My friend, Dr. Ed Berry, has written a very astute summary and analysis of HR 1505 on his web site, PolyMontana.com. I am going to be borrowing heavily from his research in this column.

Dr. Berry rightly notes that the DHS is the giant head of no less than seven federal agencies: Transportation Security Administration (TSA), US Customs & Border Protection (CBP), US Citizenship & Immigration Services (CIS), US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), US Secret Service (SS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and US Coast Guard (USCG).

Dr. Berry says pointedly, “FEMA is the one with the small cages to put you in if you do not behave. TSA is the one that gives you a useless body scan before you get on an airplane, bus, etc. DHS is the one adding its sensors to streetlights around America and the promoter of E-Verify and Real ID as a cradle-to-grave biometric tracking system for every American.” And it is CBP that the DHS is using to seize property along the US northern border.

According to Denny Rehberg, the reasons the DHS needs to seize all this property are: 1) to stop the “turf war” between federal agencies, 2) Drug growers are hiding in our forests, 3) to catch criminals hiding in our forests, 4) to stop illegal aliens from coming in America.

Let’s first acknowledge that the federal government has absolutely no natural right or constitutional jurisdiction to claim (much less seize) land and territory outside of the District of Columbia. In many of the western states of the US, for example, the vast majority of land in any given State is now regarded as “federal” land. Ask yourself, where is the constitutional authorization for this federal land grab? When did the various State legislatures vote to give these properties to the federal government? When did the various State governors sign the State laws giving these properties to the federal government? When did the citizens of the various states vote to give these properties to the federal government? The answer is, nowhere, and they didn’t!

How is it, then, that we have elected representatives such as Denny Rehberg–people who took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States–who are either so ignorant of the Constitution that they took an oath to uphold, or who are so flippant and careless about that oath, that they so quickly and routinely trample, not only the federal Constitution, but the natural laws and principles of God, and the sovereign rights and authority of the several states?

Now, let’s look at Rep. Rehberg’s reasons why he supports HR 1505 one at a time:

To stop the “turf war” between federal agencies

This is a very specious argument, to say the least! No federal agency has any claim to State land! The land doesn’t belong to those miscreants inside the Beltway! It belongs to the people of the several states! Therefore, it is the responsibility of the State governor and county sheriff to determine who is and who is not allowed access to these lands. All this talk of a “turf war” between federal agencies is just a bunch of hooey!

On this point, we must note that Rep. Rehberg has introduced a “Sheriffs First” amendment to HR 1505. If approved, this amendment would recognize county sheriffs’ law enforcement power over federal agencies and personnel. Of course, this is power sheriffs already have!

For the record, I don’t believe for one second that Denny Rehberg cares one whit whether county sheriffs exercise their authority over these Nazi-like federal agencies. He came up with this amendment as a way to mollify the people of Montana after he discovered that a sizeable number of his constituents are rightfully “mad as hell” about his support for this draconian piece of legislation. After all, he is campaigning for a US Senate seat.

One disagreement I have with Dr. Berry’s analysis is his statement, “The exception to a sheriff’s ultimate authority should be our Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which may be our only way to remove corruption among local police.” The way to deal with corrupt local police officials is for the governor to intervene. Per the Tenth Amendment, law enforcement is the exclusive jurisdiction of State government.

Drug growers are hiding in our forests

In this regard, Dr. Berry’s analysis is absolutely spot-on: “America’s War on Drugs is a scam. It keeps the price of drugs high by limiting supply, so drug cartels and our CIA can make money selling drugs. It hires police to catch pot growers and smokers who overflow our prisons. But wealthy drug dealers who pay off the police have a free run. The solution is not to give DHS control over our land. The solution is to stop the War on Drugs.”

Dr. Berry is also correct when he states, “Virtually all drugs used in America come across our southern border and DHS has not been able to stop it. So why should we allow DHS to control non-existent drug traffic  our northern border when they can’t stop the problem where it exists?”

To catch criminals who are hiding in our forests

Again, law enforcement is the responsibility of State and local government. If there are criminals “hiding in our forests,” it is the job of the State law enforcement agencies to find and apprehend them. Moreover, Dr. Berry astutely observes that to use this argument as justification to cede more authority and territory to DHS “shows the real intent of HR 1505 is to control American citizens.” Amen!

To stop illegal aliens from coming into America

I cannot believe Denny Rehberg could say this with a straight face! Yeah, we have a real problem with all those illegal Canucks coming across our northern border, don’t we? That’s so absurd; I doubt that anyone reading that statement could do so without laughing out loud!

For the record, I live about 75 miles south of the Canadian border, and, ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you unequivocally that there is absolutely no problem with illegal aliens coming across that northern order! In fact, the western states that border Canada enjoy some of the lowest crime rates anywhere in the country.

