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By Ken Blackwell

Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen is better than a stopped clock: He’s right more than twice a day. But even as a thoughtful liberal, he bears the burden of knowing many things that are not so.

Ten years ago, he wrote a painfully honest column on Partial-Birth Abortion. He described this horrific killing procedure and said it made him shudder. He wrote powerfully that he shuddered at the people who do not shudder.

That was then. In the last election go-round, Cohen did not shrink—or shudder—at supporting Sen. Barack Obama for President. Not only did Barack Obama support Partial-Birth Abortion, as an Illinois state senator he was even unwilling to protect the child who survives an abortion. Richard Cohen didn’t shudder; he shrugged. Cohen is no single issue man.

Cohen was introduced to Sen. John Edwards by Sen. John McCain several years ago. It tells us volumes that McCain was chumming in the Senate Dining Room with the very liberal Cohen. Cohen writes that Edwards made a strong first impression. After smiling his way through the initial pleasantries, Edwards strode off, probably to stroke his well-coiffed forelock. “Keep your eye on him,” McCain said.

Cohen did. And he was in time to be appalled by the tawdry tabloid person that is called John Edwards. This man could have been President, Cohen reacts today, and shudders.

What did we really know about John Edwards, Cohen asks now. Well, Edwards is finished. But Barack Obama is not finished. And Cohen asks the same question:

What do we really know about him? “Let Obama be Obama,” some of Cohen’s liberal friends are saying. They know that he was always supposed to be their Reagan. Now, Cohen asks, what does that mean?

Very much to Barack Obama’s credit, no one dreams that he is anything but a dutiful and devoted husband and father. This is something very important to know. It will give him great strength to face the storms in which he now finds himself. The Post also reports that Barack Obama confides seriously in his wife, Michelle.

Our First Lady has made it a point to meet frequently and in-depth with military families. She is said to have far better access to these families than the President has to ordinary Americans. She is therefore a good sounding board for him. I doubt very seriously that military families are urging her to tell the President to pursue the ultra-liberal policies he has pressed on us all this past year.

Richard Cohen held forth during the Ronald Reagan era. “When we were asked to ‘let Reagan be Reagan,’ we could be certain it was a call for a hard-right turn. Ronald Reagan had devoted many years to the conservative cause.” We all knew him. Obama, by contrast, appeared on the scene like a Midwest twister. He was just six years ago in the Illinois state legislature and afterwards a sometime U.S. Senator.

No wonder Cohen wonders. Americans are wondering more these days about Barack Obama.

I have to dispute Cohen on one point about Reagan. Whenever the call went up to “let Reagan be Reagan,” it did not necessarily mean a hard right turn. Integral to the Reagan political identity was his firm pro-life stance.

The close identification of this oldest of our Presidents with the youngest of Americans gave this strong man a kinder and gentler aspect. The man who could say to dictators and terrorists: “You can run, but you can’t hide,” could weep unashamedly upon being told that, because of his administration’s appeals, a Baby Doe on Long Island did not die.

Her parents had been advised not to let their Downs Syndrome newborn have a simple operation to clear her blocked esophagus. Because Ronald Reagan spoke, hearts were touched and lives were saved. At least on this, let Obama be Reagan. Then, none of us will have to shudder.

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By Lisa Fritsch

Just a year ago, Americans were so eloquently sold on hope and change that came from a shiny, new black sedan of a limousine liberal.  It turns out what they really wanted was something that came from the likes of Scott Brown’s old Chevy truck.

Once dazzled by the illusion of Barack Obama’s hope and change sloganeering, it took Americans a year to the day to make it clear they are through with liberal shenanigans and are taking matters into their own hands.

Republican Brown’s election in Massachusetts to the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for almost 50 years is a definitive rejection of the Obama agenda.

Yet there are liberals still defiantly invested in the folly of Obama’s now-tarnished vision of hope and change.  If Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi stubbornly continue to push the President’s unpopular bill of goods despite the new math in Washington, they risk unleashing the full wrath of the American voter upon themselves and their colleagues this November.

Scott Brown’s victory is less about opponent Martha Coakley’s poor campaigning than an awakening to conservative values in the bluest of blue states.  It’s a major step toward enacting true hope and change over the politicians’ desires.  It’s something all parties and persuasions should take to heart.

