INTERCESSOR ALERT.... 2014 MAY SEE A MAJOR CHANGE IN WASHINGTON DC... AS democrats lose control of the Congress.... pray for the treacherous to be rooted out...and the wicked to be cut off... those that are DESTROYING AMERICA TO BE OUSTED...... OUT

PRAY FOR THE ELECTION OF 2014: TOP TIER OPEN SEATS IN CONTENTION... AND FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY...YHVH ELOHIM...TO PLACE IN THE OPENINGS MEN AND WOMEN THAT WILL ABIDE BY BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES... AND DO RIGHT BY OUR NATION... IN JESUS NAME....

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MONTANA: Sen. Max Baucus, a 36-year incumbent and a chief author of Obamacare, has decided not to face voters in November. He’s slammed the so-called Affordable Care Act’s launch as a “huge trainwreck,” and is heading for the exits.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) hoped that popular former-Gov. Brian Schweitzer would run for the seat, but he declined to do so in a July announcement. Stuck without a marquee candidate, Democrats will seek to defeat the likely Republican nominee, current statewide Congressman Steve Daines, who won his House seat in 2012.

Daines announced his intention to run for Baucus’ seat in early November.

He’ll be opposed by the state’s Democratic Lt. Gov. John Walsh. A senior GOP source says early internal polling shows Walsh trailing Daines by double digits, calling the Democrat’s bid as a “long shot candidacy at this point.”

SOUTH DAKOTA: Obama lost this great plains state by 18 points in 2012, and now that longtime incumbent Democrat Sen. Tim Johnson is retiring, Republicans see it as ripe for the picking.

The opportunity for a pick up became even juicier when two well-known potential DSCC recruits chose not to run: Brendan Johnson, the senator’s son, and Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, a former Congresswoman who was ousted by Republican Kristi Noem in 2010.

The National Republican Senatorial Committee’s (NRSC) top pick to run for this seat is former-Gov. Mike Rounds, who enjoys broad name recognition in the state and strong favorability ratings. The probable Democratic nominee will be Rick Weiland, a liberal activist and former staffer to Sen. Tom Daschle. Weiland has run for Congress twice, failing in each attempt. An October poll showed Rounds leading this hypothetical match-up by 15 points.

WEST VIRGINIA: A late September survey of West Virginia voters by Democratic pollster PPP revealed that roughly half of the state supports impeaching Obama, and that was before Obamacare’s woes and broken promises began to dominate headlines. This environment is toxic for Democrats.

“We feel really confident about this race,” says a source familiar with NRSC strategy, citing likely nominee Shelley Moore Capito’s robust name recognition, fundraising efforts and popularity. Capito was elected to the House of Representatives in 2000 and has retained her position ever since. Odds are she’ll face West Virginia Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, who finished third in her party’s 2010 gubernatorial primary. Numerous polls already show Capito with a wide lead.

Of these three contests, my Republican source exudes confidence. “They seem as good as they possibly can for us right now, knock on wood,” he adds, in a nod to 2012’s collapse.


TOP TIER VULNERABLE INCUMBENTS

ALASKA: Sen. Mark Begich was first elected in 2008. He’s sometimes referred to as an “accidental senator” because he was narrowly elected eight days after then-incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted on federal corruption charges. The charges and conviction were later tossed out after a Justice Department investigation discovered evidence of gross prosecutorial misconduct.

Begich, like every Senate Democrat, voted for Obamacare, and has since opposed various measures to repeal and delay the law. His stance began to change in October after Obamacare’s HealthCare.gov website failed and millions of Americans found out Obama lied when he promised they could keep their current insurance plans.

“Begich talks like a moderate Republican in Alaska, but votes with Obama 93 percent of the time,” says the GOP official. Re- publican primary voters will choose among several candidates to challenge the Democrat. At the top of the list are sitting Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and Afghanistan war veteran Dan Sullivan. The party’s failed 2010 nominee, Joe Miller, has also filed papers to run.

ARKANSAS: “Mark Pryor is the most vulnerable senator running for re-election in either party.” That’s the blunt assessment from my well-placed GOP source.

The Arkansas Democrat ran unopposed in 2008. Those days are long gone. Pryor will face an aggressive 2014 challenge from Iraq war veteran

Rep. Tom Cotton, who holds two degrees from Harvard. Obamacare is sure to be a central is- sue in the race; Pryor voted for the unpopular law, while Cotton is a staunch opponent. The president is deeply unpopular in the state, a reality that helped the GOP to seize both houses of the Arkansas legislature in 2012. Democrats had previously held the state senate since reconstruction.

