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Sunday
May052013

Andy Martin opens conference with "Obama's children: the Tsarnaevs"

New Hampshire author Andy Martin says the Boston Bombers - the Tsarnaev Brothers - are “Obama’s children”

 

Andy says President Obama’s “America-is-in-decline” approach to world affairs is the true source of Muslim radicalization

 

There is no “self-radicalization,” Andy says; Obama himself is the source of Muslim radicalization

 

(NEW YORK) (May 5, 2013) 

 

Dear Reader:

 

On April 21st, the New York Times’ respected liberal columnist Thomas L. Friedman referred to President Obama’s “Muslim grandfather.” (Please see Link #1 below). Seven days later, Friedman again referred to “Obama’s “Muslim grandfather.” (Link #1)

 

It is almost unimaginable today, but nine years ago when I first raised the issue of then-Senatorial candidate Barack Obama’s religion I was attacked by the media for telling the truth. The same New York Times that today allows Friedman to link “Obama’s grandfather” to Islam, in 2008 sought to demonize me by publishing a front-page story making all sorts of false accusations (please see Link #2).

 

So what’s happened? What’s changed since 2004? Well, Friedman, who has lived in the Islamic world, knows the truth. Islam descends through the father, not the mother. For Friedman to repeatedly state that Obama has a “Muslim grandfather,” while politely overlooking Obama’s putative Muslim father, is to point directly at President Obama’s Muslim roots as a source of our problems in the Muslim world. Friedman may be suggesting, inferentially, that Obama’s heritage is more of an influence and more of a problem than Friedman originally anticipated.

 

People can change their religion; President Obama says he has done so. But people can’t change their culture and values. Obama says he hasn’t. Obama told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that Obama had a total recall of the Muslim muezzin call to prayer (see link #3).

 

Obama may claim to have left behind his Muslim roots. But young Muslims such as the Tsarnaev Brothers reject Obama’s “conversion” to Christianity. The Tsarnaevs see our president as a Muslim who has never publicly rejected his family’s faith. Thomas Friedman’s continuing concern with Obama’s family religion is testimony to the fact others agree with me.

 

Obama’s 2009 Cairo speech and Obama’s constant overtures to radical Muslim nations may be the real reason the Boston Bombers “self-radicalized.” The Tsarnaev brothers may be “Obama’s children.”

 

I am not for a moment suggesting President Obama intentionally or directly encouraged the bombings. But, indirectly, Obama’s complacent and compliant attitude toward radical Islam has created the conditions and circumstances where young Islamists are not “self-radicalizing” but rather radicalizing directly in response to Obama's stimulus.

 

After all, why are only Muslims “self-radicalizing?” Lots of people have grievances, all over the world. They are not committing terrorist acts.

 

When I began to study Barack Obama in depth in 2004 I was alone. The media were spoon-fed Obama’s propaganda.

 

When I landed in Honolulu five (5) years ago, I was the first scholar to conduct independent research into Obama’s past.

 

Although I am credited with creating what the media sought to call the “Birther” movement, I had and have nothing to do with some of the thieves and crackpots that have sought to profit from false claims about Obama’s birth. I have found no evidence that Obama was born anywhere but Honolulu. Even the New York Times was forced to admit I clearly differentiate between fact and theory (see Link #2).

 

In fact, the reason Obama’s henchmen have attacked me so relentlessly over the years is precisely because I only seek to find the facts and to search for the truth.

 

You can see the short film I produced at www.boycotthawaii.com which prompted other researchers to produce their own films. In other words, over the past nine years I have been and continue to be a catalyst for research and investigation into Obama’s origins.

 

For the past five years I have convened an annual conference in Washington, DC to discuss my research into Obama, and to present my theories about where we are headed in the future (www.nationalconferenceonobama.blogspot.com).

 

This year we are combining the national conference with sponsorship by Contrarian Commentary, and we are holding our meetings in Honolulu beginning May 8th. This is your opportunity and invitation to attend the conference, to financially support the continuing investigation, and to help us spread and share the ongoing research. We kept a lid on the conference with this late announcement because we have some explosive leads that we are pursuing in Honolulu.

