The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results – 03.06.15

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thought-crime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. “ – George Orwell’s 1984

“Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.” – Jim Morrison of The Doors

“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the masses.” - Malcolm X

This week’s winning essay, The Noisy Room’s – Net Neutrality: “Young fool … Only now, at the end, do you understand” takes apart the Obama dominated FCC’s plans to ‘regulate’ the Internet and turn it int0 something unrecognizable. Here’s a slice:

We keep hearing, from the saviors in Washington, DC, how government regulation is the answer and how “evil monopolies” (created, incidentally, by other government regulations) are responsible for all our trials and tribulations and the “fundamental unfairness” of the Internet as she is currently wrote.

Obligatory movie quote:

“No. No government. I know those people. Absolutely not.” – Col. Ira Kane

Yeah, it’s a movie. It’s also absolutely right.

The founder of Broadcast.com, Mark Cuban, has recently been vociferous in his opposition to so-called “Net Neutrality” with his most recent public appearance on the subject in an interview where he breaks it down. His effort to “plain-language” the argument notwithstanding, and frankly, it’s a subject that should not be oversimplified, he laid out the unintended consequences dominoes and how this “everything is equal” push plays out in terms of common services.

Now, you might want to shrug Mark Cuban off as “some rich guy who owns a sports team” and clearly that’s being done a lot, but don’t forget how he got rich: he pioneered live broadcasting over the Internet. He’s not some political hack, evil cable company exec, or mushy thinking me-too “fairness uber alles” flag waver. He is, for once, someone who knows what the hell he’s talking about.

Net Neutrality, like so many political labels, is a “fair sounding” name that hides the actual motives and consequences of the real world implementations we will experience after the seemingly inevitable adoption of this latest government overreach.

It won’t be fair. It won’t be optimum. And the right answer will never even be mentioned, never mind entertained: deregulate the cable and broadband space to eliminate the protected monopolies.

The broadband space needs more competition, not less; needs less regulation, not more. Companies like Google laying fiber? Cox, AT&T, Verizon and Comcast suddenly no longer have a free pass.

Otherwise? The cynical and dystopian view?

One of the unavoidable dominoes will be broad censorship. Once the deprioritization of broadcast packets leads to the epic traffic jam that will reduce the Web’s US speeds to worse than those found in Europe, the government of the day will, once again, have to “save us” from this “unforseen” outcome and their clever plan will include limiting who can “legitimately” have bandwidth preferences, since clearly “legitimate” news outlets need to bypass the buffering jams that will afflict TV signaling and once dot-gov starts adjudicating who’s a “real” news or other “essential” service, licensing will naturally follow, and then “standards” of what is “acceptable” traffic.

At which point, whichever political party is in power at that time will have the distinct advantage of licensing whomever they deem to be more politically correct in their eyes. “Neutrality” on the ‘Net? Yeah, not so much.

We’re in the hands of fools and corrupt bureaucrats. Last Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission held a faux meeting on open Internet rules and access to broadband Internet. Commissioner Ajit Pai made a statement before the FCC vote to take unprecedented control over the internet with a secret plan. Yes, secret. Secret as in no exposure to the public or Congress prior to its enactment. What follows is the transcript of his comments – in echoes of Obamacare, this had to pass before we could know what was in it. Except, they are still keeping it under wraps. It must be very, very bad indeed.

From Breitbart:

“The Wall Street Journal reports that it was developed through ‘an unusual secretive effort inside the White House.’ Indeed, White House officials, according to the Journal, functioned as a parallel version of the FCC. Their work led to the president’s announcement in November of his plan for internet regulation, a plan which the report says blindsided the FCC and swept aside months of work by Chairman Wheeler toward a compromise. Now, of course, a few insiders were clued in about what was transpiring. Here’s what a leader for the government-funded group Fight for the Future had to say, ‘We’ve been hearing for weeks from our allies in D.C that the only thing that could stop FCC chairman Tom Wheeler from moving ahead with his sham proposal to gut net neutrality was if we could get the president to step in. So we did everything in our power to make that happen. We took the gloves off and played hard, and now we get to celebrate a sweet victory. Congratulations. what the press has called the parallel FCC at the White House opened its door to a plethora of special interest activists. Daily Kos, Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Free Press, and Public Knowledge, just to name a few. Indeed, even before activists were blocking the chairman’s driveway late last year, some of them had met with executive branch officials.

“But what about the rest of the American people? They certainly couldn’t get White House meetings. They were shut out of the process altogether. They were being played for fools. And the situation didn’t improve once the White House announced President Obama’s plan, and ‘asked’ the FCC to implement it. The document in front of us today differs dramatically from the proposal that the FCC put out for comment last May, and it differs so dramatically that even zealous net neutrality advocates frantically rushed in, in recent days, to make last-minute filings, registering their concerns that the FCC might be going too far. Yet, the American people, to this day, have not been allowed to see President Obama’s plan. It has remained hidden.

