April 22, 2026

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Senator Chuck Schumer To Introduce Tough Trade Sanctions Against China This Week? – William R. Collier Jr.

Sources on the Hill have revealed that Senator Charles Schumer is going to unveil a plan this week that is the equivalent of “a declaration of trade war” against China. The bill’s details are known beyond the general outline, which is to sanction China for what are deemed “unfair trade practices.”

Another source, who is familiar with the story and who is an expert in international finance, noted that, “what’s likely to happen is that this bill, if it is introduced and passed, will result in China taking the US to the WTO, where the US will likely lose and be forced to pay damages.”  According to this source, “the amount of money involved in the dispute is less than a rounding error when compared to our GDP.”

This proposal, if it comes forth, could be calculated to inspire the Democrat base, represented by the radical leftists who are staging a small but disruptive protest on Wall Street. “Occupy Wall Sttreet” is a protest that is being financed by George Soros and other progressive elites and that is being organized by pro-Obama organizations, including labor unions, various Progressive radical groups, and the Communist Party of the USA, which endorsed Obama in 2008 and is callinfg for his re-election.  The protestors are calling for, among other things, an end to capitalism, the use of force, if necessary, against “the rich” to compel them to give up their wealth, and the re-election of President Obama.

Unions have long criticized China’s trade policies, blaming “shipping jobs overseas” for much of the nation’s woes.

It is not uncommon for unpopular governments to gin up tensions overseas and blame foreign powers for the present domestic situation, however Schumer’s possible motivations are not known.

China’s trade policies have long been considered to be unfair and both Tea Party activists and leftists have tended to agree, in principle, that the Chinese are generally bad for business. Among the complaints are dumping of Chinese goods to decimate domestic producers, artificially suppressing the value of the Chinese currency, stealing copyrighted content and patented technologies, and “massive industrial espionage.”

Free traders will doubtless balk at such a bill if its is brought to the floor, but the protectionist/isolationist sentiment is rather popular and, some guess, whether or not Schumer gets a bill passed, merely trying to pass such a bill could put a new shine the Democrat’s tarnished image.

It is also possible, according to our sources, that another Senator might propose the bill or jointly add their name to it with Schumer. Asked if Schumer could delay or cancel his plan, especially if it is exposed in advance and the sources agreed that Schumer could be forced to back down, at least temporarily, but that “he definitely WANTS to push this.”
 
A HINT of what is to come was referred to just today in THIS  piece about Schumer where he is talking about New York losing 160,000 jobs to China.

 

AARP Supported Obamacare and senior citizens made it possible- all in the name of "benefits"

Will today’s senior citizens put their benefits ahead of their children’s future? William R. Collier Jr.

The Progressive slave machine is in high gear defending the social security Ponzi scheme at a time when it is becoming obvious that giving people MORE than they actually put in to the system ensures bankruptcy for today’s youngest workers.

The system is one big lie and, until this nation started killing off its own future through abortion, there was enough coming in to pay the obligations even while the political elites skimmed off the top, middle, and bottom of the fund to finance their vote-buying programs. The fact that millions of people were paid doesn’t prove that the system was efficient or even just- it is neither.

We know there are better alternatives, but to even talk about them gets the “seniors”, led by the AARP, angry and frightened into believing that THEY will not get as much as they get now (regardless of what they actually paid into the system).

So far the response amongst reformists is to try to assure the seniors that their benefits won’t change. It is an argument that can’t seem to get past AARP’s filter. Seniors don’t seem to realize that the AARP is nothing more than a progressive plantation for senior citizens who depend on government for income and benefits- they don’t even get it that their benefits are costing them their freedom and empowering freedom takers in general.

Senior citizens have become takers, all they seem to worry about is how much they are going to get, even if getting it will ensure that future generations never have an equal chance to the same quality of life they enjoyed. For the first time in our history, it appears that future generations will lose ground and have less economic opportunity than those who came before them.

The current generation of senior citizens, especially the baby boomers, has enjoyed a way of life that will be unobtainable for their children and grandchildren.

Let’s assume, therefore, that social security has over-promised and, under the current economic circumstances (partly created by abortion and other socialist policies seniors allowed to occur by voting for their own benefit instead of the nation’s) cannot possibly met its obligations without literally bankrupting the country.

Would today’s seniors demand these benefits even though future generations will be left paying a bill that will cripple them? I fear that, come what may, today’s seniors don’t care about their children or grandchildren, they just want their benefits.

They might rationalize this selfishness by saying that getting all they “deserve” won’t bankrupt America or by the myth that they put in AS MUCH as they are getting back, but, in the end, debt is strangling America and all these benefits we give out, regardless of what has been paid in, are more than we can bear.

