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By Herman Cain

My colleague Dan Calabrese summarized what happened:

The exposure of e-mails from the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia demonstrate beyond a shadow of any doubt that – at the very least – global warmist climate researchers a) dumped data they didn’t want others to see; b) manipulated data to hide

information that didn’t support their preconceived conclusions; c) didn’t know how to explain the lack of warming over the past decade; and d) conspired to attack their critics and prevent their work from being published.

My colleague Dan Sherrier called it what it really is, a scam:

Global warming is perhaps the most brilliant scam in all of history.

Less ethical scientists who want government subsidies can offer interpretations of data that further a politician’s ability to justify seizing more power. Or, you can invest in “green” companies, knowing that the government will stack the decks for those companies to do well. There’s plenty to gain.

And, my colleague Jerome Corsi reported on honest research that shows global cooling for the last decade over the United States and Canada:

The mainstream media is reporting the World Meteorological Organization’s assessment of global average temperatures asserting this decade is “the warmest on record,” without mentioning the WMO data actually documents the United States and Canada experienced cooler-than-average conditions since 2000.

To provide one more blow to the junk science used to produce a political result for the United Nations and the Obama Administration, I will draw upon my formal education in mathematics and computer science, and my early professional experiences using mathematical modeling, to explain how easy and tempting it was for the named climatologists to do what they did.

Let’s start with an analogy. Each month the Labor Department issues the official unemployment rate for the country. For November 2009 it was 10.0 percent. The number of government jobs has been increasing for the last three months, whereas the number of professional services jobs has been decreasing.

If the Labor Department wanted to fudge the unemployment rate to make it look better than it is, it could have conveniently left out the number of professional service jobs. But they did not and I doubt that they would. After all, one of their jobs is to just count heads and it would be easily detected by most analysts.

But when a group of scientists intentionally omit a large amount of data from the development of their models to predict future climate change trends, as pointed out by Dan Calabrese and others, it is not easily detectable without some inside information. That’s what the hacked e-mails provided.

It is also dishonest and unreliable.

I learned early on that with any computer program the principle of “garbage in means garbage out” is always true. When you do not use all of the empirical data to develop your mathematical model it is “garbage in.”

It is outrageous that the head of the United Nations, the head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Obama Administration are all dismissing these revelations as they push onward with their political agenda in the face of scientifically manufactured results.

This is no longer a controversy. This is conclusive. And once again, liberals choose to ignore the facts.

It’s a scam.

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By Ken Blackwell

President Obama has made  his way back from the Copenhagen climate summit. The summit has sparked vigorous discussion on the Internet and throughout the world. Internationally, calls are coming for implementation of Chinese-style population control. In the UK, leading population activists endorse China’s policies. In Canada, the nation’s leading newspaper echoes the call.

Charlie Brooks, writing in the respected British paper, The Telegraph, links population control to climate change: “The real ‘elephant at the summit,’ however, is population growth. In spite of it being the core cause of climate change, everyone is running a mile from having a serious, frank discussion on how it can be halted. True, it’s a sensitive subject, but it will be impossible to feed an expanding population while reducing the impact on the environment. And if this problem is not confronted, all those hours spent agonising over reducing greenhouse gases and setting carbon emission levels will have been superfluous.”

China has for more than thirty years been engaged in a ruthless campaign of forced abortions. Beijing’s one-child policy, were it to be enforced world wide, would lead not only to totalitarianism and massive human rights violations, it would lead to infanticide, as well.

Women in China are forced to register with population “cadres” and report their menstrual cycles.

Doesn’t it seem strange that after thirty years of such inhumanity, China is still one of the world’s leading polluters? They had to close down their factories for two weeks in the vicinity of Beijing just to hold the Olympics. They wanted the people in the stands to be able to see the runners.

Could Americans ever be forced under such an inhuman regime? Is this what Global Warming alarmism leads to?

As the President returns to American soil, Global Warming and his massive health care takeover must be foremost on his mind. I have a modest proposal. There is one thing we could do that would make a small contribution to lowering temperatures: We could bury, not burn, the bodies of unborn children who have been aborted under Mr. Obama’s health care takeover. Currently, the practice is to incinerate the hundreds of thousands of bodies cruelly of those denied the right to life.

