What does it mean? Sarah Palin changes Facebook profile from 'Republican' to 'Conservative'

◼ 'Could she possibly be sending a message to the RNC that they need to strengthen the conservative planks of the Republican party. Daily Mail UK

Even for the Obama administration, (Friday’s) news dump ($1.3 trillion deficit, the demise of the CLASS Act, and war in Uganda) is something to behold.

◼ "JOHN ASHCROFT, OTHER TOP TIER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS SUBPOENAED" Yes, that’s what the headline in the New York Times would have read a decade ago; today, as Anthony Martin writes at Examiner.com, “Big media outlets ignore subpoena of entire top tier of Obama Administration,” in order to get to the bottom of the Project Gunwalker scandal - Ed Driscoll/Pajamas Media

...it’s a good thing the media has Occupy Wall Street to focus on right now to deflect attention not just from this story, but from all of the other high-speed Obamacontinental train wrecks crashing into each other right now, isn’t it? As Andrew Stiles wrote at the Corner yesterday evening, “Even for the Obama administration, (Friday's) news dump ($1.3 trillion deficit, the demise of the CLASS Act, and war in Uganda) is something to behold.” And then add into the mix investigations into Gunwalker and Solyndra, and it must really feel like bunker time inside the White House right now.

EPA's CO2 Endangerment Finding is Endangered

◼ (W)ithout the TSD ((Technical Support Document), the Endangerment Finding is toast - and so is regulation of carbon dioxide - S. Fred Singer/American Thinker

True the Vote.

True The Vote from Sondra Martin Hicks on Vimeo.

Ron Paul: Life

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From the New York Post: “It’s war! Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters — emboldened by officials backing down this morning from evicting them from their Zuccotti Park campsite for a 7 a.m. cleaning — stormed Wall Street, leaping over barriers and getting into a fracas with cops."

◼ Violence shows Andrew Breitbart was right - Don Surber/Daily Mail

From Andrew Breitbart: “These are the same types of groups, the anti-WTO crowd that in 1999 attacked Seattle, attacked Starbucks, threw trashcans through the windows of Starbucks. This is the same group of people that created ‘Camp Casey’ at President Bush’s compound or house in Crawford, Texas… The anti-war movement has now been co-opted as a means to divert attention away from the Tea Party and on to an organization that shifts the blame from the government forgiving these out-of-control loans to their political cronies to the banks — many of which took the bailouts. It is a sleight of hand for the benefit of the Democratic Party and for the benefit of President Obama to change the onus away from the government policies that created our failed economic system.”

◼ Violence Breaks Out During ‘Occupy Wall Street’ March Toward New York Stock Exchange - CBS
◼ Protesters march on Wall St. after park cleanup postponed, get into scuffle with cops - New York Post

Fake signatures may mean Obama didn't actually qualify in Indiana in 2008

◼ As reported Sunday, The Tribune, in conjunction with Howey Politics Indiana, has uncovered scores of fake signatures on both the Obama and Clinton petitions in the 2nd Congressional District and specifically St. Joseph County. - South Bend Tribune

Minus suspected fakes, then Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama likely fell short of the number of signatures needed to appear on the 2008 Indiana primary ballot, and it's possible his opponent, Hillary Clinton, did as well, according to information obtained by The Tribune as part of an investigation into suspected ballot petition fraud....

Dozens of people whose signatures appear on the Clinton petition have told The Tribune they did not sign the document, and Erich Speckin, a forensic document analyst hired by the paper and Howey Politics identified at least 19 suspected fake Obama petition pages.

Those Obama pages account for more than 100 signatures, meaning, minus the fakes, the former senator likely would not have qualified for ballot placement in the state....

There is no evidence Clinton or Obama knew about the fake signatures. Voter registration offices across the state certified both candidates' petitions, as did the Election Division.

No one challenged the petitions at the time.

◼ True The Vote

UPDATE:
◼ Chairman of Local Indiana Democratic Party Resigns Amid Fake Signature Scandal - FOX

Both of Indiana's Republican and Democratic Party chairmen have called for a federal investigation into the forged names that appeared on petitions from the 2nd Congressional District, which contains St. Joseph County. Among the dozens of names so far discovered to be fake are former Indiana Democratic Gov. Joe Kernan.

Kernan told the South Bend Tribune last week that neither the print version of his name nor the signature that appear on the suspect document are anything like his own.

Yet, his and other names were approved by the county voter registration office with the use of a rubber stamp in place of a signature by the Republican member of the office.

The Tribune reported that the St. Joseph County voter registration office has a Democratic and Republican member who sign off on petition pages submitted for review. However, Republican Linda Silcott was out of the office on bereavement leave on the days the suspected fakes passed through her office.

Silcott's stamped signature is used on the suspect pages while Democrat Pam Brunette signed off on the petitions in her own hand. The Tribune reported that Silcott's deputy, Mary Carrol Ringler, has authority to use the stamp, but she does not recall if she did so, in part because the dates of the forged petitions coincide with her first two weeks in her post.

On Friday Indiana Republican Party Chairman Eric Holcomb submitted a request for a federal probe to be conducted by the Department of Justice.