Brown’s win in Massachusetts exhibits the mood of the rest of America.  Unlike our global neighbors, Americans are no longer under the spell of bouffant speeches and bankrupt promises.

The jig is up for the Democrats, and Republicans would be wise to take note of conservative momentum of now.

For fear of appearing unrefined, racist or out of touch (or all of these things, if you watch MSNBC), Republicans have been resistant to embrace true conservative voices in their ranks:  the southerner “hicks” so offensive and uncouth to the Georgetown elite; abortion opponents who fight for the right to life over the self-serving wisdom of Washington aristocrats; NRA members who know the last defense against tyranny is self-defense and those who may or may not believe in climate change but know cap-and-trade will devastate our economy.

Now is not the time to shy away from the pro-lifers. With confident compassion and humility, one can articulate that being against abortion is not about limiting a woman’s choice or ruining her life, but rather choosing love and the beauty of a woman’s ability to give it.

Now is the time to speak proudly about clinging to guns and religion, for both are critical in keeping our nation at peace and in freedom.

Now is the time to call a terrorist a terrorist, lest we all become faceless potential hijackers.

Spoken in earnest and with conviction, conservative values are the values most Americans trust.

For Republicans, Scott Brown’s victory should not make them overconfident.  It is not enough to simply rest on the discontent and distrust for the current Washington culture.  There is still much work to be done.  While Brown is no Jesse Helms, any return to a platform that is diffuse and weak ramblings of conciliation will mean renewed defeat.

Brown’s win undoubtedly caught the Democrats’ attention.  While a leopard cannot change its spots, expect at least some Democrats to try to alter their message to broaden their appeal.  That’s what Bill Clinton did after his 1994, and it worked.

While liberals sulkily chalk Martha Coakley’s loss to bad campaigning, PMS bloat or some other null excuse to justify their continued push for this administration’s ill-fated agenda, conservatives must be ready to lead.  Brown’s campaigning for reason on taxes, terrorism and health care is what the people in Massachusetts - and the rest of America - favors.

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For Release: January 27, 2010
Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or (703) 568-4727 or e-mail project21@nationalcenter.org

Washington, DC: In the aftermath of President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union Address, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are commenting on his presentation tonight and his performance during his first year in office:

Bishop Council Nedd II: “After virtually walking away from the gay community after the election, President Obama is all of a sudden taking up their cause again? Last week’s election shows he has problems with Americans of all political stripes, but he appears to be focusing most intently on quelling the civil war rising against him in the left-wing of his party. One would think that — as his approach to national security is being questioning in the wake of the underwear bomber and his dithering on Afghanistan — that he would think of some other military-related issue to champion than one that could fracture his 2008 base even further. And then there is his post-Obamacare pivot to jobs that seems to be uneducated and aimless. Is 2010 to be consumed with ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ for the military and ‘don’t ask, don’t know’ on jobs?” (Bishop Council Nedd II is the bishop of the Chesapeake and the Northeast for the Episcopal Missionary Church and a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network.)

Mychal Massie (chairman of Project 21): “It is time that President Obama realized his job is more than giving speeches and blaming former President Bush. Instead, from his performance tonight, he continues to show his disconnect with what the American people want and need. With record numbers of people unemployed and home ownership at risk or lost for so many, to point out just two problems, we needed to hear more from him than blaming others. It is time for Obama to own up to this malaise as his own. National security and the economy should have been Obama’s first and primary concerns — not his failed health care plan and a job-killing cap-and-trade policy. I was not inspired by his words nor his passing of blame. I wanted to see him respond in the interest of the people.” (Mychal Massie is chairman of Project 21, a columnist for WorldNetDaily, and a former talk show host and businessman.)

Kevin L. Martin: “Watching President Obama’s State of the Union Address, it felt like he was back on the campaign trail. Like on the trail, tonight’s rhetoric tends to differ from reality. What was on display was a bait-and-switch in which broken promises were rehashed and more pandering was thrown at the middle class as he pledged tax cuts, tax credits and job creation. Last year’s obscene spending and job-killing proposals such as cap-and-trade, however, don’t match the rhetoric. Obama, like all good liberals, believes government can solve all our ills if it’s big enough. He now just has to hope his congressional allies come through with checks that are big enough.” (Kevin L. Martin is a member of the national advisory council of the Project 21 black leadership network.)