I’ll tell you where we have a problem will illegal aliens (not that I have to): it’s along our southern border! So, what are the DHS and the rest of the federal government doing to protect our southern border? Not much! The DHS often imprisons Border Patrol agents who attempt to do their jobs. The federal Justice Department sued the State of Arizona for its attempt to stop illegal immigration and constantly hassles and harangues Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, because of his no-nonsense enforcement of Arizona immigration laws. Furthermore, the Obama administration secretly used federal police agencies to actually supply sophisticated firearms to Mexican drug cartels–firearms that were used to murder a US Border Patrol agent, no less. Does this sound like a federal government that is truly concerned about illegal immigration to you? And now we are supposed to believe that HR 1505 is designed to stop illegal immigration where, for all intents and purposes, it doesn’t even exist? Get real!

Dr. Berry inserts one more salient point into his column: “Do you see a pattern here? All the claimed reasons for HR 1505 are the result of federal laws or lack  enforcement of our Constitution. Now the feds want another law to supposedly cure the problems they created.”

See Dr. Ed Berry’s article.

I implore readers to contact their US congressman or congresswoman and find out where he or she stands on HR 1505. This is a monstrous bill that lurches the United States forward into a federal police state in giant strides! The implications and ramifications of this bill, should it become law, are staggering–and scary!

For more by Chuck Baldwin, go to http://chuckbaldwinlive.com.

It seems that the only places the Democrats and some Republicans can come up with to save money is in areas they know the people will reject. It is not only dishonest, which is not surprise nowadays for members of the political class, but this approach also insures our country will never see any progress in returning fiscal.

I would like to suggest to both parties that there are far more productive paths that can be followed to more economical government. They are never suggested because the inside the beltway crowd knows that the people will embrace the cuts and a part of the gravy train will end for the connected class.

What are some of these paths? Let’s look at several, that like five hundred lawyers at the bottom of the ocean, would be a good start.

We could begin by looking at many of the foreign aid programs the state department loves as a way to buy us some friends. It doesn’t seem to be working. Our foreign aid has been described as a transfer of money from the poor people of America to the rich dictators around the world. Beyond this, it is just one more form of corporate welfare as often a large percentage of the funds need to spent in the US with US companies… often military suppliers.

Considering schemes like Obama’s plan to give tanks to the new Egyptian government run by the Muslim Brotherhood, we see policies that make Fast and Furious look like child’s play. Do we really want to arm the people that hate everything about us but our President? And they really aren’t sure about him.

Next, we might want to reconsider all the funds that are going to programs benefiting illegal aliens. The liberal progressives tell us they are here… we have to do something to help them. What they fail to understand that the more they give away, the more people come here and line up for their share. It is not compassionate to keep people subsisting on taxpayer dollars when they could be productive citizens in their home land. People that have the initiative to leave the land of their birth and go to another place of perceived opportunity are the the kind of people that can make their own countries a better place.

We could even look at all the new federal employees hired to stick their progressive noses into our business and personal lives… we might even reconsider some of the old ones too. The thing this administration does not understand, or does not care about, is that bureaucrats, like so many of these new employees, care more about processes than about results. They see no problem with holding up needed projects because not all the Is have been dotted and Ts crossed on the unnecessary paperwork.

Mike Huckabee explains why some projects seem to be delayed indefinitely by the saying, “everything has been done that is necessary, but it has not been done by everybody”. Lightening the federal payroll would not only lighten the budget, but would diminish the ability of these people to stifle job growth and destroy our freedom.

For that matter, we could even look at congressional pay and perks. It wouldn’t be much compared to the magnitude of the problem, but it would be a great symbolic first step, and liberal progressives are big on symbolism since their ideas hardly ever really work. This could be followed by cutting out Mrs. Obama’s extravagant vacations.

There are many more areas that money could be saved, but they, along with those mentioned, would be anathema to the regime. Smaller, less intrusive government would save money, but that is obviously not the goal of the people making decisions. Sooner or later, we need to impose our will on the people in Washington, or they will impose their will on us. It’s our choice.

We see the President fussing and fuming about the evil Wall Street Shylocks raping the public, yet these accused merchants of misery supplied unprecedented funding for his presidential campaign. Then he provided them with the reservoir of dollars to maintain their extravagant lifestyles and has consistently pursued transferring taxpayer dollars to their accounts when things looked shaky. He found it much more important to protect the lenders than the home owners who he left on the hook when the government collapsed the housing market.

The Republicans showed no more integrity when they provided the initial bailout through TARP, although the amounts involved now look like small potatoes. Hank Paulsen and company were willing to set in motion events that threaten to bankrupt the entire country to keep the financial institutions from whence he came from suffering this dreaded fate.

