Did you know that Obama's Organizing for America recently
held 200 activist training sessions for community organizers? It's time we all join together to take
America back. Help us promote free markets, limited government in our private lives, greater emphasis on national security,
and fiscal responsibility across our great country. -------------------------
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owners, too--it helps them connect with customers and grow their business! Go here to learn more. Republicans are Winning With New
Media. See How. ----------------- URGENT FROM THE CHAIRMAN
From: Michael Steele, RNC Chairman
To: State GOP
Chairmen and Chairwomen
Date: February 12, 2010
Subject: Recruiting Precinct Delegates/Precinct Committeemen
and Committeewomen As you know, I promised that
our new RNC website, GOP.com, would, by January, 2010, have tools enabling precinct committeemen across the country, in every
county, to be able to network with one another — to form caucuses, organize, recruit more precinct committeemen, etc.
The RNC wanted to create a template web site and offer it to every state and county GOP committee. That hasn’t happened.
Mea culpa. Rather than a top down approach, let’s try a bottom-up approach. So, I need your help. A quick review of many of the State GOP web sites shows that there is virtually no mention
of the fact that our Party is at half-strength in the precinct committeeman ranks. And virtually none of the sites contain
urgent pleas, prominently displayed, to visitors of the sites to come into the Republican Party as soon as possible as precinct
delegates (as you know, it’s called committeemen, captain, etc. in some states) so the Party can go from half-strength
to full-strength going into the 2010 election cycle. Also, there are virtually no explanations as to what a precinct committeeman
is and how vitally important they are to the functioning of our “Grand Old Party” — indeed, as you know,
because precinct committeemen vote for the leadership of the Party, and directly impact the outcome of the primary elections,
they ARE the Party. Some of the county web sites have this information, but dang few. Here’s one good example of what we need: http://www.maricopagop.org/precinct-committeeman/step-by-step-guide-to-becoming-a-precinct-committeeman-2/. (I’m informed this particular example was accomplished not by the Party officers but by brand new volunteer precinct
committeemen who volunteered their time and skills — didn’t cost the Party a cent! And the Party didn’t
even ask — the volunteers did it on their own and then presented the new web site on a silver platter to the county
leaders.) There are a few other good examples, some of which have been compiled here: www.theprecinctproject.wordpress.com (It’s even got a comparison of our Platform and the Democrat Party Platform — we don’t even have that at
our GOP.com web site!) So, here’s my urgent
request to you, my Republican brothers and sisters: Please, please, implore your County Chairpersons to prominently place
on their web sites, as soon as possible, the following: An explanation to all visitors about the vital power and importance
of the precinct committeeman position; how, by becoming one, they can actually “do something” because they will
help strengthen and reinvigorate the Party; and how easy it is to become one. Implore them do what they did in Maricopa County,
Arizona, if need be, if funds are tight — ask for volunteers from the precinct committeemen ranks. And now you’ve
got some good examples for how to do it. I realize that you don’t really have the power to do this, because you know,
as I do, that the real power within our Party lies with the precinct committeemen themselves. If precinct committeemen want
this to happen at the county level, they can make this happen, as they did in Maricopa County, Arizona. Let’s get ‘er done. Thank you. ------------------ North Carolina Schools May Cut Chunk Out of U.S. History Lessons Wednesday,
February 03, 2010
By Molly Henneberg - Fox News He may be the president
who governed during the Civil War, freeing the slaves, but under a new curriculum proposal for North Carolina high schools,
U.S. history would begin years after President Lincoln, with the presidency of Rutherford B. Hayes in 1877.
State education
leaders say this may help students learn about more recent history in greater depth.
"We are certainly not trying
to go away from American history," Rebecca Garland, the chief academic officer for North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction, told Fox News. "What we are trying to do is figure out a way to teach it where students are connected to
it, where they see the big idea, where they are able to make connections and draw relationships between parts of our history
and the present day."
As the North Carolina curriculum stands now, ninth-grade students take world history, 10th-graders
study civics and economics and 11th-graders take U.S. history going back to the country's founding.
