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<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_577174918" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 100, 100); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday, January 8, 2016</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Ban Radical Islam. . . Not Guns</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">President Obama was on </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">CNN</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> last night for a national "town hall" discussion about gun control. Of course, it was no such thing. It was political theater with an audience tilted heavily toward Obama's agenda.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">By the way, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">CNN's</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> Anderson Cooper explained at the beginning of the event how it came to happen. He said:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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"We are here <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_577174919" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span> to talk about one of the most divisive issues in America today: guns. Now, protection is enshrined in the Constitution and the Second Amendment, and gun ownership is an integral part of American history and culture. . .<br /><br />"This town hall is not something the White House dreamed up or that the White House organized.<i>CNN</i> approached the White House shortly after the San Bernardino terror attacks with this idea, and we're pleased . . . to welcome <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_577174920" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span> the president of the United States, Barack Obama."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">So in response to a radical Islamist attack, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">CNN</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> thinks we need a national debate about the constitutional right of Americans to bear arms. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In response to a terrorist attack -- not Sandy Hook, not the Colorado theater shooting, not any routine multiple-murder weekend in Chicago -- our left-wing president finally decides to make his move on guns. He seems more agitated with supporters of the Second Amendment than with supporters of Sharia law! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Beyond making it more difficult for law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights, the president's proposals aren't going to accomplish anything meaningful. </span><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d0a31a86e9a64d78aaf3213b034993fc/obama-measures-wouldnt-have-kept-guns-mass-shooters" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Even the <i>Associated Press</i>agrees.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The Discussion We Need</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">What we ought to be debating is the president's continued abuse of power. According to </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">CNN's</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> own polling, 54% of Americans "disapprove of Obama's decision to go around Congress and implement changes to gun policy by using executive power." A new Rasmussen poll finds that 58% of Americans oppose Obama's unilateral actions. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If the president wants to change the laws, he should go back to the Senate and offer amendments or new legislation. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Rep. Steven Palazzo (R-MS) has introduced a resolution to formally censure President Obama for exceeding his authority. Of course a censure resolution has no legal implications for Obama. But at a minimum, Congress should go on the record saying, "We object!" That formal statement could be useful in a future court challenge to these orders. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">And speaking of court challenges, here's something else Congress could do to reassert its authority as a co-equal branch of government: Refuse to confirm anymore Obama nominations, including judicial nominations. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Many of Obama's actions are being challenged in the courts. But the chances of success will be slim if the Senate continues to confirm Obama-nominated left-wing judicial activists to the bench. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Europe Under Siege</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">There is a huge scandal sweeping Europe. It has been making headlines overseas for much of the past week, and today the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Washington Post</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> finally noticed, although it buried the story on page A12. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">During New Year's celebrations in Cologne, Germany, dozens of women and girls were sexually assaulted. Normally, this would cause massive outrage in big media. There would be marches by feminists, demands for sensitivity training and the end of white male privilege. But there was none of that. Instead, there was a virtual media blackout. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">How could that be? The explanation is telling. The perpetrators of these attacks were migrants from North Africa and the Middle East. Roughly 1,000 young Muslim men essentially took over the square outside of the main train station in Cologne and assaulted virtually every woman who passed through the area. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">A report written by a German law enforcement official stated that "Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a 'gauntlet' through masses of heavily intoxicated men that words cannot describe." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">More than 100 women have filed complaints of rape and sexual assault. Their reports were initially ignored by local officials. In fact, the authorities were quick to condemn Germans for their racism and bigotry. But the women took to social media and eventually the details started getting out. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Days later it became obvious that Cologne wasn't an anomaly. This happened in virtually </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/06/berlin-cologne-hamburg-stuttgart-dusseldorf-new-years-migrant-sex-assault-every-major-german-city/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">every major German city.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> Yet the local governments initially tried to suppress the news. They were more worried about defending left-wing views of multiculturalism than they were about acknowledging the assaults and arresting the thugs. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The one million migrants who entered Germany last year brought a culture with them that most Germans will find intolerable. The rioters were doing what their culture teaches, which is that women, particularly infidel women, are possessions. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Similar assaults took place in other </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/07/helsinki-cops-widespread-sexual-harrasment-by-asylum-seekers-on-new-years-eve/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">European countries, too.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> In Helsinki, Finland, hundreds of Iraqi refugees and asylum seekers took over the city's central railway station. More than a dozen men were arrested for sexual assaults.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">What kind of asylum seekers engage in attacks against the women of their host country? I'm not aware of previous instances of "guests" coming to a country and within weeks engaging in such offensive behavior. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">What I do know from history is that it is, sadly, not unusual for a conquering army to rape and abuse the women of the nation it occupies. When conservatives described the mass influx of a million mostly male Muslims from the Middle East into Europe, some said it looked like an invasion by an occupying army rather than an influx of migrants. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Of course, the mainstream media on both sides of the Atlantic condemned such statements as racist and bigoted. That same media is strangely silent now. Thankfully, at least one German news outlet is</span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/07/germanys-largest-broadcaster-apologizes-for-not-reporting-sexual-assault-attacks/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">apologizing</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> for sacrificing the truth on the altar of political correctness. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">By the way, this story is relevant to us as news broke this morning that </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/08/middle-east-refugee-in-texas-charged-with-planning-isis-inspired-attack/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">"refugees" in California and Texas</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> have been arrested for conspiring to carry out ISIS inspired attacks. The governors who stood up to the president, and who were condemned by the media for doing so, were right. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Also in the news, a Philadelphia police officer was shot three times last night in an assassination attempt. Fortunately, Officer Jesse Hartnett survived. He was able to return fire, hitting his assailant.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">We don't know the attackers name, but he reportedly made a full confession, saying he attacked Officer Hartnett </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/01/08/suspect-accused-ambushing-pa-officer-reportedly-acted-in-name-islam.html?intcmp=hpbt1" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">in the name of Islam.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-56779049616830817722016-01-07T13:19:00.000-08:002016-01-07T13:19:04.048-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thursday, January 7, 2016<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Congress Acts</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Last night the House of Representatives, on a largely party-line vote, passed legislation repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood. It has passed bills to repeal Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood on several occasions. But in previous years, these bills have died in Harry Reid's Senate. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">What is different this time is that the repeal/defund legislation already passed the now Republican Senate under special rules that prevent filibusters. With the House's approval, both chambers of Congress are now on the record in favor of repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood. The bill is now headed to Barack Obama's desk. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Unfortunately, we all know what happens next. Obama will veto the legislation. Obamacare will remain intact, and your hard-earned tax dollars will continue to flow to the nation's largest abortion business. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But don't minimize the usefulness of the vote. Republicans followed through on a promise -- they passed legislation repealing Obamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood. It does make a difference which party controls Congress. They forced every member of Congress to vote "yes" or "no." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Now we need a president who will sign such bills! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The Left Attacks</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Last night's vote no doubt set off alarm bells at Planned Parenthood. The abortion provider is facing numerous investigations for its involvement in harvesting baby body parts, and hundreds of millions of federal dollars are at risk.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">So, Planned Parenthood is doing what the left always does -- it is going on the attack. </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Politico</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> reports that the organization is planning to spend $20 million to defeat pro-family, pro-life candidates "in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, New Hampshire, Colorado and Nevada." It is also hoping to influence the outcome of the presidential contest in these critical states.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Planned Parenthood also announced that it has hired Matt Burgess, national political director for Everytown for Gun Safety, to direct its 2016 efforts. What irony! Here's a guy who worked for a group that says it wants to save lives, especially the lives of children. Now he's going to work for a group that specializes in taking the lives of innocent unborn children. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Graham's New Crusade</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Billy Graham, America's beloved evangelist, saved many souls during his lifetime at massive gatherings he called "crusades." His son, Reverend Franklin Graham, launched a new crusade this week aimed at saving America.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Franklin Graham made headlines recently when he announced that he had switched his political registration and had become an independent, something many conservatives have done in recent years. But, as we reported and the media ignored, Graham was in no way telling people to abandon the culture war and avoid the political process. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In fact, it was the exact opposite. In the state capital of Iowa this week, Franklin Graham kicked off a series of public rallies that will take him to all 50 states in the weeks and months ahead. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Speaking in Des Moines, Graham decried the condition of our country, spiritually, financially and racially. He lamented that too often "our educators and our politicians and our churches seem . . . more concerned about political correctness than God's truth and righteousness." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Graham denounced the aggressive secularism of the left that "wants to take God out of our society," adding, "I'm here to say, I'm not going without a fight!"</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Then he urged men and women of faith to redouble their efforts to be active and engaged voters. "Be willing this next election to vote," Graham said. "Vote for candidates who stand for Biblical principles." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">"Don't tell me your vote doesn't count," he continued, citing several close races. "If every one of you votes, you go back and get your family to vote, get your church to vote." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Graham then challenged his audience to pray for the country, to make sure they were registered to vote and to encourage others in their community to do the same. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I couldn't agree more with Reverend Graham's assessment of our nation and his recommended solution. I join him in urging those who cherish the values of faith and family to get off the sidelines and get organized! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The hour is late if we are going to save this "shining city upon a hill." </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-81586997406910126872016-01-06T19:44:00.002-08:002016-01-06T19:44:40.036-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2081254434" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday, January 6, 2016</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">North Korea's Nukes</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The U.N. Security Council held an emergency, closed-door meeting this morning to discuss North Korea's claim that it successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The underground detonation was some kind of nuclear device, but intelligence analysts are skeptical, for the moment at least, that it was in fact a hydrogen bomb. If it was a hydrogen bomb, the national security threats to our allies and us would grow significantly. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Not only is the explosive power of a hydrogen bomb dramatically greater than anything North Korea is known to currently possess, H-bombs are also generally smaller and lighter. It is conceivable that the missiles North Korea possesses could easily carry the payload. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Those missiles can strike much of Asia, including U.S. military bases in the region. Moreover, a top </span><a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/admiral-north-korea-can-hit-u-s-with-long-range-nuclear-missile/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">U.S. military official</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> recently expressed his belief that the regime can strike the U.S. homeland. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Whatever this test was, it is one more example of provocative actions from a hostile nation that believes Obama is weak. But it is also the result of multiple administrations that were unwilling to follow policies that could have prevented one of the worst actors in the world from gaining access to the worst weapons in the world. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">What you are seeing with North Korea now is what you will see with Iran under the weak policies being pursued by Barack Obama. Don't forget that North Korea has been </span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/31/iran-and-north-korea-the-nuclear-axis-of-resistance.html" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">working very closely with Iran</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> to develop the arsenals of both nations. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Perhaps Secretary of State John Kerry might want to go to a microphone today and explain to the American people why the Obama Administration believes that the greatest threat facing mankind is that average temperatures may go up two degrees over the next few decades. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The warming we should be worried about is the temperature a city reaches when a hydrogen bomb explodes. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Iran Shows Off Its Missiles</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">While North Korea is flexing its muscles, Iran is showing off its </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/iran-nuclear-talks/iran-state-tv-shows-nuclear-capable-missiles-underground-depot-n490501" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">vast arsenal</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles. Iran recently test-fired these missiles in clear violation of U.N. resolutions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Don't miss the significance of this display, my friends. We are just days away from "Implementation Day," when sanctions are formally lifted against the Islamic Republic of Iran. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Billions of dollars will pour into the mullahs' coffers at this sensitive moment, and the regime is literally bragging about its illegal missile capabilities! The Iranians are declaring victory over the West. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The president should immediately announce -- and should get our European allies to join us -- that sanctions will not be lifted because Iran is clearly violating both the letter and spirit of the nuclear agreement, as well as existing U.N. resolutions. Unfortunately, this president won't do that.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">I can only hope that Congress will do everything it can to hold the administration responsible for the deal it negotiated and resist efforts to lift sanctions on the rogue regime in Tehran. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Obama's New Rules</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">President Obama's announcement yesterday of new regulations designed to restrict access to firearms had liberals applauding and conservatives fuming. But the impact of his proposals on limiting mass shootings appears negligible at best. The biggest impact will be to make it harder for law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Associated Press</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> wrote that the effectiveness of the "centerpiece of Obama's plan" -- his attempt to force the registration of all gun sales -- "is an open question, and one not easily answered." In a</span><a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/d0a31a86e9a64d78aaf3213b034993fc/obama-measures-wouldnt-have-kept-guns-mass-shooters" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">separate analysis,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">AP</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> declared that Obama's actions "would have had no impact in keeping weapons from the hands of suspects in several of the deadliest recent mass shootings that have spurred calls for tighter gun control."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Our friends at </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Breitbart.com</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> offered a good analysis of the proposed rules, which you can read </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/05/five-outrageous-facts-obamas-executive-gun-control/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">here.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> The only thing that seems guaranteed is that government will get bigger and more intrusive.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">For example, as </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Breitbart</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> notes, Americans have been selling guns privately since the founding of the country. With the stroke of his pen, the president is wiping out 225 years of precedent without any input from the people's elected representatives.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In addition, the plan reportedly gets the Social Security Administration involved in deciding who can and cannot own a gun. People could be denied based on financial considerations. Consider this excerpt from the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Los Angeles Times:</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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"A potentially large group within Social Security are people who, in the language of federal gun laws, are unable to manage their own affairs due to 'marked subnormal intelligence, or mental illness, incompetency, condition, or disease.' . . . If Social Security, which has never participated in the background check system, uses the same standard as the VA, millions of its beneficiaries would be affected."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">How can this be a good idea? This is the same bureaucracy that gave us the VA and the IRS scandals. It</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/02/us/politics/us-doesnt-know-how-many-foreign-visitors-overstay-visas.html?