◼ Ind. Dem quits in fake-signature flap - Politico

◼ Forgeries uncovered among 2008 Obama, Clinton campaign signatures - Indiana Daily Student

◼ Ex-Indiana governor: That's not my signature on Obama petition

◼ Another Shock Report: Without Forged Signatures, Obama Would Not Have Been On Indiana's Primary Ballot - Advance Indiana

Devastating: HHS abandons part of ObamaCare as fiscally unworkable

◼ HHS report recommends closing Obamacare program - Philip Klein/Washington Examiner

One reason why the Obama administration has been reluctant to officially shut down the program is that it was one of the main accounting gimmicks they used during the health care debate. Because the CLASS Act was supposed to collect five years of premiums before paying out any benefits, the Democrats have been claim $80 billion in short-term surplus from the program as deficit reduction, ignoring the obvious fact that the money would eventually have to pay for benefits. It’s been called a “budget zombie.”

◼ Obama pulls plug on part of health overhaul law - AP

◼ A total debacle. And the punchline is, everyone saw it coming — including the Democrats who went ahead and voted anyway to bring this Frankenstein to life. - HotAir

◼ Here’s the detailed HHS report prepared concluding that the CLASS program couldn’t work. One of the fears raised is that if it were implemented and failed, it would be problematic to shut down. - Scribd document

◼ Long after Obamacare was passed and signed into, even prominent supporters of the bill acknowledged that the CLASS Act was a financial disaster waiting to happen.

Speaker Boehner Applauds Passage of Free Trade Agreements, Part of GOP Jobs Plan

◼ Washington (Oct) House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) released the following statement after bipartisan majorities in the House of Representatives passed three long-delayed trade agreements with the nations of Colombia, Panama, and South Korea. These pacts are an important element of the GOP Plan for America’s Job Creators:

Lesson of Perry's candidacy: Think before you run

◼ Successful governorships don't just happen by accident; Perry's results in Texas show he is a smart, competent executive. - Byron York/Washington Examiner

But the debates have revealed a different problem. The Rick Perry who has taken the stage in four Republican debates so far is a man who, for all his governing success in Texas, appears not to have thought enough about why he wants to be president of the United States and what he would do if he achieved his goal. When critics gently say that Perry's presentations have been "light on details," they're really saying Perry doesn't seem to have thought things through.

More than anything else, a lot of thinking should precede a run for president. There's no time to think about much of anything once the campaign begins, and there's no way a candidate can collect and organize a lifetime of experiences into a coherent approach to national issues once he's flying from stop to stop. A candidate has to have done his thinking long before he hits the road or steps on a debate stage.

◼ Perry backers lament errors in campaign - Washington Times

John Boehner reminded Obama that the House GOP released a jobs plan in May and that his leadership team has spoken with Obama and his staff about the plan “on numerous occasions.”

◼ Boehner “respectfully challenged” the president for saying Thursday that he has not yet seen a jobs plan from Republicans. - Politico

Obama’s (own) jobs bill stalled in the (Democrat controlled) Senate this week when it could not attract enough support to advance. The House has not voted on his bill.

Chevret-Vaissade Park: End of Day 2!

◼ Help rebuild Chevret-Vaissade Park on Facebook

Mitt Romney: Nervous?

What is President Obama worried about? Jobs? The economy? Home foreclosures? Spending?...
Or his reelection campaign?
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Obama Spoke About Fast and Furious Before Holder Claimed He Knew

◼ Obama Spoke About "Fast & Furious" Before Holder Claimed He Knew - Real Clear Politics

CNN compares Holder's testimony to what President Obama said in MARCH to CNN Espanol about the operation. "I heard on the news about this story that -- Fast and Furious, where allegedly guns were being run into Mexico, and ATF knew about it, but didn't apprehend those who had sent it."

◼ ‘Hiding in plain sight’—How did Obama know about ‘Gunwalker’ before Holder? - David Codrea, Gun Rights Examiner

A Journalist’s Guide to ‘Project Gunwalker' ◼ Part One, ◼ Part Two, ◼ Part Three, ◼ Part Four, ◼ Part Five and ◼ Part Six for a complete list with links of independent investigative reporting and commentary done to date by Sipsey Street Irregulars and Gun Rights Examiner.

◼ CBS: Don’t forget Grenadewalker, too - HotAir

CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson... reporting that the ATF let thousands of grenades cross the border into Mexico at roughly the same time the Mexican drug cartels were using grenades to blow up a casino and kill dozens of people.

Through “crowdsourcing,” the media and the public will then be able to discover the truth behind the “Occupy” movement.

◼ ‘Crowdsource’ This: Emails Expose #OccupyWallStreet Conspiracy to ‘Destabalize’ Global Markets, Governments - Andrew Breitbart

In keeping with the new media notion of crowdsourcing–enthusiastically embraced by the mainstream media when trawling through Sarah Palin’s emails–Big Government will be providing readers later today with links to a document drop consisting of thousands of emails.

The email archive, created by a private cyber security researcher, appears to contain messages shared by the left’s anarcho-socialist activists during the strategic and daily tactical planning of the “Occupy Wall Street” and broader “Occupy” campaign this fall.

