Under the Marxist rule of President Barack Hussein Obama, Uncle Sam morphs day by day into ‘Uncle Satan’.  Ironic when contemplating that Iran has long called America “the great Satan”.

Far more wily than Uncle Sam or Uncle Sugar, ‘Uncle Satan’ lures scores of U.S. citizens motivated by entitlement mentality with food stamps,  free cell phones and unquestioned access to social security,  into a trap from which they will never escape.

Comfortable with the guarantee the government will look after them from cradle to grave, few see the walls going up around them.   Alan Beckler shares interesting but chilling thoughts about the walls going up around American citizens today.

“While doing some Cold War research today, I ran across a most interesting article on the Berlin Wall history. Attached is an excerpt. What is so chilling is that one could change the German names to present administration names and with our current IRS and DOJ ‘scandals’, it is really chilling.

Dire warnings from this excerpt from ‘The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall’ will be lost on low information voters dependent on government handouts but will send chills down the spines of the millions who see that the IRS and Justice Department scandals mark the beginning of the ultimate capture of the U.S. citizenry.

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Do You Know How To Deal With Long-term Care Under Obamacare?

We face some dire changes in the world of health care. I want to share with you what to do to insulate yourself against the effects of Obamacare. I’m going to explain the Achilles Heel of Obamacare and why preparing for long-term care should be your top health care priority right now. Originally, we were told Obamacare would solve our long-term care problems. Then – in the shadows of the night – Congress passed and Barack Obama signed a complete repeal of the provisions in Obamacare intended to help families with long-term care.

The message from Washington is clear: You are on your own.

They don’t want to help and they have gone back on their pledge to help with long-term care.

In addition, Obamacare slashed funding to Medicare, a program passed with bipartisan support to help the elderly secure medical insurance. That’s bad news for all Medicare participants.

Congress has proposed many changes to the program, the worst of which is lower reimbursements to doctors for their services. This means more everyday care will be administered by nurses and practitioners – not doctors.

Look, Medicare reimbursements are already shamefully low. They barely cover doctor’s costs.

If payments are cut further, doctors could actually lose money when they treat some Medicare patients.

The next logical step is that doctors will refuse to treat Medicare patients at all.

I don’t mean to scare you. I know you’re probably already afraid of losing coverage or struggling to find participating physicians.

But this isn’t even the worst crisis of Obamacare.

Within the next year, practically all of the elements of Obamacare will have taken effect.

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Congressman Gowdy raises his voice and relevant issues when IRS executive Lois Lerner refuses to answer questions.

British soldier nearly beheaded on London street in broad daylight

Boehner thinks IRS has “something to hide”.

New details coming out about DOJ seizure or press phone and email records

The Washington Post narrative surrounding the IRS’ targeting of conservative groups is that it began as a scandal involving low-level employees at a Cincinnati office, the “Determinations Unit,” a natural outgrowth of an increase in political activity by these groups. This belies other reporting by the Post’s Fact-Checker, which indicates that there was little growth in the number of groups applying for tax-exempt status at the time the targeting occurred.

As more details come to light, responsibility for the IRS actions keeps moving up the ladder and has landed, at least in part, at the White House. Top-level White House staffers knew about the scandal before a manufactured apology was made to the public on May 10.

“The White House on Monday once again added to the list of people who knew about the IRS investigation into its targeting of conservative groups—saying White House chief of staff Denis McDonough had been informed about a month ago,” reported Reid J. Epstein for Politico on May 20. White House Chief Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler said she learned about the IRS scandal the week of April 22, but didn’t tell the President.

A public relations storm was brewing, but the public is supposed to believe that the President himself was kept in the dark. “Press secretary Jay Carney said again that no one had told President Barack Obama ahead of the first news reports: not his top aide McDonough, nor his chief counsel Kathy Ruemmler, nor anyone from the Treasury Department,” wrote Epstein. “Monday’s revelation amounts to the fifth iteration of the Obama administration’s account of events, after initially saying that the White House had first learned of the controversy from the press.” Epstein called this the White House’s “shifting” account.

When Politico and the Post’s Fact-Checker, Glenn Kessler, note that the President’s story doesn’t quite add up, you know there’s trouble.

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On Nov. 5, 2009, Army Major Nidal Hasan went on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas where he was stationed. Witnesses said he was making Islamic statements as he shot one serviceman/woman after another. By the time Hasan was taken into custody, he had killed 13 people and wounded 32 others.

His guilt is not a question as he was caught in the act. Those at the scene believed Hasan’s attack was an act of Islamic terrorism. Subsequent investigations revealed that he was against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instead of treating him like the terrorist he was, the Obama administration pushed the Pentagon to declare Hasan’s shootings were an act of workplace violence and not a terrorist act. He was arrested and treated like any other person accused of murder.

Three and half years later, he still has not been tried for his murderous rampage. As an active military personnel who has not yet been found guilty of a crime, Hasan continues to collect his full salary as an Army major. Since the shooting, he has earned $278,000.

If Hasan had been charged with an act of terrorism, he would certainly have been tried and convicted long ago, ending the collection of his pay, and saving taxpayers thousands of dollars.

Read More at Godfather Politics . By Dave Jolly.

This just shows you how bad and insane big Government is…

Have you ever wondered why there is such a war on Christianity in the US today?  Well, ponder this thought. Our country has become infested with Communists and  Muslims at an alarming rate, including the Communist/ Muslim plant who sits in the oval office.  Communists,on one hand, are mostly athiest non-believers, while Muslims have their own belief system which includes total domination of people of other faiths, with death to those who will not comply.

As the Obama regime is currently embroiled in at least three scandals, and possibly more not yet investigated, what good does it do to make these people swear an oath to God when they are called to testify before Congress or even when they take office? Given their belief system,or lack thereof, an oath to God means absolutely nothing to them, in which case, they feel that it is okay to lie to the American people.

