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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20 Angels
Yesterday I cried
when I heard about the massacre of innocent people. Today I rejoice that 20 angels have met God
and will live in eternal joy with him. I
ask that all of you that are in deep mourning of these children (and their
adult caretakers) in rejoicing in God's Love. I will not participate in the
political, partisan and ideological chatter concerning this tragedy. Yesterday, evil was loosed on the earth. It has always been with us and always
will. Man cannot win over evil. God is the only way.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
"Father knows
Best" Obama Stands By Medical Device Tax, Despite Bipartisan Opposition
President Barack
Obama said that he stands by the medical device tax in Obamacare, despite
growing bipartisan opposition: “No,” Obama told WCCO in an
interview today, when asked whether he’s changed his mind about the medical
device tax. “And here’s why: The health care bill is going to provide those
medical device companies 30 million new customers. It’s going to be great for
business. And they’re doing really well right now.”
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Obama’s Electronic
Medical Records Scam
Here’s more
evidence that government “cures” are inevitably worse than the “diseases” they
seek to wipe out. Buried in the trillion-dollar stimulus law of 2009 was an
electronic medical records “incentive” program. Like most of President Obama’s
health care rules, this top-down electronic record-sharing scheme is a big fat
bust. Oversight is lax. Cronyism is rife. The job-killing and
privacy-undermining consequences have only just begun. The program was
originally sold as a cost-saving measure. In theory, modernizing
record-collection is a good idea, and many private health care providers have
already made the change. But as with many government “incentive” programs, the
EMR bribe is a tax-subsidized, one-size-fits-all mandate. This one pressures
health care professionals and hospitals across the country into radically
federalizing their patient data and opening up medical information to untold
abuse. Penalties kick in for any provider that hasn’t switched over by
2014. So, what’s it to you? Well, $4 billion has already gone out to 82,535
professionals and 1,474 hospitals, and a total of $6 billion will be doled out
by 2016. But the feds’ reckless profligacy, neglect and favoritism have done
more harm than good.
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Aetna CEO Sees
Obama Health Law Doubling Some Premiums
Health insurance
premiums may as much as double for some small businesses and individual buyers
in the U.S. when the Affordable Care Act’s major provisions start in 2014,
Aetna Inc. (AET)’s chief executive officer said. While subsidies in the law
will shield some people, other consumers who make too much for assistance are
in for “premium rate shock,” Mark Bertolini, who runs the third-biggest U.S.
health-insurance company, told analysts yesterday at a conference in New York.
The prospect has spurred discussion of having
Congress delay or phase in parts of the law, he said. “We’ve shared it all with
the people in Washington and I think it’s a big concern,” the CEO said. “We’re
going to see some markets go up as much as as 100 percent.”
Bertolini’s prediction is at odds with Congressional Budget Office estimates
that the law will have little effect on small and large-employer plans and the
Obama administration’s projections that middle-class families will actually
save money. The 2010 law is expected to extend health care to about 30 million
people who otherwise couldn’t get insurance, paid for by new taxes and fees on
companies and wealthier individuals.
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When did
people/small businesses making $250,000/year become the targets?
All we have heard
by the left is the same old phrase: "The rich need to pay their fare
share!" While never saying what a
fair share is. The other belabored
phrase is "....millionaires and billionaires..." Here in lies the question; how does $250k fit
the "millionaire, billionaire" context? Everyone including the administration and
Democrats know what we all know the upper end of
earned income individuals already pay a highly disproportion of the taxes in
the U.S. So what are we to
make of all the rhetoric coming out of the White House and the Democrats? Give
it any label you wish. I would
suggest they are very clear about what they are doing and the consequences.
