Gingrich Hits O’Malley Gas Tax Plan At Md. State House

ANNAPOLIS — Newt Gingrich visited the state capital on Tuesday to campaign for Maryland’s April 3 presidential primary.

Mr. Gingrich toured the city during the morning and made a stop at the State House where he briefly addressed the Senate before meeting with a group of House Republicans.

The former U.S. House speaker spoke with reporters afterward and spent much of the time defending his struggling presidential campaign.

He acknowledged that campaign money is tight but said he plans to stay in the race until GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney reaches a majority of possible convention delegates.

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Poll: Majority In GOP Want Gingrich, Paul Out

As the GOP presidential primary and caucus calendar nears its fourth month, a new survey indicates most Republicans would like to see Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul drop their bids for the nomination.

And a majority of Republicans questioned in a CNN/ORC International poll say their party's presidential nomination should be determined by the primaries and caucuses rather than at the GOP convention in Tampa, Florida in late August. But according to the survey, a majority of Republicans don't want Rick Santorum to end his campaign for the nomination.

Six out of ten Republicans say that Gingrich should drop out of the race, with 39% saying that the former House speaker should not end his bid. And 61% say Paul should drop out, with 36% saying that the longtime congressman from Texas should continue to campaign for the White House.

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Anti-Same-Sex Marriage Group’s Racial Wedge Strategy Revealed

The blogosphere is abuzz with the story that broke last night, when the Human Rights Campaign released internal memos from the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), the nation's largest and most visible anti-same sex-marriage group, calling for the use of a racial wedge strategy to fight campaigns for marriage equality.

“The strategic goal of this project is to drive a wedge between gays and blacks -- two key Democratic constituencies,” one of the NOM memos says.

“The documents, marked “confidential,” were unsealed yesterday afternoon in Maine by court order, as part of that state’s ongoing ethics investigation into NOM’s campaign finances.

The memo spells out specific steps to enact, including:

Find, equip, energize and connect African American spokespeople for marriage, develop a media campaign around their objections to gay marriage as a civil right; provoke the gay marriage base into responding by denouncing these spokesmen and women as bigots…”

Here is an excerpt on NOM’s Hispanic strategy:

"The Latino vote in America is a key swing vote, and will be so even more so in the future, both because of demographic growth and inherent uncertainty: Will the process of assimilation to the dominant Anglo culture lead Hispanics to abandon traditional family values? We must interrupt this process of assimilation by making support for marriage a key badge of Latino identity - a symbol of resistance to inappropriate assimilation."

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Prosecutors: Democratic campaign treasurer embezzled $7 million from multiple clients

SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Federal prosecutors said in a court filing late Tuesday that a longtime California Democratic campaign treasurer embezzled $7 million from at least 50 candidates, officeholders and political operatives in a scheme that had been perpetuated for over 10 years

Such filings are usually indicative of an upcoming plea bargain, but prosecutors would not comment on whether this was true in the case of Kinde Durkee, who spent two decades working for scores of campaigns in California and was Sen. Dianne Feinstein's campaign treasurer.

The $7 million claim is a much higher amount than the initial charge against Durkee, which claimed she bilked about $600,000 from a California state assemblyman.

The filing gives the most detailed account to date on Durkee's ongoing scheme, and claims she used her clients' campaign money to cover an array of personal and business expenses.

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Sheriff: No More Facebook Passwords Needed

A Virginia sheriff’s office said it will stop reviewing Facebook accounts of potential employees.

Applicants to the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office used to have to allow screeners to see their social media accounts, but outrage from both job seekers and lawmakers has forced the office, and others around the country, to suspend the practice.

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Passengers Recount Scare After Pilot Outburst

Passengers aboard an early morning flight bound from New York to Las Vegas first noticed something wrong when the plane's top pilot came out of the cockpit, didn't close the door and tried to force his way into an occupied bathroom.

The JetBlue captain's co-workers tried to calm him as he became more jittery, coaxing him to the back of the plane while making sure _ above all _ that he didn't get back near the plane's controls.

Then, he sprinted up the cabin's aisle _ ranting about a bomb, screaming "They're going to take us down!" and urging confused passengers to pray.