These people have become nothing but self-centered arrogance on parade on a daily basis.  We all know that this great nation, America, was founded on Godly principles and that God MUST remain the center of it in order for the system to work effectively. Only through our apathy have we allowed a group of non-believers to take over the hallowed halls of our government, most of them by using lies and deceit.

I can assure you, as long as God is left out of this government equation, we will never get any straight answers on anything. Those in government who are willing to uphold their oaths to God and the US Constitution, MUST grow a backbone and stop playing around with those who seek to deceive the American people. It is way past time for multiple arrests, criminal investigations, and trials for treason for those at the highest levels in government. It is time for We The People to make this right. As always, stay safe and be aware of your surroundings.

Four American citizens have been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009, the Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday.

Attorney General Eric Holder disclosed the previously classified information in a letter to a top senator that also included the names of those killed and the revelation that only one was directly targeted in the strikes that began in 2009. He did not specifically call them drone strikes – rather, he referred to “counterterrorism operations” – but most of the individuals he mentioned are known to have died in drone strikes.

The targeted individual, Anwar al-Awlaki, was a radical Muslim cleric whom U.S. officials said was involved in planning Al Qaeda operations and terror attacks. He was killed in September 2011 in Yemen.

The acknowledgement came ahead of a major counterterrorism policy speech by President Obama scheduled for Thursday.

Holder said in the letter that the Obama administration is “aware” of three other U.S. citizens killed in such counter-terrorism operations besides al-Awlaki: Samir Khan, Jude Kennan Mohammed and Awlaki’s son Abdulrahman Anwar al-Awlaki, Holder said.

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The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous national identification system.

Buried in the more than 800 pages of the bipartisan legislation (.pdf) is language mandating the creation of the innocuously-named “photo tool,” a massive federal database administered by the Department of Homeland Security and containing names, ages, Social Security numbers and photographs of everyone in the country with a driver’s license or other state-issued photo ID.

Employers would be obliged to look up every new hire in the database to verify that they match their photo.

This piece of the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act is aimed at curbing employment of undocumented immigrants. But privacy advocates fear the inevitable mission creep, ending with the proof of self being required at polling places, to rent a house, buy a gun, open a bank account, acquire credit, board a plane or even attend a sporting event or log on the internet. Think of it as a government version of Foursquare, with Big Brother cataloging every check-in.

“It starts to change the relationship between the citizen and state, you do have to get permission to do things,” said Chris Calabrese, a congressional lobbyist with the American Civil Liberties Union. “More fundamentally, it could be the start of keeping a record of all things.”

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Progressivism thrives best when truth is suppressed, but suppressed truth is still truth. You can try to sink it, shred it, cover it and destroy it, but truth eventually rises to the surface. Truth floats. Always.

Currently, the various scandals within the Obama administration have put Progressives in defensive mode to protect an ideology built on lies. Each day brings with it a new scandal or a new angle to a previous scandal. Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS, and the DOJ’s seizure of phone records have one thing in common: suppression of truth.

Americans are discovering Progressivism isn’t all it is cracked up to be. Even the coolest of Progressive presidents can’t deliver the goodies they promise if what they really intended to deliver was hidden inside a bag of lies.

By now, most everyone understands Progressive-speak for “hope and change” translates into high unemployment, an abysmal economy, a disastrous healthcare bill, excessive poverty, starving children, ridiculous food prices, losing wars, and terrorist attacks on our homeland. Four bucks gets you a gallon of gas, a college degree gets you nowhere, and with each new scandal, the White House deflects the blame on someone else and runs off to play another round of golf. That, my friends, is Progressivism in a nutshell.

In a most enlightening article, “Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression,” author David Martin nails it when he states “strong, credible allegations of high-level criminal activity can bring down a government” and “the success of these techniques depends heavily upon a cooperative, compliant press and a mere token opposition party.” Without a doubt, we have the makings of a perfect storm.

If you’ve never understood the connection between Progressivism and lies, all you need to do is take an objective look at the current administration’s scandals. While all investigations are still active, a common thread weaves through each in that either the truth was suppressed to cover an action or an action was taken to suppress the truth.

In Benghazi it appears the administration suppressed the truth about an act (an al-Qaida-linked terrorist attack) to fit its pre-election “al-Qaida-free” story line. The same rings true regarding the seizure of reporters’ phone and email records by the Department of Justice. Attorney General Holder claims records were seized for national security reasons, but that doesn’t gel with what the Associated Press describes as an “unprecedented” seizure of records. In a recent statement, AP president Gary Pruitt said his organization held the in-question article describing a terrorist plot by an al-Qaida-linked group in Yemen “until the government assured us that the national security concerns had passed.” With that in mind, might a more reasonable reason be that administration officials spent an awful lot of time traveling around the country pre-election reporting al-Qaida was no longer a threat?

Each day carries with it new discoveries about the heinous IRS scandal wherein acts of suppression served to squash the voice and rights of those who, unlike Progressives, have the intelligence to differentiate between the U.S. Constitution and a roll of toilet paper and embrace the freedoms and protections therein.

If you don’t like what you see, it’s time to get loud (not violent) Americans. Silence is acceptance. And so far, your silence is deafening… and dangerous…because silence becomes the well-insulated womb to which tyranny is given safe harbor to grow.

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Susan Stamper Brown is an opinion page columnist, motivational speaker and military advocate who writes about politics, the military, the economy and culture. Email Susan at writestamper@gmail.com or her website at susanstamperbrown.com.

This commentary originally appeared at CagleCartoons.com and is redistributed here by permission. This column has been edited by the author. Representations of fact and opinions are solely those of the author.

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The IRS has admitted to harassing conservative groups seeking tax exempt status, singling out for extra special scrutiny organizations which featured “patriot” or “tea party” designations in their name. We now know that a number of these groups were forced to withdraw their applications, being unable or unwilling to continue what in some cases had become a three year battle with the corrupt federal agency.