These illustrations are just the most recent and visible of the dollars and favors connected corporations and even smaller businesses have received from the public trough. The Agriculture Department has funneled billions of dollars to the huge agribusinesses that were originally intended to help small farmers through hard times. Special trade deals and exemptions along with narrowly defined procurement policies have been exposed over the years have filled the coffers of businesses. So many government activities are designed to the benefit of someone other than the American citizens.

There is another one, that isn’t usually thought of as corporate welfare, yet the impact is much the same. Through the generosity of the American people, sometimes against their will, our government provides low income workers food stamps, health care, tax credits that refund amounts far beyond anything paid into the system along with a host of other “entitlements” that help them get along. Now two things need to be recognized at this point before I am labeled as an incurable Scrooge – I will leave the morality of such programs for another day, and this is not a rant against the poor.

This article is about businesses that pay their workers substandard wages with the full knowledge that these government programs are there to help them maintain their far from lavish lifestyles. It should come as no surprise that many are considering dropping health coverage for the employees now receiving it in favor of a government plan designed to bring about this very response.

To be fair, business entities benefiting from these wage replacement programs did not originate the schemes to develop dependency on government programs rather than one’s own efforts, yet most have fallen in line and quietly accept them and take advantage of them. We are told that some jobs are only worth a few dollars an hour because they require little skill and are easy to learn. In some ways this is correct. Yet, and this is no cry for Big Brother to increase the minimum wage, but consider that what an employer is doing is buying a portion of an individuals life, one hour at a time, and what is an individual life worth?

Prices will rise if people are paid a living wage we are also told. This is true under the current circumstances. Some industries such as agriculture and hospitality are based on this low wage transference of responsibility to the government. However were are already paying higher prices through the taxation required to maintain the working welfare state. This practice of minimal payment has also opened the door to a large part of our illegal immigration problem. Companies looking for cheap labor have found that many American workers cannot live on their offered wages and, viola… the door is opened for those who sneaked across the border and are willing to work for the wages offered. We are told that some companies cannot find people to do their work. What they really mean is that they cannot find someone to work for what they want to pay.

So illegals (or as some say, undocumented Democrats) and others with no education or marketable skills take the jobs and rely on government programs to supplement their efforts to the point where the hand outs exceed the importance of the actual employment. We have allowed the political class to create a monster that keeps electing for more and more free stuff.

However, lately this welfare mentality has turned around to bite those benefiting from the enforced “donations” of the American people. The unheard of extensions of the unemployment benefits is creating competition for the low priced workers as some can do almost as well on these meager payments as they can with jobs paying minimal amounts. The government is paying almost as much for the “workers” time as some jobs that require them to get out and do something.

In trying to help people in need and cement their power, the political class has managed to severely damage our economy, businesses and individual lives by their interference. In their short sighted dedication to the unworkable Keynesian economic theory that says pretty much all dilemmas such as we are facing can be solved by increased state spending. They are, unfortunately, wrong.

In the past, the American people have been able to resolve so many issues when given free rein to find solutions. That is the only possible way out as the people who have just about destroyed our economy and country are the last ones we can rely on to correct their foolish failure. Sure we are facing tough times, any many businesses cannot afford increased expenses, yet each one of these businesses wants to be paid a fair price for whatever product or service they provide. Perhaps it would be good to consider that employees want the same thing. Each day they are selling hours of their lives, away from friends, family and other things they would like to be doing.

By paying them almost nothing, they are being told they are worth almost nothing and they are only worthy of being wards of the state… expensive, to the rest of us, wards of the state. It will take a while to change the mindset of everyone involved, but we have to start somewhere, because the present system is not working! Think about it and next time you stay at a nice hotel, seek out the manager and ask him, or her, if they believe it is right for the taxpayers to pick up half the tab for their staff. Don’t accept their song and dance, but remind them that they are purchasing a portion of these people’s lives at a discount.

“Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions–everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses.”

I submit that a good many in America are, like Rome of old, carelessly frittering away their God-given liberties, foolishly clamoring for nothing more than government handouts and never-ending entertainment. Millions and millions of Americans (especially males) are literally intoxicated with sports. Sports are no longer a great American pastime; they are now a great American obsession.

Mind you, this writer has been a sports fan all of his life. I began playing organized basketball in the fifth grade; I was on the high school wrestling team; I played football in high school and college; and I ran track. Still today, I enjoy watching a good NFL game (yes, I’m still a Green Bay Packers fan), a good college game when the Gators are playing, a good NCAA men’s basketball game (especially during the tournament–even more so when the Hoosiers are in it), and any NBA championship series between the Celtics and Lakers (I root for Boston). And I even like to watch a round of professional golf once in a while (it helps me go to sleep when I’m trying to take a nap). But none of the above will interfere with anything that is important, and I am not going to plan my whole universe around any of it. If it is convenient, I will watch. If it’s not, I will read about it in the sports section of the newspaper. And I’m certainly not going to spend my hard-earned money following any sports team (even those I like) all over the country like some rock band groupie.