“Especially given the unique importance of the internet, Commissioner O’Rielly and I ask for the plan to be released to the public. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune and House of Representatives Chairman did the same. According to a survey last week by a respected democratic polling firm, 79% of the American people favored making the document public. Still, the FCC has insisted on keeping it behind closed doors. We have to pass President Obama’s 317-page plan so the American people can find out what’s in it. This isn’t how the FCC should operate. We should be an independent agency making decisions in a transparent manner based on the law and the facts in the record.

“We shouldn’t be a rubber stamp for political decisions made by the White House. And we should have released this plan to the public, solicited their feedback, incorporated that input into the plan, and then proceeded to a vote. There was no need for us to resolve this matter today. There is no immediate crisis in the internet marketplace that demands immediate action. now. The backers of the president’s plan know this. But they also know that the details of this plan cannot stand up to the light of day. They know that the more the American people learn about it, the less they will like it. That is why this plan was developed behind closed doors at the White House. And that is why the plan has remained hidden from public view.

“These aren’t my only concerns. Even a cursory look at the plan reveals glaring legal plans that are sure to mire the agency in the muck of litigation for a long, long time. but rather than address them today, I will reserve them for my written statement. At the beginning of this proceeding, I quoted Google’s former CEO, who once said, the internet is the first thing that humanity has built, that humanity doesn’t understand. This proceeding makes it abundantly clear that the FCC still doesn’t get it. but the American people clearly do. The proposed government regulation of the internet has awakened a sleeping giant. I’m optimistic we’ll look back on today’s vote as a temporary deviation from the bipartisan consensus that’s served us so well. I don’t know whether this plan will be vacated by a court, reversed by Congress, or overturned by a future commission, But I do believe its days are numbered. For all of those reasons, I dissent.”

More at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was Jim DeMint in the Daily Signal with If Not Now … When? Will the GOP Majority Ever Stand for Anything? submitted by Ask Marion . As the man who, along with Sarah Palin was pretty much responsible for the victory in the 2010 midterms that resurrected he GOP from the grave, Deb Mint is definitely in a position to look at the Republicans in Congress today and wonder if they stand for anything.

After lying to their supporters again in 2014 about how they would dismantle President Obama’s radical agenda and being rewarded with majorities in both houses of Congress, they’ve reneged on everything they said they would do at election time. Can they ever be trusted again? Do read it.

Here are this week’s full results:

Council Winners

• *First place with 2 2/3 votes! – The Noisy Room – Net Neutrality: “Young fool … Only now, at the end, do you understand.”
• Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Joshuapundit - A Speech, A Choice And A Challenge
• Third place with 2 votes – The Right Planet – The White House Prayer Deception
• Fourth place with 1 2/3 votes – The Independent Sentinel – Breaking…WH Plans to Develop a Country Within a Country of 15 Million “New Americans”
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – The Glittering Eye -The Devil in the Details
• Fifth place *t* with 1 vote – VA Right! - Republicans Betray the Voters – AGAIN
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor – What If… Shirley MacLaine is Just an Idiot?
• Sixth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – The Faux Outrage Of The Fatuous Left And The Fabulist Media

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 votes! – Jim DeMint/The Daily Signal - If Not Now … When? Will the GOP Majority Ever Stand for Anything? submitted by Ask Marion
• Second place with 121/3 votes – T. Greer/Zenpundit – Guest post, T Greer: A civilization is at stake here submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Ace Of Spades HQ – It’s Over: Boehner, Boehner’s Establishment Allies, and Democrats Unite to Fund Obama’s Executive Amnesty submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Breitbart – New Documents Blow Lid Off Obama/Clinton Benghazi Scandal submitted by VA Right!
• Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Breach Bang Clear - The New Definition Of Traumasubmitted by Bookworm Room
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – The Daily Beast – Iraq’s Attack Against ISIS Catches U.S. ‘By Surprise’ submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Robert Joseph, William Tobey/NRO – Iran: A Bad Deal Is (Much) Worse than No Deal submitted by The Watcher
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Andrew McCarthy/NRO – Bring Back the Bush Doctrine – with One Addition submitted by The Noisy Room
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Maggie’s Notebook – Defense Intelligence Told Not to Update Obama on Bin Laden Documents submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes - Kyle MizoKami/ War Is Boring – I Built An AR-15 In My Kitchen – Without Telling The Government submitted by The Watcher
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote - America – The National Catholic Review – The Catholic Pagan: 10 Questions for Camille Paglia submitted by The Razor

See you next week!

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The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher’s Council Results - 01-09-15

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week’s Watcher’s Council match up.

“Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“One of the chief tasks of any dialogue with the Gentile world is to prove that the distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism is not a distinction at all.” – Abba Eban

““The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. - Eric Hoffer

“We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called ‘objectivity.’ Objectivity does not exist – it cannot exist!… The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.”
- Orianna Fallacci

This week’s winning essay,Joshuapundit’s - Who’s ‘Responsible?’ came about when I read an astounding statement from the mouth of European Union foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini. Here’s a slice:

Sometimes, a public figure makes a statement that simply defies the imagination in its blatant hypocrisy and ignorance of reality.

Those of you who have been following events in the region know that the Third Intifada against Israel is well underway, and that the Palestinian Authority and Hamas are doing their best to incite violence. Against this background, Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority AKA Hamas/Fatah recently went to the UN Security Council in an attempt to get a resolution declaring a Palestinian State along the pre ’67 lines that would have called for forcing Israel back to indefensible borders, re-dividing Jerusalem and barring Jews from their Holy sites, ethnically cleansing 500,000 Jews, freeing all terrorists currently in captivity in Israeli jails and allowing any of the Arabs whom identify themselves as Palestinians to return to whatever they claim their homes were in Israel.

The resolution failed by one vote, but Abbas has promised to re-introduce it now that three pro-Israel nation’s terms on the Security Council have finished and three anti-Israel countries terms on the Security Council started in 2015. And Abbas is also attempted to join the International Criminal Court, saying that if he’s successful he will attempt to prosecute Israel there for war crimes.

Aside from violating both the Oslo Accords and The Road Map, this is nothing less than a hostile entity making a declaration of war against Israel.

In retaliation, Israel decided to take the measure of freezing $127 million in tax monies it gathered for Hamas/Fatah, and is considering other measures as well.

The EU immediately condemned this, and their reaction is worth looking at.

European Union foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said in a statement today that even this moderate pushback “runs counter to Israel’s obligations.”

“An effective Palestinian Authority, committed to non-violence and a peaceful resolution of the conflict, is a key element for a two-state solution,” Mogherini said.

Mogherini said that “recent steps taken … could aggravate the already tense situation on the ground and bring them further away from a negotiated solution.”

“Both sides should refrain from taking actions which could raise obstacles to the rapid return to the negotiations,” she added.

She also threatened that the EU’s financing of ‘Palestine’ could be endangered by Israel’s withholding the money.

You have to wonder what planet the EU thinks it lives on.

Israel’s ‘responsibilities?’ What about the Palestinian Authority?

In exchange for being gifted sovereignty by Israel in the Oslo Accords over some land it otherwise had no claim to, The Arabs whom call themselves Palestinians agreed to do three things…renounce terrorism, recognize Israel’s right to exist and end anti-semitic incitement in its mosques schools and media. Those same three requirements were also part of the Road Map.

Not one of them has ever been adhered to, not by Arafat, not by Mahmoud Abbas and certainly not by Hamas.

While the PLO charter tepidly recognizes Israel, neither the Fatah charter or the Hamas charters do. Support for terrorism against Israeli civilians is a given, and not merely tolerated but rewarded. In the twenty years since Oslo, not a single person has ever been arrested by the PA security forces for killing a Jew. Financing of terrorist activity by the PA and Hamas is a long documented fact. Terrorist killers convicted of some of the most heinous murders by Israeli courts are called ‘holy martyrs’ by Abbas and receive a nice salary from the PA courtesy of Eu and American taxpayers, and these ‘martyrs’ are held up as heroes and role models to Palestinian society. They’re glorified in its media, lionized in its mosques and have public buildings named after them.

Mahmoud Abbas’s Moscow University treatise claiming that the Holocaust never happened and that the few Jews that were killed were the result of ‘Zionists’ collaborating with the Nazis is a required text in the PA’s school curriculum.

And the PA itself is now allied in a unity government with the genocidal Hamas.For that matter, the PLO has already said that the Oslo Accords no longer apply to them.

And when Mogherini talks about a Palestinian Authority, committed to non-violence and a peaceful resolution of the conflict, does she even recognize the years of sustained and constant rejectionism and unwillingness to negotiate anything by Arafat,Abbas and the PA as the main contributor to the current impasse?

Much more at the link.

In our non-Council category, the winner was the one and only Rush Limbaugh with The GOP Leadership’s Attitude Toward Its Own Base Is Unprecedented submitted by Ask Marion. This is a transcript of Limbaugh’s comments on the air during his hugely popular radio show and he takes on the contradiction of a large part of the Republican leadership showing outright contempt for the voters that just gave them one of the largest GOP congressional majorities in history with his usual clarity and logic. Definitely read it.

