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White House Tried To Muzzle Dr. Ben Carson (+video)

Appearing as a guest on the Sean Hannity Show on the Fox News Channel last night, Dr. Ben Carson disclosed that a member of the White House staff, before his speech last month to the National Prayer Breakfast, had urged him “not (to) offend the president.” Additionally, Dr. Carson said the White House requested to see his speech before the event. When asked by Hannity, Dr. Carson said he believed it was wise that he did not disclose the White House member who made that request before the National Prayer Breakfast.

Dr. Benjamin Carson, who was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2008, is the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Carson is also the author of America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great.

Hannity said, “Dr. Carson made headlines last month when he dared to speak truth to power about where we stand as a nation,” in reference to his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast where he sharply disagreed with President Obama’s views on health care reform and several other issues. Dr. Carson also, in that same speech, gave his views on how political correctness stifles open discussion and debate on key issues.

This is just the latest in several stories about how the White House has been accused of either attempting to control events where the president appears or appearing to want to control the message from these events or how they are covered in the media.

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China Deal Benefits Obama Donors

The government watchdog group Judicial Watch is suing the Treasury Department for records pertaining to the department’s decision to grant a Chinese government-backed company access to oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico, a move that will benefit Obama donors.

The Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) reached a “definitive agreement” with Nexen, Inc., a Canadian energy company, announced on July 23, 2012, to buy all of the company’s outstanding public shares. Nexen has holdings in the Gulf of Mexico and Canada, giving the Chinese government access to millions of barrels of Keystone XL and Gulf reserve oil.

Nexen’s holdings in the Gulf, coupled with the Chinese government’s ownership of CNOOC, meant the Treasury Department’s Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States had to approve the takeover, which it did on Feb. 12.

The secretaries of several major executive departments—including treasury, state, defense, and homeland security—sit on the committee.

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request for information on the deal in November, but the Treasury Department did not reply within the mandatory 20 days. Judicial Watch then filed suit on Feb. 14 to get access to the documents.

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Obama Won’t Finish His Second Term Without The Bottom Dropping Out

Peter Schiff says the sequestration flap is much ado about nothing, characterizing the $85 Billion in cuts as “trivial.”

According to Schiff, we are headed for an economic crisis worse than 2008. He believes our whole economy will topple.

What is allegedly at stake is the vulnerability of the dollar. He maintains that we have learned nothing from the last crisis and continue to repeat the mistakes of the past.

What does it all mean? The bottom will drop out of the economy become Obama is finished with his second term. That’s Schiff’s prediction.

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H/T WesternJournalism.com

A President Who Wants Power but No Responsibility

Over the past two weeks, conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh has been advancing a theory about why President Obama’s approval ratings remain above average, despite the fact that most Americans say they are dissatisfied with the direction the country is taking.

Limbaugh has hypothesized that many Americans, perhaps the “low-information voters,” are not connecting Obama’s policies to what is actually happening in the country, because the president never actually governs. Obama’s is a non-governing presidency, one that is built on an eternal campaign, a never-ending community organization effort.

Aided by a relatively weak Republican Party, Obama travels around the country, appearing to be fighting against the horrific consequences of his own policies. Consequently, the president has remained fairly popular without having to own any of his destructive strategies and programs. It’s all about perception.

The situation with the sequester is a perfect example. The White House came up with the idea of sequestration as a punishment/enforcer during the debt ceiling debate of 2011. The sequestration–an across-the-board spending cut, or a slowing in the growth of spending–was the compulsory “trigger” designed to appear to cut spending. The White House believed it would never happen because Republicans allegedly would do anything to avoid cuts to defense spending in particular.

Fast forward to the present day, however, where we have Barack Obama traveling around the country denying he came up with the sequester idea as he warns Americans of the apocalypse that is upon them because of the compulsory cuts the Republicans want them to endure.

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Glenn Beck: Obama Trying to Incite Civil War

photo credit: gage skidmoreThe Obama Administration has repeatedly engaged in behavior that is inexplicable from the perspective of the conventional American horizon. But the latest episode with respect to the release of criminal aliens takes it to another level.

In this video, Glenn Beck alleges that Barack Obama is acting out with ill intent, trying to elicit a response. And Undoubtedly, Americans will be endangered by the government’s reckless behavior.

