BARACK OBAMA – IS HE IRRELEVANT OR RELEVANT?

The Spectator President

http://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2013/05/21/the-spectator-president-n1601696/page/full

Townhall – Pat Buchanan – 5/2102013

This weekend we learned that the White House counsel was told this April about the IRS misconduct and the investigations, but she did not inform President Obama. He learned about it from news reports.

What we have here, it appears, is a government out of control and a president clueless about what is going on in that government.

And that is the best case. For it is difficult to believe the IRS could conduct a full-court press on Obama's opponents, that IRS higher-ups knew about it, years ago, and that Treasury knew about it before the election -- but the White House was kept in the dark about a scandal that could have derailed the Obama campaign.

For years, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and other Democrats have slandered and slurred Tea Party people as enemies of progress -- smears echoed by their mainstream press allies.

Should we then be surprised that IRS bureaucrats, hearing this, thought they were doing what was right for America by slow-walking applications for tax exemptions from these same Tea Party folks?

Who demonized the Tea Party people? Who created the climate of contempt? Whoever did gave moral sanction to those IRS agents.

And the Spectator President is right in the vanguard.

BLOGGER COMMENT:  Barack Obama’s staffer on the Sunday talk shows stated that public knowledge of the President’s whereabouts when Ambassador Stevens was murdered was “irrelevant,” but the President was kept informed by someone.  Does Barack Obama do anything that is “relevant,” or are all affairs at the White House “irrelevant?”

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RELIGIONS MAP IN THE UNITED STATES

http://www.usatoday.com/news/graphics/pew-religion-08/flash.htm


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COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

IB and the Common Core State Standards

http://www.ibo.org/iba/commoncore/

International Baccalaureate

Lots of information on Common Core State Standards

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COMMON CORE – TEXAS TO DISCONTINUE CSCOPE 8/31/2013

The (Unofficial) End of SCSOPE

http://truthinamericaneducation.com/education-at-state-level/the-unofficial-end-of-cscope/

Truth in American Education – Shane Vander Hart – 5/20/2012

Texas State Senator Dan Patrick (R-Houston), chair of the Texas Senate Education Committee, announced the end of CSCOPE through a press release issued this morning.  This comes prior to a vote that was supposed to occur today in the Texas House.  He said that a letter signed by all 20 members of the Texas Education Service Center Curriculum Collaborative (TESCCC) Board stated this morning that they would notify their 875 school district clients that all of their lesson plans will be removed from their website on August 31st, 2013 and that school districts cannot use any lessons they currently have beyond that date.  They also state that the 20 Regional Service Centers will not produce lessons in the future and that they will go back to just providing a management tool for teachers to stay on schedule in regards to teaching TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills) in their classrooms.

The August 31st date, the letter says, corresponds with a notice clause that they have in their contract with school district.

“I’m pleased that the CSCOPE Board has made the decision to get out of the lesson plan business. This is a positive development for students, parents, teachers, and for the Regional Service Centers,” said Senator Patrick. “I want to thank the members of the Senate Education Committee for their months of work on this issue. I also want to thank Attorney General Abbott and his staff in providing valuable assistance in our review of CSCOPE.”

“Once the TESCCC officially approves this measure Friday I will notify the SBOE that they do not need to review the 1600 CSCOPE lesson plans.  The CSCOPE era is over. 

However, what the last several months has proven is that the state will have to create a plan to monitor all on line material in the future so that our schools and classroom remain completely transparent to parents and the legislature knows what is being taught in our classrooms across Texas,” Senator Patrick added. 

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COMMON CORE: LOUISIANA BACKS OUT OF DATA STORAGE

Student data storage debate:  Parents say it’s a privacy issue

http://www.nbc33tv.com/news/your-stories/student-data-storage-deba

News 33 – Kris Cusanza – 5/19/2013

UPDATED: Sunday, May 19, 2013 - 9:49 am

BATON ROUGE, LA (NBC33) — The Louisiana Department of Education has backed out of a contract to keep your child's personal information in a virtual data storage program. Outraged parents begged the department to stop the storage. They said it's an invasion of children's privacy. But the fight to keep the data out of a storage system isn't over.


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COMMON CORE – CORRUPTION AND DECEPTION

Common Core Corruption

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/55288

Canada Free Press – A. J. Cameron – 5/17/2013

This is a very long article that makes excellent points regarding impositions placed on states, their budgets, and parents and their own precious children.   Click the link above for more complete comprehension of the disaster called common core.

The Social Studies standards within Common Core have not yet been released.  The standards for Common Core are copyrighted to the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Offices (CCSSO).  This means that all content of the standards, and the costs of any changes associated with materials, testing, data processing, etc., have been usurped from the local school boards and state legislatures of states implementing Common Core.  This also means that parental choice and input have been usurped as well!

The costs associated with ‘membership’ in the assessment consortium has been funded by Stimulus money until 2014, at which time, the states will be forced to increase state taxes precipitously to remain a member of the assessment consortium. 

By dictate, member states are required to have a plan in effect by September 1, 2014, for picking up the costs for remaining within the consortium.  HOW MANY STATES’ DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION (DESE), OR EQUIVALENT, HAVE DISCLOSED THIS TO THEIR RESPECTIVE LEGISLATURES?  ARE CURRENT LEGISLATURES WILLING TO BIND FUTURE LEGISLATURES TO THIS ONEROUS, ON-GOING AND INCREASING COST OF EDUCATION WITHIN THEIR RESPECTIVE STATES? 