_r=0" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">can't tell</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> whether foreign visitors overstay their visas. It has millions of active Social Security numbers for </span><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/ig-audit-65-million-people-active-social-security-numbers-are-112-or-older" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">dead people.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> And it couldn't build a functioning website for a billion dollars! </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-45030253089332921212016-01-05T14:46:00.003-08:002016-01-05T14:46:41.045-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_666870333" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, January 5, 2016</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Obama Takes Aim At Second Amendment</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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<i>"The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm president of the United States of America."</i></div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Those words could have been spoken by any conservative in opposition to President Obama's newly announced executive actions targeting Second Amendment rights. But they weren't. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">They were uttered by then-Senator Barack Obama in 2008 in opposition to George W. Bush's limited use of executive authority. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">So today, Barack Obama once again betrays his own words and assumes more and more power into the executive branch as he bypasses Congress completely. While his executive actions on so-called "gun violence" might make for good sound bites, they are very likely unconstitutional and they are bad policy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">For example, a primary goal of these executive actions appears to be forcing the registration of all gun sales. During a conference call with reporters yesterday, Attorney General Lynch was vague about the requirements for triggering registration. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Lynch said that the sale "can be as few as one or two [guns] depending upon the circumstances under which the person sells the gun." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">It is not hard to imagine this new rule preventing a father or grandfather from giving a hunting rifle to a son or grandson as a birthday present. Nor is it difficult to see how this action easily becomes the first step toward a national registry of all firearms in America. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Why is this happening now? This is Obama's reaction to the San Bernardino terrorist attacks and it speaks volumes about the bizarre mentality of the left. His reaction isn't to increase surveillance of radical mosques or reform our immigration laws, but to further restrict the rights of law-abiding Americans. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Is this what the American people want? Recent polls show the public is evenly split on whether more laws are needed. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Moreover, a recent analysis of Gallup polling over the course of the past year finds that gun control ranks at the bottom of the list of issues the public is most concerned about. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">What is the public's number one concern? </span><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/264630-poll-most-name-government-americas-biggest-problem" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Frustration with government!</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Obama's Anger</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">When the president announced his new executive actions today to restrict the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans to own a firearm, I was struck by his tone. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Obama seemed more agitated talking about this issue than when the Iranian Revolutionary Guard fired a rocket last week near a U.S. aircraft carrier. He seemed more angry today than when we found out Iran was lying about its nuclear program. He showed more anger about guns in America than when Iran tested </span><a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-deal-backers-embarrassed-by-obama-admins-sanctions-blunder/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">nuclear-capable missiles</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> in violation of U.N. sanctions. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In fact, Obama seems more emotionally committed to taking away your guns than he is to preventing the mullahs of Iran from getting weapons of mass destruction.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Culture War Rages On</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">While events in Washington, D.C., frequently dominate the headlines, Washington State is making news for recent skirmishes in the ongoing culture war. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In recent weeks, we have told you about how unelected federal bureaucrats were forcing girls in public high schools to share showers, locker rooms and bathrooms with boys who think they are girls. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Well, the bureaucrats in Washington State got the message and decided to do the same thing there. In addition, private businesses and other "public accommodations" are being forced to comply with this new regulation. Nobody ever voted for this, but a spokeswoman for the Washington ACLU called the mandate a "fabulous thing." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">For some reason, I don't think most residents of Washington State feel the same way. And radical bureaucrats in other jurisdictions would be well advised to consider the recent experience of Houston, Texas, where a similar ordinance was put on the ballot and repealed by an overwhelming vote of the people.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Meanwhile, another business in Washington State may be forced to close its doors because the left refuses to accommodate the deeply-held beliefs of the family that owns and operates it. This is becoming a far too common occurrence in a nation founded on the principle of religious freedom. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The state is attempting to force a privately-owned pharmacy to sell so-called "emergency contraception" or abortion-inducing drugs in spite of the religious objections of the owners. Thirty pharmacies within five-miles offer the drugs, so it is hard for the government to claim that anyone is being deprived of services. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Nevertheless, the regulators have dug their heels in. Now the family is </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/04/abortion-marriage-supreme-court-asked-take-first-amendment-case-conscience-rights/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">asking the Supreme Court</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> to intervene. The court's opinion in the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Hobby Lobby</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> case seemingly offers some hope, but it has turned down other religious liberty cases. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-73703765113932858672016-01-04T13:36:00.001-08:002016-01-04T13:36:15.237-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Monday, January 4, 2016<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Personal Note</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The end of year fundraising drive for my non-profit public policy group, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> is over. (Stop cheering.) And I am happy to report that we met our budget goal! (Now you can cheer.)</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Many thanks to all of you who generously donated and helped </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">AV</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> reach its goal. We appreciate you! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Recruiting Jihadists</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The radical Islamic terror group al-Shabaab released a recruitment video over the weekend. It features Malcolm X, stokes racial tensions and urges black Muslim Americans to rise up against our country. It sounds like it could have been written by Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader once honored by Obama's Chicago church.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But what the media focused on was footage of Donald Trump calling for a temporary ban on Muslim immigration to America until we can sort out the peaceful Muslims from those who hate us.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">During the last Democrat debate, Hillary Clinton claimed that Trump's comments were being used by militant Islamists to recruit more fanatics. It was a </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/19/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-hillary-clintons-claim-isis-using-vi/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">false charge.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But the same media that ignored the fact that Bill Clinton and John Kerry were being used in jihadi recruitment videos have jumped on this latest video by al-Shabaab to suggest that Hillary was right all along.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Since the pro-Hillary, left-wing media are trying to revive the meme that conservative rhetoric is helping the Islamists, let me again put this ludicrous lie to rest. Jihadists don't care about our immigration policies. They don't need an excuse to attack us. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Radical Islam's goal is to create a worldwide caliphate in which everyone will follow Islam, be killed or live a life of subservience to Islamic rulers. Donald Trump's suggestion that we need a pause in Muslim immigration in no way gives al-Shabaab the moral high ground or a recruiting tool. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Much of the video attacks U.S. drone strikes. Does Hillary Clinton want to stop drone strikes because Islamists object to them and use the strikes to recruit more jihadists? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The left always wants to blame something else other than radical Islam. Barack Obama says we need to shut down the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay because the Islamists are using it for recruitment. But we were attacked on 9/11 before Gitmo was used to hold jihadists. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There is a reason the Marine Corps hymn has a line about the </span><a href="http://www.hqmc.marines.mil/hrom/NewEmployees/AbouttheMarineCorps/Hymn.aspx" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">"shores of Tripoli."</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> It is a reference to the First Barbary War in 1805. Muslim pirates attacked American ships off the coast of Libya just years after we become an independent nation. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In the left's world, Islamophobia causes radical Islamism. But in reality, radical jihadism causes Islamophobia. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Iran Unleashed</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">When people think about Barack Obama's promise to fundamentally transform America, they often think of Obamacare and other domestic policies. But Obama has done much to fundamentally transform America's foreign policy too. And neither the U.S. nor the world is a safer place for it.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">When Obama took office in January 2009, Iraq was a relatively stable nation. Iran was contained and ISIS did not exist. Now there is chaos throughout the Middle East. Vladimir Putin's Russia is in Syria trying to fix Obama's mess. And the Iranians have been unleashed.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama, Clinton and Kerry pinned their hopes on cutting a nuclear deal with the mullahs in Tehran. (Yes, </span><a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-clinton-backed-key-u-s-shift-toward-iran-nuclear-deal-1441753099" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Hillary was a big part</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> of that process too.) They claimed a deal would strengthen moderates, open Iran to trade and lead to Iran becoming a responsible state. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama got his deal. Congressional Democrats guaranteed it. The left embraced it. But did Iran open its doors to U.S. goods? No. </span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/chewing-gum-tanks-iran-orders-ban-227-us-products" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">The ayatollah banned them.</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Did Iran renounce its support for terrorism? No. It renewed </span><a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-renews-support-for-hamas-terrorists/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">support for Hamas,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> sent troops to Syria and armed rebels in Yemen.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Is Iran acting like a responsible regional power? No. In blatant violation of U.N. sanctions, Iran is testing nuclear-capable missiles and </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/29/politics/iran-missile-test-uss-harry-truman-aircraft-carrier/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">firing rockets</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> near U.S. ships. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And when the U.S. threatened to respond to Iran's missile violations, did Iran back down? No. Iran's "moderate" president ordered his military to </span><a href="http://www.newsweek.com/rouhani-expands-irans-missile-program-despite-us-sanctions-threat-410844" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">accelerate Iran's missile program.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Astonishing! The Iranians believe Obama is a total pushover. He is. Apparently, the administration is </span><a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-reneges-again-fails-hold-110000608.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">now retreating</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> from its plans to impose even minor sanctions against the Iranian regime. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama says he is promoting peace, but he is really projecting weakness and the world's dictators are taking notice. He has deconstructed decades of bi-partisan policies in the Middle East and, in the process, he has unleashed the Islamic Republic of Iran. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Scalia's Warning</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Justice Antonin Scalia, speaking to a Catholic high school over the weekend, reminded conservatives about the high stakes in America's culture war. He said God has blessed America because we have honored Him. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">"God has been very good to us," Scalia said. "That we won the revolution was extraordinary. . . I think one of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor." The justice added that nothing in the Constitution requires the government to be indifferent or hostile to religious expression. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">He said if the country wants an agnostic government, then the people should vote on it. But, Scalia warned, the left is now trying to "cram" aggressive secularism "down the throats of the American people" through the courts. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">"To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition," he said.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">My friends, Justice Scalia is exactly right! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">He also happens to be the longest-serving current justice on the Supreme Court, appointed 30 years ago this year by President Ronald Reagan. He turns 80 in March, and while I wish Justice Scalia many, many more happy birthdays, I know that someday he will no longer be on the Supreme Court.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The thought of a President Hillary Clinton nominating a judge to replace Justice Scalia gives me nightmares! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">These two issues alone -- the fate of religious liberty in America and the composition of the Supreme Court -- should cause every man and woman of faith to get off the sidelines and redouble their efforts to make sure our values prevail in 2016! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The next president could fundamentally alter the ideological balance of the Supreme Court. And the ramifications for our values are almost impossible to overstate. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-73408480811981222182015-12-29T15:51:00.002-08:002015-12-29T15:51:34.960-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1423547017" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, December 29, 2015</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">We Need You!</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please help <i>American Values</i> make the most of our generous year-end, matching gift opportunity!</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> There are only three days left in 2015. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In the last couple of weeks, I have been in multiple meetings and on conference calls strategizing for 2016 with leaders representing every facet of the conservative movement. While I can't divulge the details of those meetings, I have been reminded again that it doesn't really matter what your number one issue is. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If you want to see abortion-on-demand ended in America. . . </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If you want government regulations on your business and family rolled back. . . </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If you want our borders secured. . .</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If you want America to be feared by our enemies and respected by our friends. . . </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If you want the attack on religious liberty and the effort to erase the evidence of our Judeo-Christian heritage stopped. . . </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">2016 may well be the year that settles all these issues. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">We know Obama is going to try to "squeeze every ounce of change" he can as his time in office winds down. The left hopes to continue all these attacks on our values. Supreme Court vacancies loom on the horizon. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> is in the middle of all these fights, and your support is the only thing that keeps us going. There is no better place for you to invest your money now as we prepare for the battles ahead. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Stand with me today. Help us defend our values.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Four Stars For Honesty</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Actor Samuel L. Jackson is no shrinking violet when it comes to sharing his thoughts about current events. He had a lot to say recently about the </span><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/bernie-sanders-samuel-jackson-hillary-clinton-endorsement" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">2016 campaign,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> which was exactly what you might expect from a Hollywood liberal. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But his remarks about the San Bernardino shootings were also very revealing. Here's what Jackson said during a recent interview:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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"I can't even tell you how much that day the thing that happened in San Bernardino -- I was in Hawaii -- how much I really wanted that to just be another, you know, crazy white dude, and not really some Muslims, because it's like: 'Oh. . . It's here. And it's here in another kind of way.'<br /><br />"Now, okay, it happened on an Army base and it happened somewhere else. But now? It's like they have a legitimate reason now to look at your Muslim neighbor, friend, whatever in another way. And they become the new young black men."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Well, I have to give him four stars for honesty.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But his candor raises this disturbing question: How many other leftists in the country -- from the White House to the mainstream media -- share Jackson's hope that terrorist attacks are carried out by white men instead of Muslims? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">As the first reports of the shooting in San Bernardino were coming in, the media quickly jumped to conclusions by rushing to tell us where the </span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/02/media-races-to-make-san-bernardino-shooting-about-planned-parenthood-video/?print=1" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">nearest abortion facility</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> was located. For days President Obama seemingly tried to blame the attack on </span><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/261946-obama-possible-shooting-tied-to-terrorism" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">workplace disputes,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> just as he did with the Fort Hood massacre. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In a world where people are being routinely blown up by Islamists, crucified by the Islamic State, where jihadists turn children into bombs, where radical Muslims gun down U.S. soldiers not on foreign battlefields but in Texas and Tennessee, why do people hope that "crazy white dudes" are responsible for these atrocities? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">This delusional racism is blinding the left from facing reality and doing what is necessary to protect our country. And they have the audacity to accuse conservatives of being racists!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Jackson will be even more upset when he learns that the imam of the mosque attended by the San Bernardino killers is under investigation by the FBI. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/12/28/fbi-investigating-text-exchange-between-san-bernardino-terrorist-syed-farook-and-mosque-cleric-who-claimed-no-friendship-existed/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Roshan Abbassi</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> initially told reporters that he barely knew Syed Farook. But authorities are reportedly looking into dozens of text messages exchanged between Abbassi and Farook around the time of the terrorist attack in Chattanooga, Tennessee. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">A Victory In Utah</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In the wake of undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood's trafficking in baby body parts, a number of states moved to cut off taxpayer funding to the nation's largest abortion business. Planned Parenthood sued at least half a dozen states and, unbelievably, it has prevailed in federal court in virtually every case. Until last week. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Federal Judge Clark Waddoups initially blocked Governor Gary Herbert's order terminating Planned Parenthood's contracts with the state of Utah. But after hearing the state's case, Judge Waddoup removed his injunction and ruled against Planned Parenthood, declaring "These are the types of decisions that should be left to elected officials and not managed by the courts."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Finally, common sense prevails!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Of course, Planned Parenthood is appealing the decision. But why does this group -- or any other for that matter -- think it has a right to taxpayer dollars? Obviously, elected officials should be able to change state contracts.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The left is determined to use the courts to force its agenda on the country. Whether it is restricting religious liberty, redefining marriage or demanding taxpayer funding of abortion, the left is abusing our legal system to rig the political process and achieve its fundamental transformation of America.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">This is one reason why it is so important for men and women of faith to be involved in the political process. While the judiciary is an independent branch of government, it is composed of individuals nominated and confirmed by our elected officials. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Your vote for president and your two U.S. senators determine the judges who sit on our federal courts, including the Supreme Court. And with four Supreme Court justices currently 77 years old or older, the next president could easily change the ideological balance of the high court. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-6357907352868604332015-12-28T14:06:00.000-08:002015-12-28T14:06:02.371-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Monday, December 28, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Ready To Get Squeezed?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As the calendar counts down to 2016, most Americans are focused on New Year's Eve parties. Some of us are focused on the campaign to end the Obama era. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But what is Barack Obama thinking about? He's thinking about how much more he can do to forever change America. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In a recent email to his left-wing supporters, Obama offered a preview of what we can expect in the remaining days of his presidency: More assaults on our values and more attempts to end run Congress -- as if the past seven years weren't enough. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Here's how Obama put it: "I've got 12 months left to squeeze every ounce of change I can while I'm still in office. And that's what I intend to do."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There was nothing in his message about reaching across the aisle to work with conservatives in Congress. No, he's going to "squeeze every ounce of change" he can. Allow me to translate: He's going to twist the Constitution like a wet rag. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">What can we expect? More demands for tax increases. More job-killing regulations. More radical judges appointed to the federal courts. More bizarre interpretations from federal bureaucrats forcing extreme social agendas on our children. More politically correct policies putting our country at risk. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Are you ready to be squeezed even more? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I think the American people have been squeezed enough! I promise we will do everything we can in the weeks and months ahead to end the Obama/Clinton nightmare. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">ISIS Threatens Israel</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Over the weekend, ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi released his first message to the West in nearly seven months. It was promoted by ISIS as an "alternative Christmas broadcast." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In addition to urging Saudis to rise up against the ruling house of Saud, al-Baghdadi promised that ISIS would soon attack Israel and establish an Islamic state in Palestine. He said:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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"Jews, soon you shall hear from us in Palestine which will become your grave. The Jews thought we forgot Palestine and that they had distracted us from it. Not at all, Jews. We did not forget Palestine for a moment. With the help of Allah, we will not forget it. . . The pioneers of the jihadist fighters will surround you on a day that you think is distant and we know is close. We are getting closer every day."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Israel is taking threats from ISIS seriously. ISIS fighters have been approaching the Golan Heights to the north, and they are in the Sinai Peninsula to Israel's south. The Islamist supremacist group is also </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2015/11/22/exclusive-hamas-foils-mass-isis-prison-break-gaza/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">competing with Hamas</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> in the Gaza Strip. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Baghdadi also brushed off the latest offensive by Russia, the U.S. and Iraqi forces, claiming that the caliphate "is doing well" and is purified by war. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The latest </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CNN</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> poll suggests many Americans agree that ISIS is doing well. Only 18% of Americans say the U.S.-led coalition is winning the war on terrorism, while 40% believe the terrorists are winning. That's a record high for the terrorists. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Meanwhile, only 17% of Americans have a great deal of confidence in the Obama Administration to protect the country from terrorism. That is a record low. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-6684827861150604492015-12-23T12:33:00.002-08:002015-12-23T12:33:13.861-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_947920456" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday, December 23, 2015</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">We Need You!</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please help <i>American Values</i> make the most of our generous matching gift opportunity!</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Franklin Graham is sounding the alarm, urging more men and women of faith to engage in the culture war. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> is on the front lines, fighting for faith, family and freedom. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please stand with me today. Help us defend our values.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Graham's Call To Arms</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">An extraordinary statement was issued yesterday by a renowned leader of Christian evangelicals, Reverend Franklin Graham. His statement should be considered as a thunderclap to the Republican Party. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The GOP is already at loggerheads with its more populist economic supporters in the Tea Party. It has been unable to recreate the kind of message that Ronald Reagan delivered, which brought millions of blue collar workers to the party's banner. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Its relationship with social conservatives has been strained over bad judicial nominations, the lack of real resistance to the revolutionary change in the definition of marriage and, most recently, the funding of Planned Parenthood. More and more lifelong Republicans are calling themselves conservatives first and Republicans second -- if at all. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">And now Franklin Graham, driven over the edge by the omnibus bill, which significantly increased spending and failed to defund Planned Parenthood, has announced that he too is leaving the GOP. Here is his statement: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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"Shame on [Congress] for passing such a wasteful spending bill last week. And to top it off, funding Planned Parenthood! A <i>Huffington Post</i> article called it 'a big win for Planned Parenthood.' I call it a big loss for America. After all of the appalling facts revealed this year about Planned Parenthood, our representatives in Washington had a chance to put a stop to this, but they didn't.<br /><br />"There's no question -- taxpayers should not be paying for abortions! Abortion is murder in God's eyes. Seeing and hearing Planned Parenthood talk nonchalantly about selling baby parts from aborted fetuses with utter disregard for human life is reminiscent of Joseph Mengele and the Nazi concentration camps! That should've been all that was needed to turn off the faucet for their funding.<br /><br />"Nothing was done to trim this 2,000 page, $1.1 trillion budget. This is an example of why I have . . . declared myself Independent. I have no hope in [any party] to do what is best for America."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">That's where the vast majority of the media commentary stops. The message the left-wing media wants to send to Christian conservatives is, "Stay in your pews and stay out of the voting booth. Even Franklin Graham is giving up on politics."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But that is not what Reverend Graham is saying at all. Here is the next and most important part of his message: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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"Unless more godly men and women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for trouble. I want to challenge Christians, even pastors, across the country to pray about running for office where they can have an impact. We need mayors, country commissioners, city council members, school board members who will uphold biblical values."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Do not misinterpret Franklin Graham's message. He is </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><i>NOT</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> recommending that anyone abandon the public square, politically or culturally. He is emphatically calling for men and women of faith to get off the sidelines and aggressively </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><i>ENGAGE</i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> in the culture war! He goes on to state that he will be traveling the country and leading rallies urging men and women of faith to action. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Graham wants more Christians to engage in the battle. This is the only hope the country has. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-74686176997854753612015-12-22T14:42:00.000-08:002015-12-22T14:42:12.648-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_500892403" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday, December 22, 2015</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">We Need You!</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please help <i>American Values</i> make the most of our generous matching gift opportunity!</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">2015 was an unbelievable and unpredictable year, with many disappointments along the way. I'm no prophet, but I expect 2016 will be just as unpredictable with many battles in the good fight for life, faith and family. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> needs your support to stay on front lines fighting for our values. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Day by day, we are grinding our way toward our year-end fundraising goal, but we still have a long, long way to go, and time is running out. I know the Christmas holiday is nearly here. Many folks are probably traveling now, and that may explain the drop in donations this week. But we </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">MUST</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> close this gap.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please support <i>American Values</i> today when your support will be doubled.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Obama Appeases The Ayatollah, Again</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">During negotiations over the Iranian nuclear deal, the Obama Administration did whatever was necessary to appease the ayatollah's demands. Many on the left hoped that by negotiating with Iran, the regime might moderate its anti-Western attitudes, curb its belligerence and open up to world trade.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Instead, Iran has </span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/chewing-gum-tanks-iran-orders-ban-227-us-products" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">banned U.S. products</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> and test-fired two ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, clearly </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iran-missiles-un-exclusive-idUSKBN0TY1T920151216" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">violating</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> U.N. sanctions.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Members of Congress, including </span><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/263686-senate-dems-push-obama-to-act-on-iran-missile-tests" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">many who supported</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> Obama's nuclear deal, are now demanding that the president respond to these illegal missile tests. After all, something's not right here: If Iran's nuclear program is truly peaceful, why is it testing missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Meanwhile, in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks, Congress moved quickly to address weaknesses in our immigration system by closing a number of obvious loopholes in the visa waiver program. This program allows foreign individuals to enter the United States with minimal scrutiny.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But the Iranians objected, claiming that changes intended to keep America safe amounted to new sanctions on Iran, in violation of the terms of the nuclear deal. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">I'm not making this up, folks. Iran just fired off two nuclear-capable missiles, and now it is lecturing us about sanctions violations! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Evidently, there is no limit to the Obama Administration's appeasement. Rather than telling the ayatollah to take a hike, Secretary of State John Kerry </span><a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-12-21/iran-nuclear-deal-restricts-u-s-more-than-congress-knew" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">reassured</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> the Iranian regime that the new law intended to keep terrorists out of the country will in no way impact travel from the world's leading state-sponsor of terrorism.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">This kind of insanity is why a majority of Americans, for the first time ever, believe that </span><a href="http://www.people-press.org/2015/12/15/views-of-governments-handling-of-terrorism-fall-to-post-911-low/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">the government is failing</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> to protect us from terrorism. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please help <i>American Values</i> stay in the fight for commonsense solutions in Washington.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-45703804722183503372015-12-21T15:29:00.002-08:002015-12-21T15:29:44.236-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Monday, December 21, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Hillary's Trouble With The Truth</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There was a Democrat debate over the weekend. Did you notice? Many pundits commented on the fact that the timing of the debate -- competing with the newest </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Star Wars</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> movie and the last weekend of Christmas shopping -- seemed designed to keep viewership low and to protect Hillary Clinton's status as the Democrat front runner. Not surprisingly, Saturday's debate had the lowest ratings of any debate -- Democrat or Republican -- held in 2015. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The candidates talked a lot about GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. In fact, it was a comment about Trump that got most of the post-debate attention.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Hillary Clinton claimed that ISIS was using Donald Trump's rhetoric for its recruiting videos. </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/dec/19/hillary-clinton/fact-checking-hillary-clintons-claim-isis-using-vi/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">PolitiFact</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> checked out her claim and determined there was no evidence for it, and labeled her remark "False."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Once again, Hillary seems to be having trouble with the truth. Remember her comments about landing in </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2008/mar/25/hillary-clinton/video-shows-tarmac-welcome-no-snipers/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Bosnia under sniper fire?</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> How about her leaving the White House </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/jun/10/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-says-she-and-bill-were-dead-broke/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">"dead broke"?</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> How about her </span><a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2015/apr/16/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-flubs-familys-immigration-history-/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">immigrant grandparents?</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> And who can forget her comments about the </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/10/31/hillary-clinton-warned-not-blame-benghazi-youtube-video/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Benghazi video.</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But in its own way, Hillary's comments on Trump and ISIS are very revealing about the left. To many on the left, virtually anything we say or do that exposes radical Islamists is an excuse for recruiting more jihadists. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">For example, Barack Obama says that the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay is a major terrorist recruiting tool. We're told that ISIS doesn't represent Islam. So, if we capture terrorists and detain them in a secure prison, Muslims should be thanking us, right? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Secretary of State John Kerry blamed the Palestinian stabbing attacks in Jerusalem on Israeli settlements. We were told an obscure video was responsible for the Benghazi attacks. Now we're being told that Donald Trump is a major terror recruiter because of his proposal for a pause in Muslim immigration. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There is one thing that does demonstrably contribute to jihad and that is the large global infrastructure of radical mosques and madrassas teaching young Muslims that the only way to please Allah is to kill infidels. Yet that is the one thing that the left refuses to acknowledge. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Last night I reviewed the most recent, disgusting ISIS recruiting video. It is so filled with hate that I will not share a link to it. But I must concede that American politicians are being used in the video. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">You won't see pictures of Donald Trump, Ted Cruz or Marco Rubio. But Bill Clinton, John Kerry and Barack Obama are featured prominently as symbols of America's decadence and why Muslims should unite against us. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Religious Liberty In The Crosshairs</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Having succeeded in forcing every state in the union to recognize same-sex marriages, you'd think that the radical homosexual rights movement would be content. No way. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As we have reported in the past, the brute force of the federal government is being brought to bear against local school districts that still think boys and girls should change and shower in separate facilities. Now there are </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/12/18/religious-colleges-get-exemptions-to-anti-bias-law-allowing-hidden-discrimination-against-lgbt-students/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">reports</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> that the left is moving against the religious exemptions of private Christian colleges and universities.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">According to the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Washington Post,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> more than 50 private schools have applied for exemptions, based on the tenets of their faith, to the government's interpretation of federal regulations as it relates to gender identity in student housing and other facilities. Eight left-wing senators, along with the Human Rights Campaign, are calling on the Obama Administration to crack down on these exemptions. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">We warned repeatedly that the fight over the meaning of marriage wouldn't stop with just a redefinition of marriage. The right of religious institutions and religious business owners to adhere to their faith was also at risk.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Earlier this year, one gay rights advocate told business leaders, "We are at a crossroads. . . we will fight religious exemptions for two or three years or have a protracted twenty year struggle on our hands." In other words, the left has set a goal to crush all legislative and legal efforts to protect our First Amendment religious rights within "two or three years." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">2016 Update</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Here are the latest updates on the race for the White House:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Senator Ted Cruz is <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/ia/iowa_republican_presidential_caucus-3194.html" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">expanding</a> his lead in Iowa.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Senator Lindsey Graham <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/263901-graham-drops-out-of-white-house-race" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">suspended</a> his presidential campaign today.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has reportedly <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/mike-huckabee-cuts-campaign-staff-salaries-216908" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">slashed staff salaries</a> and is redirecting all his efforts into Iowa.