 

When we began planning the 2013 meeting a couple of people said to me, “Why bother, the election is over?” First, the “election is not over.” Obama will be in power for three more years. Need I say more?

 

Second, many of the seeds Obama planted in his first term took time to germinate. “Self-radicalization” is one of them. Obama’s unwillingness to stand up for America, and his refusal to defend our values against competing “values” from the less civilized world, have now created a cotillion of continuing terrorism.

 

Many liberals were offended when conservatives attacked Obama for not defending American “values,” and for appointing an Attorney General who refuses to even mouth the term “Islamic terrorism.”

 

Anyone who has ever been an avid gardener, as I am, knows plants can take years to grow to maturity, and some plants are just slow starters. I have a plant that went in the ground five years ago; many times I thought he had died, but he is sprouting this year. Likewise, political doctrines do not create an instant response. That is why the Tsarnaev Brothers may be “Obama’s children.” It took time for their violent anti-American attitudes to explode into the reality of the Boston bombings.

 

Since Obama started planting his seeds in 2009 he has mismanaged (sabotaged?) the federal bureaucracy so as to limit counterterrorism activity. Today, Obama's so-called “self-radicalized” seeds are bearing bitter fruit. Obama planted a lot of seeds in the past four years. The Tsarnaev Brothers are not alone.

 

If ordinary Americans are not prepared to break through the relentless propaganda of the Obama Administration (Benghazi: “what difference does it make?; Benghazi: “that was along time ago”) then we can expect more anti-American activity from Obama’s children.

 

It is Obama himself who has radicalized the Muslim world. He has created and presented a portrait of America as being in decline, a helpless and hapless nation. Obama’s actions are “radicalizing” Islamic extremists. There is no such thing as “self-radicalizing.” College students respond to incitement from their environment and from their national leaders. That is why I have labeled the Tsarnaev Brothers “Obama’s children.” There are many more “Obama children” out there.

 

Please be sure to pass these comments along to your family and friends. Right now I am perhaps the only source labeling Obama’s bogus “self-radicalization” claims what they are: the fruits of Obama’s surrender to the Muslim world over the past four years.

 

It took Tom Friedman five years to catch up with the reality that Obama was raised in a Muslim family. What are the media ignoring today that they will only admit five years from now when it is too late? At ContrarianCommentary we like to say we “see over the horizon.” Our work in 2004 looks pretty good in retrospect. That’s the best reason to support our continuing efforts.

 

Won’t you join us in Honolulu for a scintillating and controversial conference, or support our work with a contribution if you can’t attend in person?

 

Respectfully,

 

Andy Martin

 

P.S. While my research into Obama is independent and scholarly, I do not hide my own Republican views. The Republican Party’s internal incompetence, in Illinois in 2004, and nationally in 2008 and 2012, has done a great deal to facilitating Obama’s rise to power. While I try to keep scholarly research and investigation separate from partisan politics, there is no denying that Republican Party failures to confront Obama and to understand the threat he poses to the United States have allowed him to endanger our national security. At a time when Christians in the military are threatened with prosecution for “proselytizing,” President Obama has been very subtly proselytizing the Muslim world to rise up against America. Facts are facts. The truth is the truth. The Tsarnaev Brothers are the fruits of Obama’s efforts.

Friday
May032013

MMD - Are you sick and tired of being called a racist for simply opposing Obama's policies?

New Book Press Release:



Are you sick and tired of being called a racist for simply opposing Obama's policies?

Discover why every conservative in America must read the explosive book, Racism Schmacism: How Liberals Use the "R" Word to Push the Obama Agenda, by veteran talk radio host James Edwards.

May 2, 2013 (MMD Newswire) - - If you're like James Edwards, you've had it up to here watching the conservative movement spin its wheels, making lots of noise but never going anywhere. You're fed up with attending Tea Parties and other protest rallies, hoping to make a powerful statement about big government, only to spend most of your time listening to a bunch of wimps insisting they aren't racists.