Under the proposed
change, the ninth-graders would take a course called global studies, focusing in part on issues such as the environment. The
10th grade still would study civics and economics, but 11th-graders would take U.S. history only from 1877 onward.
Math,
science and English classes are also getting an update.
Critics say the state's decade-old high school curriculum may
need an update — but not like this.
"The answer isn't to throw out fundamental portions of U.S. history,"
said Mike Belter, a U.S. history teacher and social studies director. "This is not preparing our kids to have a deep
historical perspective that can be used to analyze modern events for themselves."
Educational policy analyst Terry
Stoops agrees.
"I'm all for a global outlook, but it should not be at the expense of American history and learning
about American institutions and ideas," he told Fox News.
But those considering the proposal say kids will still
learn the basics.
"The students are in school for 13 years," said Garland. "They certainly are taught
U.S. and North Carolina history in middle school."
Garland says they're making this curriculum revision process
very public to get as much feedback as possible.
Session
I: America’s Foundational Principles
Dr. David J. Bobb
Director, Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, Hillsdale College
This session examines the ten core principles of the American Founding—all of which are as true today as 220 years
ago. |  Play Flash Video |
|
Session II: The Founders’ Constitution
Dr. Matthew Spalding
Adjunct Fellow, Kirby Center; Director, Simon Center for American Studies, Heritage Foundation
This session explores how citizens should understand the plain, written meaning of the Constitution. |
| Play Flash Video |
| Session III: The Constitution and the Civil War
Dr. Paul Moreno
Senior Fellow, Kirby Center; Dean of Faculty; William and Berniece Grewcock Chair in Constitutional History
and Associate Professor of History, Hillsdale College
The Constitution endured its greatest crisis
in the Civil War. This session gives an account of Abraham Lincoln’s statesmanship and constitutional efforts to preserve
the Union. | | Play Flash Video |
| Session IV: The Progressives’ Constitution
Dr. Ronald Pestritto
Senior Fellow, Kirby Center; Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in the American Constitution and Associate
Professor of Political Science, Hillsdale College
Rejecting the principles of the American
founders, the Progressives advanced political and moral “values” in their place. This session, emphasizing the
thought of Woodrow Wilson, examines the Progressive movement and its understanding of the Constitution. |
| Play Flash Video |
| Session V: The Administrative State and the Duties of Citizens
Dr.
Larry P. Arnn
President, Hillsdale College
The administrative
state—more than just “big government”—advances a theory of human nature and the rule of experts. How
should citizens think about the Constitution in an age that largely ignores it? And how can they act upon the constitutional
principles on which the country was founded? | | Play Flash Video |
| Educating For Liberty | | Play Flash Video |
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Klansman turned preacher keeping King’s dream
aliveBy Paul Bello, Staff writer Rev. Johnny Lee Clary learned to hate at a young age. A one-time member of the Ku Klux Klan,
he was brought up in a racist household in Miami, Okla., where the mistreatment of blacks was encouraged. After seeing
his father commit suicide, at age 11, Clary’s mother abandoned him. He would eventually wind up living alone in Los
Angeles, Ca. and join the Klan when he was 14.
He returned to Oklahoma shortly
after and spent the next 16 years rising through the ranks of the Klan. Without a stable family life, Clary confessed it was
the only family he had at the time.
That was then.
Today, Clary is a born-again Christian who travels around the
world preaching the gospel and mentoring youth groups against a life of crime. As the keynote speaker during a celebration
honoring the late Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Thursday, Clary told an audience at Fort Belvoir Officers’ Club he has
just one thing on his mind these days.
Go to the article here. **********************************************************************
Senator (and Dr.) Tom Coburn spoke for a lot of us in explaining his vote against the Democrats' bill on Christmas Eve: This vote is indeed historic. This Congress will be remembered for
its arrogance, corruption and stupidity. In the year of 2009, a Congress ignored the coming economic storm and impending bankruptcy
of our entitlement programs and embarked on an ideological crusade to bring our nation as close to single-payer, government-run
health care as possible. If this bill becomes law, future generations will rue this day and I will do everything in my power
to work toward its repeal. This bill will ration care, cut Medicare, increase premiums, fund abortion and bury our children
in debt. This process was not compromise.
