The Forsyth Precinct
September 2010 The Newsletter for Informed and Concerned Voters
Scathing Congressional report slams Obama
administration for ‘covert, criminal activity’
President charged with illegally using taxpayer money to manipulate public
By Jerome R. Corsi
WorldNetDaily
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on
Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today charging that
the White House has “used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the president’s
agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propa-
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INDEX
Congressional report, covert activities.....................pg. 1
82 Congress members on Socialist Pink List............pg. 1
Editorials: Misdsummer Madness, Alien births.......pg. 2
It’s the economy, Stupid............................................ pg. 3
Crime-ridden court districts..................................... pg. 3
Obama locking up our land...................................... pg. 4
Federal employees continue to prosper......................pg.5
Global impact of bailouts...........................................pg. 6
Ahmaddinejad to visit Lebanon.................................pg. 7
Sodom in Prophecy.....................................................pg. 8
Anti-prayer case dismissed........................................ pg. 8
Obama endorses New York mosque...........................pg. 9
Odds and Ends and The Lighter Side.......................pg. 10
Volume 4, Issue 9
ganda initiatives.”
An advance pre-publication copy of the report, shared by Issa’s Washington
office with WND, accuses the White House of nothing short of criminal activity. It
charges the Obama administration with violating federal laws to advance what the
Government Accounting Office has characterized as an unlawful “covert campaign,”
using federal resources “to activate a sophisticated propaganda and lobbying cam-
paign.”
Pulling no punches, the Oversight Republican Report accuses the Obama White
House of “violating federal law prohibiting the use of appropriated funds for public-
ity or propaganda purposes.”
“The White house has failed to transition from campaign mode to leadership
mode and is now inappropriately leveraging those campaign-trail relationships to
unlawfully generate support for the president’s agenda,” the report concludes.
Members of Congress
on Socialist ‘Pink List’
Progressive Caucus’ linked to group seeking
government ownership of private industry
WorldNetDaily
WASHINGTON – The Democratic Socialists of America boasted in a newslet-
ter to insiders 70 of its members currently serve in Congress, but an independent
survey by WND suggests the number of actual avowed or semi-secret socialists in
the House and Senate is considerably higher – at least 82.
The DSA is a political action committee and bills itself as the heir to the defunct
Socialist Party of America. It’s chief organizing objective is to work within the
Democratic Party as the primary, but not sole, method of achieving public owner-
ship of private property and the means of production.
“Stress our Democratic Party strategy and electoral work,” explains an inter-
nal organizing document obtained by WND. “The Democratic Party is something
the public understands, and association with it takes the edge off. Stressing our
Democratic Party work will establish some distance from the radical subculture and
help integrate you to the milieu of the young liberals.”
In October 2009, the DSA newsletter reported that 70 congressional Demo-
crats are active members.
The group also claimed 11 socialists sit on the House Judiciary Committee,
including Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich.
But, according to an independent investigation by WND, the number of those
sympathetic to the socialist goals of the DSA is substantially higher than 70.
In 1998, WND reported the close association between the DSA and the Con-
gressional Progressive Caucus. At that time, the caucus website was actually hosted
by the DSA. Following the revelation in WND, the Progressive Caucus website
became an official U.S. government website as it remains today.
See ‘Socialist Pink List,’ page 7
September 2010 The Newsletter of the Forsyth Precinct Page 2