If we really seek “common ground” on this contentious question, we might start by giving the unborn children a decent burial. Liberal writer Naomi Wolf has written movingly of the “baby furies” that she felt were pursuing her after her abortion. She noted that in Japan, there are touching ceremonies of little paper boats with candles floated down slow-moving rivers. These ceremonies are designed to help women cope with this most terrible of choices.

Part of the terrible contentiousness of this question is the unwillingness of most liberals even to concede that the unborn child is a child. In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the pro-life ordinances enacted by the City of Akron. I had strongly supported those ordinances. But City of Akron was largely overruled by Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

We know this much about federal funding for abortion: when they they are free, there are a lot more abortions. President Obama has said he hopes to reduce abortions, but his plan to fully fund them will inevitably lead to more. Pro-choice groups estimate as many as 300,000 more abortions a year were done when they were federally funded.

By requiring these abortion centers—these modern-day tophets–around our country to bury, not burn, the bodies of their victims, we could literally lower the temperatures. Facing the truth about abortion is the first step to resolving this deeply divisive question.

And banking the fires of the crematoria would be a first step toward peace on earth.

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By Bishop Council Nedd II

Atlanta is called the “city too busy to hate.”  But some political activists found the time.

Kasim Reed, a state senator, just won a runoff election to become Atlanta’s next mayor by a mere 714 votes.  On Election Day, however, he received only 36 percent of the vote next to city councilwoman Mary Norwood’s 46 percent.

Reed’s campaign was boosted by activists who opposed Norwood because she would have become Atlanta’s first white mayor in 36 years.  They felt the loss of a black face behind the mayor’s desk equaled a loss of black political power.

Changes in Atlanta since Maynard Jackson became the city’s first black mayor in 1973 helped Norwood’s political star rise.  The city successfully lured major businesses (and the 1996 Olympics) and actually grew by 100,000 people since 2000 at a time when the populations of other cities declined.

According to University of Georgia political science professor Charles Bullock, “Black voters have been moving further and further out of Atlanta, and whites who wanted to be closer to work have been moving in.”

Norwood campaigned as someone who would represent all of Atlanta’s residents.  She received prominent black endorsements.  But, in the end, there were some who felt the main issue should not be schools, transportation, economic development or fighting crime.  They only wanted a mayor who looks like them.

Several hundred votes kept Atlanta’s black political dynasty intact.

Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was broadly supported by Atlantans of all races, but Morehouse College history professor Alton Hornsby, Jr. said: “Obama’s election last year was more of a fluke than any indication we are getting closer to post-racialism… The lid has been lifted on the truth that was already there.”

It would be bad enough for this to be an isolated case, but it is not.   The former struggle to increase access for black candidates has morphed into a quest to retain political power:

*  In 2008, primary opponent Nikki Tinker ran a commercial comparing incumbent U.S. Representative Steve Cohen to a member of the Ku Klux Klan.  Cohen, who just successfully led the effort for Congress to apologize for slavery and Jim Crow segregation laws, was considered unacceptable by some simply because the district is 60 percent black and he isn’t.

*  Leaders of the Maryland NAACP in October voted overwhelmingly for a resolution to strip the governor of the authority to appoint the mayor of Baltimore should that office become vacant.  Mayor Sheila Dixon, now convicted of embezzlement, was awaiting trial at the time.  While her conviction is not a felony, she may yet be forced from office. Baltimore NAACP president Marvin L. Cheatham remarked to the Baltimore Sun: “Here you have a predominantly African-American city.  What if the governor appointed somebody white?… Would he appoint someone Irish to be mayor?”  Maryland’s governor actually has no such authority.  In fact, Dixon - then city council president - became mayor under succession rules when former mayor Martin O’Malley became governor.

