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Costco backs Obama, Obama touts Costco

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In his nationally televised speech Wednesday, Obama sang the praises of retail giant Costco, whose founder Jim Sinegal gave Obama the maximum contribution in two elections and hosted fundraisers for his reelection. Costco has also lobbied for many of Obama’s legislative priorities, including higher minimum wage, Obamacare, and price controls on financial processing fees…

Sinegal contributed the maximum $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund last year and also held a $35,800-a-plate fundraiser for Obama. In the 2008 election, Sinegal gave $43,500 to the DNC (here and here), which is, in effect, a contribution to Obama. On top of that, the Costco founder gave the maximum $2,300 to Obama’s campaign. So that’s more than $80,000 personally to Obama. Add in $100,000 to Obama’s SuperPAC, Priorities USA, plus the $2 million the July 2012 fundraiser reportedly brought Obama, and you’ve got a healthy amount of support…

Sinegal lobbied for Obamacare in 2009. His company has supported a higher minimum wage. Both of these regulations impose proportionally greater costs on the company’s smaller competitors — and almost every competitor is smaller, because Costco is the nation’s No. 2 retailer behind only Wal-Mart. Sinegal also spoke in Obama’s favor at the 2012 convention.

Costco’s founder did all these favors for Obama over five years, and on Wednesday, Obama returned the favor:

We’ll need our businesses, the best in the world, to pressure Congress to invest in our future, and set an example by providing decent wages and salaries to their own employees. And I’ll highlight the ones that do just that – companies like Costco, which pays good wages and offers good benefits; or the Container Store, which prides itself on training its workers and on employee satisfaction – because these companies prove that this isn’t just good for their business, it’s good for America.

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Obama’s Blind Eye Toward Muslim Terror Dangerous to America

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If you ever needed evidence that President Obama’s rosy view of Islam is dangerous, you need look no further than the Boston Marathon bombings.

It’s not unfair to point a finger of blame at President Obama in this case because it is his peculiar bias that has placed blinders on the Homeland Security Department and encouraged the selective filtering of the media.

Shortly after the Boston Marathon bombings killed three and injured 178, the media wasted little time dragging out the usual leftist fantasies about the bombers being Right-wing or Tea Partiers. The president himself initially refused to use the word “terrorism” because he didn’t want to imply a Muslim connection, and presidential spokesman Jay Carney floated the notion that the bombings had something to do with tax day, implying that the Administration suspected the Tea Party, despite there being no history of Tea Party violence.

Almost from Obama’s first day in office, the Administration has been accusing the Tea Party, veterans, Bible-believing Christians and conservatives in general without any evidence of being potential terrorists. The mainstream media and its lesser Soros-inspired cousins at the Huffington Post, Salon and elsewhere didn’t need to be told twice and ran with the theme, hammering on it over the past several years whenever a mass murder hits the news.

Unfortunately for the media and the Department of Homeland Security, one after another mass murderer or would-be bomber in memory has been a clear leftist or Muslim. The liberal politics of mass killers gets scant coverage from the media that fervently hope to report on a conservative crazy, but it’s the media’s and Administration’s particularly blind eye for Muslim terror that is proving increasingly dangerous to America.

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Voter Fraud Trial Underway: Did Obama Ever Qualify for 2008 State Ballot? (+video)

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The trial is underway for a former Democratic official and a Board of Elections worker who are accused of being part of a plot that has raised questions over whether President Obama’s campaign — when he was a candidate in 2008 — submitted enough legitimate signatures to have legally qualified for the presidential primary ballot.

The two face charges of orchestrating an illegal scheme to fake the petitions that enabled then-candidates Obama, and Hillary Clinton, to qualify for the race in Indiana.

Former longtime St. Joseph County Democratic Party Chairman Butch Morgan Jr. faces multiple felony conspiracy counts to commit petition fraud, and former county Board of Elections worker Dustin Blythe is charged with nine felony forgery counts and one felony count of falsely making a petition of nomination. The proceedings began Monday in South Bend.

