Limbaugh: Hillary ‘ticked off’ at 1st debate grilling
Limbaugh: Hillary ‘ticked off’ at 1st debate grilling
Hillary Clinton Radio host Rush Limbaugh said Wednesday that pundits missed the real story of last night’s Democrat debate: Hillary Clinton was “ticked” that a network finally asked her tough questions. The ‘Stop Hillary’ campaign is on fire! Join the surging response to this theme: ‘Clinton for prosecution, not president’ The Univision/CNN debate from Miami, Florida,… (more…)
Wages falling, but Congress wants more guest workers
Wages falling, but Congress wants more guest workers
A repeated claim made by CEOs in the technology industries is they cannot find American workers to staff their companies and thus need to have access to an expanded pool of foreign guest workers. The I-Squared bill in the U.S. Senate would do exactly that, more than tripling the potential field of skilled guest workers allowed… (more…)
Voting for Trump? No sex for you!
Voting for Trump? No sex for you!
Activists in Ohio have launched an anti-Trump campaign that will succeed or fail based on how many of the Republican front-runner’s supporters are denied sex. Sign up for free news alerts from WND.com, America’s independent news network. “Vote Trump, Get Dumped” was launched across a variety of social media platforms in response to Donald Trump’s surging… (more…)
The Path Forward for Republicans Is Both Conservative and Populist | RealClearPolitics
The Path Forward for Republicans Is Both Conservative and Populist
By Michael Needham
The 2016 Republican Primary has been anything but predictable and, at times, it has been downright ugly. At a time when the vast majority of the American people feel life is tough, it is getting tougher, but nobody in Washington cares, the environment is ripe for Republicans to present an inspiring alternative to the failed agenda of the left. Yet, rather than showing this path forward, the Republican Party appears to be in chaos.
How did we get here? And, more importantly, what is the best way forward?
If there’s anything we can say definitively about the 2016 primary, it is that the establishment lane to the Republican nomination is nonexistent. It ran into a cliff of unsustainable debt, neglect of important cultural issues, and an unwillingness to stand and fight for people eager to have politicians fight for them.
Passing $19 trillion of debt onto our children and grandchildren is an immoral thing to do — but it is doubly wrong when we are not even certain we are passing on to them a better opportunity than we inherited. Yet, for many Americans, that is what we are doing and it is brought to you by a bipartisan political environment so concerned with itself and maintaining its position of influence that it has been unwilling to fight to reverse policies that haven’t worked.
Our immigration system is failing our nation — it does a disservice to those who obey the rule of law by coming here the right way and poses tremendous fiscal costs as it interacts with a generous and unsustainable welfare state — yet our nation’s establishment class wants to paper over its fundamental flaws with a blanket amnesty.
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Merrick Garland: Judges Decisions Determined by the Law
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Months after the Supreme Court redefined marriage across the nation, religious liberty is under attack as Christians are told by the state they must personally violate their deeply held beliefs or lose their businesses under threat of unpayable fines.Workers struggle to pay the bills as insurance premiums increase, the price of food goes up, and wages remain stagnant, yet the top legislative priority of the Washington establishment last year was providing free money for Wall Street through reauthorizing the Export-Import Bank — an agency few have of heard of and whose absence would go unnoticed on Main Street.
The establishment lane is gone, and good riddance. It is the lane that got our nation and our party into this mess.
The path forward, however, will be difficult and can only be navigated by leaders who understand the valid feelings of disenfranchisement so many in our nation feel. Such leaders must channel those passions into a cause worthy of the hopes and dreams of citizens they hope will follow them. This is what statesmanship looks like.
What’s left in the Republican Party are largely two lanes. One lane is the traditional constitutional conservative lane for those eager to enact policies that will make life better for all Americans. We know it is free enterprise, not crony capitalism, that has made America great in the past and can make her great again in the future. One cannot have free enterprise without a strong culture of conservatism that understands it is the little platoons of society — our families, friendships, church groups and other civic involvements — that provide the true compassion necessary to live in a free society. And all of this is only possible with a strong and engaged America abroad that keeps us safe at home to devote our lives and energies to our families, businesses and communities.
The other lane is a populist lane that has important and valid grievance. It is the lane that says enough is enough with a corrupt system of politics that works for the well-connected but doesn’t care about the real heroes in America. The police officer who walks his beat — risking his life and, today, his reputation if he makes the wrong decision in an impossibly perilous situation — and goes home to coach Little League deserves politicians who will fight for him.
