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Mark Levin Talks to NewsBusters About ‘Ameritopia’ and Media’s Role in Advancing Utopianism

[Newsbusters.org]

By Noel Sheppard| January 26, 2012

Noel Sheppard's pictureOne of the Media Research Center’s dearest friends and supporters, Mark Levin, has a new book out called “Ameritopia” which as CNSNews reports will debut at number one on the New York Times best seller list in four different nonfiction categories.

On Tuesday, the esteemed author and radio host spoke to NewsBusters by phone about the book’s contents and how the media are assisting powerful utopian forces in America to undermine our Constitutional republic (video follows with complete transcript, don’t miss spectacular book signing video at article’s conclusion):

http://www.mrctv.org/embed/109441

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An Open Letter to Mitt Romney

[PJMedia.com]

Advice for Governor Romney.

By: Belladonna Rogers Bio

January 27, 2012 – 12:01 am
Dear Governor Romney:

You didn’t ask for my advice, but I don’t hold that against you. Here it is, anyway:

(1) Prepare for every debate as brilliantly you did for last night’s.  You were ready for every single question and every one of Gingrich’s attacks on you.  Your criticism of him was right on target, and delivered with previously unexpressed zeal.  You were sharp, focused, and appropriately fierce.  Perhaps one day, the leaders of Iran, Cuba, and other hostile nations will hear such eloquent fierceness rather than the fawning obsequiousness to which they’ve become accustomed from the president and his administration.

(2) Don’t try to be amiable and likable. You were at your best last night when you let it rip, in a gentlemanly and dignified way, and let Newt have it between the eyes.  I don’t think he knew what hit him.

GEORGE SOROS SAYS OCCUPY WALL STREET MOVEMENT WILL TURN VIOLENT [Spooky Dude]

[LibertyNewsOneline.com]

Aaron Klein – WorldNetDaily – Posted January 26, 2012

Billionaire George Soros is predicting protests by Occupy Wall Street will turn violent, while warning the U.S. financial system may collapse.

In an interview with Newsweek writer John Arlidge, Soros reportedly said riots on the streets of American cities are inevitable.

“‘Yes, yes, yes,’ he says, almost gleefully,” when asked about the prospect of Occupy turning violent, writes Arlidge.

Soros claimed the riots will “be an excuse for cracking down and using strong-arm tactics to maintain law and order, which, carried to an extreme, could bring about a repressive political system, a society where individual liberty is much more constrained, which would be a break with the tradition of the United States.”

“At times like these, survival is the most important thing,” Soros continued.

“I am not here to cheer you up. The situation is about as serious and difficult as I’ve experienced in my career,” Soros said. [Remember, Soros thinks he's god!]

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Fed Signals That a Full Recovery Is Years Away

[PatriotUpdate.com]

January 25, 2012

Ben-Bernanke

The Federal Reserve said on Wednesday that it was likely to raise interest rates at the end of 2014, but not until then, adding another 18 months to the expected duration of its most basic and longest-running response to the financial crisis.

The announcement means that the Fed does not expect the economy to complete its recovery from the 2008 crisis over the next three years. By holding short-term rates near zero beyond mid-2013, its previous estimate, the Fed hopes to hasten that process somewhat by reducing the cost of borrowing.

The Fed said in a statement that the economy had expanded “moderately” in recent weeks, but that unemployment remained at a high level, the housing sector remained in a deep depression, and the possibility of a new financial crisis in Europe continued to threaten the domestic economy.

The statement, released after a two-day meeting of the Fed’s policy-making committee, said that the Fed intended to keep rates near zero until late 2014.

In a separate set of statements, the Fed said that 11 of the 17 members of the committee expected that the Fed would raise interest rates at the end of that period. It noted that the committee expects growth to accelerate over the next three years, from a maximum pace of 2.7 percent this year to a maximum pace of 3.2 percent next year and up to 4 percent in 2014.

Santorum: Obama Wants Americans to go to College to Become Indoctrinated

[FrontPorchPolitics.com]

January 25, 2012 by

 school indoctrinationRick Santorum accused President Obama of wanting Americans to go to colleges and universities that will indoctrinate them to be liberals.

“It’s no wonder President Obama wants every kid go to go college,” Santorum said Wednesday in Florida, according to CBS News. “The indoctrination that occurs in American universities is one of the keys to the left holding and maintaining power in America. And it is indoctrination. If it was the other way around, the ACLU would be out there making sure there wasn’t one penny of government dollars going to colleges and universities, right?”

In Obama’s State of the Union speech a day earlier he called on higher education institutions to become more affordable or face funding cuts from the federal government.

“Higher education can’t be a luxury — it is an economic imperative that every family in America should be able to afford,” Obama said in his speech.

