Hero SAS Sniper Saves Father and Eight-Year-Old Son from being Beheaded by ISIS Maniac

What a great story today from the Syrian desert, where a British special forces marksman saved an 8-year-old boy and his father moments before they were to be beheaded by ISIS cockroaches.  Shooting from a half mile away, an SAS sniper was able to take out the three ISIS subhumans without a bullet wasted.

Here is the dramatic story from the Daily Express:

A HERO SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father and his young son.

 

An SAS sniper took out the ISIS executioner just in time

The brave British marksman saved the terrified eight-year-old and his father after taking out the crazed jihadi with a head shot from 1,000 metres away.

The special forces crack shot then killed two other members of the hated terror group, who were also taking part in the sick planned execution.

ISIS militants had decreed that the little boy and his father must die after branding them "infidels" because they refused to denounce their faith.

They were just seconds from death when the hero sniper intervened to stop the barbaric killing in the Syrian desert. The pair were part of the minority Shia sect of Islam which ISIS considers to be heretical.

They were saved from a cruel and painful death at the hands of the fanatics after an Iraqi spy tipped off British special forces to the planned execution.

Special forces troops who arrived at the killing site, where ISIS was carrying out a series of rigged 'trials' of locals, discovered a gruesome scene with several headless bodies already lying bloodied on the desert floor.

The dramatic rescue operation took place last month near the Syrian border with Turkey, where an elite SAS unit had been conducting covert patrols.

Defence sources described how the SAS unit moved into a position just outside a village where ISIS members were holding the 'trial' in front of a crowd of locals who had been forced to attend at gunpoint.

The crack team considered calling in an air strike using a Reaper Drone, but the elite troops feared many of the innocent civilians who had been forced to watch the executions might also be killed.
Instead the SAS unit decided on a risky long-range kill using the team’s sniper.

Speaking to the Daily Star Sunday, one source said: “There were several decapitated bodies already lying on the ground.

"Through binoculars the soldiers could see that the crowd were terrified and many were in tears."

A man and a young boy were dragged out in front of the crowd and were made to kneel down.

"They were both wearing blindfolds and looked terrified.

"A tall bearded man emerged and drew a long knife.

"He began addressing the crowd and slapping the father and his son around the head and kicking them on to the floor.

"Standing either side of the executioner were two other Isis fighters, both armed with AK47s."

The SAS marksman, using a .50 calibre sniper rifle fitted with a silencer, killed the executioner just in time.

The source added: "The ISIS thug who was about to decapitate the father was shot in the head and collapsed.

"Everyone just stared in confusion. The sniper then dispatched the two henchmen with single shots – three kills with three bullets.

"Someone from the crowd then ran over and untied the father and son’s hands and took their blindfolds off.

"They just stared at the bodies and then ran. They were last seen heading towards the Turkish border in a pick-up truck.

"It was a good day’s work."

The SAS team was later told the village held a party to celebrate the deaths of the ISIS fighters and it is understood terrorists have since refused to enter the town.

SAS teams have fought alongside resistance fighters in both Iraq and Syria for more than a year.

Mark Levin on Worthless RINOs, Government Shutdowns and the Power of the Purse

In our view, there is no more articulate defender of the United States Constitution and the need for Congress to use their power of the purse to stop a tyrannous President, intent on tearing up the Constitution, than Mark Levin.  Levin understands, as too many Republican leaders do not, that the many new Republican members of Congress were elected to STOP the Marxist thug in the White House, not to "work with him."

Listen to "the great one" in his own words:

Obama Has Spent More Time Playing Golf Than In Intel Briefings

According to The Daily Caller, first thug Barack Hussein Obama has spent more time golfing than he has spent listening to daily intelligence briefings.

The Daily Caller has calculated that he’s spent almost 700 hours in 875 “Presidential Daily Briefings” since 2009.  He has also spent roughly 800 hours on almost 200 golf trips since his first inauguration.  

Read more at The Daily Caller >>

Patrick J. Buchanan: Whose Side Is God on Now?

