‘One Nation’ Rally Exposes Coalition of Far-Left Organizations

THE BLAZE, 9/28/2010 - According to the One Nation Working Together (partners page), “more than 400 organizations, representing tens of thousands of individuals who have endorsed the One Nation Working Together campaign” have signed on as partners for the Oct. 2 rally in Washington, D.C. Read more at The Blaze...

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More on Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars"

THE WASHINGTON POST has book excerpts, op-eds, maps and video coverage from Bob Woodward's "Obama's Wars" HERE. Learn what Woodward uncovered in the White House.

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Pink Glove Dance: The Sequel

Text: Visit Pink Glove Dance: http://www.pinkglovedance.com. ∴ Medline is proud to present the sequel to the highly popular Pink Glove Dance video, which brought hope and joy to those affected by breast cancer. This new video features more than 4,000 healthcare workers and breast cancer survivors from all over the United States and into Canada. ∴ It is an original song called "You Won't Dance Alone" written and performed by the band the Best Day Ever. Available on iTunes and Amazon.com. Read More......

WSJ: Tea-Party Movement Gathers Strength

WALL STREET JOURNAL/US, 9/29/2010 - The tea party has emerged as a potent force in American politics and a center of gravity within the Republican Party, with a large majority of Republicans showing an affinity for the movement that has repeatedly bucked the GOP leadership this year, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll has found. ∴ In the survey, 71% of Republicans described themselves as tea-party supporters, saying they had a favorable image of the movement or hoped tea-party candidates would do well in the Nov. 2 elections. Read more at WSJ... Read More......

'Mourning in America' video from Citizens for the Republic

Related text: In 1984, the Reagan reelection campaign set the standard for modern political advertising with its fabled "Morning in America" series, which included one of the greatest political ads of all time -- "Better, Prouder, Stronger." The ad captured the zeitgeist -- America under President Reagan was coming back, full of optimism and confidence in the future.

Today, the zeitgeist is exactly the opposite. Americans are worried about their future, and about a government determined to implement policies that just don't work. But like its predecessor, "Mourning in America" offers a new hope -- if we can just get our government to return to time-tested policies that can spark a rebirth of liberty. Read More......

Voters will have chance to meet Republican candidates Monday

See Corvallis Gazette-Times article HERE.

What: Republican Candidates' Fair & No-host Luncheon (optional)
When: Monday, September 27th
Where: King Tin Restaurant, 1857 N.W. Ninth St., Corvallis
Time: 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Candidates attending:

• Jim Huffman for U.S. Senate
  
• Rose Cook for State Representative, Dist. 16
  
• Jerry Jackson for County Commissioner, Position 1
  
• Mark O'Brien for Corvallis City Council, Ward 1
  
• John Detweiler for Corvallis City Council, Ward 6
  
• Rick Schroff for Corvallis City Council, Ward 7

See you there! --bc Read More......

Never Gonna Stand For This by Teachenor Clark

Download the song on iTunes and join these patriot artists on facebook

Note from the artists: "Nashville based songwriters Jamie Teachenor and "Banjo" Ben Clark team up for this exclusive release, aimed to raise-the-hair and boil-the-blood of every liberty-loving American ready to make a difference this fall...one vote at a time. ∴ Please help the powerful voice of "We The People" ring through the halls of Congress by forwarding this to any and all who are fed up with the Elites in Washington who consistently ignore our cries. ∴ If you're not registered to vote, PLEASE do so now, and may God bless America now and forever." (Hat tip: vanderluen at American Digest) Read More......

Initial claims for unemployment aid rise to 465,000

BREITBART NEWS, 9/9/23/2010 - WASHINGTON (AP) - The tally of newly laid-off workers requesting unemployment benefits rose last week after four weeks of flat or declining figures. ∴ The Labor Department says initial claims for jobless aid rose by 12,000 to a seasonally adjusted 465,000. Many economists had expected a flat reading or a small drop. Read more at Breitbart... Read More......