*  This past August, the U.S. Department of Justice overruled voters in Kinston, North Carolina who voted overwhelmingly the previous November to have nonpartisan elections.  The majority-black town, which must receive federal approval for any election changes under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, was told by Washington that party affiliations were the only way blacks could elect their “candidates of choice.”  No one there, by the way, can remember the last time Kinston voters elected a Republican.

Americans just elected the first bi-racial president.  It’s obvious to even the most casual observer that most people have moved on from the identity politics of the past.

It’s a shame that some still embrace race-based politics and can amass and abuse political power. What’s even more shameful is that they were the ones who once demanded equality.

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Project 21 member Council Nedd II, the bishop of the Chesapeake and the Northeast for the Episcopal Missionary Church, is the honorary chairman of In God We Trust (http://www.ingodwetrustusa .org) - a group formed to oppose anti-religious bigotry.  Comments may be sent to Project21@nationalcenter.org.

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By Star Parker

Americans, not surprisingly, are feeling cynical.

Gallup’s just released Honesty and Ethics of Professions poll shows that for the first time, a majority — 55 percent — rate members of the U.S. House of Representatives low/very low for honesty and ethics. Senators come in slightly better at 49 percent.

A whopping 9 percent of the house and 11 percent of the Senate get high/very high ratings in honesty and ethics.

Even members of the clergy do not escape this cynical cloud hanging over the nation. Although 50 percent rate the clergy as high/very high in honesty and ethics, this is the lowest since Gallup starting reporting it.

This prevailing mood of distrust is understandable given how commonplace it has become for so many in public life to lie to us.

A mountain of hacked emails shows that scientists who held the public trust regarding information on climate change research were liars. The emails show they selectively expunged data and suppressed research not supporting the conclusions they wanted showing man-made global warming.

Congress is frenetically trying to pass major health care reform that report after report shows is filled with politically manipulated data and conclusions. And now we learn that even Tiger Woods has been lying to us about whom he is. What is so troubling is that all this is not about human error or fallibility. It’s the opposite. It’s about individuals intentionally manipulating information to deceive the public in order to advance their own personal agendas.

The late writer/physician Michael Crichton pointed out back in 2003 in a speech he gave at the California Institute of Technology the common sense being violated in the research allegedly showing that human activity is causing the earth’s climate to irreversibly warm.

“Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we’re asked to believe a prediction that goes 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everyone lost their minds?”

Similarly in the health care reform push, simple exercise of common sense would put the brakes on what is going on.

Before us is proposed massive new government expenditures and intervention into health care markets under the assumption that the benefits of all this government activity will exceed the costs.

But simple honesty would recognize that if this were true it would be unprecedented.

When Medicare was enacted in 1967, the projections then were that its annual expenditures by 1990 would be $12 billion. Actual expenditures in 1990 were $110 billion.

Medicaid started as a proposed modest program with $1 billion in annual expenditures. It’s now $280 billion.

We’re told that health care reform won’t cost more than $900 billion over the next 10 years. This is accomplished on paper by sleight of hand. Taxes are assumed to start in 2010, but expenditures not until 2014. Starting the meter when the expenditures actually begin shows that over the first ten years the costs are more like $2.5 trillion.

It’s not that we no longer know how to conduct honest inquiry in America. It’s that our interest in doing so is disappearing. How can you search for truth in a society that increasingly denies that truth exists?

What is adultery when our acceptance of something as basic as the definition of marriage can change with the political winds? So Tiger Woods, unhampered by moral constraint, simply pays handlers to produce a public image calculated to maximize his income.

Our national history began by asserting “self evident truths.” Now we have a president who, in his interpretation of our constitutional history, writes: “Implicit in its structure, in the very idea of ordered liberty, was a rejection of absolute truth …”

It must have been times like this that George Orwell had in mind when he wrote: “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

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By Armstrong Williams

I was horrified to read that it is increasingly commonplace in California to treat children diagnosed with deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, with marijuana. California voters passed a law allowing doctors to recommend medical marijuana to their patients, including those under the age of 18. The law allows doctors to recommend marijuana “for any…illness for which marijuana provides relief.” Under that broad umbrella, doctors are pushing pot to treat all kinds of maladies, including ADHD. Truly, this is horrifying.

