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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
Posted by John Kabitzke
Last updated 07/07/10 8:30 PM
Please be informed by reading the following on his broken contract with Americans:
Just as report cards keep parents posted on their children’s progress in school, constituents have a tool to let them know how their federal representatives measure up to their oaths to uphold the Constitution.
We should expect high “grades” from them, because it is not difficult to determine whether legislation oversteps the clearly delineated, limited powers of the Constitution. If there is uncertainty, the Bill of Rights tells the government everything else is off limits. Moreover, an oath calls God as witness to the oath-taker’s honesty and integrity. In other words, it is both illegal and immoral to violate the Constitution. Why are so many Representatives bringing home Fs on their report cards? They may mean well, but a Congressman’s good intentions do not fulfill his obligation before God to vote according to the law.
There are a growing number of candidates for Congress who are running in support of the Constitution. Many of them were motivated to become involved as a result of the political phenomenon in the last presidential race that became known as the “Ron Paul Revolution.” But if the GOP establishment has its way, the Republicans who will go to Washington will be of the neocon variety and will offer voters looking for alternatives to the liberal Democrats more of an echo than a choice. The establishment-favored Newt Gingrich is a case in point.
The Republican?
After more than a decade out of the spotlight, Newt Gingrich is once again making headlines as a conservative author and basking in media speculation of his possibility as a presidential candidate. He is busy promoting his conservatively themed books and documentaries while touting firm belief in limited government and personal freedoms. Gingrich’s rhetoric brings back memories of his old days as a staunch proponent of cutting taxes, balancing the budget, reducing bureaucratic regulations, and strengthening national defense.
Just as in those days, Newt Gingrich now positions himself as a conservative. But does his definition of conservative mean loyalty to the Constitution, or loyalty to the establishment? “Understanding the real Newt Gingrich … is essential,” said John F. McManus, president of the John Birch Society and producer of the new DVD The Real Newt Gingrich. “Americans must realize that they are being persuaded to follow false leaders, to put confidence in men who don’t deserve our confidence.” Both Gingrich’s congressional track record and his present activities prove him no better than the current White House occupant.
Read more at Campaign for Liberty
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
by Glen Davis
I have been following the formation of the Arizona State Guard since I read that Governor Jan Brewer authorized its formation. I support it fully.
As I read the current submitted legislation—SB 1083—I understand the guard to be part State Defense Force and part law enforcement. However, it is under the umbrella of the militia.
Much of the legislation does comply with a Constitutional militia. On lengthier review, however, I find that it uses too much military and not enough militia. I sent my concerns in this area to the Governor and Senator Sylvia Allen.
One concern I have is the use of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Judge Advocate General of the National Guard. It could be that they are trying to avoid the government objections to this project to prevent a law suit similar to that of SB 1070.
It should be remembered that the Second Amendment was added for a very specific reason. 1st, the militia are NOT TROOPS in the sense of Article 1, Section 10, Clause 3 of the Constitution.
In Perpich v. DOD of 1990, Mr. Justice Stevens noted, “It is undisputed that Congress was acting pursuant to the Militia Clauses of the Constitution in passing the Dick Act. Moreover, the legislative history of that Act indicates that Congress contemplated that the services of the organized militia would ‘be rendered only upon the soil of the United States or of its Territories.’ H.R.Rep.No. 1094, 57th Cong., 1st Sess., 22 (1902).”
The Dick Act is the act that formed the National Guard. That act was amended in 1908 to include service within and without the territories of the United States. The National Guard takes a dual oath to the United States and the State. When they are “federalized,” they are relieved of duty in the National Guard and a part of the army. It is a complex system which basically eliminates their character as “militia.” The District court rejected the claim of Governor Perpich, “holding that the federal Guard was created pursuant to Congress’ Article I, § 8, power to raise and support armies.” They are a branch of the standing army.
Continue reading “On further consideration of SB 1083” »
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Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012
By introducing moral imagination to the foreign-policy conversation, the Republican candidate is doing the nation an important service.
A dispute has broken out among fans of Ron Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policy about whether he’s a strategic liability. Paul, says Kevin Drum, is such a “toxic, far-right, crackpot messenger” that “the only thing he’s accomplishing is to make non-interventionism even more of a fringe view in American politics than it already is.”
It’s certainly true that Paul’s hawkish critics are using his weirder ideas and checkered past to try and make non-interventionism synonymous with creepiness. But, whatever their success, Paul is making one contribution to the foreign policy debate that could have enduring value.