Let’s hope Beck is wrong, and that our president has some reasonable explanation for this. Though one must admit, it’s hard imagine one that is satisfactory.

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Obama Is Setting Us Up

In the days since the November elections, the pace of Obama’s destruction of America has increased significantly. Now that the Marxists have secured the executive branch for another four years – thanks to massive voter fraud, a cowardly Republican Party, and a couple of million self-righteous fools who refused to vote, apparently preferring a Muslim Marxist over a moderately conservative Mormon – Obama and his lawless unindicted co-conspirators have thrown caution to the wind.

Every day, new outrages are proposed, all aimed at the destruction of the Middle Class and America as a free, capitalist, constitutional republic. However, in our efforts to recognize and combat the internal attacks – the tax increases, the land grabs, the granting of citizenship to illegal invaders, the undermining of private property rights, etc. ad nauseam – we are failing to notice the external threats that Obama’s policies are abetting. The re-militarization of Russia and their much more aggressive and threatening attitude is of great concern; but there are other, much less publicized ones we need to be aware of.

China has made trillions of dollars off us, thanks to massive interest payments on the uncontrolled borrowing by the Obama administration as well as a huge and ever-increasing trade deficit, where they export to us way, way more than we export to them. During the Obama “presidency,” China surpassed America as the world’s leading economic power. They have used this money to radically increase the size and sophistication of their military to the point where it is very questionable whether we could do anything should they move to start taking over other Asian countries, like the Philippines, Japan, or South Korea.

This is not an irrational fear, either. The dispute with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands appears to be a test by China to see who will do what as they aggressively move to take territory claimed by Japan. Chinese admirals, who never speak without government direction, have threatened World War III to “protect” Iran. But ultimately, it is the good ol’ USA that is their target. Does anyone remember when Russia was selling off military equipment after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and China bought every last one of their attack subs that were specifically designed to target the US Navy? Since at least the 1990s, the Democrats have aided and abetted China in the upgrading of their military capabilities – remember the technology that Clinton sold them that allowed them to get their missiles to actually hit what they aimed at? Obama has been carrying on this tradition, allowing formerly restricted advanced technology to be sold to the Chinese military. And just a reminder: the Panama Canal, vital to our national security, is, thanks to the Democrats, run by a company – Hutchison-Whampoa – with ties to the Chinese Military, as is a port facility 50 miles off the East Coast in the Bahamas that has an 11,000 foot-long runway, capable of handling the largest of military aircraft.

Add to this the fact that the North Koreans, who have nuclear weapons, are testing missiles capable of hitting American cities. They appear to believe that the US and South Korea are gearing up to attack and invade them.

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President’s Afghan Withdrawal Based on Fraudulent Data?

photo credit: the us armyAn officially reported downward trend in insurgent attacks that has underpinned President Obama’s decision to pull 34,000 troops from Afghanistan did not actually happen last year.

On Tuesday, the NATO command in the Afghan capital of Kabul acknowledged that a database error caused it to report a 7 percent decline in “enemy initiated attacks,” when the actual number remained the same compared to 2011.

The Pentagon highlighted the decline in the lead-up to Mr. Obama’s announcement in his State of the Union address this month that more than half of the 60,000-plus U.S. troops now in Afghanistan will return home by the end of this year.

The error means that, on a statistical basis, the war is not going as well as professed by the administration — and as most international combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

In December, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta cited a downturn in violence in Afghanistan during a speech at the National Press Club. He referred to a NATO summit in Chicago last May during which the alliance approved an Obama campaign plan to hand over more duties to local Afghan troops, paving the way for a foreign troop exit.

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The Senate’s Shameful Behavior: Not One Word of Debate on Hagel’s Defense Nomination

One reason the left is winning is that they fight to the mat for their principles (such that they are). So you have to give them a lot of credit – they have the passion and the willingness to fight to win. Republicans, on the other hand, continue to play footsies, contributing to the nation’s peril.

“The most deliberative body in the world” put up a charade for several weeks, with now nary a word of debate on the Senate floor. Don’t they even want the opportunity to grand-stand ? Apparently not.

