Obama’s Watch: 39 Months, 69 Percent of Afghan War Casualties

One of the top unreported stories of the year.

Obama’s Secret Gun Control Plan

http://www.exposeobama.com/2012/05/09/video-obamas-secret-gun-control-plan/

Peter Schiff slams Obama's "Julia" - Brilliant video

Military Invasion of South Florida: “Cool Tourist Story”

Obama loses 41 percent of W.Va. primary vote to federal inmate

Keith Judd, who's incarcerated in Texas for extortion, took ten counties away from Obama in West Virginia's Democratic primary.

Fed clears China's first US bank takeover...

The Fed welcomed ICBC, China's biggest bank, for the first time clearing a takeover of a US bank by a Chinese state-controlled company.

THESE ARE THE ‘LEAST’ & ‘MOST’ BUSINESS-FRIENDLY STATES IN THE U.S.

Idaho, Texas, Oklahoma, and Utah all scored A+’s for their treatment of small business while California, Hawaii, Vermont, and Rhode Island received F’s.

Who Said the TEA Party is Dead? Lugar Out

Six-term Senate veteran defeated in Indiana primary

Lugar, 80, first elected to the Senate in 1976, was defeated in the Indiana primary Tuesday by state Treasurer Richard Mourdock, who was backed by conservatives ranging from the National Rifle Association to local Tea Party activists to the Washington-based fiscal conservative group the Club for Growth. Mourdock scored a landslide victory, winning more than 60 percent of the vote.

Understanding The Financial Crisis--For Kids and Grownups

Understanding The Financial Crisis--For Kids and Grownups

The Coming Islamic Caliphate

The Caliphate

It is important to understand what the caliphate is, its place in Muslim society and its significance.

The cornerstone of Islamic theology, the caliphate, or khilafah, is the central, authoritarian government that was implemented after the death of the Prophet Muhammad by his disciples in 632 AD. It derives its authority from and governs by Shariah law, and is presided over by a “caliph,“ or ”successor” who holds both legislative and spiritual power.

Per the tenets of Islam, this “state” is not limited to encompassing only Muslims across Muslim lands, rather, the goal is to ultimately establish a global caliphate that would mandate people of all walks live embrace Islam and submit to being governed by Islamic law. The khilafah is also the form of government endorsed by the Muslim Brotherhood, which is why many are justly concerned over the Islamic group’s rise to power and influence in American government.

In March 1924, reformer and president of the Turkish Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, constitutionally destroyed the “Khilafah State.” Today, an organization dedicated to the reestablishment of a global caliphate, Khilafah.com, stated that Ataturk’s move marked the end of “an illustrious era of Islamic rule” and that, since then, “the dark shadow of the West has engulfed the world.”

To illustrate what Islamists believe regarding Islam and the caliphate, consider the following passage from their unified online voice:

We assert, without compromise, that it is only by the establishment of the Khilafah State, that the practical solutions of Islam can once again provide a real alternative for the entire world. The ‘Clash of Civilisations’ first discussed by Samuel Huntington is real and inevitable. We endorse the notion that there is a civilisational difference between Islam and the West and that the problem for the West is Islam and the problem for Islam is the West. By arguing this, we also maintain Islam, as a universal ideology, came for all of humankind, Muslim and Non-Muslims, and as such it is only Islam that serves as a Rahma (mercy) for all mankind.

Khilafah.com goes on to assert that “the only challenge” to encroaching Western dominance “must come from Islam.”  Thus, to Islamists, the caliphate is vitally important in their fight against Western democracy and to ensure the adoption of Islam and the implementation of Shariah law across the world.

Those who closely follow the words and deeds of terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and al Qaeda will recall that establishing a global caliphate founded upon Islamic law has been among the militants’ most fervently declared goals.

Writing for the New York Sun in 2005, Daniel Pipes noted that the Islamists who assassinated former Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat in 1981 adorned their holding cages with banners that read: “caliphate or death.” He continued:

Bin Laden himself spoke of ensuring that “the pious caliphate will start from Afghanistan.” His chief deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri, also dreamed of re-establishing the caliphate, for then, he wrote, “history would make a new turn, God willing, in the opposite direction against the empire of the United States and the world’s Jewish government.” Another Al-Qaeda leader, Fazlur Rehman Khalil, publishes a magazine that has declared “Due to the blessings of jihad, America’s countdown has begun. It will declare defeat soon,” to be followed by the creation of a caliphate.

While some might argue that there is a difference between the Muslim Brotherhood and state-recognized terrorist organizations, consider that the Brotherhood is no innocent lamb. Founded by an Adolf Hitler admirer, the Islamic militant group is the predecessor of Hamas, Hezbollah and even al Qaeda, and is often cited as a parent to each of the terrorist groups.

One of the reasons some believe the Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate group is via its seemingly extensive community service work. It operates under the veneer of a socially-conscious organization focused on youth-outreach, school and mosque development, and even the coordination of sporting events for the “good” of the community.