By Patrick J. Buchanan 

In his Kremlin defense of Russia’s annexation of Crimea, Vladimir Putin, even before he began listing the battles where Russian blood had been shed on Crimean soil, spoke of an older deeper bond. 

Crimea, said Putin, “is the location of ancient Khersones, where Prince Vladimir was baptized. His spiritual feat of adopting Orthodoxy predetermined the overall basis of the culture, civilization and human values that unite the peoples of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.”

Russia is a Christian country, Putin was saying. 

Opposition Mounts to Half Million Dollar Expansion of Bishop of Bling's Retirement Home

The corrupt, aloof and arrogant Bishop of Bling, Newark Archbishop John J. Myers, apparently didn't get the memo sent by numerous Popes, that his is a role of service to others, not to one's self, and that he is to build the Kingdom, not an empire.  

As we have noted many times, this corrupt thug deserves a prison cell, not a lordly manor.  If the Holy See wishes to restore the Church's moral authority and couple its words with action, they should remove this cancer on the Body of Christ.  If he can't find anything useful to do for anyone, he should return to his home diocese of Peoria and support himself -- in the splendid isolation he craves, and far from those he disdains.

Obama Drops to His Lowest Approval Rating Ever as Obamacare Scandal Explodes

It is sad that it took financial hardship and loss of health insurance to wake millions of Americans to Obama and his plans for our republic.  Perhaps as numbers like these get even worse for this destructive thug, Congress will find its backbone.

With millions of Americans losing their health insurance thanks to the Obamacare health care law that pro-life groups warned would ration care, President Barack Obama is now at his lowest approval rating ever of his presidency.

American voters disapprove of the job President Barack Obama is doing by a 54-39 percentage point margin, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll that has him at his lowest marks ever. Even women disapprove 51 – 40 percent, according to the survey released today.

President Obama’s lowest score before today was a 55 – 41 percent disapproval in an October 6, 2011 survey by the independent Quinnipiac University. Today, disapproval is 58 – 37 percent among men, 91 – 6 percent among Republicans and 63 – 30 percent among independent voters. Democrats approve 79 – 14 percent. White voters disapprove 62 – 32 percent while black voters approve 75 – 15 percent and Hispanic voters disapprove by a slim 47 – 41 percent margin.

Read more at LifeNews.com >>

Marxist "Community Organizer" Calls Catholic Schools "Divisive"

 

The most divisive President in American history - a militant, Marxist thug - offended Catholics throughout the world, particularly those involved with America's largest, successful school system - by lecturing the people of Northern Ireland about his perceptions of religious education as "divisive."  Better for the likes of Obama that we should all be "dumbed down," unable to call on history to recognize tyranny, formed into compliant Obamunists who have not read America's founding documents, who haven't a clue about unalienable rights that belong to the children of God, who are unable to engage in critical thinking and logic, who have their minds filled with popular "culture," and who leave decision making to political elites, like Obama, who know what is best for them.  

Since he knows so much about education, why do his own government schools rank below those of most industrialized nations, including those to whom he directed his condescending remarks?

We ask again, when will the Congress of the United States remove this illegitimate "President" who has done anything but "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States"?

We hope that Irish Catholic and Protestant educators will make haste to visit the Chicago Public School System so that they can see first-hand the vision Obama has for them. 

A report from The Scottish Catholic Observer follows.

US President undermines Catholic schools after Vatican Prefect praised them

The US President has made an alarming call for an end to Catholic education in Northern Ireland in spite of the fact that Archbishop Gerhard Müller told Scots that Catholic education was 'a critical component of the Church.’

President Barack Obama (above), repeated the oft disproved claim that Catholic education increases division in front of an audience of 2000 young people, including many Catholics, at Belfast’s Waterfront hall when he arrived in the country this morning.

“If towns remain divided—if Catholics have their schools and buildings and Protestants have theirs, if we can’t see ourselves in one another and fear or resentment are allowed to harden—that too encourages division and discourages cooperation,” the US president said.

The US politician made the unfounded claim despite a top Vatican official spelling out the undeniable good done by Catholic education in a speech in Glasgow on Saturday and in his homily at Mass on Friday.

