Far

By Breaking News

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According to a survey released by the Newseum Institute on July 16, 34 percent of Americans believe that the First Amendment goes too far in the rights it guarantees.

The jump from 13 percent in 2012 might be attributable to the fact that the survey was conducted shortly after the Boston Bombings, which has led to citizens being more willing to sacrifice rights for safety. A comparable but even larger jump in percentage happened after September 11.

Young people are more willing to agree that the First Amendment goes too far; 47 percent of those surveyed between the ages of 18 and 30 think so — a percentage which steadily decreases as the age bracket increases. Only 23 percent of people 60+ agree. Minorities are also more likely to agree that the First Amendment goes too far.

Read More at Human Events . By Caroline Mahony.

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Newt Gingrich, Bobby Rush Spar Over Trayvon Martin Case, Hoodie On Congress Floor (VIDEO)

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich jabbed at Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) on Sunday, circling back to a decision the Democratic representative made to honor the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin.

Back in March 2012, Rush was thrown off of the House floor for wearing a hoodie in protest of Martin’s shooting. He clamored that “racial profiling has to stop,” but also broke Congress’ rule of wearing hats in the chamber while the House is in session.

A little more than one week after George Zimmerman was found not guilty in Martin’s shooting death, Gingrich ripped Rush for the 2012 hoodie move on CNN’s “State Of The Union.”

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Video: Jesus Versus Liberace And Several Other Contenders

By Steve Eastman

It was a surprise at Thursday morning’s Emmy Nomination announcement. Roma Downey even calls it a blessing.

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Documents Detail Implosion At Leading Conservative Christian Political Firm

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Hundreds of pages of email and text message correspondence made public last week shed new light on the infighting and organizational disarray that have plagued America’s leading conservative Christian political consulting firm in recent months.

As BuzzFeed reported in June, the Columbus-based Strategy Group for Media — which has represented dozens of Tea Party and religious right Republicans, including Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Michele Bachmann, and Newt Gingrich — has been mired in lawsuits and internal tumult since last spring, when seven of the firm’s managers staged a religious intervention with their CEO, Rex Elsass. After the managers made their demands in a dramatic meeting that culminated with them laying hands on their boss and praying for his soul, Elsass fired three of his top lieutenants, including his longtime protege and Strategy Group president Nick Everhart.

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Newt Gingrich: The GOP Is Light-Years Behind Downton Abbey

By The Huffington Post News Editors

WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich walks into a room, still short of breath from the three-flight walk-up that leads to the National Review Washington bureau, and sits down next to bureau chief Robert Costa.

Former House Speaker Gingrich, 69, briefly shakes hands with the small group of reporters invited to the early morning session Thursday. Then almost immediately, he launches into a soliloquy on how his grogginess is caused by his favorite TV show — which just so happens to be an apt metaphor for why the Republican party is in trouble.

“I have to tell you, I’m slightly not awake yet because once again last night we watched an additional episode of Downton Abbey,” Gingrich says. “One night last week we were up until two in the morning because it was one of those, ‘We have to see the next one.'”

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Video: Obama’s Promise To Muslims

By NewsEditor

In Cairo a few years ago, Obama promised to ensure Muslims could fulfill “ZAKAT.” What is “ZAKAT”? And what are the implications of this promise?

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LeVar Burton, CliffyB Among Winners of Google Glass Contest

a report compiled by Stanford computer science Ph.D candidate Andrej Karpathy. Karpathy assembled a list of public notices sent to winners by @projectglass and unsurprisingly, it features a fair number of celebrities including Neil Patrick Harris, Cliff Bleszinksi, Alyssa Milano, Kevin Smith, and LeVar Burton, the last of whom deserves a special shout-out for his #ifihadglass tweet: “#ifihadglass It would be a downgrade. –Geordi La Forge.”

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Obama Administration Ready To Raise The Price Of Gas Again

By Breaking News

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Expensive gasoline is a signature of the Obama Era, and it’s going to shoot up another 6 to 9 cents per gallon under new Environmental Protection Agency rules, if the oil industry’s estimates are correct. An estimated additional cost of $130 per car on new vehicles will also be part of the package. The goal of these regulations is to reduce tailpipe emissions by cutting down on the amount of sulfur and nitrogen oxide in gasoline. The cost won’t be easily absorbed by a weak economy struggling to emerge from years of anemic growth.

The EPA, of course, says the gas price increase will be much smaller – only a penny or two per gallon – but as Charles Drevna, head of the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, ruefully noted to Fox News, “I haven’t seen an EPA rule on fuels that has come out since 1995 that hasn’t said it would cost only a penny or two more.” For what it’s worth, the American Energy Alliance notes that the price of gasoline in California, where these fuel standards are already in effect, is 38.9 cents per gallon higher than the national average.

It should come as no surprise that much of this proposed gas price increase is a tithe to the bizarre Church of Global Warming, which soldiers on even after the total debunking of “global warming” mythology over the past two years. In fact, according to CNS News, the Obama Administration is now amusing itself by issuing reports that say we were going to have a brutal Ice Age, but “because of humans, the next ice age has been ‘delayed indefinitely.’” That’s how the cult leaders are claiming that global warming is real, despite the utter lack of verifiable evidence that any significant “climate change” is occurring. So… another wing of the Administration wants to spend billions to reduce the very same emissions that are protecting us from a new Ice Age?