Midsummer Madness Editorial Commentary

Oliver North
Townhall.com

ATLANTA — It has to be the heat. A severe out-

break of global warming disorder, or GWD, among
Washington’s elite is the only possible explanation for
Illegal aliens give birth to
the strange behavior of so many power brokers.
Temperatures in Washington were so high this week 8% of babies born in U.S.
that White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, perhaps
By Jim Kouri
suffering from dehydration, had a brief moment of lucid
www.MichNews.com
candor. During an interview with the newspaper The Hill,
Gibbs took a page from Sean Hannity’s playbook and
As the phenomenon of so-called “anchor babies” — infants born to illegal aliens
castigated the “professional left” for criticizing Presi-
within the United States and its territories that automatically become citizens — be-
dent Barack Obama’s handling of the war in Afghani-
comes more of an election issue in many localities, a Pew poll reveals that 8 percent of
stan and his unfulfilled pledge to close the Guantanamo
babies born each year in the U.S. are anchor babies.
Bay terrorist detention facility. “I hear,” Gibbs said,
According to the Pew Hispanic Center, approximately 340,000 of the 4.3 million
“these people saying he’s like George (W.) Bush. Those
babies born in the United States in 2008 were the children of illegal aliens, many of
people ought to be drug tested. I mean, it’s crazy.”
whom emanate from Mexico.
Unfortunately, Gibbs did not clarify whether he believes there is some connec-
The study which was released yesterday comes as more and more Americans are
tion between drug use and mental instability. He did note, however, what it will take
showing concern over illegal aliens entering the U.S. and garnering a treasure-trove of
to bring Obama’s backers back into the fold: “They will be satisfied when we have
benefits such as free education, health care, and other social programs. Some conser-
Canadian health care and we’ve eliminated the Pentagon.”
vative lawmakers wish to amend the 14th Amendment from which the court have
This is, of course, the same Robert Gibbs who famously forecast during last
derived the concept of “anchor babies.”
month’s record-breaking heat wave, “There are enough seats in play that could cause
According to Pew, illegal aliens represent only four percent of the U.S. adult
Republicans to gain control” of the House of Representative in the November elec-
population, but their children account for a much larger share of newborns (eight
tions. Understandably irritated by the prospect of losing her perks and privileges,
percent) and children under 18 (seven percent).
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi downplayed Gibbs’ efforts to keep the Democratic base
Pew research reveals that nearly four-in-five (79 percent) of the 5.1 million chil-
home from the polls and told CNN, “I don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about
dren under the age of 18 born to illegal aliens were born in the United States and
what the president’s employees say about one thing or another.”
qualified as citizens.
Apparently uncertain about how effective these comments might be at alienating
Prominent Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has been among the vocal advo-
fellow Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was forced by high tempera-
cates of changing the law, claiming in interviews that illegal immigrants were entering
tures in Nevada to take matters into his own hands — or mouth. During a campaign
the United States solely to have babies in the country and gain citizenship for their
event in Las Vegas this week, the liberal icon boldly told supporters, “I don’t know
offspring and all the government entitlements available.
how anyone of Hispanic heritage could be a Republican, OK? Do I need to say more?”
The Pew report is based on figures available from data gathered in the US Cen-
Nope.
sus Bureau’s 2009 population survey as well as analysis of the demographic charac-
Reid’s racial slur might have been excused as a case of GWD-induced heat-
teristics of illegal aliens
stroke, except someone remembered the majority leader’s saying in 2008 that Obama
While focusing on illegal aliens who surreptitiously entered the United States,
benefited from his “light-skinned” appearance and his ability to turn his “Negro dia-
experts say that not all of these lawbreakers entered via U.S, borders with Mexico and
lect” on and off. Since making his most recent bigoted comment, Sen. Reid has lost
Canada. According to a Government Accountability Office report, more than 2 mil-
the endorsement of the National Rifle Association and been introduced to congres-
lion illegal aliens entered the U.S. legally, but ignored the expiration date on their
sional Republican colleagues Sen. Mel Martinez and Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and
visas and remain here illegally.
Lincoln and Mario Diaz-Balart, as well as Senate candidate Marco Rubio. He also
Each year, millions of visitors, foreign students, and immigrants come to the
has been reminded that the slogan “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” really isn’t
United States. Foreign visitors may enter on a legal temporary basis — that is, with an
true. It’s just heated rhetoric.
authorized period of admission that expires on a specific date — either with tempo-
There has been a lot of that on Capitol Hill this week, even though Congress is
rary visas (generally for tourism, business, or work) or, in some cases, as tourists or
supposedly in recess. Both the House and Senate had to come back to the sweltering
business visitors who are allowed to enter without visas.
swamp this week to vote on unfinished business. In their haste to get out of the broil-
The majority of visitors who are tracked depart on time, but others overstay, and
ing temps, nobody noticed a $600 million “border security bill,” approved first in the
since September 11, 2001, the question has arisen as to whether overstay issues might
Senate and then by the House, actually violated procedures mandated by Article 1,
have an impact on domestic security.
Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution: “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the
Significant numbers of foreign visitors overstay their authorized periods of ad-
House of Representatives.” Just blame it on the heat.
mission. Based in part on its long-standing I-94 system for tracking arrivals and de-
One should be thankful that the “special session” was a great opportunity for
partures, the Department of Homeland Security estimated the overstay population at
Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the venerable legislator facing 13 ethics charges. He
2.3 million. But this estimate excludes an unknown number of long-term overstays
braved stifling temperatures to stroll into the well of the House of Representatives
from Mexico and Canada, and by definition and it excludes short-term overstays from
and exercise a “point of personal privilege.” After telling his cronies, “I am not going
these and other countries.
away; I am here,” they applauded. Perhaps it was too hot for those who were clapping
Because of unresolved weaknesses in Department of Homeland Security’s long-
to have read the most recent polls showing 78 percent of Americans disapprove of the
standing tracking system (e.g., non-collection of some departure forms), there is no
job Congress is doing.
accurate list of overstays. Tracking system weaknesses make it difficult to monitor
Rangel and his colleague Rep. Maxine Waters — also facing corruption charges
potentially suspicious aliens who enter the country legally—and limit immigration
— have asked for public hearings in September. Perhaps things will have cooled off
control options. Post-September 11 operations identified thousands of overstays and
in Washington by then.
other illegal alien workers who (despite limited background checks) had obtained
At least the pressure cooker temps aren’t bothering the first lady. Michelle Obama
critical infrastructure jobs and security badges with access to, for example, airport
See ‘Midsummer Madness,’ page 6 tarmacs and U.S. military bases.
September 2010 The Newsletter of the Forsyth Precinct Page 3

It’s the economy, stupid!

