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Reports are surfacing that U.S. Special Forces were purposefully withheld from helping Americans, including slain Ambassador Christopher Stevens, during the Benghazi attacks on September 11, 2012.

This information comes from Amb. Steven’s former deputy Gregory Hicks. If true, this would directly contradict the Obama administration’s public statements that assistance couldn’t have made it to Benghazi in time.

Hicks also told congressional investigators that he got a phone call from Amb. Stevens shouting “We’re under attack, we’re under attack!” Hicks says he then called Washington and “never reported a demonstration, [he] reported an attack on the consulate.”

Hicks said in an interview “in my personal opinion, a fast-mover flying over Benghazi at some point, you know, as soon as possible might very well have prevented some of the bad things that happened that night.”

Hicks’ account of events is backed up by Mark Thompson, Deputy Coordinator for Operations in the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau. Thompson also explains that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton purposefully cut the Counterterrorism Bureau out of the loop during the terrorist attack in Benghazi.

To add insult to injury, Hicks’ lawyer is now hinting that Obama’s State Department is threatening Hicks over his desire to come forth with the truth. This intimidation must stop! Instead, we need to focus our efforts on getting to the bottom of what happened on that day through a full and fair investigation.

The Heritage Foundation is out with an update to their 2007 study on immigration reform, and it is not a bright spot for the so-called ‘Gang of 8’s’ immigration proposal.

The study examines the economic impact of giving amnesty to all illegal aliens living in the United States. It takes into account the taxes these freshly minted citizens would be paying, the benefits they would be receiving from the government, and a multitude of other factors used to examine the high cost of amnesty as an immigration solution.

The Heritage study finds that unlawful immigrants given amnesty would generate a lifetime fiscal deficit of $6.3 trillion. That’s $6.3 trillion on the taxpayer’s bill, and $6.3 trillion the United States simply cannot afford.

It’s hard to comprehend how anyone who is aware of this cost can justify the ‘Gang of 8’s’ proposed immigration bill, a bill which has been called nothing more than a “bold amnesty plan.” As former Senator and current Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint said yesterday on ABC’s This Week, “if people read the bill, [it will] be blocked.”

Clearly, the bill is not perfect as written. The good thing is, right now, this is just a bill. Thankfully, we have cooler heads in Congress now than when ObamaCare was passed. Unlike 2010, lawmakers are being encouraged to take their time, read the bill in its entirety and be very deliberate in their decision making.

You would be hard-pressed to find anyone who thinks immigration is an issue that can be ignored. Most of us can agree we need a system that is fair to law abiding citizens. And of course, we need a bill that won’t cost us money that we just don’t have. This Heritage study is a good resource that ought to play an important role in the immigration deliberation taking in Washington and throughout the nation.

The Pentagon recently released a statement to Fox News declaring that “religious proselytization is not permitted within the Department of Defense,” and confirming that punishment can include court–martial. This means the men and women of the armed forces, who took an oath to uphold the Constitution, are restricted from speaking to their fellow soldiers about their faith. This would also effectively end the Champlain position in all branches of the military, a position that has been around since George Washington’s Continental Army.

In case the Pentagon and the Obama administration haven’t read the Constitution, they may want to go and check out the First Amendment. The First Amendment guarantees the right of all Americans to free speech and to the free exercise of religion. This isn’t a matter of Christians vs. non-Christians either, this policy would also affect Jews, Muslims, and soldiers and Chaplains of every faith.

If you are interested in signing the Family Research Council’s petition to urge the Pentagon to stop this policy, you can find it here. And if you would like to spread awareness of this issue on social media, you can LIKE and share ForAmerica’s Facebook post here; and retweet ForAmerica here.

Fret no longer America, Twinkies are back! But that’s not even the best news. The best news is that with the return of Twinkies come 1,500 jobs. If you’re wondering how the group of investors who bought the Twinkie brand is able to turn a profit selling the cakes when the past owner couldn’t, look no further than the reports that the 1,500 workers will not be beholden to a labor union.

Crazy how much simpler life gets when you cut out the middle man and a business goes back to relying on the relationship between ownership and employees. The results speak for themselves – jobs and Twinkies – is there anything more American than that?

“This is what Third World dictators and tyrannical kings do – they create mandates for the supposed ‘good’ of the peasants, while exempting themselves from the burdens of their whims.”

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – ForAmerica Chairman L. Brent Bozell III today released a statement regarding reports that Republican leadership in Congress is in secret negotiations to exempt themselves and their staffs from ObamaCare.

“Recent news reports reveal that the Republican leadership in Congress is participating in the ultimate hypocrisy: months of secret meetings with Democrats to betray the most important promise they made to their supporters in 2010. Rather than forcing repeal of ObamaCare, they are discussing exempting themselves and their staffs from it. This is what Third World dictators and tyrannical kings do – they create mandates for the supposed ‘good’ of the peasants, while exempting themselves from the burdens of their whims. Our message is clear: stop these secret meetings immediately and get to work defunding and repealing ObamaCare so everyone, not just you and your staff, can be freed from its burdens.”

