NBC: Romney Must ‘Backtrack’ from the Right, But Obama Will Suffer ‘Damage’ If He Steps Back from the Left | Media Research Center
Talking to Meet the Press host David Gregory on Monday’s NBC Today, co-host Ann Curry pushed for Mitt Romney to move away from conservatives: “…does he have to work really hard now to backtrack off of some of his positions in the past, as he was trying to win the primary…?” [Listen to the audio]
In a stunning double standard, in her very next question, Curry fretted about President Obama distancing himself from Vice President Biden’s support of gay marriage: “There’s been some backtracking, it seems, by the White House. Is it possible that the White House could cause itself some damage in backtracking too much off of this?”
Email from PA Sen. Bob Casey
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Dear Friends,
One in five: that’s how many women will be raped in their lifetime. One in six: that’s how many women will be victims of stalking in their lifetime. 1.3 million: that’s how many women were raped in 2009. Twenty-four people per minute are victims of sexual assault, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner in the United States, and women are disproportionately affected by these crimes.
These numbers come from the results of a survey released last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. The survey indicates that the rate of domestic and sexual violence in the United States is endemic. If this were influenza, it would be a national crisis, and we would be throwing all our resources at the problem. This is a national crisis.
One in four women will be a victim of domestic or sexual violence at some point in their lives, and it is critically important to ensure that their needs are met. As Pennsylvania’s Auditor General, I established a leave policy to enable employees who were victims of domestic violence to take paid leave while seeking legal or medical assistance.
At the federal level, there are simple policy steps we can take to improve the resources available to victims of violence. One such initiative I have supported, the Healthy Families Act, would extend the leave policy which I established in Pennsylvania to all workers covered by the Family and Medical Leave Act. Victims of domestic violence or sexual assault may need to seek medical attention, legal assistance, or take other steps to protect themselves from future abuse; they should not have to worry about losing their jobs or sacrificing their income to do so.
One of the most immediate steps we can take to help victims is to pass S. 1925, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which I am cosponsoring. This legislation will extend the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), the signature federal law to combat all forms of violence between intimate partners that expired in September. The United States Senate is currently considering the bill to reauthorize VAWA, and it is critical that we pass this bill promptly.
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act makes important updates and improvements to VAWA, extending its successful programs for an additional five years. It streamlines the law, consolidating programs to ensure that the limited resources we have are being used to help as many victims as possible. VAWA’s funding supports essential services for victims, like shelters and rape crisis centers, hotlines and legal services.
One of the new components included in S. 1925 is based on my bill, the Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (Campus SaVE Act), and addresses the fact that college students experience rates of violence higher than other age groups. According to the National Crime Victimization Survey, young women age 20 to 24 also experience the highest rates of rape and sexual assault, followed by those 16 to 19. The Campus SaVE Act sets out a clear framework to promote transparency and accountability and addresses the need for education and awareness in the entire campus community. Under the Campus SaVE Act, students will know that if they report being a victim of violence, they will receive an explanation of their rights and the resources available to help them.
Many colleges and universities are doing this right: they have procedures in place to deal with domestic partner violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking; they provide support to victims, and they have prevention programs to educate the community about these terrible acts. But as the statistics indicate, we need to do more.
The Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act has the broad support of 60 cosponsors in the Senate, including 8 Republicans. VAWA has traditionally been a bipartisan issue, so it is deeply disturbing to see it threatened by partisan politics.
Swift passage of this legislation will ensure that the necessary steps are taken to protect victims of violence and provide them with the services they need. Remember: in the time it took you to read this piece, dozens more people became the victims of intimate partner violence. It’s time to act.
Sincerely,
» Elder: Five Myths of the ‘Racist’ Criminal Justice System » Commentary — GOPUSA
Calling America’s criminal justice system “racist” is not confined to “civil rights leaders” like the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. Then-Sen. Barack Obama, during the 2008 presidential campaign, said it, too. Blacks and whites, said Obama, “are arrested at very different rates, are convicted at very different rates (and) receive very different sentences … for the same crime.”
via » Elder: Five Myths of the ‘Racist’ Criminal Justice System » Commentary — GOPUSA.
Email from Bruce Springsteen
| New Wrecking Ball Tour dates announced |
| The Wrecking Ball World Tour marches on in the US and Canada with new dates just added in August and September! Bruce & the E Street Band are currently barnstorming across the United States with performances that Rolling Stone called “epic,” and the New York Times called “explosive.” See for yourself in this new video of “Death To My Hometown” compiled from recent live performances and rehearsals at the Apollo Theater, Atlanta, and SXSW featuring Tom Morello!
New tour dates:
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Email from the WHITE HOUSE!
This goes under the category of ” ARE YOU FREAKIN KIDDING ME!!!!!????
