Action Item Compilation XIX

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Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 7:11 AM

Subject: Action-Items-CXLI [Mandatory Holocaust Education-Analysis]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/226941086/Action-Items-CXLI-Mandatory-Holocaust-Education-
Analysis?post_id=1448468906_10204008721965552#_=_

Inexplicably, a controversy rages within the Jewish INSTITUTIONAL communityit is sadly-necessary to
recognizeregarding whether to mandate all high-school grads in PA are taught about the Holocaust;
when I first learned of this issue -year ago, it seemed uncanny that ANYONE would oppose such efforts
but, as per an article just-published in the Jewish Exponent, the PA Jewish Coalition has dug-in its heels.
Therefore, it is desirable to let it all hang-out and, in the process, provide a peek into how Harrisburg
appears to function *or, rather, in this case, attempt NOT to act+ regarding what should be a gimme.
Due to the need to divulge all available data, this Blast e-mail is intended to provide a taste of what
has transpired during private lobbying-efforts; that which follows will synthesize this analysis into what
appears to be a necessarily-enhanced level of discourse; know, for example, that Hank Butler is now
spreading the word that my episodic calls to Harrisburg has triggered receptionists to cry because of
my alleged forcefulness; my initiatives have been focused and, as the reader will adjudge, have yielded
exposure of just who is functioning as the Dybbuk in this protracted minuet [mixed-metaphors, sorry].

Provided yesterday was brief-mention of this concern: Every effort is being expended
to counter nefarious conduct of those who oppose the mandate, such as lobbyist Hank
Butler [representing the PA Jewish Coalition of non-profits], who ambushed the local
Federation Board meeting [a fortnight go] and coerced it to retreat from its support for
our efforts [by retreading assertions that had already been disproven+. The reader is
cordially invited to check-out this succinct summary of the database, amplified by an
exhaustive analysis of the database [encased within a thread of e-mail correspondence];
be forewarned that the last hyperlink will place before you [in a PDF-format, via scribd]
the equivalent of 24 pages of a Word document. *Ive functioned as the detail-man,
here, while primarily focused on enlightening the GOP-leadership within the legislature.]

Here is what I meant; without having included this item on its agenda, the local-Federation acted
without providing opposing views to be aired; they cannot reasonably claim they didnt know we exist,
and the local-Federation thereby knowingly acted precipitously, perhaps satisfying Robin Schatz and
Hank Butlerbut performing *another+ disservice to the Jewish Community it purports to represent.
[Disclaimer: I stopped contributing years agoexcept to subscribe to the Exponent because on-line
content excludes ads, which are often fascinatingafter it committed misfeasance when it contributed
to Martin Goldsmiths $15-million severance after he left the CEO-spot @ Einstein Medical Center.]
Essentially, it endorsed warmed-over proposals that had already been debunked, thereby depriving
students a rudimentary knowledge of what transpired [and WHY it occurred] during the Shoah.

It may be noted that the structure of these Blast e-mails has vascillated between
being replete with hyperlinks and lapsing into first-person explanations; the former is
intended to mirror how I compose expert-reports, namely, to ensure that there is no
tenable school-of-thought other than that which is being presented via what may be
viewed as a meta-analysis of the news *indeed, inundating the reader with aggregated
citations that, themselves, amplify what should have been obvious anyway] and the
latter is intended to provide perspective accrued on a personal level that may not have
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been available to most-others [such as when I referenced my fathers having treated
Rachel Carson for Breast Cancer, a half-century ago]. The goal [after having been getting
4 hours sleep regularly+ has been to provide as much data as possible, ASAP, to arm
the reader during conversations and to motivate the reader to consider pursuing the
rather-distilled Action-Items that are thematic. Primary has been the need to accept
the non-alarmist, cogent explanation for why BHO is so dangerous; secondary has been
the need to ponder the rectitude of the personal interventions that have been pursued.
Religiously, all feedback has been conceptualized and integrated into follow-up essays
unless the writer has provided something that has already been covered and/or asked
that anonymity be respected; in the latter case, the input has often been mainstreamed
within a subsequent entry, so that the gravamen of the thought has been preserved.

Respecting the stated-disclaimers [coupled with an explanation as to how I balance party-affiliation with
personal-politics], it is now desirable to tackle the update of the Holocaust-based effort that has been
pursued by myself, Rhonda Fink-Whitman and Chuck Feldman [of the Holocaust Remembrance Museum
and Education Center]; others serve as personal-contacts for each of us [based on prior networking], but
we have not abused the privilege of working with others *simply because its so easy to update them, for
we monopolize the factual-foundation of this created-controversy]. Indeed, until a few months ago,
when I spoke on the speaker-phone with Messrs. Transue and Miskin [vide infra], I had encountered
NOBODY who could articulate opposition to our efforts; in the process of expending untold hours
chatting-up anyone daring to interact, all contrary arguments were dutifully recorded and demolished.
Sometimes, these outcome-data were included in a Blast e-mail [to update interested-individuals], but
often it was felt to be politic to dismember people privately *with a limited number of people placed
within the cc-list]; throughout, we have remained laser-focused on the task-at-hand, refusing to be
distracted by the rhetoric of the politician/lobbyist/staffer who would routinely neuter people who were
lacking awareness of how devious such methodology can prove to be. We are motherhood/apple-pie,
they arentand they know itand they are increasingly desperate to protect their exposed-egos.

Indeed, they have also been added to the bcc list of this Blast e-mails, even after
they have vainly [and in-vain] attempted to put-off these initiatives; for example, know
that I received no reply to the following e-mail [which was the most-recent item in the
aformentioned upload of correspondence, as one reads chronologically from the
bottom, upwards], notwithstanding the fact that the recipient subsequently provided a
rather extensive/pungent quote to the Exponent [which is to be rebutted after ensuring
the reader has IDed the Dramatis Personnae].

From: Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D. [mailto:rsklaroff@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2014 3:50 PM
To: 'Stephen Miskin'; 'David Transue'
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman'; 'rboop@pasen.gov'; 'Brendan Boyle'; 'Himebaugh, Nicholas
A.'; 'John Rafferty'; 'Candice Wynn'; 'Cawley, Jim'; {Jim Cawleys personal e-mail
address}; 'mikefolmer@pasen.gov'; 'mfolmer@pasen.gov'
Subject: RE: Genocide/Curriculum - A Proposal
Importance: High

Might you please rescind/revise the faulty input that was provided BOTH to the House
Education Committee and to the Senate???

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From: Stephen Miskin [mailto:SMiskin@pahousegop.com]
To: Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D.; David Transue
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman'; gardened@comcast.net; rboop@pasen.gov; 'Brendan Boyle';
'Himebaugh, Nicholas A.'; John Rafferty; Candice Wynn; 'Cawley, Jim'; {Jim Cawleys
personal e-mail address}; mikefolmer@pasen.gov; mfolmer@pasen.gov

Dr. Sklaroff, thank you for your continued interest in the Holocaust Education bill
awaiting Senate action. The House won't be able to take any action until the
Senate votes on the bill.

The bill is in the Senate's purview right now. Thank you.

- Steve Miskin

-------- Original message --------
From: "Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D."
Date:04/08/2014 3:27 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: David Transue
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman' ,gardened@comcast.net,rboop@pasen.gov,'Brendan
Boyle' ,"'Himebaugh, Nicholas A.'" ,John Rafferty ,Stephen Miskin ,Candice
Wynn ,"'Cawley, Jim'" , {Jim Cawleys personal e-mail
address},mikefolmer@pasen.gov,mfolmer@pasen.gov

David, Ms. Wynn confirmed that you were the author of the faulty staff-memo that
claimed INCORRECTLY that the current statute covers the unit [genocide, holocaust, and
human rights violations+ in a cursory fashion; if this legislation is to be signed-off on
4/29/2014 [International Holocaust Remembrance Day], you are going to have to get-
off-the-dime [even if you wish not to call-me-back, despite my daily calls/e-mails during
the past week].

I have exhaustively/repeatedly documented otherwise, namely, that the topic-listing
omits some topics and places others under disparate subjects in a fragmentary fashion;
remember, I care not about whether the DoE composes an optional curriculum, or
whether a survey is performed in 16, or anything else that obfuscates the core-issue
[which, oh by-the-way, has NOT been subject to a compromise as had been whispered
into the ear of a Senator-colleague by Andy Dinniman].

My suspicion is that Mr. Hank Butler assisted you, for he has also been responsible for
FALSELY claiming that the suggestion we have been pushing (mandatory holocaust
education) would create an unfunded mandate, then claiming what we wish is
precedent-setting, then claiming our effort would unleash a torrent of personalized-
amendments, then claiming the DoE had to compose a curriculum, then claiming our
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effort would create some sort of an onerous amendment, then*I believe he has
exhausted his roadblocks].

Now, however, you own both this seminal-memo [upon which the members have
predicated their postures, most prominently Rep. Clymer] and its offspring [the
suggested amendment submitted to the Senate, which has no names appended, but
which is gumming-up-the-works becauseout of courtesythe Senate doesnt want to
pass something that House leadership appears to oppose, even if 150+ members would
immediately support it].

I do not know how to help you identify an exit-ramp, other than to request that you
find a way to RESCIND [after further study?]
what appeared on Sen. Raffertys ipad, three months
agoASAP!

Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2014 10:01 PM
To: 'David Transue'; 'Stephen Miskin'
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman'; 'gardened@comcast.net'; 'rboop@pasen.gov'; 'Brendan
Boyle'; 'Himebaugh, Nicholas A.'; 'jrafferty@pasen.gov'

Greetings, again; Im going to be @ PLC tomorrow, but I could delay arrival if it would be
desirable to meet in Harrisburg before I go to Camp Hill.

Ill call @ 9 a.m. to gauge your whereabouts; another possibility, of course, is to
intersect if you will be @ the event; Im going to depart Sat. after lunch.

My legislative goal, actually, is simply to double-back to my original thought, and that is
to modify the mandated curriculum-topics to accommodate this unit.

The rest would fall naturally into place without the need for hoopla, although friendly-
amendments to add other topics/curricula would not present a problem.

*BTW, as requested, I asked Nick to ask Brendon to do something to undo the
unnecessary Thatcher-Critique that was delivered on the very day she was planted.+

Subject: Genocide/Curriculum - A Proposal
Importance: High
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Greetings!

As promised, I spoke with my people after having circulated this summary-memo
[appended and reprinted infra], referencing ALL key-concerns unearthed.

There is general agreement that there would be no problem with the PDE composing a
model-curriculum, just as long as its local use would remain optional.

There is also general agreement that there would be no problem with the PDE
conducting educational studies in two years to accrue data assessing retention.

Yet, we feel strongly that there is NO DOUBT the current topic-listings [both in the
statute and in the DOEs portal, which are identical+ are grossly-inadequate.

The key-word topics are not encompassed, even in a cursory fashion [recalling the
fatally-flawed staff-memo to the House Education Committee].

The key-words that are extant are buried, yielding a fragmented presentation of sub-
topics ABSENT a cohesive, focused study of this trenchant concern.

Thus, we would want the statute to be REFINED incrementallyinvoking an approach
which Id first articulated within 48-hours of first learning of this issue in November.

Specifically, for grades 4
th
6
th
10
th
12
th
, age-sensitive study must be provided on
the topic of Holocuast, Genocide, and Human Rights Violations.

We concur that it would be ideal were Governor Corbett to sign the appropriate
legislation on International Holocaust Day [4/28/2014].

I am aware that some perceive a Chinese Wall to exist between the two chambers, but
your having remitted the discretionary amendment to Sen. Rafferty is PIVOTAL.

Whether intended or not, this is viewed as evidence of ongoing House-level
opposition [among leadership] to a Mandate, a logjam that can be broken.

Therefore, my goal is to convince you to modify this document and remit a
revision via the identical pathway you previously had employed.

I dont carry any proxy, but I daresay Sen. Rafferty would be PLEASED to be told that the
House would overwhelmingly support a Mandateand the caucus would act
accordingly.

Frankly, some of my colleagues have initiated efforts to recruit support from
the school-boards and the school-teachers, but this can be passed solely by the GOP.

Indeed, it shouldnt be partisan, and one could easily anticipate House-passage
[after senate-passage], recalling the 99-99 vote on Rep. Boyles Amendment.
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Ill call you later-on today to discern if I have missed ANYTHING crucial in this succinct
summary of the salient features of this *should-never-have-arisen+ controversy.

Thank you for you time!

Sent: Saturday, March 29, 2014 12:24 AM
Subject: Genocide/Curriculum - A Proposal

I reformulated the database, yielding my proposal *common ground of Amended-
Senate and Original-House versions], in the attachment.
[Just place me into a padded-cell with Mr. Hank Butler for two minutes and you will
necessarily witness conflict-resolution.]
This constitutes a free-standing summary *a Friday info-dump if you will+ of everything
anyone articulated.
[Of course, please-advise ASAP if anything was omitted, and it will be promptly
circulated.]
Will call on Tuesday-a.m. for feedback [from either/both of you].

Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Medical Oncology/Hematology Telephone: (215) 333-4900
Facsimile: (215) 333-2023
Smylie Times Building - Suite #500-C
8001 Roosevelt Boulevard rsklaroff@gmail.com
Philadelphia, PA 19152 http://www.doctor-bob.biz/rsklaroff

March 28, 2014

Holocaust Education Mandate
[analysis/synthesis/proposal]

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Executive Summary: I propose that the House concur with the view that its
submission to the Senate be modified to account for glitches therein; the current
subject-listing must be revised by adding a Holocaust/Genocide/Human Rights
Violation unit [to be employed in an age-sensitive fashion in 4
th
, 6
th
, 10
th
, and 12
th

grades]. The topic, therefore, must be Mandated, with the DoE providing optional
curriculum consistent with Keystone Exams. And data-collection should be planned
to be accrued two academic years after initiation of this program, to determine what
constitutes the optimal program [or components thereof].

Provided in this memo is both an synthesis of the logic leading to the above
proposal, based upon all available data [pp. 1-4], and an analysis of the database that
had been accrued during the past four months [pp. 5-17]. All arguments promulgated
by both sides have been articulated in a disinterested fashion, during which time
the Mandatory lingo has evolved.

*

House Bill 1424 PN 2766 - Re-Reported as Amended, the key-legislation, has
provoked strife within the Jewish Community, yielding uncertainty within the
legislative realm; I have debunked claims of Mr. Hank Butler [representing the PA
Jewish Coalition (of myriad local Federations)] that this Mandate [1]would
constitute an unfunded-mandate, and/or [2]would establish precedent were it
to be adopted as a subject-mandate. Thus, opposition has morphed into a claim that
this Mandate [1]would constitute a burdensome mandate, and/or [2]would
trigger submission of a spate of provincial educational mandates. Here, respectively,
a subject mandate would be perceivable as less burdensome than submission of a
curriculum mandateone would thinkalthough this is what House leaders like;
also, advocates for the Holocaust/Genocide/Human Rights Violation Mandate
would view the threat of amendments favorably, for they either would already
have been subsumed by the overall topic or would easily be added to the aggregate-
unit, strengthening its impact.

Therefore, I have proposed that the Amendment-submission by the House Majority
Caucus Leadership be itself amended. The proposal [which has not been submitted
by any Senator] would call for the DoE to compose a cogent curriculum, predicated
on the concept that it has license to perform this task when the topic is to be
included in the Keystone Examinations; it would then call for a study to be
conducted in two years, through which data could be collected [for the first time]
regarding whether use of this curriculum worked.

It should be noted that Mr. Butler no longer represents one subset entity, namely,
the Jewish Federation; it flipped and now supports the Mandate, while Pittsburgh
apparently is still constituting the major support for portraying Jewish interests
statewide as opposing the Mandate. Candidly, once I had demonstrated that Mr.
Butler had acted so very deceitfully [e.g., convincing Republicans that the Mandate
imposed the horrid unfunded-mandate upon overburdened government], efforts
were directed towards undoing the harm he had done to whichever Republicans
would identify themselves to me. This approach led to todays chat with House-
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GOP Staff, both of whom appear to have positions of high-respect; David Transue
is Senior Education Advisor to Republican Leadership and Steve Miskin is Press
Secretary to the Republican Leader at PA House of Representatives.

I would amend it because [1]it would be desirable to maintain the lingo of a
Mandate; and [2]it would be desirable to dispense with performing a study when
its results are intuitive [students who are instructed on this topic are apt to know
more than people who are not instructed on this topic]. Indeed, it would be
preferable to compare the efficacy of a DoE-curriculum with those that may be
chosen from another entity [or even self-composed]. Thus, a Mandate that would
maintain local control over the final-decision would allow for the DoE-authored
effort to compete with other programs.

As per the documents generated during the past four months, I have scrutinized this
issue while harboring the intent to achieve consensus, a perspective shared by Sen.
John Rafferty. Quite candidly, during [1]an introductory chat during a GOP-
Event; [2]a phone chat two days hence; and [3]an hour-long chat [1:1] @ the
MontCo GOP-Headquartersthere appeared to be a meeting-of-the-minds that had
culminated in passage of the Mandate-lingo [must supplanting may] by the
Senate Appropriations Committee. Some suggest an initial vote reflected the
existence of dissension, but the final-vote tally was unanimous
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/legis/RCC/PUBLIC/listVoteSummary.cfm?sY
ear=2013&sInd=0&chamber=S&cteeCde=3&theDate=12/09/2013&rNbr=651
and, therefore, the bill languishes until it is submitted for a full Senate vote
http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/LI/BI/SFN/2013/0/HB1424P2766.pdf
which is not likely to transpire until logjams have been IDed and resolved.

The lobbying-effort has been maximal on an issue that should not be divisive, at-
first-blush, publicly by those supporting the Mandate and quietly by those
opposing it. Champions of this legislation have emerged (at various times) on a
bipartisan plane, and political theorists have conjured myriad explanations for what
has transpired and for what should be the goal. Being more linear than most, I
have taken people @ face-value and, candidly have been pleasantly surprised by the
warmth exuded by Sen. Rafferty [R] and Rep. Boyle [D]plus by their staffs; Ive
spoken with others and they should not feel slighted for not having been cited
herein, but these individuals stand-out as having conveyed a feeling that they get it.

Certain roadblocks appear to have been traversed, among them the bug-a-boo of the
GOP, the threat of an unfunded mandate. Noting that the fiscal-note is a one-time
$7000, arguments shifted to whether the 501 local school boards would recoil if
told to do this; those representing Phillys Holocaust Awareness Museum and
Education Center exemplify those who would gladly assist localities to whatever
degree desired [gratis], for they offer services ranging from handouts/movies to
educators/survivors [on-site and in Philly]; exemplifying this capacity is the fact that
~200 students were at the NE-Philly JCC today [3/28/2014], having arrived by bus-
caravan from Reading [for a 10 a.m.-noon program].

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A key-concern is that the current statutory mandate [validated by provision of an
identical document from the DoE portal that is exclusively accessed by School
Boards] is, charitably-phrased, a FRAGMENTED amalgam of topics that SHOULD
be taught as a UNIT. Demonstrated, specifically, are: [1]absence of key-words,
[2]inclusion of key-words in-isolation, and [3]placement of key-words within
sub-sub-categories that dangle.

Specifically,

Genocide is buried
Conflict and Cooperation Among Social Groups and Organizations
Domestic Instability (political unrest, natural and man-made
disasters, genocide)
Nazi is REALLY buried
B. Evaluate historical documents,
material artifacts and historic sites
important to world history since 1450.
Documents, Writings and Oral
Traditions (e.g., Declaration of the
International Conference on
Sanctions Against South Africa;
Monroe Doctrine, Communist
Manifesto, Luthers Ninety-five
Theses)
Artifacts, Architecture and
Historic Places (e.g., Robben
Island, New York World Trade
Center, Hiroshima Ground Zero
Memorial, Nazi concentration
camps)
Historic districts (e.g., Timbuktu,
Centre of Mexico City and
Xochimilco, Taj Mahal and
Gardens, Kremlin and Red Square)
World War II appears twice in a generic context, with identical listings on pages 11 &
14
Military Conflicts (e.g., World
War I, World War II, Persian
Gulf War)
and the other terms *human rights Holocaust Armenia Cambodia+ are
not covered.
In my opinion, the current state-of-affairs is dismal, crying for revision.

This is NOT to suggest that any one individual is responsible for this cursory
coverage, for it has probably evolved following a series of revisions; nevertheless, it
is what it is, and it clearly is grossly inadequate. Furthermore, it would not
necessitate public hearings to help people appreciate these conclusions, for they
cannot be disputed by any reasonable person.
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Candidly, I would not want to have to ask the Dems to work on their pet
lobbying-groups [School Teachers and School Boards] just yet, noting that some
local entities endorsed the mandate; correct or incorrect, Rep. Boyle claims there are
150 positive House votes available for the Mandate were the bill to be released to the
floor. [Some may claim everything he is doing is geared towards the GOP-Primary
for the 13
th
Congressional District but, frankly, from a disinterested viewpoint, its
difficult to detect this dynamic.

In any case, Ive been told that the Senate wont move until its informed that the
House would look with favor upon whatever it would adopt; meanwhile, the House
awaits action by the Senate, hoping a bill can be signed on Holocaust Remembrance
Day [4/28/2014], with House leadership disclaiming any potential to impact
whatever the Senate might do. These two messages can be rectified without
damaging the credibility of either party, simply by noting that the House crossed the
Chinese Wall when it provided text to the Senates GOP-Caucus [as shown to me
by Sen. Rafferty, on his tablet] and, thus, the House can again cross the Wall by
amending what it had remitted, along the lines of what the Senate Appropriations
Committee has adopted. It can be provided impetus to do so by concurring with the
analysis herein, and then functioning accordinglyunraveling the Gordian Knot.

What to do?

[1]House Leadership must recognize that the current Statute is grossly inadequate;
Holocaust/Genocide/Human Rights Violation must be taught as a unit,
supplanting the fragmented presentation of some of these topics within headings
that are tangential to the profound lessons all students must learn in their formative
years [repeatedly], for the forces that have yielded these tragedies historically are
ever-present in contemporary newscasts.

[2]House Leadership must repudiate, therefore, a cursory coverage of this topic,
supplanting it with a cogent, comprehensive, curriculum that would then be
amenable to be included in the Keystone Examinations; legislation prompting the
DoE to compose this coursework should be promulgated, for OPTIONAL use by
the 501 local School Boards.

[3]After said-curriculum has been composed, this unit should be mandated for use
in all K-12 School Districts in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, although each
School Board would be empowered to choose which coursework curriculum to
implement in its locality; here, voluntary-entities could be invited to provide
educational-enhancements, being then reimbursed or functioning gratis as per
whatever private arrangements might be adopted.

[4]House Leadership should modify its suggested amendment accordingly,
until/unless any additional impediment might be conjured; indeed, all known
amendments [regarding individual ethnic concerns] should be scrutinized avidly to
determine if their adoption as friendly amendments would yield a superior
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proposal that could obtain bipartisan support [or whether their intent would have
already been encompassed within the topic-triad].

Omitted from this Blast e-mail is the bottom section of the aforementioned hyperlink, which both
trashed the emanation from Hank Butler [point-by-point] and included an e-mail sent to him by the PDE
[that gently/firmly informed him that the PDE prefers curriculum be composed by local school boards].

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Subject: Action-Items-CXLI [Mandatory Holocaust Education-Synthesis]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/226948210/Acton-Items-CXLII-Mandatory-Holocaust-Education-
Synthesis?post_id=1448468906_10204009056693920#_=_

The immediately-prior Blast e-mail encompassed the major historical components of the effort to
ensure all PA high-schoolers graduate with a rudimentary knowledge of the Holocaust [coupled with
awareness of Genocide and Human Rights Violations, in a single educational-unit]. As noted, we care not
whether monies are appropriated, whether the PDE composes a model-curriculum, whether surveys are
to be conducted subsequently to gauge efficacy. We want the mandate passed, period, and we witness
inane conduct by opponents to what should be intuitivein amazement, in anguish, in disgust. Thus,
readers are invited to ID any hole in the aforementioned analysis, for the synthesis of what must now
transpire is contingent upon there being absolutely no doubt about our veracity. [Disclaimer: Although
reference is made to my having worked with Rhonda and Chuck, they do not purport to own either
the content of my Blast e-mails or the style employed when conveying them; obviously, they have not
granted prior-approval of these assertions, although they are tightly congruent with their initiatives.]

It is within this mindset that the article in todays Exponent is to be reformulated; know
that I did not discuss these issues with its author, although he will be provided a copy of
both this and the preceding Blast e-mail [although I believe I sent him an earlier
iteration of these points, weeks ago]. Know that this annotation is as terse as possible.

Debate Continues Over Holocaust Education
MAY 28, 2014
By: Eric Berger

Holocaust education advocates are again grappling with the best course of action in
pushing for legislation that would increase the number of students studying the subject
in Pennsylvania.

,This is inaccurate; only we are attempting to increase exposure, for
they are focused on the quality of content.}

There still appears to be a divide over whether passing a bill that does not require
students to learn about the Holocaust can be considered a success and, conversely,
whether a bill that does include a mandate has any chance of passing in the Republican-
controlled legislature.

{This is accurate, regretably; this is why it was necessary to sleuth-
around assertively, for this methodology smoked-out the IDs of those
who were functioning behind-the-scenes to gum-up-the-works.}

Earlier this month, the board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia endorsed
the latest proposal, which does not include a mandate, marking the first time it had
taken a formal vote on the matter.

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{This is accurate, regretably; the fact that they were ambushedand
the fact that they acted while knowing theyd only heard one version
reflects poorly upon both the organization and its leadership.}

Meanwhile, Rhonda Fink Whitman, one of the most vocal supporters of a mandate, has
criticized Jewish groups for not pushing hard enough to get a more complete bill and
continues to release videos lobbying for that.

{This is accurate, regretably; each time we think we have provided
sufficient education to a particular individual, we necessarily worry that
the lobbyistswith whom they have developed relationshipswill
swoop-down and be able to reverse commitment to the Mandate.}

The proposal supported by Federation would amend a bill introduced by state Rep. Paul
Clymer, a Republican from Bucks County, and would:

provide teachers with Holocaust education and training;

establish a statewide study to determine which schools are teaching the Holocaust
and call for recommendations to the State Department of Education if targets are not
met; and

direct the DOE to create a statewide curriculum with the help of organizations like the
Shoah Foundation.

{This is accurate; we have no problem with anything they want to do,
just as long as the subject is taught to everyone.}

Everyone the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, the Federation, independent experts
wants there to be a mandate, said Matt Handel, who chairs the coalition, which
represents federations in Harrisburg, and who presented to the Philadelphia Federation
board this month. But the biggest change, I think, is a recognition of what can be
achieved right now.

{This is accurate; without naming names, we feel some prior opponents
have grown to recognize the importance of a Mandate, and we can now
confirm that Governor Corbett is eager to sign this bill (as per a brief
eyeball-to-eyeball chat held 12 days ago, when I saw him in Blue Bell).}

The board initially supported legislation that would enable schools to receive funding for
the subject, though it did not require it to be part of public schools curriculum. Some
Federation leaders later changed their position to support mandating such education.
Federation president-elect Bud Newman had said that making Holocaust education
voluntary is unacceptable to us.

{This is accurate; thus, the energies expended to achieve a Board-level
reversal of the posture of the president-elect must have been gigantic.}

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But after hearing from the Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition, he said, he and other
Federation leaders understood the situation differently. We as a board of directors
embraced their approach and are 100 percent behind their perspective now.

{This is accurate, regretably; assuredly, they were not given complete
education because, if nothing else, I harbor info that I know they dont
knowand I know that Rhonda and Chuck ALSO have additional info
that would have had the potential to impact this precipitous move.}

The bill could be passed into law before the end of the legislative year, said Robin
Schatz, director of government affairs at Federation.

{This is accurate; we remain resolute, and we know other groups share
our posture in this regard (because of the rectitude of our efforts).}

State Sen. Andrew Dinniman, a Democrat from Chester County, has proposed an
amendment to Clymers bill that frames the debate over a mandate differently. The bill
would require schools to recognize Holocaust Remembrance Day the way other days
are observed with an assembly or activity and call for 12 hours of instruction on the
subject before or after the program.

{This is accurate; we approved this effort within one hour of having
been apprised of its existence (after having notified key-colleagues of
what was transpiring, to be polite) via a reply e-mail to key-players.}

Im trying to avoid the controversy of mandate versus non-mandate, said Dinniman,
who is Jewish and chairs the Senate education committee.

{This is accurate; we had thought that his draft-amendment had been
OKed by key-recipientsnotwithstanding re-emergence of lobbying c/o
Hank Butler and Robin Schatzand we continue to view it positively.}

It is not clear if his approach actually represents anything different from past attempts
to require that students learn about the Holocaust.

{This is accurate; it is for this reason that we envisioned we had
bipartisan support for such legislation, recalling a mandate had been
passed unanimously by the Senate Appropriations Committee.}

Of course its a mandate, Steve Miskin, spokesman for the House Republicans, said of
Dinnimans proposal. Hes trying to put another curriculum mandate on our schools,
and house members are a little antsy about a curriculum mandate, but teacher training
absolutely.

{This is accurate, regrettably, based upon prior personal interactions;
know that the word another was deftly inserted when one notes the
initial (false) assertions of Hank Butler (namely, that our effort would
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establish a precedent) and those who allegedly are a little antsy can
be helped to appreciate the trenchant-priority of including this topic.}

Miskin, who is also Jewish, said he doesnt comprehend the mindset of Holocaust
education advocates like Fink-Whitman who have taken a hardline approach on the
mandate.

{This is accurate, regretably; therefore, he will receive enlightenment in
this regard by reading The Holocaust Just Got More Shocking, for he is
probably ignorant of the fact that researchers have cataloged some
42,500 Nazi ghettos and camps throughout Europe, spanning German-
controlled areas from France to Russia and Germany itself, during
Hitlers reign of brutality from 1933 to 1945.}

Fink-Whitman produced a popular video last year showing the lack of Holocaust
knowledge among college students in the Philadelphia area. In another video she
produced a couple of months ago, she said, Were on our way, but were still getting
resistance. Yeah, Im talking to you, Pennsylvania Jewish Coalition. A little bit of
sabotage going on there.

{This is accurate; Rhondas memo focused countered back-door efforts
of Hank Butler, the hypocrisy of which was necessarily, overtly exposed
(for he says he wants a Mandate, but behaves in contrary fashion).}

Miskin and others have said mandate supporters have taken to bullying those who
would like to see Holocaust education legislation passed but dont see a mandate as
realistic.

{This is inaccurate, regretably; perhaps he is channeling the charge by
Hank Butler that my scattered phone calls to Harrisburg made at least
one individual cry (despite my dogged efforts to include receptionists
in episodic follow-up e-mails), although it is possible he is specifically
referencing the fact thatthrough gentle-questioningI had IDed his
colleague, David Transue, as the author of a patently-false staff-memo
regarding this topic (when, as detailed previously, I demonstrated that
current-statute does NOT provide cursory coverage of this topic).-

Theyre threatening people, he said. Ive been called a Nazi sympathizer. Ive been
called a Holocaust denier. I mean, come on. My mothers entire family was wiped out.

,This is may or may not be accurate, although its tangential to the issue
at-hand; in any case, I will formally request that he state the particulars
of this chargeor rescind it forthwith.-

Documented in these Blast e-mails has been acute/subacute/chronic evidence of anti-Semitism, both
in Europe and elsewhere; also documented has been global anti-Christian savagery by Islamists. Thus, it
behooves opponents of our extensive-effort [which is pointedly not limited to Jews, nor even to Nazis]
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to see-the-light and to recognize the urgency of ensuring students are armed with this level of education
[for the contemporary impact thereof cannot be overestimated, as Americas influence wanes+.

Therefore, we will redouble our efforts to encourage the Senate to vote on the bill that
was shepherded through the Senate Appropriations Committee by Sen. John Rafferty;
thereafter, we will work to ensure that the 99-99 vote on Rep. Brendan Boyles effort
will receive a handful of additional votes [after Reps. have noted Senatorial action].
Perhaps we will then be able to plan a field-trip to Harrisburg, to witness the bill-signing.

Any recipient of this Blast e-mail [or its immediate-predecessor] who disagrees with either a fact or an
opinion contained thereinis invited to call or write; all responses will be dutifully recycled to everyone.

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Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 3:11 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CXLII [Mandatory Holocaust Education, Politics, BHO's Foreign Policy, VA, Illegals]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/227027275/Acton-Items-CXLII-Mandatory-Holocaust-Education-Politics-
BHO-s-Foreign-Policy-VA-Illegals?post_id=1448468906_10204011278989476#_=_

I have been likened to a mongoose, latching-on to an issue until achieving closure. Thats why, regarding
the Holocaust Education Mandate, distribution of the prior Blast e-mail was promptly followed-up by
having sent the following self-explanatory e-mail; if this guy [or any of his colleagues] has ever received
anything resembling a death-threat, one would think that he would want to expose the perpetrator[s].
A response is pending:

To: 'Stephen Miskin'
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman'; 'rboop@pasen.gov'; 'Brendan Boyle'; 'Himebaugh, Nicholas
A.'; 'John Rafferty'; 'Candice Wynn'; 'Cawley, Jim'; 'jimfcawley@gmail.com';
'mikefolmer@pasen.gov'; 'mfolmer@pasen.gov'; 'David Transue';
'eberger@jewishexponent.com'
Importance: High
Put-up, or Shut-up.

Stephen, @ the bottom of the second Blast e-mail [the pair of which has been
Attached], you issued a broad assertion; as per my intercollated commentary, I hereby
formally request that *you+ state the particulars of this chargeor rescind it forthwith.

Miskin and others have said mandate supporters have taken to bullying
those who would like to see Holocaust education legislation passed but
dont see a mandate as realistic.

{This is inaccurate, regretably; perhaps he is channeling
the charge by Hank Butler that my scattered phone
calls to Harrisburg made at least one individual cry
(despite my dogged efforts to include receptionists in
episodic follow-up e-mails), although it is possible he is
specifically referencing the fact thatthrough gentle-
questioningI had IDed his colleague, David Transue,
as the author of a patently-false staff-memo regarding
this topic (when, as detailed previously, I
demonstrated that current-statute does NOT provide
cursory coverage of this topic).-

Theyre threatening people, he said. Ive been called a Nazi
sympathizer. Ive been called a Holocaust denier. I mean, come on. My
mothers entire family was wiped out.

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,This is may or may not be accurate, although its
tangential to the issue at-hand; in any case, I will
formally request that he state the particulars of this
chargeor rescind it forthwith.-

You can run, but you cant hide; your dismissive e-mail of almost two months ago
[professing official-inertness] was undermined by your interview-contents.

Put-up, or Shut-up.

To: 'Stephen Miskin'; 'David Transue'
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman'; 'rboop@pasen.gov'; 'Brendan Boyle'; 'Himebaugh, Nicholas A.'; 'John
Rafferty'; 'Candice Wynn'; 'Cawley, Jim'; 'jimfcawley@gmail.com'; 'mikefolmer@pasen.gov';
'mfolmer@pasen.gov'
Importance: High

Might you please rescind/revise the faulty input that was provided BOTH to the House Education
Committee and to the Senate???

