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Pay Czar Acted Alone

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, October 22, 2009 3:44:32 PM

Pay Czar Acted Alone
To Cut Executive Pay

Obama's 'compensation czar' did not seek presidential approval with plan ordering companies getting the most from $700B bailout to slash CEO compensation
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'Iran and the War Against the West'

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:41:24 AM
Iran and the War Against the West
By Michael Ledeen

EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from Michael Ledeen’s newly released Accomplice to Evil: Iran and the War Against the West.

Radical Islam inspires mass murder and individual martyrdom for its cause, just as fascism and Communism did in the last century. Osama bin Laden and his ilk rage against the democracies, just as Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin. Iranian leaders promise to wipe Israel off the map with nuclear weapons, and to dominate or destroy the Western world, just like their totalitarian predecessors in Russia, Italy, and Germany. Muslim politicians and holy men alike blame the free peoples for the failed societies that define the Middle East. The fanatics who rule in Tehran routinely call the citizens of free countries decadent, corrupt, self-indulgent infidels, worthy of destruction. Just as Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini planned wars of expansion and gradually built their military power, so the mullahs have become so powerful and so aggressive that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak told his political followers in mid-December, 2008, the Persians are trying to devour the Arab states. This came less than a week after demonstrations in front of the Egyptian Embassy in Tehran, where the chanting mob added “Death to Mubarak” to the usual cries of “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”

As in the last century, the evil is obvious. Left to their own devices, the mullahs will kill as many of us as they can. As in the last century, we flinch from the necessity of confronting evil, until it becomes so powerful it threatens our very survival. Mubarak has neither our power nor our margin of safety; all he can do is warn his friends, and hope they do something about it.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmU1M2Q0OGNkMzYxMTk1MGFhYjhhNmFkYzllNDFiNGQ=
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Both Crist and Rubio Would Defeat Their Likely Democrat Opponent

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:40:40 AM
Election 2010: Florida Senate
Florida Senate 2010: Republicans Lead by Double Digits

Both men seeking the Republican nomination to become Florida’s next U.S. senator lead their likely Democratic opponent by double digits.

A new Rasmussen Reports survey of Florida voters shows Governor Charlie Crist leading Representative Kendrick Meek by a 46% to 34% margin. In August, Crist led by 19 and in June he was ahead by 21.

Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio leads Meek by a similar margin, 46% to 31%. In August, Rubio led by 13 percentage points.


http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/florida/election_2010_florida_senate
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Cheney's Speech at the Center for Security Policy

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:38:24 AM
Here is the video:





The transcript can be found here:

http://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/p18209.xml
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'Radio Free America'

Posted by Defend America on Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:58:08 AM
'Radio Free America'
by Cal Thomas

During the Cold War, the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe were among the broadcast entities that effectively penetrated the Iron Curtain to deliver truth to the "captive nations" that were being fed a steady dose of propaganda by their communist rulers. Those dictators did everything they could to "jam" the signals so that their people would only hear what their unelected overseers wanted them to hear. Contemporary versions of jamming and other forms of censorship occur today in Venezuela, Cuba and many other places where dictators believe public ignorance is essential to their unchallenged rule.

While the Obama administration is the product of an election, its approach to Fox News Channel, conservative talk radio and possibly the Internet appears similar to dictators who desire control over the flow of information in order to enhance their power.

The administration's primary beef appears to be that Fox is doing the job the broadcast networks and big newspapers should be doing were they not still deeply in the tank for this president and his policies.

http://townhall.com/columnists/CalThomas/2009/10/22/radio_free_america
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A Book Attacking Palin to be Released on Same Day She Releases Her Own Book

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:20:33 PM
Palin-haters Set to Release Hit-Piece “Going Rouge” On Same Day as Sarah’s Book Launch
Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 12:11 PM
Jim Hoft
A new low for the rabid left…
They just can’t hate this Christian conservative woman enough.
palin rouge
A far left startup publisher is going to release “Going Rouge,” a collection of Palin hit-pieces, on November 17th, the same day as Sarah Palin’s best seller “Going Rogue” hits the book stores.

http://gatewaypundit.firstthings.com/2009/10/leftists-going-to-release-palin-hit-piece-going-rouge-on-same-day-as-her-book-launch/
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Rep. Alan Grayson is Back

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:36:53 PM
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This is Just One of Many Reasons Why as a New Jerseyan I Will Not be Voting for Chris Christie for Governor in November

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:38:36 PM
I have stated before on this blog that I would not be voting for Chris Christie, the Republican candidate, for governor of New Jersey in November. That does not mean that I will vote for Jon Corzine either. Both candidates are absolutely dreadful for New Jersey. This ad that I'm about to post comes from the Christie campaign and let's just say it is rather intriguing.



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'American Idea'

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:29:13 PM
American Idea
by Walter E. Williams

Americans are harder workers, more philanthropic, individualistic, self-reliant, anti-government than people in most other countries. We’ve turned what was an 18th-century Third World nation into the freest and most prosperous nation in mankind’s entire history. Throughout our history, United States has been a magnet for immigrants around the world. What accounts for what some have called American exceptionalism?

We Americans, as human beings, are no different from any other people, including Germans, Russians, Chinese, Africans and other people who have produced tyrannical regimes such as those of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Idi Amin. As such we are just as capable of committing acts of gross evil that have been a part of mankind throughout his history. We’ve not been a perfect nation but we’ve never approached the level of hideousness seen in other nations. That’s despite the fact that our population consists of people who have for centuries been trying to slaughter one another in their home countries, whether it’s between the French and Germans, English and Irish, Japanese and Chinese, or Palestinians and Jews, Igbos and the Hausa of Nigeria. Thrown into the American mosaic are religions that have been in conflict for centuries such as Catholic and Protestant, and Christian and Muslim. The question is: Why is the United States an exception and will it remain so?

