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Latest Articles: Dead Constitution
The Value of Government Surveillance of Citizens
Post Date: 2010-01-30 08:40:23 by Ada
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It’s amusing to watch U.S. officials protest the Chinese government’s surveillance of its own citizens. After all, isn’t it the U.S. government that secretly and illegally conspired with private telecom companies to record telephone conversations of private American citizens? And isn’t it the U.S. government that secured both civil and criminal immunity for the telecoms’ decision to sell out the privacy of their customers to the feds? One of the aspects of the federal government’s telecom surveillance scheme that is rarely mentioned by the mainstream press goes to the heart of why government surveillance of its citizens is so valuable — to provide a ...
Stop the Unconstitutional, Jobs-Killing, EPA Regulation of Carbon Dioxide
Post Date: 2010-01-29 20:56:10 by farmfriend
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Stop the Unconstitutional, Jobs-Killing, EPA Regulation of Carbon Dioxide Written by Larry Greenley Friday, 29 January 2010 11:43 Just in time to bolster President Obama's "green" credentials at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on December 7, 2009: "Today I'm proud to announce that EPA has finalized its endangerment finding on greenhouse gas pollution and is now authorized and obligated to make reasonable efforts to reduce greenhouse pollutants under the Clean Air Act" (view video). So, even though the cap and trade energy tax bill was stalled in the U.S. Senate, President Obama was able to point to ...
Bremertons man's principles means that he's risking 10 years in prison
Post Date: 2010-01-29 19:42:11 by freepatriot32
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Luke and Rebecca Groves and their daughter, 4-year-old Sophie, at their home in Bremerton on Friday. Luke will be on trial this week on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm. He says nothing in the paperwork from his nearly 20-year-old burglary conviction makes clear that he can’t own a gun. (MEEGAN M. REID | KITSAP SUN) BREMERTON — By pleading guilty and signing on the county prosecutor’s dotted line, 37-year-old Luke Travis Groves could walk free. He could say that on one day in 2008, he illegally possessed a firearm. He’d be on the hook for some court fines but he’d be able to go home to his wife, Rebecca, and their 4-year-old daughter, Sophia. ...
Alex Jones disrupts 2nd Amendment rally, divides protest [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2010-01-27 09:58:48 by randge
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Alex Jones Exposes... Alex Jones! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT7BW2CaPUw Alex Jones Turns Peaceful Gun Rights Demonstration Into CHAOS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdJ4zhiB2s4 You Gotta Hard On for Me http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWM17wiHhww Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:I won't tax you with a lot of blabber & half-baked opinion. You all here are big folks and know the meaning of what you see. Patience with the second video. There is a lot of lens time on the pavement, but it bears watching all the way through. Most interested in your comments.
Senators Try to Regain Legislative Authority Over EPA
Post Date: 2010-01-27 00:37:05 by farmfriend
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Senators Try to Regain Legislative Authority Over EPA Written by James Heiser The United States Constitution appears to be consigned to the role of fairytale in our post-modern society, because it seems like any discussion of how our representative government is supposed to function begins with the words, “Once upon a time...”. In keeping with that fairytale motif, let us pretend for the moment that the constitutionally enumerated powers of the legislative branch of government still mean something. Oh, I’m not talking about that restrictive little list of things enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 which are actually specifically delineated as within the purview of Congress. ...
The Scary Budget Numbers
Post Date: 2010-01-26 00:10:20 by DeaconBenjamin
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The recession and attendant financial shock appear to be easing as I write this. But in Washington, financial imprudence is part of the fabric of government. You can see that in a single document that gets updated every year: the US budget. In putting together the budget, the president and Congress set our national priorities and allocate resources among them. The results have been pretty consistent. Over the forty years ending in 2008, revenues have averaged about 18.3 percent of our economy and spending has averaged over 20.6 percent, resulting in an average deficit of about 2.4 percent. But that gap began to widen under Bush 43, who cut taxes while starting two wars, bolstering ...
Explaining the Tea Party Movement and the Bewilderment of the Political Class
Post Date: 2010-01-25 14:26:08 by christine
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It is apparently a mystery to a lot political insiders why the Tea Parties have become so popular with so many Americans in state after state across the nation. Many have simply tried to dismiss the phenomena as the ranting of a relatively small number of angry right-wing zealots. They are dead wrong but one gets the feeling the political class finds this easy dismissal far more comforting than the unsettling truths driving angry and vocal dissatisfaction by people from across the political spectrum. “Real people” like me resonate in politics right now because of the growing chasm between what the political elites of both parties see as the best course for the nation—and ...
Tennessee Guardsman Challenges Supreme Court on 2nd Amendment
Post Date: 2010-01-25 10:06:03 by farmfriend
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Tennessee Guardsman Challenges Supreme Court on 2nd Amendment Written by Joe Wolverton, II Monday, 25 January 2010 09:00 Richard A. Hamblen has lost his family and his fortune because he believes in the Second Amendment. In April of 2004, Mr. Hamblen, a former commander in the Tennessee National Guard, was arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF). Hamblen, who told the author that he’s never had so much as a traffic violation, was taken from his place of business and charged with the unlawful possession of nine unregistered machine guns. Hamblen was found guilty by a trial court and sentenced to 13 ...
