Tinker:
Why does the American people
attribute honor to undesirables politicians who bend and break the laws
that everyone else lives by?
Just when or
where did the American people get the feeling that the politicians
running Washington DC are honorable men and women.
Because their records of the politicians running Washington DC tell us that the history of their behavior is just the opposite, and are instead managing our country's government like a crime wave that has been passed on from generation to generation.
Because their records of the politicians running Washington DC tell us that the history of their behavior is just the opposite, and are instead managing our country's government like a crime wave that has been passed on from generation to generation.
No one really want to grapple with the reality of
knowing that perhaps the American citizens who died defending their
country was in truth simply wasted on the criminals operating out of
Washington DC instead.
No that is just too harsh of a pill to swallow,
because then that would make all of us American citizens just a bunch of
cannon folly who have been played for fools each and every time that we
sing the star spangled banner. I guess that kind of reality is just to
hard for anyone to believe.
And then again if that is the harsh truth
about our men and women running our government in Washington DC in
America. How can I say that kind of thing with elegance?
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Editor’s note: Below are the
prepared remarks for Glenn Beck’s speech in Washington, D.C., on June
19, 2013. This post has been updated with more up-to-date text, though
the delivered remarks may slightly differ.
Today, inside, they dedicated a new statue of another American giant, Fredrick Douglas – a man born into slavery, but who knew instinctively that he was not born a slave. No man is.
To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do what ever it is the circus requires.
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Fredrick Douglas was lucky enough to live in a house where he was taught to read, write and think. He knew God did not make men masters over others. Nor did he ever intend any man to impose unrighteous dominion over another man or beast.
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We come here today to respectfully,
but with the power of the spirit, demand to be treated as an equal
member of society. I am a man, and I will be treated as such. I answer
to only one king and His kingdom will come, His will be done. We have
chosen sides and we choose God. America as a nation must do the same, as
well.
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We come today to declare our
independence, to reaffirm our founding principles. We, as a nation,
acknowledge a creator. We acknowledge that he gives certain natural,
guaranteed rights to man. We declare that government exists primarily to
protect these natural, God-given rights. He has established right and
wrong. He is just and therefore, man must pay for his mistakes either
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(Photo: Frederic J. Brown, AFP/Getty Images)
A
State Department whistle-blower says she was threatened after turning
over documents to a U.S. senator that alleged coverups of investigations
into employee use of drugs and prostitutes, her lawyer says.
The whistle-blower's allegations have led lawmakers on Capitol Hill to look into whether the State Department squelched investigations into criminal behavior by employees, including an ambassador who allegedly propositioned prostitutes in a Belgian city park.
Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a briefing about the allegations detailed in recent news reports.
"The notion that any or all of these cases would not be investigated thoroughly by the Department is unacceptable," Royce said in the letter.
"To watch the four years I have proudly served in Belgium smeared is devastating," Gutman said. "I live on a beautiful park in Brussels that you walk through to get to many locations and at no point have I ever engaged in any improper activity."
Another allegation described in the Inspector General's memo says Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, put the kibosh on an investigation involving Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq, according to the New York Post. Members of State's Special Investigations Division never interviewed the nominee, Brett McGurk, about sexually charged e-mails between him and Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon because Mills intervened, the report says.
Mills advised McGurk to withdraw his name from consideration and the investigation was dropped, according to the memo.
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Speaking to about 2,000 young people, which included many Catholics, Obama seemingly argued that religious education can promote division and resentment.
“If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,” Obama said, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer.
US
President Barack Obama listens during a bilateral meeting with French
President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of the G8 summit in the
Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on June 18, 2013.
Russia and the US agreed at the G8 summit to push for Syria peace talks,
but Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama made clear their deep
differences over the conflict. Credit: AFP/Getty Images
The Catholic World News responded to Obama’s comments:
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WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows.
Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could start scaling back its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases later this year if the economy continues to improve. He said the reductions would occur in "measured steps" and that the purchases could end by the middle of next year.
Bernanke likened any reduction in the Fed's bond purchases to a driver letting up on a gas pedal rather than applying the brakes.
Speaking of the economy, he said, "The fundamentals look a little better to us."
He spoke at a news conference after the Fed ended a two-day policy meeting. After the meeting, the Fed voted to continue the pace of its bond-buying program for now. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market.
Investors reacted by selling both stocks and bonds. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 130 points soon after Bernanke's news conference began. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note shot up to 2.31 percent from 2.21 percent just before the statement came out.
In its statement, the Fed said the economy is growing moderately. And for the first time it said the "downside risks to the outlook" had diminished since fall.
Timothy Duy, a University of Oregon economist who tracks the Fed, called the statement "an open door for scaling back asset purchases as early as September."