Big Government received a tip about the existence of the archive, and we were able to contact the individual who compiled and posted it. He will describe the archive, and how he obtained the emails, later this morning exclusively on Big Government.
Through “crowdsourcing,” the media and the public will then be able to discover the truth behind the “Occupy” movement.

◼ The Email Archive of the #OccupyWallStreet Movement: Anarchists, Socialists, Unions, Democrats and Their Plans - Breitbart's Big Government.

"...Then, at the end of August, we were alerted by a fellow researcher that information about USDoR (U.S. Day of Rage, to which Occupy Wall Street is connected) had been posted on Shamuk and Al-Jahad, two Al-Qaeda recruitment sites. We began to take the “Occupy” protest more seriously, and dedicated more time to research and monitoring.

Days later, Anonymous announced that it would be releasing its new DDOS (Distributed Denial of Service) tool. Because of the Al-Qaeda posting, we contacted the New York Field Office of the FBI so they could investigate the potential threat. From that point on, we decided we needed to include the Human Element of Intelligence (HUMINT), and to infiltrate the protestors to map their ties to Anonymous, and to the postings on Shamuk and Al-Jahad....

Additionally, the emails reveal the many failed efforts of the hacker collective Anonymous. If those efforts had succeeded, they may have damaged the global economy.

Some examples are:
◼ #opLightHouse (FAILED) using NYC Subways to create FlashMobs and havoc through the city on Sept 17, 2011: see http://privatepaste.com/download/267076bdbc/operationLH-updateUno
◼ #RefRef Denial of Service tool release (FAILED) was designed to crash banks and NYSE, but the tool was never released: see http://www.geekosystem.com/anon-to-launch-new-weapon/; http://www.iss.net/threats/434.html
September 20th FAILED attacks against NYSE, NYPD, NYC.GOV, NYPD Retirees, Federal Reserve: see http://www.slideshare.net/robinsage/anonymous-occupy-wall-street-attacks
◼ #DayOfVengence (Sept 27th) (FAILED) because FBI arrested the operation leader CommanderX prior to the attack: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-31727_162-20110912-10391695.html

We are sharing the email archive because we believe the public needs to know the hidden agendas behind the Occupation–the socialist, anarchist, and other agendas that have not been reported in the mainstream media."

◼ Join the Big Government OWS crowdsourcing project - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
◼ You can download the entire file, so you can search on your own, here. Email archive available in: .pst format: primary and alternate .csv format: primary and alternate

Recipe for disaster: MSNBC analyst: The #OccupyWallStreet movement really needs a “Kent State moment”

◼ Donny Deutsch tells Morning Joe this morning that the Occupy Movement needs to “grow up” by getting someone shot by The Man, or something, just like at Kent State... - HotAir
◼ Great idea. Just imagine how much political capital the Democrats would milk out of some of their protest zombies getting shot. - JWF

Fast and Furious...

Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protests, which didn’t happen overnight but were three years in the making, have been portrayed as spontaneous outbreaks by ragtag gangs of shiftless, harmless hippies. They are in fact the army that Barack Obama boasted about even before he came into power.

◼ The Revolution is Upon Us - Judi McLeod

Trained in the fine art of Civil Disobedience by Ruckus Society anarchists; paid for by George Soros and the Tides Foundation, among others, aided and abetted by street fighters like Code Pink and Greenpeace, count on OWS as a permanent part of society until Obama and his masters perfect the fundamental Transformation of America through Marxism.

OWS vow they are after the 1% of the population that is uber rich. But their real job is to cow the middle class. They are not after Daddy Warbucks types like Warren Buffet, they are after you....

When OWS first assembled in the public square on Sept. 17, they deliberately presented a face of vague mission and even more vague intent. They showed themselves to a largely uninterested mainstream media conducting collective Yoga and face-painting activity.

Within weeks they had fanned out to 26 other cities on an add-to list.

Now some protesters openly admit that violence will be necessary to achieve their goals.

Far from halting or reversing these trends, Obama has actively worsened them -- setting the stage for the most polarized election of recent history

◼ The president's early post-partisan rhetoric was never matched by innovative ideas that crossed ideological lines and created new coalitions. - Townhall

...Bill Clinton had welfare reform. George W. Bush had No Child Left Behind. Obama, in contrast, pursued a liberalism both bold and uncreative -- a massive Keynesian stimulus, a brand new health entitlement, the largest deficits in American history. Congressional Republicans were obstructionists -- but often because Obama's aggressive ideological power play made obstructionism identical with Republicanism.

GOP members could not accept an ambitious expansion of the size and role of government without surrendering their identity. Some in the GOP have enjoyed their role in opposition too much. But they were given few incentives to temper it.

The public response ran in parallel -- a tea party revolt and a near landslide Republican midterm election. Liberal accusations that this reaction was artificial, irrational or race-based only fed the polarization. In typical fashion, many offended conservatives have also engaged in ideological overreach, calling for a government cut to the size of an 18th-century agrarian republic.

Feeling provoked himself, Obama has now abandoned the pretense of post-partisanship. He runs for re-election on the platform of funding unreformed entitlements with higher taxes on the wealthy. It is hard to imagine a more typical, tired, polarizing Democratic message. It is a surrender to predictable national division.... Read the rest.

