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By Don White

Windermere, FL, October 12, 2011--Thanks to Americans United For Life for these photos and stories about our effort to stem the tide of abortions in America. There is optimism in the Pro-Life camp, as America United For Life CEO and president Charmaine Yoest says, and Congress is now putting a lot of pressure on the Pro-Choice abortion advocates, including the biggest advocate, President Obama, to provide accurate records substantiating what is spent and validating the amounts.

It is strongly believed that there is waste and fraud in this abortion movement. The heat is up and Pro-Life advocates like Health and Human Services secretary Kathlene Sibelius is now calling the fight a war. Indeed, it is. It is a war that we hope will result in putting some people in jail for sloppy handling of our taxpayer money and, in some cases, actual indictable fraud punishable by prison terms.

Many of the Republican candidates have spoken and written against abortion in America, but the most forceful and lucid position was taken by Dr. Ron Paul. You also need to read a story I posted today in the blog

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 In This Issue: On funding bills of all kinds, growing coalitions fight for life-advancing policies, and the investigation of the nation’s largest abortion provider proceeds. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tells pro-abortion supporters at a Chicago fund raising lunch for NARAL Pro-Choice America, “We are in a war.”  Can Planned Parenthood Justify $1 Million a Day? Investigation of Nation’s Largest Abortion Provider Moves Forward The current political uproar over an investigation into Planned Parenthood’s use of federal funds reveals an interesting paradox. While all congressional leaders want to cut wasteful programs and investigate possible misuse of taxpayer dollars in theory, it is a different matter entirely when the institutions in question are political favorites, noted Americans United for Life President and CEO Dr. Charmaine Yoest and AUL attorney Anna Franzonello in a recent column at FoxNews. In a time where deep cuts are necessary to budgets across the board, the Energy and Commerce Committee—led by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Government Reform—recently sent a letter to Planned Parenthood asking for financial records and documents. The purpose is to learn more about troubling questions facing Planned Parenthood’s use of taxpayer dollars and apparent disregard for federal and states laws including those that mandate the reporting of suspected child sexual abuse. While Rep. Stearns agreed to give Planned Parenthood a few additional weeks to gather the documents requested, the investigation into the abortion industry leader is unprecedented and underway. At National Review, Michael J. New pointed to AUL’s involvement as key in advancing this long overdue look into Planned Parenthood’s affairs, both financial and procedural. “Americans United for Life deserves credit … for combining all these allegations into a report entitled ‘The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood.’ Individually some of these episodes can be seen as lapses in judgment (albeit very serious ones).  Collectively they paint a very compelling picture of both mismanagement and misconduct,” he wrote. Click here to read more. “We are in a war,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius told pro-abortion supporters at a Chicago fundraising lunch for NARAL Pro-Choice America recently, where she discussed the Obama Administration’s efforts to keep the taxpayers on the hook for Planned Parenthood funding, among other such programs. To read more, click here. “There will never be a better time for a public accounting of the millions of taxpayer dollars given to the abortion industry each year,” said Dr. Yoest. “And Congress has a duty to look into Planned Parenthood’s troubling record. No institution that covers up or turns a blind eye to the crimes of sex offenders, molesters, and abusers should expect the taxpayer to write a blank check of support.” To read