The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy | Foreign Affairs

The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy | Foreign Affairs

These are the people who are "guiding" your State Department.

Brigitte Gabriel has the attention of Martin County patriots.

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Brigitte Gabriel, president of ACT! for America, Inc, addressed an enthusiastic (overflow) audience Thursday evening in Stuart, FL (at the First Baptist Church of Stuart). Her presentation addressed the topic of radical Islam and its design to create a Muslim state in the United States.  She also shared her insight on the current unrest in the Arab and Middle East states and its relevance to United States foreign policy.

Executive Director of ACT! for America, Guy Rogers, complemented Brigitte’s address with strategies to unite against this threat to our country and an appeal to support ACT!forAmerica.  The website for the organization is www.actforamerica.org.  Local contact for the Martin County chapter is Shona Darress.

This event was a success in every way for the Martin 9/12 TeaParty Committee (imho).  The “house” was packed (over 600), with approximately 100 attendees spill-over into the Fellowship Hall, augmented with closed-circuit feed.  Pastor Darrell Orman seemed to be pleased with the turnout, and he provided a brilliant invocation and introduction.  The audience was enthusiastic and responded generously.  Tea Party volunteers were fantastic!! 

The Church had a detail of parishioners who provided the security (which was professional, discrete and very impressive), while our humble volunteer security contingent was happy to defer.  Other Church members served in the background to provide a comfortable and secure venue.

No unpleasant incidents were reported.

Best of all, Brigitte Gabriel and Guy Rogers expressed their satisfaction with the reception, with the facilities and with the response they received from the Treasure Coast audience.

Many thanks to the volunteers from M912TC, local members of ACT! for America and to the Pastor and his crew. 

The First Baptist Church of Stuart is to be congratulated for hosting a successful and historic event.

Jim McGovern

Works and Days » The Rise of the Adolescent Mind

Works and Days » The Rise of the Adolescent Mind

 

February 24, 2011 - 9:28 am - by Victor Davis Hanson

 

We live in a therapeutic age, one in which the old tragic view of our ancestors has been replaced by prolonged adolescence. Adolescents hold adult notions of consumption: they understand the comfort of a pricey car; they appreciate the status conveyed by a particular sort of handbag or sunglasses; they sense how outward consumption and refined tastes can translate into popularity and envy; and they appreciate how a slogan or world view can win acceptance among peers without worry over its validity. But they have no adult sense of acquisition, themselves not paying taxes, balancing the family budget, or worrying about household insurance, maintenance, or debt. Theirs is a world view of today or tomorrow, not of next year — or even of next week.

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Gabriel: Radical Islam threat to entire world

LARRY REISMAN 

EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR 

The Stuart News, 23 Feb 2011, page A7

Gabriel: Radical Islam threat to entire world
■ Speaker says Obama's betrayal of Mubarak could foreshadow other problems in Middle East

"If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there will be peace in the Middle East. If Israelis put down their weapons today, there will no longer be an Israel. The world will see another holocaust." 
Brigitte Gabriel 
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Brigitte Gabriel, who suffered through civil war in Lebanon as a Christian youth, has become so much of an outspoken critic of radical Islam since Sept. 11, 2001, that she has been labeled a "radical Islamophobe."

Now an author and activist, her ACT! for America (actforamerica. org), which has a chapter in Stuart, calls itself the "nation's largest national security movement." It hopes to mobilize a grasstoos citizens network to "lead to public policies that promote America's national security and the defense of American democratic values against the assault of radical Islam."

Gabriel will speak to the chapter Thursday night in Stuart. She recently emailed answers to a few questions I e-mailed her. 
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Q. Do you see any similarities as to what occurred in Egypt with what happened in Iran when the Shah was overthrown? What is the most significant difference or similarity? 

A. We see glaring similarities. America betrayed (Egyptian President Hosni) Mubarak, an American ally who stood with America for 30 years.

After Mubarak was out of office, two major things happened in Egypt and none of them was about the revolution or democracy. Imam Al-Qardawi, one of the most notorious radicals who was expelled by the Egyptian government for his radicalism, gave the Friday prayers at Tahrir square and two Iranian ships were allowed to go through the Suez canal on their way to Syria.

