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http://www.nationalreview.com/node/374217/print

If you have not seen the biopic of Dr. Carson- “Gifted Hands”…do so….He is an amazing man with an amazing biography….rsk

While the media have been focused on the missing Malaysian aircraft, massive alterations of the world’s geopolitical terrain are underway simultaneously.

The annexation of Crimea by Russia should not have been a surprise for anyone who suspects that Russian president Vladimir Putin is trying to reestablish a powerful Soviet-style empire. When he aggressively attacked Georgia in 2008 — after both Georgia and Ukraine failed to obtain NATO admission at the Bucharest Summit – we should have realized that his goals were not limited to one territory. I suspect he is now calculating an excuse to occupy the easiest regions of Ukraine first and then the whole country over time.

The United States encouraged Ukraine to give up its nuclear arsenal and to deemphasize its military complex, but in its moment of dire need for tangible support, will we have the courage and fortitude to help stop Russian aggression, which ultimately could lead to another Cold War or worse?

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/25/obama-on-ukraine-scuffles-history-has-a-funny-way-of-moving-in-twists-and-turns/

President Obama used the word “scuffles” to describe the invasion of Ukraine while maintaining that his No. 1 security concern is a rogue nuclear weapon detonating inside the U.S. instead of Russia.

Obama was eager to stay on the nuke topic at a press conference with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte after the conclusion of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague. Foreign and American media alike, though, wanted to talk Russia after the G-7 met on the sidelines of the conference to take their caucus down by one member.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov showed up for the class photo at the end of the summit, but stood rows away from Obama.

Obama said he was “less interested” in President Vladimir Putin’s motivations for taking control in Eastern Europe than “the facts and the principles that not only the United States, but the entire international community are looking to uphold.”

“I don’t think that any of us have been under any illusion that Russia has been very interested in controlling what happens to Ukraine. That’s not new. That’s been the case for years now. That’s been the case dating back to the Orange Revolution,” he added.

http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2014/03/25/investigating-justice-department-corruption-while-giving-thousands-to-obama-campaign/
Rooting out unethical behavior inside DOJ is not as important as advancing the latest leftist narrative.

A key ethics investigator at Eric Holder’s Justice Department has contributed $6,100 to Barack Obama’s election campaign even though she has participated in high-profile investigations of political misconduct at the Department of Justice Office of Professional Responsibility.

Mary Aubry is an attorney in the Office of Professional Responsibility. The office has investigated a wide range of politically sensitive matters including the dismissal of the New Black Panther voter intimidation case, terrorist interrogation techniques, and the “investigation” into the firing of United States attorneys who served at the pleasure of President Bush.

After Hans von Spakovsky drew attention to Aubry’s political contributions in this 2011 article, she was removed from investigation into the New Black Panther dismissal. Years after Aubry’s OPR office issued a bungled report on the New Black Panther dismissal, DOJ’s independent inspector general revealed in a subsequent report the deep involvement of political appointees in the matter.

Von Spakovsky:

The investigation of the New Black Panther Party case has dragged on for more than a year and a half. OPR had to remove the lawyer initially assigned to investigate the case (Mary Aubry) after it became public that she had made thousands of dollars of political contributions to Barack Obama, other Democratic candidates, and the Democratic National Committee, with the latest contribution to the DNC coming as recently as July 13, 2010.

More recent FEC data show that Aubry didn’t stop her political participation after von Spakovsky’s 2011 story revealed her thousands in contributions. According to the FEC, Aubry made four more contributions to Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign after von Spakovsky’s article was published, all of them listing her employer as the “U.S. Dept. of Justice.”

http://pjmedia.com/blog/epa-unveils-largest-expansion-of-authority-to-regulate-private-property/

Clean Water Act rule ropes in streams that only fill when it rains, ornamental landscape features, anything deemed to affect downstream waters.

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency today unveiled its proposed rule to bring natural and man-made bodies of water big and tiny under the purview of the Clean Water Act, sparking accusations that the administration has embarked on an unprecedented breach of private property rights without scientific basis.

This launches a “robust outreach effort” to gather input in shaping a final rule over the next 90 days, the EPA said, maintaining that the rulemaking isn’t groundbreaking but a clarification effort needed to clearly define streams and wetlands protection after Supreme Court decisions in 2001 and 2006.

Even though the definition of waters protected under the Clean Water Act will reach everywhere from drainage ditches to creeks on private property under the proposed rule, the EPA says “it does not protect any new types of waters that have not historically been covered under the Clean Water Act.”

“We are clarifying protection for the upstream waters that are

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/61971

That master of falsehoods, fabrications and breathtaking mendacity, Saeb Erakat, is at it again.

Ambassador, Alan Baker, who is the Director of the Institute for Contemporary Affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and who served as Israel’s ambassador to Canada, penned an article titled, “Changing the Historical Narrative: Saeb Erekat’s New Spin”

Erakat, who is the Palestinian Authority’s chief negotiator in the delusional “peace talks” between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, has yet again made the hoary old claim that the Arabs who call themselves Palestinians are descended from the extinct Canaanites.