But leaving the radical environmental lunacy aside, there could be significant health benefits from the new regulations due to reduced sulfur emissions, and the corresponding health care savings might offset, or even outweigh, the increased gasoline cost. Some auto manufacturers think the new standards will also improve fuel efficiency, which would ameliorate sticker shock at the pump.

Read More at Human Events . By John Hayward.

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Newt Gingrich: Republicans Can’t Win Just By Beating Up Hillary Clinton

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Newt Gingrich is talking to me about landing on the moon.

But he’s not being a space cadet; he is building an argument about how Republicans have to get in touch with reality by conjuring up positive plans. Gingrich believes the GOP made huge mistakes in last year’s campaign—he doesn’t exempt himself—by believing its own propaganda.

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Newt Nails It

By Steve Deace

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Back in January, I wrote a column for Townhall.com expressing my disappointment that Newt Gingrich appeared to be waving the white flag in defense of marriage.

This time, I come not to bury the former House Speaker but to praise him. In the wake of Senator Rob Portman deciding his son’s thoughts on sexuality are more important than God’s, Gingrich was one of several Republican standard-bearers asked to comment on the issue of marriage by the mainstream media.

And in an interview on CNN, Gingrich gave about the best answer a politician in his position possibly could:

“Well, my stance (on marriage) hasn’t evolved. I believe as the Bible teaches, marriage is between a man and woman. I actually think that marriage is between a man and a woman no matter what politicians decide. I don’t think they have the power to change what is a religiously inspired definition. I’m not going to second guess Rob Portman. He’s an old personal friend. I think when you have somebody in your immediate family who comes out, you have three choices: You can say, ‘I believe my principles so much, I’m kicking you out.’ You can say, ‘I still believe in my principles, but I love you.’ Or you can say, ‘Gee, I love you so much I’m changing my principles.’ Rob picked the third path. That’s his prerogative. I’m not going to second guess him. But I would also say that historically in the long run, marriage will be between man and woman, that’s been the definition for thousands of years and I don’t think politicians will change that.”

Gingrich may be Catholic, but this is an answer that even the Protestant reformer Martin Luther would’ve been proud of because this is grace and law at its finest. The fact it came in less 300 words to a culture with a short attention span is a bonus. Gingrich’s approach to this question in this particular interview is one that should be emulated by conservatives who will be forced to follow in his footsteps.

First, Gingrich clearly asserts the standard, and where the standard comes from. Instead of falling into the trap of using politically-correct terminology like “traditional marriage” Gingrich simply calls marriage what it is—“marriage.” If we didn’t already have a definition for marriage, we wouldn’t have to argue over redefining it, so why do those who accept the proper definition preemptively volunteer to redefine it themselves? Gingrich also calls upon the Word of God as where he gets that understanding from. For too long, we have been gun shy about doing this. The Word of God is sharper than any double-edged sword, and it’s the best weapon we have. So why would we mothball it? Imagine a general who had a weapon at his disposal to devastate his enemy, but he chose not to use it in battle because it would offend his adversary. What kind of general would do that? Answer: a very bad one. Gingrich calls upon the Bible as the …read more
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Second Amendment: Old School Style

By capblack

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I’m not a New Black Panther. I do have claws, but they’re equal opportunity instead of being anti-White.

My brief isn’t scaring White folks on FOX NEWS or anywhere else by making empty race war threats for national airtime.

I’m also not like mainstream liberal Black activists, foaming at the mouth over Badge-On-Black crime committed infrequently by bad cops, while mum about daily Black-on-Black crime committed by thugs I unlovingly label as “chocolate Klansmen.”

I’m all about Urban Safety, i.e. the God-given right of inner city and other urban Americans to secure themselves and their property against homegrown insurgents.

It’s an old school concept, given the new fervor (really the same old anti-Black Self Defense Argument) on disarming urban stakeholders so we make better targets for thugs.

My personal “Urban Safety Act” is voted upon daily by not accepting the vulgarity and violence some wish to make an inner city norm.

I can take the easy way out and blame Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Republicans for what we do to ourselves on a regular basis.

Blaming White conservatives for Black (liberal-inspired) crime is a comfy cottage industry.

When yet another young Black man is killed, I could wrap a towel around my neck and sell out as “Cap Black, The Gun Control Crusader” and blame firearms manufacturers for what some Black folks do.

If I scratch where it doesn’t itch hard enough, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might throw me a couple of dollars like I’m a monkey buck-dancing to his civilian disarmament organ grinder.

Urban safety is today’s civil right movement, reinforced by a Second Amendment that allows us to defend ourselves like citizens of a Republic, instead of disarmed slaves awaiting abuse.

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HUFFPOST HILL – Leon Panetta To Nation: Paint Me?

