"On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives will consider H.J. Res. 37. If it passes, the bill will be the first step in blocking the so-called "Net Neutrality" regulations handed down by the Federal Communications Commission.
Net Neutrality gives the federal government the power to regulate content on the internet by forcing every internet provider to carry every kind of content at the same price, regardless of the strain it puts on the company's network.
The FCC's end-run around the legislative process is a massive abuse of their power. And it is yet another example of the Obama Administration's "we know what's best for you" view of America."
Last night, conservative House members joined me at FRC Action Headquarters for a special live program on the budget crisis facing our nation today. Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Jim Jordan (R-OH), Mike Pence (R-IN), Tom Price (R-GA), and others were onsite to give us an insiders' look at how the budget showdown is playing out.
If you missed it last night, you can now view the entire program "Time to Act: How big government is fiscally and morally bankrupting America" on-demand. Click here to view, so you can become informed as well as learn whatyou can do to help America out of this economic crisis.
Watch Now: Reps. Bachmann, Jordan, Pence, Price & others talk budget showdown with FRC Action
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To commemorate the opening day of Virginia's Decennial Redistricting, the Virginia Senate Republican Caucus is introducing a brand new web game:
Do you have what it takes to succeed in the world of hyper-partisan redistricting? Do you really have the skills to protect your fellow partisans while simultaneously punishing your opponents and ignoring your fellow citizens?
Find out now by playing "Howell or Rorschach?"!
Just go to www.howellorrorschach.com!
There, you'll find an easy-to-play game that helps you decide whether you have what it takes to be a world-class champion at the fine art of gerrymandering.
All you have to do is decide whether the images you're looking at are Virginia State Senate Districts in the Howell Plan or inkblots from a Rorschach Test. The more you get right, the higher you'll rank.
Your final score at "Howell or Rorschach?" will decide just how good you are at drawing absurd district lines that totally disregard communities of interest, splitting Virginia's Counties, Cities and Towns like they were bananas waiting for their ice cream and toppings!
Redistricting comes but once every ten years, so start Redistricting Week 2011 off right!
Play "Howell or Rorschach?" today!
"...what has been almost entirely lost in the discussion is the fact that Muslims have the free will to restrain themselves when offended, if they so choose.
Even the headline below takes the automatic, violent reaction of Muslims for granted -- simple cause and effect -- thereby tacitly excusing them from responsibility after being "provoked."
For which other group would such behavior be accepted as normal, as a logical and inevitable response? Fill in the blanks. Mix and match as you like. "__________ go on rampage after two preachers of the __________ faith burn their holy book, the __________, 20 dead."
Muslims ought to be insulted at the low expectations for them..."
In addition to Governor Bob McDonnell’s amendment to HB 2434 which would restrict Virginia’s health insurance exchanges under ObamaCare from covering abortion services, the Governor also added an amendment to reinsert abstinence funding in the Virginia budget. This funding was initially presented in the House budget, but in the final days of session, Senate conferees stripped it out.
This abstinence amendment will be voted on by the General Assembly this Wednesday. While it is likely the House will accept this amendment, the Senate will be an uphill climb. Contact your Senator today and urge support for Governor McDonnell’s abstinence funding in the budget.
Planned Parenthood and their allies at the National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) have made it their national agenda to stop abstinence education and they consistently assail abstinence programs as being ineffective. One legislator that works closely with Planned Parenthood and NARAL carried this message saying, “the reality is with teenagers their hormones come into play, and abstinence-only doesn't always work.” Of course, if teens can be taught effective ways of postponing sexual activity it cuts into the abortion industry's profits.
But the primary arguments from abstinence opponents have been that “abstinence education doesn’t work,” “parents don’t support abstinence education,” and "it’s naive to think that teenagers can be abstinent." None of those arguments, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), are correct. In fact, a 2010 study paid for by HHS found that abstinence education is highly effective and it is widely supported by parents and teenagers.
The HHS survey released this past October found that 70 percent of parents agreed that it is “against [their] values for [their] adolescents to have sexual intercourse before marriage” and that “having sexual intercourse is something only married people should do.” Adolescent beliefs, according to the survey, were similar.
Clearly, abstinence education is not only effective, but it is widely supported among both parents and teens. Contact your Senator today and urge support of the Governor’s amendment to reinstate abstinence funding in the budget.
ACTION: Please contact your Senators immediately and urge a yes vote on Governor McDonnell’s abstinence funding amendment to the budget.
Palm Desert, California (Vocus/PRWEB) April 01, 2011
The FAIR Foundation’s President and CEO, Dr. Richard Darling, asks that you decide and he offers the following information:
Nationally, taxpayers have spent well over one third of a trillion dollars --yes, a trillion--on HIV/AIDS, including over $3,000 per HIV/AIDS patient on bio-medical research annually versus less than $200 for virtually every other illness.
The Department of Health and Human Services has only one HOPWA program that has spent billions on providing housing to patients. Does HOPWA stand for “Housing Opportunities for Patients with Alzheimer’s”? No, the lucky beneficiaries of this federal program are AIDS patients.
Billions more are spent annually on HIV/AIDS by others, including the 50 states, pharmaceutical companies and non-profit organizations such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Darling asks, “How successful has all this funding been?”