This process was corruption. This bill passed because votes were bought and sold using the issue of abortion as a bargaining
chip. The abortion provision alone makes this bill the most arrogant piece of legislation I have seen in Congress. Only the
most condescending politician can believe it is appropriate to force Americans to pay for other people's abortions and to
coerce medical professional to take the lives of unborn children.
Reverse the Vote! Click here to see the 24 Democrats who voted to take away your healthcare and put it in the hands of federal bureaucrats. Now
is your chance to hold them accountable and force them into a choice…reverse their vote or change their career.
Every dollar donated through that site will be evenly distributed to the 24 challengers who will oppose these Democrats. ******************************************************************
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Ronald Reagan's 1961 Radio Address on Socialized
Medicine: Here *******************************************************************
****************************************************** September
11, 2001 Tribute: Video Here ******************************************************
Here is a list of Obama’s current and prospective Czar positions…
Published July 24th, 2009...
1. Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak) Czar: Richard Holbrooke
2. AIDS Czar: Jeffrey Crowley
3. Autism Czar: Not
appointed yet.
4. Auto Recovery Czar: Ed Montgomery
5. Behavioral Science Czar: Not appointed yet.
6. Bailout
Czar: Herbert Allison Jr.
7. Border Czar: Alan Bersin
8. Car Czar: Ron Bloom
9. Climate Change Czar: Todd
Stern
10. Copyright Czar: Not appointed yet.
11. Counterterrorism Czar: John Brennan
12. Cybersecurity Czar:
Not appointed yet.
13. Disinformation Czar: Linda Douglass
14. Domestic Violence Czar: Lynn Rosenthal
15. Drug
Czar: Gil Kerlikowske
16. Economic Czar: Larry Summers
17. Economic Czar II: Paul Volcker
18. Education Czar:
Arne Duncan
19. Energy Czar: Carol M. Browner
20. Food Safety Czar: Michael Taylor
21. Government Performance
Czar: Jeffrey Zients
22. Great Lakes Czar: Cameron Davis
23. Green Jobs Czar: Van Jones - Left office 9/5/2009,
new one not appointed yet.
24. Guantanomo Closure Czar: Daniel Fried
25. Health Czar: Nancy-Ann DeParle
26.
Infotech Czar: Vivek Kundra
27. Intelligence Czar: Admiral Dennis Blair
28. Latin-American Czar: Arturo Valenzuela
29. Mideast Peace Czar: George Mitchell
30. Mideast Policy Czar: Dennis Ross
31. Pay Czar: Kenneth Feinberg
32. Regulatory Czar: Cass Sunstein
33. Religion Czar: Joshua Dubois
34. Safe Schools Czar: Kevin Jennings
35. Science Czar: John Holdren
36. Stimulus Oversight Czar: Earl Devaney
37. Sudan Czar: J. Scott Gration
38. TARP Czar: Elizabeth Warren
39. Technology Czar: Aneesh Chopra
40. Trade Czar: Ron Kirk
41. Urban Affairs/Housing
Czar: Adolfo Carrion
42. War Czar: Douglas Lute
43. Water Czar: David J. Hayes
44. Weapons Czar: Ashton Carter
45. Weapons of Mass Destruction Czar: Gary Samore
Czars not yet vetted: More to come…
1. Income
Redistribution Czar: Not appointed yet.
2. Consumer Financial Protection Czar, aka Mortgage Czar: Not appointed yet.
3. Land-Use Czar: Not appointed yet.
4. Radio-Internet Fairness Czar: Not appointed yet.
5. Student Loan Czar:
Not appointed yet.
