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Peace, like charity, begins at home. ----- Franklin D. Roosevelt

President Obama needs to spend more time working on the economy and less time on recreational activities. His campaign promises of making the America and world a better place is yet to be realized.  Blaming Bush will not work much longer.  He has to get working at stimulating business. Without a vibrant business community, real recovery will not happen.   

16 Million Americans are now suffering without hope in a jobless recovery. [21] Earlier, the president promised unemployment would never rise above 7.8%, [22] as an additional 4 million jobs were destroyed after the Obama stimulus passed, as experts predicted. [23]

Some doubt Ronald Reagan's importance in bringing down the Berlin Wall.  In addition, some doubt that he even had a strategy for hastening the collapse of the Soviet Union.  Regardless, one could argue that evidence suggests otherwise.  One could also argue that President Ronald Reagan was the most dynamic anti Communist president in the history of America. 

Paul Kengor’s The Crusader: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism, contends that Reagan’s goal of defeating communism and winning the Cold War can be traced to his early struggles against communists in Hollywood as head of the Screen Actors Guild in the late 1940s. In this fight against an attempted communist takeover of the union, Reagan was, in the words of fellow actor Sterling Hayden, a “one man battalion.”

Peter Schweizer, based at the Hoover Institution, was the first scholar to significantly make the case that Ronald Reagan deliberately set out to win the Cold War. In two books—Victory: The Reagan Administration’s Secret Strategy That Hastened the Collapse of the Soviet Union (1994) and Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism (2002)—

Schweizer used interviews with some of Reagan’s national security and foreign policy staffers, national security directives, Reagan’s speeches and private correspondence, and documents from several foreign countries, to argue that Reagan intentionally abandoned détente, moved beyond a passive containment policy, and pursued a strategy of victory.

Schweizer noted that at the heart of Reagan’s strategy was a sophisticated effort to exploit Soviet vulnerabilities, especially its economic vulnerabilities, which included:

(1) covert financial and intelligence support to the Solidarity union in Poland and other opposition groups within the Soviet empire;

(2) financial and military support to the Afghan resistance;

(3) cooperative efforts with Saudi Arabia to drive down the price of oil, and limiting Soviet natural gas exports to the West, thereby reducing Soviet hard currency earnings;

(4) a campaign to limit Soviet access to Western high technology;

(5) a technological disinformation effort to help disrupt the Soviet economy;

(6) a massive U.S. defense buildup, including the SDI program, to put more pressure on Soviet economic resources;

and (7) financial, military and logistical support for anti-communist forces in several Third World countries. “Reagan,” concluded Schweizer, “did have a well-developed plan seeking the demise of the Soviet Union.”

Newt Gingrich 6

I was a bit miffed with Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich’s support of RINO Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party Doug Hoffman in the New York State House race in District 23. Gingrich attempted to salvage his stand for Party loyalty over Conservative loyalty when Scozzafava dropped out. At that time Gingrich endorsed Hoffman.

Apart of all the Republican Party at all costs mentality, Gingrich has written an awesome Veteran’s Day message. Gingrich praises civilian police officer Sgt. Kimberly Munley for not waiting for back-up taking down fifth column Muslim terrorist Major Nidal Hasan after being wounded.

Newt proceeds to praise other incidence of American heroism stretching from the fall of the Berlin Wall to roughly 1776.

It is this phrase that I found to ring sadly true with the present American government:

“Hero” is not a word we use a lot these days.  We have a media dedicated to destroying, not showcasing, greatness.  We have popular culture determined to celebrate victimhood rather than heroism.  And we have a regime in Washington that seems more at home with international autocrats and dictators than America and its heroes.

But the inescapable fact of America is this:  Ours is a country founded and defended, not by conciliation and sophisticated diplomatic gestures, but by honor, bravery and sacrifice.  

Our heroes are not incidental to our nationhood but an essential part of it.  Why?  Because America is not, contrary to what our President believes, merely a nation among nations.  We are, on our best days, closer to what Ronald Reagan believed:  A shining city on a hill.

“A shining city on a hill” is an honorable way to view America rather than as a nation at fault for all the world’s woes in the 20^th and 21^st century. Do you not think so as well?