The writing is on the wall- the Federal Government is bankrupting America. Our present economic woes are almost totally a result of government programs, policies, and regulations that take resources away, put a lid on the creation of new wealth, and pour out public money at a higher rate than it can be replenished.

What is the response from the senior citizen lobby? “We don’t care, just make sure that we don’t have to suffer at all, even though we elected these officials who made these policies that will bankrupt America AFTER we are gone.”

The Bible says that parents should lay up treasure for their children and not vice-versa. Today’s senior citizen lobby, led by the socialist AARP, seems to believe otherwise.

Of course, reforming social security to a model that is more just to ALL, more efficient, and more in keeping with economic reality doesn’t HAVE TO cause any real pain or loss to today’s beneficiaries. That’s not the point. The point is that many of  today’s senior citizens, the ones who vote for Democrats to preserve their benefits at all cost, wouldn’t even consider giving up ANY of their benefits for the good of future generations- and therein lies the real reason why this nation could be headed for collapse.

How Long Before The Black Community Gets Off The Progressive Plantation?-  By William R. Collier Jr.

Herman Cain’s comments about the Black community being brainwashed by the liberal elite has sparked “outrage” by leftist black commentators who have even gone so far as to call him “racist.”

The plain truth is that Black unemployment is over 18 percent and most of the socio-economic indicators for the Black community are extremely negative. While it can, and must, be said that racism continues to hinder individuals for the Black community, it is also true that the Black community itself is large enough and has enough inherent human potential to become self-sustaining.

As to the racism issue, things are not as bad as they once were, but there truly is a lot of racism in people’s hearts, and increasingly we are seeing three kinds of racism emerge.

First, there is the typical racial superiority where primarily white people think they are superior to others.

Second, there is racial separatism where people from all of the racial groups think they should not “mix” with other groups.

Finally, there is racialism where people, primarily from the Black community, think that people of another race (mostly white) are inherently evil and racist and incapable of change.

These forms of racism are self-perpetuating. Every time a Black person experiences a white racist, for instance, their own racialism is reinforced against ALL white people. Every time a white person confronts racialism against them by a Black person, they are tempted to embrace racism, at least as a self-defense measure.

There is no legitimate excuse for racial supremacy, racial separatism, or racialism at all: we should deal with people solely on the basis of the content of their character. In God’s eyes there is NO such thing as “race.” People can have diverse cultures and ethnic identities, but these differences cannot be the basis of division against other people.

That all being said, however, the Black community has been sold the liberal lie that its economic and cultural existence depends on eliminating racism, while, of course, denying the negative impact of racialism. While it may indeed be more difficult for a lone individual to overcome racism in all of its forms, it is much easier for groups of individuals, linking arms, to overcome racism together by, first, mutually supporting one another.

When I lived in a virtually all-Black community I dealt with racialism that was directed at me. I was told “your ancestors owned my ancestors” as if I had to pay for their sins. The irony is that my father’s family on his father’s side were German immigrants in the 18th century who were likely “indentured servants”, white slaves!

My reaction to this was to gather a group of people from all the “races” who were determined to reject all forms of racism. Because the group was centered on a Tae Kwon Do class we called ourselves the Tae Kwon Do Elite.

I paid a price for my rejection of racism: I was jumped by three white guys because I had a black girlfriend and to this day have pain where an accidental womb to my right index finger was re-injured.

Eventually, because I was part of a group that was willing and able to defend its members, I was not impacted directly by any racism. Racism did not go away, it just didn’t control my life and I refused to define myself on the basis of race one way or another.

The Black community is being asked by liberals to be defined by white racism, to embrace racialism, and to wait around for the government to “fix” the problem through political correctness, wealth redistribution schemes, and entitlement programs. This is, plain and simple, brain-washing, and it is reinforced by constant peer pressure, which starts with the so-called “leaders” of the Black community (whom some have likened to privileged house slaves on the liberal plantation), and which attacks anyone in that community who denies the liberal orthodoxy.

The shrill attacks by the liberal elites against Herman Cain for daring, as a Black man, to carry the banner of conservatism are absolute proof that what he is saying is true. Calling him a racist is racialism, the assumption that anyone who does not believe in the liberal orthodoxy is therefore racist. While Cain is himself a Black man, the fact that he is not a liberal causes the liberal elites who rule the Black community absolutely to question his very identity as a Black man!

The Black community has two choices- stay on the path of liberalism and victimhood to get off of the progressive plantation or embrace and agenda of self-sustainability internally that rejects all forms of racism, either against itself or against others.

Will Congressman Darrell Issa investigate Epic Systems?