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ForAmerica (www.ForAmerica.org) is an online army of over 3.5 million people. The group is a non-profit 501(c)4 organized to educate Americans about traditional and contemporary American values, to relentlessly fight the growth of government, to oppose any substitute to freedom and self-government, to promote individual liberty and excellence, to promote economic opportunity, and to move America toward her founding principles. ForAmerica is chaired by L. Brent Bozell III, one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.

Inexplicably, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) is attempting to put $4 billion into the already fledgling ObamaCare program known as the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Pools (PCIP). This program sets up high risk pools that cover participants until insurance plans are offered through the law. This goes against what Cantor and the rest of House Republicans’ promised: to defund ObamaCare and repeal and replace the monstrosity with a truly free-market solution.

What is worse, along with the money, Cantor is pushing to amend the PCIP to allow enrollees to be instantly eligible for coverage. But think about it, if one can simply enroll at any time, and instantly be covered, than why would anyone sign up, and pay for health insurance until they actually need it? This means we would, in practice, be providing socialized medicine. You wouldn’t need to insure yourself; you could simply sign up for medical coverage, subsidized by the government, when you need it.

This is why we need you to call you Representative in Congress at (202) 224-3121 and demand that they defund ObamaCare once and for all.

“The GOP must stop abandoning the promises they made to their supporters and get back to advancing the causes of freedom, prosperity and virtue.”

ALEXANDRIA, Va. – ForAmerica Chairman L. Brent Bozell III today released a statement regarding the proposal in the House of Representatives to bolster the Pre-Existing Conditions Insurance Pools (PCIP) contained in ObamaCare.

“It is extremely disappointing to see Majority Leader Eric Cantor become the latest member of the GOP establishment to attempt to position the Republican Party as ‘Democrat-Lite.’ Rather than sticking to his promise to repeal the massive government takeover of healthcare that is ObamaCare, which led to Republicans taking the House majority in 2010, he is actually advocating shoring up a portion of the law that does nothing to use free market-based reforms to cut healthcare costs. Rather than toying with the creation of CantorCare, the GOP must stop abandoning the promises they made to their supporters and get back to advancing the causes of freedom, prosperity and virtue.”

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ForAmerica (www.ForAmerica.org) is an online army of over 3.5 million people. The group is a non-profit 501(c)4 organized to educate Americans about traditional and contemporary American values, to relentlessly fight the growth of government, to oppose any substitute to freedom and self-government, to promote individual liberty and excellence, to promote economic opportunity, and to move America toward her founding principles. ForAmerica is chaired by L. Brent Bozell III, one of the most outspoken and effective national leaders in the conservative movement today.

Cap and Trade is a failure in Europe, there is just simply no other way to describe it. Just last week, the EU voted against propping up the program by artificially inflating the value of carbon credits. As the Wall Street Journal points out, the proponents of Cap and Trade like to pretend that the system is a free-market based scheme, but when it actually provides cheaper fossil fuels, they want government intervention.

The global warming fanatics want it both ways on Cap and Trade, but on both fronts, they fail. They believe that Cap and Trade is free-market, but it isn’t; and they believe it will make fossil fuels so expensive that the only viable option will be ‘green’ energy, but even that failed. Miserably.

At least the Europeans didn’t know for sure their plan would fail, despite the multitudes that told them it would. President Obama and his environmental zealot friends, however, have seen the failure of Cap and Trade in Europe and still want to try it out. Don’t believe us? You need look no further than this year’s State of the Union address. There you will find Obama telling Congress if they don’t support Cap and Trade (a term he artfully avoids,) he will use his executive powers to implement every regulation he can.

That is the Obama way after all – if the democratic process fails to give him what he wants, he shall simply decree it by executive order and impose it on the people. He truly is the imperial President.

Barack Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius, is now out telling the public that “no one fully anticipated” how difficult it would be to implement ObamaCare. What is absurd is that practically everyone, including ForAmerica, has been saying how difficult it would be from the start.

Shockingly, Sebelius seems surprised that state legislatures, just like the majority of the American people, oppose ObamaCare. What Sebelius and the rest of the Obama administration seem to forget is that we live a federalist system. This means that states don’t have to shut up and take it when their citizens oppose an unpopular boondoggle like ObamaCare.

What the Obama administration calls intransigence, the founding fathers would have called the system working properly. The system they set up was designed for this, when the federal government overreaches, the founders put in place a mechanism for the people to fight back. So, the administration says forget about the lunacy of state planning one-sixth of the national economy, blame the Republicans for standing up for the will of the people.

The Senate will vote later today on gun control measures that will further erode the Second Amendment. That means the time is now to call your Senator and tell him or her that you will not take this affront to your liberty lying down. Here is where you can find you Senator’s office phone number. Act now because tomorrow may be too late.