R. Dozier Gray: “The President reminds us that one in ten Americans still cannot find work. Hard as I try, I simply cannot think of anything he has done to truly mitigate the problem. Mr. President, if you hated the bank bailouts why did you support them. Own it, sir. Own the whole thing. With your proposed fee on banks to recover money you say belongs to the taxpayer, does that mean I will be receiving a check? Or does that mean you will just recycle the fees into other spending programs? I think I already heard the latter tonight, so please don’t pretend to be recovering money for me.” (Dozier Gray is a member of the national advisory council for the Project 21 black leadership network and a combat veteran.)

Lisa Fritsch: “President Obama wonders why there is so much ‘cynicism’ out there. While his speech was full of ironies and folly, this is the worst. It is President Obama who is the cynic, because he doesn’t seem to believe in anything but the government. Though President Obama worked hard to try to connect with Americans, it is clear that his position on some of Americans’ top concerns — taxes, terrorism and health care reform — remain the same. And his idea of change is at odds with the average voter, both middle-class and upper-class. President Obama fails to acknowledge that Americans have changed. Americans have awakened to the truth, and they no longer want his change. Americans are wiser from the wear. Too bad Obama is not.” (Lisa Fritsch is a member of the national advisory council for the Project 21 black leadership network and a community activist, writer, public speaker, and talk radio host in the Austin, Texas area.)

Ellis Washington: “President Obama in his first year raised the spending limit to unsustainable levels ($1.35 trillion); more than GWB did in 8 years and now Obama is championing a freeze on spending?! President Obama’s first State of the Union Address painfully exemplifies that this clear and present danger to America is not Mr. Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man of this ilk with the presidency. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails us — lack of common sense and good judgment. To paraphrase a comment on Reuters: Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who despite his promise to ‘fundamentally change America’ is, after all, merely a fool. The failed Marxist policies encapsulated in Obama’s first State of the Union Address makes him less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president. Seemingly remarking on these troublesome times, Etienne de la Boetie said: ‘If without violence the tyrant is simply not obeyed, he becomes naked and undone and as nothing.’” (Ellis Washington is a member of the national advisory council for the Project 21 black leadership network and a former editor of the Michigan Law Review.)

Project 21, established in 1992, is sponsored by the National Center for Public Policy Research (http://www.nationalcenter.org), a non-profit foundation established in 1982 and funded primarily from the gifts of over 100,000 recent individual donors.

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For Release: January 27, 2010 Contact: David Almasi at (202) 543-4110 x11 or project21@nationalcenter.org

Washington, D.C.: In anticipation of President Barack Obama’s first State of the Union Address, members of the Project 21 black leadership network are offering their thoughts on his first year in office and the strength of the nation.

Bob Parks: “During the last few months, President Obama has arrogantly broken one campaign pledge after another. Even after the “Massachusetts Miracle,” when his fellow liberals began to act as if they were moving to the center if only for purposes of political preservation, Obama continued his narcissistic approach to governing.

“When Representative Marion Berry (D-AR) was said to have warned Obama about the potential for a mid-term election drubbing like that experienced by Bill Clinton in 1994, Obama reportedly replied: ‘Well, the big difference here and in ‘94 was you’ve got me.’ Berry has since announced his retirement, but the rest of America is stuck working with Obama until at least 2013. That means more broken promises, more bogus job-creation numbers and more botching of the war on terror.”

Kevin L. Martin: “President Obama will undoubtedly claim the state of our union is strong and insist that his big-spending policies brought us back from the abyss. He will sing the praises of the middle class and vow to ease their pain, yet it has been the middle class that has borne the brunt of the burden of his policies during his first year in office. After being saddled with generations of debt, whatever happened to all of those shovel-ready jobs? Why are people making under $250,000 encountering new taxes? Are we safer now than we were a year ago?

“The state of our union is not determined by the size and scope of the government but by the resilience of everyday Americans. We remain hopeful, but we grow weary of a government that fails to deliver and angry at a government that refuses to take our input on real relief and reform.”