The fact that the Fed foresees less downside risk to the job market "gives them a reason to pull back" on its bond purchases, Duy said. Read more...http://www.
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GOP strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday that President Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are different when it comes to national security. The president, he said, didn't have the "guts" to defend controversial NSA programs.
Speaking on Fox News, Rove weighed in on Obama's recent remarks about the NSA's massive surveillance programs, in which he sought to distance himself from comparisons to Cheney.
“He’s right, he’s not Dick Cheney," Rove said. "Dick Cheney at least had the guts to step up and defend these National Security Agency programs, where the president was sending out the underlings in order to defend it himself and then going on a talk radio program, a TV talk program, as he fled the country for the G-8 meeting."
In an interview with PBS that aired Monday, Obama attempted to deflect criticism over the NSA programs, calling them "transparent" and subject to sufficient oversight.
Rove suggested that Obama's defense was too little too late, and that Cheney had done a better job as an unabashed champion of the expansive monitoring programs.
“Dick Cheney understood how important this was and offered himself up as a defender of a program, which was begun under the Bush years and continued under President Obama,” he said.
Cheney has long claimed that the surveillance practices, which civil libertarians have decried as unconstitutional and illegal, are a necessary tool to combat terrorism in a post-9/11 world. During a speech in 2006, he stridently defended the Patriot Act, claiming the nation could not "afford to be without its protections."
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‘We Will No Longer Accept the Lies’: Glenn Beck’s Powerful Speech at Washington, D.C. Rally
Jun. 19, 2013 11:19amGlenn Beck
Glenn Beck is the CEO & Founder of Mercury Radio Arts.
Beck is one of America's leading radio and television personalities, and
author of #1 New York Times bestsellers in both fiction and
non-fiction. The Glenn Beck Program is syndicated by Premiere Radio
Networks and is the third highest-rated national radio talk show among
adults ages 25 to 54. Glenn is married with four kids.
Today, inside, they dedicated a new statue of another American giant, Fredrick Douglas – a man born into slavery, but who knew instinctively that he was not born a slave. No man is.
To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do what ever it is the circus requires.
(Scroll down to watch the full speech)
Fredrick Douglas was lucky enough to live in a house where he was taught to read, write and think. He knew God did not make men masters over others. Nor did he ever intend any man to impose unrighteous dominion over another man or beast.
(Photo: TheBlaze)
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Whistle-blower Aurelia Fedenisn says State Department investigators threatened to prosecute her for providing documents to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.
Story Highlights
- Investigator says she was pressured to turn over documents on State drugs, prostitutes
- State says charges are "preposterous"
- Inspector general says Clinton chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, stopped probe
The whistle-blower's allegations have led lawmakers on Capitol Hill to look into whether the State Department squelched investigations into criminal behavior by employees, including an ambassador who allegedly propositioned prostitutes in a Belgian city park.
Rep. Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to Secretary of State John Kerry asking for a briefing about the allegations detailed in recent news reports.
"The notion that any or all of these cases would not be investigated thoroughly by the Department is unacceptable," Royce said in the letter.
"To watch the four years I have proudly served in Belgium smeared is devastating," Gutman said. "I live on a beautiful park in Brussels that you walk through to get to many locations and at no point have I ever engaged in any improper activity."
Another allegation described in the Inspector General's memo says Clinton's chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, put the kibosh on an investigation involving Obama's nominee to be U.S. ambassador to Iraq, according to the New York Post. Members of State's Special Investigations Division never interviewed the nominee, Brett McGurk, about sexually charged e-mails between him and Wall Street Journal reporter Gina Chon because Mills intervened, the report says.
Mills advised McGurk to withdraw his name from consideration and the investigation was dropped, according to the memo.
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Obama Offends in Ireland, Says Catholic and Protestant Schools Can Encourage ‘Fear’ and ‘Division’
Jun. 19, 2013 6:41pm
Jason Howerton
President Barack Obama reportedly offended Catholics and Protestants during a speech he gave while in Northern Ireland for the G8 summit.Speaking to about 2,000 young people, which included many Catholics, Obama seemingly argued that religious education can promote division and resentment.
“If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,” Obama said, according to the Scottish Catholic Observer.
US
President Barack Obama listens during a bilateral meeting with French
President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of the G8 summit in the
Lough Erne resort near Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on June 18, 2013.
Russia and the US agreed at the G8 summit to push for Syria peace talks,
but Presidents Vladimir Putin and Barack Obama made clear their deep
differences over the conflict. Credit: AFP/Getty ImagesIronically, President Obama made his comments just as Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told a crowd in Scotland that religious education upholds the dignity of the human person. Archbishop Müller said that Catholic schools should promote “all that is good in the philosophies of societies and human culture.”Given Ireland’s strong Catholic community, it would seem more controversial to suggest Catholic and Protestant schools can promote division in that country. Further, Fr. John Zuhlsdorf on his blog compared it to traveling to a Muslim nation and telling people they shouldn’t have “madrasas” or going to Israel and telling the Jewish people they shouldn’t have synagogue schools.
