Why President Obama and other Liberals Hate Dictionaries – Patriot Update

Why President Obama and other Liberals Hate Dictionaries – Patriot Update

Could Ron Paul and Gary Johnson Secure An Obama Victory In November? - Godfather Politics

Could Ron Paul and Gary Johnson Secure An Obama Victory In November? - Godfather Politics

Congressmen To Obama: We'll See You In Court : Freedom Outpost

Congressmen To Obama: We'll See You In Court : Freedom Outpost

Kill a Baby, Kill an Old Person, Save a Rose - Godfather Politics

Kill a Baby, Kill an Old Person, Save a Rose - Godfather Politics

What Life is Like on the Liberal Reservation : Political Outcast

What Life is Like on the Liberal Reservation : Political Outcast

Biden’s ‘Squealing Pigs’ Reference is Shocking : Political Outcast

Biden’s ‘Squealing Pigs’ Reference is Shocking : Political Outcast

Liberals are Unwittingly Eradicating “White Guilt” – Patriot Update

Liberals are Unwittingly Eradicating “White Guilt” – Patriot Update

Another Doctored Image Deepens Obama Mystery – Patriot Update

Another Doctored Image Deepens Obama Mystery – Patriot Update

No Voter-ID Means More Democrat Voters in November : Political Outcast

No Voter-ID Means More Democrat Voters in November : Political Outcast

CURL: Game-changing pick for Romney, worst nightmare for Obama - Washington Times

CURL: Game-changing pick for Romney, worst nightmare for Obama - Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016 - Washington Times

EDITORIAL: The Civil War of 2016 - Washington Times

Will the Left and Right Attack Paul Ryan for His Support of Ayn Rand? : Political Outcast

Will the Left and Right Attack Paul Ryan for His Support of Ayn Rand? : Political Outcast

NASA Sees Red: Are Missions to the Red Planet Worth the Money?

NASA Sees Red: Are Missions to the Red Planet Worth the Money?

Who Owns You?

The Declaration of Independence is often overlooked in the heated rhetoric of the this election season. The words in the declaration were not chosen lightly. The founders worked diligently to make one point clear. The owner of one's person is the person themselves. That distinction was not trivial but the foundation of our political system. It declared that the person and all his labor belonged to him. Not the government. This idea was born out of writings and experiments dating back to the 1500's. This country has slide into a culture of believing the government knows best and can be relied upon to solve all of societies problems. This is simply not true; in a historical context and a current events context. History is strewn with examples of failures and out right despotism with power vested in government.

Did the United States (by the way a Republic of States) become the most powerful nation in the world because of the government? No, it became so because of the industry, risk taking and resoluteness of its citizenry. A society that was unbound by a central government and free from and free to do whatever it chose to do to accomplish success. Has it been a perfect journey? No, but successful no doubt.

Free people that can make individual choices and be self accountable and responsible have demonstrated through out history to be the most successful. Any form of confiscatory central government has always failed.

The choice for U.S. citizen facing them is do you want to own yourself and be accountable for your success and failures or do you want to be owned through confiscatory measures by a central government that by design makes choices for you in the name of fairness, equality and the general welfare?

For me, the choice is clear. A limited central government with limited powers is for me. I want to own myself and be free to choose my own path in life; not one chosen by some distant power that cannot make decisions for millions. It may be disastrous or successful; I will be accountable and survive one way or another.

When you give up choice, your money and your ability to be accountable for self, you are owned by another. Does this sound absolutist? It should, because it is. The best example I can give to anyone is when we were children living in our parents house. I don't want nor do I need for the government to be my parents

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Economy Creates 163,000 New Jobs but Rate Rises to 8.3%

The U.S. economy closed out an otherwise weak second quarter by creating more jobs than expected, with 163,000 new positions added, but the unemployment rate rose to 8.3 percent.  Markets reacted positively to the announcement, with stock futures indicating gains at the Wall Street open. Economists had been expecting 100,000 new jobs.  As the country struggles to gain growth traction, the unemployment rate held above 8 percent for the 41st consecutive month, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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'Real' Unemployment Rate Shows Far More Jobless

While the national unemployment rate paints a grim picture, a look at individual states and their so-called real jobless rates becomes even more troubling.  The government's most widely publicized unemployment rate measures only those who are out of a job and currently looking for work. It does not count discouraged potential employees who have quit looking, nor those who are underemployed — wanting to work full-time but forced to work part-time. For that count, the government releases a separate number called the "U-6," which provides a more complete tally of how many people really are out of work. The numbers in some cases are startling. Consider: Nevada's U-6 rate is 22.1 percent, up from just 7.6 percent in 2007. Economically troubled California has a 20.3 percent real rate, while Rhode Island is at 18.3 percent, more than double its 8.3 percent rate in 2007. Those numbers compare especially unfavorably to the national rate, high in itself at 14.9 percent though off its record peak of 17.2 percent in October 2009.

