The death of Anwar al-Awlaki has caused quite a stir in this country. He became an al Qaeda leader, helping plan attacks on Americans and encouraging those who carried them out. He became a key figure in an organization dedicated to destroying, not only our government, but our whole way of life.
Some, primarily libertarians, are scandalized that there was an operation carried out purposely targeting an American citizen. They said that because of this citizenship, al Awlaki should have been afforded the due process of our criminal justice system.
If the Muslim cleric had been shot by someone stepping out of the shadows as he entered his New York City apartment, or if he were gunned down as he enjoyed a night at the theater in our nation’s capitol, then it would really be a problem with our government just exterminating someone they determine to be an enemy of the state. It’s not that this sort of thing, assisted “suicides” and the like, have never taken place – justified or not. This case, on the other hand, is just very visibly public.
This weekend a special event is taking place all across the nation. The film Courageous opens in theaters with a message for men that is sadly needed for our time. Courageous is a movie that shows men working to live up to their roll in life and in their family. It shows four sheriffs deputies dealing with life on the streets to protect the public and their families… sometimes at a price to these same families. They find a solution.
[Editors note: so many people want to get their face time as the public turns its attention to the tenth anniversary of the September 11th tragedy. Congressman Forbes is not one of them. He is the real deal, one of he good guys in congress who voted against every single bailout and stood up for America at every opportunity.]
It is ten years later. Most of us remember where we were. We remember who we were with. We remember the phone calls we made, desperate to hear the sounds of our loved ones’ voices, to know they were OK. We remember the images of the twin towers crashing to the ground, the thick, gray ash that covered the New York City streets, the papers that littered the sidewalks, and the panic that followed. We remember the eery, weighty silence that swept the country in the days that followed. The images are burned into our minds.
Over the course of ten years since September 11, 2001, our nation has collectively gone through stages of grief: shock and denial that such a horrific act could have occurred. Anger at those who sought to take the lives of thousands of innocent people. Deep sadness over the senseless loss of lives and reflection as we try desperately to understand. Read more of this article »
Looking at the ways the cities of New York and Washington DC are planning to remember the tragic events of ten years ago, we see a picture of the society our secular progressives have been pushing for years. In New York, there is room for the politicians craving a photo op, but none for the heroes of that awful day, the families with empty chairs at the dinner table, or even the pastors, priests and rabbis that give spiritual comfort to a hurting city.
In Washington, at the National Cathedral even, there will be representatives of all sorts of fringe belief systems, but none from the largest groups of Christians in the land. It seems that religion is welcome in this venue only if it will be subservient to the secular wishes of the state. What can we expect from these gatherings? Nothing our founders would tolerate! Yet, like sheep, we follow blindly as we tolerate all the lies and misinformation that comes from the people in charge of our country.
Should we try to change these events? What would be the point? Islamic crazies have contended that they will make as much noise as possible during the moment of silence in New York. I have to wonder what the purpose of the moment of silence is at such a gathering. Certainly it is not to seek comfort from a Creator they fail to acknowledge.
Not that the national media notices much, but the federal government under President Barack Obama has been supplying guns to Mexican drug gangs for quite a spell. With only a few print media bothering to cover the story, Obama’s Justice Department has been discovered secretly supplying firearms to Mexican drug lords using taxpayer “stimulus” monies. If that wasn’t bad enough, guns supplied to these Mexican miscreants by federal agents were used to kill at least one US Border Patrol agent. After the death of the BP agent, California Congressman Darrell Issa launched an investigation into the matter and uncovered what most anyone would correctly describe as a vast government conspiracy to supply firearms to Mexican drug cartels. As a result of Issa’s congressional investigations, numerous heads at the ATF have lost their jobs–or more correctly–have been “reassigned.”
Two days ago, the Washington Post reported, “The ATF head has been reassigned amid an investigation into a controversial U.S. gun-trafficking operation, part of a broader shake-up at the Justice Department in which the U.S. attorney in Phoenix also stepped down, officials said Tuesday.
“Kenneth E. Melson, acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, will become a senior adviser on forensic science in the department’s Office of Legal Policy. He will be replaced as acting director at ATF by B. Todd Jones, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, the department said in a statement.”
So many of the words and warnings delivered by America’s Founding Fathers are appropriate for today. Consider this sage counsel from America’s first and greatest President, George Washington: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” I was reminded of these words when I read the following report out of the State of Indiana.
Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday [May 12, 2011] that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.
In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer’s entry.
Justice Robert Rucker and Justice Brent Dickson dissented from the ruling, saying the court’s decision violates the Fourth Amendment of the US Constitution. Read more of this article »
The wise doctor lets you solve your own problems once you lay on their couch for counsel.
There is a lesson in that for many of us that may think ourselves wise enough to offer answers for solving some of the major problems of other people. The lesson is that regardless of the wisdom that we may have, there is a certain line that we should not cross, and where we learn to “mind our own business”.
Often times when people solve their own problems they are their own best psychologist. This is a point of personal and national relevance.
Nationally, on February 4th I began this message on “Minding your own business”. It was a timely message as we saw that on February 11th, 2011, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak resigned and fled Cairo. This change came without the military intervention of any other nation. Mubarak’s, alleged corruption had inflamed the citizens of his nation causing them to rise up and riot. Read more of this article »
My first experience with George Allen came a few years after I escaped from Sopranoland and arrived in the Old Dominion. He was a one term congressman who had just been redistricted out of his seat by the partisan Democrat machine that ruled the commonwealth with an iron fist in those dark, dreary days. He was a young and hungry politician eager to press the flesh and meet the people.
He was running for governor in the early days of 1993 eagerly seeking people to join his “A-Team” as he ran on a “Jeffersonian conservative” platform that included keeping bad actors off the streets longer through the abolition of parole and a generally more efficient government in Richmond. My teenage daughter spent time working at his campaign headquarters and was thrilled when he came around and chatted with those volunteering their time on his behalf.
Much to the chagrin of the entrenched Democrat establishment, Allen won and took up residency in the Governor’s Mansion. He kept his promise to restore truth in sentencing and end the practice of paroling violent criminals long before their time was served. He even went further and made the Department of Motor Vehicles a functioning part of Virginia government. Many other accomplishments marked his time in office, which was ended by term limits, and the citizens were indeed better off for George Allen having served. Read more of this article »
Saturday was a sad day in Tucson when a deranged young man peppered a US congresswoman and the crowd around her with shots from a 9mm Glock. The target, Gabrielle Giffords did not die, but others around her did, simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The shooter, Jared Loughner had a history of run ins with local law enforcement and is reported to have spent his time reading the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.
In spite of this history, members of the progressive left in this country were quick to blame those they fear the most – Sarah Palin and talk radio. Never mind that this troubled young man represented much that the Tea Party stands against. The accusations do, however, match the prejudices of the ruling class, who see those who stand for freedom and against the growth of governmental power as a danger to their nefarious schemes.
In a shameless display of partisan opportunism, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik complained, “I think the vitriolic rhetoric that we hear day in and day out from people in the radio business and some people in the TV business and what we see on TV and how our youngsters are being raised, that this has not become the nice United States of America that most of us grew up in. And I think it’s time that we do the soul-searching,” This, in spite of the “Ethical Decisions” emblazoned across the top of the Sheriff’s official web site beginning with, “Am I acting out of anger, lust, greed or peer pressure” Read more of this article »
I often wonder how foolish the folks in DC think we poor schlubs are. Every time we, the people, fuss about higher taxes and government spending, we are told that if we don’t roll over and let them take more of our hard earned dollars, we will have to accept police, firemen and teacher layoffs as the price for governmental economy. It’s the same song over and over again.
Have you ever wondered why they want to drop such items from the budget first? Do they really think we would believe that is the most logical place to save money on state or federal budgets? Perhaps not, but the ruling class knows that we won’t get upset if their favorite boondoggle projects disappeared from public view. However, they know we don’t want to witness and increase in crime or see our homes burn down because of budgetary shortfalls. They know that even our union controlled, overfunded and underperforming schools would not be the first place economize, yet this is the story we hear.
This is because we all use these services and cutbacks would directly impact our lives. Recall the last time Republicans dug in their heels and refused to go along with the bloated budget during the Clinton administration. Some of the first things to be shut down were popular attractions like the Washington Monument and National Parks. They made their point by taking away the things that gave the most comfort and enjoyment to the American people. In Virginia, Governor Kaine (of DNC fame) closed down rest stops along the highways when he didn’t get the budget he wanted. Read more of this article »
A few days before the election received an email blast from the Republican Party of Virginia with the heading Countdown To Victory: It Depends On You!. It’s just a few days to Election Day and the people running the party are calling on the rank and file party sympathizers, the grassroots activists, many of whom are tea partiers, to do the work to keep these leaders and their selected candidates in charge and expand there power base.