The U. S. DOE funneled money to NGA/CCSSO, as did Bill Gates’ foundation, Pearson, McGraw-Hill and GE.

Among the changes in federal law, implemented to relax access to assessment data from tests aligned to the standards, was a revision involving the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA).  This change allows data gathered through the assessment consortia, which developed tests aligned to Common Core, to be shared much more liberally and broadly, and with unknown entities that will be able to use the data for unknown purposes.

Governors were baited into signing onto the adoption of Common Core by the NGA before standards were written, and at a time when states were strapped for cash.  There was an implied promise that the federal government would provide grant money and/or flexibility in Title 1 spending (waivers from No Child Left Behind), if they would adopt the standards, sight unseen. 

Additionally, the governors signed on before the changes were made to FERPA, and prior to the conditions for consortium membership were established.

Ignored throughout this discussion is the fact that there are three (3) federal laws that prohibit the federal government from being involved in curriculum, assessment, and supervision of personnel.  These laws are the ‘No Child Left Behind’, the ‘Department of Education Organization Act’, and the ‘General Educations Provisions Act’.  

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COMMON CORE – GEORGIA: RESTRICT DATA COLLECTION; REVIEW FOR 60 DAYS

Gov. Deal signs order addressing common core standards

Georgia Gov. Deal signs order addressing Common Core standards

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2013-05-15/gov-deal-signs-order-addressing-common-core-standards

OnLine Athens – Christina A. Cassidy – 5/16/2013

ATLANTA — Gov. Nathan Deal signed an executive order Wednesday putting in place restrictions on a set of academic standards adopted by the state that have faced growing opposition in recent months by tea party and conservative groups.

Under the order, the state will be prohibited from collecting certain information on students and their families, including religious and political affiliation and voting history. The move comes just days before Republicans gather for their annual state convention in Athens, where the Common Core academic standards are expected to be a big topic of debate.

Deal, a Republican, acknowledged in his remarks that the personal information is not currently being collected, but said his order was designed to ensure no one's rights are violated.

"Georgia has not been collecting that data, and Georgia will not collect that data. To make the above clear and unambiguous, I have signed an executive order and I will ask the Legislature to embrace the content of that executive order in legislation during the next session of the General Assembly," Deal said.

Deal did not call for a repeal of the standards and began his remarks by emphasizing their common interests.

"We're here because we are concerned about the future of education in the state of Georgia. All of us want our children to have the best education possible," Deal said. "Setting rigorous academic standards is an essential component of increasing student achievement and improving college and career readiness."

Under the executive order, Deal reiterated that all decisions regarding curriculum and instruction shall be made at the local level and that no educational standards shall be imposed on Georgia by the federal government. The order also orders that any proposed changes to state educational standards shall be posted for public review and comment for at least 60 days. Critics have charged Georgia moved too quickly to adopt the standards. 

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COMMON CORE – EXAMPLE OF “EDUCATIONAL” INDOCTRINATION - UTAH

“Common Core:  IB’s Evil Twin”

http://www.mvsd-ib.org/ib/2013/05/18/common-core-ibs-evil-twin/

Ask It – Admin – 5/18/2013

8-minute video - Watch on full screen.

Actual printed text book for first graders that introduces 'social justice' and very subtle methods that turns children away from their parents.

Think one word:  INDOCTRINATION

Witness this lesson which we can only call “Saul Alinsky for babies”. It’s pure child abuse.

Publisher of first grade text book:  ZB


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TO DEMOCRATS: DEAD BABIES = HEALTHCARE

Top lawmakers on Gosnell Verdict:  “The courts call it murder.  Democrats call it healthcare.”

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/top-lawmakers-on-gosnell-verdict-the-courts-call-it-murder-democrats-call-it-healthcare/

Freedom Outpost – Dean Garrison – 5/14/2013

Representative Steve Stockman from Texas 36th District released this statement:

A court has formally declared what people with consciences have long known. Abortionist Kermit Gosnell is a murderer.

Gosnell killed his adult patient, and an unknown number of children both pre-born and born alive. THE COURTS CALL IT MURDER. DEMOCRATS CALL IT “HEALTH CARE.”

Kermit Gosnell’s crimes have exposed the horrors and inhumanity of legalized abortion for all to see. The most innocent and defenseless of humans are lined up and exterminated with cold efficiency for the crime of being inconvenient.

Despite the blood-soaked horror of Gosnell’s clinic, Democrats refuse to loosen their embrace of unrestricted, unregulated, taxpayer-funded abortion on demand.

Democrats do not want abortion to be safe or rare. Democrats oppose even the most basic of health and safety standards for abortion mills. Democrats don’t care how many women are maimed, infected with diseases or die on the routinely-filthy abortion mills. Democrats worship abortion with same fervor the Canaanites worshipped Molech.

Even more chilling, as an Illinois state Senator Barack Obama voted several times to make Gosnell’s inhuman crimes the law of the land. I hope this verdict moves him to look into his soul and change his position. 

