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Saturday November 6, 2010


NewsBytes – Obama, More Mid-Term Election News, Economic Crisis

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OBAMA

Obama Says He Is Evolving on Homosexual Marriage – CNS

President Barack Obama, who has publicly supported civil unions but not same-sex marriage, told a group of bloggers his position is evolving.

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-says-he-evolving-homosexual-marria

Radical in the White House – Kathryn Jean Lopez

LOPEZ: What does it mean for American history that we have a socialist as president right now?

KURTZ: The liberalizing changes of the Sixties have borne fruit in a new generation, yet they have been incomplete. The Democrats have moved left, but resistance to those changes has driven Republicans to the right. The government sector is so large now that the fundamental character of the American system is at stake. We will either move incrementally over the line toward European-style socialism, or pull substantially back. The battle will be fought out over the next two years, with the coming presidential election determining the winner. A Republican victory does not decide the question. It only sets up the larger battle Obama has been planning all along. We don’t yet know who will win.

https://www.eppc.org/news/newsID.4287/news_detail.asp

Obama Doesn’t Rule Out Bypassing Congress and Using EPA Regulations to Cap Carbon Emissions

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/obama-doesn-t-rule-bypassing-congress-an

US to spend $200 mn a day on Obama’s Mumbai visit

“The huge amount of around $200 million would be spent on security, stay and other aspects of the Presidential visit,” a top official of the Maharashtra Government privy to the arrangements for the high-profile visit said. About 3,000 people including Secret Service agents, US government officials and journalists would accompany the President. Several officials from the White House and US security agencies are already here for the past one week with helicopters, a ship and high-end security instruments.

https://www.ndtv.com/article/india/us-to-spend-200-mn-a-day-on-obama-s-mumbai-visit-64106

Barack Obama is No Failure by Doug Patton

Obama does, indeed, seem hell-bent on serving only four years in office — but the word “failure” may not apply to this man after all. This president came into office with the most aggressively socialist agenda of any chief executive since Franklin Roosevelt. His goals were simple but radical:

– to diminish the image of the United States abroad as a sort of penance for what he perceives as our past sins on the international stage;

– to redistribute the wealth of the nation, thereby punishing the productive and rewarding the dependent;

– to grow the size and scope of federal authority and power beyond even the wildest dreams of FDR himself.

In other words, as he told us five days before his 2008 election, his goal was to “fundamentally transform America.” By these criteria, Obama is anything but a failure. Even if he is a one term president, he has done damage that may never be repaired.

https://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/08/patton-barack-obama-is-no-failure.php

The Most Profound Victims of the Obama Hoax

Statistically, the most zealous believers in hope and change are the most profound victims of the Obama Hoax — poor, young, unemployed blacks

https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/09/the_most_profound_victims_of_t.html

Obamacare is Even Worse Than Critics Thought – Washington Examiner

– Obamacare won’t decrease health care costs for the government. According to Medicare’s actuary, it will increase costs.

– As written, Obamacare covers elective abortions, contrary to Obama’s promise that it wouldn’t.

– Obamacare won’t allow employees or most small businesses to keep the coverage they have and like.

– Obamacare will increase insurance premiums.

– Obamacare will force seasonal employers to pay huge fines, cut hours, or lay off employees

– Obamacare imposes a huge nonmedical tax compliance burden on small business.

– Obamacare allows the IRS to confiscate part or all of your tax refund if you do not purchase a qualified insurance plan. The bill funds 16,000 new IRS agents to make sure Americans stay in line

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/Obamacare-is-even-worse-than-critics-thought-960772-103571664.html

Black author asks: Is Obama truly Christian?

When asked who Jesus was to him, Obama responded: Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he’s also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher. And he’s also a wonderful teacher. I think it’s important for all of us, of whatever faith, to have teachers in the flesh and also teachers in history.

https://www.renewamerica.com/columns/abbott/100901

Revisionist Recitation: Obama Omits ‘Creator’ While Quoting Declaration

Two days before the country was set to celebrate Constitution Day, President Obama decided to invoke the words of another founding document: the Declaration of Independence. Except he changed the words. Towards the end of a speech on September 15 to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Obama began quoting the famous “rights” line from the founding document. But partway through, he omitted where those rights come from: a Creator.

https://www.theblaze.com/stories/revisionist-recitation-obama-omits-creator-while-quoting-declaration/

Obama Goes to Church to Hear a Muslim Speaker!

what is widely not reported by the White House and the MSM is that on that particular Sunday in that particular church, Dr. Ziad Asali, M.D., a Muslim, founder and president of the American Task Force on Palestine, was the guest speaker.

https://www.thepostemail.com/2010/09/20/obama-goes-to-church-to-hear-a-muslim-speaker/

Tony Blair’s Amazing “Journey” to the White House

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has carved out for himself a role at Barack Obama’s right hand – uniquely for a non-American politician. In its coming issue out Friday, DEBKA-Net-Weekly looks behind Tony Blair’s astonishing rise to the top of the White House team of policy-makers, especially on the Middle East and Iran. His popularity in Washington is matched inversely by his falling stakes at home and in Europe.

https://www.debka.com/article/9022/

Blair Memoir Dodges God Question

For people of faith, in particular Christians, they hoped to discover how his personal beliefs affected his thinking during his years in power. The reader will come away disappointed. God cannot be found in the index.

https://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=23256

Soros Has a Pastor Close to Obama On His Payroll

https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/soros_has_a_pastor_close_to_ob.html

Soros a threat to a moral America

George Soros’ political philosophy, which advocates a culture of abortion, atheism, pornography, homosexual marriage, euthanasia, doctor-assisted suicide and legalized drugs, if realized, would surely mean the end of a free and moral America