Once examined under a more discerning lens, however, the true colors of the Muslim Brotherhood emerge. Of the militant Islamist group’s dual identity, scholar Martin Kramer stated: “On one level, they operated openly, as a membership organization of social and political awakening. Banna preached moral revival, and the Muslim Brethren engaged in good works. On another level, however, the Muslim Brethren created a ‘secret apparatus’ that acquired weapons and trained adepts in their use. Some of its guns were deployed against the Zionists in Palestine in 1948, but the Muslim Brethren also resorted to violence in Egypt.

Kramer goes on to explain that the Brotherhood enforced their own moral teachings “by intimidation, and they initiated attacks against Egypt’s Jews.”

A Better Life for Julia

The Heritage Foundation

FactCheck.org’s summary of its findings:

• The campaign falsely claims Romney would leave Julia with “nothing but a voucher” to buy health insurance at age 65. Actually, the plan Romney has endorsed would let her choose between traditional Medicare fee-for-service coverage, or a variety of private plans with premiums partially paid by the government.
• The slide show also contends that Julia, as a senior citizen, will have to pay “$6,350 extra per year” for a health care plan similar to Medicare. But that’s an out-of-date cost estimate based on a year-old plan that since has been made substantially more generous.
• At age 67, Julia can “retire comfortably” under Obama but, “Under Mitt Romney: Julia’s benefits could be cut by 40%.” But the fact is Obama has not proposed any plan to avoid a 25 percent cut in benefits for all Social Security beneficiaries, which the system’s trustees say is looming in 2033 unless changes are made.
• As a 22-year-old college student, Julia needs surgery that is covered “due to a provision in health care reform” keeping her on her parents’ insurance. Fair enough. But she’d probably be covered anyway: Thirty-seven states already have similar mandates on the books.
• As a 31-year-old expectant mother, Julia “benefits from maternal checkups” required under the new health care law. But she would probably get that care anyway; 85 percent of full-time workers have health insurance now, and a 1978 federal law already requires that employer-provided insurance generally must “cover expenses for pregnancy-related conditions.”

SHOULD ROMNEY HAVE CALLED OUT A TOWN HALL PARTICIPANT FOR SAYING OBAMA SHOULD BE ‘TRIED FOR TREASON’?

SHOULD ROMNEY HAVE CALLED OUT A TOWN HALL PARTICIPANT FOR SAYING OBAMA SHOULD BE ‘TRIED FOR TREASON’?

During a question and answer period, an audience member openly proclaimed that Obama should be tried for treason.

Here’s his response to a CNN reporter about the incident:

“Today we saw Mitt Romney’s version of leadership: standing by silently as his chief surrogate attacked the president’s family at the event and another supporter alleged that the president should be tried for treason,” proclaimed Lis Smith, a spokeswoman for Obama re-election campaign. “Time after time in this campaign, Mitt Romney has had the opportunity to show that he has the fortitude to stand up to hateful and over-the-line rhetoric and time after time, he has failed to do so.”

What do you think? Should Romney have corrected the woman?

ENTREPRENEURS DEBATE: DO YOU NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE TO SUCCEED IN AMERICA? (POLL)

ENTREPRENEURS DEBATE: DO YOU NEED A COLLEGE DEGREE TO SUCCEED IN AMERICA? (POLL)

And it’s an important discussion: Can you become a successful entrepreneur in the U.S. without going to college?

This article has been updated.

PIVEN USES CLASS LECTURE TO LAY OUT STRATEGY TO ILLEGALLY OCCUPY FORECLOSED HOMES, DEFAULT ON STUDENT DEBT

PIVEN USES CLASS LECTURE TO LAY OUT STRATEGY TO ILLEGALLY OCCUPY FORECLOSED HOMES, DEFAULT ON STUDENT DEBT

• CUNY Prof. Frances Fox Piven gave a recent talk laying out new, radical plans for the Occupy movement
  
• According to her, the movement has to relocate, change tactics 
• Public sociologists should help students “refuse to pay their debts” and avoid consequences when they default
• Academia should also assist in the reoccupation of foreclosed homes
• Occupy should exert “pressure” so that the illegal occupation of homes become legal ownership by occupiers
• Occupy should even figure out how to get the “utilities running” in illegally occupied buildings

Should professors lecture to promote the illegal occupation of foreclosed homes and default on student loans? Why or why not?

OBAMA'S FAILED AFGHAN STRATEGY AND HIS SURRENDER IN THE WAR ON TERROR

OBAMA'S FAILED AFGHAN STRATEGY AND HIS SURRENDER IN THE WAR ON TERROR

Is Obama throwing in the towel when it comes to the war on terror? What does the U.S. gain by sending money to Egypt, and releasing Taliban terrorists?

Morris Warns Obama Is Pushing For "One World Government"

Rick Santelli: "Wake Up Young People"

Rick Santelli: "Wake Up Young People"

“The jobs outlook in the U.S. isn’t very good. And it’s really about young people."

