In pursuit of Constitutionally grounded governance, free markets and individual liberty
"There is but one straight
course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
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"No people will tamely surrender
their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and
Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and
debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the
Aid of foreign Invaders." --Samuel
Adams (1775)
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Obama to Restrict
Guns Without Congress?
His administration
has the power to issue executive orders or new rules, options that Obama is
likely to consider in combination with possible new laws. The National Rifle Association, the largest U.S.
gun rights group with 4 million supporters, relies largely on its ability to
influence lawmakers in order to block legislation. Obama’s appointees at the
U.S. Justice Department have been studying ideas since the January 8, 2011,
shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona and 18
others at a public meeting. Giffords survived but six people died. Christopher
Schroeder, who ran the Justice Department’s review, said it looked at possible
legislation to send to Congress as well as action the administration could take
itself. “You always look at both, because if you can do it administratively
it’s certainly a less involved process,” said Schroeder, who has since returned
to a professorship at Duke Law School.
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Boehner: Obama to
Blame if Largest Tax Increase Happens By: Roxana Tiron and Roger Runningen
House Speaker John
Boehner said President Barack Obama will be responsible for “the largest tax
increase in American history” if Democrats don’t accept a tax measure the House
plans to pass Thursday. “The
president will have a decision to make,” Boehner said, after the House
passes the speaker’s plan to extend tax cuts for all household income below $1
million a year. “He can call on Senate
Democrats to pass that bill or he can be responsible for the largest tax
increase in American history.” Earlier, Obama said he offered
congressional Republicans a “fair deal” and accused them of “posturing” in the
talks. “I have gone at least halfway” and Republicans need to “take the
deal” he’s offered, the president said Wednesday at the White House. “I’d like
to get it done before Christmas.” Unless Congress acts, more than $600
billion in tax increases and spending cuts will begin next month. Boehner is
looking to pressure Obama to accept deeper spending cuts and a higher threshold
for rate increases by showing how tough it will be to win Republican support
for any tax increase. Boehner took no questions from reporters after making
his statement. Obama said his plan is “as large a piece of deficit
reduction as we’ve seen in 20 years” and would stabilize the federal debt for a
decade. He said the proposals he and House Speaker John Boehner have advanced
are “pretty close.” So says the serpent.
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Socialists Pushing
Accelerated Death and Euthanasia by Dave Jolly
Remember four years
ago when newly elected President Barack Obama told us to look at the European
countries who had socialized medicine as examples of what America should have? He mentioned England and Canada and then
referred to other countries as models for us to follow. Virtually every one
of those model countries are facing financial shortfalls in their national
health programs. Great Britain is cutting covered services and treatments
to help offset the rising costs. Now, socialists in France and Belgium
are pushing for ways to reduce the cost of national healthcare. France’s
new socialist President Francois Hollande just announced that he will allow
doctors to accelerate the death of terminally ill patients. His
proposal will be reviewed by a medical ethics board who hopes to have a formal
plan of implementation ready by June of 2013. In addressing the issue,
Hollande said: “The existing legislation does not meet the legitimate concerns
expressed by people who are gravely and incurably ill.” In Belgium,
the socialist party just introduced legislation that would allow minors and
Alzheimer’s patients to request permission to die. Belgium passed an
euthanasia law in 2002, but it only applies to people over the age of 18.
The current plan is to amend the existing law to include minors that ‘are
capable of discernment or affected by an incurable illness or suffering that we
cannot alleviate.’ Historically, euthanasia starts with the terminally ill
and dying. Then it expands to the physically and mentally disabled that
they deem to be a burden on society. Before you know it, unwanted children
and the elderly will be included so that they aren’t a burden on their families
or society.
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State Department
official suggests Libya warnings went to the top FoxNews.com
Washington – A top State Department official acknowledged
Thursday that cables warning of serious security concerns at the U.S. compound
in Benghazi went to department headquarters – and possibly to Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton’s office – in the months leading up to the deadly Sept.