Solyndra, Lightsquared, and Now Epic Systems- WILL CONGRESSMAN ISSA INVESTIGATE Epic Systems and Judy Faulker, the unofficial medica records czar?

What do Solyndra, Lightsquared, and Epic Systems all have in common? First, an Obama Bundler stands to profit if the company profits. Second, the company needs favors from the government to make money. Third, the company’s gain is America’s loss. And fourth, despite this, the Obama Administration gives that company favor because of its political support for him. SEE MORE BACKGROUND ON EPIC SYSTEMS HERE

While the nation has heard of Solyndra and Lightsquared, it seems that nobody on capital hill has noticed that Epic Systems, led by leftwing activist Judy Faulkner, is quietly getting what could amount to BILLIONS in tax dollars to ultimately CONTROL your medical records and force your doctor to use her inefficient and and closed software platform if they want federal dollars to pay for complying with the ObamaCare mandate to use digital medical records.

Obama has quietly given Judy Faulkner a huge boost as the unofficial medical records czar of the worse type- she is seeking total control over ALL medical records and she stands to get billions of tax dollars to do it!

We have sent over background information about this to Congressman Issa’s office and are awaiting a response. Perhaps you, the reader, can call him and ask him if he would kindly make an inquiry about Epic systems?

Epic systems, owned by Judy Faulkner, is getting all kinds of advantages and, thereby, big fat contracts, to set up a system that is actually the opposite of the medical records system called for by the law.

In other words, while the ObamaCare law calls for digital medical records systems that allow for what is called “interoperability” (the ability to connect with other software systems that provide digital medical records)  Epic Systems’ software is NOT interoperative.

What’s worse is that Judy Faulkner was appointed by Obama to a special ObamaCare central planning committee that is specifically tasked with assigning contracts to companies that provide software for digital medical records.

So Obama chose the head of one of the ONLY companies that does NOT meet interoperability standards to oversee giving out contracts and, conveniently, she is getting contracts that, in reality, her company is not qualified for because it fails to meet interoperability standards.

Contact Congressman Issa and ask him to inquire as to whether or not Judy Faulkner is getting favors because of her partisan support for Obama despite the fact that her company does not comply with Federal requirements for getting the contracts she is getting.

http://issa.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=597&Itemid=73

 

Palin Movie, MSM, The Undefeated, The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf
Palin Movie, MSM, The Undefeated, The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf

Palin Movie, MSM, The Undefeated, The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf

 

Update:  Apparently, there was advanced advertising for this movie on Thursday, July 14th, in the LA TIMES- an obscure listing- one line- and- perhaps someone looking for The Undefeated in Orange County may have allegedly found a listing for 12:45 am.  In the article- Conor says he was going to a 12:45 am showing, but the ad lists the time as 12:01 am.  Perhaps Conor may not be in collusion with a movie theater manager, but why, if he wanted to interview Palin Supporters, would he go a midnight showing that was barely advertised?  We stick by our story that this was a rigged MSM event perpetrated by Conor Friedersdorf for the sole purpose of discrediting the movie’s weekend release and even Sarah Palin herself.  Here is the story as we originally published it, along with a screenshot of the obscure listing for the movie:

Palin Movie Empty Theater
Palin Movie Empty Theater

Secret Showing of The Undefeated For Lone Reporter?
William Collier

Palin Movie- The Undefeated- meets MSM ploy to report an ’empty theater’ at midnight, the night before the opening?

Did Conor Friedersdorf from The Atlantic arrange to have a secret showing of “The Palin Movie, The Undefeated” just so he could say “the theater was empty”?

Keywords- Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin movie, Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, Orange California, The Undefeated movie, The Undefeated

Orange California seems to have jumped the gun on The Undefeated movie, which debuts today in 10 cities in the US, with a special midnight showing for a a reporter from The Atlantic.

Conor Friedersdorf wrote breathlessly about an “empty theater” for a “debut.” The progressive journolist may have been told about such a showing but we know that nobody knew anything about it.

How did we know?

Our company, Kross Publishing, has been engaged in online marketing support and mobilizing a group of on the ground Hosts and virtual Ambassadors, and there has never been any mention of or advertising for any midnight showing.

The open question is: how did this reporter, Conor Friedersdorf, KNOW about this totally un-advertised showing that our company, which is working on marketing for the film, did not know about?

Movie theaters CAN show a movie like this, without notice, and if advanced ticket sales are high or decent, they might use an extra screen for a showing that is not scheduled. In this case the theater chose to do that, but on the same night of the big debut of Harry Potter: hardly an auspicious time for a movie that has a niche audience as opposed to a large general audience.