more analysis of the issues under investigation, click here to read the Fox News article. AUL-Backed Pro-Life Bill Passes House Committee Legislation Would De-fund UN Program Linked to Forced Abortions in China and Save Taxpayers Millions Rep. Renee Ellmers & Dr. Charmaine Yoest  A bill that would prevent U.S. tax dollars from funding an organization that supports coercing women to abort their children passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee last week. Congresswoman Renee Ellmers introduced H.R. 2059 to prohibit funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), a major proponent of China’s coercive one-child policy – a move that would save $400 million in taxpayer dollars over ten years.  Since President Obama reinstated funding to the UNFPA in 2009, Congress has allocated $145 million in taxpayer funds to this abusive organization.  A rising pro-life leader, Rep. Ellmers also held a Capitol Hill news conference in which she and other members of Congress called for an investigation of Planned Parenthood after reviewing AUL’s “The Case for Investigating Planned Parenthood.” Rep. Ellmers’ bill was the winning YOUCUT entry for the first week of the competition in May, an on-line event sponsored by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in which taxpayers were invited to say what Congressional budget items they would eliminate. AULA has long been active in opposing taxpayer funding to UNFPA because of the grave injustice of funding an organization that supports coercing women to kill their children. “In opposing taxpayer funds from supporting UNFPA, Americans United for Life Action supports human rights for all human beings,” said Dr. Yoest. “We in the U.S. must end the grave injustice of funding an organization that facilitates the cruel and barbaric policy of coercing women to abort their children.” For more on this effort, click here. Progress on Keeping Health Care Pro-Life 28 Senators Write to HHS Asking that Coverage Guidelines Respect “Human Life, Individual Liberties, and Personal Conscience” Senators Mike Johanns & Orrin Hatch  As the Obama Administration implements the Affordable Care Act (the 2010 health care law), AUL has been active in monitoring the regulations that will govern the choices all Americans will be forced to make when buying health care. Guidelines for “Preventive” care for women have been especially controversial because they have been written to force nearly all Americans to pay for abortion-inducing drugs as part of the health insurance mandate. AUL has twice submitted comments to the Department of Health and Human Services and testified at each of the Institute of Medicine’s three public meetings to protect the conscience rights of Americans who may be forced to pay for abortion-inducing drugs. And last week, 28 U.S. Senators added their voices to the debate, asking that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius address their concerns with a July report entitled, “Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps.” In the letter, the Senators wrote that they are concerned “with the lack of due consideration given by [Sebelius] and your Department to the adverse impact that IOM’s recommendations would have on our core constitutional value of religious liberty.” For the full list of Senators who voiced their concerns and to read the letter, click here.     In the News AUL’s Dr. Charmaine Yoest was profiled in a piece that ran in the National Catholic Register that examined the pro-life momentum sweeping the country. “One of the most exciting things is looking back at where we were in 2008, when there was such desperation in the pro-life movement, and comparing it to now, when we are seeing a tidal wave of pro-life victories,” Dr. Yoest told reporter Charlotte Hays. To read the entire article, click here. Last week, with the advice and counsel of AUL attorneys, Rep. Michele Bachmann introduced the Heartbeat Informed Consent Act of 2011 along with 29 co-sponsors that if passed would require women to undergo an ultrasound prior to an abortion, an effort that AUL supports. To read more at LifeNews, click here. Back To Top