11 attack. Deputy Secretary of State Williams Burns, testifying before the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the cables “would have been reviewed
up through the assistant secretary level, and it may be that some of my
colleagues on the seventh floor saw them as well.” The seventh floor refers to
Clinton’s office. Further, Burns confirmed “there were certainly memos” that
came to Clinton’s office describing some of the dozens of security incidents in
the region before the attack that claimed four American lives. The confirmation
Thursday comes after Fox News first reported in October on one cable
addressed to Clinton’s office said the U.S. Mission in Benghazi convened an
“emergency meeting” less than a month before the attack because Al Qaeda had
training camps in Benghazi and the consulate could not defend against a
“coordinated attack.”
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Shocking!
Benghazi Review Board: Everyone and No One to Blame by Tad Cronn
Leaders of the Accountability Review Board that investigated the failure
in Benghazi, Libya, that led to the deaths of four Americans, including an
ambassador and two SEALs, are testifying behind closed doors to members of
Congress today. An unclassified version of their report was released Tuesday.
The report blames the security failure at the American mission in Benghazi on a
series of bureaucratic mistakes and mismanagement. “Systematic failures and
leadership and management deficiencies at senior levels within two bureaus of
the State Department resulted in a Special Mission security posture that was
inadequate for Beghazi and grossly inadequate to deal with the attack that took
place,” the report says. But in what amounts to a one-two punch to the jaw of
accountability and to Americans wanting real answers, the same report says that
no particular bureaucrat failed in his duty and recommends no disciplinary
action for anybody. So according to the official investigation, the final word
is everybody and nobody was responsible. It was just one of those things,
apparently. So dang the public, why should they care!
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Clinton accused of
faking illness to avoid Benghazi testimony
Victoria
Nuland, a State Department spokeswoman, insisted to reporters Tuesday that
suggestions Clinton faked her illness are “completely untrue.” It’s unfortunate
that in times like this people make wild speculation based on no information,”
she said. Clinton’s withdrawal from the
hearing has prompted speculation that she is trying to finish her term as chief
diplomat without suffering any criticism for the attack. Clinton has said
she does not intend to serve in President Obama’s second term. The secretary, considered a top Democratic
presidential contender in 2016, declined to appear on Sunday talk shows five
days after the attack, which killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya, Chris
Stevens, and three other Americans. Instead, the job went to U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice.
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A Nation Run by
Idiots by Gary North
You know you live in a Country run by idiots if…
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You can get
arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country
illegally.
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Your
government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt
is to spend trillions more of our money.
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A seven year
old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher “cute”, but hosting
a sexual exploration or diversity class in grade school is perfectly
acceptable.
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The Supreme
Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10
Commandments in their courtroom…while sitting in front of a display of the 10
Commandments.
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Children are
forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children
of “underprivileged” drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools
of a ‘home’.
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Hard work
and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while at
least some slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks,
Medicaid, subsidized housing, and free cell phones.
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The
government’s plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of
unemployment checks (to not work).
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Being
self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government. Politicians think
that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the
rights of the people. The rights of the Government come before the rights of
the individual.
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You pay your
mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your
neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iPhones, TV’s and new cars) and
the government forgives his debt and
reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).
·
Being
stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you “safe”.
·
An 80 year
old woman can be stripped searched by the TSA but a Muslim woman in a burka is
only subject to having her neck and head searched.
·
Using the
“N” word is considered “hate speech” but writing and singing songs about raping
women and killing cops is considered “art”.
You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.
Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our country is run by idiots. We
are in distress. Where do we go from here?
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Gov’t Health Care:
Game On Where will you doctor go?
Patients suffering from
illness desire accurate diagnoses in a timely fashion with the best treatment
options available.
The massive bureaucracy of the Affordable Care Act ensures none of this,
sacrificing the above in an attempt to ratchet down costs and increase the
availability of care to the uninsured…or so the law is advertised.
Perusing the bill shows that it is more a bureaucracy to ensure the expansion
and power of government. Nowhere has thought been given as to how we
physicians can be made to feel like partners in the success of “ObamaCare.”