Archbishop Gerhard Müller (below), prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, told an audience in Scotland that Catholic education provided a rare place where ‘intellectual training, moral discipline and religious commitment would come together’ while giving the presitigous Cardinal Winning Lecture on Saturday to officially launch the St Andrews Foundation for Catholic teacher education at Glasgow University. During Mass at St Andrew’s Cathedral, Glasgow, on Friday night he said that ‘the Catholic school is vitally important … a critical component of the Church,’ adding that Catholic education provides young people with a wonderful opportunity to ‘grow up with Jesus.’

Mr Obama is in Northern Ireland to take part in the two day G8 Summit at the Lough Erne resort in Enneskillen.

The Light Breaks Through: One Day's Revelations About America's Enemy Occupiers

 

We have been ridiculed for our characterization of Obama and his regime as "illegitimate," "thugs," and "criminals," but a glance of one day's headlines makes clear what we have always believed; we were restrained in our characterizations of this traitorous, outlaw regime. 

May 13, a date pregnant with meaning for many of us, saw the light of truth pierce the darkness in extraordinary ways.  There were revelations about the IRS being used as a political weapon with that federal agency spying on TEA Party members and a vast array of conservative organizations.  It has since been revealed that the IRS office targeting and harassing conservative organizations, also gave a left-wing organization of journalists nine confidential applications for tax-exempt status that had been submitted by conservative groups.

Yesterday also saw revelations that the Obama Justice Department secretly obtained two months of phone records for Associated Press journalists and singled out those who asked tough questions for special harassment by the IRS.  Any one of these revelations would be enough to bring down governments in many parliamentary democracies, as they would have here in the days when the United States Constitution was the revered law of the land.  

Yesterday also saw the murder conviction of Kermit Gosnell, one of thousands of mass-murderers throughout America.  Indeed, revelations about what transpired in Gosnell's "clinic" were so shocking and abhorrent to most Americans,  Obama went before Planned Parenhood during Gosnell's trial to boost morale and invoked God's blessings on Gosnell's fellow killers.  But these are only one day's revelations about the sewer that is the Obama regime.  

In recent weeks, we have seen unravel 8 months of lies about the murder of 4 Americans in Benghazi, and while the former Secretary of State asks "what does it matter," there is still so much that does matter yet to be exposed.  

Eric Holder instigated gun-running to Mexican drug cartels,  and there have also been a host of fraudulent birth certificates and a fake social security number to hide the fact that Obama came to the United States as a foreign exchange student and is, therefore, ineligible for the presidency of the United States.  

Americans have also seen nationally orchestrated efforts to undermine democratic processes through voter fraud carried out by an array of Obama-allied, Alinsky front groups.

Contempt for Congress and the separation of powers has been a hallmark of Obama's governing style.  He has literally and unconstitutionally bypassed the legislative process through the promulgation of hundreds of Executive Orders.

Americans have seen their tax dollars given in the billions to Islamist jihadists who are at war with the United States, bomb and burn Christian churches, murder Christian clergy, and would not hesitate to decapitate any of us who have been forced to fund their barbarism.  But why should the stewards of the American tax dollars care?  Being a tax-cheat seems to be a prerequisite for service in the Obama regime.

Obama's arrogance is so over-the-top, that on a day when most politicians would be in crisis mode, Obama took a break from the links to attend yet another fundraiser with entertainment glitterati in New York. 

These outrages just scratch the surface.  America is an occupied country, led by a committed band of Marxist revolutionaries who hate everything about America's spiritual and philosophical foundations and all that this country once stood for in the world. 

Unless the United States Congress has  been so infiltrated by dark and perverted souls who share Obama's vision, they will quickly begin impeachment proceedings and begin the process of returning America to her Constitutional foundations.  The articles of impeachment should number in the hundreds.  That this criminal thug ever sought "to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States” would be laughable were not the consequences so tragic for America and the whole world.

America's Worst Bishop Must Go!

"Myers has shown a pattern of leniency toward pedophiles, indifference to potential victims, and a haughty disdain for those who dare to question his judgment."