Obama Administration Is Killing American Citizens

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By Don White
Another reason to vote against Barak Obama and for Ron Paul popped up the other day as we learned Obama had targeted a man believed to be, but not proven in court, a terrorist, Awlaki.

Brasscheck ran a video and sound of some comments made by presidential candidate Ron Paul who suggested that if people didn't speak up against assassination of Americans, Reporters would be their next target. But,.of course, only journalists on the right--not the left-wing journalists from the NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Post.

Astounding. Do we really want a president who can and does have an enemies list and has now killed two American citizens with missiles shot from drones?

Assassination studies U.S. Could Target Journalists For Assassination

Assassination studies U.S. Could Target Journalists For Assassination

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Wall Street Protesters Don't Know What They're Protesting

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GOP: Obama, Biden Incite Wall Street Protests

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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden are under increasing attack for egging on the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street protest that has spread to cities across the country.
Senior Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah said he believes comments Obama made about “running Republicans out of town” could end up turning the protests ugly.
“We are going to have riots in this country because of what these people are doing," he warned.
Editor’s note: Find out what else Obama is behind. Get the real truth here.
Hatch said Obama’s words coupled with by Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa’s Labor Day speech in which he called tea party members “sons of bitches” who should be “taken out” could incite violence.

"They are going to get people very angry and sooner or later people who basically are dependent upon the federal government and are about to be cut back, yeah, you are going to have lots of problems," Hatch told reporters in Salt Lake City, one of many places that have seen protests.
Fellow Republican Sen. Rand Paul joined in the attack on the White House, calling Obama’s comments “inflammatory,” and saying the protesters reminded him of the Paris mob during the French Revolution.
“I see the president’s rhetoric of envy inflaming the public,” the Kentucky senator told Fox News’ Judge Andrew Napolitano."
“I hope ultimately it doesn’t result in lawlessness where they say, ‘Gosh those nice iPads through the window should be mine and why don’t I throw a brick through the window to get them because rich people don’t deserve to have them when I can’t have one.’”
Obama said during his Thursday press conference that voters will “run Republicans out of town” if they refuse to pass his jobs bill. He then expressed sympathy for the Occupy Wall Street movement which started in lower Manhattan three weeks ago. He said it “expresses the frustrations that the American people feel.”

Read more on Newsmax.com: Obama, Biden egging on Wall Street Protests
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Should The Executive Branch Rule Over What The People Want?

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September 2011 • Volume 40, Number 9 The Constitution and Limited Government Edward J. Erler Professor of Political Science California State University, San Bernardino

EDWARD J. ERLER is professor of political science at California State University, San Bernardino, and a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute. He earned his B.A. from San Jose State University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in government from Claremont Graduate School. He has published numerous articles on constitutional topics in journals such as Interpretation, the Notre Dame Journal of Law, and the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy. He was a member of the California Advisory Commission on Civil Rights from 1988-2006 and served on the California Constitutional Revision Commission in 1996. He has testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the issue of birthright citizenship and is the co-author of The Founders on Citizenship and Immigration.

The following is adapted from a speech delivered at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar on May 24, 2011, in Dallas, Texas. Two Cases that are currently making their way to the Supreme Court may well in the short term decide the constitutional issue of the reach and extent of the federal government. At stake, in other words, is the future of limited government. And together, these two cases present an exceedingly odd situation. In the case of the Arizona illegal alien law, the federal government is suing a state for constitutional violations; and in the case of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—that is, Obamacare—more than half the states are suing the federal government, contesting the Act’s constitutionality. It is indeed a litigious season. But the Supreme Court’s decisions in these two cases may not be the last word, because both of them present eminently political issues that will have to be decided ultimately by the American people. The administrative state, of course, always seeks to extend its reach and magnify its power. This is an intrinsic feature of a system where administration and regulation replace politics as the ordinary means of making policy. If there are to be limits to the reach of the burgeoning administrative state, they will be political limits imposed by the people in the ordinary course of partisan politics. The advent of the administrative state poses the greatest challenge to limited government, because it elevates the welfare of the community—whether real or imagined—over the rights and liberties of individuals. The task today is to confine the federal government to its delegated powers. The minions of the administrative state seek to destroy constitutional boundaries in their desire to replace politics with administration. This is tantamount to denying that legitimate government derives from the consent of the governed, or that limited government rests on the sovereignty of the people. Read the rest of this article

Liberty Defined White Notes

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by Don White
September 17, 2011

Windermere, FL--I'm writing a new book, companion to Ron Paul's Liberty Defined.

My book will be a cliff-notes version of his great book. I am currently asking Paul for an endorsement so that this book can become a real stimulus for not only sales of his and my books, but for his election as president of the United States.

Here is the Preface to my White Notes book:

.    I write to all Americans—Republicans and Democrats alike. Today something akin to the retirement of George Washington could occur. Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the most conservative man in the House, soon will retire from politics. That is if he loses his bid to become president of the United States.

   Let’s make sure he wins the presidency of the United States. Dr. Paul is the most intelligent and patriotic candidate of all. We would miss him dearly if he left.

   For many this would not be a tragedy. But if you’re a libertarian you are saying it’s a shame.

   If you’re a Tea Party conservative you would be sorry because his ideas provide most of the insight for that movement. His intention was to follow Washington and Jefferson’s suggestion: go to Washington for a short time and return home and assume his original profession.