But few in the media have bothered to ask who directed the IRS to engage in this criminal behavior. It has been reported that Senators Chuck Schumer and Al Franken addressed a letter to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in early 2012, “…demanding the IRS target conservative groups or face legislation forcing them to do so.”

Yet Democrat demands that the IRS investigate conservative organizations were nothing new. Senators Dick Durbin and Max Baucus offered their own “suggestions” that the Service concentrate their efforts on such groups in 2010, (2) Durbin claiming his missive resulted from the Supreme Court’s Citizen’s United decision which “…created a rush for organizations seeking tax exempt status…” (3) Of course that “rush” excuse was a lie as the number of organizations seeking tax exempt status actually declined both during the year of the Citizens United decision (2010) and the year after.

But it appears the IRS shoe has finally dropped, right on Barack Hussein’s head. The story has broken that National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) President Colleen Kelley met with Obama on March 31st of 2010, exactly one day before the IRS began to target Tea Party and other conservative groups across the nation. As the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s report reveals, “April 1-2, 2010: The new Acting Manager, Technical Unit [of the IRS], suggested the need for a Sensitive Case Report on the Tea Party cases. The Determinations Unit Program Manager Agreed.”

Oddly enough, neither Colleen Kelley, the NTEU or Barack Hussein want to talk about that coincidentally timed, 2010 meeting. Responding to a Washington Post inquiry via email, Kelley said the “NTEU is working to get the facts but does not have any specifics at this time. Moreover, IRS employees are not permitted to discuss taxpayer cases. We cannot comment further at this time…”

And when Barack was asked about White House knowledge of IRS targeting, he did his best impersonation of Bill Clinton by ignoring the question that was asked and answering one that wasn’t. Bloomberg News asked Obama: “Can you assure the American people that nobody in the White House knew about the [IRS] actions before your Counsel’s Office found out on April 22nd?” Obama’s answer: “I can assure you that I certainly did not know anything about the IG report before the IG report had been leaked through the press.”

The IG report? Bloomberg didn’t ask about the IG report. The News service asked if anyone at the White House had prior knowledge of IRS corruption! When in doubt (or guilty as Hell), just Duck, Dodge and Hide!

Of all the corrupt schemes engineered by the Obama Regime, this is the most dangerous to their future plans. If Republicans remain steadfast in their criticism of Obama and continue the political pressure, the One might be forced to play defense during much of his last four years. That is certainly NOT what he had in mind after the election.

From the outset, Internal Revenue Service lawyers based in Washington, D.C., provided important guidance on the handling of tea-party groups’ applications for tax-exempt status, according to both IRS sources and the inspector general’s report released in mid May.

Officials in the Technical Unit of the IRS’s Rulings and Agreements office played an integral role in determining how the targeted applications were treated, provided general guidelines to Cincinnati case workers, briefed other agency employees on the status of the special cases, and reviewed all those intrusive requests demanding “more information” from tea-party groups. At times, the Technical Unit lawyers seemed to exercise tight control over these applications, creating both a backlog in application processing and frustration among Cincinnati agents waiting for direction.

An IRS employee who asked not to be identified tells National Review Online that all members of the agency’s Technical Unit are based in Washington, D.C. A current list of Technical Unit managers provided by another IRS employee shows that all such managers are based at the agency’s headquarters on Constitution Avenue in the District of Columbia, and the IRS confirmed, in a testy exchange with National Review Online, that the Technical Unit is “based in Washington.”

According to the IRS source, who is based in Cincinnati, complex cases are routinely elevated to the Technical Unit for guidance. Many of the questions that agents sent to groups most likely came “from Tax Law Specialists — lawyers — in D.C.,” the Cincinnati employee explains. “With tea-party cases, questions from the Tax Law Specialists were way too aggressive,” he says. The Washington Post described these lawyers as parsing “the murkier, more complex applications” — including those of tea-party groups.

This account comports with the one laid out in the inspector general’s report, although this aspect of the report has been neglected in much of the press coverage. On May 17, 2010, according to the IG report, Determinations Unit specialists in Cincinnati handling tea-party applications were instructed to “send additional information request letters to the Technical Unit for review prior to issuance.” Ten days later, the Technical Unit “began reviewing additional information request letters prepared by the Determinations Unit.”

Read More at National Review . By Eliana Johnson.

In the aftermath of both the Fast and Furious and Associated Press scandals, Eric Holder’s Justice Department is afforded little credibility in performing its prescribed duties.  Still, it appears the department tasked with upholding constitutional law reached the height of hypocrisy by issuing guidelines to employees that blatantly abridge their First Amendment rights.

The document, which concerns gay and lesbian “inclusion” in the workplace, goes much further than merely protecting employees from discrimination.  Language drafted by the DOJ clearly coerces staff members at all levels to openly support a lifestyle they might find morally objectionable.

While Christians and others with traditional values have long been told, explicitly or implicitly, to remain silent on the issue of alternative sexuality – effectively excluding one group in favor of another.  That constituted an injustice in and of itself; but, the internal guidelines issued by the DOJ is forcing employees to affirmatively support the lifestyle.  “Silence will be interpreted as disapproval,” the document warns.

The liberty-crushing guidelines do not require much commentary, as anyone who values free speech should be appalled by the list of accepted behavior contained therein.  Staff members are expected to place a “DOJ Pride” sticker or some other pro-gay paraphernalia in their offices “indicating that it is a ‘safe space’” while “gender-specific terms like ‘husband’ and ‘wife’” are unacceptable.  Workplaces should be concerned with providing equal opportunity to employees and openly catering to a politically favorable group does exactly the opposite.  No employer – least of all the Justice Department! – should be allowed to unilaterally impose one viewpoint onto an entire staff. That is exactly what the department has implemented, though, as it goes much further than merely protecting the civil rights of gays.