Obama plans to raise taxes anyway
By Stephen F. Hayes No one knows whether the economy will grow at an anemic pace or continue
The Weekly Standard its slide into recession. But it’s certainly the case that raising taxes in January—on
anyone—makes a slide more likely. Does the Obama administration really want to
Barack Obama understands that it’s bad economics to raise taxes in a reces- take that risk?
sion. It’s “the last thing you want to do,” he said almost exactly one year ago.
In early August 2009, the president visited Elkhart, Indiana, to tout his $862
billion stimulus plan. Less than 20 percent of the stimulus had been spent and White
House officials, infused with Keynesian confidence, were bullish about a strong
recovery. NBC’s Chuck Todd talked to Obama about the recovery and posed a
question submitted by an Elkhart resident named Scott Ferguson. “Explain how
raising taxes on anyone during a deep recession is going to help with the economy.”
Obama was blunt: “Well—first of all, he’s right. Normally you don’t raise
taxes in a recession, which is why we haven’t and why we’ve instead cut taxes. So
I guess what I’d say to Scott is—his economics are right. You don’t raise taxes in a
recession. We haven’t raised taxes in a recession.”
Todd interjected: “But you might for health care. You might for the high—for
some of the wealthiest.”
Obama responded:
We have not proposed a tax hike for the wealthy that would take effect in the
middle of a recession. Even the proposals that have come out of Congress—which
by the way, were different from the proposals I put forward—still wouldn’t kick in
until after the recession was over. So he’s absolutely right, the last thing you want to
do is to raise taxes in the middle of a recession because that would just suck up—
take more demand out of the economy and put businesses further in a hole.
Technically, a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative growth. The
United States emerged from its latest recession in the third quarter of 2009, when
GDP grew at 1.6 percent. The economy grew over the next three quarters—at 5.7
percent in the fourth quarter of 2009, at 3.7 percent in the first quarter of 2010, and
Five most crime-ridden
at 2.4 percent in the second quarter.
But growth is slowing. In mid-July, the Washington Post’s Neil Irwin wrote court districts are all
that the “bottom is falling out of analysts’ estimates of how fast the economy grew
from April to June,” as several forecasters projected that the original 2.4 percent
estimate would be revised downward. Last week, first-time jobless claims rose un-
on the border with Mexico
expectedly, and the Department of Commerce reported a trade deficit of $49.9 bil- The five U.S. judicial districts where the most criminal defendants were charged
lion—much higher than analysts had anticipated. with federal crimes last year are the five districts that border Mexico.
Last week, the Federal Reserve affirmed what had become increasingly obvi- There are 94 federal judicial districts covering the 50 states and U.S. posses-
ous: Economic growth “has slowed in recent months.” The Fed warned “the pace of sions, including the South District of Texas, which covers a stretch of border from
economic recovery is likely to be more modest in the near term than had been antici- Brownsville past Laredo. The U.S. attorney’s office filed criminal charges against
pated.” The economy grows at approximately 3 percent on population growth and 8,801 individuals in fiscal 2009, the most for any district, according to an annual
productivity improvements alone, so levels of growth below that are effectively report released by the Justice Department.
negative. Concerns about a double-dip recession, once voiced primarily by profes- That number is more than four times higher than the 1,959 persons charged in
sional skeptics, are on the lips of pretty much everyone these days. And prominent the Southern District of New York, which includes Manhattan and the Bronx,
economists have said that allowing all the Bush tax cuts to expire could cost the CNSNews.com Editor-in-Chief Terry Jeffrey notes.
U.S. economy a further 1 to 3 percentage points next year. The second most crime-ridden district is the Western District of Texas, which
All of which presents a difficult question for the White House: If it is bad covers the rest of the border. U.S. attorneys filed charges against 8,435 individuals
economics to raise taxes in a recession, is it wise to do so in a stagnating economy? there last year.
The obvious answer is no. But inside the White House gates it’s still the “Sum- Completing the top five are the Southern California District — which includes
mer of Recovery.” Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told NBC’s David Gre- the San Diego border area but not Los Angeles — where 5,554 defendants were
gory last month that he does not believe we’re headed toward a double-dip reces- charged, and the districts for the border states of Arizona (5,155) and New Mexico
sion. And while he acknowledged that the recovery could take a while, he was quite (3,769).
optimistic. “You are seeing recovery. You’re seeing private investment expand again, In comparison, the district covering the entire state of Colorado charged 585
job growth starting to come back.” When he was asked specifically about raising defendants, and New Jersey charged 910.
taxes on top income earners, as is scheduled to happen on January 1, 2011, Geithner The Justice Department report is “just more evidence that our government is
said, “The country can withstand that. The economy can withstand that. I think it’s not doing its job of defending our nation’s border with Mexico,” Jeffrey observes.
good policy.” “According to the Justice Department’s own numbers, federal crime is dra-
It was an interesting word choice: “withstand” a tax hike? So the U.S. economy matically disproportionate along that border compared to the rest of the United
is strong enough to endure the additional constraints the Obama administration wants States.”
to place on it in pursuit of its redistributionist goals? This is the triumph of ideology The report also discloses that 33 percent of all federal convictions last year
over economics. were in immigration cases.
September 2010 T he Newsletter of the Forsyth Precinct Page 4