   Dr. Ron Paul didn’t want to stay. In fact, he was the first Congressman in America to write a bill proposing term limits and that was in the 1970s. He proposed term limits multiple times during his twenty-four-year service to this country.

   His term limit bill was always defeated, so when he saw people in Washington wouldn’t budge on their moderate and liberal ideas he decided to stay and fight. 

   Freedom-loving people across this great nation are glad he did. Congressman Paul knew he could make a difference and he has. What would this country be like without conservatives like Ron Paul in the House of Representatives?

   When democrats heard that Congressman Paul was retiring they were ecstatic. Their minds sent up victory balloons and rockets. They were glad this feisty medical doctor-lawmaker would no longer be on the scene writing books and pestering the liberals with sound thinking on a variety of issues, all opposing progressive demagogy and big government.

   This is the same Ron Paul who ran for president as a libertarian in 2008 and lost, a man who is again running for president in 2012 as a republican.

   Luke warm critics might say that if the past is any indication of the future, he can’t win in 2012. Nonsense! He wasn’t supposed to win in his first bid for the House of Representatives, either when he ousted a democrat incumbent. 

  Something told me to offer Ron Paul my help, but how? By reducing his latest book down to the nuts and bolts of what he believes and entice those “kids” who didn’t know any better last time to read and understand Ron Paul’s glorious ideas. Then I hope they will believe and take action at the polls.

   Our youth and old alike need to hear Congressman Paul’s message—that what America needs most right now is fewer, not more, rules, which make it almost impossible to run a small business. Seventy percent of new job growth in America today is by small businesses, but we have chained them with rules and regulations that make it almost impossible for them to compete with foreign countries. Reduce the size of government. Spend less and balance our budgets. Cut the fraud and waste out of government and stop those senseless wars.

   This is part of Ron Paul’s program. He can fix America, fortifying us economically, socially, and militarily with real clear conservative values that will liberate the nation from the heavy yoke of big government and years and years of wars of aggression that God warns will lead to our downfall.

   Ron Paul is a moral man. He has decided to retire from the U.S. House of Representatives after 12 terms so that he can concentrate all of his efforts on winning the Republican nomination for president. That’s the good news.

   However, if he fails to win the presidency, his leaving the House of Representatives becomes a tragedy. It would be hard to think of an America without Ron Paul to guide and lead the way. It isn’t a happy prospect—depriving a nation of his wisdom, his brilliant mind, and his ability to see behind the rhetoric what needs to be done to set this country on a true, free, and successful course.

   Ron Paul is a highly educated and intelligent common-sense man whom I, a former Democrat (almost 50 years ago) and past supporter of moderates like Mitt Romney, now vow to support.

   What was I thinking? I should have gone full tilt in support of Ron Paul much earlier.

   If it took me a while to see the light, there must be plenty more out there that need re-educating on Ron Paul. I am convinced that my Cliff Notes or White Notes, whatever I call it, version of his book, Liberty Defined, is just what will do that

   Like conservative Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Az) before him, Congressman Paul is a devout patriot who believes in conservative concepts. His one downfall: he may not an orator who can excite the masses all of the time. Of course, in reality Barak Obama isn’t either. As a public speaker, Obama often falls flat, especially without his teleprompter, but his personal charm and charisma have so far saved him. Well, America, that’s about to end.

   “If you love me pass my bill?” Who wrote those stupid lines? What has he done to warrant our love? Just the opposite is true. He hates America so he deserves our scorn. He has done everything he could to bring America down. He shames America in front of foreign governments. He is not a cheerleader for America’s exceptionalism. Quite the opposite, and he has become a public embarrassment. 

   Obama’s message is flawed and no amount of jokes, lies, and big-tooth smiles can make honest Americans believe we are better off today than we were at the end of 2008.

   And what about those other two orators, FDR and Woodrow Wilson? FDR gave us bigger government and Wilson gave us the progressive income tax, the Federal Reserve System in 1913 and broke a promise and took us into World War I.