Republicans point out that the incumbent’s polling position is extraordinarily weak, especially at this early stage. “He’s in worse shape than [former senator] Blanche Lincoln was at this stage,” explains my GOP source. He notes that Lincoln eventually outspent Republican challenger John Boozman by a five- to-one margin in 2010, then lost by 20 points.

LOUISIANA: The scion of a power- ful Louisiana family, Sen. Mary Landrieu has always managed to beat Republicans when the chips are down. Her luck may expire in November, however.

She repeatedly and vocally embraced Obamacare until things went very sour, and has been attempting to backtrack and down- play her ties to the president ever since. Indeed, when Obama visited Louisiana in November, Landrieu was nowhere to be found. Republicans will certainly highlight the leftward drift of her voting record since she was first elected in 1996.

In the best Democratic year in recent memory, 2008, Landrieu was re-elected with just 52 percent of the vote against an under-funded and relatively weak Republican opponent. Last year, Obama lost Louisiana to Mitt Romney by a yawning 58-41 margin.

The NRSC is excited about Landrieu’s likely challenger, Rep. Bill Cassidy. The Congressman and medical doctor is fundraising well, and has a secret weapon up his sleeve: His wife, Laura. She, too, is a doctor who specializes in treating breast cancer, and she plans to campaign full-time with her husband. Together, the pair founded a free health clinic in greater Baton Rouge that provides care to underprivileged Louisianans. Cassidy also led a volunteer effort to treat Hurricane Katrina victims at an abandoned K-Mart in the wake of the natural disaster. Republicans believe the juxtaposition on health care will be striking: A Democratic lawmaker who supported and boosted a failed health care reform law versus a Republican doctor who, along with his wife, has spent a lifetime helping needy patients.

NORTH CAROLINA: Once a long-shot for Republicans, a mid- November poll showed Obamacare has taken its toll on incumbent Sen. Kay Hagan. Her modest lead over potential Republican opponents has completely vanished, and she is even running behind one challenger. Hagan has since sprinted away from her record, demanding a “full investigation” into the implementation of the health care law she voted to pass, fund and retain.

Several Republicans have an eye on her seat, including North Carolina House Speaker Tom Tills. Tills’ rise in politics has been meteoric. Raised in a trailer park, Tills worked his way through college and became a self-made businessman before being hired by Goldman Sachs.

Another possible challenger is Dr. Greg Bannon, a Tea Party favorite who’s been endorsed by Sen. Rand Paul, and currently leads Hagan in the polls. National Republicans expect a “nasty, dirty campaign” from Democrats that “comes down to the wire.” My source expects Hagan to deploy both the “war on women” meme and the race card in hopes of keeping her seat.


DARK HORSES

MICHIGAN: “I’m really bullish on Michigan,” my source says, suggesting that this open seat race qualifies as one of top six contests in the country, at least in his book.

Republicans are likely to field a nominee named Terri Lynn Land, the twice-elected Michigan Secretary of State, whose most recent term expired in 2012. She’s off to a stellar fundraising start and is leading in early polling. If Republican Gov. Rick Snyder’s popular resurgence continues to hold, the GOP ticket will be formidable in 2014. Michigan Republicans fare especially well in non-presidential year elections; they currently hold all major statewide offices, and control both houses of the legislature.

Democrats are poised to run Rep. Gary Peters, a Detroit-area Congressman with a standard liberal voting record. “It’s not a great time to be a Detroit Democrat in the state of Michigan right now,” my source avers. “Snyder and Land will also be helped by what might be the strongest state Republican operation in the entire country at the moment.”

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Sen. Jeanne Shaheen’s approval and favor- ability numbers are nothing to write home about, and her recent legislative maneuvers to mitigate Obamacare’s damage suggests that she’s nervous about the issue. Can she be beaten? “Looking at the polling, she’s definitely beatable,” the insider says. As former Congressman Charlie Bass has taken a pass on the race, all eyes have turned to a recently-defeated senator from Massachusetts. “Scott Brown could beat her, and [the NRSC] has talked with him for months,” I’m told.