From: Stephen Miskin [mailto:SMiskin@pahousegop.com]
To: Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D.; David Transue
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman'; gardened@comcast.net; rboop@pasen.gov; 'Brendan Boyle';
'Himebaugh, Nicholas A.'; John Rafferty; Candice Wynn; 'Cawley, Jim'; jimfcawley@gmail.com;
mikefolmer@pasen.gov; mfolmer@pasen.gov

Dr. Sklaroff, thank you for your continued interest in the Holocaust Education bill awaiting Senate
action. The House won't be able to take any action until the Senate votes on the bill.

The bill is in the Senate's purview right now. Thank you.

- Steve Miskin

-------- Original message --------
From: "Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D."
Date:04/08/2014 3:27 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: David Transue
Cc: 'Rhonda Fink-Whitman' ,gardened@comcast.net,rboop@pasen.gov,'Brendan Boyle'
,"'Himebaugh, Nicholas A.'" ,John Rafferty ,Stephen Miskin ,Candice Wynn ,"'Cawley, Jim'"
,jimfcawley@gmail.com,mikefolmer@pasen.gov,mfolmer@pasen.gov

David, Ms. Wynn confirmed that you were the author of the faulty staff-memo that
claimed INCORRECTLY that the current statute covers the unit [genocide, holocaust, and
human rights violations+ in a cursory fashion; if this legislation is to be signed-off on
4/29/2014 [International Holocaust Remembrance Day], you are going to have to get-
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off-the-dime [even if you wish not to call-me-back, despite my daily calls/e-mails during
the past week+.

The following was received in reaction to the dual-memos regarding this issue:

The entire Liberal / Progressive / Left (LPL) apparatus does not want to include the
Holocaust in the required curriculum because it fails to condemn America.

In keeping with the goals of BHO and the LPL it is far better to teach Bush Lied.

The Holocaust would include the good work done by America to defeat the NAZIs
therefore BHO and the LPL must not only not include it, they want to deny its existence
and eliminate the word holocaust as they have eliminated all words they disfavor.

So heres my idea.

Find the six or eight history textbook publishers and lobby them until they add a chapter
in all books about the Holocaust.

The danger of course is they will stop printing History Textbooks altogether which would
help America return from the cloud cuckoo land into which the LPL has placed them.

But seriously, there are only a few textbook publishers so in addition to your efforts to
get the Holocaust added to the curricula of the 501 PA school districts, get in touch with
the textbook publishers and make sure its in the textbooks.

That would be a force multiplier because the textbooks are used by all of the schools in
America.

This doesnt seem like a new idea but has anyone surveyed the school libraries to count
how many Holocaust books are in their inventories? Its another approach to make sure
every library has a sufficient supply of Holocaust books and materials.

How about the college and university libraries in PA?

Its probably pretty simple to donate copies of relevant Holocaust books.

Also, compare that with the number of copies of Mein Kampf that are in the school and
public libraries of PA.

Why does PA teach about Slavery but not the Holocaust?

Is it a race issue?

Has Corbett been lobbied? How about Fitzpatrick, Toomey and Casey? How about the
rest of the PA delegation in Washington, D.C.?

All of the Senators and State Reps in Harrisburg?
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Has the lobbying effort been too limited?

Is it in Common Core?

My reaction to this ideato review textbooksis positive, and its consistent with discussions held
during the past decade with Steve Feldman, Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia District of the
Zionist Organization of America; efforts had been made to implement such oversight in Philly, but they
apparently fizzled. Regarding the other queries, our focus has been trained on Harrisburg.

Also provided was a hyperlink to an article that led to a website that compiled inter alia tons of data
regarding K-12 Mis-Education; because the referenced-article has not yet been uploaded onto the
parent website, it is dutifully reprinted herein [unedited], noting how its message dovetails with ours:

For the past two years, Newton, MA citizens have been raising concerns about how
Newton Public Schools (NPS) teach students about the Middle East. The use of the
Arab World Studies Notebook, a widely discredited anti-Semitic text, has been at the
center of the controversy. In response, NPS officials have assured Newton citizens
that the AWSN was removed years ago after a parent raised concerns.

Now, a public records request filed by APT reveals that, contrary to claims by NSP
officials and the Anti-Defamation League, the Arab World Studies Notebook has been
used in at least three Newton classes last (2012-2013) school year.

The Arab World Studies Notebook is just one instance of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic
materials being used to teach Newton children. Read the whole disappointing story in
the article below and then take action!

Please call 617-406-6300 or email adlmedia@adl.org and demand that the ADL keep its
promise to its donors to fight the defamation of the Jewish people and Israel by anyone,
including the Newton Public Schools.

Please call Newton School Committee Vice Chair Matt Hills at 617-559-6110 or email
him at schoolcommittee@newton.k12.ma.us and demand truth and transparency from
the Newton Public Schools, an end to false and biased teaching, and public access to
classroom materials.

The situation in Newton is not unique. The poison against Israel and its Jewish
supporters that is so visible on Americas college campuses is now finding its way into
Americas public high schools. This is a most dangerous situation. Historically,
demonization of Jews usually leads to violence. Recent events in Europe are a warning
to all Jewish communities around the world about this serious threat.

NEWTON SCHOOLS NOT FIXED

By Charles Jacobs and Ilya Feoktistov
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The Jewish Advocate

New information has surfaced regarding the Newton Public School controversy.
Compelled to comply with state law, the schools administrators recently were forced to
release an initial batch of 9
th
- and 10
th
-grade history lesson plans used to teach about
the Middle East.

Most of the information, initially withheld from the public despite requests from
parents, taxpayers and even a Newton alderman, was delivered to Americans for Peace
and Tolerance (APTs) offices in response to a public records request. Once our request
is completed, we will post the records on this website. Newton citizens, especially those
who are Jewish, will not be pleased.

For two years, we have been told by Superintendent David Fleishman and others that
the Arab World Studies Notebook (ASWN) was removed from all classrooms and has not
been used to teach Newton students since 2011. But the official documents we received
show that Newton South High School assigned readings from the AWSN to 9
th
-grade
students in at least three separate classes in the last school year months after claims
that it was eliminated.

The AWSN has been condemned by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) as a
fraudulent anti-Israel text created by Saudi-funded organizations. After a parent
complaint about the AWSN was rebuffed in 2011, grassroots Jewish groups lobbied for
more than a year until the schools claimed to remove it. But school documents now
show that the AWSN continued to be taught. We are not sure if this is a matter of
integrity or incompetence.

Apart from the Saudi hate-lesson, the materials released validate our claims that
Newton South educates students to adopt anti-Israel viewpoints through the use of
biased textbooks, readings, maps and pseudoacademic exercises. Until now, our
knowledge of what Newton students are being taught was limited to what we received
from students in only a few of classes. We now know that almost all the teachers in
Newton South teach from the same problematic anti-Israel materials we saw previously.

The teachers class notes we received directly contradict Newton school officials claims
that any anti-Israel materials are balanced by pro-Israel materials. For example, school
administrators claimed that a series of assigned maps (created by a Palestine Liberation
Organization propaganda unit, but never identified as such) were balanced by maps
with a pro-Israel viewpoint. No such maps can be found. Several maps show Palestinian
refugee dispersal and camp locations but there is no map showing the expulsion of Jews
from Arab lands.

Several Newton teachers use a textbook written by James Gelvin, an anti-Israel
ideologue and a pioneer of the academic boycott against Israel. Gelvin wrote the
textbook while receiving payments from Sheikh Zayed, the anti-Semitic Emirates
billionaire whose $2 million gift Bostons Jewish heroine, Rachel Fish, forced Harvard
University to reject because of the anti Semitism of his think tank.

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In Newton schools, students are given an assignment called POV, which purports to
show the Israeli and Palestinian points of view on various events in the history of the
conflict.Yet these points of view are often either blatantly or subtly anti-Israel.

Centuries of Islamic religious teaching that Jews are to be a subjugated people, not
permitted self-rule, are erased from Newtons history lessons. To ensure that students
wont see Judeophobia as a root cause of the conflict, they are given a doctored,
whitewashed version of the Hamas Charter from which the terror groups genocidal
anti-Jewish pronouncements are removed so that the jihadist murderers can be falsely
portrayed as mere militant nationalists.

Newton officials have sought to deflect accusations that they permit biased instruction
by saying that its not anti-Israel but only an exercise in critical thinking. (We dont
teach students what to think, but how to think, Fleishman says.) Newton teachers
class notes tell a different story. Just as with the cleansed Hamas Charter, one teacher
insists that the Arab war against Israel is not inherently a religious conflict. This is a
conflict over land. (Emphasis hers.) Many Middle East scholars would disagree, so why
not let students decide for themselves? Newton students, the documents show,
are made to debate whether the Jews have a right to a homeland of their own, but are
never asked to ponder if any other people, such as the Palestinians themselves, deserve
a state.

Critical thinking is increasingly being used throughout our nation to justify teaching
hatred and the demonization of Jews. But is there a public school anywhere in America
where students receive critical thinking lessons about Islamist honor killings, female
genital mutilation, the enslavement and forced conversion of infidel women, or todays
forced exodus and slaughter of Christians from the Middle East? Its doubtful. These
topics are made taboo; they dont fit the anti-Western, anti-Judeo- Christian narrative
that permeates our schools. A week or so before we received the public records from
Newton, 478 high school students from Newton signed a letter defending the history
department in the face of allegations by *APT+ that Newtons Middle East curriculum is
anti-Israel. It was published in The Jewish Advocate and The Newton Tab.

One suspects, from both the language and content of the letter (posted on APTs
website) that it was not written by students alone. People can judge for themselves.
Ironically, students who parrot their teachers are expressing an image opposite of the
one young people like to present: that of cool, independentminded, even rebellious
youth. How were they herded into a pack of 478 conformists? What happened to the
courage to, in the words of their generations bumper sticker, question authority?

It takes no courage to whine about Israel Jews wont beat you up. Bravery today
would be to stand up for black slaves in Sudan and Nigeria, abused and oppressed
women under Islamic rule, Sharia-compliant hanging of gays. Sadly, the most these
victims will likely get from todays students (and our nations leaders) is hashtag
activism.

Literary-references that come to mind after having reflexly-disgorged the prior pair of Blast e-mails
refer to ads for the movie JAWS-II *Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water.+ and
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the last-line of Portnoys Complaint * So *said the doctor+. Now vee may perhaps to begin. Yes? ].
Thus, after having [en]countered the deceit that continues to emanate from those who [inexplicably]
oppose the Holocaust Education Mandate, overnight-communications are tackled; it may be true that
Medical School teaches delayed gratification, but it seems Im playing Whack-a-Mole as problems
keep arising. I am truly TRYING to apply suasion-principles IDed during recent days but, frankly, the
effort is TRYING due to sensory-overload. Nevertheless, the last-line of Gatsby [So we beat on, boats
against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.+ serves as a motivator to, perhaps, resolve
recurring concepts and, thereby, not feel compelled to redocument and to recapitulate truisms.

Also, one additional clarification is apt, if only to capture what I hope will be an ongoing
trend *with regard to the GOPs selection of a POTUS-16 ticket+ within the context of
how I have carefully articulated my political maneuvers. I am transparent and linear;
thereforejust like how I practice medicineI convey identical info to all players. Thus,
I ensured that both Guzzardi and Mike Vereb know of my availability to attempt to serve
as an intermediary, simply by exploring/resolving putative policy-disparities; my goal
was to dramatize [e.g., Common Core] and then to minimize [e.g., Borrowing] schisms.

In the process, I did not maintain smooth relations with those who were leading the TEA
[Taxed Enough Already] Party Movement and, specifically, those who were engaged in a
Precinct Project seeking some turnover among state-level GOP-CommitteePeople.
Indeed, the former did not appreciate the desire to primary Fitzpatrick *and now,
noting how Eric Cantor was forced to respond to competitive pressure, Mike has yet to
state (to his putative friends and/or publicly) that he would oppose Amnesty+ while
the latter did not appreciate the worth of linking their county-level agitation to
Guzzardis statewide candidacy *which would have yielded certain efficiencies-of-scale
(in terms of database management) when attempting to galvanize the dyspeptic base].

I am unapologetic, for my credibility remains intact; my goals and methodology have
been articulated via these Blast e-mails [and clarified orally, whenever requested],
and those who allow tangential concerns [e.g., the pro-lifers who are always poised to
drown-out people who wish to focus on achieving limited-government, in all realms].
Indeed, although Im sympathetic to the intent to counter the 100% pro-choicers, it is
preferable to enlarge the GOPs tent to accommodate the multiple-choicersso as to
allow other priorities to drive the political-recruitment (and re-education?) initiative.

Thus, having covered cultural controversies in prior compilations, it remains desirable
to accept Gay Marriage [although I would still prefer to focus on civil-union, rhetorically]
and to legalize Pot [although restrictions would undoubtedly be needed, after noting
experiences in Colorado and California]. If the GOP is to enhance its populist/libertarian
component, it must keep government out of ALL rooms in the house; thus, Michelle
*Obama+ shouldnt be able to dictate whats in the Kitchen, and Michele [Bachmann]
shouldnt be able to dictate whos in the Bedroom. Noting that the GOPs Platform has
quietly retreated from endorsing the Personhood Amendment to advocating that
restrictions are apt @ 20-weeks gestation, it seems my mindset is shared nationally.
{GOP Cong. Dent backs same-sex marriage, the third House-Republican to do so, and
RMU Poll Finds Support of Same-Sex Marriage and Extraction Tax.}

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The reaction to my having divulged these goals and attitudes has been decidedly mixed,
with some finding them unsettling and others heaping praise. My transition from being
a Dem transpired in 92, when I served as the coordinator for Perot *for Abington,
Jenkintown and Cheltenham] prior to becoming a GOP-Committeeman; looking back,
the clich *The party left me, I didnt leave the party+ remains apt, for it has now
supplanted classical liberalism with *a corrupted+ modern liberalism. What had been
fascinating open-mindedness *in the 70s+ has been supplanted by fascism [under BHO].
Thus, until Americas ship-of-state is righted *for corruption is rampant+, Im advocating
party-line support for the GOP @ all levels, and I will continue to agitate accordingly;
although Im not well-connected [as is Marcel Groen, Esq.], I will speak-truth-to-power.

This perception of BHOs Foreign-Policy Speech is c/w predictions [it was edited after received]:

Obama speech Versus his past int'l failures: Words Vs. Failures

By Udi Schayat

OBAMAS SPEECH AT WEST POINT needs to be compared to his [Obama's] int'l failures
in last three years. This is a comparison of his words against his int'l failures, and we can
blame also the Senators who supported these activities. Its about time to START talking
about his int'l mistakes, and not only the domestic variety.

Essentially, Obama said, "I'm confident that if we...end our war in Afghanistan...we'll
also be able to begin a new chapter in the story of American leadership around the
world," said. On an issue like this, it is preferable to hold an open discussion by experts
to abiding by a ONE-MAN decision. Such an approach would forestall Obama from
doing the unthinkable: empowering Islamic butchers whose hands are soaked in
American blood. And Obama may be moving the US Navy out of the Middle East, as the
Russians expand their presence in the Middle East.

Contrary to Obama's spin, he is not supporting pro-democracy freedom-fighters; many
are anti-west Muslim fundamentalists [aligned with al-Qaeda]. Consider this partial list
of Obamas International failures [just in the Arab World] due to planned and calculated
steps [and not as accidental mistakes], c/w his ideology:

* Obamas Iraqi withdrawal allowed Iran to take-over, as the Iraqi army failed big
time to replace the efficacy of Americans.
* Obamas support for terrorist rebels in Syria ignores the fact that they are anti-
West and support al-Qaida.
* Obamas removal of Qaddafi [which cost the USA at Least $896 Million]
undermined the best success of any Arab country during the past 15 years; he had been
stable and had cooperated with the West *such as when he relinquished WMDs after
the Iraqi invasion]. Libyan jihadists who spent years in Iraq killing U.S. soldiers formed
the nucleus of the anti-Qaddafi movement. {Ref is a top national analyst and journalist
on Israel TV news panel, Ari Shavit.} Thus, Obama's policy contravenes our national
interest, is inept, immoral and illegal.
* Obamas support of Shiite-led demonstrators in Bahrain in 2011 (rebels also
supported by Iran) prompted Saudi Arabias King Abdullah to defy the Obama
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Administration's policy of supporting popular uprisings against autocratic Arab
regimes when, on March 14, he sent Saudi troops into Bahrain to prop-up the King;
everyone knew the disturbances had been organized by Tehran's Lebanese surrogate,
Hizballah, prompting King Abdullah and other Gulf nations to make their own decisions,
after having accused Obama of promoting a diplomacy that gave Tehran a clear field.
* Obamas removal of Mubarak in Egypt empowered the Muslim Brotherhood;
later, Obamas having stopped Finance from aiding military leaders in Egypt made it
difficult for them to fight the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and terrorists.

This is a sampling of how Rush Limbaugh has perceived the VA-Scandal [c/o Charlie Schipp]:

This morning at the White House: the Drivebys are really worried about this
one. This could really be bad for us, writes F. Chuck Todd, as if he were a member of
the administration. What about the IRS scandal, Fast and Furious, Benghazi? Nothing
to see there, just Conservatives faking their anger.

The VA scandal is not so much about medical care being poor, but that lines are so long
that vets cant get in. It is a mismanaged bureaucracy.

Reporters were lined up for the comment by Obama. Boy, was he mad! ((Clip Obama: I
will not stand for it, not as Commander-in-Chief, and as an American. If the
investigation . . .)) See? The Limbaugh Theorem: Obama is above any problem he
creates. Then he blamed prior administrations.

Hes been trying to fix the problem but, somehow they didnt get fixed. Then he found
out how bad it is, and he is really mad. You are not supposed to ask how it is that he
cant fix anything, only make things worse.

CNN newsroom Special Coverage, with Jake Tapper. ((Clip: I was caught off guard with
the disconnect. It doesnt have to be studied. Vets wanted direct action. Hes known
about this years, and years, and years? It has gotten worse.) This is the guy who broke
the scandal in Phoenix. Wait, yet again?

The audience for Obamas press conference was not the vets or the intelligent, but only
for the low-info-voters to show that he cares.

A whopping two bills that died in committee were supported by then senator
Obama. There were no hidden waiting lists under Bush; there was no scrubbing the
data to show vets were being served, when they were not.

((Rush replays the montage of Obama being mad, above itexplaining each.))
(((Visit www.RushEcho.org to read them!)) Do you see a pattern?
> Every time, he didnt know, but was really MAD when he found out!

_____________________________________________________________
((Clip May 16 2013 Obama really outraged in IRS: The minute I found out about it, I
said, Weve got to get this thing fixed.)) At the time, I said there would be no smoking
gun memo because those placed there dont need instruction, they are like-minded.
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Lois Learner is a mad Liberal and is as committed as Obama. All they need to know is
that there will be no consequences: Obama will be mad and look into it. Reality is not
a concernjust the image before the Low-Info. You are not supposed to say, Wait a
minute; you are the CEO; you ran on these issues.

The media gives Obama a pass because he cares [and is a fellow Liberal].

((Clip March 18 2009 Obama mad about Wall Street bonuses: People have a right to be
mad, Im mad.))

QUESTION: Why is this a big deal? Why focus on this? It helps to expose Obama for
who he really isand it shows his tactics. It would be irresponsible to not point this out.

QUESTION: Can Obama know everything that goes on? Everything that is happening
can be linked to the ideology. This Adm is incompetent and the government cannot do
everything. They cant run Obamacare or a website, they cant improve the waiting list
for the VA, they cant fix the border.

The Left has done a good job of demonizing the other side. So they are the
compassionate ones. You are not supposed to examine their results. At least they care
and Obama tried.

Everything gets worse under The Regime. At some point, people have to see it is not
the quirk of fate. It is not that the great economic days of the 1980s were
undeserved. It is because of Obama policy, executive orders and [Liberal]
legislation. There is a record number of people on disability.

Every metric is worsening and it comes from Obama Adm policy. It is a flat-out dark
joke that Obama didnt know and is just as mad as you are.

Everything that is happening is a direct result of Democrats winning elections; and that
is why we point out the phoniness of Barack Obama.
>>> Obama knows exactly what is happeninghe put it all into play.

Obama knows and everyone know it.

Weve added the outrage today to our montage. ((Clip-Montage)) Which he didnt
know until today.

Caller-Ohio: Obama does not hold cabinet meetings, so doesnt know.
>>> He knows. Obama doesnt know? Thats not at all the reality.

The one common denominator in all the things Obama is so mad about is Obama
himself! He pretends to be angry now but, after midterms, he will say there was not a
smidgen of corruption.

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Another phony point: they publish their streamlined method, because the previous
administration didnt care. But that is where it stops. Only intentions make the
news. Obama gets credit for just announcing. Next, Im so mad, bla, bla, blah. The
new mandated goals didnt achieve anything.

Robert Petzel retired after he knew as early as 2010. He announced his retirement last
September, and Obama announced Petzels replacement last month. We are moving
forward, says Obama.

Petzel admitted he knew about the VA memo, but what was going on was not the
point: massive new goals and intentions (and credit) was all that mattered to
them. They knew the goals were not being met, so secretly covered it up. They were
doing what they think Obama would want donecover up reality so the Obama image
is preserved. Thats all it is, be it IRS, Obamacare, VA; it is all about how Obama is
perceived.

If it is discovered, then the Olde Playbook is rolled out, OH MY GOD, I never knew. I am
SO mad! ((Reading: Whistleblower in St. Louis was told to not contact
anyone.)) Sounds like bullying to me. Dr Jose Matthews continues to go the VA
Hospital, as scheduled.

Jeff of CNN says they will not be bullied or shamed into covering Benghazi.
>>> But they consider the VA scandal to be different.

Quote Gems from Rush Limbaugh dot com:

"Imagine if you're in a VA hospital in Arizona, and you've been promised you're on a
special waiting list where you are going to get advanced treatment, preferential
treatment. You wait, and you wait, and you wait -- and you see the owners of the horse
get their request answered in two days -- and you die before getting treatment."

"You know, it's no wonder college graduates are booing if a commencement speaker
tells 'em to get out there and work hard. They're looking around and saying, 'Why? Who
else is?'"

"If you want to treat this VA thing seriously, this is exactly where we're all headed. This
is what Obamacare's going to be for everybody. The VA is just one small bureaucracy."

"Imagine if, say, 40 people on an Obama secret food stamp list died of starvation. That's
kind of what we're talking about here with the VA."

"I offered to move to Rio Linda if they would rename it Limbaugh, California. They
didn't. I tried the same thing with West Sacramento. They refused the offer. They're still
paying the price, both places."

"You know, it's no wonder college graduates are booing if a commencement speaker
tells 'em to get out there and work hard. They're looking around and saying, 'Why? Who
else is?'"
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"The president's really mad about the VA hospital, folks. He was just as mad about the
IRS scandal. And he was just as mad when he found out that you couldn't keep your
doctor. Mad about Benghazi, when he found out that the ambassador in Benghazi got
killed. . He's going to get to the bottom of this. This is unconscionable."

"If I did a hologram of myself, like they did in Vegas for Jacko, I could make speeches all
over the place and never really go. Yeah. That's not a bad idea: Do a hologram. Well, I'm
going to look into that. Yep, absolutely."

"The government is allowed to totally bollix everything it does because they're trying to
help, and that's how Obama escapes accountability in many ways."

"Do you know what the minimum wage in Switzerland is? Anybody in there want to take
a guess? What is the minimum wage in Switzerland? Zero. There is no minimum wage."

"You know where they got Tommy Vietor? He was a driver. He was a driver during the
campaign. Vietor drove a van in the Obama campaign, and he ends up in the Situation
Room on the night Benghazi's taking place with Obama nowhere to be found. Vietor's in
there because of total loyalty, which, believe me, when you're running scam after scam
after scam, you need people loyal to you."

Jim Geraghty @ NRO [and others] noted comparable behaviors:

Obama's Fake Outrage, Fake Tirelessness, Fake Pay Cut . . .

The Obama administration is dangerously depleting our nation's reserves of
speechwriting clichs.

For example, when some terrible mess blows up on the president's watch, what does he
say? Come on. You know it.

No one is madder than him.

After White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough assured the public, "nobody is more
outraged about this problem right now" than President Obama -- an outrage that has
yet to be expressed in anything more than pro forma public statements -- Reid Epstein
decided to look up how often the president assured all of us he was angry -- or perhaps
more angry than anyone else! -- about failures of his administration or other setbacks.

It's quite a list:

October 2013: "Nobody's madder than me about the fact that the
website isn't working as well as it should."
The IRS scandal, May 2013: "Americans are right to be angry about it,
and I am angry about it."
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April 2012, the Secret Service prostitution scandal: "If it turns out that
some of the allegations that have been made in the press are
confirmed, then of course I'll be angry."
May 2010, the BP oil spill: "And I know that doesn't lessen the
enormous sense of anger and frustration felt by people on the Gulf and
so many Americans. Every day I see this leak continue I am angry and
frustrated as well."
March 2009, the AIG bonuses guaranteed in TARP: "I don't want to
quell anger," he said. "I think people are right to be angry. I'm angry."

He forgot one, though, when Obama was "apoplectic":

President Barack Obama is "apoplectic" about lavish spending at the
GSA, one of his top advisers said Sunday.

"On the GSA issue, he was I think it's fair to say apoplectic," said David
Axelrod, said on NBC's Meet the Press. "Because we made a big effort to
cut waste, inefficiency, fraud against government, saved tens of billions
of dollars doing it on just this very kind of thing. And so this was very
enraging to him, and, of course, he acted quickly, the administration
acted quickly and changed the management there."

At the time of the "apoplectic" comment, the president had not yet mentioned the GSA
spending scandal in the preceding three weeks. Maybe it's a really quiet anger.

Then, of course, there's the tired clich suggesting that president Obama will never rest.
Ever.

APRIL 9, 2009: "And we will not rest until we reach a day when not one
single veteran falls into homelessness."

MAY 11, 2009: "I will not rest until the dream of health-care reform is
finally achieved in the United States of America."

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009: "I want you all to know, I will not rest until
anybody who's looking for a job can find one -- and I'm not talking about
just any job, but good jobs that give every American decent wages and
decent benefits and a fair shot at the American Dream."

NOVEMBER 2, 2009: "We will not rest until we are succeeding in
generating the jobs that this economy needs."

NOVEMBER 23, 2009: "I will not rest until business are investing again,
and businesses are hiring again."

This was a particularly good one, considering the time and the place: Obama, speaking
from Hawaii, where he and his family are vacationing, told Americans, "We will not rest
until we find all who were involved and hold them accountable."
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JANUARY 28, 2010: "We will not rest until we build an economy that's
ready for America's future."

MARCH 5, 2010: "I'm not gonna rest and my administration is not gonna
rest in our efforts to help people who are looking to find a job."

MAY 26, 2010 : "We will not rest until this well is shut, the environment
is repaired and the clean up is complete."

Okay, BP did eventually shut down the well.

JULY 8, 2010: "My administration will not rest until every American who
is able and ready and willing to work can find a job."

That nice list above missed one big one, although this one was from Hillary Clinton:
"What happened in Benghazi was a terrorist attack and we will not rest until we have
tracked down and brought to justice the terrorists who murdered four Americans."

Yes, the "we will not rest" pledge is always an unrealistic promise. No, no preceding
president gave up sleep after making a similar pledge. But there's something about
Obama's promiscuous use of the pledge that makes everyone involved a little cheaper --
his speechwriters for going back to that dry well again and again, the president for
managing to deliver the line for the thousandth time and sounding like he means it, and
everyone who applauds for acting like saying it means something.

As Frank Drebin said, "Wilma, I promise you; whatever scum did this, not one man on
this force will rest one minute until he's behind bars. Now, let's grab a bite to eat."

Remember "all statements from Barack Obama come with an expiration date"?

And then of course, there's the symbolic pay cut:

The White House is refusing to confirm whether President Barack
Obama followed up on his pledge to take a five percent pay cut due to
sequestration last year.

Obama promised last April to take a 5 percent pay cut in "solidarity"
with federal employees who were furloughed as a result of the
automatic budget cuts, known as the sequester. The cut was meant to
equate to the level of spending cuts imposed on nondefense federal
agencies.

"The president has decided that to share in the sacrifice being made by
public servants across the federal government that are affected by the
sequester, he will contribute a portion of his salary back to the
Treasury," a White House official said at the time.

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The White House would not respond to numerous requests submitted
by the Washington Free Beacon to the White House press office to
confirm that Obama did, in fact, write checks to the Treasury.

And then, of course, there's the "I'll-march-with-you" pledge to labor unions:

On Nov. 3, 2007, Barack Obama -- then a senator running for president -
- pledged to a crowd in Spartanburg, S.C., that he would watch out for
unions and protect their collective bargaining rights. "If American
workers are being denied their right to organize when I'm in the White
House, I will put on a comfortable pair of shoes and I will walk on that
picket line with you as president of the United States," Obama said.

Which, of course, never happened. Even during the fights over collective bargaining for
public-sector workers in Wisconsin.

Iowahawk summarizes it well: "I pledge to have my top men get to the bottom of these
phony scandals that I'm madder than hell to have only learned about from the papers."

Yet Another Shameless Lie, This One about the American Legion

You know, national press corps, you have no one to blame but yourselves for the likes of
Jay Carney populating this administration, offering shameless, easily refutable lies on
serious matters, and believing they can survive another news cycle before the lie falls
apart.

Had you covered Obama and his allies with the kind of skepticism they warranted from
the beginning, they wouldn't be as prone to lie, and lie shamelessly, as they do today.

The latest example:

At the White House briefing today, Press Secretary Jay Carney
repeatedly suggested the American Legion had praised the Department
of Veterans Affairs for the resignation Friday of top VA health official Dr.
Robert Petzel.

It turns out, however, the American Legion had issued a statement
dismissing the resignation as "business as usual."

Here's what Carney said at the White House briefing: "The American
Legion said that the group looks at Petzel's resignation as a, quote, step
towards addressing the leadership problem at the VA. So I think that
undercuts the assertion that that is not a meaningful development."

Carney went on to cite the American Legion nine times during the
briefing.

Also noted, and meaningful:
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Caroline Glick documented why Pope Francis had paid an unfriendly visit.

Sen. Ted Cruz shared stories of his trip to Israel, Ukraine, Poland and Estonia this week.

Obama's Afghanistan Withdrawal Has Bill Kristol So Upset, 'I Find It Sickening.'

Fighting Boko Haram Does Not End With Finding the Girls.

Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas [vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee]
warned of the consequences of walking away from war: I am not willing to accept that
we must have a smaller military and a smaller role in the world.

From a friend: During his NBC-interview, Snowden was engaging, well-spoken and
effective when making points about government encroachment into our lives. He made
more sense than BHO and made traitor John Kerry look like a rank amateur, especially
recalling his appearances with Hanoi Jane revisited and Swift Water explanations. Brian
Williams seemed more a commie than Snowden.

The U.S. economy shrunk at an annual rate of 1% in the first quarter, more than the
0.5% contraction economists were expecting. The number was revised down from a
previous reading that showed a slight expansion for the worlds biggest economy. The
decline in the first three months of the year is the first negative reading since the first
quarter of 2011 when it fell 1.3%.

Obama Is Bypassing Congress Again; This Time It's Going to Cost You. Next week, BHO
will unveil a climate action plan that it intends to implement without legislative
approval; its a creative approach to governing, not unlike other executive
actions Obama has taken to bypass Congress. Know five actions by the federal
government that were supposed to be environmentally friendly, but which backfired
and left us worse off.

The Latest State to Give Up on Its Obamacare Exchange is Nevada.

Politically-connected corporations get rich off of cronyism.

[These are from The Free Beacon]

Congress Funds Armys Hypersonic Missile After Chinese Strike Vehicle Test - Congress
approved funding last week for the Pentagons advanced hypersonic missile program
and expressed concerns over Chinas recent test of an ultra high-speed strike vehicle
designed to deliver nuclear warheads through U.S. missile defenses.

VA Committee Chairman Calls for Shinsekis Immediate Resignation - House Veterans
Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R., Fla.) called for the resignation of VA
Secretary Eric Shinseki following an inspector general report Wednesday that confirmed
allegations of hidden wait times at a Phoenix VA hospital.
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DHS Stonewalls Congress on Hands Off Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S. -
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is refusing to answer Congress questions
about the existence of a secret terrorist hands off list that is said to have permitted
individuals with terrorist ties easy entrance into the United States.

Environmentalist Dem Praises Dow Chemical During Town Hall - Democratic Senate
hopeful Gary Peters offered effusive praise to one of his largest campaign donors during
a Wednesday town hall-style campaign event.

Venezuela Sanctions Bill Pressures Obama Administration to Act - A Venezuela sanctions
bill that will be debated on the House floor on Wednesday would apply more pressure
on the Obama administration to take action in the crisis that will soon enter its fourth
month, observers say.

Experts raise questions about Frenchman's data on income inequality - Americas
thought leaders have spoken. French economist Thomas Pikettys Capital in the Twenty-
First Century is The Most Important Intellectual Endeavor of the Decade (At Least).

CNN: West Point Gave Obama Icy Reception

[These are from Politico]

Dems join GOP in Shinseki pile-on - A highly critical inspector general report finds
systemic problems at VA medical facilities.

Boehner's friends plot tea party crackdown - They're discussing tactics to punish
members who do not support his speakership.

Flood of child migrants a neglected challenge - As Congress dithers over immigration
reform, the children of Central America arent waiting.

House members rip into VA - Chairman says VA failed to comply with subpoena.

Scalise to push ACA alternative - The RSC health-care proposal would fully repeal and
replace Obamacare.

On immigration, Cantor can't win - The Virginia Republican faces opposition from
liberals and conservatives alike.

[These are from Drudge]

Washington scrambles to provide food, housing to DREAMers pouring across border
60,000 children
Scores of illegals flown to Arizona as Texas overwhelmed
Immigration becomes central issue in Cantor race
Charges fly
Homeland: Agents shouldn't target illegals at courthouses
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Are we all racist now?

NO LINK BETWEEN RACIAL PREJUDICE AND OPPOSITION TO IMMIGRATION

When Bushies blew a CIA cover, it was 'treason'; now, it's only a mistake - Valerie Plame
doesn't deny that blowing the cover of the CIA station chief in Afghanistan is a serious
matter. It's just that, discussing the issue at a Wednesday evening forum sponsored by
The Atlantic, Plame seemed to view the outing of the CIA's top spy on the front lines in
the Afghan war as more of an embarrassment than an outrage.

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Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2014 5:12 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CXLIII [Mandatory-Holocaust-Education, BHO's-Foreign-Policy, Log-Cabin-GOP.
GOP-s-Civil-War, BHO's-Imperialism. Israel. E-cigs]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/227400482/Action-Items-CXLIII-Mandatory-Holocaust-Education-BHO-s-
Foreign-Policy-Log-Cabin-GOP-GOp-s-Civil-War-BHO-s-Imperialism-Israel-E-
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This Blast e-mail focuses on the ongoing effort to mandate Holocaust Education in PA, to appreciate
the profundity of Benghazi-Gate, and to recognize that increasingly-acknowledged deficiencies in the
BHO-Administration are tethered tightly to classic Dem-policies [delivering a double-whammy on the
defenseless USA]; the attendant action-items are to push for passage of the mandate for Holocaust
Education in PA, to condemn BHOs entire Foreign Policy paradigm, and to reject rationalizations for
BHOs imperialism as solely self-generated, absent being infused by classic Dem-party platform ideals.
Although lengthy, what follows is another update of many concerns encompassed previously, with the
underlying theme continuing to be exposure of BHOs efforts to destroy Constitution-based America and
with particularly upsetting data emphasized for additional scrutiny [and, usually, lament].