Morgan is accused of being the mastermind behind the plot, by allegedly ordering Democratic officials and workers to fake the names and signatures that Obama and Clinton needed to qualify for the presidential race. Blythe, then a Board of Elections employee and Democratic Party volunteer, has been accused of carrying out those orders by forging signatures on Obama’s petitions.

Two former Board of Elections officials have already pleaded guilty to charges related to the scheme and could testify against Morgan and Blythe.

See Fox report from last year:

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Americans 'Snapping' by the Millions (+audio)

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Terrorism. Chaos. Fear of the future. In the age of Obama, America is undergoing a “fundamental transformation” – that much everyone knows.

But what few seem to realize about this transformation is that the sheer stress of living in today’s America is driving tens of millions to the point of illness, depression and self-destruction. Consider the following trends:

•Suicide has surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of injury death for Americans. Even more disturbing, in the world’s greatest military, more U.S. soldiers died last year by suicide than in combat;

•Fully one-third of the nation’s employees suffer chronic debilitating stress, and more than half of all “millennials” (18 to 33 year olds) experience a level of stress that keeps them awake at night, including large numbers diagnosed with depression or anxiety disorder.

•Shocking new research from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that one in five of all high-school-aged children in the United States has been diagnosed with ADHD, and likewise a large new study of New York City residents shows, sadly, that one in five preteens – children aged six to 12 – have been medically diagnosed with either ADHD, anxiety, depression or bipolar disorder;

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Report: Federal Stimulus Used to Lobby for Higher Taxes

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At least seven U.S. communities that received stimulus money as part of a $373 million government program to educate Americans about obesity and tobacco use potentially violated federal law by using the funds to lobby for higher taxes and new local laws, according to a report by the nonpartisan group Cause of Action.

The findings are part of a 19-month investigation by the nonprofit group on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Communities Putting Prevention to Work Program.”

Beyond potentially breaking federal law, the communities also appear to have violated CDC guidelines, according to the 36-page report titled “How the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s … Grant Program Became a Front for Lobbying, Government Propaganda and Cronyism.”

Congressional hearings in 2011 and follow-up letters to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius addressed a potential violation in a South Carolina community.

However, the April 16 report found seven other potential violations and states the CDC’s one recorded violation “was worse than disclosed.”

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Here Come Obama's Middle-Class Tax Hikes

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President Obama’s budget spin-meisters at the Office of Management and Budget deserve nomination for the Biggest Whopper of 2013 Award, thanks to their claim that the chief executive’s 2014 budget proposal “represents more than $2 in spending cuts for every $1 of new revenue from closing tax loopholes and reducing tax benefits for the wealthiest.” Sounds like smart budgeting, but is that statement true? As the Heritage Foundation’s Morning Bell put it, “In a word, no.”

Look beyond the rhetoric at the concrete numbers in the Obama budget — which, let it not be forgotten, was submitted two months late and after both the Senate and House adopted their own versions of 2014 spending blueprints — and what becomes clear in three ways is that the president and his key advisers are intrigued by the figure $1.1 trillion. First, remember the sequestration budget cuts that were supposed to produce Armageddon if actually implemented? Those cuts totaled — can you guess? — $1.1 trillion over 10 years.

Second, as Morning Bell ably notes, the Treasury Department calculates that the Obama 2014 budget proposal contains new tax increases totaling $1.1 trillion. Third, remember the 2011 Grand Bargain That Never Was? That was when House Speaker John Boehner insisted on a lengthy list of spending cuts and conceded to $800 billion in new revenues by closing tax loopholes? It never happened because at the last minute Obama demanded another $400 billion in new revenues, which Boehner wisely rejected. Well, now Obama is endorsing Boehner’s spending cuts, which just happen to total $1.1 trillion.

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Obama’s ‘Tax Freedom Day’ Was March 5…the Average American’s Isn’t Until April 18

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As TheBlaze reported on Friday, President Barack Obama and wife Michelle paid 18 percent in taxes for 2012. That 18 percent tax rate means the Obamas worked just more than 64 days in order to earn the money they needed to pay the government their “fair share.”

The top tax rate charged by the federal government for high earners like the Obamas would be 35 percent. If the president and his wife paid the 35 percent rate, they would have had to work until May 8 (128 days) in order to meet their obligation to the nation.

