A WND Exclusive: David Kupelian reveals why Valerie Jarrett is called ‘the de facto president’

published 3/23/2014

Suppose you were a committed leftist revolutionary who somehow got elected president of center-right America.

Suppose you were great at making speeches, but little else. You masked your socialist agenda in the appealing rhetoric of fairness and justice, but secretly loathed the American system of constitutional government and free-market capitalism.

Suppose you also had developed into a pathological narcissist with an absurdly grandiose view of yourself and almost no tolerance for criticism and disagreement. Suppose your ego was so fragile, your worldview so distorted, your mind so angry beneath your charismatic exterior, and your self-image of being a divinely gifted leader now in danger of disintegrating in the light and heat of mounting geopolitical turmoil and your own stunning failures as president.

Suppose, in short, you were Barack Obama.

To “stay the course” you were on – of forcing hardcore socialism on an unwilling capitalist country, despite mounting cries for you to stop – you would need help. A very special kind of help.

Before we get there, let’s just tighten our zoom and focus a little more closely on Obama’s current situation:

As of 2014, a great many people who supported him say they regret their vote. America’s economy is still in shambles and its standing in the world arguably worse. The “Affordable Care Act” has been an unqualified catastrophe with millions losing health insurance and tens of millions more expected this year.

Yet Obama feigns confidence in his programs, lies as easily as breathing and always seems to be playing golf, vacationing or fundraising. He admits he is lazy. He openly boasts about legislating from the Oval Office, refusing to work with Congress as the Constitution requires. Indeed, he doesn’t even like people, as former aide Neera Tanden, president and CEO of the highly influential progressive Center for American Progress, shockingly revealed. “The truth is,” Tanden said of the increasingly insular president, “Obama doesn’t call anyone, and he’s not close to almost anyone. It’s stunning that he’s in politics, because he really doesn’t like people.”

So here’s the question: If you were Obama, how would you be able to continue to lead the country leftward in the face of overwhelming and undeniable evidence it is absolutely the wrong direction?

First of all, you’d need a fierce personal protector from all criticism, as well as a skilled enabler constantly reassuring and comforting your gigantic but fragile ego, not to mention a consigliere whose counsel you unreservedly trusted and followed. You would also need a mentor with the almost transcendent ability to rekindle and renew your faith in your core values, however misguided and destructive. You would need – in many respects – a worldly savior.

Meet Valerie Jarrett, whom savvy Beltway insiders regard as the most powerful woman in Washington. And yet, most Americans have never even heard of her, let alone know who she is or what she does.

‘The de facto president’

For someone widely considered the most powerful adviser in the White House, a person the former editor in chief of the News York Times Magazine describes as “in many ways the de facto president,” Jarrett is virtually invisible.

For example, she never seems to make the cut for Forbes magazine’s annual list of “The United States’ Most Powerful Women.”

Named in the 2013 list are Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton, of course. Also Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius and Nancy Pelosi. But not Jarrett.

From the business world, Forbes acknowledges the power and influence of Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Sheryl Sandberg, chief operating officer of Facebook; Jill Abramson, executive editor of the New York Times; Virginia Rometty, president and CEO of IBM; Google VP of consumer products Marissa Mayer; and Oracle President Safra Catz.

Forbes also honors news media luminaries like ABC’s Diane Sawyer and Christiane Amanpour; Tina Brown, editor in chief of Newsweek and the Daily Beast; Fox News Channel’s
Greta Van Susteren; and Huffington Post Co-founder Arianna Huffington.

Likewise, powerful women in the entertainment world are celebrated, including Oprah Winfrey, Angelina Jolie and Ellen DeGeneres. Even Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce and – yes – Lady Gaga made the list of America’s “most powerful women.”

These, says Forbes, are the nation’s most powerful women. But not Valerie Jarrett, who pushed Obama to ignore the advice of more moderate advisers like Rahm Emanuel and instead to destroy the greatest health-care system in world history. For it was she who convinced Obama to “go for broke” with Obamacare, which ultimately was forced down the throats of an unwilling American public and Congress, using bribery, parliamentary tricks and every conceivable tactic, including some of the most infamous political lies (“You can keep your plan/doctor/hospital”) in history.

Apparently, the woman who continues to shape America’s future by successfully convincing the president to steer left at every juncture is not as powerful and influential as Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga.

However, this is all quite intentional, part of the mystique of what Chicago Magazine calls “The mystery woman of the White House.” “VJ,” as she is known within 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., operates largely in the shadows.

And yet, in the elite circles of the executive branch, Jarrett is well known, and by many names, among them: “The night stalker,” “The Obamas’ consigliere,” “The most powerful woman in Washington,” “The spine of Obama,” “His mentor,” “The keeper of the essence,” “She who must not be challenged” and others – one of the most common being “Obama’s Rasputin.”