Thursday nights speech @ Gratz College by William A. Jacobson, Esq. deviated from the
stated-title [the legal underpinnings of Zionism] and, instead focused on the the BDS
movement on college campuses [against Israel] and its history dating back to Durban;
potential interventions that might be pursued were not emphasized, such as tracing
how foreign-funding of these anti-Semitic initiatives might be interdicted. Attendance,
when compared with prior Shusterman Lectures, was surprisingly sparse.

You received a deluge of info regarding the effort to Mandate Holocaust Education in PA due to the
provocation included in the article just published in the Jewish Exponent; the timing of this piece merits
scrutiny, inasmuch as the State Senate returns on Monday, with the bill awaiting a floor-vote [after the
Appropriations Committee passed a non-discretionary mandate unanimously -year ago]. Those who
wish to avoid wandering-in-the-weeds of lobbying may wish to skip this follow-up, but those who are
intrigued by how messaging is orchestrated may wish to absorb the perceptions absorbed yesterday.

After the local Federation was properly-educated in this regard [via Chuck Feldman and
Rhonda Fink-Whitman+, The Empire Struck Back, manifest recently as the Board-flip
[following a presentation that we have not been able to scrutinize and, thus, rebut];
voting affirmatively after an ambush-agenda presumably satisfied those who prioritize
receiving grant-monies over ensuring all kids learn of this historical-nightmare. Indeed,
why this is a shonda is illustrated by the fact that a chat with the author of the piece
generated two unfortunate observations. Ultimately, he reflexly-advised that I compose
a letter-to-the-editor and/or leave a message with the Editor; the former would carry a
negligible impact and, as anticipated, a brief voice-mail left with the Editor was ignored.

First, direct quotations from Chuck were not included *due to space+, despite the fact
that Rhonda was repeatedly referenced; perhaps it is possible that the author did not
wish to quote the key-individual who had a position which provided him gravitas
[President of the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center]. Instead, she
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became a piata, serving as a foil against whom the Federations revised posture could
be portrayed as preferable to the intuitive position we have adopted, a mandate.

Second, he disclaimed interest in following-up accusations that people who are against
the mandate were being bullied, etc.; in particular, having been deeply enmeshed in this
effort, I can attest to the fact that no one knew of Miskins involvement in this matter
except for myself [with info shared with Chuck and Rhonda]. He is the Press Secretary
for the House GOP-Caucus and, thus, is positioned behind-the-scenes rather than as the
spokesperson for the Education Committee [Transue], for whom he ran-interference
after he was exposed as the author of the faulty staff-memo that had characterized
existing-statute as having covered our concerns in a cursory fashion *when it hadnt+.
Thus, his personal claim lacks credibility and, thereby, appears designed to invoke
sympathy for his position; that the journalistic-curiosity of the author of the essay was
not piqued [at least, to inquire as to the particulars of how he had felt abused], is sad.

Therefore, this hit-piece [carefully annotated] seems to have been intended to attack an
individual [Rhonda] and a group [my unnamed colleagues] for resisting capitulation to
what we are being told to believe. In any case, the political battle shifts, now, to the
Legislature, which will reconvene on Monday; we have sensed internal movement to
positions we have advocated [with or without the Dinniman Amendment] and will now
proceed accordingly. Support, suggestions, and critique are certainly invited, as usual.

Basically, the argument has been conjured that this effort should be stalled in the Senate because
word has itthis version would not pass the House, despite the fact that it had only failed on a tie-vote
[99-99] without GOP-support. Thats why a strong initiative was launched *by moi+ to help the GOP
appreciate thatcountering claims made by lobbyist Hank Butlerit was NOT unprecedented to add
topics to the already-extant educational statuts and it was NOT unfunded mandate to ensure this unit
[Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Violations] was explicitly covered [in a non-cursory+ fashion.
Indeed, notwithstanding Butlers deceit [as documented with precision, by annotating the letter he sent
to all Senators] and Butlers having received a letter from the PDE directly contradicting Butlers intent
to instruct it to compose a statewide curriculum [because its policy is merely to ensure curricula
approved by PAs 501 local school boards comport with statewide criteria], passage of this effort would
not only comport with what leading Democrats [Rep. Brendan Boyle and Sen. Anthony Williams] have
wanted, but it would also be c/w fundamental Republican-Party principles. And Governor Corbett has
confirmed [to others and directly to myself, a fortnight ago] that he would eagerly sign this mandate.

Regarding Obesity, Voters Shun Fat Candidates, Former Obese Teen Became Miss South
Texas, One Third of the World Obese and 29% of Population Overweight. Regarding
Education, for the first time in 52 Years, the National Spelling-Bee Ended in a Tie, and a
the 'war on US literature' erupted in London, when a professor proposed banning of-
mice-and-men because it is allegedly boring; Zuckerberg gave $120 Million to SF
Schools and Michelle Obama's School Lunch Program Is a Giant Fail. Regarding Common
Core, Louisiana Parents were Ridiculed By Pro-Common Core Representatives During
Legislative Hearings and Gov. Bobby Jindal rejected Common Core.'

News of particular interest to Philadelphians included alleged-corruption in both traffic court and in the
office of the Deputy City Commissioner; that the PA Supremes allowed the Philly School District to
refuse to pay an overenrolled charter is of-interest because, prior to the demise of the Solomon Cyber
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Charter School [of which I briefly served as Prez], a transient effort was made to seek reimbursement for
kids enrolled in an Elementary School that had, perhaps, not been officially approved ahead-of-time.
Also, a 54-year-old Man allegedly Stole $350,000 Worth of Human Skin from Mercy Philadelphia
Hospital over the course of several years, according to NBC Philadelphia.

Low attendance at Citizens Bank Park is understandable when Phillies lose two to the
mets [Phils whiff 15 times in loss andMets 4, Phillies 1]; potential alterations have been
suggested [Howard be used in a platoon at first and using De Fratusin late innings].

Legislation in PA has been proposed regarding two chronic concerns [ending state-stores and CORBETT
BACKS HYBRID PA PUBLIC PENSION PROPOSAL for school and state employees projected to produce $11
billion in savings over 30 years] and other issues [killing mandatory graduation tests and defending civic
speech from 'strategic' defamation suits]; also, a PA House panel retained a law firm in probe of 4 Dems
accused of taking cash from lobbyist. Corbett met with investigator over Sandusky case, illustrating why
FiveThirtyEight concluded Corbetts Odds for Re-Election are @ 11%. Predicted by myself (and others,
notably Raymond J. Lodise, M.D.) when we litigated [against efforts of the PA Medical Society] two
decades ago to block the creation of Highmark is the fact that UPMC and Highmark feud over network
physicians. {Also, MSNBC Named Kane, Shapiro, Costello and Reed as PA Rising Stars.}

Efforts to generate a movement supporting [Gay] Log Cabin Republicans in PA [MontCo]
must take into account the fact that they were denied Booth at Texas GOP Convention;
historically, Metroplex Republicans of Dallas, which split off from Log Cabin Republicans
amid controversy in 2011, announced plans on 4/20/2012 to affiliate with another
national gay conservative group, GOProud, which bills itself as a national organization
of gay and straight Americans who seek to promote freedom by supporting free
markets, limited government, and a respect for individual rights. {Note that GOP
Congressman Dent now backs same-sex marriage, as TIME MAGAZINE determined that
ATTACKING TRANSGENDER BIAS IS THE NEXT 'SOCIAL MOVEMENT'.}

Regarding Foreign Policy, even The New York Times Slammed Obamas West Point Speech, as Reporters
Laughed at State Dept's Claim Obama Doesn't Give Himself Enough Credit. Meanwhile, HAGEL WARNED
CHINA TO BACK OFF, characterized as Fighting talk amid shrinking of American might; for example,
Lithuania accused Russia of harassing ships in Baltic Sea and a Jewish group said its Ukrainian bank
account had been emptied. Reflecting one of BHOs major failures *and Putins unabashed success+ is
The Crumbling Deal on Syria's Chemical Weapons; indeed, Sen. Ted Cruz Spoke of the Compassion of
Israeli Military toward Syrians, part of a Most Discreet Israeli Intervention in Syria. Essays written after
visits to France over the course of the last ten years. And, lest we forget the rapid deterioration of the
condition of the Jews in France during this millennium, as a result of the virulent anti-Zionism that
exploded in the wake of the outbreak of violence between Palestinians and Israelis in the fall of 2000,
74% of Jews Would Leave 'Anti-Semitic' France for well-elucidated reasons; FRANCE SUFFERS FROM
TERRORISM AND A EUROCRAT BLAMES "POPULISM."

Regarding Israel, BHO continues to demand settlement construction and planning stop;
BB said he refused them in the past but couldnt do so again because the US upped the
pressure since it is determined to force Israel to accept 67 lines plus swaps and US
security proposals. [Inasmuch as BHO wont accept no for an answer, for the US, the
so called peace negotiations are far from over.] Meanwhile, Israel has internal politics
that are comparable to those in the USA appear to be extant, including a RINO-faction
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*Incredibly, today, except for detail in nuance and tone, the formal positions of the
major right-wing faction [Likud] has become indistinguishable from positions
expounded by the far-left Meretz faction. (In terms of political affiliation, 51 percent of
respondents said they were right-wing, 22% said they were in the Center and 27%
defined themselves as left-wing. Among young people, a greater percentage called
themselves right-wing than left-wing.)+ Also, the libs lionize retiring Prez-Peres, as BB
allegedly is maneuvering regarding his successor [who could be Elie Wiesel].

Regarding Islamism, CZECH PRESIDENTS ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE SPEECH recognized that BASIC ISLAM
101 AN ANTI-CIVILIZATION MOVEMENT, even as THE GUARDIAN'S COPY EDITOR BRAGGED ABOUT
JOINING ISLAMIST CENSORSHIP CAMPAIGN; it remains unbridled in England [UK: Do not walk your dog
here! Muslims do not like dogs and Muslims Declared Jihad Against Cadbury Over Pork In Its Chocolate,
Demand Cadbury Pay for Blood Transfusions] and in Pakistan [Muslim family who stoned their daughter
to death on a public street also murdered her sister in an honour killing and Husband of Pakistani
Stoning Victim: I Killed My First Wife to Marry Her]. Meanwhile, Truth About CAIR Posters were
Vandalized in New York Subway Stations, and this is How the Media Distorts Radical Islam's Record.
{Also, Homeland Security Sec. Jeh Johnson Admitted Alleged Breach of Classified Docs 'Problematic,'
departing from his predecessor's dismissive stance about a potential breach of classified information to
a man with ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, saying it's problematic.}

May Cable-TV Ratings again placed CNN Firmly Back In the Basement, as a CNN Source
said, 'No One Wants to Come' Work Here. Perhaps another explanation for its decline is
the claim that Michelle Obama is a Lawmaker, according to CNN's Carol Costello
*America's worst morning anchor since Soledad O'Brien disappeared into the money-
hole of Al Jazeera America+; after telling her viewers that Climate Change is real
because it's in the Bible, the far-left anchor told her viewers that First Lady Michelle
Obama signs bills into law, specifically the Healthy Hunger Free Kids Act.

Regarding Benghazi-Gate, Fox News Channels Bret Baier and Greta Van Susteren Landed Hillary Clinton
Interview On June 17; they will conduct a joint half-hour interview spanning the two anchors respective
programs [beginning on Special Report at about 6:45 PM ET and continuing during On The Record until
7:15 PM], and topics to be covered include the 2016 presidential election, the 2012 attacks in Benghazi
and Clintons new book, Hard Choices. Curiously, in Hillary Clintons Benghazi chapter, it seems Hillary
Clinton STILL Blames the 'Hateful' YouTube Video for Benghazi Attack in a fashion that contradicts the
written-record [according to FNCs Catherine Herridge. Perhaps that is why HILLARY essentially claims
she is THE REAL VICTIM OF BENGHAZI. Although BOB BECKEL CALLED ON 'PATRIOTIC AMERICANS' TO
GO SILENT ON BENGHAZI, Jason Chaffetz BLASTED HILLARY'S ATTEMPT TO MOVE ON FROM BENGHAZI.
[Quietly, Darrell Issa Released John Kerry from Benghazi Hearing, deferring to the new committee.]

It is notable that tha WaPo claimed Republican candidates have begun to retreat in
recent weeks from their all-out assault on the Affordable Care Act in favor of a more
piecemeal approach, suggesting they would preserve some aspects of the law while
jettisoning others; it cited Dr. Monica Wehby [a pediatric neurosurgeon], the Oregon
Republican Senatorial nominee, who said she backs some portions of the Affordable
Care Act [including the ban on discriminating against consumers on the basis of
preexisting conditions and the provision allowing parents to keep their children on their
plans until age-26. This claim regarding ObamaDontCare was aptly rebutted [WAPO:
GOP IN 'RETREAT' ON OBAMACARE REPEAL], for the GOP will soon unveil its plan [via
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the Republican Study Committee+, an effort that Id advocated last summer, but I found
that it stalled on whether it would be better to have high-risk pools on a national level
[Price] or on a state-level [Scalise]. In any case, turmoil continues [After public outcry,
cancer patient with dozens of tumors gets covered, Insurers Accused of HIV
Discrimination, HHS Allows Tax Funds for Sex Changes, Family billed $12M after disabled
man dies, and IRS Bars CEOs from Dumping High-Cost Workers on Obamacare.}

Recognizing that under-/un-employment is rampant [1 in 6 Men Between Ages 25-54 Not Working and
1 in 8 American Men of Prime Working Age Not in Labor Force], the issue of Illegals is raging, both in
Europe [Sharp Rise in Illegal Immigration to Europe] and in America [SCORES OF ILLEGALS DROPPED AT
AZ BUS STOPS, Surge Leads to Human Warehousing Problems, Flood Of Illegal Immigrant Minors To
Cost Taxpayers $2B Next Year, U.S. Customs & Border Protection Releases Revised Use of Force Policies,
Border Patrol Apprehends Two Gang Members Illegally Entering U.S. in One Day, Border Patrol: We
Don't Screen for Diseases, and Border Patrol Seals Massive Underground "Narcotunnel"]. Although some
in the GOP advocate reform [Mitt Romney: Not Healthy Congress Hasn't Passed Amnesty], Goodlatte:
No Current Plans to Pass Immigration Bills Before August Recess. As a result, Luis Gutierrez Attacks Laura
Ingraham for Immigration Stance and Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) Says GOP Has No Reason to Distrust POTUS,
Then Declares Obama Will 'Boldly' Act on Amnesty if Congress Doesn't; he said House Republicans can't
use the excuse that they don't trust Obama to enforce the country's immigration laws to block amnesty
legislation, and then he gave Republicans more reasons to distrust Obama by calling on Obama to
unilaterally change the nation's immigration laws and saying that Obama will do so anyway if Congress
does not pass amnesty legislation. {Reflecting how volatile this issue is within the GOP, Speaker John
Boehners friends are threatening conservative House members who may vote against him in January by
trying to design new, more effective punishments, but Conservatives warned don't even try it.}

It is therefore not surprising that legal-turmoil also raged [House bolsters probe into 'de
facto amnesty', Homeland: Agents shouldn't target illegals at courthouses,
Undocumented workers: they should be eligible for PA driver's licenses, Pentagon to
Allow Illegal Immigrants to Join Military, Sacramento will require taxi drivers in
Sacramento to speak English, and New York Times: 'Ridiculous' Obama Isn't Unilaterally
Stopping Deportations]. As predicted, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Faced Tough
Questioning on Release of Criminal Immigrants before the House Judiciary Committee,
answering to the release of thousands of criminal aliens back into the United States;
again, the first major crime committed will recall Willie Horton, redounding negatively
upon BHO. {Also, the Mainstream Media is Annoyed that Jorge Ramos Won't Hide his
Liberal Biases because they prefer to masquerade their liberal agendas, while
simultaneouslyand relentlesslypush ing them.

Regarding gun-control, a NC Dem claimed the Second Amendment Does Not Define Itself As Absolute;
this posture was mirrored on POTUS-Sirius/XM by [extreme-lib] Michael Smirconish, who claimed that
there are no more militias and, thus, that the right to bear arms as an individual is moot; during the
entire hour, he failed to note that the state-level National Guards serve precisely this role [and, thus,
hes wrong+. Noting that Police Did Not Search Database Showing Elliot Rodger Owned Guns, Bloomberg
Businessweek observed the NRA is Not to Blame For Santa Barbara and cant claim Gun Control Didn't
Work as had been claimed by inter alia Richard Martinez [regarding the death of his son Christopher
Michael-Martinez]. Curiously, Bloomberg's Gun Control Group Launches #NotOneMore Campaign Post-
Santa Barbara while Michael Bloomberg attacked his ultra-left successor [although failed to realize that
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restrictions on free speech and debate often accompany government intrusion in other areas]. {Also,
note that widespread_memorial_day_black_violence_ignored_by_national_media.}

Predictably, Dems are again noisy [Gabrielle Giffords Amplifies Gun Control Efforts, GOP
Congressional Candidate Carries a Gun Because of Gabby Giffords, Dems Push Bill to Ban
Stalkers, Domestic Abusers from Buying Guns, Texas Gun Activists Booted from
Restaurants, Spurs Liberal Media Assault, and CA Dems Announce 'Gun Violence
Restraining Order,' Could Include DUI Convictions]. But the GOP has not been idle
[House Voting to Fund Background Check Reporting NRA Supported in 2007]; because
people such as Rep. Issa feel 'Operation Choke Point' Is Illegal and Must Be Dismantled,
the GOP Passed an Amendment Denying Funds to 'Operation Choke Point' [noting that,
on May 19, Breitbart News reported that banks were cutting ties with firearm and
ammunition manufacturers and retailers because of pressure being brought to bear on
financial institutions by the Department of Justice (DoJ) via "Operation Choke Point"].

Finally, notwithstanding Obamas supercilious comment after his conference *I Might Have Had
Concussions from Playing Football+, Tim Murphy [the western PA Congressman and child psychologist]
has now advocated passage of the Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act.

Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act of 2013 - Creates in the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) an Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and
Substance Use Disorders, who shall supervise and direct the Administrator of the
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).
Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish a National Mental Health Policy Laboratory
to: (1) identify and implement policy changes and other trends likely to have the most
significant impact on mental health services; (2) collect information from grantees; and
(3) evaluate and disseminate to such grantees evidence-based practices and services
delivery models, using the best available science shown to reduce program expenditures
while enhancing the quality of care furnished to individuals by other such grantees.
Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to require the Assistant Secretary to
establish: (1) an Interagency Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee; and (2) a
four-year pilot program to award up to 50 grants each year to counties, cities, mental
health systems, mental health courts, and any other entities with authority under state
law to implement, monitor, and oversee assisted outpatient treatment programs.
Directs the Assistant Secretary to establish a program of tele-psychiatry and primary
care physician training grants to states to promote the use of qualified telehealth
technology for the identification, diagnosis, mitigation, or treatment of a mental health
disorder.
Directs the HHS Secretary (Secretary), in coordination with the Assistant Secretary, to
award planning grants to enable up to 10 states to carry out 5-year demonstration
programs to improve the provision of behavioral health services by federally qualified
community behavioral health clinics.
Requires the Assistant Secretary to certify federally qualified community behavioral
health clinics that meet specified criteria.
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Requires the caregiver of an individual with a serious mental illness to be treated as the
individual's personal representative with respect to protected health information, even
though the individual has not consented to disclosure of such information to the
caregiver, when the individual's service provider reasonably believes it is necessary for
protected health information to be made available to the caregiver in order to protect
the individual's health, safety, or welfare or the safety of one or more other individuals.
Amends the General Education Provisions Act to allow an educational agency or
institution to disclose to such a caregiver the individual's education record in certain
related circumstances.
Amends the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to make available: (1)
Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grants for mental health programs and
operations by law enforcement or corrections officers, and (2) public safety and
community policing grants to provide specialized training to law enforcement officers to
recognize and intervene properly with individuals who have mental illness.
Reauthorizes and revises requirements for the Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and
Crime Reduction Act of 2004.
Authorizes the Attorney General to award grants to: (1) establish or expand veterans
treatment court programs; and (2) enhance the capabilities of a correctional facility to
identify, screen, and treat inmates with a mental illness, as well as develop and
implement post-release transition plans for them.
Requires any data prepared by or submitted to the Attorney General or the Director of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with respect to homicides, law enforcement
officers killed and assaulted, or individuals killed by law enforcement officers to include
data about the involvement of mental illness in such incidences, if any.
Directs the Comptroller General (GAO) to detail the cost of federal, state, or local
imprisonment for persons who have serious mental illness.
Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to prohibit a state medical
assistance plan from prohibiting payment for a same-day qualifying mental health
service or primary care service furnished to an individual at a federally qualified
community behavioral health center or a federally qualified health center on the same
day as the other kind of service.
Allows states the option to provide medical assistance for inpatient psychiatric hospital
services and psychiatric residential treatment facility services for individuals age 21-65.
Amends both SSA titles XIX and XVIII (Medicare) to cover prescription drugs used to
treat mental health disorders.
Amends the PHSA to increase funding for the brain initiative at the National Institute of
Mental Health.
Transfers responsibility for the administration of community mental health block grants
to the Assistant Secretary from the Director of the Center for Mental Health Services
(CMHS).
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Revises requirements for the funding agreement under a formula block grant to a state
for community mental health services to prescribe the general standard under state law
for court ordered impatient or outpatient mental health treatment as well as assisted
outpatient treatment.
Requires the Assistant Secretary to evaluate the combined paperwork burden of certain
community mental health centers as well as of certified federally qualified community
mental health clinics.
Directs the Secretary of Education, along with the Assistant Secretary, to organize a
national awareness campaign to assist secondary school students and postsecondary
students in: (1) reducing the stigma associated with serious mental illness; (2)
understanding how to assist an individual demonstrating signs of a serious mental
illness; and (3) understanding the importance of seeking treatment from a physician,
clinical psychologist, or licensed mental health professional when a student believes the
student may be suffering from a serious mental illness or behavioral health disorder.
Amends the PHSA to include as health care providers any behavioral and mental health
professionals, substance abuse professionals, psychiatric hospitals, certain community
mental health centers (including one operated by a county behavioral health agency),
and residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities.
Amends SSA title XVIII (Medicare), with respect to incentives for meaningful use of
certified electronic health records (EHR) technology under the pay schedule for
physician's services, to include as additional eligible professionals clinical psychologists
providing qualified psychologist services and clinical social workers. Subjects any
additional eligible professionals, including those under a MedicareAdvantage (MA) plan,
to reductions in incentive payments after a certain date for failure to be a meaningful
EHR user.
Amends SSA title XIX (Medicaid) to treat as Medicaid providers the following additional
Medicaid providers: (1) public and certain private hospitals that are principally
psychiatric hospitals, (2) certain community mental health centers, and (3) certain
residential or outpatient mental health or substance abuse treatment facilities.
Makes eligible Medicaid professionals certain clinical psychologists providing qualified
psychologist services and certain clinical social workers.
Amends the PHSA to accord health care professional volunteers at community mental
health centers and federally qualified community behavioral health clinics the liability
protections of Public Health Service employees.
Requires the Assistant Secretary to transfer all functions and responsibilities of the
Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality to the National Mental Health Policy
Laboratory.
Revises the duties of the CMHS Director.
Reauthorizes the Secretary's authority to address priority mental health needs of
regional and national significance.
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Amends the PHSA to reauthorize and revise requirements for a youth interagency
research, training, and technical assistance center to prevent suicides (the Suicide
Prevention Technical Assistance Center). Expands the program's focus from youth
suicides to suicides among all ages, particularly among groups that are at high risk for
suicide. Repeals authority for grants to establish research, training, and technical
assistance centers related to mental health, substance abuse and the justice system.
Reauthorizes a program of grants for the development of state or tribal youth suicide
early intervention and prevention strategies.
Reauthorizes and revises a grant program to enhance services for students with mental
health or substance use disorders at institutions of higher education. Requires the
Secretary (who currently is merely authorized), acting through the CMHS Director, to
award grants to enhance such services and to develop best practices for the delivery of
such services. Permits grant funds to be used for the provision of such services to
students and to employ appropriately trained staff. Requires the Secretary to give
special consideration to applications for grants that describe programs that
demonstrate the greatest need for new or additional mental and substance use disorder
services and the greatest potential for replication.
Requires the Assistant Secretary, before making a grant to a public entity for
comprehensive community mental health services to children with a serious emotional
disturbance, to consult with the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to
ensure that the grant recipient will use evidence-based practices. Reauthorizes funding
for such grants.
Repeals current authority of the Secretary to carry out directly or through grants,
contracts or cooperative agreements with public entities a program to assist local
communities in developing ways to assist children in dealing with violence.
Reauthorizes the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. Amends the Protection and
Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Act to reduce corresponding funding for
protection and advocacy systems for mentally ill individuals.
Prohibits lobbying by any such systems accepting federal funds to protect and advocate
the rights of individuals with mental illness.
Prohibits the SAMHSA Administrator from hosting or sponsoring any conference that
will not be primarily administered by SAMHSA without giving at least 90 days prior
notice to specified congressional committees.
Prohibits the SAMHSA Administrator also from establishing (and the Secretary from
delegating to the Administrator responsibility for) any program or project not explicitly
authorized or required by statute. Terminates by the end of FY2014 any SAMHSA
program or project not so explicitly authorized or required.
In general, Dems act like Dems [Audit Uncovers $31 Billion in Errors on California's Books, California
Voters Consider Seceding to Create Nation's 51
st
State, Harry Reids attacks on Koch brothers send GOP
donors into the shadows, and Fluke Loans Self $100k After Complaining About Women's Access to
Campaign Cash]. Curiously, in California, Democrats Chose Jobs Over Fracking Ban, perhaps because
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CNBC suggested it may be Time for Dems to Panic over Economy; while trying to dismiss the significance
of the report showing that the economy actually shrank for the first fiscal quarter, it still admitted that
the economic outlook provided a bleak landscape for Dems going into the 2014 elections. And it is
doubtful that efforts by Illinois Dems to Play Politics With Minimum Wage will work.

Dems also act like Dems when attacking the GOP; a Dem gubernatorial candidate Alan
Webber of New Mexico referred to his Hispanic Republican opponent [incumbent
governor Susana Martinez] thusly: 'We Need to Send Her Back to Wherever She Really
Came From.' Also, Dem candidate David Alameel threatened to sue the campaign of
U.S. Senator John Cornyn for defamation and created a public relations blunder that
shined light on the alleged sexual harassment of women in his dental practice.
Regardless, although the washingtonpost election-lab projected a 52-48 R-majority
after the 2014 elections, the actual splay should be higher, noting how it placed N.C.
into the hands of the Dems despite contrary data from real clear politics. This is why
Seven Vulnerable Senate Dems had Called for VA Secretary Eric Shinseki's Resignation.

The GOPs Civil-War rages, with Sarah Palin blanketing the major races. In Mississippi, with only three
days until the polls open for the GOP Senate primary here and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side,
State Sen. Chris McDaniel vowed to fight Obama alongside Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT) and
Rand Paul (R-KY) in front of a raucous audience of thousands. PALIN TOUTED MCDANIEL AS
'REINFORCEMENT' FOR CRUZ, PAUL, LEE and Sarah Palin Cut Radio Ad for Chris McDaniel, Urging MS
Voters to 'Send a Message' to DC; as Rick Santorum also Endorsed Chris McDaniel, Thad Cochran
Refused to Debate McDaniel Again because America 'Is Not a Debating Society' and it was revealed that
the DC Government is Investigating Cochran Aide For Potential 'Illegal Rental' To Cochran. [Curiously,
Politico Omitted Cochran's Three-Week Delay in Reporting Blogger to Police.] In Minnesota, Sarah Palin
claimed Julianne Ortman Only Candidate Who Can Beat Al Franken. In Louisiana, Sarah Palin
Campaigned for Outsider Rob Maness: He'll Stand with Ted Cruz, Mike Lee. In Tennessee, Senate
Candidate Joe Carr Responded to NJ Gov Christie [supporting the incumbent/establishment Alexander].

Reviewing last weeks results, Texas Monthlys Paul Burka Echoed Chicken Little Over
Tea Party Victories and Panic set-in for the GOP-Establishment in California as Neel
Kashkari is now a Distant 3
rd
in New Poll; Kashkari swings an axe in his ubiquitous
television commercial, but he hasn't found an axe big enough to cut into Tim Donnelly's
lead among Republican voters, inasmuch as a new Hoover Institution "Golden State"
poll shows that Kashkari is only pulling 5% of the votebarely above the 4% margin of
errora distant third behind popular Democrat incumbent Gov. Jerry Brown at 36%,
and Tea Party favorite Assemblyman Tim Donnelly with 12%. That may be why the GOP-
Establishment Savagely Attacked Donnelly in New 4-page Flier, funded by billionaire
Charles Munger, Jr., a son of Charles Munger, the vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.
{Always colorful, Sarah Palin said that, At This Rate, Soldiers Will Have to Trade 'Fatigues
for Mom Jeans' in Obama's Military and Palin Said VA Hospitals 'Death Panels' for Vets.}

Regarding the Culture-Wars, Big-Government grows more intrusive [New federal database will include
227 million Americans' SSNs, entire credit history], as subtle-shifts are occurring to the left by the GOP
[Congress voted to stop prosecuting medical pot users and House Moved to End Raids on Medical
Marijuana] while the libs keep pushing [Houston Mayor Forces All to Open Girls Rooms to Men].
Dems/Libs dont miss a chance to keep churning charges of racism *Texas 'Most Racist State,' Says
'Education' Group Tied to Bill Ayers, Politico: The Religious Right Founded on Racism, but BLACK
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PASTORS GROUP FOUNDER SLAMS POLITICO RACISM SMEAR OF RELIGIOUS RIGHT], while they mirror
BHOs tendency to seek pitty on themselves *Charlize Theron Compares Paparazzi Intrusion to Rape].
Finally, anyone who still wants to explore risqu web-sites is forewarned [Men who report watching a
lot of pornography tend to have less volume and activity in regions of the brain linked to rewards and
motivation].

As occurs in the US [n.b., Obama Sounded Alarm: 'Climate Change' Growing Threat to Health],
the EU'S CHIEF SCIENTIFIC ADVISOR SAID EUROCRATS TWIST EVIDENCE, DISTORT FACTS TO SUIT
'POLITICAL IMPERATIVE'; of considerable concern, recalling the testimony [before Philadlephia
City Council] of myself and Bill Godshall, is the revelation that the World Health Organization's
War on e-Cigarettes May Lead to Fewer Smokers Quitting.

Regarding the VA-Scandal, Obama said 'I Always Take Responsibility,' but VA Scandal Started with Bush;
this was, of course, not true, because there is no evidence the cover-up process occurred previously.
Thus, it has been found that The Technocrat Stumbled, as BHO Claimed Ignorance and Blamed Old
Software for Deadly Wait Times. Others concluded the VA Scandal Is a Crisis of Leadership, with BHO's
inattention to managing the government having the potential to kill the progressive project. What has
emerged is that The VA had a systemic Bonus Culture, ascribable to Big Labor's VA Choke-Hold. More
stats emerged [Nearly 700 Pittsburgh area vets stuck on VA wait list] in conjunction with the IG Report
[1,700 Vets Didn't Even Make It to Phoenix VA Hospital Waiting List], prompting Mike Lee to obsesrve
that this VA scandal is 'Best Argument Against a Single-Payer System Ever Imaginable.' Even Chris
Matthews Scolded Obama Over VA, Telling BHOp to Stop Thinking About Himself; Krauthammer piled-
on, claiming the VA Scandal and the Economy constitute 'a Crisis of Competence' for Obama. Finally, a
Whistleblower [Rep. Ted Poe] Called Texas VA a 'Crime Syndicate.' {In a related note, after Jay Carney
Resigned as White House Press Secretary, the 'SPECIAL REPORT' PANEL DECIDED HE WAS 'FREE AT LAST,
FREE AT LAST.'}

[Note Casey is on this list.]

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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 2:08 AM
Subject: Action-Items-CXLIV
[Mandatory-Holocaust-Education, BHO's-Disastrous-Foreign-Policy, BHO's-Liberal-Fascism, Politics, Guns,
Hillary]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/227555188/Action-Items-CXLIV-Mandatory-Holocaust-Education-BHO-s-
Disastrous-Foreign-Policy-BHO-s-Liberal-Fascism-Politics-Guns-
Hillary?post_id=1448468906_10204036877989435#_=_

After having remitted a lengthy Blast e-mail, it is probably desirable to offer the reader some surcease
by recapitulating the major conceptual points that were painstakingly made; urgent are the attendant
action-items: pushing for passage of the mandate for Holocaust Education in PA, condemnation of
BHOs entire Foreign Policy paradigm [NBC's Richard Engel Admits U.S. Relations Have Not Improved
With a Single Nation Under Obama], and rejecting rationalizations for BHOs Imperialism as solely self-
generated, absent being infused by classic Dem-party platform ideals [scroll-down to the bottom to note
now Jonah Goldberg correlates Modern (Fascist) Liberalism with BHO]. The three prior Blast e-mails
detailed the machinations that have transpired regarding an effort that weinnocentlythought would
be motherhood/apple-pie. Who, particularly in the Jewish Community, would be against education?
Could any Federation leader not want the WORLD [and, in particular, all high-school grads] to know of
what befell Jews [and others] during the Nazi-Era? Well, we certainly have found out that some people
would prefer to receive grant-$ [and deceitfully spread falsehoods, while their cohorts remain mute
instead of correcting the record] than ensure a unit encompassing a spate of historic and contemporary
concerns *Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Violations+ gets validated and implemented ASAP.

The best way to summarize so much info is to recall the infamous aphorism invoked by
lawyers: If you dont have the case, argue the law; if you dont have the law, argue the
case. And if you have neither, argue ad hominem.

The article in last weeks Jewish Exponent *plus word-of-mouth] focused
less on the issue and/or on the proposed implementationand more on
the undocumented/anonymous claims that [specifically] I made a
secretary in Harrisburg cry and [generally] people who harbor our
position [favoring a mandate] as having threatened people, bullied
people, charging at least one Jew of being a Nazi sympathizera
Holocaust denier. Thus, I chatted with the reporter who wrote this
piece, and he will not convey particulars regarding these claims from an
individual who had not even been known publiclyexcept to myself
and a few others with whom Ive strategized, involvement that was
discerned after the one speaker-phone conversation I held with him
nor is he interested, apparently, in acquiring them. In fact, he will only
probe people who made these charges of abuse if his editor asks him to
do so. This suggests strongly that he is willfully and blindly channeling
knowingly conjured events that befit a nefarious, evasive agenda.+

Simply put, mandate opponents know neither history nor precedent support their view
and, thus, they now attack people who have individually advocated this legislation.

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I continue to maintain that BHO does nothing correctly [vide infra] and, thus, it is mandatory that the
GOP gear-up ASAPand not envision ANY time-off during the Summertime; illustrative of the challenge
is a fresh-poll [regarding the PA-gubernatorial Race, Rasmussen Shows WOLF 51% vs. CORBETT 31%]
and illustrative of the fruit of industriousness is what has occurred in MontCo c/o Rep. Mike Vereb:

Headquarters moved (as of 6/2/2014), contracts with vendors re-negotiated, Debt is
gone and money is finally in the bank. All in five months and a lot of people helped. I am
not a lawyer or consultant. I am not making anything out of this. I have invited gays,
youth, blacks, white-Hispanics *reference to NY-Times characterization of George
Zimmerman], Conservatives, and independents to the table. I want to be inclusive.