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And as Donald Trump continues to dominate national polls, a new study suggests his support could be <a href="http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-trump-polls-20151221-story.html" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">underreported.</a> </li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-57469501038506666652015-12-17T13:11:00.000-08:002015-12-17T13:11:21.458-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thursday, December 17, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><b style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Another Bad Deal</b><span style="font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A budget deal has been reached in Washington. It is a mammoth bill, at least 2,000 pages long. I am sad to report that I don't see what our side got out of it. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">It is pretty clear, however, what Obama, Pelosi and Reid got. I won't ruin your Christmas by going through all the gory details, but I'll just mention two. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Planned Parenthood gets full funding. So, too, does the Syrian refugee program, even as the administration continues to insist that no changes are needed to ensure that there are no jihadists among the refugees.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Here's the bottom line: Congressional leaders faced a choice. One option was to risk a government shutdown, which the media would blame on us. The second option was to risk alienating the conservative base of the party, and, incidentally add more fuel to Donald Trump's candidacy, which is driven by its disdain for the D.C. establishment. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The leadership decided that between these two unpleasant options, it was a better bet to risk alienating the conservative base than to have the media convince the American public that Republicans were shutting down the government at Christmas time. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I think their calculation is wrong. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">What's Wrong At Wheaton?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There is a constant drumbeat from the left and in the media that Muslims are the victims of a bigoted America. I think a more accurate description is that ever since the morning of 9/11, Americans of all faiths have been put upon, their routines upset and their lives endangered because of threats from Islamic supremacists. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">By the way, there was another hate crime in New York recently. What, you didn't </span><a href="http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/New-York-Manhattan-Hate-Crime-Attack-Chelsea-NY-NYC-362478131.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">read</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> about it? How about this </span><a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/94274-151202-new-york-jewish-bookstore-manager-assaulted-in-apparent-anti-semitic-attack" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">one?</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Or this </span><a href="http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/91395-151104-ultra-orthodox-jew-stabbed-seriously-wounded-in-new-york-in-possible-hate-crime" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">one?</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> In every case, the victims were Jewish. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">According to the </span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/fbi-us-jews-targeted-57-anti-religious-hate-crimes-muslims-targeted-16" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">FBI's own statistics,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Jews are far more likely than Muslims to be victims of hate crimes in America. But you would never know that from the media or the Obama Administration's constant lectures. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Even though in the world we live in, Christians, Jews, Yazidis and other religious minorities are routinely victimized by radical Islamists, America's elites are all in on the notion that Muslims are suffering in America. And it's not just the elites in Washington. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A few days ago, Dr. Larycia Hawkins, a professor at Wheaton College, announced that she was going to show her solidarity with American Muslims by wearing the hijab through the Christmas season. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There has been no word on whether Dr. Hawkins ever thought of wearing the Star of David in solidarity with Israeli Jews who are being hacked to death on the streets of Jerusalem or threatened with a second Holocaust from the radicals in Iran. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There has been no word on whether she offered to wear a cross in solidarity with the Christians being beheaded or crucified by ISIS. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">No, the heart of this professor, at one of the premier Christian colleges in America, is breaking over the alleged ill-treatment of American Muslims. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I suspect that when word got out, Wheaton may have heard from more than a few alumni because yesterday the college announced that she was being put on administrative leave. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">While Dr. Hawkins has freedom of expression, which those of us who live in non-Muslim majority nations still enjoy, she does not have a right to fuzzy theology at a Christian university. And her theology is indeed fuzzy. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In her public statement, Dr. Hawkins asserted that the God of the Bible and the god of the Koran are one and the same. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">That cannot be true unless we believe God is a god who can't make up His mind. As Wheaton's administration </span><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-wheaton-college-professor-larycia-hawkins-20151216-story.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">pointed out,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> the God of the Bible is of a completely different nature than the god of the Koran. The relationship of the God of the Bible to man is a completely different relationship than that of the god of the Koran to mankind. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Dr. Hawkins has been placed on administrative leave so that she can clean up her theology. If she can't, then the parents who have saved so long to send their kids to Wheaton would be more than justified in finding another institution for their children and their hard-earned dollars. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama's Failure</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Here's the latest evidence of the utter failure of the Obama Administration: According to the Pew Research Center, a majority of Americans (52%) now say that the government is failing to reduce the threat of terrorism -- its lowest rating ever since 9/11. And 57% of Americans disapprove of Obama's handling of the issue. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Protecting the country is the government's first responsibility. On that score, the American people overwhelmingly agree that Barack Obama is a failure. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And it's not just Obama. Americans have watched our leaders refer to jihadi attacks as "workplace violence." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">They have read about the failures of our immigration system to check the social media posts of people coming into the country. They read about </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/federal-eye/wp/2015/12/16/unaccompanied-children-crossing-southern-border-in-greater-numbers-again-raising-fears-of-new-migrant-crisis/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">thousands of children</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> walking across our border. (If little kids can walk in, who else is getting in?) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">They have concluded -- rightly so -- that politically correct policies have created systemic failures across the entire federal government! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Not surprisingly, Pew finds that Republicans have a 12-point advantage over Democrats on the issue of terrorism, which has surpassed the economy as the nation's top concern. Republicans also have the advantage on gun control, the economy and immigration. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Eight years ago, Barack Obama stopped Hillary Clinton from getting to the White House. It looks like he just might do it again -- although this time inadvertently. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-78382579883774743842015-12-16T17:42:00.000-08:002015-12-16T17:42:34.633-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Wednesday, December 16, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">140</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">One hundred forty of you responded to my appeal on behalf of </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> yesterday. It was the best day of giving we have had so far this month. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> really needs 16 more of those days. While I deeply appreciate the generous support from that faithful 140, I know that thousands of people who receive this daily report have never invested in our work. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Every day I get messages telling me that the "End of Day" report is the best news and commentary they read. Messages like this one from Herb in Florida:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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<i>"Gary, I want to thank you for your 'End of Day' report. This is the <b>ONLY</b> email I read every word every day."</i></div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And this one from Kirsten in California:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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<i>"For way too long I intended to email you to say 'Thank you' for your faithfulness to deliver current, up-to-date information on what's going on in our nation and around the world. Your commitment to keep us in the loop is greatly appreciated."</i></div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thank you, Herb and Kirsten!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Of course, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> does much more than just a daily commentary. We also get thousands of emails a year telling us how much our "insider" work in the halls of power in defense of life, faith and family mean to people all over America. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Each day members of Congress, top government officials and media commentators ask for our advice, counsel and research. I am able to fulfill these requests because of the professional staff we have put together -- men and women who stand and fight for our shared values. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">None of this would be possible without your generosity.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">If you cannot afford to give, there is no need to apologize. I understand how difficult things are in Obama's economy. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But I must humbly ask those of you who appreciate our work to </span><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">step up and help keep <i>American Values</i> going.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thank you, my friends. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Debate Recap</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Last night's GOP presidential debate certainly featured its share of arguments and insults, and the occasional good discussion of policy. But, ultimately, I did not see any clear winners or losers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Three candidates appear positioned to go the distance -- Donald Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio. It is easy to see how any of them could become the party's nominee. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Dr. Ben Carson is a wonderful man and certainly an extraordinarily gifted surgeon. But events in Paris and San Bernardino have seemingly eclipsed him, and it was evident at times last night that he is struggling to overcome his soft-spoken demeanor and project the confidence of a war-time leader. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Gov. Chris Christie is trying to claw his way into the top tier. The path for Christie is a surprise showing in New Hampshire, where he recently won the endorsement of the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Union Leader,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">one of the state's leading newspapers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Beyond that, nothing happened last night that changes the current state of play. The top tier candidates remain in the top tier, while those struggling to break through will have to continue to look for opportunities to connect with the voters.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The New "Gotcha" Question</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The latest "gotcha" question that is really irritating me is a point being made by the left-wing media (and even Jeb Bush). The purpose of the question is not to inform anyone, but to shutdown debate. It goes something like this: "You know there are more than 6,000 Muslims serving in the United States military. Don't you think they are patriots?" </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The fact that Muslims are serving in the military is somehow supposed to counter those criticizing radical Islam. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I am sure that of the Muslims serving in the American military, the overwhelming majority of them are patriots. But they are not greater patriots than anyone else serving in the military. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">More importantly, there have been several examples of Muslims wearing the uniform who turned out to be traitors. The most notorious example is Major Nidal Hasan who killed 12 fellow soldiers, a civilian doctor, an unborn baby and wounded 31 soldiers and a civilian police officer in a jihadist attack at Fort Hood. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The military was unable to figure out that he was a Muslim supremacist. When evidence emerged that Hasan was an extremist, the military could not overcome political correctness to deal with him before he spread so much death and suffering among his fellow soldiers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Nidal Hasan may be the most notorious Muslim traitor, but he is by no means the only one. Just this week, a former </span><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/illinois-national-guardsman-hasan-edmonds-pleads-guilty-isis-plot/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">National Guard soldier</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> pled guilty to plotting a massacre at the Joliet Armory. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In 2003, Sgt. Hasan Akbar threw a grenade into a tent, killing two officers and wounding 14 others. There have been cases in Iraq and Afghanistan where Muslims we worked with, after presumably checking for signs of radicalism, turned against us and </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/two-coalition-soldiers-killed-at-base-in-afghanistan/2015/08/26/4a1a80e6-4bcf-11e5-bfb9-9736d04fc8e4_story.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">shot our soldiers</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> in the back.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The point is simply this: We are at war and no branch of our government, from the military to our immigration offices, appears able to discern between the Muslim who is peaceful and supports us in this war and the Muslim supremacist waiting for the opportunity to wage jihad against the infidels. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">That is why prudence and common sense suggest that we need a time out on immigration from predominantly Muslim nations until we can strengthen the procedures that can distinguish the jihadists from the peaceful Muslims. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">"Keep God First"</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">This week I told you about how left-wing bureaucrats were forced to retreat and reinstate Christmas in one Brooklyn school. Yes, even in a liberal enclave like New York, victories are still possible!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Here's another example of how the radical secularism of our cultural and political elites is out-of-touch with most Americans. I want to share with you a few remarks from Alabama running back Derrick Henry, when he accepted this year's Heisman Trophy: </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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"I just want to talk to the kids that are looking and watching this on TV today. . . Always keep God first. Always pray. Don't be afraid to pray. He always hears your cry.<br /><br />"If you have dreams, go chase them. . . And God will be there every step of the way. I am a living testament, man. . . I never thought I would be up here. But God is good. And I get on my knees every night and thank Him for everything. So keep God first. Always pray. And always chase your dream."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Amen to that! </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-70248284991868488562015-12-15T14:55:00.000-08:002015-12-15T14:55:51.468-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Tuesday, December 15, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">You Make It Happen</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I want to take a moment to explain why you have been receiving daily messages from </span><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><i>American Values,</i></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> my non-profit public policy organization, asking for your support. In recent months, because of health and financial issues, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> has lost a couple of very significant donors we relied on over the years. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">That loss has left </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> nearly $350,000 behind what it needs to adequately fund its programs in 2016, perhaps the most important election year ever. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Unless there is a dramatic pickup in donations over the next 15 days, </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">American Values</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> will have to slash important programs and shrink its staff. Trust me, it would be very painful. It already operates on a very stringent, low-overhead budget. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">If you can give $50, please do so.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> If you can give $500, fantastic! If you are able to give more, that would be wonderful. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The truth is, only your support makes my work possible. You make it all happen. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Please pray about this request and respond however the Lord leads you. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thank you, my friends. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Trump Raises Eyebrows</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Donald Trump has raised eyebrows on more than one occasion so far in this campaign. But over the past few days, he has left many conservatives puzzled. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As Senator Ted Cruz has moved up in the polls, Trump, predictably, has gone on the attack. On </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Fox News Sunday,</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Trump said, "The way he's dealt with the Senate -- where he goes in frankly like a bit of a maniac -- you never get things done that way."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Perhaps the one thing that has most endeared Ted Cruz to conservatives has been his willingness to fight the D.C. establishment, including the Senate leadership. Why would Trump attack him for that? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Rush Limbaugh said yesterday that Trump's attack on Cruz really gave him pause.</span><br />