6. Voter List Czar: Not appointed yet.
7. Zoning Czar: Not appointed yet. **************************************************
The following list of H.R. 3200 supporters was compiled by Libertychick.com. If you are a member of one of these
organizations, contact them for verification. AARP
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
ACCSES
Aetna
AFL-CIO
AFSCME
AIDS Institute
Alexander
Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Alliance for Better Health Care Coalition:
Alliance of
Community Health Plans
American Academy of Dermatology and AAD Association
American Academy of Family Physicians
American Academy of Nursing
American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
American Association of
People with Disabilities
American Association on Health and Disability
American Association on Intellectual and
Developmental Disabilities
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
American College of Physicians
American College of Surgeons
American Medical Association
American Medical Rehabilitation Providers Association
American Medical Student Association / Foundation
American Network of Community Options and Resources
American
Occupational Therapy Association
American Osteopathic Association
American Psychiatric Association
American
Public Health Association
American society of Health-System Pharmacists
American Therapeutic Recreation Association
Amputee Coalition of America
Association for Community Affiliated Plans
Association for Professionals in Infection
Control and Epidemiology
Association of Departments of Family Medicine
Association of Family Medicine Residency
Directors
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Association of State and Territorial Health Officials
Association of University Centers on Disabilities
Autism Society
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
Brain Injury Association of America
Breast Cancer Action
Building and Construction Trades Department, AFL-CIO
Burton Blatt Institute
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Cancer Prevention and Treatment Fund (of the National
Research Center for Women & Families)
Center for Medical Consumers
Center for Medicare Advocacy
Coalition
for Health Services Research
Coalition of Full Service Community Hospitals
Communications Workers of America
Community Catalyst
Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities:
Consumers Union
Council for Exceptional
Children
Council of Parent Attorney’s and Advocates
Council of State Administrators of Vocational Rehabilitation
Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists
CVS Caremark
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
Doctors for America
Easter Seals
Epilepsy Foundation
Express Scripts
Families USA
Family
Voices
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Group Health Cooperative
Health Dialog
Healthcare for
America Now
Helen Keller National Center
Higher Education Consortium for Special Education
Infectious Diseases
Society of America
International Association of Fire Fighters
International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers
Kaiser Permanente
Lutheran Services in America
Main Street Alliance
March of Dimes
Marshfield Clinic
Mental Health America
MoveOn.Org
National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Association for the Advancement
of Orthotics and Prosthetics
National Association of Community Health Centers
National Association of County &
City Health Officials
National Association of State Head Injury Administrators
National Breast Cancer Coalition
National Coalition on Deaf-Blindness
National Coalition on Health Care
National Consumers League
National
Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare
National Council on Independent Living
National Disability Rights
Network
National Down Syndrome Congress
National Education Association
National Medical Association
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
National Partnership for Women & Families
National Physicians Alliance
National Respite Coalition
National Spinal Cord Injury Association
National Women’s Health Network
National Women’s Law Center
North American Primary Care Research Group
Our Bodies Ourselves
Paralyzed
Veterans of America
Patient and Consumer Coalition
Pew Charitable Trusts & Community Catalyst
SEIU
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America
Society of General Internal Medicine
Society of Hospital Medicine
Society of Teachers of Family Medicine
Special Olympics
The Arc of the United States
THE TMJ Association
Trust for America’s Health
U.S. PIRG
United American Nurses
United Auto Workers
United Cerebral
Palsy
United Spinal Association
United Steelworkers
US Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Voices for
America’s Children
YMCA *********************************************
Ballot Language and Order for the November 3rd, 2009 Constitutional
Amendment Election
En Español - Elección de Enmiendas Constitucionales del 3 de Noviembre de 2009
Proposition 1
HJR 132 (History of HJR 132)
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the financing,
including through tax increment financing, of the acquisition by municipalities and counties of buffer areas or open spaces
adjacent to a military installation for the prevention of encroachment or for the construction of roadways, utilities, or
other infrastructure to protect or promote the mission of the military installation."
Proposition 2
HJR 36-1
(History of HJR 36-1)
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to provide for the ad valorem
taxation of a residence homestead solely on the basis of the property's value as a residence homestead."
Proposition
3
HJR 36-3 (History of HJR 36-3)
"The constitutional amendment providing for uniform standards and
procedures for the appraisal of property for ad valorem tax purposes."
Proposition 4
HJR 14-2 (History of
HJR 14-2)
"The constitutional amendment establishing the national research university fund to enable emerging
research universities in this state to achieve national prominence as major research universities and transferring the balance
of the higher education fund to the national research university fund."