‘Obama’s Rasputin’

Rasputin, of course, was the reputed Russian “mystic” who served as the private and enormously influential adviser to the final Russian czar, Nicholas II, and especially his wife, Alexandra. Utterly unprepared and unqualified for the position of czar, Nicholas made mistake after mistake, and worse, was inflexible and disinterested in his own people. (Sound like any leader you know?) Rasputin, though secretive – he supposedly never spoke in public – exerted an uncanny influence on the czar and czarina, while also contributing greatly to the royal family’s ever-deepening isolation from the public. Ultimately the out-of-touch monarch, aided by the mysterious Rasputin, inadvertently led Russia into the 1917 revolution, the czar’s abdication and civil war.

Fast-forward almost a century and we are confronted with another breed of out-of-touch czar. Indeed, Jarrett has been responsible for bringing the most bizarre of presidential advisers to the Obama White House, including:

• “Green jobs czar” Van Jones, who has described himself as a “rowdy black nationalist” and radical “communist,” having founded the communist group Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement, or STORM. One day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, Jones led a vigil expressing solidarity with Arab and Muslim Americans and those he called victims of “U.S. imperialism” around the world;

• Federal Communications Commission “chief diversity officer” Mark Lloyd, who once advocated having “white people” step down from positions of power to make room for “more people of color [and] gays,” who discussed instituting a 100 percent tax on broadcast outlets to fund alternative viewpoints, and who advocated reinstatement of the blatantly unconstitutional “Fairness Doctrine” to throttle conservative talk radio. Lloyd once praised Venezuelan Marxist dictator Hugo Chavez for leading “really an incredible revolution – a democratic revolution”; and,

• Cass Sunstein, the powerful White House “regulatory czar” who has advocated that U.S. taxpayers’ wealth be redistributed to poorer nations and that government infiltrate chat rooms and social network sites to clandestinely undermine citizens’ belief in what he considers “conspiracy theories” – including the belief that global warming is a deliberate fraud. Sunstein also favors radically changing the nature and interpretation of the Constitution by 2020 and openly pushes for a new socialist-style bill of rights for Americans.

Besides bringing such off-the-charts, leftist, utopian control freaks to the White House, what else has Jarrett done for Obama?

Journalist and author Richard Miniter, in his book, “Leading From Behind: The Reluctant President and the Advisors who Decide for Him,” cites a source within the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations Command who helped plan the operation to kill Osama bin Laden. It turns out Obama, on the advice of Jarrett, canceled three different times the operation to take out bin Laden – over fear of the political fallout should the mission fail. Finally, he approved the mission.

Miniter provides a revealing window into the inner sanctum of the current White House and Jarrett’s role there. In “Leading from Behind,” he writes of Obama:

[H]e can confide in almost no one, because opening up would break the spell that he has managed to cast over people with opposing views, making opponents believe he secretly agrees with each of them. The exceptions are his wife, Michelle, and his mentor, Valerie Jarrett.

The president himself says he talks to Jarrett several times a day, and that he rarely makes a major decision without consulting her. While every Nixon has his Kissinger, one of the things that make Jarrett unique in presidential history is that she is also the first lady’s mentor. Indeed, she has guided the careers and lives of both Obamas for twenty years.

At every turning point in Obama’s career, Jarrett was there to introduce, to solve or resolve, to console or confirm. She was in the room when Obama decided to run for president. And she was there on a warm summer night in July 2007 when Obama was afraid he was losing to Hillary Clinton.

Jarrett’s White House role is unprecedented. She meets privately with the president at least twice a day with no one else present. Her influence is enormous and wide-ranging. She wields informal power, like a first lady; scheduling power, like a chief of staff; and power over policy, like a special envoy. She has the unusual freedom to put herself in any meeting she chooses and to set the priorities as she sees fit. When the New York Times’ Robert Draper asked Obama if he “runs every decision past her,” the president answered immediately: “Yep. Absolutely.”

Jarrett’s radicalism has caused major eruptions with top White House personnel. As National Review Online reporter Andrew Stiles has pointed out, “Former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, who clashed often with Jarrett, likened her and senior aide Peter Rouse to Saddam Hussein’s maniacal sons, Uday and Qusay.”

As Stiles notes, many books and articles in recent years have detailed the inner workings of the Obama White House and provided a clearer picture of Jarrett’s role:

Jarrett’s personal friendship with the president and first lady dates back more than two decades, before the couple was married, and before Barack Obama launched his political career in Chicago. The president has said he views her “like a sibling” and trusts her “completely.” As a result, she enjoys “unlimited, almost mystical access” to the president, write Politico’s Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei, and is known as “The Keeper of the Essence,” the “defender, protector, and avenger” of all things Obama.

