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POPSThe Obama Doctrine: “We’re gonna punish our enemies and we’re gonna reward our friends” Most Americans have an innate sense of fairness, a respect for the level playing field. We all must play by the same rules. That's really the American way, a meritocracy where the best and brightest are free, in fact rewarded, for bringing innovative ideas to market that ultimately will serve us all. And those who fail are free to dust themselves off and try again. Most successful people, in fact, have had to dust themselves off a number of times. Dr. Milton R. Wolf is a board-certified diagnostic radiologist, medical director and cousin of President Obama. He blogs daily at http://wolffiles.blogspot.com
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POPSStop FCC's New Push for "Fairness Doctrine" The "Public Value Test" is nothing more than another attempt to implement the Fairness Doctrine. Actually this so-called "test" is more insidious than the Fairness Doctrine. This new policy would intimidate station owners - make them nervous about airing controversial programs and ultimately result in keeping conservative talk programs - including shows like Jay Sekulow Live! - off the air. The FCC can act on its own to implement this troubling change. It does not require Congressional approval. That's why we're mobilizing to stop this at the agency level itself. Here's how you can make a difference. Add your name to our Petition to Stop President Obama from Imposing the Fairness Doctrine. This is nothing more than the FCC's latest attempt to intimidate broadcasters - muzzle Christian radio and television - to silence conservative talk. This is not the way freedom works.
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POPSHow Barney Frank Opened Floodgates to Islamic Terrorists 
Any lawyer worth a damn would tell you that it would be difficult to prove that Osama bin Laden was involved in "terrorist activities." Gerald Posner, in his book "Why America Slept: The Failure to prevent 9/11," wrote that Frank had "led a successful effort to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act so that membership in a terrorist group was no longer sufficient to deny a visa. Under Frank's amendment, which seems unthinkable post-9/11, a visa could only be denied if the government could prove that the applicant had committed an act of terrorism." Former CIA directors James Woolsey and George Tenet have both testified that Congress had opened the floodgates to terrorists. After its passage, terrorists associated with Hamas and al-Qaida began entering the country with legal visas, began recruiting domestic terrorists and sending funds to overseas "charities," according to the congressional testimony of terrorism expert Steven Emerson. full post... http://bit.ly/bkitEd
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POPSGOP Poised to Take up Birther Argument: Warns James Clyburn requiring broadcasters to give both sides equal time on political programs, there wouldn’t be an issue. “Twenty-five years ago, we didn’t have Rush Limbaugh spewing hate all day, every day, and others on the radio, and we didn’t have a TV station dedicated to misrepresenting the facts and people making $20 million to go out and say what they know not to be true,” Clyburn said in the interview. “This has created an atmosphere of toxicity.” In a recent interview with author Dinesh D’Souza, Glenn Beck did speak out against the birther idea: See Glenn Beck video at website Obama, beware! http://bit.ly/aCNxa6 http://www.theblaze.com A call to the Majority Whip’s office seeking comment about what Clyburn is basing his claim off of was not immediately returned.
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POPSBACK TO CONSERVATIVE BASICS And if you want to go back much farther in American history, Rivera didn’t mention that it was the Democrats who OPPOSED the abolition of slavery. But, none of this editorial is about Geraldo Rivera. Why should it be, other than to use him as a poster-boy for LEFTIST thinking? Here’s the TRUTH about CONSERVATIVE Republicans the Democrats DON’T want you to know: 1 – The Republican Party was CREATED in GREAT part to END slavery. Democrats were for it. 2 – Conservative Republicans stand for FREEDOM of the INDIVIDUAL. Democrats are all about the Rights of the COLLECTIVE. 3 – Conservative Republicans stand for SMALL governments. Democrats have never seen a government that is TOO big. 4 – Conservative Republicans stand for LESS bureaucracy. To Democrats, RED TAPE IS ALL ABOUT US. 5 – Conservative Republicans stand for FEWER and lower taxes. Democrats can NEVER tax enough. LOTS MORE AT SOURCE...
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POPSFree Press Goes All-In on CENSORSHIP “The NHMC understands that those who would prefer hate speech to remain under the radar will claim that such an inquiry violates the First Amendment,” the group added. “No doubt they will raise the red herring of the restoration of the ‘fairness doctrine,’ trying to divert the attention of the vast majority of Americans who find hate speech reprehensible.” Ars Technica asks the obvious followup question: Finally, why would the FCC want to run an inquiry on Internet content at a time when, in pursuit of revised net neutrality rules, its chair is trying to convince the public that the agency doesn’t want to regulate Internet content? My answer: because this is why Free Press has been driving Net Neutrality the whole time. Their goal is state control of the mass media. It always has been, and they’ve always been open about it. “Media reform,” as they call it, is no different from “Health care reform,” and we know how “well” that turned out.
