This weekend, Tea Party Patriots is proud to be part of the 2015 South Carolina Tea Party Coalition Convention! We want to encourage all of our supporters to follow the event and watch using our live stream here: https://www.teapartypatriots.org/sc-conference-live-stream/[requires registration; better available on Livestream, with no registration required and broken down into the individual speeches/panels, at http://new.livestream.com/teapartypatriotslive/scteaparty15 ]
Tea Party activists in South Carolina will meet at their biggest gathering yet, Jan. 17-19 in Myrtle Beach, under the theme “American Dream: An Opportunity, Not an Entitlement.”
Because we believe in the First Amendment, we won’t let political correctness into the building. The PC mentality is slowly eroding our rights to free speech and assembly, so we have encouraged all of our program guests to speak boldly and honestly about their policy solutions and innovations. Political correctness is incompatible with free speech; we opt not to surrender our rights. This convention will show the world that we will not be silenced.
And we’re fortunate to have a star-studded speaker lineup, filled with thoughtful and outspoken guests: Donald Trump, Sen. Rick Santorum, Dr. Ben Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz, and Lt. Col. Bill Cowen [sic - Cowan], to name just a few.
For the first time this year, there will be multiple classes offered to our activists. Speakers and trainers from across the company will help empower these grassroots conservatives to hold their elected officials accountable.
Rafael Cruz Speech at the Western Williamson County Republican Club [ http://www.westernwilco.com/ ]. In case you missed this very inspiring speech about American exceptionalism and the threat from within to destroy her.
Donald Trump at Tea Party Patriot Event South Carolina
Published on Jan 19, 2015 by Rshill7
1-19-15.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBxh6FHhGOk [with comment], http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3h0Qlg-2dxQ [with comments] [missing a bit in the cut from the first to the second part; he covers (wanders through) the same ground, starting soon after the 9:30 mark, in his Iowa Freedom Summit speech included in the post to which this is a reply]
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* A PROPHETS WARNING !!! OBAMA IS GOING TO BE SHOT .
This audio footage contains the prophetic utterance of the PLANNED assassination attempt against the United States of America President, Barack Hussein Obama. This prophecy was delivered by the Holy Spirit in September of 2012 but was not released until January of 2013. Please listen to the ENTIRE message. This warning is meant for the global community, not just for the citizens of the United States of America. It is CATASTROPHIC in its nature, so be prepared! EVERY SINGLE PERSON in the world, will be effected by this event. We are on the Brink of Eternity; hope for the best but prepare for the worst. May God Almighty help us all!!!
Hawaii official who confirmed Obama birth certificate dies in crash.
Lorretta Fuddy was killed after a small plane with nine people aboard crashed into the water off the Hawaiian island of Molokai. (CNN) -- Loretta Fuddy, the Hawaii official who confirmed the authenticity of President Obama's birth record in Hawaii, died Wednesday night in a small-plane crash.
The aircraft, with nine passengers on board, crashed into the ocean about a mile off Kalaupapa, Molokai, on Wednesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
The other eight people survived, Petty Officer Stephen Woodbury said. One person swam ashore, a Maui Fire Department helicopter picked up four, and a Coast Guard helicopter rescued three.
Fuddy was director of the state's health department.
"Our hearts are broken," Gov. Neil Abercrombie said in a prepared statement. "Loretta was deeply loved and respected. She was selfless, utterly dedicated and committed to her colleagues in the Department of Health and to the people of Hawaii. Her knowledge was vast; her counsel and advice always given from her heart as much as from her storehouse of experience."
In April 2011, Fuddy confirmed Obama's "long form" birth certificate as part of the state's effort to put to rest questions about whether he was really born in the United States.
"I have seen the original records filed at the Department of Health and attest to the authenticity of the certified copies the department provided to the President that further prove the fact that he was born in Hawaii," she said at the time.
A biography at hawaiihealthconnector.com said she was a recognized leader in the public health field and won numerous awards for her work. Her hobbies included singing in a church choir, "enjoying her cat Flint, and spending time with her grand nieces and nephews."
WASHINGTON — IN Iraq, the good news always seems to come mixed with bad.
The good news right now is largely on the military front. Iraqi, Kurdish and American forces appear to be turning the tide against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.