Here are this week’s full results. Only Ask Marion was unable to vote, but was not subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty :

Council Winners

• *First place with 2 1/3 votes! – Joshuapundit - Who’s ‘Responsibility?’
• Second place with 2 votes –The Noisy Room – John McCain’s Progressive Hand Is Behind The Purge Of Tea Party Detractors From The Arizona GOP
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – Bookworm Room – The New York Times ignores the reasons why Swedes might be turning against immigrants
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes – VA Right! - Barack Obama – The President of No!
• Fourth place with 1 vote – Ask Marion – Time For GOP Leadership
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –Nice Deb – Lefty Losers Spam Twitter With Lie About Officer Liu’s Widow
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote –Simply Jews – Jonathan Freedland and the liberal Zionists’ support: thanks but no thanks
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Razor – What I learned In 2014
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Right Planet – British Lawmaker: Hitler Was a Socialist
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Glittering Eye - The Problem With Student Debt
• Sixth place *t* with 1/3 vote – The Independent Sentinel – Cuomo’s Captious New Law: No More Selfies With Tigers and Lion

Non-Council Winners

• First place with 2 1/3 votes! –Rush Limbaugh - The GOP Leadership’s Attitude Toward Its Own Base Is Unprecedented submitted by Ask Marion
• Second place with 2 votes – Victor Davis Hanson – Autopilot nation submitted by Joshuapundit
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –Roger L. Simon/PJ Media – Egypt’s al-Sisi Makes Extraordinary Speech on Islam submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Third place *t* with 1 2/3 votes –Sultan Knish – December 31st, 1912 submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Klari Goldman Bates/ Times Of Israel – A Tango With Hypocrisy submitted by Simply Jews
• Fourth place *t* with 1 vote – Peter Pomerantsev/Politico – Inside Putin’s Information War submitted by The Razor
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes – USNI News – Navy Wants Rail Guns to Fight Ballistic and Supersonic Missiles Says RFI submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes  -Angry White Dude – Trust the Republicans They Said! This Time Will Be Different, They Said!submitted by VA Right!
• Fifth place *t* with 2/3 votes – Powerline – Liberals Can’t Argue, They Can Only Bully [Updated] submitted by The Watcher
• Sixth place with 1/3 vote – Weasel Zippers - Today #BlackLivesMatters Imploded submitted by Nice Deb

See you next week!

Make sure to tune in every Monday for the Watcher’s Forum. and every  Tuesday morning, when we reveal the weeks’ nominees for Weasel of the Week!

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Buh Bye 2014 Edition –

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

The Council In Action!!

Bookworm Room was cited and linked at Ace of Spades HQ

This week, Blazing Cat Fur, The Pirate’s Cove, and Doug Ross earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address (mandatory, but of course it won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out on Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have for you this week….

Council Submissions

• The Right Planet – A World Conspiracy
• The Noisy Room – Meet The Agitators Behind the New York Protests and Cop Killings
• Simply Jews – US policy on Cuba as a (recalcitrant) state of mind
• Joshuapundit-Thought Crime! College President Begs For Forgiveness After Saying ‘All Lives Matter’
• The Independent Sentinel – Ministry of Truth News: Obama Says Race Relations Are Better Under His Reign
• Rhymes With Right – When The “Wedding Cake” Shoe Is On The “Progressive” Other Foot
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – The Iran – Pakistan War
• Ask Marion – Experimental treatment uses immune system to fight Cancer – Immunotherapy coming to US in 2015
• Nice Deb – Giuliani Doubles Down On Obama Criticism, Says de Blasio Should Apologize To NYPD (Video)
• VA Right! - There the Pollsters Go Again! 2016 Presidential Junk Polls
• The Glittering Eye -We Never Had It So Good
• The Razor – The Dagger In The Heart of Socialized Medicine in the US
• Bookworm Room – A “Letter of Solidarity” from Cal. State University, Northridge reads like a parody of Leftist anti-Americanism

Honorable Mentions

• Blazing Cat Fur – Nothing To Do With Islam Of Course: U.K. Terrorism Arrests Jump 40% Amid Militants’ Trips to Syria
• The Pirate’s Cove – Say, Will 2015 Be The Tipping Point For Action On Hotcoldwetdry?
• Doug Ross – Did the Saudis and the US Really Collude to Smash Oil Prices?

Non-Council Submissions

• Bill Flax/Forbes – Obama, Hitler, And Exploding The Biggest Lie In History submitted by The Right Planet
• Kenneth Timmermann/FrontPageMag–Obama’s White Whale submitted by The Noisy Room
• The Passing Parade – The Benchley Memorandum, not by Robert Ludlum submitted by Simply Jews
• Kurt Schlichter – 2014: The Year The Liberal Lies Died submitted by Joshuapundit
• FrontPage Mag – Front Page’s 2014 Person of the year: The American Police Officer submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Rev. Philip De Vous — The Christian Review – American Catholic No More submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Ishaan Tharoor/WAPO Blogs – 7 Awful Unreported Conflicts submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• American Thinker - American Thinker – American Achiever of 2014: Sarah Palin submitted by Ask Marion
• Sharyl Attkisson - Belatedly Released and Revealing Fast & Furious Docs submitted by Nice Deb
• Life News – Black Sheriff Says if Black Lives Mattered They’d Protest at Abortion Clinics submitted by VA Right!
• TechCrunch – On Immigration, Engineers Simply Don’t Trust VCs submitted by The Glittering Eye
• Megan McArdle – If Single-Payer Can’t Work in Vermont… submitted by The Razor
• Breach Bang Clear - Ferguson, Idiot Cops, and Experts Who Know Nothing At All submitted by Bookworm Room
• Allen West – Quite possibly the most racist article you will ever read submitted by The Watcher
• Rabbi Uri Pilichowski/Times Of Israel – The terror attack that didn’t make the news submitted by The Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!And don’t forget to tune in Friday for the results!

