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Re: No Wonder Obama Won't Let Us Read TPP : By Phyllis Schlafly

An unconstitutional law is not a law at all.

Re: Retired Teacher Responds to Michelle Obama’s Complaints By Lou Ellen Brown

That teacher had to be an excellent teacher.  Good post D.

ISIS has Enough Radioactive Material to Build 'Dirty Bomb' : by Tad Cronn

It's not exactly rocket science, but ISIS could have captured enough radioactive material to build its first "dirty bomb," according to Australian intelligence.
It's also no secret that ISIS has plans to try to acquire as many weapons of mass destruction as possible. They said so in their magazine. (Ain't 21st century terrorism grand?)
NATO has also expressed worries about ISIS's capture of hospitals and research centers where radioactive materials are stored.
Australian foreign minister Julie Bishop said the concern about ISIS and radioactive materials was "really worrying" top officials who recently called an urgent meeting of the Australia Group, a 40-nation organization devoted to preventing the spread of WMDs.
A dirty bomb is not the same as a full nuclear device. The explosive does not achieve fission and is not at first as destructive as a nuke.
But a dirty bomb can spread nuclear materials over a wide area, effectively poisoning people far beyond the initial blast radius. At least, that's the theory.
ISIS obviously has the capability of building some large and dangerous bombs. All they have to do is pack one with the captured nuclear material.

 http://godfatherpolitics.com/22945/isis-has-enough-radioactive-material-to-build-dirty-bomb/#m0BFd7RWKU4p1cyT.99

Interracial Marriage is NOT the Same as Same-Sex Marriage : By Gary DeMar

The homosexual movement has hitched its wagon to the racial equality train. In days past, interracial marriages were prohibited by law in some states. Homosexuality was prohibited by law in every state. The laws have since changed concerning interracial marriages; therefore, the laws should change for same-sex marriage.

Is this a legitimate analogy? It's not. First, same-sex marriage wasn't even a consideration when anti-interracial marriages were outlawed.

Second, homosexuality was against the law for everybody. While interracial marriage was illegal in some states, homosexuality was illegal for everybody.

Third, adultery, bigamy, and polygamy were also against the law for all races.

Fourth, race is not a sex act.

Fifth, there are a majority of blacks who resent the comparison between the sex act of homosexuality and race equality.

Sixth, laws against "race mixing" and "miscegenation" were about racial purity. They emerged during a time when white supremacy was in vogue and eugenics was considered to be scientifically and legally (by the Supreme Court no less) legitimate.

http://godfatherpolitics.com/23036/why-interracial-marriage-and-same-sex-marriage-are-not-the-same/#

The Power and Beauty of Freedom : By Michael Reisig

Freedom – throughout history men and women have dreamed of that word. They've spoken of it in hushed whispers around cooking fires, they've downed tankards to it in taverns, and they have shouted the word in gallant charges, and from the walls of shattered bastions, where they fought and died for it.

Nations have chased the dream it represents. Some have caught it briefly, but it's proven to be an elusive commodity in this world, because actual freedom is independent thought – it's not what we acquire, it's how we think, and what we're allowed to think, or say.

Freedom in its youth is euphoric – young and strong – but it seems the longer a nation enjoys this commodity the less it respects it, and the less it is willing to sacrifice to keep it. The sense of privilege erodes and an atmosphere of arrogant lethargy takes its place, and when that happens, freedom can morph into velvet chains. The less a people think for themselves the more inclined they are to sacrifice freedom for the drone of "the hive."

I don't know who said it, but I love the expression: "You don't know how much you loved something until it's taken away," and freedom certainly applies. But the truth is, freedom, just like every other valuable commodity, has to be earned. America is full of people shouting the word, but today, what they're really shouting for is independence from responsibility, and exclusion from regulations, and that's not freedom. As soon as someone else supplies you with the means to survive, they own you.

image: http://cdn1.eaglerising.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/america-freedom-to-fascism1-300x231.jpg

america-freedomWe hear the shouts...

"Freedom from taxes..."

"Freedom from authority..."

"Freedom from the drudgery of earning a living..."

"Freedom from marital and child-rearing responsibility..."

"Freedom from laws that we don't agree with..."

