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WORST. PRESIDENT. EVER… During Easter Sermon Obama Pounds Conservatives With Racist Attacks

by Jim Hoft

Worst. President. Ever.Obama attacked conservatives during his Easter Sermon today. (AP) It was a new low for this radical, divisive president.

Barack Obama accused conservatives today of calling for "blacks to be back in the back of the bus" during a sermon he gave this morning in Washington DC.

"It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back … for blacks to be back in the back of the bus … for women to be back in the kitchen … for immigrants to be back on their side of the border."

What a complete jerk.

Not even his mentor Reverend Jeremiah Wright would stoop that low.

Obama Trying To “Nationalize” Elections By Executive Order?

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Obama Trying To “Nationalize” Elections By Executive Order?


They must grab all operations that may be independent. If they get this, then no one will be elected of whom they do not approve.

Via Breitbart:

President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order Thursday establishing a Presidential Commission to deal with “election administration” that critics say is an attempt to nationalize the country’s elections for partisan advantage.

The Executive Order states the Commission “shall identify best practices and otherwise make recommendations to promote the efficient administration of elections in order to ensure that all eligible voters have the opportunity to cast their ballots without undue delay.”

The Commission will focus on polling places, how better to train and recruit poll workers, managing voter rolls and poll books, voting machines, ballot simplicity, English proficiency, and absentee ballots. The states–not the federal government–traditionally have responsibility over such matters.

Obama will appoint no more than nine members to the Commission and appointees will be drawn from among individuals with “knowledge about or experience in the administration of State or local elections, as well as representatives of successful customer service-oriented businesses, and any other individuals with knowledge or experience determined by the President to be of value to the Commission.”

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500 "Youths" That Could Have Been Obama's Kids Rampage Through Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Assault Shoppers and Police

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500 "Youths" That Could Have Been Obama's Kids Rampage Through Chicago's Magnificent Mile, Assault Shoppers and Police
CBS Channel 2 calls the rioters "mischievous".
The warmest day of the year so far brings hundreds of mischievous teens to Michigan Avenue... [But] Police are calling it ‘mob action’.
CBS 2 is learning about multiple incidents in at least four different locations along the Magnificent Mile and in the Gold Coast, yielding a slew of arrests.

Things got pretty bad, very quickly with many innocent shoppers and tourists caught in the middle of a very chaotic situation... Hundreds of teens littered Michigan Avenue and State Street near Chicago... Things started to go bad around 6:00 p.m. Saturday, with teens purposely bumping into people, and causing fights among themselves.

... “You had a group of teens, close to maybe 500. They assaulted a Chicago police officer that was on a mounted on a horse and all of a sudden they assaulted a citizen walking the streets, just a normal citizen shopping and enjoying the weather,” said [an eyewitness].

Later that night, a man was attacked around 10:45 p.m. while walking near Chicago and Dearborn. Sources tell us he was jumped and punched in the face by a group of teens. He was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

In a separate incident, a group of woman say they were attacked by a mob of girls on the CTA Red Line. The women reported a robbery once they got off the train at the State and Monroe station. Eleven females were arrested—10 juveniles and one adult—and charged with battery. Two of the teens were charged with strong- armed robbery.

According to commenters at Chicago police blog Second City Cop, not only isn't national media covering the story, even the local media isn't telling the whole story:
TOURISTS BEWARE: You are not getting the whole story. I was coming home from work at 7:30. The savages were randomly attacking people. Go to Woodfield if you want to shop. Chicago is not safe.
You'd think such vicious racially motivated hate crimes would receive wide-spread national media attention, but they don't. As a rule, reporters and prosecutors ignore the racist motivations of black-on-white mob attacks. In news articles like this one the thugs are invariably described only by their age -- "kids" or "teenagers" -- while any mention of their race is studiously omitted, as if it had nothing to do with the crimes.

Or "mischievous youths".
In related news from gun-free Chicago, "2 dead, 20 wounded over the Easter weekend."

Thank goodness law-abiding citizens can't defend themselves in Chicago. Some of those poor "youths" might have been hurt.

Chicago, like Detroit, represents Democrats' policies writ large: as with the Motor City, we are witnessing the breakdown of the civil society, brought to you by secular immorality, incentivizing the single-parent family, and unfettered redistribution of wealth from makers to takers.

But don't worry, folks: if Michelle Obama has her way, at least the "youths" who attack you during your next shopping trip won't be obese.

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Stephanopoulos Invites Atheist on Easter Sunday to Discuss...Religion?

by Noel Sheppard

As religious people are bludgeoned with secular views by America's media practically 24/7, it would be nice if they could be given a break on their holiest days.

George Stephanopoulos clearly doesn't feel that way for on Easter Sunday he invited an atheist on ABC's This Week to join a panel discussion about - wait for it! - religion (video follows with transcript and commentary):

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS, HOST: You wrote a fascinating article, Susan Jacoby, in the New York Times coming out of Newtown called "The Blessings of Atheism," and one of the things you write about is that atheists and nonbelievers often feel intimidated from speaking out on public issues as atheists.