Proposition 5
HJR 36-2 (History of
HJR 36-2)
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the legislature to authorize a single board of equalization
for two or more adjoining appraisal entities that elect to provide for consolidated equalizations."
Proposition
6
HJR 116 (History of HJR 116)
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the Veterans' Land Board to
issue general obligation bonds in amounts equal to or less than amounts previously authorized."
Proposition 7
HJR 127 (History of HJR 127)
"The constitutional amendment to allow an officer or enlisted member of the
Texas State Guard or other state militia or military force to hold other civil offices."
Proposition 8
HJR
7 (History of HJR 7)
"The constitutional amendment authorizing the state to contribute money, property, and
other resources for the establishment, maintenance, and operation of veterans hospitals in this state."
Proposition
9
HJR 102 (History of HJR 102)
"The constitutional amendment to protect the right of the public, individually
and collectively, to access and use the public beaches bordering the seaward shore of the Gulf of Mexico."
Proposition
10
HJR 85 (History of HJR 85)
"The constitutional amendment to provide that elected members of the
governing boards of emergency services districts may serve terms not to exceed four years."
Proposition 11
HJR 14-1 (History of HJR 14-1)
"The constitutional amendment to prohibit the taking, damaging, or destroying
of private property for public use unless the action is for the ownership, use, and enjoyment of the property by the State,
a political subdivision of the State, the public at large, or entities granted the power of eminent domain under law or for
the elimination of urban blight on a particular parcel of property, but not for certain economic development or enhancement
of tax revenue purposes, and to limit the legislature's authority to grant the power of eminent domain to an entity."
From the Texas Secretary of State: Here ------------------------------------------------------------------- A Retired Doctor Explains Why H.R. 3200 on Health Care is Bad
for America: Here A Doctor, Representative, and Member of the House Health Care Committee Comments on H.R. 3200: Here Watch Democrats Admit their Strategy for a Single Payer Health Care System: Here --------------------------------------------------------------
Resolution on Healthcare Reform
Passed by the Texas Federation
of Republican Women
On July 31, 2009
Whereas, the healthcare bill put forth by President Obama and
the Democrat members of Congress will create a complicated bureaucracy of government offices and programs that come between
patients and healthcare providers; and,
Whereas, the bill creates cumbersome and expensive
mandates that interfere with the patient-doctor relationship; and,
Whereas, the Congressional
Budget Office has determined that the bill will cost the taxpayers trillions of dollars resulting in substantial tax increases;
and,
Whereas, the bill ultimately would result in government run healthcare and government
control of insurance options; and
Whereas, the bill would lead to a government-controlled
healthcare system similar to the ones found in England and Canada, where patients must wait months for care that currently
is routine in the United States; and
Whereas, most citizens agree that the U.S. healthcare
system is the best in the world, and that U.S. healthcare costs need reform and overall provision needs improvement,
the Republican congressional leadership has unveiled plans to provide greater choices of doctors, hospitals and health plans,
greater tax fairness and simplification, the ability to buy insurance across state lines, greater health care price disclosure,
more competition between facilities, and utilizing free market system and preserving freedom of choice;
Therefore, be it resolved that the Texas Federation of Republican Women asks our congressional representatives
to oppose any legislation that imposes any government control over our health care, increased government mandates or price
controls, new government programs or the expansion of existing programs; and
Further,
be it resolved that the Texas Federation of Republican Women urges passage of healthcare reform which results in more
affordable healthcare through a competitive, open, and transparent health care system including TORT reform where America's
families choose their own doctor and health care plans.
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Video of AARP Meeting, Dallas, August 4:
Here
Video of Rep. Pete Sessions' Town Hall on August 5: Here ************************************************
Ronald Reagan gave this speech about socialized medicince in 1961: As
if we’re not already overextended enough financially, the issue of National Health Care is now on the table once more
vote. Here’s some perspective you might find interesting. Now back in 1927 an American
socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would
never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist
program. One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been
by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project. Most people are a little
reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can’t afford it. Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine and gave them a chance to choose, would
unhesitatingly vote against it. We had an example of this. Under the Truman administration it was proposed that we have a
compulsory health insurance program for all people in the United States, and, of course, the American people unhesitatingly
rejected this. Let’s take a look at social security itself. Again, very few of us disagree
with the original premise that there should be some form of savings that would keep destitution from following unemployment
by reason of death, disability or old age. And to this end, social security was adopted, but it was never intended to supplant
private savings, private insurance, pension programs of unions and industries. Now in our country
under our free enterprise system we have seen medicine reach the greatest heights that it has in any country in the world.