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POPSFiscal responsibility? Eh. Active government? Handout please! On what are these "fiscal experts" basing their opinion that "Social Security is sound?" That the government says it is? Don't we know better than that by now? And those who voted for "an active government to invest in our future" probably don't realize -- or would prefer to ignore, because it's easier to put your hand out than use elbow grease -- that the Founding Fathers envisioned a country in which people were free to invest in their own future.
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POPSRight-wing delusion: Net neutrality is government plot to control Internet content Net neutrality prohibits Internet Service Providers from controlling access to Internet content Contrary to claims that net neutrality allows the government to control content on the Internet, the Congressional Research Service states that net neutrality is the principle that "owners of the networks that compose and provide access to the Internet should not control how consumers lawfully use that network; and should not be able to discriminate against content provider access to that network." Net neutrality protects consumer freedom and was "the law of the land until 2005" Open Internet Coalition: "Net neutrality was a founding principle of the Internet, and was the law of the land until 2005." The Open Internet Coalition -- a group that includes Amazon, eBay, Google, Sony, and YouTube -- explains of net neutrality:
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POPS$6 Billion Payoff: Barney Frank Gives In To Congressional Black Caucus Shakedown Crew “For those of us who walked out, it was absolutely essential that we have parts of that legislation directed toward helping people who have been left out of all of these bailouts,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo., one of 10 black caucus members in the Financial Services Committee, said…Among the caucus’ demands were greater assistance for minority-owned auto dealerships and banks that lend in African-American communities and more government advertising in minority-owned media. No word on how much of a cut the wealthy minority businessman Percy Sutton will get. Or whether corruptocrat Maxine Waters’ favorite bank, OneUnited, will snag an even bigger share of TARP funds from this new deal. Rremember: she has already finagled $12 million in TARP money for OneUnited, one of her key campaign donors and a company in which both Waters and her husband own massive amounts of stock. Mark Penn got his. The CBC’s got to get theirs. Power to the people!
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POPSChuck Schumer - Free Speech is UnAmerican This is the arrogant contempt for free speech that Democrats always display when they are pressed. They own the entire media but have to try and destroy Fox News. They want to shut up Rush and Sean with the "fairness doctrine". And they really, really, really don't want anyone criticizing them.
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POPSAir America Crashes, Burns — Will Anyone Besides Franken and Maddow Notice? and still slants to the left, as evidenced by their recent “Learn to Speak Tea Bag” video. Posted by Dana Loesch Jan 21st 2010 Malloy : Rush, Sean, Glenn, and Bill 'Bombed' America on 9/11 By Tim Graham Wed, 01/20/2010 Radical-left talk show host Mike Malloy went on a tear again on Tuesday night as election returns poured in from Massachusetts. Malloy was blunt about the voters. To him, they said: "We want a theocratic madman as our senator." But Malloy really started swinging as he noted the headline that Prince Alwaleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia was having talks with Rupert Murdoch about News Corp investing in his Rotana Media company. That story led to this rant about conservative talkers being the real terrorists on 9/11 (Listen for yourself here): You crazy sons-of-bitches, you right-wingers. Do you not understand that the people you hold up as heroes bombed your goddamn country? Do you not understand that Glenn Beck and Sean ....
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POPSRegulate THIS! His close personal relationship with Obama should set alarm bells ringing for anyone who values the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, particularly as Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now aged 75, is likely to take retirement soon following illness, and with Justice John Paul Stevens now aged 90. Sunstein and Obama go way back from their faculty days at the University of Chicago law school and are firm friends. Sunstein worked as an advisor to Obama during his presidential campaign and was drafted into the White House soon after Obama won the election. All of Obama’s Czars, are all anti Bill of Rights, and all believe in the Marxist, Socialist, Communist, form of Government like they have in China.
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POPSHow The FCC and Liberal Churches are Scheming to Shut You Up from staunch critics of illegal immigration. Open-borders groups have sought to marginalize, criminalize, and demonize those of us who have raised our voices for years about lax immigration enforcement " and to impose an Orwellian Fairness Doctrine-style policy on illegal alien amnesty opponents. During the presidential campaign, the National Council of La Raza launched a “We Can Stop the Hate” project to redefine tough policy criticism from the Right as “hate.” Unsurprisingly, far Left billionaire George Soros’s money is backing the “So We Might See”/National Hispanic Media Coalition effort. And remember that the Soros-funded Center for American Progress has provided the Obama White House with its Fairness Doctrine-embracing “diversity czar,” Mark Lloyd. Jeffrey Lord, who happens to belong to the United Church of Christ, reported in the American Spectator that not long after that speech, the UCC sent out a mass e-mail to its millions of members urging them.......