But is 18 percent really a fair share for the first family? Let’s remember the 2012 presidential campaign that regularly featured many media outlets slamming Mitt Romney for paying around 15 percent in taxes in 2011.

It also should be noted that today, the average American has to work until April 18 in order to pay their tax obligations to the nation. (And according to one online report, April 18 is a full five days longer than last year’s Tax Freedom Day.) By the way, from January 1 to April 18 is 108 days.

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Declaration of War on American Values: Battalion Commander Tells Troops that Patriots, Christians belong to Hate Groups

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A combat battalion commander assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, sent an email out to several dozen subordinate officers and senior noncommissioned officers describing conservatives as members of hate groups.

The senior officer, seen in the YouTube below, apparently decided that his ignorant soldiers needed some political indoctrination regarding the Army’s new values, as decreed by Obama.

So, using the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center as a guide, the lieutenant colonel set out to educate.

Using the subject line of ‘Domestic Hate Groups,’ LTC Jack Rich warned his subordinate leaders that,

Many events have been taking place across the country – just want to ensure everyone is somewhat educated on some of the groups out there that do not share our Army Values.

Before identifying for his troops who the haters in America are, he makes it clear that his email is an action memo:

When we see behaviors that are inconsistent with Army Values – don’t just walk by – do the right thing and address the concern before it becomes a problem.


In other words, this misguided Army ‘leader’ is telling his junior officers that they are to actively intervene with any of their troops that they suspect has ‘hateful’ beliefs.

Once identified, the hater presumably will be forced to recant such beliefs.

Sound familiar? Turn back the clock to the Cold War years and you might mistake LTC Rich with a political commissar, the Soviet ideological officer who guarded military units against “harmful” beliefs.

So who exactly belongs to a hate group? Probably most conservatives. According to Commissar Rich and his communist buddies at the Southern Poverty Law Center, they include:

• members of the Christian right (like Focus on the Family’s former leader, James Dobson)

• anti-gay groups (those who oppose the “so-called homosexual agenda”)

• members of Patriot organizations (those “opposed to the ‘New World Order'”; those who believe that the “‘New World Order’ is imposing a global plan, called Agenda 21, to take away citizens’ property rights”; those who “believe that being well armed is a must”; those who fear “impending gun control or weapons confiscations, either by the government or international agencies”)

• anti-Muslim groups (those who “broadly defame Islam”; those who believe the “inherent danger to America posed by its Muslim-American community”, that Muslims are a “fifth column intent on undermining and eventually replacing American democracy and Western civilization with Islamic despotism”; those who “allege that Muslims are trying to subvert the rule of law by imposing on Americans their own Islamic legal system, Shariah law”)

• anti-illegal alien groups

Commissar Rich identifies the Family Research Council, American Family Association, United States Justice Foundation, Atlas Shrugs, Sharia Awareness Network, Bare Naked Islam, and many other organizations as hate groups.

Yes, the thought police have infected the U.S. Military. Never mind that troublesome First Amendment. Obama must be proud.

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Read Commissar Rich’s complete email HERE.

Here’s a video of Commissar Rich at a live fire exercise at Fort Campbell. Let’s pray he doesn’t make it beyond O-5:

Has the President Ever Heard of a “Stay-cation”?

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So Obama finally made it to Israel. It was great. He saw the sights, gave a few talks, toured ancient holy places, and had a few meetings, but no long hours hammering out a budget, no tense negotiations on entitlement reform, or meeting with his now defunct “jobs council” for an all night brainstorming session. It was photo ops and “behind the velvet rope” tours, and of course, fine dining as the royal taster made the journey as well.

All in all, what most of us would call a great working vacation.

And so, after all that, it was of course time for…

Well, another vacation.

Great.

You know, President Bush used to go to Crawford alot..and he took alot of flak in the media for it… But that was his house, and he had it set up like a second White House, with a war room, communications office, etc..so while it was a vacation, it wasn’t a vacation like this guy takes ’em. He invited and met with dignitaries there, and other heads of state, and while they weren’t Jay-Z or Beyonce, they were names some people thought relevant at the time.. Blair, Putin, Et al. So there was a difference.

