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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Hysteria, Inc.
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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REPORT: GRUBER PLAYED KEY ROLE IN nOBAMACARE
As President nObama’s health law teeters ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, a trove of emails show that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber – who claimed the authors of nObamaCare took advantage of the “stupidity of the American voter,” – played a much bigger role in drafting the law than previously known. Some 20,000 pages, WSJ reports, “…cover messages Mr. Gruber sent from January 2009 through March 2010…[that] show frequent consultations between Mr. Gruber and top nObama administration staffers and advisers in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on the Affordable Care Act. They show he informed HHS about interviews with reporters and discussions with lawmakers, and he consulted with HHS about how to publicly describe his role…
“The White House has described Mr. Gruber as having a limited role in crafting the law. President Barack nObama in 2014 said Mr. Gruber was ‘some adviser who never worked on our staff.’…The emails show Mr. Gruber was in touch with key advisers such as Peter Orszag, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget… Jason Furman, an economic adviser to the president, and Ezekiel Emanuel, who was then a special adviser for health policy at nOMB. One email indicates Mr. Gruber was invited to meet with Mr. nObama. In a July 2009 email, he wrote that Mr. Orszag had ‘invited me to meet with the head honcho to talk about cost control.’ In an August 2009 email, Lawrence Summers – then a top economic adviser in the administration – emailed Mr. Gruber and asked ‘if you were POTUS, what would u do now?’ Mr. Gruber responded that Mr. Obama should hold out for enough money to do universal coverage.” -Fox News
As President nObama’s health law teeters ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, a trove of emails show that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber – who claimed the authors of nObamaCare took advantage of the “stupidity of the American voter,” – played a much bigger role in drafting the law than previously known. Some 20,000 pages, WSJ reports, “…cover messages Mr. Gruber sent from January 2009 through March 2010…[that] show frequent consultations between Mr. Gruber and top nObama administration staffers and advisers in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on the Affordable Care Act. They show he informed HHS about interviews with reporters and discussions with lawmakers, and he consulted with HHS about how to publicly describe his role…
“The White House has described Mr. Gruber as having a limited role in crafting the law. President Barack nObama in 2014 said Mr. Gruber was ‘some adviser who never worked on our staff.’…The emails show Mr. Gruber was in touch with key advisers such as Peter Orszag, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget… Jason Furman, an economic adviser to the president, and Ezekiel Emanuel, who was then a special adviser for health policy at nOMB. One email indicates Mr. Gruber was invited to meet with Mr. nObama. In a July 2009 email, he wrote that Mr. Orszag had ‘invited me to meet with the head honcho to talk about cost control.’ In an August 2009 email, Lawrence Summers – then a top economic adviser in the administration – emailed Mr. Gruber and asked ‘if you were POTUS, what would u do now?’ Mr. Gruber responded that Mr. Obama should hold out for enough money to do universal coverage.” -Fox News
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CLINTON TEAM LOWBALLS IOWA EXPECTATIONS
WSJ: “…The Clinton campaign is working hard to tamp down expectations for the Iowa caucuses next year. Clinton aides are telling everyone who will listen that it’s exceedingly rare for a Democratic candidate who’s not a sitting president to capture more than 50% in Iowa. The idea isn’t so much to paint Mrs. Clinton as a scrappy insurgent; it’s to beat back perceptions that she’s a wounded front-runner should she fail to demolish all comers in Iowa.” -Fox News
WSJ: “…The Clinton campaign is working hard to tamp down expectations for the Iowa caucuses next year. Clinton aides are telling everyone who will listen that it’s exceedingly rare for a Democratic candidate who’s not a sitting president to capture more than 50% in Iowa. The idea isn’t so much to paint Mrs. Clinton as a scrappy insurgent; it’s to beat back perceptions that she’s a wounded front-runner should she fail to demolish all comers in Iowa.” -Fox News
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Website washout - Daily Caller: “The Hilly Clinton campaign’s first major interactive website program has attracted little participation outside of a small group including past and present Clinton campaign staffers and volunteers. Hillyclinton.com recently invited supporters to add their own annotations to Clinton’s Roosevelt Island campaign kickoff speech, to allow people to share what specific Clinton sentences and paragraphs meant to them…The site’s 126 annotations come from only 43 different accounts, many of them completely anonymous, after one week of mild annotating.” -Fox News
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WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
Amid talk of dangerous convicted criminals on the loose in New York it seems fitting to remember the man who mastered the art of being on the run. James “Whitey” Bulger, notorious Boston mobster, became an FBI informant on organized crime in the city in exchange for immunity. Problem with that was Bulger was actually the ring-leader of his own crime ring, which he continued to operate. Bulger reported to an FBI contact, John Connolly, who had grown up in their tight-knit neighborhood of South Boston. Connolly was aware Bulger hadn’t given up a life of crime, but turned a blind eye. When authorities figured out Bulger’s side-jobs Connolly tipped him off, and Bulger went on the run. He remained on the lam for 16 years until his capture on this day in 2011. -Fox News
Amid talk of dangerous convicted criminals on the loose in New York it seems fitting to remember the man who mastered the art of being on the run. James “Whitey” Bulger, notorious Boston mobster, became an FBI informant on organized crime in the city in exchange for immunity. Problem with that was Bulger was actually the ring-leader of his own crime ring, which he continued to operate. Bulger reported to an FBI contact, John Connolly, who had grown up in their tight-knit neighborhood of South Boston. Connolly was aware Bulger hadn’t given up a life of crime, but turned a blind eye. When authorities figured out Bulger’s side-jobs Connolly tipped him off, and Bulger went on the run. He remained on the lam for 16 years until his capture on this day in 2011. -Fox News
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Hilly Tries To Explain Scandal But Gets Decimated...