The Wrap at Ask Marion 2.09.14 Thru 2.16.14

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Celebrating President’s Day… Washington’s Birthday

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was traditionally celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year…

Let us remember and honor all our presidents, but let us take a little time to remember our first president, George Washington, who took the job reluctantly because he realized the weight of the job as well as of the office itself.  He was the hero of the revolutionary war and was one of the Founding Fathers involved with the Declaration of Independence and the creation of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.  Quite a difference from the man in the White House today who says he has a pen and a phone and believes he can do with them what he chooses!

Governor Palin: God Bless The Legacy Of Our 16th President

• RIGHT PLANET FEATURE: My Meeting with Trevor Loudon
• Obama And Hollande – Scenes From The Class Struggle
• Iran and the New Axis of Evil
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results
• Teacher scores win against pay-to-play political endorsements
• The National Guard Targets Constitutionalists As The Enemy
• Todd Palin, Inside Edition ~> Wife could win POTUS hands down!
• The Ambassadors We Choose
• Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) Files Lawsuit Against Pres Obama & NSA Mass Surveillance – Andrew Napolitano
• RUSH: What If Somebody Actually Did Begin Impeachment Proceedings?
• Governor Palin: God Bless The Legacy Of Our 16th President
• The Harris County Republican Party condemns “pay-to-play” slates
• New Benghazi Bombshell – House Report Blames White House For Security Lapse – The Kelly File
• David Webb, of Fox, Sirius Radio and Black Tea Party Activist, Confronts NAACP’s William Barber… What Hannity Didn’t Show You
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – Lawless Edition
• Report Faults White House & State Dept In Benghazi Attack & Obamacare – Sen Ted Cruz – Real Story
• Ben Carson, family and friends target of IRS harassment for criticizing Obama
• Has Petraeus stepped into a Clinton minefield?
• Shirley Temple – The Biggest Little Star Has Died
• Wishing Governor Sarah Palin a Happy 50th Birthday!!
• Striking Terror Into Progressives Hearts – Ted and Rafael Cruz
• The Best Romantic Movies and Ideas For Valentine’s Day
• Rep Steve King: Boehner has declined to clear the air between us which amounts to a public confession…
• The Legend of the Hildebeast: "Hillary Papers" Released
• Beatles, Olympics, Leno, History, Perspective… 
• Going Democrat-Lite will make GOP a permanent minority
• Sessions On Special Report: Admin’s Latest Immigration Rewrite Undermines Constitutional Order
• Forum: If You Could Play One Character In The Movies, Whom Would It Be?
• Benghazi Cartoons In Foreign Papers
• American Academy For Constitutional Education (AZ) Presents Trevor Loudon Feb 19th, See Schedule Upcoming Appearances for Trevor Loudon and The Enemies Within
• Ex-CIA Officer: Government’s ‘Fusion Centers’ Enable Obama ‘Turnkey Tyranny’
• Honey… the Iranians are here!
• Historic “Tele-Townhall” Series
• The Wrap at Ask Marion 2.02.14 Thru 2.09.14

Also See:

• Mark Brunell: NFL needs to crack down on marijuana 
• Dr. Ben Carson, family and friends target of IRS harassment for criticizing Obama
• Dr. Ben Carson Becomes Chairman of Save Our Healthcare
• Emilie’s Story: ObamaCare is hurting people like me
• Logan’s Law passes big hurdle in attempt to create Michigan animal abusers registry
• BSL and Pit Bulls
• Hopeful News: LA City Animal Shelter Deaths Plummet by Nearly Half During First Two Years of Best Friends Animal Society’s NKLA Initiative
• Spay, Neuter, Adopt – Repeat 
• Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games

ICE Officers Claim They’re Being Prohibited From Enforcing The Law – Huckabee – Wake Up America

Temporary Reprieve: McConnell: Amnesty Not Happening in 2014

Book of the Week – “The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization / Kindle – By Diana West

“WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?” That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here’s what she finds: It’s difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too “young” to call themselves “mister.” Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: “No wonder we can’t stop Islamic terrorism.  We haven’t put away our toys!” As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can’t say "no," a politically correct population that doesn’t know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the “culture wars” in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the “real” culture war of the 21st century—the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock ‘n’ roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of “diversity,” from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the “PC”-ing of “Mary Poppins,” all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene. 