If only they would exhibit such concern for the little people when it came time for candidate selection or policy formulation, many more would be out knocking on doors, waving signs, working the polls, talking to their neighbors and a whole host of other activities necessary in winning elections.
It’s sad, but so often we see people entrenched in their positions, more intent on preserving their rank than serving the people who put them there. This should not be interpreted as a rant specifically about RPV, but a general condition in many states and nationally. People in leadership and consulting positions want us to defer to their supposedly superior knowledge and wisdom in picking candidates they deem to be electable, then fall into line and lift these people to be victorious benefactors of the citizens, who are often profoundly disrespected… can anyone say Delaware? Read more of this article »
With the upcoming election, there are several ideas on the best strategy to save our country from a runaway, out of control president and the socialist mob doing his bidding. Many of them have the virtue of logic on their side, but I believe one is the best for our situation today.
Obviously, the Democrats are in power and are inflicting the greatest harm in the shortest possible time our country has ever seen. This has to be stopped! Anger at Republicans who have failed to follow through on their smaller, less intrusive government rhetoric is completely understandable as well. The desire to reject them both and go down the third party route has a great deal of appeal. In some areas, the Libertarians have been able to exert limited influence and the Constitution Party stands for a pretty impressive set of values, yet they have not been able to market them successfully. In some cases, even Independents have been successful, but not frequently.
So what is the best way to deal with this current threat to our republic? We must begin by understanding that this battle will not be won in the single skirmish on election day. We need to dig in for a prolonged conflict and accept the fact that it will take several election cycles to root most of the scoundrels out of congress. Some are so deeply entrenched in districts with voters incapable of discerning the extent of corruption in their district that they will be in place until they retire or expire.
This means that the first thing we have to do is shut down the Democrats power to inflict damage. It may mean holding our noses and voting for a RINO with whom we only share a common need for air and water. While it may be emotionally satisfying to leave such a so-called Republican hang out to dry as you stay home, it could well be that this vengeful action would put one more Pelosi puppet in place. Because they are united and disciplined, no matter what they tell us, stopping this unholy alliance must be our first priority. Read more of this article »
When I lived in north Jersey, long before the good citizens had the common sense to elect someone like Chris Cristie, we used to joke about the folks in Bergen County voting early and often. This was even before ACORN raised voter fraud to an art form, a mass produced art form. However, much of the technique involved resurrecting the dead, divining how they would have voted and then go into the voting booth and do it for them… or maybe they skipped most of the process and took the personal information that came with the “walkin’ around money” and followed their orders to vote for everyone with a “D” beside their name.
This sort of thing has been an open secret for years in many urban areas. Unfortunately, the ones charged with maintaining the integrity of the voting system are the very same ones who benefit from the from the dishonest practice. Far be it from me to accuse the party that controls the major densely populated centers as being corrupt. I’ll leave that for the readers to decide.
Many have decided that if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck. Some people are trying to do something about this. In much the same was as Ryan Buell leads several Penn State students in tracking down disembodied spirits on A&E’s Paranormal State, the folks at the Tea Party Paranormal are attempting to help these disembodied voters remain in whatever eternal destination their lives have led them to. Read more of this article »
I should not be, but I am continually amazed at the audacity of Palestinian leaders as they attempt to manipulate world opinion into giving them a state of their own and pay it’s bills as they pretend to be worthy of such influence. After expecting Israel to enter negotiations with no preconditions, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had the gall to say that there will be no peace unless the Israelis stop building settlements on the land the Palestinian Authority (PA) has it’s eyes on.
This man cannot even get his own allies, in the form of Hamas, who controls Gaza just to the south of Israel, to come to an agreement to recognize Israel. He even has tenuous control over his own Fatah party. His leadership has not produced any kind of prosperity for his people, although he has not too badly for himself. All he can do is rattle such swords as he has and issue threats and complaints to get so-called world leaders to give him control over something that was created through the industrious nature of the Jewish people.