"Nobody knew what to do because he is the captain of the plane," said Don Davis, the owner of a Ronkonkoma, N.Y.-based wireless broadband manufacturer who was traveling to Sin City for a security industry conference.

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Throwing Gasoline On Racial Tensions

President Obama:

You said you’d heal the racial divide

and that you support the rule of law.

Why aren't you calling for calm?

Unarmed black teen TRAYVON MARTIN (left)

was shot and killed by neighborhood watch

volunteer GEORGE ZIMMERMAN

New Black Panther Party offers $10,000 dead-or-alive bounty for "capture" of Zimmerman ...

As tensions soar, New Black Panthers seek “10,000 black men” to hunt Zimmerman down …

New Black Panthers: "No need for police, Zimmerman should fear for his life" …

NYTimes adds fuel to racial tensions by calling Zimmerman a “white” Hispanic …

Spike Lee tweets George Zimmerman's home address ...

Jesse Jackson on Trayvon Martin case: "Black people are under attack" ...

Jackson appeals to racial animosity: Obama's victory "triggered a backlash" against blacks …

Louis Farrakhan: "Where there is no justice there will be no peace" ...

Farrakhan: "Soon and very soon there may be retaliation" ...

With investigation still underway, Sharpton seizes on racial tenaions, demands Zimmerman be arrested ...

Obama: "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon" ...

Obama's remarks prejudice case against Zimmerman ...

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Will Obama comment on THIS racial killing?

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FLASHBACK:

Obama accused white police who

arrested black professor of “acting stupidly”.

FLASHBACK:

Sharpton, Jackson, Farrakhan, Black Panthers

stoked racial tensions in rush to judgment on

Duke lacrosse sexual assault case.

FLASHBACK:

Obama DOJ refused to prosecute Black Panthers

for clear-cut case of voter intimidation.

President’s Illegal Uncle Surrenders License for 45 Days

Onyango Obama — the president’s illegal alien half uncle — admitted to sufficient facts today in his drunken driving bust and his case is being continued without a finding for one year — but he must surrender his license.

Obama, 67, was ordered to give up his license for 45 days, effective today, a Framingham District Court judge ruled. He left court without speaking to the press.

Obama had been waging an aggressive legal battle against Framingham cops ever since he was pulled over Aug. 24 for driving erratically and blowing 0.14 on a Breathalyzer. But his attorney today said it was time to move on.

“After a thorough review, we felt it was in his interests to end the matter without any further proceedings. He’s glad to have this behind him,” said Obama’s attorney P. Scott Bratton.

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Ray Stevens - God Save Arizona

'I Am Trayvon': Trademark and More in Works

An armed neighborhood-watch volunteer encounters what he tells police is a suspicious character in a hoodie, and there’s a confrontation. The volunteer ends up with head injuries, and the “suspicious character,” who was determined to be returning from a convenience store with candy, is dead from a gunshot.

Police look into the case of Trayvon Martin and decide not to file charges because of a number of circumstances. There the case sits until politicians and others discover it and apparently decide to start using it for their own benefit.

President Obama laments the death, saying if he had had a son, he would have looked like the victim, and his campaign suddenly starts promoting hoodies.

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What The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know About Trayvon Martin

When a story regarding the Trayvon Martin death appears, it is almost universally accompanied by this image:

It is of a Trayvon Martin years younger than he really was. And it's not accurate. Dan Linehan has done some sleuthing and found a much different picture of Trayvon Martin than the one being forced down our throats. The real Trayvon Martin is being scrubbed as you read this.

This is a more recent image of Trayvon Martin
Twitter

It seems that Tray was also on Twitter, but his account seems to have been recently deleted by his family or friends.

His screen name was “@NO_LIMIT_NIGGA, as you can see from the twitpic account screenshot above. He was also a member of a twitter hash group #team4dat.

At first, I was skeptical that anyone would maintain an account with that sort of derogatory slur in the title, but after doing some research, it’s apparent that it was Trayvon’s account.

The account was in existence long before the shooting occurred a few weeks ago, and was deleted only recently, there are still dozens of references to @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA in google’s cache.

The associated twitpic account matches the account name and is still online at the time of publication. Most of the pics were uploaded months ago, so this account was associated with Trayvon long before the shooting took place.