How then was everyone surprised about this showing save a lefty reporter?

It is possible, as one of our staff suggested, that the theater manager and the reporter are buddies, or someone inside the theater knew the reporter. It is also possible that Conor Friedersdorf, lefty that he is, knows that theaters can sometimes do a midnight showing and that he watched online until he saw this suddenly open up and decided, instead of covering the official debut, that he would call an unscheduled, un-advertised midnight showing the “debut” and use that to smear the movie.

Perhaps he thought he would win a Pulitzer for his little stunt, but anyone with any kind of horse sense knows that you don’t choose an unscheduled, un-advertised showing of a movie not scheduled to debut until later in the day (the official evening showing today, Friday July 15, 2011) to, as he claimed, “interview” attendees.

Conor did not want to interview attendees, otherwise he would have chosen a time that was advertised, not an unscheduled, un-advertised midnight showing.

This reporter’s cute little stunt goes right to the heart of what the movie is about- the blatant attempts by the journolist media elites to impugn, smear, and destroy anyone who does not go along with their Progressive ideology.

You may not want to vote for Sarah Palin, but this little episode reveals why Palin supporters and conservatives in general want to see this movie- for here is laid bare the media’s ongoing war against the freedom of conservatives, Christians, and non-Progressives through the very same types of stunts pulled by this Conor character.

Tickets for the movie are available here- http://theundefeated.cinedigm.com/tickets.html

The purpose of Conor’s report is clear- he was fishing for the headline he wanted to write, i.e. “Sarah Palin Movie Debuts to Empty Theater in Orange County.”

Perhaps the real headline should read, “The Atlantic Covers Unadvertised, Unscheduled Movie Showing As Debut.”

This just in- on the day before The Atlantic hit the stands there were no sales for that issue!

Palin Movie, MSM, The Undefeated, The Atlantic, Conor Friedersdorf

Kevin Williamson as Leviathan- "Managing For Results"

Kevin Williamson, National Review, NRO, National Review Online

Part two- Kevin Williamson, Is He For Government Or The People?

William R Collier Jr

Williamson’s thesis is that the Federal Government is “too big to fail” so he wants “austerity” coupled with tax increases to bail out DC!

What if the Federal Government fails? It would be bad, it would be horrible, but people would find ways to keep living, they always do. What is worse is if we keep focusing so much of our energy and wealth on bailing out the profligate spenders in DC at the expense of our economic future and, increasingly, our very freedom!

It seems that the profligate elites think they have America over a barrel- they have made a massive machine that is feeding on our children’s future and they have convinced many, like Williamson, that that machine must be kept going or it’s the end of the world!

I am not buying it any longer, it’s the old welfare-warfare state trying to justify its existence at any cost, as if we cannot live without such a Behemoth strolling about in DC.

The Progressives on both sides of the aisle, including Mr. Williamson, have failed utterly. The intervention of the state into private affairs in order to “manage for results” is leading to a massive loss of personal freedom and personal opportunity, and it is a contributing factor in our economic malaise and the corruption we keep finding in our elected officials who are assuming a messiah-complex.

Rather than admit their failure, people like Williamson try to use their “media pulpit” to convince people that this malaise is the “new normal” and, with shocking disregard for the common man, that working stiffs like us need to just “live with” high taxes, stagnate wages, and decreased economic opportunities.

Williamson does have his defenders.

David Weigel (who “resigned” from The Washington Post after having been discovered within the JournoList as deeply biased against conservatives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Weigel) celebrates Kevin Williamson and his crusade against tax cuts.  See Weigel’s Progressive defense of Williamson’s apostasy here!
From one Hobbsian to another, how nice!

As far back as last year Williamson was trying to carry water for the Progressive agenda, attacking “Supply Side Economics” itself. In his May 2010 piece he said, incredulously, “Properly understood, there were no Reagan tax cuts.”

His Progressive logic is that because spending did not go down (it increased faster than the increased revenue which came from the growth spurred by the tax cuts), taxes weren’t cut, “they were deferred.” From his high, and evidently unassailable, position at the NRO, Williamson is taking the position that because the Progressives can’t or won’t stop their spending, we must raise taxes.

In the process, however, he assails the truth with his Progressive propaganda that somehow tax cuts weren’t cuts but deferrals and that the Supply Side approach, which says that you increase revenue by growth instead of taxes, did not work. Williamson’s Progressivism is stunning, considering that he represents what purports to be the conservative voice of record!

He attacks Supply Side because, despite lowering taxes and seeing growth that led to increased revenue, the Progressives out-spent that growth. He never even considers critiquing the fact that his Progressive friends, for surely they must be his friends since he carries their water so well, are to blame for their profligate spending!