American air operations have inflicted heavy losses on the group — killing its fighters, destroying its equipment, disrupting its command and impeding its movements.
As a result, the Islamic State is more and more on the defensive. It has not made any significant conquests since the summer. During the past month, it mounted a major offensive in western Anbar Province but achieved only modest gains.
American military officials in Iraq tell me they are confident that a smaller, revamped Iraqi Army will be ready to begin big operations to retake Iraq from the Islamic State in the next four to eight months. Kurdish and Iraqi forces have largely secured Baghdad and its environs, made gains in the cities of Baiji and Samarra, cut off the road by which the Islamic State was supporting its garrison in Mosul from its base in Syria, and are encroaching on Mosul itself. In six to 18 months, the Islamic State may be driven out of Iraq altogether.
That would seem to be a good thing — a stunning reversal from just six months ago, when the Islamic State swept across northern Iraq like a juggernaut.
The problem is that political progress in Iraq has not kept pace with the military campaign. In fact, political reconciliation between the Sunni and Shiite communities is at a standstill. A military victory under these circumstances could turn into a “catastrophic success.”
Iraq’s Sunni and Shiite communities are captive to the mistrust from the 2006-8 civil war, inflamed by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s violent treatment of the Sunnis from 2010 to 2014 and the subsequent Sunni embrace of the Islamic State.
The government’s security forces, both army and police, are overwhelmingly Shiite. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has done a heroic job replacing many Shiite loyalists and political hacks at the top of the military chain of command with more competent officers, including many Sunnis. But the enlisted ranks and junior officers remain disproportionately Shiite.
On top of that, many of Iraq’s recent conquests were won by Iranian-backed Shiite militias. The government does not like to admit it, but these Shiite militias often lead Iraqi attacks and form the backbone of their defenses.
In these circumstances, offensive operations into the Sunni heartland — Anbar, Nineveh and Salah al-Din Provinces — could be disastrous.
The Sunni populace is terrified by reports of Shiite troops and militiamen conducting brutal ethnic cleansing operations. Without a new power-sharing agreement, promises that they will not be mistreated, and a program for reconstruction, the Sunnis may well see Iraqi government forces (and even the Kurds) not as liberators, but as a conquering Shiite army.
If that is the case, they will defend the Islamic State and, even if it is defeated, resist the Shiite forces. Military victory would not end the slow-burning Iraqi civil war, but inflame it.
Unfortunately, there is little prospect that the Iraqis will reach a reconciliation to avert the danger of catastrophic success on their own.
Mr. Abadi is a good man in a difficult position. He understands the importance of political reconciliation, but he is badly constrained in his ability to deliver.
Many of the most important Shiite leaders oppose reconciliation because they distrust the Sunnis. Others will block anything Mr. Abadi does so that they can undermine him and take his place. Mr. Abadi is further constrained by Iran, which seems interested in reconciliation, but only on its own terms.
For its part, the Sunni leadership is fragmented as a result of Mr. Maliki’s campaign against it. Many Shiite leaders shrug off calls for compromise with the Sunnis by claiming that they have no strong, legitimate Sunni partner to bargain with.
Yet the government isn’t doing enough to help unify them. Despite Baghdad’s claims to the contrary, there has been little outreach to the Sunni tribes.
The Iraqis are not going to solve these problems by themselves. Someone is going to have to help them. That someone can only be the United States.
The United States still retains credibility with Iraqis because we pulled off the same feat in 2008, pacifying Iraq militarily and setting it on a path toward political stability (if only after our disastrous mistakes, which pushed Iraq into civil war in the first place). We are the only country that can do the job, and we need to do it, or Iraq will unravel again and President Obama’s judicious decision to recommit to Iraq will be for naught.
The White House should designate a high-level representative to take on the challenge, like the United States ambassador to Iraq, Stuart E. Jones, or another diplomat with Iraq experience, like Brett H. McGurk [ http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/bureau/213058.htm ], now the envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State.
This representative should serve as a mediator, bringing Sunnis and Shiites together to hammer out a new power-sharing arrangement and establish the mechanics of the reconquest of the Sunni lands. However, because of the fragmentation of the Sunni leadership, the American representative will probably have to act as its surrogate in negotiations. This is effectively what Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker did in Baghdad in 2007-8.
