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"The almost general mediocrity of
fortune that prevails in America obliging its people to follow some business
for subsistence, those vices, that arise usually from idleness, are in a great
measure prevented. Industry and constant employment are great preservatives of
the morals and virtue of a nation. Hence bad examples to youth are more rare in
America, which must be a comfortable consideration to parents. To this may be
truly added, that serious religion, under its various denominations, is not
only tolerated, but respected and practiced."--Benjamin Franklin, Information to
Those Who Would Remove to America, 1782
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Today Will Be the Last Day of My Husband’s Life … by Ken Marrero
Ben
and I have been married for 1 year, 4 months and 2 days. Ben has just 16.5
hours left here on this earth with me. Sixteen and a half hours of time and we
have no idea the end is coming … The clock is ticking.
So
my friend, Nikki Goeser, begins her story. On April 2, 2009 she and Ben were
operating their karaoke business in Jonny’s Sports Bar in Nashville, TN. A man
stalking Nikki was asked to leave the bar. He pulled a gun and murdered Ben
while she watched, helpless, just feet away. Denied a Chance: How Gun
Control Helped a Stalker Murder My Husband is Nikki’s recounting of
not just the tragic loss of her husband but of her transformation into a
powerful and articulate voice for gun rights and advocate for the 2nd
Amendment.
Far
too many respond to the shooting of innocents in theaters and schools by
blaming guns for violence, Nikki places the blame where it really belongs – on
the murderers. She came to understand legislators crafting bad law bear
responsibility, too. The gun used to murder Ben was in the bar illegally.
Nikki, although a carry permit holder, an Intermediate Handgun
Certification holder and experienced gun range volunteer was required by law to
leave her handgun in her car. She obeyed the law. The murderer did not.
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59% Prefer Less Health Insurance, Bigger Paycheck
While
employers wrestle with ways to meet the requirements of President Obama’s
health care law, most Americans want the option of less health insurance
coverage and more take home pay.
If
they had a choice, 59% of Likely U.S. Voters would choose a less expensive
health insurance plan that covered only major medical expenses and a bigger
paycheck. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that
just 31% would opt instead for a more expensive insurance policy that covered
just about everything and receive a smaller paycheck.
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The Number of People Collecting Disability Now Exceeds
the Populations of All But 7 States
The
total number of people in the United States now receiving federal disability
benefits hit a record 10,978,040 in May, up from 10,962,532 million in April,
according to newly released data from the Social Security Administration. The
10,978,040 disability beneficiaries in the United States now exceed the
population of all but seven states. For example, there are more
Americans collecting disability today than there are people living in Georgia,
Michigan, North Carolina, New Jersey or Virginia. The record 10,978,040 total
disability beneficiaries in May, included a record 8,877,921 disabled workers
(up from 8,865,586 in April), a record 1,939,687 children of disabled workers
(up from 1,936,236 in April), and 160,432 spouses of disabled workers. April
was the 196th straight month that the number of American workers collecting
federal disability payments increased. The last time the number of
Americans collecting disability decreased was in January 1997. That month the
number of workers taking disability dropped by 249 people—from 4,385,623 in
December 1996 to 4,385,374 in January 1997. Is there something going around plaguing the U.S. that is causing so
many to have to go on disability?
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Krauthammer’s Potentially Damaging Theory: Benghazi’s ‘Biggest Scandal of All’ Has Yet to Be Uncovered by
During a joint news conference with
visiting British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Barack Obama defends
his administration’s actions after the wake of the attacks on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi, Libya, last year, calling Congressional criticism a political
sideshow, at the White House in Washington. Columnist Charles
Krauthammer on the “O’Reilly Factor” Tuesday night said the “biggest scandal of
all” regarding the Benghazi attacks on Sept. 11, 2012, has yet to emerge. “I
think there is a bigger story here, here’s the one that will in time come out,”
Krauthammer said. ”The biggest scandal of all, the biggest question is: What was
the president doing in those eight hours?” “He had a routine meeting at
five o’clock. He never after, during the eight hours when our guys have their
lives in danger, he never called the Secretary of Defense, he never calls the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he never calls the CIA Director,” Krauthammer
continued. “Who does he call? About five hours in he calls the Secretary of
State. And after the phone call she releases a statement essentially about the
video and how we denounce any intolerance. It looks as if the only phone
call was to construct a cover story at a time when the last two Americans who
died were still alive and fighting for their lives. There’s the scandal
and that has to be uncovered.”
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Liberals Join Call For Holder to Be ‘Fired’
Holder
is just doing what he’s told and these tactics will continue under the next
Obama appointee. Obama is the problem. One of the
country’s most prominent liberal legal scholars called Wednesday for Attorney General Eric Holder to be
“fired,” joining the growing list of left-leaning pundits slamming his
department’s pursuit of journalists’ phone and email records. Jonathan Turley, an attorney and law
professor at George Washington University, hammered Holder in a USA Today
column Wednesday. He charged that
Holder has “supervised a comprehensive erosion of privacy rights, press freedom
and due process,” aided by Democrats who looked the other way. But in the wake of the reporter
records scandal, Democrats are starting to join with Republicans in questioning
whether Holder continues to be the right man to lead the Department of Justice
in President Obama’s second term.