In addressing the UN, Abbas said, “Our demands for the cessation of settlement activities, the lifting of the siege (of Gaza) and an end to all other illegal Israel policies and practices do not constitute arbitrary preconditions in the peace process.” In his quest to take over the land of the Israelis, he complained of their “mentality of expansion and domination”. He concluded by saying that he would be forced to walk away from the peace process if Israel did not comply with his demands that construction be halted completely. Read more of this article »
One of the tragedies of the current misled, uninformed, and otherwise preoccupied American citizenry is the seeming apathy regarding the importance and necessity of electing constitutionalist sheriffs. In many ways, State governors and county sheriffs just might be the most important elected offices in America. It is no hyperbole to say that State governors and county sheriffs form the last line of defense against tyranny and oppression. If our governors and sheriffs do not understand the principles of freedom and federalism, there is virtually zero protection against the abuses of liberty–save the right of the people to personally and individually defend liberty via the principles of God-given Natural Law.
Hence, a freedom-minded sheriff is invaluable to liberty’s defense. And perhaps at no time in America’s history has it been more necessary that we elect freedom-loving sheriffs than it is today, what with the ever-growing propensity of the federal government to trample and usurp State and constitutional protections of freedom.
For example, in an almost totally non-reported incident, an armed conflict between federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) agents and a Nevada Sheriff’s SWAT team was averted only by virtue of the fact that, at the last minute, BLM backed down from the impending confrontation. Read more of this article »
We’ve seen Barack Hussein Obama’s poll numbers fall until only the slack jawed segment of the population or those locked in the unreal world of academia can even stomach looking at the man. We know conservatives and libertarians have plenty to dispute about his policy decisions. Even the middle of the road independents have had their fill, but now, believe it or not, even the thinking lefties have grown weary of him. They believe he has been disingenuous with the American people. I’ll use a smaller word… he LIED to us. When even Jon Stewart starts taking about this progressive darling, we know the honeymoon is over.
Watch it quickly… it’s not up on YouTube and may not be up here long.
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.
Rumors have abounded for months that our illustrious President, caring more for the welfare of the undocumented Democratic voters than the American people, was looking to bypass congress one more time and create an amnesty plan by executive order and regulation. The formerly mainstream media and the administration itself has continuously told us this is not the case. However, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has uncovered a draft copy of a memo created by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security.
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. Read more of this article »
The recent layoff of 80 Oakland, California police officers is representative of the way many governments at all levels are responding to the financial pinch all are feeling. While many Golden State public service unions appear to believe that gold is what the taxpayers are made of, this may not be the wisest choice… but certainly it is the most predictable.
The process of eliminating public protection in the city with the fourth highest crime rate the country shows the city fathers (and mothers) are following the old political practice of funding the lowest priorities first. Then, when the money is gone and the public still had needs, it is much easier to come back and ask for more money. For some reason, up to this point, people believed that the elected representatives were really working for the good of the public. How many citizens would accept a tax increase for extra flowers for the park across town? Yet, these things are often already bought and paid for when weeping and wailing is heard in the halls of power because some essential services will have to be cut. Here’s a helpful hint – don’t believe a word of it!
The idea is to create the maximum inconvenience for the maximum number of people. Oakland residents will have to make do with less police protection. This can have life and death consequences for those who find themselves in need. Cutbacks like this hit voters at the gut level as they see the criminal element taking over more and more of their city – and they become an easy touch as their representatives work to pry open their wallets. While the unions need to be reigned in, cutting down on public protection is not the way to make their city a better place to live. Read more of this article »
There’s not much to say about this video, other than our first amendment rights are being overridden by those who have come to our country, not to assimilate, but to change and control. The use of police to stifle constitutionally guaranteed free speech shows how far we have fallen from government officials… particularly big city officials… who have forgotten our heritage of God given rights and have caved to the expediency of political pressure and fear of those who reject our freedom and values and insist on imposing theirs. If you believe this is wrong, pass it on to everyone you know. We can’t fight this sort of thing by sitting on our couches and bellyaching about it.
If you feel the need to express your opinion of the actions you just witnessed on the video, you can reach the mayor and police chief at the Dearborn city website. You might even want to give them a call.
Rev Patrick Mahoney is a man of principle and courage. On a beautiful spring day in our nations capital he set out to pray for women seeking to end their pregnancies and their soon to die offspring. By simply kneeling on the sidewalk outside a Planned Parenthood abortion mill, he found himself arrested, handcuffed and driven off in the back of a District of Columbia police car.
Showing the power of political connections, the organization claimed the outdoors portion of the property to be part of the indoor section… and the city attorney went along with their scheme. Of course Planned Parenthood did not like Rev. Mahoney and his compatriots letting women know what was really going on inside the building and inside their bodies. There were too many dollars at stake. Besides killing babies is a woman’s right.