I am not talking about sports in general; I am talking about the way many American men have allowed sports to control and dominate their lives. With many, sports are not just a hobby; they are a religion. I cannot count the number of conversations between men that I overhear in restaurants, airplanes, boardrooms, and, yes, even church houses, in which every man in the circle is literally consumed with all sorts of sports facts, information, and opinions. In many such discussions, these men will talk about nothing else. To these men, there is absolutely nothing in the world more important than the latest sports score, announcement, or trade. NOTHING!

And there is also a very real psychological pitfall associated with a man’s intoxication with sports. I submit that an obsession with sports gives men a false sense of masculinity and actually serves to steal true manhood from them.

For example, it used to be when men stripped their shirts off and painted their faces, they were heading to the battlefield to kill the tyrant’s troops. Now they are headed off to the sports coliseum to watch a football game. A man’s ego and machismo was once used to protect his family and freedom; now it’s used to tout batting averages and box scores. The fact is, if we could get the average American male to get as exercised and energized about defending the historic principles upon which liberty and Western Civilization are built as he is in defending his favorite quarterback or NASCAR driver, our country would not be in the shape it is in today.

The sad reality is that much of today’s masculinity is experienced only vicariously through a variety of sports teams and personalities. Instead of personally flexing our muscles for God and country, freedom and liberty, or home and hearth, we punch the air and beat our chests over touchdowns and home runs (even though we had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with them ourselves). Instead of getting in the face of these would-be tyrants in Washington, D.C., who are doing everything they can to steal the American dream, we get in the face of the poor umpire who makes a bad call or the Little League coach who doesn’t play my son enough. Our happiness, well-being, and mood are not determined by anything personally achieved (or lost), but by what others accomplished (or didn’t accomplish) at the ball park. Whether our children inherit a land of liberty and freedom does not seem nearly as important as whether they make the starting lineup on the football team.

Add to an epidemic obsession with sports the demand for more and more handouts from Big Brother and the outlook for liberty is not good. Everywhere we turn, we seem to hear people clamoring for government to give them more and more. They expect government to supply their every need and meet their every demand. They then have the gall to turn around and say, “God bless America: land of the free”?

Ladies and gentlemen, one cannot have it both ways. If we expect government to be our supplier, we cannot expect that it will not become our master. Always remember this: government has nothing to give except that it first takes it from someone else. Every dollar and every job that government gives is first taken from someone else. Furthermore, every job given to government is another freedom—and another dollar–taken from the citizenry. Every government job brings with it a restriction, a prohibition, a regulation, an inspection, a fee, a tax, an assessment, etc. As government grows, freedom shrinks. As government spends, wealth shrinks. And as government hires, opportunity shrinks.

Most historians agree with Juvenal that the mighty Roman Empire collapsed from within due to a morally reckless, selfish, pleasure-crazed, sports-obsessed, bread and circus society that willingly surrendered the principles of self-government to an insatiable central government that, through perpetual wars and incessant handouts, destroyed a once-great republic.

By all appearances, the bread and circus society has reared its ugly head in America. And make no mistake about it: if the people of the United States do not quickly repent of this madness, the consequences will be just as destructive for our once-great republic as it was for Rome.

For more by Chuck Baldwin, go to http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/

Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli responded to a request from fellow patriot, Delegate Bob Marshall about the legality of regulating abortion clinics. Del. Marshall publicized this historic opion in the following press release.

VIRGINIA CAN REGULATE ABORTION CLINICS TO PROTECT WOMEN

Virginia’s Attorney General, Ken Cuccinelli issued an opinion that “the Commonwealth has the authority to promulgate regulations for facilities in which first trimester abortions are performed, as well as for providers of first trimester abortions, so long as the regulations adhere to constitutional limitations.”

“This is a victory for women and children across Virginia,” said Delegate Bob Marshall. It is my hope that the Governor will issue health regulations as soon as possible.”

Delegate Marshall had asked for the Attorney General’s opinion earlier this year. Virginia’s Department of Health had regulated abortion clinics until Chuck Robb became Governor and ended the practice.

“We should do everything possible to ensure that every woman’s life and health and their future pregnancies are protected by the Commonwealth of Virginia. To do otherwise is to shirk from government’s first responsibility,” Delegate Marshall explained.