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POPSObama’s FCC, “Media Justice” Mob, and Liberal Churches * Media change of all kinds must expose and directly confront the mechanics of structural racism and systemic oppression. * Leaders from historically marginalized communities must be developed as effective media activists and strategic movement communicators. * Media policy advocacy and strategic communications are more effective when clearly relevant to the primary justice issues of the movement for racial justice, economic and gender equity, and youth rights. * Compelling communications and media activism campaigns must be both rooted in critical issues and coordinated across issue, sector, and region for national impact. * When justice sectors strengthen communications strategies, center the use of culture as a communications tool, employ winning frames and messages, and strengthen their influence over media rules and rights, the possibilities for transformative change skyrocket. “Transformative change” = a media landscape purged of the Right’s most powerful voices.
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POPS Is Barack Obama Anti-American? And with other dreams (for example, the Second Amendment) he’s doing a fancy dance by which he tries to hide his authoritarian impulses. But it doesn’t matter. This post isn’t about what Obama will actually do. It’s about what he wants to do, what his desires are vis a vis the American people " and it’s very clear that his desire is antithetical to the American essence. He wants to limit or destroy individual liberties. Politically, too, Obama’s impulses are all antithetical to liberty. Again, some examples: He has turned against the only democratic nation in the Middle East (that would be Israel), in favor of the bloodied tyrannical theocracies on her borders. By reversing his pledge to keep a missile defense system in place in Poland and the Czech Republic, he has favored Iran’s Muslim tyranny Figuratively and literally, he bows to dictators (Saudis, Venezuelans, Russians, Iranians, Cubans). In Honduras, he sided with the delusional Zelaya against the . . .
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POPSFCC Backs Google/Soros ‘Net Neutrality’ Internet providers in the past have rejected what they see as government interference in their networks and how they manage traffic. The US Congress has also been looking into the issue and a net neutrality bill is expected to be introduced shortly in the House of Representatives. From the Agence France-Presse: Related Articles: Soros: Obama Improves Openness Dems Block ‘Fairness Doctrine’ Ban Minority Broadcasters Ask For Bailout Soros: Crisis Is Culmination Of Life’s Work Waxman Wants ‘Fairness,’ The Internet Reposting Obama's 'Disappeared' Agenda Schumer Compares 'Talk Radio' To Porn Behold ACORN's 'Communist Manifesto' Who Is In The Soros 'Democracy Alliance' Democrats Work To Silence Limbaugh MoveOn, Google Seek To Control Internet http://sweetness-light.com/archive/fcc-backs-googlesoros-net-neutrality
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POPSMichael Savage Dropped From "Flagship" Radio Station The San Francisco Chronicle attempted to reach Savage for comment. It went about as well as you might expect: So we called Michael to ask him what's up. His response: "Why don't you call Mao Zedong? He's your boss." After we stopped laughing, we called back, noted that Mao is still dead and asked for a call back. Until we get one, we'll be reading our favorite little red book. Don't worry about Michael -- for those of you who are. Not only are his ratings strong across the country, he's already called at least one San Francisco station Thursday, presumably in search for a new home.
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POPSThe Valerie Jarrett Show the leftist group Jones helped to found, and which launched the advertiser boycott against Fox News host Glenn Beck. The counsel's office places part of the blame on the Office for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public Engagement, which is overseen by Obama Senior Advisor and Assistant to the President Valerie Jarrett. "This wasn't simply Valerie Jarrett rubberstamping her guy," says a White House source. But Jarrett did view Jones as a critical member of the administration for her outreach efforts, in part, because he was so well known and respected in the radical-left world Playing to those types is another reason Jarrett's office approved the invitation of Jameel Jaffer, who runs the ACLU's "national security project," to the White House Ramadan dinner last week. Jaffer, a Canadian citizen, attended the dinner, which President Obama said was being held for American Muslims. Jaffer is a cause célèbre to the far left for his career of litigating against
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POPSNew Democrat Town Hall Strategy: Have Constituents Arrested Today's Democrats use the instrumentalities of government to suppress free speech (consider the "Fairness Doctrine", the "Local Diversity Rule" and other mechanisms to silence conservative opinion). Liberals simply cannot compete on a level playing field, so they try to control the flow of information in this country at every turn, as they have done with academia, Hollywood, and are now even starting to do with the Internet.