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Finally Hilly Clinton responded to Peter Schweizer's book "Clinton Cash." Well, sort of. Interviewed Sundayon New Hampshire program CloseUP with Josh McElveen on WMUR the presumptive Democratic Party nominee tried to make everything go away... But in a New York Post oped, Peter Schweizer decimated her ignoble attempt to obfuscate the truth. When McElveen asked Hilly Clinton why her State Department allowed the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russians, she claimed she had no involvement the State Department’s decision to approve the sale of the company Uranium One to Russia. “I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton. Schweizer responded incredulously, "The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s time and attention?" He then provided three reasons why she had to know (or should have known):
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When It Comes To Iran nObama's Worse Than Charlie Brown
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ In the comics it happened every time, Charlie Brown would be running to kick the football and just as his leg started to swing Lucy pulls the ball away. We all knew it was going to happen, even Charlie Brown knew it was going to happen. But before each time Lucy convinces Charlie that this time it's going to be different... nObama is a lot like that, he desperately want's to kick the football, or in his case reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, each time he thinks he gets close, the Iranian's pull the ball away. But unlike Charlie Brown, nObama forgets that he ever wanted to kick the football. On Sunday Iran's parliament voted oppose the inspections of government military sites as part of a pending, multi-nation agreement to curb the country’ nuclear program -- potentially complicating a final deal ahead of aJune 30 deadline. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/obamas-worse-than-charlie-brown.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=de21e87163-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-de21e87163-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-de21e87163-291705165
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Benghazi Attack Preplanned, al-Qaeda-Linked, Religiously-Motivated 
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ A terrorist group linked to the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya was tied to al-Qaeda and acting on a Muslim religious ideology... Members of the group planned the attacks at least ten days in advance and trained daily, “focusing on religious lessons and scripture including three lessons a day of jihadist ideology.” That’s according to an internal intelligence report provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) shortly after the attacks. The document was made public this week for the first time after the watchdog group Judicial Watch sued the government under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain improperly withheld public documents. The information was sent, at the time, to then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House National Security Council. nObama officials had claimed they had no indication the attack was preplanned. They blamed, instead, a “spontaneous” uprising of ordinary Libyan citizens angered by a YouTube video.
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The United Nations Has Israel’s Blood On Its Hands
(Ronn Torossian, Hank Sheinkopf and George birnbaum) ~ In response to the United Nations report issued today which accused Israel of war crimes... Israeli Foreign Ministry officials thundered that “it is well known that the entire process that led to the production of this report was politically motivated and morally flawed from the outset.” We agree. Across the political spectrum in Israel, the United Nations report was condemned – noting its purpose was simple – to undermine Israel’s right to defend its citizens from attack. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/ronn-torossian-and-hank-sheinkopf/the-united-nations-has-israels-blood-on-its-hands/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6677d599b9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6677d599b9-156509103
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Hilly and History
(Thomas Sowell) ~ There are no sure things in politics, but Hilly Clinton is the closest thing to a sure thing to become the Democrats’ candidate for president in 2016... This is one of the painful but inescapable signs of our time. There is nothing in her history that would qualify her for the presidency, and much that should disqualify her. What is even more painful is that none of that matters politically. Many people simply want “a woman” to be president, and Hilly is the best-known woman in politics, though by no means the best qualified. What is Hilly’s history? In the most important job she has ever held — Secretary of State — American foreign policy has had one setback after another, punctuated by disasters. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/thomas-sowell/hillary-and-history/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6677d599b9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6677d599b9-156509103.
