BBG Watch Commentary. U.S. government-funded Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) still broadcasts uncensored radio programs in local languages to the largely Muslim North Caucasus region in the Russian Federation, the reported home of the Boston bombing suspects. But if U.S. government bureaucrats and the Obama Administration had their way, these broadcasts, which include [...]

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“The Tribal Elder who observed two little boys engaging in ____ ____in her yard did call police immediately. No one in law enforcement took her statement. She tried to tell her story at the February 27, 2013 Hearing but she was shushed by the US Attorney, the BIA leadership and all of those on the platform. The US Attorney did say publicly that he would speak to her privately after the Hearing concluded. He did not. Nor did anyone from his office take her statement. How did these actions protect children?

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The latest episode of the “Consider This!” podcast is out. Conservative commentary in 10 minutes or less. It appears that newly elected Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts is a listener to “Consider This!” How do I know? I suggest a $20 minimum wage as a thought experiment in episode 31, and now she’s one-up’ing me, suggesting $22. [...]

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She said she was first given to a man at the age of ten. Her sisters were also given to men. She told how she begged to be allowed to return to the only family she had ever felt safe with – the foster family that the tribe, through ICWA, had taken her from. She told how she tried to run away over a dozen times – to get back to the foster home where she knew she was loved. She told how the home where the tribal govt placed her made her destroy pictures of the family she loved, and how they had cut a rope to save her when she had tried to hang herself. It was only then that they finally allowed her to return to her true home.

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I think South Carolina Democrats have a lot to cheer about if Mark Sanford is seriously considering running for Congress. I think South Carolina Conservatives, if they want to win that seat, can do better. The primary issue is the one everyone will be talking about, and I think it’s a fair issue that goes [...]

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The fight between the NRA and the Obama administration is just political fog. The “excuse” is because of several high profile mass murders, yet the real problem is that the press publicizes and glorifies such murders, leading to “copy cat” crimes by the unstable. One has to wonder at dear old Joe Biden’s remark, justifying [...]

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…while ALL the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs members voted for this resolution preventing adoption of Russian children – several members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs continue to uphold similar ‘Putin-like’ legislation preventing adoption of American children.

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BBG Watch Commentary Commenting on the defense authorization bill that President Obama signed last night, which includes a provision that reduces restrictions of the Smith-Mundt Act on the dissemination of materials within the United States that were originally intended for audiences overseas, former Broadcasting Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) and Voice of America (VOA) official [...]

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Living outside the USA, I wonder if I would recognize my birthland if I return someday. We now see the NYTimes proposing that “we” get rid of the US constitution, which is standing in the way of what “we” want to do. AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching [...]

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After the shooting in Newtown, CT, I noticed on Facebook many people asking that the country have a “conversation” about guns. Now typically, that’s a request for some sort of dialog. However, a few of those asking for that proceeded to immediately disparage anyone who would disagree in the slightest with more restrictive gun laws. [...]

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The report on the Benghazi attack attracted attention today for two reason, the first being that failures were identified and no one in particular was singled out for responsibility, the second being that resignations began within hours of the public getting the news. Important parts of this investigation, and the changes that result, or do [...]

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Ah yes. If you even tried to question the original spin of the Obama administration that the attack on the Benghazi mission was about an X rated porn film clumsily redubbed to seem as if was about the Prophet, you are an evil Republican trying to politicize national defense. That spin managed to silence Romney, [...]

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BBG Watch Commentary Radio Liberty in Exile responds to RFE/RL President Steven Korn’s dismissive comments about Russian opposition leaders by appealing to U.S. Congress for help. Radio Liberty in Exile, a group of Russian journalists fired in September by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) management and their colleagues who had resigned in protest, has responded [...]

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If I am voting against the President, it is not racism but because he is going out of his way to persecute the Catholic church: The problem? The week after taking office, the President removed conscience rights regulations from the federal regulations. This means that the only thing standing between Catholics and Muslims from being [...]

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The puzzle of the Libyan attack cover-up is why the White House tried to distract the mainstream media and rewrite the attack as a “spontaneous demonstrations”. We were told over and over again that this incident started as a protest against B porno flick that someone poorly overdubbed in Arabic and placed on youtube a [...]