When you package the above you don't have freedom, you have anarchy. At some point the illusion of freedom will become too difficult to maintain – someone will remove the props and pull open the curtain at the back of the stage, and everyone will see the concrete wall of the theater... (Frank Zappa).                                                                         http://eaglerising.com/19681/the-power-and-beauty-of-freedom/#VtmGM40K7CYKovHi.99

ISIS: Still Raging Hell as White House Dithers : By Sonya Sasser

After President Obama was criticized last week for not having a "complete strategy" to defeat the brutal terror group ISIS (Islamic State), he has now approved sending up to 450 additional U.S. troops to Iraq primarily to equip and train more Iraqis. But is this really going to make a difference?

Especially since the U.S. has already spent $25 billion in aid, investing in training and equipping the Iraqi military, only to have those brave warriors run from ISIS militants like high school cheerleaders. Not to mention the fact that the extremists captured significant quantities of US-manufactured weapons (from Iraqis) and have used them on the battlefield. The definition of insanity is attempting the same strategy over and over again expecting a different result.

As FOX host Bill O'Reilley pointed out, "Sending a few hundred more folks into Iraq because you're embarrassed, Mr. President, not a plan."

Lt. Col. Ralph Peters (Ret.) added, "The president has decided to take advice from his civilian advisors with no military experience, rather than from serious military planners. You cannot possibly defeat the Islamic State with these airstrikes controlled by lawyers."

It's been a year since ISIS began raping and pillaging its way through Iraq's Nineveh province, emptying the city of Mosul of its Christian population. Since then, ISIS has captured Fallujah and Ramadi, two other major cities U.S. troops fought and died to secure before Obama took office. The brutal regime has driven tens of thousands from Northern Iraq, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered thousands of Iraqi soldiers, raped hundreds of women and young girls, and committed countless beheadings, including that of Americans James Foley and Steven Sotloff.

There is estimated to be 31,000 militants on the fields of Iraq and Syria, doubling their number since last fall.

ISIS is much more than the "JV team" President Obama once described, and it's not going away any time soon. It is an established army with thirty-five square miles of prime Middle East real estate, raking in nearly up to $3 million per day in revenue.

The ultimate long-term goal of ISIS is to expand its current state to the four corners of the earth, imposing Sharia law on all mankind and either slaughtering those who do not comply, or forcing them to live a humiliating second-class existence. Of course, it does indeed, have the United States in its sights. In fact, the group is already attempting to use Libya as its new 'route to the West'.

 http://politichicks.com/2015/06/isis-still-raging-hell-as-white-house-dithers/

Disney Fires 250 U.S. Workers, Forces Them to Train Their Foreign Replacements : By Shannon Grady

This photo was found on the Disney career page and should probably include the disclaimer that the United States flag is purposely missing. The reason is because Disney has reportedly fired 250 American workers and then forced them to train their foreign replacements. I first learned about this Disney drama via social media and it seemed a likely candidate for my "bogus story of the week"– until I dug a little deeper and discovered it was, sadly, true.

The New York Times covered the story earlier this month and other news programs have picked up the shocking details. If you wonder how this could possibly be legal within U.S. laws you will be equally shocked to learn that a bill passed to help bring highly skilled workers from outside the country. The bill resulted in a new version of visa for immigrants seeking employment in the U.S. and is called H-1B.

According to the federal guidelines, the visas were only intended to place highly skilled workers in jobs that no American workers could be found to fill. The guidelines specifically state that the visa should not adversely affect the wages and working conditions of Americans. Yet, major companies like Disney, Google, Facebook, and others have found loopholes to escape the guidelines being enforced. They have even lobbied Congress to increase the number of visas issued each year from the 85,000 currently granted, too many more.

The H-1B visas are attractive to companies because they can pay the immigrant workers a lower wage which can reportedly be anywhere from 25 percent to as much as 49 percent of what they previously paid. Some senators have taken action and written a bipartisan letter to the federal authorities in charge of immigration. The senators said that the H-1B visas were of concern because, "Their frequency seems to have increased dramatically in the past year alone."

Other companies that have used the visas or have plans to follow the layoff and retrain immigrants include popular watch maker Fossil, which plans to replace over 100 employees with the H-1B visas. And Northeast Utilities has also laid off 350 workers and used the H-1B visas to replace many of the previous American employees. Could YOUR job be next?

 http://politichicks.com/2015/06/disney-fires-250-u-s-workers-forces-them-to-train-their-foreign-replacements/

Retired Teacher Responds to Michelle Obama’s Complaints By Lou Ellen Brown

After reading the recent New York Times article entitled, "Michelle Obama Talks About Race and Success, and Makes it Personal" I wanted to share my own struggles with poverty, and how I overcame (truly) great odds without bitterness or anger.   http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/11/us/michelle-obama-king-college-prep-and-tuskegee-graduation-speeches.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1    