Nowhere is the patient the focus of the bill, unless you count the fantasy that
care is provided “free of charge.” The current insurance-based system has, at
least to some extent, market forces that patients use to drive their
decision-making. The system works for most Americans. We are now
being asked to trust that government can better handle administration and
payment. Trading freedom of choice in health care for the security of
government payment for that care, to paraphrase Benjamin Franklin, will result
in us having neither freedom nor security. Even
if we liken ObamaCare to one of government’s greatest successes — putting a man
on the Moon — we find that ObamaCare falls far short. NASA had world-class leadership, intelligence, planning,
and ingenuity, not to mention bravery. ObamaCare can claim none of the
above. It is an embarrassing mishmash of progressive group-think, foisted
upon us by anointed ones whose “best for all” theories are sure to prove
laughable in practice. And thinking that government will
make care more affordable? Really? Does anyone doubt that actual costs will skyrocket, services will be
less available, quality will decline, treatment options will be limited,
rationing will occur, and innovation will go away under ObamaCare? Does anyone
doubt that good practitioners will leave the field of medicine or that
prospective physicians will choose to pursue other careers?
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NRA Membership
Explodes - citizens acting out of fear of their own government!
The National Rifle Association, while staying mostly quiet in the
immediate aftermath of the mass shooting in Connecticut, has registered an
average of 8,000 new members a day since the tragedy, an NRA source told Fox
News. While this broadly aligns with trends seen after similar incidents in the
past, the surge in membership this time is said to dwarf past trends. The
source, based on his access to an internal memo prepared by the organization’s
membership division, said both the number of individual contributions to the
NRA and their average amount have risen significantly in this period. Amid the
uptick, the NRA is planning what it describes as a “major” news conference on
Friday. In its first public statement since last week’s shooting, issued
Tuesday by an aide to NRA President Wayne LaPierre, the organization also
conveyed condolences to the murder victims’ families and expressed the group’s
willingness to offer “meaningful contributions to help make sure this never
happens again.” These are law abiding citizens that are not acting out of
fear of some mass murderers. It is
rather law abiding citizens acting out of fear of their own government!
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‘Gun Free’ Britain is the Most Violent Country in Europe
Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the
European union, it has been revealed. Official crime figures show the UK also
has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa
– widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries. The figures
comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech
on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour. The Tories said Labour had presided over a
decade of spiralling violence. In the decade following the party’s election in
1997, the number of recorded violent attacks soared by 77 per cent to
1.158million – or more than two every minute.
The figures, compiled from reports released by the European Commission
and United Nations, also shows in the UK, there are 2,034 offences per 100,000
people, way ahead of second-placed Austria with a rate of 1,677.
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Chicago: 446 school age children shot so far this year with strongest gun laws in country – media silent
The cesspool known
as Chicago probably has the toughest gun laws in the country, yet despite all
the shootings, murders, and bloodshed, you never hear a peep about this from
the corrupt state run media. In Chicago, there have been 446 school
age children shot in leftist utopia run by Rahm Emanuel and that
produced Obama, Jesse Jackson, Louis Farrakhan, etc. 62 school aged
children have actually been killed by crazed nuts
in Chicago so far this year with almost two weeks to go. So why isn’t
this news worthy? Is it because it would embarrass those anti second
amendment nuts who brag about Chicago’s tough gun laws? Is it because most of
the kids who were shot and killed were minorities? Or is it because the corrupt
media doesn’t want to show Chicago in a bad light?
THE LIST OF 62 MURDERED SCHOOL AGE CHILDREN 2012
18 YEARS OLD- 15
18 YEARS OLD- 15
17 YEARS OLD- 16
16 YEARS OLD- 16
15 YEARS OLD- 6
14 YEARS OLD- 4
13 YEARS OLD- 2
12 YEARS OLD- 1
7 YEARS OLD- 1
6 YEARS OLD- 1
446 School Age Children Shot in Chicago so Far This Year THE LIST OF SCHOOL AGE
CHILDREN SHOT IN 2012
18 year old- 110
17 year old- 99
16 year old- 89
15 year old- 62
14 year old- 39
13 year old- 21
12 year old- 10
11 year old- 2
10 year old- 3
9 year old- 1
7 year old- 3
6 year old- 2
5 year old- 1
4 year old- 1
3 year old- 1
1 year old- 2
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