More transfer payments to the government (read taxes a.k.a. redistribution) to
fund a much larger government, greater dependency on the government and less
economic freedom. Further, you must
understand these people truly believe this is good for America! On the other hand, we have a country full of
people that hold close the notion that "what has been will always
be". Not true! Our Republic
based on the Constitution, free markets and liberty have always been under
attack. This is nothing new. What is new is the large number of people
that choose to not educate themselves or are apathetic to what is the harsh
reality of what is going on. 49% of America is vulnerable to a rude awakening from
which they will never recover!
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The Left Goes Nuts
As Susan Rice Bows Out
United States
Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice announced yesterday that she would remove
herself from consideration for the sought after position of Secretary of State
in the Obama Administration. A top contender for the position, Rice received a
large amount of criticism for… well, let’s just call it what it was- she received
a large amount of criticism for purposefully lying to the American people in
the aftermath of the attack on the consulate in Benghazi. Almost immediately,
the leftists in the media went crazy, shouting a general theme of, “Are you
happy now, conservatives?!” Yes, we are.
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Are American
Muslims Terrorizing the Constitution? by John DeMayo
The new terrorist in the United States isn’t wearing suicide vests and
sporting AK-47s; they are wearing suits and ties and have law degrees. They are
members of the state’s bars, state and federal legislatures, Islamic
charities/lobbies, and members of the Judiciary. They run tax free IRS
sanctioned non-for-profits as fronts to further the cause of Sharia acceptance
in American Society and American Courts. Before the “not all Muslims are bad
people” crowd skip the rest of this column and proceed to defend the greatest
threat to American freedom and security we face, let me say this: I don’t care
what you think. Do business with whomever you wish. Marry an Islamist for
all I care. Just don’t come complaining when some Judge or Elected Official
tells you that American law no longer applies and you must live under Islamic
subjugation. Today in the United States there are well over 50 courts cases
in various state and appellate courts that involve the use of the Muslim faith
and its Sharia law. Business disputes, child custody, property division,
criminal defense and Constitutional protections are being attacked by the
Islamic legal community operating in our country. For decades Islamists have
infiltrated our universities, business communities, government, and now they
have a foot in the door of our legislatures and judiciaries. The Assembly of
Muslim Jurists of America (www.amjaonline.org)
a 501c3 was established to lead the Muslim community to a “better understanding
of the practice of the religion of Islam in Western Societies.” Sounds innocent enough until you take a look
at their website. Under the “Declaration” heading you will find advice
on “Issue’s facing the Muslim Family in the West” and counsel on Sharia
obedience. Since I only have 700 words to work
with let me just say that they are advising all Muslims to ignore any laws that
conflict with Sharia in all matters related to living outside of an Islamic
Majority State. In other words, to be a good servant of Islam, the faith and
Sharia obedience take precedence over any government or contract and many
American Judges are entertaining Sharia principles and law when rendering civil
and criminal court decisions all over our Nation. I
urge every U.S. citizen to contact their representatives and show support for
these kinds of laws. Our nation has a history of waiting until we have a
problem before acting to resolve it; especially amongst the electorate. We
don’t need a “Sharia cliff” in America any more than we need special
protections for one religious belief over another. Get active now.
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New Poll Shows
Shift Against Obama’s Lies by Frank
Camp
There is certainly a difference between
stupidity and ignorance. For a long time, I believed
that they were one and the same. I would sit and wonder, in astonishment, at
how incredibly stupid people are; specifically those who vote Democratic. I
would think: “Am I living in a country where roughly 50% of the population
is just plain dumb?” It took me a long time to understand the fine line
separating these two types of understanding. Stupidity can’t be changed;
ignorance can. However, the tides
may be turning. According to a new NBC/WSJ poll: “A majority of voters would
blame both President Obama and congressional Republicans equally if efforts to
find a deficit deal to avoid the “fiscal cliff” fail. Fifty-six percent
surveyed in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll say both sides would be
responsible if a compromise is not reached.” In the face of the facts, that
might not seem like a big deal. With Obama’s proposal of a 4 to 1 tax
increase to spending cuts ratio, and $1.2 trillion in new revenues–most of
which will go to new spending–it may seem obvious that the tide should turn. But
we live in a society of blissful ignorance. We live in a society where Obama
can tell an outright, deliberate lie, and half the country takes him on his
word. So the fact that the polls are shifting, even a little, is a good sign.