To the villainy-of-the-rich theme emanating from Washington, a child is born: Occupy Wall Street

◼ Obama is opening a Pandora’s box. Popular resentment, easily stoked, is less easily controlled, especially when the basest of instincts are granted legitimacy by the nation’s leader. - Charles Krauthammer/Washington Post

What do you do if you can’t run on your record — on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?

Buffett’s rebuff

◼ Billionaire investor continues carrying water for bankrupt politicians - Washington Times

Americans don’t want to borrow more money and pay higher taxes simply to create temporary government jobs. That’s why President Obama’s $467 billion second stimulus bill never had much of a chance as a whole. It was meant to be a class-warfare call-to-arms that would engage and excite his liberal base, as even the Democratic-controlled Senate couldn’t conjure up the votes for it.

...Mr. Obama’s ally in the “fair share” department - mega-investor Warren Buffett - continues his campaign to raise more money for Washington politicians through higher taxes on “millionaires and billionaires.”...

“Even if we double taxes on the rich, that covers about two days’ worth of spending,” he said. “What are you going to do with the other 363 days?”...

The United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act (HR 2829), passed 23-15.

Committee Passes Landmark Legislation to Reform United Nations - Middle East North Africa Financial Network

CATO Institute: RomneyCare: Making a Fool of Every Republican It Touches Since 2006

◼ New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) hearts former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R), so much that Christie says it is ”completely intellectually dishonest” to compare RomneyCare to ObamaCare. Why? Because Romney didn’t raise taxes, and President Obama did. Oh. - Michael F. Cannon
◼ White House used Mitt Romney health-care law as blueprint for federal law - Three advisers to GOP candidate met a dozen times with senior Obama officials, records show - MSNBC

A libertarian camps out with Wall Street occupiers

◼ "This is a movement for direct democracy, rather than corporatocracy," occupier Sinead Lamel told me. - Timothy P. Carney/Washington Examiner

◼ Liberate Wall Street! (New Show Tonight at 10PM on FBN) - John Stossel/Fox Business

The protesters have a few things right. Bailouts and crony capitalism are wrong, but almost everything else they said makes little economic sense.

◼ Occupiers call for Revolution, will anyone listen? - David Freddoso/Washington Examiner

“If this election is where it ought to be, and that is a referendum on how President Obama is doing, Republicans are going to win. If Herman Cain is our nominee against Barack Obama, I think he’ll sweep the south”

◼ Haley Barbour: I’d vote for Cain if the primary was today - HotAir
◼ Haley Barbour: Herman Cain Would Sweep The South Against Obama - Real Clear Politics
◼ Herman Cain leads the Florida Republican presidential primary with 34%. Cain is followed by Mitt Romney at 28% and Newt Gingrich at 11%. - American Research Group

RASMUSSEN POLL: Cain 29% Romney 29% Gingrich 10%...

From the repeated statements from Obama to Hillary and on down the Obama administration food chain it was obvious to the the State Department sources that what the "Mexican hat dance" (to use the words of one my sources) was about was to justify more federal firearms restrictions.

◼ Sipsey Street Exclusive: "In at the beginning." The State Department & the Gunwalker Scandal. Part 3. "Caesar's Wife" and the "Mexican hat dance."

From the guys who have been helping uncover the truth about Gunrunner/Fast and Furious: Since it has been a few days, readers might want to refresh their memories by revisiting "In at the beginning." The State Department & the Gunwalker Scandal. Part 2. The 90% Myth. "I have not backed off" an AWB. "...As much as 90 percent of the assault weapons and other guns used by Mexican drug cartels are coming from the United States, fueling drug-related violence that is believed to have killed more than 7,000 people since January 2008..."

‘The Obama Problem’

◼ Obama’s once-blank slate is now quite well defined - Ed Driscoll/Pajamas Media
◼ The Obama Problem is simple to explain but impossible to solve. The problem is Obama himself... - Monty Pelerin/American Thinker

The “man with no past” and a Hollywood veneer turned out to be a perfect candidate. “Sizzle” rather than substance was sold. Little was known about Obama and his past, allowing David Axelrod to market the political equivalent of a Rorschach blot.

Voters saw in Obama whatever they desired in a candidate. To some, Obama was a breath of fresh air, a man of principles. To others he was an outsider, not a crass politician. Others saw him as a chance to prove that they were not racists. Still others saw him as the reincarnation of Roosevelt or whomever else they admired.

◼ Barrack Obama's narrative was silence. - Orrin Judd

His election depended on him remaining a blank upon which people could project whatever image they wanted. To the extent he has remained a void he comes off as creepy, to the extent he filled in the blank he's diverged from the ideal image folks produced. Thus both action and inaction are losses for him.

PROTESTS PERIL FOR OBAMA

◼ Obama cannot muster the same enthusiasm he did in 2008. It’s out there, but it is now opposed to him, not for him. That’s what Occupy Wall Street is all about. - Dick Morris

The conservatives and Republicans no longer own the anti-Obama movement. They have to share ownership with disenchanted liberals, those who recognize incompetence when they see it, and the many who are turned off by the growing perception of corruption in the wake of Solyndra. The bad economy has led to an impression of presidential weakness and inability akin to that which took over the image of Jimmy Carter in the late ’70s. More and more, the opposition to Obama is based on the outcomes of his policies, not on their ideological bias or their liberal intent.

