Please take today to remember and never forget the acts of 9/11.
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“It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights.” – Benjamin Franklin
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans 12:21
Barack Obama’s 5 Cacophonous Notes
by David Limbaugh
I never expected President Barack Obama to be promoting my new book, “Crimes Against Liberty,” but that’s virtually what’s happened with his recent speeches on the economy. It’s as if he’s determined to validate every premise I assert in “Crimes Against Liberty.”
All the elements are there: his thin-skinned narcissism, his deceit, his militant partisanship, his bullying and his dogged adherence to his disastrous policy agenda against all evidence of its failure and against the express will of the American people.
His full-throated class warfare was on clear display. With him, it’s always us against them. He praised “Wisconsin’s working men and women,” that is union members, as if no one else works or contributes to the economy or society.
Expanding on this theme, he paid homage to the middle class — the people whose taxes “in any form” he promised he would never raise — before signing the excise tax on tobacco, trying to pass the cap-and-trade bill, shoving through Obamacare and its 14 to 19 new taxes, which will total some half a trillion dollars over the next decade and fall hardest on middle-income groups. A value-added tax is even on the table.
He claims to be the middle class’s greatest champion but fails to explain why his economic policies — not George W. Bush’s, not John Boehner’s — are devastating that very group and bankrupting our children’s futures.
No, the acceptance of personal accountability is not in his makeup. It’s still Bush’s fault that our unemployment rate hovers between 9 and 10 percent despite Obama’s promise that it would not exceed 8 percent if he passed his stimulus bill. Now he says “there’s no silver bullet” to fix these problems. But that’s not what he said during the campaign. He was the silver bullet who would cause the oceans to subside and whose policies would “jump-start this economy again.”
He ratcheted up his class warfare theme with this assertion that only those at the top of the economic ladder are doing well, while the middle class is being left behind. If that’s true, does it mean he will finally acknowledge the failure of his policies? After all, the middle class (and all groups) fared far better under President Bush. But don’t hold your breath.
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Never Forget
by Oliver North
According to the “experts,” anyone older than 10 will remember traumatic events for the rest of their lives. That’s certainly true of the thousands of World War II veterans and family members I have met doing interviews for our “War Stories” series on Fox News Channel. All of them can recall where they were when they learned of the attack on Pearl Harbor, whom they were with and what was said. It should be the same for the terror attack nine years ago on Sept. 11.
My friend Tom Kilgannon, president of Freedom Alliance, and I clearly remember all those things and more about that terrible day. At 8:30 a.m., we boarded Northwest Airlines Flight 238 in Detroit, headed for Reagan National Airport. Fifteen minutes later, the aircraft lifted off on time, and we headed south toward our nation’s capital in a cloudless blue sky. We never arrived at our intended destination.
Shortly before we were due to land at Reagan Airport, the captain announced over the public address system that the aircraft was being diverted to land at nearby Dulles International Airport — but offered no explanation as to why. Tom, who was sitting across the aisle from me, soon gave us the answer.
“As we began our descent into Dulles International Airport, I checked my pager,” he recalled. “Young people today forget this was before BlackBerrys and iPhones were available. The screen on my pager was full of breaking news alerts:
“‘Plane Crashes into World Trade Center.’
“‘Second Plane Crashes into World Trade Center.’
“‘Fireball Reported at Pentagon.’
“‘Car Bombs Reported at State Department and Capitol Hill.’
“These and other headlines flashed across my pager. We now know that in the haste to report the horrible events of that morning, some of those initial accounts turned out to be inaccurate, but when I showed you my pager, I said, ‘Oh, dear God, I think America is under attack.’ Other passengers — having recognized you at the boarding gate and aboard the flight — inquired what was going on. That’s how we — and most of them — learned what had happened.”
Shortly after Tom showed me the electronic messages, the captain addressed the passengers from the cockpit. He informed us that multiple terror attacks had taken place while we were en route to Washington and that when we landed at Dulles, we were to immediately exit the aircraft and be escorted out of the closed airport terminal.
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Imam Rauf Speaks Out on Larry King Live
And we are told that he is a ‘moderate’?
Burning a Quran vs. Building the Mosque
Buzz buzz buzz go the media about the burning of the Qurans down in Florida. But why? They tried to paint ground zero mosque opposers as radical islamaphobes. What makes this any different, even after supposed talks to cancel the burning fest and the moving of the mosque?
