Thursday, December 31, 2015
NBC Ignores Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review
What does it say about a television network that ignores two of the biggest news events of 2015 in its year-in-review segment?
NBC's Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review
NBC's Today Skips Planned Parenthood Videos, Clinton E-Mail/Foundation Scandals in Year in Review
Year-End Awards: The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award, for Denying Hillary's Scandals
Still not convinced of the widespread liberal bias in the news media?
Year-End Awards: The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award, for Denying Hillary's Scandals
Year-End Awards: The 'What Difference Does It Make?' Award, for Denying Hillary's Scandals
Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Tuesday, December 29, 2015
Gov. Wolf vetoes no-tax-hike Republican budget for third time
Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf said Tuesday he will use his line-item veto power on the $30.8 billion, no-tax-hike budget passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature. So the big question is why didn't Wolf do this on July 1 when the first budget was sent to him by the Legislature? The answer: Wolf wants to raise taxes on working Pennsylvania families so he held the budget hostage for the past 6 months in the hopes of forcing the Legislature to raise taxes. His ploy didn't work. So here we are - six months into the new fiscal year - without a budget, thanks to Wolf and his far-left staffers who want to spend more than the state takes in.
Gov. Wolf vetoes Republican budget, will release funds for schools
Gov. Wolf vetoes Republican budget, will release funds for schools
Monday, December 28, 2015
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Friday, December 25, 2015
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Wednesday, December 23, 2015
GOP Grinches Set Up Wolf Pre-Christmas Tax Hike in Pa.
Twenty-one Republicans in the Pennsylvania House joined with
Democrats this week to set up a massive tax hike (up to $1.8 billion?)
right before Christmas. Who are these Grinches? The watchdog group
Citizens Alliance of Pennsylvania has a list on its website. You can contact them now to remind them you will remember their names on the 2016 ballot.
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
Monday, December 21, 2015
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Friday, December 18, 2015
REP. JOE PITTS: Social media is a new front in the war on terror
Terrorism, and Islamic terrorism in particular, has continually
proven to be a global threat. In regions as far apart and as diverse as
Beirut, Paris, and San Bernadino, ISIS and their sympathizers have used
the technology and weaponry of civilization against civilization.
In London, a man stabbed a stranger on the Tube, shouting “this is for Syria!” The bloody aftermath was caught on a harrowing cell phone video that is now circulating on the internet.
Massive terrorism-related arrests have taken place in Brussels, Australia, and Geneva. A soccer game in Germany was evacuated due to credible terrorist threats.
According to the CIA, ISIS terrorists are present in at least 30 countries. The FBI has over 900 open ISIS-related investigations in the United States and has made some 50 arrests just in 2015. Militant groups in 20 different countries, including the notorious kidnappers Boko Haram of Nigeria, have sworn allegiance to ISIS.
Terrorists in Brussels have been proven to have made contact with ISIS leaders in Syria. The San Bernadino murderers appear to have met on an online dating website, and posted pro-ISIS propaganda on Facebook just before conducting their attacks. Terrorist plots to kill police officers in Boston and behead a blogger in Texas have been discovered by means of their social media footprint. A total of some 300 Twitter accounts based in the United States have been found to be run by terrorists.
According to research done at George Washington University, terrorist suspects recruited by ISIS in the United States tend to be younger than previous terrorist suspects, and tend to be converts to Islam. Teenage boys and girls in Mississippi, Minneapolis, and the Denver suburbs have been arrested in connection with ISIS.
In a chilling development just this week, the FBI arrested 19-year old Jabil Ameer Aziz from Harrisburg for aiding ISIS propaganda on 57 different Twitter accounts.
Part of how terrorism has gone global has been through advances in communications technology. Social media have opened up new channels of communication around our world, allowing anyone anywhere to speak to virtually anyone else anywhere almost immediately. As with any technology, this new capability can be used either for good or for evil.
While many people have used these new tools for good, terrorist groups like ISIS have been highly effective in recruiting sympathizers and cooperators around the world through social media. It is even possible that they have used online video games — through PlayStation — to communicate encrypted information. This encryption problem poses a serious challenge to our counterterrorism efforts, and Congress will have the responsibility of solving it.
No one publicizes ISIS’ murders as widely as ISIS does, posting on the internet videos of beheadings, burnings, and shootings of their enemies. ISIS is so evil that it actively recruits new terrorists all over the world using these internet videos.
We are an open society, and rightly proud to be one. But while terrorists hate the freedom of the West, they exploit it against us.
The task before our leaders is to keep our people safe, but we must not give up our freedom in order to protect it. We must hold fast to the inalienable rights and liberties of which the American people have always been jealous, and of which our enemies are so contemptuous.
These concerns are why this week, the House passed legislation that would require the President to report to
Congress on the extent of terrorist use of social media, as well as on a strategy to enhance the exchange of information between the government and social media companies so as to disrupt the terrorist recruitment networks.
The House also passed legislation introduced by Democratic Rep. Norma Torres to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and maintain an assessment of maritime cybersecurity. This bill would also require the sharing of information between Maritime Security Advisory Committees.
Earlier this year, the House passed cybersecurity reform legislation, with President Obama’s support, that would require the Director of National Intelligence to create procedures for sharing imminent threat information with the private sector, and allowing private sector entities to share cyber threat indicators or defensive measures against cyber threats.