Look at the unemployment rate among the young and you realize jobs are really most important to them. Why? Because young people, and as a voting bloc, all of you people out there, about 27 or younger, I just want you to understand the lay of the land. Your generation, and the generations to follow you that aren’t born yet, are paying for a meal that previous generations like mine have eaten. We’re sending you the check," CNBC's Rick Santelli said on the network today.

“Wake up young people. It’s on your shoulders and you’re a big voting bloc. You can make change!" Santelli said.

EGYPTIAN CLERIC CLAIMS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL MAKE JERUSALEM ‘THE CAPITAL OF THE CALIPHATE’

EGYPTIAN CLERIC CLAIMS MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE WILL MAKE JERUSALEM ‘THE CAPITAL OF THE CALIPHATE’

Which is more likely, the “Arab Spring” of freedom and democracy? Or, a revival of the Islamic Caliphate?

The statement is made by Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi.

Hope & Change Liberals Protest Obama, So Why Aren’t They Called Racists Like the Tea Party?

HOW OUR GOVERNMENT HELPED AL QAEDA

Mayor G. Paul Miller, a long-time judge and retired school teacher, delivered the “government” address, and here it is (emphasis added):

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There are many aspects of government that are worthy of consideration, but in the limited time available tonight let us concentrate on civil liberties, rights and freedoms, and how our government is dealing with those issues.

On September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists stated a group of suicide attacks on the United States that caused significant property damage and massive loss of life. As terrible as the 9-11 attacks were, a longer-lasting and perhaps even more serious injury to our country is still continuing and slowly getting worse. The greatest tragedy is that while the actual physical terrorist attacks have been controlled, al Qaeda has actually succeeded  in seriously damaging the basic structure of our country — with the unwitting help of the American government.

The government responded to the attacks with legislation called the Patriot Act — The Patriot Act is composed of many laws already on the books that are designed to counter terrorism in the United States. What distinguishes the Patriot Act from these pre-September 11 laws is its ENABLING characteristics. Put simply, the criminal statutes, investigative rules and court procedures which safeguarded our constitutionally guaranteed civil liberties in previous anti-terror legislation were stripped away by the Patriot Act. They have been replaced by a system of Executive Branch Orders, now institutionalized in the Department of Homeland Security.

How does the Patriot Act affect our freedoms? The Patriot Act seriously damages the following constitutionally granted freedoms in the name of conducing terrorism investigations:

FREEDOM OF ASSOCIATION: Government may investigate religious, labor and political institutions without suspecting criminal activity.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION: Government has closed once-public immigration hearings, has secretly detained hundreds of people without charges and has encouraged bureaucrats to resist public records requests.

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: Government may prosecute librarians or keepers of any other records if they tell anyone that the government subpoenaed information.

RIGHT TO LEGAL REPRESENTATION: Government may listen in on federal prison jailhouse conversations between attorneys and clients and deny lawyers to Americans accused of crimes.

FREEDOM FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCHES: Government may search and seize Americans’ personal records, business documents and telephone or internet activity without probable cause or court order.

RIGHT TO A SPEEDY AND PUBLIC TRIAL: Government may jail Americans indefinitely without a trial on mere suspicion.

RIGHT TO LIBERTY: Americans may be jailed without being charged or being able to confront the witnesses against them.

Another serious level of concern is generated by the continuation and expansion of these laws that ignore our constitution and invade our privacy.

The Patriot Act was set to automatically expire in February 2010, but Congress re-authorized it and the President signed it into law again at that time.

On December 31, 2011, the President signed a law known as the National Defense Authorization Act for the 2012 fiscal year. Normally, this is just an act which funds the Department of Defense and which is passed every year. However, the act passed for the 2012 fiscal year has extensive changes and can be seen as an extension of the Patriot Act. Now, the indefinite detention has been extended to United States citizens as well. If people are spied on and suspected of being terrorists, they may be detained indefinitely without trial.

In a country famous for the belief that one is innocent until proven guilty, this is an upsetting change that is being placed upon the American people with many unaware of what it means.

The provisions of the Patriot Act allow the government to spy upon U.S. citizens, and the National Defense Authorization Act allows the government to whisk a citizen away to imprisonment for no reason other than being suspected of terrorism.

The President’s lawyers have stated that not only may the President kill Americans HE THINKS have taken sides with the enemy in the Global War on Terror, but also his decision to do so is not reviewable by the courts.

That statement by the President’s lawyers was in response to questions about the killing of an American citizen who was also an al Qaeda terrorist — Anwar al-Awlaki.

As one progresses down this path of escalating government removal of our civil liberties, right and freedoms, it becomes obvious that the America we once had where the rule of Constitutional Law could be depended on is rapidly disappearing.

We should remember that while the terrorist attacks came primarily from outside America, the damage to our liberties, rights and freedoms came (and is continuing to come) primarily from our own government.

It is worthy to note that Benjamin Franklin said: “Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”

Let us fervently hope and pray that we can restore our country to the shining example of a Free Constitutional Democracy that it once was.