ADHD is described as a neurological disorder that prevents children from focusing on a specific task. In essence, people with ADHD have difficulty with self-regulation and self-motivation, due to problems with distractibility, organization, and prioritization. Notably, these are the same functions that are most impaired by marijuana use. Get it?

Pot actually exacerbates the problems with attention, memory and concentration that you want a treatment for ADHD to alleviate. That’s why Stephen Hinshaw, Chairman of the Psychology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, called prescribing marijuana to treat ADHD “one of the worst ideas of all time.”

At very least, using marijuana to treat adolescents with A.D.H.D. is wildly irresponsible. First of all, the FDA has never conducted an approval process on marijuana and few institutions are willing to fund studies to show the effects of using marijuana as a remedy for ADHD. Consequently, there are no reliable studies to show how the drug may affect ADHD. That means that all of the so-called evidence in support of prescribing marijuana to children is anecdotal; it is based completely on self-selecting and self-reporting. Translation: there is no reliable scientific basis for drugging these children into complacency. Nonetheless, doctors, school counselors and misinformed parents are increasingly pushing marijuana to kids.

Even the validity of the ADHD diagnosis is questionable.. It is worth noting that there exists no scientific method for diagnosing this ailment. Simply, if a child is observed to be acting bored, distracted and/or boisterous in the classroom, he is often believed to be suffering from ADHD. Notably, these are the same symptoms of another condition that afflicts millions of children–childhood.

Presently, every child in public school is required to undergo testing for attention deficit disorder. The most recent analysis from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1.6 million elementary school children were diagnosed with ADHD between 1997 and 1998. By drugging these children into complacency, a consortium of psychiatrists and marijuana dispensaries are making lots of money off of children acting like children. They try to rationalize this child drugging industry by arguing that marijuana is harmless and non-addictive. Some baby boomer parents go along, saying to themselves,”It’s only marijuana.”

What they don’t realize is that marijuana use during childhood and the early teen years produces significantly different effects than marijuana use later in life. The behaviors exhibited by introducing tetrahydrocannabinal—the active ingredient in marijuana—to the brain are similar to those demonstrated by alcohol consumption. Obvious side effects include mental clouding and sluggishness. There is now conclusive evidence that chronic marijuana use during adolescence tends to retard the users’ emotional, academic, and vocation development. This, in turn, can lead to poor school/work performance, poor social relationships and a general feeling of low self esteem.

Obviously, if the drug is being prescribed, it is being used chronically. People who use marijuana at a young age are also at significantly higher risk for the development of a mental disorder. Get it? Marijuana use at a young age can cause adverse effects that plague the user for the rest of their lives.

Moreover, there are serious physical side effects that every marijuana user should be aware of.

First of all, Marijuana is physically addictive. As the potency of the drug continues to get more powerful, admission to rehabilitation facilities has doubled for marijuana addiction. Each year, 100,000 teens are treated for marijuana dependence. Moreover, marijuana smoke contains three to five times higher tar content and carbon monoxide levels than tobacco smoke, placing users at increased risk for lung cancers and other respiratory illnesses.

Amazingly, psychiatrists, pot dispensaries and misinformed parents continue to push the stuff to kids. Instead of doping our children when they act, you know, childlike, maybe we should consider a return to parenting. My father was confronted with several boisterous children.

His solution? A few stern words and the loud snap of a belt. Believe me, we paid attention. Of course, nowadays parents are made to feel guilty for disciplining their children. So we opt instead to medicate. Medicate the child whose eyes glaze during science class. Medicate the child who displays a little too much childlike exuberance. Medicate him. Medicate her. Medicate everyone. Truly, it feels like our society is going to hell.

Very simply, children simply do not have the maturity and knowledge to make major decisions regarding their health. The state has a compelling interest to step in and shield minors from harmful and addictive substances. It is imperative that our state legislators invoke this power and legally prevent psychiatrists from prescribing pot to kids.

While they’re at it, lawmakers also need to ensure that children diagnosed with ADHD receive thorough medical examinations to rule out other possible causes of the symptoms associated with the disorder.