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Bernanke Says Fed Could Reduce Bond Purchases Later This Year
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
06/19/13 03:14 PM ET EDT 
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve signaled Wednesday that it's moving closer to slowing its bond-buying program, which is intended to keep long-term interest rates at record lows.
Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed could start scaling back its $85 billion in monthly bond purchases later this year if the economy continues to improve. He said the reductions would occur in "measured steps" and that the purchases could end by the middle of next year.
Bernanke likened any reduction in the Fed's bond purchases to a driver letting up on a gas pedal rather than applying the brakes.
Speaking of the economy, he said, "The fundamentals look a little better to us."
He spoke at a news conference after the Fed ended a two-day policy meeting. After the meeting, the Fed voted to continue the pace of its bond-buying program for now. But it offered a more optimistic outlook for the U.S. economy and job market.
Investors reacted by selling both stocks and bonds. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 130 points soon after Bernanke's news conference began. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note shot up to 2.31 percent from 2.21 percent just before the statement came out.
In its statement, the Fed said the economy is growing moderately. And for the first time it said the "downside risks to the outlook" had diminished since fall.
Timothy Duy, a University of Oregon economist who tracks the Fed, called the statement "an open door for scaling back asset purchases as early as September."
The fact that the Fed foresees less downside risk to the job market "gives them a reason to pull back" on its bond purchases, Duy said. Read more...http://www.
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Karl Rove: Obama Isn't Dick Cheney Because He Didn't Have 'The Guts' To Defend NSA Programs
The Huffington Post
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By Nick Wing
Posted: 06/19/2013 1:36 pm EDT | Updated: 06/19/2013 1:38 pm EDT
GOP strategist Karl Rove said Tuesday that President Barack Obama and Dick Cheney are different when it comes to national security. The president, he said, didn't have the "guts" to defend controversial NSA programs.
Speaking on Fox News, Rove weighed in on Obama's recent remarks about the NSA's massive surveillance programs, in which he sought to distance himself from comparisons to Cheney.
“He’s right, he’s not Dick Cheney," Rove said. "Dick Cheney at least had the guts to step up and defend these National Security Agency programs, where the president was sending out the underlings in order to defend it himself and then going on a talk radio program, a TV talk program, as he fled the country for the G-8 meeting."
In an interview with PBS that aired Monday, Obama attempted to deflect criticism over the NSA programs, calling them "transparent" and subject to sufficient oversight.
Rove suggested that Obama's defense was too little too late, and that Cheney had done a better job as an unabashed champion of the expansive monitoring programs.
“Dick Cheney understood how important this was and offered himself up as a defender of a program, which was begun under the Bush years and continued under President Obama,” he said.
Cheney has long claimed that the surveillance practices, which civil libertarians have decried as unconstitutional and illegal, are a necessary tool to combat terrorism in a post-9/11 world. During a speech in 2006, he stridently defended the Patriot Act, claiming the nation could not "afford to be without its protections."
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Does Verizon records case mean an end to privacy?
By Eugene Robinson,June 06, 2013
Someday, a young girl will look up into her father’s eyes and ask, “Daddy, what was privacy?”The father probably won’t recall. I fear we’ve already forgotten that there was a time when a U.S. citizen’s telephone calls were nobody else’s business. A time when people would have been shocked and angered to learn that the government was compiling a detailed log of ostensibly private calls made and received by millions of Americans.
The Guardian reported Thursday that the U.S. government is collecting such information about customers of Verizon Business Network Services, one of the nation’s biggest providers of phone and Internet services to corporations. The ho-hum reaction from officials who are in the know suggests that the government may be compiling similar information about Americans who use other phone service providers as well.
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Sen. Chuck Grassley: IRS to Pay $70 Million in ‘Union Bonuses’ Despite Directive to Cancel Them
Jun. 19, 2013 7:52am
Jonathon M. Seidl
Sen.
Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary
Committee makes a point on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, May 20,
2013, as lawmakers work on a landmark immigration bill. Credit: APSen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday to pay the bonuses. Grassley says the bonuses should be canceled under an April directive from the White House budget office.
The directive was written by Danny Werfel, a former budget official who has since been appointed acting IRS commissioner.
“The IRS always claims to be short on resources,” Grassley said. “But it appears to have $70 million for union bonuses. And it appears to be making an extra effort to give the bonuses despite opportunities to renegotiate with the union and federal instruction to cease discretionary bonuses during sequestration.”
The IRS said it is negotiating with the union over the matter but did not dispute Grassley’s claim that the bonuses are imminent.