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IRS RELEASES CROSSROADS DOCUMENTS

Liberal Organization with ties to George Soros got documents from IRS

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/liberal-organization-with-ties-to-george-soros-got-documents-from-irs/

Freedom Outpost – Dean Garrison – 5/18/2013

ProPublica dropped a bombshell on Monday evening. For those who have not heard, they admitted to receiving confidential documents, at their request, from the IRS.

On Nov. 15, 2012, ProPublica requested the applications of 67 nonprofits, all of which had spent money on the 2012 elections. (Because no social welfare groups with Tea Party in their names spent money on the election, ProPublica did not at that point request their applications. We had requested the Tea Party applications earlier, after the groups first complained about being singled out by the IRS. In response, the IRS said it could find no record of the tax-exempt status of those groups — typically how it responds to requests for unapproved applications.)

Just 13 days after ProPublica sent in its request, the IRS responded with the documents on 31 social welfare groups.

One of the applications the IRS released to ProPublica was from Crossroads GPS, the largest social-welfare nonprofit involved in the 2012 election. The group, started in part by GOP consultant Karl Rove, promised the IRS that any effort to influence elections would be “limited.” The group spent more than $70 million from anonymous donors in 2012.

ProPublica also exposed a tie to Washington D.C. and you know what that means. I don’t have to spell it out for you, do I? Check this out:

Last December, Collegio wrote in an email: “As far as we know, the Crossroads application is still pending, in which case it seems that either you obtained whatever document you have illegally, or that it has been approved.”

This year, the IRS appears to have changed the office that responds to requests for nonprofits’ applications. Previously, the IRS asked journalists to fax requests to a number with a 513 area code — which includes Cincinnati. ProPublica sent a request by fax on Feb. 5 to the Ohio area code. On March 13, that request was answered by David Fish, a director of Exempt Organizations Guidance, in Washington, D.C.

In early April, a ProPublica reporter’s request to the Ohio fax number bounced back. An IRS spokesman said at the time the number had changed “recently.” The new fax number begins with 202, the area code for Washington, D.C.

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COMMUNISTS AND SOCIALISTS ELECTED AS DEMOCRATS

The Socialists / Communists on the Oversight Committee and House of Representatives

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/the-socialistscommunists-on-the-oversight-committee-and-house-of-representatives/

Freedom Outpost – Leon Puissegur – 5/18/2013

we as a nation must and should question why in the world do we elect people whose very ideology does not fit the very Constitution they took an oath to “…preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States”, yet the “Progressive Caucus, Socialist, and very Anti-United States”, hold 9 positions on the House Oversight Committee out of the 17 total positions and the “Ranking” member, Rep. Ellijah Cummings, is also a proud member of the “Socialist Party of America. What is the Democratic Socialist Party of the United States and just what do they believe in? Check out how they explain their position below.

“Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few. We are a political and activist organization, not a party; through campus and community-based chapters DSA members use a variety of tactics, from legislative to direct action, to fight for reforms that empower working people.”

Below is a list of very proud members of “The Socialist Party of America”. The entire list shows some 70 members of the House of Representatives that are members of “The Socialist Party of America”. We have tried to find out how many members are in the Senate but none of the Senators are brave enough to show they are really “Socialists”. The House members below are people that support the “Socialist” view of creating a different United States than those over 50 now know. The “Socialists” use the young people to promote their ideology and help them “change” the United States into a Socialist regime. They do this by “teaching” the young people that they are “owed” everything and they do not have to work to get everything they want.

Rep. Elijah Cummings (MD-7)Ranking Member

Rep. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D.C.)

Rep. John Tierney (MA-6)

Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (MO-1)

Rep. Charles Rangel

Rep. Danny K. Davis (IL-7)

Rep. Peter Welch (VT)

Rep. Jim McDermott

Click the link above to see to see all of the CAUCUS MEMBERS, CO-CHAIRS, VICE CHAIRS, WHIP in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

“The four, core principles of the Progressive Promise:

1. Fighting for economic justice and security for all;
2. Protecting and preserving our civil rights and civil liberties;
3. Promoting global peace and security; and
4. Advancing environmental protection and energy independence”

“Economic justice” as an expression common among liberals in general and is a softer expression of the communist’s belief in economic equality for all. The promotion of “global peace and security” is typically done through appeasement to the enemies of the United States. In fact, when one does an inventory of all of the Progressive’s agenda, it looks remarkably similar to the beliefs of the Communist Party USA.  The site reads, “Founded in 1919, the Communist Party USA has championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women’s equality, racial justice and peace for ninety years. The Communist Party has an unparalleled history in the progressive movement of the United States…”

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DHS AND MUSLIMS

DHS guidelines advise deference to Pro-Sharia Muslim supremacists

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/dhs-guidelines-advise-deference-to-pro-sharia-muslim-supremacists/

Freedom Outpost – Tim Brown – 5/18/2013

In a display of what has been going on for years under the Obama administration as they attempt to whitewash Islam, The Department of Homeland Security, who is openly declaring they are keeping an eye on outspoken conservatives, listing them first as religious extremists in their training manuals, has taken a different approach to dealing with Islamists. According to a 2011 memo they are bent on not only whitewashing Islam, but also seeks to lend credibility to the criticisms of pro-Sharia Muslim supremacists against the American system of government.