How President Obama is locking up our land

Michelle Malkin - Syndicated Columnist

Have you heard of the “Great Outdoors Initiative”? Chances are, you haven’t.
But across the country, White House officials have been meeting quietly with envi-
ronmental groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of
More commentary
acres of both public and private land. It’s another stealthy power grab through ex-
ecutive order that promises to radically transform the American way of life. ping up their public comment solicitation by November 15. The initiative’s taxpayer-
In April, President Obama issued a memorandum outlining his “21st century funded website has been dominated by left-wing environmental activists proposing
strategy for America’s great outdoors.” It was addressed to the Interior Secretary, human population reduction, private property confiscation, and gun bans, hunting
the Agriculture Secretary, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and the bans, and vehicle bans in national parks. It’s time for private property owners to send
chair of the Council on Environmental Quality. The memo calls on the officials to their own loud, clear message to the land-hungry feds: Take a hike.
conduct “listening and learning sessions” with the public to “identify the places that
mean the most to Americans, and leverage the support of the Federal Government”
to “protect” outdoor spaces. Eighteen of 25 planned sessions have already been
held. But there’s much more to the agenda than simply “reconnecting Americans to
nature.”
The federal government, as the memo boasted, is the nation’s “largest land
manager.” It already owns roughly one of every three acres in the United States.
This is apparently not enough. At a “listening session” in New Hampshire last week,
government bureaucrats trained their sights on millions of private forest land through-
out the New England region. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack crusaded for “the
need for additional attention to the Land and Water Conservation Fund — and the
need to promptly support full funding of that fund.”
Property owners have every reason to be worried. The Land and Water Conser-
vation Fund (LWCF) is a pet project of green radicals, who want the decades-old
government slush fund for buying up private lands to be freed from congressional
appropriations oversight. It’s paid for primarily with receipts from the government’s
offshore oil and gas leases. Both Senate and House Democrats have included $900
million in full LWCF funding, not subject to congressional approval, in their energy/
BP oil spill legislative packages. The Democrats have also included a provision in
these packages that would require the federal government to take over energy per-
mitting in state waters, which provoked an outcry from Texas state officials, who
sent a letter of protest to Capitol Hill last month:
”In light of federal failures, it is incomprehensible that the United States Con-
gress is entertaining proposals that expand federal authority over oil and gas drilling
in state water and lands long regulated by states... Given the track record, putting
the federal government in charge of energy production on state land and waters not
only breaks years of successful precedent and threatens the 10th Amendment to the
United Sates Constitution, but it also undermines common sense and threatens the
environmental and economy security of our state’s citizens.”
This power grab, masquerading as a feel-good, all-American recreation pro-
gram, comes on top of a separate, property-usurping initiative exposed by GOP
Rep. Robert Bishop and Sen. Jim DeMint earlier this spring. According to an inter-
nal, 21-page Obama administration memo, 17 energy-rich areas in 11 states have
been targeted as potential federal “monuments.” The lives of coyotes, deer and prai-
rie dogs would be elevated above states’ needs to generate jobs, tourism business,
and energy solutions.
Take my home state of Colorado. The Obama administration is considering
locking up some 380,000 acres of Bureau of Land Management land and private
land in Colorado under the 1906 Antiquities Act. The Vermillion Basin and the
Alpine Triangle would be shut off to mining, hunting, grazing, oil and gas develop-
ment and recreational activities. Alan Foutz, president of the Colorado Farm Bu-
reau, blasted the administration’s meddling: “Deer and elk populations are thriving,
and we in Colorado don’t need help from the federal government in order to manage
them effectively.”
Indeed, the feds have enough trouble as it is managing the vast amount of land
they already control. As the Washington, DC-based Americans for Limited Govern-
ment group, which defends private property rights, points out: “The [National Park
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suffering, it doesn’t make sense for the federal government to grab new lands.”
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September 2010 The Newsletter of the Forsyth Precinct
Federal employees continue to prosper
Posted by Tad DeHaven
The Bureau of Economic Analysis has released its annual data on compensa-