◼ Democrats Embrace of Wall Street Protests Poses Political Peril - FOX (image source)

...the protesters are implacably opposed to three initiatives – the TARP and auto industry bailouts, and the continuation of the Bush-era tax cuts – that Obama has supported....

WAR DRUMS: IRAN CALLS 'TERROR PLOT' LIE

◼ U.S. Thwarted Iran-backed Plot to Kill Saudi Ambassador - The New American

Breaking news yesterday revealed that U.S. law enforcement officials thwarted a plot to kill Adel A. Al-Jubeir, the Saudi ambassador to the United States.

◼ Saudis say Iran must 'pay the price' for alleged plot as US resists retaliation - The Guardian

Tehran denies it was behind plot to kill Saudi ambassador and says US is using it to divert attention from problems at home

◼ Hillary: Alleged Iran plot 'dangerous escalation'... - Reuters
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Iran's alleged ties to a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador in

Washington marked a "dangerous escalation" of Tehran's sponsorship of terrorism.

◼ The United States accused Iran on Tuesday of backing a plot to kill the Saudi ambassador to Washington, escalating tensions with Tehran and stirring up a hornet's nest in the Gulf, where Saudi Arabia and Iran have long jostled for power. - Reuters

At a news conference, FBI Director Robert Mueller said the convoluted plot, involving monitored international calls, Mexican drug money and an attempt to blow up the ambassador in a Washington restaurant, could have been straight from a Hollywood movie.

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder alleged that the plot was the work of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is the guardian of Iran's 32-year-old revolution, and the Quds force, its covert, operational arm.

"High-up officials in those (Iranian) agencies, which is an integral part of the Iranian government, were responsible for this plot," Holder told the news conference.

"I think one has to be concerned about the chilling nature of what the Iranian government attempted to do here," he said.

Alert from Northern Division Legislative Issues Chair

The alert is a bit longer than usual but I want you to have more specific information.

Despite the United Nation’s undeniable anti-American bent, the United States is charged higher dues than any other nation – 22 percent of the total. In the last fiscal year, the bill came to $7.7 Billion – a 21 percent increase over the year before.

Now a key leader in the Republican House of Representatives is pressing for reforms commensurate with the extent of the problem and the size of our contributions.

(Thursday,) Oct. 13th at 2 PM, Chairwoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Florida’s 18th District), Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to hold a mark-up session on H.R. 2829, the United Nations Transparency, Accountability and Reform Act. Passage by that committee would set the stage for action by the full House of Rep.

Chairwoman Ros-Lehtinen proposes to leverage U.S. aid to require real reforms.

There are also specific parts of the legislation that deals with the hostility to Israel.

• HR 2829 restores the Bush administration’s policy of boycotting the notoriously anti-Israel UN Human Rights Council, putting an end to the Obama administration’s ridiculous pretense that joining the panel without requiring reforms would make it less hostile to America and our allies.

• HR 2829 forbids additional American funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency until that agency addresses its well-documented deficiencies in preventing the flow of funds to Hamas terrorists and stops disseminating anti-Israel propaganda.

Every single congressional Democrat has refused to co-sponsor HR 2829. Nearly half of the House Republicans have become co-sponsors of HR 2829.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is determined to derail this legislation.

Please fax, e-mail or call your Congressman and urge him or her to co-sponsor HR 2829.

Information on how to contact your Congressman can be found at ◼ https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml. This site will direct you to where you can send an e-mail.

I urge each of you to contact your Congressional Rep, whether Democrat or Republican. The United Nations needs to be reined in.

Thanks for all you do.

Edelweiss Geary
Legislative Issues Chair
◼ Northern Division - CFRW

www.cfrwnd.org
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Committee Passes Landmark Legislation to Reform United Nations

Five Things Republicans Must Do to Crush the Left in the Propaganda War

◼ Election ’08 was a clear case of Republican abdication. - Kyle-Anne Shiver/Pajamas Media

Only complete victory for the Republican liberty party can save America now.

TRANSCRIPT: Republican presidential debate

◼ Published: October 11, Courtesy the Federal News Service - Washington Post

#OccupyHumboldt livestream

Darrell Issa Issues 22 Point Subpoena to Eric Holder in Fast and Furious Investigation

◼ "Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged," the California Republican said in a statement. "The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It's time we know the whole truth." - FOX
◼ DETAILS: What he seeks... - Jamie Dupree/AJC
◼ Holder’s honesty before Congress disputed in earlier high-profile cases - Jerry Seper/Washington Times
◼ Issa to Holder: You're Incompetent, Untrustworthy - Newsmax
◼ The subpoena requests all of Holder’s communications on the Fast and Furious operation. It also requests any communications between the White House and DoJ relating to Operation Fast and Furious. - Politico
◼ Darrell Issa subpoenas Eric Holder for Fast and Furious communications - Houston Chronicle
◼ Obama Administration Subpoenaed by House Panel Over Gun Case - Bloomberg Business Week

Enthusiasm Gap?