You see, it's no accident--it's happening in city after city, all over America, for one simple reason--because liberals and race hustlers know that tossing out the "R word" is all they have to do to shut down conservative dissent. In fact, it's the whole point of all this "racism" business.To keep us so busy trying to prove we're not racists that we don't get a chance to make our point.

It works every time because conservatives just don't get it. We haven't grasped what's really behind all these constant charges of racism that the media, liberals and race hustlers are constantly hurling at us. If we really "got it," we wouldn't spend another precious minute of our time worrying about being called "racists," let alone bothering to respond to it. We could get on with addressing the real issues that are vital to the future of our country. But not 1 in 100 conservatives have figured out what's going on.

You see, James Edwards gets it. In his powerful book, he lays the truth right out there because he caught on a long time ago to the game the radical leftists are playing with the R word. Liberals know that the average, decent American believes the word "racist" means someone who hates people of another race, and wants to harm them.

So, naturally, when the media and liberals call conservative activists "racists," they're horrified, and will do anything to try to prove they're not racists. In fact, they'll spend so much time trying to do that, they accomplish little else. Which is exactly why leftists toss the word around like confetti.They know it's a surefire way of stopping conservatives in their tracks.

But here's a dirty little secret that James exposes in Racism, Schmacism. When liberals and race hustlers use the word "racist," it doesn't have the meaning it used to have--someone filled with hate and animosity for other races. No, when the race hustlers and leftists use the word "racist," they simply mean "conservative white person." Period. Until you get this, you will never understand politics in modern day America.

In this brilliant (and often hilarious) new book, James Edwards proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that in today's politically correct climate, "racist" simply means "white person" or "conservative white person." And "racism" is simply anything a white person does that minorities and leftists don't approve of.

Once you've finished it you'll never look at politics the same way again and you'll certainly never be a sucker for underhanded liberal smear tactics!

About James Edwards:
- Veteran radio host (nine years) at AM 1380 WLRM and AM 1600 WMQM - Memphis, TN
- Seen on CNN, MSNBC, C-SPAN, and covered by newspapers and magazines around the world, such as: the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the London Times, and Newsweek
- Speaking engagements have included a press conference at D.C.'s National Press Club
- Author of Racism Schmacism: How Liberals Use the "R" Word to Push the Obama Agenda
- Has been named an "Honorary City Councilman" in Memphis, Tennessee, where his show has received a certificate of recognition for outstanding contribution to the community

James Edwards is available for interviews.


Email: media@thepoliticalcesspool.org
Website: www.thepoliticalcesspool.org/book

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See full press release with images here:
http://mmdnewswire.com/james-edwards-racism-schmacism-obama-agenda-129804.html

Thursday
May022013

CEI Today: Obama Housing nominee, new Windsorgate emails, and the Bangladesh building collapse

OBAMA HOUSING NOMINEE - JOHN BERLAU

Openmarket.org: Housing Nominee Watt Flunks Privacy and Transparency Tests

Two prerequisites for any nominee for government posts is dedication to transparency in government and a respect for the privacy of citizens. Before we get to any other issue about Rep. Mel Watt, D-N.C.,  President Obama’s expected nominee to be director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, which oversees the government housing entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, we must first get past his troubling record on two issues regarding these concerns in which he was on the opposite side of bipartisan good-government coalitions. > Read more

> Interview John Berlau

 

WINDSORGATE - CHRISTOPHER HORNER


Daily Caller: EPA chief used alias to email with environmentalists

Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter has released more emails from former Environmental Protection Agency chief Lisa Jackson’s alias email account — Richard Windsor — revealing that Jackson was using the account to correspond with environmentalists.

“So, an email account created in the name of a fictitious employee was indeed affirmatively used to present that false identity,” Competitive Enterprise Institute senior fellow Chris Horner told The Daily Caller News Foundation, the man behind the lawsuit that forced the EPA to turn over the Richard Windsor emails.