The guidelines seek to silence dissent by advising employees to “assume that LGBT employees and their allies are listening” and painting a target on those with traditional values.  DOJ staff is expected to “deal with offensive jokes and comments forcefully and swiftly” according to the document, though it has become apparent the meaning of the word “offensive” has become extraordinarily fluid.

Through shrewd and effective marketing of their own sexuality, a small minority of the population has largely silenced those with a different worldview. The DOJ is taking that disturbing trend to another level by making such silence an employment prerequisite.
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As  a native of Oklahoma City, I have been following news coverage of the recent  tornado damage with much interest.  The loss of life and property damage in  Moore, Oklahoma, and other areas has been horrific, and as Oklahoma’s governor,  Mary Fallin, stated, the region is very much in need of our  prayers.

The  Moore tornado was indeed a newsworthy event.  At last count, it has  resulted in the loss of 24 lives and over $2 billion in property damage.   It was especially heartrending in that Monday’s storm was the second major  tornado to strike Moore in the past 15 years.  The residents of Moore, and  of the entire region, deserve respectful, accurate, and balanced reporting.   What they have received, I believe, is not always that.

When  the national television networks first interrupted broadcast shows for special  reports on Monday afternoon (May 20), they had already begun to describe the  storm as “historic” and “catastrophic.”  Granted that information was  fragmentary at that point, but news reports indulged in what could only be  termed speculation.  It was known that the tornado had struck two  elementary schools that were just letting out, and that fact soon became the  focus of much of the reporting.  It was suggested that “entire classrooms”  of children may have been lost along with their teachers.  The storm was  immediately compared to the Joplin tornado of 2011, which killed 158 residents.   Total loss of life for the Moore tornado was initially reported at 51 and  projected to be well over 100.  That projection was then reduced to “at  least 24.”

Certainly  the aerial photos were gripping.  Hundreds if not thousands of homes had been destroyed.  Cars along Interstate 35  were piled up in heaps.  Dazed residents were shown walking about, sifting through the debris and searching for  survivors.

As  these photos appeared, newscasters commented on the events in emotional and  sometimes frenzied tones of voice.  Again and again, they referred to the  “dozens of children” that had probably been lost.  Much was made of the  fact that Moore had been hit a second time, repeating and exceeding the  damage of 1999, a tornado outbreak that killed 46 with 318-mph winds.   Monday’s storm is estimated to have had winds of 190  mph.

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In a stunning sequences of events that unfolded yesterday, it was revealed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) efforts to intimidate the media went beyond targeting reporters and editors at the Associated Press. Early in the day, the Washington Post reported that the DOJ not only seized the phone records of Fox News reporter James Rosen, but used his security badge to access records tracking his movements at the State Department, traced the timing of his calls with a Department security advisor suspected of giving him classified information, and obtained a search warrant to access his personal emails.

Later in the afternoon another bombshell was dropped: two more Fox staffers, reporter William La Jeunesse and producer Mike Levine, were also targeted by the DOJ.

We begin with Rosen and his involvement with State Department advisor Steven Kim. Kim is a naturalized citizen from South Korea who was indicted in 2009 for telling Rosen that the intelligence community believed North Korea’s response to additional UN sanctions would be another test of its nuclear capabilities. Rosen published a story to that effect on June 11, 2009, noting that the CIA had received the information from sources inside North Korea.

That story was posted the same day a top-secret report was made available to Kim, arms expert with security clearance, and 95 other members of the intelligence community. Using the surveillance techniques described above, the FBI built a case that the information Rosen received came directly from those documents. Yet Kim did not obtain unauthorized access to top-secret information, steal or sell documents or secrets, or collaborate with the enemy. He gave exclusive information to a reporter, a reality that occurs every day. Furthermore, according to the New York Times, four months prior to disseminating the information for which he was indicted, Kim was asked by a State Department press officer to speak to Rosen about North Korea, “and the two began to talk and exchange e-mails,” the paper reported.

Despite this reality, Kim is facing 15 years in prison for violating the Espionage Act.

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Who’s in charge here, anyway? The Obama administration is responsible for everything, but knows nothing. America is in ruins, scandal, and no one’s to blame. Evidently, the buck permanently stopped with George W. Bush.

The ever so smug White House Press Secretary, Jay Carney, has had a tough go of it lately creatively answering questions saying he doesn’t know anything and the president had absolutely no knowledge or involvement – in anything. Apparently, ‘at no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing.’ 

It’s funny, infuriating, and sad all at the same time. The most corrupt government in American history has not, is not, and will not be held accountable for their actions.

I hope I’m wrong; nothing will come from any of this.

With Americans as uninformed and disinterested as we’ve ever seen, consider the mounting information that continues to be brushed under the rug. If President Obama were a Republican, he never would have been reelected in 2012 and he’d be impeached in 2013.

But the media refuses to report the truth – unless they are practically forced to – about anything remotely negative on Obama, and four years of this has not only led to a well- insulated president, but also citizens who are not hearing many facts.

A CNN poll last week revealed 53% of Americans still approve of the job Obama is doing as president! Since it’s nearly impossible to estimate how many of these are die-hard liberals, progressives, Democrats, and college students, we should assume a majority of them have little interest or knowledge of Obama’s actual record. Gallup also has Obama’s approval right around 51%. So – what gives? His approval should be in the 30’s.

It’s been suggested that the media can tilt an election by approximately 8 points. I’d also say they can influence polls and approval ratings by making a devil seem like an angel.

America has reached a tipping point. While people are getting more frustrated, government is becoming more arrogant and evasive. Here are some stories that come to mind.

Who can forget the Obamacare monstrosity that was rushed through Congress and then crammed, forced, and stuffed down the American people’s throats? Nancy Pelosi infamously told us we’d have to pass the bill to find out what was in it, and now it’s old news. The lies have been told, the people have been deceived, and more than $1 trillion in new taxes and more than $2 trillion in new spending later, the Democrats have gotten away with their abuse of power Scott-free.