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

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By Armstrong Williams

The dust is still settling from the fallout of the special election in Massachusetts to replace the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The rejection of socialism, high taxes and government restrictions on personal health care choices all became self-evident last week with Scott Brown’s stunning upset. It was the shot heard around the political world.

History reminds us that Massachusetts was the cradle of the American Revolution. It began with high taxes and restrictions on civil liberties imposed by the British Crown. The people of the Bay State refused to succumb to a new despot imposing higher taxes and restrictions on freedom. Just as Massachusetts paved the way for the American Revolution, it now has set the stage for the national rejection of President Obama’s hidden yet radical agenda.

Today, Democrats remain precariously perched along a political fault line that threatens to swallow more of its members if they fail to heed the call and will of the people. Last Tuesday’s election produced far more winners and losers than the victor, Scott Brown, and the vanquished, Martha Coakley. To understand what both parties can expect in the coming weeks and months, it’s important to take a look at some other heroes and victims who emerged from the outcome.

The winners

Pete Sessions — The chairman of the campaign arm for House Republicans will reap the political spoils of Senator-elect Brown’s victory. With more than a 70-seat disadvantage, Republicans in the House face an uphill challenge - so large that many potential Republican contenders felt their time and effort would be better spent in 2012 or beyond. No more. Last week’s victory put once-believed safe Democratic seats in play all across the land. That will help Mr. Sessions in two critical ways: 1) Expect more retirements from old bull Democrats too tired or bored to remain in office; and 2) Mr. Sessions will cultivate some high caliber recruits to take on those Democrats brave (or foolish) enough to stay in the fight come November.

Michael S. Steele — The chairman of the Republican National Committee deserves his share of credit for the network of party operatives he spread far and wide across the state. Given the state’s large number of independent voters, Massachusetts party officials needed every last Republican vote, and Mr. Steele helped direct those resources. Whether you like his style or not, Steele & Co. are on a roll with victories in Virginia and the bluest of blue states — New Jersey and Massachusetts. Nothing silences critics more than winning.

Sen. Joe Lieberman — Mr. Lieberman is the new maverick. His go-it-alone approach and very public bucking of Senate Democratic leadership establishes a new style of governing in the Senate pantheon that others would be wise to emulate. Solidarity at all costs is a fiat Harry Reid can no longer impose, and Mr. Lieberman was the first to see the folly of such a mandate.

Tea Party Movement — Former Majority Leader Dick Armey, Texas Republican, and his merry band of conservatives have lit a prairie fire in America’s heartland, firing up like-minded individuals who are disgusted with the same spend-it-all-while-you-can mentality, irrespective of the party in power. They were heckled and rejected as a gang of misfits, but there’s no question these true believers have fomented a movement that will not soon be forgotten and certainly no longer ignored.

The losers

Sen. Harry Reid — Did anyone notice how conspicuously absent and quiet Mr. Reid was in the days leading up to the special election? The Senate leader must know last Tuesday’s vote was as much a referendum on his leadership style as that of the president. Now, Mr. Reid faces even stiffer competition in Nevada, coupled with the realization he must shift strategy in the upper chamber if he has any hope of rescuing his party and his own seat.

Keith Olbermann — The MSNBC anchor was crying in his vodka martini early Tuesday night. No amount of liberal spin and cheap porno references could explain away the shellacking his side took. If last week was any indicator of the coming months, viewers may find themselves tuning into Sunday Night Football to catch future glimpses of the former sportscaster-turned-Obama cheerleader.

Moderate Democrats — Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh, Indiana Democrat, said it best when he indicated if his party didn’t see this as a wake-up call, then it is not waking up. The moderate Democrat knows his like-minded colleagues well — they simply can’t keep rubber-stamping a radical agenda and not pay the consequences. It’s too soon to say whether moderate Democrats will fall victim to the voters come November, but if they weren’t before, they’re definitely paying attention now.