Delegate Marshall added, “The National Library of Medicine has hundreds and hundreds of peer review medical articles documenting the immediate dangers of first trimester legal abortion to women and subsequent pregnancies.”

Marshall concluded, “I have asked that Governor McDonnell issue regulations identical to those approved by the Fourth Federal Circuit Court in Richmond upholding South Carolina’s medical and safety regulations for first trimester abortion providers as referenced by the Attorney General in his opinion.”

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This shows the importance of having the right people in office. We need to pay attention who we, the people – not the party insiders, nominate, then make sure they get elected. But even then, we need to make sure they, not only talk the talk, but that they walk the walk. Fortunately here in Virgina, we have a winner… a man who promises a lot, then delivers! Listen to his acceptance speech, use it as a comparison to the candidates we normally find on the ballot. America deserves better than what we have been getting. As Neil Cavuto says, “Demand it!”

You see, the GOP (including their lackeys at Fox News) either really don’t know what a constitutional conservative looks like, or they do know what he or she looks like and don’t want them leading the party. I believe the answer is the latter, but in either case, the GOP continually does nothing to groom constitutionalist conservatives for leadership. Just the opposite: such people are routinely ignored, shunned, besmirched, or impugned. (Can anyone say, “Ron Paul”?) Is it any wonder that by the time the general election comes around, the GOP candidate for President is usually nothing more than a Democrat-lite, or a “Democrat in Drag” to borrow from Steve Farrell.

That brings me to one of the people that the talking heads at Fox News and other GOP propaganda centers are routinely discussing as their 2012 Presidential hopeful: former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.

According to Reuters News, “Republican former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Sunday [July 25th] he will decide after November’s congressional elections whether he will make a run for the White House in 2012.”

Here’s what Gingrich is looking at: he wants to see if the GOP makes significant gains in both houses of Congress in the November elections. If the GOP wins one house (especially if enough real conservatives win), I predict Gingrich will enter the race. So he can ride a conservative wave into the White House in 2012? No! So he can derail any potential conservative momentum that the Tea Parties might be able to create in this year’s November elections. You see, Newt Gingrich is the Grinch Who Stole Conservatism from the GOP.

Some of us are old enough to remember Newt Gingrich’s “Contract with America” that produced huge Republican victories in both houses of Congress back in 1994. However, what did that “Conservative Revolution” (as it was called then) actually produce? The answer: NOTHING! Newt’s promise of smaller government was immediately forgotten. Instead, Gingrich, along with Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, facilitated and helped orchestrate further expansion of the federal government. The “less government” theme that swept house freshmen such as Joe Scarborough, Steve Largent, Sonny Bono, Bob Barr, Helen Chenoweth, John Shadegg, and J.C. Watts into Congress quickly evaporated and this new neocon Republican Party was born.

Mark it down, if Newt Gingrich is the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee in 2012, he will do to whatever grassroots conservative momentum is brought about by this year’s congressional victories what he did to the “Conservative Revolution” in 1994: DESTROY IT!

Newt’s track record is there for anyone to see. So, why does Fox News continue to promote him as a leader of smaller government or constitutionalism? Does Fox News even have a clue as to what limited government really means? Apparently not.

Remember, Newt Gingrich is a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which is a notorious proponent of globalism and archenemy of national independence, State sovereignty, and limited government. Does anyone at Fox News recall what Admiral Chester Ward said about the CFR? (Plus, how many of the Big Shots at Fox News are themselves members of the CFR?)

Rear Admiral Chester Ward, who was the Judge Advocate General of the Navy from 1956 to 1960 and a former member of the CFR who pulled out after realizing what they were all about, warned the American people about the dangers of this and similar organizations (such as the Trilateral Commission). He said, “The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have one objective in common–they want to bring about the surrender of the sovereignty and the national independence of the United States. A second clique of international members in the CFR . . . comprises the Wall Street international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global government.”

Admiral Ward also said, “The main purpose of the Council on Foreign Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government.”

Accordingly, as a loyal CFR elitist, Gingrich has supported Big Government programs and policies all of his political life. Gingrich is also an ardent disciple of Alvin Toffler, who is the guru of “The Third Wave” politics. That’s why Gingrich refers to himself as a “conservative futurist.”

Webster’s (1992) Dictionary defines “Futurism” as: “Study of, and interest in, forecasting or anticipating the future, or theorizing on how to IMPOSE CONTROLS ON EVENTS.” (Emphasis added.)

Steve Farrell rightly notes that “futurism is a head-in-the-clouds political philosophy, complete with theories and forecasts, which envisions the use of force to insure that those theories and forecasts come to pass.” Farrell summarizes “conservative futurism” as “communism with economic vision.”