New Jersey's largest newspaper today called for the resignation of the Archbishop of Newark, John J. Myers  (full text below).

John J. Myers, the corrupt Archbishop of Newark

I had my own experience with the pompous and arrogant Archbishop of Newark over a decade ago, and when time permits I will tell that story.  

He has been at war with the people he should have been serving almost since the day he arrived in Newark.  I have seen this day coming for a long time, but it is regrettable that so much damage has been done in more than a decade.  Scores of schools in the Archdiocese of Newark have been closed because Archbishop Myers has demonstrated, again and again, that he will only stand up for the well-being of clergy.  Indeed, he has been criminally negligent in ensuring the safety and well-being of New Jersey families and their children.  As a good friend put it, "he's thoroughly a company man, working for Clerical Worker's Local #417 rather than for the people."  It is a pattern that developed prior to his appointment to Newark when he was Bishop of Peoria.  Even then he made excuses for the buggery of children and attempted to reinstate a priest suspended for child sexual abuse.  He refused to meet with the priest's victims, and when families finally expressed their outrage through the media, Myers commented that he "didn't realize they would be so upset."  In virtually any field of endeavor, it would be hard to find anyone more insensitive and with a worse sense of public relations.
 

Some will say in defense of Archbishop Myers that he is a "conservative" or that he is "orthodox."  I would respond that his is a sort of orthodoxy and  conservatism that does irreparable damage and impedes the work of truly faithful, orthodox churchmen striving to build up the Body of Christ.  

If Pope Francis intends to carry forward Pope Benedict's efforts to purge the Church of its "filth," the corrupt and destructive Archbishop of Newark should be the first to go.  Eventually, the legal system will prosecute and convict this thug for criminal conspiracy and negligence, but it would be a hopeful sign if Church authorities deal with the very worst of corrupt, American bishops first. 

From The Star-Ledger Editorial Board

After all the Catholic Church has been through, it is beyond infuriating that Newark Archbishop John J. Myers can be so neglectful of his duty to protect children from sexual predators. 

He should resign immediately and apologize to the families whose children he left exposed, barring some stunning new disclosure that could exonerate him in the face of the damning facts presented by The Star-Ledger’s Mark Mueller in today’s edition.

The case concerns Michael Fugee, a priest who was convicted in a sexual abuse case in 2003 after he confessed to fondling a 14-year-old boy, and being a compulsive masturbator obsessed with penis size.

The conviction was overturned when a higher court found the judge had given improper instructions to jurors. Instead of trying Fugee again, as they should have, prosecutors allowed him to avoid jail by joining a program for first-offenders.

Part of the deal was an agreement that Fugee signed, along with the archdiocese, committing all parties to keeping Fugee away from minors.

Fugee was not to work in any position involving children, or have any affiliation with youth groups. He could not attend youth retreats, or even hear the confessions of children.

With the full knowledge and approval of Myers, Fugee did all of those things. Look at the picture of him clowning around with children in today’s paper, and it makes you want to scream a warning. The agreement was designed to prevent exactly that.

This is not the first time Myers has shown contempt for the safety of children in his flock. While many bishops are making a sincere efforts to rehabilitate the church, Myers has shown a pattern of leniency toward pedophiles, indifference to potential victims, and a haughty disdain for those who dare to question his judgment.

Before this latest flare-up with Fugee, Myers had promoted him to an influential position in the church as co-director of the office that helps guide young priests, sending precisely the wrong message. Earlier this year, Fugee was found to be saying Mass and living at the rectory of a church in Rochelle Park. Parishioners had not been told of his criminal past, so again, children were exposed. In 2009, Myers appointed Fugee chaplain of St. Michael’s Medical Center in Newark, again without telling the hospital about Fugee’s restrictions.

Unlike some other bishops, Myers will not release the names of priests who have been credibly accused of abuse. 

In 2004, he wrote a letter of recommendation to six dioceses in Florida for one priest, a week after learning the priest had been accused of assaulting a woman after breaking into her house. The same year, he banned one priest from public ministry after investigating an allegation that he had abused a boy, but did not notify laypeople or other priests. In 2007, he did not tell laypeople about a credible finding of molestation against a priest working in Elizabeth and Jersey City, information that was finally turned up by a victims’ group.

