"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." (Thomas Jefferson)
Who wins when the other Republican candidates gang up on a candidate? Obama is the answer. Shame that Rove who is behind Romney cannot see what he is doing to the Republican field. From all accounts he doesn't care as he is looking to have Jeb Bush run in 2016. We have news for Rove -- no way, no how will people across America come close to supporting Jeb in 2016 or any other time after the underhanded tactics Rove is pulling in the campaign with his undermining Rick Perry at every chance. There is something about Fox News sponsoring a debate when Rove works for Fox and is the consultant to Romney. Did Romney have the questions from Fox News via Karl Rove? It is a question that deserves an answer.
Would Rove prefer to split the Republican Party to keep Rick Perry from winning as they don't want a conservative to win? We believe the answer is yes. We are not the only ones as more and more sites have wised up to Karl Rove who is doing to Rick Perry what he did to Dr. Coburn who was running for the Senate in 2004 -- trying to dry up fundraising. The fundraising that needs dried up is Rove's Crossroads which has zero accountability as to who donates and how they spend their money. When you spend money against a fellow Republican in a primary like happened in 2008, you should lose your seat at the table.
Romney went through the 2008 debates and now 2012 debates but the man has no real record of governing except Obamacare and lack of jobs in MA when he was Governor. Nice he can debate but he has had a ton of experience while other candidates have real jobs unlike Romney who has been a full time campaigner since January 2007.
The latest is that group headed by Bush 41 through IN Governor Mitch Daniels wants NJ Governor Christie to get in the race. That will do nothing for conservatives but this group isn't about electing a conservative IMHO!
IBD has it right -- focus on the opponent which seems Romney is incapable of doing as he continues to attack.
Editorial: Memo To GOP: The Foe Is Obama, Not PerryPosted 06:47 PM ET
Politics: Despite the "gotcha" sniping at Thursday's debate, Republicans need to keep their eyes on the prize.
The target for 2012 is not Santorum, Cain, Bachmann, Romney or Perry. It's the current White House occupant.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry must have felt a bit like Gen. Custer at Little Big Horn at the Orlando debate, a made-for-TV contrivance in which those who have a real chance to be president must take pokes and jabs from those who don't.
We appreciate this may be a necessary evil in which front-runners without stamina — the Ed Muskies and Rudy Giulianis, for example — are weeded out.
Still, we must understand that while the goal is the nomination, the prize is the White House. Lost in the brouhaha over tuition for illegal aliens and mandated vaccines is the fact we simply can't afford four more years of President Obama.
Perry has given awkward responses. How can he debate the president, the whispers ask.
Sound-bite debates in which you thrust and parry (no pun intended) with eight other candidates, as well as the pundits, are one thing. Comparing your job-creating pro-growth record in a booming state to the record of the arguably worst president in American history is something else.
Those former and nongovernors without a 1,200-mile border with Mexico may criticize, and perhaps justifiably, Perry's embrace of a college tuition break for illegal aliens. We've opposed it too in the past.
Perry makes the point that this is a matter for a border state and that we wouldn't be having this conversation if Obama had secured the border and put the thousands of boots on the ground that governor has requested.
Perry opposes the federal Dream Act as an unconstitutional mandate on all the states, like ObamaCare.
Romney, ironically has defended his version of ObamaCare as an example of federalism, essentially one state freely deciding what is best for itself. He says as president he would grant all states a waiver from ObamaCare.
Michele Bachmann wants a border fence from San Diego to Brownsville, a shovel-ready project if ever there was one, and work Americans staggering under 9.1% unemployment are willing to do.
Perry has doubts about fences without troops and enforcement of immigration laws. It is Obama who sees crumbling bridges in Hooterville as more important than a border fence. It's his Justice Department that fights states for enforcing federal immigration law.
And rather than worry about whether Perry was wise to mandate via executive order the use of a vaccine 100% effective against cervical cancer, let's focus on the damage ObamaCare has done and will do to the creation of vaccines, to medical innovation and to what still remains the best health care system in the world.
It's Obama who's destroying the country, not the candidates in Orlando. It is he who taxes too much, regulates too much, spends too much and imposes job-killing mandates through his EPA — something Perry knows all too well.