tion levels by industry. The data show that the pay advantage enjoyed by federal
civilian workers over private-sector workers continues to expand. This state of
affairs is a thumb in the eye of the private sector, which continues to struggle with
high unemployment. Many private sector employees have been forced to take pay
and benefit cuts while continuing to fund generous federal employee compensation
with their taxes.
Figure 1 looks at average wages. In 2009, the average wage for 1.95 million
federal civilian workers was $81,258, which compared to an average $50,462 for
the nation’s 101 million private sector workers (measured in full-time equivalents).
The figure shows that the federal pay advantage (the gap between the lines) contin-
ued its steady increase over the past decade.
Figure 2 shows that the federal advantage is even more remarkable when
worker benefits are included. In 2009, federal worker compensation averaged a
whopping $123,049, which was more than double the private sector average of
$61,051.
The disparity between average federal and private employee compensation
has risen dramatically over the decade: from 66 percent in 2000 to 101 percent in
2009. Defenders of generous federal employee compensation point to the higher
levels of education in the federal workforce. However, it’s doubtful that education
accounts for the growing disparity between federal and private compensation.
Figure 3 shows that federal employees also enjoy much greater job security .
In 2009, a private sector employee was more than three times more likely to be laid
off or fired than a federal employee.
A reasonable level of pay and benefits, Oakland could afford to maintain its force, or
good indicator of the adequacy of federal compensation is the quit rate. Figure 4
shows that in 2009, private sector employees quit at a rate that was more than eight
times higher than federal employees. This indicates that federal employees recog-
nize that the generous combination of wages, benefits, and job security is hard to
match in the private sector, so they stay put.
The disparity between average federal and private employee compensation
has risen dramatically over the decade: from 66 percent in 2000 to 101 percent in
2009. Defenders of generous federal employee compensation point to the higher
levels of education in the federal workforce. However, it’s doubtful that education
accounts for the growing disparity between federal and private compensation.
Figure 3 shows that federal employees also enjoy much greater job security ).
In 2009, a private sector employee was more than three times more likely to
be laid off or fired than a federal employee.
A good indicator of the adequacy of federal compensation is the quit rate.
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Figure 4 shows that in 2009, private sector employees quit at a rate that was more
than eight times higher than federal employees This indicates that federal employees
recognize that the generous combination of wages, benefits, and job security is hard
to match in the private sector.
Oakland Police: No money to respond to crime
Newsmax.com
The city of Oakland, Calif., has laid off over 10 percent of its police force after
failing to negotiate a settlement with the police union — whose members earn an
average compensation of $162,000 a year.
“What’s going on in Oakland is an example of a phenomenon being seen across
the country: states and cities choosing between providing services to the public or
maintaining luxury compensation for public employees,” Josh Barro, the Walter B.
Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, writes for the Real Clear Markets website.
“More often than not, public employee unions have been winning this fight.
As the result of the loss of 80 police officers, Oakland’s police chief says cops
will no longer respond to 44 categories of crimes, including grand theft.
“At current levels of compensation, Oakland cannot afford to maintain a police
department with 776 employees,” Barro observes. “That’s because total compensa-
tion for an OPD employee averages an astounding $162,000 per year. But at a more
even grow it.”
OPD officers finishing training receive a starting salary of up to $90,459, before
overtime, plus a health plan worth $15,859 last year — compared to California’s
private sector mean of about $9,100 — and a pension contribution equal to 9 percent
of their salary and overtime pay.
The generous wage and benefit package was negotiated with the police union two
years ago. When layoffs were threatened, the union agreed that officers would begin
making contributions to their retirement benefits if the city agreed that there would be
no layoffs for three years. The city offered only a one-year pledge, and the union
declined the offer.
So police staffing “will be cut in one of California’s most crime-ridden cities,”
Barro notes.
“The trouble is that localities have been boxed in by unwise contracts and rigid
labor laws,” and no city should have to “say it can’t afford a large enough police force
because it has to pay each officer $162,000 per year.”
September 2010 The Newsletter of the Forsyth Precinct Page 6