Bob Bibblestone, a contractor in Eastern Ohio, explains how life feels today for working Americans. “What I guess most frustrates me about politicians is that they don’t understand that, for me and most people that I know, work is part of our culture. When they continue to make it harder for us to find ways to work, we eventually hit a boiling point,” Biddlestone told Salena Zito of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “We don’t fit in with Washington. We have done absolutely everything that we were supposed to do all of our lives and our values are looked at as backwards.” It is tough to disagree with a word Bibblestone says.
In the American context, populism without conservative principles has led to expansions of government power as those with legitimate anxiety have their needs met by the security of a government blanket. For the last several years, those of us in the conservative reform movement have tried to force the party leadership to recognize the danger of leaving the populist lane unaddressed.
Nobody understood the importance of channeling populism with a deep commitment to principle better than Ronald Reagan. In his first inaugural address, he committed to all Americans: “Your dreams, your hopes, your goals are going to be the dreams, the hopes, and the goals of this administration, so help me God,” he promised. The reality the leadership of the Republican Party has refused to face is that today most working Americans feel their elected officials don’t hear them from the quiet car on the Acela to a New York City fundraiser.
To point out the obvious, tremendous energy and votes obviously lie in this second, populist lane of the party. It has fueled Donald Trump’s candidacy as he has pointed out that our country’s politicians are corrupt — so many of them are; that they cut bad deals — almost all of them are; that too many Americans feel unheard — sadly, in our political process, they are.
The path forward for the Republican Party is to unite these two lanes. To have a conservative, populist party that treats all Americans like heroes, gives them the opportunity to spread their wings and soar as far as their abilities will take them, and provides favoritism to nobody just because they are well-connected. Sen. Ted Cruz in particular has led that effort during his time in the Senate.
When it comes to uniting the conservative and populist lanes, some on the right have expressed reservations about the party’s front-runner. Many of their concerns are valid, but it would be foolish to simply leave it there. If Donald Trump is the Republican nominee, he will need to lead an effort that is not only populist but deeply committed to advancing a conservative agenda. If he does, he will find a conservative movement eager to work with him on this project. If he does not, he will tear the party in two.
Mr. Trump has made important commitments — to completely repeal Obamacare, to get rid of Common Core and to appoint a replica of Justice Antonin Scalia to the Supreme Court. Conservatives who ignore these commitments are unfair to Trump and ignore the opportunity to build on these commitments.
At the same time, Trump’s critics raise issues that are deeply troubling and beg the question of whether he truly seeks to be the leader to unite the lanes. We laid out a number of these concerns last year when Heritage Action published our Presidential Platform Review. For example, on the issue of growth, Trump’s past support for confiscatory taxes and current support for massive tariffs, which would hurt American consumers, are troubling. On life, his repeated defenses of the “good parts” of Planned Parenthood miss the point of this pro-life priority.
Trump’s optimism for making America great again is laudable, and his contempt for the feckless Washington establishment is well placed. But he tends to oversimplify the solution. The idea that all our nation needs to solve its woes is a leader who is smart and strong is an unsatisfactory prescription and at best would only temporarily treat the ills that afflict Washington.
Nobody expects a newcomer to politics to be flawless in his articulation of policy proposals and, for anybody, the first task of an election is to win so one has the chance to enact good policy. Trump has shown his personal political gifts coupled with the energy in the populist lane have been sufficient to get him into the pole position of the Republican primary.
The future of the country, however, is best served by a party that doesn’t just live in the populist lane but seeks to channel populism towards conservative ends. This is what a successful Republican presidency will look like. We know it is the type of project Cruz would lead as nominee and we hope it is one Trump would lead also. Regardless of whom the voters choose, we will be there as a resource, provider of accountability, and standard-bearer for the principles that our country was founded on and must look to going forward.
Dept. of Justice Enforcing Sharia in Public Schools | Creeping Sharia GOODBYE AMERICA!!!!
Criminalizing free speech is about to happen. Well, only if it is construed as anti-Muslim, or anti-Islam. The Department of Justice is moving swiftly by implementing a new enforcement effort that will follow up any investigations with possible prosecutions for what they say has been backlash to Muslims since 9/11, particularly Muslim Students in public schools.
Department of Justice Civil Rights division head Vanita Gupta states the new crackdown “Combating Religious Discrimination,” will focus on fighting the harassment and acts of violence towards Muslim children, or children “perceived” to be Muslim while attending school.
Gupta further states “Our schools must remain the places where our children feel safe and supported. The places where they confront differences by building bridges of understanding. And the places where they learn that America guarantees freedom, justice and opportunity for all people — regardless of what you look like, where you come from or which religion you observe.” Read entire speech here :( https://www.justice.gov/opa/speech/head-civil-rights-division-vanita-gupta-delivers-remarks-interagency-roundtable-religious
No, school is where children learn, not “build bridges”, unless you are a Muslim whose religious duty is to perform dawa. (Proselytizing Islam) This “effort” isn’t about protecting children of all faiths, this is about forcing Islam to be taught in schools, which has suffered set backs due to parents across the country demanding Islam be taught the same way other religions, specifically Christianity are taught.