Equally important is that parents receive full disclosure of the dangerous side effects of using marijuana during a child’s peak emotional, social and vocational learning years. Very simply, our youth should not be drugged into complacency. This is an abomination.

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By Mychal Massie

It’s time the Obama Administration came under the scrutiny of its first special prosecutor.

Michael Mukasey, predecessor of current Attorney General Eric Holder, correctly appointed a special prosecutor to investigate if politics guided hiring and firing decision in the Bush Justice Department.  Holder should follow his lead, but he hasn’t.

That’s why Obama must get involved.

On Election Day 2008, three members of the New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense allegedly viciously sought to intimidate voters outside a Philadelphia polling place. Bartle Bull, a veteran civil rights lawyer and aide to the past presidential campaigns of Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter and was an election observer that day, said:

It would qualify as the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in the 1960’s.

It appears to be a violation of the Voting Rights Act.

Career lawyers at the Justice Department rightly prosecuted the men: Malik Zulu Shabazz, King Samir Shabazz and Jerry Jackson.  A judge was about to render a default judgment against the men when high-ranking political staff at the Justice Department allegedly demanded a settlement.

As a result, which a department spokesman suggested was the “maximum penalty” available, Malik Zulu Shabazz and Jerry Jackson got off scot-free.  King Samir Shabazz can’t carry a weapon near a polling place until after the 2012 presidential election.

Members of Congress are demanding answers from the Justice Department.  They are being met with silence.  The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was similarly rebuffed, and recently decided to issue subpoenas to Justice Department staff to get answers.

A post on the web site Main Justice later verified by The Washington Times reports that two of the career lawyers are being ordered by Justice Department superiors not to comply with the Commission’s subpoenas.

Representatives Lamar Smith and Frank Wolf, in a joint statement, said:

After five months of unanswered questions, the American people can tell a cover-up when they see one.  If the Justice Department had any credible reason for dropping the charges, what do they have to hide by providing those answers to Congress?

The gauntlet has been thrown.

As a candidate, Obama said his Attorney General “will first and foremost defend and promote the rights and liberties enshrined in our Constitution” over “promot[ing] a political agenda.” That’s clearly not happening.

That’s why I recently, on behalf of the Project 21 black leadership network, sent a letter to Obama asking him to call for a special prosecutor.

A fair and independent investigation of this apparent miscarriage of justice is necessary. It seems Eric Holder is incompetent, asleep at the wheel or engaging in a cover-up.

I am skeptical about how the letter will be received.  After all, in just the past few weeks, Obama has engaged in a startling array of political feints betraying the transparency he previously promised:

*  As controversy rages over the professional conduct of climate scientists, Obama’s top science advisor - John Holdren - has testified before Congress about his disinterest in how bad data may be driving White House policy.

*  After liberals complained about Karl Rove citing it in the Bush Administration, the White House now says social secretary Desiree Rogers can use executive privilege to not testify about recent state dinner party-crashing.

*  Obama is hampering congressional efforts to investigate how Nidal Malik Hasan was able to murder 13 people at Fort Hood despite his well-known radical Muslim beliefs.

The Hasan example is similar to the Black Panther case.  Obama wants Congress to wait for his own Hasan review. Similarly, the Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility is allegedly looking into what happened there, but the only people getting the OPR report will be Holder and his deputy. There is no guarantee anyone else will see it.

That’s why something more is needed - a special prosecutor.

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Mychal Massie is the chairman of the black leadership network Project 21.  Comments may be sent to Project21@nationalcenter.org

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For Release: December 8, 2009
Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or e-mail project21@nationalcenter.org

Washington D.C. - Recent race-related comments made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) are highly offensive and historically inaccurate, say members of the Project 21 black leadership group.

“Harry Reid has resorted to the most shopworn trick in the liberal playbook. He deployed the race card in the ugliest way while debating health care reform,” said Deroy Murdock, a Project 21 member and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University. “It is astonishing and outrageous to equate those who seek the defeat of Reid’s 2,074-page, $2.5 trillion legislative monstrosity with those who were happy to keep blacks in chains, unpaid for their back-breaking labor and traded back and forth like cattle. The fact that Reid would use such deplorable, insulting and insensitive rhetoric indicates that he is out of credible arguments to defend his own proposal.”