Even HHS Secretary Sebelius admitted insurance premiums will increase and approximately 24 million Americans will lose their current coverage once Obamacare kicks into gear. Because of this, some employers are already cutting full-time workers hours so they won’t be forced to pay for as many employees’ insurance plans.

Blue Cross Blue Shield, for one, has proposed a 25% rate increase for many of their plans.

Insurance rates have gone up, people have lost health care coverage, employers have been forced to drop certain plans, and countless medical costs have gone up because of the upcoming changes in the law – forced upon the majority of Americans.

A few years ago, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer was begging our own government for help protecting the U.S./Mexico border. Citizens were having property damaged or stolen, deaths were reported, and Mexican gun cartel activity was traced nearly 100 miles into Arizona. What happened? The Obama administration sued the state of Arizona for enforcing their immigration laws.

Next, when it came to the deaths of American and Mexican citizens, the reckless Fast and Furious gun-running operation was forgotten shortly after Obama protected Erik Holder and the (In)Justice Department by exercising his executive privilege – after it was confirmed Holder lied and was held in contempt of Congress.  

One scandal I thought would stick was Benghazi. The evasive runaround, the administration’s laughable talking points, and the complicit media silence kept people uninformed. The scandal didn’t stick, but it does stink. The spin and media puppet show shielded Obama and leading up to the 2012 Presidential Election, the Obama administration received extremely little scrutiny for the Benghazi incident and how it was mishandled back in D.C.

Remember the stimulus debacle? We’re talking about massive spending of taxpayer money on green energy scams; I mean “investments.” Jobs were promised and immediate economic growth was predicted and yet, one after the other, these companies failed miserably.

Solar Trust for America, declared bankruptcy after receiving $2.1 billion in loan guarantees from the Department of Energy.  First Solar blew through $1.46 billion, Solyndra wasted $535 million, Fisker Automotive received $529 million, Evergreen Solar spent $527 million, and the list goes on.

Now, we see the current, growing AP scandal involving information leaks as well as the DOJ seizing records of several Fox News employees while they targeted reporter James Rosen.

It’s also been confirmed the IRS has targeted the Tea Party, Christians, and many conservative groups including Republican business executives that simply donated to the Romney campaign.

Naturally, no one in the Obama administration knows anything.

To end with a ‘you just can’t make this stuff up’ storyline twist, the crony slated to take over Obamacare for the IRS, Lois Lerner, will apparently take the 5^th in the ongoing investigation of IRS corruption.

I also faintly recall ongoing investigations regarding voter fraud in the 2008 and 2012 elections.

Geez, I hope the media or Obama justice Department find some answers they’re not seeking.

It’s all “ongoing.” Most of us are not holding our breath.

 

With Memorial Day approaching Americans should be preparing to honor our veterans and military heroes currently fighting for us as well as remembering those we have lost. This honor should be especially due from our own government that has sent these brave men and women off to war. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. It is clear that the Federal government has declared war on our veterans and is intent on denying them the very Constitutional rights they fought to protect.

First there is the ever widening scandal involving the systematic denial of veterans Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms and their rights to due process under the provisions of the Fifth Amendment. This is being orchestrated by the VA which sends out letters to veterans telling them that because of physical or mental disabilities the VA is going to declare them incompetent to handle their own financial affairs and appoint a fiduciary to represent them.

Then in the same letter the veterans are told that “A determination of incompetency will prohibit you from purchasing, possessing, receiving, or transporting a firearm or ammunition. If you knowingly violate any of these prohibitions, you may be fined, imprisoned, or both pursuant to the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, Pub.L.No. 103-159, as implemented at 18, United States Code 924(a)(2).”

An estimated 150,000 veterans are now on the NICS background check list and cannot legally purchase firearms. I believe that the vast majority of them do not belong on the list and many of the veterans don’t know why they are there or even that they have been placed on the list. The only legitimate reasons for veterans to lose Second Amendment Rights is if  they have been convicted of a felony, are known drug addicts, or been found to be mentally ill to a point where they are a danger to themselves or others.

The veterans that are being represented by the United States Justice Foundation (USJF) are reporting to us that they are being declared incompetent for having minor depression, PTSD, or simply because they let their spouses pay the family bills.  Some veterans are reporting that if they try to fight the VA determination of incompetence the VA either threatens to withhold their payments or actually has done so. This is extortion since many veterans rely on their VA payments to feed themselves and their families.

The VA has refused to respond to several requests made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) for information about the criteria being used to declare veterans incompetent and deny them their Second Amendment rights. The USJF has filed a suit to force the VA to turn over this information and will soon be filing a class action suit on behalf of veterans to stop the whole process.

This suit is the last chance these veterans may have since the bill introduced by Senator Richard Burr (R.NC) to protect the gun rights of veterans was recently defeated by the Democrats in the Senate.

There are at least three other attacks taking place on our veterans. The first has been the subject of a series of reports by the Fox News and ABC affiliates in Dallas, Texas which last fall reported that veterans going to the VA hospital were either having to wait for months to get treatment for serious illnesses or in some cases being denied effective treatment entirely. Two veterans were found to have committed suicide, one on the hospital grounds, because they were not being properly treated for their severe problems.

The second problem for our wounded warriors has been exposed in a series of reports by the Colorado Springs Gazette. According to the paper an extraordinary number of veterans who have received traumatic wounds, been treated and latter returned to their units, have ultimately received less than honorable discharges from the military for alleged misconduct. Once that happens, the soldiers can no longer receive treatment from the VA for their wounds or illnesses and they can’t receive any other benefits.

Reporter Dave Philipps stated in his article that: “It doesn’t take serious misconduct to be discharged and lose a lifetime of benefits. The Gazette found troops cut loose for small offenses that the Army acknowledges can be symptoms of TBI and PTSD. Some soldiers missed formation a handful of times or smoked marijuana once. Some were discharged for showing up late or missing appointments. Some tested positive once for drugs, then were deployed to combat zones because the Army needed the troops, only to be discharged for the drug offense when they returned.”