◼ Photos show crowds for candidate Obama, October 27, 2008 vs. candidate Obama, October 11, 2011 - Drudge

Poll: Herman Cain, Rick Perry, Mitt Romney All Beat Obama

◼ Here's how much political trouble President Obama is in: A new poll by the authoritative Evolving Strategies firm finds that Herman Cain, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, and Mitt Romney would all beat Obama it the election were held today.
- US News & World Report
◼ Another poll shows Obama losing to Mitt Romney, Rick Perry and Herman Cain -HotAir

◼ NBC/WSJ poll: Cain now leads GOP pack - MSNBC

◼ PPP Poll: Cain leads nationally - publicpolicypolling

Obama Tells Advisers To Find How To Approve Stimulus Projects "Without Additional Congressional Authorization"

◼ "Scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done," President Obama said today to a "Jobs Council" - RCP

Obama Says Democrats in Congress Designed the Stimulus to Let Him "Take Bets" on Solyndra—Bets that Cost Taxpayers Half a Billion Dollars

◼ Welcome to Democrats’ “Green” Casino - NRCC

Defending his administration's failed loan to now-bankrupt Solyndra, President Obama claimed last week that the Department of Energy's loan guarantee program was designed by Democrats in Congress to "take bets" with taxpayer money, a role he evidently favors for the federal government.

Chevret-Vaissade Park: Rebuilding!

◼ 11 new photos to the album 'Work that was completed on day 1!' - Help rebuild Chevret-Vaissade Park on Facebook

"If you are out and about tomorrow, swing by and check out the work on the park.. They are hoping to finish it tomorrow and the chips are to be going in on Monday! How cool is that!..."

Redwood Alert: October issue

HRWF October 2011 Redwood Alert

Remember, you can view past issues at our ◼ Newsletter link.

Debate Reaction

◼ Dartmouth aims to control debate crowd - Politico (image source)
◼ Cain takes heat - The Hill
◼ In Republican debate, consensus is government is to blame - Philip Rucker and Amy Gardner/Washington Post
◼ Mitt Romney sounding presidential at Dartmouth - Michael Barone/Washington Examiner
◼ GOP candidates go after Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 plan in debate - Daily Caller
◼ Gingrich wants Bernanke fired and Chris Dodd and Barney Frank imprisoned - CBS News
◼ Republican debate at Dartmouth focuses on Herman Cain - Politico

Democrats have one more chance to make 2012 the Year of the Woman

◼ The allure of an Obama-Hillary ticket - Chicago Sun Times

TONIGHT'S DEBATE: Watch it here!

Live video from your iPhone using Ustream

◼ WaPo/Bloomberg GOP 2012 debate open thread: Mirror, mirror - Michelle Malkin
◼ Watch it live ONLINE at the Washington Post
◼ at Bloomberg
◼ Republican New Hampshire Debate – 10-11-2011 at Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
◼ Open thread: The “Perry’s last chance” debate - HotAir

Chris Christie Backs Mitt Romney for GOP Nomination

◼ New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says he is backing Mitt Romney for president as "the man we need to lead America." - NBC New York

Feds Claimed SunPower’s $1.2 Billion Federal Loan Would Create ‘10-15′ Permanent Jobs

◼ Mike Flynn/Big Government: The Department of Energy bragged about giving a $1.2 billion loan guarantee to SunPower, a politically connected solar energy company, to create “10-15 permanent jobs,” raising critical questions as to if California SunPower is the next Solyndra in the ongoing Crony-Gate scandal.

"(Obama's) latest stimulus bill is so flawed that Senate Democrats have rejected it and are rewriting it, not to grow jobs, but to improve their political standing"

◼ GOP: Democrats foundering under Obama - UPI

"It's nothing but a rehash of the same failed ideas he's already tried, combined with a huge tax increase," Thune said. "This is a cynical political ploy that's designed not to create jobs for struggling Americans, but to save the president's own job."

Poll: South Carolina Primary: Cain leads

◼ Cain 26%, Romney 25%, Perry 15% - American Research Group

Herman Cain leads the South Carolina Republican presidential primary with 26%. Cain is followed closely by Mitt Romney at 25%. Rick Perry is third at 15%.

In July, Romney was leading with 25%, followed by Sarah Palin at 16%, Michele Bachmann at 13%, and Herman Cain at 10%.

Among likely primary voters considering themselves to be Republicans, Cain and Romney are tied at 27% each, followed by Perry at 15%.

Among Tea Party supporters, Cain leads with 35%, followed by Perry at 16% and Romney at 15%.

Among those saying they are not Tea Party supporters or are undecided about the Tea Party, Romney leads with 33%, followed by Cain at 19%, Perry at 14%, and Ron Paul at 10%.

Details from the survey of 600 likely Republican primary voters conducted October 5-10 can be found here.

◼ Cain, Romney tied in VA - Washington Times via Drudge

October 11, 1984: Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space.