This is c/w what is transpiring nationally, as the GOPs social-agenda [abortion, gay-marriage, pot-use]
evolves to a more libertarian posture; efforts are underway to link with the gay community [Log Cabin
Republicans] because, as Guzzardi has emphasized, they know they suffer under the Dem-Economy.
Indeed, as Palin has rallied @ Senatorial-Primary States on behalf of the TEA Party Movement [vide infra
et supra+, she has advocated switching Americas focus from seeking Fundamental Transformation to
Fundamental Restoration. And evidence that the national-GOP gets it has emerged *RNC DEBATE
COMMISSION: NO LEFTIE MODERATORS+, although Im still exploring the seamless-system of data-use
that is envisioned [matching the Dems] that will not expire @ the end of each election-cycle.

Any doubt about what BHO has done to the economy has been dashed [Economy
shrank by 1.0% in the first three months of the year Despite $2 Trillion in Fed Stimulus],
particularly noting Three Red Flags in GDP Report [Cash-Strapped Consumers, Declining
Corporate Profits, and Failed Monetary Stimulusand not the weather]; the Commerce
Department reported Thursday that its latest estimate of 1
st
Quarter GDP constituted a
sharp reversal from its initial estimate [an anemic 0.1%].

In CA, a MINIMUM-WAGE HIKE HURT WORKERS' PURCHASING POWER,
as was illustrated when a Leftist minimum wage policy backfired in a
Seattle suburb. {In this regard, it is instructive to recall decades hence
how ronald-reagan was able to define-fascism in 44-seconds.}

BHOs long-awaited proposed climate rule for emissions in existing power plants will
require as much as a 30% cut in the industry's greenhouse gas pollution by 2030; it will
provide ample ammo for Republicans in the November elections, fueling their charges
that BHO is waging a job-destroying "war on coal." Legal challenges from some states
and industry groups are considered inevitable, although EPA has won a string of recent
court victories that have boosted the agency's confidence in its legal strategy. {Also,
again reflecting the intrusion of politics into what should be pure-science, it seems
Scientists Admitted Polar Bear Numbers Were Made Up To Satisfy Public Demand.}

The GOPs Civil-War rages-on, as Joni Ernst Opened-Up an 18-Pt Lead in Iowa [with her support from
36% of likely GOP primary voters would preclude a run-off] and, documenting assertions made
yesterday regarding how the WaPO aggressively tilted its senatorial-predictions, are data from NC
concluding that the fall voting for Senate shows Tillis [R] @ 39% compared with Hagans 36%. Because
the Mississippi Senate Race is the Biggest of Tuesday's 8 Primaries, it should be noted that the Dems are
presaging how they plan to politicize how they will pluck heartstrings [Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly's
Gun Control Group Targeted Pro-2
nd
Amendment Senator], while SANTORUM claimed the GOP NEEDS
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TO BE PRO-LIFE, PRO-FAMILY, 'PRO-WORKER PARTY' as he has been CAMPAIGNING FOR MCDANIEL.
*His pro-worker rhetoric is c/w his big-spender achievements during a dozen years as the incumbent.]
Meanwhile, a COCHRAN AD Asked Dems FOR HELP, inexplicably revealing that Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
knows he is not beloved by the GOP-base. Amazingly, Cochran Accidentally just Called Obamacare an
'Important Effort of the Federal Government to help make health care available, accessible and
affordable' in an interview with veteran WaPo reporter Dan Balz at a campaign stop. {Also noted is what
is happening in California, although the Leftist LA DAILY NEWS claimed the two GOP CANDIDATES MOVE
'RIGHT' ON "GREEN" ISSUES, the candidates themselves aver otherwise; KASHKARI TOUTED THE GOP'S
DIVERSITY while POLLING SHOWED KASHKARI CAUGHT-UP WITH DONNELLY and are now in a dead-heat.
{Also, note that the GOPs NH SEN candidate [formerly Mass. Sen.] Scott Brown acquired a big stake in
an obscure Fla. Firm.}

It must be recalled that a major dividing-line between the TPM and Establishment-GOP
advocates is the issue of Illegals; one wonders how the estimated-# in America remains
@ 12 million, despite the fact that this has to be an antiquated guestimate [noting that
DUMPING OF ILLEGALS CONTINUES IN AZ and Local officials blast ICE because the New
Obama Border Policy seems to be Seek Cover & Move Back]. Indeed, a Sharp Increase
in Illegal Immigrant Children at Border has Caused a Crisis, for an overwhelming number
of children have been apprehended while attempting to illegally cross the the U.S.-
Mexico border during recent months. The crisis, which has strained federal resources,
has prompted lawmakers from around the U.S. to demand more funding to
"accommodate" the children crossers. Many others, however, claim the Obama
Administration's failure to secure the border is ultimately what has lead to the spike in
child victimization. Meanwhile, as Steve King Denounced the 'Creeping Effort' to Push
'Irrational' Amnesty This Year, the BLACK AMERICAN LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE FOUNDER
has recognized [finally] that AMERICAN WORKERS were LEFT OUT OF AMNESTY DEBATE.
{Remember, although DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Faced Tough Questioning on Release
of Criminal Immigrants, it will become more intense if/when an Illegal released in this
fashion commits a felony [recalling how Willie Horton ads hurt Dukakis in 1988].}

As discussed yesterday, when noting that ObamaDontCare continues to falter [4-failed-obamacare-
exchanges-lose-$474-million and Obamacare Forces Woman to Drive over 400 Miles for Healthcare], the
publics disdain for anything resembling a single-payer system would appear to grow, just as the GOP
plans to announce its alternative; yet, the trend is towards more centralization, which Politico claims to
have become an UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE because the "GOP's Obamacare fears came true."

Its rendition ends with a typically-egalitarian claim, equating resistance to signing-on to
ObamaDontCares Medicaid-expansion and the botched roll-out of the website; also, it
portrays what happened as unintended when, actually, BHO planned for and likes
what transpired: "36 states rely on HealthCare.gov, the federal exchange, to enroll
people in health coverage. At least two more states are opting in next year, with a few
others likely to follow. Only two states are trying to get out. That's precisely the
opposite of the Affordable Care Act's original intent: 50 exchanges run by 50 states. The
federal option was supposed to be a limited and temporary fallback. But a shift to a
bigger, more permanent Washington-controlled system is instead underway; without
preparation, funding or even public discussion about what a national exchange covering
millions of Americans means for the future of U.S. health care. It's coming about
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because intransigent Republicans shunned state exchanges, and ambitious Democrats
bungled them."]

Regarding the VA-Scandal, Obama took Responsibility, but claimed VA Scandal Started with Bush; these
events have been analyzed [Eric Shinseki and the Crisis at the Department of Veterans Affairs], and the
fact that this is more than a scandal has led to the view that it may be a Prototype for how BHO has
functioned, raising concern that Cancer Treatment could be Nextto Get the Treatment. Watch Pirro
discuss the VA Scandal by generalizing its import *Welcome to Obama's America, where Corruption,
Scandal and Lawlessness Reign].

These observations are, therefore, unlikely to invoke sympathy for BHO, even as the
national journal concluded the-white-house-is-exhausted, for bho-just-lawyered-up and
was ignored by the ILLINOIS LEGISLATURE [which did not appropriate $100M FOR a
contemplated OBAMA LIBRARY]. Even leftie Bob Woodward advised that Obama recall
that, 'Sometimes, It Is Best to Just Be Quiet.' His secrecy lives on [NSA Collecting
Millions of Faces From Web Images], although Edward Snowden claimed [in a Censored
Segment from his interview] that We Had All Info Needed To Detect 9/11 Plot. {Finally,
it is ironic that the only way to force OBAMA TO RESPOND TO A JAILED MARINE'S
PLIGHT was to have filed the requisite number of signatures on an internet-petition.}

Regarding Gun-Laws, Tim Murphy [the western PA Congressman and child psychologist] has now
advocated passage of the Helping Families In Mental Health Crisis Act, and it is of-interest to note
whether this approach will affect how the Dems unveil their new gun bill focused on mental health.
Meanwhile, almost daily, evidence mounts regarding the need to allow people to defend themselves
[Restaurant was Robbed On Same Day It Adopted Anti-Gun Policy and Cop detained Girls Who Openly
Carry], even as the NEW YORK TIMES EDITORIAL BOARD DEFENDED RAHM EMANUEL'S CHICAGO GUN
LA W [extremely prohibitive new regulations for gun shops constituting a de facto ban], enacted after
the SCOTUS ruled that Chicago's 30-year gun ban was unconstitutional (and that the city must now allow
gun shops to open in city limits). Meanwhile, as Bloomberg Downplayed His Anti-Gun Stance ['We Don't
Want to End the Second Amendment'], Bloomberg adopted an oxymorinc posture ['This Has Nothing to
Do [with] Gun Control,' But We Want More Gun Laws]. Michael Reagan feels New Gun Laws Won't Stop
Crazy Killers. {Regarding the Culture-Wars, Oprahs Step-mother now claims 'Oprah deliberately set out
to destroy my life.'}

Regarding education, Arizona Withdrew From PARCC Common Core Test Consortium
and a Court Ordered a Halt on Pearson Ed Common Core Test Contract; meanwhile,
Louisiana parents questioned Gov. Jindal's sincerity on allegedly disliking Common Core.
Regarding the print-media, the new PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER CO-OWNER Lewis Katz
DIED IN A PLANE CRASH [having bought the newspaper with H.F. 'Gerry' Lenfest] and
the left-wing Ohio newspaper ['Toledo Blade'] Closed its Printing Facility and Axed 130
Union Jobs as of August 1.

Regarding Benghazi-Gate, noting that Hillary will be interviewed on Fox News Channel by Bret Baier and
Greta Van Susteren [for a half-hour] on June 17, FNCs Catherine Herridge has completed a Fact Check,
and she has found that Clinton's Benghazi-Gate chapter has holes [and that the new Benghazi
committee will initially attempt to draw-up a comprehensive attack timeline]; even Bob Woodward
Doesnt Buy Hillarys Benghazi Denial [Serious, Unanswered Questions About This]. Indeed, although
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Claire MCCASKILL feels HILLARY HAS RSUM TO BE 'TERRIFIC' PRESIDENT, Newt GINGRICH feels that
BOKO HARAM IS 'GOING TO COME BACK TO BITE' HILLARY MORE THAN BENGHAZI.

TED CRUZ SLAMS HILLARY CLINTON by noting SHE'S 'ALL POLITICS, ALL THE TIME'; after
Cruz Won Presidential Straw Poll [at a Conservative Intel R.L.C.], CRUZ observed many
REPUBLICANS TEND TO HAVE TOP-DOWN SOVIET-STYLE CAMPAIGNS. Also, regarding
the prisoner-swap, Cruz wondered aloud whether America has 'just put a Price on Other
U.S. Soldiers.' [Also, Christie 'Missed an Opportunity' to Gain Jewish Support.]

Regarding the prisoner-swap, the LAW BROKEN: CONGRESS NOT NOTIFIED OF GITMO SWAP. As a result,
Five of Most Dangerous Taliban Commanders in U.S. Custody were Exchanged for an American Captive
who had Soldier allegedly abandoned his post after growing disillusioned with war; whereas the Terror
suspects were labeled 'high risk' [noting their backgrounds], this announcement Set-off debate because
Some Lawmakers Saw Danger in Deal. Although contrasting with what has happened in Israel [Only Five
for One?], it is felt that The Bergdahl Swap is Actually Worse Than Israeli Prisoner Deals because of the
imbalance of the people involved; traitor Abdullah Bowe Bergdahl wrote he was ashamed to be
American before he went AWOL. When this AWOL Jihad Traitor was traded for Taliban Terrorists,
Mullah Omar Rejoiced, claiming the Prisoner Swap was a Big Victory for Global Jihad [as Obama
promises more concessions]. Indeed, after this AWOL Traitor was Traded for Taliban Terrorists, In the
name of Allah, the most gracious, the most merciful, AWOL soldiers dad said in Arabic; also, Sgt.
Bergdahls Father Tweeted Free All Guantanamo Prisoners. Therefore, as Questions arise over this
Qatar- Brokered Swap, an emerging consensus view is that BHO Traded Five Terrorists for a Taliban
Sympathizer because, in 2010, The Taliban claimed U.S. soldier Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had converted to
Islam and had taught them bomb-making techniques; Bergdahl had also changed his name to Abdullah,
the Taliban claimed, though the mainstream media largely ignored the story, seeing it as comparable to
the tale of Sgt. Brody in the fictional Homeland television series on Showtime.

Regarding the Middle East and Africa, BHO continues to demand Israel stop settlement
construction and planning [which, apparently, BB had done behaviorally]. Although
Abbas said Israel has told us if we form a govt they will boycott PA, a PA Presidential
Spokesman Downplayed Israeli Threats to Boycott any New Government. Meanwhile,
Hamas pays hundreds of young Muslims to harass Jews at Temple Mount, Iran is heavily
involved in Syria, Libya is closer to full civil war, and Western Elites fail to grasp reality in
Egypt. {Also, an anti-israel opera @ Met will be viewed live by hundreds of thousands.}

Regarding Islamism, a Muslim was Arrested for Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting, although some feel
Mehdi Nemmouche was not the Brussels al Qaeda killer because, instead, he was an accomplice who
removed the evidence. It seems this Brussels Terror Suspect lived in France and Has 'Ties to Islamic
Radicals in Syria.' [Pamela Geller opposes his being portrayed as a Frenchman because he has no real
links with any countrybecause his Islamism has no borders.+ Along comes Tariq Ramadan, who claims
that the Victims of the Brussels Jewish Museum shooting were Israeli agents; know that Tariq Ramadan,
grandson of the founder of the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood organization, was banned under President
Bush but, under Obama, he was welcomed into the US and lauded by academia. ]

It remains unclear whether the Christian Mom in Chains [Meriam Ibrahim] in Sudan will
be freed from death-row because the SUDAN GOVT. DENIED IT WILL FREE HER. Also,
Ayaan Hirsi Ali Questions Why America and the West Can Unite Against Apartheid But
Not Sharia as Muslims Murdered and Mutilated a Christian Father In Front of His Son.
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And Muslims attacked (in the Central African Republic) a Catholic Church [resulting in at
least 30 dead, including the priest] and (in Indonesia) a group of Catholics while praying;
38 Muslim Men Gang Raped a 15-Year-Old Girl for Several Hours. Regarding Americans,
the Details Of Suicide Bombing Carried Out By American Muslim were Published by a
Jihad Group, and the Muslim friend of the Boston jihad bombers was charged with
obstructing investigation of deadly attack. {Also, a Petition To Add Muslim and Hindu
Holidays In Britain Topped 100,000 signatures.}

It may be recalled that fewer Than 25% of West Point Cadets Stood Up For Obama After He Was
Introduced prior to his Foreign-Policy Speech last week [compared with universal acclamation provided
to Bush-43, notwithstanding their sporting gloves that allegedly muffled applause+. The speech was
panned broadly, and it is anticipated that the Ukraine showdown will shadow Obama in Europe.
Curiously, after it was reported that DAVID CAMERON 'WARNED MERKEL THAT BRITAIN COULD QUIT
EU,' it was reported that it was NOT LIKELY HE'D DARE OR SHE'D CARE; also, BLAIR TOLD MERKEL HE
WANTS A SEAT ON THE EU GRAVY TRAIN. Politico provided numerous references to the fact that BHOs
Obama Doctrinecan be summarized as "Don't Do Stupid Shit." [These included THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN,
Dylan Byers, Mark Landler, Christi Parsons, Kathleen Hennessey and Paul Richter in the L.A. Times and
Chicago Tribune, Steve Chapman, and The Columbian newspaper of Vancouver, Wash.

CHRIS WALLACE, on "Fox News Sunday": "By the way, national security adviser Susan
Rice is appearing on two Sunday Shows today [ABC's 'This Week' and CNN's 'State of the
Union'], but the White House still has not made her available to us since we interviewed
her back in September of 2012, just five days after the Benghazi attack."

Finally, in the read this and weep department, note how Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel portrayed the
prisoner-swap: I want tothank the emir of Qatar, the Qatari government, and all the people in Qatar
who helped make this occur. *DAVID GREGORY: "[D]oes this pave the way for perhaps a new round of
negotiations with the Taliban, directly between the United States and the Taliban, about the Taliban's
future in running Afghanistan?"] "Well, it could, it might, and we hope it will present an opening. As you
know, we have strongly supported an Afghan-led effort to come to an agreement with the Taliban. As
you know, we had engaged with the Taliban up until 2012. They broke off those negotiations. We've had
no formal relationship since then. So maybe this will be a new opening that can produce an agreement."

Two excerpts from the weekly Blast e-mail composed by Jonah Goldberg are provided;
it may be recalled that I [mildly] rebuked him for having cited his book [Liberal Fascism]
neither during his keynote speech @ the PLC in April, nor when serving on FNCs panel
*@ 6:37 p.m. weekdays, during Special Report+. Ever since then, he has done soas is
evidenced during his definitive depiction of modern *not classic+ liberalism:

The Left Lashes Out

In Liberal Fascism I write:

In the liberal telling of America's story, there are only two perpetrators
of official misdeeds: conservatives and "America" writ large.
Progressives, or modern liberals, are never bigots or tyrants, but
conservatives often are. For example, one will virtually never hear that
the Palmer Raids, Prohibition, or American eugenics were thoroughly
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progressive phenomena. These are sins America itself must atone for.
Meanwhile, real or alleged "conservative" misdeedssay, McCarthyism
are always the exclusive fault of conservatives and a sign of the
policies they would repeat if given power. The only culpable mistake
that liberals make is failing to fight "hard enough" for their principles.
Liberals are never responsible for historic misdeeds, because they feel
no compulsion to defend the inherent goodness of America.
Conservatives, meanwhile, not only take the blame for events not of
their own making that they often worked the most assiduously against,
but find themselves defending liberal misdeeds in order to defend
America herself.

This "heads we win, tails you lose" approach to the story of America has worked
fantastically well for liberalism. It's a tautology. The good guys are liberals and when
America doesn't do what liberals want, America is the villain. When liberals get their
way and they fail, the failure can be laid at the feet of conservatives or America for not
committing to the project enough. (The Great Society failed because it was
underfunded!) Ever since Herbert Croly, liberals have been great at telling the rest of us
what the "promise" of America is and then blaming Americans for not fulfilling a
promise they never committed to in the first place.

I could rant about this historical dynamic for quite a while, but I think this tendency has
a lot of contemporary relevance.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but Obama is kinda blowing it. His foreign-policy speech at
West Point was a very high-fallutin' version of making a huge mistake and then saying, "I
meant to do that." Younger Millennials are already looking at the slightly older members
of their cohort the ones who voted for Obama when they were still in high school
and saying, "Uh, dude, what did you get us into?" The new progressive era liberals
promised us is apparently sitting next to Godot on the bus. The New New Deal was the
New Coke of New New Deals.

As a result, the Left is quietly giving up on waiting for Obama to deliver. They're moving
on to the blame-game. When liberals screw up or can't deliver, it's not because there's a
problem with liberalism, it's the system man, the system! We saw a preview of this early
in Obama's first term when the White House struggled to get its agenda through
Congress. Suddenly, "Yes We Can!" became, in the words of Tony Podesta, No We Can't
because the American political system "sucks!"

It's amazing how the recent spike in laments about "white supremacy" has coincided
with the realization that there will be no big payoff from the Obama years. Maybe
Obamacare will lead to socialized medicine, but you've gotta admit that so far it's been
pretty anti-climatic, like the day after getting your Christmas pony and finding out that
not only is it kind of expensive and bitey, but it left a huge steaming pile on your favorite
pillow. MSNBC barely covers the presidency from what I can tell these days, save as a
news peg for why conservatives are racist evil morons.

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Of course, some of the topic change is simply driven by a desire to talk about something
that makes liberals feel good about themselves. When the real news is a downer,
change the subject to something that isn't. The political press has already moved on to
Hillary. And the ideological Left wants to talk about hashtags, white supremacy,
reparations for slavery, and really dumb stuff, like how half-Asian psychopathic
murderers and surviving the Holocaust are best understood as proof white privilege is
alive and well.

It's no coincidence that Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century became
such a sensation at this moment in American political life. It is (or claims to be) an
indictment of the system. It goes deeper that any one (disappointing) president or party
to explain why liberalism hasn't succeeded and the answer to all of liberalism's
problems is more liberalism and more power for liberals. The reaction, as much as
the book itself, says the system itself is rigged (I spent pretty much all of May working
on a very long essay on Piketty's book for Commentary so I can't get into all of it here).
In short, liberals are deeply bummed out at their own team's failure to deliver on the
"promise of America" and they are looking to assign blame anywhere but where it
belongs. Because, ya see, they coulda been contenders.

Shorter Clinton: We Can Never Know What I Did Wrong . . .

Hillary Clinton says that "there will never be perfect clarity on everything that happened
. . . But that should not be confused with a lack of effort to discover the truth or to share
it with the American people." This comes from the 34-page chapter on Benghazi in her
new memoir, a chapter that probably had more experts consulting on it than an alien
space craft discovered in the New Mexico desert. Just think about all of the spinners,
hacks and other bipedal remora of the Hillary Industrial Complex in their figurative
white lab coats testing each phrase with focus groups of suburban soccer moms; the
squads of lawyers debating the semicolons and haggling over the past-participles.

Anyway, I love this talking point that "perfect clarity" is elusive. She will
certainly use it to perfect her obfuscation. Already, you can be sure
interns at "Ready For Hillary!" are rehearsing in the mirror "We may
never know exactly what happened in Benghazi . . . We may never know
exactly what happened in Benghazi . . ."

Case in point: Even as Clinton insists that the lack of perfect clarity doesn't imply any
lack of effort to get at the truth, she apparently couldn't find space in her chapter about
the attack on Benghazi to divulge where she was and exactly what she was doing on the
night of the Benghazi attack. That was the very first thing the guys in the white coats at
the New Mexico hangar had yanked out and buried in the desert. I mean she's right, we
probably can't find out exactly what happened in Benghazi, Libya that night the fog of
war and all that. But she could help us know what she did that night. Unfortunately, the
fog of Hillary will prevail. It always does.

This is an excerpt from a daily Blast e-mail by the National Reviews Jim Geraghty, written
hours before Shinseki was eased-out:

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The VA Disaster: The Day the Obama Scandal Playbook Suddenly Stopped Working

I joined Buck Sexton, Will Cain, Charlie Cooke, Tara Setmayer on Real News on Glenn
Beck's The Blaze channel, discussing the administration's preference for investigating
itself when its staffers are caught with their metaphorical pants down. You've seen them
run those plays so often, you could do them yourselfin your sleep. The Department of
Justice's investigation of its own "Fast and Furious" operation took 19 months.

The State Department announced the review of its actions in Benghazi in October, but
waited until after the election to release its own internal review. The review panel never
talked to Hillary Clinton, no one was under oath, no one transcribed the interviews, and
the final report only blamed low-level employees, who were put on paid administrative
leave and then reinstated about a year later.

The White House is now investigating its own leak of the station chief in Kabul; more
specifically, how allegedly bright and well-informed staffers could see the title "STATION
CHIEF" on a document listing people meeting the president in Afghanistan and not grasp
what that meant.

Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal, among others, has identified the
administration's predictable five-step response to a scandal:

Step One: Say "We had no idea."
Step Two: Express great outrage.
Step Three: Fire some low-level employee.
Step Four: Announce a review, a study, or an investigation; deny any
further comment or action until the end of the investigation. This step
can stretch on for weeks, months, or years, and let the outraged public
forget about it.
Step Five: This is old news, the Republicans are playing politics with it,
"Dude, this was like, two years ago."

For the VA scandal, the Obama administration's plan appeared to be to speed ahead to
step four you'll notice Obama initially emphasized that the allegations of inhumane
delays of care were merely allegations, and that he couldn't reach any judgments until
the full reviews were completed. The problem is that the VA Inspector General's report
came out quickly, and with way too many smoking guns 1700 vets denied care they
needed.

The usual responses in step five don't fit. It's not old news yet. A few stray liberals are
using the tired "Republicans are playing politics!" line, but it isn't working. Shinseki may
be gone by this afternoon. The question is: Did the playbook just fail in these unique
circumstances? Or are these tactics finally worn out?

This is the weekly newsletter provided by the Republican Jewish Coalition:

VA SCANDAL HEATS UP WITH RELEASE OF IG REPORT
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According to the report released yesterday by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office
of Inspector General, "veterans in Phoenix waited an average of 115 days for a primary
care appointment -- far longer than the VA's official statistics showed." Some 1,400
veterans were still waiting for an appointment with a primary care physician while 1,700
more were left in limbo by being excluded from an electronic waiting list, according to
the report. (Read the report here.)

Republican legislators and the Obama administration are considering plans to make
private health care available to veterans who have been unable to get timely care in the
VA system.

Veterans also endure long waits in appealing rejected claims for care. This affects older
veterans as well as those who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least 350,000 veterans
of earlier wars are stuck in the appeals process. A simple appeal can take 562 days,
according to the VA, but in 2013, the Congressional Research Service found that it took
an average of 1,094 days for the Board of Veterans' Appeals to reach a decision after a
veteran filed a claim.

Should VA Secretary Eric Shinseki step down because of the fraud, deception, and
mismanagement at the VA?

Fox News noted:

In the wake of the [Inspector General] report's release, five Senate
Democrats facing tough election campaigns -- Colorado's Mark Udall,
Montana's John Walsh, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Al Franken of
Minnesota and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire -- called for Shinseki
to leave.

They joined Republicans, including Sen. John McCain and House Veterans Affairs
Committee Chairman Jeff Miller, who have also called for Shinseki's ouster.

Larry Kudlow approaches the problem from a different angle. He writes:

The VA problem is not Shinseki, it's socialism. The Veterans Affairs
health-care system is completely government run. It is a pure single-
payer program. National Review editor Rich Lowry calls it "an island of
socialism in American health care." He is right.

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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 11:09 AM
Subject: Action-Items-CXLV [Mandatory-Holocaust-Education, Obama-Doctrine,
Worriment (affecting-Israel-America-the-World), BHO's-Imperialism, Liberalism]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/227622719/Action-Items-CXLV-Mandatory-Holocaust-Education-Obama-
Doctrine-Worriment-affecting-Israel-America-the-World-BHO-s-Imperialism-Liberalism-
S?post_id=1448468906_10204039173126812#_=_

Again, after having distributed a Blast e-mail that had been envisioned [when the articles were first
being accrued] to have been dominated by the extended-essays @ its end [plus the exposition regarding
the need to pass the Mandatory Holocaust Education legislation], it is desirable to succinctly summarize
the salient features of what was aggregated over the weekend. Condemnation of BHOs entire Foreign
Policy paradigm was congealed in one hyperlink [NBC's Richard Engel Admits U.S. Relations Have Not
Improved With a Single Nation Under Obama], which has been amplified both generically [Obama Got
An Icy Reception During His West Point Speech which compares with that generaged during Bushs final
visit, as has been dramatized by this brief comparison/contrast video that also shows their obedience]
and specifically *noting BHOs Taliban-swap prompted top-officials to dodge deserter questions]. This
latter point again reinforces the depth/height/length of BHOs Imperialism [for this may be viewed as a
passive-aggressive reaction to his having been frustrated in attempts to shut-down GitMo]. {Also, note
How the IRS Treated Z Streets Donors, Sen. Ted Cruz on ABC's This Week, and how Obama Replenishes
the Taliban *allegedly, reflecting BHOs view of How Wars End in the 21st Century].}

It is noted that the PA-Legislature will focus on the BILLION DOLLAR BUDGET GAP but,
during the half-year after unanimous approval of the amended Mandatory Holocaust
Education bill by the Senate Appropriations Committee, we have played whack-a-mole
with Hank Butler [lobbyist for the PA Jewish Coalition]. We wonder who, particularly in
the Jewish Community, would be against education? Could any Federation leader not
want the WORLD [and, in particular, all high-school grads] to know of what befell Jews
[and others] during the Nazi-Era? Every argument was rebutted, every assertion was
documented, every lead was followedand the issue inexplicably languishes.

We want to know what delays a Senate floor-vote [with or without
Dinnimans Amendment, which we support+, and we want to know
whether any rationale exists among anyone in House leadership that is
sufficient to block Senate approvaland then House approvaland then
a signing-ceremony c/o Corbett. *This request is being processed.+

Available is the database [in WORD format, for easy-reference and searching-capacity];
the best way to summarize so much info is to recall the infamous aphorism invoked by
lawyers: If you dont have the case, argue the law; if you dont have the law, argue the
case. And if you have neither, argue ad hominem. Mandate opponents know neither
history nor precedent support their view and, thus, they now attack people who have
individually advocated this legislation, Rhonda [in-print] and myself [by word-of-mouth].

Fortunately, it seems BHO can run to Europe, but he cant hide there; pressure will be unrelenting
both regarding Foreign Policy [Sharyl Attkisson, the investigative reporter who left CBS News earlier this
year reportedly because of her frustrations with the network's perceived liberal bias, said that the new
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face of the White House's press team stifled her efforts to get more information about the 2012 attack
in Benghazi] and Domestic Policy [Ted Cruz detailed The Democratic Assault on the First Amendment].
As PA-President Abbas swore-in a unity government that includes Hamas [which BB Urged the World
Not to Recognize], somewhat reassuring was revelation that the firepower of the Israel Air Force will be
four times greater by years end than it was two years ago, enabling Israel to bring another round of
fighting with Hezbollah to a swift end. [We can destroy *Hezbollahs+ military capabilities and the
infrastructure that supports its activities on a scale that would take decades to rebuild.]

Note headlines from todays Daily Alert and worry about Israels immediate future:
IAEA Assessment Plan Presents New Hurdle in Iran Nuclear Talks, Revolutionary Guards:
Iran Can Target Enemy Interests Across Globe, Commander's Death in Syria Points to
Iranian Role in Civil War, Israel Thwarts 11 Kidnapping Plots Orchestrated by Palestinians
in Israeli Jails, Assad Hiding Chemical Arms in Remote Mountainside, Activist Charges,
Turkey Blocked Flow of Euphrates River yielding a Water/Power Crisis in both Syria and
Iraq, Israel Responds to Rocket Fire from Gaza, Shelling from Syria, Palestinians
[surprisingly claim] BDS Activists Are Troublemakers and Criminals, With the Peace
Process on Hold, Washington Still Faces Key Israeli-Palestinian Tests , The Engagement
Trap, and "Why Do They Want to Kill Us?"].

Note recent headlines from Pamela Geller and worry about Americas immediate future:
Florida: Would-be jihad mass murderer allowed not to stand when judge enters court
and demands taxpayer-funded Islamic clothing; UK: Terror-tied Muslim Mayor
Threatens Islamic Riots and Violence if His Illegal Election is Questioned; The same
people who redefine phone calls, tweets, photographs, and emails as metadata cant
name our strategic enemies; Aussie Top Cop: Muslim community too lax on jihad
risk; Palestinian Boys Wearing Hamas Headbands Wave Guns and Talk About
Wanting to Die In Jihad Against Israel; and Muslims Push for Taxpayer-Funded Halal
Food in California Public Schools.

Note recent headlines from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and worry
about the worlds immediate future: The Ayatollahs' Sketchy Prospectus; Al Qaeda's
Nigeria Franchise; A Road Map To Get To The Bottom Of Benghazi; Al Qaeda is A Global
Terror Threat, not A Local Military Menace; Iran's War On Women; plus numerous data
that have been Broadcast, Published, and Quoted.

There will be a Conference Call Today at 11 a.m. EDT [1-800-351-4898 Passcode 62549] entitled
"Technocrats" Unite, hosted by Jonathan Schanzer [of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies].
Schanzer is the author of the new book State of Failure: Yasser Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, and the
Unmaking of the Palestinian State. Questions may be submitted to melissaw@theisraelproject.org.
Planned is discussion of Hamas and Fatah Influence in the New Palestinian Government, to wit:

This morning Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas formally announced
the formation of a government agreed to by his own Fatah faction and its long-time rival
Hamas.

The specifics of the unity pact are unprecedented: Hamas will get to keep and
independently operate its fighters and its missile arsenal, the terror group will be given
renewed access to the West Bank, the new Interior Ministry will operate in a radically
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different way, the old Prisoners Affairs ministry is to be bundled into the PLO to avoid
scrutiny of terrorist allocations, etc. Hamas meanwhile has refused to meet
international demands that it accept the Quartet requirements - that it recognize Israel,
renounce violence, and adhere to previous agreements with Jerusalem - even as it gains
influence over the new Palestinian government.

Hanging over everything is blackletter Congressional law, stretching back to the
Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 and clarified as recently as 2012, prohibiting
American aid to any Palestinian government "that results from an agreement with
Hamas and over which Hamas exercises undue influence."

When the blunt summary of the Obama Doctrine *"Don't Do Stupid Shit"] was delivered privately
[employing this expletive] and publicly [cleaned-up], could anything have been more degrading to the
office of the Presidency? When he continues to conduct a modified limited hangout, cannot Americans
recoil at BHOs uncompromising stances regarding myriad issues [energy, education, healthcare, illegals,
BHOs expansile Scandal-Sheet, Islamism, Israel]? For example, he has yet to speak-out regarding the
overtly anti-Semitic Brussels bombing. For this reason, it is again desirable to quote Jonah Goldbergs
Liberal Fascism, for it links all issues encountered in the media to an overarching meme:

In the liberal telling of America's story, there are only two perpetrators of official
misdeeds: conservatives and "America" writ large. Progressives, or modern liberals, are
never bigots or tyrants, but conservatives often are. For example, one will virtually
never hear that the Palmer Raids, Prohibition, or American eugenics were thoroughly
progressive phenomena. These are sins America itself must atone for. Meanwhile, real
or alleged "conservative" misdeedssay, McCarthyism are always the exclusive fault
of conservatives and a sign of the policies they would repeat if given power. The only
culpable mistake that liberals make is failing to fight "hard enough" for their principles.
Liberals are never responsible for historic misdeeds, because they feel no compulsion to
defend the inherent goodness of America. Conservatives, meanwhile, not only take the
blame for events not of their own making that they often worked the most assiduously
against, but find themselves defending liberal misdeeds to defend America herself.

*Goldberg amplified thusly, in last weeks Blast e-mail: This heads
we win, tails you lose approach to the story of America has worked
fantastically well for liberalism. It's a tautology. The good guys are
liberals and when America doesn't do what liberals want, America is the
villain. When liberals get their way and they fail, the failure can be laid
at the feet of conservatives or America for not committing to the
project enough. (The Great Society failed because it was underfunded!)
Ever since Herbert Croly, liberals have been great at telling the rest of us
what the promise of America is and then blaming Americans for not
fulfilling a promise they never committed to in the first place.+

Note that this iteration encompasses all three realms of policy [domestic, foreign, social]
effortlessly, for it speaks to how people conceptualize issues prior to articulating stances
and reformulating platforms [or resisting the opportunity to do so] in reaction to events.
And it accommodates BHOs behavior when privately integrating their import.
Meanwhile, Dems are formulating their slogan for the midterms, modeled around prior
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calls for "honest leadership and open government, real security, energy independence,
economic prosperity and educational excellence, a healthcare system that works for
everyone, and retirement security." Note that there is no disconnect between what BHO
is trying to do *incompetence rules, but isnt controlling+ and what Dems always want.
{Also note that Liberals fail to appreciate the fact that Happiness Isnt a Finite Resource.}

Reminders of key-points in recent Blast e-mails include the following: CANTOR DOESN'T MENTION
SUPPORT FOR AMNESTY ON CAMPAIGN SITE [noting that the absence of a primary-competitor provided
Fitzpatrick a pass regarding whether he would handle illegals, notwithstanding trust those in the TEA
Party Movement have in their friendship with him+; Georgia Woman Shoots Home Invaders Posing as
Police [manifesting the right of self-defense]; Clinton Can't Avoid Benghazi [published in the ultra-lib
weekly, The New Yorker, was the fact that the following observation is worth pursuing: Benghazi was
not some unconnected pioneer outpost; the circumstances there were defined by a larger policy that
was flawed in ways that have nothing to do with (alleged) Fox News hysteria, and everything to do with
issues like the use of military force (and her reputation, within the Obama Administration, as a hawk)
and the need to consult Congress. +; Obama and Shinseki Knew But Failed to Act on VA Crisis [shirking
their primary administrative responsibilities]; there Are No Asian-Americans In The Cabinet For The First
Time Since 2000 [which party is diverse?+; BHO knew the health care debacle created resentment
among Dems and he professed to wanting to make amends [yeah, right]; and there is a global backlash
against globalization that is also reflected in the fact that Voters Worldwide Are Nixing the
Left [reflecting my viws].

Attention must be paid to the fact that the Judge is to revive alleged Sandusky cover-up
case vs. ex-PSU administrators because, as confirmed when one reads the article, the
involvement of Ms. Cynthia Baldwin continues to stick-in-the-craw; notwithstanding her
having claimed to have functioned as an attorney throughout, my reading of what has
occurred includes her having not only misrepresented her presence @ the depos, but
also having actively suppressed the Board from scrutinizing the case for -year.

Note this hot-off-the-press Morning Jolt *. . . with Jim Geraghty] for a summary of some of what
occurred @ TXOnline [and subscribe to his newsletters to read the follow-up piece]:

This weekend, Americans for Prosperity hosted the "TXOnline" conference, and they
were kind enough to invite me and a lot of my favorite bloggers, podcasters, Tweeters,
and other denizens from the conservative media world's Island of Misfit Toys. Before we
go any further, thanks so much to Kemberlee Kaye and her team for putting it together.

Dana Loesch kicked off the festivities by contending that the tea parties are dead, but
not in the sense that the gloating media usually does. She suggested the Tea Party's
original form is dead, or ought to be, because they were a catalyst, spurring people to
pay much closer attention to local government sheriff's races, town and city councils,
etc. The fact that the tea parties aren't in the rallies-and-town-halls mode of 2010 is
natural, because a catalyst can't go on forever. "The Sons of Liberty dumping tea in the
harbor wasn't designed to be a long-lasting movement."

The panel on writing about policy featured Guy Benson of Townhall, William Upton of
Americans for Tax Reform, and Avik Roy, who you know from NRO and Forbes. I realize
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Avik Roy's role in the conservative movement for the past year can be summarized like
this:

[Obama administration announces some sudden change to Obamacare]

Most of us: This is terrible! This change is ridiculous! They're changing
this law every five minutes! By making this change, you're . . . you're . . .
it's going to

[We log online, go to check what Avik Roy has written on the subject,
find a torrent of statistics, data, anecdotes and examples]

Most of us: Ah-ha! Just as I thought! This is a terrible change because
[quotes Avik]!

On a panel on the state of First Amendment rights, the Franklin Center's Erik Telford
dismissed the ridiculous notion that legal protections for journalists should only apply to
"official" journalists, and not bloggers and others who aren't part of larger
organizations: "In Iran, they pick the three people who are allowed to run for president.
We don't get to elect our reporters and journalists who ask questions on our behalf. I
don't think the government should get to pick who has the responsibility hold them
accountable."

Melissa Clouthier and our Charlie Cooke, among others, launched a fascinating
discussion of whether the conservative movement has too eagerly embraced scalp-
hunting of liberals by using their own standards of political correctness against them --
think of Alec Baldwin, or Martin Bashir, or any other time a prominent Democrat finds
themselves in trouble with their liberal brethren over a controversial statement. The
room seemed pretty divided on that; Charlie argued that we ought to stand for an
America where the First Amendment means something, where individuals can speak
one's mind without retaliatory economic threats and efforts to get someone fired.

I pretty much agree with Charlie, but I think and hope there's a difference between
"this person said something I disagree with, and I denounce the statement" (or the
person!) and "you must fire this person for making that statement." (Ahem.) But one
reason people think and express appalling ideas is that they're largely oblivious to how
much others are appalled by those ideas. If you walk around in circles where it's
perfectly okay to say the sort of thing that Martin Bashir said about Sarah Palin . . . once
you say it for public consumption, everybody's got the right to react, and the negative
reaction is designed to discourage further statements in that vein.

Fingers Malloy and Thomas LaDuke of FTR Radio did a presentation on podcasting, and
offered a positive thought on the future of radio -- as you probably know, the talk-radio
audience is aging rapidly. As Internet radio gets more common -- after all, you can surf
the web on your phone in your car -- people aren't going to care whether your show is
broadcast on the Internet or on radio. In terms of sound quality, Internet podcasts are
increasingly on par with regular terrestrial radio.

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I spoke on a panel on polling and data analysis, moderated by PJ Media's Bryan Preston,
the Tarrance Group's Logan Dobson, Dan McLaughlin whose head is not, in fact, a
baseball, as his avatar would suggest. My co-panelists expertly dissected what they look
for when evaluating a poll sample size, timing, wording of questions and so on; I
noted how much polls are used to tell stories and stir a particular emotional response in
the intended audience oftentimes, to boost confidence in one side and dispirit the
other.

On a panel discussion about how to make stories, arguments, and other concepts
"share-able" i.e., likely to go viral on social media, Jon Gabriel offered this stunning
statistic: "A YouTube video has to make an impression in the first two seconds."

The most contentious and most interesting panel was entitled "Culture Is Upstream of
Politics." Larry O'Connor began by noting that while we mocked President Obama for
appearing on wacky morning shows such as Miami's The Pimp with the Limp, that's
where the voters are.

Bill Whittle said the inevitable and discomfiting conclusion was that Barack Obama
spoke a language to Americans that Mitt Romney didn't, and thus, by this standard,
Barack Obama was in fact more "American" than Romney was. He contended that the
vast majority of Obama voters, particularly the young ones, "don't sit through Obama
speeches from start to finish. But Lady Gaga, George Clooney, Katy Perry everybody that
they do watch votes for Obama -- it saves them the step of having to think things
through for themselves."

Emily Zanotti objected. "People between 18 and 35 aren't political idiots. We don't just
vote a certain way because celebrities do."

Noah Rothman, who's joining that web site Warmer-than-Warm Air, noted that with
increasing frequency, Democrats and their allies prefer to shift the conversation to
cultural topics and the culture wars. (This may reflect the fact that the economy
continues to stink and the world beyond our borders looks increasingly unstable.)

The Democrats' approach in the culture wars is to tell groups particularly minorities,
women and young people, "the Republicans/conservatives hate you" and they latch
onto anyone they can use as an example regardless of whether or not that person is
actually a Republican or outspoken conservative: rancher Cliven Bundy, Clippers owner
Donald Sterling, TV chef Paula Deen, former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich. This is cynical
and divisive, but it is also effective.

Clearly the catalyst for much of the panel's debate was the bold, uncompromising
viewpoints of Matt Walsh, a fascinating guy with strong opinions on everything from
divorce to the indisputable menace of people who leave their shopping carts in the
middle of the supermarket parking lot. The unexpected directions of this conversation
may warrant a separate discussion in a future Morning Jolt. A key takeaway is that
conservatives and Republicans usually have two simultaneous goals, and those goals
sometimes clash. One goal is to stand for "the Truth", or a particular viewpoint of what
constitutes a good life well lived. The other is to persuade people to vote for their
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candidates. Oftentimes there's a tension between the two priorities and sometimes
they're in all-out conflict. We want people to minimize their dependency on government
assistance . . . but we have to persuade "the 47 percent" that we don't look down on
them and that they ought to vote for our guys.

After Walsh's comment that pop culture was frivolous, our Kevin Williamson responded
that "pop culture is only frivolous in that it runs the world."

In tomorrow's Jolt, I'll briefly cover the discussion of whether Texas could become a
swing stage and the unparalleled, hysterical whirling dervish of entertainment chaos
known as "Tracked and Targeted" as well as a bunch of other folks from the Island of
Misfit Toys you probably ought to follow on Twitter.

Why Obama Can't Rethink His Approach to Anything

Let's begin the morning with two assessments of President Obama one harsh, and
one mildly sympathetic as the president reaches the midway point of his sixth year in
office, and coming off a brutal week.

The harsh: The failures are piling up.

He promised better treatment of our veterans and a reduced backlog; instead, he
delivered a systemic series of malfeasance, dishonesty, and callous dismissal of veterans
needing treatment.

He sent the country to use a web site to buy insurance that didn't work, and took
months to fix. Sure, you can find people who like the insurance they bought. But you can
also find millions infuriated by the changes forced upon them by a president who loudly
and repeatedly assured them they could keep what they like.

Insurance premiums are up. The networks are narrow. Folks can't find doctors. Health
care is probably worse for most folks than before he started.

The economy stinks.

The "reset button" with Russia was a sad joke. The Arab Spring represented a sudden
challenge that the administration bobbled, whether it tried leading-from-behind high-
altitude military intervention (Libya) or attempted benign neglect (Syria). The Middle
East ranges from instability to crackdowns to anarchy to chemical-gas attacks to
sectarian violence to spreading jihadism to a Taliban just waiting us out. (We now
negotiate with terrorists. We'll see how that works out.)

China, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam all rattle sabers at each other in the Pacific.
President Obama responds that his foreign policy aims to "hit singles" and he tells West
Point cadets that we've never been stronger.

And now the mild sympathy for President Obama: one of the most difficult tasks in life is
coming to terms with a really awful failure of one's own making. And while you can
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spread blame around Shinseki, Kathleen Sebelius, Hillary Clinton -- ultimately the
buck stops with him; he's the one who put all of those folks in that position.

If Obama had come out Friday afternoon and declared he felt betrayed by Eric Shinseki,
that he had trusted him to keep a close eye on his department, and that he never
imagined such a distinguished veteran would prove so ineffective at combatting a
culture of complacency and unaccountability . . . those of us who aren't so enamored
with him could at least believe the president was learning some hard truths about the
presidency. Bureaucracies always tell you that they're making progress. They'll always
spotlight circumstances of seeming or even genuine improvement, and downplay or
hide inexcusable failures. They'll never tell you that they've screwed up royally, with
catastrophic consequences, until it's on the front page.

If you were Obama, wouldn't you be furious with Shinseki? Would you be mad at
yourself? Mad at Sebelius? Wouldn't failures this big prompt you to rethink how you
approach these types of challenges?

My suspicion and fear is that Obama can't do that. He can't have an honest
reckoning of his increasingly disastrous presidency because it would shake the
foundation of his life's work. It would mean his critics were largely right all along.

Finally, check-out 10 things you didnt-know-about marilyn-monroe and note other such amazing lists.

dinesh-dsouzas-new america movie-trailer

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Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 9:37 PM
Subject: Action-Items-XLVI [Taliban-Swap, Temple-U-Anti-Semitic-Staff]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/227756951/Action-Items-XLVI-Taliban-Swap-Temple-U-Anti-Semitic-Staff

During the past hour, I have aggregated a few hyperlinks regarding both the topic-of-the-day [the
prisoner-swap] and other items that are worthy of scrutiny; they are presented tersely, although a few
receive backgrounders; the theme remains deafening, namely, BHO is dissipating American assets.
Specifically regarding the swap, Dana Perino just said on FNC what I wrote a few hours ago, namely, that
this provides a blueprint for how BHO will close GitMoeven if he releases terrorists who will kill more
Americans [with the recidivism-rate of ~1/3 customarily cited]. The man continues to be EVIL.

A Federal judge ruled Z Street case against IRS may proceed; this is the Zionist entity
created by Lori Lowenthal Marcus to counter J Street [and other pseudo-Zionists].

These hyperlinks tell the tale in myriad ways:

BOWE BERGDAHL 'SHOULD BE CHARGED WITHOUT QUESTION'
PALIN: OBAMA 'BLEW IT,' DESTROYED MORALE
FORMER OFFICER: SOLDIERS WERE 'THREATENED' IF THEY QUESTIONED BERGDAHL
STORY
GOP REP: WHY WERE 3 OTHER AMERICANS IN MILITANT CUSTODY IGNORED?
CARNEY DECLINES TO CALL TALIBAN A 'TERRORIST' GROUP
Q & A: What You Need to Know About the Bergdahl Release Deal
SENIOR OFFICIAL CONFIRMED to Fox News that the conduct of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl,
freed Saturday night in exchange for five Guantanamo detainees labeled 'The Taliban
Dream Team', is the subject of 'a major classified file' and that there are concerns he
may have been a deserter, or even a collaborator.
Carney: Notifying Congress about Bergdahl prisoner swap 'not an option'
'Taliban Dream Team': Who are the 5 prisoners traded for Bergdahl's freedom?
Five Taliban leaders freed for one American POW
Hagel and Rice defendrf deal for Bergdahl release
BERGDAHL FELLOW SOLDIER SLAMS OBAMA IT MAKES ME SICK TO MY STOMACH,
FORCED TO SIGN NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT
Law Professor Jonathan Turley: I Dont Think Theres Much Debate That Obama Broke
Law With Prisoner Swap [aired on CNN]
JINDAL: Release is good news, but bad deal
FOX NEWS FIRST: Can Hillary duck deal on campaign trail?
CNNs Candy Crowley Grills Susan Rice: Point Blank, Did The US Negotiate With
Terrorists?
Bergdahls fathers deleted tweet a smoking gun? The tweet from released Army SGT
Bowe Bergdahls father, which has since disappeared from his account, suggests this is
either a very bad case of Stockholm Syndrome or something far more nefarious.
Regardless, there is more to this than meets the eye of Obama making a unilateral
decision and announcement on a Saturday, when he believed no one was watching. This
is not just going to slip away and were not going to get caught up in the emotion of
Bergdahls release. He wasnt captured; he deserted his assigned post.
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Bob Bergdahl now tweeting for more Guantanamo releases
Controversy Surrounds Bergdahl's Capture
Allegedly abandoned post after growing disillusioned with war
Soldier Who Served With Bergdahl: 'At Best a Deserter, at Worst a Traitor'
Active collaborator with enemy?
CHARGE: Soldiers died searching for him
Parents of officer killed lash out at 'cover up'
Resentment lingers among POW's peers
'We Swore to an Oath and We Upheld Ours. He Did Not'
RICE: Bergdahl Served With 'Honor and Distinction'
DID O BREAK THE LAW?
Graham calls for Senate hearing
FLASHBACK CARNEY: No decision 'without consulting Congress'
VIDEO: Terrorists Arrive in Qatar 'With No Sign They Are Under Custody'
Deal Could Be First Step to Emptying Gitmo
Cuban spy calls for prisoner swap

Greg Gutfeld: It sounds like a Common Core math problem five high risk terrorists for
one mysterious hostage.

More on the Middle East:

Iranian Political Dissident Executed under 'Moderate' Rouhani
Israel to deploy nuclear-armed submarines off Iran coast; three German-made long
range submarines will gather intelligence, act as deterrent and potentially land Mossad
agents.
Kerrys Apartheid Slur - The odds were always against Secretary of State John Kerrys
effort to revive the Middle East peace process. But he did not take what most observers
saw as his inevitable failure with the grace expected of a diplomat. Days after the
Palestinian unity pact signed between the Fatah and Hamas factions ended all hope of
progress, Kerry spoke to a closed meeting of the Trilateral Commission and, as he has
done in the past, placed the responsibility for the collapse on Israel.
Obamas Embrace of Hamas Betrays Peace So long as the Palestinians are allowed to
believe that there is no price to be paid for rejecting peace, there will be no change in
their attitudes.
Georgetown Rabbi Less Outraged at Islamist Jew-Hatred than Its Opponents

More on domestic concerns:

Michael Barone: Democrats' nightmare scenario for 2016
bill-kristol-took-down-tavis-smiley-on-va-scandal

Flood of Illegal Immigrant Children Costing Taxpayers Billions
FEMA tapped to cope with influx
Texas Illegal Immigration Surge Leads to Human Warehousing Problems - Surge of
148,000 illegal immigrants in seven months has led Border Patrol officials to warehouse
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humans in temporary buildings. Crowding is becoming so significant that fire marshals
are objecting to housing facilities.

Sacrifices on the Altar of Obamas Vanity - By ordering the Environmental Protection
Agency to enact sweeping new regulations that will transform the U.S. economy by
essentially putting hundreds of coal-fired power plants on the road to extinction,
President Obama is finally making good on his famous campaign promise that his
election would signal the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and the
planet began to heal. The goal of the new regulations that bypass Congress is to reduce
power plant carbon emissions by 30 percent by the year 2030. But in order to do that,
hundreds of the more than 600 coal-burning plants will have to close. Though it is
impossible to say with any certainty how much damage this will do to the U.S. economy,
what Obama is doing with a stroke of a pen will turn the energy industry upside down,
send energy prices skyrocketing, and likely send those regions of the country that are
dependent on either the coal industry or the plants that use the stuff into crisis.

Colorado Cake Bakery Quits Selling Cakes In Response To Government Demand It Sell
Wedding Cakes To Homosexuals

Todays SCOTUS ruling in Bond v. United States is an important victory for federalism.
For the tenth time since January 2012, the Court unanimously rejected the Obama
Administrations argument for increased federal power. The Court held that the statute
implementing the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty cannot be interpreted to cover
local criminal conduct, a power which our Constitution reserves to the States. As the
Framers wisely understood when they ratified the Tenth Amendment, the division of
power between the States and the federal government is essential to the preservation
of liberty. I applaud the Court for unanimously enforcing this limit on federal power.
[written by Ted Cruz, who is always up-to-date regarding issues that others ignore

In Pennsylvania:

PA HOUSE OKED 'IN GOD WE TRUST' POSTING IN SCHOOLS
Corbett: UPMC and Highmark need plan for patient care [again, remember my litigation
that Corbett [during his first swing as AG] nixed, overriding support we had received
from the anti-trust division]
If lawmakers lower pension payments to balance budget, ratings agencies won't be
pleased
2014 Pennsylvania State Budget - Policy Points by COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION -
Governor Corbett's proposed budget of $29.4 billion in General Fund spending (a 3.3%
increase) and $71.8 billion in spending from all funds represents Pennsylvanias highest
spending levels everexceeding years when federal stimulus dollars were used to
balance the budget.

A new era may dawn for the Elkins Estate, which is located down-the-street from my childhood home
and which has been episodically used for parties [such as for Josh Shapiro ~ 2 years ago]; it is a circa-
1900 complex of Horace Trumbauer-designed mansions in Elkins Park that has caught the eye of an
international development firm with visions of a high-end boutique hotel and luxury condominiums.
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ZOA Called For Firing Of Temple U. Professor For Holocaust Denial

The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has called upon Temple University in
Philadelphia to fire Adjunct Professor Alessio Lerro, for engaging in the hate speech of
Holocaust denial and minimization. Professor Lerros postings came to notice when it
was discovered that he and other professors were engaging on a secret listserv in anti-
Semitic discourse.
In a discussion on the listserv surrounding an anti-Israel resolution, under consideration
by the Modern Language Association (MLA), which charges Israel with violating
academic freedom of Palestinians, Lerro asserted that Jewish scholars have
humungous influence over the academic scene and that It is time that Zionists are
asked to finally account for their support to the illegal occupation of Palestine since
1967. Far more serious, however, is that Lerro, in a now deleted Facebook posting, also
questioned the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Shoah.
In his deleted posting, which can be found here, Lerro said:
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Scandalously, Temple University authorities have not responded to this shocking hate
speech by condemning and dismissing Lerro, but by defending his right to serve on the
university faculty while engaging in it.
Temple University spokesman, Brandon Lausch, said that, Temple University promotes
open discussion and expression among its diverse community of scholars ... The exercise
of academic freedom necessarily results in a vigorous exchange of ideas (Adam Kredo,
Temple University spokesman Brandon Lausch told the Free Beacon that the university
welcomed his controversial views on campus, Washington Free Beacon, May 29, 2014).
ZOA National President Morton A. Klein said, The ZOA believes that Holocaust denial
and minimization is not a piece of honest opinion that deserves protection in the
academy and should not be tolerated, just as any other form of hate speech would not
be tolerated.
An academic who denied, for example, that the institution of slavery existed in America
prior to the American Civil War, would be immediately condemned and dismissed.
No university would claim that denial of slavery was honest opinion or an acceptable
part of the vigorous exchange of ideas proper for the academy. Why is Temple
University acting any differently here?
If Lerro said anything hateful, let alone false, about African-Americans, Latinos, gays or
women, would not the university, at a minimum, condemn such speech? Why are they
silent here?
By taking this approach, Temple University is really saying that hate speech from its
faculty is unacceptable unless it happens to be about Jews.
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While anyone in America is free to utter any opinion they wish, there is no immunity
from criticism and, where that opinion is found to be false, unscholarly, malicious and
amounting to hate speech, universities are obligated to take action against faculty
members, up to and including dismissal.
The Shoah is a one of the most thoroughly documented and researched subjects in
modern history. To deny its occurrence or the honesty of scholars who have defined its
scope is not a case of scholarly debate or honest opinion it is hate speech.
As the enthusiasm for Holocaust denial and minimization in the Iranian regime has
shown, those who deny or seek to minimize the Holocaust seek to incite hatred against
Jews for allegedly having fabricated a fantastic lie for nefarious purposes. They deny the
Holocaust in order to prepare the world for a new one.
We are utterly appalled at the scandalously inappropriate acquiescence and inertia of
Temple University to the hate speech of one of its faculty.
We urge Temple University to immediately condemn and dismiss Alessio Lerro and we
urge all Jewish donors, supporters and alumni of Temple University to demand the same
and to withhold all future support for the university if it fails to act.
The impact of social-media has been summarized in a 5-minute videoending with advice: Look UP!

BDS and the Myth of Economic Pressure

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Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2014 9:58 PM

Subject: Action-Items-CXLVII [Mandate Holocaust Education in PA, Swap-Gate [neologism], Israel,
ObamaDontCare, Gun-Laws, Illegals, EPA, Education, Pa/Philly, Thanatology, the Media, and Colbert]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/228009849/Action-Items-CXLVII-Mandate-Holocaust-Education-in-PA-
Swap-Gate-neologism-Israel-ObamaDon-tCare-Gun-Laws-Illegals-EPA-Education-Pa-
Philly?post_id=1448468906_10204050855898874#_=_

Having covered the major facets of BHOs *mis+conduct via *believe-it-or-not] 2476 pages of hyperlinks
*generated during the past year, initially as a prelude to pushing for Guzzardias a bcc-list was being
accrued+, its a bit easier to reinforce prior conclusions simply by providing self-explanatory headings;
nevertheless, the priority will remain encompassing all contrary arguments [noting that I watch MSNBC
and CNN more often than FNC, as will be detailed when updating the Dream Team for Deserter Swap+.
The underlying goal is to satisfy concerns raised by my favorite internal-critic, my son, who wants me
RELIGIOUSLY to encompass a spectrum of input; the problem encountered, however, is that the libs are
far less likely to promote arguments that are tethered to facts [which, perhaps, is sadly understandable].
Thus, after I guestimated that I cite perhaps 15% lib/progressive sites, I noted that the more moderate
and conservative ones are far more apt to provide information amenable to being reformulated; again,
comments are recycled unless they have been provided more as FYI than as new-facets to old-issues,
and also supplied is fascinating info encountered in the process of meta-analyzing current events.

Pennsylvanians Against Common Core
Invited me to join in a statewide
CONFERENCE CALL
THIS TUESDAY, JUNE 3rd @ 8:30 PM
to discuss Common Core and what it means
to children, families, and education in PA.
Moderated by Ryan Bannister, Central Region Coordinator
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER
You will be sent an email with the phone number and access code.
{I did so and listened for 15-minutes, but no data were communicated.}

Points updated herein relate to Mandate Holocaust Education in PA, Swap-Gate *neologism+, Israel,
ObamaDontCare, Gun-Laws, Illegals, EPA, Education, Pa/Philly, Thanatology, the Media, and Colbert.

There is no update [yet] regarding the effort to Mandate Holocaust Education in PA
[from Harrisburg]; the last-action on House Bill 1424 was for it to have been tabled by
the Senate on 3/19/2014 [after having completed three-readings and referral from the
Appropriations Committee following unanimous adoption of the amendment promoted
by Senator John Rafferty *PN 2766+ that supplanted may with must. Formally, it is
An Act amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the Public School
Code of 1949, in terms and courses of study, providing for Holocaust, genocide and
human rights violations instruction. To provide context, note the correlative Memo
[circulated by Representative Paul Clymer on 5/8/2013 to all House members]:
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1. I plan to introduce legislation that will allow public school entities to
offer instruction in the Holocaust, other forms of genocide and human
rights violations.

2. I believe it is imperative that our public schools foster an understanding
about the Holocaust, genocide and other human rights violations,
including their history and actions taken in response.

3. Toward this end, my legislation will encourage school districts, charter
schools, intermediate units and area vocational-technical schools to
offer Holocaust and genocide instruction to students in grades six
through twelve.

4. If offered by the school entity, the instruction will be integrated within
the social studies and language arts courses of study and may be
integrated into other appropriate courses of study as well.

5. The Department of Education must establish curriculum guidelines, but
a school entity choosing to offer Holocaust and genocide instruction
may use any curriculum that is consistent with the laws requirements.

6. Each school entity offering the instruction must provide in-service
training concerning the Holocaust, genocide and human rights violations
for those educators who will teach in these areas.

7. The State Board of Education must adopt any rules or regulations
necessary to implement the provisions.
His memo has been divided into numbered-sentences to allow for its cogent analysis;
the emphasis has been placed upon potential points-of-contention [explored in the first
Blast e-mail], recognizing what has animated our lobbying [per the second one],
despite concerted efforts by lobbyists and staff-people to obfuscate [per the third one].
Indeed, some are intuitive [#1 & #4], some are easily accommodated [#5, #6, #7], one is
particularly of-interest [#2] and one is the key-source of contention [#3]. Specifically,
we concur with integrated instruction of a unit *Holocaust, other forms of genocide
and human rights violations], and we would certainly not disagree with involvement of
the PDE when composing a curriculum, helping to provide in-service training, and/or
implementing key-facets thereof by composing rules or regulations. On the other hand,
however, after recognizing that such a curriculum-topic is imperative for students in
grades six through twelve [although age-specific modules could be introduced earlier],
we cannot then appreciate why legislation would merely encourage such instruction.

Swap-Gate *a neologism+ has exploded; the return of BOWE BERGDAHL has raised MORE QUESTIONS
THAN ANSWERS [per Politico]: "President Barack Obama's decision to swap long-missing Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay has unleashed a fusillade of criticism from
lawmakers, who have blasted BHO's move as both reckless and lawless. For the White House, it means
answering uncomfortable questions about why Congress wasn't told of the deal before it happenedas
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federal law demandsand what went into the administration's media strategy. {Ed Schultz Coined New
Term for GOP Concern Over POW Swap: 'Berghazi'.}

Although Politico Honchos 'Jumped the shark Shark' To Defend Obama's Taliban
Release, they distilled five questions about the Bergdahl-Taliban trade:

1. Bigger than Benghazi? The prison swap is showing signs of becoming a major
flashpoint with the staying power, at least within conservative circles, of Benghazi.
Republicans see the prisoner swap as representing all that is wrong with Obama, a go-it-
alone president who negotiates with bad foreign actors and flouts the rule of law to
achieve his own ends.

2. What did Congress know and when did it know it? Over the weekend the
administration seemed to flaunt the fact that they had not complied with legislation
requiring the president to give Congress 30-days notice before transferring prisoners
out of Guantanamo. In a statement issued Saturday night, Defense Secretary Chuck
Hagel said he had just notified Congress of the transfer. In fact, the formal notification
did not take place until Monday.

3. Will Bergdahl be prosecuted for desertion? The prisoner swap has generated a
mixed reaction from those who served with Bergdahl, with some saying he's guilty of
desertion because he apparently walked off his base in Afghanistan unarmed in 2009
after expressing doubts about the U.S. mission. While the White House is trying to
cultivate a celebratory atmosphere around the soldier's release, it's less clear whether
he could eventually be prosecuted for abandoning his guard post prior to his capture.

4. What of other U.S.-held prisoners? The Bergdahl deal has grabbed headlines
because of the involvement of the long-held American POW, but the war of words
between Obama and Congress could just be a preview of fights to come over even
bigger batches of prisoners at Guantanamo and at a U.S. run detention facility in
Afghanistan.

5. If it's Sunday, is it a problem for Susan Rice? The White House national security
adviser once again finds herself in the middle of a controversy over comments on a
Sunday talk show about what the administration did or didn't do - and how it's selling
the story."

The furious search for Sergeant Bergdahl, his critics say, led to the deaths of at least two soldiers and
possibly six others in the area, feeding growing anger against him. [Pentagon officials say those charges
are unsubstantiated and are not supported by a review of a database of casualties in the Afghan war.]
'Yes, I'm angry,' Joshua Cornelison, a former medic in Sergeant Bergdahl's platoon, said in an interview
on Monday arranged by Republican strategists. 'Everything that we did in those days was to advance the
search for Bergdahl. If we were doing some mission and there was a reliable report that Bergdahl was
somewhere, our orders were that we were to quit that mission and follow that report.' - The anger
toward Sergeant Bergdahl increased exponentially after Sept. 4, when they learned that two members
of Third Platoon [Pfc. Matthew Martinek and Lt. Darryn Andrews, both of them friends of Mr.
Cornelison], which routinely went on tandem missions with Second Platoon and who they believed were
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also searching for Sergeant Bergdahl, had been killed in an ambush. [A Defense Department official said
it was unclear whether the two men were killed directly because of the search for Sergeant Bergdahl.]

From Jim Geraghty of NRO

A report that will leave a sick feeling in your stomach, from Eli Lake:

James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, according to three
U.S. intelligence officials, flat out rejected the release of the five
detainees, saying there was too high a risk these Taliban commanders
would return to the battlefield and orchestrate attacks against
Americans.

Clapper was not alone. Leon Panetta, who was then the Secretary of
Defense, declined to certify that the United States could mitigate the
risk to national interests of releasing the Taliban commanders.

A lot has changed since 2012. To start, President Obama won reelection.
Panetta is gone, and in his place is Chuck Hagel, a Republican former
senator who has been much more in sync with Obama's views on the
War on Terror than his predecessors.

But current U.S. intelligence and defense officials who spoke to the
Daily Beast on Monday say the process for exchanging Taliban for
Bergdahl this time was rushed and closely held, in some instances
leaving little room for any push back against a policy clearly favored by
the White House.

For what it's worth, Clapper's spokesman said he is on board with the deal now.

Massive Problem Number Two: The whole deal wasn't legal.

CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin declared on Monday that President
Barack Obama "broke the law" when his administration failed to give
Congress notice of at least 30 days before releasing five ranking Taliban
members from Guantanamo Bay. Toobin said that a presidential signing
statement did not absolve Obama from culpability for failing to abide by
the law mandating congressional notification.

"I think he clearly broke the law," Toobin said. "The law says 30-days'
notice. He didn't give 30-days' notice." Toobin added that Obama's
opinion expressed in a signing statement "is not law."

"The law is on the books, and he didn't follow it," Toobin added.

Massive Problem Number Three: Fresh off violating our national obligation to take care
of our veterans when they return, our government is violating its national obligation to
the families of fallen soldiers. Or at least stirring fresh pain anew:
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Robert Andrews believes his own son might still be alive if U.S. Army
Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl had not gone missing from his Afghan guard
post on June 30, 2009.

As Bergdahl emerges from five years of Taliban captivity, former
comrades are accusing him of walking away from his unit and prompting
a massive manhunt they say cost the lives of at least six fellow soldiers,
including Andrews' 34-year-old son, Darryn, a second lieutenant.

"Basically, my son died unnecessarily, hunting for a guy that we
shouldn't even have been hunting for," Andrews told Reuters.

What on earth can anyone say to these families?

Sondra Andrews' son, 2nd Lt. Darryn Andrews, is one of six soldiers
killed reportedly while searching for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

The sergeant's return to captivity has stirred "very raw emotions."

"It gets really hurtful when I think, this guy was worth my son's life? My
son who was patriotic? Who was a true soldier? Who defended his
country with his life?" Andrews told Army Times via phone on Monday.
"That guy was worth that? I don't think so."

Massive Problem Number Four: Meet the guy we rescued, before he disappeared from
his post:

"The future is too good to waste on lies," Bowe wrote. "And life is way
too short to care for the damnation of others, as well as to spend it
helping fools with their ideas that are wrong. I have seen their ideas and
I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous
arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting."

The e-mail went on to list a series of complaints: Three good sergeants,
Bowe said, had been forced to move to another company, and "one of
the biggest s*** bags is being put in charge of the team." His battalion
commander was a "conceited old fool." The military system itself was
broken: "In the US army you are cut down for being honest . . . but if
you are a conceited brown nosing s*** bag you will be allowed to do
what ever you want, and you will be handed your higher rank . . . The
system is wrong. I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US
soldier is just the lie of fools." The soldiers he actually admired were
planning on leaving: "The US army is the biggest joke the world has to
laugh at. It is the army of liars, backstabbers, fools, and bullies. The few
good SGTs are getting out as soon as they can, and they are telling us
privates to do the same."

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Massive Problem Number Five: Here's a disturbing report of the captivity:

A captured American soldier is training Taliban fighters bomb-making and ambush skills,
according to one of his captors and Afghan intelligence officials.
Private Bowe Bergdahl disappeared in June 2009 while based in eastern Afghanistan and
is thought to be the only U.S. serviceman in captivity.

The 24-year-old has converted to Islam and now has the Muslim name Abdullah, one of
his captors told the Sunday Times.
A Taliban deputy district commander in Paktika, who called himself Haji Nadeem, told
the newspaper that Bergdahl taught him how to dismantle a mobile phone and turn it
into a remote control for a roadside bomb.

Nadeem claimed he also received basic ambush training from the U.S. soldier.
"Most of the skills he taught us we already knew," he said. "Some of my comrades think
he's pretending to be a Muslim to save himself so they wouldn't behead him."

Massive Problem Number Six: This graphic spread far and wide Monday, claiming to
depict six U.S. soldiers killed in the course of the years-long search for Army Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl, who was released over the weekend by his Taliban captors:

Hmm.

Asked about the claims, Pentagon spokesman Col. Steve Warren said it's
"impossible" to confirm right now whether anybody's death was directly
linked to the hunt for Bergdahl.

But the Pentagon will look further into the circumstances of the deaths
being associated with the search, he said.

Not something you usually see on Jake Tapper's program:

"He is at best a deserter, and at worst a traitor," says former U.S. Army
Sgt. Josh Korder. Korder served with Berghdahl in Blackfoot company,
2nd platoon in Afghanistan, and was recently discharged from the
military.

These are headlines from Pamela Geller, inclusive of this issue:
Obamas Jihad: Top Taliban leaders given heros welcome in footage after GITMO release
Traitor Bowe Bergdahl: I am ashamed to be an American. And the title of US soldier is just the
lie of fools. I am sorry for everything. The horror that is America is disgusting.
Bergdahl was a deserter, and soldiers from his own unit died trying to track him down
Taliban: Prisoner exchange wont help the peace process in any way, because we dont believe
in the peace process
[New York: Muslim Accused of Plotting to Kill Troops
[Four more jihadist savages apprehended in France for Brussels Jewish Museum shootings
[Devout Muslims Throw Gasoline Bombs at Christian Shops Just Before Trial of Coptic Christian
Accused of Blasphemy Against Islam
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[DHS Stonewalls Congress on Hands Off Permitting Those with Terror Ties into U.S.
[America Muslim Suicide Bomber in Syria was Florida-born, raised in middle-class family
[Fellow soldiers call Bowe Bergdahl a deserter, not a hero

Here is how the Drudge Report has captured some of the acrimony:
OBAMA SAVED A RAT?
Qatar allowing released Taliban men to move freely in country...
Reintegration: Military hides Bergdahl from public view...
FLASHBACK: 'Converted to Islam And Taught Captors Bomb Making Skills'...
NYT: Left note explaining desertion before going AWOL...
Death sentence 'in the realm of possibilities'...
Pentagon knew whereabouts but didn't risk rescue...
14 SOLDIERS WERE LOST Searching for Bergdahl...
Never Officially Listed as POW...
Former fed prosecutor: Release of terrorists impeachable offense...
FATHER: 'I am still working to free all Guantanamo prisoners'...
Anger explodes...

From other sources:
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is not an American Galid Shalit
Father Of Soldier Who Obama Released, Declares Muslim Victory Call, And Obama
Smiles As Soon As He Hears The War Cry Of Allah
HERO'S WELCOME PLANNED FOR BERGDAHL IN IDAHO
MCCAIN: ADMINISTRATION LYING ABOUT BERGDAHL NEGOTIATION
Did the Obama White House Trade Five Terrorists for a Taliban Sympathizer?
bergdahl-scheduled-for-promotion
Palin to Obama: 'You Blew It' on POW Exchange, Destroyed Morale
PALIN TO MEDIA: FIND OUT WHY OBAMA BROKE LAW IN 'VERY CONCERNING' POW
EXCHANGE
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs: Sgt. Bergdahl to Be Investigated
whos-backing-up-obama-on-the-bergdahl/taliban-swap [Even loyal Obamists like Chris
Matthews and Jeffrey Toobin are calling BS.]
BOWE BERGDAHL: ANOTHER SUNDAY SHOW FIB FROM SUSAN RICE?
Jonathan Turley: 'Not Much Debate' WH Broke Law
Former Officer: Soldiers Were 'Threatened' if They Questioned Bergdahl Story
McCain: Obama Wanted To Release Taliban Prisoners 'As A Confidence Building
Measure'
Inhofe: Bergdahl Swap Part of Obama's 'Obsession to Close Gitmo'
Hillary Clinton Defends Obama's 'Hard Choices' on Bergdahl Deal with Taliban
Hillary Clinton in 2011: United States Should Negotiate with Taliban
GOP Rep. on Bergdahl Release: Why Were The Other 3 Americans in Militant Custody
Not Included?
White House Petition Demands Punishment for Bowe Bergdahl
Ted Cruz on Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl Deal: How Many Soldiers Lost Their Lives? [just
interviewed on FNC]
Jay Carney Scolds Matt Lauer for Listening to 'Propaganda of Terrorists' on Bergdahl
Exchange
Traded Taliban leaders free to roam in Middle East? Claim undercuts Obama assurance
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CNN Reporter to Carney: Does Obama Feel 'as Though Hes Above the Law?'
'New York Times' Report Contradicts Rice Sunday Show Claim Bergdahl 'Taken In Battle'
Gen. Dempsey: Bergdahl May Face Desertion Charges
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: OBAMA 'ACQUIESCED TO THE DEMANDS OF THE TALIBAN'
The highest-ranking member on the Senate Intelligence Committee [Georgia Sen. Saxby
Chambliss] said he also received an apology from the White House Monday evening for
not keeping Congress in the loop about the prisoner swap for Bowe Bergdahl; Chambliss
said the official said the lack of notification had just been called to their attention.
Another Fellow Soldier: Bergdahl 'Obviously' Deserted
House Intel Chair Rogers: 3 Out of 5 Released Taliban Will Return to Terrorism
CHUCK TODD: WHITE HOUSE EXPECTED 'EUPHORIA' OVER BERGDAHL
SENATE REPUBLICANS want an open hearing on Bergdahl, saying a closed-door,
classified hearing set for June 10 is inadequate; House Armed Services Chairman Buck
McKeon (R-Calif.) has already pledged hearings and says Obama clearly broke the law.
Graham: Obama's Bergdahl Justification to Leave No Man Behind 'Hollow' Given Lack Of
Action In Benghazi
House Armed Services Committee Chairman Announces Hearings on Bergdahl Prisoner
Swap
Bolton: Bergdahl Deal Sign of Weakness in White House
Obama: Released Taliban Prisoners Could 'Absolutely' Pose Threat to the US
FEINSTEIN SLAMS 'UNILATERAL' OBAMA FOR BERGDAHL DEAL
Obama: Sorry I Broke The Law In Not Notifying Congress About Prisoner Swap - Sen.
Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said she received a call from Deputy National Security Adviser
Tony Blinken on Monday evening apologizing for failing to inform Congress about the
deal to exchange five Taliban detainees for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
Benghazi, Bergdahl and Hamas:
The Common Thread in Obama's Foreign Policy

By Anne Bayefsky
Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust.

It is about time that pundits stop describing President Obamas foreign policy as weak.
There is a straight line between emboldening Syrias Assad by calling him a reformer,
Egypts Morsi a democrat, Turkeys Erdogan a friend, Irans Rouhani a moderate, and
now a Palestinian government that includes Hamas, a peace partner.

Monday's speedy announcement that the United States will work with and pay for a
PLO-Hamas coalition government is a strong and predictable step in an alarming
pattern.

Every one of these moves has deliberately driven a wedge between Obama and Israel.
President Obamas priority is, and always has been, the Muslim world. It has made no
difference to this partiality that in the latter world American hostages are languishing in
prison cells, the killers of Americans are government insiders, official anti-Semitism is
flourishing, and the locals are brutalized.
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At the same time, President Obama has a recurring problem with his choice of best
friends. There is an inconvenient discord between the terrorism and violence emanating
from his BFFs and his putative job as commander-in-chief.

The difficulty presents itself, for example, in the context of Benghazi. The anger over
Benghazi is more than justified, but not because it is still a mystery why the president
sent no one to bomb Libya in order to save Americans under attack. He may have hurt
somebody on the ground who was not American, or he may have stirred up local
resentment.

President Obama has never made a secret of his counter-terrorism policy. In May
2013 he said quite clearly that even in the face of terrorists who pose a continuing and
imminent threat to the American people, before any strike is taken, there must be
near-certainty that no civilians will be killed or injured.

Speaking at West Point on May 28, 2014 he reiterated that in taking direct action
against terrorism, we may strike only where there is near certainty of no civilian
casualties.

The problem is not that hes unclear. Its that he isnt right. International law does not
require planning for zero civilian casualties which would simply encourage combatants
to use more civilians as human shields. The Geneva Conventions test is one of
proportionality: An attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life
*or+ injury to civilians is prohibited if it would be excessive in relation to the concrete
and direct military advantage anticipated.

So international law is not what is driving President Obamas foreign policy. Whats
really eating him is that he believes we are our own worst enemy. As he said at West
Point: our actions should meet a simple test: We must not create more enemies than
we take off the battlefield. He is worried that if we defend ourselves, we stir up local
resentments.

Thats a green light for the political enablers of terrorists everywhere to start writing UN
speeches, mount new phony demonstrations, and concoct more bogus Islamophobia
charges. If we are the ones responsible for creating more terrorists by fighting terrorists,
then we may as well just go golfing.

The Presidents release of top five Taliban terrorists from Guantanamo this past
weekend fits the dogma. As early as May 21, 2009, the President told us: the existence
of Guantanamocreated terroristsIt is a rallying cry for our enemies. Unsurprisingly,
they prefer their terrorist buddies back in the field.

Similarly, our drone program is dwindling nothing in Pakistans tribal areas since last
December because our enemies dont like it either. But then, why would they?

Which brings us back to the Presidents embrace of a Palestinian government that
includes the terror organization, Hamas just hours after the PLO-Hamas deal was
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done.

Why the rush? Why was the issue of legitimizing a terror organization, dedicated to the
annihilation of one of our closest allies, not worth more than a few seconds thought?

The answer is that for President Obama, it was just business as usual. His top priority is
not delegitimizing terrorists and fighting to win, but avoiding stirring up local
resentments. And Palestinians have made fabricating resentment for every imaginable
affront into an art form. A house is being built! is a favorite, while Palestinian rocket-
launchers and kidnappers and would-be suicide bombers are plying their wares.

Furthermore, the President never seriously tried to stop it. He could have threatened
and ensured harsh economic and political repercussions, which Congress would have
supported. But he didnt. Just as he didnt make any such threats when the Palestinians
went to the UN in November 2012 to become a non-member observer state. And just as
he didnt when the Palestinians started signing treaties this past April that legally are
only open to states.

The ugly truth is that President Obama is happy to let the UN turn Palestine into a state,
and thereby allow Palestinians to avoid negotiation, avoid recognition of the Jewish
state, and avoid genuine commitment to peaceful coexistence with its Jewish neighbor.
Unilateralism and the UN was always the back-up plan to Kerrys egoistic globe-hopping.

Asked about Hamas continued commitment to militarism, Psaki responded well
continue to evaluate the specifics here.

The specifics are simple. One more Jew-hating, Israel-bashing, American foe has been
welcomed into Obamas Islamist inner circle.

[Senator Ted Cruz, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, will brief JINSAs National
Leadership Meeting.]

Pentagon Official: Why Obama Made The Taliban Trade

The deal to trade five senior Taliban detainees to secure the release of Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl was political. It was publicly justified with lies, it breaks decades of U.S. policy,
it breaks American law, it puts Americans at risk, it undermines the government of
Afghanistan, and it passes responsibility on to the next administration.

But first of all, it was political.

But no, it was not to take the spot light off of the failures at the Department of Veterans
Affairs.

Simply stated, it was because so long as Bergdahl remained in Taliban captivity in
Pakistan, the Obama administration would never be able to close the chapter of the
failed Afghanistan campaign it has owned since approving and then under-resourcing
a surge of U.S. forces in the country.
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Bergdahls captivity served as a constant reminder of President Barack Obamas
strategic failures while U.S. forces prepare to withdraw from Afghanistan. Thats
something the Democrats cannot allow going into 2014 and 2016 elections. So the
president agreed to an unprecedented deal in blatant violation of U.S. law and
established precedent that undermines the safety and security of the United States and
her citizens, once again choosing short-term political gain over long-term security
interests.

Claims of new information on Bergdahls deteriorating health are simply false
justifications. Bergdahls health was in no worse shape than should be reasonably
expected of someone who had been a prisoner for five years. He walked without
assistance into the waiting company of U.S. special operations forces, and then climbed
aboard the waiting helicopter. He was mentally sound enough to recognize what was
going on around him and to communicate with American forces. And none of the
medical or psychological issues that he has displayed symptoms are life threatening. So
this was just another example of the administration trying to justify its actions.

Additionally, the decision breaks with a decades-old standing U.S. policy to never
negotiate with terrorists. Bergdahl was being held by the Haqqani Network in the
Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. The Obama administration designated
the Haqqani Network a terrorist organization just a few years ago. By negotiating with
the Haqqani Network through the government of Qatar, the administration violated the
policy.

Though this is not how the Obama administration sees it.

(Pentagon Official: Obamas ForeignPolicy? AskMichelle)

(Pentagon Official: Obama Conducting Foreign Policy Based On Polling Not US Safety)

(Pentagon Official: Obamas Afghanistan Fantasy Today Is Americas Nightmare
Tomorrow)

Russian warplane nearly collided with US recon jet in 'reckless' intercept

OBAMA defended the Bergdahl-Taliban swap thusly: "The United States has a 'pretty sacred rule' and
that is we don't leave our men or women in uniform behind, and that dates back to the earliest
days.Regardless of the circumstances, whatever those circumstances may turn out to be, we still get
an American soldier back if he's held in captivity. Period. Full stop. We don't condition that.'

I was listening as MSNBC's extreme left-wing TV host Chris Hayes Made an Insane Straw
Man Argument on Bowe Bergdahl, which was reinforced by E.J. Dionne; they accused
the GOP of hypocrisy because they both criticize this decision and refuse to call again for
another Afghanistan Surge [surely two mutually-exclusive concerns]. Also, he suggested
that, because conservatives question Obama's Bowe Bergdahl exchange, they don't care
if the U.S. leaves soldiers in enemy hands.

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12 ways the US administration has failed its ally Israel
Israeli Intelligence in the Cold War was tremendous
Obamas embrace of Hamas betrays Peace
Israel 'deeply disappointed' with USA
Israel furious at US support for Palestinian unity government
Govt Passes on Terrorists Bill
Why there is not Palestine
Palestinian unity govt leaves explosive issues hanging in the air
PLO official: Israel starts sanctions against PA - sanctions included the invalidation of VIP cards of PA
officials, reduction of tax revenues which Israel collects and delivers to the PA and prevention of visits
between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
Both the U.S. and European Union said they would give Abbas a chance.
The Lebanonization of the Palestinians
Fatah Leaders: Abbas Is A Dictator
Hamas arms program speeding ahead (25,000 gunmen in Gaza)
Iran Launches "Hizbullah Syria" to Open a New Front Against Israel on the Golan Heights
Jordanian official: Syrian sleeper cells threaten state security
Election of Abd al-Fatah el-Sisi as President of Egypt
New Egyptian Government Invites Iran to Inauguration
arlene kushner from israel encompassed many above points

Holder vows fight against 'homegrown extremists'

THE WAR AGAINST THE JEWS
Jesus Was a Palestinian: The Return of Christian Anti-Semitism
Al Jazeera Senior Analyst feels Jews Should Know Their Place; he tweeted: Some Jewish humility is good
for you
Anti-Semitism Erupts at Chicago Public School with 'Jew Incinerator' Game
Police swoop on jihadists in France and Belgium
ISLAMISTS DESTROY 120,000 ART EXHIBITION SIMPLY TO REMOVE KORAN

This is from The Israel Project:
State Department pressed to defend Palestinian unity deal terms "reminiscent of
Hezbollah in Lebanon"
Al Monitor: Lawmakers believe White House "being hoodwinked" on Palestinian unity
government, as calls grow to cut off aid
UN nuclear watchdog: Efforts to address Iran nuke program's military dimensions may
stretch into 2015
Iran Supreme Leader warns Arab states of "high price" for supporting Sunni forces, at
meeting designed to boost Iran-Arab ties
A formal ethics complaint filed with the U.S. Senate charges Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.,
with abusing his political power to intimidate private citizens. The accusation stems from Reids
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repeated verbal assaults on Republican donors, particularly David and Charles Koch, according to a
statement released Monday by Tea Party Patriots.

This was provided by the Rep. Scaleses House Republican Study Committee:

Standing for our Veterans
The treatment of our nations veterans in the VA Hospital system is disturbing and
inexcusable, and the resignation of embattled Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki
alone will not fix the systemic problems at the VA. His resignation comes on the heels of
an independent report of the Department of Veterans Affairs, which found that
corruption was systemic throughout our veterans' hospitals. The report also claimed,
because they experienced long waits, our veterans were at risk of being lost or
forgotten and may never obtain their requested or required primary care. Many
unanswered questions still remain. Who ordered the schedulers to create the secret
lists? How many employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs are involved? But,
we do know that the VAs performance is deplorable and has not adequately served our
veterans, who deserve much better than this. My colleagues and I continue to stand for
our veterans, despite the lack of action from the White House. Last week, the House
passed a package of Veterans Affairs accountability bills. Additionally Congressman Jeff
Miller, House Committee on Veterans' Affairs Chairman and RSC Member, is working
relentlessly to hold the VA bureaucrats accountable. Well continue to fight for answers
for those who have made countless sacrifices for our country and who deserve the best
medical care possible.

Pushing a conservative health care alternative
Republicans have a repeal-and-replace solution to Obamacare, and its called The
American Health Care Reform Act. This bill, which my colleague Dr. Phil Roe and I
introduced in the fall, has the support of 130 Members of Congress. Our bill lowers
costs and puts patients back in charge of their health care decisions. Now is the time to
bring this Obamacare replacement bill to the House floor because American families
cant afford to wait any longer. Weve seen the detrimental effects of
government regulated health care, and know that President Obama's law is a failed
attempt to change Americas broken health care system. Click on the button below to
learn more about this better way to health care reform:

Upholding free speech
My colleagues in the RSC and I continue to defend free speech against abuse by the
President's IRS. The IRS recently announced that it would restart the writing process of
a rule which will severely restrict the free speech rights of certain nonprofit civic
organizations. Congressmen Meadows, Wenstrup and I wrote to the IRS urging them to
abandon any future attempts to harass hard-working taxpayers. While we applaud their
admission that the first proposal was flawed and needed to be abandoned, we call
on the IRS to completely abandon any attempt to rewrite these longstanding
rules and refrain from finding another way to harass American taxpayers. Instead, we
call on the IRS to focus on ensuring that the substantial backlog of 501(c)(4) applications
are expeditiously reviewed and processed, free from partisan politics. Click here to read
the letter.
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EPA Head Calls Carbon Plan a 'Moral Obligation'
CLIMATE RULE TURNS UP HEAT ON COAL-STATE DEMS - "EPA's proposed climate regulation quickly
became campaign fodder Monday for some of the year's most closely watched races, underscoring the
peril for some Democratic candidates as the Obama administration takes another step in its so-called
'War on Coal.' Democrats facing tough races made varying calculations about whether to attack the rule
- and if so, how harshly - or embrace it. Coal-state Democrats like West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall and
Senate candidates Alison Lundergan Grimes and Natalie Tennant lambasted the power plant rule,
despite President Barack Obama's plea Sunday for lawmakers from his party to champion the proposal.
Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) offered more mild criticism, saying it should be Congress' job to take on
climate change. ... But Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.), whose state gets almost two-thirds of its electricity
from coal, welcomed the rule as a 'good start' that can build on conservation efforts there.
EPA's proposal prompts backlash: COAL-STATE DEMOCRATS BLAST EMISSIONS RULE: Energy policy
complicates already-tough election year." NYT, 3-col. with centerpiece photo: "Democrats in Coal
Country Run from E.P.A." Charleston Gazette, banner headline: "EPA plans cuts, but coal still in the mix:
Proposed carbon emissions reductions aims to head off climate catastrophe." Lexington Herald-Leader,
banner headline: "EPA sets states' targets for carbon pollution cuts," with centerpiece art, color map
and two front-page stories.
Obama EPA Demands Washington State Cut Emissions by 72 Percent
Manchin on EPA Rule: Obama Administration 'Deniers'
Dem Senate Hopeful Lundergan Grimes Challenges Obama over EPA Rules
States Move to Blunt Obama Carbon Plan
WAPO WARNS SEA COULD RISE 5 FT... IN NORFOLK, VA!
Renewable Energy Poses Security Risk
UNIONS BREAK WITH OBAMA OVER EPA REGS
Dick Morris: Supreme Court Will Reverse Obama EPA Regs

Predictably, when PA's US senators reacted, Toomey blasted, while Casey said an
extended comment period is needed to analyze the issues of electricity rates, job losses,
and affects on public health and the environment if nothing is done. "So we can get
information to separate the weak [sic] from the chaff, fact from politics," Casey said.

In PA, AG Kane wrapping up review of Corbett's handling of Sandusky case and Corbett shuns tax hikes
amid dismal outlook; a higher cigarette tax could help balance Pa's books and PA must reform its
pension system. State Rep. DiGirolamo (R) said GOP votes exist to expand Medicaid now and Pa.
lawmakers will take up the future of gambling. A GOP candidate claimed illegal campaign fliers cost him
York County house seat. Dem [PPP] Polling showed Wolf leads Corbett by 25% [worse than other data],
Toomey trails AG Kane but leads other Dem foes [questionable, noting her travail], Obama Approval At
41% [probably accurate], and Undecided vote dominated Philly Mayoral Race. On Philly corruption,
traffic judges-defended ticket-fixing-case and 9 workers canned by Philly for double-dipping reinstated.

A Penn study concluded that Stephen Colbert informs better than news; this is c/w prior
conclusions that, although he is a lib, he is a high-quality equal-opportunity satirist.

Regarding Illegals:
OBAMA: Children pouring across Mexican border 'urgent humanitarian situation'...
Jeff Sessions on Surge of Illegal Immigrant Children: Obama Has 'Nobody to Blame But Himself'
Offers no plan for 'unaccompanied alien children'...
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Obama Sets Up Federal Task Force to Provide 'Humanitarian Relief' to Illegal Minors
Costing Taxpayers Billions...
Jan Brewer Blasts Feds for Dumping Illegals at AZ Bus Stations
Zuckerberg may be able to Use Facebook to Tip Elections for Pro-Amnesty Candidates
The Racket of Guest Workers - Tom Donohue, U.S. Chamber of Commerce president, just hurled a
challenge to Republicans. If they don't pass amnesty for illegal aliens, they "shouldn't bother to run a
candidate in 2016."
White House Delays Pentagon Plan to Allow Certain Illegal Immigrants to Serve in Military
Eric Cantor Sends Another Deceptive Anti-Amnesty Mailer
Joe Arpaio Insulted in 'Incendiary' Chicago Public School Test Question on Immigration
Illegal Immigrants Flying Home on Half-Empty Planes at Taxpayer Expense
PAUL GOSAR: INVESTIGATE FEDS' DUMPING OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS AT AZ BUS STATIONS
W.H. seeks immigration policy delay

Regarding Education:
Common Core Is a Major Issue in Alabama Primaries Tuesday
Meckler: 'The People' Are Winning Against Common Core
Extremists Infiltrating UK Schools For 20 Years Government Was Warned
TEXAS MOM SHOCKED: COMMON CORE FLYER IN SON'S SPECIAL ED PACKET

Regarding Gun-Laws:
CATHOLIC LEADERS: PROPOSED GUN CONTROL 'MEASURED AND REASONABLE' - Massachusetts House
Speaker Robert DeLeo (D-20) proposed new gun control, which includes the ban on private gun sales
and the creation of a gun registry; it also provides police with "discretion" in deciding who should and
should not be able to purchase shotguns or rifles.
SENATE BILL ALLOWS GUN CONFISCATION FROM 'UNSTABLE' PEOPLE
Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly Use Democrats' Polling Firm to Show Texans Want Gun Control
MEDIA SILENT AS GUNS USED TO SAVE AT LEAST SEVEN LIVES SINCE MAY 25
Home Invasion Suspect Stabs Homeowner, Gets Shot Three Times
Georgia Woman Shoots Home Invaders Posing as Police
Marine With CCW Foils Robbery, Kills One Of Two Suspects
ATF: Stalkers, Abusers, Mentally Ill Already Barred from Buying Guns
Chicago Weekend Violence: 10 Shot in Less than 4 Hours, 5 Dead, 7 Percent Rise in Shootings
Six Shot in Chicago as Democrats Remain Focused on Santa Barbara
NRA CHIDES 'OPEN CARRY TEXAS' OVER CARRYING AK-47S INTO RESTAURANTS
OPEN CARRY AT TEXAS REPUBLICAN CONVENTION--OUTSIDE ONLY

Regarding Culture-Wars [c/o the Archdiocese], the Death with Dignity Act is scheduled to be
heard before the New Jersey Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee on Thursday, June
5
th
at 10:00am. Please contact your NJ State Legislators, even if you have already done so, by
clicking on this link to use the NJCC Faith in Action Center. The Death with Dignity Act, A2270, a
bill authorizing physician assisted suicide, would allow a person who has a 'terminal disease' to
request a prescription from a physician for lethal drugs that would end their life. Terminal
disease is defined as an incurable and irreversible disease that has been medically confirmed
and will, within reasonable medical judgment, result in a patients death within six months.
Please ask legislators to oppose A2270/S382. For more information, click here."

JUDGE ORDERS AFFLUENZA TEEN'S PHYSIOLOGICAL RECORDS
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DEMS increasingly MEDDLE IN GOP primary RACES because they are faced with a
daunting 2014 political environment; this sly tactic of making mischief is aimed at
turning races in their favor. In Senate and House races in states from Arizona to North
Carolina, Dems have used TV ads and mailers either to denigrate establishment GOP
candidates or to promote their more conservative primary opponents. The goal is to get
the more conservative [and, in theory, less electable] GOP pol to the general election.
The offensives in California and New Jersey have come in the form of sneak attacks
launched quietly by Democratic groups in the final days before voters head to the polls.
In both instances, the Democratic groups are running ads that use language appealing to
the conservative voters most likely to vote in a GOP primary. In south-central New
Jersey, for instance, Republican voters have been deluged by commercials and mailers
casting Tom MacArthur, a wealthy businessman and former North Jersey mayor who's
trying to beat back a tea party opponent [Steve Lonegan], as a serial tax-raiser.

Ernst Campaign Is Case Study for 2016 Aspirants
Cochran's Last Stand? Appears At Rally With Polls Opening Tomorrow
Roger Wicker a No-Show at Cochran Rally
David Bossie: Cochran Content to Manage Decline; McDaniel 'a Change Agent'

Regarding the Media, Sharyl Attkisson, an award-winning investigative reporter who resigned from CBS
News earlier this year, says the news media are trying to censor or block stories that dont align with
their preferred agenda; on the other hand, MSNBC HOST MOCKS TEA PARTY AS 'A DOG OFF IT'S LEASH'
and LA Weekly Cover: Republican as Klansman.

ObamaDontCare Makes Health Insurance Agent Lose His Own Insurance
by Ross Schriftman, RHU, LUTCF, ACBC, MSAA

Well, it has now happened to me along with the millions of other Americans who
already got their notices. Last week Independence Blue Cross informed me that "...your
current plan will end on December 31, 2014." But they tell me not to worry. "...you will
have the opportunity to enroll in a new plan that is compliant with the health care law
during the open enrollment, which begins November 15, 2014." So I can not keep the
plan I like...period!

I currently pay $288 per month for a plan with a $5,000 deductible. The lowest cost
option that they are giving me the "opportunity" to enroll in is a plan with a current
premium of $522. That policy (Personal Choice PPO Bronze Reserve) has a deductible of
$6,000. How much higher will the premium be in 2015 for this plan compared to the
current $522 premium? No one knows yet.

So the bottom line is that I will be paying at least $234.52 per month more or $2,814.24
more in 2015 than I am paying now and I will have another $1,000 of deductible. That is
a total hit of at least $3,814. In order to cover this extra cost I will have to significantly
cut my charitable giving. This is the only major area in my budget where I can do so.

So, what do I gain from Obamacare with my higher premiums and higher deductible? I
get maternity coverage as well dental and vision for my children. The only problem I
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have is that I am an old single man with no children. But these benefits are "essential"
under the law. However, I can't use them so they are not essential to me. They are
"essential" to the no-it-alls in Washington that currently run our government and are
trying to run our lives by forcing us to buy the insurance they designed. Obamacare is
causing me and many others great stress. It makes us sick.

Obamacare was sold to we the people to get it passed by telling us that our premiums
would decrease, people could keep the plans they liked, they could keep the doctors
they liked and everyone would get better benefits. Those of us who studied the
proposal tried to point out that these claims were false. We were vilified.

The supporters of the "Affordable" Care Act can no longer make those arguments.
Instead they are now claiming all of us who have been hurt are lying. Even worse, they
call us selfish and that we don't want to help others. They never said that we would pay
more and have to change our plans and doctors so we could help our fellow Americans.
They said that we ALL would be better off.

So, how selfish am I? I have responsibly carried insurance coverage throughout my
adult life. I have taken good care of myself by exercising regularly and eating
nutritiously. I have paid increasingly burdensome taxes every year which funds health
programs for the poor like Medicaid. I have done my part. For that, a President and a
Congress decided that they will make me buy their inferior insurance and pay a higher
premium and that I must not complain. As the President has said, the debate is over.
You wish, Mr. President.

As a health insurance agent with 40 years of experience in this business, I am
challenging Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to a debate on the floor of the Senate.
He claims that all the stories from people with problems with the so-called Patient
Protection and Affordable Care Act are lies. Let us see if he wants to defend his
statements before the American people. Harry, my letter is on the way. I expect you to
take up my challenge. Citizen vs. Senator. Let us see who is really telling the truth.

June 2, 2014
Senator Harry Reid
United States Senate
522 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510

Dear Senator Reid,

I am one of the Americans who was lied to by you and President Obama about being
able to keep my health insurance plan. I just received a letter from my insurance
company that the plan that I like is being cancelled on December 31, 2014. I must now
buy a compliant policy under the law that you and your colleagues enacted in 2010 or
pay a penalty. Just like many of my clients, I am losing my insurance.

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In addition, my premiums will jump from $288 which I am paying now to $321 starting
in July. Then next year my lowest cost option with Independence Blue Cross will
increase my premium to at least $522.52 per month (the 2014 rate which will most
likely be higher in 2015) and my deductible will increase from $5,000 to $6,000. So
where is the affordable in the Affordable Care Act?

You have forced me to have maternity coverage as well as pediatric dental and vision
coverage even though I am on old single man with no children. These "essential"
benefits are not essential to me. As a health insurance agent, do you think the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would let me keep my license if I made people buy
insurance that was not appropriate to their needs? That is exactly what your law is
making us agents do.

I challenge you to tell me that I am better off under Obamacare than I was before. Will
you debate me on the floor of the Senate as to whether I have been hurt or helped by
the Patients Protection and Affordable Care Act or will you hide behind Senatorial
privilege and continue to disparage regular Americans who are telling their stories about
the harm that the law is doing to them and their families? Are you willing to defend the
law or, like President Obama, will you claim that the debate is over as you vilify those
you have hurt while speaking on your taxpayer-paid chamber floor?

I await your response.

Sincerely,

Ross Schriftman, RHU, LUTCF, ACBC, MSAA
Ross Schriftman Insurance
1250 Easton Road, Suite 270
Horsham, PA 19044
Tel. 215-682-7075
email: rfs270@aol.com

Regarding BHOs Personality & Performance:
Obama Gets an 'F' as Americas CEO in VA Scandal
Ben Carson: Admin Official Didn't Care If Dems Lost House, Senate over ObamaCare
Donald Trump: Obama's 'Lost His Mojo,' Doesn't Love Being POTUS Anymore
Obama used to be concerned that partying with celebrities and taking lavish golfing trips while
Americans were suffering and struggling to find jobs would make him look out of touch. He reportedly
doesn't care anymore.
Costs of Obama's African Vacation and Presidential Golf Trips
Donald Trump: Obama's 'Lost His Mojo,' Doesn't Love Being POTUS Anymore
Obama used to be concerned that partying with celebrities and taking lavish golfing trips while
Americans were suffering and struggling to find jobs would make him look out of touch. He reportedly
doesn't care anymore.
Costs of Obama's African Vacation and Presidential Golf Trips

Dem Activist Compared GOP Gov. to Nazis and Dubbed Fight Against Tea Party a Civil War
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Once strongly aligned with the GOP, American physicians are leaning more left, an analysis of campaign
contributions over two decades shows.

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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 10:29 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CXLVIII [Elections and Swap-Gate]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/228226269/Action-Items-CXLVIII-Elections-and-Swap-
Gate?post_id=1448468906_10204057899354956#_=_

The subliminal goal of these Blast e-mails is to inject optimism that BHOs evil-doings will be reversed;
thus, thematic here are electoral results and Swap-Gate, although other observations are included
[Listless Phillies blanked by Nationals and Do Not Drink Anything While Reading This]. Illustrating again
the importance of the Mandatory Holocaust Education bill is national-exposure enjoyed by Temple-U,
which is defensely seeking to reassure donors and top officials after a member of its staff engaged in
anti-Semitic rhetoric on a secret listserv and questioned the deaths of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust.
Overall, the reader is invited to vet the observations when a spate of hyperlinks is included, for it is
felt that nothing accrued from myriad sites contradicts conclusions drawn from the best hyperlinks.
{And a lib (WaPos Milbank) agreed with Ted Cruz that Dems are going too far on campaign reform,
noting that Cruz Warned 'Fahrenheit 451' Dems Trying to Ban Movies and Books; Michelle Obama and
the School Nutrition Association, once close allies, clashed over school food.}

Overseas, BHO met with President-elect Petro Poroshenko of Ukraine, but didnt go to
Ukraine to do so, perhaps because isolation deepens in breakaway Ukrainian region;
indeed, UKRAINIAN SEPARATISTS SCORED A MAJOR VICTORY by capturing a base near
Ukraine's border with Russia after a two-day assault and then quickly moved to take
another internal security base (as six militants were killed in the fighting and three
Ukrainian servicemen were injured). Also, reflecting Putins dominance, France defied
Allies by selling warship to Russia. {Also, contrasting how the fight against Islamism and
Putin is being manifest on both sides of the pond are the fact that the US just LEFT a
MILITARY BASE IN KYRGYZSTAN AS POLISH LEADERS SAID THEY WANT A MAJOR US BASE
IN POLAND, and Brits-returning from fighting in Syria-face-life in jail; it is now a new-
criminal-offence to commit terrorism-abroad.}

The following are covered on Pamela Gellers website:
Regarding Bergdahl: {there are far more hyperlinks infra}
US Troops who served with Abdullah Bergdahl feared he was giving Taliban intel: IEDs
Started Going Off Directly Under The Trucks, They Were Getting Perfect Hits Every
Time
Special forces found Bergdahl and captors but wouldnt risk rescue for deserter
Col. David Hunt: Bergdahl Called Unit The Day After He Walked Away Saying Ive
Deserted
Bergdahl wouldnt drink beer or eat barbecue and hang out with the other 20-year-
olds
Bergdahl Left Note Saying He Wanted to Renounce His American Citizenship and Go
Find the Taliban
Regarding Islamism: {there are no additional articles here regarding foreign policy}
Scores Dead from Islamic Attacks on Church, Christian Areas in Northeast Nigeria
Egypt: Angry Muslim Mob Torch Christian Businesses Near Luxor
Gay ex-Muslim Granted Asylum in New Zealand: At Risk of Serious Harm From State
Agents in Sharia Maldives
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Pamela Geller, Breitbart: An Antidote for the Self-Loathing Jew
Hamas-CAIRs Jihad Against the 9/11 Memorial and Museum
US Muslims Walk Against Islamophobia
Iran Threatens to Annihilate Israel if U.S. Attacks

In PA, a JUDGE OKED the SANDUSKY INVESTIGATIVE REPORT; Corbett will have a chance to respond.
Also, a PPP poll found a plurality supports same-sex marriage; alleged-popularity of Medicaid-expansion
(despite the unpopularity of ObamaDontCare) may explain why Dems campaign for it and support for it
has allegedly-grown within the GOP [cited yesterday]. A Full-court press for 'paycheck protection' hit PA,
as Michelle Malkin claimed this measure would defend PA employees from big labor. Regarding the
claim that 'Indisputable evidence' emerged that the White House engaged in election tampering in two
states, recall that one had received transient attention here, years ago [Sestak v. Specter].

The Americans for Responsible Solutions SuperPAC announced support for Fitzpatrick
because he co-sponsored a gun-control measure [H.R. 1565], a House companion to the
Senates Manchin-Toomey bill. I spoke with Mike about this, and noted two problems
which he appeared unable to refute; first, the definition of mental illness was vague
and, second, it empowered AG-Holder despite recognition that he notoriously engages
in prosecutorial discretion. Thus, I felt it preferable to ensure state-level enforcement
was coordinated nationally, perhaps, c/w the fundamental concepts of federalism.

Regarding Illegals, because the Border influx strains AZ shelters, a CA Naval base readies housing;
nevertheless, Dumped illegals head to cities across country and the San Diego Border Patrol is to Release
500 Per Week This is occurring as the Labor Dept reports Americans face higher unemployment and
Schlafly alleges Big business is running a guest worker racket. Although CANTOR claimed AMNESTY FOR
DREAMERS IS 'BIBLICAL' and Religious lobbyists for this approach often portray their political cause as
the clear Gospel way, the Bible offers no specific legislative guidance on immigration law; for example,
after Abraham welcomed the strangers, he sent them on their way. [LAURA INGRAHAM: WE SHOULD
HAVE TRADED CANTOR FOR BERGDAHL.]

Regarding ObamaDontCare, the Congressional Budget Office said it is no longer
possible to assess the overall fiscal impact of the law; as a result, theres no barrier to
continually rolling back the financing mechanisms without the effect on the ACAs
finances ever being fully disclosed. As usual, Data errors jeopardize Obamacare
coverage for 1 out of 4 enrollees.

How BHO has been destroying America is reflected in the fact that 59% say American Dream is dead.
BEN CARSON and CNN'S DON LEMON SPARRED OVER OBAMA'S 'FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE' OF AMERICA,
as Liberal Institutions have been revealed to have beeb Burned by Sharia Relationships With Abu Dhabi.
{Also, Working Class Voters are Abandoning Obama.}

Regarding POTUS-16, Hillary is granting book-tour *Tough Choices+ interviews, both
print [PEOPLE magazine: 'We need to break that highest, hardest glass ceiling'] and
broadcast [ABC's Diane Sawyer on June 9, NBCs Cynthia McFadden on June 10, CBSs
Jane Pauley on June 15, and CNNs Christiane Amanpour on June 17 [town hall]. {Also,
Poll: Americans Trust Fox News More Than MSNBC.}

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The annual "Road to Majority" conference of the Faith and Freedom
Coalition, chaired by Ralph Reed, will draw potential candidates [Chris
Christie, House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, Sen. Rand Paul, Sen. Ted
Cruz, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee
and Rick Santorum].

VA REFORM BILL HIT SENATE GRIDLOCK, as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.)
posed an offer to Republicans: The Senate will vote on a version of a House-passed bill
that seeks to allow the VA to clear out bad actors caught up in the health-care scandal;
in return, Reid is demanding a vote on legislation devised by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)
that would create 27 new VA health facilities, expand veterans access to health care at
community centers, and encourage the VA to hire more doctors and nurses. [Reid wants
to work quickly and seemed unenthusiastic about offering votes on GOP amendments,
including a roll call on an alternate proposal developed by GOP Sens. John McCain and
Jeff Flake of Arizona, Richard Burr of North Carolina and Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.

Primary electoral results were all superb; mainstream-Republicans won over potentially-irratic ones
[Lonegan lost again to MacArthur in NJ-3 and Donnelly lost to Kashkari in CA-gubernatorial primary],
while Ernst romped in Iowa [Dems will say Ernst has an 'extreme' record (privatize Social Security, make
abortion illegal and replace the income tax with a national sales tax) and Ernst will talk about the evils of
Obamacare and say she's part of the 'Iowa way' of running lean government and keeping
unemployment low, while Braley is enmeshed in the failures of Washington.] As a result, GOP Senate
picks delight party leaders, as the Republican Party continues its disciplined march toward an impressive
lineup of candidates this fall; Tuesday's primaries produced another batch of Senate nominees who
seem about as promising as party leaders could have hoped for, because the GOP has solid nominees for
five Democratic-held seats in states BHO lost [South Dakota, Montana, West Virginia, North Carolina and
Arkansas]. It's unclear whether they can achieve the same feat in Louisiana and Alaska, whose primaries
lie ahead.]. These results also undermine concern [raised by Dems/RINOs] that the TEA Party Movement
has peaked, noting the victory of Nebraskas Ben Sasse and the plurality-vote of Mississippis McDaniel
[who is expected to win a run-off over non-conservative Cochran]. {Also, in Oregon, Jeff Merkley Ran
From 'War on Women' Attacks Against Monica Wehby and an openly-gay gop-candidate-advanced-in-
calif-house-race.}

This was a dead-heat; with 99.5% of precincts reporting, McDaniel had 49.6% (151,842),
Cochran had 48.9% (149,714), and Thomas Carey had 1.6%. Campaign-$ favored
Cochran: Cochran raised about $3.6 million and McDaniel raised $1.2 million, while
outside-monies totaled $3.2 million for Cochran and $4.5 million for McDaniel.

Top Republicans fear Cochran will LOSE the June 24 runoff because the MOMENTUM is
on McDaniel's side (WHAT a humiliation for a senior senator), and Cochran hasn't shown
the agility and verve that this scramble will require. It's tough to get your peeps to the
polls again three weeks after the election, and the tea party voters will have much more
excitement and intensity than the Cochran establishment will be able to muster. Haley
Barbour has his ways, the main reason D.C. reporters weren't more bearish on Cochran.
On the other hand, Palin said the Grassroots 'Shocked the Political World.'

A McDaniel victory would disrupt the '14 map, putting deep-red Mississippi IN-PLAY;
private Dem polling showed that the party's nominee, former Rep. Travis Childers,
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would start a general election statistically tied with McDaniel. A race against Cochran
(well-liked by independents and many Dems) would be difficult to the point of futility.
After the Club for Growth Called on Thad Cochran to Drop Out but, instead, Cochran
Vowed to Press On as Establishment went 'All In for Thad'; thus, Tea Party Patriots
claimed Thad Cochran Must Debate Chris McDaniel Now.

On the cultural front, North Carolina is Nervous About Ditching Common Core Standards and, while the
Louisiana Legislature Approved Common Core, Jindal May Find a Way Out; also, Cass Sunstein
Compared Communist Chinas Education System To Americas. ENVIRONMENTALISTS conjured a new
charge against constructing the KEYSTONE-XL PIPELINE; a report commissioned by a Tom Steyer-funded
organization [omitting vital context] claimed it would be vulnerable to terrorist attacks. {Also, Sarah
Silverman said Unborn Babies Are Just Goo and the Secret Service Wants Surveillance Software that
Detects 'Sarcasm' on Social Media.}

A Mexican Cartel Operation was Discovered to have been operating in Chester County,
Pennsylvania for the last two decades; it spurred the largest drug prosecution in the
history of Chester County," which included 44 arrests.

Swap-Gate prompted Jon Stewart to slam all sides, mocking clichs coming from the Obama White
House and its critics. He opened with 'a magnificent, wonderful story' about an American POW returning
safely home...except, well, it turns out we all may have rode the 'patriot train to [F***] Yeah! Junction'
just a wee bit too soon. He Protected Obama from Taliban Swap Fallout ['It's a War'], but his comment
On Obamas Premature Bergdahl Victory Lap was Oh Shit. {He failed to note this guy was a deserter.}

HOW IT'S PLAYING: NYT 1-col. lead, "CAN G.I. BE TIED TO 6 LOST LIVES? FACTS ARE
MURKY: DETAILS IN COMBAT LOGS -- Critics Link the Search for a Missing Soldier to U.S.
Fatalities" ... NYT col. 5, next to lead story, "Prisoner Deal Puts President On Defensive:
Questions Arise on Call Not to Tell Congress"... USA Today lead, Bergdahl under new
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scrutiny: Army reviews desertion charges against freed soldier" ... WashPost 1.5-col.
lead, "Years of debate on freeing Bergdahl: RESCUE OPERATION CONSIDERED FIRST -
Relations with Pakistan shaped decision-making" ... Chicago Tribune, col. 1, "Obama
defends exchange for POW: Cites 'sacred rule'; another intent of deal was end to war."
N.Y. Daily news cover, "SO HELP US GOD: Obama admits five terror thugs HE SET FREE
may strike us again" ... N.Y. Post cover, "Obama admits he has given swap jihadis a ...
FIGHTING CHANCE."

KRAUTHAMMER criticized 'ARROGANCE' and 'IGNORANCE' OF BHO; he proposed SUSAN RICE 'STAY
HOME' and others wondered who wrote Rice's talking-points this time. Specifically, White House
Rewrote Susan Rice's Latest Sunday Show Debacle on two fronts; the WH backpedaled after claiming
Bergdahl had 'served with honor and distinction' and a 'New York Times' Report Contradicted Rices
Sunday Show Claim that Bergdahl had een 'Taken In Battle.' [This is the Timeline of Bergdahl's life.] This
perhaps explains why Obama's Foreign Policy Approval Rating Hit the Lowest Point of His Presidency.

Ignored because such an inconvenient fact didnt befit the days overall narrative was
the COUPLE [a pregnant American woman and her Canadian husband] CAPTURED IN
AFGHANISTAN IN 2012; FAMILY ASKED FOR HELP AFTER BERGDAHL EXCHANGE. Also,
dismissed by the State Dept was comparison of Bergdahl to the Marine Held in Mexico;
seemingly reminiscent of what may have been an ambient variable in 12 *but not in 14+
is the claim by Oliver North that a Ransom of $5-6 Million Was Paid to Free Bergdahl.

Surprisingly, the WAPO claimed the GOP has a MANDATE' FROM the AMERICAN PEOPLE ON BENGHAZI
[and, perhaps by extension, Swap-Gate], a view that may be due to recognition by an NBC Reporter that
the Taliban Has Been More Forthcoming on the Bergdahl Swap Than has the US Government.

Clearly, Bergdahl's return ignited debate about U.S. strategic trajectory since 2001 and,
perceived more broadly, a former Special-Forces COMMANDER AT SOROS-FUNDED
THINK-TANK said, simply, BERGDAHL MUST APOLOGIZE [although there is not one
colleague who has come to his defense, while others feel he must be given a life-
sentence @ Ft. Levenworth]. Yet, one gets the feeling that Bowe Bergdahl Is Obama's
People, explaining two phenomena: BHOs resistence to efforts by the GOP to declassify
info about the "Fab Five" who were exchanged and the silence that greeted Hagel's
'Happy' News About Bergdahl's Release (watch Video).

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The best way to succinctly summarize the salient features regarding is to parse a distillation of all
identifiable BHO-defenses in one WaPo essay composed by a RINO, Kathleen Parker; intercollated are
rejoinders that are reinforced by the bulk of hyperlinks that end this Blast e-mail.

With Bergdahl release, the answer had to be Yes
[well, not really]

The exchange of five Guantanamo detainees for the release of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has reminded
us of three unpleasant facts of life:

Only one unpleasantry glistens, namely, that this swap was another manifestation of an
evil, Imperial Presidency, for BHO is the President Nixon Always Wanted To Be.

1. The United States does negotiate with terrorists;

America shouldnt. The White House concurred [a day late, after Carney had dodged]
that The Taliban Is a Terrorist Organization when White House National Security Council
spokesperson Caitlin Hayden noted that the Taliban was added to the list of Specially
Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) by executive order in July 2002, even if it is not listed
as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the State Department. Either designation
triggers asset freezes, according to the State Department, though they can differ on
other restrictions imposed on the target organization.

2. The president will circumvent laws as circumstances require;

BHO shouldnt. Hill leaders [John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi and Mitch McConnell] didn't
know of Bergdahl-exchange deal beforehand, and Dem Dianne Feinstein concluded
Obama Broke The Law With Bergdahl Swap; subsequently, the White House apologized
for the 'oversight' in congressional notification [and scheduled a classified briefing for
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the full 100-member chamber that was held Wednesday-P.M.] but, regardless, the NEW
YORK DAILY NEWS concluded 'OBAMA BETRAYED HIGHEST OBLIGATION OF HIS OFFICE.'.

3. Republicans and Democrats will be summarily outraged as party affiliations seem to require.

The GOP conveys relevant-comment. Ted Cruz ['How Many Soldiers Lost Their Lives to
Capture These Five Taliban Terrorists?'], Graham [Obama's Bergdahl Justification to
Leave No Man Behind 'Hollow' Given Lack Of Action In Benghazi and More GitMo
Releases Will Have GOP Calling for Impeachment], Sen. Marco Rubio [Impeachment for
Obama Unlikely After Bergdahl Deal with Taliban and Obama 'Doesn't Seem to
Understand That We Are Still at War' and Obama 'Believes He's Become Monarch Or
Emperor'], and McCain [Prisoner Swap Endangers US Soldiers] commented.

A Republican Strategist Helped Organize Bergdahl Critics: Richard
Grenell [a former Bush administration official who was hired, then
resigned, as Mitt Romney's foreign policy spokesman] played a key role
in publicizing critics of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the released prisoner of war;
The New York Times reported that 'Republican strategists' had arranged
an interview for them with men who had served in Afghanistan with
Bergdahl; the same soldiers also did interviews with The Weekly
Standard, the Daily Mail, the Wall Street Journal, and Fox News.

The Lefts Reaction to Bowe Bergdahls Release Is Outrageous. This reflects the complete
willingness of a certain subset of the media gives BHO a pass on, literally, everything.
Harry Reid Scolded 'Monday Morning Quarterbacks' in Congress over Taliban-Bergdahl
Deal, claiming Hypocritical GOP is Trying to Steal a POW Victory from Obama; he decried
the GOP for Using Gitmo Swap for Bergdahl 'to Score Political Points.' Otherwise, Senate
Dems had little to say about Bergdahl, although Hagel claimed critique was 'Unfair.'

We might also add that processes will be truncated, as President Obama described the exchange, and
these are hard choices, as Hillary Clinton put it, cleverly employing the title of her new book.

Michelle Malkin condemned BHO. The Bowe Bergdahl mess isn't just a story about one
deserter, but two. There's the muddle-headed lowlife who left his post and brothers
behind. And there's the corrupt commander-in-chief who has jeopardized more American
soldiers' lives to rescue Bergdahl by bowing to the Taliban, while snubbing the surviving
heroes and the eight dead American soldiers who lost their lives because of him.

Which is to say, war is tricky and we have no idea what were willing to do until the ball is in our court.

BHO miscalculated the reaction that ensued. Indeed, BHO bypassed the intel community
to pursue Bergdahl trade (and shelved ransom plan).

It is easier now to wish we had not invaded Iraq, given the absence of weapons of mass destruction. But
in the wake of 9/11, when the Western world was convinced that Saddam Hussein had WMD,
eliminating a destabilizing force in the region seemed to many a viable strategy.

Blame Bush. Classic.
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It seemed so to then-Sen. Clinton, who voted for the resolution to use military force against Iraq, but not
to Barack Obama, then an Illinois state senator who didnt have to decide.

HILLARY obliquely trashed BHO after having sidestepped this issue. Overall, she will try
to walk a tightrope as 2016 approaches, claiming she was TOUGH ON FOREIGN POLICY,
BUT TRUE TO OBAMA. Knowing this context, note that The Daily Beast divulged the fact
that, in 2011 and 2012, Hillary Clinton's State Department negotiated directly with the
Taliban over a swap for Bowe Bergdahl, but Clinton was not a fan of the idea. Secretary
of State Hillary Clinton was personally and intensely involved in the debate over
swapping five Taliban commanders for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl in 2011 and 2012. But she
had severe reservations about the potential deal, and was demanding stricter conditions
for the release of the prisoners than what President Obama settled for last week.

As president how time flies Obama has followed through on his campaign promises to end the
wars in Afghanistan and Iraq but not to close Guantanamo. Promises are sometimes harder to keep
when the facts are in your face. Obama also has increased drone warfare, eliminating enemies as well
as civilians and at least one U.S. citizen deemed to be a combatant without, shall we say, due process.

BHO is wrong to think wars can be won by remote-control. Indeed, his cynicism and
decekt prompts people such as RICK PERRY to wonder whether the BERGDAHL SWAP
was done 'TO TAKE THE VA OFF THE FRONT PAGE.'

So yes, he is the non-war president, except... and he follows the law and protects the Constitution,
unless ... and he wants to close Guantanamo, but encountered the same daunting obstacles that
George W. Bush did.

BHO continues to be Imperial [and passive-aggressive]. For example, he reportedly
wants to free another Guantanamo inmate, on heels of Bergdahl swap.

Yes, yes, Bush created the problem. Noted. To the point of this column, however, when Obama was
faced with whether to release prisoners in exchange for Bergdahl, he was forced to make an executive
decision. And yes, he sidestepped the law requiring 30days notification to Congress, but the laws
timetable was untenable, given the reportedly narrow window of opportunity. Whether the president
indeed had been discussing the possibility with Congress remains a matter of dispute.

There was no time-urgency. He had been made to look ill and the transfer was peaceful
and successful, illustrated by the Taliban video that showed the handover of
Bergdahl, the authenticity of which the Pentagon said it has no reason to doubt. It
showed Taliban members shaking hands with men from the Blackhawk chopper. [Note
there was minimal pat-down search of him as he walked to the helicopter and no search
of his bag for a suicide-bomb.]

Two secret videos allegedly showing rapid deterioration in Sgt. Bowe
Bergdahl's health allegedly persuaded reluctant military and intelligence
leaders to back the prisoner swap despite the fact that the more recent
one had been acquired six months ago; Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.),
head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said she heard no evidence
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that Sgt. Bergdahl was in immediate medical danger that made it
necessary to act without consulting Congress.

BHO lied when he asserted that any substantive discussion had transpired regarding this
deal prior to its having been excuted on Saturday.

A top GOP aide confirmed to me that no such discussion took place before last weekends exchange and
that, when the idea was floated more than two years ago, it met with strong, bipartisan opposition from
congressional leaders.

Lawmakers bristled at Bergdahl trade two years ago; currently, OBAMA HAS
'ACQUIESCED TO THE DEMANDS OF THE TALIBAN.'

Obama has justified his decision on the basis of precedent other presidents have released prisoners
as wars wind down and on the principle that we dont leave our people behind.

Only one unpleasantry glistens, namely, that this swap was another manifestation of an
evil, Imperial Presidency, for BHO is the President Nixon Always Wanted To Be.

Equivalency is a fragile argument here. Bushs wars and Obamas drones are clearly not the same,
though you might find those in Afghanistan or Pakistan who would argue otherwise. And George
Washingtons release of British prisoners during the Revolutionary War cant be compared to freeing
Taliban warriors. Rather than returning home to reclaim their civilian lives, jihadists likely return even
more resolved to continue a war that ends only after everyone on the planet converts to Islam.

TIME MAGAZINE defended BHO. It claimed BHO DIDN'T 'NEGOTIATE WITH TERRORISTS'
BUT OTHER PRESIDENTS DID; others on MSNBC claim he didnt deal with the Taliban,
arguing it was OK for him to deal solely with an intermediary [Qatar].

What is often similar, however, is the moment of truth when a president has to make his own call
because he thinks beyond any reasonable doubt that it is the right decision. History doesnt always
reward these decisions, but the titans of hindsight are usually compensated for style over content.

This columnist dramatizes to obfuscate. For example, the Traded Taliban leaders are
already free to roam Qatar.

It is possible that some of the current criticism is tied to partisan pride as well as the opening of old
wounds. Seeing the five bearded detainees was a vivid reminder of 9/11 and its chief perpetrator,
Osama bin Laden. The sight of Bergdahls father, bearded and speaking Arabic and Pashto as he invoked
Allah in the Rose Garden with the president, was both strange and creepy.

Criticism is based solely on how BHO just violated the newly-minted Obama Doctrine.
Congressional fallout over Bergdahl swap is based on the fact that BHO did stupid-shit.

Obama critics naturally saw the presidents mouth tip in a smile, though it could be interpreted as a
grimace. What was he to do, grab the microphone? Stare grimly at a father announcing the release of
his boy after five years in captivity?

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BHOs defenders insult intelligence. Chris Hayes' conjured an insane Straw-Man
Argument on Bergdahl and the WH ACCUSED VETS OF 'SWIFT BOATING BERGDAHL.'

There is nothing trivial about these events, but the questions raised are, nonetheless, Homeland-ishly
intriguing: Did Bob Bergdahl convert to Islam? Did his son? Did Bowe Bergdahl abandon his post, as
fellow soldiers claim? Is he a traitor?

Senators feel Bergdahl Promotion Should Wait Until Disappearance Questions Answered.
as one Platoon Member said Bergdahl Should Face Court Martial; although they Were
Told 'To Keep Quiet,' his Fellow Soldiers Continue to Detail Bergdahl's Betrayal and
Desertion and 3 More Members Of Bergdahl's Platoon Speak Out. Reportedly, he
Wanted to Renounce Citizenship, prompting emergence of anguish [MY SON DIED
'LOOKING FOR A TRAITOR?']. Apparently, Afghan villagers said he deliberately headed
for Taliban strongholds and a local district intelligence director thought he had been
high after smoking hashish. A Sergeant confirmed he had been seeking-out Afghan
Villagers; reportedly, he had previously been AWOL, and CNN reported intercepted radio
chatter indicated Bergdahl sought contact with Taliban. Thus, a Team Leader suggested
there is 'A lot more to story than soldier walking away.' {James Rosen reported he may
have collaborated with the Taliban (helping them in their bomb-building and ambushes)
and Chambliss said that the CIAs Classified File Didn't Mention Bergdahl's Desertion
Note that he had heard indeed existed.}

Until the Army provides answers, well have to make do with speculation. Meanwhile, the only question
that required an immediate response was, did the United States want Bergdahl back and what were we
willing to trade?

The key-question is whether this deal was faulty. A RANKING DEM claims it set a
'Dangerous Precedent That Puts All Americans At Risk.'

This was indeed a hard choice and the answer had to be yes.

This was an easy-choice, and the answer should have been no.

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MAD MAGAZINE DESTROYED OBAMA'S TALIBAN SWAP

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Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 3:23 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CIL [Bergdahl and Election]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/228334224/Action-Items-CIL-Bergdahl-and-
Election?post_id=1448468906_10204062329625710#_=_

This Blast e-mail demonstrates why they are being provided so often, notwithstanding the fun
associated with disseminating levity [note graphics, infra]; although all key-topics documenting why
BHOs policies are evil have gradually been encompassed from every possible angle, it remains
desirable to function as a truth-squad regarding major concerns. The goal remains to provide distilled
info regarding what must be accomplished ASAP, as BHO goes rogue, to the point where he faces
growing fury in Congress and Rattles Afghans over Swap-Gate having released The Worst Of The Worst
Of Islamic Terrorists; there is no other explanation for why the BERGDAHL Hometown welcome was
CANCELED [despite the anticipated presence of neighbor Carole King, per her comments on MSNBC
that, reflexly, supported BHO]. In the p.m., MSNBCs Ronan Farrow Misleadingly Assured Viewers that
Released Taliban were Not Al-Qaida and, later that evening, MSNBC focused on banning dog-whistles
[Sterling and Redskins+ because no one person should be able to say or do things that upset groups of
people; in the a.m., MSNBCs JOE SCARBOROUGH UNLOADED ON CHUCK TODD FOR DEFENDING
BERGDAHLS PARENTS. CNN subtly shored-up support for BHOs action on Anderson-360 *@ 11 p.m.+,
contrasting dramatically with what had been documented during prior hours on FNC [and other media]
by first-hand reports; this is why so few people watch this formerly-gilded news-outlet. CNNs flaws:

First, it was suggested that the Administrations presentation to the Senators had
included videos showing Bergdahls health was deteriorating; no matter that the date
of these videos was not provided [remember, the most recent one had been shot ~6
months ago]. Second, it was said that his commander thought he had been a good
soldier who had followed orders; no matter that the multiple interviews aired on FNC
concluded otherwise. Third, when it was noted he had slipped away, the conclusion
drawn was that this reflected pourous defense that could predispose to a Taliban attack
[in the other direction]; no matter that he had been AWOL previously. Fourth, regarding
the video depicting his return, much attention was focused on the procedure followed;
no matter that he easily ambulated and didnt appear emaciated. Fifth, it was suggested
he was imminently to be executed because the USA was withdrawing; no matter that
nothing specific was presented to support this theory, noting the USA is staying til 16.

As noted, last night, on Capitol Hill, W.H. defended prisoner swap during a tense two-hour meeting, but
it did little to assuage lawmakers; the best Dems could do was expressed by McCaskill, who assailed a
'rush to judgment' *currently against BHO, although she wouldnt have cared if there had been a rush to
support a rescue+ and expressed hope all facts surrounding Bergdahls service are declassified
*subject, naturally, to BHOs discretion+ and, on-cue, REID mirrored Hillary ON WH BERGDAHL CALL:
'WHAT DIFFERENCE [at this point] DOES IT MAKE?' In reaction to personal testimonials [e.g., bergdahl-
platoon-leaders-recall-hearing-about-american-searching for taliban; Bergdahls Fmr Squad Leader: He
Totally Deserted Us; taliban-once-claimed-bergdahl-trained-members-of-the-taliban; and After Bergdahl
disappeared, IEDs started going off directly under the trucks, for they were suddenly getting perfect
hits every time], the NYTIMES UNDERMINED FELLOW SOLDIERS ON BLAME FOR DEATHS. White House
aides, braced for Bergdahl backlash, are pushing back on soldiers who have publicly stated that Bergdahl
was a deserter, claiming they didnt know the platoon members were going to swift boat Bergdahl [a
reference to the men who questioned John Kerrys military service in 04+; in reaction, Rep. Duncan
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Hunter (R-CA), a Marine veteran and member of the Armed Services Committee, said, These are
pathetic allegations put out there to hide a botched foreign policy move, reflecting the fact that BHO
disrespects the U.S. military. {A Taliban Commander now claims WE'RE INSPIRED TO KIDNAP MORE!-

This essay channels my acute/subacute/chronic views during the past half-decade:

Just whose side is Obama on
by Paul Schnee

It is impossible to believe that the dreadful decision to swap Sergeant Bergdahl for five
of the most important Taliban leaders could have been made without the benefit of
alcohol. Surely it was made with the full knowledge of all the major participants that
Sergeant Bergdahl was at best a deserter and at worst a collaborator whose desertion
caused the deaths of at least six of our warriors who went in search of him.

Alcoholor pot? {For context @ the onset of this annotation, note how
the American military historically has viewed deserters, manifest by
STONEWALL JACKSON [GODS AND GENERALS] and Ike [Eddie Slovik];
the latter had a deserter shot to maintain discipline.}

During his campaign for the nomination in 2008, I wrote that the Middle East was the
region where Barack Obama would eventually betray us all. This prediction was made
not because I thought Obama would be incompetent but because listening to him I
quickly realized that his values, and therefore his intentions, were not those of an
American patriot. Unfortunately my prediction was accurate and now extends to every
course of action he takes.

In 08, I attacked Josh Shapiro @ a Chester-County synagogue along
these precise lines.

Obama thought he would reap a political victory by rescuing Bergdahl and by trotting
out his parents at the White House in a cheap public relations stunt which backfired
when Bergdahls father revealed himself as a Taliban sympathizer. When Bergdahl Sr.
started praising Allah in Arabic, Obamas faint smile betrayed his own preferences for
something that he has sought to keep hidden from the American people since before he
entered the Oval Office, namely, his fondness for Islam.

Regardless of how the smile is interpreted, the simple Arabic phrase
uttered by Bowe Bergdahls father at the press conference With BHO
spoke volumes as to why a double-pun fits: Bowe Bergdahl, Just Deserts.

Our woebegone Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, has told us that he knew nothing
about Sergeant Bergdahls possible status as a deserter, but a cursory inspection of his
file would have revealed that members of Bergdahls unit were required to sign a non-
disclosure statement shortly after Bergdahl disappeared in 2009. Not much more effort
would also have revealed Bergdahls anti-American e-mails to his parents and his
fathers obvious sympathies for the enemies of America.
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Although he is terribly-incorrect regarding Cruz, Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
correctly said, I dont know of any presidentand Ive been in Congress
for 22 years nowwho, at a moment involving national security, did not
contact the House leadership and the Senate leadership. King added
that the only explanation he can conjure as to why BHO didnt consult
with Congress is that he didnt want to hear any opposition.

As the national security adviser, this is something that would have been known to Susan
Rice but, preferring her role as Obamas version of Baghdad Bob, she once again
enthusiastically appeared on the Sunday morning news programs where [in an encore of
her Benghazi performance] she lit up the airwaves with a dazzling fireworks display of
stupidity when she advised us that Sergeant Bergdahl had served America with honor
and distinction. The truth has been outlawed in Obamas White House.

These rationalizations were blown-out on FNC when O'Reilly Blasted
Obama Admin. 'Morons' for Saying Bergdahl Served With Honor and
when Megyn attacked Obama Defender, claiming it is 'Insane' to Say
Released Detainees Aren't a Danger to Americans.

It is an enormous insult not only to the American people, but also to every member of
the Unites States military, for Obama to allege that swapping an army sergeant for five
of the highest-ranking Taliban leaders was a matter of urgency because Bergdahls
health was deteriorating and that America never leaves her soldiers behind. How noble!
Its tragic and disturbing that the same urgency which motivated Bergdahls release was
not applied to saving our people in Benghazi.

It is also illegal, a high crime and misdemeanor because BHO has
failed to faithfully execute the laws of the USA. Judge Andrew
Napolitano explained that a statute prohibits use of taxpayer dollars or
federal funds to pay for removal of anyone from Gitmo if Congress
hasnt been given 30 days notice; Obama unlawfully spent money. By
releasing these detainees into the theater of war, Obama has also
provided material assistance to a terrorist organization, which is illegal.
Thus, Hagel faces House grilling on legality of Bergdahl-Taliban swap.

Obama seems to think that America is safer when America is weaker. By aiding and
abetting her enemies Obama has demonstrated, and not for the first time, that he is the
greatest national security risk we have.

Some feel the 'Obama Admin Is at the Tipping Point' because it is more
Incompetent than those of Bush and Clinton, even as MSNBCs Chris
Hayes Blasted Politicization of Event He Has Dubbed #Bergdahlghazi;
both characterizations are incorrect, for it has yet to be shown that the
masses are paying-attention to any of this, and all BHOs actions are
transparentlypolitical. Thus, knowing that BHOs Arrogance Bit Him,
the conclusion can be drawn that obama is both incompetent and
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intentionally hurting USA. Thats why the impeachment dilemma looms,
for the bergdahl-deal-was-not-a-pow-exchange; it-was-a-us-surrender.

In the meantime, the five happy members of the Taliban hierarchy are now in Qatar
enjoying their freedom and plotting how best to destroy the United States but they had
better hurry up before Obama does it first.

This is transpiring in a D.C. that appears to resemble an asylum being
ruled by its patient-populationa bipartisan band of hypocrites. On the
Dem-site, during a few days, Hillary has been supportive then skeptical,
finally distancing herself from BHO. On the GOP-side, John McCain's
changing views on Bergdahl were illustrated by juxtaposing his current
condemnation of the deal with his comments, in February, when he said
that an exchange like this was something he would 'seriously consider'
and be open to if it meant that Bergdahl would be returned to America.

Within this overall context, the question that has been necessarily raised is Who Will Stop Obama?
The following piece recountsstarklywhat has occurred [amplifying on why+framing the issue:

Obamas trade for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl now joins the infamous list of Worst Trades in
History.

In the sports world there have been many legendary bad trades. Julius Irving. Kobe
Bryant. Nolan Ryan. Hershel Walker to the Minnesota Vikings for an entire team of
players and draft picks that led to three Super Bowl victories for the Dallas Cowboys.

But the worst sports trade ever was the Red Sox selling Babe Ruth to the Yankees. The
Red Sox didnt win another title for 86 years. The Yankees became the greatest
American sports franchise in history. They won 7 World Championships with Babe Ruth.

It was called, The Curse of the Bambino.

But in the real world there was one trade that topped them all, when American Indians
were conned into selling Manhattan for $24 of trinkets in 1626.

That was the worst trade in history. Until now.

Obama takes the cake. Obama just traded an entire team of Islamic mass murderers and
America-haters for one tragically confused (or perhaps mentally ill) deserter and traitor.
Not just any mass murderers, but buddies of Osama bin Laden.

Folks, that's a really bad trade. It just doesn't get any worse than that.

What did we get in return? A traitor who purposely walked away from his base
searching for enemy to surrender to.

Whose search and rescue cost the lives of as many as 14 heroes (his military brothers).

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Who may have converted to Islam and taught bomb making skills to the Taliban.

Whose father welcomed him home at a White House ceremony in Arabic. It is rumored
the father converted to Islam.

Thats who we traded five mass murderers for? Thats what Obama broke the law for?

This story just doesn't smell right. Something is very wrong.

Keep in mind those five sworn enemies of American mass murderers allhavent even
gotten back on the battlefield. Yet. But when they do, remember they were set free by
our own President, to rain hell down on our American hero soldiers. Remember they
were set free by our own President to plot a new 9-11 that could kill thousands or even
hundreds of thousands of Americans (think dirty bomb).

The world is shocked. Our allies are horrified. Americas enemies are laughing and high-
fiving. Our military is demoralized. Our economy is in free fall. Our dignity and legacy is
in tatters. Our reputation across the globe is shattered. One man has destroyed the
once great America.

Why did Obama break the law to trade for one deserter? Why would he risk all hell
breaking loose for one traitor who cost the lives of six military heroes?

Two reasons:

First Obama was desperate to get the VA scandal out of the headlines. He had to
change the topic away from neglect and fraud causing the death and suicide of
American military vets under his leadership. How better to change the subject and erase
the scandal involving abuse, neglect and even murder of military vets than by appearing
to be a Commander in Chief rescuing an American military POW. Obama had delusions
of grandeur- overnight going from bum to hero.

Second, my sources in military command positions tell me that the CIA reported to
Obama that Bergdahl was about to go on global television to denounce America, call
our military evil...and do it all in Arabic. Obama would have been humiliated. His
narrative of being such a big victor over Al Queda and the Taliban would have been
destroyed.in front of the whole worldlive on global television.

So here was the perfect way to kill two birds with one stone. But it all backfired as word
spread of the betrayal by this American soldierthe deaths of his military brothers
caused by his desertionand the lies of Obama to cover up this outrage. Obama said not
to worry about the five released terrorists- "we'll keep eyes on them." Hours later Qatar
officials reported they are free to go anywhere in Qatar. And in one year, they are free
to return to the battle field. Is Obama naivea terrible negotiatorrecklessor
complicit in a plan against America? You decide.

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Forget the humiliation of selling Manhattan for $24. Forget the Curse of the Bambino.
Forget all the humiliating trades in history. This one takes the cake. This is the Curse of
Barack Hussein Obama.

The question isis this the final straw? Has the American public awakened? Is this
finally the offense that leads to impeachment? Or does Obama get to spend another
two years on the attack against America: weakening our military, destroying our
international credibility, killing jobs, and wiping out small business and the middle
class with high taxes, onerous regulations, Obamacare premium increases and EPA
intervention that raises electric rates past our ability to pay our bills.

The question is

Who will stop Obama and save what's left of America?

Finally, it is desirable to expose what may be a prototypic subtle/subliminal lib/Dem rationalization,
manifest in the TIME cover-story ["WAS HE WORTH IT? The cost of bringing Sgt. Bergdahl home.].
Recognizing that the Bowe Bergdahl 'Proof of Life' Video Failed to Convince Senate Skeptics, it departs
from facts to link the firestorm unleashed by the swap with an overarching narrative that may appear
more mainstream and, thus, blunt condemnation of a truly indefensible action; thus, the individual
who identifies with the latter [ending the Afghanistan War] is apt to integrate [perhaps with reticence]
the existence of meaningful controversy regarding the former. Credibility regading this crucial goal is
enhanced by integrating critique of BHOs PR-strategy, albeit not his competence and/or ideology.
Totally forgotten is the fact that, although BHO may have declared the war is ending, this claim is
not shared by the Talibanfor the tradition in America had been to WIN and swapping prisoners before
departingrather than telegraphing intent to have completely withdrawn by a date-certain. Consider:

The essay immediately recognized this is no simple feel-good story, segueing to the
claim that this makes it an ideal symbol for the end of the Afghanistan War.Maybe it
was inevitable that even this familiar end-of-war set piece, the tearful return of the last
prisoner, would sour, given the division and suspicion sown at home by the long wars in
Afghanistan and Iraq. But the President made matters worse by rushing the final
arrangements to trade five Taliban leaders for Bergdahl past a reluctant military and a
skeptical Congress....Obama further erred by trying to spin a feel-good story from a
messy set of facts. ...

"[T]he decision to try to slip these loose ends past an unnoticing public, borne on a smile
and a fable, was a blunder....The Obama Administration is not the first to look at the
American people and think, in the words of Jack Nicholson in 'A Few Good Men,' 'You
can't handle the truth!' But it is the first to govern entirely in the age of nearly limitless
communication. After Edward Snowden, after WikiLeaks, it should be clear that
anything known inside the White House stands a good chance of becoming known to
everyone.

"A President who promised unprecedented transparency must understand that a
window shows the bad weather along with the good. And the inescapable truth is that
the U.S.'s departure from Afghanistan will not bring an end to the storms of that region,
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nor shield us from their effects. In its ugly complexity, the story of Bowe Bergdahlthe
genuine story, not the bowdlerized versionis one symbol of that truth."

Here are Pamelas headlines @ 2 a.m. *some are repetitive due to desire to include her quotes]:

Regarding Bergdahl:
Embarrassed Idaho Hometown Cancels Welcome Home Celebration for Traitor Abdullah Bowe
Bergdahl
Video: Hagel Announces Bergdahls Release, Troops Respond With Silence
Obamas Jihad: Taliban twist the knife with propaganda video of moment fighters waving white-
flag-on-a-stick handed deserter Abdullah Bergdahl
Regarding Islamism:
Update: Death toll rises to 168 Muslims Massacre Christians in North Nigeria
Girls Day Out, or The Saddest Obama Video I Ever Saw
As number of jihadist groups jump more than 50%, Obama/Holder vow to fight against non-
Islamic homegrown extremists
Authentic Islam: most jihadist literature essentially cites the Koran and the Hadiths
Muslim Who Wanted to Kill 100,000 Americans Gets Plea Deal, Could Be Released Soon
Devout Muslim Sister Proud of Jewish Day School Mass Murdering Jihadist
Victory: In Rare Decision, UK Court of Appeal Grants Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer
Permission to Appeal British Ban

Also noted:

Benghazi Constructs - Much is still murky, but the Obama team was at the least guilty of negligence and
deception. THIS IS, PERHAPS, THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE ELUCIDATION OF WHAT TRANSPIRED.

Iran Killing More than Two People Per Day - Executions in Iran continue to soar to record-breaking levels
in 2014, as more than two people are being killed every day and some 320 executions have taken place
in the first five months of 2014 alone, according to human rights observers.

Nigeria's soccer team delivers message about kidnapped girls This article [from the Inqy] is based on
symbolism [perhaps reflecting a Dem-based mindset that thinks the Islamists care what Michelle tweets]
and it contrasts dramatically with what Pamela reported.

ISRAEL - RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE This is an ongoing battle.

Two Venezuelan Student Protesters Tortured, Forced into False Confessions Venezuelan student
protesters awaiting trial were allegedly tortured and forced into making false confessions, according to a
human rights organization.

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The shoddy-journalism manifest in a piece *Debate Continues Over [Mandatory] Holocaust Education+
was fed-back on Friday [by moi] to its author [Eric Berger]; it may be recalled that my commentary
ended with a lamentation that assertions therein [accusations of bill opponents being abusive] had,
apparently, not piqued his interest to seek and then to disseminate details of such ad-hominem claims.
Thus, it was felt that the most effective way to communicate this reaction was to cite How to be a really
lousy journalist, for fun and profit, which advised [in a fashion that sadly correlates with his output]:
"Dont Sweat the Details; Dont Question Authority; Remember Your Job Is to Advance Narratives, Not
Report Facts; Quote Directly from Press Releases; Pick Sides (i.e., promote sympathy for one side and
hostility for the other); Dont Describe People: Label Them; Hype the Issues You Personally Care about
and Downplay Those You Dont; Listen to the Insects of the Hour; Use Language Tricks to Obfuscate."

Phillies: Pete Rose criticizes Jimmy Rollins, Ryne Sandberg in radio interview.

Tea Partiers are gearing-up for a showdown in Mississippi; while many had hoped that Tea Party
candidate Chris McDaniel would emerge victorious over the entrenched, establishment incumbent,
Senator Thad Cochran, the race is going to a runoff election. McDaniel garnered a slight lead, but failed
to cross the 50% threshold needed to secure the GOP nomination in Mississippi. Cochran allies gird for
battle, even as Cochran backers face a hard choice [whether to continue pouring energy and cash into
an effort to rescue a six-term incumbent who failed to win a majority of the vote in this weeks primary+;
The dilemma is agonizing on every level. Some say that, in Mississippi, it's simply the old guard against
the next generation, but this minimizes Cochrans lack of fiscal responsibility and his tendency to glitch
[which may explain why he eschews debates], such as when Cochran Praised Bergdahl via Twitter, Then
Deleted Tweet. Also, Cochran is believed to have enjoyed at least a small amount of 'crossover' Dems
voting for him in the Republican primary, a prospect that will likely diminish in a runoff.

Though the McDaniel race is certainly important, the real race that Tea Partiers should
watch with enthusiasm is the battle raging in the battleborn state of Nevada, where Tea
Party candidate Niger Innis is facing off against establishment Republican Nevada
Assemblyman Cresent Hardy.

Regarding gun-related legislation, a reader claimed Fitzpatrick is a sellout on the Second Amendment;
Mark Udall Got Support From the same Gun Control Group - Democrat incumbent Sen. Mark Udall
(Colo.) will receive support from an out-of-state gun control group in his reelection campaign, after
backing stricter gun laws in the past.know also that Gosnell's son was shot while robbing a home after
an 'Alleged Home Invasion.'

Cant resist citing one readers reaction: Again thank you for your fantastic emails!

Regarding Illegals, 61% disapprove of BHO on Illegal Immigration, explaining why a conservative group
blasted Eric Cantor for Amnesty Deception; nevertheless, the DEM AG CANDIDATE SAID TEXAS SPENDS
TOO MUCH ON BORDER SECURITY and Florida Republican Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart said the House
immigration reform effort is gaining momentum. {Also, a ROBOCALL CAMPAIGN was implemented TO
'THANK' CANTOR, GRAHAM FOR SUPPORTING AMNESTY.}

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Regarding libertarian concerns, the Texas GOP Convention Moved to Add Medical
Marijuana to Platform [presumably based on the desire to minimize governmental
intrusions]; also, Parents fear Big Brother [We just dont want our kids tracked from
cradle to grave"]. The Public seems biased on net neutrality, noting that commenters
and Congressmen bemoan the fact that they have more questions than answers.
Pelosis-awkward-painful-response-to-high-school-student-asking-about-the-nsa is the
type of discourse that prompted Liberals to Boo Pelosi Off Stage As She Defended BHO.
[Recall that jon-stewart-laughed in-pelosis-face-after-her-response-on-obamacare.]

Also noted:

PEOPLE Magazine Denies Clinton Walker Use, Raising Further Questions; also, Hillarys closest aides
asked that the New York Times Back-Off for what they said was unfair coverage of the former first lady
during a recent secret meeting with the papers Washington bureau, behavior that prompted CNN'S
KING to MOCK the CLINTONS.

Lara Logan returned "60 Minutes" after a seven-month leave of absence.

House Dems fight back on voter rules, arguing that providing proof of citizenship would limit voting
rights.

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Union Front Group [United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) and its subsidiary OUR
Walmart] was Barred from Walmart, due to the retailers allegations of harassment.

Congress Targeted Chinese Telecom Threat - Current House intelligence and defense legislation now
before Congress is seeking to block U.S. intelligence officials from working for Chinese-linked companies,
and also is aimed at preventing a major Chinese telecommunications firm from conducting cyber attacks
against defense and intelligence networks.

The number of Americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose last week to 312,000 from an
upwardly revised 304,000 the week prior; Wall Street anticipated claims to rise to 310,000 from an
initially reported 300,000.

Regarding statewide issues, the Corbett camp claims he'll turn PA gov race around after it touted union
support, as Lowman Henry argued PAs GOP is at a fiscal-crossroad; Scarnati suggested PA should boot
elected state officials out of pension system and a PA House GOP leader pushed for pension hybrid plan
that Corbett backs. {Also, suit over Penn State fine related to Sandusky/NCAA will be tried in January.}

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Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2014 4:37 PM
Subject: Action-Items-CL
[anti-Semite @ Temple-U, Mandate-Holocaust-Education, Bergdahl, Log-Cabin GOP, Iran. Israel]

http://www.scribd.com/doc/228588516/Action-Items-CL-anti-Semite-Temple-U-Mandate-Holocaust-
Education-Bergdahl-Log-Cabin-GOP-Iran-Israel?post_id=1448468906_10204078422508022#_=_

A number of action-items are being refined, here, in addition to the major onefearing BHOs activities.
Alongside ongoing efforts to Mandate Holocaust Education in PA [which is inexplicably opposed by
Phillys Federation of Jewish Agencies+ is the need *per an article in the Exponent] to recognize that it is
Time to step down, Temple University Adjunct Professor Alessio Lerro due to anti-Semitism that has
been widely-condemned locally and nationally [as was explored in a recent Blast e-mail, yesterday,
detailed five times in May, cited in temple-news, and noted by the ADL. [He was educated @ rutgers per
his C.V.; he was awarded an SAS Mellon Summer Research Grant to travel to two European
archives (Glasgow and Naples) to research the role of visual culture (typography, paintings, emblems) in
Giambattista Vico's Principi di Scienza Nuova; wrote a chapter in Trains, Literature, and Culture: Reading
and Writing the Rails, excerpted; and uploaded a banjo-medley.]

His posting related to the Modern Language Associations resolution condemning Israel
*It is time that Zionists are asked to finally account for their support to the illegal
occupation of Palestine since 1967. This resolution rightly targets only Israel given the
humongous influence that Jewish scholars have in the decision making process of
Academia in general.+. Fortunately, the Modern Language Association of America
announced that its members failed to muster the 10-percent vote required to pass this
resolution that would have condemned Israel for several alleged incidents in which US
academics were denied entry to the West Bank; the Modern Language Association failed
to pass a resolution Wednesday that would have condemned Israel as an occupying
power after not enough of its members bothered to vote. This escapade was captured
on a Blog about Stories that Cannot Possibly Have Occurred.

What is vital, here is that he recalled The Horror of Holocaust Denial, for its growing acceptability was
reflected in the fact that TEMPLE UNIVERSITY WOULD NOT CONDEMN HIM; Temple University stated
that a professor who accused Jews of potentially exaggerating the Holocaust to gain power and
influence has the right to do so because of academic freedom. The key-question is whether anything can
be done by activists in this regard, particularly by Temples alumni/ae. The situation appears similar to
the events surrounding revelations of Sterlings racism, notwithstanding the shrouded environment
through which the information had been revealed. What has not been achieved, yet, is any type of
acknowledgement by this guy of his error; the lack of contrition, one would think, should be damning.

This properly segues into the former reference, recalling that Rhonda Fink-Whitmans
video cited the ignorance of Temple University students; the overall situation was
fleshed-out during the nine days [summarizing analysis of key facets of the database;
synthesis of the challenges, exposure of Dybbuks requiring re-education; critique of
colloquy of an article in the Exponent (Debate Continues Over Holocaust Education);
distillation of the telephone-chat with the author of this article; a review of the current
political situation in Harrisburg; and a legalistic-update. Inded, rather than uploading my
aforementioned parsing of Eric Bergers piece in the Exponent, I simply wrote:
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http://www.intercollegiatereview.com/index.php/2013/05/20/how-to-
be-a-really-lousy-journalist-for-fun-and-profit/

"Dont Sweat the Details; Dont Question Authority; Remember Your Job
Is to Advance Narratives, Not Report Facts; Quote Directly from Press
Releases; Pick Sides (i.e., promote sympathy for one side and hostility
for the other); Dont Describe People: Label Them; Hype the Issues You
Personally Care about and Downplay Those You Dont; Listen to the
Insects of the Hour; and Use Language Tricks to Obfuscate."

Each one of these flaws was manifest in this news article, noting the absence of a
shred of journalistic curiosity regarding the charge against the credibility of our efforts.
Therefore, efforts to achieve passage continue, primarily via the GOP-Leadership, and
necessarily emerging is the need to go-it-alone [as some advocates appear to recede];
this is the natural byproduct of frustration born of awareness of the grip of lobbyists.

Efforts to generate a movement supporting [Gay] Log Cabin Republicans in PA [MontCo] must take into
account the fact that they were denied Booth at Texas GOP Convention; historically, Metroplex
Republicans of Dallas, which split off from Log Cabin Republicans amid controversy in 2011, announced
plans on 4/20/2012 to affiliate with another national gay conservative group, GOProud, which bills itself
as a national organization of gay and straight Americans who seek to promote freedom by supporting
free markets, limited government, and a respect for individual rights. {Note that GOP Congressman
Dent now backs same-sex marriage, as TIME MAGAZINE determined that ATTACKING TRANSGENDER
BIAS IS THE NEXT 'SOCIAL MOVEMENT'.}

I would want to know if the proper reference is to LGBT or to LGBTQ *adding
reference to Queer+ because Ive seen both, in my travels; I also explained to Leon
that, from the medical perspective, some may view this lifestyle as an aberration [only
because procreation is scientifically precluded], but that there is no pathological
diagnosis associated with this type of physiology. I wrote an essay two years ago that
was intended to differentiate marriage *with its proper boy-girl etymology+ from civil-
union, but I suspect the SCOTUS-decision of a year ago has supplanted that paradigm.

My motive is based upon discussions with many people, including my
favorite critics *a lady-friend and my son], both of whom emphasize
that discounting Dems wont suffice if people cant even listen to the
GOP due to this one criterion; in my view, having softened the
Personhood posture by a policy-change by the NRC that seeks
banning abortions @ 20-weeks [due, allegedly, to the growing ability to
experience pain+ reflects flexibility on the social-issues, and the
widespread softening on pot-use also suggests growing libertarianism
based on the concept that the government should not intrude into ANY
room of the house [living, dining, bed].

THEREFORE, I suspect that Mike and I would gladly [no pun intended] recede once a
chapter were to be established; it might encompass only MontCo, or it could be
expanded to the entire Delaware Valley [5 county-region] or even to encompass South-
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Jersey [biting-off a bit much, here, but want to include the possibility for future-
reference].

One final-point is in-order; this type of roll-out must be carefully orchestrated, absent ostentatiousness
of any type or any see-I-told-you-so elitism; the Bible-thumpers must be helped to tolerate this
effort, as long as they dont feel it intrudes excessively. In this regard, they must be provided
appropriate endpoints, lest they fear slippery-slopes. For example, policy regarding the decision of a
baker not to sell Wedding Cakes [to anyone] should be permissible [based upon personal ethics],
although many classic scenarios regarding rudimentary business-decisions will also require scrutiny.
What must be eschewed is a guilty until proven innocent model *also affecting housing+, for this would
empower government excessively. All these points are articulated to ensure key-concepts have been
disseminated; all are subject to spirited debate. We await instructions!

AG-KANE'S long-awaited review of the prosecution of child molester Jerry Sandusky
appears to clear CORBETT; her report suggests Corbett did not act quickly enough to
search Sandusky's home, which may have helped lengthen the probe, but it says there
was no evidence that he delayed the case for political reasons. {What remains unclear,
still, is why so few personnel had been assigned to the case.} Other issues churning in
Harrisburg include: Panel weighs arguments on bill to end payroll deduction of union
dues; PA voters back fracking, but not in parks; CONTROVERSY SURROUNDS
DOWNSIZING OF STATE GOVT PROPOSALS; Rendell put in a word for big donor seeking
PA pension business; Man in wheelchair sues Liquor Control Board over accessibility
issues; and Schuylkill County official seeks to intervene in PA gay marriage lawsuit. {Also,
a Philly Councilman's nonprofit not quite what it claims.} Locally, Vereb was re-elected
Montco GOP chair, Montco party chair Groen seeks re-election, and Abington GOP head
got county job and pay boost.

Bullet-points illustrate the profundity of the challenges confronting the USA, c/o BHO & the Dems:

Domestic Concerns

constitution center/ten-fascinating-facts-on-the-70
th
anniversary-of-d-day
President chews gum during ceremony
OBAMA CHOMPS ON GUM DURING D-DAY CELEBRATION
D-Day Vet Refuses Meeting with Obama
Lech Walesa to Barack Obama: 'I Wish the United States Would Lead'
SENATOR MICHELLE?

Biden Clarified Recovery: White House Didnt Guarantee High-Paying Jobs
92,009,000 Americans Not Working...Labor Force at 36-Year Low
7 Million Have Left Under Obama
Lethargic economy

The gunman-hero who used a shotgun to kill one and wound three on the Seattle Pacific University
campus was stopped and subdued by a student who sprayed him with pepper spray, then tackled him to
the ground; students of SPU identified the life-saving student as Jon Meis, whose Facebook "Likes" page
revealed he is a fan of Remington firearms, Kel-Tec firearms, and the NRA. [Nevertheless, the Seattle
Mayor Politicized Seattle Pacific University Shooting, claming it reflected an 'Epidemic of Gun Violence'.]
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Good Guy with a Gun Stops Armed Attack on Georgia Courthouse
Rahm Emanuel Asked Critics to Support Chicago-Style Gun Control for Our Nation -
During a June 5 appearance on CNN's The Lead, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said if
critics of his recent gun control push really want to see gun crime diminished they
should join together for national gun laws like he is pushing in Chicago.
Author: 2
nd
Amendment Made Civil Rights Movement Possible - In his new book, This
Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made The Civil Rights Movement Possible,
journalist Charles Cobb shows how important guns were not only to leaders like Martin
Luther King, Jr. but also to many black Southerners who "believed in both nonviolence
and self-defense."
FIRST GRADER TURNS HIMSELF IN FOR HAVING TOY GUN, FACES EXPULSION

FEDS SHIP HUNDREDS MORE ILLEGALS TO AZ
GOP Lawmaker: House amnesty push gaining steam, predicts votes by August
SURGE: Kids crossing alone expected to triple
Border Patrol can't cope, predicts new wave of drugs, weapons, illegal immigrants
Admin Launches Program to Provide Lawyers for Children Facing Deportation
'DREAM Act' Deluge 'Compromising' Border Security
Cantor's 'Dream': Homeland Security Reports 90,000 Illegal Alien Children to Attempt
Border Crossing - Over 90,000 illegal immigrant children could attempt the dangerous
border crossing into the United States as Congress and the Obama Administration send
conflicting messages about what laws will be enforced
More than a dozen counties in SoCal releasing immigrants from jails
Admin Launches Program to Provide Lawyers for Children Facing Deportation
Cruz: Obama 'lawlessness' responsible for crisis
Laura Ingraham Emerges As Top GOP Primary Warrior - In an exclusive interview on
Tuesday, conservative radio talk show host Laura Ingraham told Breitbart News that one
of the reasons she is supporting candidates like Dave Brat in the 2014 mid-term
elections who oppose amnesty is that it will set the tone for the 2016 Presidential race.
GREG ABBOTT PROMISES TO SECURE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER
No end in sight for 'dumping' policy
Hispanics to be majority within 25 years in Texas
Surge in Illegal Migrants Across the Mediterranean Now Greater than in Arab Spring

Judge Orders NSA To Stop Destroying Evidence -- For Third Time
'SECRET CABLES' TAP PHONES...
Cellphone operator reveals scale of gov't snooping

Smoking-Gun: According to a Department of Veterans Affairs "Memorandum" dated April 26,
2010. The Department of Veterans Affairs was very aware of the "cooking of the books" dating
back to 2008.

Backpack full of Obamacare enrollee info found in CT
First case of ID theft?

Common Core Group Announces 'Assessment Tool' to Rid Schools of Non-Common Core Tests
SC Gov. Nikki Haley Signs Bill Requiring State to Replace Common Core
Common Core Proponents Urge OK Gov. Fallin Not to Sign Common Core Repeal
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North Carolina Nervous About Ditching Common Core Standards
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal Blasts Common Core, But Parents Demand Action
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin Signs Bill to Repeal, Replace Common Core Standards
STRONG STOP COMMON CORE PLANK COULD MAKE GOP PLATFORM

sound-and-fury rages in-mississippi; Cochran Vouched for Common Core Plan in 2010 Letter

Hillary Clinton Refused to Attack Sarah Palin
Quinnipiac: Clinton queen of 2016 PA prom, Obama numbers still bad
hillary-book-strategy-meeting-held at white-house - simple message: "Obama's team of
rivals became an unrivaled team." Tommy Vietor, a communications veteran of the
2008 Obama campaign who served as National Security Council spokesman during the
President's first term, has been brought on by the Clinton team to coordinate and assist
in the response to the book. In addition to working with the White House, the Clinton
camp has stepped up their messaging around the book's release to include a
coordinated surrogate operation.

Cruz: 'Texas will lead fight for freedom' and Perry brings Republicans to their feet.

Personalities: Jerry Lewis Opens Up About Son's Suicide
FAHRENHEIT DIVORCE: Michael Moore, Wife Tangle Over Dollars

Foreign Policy Concerns

OBAMA ADMINISTRATION GIVES IRAN SIX-MONTH FREE PASS ON SANCTIONS
Netanyahu loathes Barack Obama, and his hostile attitude to the US president constitutes a danger to
Israels well-being, the head of the Israeli opposition charged on Friday night, in a highly unusual
acknowledgement of the long-rumored strained personal ties between the two leaders
Hamas - Fatah Unity Government Threatened After Violent Clashes & Arrests
OBAMA ADMIN HAS ENGAGED TERRORIST GROUP HAMAS IN TALKS FOR OVER 6 MONTHS
PRO-PALESTINE CHARITY HEAD REFUSEd TO CONDEMN STONING OF ADULTERERS
Venezuela and Cuba Providing Easy Access for Islamists to US and Canada
12-ways-the-us-administration-has-failed-its-ally, israel
A Christian man was captured by Muslims in Syria, and forced him to declare the Shahadatan (There is
no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger); after he stated the heretical creed, they deemed
him an infidel anyway and brutally beheaded him.
Sudanese Meriam Ibrahim's Brother Has No Brotherly Love: She Deserves to Die
Witnesses: Boko Haram Militants Slaughter Hundreds

Chinese Navy, air force rapidly expanding size and reach
Argentina appoints new secretary of 'national thought'

Bergdahl

Bergdahls Army Comrades May Be Psychopaths, Says Administration Official
USA sees 'substantial progress' in freeing more Gitmo detainees this year
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Harry Reid on Freed Taliban: 'I'm Glad to Get Rid of These Five People'
Sarah Palin: Obama Admin Doesn't Respect Vets Who Served with 'Real Honor and
Distinction'
Palin: Obama's 'Elitist Bubble' Clueless Because They Never 'Served Honorably in
Uniform'
Sarah Palin to Bowe Bergdahl: Use Rosetta Stone to Relearn English
Taliban Commanders: Bergdahl Was 'Cursing His Countrymen'
Obama Did Not Consider Negotiating Release of Other US Hostages
With Bergdahl Free, Obama's Double Standard on Cuban Prisoner Alan Gross Made
Clear - In the wake of the Obama administration's decision to trade five high-level
Taliban officials to free Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the only Taliban captive in the
American military's history, those concerned about arrested USAID worker Alan Gross
are beginning to ask why the White House won't trade Cuban spies to free a U.S. citizen.
Taliban Commander: Americans Now High Value Targets for Kidnappings After Bergdahl
Deal
Rice Backtracked On Bergdahl: Young Man Whose Circumstances We Are Still Going To
Learn About
In possibly one of the most incredible cases of Stockholm Syndrome to date, sources
say Bowe Bergdahl has escaped US custody and chartered a plane to Afghanistan.
Krauthammer: New Rosen Report Argues Against Speculation Bergdahl Tried To Join
The Taliban
Krauthammer: Bergdahl Still In Hospital Suggests 'Witness Tampering' By Obama
Officials
Released commander vows to return to fight
PODHORETZ: How Obama's media strategy unraveled
Psychologist Worries 'Erratic' President May Not Be 'Sane'
matthews-slammed-white-house-for-saying-soldiers-are-swift-boating-bergdahl
CLAIM: Bergdahl converted to Islam; Declared jihad
Susan Rice defends 'honor and distinction'
Released commander vows to return to fight
Feinstein: No Evidence of 'Credible Threat' to Bergdahl
BUCHANAN: Somewhere in Hell, Bin Laden Is Smiling
obama-made-the-right-decision-on-bowe-bergdahl [yeah, right]
White House faces growing fury
Hagel Defends Bergdahl Trade: 'Irrelevant' Taliban Considers Trade a Victory
Gen. Stanley McChrystal on Bergdahl: 'We Should Not Judge Until We Know the Facts'
Harry Reid on White House Bergdahl Call: 'What Difference Does It Make?'
The Shifting Sands of Obamas Bergdahl Defense - If America's newly-freed POW really
was a deserter, the White House is in deep trouble.
officials: threat to bergdahls-life-led to action
Megyn Kelly's Interview with 6 Members of Bergdahl's Platoon
MSM Test Runs Narrative Changes to Shield Obama from Bergdahl Criticisms - After
several days of heavy criticism directed against President Obamas decision to trade five
of the worlds leading terror masterminds for a suspected Army deserter, Americas
mainstream media, lead by its top daily newspapers, the New York Times and
Washington Post, appears to be stumbling upon a narrative that provides some cover
for the President.
6 Ways Obama Provides Support for Terror Regimes
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This is c/o NROs Jim Geraghty:

Obama Official: 'What If [Bergdahl's] Platoon Was Long on Psychos and Short on
Leadership?'
Meet Brandon Friedman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs at U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban Development; he previously served as Director of
Online Communications at U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. He is a veteran; he was
as an infantry platoon leader and executive officer in the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne
Division, completing combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq between 2001 and 2004.
So he has firsthand familiarity with the war on Afghanistan. However, last night he
asked some questions that a lot of people are likely to interpret as smearing the
members of Bowe Bergdahl's platoon.
At 11:44 p.m. last night, discussing the Bergdahl deal, Friedman asked the world on
Twitter, "What if his platoon was long on psychos and short on leadership?"

Interesting that his comments contend Bergdahl is being smeared, but that he
doesn'tseem to see his own "long on psychopaths" comment as a smear.
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American Government Needs to Become Reacquainted With the Truth
We can't be governed like this. Shameless lies about life-and-death matters erode the
consent of the governed.
The president wants to empty out Guantanamo Bay by the time he leaves office, and
perhaps as soon as by the end of the year. As the Obama administration sees it, once
the war in Afghanistan ends at the end of the year, we don't have a right to hold our
captured Taliban any longer.
You may recall that on the afternoon of September 11, President Bush declared that we
would treat those who shelter, support, fund, or feed terrorists the same way we treat
terrorists. Throughout his presidency, he repeatedly set a clear standard: "If you harbor
terrorists, you are a terrorist; if you train or arm a terrorist, you are a terrorist; if you
feed a terrorist or fund a terrorist, you're a terrorist, and you will be held accountable by
the United States and our friends."
We made a clear offer to the Taliban: Turn over al-Qaeda, or you're at war with us.
Mullah Omar made his choice. ("He chose . . . poorly.") At no point have they said
"uncle" or surrendered. Mullah Omar hasn't come out of hiding to say, "Alright, alright,
we won't shelter al-Qaeda anymore." In fact, we dropped that demand, if you believe
unnamed official sources in the Daily Telegraph:
One official significantly added that a requirement for the Taliban to drop relations with
al Qaeda something which had stymied previous attempts at direct talks was no
longer necessary in order for them to progress.
"We've long had a demand on the Taliban that they make a statement that distances
themselves from the movement from international terrorism, but made clear that we
didn't expect immediately for them to break ties with al-Qaeda, because that's an
outcome of the negotiation process," the official said.
We never recognized the Taliban as the legitimate ruler or government of Afghanistan.
Yet now we're talking about returning their guys because our president wants the
Afghanistan war to be over. (As someone put it, you can tell whether we won in
Afghanistan by the fact that we're negotiating with the Taliban, the guys we set out to
fight.)
And the message is spreading through Afghanistan . . . the bad guys are loose again.
Taliban forces led by Mohammed Fazl swept through this village on the Shomali plain
north of Kabul in 1999 in a scorched-earth offensive that prompted some 300,000
people to flee for their lives.
Fifteen years later, local residents here are responding with fear and dismay to the U.S.
release of the notorious commander, along with four other Taliban leaders in exchange
for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the only American prisoner of war who was held by the Taliban.
Keep in mind, all of these guys are associated with al-Qaeda or attacks against
Americans:
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In addition to Mr. Fazl, other released detainees also played major roles in the former
Taliban regime. Khairullah Khairkhwa, a minister of interior in the former Taliban
government, served as the militant group's liaison to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden,
according to a 2008 Pentagon assessment. Noorullah Noori, once a senior Taliban
military commander in northern Afghanistan, led Taliban forces against the U.S. and its
Northern Alliance allies during the 2001 invasion, according to the Pentagon.
Pentagon assessments describe the two other former prisoners, Mohammed Nabi
Omari and Abdul Haq Wasiq, as linked to other Islamic extremist groups, including al-
Qaeda.
The president does this in complete contradiction of public opinion.
A prisoner exchange Saturday that released U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl for five top-
level Taliban prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay has sparked debate over negotiating
with terrorists. Fully 84 percent of voters are concerned that making deals with
terrorists will encourage those groups to take more American soldiers hostage. That
includes a 57-percent majority that is "very" concerned and another 27 percent that is
"somewhat" concerned.
Only 15 percent aren't worried deals like this will put more troops at risk.
Back to Guantanamo Bay. The Obama administration has convinced itself after the
Iraq withdrawal, after the Arab Spring, after the collapse of Syria and the 160,000 dead
there, after the Benghazi attacks, after Boston that somehow if we shut down
Guantanamo Bay, that will create a discernable reduction in anti-American attitudes
around the world and particularly in the Muslim world.
What's more, the Obama administration seems to think that by releasing the most
dangerous members of the Taliban in custody, they will make the Taliban more
peaceful, agreeable and cooperative:
During the same debate, officials were considering the emerging prisoner-exchange
proposal. White House advisers believed that a successful exchange would not only free
Bergdahl but would also encourage moderate Taliban members to take an Afghan-led
reconciliation process seriously.
The Gitmo prisoners are all members of groups that have pledged to kill Americans,
tried to kill Americans, or have actually killed Americans. If an American is convicted of
killing another American, they're sentenced to life in prison or perhaps the death
penalty. A lot of folks think Gitmo is pretty cushy considering their former lives in places
like Afghanistan.
Obama himself admitted that in the case of these released detainees, there's
"absolutely" a chance that these guys will go back to trying to help their allies kill
Americans again. So, to sum up: If these guys stay in Gitmo, there's no chance they'll kill
an American in the future. If they get released, there is, in the president's own words,
"absolutely" a chance they kill again in the future. Where is the upside for us? What do
we, the American people, get out of this deal?
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(One caveat: The Qatari government has to know that if any of these five get loose and
kill Americans, the outrage from the American public will be volcanic. You have to
wonder if the Qataris have some back-pocket "unfortunate car accident" plans if any of
these five seem a little too eager to get back to the battlefield.)
Anyway, if Obama were a better president, he would level with all of us, and declare, "I
intend to hand off all of the Guantanamo Bay detainees to foreign governments by the
end of the year."
Of course, the reaction from the public would be apoplectic, as Obama would be
announcing that he would be effectively un-doing years of unbelievably difficult work
which cost the blood, treasure, and lives of the U.S. military and our intelligence
agencies, and putting all kinds of ruthless terrorists in the hands of governments that
may or may not be all that diligent about keeping them under control.
Obama doesn't do that. He tries this deal for these five as a trial balloon. Of course, he
doesn't tell Congress, not even Senator Dianne Feinstein, because she would say no.
(Strangely, he appears to have told Senator Harry Reid alone.) He goes ahead and does
it, even though the law requires him to give Congress 30 days notice.
When the president needs an excuse for ignoring the law, he trots out Chuck Hagel to
say Bergdahl's health was failing. I'll let doctors decide how bad his health is, but he
didn't look quite so bad in that video. Even then, how long does it take to inform
Congress? It requires a few secure phone calls. You could do it in an hour.
Ignoring the Legislative Branch is pretty bad, although it's not clear the public will get up
in arms about members of Congress being irked they weren't kept in the loop. But the
public can, should, and I suspect will be mad when the administration lies to them.
Certainly, members of our military could not abide the administration's claim that
Bergdahl was a hero or Susan Rice's claim that Bergdahl "served with honor and
distinction."
(Although I suppose being captured by the Taliban is pretty distinctive.)
Charles Lane, usually one of the most sensible non-conservative columnists out there,
writes:
Obama made a bit of a fool of himself by treating Bergdahl's impending return as
appropriate for Rose Garden celebration, complete with grateful parents, even though
he knew, or easily should have known, that Bergdahl is hardly a hero.
That attempt to gin up an election-year feel-good story fell flat, as did national security
adviser Susan Rice's clueless depiction of Bergdahl's Army career as one of "honor and
distinction."
White House efforts to glorify Bergdahl were matched by the right's efforts to demonize
him. He stands accused of desertion, which is indeed a very serious offense. Convicting
him of it under military law requires proof, which we don't yet have, that he intended to
leave his unit for good or sought to avoid a hazardous assignment.
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Okay, but we have nine members of his platoon coming forward and contending he is a
deserter. We have some evidence after all, he went missing! and we have, at this
point, not even a theoretical alternate explanation for his actions. He just went for a
walk? Sleepwalking? No gun, vest, or night-vision goggles? Come on, Charles, the
circumstantial evidence fits. Of course Bergdahl deserves his day in court. And he'll get
it. But let's not pretend that these nine other soldiers don't exist because they're
proving so inconvenient to the administration's narrative.

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