Dad: Are You Part of “The Great Conversation”? 

God Bless the Conservative Father

American Academy Event

American Academy For Constitutional Education (AZ) Presents Trevor Loudon Feb 19th, See Schedule Upcoming Appearances for Trevor Loudon and The Enemies Within

Start: 19 February 2014 6:30 pm
Venue: Immaculate Heart High School

Know who your enemies are — The Enemies Within. Trevor Loudon names names. Get ready to vote them out this mid-term 2014!

“THE ENEMIES WITHIN: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress/Kindle” is like no other book written on American politics. The book exposes, in layman’s terms, the comprehensive communist, socialist and extreme progressive infiltration of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

The book profiles fourteen Senators and more than fifty Representatives and their ties to the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, the Workers World Party and the Institute for Policy Studies, Council for a Livable World and other radical anti-American organizations. Trevor has done the hard work to connect the dots of why the U.S. Congress has moved further and further left over our lifetime and you won’t want to miss him. The Mid-Terms are coming. It’s time to clean House — and Senate!

Be sure to see our friend and Watcher’s Council Alumnus Trevor Loudon when comes to your area!!

Shane Krauser’s American Academy for Constitutional Education
Wednesday, February 19 | 6:30 pm

Immaculate Heart High School
625 E. Magee Raod
Tucson, AZ 85704

Check out Trevor’s TOUR MAP AND SCHEDULE which is constantly being updated with new events and venues.

If your TEA Party, 9.12, or patriotic group would like to have Trevor Loudon speak, please contact Regina Thompson.



[RADIO] Van The Radio Man
BlogTalkRadio
Monday, February 17th — 2:00 pm

AZ Red Mountain  Patriots
Faith Christian School, 7464 E. Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85207
Monday, February 17th — 7:00 pm

The TEA Party Patriots of Arizona
Northgate Church, 34835 N. 7th St., Phoenix, AZ 85086
Tuesday, February 18th — 6:30 pm

More Events to come… 

RIGHT PLANET FEATURE: My Meeting with Trevor Loudon

And another must read is: Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election—and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016 (Kindle)

Memorable Photos…



Thank you Shirley Temple for a Life Well lived!

Shirley Temple – The Biggest Little Star Has Died

Shirley Temple Black – Life Achievement Honoree



Thank you Sarah Palin for Continuing the Fight… Against the Stooges below… Larry, Moe, Curley Joe and Benghazi Betty

Todd Palin, Inside Edition ~> Wife could win POTUS hands down!

Wishing Governor Sarah Palin a Happy 50th Birthday!!

Photo Thoughts

Going Democrat-Lite will make the GOP a permanent minority

David John Marotta, a Wall Street adviser and President of Marotta Wealth Management, puts U.S. unemployment closer to 37.2%, much higher than even the 25% most bloggers and honest journalists have estimated, and certainly not the unicorn dust propaganda of 6.7% claimed by the Fed.

Video: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, "Federal Reserve" is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary documentary is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan was not, we're told, happy about this 1996 blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie is changing America…

Some say that this, David Rockefeller is the chilling face of the New World Order… Others question and speculate Whether… The American Republic can survive; whether we are in the End Times; others just wonder why everything is unfolding as it is; and others wonder whether we can affect change or if everything is set in stone and out of our hands?

And many wonder who is controlling the clowns in Washington (video), DC and why so many Americans can’t see them for what they are!

During her speech, UN Christine Lagarde’s every word calls for a New World Order, a one world currency, and more! Read the entire speech HERE

Thousands of Shelter Pets Killed Every Day Yet Half of Americans Uninformed and Unaware

Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games

Stop the Pain… Get-Involved and Speak Up Whenever You Suspect Abuse, Of Any Kind

We are living in amazing times, good and bad, the kind of times that truly try men’s (and women’s) souls and that make or break countries and shape (or reshape) societies. Please get involved, pray for guidance, prepare for the worst (for yourself and to help others), then educate yourself and share what you learn with as many people as you can. All our futures depend on it!!

Be sure to come visit us here at Ask Marion regularly and subscribe to receive the latest posts first… as well as visit: Just One More Pet, True Health Is True Wealth!!, Knowledge Is Power, and the Daily Thought Pad.

The wolves are at the door!!

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The Wrap at Ask Marion 1.26.14 Thru 2.02.14

Our weekly wrap… Sunday to Sunday… Please share! Ask Marion

Quote of the Week: "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth." …Ronald Reagan

Want things to change… then elect someone that believes in the principles that made this country great, but who can win against the Democrat’s probable ‘first female president’ candidate carrot… and that person is someone the left fears.  That person is Sarah Palin who just Polled With Highest Favorability Rating Among GOP Primary Voters.  Palin is Reaganesque, undefeated and tested after unending attacks by the Left which includes the probable 2016 Democrat ‘Female’ Presidential Candidate… Hillary, who really is Barack Obama in a Dress. Sarah can win!!  She had the crowds eating out of her hand in 2008 after her VP Presidential Nominating Speech! And Rino John McCain and the Progressive Liberal Media tried to destroy her.