So enough with the circular firing squad. For the next debate, the GOP contenders need to understand that their real foe isn't each other. It is a name too infrequently mentioned in these debates — Barack Obama.
Going to take a few days off from posting unless there is something breaking with my daughter flying in to go to the OU/Missouri football game Saturday night and to spend some family time.
These are the facts that that Romney and his campaign don't want you to see -- cannot argue with the facts even though Romney spins being 46th in job creation in the Country during the time he was Governor of MA. Romney has not held a job since leaving the Governor's office after one term in January 2007 after leaving a legacy of RomneyCare with a loss of 18,000 jobs and put MA $8B in debt.
Will someone explain to me how Romney would have any credibility on job creation when he didn't create jobs as Governor and has been 'unemployed' for almost five years?
Rick Perry’s Texas Added More Private Sector Jobs in Two Months Than Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts in Four Years Posted on September 21st, 2011
AUSTIN – In his second false, desperate attack of the day, a flailing Mitt Romney helped expose his near worst-in-the-nation jobs record and his job-killing RomneyCare plan.
The fact is that Rick Perry’s Texas created more private sector jobs in the past two months than Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts did during his entire four years as governor.
Romney’s state was one of the worst in job creation during his term, ranking 47th in the nation.
“Being 47th in job creation and killing 18,000 jobs with RomneyCare is not a record to brag about,” said Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan. “Under Gov. Perry, Texas added more private sector jobs in the past two months than Massachusetts did in four years under Mitt Romney.
During those four years, Rick Perry’s Texas added nearly 20 times as many private sector jobs as Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts despite having only three and a half times as many people.”
While Mitt Romney was governor of Massachusetts (Jan. 2003 – Jan. 2007):
There is still no Senate budget and now Reid says a Government shutdown is possible. What kind of advantage does he think this is going to gain the Democrats in the Senate when they have not had a Senate budget since the fall of 2007 after Republicans lost control of the Senate in Nov 2006. The Reid Democrats only passed a few agency budgets and the rest like FAA had been continuing resolutions ever since.
This threat of a Government shutdown is getting old when the Democrats have done zero in the Senate to take up the budget passed by the House in April of this year. Not only have they not taken up the House version but where is their version to be voted on and then go to Conference Committee? This has to be the most worthless leadership of the Senate ever.
Voters need to remember in November of 2012 that the Senate Democrats neglected their duties by not passing a budget or even voting on one from the House. The Democrats don't care, but it is time the voters spoke out that they want a budget in place every years by midnight September 30th. The fiscal year used to end on midnight, 30 June, but the Congress changed that to September 30th as they were always late -- now with three more months the Democrats are not only late but will be four years late for a full budget come September 30th.
Where is the outcry from the Obama media? Looks like they will do anything to cover for the Democrats but it is not working as voters can see through their bias better than ever thanks to the Internet.
Personally don't care if they shut down the Government as long as they ground AF One and Marine One for the use by the Obama's. Tired of the threats by Reid to try and get his way. How did Nevada ever re-elect him? Some groups need to stay out of primaries and quit spending money in primaries where they don't live. Let the people of the state decide the primaries and maybe Nevada Republicans would have had a better candidate who would have run a better race against Harry Reid. Time to retire Reid as Majority Leader in January 2013 which would go a long way toward getting accountability back in the Senate.
Reid: Government shutdown possible By Bob Cusack - 09/20/11 02:59 PM ET
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Tuesday there is a chance that the government could shutter at the end of this month.
Criticizing House Republicans for the disaster relief provisions in their budget bill, Reid told reporters, "We're not going to cave on this."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) on Tuesday confidently predicted the two sides will come together by Thursday night: "There wil not be a government shutdown."
Reid, however, said, "I'm not that sure" there won't be a shutdown.
He added, "I am not as certain as McConnell."
Reid said the deadline for getting a deal on a short-term continuing resolution is Sept 30, the end of the fiscal year.
We have noticed the other Republican candidates for President along with Obama scoffing at the Texas story but the facts are undeniable about Texas gaining jobs during these hard times. Governor Perry has been a huge proponent of Tort Reform which is necessary if you are going to have true job growth. The Governor has been in so many other states meeting with business leaders about Texas and it has paid off with more jobs coming to the Texas Friendly environment. Without such a pro-active Governor, the jobs and people would not have flowed into Texas IMHO.