The thing that makes this event so notable is that he knew this would be the result… and he did it anyway. Many of us will cheer on a courageous patriot who will stand up, not only to the police but the legal system as well. Then, use the legal system to take back the ground we are losing every day. The complete story is covered in Christian News Wire. Read more of this article »
The true essence of the 4th Amendment, that is, probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, found by the Framers, as the best, and only, reason for depriving a citizen of his, or her, fundamental God-given right to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, was changed, without constitutional amendment by eight justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in the decision Terry v. Ohio 392 U.S. 1 (1968) to reasonable suspicion. Terry v. Ohio (1968), the will of the Earl Warren Court, essentially threw out “probable cause” from the 4th Amendment and made it much easier for all police officers to deprive a citizen of a basic constitutional right that the writers of the U.S. Constitution saw as sacrosanct.
From what we know about the almost unanimous 1968 decision, Chief Justice Earl Warren carefully courted the vote of each of the justices, just as he had done in Brown v. the Board of Education (1954), in order to produce a, hopefully, unanimous vote. To change the letter of the U.S. Constitution, without amendment, the Court had to show unanimity, because the decision, in and of itself, was basically illegal, if it had been subsequently challenged by the U.S. Congress. The only vote Warren was unable to acquire in 1968 was that of the Justice William O. Douglas, who vehemently wrote in his dissenting opinion, “To give the police greater power than a magistrate is to take a long step down the totalitarian path. Perhaps such a step is desirable to cope with modern forms of lawlessness. But if it is taken, it should be the deliberate choice of the people through a constitutional amendment.” (392 U.S. 1, at 38). A few days after the decision was rended, Justice Douglas supposedly quipped to a reporter off-the-cuff that “if the Court can arbitrarily change the 4th Amendment, to read as it wants it to read, what is next, changing the word “respecting” to “denying” in the 1st Amendment?” What amazes me is the immediate, or latent, lack of opposition to the decision by the American people, when a section of the Bill of Rights was altered by the collective whim of eight of the Brethren, instead of by decree of the American electorate through the amendment process. Read more of this article »
The two thought-provoking words, racial and profiling, may be used together to convey a very sinister tone, especially to someone who has no real idea what racial profiling comprises and how it is used daily in law enforcement as a valid means of apprehending criminal suspects. The old, “let me see your papers, you don’t look Aryan,” anecdotal scenario, as applied to the fascist-Nazi motif, when the trench-coated Gestapo agent grabs the unwitting bearded suspect by the collar and carts him off to a dungeon where the person is tortured for information, is not the correct application of racial profiling in American law enforcement. Instead, imagine an elderly woman mugged on a street corner in downtown San Diego, California during the late afternoon. A police officer arrives on the scene after the mugger flees with the woman’s purse, and asks the bruised and bleeding woman a series of very important questions.
With much media fanfare, 9 members of a Michigan militia were arrested last March and charged with “seditious conspiracy”–specifically, plotting to murder law enforcement officers. Ostensibly, this was supposed to precipitate some kind of wholesale revolt against the government. Question: Have any of you heard anyone from the propaganda press corps (national news media) tell you what has been happening with this case? No? Did you not wonder why? Well, I’ll tell you why: the case has fallen apart.
The first indication of the Feds’ case going bad was a local report in the Toledo (Ohio) Blade, dated April 28, 2010. “An FBI agent who led the investigation of nine Michigan militia members charged with trying to launch war against the federal government couldn’t recall many details of the two-year probe yesterday during questioning by defense lawyers.
“Even the judge who must decide whether to release the nine until trial was puzzled.
“‘I share the frustrations of the defense team . . . that she doesn’t know anything,’ U.S. District Judge Victoria Roberts said after agent Leslie Larsen confessed she hadn’t reviewed her notes recently and couldn’t remember specific details of the case.” Read more of this article »
Here is a National Law Journal article that shows the “insiders” know they must co-opt or diffuse the Tea Party influence for the Kagan nomination to succeed.
Tea Party coordinators last week said they’re still assessing Kagan’s nomination, and it isn’t yet apparent whether it will become a priority for them. Mark Meckler, a California-based coordinator for Tea Party Patriots, a national group, said any efforts by the group to defeat Kagan’s nomination would have to start at the local level, and he hasn’t yet heard a push to do so.
There NEEDS to be a push to do so.