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Harry Reid Accuses Romney of Federal Crime on Senate Floor, Offers Zero Evidence

Let’s get you up to speed on this idiotic flap: As you’re already aware, Mitt Romney has declined to publicly release more than two years of tax returns. He’s not legally obligated to do so; nor are Nancy Pelosi or Harry Reid, neither of whom have chosen to live up to the levels of “transparency” they’re demanding of Romney. Frustrated by the Republican presidential candidate’s refusal — and clearly unperturbed by his own hypocrisy — Reid began circulating a totally unsubstantiated rumor this week, suggesting that Mitt Romney is a tax evader. From yesterday:

“His poor father must be so embarrassed about his son,” Reid said, in reference to George Romney’s standard-setting decision to turn over 12 years of tax returns when he ran for president in the late 1960s. Saying he had “no problem with somebody being really, really wealthy,” Reid sat up in his chair a bit before stirring the pot further. A month or so ago, he said, a person who had invested with Bain Capital called his office. Harry, he didn’t pay any taxes for 10 years,” Reid recounted the person as saying. He didn’t pay taxes for 10 years! Now, do I know that that’s true? Well, I’m not certain,” said Reid. “But obviously he can’t release those tax returns. How would it look?

Romney to Harry Reid on tax claims: Put up or shut up

“This reminds me of the McCarthy hearings back in the 1950s,” Eric Fehrnstrom said on Fox News. “And it was another son from Massachusetts, Joseph Welch, who finally asked the question that should be asked of Harry Reid, which is, ‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’ Is there nothing that you won’t do in the name of dirty politics? I think it’s just shameful.”…“I’m telling you, authoritatively, speaking on behalf of the governor, that those charges are untrue,” said Fehrnstrom, a longtime Romney aide. “They’re baseless.”

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"Try and fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured, but not everyone must prove they are a citizen".

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"The virtues of men are of more consequence to society than their abilities; and for this reason, the heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head." --Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788

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Catholic Hospitals vs. Obamacare  Written by Gary North on August 3, 2012

Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic, rammed Obamacare through the House of Representatives. Lots of Catholic House members voted for it. The law forces Catholic-run hospitals to provide free contraceptives to every woman who wants them and who is covered under the law. Almost 50 million women are.  In the Senate, the story was repeated.  These people “voted their consciences,” and their consciences were opposed to official Catholic doctrine.  There were no church sanctions brought against these politicians. The bishops honored their consciences, too. Their consciences said, “Don’t bring sanctions. Don’t enforce doctrine.”  This is why Obamacare got through Congress.  Catholic members had the votes to stop it. Instead, they voted for it.

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Exposed! Obama’s 2nd-Term ‘Marxist’ Jobs Plan

Progressive organizations behind White House policy have crafted specific, second-term plans for President Obama to enact a “living wage” that would force all employers to increase the salaries of the nation’s workers to meet “basic needs” such as housing, food, utilities, transportation, health care and recreation. Such a “living wage” was previously attempted in over 80 U.S. cities, many times to disastrous affect. The progressive groups, already instrumental in influencing Obama’s first-term economic agenda, also call for Obama and Congress to enact a government mandate to force businesses to provide 12 weeks of paid benefits to employees who need time off to care for a new child, a sick family member or their own illness. These schemes, and many more, are documented in the soon-to-be-released book “Fool Me Twice: Obama’s Shocking Plans for the Next Four Years Exposed.” The book by New York Times bestselling authors Aaron Klein and Brenda J. Elliott uncovers the template for Obama’s next four years – the actual, extensive plans created by Obama’s own top advisers and progressive strategists.

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Has Any of This Administration's Policies NOT Killed Jobs Lately?

Congress has headed off for its long vacation-and-campaign season, fleeing Washington as the unemployment rate rises. According to the Labor Department's July jobs report, the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.3 percent, 12.8 million Americans are out of work, and 5.2 million have been out of work for at least a half a year. According to one survey, the country added a surprising 163,000 jobs in July, while according to a second Labor Department survey, employment fell by 195,000—raising questions about whether the more positive figure is all that reliable, given that the economy slowed significantly to a 1.5 percent annualized growth rate in the second quarter and appears to be slowing further.  The question isn't what has slowed the economy—it's really what Obama Administration policy hasn't slowed the economy? The policies of the last few years has been unequivocal job killers.