President Obama — Whether White House adviser David Axelrod admits it or not, the president knows in his heart last Tuesday’s election was about him and his agenda. THAT’S WHY HE TRAVELED TO MASSACHUSETTS LAST WEEK — to see if he could personally salvage that race. Yet this new dynamic creates a host of opportunities for Mr. Obama. More than ever, the lack of a 60-vote Senate allows Mr. Obama to return to whom he portrayed himself to be — a mainstream Democrat who governs from the middle. We all know better, but if there’s a scapegoat to be found, he’ll locate it. One thing’s for sure, Barack Obama will not repeat the same mistakes of his predecessor, Bill Clinton. He never wants to utter the phrase, “The era of big government is over.”

Time still favors the president and his agenda. If he faces the bitter truth today, he can avoid electoral heartache in 2012. The reelection campaign for President Obama began Jan. 21. The president can emerge from this teachable moment with a fresh, centrist perspective which returns him to the moderate, common sense leader he always wanted to be. The State of the Union this week gives him that unobstructed platform to do so in prime time. Don’t bet against this man. He’s too good, and too dangerous.

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by Harry R. Jackson, Jr.

The Sunday before Martin Luther King Day, I traveled to Houston to speak at a rally designed to protest the opening of Planned Parenthood’s largest U.S. facility. Over 10,000 gathered at Grace Community Church, led by Dr. Steve Riggle, for an evening praise and prayer rally. The crowd consisted of 70 percent twenty-somethings and an incredibly, racially diverse group approximately 60 percent white, 30 percent Hispanic, and 10 percent black. On MLK Day a 10,000-plus group gathered at Catholic Charismatic Center in Houston once again for an additional prayer meeting and rally. Unfortunately, only 3,000 of us were allowed to march near the Planned Parenthood facility.

In my opening words, I recounted my family’s civil rights legacy. This legacy includes many elements: a state trooper threatening my father at gunpoint for getting involved in voter registration, his discovery of several men’s lynched bodies hanging from trees as he worked his paper route and the story of a man in his town set on fire and dragged through his town square.

After sharing that brief glimpse into some of the horrors of my family’s background, I let the audience know that African Americans believe Planned Parenthood, which started with groups like the KKK, continues its targeted genocide focused on blacks and other minorities. Many people are unaware that Margaret Sanger, Planned Parenthood’s founder, was an ideological soul mate of Hitler - part of what was known as the Eugenics Movement.

I told the group that it was important to grasp the progression of the Eugenics Movement. Margaret Sanger wrote in her first handbook, What Every Boy and Girl Should Know, these ominous words, “It is a vicious cycle; ignorance breeds poverty and poverty breeds ignorance. There is only one cure for both, and that is to stoop breeding these things. Stop bringing to birth children whose inheritance cannot be one of health or intelligence. Stop bringing into the world children whose parents cannot provide for them.”

As the movement grew, Madison Grant (a Yale educated lawyer) wrote a popular book in 1916, which includes the diabolical root concepts, which led to the sterilization of individuals from black and other groups who were deemed to have arrested development or retardation. In The Passing of the Great Race he made the following incredible statements:

“A rigid system of selection through the elimination of those who are weak or unfit — in other words social failures — would allow us to solve the whole question in one hundred years, as well as enable us to get rid of the undesirables who crowd our jails, hospitals, and insane asylums. The individual himself can be nourished, educated, and protected by the community during his lifetime, but the state through sterilization must see to it that his line stops with him, or else future generations will be cursed with an ever-increasing load of misguided sentimentalism. This is a practical, merciful, and inevitable solution of the whole problem, and can be applied to an ever widening circle of social discards, beginning always with the criminal, the diseased, and the insane, and extending gradually to types which may be called weaklings rather than defectives, and perhaps ultimately to worthless race types.”

When this book was translated into German in 1925, one of its early fans was none other than Adolph Hitler. Hitler wrote to Grant, “…this book is my bible.” We all know that Hitler became the mastermind behind the systematic plan to destroy the Jews based on the revelations in this book.

With this background in mind, I ended my remarks sharing that my own wife’s two pre-marriage abortions may have caused the two miscarriages she had during our marriage. More specifically, I referenced that we have had two wonderful, accomplished daughters - but no boys. I feel that one of the miscarried babies was definitely a son - A son that I hope I will meet some day in heaven.