In a checklist obtained by The Daily Caller entitled “Countering Violent Extremism Dos and Don’ts” the DHS’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties notifies local and national law enforcement officials that it is Obama administration policy to consider specifically Islamic criticism of the American system of government legitimate.

This policy stands in stark contrast to the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis’ 2009 memo “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment” [pdf], which warned of the dangers posed by pro-life advocates, critics of same-sex marriage and groups concerned with abiding by the U.S. Constitution, among others.

The advice of the Dos and Don’ts list is far more conciliatory. “Don’t use training that equates radical thought, religious expression, freedom to protest, or other constitutionally-protected activity, including disliking the U.S. government without being violent,” the manual’s authors write in a section on training being “sensitive to constitutional values.”

Finally, consider who is in power and who work in the Obama administration. At least six American Islamist activists are Muslim Brotherhood operatives. As Freedom Fighter Radio has pointed out, “Obama and Janet Napolitano appointed Arif Alikhan, a devout Muslim, as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano swore-in Kareem Shora, a devout Muslim, who was born in Damascus, Syria, as ADC National Executive Director as a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC).
Others FFR lists as appointees of the Obama administration for the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC) are:

Kareem Shora

Arif Alikhan

Nimco Ahmed

Omar Alomari

Asli Bali

Mohamed Elibiary (President and CEO, The Freedom and Justice Foundation)

Ronald Haddad (Chief of Police, Dearborn Police Department)

Imam Mohamed Magid (Executive Director, All Dulles Area Muslim Society)

Dalia Mogahed (Gallup Center for Muslim Studies) Appointed to President Obama’s faith advisory council, was a partner in an Islamic project whose stated goal was to define, interpret and implement the concept of the Islamic State in modern times in America.

Asim Rehman (Muslim Bar Association of New York)

Nadia Rouman (American Muslim Civic Leadership Institute)

Screen shot of DHS guidelines regarding Muslims at DHS

Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties:

Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Do’s and Don’ts

http://www.scribd.com/doc/141998997/DHS-CRCL-CVE-Training-Dos-and-Donts

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OBAMA OFFICIAL: IDIOTS

Obama Admin official on Benghazi:  “It’s actually closer to us being idiots”

http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/obama-admin-official-on-benghazi-its-actually-closer-to-us-being-idiots/

Freedom Outpose – Tim Brown – 5/18/2013

Sharyl Attkisson at CBS has provided an unbelievable report on Benghazi where unnamed Obama administration sources spoke to her in a series of interviews and communications under condition of anonymity. When it comes to the administration being portrayed by Republicans as either “lying or idiots,” one official said “It’s actually closer to us being idiots.”

These officials, who were in key position on September 11, 2012 acknowledged that there were numerous mistakes. However, they also unanimously said that their errors or missteps did not cost lives and reflect “incompetence rather than malice or cover up.”

Now stop and think about that for a moment. They have just admitted to being incompetent. Why then do they still have their jobs in the administration? Second, no call was made to support Americans under attack. While that may not have involved these particular officials, it did involve one Barack Hussein Obama. And failing to provide that support did cost American lives; four of them. 

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COMMON CORE ENRICHES BILL GATES WHO PROFITS AT PARENTS’ EXPENSE

The long shadow of Bill Gates

http://rutlandherald.com/article/20130516/OPINION04/705169963

Rutland Herald – Peter Berger – 5/16/2013

Long article – click link above

Here’s how the “state-led” part worked. Mr. Gates spent over $100 million developing and promoting the Common Core standards. The federal government established a $4.35 billion fund under the heading “Race to the Top,” to which states, many of whom were “facing huge deficits” owing to the recession, could apply competitively for grants ranging as high as $500 million. In order to be successful in obtaining the money, however, states’ applications had to satisfy specific criteria, criteria which AMOUNTED TO A COMMITMENT TO ADOPT THE COMMON CORE AND OTHER ASPECTS OF MR. GATES’S EDUCATION AGENDA.

Eventually, 46 states signed on to the Common Core. They coalesced into two consortia, the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers. Both consortia have contracted with vendors to develop, administer, and score their elaborate Common Core assessments, contracts which will channel annual billions of public dollars to private corporations even as schools are forced by budget constraints to cut teachers and services.

Both consortia have hired Pearson to oversee the transition to “next-generation” online assessments. Pearson is also in partnership with Gates to develop and market online curricula. IN THE NAME OF “PERSONALIZED LEARNING,” GATES FURNISHED $100 MILLION TO ESTABLISH A DATABASE OF INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS’ PERSONAL AND SCHOOL INFORMATION. IDENTIFYING EACH STUDENT BY “NAME, ADDRESS, AND SOMETIMES SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER,” THE DATABASE FURNISHES DETAILS RANGING FROM A STUDENT’S HOBBIES AND INTERESTS TO HIS TEST SCORES AND LEARNING DISABILITIES, INFORMATION WHICH ACCORDING TO THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION CAN BE DISTRIBUTED WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT TO “PRIVATE COMPANIES SELLING EDUCATIONAL PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.”

Nine states are thus far participating in this commercial data-mining. Pearson software, already employed in many public school systems, routinely collects this data.