Fugee is, or at least was, the real danger. He seems to think he can break the rules. It is Myers’ job to stop him, and he is instead enabling him.

He is refusing to discuss any of this. Our hope is the prosecutors press him to do so. He is a part to the agreement on Fugee, which was signed by the archdiocese’s vicar general on behalf of Myers, and which has clearly been broken.

In the meantime, for the sake of the children, Myers should step down.

President Kennedy's Secret Society Speech

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies."

~ Thomas Jefferson

In this incredible audio recording of  President Kennedy addressing the American Newspaper Publishers Association,  he warns of secret societies that are the real power in global affairs.  Many believe his intent to expose and dismantle the secret workings of the Federal Reserve led to his murder.  Whatever the President's purpose behind these words, they stand as a striking rebuke to the secretive, manipulative and destructive, Marxist thug who currently occupies that once noble office.

Secession!

"We are disgusted that Republican leaders, even in states like our own South Carolina, not only acquiesce to the GOP betrayal, but  were among Governor Romney's strongest supporters."

If America, which overwhelmingly elected Ronald Reagan president a little over one generation ago, is so changed that it now raises up a communist thug to that same office, Americans should "dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another."  However, we suspect that the root of the problem can be found in the failure of the GOP to offer a strong, credible alternative.  

Nominating the liberal, northeastern Governor who is famous for his lack of principled convictions, and who authored the prototype for Obamacare, is at best offering less of the same.  The failure of Congressional Republicans to even raise the question of impeachment for Obama's many impeachable assaults on the U. S. Constitution, and the reelection of that same, failed GOP congressional leadership, fuels the rightful despair and opposition leading to secession movements.

Many of us are through accepting the "lesser of two evils" out of fear of the greater evil.  The soft socialism of the Republican Establishment leads to the same end.  We are disgusted that Republican leaders, even in states like our own South Carolina, not only acquiesce to the GOP betrayal, but were among Governor Romney's strongest supporters.

Before Americans abandon the old Republic and its Constitution, there should be a revolution in the Republican Party to ensure it is truly an opposition party offering clear alternatives, not "pale pastels." 

From Yahoo! News

Secession petitions now filed for all 50 states

Petitions signed by hundreds of thousands of Americans seeking permission for their states to peacefully secede from the union have now been filed for all 50 states on the White House website.

The secession petition push began last week on the site's We The People section after a Slidell, La., man filed a petition on Nov. 7 to allow Louisiana to secede. Residents from other states followed suit.

As of Wednesday afternoon, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas—all states that voted for former Gov. Mitt Romney—as well as Florida each had accumulated more than 25,000 signatures, the threshold needed to trigger an official response from the Obama administration. Collectively, the secession petitions now have more than 700,000 digital signatures.

Texas is in the lead with more than 99,000, but Gov. Rick Perry said on Tuesday that he does not support secession.

"Gov. Perry believes in the greatness of our Union and nothing should be done to change it," a statement from the governor's office read. "But he also shares the frustrations many Americans have with our federal government."

Meanwhile, residents of Austin, Texas' stubbornly liberal stronghold, have petitioned the White House to allow the city to "withdraw from the state of Texas [and] remain part of the United States."

Of course, the petitions are little more than symbolic—and nothing new. Similar petitions were filed after the 2004 and 2008 elections. And at least one petition filed on the site asks that the president sign an executive order to strip U.S. citizenship from anyone who signed a petition to secede and requests that they are "peacefully deported."

Secession, though, is not the only thing people are petitioning the White House for. Included among the 140 petitions currently displayed on the site: two seeking federal legalization of marijuana, one asking for the halt of U.S. drone strikes and one demanding a recount of the election.

FRAUD EPIDEMIC? Even MORE Voter Machines AUTO-VOTE for Obama!