House Republicans Unveil 'Pledge to America'

FOX NEWS, 9/23/2010 - House Republicans on Thursday rolled out their "Pledge to America," a sweeping conservative agenda that calls for reining in federal spending, permanently extending all of the Bush tax cuts, and repealing President Obama's signature health care law. Read more at Fox...

9/24 - But some conservatives denounce GOP ‘Pledge’ as sellout, inside job. Read More......

Cougar killed in Corvallis neighborhood

STATESMAN JOURNAL/UPDATE 9/22/2010 8:15PM (Associated Press) - See article... Read More......

Deaf students' fortunes a contrast to blind school

STATESMAN JOURNAL/OPINION, 9/19/2010 - "While on the one hand I am thrilled with what "Extreme Makeover" has been able to do for the students of the Oregon School for the Deaf, I cannot help but contrast their fortune to the misfortune of the students at the Oregon School for the Blind. ∴ As Oregonians, we should feel ashamed by what has been done to current and future blind children with the dismantling of the blind school. — Pam Coxen, Salem Read More......

Morning Bell: What is Obama President of Again?

HERITAGE FOUNDATION/FOUNDRY, 9/22/2010 - On December 1, 2009, when President Barack Obama announced his new Afghanistan policy after months of delay, Denise Young of Kokomo, Ind., who has a 22-year-old son serving in the war, told The Wall Street Journal what she wanted to hear from the commander in chief: "That he is going to let the generals make the decisions. They have asked for more troops. They should get them. There is safety in numbers." Today, we learned from a sneak preview of Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's War, that President Barack Obama completely failed Mrs. Young. Read more at Heritage...

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Morning Bell: What is Obama President of Again?

HERITAGE FOUNDATION/FOUNDRY, 9/22/2010 - On December 1, 2009, when President Barack Obama announced his new Afghanistan policy after months of delay, Denise Young of Kokomo, Ind., who has a 22-year-old son serving in the war, told The Wall Street Journal what she wanted to hear from the commander in chief: "That he is going to let the generals make the decisions. They have asked for more troops. They should get them. There is safety in numbers." Today, we learned from a sneak preview of Bob Woodward's new book, Obama's War, that President Barack Obama completely failed Mrs. Young. Read more at Heritage... Read More......

A Republican President issued the Emancipation Proclamation

"On this day in 1862, President Abraham Lincoln (R-IL) issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Effective at yearend, all slaves in Confederate-controlled territory would be "forever free." ∴ Ill-informed critics of the first Republican President Lincoln fault the Emancipation Proclamation for only freeing slaves in areas not yet under the control of the U.S. government, but -- because of the Democratic Party's resolute defense of slavery -- the federal government had the necessary authority only over so-called "property" of the rebels. ∴ Within two years, the Republican-controlled 38th Congress followed up this great advance by enacting the 13th Amendment, banning slavery throughout the nation."

Michael Zak is a popular speaker to Republican organizations around the country. Back to Basics for the Republican Party is his acclaimed history of the GOP, He is also the author of the 2005 Republican Freedom Calendar. His Grand Old Partisan website celebrates more than fifteen decades of Republican heroes and heroics. Visit www.grandoldpartisan.com for more information. Read More......

Rasmussen: 43% Say Government Programs Increase Poverty in America

RASMUSSEN REPORTS, 9/20/2010 - Sixty-nine percent (69%) of the Political Class believe that government programs reduce poverty. But 56% of those in the Mainstream think government programs actually increase the amount of poverty in the United States. ∴ Thirty-three percent (33%) of all voters say the government anti-poverty programs are at least somewhat effective. Sixty-two percent (62%) disagree and say they’re not effective. This includes seven percent (7%) who believe the programs are Very Effective and 21% who say they are Not At All Effective. ∴ These results come as a new Census Bureau study estimates that 14.3% of Americans now fall below the federal poverty line. That’s the highest percentage since 1994 and the highest number of people living in poverty since the estimates first became available in 1959. Read more at Rasmussen's... Read More......