These facts tell the story about the growth of good jobs under Perry not just minimum wage that some Republican candidates have been saying. People of this region of the Country know how well Texas has been doing and now that Oklahoma has passed some 'real' tort reform, we hope to be joining our neighbor to the south. Our unemployment has been dropping with the new jobs added to our state so we are starting to already see a difference. All those naysayers who were against our passing Right to Work can now shut up because if we were not a Right to Work state, we would not be joining Texas in job growth.
Governor Perry and Texas has shown the way and with our new Republican Governor Mary Fallin we are taking full advantage here in Oklahoma.
ConclusionWhile every statistic isn't a winner for Texas, most of them are, notably on the jobs front. And if nothing else, it does not appear that Texas purchased job growth at the expense of job quality, at least not at the aggregate level. There are certainly deeper places one might drill into and find areas of concern or underperformance, but that's true of everywhere. And these top line statistics are commonly used to compare cities and states. Unless Texas critics are ready to retire these measures from their own arsenal, it seems clear that Texas is a winner. The Texas story is real.
Aaron Renn has done an excellent job in assembling the figures with the charts to make them easy to understand for anyone including this non-chart person.
Texas Governor Rick Perry entered the Republican presidential nomination race bragging about the job creation record of Texas during his term as his primary pitch to a nation starved for jobs. This triggered a flurry of debate on whether or not Texas is really all Perry claims for it. But while there is certainly nuance in numbers, and Texas doesn't win on every single measure, on the whole it seems indisputable that Texas did very, very well during the 2000s.
This may or may not be the doing of Perry. Nor are the national struggles clearly the fault of Obama. The man at the top always reaps the credit for the blame for what happens on his watch, but the realities of the modern economy are quite complex and there's only so much influence a governor or president has – and that usually comes with a lag. Nevertheless, the Texas story can't simply be discounted.
Let's take a look at the top level data. While reviewing, keep in mind that the data for the US as a whole actually includes Texas. If you stripped the Texas data out of the US total, the comparisons would generally get even better for the Lone Star State.
Population
The root of the Texas story is in its massive population growth during the last decade. While historic growth champions like California stumbled, Texas powered ahead, adding 4.3 million new residents for a growth rate of 20.6% - double that of the 9.7% US average.
Unemployment
Despite challenging times at both the beginning and end of the decade, Texas actually managed to keep those people busy at work too. While it started out the decade with an unemployment rate above the US average, by decade's end, with population growth and all, it was well below it:
JobsOne reason Texas was able to keep its unemployment rate under control is that it added jobs – nearly a million between 2000 and 2010 in a nation that lost jobs during that period. The chart below, rendering the US and Texas on the same base, shows that the two moved closely in tandem during the first half of the decade, followed by an ever-widening gap in Texas' favor.
Excerpt: Read More at NewGeography.comAaron M. Renn is an independent writer on urban affairs based in the Midwest. His writings appear at The Urbanophile, where this piece originally appeared. Telestrian was used to analyze data and to create charts for this piece.
Even The Hill is not sure what Obama is going to say in his United Nations speech -- we understand their doubts about Obama's Jewish support as he has favored the Arab World since he took office. Is Obama going to try to weasel word his speech -- be interesting what he has to say. Wouldn't almost bet that most Americans are going to take what he says with a grain of salt since he is in full campaign mode.
News from The Hill:
Obama's UN speech comes with backdrop of doubts about Jewish support By Sam Youngman President Obama will deliver a critical address Tuesday at the United Nations General Assembly expected to be dominated by questions about Palestinian statehood.
Obama's administration will veto any request by the Palestinians for the UN Security Council to grant them a sovereign state, but the White House hopes to avoid that step. Such a vote could set back Obama's efforts to reset the U.S. relationship with the Arab world.
The president's speech also comes at a critical time for Obama in terms of domestic politics. Obama is facing new doubts about whether he can win a second term, and the loss of a seemingly safe House seat in New York City last week, caused by the defection of conservative Jewish voters, has raised questions about the level of support Obama has with a traditional Democratic group of voters.
