Conservative Review

Conservative Review Issue #215 Kukis Digests and Opines on this Week’s News and Views February 12, 2012 In this Issue: Student Loan Debt Hell: 21 Statistics That Will Make You Think Twice About Going To College This Week’s Events by ilene Say What? Obama's 2013 budget proposal launches Watch This! election-year debate Joe Biden Prophecy Watch By Lori Montgomery, Washington Post A Little Comedy Relief Mind Control in Texas Short Takes Posted on the Blaze by Madeleine Morgen stern By the Numbers Hacker Group Warns Israel Polling by the Numbers A Little Bias Links Saturday Night Live Misses Yay Democrats! The Rush Section Obama-Speak Foreclosure Expert on Entitlement Mentality Political Chess Obama Gives Out Free Cell Phones More Proof Obama is an Amateur What Does "Trickery" Mean to You? News Before it Happens Prophecies Fulfilled Additional Rush Links Great Headlines Missing Headlines Perma-Links Why the World Needs America Too much happened this week! Enjoy... Foreign-policy pundits increasingly argue that democracy and free markets could thrive without U.S. predominance. If this sounds too good to be The cartoons mostly come from: true, writes Robert Kagan, that's because it is. www.townhall.com/funnies. By Robert Kagan Gospels Contradict Obama's Idea Of A Socialist If you receive this and you hate it and you don’t Jesus IBD Editorial want to ever read it no matter what...that is fine; email me back and you will be deleted from my Obama at Occidental 'was looking forward to an list (which is almost at the maximum anyway). imminent... revolution, where the working class would overthrow the ruling class' Previous issues are listed and can be accessed Interview here: Obama's Green Robber Barons by Michelle Malkin http://kukis.org/page20.html (their contents are described and each issue is linked to) or here: http://kukis.org/blog/ (this is the online directory Republican candidate Rick Santorum wins they are in) Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado, all by double digits. He is tied in some national polls with Mitt I attempt to post a new issue each Sunday by 5 or Romney. Mitt Romney wins Maine, edging out 6 pm central standard time (I sometimes fail at Ron Paul by 3 points. Mitt Romney also won the this attempt). CPAC straw poll this year. I try to include factual material only, along with my opinions (it should be clear which is which). I make an attempt to include as much of this week’s news as I possibly can. The first set of columns are intentionally designed for a quick read. I do not accept any advertising nor do I charge for this publication. I write this principally to blow off steam in a nation where its people seemed have collectively lost their minds. And if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, always remember: We do not struggle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places (Eph. 6:12). Another Obama bundler has been found to have This Week’s Events earmarked stimulus money for Obama donors. Talks between Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Fisker Automotive, a California-based electric car Harper and China have begun so that Canada will start-up company, is laying off some of its staff in sell their oil to Chine—the oil that Obama refused order to try to reserve enough capital in order to via the Keystone XL pipeline. Somehow, qualify for more federal help from the environmentalists, who oppose the opening up Department of Energy. the Keystone XL pipeline in the United States, have determined that trekking the oil halfway It has come out that Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee across Canada and then shipping it by sea to steered millions of dollars to the University of China, and then having it refined in China will be Houston while her husband was working there. less harmful to the environment. She is one of 15 other members of Congress who also directed federal dollars to colleges where The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which family members work. run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has ice over the last decade, new research shows. decided that churches may no longer rent public school buildings. This will involve about 70 churches and a few scattered other religious Page -2- groups, and Feb. 12 marks the end of this Two American brothers of a Mexican casino practice. Bloomberg claims to be doing this magnate who fled drug and fraud charges in the under the mantra of separation of church and United States and has been seeking a pardon state. enabling him to return have emerged as major fund-raisers and donors for President Obama's President first said, that as a part of the re-election campaign. healthcare law, some Catholic institutions (schools or soup kitchens, for instance) would Thirty-three members of Congress have directed have to purchase healthcare insurance which more than $300 million in earmarks and other included contraception paid for, including the spending provisions to dozens of public projects morning after pill, which many consider an that are next to or within about two miles of the abortive procedure. Apparently, both Vice lawmakers' own property, according to a President Joe Biden and Chief of Staff Bill Daley Washington Post investigation. A common warned against this ideological move. When practice among legislators, Republican and there was a serious backlash from Catholics and Democratic alike, is to earmark a project near to other religious groups as well, the Obama property that they own, so that the value of that administration pretended to compromise and property is increased. This helps to explain why say, healthcare providers would pay for these so many congressmen are also such savvy items themselves. Catholic leaders are saying, investors. this is not a compromise. South Carolina passed a new voter ID law, and Attorney General Eric Holder has blocked them, so now South Carolina is suing the federal government. I do not recall any time in the past where there were so many lawsuits back and forth between the federal government and individual states. Oklahoma state Sen. Constance Johnson (D) was so enraged at a "personhood" bill that sought to define human life as beginning at the moment of conception - even before the egg is implanted in the womb - that she offered her own amendment which would have added this language: ". any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman's vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child." Some Blue Dog Democrats will not be running The Obama administration has announced a new against, and Nancy Pelosi is cited by at least one "public advocate" charged with listening to as being the reason why. immigrants' concerns about its law enforcement policies. They have also reduced the number of A group of Republican lawmakers is protesting immigrants who are being deported. the removal a reference to God in the patch logo for the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). Page -3- Investigation of alleged bribery under Foreign The Michigan state government now has a $457 Corrupt Practices Act could be the greatest million surplus. Most people know Michigan as danger to Rupert Murdoch's media empire one of the states hit the hardest by this recession and “recovery.” Would you like to guess whether FOIA requests have revealed that the Department they have a Democrat or Republican governor? of Homeland Security is monitoring online Here’s a hint: business taxes were reduced. political dissent. U.S. officials tell NBC news that deadly attacks on The FBI has warned that anti-government Iranian nuclear scientists are being carried out by extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose an Iranian dissident group that is financed, a growing threat to local law enforcement trained and armed by Israel's secret service. officers in the United States. The Occupy types? They’re fine; but the TEA party; that’s another At a closed-door retreat in a Long Island mansion story. late last October, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his topmost aides brainstormed about how the global organization could benefit from a "unique opportunity" to reshape the world. According to a document obtained by Fox News, the 29-member group, known as the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB), discussed bold ambitions that stretch for years beyond the Rio conclave to consolidate a radical new global green economy, to promote a spectrum of sweeping new social policies and to build an even more important role for U.N. institutions, with the intent "to manage the process of globalization better." According to U.S. Intelligence, Al-Qaeda in Iraq is behind recent bombings in Syria, acting under the direction of Ayman Al-Zawahiri. John Chambers of Standard & Poor's has stated that the U.S., if they continue without a plan to Jihadists are moving from Iraq to Syria, as are contain $1 trillion deficits, could face another weapons being sent to opponents of Syrian rating downgrade in the next 6 to 24 months. President Bashar al-Assad's regime. Protesters at Friday's "Occupy CPAC" event were Saudi Arabia will launch a military nuclear actually organized and paid by the AFL-CIO. They program immediately if Iran successfully are out-of-work union people who got $60/each developed atomic weapons.

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