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"My questioning here about the way Trump has gone off Cruz here, calling him a maniac . . . the reason I'm focusing on that, folks, is because that's so unlike Trump. . . But for any of you who are holding out hope that Trump is a genuine conservative, a genuine conservative . . . would not go after Cruz this way. So that just raised a red flag for me, made me somewhat curious."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Trump also went after Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the best conservatives on the Supreme Court. What set Trump off was Scalia's opposition to racial preferences in university admissions. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But conservatives oppose racial preferences. Is Trump suggesting he supports them? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Finally, Trump enthusiastically endorsed the use of ethanol in gasoline. Now this may not seem like much, but in its own way it is very telling. The research is </span><a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2014/04/20/its-final-corn-ethanol-is-of-no-use/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">overwhelming</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> that using food as a gasoline additive increases carbon emissions and food prices, and has virtually no environmental benefits. But ethanol is supported by Iowa farmers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">This is exactly the kind of pandering to various voting blocs that Trump has railed against and said was one of the main reasons he is running -- to put the country first.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But of all of the things that happened over the past few days, the latest </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/nbc-poll-clinton-would-trounce-trump-lose-rubio-carson-n478676" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><i>NBC/Wall Street Journal</i></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> poll probably had the most troubling news of all. Virtually every Republican candidate is competitive with Hillary Clinton. I know none of you need any reminder that winning the White House in 2016 is the ultimate objective. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Only one candidate gets trounced in a head-to-head matchup and that candidate is Donald Trump -- the one candidate Hillary gets 50% against, while Trump gets 40%. A ten-point landslide would not only cost us the White House, but would result in the loss of the Senate and could possibly put the House majority at risk. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">If we lose again in 2016, I believe there may never be another conservative elected to the presidency. The left will have four more years to continue its dramatic transformation of the American electorate through legal and illegal immigration. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">My friends, I agree with Rush Limbaugh -- these are all troubling signs for conservatives who have been open to Trump's candidacy. For those of you supporting Trump, I would appreciate your feedback on the issues I have raised here -- his bizarre attacks on Ted Cruz and Antonin Scalia, his support for failed big government mandates and his weak showing against Hillary Clinton. Does any of that cause you to reconsider your support? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Debate Night</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The final Republican presidential debate of 2015 airs tonight on </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CNN.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Thirteen candidates will participate in two forums. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Former Governor Mike Huckabee, former Governor George Pataki, former Senator Rick Santorum and Senator Lindsey Graham will take the stage at 6:00 p.m. ET.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The main debate will begin at 8:30 with Donald Trump once again at center stage, reflecting his lead in the polls. To his left and right will be his closest competitors -- Senator Ted Cruz and Dr. Ben Carson. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Joining them will be Sen. Marco Rubio, former Gov. Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Gov. Chris Christie, Gov. John Kasich and Sen. Rand Paul. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Foreign policy and terrorism are expected to dominate the debate, coming in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Good News In New York</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Yesterday I told you about the left's attack on our Judeo-Christian heritage in one Brooklyn public school. Well, I am pleased to report that school officials are beating a hasty retreat today. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Evidently, it was all just a terrible misunderstanding -- a poor interpretation of guidelines that is being corrected immediately. The principal has issued an apology to outraged parents, and the Pledge of Allegiance will be recited every morning from now on.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">It is ridiculous that we even have to fight these battles. The left is so far out-of-touch. A new Rasmussen poll finds that 76% of all Americans (and 82% of adults with school-age children at home) believe Christmas should be celebrated in the public schools. Only 15% disagree. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-26628208543175824462015-12-14T14:27:00.000-08:002015-12-14T14:27:00.525-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_664858577" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday, December 14, 2015</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">We Need You!</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Like most non-profit organizations and ministries, year-end giving accounts for a tremendous portion of our annual budget. And we </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><i><u>REALLY</u></i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> need your support right now.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The good news is that we have a tremendous </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">matching gift opportunity!</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please help keep us going by making a generous, tax-deductible gift today!</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Obama's Social Media Mishap</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">No, the president did not accidently tweet an embarrassing photo. Regrettably, this is far more serious. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Over the weekend, the </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/13/us/san-bernardino-attacks-us-visa-process-tashfeen-maliks-remarks-on-social-media-about-jihad-were-missed.html?_r=0" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank"><i>New York Times</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> reported that Tashfeen Malik "talked openly on social media about her views on violent jihad."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">"She said she supported it," the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Times</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> wrote. "And she said she wanted to be part of it."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Yet as Malik sought entry into the United States, she ultimately passed three background checks. Not once did those posts raise any red flags. . . because the Department of Homeland Security never checked her social media profile. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Moreover, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Times</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> tells us that "there is a debate inside the Department of Homeland Security over whether it is even appropriate to do so."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Are you kidding me? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">I fully appreciate the need to balance security concerns and privacy rights when it comes to American citizens. But in this case, we're talking about foreign individuals wanting to come into the country. Of course, we should be reviewing their social media posts. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">At one point, we were doing that. Remember the PRISM program? But, according to </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/secret-us-policy-blocks-agents-social-media-visa/story?id=35749325" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank"><i>ABC News,</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> the Obama Administration stopped the program fearing "bad public relations." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson refused in early 2014 to reinstate the program that would have allowed "immigration officials [to review] the social media messages of all foreign citizens applying for U.S. visas." Malik was admitted in May 2014.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">John Cohen, a former top DHS official for intelligence and analysis, told </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">ABC News</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> that "immigration officials were not allowed to use or review social media as part of the screening process," despite repeated requests. Two other DHS officials have confirmed Cohen's remarks. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">This is just another example of the Obama Administration's left-wing ideology putting the country at risk.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Meanwhile, a report from Finland demonstrates why we should be extra cautious when it comes admitting refugees. Finnish authorities arrested two Iraqi refugees last week and charged them with 11 counts of murder. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">It turns out that the Iraqis participated in a 2014 ISIS execution video. Yet a year later these executioners managed to find their way to Finland as "refugees." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">More Barbarism</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">There are unconfirmed reports that the governing Sharia council of the Islamic State has issued a fatwa permitting the killing of children with disabilities. Dozens of babies, some up to 3 months-old with varying disabilities including Down syndrome, have reportedly been killed either by lethal injection or suffocation. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Our friends at </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/12/14/islamic-state-issues-fatwa-children-syndrome-murders-38-disabled-infants/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank"><i>Breitbart</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> noted the historical parallels to Nazi-era euthanasia laws that allowed so-called "mercy killings" of children with disabilities. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Of course, I can't help but be reminded of the debate that has taken place among many so-called "progressives." For some advocates of abortion, it is not enough to destroy the life of an innocent unborn child in womb. Advocates of "after-birth abortions" argue that a 3 month-old baby is not aware of her own humanity. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Sadly, I am </span><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/post/after-birth-abortion-can-they-be-serious/2012/03/03/gIQADgiOsR_blog.html" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">not making this up.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Cruz & Clinton In Control</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Two polls released this weekend found Texas Senator Ted Cruz surging to the top in the Iowa Republican caucus. According to a </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Fox News</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> survey, Cruz leads Donald Trump 28% to 26%. Sen. Rubio is third with 13%, followed by Dr. Ben Carson at 10%. No other candidate received double-digit support.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Des Moines Register</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> poll, considered by many to be the gold standard of Iowa polling, found Senator Cruz opening up a 10-point lead over Trump -- Cruz 31%, Trump 21%, Carson 13%, Rubio 10%. No other candidate received double-digit support. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Among Iowa Democrats, the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Des Moines Register</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> poll found former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leading Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders 48% to 39%, while four percent of Iowa Democrats back former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The Culture Wars Continue</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The war on America's Judeo-Christian culture continues unabated. The principal at a Brooklyn, New York, public school recently issued an edict banning Thanksgiving and Christmas. And, for good measure, the Pledge of Allegiance got the ax too. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Teachers and staff at the school, which is overwhelmingly Asian and Hispanic, were urged to be "sensitive of the diversity of our families. Not all children celebrate the same holidays."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But these are American holidays! Who celebrates "harvest festivals" or "winter celebrations"? What about the children who do celebrate them? And why on earth was the Pledge of Allegiance dropped?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Of course, I know why the Pledge was banned! These things are happening because the left is trying to "fundamentally transform" America into something that bears little resemblance to the nation our Founding Fathers risked their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to create. It is why a majority of Americans, according to a recent </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Reuters</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> poll, feel they are strangers in their own country. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Left-wing students, with zero appreciation for the freedom they have, are behaving like members of the Soviet Politburo -- demanding universities erase from history all those who fail to meet the left's standards. Obama made his own contribution to this attack on our culture when he repeatedly refused to utter the word </span><a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-strips-creator-declaration-independence-again" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">"Creator"</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> when he quoted the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">This is not an insignificant issue, my friends. Our nation's traditions and Judeo-Christian heritage are worth fighting for, whether the fight is against petty bureaucrats or Islamist tyrants. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">WIRED</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">As many of you know, my younger daughter, Sarah, writes curriculum for middle and high school youth pastors. Sarah and her husband, Rodney, a pastor with the North Point family of churches in Georgia, have recently co-authored a devotional book entitled </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wired-4-Week-Devotional-Experience-Students/dp/1941259502/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1450118077&sr=8-12&keywords=wired" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">WIRED.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The devotional is aimed at helping middle and high school students better appreciate and understand their relationship with God and those around them. This devotional is a great tool to help our youth withstand the increasingly secular culture.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">If you have a young person in your life who is navigating questions of faith, please check out </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wired-4-Week-Devotional-Experience-Students/dp/1941259502/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&qid=1450118077&sr=8-12&keywords=wired" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">WIRED.</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> It is a great Christmas gift! </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-47577779880303484302015-12-11T13:47:00.001-08:002015-12-11T13:47:28.750-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Friday, December 11, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Terror Fears Rising</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There are widely differing polls over whether Donald Trump is going too far with some of his latest remarks about Muslims and terrorism. But what the polls don't disagree on is that the American people are increasingly concerned about the threat we face from radical Islam. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A new </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CBS News/New York Times</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> poll finds that fears of terrorist attacks are at their highest levels since the days immediately following 9/11. Seventy-nine percent of Americans believe a terrorist attack is likely to occur in the next few months. Terrorism also beat out the economy as the top concern among Americans. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Why are fears of terrorism sky high? I believe it is at least partly due to repeated examples of misfeasance by the Obama Administration. The president is clearly failing to inspire confidence. The </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CBS News/New York Times</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> poll finds that 57% of Americans disapproved of Obama's handling of terrorism. It's not hard to understand why. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">For starters, his administration can't even identify the source of the problem -- radical Islamic terrorism. When attacks take place, like in Benghazi, administration officials rush to cover them up and blame something else. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Even though they were </span><a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explosions-boston-congress-idUSBREA2P02Q20140326#P5pPS40zIoAG9aqz.97" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">repeatedly warned,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> government officials missed the Tsarnaev brothers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Consider the case of the Fort Hood assassin. Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, was counseling returning soldiers and often accused them of committing war crimes. Other </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2009/11/10/fort-hood-suspect-warned-muslim-threat-within-military.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">warning signs</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> were repeatedly ignored because officials were paralyzed by political correctness. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Political Correctness Kills</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Is left-wing political correctness responsible for the San Bernardino massacre? Perhaps in part. A whistleblower has come forward alleging that Obama Administration policies likely prevented authorities from stopping the San Bernardino attack. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Phil Haney, a counterterrorism analyst at the Department of Homeland Security, had been working on a program that tracked the movements of Islamic radicals. According to Haney, some of these radicals under observation had gone to the mosque attended by Syed Farook in 2012. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Haney contends that this program likely would have flagged Farook's connection to the mosque and Tashfeen Malik's connections to related radical overseas groups. Farook could have been placed on the no-fly list and Malik could have been subjected to additional scrutiny. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But we will never know what could have been because the Obama Administration shut down Haney's program, claiming it was "profiling" Muslims.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Unfortunately, Donald Trump often makes it easy for the left to attack conservatism. But the explanation for Donald Trump's success can be traced to the public's frustration with the failure of our government elites to adequately protect the American people. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In addition, there is a growing backlash to the oppression of left-wing lies, euphemistically called political correctness, which often prevents a real a discussion about the source of the danger and what should be done to prevent bad things from happening. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">America's Vanishing Middle Class</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The Pew Research Center has released a new survey showing what many Americans instinctively feel -- the </span><a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2015/12/09/the-american-middle-class-is-losing-ground/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">middle class is shrinking.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> There are many reasons the middle class is declining, including globalization, which has undercut manufacturing -- once a major path to the middle class for many American families. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">This alarming trend raises many complex and disturbing issues, such as a shrinking tax base to support a growing welfare state. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In addition, the breakdown of the traditional family has contributed to the decline of the middle class. It is simply a fact that many single parent homes have the odds stacked against them. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As many pundits have noted this year, there is a growing anti-establishment mood in the country. People are looking to insurgents on the left and the right. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Again, there are many reasons for this, but the biggest may be the shrinking of the middle class and the loss of the American Dream. Not surprisingly, people are searching for answers outside of what they perceive to be an ineffective and broken political establishment. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">My advice to all Republican candidates: Stop talking like Wall Street bean counters. Say "middle class" at least ten times in every speech you give -- and mean it! </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">An Issue Of Temperament</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">An audio recording of Senator Ted Cruz at a private fundraiser this week has emerged online. Don't worry -- he wasn't caught writing off half the country. He was talking about his main rivals for the GOP presidential nomination -- Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson. Here's what Senator Cruz had to say about them:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">"Both of them I like and respect. I don't believe either one of them is going to be our president. You look at Paris, you look at San Bernardino, it's given a seriousness to this race. . . Who am I comfortable having their finger on the button? Now that's a question of strength, but it's also a question of judgment. And I think that is . . . a challenging question for both of them."</span><br />