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska), who served two terms from 1997 to 2009, has been confirmed as Secretary of Defense, the position which represents the primary purpose of our federal government – to protect and defend our nation (and hopefully our Constitution). One group who did support Hagel’s nomination (besides the Democrats) ? Iran. God help us.

Despite grave concerns by many Republican Senators (and by some actual conservatives), Hagel was approved for a final vote by a whopping vote of 71 – 27, without a single word of debate. His anti-Jewish sentiment is legendary, yet the political nation gives a collective shrug, since it’s only the Jews we’re talking about.

Yet key Senators indicated grave concerns that makes one wonder exactly what ARE the principles that guide their decisions ? “Compromise” can be a good thing in politics (and marriage), IF both sides participate, and they both have common goals.

John McCain (R-Arizona) said just this past Sunday that “Hagel was not qualified to be Defense Secretary”. Yet he voted to allow Hagel’s name to come for a vote.

Richard Shelby (R-Alabama) gives the apparent new standard on Defense Secretaries, “He’s as good as we are going to get.” So forget about the USA being the best, we now just take whoever shows up.

The most curious vote came from Rand Paul, who’s been unafraid to stand on principle. Yet he deferred to the President, who “gets to choose political appointees.” While I’m personally a big fan of Rand Paul, this leaves me scratching my head and will cause a significant wedge among his legions of supporters.

Can you imagine the Democrats deferring to a Republican President for someone who was manifestly unqualified for the Cabinet ? There’s no doubt they would throw a stink (under MSM cover), and hand the Republicans an embarrassing defeat. (Anyone remember one of the most qualified men to ever be nominated for the Supreme Court – Robert Bork ? His defeat ended the practice of being candid in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee. )

Don’t forget the real vote was the cloture vote, where the Senate gave up the fight behind closed doors (71 – 27 in favor of allowing Hagel to come to a vote). The official tally though was a “respectable” (aka “CYA”) 58 – 41. Here’s the list of those who gave up the fight:

Alexander
Ayotte
Blunt
Burr
Chambliss
Coburn
Collins
Corker
Flake
Graham
Hatch
McCain
Murkowski
Sessions
Thune

Yet all of the above now hide behind a “No” vote on Hagel despite their vote to “move things along”, giving Obama another victory and discouraging scores of conservatives, grass-roots activists, and most importantly, those serving in the military. While we should all be passionate about national defense, I am especially attuned to this nomination since my son will be an Army officer come this May.

HHS Study: Head Start Kids Have More Problems with Math, Social Interactions

This past week, President Obama warned Americans that, if the sequester occurs, hundreds of thousands of children will lose access to Project Head Start. A new study, however, published by the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has found that students who participate in the $8 billion Head Start program actually fare worse, in some ways, than students who do not.

The study also found that positive effects of the program are not sustained into elementary school.

According to the study, mandated by Congress and published at the end of 2012, the Head Start program “seeks to improve the educational and developmental outcomes for children from severely economically disadvantaged families.”

However, when researchers evaluated 4,667 elementary students, they concluded that the program provided no measurable benefit for children by the time they reached the third grade compared to those children who were in a similar socio-economic group but were not in the program. Of the children who were not enrolled in Head Start, about 60 percent received another form of preschool education, the quality of which was judged to be generally inferior to that provided in Head Start.

The large-scale study found that children who participated in the Head Start program actually did worse in math and had more problems with social interaction by the third grade than children who were not in the program.

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Obama Urges Supreme Court to Strike Down Federal Defense of Marriage Act

The Obama administration is asking the Supreme Court to strike down the federal law defining marriage as a union between only a man and a woman.

The request regarding the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act was made Friday in a brief by Solicitor General Donald Verrilli that argues the law is unconstitutional because it violates “the fundamental guarantee of equal protection.”

The high court is set to hear two cases next month on the issue: the constitutional challenge on Proposition 8, the 2008 California that allowed same-sex marriages in the state that two years later was overturned, and United States v. Windsor, which challenges DOMA.

Edith Windsor, a California resident, was married to her female partner in Canada in 2007 but was required to pay roughly $360,000 in federal estate taxes because the marriage is not recognized under DOMA.

The law “denies to tens of thousands of same-sex couples who are legally married under state law an array of important federal benefits that are available to legally married opposite-sex couples,” Verrilli’s brief in part states.

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