Watchdog panel cites global impact of bailouts

By Marcy Gordon
WASHINGTON (AP) - The $700 billion U.S. bailout program launched in
response to the global economic meltdown had a far greater impact overseas than
other countries’ financial rescue plans did on the U.S., according to a new report
from a congressional watchdog.
Billions of dollars in U.S. rescue funds wound up in big banks in France,
Germany and other nations. That was probably inevitable because of the structure
of the Treasury Department’s program, the Congressional Oversight Panel says in
a new report issued Thursday.
The U.S. program aimed to stabilize the financial system by injecting money
into as many banks as possible, including those with substantial operations over-
seas. Most other countries, by contrast, focused their efforts more narrowly on
banks in their nations that usually lacked major U.S. operations. But the report
says that if the U.S. had gotten more data on which foreign banks would benefit the
most, the government might have been able to ask those countries to share some of
the cost.
“There were no data about where this money was going,” panel chair Eliza-
beth Warren said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. “The American
people have a right to know where the money went.”
An example: Major French and German banks were among the biggest benefi-
ciaries of the U.S. rescue of American International Group Inc., yet the American
government shouldered the entire $70 billion risk of pumping capital into the crippled
insurance titan.
The report compares that with the $35 billion that France spent on its overall
financial rescue program and the $133 billion that Germany spent. Much of the
$182 billion in federal aid to AIG - the biggest of the government rescues - went to
meet the company’s obligations to its Wall Street trading partners on credit default
swaps, a form of insurance against default of securities.
The partners included French banks Societe Generale, which received $11.9
billion in AIG money, and BNP Paribas, which got $4.9 billion, and Germany’s
Deutsche Bank, $11.8 billion.
Of the 87 banks and financial entities that indirectly benefited from the U.S.
aid to AIG, 43 are foreign, according to the report. In addition to France and Germany,
they include banks based in Canada, Britain and Switzerland.
In addition to AIG, many of the U.S. banks and automakers that received billions
in bailout aid derive a large proportion of their revenue from operations outside the
U.S., the report noted.
The watchdog panel was created by Congress to oversee the Treasury Depart-
ment rescue program that came in at the peak of the financial crisis in the fall of 2008.
It has said it’s unclear whether U.S. taxpayers will ever fully recoup the cost of the
AIG bailout. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that taxpayers will lose $36
billion. Although the law creating the U.S. rescue program called for Treasury to
coordinate its actions with similar efforts by foreign governments, “the global re-
sponse to the financial crisis unfolded on an ... informal, country-by-country basis,”
the new report says.
“Each individual government made its own decisions based on its evaluation of
what was best for its own banking sector and for its own domestic economy.”
The U.S. program wound up injecting capital into around 700 banks, while all
other governments combined aided fewer than 50, according to the oversight panel.
At the same time, the report suggests that the Treasury program, known as the
Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, may have played a constructive role. “It
appears that the existence of the TARP might have served to enhance the negotiating
position of the U.S. government (at least in a limited way), as it demonstrated the
willingness of U.S. officials to be aggressive and forceful in committing a significant
amount of resources to confront a deepening crisis,” the report says.
Treasury Department spokesman Mark Paustenbach said the report “shows that
Treasury worked effectively with its overseas partners in a number of ways to address
the global financial crisis.” The report says the financial crisis revealed the need for an
international plan “to handle the collapse of major, globally significant financial insti-
tutions.”
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Socialist Pink List
Continued from page 1
The Congressional Progressive Caucus website boasts 81 members as well as
resource links to numerous openly socialist publications and organizations, reports
WND Editor Joseph Farah Farah first broke the story of the DSA-Progressive Cau-
cus link 12 years ago in a series titled “Congress’ Red Army Caucus.”
Last week, WND reported that Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Ohio, is a member of the
DSA. She is not, however, listed on either the Progressive Caucus website as a mem-
ber or on the list of members published by the DSA last year.
“By my count, Kilroy would make at least 82 members of the House and Senate
who are avowedly socialist,” Farah concludes.
The DSA makes clear its preference for working within the Democratic Party for
the change it seeks.
“Many socialists have seen the Democratic Party, since at least the New Deal, as
the key political arena in which to consolidate this coalition, because the Democratic
Party held the allegiance of our natural allies,” the group states in the “Where we
stand” section of its website. “Through control of the government by the Democratic
Party coalition, led by anti-corporate forces, a progressive program regulating the
corporations, redistributing income, fostering economic growth and expanding social
programs could be realized.”
In addition to a national program of “massive redistribution of income from
corporations and the wealthy to wage earners and the poor and the public sector,” the
DSA also calls for a breaking down the American-style notions of nationalism and
national sovereignty.
“A program of global justice can unite opponents of transnational corporations
across national boundaries around a common program to transform existing interna-
tional institutions and invent new global organizations designed to ensure that wages,
working conditions, environmental standards and social rights are ‘leveled up’ world-
wide,” the group says on its website. “The basis of cooperation for fighting the
transnationals must be forged across borders from its inception. Economic national-
ism and other forms of chauvinism will doom any expanded anti-corporate agenda.”
It also states in the group’s mission statement: “A democratic socialist politics
for the 21st century must promote an international solidarity dedicated to raising
living standards across the globe, rather than ‘leveling down’ in the name of maximiz-
ing profits and economic efficiency. Equality, solidarity, and democracy can only be
achieved through international political and social cooperation aimed at ensuring that
economic institutions benefit all people. Democratic socialists are dedicated to build-
ing truly international social movements – of unionists, environmentalists, feminists,
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and people of color – that together can elevate global justice over brutalizing global
competition.”
While the DSA tries to paint distinctions between its brand of socialism and
communism, before scrubbing its website following the WND expose 12 years ago,
the site included a song list that included:
“The Internationale,” the worldwide anthem of Communism and socialism.
“Red Revolution” sung to the tune of “Red Robin,” with these lyrics: “When the
Red Revolution brings its solution along, along, there’ll be no more lootin’ when we
start shootin’ that Wall Street throng. ...”
“Are You Sleeping, Bourgeoisie?” Lyrics included: “Are you sleeping? Are you
sleeping? Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie. And when the revolution comes, We’ll kill you
all with knives and guns, Bourgeoisie, Bourgeoisie.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a longtime member of the Progressive Caucus
and served on the executive committee. She was not, however, listed last year as a
member of the DSA.
Ahmadinejad to visit Lebanon
as Northern Axis tightens the knot
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Arutz Sheva Daily
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Lebanon next month and
tighten the knot connecting Iran, Syria, Turkey, Hizbullah and Hamas.
He will travel to Lebanon after the Muslim fast month of Ramadan which begins
Wednesday,
Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said at a joint news conference with his
visiting Lebanese counterpart Ali al-Shami. The daily fast begins on Thursday and
concludes in early September.
It will Ahmadinejad’s first trip to Lebanon and the first Iranian presidential visit
there since 2003. Lebanese President Michael Sleiman visited Tehran nearly two
years ago as the Hizbullah terrorist organization strengthened its political power in
the Lebanese government.
Mottaki removed any doubts that he sees Syria and Iran as Beirut’s strategic
allies. He said, “The government of the Islamic republic and the Iranian nation are
standing with the Lebanese and Syrian governments and nations against the aggres-
sion and threats of the Zionist regime,” Mottaki said.
The influence of Hizbullah and Syria on the Lebanese government, and Iran’s
and Syria’s newfound friendship with the government of Turkish Prime Minister
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, present a solid northern front against Israel. ####
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Church and State Sodom in Prophecy