Brown is fond of saying that his family's ties to New Hampshire go back nine generations. He's been a taxpayer in the state for 20 years, and is now a full-time resident, having sold his home in Massachusetts. Roughly four in ten New Hampshire residents have lived in Massachusetts at some point in their lives, a statistic Brown could use to blunt Democrats’ inevitable charges of carpet-bagging. “He’s got a story to tell there, and he’s got strong favorability in the state. We’ll see.” For his part, Brown has demurred when asked if he’ll give the race a go, though he hasn’t shied away from criticizing Shaheen’s voting record. Stay tuned.

OREGON: Another unremarkable incumbent is Sen. Jeff Merkley. Oregon may be a blue state, but Obamacare has failed terribly there, perhaps creating an opening for a Republican to give him a real run. Merkley all but acknowledged his vulnerability this November, when he co-sponsored Sen. Landrieu’s bill that would force insurance companies to keep selling existing health policies that had been previously cancelled by Obamacare.

Dr. Monica Wehby, a pediatric neurosurgeon, may be the GOP’s best hope in the race. An Obamacare critic, Wehby would challenge Merkley as a moderate, anti-Washington outsider. If Obamacare continues to go south, Merkley will not be able to wage a War on Women attack against Wehby. The NRSC is keeping a close eye on this potential match-up.

VULNERABLE REPUBLICAN SEATS?

The quest to capture a net of six Democrat-controlled seats would be made much more difficult if the GOP surrenders any of the seats it currently holds. Republicans are generally expected to hold serve, but they can’t leave anything to chance.

Democrats’ best opportunities to go on offense are in Georgia and Kentucky, where the party will run the daughters of prominent former politicians in both states.

If Mitch McConnell holds off Tea Party challenger Matt Bevin in Kentucky’s Republican primary—and the polls aren’t close—he’ll engage in a knock-down, drag-out battle with Alison Lundergan Grimes, who’s doing everything she can to divorce herself from Obamacare and national Democrats’ anti- coal agenda. “I don’t see any evidence that McConnell will lose either the primary or the general election. The races against Grimes will receive a lot of attention, and lots of money will pour in. It’ll be in the a single-digits, but he’ll win,” my source predicts.

In Georgia, Democrat nominee-in-waiting Michelle Nunn has kept a low profile as a crowded GOP field vies for the right to represent the party in the battle over a vacant seat.

The bottom line, according to my senior Republican insider: “Republicans will keep all of our seats, and we’ll force the DSCC to play and spend money in 12 to 14 states. I’m confident we can win six or seven of them.”

Volgograd Bombings: Who’s Behind the Terrorist Attacks in Russia?



Last summer, in a meeting with Vladimir Putin, Prince Bandar bin Sultan directly threatened Russia with terrorist attacks to persuade the Russian President to withhold support from Assad’s regime.  The Saudi Prince and intelligence leader reportedly offered Putin a multi-billion dollar arms deal, as well as guaranteed continued control over Europe’s oil supply.
Russia declined, but leaked Russian and Lebanese reports detailed other alleged incentives from Saudi Arabia.  Russia’s relationship with Syria gives it a warm-water naval base on the Mediterranean, and Bandar promised to safeguard that even if Assad is removed from power.  He also issued threats, including threatening the Russian Olympics in 2014.
Bandar told Putin, “… I can give you a guarantee to protect the Winter Olympics in the city of Sochi on the Black Sea next year. The Chechen groups that threaten the security of the games are controlled by us …”
This week more than 30 people were murdered by two consecutive suicide attacks in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, northeast of Sochi, which will host the Winter Games on February 7-23, 2014.
Many believe that the purpose of the Volgograd bombings is to send a message to Russia for not complying with Bandar’s demands.
James Corbett, editor of the independent news website The Corbett Report told RT.com that the bombings maybe linked back to the Saudi government.

“Well of course the Islamic radicals are the ones who tend to carry out these attacks, but the ones that are directing, funding, fostering, and training tends to be located elsewhere. We have, for example; the testimony from former FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, talking about “Operation Gladio B” which is an ongoing NATO funded operation in cooperation with the Pentagon to stir up Islamic radical terrorism specifically in the North Caucasus region and the surrounding area as a type of threat to Russia and China …,” said Corbett.