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How Will We Be Affected by Obamacare’s Anti-Religious Freedom Mandate?

Yesterday, on the eve of its religious-liberty-crushing mandate taking effect, President Obama’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) made an outrageous claim:

The Obama administration will continue to work with all employers to give them the flexibility and resources they need to implement the health care law in a way that protects women’s health while making common-sense accommodations for values like religious liberty. 

Religious liberty is a fundamental right guaranteed under the First Amendment of the Constitution, not a mere “value” whose worth is subject to devaluation by any given Administration’s policy. Regrettably, devaluation of this first principle is exactly what we’ve seen from the Obama Administration, which after a year of such lip service to religious liberty has held firmly to its original mandate despite widespread, intense, and ecumenical outcry against it.  HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s latest promise rings hollow and adds insult to the grievous injury that HHS is already doing to Americans who believe that religious liberty is not something that stops when one leaves a house of worship. The anti-conscience HHS mandate is now in effect.

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Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting

On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state's law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is "arbitrary" with "no discernible rational basis." Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military are given three extra days to do so. While the Democrats may see this as "arbitrary" and having "no discernible rational basis," I think it is entirely reasonable given the demands on servicemen and women's time and their obligations to their sworn duty. The National Defense Committee reports:

[f]or each of the last three years, the Department of Defense’s Federal Voting Assistance Program has reported to the President and the Congress that the number one reason for military voter disenfranchisement is inadequate time to successfully vote. 

I think it's unconscionable that we as a nation wouldn't make it as easy as possible for members of the military to vote. They arguably have more right to vote than the rest of us, since it is their service and sacrifice that ensures we have the right to vote in the first place. If anyone proposes legislation to combat voter fraud, Democrats will loudly scream that the proposal could "disenfranchise" some voter, somewhere. We must ensure, they argue, that voting is easy and accessible to every single voter. Every voter, that is, except the men and women of our military. Make no mistake, the Democrat lawsuit is intended to disenfranchise some unknown number of military voters. The judge should reject it with prejudice. 

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Poll Farce: Pew Oversamples Democrats to Boost Obama

On what alternate universe will Democrats enjoy a D +19 turnout advantage over Republicans on election day? Well, that would be Planet Pew:  The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted July 16-26, 2012, among 2,508 adults, including 1,956 registered voters, finds that, in keeping with his favorability advantage, Obama continues to hold a sizable lead over Romney in the election contest. Currently, 51% say they support Obama or lean toward him, while 41% support or lean toward Romney.  Except…. Sample Size:

459 Republicans

813 Democrats

599 Independents

This is nothing more than an act of intentional juicing to keep The Narrative alive that says Obama is winning and that Romney can't get his act together. You see, it works like this…The only way our failed president can win is if Romney is disqualified; if voters don’t see him as an acceptable alternative.

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Republicans grill IRS commissioner on health care

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans on Thursday grilled the head of the Internal Revenue Service on the agency's decision to apply the health care law's tax credits in states that decide not to carry out a key provision of the statute.  Commissioner Douglas Shulman defended the IRS rule that applies the tax credits to federal insurance exchanges, which are the bodies that will be developed to allow those without health insurance to buy it. He testified at a House hearing.  The issue is a new controversy over President Barack Obama's health care law. Several states already have decided not to establish their own insurance exchanges. In those states, federal exchanges would be created.  The credits would help consumers pay for private insurance beginning in 2014. The IRS had to decide whether the credits would be available in the entire country regardless of whether states or the federal government ran the exchanges.  "Congress writes the laws and we interpret them. If you disagree, there's always the courts," Shulman told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.  Overall, Shulman said the tax agency will be ready in 2014 to fulfill its new role of providing tax breaks and incentives to help pay for health insurance. The IRS would impose penalties on some people who don't buy coverage and on some businesses that don't offer it to employees.  During the hearing, Shulman tangled with Rep. Scott DesJarlais, R-Tenn., a physician. DesJarlais accused the IRS of bypassing Congress by trying to expand the subsidies when the law gave the tax agency no authority to do so. "You're trying to twist" the law, he said.  Shulman responded that IRS lawyers "look at the statute and come up with the best interpretation."

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