Lewis Carrol who wrote about Alice in Wonderland and her strange descent down the rabbit hole would have been highly impressed at Erakat’s fantasies during his own descent into wonderland.

Erakat will, alas, no doubt attract so many in the world who are only too pleased to deny the Jews any history or legitimacy. So they will flock to repeat ad nauseum his canard that the “Palestinian Arabs” are the “true” indigenous people of the area and predate by millennia the emergence of the Jewish people around the year 1,750 BC.

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/colorado-2014-candidates-for-congress-where-they-stand

Democrat Senator Mark Udall is now facing a stiff challenge…..stay tuned!! The views on my blog do not represent the non partisan Family Security Matters….rsk

To see the actual voting records of all incumbents on other issues such as Foreign Policy, Second Amendment Issues, Homeland Security, and other issues as well as their rankings by special interest groups please use the links followed by two stars (**).
Michael Bennet (D) – Next Election in 2016
Mark Udall (D) Incumbent

http://www.markudall.senate.gov/

http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Mark_Udall.htm **

RATED +1 BY AAI INDICATING AN ALMOST NEUTRAL POSITION ON ISRAEL/ARAB AFFAIRS, ALOTHOUGH UDALL DISPLAYED VIGOROUS SUPPORT FOR ISRAELO DURING THE GAZA BLOCKADE IN 2012

HOT BUTTON ISSUES

ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=2 Reducing our reliance on foreign oil and curbing the effects of climate change have long been priorities of mine, and I’m working in the Senate to create a plan to tackle these important goals. To do so, we will need an all-of-the-above strategy that includes all of our energy sources, with a special emphasis on those that are clean and domestic. That means focusing on everything from renewable energy and energy efficiency to natural gas and safe nuclear power. This approach will help diversify the sources of energy we depend on, which will stabilize prices, create new jobs and make our country more secure.

HEALTHCARE http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=3 The Affordable Care Act is meant to put Coloradans in charge of their own health care, provide a sense of stability and security, and ensure individuals can choose their coverage plan and their health care provider. The goal is to finally start reducing the ever-increasing costs for consumers, small businesses and the government by taking critical steps to address the runaway growth in health care costs, which are the biggest driver of our spiraling federal deficit.

HUNTING FISHING AND SECOND AMENDMENT RIGHTS http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=61 We need to respect and protect the land while also ensuring that the public can enjoy the resources and recreational opportunities it provides. Interacting with the land is a way of life in the West, whether it’s through hunting, fishing, boating, hiking, skiing or any other kind of outdoor recreation. That’s why it’s important to support these activities as we consider issues involving wildlife management or conservation of our natural environment. Responsible gun-ownership is also an integral part of our Western heritage. The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is an individual right, and I’m committed to protecting the rights of citizens to own firearms for personal protection, hunting, collecting and for other legal purposes.

IMMIGRATION http://www.markudall.senate.gov/?p=issue&id=18 Any solution to fix our immigration system must ensure that employers hire only those who are legally authorized to work in the United States, make our country safer by preventing drug-traffickers and terrorists from entering the United States, and improve the legal channels to enter our country.
Cory Gardner (R-District 4 ) Tea Party Challenger *****

RATED -3 BY THE ARAB AMERICAN INSTITUTE INDICATING A PRO ISRAEL VOTING RECORD
Cory Gardner leaving his seat to run for Senate against Senator Mark Udall
http://gardner.house.gov/

http://www.ontheissues.org/house/Cory_Gardner.htm **

HOT BUTTON ISSUES

IMMIGRATION http://gardner.house.gov/issue/immigration The solution to the problem isn’t for the Justice Department to file a taxpayer-funded lawsuit against the Governor of Arizona for responding to a law enforcement crisis. It isn’t giving amnesty to the 12-20 million illegal immigrants in this country, or giving those people benefits that will only encourage more illegal immigration.

The time has come to enforce the rule of law and end illegal immigration. To that end, I will support legislation that ensures employers only hire people who are here legally and that guest workers are here temporarily. The technology exists to accomplish this in a sensible way, and it is time that we implement that technology.

ENERGY http://gardner.house.gov/issue/energy As a member of Congress, I have passed two pieces of legislation out of the House that will tap American energy resources and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. The Jobs and Energy Permitting Act would streamline the permitting process for drilling in the Alaskan Outer Continental Shelf (OCS). Production in the OCS could provide a million barrels of oil a day – comparable to what we currently get from Saudi Arabia.

The other piece of legislation I have passed out of the House is the Strategic Energy Production Act, which would link a drawdown of America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to increasing access to domestic land for oil production. In the event that the SPR is tapped, my bill would trigger the Secretaries of Energy, Agriculture, and the Interior to develop a plan to increase the percentage of federal lands leased for energy production by an amount equal to what is depleted from the nation’s stockpile of oil. Currently, only three percent of federal land is leased for oil and gas production.