    It’s important to note that, as America backs the Saudis, they back al-Qaida, the Taliban, and the Chechen terrorists, through its relationship with the House of Saud.
As previously reported, a leaked diplomatic cable from then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton states, “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support for al-Qa’ida, the Taliban, LeT [Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan] and other terrorist groups.”
The challenge for peace-loving Americans is breaking the strangleholds of lobbyists who pressure Congress to enter into foreign entanglements. Americans are asking Congress to adopt sound foreign policies that strengthen U.S. relationships within the framework of the Constitution

Read more at http://freedomoutpost.com/2014/01/volgograd-bombings-whos-behind-terrorist-attacks-russia/#w4Xia6Yd6tjWwhis.99      

DID YOU KNOW THAT?

On this day in history, January 1, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued an executive order known as the Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln issued the proclamation as Commander-In-Chief during the Civil War.

The order applied to all southern states but excluded Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, Kentucky, and Tennessee because some were still loyal to the Union, and some were already under Union control.

One of the immediate consequences was a sudden rise in recruitment of black soldiers from the north and mid-west. The proclamation also stated that former slaves could join the Union Army. By the end of the war, over 200,000 blacks joined the Union military.

About 50,000 slaves were freed immediately after the proclamation. The remaining 3.1 million were freed during the course of the war.

In 1961 the U.S. Federal Government terminated the Menominee Tribe’s federal recognition, ending the tribe’s right to govern itself, as well as tribal rights to land, hunting, and fishing (the effective termination date was Apr...il 30, 1961). However, the Menominee sued the United States for compensation for being terminated, and on May 27, 1968 the Supreme Court ruled that the tribe retained its hunting and fishing rights under the treaties involved and the rights were not lost after federal recognition was ended by the Menominee Termination Act without a clear and unequivocal statement removing those rights by Congress. In 1973 in an act of Congress, the Menominee regained federal recognition and their reservation in Wisconsin was re-established in 1975. During the 1950s and 1960s the U.S. tried to get out of many obligations it had towards sovereign tribes by terminating their federal recognition. From 1953-1964, the government terminated recognition of a total of 109 tribes and bands as sovereign dependent nations.

On This Day: In 1863 the first claim under the Homestead Act was made by Daniel Freeman for a farm in Nebraska. The Homestead Acts were several United States federal laws that gave an applicant ownership of land, typically called a "homestead", at little or no cost. Between 1862 and 1934, the federal government granted 1.6 million homesteads and distributed 270,000,000 acres (420,000 sq mi) of federal land for private ownership. This was a total of 10% of all land in the Unit...ed States. Homesteading was discontinued in 1976, except in Alaska, where it continued until 1986. All of this land that the U.S. gave away for private ownership was indigenous land. Much of it was “obtained” through treaties that were signed between the U.S. government and Native tribes, forcing Natives to live on reservations and to give up much of the land they traditionally inhabited. However, for Natives, reservation life was restraining, and the land Natives were forced to occupy was often too small to raise animals or hunt on and not viable agriculturally. Still, many settlers believed that Natives had gotten the choicest land, and pressed for their availability to claim. The government responded to this crisis in favor of the settlers and land speculators, stripping Natives of the last semblance of sovereignty they had by abolishing the reservation system as well as their honoring of tribes as separate entities from the United States. The 1871 Dawes Act stated that “hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty.” It also marked the beginning of increased efforts to integrate Natives into American society rather than cordoning them off into isolated reservations. This was continued to a larger extent with the 1887 Dawes Severalty Act (also called the General Allotment Act), which was a Homestead Act directed at breaking up Native reservation holdings as well as tribes themselves..

 

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The best predictor of future behavior,...is past behavior. We've seen this movie before, its ending is not in question

December 31st – Folks on MSNBC love to call conservatives racists. They should know. Yesterday host Melissa Harris-Perry and her buds were having a grand ole time mocking a photo of Mitt Romney’s family. All because sitting on Romney’s leg was his adopted black grandson. One panelist started singing “One of these things is not like the other” and another chimed in with “really sums up the diversity of the Republican party.” Darn clever those libs. So like so many on her netwo...rk before her, Harris-Perry was in her classic “cover my butt” mode today tweeting an apology. Not good enough Melissa. And not this time MSNBC. Had that black infant been with an Asian or Hispanic family your “esteemed panel” would have rightfully said absolutely nothing. The fact is Ms. Harris-Perry the Romneys have little need for your self-serving apology. That child is destined to have a wonderful life surrounded by a loving family. Maybe when Mitt’s grandson gets old enough he can buy MSNBC and fire all you bitter losers!