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"It tells you everything you need to know about the idiots running this country. As the Russians were invading Ukraine, our Secretary of Defense was discussing major cuts to our military budget." - Flatboats
“'Sid Avis pace, para bellum' is wisdom passed down to us over the centuries from ancient Rome It translates 'If you want peace, plan for war.'
One of the requirements the early presidents of the nation faced was the creation of an army and navy to protect it from the imperialist powers of Britain, France and Spain, all of whom had their eyes on parts of the continent they wanted to claim. After the Revolution, the nation fought a succession of wars to protect and expand the map we now have.
The world to the Founding Fathers and all presidents since was seen as a dangerous place because it is. The only 'success' of President Barack Obama has had to date has been to impose six trillion more in debt than when he arrived. A variety of programs such as the failed 'stimulus' added to the debt and the deficit.
He has been consistent in seeking cuts to our military budget. From his first year in office Obama has sought to reduce the military in every way possible, though part of the reductions are attributed to the sequestration limits to reduce government spending. There are areas that most surely require reductions, but the security of the nation to protect itself and maintain and project its influence is critical. . . .Read More
2. Fed-Up Navy Veteran Forewarned Connecticut Lawmakers on Gun Registration:
‘I’m Telling You Right Now, I Will Not Comply.’ -TheBlaze
"Now that tens of thousands of gun owners in Connecticut are in direct violation of a hastily-passed gun control law, a video of a fed-up Navy veteran warning lawmakers that he “will not comply” with the law is just going viral. As previously reported by TheBlaze, as many as 100,000 gun owners technically became felons overnight because they chose not to register their semi-automatic rifles and/or high-capacity magazines.
A man, identified as John S. Cinque, reportedly appeared at a public meeting in North Haven, Conn., on April 22, 2013, to confront lawmakers over the gun control law.
Cinque started by asking if the bill would have done anything to prevent the tragic Sandy Hook shooting. Eventually, Connecticut State Rep. David Yaccarino (R) replied, 'Maybe not.'” . . . Read More
Supremes Shoot Down State's Fight For Gun Rights -WND
3. Is The Obama Administration Freezing FOX News Out Of Foreign Policy Interviews?
"The Obama administration faces a difficult problem. Diplomacy has failed, despite its best efforts, and the ruthless winner-take-all attitude of its adversary now leaves them but two choices: break off relations or capitulate to its demands." - DailyCaller
"That adversary, of course, is Fox News — and President Barack Obama finally seems prepared to enforce a hard line against them. In the past week the White House has frozen the top-rated news network out of two key foreign policy interviews provided to other networks — one on Sunday with Secretary of State John Kerry, and one last week with National Security Adviser Susan Rice.
Kerry made the rounds yesterday to discuss the White House’s response to Russia’s Friday invasion of Ukraine, appearing on NBC, CBS and ABC’s Sunday shows to promise a tough (if unspecified) response to Vladimir Putin’s power grab. But Chris Wallace of ”Fox News Sunday” was shut out." . . . Read More
Obama Warns, ”U.S. Won’t Be Able To Defend Israel If Peace Talks Fail” -EndTimeHeadline
4. And On It Goes! RNC Omits Sarah Palin From Women's History Month Tribute
"Saturday, the Republican National Committee (RNC) released a statement in honor of Women’s History Month in which they highlighted women trailblazers, mentioning some prominent women in the Republican Party." -BreitbartBigGovernment
Palin mocked by media in 2008 for warning Putin could invade Ukraine if Obama was elected. Now RNC joins Liberals attacking her? - Breitbart
"Conspicuously absent, however, was former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Republicans 'played a leading role in securing women’s right to vote,' Chairman Reince Priebus and Co-Chairman Sharon Day wrote, adding that Susan B. Anthony joined with other suffragists to pass the 19th Amendment, which was finally accomplished in 1919.