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COMMON CORE AND BILL GATES - MORE BILLIONS FOR THE RICH

Essay: Common Core poses ‘real threat’ of loss of privacy

Posted on May 18, 2013 by ilpatriot

http://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/essay-common-core-poses-real-threat-of-loss-of-privacy/article_79f3cfb6-48d9-5cc5-8b6e-690b5da2c2b0.html

Daily Herald – Editor's note: This is a personal essay from Oak Norton of Highland, a father of five.

So what’s the real agenda behind Common Core?

In 2004, Microsoft signed a contract with UNESCO, the U.N. education arm, to create a global education system. You can read that agreement at the UNESCO website here:http://tinyurl.com/d72g75d.

Bill Gates knew that education was a huge multibillion dollar industry and if he could be at the crest of that wave, he would make billions. All he needed to do was centralize education, and with publishing partners Pearson and McGraw-Hill began a multiprong process to standardize and eliminate local variances in education.

Gates put millions of dollars to the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers to create Common Core standards. The federal government is barred by law from creating national standards, but these non-governmental organizations were able to create them and claim that it was a state-led effort. It never was state-led, it was Gates-led. The Utah State Office of Education didn’t even know who was on the drafting committee until the standards were completed.

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DEPT OF JUSTICE DENIES THEIR OATH TO THE CONSITUTION

DOJ ON ‘gays’” ‘Silence will be interpreted as disapproval’

http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/doj-on-gays-silence-will-be-interpreted-as-disapproval/

WND Commentary – Mat Barber – 5/17/2014

You have to click the link above to read the entire post.  The Department of ‘Justice’ policies read more like dictates.

Under President Obama, “justice” is anything but blind. Neither is it deaf. In fact, based on recent revelations, it appears to be watching your every move and listening to your every word. Still, if you happen to be a federal employee, now it’s even listening for your silence.

The only thing this Obama White House seems to generate is scandal. Well, here’s yet another to add to the growing list. In addition to the Benghazi cover-up, IRS targeting of political dissenters and the illegal seizure of media phone records, whistleblowers within DOJ have contacted Liberty Counsel to express grave concerns over this administration’s latest attack on freedom.

Our sources have provided Liberty Counsel an internal DOJ document titled: “LGBT Inclusion at Work: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Managers.” It was emailed to DOJ managers in advance of the left’s so-called “Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Month.”

The document is chilling. It’s riddled with directives that grossly violate – prima facie –employees’ First Amendment liberties.

Following are excerpts from the “DOJ Pride” decree. When it comes to “LGBT pride,” employees are ordered:

“DON’T judge or remain silent. Silence will be interpreted as disapproval.” (Italics mine)

That’s a threat.

And not even a subtle one.

Got it? For Christians and other morals-minded federal employees, it’s no longer enough to just shut up and “stay in the closet” – to live your life in silent recognition of biblical principles (which, by itself, is unlawful constraint). When it comes to mandatory celebration of homosexual and cross-dressing behaviors, “silence will be interpreted as disapproval.”

This lawless administration is now ordering federal employees – against their will – to affirm sexual behaviors that every major world religion, thousands of years of history and uncompromising human biology reject.

You have to click the link above to read the entire post.  The Department of ‘Justice’ policies read more like dictates.

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IRS SCANDAL – HOW ELSE WILL FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TRAMPLE THE CONSTITUTION?

The federal government is after us

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/05/17/the_federal_government_is_after_us

Rush Limbaugh – 5/17/2013

CALLER:  Okay.  I was listening mostly to the guys grilling the IRS guys, and the first thing that popped into my head was, you know, it doesn't matter how this is all gonna come out; I feel like the damage has been done to me at least because I'm like at the mentality where I'm not even gonna tell people my opinion. Like, I quit posting on Facebook. I'm not telling people one way or the other how I feel about things because I just don't want 'em in my business. I don't care what it takes, and I just wonder how many people are starting to feel this way because they're so intrusive in the government.

RUSH:  Let me tell you, I think it's very wise. You are very wise to assume one of two things.  Either whatever you're saying is being monitored or whoever is hearing what you say might pass it on.  I think so. Folks, you might think this is a little radical, but I think Lynette in Memphis has a point.  This IRS thing, what's the message? The government's after us.  Conservatives have been put on notice here.  You think this is gonna stop?  This isn't going to stop.  They're just going to find new ways to do this.

A signal is being sent.  The federal government, this administration, has been targeting every conservative group in ways probably beyond what has happened here at the IRS.  You'd be wise to take this as a warning.

You and me -- conservatives -- have just seen how, for the past three years, we have been treated as enemies of the state.  The people at the IRS thought nothing of denying us our constitutional rights, liberty, freedom, pursuit of happiness, political free speech (which is supposed to be untouchable by the US Constitution).  This is no small thing here.  This is not just the latest, ordinary, everyday scandal.

CALLER:  They want to silence me! You know what?  I've had it.  I will not be silenced.  That's my First Amendment right.  I do have a right to protect myself from my government.  That's why the Second Amendment is there.  I will no longer have anybody tell me how to speak. They do not have a right to tell me how I am to engage in dialogue, what I can say, or how I can say it.  I do not need an Atlanta talk show host or RINO (who I've decided is a closet communist) to tell me how I am to engage in dialogue with the left.  Don't tell me how I am to engage in dialogue, or what I can and cannot say.  I'm not gonna be silenced.  I'm done!  I've had it!