Fortunately, we have a large number of law enforcement officers and military personnel who take seriously their oath to defend the republic against ALL enemies, foreign and DOMESTIC.  There are other ways to remove a criminal thug who won't leave:

Trump Challenges Former Foreign Exchange Student

Sadly, Donald Trump knows that his offer of $5 million to the charity of the President's choice is one that Obama can never accept.  To do so would reveal that the First Thug is an illegitimate President who is guilty of the most serious, treasonous crime ever perpetrated against the American people.

Pew Survey: Catholics Favor Obama by 15-Point Margin

The latest Pew Survey showing Catholic support for President Obama speaks volumes about the regard in which America's Catholic bishops are held by America's Catholic people.  After a public relations campaign opposing the Obama Administration's assaults on personal conscience and religious liberty, after a "Fortnight for Freedom," national prayer rallies, letters to the faithful and major speeches and TV interviews by American cardinals, Catholics still support the Marxist thug intent on persecuting them.

The failure of America's Catholic bishops to positively influence Catholics, much less the culture at large, is no doubt attributable to the scandals involving the sexual abuse of minors.  It has been pointed out that a minuscule number of Catholic priests engaged in the sexual abuse of minors, while a majority of America's Catholic bishops were involved in covering up those crimes.  If the Catholic hierarchy now wants to wield positive influence in the public square, they might start by collectively making spiritual reparation to the Sacred Heart through fasting, penance and prayer.  We heard an elderly bishop from the South propose that at one of the bishops' national meetings.  The motion was ruled out of order on procedural grounds.  They might also shed the gold cuff links and the corporate CEO lifestyles, the vacation homes, country club memberships and the cocoons of security and separation they have built around themselves that prevent them from being real spiritual fathers to the churched and unchurched.  Such changes would involve a radical transformation from being administrators of bureaucratic and real estate empires, to lives like those who have profoundly influenced the culture and changed hearts -- Catholic figures like Pope John Paul II, Father Solanus Casey, Archbishop Fulton Sheen, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Mother Teresa of Calcutta and the holy and indomitable Mother Angelica of EWTN.

America's bishops decided that a charming and jovial leader of their national organization would improve their image and influence.  There has been talk of a national spokesperson who can pitch their message on cable news and roll with the twenty-four hour news cycle; but Madison Avenue doesn't lead to the Kingdom and will not stave off the day when serious persecution and even martyrdom will again be required of those who follow Christ.  The real choice confronting America's bishops is whether they should embrace the cross now, and in so doing convert souls and build the Kingdom of God, or have the cross imposed on them in a day when nobody cares.

From Catholic World News

President Barack Obama holds a 54%-39% advantage over Mitt Romney among Catholics, according to the latest voter survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. 

Among Catholics who attend Mass at least weekly, Romney holds a 51%-42% lead. Catholics who attend Mass “monthly” or “yearly” favor Obama by a 53%-39% advantage, while Catholics who attend Mass “seldom” or “never” back Obama by a 61%-32% margin. 

The survey also found that white Catholics favor Obama by a 47%-46% margin. 

Protestants favor Romney by a 50%-42% margin; among white evangelical Protestants, the pro-Romney advantage is 74%-19%, while the two candidates are in a 46%-46% dead heat among mainline Protestants. Black Protestants favor Obama by an overwhelming 95%-2% margin. 

The Pew survey, conducted September 16, found that Obama holds a 51%-42% lead among all registered voters—a significantly larger lead than the 3.7% advantage Obama currently holds in the RealClearPolitics.com average of surveys. 

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• Trends in Voter Preferences Among Religious Groups (Pew Forum)

2016 Obama's America

2016 Obama’s America, a film by Dinesh D'Souza, opens in theaters throughout America this week.  The expose takes audiences on a gripping visual journey into the heart of the world’s most powerful office to reveal the Marxist thug who wants to redefine America over the next four years. The film examines the question, “If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?”

Additional information about 2016 Obama's America, theater locations and show times are available here.

Poll: Romney Claims Slight Edge in 15 'Battleground' States

Presidential election campaigns involving an incumbent have always been referenda on the incumbent.  Thus, we have no doubt that the nation's experiment in affirmative action is drawing to a close.  There's still a great deal more damage that the thug can do, but the last taxpayer-paid vacations are at hand.

