STAR TREK FANS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS VIOLATED

IS OBAMA USING ‘I AM MY BROTHER’S KEEPER’ TO PEDDLE REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH?

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-calls-more-redistribution-wealth-declaring-i-am-my-brother-s-keeper

On 30 March 2012, Obama appeared in a campaign speech in Vermont where he spoke about helping others and the Biblical story of Cain and Abel. In his address, Obama condemned what he sees as “you’re-on-your-own economics” and argued, as CNS News alleges, for policies that would transfer wealth from one group to another.

In Genesis, Adam and Eve’s first-born son is Cain and their second-born son is Abel. Cain becomes a farmer and Abel becomes a shepherd. When Cain offers the fruit of his farming to God and Abel offers a lamb, God is pleased with Abel’s offering but not Cain’s. Cain then kills Abel. When God asks Cain where Abel is, Cain says: “Am I my brother’s keeper?”

But Obama’s focus on that particular episode in the book of Genesis is instructive. This use of the Cain and Abel story is classic liberation theology, the tasty slurry of Christian teachings and Marxist class struggle that was characteristic of the Church the Obama family attended in Chicago for 20 years. The story of Cain and Abel has a special meaning to liberation theology that sets it apart from most mainstream Christian denominations. In most Christian churches, the idea of original sin is usually associated with the narrative of Adam and Eve, who disobeyed God when they fell to temptation and ate the forbidden fruit. In Liberation theology, on the other hand, Adam and Eve’s original sin is largely abandoned and replaced by an increased significance on Cain’s betrayal of his brother.

Further explanation of this significance comes from Christopher Rowland and Mark Corner’s 1989 book Liberating Exegesis: The Challenge of Liberation Theology to Biblical Studies:
The story of Cain and Abel (Gen. 4) is read as an example of the kind of struggle which goes on in society between the landed and the landless, the farmers and the shepherds…The cause of Abel’s death is the division of labour, which creates social classes and the ensuing struggle for land.

As a central theme of the class-struggle preached at church while Obama attended, the liberation theology of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, he’s clearly drawing from a familiar well.

‘HIJACKING HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE’: VIDEO SLAMS ‘ANTI-ISRAEL RADICALS’ AT NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY

HOLLYWOOD PRODUCER HEARD BILL CLINTON SAY OBAMA INELIGIBLE

Bettina Viviano – who started her own film production company in 1990 after serving as vice president of production for Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment – stated that it was common knowledge among delegates committed to Hillary that the Clintons believed Obama was constitutionally ineligible and that Bill Clinton would eventually disclose his belief to the public.

Jerome R. Corsi, a Harvard Ph.D., is a WND senior staff reporter. He has authored many books, including No. 1 N.Y. Times best-sellers "The Obama Nation" and "Unfit for Command." Corsi's latest book is "Where's the REAL Birth Certificate?"

Employment and Unemployment, History Degrees: Penn and Harvard

Education matters

Paul Harrington, professor and director of the Center for Labor Markets & Policy at Drexel University explains the correlation between unemployment and education level.

Mal-employment hurts earnings

Laura Wesolowski has applied for more than 200 jobs. She holds a master's degree in public policy from University of Pennsylvania.

Harvard and Penn history graduates

http://www.philly.com/philly/video/BC1530987322001.html

Debunking the Palestine Lie

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched an international campaign to achieve recognition by the United Nations for an independent Palestinian state. Abbas and his international supporters claim that only Israel (with the United States) stands in the way of this act of historical justice, which would finally bring about peace in the Middle East.

This video debunks the Palestinians' claim and shows that Abbas has been lying about the origins and history of the conflict. Palestinian leaders have rejected partition plans that would have given them much more land for their independent state than the Jews were offered for theirs. Rather than being the innocent victims of a "dispossession" at the hands of the Israelis, the Palestinians rejected reasonable compromises and instead pursued their aim of getting rid of the only Jewish state in the world.

Afterburner with Bill Whittle: Merchants of Despair

THE TOP TEN PRO-FREEDOM MOVIES OF ALL TIME

The List.

Religious Liberty HHS Mandate

Religious Liberty HHS Mandate

What do you understand Richard Thompson to be describing? How do you plan on responding to the current challenge against the religious liberty of the Roman Catholic Church?

Richard Thompson's Stand Up Detroit Excerpt

Cardinal Dolan thought he heard Obama pledge respect for the Catholic Church's rights of conscience. Then came the contraception coverage mandate.

RT speech at Stand Up Detroit rally, March 23, 2012

Is this a reasonable policy or is this governmental bullying? Why do you think so?

Eric Metaxas debated Donna Crane, policy director at NARAL Pro-Choice America, about Obama's decision to force Catholic institutions to ensure insurance coverage of contraception on MSNBC's "Jansing & Co."

Father Sammie Maletta's Sermon on Obama's Assault on Religious Liberty

On February 5, 2012 Father Sammie Maletta delivered a Homily at St. John the Evangelist Parish in St. John, Indiana. This Homily addressed how Obama is threatening Religious Freedom and declaring war with the Catholic Church. Go to http://bit.ly/zPdgpw to fight the HHS Mandate.