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Email from One of My Relatives
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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested to the older woman, that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren’t good for the environment.
The woman apologized and explained, “We didn’t have this green thing back in my earlier days.” The clerk responded, “That’s our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations.” She was right — our generation didn’t have the green thing in its day. Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled. But we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Grocery stores bagged our groceries in brown paper bags, that we reused for numerous things, most memorable besides householdgarbage bags, was the use of brown paper bags as book covers for our school books. This was to ensure that public property, (the books provided for our use by the school) was not defaced by our scribblings. Then we were able to personalize our books. But too bad we didn’t do the green thing back then. We walked up stairs, because we didn’t have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn’t climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right. We didn’t have the green thing in our day. Back then, we washed the baby’s diapers because we didn’t have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts — wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right; we didn’t have the green thing back in our day. Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house — not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the state of Montana . In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by handbecause we didn’t have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn’t fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn’t need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she’s right; we didn’t have the green thing back then. We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn’t have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the streetcar or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their moms into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn’t need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest burger joint. But isn’t it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we older folks were just because we didn’t have the green thing back then? Please forward this on to another selfish older person who needs a lesson in conservation from an “intelligent” young person We don’t like being called older either! |
Obama Demands More War-making Powers from Congress
The Obama administration wants Congress to grant it even broader authority and more funding to send U.S. troops on missions around the world dealing with everything from terror and narcotics to supporting national governments facing opposition and law enforcement operations, senior Defense Department officials told a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee. And lawmakers seemed happy to comply.
According to the administration, the line between terrorism and crime is becoming increasingly blurry. And so, the Pentagon officials claimed, legislation is needed to further blur the line between national defense and law enforcement. More power should also be granted to allow U.S. troops to intervene at home and abroad even more frequently than they already do.
“Most of the authorities that we have right now are narrowly construed to counter-terrorism,” said Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Michael Sheehan (above left) in a hearing with legislators on the Senate Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities. “I think for some countries we may need a little bit more flexibility to go in there.”
Email from Liberty Counsel
Liberty Counsel
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
4/4/2012
It has long been considered “off limits” for a president to overtly attempt to influence the Supreme Court during its period of deliberation on a case, but apparently that’s not the way it’s done in Chicago. Under the presidency of Barack Obama, our nation’s presidential protocols and system of checks and balances are being systematically dismantled.
We have been forced into a constitutional crisis of the first order by this President! Please read my crucial message below – Mat.
Willard,
Monday, in a brassy display of inter-governmental intimidation, the President of the United States told the Justices of the United States Supreme Court how they should rule on the ObamaCare case they are deliberating.
Since last Friday’s High Court preliminary vote, the media has been deluged with statements from Barack Obama and his leading attack dogs accusing the Supreme Court of “judicial activism” – months before it even releases its ruling on the ObamaCare law!
This is nothing less than an orchestrated attempt to influence the Court’s decision through intimidation and arm-twisting – exactly the way this monstrous bill was pushed through Congress!
Barack Obama has intentionally “called out” the Court in much the same way he scolded them during his second State of the Union Address in 2010 over the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision.
These attacks on the Court are outrageously inappropriate! As a constitutional attorney and Dean of a law school, I am appalled at Obama’s contemptible style of executive action. Has he forgotten he solemnly swore to UPHOLD the Constitution?
This is a total breach of Executive Branch procedure and an overt overstepping of his constitutional authority. Americans nationwide are expressing their OUTRAGE at this manipulation and total lack of presidential decorum!
++Without the constitutionally defined “Separation of Powers,” we will have become a dictatorship.
In his three-year history as President, Barack Obama has proven to the American people time and again that he will stop at nothing to further his agenda, including: The subversion of the Constitution; the manipulation of the rule of law; the intimidation of lawmakers; and overt deceit and distortion of the truth to sway public opinion.
As I have often observed, this is the most divisive presidency in American history. The bottom line is this…
The Constitution of the United States is being systematically assaulted…in order to form a more socialized union!
++Barack Obama is the chief agent of this orchestrated attack.
Why else would President Obama think he can get away with dictating that all American citizens forgo their constitutional right to religious liberty for the so-called “higher good” of implementing socialized medicine?
What other reason can there be for him to demand that Americans adhere to his ObamaCare “contraception and abortifacient” mandate that contains morally despicable abortion provisions?
++This travesty MUST be stopped.
We, the American people, are now “calling out” Barack Obama! We are united in purpose in calling for constitutional authority, accountability, transparency, and respect for the rule of law by all officials who have sworn to “uphold the Constitution of the United States” – especially the President of the United States.
We are calling for ALL American citizens to rise up and “Stop the War on the Constitution”!