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LIBERALISM – UN-AMERICAN

It’s bigger than Obama – We’re witnessing what happens when Liberalism rules

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2013/05/17/it_s_bigger_than_obama_we_re_witnessing_what_happens_when_liberalism_rules

Rush Limbaugh – 5/17/2013

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, it's becoming more and more clear, more and more obvious that President Obama is using the full weight -- has used, in fact, the full weight -- and resources of the federal government to literally block the political participation of millions of American citizens.  Every day we are treated to new discoveries, new evidence.  The latest is: Conservative Hispanic groups were targeted by the IRS, groups that wanted to found tax-exempt organizations. 

People in this country realized what that would mean if the government took over health care and nationalized one-sixth of the US economy.  In addition to everything else Obama was doing, people realized what it would mean to the future, what it would mean for their kids' and their grandkids' future, what it would mean to the shrinking private sector, the shrinking opportunity to earn prosperity in the private sector.  And it mobilized people. 

It gave birth to the Tea Party.  The Tea Party became educated and informed.  Here's how they compete. They learned what it was necessary to do to compete and raise money.  They learned that 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s are tax-exempt charitable organizations just like the Democrats have. We now learn that the IRS tried to deny as many of those applications as possible, and the woman in charge of that was promoted and has now been placed over the Obamacare division of the IRS.

The government will be running health care. Essentially, the government will be your gateway to access.  They can grant it or deny it.  This is what happens when liberals end up in charge of government: Big government, out-of-control government, tyrannical government, if you want to say that. But it just expands, and the government ends up populated with people who are there to use the power and the full force of government against citizens.  This is what has happened and what will get worse.

You don't need to hire people and give them instruction.  You hire people because they already know what to do.  You hire fellow travelers. You hire hacks, you hire activists, you hire true believers. You hire people who rejoice in the opportunity to get a job in the bureaucracy because what that means is it's an opportunity to wage war on your political enemies.

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IRS SCANDAL: THE TREASURY DODGE

Treasury Sec:  I knew about IRS scandal last week – and also last Fall

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/05/17/Treasury-Sec-I-Knew-About-IRS-Scandal-Last-Week-And-Also-Before-The-Election

Breitbart – Wynton Hall – 5/17/2013

In an interview with Bloomberg TV, former Obama chief of staff-turned-Treasury Secretary Jack Lew offered two conflicting yet carefully worded answers as to when he first learned that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted Tea Party and conservative groups: he learned last week--and possibly before the 2012 election.

Bloomberg's Al Hunt asked Lew, whose Treasury Department oversees the IRS: “When were you first notified that IRS agents were targeting conservative groups like the Tea Party?”

“I learned the substance of this report last Friday when it became a matter of public knowledge,” Lew claimed. “Before that, in mid-March [2013], I had had a conversation, just a getting-to-know-you conversation, with the inspector general right after I started, and he went through a number of items that were matters they were working on. And the topic of a project on the 501(c)3 issue was one of the things he briefed me was ongoing.”

Hunt then asked whether former Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, Lew’s deputy, Neal Wolin, or the general counsel knew about the IRS’s political profiling of conservative groups.

“I think that there was-the heads-up that I got was something that was a matter of public knowledge,” said Lew. “It was posted on the IG's website in the fall of 2012. I believe that other is typically the practice that an inspector general notify the agencies when matters are opened. I was not aware of any details.”

It is possible that "fall of 2012" could refer to a period of time before the election. Regardless, Lew would have discovered the investigation in his capacity as President Obama's chief of staff, meaning that it is possible the president knew of the investigation in 2012 as well.

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IRS SCANDAL - THE OBAMA DODGE

NYT:  Obama administration knew of IRS scandal 5 months before election

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/05/17/NYT-Obama-Admin-Aware-of-IRS-Scandal-6-Months-before-Election

Breitbart – John Nolte – 5/17/2013

In no uncertain terms and with no hedging, The New York Times reports that the Obama administration was aware of the fact that the IRS was targeting Tea Party groups as far back as June of 2012. The Treasury Department's Inspector General confirmed that he told senior Treasury officials in June of 2012, a full five months before Election Day:

“The Treasury Department’s inspector general told senior Treasury officials in June 2012 he was investigating the Internal Revenue Service’s screening of politically active organizations seeking tax exemptions, disclosing for the first time on Friday that Obama administration officials were aware of the matter during the presidential campaign year.”

With this latest news confirming when the Administration first learned of the IRS scandal,  we now know that, along with Benghazi and the unfurling Associated Press scandal, there were three scandals brewing and unfolding in the White House during an election year. But we are only now hearing about them -- six months after Barack Obama was safely re-elected.

This fact says as much about the failure of our lapdog national media as it does about President Obama. Why just this morning the Times itself dismissed the IRS scandal on its editorial page.

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COMMON CORE “STATE STANDARDS” – WHY ALL THE SECRETS?

Dept. of Education:  Collecting our children’s personal info

http://politichicks.tv/column/dept-of-education-collecting-our-childrens-personal-info/

Politichicks – Karin Piper – 5/17/2013

“Worst case scenario, what are you afraid of?” asked Missouri House Representative Margo McNeill, Democrat member of the House Elementary and secondary Education Committee on Monday.
McNeill’s question came during the during a hearing of SB 210 that would require the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to hold public meetings in each congressional district on the Common Core State Standards.