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<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I don't know if this means Cruz is headed for a confrontation with Donald Trump, but I think he is raising a legitimate point. The feedback I get daily reflects a nagging concern -- a lot of people like what Trump says, yet they are worried about his temperament. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">My prediction is that as the calendar counts down to the 2016 primaries, many people who currently say they support Carson and Trump will gravitate toward someone else due to the temperament issue. Many conservatives seem to be leaning toward Ted Cruz as someone who has all the right views and a better temperament to be president. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-72676824445661338662015-12-10T16:20:00.000-08:002015-12-10T16:20:28.331-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thursday, December 10, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Farook's Friend</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">San Bernardino jihadist Syed Farook used two rifles in his murderous rampage that were purchased by a friend, Enrique Marquez. According to published reports, Marquez is expected to face charges in the ongoing investigation into last week's terrorist attack.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As it turns out, Farook and Marquez are related by marriage, and Marquez told investigators that he and Farook had discussed plans for a terrorist attack in 2012. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Many in the media have asked how a native born Muslim like Farook could have become radicalized on his own. Much attention was initially focused on his foreign wife, Tashfeen Malik, as if she had radicalized him. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The FBI says that is not the case. Both were radicalized years ago (we know Farook was planning terror attacks in 2012) and Malik did not enter the country until last year. Even the front page of today's </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">New York Times</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> notes that serious questions are being raised about the thoroughness of our immigration vetting process. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And while we're on the subject of Islamic jihadists, do you remember the stabbings at a California university last month? Local officials still won't call the attack Islamic terrorism. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Fox News</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> is reporting that the attacker, Faisal Mohammad, had a photocopy of the ISIS flag and was described by his Muslim roommate as "an extreme Muslim." He left behind a manifesto in which he wrote that he wanted to "cut someone's head off" and repeatedly wrote "Praise Allah."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Mohammad's rampage was interrupted by a construction worker, Byron Price, who was also attacked when he confronted Mohammad. His father, John, is furious that authorities are being blinded by political correctness. The elder Price said:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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"Why don't we just call it what it is -- domestic terrorism? Everyone is afraid to be politically incorrect. . . it seems like to me we aren't getting the whole story. I just wonder how much of this is driven from way higher up. . ."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Muslims & Radicalism</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Perhaps our political and media elites should take time out from denouncing Donald Trump and read the latest column by Byron York in the </span><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-trump-and-muslims-by-the-numbers/article/2577962" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><i>Washington Examiner.</i></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> York summarizes the findings from the Pew Research Center's latest polls regarding the level of support among American Muslims for violence in defense of Islam.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">First, let me state the obvious: These results came from a poll, meaning Muslims had to acknowledge their support for violent jihad. The numbers are likely understated. But here are the key findings:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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"In the United States, Pew found that 81 percent of U.S. Muslims say such violence is never justified, 5 percent say it is rarely justified, 7 percent say it is sometimes justified and 1 percent say it is often justified. Six percent say they don't know."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">So, 12% of American Muslims say violence in the name of Islam could sometimes be justified. One percent says it is often justified. By Pew's count there are roughly three million Muslims in America. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">So let's do the math.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">About 2.5 million American Muslims reject violence in the name of Islam. That's good.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But 12% of 3 million equals 360,000 Muslims who are willing to tell pollsters that violence might be justified. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And one percent, or 30,000 American Muslims, freely say that violence in the name of Islam is often justified. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Keep in mind, the poll does not ask Muslims questions like: Do you believe the Holocaust happened? What is your attitude toward Jews? What should happen to people who convert from Islam to another faith? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">So, I go back to a question I have been repeatedly raising. American immigration law is supposed to advance or serve some needed public policy interest. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">What public policy is served by allowing into the country hundreds of thousands of people who do not share the Judeo-Christian value system the country was founded upon? What interest is advanced by allowing in large numbers of individuals who may well harbor deep-seated hatreds of Christians and Jews? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">By the way, did you know that Donald Trump recently said that the problem with Muslims was that they were "bitter" and they were "clinging" to their Kalashnikovs and their Korans? Now that clearly is an offensive, over-the-top comment that should disqualify him for public office. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Oh, wait. Trump didn't say that. Barack Obama said that. Except he was talking about Christians. I don't recall many in the media running to the nearest microphone demanding he drop out of the race. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">About That Ban. . .</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A new Rasmussen poll finds that 46% of Americans (including 30% of Democrats) support Donald Trump's idea of a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, while 40% oppose the idea. Once again, our political and media elites appear to be completely out-of-sync with the American people. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Looking For A Good Book?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I don't know about you, but I love receiving books for Christmas. I came across one the other day that is a great read.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><u style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Joseph's Dream</u><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> by Elena Beth Schwab is a historical novel about Captain Joseph Trumpeldor and the struggle to build a Jewish homeland. It is a compelling "page turner" and a timely read that helps us understand the headlines out of the Middle East today. It is available at </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Josephs-Dream-Elana-Beth-Schwab/dp/1505823692" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Amazon.com.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Your Favorite Is. . .</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The results of our online straw poll are in. And there is a clear favorite among the readers of this daily report -- Senator Ted Cruz, who received 50% of the entire vote. (Senator Cruz picked up a </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/10/politics/ted-cruz-bob-vander-plaats-endorsement/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">major Iowa endorsement</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> today.) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Donald Trump was second with 20%, followed by Dr. Ben Carson (12%) and Senator Marco Rubio (11%). No other candidate received double-digit support. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">While Senator Cruz finished first in our online survey last month, there was a big change in the rankings. In November, "Undecided" was second and Donald Trump was a distant fifth at 8%. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-17446079874316412242015-12-09T14:55:00.000-08:002015-12-09T14:55:10.828-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_373462983" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(100, 100, 100); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; cursor: pointer; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Wednesday, December 9, 2015</span></span><br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">You Make It Happen</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">My friends, we are partners in this work. It is only because of you that I am able to fight for our values. Your generous financial support is the only thing that makes it happen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><a href="https://www.ouramericanvalues.org/american-values-contribution" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">Please help keep us going by making a generous, tax-deductible gift today!</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Now is the time to give because your support will be matched! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Trump Disqualified?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest and most of the left-wing media jumped on Donald Trump yesterday, suggesting that the Republican frontrunner was unfit to be president. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">You'd better sit down for this one. Earnest explained that Trump was disqualified because:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br />
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"The first thing a president does when he or she takes the oath of office is to swear an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. And the fact is, what Donald Trump said yesterday disqualifies him from serving as president."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Josh must be auditioning for a spot on "</span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_373462984" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> Night Live" after his White House career ends. Trump isn't following the Constitution? Josh, you work for Barack Obama -- the Constitution Killer-in-Chief! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Your boss has repeatedly ignored the laws and Constitution of the United States. He has been slapped down more than a </span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/381296/supreme-court-rules-unanimously-against-obama-12th-and-13th-time-2012-john-fund" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">dozen times</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> by a unanimous Supreme Court, including in one </span><a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/287853/major-victory-religious-liberty-against-obama-administration-attack-ed-whelan" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">notable case</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> that involved religious liberty. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">He has governed more like a Latin American strongman, ignoring laws on marriage and immigration and bypassing Congress and public opinion on issues like the Iran nuclear deal and climate change. This administration has zero credibility on defending the Constitution. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Are Democrats Bigots?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">While "The Donald" is being denounced as a bigot and compared to Hitler, I want to remind you that just a few weeks ago Republican governors were also being called bigots because 29 of them insisted that the screening process for Syrian refugees be tightened. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The entire conservative movement has been called bigoted because we have lambasted the president and the media for their refusal to state the obvious: There is a large and growing Islamist supremacy movement driving the terrorist attacks around the world. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">A revealing vote took place last night in the House of Representatives, where a bill passed 407-to-19. All Republicans voted for it, as did 165 House Democrats. What does this new law do that received such a massive bipartisan vote? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">It says that people in 38 nations, who currently are not required to have a visa to travel to the United States, can no longer use the visa waiver program if they have recently traveled to nations that are considered to be "terror hotspots," as the media have phrased it. That would be nations like Iraq, Iran, Syria and Sudan. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Not coincidentally, all are overwhelmingly Muslim nations. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">So 165 House Democrats, many of whom have been labeling conservatives as bigots, just engaged in religious profiling by "red flagging" only nations with predominantly Muslim populations. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">While we're at it, let me say something about the "Nazis" who run Norway. (Of course, Norway is not run by Nazis. Like most European nations, it is fairly left-of-center.) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Norway has just announced a program in which it will provide Muslim refugees with a free plane ticket back to their country of origin and provide them with cash to help them resettle. The cash payments could total over $9,000. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">What could have possibly led Norwegians to institute such a program? Maybe they looked at the current levels of mass migration, saw the attack in Paris and decided they didn't want Norway to look like Syria. As modest as this reaction is and as late as it is, apparently even in Norway there is an impulse for self-preservation. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Clueless Elites</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Time</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> has named German Chancellor Angela Merkel 2015's "Person of the Year." What has Merkel done to deserve this honor? Part of the reason was that she invited nearly a million (and still coming) Muslims migrants into Germany. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Merkel created a crisis in Germany that is </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/11/30/german-officials-warn-homegrown-islamists-trying-to-radicalize-refugees/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">straining</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> her country, as well as every other European nation that is on the migrant's way to Germany. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The elite view is that national borders are </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/london/2015/11/02/soros-admits-involvement-in-migrant-crisis-national-borders-are-the-obstacle/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">impediments and obstacles,</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> and today our media mavens are celebrating Europe's biggest open borders advocate. For all the liberal values that </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Time</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> claims to cherish, I guarantee there will be a big difference between the Germany of today and one that is majority Muslim in the years to come. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Communists, Polygamists & Carter</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Here's a brief history lesson, friends, which shows just how out-of-touch the party of Obama and Clinton are today.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In response to the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, President Jimmy Carter took a series of executive actions. Among them, he effectively banned Iranians from entering the country by voiding visas issued for future travel to the United States. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Carter also ordered 50,000 Iranian students in the United States to report to immigration offices within 30 days. Approximately 15,000 Iranian students were then deported for visa violations. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Carter relied on the Nationality Act of 1952 to enforce these measures. While the law was largely written to keep communists out of the country, it also included this interesting section that denied entry to "Aliens who are polygamists or who practice polygamy or advocate the practice of polygamy." (Hint -- they meant Muslims.) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">There was virtually no pushback by the media or the political establishment. I don't recall many people accusing Jimmy Carter of violating our values. And in 1979, we had not yet been subjected to routine terrorist attacks carried out by militant Islamists. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Nevertheless, Carter was attacked by the Republican Party and even many Democrats . . . for being too</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">soft</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> on Iran. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Who Is Your Favorite?</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">As the calendar counts down to 2016, I'd like your input. Please </span><a href="https://1309.wufoo.com/forms/who-is-your-choice-in-2016/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" target="_blank">click here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> to indicate your first and second choices for president. We will keep the voting open for only another day or so, and I would really appreciate getting as much input from as many people as possible. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">And while you are online, please don't forget to make a </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;">tax-deductible, year-end donation</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> to keep us fighting for our values! </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-53035194713765404372015-12-08T14:26:00.000-08:002015-12-08T14:26:37.419-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Tuesday, December 8, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Trump Ups The Ante</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Donald Trump has done some good things in this campaign. He has brought a lot of attention to the need to secure our borders in a dangerous world. He has given voice to a new American patriotism and has spoken out for America's heartland, which is being gutted economically. He has also cut through the political lie that our "war on terror" has nothing to do with Islam. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Yesterday, in a prepared statement and in follow-up interviews, he called for a moratorium on all Muslim immigration to the United States. He was immediately condemned not only by big media and the political left, but also by many Republicans and even some conservatives in good standing. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">So on one side, Obama seems intent on flooding the country with at least </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/22/report-muslim-immigration-fastest-growing-bloc-u-s-immigration/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">250,000 Muslim</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> immigrants a year. He wants to increase the number of Syrian refugees in the name of compassion but is completely ignoring Syria's Christian refugees who pose virtually no terror risks. Obama appears to be effectively banning the very groups -- Christians -- who are targets of genocide. Trump's answer is to ban all Muslim immigration.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The appropriate conservative answer is to implement a major reform of our immigration process that adds much more stringent checks for terror connections. I also strongly support a screening process that blocks any immigrant, Muslim or otherwise, who expresses hatred for Christians, Jews and other faiths.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">No one should be admitted who wants the Constitution to be superseded by Sharia law or any other dogma. We must stop importing hatred. This is not a religious test. It is a commonsense, self-preservation test that protects all Americans of every faith and creed. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Reform The Refugee Program</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As you know, the Obama White House resisted calls to tighten screening of refugees in the wake of the Paris attacks. We were told over and over that refugees are subjected to intense security checks. But the intelligence community has apparently been warning that radical Islamists are attempting to infiltrate our refugee program. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Yesterday, Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, released portions of a classified letter from the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC). The letter states that "individuals with ties to terrorist groups in Syria [have attempted] to gain entry to the U.S. through the U.S. refugee program."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Moreover, the NCTC warns that "all immigration programs" are "vulnerable to exploitation from extremist groups seeking to send operatives to the West." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Intelligence officials have expressed their concerns about the </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/International/officials-fear-syrian-refugees-pose-threat-us/story?id=28930114" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">adequate vetting</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> of refugees since the beginning of the year. Obama knows our intelligence community is worried about terrorists infiltrating the program, yet he is attacking conservatives for saying the same thing. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">By the way, since the Paris terrorist attacks, only </span><a href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/04-christian-syrian-refugees-admitted-paris-attacks-include-236" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">one Syrian Christian</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> has been admitted to the U.S. under Obama's refugee program. Just one. Where is the outrage about that? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Clearly, this program is in desperate need of reform, and the American people support reform.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/06/politics/isis-obama-poll/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">new <i>CNN</i> poll</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> finds that 61% of Americans oppose Obama's policy of resettling Syrian refugees in America. This is in line with the results from other recent surveys. (</span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-11-18/bloomberg-poll-most-americans-oppose-syrian-refugee-resettlement" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Here,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/israel_the_middle_east/most_say_no_to_syrian_refugees_in_their_state?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyNewsletter" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> and</span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/22/fox-news-poll-majorities-say-call-it-radical-islam-oppose-syrian-refugees.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">here.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There is a tremendous opportunity here for Republicans to seize the reform mantle and go on the attack over the issues of border security and national security. We don't have to win hearts and minds on this. The American people are already with us. Few other issues on the GOP agenda would poll so well. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Iran Launches Another Missile</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The Islamic Republic of Iran reportedly carried out its second successful test launch of a medium-range missile in late November. The launch was carried out in violation of two U.N. resolutions. It is news because the missile is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">This is the second such missile test since the Iranian nuclear deal was finalized. The United Nations still hasn't figured out how to respond to a similar test carried out in October.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Contrary to Obama's claims that the Iranian regime would moderate if we extended a welcoming hand, these missile tests indicate that Tehran feels emboldened. It is moving aggressively on every front. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But here's the pressing question every member of Congress should be asking: Why would Iran need missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads if it doesn't have a nuclear weapons program? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Who Is Your Favorite?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As you know, I have been increasingly busy in recent months providing advice and counsel to various presidential candidates. As the calendar counts down to 2016, I am preparing to announce my favorite presidential candidate.