Read below the spin-meister line “wonderful credentials”. What WISE citizen cares about “credentials” especially academic credentials with revolving door government credentials? Far, far more important is commitment to Original Intent of this Constitution. Harvard Law School leads the nation AGAINST this Constitution and original intent.
Investigate Kagan’s past writings, and when Dean of Harvard Law, showing PREJUDICE against America’s Military recruiters on campus. Did she ban ACLU from recruiting on campus? If NOT, then she VIOLATES EQUAL JUSTICE FOR ALL. Read more of this article »
Open borders advocates are livid that the State of Arizona has enacted a new law authorizing State law enforcement personnel to arrest illegal aliens. The Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to march. The mayor of San Francisco has declared Arizona off limits as a travel destination. The national government of Mexico has issued travel warnings. President Barack Obama is contemplating bringing a federal lawsuit against the State. Some are calling for a boycott of the State.
So, why all the fuss?
The State of Arizona is rightly sick and tired of the federal government’s refusal to protect our nation (and the State of Arizona specifically) from this foreign invasion that is commonly referred to as “illegal immigration.” In other words, the State of Arizona has said, “If the federal government won’t enforce the law, we will.” I say, good for them! Now, the other border states (Texas, New Mexico, and California) should do the same thing. Arizona has it right, and the vast majority of the American people know it.
As an aside, if you are considering a visit to the American Southwest this summer, why not support the brave legislators and governor of Arizona, and make a point to spend your leisure dollars in Arizona? And when you do, write a letter to the State capitol and tell them. Even more importantly, I suggest that everyone contact their own State representatives, senators, and governors, and urge them to enact a similar law–to the one Arizona passed–in your State. Read more of this article »
This weekend, headlines jumped from from the screen of the FoxNews site about a shootout in Ciudad Juarez where drug gangs ambushed two police cars killing seven officers. They did not, however, jump from the screen to visitors of the formerly mainstream media. CNN noted that a 17 year old bystander was killed in a shootout south of the border. It wasn’t until the second paragraph that the article noted seven police officers also died. NBC made no mention and CBS made a small note of the event. Why would this be?
Then, over in Morelia, Mexico, Public Safety Director of the western state of Michoacan was attacked by gunmen armed with “assault” rifles and grenades. She was wounded, but survived, however four others did not. We have some extremely violent lawlessness taking place in our neighbor to the south.
The timing of this brutality was especially unfortunate for those whose current talking points included the trashing of Arizona which was taking steps to defend themselves against the importation of this Mexican violence. The President, who is actively working to legalize the illegal, called the states actions irresponsible. Others have called them unconstitutional and ill advised, threatening lawsuits. Demonstrations, some violent in themselves, sprung up criticizing Arizona’s efforts at self defense… but as of this writing, the law is still scheduled to go into effect this summer. Read more of this article »
In the spring of 1932, thousands of veterans of the First World War and their families marched on Washington DC to demand immediate cash payment for service certificates Congress had issued to the veterans eight years earlier. The certificates were intended to mature after two decades, but in the depths of the Great Depression, with many of those veterans unemployed, the protestors (dubbed the “Bonus Army”) felt they should be able to redeem their certificates early as an emergency relief measure.
Around 15,000 men, women, and children camped out near the Capitol for months. On June 15, the House of Representatives passed a bill authorizing payment of the bonuses, but the Senate rejected it two days later. The protestors refused to leave. Another month passed, and tensions ran high. Some of President Hoover’s advisors were convinced that the marchers had become radicalized and would attempt a communist coup. In fact, the American Communist Party had attempted to infiltrate the Bonus Army, but the Bonus Army’s leader, Walter W. Waters, was a patriot and fervent anti-communist who organized his men to root out the radicals from their ranks.
Never-the-less, on July 28 President Hoover ordered the Washington DC police to evict some of the protestors from an abandoned building located on government property. A scuffle erupted and two veterans were killed. Panicked, Hoover ordered a military force under the command of General Douglas MacArthur to remove all the protestors. General MacArthur interpreted the order as blanket permission to run the Bonus Army out of the Capital. Cavalry, infantry, and tanks assaulted their encampment with teargas and fixed bayonets. When the smoke cleared, an 11-week old baby was dead, one child blinded, and hundreds of veterans were wounded. Read more of this article »
Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
Lately, however, McCain has outdone himself. He has introduced two bills in the US Senate that are about as Machiavellian as they could be. I am referring to S.3081, a bill that would authorize the federal government to detain American citizens indefinitely without trial, and S.3002, a bill that would authorize the federal government to regulate vitamins, minerals, and virtually all health and natural food products.