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POPSBold and Honest Questions • What will be the definition of "public interest"? • Who defines "public interest"? • Why should it be balanced? Because it's public airwaves? (Well, there are public roads that go by my house and I don't count how many Republicans and Democrats are driving on them) Day 2 • Who is "surrounding" the president in the White House? • Do any of the president's advisers have criminal records? • Are the president's advisers working to better the country or their own ideals? • Who are the anti-capitalists in Washington? • What role do they have in crafting bills? • What was "STORM"? What happened to the founders; where are they now? • What qualifications must one have to be a presidential adviser? • What is the difference between a community organizer and a community activist? • Do the "czars" have power? • Should a communist have the ear of the president of the United States? • What role did the Apollo Alliance play i
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POPSNow Why Would a “Diversity Czar” Worry Anyone? Naturally, these strategies all come complete with the usual, harmless-sounding calls for “diversity” and “community.” Seton Motley, of the conservative Media Research Center, said Lloyd “laid out a battle plan” in a 2007 report for the George Soros-funded progressive think tank, Center for American Progress. According to Motley, Lloyd wanted “the FCC to threaten stations’ licenses with whom they do not agree with politically, and now he’s at the FCC waiting to take their calls. This is not about serving the local interest, it’s about political opposition.” Like I said, start worrying! And get ready to fight! Explore posts in the same categories: News You Can Use, Our precious Liberty New FCC Officer's Proposed Regs Would Stifle Free Speech According to Jillian Bandes, localism (read: government-forced diversity) and progressive radio proponent Mark Lloyd has been named to the position of Chief Diversity Officer at the Federal Communications Commission.
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POPSSmall Banks Fail in Big Numbers
Closures and government takeovers of failing banks have become so routine that they barely gets noticed each Friday when the FDIC makes its announcements. While the banking crisis began with escalating defaults and foreclosures on home mortgages, the increase of bank failures in recent weeks has been driven by rising losses on commercial real estate loans, which are starting to default in large numbers. Community and regional banks hold a disproportionate share of commercial real estate and construction loans. My sister-in-law works at a local bank and says they are only accepting signature loan applications, fixed 5-yr home loans, and no car loans. My brother-in-law sells commercial real estate and every loan he has setup this year has been denied. My wife works for a car dealer who is losing his lines of credit after years of pristine credit. Our home value lost $50,000 and our property taxes went up $500. How the middle class is going to survive this mess is anyone
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POPSInsidious Form of Thought Control a la 1984 In Near Future . . . lines when critics of Barack Obama appeared on radio call in shows. The "authoritarian tactics being employed by the Obama campaign to stifle and intimidate its critics" were on full display. Of course, the specter of the Fairness Doctrine being passed by Congress is also another card in the deck meant to chill criticism of Barack Obama and his fellow travelers. Now comes a more insidious form of thought control a la 1984 Cass Sunstein, a Harvard Law professor who has been appointed to a shadowy post that will grant him powers that are merely mind-boggling, explicitly supports using the courts to impose a "chilling effect" on speech that might hurt someone's feelings. He thinks that the bloggers have been rampaging out of control and that new laws need to be written to corral them. Advance copies of Sunstein's new book, "On Rumors: How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done," have gone out to reviewers ahead of its September . . .
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POPSHealthcare 'Special' ABC Refuses Paid Ads That Oppose Obamacare It is unfortunate--and unusual--that ABC is refusing to accept paid advertising that would present an alternative viewpoint for the White House health care event. Health care is an issue that touches every American and all potential pieces of legislation have carried a price tag in excess of $1 trillion of taxpayers' money. The American people deserve a healthy, robust debate on this issue and ABC's decision--as of now--to exclude even paid advertisements that present an alternative view does a disservice to the public. Our organization is more than willing to purchase ad time on ABC to present an alternative viewpoint and our hope is that ABC will reconsider having such viewpoints be part of this crucial debate for the American people. We were surprised to hear that paid advertisements would not be accepted when we inquired and we would certainly be open to purchasing time if ABC would reconsider.
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POPSHow Did FoxNews Do It? The Hypno-toad orders you to resist Obamunism! # CNN Reporter and Amanda Bearse like-a-look Susan Roesgan, while berating tea-party participants with TeamObama talking points, blamed FoxNews for the tea parties. (Perhaps a bit bitter that they had twice rejected her application for employment). # Bitter scientologist Janeane Garofalo disconnected the E-meter long enough to appear with Keith Olberdouche and sputter, “Fox News loves to foment this anti-intellectualism because that’s their bread and butter.” # Failing left-wing newspaper the New York Waste o’ Times also blamed FoxNews, giving cover to certain websites run by opportunistic butt-pirates to proclaim it as true gospel. # Far lefty and Fairness Doctrine proponent Bill Press declared, “Without Fox News, the wouldn’t exist.”
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