Continue Reading on thehill.com

Romney comes out fighting in Florida against rival Gingrich as latest GOP presidential debate heats up

[PatriotUpdate.com]

January 23, 2012

Mitt Romney, fighting for his political life in Florida after his stunning defeat in the South Carolina primary, launched a sustained and ferocious broadside against his rival Newt Gingrich in the most bitter yet of 18 Republican presidential debates.

The former Massachusetts governor, struggling to cling onto his status as Republican frontrunner, branded Mr Gingrich an ‘influence peddler’ in Washington who ‘had to resign in disgrace’ as Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Mr Gingrich, unable to lay off a raucous crowd as he had in two South Carolina debates, was subdued, saying: ‘Well, look, I’m not going to spend the evening trying to chase Governor Romney’s misinformation.’

But he charged Mr Romney with ‘walking around the state saying things that are untrue’ and rejected the accusation he had been a lobbyist – revealing that he had employed an ‘expert on lobbying’ to ensure he did not cross the line from being a consultant.

The Republican frontrunners clashed repeatedly in heated, personal terms tonight in a crackling campaign debate in Tampa, Florida.

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EXCLUSIVE–Iranian Freedom Fighter: ‘Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Toward the Islamic Republic is Wrong

Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

[BigGovernment.com]

Posted Jan 24th 2012 at 4:24 pm

by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro

Americans aren’t the only ones shocked by U.S. Congressman Ron Paul’s assertion that international sanctions against Iran qualify as an “act of war.”

The Texas Congressman has made the assertion several times during the past few years, and reiterated it last night during the Republican debates in Florida when he argued that the U.S. had committed an act of war by “blockading” Iran (which the U.S. is not doing).

“We’re blockading them,” Paul said to a Tampa audience. “Can you imagine what we would do if someone blockaded the Gulf of Mexico? That would be an act of war–so the act of war has already been committed and this is retaliation.”

But Amir Fakhravar, a pro-democracy freedom fighter who was imprisoned and tortured by the Islamic Republic, disagrees.

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Romney, Gingrich and Obama: The World, The Flesh, and The Devil

[PJMedia.com]

How a 15th century morality play sheds light on our 2012 political drama.

by:  Belladonna Rogers  Bio

January 23, 2012
Barring yet another unexpected twist in the plot over the next nine months, the American electorate has a choice of three candidates for president. All are flawed. The presidential campaign between now and Election Day will be devoted to exposing and highlighting these failings.  For those inclined to televised news networks, long evenings beckon, filled with an endless loop of “political observers” repeating their penetrating insights into the obvious from now till November 6th.

The campaign for the presidency of 2012 is best understood not by the pundits of today but by a drama written in 1485.

In that year, 527 years ago, a new production opened in England. Entitled Everyman, this morality play became an instant hit, and has enjoyed remarkable staying power — and relevance — to this day.

Why I am pro-life

[FrontPorchPolitics.com]

Written on January 23, 2012 at 7:11 am by

AZ-5.David Schweikert

The year was 1962, and in Southern California, a pregnant teenager was facing a difficult decision. As a young, unwed girl, Mary Lynn Sheridan wasn’t sure she was ready for a child. How would she tell her family?

If she was going to keep the baby, how would she care for it?  She drove with two friends to an abortion clinic over the Mexican border.

However, while on the drive to the clinic, Mary Lynn had a change of heart. The young mother decided against the plan, and sometime later gave birth to a healthy baby boy at an unwed mother’s home in Los Angeles. She gave the baby up for adoption. Six weeks later, a wonderful couple brought him home and into a loving family.

Thirty-six years later, that boy, through an accident, found the contact information for his birth mother. After a family discussion, he sent a handwritten note to Mary Lynn Sheridan. After 10 days, he received a joyful call from Mary Lynn, and through the tears, she managed to ask how he was doing and if he was healthy.

She told him about the hope and pain she felt every year on his birthday and that she prayed for him daily.

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Take a Conservative Pundit Home for a Week [Reader Post]

[FloppingAces.net]

By:

Posted: January 22, 2012
I have just finished reading and article written by C.Edmund Wright titled ”Psst: Hear the Roar and Pay Attention”. An excellent piece which basically points out the total disconnect of the Republican Establishment and the conservative base. Here was the clincher for me:

Yet the elites ignored the roar.  After all, the roar came from the unwashed. It came from the fans of cockfights.  It came from tea party folks and other such rabble.  Inside the sterile cable studios and on their laptops, the pundits scored their debate and their election prospects without the roar.  They have their little formulas about who has to raise doubts here and who has to score points there.

What they don’t understand is what the roar means.”