Edward Klein, who previously served as foreign editor of Newsweek and editor in chief of the New York Times Magazine, wrote a critical book about the 44th president, titled “The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House.” Based on a multitude of interviews with sources both Republican and Democrat, including many close to the Obamas, Klein paints a disturbing portrait of a president utterly dependent on a Rasputin-like adviser:

She is Ground Zero in the Obama operation – the first couple’s first friend and consigliere, the last person to leave the Oval Office after meetings, and the only White House official who dines with the first family in their private quarters at night.

Klein quotes a longtime Jarrett friend: “She functions as the eyes, ears, and nose of the president and first lady. She tells them who’s saying what about who, who’s loyal and who’s not. She advises them about who they should see when they visit a city or a foreign country. She determines who gets invited to the White House and who is left out in the cold.”

Focusing on internal White House battles that largely escaped media attention, Klein reveals: “During the savage internecine warfare between Jarrett and Obama’s first two chiefs of staff – Rahm Emanuel and Bill Daley – Obama sided most of the time with Jarrett, a classic limousine liberal who believes that Obama was elected president in order to engineer social change. Ultimately, Jarrett emasculated Emanuel and Daley and forced them from their jobs.”

How good is Jarrett’s advice? She approved the “$535 million taxpayer-funded loan guarantee to Solyndra, the California solar company that went belly up,” writes Klein, who notes that Jarrett had “close ties to the George Kaiser Family Foundation, which controlled 35.7 percent of Solyndra.” And it was Jarrett that pushed Obama to personally travel to Copenhagen in an attempt to bring the Olympics to Chicago, only to come home rebuffed, empty-handed and humiliated.

Much of Jarrett’s extraordinary influence, explains Klein, “stems from the fact that Jarrett is the president’s trusted watchdog”:

She protects the vainglorious and thin-skinned Obama from critics and complainers who might deflate his ego. No one gets past Jarrett and sees the president if they have a grievance, or a chip on their shoulder, or even an incompatible point of view.

I heard this complaint about Jarrett from practically everyone I interviewed – Republicans and Democrats, African-Americans and Jews. They all blamed Jarrett for keeping the president isolated even from those whose good opinion he needed the most.

Late last year when the big story was “Republicans shut down the government,” Klein revealed, after interviewing more than a half dozen White House and former presidential advisers, that Jarrett was the “architect” of the strategy of refusing to negotiate with Republicans over Obamacare.

“She convinced the president that a government shutdown and default offered a great opportunity to demonize the Republicans and help the Democrats win back a majority in the House of Representatives in 2014,” he explained. “Valerie also came with the idea of using the words ‘hostage,’ and ‘ransom’ and ‘terrorists’ against the Republicans.”

Jarrett’s advice to Obama, according to Klein’s White House sources: “Do not cooperate one iota on Obamacare. Don’t give an inch. Let the Republicans stew in their own juice.”

In the end, said Klein, “Republicans walked into a trap set up by Valerie Jarrett and President Obama.”

The bottom line on Jarrett, writes the former Newsweek and New York Times Magazine honcho: “Despite her lack of international experience and background in economics and fiscal policy, she is in many ways the de facto president. Against the advice of more seasoned advisers, Jarrett steers the president toward decisions that make our economy less robust and our nation less safe.”

‘Mystical’ power

All this still leaves a giant question: Where does Valerie Jarrett get her quasi-”mystical” power over this president and first lady?

The most oft-cited factor is that she virtually formed his identity. As writer Karin McQuillan writes in the American Thinker essay, “Obama’s strange dependence on Valerie Jarrett”:

To understand why Obama relies so heavily on Jarrett, we must remember the president’s identity crisis as a black man, which is the main subject of his memoir, “Dreams from My Father.” Valerie Jarrett’s adoption of the Obamas as her friends and protégés in Chicago’s upper-crust black society was one of the greatest things that ever happened to Obama. Until becoming a community organizer, Obama tells us he felt himself to be an inauthentic American black. Nothing in his life helped him understand or fit into the American black community. …

When Valerie Jarrett hired Michelle to work for [Jarrett’s boss, Chicago Mayor Richard] Daley and befriended her, the Obamas gained access to the exclusive world of upper-class black Chicago politics. Valerie knew everyone whom it was important to know in black and Jewish money circles. She gave Barack entrée and legitimacy. She financed and promoted his ambitions for national office. Obama finally belonged.

Remember also that Obama – a mixed-race child abandoned by his drunk, bigamist, communist father, and who later also lost his Muslim Indonesian stepfather to divorce – ended up filling the resulting parent-vacuum with morally and ideologically perverse mentors like Frank Marshall Davis, a member of the Communist Party USA and known pornographer, and later various Marxists (college professors he admits he “gravitated toward”), racists (Rev. Jeremiah Wright), terrorists (Bill Ayers) and criminals (Tony Rezko).