Both events ushered in a new era of Islamic radicalism and a weakened America in a very unstable part of the world. Both were done by a democratic American president who betrayed an ally and lacked foreign policy understanding. President (Barack) Obama failed to realize what was taking place and who is going to fill the power vacuum. 

It's Never Just the Economy, Stupid

Hillsdale College - Imprimis

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January 2011

Brian T. Kennedy

President
The Claremont Institute

BRIAN T. KENNEDY is president of the Claremont Institute and publisher of the Claremont Review of Books. He has written on national security affairs and California public policy issues in National Review, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, and other national newspapers. He sits on the Independent Working Group on Missile Defense and is a co-author of the recent book Shariah: The Threat to America.

The following is adapted from a speech delivered on January 7, 2011, in the “First Principles on First Fridays” lecture series sponsored by Hillsdale’s Kirby Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C.

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WE ARE OFTEN TOLD that we possess the most powerful military in the world and that we will face no serious threat for some time to come. We are comforted with three reassurances aimed at deflecting any serious discussion of national security: (1) that Islam is a religion of peace; (2) that we will never go to war with China because our economic interests are intertwined; and (3) that America won the Cold War and Russia is no longer our enemy. But these reassurances are myths, propagated on the right and left alike. We believe them at our peril, because serious threats are already upon us.

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Alert!! Please read email from Congressman Scalise on czar amendment

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Congressman Steve Scalise

Louisiana's First Congressional District

For Immediate Release

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Contact: Stephen Bell

202-870-1461

 Scalise passes amendment to sack czars

Washington, D.C. – An amendment by Congressman Steve Scalise that defunds many of President Obama's radical czars was just approved by the House of Representatives on a roll call vote and attached to the Continuing Resolution (CR).  The CR would fund the government through September and would cut at least $100 billion in federal spending.

"It is time that we end this practice by President Obama of creating a shadow government run by czars with cabinet-level powers who circumvent the accountability and scrutiny that comes with Senate confirmation required by the Constitution," Scalise said.  "Hardworking American families should not be forced to pay millions of dollars to fund these czars who are implementing radical policies under the cloak of darkness rather than going through the open and transparent process that we were promised.  The government should not be running car companies, we should not be regulating the Internet, and we should not have all these czars!"

            The CR has been debated throughout the week in the House of Representatives.  In January, Scalise re-introduced the Sunset All Czars Act, H.R. 59, which requires Senate confirmation of czars holding similar authority and power as cabinet officials but who have not undergone the same confirmation process.  The Sunset All Czars Act has 41 cosponsors.

Click here to watch Congressman Scalise discuss his amendment to defund the czars 

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THIS IS A STICK-UP - GIVE ME YOUR PROPERTY

 

Open this message in your web browser. THIS IS A STICK-UP, GIVE ME YOUR PROPERTY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IN MIAMI DADE COUNTY Sustainable development defined by property owners who have lost their land: Property owners in the United States who have come face to face with "sustainable development" would define it simply as, "This is a stick-up, give me your property!" Hundreds of thousands of ranchers, farmers, loggers, foresters, miners, fishermen, builders, developers, and other property owners are losing the right to use their property because of juggernaut environmental-government regulations; local, state, federal or international - or all of these combined. These regulations include: the Endangered Species Act, Wetland Regulations, and laws governing use of air, water, land, and sea. There are also countless international UN treaties controlling and regulating the use of private property. Property owners are finding out - because of an endangered species being discovered on their land, or that their land iss being declared a wetland - they are no longer able to use it, develop it, build on it, or even water it. They can hang on to it and pay the property taxes, or sell it at rock-bottom prices, because land that cannot be used has little economic value. Of course, the only people willing to buy the land are the Nature Conservancy or other environmental agencies, which in turn sell the land to the federal government. Often property owners not only lose their property but are put in jail and pay enormous fines for the violation of some obscure environmental regulation or law. Eagle Forum of California

Doctors Helping Teacher Protesters Lie about Being 'Sick'

2-19-2011

MediaTrackers is on the scene for today’s protests in Madison. They captured this doctor on video signing ’sick’ forms for union members skipping work.

As you know, hundreds of schools across the state have been forced closed because teachers have called in ’sick.’

Yet another good lesson to be teaching the next generation.