“Representative McNeill’s comment exposes a belief by the left that the government has a right to collect data on our children,” says Anne Gassel, co-founder of Missouri Coalition Against Common Core. “They may have a desire, but no such right exists. The data could just as easily be used to hurt our children as help.  No government of today can guarantee how the government of tomorrow is going to use that data.”

Like Gassel, I question why the government needs to collect student information such as religion, family income, medical records, and nationality. Not only is collecting this information in direct conflict with anti-discrimination laws, but has little to do with actually educating children.
The rigor of Common Core Standards, it seems, lie squarely in gathering information on children, beginning in the mother’s womb.

Like many of the 46 states that have adopted Common Core Standards as state law, Missouri politicians have failed to disclose what the 61 data points are that they will be collecting from students, the purpose of such exercise, which entity shall be entrusted with the information, and most importantly- how student’s personal information will be protected.

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NAVY SEALS REST IN PEACE

Navy Seals Special Forces

http://blustream.sendvideo.net/stw/?p=nyi907f2201klkgtjiyv

one-minute

Navy Seals took orders from President Obama and confronted Obama bin Laden one last time May 2011.

Navy Seals disobeyed President Obama on 9/11/2012 and saved the lives of 30 other Americans in Benghazi, Libya.

Then who gave the order to ‘Stand Down’ so they would die?

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COFFEE CLATCH

Coffee Klatch

5/23/2013

Thursday - 8:30 a.m.

Northland Pine School District Administrator Mike Richie

Eagle River Roasters - Eagle River

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DRONES - FLY IN THE SKY AND THROUGH THE WINDOW

Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The coming Micro-Drone Revolution

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/54509

Canada Free press – John W. Whitehead – 4/15/2013

“[Drones are a] game-changing technology, akin to gunpowder, the steam engine, the atomic bomb—opening up possibilities that were fiction a generation earlier but also opening up perils that were unknown a generation ago.”—Peter Singer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

America will never be a “no drone zone.”

That must be acknowledged from the outset. There is too much money to be made on drones, for one, and too many special interest groups—from the defense sector to law enforcement to the so-called “research” groups that are in it for purely “academic” reasons—who have a vested interest in ensuring that drones are here to stay.

At one time, there was a small glimmer of hope that these aerial threats to privacy would not come home to roost, but that all ended when Barack Obama took office and made drones the cornerstone of his war efforts. By the time President Obama signed the FAA Reauthorization Act into law in 2012, there was no turning back. The FAA opened the door for drones, once confined to the battlefields over Iraq and Afghanistan, to be used domestically for a wide range of functions, both public and private, governmental and corporate. It is expected that at least 30,000 drones will occupy U.S. airspace by 2020, ushering in a $30 billion per year industry.

Cyborg drones

Dragonfly drone

Hummingbird drone

Nano Quadrators

Black Hornet Nano drone

DASH Roachbot drone

Samarai drone

MicroBat drone

Spy-butterfly drone

Switchblade drone

Mosquito drone

Raven drone

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OBAMA ADMINISTRATION – HYPOCRITES ARE TOO NUMEROUS

How about scandal, incompetence, venality, hubris, vanity and error to start

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/johnransom/2013/05/17/how-about-scandal-incompetence-venality-hubris-vanity-and-error-to-start-n1599104/page/full/

Townhall – John Ransom – 5/17/2013

Lost amidst the White House he-said-she-said of finger pointing, scandal, incompetence, venality, hubris, vanity, error, greed, gluttony, embarrassment, cover up, stupidity,  amateur bungling, brownnosing, grandstanding, photo-opting and hearings as the result of a few minor mistakes made by the Obama administration- an administration which rode roughshod over a several outdated laws, certain small parts of the Bill of Rights written by irrelevant white dudes; an administration that got people killed, violated civil rights, harassed government employees, ignored it’s basic responsibilities and common sense- are these small, little, niggling details:

THE FOLKS IN CHARGE ARE FREAKING HYPOCRITES; AND BECAUSE THE ARE HYPOCRITES THEY HAVE NOTHING TO OFFER THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.  NOTHING AS IN ZERO (0).

Their ideas don’t work, and all they stand for is some vague notion of fairness and equity, with themselves as judge over what’s fair and what’s not.  Even in that they fail.

As demonstrated recently, their notions of fairness and equity are worrisome.  They want to win politically, by fair means or foul. That’s their only idea of fairness.    

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HOMELAND SECURITY – WHO IS REALLY SECURE?

 Homeland Security guidelines advise deference to pro-sharia Muslim supremacists

http://dailycaller.com/2013/05/17/homeland-security-guidelines-advise-deference-to-pro-sharia-muslim-supremacists/

Daily Caller – Charles C. Johnson - 5/17/2013

Click the link to view the DHS document:

Countering violent Extremism (CVE) Training – Do’s and Don’ts

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UNDER OBAMA, CORRUPTION IS INSTITUTIONALIZED

Fight the Power

http://townhall.com/columnists/monacharen/2013/05/17/fight-the-power-n1598733/page/full

Townhall – Mona Charen – 5/17/2013

Obama finds Adams, Jefferson and Co. passe. He doesn't recognize the capacity of government to abuse power when in the proper (i.e. Democratic) hands -- or, more likely, doesn't care. His arrogance about his own good intentions for the "middle class" -- makes him contemptuous of those who agree with Madison that government power must always be carefully constrained.