Clearly, Kevin Williamson is for the government (his stagnation as “austerity” agenda based on saving the government, despite the cost to the People) and not for the People.

national repentance day

The following is a commentary designed to provoke Christian thought and debate around one question- if we give our vote to a godless, abomidable Party that denies the need for God’s truth in our laws and public policy, are we ourselves participating in their godless rejection of Jesus Christ? I say, yes, if Christians give their votes to ANY member of such a godless Party that officially rejects God and His righteousness, then they are personally guilty of that Party’s sin and have fallen from Grace. You cannot serve both God and mammon, you cannot be both a Christ-follower and a supporter of a godless Party!

America has rejected God, primarily through the godless Democrats who have embraced a godless secularism that defies the truth of God with their love of so-called “gay marriage” and abortion, among other godless beliefs and practices.

The Democrats reject, out of hand, any notion that any beliefs they deem to be based on morality or religion should have any influence over public policy- even if the People VOTE for policies and laws that reflect their beliefs.

Democrats have a peculiar version of “democracy” in which ONLY ideas mined from the depths of their godless beliefs are “allowed” as options for voters. This is like the “democracy” of the USSR where voters could only choose from a slate of candidates picked by the Party.

Democrats want to limit YOUR choices to a slate of ideas, excluding every idea they deem to be “religious” or “moral” and in so doing they are in total rebellion against God.

Republicans are not always much better, but they do not officially and consistently deny the value of religious beliefs, or the participation of people who have strong religious or moral beliefs, in the public policy debate. The Party, as an instution, does not officially reject the need for guidance from the Word of God, but the Democrats do.

We must seriously question the spiritual sanity of any so-called “Christian” who throws in their lot with the Democrats. Christians who can’t support the Republicans or a third party candidate do better by not voting than to give their vote to a godless Party that is the single-greatest champion of blasphemy and abominations in this nation’s history.

On National Repentance Day let us repent of our participation in the godlessness of the Democratic Party and by denying our votes to ANYONE who is a member of this godless and abomidable Party.

National Repentance Day, November 6, 2012
Stop participating in the godlessness of the Democratic Party!

Osama Dead

Bin Laden Dead

Osama Bin Laden is dead….killed in a mansion.  As he sends 12 yr olds on suicide missions, he led a cozy life in a mansion in Islamabad.  Now., that comfortable life is no more-

Here is the President’s Remarks on the death of Osama Bin Laden:

 

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release
May 02, 2011

Remarks by the President on Osama Bin Laden

East Room

11:35 P.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT:  Good evening.  Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children.

It was nearly 10 years ago that a bright September day was darkened by the worst attack on the American people in our history.  The images of 9/11 are seared into our national memory — hijacked planes cutting through a cloudless September sky; the Twin Towers collapsing to the ground; black smoke billowing up from the Pentagon; the wreckage of Flight 93 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, where the actions of heroic citizens saved even more heartbreak and destruction.

And yet we know that the worst images are those that were unseen to the world.  The empty seat at the dinner table.  Children who were forced to grow up without their mother or their father.  Parents who would never know the feeling of their child’s embrace.  Nearly 3,000 citizens taken from us, leaving a gaping hole in our hearts.

On September 11, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together.  We offered our neighbors a hand, and we offered the wounded our blood.  We reaffirmed our ties to each other, and our love of community and country.  On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family.

We were also united in our resolve to protect our nation and to bring those who committed this vicious attack to justice.  We quickly learned that the 9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda — an organization headed by Osama bin Laden, which had openly declared war on the United States and was committed to killing innocents in our country and around the globe.  And so we went to war against al Qaeda to protect our citizens, our friends, and our allies.

Over the last 10 years, thanks to the tireless and heroic work of our military and our counterterrorism professionals, we’ve made great strides in that effort.  We’ve disrupted terrorist attacks and strengthened our homeland defense.  In Afghanistan, we removed the Taliban government, which had given bin Laden and al Qaeda safe haven and support.  And around the globe, we worked with our friends and allies to capture or kill scores of al Qaeda terrorists, including several who were a part of the 9/11 plot.

Yet Osama bin Laden avoided capture and escaped across the Afghan border into Pakistan.  Meanwhile, al Qaeda continued to operate from along that border and operate through its affiliates across the world.

And so shortly after taking office, I directed Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA, to make the killing or capture of bin Laden the top priority of our war against al Qaeda, even as we continued our broader efforts to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat his network.

Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden.  It was far from certain, and it took many months to run this thread to ground.  I met repeatedly with my national security team as we developed more information about the possibility that we had located bin Laden hiding within a compound deep inside of Pakistan.  And finally, last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action, and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice.