Stop Mocking the Tea Party

THE DAILY BEAST, 9/17/2010 by Kristen Powers - The media doesn’t get it, says Kirsten Powers. The Tea Party crowd is about to radically reshape the Republican Party on a scale not seen since Barry Goldwater in the 1960s.

It’s time to stop mocking the Tea Party. ∴ Whether they are loons, principled conservatives, or a mix of both, they are a potent force that won’t be intimidated off the national stage by snarky media coverage and clueless attacks from the establishment. Read more at The Daily Beast...

Note: Goldwater conservatism led to Reagan conservatism. --bc Read More......

Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) takes top spot in Values Voter Straw Poll

Attendees at this weekend's Family Research Council’s Values Voter Summit in Washington chose Indiana congressman Mike Pence as the candidate they would most like to see as the Republican presidential nominee for 2012. Full straw poll results:

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind. (24%)

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (22%)

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (13%)

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (10%)

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (7%)

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum (5%)

Sen. Jim DeMint (5%)

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (2%)

Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels (2%)

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (2%)

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. (2%)

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell (1%)

Former Florida House Speaker Marco Rubio (1%)

Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wisc. (1%)

Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (1%)

Rep. Ron Paul, R-Tex. (1%)

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer (less than 1%)

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G-T to host forum for Oregon's Dist. 4 candidates for U.S. Congress

The Corvallis Gazette-Times will sponsor a voter forum on Monday [Sept. 20] for all three candidates in the 4th District congressional race. The event will begin at 7 p.m. at the First Congregational Church, 4515 S.W. West Hills Road. Read more at the GT... and then click on comments for additional information.

Note: Republican candidate Art Robinson has challenged Rep. Peter DeFazio (D) to an actual debate directly after the forum. Will DeFazio meet the challenge?

NOPE, he didn't... made a speedy get-away instead! Read More......

Constitution Day, September 17

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“Austan Goolsbee gets top White House economic job”

This afternoon [Friday 9/10], Politico reported that Austan Goolsbee has been named to take over as the new chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. ∴ Goolsbee, 41, will succeed Christina Romer. A senior administration official said Goolsbee is a team player who can navigate the White House, and is a skilled television interviewee who can help the president promote his economic message. Read more at BANKRUPTING AMERICA...

Do you think Goolsbee has any private sector business experience to 'reorganize industry'? --bc Read More......

Asteroids, NASA and budget cuts

- BIG THINK, 9/10/2010 by Michio Kaku - Two Asteroids Buzzed the Earth This Week [9/5] --Should We Be Afraid?
- BIG THINK, 9/7-8/2010 by Michio Kaku - NASA Is Running Out of Money to Monitor Earth-Destroying Asteroids (Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2)

Plans for sending humans to visit an asteroid are heating up, with at least one company already scoping out the technological essentials for a deep space expedition within a decade, given the go-ahead. ∴ The asteroid space trek is seen as both scientifically valuable and as a dress rehearsal for a Mars mission, NASA officials have said. It could also hone ideas for planetary defense to guard Earth from a messy head-on clash with a space rock. ∴ Launching a manned asteroid mission by 2025 is NASA's new goal set by President Barack Obama, who announced the plan in April. The deep space mission would serve as a stepping stone to a crewed mission to Mars in the mid-2030s, he said. ∴ Lockheed Martin, which has been building NASA's Orion space capsule to replace the agency's retiring shuttle fleet, has already completed a study on how an asteroid mission might work. Read more at Fox News... Read More......

AT: ObamaCare's Fatal Flaw?