I graduated from high school in the Texas Panhandle area in 1955. Thanks be to God and my dad I enrolled in North Texas State Teachers' College in Denton, Texas that fall, and during that year, my little college integrated fully and Black students began to enroll. Wisely, the administration was in control, no outside news seekers or trouble makers were allowed on campus, and the years/semesters 1955, '56 and '57 carried on as usual. No riots, no mass exit of White students, just one event of someone writing a rude comment on a sidewalk in CHALK. There, we did that, and nobody ever looked back and regretted the 'change' as it was not turned into any kind of problem that hurt or troubled anyone.

I graduated there and out into the world to seek my fortune. I loved Denton then and again as I returned to get a Masters' Degree as I have applied for and received a Fellowship to teach as I earned my degree.

In that year, I was amazed to learn that my husband and I were going to be parens, and I lost my Fellowship because no pregnant professors were allowed. End of a sad moment, but Ann-Marie and Lisa were well worth the way things went after that. The babies were a year and nine days apart, and we the parents were both teaching in the Rio Grande area near El Paso, Texas.

My story was not over then, but I had only 12 classmates in my tiny high school grad class, nobody handed me a free four year pass to college or made me go, except my parents, not poverty, but close. I had no car and no job, but a mom and dad who wanted more for me than what they had.

43 years and some hard work made me very proud to say that I didn't do it alone, but "I did it my way," and I do not think Ms. Obama is winning any fans when she lives on my dime, so to speak, and whines about not being idolized enough by the millions who do truly praise her. God has it anyway, and she needs to be more grateful for her chance to serve in a more American manner.

 http://politichicks.com/2015/06/retired-teacher-responds-to-michelle-obamas-complaints/

U of Cal. Bans 'America Is The Land Of Opportunity' And Other Racist, Sexist Phrases : Jeff Dunetz

Rodin​'s "The Thinker" must be doing a face palm.

One of the initiatives of the President of the University of California system, former DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano, is to ensure that no student or university employee is insulted by "microaggressions" - terms which subconsciously have racist, sexist, or other kinds of statements with biased sub-context. Or, to put it another way, the University of California is now a proponent of political correctness gone mad.

Napolitano initiated a program where officials were taught not to use phrases such as:

"America is the land of opportunity" (apparently the statement "asserts that race and gender do not play a role in life successes"),
"There is only one race, the human race'" (this denies the "significance of a person of color's racial/ethnic experience and history")
"I believe the most qualified person should get the job," (meaning: "People of color are given extra unfair benefits because of their race.)."
The full list was on the handout given at the classes, "Tool: Recognizing Microaggressions and the Messages they Send," which is embedded below.

As reported by The College Fix other sayings deemed unacceptable include:

● "Everyone can succeed in this society, if they work hard enough."

● "Where are you from or where were you born?"

● "Affirmative action is racist."

● "When I look at you, I don't see color."                                                                                                        http://www.mrctv.org/blog/u-ca-profs-told-not-say-us-land-opportunity-its-racist-sexist-microaggression#.40fcrl:Ndr8

Ronald Reagan Packed Heat as President, Secret Service Reveals : Monica Sanchez

Secret Service revealed to author and NY Daily News journalist Brad Meltzer former President Ronald Reagan's biggest secret:

That he carried a .38 in his briefcase.

The thriller novelist learned about Reagan's secret while researching for his book The President's Shadow.

Meltzer writes,

"So there I was, on my tour of Secret Service headquarters. The agents had taken me into a small museum they have on the premises. It's a room lined with photos of Presidents and archival exhibit cases filled with Secret Service artifacts. A newspaper with a "Kennedy Dead" headline. A replica of Lee Harvey Oswald's rifle. The pistol used to try to kill President Gerald Ford. They even have the actual car door from the limo when Reagan was shot.

"It was an eerie keepsake for sure. But not nearly as eerie as the next detail they told me. We were talking about Reagan and that day he was shot. Then one of the agents offered this secret: When Reagan was President, he carried his own gun.

"I couldn't believe it.

"'It's true,' they said. A .38. Reagan used to hide it in his briefcase and take it on Air Force One."
He adds,

"Whatever you think of Reagan, you have to admit, he had a black belt in badassery."                                       http://www.mrctv.org/blog/ronald-reagan-packed-heat-president-secret-service-reveals#.40fcrl:bK8E