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Newt's Immigration Position Is Part Of Larger Hispanic Outreach Effort

From TPM:

Newt Gingrich’s immigration talk isn’t just a nice gotcha moment for his opponents. It’s part of a larger effort to reach out to Hispanic voters that’s a key tenet of his campaign.

Last week, TPM has learned, Gingrich held a conference call with prominent Hispanics. Leaders from all 50 states were invited. It was just the latest in his long push to connect with the Hispanic community that has been a highlight of Gingrich’s race so far.

The effort doesn’t seem to be slowing down now that Gingrich is the frontrunner. Among those on the call was U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Javier Palomarez. He said the call was about economic issues, and was well received by his organization.

“I was glad that Speaker Gingrich reached out to me and spoke with our organization about his economic plans,” Palomarez said.

The Hispanic Chamber “wants to work with and hear from all of the Presidential candidates on their plans to create jobs and prosperity,” Palomarez said.

Gingrich’s National Hispanic Inclusion Director, Sylvia Garcia, told TPM that outreach to Hispanic leaders — which she said Gingrich has been doing for years — gives Gingrich an advantage over his rivals; it could be something that separates him from Mitt Romney as the campaign moves forward.

“His advantage is that this dialogue with Latinos began well before campaigning became an issue,” she said in an email conversation Wednesday. “He understands that as ALL other Americans, Latinos are natural conservatives and making sure they receive the correct message has always been one of his goals.”

Team Gingrich has been talking this way for a while, and Gingrich has been putting his money where his mouth is for years. As Benjy Sarlin reported back in 2009, Gingrich was using social networking and TV appearances on Spanish language TV to ingratiate himself with the Hispanic community and attempt to grow the GOP base there. Republicans have long felt they have a real chance to grab big swaths of the Latino vote, which they say is naturally more socially conservative and open to Republican ideas.

Gingrich Tops Obama In Latest Poll... 45%-43%

Things continue to look move in the right direction for the former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. In the latest Rasmussen Reports 2012 Presidential Match-up Poll, Newt Gingrich has overtaken President Obama in a head to head match-up. While the results are within the margin of error, they clearly show the uphill battle the President is facing next year to win reelection. They also show the growing popularity of Newt as a GOP alternative to Obama. There's no doubt that a Gingrich-Obama match-up would provide the country with a series of debates that could down as some of the greatest. These would be pay per view material!

From Rasmussen Reports:

The Newt Gingrich surge has moved him to the top of the polls in Iowa, big gains in New Hampshire and now a two-point edge over President Obama in a hypothetical general election match-up.

A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters finds Gingrich attracting 45% of the vote while President Obama earns support from 43%. Six percent (6%) prefer some other candidate, and six percent (6%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

The 'Occupy' Crowd Now Wants Americans To Boycott Black Friday

The hits just keep on coming! Add this to the list of asinine demands from the spoiled brats called OWS. I'm still trying to figure out how this will help our economy and create jobs. These people are proving that they have absolutely no clue.

From Fox News:

Occupy Wall Street-inspired protesters are eyeing a new target -- Target. And dozens of other companies. 

A campaign under the name "Occupy Black Friday" is trying to enlist supporters to boycott just about every major retailer, and quite a few mid-sized ones, the day after Thanksgiving. The protesters are casting a wide net, urging people to demonstrate against the top 100 publicly traded retail stores -- a list that includes everything from Wal-Mart to Target to Dick's Sporting Goods to Dollar Tree. 

"The idea is simple, hit the corporations that corrupt and control American politics where it hurts, their profits," the group's Facebook page reads, describing Black Friday as the "one day where the mega-corporations blatantly dictate our actions." 

But retailers, who are monitoring the mini-movement, warn that a blanket boycott could end up hurting local communities. 

"Retailers, regardless of their size, are an important part of the community, and they employ friends and neighbors of that community across the country," said Joseph LaRocca, a senior adviser to the National Retail Federation specializing in loss prevention. 