U.S Is At Highest Threat Level We Have Ever Faced
(washington.cbslocal.com) ~ The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warns that America is dealing with “the highest threat level we have ever faced in this country.”... Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the threat is coming from the radicalization of young people and foreign fighters heading to Iraq and Syria to join terror groups. “They’re very good at communicating through separate avenues where it’s very difficult to track,” Nunes said. “That’s why when you get a young person who is willing to get into these chat rooms, go on the Internet and get radicalized, it’s something we are not only unprepared [for], we are also not used to it in this country.” http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/06/22/devin-nunes-us-threat-level/
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Giuliani on new hostage policy 
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'You can't pay ransom'. Former New York City mayor says US invites trouble by announcing changes to hostage policy...
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Clinton Aide Worked on UAE Project While at State Department
(Alana Goodman) ~ Hilly Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills held several outside roles, including a board position with a UAE-funded university in Abu Dhabi, while working as chief of staff and counselor at the State Department, theWashington Free Beacon has learned... After joining the State Department in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months. She also sat on the board of the “NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation,” the fundraising arm for the university’s UAE satellite campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human rights activists for alleged labor abuses. Mills resigned both positions in May 2009, according to a university spokesperson. Although she did not receive a direct salary from the Abu Dhabi board, she collected $198,000 over four months from NYU. http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-aide-worked-on-uae-project-while-at-state-department/
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U.S. Power Grid Being Hit With ‘Increasing’ Hacking Attacks
(Adam Kredo) ~ Major attacks on the U.S. power grid system are “increasing,” with hackers stepping up efforts to penetrate critical systems and to implant malicious software that could compromise the power grid and result in a nationwide crisis, according to a government report... While experts have long signaled that the U.S. power grid and related systems are vulnerable to physical attacks by terrorists and other individuals, the U.S. government is now warning that sensitive computer systems that maintain the grid are increasingly being attacked, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that was not made public until the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) disclosed it this month. The report warns that hackers potentially affiliated with terrorist groups or rogue nations have the ability to insert harmful malware into the internal systems governing the U.S. grid, which increasingly are being hooked into the Internet.
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Valerie Jarrett’s Hardcore Communist Roots Subject FBI Investigation
(rickwells.us) ~ Many Americans are familiar with the communist common thread that winds through the Chicago mob that has taken over our White House... There is hardly a single member of the core nObama cadre that doesn’t have significant communist or other anti-American roots and at a minimum present day Marxist sympathies. As it turns out, there are those within the federal government who are not part of the Chicago mob who also are aware of the anti-American feelings of those in the highest positions within what was formerly our government. Thankfully, included in their ranks are some who can potentially help to keep them in check, our FBI. Judicial Watch is, once again, at the forefront of bringing this information to the American people. In a June 22nd articlethey wrote:
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Hysteria, Inc.
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(burtprelutsky.com) ~ Recently, I realized the reason that liberals are so unhappy is that everything throws them into a panic. I’m not just referring to things like armed men in uniform, be they members of the military or law enforcement, but, literally, everything, including the weather. In fact, in the midst of a world that sees the Russian bear expanding westward, the Chinese dragon expanding eastward and the entire Middle East going nuclear, we have such liberal icons as Barack nObama and Pope Francis insisting the greatest threat facing mankind is global warming. They base this contention on unscientific computer models, while ignoring the fact that the earth’s temperature has remained stable for the past 17 years. .
What’s more, none of the nonsense Al Gore began spouting in the 1990s about rising sea levels, melting icebergs and drowning polar bears, has come to pass. But when one’s actual mission isn’t to save the planet, but to destroy capitalism and to become enormously wealthy doing it, facts are simply an inconvenient truth.
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♦ But this is always the case with the Left. In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote a book called “Silent Spring,” warning of the ecological disaster wrought by DDT. Because the same pinheads were running things back then, she succeeded in getting the safest pesticide ever invented taken off the market. In Africa, alone, she was the reason that millions of people have died from malaria over the past half century.
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A byproduct of Ms. Carson’s work is that the EPA was created and the cult of environmentalism was born.
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A similar alarmist was Paul R. Ehrlich, who also hit the best seller list with his 1968 jeremiad, “The Population Bomb,” a literary effort that insisted the world’s population was expanding so quickly that we would soon run out of food and that people would be killing each other over a crust of bread.
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Apparently, the decade of the 60s has a lot to answer for, besides Yippies, Nehru jackets, LBJ and bell-bottom trousers.
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♦ But we currently have our own sorry band of Chicken Littles, who, when they’re not running around in circles screaming about rising temperatures, enjoy pointing out that some people actually make more money than other people. They don’t bother considering whether some people are smarter or more creative than other people or work harder or that a great many of the whiners don’t work at all. Instead they reply to poll questions in the following manner: Is the distribution of wealth fair? Answer: 66% no, 27% yes. Should the government do more to address the gap? Answer: 57% yes, 39% no.