In other words, wounded soldiers who have problems because of their injuries are rewarded for their combat service by getting kicked out of the military so the government will not have to fulfill its obligation to treat them.

Last, but certainly not least is the horrendous treatment the 32 members of the army who were wounded in the terrorist attack at Fort Hood, Texas on November 5, 2009. Since the Pentagon was ordered to be politically correct and label the attack by jihadist Nidal Milak Hasan as workplace violence instead of the obvious terrorist attack it was the soldiers who survived have been denied the Purple Heart medal for the wounds they received and denied the financial benefits that come with it.

According to a report on the NBC affiliate in Dallas some soldiers can barely afford to feed their families, yet Hasan has received his regular military pay since he was arrested and awaiting trial. The total pay so far is $268,000. His family has access to this money so our government is taking good care of the family of an Islamic terrorist and ignoring the families of our wounded soldiers. By the way, I join with the families of the 13 soldiers who died in the attack in asking why this man has not yet been tried for his crimes.

I am outraged by these actions of our government that dishonor our veterans and the debt we owe to them. This is developing into an additional scandal for the Obama administration yet many people are unaware that this is even happening. Please help me spread the word.

To my fellow veterans on this Memorial Day I can only say thank you for your service and I believe the American people will not let you be forgotten.

Michael Connelly

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Last week, while everyone was enraptured by the trio of Obama administration scandals, Congress was hard at work fleecing American taxpayers.

This time, they’re doing it with a multi-billion dollar bill to subsidize farmers. The bill is a maze of agribusiness subsidies, welfare payments and “green” crony capitalism spending. Programs in the farm bill include: income support for farmers, price controls on select crops, government guaranteed loans and special subsidized crop insurance for farmers.

The problem is not agriculture per se. It’s that once the money flows, it becomes impossible to turn off the gushing payment spigot to demanding recipients.

You see, the current farm payment programs all got started in the 1930′s. During the Great Depression, times were tough… but today’s farming is a whole other thing, mostly controlled by large, successful agribusiness. Present-day farms are bringing in record-high incomes. Technology has done away with numerous risks that used to bedevil agriculture.

Nowadays, the never-ending giveaway of billions of dollars to agribusiness is a needless expense that inevitably falls to taxpayers.

Big Agriculture is a Big Business

When you listen to congressmen talk about the farm bill, you might think the bill helps small, family farms. But in actuality, the victors are giant agribusiness.

About 75% of big farms collect subsidies compared to only 24% of the smaller, family farms. According to the government’s own data, farms with gross sales of $1 million or more received 23% of all commodity-related cash, significantly more than the 15% share received by smaller farms in the $100,000 to $249,999 sales range.

Subsidy payments given to large enterprises make it very difficult for small farms to compete and stay in business. The stream of tax dollars into big farms increases demand for farmland, which raises the price of property above the reach of smaller players. If the government wanted to enact effective change, Congress should cut payments to farms raking in over $250,000 per year.

And Now For Some Corruption

If saddling taxpayers with unwanted bills isn’t bad enough, there’s this: Members of Congress and their families are eligible for these farm subsidies.

You see, many of the members assigned to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees are farmers themselves, and the public can’t see how much these same members and their families profit from crop insurance payments.

In essence, they get to reach into the farm bill honeypot and grab however much money they want.

And as for corruption, that’s only the start. The farm bill wouldn’t pass with the support of farmers alone. It needs the support of big city politicians, too, which is why Congress tied the Food Stamp program to the farm bill. Urban members of Congress exchange their support of the bill for millions in welfare benefits for their constituents.

And of course the idea of decoupling welfare from the farm bill faces stiff resistance. It makes good politics to mix the two. As Sen. Thad Cochran of the Senate Agriculture Committee candidly admitted to the North American Agricultural Journalists meeting that food stamps must be included in the farm bill “purely from a political perspective. It helps get the farm bill passed.”

I say America would be better off if we just cashiered the whole bill, but Capitol Hill doesn’t listen to common sense. Congressmen only listen to the special interests that pour money into their re-election campaigns.

“This article originally appeared at CapitolHillDaily.com and is reprinted here with permission.

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Errors by the party in power can get America into trouble; real catastrophes require consensus.

Rarely have both parties been as unanimous about a development overseas as they have in their shared enthusiasm for the so-called Arab Spring during the first months of 2011. Republicans vied with the Obama Administration in their zeal for the ouster of Egypt’s dictator Hosni Mubarak and in championing the subsequent NATO intervention against Muammar Qaddafi in Libya. Both parties saw themselves as having been vindicated by events. The Obama Administration saw its actions as proof that soft power in pursuit of humanitarian goals offered a new paradigm for foreign-policy success. And the Republican establishment saw a vindication of the Bush freedom agenda.

“Revolutions are sweeping the Middle East and everyone is a convert to George W. Bush’s freedom agenda,” Charles Krauthammer observed in February 2011. “Now that revolution has spread from Tunisia to Oman,” Krauthammer added, “the [Obama] administration is rushing to keep up with the new dispensation, repeating the fundamental tenet of the Bush Doctrine that Arabs are no exception to the universal thirst for dignity and freedom.” And William Kristol exulted, “Helping the Arab Spring through to fruition might contribute to an American Spring, one of renewed pride in our country and confidence in the cause of liberty.”

They were all wrong. Just two years later, the foreign-policy establishment has fractured in the face of a Syrian civil war that threatens to metastasize into neighboring Iraq and Lebanon and an economic collapse in Egypt that has brought the largest Arab country to the brink of state failure. Some Republican leaders, including Sen. John McCain and Weekly Standard editor Kristol, demand American military intervention to support Syria’s Sunni rebels. But Daniel Pipes, the dean of conservative Middle East analysts, wrote on April 11 that “Western governments should support the malign dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad,” because “Western powers should guide enemies to stalemate by helping whichever side is losing, so as to prolong their conflict.” If Assad appears to be winning, he added later, we should support the rebels. The respected strategist Edward Luttwak contends that America should “leave bad enough alone” in Syria and turn its attention away from the Middle East—to Asia. The Obama Administration meanwhile is waffling about what might constitute a “red line” for intervention and what form such intervention might take.