These bills constitute neither the beginning nor the end of our efforts to combat terrorists, but they are the next step. We will continue to fight ISIS and any other threat to our safety until they are no more — whether in theater or on the Internet.
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts is a Republican who represents Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District in parts of Chester, Berks and Lancaster counties.
In London, a man stabbed a stranger on the Tube, shouting “this is for Syria!” The bloody aftermath was caught on a harrowing cell phone video that is now circulating on the internet.
Massive terrorism-related arrests have taken place in Brussels, Australia, and Geneva. A soccer game in Germany was evacuated due to credible terrorist threats.
According to the CIA, ISIS terrorists are present in at least 30 countries. The FBI has over 900 open ISIS-related investigations in the United States and has made some 50 arrests just in 2015. Militant groups in 20 different countries, including the notorious kidnappers Boko Haram of Nigeria, have sworn allegiance to ISIS.
Terrorists in Brussels have been proven to have made contact with ISIS leaders in Syria. The San Bernadino murderers appear to have met on an online dating website, and posted pro-ISIS propaganda on Facebook just before conducting their attacks. Terrorist plots to kill police officers in Boston and behead a blogger in Texas have been discovered by means of their social media footprint. A total of some 300 Twitter accounts based in the United States have been found to be run by terrorists.
According to research done at George Washington University, terrorist suspects recruited by ISIS in the United States tend to be younger than previous terrorist suspects, and tend to be converts to Islam. Teenage boys and girls in Mississippi, Minneapolis, and the Denver suburbs have been arrested in connection with ISIS.
In a chilling development just this week, the FBI arrested 19-year old Jabil Ameer Aziz from Harrisburg for aiding ISIS propaganda on 57 different Twitter accounts.
Part of how terrorism has gone global has been through advances in communications technology. Social media have opened up new channels of communication around our world, allowing anyone anywhere to speak to virtually anyone else anywhere almost immediately. As with any technology, this new capability can be used either for good or for evil.
While many people have used these new tools for good, terrorist groups like ISIS have been highly effective in recruiting sympathizers and cooperators around the world through social media. It is even possible that they have used online video games — through PlayStation — to communicate encrypted information. This encryption problem poses a serious challenge to our counterterrorism efforts, and Congress will have the responsibility of solving it.
No one publicizes ISIS’ murders as widely as ISIS does, posting on the internet videos of beheadings, burnings, and shootings of their enemies. ISIS is so evil that it actively recruits new terrorists all over the world using these internet videos.
We are an open society, and rightly proud to be one. But while terrorists hate the freedom of the West, they exploit it against us.
The task before our leaders is to keep our people safe, but we must not give up our freedom in order to protect it. We must hold fast to the inalienable rights and liberties of which the American people have always been jealous, and of which our enemies are so contemptuous.
These concerns are why this week, the House passed legislation that would require the President to report to
Congress on the extent of terrorist use of social media, as well as on a strategy to enhance the exchange of information between the government and social media companies so as to disrupt the terrorist recruitment networks.
The House also passed legislation introduced by Democratic Rep. Norma Torres to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to develop and maintain an assessment of maritime cybersecurity. This bill would also require the sharing of information between Maritime Security Advisory Committees.
Earlier this year, the House passed cybersecurity reform legislation, with President Obama’s support, that would require the Director of National Intelligence to create procedures for sharing imminent threat information with the private sector, and allowing private sector entities to share cyber threat indicators or defensive measures against cyber threats.
These bills constitute neither the beginning nor the end of our efforts to combat terrorists, but they are the next step. We will continue to fight ISIS and any other threat to our safety until they are no more — whether in theater or on the Internet.
U.S. Rep. Joe Pitts is a Republican who represents Pennsylvania’s 16th Congressional District in parts of Chester, Berks and Lancaster counties.
Thursday, December 17, 2015
Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
340,000 Page Views
My site counter has recorded 340,000 Page Views from 105,000 Unique Visitors to The Centrist. Thanks for checking out the blog ... and come back again.
Monday, December 14, 2015
Sunday, December 13, 2015
The left's war on religion
A must-read new column by Salena Zito:
American leftists have made a religion out of government; they were angry, not because people called for appeals to a higher being, but because it was to God — not government.The left's war on religion
The left does not want Americans to lift up victims in prayer because it wants us to seek solace in public policy. Left-wing politicians think religion is an opiate for the masses, and they want to take the rabble off that drug.
It was no accident that this outburst of liberal anger included both guns and religion. The modern urban-coastal left believes guns and religion are totems for fools.
Even many liberal religious leaders have use for prayer only when it does not get in the way of liberal secular political aims.
Saturday, December 12, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Wednesday, December 09, 2015
Meet the Farooks: The Modern Jihad Family
Front Page Magazine asks: How did this anything-but-moderate family not attract any law enforcement attention?
Meet the Farooks: The Modern Jihad Family | Frontpage Mag
Meet the Farooks: The Modern Jihad Family | Frontpage Mag
Tuesday, December 08, 2015
Monday, December 07, 2015
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Saturday, December 05, 2015
Friday, December 04, 2015
Wednesday, December 02, 2015
Tuesday, December 01, 2015
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