Benghazi Bombshell 

There is new evidence connecting the White House to the Benghazi scandal. Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Judicial Watch uncovered an email from White House Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes labeled "PREP CALL." 

In it Rhodes outlined the goals the White House had for then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice during her upcoming Sunday talk show appearances. One goal listed was "to underscore that these protests are rooted in an Internet video, and not a broader failure of policy." 

Administration officials have repeatedly pinned the blame for that false narrative on the CIA and the intelligence community. But the Pentagon's top brass briefed President Obama on September 11th and told him that Benghazi was not a "protest rooted in an Internet video." 

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) says Rhodes' email "demonstrates for the first time that the direction on the talking points came directly out of the White House." Tomorrow the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold another hearing on the Benghazi scandal, and the Rhodes' email is certain to be a major topic of debate. 

The System Is Rigged 

An NBC News/Wall Street Journal released this morning has some disturbing stats on the increasing alienation of the American people from our major institutions. 

The poll measured the public's degree of confidence in major institutions including the military, the federal government, public schools and corporations. And it asked respondents whether they agreed that "The economic and political systems in the country are stacked against people like me." 

Not surprisingly, few Americans expressed much confidence in large corporations, health insurance companies, the government, public schools or the big banks. In addition, 55% of Americans agreed that the economic and political systems are stacked against them. 

The left-wing talking heads on the morning news shows seemed to think these results were good news for their liberal agenda. Actually, I think the numbers are bad news for the left generally. Who runs those systems? The "system" that prevails in America is largely a creature of the left! 

Corporate chieftains and the leadership of major institutions tend to be liberal elites. The chairmen of large multi-national corporations may not like higher taxes, but they embrace most other liberal assumptions. The health insurance companies embraced Obamacare. Education is dominated by the left -- from major universities to, all too often, the local public schoools.

Hollywood, which dominates our culture, is constantly pumping out trash and polluting the minds of our children with moral relativism. Many parents watch their TVs with their hands gripping remotes in fear, ready to switch the channel at a moment's notice in case anything inappropriate for young children might come on. And inevitably it does. It's not always the content of show or movies either. The commercials produced by major corporations often push the boundaries of decency. 

Ask Americans if manger scenes in the public square should be legal, if God should remain in the Pledge of Allegiance and on our currency, if voters should be required show an ID, if marriage should remain the union of one man and one woman, if our borders should be secured -- and the numbers will be off the charts. 

Yet when the people try to promote those ideas, their efforts are often struck down by left-wing judges and mocked by liberal elites. 

Millions of Americans think the system is rigged because increasingly it is. Think about the people of California who TWICE voted to keep marriage as the union of one man and one woman only to have liberal elites throw out their votes like toilet paper! This is now happening all over the country. 

Please stand with American Values now as we fight for faith, family and freedom!