Finally, the American representative will most likely need some additional leverage to secure a deal. If Washington were willing to offer additional military training, hardware and support forces, as well as diplomatic, technical, financial and targeted economic assistance, it could persuade Iraqi Sunnis and Shiites to accept less from one another in expectation of getting more from the United States.
Mr. Obama’s willingness to recommit to Iraq has already yielded important results, but the military victories that have been achieved could backfire if military progress is not coupled with political reconciliation. Doing so will be hard, but hardly impossible. It is essential if we are to turn the battlefield gains against the Islamic State into lasting political achievements.
Gingrich and Bolton and .. Fox News' Double Standard On Demanding Officials Decry "Islamic Extremism" Research January 21, 2015 4:01 PM EST ››› OLIVIA MARSHALL & CHANCE SEALES .. bits ..
Ernst Did Not Use Any Variation Of "Islam" To Describe Terrorism In SOTU Response. Ernst delivered the official GOP response to Obama's State of the Union address and did not use any variation of the word "Islam" to describe terrorism and violent extremism. Much like Obama, she denounced "terrorism" and the "forces of violence and oppression." [National Journal, 1/20/15]
Bloomberg View: Obama Administration's Omission Of "Radical Islam" Follows Bush Lead. Bloomberg View columnist Eli Lake noted that comments like those made by Obama and Ernst conform with "a longstanding U.S. policy, not only for Obama but also his predecessor, George W. Bush." Lake explained that Obama administration didn't use "radical Islam" to describe the ideology of the terrorists who attacked the office of the satirical French weekly Charlie Hebdo because the United States' war against terror "requires at least the tacit support of many radical Muslims":
--- There is a reason for this: The long war against radical Islamic terrorists requires at least the tacit support of many radical Muslims.
It sounds strange. But as Emile Nakhleh, who was one of the CIA's top experts on political Islam between 1993 and 2006, told me, there was a recognition following the 9/11 attacks inside the Bush administration that many supporters of the Wahhabi strain of Islam favored by al-Qaeda and its allies were not plotting attacks on the West. In some cases, such as the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the purveyors of Wahhabism were longstanding American allies. "There was the two-ton elephant in the room, and that is Saudi Arabia," Nakhleh said.
So Bush for the most part opted instead to talk about the enemy as "evildoers" or "extremists," even though on some occasions he went off message. It's why Bush's second secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, condemned as "offensive" the Danish cartoons of Mohammed in 2006 after they sparked riots across the Muslim world. [Bloomberg View, 1/19/15] --- http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/01/21/fox-news-double-standard-on-demanding-officials/202223
Bolton and Gingrich both milked cheers from a 'soak the bs' in crowd by misrepresenting history .. gee .. Clinton and Obama are weak in describing extremist terrorism .. neither mentioned it was just as GW Bush did .. shrug .. just cheap disingenuous framing toward 2016 ..
Also Bolton repeats the whopper that Obama has jeopardized United States security by cutting the number of ships in the navy (maybe Gingrich did, too, i wandered before he stopped) and by so doing (which he hasn't) jeopardizing the security of the United States .. the crowd lapped it up .. one small detail .. it isn't true ..
CNN fact check
The facts:
First, Romney said the Navy was at its lowest level in terms of number of ships since 1916. The fact is, he is not that far off, but any assessment of the Navy's size -- relative to its number of ships -- needs to be taken in context.
What Romney didn't mention is that in 2007 under President George W. Bush, the Navy's ship tally hit a low not seen since the 19th century, according to U.S. Navy statistics.
The U.S. military is at risk of losing its "military superiority" because "our Navy is smaller than it's been since 1917. Our Air Force is smaller and older than any time since 1947."
— Mitt Romney on Monday, January 16th, 2012 in a Republican presidential debate in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Guess it follows that Bolton and all else who said it during the Iowa 'feelgood' talkfest, and all in the future as for sure more will, need a toweling, too .. who cares that much of most of what Gingrich and Bolton said was patently political spin .. fact or not? .. who cares.
Ben Carson: LGBT rights movement a communist plot.
Imagine .. The Benny and Ben Show ..
.. i'm sorry Benny came out so big there .. he sorta overshadows the more accomplished yet easily as crazy, Ben .. no, lol, haven't watched Ben's speech in Iowa, yet ..
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