SPOTTED: Contraceptives near Georgetown law school

Are contraceptives readily available, and inexpensive or free, adjacent to Georgetown University, without a government mandate compromising religious liberty?

Religious Liberty: Obamacare's First Casualty

Should the government determine how religions operate? Why or why not?

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/02/22/morning-bell-religious-liberty-under-attack/

The controversy over the Obama Administration's anti-conscience mandate and the fight for religious liberty only serves to highlight the inherent flaws in Obamacare.

Sermon of Father Jay Scott Newman - Tyrannical Government Decrees and the Religious Liberty Crisis

St. Mary's Catholic Church, Greenville, South Carolina, February 5, 2012

CATHOLIC BISHOPS CALL OBAMACARE AN ‘UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON RELIGIOUS LIBERTY’

The group is accusing the government of religious discrimination.

Obama's abortion absolutism and the 1st Amendment

Obama is deciding to crack down on those protesting, conducting sidewalk counseling, or even praying for the mothers and their babies.

Dick Retta is "not deterred by . . . by a civil lawsuit the Justice Department filed against him in July."

"This President, as a State Senator, voted against a bill requiring doctors to care for babies born after failed abortions (and then misled the media on the matter). As a candidate, he promised his first act would be signing the sweeping "Freedom of Choice Act," which would wipe out nearly all limitations on abortion and abortion subsidies. And then during the budget debates we saw him draw nearly his only line in the sand over Planned Parenthood subsidies.

It's abortion absolutism. Everything else -- free assembly, free speech, conscience protection, and his party's other interests -- they all take a back seat to protecting abortion."

Catholics, during the current regime, are restricted in exercising their civil rights of religious liberty and free speech under the First Amendment.

References from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on Religious Liberty

‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: WORLD POWERS UNITING AGAINST THE WEST

BRICS-Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa

‘REAL NEWS FROM THE BLAZE’: WORLD POWERS UNITING AGAINST THE WEST

Ian Hunter Band members, RICKY BYRD & MARK BOSCH - HIT SQUAD NYC 3/28/2012

Mark Bosch, the current guitarist in Ian Hunter band joins Ricky Byrd (a former Ian Hunter guitarist) onstage with some of the other members of the NYC Hit Squad (Muddy Shews and Liberty DeVitto) for a classic Ian Hunter/Mott The Hoople song.

Obama & Solyndra

Not Even At $10 A Gallon? Gasoline Prices

Feb 29, 2012

Chu: Energy Dept Working To Wean U.S. Off Oil, Not Lower Gas Prices

In 2009, Mitch McConnell asked that the Senate consider a bill to allow offshore drilling if gas prices rise but then Sen. Ken Salazar objected to the proposal. McConnell then asked if the bill could be triggered when gas reaches $4.50 per gallon, then $5 per gallon, then $7.50 per gallon, and finally $10 per gallon. All the prices were objected to. Then Senator Salazar was subsequently promoted to the position of Secretary of the Interior.

Not Even At $10 A Gallon?

Brazil Petrobras gets permit for U.S. deep waters in Gulf of Mexico

March. 18, 2011

http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2011/03/18/Petrobras-gets-permit-for-US-deep-waters/UPI-87891300453143/

Dilma Rousseff, a former guerrilla leader, and current Brazilian president, spent nearly three years in jail in the early 1970s.

http://www.stabroeknews.com/2010/features/09/24/special-report-dilma-rousseff-brazil%E2%80%99s-%E2%80%98automatic-pilot%E2%80%99/

19,000 Jobs Worth $1.1 Billion in Wages Lost Nationally Since Offshore Drilling Moratorium Imposed

http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Mason-Economic_Cost_of_Offshore_Moratorium.pdf

OMSA: End the De Facto Gulf Drilling Moratorium Now

The Offshore Marine Services Association is calling on the Obama Administration to end its de facto moratorium on oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. Watch this video to learn how the President and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar are defying the courts, sidelining Gulf oil workers and harming the American economy.

U.S. in Contempt Over Gulf Drill Ban, Judge Rules, 2011

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-03/u-s-administration-in-contempt-over-gulf-drill-ban-judge-rules.html

ARAB SPRING MADE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD STRONGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST & AMERICA

FORMER FBI AGENT

PAUL RYAN SMACKS DOWN ANOTHER LIE FROM DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ

JUDICIAL #FAILS: ‘REAL NEWS’ PANEL ON FEDERAL CASE AGAINST MICHIGAN MILITIA

JUDICIAL #FAILS: ‘REAL NEWS’ PANEL ON FEDERAL CASE AGAINST MICHIGAN MILITIA

What difference is there in the government prosecuting Christians, as opposed to Islamists?