AMERICAN THINKER, 9/13/2010 by Louis Case -Scott Brown's election could be the most significant turning point in the whole ObamaCare fiasco. And not because it was an "expression of the will of the people" because, as we've learned, that doesn't matter to our Washington overlords. No, Brown's election has trapped Congress in its own sloppy arrogance. ∴ In a September 8th appearance on Greta Van Sustern's On The Record, Virginia's Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli, explained the significance of the Brown victory in the context of Virginia's lawsuit to overturn ObamaCare. Read More at American Thinker... Read More......

George Will: Clunker School of Economics

PATRIOT POST, 9/12/2010 by George Will - WASHINGTON: Looking back with pride, the British are commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain, when Churchill said of the pilots fighting the Luftwaffe: Never "was so much owed by so many to so few." Looking ahead with trepidation, Americas are thinking: Never have so many of us owed so much. ∴ Actually, they owed slightly more when the recession began, when household consumer debt was $2.6 trillion. The painful but necessary process of deleveraging is proceeding slowly: Such debt has been reduced only to $2.4 trillion. Add to that the facts that the recession has reduced household wealth by $10 trillion, and that only 25 percent of Americans expect their incomes to improve next year. So they are not spending, and companies, having given the economy a temporary boost last year by rebuilding inventories, are worried. Hence, rather than hiring, companies are sitting on cash reserves much larger than the size of last year's $862 billion stimulus. Read more at Patriot Post... Read More......

Economic Indicators Pose Challenge to Obama Sales Pitch

President Obama wants voters to focus on the good and block out the bad as he and his economic team try to build confidence in their ability to jolt the economy out of neutral. Read more at Fox News... Read More......

Moving Mosque Could Ignite Violence

FOX NEWS, 9/9/2010 - On Wednesday (9/8/2010), Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam behind a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero, spoke to guest host Soledad O'Brien during a live broadcast of Larry King Live and cautioned that moving the facility could cause a violent backlash from Muslim extremists and endanger national security. ∴ Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf told CNN that the discourse surrounding the center has become so politicized that moving it could strengthen the ability of extremists abroad to recruit and wage attacks against Americans, including troops fighting in the Middle East. ∴ "The headlines in the Muslim world will be that Islam is under attack," he said, but he added that he was open to the idea of moving the planned location of the center, currently two blocks north of the World Trade Center site. ∴ "But if you don't do this right, anger will explode in the Muslim world," he later said, predicting that the reaction could be more furious than the eruption of violence following the 2005 publication of Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. ∴ Opponents say the center, which would include a Sept. 11 memorial and a Muslim prayer space, should be moved farther away from where Islamic extremists destroyed the World Trade Center and killed nearly 2,800 people. Supporters say religious freedom should be protected. Read more at Fox...

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September 11, 2006 – Dedication of the memorial “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism”

Time cures everything, but there are things we cannot and must not forget. Standing more than 100 feet tall, “To the Struggle Against World Terrorism” honors victims of 9/11 and the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and serves a symbol of solidarity in the fight against world terrorism. Created by Russian sculptor Zurab Tsereteli, the memorial was a gift from the Russian people.

The Memorial was dedicated on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, in a ceremony attended by President Bill Clinton, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, Governor Jon Corzine, Senator Frank Lautenberg, Senator Robert Menendez and family members of World Trade Center victims. Grammy award winner, Leann Rimes, sang the National Anthem and Amazing Grace.

By day, or nighttime when it is lit, the Memorial is clearly visible from lower Manhattan, the Staten Island Ferry, ships passing through New York Harbor and airplanes approaching Newark Airport. Read more...
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Public Pensions and Our Fiscal Future

WALL STREET JOURNAL/OPINION, 8/27/2010 by Arnold Schwarzenegger - Few Californians in the private sector have $1 million in savings, but that's effectively the retirement account they guarantee to many government employees. [Snip] As former Speaker of the State Assembly and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown pointed out earlier this year in the San Francisco Chronicle, roughly 80 cents of every government dollar in California goes to employee compensation and benefits. Those costs have been rising fast. Spending on California's state employees over the past decade rose at nearly three times the rate our revenues grew, crowding out programs of great importance to our citizens.Read more at WSJ...