Jacoby wrote this Times op-ed on January 6. Why didn't Stephanopoulos have her on then to discuss it?

I guess he felt her atheistic views would be more relevant on the holiest day of the Christian calendar:

SUSAN JACOBY: I think we heard almost nothing and no secular chaplain, a person representing a secular organization, asked to be at the Newtown ceremony. I asked several of them about it, and they felt they were kind of afraid to. They felt that it would be – it would be taken the wrong way, as if atheists were trying to horn in on this ceremony, which was basically religious.

Let me say, what Dr. Butts said is music to my ears. If all religious people trying to influence politics could separate what they teach and preach in church, and which of course every religious institution and person has the right to state their convictions, just as I do. But the problem is, Newtown was a perfect example of it. There were people sitting in that audience obviously, if we believe the polls, that 20 percent of people don't belong to any church, and some of those people are atheists and some of them aren't. It's hard to tell because atheist is still quite a pejorative, but when President Obama, unlike some atheists who are sitting here, some will tell you that they objected to his mentioning religion at all at that service, which I think is ridiculous. There were a lot of religious people there. Religion is a solace for religious people in grief. But he could very easily have expanded that to say, whether we are religious or non-religious, he could have said that we are all united in our grief, and not made it exclusively, and he should not have been talking about Jesus Christ when some of the parents who lost children are people who don't believe in Jesus.

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So it was wrong for the President to speak of Jesus Christ at a memorial service for those slain in Newtown, Connecticut, last December?

Stephanopoulos apparently agreed with his atheist guest:

STEPHANOPOULOS: And he often has done that, and he even did that at the National Prayer Breakfast, talked about nonbelievers, and that is the fastest really growing group, people who are not affiliated with any particular religion right now in the United States.

Did I mention this transpired on Easter Sunday?

For the record, Stephanopoulos's other guests were Sojourners President Jim Wallis, Islamic scholar Reza Aslan. Reverend Calvin Butts of New York's Abyssinian Baptist Church, and Dr. Richard Land, president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention.

Yet he seemed most interested in the atheist's views:

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you feel the need to proselytize?

JACOBY: The need to proselytize in the sense that I want to convert people to atheism? No. The mission, the mission, if you could call it that, of the atheist is not to convert people. It is to put forward our ideas in the public square, and we have had some success. And I'm not talking only recently, but over 100 years, to talk about the importance of science and reason in public policy. And there are many religious people who believe in that, but there are many religious people who are opposed to fact and evidence based thinking.

And here is the point about the problem with religion and politics. It's not that religious groups shouldn't have an active role in presenting their viewpoints, as we all must. It's that all public policy has to have a rationale that goes beyond the religious. Because saying, for example, gay marriage is wrong because my god tells me so, or a certain kind of immigration policy is wrong because my god tells me so, or as was in the past, slavery is right because the Bible upholds slavery. And as we well know, religion was just as much on the side of slavery in America as other -- there is no such thing as religion. There are only certain kinds of religions, and how often it is when people say, well, you -- this needs to be in public policy because God says so. How much God sounds like our own voice.

You think that's what Christians all over the country wanted to hear on Easter Sunday?

As the Media Research Center's Tim Graham commented to me via email, it's like having a football-hater participate in a Super Bowl pregame show!

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For those unfamiliar with Jacoby, here are some of her greatest hits:

Bristol Palin Is Fair Game for Insults, Since Her Mother Lives In a 'Dream World' of Ignorance

'Spirited Atheist' Susan Jacoby Slams 'Mindless' Jubilant Crowds Celebrating bin Laden Demise

Atheist 'On Faith' Contributor Slams Religious Americans As Having 'Mind of a Preschooler'

American Coverage of Olympics 'Profoundly Anti-Intellectual,' Proof of America's 'Arrogant Provincialism'

And this was who the folks at ABC felt would be a good guest to discuss religion on Easter Sunday.

Heaven help us.

Pastor At Obama Easter Service: Religious Right Wants Blacks At Back Of Bus, Women Back In Kitchen

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Pastor At Obama Easter Service: Religious Right Wants “Blacks At Back Of Bus”, Women “Back In Kitchen”


The demonization of religion and the Right continues.

I thought Obama claimed to be President of all the people. So how does he justify this? Don’t worry, no one in media will ask him.

Via The Blaze:

The pastor at the Washington, D.C. church where the Obama family celebrated Easter on Sunday said members of the religious right want blacks “in the back of the bus,” women “back in the kitchen” and immigrants “back on their side of the border.”

“It drives me crazy when the captains of the religious right are always calling us back…for blacks to be back in the back of the bus…for women to be back in the kitchen…for immigrants to be back on their side of the border,” Rev. Dr. Luis Leon said in his sermon, according to the White House press pool report.

Reuters reporter Jeff Mason tweeted that Leon also said the religious right wants gays in the closet.

The president, first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia walked to St. John’s Episcopal Church, located across the street from the White House.

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