Read more about OWS call for a boycott on Black Friday

The Real Record On Union Manufacturing Job Loss

For years, we've heard politician after politician moan about the loss of manufacturing jobs. There are many reasons for this decline, which by the way has been occurring for decades. The media would have us believe that Republicans are to blame, NAFTA, China, Mexico or a number of other reasons. It's pretty simple as far as I'm concerned. We are losing jobs because companies are burdened with high taxes, way too many regulations and union demands that make it too costly to employ Americans here at home. Think about it. If you ran a company and had the choice of hiring union employees with all of their demands or overseas workers at a fraction of the cost, coupled with a lower regulatory burden and lower taxes, what would you do? This isn't rocket science people!

From the Labor Union Report:

Just another example on how today’s union bosses mislead the public.

For years, unions have created a myth around manufacturing in the United States having been destroyed by the [ insert perjorative here ].

The fact is, manufacturing is not dead in the United States. It is a myth created to mislead the public on unions’ own destructiveness on companies and the jobs of employees. What union bosses have been screaming about is, in fact, the decline of unionized manufacturing.

While all manufacturing has decreased since America’s current economic recession began, from 1983 through 2006, union-free manufacturing had actually increased by 52,000 jobs.

CIA Spy Operation Busted In Middle East

The Central Intelligence Agency was dealt a serious blow in the Middle East as it was reported that up to a dozen paid informants in Lebanon and Iran were caught spying on behalf of the United States This operation was central in our efforts to gain valuable intel on the Hezbollah terrorist organization based in Lebanon and backed by the Iranian government. It's also been reported that the Iranian government busted a secret communication network operating within Iran that was providing important information about the Iranian nuclear program. It is expected that these informants have already or will soon be executed. One must wonder how much information about the CIA was given up to these governments before theses spies were executed?

From Good Morning America:

In a significant failure for the United States in the Mideast, more than a dozen spies working for the CIA in Iran and Lebanon have been caught and the U.S. government fears they will be or have been executed, according to four current and former U.S. officials with connections to the intelligence community.

The spies were paid informants recruited by the CIA for two distinct espionage rings targeting Iran and the Beirut-based Hezbollah organization, considered by the U.S. to be a terror group backed by Iran.

 

Occupy Mayhem Around The United States

Just take a moment to think about how the main stream media would have reacted had these crimes taken place during the Tea Party rallies. Last year, they had us believe that the Tea Party was a dangerous, right wing movement that was fueled by hate and racism. We were bombarded with images of concerned Americans showing up at Town Hall meetings and have the gull to question their elected officials about spending and taxes. For this they were deemed violent and dangerous, but yet we're now supposed to believe that the Occupy Wall Street movement is a genuinely peaceful movement with just a handful of anarchists causing some trouble. Yeah right! Take a look at the following compilation put together by some bloggers who have taken the time to document the many crimes committed by the Occupy protesters.

From Verum Serum:

Updated as of November 16, 2011 at 7:04 pm

Rather than just an unordered list, I was thinking it might be helpful to categorize the mayhem by type.

Arson

• Occupy Fort Collins – Member arrested, $10 million in damage
• Occupy Portland -  Member arrested for throwing Molotov Cocktail
• Occupy Seattle – Suspicious fire at Bank of America 2.7 miles from camp
• Occupy Portland – Three men arrested with homemade grenades

Assault/Threats

• Occupy SF – 12 assaults in 24 hours
• Occupy LA – 4 assaults including two with knives
• Occupy Philly – Man punches woman in the face
• Occupy LA – Two assaults including setting someone on fire
• Occupy Berkeley – Police respond to three assault calls per night
• Occupy Wall Street – Three men threaten the life of a sexual assault victim
• Occupy Lawrence – Punch thrown
• Occupy Orlando – Knife fight sends man to hospital
• Occupy Portland – Multiple assaults within a 24 hr. period
• Occupy Toledo – Man assaults police officer after arrest
• Occupy San Diego – Woman assaults cameraman
• Occupy Victoria – Man dumps urine on city worker
• Occupy Vancouver – Two police officers bitten during near riot
• Occupy Oakland – Death threats
• Occupy Austin – Man in Joker make-up arrested for brandishing knife
• Occupy Oakland – Man sets his dog on reporter
• Occupy Oakland – Man pulls a knife in camp
• Occupy Wall Street – Photographer assaulted