There was much I disliked about the former president’s time in office. He spent too much, he compromised with disastrous consequence, and he created more government, when what we needed was less.

But he did seem to hold more reverence for the office than its current occupant. He stopped golf altogether after he sent men to war, he attended his own daily security briefs, he didn’t stoop to partisan name calling from his high office. In fact, other than dictators and terrorists, I don’t think I heard the guy say a bad word about anyone while president.

But what distresses me more than this president taking lots of vacations on the taxpayers dime, and not appearing to feel he needs to exert the kind of daily toil to produce results in a process most of us so quaintly refer to as “work”, is while everyone is being told they need to pay more of their “fair share”, or share in the “pain”, this guy and his wife and kids literally go all over the world on these work “free” vacations, on OUR dime.

Do I even need to mention the Golf? Really? Reeaallyy…

So much, for the proletariat.

One of the true marvels of human history, is how the populist left will always elect as its leaders, the absolutely most bourgeois of the bourgeois, to rule over them. I mean, these guys..Stalin, Lennon, Chavez..they really have a taste for the finer things and could care less about, say, inner city crime, unemployment, education, or least of all, whether the “people’s” dollars and resources are spent wisely.

With that in mind, this has to be the most bourgeois American president, at least in my lifetime, that I have ever seen..and I’m finding, not only do I really not like this guy, I’m finding that its actually turning me off to even the IDEA of a president.

If it’s just supposed to be a pompous ass who tells me how greedy I am, how much I cling to my gun and my bibles, and how everyone needs to pitch in, while he closes down country clubs for a million dollars a day to golf with Tiger.. Or he and his wife take separate jets to an environmental conference.. If that’s what the office is, then that’s it. I’m out.

A “Monarch” for the “Oligarchs”? Because make no mistake, this is not just him, it’s the majority of the folks down there in DC right now. Most of them, were they in his shoes, no matter what color their feet or what letter in parentheses by their name, would be treating the job and the trust we put in that office with a similar lack of dignity and respect, as they do their own, right now.

If you think this is hyperbole or satire, then go there. Watch how they work and what that town is about. Harry Reid and Mark Begich have more in common with Lisa Murkowski and Mitch McConnell, than any of them have with their own constituency. How could they? They pass laws they are exempt from, that you and I have to follow. They have a 90+ percent reelection rate. They spend their careers together and the vast majority of their time there in that town, at “court” with the other lords and ladies and courtesans, lording over their fiefdoms and dukedoms, whiling away their days in relative luxury, safe from the repercussions of their action or inaction because of the power they enjoy and the system that keeps them there.

Their kids go to the same schools, they shop at the same shops, live in the same neighborhoods, get the same fringe benefits, and are typically bought and owned, to one degree or another, by the same interests, on the corporate level, and by mirror image political groups on the “non-profit” level (another joke).

The ruling class.

American Royalty.

Every trite little small government slur to describe the state of our elected officials in federal government, and you know what? If you have ever been there, and seen them, behind the rope, away from the cameras, in the little town houses they keep empty by day and fill with pheasant and wine, congressmen and senators, money men and lobbyists and millionaires deal makers, by night.. then you know.

It’s exactly right.

To say the “majesty of the office” has “lost a bit of its luster”, is a bit of an understatement. It is a sad self parody of what we have let happen to this once great nation. The “joke”, as it were, is on us.

The presidency used to mean something. I’m not so sure it does anymore. Judging by the time the current occupant spends actually doing the job..

I’m not the only one that feels that way.

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Dr Walter Campbell is a lifelong Alaskan, former Marine, and physician.

Video: Hannity, Paul Discuss Holder’s Claim of Legal Authority to Drone-Kill Citizens Inside US

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Eric Holder today called drone use to assassinate American citizens on US soil potentially “appropriate” and “necessary” in some cases.

Senator Rand Paul calls the administration’s claims “disturbing.” He pointed out that what we’re discussing is not just administration of justice, as in detention or other lesser measures. What we’re talking about is administering the death penalty without respect to the judicial process.

Paul went on to say that there is an enormous amount of hypocrisy with respect to these issues in the Obama administration.

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