Tuesday, November 26, 2013

RENEW AMERICA 11/25/2013


November 25, 2013
ALAN KEYES — Last Saturday morning (Oct. 16), I read a WND piece by Larry Klayman promoting the "Independence Day: Nov.19, 2013 rally. After pondering its content, I made the decision not to attend the rally. In explaining my decision, I shared with Larry the following thoughts, which he graciously promised to read to those in attendance. It was a magnanimous gesture that only increases my already great affection and admiration for his good character and work... (more)


November 25, 2013
CLIFF KINCAID — Our media remembered President Kennedy, but not what he stood for in global affairs and what made him a communist target. On Friday, Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings unveiled a monument inscribed with the last words of a speech that Kennedy never got to deliver to businessmen at the Dallas Trade Mart... (more)


November 25, 2013
DAILYCALLER — Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, claimed victory over the United States Sunday shortly after a historic nuclear agreement was reached in Geneva between the Islamic Republic and the 5+1 world powers.... (more)


November 25, 2013
WORLDNETDAILY — Israel will do "whatever is necessary" to stop Iran from going nuclear, declared Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon in a radio interview Sunday.... (more)


November 25, 2013
AARON KLEIN — Israeli personnel in recent days were in Saudi Arabia to inspect bases that could be used as a staging ground to launch attacks against Iran, according to informed Egyptian intelligence officials.... (more)


November 25, 2013
NEWSMAX — Former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden on Sunday criticized the Obama administration's deal with Iran saying it will only delay, not derail the country's nuclear program.... (more)


November 25, 2013
NEWSMAX — It's business as usual at the Internal Revenue Service, where officials tell USA Today that little has changed since Congress investigated the agency for targeting tea party groups for unnecessary delays.... (more)


November 25, 2013
NBC NEWS — Almost a year after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., local prosecutors said they are about to release the long-awaited report on their investigation - - but the public will have to keep waiting for the full police report on the massacre.... (more)


November 25, 2013
WORLDNETDAILY — After one of them called for the "forced resignations" of President Obama and congressional leaders in response to multiple grievances, including the alleged political purge of hundreds of senior military officers, two retired U.S. generals are creating a citizens' commission to scrutinize Obama administration actions on national security and economic issues.... (more)


November 25, 2013
ROBERT KNIGHT — Now, President Obama can nominate the Three Stooges to the federal bench if he wants, and get away with it. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid invoked the "nuclear option," and the Senate voted 52 to 48 to change Senate rules by reducing the number of votes needed for cloture on nominees from 60 to 51 (which could include Vice President Joe Biden's tie-breaking vote)... (more)


November 24, 2013
ANDREW C. MCCARTHY — Fraud can be so brazen it takes people's breath away. But for a prosecutor tasked with proving a swindle - - or what federal law describes as a "scheme to defraud" - - the crucial thing is not so much the fraud. It is the scheme.... (more)


November 24, 2013
HUFFINGTON POST — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a leader in the anti-Obamacare showdown that shut the federal government last month, is plotting how he might exploit the next budget crisis for another try at repealing President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.... (more)


November 24, 2013
WASHINGTON TIMES — President Obama on Saturday again tried to turn attention away from his troubled health-care reform law and to other issues, while also placing the blame for Washington dysfunction and gridlock squarely on the shoulders of "a reckless few" - - a clear shot at tea party Republicans in the House.... (more)


November 24, 2013
TIMOTHY CARNEY — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's recent decision to scrap the filibuster is the culmination of a long escalation of partisan tensions in Washington. You could place the origin of this war where you like: Ted Kennedy's smearing of Robert Bork, Mitch McConnell's expanded use of filibusters, the growing alignment of the party along ideological lines or the centralization of government power in Washington.... (more)


November 24, 2013
ELAINE DONNELLY — In a recent editorial cartoon, President Obama is portrayed as a football coach telling a suited-up female player, "Good news! We want you on the front lines." Don't laugh. "Coach Obama" really does intend to send unwilling women into ground combat infantry teams, which face far more violence than pro football.... (more)


November 24, 2013
NEW YORK TIMES — Officials at the National Security Agency, intent on maintaining its dominance in intelligence collection, pledged last year to push to expand its surveillance powers, according to a top-secret strategy document.... (more)


November 24, 2013
WORLDNETDAILY — The Council on American-Islamic Relations, which according to FBI evidence was founded by the Egyptian-based, Saudi-funded Muslim Brotherhood, has filed more than 150 lawsuits over a two-year period that have been aimed at stifling speech - - all with the goal of hiding "Islamic realities," according to a think tank's report.... (more)


November 22, 2013
PAT BOONE — (Editor's note: The following is the text of a speech given by Pat Boone to a Nov. 19 Reclaim America Now rally in Washington across from the White House.) Fellow Americans, fellow citizens, brothers and sisters: I salute you today. I honor and thank you for your willingness to suspend your normal activities and to convene in our nation's capital, in front of our nation's house... (more)


November 22, 2013
PATRICK J. BUCHANAN — By 1968, Walter Lippmann, the dean of liberal columnists, had concluded that liberalism had reached the end of its tether. In that liberal epoch, the 1960s, the Democratic Party had marched us into an endless war that was tearing America apart. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society had produced four "long, hot summers" of racial riots and a national crime rate that had doubled in a decade. The young were alienated, the campuses aflame.... (more)


November 22, 2013
WASHINGTON TIMES — Senate Democrats triggered the "nuclear option" Thursday, using a shortcut to undercut the chamber's filibuster rules and giving President Obama a clear path to stack the federal judiciary with ideological allies... (more)


November 22, 2013
NEWSMAX — The White House is trying to save Obamacare by packing the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., with judges who will rubber stamp its "lawless behavior," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz says. Senate Democrats, according to Cruz, enacted "the nuclear option" to prevent filibusters against appellate court nominees in order to make it difficult for Republicans to repeal the disastrous Affordable Care Act, Obama's signature healthcare legislation, The Hill reported.... (more)


November 22, 2013
JOHN FUND — It may sound like congressional "inside baseball," but yesterday's decision by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to limit the power of the minority to block nominees for Executive Branch and most judicial vacancies is momentous. Ezra Klein, a liberal Washington Post columnist, says Reid's move gutting the filibuster rule that required 60 Senate votes in order to move nominees whom a determined minority opposed "has changed how all Congresses to come will work." The "nuclear option" on Senate rules has been invoked... (more)


November 22, 2013
BREITBART — Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said on a conference call organized by Karl Rove's Crossroads organization for large donors and their advisers on Oct. 30 that the Tea Party movement, in his view, is a "nothing but a bunch of bullies" that he plans to "punch ... in the nose."... (more)


November 22, 2013
JOSEPH FARAH — Now that everyone understands Barack Obama won re-election by fooling enough of the people enough of the time by telling a series of lies, it's an opportune moment to look ahead for a sneak peek at how Democrats will spin American voters next year. It's not hard to predict. In fact, it has already begun. Both Obama and Joe Biden have floated amazingly false political claims lately to see if they might get caught... (more)


November 22, 2013
KDKA — A federal judge in western Pennsylvania says Catholic groups don't immediately have to comply with mandates in the federal health care overhaul law. The Diocese is challenging its participation in the health care program because it would be required to provide its employees

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