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/oct/29/soros-a-threat-to-a-moral-america/

Feds blink in standoff with Christian colleges

Colorado Christian University President Bill Armstrong has told WND that the rules proposed by the Education Department are the “greatest threat to academic freedom in our lifetime.” Obama’s Department of Education – where Secretary Arne Duncan appointed a longtime homosexual activist who was part of the violent Act Up organization to head his “safe schools” office – has recommended that all colleges be required to have a state license. Critics say the license could enable the government to have a say in curriculum, graduation requirements and other issues.

https://www.wnd.com/?pageId=221397

White House aligns with Supreme Court conservatives in religious schools case

As the Supreme Court considered a case involving tax credits and religious education on November 3, indications of a surprising agreement emerged between some of the court’s most conservative justices and the Obama administration.

https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/white-house-aligns-with-supreme-court-conservatives-in-religious-schools-case/

Obama, the Imperial President?

Bruce Ackerman argues in today’s Wall Street Journal that in President Obama’s shady appointment Elizabeth Warren to an advisory role last week in order to bypass the Senate confirmation process “is another milestone down the path toward an imperial presidency.”

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb-staff/2010/09/22/open-thread-obama-imperial-president

Matthews-Mitchell Admit: Military Doesn’t Trust Obama’s Political Advisers

Of all the revelations in Bob Woodwards’s new book, this could be the most devastating . .

https://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2010/09/22/matthews-mitchell-admit-military-doesnt-trust-obamas-political-peo


MORE MID-TERM ELECTION NEWS

One of top priorities of the coming lame duck session of Congress will be the formal repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”

https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/get_ready_for_the_dadt_repeal.html

Welcome, Senate Conservatives – Senator DeMint

Remember what the voters back home want—less government and more freedom. Don’t let your re-election become more important than your job. You’ve campaigned long and hard for the opportunity to go to Washington and restore freedom in America. People will try to convince you to moderate conservative positions and break campaign promises, all in the name of winning the next race. Resist the temptation to do so. There are worse things than losing an election—like breaking your word to voters. Tea party Republicans were elected to go to Washington and save the country—not be co-opted by the club. So put on your boxing gloves. The fight begins today.

https://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704141104575588612828579920.html?mod=djemEditorialPage_h#articleTabs%3Darticle

The Establishment Strikes Back

In the 2010-midterm elections, the tea party movement has played the role of the Rebellion. But the Empire is not played by the Democrats.The real blindside was the tea party’s dismantling of the Republican Establishment throughout the primary season.

Rove wanted conservatives to relearn what the Establishment has been trumpeting since Barry Goldwater’s 1964 failed presidential run. The lesson is that all candidates must meet Establishment approval or they are sure to lose. While election-winners from Reagan to Rubio have proven the theory false, if O’Donnell can become a new generation’s Goldwater, then the Establishment can use her race to regain the control lost during the 2010 primaries.

The Establishment has repeatedly sought to undermine Alaska’s Joe Miller and help incumbent Senator (and confidante of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell) Lisa Murkowski. Why fight conservative candidates when the Ronald Reagan model is more successful than the John McCain/Bob Dole/George H. W. Bush model? The answer is control. And so the Establishment strikes back. Entrenched blue-blood Republicans hope to reap the electoral benefits of the tea party movement while simultaneously seeking to discredit it. In the aftermath of the 2010 midterms, it has become clear that the fight for America’s future will pass directly through the heart of the Republican Establishment.

https://www.americanthinker.com/2010/11/the_establishment_strikes_back.html

Elections have consequences: Republicans could control U.S. House until 2022

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/Examiner-Opinion-Zone/Elections-have-consequences-Republicans-could-control-US-House-until-2022-thanks-to-redistricting-106777608.html

Crouere: Last Chance for GOP

As Republicans enjoy a massive victory this week; party leaders should not misunderstand the message of the public. They should not feel too comfortable about their large margin of victory. Indeed, the GOP will be on a very short leash. If they return to the big government Republican policies of George W. Bush, their reign of power will be incredibly short-lived.

https://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2010/11/crouere.php#ixzz14QPpMSeS

GOP Gains Traction Among Gay Voters By Focusing on Economy, Analyst Says

The Republican Party drew more gay voters in Tuesday’s midterm elections than it has in 10 years, according to Fox News national exit polls. The data shows that 31 percent of self-identified gays voted for the GOP, an uptick from 19 percent in 2008 and 24 percent in 2006 and 2004

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/06/gop-gains-traction-gay-voters-focusing-economy-analyst-says/

The Death of Pro-Life Democrats

Anti-abortion groups led charge to halve their number in the House.

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/octoberweb-only/52-42.0.html


ECONOMIC CRISIS

Obama Added More to National Debt in First 19 Months Than All Presidents from Washington Through Reagan Combined, Says Gov’t Data

https://cnsnews.com/news/article/72404

Backlash against Fed’s $600bn easing

The US Federal Reserve’s decision to pump an extra $600bn into the economy has galvanized emerging market central banks into preparing defensive measures and sparked criticism from leading global economies. Guido Mantega, the Brazilian finance minister who was the first to warn of a “currency war”, said: “Everybody wants the US economy to recover, but it does no good at all to just throw dollars from a helicopter.”

https://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/981ca8f4-e83e-11df-8995-00144feab49a.html#axzz14MZazZvx

Bankruptcy of U.S. is ‘Mathematical Certainty,’ Says Former CEO of Nation’s 10th Largest Bank

https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/former-bbt-ceo-bankruptcy-us-mathematica

“The Secret of Oz” – Video

A fascinating, in depth discussion of how we can get out of the current financial quagmire threatening to collapse western economies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D22TlYA8F2E

I Want Your Money Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wty7974IKg

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