So imprinted was Obama by these toxic influences that even though, with Jarrett’s help, he embraced what he considered an “authentic” black identity, in reality he developed no real identity. That is, he never developed any sense of integrated selfhood that comes from an inner bonding with, and natural response to, common sense, truth, wholesome values, conscience, God – an inner-connectedness that alone can result in being truly whole and happy.

Quite the opposite: Obama grew into someone who strongly identified with an ideology rooted in envy, blame and payback – an ideology on whose behalf he sees himself (thanks to his inflated sense of self-worth) as a national and world leader. It is a delusion Jarrett carefully and lovingly embraces, nurtures and protects at every turn.

‘Just too talented to do what ordinary people do’

Perhaps the most potent reason she is Obama’s Rasputin is crystallized in the following statement Jarrett made to author David Remnick, published in his 2010 book, “The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama”:

“I think Barack knew that he had God-given talents that were extraordinary. He knows exactly how smart he is. … He knows how perceptive he is. He knows what a good reader of people he is. And he knows that he has the ability – the extraordinary, uncanny ability – to take a thousand different perspectives, digest them and make sense out of them, and I think that he has never really been challenged intellectually. … So what I sensed in him was not just a restless spirit but somebody with such extraordinary talents that had to be really taxed in order for him to be happy. … He’s been bored to death his whole life. He’s just too talented to do what ordinary people do.”

There you have it. That is how Valerie Jarrett exercises such a quasi-hypnotic hold over both of the Obamas. While the country crumbles, and while the light of reality threatens at every turn to annihilate the delusion, the epic pretense, that Obama is a great man, a great intellect and a great leader, Valerie Jarrett is there to reverse the tide, if only in Obama’s mind.

She is, in more than a metaphorical sense, the shadow president. She is Obama’s conscience. Jarrett is his radical-left Jiminy Cricket, keeping him on track to fulfill the dreams of his father.

After all, even wealthy Chicago entrepreneur and close friend of Obama, Martin Nesbitt, told the New York Times Jarrett channels the Obamas’ inner voice, telling them, for instance: “That’s not you. You wouldn’t say that. Somebody else is saying that. Barack Obama wouldn’t say that.”

Or as Jarrett told Vogue magazine, “I kind of know what makes them [the Obamas] who they are.”

Or as she told the New York Times, “We have kind of a mind meld. And chances are, what he wants to do is what I’d want to do.”

One might even be so bold as to ask, who is the real president and who is the shadow president? Who is reflecting whom? Who is actually setting the agenda in the Obama White House?

Historians will no doubt look back and ask how it’s possible that America’s 44th president, Barack Hussein Obama, could possibly have been so disastrously out of touch with reality, so consistently wrongheaded in his decisions, never course-correcting in any meaningful way despite staggering evidence at every juncture. With the clarity and objectivity that comes with the passage of time, they will surely conclude a great deal of credit goes to Valerie Jarrett, Obama’s Rasputin, for enabling the president to stay the course – a course she herself was instrumental in setting his feet upon decades earlier.

The preceding article is reprinted from the March 2014 issue of Whistleblower magazine, titled “THE MOST POWERFUL WOMAN IN AMERICA.”

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by Mac Salvo  of  freedomoutpost.com

3/20/2014

One of America’s most well known and trusted organizations has given potential health care seekers yet another concern over the Patient Affordable Care Act.

According to Consumer Reports the government’s healthcare.gov web site, which is the primary entry point for millions of people needing to sign up for health care plans, is a “mess.”

Citing numerous issues including login problems, non functioning activation emails and a near 97% failure rate for account creation, the consumer watchdog has warned that people should stay away from the site for at least another month.

Frustrated by trying to register on HealthCare.gov? You’re hardly alone. Of the 9.47 million people who tried to register in the first week, only 271,00 were able to create an account, according to one analysis. That’s about 1 in 35. Many people couldn’t even create user names and passwords.

If all this is too much for you to absorb, follow our previous advice: Stay away from Healthcare.gov for at least another month if you can. Hopefully that will be long enough for its software vendors to clean up the mess they’ve made. The coverage available through the marketplaces won’t begin until Jan. 1, 2014, at the earliest, and you have until Dec. 15 to enroll if you need insurance that starts promptly.

Historically, when Consumer Reports issues product warnings manufacturers, distributors and retailers may initiate a product recall, advising consumers of the dangers involved. In a free market involving the free exchange of goods and service Consumer Reports’ warnings are often heeded in an effort to prevent a public relations nightmare and the potential for class-action lawsuits.

In this case, however, the warning involves government mandated services, so the normal rules don’t apply because, frankly, government officials could care less.

In a perfect world we could just issue a recall, take the product off the shelves, and send the promoters to prison for false advertising and consumer endangerment.
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We should all be anxiously engaged in the history of our country. It is our duty and responsibility to become informed and work at understanding what our history is and means. True history educates and invigorates the thirsty mind and the active heart. It becomes the catalyst for individual action in a representative republic like the United States of America. 