Back to politics today after taking yesterday off to watch football leading up to that AWESOME game in Tallahassee between the Oklahoma Sooners and Florida State Seminoles. OU solidified their #1 ranking with the win over #5 -- must admit I was really happy as the clocked ticked down with our 10-point lead. Now on to Missouri this week at home -- it is a lot easier to watch the game at the stadium then it is on TV -- don't have to sit through all the commercials at the stadium or listen to announcers drone on and on!
Israel has a friend with Governor Perry and with him in the White House they would not have to be concerned if they were still our ally as they are doing with Obama. This one sentence by Governor Perry says it all about what has been happening:
Obama policies have encouraged the Palestinians to avoid direct negotiations with Israel.
Doesn't take a genius to figure out that Obama has been on the side of the Palestinians but then so has his Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for years. No one could ever forget the pictures of Ms. Clinton with Arafat's wife:
The US better stand up for Israel at the UN but I am not holding my breath with Obama and his Administration. How many US President's have vowed to the Saudi King? Only Obama who showed the world that he was on the side of the Arab countries not Israel which he has demonstrated over and over again:
My biggest question is when are the Jewish voters going to wake up that Obama is not the friend of Israel? There is no way they should trust his campaign rhetoric this time after what we have all been witnessing with him in the White House. Any pro-Israeli rhetoric coming out of Obama is purely political as he doesn't mean a word.
Governor Perry leaves no doubt that he is fully on the side of Israeli's:
Gov. Perry: The U.S. Must Support Israel At the U.N.
Posted on September 16th, 2011
Governor Rick Perry submitted this op-ed, which appears in today’s Wall Street Journal:
Obama policies have encouraged the Palestinians to avoid direct negotiations with Israel.
The historic friendship between the United States and Israel stretches from the founding of the Jewish state in 1948 to the present day. Our nations have developed vital economic and security relationships in an alliance based on shared democratic principles, deep cultural ties, and common strategic interests. Historian T.R. Fehrenbach once observed that my home state of Texas and Israel share the experience of “civilized men and women thrown into new and harsh conditions, beset by enemies.”
Surrounded by unfriendly neighbors and terror organizations that aim to destroy her, the Jewish state has never had an easy life. Today, the challenges are mounting. Israel faces growing hostility from Turkey. Its three-decades-old peace with Egypt hangs by a thread. Iran pursues nuclear weapons its leaders vow to use to annihilate Israel. Terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians from Hezbollah and Hamas continue. And now, the Palestinian leadership is intent on destroying the possibility of a negotiated settlement of the conflict with Israel in favor of unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state by the United Nations.
The Palestinian plan to win that one-sided endorsement from the U.N. this month in New York threatens Israel and insults the United States. The U.S. and the U.N. have long supported the idea that Israel and its neighbors should make peace through direct negotiations. The Palestinian leadership has dealt directly with Israel since 1993 but has refused to do so since March 2010. They seem to prefer theatrics in New York to the hard work of negotiation and compromise that peace will require.
Errors by the Obama administration have encouraged the Palestinians to take backward steps away from peace. It was a mistake to call for an Israeli construction freeze, including in Jerusalem, as an unprecedented precondition for talks. Indeed, the Palestinian leadership had been negotiating with Israel for years, notwithstanding settlement activity. When the Obama administration demanded a settlement freeze, it led to a freeze in Palestinian negotiations. It was a mistake to agree to the Palestinians’ demand for indirect negotiations conducted through the U.S., and it was an even greater mistake for President Obama to distance himself from Israel and seek engagement with the hostile regimes in Syria and Iran.
Palestinian leaders have perceived this as a weakening of relations between Israel and the U.S, and they are trying to exploit it. In taking this destabilizing action in the U.N., the Palestinians are signaling that they have no interest in a two-state solution. The Palestinian leadership’s insistence on the so-called “right of return” of descendants of Palestinian refugees to Israel’s sovereign territory, thereby making Jews an ethnic minority in their own state, is a disturbing sign that the ultimate Palestinian “solution” remains the destruction of the Jewish state.
The U.S.—and the U.N—should do everything possible to discourage the Palestinian leadership from pursuing its current course.
The U.S. should oppose the statehood measure by using our veto in the Security Council, as President Obama has pledged to do, and by doing everything we can to weaken support for the unilateral declaration of Palestinian statehood in the General Assembly. The U.S. must affirm that the precondition for any properly negotiated future settlement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is the formal recognition of the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state behind secure borders.