Barack Obama . . .  disdains the constitutional order. The evidence is in the legislation he signed. Both the Affordable Care Act and Dodd-Frank create boards with utterly (in the case of Dodd Frank) and nearly (in the case of Obamacare) unreviewable power. Both are the subjects of lawsuits challenging their constitutionality.

At his Thursday press conference, Obama promised that if "there's a problem in government, we'll fix it." But his overweening signature legislation guarantees that power will be abused.

Shielding government agencies from judicial and congressional review is an open invitation to the kind of misuse a wiser person would guard against. Wiser men did. They created our constitution, which Obama and his progressive allies flout.

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OBAMA’S TRANSFORMATION: LAWLESS BUREAUCRATS

Where lawlessness comes from

http://townhall.com/columnists/kenblackwell/2013/05/17/where-lawlessness-comes-from-n1598651/page/full

Townhall – Ken Blackwell – 5/17/2013

We should not, therefore, be surprised by the IRS scandal. It was completely predictable. It is one of the inevitable consequences of contempt for law. President Obama gave lawlessness a spur in this State of the Union Address in 2010. This was the ethos of his administration-

Mr. Obama had promised in his 2008 campaign to “fundamentally transform the United States” and he kept that promise in 2010 when he used this most august, most formal occasion of our republic to deliver a blistering denunciation of the Supreme Court’s ruling in the controversial case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.

President Reagan knew that if he fostered disrespect for law and for our free institutions of government, he would sow the wind. He did not want us Americans to reap the whirlwind.

Not so, President Obama. His arrogant and offensive behavior toward the Supreme Court of the United States on that grim, dark evening of January 27, 2010 was the opening gun in the race to crush his opponents.

It was not a great stretch for middle level bureaucrats at IRS to see that they would please this president if they made life miserable for his opponents. And they did.

Rather than the elected Chief Magistrate of a free people, President Obama acted that night more like an angry monarch lashing out. The story of King Henry II of England is useful here. King Henry was outraged that Thomas Beckett, his handpicked Archbishop of Canterbury, was defying him on the selection of priests and bishops. The king loudly denounced the Archbishop in his own circle. Over a late night dinner, the king cried out: “Will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?”

King Henry’s barons gathered around his table took the hint. They entered Canterbury Cathedral and cut down Thomas Beckett, killing him as he stood at the altar of God.

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PROSPERITY IS AN INTENTIONAL RESULT

Prosperity:  The three questions that really matter

http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/jerrybowyer/2013/05/17/prosperity-the-three-questions-that-really-matter-n1599108/page/full/

Townhall Finance – Jerry Bowyer – 5/17/2013

Please click the link above for the entire article – it’s a fascinating read.

And in this big picture, only three questions really matter to long-term national prosperity. Here’s the first:

How many people are there?

This is the demographic question, people matter more than anything else, because people create wealth. Other than air and sunshine, everything else in our environment needs to be transformed by us in order to become a resource. At the very least, the apple must be picked to become food; in order to get even a halfway decent apple a great deal of work is needed.

But the moment we transform it, it is no longer nature, it is artifact. Oil was a pollutant oozing in the streets of Cleveland, its stinking mass shoveled and carted away by workmen until a chemist told John D. Rockefeller that it could be turned into a valuable commodity. People do that sort of thing. And people manage to create huge sums of wealth even if they live on a rock sitting in the ocean in tiny prosperous city states like Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan with very little by way of natural resources, because they have something better: they have people, the unnatural resource.

WHAT’S INSIDE OF THEM?

People are complex clusterings of motivations centering in on a person. At the core is what is commonly called the heart, I mean the heart of the self.

·      What do you believe about God, man and the world?

·      Do you believe you should live entirely for today’s pleasures or defer gratification in the interest of future prosperity?

·      Is virtue the true measure of mankind, or simply an arbitrary set of rules invented to keep us down?

Religion is a hugely important factor in national growth and prosperity and if you have any interest in understanding which nations will and won’t prosper, you’d be better off not allowing personal views or political correctness speech code sensibilities to screen it out as a factor.

WHAT’S OUTSIDE OF THEM?

In truth, there is a lot of overlap between question two and question three. After all, societies are the result of human interaction . . .

·      Do you get to keep what make?

·      Will government confiscate your property, or tax away the proceeds of the sale of your labor?

·     ·      Do you have to pay an additional tax in order to get fair government services in the form of a bribe or coerced campaign contribution?

·      When you devise business plans can you count on at least some price stability or are future budgets, already murky enough, made more fallible due to fluctuations in the value of currency?

·      Will those currency and interest rate manipulations create boom and bust cycles and how do you know whether the booms are real or bubbles?

·      How do you plan for a world in which legal institutions create more flux rather than more stability?

·      Will there be a change in regime?

·      Can I build for the long term when the institutions are built on a foundation of sand?

I’m convinced that in order to screen out the noise you need a filter which helps you distinguish between what is important and what’s a shiny, backlit distraction.

WHAT’S IMPORTANT IS PEOPLE; THE WAY THEY THINK AND ACT; AND THE WAY THEIR SOCIETY TREATS THEM.

How could things possibly be otherwise?

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