There are two dramatic graphs in Gov. Schwarzenegger's op-ed that are scary but instructive. --bc Read More......

Labor Day Has Become Government Day

HERITAGE.ORG/MORNING BELL, 9/6/2010 - This Labor Day marks a milestone in the history of the U.S. union movement. It is the first Labor Day on which a majority of union members in United States work for the government. In January the Department of Labor reported that union membership in government has overtaken that in the private sector. Three times as many union members work in the Post Office as in the entire domestic auto industry. The face of the union movement is not a worker on the assembly line but a clerk at the DMV. Read more at Heritage... Read More......

Fox News launches 'YOUR WORLD' today - Dems making case for repeal of Obamacare

Fox News launches YOUR WORLD with Cavuto on the web today. And lo' and behold, Sen. Ron Wyden's turnaround on health care mandates is featured in a video interview at the top of the page.

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Soros Launches 'Frontal Assault' Against Tea Party

Globalist George Soros and the foundation left have launched a website designed to go after the growing Tea Party movement. Info Wars Read More......

IBD: Choices Ahead For Today's Unions

INVESTORS.COM, 9/3/2010 - Politics: Less than two years ago, everything seemed to be breaking unions' way. Now they're on the defensive. Something went very wrong on the road to the liberals' idea of paradise. ∴ This Labor Day weekend is the official kickoff point for what AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka calls a "massive mobilization" to elect Democrats in November. To hear him tell it, voters face a choice between "a fundamentally different economy that values hard work and a strong middle class" or a return "toward one that puts corporate interests before people." ∴ But the labor movement faces a choice, too. It can keep going down the road to political disaster, or it can wise up and realize that a "fundamentally different economy" is not really what people want. ∴ They want prosperity and jobs, not a government-led war against capitalists [Emphasis added]. And they have a bone or two to pick with the unions themselves. Read more at IBD... Read More......

Wyden Pushing For Oregon Waiver From Health Care Law, Individual Mandate

One of the most innovative voices in the health care debate [according to the Left-leaning Huffington Post], Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), is accelerating the process of exempting his state from some of the national reforms passed under President Barack Obama. ∴ The Oregon Democrat is seeking to take advantage of a provision he helped write into the legislation that allows states to set up their own health care systems as long as they meet minimal requirements established by the Department of Health and Human Services. In a letter to the state's Health Authority office, Wyden announced that he will introduce legislation to accelerate the start date for state waivers from 2017 to 2014, if not earlier for Oregon specifically. Read more at Huffington Post...

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Big Labor's Legacy of Violence

TOWNHALL, Michelle Malkin - To mark Labor Day 2010, President Obama will join hands with AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka in Milwaukee and pose as champions of the working class. Bad move. Trumka's organizing record is a shameful reminder of the union movement's violent and corrupt foundations. ∴ The new Obama/AFL-CIO power alliance -- underwritten with $40 million in hard-earned worker dues -- is a midterm shotgun marriage of Beltway brass knuckles and Big Labor brawn. Trumka warmed up his rhetorical muscles this past week with full-frontal attacks on former GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He indignantly accused her of "getting close to calling for violence" and suggested that her criticism of Tea Party-bashing labor bosses amounted to "terrorizing" workers. Read more at Townhall.com... Read More......

GT: Federal judge orders revised spotted owl plan

CORVALLIS GAZETTE-TIMES, 9/2/2010 - See article at the GT... Read More......

AT: Al Gore's Poison

AMERICAN THINKER, 9/2/2010 by Brian Sussman - Wednesday, a gun wielding, bomb toting, eco-terrorist-who claimed to have been "awakened" by Al Gore's Oscar winning film, An Inconvenient Truth-was shot and killed by police after holding several people hostage inside the Discovery Channel headquarters in Maryland. ∴ Sadly, it's not the first incident of someone going berserk after taking in Gore's work. Read more at American Thinker... Read More......