ESPN ALLEGEDLY PULLS NASCAR AD OVER RELIGIOUS UNDERTONES ON DRIVER’S PERSONAL WEB SITE

ESPN ALLEGEDLY PULLS NASCAR AD OVER RELIGIOUS UNDERTONES ON DRIVER’S PERSONAL WEB SITE

What is your reaction to ESPN pulling a pro-voting spot? Did they do the right thing? Why or why not?

1st Amendment Preaching at the DMV?

In February 2011, Mark Mackey, a member of a local Calvary Chapel in Hemet, California and Pastor Bret Coronado — a faith leader at the church – were arrested after they showed up at a DMV office to read and preach from the Bible.

After Mackey began preaching, a California Highway Patrolman arrested him for preaching to a “captive audience.” Now, more than a year later, the case has made its way to trial court in Riverside County, California.

California Penal Code Section 602.1

(a) Any person who intentionally interferes with any lawful
business or occupation carried on by the owner or agent of a business
establishment open to the public, by obstructing or intimidating
those attempting to carry on business, or their customers, and who
refuses to leave the premises of the business establishment after
being requested to leave by the owner or the owner's agent, or by a
peace officer acting at the request of the owner or owner's agent, is
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail
for up to 90 days, or by a fine of up to four hundred dollars
($400), or by both that imprisonment and fine.
(b) Any person who intentionally interferes with any lawful
business carried on by the employees of a public agency open to the
public, by obstructing or intimidating those attempting to carry on
business, or those persons there to transact business with the public
agency, and who refuses to leave the premises of the public agency
after being requested to leave by the office manager or a supervisor
of the public agency, or by a peace officer acting at the request of
the office manager or a supervisor of the public agency, is guilty of
a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for up to
90 days, or by a fine of up to four hundred dollars ($400), or by
both that imprisonment and fine.
(c) This section shall not apply to any of the following persons:
(1) Any person engaged in lawful labor union activities that are
permitted to be carried out on the property by state or federal law.
(2) Any person on the premises who is engaging in activities
protected by the California Constitution or the United States
Constitution.
(d) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to supersede the
application of any other law.

Did the preacher interfere, obstruct, or intimidate any one? Certainly he refused to leave. However, is this free speech protected by the Constitution?

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech . . . "

First Amendment

I Can Get Your Kid into an Ivy

95% of her teenage clients are accepted by their first-choice school. Her price: As much as $40,000 a student.

Hiring help is not the privilege of only the wealthy, of course. According to the Independent Educational Consultants Assn., 22% of first-year students at private colleges—perhaps as many as 58,000 kids—had worked with some kind of consultant.

The leading coach has run application boot camps in Manhattan and Santa Monica, Calif., which this summer cost $9,500.

She wrote: A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges, and then to build a thriving business that helps people game the system. As she says to parents: "You don't want to pay $180,000 for some piddling school when, by spending a little extra, your kid could get into Yale."

Ivy League schools weren't being truthful about how they reviewed students' applications. "We were forced to misrepresent things," she says. "Parents kept asking if there was an equation we used. There was." Privately, the schools referred to it as the Academic Index, a formula based on test scores and academic standing used to rank applicants.

She selects classes for students, reviews their homework, and prods them to make an impression on teachers. She checks on the students' grades, scores, rankings. She tells parents when to hire tutors and then makes sure the kids do the extra work. She vets their vacation schedules. She plans their summers.

Hernandez rarely speaks with high school counselors. She never calls a college on a student's behalf. And she is especially careful not to leave any fingerprints on the application essays, even as she edits seven, eight, sometimes 10 drafts.

First she writes a 12-to-18 page report for each new student, based on transcripts, test scores, and other accomplishments, that gives the likelihood of their gaining admission to the schools they are interested in. "I have written: 'You have 0% chance of getting into Harvard early decision. Don't apply,'" she says. "People pay for accuracy. I know exactly what it takes to get into Harvard."

as she does with most of her clients, she worked with him by e-mail and over the phone, occasionally in person. She helped him navigate the International Baccalaureate curriculum, advising him to sign up for classes that U.S. colleges would recognize as difficult.

Then she suggested he write his main application essay about something else altogether. "The Habitat for Humanity theme, the tug on your heartstrings, sounded too common," says Andrew. So he tried another topic that would reveal more about his intellectual enthusiasms: how running helped him understand the existentialist philosophy he was reading about. "She gave me specific suggestions about the essay to form one cogent image of who I am," says Andrew.

Crafting that singular, convincing portrait of the student is central to Hernandez' approach. She considers sentimental pursuits a distraction and those done out of obligation misguided.

(Almost all of her clients apply early somewhere because the acceptance rate is higher than during regular admission.)

Today, Hernandez has 80 clients.

The summer program for students was for 15 spaces. In 2006 and 2007, Hernandez and Doe raised the price, first to $8,200 and then to $9,500, and still filled one session in Manhattan and another at the Shutters Hotel in Santa Monica. Next year they may hire others to help edit the essays so they can open the program to more students. They will charge $12,500.

Hiring professionals to help rich kids get into desired schools could backfire; plus it’s unfair to low-income candidates. Pro or con?

Here are the 5 possible outcomes for ObamaCare