Protecting Hillary…

The Persecution of Conservatives in Hollywood  

• Hannity Exclusive: Dinesh D’Souza is ‘undeterred’ by backlash [video]
• Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – Obama Take That Pen &.. SOTU, Keystone, Iran, Little Sisters
• A Black Reporter Summarizes Barack Obama!
• Smith & Wesson says goodbye, California over ‘microstamping’ law
• State of the Union 2014 Proves Obama Failure… Lies, Theft, Failure, Pinocchio’s…
• ICE Officers Claim They’re Being Prohibited From Enforcing The Law – Huckabee – Wake Up America
• Is the House GOP Leadership Being Blackmailed Into Voting for Amnesty?
• Watch the Powerful Olympics Ad That Disappeared From the Internet Last Night [video]
• From Reagan to Rubio: The Wussification of the Republican Party
• Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games
• Seems There Is Such a Thing As a Free Lunch After All…
• Fixing the News
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results – 01.31.14
• Here It Comes – Amnesty
• Obama’s Loving Requiem For A Prominent Communist – And Mine
• Former Clinton WH Counsel Lanny Davis Struggles To List Hillary’s Achievements At State Dept
• Poll: Sarah Palin Has Highest Favorability Rating Among GOP Primary Voters
• Are You a Potential Plaintiff in an Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit? Please Respond by January 31, 2014
• State of the Union Obama THEFT ACCOUNTS | Damon Geller
• The Making of a Black Conservative
• GOP Senators’ Obamacare Replacement Beneficial to Young People says Senator Colborn as He Loses His Own Cancer Doctor in the Midst of His Cancer Fight
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – State Of Disunion Edition 01.29.14
• The Devil’s In The Marxism
• 2014 State of the Union (SOTU)
• Abuse of Power
• The Five co-host Greg Gutfeld offered up a State of the Union drinking game…
• Persecuted the Movie (Official Teaser)
• Ex-Trader Joe’s President To Open Expired Food Store For The Poor
• Republican Plan for Immigration: Anchor Babies, Visa Reform? Co-Sponsors for King’s Anchor Baby Legislation?
• Forum: Do You Feel We Are Moving Closer To A Police State?
• Sunday News 01.26.14 on Video(s) – Updated
• Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening Statement – State Of The Union – A Call For Unity?
• Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie – Oh, how the mighty may fall – WRIGHT
• Mitt – Whatever Side You Are On See Another Side
• New Poll: Voters blame Clinton and Obama for Benghazi…
• National Newspaper Chain Plans To Build Massive ‘State-By-State’ Database Of Gun Owners
• Bombshell: Pentagon ‘didn’t know’ Benghazi annex existed
• The Wrap at Ask Marion 1.19.14 Thru 1.26.14

Also See:

• Washington State’s Pending Legislation Seeks To Prohibit Barbaric Muslim Practice Of Young Female Genital Mutilation
• Obamacare Architect Retires
• Are You a Potential Plaintiff in an Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit? Please Respond by January 31, 2014 
• GOP Senators’ Obamacare Replacement Beneficial to Young People says Senator Colborn as He Loses His Own Cancer Doctor in the Midst of His Cancer Fight
• Warning: Dem Rep. Says Obamacare Is Unraveling & “We Don’t Have a Solution” 
• Another Obamacare Fiasco
• Ex-Trader Joe’s President To Open Expired Food Store For The Poor
• Moody’s Downgrades Health Insurers, Cites ObamaCare Uncertainty  
• In Addition to the Super Bowl… Today Was Groundhog Day
• World’s oldest flamingo which has been in the same Australian zoo since before World War II dies aged 83
• Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games 
• Three Nuns Adopt the Senior Pit Bull Nobody Else Wanted 
• Paralyzed dog found dragging himself through streets begging for food
• Two By Two… Was Noah’s Ark ROUND? 3,700-year-old clay tablet reveals giant boat was made out of Reeds and Bitumen
• Contagious Cancer In Dogs Leaves Prehistoric Paw Prints

Book of the Week – Things That Matter: Three Decades of Passions, Pastimes and Politics (Kindle) by Charles Krauthammer

In an interview with Bret Baier about his latest book: Things That Matter, Charles Krauthammer said that sometime between his accident and the process of getting his degree and finishing Med School to become a Psychiatrist he realized that everything in life is affected by politics (and religion) in one way or another, therefore touching all the Things That Matter in our lives.



From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.