After reading the article and pumping my fist in the air screaming “Hell Yeah!” I had myself a think.

Why is it that what would seem to be so basic, so fundamental, so slap you upside the head obvious to the conservative base who for the most part are just every day working Jane and Joes with duties that keep our beloved country fed, watered, and running is completely lost to the Charles and Anns of conservative punditry? One would think that being armed with a diploma from an Ivy League college, having inside the Beltway access to pollsters, conservative politicians, and political strategists both retired and practicing they would also be toting an eye for the obvious in at least ankle holster or a garter belt.

Has the ability to see the obvious been bred out of them? Was it taught to be ignored in the halls of Ivy League academia? Is it because they are not only to close to the trees to see the forrest, they are the trees themselves? I have no answers but I do have a possible solution.

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THE FEDERAL RESERVE CARTEL: (Part 1) THE EIGHT FAMILIES

[LibertyNewsOnline.com]

By: Dean Henderson

January 20, 2012

(Excerpted from Chapter 19: The Eight Families: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf… Part one of a five-part series)

The Four Horsemen of Banking (Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Citigroup and Wells Fargo) own the Four Horsemen of Oil (Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch/Shell, BP Amoco and Chevron Texaco); in tandem with Deutsche Bank, BNP, Barclays and other European old money behemoths. But their monopoly over the global economy does not end at the edge of the oil patch.

According to company 10K filings to the SEC, the Four Horsemen of Banking are among the top ten stock holders of virtually every Fortune 500 corporation. [1]

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Can America Turn It Around?

[PJMedia.com]

History proves we can, but we are saddled by a new caveat. (This is Part One of a three-part series.)

by Matt Patterson Bio

January 20, 2012 – 12:00 am

Pessimism is permeating our national atmosphere. Newsweek may as well publish an article titled “We Are All Declinists Now,” for if there is one thing the left and the right, from Occupy Wall Street to the Tea Party, seem to agree on, it is that things are not going well in this country and appear to be getting worse.

This crisis of confidence is not unique to America, of course — across what was once quaintly referred to as “Western Civilization,” economies of entire nations are either suffering in stagnation or teetering near total collapse. Falling or stagnating living standards and birthrates portend a considerably older and poorer West in the not-so-distant future.

The reasons for this unfortunate state of affairs are many and varied, and not yet fully understood. But let us put aside the question of causation for a moment and ask instead: Can we in the West — and in the United States in particular — turn this boat around? Must we accept decline as inevitable?

Two phenomena in particular give cause for hope. One is applicable specifically to the United States: the presidency of Ronald Reagan. The other applies to the West as a whole — the Renaissance.

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Why aren’t we using Predators to kill the drug cartels in Mexico? [Reader Post]

[FloppingAces.net]

By:
Posted: January 22, 2012

In March Janet Napolitano assured us that the US-Mexican border was safer than ever. This in spite of Barack Obama and Eric Holder willingly sending 2000 automatic weapons into the hands of the drug cartels south of the border.

Well, it turns out that the border is not so safe. The Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico, is in anarchy. The US-Mexican border is less safe than Afghanistan.

Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan.

According to the Mexican government, from January through September 2011 2,276 deaths were recorded in the Mexican state of Chihuahua, which borders Texas and New Mexico.

A Nov. 2011 Congressional Research Service (CRS) report states that over nearly the same period – January through October 2011 – 2,177 civilians were killed in Afghanistan, where a U.S.-led war against the Taliban is underway. It did not provide a breakdown of responsibility for that period, but said that in 2010, 75 percent of civilian deaths were attributed to the Taliban and other “anti-government elements.”

Per capita, a person was at least nine times more likely to be murdered in Chihuahua last year than in Afghanistan. (Chihuahua has 3,406,465 inhabitants, according to Mexico’s 2010 census; the CIA World Factbook reports that in July 2011 the estimated population of Afghanistan was 29,835,392.)

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Final SC Poll: Gingrich 37, Romney 28, Santorum 16, Paul 14; 77% Have Unfavorable View of Media

[CNSNews.com]

 Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Newt GingrichFormer Sen. Rick Santorum, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich at a presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Jan. 16, 2012. (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – A poll of 1,540 likely South Carolina Republican primary voters completed on Friday night had former House Speaker Newt Gingrich leading former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, 37 percent to 28 percent. The poll put former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania in third with 16 percent, and Rep. Ron Paul of Texas in fourth with 14 percent of the vote.

The poll was conducted Jan 18-20 by Public Policy Polling, a Democratic polling company based in Raleigh, N.C. It was done through automated telephone calls.

In just the polling done on Friday night, Gingrich actually led Romney, 40 percent to 26 percent.

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