   The Fed and Obama’s profligate spending has just about wiped out the country’s prosperity and any chance we have of escaping the economic chaos it created.

   Our only hope is to defeat Obama with Ron Paul who is the only candidate out there who understands the Fed and promises to end the Fed and its global power nonsense. His mantra also includes bringing home our troops—not all but 3,000 of them, all of them—cutting the spending, balancing the budget, wiping out the communist rules and regs that stymie new business and job growth, and winning back our place as the most free country in the world. Today, due to Obama and his liberal friends in Washington, America is behind socialistic Canada in ninth place.

   No one can tell me that having a bunch of communists and socialists in the White House writing onerous rules is good for the economic and spiritual health of the nation.

   On the political trail, at times Ron Paul may struggle with “big-tent” crowd appeal. That’s because he tells it like it is. That’s why liberals hate him. But Americans liked two other men who spoke their minds, Democrat Harry Truman and Republican Barry Goldwater.

   Could they love Paul, too? Of course, many already do. Not that Congressman Paul couldn’t get even hard core Democrats to love him if he wanted. But to do so he would have to be all things to all people—and he’s just too honest to be all over the board in his convictions.

   One liberal moaned about Paul’s delivery, “You think you’re listening to Gomer Pyle.” He was referring to Dr. Paul’s bubbly, gentle, rural auto mechanic panache. Home folks love that style, but he gains less affection from non-libertarians. That TV persona was portrayed by popular American singer/ television actor Jim Nabors whom we all loved in the fifties and sixties.

   Today, voters are attracted to glitz and pseudo intellectualism with some lies and jokes to cover the untruths thrown in here and there. That was one of Ronald Reagan’s secrets of success, the ready quip.

   Some people prefer young, tall and handsome presidential timber with a clearly resonating voice, despite the fact those candidates have a nasty habit of over-promising and rarely delivering.

   It happens all the time. When we elect a dishonest person we wake up some fine morning to find that he or she has ghosts in their closets that can’t be fixed with timely quips.

   Inevitably, we deserve whom we get. Dishonesty seems today to be one of the chief shortcomings of winning White House candidates, but that’s not a Ron Paul’s characteristic.

   Paul may seem somewhat verbose; at times his lines may even lack punch, quips and wit, at least from a Madison Avenue point of view. It is because he is not Ronald Reagan at the podium, nor would he like to be. He’s Ron Paul, a plain and simple, tell-it-as-it-is man. But I really thought he “brought it” in front of a large Iowa straw poll crowd recently.

   If you want that heart-throbbing—but hollow— temporary vitality feeling, vote for Mitt, Michelle, or Rick. That kind of talk from candidates is cheap and insincere. But if you want it told to you like it is, with earthy honesty, you had better choose Ron Paul. This man is the most intelligent and literate candidate from either party. He is the only candidate that can release us from the “big Washington” malaise America has suffered from for the past six decades.

   The tragedy is that so few bother to find out what Ron Paul stands for. I wrote the White Notes version of Liberty Defined to help remedy that.

   I was tempted to call the book Liberty Defined For Dummies but that title has too many negative connotations and those who read and accept it are the most intelligent Americans around, not dummies. That is why I call the book Liberty Defined White Notes.  Or, it may be Liberty Defined, USA Notes, because that’s also my moniker.   

   The name of Congressman Paul’s book is Liberty Defined, 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom.

   Liberty Defined is Paul’s sixth book, a New York Times best seller. What other presidential candidate has written so well, so prolifically? I also whole-heartedly endorse Congressman Paul’s other books that I have read, especially End the Fed.

   According to University of Georgia political scientist Keith Poole, Paul had the most conservative voting record of any member of Congress since 1937. His son Rand Paul was elected to the United States Senate for Kentucky in 2011, making the elder Paul the first Representative in history to serve concurrently with his son.

   Paul gained prominence for his libertarian positions on many political issues, often clashing with both Republican and Democrat Party leaders. He has been called the "intellectual godfather" of the Tea Party movement.