Lethargy and apathy on the other hand, are the forerunners of an ill informed electorate. An electorate that is easily taken in by promise after promise with no beneficial results for the country. True history for these people remains even more critical as they become even more important for the proper outcome desired for our country during any particular time period.  

Below are sets of documents for those who wish to start studying history or wish to continue in its proper path.

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“It is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson, 1823

Founding Documents

• The Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1776)
• The Articles of Confederation (November 15, 1777)
• The New Jersey Plan (June 15, 1787)
• Hamilton’s Plan of Union (June 18, 1787)
• Letter Of Transmittal (September 17, 1787)
• The Constitution of the United States of America (September 17, 1787)
• Bill of Rights Preamble (1789)
• The First Ten Amendments as Ratified (1789)
• Madison’s Proposal for the Bill of Rights (June 8, 1789)
• The Bill of Rights (December 15, 1791)
• Amendments 11-27 to the Constitution of the United States (February 7, 1795)
• A Note on the Signers of The Declaration of Independence

Foundations of the West (Ancient-1492)

• The Code of Hammurabi (1727-1680 B.C.)
• The Ten Commandments (1447 B.C.)
• The Constitutions of Clarendon (1164)
• The Magna Carta (June 15, 1215)
• The Declaration of Arbroath (1320)

Exploration and the Colonial Era (1492-1765)

• Privileges and Prerogatives Granted by Their Catholic Majesties to Christopher Columbus(1492)
• The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery (1493)
• A Letter from Christopher Columbus to the King and Queen of Spain (1494)
• Ninety-Five Theses (October 31, 1517)
• The Augsburg Confession (1530)
• Charter to Sir Walter Raleigh (March 25, 1584)
• The Colony At Roanoke (1586)
• Elizabeth I’s Speech to the Troops at Tilbury (1588)
• Constitution of the Iroquois Nations (Late 16th century)
• The First Virginia Charter (April 10, 1606)
• The Settlement Of Jamestown (1607)
• The Second Virginia Charter (May 23, 1609)
• The Third Virginia Charter (March 12, 1612)
• The Mayflower Compact (1620)
• How The Pilgrims Lived (1621)
• Charter Of Massachusetts Bay (1629)
• The Act of Surrender of the Great Charter of New England to His Majesty (1635)
• Agreement of the Settlers at Exeter in New Hampshire (1639)
• The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (January 14, 1639)
• Fundamental Agreement, or Original Constitution of the Colony of New Haven (June 4, 1639)
• The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England (May 19, 1643)
• Maryland Toleration Act of 1649 (September 21, 1649)
• Connecticut Colony Charter (1662)
• The First Thanksgiving Proclamation (June 20, 1676)
• English Bill of Rights (1689)
• An Apology for Printers (June 10, 1731)
• Defense of John Peter Zenger (August 4, 1735)
• Washington’s Rules of Civility (c. 1748)
• Albany Plan of Union (1754)
• Braddock’s Defeat (b July 18, 1755)
• In Opposition to Writs of Assistance (b February 1761)
• The Way to Wealth (1758)

Independence and the Early State (1765-1789)

• Resolutions of the Stamp Act (October 19, 1765)
• Anonymous Account of the Boston Massacre (March 5, 1770)
• Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (October 14, 1774)
• Yankee Doodle (1775)
• Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death! (March 23, 1775)
• Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (July 6, 1775)
• The Lee Resolution (June 7, 1776)
• Virginia Declaration of Rights (June 12, 1776)
• General Orders (July 2, 1776)
• Samuel Adams Advocates American Independence (August 1, 1776)
• Treaty of Alliance with France (1778)
• George III’s Letter on the Loss of America (c. 1780)
• The Commerce Between Master and Slave (1782)
• Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (1782) (July 16, 1782)
• Speech to Officers at Newburgh (1783)
• Treaty of Paris (1783)
• Declarations for Suspension of Arms and Cessation of Hostilities (January 20, 1783)
• Contract Between the King and the Thirteen United States of North America (1783) (February 25, 1783)
• Proclamation Declaring the Cessation of Arms (April 11, 1783)
• Memorial and Remonstrance (June 20, 1785)
• The Religious Freedom Statute (1786)
• The Annapolis Convention (Sept. 14, 1786)
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• The Virginia Plan (May 29, 1787)
• The North-west Ordinance (July 13, 1787)
• Closing Speech at the Constitutional Convention (September 17, 1787)
• Letter from the Federal Convention President to the President of Congress, Transmitting the Constitution (September 17, 1787)
• Speech in Defense of the Ratification of the Constitution (June 6, 1788)
• On the Adoption of the Constitution (June 24, 1788)
• Federal Judiciary Act (1789)
• Washington’s First Inaugural Address (April 30, 1789)