Several of Tray’s friends have been very open about referring to Trayvon using that account as well. His cousin, who is quite active on Twitter, refers to Trayvon more than a dozen times using the @NO_LIMIT_NIGGA nickname.

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Un-social Media

Russian media expose Obama birth 'forgery'

While many U.S. mainstream media outlets spike news about the Obama eligibility investigation, Russia’s government radio is keeping the world abreast of the scandal that has caused “the biggest censorship and blackout in the history of journalism.”

The Voice of Russia – successor of Radio Moscow, the official station of the Soviet Union – published an exclusive interview with Sheriff Joe Arpaio March 26 titled, “Obama’s birth certificate may be forgery.” As WND reported, Arpaio and his Cold Case Posse announced there is probable cause indicating the documents released by the White House last April purported to be Obama’s original, long-form birth certificate and Selective Service registration card are actually forgeries.

“Wherever I go, people commend me for doing this,” Arpaio told The Voice of Russia. “So, naturally this has been probably the biggest censorship and blackout in the history of journalism when no one from the national level will cover the story.”

He continued, “You know, when I do something, whether it is [inaudible] pink underwear or chain gangs, what I feed to inmates, that goes national. I’ve been on 4,000 international profiles, international and national, and yet this has been has been blacked out when I’m investigating this situation.”

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We Have A Great Opportunity

Next Tuesday, April 3 is Maryland’s Presidential Primary Election Day! As you know, I am unopposed in the primary – largely because of all the hard work you and I put into the last election. Together, we sent the Obama supporting Democrat back home and we won that election by more than 12%! That was just the beginning of us taking back this country and restoring common sense principles and family values.

WE HAVE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY ON APRIL 3 AND I NEED YOUR HELP!!!

The controversial gay marriage law passed in Annapolis about one month ago. Regardless of your position on gay marriage, we all believe that the citizens of Maryland should have the opportunity to vote on this substantial changed to Maryland’s law and culture.

WE NEED YOU TO HELP GATHER SIGNATURES FOR THE GAY MARRIAGE PETITION ON APRIL 3.

If you would go to your own polling place – even just for one or two hours – and gather signatures for the gay marriage petition drive, we can get this important measure on the ballot on November 6.

HOW CAN YOU HELP?
1. Go to http://www.mdpetitions.com/
a. Sign up to get your own petition
b. Sign up to get a volunteer packet
c. If you sign up to get the MDPETITIONS newsletter while you are there, we can let you know if there is another issue we need to get on the ballot in the future
d. MDPETITIONS.COM website will send you the Maryland Marriage Alliance. They are working on the petition drive in coordination with MDPETITIONS.

2. Email me and let me know that you signed up. That way, I can follow up with the Maryland Marriage Alliance and make sure that you get your petitions before April 3.
a. Email that to – info@andyharris.com

3. YOU CAN MAIL YOUR COMPLETED PETITIONS BACK TO ME FOR PROCESSING. Each petition must be processed and validated before we can submit it to the Board of Elections.

Mail to:
Andy Harris
PO Box 604
Bel Air, MD 21014

WE NEED 150,000 SIGNATURES TO GET THIS ON THE BALLOT. Primary Election Day offers a unique opportunity to get the valid signatures we need. PLEASE HELP GET GAY MARRIAGE ON THE BALLOT BY COMMITTING AT LEAST 1-2 HOURS AT YOUR OWN POLLING PLACE!

Thank you for your work on this very important issue.

Andy Harris

Barack vs. Barack: Group Uses President’s Words Against Him in Viral Obamacare Video

As protesters rally outside the Supreme Court while justices listen to high-toned arguments on the constitutionality of President Barack Obama’s signature health care law, one group is hoping the president’s own words will help the case against the law. At least his words before he was president.

The central dispute over the law is a provision that requires individuals to have health insurance by 2014 or pay a penalty. American Crossroads, a 527 organization advised by Karl Rove, has released a new video showing that Barack Obama himself has not always supported the individual mandate at the center of his controversial health care reform plan:

More HERE including video

'I Could Look Like George Zimmerman'

President Obama's comment, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," is one curious statement for a President of the United States, who is a supposed Constitutional scholar. It borders on inciting angry man justice and panders to the lowest unthinking masses in America. Instead of using the incident as a "teaching moment", to teach that facts are gathered around a possible crime and, if determined necessary, decided in court before an impartial jury as to guilt or innocence, the President says nothing close. He panders to the angry crowd.