Drugs/Dealing

• Occupy Boston – Two drug busts in a week
• Occupy Boston – Another drug arrest
• Occupy Boston – Heroin dealers busted were living with 6 year old boy directly behind welcome tent
• Occupy Portland – First hand account “Drugs. Selling…Heroin. Meth.”
• Occupy Portland – Video of open drug use in the camp
• Occupy Portland – “I get high“

Fraud

• National Lawyer’s Guild member Ari Douglas pretends to be run over by a police scooter

Illness/Death

• Occupy Santa Cruz – Ringworm outbreak
• Occupy Atlanta – TB outbreak
• Occupy Wall Street – Zuccotti lung outbreak
• Occupy New Orleans – Man discovered in tent had been dead 2 days
• Occupy Portland – Body lice outbreak

Murder

• Occupy Oakland – Fatal shooting

Public disturbance

• Occupy Dallas – Protesters block bank entrance, 23 arrested
• Occupy Vancouver – Mob with bullhorn enters bank
• Occupy Wall Street – Protesters block bank entrance, four arrested
• Occupier takes a bathroom break in the street
• Occupy Vancouver – Occupiers disrupt debate, threaten riot when asked to leave
• Occupy Long Beach – Group disrupts city council meeting
• Occupy Boston – Three arrested for occupying Burger King
• Occupy Oakland – Yelling and nonsense at Burger King
• Occupy DC – Group storms AFP event, traps attendees inside

Rape/Sexual Assault

• Occupy Philly – Man arrested for alleged rape
• Occupy Wall Street – Two sexual assaults unreported to police
• Occupy Wall Street – Man arrested for sexual assault, suspect in rape
• Occupy Dallas – Sex offender allegedly rapes 14 year old
• Occupy Ottawa – Sexual assaults go unreported to police
• Occupy Lawrence – Sexual assault reported
• Occupy Toronto – Foot sniffer arrested
• Occupy Seattle – Man exposes himself to young girls
• Occupy Portland – Sexual assault
• Occupy Wall Street – Drunk gropes women in Zuccotti Park
• Occupy Cleveland – Rape reported after an overnight stay
• Occupy Glasgow – Possible gang rape
• Occupy Baltimore – Multiple reports of harassment
• Occupy Chicago – Man arrested for child porn
• Occupy LA – Man charged with exposing himself to a child

Sedition

• Occupy DC – Let’s have a coup by taking over the military
• Ted Rall wants occupiers to choose the path of violence
• Occupy DC – Mike Malloy incites crowd to cheer for President Bush’s execution

Suicide/Overdose

• Occupy Burlington – Man kills himself with handgun
• Occupy Salt Lake City – Man found dead with syringe in his tent
• Occupy Vancouver – Young woman dies of cocaine and heroine overdose
• Occupy OKC – Young man with history of drug abuse found dead

Theft

• Occupy Portland – Theft is ongoing
• Occupy Boston – Store owner suffers 4 break-ins since camp began

Vandalism

• Occupy Eureka – Protesters use local bank as a toilet
• Occupy Portland – Two banks vandalized, promises of more to come
• Occupy Oakland – Bank windows broken, Whole Foods vandalized, broken windows
• Occupy Boston – Banks vandalized with anarchist, OWS graffiti
• Occupy Portland – Spike in vandalism near camp
• Occupy SF: ATMs being smeared with feces
• Occupy Santa Fe: Banks vandalized with OWS-themed graffiti
• Occupy San Diego – Vendors cart vandalized with bodily fluids
• Occupy graffiti found on PA governor’s mansion

I’m leaving some out, but these are the ones we’ve covered on the blog so far.

Spain Rebukes European Socialism

Spain is the latest European country  to rebuke the failed European Socialist model. In a stunning turnaround for Conservatives, Spain elected Mario Rajoy and his conservative People's Party to take over control of parliament. This brings an end to the Socialists rule in Spain. The outgoing Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero took control in 2004 in a controversial election marred by a terrorist attack on a Madrid train station. This tragedy cause fear to spread throughout Spain and many voters elected the Socialists in hopes that it would prevent further attacks. The incumbent at the time was Jose Maria Aznar who along with Tony Blair served as George W. Bush's strongest European ally.