I secretly choked back my tears and finished my speech. As an African American, I am outraged that the facility is strategically located in the geographic center of a four-community circle. Three of these communities are home to over 80 percent Hispanics, while the third is home to an 80 percent black population. Once again Planned Parenthood, who receives one third of its 1 billion dollar annual budget from federal funds, has set its sights on aborting the babies of “inferior races.”

Before our press conference, we walked around the entire complex. This building is the largest abortion center in North America. Many of my pro-life associates have dubbed it an “abortion super center.” They are especially concerned about the clinic’s ambulatory surgical unit. This unit can perform abortions up to 25 weeks of gestation under Texas law, instead of the 15th-week-limit allowed by current Planned Parenthood facilities in the region. Although Planned Parenthood leaders have attempted to minimize the size and function of the center, they claim that only one third of the facility will actually be used for “health services.” They justify their work by citing the fact that their practice is legal under the law. Further, they say that one out of three women in the United States will have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old, remarking that the safe practices of today’s clinics are far better than the deaths and wounding that have historically occurred from home abortions. Finally, longevity is often this group’s ultimate claim to modern-day authenticity. Planned Parenthood spokespersons in Houston were quick to remind the press that their group has operated in Houston for 75 years.

Those of us who gathered decided that we must campaign against abortion in Houston and the rest of the nation. Many of the leaders who participated with us have committed to promote domestic adoptions and to open crisis pregnancy centers around the nation. Preventing abortions is impossible unless we also promote safe births, adoptions and a community of caring that promotes life.

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By Herman Cain

We already know that the president will deliver an eloquent State of the Union address filled with exaggerated accomplishments and some not so subtle blame-Bush references. Whereas the president must try to be as optimistic as possible, we must also be realistic about the state of the union through the Voice of the People, because problems do not fix themselves.

Assessments of the state of our union will prompt different opinions by different people. The majority party in control of Congress and the White House will tend to be overly optimistic, while the minority party will tend to be more pessimistic about the health of the nation. And there are plenty of selective statistics out there to try and make one’s desired political case.

But consider some of the compelling and irrefutable facts about our country:

War is never good but sometimes necessary. But it breaks my heart every time I hear of another casualty in Afghanistan or Iraq, and not feeling confident that the administration has done all it can do to give them what they need to defend us and themselves. That includes the timing of decisions and the decisions themselves.

We have spent billions on Homeland Security since 9/11, along with millions on commissions, studies, recommendations and changes among and between our intelligence agencies. It is then not too comforting to be told by the president and the heads of those respective agencies that they dropped the ball, and failed to connect the dots with the attempted Christmas 2009 terrorist attack of a commercial passenger jet. I don’t feel real safe yet.

The Social Security system is headed for bankruptcy and neither the president nor Congress is doing anything about it. Instead, they have focused their attention on passing another big new bureaucracy around health care which is destined to be a disaster in the future.

Medicare began paying out more than it is collecting from the Medicare tax this year, yet the president and the Senate proposed to cut nearly $500 billion from the program, and promised no cuts in services and no rationing. We are not stupid.

The national debt has increased nearly $4 trillion in President Obama’s first year, which equals the increase in the national debt in all eight years of the Bush administration. To say that spending is out of control is an understatement. It is embarrassing that the value of the U.S. dollar is now less than the Canadian dollar and the European euro for the first time in history. We cannot spend our way to prosperity.

While analysts disagree on when the recession started, they at least agree that we are in one now. Similarly, analysts disagree on when we will be out of this recession and whether it will be a V-shaped, W-shaped or U-shaped recovery. Unemployed Americans and businesses just want a real recovery instead of inaccurate claims by the administration that the recovery is underway, or a failed $787 billion stimulus bill that did not work. But they want us to believe that it is working and will eventually get better. Right!

This country does not have an energy independence strategy. It starts with utilizing all of our own natural resources, but their exploration and development have been blocked by this administration and Congress at every turn. We do not have to go broke to go green. Without a strategy, we become increasingly more vulnerable to oil producing countries who are not necessarily our friends.

New threats to our livelihoods and liberties are unprecedented by this president and Congress with proposed legislation. The good news is that we the people are waking up and fighting back. Just consider the latest gubernatorial results in Virginia and New Jersey in November 2009, and the most recent upset victory by Senator-elect Scott Brown in Massachusetts.