This is why Gingrich went along with Clinton’s Big Government agenda, and supported the unconstitutional faith-based subsidies, public-private “partnerships,” etc. Gingrich’s brand of “conservatism” spawned another Big Government neocon’s (Karl Rove–another favorite son at Fox News) “Compassionate Conservative” movement of the G.W. Bush White House, which at the time led to the biggest expansion of the federal government since Lyndon Johnson.

Gingrich’s infatuation with “conservative futurism” also helps explain his support for NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and virtually every other policy promoting globalism and interdependence. It also helps explain why Gingrich and former Vice President Al Gore have worked so closely together in globalist organizations such as the now-defunct Congressional Clearing House on the Future (once chaired by Gore).

See Steve Farrell’s column at:

http://tinyurl.com/gingrich-toffler-gore

Gingrich was also a major proponent of the federal Department of Education, continually supports unconstitutional foreign aid, even to the Soviets and other unfriendly governments, through the Export-Import Bank. In one year (1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid. He also helped push through federal loan guarantees to Communist China.

Gingrich was the Grand Old Pal of President Bill Clinton. He supported Clinton’s unconstitutional wars (as he did Bush’s); he supported Clinton’s welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs. Gingrich supported spending $30 billion for the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves to the states. (I guess the NRA forgot all about that, too.)

Gingrich voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations “peacekeeping” operations; he supported the National Endowment for the Arts; he supports giving illegal aliens amnesty; and he has continually supported increased federal spending and higher taxes.

Campaign for Liberty has an excellent exposé on Newt Gingrich that I encourage everyone to read. See it at:

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=36799

Also, John McManus has an outstanding video exposing Newt Gingrich as a traitor to conservatism and constitutional government that everyone should watch. See it at:

http://vimeo.com/6445068

In spite of overwhelming evidence that Newt Gingrich is a scheming, double-talking, duplicitous Big-Government globalist of the highest order, many conservatives continue to listen to pro-Gingrich propaganda coming from Fox News and other “conservative” outlets.

If true conservatism has any chance of reemerging within the sheepfold of what is known as the national Republican Party, that fox, Newt Gingrich, must not be allowed to be anywhere near it. Unfortunately, thanks to Fox News (pun too easy to pass up), Gingrich is prowling around the barnyard and doubtless licking his chops at the prospect of having another opportunity to feast on the flesh of unsuspecting conservative sheep that foolishly believe him to be one of them.

For more by Chuck Baldwin, go to http://chuckbaldwinlive.com.

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Once more Ray Stevens shows he is one entertainer who understands what is going on in the country and wants to speak up about it.  Not only that, but he makes great videos.

Enjoy!

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Toward the bottom page 2, under the heading Options, the paper states, “The following options – used alone or in combination – have the potential to result in meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action.” Reading further reveals multiple layers of strategy to impose the will of the elite on the unwilling and unaccepting citizens of the land.

Each of these options requires, we are told, “development of specific written guidance and/or regulatory language, implementation protocols…” One can only recall the old adage, “more regulation, less freedom”. Yet this is only the beginning.

The paper outlines various paths to turn the unenforced laws written to protect the legal Americans into guidelines that make the agency charged with this task into an agency charged with looking after a new and expanded class of protected individuals. They want to do this subtlety, not by changing existing laws and regulations, but by tweaking details within them.

They want to raise some standards here, lower some standards there and revising definitions, basically gutting the protections built into our immigration system… making those who have spent the time and money to complete the process according to our laws look like major league chumps. It could be rightly argued that the process is too involved and convoluted to be practical, but that is the a discussion for another day.

Reading blogs, news stories and listening to the chattering class does not compare to reading the source document. Read through it. See what the inmates who have taken over the asylum want to do to our country. We must shine the light of truth on the nefarious plans they want to implement in the dark of night. We need to make this light of truth continuous and bright so we can watch the roaches scatter into their hiding places.

The only chance we have is to create public outcry loud enough to be heard round the world. Harassing our elected representatives will have limited impact as they probably won’t get to vote on this scheme, but the more we can put the fear of the voters in the members of the Presidents own party, we may be able put a crimp in their plans. Beyond this, all we have left is to seek injunctions to keep them from making the illegal legal against the will of the people.

All the while we need to seek guidance from the creator who gave us this great country on how to keep it… and not insult Him by giving it away without a fight.

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Talking heads will be ranting about this one for weeks as a Clinton appointed judge followed the Democratic put a hold on some key provisions of the bill, such as the portion that recognized the illegality of an illegal alien applying for a job he is not legally entitled to hold. If employers are supposed to be checking on the eligibility of a job applicant, where is the logic of permitting those who do not qualify to apply in the first place?