At the heart of the American idea is the deep distrust and suspicion the founders of our nation had for government, distrust and suspicion not shared as much by today’s Americans. Some of the founders’ distrust is seen in our Constitution’s language such as Congress shall not: abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, violate and deny. If the founders did not believe Congress would abuse our God-given rights, they would not have provided those protections. After all, one would not expect to find a Bill of Rights in Heaven; it would be an affront to God. Other founder distrust for government is found in the Constitution’s separation of powers, checks and balances and the several anti-majoritarian provisions such as the Electoral College and the requirement that three-quarters of state legislatures ratify changes in the Constitution.

http://townhall.com/columnists/WalterEWilliams/2009/10/21/american_idea
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EIF and CNCS: Two Important Acronyms that are Important to Know

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:24:49 PM
The Volunteerism Scandals Hollywood Won’t Be Broadcasting
by Michelle Malkin

Hollywood hearts Obama. Obama hearts government-directed national service. That is why you won’t be able to change the TV channel all week without getting lectured about the need to get off the couch and Do Something. (After your favorite shows are over, of course.) Creeped out? You should be.

The entertainment industry, inspired by Obama’s $6 billion expansion of government volunteerism spending, is coordinating plot lines and ads to push public service. “The message will be nearly ubiquitous,” reports the Los Angeles Times, “starting in the morning with programs such as ‘Today’ and ‘The View,’ and then echoed on soap operas, prime-time series and late-night shows.” First lady Michelle Obama, a relentless AmeriCorps promoter who publicly extolled the Tinseltown initiative last month, will cap off the week with an appearance on “The Jay Leno Show” on Friday.

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichelleMalkin/2009/10/21/the_volunteerism_scandals_hollywood_won%E2%80%99t_be_broadcasting
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It's Looking More and More Like McDonnell is Going to Win

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:15:03 PM

Poll Gives McDonnell Huge Lead in Virginia

By Greg Giroux, CQ Staff

Republican Bob McDonnell has a commanding 19-point lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds in the Virginia governor’s race, according to a SurveyUSA poll , conducted Oct. 17-19 — an outlier in a series of recent polls that have given McDonnell a steady but smaller edge.

http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&docID=news-000003226708
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Rep. Thad McCotter Supports Scozzafava

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:05:59 PM

GOP Congressman: Scozzafava ‘Has to Win’

By David Weigel 10/21/09 4:41 PM
I ran into Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.), the fourth-ranking member of the House Republican leadership, before this morning’s Big Government press conference — he had intended to speak, but had to run out early. McCotter is one of the relatively few House Republicans who’s come out for GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special election; I asked him why.


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October 21st in American History

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:03:01 PM

October 21, 1797

USS Constitution launched

The USS Constitution, a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. The vessel performed commendably during the Barbary conflicts, and in 1805 a peace treaty with Tripoli was signed on the Constitution's deck.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=5456

October 21, 1967

Thousands protest the war in Vietnam

In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon to ask for an end to the conflict. The protest was the most dramatic sign of waning U.S. support for President Lyndon Johnson's war in Vietnam.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=2459

2003 - The U.S. Senate voted to ban what was known as partial birth abortions.
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October 20th in American History

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 7:02:49 PM

I'm sorry for forgetting to post this yesterday:


1803 - The U.S. Senate approved the Louisiana Purchase.


October 20, 1944

MacArthur returns

After advancing island by island across the Pacific Ocean, U.S. General Douglas MacArthur wades ashore onto the Philippine island of Leyte, fulfilling his promise to return to the area he was forced to flee in 1942.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=7056

October 20, 1947

The Red Scare comes to Hollywood

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) of the U.S. Congress opens its investigation into communist infiltration of the American movie industry on October 20, 1947. Chaired by Congressman Parnell Thomas, the subsequent hearings focused on identifying political subversives among Hollywood actors and actresses, writers, and directors.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=10/20&categoryId=coldwar

October 20, 1973

Watergate special prosecutor dismissed

Solicitor General Robert Bork dismisses Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox; Attorney General Richardson and Deputy Attorney General Ruckelshaus resign in protest. Cox had conducted a detailed investigation of the Watergate break-in that revealed that the burglary was just one of many possible abuses of power by the Nixon White House. Nixon had ordered Richardson to fire Cox, but he refused and resigned, as did Ruckelshaus when Nixon then asked him to dismiss the special prosecutor. Bork agreed to fire Cox and an immediate uproar ensued. This series of resignations and firings became known as the Saturday Night Massacre and outraged the public and the media. Two days later, the House Judiciary Committee began to look into the possible impeachment of Nixon.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=1432


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Stimulus Not Accomplishing Much

Posted by Defend America on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:00:46 PM
7 Months After Stimulus 49 of 50 States Have Lost Jobs
America Now Over 6 Million Jobs Shy of Administration's Projections
Wednesday, October 21, 2009

The table below compares the White House's February 2009 projection of the number of jobs that would be created by the 2009 stimulus law (through the end of 2010) with the actual change in state payroll employment through September 2009 (the latest figures available).  According to the data, 49 States and the District of Columbia have lost jobs since stimulus was enacted.  Only North Dakota has seen net job creation following the February 2009 stimulus.  While President Obama claimed the result of his stimulus bill would be the creation of 3.5 million jobs, the Nation has already lost a total of 2.7 million – a difference of 6.2 million jobs.  To see how stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.

http://www.republicans.waysandmeans.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=150826
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