The once-happy bipartisan consensus has now shrunk to the common observation that all the available choices are bad. It could get much worse. Western efforts have failed to foster a unified leadership among the Syrian rebels, and jihadi extremists appear to be in control of the Free Syrian Army inside Syria. Syria’s war is “creating the conditions for a renewed conflict, dangerous and complex, to explode in Iraq. If Iraq is not shielded rapidly and properly, it will definitely slip into the Syrian quagmire,” warns Arab League Ambassador Nassif Hitti. Iraq leaders are talking of civil war and eventual partition. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, meanwhile, warned on May 1, “Syria has real friends in the region, and the world will not let Syria fall into the hands of America, Israel or takfiri [radical islamist] groups,” threatening in effect to turn the civil war into a regional conflict that has the potential to destabilize Turkey. And the gravest risk to the region remains the likelihood that “inherent weaknesses of state and society in Egypt reach a point where the country’s political, social and economic systems no longer function,” as Gamal Abuel Hassan wrote on May 28. Libya is fracturing, and the terrorists responsible for the September 2012 Benghazi attack are operating freely.

Read More at meforum.org . By David P. Goldman .

Will Rogers, the great humorist, once said, “If you ever injected truth into politics, you would have no politics.”  If you injected truth into the teleprompter during one of Obama’s speeches, there would be nothing left but an empty chair.

Fourteen days after the September 11, 2012 attacks, Obama appeared at the United Nations to deliver a eulogy for the man he had not troubled to save and to declare that the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.

That lopsided injustice appeared to have been the plan all along. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had told Charles Woods, the father of murdered Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, that the administration was going to arrest and prosecute the man who made the video.

It was the only promise that Obama and Clinton made about Benghazi which they faithfully kept. Everything else was a lie. Doubletalk had become an administration habit. Obama would say one thing and do another. Or he would loudly tell a lie and quietly speak some version of the truth in order to hedge his bets.

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May 20, 2013 TPATH- Everyone who watches Glenn Beck on his internet show knows, he begins  each broadcast by announcing, “Welcome to the Glenn Beck Show, the  network you are building.   Glenn may have been correct in that  statement since TPATH and many others have not only linked to his TV  Show, his radio show and his many publications and events, but also,  thousands of us have called cable and satellite companies in an effort  to get them to take Glenn Beck TV.

This past week, Mr. Beck, who has been called the “Conspiracy King”, and his two fawning boot lickers on the radio, decided to alienate 75% of  those “building his network”.  Beck, for some reason, only known to him, felt it necessary, once again, to take on the so called Birthers.  The  condescending, flippant sarcasm, the bunching together of those who have spent years reading and understanding the facts about Obama’s  ineligibility and then relegating them into a gaggle of fools and  idiots, would have made Saul Alinsky and Kieth Obermann proud.  (by the  way, where is Kiethy Boy theses days?)

It is important to point out that Beck does some good work, in fact some great work.  Most of which has been ridiculed by the very same people  he now appears to be aligning himself with.  The big question here  is…Why?

Its quite interesting that Glenn would choose this time, when Comrade  Obama and his cadre of leftist crooks, fabricators and liars are being  exposed for not only what they are, but for what they have been, to  attack those who are concerned that we have an illegal President.  Also, relating to this, Beck has been bedside himself when the mainstream  media either ignored or labeled him a conspiracy nut as he was putting  together evidence concerning the Saudi terrorist the State Department  secreted out of the country after the Marathon bombing.

Hey Glenn, welcome to the club, Buddy.

Over the years Glenn’s prognostications have been, while not always spot on, very close to what we are seeing today, throughout the world.  For  that work he needs to be complimented and praised.  But at the same  time, all of these many “theories” that he has investigated, organized  into cute little charts on the blackboard, can’t hold a candle to the  reams of information, proven facts, hidden and forged documents  relating  the mystery man occupying our White House.  Again, the  question screams…..Why?

Before I speculate on what could be behind Glenn’s seemingly intentional ignorance, purposeful antagonism and frankly, completely flabbergasting position he has taken on the eligibility and forgeries of Obama, the  following list of Obama Issues, most of which have been thoroughly  investigated by some very capable people and ignored by Beck, should  make one wonder why someone so into conspiracies would chose to not only evade and disdain but belittle those who are most likely to support  him.

• Obama’s father was never an American citizen. 
• Article II of our Constitution requires the President to be “Natural born”.  Obama is not.
• Obama stated many times and wrote about his being Kenyan.
• Anyone who can dial a phone could put a birth announcement in the paper in Hawaii.
• No one, except a progressive Obama minion in Hawaii, has seen Obama’s original birth certificate. Not one person!
• Obama’s passport has been hidden because  it may show he was listed as Kenyan during his trips to Pakistan during a time that American citizens were forbidden to travel there.
• Federal records, in the form of  microfiche, which track every person coming into or leaving the country  have been altered and the two week period that would show if Obama’s  mother left the country with an infant are the only records missing over a forty year period.
• The visitor’s log book from the hospital  where Obama was supposed to be born, has been concealed and removed from public view because it probably shows no visitors to Obama’s momma  before, during or after the supposed birth.  That would be pretty much  impossible unless, she wasn’t there.
• Not any of the two Hawaiian hospitals where Obama claims he was born in will go on record as saying he was in fact, born there.
• Obama’s mother’s passport has been found  for the period of her trips to Kenya around the time Obama was supposed  to be born.  If a guardian (parent) takes an infant out of the country,  that infant’s picture and information would have to be, by Federal Law,  added to the guardian’s passport.  His mother’s passport did not have  that information on it.  Clearly, this indicates she left before Obama  was born.
• The birth certificate the Divider N Chief  posted on the internet is a forgery.  There is no doubt about that.   Even if one would overlook a President lying to the American people,  forging legal documents is a crime.
• Obama has used several Social Security numbers including one issued in a state where he never lived.
• There is no evidence that Obama ever  legally changed his name, but everyone knows he was called by several  names and enrolled in schools both in Africa and America under names not “Obama”.
• Obama filled out election documents and  stated that he was never known by or did he ever use another name except Obama.  This is a crime.
• The Selective Service required “citizens”  to sign up with them at the age of 18.  Obama clearly never did that.   Most likely he didn’t have to, since he was not a citizen.  When a  political career became apparent,  a Selective Service card for Obama  was fabricated.  This is also a crime.