◼ Today in history

Bloomberg News-Washington Post Republican Debate Tonight 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PT)

◼ Tonight 8:00 PM ET (5:00 PM PT) - Bloomberg
(Note: Conflicting times have been reported, both 7 and 8pm, ET. It appears 8 PM is correct, though the 7 PM time appears on some Bloomberg articles)

Bloomberg Television and The Washington Post, in partnership with WBIN-TV and host Dartmouth College, will present the first debate of the 2012 campaign focused exclusively on the issues voters consider most important - the economy, debt, deficits, taxes, trade and jobs. Moderated by Charlie Rose, The Washington Post political correspondent Karen Tumulty and Bloomberg White House correspondent Julianna Goldman. Be a part of the Bloomberg debate conversation on Twitter #EconDebate and on Facebook at http://facebook.com/bloombergtelevision.

◼ The event is being held Hanover, New Hampshire.) - CNS

Participating will be Representative Michele Bachmann , Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, former Governor Jon Huntsman, Rep. Ron Paul, Governor Rick Perry, former Governor Mitt Romney and former Senator Rick Santorum.

Tuesday night’s event will be hosted by the Washington Post and Bloomberg TV. If you don’t have cable, ◼ we will post the live stream in this post as soon as it is available.

◼ Republican debate: Five things to watch - Washington Post
◼ Perry, Cain, Romney to Vie for Lead in Debate - Bloomberg

“Make $350-650 a week “protesting” on Wall Street"

◼ 10/7/2011 | Craigs List ◼ http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/gov/2618821815.html

GOP assemblyman files referendum of California Dream Act

◼ A GOP state assemblyman today launched an effort to ask voters to repeal the California Dream Act signed into law this weekend by Gov. Jerry Brown. - Sacramento Bee

Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, R-Twin Peaks, filed referendum papers to overturn Assembly Bill 131, which allows undocumented immigrant college students who already qualify for in-state tuition rates to receive state-funded financial aid, including Cal Grants.

"I think that it is perhaps the biggest mistake that Governor Brown has ever made...other than unionizing public employees," Donnelly, a former Minuteman Corps of California leader, told The Bee over the weekend.

Once cleared for circulation, Donnelly will have less than three months to collect the roughly 505,000 valid voter signatures needed to put the referendum on the 2012 ballot. Qualifying would freeze implementation of the A.B. 131, which is not set to take effect until 2013, until voters decide whether to keep or reject the law.

◼ The Moral Dimensions of Illegal Immigration - Victor Davis Hanson/Pajamas Media

◼ Terminal Stupidity: the California Story - Doug Ross

Brown is wading into a contentious national debate — and moving in a distinctly different direction from most of the country, according to organizations on both sides of the firearm debate.

◼ Brown bans open carrying of handguns - LA Times

Neal Boortz: Barack Obama Is a Bigger Disaster to This Country Than 9-11

Mark The Date: General Meeting Oct. 20

Susan Tully. our speaker this month has been a guest on Fox News with Brit Hume, Fox & Friends, CNN with Lou Dobbs, Geraldo Rivera, Dan Rather and 100’s Talk Radio. She is a former business owner, manager for municipal code enforcement, immigration coordinator for the Coalition of Government Officials (southern California), and president of Citizens Committee for Immigration Policy. She'll be taking about the state of immigration - legal and illegal - in America today.

As the National Field Director of FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) Susan works to educate the media and public on immigration issues. It's a hot topic, and an emotional issue... Illegal immigration affects all of us in California, and the US. We spend $113 billion a year on illegals in the US and $1,200 a year per household. (Learn more at www.fairus.org)
Susan is a very popular (and controversial) speaker – you’ll want to make your reservation today!
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THIS MONTH - Please RSVP to Gwen Morris 498-3101 smlboss @ aol.com
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Freakshow: #OccupyAtlanta Silences Civil Rights Hero John Lewis!

Herman Cain: “When a reporter asked me the other day: Well, what do you think about those demonstrations up on Wall Street? I said, first of all, Wall Street didn’t write these failed economic policies, the White House did.”

◼ “Why don’t you move the demonstrations to the White House?” - CNS News

◼ Cain’s Campaign Soars as Republicans Search for Right Candidate - Newsmax

Herman Cain, a one-time pizza magnate and tea party conservative, is surging in GOP polls, partly because of his unabashed criticism of the Wall Street protests.

Although the protests left many GOP contenders tongue-tied at first as they tried to gauge which way the wind was blowing, Cain didn't hesitate in condemning the incipient protests as an attack on American capitalism.

He accused the anti-Wall Street protesters of being jealous of other people's money and turning themselves into victims.

"Part of it is jealousy. I stand by that," Cain said on the CBS program "Face the Nation" Sunday. "And here's why I don't have a lot of patience for that: My parents, they never played the victim card. My parents never said that we hope the rich people lose something so that we can get something.
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100th Anniversary of Woman's Suffrage in California 10-10-1911

1896 meeting of Suffragist leaders: standing (l to r) Ida Husted Harper,
Selena Solomons, Carrie Chapman Catt, Anne Bidwell, (seated) Lucy Anthony,
Dr. Anna H. Shaw, Susan B. Anthony, Ellen Clark Sargent, and Mary Hay.

◼ 100th Anniversary of Woman's Suffrage in California 10-10-1911 - FoundSF (image source, California Historical Society, San Francisco, CA)

American women gained their right to vote in 1920. But in California, women had already won the right to vote in 1911, nearly a decade earlier.