Today, the relationship between patient and doctor in this country is something to be envied any place. The privacy, the care
that is given to a person, the right to chose a doctor, the right to go from one doctor to the other. But let’s also look from the other side, at the freedom the doctor loses. A doctor would be reluctant to say
this. Well, like you, I am only a patient, so I can say it in his behalf. The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it’s like
telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided
among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren’t equally divided geographically, so a doctor
decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can’t live in that town, they already
have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go.
This is a freedom that I wonder whether any of us have the right to take from any human being. All of us
can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man’s working place and his
working methods, determine his employment. From here it is a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay
and pretty soon your children won’t decide when they’re in school where they will go or what they will do for
a living. They will wait for the government to tell them where they will go to work and what they will do What can we do about this? Well, you and I can do a great deal. We can write to our congressmen and our senators.
We can say right now that we want no further encroachment on these individual liberties and freedoms. And at the moment, the
key issue is, we do not want socialized medicine. Former Representative Halleck of Indiana has
said, “When the American people want something from Congress, regardless of its political complexion, if they make their
wants known, Congress does what the people want.” So write, and if your representative
writes back to you and tells you that he or she too is for free enterprise, that we have these great services and so forth,
that must be performed by government, don’t let them get away with it. Show that you have not been convinced. Write
a letter right back and tell them that you believe in government economy and fiscal responsibility; that you know governments
don’t tax to get the money the need; governments will always find a need for the money they get and that you demand
the continuation of our free enterprise system. You and I can do this. The only way we can do it is by writing to our congressmen
even we believe that he is on our side to begin with. Write to strengthen his hand. Give him the ability to stand before his
colleagues in Congress and say “I have heard from my constituents and this is what they want.” Write those letters now; call your friends and them to write them. If you don’t, this program I promise you
will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade
every area of freedom as we have known it in this country. Until, one day, as Normal Thomas said we will awake to find that
we have socialism. And if you don’t do this and if I don’t do it, one of these days we are going to spend our
sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free.
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How Does Your Congressman Stack Up on the Issues? ------------------------------- A Hero's Salute - Staff Sargeant John C. Beale comes home. Please watch this moving video of a community's response to the death of a U.S. Army sergeant in Iraq. The video was
taped on June 11, 2009 and runs 12 minutes. Staff Sargeant John C. Beale was killed in action in Iraq and his body was
returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia, just south of Atlanta. He was escorted by the Henry County Police
Department to the funeral home in McDonough, Georgia. The community came out to honor him after notices appeared in local
papers. It was filmed by a Georgia State Trooper. ------------------------------- Missile
Defense Update 9/18/09 from the Heritage Foundation: The
decision to abandon the “third site” deployment of 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar in the Czech
Republic violates President Obama’s pledge to support missile defense that is “pragmatic and cost-effective.” Ground based missile defense is effective, affordable, and available now. According to the Congressional Budget Office, alternatives to the third site do not provide a comparable level of defense. The CBO concluded that the estimated $9-14
billion 20-year cost of the third site was half of the estimated costs of a sea-based alternative. Abandoning our best missile
defense option in Europe only encourages Iran to speed up their ballistic missile program so that they can get their threat in place before a European missile defense system is available. The Poles and the Czechs know what it means to live under the boot of Russian domination.
The third-site issue is of huge symbolic importance to both nations, and if Moscow emerges the victor, with an effective veto
over U.S. policy in Europe, it would represent a massive surrender of American strategic influence and a betrayal of two of its closest friends in the region. Go
to 33minutes.com for more on missile defense, the threat posed to us and our allies by nuclear weapons, and the action plan necessary to revive
a strategic missile defense system that only America can develop, maintain, and employ for its own defense and the peace-loving
world’s security.
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