Since the Oslo accords were signed in 1993, the U.S. has provided more than $4 billion in aid to the Palestinian Authority. This year alone, the Obama administration is seeking to secure $550 million in funding for Palestinians. The U.S. has an interest in the development of Palestinian civil society and institutions. We should encourage Palestinians who are more interested in building a prosperous future than in fueling the grievances of the past.
Our aid is, and must remain, predicated on the commitment of the Palestinian leadership to engage honestly and directly with the Israelis in negotiating a peace settlement. Their threatened unilateral action in the U.N. signals a failure to abide by this commitment.
We must not condone and legitimize through our assistance a regime whose actions are in direct opposition to a peace agreement and to our vital interests. The Palestinian people should understand that their leaders are now putting this much-needed support in jeopardy and act in their own best interests—which are also the interests of peace.
How can anyone defend RomneyCare when it killed 18,000 jobs and cost $8 billion in Massachusetts? Gov Perry is correct in asking if RomneyCare is this bad in MA, how bad is ObamaCare? How many jobs will be lost along with the budget bushing cost which is happening at a period of time when the US is already in trouble financially. Made no sense to do ObamaCare originally and makes less sense to consider implementing it today with the very weak economy.
Cannot believe that Romney is so naive to think he can defend RomneyCare at a Town Hall in AZ and expect everyone to get on board. Does Romney really think that RomneyCare is a winning issue. Romney defends his Romney Care and Beacon Hill Institute comes out with a study on the job loss and cost of RomneyCare. Would say that was bad timing for Romney. Now are members of the Obama media going to report the details of this report?
If RomneyCare kills 18,000 jobs, imagine
ObamaCare’s impact on U.S. jobs and economy
AUSTIN – President Obama’s socialized medicine plan was dealt a serious blow today by a new Beacon Hill Institute study showing that Governor Mitt Romney’s “RomneyCare” plan has cost 18,000 jobs and $8 billion.
“If RomneyCare killed 18,000 jobs in Massachusetts, imagine what ObamaCare will do to a U.S. economy already hurting from too much liberalism,” said Perry spokesman Ray Sullivan. “These government-mandated health schemes kill too many jobs and cost too much.
RomneyCare’s job-killing results are another reason ObamaCare must be stopped.”
Yesterday, Governor Romney defended RomneyCare at a town hall meeting in Sun Lakes, Arizona, saying, “I like what we did.” (1)
A new study released today by the Beacon Hill Institute at Massachusetts’s Suffolk University proves Romney’s universal healthcare mandate has killed 18,000 jobs, robbed the state of millions in lost investment and slowed the growth of personal income for Massachusetts workers and families. (2)
“Governor Romney’s record is 18,000 jobs lost from RomneyCare and 47th in the nation for job creation,” Sullivan continued. “America already has a president who is killing jobs with government-run medicine. We can’t afford another.”
According to the study, Romney’s socialized medicine mandate:
Has cost the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 18,000 jobs,
Slowed the growth of personal income for workers and families,
Reduced investment in Massachusetts by between $21.28 million and $29.33 million
Additionally, an earlier study by Beacon Hill found that RomneyCare has cost taxpayers nationwide – not just in Massachusetts – nearly $4 billion in higher Medicaid and Medicare expenditures. Private insurance costs in the state have increased by another $4.3 billion. The Institute calculated the cumulative cost of RomneyCare to be $8.569 billion. (3)
Fronton, Texas, is about halfway between Laredo (due south of San Antonio) and Brownsville which sits close to the Gulf of Mexico. With finding this type of weaponry, are we now dealing with terrorists on our Texas southern border as well as the drug cartels? This is proof that Hezbollah operates from San Diego to the Gulf of Mexico today. This find in Fronton shows there are terrorists who have crossed the border with Mexico but in this case the agents were able to find the launchers, explosives, and assault rifles before they could be used. As a former agent explains, Hezbollah uses the drug cartels as their cover is partnering with the cartels:
But recently, operatives with the group have been using the ongoing violence in the local drug trade to blend in with Muslim communities along the Mexico border, according to the unnamed official.
“They have had clandestine training in how to live in foreign hostile territories,” the agent said.