JRH 11/11/09

Mr Jihad

Here is a scathing denunciation of the U. S. government’s handling of who is America’s enemy. It is closely followed by a total agreement with Senator Joe Lieberman’s outspoken call to investigate the Ft. Hood Massacre. There is also a call for an investigation of the deceptive Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) which is using Islamist money to sue P. David Gaubatz and son Chris to return documents obtained via a private undercover investigative effort that led to an expose book entitled, “Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Seeking to Islamize America.”

The denunciation is a partner e-newsletter from ACT! For America which is using its grassroots organization to garner signatures for a petition against CAIR.

JRH 11/11/09

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“Jihad Denial Syndrome” Exposed

ACT! For America

Sent: November 10, 2009 11:43:13 AM

The facts are emerging. The warning signs were there. Story after story is breaking new information. Even some in the “establishment media,” such as ABC News, have produced news segments revealing the evidence that Nidal Hasan was a radical Islamist.

The FBI had seen warning signs. So had the CIA and the Joint Terrorism Task Force. Numerous fellow officers had witnessed Hasan make statements, even during presentations he gave, that should have set off alarm bells.

Some of the latest news to come out is that Hasan had been in communication with an al Qaeda imam — and authorities knew it and dismissed Hasan’s contacts with the conclusion that he was doing “research” for a thesis!

The tapestry of jihad being pieced together has prompted Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman to call for hearings to investigate who knew what, when, and why action was not taken.

How is it possible that so many warning signs and red flags were ignored, rationalized, or dismissed?

There are at least two reasons.

The first is that too many in leadership in our country, whether in government, the military, or counterterrorism, do not want to connect the dots between the jihadist ideology, so clearly permeating the holy books of Islam, and the act of jihad.

ACT! has been exposing this failure ever since its founding. Dr. Walid Phares, during his presentation at the American Congress for Truth webcast conference “Radical Islam’s Threat to America” (held this past Saturday), stated astonishingly that eight years after 9/11 there is still widespread denial in our government about who the enemy is and why the enemy acts as he does.

This may help explain why, on the day of the Ft. Hood massacre, the FBI released a statement declaring “this was not a terrorist act.” How could they “rush to judgment” with such a faulty claim so quickly?

Answer: “Jihad Denial Syndrome.”

The second reason is linked to the first, which we discussed in our email alert yesterday — a culture of political correctness.

College campuses, Hollywood and television, and much of the “establishment media” are principal drivers of this culture of political correctness. In this worldview, there is a denial of fact and evidence that literally boggles the mind.

Our jihadist enemies throughout the world don’t hide the jihadist ideology — they celebrate it. It’s there for all the world to see — if it wants to. Too many of our leaders don’t want to.

Another enforcer of this political correctness is organizations like CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations. For years CAIR has bullied, browbeat, intimidated and smeared anyone who dares to speak the truth about radical Islam. (See our petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.)

Last Thursday night, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad denounced the violence — and then emphasized that this had nothing to do with Islam.

So did other representatives of other Islamist organizations.

In other words, they didn’t denounce the Islamist, jihadist ideology that led to the violence. Indeed, they in effect denied such an ideology existed. Awad was crystal clear when he stated, falsely, that no religion or ideology could justify such an atrocity.

And in doing so these Islamist enforcers of political correctness fired a warning shot across the bow of the media, the military and the government. They were making it clear that politically correct “Jihad Denial Syndrome” must be adhered to.

Eleven days ago ACT! for America launched a national petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR, due to the mounting revelations of CAIR misdeeds and ties to terrorist organizations.

This petition is even more important now, in the aftermath of Ft. Hood. Why? Because America can no longer afford to be held hostage to a politically correct “Jihad Denial Syndrome” by a terrorist-tainted organization like CAIR.

This is why we continue to urge you, if you haven’t already done so, to sign our petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.

Senator Lieberman is doing the right thing by convening hearings to investigate the Ft. Hood terrorist act.

We can’t change the culture of political correctness overnight, or the “Jihad Denial Syndrome” that political correctness has helped spawn.

But we are not powerless. There are actions we can take.

Join us today in signing the petition calling for a government investigation of CAIR.

One talk show host said this morning that political correctness can be annoying, even silly, but at Ft. Hood it was deadly.

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