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Mikhail Kasyanov, one of the signatories of the protest letter to the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) over the mass firing of Radio Liberty journalists and cancellation of their political and human rights programs, was Prime Minister of Russia, 2000-2004. Kasyanov, the last member of the Russian government closely associated with Yeltsin, was dismissed, along [...]

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Lolo, a rock hard Republican, is getting emails from the Obama campaign. Right now, they average two a day, and are asking for money, even though he has never given out the email to the voter registration people, nor has given to the Democratic party. So what is going on? I suspect it might be [...]

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Lyudmila Alexeyeva, photo by Владимир Липка (Vladimir Lipka) BBG Watch Commentary Reports in Russian media say that a letter of protest sent to the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the U.S. Congress, which was signed by Russia’s most famous human rights leaders, condemns the management of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for engineering a [...]

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The kerfuffle of China’s land grabs against it’s Asian neighbors is not the only story that the MSM in the US is ignoring. This is the photo being ignored in the US Press: (Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful from his Pope-mobile upon his arrival to conduct an open-air mass service at Beirut City [...]

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Everything in the news seems to be hyperventillation about politics.  What is worse, it seems to be about trivia that have little or nothing to do with the world wide economic problems, or about trying to fix them. (e.g. a friend on facebook dissing Ryan’s marathon speed instead of the details of his budget). So [...]

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There is a big kerfuffle about some asinine politician whose naive comments on sexual assault are being spun to prove there is a “war on women”. I made quite a few clinical comments on several web pages,(wonder how many of them were printed) but as a woman doc who has done quite a few “rape” [...]

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Yesterday, I posted this tongue in cheek cartoon from the Cheezburger site about the Republicans on my personal blog: : Yup. Non emotional dour Vulcans are the new Republicans. But at a time when the economy is in trouble, is letting someone who can logically analyze the details of a complicate budget bill have a [...]

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I am disgusted at how every atrocity is used by the press to demonize ordinary people “who cling to religion and guns”. Ironically, it is the National Review who has the nerve to point fingers at the real culprit: not the liberals who passed laws making it impossible to hospitalize or to force the dangerously [...]

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Lots of  hyperbole and finger-pointing in the news this week about the Health Care bill, so  let’s look at a few facts. One: While you weren’t looking, medicine has morphed into big business. The days when your friendly family doc could throw away the bill and give you free medicine are long gone. If I [...]

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. We are gathering in DC in July – Come Add Your Voice to the Call to Protect Children from the Indian Child Welfare Act! Why? To protect the individual rights of Indian children and their families To ensure they maintain the right to a safe, supportive and stable family To request support for appropriate [...]

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I think  those who live and work in the US for x number of years without papers should get an amnesty, as was done by Reagan, and I support the targeted amnesty by Clinton for refugees from countries where their lives were in danger if returned, but the blanket amnesty by President Obama for illegal [...]

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Smith-Mundt Act Modifications Lack Protections Against Abuse by Ted Lipien While the independent, nonpartisan Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting supports some changes in the Smith-Mundt Act, we and many other media freedom advocates share grave concerns that officials of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) will use the new legislation to abandon some foreign audiences [...]

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The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB www.cusib.org) and the independent BBG Watch (www.bbgwatch.com) website reported that blind Chinese legal activist and dissident Chen Guangcheng, who arrived today in the United States, had been secretly listening to Voice of America Mandarin shortwave radio broadcasts while he was in prison in China. Chen Guangcheng revealed this [...]

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WEAVER – The Call of Today Written in 1816… Apr. 20th, 2012 at 1:20 PM Why Do We Not Pay Attention to Our Fathers? It is not too late for us to wake up and elect people of principle to represent us. Get the facts and…Think before you vote! The following was written by one [...]

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Annette Lantos, the wife of the late Congressman Tom Lantos, has joined efforts to oppose the Broadcasting Board of Governors’ (BBG) proposals to cut Voice of America (VOA) services, the independent, nongovernmental Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting reported today on its website www.cusib.org. Mrs. Lantos’s April 4, 2012 letter to the BBG begins: “I write [...]

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