HEALTHCARE http://gardner.house.gov/issue/health As a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, I will be at the forefront of the effort to outline replacement legislation. At the top of this list has to be tort reform. I believe that capping medical malpractice damages is one important way to lower the cost for doctors and patients.

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=7835

On Monday evening, the gag order was lifted on a sexual abuse complaint lodged against Energy and Water Minister Silvan Shalom. For more than 24 hours before that, the story was fodder for the Israeli gossip mill, with a number of websites even revealing Shalom’s identity.

According to the complainant, who worked for Shalom during his term as science minister 15 years ago, he invited her to his hotel room and used the power of his position to get her into bed.

The allegation is now being probed by police, and Attorney-General Yehuda Weinstein is in the process of determining whether there is room to file charges.

There are a few problems with the case.

First of all, the 10-year statute of limitations on the sexual assault of an adult has passed. Police are thus waiting to see whether other women will come forward with more recent accusations against Shalom.

Secondly, the woman in question took two different polygraph tests, with uneven results.

Thirdly, the timing of the complaint is suspicious, emerging one month before the election for the next president takes place — and Shalom is a front-runner candidate.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/frontpagemag-com/elisha-krauss-on-the-impact-of-truthrevolt-org-on-the-glazov-gang/print/

This week’s edition of The Glazov Gang was joined by Elisha Krauss, a Staff Writer at TruthRevolt.org and Co-Host of The Morning Answer on AM 870.

She discussed The Conservative Long-Game, analyzing how the Right can more effectively fight political war.

The dialogue occurred within the context of The Impact of TruthRevolt.org, the new conservative media watchdog group started by Ben Shapiro with David Horowitz at the David Horowitz Freedom Center:

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/bloomberg-vs-the-koch-brothers/print/

The Democratic Party wants the 2014 elections to be about anything and everything except ObamaCare. The depths of Hope and Change were plumbed in 2008, the War on Women was exhausted in 2012 and that leaves only the Koch Brothers.

Senator Harry Reid, facing the end of his time as Senate Majority Leader, has decided to bet the farm on the Koch Brothers. His Senate Majority PAC (formerly Commonsense Ten, really “Keep Harry Reid Majority Leader”) is trying to protect Senate Democrats who are hated in their own states for voting to drive up the price of health insurance while cutting Medicare by accusing their Republican opponents of being pawns and puppets of the Koch Brothers.

One ad already running in Louisiana tells voters, “Out-of-state billionaires are spending millions to rig the system and elect Bill Cassidy. Their goal? Another politician bought and paid for.”

And who is funding the $3 million Reid ad campaign denouncing out-of-state billionaires for spending millions to influence politics? Is it grass roots Louisiana voters or local kindergarteners pitching in their pennies to stop the rampage of the billionaires?

The single biggest donor to Senate Majority PAC is an out-of-state billionaire. Michael Bloomberg donated $2.5 million this year. Bloomberg’s priorities of banning guns, soda and salt are more at odds with the average Louisiana voter, who overwhelmingly supports the Second Amendment and eats what he likes no matter how much salt and sugar it has, than those of the “libertarian-minded” Koch Brothers.

Mainstream media stories about the Senate Majority PAC ad blitz don’t bother to mention that the clamor over “out-of-state billionaires spending millions” is really a case of the 16th richest man attacking the 6th richest men in order to keep the Senate exactly the way it has been for the last seven years.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/laurie-cardoza-moore/teach-your-children-well/print/

Following the horrific attacks on 9/11, I began to ask, like most Americans, what happened to our country. As I researched and talked to experts, the issues of radical Islam and the attacks on America and Israel became extremely personal to me. In response, I founded Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, a non-profit organization dedicated to educating Christians about their biblical responsibility to stand with and for the people and land of Israel. I established PJTN as a powerful Christian voice for Israel in the media using my years of experience in broadcasting and film. Christians were for the most part silent during the first Holocaust — I believe we cannot be silent again.

Little did I realize I would be fighting anti-Semitism in my very own backyard. For the last twenty-five years, we have resided in Williamson County, TN, a county with a long tradition of being one of the top ten most conservative counties in the U.S; a county in the very center of the Bible belt; a county where Christians should not stand by in silence. I discovered that behind our backs, a liberal school board agenda had taken hold and was indoctrinating our children. Several controversial incidents and troubling educational materials have been cause for great alarm.

Anti-Semitism in a Pearson Published Textbook

In November of 2012, a concerned Williamson County parent contacted PJTN about a controversial human geography textbook (The Cultural Landscape) being used in her son’s high school. The immediate problem involved a section under the title, “Terrorism by Individuals and Organizations,” that asks students to consider the following question on why terrorism has increased: