This Humble Trash Collector Did Something to an American Flag That Made Him a Hero

IJReview.com   "An Oregon garbage collector was just going through his route when he saw that an American flag had been blown off its pole and scattered across a trash can. While he could have just ignored it, he instead stopped what he was doing, properly folded the flag like he’d learned to do in Boy Scouts, and returned it to its owner.

 

"A neighbor caught the admirable act and notified the trash company. The company happily released the camera footage, which has since gone viral.

This incredible story shows that even the smallest, everyday acts of patriotism are meaningful. Many thanks to this hero for reminding us that patriotism is a way of life, not just something that comes out on the Fourth of July."

 

Netanyahu: Iran still getting everything, giving nothing

The Jerusalem Post   "PM warns that granting Iran new uranium enrichment capabilities will help Tehran to "practically realize its plan to become a nuclear threshold state.' "  

 

...."Even as the US top Iran negotiator is in the country saying Iran could be allowed a small peaceful nuclear program, Prime Minster Binyamin Netanyahu continued to warn Sunday against granting Iran any uranium enrichment capabilities...."

McCain Left Speechless After Susan Rice Tries To Cover Her Tracks Over Benghazi Report

Downtrend   "Sen. John McCain made an appearance on Face The Nation this morning to discuss, among other things, the appearance of Susan Rice on Meet The Press this morning.

 

"You got all that?

 

"Anyway, you might recall Susan Rice. She was the ambassador to the UN when our embassy in Benghazi was attacked by a band of militant Muslims pretending to express Allah’s outrage by killing innocent Americans or something like that.

 

"Shortly after that act of blatant terrorism, she went on every single Sunday talk show in an effort to promote the administration’s ridiculous talking points about the event. She said that it was a spontaneous response to a YouTube video that was, at the time, months old.

 

"She ended up with egg on her face as the facts came out. The only person left who believes those talking points is Chris Matthews, which should tell you all that you need to know.

 

"Well, Ms. Rice appeared on Meet The Press this morning and was, of course, asked if she was ready to admit that she lied. Of course, she wasn’t.

 

“ 'That information turned out, in some respects, not to be 100% correct,” she said, with a straight face. That’s like saying that Philip Seymour Hoffman isn’t 100% dead.

 

"Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer played the video of Rice on Meet The Press and then asked Sen. McCain for his reaction, which is absolutely priceless. Check it out below.

 

Ex-commie spymaster warns of rapid 'American descent'

WND

 

Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa was the highest-ranking Soviet bloc intelligence official ever to defect to the West. He exposed the massive crimes and corruption of his former boss, Romanian President Nicolae Ceauescu, giving the dictator a nervous breakdown and prompting him to post two different million-dollar bounties on Pacepa’s head and send assassination squads to the U.S. to find his former spy chief and kill him. Pacepa, at 85, today lives in the U.S. as a “proud American citizen.”....

 

Amazon

.... "PACEPA: In my view, America’s infection with undercover Marxism should be the most important political topic of our day. In every country that became Marxist, the transformation process began with undercover Marxism, disguised as various kinds of free lunches.

I walked in undercover Marxist shoes over many miles and for many years, and I am convinced that if the Democratic Party has its way, it will use undercover Marxism to transform the United States into a socialist country in all but name.

 

"WND: Gen. Pacepa, you are known for making some dramatic statements from time to time. Your perspective as a former high-level Marxist with knowledge of the inner workings of communist methods and notions of progress can be eye-opening for us. What do you have to say concerning recent political and economic trends in the U.S.?

 

"PACEPA: Listen, I will answer by simply taking a quote from an article titled “American capitalism gone with a whimper” that was written 10 years ago and published in Russia’s Pravda, a new newspaper with a famous Cold War name, which learned from the past because it says it all: “It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American descent into Marxism is happening with breathtaking speed, against the backdrop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.' ”.... 

Ready For Hillary, Illustrated

Doug Ross Journal

"Smart Power, indeed:"
Is Hillary the Teflon Dame?  "The enduring and inexplicable popularity of Hillary Clinton." 

Dem Rep threatens TV stations showing anti-Obamacare ad

Thomas Lifson  Democrat Rep. Gary Peters is running for the Senate in Michigan and he doesn't like a political ad from Americans for Prosperity being shown on TV stations there. His attorneys at Perkins Coie have sent a letter to local television stations implying their licenses could be in jeopardy if they continue playing the ad.

"For the sake of both FCC licensing requirements and the public interest, your station should immediately require AFP to provide the factual documentation for its claims if you are going to continue airing this advertising...."

The ad (below) highlights the story of Julie Boonstra, who lost her existing health insurance plan thanks to Obamacare, and who says in the ad that her situation has gotten much worse thanks to the legislation Rep. Peters voted for and is defending.  Read more:

 

While some are quoted challenging the ad, the fact remains, as Lifson writes:

 

1.      Peters and other Democrats are terrified of being held responsible for health insurance troubles, so much so that they seek to stifle free speech on the subject.

2.      Boonstra and other sick people are far more sympathetic figures than politicians defending Obamacare.

3.      Whatever the math turns out to be for Boonstra's case, she has suffered serious disruption and uncertainty thanks to Obamacare's passage... 

America's ruling class has been experiencing more pushback than usual lately. It just might be a harbinger of things to come.

USA Today  "On Friday, after more public outrage, the Federal Communications Commission withdrew a plan to "monitor" news coverage at not only broadcast stations, but also at print publications that the FCC has no authority to regulate. The "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN (pronounced "sin") involved the FCC sending people to question reporters and editors about why they chose to run particular stories. Many folks in and out of the media found it Orwellian.

 

"How this program appeared was, like the DHS program, a bit of a mystery: FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said: "This has never been put to an FCC vote; it was just announced." But the blowback was sufficient to stop it for now."

 

Related: 

Don't track me, bro! The perils of tax by GPS.  "A GPS-based tracking system appeals to the authorities for obvious reasons:  It knows exactly how much you’ve driven, and in which states... It knows exactly how much, and where, you’ve driven.  One of the great things about driving a car is the freedom that it involves, and part of that freedom is the ability to go anywhere without buying tickets, checking in, or otherwise operating under someone else’s nose.

"That freedom would disappear with a GPS-based mileage tax. " 

How Americans can kill Obamacare, legalize pot: Column    "Nobody is signing up, and everybody -- in Colorado,at least -- is smoking." ...

One need not have an actual conspiracy to achieve the practical effects of a conspiracy. More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called 'Irish Democracy,' the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs.

Last November, Jennifer Rubin considered What happens if Obamacare fails

"The greatest chance to get rid of Obamacare without Republicans keeping the House and winning a filibuster-proof Senate majority and the White House is to highlight just how bad Obamacare actually is and to offer more and more off-ramps for people to stay outside the exchanges." ... 

Plan to split California into six states closer to vote

The Democrats will not like this at all, and count on the Obama Administration to resist it.

 

USA Today   "A plan to divide California into six states is one step closer to a vote.

"Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper got the go-ahead this week to collect signatures for his "Six Californias" plan, according to the California Secretary of State's Office.

"Draper needs more than 807,000 signatures of registered voters by July 18 to get his proposal on the November ballot.

" With 38 million people, California is too big and diverse to properly represent all of its residents, according to Draper's plan.

" 'Vast parts of our state are poorly served by a representative government dominated by a large number of elected representatives from a small part of our state, both geographically and economically," the plan says.

With the current structure, California is "ungovernable," Draper told USA TODAY Network."

 

This might work as well:

 

 

Petition to Split California Into Six States Gets Green Light

 

FCC backs away from First Amendment-trashing survey

Thomas Lifson   "As public outrage has built over an FCC plan to put monitors (or as Greta Van Susteren calls them, "spies") into newsrooms and ask questions about philosophy, news judgments, and fulfillment of what the government thinks are "critical information needs," the FCC has backed away. In an official statement from FCC Spokesperson Shannon Gilson full of mealy-mouthed self-justification: "....  Read more:

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Commissioner Ajit Pai, the hero of the story who blew the whistle on the Constitution-shredding venture with a Wall Street Journal op-ed, issued this statement: I welcome today's announcement that the FCC has suspended its "Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs," or CIN study. This study would have thrust the federal
government into newsrooms across the country, somewhere it just doesn't belong. The Commission has now recognized that no study by the federal government, now or in the future, should involve asking questions to media owners, news directors, or reporters about their practices. This is an important victory for the First Amendment. And it would not have been possible without the American people making their voices heard. I will remain vigilant that any future initiatives not infringe on our constitutional freedoms.

Let’s Save California Now! / Just a handful of legislative acts might still save California. Here are 12 brief examples:

Victor Davis Hanson

http://calwatchdog.com/2014/02/21/ca-drought/

 

"If we were to pass these laws, California would change overnight."

 Read them here.

Government newsroom police in America: Is George Soros behind it?

Joseph Farah   "How rotten is the moral soul of journalism in America today?

"It is so decayed, putrefied and morbidly disordered that there has been less than a whisper of concern expressed by the entire establishment media over the Orwellian plot by the Federal Communications Commission to place “researchers” in U.S. newsrooms to learn how editorial decisions are made.

 

"No concern.

...

"Forgive me as a 35-year veteran of American newsrooms if I toss my cookies over this breach of the sanctity of the free press.

 

"The very idea of journalists welcoming government bureaucrats into their newsrooms to spy is so outrageous it leaves me speechless. No so the overwhelming number of reporters, editors, producers and news executives who remain a part of what is rapidly becoming, as Rush Limbaugh caricatures it, “the state-run media.' ”

 

Media Silence Explained?: Soros Fingerprints On FCC Newsroom Probe

... "The media's hands-off policy with Soros is nothing new. While outlets such as Politico and NBC News obsess over every move made by the libertarian Koch brothers, Soros and his spider-web of influential left-wing political operations (Media Matters, Center for American Progress) almost never receive any kind of media scrutiny. A recent media study found that the ratio of references between Kochs' organizations and Soros' organizations, in news outlets that pose as objective, are literally hundreds to one. Politico actually has Ken Vogel, a former Soros employee, constantly harassing covering the Koch brothers."

....

"What might explain the media's silence is the looming specter of George Soros. History already proves the media has been reluctant to cross him. Apparently, even the idea of Soviet-style monitors looking over their shoulder couldn’t change that. CNS News helps to explain why:" ....

 

Freedumbing of the Press

"Like Obamacare? Then you're going to love Obamanews - the exciting new FCC initiative to make sure that decision-making in the nation's newsrooms gets (ahem) "fixed" to assure that voters will hear only what they are supposed to hear." ...

Charles Krauthammer Destroys Global Warming Myths in 89 Seconds

 Heritage

 

On Fox News Special Report Friday, "columnist Charles Krauthammer questioned the “settled science” of global warming — an issue that is currently driving the President’s agenda.

 

"In a clip discovered by The Daily Caller, Krauthammer rails against the notion of “settled science,” noting that Isaac Newton’s laws were settled for 200 years before Albert Einstein turned them over.

 

"Speaking about the economic effects of climate change, Krauthammer noted that “all of this is driven by this ideology, which in it of itself is a matter of almost theology.' ”