It doesn’t lie in the substance of his foreign policy views (which I’m largely but not wholly in sympathy with) but in the way he explains them. Paul routinely performs a simple thought experiment: He tries to imagine how the world looks to people other than Americans.
Read more at The Atlantic
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Saturday, December 31st, 2011
If you haven’t heard of the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, you might not spend enough time online. But recent exposure of Marvel’s support for the bill has outraged fans across the internet on major comics news sites, blogs and forums and Twitter, calling for retaliation against The House of Ideas.
I understand why Marvel would support the bill. First, and most importantly, being an owned subsidiary of The House of Mouse (Disney/ABC/ESPN, etc) they now have to toe the corporate line. Second, comics are incredibly pirated products. Just doing a search on major bit torrent sites and you can. . . .well, pretty much download most every major Marvel comic from the last 70 years and fit it on a large external hard drive. That’s pretty terrible if you think about it. And, let’s be fair- DC is pro-SOPA as well, at least inasmuch as they are a part of the larger Time Warner family of corporations.
Let me state again, for the record, that we at BSR are ANTI-piracy. We are pro-comics, and piracy is a major problem with the industry today, just as with all entertainment media. We respect the rights of creators who put their genius into delivering greatness into our hands every week, every month, and respect their rights to get paid. We even point you to some of our favorites in the realm of digital comics– one of which, I would like to point out, is about Marvel digital comics on sale. We love comics, we are anti-piracy and pro-digital distribution. Absolutely.
But, just as categorically I can state that SOPA will not help one bit. The bill will allow any person to make a claim against a website (say BigShinyRobot. . . or Google. . . or YouTube. . .or Flikr) that it is hosting copyrighted materials, and without an investigation, without a warrant, without any probable cause– just a complaint– the host ISP has to shut the ENTIRE SITE down. Take, for example, the image I’ve used to in this post. This is one of my favorite comic book covers from books I collected when I was younger. I’ve added the “This is what Wolverine does to Pirates” which makes my use of this image fall under “fair use.” But if someone were to complain, they could– and shut down the entire site without any adjudication by any legal authority. Not only does SOPA violate basic principles of due process, it uses a nuclear bomb to strike at a gnat.
Read more at Big Shiny Robotz
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
© 2003 Lynn M. Stuter – All Rights Reserved
As the war over education reform – Goals 2000, school-to-work, and “outcome-based education” – rages on, the time is more than ripe to ask ourselves, “Are public schools constitutional?”
Looking at the United States Constitution, no provision is made for education, but the Constitution does instruct that … “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” (Tenth Amendment) In other words, education is reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Why, then, do we have a cabinet level United States Department of Education (US DOE)? Does this not violate the U.S. Constitution? In a word, “yes.” The US DOE was established under the Carter Administration as a political payoff to the teacher unions for their support of Jimmy Carter for president. Ronald Reagan promised to get rid of the US DOE but he didn’t. It was under his watch that the U.S./Soviet Agreement on Education was signed.
Inquiry of the US DOE recently, concerning the constitutional authority on which it was established, brought an interesting response. No doubt many will be surprised to learn that the US DOE was established to help and support states in the area of education; and, therefore, doesn’t require a constitutional mandate.
No doubt those reading federal legislation and laws, replete with “must” and “shall” as condition of receipt of federal tax dollars, would dispute the contention that the US DOE is there merely to help and support states in the matter of education. No doubt a competent constitutional attorney could make the case that federal laws concerning education have, in fact, served to move control of education from the state level to the federal level in violation of the Tenth Amendment.
So, if the Tenth Amendment reserves education to the state level, are public or government schools constitutional at the state level?
Read more at Learn USA
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
Michael A. Walsh
New York Post
This is not a civil-rights issue, it’s ensuring that everyone’s vote counts.
If you want to buy over-the-counter cold medicine at your local drugstore, chances are you have to show a photo ID to do it. Same if you want to get on a plane, rent a car or open a bank account. So why not to vote?
But to Attorney General Eric Holder, the idea is an outrage. In the name of “civil rights,” he’s declared war on a nationwide movement to ensure the integrity of the electoral process.
Just this year, eight states have passed new photo-ID laws; more than half now have some form of ID requirement for voting. But Holder has already sicced Justice’s Civil Rights Division on new voter-ID laws in South Carolina and Texas to see if there’s any “disproportionate impact” on minorities. He’s also objecting to reforms in “early voting” in places like Florida, which recently tightened its electoral window.