Antebellum America (1789-1860)

• First Thanksgiving Proclamation (October 3, 1789)
• Washington’s First State of the Union Address (January 8, 1790)
• Militia Act of 1792 (May 2, 1792)
• The Fugitive Slave Law (1793)
• The Proclamation of Neutrality (April 22, 1793)
• The Treaty of Greenville (August 3, 1795)
• Washington’s Farewell Address (September 17, 1796)
• Inaugural Address of John Adams (Saturday, March 4, 1797)
• Alien and Sedition Acts (1798)
• Daniel Boone Settles Kentucky (c. 1800)
• Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1801)
• Letter to the Danbury Baptists (January 1, 1802)
• Jefferson’s Secret Message to Congress on the Lewis and Clark Expedition (1803)
• Louisiana Purchase Treaty (1803)
• Marbury v. Madison (1803)
• Tecumseh to Governor Harrison at Vincennes (August 12, 1810)
• Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws (1811)
• War of 1812 (June 18, 1812)
• A British Account of the Burning of Washington (1814)
• Treaty of Ghent (1814)
• The Burning of Washington (August 23, 1814)
• Star Spangled Banner (September 14th, 1814)
• McCulloch v. Maryland (1819)
• The Missouri Compromise (1820)
• Address on U.S. Foreign Policy (July 4, 1821)
• How a Log Cabin Was Built (1822)
• The Monroe Doctrine (December 2, 1823)
• Gibbons v. Ogden (1824)
• Jackson’s Message to Congress ‘On Indian Removal’ (1830)
• Second Reply to Hayne (January 26, 1830)
• To The Public (January 1, 1831)
• Proclamation Regarding Nullification (December 10, 1832)
• American Anti-Slavery Society’s Declaration of Sentiments (1833)
• Democracy in America, Volume 1, Part A (1835)
• Democracy in America, Volume I, Part B (1835)
• Message to the Seminoles (February 16, 1835)
• Jackson’s Farewell Address (1837)
• The American Scholar (1837)
• The Concord Hymn (1837)
• The Lyceum Address (January 27, 1838)
• Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A (1840)
• Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B (1840)
• Self Reliance (1841)
• Garnet’s ‘Call to Rebellion’ (1843)
• Memorial to the Massachusetts Legislature (1843)
• Peter Wilson (Waowawanaonk) on The Empire State (May 4, 1847)
• Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board (1848)
• Seneca Falls Declaration (1848)
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (February 2, 1848)
• Keynote Address at Seneca Falls (July 19, 1848)
• On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1849)
• Compromise of 1850 (1850)
• The Underground Railroad (1850)
• The Clay Compromise Measures (March 4, 1850)
• What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? (July 5, 1852)
• Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
• Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise at Peoria, Illinois (October 16, 1854)
• Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)
• Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)
• “House Divided” Speech (June 16, 1858)
• The Death of John Brown (1859)
• John Brown’s Speech to the Court at his Trial (November 2, 1859)
• The Fall Of The Alamo (1860)
• The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1860)
• Address at Cooper Institute, New York City (February 27, 1860)
• A Plea for Free Speech in Boston (December 10, 1860)
• James Madison’s Proclamation – Humiliation and Prayer (July 9, 1812)
• Jefferson’s Decalogue of Canons (February 21, 1825)

Secession and War (1860-1865)

• South Carolina Declaration of Secession (December 24, 1860)
• Constitution of the Confederate States of America (1861)
• Declaration of Causes of Seceding States (1861)
• Telegram Announcing the Surrender of Fort Sumter (1861)
• The Battle Hymn of the Republic (1861)
• Farewell Speech to the United States Congress (January 21, 1861)
• Georgia Secession (January 29, 1861)
• A Declaration of the Causes which Impel the State of Texas to Secede from the Federal Union(February 2, 1861)
• Lincoln’s Farewell Address to Springfield (February 11, 1861)
• Jefferson Davis, 1st Innaugural Address (February 18, 1861)
• Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1861)
• The Homestead Act (1862)
• The Morrill Act (1862)
• The Pacific Railway Act (1862)
• Jefferson Davis, 2nd Innaugural Address (February 22, 1862)
• The Emancipation Proclamation (September 22, 1862)
• War Department General Order 143: Creation of the U.S. Colored Troops (1863)
• The Gettysburg Address (November 19, 1863)
• The Wade-Davis Bill (1864)
• Articles of Agreement Relating to the Surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia (1865)
• Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address (April 10, 1865)
• Robert E. Lee’s Farewell Address to the Army of Northern Virginia (April 10, 1865)

Reconstruction and Westward Expansion (1865-1914)