On the floor of the Senate on December 7, Reid compared those who oppose his legislation to increase government control of medical care to those in the past who defended slavery and opposed civil rights. Reid said:

“Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all the Republicans can come up with is, ’slow down, stop everything, let’s start over.’ If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right. When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, there were those who dug in their heels and said ’slow down, it’s too early, things aren’t bad enough’ …When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn’t quite right… When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today.”

Project 21’s Murdock added: “The Senate’s top Democrat owes an immediate apology to Republicans on Capitol Hill, the 39 House Democrats who voted against Obamacare on November 7 and the 51 percent of Americans from coast to coast who a Rasmussen survey recently found are against Obamacare. If Reid believes these Americans who object to his high-cost, low-quality legislation also hold warm feelings for slavery, he is further removed from reality than anyone so far has feared. If he does not believe this, he should stop cynically firing rhetorical mortar shells at decent Americans who merely disagree with his spendthrift, Big Government approach to health care.”

Reid’s comments are also historically-inaccurate, as his own Democratic Party stood in the way of slavery abolition and civil rights legislation in the past.

“Why is history so confusing to Harry Reid? Six of the nine original planks of the Republican Party at its inception in 1856 were based on opposition to slavery and promoting civil rights,” noted Project 21 Chairman Mychal Massie. “Did Reid also forget what party Lyndon Johnson worked with to get the Civil Rights Act of 1964 not only passed but to even get it through committee and onto the floor for a vote? One of the Democratic opponents - Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV), a former Klansman - is still serving today and is third in the presidential line of succession as the President pro tem. Reid’s daring to brand opponents as racist is indicative of how far liberals are willing to go in order to control Americans from the cradle to the grave.”

Project 21, a leading voice of black conservatives since 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org).

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By Harry R. Jackson, Jr.

Last week was momentous in the battle for marriage in the US. It was a little like riding a roller coaster. On Tuesday, the DC City Council finished their first of two readings of their proposed same-sex marriage law. The reading passed by a margin of 11 to 2. The council seems determined to prevent the people from voting on this issue. Their rationale is that “civil rights” is not something that should be voted on by the masses. One councilman, who represents a strong, pro-marriage ward, looked visibly shaken. He spoke with a quavering voice. Ironically Harry Thomas, Jr., son of a former city council member, stated that he would not allow anyone in his ward to be “disenfranchised.” Undoubtedly, he meant to say that he did not want anyone to experience discrimination.

Disenfranchisement, however, is exactly what is happening to the average voter in DC. The council feels that it has a right to vote on this issue, but it will not allow the citizens to vote. They also chafe at the fact that the District does not have a genuine vote on the Hill - it only has a shadow congresswoman. Sadly, there was only voice for democratic justice on the council — Marion Barry. The former mayor correctly told the group that the city council had not gone far enough in allowing liberty and true democracy to have their way. As a result of the fact the city is “deeply divided,” he announced that he would be working for a popular vote on the issue.

History and national polls suggest that a popular vote in DC could land conjugal marriage between a man and a woman in the “win column.” Therefore, same-sex marriage proponents in the city will put up every obstacle they can to prevent a popular vote. Importantly, even if a same-sex marriage law is passed, it can be overturned. Just like the powerful grassroots battles in Maine and California, outraged DC citizens can turn the marriage picture around.

Yellow journalism has replaced objective reporting in many corners of the region. Some writers have been bold enough to suggest that 80% of white voters support same-sex marriage in DC. If true, such a number would place DC politically somewhere left of San Francisco. (To the contrary, private polling that I have seen confirms Marion Barry’s “gut feel” about the issue.) Regardless of which poll is cited, same-sex marriage advocates are not about to risk a 32nd defeat at the hands of an unpredictable electorate.