Today, at my direction, the United States launched a targeted operation against that compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.  A small team of Americans carried out the operation with extraordinary courage and capability.  No Americans were harmed.  They took care to avoid civilian casualties.  After a firefight, they killed Osama bin Laden and took custody of his body.

For over two decades, bin Laden has been al Qaeda’s leader and symbol, and has continued to plot attacks against our country and our friends and allies.  The death of bin Laden marks the most significant achievement to date in our nation’s effort to defeat al Qaeda.

Yet his death does not mark the end of our effort.  There’s no doubt that al Qaeda will continue to pursue attacks against us.  We must –- and we will — remain vigilant at home and abroad.

As we do, we must also reaffirm that the United States is not –- and never will be -– at war with Islam.  I’ve made clear, just as President Bush did shortly after 9/11, that our war is not against Islam.  Bin Laden was not a Muslim leader; he was a mass murderer of Muslims.  Indeed, al Qaeda has slaughtered scores of Muslims in many countries, including our own.  So his demise should be welcomed by all who believe in peace and human dignity.

Over the years, I’ve repeatedly made clear that we would take action within Pakistan if we knew where bin Laden was.  That is what we’ve done.  But it’s important to note that our counterterrorism cooperation with Pakistan helped lead us to bin Laden and the compound where he was hiding.  Indeed, bin Laden had declared war against Pakistan as well, and ordered attacks against the Pakistani people.

Tonight, I called President Zardari, and my team has also spoken with their Pakistani counterparts.  They agree that this is a good and historic day for both of our nations.  And going forward, it is essential that Pakistan continue to join us in the fight against al Qaeda and its affiliates.

The American people did not choose this fight.  It came to our shores, and started with the senseless slaughter of our citizens.  After nearly 10 years of service, struggle, and sacrifice, we know well the costs of war.  These efforts weigh on me every time I, as Commander-in-Chief, have to sign a letter to a family that has lost a loved one, or look into the eyes of a service member who’s been gravely wounded.

So Americans understand the costs of war.  Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed.  We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies.  We will be true to the values that make us who we are. And on nights like this one, we can say to those families who have lost loved ones to al Qaeda’s terror:  Justice has been done.

Tonight, we give thanks to the countless intelligence and counterterrorism professionals who’ve worked tirelessly to achieve this outcome.  The American people do not see their work, nor know their names.  But tonight, they feel the satisfaction of their work and the result of their pursuit of justice.

We give thanks for the men who carried out this operation, for they exemplify the professionalism, patriotism, and unparalleled courage of those who serve our country.  And they are part of a generation that has borne the heaviest share of the burden since that September day.

Finally, let me say to the families who lost loved ones on 9/11 that we have never forgotten your loss, nor wavered in our commitment to see that we do whatever it takes to prevent another attack on our shores.

And tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11.  I know that it has, at times, frayed.  Yet today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people.

The cause of securing our country is not complete.  But tonight, we are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to.  That is the story of our history, whether it’s the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place.

Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are:  one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.  May God bless you.  And may God bless the United States of America.

END               11:44 P.M. EDT

 

 

Here is how the blogosphere sees this great moment for all Americans:

 


Osama Bin Laden Dead | TPMDC

50 minutes ago by Brian Beutler
Osama Bin Laden is dead, U.S. government officials confirm to TPM. Bin Laden was the founder and leader of the Al Qaeda terrorist network that perpetrated the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

 

Steve Clemons: Bin Laden Dead

26 minutes ago by Steve Clemons
For years many Defense Department, CIA and other national security intelligence practitioners thought that Osama bin Laden, who needed dialysis support, was dead, that there was no way that he could have survived all
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raw_feed_index.rdf

Michelle Malkin » Reports: Bin Laden killed a week ago by US

1 hour ago by Michelle Malkin
Reports: Bin Laden killed a week ago by US missile/CIA asset/Pakistani ground operation, confirmed tonight, body is ours.
http://michellemalkin.com/

Bin Laden is dead, Obama says – This Just In – CNN.com Blogs

1 hour ago by jasonhanna
[Updated, 11:44 p.m. ET] Bin Laden was killed in a military operation in Pakistan that U.S. President Barack Obama ordered today, Obama said. Obama said he was told last August that the United States had developed a
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/ 

Reports: Osama Bin Laden dead | Strange Bedfellows — Politics News

46 minutes ago by Chris Grygiel
CNN is reporting that Bin Laden was killed “by a U.S. military asset” in a mansion outside Islamabad, Pakistan. The Associated Press reported that the U.S has Bin Laden’s body. President Barack Obama was to speak to the
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/
52 minutes ago
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America Must Choose: EITHER Freedom For All OR Progressive Slavery For All

The Progressive war on Freedom takes many forms, from taxes and debt-spending to “legalizing” so-called “gay marriage” against the People’s wishes, from massive new regulations to constantly demonizing Freedom advocates, like the Tea Party.