“This shreds, again, the flimsy claim of Windsor apologists that this wasn’t an effort to hide anything, or make anyone think these emails were anyone else’s,” Horner added. “This was nothing but a fun way to do what everyone else has done. Except for that part about everyone else using their own identity.”
  > Read more

> Interview Chris Horner

 

CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY - FRED SMITH

AirTalk with Lary Mantle: Who is responsible for building safety in countries like Bangladesh?


With the death toll well past 400 people and an unknown number still missing after the Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh, thousands of people marched through the streets of Bangladesh this May Day.

The founder and chairman of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, Fred Smith, said that responsibility lies with the factory owner, who knew about the crack in the building.

 

Smith said that the bigger issue is the moral responsibility to increase the wealth of poorer countries. He asked on AirTalk, “How do we find ways of recognizing that our greatest moral responsibility is to help the poor people of the world get wealthier so they can afford the safer, longer life societies like we have?” > Read more

> Interview Fred Smith

 

 

CEI ANNUAL DINNER & GALA

FEATURING

THE HONORABLE RAND PAUL


JUNE 20, 2013

 


cei.org/ceidinner

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Wednesday
May012013

CEI Today: Obama recess appointments, cheese ban protests, and how unions harm workers 

OBAMA RECESS APPOINTMENTS  - JOHN BERLAU

Openmarket.org: Did Hensarling Force Obama’s Hand On “Recess” Appointments?

 

They called it a “stunt” early last week when House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) refused to allow Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) director Richard Cordray to testify due to the constitutional cloud over Cordray’s appointment. But this “stunt” just may have forced the Obama administration’s hand in submitting a brief later in the week urging the Supreme Court to resolve the issue.  > Read the full commentary


> Interview John Berlau

CHEESE BAN - HANS BADER

Openmarket.org: U.S. Government Bans French Cheese Based On Food Prejudices

The U.S. government is banning a standard, normal-smelling French cheese based on its own squeamishness. The cheese in question is Mimolette, a commonplace, orange French cheese. The ban has triggered protests in New York City.

Who cares if it has tiny, invisible mites in it? The cheese mites in Mimolette are there to enhance its flavor: as Wikipedia notes, the “crust of aged Mimolette is the result of cheese mites intentionally introduced to add flavor by their action on the surface of the cheese.”
 > Read more

> Interview Hans Bader

 

LABOR UNIONS - IAIN MURRAY

National Review: The Life of Julius

Remember the White House’s poster child for welfare dependency, Julia? Meet Julius. Julius is the star of a new original production from my team at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and narrated by AlfonZo Rachel, “The Life of Julius: How Unions Hurt Workers.” Julius is a fictional character, but his aspirations, hopes, and values are shared by every American. He wants opportunity and economic security. He wants his years of hard work to mean some level of comfort in his retirement.


Unfortunately, labor-union bosses, and the politicians and laws they support, continually frustrate Julius’s prosperity in ways both large and small, both obvious and subtle. > Read more

You can see Julius’s story, and learn more about unions’ effects on the economy at WorkPlaceChoice.

 

CEI ANNUAL DINNER & GALA

FEATURING

THE HONORABLE RAND PAUL


JUNE 20, 2013

 


cei.org/ceidinner

 

CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website, cei.org, and blogs, Globalwarming.org and OpenMarket.org.  Follow CEI on Twitter! Twitter.com/ceidotorg.

Saturday
Apr202013

"The Day the Obama Administration Died"-Andy Martin on the politics of "Boston" 

I had originally intended to write on the geography and religion of the Boston terrorists. But while I plan a second column on my analysis later today, there is already a lot of lamestream media work being done on those issues.

The question the mainstream media will not touch is whether “Boston” makes the effective end of the Obama administration. I believe that it does.

Nine years ago I wrote the first article that linked Barack Obama to the Muslim religion. Since 2004, Obama and his minions have tried to “terrorize” me into submission. Yet the facts I articulated in 2004 have never been rebutted and have acquired general legitimacy. Most recently, the Washington Post’s David Maraniss was forced to accept and credit what I had written.