Others have written about apathy on the part of the DC electorate on this issue. The Washington Post has gone out of its way to suggest that the faith community is equally divided over the issue of marriage. Nothing could be further from the truth. Even in DC, clergy who support same-sex marriage are far from the mainstream. How could it be otherwise? Most faith traditions around the world do not celebrate same-sex marriage. The Manhattan Declaration, which I have written about in previous pieces, unites Christians from most denominations to stand for pro-life, pro-marriage, and pro-religious liberties.

The House of Representatives, if it chooses to, can veto DC laws. For this reason, openly gay city council members are “briefing” friendly Congressmen on the Hill today. At the same time, pro-traditional marriage advocates will address scores of representatives. Could this be the beginning of the federal battle over DOMA - the Defense of Marriage Act? In addition, Stand For Marriage leaders are stopped everywhere they go in the city by people who repeatedly declare, “We are behind you!”

As the political pot in Washington slowly rises to a boil, there certainly have been other significant developments in the marriage battle around the nation. On Wednesday, for example, opponents of gay marriage won a decisive victory in the New York State Senate; a measure attempting to legalize same-sex marriage was defeated 38 to 24. The liberal state legislature once considered gay marriage passage inevitable - with the same level of certainty that DC Council members currently display. In fact, David A. Paterson was poised to sign it into law.

Maggie Gallagher, president of the National Organization for Marriage, believes that New York State represents a game changer in the marriage wars. “I think you put it all together and it most likely spells the end of the idea that you can pass gay marriage democratically anywhere else in the United States,” she told reporters. This implies that gay marriage advocates will have to rely on activist judges and the legal system to advance their agenda.

Last week, I was interviewed by US News and World Report and asked an interesting question: “What lessons can Christian conservatives take from the loss they received at the hands of the DC Council?” I said that we needed to complement our grassroots organizational success with an increase in political sophistication. This means we need to start earlier in order to apply the same kind of pressure that gays have done for over five years. Although the opposition’s efforts made an impact on the mayor’s office and the DC Council, it has not changed the opinion of the mass voters in the District. Our efforts will be seen in the upcoming elections when we watch the current council members lose due to their disregard for the people whom they serve. In fact, we will strive to find our own candidates for these positions.

Become an advocate for marriage. Email your congressmen and senators and let them know how you want them to vote. Go to www.stand4marriagedc.com and learn more about how you can help. Today, you can make a difference!

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By Herman Cain

Maybe someone can smuggle this commentary past the Secret Service, the White House staff and Rahm Emanuel to President Obama. Obviously, he did not read  the commentary I wrote two months ago citing three suggestions on how to end the recession and create jobs.

Here are those suggestions, plus three more, none of which were even mentioned at the Jobs Summit. Once again, these are not original ideas. They are just common sense ideas that several people have suggested, but somehow they have not made it to the president’s ear:

1.   Suspend the payroll tax for one year

This gives an immediate 7.65 percent increase in take-home pay to all workers. It also lowers the payroll costs for all employers by 7.65 percent for one year. A total of about $900 billion would be injected directly into the economy immediately, rather than through the inefficiency of the federal government.

2.   Suspend the federal tax on repatriated profits

Multi-national U.S. businesses are hungry for cash flow, which could come from cash they have sitting in foreign countries in order to avoid double taxation. The last time this was only partially done, in 2005 during the Bush administration, nearly $300 billion dollars came back to U.S. businesses from their overseas operations.

3.   Pass tax cuts legislation, not more tax credits

Tax credits come after the fact. Tax cuts for businesses come before you have to lay more people off. And if they are the “right” tax cuts, businesses may even be able to hire some people.

4.   Suspend the limits on business investment deductions

Accounting rules require businesses to depreciate large business investments over time, rather than deduct the full expenditure in the year it was spent. This puts a strain on business cash flow, which is needed to add jobs.

5.   Suspend proposed job-killer legislation

Suspend work on passage of cap-and-trade legislation and health care legislation. They are both huge new taxes on businesses, and the prospect of passage has businesses in a state of “stop”. They stop hiring. They stop taking risks. And they stop investing in their businesses. All of these “stops” are job killers. They are not job creators.