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And as part of that process, I'd like to ask for your input one more time.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Please </span><a href="https://1309.wufoo.com/forms/who-is-your-choice-in-2016/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">click here</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> to indicate your first and second choices.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">We will report the results in the days ahead, and I will announce my decision shortly after. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-80444635782576629792015-12-07T12:54:00.001-08:002015-12-07T12:54:43.070-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Monday, December 7, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Too Little, Too Late</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">If you tuned in last night to President Obama's Oval Office address expecting to hear something important, you were probably sorely disappointed. For those of you who missed it, here's my brief analysis.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">First of all, why was he standing, speaking from a podium, in the Oval Office? I was pondering that question and listening to his tone, which struck me as exasperated. He sounded like someone who just couldn't get the audience to calm down and listen to him. Then it occurred to me -- he sounded like a professor lecturing a class.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The president reiterated a constant theme of his administration, saying that we should not give in to fear. He misses the point. We are not afraid of radical Islam. We are afraid of his weak response to it.<br /><br />Much of what Obama has said about ISIS -- comparing it to a junior varsity team, claiming it's contained, insisting that it can't attack us here -- has been wrong. We are afraid his politically correct policies are making the country more vulnerable.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama acknowledged last night that we are in a war. But he still fails to understand what is going on. If ISIS were gone tomorrow, what about Hamas? Hezbollah? The Muslim Brotherhood? Boko Haram? Al Qaeda? We are not at war with just ISIS. We are at war with supremacist Islam.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama again lectured Americans about our own alleged bigotry. As I thought about this last night, recalling the horrific morning of 9/11 and the long chain of events since that day -- the Fort Hood massacre, the beheading in Oklahoma, the attacks on recruiting offices in Little Rock and Chattanooga -- I cannot recall one case where a Muslim in America was killed out of anger against Islam. Maybe there is one, but the fact that I can't think of it tells me that what the president ought to be doing is congratulating us rather than lecturing us.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama doubled down on the left's misguided agenda. He called for more "gun control," saying individuals on the no-fly list shouldn't be allowed to buy guns. His insinuation is that the San Bernardino jihadis were on the no-fly list. They were not. (By the way, more than 70 employees at the <a href="http://freebeacon.com/national-security/72-dhs-employees-on-terrorist-watch-list/" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">Department of Homeland Security</a> are on the terrorist watch list. How does that happen?)<br /><br />Even though California has some of the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/78b6c20a1d1f4e2facbc761d36852bfe/californias-strict-gun-laws-failed-stop-mass-shooting" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">strictest gun control laws</a> in the country, that didn't make any difference last week. Obama declared that we were helping Turkey secure its border. Why aren't we securing ours?<br /><br />In short, the president's speech was too little, too late. He offered no new ideas, and I suspect the country has largely tuned him out.<br /><br /><br /><b>Can You Find The Radical?</b><br /><br />Remember the old shell game where someone tries to find a dried pea under one of three shells? But because of sleight of hand tricks, players usually miss it. I bring it up because we're going through a version of that regarding Tashfeen Malik, the San Bernardino jihadist bride.<br /><br />Some in the media are asking whether she was responsible for radicalizing her husband, Syed Farook. She was a dedicated Muslim supremacist, and was able to easily enter the country.<br /><br />But her father-in-law, Syed Farook's father, had this to say to an Italian newspaper:<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 0.5in;">
"My son said that he . . . supported the creation of the Islamic State. He was also obsessed with Israel. I told him he had to stay calm and be patient because in two years Israel will not exist anymore. Geopolitics is changing: Russia, China and America don't want Jews there anymore."</div>
<br />Who in this mess is the Muslim we should think is okay? The son obsessed with ISIS? The Burka queen seething with hate? Or the father who told his son, "Don't worry, Israel won't exist in two years. The world is tired of the Jews"? I don't want anyone with such attitudes brought into America.<br /><br />Let me repeat once again: We should not be bringing people like Tashfeen Malik into the country who want to kill us. But how many of the <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/14/federal-data-u-s-annually-admits-quarter-of-a-million-muslim-migrants/" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">250,000 Muslims</a> coming into the country every year hope that Israel will soon cease to exist? Why is it necessary for America to continue importing bigotry and Islamic supremacism into the country?<br /><br />Israel is the only nation in the Middle East representative of American values, and it is the tip of the spear in the war against radical Islam. America must stand with Israel.<br /><br /><br /><b>Remembering Pearl Harbor</b><br /><br />Today marks the 74th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor -- the defining moment of my parents' lives. My father did what many red-blooded, patriotic men did -- he immediately volunteered for the Marines.<br /><br />As America was dragged reluctantly into the war, he drilled with broomsticks because at that time we didn't have enough money for weapons. But we mustered the courage to defeat imperial Japan and help liberate Europe from Nazism.<br /><br />As we remember "the day that will live in infamy," let's give thanks that we still raise patriots who will answer the call to serve God and country, and pray we can recapture the confidence of the Greatest Generation. They did not have a lot of physical treasures, but they had a rich understanding that Judeo-Christian civilization was something worth protecting.<br /><br /><br /><b>A Tale Of Two Shootings</b><br /><br />While the president and his left-wing media allies were quick to demand that we not jump to conclusions following the San Bernardino terrorist attack, many on the left were eager to smear the entire pro-life movement after the shooting at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility.<br /><br />I am fighting back against this absurd attack on our pro-life values. Read more in my latest opinion piece at the <a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-tale-of-two-mass-shootings/article/2577653%3CI" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">Washington Examiner.</a><br /><br /><br /><b>Happy Chanukah</b><br /><br />Carol and I extend our warmest wishes to all our Jewish friends and supporters celebrating Chanukah. As an evangelical Christian, I have tremendous respect and admiration for the Jewish faith and the state of Israel. As the celebration of the miracle of lights continues, I promise to continue fighting against the darkness of anti-Semitism and working for the safety and security of America's friend and ally Israel. </li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-81782781187954593152015-12-04T14:07:00.000-08:002015-12-04T14:07:43.132-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Friday, December 4, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama Speaks</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">President Obama addressed the nation yesterday to offer his thoughts about the San Bernardino massacre. I ignored his nonsense then, but here's what he had to say: </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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"At this stage, we do not yet know why this terrible event occurred. . . we don't know why they did it. . . . We do not know their motivations. . . It is possible that this was terrorist-related, but we don't know. It's also possible that this was workplace-related."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">That comment borders on willful deception. The efforts of big media and left-wing apologists for radical Islam to dismiss what our own eyes and ears tell us is infuriating. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But perhaps this might help the president understand their motivations a bit more. </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CNN</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> is reporting that just moments before the attacks took place, "female shooter Tashfeen Malik posted a pledge of allegiance to ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Facebook."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The Left's Insanity</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I mentioned yesterday the initial reaction of many in the media was worry about abortion clinics. Next they were attacking guns and God. It was truly bizarre.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Well, get this: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) and several other members of Congress announced on Wednesday -- the day of the terrorist attack in San Bernardino -- that they are going to a mosque today for Friday prayers. According to a </span><a href="http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/261833-dems-invite-fellow-lawmakers-to-mosque-prayer-services" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">letter,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> the congressmen are going to protest "Islamophobia," and they invited other members of Congress to attend to "show solidarity with the American Muslim community." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The San Bernardino victims haven't been buried yet and some congressional Democrats are rushing to show their solidarity with Muslims? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">They aren't going to just any mosque. The Dar al-Hijrah mosque is one of the largest mosques in the metro Washington area, and it also happens to have an extremely checkered past.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Several of the 9/11 hijackers attended that mosque. So did Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan. So did Ahmed Omar Abu Ali. The valedictorian of his class, Ali was convicted in 2005 of plotting to assassinate President George W. Bush. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">What about the imam who led that mosque on the morning of 9/11? He left the country to be become the chief spokesman for Al Qaeda -- </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/30/magazine/the-lessons-of-anwar-al-awlaki.html?_r=0" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Anwar al-Awlaki.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> He was killed in a drone strike in September 2011. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Clueless Elites</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">On </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Morning Joe</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> today, a show widely watched by D.C. elites, Mika Brzezinski (the daughter of former Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) said that the shooting has implications beyond the people killed and wounded. She fretted about how the incident might impact the Muslim community there. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I'm sorry. I just don't believe the "community" that needs our priority sympathy and attention is the Muslim community. The community that has been devastated is the community of San Bernardino. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The people who need our sympathy and concern are the families who are planning funerals because their loved ones were brutally murdered, and the police who put their lives on the line and eliminated the murderers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Our clueless elites just don't get it. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson said, "It was a very weird terrorist attack. It's very weird to attack your own workplace at a Christmas party -- limited number of people there. . . They could have gone to places with a lot more people and done a lot more harm."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Well, let me hazard a wild guess. If you're going to perform jihad would you rather kill stranger infidels or the infidels you've had to tolerate day after day for five years? The shooter may have given us a clue. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">One of his victims was Aneesa Kondokar. She and Farook had attended a mosque together for several years. He shot her several times at point blank range. In other words, he specifically targeted her.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">We also know that he stopped going to that mosque and began attending a different mosque where he was described as a "constant presence" and "had recently memorized the Quran."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Another one of the victims was an Iranian Catholic who fled the Islamic Revolution in 1987. Another victim, Nicholas Thalasinos, was a Messianic Jew who sometimes debated Farook about their faiths. Thalasinos' wife said he had been recently receiving death threats. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Robinson, the award-winning journalist, also had trouble with the fact that Tashfeen Malik dropped her six month-old baby off before going to wage jihad. He found it incomprehensible that a mother would do such a thing. Where has Robinson been? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Did he miss the stories about Al Qaeda using the </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/2008/02/01/mentally-disabled-female-homicide-bombers-blow-up-pet-markets-in-baghdad.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">people with disabilities</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> as suicide bombers? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Has he not seen the photos of proud Muslim fathers with their young sons holding an </span><a href="http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/the-photo-that-will-shock-the-world-jihadist-khaled-sharroufs-son-7-holds-severed-head/story-fni0cx12-1227019897582" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">infidel's head</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> by the hair?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Does he not know about </span><a href="http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?doc_id=16411&fi=157" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Haifa Al-Agha,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> the Palestinian Authority's Minister of Women's Affairs? She recently said that what makes a Palestinian woman special is that she "cries with joy" when told that her son died killing Jews.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Was Eugene Robinson out of town when stories appeared about </span><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/gazans-young-and-old-graduate-from-hamas-summer-camp/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Hamas summer camps</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> teaching kids how to be warriors for Allah? </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And then there is Loretta Lynch, our new attorney general. Speaking to the Muslim Advocate's 10th anniversary dinner last night, Lynch told the audience that her "greatest fear" was the "incredibly disturbing rise of anti-Muslim rhetoric." She also announced an investigation into the arrest of </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-lynch-muslims-ahmed-clock-20151203-story.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">Ahmed Mohamed,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> aka Clock Boy. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Clock Boy & San Bernardino</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The official slogan of our domestic anti-terrorism campaign is "See something, say something." If you see something suspicious report it. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">When a Muslim boy from a family that was well-known for its activism brought a clock to his Texas high school that looked like a bomb, teacher after teacher did not follow the advice of see something, say something. Finally one teacher did react by alerting school officials and the police, who detained the boy. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The police, teacher and the entire state of Texas instantly became the villains. Ahmed the Clock Boy became a nation a hero. He was invited to the White House and received generous offers of scholarships from Silicon Valley corporate chieftains. Now his family has filed a $15 million lawsuit for violating his civil rights.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Is it any wonder why Syed Rizwan Farook's neighbors, who watched people coming in and out and working all hours at the house now described as an "IED factory," were afraid to speak up at the risk being called racists and bigots? If they had said something, 14 people might be alive today. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But don't be mad at the neighbors. Who created this fear? The left. We should make them own it. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-57726421500237621242015-12-03T11:59:00.000-08:002015-12-03T11:59:12.432-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Thursday, December 3, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Another Case Of SJS?</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In the aftermath of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, which left 14 people dead and at least 20 wounded, the FBI, most of the media and local law enforcement are warning us not to jump to any conclusions. This could be work place violence, or perhaps someone offended the shooters, Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife, Tashfeen Malik. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Really? Here's what we know:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Farook seemed to become more religiously devout in recent months. He recently grew his beard out. His father described his son this way, "He was very religious. He would go to work, come back, go to pray, come back. He's Muslim."<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The <i>Wall Street Journal</i> reports that Farook traveled to Saudi Arabia last year. Authorities believe he went for religious reasons, perhaps to make the Hajj -- a pilgrimage to Mecca.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">According to the <i>Los Angeles Times,</i> a co-worker claims that "Farook recently traveled to Saudi Arabia to meet a woman he met online and returned with a new wife."<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Neighbors say Farook often worked in his garage late into the evening. A man who worked in Farook's neighborhood said he saw "a half-dozen Middle Eastern men in the area in recent weeks," but said nothing because "he did not wish to racially profile" anyone.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The attack was clearly premeditated. The couple reportedly left their six month-old daughter with Farook's mother in the morning, claiming they had doctor's appointments.<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Yet Farook went to the holiday party at the Inland Regional Center, where there was supposedly some kind of disturbance. He left and returned about 20 minutes later, this time with his wife, heavily armed and wearing body armor. That's not the usual response of someone who gets into an argument at a holiday work party. Perhaps it was another mysterious case of "sudden jihad syndrome."<br /></li>