As time went on, and people got more upset Obama finally made a statement about the Constitutionality of the issue. And while they do have the right to build it, it still doesn’t give it good taste. But Obama was clear in another statement that he was not commenting on the wisdom.
It took little time at all for Obama to sit down with Stephanopoulos on ABC and talk about how the Quran burning should nor happen. He was very quick to judge the wisdom this time without discussing the Constitutionality.
These two cases are exactly the same. Both are viewed as sacred and both are viewed as a slap in the face. But there was no outrage from Gen. Petraeus on how the mosque building would endanger troops. Also, there was an enormous amount of crying from others in the administration about posing a threat by the burning Qurans, namely Defense Sec. Robert Gates when he personally called Jones to ask him to call it off.
Another ironic part of this whole story is one that has yet to recieve any attention. And that is how Imam Rauf is now saying that if he would have known there would have been this much stink he wouldn’t have built the mosque. Only one problem, and that is he hasn’t built anything yet. He was only on a state sponsered funding mission. If anything he would be out of a couple hundred thousand for the purchase of the building. It seems highly ironic that after someone threatens something sacred to him does he come out and make this statement.
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“The moral and constitutional obligations of our representatives in Washington are to protect our liberty, not coddle the world, precipitating no-win wars, while bringing bankruptcy and economic turmoil to our people.” – Ron Paul
Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, and He shall hear my voice. – Psalm 55:17
The Bonfire of the Year
by Ann Coulter
In response to Gen David Petraeus’ denunciation of Florida pastor Terry Jones’ right to engage in a symbolic protest of the 9/11 attacks by burning copies of the Quran this Sept. 11, President Obama said: “Let me be clear: As a citizen, and as president, I believe that members of the Dove World Outreach Center have the same right to freedom of speech and religion as anyone else in this country.”
Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida lauded Obama’s remarks, saying America is “a place where you’re supposed to be able to practice your religion without the government telling you you can’t.”
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg called Obama’s words a “clarion defense of the freedom of religion” — and also claimed that he had recently run into a filthy jihadist who actually supported the Quran-burning!
Keith Olbermann read the poem “First they came …” on air in defense of the Quran-burners, nearly bringing himself to tears at his own profundity.
No wait, my mistake. This is what liberals said about the ground zero mosque only five minutes ago when they were posing as First Amendment absolutists. Suddenly, they’ve developed amnesia when it comes to the free-speech right to burn a Quran.
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“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. And to preserve their independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.” – Thomas Jefferson
Eph. 4:29 – Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart grace to the hearers.
The Union Boondoggle
President Obama calls his latest attempt to revive the economy a “Plan to Renew and Expand America’s Roads, Railways and Runways.” I’m calling it “The Mother of all Big Dig Boondoggles.” Like the infamous “Big Dig” highway spending project in Boston, this latest White House infrastructure spending binge guarantees only two results: Taxpayers lose; unions win.
The plan would add at least $50 billion more to the nearly $230 billion already allocated in the original trillion-dollar stimulus law for infrastructure. Less than one-third of that infrastructure stimulus money has been spent, but the urgency to pile on has increased exponentially as the midterm elections approach and unemployment hovers near 10 percent. So, the president says he wants to “put people back to work” through a new “upfront investment” in surface transportation, airports and the air-traffic control system paid for by repealing tax incentives for the oil and gas industries — followed by massive, unpaid-for expenditures on pie-in-the-sky high-speed rail, “environmental sustainability” and “livability,” whatever that means.
Obama spoke emotionally at an AFL-CIO rally on Labor Day about unemployed construction workers. A “lot of those folks, they had lost their jobs in manufacturing and went into construction; now they’ve lost their jobs again,” he said. “It doesn’t do anybody any good when so many hardworking Americans have been idled for months, even years, at a time when there is so much of America that needs rebuilding.”
But here’s the rub: Not all workers are equal in Obama’s eyes. And most of them will remain “idled” by the Democrats’ own design. The key is E.O. 13502, a union-friendly executive order signed by Obama in his first weeks in office, which essentially forces contractors who bid on large-scale public construction projects worth $25 million or more to submit to union representation for its employees.
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