According to Examiner.com, “Last week, John McCain introduced a bill into the U.S. Senate which, if passed, would actually allow U.S. citizens to be arrested and detained indefinitely, all without Miranda rights or ever being charged with a crime.”
The Examiner report continued by saying “This bill, introduced by McCain, who despite overwhelming evidence, claims to be a ‘conservative,’ would not only take away our right to a trial, but would also allow the federal government to arrest and imprison anyone the current administration deems hostile. Read more of this article »
There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to corral the critters. But even this resulted in only limited success.
One day a stranger (who was a wily old trapper) came into town and—entering the general store–ordered a truckload of fence posts and fencing, along with some feed. When asked what he was going to use it for, he said, “I’m going to get those wild hogs y’all are having trouble with.” Of course, everyone in the store laughed at the overconfident stranger. A few weeks later, however, the stranger rode into town with the back of his truck tightly packed with the smelly swine.
When asked how he was able to accomplish what no one else had been able to do, the old trapper replied, “Simple. I started putting the feed out in a small clearing and the hogs began freely eating the feed. It didn’t take long and they were there every day. Then I put up the fence posts, but with no fencing. At first the hogs were a little skittish, but it wasn’t long and they ignored the posts. Then I began putting the fence up, but I left the gate off. Again, the hogs were skittish at first, but soon realized they could come and go freely, and before long, they were devouring the free food with a vengeance. Then, one day when the hogs were aggressively consuming the vittles, I slammed the gate closed.” Read more of this article »
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The death of Anwar al-Awlaki has caused quite a stir in this country. He became an al Qaeda leader, helping plan attacks on Americans and encouraging those who carried them out. He became a key figure in an organization dedicated to destroying, not only our government, but our whole way of life.
by Congressman Randy Forbes (VA-4)
Looking at the ways the cities of New York and Washington DC are planning to remember the tragic events of ten years ago, we see a picture of the society our secular progressives have been pushing for years. In New York, there is room for the politicians craving a photo op, but none for the heroes of that awful day, the families with empty chairs at the dinner table, or even the pastors, priests and rabbis that give spiritual comfort to a hurting city.
Not that the national media notices much, but the federal government under President Barack Obama has been supplying guns to Mexican drug gangs for quite a spell. With only a few print media bothering to cover the story, Obama’s Justice Department has been discovered secretly supplying firearms to Mexican drug lords using taxpayer “stimulus” monies. If that wasn’t bad enough, guns supplied to these Mexican miscreants by federal agents were used to kill at least one US Border Patrol agent. After the death of the BP agent, California Congressman Darrell Issa launched an investigation into the matter and uncovered what most anyone would correctly describe as a vast government conspiracy to supply firearms to Mexican drug cartels. As a result of Issa’s congressional investigations, numerous heads at the ATF have lost their jobs–or more correctly–have been “reassigned.”
So many of the words and warnings delivered by America’s Founding Fathers are appropriate for today. Consider this sage counsel from America’s first and greatest President, George Washington: “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” I was reminded of these words when I read the following report out of the State of Indiana.
The wise doctor lets you solve your own problems once you lay on their couch for counsel.
My first experience with George Allen came a few years after I escaped from Sopranoland and arrived in the Old Dominion. He was a one term congressman who had just been redistricted out of his seat by the partisan Democrat machine that ruled the commonwealth with an iron fist in those dark, dreary days. He was a young and hungry politician eager to press the flesh and meet the people.
Saturday was a sad day in Tucson when a deranged young man peppered a US congresswoman and the crowd around her with shots from a 9mm Glock. The target, Gabrielle Giffords did not die, but others around her did, simply because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. The shooter, Jared Loughner had a history of run ins with local law enforcement and is reported to have spent his time reading the Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.
I often wonder how foolish the folks in DC think we poor schlubs are. Every time we, the people, fuss about higher taxes and government spending, we are told that if we don’t roll over and let them take more of our hard earned dollars, we will have to accept police, firemen and teacher layoffs as the price for governmental economy. It’s the same song over and over again.
A few days before the election received an email blast from the Republican Party of Virginia with the heading Countdown To Victory: It Depends On You!. It’s just a few days to Election Day and the people running the party are calling on the rank and file party sympathizers, the grassroots activists, many of whom are tea partiers, to do the work to keep these leaders and their selected candidates in charge and expand there power base.