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The first week of the SEC season has some real gems in it. You have a few quality nonconference opponents taking on SEC teams at neutral sites, and quite the opening SEC matchup in Nashville.
But
which one is the best? Which one has you the most intrigued as we sit
only a couple months away from the first weekend of the college football
season?
Of course, you have Alabama's opener in Atlanta against Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. Alabama should be a pretty decent favorite in this game, but the Hokies do return nine starters on a defense that finished the year ranking 18th nationally in total defense. And those four returning defensive linemen could test Alabama's offensive line early. The matchup between Alabama's offense and Virginia Tech's defense should be fun, but can the Hokies move the ball against the Tide's defense? Could be really tough, even with Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas returning.
LSU travels to Arlington, Texas, to take on TCU in the Horned Frogs' backyard. LSU has to replace a lot on defense, and is taking on a TCU offense that returns nine starters, along with quarterback Casey Pachall. This could be a really fun game to watch, because the Tigers could showoff what they are hoping is a more explosive passing game. LSU always plays big in these nonconference games, and has had success in Jerry's World.
You can't forget about Georgia's trip to Clemson to take on the Tigers from that other conference. This game has the makings of a real shootout with the offenses that will be on the field and the fact that both defenses still have questions. And this game could have national-title implications. Plus, it's Aaron Murray vs. Tajh Boyd. Sammy Watkins vs. Malcolm Mitchell. First team to 40 wins?
South Carolina hosts North Carolina on Aug. 29 in a game that should receive a lot of attention. The Tar Heels return 14 starters and are looking to prove that they can once again be a legitimate threat nationally. It's also a chance to bring back what used to be a fun border rivalry. South Carolina gets to test out it's relatively new-look defense against one of the ACC's top quarterbacks in Bryn Renner. Oh, and it's a chance to see Jadeveon Clowney right off the bat. Can he get some more Heisman love on national television?
As for the lone conference game, you have Vanderbilt hosting Ole Miss on Aug. 29. This game means more now than it has in a while. There's more excitement around it because both teams are trending up in the SEC. Ole Miss hasn't beaten Vandy since 2009, and with the schedule the Rebels have, getting this win would be huge. Both teams also have nice firepower coming back on offense, which should make for good offense-defense matchups for both teams. This game could be another classic like last year's when the Dores stormed back in the fourth quarter to steal one in Oxford.
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Poll: What's the best opening game in 2013?
June, 19, 2013
By
Edward Aschoff | ESPN.com
The first week of the SEC season has some real gems in it. You have a few quality nonconference opponents taking on SEC teams at neutral sites, and quite the opening SEC matchup in Nashville.
Of course, you have Alabama's opener in Atlanta against Virginia Tech in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. Alabama should be a pretty decent favorite in this game, but the Hokies do return nine starters on a defense that finished the year ranking 18th nationally in total defense. And those four returning defensive linemen could test Alabama's offensive line early. The matchup between Alabama's offense and Virginia Tech's defense should be fun, but can the Hokies move the ball against the Tide's defense? Could be really tough, even with Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas returning.
LSU travels to Arlington, Texas, to take on TCU in the Horned Frogs' backyard. LSU has to replace a lot on defense, and is taking on a TCU offense that returns nine starters, along with quarterback Casey Pachall. This could be a really fun game to watch, because the Tigers could showoff what they are hoping is a more explosive passing game. LSU always plays big in these nonconference games, and has had success in Jerry's World.
You can't forget about Georgia's trip to Clemson to take on the Tigers from that other conference. This game has the makings of a real shootout with the offenses that will be on the field and the fact that both defenses still have questions. And this game could have national-title implications. Plus, it's Aaron Murray vs. Tajh Boyd. Sammy Watkins vs. Malcolm Mitchell. First team to 40 wins?
South Carolina hosts North Carolina on Aug. 29 in a game that should receive a lot of attention. The Tar Heels return 14 starters and are looking to prove that they can once again be a legitimate threat nationally. It's also a chance to bring back what used to be a fun border rivalry. South Carolina gets to test out it's relatively new-look defense against one of the ACC's top quarterbacks in Bryn Renner. Oh, and it's a chance to see Jadeveon Clowney right off the bat. Can he get some more Heisman love on national television?
As for the lone conference game, you have Vanderbilt hosting Ole Miss on Aug. 29. This game means more now than it has in a while. There's more excitement around it because both teams are trending up in the SEC. Ole Miss hasn't beaten Vandy since 2009, and with the schedule the Rebels have, getting this win would be huge. Both teams also have nice firepower coming back on offense, which should make for good offense-defense matchups for both teams. This game could be another classic like last year's when the Dores stormed back in the fourth quarter to steal one in Oxford.
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