Spaniards have become fed up with policies that have nearly bankrupted their country. The far left Socialists are so unpopular that the current Prime Minister Zapatero decided not to run for reelection. The Socialists have spent like there is no tomorrow and taxed their way into an economic meltdown. In many ways, the Obama Administration has adopted the policies of Spain and it is for this reason that President Obama and his Democratic Party is headed for a landslide defeat in 2012. In this defeat, President Obama loses one of his strongest supporters in Europe.

From the Reuters article describing Spain's election:

Ana Maria Lopez, a 53-year-old chiropodist, poured scorn on the Socialists and said she intended to vote on Sunday.

"This government is the worst, everything it touches it destroys. I want a change, I'm fed up with this," she said.

"I'm self-employed, this government has never given anything to the self-employed they only want our money and our taxes."

I hope the White House and the Democrats pay close attention to the developments in Europe because this is indicative of what they can expect to see from the American people next year. Socialism has NEVER worked. The European Socialist model has failed and the love affair the the radical left and main stream media have with this utopian dream is finished.

 

Classic Newt Gingrich Slams Occupy Wall Street

No one, absolutely no one, is more capable of commanding a stage and articulating the sentiments of Americans who are fed up with Occupy Wall Street than Newt Gingrich. At the Iowa Family Forum debate this past Saturday, Newt took an opportunity to slap around the spoiled children who call themselves Occupy Wall Street.

The movement "starts with the premise that we all owe them everything," and the movement's sense of entitlement is a "symptom how much the left has collapsed as a moral system in this country, and why you need to reassert something as simple as saying, 'Go get a job right after you take a bath.'" the former speaker of the House concluded.

 

So Mr. President...Are We Lazy Or Hard Working?

The President can't seem to make up his mind. Last week at the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Conference in Hawaii, he told the word that "we've gotten a little bit lazy, I think, over the last couple of decades. We’ve kind of taken for granted" that "people will want to come here and we aren’t out there hungry, selling America and trying to attract new business into America."

However, in his weekly radio address this week in Bali, he declared that Americans "are the hardest working people on Earth." We're on the verge of a double dip recession, job growth is non-existent, the markets are in turmoil and this President is speaking out of both sides of his mouth. Mr. President, just leave the private sector alone and it'll fix itself!

Read the entire article at the Los Angeles Times:

 

California... The Anti-Business State

For many years, California conservatives have railed against the anti-business, tax and spend liberals and their stranglehold on Sacramento. For the most part, their words have fallen on deaf ears with voters. The liberal wing of the Democratic Party has essentially controlled both chambers of the State Capital, statewide offices and the Governorship for most of the past forty years. I know, I know, there were a few Republican Governors throughout those years and its no coincidence that the state was in better fiscal shape during their administrations. Need I remind you of Gray Davis's doubling of the budget in less than eight years? These wreckless policies have brought the Golden State to its knees. We are in big trouble and rather than moving towards a more hospitable climate for business, the Democrats are doing the opposite.

The Los Angeles Times yesterday published a sobering op-ed on the current toxic business climate in the Golden State. I would encourage you to read the entire article to get a sense of why a heavy regulation and high tax combination make it nearly impossible to create jobs.

From the Los Angeles Times:

Unless Sacramento moves to improve the business climate, California's reputation as one of the country's most toxic business environments will make it hard for the Golden State to regain its luster.

California's suffocating regulations have a lot to do with this discontent. A 2009 study by two California State University finance professors, Sanjay Varshney and Dennis Tootelian, estimated that regulation cost the state's businesses $493 billion annually, or nearly $135,000 per company. Additionally, dense and complex land-use regulations have driven up housing construction costs in the state, giving residents a double whammy: a stagnant economy and unaffordable home prices, even since the real estate bubble burst.

Taxes are another burden. According to the Tax Foundation, California imposes the nation's second-heaviest tax burden on businesses, and finance officers of major companies recently rated the state's overall tax environment the worst in the country, according to a poll in CFO magazine.

On top of taxes and regulation, the state can also claim what may be America's most expensive litigation environment for firms. The American Tort Reform Foundation recently named California one of the country's five worst "judicial hellholes," in part because state law allows trial lawyers to sue firms for minor violations of California's complex labor and environmental regulations.