With the upcoming election, there are several ideas on the best strategy to save our country from a runaway, out of control president and the socialist mob doing his bidding. Many of them have the virtue of logic on their side, but I believe one is the best for our situation today.
When I lived in north Jersey, long before the good citizens had the common sense to elect someone like Chris Cristie, we used to joke about the folks in Bergen County voting early and often. This was even before ACORN raised voter fraud to an art form, a mass produced art form. However, much of the technique involved resurrecting the dead, divining how they would have voted and then go into the voting booth and do it for them… or maybe they skipped most of the process and took the personal information that came with the “walkin’ around money” and followed their orders to vote for everyone with a “D” beside their name.
I should not be, but I am continually amazed at the audacity of Palestinian leaders as they attempt to manipulate world opinion into giving them a state of their own and pay it’s bills as they pretend to be worthy of such influence. After expecting Israel to enter negotiations with no preconditions, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had the gall to say that there will be no peace unless the Israelis stop building settlements on the land the Palestinian Authority (PA) has it’s eyes on.
One of the tragedies of the current misled, uninformed, and otherwise preoccupied American citizenry is the seeming apathy regarding the importance and necessity of electing constitutionalist sheriffs. In many ways, State governors and county sheriffs just might be the most important elected offices in America. It is no hyperbole to say that State governors and county sheriffs form the last line of defense against tyranny and oppression. If our governors and sheriffs do not understand the principles of freedom and federalism, there is virtually zero protection against the abuses of liberty–save the right of the people to personally and individually defend liberty via the principles of God-given Natural Law.
Rumors have abounded for months that our illustrious President, caring more for the welfare of the undocumented Democratic voters than the American people, was looking to bypass congress one more time and create an amnesty plan by executive order and regulation. The formerly mainstream media and the administration itself has continuously told us this is not the case. However, Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley has uncovered a draft copy of a 
The recent layoff of 80 Oakland, California police officers is representative of the way many governments at all levels are responding to the financial pinch all are feeling. While many Golden State public service unions appear to believe that gold is what the taxpayers are made of, this may not be the wisest choice… but certainly it is the most predictable.
By Norton R Nowlin
By Norton R Nowlin
With much media fanfare, 9 members of a Michigan militia were arrested last March and charged with “seditious conspiracy”–specifically, plotting to murder law enforcement officers. Ostensibly, this was supposed to precipitate some kind of wholesale revolt against the government. Question: Have any of you heard anyone from the propaganda press corps (national news media) tell you what has been happening with this case? No? Did you not wonder why? Well, I’ll tell you why: the case has fallen apart.
Dear Tea Party Leaders,
Open borders advocates are livid that the State of Arizona has enacted a new law authorizing State law enforcement personnel to arrest illegal aliens. The Reverend Al Sharpton is threatening to march. The mayor of San Francisco has declared Arizona off limits as a travel destination. The national government of Mexico has issued travel warnings. President Barack Obama is contemplating bringing a federal lawsuit against the State. Some are calling for a boycott of the State.
This weekend, headlines jumped from from the screen of the FoxNews site about a shootout in Ciudad Juarez where drug gangs ambushed two police cars killing seven officers. They did not, however, jump from the screen to visitors of the formerly mainstream media. CNN noted that a 17 year old bystander was killed in a shootout south of the border. It wasn’t until the second paragraph that the article noted seven police officers also died. NBC made no mention and CBS made a small note of the event. Why would this be?
In the spring of 1932, thousands of veterans of the First World War and their families marched on Washington DC to demand immediate cash payment for service certificates Congress had issued to the veterans eight years earlier. The certificates were intended to mature after two decades, but in the depths of the Great Depression, with many of those veterans unemployed, the protestors (dubbed the “Bonus Army”) felt they should be able to redeem their certificates early as an emergency relief measure.
Anyone paying attention knows that John McCain has been a Big-Government Globalist Neocon (BGGN) for virtually his entire senatorial career. As with many BGGNs hiding out in the Republican Party, McCain likes to talk about smaller government, but his track record is littered with the promotion of one big government program after another. But, what else would one expect from a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)?
There is a classic story about how no one had been able to capture a herd of wild hogs that was rooting up crops from numerous farms. It got so bad that rewards had been posted for anyone clever enough to corral the critters. But even this resulted in only limited success.