◼ In 1896, suffragists took the issue straight to the California voters for a statewide referendum. Although Populists, Prohibitionists, Republicans and unions joined a formidable women's alliance to promote the measure, it was defeated by a sizeable majority. Many blamed the vocal liquor industry and the Democratic Party for the defeat. - theautry.org

◼ California: 100 Years of Women Voting - LOWV

Cain Surges

◼ Cain Surges, Nearly Ties Romney for Lead in GOP Preferences - Gallup
◼ Change: Cain now leads Perry nationally and in New Hampshire - HotAir

A new poll by the Institute of Politics (IOP) at Harvard University and the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College shows former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leading the candidate field with 38 percent among likely voters in the New Hampshire Republican presidential primary. Businessman Herman Cain (20%) and U.S. Representative Ron Paul (13%) follow, with all remaining candidates polling at 5 percent or less…
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Aimless Obama walks alone

◼ The reports are not good, disturbing even. I have heard basically the same story four times in the last 10 days, and the people doing the talking are in New York and Washington and are spread across the political spectrum. - Michael Goodwin/New York Post

The gist is this: President Obama has become a lone wolf, a stranger to his own government. He talks mostly, and sometimes only, to friend and adviser Valerie Jarrett and to David Axelrod, his political strategist.

...If the reports are accurate, and I believe they are, they paint a picture of an isolated man trapped in a collapsing presidency. While there is no indication Obama is walking the halls of the White House late at night, talking to the portraits of former presidents, as Richard Nixon did during Watergate, the reports help explain his odd public remarks.... Read The rest

In a nutshell...

The folks who are getting the free stuff don't like the folks who are paying for the free stuff because the folks who are paying for the free stuff can no longer afford to pay for both the free stuff and their own stuff, and, the folks who are paying for the free stuff want the free stuff to stop. And the the folks who are getting the free stuff want even more free stuff on top of the free stuff they are already getting!

Now...the people who are forcing the people who PAY for the free stuff have told the people who are RECEIVING the free stuff that the people who are PAYING for the free stuff are being mean, prejudiced, and racist.

So... the people who are GETTING the free stuff have been convinced they need to hate the people who are paying for the free stuff by the people who are forcing some people to pay for their free stuff and giving them the free stuff in the first place.

We have let the free stuff giving go on for so long that there are Now more people getting free stuff than paying for the free stuff.

Now understand this. All great democracies have committed financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being founded. The reason The voters figured out they could vote themselves money from the treasury by electing people who promised to give them money from the treasury in exchange for electing them. The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231 years ago. The number of people now getting free stuff outnumbers the people paying for the free stuff. We have one chance to change that in 2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we know it. (h/t: Colleen)

#OccupyWhiteHouse2012

Celebrate Columbus Day!

◼ Monday, October 10, 2011 - history channel
◼ Columbus Day 2011: Columbus Day Parade New York Begins at 11 a.m. Monday - International Business Times

Governor Palin’s Speech at “Defending the Republic” Event

◼ – Oct 7 2011 - Palin-TV

Jerry Brown vetoes industrial hemp, pregnant inmate and use of tanning beds by minors bills

◼ link - Sacramento Bee Capitol Alert

Gov. Jerry Brown today vetoed legislation that would have permitted the cultivation of industrial hemp in California, though the Democratic governor didn't seem happy about it.

Senate Bill 676, by Sen. Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, would have created an eight-year, pilot program for the cultivation of industrial hemp in Imperial, Kern, Kings and San Joaquin counties.

...Brown also vetoed Assembly Bill 568, by Assemblywoman Nancy Skinner, D-Berkeley, which would have prohibited prison guards from shackling pregnant inmates unless necessary.

"At first blush, I was inclined to sign this bill because it certainly seems inappropriate to shackle a pregnant inmate unless absolutely necessary," Brown said in a veto message. "However, the language of this measure goes too far, prohibiting not only shackling, but also the use of handcuffs or restraints of any kind except under ill-defined circumstances."

◼ California bans use of tanning beds by minors - Reuters via Drudge (image source)

◼ But... lets 12-year-olds consent to preventive care for STDs - LA Times

◼ Gov. Brown signs law banning open carry of handguns - ABC Local

AB144, makes it a misdemeanor to carry an exposed and unloaded gun in a public place.

Brown had more than 100 bills to sign or veto before a midnight deadline.

Brown also signed a new measure requiring health insurance companies in California to provide coverage for autism.

...Brown vetoed a bill requiring extra warning for women whose breast tissue is dense enough to mimic cancers in mammograms.

He also vetoed a bill allowing public universities to use race in their undergraduate and graduate admissions.

The governor said no to a bill requiring law enforcement officers to get a warrant before they search through electronic devices of people they arrest.

◼ Jerry Brown signs bill speeding involuntary medication of inmates - LA Times

◼ Jerry Brown rejects new restrictions on megastores - LA Times

◼ Jerry Brown extends tax credit for filmmakers until 2015 - LA Times

◼ Gov. Jerry Brown signs bill placing limits on DUI checkpoints - LA Times

WOMEN'S WORLD: Argentine president poised for re-election

◼ Argentine President Cristina Fernandez has a massive lead over opponents two weeks before a presidential election and looks set to win more than 50 percent of the vote, two polls showed on Sunday. - Reuters via Drudge (image source)