From National Journal

By Steven Shepard

President Obama remains marginally ahead of Mitt Romney in a new national CNN/ORC International poll released on Monday, although Romney leads Obama in the 15 states identified by the network as battleground states.

The Catholic Vote Swings

There is a term from Catholic theology which aptly describes those Catholics who will again vote for the despotic thug illegitimately occupying the White House; that term is "invincible ignorance."

According to Gallup, President John F. Kennedy garnered 78 percent of the Catholic vote.

From National Review Online
By Michael Novak

The new wisdom is that Catholics vote just like everybody else. That purported wisdom isn’t wise.

The Catholic vote differs in four decisive ways from the Protestant, Jewish, and secular votes.

(1) The Catholic vote is concentrated mainly in the largest states in the Electoral College: California, Texas, New York, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, New Jersey.

(2) A larger proportion of Catholics than of any other religious group except Jews votes regularly, every election. In some jurisdictions (Chicago, Boston) Catholic voters have been known to vote at a rate of 104 percent or more when necessary, some of them after their natural deaths.

(3) In some key states, the Catholic vote, although tending more Democratic, is fairly evenly split between the Democrats and the Republicans. Keeping the Catholic vote for the Democrat down even to 52 percent may be enough to get a Republican elected.

And (4) — most important of all — in many states Catholic voters frequently swing between parties by margins of 3 to 6 percent. And even more in some years.

As political professionals know well, each swinger counts twice. Each takes a vote away from one column and puts it into the other. If on a national basis the 25 million Catholic votes (24 percent of all votes cast) swing by 1 million votes toward Romney and away from Obama, that gives Romney a net gain of 2 million votes in relation to his competitor, and Obama a net loss of 2 million. This year it seems more likely to be a swing of 2 million for Romney, a net loss to Obama of 4 million. And it may be even a larger swing, depending on how powerful the broad-based campaign to protect religious liberty turns out to be.

The historical record of these large swings helps to explain why the Catholic vote has gone with the winning side in so many elections since 1952. Put another way, the Catholic swing vote has more than any other decided the winner, just because it is of such significant numbers. No Democrat since 1952 (except for Clinton in 1992) has ever won the White House without a majority of the Catholic vote.

In some states, as noted above, Republicans do not have to win a majority of the Catholic vote to carry the state; they need only hold down the Democratic Catholic majority by two or three percentage points. In Pennsylvania, my home state, the rule among professionals was that if the Catholic vote for the Democrat could be held down to 52 percent, the Republican could take the state.

Percentage of Catholic Vote for Presidential Winners

1952: Eisenhower, 44%
1956: Eisenhower, 49%
1960: Kennedy, 78%
1964: Johnson, 76%
1968: Nixon, 33%
1972: Nixon, 52%
1976: Carter, 57%
1980: Reagan, 47%
1984: Reagan, 61%
1988: Bush, 49%
1992: Clinton, 47%
1996: Clinton, 55%
2000: Bush, 46%
2004: Bush, 48%
2008: Obama, 53%

(The figures above are from Gallup. In the three-way race of 1968, Nixon lost the Catholic vote to Hubert Humphrey by a margin of 59 percent to 33 percent, but managed to squeak out a victory, since much of the Southern Protestant vote went to George Wallace. In 1972, however, Mr. Nixon’s 52 percent broke the Democratic lock on the Catholic vote.)

Finally, it may be that in some years a particular factor affects a significant slice of Catholic voters more than most others — the chance to elect the first Catholic president in 1960, for instance.

And Catholics tend to identify themselves as Catholics long after they have ceased going to church (“born Catholic” or “non-practicing Catholic,” these tend to qualify their identity). The difference in voting patterns between Catholics who go to Mass at least weekly and those who don’t is in some matters (partial-birth abortion, e.g.) unusually large. In 2012, I expect the defense of religious liberty to cut as deeply against Obama as 3 million Catholic voters or more. Worth watching.

 

Michael Novak is distinguished visiting professor at Ave Maria University and co-author, with Jana Novak, of Washington’s God.