6   Replace the tax code with a single consumption tax

This is popularly known as the Fair Tax (H.R. 25). It would produce a huge sucking sound of businesses from around the world wanting to establish businesses here in the U.S. It would super-charge our economy like never before. It gives power back to the people. What a patriotic idea!

Mr. President, I know the sixth suggestion would cause your fellow Democrats in Congress to have massive political coronaries, so just focus on the first five and you could save this economy, and possibly your presidency.

I am offering these suggestions because our economy cannot wait any longer for relief to get going again. But it needs to be the right kind of relief.

The estimated 16 million people out of work can’t wait any longer to find a job. They have run out of what little savings they had. They have used up all of their borrowing capacity. And their relatives are not even taking their calls any more.

We do not need another summit. We do not need another speech filled with vague platitudes and insincere calls for other ideas and shared sacrifice. So far during your administration, the ones making the most sacrifice are the ones without jobs, and the ones that you and Congress want to tax even more than we are already.

Stop the rhetoric. Businesses are in a state of stop. Start the solutions.

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By Star Parker

The Baltimore City Council has passed a bill requiring crisis pregnancy centers to post signs saying they do not “provide or make referrals for abortion or birth-control services.” Now it awaits the mayor’s signature.

Behind this unprecedented move of government to step in to regulate these centers is the national “pro-choice” movement — Planned Parenthood and NARAL. So we can expect similar efforts around the nation.

What’s driving it?

Three things.

First, Planned Parenthood is worried about the cash flow of its abortion mill money machine. Per Abby Johnson, the former Planned Parenthood director who they tried to shut-up with a gag order, “….with the downward economy, they are really trying to increase their abortion numbers, because that is the most lucrative part of their business.”

Second, the country is changing. A recent Gallup Poll showed that, for the first time, a majority of Americans — 51 percent — are pro-life.

And third, the crisis pregnancy center movement has emerged as enormously successful competition to abortion clinics, providing in-need pregnant women information, support, and infrastructure to enable them to keep and give birth to their babies.

These centers came on the scene a little under 40 years ago after the Roe v Wade decision legalized abortion. Today there are some 5,000 around the country funded by several hundred million dollars in contributions, 80 percent of which is from private individuals.

Baltimore city council president Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the lead sponsor of the bill, is transparently carrying Planned Parenthood’s water. No equivalent requirement is mandated that abortion clinics post signs saying they offer no pro-life counseling. And, of 50 individuals who testified before the council’s hearings, there was not a single client of a pregnancy center who claimed to have been misled.

According to Rawlings-Blake, her bill is “a step towards making sure that women have information they need to make the right decision for their health and their future.”

This would be hilarious if it weren’t so sad.

Sitting on my bookshelf is a picture of a beautiful young woman who died on an abortion table.

I carry with me the hundreds of stories of post abortion trauma I’ve heard at my speaking engagements at centers around the country. Women wracked with guilt. Parents who, when they see their children, recall the aborted brothers and sisters of these children.

Consider Ebony, a former client at Baltimore’s Center for Pregnancy Concerns with whom we spoke. Her story reveals who the real deceivers are.

When she became pregnant as a single unmarried woman, her immediate impulse was to abort. She called a local clinic and was able to schedule an abortion with a phone call. When in the conversation she questioned her ability to pay, she was encouraged to proceed because aborting would be “cheaper” than having the child.

Although she remained set on the abortion, Ebony knew something was wrong. Sitting up late at night, she called a Christian radio show to talk. They referred her to the crisis pregnancy center.

There she was told if she did decide to abort, “they would still help her.” And then she saw her baby on a sonogram and it was all over. Her son is now almost four.

Ebony received help with clothes, food, and counseling. She struggles today but wouldn’t have it any other way.

On the other side, nationwide purveyors of death deceive young women about “choice.”

When some 150 years ago Stephen Douglas argued that states should choose whether or not they would have slaves, Abraham Lincoln replied, “God did not place good and evil before man, telling him to make his choice … he did tell him there was one tree, of the fruit of which he should not eat, upon pain of certain death.”

Pro-choice? Who’s the deceiver?

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