Thursday, December 31, 2015

Tuesday, December 29, 2015

PAUL HARVEY FREEDOM TO CHAINS 1965

Can U.S. Survive One More Year of Obama?


Unhinged John Kerry: We Brought Peace to Syria

Kerry: We Brought Peace to Syria | Frontpage Mag

House Democrats Move to Criminalize Criticism of Islam

House Democrats Move to Criminalize Criticism of Islam | Frontpage Mag

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

Muslim ACLU Director: 'I Emphatically Refuse' to Condemn Terrorism

Muslim ACLU Director: 'I Emphatically Refuse' to Condemn Terrorism | Truth Revolt

'Bringing Peace to Syria' Cited as Obama State Department WIN for 2015

'Bringing Peace to Syria' Cited as State Department WIN for 2015 | Truth Revolt

White Cops Killing Unarmed Blacks Less Than 4% of Fatal Police Shootings

WaPo Report: White Cops Killing Unarmed Blacks Less Than 4% of Fatal Police Shootings | Truth Revolt

Democrats Built That: 2015 Marks Baltimore's Worst Year Ever for Murders

2015 Marks Baltimore's Worst Year Ever for Murders | Truth Revolt

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.

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All credibility PA AG Kathleen Kane had has vanished

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Pennsylvania man charged by feds with aiding ISIS

Harrisburg man charged by feds with aiding ISIS

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

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Nearly 1 in 4 States Allow Illegal Immigrants to Obtain Drivers Licenses

Nearly 1 in 4 States Allow Illegal Immigrants to Obtain Drivers Licenses

Nearly 1 in 4 States Allow Illegal Immigrants to Obtain Drivers Licenses

Nearly 1 in 4 States Allow Illegal Immigrants to Obtain Drivers Licenses

Obama Administration Approves 3M New Immigrant Workers in One Year

Obama Administration Approves 3 Million New Immigrant Workers in One Year

'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Ranked One of the Biggest Lies of 2015

'Hands Up, Don't Shoot' Ranked One of the Biggest Lies of 2015 | Truth Revolt

Pa. House GOP member: 'There aren't enough of us' to block tax hike

Pa. House GOP member: 'There aren't enough of us' to block tax hike

Sunday, December 13, 2015

America’s Public Schools - Exalting Islam, Banning Christmas

Becker: America’s Public Schools - Exalting Islam, Banning Christmas | Truth Revolt

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 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.
The left's war on religion

Tuesday, December 08, 2015

U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Group Gives $100,000 to Terrorism-Tied Islamic Charity

U.S. Taxpayer-Funded Group Gives $100,000 to Terrorism-Tied Islamic Charity

Wolf Budget 'Framework' Looks Even Worse Than Predicted

Commonwealth Foundation: With Details, Wolf Budget "Framework" Looks Even Worse

'Mary, Did You Know?' - Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd

'Where's the Line to See Jesus' by Becky Kelley

'The Little Drummer Boy' - Harry Simeone Chorale

Hillary on Benghazi: I Didn't Lie - It Was 'the Fog of War'

Hillary on Benghazi: I Didn't Lie - It Was 'the Fog of War' | Truth Revolt

Obamacare Covers Fewer Americans Than Expected While Driving Costs Up

Obamacare Covers Fewer Americans Than Expected While Driving Costs Up