Time to Address the Notre Dame Scandal

Obama with a useful idiot.

In 2009, when the University of Notre Dame gave an honorary law degree to the tyrannical thug who illegitimately occupies the White House, this blog, along with more than 80 bishops and hundreds of thousands of American Catholics, loudly protested the outrage.  Less than two years into the current administration, there was already ample evidence of Obama's contempt for the Church and all that it stands for.  No administration has ever embraced the culture of death with more enthusiasm.  In response to the irrational decision by Notre Dame to honor Obama, men and women poured into South Bend to protest the scandal.  More than 80 went to jail because they could not, in good conscience, be silent as a flagship of American Catholicism honored the helmsman of evil, who not only has contempt for our beliefs, but would trample religious liberty.

We thought at the time that University President, Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C., and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Richard C. Notebaert, were simply too proud to back down in the face of the national firestorm.  Surely now that what Obama is about has been fully revealed, now that raw evil has decided to use the power of the state to make Catholics not only violate their consciences, but to pay for the slaughter of innocent human life, those at Notre Dame, we assumed, must have recognized what practically all Catholics -- liberal and conservative, Democrat and Republican -- have now acknowledged about the Obama regime.  

But that is not the case.  

This past week, after Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria gave a courageous and brilliant address affirming that "no Catholic institution, under any circumstance, can ever cooperate with the intrinsic evil of killing innocent human life in the womb,” 49 Notre Dame faculty members denounced Bishop Jenky and called for his resignation from the University's Board of Fellows.  The reaction points up serious apostasy at a university that calls itself Catholic.  Once in the thrall of the father of lies, good becomes evil and truth becomes deceit.

It has been said that Obamacare is responsible for one extraordinary medical miracle -- across America Catholic bishops have grown spines.  We attribute that remarkable fact not to Obamacare, but to the moral and intellectual clarity of Pope Benedict who has appointed many of them.  But whatever the source of new-found moral courage, the sleeping giant of American Catholicism has roused from its slumber.  American Catholics strongly support the leadership of Cardinal Dolan and faithful shepherds like Bishop Jenky.  It is time to use the clarity, courage and commensurate public support to restore to the light of truth heterodox cesspools like Notre Dame.

Parents of Murdered British Students Criticise Barack Obama

The Thug-in-Chief obviously saw no opportunity for fanning division, hatred and race baiting in this story. James Cooper and James Kouzaris, the murder victims, just didn't look like they could be Obama's sons.

Murderer Shawn Tyson.  No comment from Obama

His failure to respond to three letters sent to the White House was because there was no "political value" and not worthy of a few minutes of his time.

They spoke out as teenager Shawn Tyson began a life sentence after being found guilty of the murder of James Cooper and James Kouzaris last April.

The 17 year old, who shot the men as they begged for their lives, will die in prison.

His conviction of first degree murder carries an mandatory life sentence without the chance of parole.

The powerfully built teen even looked bored as emotional DVD presentations about the dead men prepared by their grieving parents were shown in court.

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YES! SANTORUM SWEEPS ALABAMA AND MISSISSIPPI

Rick Santorum's wins tonight in Alabama and Mississippi, on the heels of wins in so many other battleground states in the American heartland, pose a serious dilemma to an establishment hellbent on foisting a weak and bleeding candidate on the Republican Party.  Do they really want to take responsibility for the debacle that would be a Romney candidacy?  Does it really help to have a candidate who would lose, but by respectable margins in New York, Massachusetts and California, or do they want to beat Barack Hussein Obama where it matters, in the heartland battleground states?

David has confronted Goliath and keeps on winning. Outspent 10 and 12 to 1, Rick Santorum keeps connecting with average Americans who desperately want to save America from a hellish nightmare of debt, dependency, depression and ruin.  It's time -- long past time -- for Gingrich and Romney supporters to recognize there is one conservative candidate, untainted by scandal, whose principled and consistent record offers a stark contrast to the thug regime.  For the sake of America and a free and prosperous future, it is time for Republicans to rally around the candidate who is clearly the people's choice.