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The worst thing about this class envy is that those who do the most to promote it are often those with the most money. But, apparently, so long as you condemn wealth disparity, it grants dispensation to the likes of the Clintons, the nObamas, Warren Buffet, George Clooney, Glyneth Paltrow, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner and all the other hypocrites who show up at nObama’s $35,000-a-plate fundraisers.
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As you may have noticed, they’re the same crowd who go around pretending that black voters, who actually vote at a higher rate than white people, are being disenfranchised in America, and who insist with a straight face that voter identification is a plot to bring back slavery. It’s very off-putting to hear those running the plantations pretending that would be a bad thing.
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♦ Speaking of politicians, will the day ever come when one of them takes the stage and doesn’t pretend to spot an old chum in the crowd? The Clintons have it down to a science. They almost manage to carry it off, too, as Bill makes the initial discovery, touches Hilly’s arm and they then engage in the joint wave. The fact is, unless the guy is waving a check for $500,000, neither of them has the slightest interest in anyone not named Clinton.
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Moreover, the Clintons have no long-lost friends. Every person they’ve known since exiting the birth canal has been dunned constantly for campaign contributions, speaking fees and bribes. The only thing that’s long-lost with these two creeps are ethics and whatever tiny vestige of decency that may have miraculously managed to survive their several decades in the public arena. And in those cases, they’re not indicating recognition, they’re waving bye-bye.
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♦ In case it’s escaped your notice, ours is a sexually-obsessed society. It explains why pornography is one of the few growth industries left in America. It also explains why the same people who pushed Viagra on the world are now trying to push an aphrodisiac for women. It just so happens that a lack of interest or potency is God’s way of saying, “Give it a rest. You’ve screwed enough for one lifetime.”
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This obsession also helps explain the plethora of daily bulletins regarding Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner, whom my friend Tom Pflimlin refers to as Trans-Jenner. It should give Americans pause when all the obnoxious things the Islamics say about us turn out to be true.
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♦ It also doesn’t help our nation’s image when nObama, who can’t help showing his contempt for Christians, Benjamin Netanyahu and gun owners, goes out of his way to pass along his congratulations to homosexual football players and commending Jenner for his “courage.”
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♦ Probably the worst thing to be said about us, though, is that our media is as corrupt as that which is state-run in China, Russia and North Korea. It’s the media, after all, that influences how Americans think about the issues and how we vote.
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For instance, the media has relished the opportunity to drag the Duggar family through the gutter, not because one of their 19 children inappropriately touched his younger sisters several years ago while still a teenager, but because the Duggars, who take their religion seriously, have spoken out against same-sex marriages.
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I would argue that if most people considered what sodomy involves, they wouldn’t be so quick to regard its practitioners as cuddly little teddy bears, all thanks to their positive depiction in movies and on TV. At the same time, the same folks in the media who wish to tar-and-feather the Duggars regard Bill Clinton, who has been a sexual predator most of his adult life, as a sterling character.
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The media condemns all the Duggars, although only one of the 21 did anything wrong. I dare them to randomly pick any 21 people out of the phone book or out of Congress, for that matter, and find a lower percentage of criminal or sinful behavior.
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Or, better yet, consider how the media treated the Kennedy clan. Even though Papa Kennedy was a bootlegger, Jack was a satyr, Ted was guilty of manslaughter, and a whole bunch of the younger ones have been drunks, addicts and rapists, the media still hasn’t stopped heaping praise on the Camelot of them.
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♦ The latest example of malfeasance in political reporting comes to us from the NY Times. The paper, obviously embarrassed to have been responsible for reporting on a few of Hilly Clinton’s endless number of scandals tried to get back into the good graces of its readership by front-paging the news that Mr. and Mrs. Marco Rubio had collected 17 speeding tickets over the past 19 years.
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It probably bugged the Times that he had only gotten four and his wife had collected the other 13. What’s more, the Rubios apparently paid all of them in timely fashion and never once attempted to use his influence to quash them.
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If the paper was trying to derail his candidacy, it was a lame attempt. After all, if Rubio garners the nomination and defeats Hilly in the general election, neither of the Rubios will ever drive again. In fact, they might even consider handing out bumper stickers reading: “Vote for Marco Rubio. Keep Jeanette Rubio Off Our Roads.”
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♦ Finally, it is time once again to conduct a Prelutsky Poll. So cast your vote for the man or woman you would most like to see as the GOP presidential candidate in 2016, not whom you suspect will be the nominee.
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I ask only two things of you, Dear Reader: Please vote for just one person and type his or her name in the subject line so that I don’t even have to open the email in order to count your vote. Also, please don’t explain yourself. Save that for another time when I’m not busy counting noses.
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