By Stephen Flurry

The debate over same-sex “marriage” is merely a symptom of a society that has
already cast off moral restraint. Those who defend same-sex “marriage” often argue
that whether homosexuals marry or not has absolutely no impact on traditional fami-
lies—that is, the rest of society. But they miss the point—as do most opponents of
same-sex “marriage”: The homosexual cause has already impacted our society. A
debate over homosexual “marriage” would only be possible in a society that has
already cast off moral restraint.
The reality is, as I wrote last week, that same-sex “marriage” is even being
debated perfectly illustrates how steep our slide into deviant behavior has been. And
it’s only getting worse. Ten years ago, for example, 62 percent of Californians were
against same-sex “marriage.” Two years ago, with the passage of Proposition 8, it
was 52 percent.
Where will we be 10 years from now?
And remember—whether homosexuality is or is not morally right is not up for
debate. That matter has already been mostly settled, with a host of laws prohibiting
anything that might be construed as discrimination against homosexuals.
Fact is, while “conservative” media pour scorn on Judge Vaughn Walker for his
ruling to overturn California’s ban on same-sex unions—for being anti-democratic,
anti-intellectual, anti-law, anti-tradition—they are often very quick to defend the rights
of homosexuals in general. The horse has long bolted.
When society turns into Sodom and Gomorrah, ultimately, it does impact every-
one. A biblical example is instructive in this area.
Anti-prayer case dismissed Ancient Sodom
Charlie Butts The word sodomy is derived from a Latin phrase meaning the “sin of Sodom,”
OneNewsNow which is vividly discussed, as most people know, in the biblical book of Genesis.
Ancient Sodom, like its neighboring city Gomorrah, was well-known for its wide-
Two women who filed a lawsuit to block prayer at city council meetings spread practice and acceptance of homosexuality. Jude 7 says that besides going
have been told not only did they lose the case, they can never refile it. after “strange flesh,” the people of Sodom and Gomorrah were “giving themselves
Judge Ewing Werlein, Jr. has thrown out a lawsuit against Houston over over to fornication.” Ezekiel tells us that Sodom was a prosperous area, with an
city council prayer. Kelly Shackelford, president and CEO of Liberty Institute, abundance of idleness. But it was also full of pride and abominations (Ezekiel 16:49-
represented Houston in the lawsuit filed by Kay Staley and Ray Hill, two non- 50).
believers. In the Genesis 19 account, the men of Sodom wanted to sodomize two visitors,
”They not only sued the city council, but they actually sued Councilwoman actually angels, who had come to see if the city should be spared God’s wrath. While
Anne Clutterbuck for saying the Lord’s Prayer to begin the council meetings,” the these two angels remained locked inside the home of Lot, an angry mob outside cried
attorney reports. out for the new flesh. Inside the home, the angels proceeded to give Lot and his family
Staley has gained previous recognition for suing for the removal of a Bible clear and precise instructions concerning the future welfare of Sodom and neighbor-
from a memorial display on the county grounds. Even so, the two were forced to ing Gomorrah. “Then the men said to Lot, Have you any one else here? Sons-in-law,
agree with the court’s dismissal of the lawsuit. sons, daughters, or any one you have in the city, bring them out of the place; for we
”The case was not only dismissed, but with prejudice. In other words, they are about to destroy this place, because the outcry against its people has become
can never refile this,” Shackelford explains. “It’s a huge victory for religious great before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it” (verses 12-13, Revised
freedom.” Standard Version).
The attorney also points out that Lot relayed this sobering message to the two young men who were to marry his
similar complaints are not uncommon. daughters. Now these were two decent men—heterosexuals who had not taken ad-
vantage of Lot’s daughters. There had probably been numerous instances where they
For a “There are lawsuits like this around
the country that are trying to scrub any sat around the table with their future father-in-law decrying the evils and perversions
reference to God in the public square, of society. And yet, without realizing it, much of that evil had rubbed off on them!
reminder and they attempt to deny our religious They might have recognized many of the more extreme evils in Sodom, but they had
heritage in this country and the reli- grown accustomed to living there—and actually enjoyed much of it.
for the Forsyth Precinct How strong society’s pull must have been for these two men, at this most criti-
gious freedom that this country was
newsletter, email your built upon,” the Liberty Institute presi- cal hour, to mock God’s warning, as it was delivered through His servant Lot.
name and address to dent laments. Their ridicule even caused a seed of doubt to sprout in Lot’s mind. The next
jtstewart2@earthlink net. So he concludes the loss in Hous- morning, even after the constant prodding from the two angels, Lot began to linger,
ton was a heavy one for the pair who delaying his departure—so much so that the angels seized Lot and his wife and two
We’ll send you an daughters by the hands and forcibly led them out of the sinful city! Upon leaving the
filed the case.
email notice when the new city, the angels shouted at Lot’s family, Run for your lives! And don’t even stop to
edition of the newsletter “Technological progress is look back, lest you be consumed as well!
has been posted on the “Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire
like an axe in the hands of a
from the Lord out of heaven; And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all
Internet. pathological criminal.”
the inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground” (verses 24-25,
Albert Einstein
See ‘Sodom,’ page 9
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Sodom Obama uses Ramadan dinner