Boasting a unique role Republican women have played, they stated:
Republican women have a history of being trailblazers, breaking ground and glass ceilings--from Margaret Chase Smith, the first woman to be elected to both the House and the Senate, to the nation’s first Latina governor, Susana Martinez of New Mexico and the country’s youngest sitting governor, Nikki Haley of South Carolina." . . . Read Mor
5. Another Obamacare Delay. Midterm Democrats For The November 2014 Elections Must Be Dancing In The Streets
"The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats [ . . . who had voted for Obama's Socialist program.] - TheHill
"As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.
Prolonging the 'keep your plan' fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall. The cancellations would have created a firestorm for Democratic candidates in the last, crucial weeks before Election Day. The White House is intent on protecting its allies in the Senate, where Democrats face a battle to keep control of the chamber.
'I don’t see how they could have a bunch of these announcements going out in September,' one consultant in the health insurance industry said. 'Not when they’re trying to defend the Senate and keep their losses at a minimum in the House. This is not something to have out there right before the election.' . . . Read More
Cover Oregon Health Insurance Exchange Fiasco Spawns Problems For Low-Income Oregonians' Health Plan -Oregonlive
Administration Announces Obamacare Subsidies For Some People Who Didn’t Sign Up For Obamacare -DailyCaller
The Honorable Senator, Harry Reid, From Las Vegas, (Where What Happens There Doesn't Always Stay There), Accuses Republicans Of Telling 'Outright Lies' About Obamacare -MRCTV
Reid, Pelosi, Holder, Obama, the four horses of the Apocalypse? - MRCTV
6. Survey Finds American Pastors Believe Religious Liberty Are On The Decline
"A survey of American preachers, conducted by Nashville-based LifeWay Research, shows growing concern among senior pastors about religious liberty in America." - OneNewsNow
"About seven in 10 senior pastors at Protestant churches say Christians have lost or are losing the culture war. The telephone survey was taken Sept. 4-19, 2013.
According to LifeWay, 70 percent of the pastors agree with the statement, "Religious liberty is on the decline in America." Twenty-seven percent disagree. Eighty-one percent of self-identified evangelical pastors were more likely to agree. Among mainline pastors, 47 percent agreed. (Image below compliments of LifeWay Research)" . . . Read More
Cinco De Shut-Up: Court Rules School Can Ban American Flag Shirts Because They Upset Mexicans -ClashDaily
Feds Indict Union Thugs For Burning Down Church For Employing Non-Union Workers -ClashDaily
North Korean Tyrant, Kim Jong-Un, To Execute 33 Christians -Breitbart
Need More Proof? Watch Video As Citizen Asks for ‘Moment of Silence’ to Honor Slain Detective at Council Meeting, Then Denied By Mayor –TheBlaze
7. Fascist Rutgers' Professors To African-American Condi Rice: Go Home, And Take Your [Damn Free] Speech With You
The ones who are racists are the loudest. Also notice the typical caricature of blacks, the "fat lips" drawn by the liberal artist. - AmpToons
"Professors and students at Rutgers University have joined forces to protest an administrative decision to ask former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to serve as this year’s keynote commencement speaker." - WashingtonTimes
"The university’s New Brunswick Faculty Council passed a resolution that demands the board of governors take back its invitation to Ms. Rice, Fox News reported. The reason?
The council said the school should not let Ms. Rice speak because she had a role in the war in Iraq and in President George W. Bush’s allowance for “enhanced interrogation techniques” like water boarding, Fox News said.
From the council’s statement: 'Condoleezza Rice … played a prominent role in the administration’s effort to mislead the American people about the presence of weapons of mass destruction.'