• Ex parte Milligan (1866)
• Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage (January 1867)
• Treaty of Fort Laramie (1868)
• The Great Chicago Fire (October 14, 1871)
• Act Establishing Yellowstone National Park (1872)
• Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage (1873)
• Surrender Speech to the U.S. Army at Bears Paw Battle (October 5, 1877)
• Reasons for Being a Republican (September 28, 1880)
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• Pendleton Act (1883)
• The New Colossus (1883)
• Not Yours to Give (1884)
• Memorial Day Address (May 30, 1884)
• Dawes Act (1887)
• Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
• Address to the Atlanta Exposition (September 18, 1895)
• Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
• The People’s [Populist] Party Platform (1896)
• Cross of Gold (July 9, 1896)
• De Lôme Letter (1897)
• Joint Resolution on the Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898)
• The Strenuous Life (April 10, 1899)
• Against Imperialism (August 8, 1900)
• Platt Amendment (1903)
• Theodore Roosevelt’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (December 6, 1904)
• Roosevelt’s First Inaugural Address (March 4, 1905)
• On American Motherhood (March 13, 1905)
• The San Francisco Earthquake (April 19, 1906)
• Speech at Harpers Ferry: The Niagara Movement (August 16, 1906)
• Muller v. Oregon (1908)
• Lynching: A National Crime (April 1909)
• The New Nationalism (1910)

The Modern State and Foreign Engagement (1914-1945)

• The Fundamental Principle of a Republic (June 21, 1915)
• Keating-Owen Child Labor Act of 1916 (1916)
• Joint Address to Congress Leading to a Declaration of War Against Germany (1917)
• The American’s Creed (1917)
• Zimmermann Telegram (1917)
• Address to the Jury (July 9, 1917)
• Free Speech in Wartime (October 6, 1917)
• The Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917)
• Woodrow Wilson’s 14 Points (1918)
• The Espionage Act (May 16, 1918)
• Senate Speech Against the League of Nations (August 12, 1919)
• Boulder Canyon Project Act (1928)
• National Industrial Recovery Act (1933)
• Tennessee Valley Authority Act (1933)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt — 1st Inaugural Address (March 4, 1933)
• National Labor Relations Act (1935)
• Social Security Act (1935)
• ‘We Have Only Just Begun to Fight’ (October 31, 1936)
• Letter from FDR to President of National Federation of Federal Employees (August 16, 1937)
• ‘We Shall Fight on the Beaches’ (June 4, 1940)
• Executive Order 8802: Prohibition of Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941)
• Lend-Lease Act (1941)
• The Atlantic Charter (1941)
• The Four Freedoms (1941)
• Roosevelt’s Infamy Speech (December 8, 1941)
• Executive Order 9066: Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese (1942)
• General Eisenhower’s Order of the Day (1944)
• Servicemen’s Readjustment Act (G.I. Bill) (1944)
• FDR’s New Bill of Rights (Excerpt from his 1944 State of the Union) (January 11, 1944)
• Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Call to Prayer (June 6, 1944)
• Korematsu v. United States (December 18, 1944)
• Surrender of Germany (1945)
• Surrender of Japan (1945)
• Roosevelt’s Fourth Inaugural Address (January 20, 1945)
• Statement on the Bombing of Hiroshima (August 6, 1945)
• International Organizations Immunities Act (December 9, 1945)
• United Nations Participation Act (December 20, 1945)

Cold War, Cultural Upheaval, and the Reagan Era (1945-1991)

• “Iron Curtain” Speech (March 5, 1946)
• Participation in UNESCO (July 30, 1946)
• Truman Doctrine (1947)
• The Marshall Plan (June 5, 1947)
• Executive Order 9981: Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)
• Government Press Release Announcing U.S. Recognition of Israel (1948)
• North Atlantic Treaty (April 4, 1949)
• Amendment of United Nations Participation Act (October 10, 1949)
• ‘Enemies From Within’ Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia (February 9, 1950)
• Recall of General Douglas MacArthur (April 16, 1951)
• Eisenhower’s First Inaugural Address (January 20, 1953)
• Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (July 27, 1953)
• Senate Resolution 301: Censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy (1954)
• Brown v. Board of Education (May 17, 1954)
• National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (1956)
• Eisenhower’s Second Inaugural Address (January 21, 1957)
• Executive Order 10730: Desegregation of Central High School (September 24, 1957)
• Cooper v. Aaron (Brown II) (1958)
• The Sharon Statement (1960)
• Kennedy’s Address to Southern Baptist Leaders (September 12, 1960)
• Executive Order 10924: Establishment of the Peace Corps (1961)
• President Kennedy Appeals to the Congress for a Tax Cut (1961)
• Eisenhower’s Farewell Address (January 17, 1961)
• John F. Kennedy — 1961 Inaugural Address (January 20, 1961)
• Glenn’s Official Communication with the Command Center (1962)
• MacArthur’s Farewell Speech to West Point (May 12, 1962)
• Statement on the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 22, 1962)
• Test Ban Treaty (1963)
• Letter from Birmingham Jail (April 16, 1963)
• Civil Rights Act (1964)
• Goldwater’s Acceptance Speech for the Republican Presidential Nomination (1964)
• Tonkin Gulf Resolution (1964)
• A Time for Choosing (October 27, 1964)
• Voting Rights Act (1965)
• Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
• Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (1968)
• ‘Vietnamization’ (November 3, 1969)
• Vietnam War Testimony to the House Foreign Relations Committee (April 22, 1971)
• War Powers Resolution (1973)
• Roe v. Wade (January 22, 1973)
• United States v. Nixon (1974)
• Reagan’s Speech to the 1976 Republican National Convention (1976)
• Reagan’s Acceptance Speech to the 1980 Republican National Convention (1980)
• Reagan’s First Inaugural Address (January 20, 1981)
• Ronald Reagan — Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation (1983)
• The Evil Empire (March 8, 1983)
• Reagan’s Remarks at Pointe du Hoc on the 40th Anniversary of D-Day (June 6, 1984)
• Reagan’s Second Inaugural Address (January 21, 1985)
• ‘Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!’ (June 12, 1987)
• Executive Order 12612: Reagan’s Executive Order on Federalism (October 26, 1987)
• Texas v. Johnson (1989)
• Democracy and Foreign Policy (1990)