A brilliant stylist known for an uncompromising honesty that challenges conventional wisdom at every turn, Krauthammer has for decades daz­zled readers with his keen insight into politics and government. His weekly column is a must-read in Washington and across the country. Now, finally, the best of Krauthammer’s intelligence, erudition and wit are collected in one volume.
Readers will find here not only the country’s leading conservative thinker offering a pas­sionate defense of limited government, but also a highly independent mind whose views—on feminism, evolution and the death penalty, for example—defy ideological convention. Things That Matter also features several of Krautham­mer’s major path-breaking essays—on bioeth­ics, on Jewish destiny and on America’s role as the world’s superpower—that have pro­foundly influenced the nation’s thoughts and policies. And finally, the collection presents a trove of always penetrating, often bemused re­flections on everything from border collies to Halley’s Comet, from Woody Allen to Win­ston Churchill, from the punishing pleasures of speed chess to the elegance of the perfectly thrown outfield assist.
With a special, highly autobiographical in­troduction in which Krauthammer reflects on the events that shaped his career and political philosophy, this indispensible chronicle takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the fashions and follies, the tragedies and the joys of Krauthammer’s life.

And another must read is: Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election—and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016 (Kindle)



Is the House GOP Leadership Being Blackmailed Into Voting for Amnesty?

There are some great options on the GOP side if we don’t let the old guard Establishment Co-Opt the process as they did in 2008 and 2012 and the Democrats must have someone better than Hillary or their old Establishment guard.

Sarah Palin for President and Ted Cruz for Vice-President… a winning ticket that would represent ‘the American people’, restore the Constitution and get government out of our lives and pockets

And just today I heard a new interesting option: Dr. Ben Carson for President and Judge Jeanine Pirro for Vice-President

Bombshell: Pentagon ‘didn’t know’ Benghazi annex existed; includes overview of Benghazi Attack and Scandal Events and Timeline

Hillary now wants to get Benghazi out of the way… Clinton said when asked to identify “do-overs” of her time as America’s top diplomat during her keynote appearance before the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans. she said, “My biggest, you know, regret is what happened in Benghazi,”  I think what Hillary meant was that her biggest regret is not being able to squelch the Benghazi scandal.  Just for the sake of history, let’s recall that Clinton could have prevented the attack but failed to do so

Benghazi Report: Obama and Hillary Lied, Americans Died, Media Complicit… Obama Went to Vegas and they need to take responsibility!  Yet, RNC Chairman Says Hillary 2016 Candidacy is Set… And Female Presidency Will be the Carrot… Time to say no thanks and fight back with our own powerhouse!!

In the meantime, there are rumblings that there has been a shake-up in the White House because Obama Puppetmaster, George Soros, is not happy; perhaps coming off the meetings by the power elite in Davos?  And the Democrats facing re-election in 2014 are also running scared. 

Obama has already warned that he will use his phone and pen to sign executive orders to circumvent Congress and the witch hunt against Conservative Opponents and anyone the White House considers to be in their way will be investigated, minimalized and silenced.  David Plouffe is said to be out, Valerie Jarrett has been demoted and replaced by John Podesta and David Simas will run Obama’s new operations office.  The State of the Union is expected to be anything but a call for unity, and 2014 definitely will be the most divisive Obama year yet as Soros pushes his agenda to move the U.S. toward Socialism. It is time for everyone to get-involved and for Conservatives, Libertarians, Tea Party Groups and all the other small groups who are fighting to take back our Country to find common ground and work together to save America for our children, our grandchildren and future generations.  There is too much at stake not to!!

The real question is… will we, Conservatives, Libertarians, Tea Party Groups and all the other patriotic groups, continue letting the media and RINOs and Progressives from both parties steal elections from us? because we can’t or won’t find common ground and compromise?

David John Marotta, a Wall Street adviser and President of Marotta Wealth Management, puts U.S. unemployment closer to 37.2%, much higher than even the 25% most bloggers and honest journalists have estimated, and certainly not the unicorn dust propaganda of 6.7% claimed by the Fed.

Alert: Rand Paul Sues Obama… Join Class Action Suit

Memorable Photos…

Thousands of Shelter Pets Killed Every Day Yet Half of Americans Uninformed and Unaware 

Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games

Dogs slaughtered for meat in Vietnam… Stop the Dog Meat Trade

Stop the Pain… Get-Involved and Speak Up Whenever You Suspect Abuse, Of Any Kind

We are living in amazing times, good and bad, the kind of times that truly try men’s (and women’s) souls and that make or break countries and shape (or reshape) societies. Please get involved, pray for guidance, prepare for the worst (for yourself and to help others), then educate yourself and share what you learn with as many people as you can. All our futures depend on it!!

Be sure to come visit us here at Ask Marion regularly and subscribe to receive the latest posts first… as well as visit: Just One More Pet, True Health Is True Wealth!!, Knowledge Is Power, and the Daily Thought Pad.

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