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Obama To Spend $700 Million In US Tax Dollars For Russian
Helicopters For Afghan Air Force by Tim Brown
Remember
when Barack Obama was caught on a hot mic telling Russian President Dmitri
Medvedyev to let incoming Russian President Vladimir Putin know that after his
re-election he would have more “flexibility”? If you do, well now we are seeing
a bit of that flexibility in motion. The Obama Department of Defense is going
to spend nearly $700 million to buy Russian Mi-17 helicopters for the Afghan
Air Force. That’s right, $700 million of U.S.
taxpayer money is going to fund our enemy’s air force. However, not
only could
this be considered treasonous, but even by the federal government’s
2013 National Defense Authorization Act they are in violation of their own
legislation. According to Riz Novosti:
WASHINGTON,
April 4 (By Maria Young for RIA Novosti) – The US Department of Defense said
Thursday it plans to sidestep a Congressional ban to purchase 30 helicopters
from Russian state-owned defense firm Rosoboronexport, despite objections from
US lawmakers who allege that the firm has equipped the Syrian government to
commit brutal crimes against civilians. “The Department of Defense (DOD) has
notified Congress of its intent to contract with Rosoboronexport for 30
additional Mi-17 rotary-wing aircraft to support the Afghanistan National
Security Forces (ANSF) Special Mission Wing,” Pentagon spokesman James Gregory
told RIA Novosti in emailed comments. The 2013 National Defense Authorization Act,
approved by Congress last year, includes an amendment that prohibits financial
contracts between the United States and Rosoboronexport, except when the
Secretary of Defense determines that such arrangements are in the interest of
national security.
“Given
current timelines, the department has determined that Rosoboronexport is the
only viable means of meeting ANSF requirements” for the helicopters, Gregory
said. The contract totals $690 million,
most of which would go to the Russian arms maker, he added.
Obviously
the question should be, why are we not spending money on American made helicopters?
Second, why are we spending any money on helicopters for enemies? Third, why
are we giving money to Russia for these helicopters? Well
the Obama administration doesn’t want the U.S. economy to actually improve,
that’s why they aren’t spending here. It seems this is also a bit of the
flexibility he spoke of in 2012 and maybe a bit of payback to President Putin.
Also, the Afghans have been trained to operate Russian aircraft, so switching
to a new platform would delay the transition by three years, according to
Gregory.
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Record Number of Americans on Medicaid
A
record 72,600,000 were enrolled in Medicaid for at least one month in fiscal
2012, up from 71,700,000 in fiscal 2011, according to the Medicaid and CHIP Payment and Access
Commission (MACPAC), which provides an annual report to Congress on Medicaid
and the Children’s Health Insurance Program. The 72,600,000 enrolled in
Medicaid in the United States in 2012 was more than the 65,630,692 people who lived in
France last year, according to data published by the Census Bureau, or the
63,047,162 people who lived in the United Kingdom. In fact, if Medicaid
was a country rather than a U.S. government program it would be the twentieth most
populous nation in the world, ranking just ahead of Thailand, which had
67,091,089 people in 2012, and just behind the Congo, which had 73,599,190
people in 2012. Funded by both the
federal and state governments, Medicaid was created in 1965 by the same law
that created Medicare. It is designed to provide health-care coverage to
low-income Americans. In fiscal 2008, the last full year before President
Barack Obama took office, there were 58,794,000 Medicaid enrollees. Since then,
Medicaid enrollment has expanded by more than 23 percent. So, an administration that
"gives" your money is likely guaranteed 72,600,000 votes and
growing. A better question, why so
many? What is being done to stop the
bleeding?
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IRS Chief Visited White House More Than Any Cabinet
Member
Publicly
released records show that embattled former IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman
visited the White House at least 157 times during the Obama administration,
more recorded visits than even the most trusted members of the president’s
Cabinet. Shulman’s
extensive access to the White House first came to light during his testimony
last week before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. Shulman
gave assorted answers when asked why he had visited the White House 118 times
during the period that the IRS was targeting tea party and conservative
nonprofits for extra scrutiny and delays on their tax-exempt applications. Yea!
Sure! Obama's hands are
clean. There will be no written
record/documents because it was all verbal.
Aren't crooks clever?
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"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of
confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the
Constitution." --Thomas
Jefferson, fair copy of the drafts of the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798
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Teacher In Trouble For Advising Students On Their
Constitutional Rights by
Philip Hodges
As
a way to combat teen suicides, a survey was administered to students in the
Batavia Public School District in Illinois to detect the early warning signs of
social-emotional behavior problems. The results of the survey are being
reviewed by social workers, psychologists and counselors to find out each
student’s “specific needs.” Besides questions about each student’s emotions, it
also included questions about alcohol, tobacco and drug use. I wouldn’t be
surprised if they asked about guns at home. One teacher John Dryden saw forcing
students to incriminate themselves by answering some of these survey questions
as a violation of their Constitutional right not to incriminate
themselves. “[he] made a judgment call.” He simply told his students that they had
a 5th Amendment right not to incriminate themselves.
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