Students, too, have jumped aboard the protest train." . . . Read More
8. CNN At It Again: Censors Out Shapiro's Accusations Of Bias
"Breitbart News Senior Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro taped a segment for CNN’s media watchdog show, Reliable Sources with host Brian Stelter. The interview played on Sunday was cut, however, to remove Shapiro’s direct accusation against Stelter of bias in his coverage of Arizona’s religious freedom bill." -BreitbartBigJournalism
That portion of the interview was sliced out. Instead, the interview was edited to cut directly to a later portion of the interview, in which Shapiro explained that the media’s liberal bias 'reflects L.A. and it reflects New York and it generates feeling elsewhere.'" . . . Read More
Retiring Washington Post Editor Throws A Fit About How . . . Wait For It . . . Conservatives Ruined Washington -NewsBusters
DeGeneres: “12 Years a Slave” Wins or “You’re All Racists!”-MinuteMenNews
Michelle Vows To Rescue “Bewildered” Grocery Shopper . . . Of Course With New Regulations -WesternJournalism
9. The Children Taught At Home About Murder And Bombings
"Radicalisation Is A Form Of Child Abuse, And London Authorities Must Have the Power To Intervene" -TheTelegraphUK
"It must have been dreadful for the family of Drummer Lee Rigby to listen to the ravings of his killers as they were finally hauled away to the cells and, one hopes, to a lifetime of incarceration. If those relatives have one consolation, it is that they were just about the last words those men will ever pronounce in public; the last time we will have to hear them pervert the religion of Islam – and the most important question now is how we prevent other young men, and women, from succumbing to that awful virus: the contagion of radical Islamic extremism.
Every day in London and other big cities, there are thousands of counter-terrorism officers doing a fantastic job of keeping us safe. They have to work out who are the most vulnerable young people, who are the most susceptible – and they have to stop the infection of radicalisation before it is too late.
That will sometimes mean taking a view about what is happening to them in their homes and families – and I worry that their work is being hampered by what I am obliged to call political correctness.
There is built in to the British system a reluctance to be judgmental about someone else’s culture, even if that reluctance places children at risk. Look at the case of Harriet Harman.
You may ask yourself how on earth this relatively astute politician could have allowed her organisation to be affiliated to a body that brazenly called itself the 'Paedophile Information Exchange'. The answer – which Harman would do well to admit – is that back in the Seventies she got into a complete intellectual fog." . . . Read More
10. Teen Who Lost Legs In Botched Abortion Makes State Wrestling Championships
"We have to respect all forms of life, even those with disabilities” -TruthRevolt
"In Woodburn, Indiana a teenager named Nik Hoot just had his best season yet in wrestling with 24 wins over 11 losses, earning him the opportunity to compete in the Wrestling Semi State championships that "represent the top ten percent of high school wrestlers in the state of Indiana," his adoptive mother told LifeSiteNews. One minor caveat though, parts of both his legs are missing, as well as some fingers, from a botched abortion he survived at birth.
In the fall of 1996, an unknown couple from Russia attempted to abort baby Nik. The abortion failed, and the couple spared his life by putting him up for adoption where he eventually found a home with Marvin and Apryl Hoot, who have a total of five adopted disabled children from foreign countries.
'We made the decision to adopt him after knowing about him for six weeks on Respect Life Sunday at church when we heard the priest say we have to respect all forms of life, even those with disabilities,' said his mother Apryl.
In an effort to echo his parents pro-life sentiment, Nik recently got a tattoo on his chest with the phrase 'I can only imagine' surrounded by two roses. The roses represent the aborted babies he memorializes every year at a pro-life Sunday event and the phrase is to remember what they could have been." . . . Read More
Illinois Senator Barack Obama Didn't Want To Save Children Who Survived Abortions Because Their Saved Lives Would Weaken Eugenist Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood . . . And Then There's Princeton University's Favorite Pariah . . . FreedomIsKnowledge
Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards: I Don't Know That It's Really Relevant When Life Begins - BreitbartBigGovernment
Cutting Edge?! What BS From HBO: Porn 'Girls'Eye-Balls DropBelow One Million, Their Sexual Acts And Obscene Attitude Boring To Viewership. What, Need Instead S&M? Guess Who Is Pushing That? You Guessed It. -CNSNews
Paramount's 'Noah' Adds Disclaimer To Adverts - TruthRevolt
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CBS recognizes American exceptionalism. Maybe CBS will eventually wake up on the exceptionalism of those that were murdered in Benghazi. Hey CBS, Obama catch those terrorists yet?! -CBS
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