ReprintPrint Email Font Resize Open gun carry events growing in Bay Area
Post Date: 2010-01-24 01:11:36 by buckeroo
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David LaTour rolled out of bed on a recent Saturday morning and prepared for a leisurely lunch: Wallet, check. Car keys, check. Springfield XD 9 mm pistol and ammunition, check. Springfield XD 9 mm pistol and ammunition? The Hayward resident is a member of an organization slowly gaining membership in the Bay Area. Open Carry aims to make it possible for Americans in every state to legally carry loaded guns in public. The loosely organized Bay Area chapter is igniting powerful feelings among law enforcement agencies, gun control advocates and ordinary residents. "I do it to defend myself and my rights. Carrying guns can prevent burglaries and assaults," LaTour said. The San ...
Teen violist alleges Pittsburgh police brutality
Post Date: 2010-01-22 21:43:02 by farmfriend
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Teen violist alleges Pittsburgh police brutality By RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI, AP PITTSBURGH — The photos taken by Jordan Miles' mother show his face covered with raw, red bruises, his cheek and lip swollen, his right eye swollen shut. A bald spot mars the long black dreadlocks where the 18-year-old violist says police tore them from his head. Now, 10 days after plainclothes officers stopped him on a street and arrested him after a struggle that they say revealed a soda bottle under his coat, not the gun they suspected, his right eye is still slightly swollen and bloodshot. His head is shaved. The three white officers who arrested him have been reassigned. And his mother says she is ...
Teen's Expulsion Overturned In Gun Case
Post Date: 2010-01-22 16:20:13 by farmfriend
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Teen's Expulsion Overturned In Gun Case Boy Earlier Expelled After Leaving Gun In Truck Near School WILLOWS, Calif. -- The Glenn County Board of Education has overturned the expulsion of a student who had a shotgun inside a pickup truck that was parked near the Willows High School campus. In its ruling, the county board found that the Willows School Board overstepped its bounds in dealing with Gary Tudesko, 17. The expulsion will be removed from his record, the county board said Friday. Tudesko had been out duck hunting and left the gun inside the pickup. The National Rifle Association has come to the defense of Tudesko. The high school said the junior has been suspended in the ...
Rep. Frank Calls for Abolishing Fannie and Freddie
Post Date: 2010-01-22 12:55:04 by DeaconBenjamin
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Influential Congressman Barney Frank on Friday recommended “abolishing” troubled quasi-government mortgage companies Fannie Mae (FNM) and Freddie Mac (FRE). Frank, D-Mass., chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, said Fannie and Freddie should be replaced by “a whole new system of housing finance.” “That's the approach, rather than the piecemeal one,” Frank said his committee will take toward the two mortgage giants. Fannie and Freddie were created to ensure liquidity in the U.S. housing market and did so successfully until the inflated real estate market collapsed about three years ago and millions of Americans began defaulting on ...
Should Christians Support Scott Brown?
Post Date: 2010-01-21 23:29:02 by snoopdougg
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This is not about whether Senator Elect Scott Brown from Massachusetts is a Christian. This is between him and his Maker. These are just a few thoughts about the fruit on his tree that Jesus tells us to inspect. (Matthew 7:15-20) Brown calls Roe v. Wade “the law of the land.” NO IT IS NOT! Judges by definition cannot make law. I don’t care if they say their rulings are law. Legislatures make laws. The Tenth Amendment movement should have started the day after Roe was handed down in 1973. Roe only ever had the force of law because a lot of Americans gave it such weight. Brown says he will not seek to overturn Roe, something the legislative ...
Senate Proposes Increasing U.S. Debt Limit $1.9 Trillion to $14.3 Trillion
Post Date: 2010-01-21 23:03:15 by DeaconBenjamin
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Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. debt limit would be raised by $1.9 trillion to $14.29 trillion under an amendment proposed in the Senate. The chamber began debate yesterday on raising the debt ceiling for the fifth time in two years after lower tax revenue from the recession and higher stimulus spending boosted the calendar-year budget deficit to an all-time high last year. “If Congress does not enact this legislation, and soon, then the Treasury would default on its debt for the first time in history,” said Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat. The White House in a statement urged lawmakers to pass the measure. “Such an increase is critically ...
The Militia Question, Resolved: Second Amendment 101
Post Date: 2010-01-21 06:37:37 by Ada
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"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so. Indeed I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a sine qua non for the overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or police. German troops alone will bear the sole responsibility for the maintenance of law and order." ~ Adolf Hitler, April 11, 1942, in “Hitler's Table-Talk at the Führer's Headquarters 1941–1942,” Dr. Henry Picker, ed. (Athenaeum Verlag, Bonn, 1951) ...