There is more. Much more.  But considering the  penchant for conspiracies awash in Beck’s DNA, one must wonder why these things do not warrant just a bit of cogitation. 

Of course, if like some others, Glenn has decided not to pursue any of  this because he believes the politicians, the judicial system and the  country have become so corrupt, these issues will never go anywhere and  there are other more viable things that need attention, he could be  forgiven for that.  But he has spent hours trashing those who believe  every aspect of our Constitution should be protected. This does not make sense.

Some of us who watch the information highway closely, have seen bitter  rivalries arise between between radio talk show hosts and internet  hosts.  One of the most unpleasant of these engagements has been  festering between Beck and Alex Jones of Info Wars.  Alex Jones, an  aggressive and ever vigilant watchdog of our runaway government has long accused Beck of purloining data and research from his website and not  giving credit to him.

Without being specific, I have noticed that Info Wars was in front on  issues that later Glenn did talk about.  Whether that constitutes theft  of services or not, I make no contention here.   But….. Since Alex  Jones is and has been on the issue of Obama’s forgeries, crimes and  ineligibility, the impetus for Beck’s attitude towards “Birthers” could  very well stem from this, even to the point where Glenn is willing to  disparage his own viewers and supporters.

There are a few more suppositions that can be made here.  I’ll list them. You decide.

• Glenn does not want to go against his pal at FOX, Billy O’reilly.
• Glenn is looking to expand his network to cable outlets owned and controlled by the left.
• Glenn is stubborn and won’t admit that early on he was too hasty in attacking Birthers.
• Glenn may not want to see or be a part of removing the first black President.
• And last, but not least, aliens have invaded Glenn’s brain and are about to take over the world.

Having said all this, TPATH intends to continue to link to Beck’s network.  He is a valuable partner in our war against  Islam, Communists and World Order domination.   I only hope that Glenn  checks the overwhelming comments on the Blaze from his readers and  viewers who feel betrayed by him, and then sticks to the issues he feels are important and leaves those who fear our Constitution, every part of it, needs defending, at all costs, alone. 

Voices from the past are ere haunting the halls of Congress, warning that we are about to suffer a fatal blow. None could be more vibrant, than the voice of Thomas Dewey, who ran for President during the New Deal.

Dewey blamed Roosevelt for the rise of communism in the United States. Dewey accused him of allowing the unions to seize control of the New Deal, and that their ultimate aim was to control the government of the United States.

It all makes perfect sense, if we consider how quickly the communist party formed a protective bubble around their favorite son. All this talk about job creation and rebuilding our infra-structure, would ultimately repeat the New Deal, and complete the communist plan. For Obama to deny the obvious, is quite a stretch.

For conspiracy buffs who think that 9/11 was a communist plot, they only have to know that the World Trade Center was a monument to Free Trade. Thomas Dewey was the Governor of New York, who approved the final plans to build it.

According to Dewey, “communism was a pagan philosophy which was sweeping through much of the world.” He also warned that a man named Earl Browder was one of the “highest bidders” for control of the Democratic Party. (New York Times Nov. 2, 1944)

Dewey declared “everyone knows that communism is for State ownership of all property, including your house, your farm and the factory, the shop, the office in which you work. It stands for absolute dictatorship, the abolition of civil rights and total political and economic bigotry.”

Browder’s communist upbringings started with his childhood in Kansas.
And we know who else came from Kansas, don’t we? Stanley Dunham was just an innocent furniture salesman, searching for a job. By the time he found work in Hawaii, he had formed a lot of close friendships with people who basically hated the United States.

After reading Dewey’s remarks, I realized that most of us were born into a secret war. I feel like my entire life has been a lie. I actually believed that the members of Congress had a sense of basic integrity. I volunteered my time and my money. I would actually like my money back. I don’t even know who is who. Everybody appears to be lying.

It’s just a little hard to swallow that people like Hillary and Bill, and Chuck Schumer, and Al Franken, and Drunk Uncle Joe, are complete hypocrites. If we think about what Dewey said, and compare it with what we already know, it’s not even safe to leave our homes.

If I had $375.00, I could file a Federal lawsuit for fraud. But then I would end up being beat up by communist courts, who would sabotage my efforts. And everybody knows its a complete waste of time to file a Federal lawsuit. Everybody is in on the joke, but you.

My only consolation is knowing that American communism is flawed. You can’t “inflict” communism on a Constitutional democracy. This is much different than overthrowing the Czar.

Communism belongs to Russia. It was a natural evolution of their own history. Of course, you can’t explain Russian communism to American communists. They’re all too busy driving their hybrids and loading up at Trader Joes.

I’ve known quite a few American communists. I barely gave them the time of day. If I compare them with their Russian counterparts, they look ignorant and weak. They’re an odd assortment of societies rejects, obese alcoholics, and pot heads, like Dennis Rodman, who scribbles on his body and drives hooks through his nose.

American communists want it both ways. They want the stuff that goes with democracy, but they’re not willing to work for it. They want your stuff, because they’re too stupid and lazy to figure out how to get it for themselves.