Read more at the New York Post
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Sunday, December 18th, 2011
The first portion of this page is devoted to organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI). The second portion of the page focuses on organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSI, but which receive money from one or more groups that do get direct OSI funding.
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Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute
By Discover The Networks
Organizations that, in recent years, have received direct funding and assistance from George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI) include the following. (Comprehensive profiles of each are available in the “Groups” section of DiscoverTheNetworks.org):
Read list at Discover the Networks
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Americans are lazy, according to Obama. Though one source points out that he was referring to businesses being too lazy seek overseas investment. I suppose he is unaware of Canadians and Chinese buying up foreclosed houses in Phoenix because Americans cannot afford them. Not to mention businesses, such as Circle-K and Target, being owned by foreigners.
You might recall that earlier in his administration, we were notified that we were too “lazy” to learn Spanish or another foreign language. Perhaps he was hoping that if we learned Spanish, or the Mexican language equivalent, we would learn why illegals would kill cops until we get free. We would learn why we own illegal aliens a living.
Apparently, there are those who are not too lazy that they seek “investment” from the government. There are those who get hundreds of dollars in food stamps in Arizona. Except elderly white men and women who are only eligible for sixteen-dollars a month.
How about those lazy people in America that are no longer seeking a job. You know, Obama. The ones who were told by the news media that employers are not seeking anyone unemployed for more than six-months. Some are probably still putting applications in at McDonald’s in hopes of getting jobs servicing those foreign investors.
It’s bad enough that the Chinese and other “foreign investors” do not have to worry about the regulations that you place on American businesses. It’s bad enough that you call for “global warming” legislation that does not apply to foreign investors; ie. Carbon taxes. It’s bad enough that you attack our Christian heritage in favor of those that destroyed the World Trade Centers, according to news reports. Now you call Americans soft and lazy.
Well, after all of that I say that you need to lay off Obama, America. After all, he’s laid off most of you.
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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
by Eric Golub
LOS ANGELES, November 15, 2011—The President keeps attacking his own citizens, confusing them with royal subjects.
Barack Obama recently referred to Americans as “soft.” This week he referred to Americans as “lazy.”
There is only one curseword strong enough to correctly identify and condemn someone who rocketed to the Presidency despite not having created anything of importance. There is only one epithet harsh enough to verbally smack down a man who says nothing, does even less, and blames everybody else for his own failures.
There is only one pejorative for a man who alternates between condescension and smugness while needing Valerie Jarrett to tie his shoes for him.
There is only one insult for a man who lectures businesses about hiring while having never run a business.
There is only one rebuke for a man who lashes out at a “do-nothing congress” while his own party fails to pass a budget for one thousand days.
There is only one thing left to say about a man who is able to hold himself in the highest of regard without having a clue about the simplest aspects of life.
President Obama, you are a Frenchman.
Read more at The Washington Times
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
PART 1 of 2
By Kelleigh Nelson
June 3, 2011
NewsWithViews.com
Newt Gingrich
A couple years ago one of my neighbors asked me to accompany her to a tea party meeting at the Maryville, TN library which is about 25 minutes from Knoxville. I said, “Sure, I’d love to go see what they’re doing.” There were several speakers and most of it was boring classroom beginner’s education for those that were just waking up to the fact that we’ve lost our country. We paid our two dollars and sat in the back of the room. The third speaker’s topic was “Where to go for information.” When they showed pictures of websites of Newt Gingrich and Heritage Foundation and others, I just shook my head and got up and left. I was absolutely appalled that any freedom loving American would send an audience of uneducated people into the hands of those that are worse enemies than the obvious Democrat Marxists. Remember folks, “A false friend IS MORE DANGEROUS than an open enemy.”
For several months I’ve mulled over the thought of exposing everyone they suggested, Newt, Heritage, Koch and a plethora of GOP candidates running for election in 2012 for POTUS. In a previous three part article, SAVING THE REPUBLIC?, I exposed a good deal of the Heritage background, but we will need to revisit and explore more deeply the deception of this allegedly conservative think tank which is anything but a constitutional foundation.
First we’ll start with Newt who masquerades as a rightwing conservative but is one of the most dangerous enemies of freedom now hoping to gain the presidency in 2012. Some friends have told me with all the bad press he’s dead in the water, but I saw McCain resurrected, not once but twice to win the primary in the 2008 elections, so we still need to know the truth about Newt.
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Wednesday, September 7th, 2011
“Everybody here has a vote, If we go back and we keep the eye on the prize. Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to America where we belong.”