His answer: “Extremely successful—the plummeting HIV/AIDS death rate nationwide is exemplified by the 99 percent decrease in deaths of California’s newly infected HIV/AIDS patients from almost 10,000 in 1992 to less than 200 in 2009.”
"Our government's top HIV researcher and the physician who oversees the annual $3 billion HIV/AIDS research budget, Anthony Fauci, MD, admitted years ago that their success is 'breathtaking' with HIV patients who 'look and feel well, and are leading very productive, very gratifying lives.'”
Darling points to further evidence of success: HIV/AIDS activist Elton John, whose AIDS Foundation has raised many millions of dollars for his cause, stated on the American Idol TV show that HIV “is not a life-threatening disease anymore” and rock star Bono, while asking for more money for HIV/AIDS in TV ads, states that HIV patients need to take just two pills a day to stay alive; two pills that cost only 40 cents.
Darling inquires, “Is there greed in local HIV/AIDS organizations?”
In Palm Springs, CA the Desert AIDS Project (DAP) competes with neighboring charities for every dollar available from local residents. Why, in Darling’s opinion, is that inappropriate? While charities work hard for a few thousand dollars at local events, DAP's 2008 IRS Form 990 shows that they have already received $11.8 million in receipts, including $7.5 million in grants, contributions and program service revenue with a large staff of 100 for only 2,200 patients. The 990 also shows $3.6 million in salaries and benefits with a Director’s total compensation of $200,000. Dr. Darling suggests it is informative that DAP also has an art collection that has a book value of $1 million dollars.
Integrated Wealth Management (IWM) is the Title Sponsor for the Kraft Nabisco Ladies Professional Golf Association’s 1st major tournament being held this week in Rancho Mirage, CA. IWM uses local charities to sell tickets for the event—the charities compete with each other with their sale proceeds returning to the charity. DAP is presently competing with all local charities in this event even though IWM had already donated $150,000 to DAP in 2008, 2009 and announced recently they are increasing their gift to DAP—the new amount: $1 million dollars. Darling offers this question: “Would it not have been appropriate for DAP to disclose to the competing charities that it had already received this significant funding from IWM with DAP’s subsequent withdrawal from the event so that the few thousand dollars available in ticket sales would go to other local charities that are not so blessed?”
In Darling’s opinion, DAP rubs salt further into the wounds of every other neighboring charity by using their treasure chest of funds to run regular, lengthy TV ads in which their CEO, David Brinkman, states “funding has been slashed” while urging all local citizens to support DAP, presumably with more funding. Darling adds, "Of course, no other local charities can afford such expensive television advertisements."
Darling questions if the DAP’s Board of Directors, including representatives from Bank of America, Desert Regional Medical Center, Union Bank & the Episcopal Church know that DAP is fighting so hard for every local penny that could benefit other financially strapped charities, including youth clubs, homeless shelters, and those that help crippled and abused children, even though DAP is receiving such immense funding from federal and local governments? If so, Darling believes they should be ashamed of themselves if they allow it to continue.
Darling points out that DAP rings the register again with their annual awards banquet (in 2009 over $500,000 of expense with George Hamilton and Joan Collins listed as headlining stars this year). During the 2010 event, the IWM President & CEO, Jim Casey, who is also a DAP Board member, seemingly contradicted Brinkman’s assessment in the TV ads of their financial condition when Casey stated “even in the worse economic times in history, we are set to have the most successful fundraising event in Desert AIDS Project history.” Casey then announced IWM’s $1,000,000 donation to DAP.
Darling suggests it may also be informative to look at other local groups that are the beneficiary of exorbitant funding for HIV/AIDS and offers the following example: “The San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s IRS Form 990 reveals $19.4 million in grants, $7.8 million in salaries including CEO Mark Cloutier's total compensation of $247,893 and many others receiving over $150,000.”
Darling asks, “Has Dr. Fauci or any local HIV/AIDS organization been willing to entertain the suggestion that they are receiving a disproportionate amount of taxpayer dollars, refused it or offered to have it redirected to other illnesses? The mantra of the HIV/AIDS industry is that their disease is special because it is infectious, that you and everyone in your family, even grandparents, should fear this disease and therefore even more money should go towards battling HIV/AIDS.”
“The truth, as stated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), is that the only people at risk from this PREVENTABLE disease are men having sex with men, IV drug users and heterosexuals having sex with those with HIV or those at risk of having HIV.”
Darling concludes by stating that it is time to add the HIV/AIDS industry to those in need of cutbacks by our Congresspersons during these tough budgetary times. He recommends that a significant portion of HIV's overflowing treasure chest, which includes President Obama’s 2012 budget request of $28 billion for this one illness, should rightfully go towards helping patients and research for illnesses other than HIV.
Dr. Richard Darling is the Founder, President & CEO of the FAIR Foundation, a national organization with thousands of members in all fifty states. FAIR’s Missions and goals are fair and equitable bio-medical research funding for all diseases, new organ-donor policies to reverse America’s organ donor crisis, promotion of organ donation and preventive health education to reduce the need for donor organs. FAIR’s Board of Directors includes 29 transplant surgeons, medical directors and patient advocates.
| “Losing Our Sons” is a documentary film that will reveal how radical Islam dominates the leadership of the Muslim American community in Nashville; and how misguided government and university officials, the media, as well as civic and religious leaders failed to acknowledge, intervene, or report clear indications of Islamist radicalization in the community. |
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