Sure employers should be held accountable, but should not the other half of the combination be called into account as well? Considering the fact that these are unregistered Democratic voters, the picture becomes a little more clear. In spite of the wishes of the good people of Arizona and the support of most of the rest of the country, an activist judge ignored the law and backed the Obama regime in holding the door open to those who ignore our laws and national well being, yet hold the key to more progressive control.

Since we are ruled by the concept of “judicial review”, it would be good to review the judge’s ruling, and compare it to the law. See if it makes any sense to you.

Court Upholds Expulsion of Counseling Student Who Opposes Homosexuality

Another court moved us further down the path to not only ignoring the Christian heritage that our founders felt was critical to the prosperity of our new country, but making belief in such Biblical principles reason for discrimination. Eastern Michigan University expelled Julea Ward for the crime of being a Christian and actually believing the Bible when it says homosexuality is an abomination. One has to wonder if the university would be so quick to condemn a Muslim student holding the same belief.

The US Disrict Court Judge George Caram Steeh noted, “In the case of Ms. Ward, the university determined that she would never change her behavior and would consistently refuse to counsel clients on matters with which she was personally opposed due to her religious beliefs – including homosexual relationships.” The conclusion being that Christian values are harmful to our society in general, and to a protected class of Democratic supporters in particular.

It wasn’t always this way. Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence, noted “Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure… are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments.” Thomas Jefferson, who many wish to belittle by calling only a deist, said, “No nation has ever existed or been governed without religion. Nor can be. The Christian religion is the best religion that has been given to man and I, as Chief Magistrate of this nation, am bound to give it the sanction of my example.”

As we have moved further away from the values of the Bible… judge for yourselves if we have less crime, violence and poverty along with a smoother running society.

SEC Says New Financial Regulation Law Exempts it From Public Disclosure

Along with expanded authority to stick its bureaucratic nose into the workings of American businesses, The Securities and Exchange Commission is now claiming immunity from public view of its activities. They are saying FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests do not have to be honored.

In the investment field where information is the currency that keeps the market flowing, such a policy could be deadly for both corporations and investors. If an investigation uncovers wrong doing, where no action is taken, the public is ill served by this withholding of vital information. Likewise, if a company is found to be clean, this too should be public information.

So now we have a group of potentially politically driven bureaucrats sitting behind closed doors poking through confidential data, making decisions and taking actions with no exposure and no accountability. This is not the American way!

DOJ Accused of Stalling on MOVE Act for Voters in Military

The article begins “The Department of Justice is ignoring a new law aimed at protecting the right of American soldiers to vote, according to two former DOJ attorneys who say states are being encouraged to use waivers to bypass the new federal Military and Overseas Voter Empowerment (MOVE) Act.”

In the most dishonorable action of the day, our Department of Justice is spending more time working on ways around the bill that would help ensure our men and women in uniform would get absentee ballots in time and that they would be counted. These are people who have signed up to protect our country at the cost of their lives, if necessary, and they don’t even get the respect of the powerful people they are protecting.

Because relatively small numbers of our military would find themselves voting for the current administration, this is as blatant an injustice as the desire to import illegal immigrants to bolster Democratic vote totals. While the majority of Americans still believes in the rule of law, it is obvious many in Washington do not.

Where Do We Go From Here?

Yesterday certainly was a depressing news day for those who love their country and the freedom our constitution stands for. However, I believe there is still the spark of the American spirit that brought our country through the Great Depression, the early days of World War II when everything seemed to be going against us and the poisonous sixties when the Vietnam War gave the radicals, intent on destroying our nation, a focal point where they could spread their hateful propaganda. These same radicals have moved from outside and annoying agitators to putting their devious schemes into practice with predictably disastrous results.

I don’t have to tell most readers that we cannot give our children and grandchildren a land ruled by these megalomaniacs. The followers of Martin Luther King understood that they had to make sacrifices to achieve their goal of freedom and equality. Where the law said a black man could not go… they went. Many went to jail. Many were beaten. Some were killed. They wanted freedom and equality so badly, they paid the price. This man who began with many calling him a trouble maker… and worse is now honored as a national treasure not only by black Americans, but by all who understand that he helped them face injustice in our county and help dig it out. How badly do we want our children to grow up and raise their children in a free country?

There are two more things we need to do. First, we need to recognize who our enemy is. As much as we may be repulsed by the whole set of pretenders occupying positions of power in Washington, they are not the real enemy. We must work for their failure and defeat. But Ephesians 6:12 reminds us “For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.” As we put action to our fight to retain the unalienable rights given to us by our loving creator, we cannot forget to lay the groundwork for victory.