Hezbollah is reportedly partnering with local drug organizations for cash and protection in exchange for firearms and explosives training, according to the former official, who cited two safe houses in Tijuana and Durango where operatives were apparently living.
Did not realize that there were Muslim communities along the border which should be sending off all kinds of warning bells. In 2009, the Washington Times reported on the fact that Hezbollah was operating on the southern border using the routes of the drug cartels and people smuggling to gain access to the United States. It has only escalated since 2009, with car bombings now happening in Juarez, Mexico, across from El Paso. With the weaponry found in the Fronton area southeast of Laredo, looks like Hezbollah is now along the full border with Mexico.
This MSNBC video from May of 2007 is chilling about how the Iranian backed Hezbollah established a beachhead in a remote area Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina:
The video was shot four years ago but today authorities are finding evidence Hezbollah are moving north with the type of violence that has been escalating along the Texas/Mexican border. Some of the scenes today remind you of what we have seen in Israel and other Arab countries from the Hezbollah . With this find, the nervousness along the border by residents has to have increased dramatically. What do they get from the President about border security during his trip to El Paso -- attacks against Republicans for wanting border security:
President Obama says Republicans will "never be satisfied" by the amount of border protection he has ordered.
"Even though we've answered these concerns, I've got to say I suspect there's still some who are trying to move the goal posts on us one more time. You know, they said 'we needed to triple the border patrol.' Well, now they're going to say we need to quadruple the border patrol, or they'll want a higher fence. Maybe they'll need a moat. Maybe they'll want alligators in the moat. They'll never be satisfied. I understand. That's politics. But the truth is the measures we put in place are getting results," President Obama said in El Paso, Texas today.
The truth about Obama sending ground troops to the border from Congress Franks in May 2010 which calls the troops 'boots on the desk'
When you learn that now 80% of illegals coming across the border back in May of 2010 had criminal records, it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up. How much worse is it today? From all the reports of the Hezbollah joining with the drug cartels and what they have been finding, we would say much worse.
What does the Obama Administration do to stop the violence? They set up a sting operation, Operation Fast and Furious, to catch gun dealers by purchasing guns and selling them to the cartels to put more guns in the possession of the cartels all in the name of gun control. Why haven't more heads rolled? Head of ATF was reassigned to another Government job so we are still paying his salary.
U. S. Border Patrol agents seized six assault rifles, one rocket launcher, a grenade launcher, and three packages of what appeared to be C-4 explosives Tuesday near the Rio Grande.
Agents patrolling the river near Fronton spotted a black bag in the brush. Inside, agents found the guns, rocket launcher, grenade launcher and explosives, along with a lower receiver for an assault rifle and 20 ammunition magazines.
Too bad the Obama Administration can't blame law abiding gun shop owners in the United States for this one. Why? Because you cannot buy rocket and grenade launchers at their stores.
But don't worry, the border is as secure and as safe as ever.
“Despite a lot of breathless reports that have tagged places like El Paso as dangerous, violent crime in southwest border counties has dropped by a third. El Paso and other cities and towns along this border are consistently among the safest in the nation.” –President Obama May 10, 2011
In July, I reported that Hezbollah, the most extensive terrorist organization in the world, is operating with and providing training to drug cartel members in Mexico, specifically along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Hezbollah is a very sophisticated terrorist group, with activity beyond criminal. Intelligence shows the group started pushing its terrorism initiative into South America a decade ago but upped its efforts in 2005, a new approach that is a threat to the United States. Testimony showed Hezbollah is strategically positioning itself in order to possibly launch a response to an Iranian attack either from the U.S. or Israel on their nuclear program. Intelligence cited during the hearing also shows the group is interested in obtaining weapons of mass destruction, which should be taken seriously since the group has published entire books about how to build and use WMDs and terrorist operations are justified by Hezbollah’s belief in Islam’s ongoing struggle with the West through violent jihad.
Hezbollah has also been supplying explosives training to Mexican drug cartels operating along the U.S.-Mexico border, and tunnels used in the area are near replicas of weapons-smuggling tunnels built by Hezbollah and used in Lebanon. Since 2006, violence in Mexico has rapidly escaladed and cartels have become more ruthless. In addition, Mexican cartels are serving as source of financing and easy entrance for the organization into the United States.