But the scope of this column is not to debate whether Obama is a Muslim or not. That is not the issue today. If put to a vote, I suspect more people would accept my facts about Obama’s religion – that he is a “Christian of convenience” – than would support Obama’s version. But here is Obama’s real problem: Americans do not trust him on Muslim issues.

In 2009 Obama gave his infamous “Cairo speech” where he began what many called an “apology tour” for American sins against Islam, and what Obama somewhat injudiciously called a “New Beginning.” (please see link #1 below).

Then there was the “workplace violence” of Major Nidal Hasan, where an army officer shouting Allah Akbar killed fellow soldiers and is still awaiting trial (please see group link #2 below). Workplace violence?

The Boston Bombing crisis is going to drag on. News reports indicate that authorities are trying to capture the remaining Bomber alive, to determine if he has accomplices “out there” and whether he is linked to terror networks. A live capture would be great for the CIA and our intelligence agencies, but not so good for Obama. As the crisis and the investigations drag on, the Obama Administration will become increasingly distracted.

Yesterday Obama gave a stirring speech about the rebirth of the Marathon in 2014. People might not have been cheering Obama so openly if they had known that Muslim extremists were the source of mayhem and death. But Obama’s speechifying may become less welcome as links between Homeland Security and the Obama White House show a cool attitude towards fighting terrorism.

In fact, when Obama came into office over four years ago, he banished use of the word “terrorism” and banned the term “war on terror.” Is the war on terror still “Banned in Boston?” No so any longer. I never believed Obama could simply wish terrorism and the war on terror away. The terrorists still had and have a big voice in whether they can simply be ignored or whether they will go quietly into the night. Not last night, at least.

Can anyone point to a single terrorist who has surrendered, or a single terrorist act that has been prevented, because of Obama’s “New Beginning” towards Islam?

The great investigative and police work which is being done in Boston is being produced by our day-to-day non-policy-making employees. It was the new national security structure implemented under George W. Bush that allowed the FBI and others to capture the bombers in a matter of hours. Obama’s contribution to national security? He denied that terrorism exists, and claimed that a war on terror was unnecessary.

Obama, moreover, has demoralized federal employees with his “sequester shenanigans.”

This weekend Obama is supposed to unleash another war – against the American people when he tries to harass millions of air travelers by sequestering the workers who protect aviation security. That’s not the best public relations approach in the middle of a terrorism crisis.

Capitol Hill will convene hearings on “what happened in Boston?” Senator Grassley has already announced that the Boston Bombing will derail and delay a new immigration statute. There will be  other delays and distractions until the questions about “Boston” are finally resolved.

And there is more bad news for Obama.

While an armed terrorist is lurching somewhere in suburban Boston, the State of Massachusetts prides itself on some of the toughest gun laws in the United States. If I lived in Watertown – a town were I had a bank account and where one of my favorite restaurants is located – what I would want is a gun to protect myself, yes, an assault rifle, an AR-15. Instead, people are being told to lock their doors while the murderer lies out there somewhere in their backyard possibly armed with a suicide vest. If there is a stronger case to be made for having weapons at home, I don’t see it. “Watertown” will bury any further gun control efforts.

And so, slowly, the Obama administration will grind to a halt while it tries to address the problems created by the Boston Bombers.

I went to Washington in 1965 and went to work there in 1966. I saw what happens when unexpected circumstances intervene. The mainstream media are justifiably focused on capturing the remaining bomber. But as someone who has spent almost a half century in the political process, I can tell you this is the Day the Obama Administration Died.

Oh, Obama will fight back with more lofty speeches, more vacuous proposals, and more relentless and divisive campaigning. But his ability to mobilize and accomplish will be curtailed to the point of ineffectiveness. Obama has given Democrats a great issue to run on in 2014: gun control. We all know how that tuned out before.

The Boston Bombers have done something that perhaps no one else could have accomplished: they have rekindled sotto voce discussion about Obama’s links to and sympathy for Islam. “George Bush kept America Safe after 9/11; Under Barack Obama, Islamic terrorism returned to our shores.”

Welcome to the real world, President Obama.

As for the Obama Administration? R.I.P.