Freedom is in jeopardy: either Progressivism is trounced and denounced by American society or American society will become a society of slaves on the Progressive plantation!

What is Freedom?

Well, Freedom is one of those self-evident things you either get or don’t get. Because Freedom is self-evident, people who are good at rhetoric often parse it and cut it up until they have turned it on its head.

Freedom literally means “the dominion of the free.” Dominion means laws and self-government, and what laws can be better than laws rooted in a godly approach to the way we treat each other and God’s Creation?

If laws must exist and if it is inevitable that every law is based on some kind of belief, ideal, idea, or principles, then it is reasonable to say that Biblical ideas and etc as related to how we treat each other and nature are the best ideas.

Freedom requires “free” people pursuing godliness, self-reliance, and self-determination and having “dom” (dominion) over their lives, their rights, and their property without being threatened.

The two primary elements of freedom are liberty and security.

Liberty comes from “libertas” in Latin, which stands for “the power of freewill under law.” So we speak of godliness (as it relates to the way we treat each other and nature) as the basis of law. We speak of the ability of individuals, their free associations, and their communities to be self-reliant as the aim of law. We speak of the self-determination of the People through a process of consensual decision-making as the means by which we make law.

Security means “to be safe from threats of harm of all kinds and from all sources”- this is security for our rights (personal and shared), our persons (from conception and until natural death), and our property (personal, shared, and common).

If we lack Liberty in all its elements and Security in all its elements, Freedom is in jeopardy.

Freedom is not conditioned on the state, it doesn’t come from men, either one or a few men on one hand or a majority of men on the other hand. It cannot be created by vote or edict, neither can it be subjected to or limited by vote of edict!

In the end, if Freedom is threatened for some, it is threatened for all. We all have to decide if we are Free, if we want to be free, and how we can make ourselves more Free in fact than we are now.

We truly OWN our Freedom from God, but if we continue to agree with our Progressive opponents that Freedom depends on edicts or votes, then we will helplessly watch as all of our Freedom is taken from us.

At present, it remains to be seen whether Americans will put Freedom ahead of their own parochial or factional interests by rejecting every Progressive politician, judge, and institution that tries to offer them 30 pieces of silver (at taxpayer expense) if they will only surrender more Freedom.

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Legion, THY NAME is “Progressive”

Summary- Is there a global Progressive agenda to eliminate YOUR freedom? Are there Progressive plans, global plans, that unite such disparate Progressive elements as those in America, the Middle East, Europe, South America, and China? Do Progressives have more loyalty to their global agenda or their own nations?

When Jesus Christ confronted a possessed man, on one occasion, the demons possessing the man said, “we are legion” because there were MANY of them. As we confront a global phenomenon of oppression, bloodshed, and tyranny, we begin to see that a veritable legion of bad actors, of seemingly different stripes, are possessing the body politic of nations all over the globe.

This legion has a name, a name that means “the few rule the many in progressive stages because the many are not as enlightened as the few.” The NAME of that legion is “Progresivism.”

In the Muslim world, Progressivism takes the form of Pan-Islamic Jihad, a bid to create a caliphate of the rule of a few enlightened leaders, minus private property, private rights, or even the right to life (only the lives that are important to the new “state” would be worth saving).

These pan-Islamic Progressives may indeed seem much different than, say, the atheist Progressives of China or the pseudo-“Christian” Progressives of America, but they share the vision of a multination super-state without private property, private rights, or the right to life that is run by a few enlightened rulers.

Progressive regimes, and Progressives in America, are taking a similar approach to any dissent from their party line- silence the opposition by all possible means. The Progressive war on freedom is not new, but what is new is that the opposition to Progressivism around the world is truly growing, day by day, week by week, and the Progressive elites are beginning to see the writing on the wall that could spell their doom.

Progressives are not taking the upsurge in opposition to their tax-and-borrow ways, their cronyism, their “nudging” by regulatory fiat, and their wholesale attempts to take control over information content and distribution, lying down. They are, in fact, fighting back in an attempt to stop the forward march of unhindered freedom for the People, often by intoning the terms and language of liberty.