These are the facts, and I invite you to draw your own conclusions about the real state of the union. But there are some encouraging signs of late that are good news. We the people are still in charge of this country.

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by Ken Blackwell

Whenever the Establishment in Washington gets a Big Idea about the need to get beyond partisanship, reach for your wallet. The latest Big Idea is President Obama’s proposal for an Executive Commission on Debt Reduction. The idea is modeled on the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC). That commission had as its task closing military bases we thought we did not need in the post-Cold War era. The reason we needed BRAC, we were told, is that too many local congressmen were protecting the bases in their own districts and none of the excess bases could be closed. It was blowing out the Pentagon budget, they said.

President Obama wants a commission to help him stop excess spending. Even if we do not pass his Health Care proposals, the rising costs of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are projected to grow so vast that they will be 300% of the Gross Domestic Product by the year 2050. This would require tax hikes of $12,072 per family in the U.S.

Clearly, we can’t continue on this glide path.

The President offered this proposal for an 18-member Executive Commission. That ought to be cheap to run. Just imagine the staff, travel to research sites for that! Six of the members would be named by Democrats in Congress, six by Republicans, and the remaining six would be named by Mr. Obama himself (except that of his share, at least two would have to be Republicans and no more than four could be Democrats.)

I already know what this adventure in bi-partisanship would look like. It would look like the famous Gergen-Shield matchup on PBS. When the publicly-funded Jim Lehrer Newshour reached out for a Republican and a Democrat to give a thin veneer of bi-partisanship, they recruited David Gergen and Mark Shields. This duo was left and lefter.

Republican in Name Only David Gergen was the classic trimmer in the Reagan White House. He went on serve in the Bill Clinton White House. He was most recently seen moderating the Martha Coakley-Scott Brown-(Not That) Joe Kennedy debate in Massachusetts.

Gergen asked Scott Brown if he really intended to “overturn” Roe v. Wade? Pro-choice Gergen knows that framing a question on abortion that includes the word “overturn” is the best way to assure a strong majority against. Americans don’t want to overturn anything. Sounds radical. Sounds dangerous. Think of an SUV in a ditch.

Gergen then opened up on Scott Brown. Would you really sit in “Ted Kennedy’s seat” and vote against the cause to which Kennedy devoted his life? How about that for a blow below the belt? And this is PBS’ idea of a Republican!

Not intentionally, Gergen gave Brown an opening for the greatest line of the night: “With all due respect, it’s not the Kennedy seat, it’s not the Democrats’ seat, it’s the People’s Seat.” That line may have won the election for Scott Brown. “People’s Seat” was the slogan that glittered on stage when Scott Brown claimed victory. But surely no thanks to David RINO Gergen.

And that’s what the Obama Executive Commission on Debt Reduction will look like. Gergens galore. Their job will be to rope Republicans into voting huge new tax increases.

They’ll be famous “deficit hawks.” But they’ll know nothing about job creation and small business promotion. Some of those congressionally appointed commissioners could include the very Members voters want to oust this fall. Deficit hawks could soon change their feather and become lame ducks.

Harry Truman kept a sign on his desk. It said: “The Buck Stops Here.” This debt reduction commission just passes the buck. Don’t fall for another Gergen-Shields fiasco of a debt reduction commission.

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By Star Parker

Have you ever watched as a dear friend becomes smitten with someone you know is not for them?

You listen as they swear how Mr. or Ms. Right has finally arrived, wondering how they cannot see the obvious. Your only option is to watch and wait for the inevitable, knowing that when it’s over you’ll be there to help pick up the pieces.

So, yes, independent voters, who were key to electing Barack Obama, are now falling out of love with him. But, I ask, what were you folks thinking a year ago?

You didn’t realize that the post-racial candidate with the magic wand was a classic, boilerplate liberal? You were so sick of Republicans that you didn’t bother to think about it? But you do know about these rebound relationships, don’t you?

It’s not like we haven’t had our experience with liberalism. That experience made the liberal label so politically deadly that liberals renamed themselves “progressives.”

So, what can we expect now in the wake of the miracle in Massachusetts?

Democrats are between a rock and hard place because Barack Obama is not going to change. This is a date that you know after five minutes is not going to work and you have the whole evening ahead of you. In this case, it’s three more years.