Not only is Islam disproportionately represented in textbooks, it is inappropriately instructed, including children repeating the Islamic profession of faith, the Shahada. There is no historical value of children narrating the prayer that is recited when one converts to Islam. Most parents have stated they do not reject students from learning about Islam, but it must be historically accurate, which it is not.
The Department of Justice is way over the line. If Muslims want their children to be immersed in their religion and culture, send them to an Islamic school. But that isn’t the issue at all. The truth is, Islamists want to end free speech. It is Sharia law in action.
In 2008, Hillary Clinton along with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) drafted what they called a “Defamation of Religion Law”, (Un resolution 16/18) known in countries such as Pakistan as a blasphemy law. Committing blasphemy is punishable by death.
While it may not be as drastic in the West, the mere thought the United States Department of Justice is enacting measures that will lead to possible prosecution for “Islamophobia” is perilous. Enjoy your freedoms, they are coming to an end quickly.
Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch noticed a similar trend, Feds urge schools to shield Muslim students from harassment:
The focus should not be on educating students about jihad terror and Islamic supremacism, but on teaching them that Muslims are victims of discrimination and harassment who warrant special consideration. The problem with that is that Islamic supremacist advocacy groups such as Hamas-linked CAIR routinely smear legitimate counter-terror efforts as “hateful” and “bigoted,” and work to get them shut down on that basis. This kind of “urging” from the Feds only feeds that mindset and hinders counter-terror operations.
Read the Jihad Watch piece and be forewarned that the terrorist-named CAIR continues to try and get in to public schools all across the U.S. to intimidate your children and indoctrinate them with Islamic propaganda.
Teach your children well.
Left spews vicious hate on Todd Palin in hospital
Left spews vicious hate on Todd Palin in hospital
Todd Palin, left, was seriously injured after a snow machine accident in Alaska Left-wing radicals sent out a wave of grotesque reactions on Monday after it was announced that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s husband was hospitalized in a snow-machine accident. Do you support Trump? Tell the world with this brand new bumper sticker: “DONALD TRUMPS… (more…)
There is a Parasite in the American Church
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Editor’s Note: Dr. Richard Ross is one of America’s foremost experts on youth ministry. Even if you’re not interested in youth ministry, Ross’ observations on the American Church inform us not only of where the church is currently, but where it’s headed.
Who is God’s Son today and why does it matter? At the moment of his second coming, Christ will appear more majestic and powerful than we can possibly imagine. He will split the heavens. All humanity will see him for who he is. Who Jesus will be on that day is the same Jesus that he is today.
But do we really see Jesus this way? When you pray, when you worship, when you go about your daily routines and activities, do you see Christ on his throne?
In the Old Testament, God spoke through the prophets, but in later years, God chose to reveal himself most clearly in his Son. When the Son had made purification of sins, he was enthroned at the right hand of the Majesty on high. The Father then announced that in this age of the Church, God the Son is to have supremacy.
But in the United States in the 1960s, things began to go wrong.
Parasite in the Pews
Believers generally shifted their primary focus from seeing Jesus as the exalted Lord and King whom they should worship and serve to expecting him to serve them by blessing them with more prosperity, comfort, and happiness. They still liked Jesus and they still wanted him around, but just as their church mascot and a divine addendum to their pursuit of the American dream.
Professor Kenda Dean suggests that a parasite entered the American church. This parasite, later to be named “moralistic therapeutic deism,” quietly began to eat away and suck the life out of the true Christian faith.
In our day believers still speak of Jesus but mostly about the days he walked on earth. They are more likely to picture him sitting on a big rock with giggling children on his lap than reigning from the throne of heaven. Sermons, Bible lessons, and church hallway conversations are almost completely devoid of any focus on the transcendent majesty of who the Son is today.
One of America’s best-known worship leaders recently confided a heartache to David Bryant. He said:
Often it feels to me as if, for many of our people, singing praise songs and hymns on a Sunday morning has turned into an affair with Christ . . . Too many of us are far more passionate about lesser, temporal concerns . . . But we rarely ever get that excited about Christ Himself, at least on any consistent basis. Except when we enter a sanctuary on a Sunday. Then for a while we end up sort of ‘swooning’ over Christ with feel-good music and heart-stirring prayers—only to return to the daily grind of secular seductions to which, for all practical purposes, we’re thoroughly ‘married.’