Contemporary America (1991-Present)

• Statement Announcing Operation Desert Storm (January 16, 1991)
• Executive Summary of the Final Report of the Iran-Contra Investigation (1993)
• Contract With America (1994)
• Statement by the President following the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks (September 11, 2001)
• Remarks at National Day of Prayer and Remembrance (September 13, 2001)
• Address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American People (September 20, 2001)
• Commencement of Military Strikes Against al Qaeda and the Taliban (October 7, 2001)
• Why the Gun Is Civilization (March 23, 2007)

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Below are some facts I found on facebook about Sheriff Arpaio. Interesting methods. Wonder if some other sheriffs across the USA could use these ideas?

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For those not familiar with Joe Arpio, he is the County Sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. He keeps getting re-elected over and over again. These are some of the reasons why:

Sheriff Joe Arpaio created the “tent city jail” to save Arizona from spending tens of millions of dollars on another expensive prison complex.Inmates sleep in tents!

He has jail meals down to 20 cents a serving and charges the inmates for them. He banned smoking and pornographic magazines in the jails, and took away their weightlifting equipment and cut off all but “G” movies. He says: “They’re in jail to pay a debt to society not to build muscles so they can assault innocent people when they leave.”

He started chain gangs to use the inmates to do free work on county and city projects and save taxpayer’s money. Men work in Pink “Clean and Sober” Shirts. Their underwear is also Pink! Then he started chain gangs for women so he wouldn’t get sued for discrimination.

He took away cable TV until he found out there was a federal court order that required cable TV for jails. So he hooked up the cable TV again but only allows the Disney channel and the weather channel. When asked why the weather channel, he replied: “So these morons will know how hot it’s gonna be while they are working on my chain gangs.”

He cut off coffee because it has zero nutritional value and is therefore a waste of taxpayer money. When the inmates complained, he told them, “This isn’t the Ritz/Carlton. If you don’t like it, don’t come back.” 

He also bought the Newt Gingrich lecture series on US history that he pipes into the jails. When asked by a reporter if he had any lecture series by a Democrat, he replied that a democratic lecture series that actually tells the truth for a change would be welcome and that it might even explain why 95% of the inmates were in his jails in the first place.

With temperatures being even hotter than usual in Phoenix (116 degrees just set a new record for June 2nd 2009), the Associated Press reported: About 2,000 inmates living in a barbed wire surrounded tent encampment at the Maricopa County Jail have been given permission to strip down to their government-issued pink boxer shorts.

On the Wednesday, hundreds of men wearing pink boxer shorts were overheard chatting in the tents, where temperatures reached 128 degrees.”This is hell. It feels like we live in a furnace,” said Ernesto Gonzales, an inmate for 2 years with 10 more to go. “It’s inhumane.”

Joe Arpaio, who makes his prisoners wear pink, and eat bologna sandwiches, is not one bit sympathetic. “Criminals should be punished for their crimes – not live in luxury until it’s time for parole, only to go out and commit more crimes so they can come back in to live on taxpayers money and enjoy things many taxpayers can’t afford to have for themselves.”

The same day he told all the inmates who were complaining of the heat in the tents: “It’s between 120 to 130 degrees in Iraq and our soldiers are living in tents there too, and they have to walk all day in that sun, wearing full battle gear and getting shot at, and THEY have not committed any crimes, so shut your damned mouths!”

Sheriff Joe was just re-elected for the fourteenth time as Sheriff in Maricopa County, Arizona.