I have no idea what went on between Zimmerman and Trayvon. Let the facts come out. But the facts, to date, suggest there is more than one side to this story. Far from being a racist, Zimmerman's lawyer says Zimmerman mentored black youth. On CNN, Zimmerman's lawyer said that Zimmerman had a broken nose and a huge gash on the back of his head, suggesting a pretty violent struggle.

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Look Who Democrats Wheel Out in 'War on Women'

Perhaps she’s never gotten over being mistaken for a hotel maid while serving as U.S. secretary of state, but Madeleine Albright is joining the chorus of the political left today, claiming there’s a “war on women” stoked by Republicans.

Albright, who was America’s top diplomat in President Bill Clinton’s administration, has just penned a fundraising plea for Democrats, saying, “Here in America, Republicans have launched an all out attack on women’s rights. They’ve targeted women’s health care and are trying to roll back basic rights that most of us thought were won more than a generation ago.”

“It seems every time women take one step forward, extremists try to push us back,” she added.

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Democracy And Violence

A staunchly-defended article of faith in Western political rhetoric is the belief that democratic governments do not engage in wars with one another. This belief has been promoted for the purpose of generating trust in the state. If political systems are democratically constituted, it is contended, the public need not fear government officials whose powers could be taken away by the same electoral process that put them in office. The American Civil War, wherein the democratically-established federal and confederate states warred with one another would seem to put this doctrine in doubt. As would a couple of 20th century skirmishes that pitted democratic states such as Great Britain and the United States and others against a democratic Germany.

Beyond this simplistic faith in a "social contract" theory of the state lies the reality that such systems have always been under the control of small groups of persons who are answerable to no one, particularly those they presume the authority to rule. "Democracy" is just one abstraction that the state owners have employed to distract the attention of their victims; to create in the minds of their subjects the illusion that they, not the owners, are running the system.

Believing that the state represents their interests, and that – through "democratic" processes - they control its direction and energies, most men and women identify themselves with that state. In this way, people and the state share the same "ego boundaries." When millions of people come together in this manner, it becomes easy for each to lose his or her individuality – and, hence, responsibility - in a collective identity. By engendering fear of others who share different ego-boundary identities, the state is able to mobilize "dark side" forces of the collective unconscious into a critical mass that allows the state to aggrandize its powers through violent, destructive means. Adolf Hitler used such methods to organize Germans against those he called non-Aryans. In the same way has the United States employed the specters of "communism," "drug-dealers," and "terrorism" to bamboozle its ego-boundary adherents into participating in its continuing war against life itself.

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Spike Lee Reportedly Tweeted WRONG Address for George Zimmerman

Spike Lee incited quite a controversy last week when he re-tweeted George Zimmerman’s home address to his 200,000 followers. With a $10,000 bounty on his head, George Zimmerman — who shot and killed 17-year old Trayvon Martin last month — was certainly in danger if a mob got its hands on him.

Indeed, the leader of the New Black Panthers’ statement, “God d***it, he should be fearful for his life,” and subsequent Twitter comments along the lines of, “Lets go smash this n***a…EVERYBODY REPOST THIS George W. Zimmerman 159 Edgewater Circle Sanford, Florida 32773 (407)435-2400,” confirmed that any visits would not be a simple social call.

So it’s a little embarrassing that Washington Times reporter Kerry Picket decided to take a drive near Zimmerman’s supposed residence and found that, “The Edgewater Circle address Mr. Lee re-tweeted out is not part of the gated Retreat at Twin Lakes where the shooting took place, and where Mr. Zimmerman lives. The area is not even a gated community.”

In fact, Picket met the man who lives across the street and found that a woman named Elaine actually lives at the address, and has been put in danger by the overwhelming publicity.

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Senators Call For Investigation Into Employers Asking For Facebook Access

Last week, Facebook came out swinging against the practice of employers asking employees or potential hires for access to their social network accounts, in order to dig around and find out more about them. And now, U.S. Senators Richard Blumenthal and Charles Schumer are pushing the government to investigate the matter further.

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