“Hezbollah members have used the porous U.S.-Mexico border as an entrance to the United States,” Vice President of the American Foreign Policy Council Ilan Berman said. Farah agreed, saying that some gang members, who entered the U.S. through the southern border with Mexico, have been arrested in the U.S. proudly displaying Farsi tattoos. He also said these groups together have access to hundreds of millions of dollars and that money funneled back to the Middle East is used to purchase weapons for attacks on Israel.
There are three main ways Mexican cartels can get their hands on rocket and grenade launchers:
-If the U.S. State Department were to sell those weapons to the Mexican government, then dissenters of the Mexican military (who make up the majority of cartel members) take the weapons with them when they leave
-Mexican cartels buy them on the black market
-Mexican cartels work with groups like Hezbollah to obtain those weapons, cartels in Mexico grant easy access into the United States to Hezbollah in return, Hezbollah supplies them with weapons
So the question is, who do the weapons found in Fronton belong to? They may not be the property of cartels at all, but the property of terrorists operating along a 2,000 mile long porous border.
Final thought: Were the assault rifles found part of Operation Fast and Furious? Given to cartels through ATF and Obama Justice Department incompetence?
We need increased security with boots on the ground along the Mexican border not the boots in the office Obama sent. Why doesn't Obama want to secure our southern border? It is impossible in some areas of the border to erect a border fence with the Border Patrol outposts overseeing the border. First we don't have the agents to man those outposts which in El Paso look to be every several hundred yards and secondly there is no way to erect a border fence in the middle of a reservoir over 200' deep. The border doesn't always follow the Rio Grande precisely as we have mentioned before as it snakes in and out of both countries. That means we need actual ground troops on the border along with all the surveillance equipment.
Texas Governor Perry because of the escalating violence has sent resources to the border from the Texas Department of Public Safety including helicopters equipped with night vision to patrol the border at night. Texas is now forced to defend their border with Mexico to protect its citizens when border security is the responsibility of the Federal Government. With this new find, the stakes just went up. Texas has billed the Federal Government for their costs including housing lawbreaking illegals in the county jails. What are the chances of Obama's Administration paying Texas? We would predict zero, zip, nada.
While Obama campaigns, fundraises, celebrates his birthday with a blowout bash for a fundraiser, and goes on vacations, Hezbollah is becoming stronger by the day on the southern border with Mexico and his answer is to ignore the problem which seems to be one thing he is good at -- ignoring problems.
Arrogance of NRA is simply stunning - for an organization who used to be about gun safety now the bottom line for gun/ammo manufacturers trumps all as the NRA lobbies for them.
According to Think Progress, “NRA: Practice Range” is billed as a “network of news, laws, facts, knowledge, safety tips, educational materials and online resource” for the organization.The National Rifle Association released a new app on Sunday that includes a gun range equipped with coffin-shaped targets, and the option for players to simulate using a military-grade sniper rifle.
The app includes what it calls “9 true to life firearms,” and allows players to download an MK-11 sniper rifle setting for 99 cents. The rifle can shoot 750 rounds per minute.
Dems/GOP Fighting -- Will they Finally Work Together for the Country? Will replace this image when they do. (11/07/2012)
Quotes
"We will be told that the causes of such violence are complex, and that is true. No single law, no set of laws can eliminate evil from the world or prevent every senseless act of violence in our society, but that can’t be an excuse for inaction. Surely we can do better than this." President Barack Obama, Newtown, CT, 12/16/2012
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"I don't think that the way to correct a spin from the left is to try to impart a spin from the right.... [A]n information flow distorted from the right would be just as much a disservice as distortion from the left. What we really should be after... is accurate information. And I don't see what any conservative or anybody else for that matter has to fear from accurate information." M. Stanton Evans
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Former Senator Alan Simpson (R-WY)
“For heaven’s sake, you have Grover Norquist wandering the earth in his white robes saying that if you raise taxes one penny, he’ll defeat you,” he told CNN back in May. “He can’t murder you. He can’t burn your house. The only thing he can do to you, as an elected official, is defeat you for reelection. And if that means more to you than your country when we need patriots to come out in a situation when we’re in extremity, you shouldn’t even be in Congress.”
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"We are are an American family and we rise or fall together as one nation.
John Stuart Mill was a 19th century political philosopher:
"I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." John Stuart Mill.
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