Prayer is the only way to win the spiritual battle before us. I’m sure by now most readers can quote II Chronicles 7:14, but it is always good to remember, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

As Abraham found when he was pleading for the safety of Sodom and Gomorrah, the entire perverse population would have been spared if just ten righteous men could be found in the cities. They were not there and the cities were destroyed, but they are here. May they be found preparing for this spiritual battle on their knees. The Pentecostals have a term for it. They call it being “prayed up”.

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Can anyone deny that the states on the US southern border (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) are being invaded by an ongoing onslaught of illegal aliens (many of whom are violent and dangerous criminals)? Somewhere between 12 and 30 million illegals now reside in the US. The entire country is feeling the effects of this invasion, but the Border States are literally under siege. And not only does the federal government do nothing to protect the states against this invasion, it actively wars against states such as Arizona when they attempt to protect themselves. Yes, I am saying it: the Washington, D.C., lawsuit against the State of Arizona’s immigration laws should be regarded as an act of war against the State of Arizona in particular, and against the states general in principle.

Please consider what Arizona and the other Border States are dealing with. According to published reports:

*In Los Angeles, 95% of all outstanding warrants for homicide in the first half of 2004 (which totaled 1,200 to 1,500) targeted illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) were for illegal aliens.

*Some private reports state that 83% of warrants for murder in Phoenix and 86% of warrants for murder in Albuquerque, New Mexico, are for illegal aliens. These reports cannot be verified, of course, because the feds discourage law enforcement agencies from releasing such statistics.

*At any given time, up to 75% of those on the most wanted list in Los Angeles, Phoenix, and Albuquerque are illegal aliens.

*23% of all inmates in LA County detention centers are “deportable.”

*LA police estimate that violent gangs, such as MS-13 and 18th Street Gang, are “overwhelmingly” composed of illegal aliens.

To read one very enlightening testimony given before Congress by an expert on illegal immigration containing some of the above information (and much more), go here: http://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/mac_donald04-13-05.htm

In addition, the Pew Hispanic Center (an organization friendly to all things Hispanic) reports that by 2007, “nearly one-quarter (24%) of all federal convictions” involve illegal aliens. And “among those sentenced for immigration offenses in 2007, 80% were Hispanic.” The PHC went on to report that illegal Hispanics “represented 29% of all federal offenders.”

See the report at: http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=104

Remember, too, that illegal aliens murder (on average) 12 American citizens EVERY DAY in the United States. That means illegals murder more Americans EVERY YEAR than in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan COMBINED, TO DATE. Plus, illegal aliens who drive drunk kill an additional 13 Americans EVERY DAY.

See the following report: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53103

At this point, I will not again chronicle the financial costs and job losses exacted upon the American taxpayers by these invading illegals, but I encourage you to read a previous column I wrote on this subject. See it here: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=1490

Plus, my web site contains an exhaustive page dealing with the problems and costs of the ongoing invasion by illegal aliens against this country. See it at: http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?page_id=123

Add to the above the blatant rhetoric and public statements of activists within radical Hispanic revolutionary groups such as La Raza that incessantly call for the “reconquista” of the southwestern United States, and one can easily discern that the invasion by (mostly) Mexicans in the US is much more than “poor people trying to find a better life.” There is some of that going on, of course, but the invasion also includes violent criminal gang members, drug dealers, human traffickers, rogue government troops, and covert provocateurs who are attempting to destabilize US cities and states, promote crime and violence, disrupt honest elections, and even facilitate revolution against the American citizenry.

And what does the Barack Obama administration do? Instead of obeying the Constitution and helping to protect the State of Arizona (and the other Border States), it sues the State of Arizona for trying to protect itself. Again, by this action, has not Washington, D.C., declared war against the State of Arizona (and, by implication, the other 49 independent, sovereign states)?

Please understand: Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and her allies in the Arizona legislature are not only defending their State, they are working to protect every State in the Union. Very obviously, the line is being drawn in the sand against a federal leviathan that increasingly shows blatant disregard for not only its own responsibilities and duties, but for the rights and freedoms of the individual sovereign states, and for the American citizenry as a whole.

And for those misguided Christians and pastors out there who are prone to defend and facilitate this invasion of illegal aliens in the name of Christian compassion, I would like to remind them of the words of our Lord, who said, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.” (John 10:1 KJV) Thus, our Savior plainly categorizes illegal aliens (or anyone who refuses to enter through a door–or across a border–honestly) as thieves and robbers. Unfortunately, many are also rapists, murderers, violent drug dealers, and slave merchants.

If Barack Obama had even a smidgen of honesty and integrity, instead of attacking the people of the State of Arizona for simply trying to defend themselves against a very real and dangerous foreign invasion, he would take seriously his responsibility to help protect them against this invasion, which Article IV. Section. 4. of the US Constitution clearly requires him to do.

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