<li style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Authorities report that they found multiple pipe bombs and other explosives at the scene, in their vehicle and at Farook's house, which they described as an "IED factory." This strongly suggests premeditation, as does the fact that the attack took place at a holiday party just before Chanukah and Christmas.<br /><br />Yet with all of this information, the entire left is wagging its finger at the American public, warning about "jumping to any conclusions." As one FBI official sadly put it, terrorism "is a possibility, but . . . we're not willing to go down that road yet."<br /><br />What exactly would it take for our politically correct elites to "go down that road"? The fact that ISIS extremists immediately began celebrating the attack with the disgusting hashtag "#America_burning" should have tipped them off.<br /><br />This just in. . . Authorities now say that Farook had been in contact "with more than one international terrorism subject." Maybe now the politically correct media will admit the obvious. Maybe.<br /><br /><br /><b>The Left's Agenda</b><br /><br />The left's ideologically-driven agenda was impossible to miss yesterday.<br /><br />Within moments of the first reports of shots fired, the media rushed to locate the nearest <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/12/02/media-races-to-make-san-bernardino-shooting-about-planned-parenthood-video/" style="color: #598fde;" target="_blank">Planned Parenthood facility.</a> Talk about jumping to conclusions!<br /><br />Meanwhile, as people inside the Inland Regional Center were being gunned down by jihadis, the media were quick to tell us that workers at a nearby abortion facility were safe. (What about the babies at that facility?)<br /><br />Just days ago, the very same left-wing media and political establishment took two words -- "baby parts" -- and rushed to smear the entire pro-life community because of the actions of one deranged man.<br /><br />Left-wing reporters were eager to "go there" again yesterday. But no one in the media was calling on imams and other Muslim leaders to stop their outrageous rhetoric and calls for jihad against infidels.<br /><br />Unbelievably, the only thing the left can get angry about in the aftermath of this attack is gun ownership and God.<br /><br />President Obama, Geraldo Rivera and other left-wing politicians and pundits immediately attacked the Second Amendment yesterday -- even though all the guns used were legally purchased.<br /><br />Just what law is the president proposing that would have prevented yesterday's attack? Is Obama suggesting that no Muslim man between the ages of 18 and 50 be allowed to buy guns? I seriously doubt it.<br /><br />But the attack on faith is even more disgusting -- and very telling about the left's growing intolerance. The cover page of the <i>New York Daily News</i> mocks the tweets of prominent Republicans offering their prayers for the victims with this headline: "God Isn't Fixing This."<br /><br />One left-wing senator got in on the act too, tweeting, "Your 'prayers' should be for forgiveness if you do nothing -- again."<br /><br />This should be a wake-up call for men and women of faith. The culture war in America is real and only one side can prevail.<br /><br />I believe a culture with greater faith in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob -- a culture that values the sanctity of life, all life, including unborn children -- <b><i>CAN</i></b><i></i> fix this.<br /><br />America will not become a better nation by marginalizing faith and mocking God. Unless America rededicates itself to the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Jesus, it is very doubtful whether we will survive the increasing danger we face at home and abroad.<br /><br />This is the God Judeo-Christian civilization is built upon. This is the God who is mentioned in the second paragraph of the Declaration of Independence as the author of our liberties.<br /><br />Continued efforts to mock that God and the values that made this nation are why so many Americans feel they no longer recognize the country they are living in. </li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-79447208343818789742015-12-02T12:53:00.000-08:002015-12-02T12:53:29.445-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Wednesday, December 2, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"><i>BREAKING NEWS:</i></b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> There are reports of a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California, with perhaps as many as 20 victims. Law enforcement officials are reportedly searching for three "heavily armed" suspects. Our prayers go out to the victims and their families. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Military Pros Split From Obama</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">White House aides were reaching for the Maalox yesterday as their messaging strategy clearly went off the tracks. While Obama was in Paris this week marshalling world leaders to tackle the threat of climate change, his top defense chiefs were on Capitol Hill asserting that Islamic terrorism is a greater danger to our country.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">During a House Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Ryan Zinke, a retired Navy Seal commander, asked Secretary of Defense Ash Carter whether ISIS and other Islamic terrorist groups represented the most imminent and dangerous threat facing the country today. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">"Yeah, that certainly is the one that is the most imminent," Carter answered. "They're trying to attack us right now -- there is nothing distant in time or probability about it."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, also testified before the House Armed Services Committee. Consider this exchange between Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) and General Dunford:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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<b>FORBES:</b> Have we currently contained [ISIS]?<br /><br /><b>DUNFORD:</b> We have not contained [ISIS].<br /><br /><b>FORBES:</b> Have they been contained at any time since 2010?<br /><br /><b>DUNFORD:</b>. . . Strategically they have spread since 2010.</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">So while Obama claims to have ISIS contained and </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/14/22-times-obama-admin-declared-climate-change-greater-threat-terrorism/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">frets over climate change,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> his own secretary of defense says ISIS is the imminent threat and the Pentagon's top general says ISIS is spreading its poisonous doctrines. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Wrong Narrative</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Secretary Carter and General Dunford weren't the only ones taking issue with Obama's grasp of the terrorist threat yesterday. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Obama's director of the Defense Intelligence Agency from 2012 to 2014, told </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CNN's</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Jake Tapper that the White House ignored intelligence reports on ISIS because "they did not meet a narrative the White House needed. And I'll be very candid with you, [the reports] just didn't." Lt. Gen. Flynn was certainly in the right position to know. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But the White House and its allies repeated their narrative over and over again during the 2012 campaign -- that Al Qaeda and other Islamic terror groups were "decimated" and "on the run." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">When Benghazi demonstrated otherwise, Obama and Hillary Clinton claimed that it wasn't terrorism but a protest over a video. When ISIS began conquering territory for its caliphate, Obama dismissed it as the "JV squad" or junior varsity team, and so we didn't need to worry about it. The greater threat, in Obama's mind, is climate change. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Western Civilization is engaged in a war against radical Islam that Obama is simply unwilling to fight. As liberal </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Washington Post</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> columnist Richard Cohen put it this week, "If the Obama of today and not Winston Churchill had led Britain in World War II, the Old Vic theater would now be doing 'Hamlet' in German." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Swarms On Rooftops</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The saga of Muslims in America celebrating the 9/11 attacks continues. But a recently discovered video gives Donald Trump ammunition. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">On September 16, 2001, just five days after the attack, a local New York </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CBS</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> affiliate filed a story about an FBI raid on an apartment building in Jersey City. Consider this excerpt from that </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">CBS</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> story: </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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". . .there is another apartment building, one that investigators told me, quote, was swarming with suspects -- suspects who I'm told were cheering on the roof when they saw the planes slam into the Trade Center. . . .<br /><br />"The FBI and other terrorist task force agencies arrived, and the older investigators on the task force recalled that they had been to this building before, eight years ago, when the first World Trade Center attack led them to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, whose Jersey City mosque lies between the two buildings getting attention today. . . Calling this a hot address, the task force investigators ordered everyone detained."</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-50980249967505766312015-11-30T12:18:00.000-08:002015-11-30T12:18:00.886-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Monday, November 30, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Syrian Immigration</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I joined more than 60 conservative leaders today in the Conservative Action Project (CAP) calling on Congress to take action addressing the potential national security threats posed by the Obama Administration's insufficient vetting of Syrian refugees. </span><a href="http://files.ctctcdn.com/2438cc3e001/20272d7f-ec64-4f76-baf8-e4281edabcc3.pdf" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">You can read the letter here.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> We outlined compassionate approaches that mitigate the security risks that currently exist.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Meanwhile, doubts are growing in Europe about the wisdom of taking in hundreds of thousands of unvetted migrants, mostly from Islamic countries. German authorities are reporting that many Muslim migrants are seeking out Arab language mosques, some of which are known to be havens for Islamic extremists.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">In addition, the leader of Germany's Jewish community, Joseph Schuster, warned last week that new migrants are coming from "cultures in which hate towards Jews and intolerance are fixed components."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Exactly! This is why Europe and the United States should revisit our immigration and refugee policies to ensure that we are not importing hate in the name of compassion. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Shameless Left</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">I join other pro-life leaders in condemning Friday's shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The alleged shooter, Robert Lewis Dear, is being arraigned today and we may find out more about him and his motives then. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But everything we know so far indicates that Dear is a deeply disturbed man. He was a recluse. His neighbors avoided him. He had several run-ins with the law, including various charges ranging from domestic abuse to animal cruelty and invasion of privacy. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Nothing indicates that Dear was in any way, shape or form part of or inspired by the pro-life movement. Predictably, that hasn't stopped voices on the left from attempting to exploit this shooting to smear the roughly one half of the country that believes abortion is, at its core, the taking of innocent human life. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Left-wing media outlets even went so far as to check Dear's voter registration status. What does that have to do with anything? But, of course, you know the answer -- the media were desperately hoping to find out if he was a Republican. It turns out he is a registered independent. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">For the last seven years, many on the left have engaged in over-the-top, hateful rhetoric toward the police and then claimed that the assassinations of police officers that followed had nothing to do with their remarks. (A common chant at some Black Lives Matter demonstrations is "Pig in a blanket," referring to a dead cop with a sheet over his body.) </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">This same left-wing crowd tells us that mosques around the world where imams preach that infidels must be killed have nothing to do with jihadists who are killing infidels. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The Obama Administration is quick to excuse government-sponsored demonstrations in Tehran where "Death to America, Death to Israel" is chanted by thousands as hyperbole "for domestic consumption," even though Iran has in fact killed hundreds of American soldiers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">And the left has excoriated Americans who believe marriage is between a man and a woman, calling them bigots, haters and the equivalent of the KKK. Yet it rejects any responsibility for the man who shot up the Family Research Council and was stopped only by the bravery of the security guard on duty that day. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The left has no shame. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Obama's Misguided Agenda</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">World leaders have gathered in Paris, France -- the site of horrific attacks earlier this month by radical Islamists. They are in Paris pledging their resolve to tackle the world's most urgent threat. President Barack Obama addressed the summit today, saying, "What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">How is Obama proposing to save the world? By defeating ISIS? By fighting Iran's mullahs, Hamas or Hezbollah? No. Obama is in effect declaring war on the energy industry and economic growth. When it comes to putting boots on the ground, Obama seems more likely to deploy bureaucrats to control your thermostat!</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Meanwhile, news broke over the Thanksgiving holiday that the FBI has deployed elite mobile surveillance teams to track at least </span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/11/26/fbi-using-elite-surveillance-teams-to-track-at-least-48-high-risk-isis-suspects.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">48 "high risk" ISIS suspects</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> within the United States. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Many on the left think climate change is our greatest national security threat, and that likely includes the president himself. Michael Morell, Obama's former CIA director, suggested that the president hesitated to attack ISIS oil facilities (one of its largest sources of cash) out of concerns about </span><a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/11/25/mike_morell_obama_didnt_hit_isis_oil_tankers_to_avoid_environmental_damage.html" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">"environmental damage."</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Multiculturalism In Missouri</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Students at Hickman High School in Columbia, Missouri, got a vivid and unwanted demonstration in multiculturalism last week. Youssif Zaghwani Omar, from Benghazi, Libya, allegedly assaulted a 14 year-old girl at the school for being in public without wearing a hijab. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">According to </span><a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/29/muslim-mizzou-professor-charged-assaulting-teen-girl-school-without-hijab/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">reports,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Omar violently grabbed the girl by her hair, slapped her in the face, and dragged her down a flight of stairs and into his car. It turns out that the girl is a relative of Omar's and that he is an assistant professor at the University of Missouri, which has been in the news lately for very unflattering reasons. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But this raises a number of obvious questions. First, where were the adults at the school who should have stopped this attack? Second, will any demonstrations erupt at Mizzou about this attack on women's rights? Waiting. . . waiting. . . crickets. </span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4887357787244653712.post-64564206498328835522015-11-24T13:07:00.001-08:002015-11-24T13:07:30.322-08:00End Of Day Report <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Tuesday, November 24, 2015<br /><br />To: Friends & Supporters<br /><br />From: Gary L. Bauer</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">We Are Less Safe</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There is little doubt that the world has become a more dangerous place since Barack Obama became president. The Nobel Committee should demand its Peace Prize back. As America retreats, our enemies fill the void. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There is news today that a Russian jet was shot down by Turkish fighters. Turkey is a member of NATO, and it claims that the Russian jet repeatedly violated Turkish airspace. Today's action reportedly marks the first time NATO has shot down a Russian aircraft since the 1950s. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Complicating the situation are reports that U.S.-backed Syrian rebels shot down a Russian rescue helicopter as it was searching for the pilots. Russian President Vladimir Putin angrily denounced the incident as "a stab in the back, carried out by the accomplices of terrorists."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The potential for a catastrophic mistake in the Middle East grows by the hour. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But greater evidence for how things have unraveled was provided by the Obama Administration itself. Last night, the State Department issued a travel alert for Americans abroad. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Travel alerts are not unusual. The State Department often warns Americans in various areas when there are concerns of unrest or potential terrorist plots.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But last night's alert was worldwide and remains in effect until February. According to the State Department, there is enough evidence of plots against Americans that it cannot narrow the danger down to one geographic region. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Meanwhile, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security issued </span><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/homegrown-extremists-seek-replicate-paris-fbi-dhs-joint/story?id=35384504" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">a joint bulletin</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> to all law enforcement agencies yesterday, warning of the risk of radicalized Islamists here in America attempting copycat Paris-style attacks against soft targets. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Muslim Celebrations</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Donald Trump is being lambasted by the left-wing media for comments he made about Muslims in New Jersey celebrating as the 9/11 attacks unfolded. Trump is perfectly capable of defending himself. But his claim of seeing "thousands" does not square with anything that I recall. Here's an excerpt from our "End of Day" report from September 19, 2001:</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br />
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"In Jersey City, New Jersey where there has been a great deal of activity by followers of radical Islam, people were reportedly on the roofs of their apartment buildings, celebrating the attacks in New York. The FBI is following up on these leads."</div>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Certainly there were videos of large groups of people celebrating in the Middle East, including in the Palestinian territories.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But what is most telling about the Trump controversy is the effort of big media to create the impression that there is virtually no evidence of radicalism among American Muslims and that Trump simply pulled this out of thin air. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">While the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Washington Post</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> fact checker says it couldn't find anything to confirm Trump's recollection of events, there were articles similar to my report in the fact checker's own</span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/290767616/Northern-New-Jersey-Draws-Probers-Eyes" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank"><i>Washington Post.</i></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Other reports referencing Muslim celebrations during the 9/11 attacks appeared in the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">New York Times</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> and the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">San Francisco Chronicle.</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Regardless, that's all ancient history now. The left-wing media are totally committed to the theme that terrorism has nothing to do with Islam and they are constantly doubling down on this denial. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">But I'll concede this: One of the most notorious reactions to 9/11 wasn't in a mosque, but in a church in Chicago that just happened to be the church that Barack Obama attended for 20 years. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">It was from the pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ that Jeremiah Wright stood the Sunday after 9/11 and condemned the United States for supporting terrorism against the Palestinians. He then shouted, "America's chickens are coming home to roost," meaning that the attack was something we caused. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Terrorist Sympathies</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">As the debate continues to rage over America's refugee policy, the media continue to portray conservatives as hysterical bigots afraid of "widows and orphans" as Obama put it. But what do the Muslim refugees really believe?</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><a href="https://www.aei.org/publication/poll-13-of-syrian-refugees-are-isis-sympathizers/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">One survey of Syrian refugees,</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> conducted by the Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, found that 13% of them have a positive view of the Islamic State. Keep in mind that these aren't Syrians fighting the Assad regime, but refugees attempting to relocate to another country. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A </span><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/17/in-nations-with-significant-muslim-populations-much-disdain-for-isis/ft_15-11-17_isis_views/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">new Pew survey</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> finds that ISIS enjoys double-digit support in some large Muslim nations. Running the numbers on these figures suggests that nearly 60 million Muslims support ISIS. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Now why would these </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Muslims</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> possibly support the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Islamic</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> State? I'll revisit this issue in the days ahead. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Choose Life</b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">There has been so much in the news lately that it has been impossible to cover all the subjects that would normally warrant our attention. But here's a story I have wanted to address for some time. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">On the day after the Paris attacks, when the world witnessed so much wanton death and destruction, the front page of the </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">Washington Post</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> Style section featured the latest movement in America urging women to celebrate their abortions -- </span><a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/17/in-nations-with-significant-muslim-populations-much-disdain-for-isis/ft_15-11-17_isis_views/" style="background-color: white; color: #598fde; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" target="_blank">#ShoutYourAbortion.</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">The pro-abortion left knows that it is losing hearts and minds to the pro-life cause. So it is becoming more aggressive in its efforts to promote abortion. And while many liberal politicians will say that no one is "pro-abortion," the goal of this effort is to put a positive spin on abortion and remove the stigma of a woman committing the most unnatural of acts -- destroying her unborn child.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">A co-founder of the "ShoutYourAbortion" campaign wrote that "having an abortion made me happy in a totally unqualified way."</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Lato; font-size: 14px;">My point is simply this: When combatting an enemy that worships death (radical Islam), wouldn't this be a good time for America to rededicate itself to the sanctity of life? </span></div>
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