Maybe the kingdom is falling.
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Fox News Cuts Off Dem. Congresswoman When She Can’t Name a Cut She Wants by
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AP: With Election
Over, Obama Unleashes Tidal Wave Of New Business-Killing Regulations
While the “fiscal cliff” of looming tax increases and spending cuts
dominates political conversation in Washington, some Republicans and
business groups see signs of a “regulatory cliff” that they say could be just
as damaging to the economy. For months, federal agencies and the White House
have sidetracked dozens of major regulations that cover everything from power
plant pollution to workplace safety to a crackdown on Wall Street. The rules
had been largely put on hold during the presidential campaign as the White
House sought to quiet Republican charges that President Barack Obama was an
overzealous regulator who is killing U.S. jobs. But since the election, the
Obama administration has quietly reopened the regulations pipeline. In
recent weeks, the Environmental Protection Agency has proposed rules to update
water quality guidelines for beaches and other recreational waters and deal
with runoff from logging roads. The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, meanwhile, has proposed long-delayed regulations requiring auto
makers to include event data recorders – better known as “black boxes” – in all
new cars and light trucks beginning in 2014.
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And the dog ate my homework! There has
been no doubt that live video footage was being streamed from drones overhead
in Benghazi, Libya on September 11, 2012 when the U.S. Consulate was attacked
and led to the deaths of four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador Chris
Stevens. The question has arisen and has yet to be answered, “Who was watching
the video feed?” The White House is maintaining that the video was not made
available to them. A State Department official claimed that there was clearly
video available from the closed-circuit security cameras on the outer walls of
the consulate. In fact, the official said that the main gate showed “a large
number of men, armed men, flowing into the compound” at approximately 9:40pm on
the night of the attack. According to the Defense Department, the drone footage
began about two hours after the assault began. While the White House and State
Department have both tried to push the knowledge of the attack over to the
Department of Defense and not claim they had immediate knowledge of it is
highly suspicious. We do know the White House had emails informing them of the attack. We
know that they were aware of Special Forces Operations on the ground and yet they did
absolutely nothing and in the aftermath peddled a known lie about the whole reason the attacks
occurred in the first place.
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Graham to Newsmax:
Obama's Foreign Policy 'Failing All Over the World' By Jim Meyers and John Bachman
Sen. Lindsey Graham tells Newsmax that with events unfolding in Syria,
Egypt, Iraq, North Korea and elsewhere, President Obama’s foreign policy is
“failing all over the world.” The South Carolina Republican, a member of the
Armed Services Committee, also says it’s time for the United States to “up our
game” and pressure China into reining in North Korea and its missile and
nuclear weapons programs. President Obama has officially recognized the Syrian
opposition, and Graham says “it was a good move but way too late. “A year ago,
Sen. McCain and myself said that we should have a no-fly zone around the
population centers that the rebels live in. If a Syrian jet crosses the line,
it will be shot down. We could have ended this conflict a year ago. Forty
thousand people have been killed. The red lines that Obama’s drawn just keep
getting washed away. “Syria is a contagion for the whole region. It’s affecting
Iraq, it’s affecting Lebanon. Al-Qaida tried to move in to fill this vacuum.
This leading from behind model has allowed Syria to disintegrate into a
terrorist safe haven. It’s put doubt in the Iranians’ mind about our resolve
to deal with their nuclear program. It’s made everybody in the region who wants
to be a friend of the United States doubt our resolve and has put our enemies
on steroids. “He’s allowed this
butcher to kill 40,000 of his people. Our strategic interests are best served
by taking Assad out to send a message to the Russians and to the Iranians that
we’re serious about protecting our interests.”
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