In America, the Progressive war machine is ramping up, with money from special trusts and foundations owned by billionaire sponsors of the Progressive movement, to use Union thugs, journolist smear merchants, and corrupt courts as a means of preventing the People’s will from being carried out, creating chaos on the streets and using such a “crisis” to excuse their authoritarian “remedies”, and unleashing smear campaign on anyone who speaks out against them. The objective of the American Progressives is to institute the kind of Progressive state the Chinese Progressives have created, complete with police powers and censorship to make their political party, the Democrat Party, the sole party in power.

The Progressives don’t just like to win an election, they want to destory any voice that dares rise up against them. When Christine O’Donnel dared shale up the Progressive nest in the Delaware GOP, defeating Progressive Mike Castle, it was not enough to use smars and lies to defeat her in the general election, the Progressive war machine is STILL trying to bring her down, trying to make it so that she cannot EVER pose a similar threat again. This is how Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are treated on the national scale, and this is why Progressives are waging war on Glenn Beck, trying to force advertisers to pull their ads!

Make no mistake, the Progressive in America do not believe in the kind of Freedom most Americans embrace. While most Americans see liberty as the opportunity to pursue godliness, self-reliance, and self-determination, the Progressive use the world liberty as a cover for plain old negative self-indulgence at society’s expense, as in the case of so-called “gay marriage” or “no-fault divorce.” While most Americans see Security in terms of protecting and preserving their rights, their persons, and their property from all threats of all kinds, Progressive peddle a “security” based on hand-outs and dependence on government while they regard human life only in relation to its value to the state.

Progressivism and freedom are not at all compatible. Either Freedomists triumph and remove the bane of Progressivism from our communities, institutions, and governments or Progressives will snuff out the last embers of Freedom based on Liberty and Security which once inspired the whole nation.

Elsewhere, it is the same story. Progressives have already made Cuba a backwater of poverty, oppression, and despair. Progressive in Venezuela have rolled back the clock to a time of petty dictators and military juntas in a South American nation that was once proud of its standards of freedom and democracy.

In the Middle East and north Africa, Progressives are essentially at war with each other, which is providing an opening for some who want freedom from all forms of Progressive tyranny, whether that is the tyranny of a Mubarak or the tyranny of the Muslim Brotherhood.

With the aid of American Progressives, from BOTH parties, the Chinese Progressives have been able to convince many in America that giving China access to our markets is good because it will promote freedom and democracy. The markets were opened and now the Chinese Progressives are buying US debt, created by American Progressives, and they may even be funding the American Progressives, helping them to win elections based on fraud and lies.

Despite years of giving the Chinese a blank check to decimate US industries, through dumping, and allowing them to decimate our currency, the Chinese are NOT more free. While all that pseudo-capitalism has spurred some in China to yearn for more freedom, even that spark of liberation from the chains of Chinese Progressivism is being snuffed out as new crackdowns are occurring, crackdowns that are leaving more innocent civilians dead than have been killed in Libya!

Progressives may in fact be uniting more than we know, planning a global Progressive regimen through the agency of such entities as the UN, the World Trade Organization, the European Union, and other such entities. Whether the flavor of the day is “global terrorism”, “global financial crisis”, or “global climate change”, the “remedy” is always more government, less freedom, and more power to Progressives everywhere.

Progressives in America are a fifth column of quisling operatives who actively seek a future in which this nation, America, is no more than a “province” of the global progressive super-state they all talk so much about!

Progressives the world over are loyal, first and foremost, to their shared vision of a world united under a system that does not include private rights, private property, or the inherent value of human life. In the Progressive utopia, collective bargaining “rights”, as regulated by the state, matter more than individual rights, private property becomes only collective property, and human life only has value if it is in the interest of the state to protect that life, in other words only if that life is “worth it” to the state.

The Progressive war on freedom is a global war, and the players include billionaire financiers, governments, the journolist media, and multinational corporations run by and for Progressives. Progressivism is a clear and present danger to freedom wherever and however it rears its ugly head.

People are waking up, all over the world, and Progressivism is on the defensive, no longer enjoying a monopoly over information content and distribution, no longer enjoying an uncritical acceptance of their lies and empty promises, and no longer able to run from their track record of misery dipped in sorrow, smothered in oppression and poverty. For this reason, the Progressive war machine has woken up and, like Qhadafi’s mad dash to destroy his enemies before the no-fly zone could be implemented, Progressives are trying to put the genie of freedomism back into the bottle before it is too late, before the People can put up a “no fly zone” of their own against Progressives and their institutions of oppression, including the journolist media, corrupt courts, academia, the unions, billionaire trusts and foundations, and multinational corporations.

The question is not “will the Progressives fail”, the real question is, “how many people will be hurt by the Progressive BEFORE they can be defeated?”

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