Hoffa’s Labor day celebratory statement is causing consternation of the press without revealing the stupidity of his statement.
We could first point out that Labor Day is a holiday formed to celebrate communism installed by Woodrow Wilson. You know, “Worker’s of the world, Unite!”
Secondly, the statement that he made refers to the very object of the original concept of the TEA Party. The TEA party is NOT an extension of the Republican party which is no more Republican than the Democrats. The TEA party is a grassroots group of people who are fighting to restore the Constitution of the United States of America; NOT the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
“I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers,” he is quoted as saying in the Death+Taxes web site. How are you fighting for the American worker? The tactic of destroying companies and sending jobs to foreign countries because you’re too lazy to get a real job doesn’t seem to be working.
“My comments on Labor Day in Detroit echo the anger and frustration of American workers who are under attack by corporate-funded politicians who want to destroy the middle class.” I didn’t see any corporate-funded politicians beating up protestors against unconstitutional Obamacare. Union members were. Corporate-funded politicians were voting it into law.
Our forefathers fought a war to ensure our protections against those tyrannic principles listed in the Declaration of Independence. The Federalists wrote volumes of letters to assure us that our freedoms and rights would be secure with the ratification of the Constitution. The TEA Party simply supports the Federalist Union.
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Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
By Madison Ruppert
Editor of End the Lie
When the mainstream media is reporting stories like this, you know it is so serious that it cannot be ignored, even if they wanted to.
Today Bloomberg has revealed that the “Wall Street Aristocracy” received a staggering $1.2 trillion in loans. Yes, you read that right: $1.2 trillion.
The private Federal Reserve calls these hand-outs to their corporate cronies “emergency loans” but in reality they are nothing more than friends giving friends unfathomable amounts of money in order to “keep the economy from plunging into depression”.
Of course Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Bloomberg opt to characterize the giveaway of public funds as legitimate “unprecedented efforts” to help our withering economy, when this is far from the case as we have seen from the entire “stimulus” package that has just driven American deeper into the black hole of debt.
Continue reading “Bloomberg reveals massive corruption in the private Federal Reserve” »
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Last week I commented on the Republican Presidential candidates’ knowledge of the Constitution. In that message I made the statement that the Constitution prevents an Obamacare-style individual mandate regardless of whether it’s implemented by the Federal government or a State government. Many of you responded with the same question: “What part of the U.S. Constitution prevents a State government from imposing an individual mandate?” This message is my response to that question:
The U.S. Constitution imposes upon the Federal government a duty to protect certain rights of individual citizens against intrusion by State government. This duty arises from at least two places in the Constitution: Article IV section 2, and the 14th Amendment.
Article IV section 2 states: “The citizens of each State shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States.”
The 14th Amendment section 1 states: “No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”
These sections unquestionably do impose upon the Federal government a duty to protect individual citizens from State violations of certain rights. But, the question is: what rights are protected from State intrusion? That question has been debated since the Constitution was ratified. We fought a war over it, and the question is still being hotly debated. When it’s answered poorly States lose sovereignty, millions of babies are murdered, private property is stolen by States, and many other rights are violated. When it’s answered properly States are prevented from denying free speech, prevented from imprisoning individuals without a jury trial, prevented from disarming their citizens, and prevented from stealing private property.
Continue reading “Are we in a prison without bars?” »
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Thursday, August 18th, 2011
©2011 by Glen C. Davis
When first I began this intellectual exercise, I did not anticipate being deluged by information concerning the topic. Particularly recent SCOTUS decisions. On June 16th, the SCOTUS returned their surprising decision in the case of Carol Anne Bond v. United States (564 U.S.______(2011)). This case seems to be a significant departure in the thought of the Supreme Court of the United States, as I read it. We will explore that later in this article.
The main purpose for the addition of these few introductory lines is simply to let you know that I will endeavor to be as accurate and coherent as possible for the purposes of this article despite this deluge. Yet mistakes may creep in. In addition, I continue to caution that I am not a lawyer, but a scholar seeking some truth to this particular Constitutional division of power.
In this article I reference the USC or United States Code. The USC is the actual book of federal laws as passed by Congress. These are not to be confused with the Federal Register which is a list of “regulations” or “laws” set forth by people whom you did not vote for. These are usually based on the desires of corporate entities. Sounds somewhat “undemocratic” for such a “democratic” society.
Let us begin…
Continue reading “What Are States’ Rights?” »
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