When you sign our “Stop the War on the Constitution” petition, we will hand deliver your mandate – along with those of tens of thousands of your fellow concerned Americans – to key congressional leaders and other elected officials. We will also publish your views to government bureaucrats, the media, and anywhere else it is strategically advantageous.
Together, we can stop this tyranny before Obama’s radical liberal activists succeed in totally remaking the United States of America into a socialist nation!
Click here to sign the “Stop the War on the Constitution” petition:
http://www.libertyaction.org/347/petition.asp
++Get a free copy of “The Patriot’s Handbook” just for signing our petition.
Liberty Counsel’s “Patriot’s Handbook of American Liberty” is a valuable reference guide that every American should have among his or her personal belongings.
EVERY citizen should have quick access to the fundamental laws and framework of our nation. The Handbook contains the two great bulwarks of American liberty, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America, with an invaluable, easy to use index.
Plus, it includes the text of Patrick Henry’s immortal address to the Virginia House of Burgesses on the eve of our first Revolution. It also includes a special essay that I have written for modern-day patriots like you.
Go here to sign the “Stop the War on the Constitution” petition, and to receive The Patriot’s Handbook of American Liberty absolutely free – plus we’ll also include our unique Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare bumper sticker:
http://www.libertyaction.org/347/petition.asp
If you already have those two Liberty Counsel exclusive items, simply sign the petition and I’ll send you these resources to share with others!
Please, click here now to sign this important “Stop the War on the Constitution” petition and to receive your copy of The Patriot’s Handbook of American Liberty and our unique Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare bumper sticker:
http://www.libertyaction.org/347/petition.asp
Thank you for standing up for America!
Mathew Staver, Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel
P.S. Please, sign the “Stop the War on the Constitution” petition and you will quickly receive a complimentary copy of our “Patriots’ Handbook of American Liberty.” Click here to receive your copy of the Handbook and our unique Lord, deliver us from ObamaCare bumper sticker:
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Email from Grassfire Nation
From the Desk of:
Steve Elliott, Grassfire Nation
AMNESTY ALERT: New Obama Amnesty rule gives 1 million illegals fast-track to legal status. See below.
Willard,
The Obama Administration has once again created a “backdoor” amnesty that will give illegal immigrants access to Fast-Track legal status while they stay inside our borders.
Under a new Department of Homeland Security rule, illegals will be able to obtain a “Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver” that would allow illegal aliens with legal relatives (spouse, child, parent) in the U.S. to claim “extreme hardship” and thus file for the Amnesty Waiver without having to leave the country.
The end result is that under the rule illegal aliens who could otherwise be subject to a 3- or 10-year ban on re-entry into the U.S. can apply for their waiver while remaining in the United States and only have to leave the U.S. for as little as one week instead of months or years!
+ + 1 MILLION Illegals Expected To Gain Fast-Track Legal Status
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that an estimated 1 million illegals currently within our borders will be eligible to apply for a “Provisional” Amnesty Waiver, remain in our country pending review, and then gain permanent legal status after just a few days out of the country.
This is the latest example of our Liar-In-Chief talking a big game of border security and then implementing his radical, open borders, pro-illegal alien agenda through Executive Orders and administrative “Rule” changes.
+ + Help Stop Obama’s Fast-Track Amnesty
This one rule change will put at least 1 million illegal aliens on the Fast-Track to legal status — with virtually no “out of the country” requirement or penalties for the fact that they broke our laws and have been living in our country as fugitives.
Department of Homeland Security has opened up a formal comment period on this new rule change through June 1, 2012. Grassfire Nation is collecting petitions from citizens who oppose this new Amnesty Waiver and will deliver petitions to DHS prior to the comments deadline.
http://www.grassfire.com/226/petition.asp
Below I’ve included links to the actual DHS “rule” and the Los Angeles Times article that explains how this will fast-track illegals.
Again… our Liar-In-Chief is implementing his amnesty agenda without any votes from Congress — by a “rule” published quietly in the Federal Register (beginning on page 19902 to be precise!).
If you oppose Obama’s Fast-Track Legal Status for 1 million illegal aliens, please sign the petition and then alert your friends.
Steve Elliott, Grassfire Nation
Resources:
Sign the Petition
LA Times
Federal Register
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NetRight Daily » Obama’s court intimidation scheme nothing new
By Bill Wilson — In a recent press conference, Barack Obama suggested “overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress”, referring to the health care law, was “an unprecedented, extraordinary step”.
Even if that were true, what is not new is Obama’s latest court intimidation scheme.
For one, it’s not the first time he has brazenly lashed out at the Supreme Court. In his 2010 State of the Union Address, Obama blasted the Court after it struck down restrictions on McCain-Feingold campaign speech and expenditures as a violation of the First Amendment.
via NetRight Daily » Obama’s court intimidation scheme nothing new.