US Urges Judge to Bar Geithner Deposition in AIG Lawsuit
Post Date: 2010-01-20 20:36:30 by DeaconBenjamin
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DETROIT (AP) -- The federal government is opposing a Michigan man's request to take the deposition of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a lawsuit that challenges the bailout of American International Group Inc. A lawsuit was filed in 2008 on religious grounds, claiming the government should not have bailed out AIG because the insurance giant sold financial products specifically tailored to Islamic principles. The plaintiff, Kevin Murray of Ypsilanti, is being represented by an Ann Arbor firm that takes cases on behalf of Christian causes. In a court filing last week, government attorneys called the deposition a ''fishing expedition,'' and said there are no ...
'tube J-E-T-S fan arrested in SD for cheering for his team
Post Date: 2010-01-20 08:38:25 by Jethro Tull
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FBI broke law for years in phone record searches
Post Date: 2010-01-19 17:45:20 by F.A. Hayek Fan
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Links found at webpage. I'm too lazy to post them all. The FBI illegally collected more than 2,000 U.S. telephone call records between 2002 and 2006 by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or simply persuading phone companies to provide records, according to internal bureau memos and interviews. FBI officials issued approvals after the fact to justify their actions. E-mails obtained by The Washington Post detail how counterterrorism officials inside FBI headquarters did not follow their own procedures that were put in place to protect civil liberties. The stream of urgent requests for phone records also overwhelmed the FBI communications analysis unit with work that ...
Meet Maricopa County Attorney Andy Thomas—overtly political prosecutor, abuser of power, sworn enemy of libertarianism
Post Date: 2010-01-19 15:51:33 by freepatriot32
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By now, most of America knows the name of Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio. The publicity-loving self-proclaimed "Toughest Sheriff in America" made himself famous with his desert tent prisons, chain gangs, reality TV show, and, most recently, with his almost certainly illegal crackdowns on undocumented immigrants. Arpaio is now the subject of a federal grand jury investigation. Less known, at least outside of Arizona, is Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Peyton Thomas. But prosecutor Thomas has emerged as one of Arpaio's most reliable enablers. For all Arpaio's tough-on-crime preening, Thomas may actually be more dangerous. Before running for public office, ...
How Gov't is Encroaching on Your Life
Post Date: 2010-01-19 11:10:07 by phantom patriot
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http://video.foxnews.com/v/39664...-encroaching-on-your-life
When to Shoot the Colonels
Post Date: 2010-01-18 12:39:47 by wakeup
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"At ease, Marines, and be seated" orders the gruff Gunnery Sergeant. "Now turn to Chapter 8 in your Military Constitutional Law text," he continues. "Today we discuss the appropriate conditions for shooting a colonel who is issuing an order which would violate the Constitutional rights of American citizens. Our first scenario involves gun seizures..." Absurd, isn't it, to think that this sort of education is conducted among our armed forces? Yet, millions of citizens indulge this unspoken fantasy each time they imagine that the military exists to preserve our freedoms. When I was at the Naval Academy in the mid-80s, and a Marine officer in the late 1980 ...
U.N.'s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity
Post Date: 2010-01-17 14:21:19 by buckeroo
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The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online. Such a scheme could raise "tens of billions of dollars" on behalf of the United Nations' public health arm from a broad base of consumers, which would then be used to transfer drug-making research, development and manufacturing capabilities, among other things, to the developing world. The multibillion-dollar "indirect consumer tax" is only one of a "suite of proposals" for financing the rapid transformation of the global medical industry that will go ...
Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On
Post Date: 2010-01-17 08:16:14 by Eric Stratton
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Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On George Will Sunday, January 17, 2010 WASHINGTON -- You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, things cannot continue like this. Washington feels that way on the rare and fleeting occasions when it really thinks about the nation's looming crisis of public finance. The crisis, which is obvious and inevitable, combines unfulfillable entitlement promises and unsustainable budget deficits. So Washington is succumbing, yet again, to an idee fixe, which is usually, and in this case, scary. The awful idea ...
Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On
Post Date: 2010-01-17 08:15:31 by Eric Stratton
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Off-The-Cliff, But Catching On George Will Sunday, January 17, 2010 WASHINGTON -- You know the foreboding you feel while watching the steamier Greek tragedies, when dynasties are falling and sons are marrying their mothers and everyone is behaving badly and you are thinking: Really, things cannot continue like this. Washington feels that way on the rare and fleeting occasions when it really thinks about the nation's looming crisis of public finance. The crisis, which is obvious and inevitable, combines unfulfillable entitlement promises and unsustainable budget deficits. So Washington is succumbing, yet again, to an idee fixe, which is usually, and in this case, scary. The awful idea ...
Fed's balance sheet liabilities hit record
Post Date: 2010-01-16 10:24:19 by DeaconBenjamin
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve's balance sheet rose to a record level in the latest week, boosted by its ongoing efforts to support the mortgage market, Fed data released on Thursday showed. The Fed's balance sheet -- a broad gauge of its lending to the financial system -- rose to $2.274 trillion in the week ended January 13 from 2.216 trillion in the prior week. After declining early last year, the balance sheet generally has been accumulating mass amid the Fed's asset-buying, or quantitative easing, program. Given that this program has led the central bank's holdings of agency debt and mortgage-backed securities to grow to more than $1 trillion, the ...
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