RSV) Continued from page 8 to endorse New York mosque
And yet, we somehow think we are so far superior to these ancient societies By Eric Werner
and that there is no way universal destruction could EVER happen again—even Associated Press
though it’s prophesied.
Even Thus Shall It Be … WASHINGTON - After skirting the
The Old Testament Prophet Isaiah compares our peoples to those of Sodom controversy for weeks, President Barack
and Gomorrah, describing us as being “sick” from head to toe. He prophesied of Obama is weighing in forcefully on the
our eventual ruin and desolation as a result of our universal sin and rebellion against mosque near ground zero, saying a nation
God’s laws. built on religious freedom must allow it.
The Apostle Peter also issued a grave warning for our present day, drawing on “As a citizen, and as president, I be-
the lesson from Sodom and Gomorrah, saying that God turned them into ashes, lieve that Muslims have the same right to
“making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly” (2 Peter 2:6). practice their religion as everyone else in
The epistle of Jude, another New Testament message, speaks of these two this country,” Obama told an intently listening crowd gathered at the White House
cities as suffering the “vengeance of eternal fire.” Jude also wrote that God set them Friday evening to observe the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
forth as an example for our day. “That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on
Jesus Christ described our latter-day society as being exactly like Sodom and private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances,”
Gomorrah—abundantly prosperous, yet exceedingly wicked. “Likewise also as it he said. “This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshak-
was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, able.”
they builded” (Luke 17:28). They were eating and drinking, buying and selling, The White House had not previously taken a stand on the mosque, which would
planting and building—right up to the day God destroyed their cities (verse 29). be part of a $100 million Islamic community center two blocks from where nearly
“Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed” (verse 30). 3,000 people perished when hijacked jetliners slammed into the World Trade Center
Even thus shall it be. History, in other words, is repeating itself. This is why towers on Sept. 11, 2001. Press secretary Robert Gibbs had insisted it was a local
Jesus warned, “Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted matter.
worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the It was already much more than that, sparking debate around the country as top
Son of man” (Luke 21:36). • Republicans including Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich announced their opposition. So
did the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights group.
Obama elevated it to a presidential issue Friday without equivocation.
While insisting that the place where the twin towers once stood was indeed “hal-
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Odds and Ends

American Bar Association
calls for homosexual
marriage nationwide
By Matt Cover, Staff Writer
CNSNews.com

The American Bar Association (ABA) adopted a resolution this week calling
for same-sex marriage nationwide, and urging government at every level to “elimi-
nate” any restrictions on homosexual unions.
The ABA’s policy-making House of Delegates adopted Resolution 111, which
states: “RESOLVED, That the American Bar Association urges state, territorial,
and tribal governments to eliminate all of their legal barriers to civil marriage
between two persons of the same sex who are otherwise eligible to marry.”
The Lighter Side
The only voice of opposition came from former Ohio Bar Association Presi-
dent Leslie Jacobs, who said that it would be “cowardice” for him to remain silent
about the issue. Jacobs urged his ABA colleagues to avoid overreaching into ar-
eas of contentious social policy.
”We owe it to this House [of Delegates] to avoid action that would jeopar-
dize the Association,” he said. “I personally believe it can be suicidal for the
House to defer to an impulse to impose social and political and cultural values on
the entire membership of the ABA – rather than to reflect some clear consensus of
the bar.”
”When an attitudinal value is not broadly shared, and when people of good-
will have sharply divergent views that are fundamental and – frankly – irreconcil-
able, it is axiomatic I believe that lawyers will be found not only to disagree with
each other but to be engaged as advocates on both sides of the proposition on the
merits, whether in litigation or in legislation,” Jacobs said.
Incoming ABA President Stephen Zack, speaking in favor of homosexual
marriage, said there was no reason why anyone would want to redefine marriage
to ignore traditional gender roles.
”Why would anyone in this country not want two people who love each other
to enjoy the blessings of marriage and the protections of law?” he asked.
Douglas Napier, senior legal counsel at the Alliance Defense Fund, told
CNSNews.com that Jacobs’ caution was well founded, adding that the ABA had
gone “far afield” of its founding mission to address issues affecting the legal
community.
”They [the ABA] aren’t speaking for the majority of attorneys,” Napier said.
“They don’t represent the majority of attorneys in the United States, yet they put
themselves out as the voice of the American legal profession.
”This is just another very, very clear indication that they’re out of sync with
the majority of Americans and that they don’t speak for American attorneys,” said
Napier.
Napier likened the ABA’s stance on homosexual marriage to its controver-
sial stance in the 1990’s in support of abortion rights, saying that now, as then,
the association seemed intent on advancing a political, social agenda rather than
focusing on legal issues.
”This is so far afield from their primary purpose that this is nothing more
than using the ABA to advance a political agenda – a social political agenda,” he
said. “They did it with the abortion issue in the 90’s, and now they’re doing it with
marriage.” ####

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