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum tried to form a unity ticket, but failed because they were… presidential candidates. Jennifer Granholm isn’t running for Senate but we’re still holding out hope that Detroit native Jerry Bruckheimer will test the waters. And a group of Vermonters want to secede from the Union. Assuming they can forswear pacifism and come up with an irritatingly-named Ben and Jerry’s flavor to commemorate the occasion (“Stars and Candy Bars?”), we wish them the best. This is HUFFPOST HILL for Friday, March 22nd, 2013:

VOTE-A-RAMA GIVING MICHAEL BENNET AND JERRY MORAN STROKES – “Mark Begich says he’s for expanded drilling, but then why did he vote for [AMENDMENT THAT WILL UNDOUBTEDLY BE INTRODUCED AT 2:00 AM]???” NBC News: “It’s time for one of the Senate’s dizzying spectacles: the vote-a-rama, a series of rapid-fire votes on dozens of amendments to the budget resolution. The sponsor of each amendment and one opponent are each permitted just one minute to argue for and against it. Senators can offer new amendments even as the helter-skelter process is underway. Some, perhaps many, of these amendments will have nothing to do with the budget or fiscal policy. And the budget resolution itself won’t be adopted by the House, so these amendments aren’t going to determine policy, at least not in the near term. But party operatives on each side are keeping score — these votes are fodder for the campaign ads you’ll see in 2014.” [NBC News]

@chadpergram: Some 400 amendments are filed to the budget. 51 are filed by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).

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Gingrich-Santorum Ticket? It Almost Happened

By John Johnson Another coda to the 2012 presidential race, and it’s a doozy: Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum came this close to mounting a Romney mutiny in the form of a Gingrich-Santorum ticket, reports Josh Green at Bloomberg Businessweek . Or maybe Santorum-Gingrich: The secret talks broke down because the two couldn’t agree… …read more
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Video: Obama DOJ Officials Call Co-Workers Token Negros

By Daniel Noe

Mark Levin and his guest have the details on a new report from the DOJ Inspector General that Eric Holder would probably prefer you don’t know about!!

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'The Conservative Case Against More Prisons'

By Matt Stroud, Contributor

The concept is not new: There is a right-leaning, small-government, spending efficiency argument to be made that there are better ways to deal with sentencing and incarceration in the U.S. Conservative luminaries such as George Will and Newt Gingrich have made prominent arguments relatively recently that could just as easily come from the NAACP or Human Rights Watch, and some of the most potent arguments for prison reform have come from voices aligned with the Libertarian party. …read more
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Newt Gingrich: John McCain’s Criticism Of Rand Paul Is ‘Sad’

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) on Thursday defended Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), saying Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) criticism of their decision to filibuster the president’s pick for CIA director was “sad.”

Speaking on Fox News, Gingrich doled out criticism of his own, questioning McCain’s “maverick” moniker.

“What I find sad about Sen. McCain’s recent comments both to Ted Cruz … and with Rand Paul, is, you know, when I first knew John McCain in the House — he was a maverick. In the Senate, for years, he was a maverick,” said Gingrich.

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Newt Gingrich: I’d Go On ‘Celebrity Apprentice,’ Donald Trump Is A ‘Phenomenon’

By The Huffington Post News Editors

Donald Trump is Newt Gingrich‘s kind of guy, the former speaker of the House said Wednesday.

Speaking to conservative radio host Laura Ingraham, Gingrich praised Trump as a “phenomenon,” before going on to say that he would be open to going on the real estate mogul’s reality TV show.

“Oh sure. I mean, why not?” Gingrich said in response to a question from Ingraham about being a participant on “Celebrity Apprentice,” a show where contestants compete for Trump’s approval on a number of business-related challenges.

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Why CPAC Was Right To Turn Down Chris Christie

By Peter Brown

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The organizers of CPAC have come under sharp criticism for not allowing Chris Christie to speak at CPAC. Those who criticize are the same RINOs who have been distorting the brand of the Republican Party, trying to turn it into a Democratic Party lookalike. Although Christie has not been uniformly bad, this blue state governor has become far too blue to be invited to the conference.

Al Cardenas, the head of the American Conservative Union, has done a great job of courageously explaining why Christie is unfit to be heard at CPAC. As he said recently, the governor “strongly advocated for the passage of a 60 billion dollar plus pork barrel bill, containing only $9 billion dollars in disaster assistance , and he signed up with the federal government to expand Medicaid at a time when his state can ill afford it, so he was not invited to speak.” Unfortunately, Cardenas did not tell the whole story of why Christie should not speak, as his positions on a number of issues conflict with the limited government stance conservatives stand for.

Chris Christie has strayed so far from the conservative fold that some Republicans speculated whether or not he would be chosen for a position in Obama’s cabinet.  He has bought into the liberal rhetoric in areas as diverse as guns, abortion, and global warming. As recently as this last summer, Christie said that he would be opposed to further expanding Medicaid in his state.  Notably, he praised Obama’s response to Hurricane Sandy, at a critical  time when his supposed ally Mitt Romney could ill afford to be stabbed in the back by a big backer. Mr. Christie has a reputation for not reciprocating assistance he receives.

Do we really need someone like this to speak at conservatism’s premier event?

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