Pundits are talking about the Bill Clinton model. When Bill Clinton I was repudiated by voters, he morphed into Bill Clinton II.

But Bill Clinton is a not an ideologue. Bill is a pragmatic man. He’ll do whatever it takes to keep the party going.

It’s hard to fathom Obama doing the equivalent of signing welfare reform, promoting a free trade treaty like NAFTA, or cutting the capital gains tax.

Obama is a liberal ideologue. To change would require him to become a different man. Not impossible, but highly unlikely.

Democrats, under this president’s leadership, will continue to push a left wing, liberal program. This means that the door will be open for Republicans to make hay, as independent voters nationwide wake up and recall why the “liberal” label became so deadly.

Over the last ten days, the probability of Democrats retaining control of the House in 2010 dropped from 85 percent to 59 percent, as reflected in contracts traded on Intrade.com.

Economic recovery will continue at tortoise-like speed as result of the prevailing culture of high taxes, expanding government spending and deficits, and welfare state bailouts that encourage non-productive behavior.

It will be tempting for many Republicans to take the easy way and campaign to exploit prevailing unhappiness. This would be irresponsible. The problems facing the nation are too great.

Republicans must offer now a concrete alternative vision, Contract with America-style.

Return to a low tax, limited government environment. Address escalating health care costs with market, enterprise-driven reforms. We are drowning in the red ink of entitlements. Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid must be transformed into models of ownership and choice. Parents must be given freedom to choose where to send their children to school.

A bold Republican agenda would aim to unite our deeply divided nation by reaching into black and Latino communities to show that ownership and personal responsibility — not the welfare state — is the key to the American dream.

And let’s not shy away from the truth that this is a nation under God.

Some say that a free society has no religious absolutes. Stephen Douglas argued this when, in his debates with Lincoln, he claimed it was the American way for each state to be free to decide if it would permit slavery.

Current polling shows that less than one in three Americans feel the country is on the right track. It’s time to get back on the path of freedom.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – January 22, 2010

Contact:  Dr. Eric Wallace (708) 675-9669

President, Wallace Multimedia Group, LLC

What is the number one cause of death for people of African-American descent? Abortion. Alarmingly, the abortion rate for African-American women is significantly higher than that of whites, or all other ethic communities in the United States, according to current statistics from the Centers for Disease Control. In fact, more African-Americans (13 million) have perished at the hands of abortionists and their allies than have died from the seven leading causes of death combined since 1973 – the year Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalized abortion in the United States.

“While abortion still largely remains a voluntary choice, abortion providers, like Planned Parenthood, and many Black leaders continue to convince would-be mothers in the African-American community to unwittingly support wide-scale destruction of their unborn – under the guise of rising out of poverty,” says Dr. Eric Wallace, founder of Wallace Multimedia Group, LLC and Freedom’s Journal Magazine.

This special edition of Freedom’s Journal Magazine (Issue 1, 2010), available online now, focuses on the racist underpinnings of abortion, the illegal activities of the abortion industry and the devastating impact of abortion on the African-American community. Titled Maafa 21: Exposing Black Genocide in the 21st Century, this issue includes, an article, which explores abortion’s economic impact on the African American community; an interview with the creator of the explosive documentary film Maafa 21; facts concerning the truth behind school-based clinics that promote promiscuity, and the racist history of the Eugenics movement and Planned Parenthood’s Negro Project. Additionally, FJM contributors provide relevant insight and commentary on how and why the African-American community must fight back against the immoral form of “legalized” genocide, which is rapidly destroying its community.

Notably, in the publisher’s welcome Wallace offers a stirring admonishment for readers to “Cry murder from our rooftops and help open the eyes of the blind who have not seen these atrocities. We must open the ears of the deaf who have not yet heard the silent cries of the babies who have never been allowed to fill their lungs with air. For if we do nothing, if we turn away from the massacre of the innocent, we become no better than the hypocrites who once defended the unborn only to become the most ardent advocate for their demise.”

Freedom’s Journal Magazine’s exciting interactive digital format offers the latest in news, commentary and opinion with a biblical-worldview.

For more information, see www.freedomsjournalmagazine.com.

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