» The Terms of the Deal

This weekend may see the fateful vote on ObamaCare, or it may be passed with twilight’s last deeming.

» Barack Obama has awakened a sleeping nation

Despite the fact that he has some of the lowest approval ratings among recent presidents, history will see Barack Obama as the source of America's resurrection.
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Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years.
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There is a level of political activism in this country that we haven't seen since the American Revolution, and Barack Obama has been the catalyst that has sparked a restructuring of the American political and social consciousness.

» SEIU organizing rally for illegal immigration on 3/21 in DC

As if they haven't wrought enough damage, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) -- whose agenda appears to be bankrupting the U.S. -- is organizing a rally in favor of illegal immigration.

The public sector unions have worked out really well for the feds and the states... which is why the Democrats, who appear hellbent on destroying our country, have empowered them to set policy.

The clock's ticking. Democrats only have a few months left in which they can destroy our society. That should explain their flailing, their buying votes, promising Ambassadorships, working retirement deals, and securing secret payoffs.

» Specter Opens Door on White House Felonies

At a minimum someone inside the Obama White House has screwed up and embarrassed the president.

Or, that somebody or more than one somebody -- a somebody or somebodies of note -- has or have in fact committed a federal crime in the President's name.

The 'Slaughter Solution' would violate the Constitution
» KUHNER: Impeach the president?

The Slaughter Solution is a dagger aimed at the heart of our system of checks and balances. It would enable the Democrats to establish an ominous precedent: The lawmaking process can be rigged to ensure the passage of any legislation without democratic accountability or even a congressional majority. It is the road to a soft tyranny. James Madison must be turning in his grave.

Precedent. Lawyer types love them some precedent.
Precedent is one of the building blocks of progressive tyranny.

Think. How many laws have been passed, how many court cases have been decided - based on precedent? Anytime a lawyer wants to do something a little fishy, they look for precedent.

Every law that is passed that cannot stand on it's own, but needs precedent to prop it up; becomes precedent for the next one.

If you think Hellth Scare will remain unique in having been passed without a vote, you are in for one heck of a rude awakening.

Next on the tyrants' agenda: Amnesty and citizenship for illegal aliens. Don't believe it? Allow the tyrants to set precedent in passing Hellth Scare and they will use that precedent to do the same with amnesty.

Then Cap & Trade will slide in on precedent.
Then Gun Control.
Then ....

Impeach? Oh, yes ... with EXTREME prejudice. 'One-Term Obama' is not safe enough, 'quarter-term' is past, 'half-term' might provide a window of opportunity to salvage the Republic.

This is not how a constitutional Republic ought be run
» Obama Holding California Farmers Hostage For ObamaCare Votes

The U.S. Department of Interior announced yesterday that it is increasing water allocations for the Central Valley of California, a region that depends on these water allocations to support local agriculture and jobs. The region has recently been starved for water and as a result unemployment has soared.

» Our lawbreaking Congress

Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution sets forth detailed requirements for the making or amending of a law, specifying that "Every order, resolution, or vote to which the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary" shall be presented to and approved by the president (or enacted over his veto) - so as to prevent unprincipled legislators from bypassing the procedural necessities by the kind of semantical chicanery currently being contemplated by House leaders.

» The $3-Trillion Dollar Soviet Airbrush

The Soviets were famous for airbrushing inconvenient facts–and people–out of history. But this gang is air-brushing facts into history. According to Democrats, Obamacare started January 1st. But it’s nearly April and the bill still hasn’t passed, let alone kicked in 4 years from now.

These people can’t be trusted to tell you the time of day, not to mention the day of the week, the week of the year or the year of the decade. There is nothing they won’t lie about.

» Electromagnetic Pulse Devastation: The Reality

Until recently... an EMP attack on the U.S. or its allies seemed unlikely. The few nations with nuclear capabilities were more focused on conventional nuclear devices which themselves were the primary source of mass destruction.

All that has changed

» Scales finally falling from even the blindest of eyes

You wishful-thinkers just keep telling yourselves “they don’t have the votes.” The rest of you, back to sharpening pitchforks, boiling tar, and loading mags.

And if all the mags are loaded, you need more mags.

» Global Warming on Trial

Texas has filed two petitions in federal court.

» There Will Be Blood

... the true intent of this bill is not to improve the quality of care or to make the current level of care cheaper. It is in fact a purposeful effort by Democrats to do the exact opposite in order to ultimately gain control over the citizenry.

There is a lot of discussion about how "angry" progressives will be if this Trojan horse health reform bill is not passed. I do not think the left side of the aisle has any concept of the manifestations of true anger that will be incarnated if that bill is passed.

Americans resoundingly reject ObamaCare. What, then, accounts for the Democrats’ determination?
» Obama to America: Bend Over and Cough

Democrats don’t care how much ObamaCare costs.
Democrats consider election losses a small price to pay for health care “reform.” Predictions range from moderate fall election losses to a bloodbath resulting in a Republican takeover of the House and possibly even the Senate. To this Democrats say, “So what?” Once health care reform becomes law, that’s that

» Obama Downplays Constitutional Process for Legislation

The "process" the President is ignoring is outlined in no uncertain terms in the US Constitution, Article 1, Section 7. This procedure is what allows for the checks and balances that protect the rights of the minority. James Madison was adamant about including this in the US Constitution and for good reason. The House rule that allows for this never should have been created because it usurps the Constitution. It's no wonder 37 states are now on board with suing the federal government over the constitutionality should they arrogantly advance this unconstitutional legislation into law.

» Undercover Study Shows Students Prone to Socialism

The “me, me, me” generation only cares about unfairness when it directly effects them, as it would with GPA redistribution. They are easily persuaded by the Left with gooey words like “hope” and “change” because they aren't directly affected by these tax-raising policies—yet.

The Russians are coming - to drill in our own backyard
» Obama surrenders gulf oil to Moscow

The Obama administration is poised to ban offshore oil drilling on the outer continental shelf until 2012 or beyond. Meanwhile, Russia is making a bold strategic leap to begin drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico.

~~ thanks for the tip, John ~~

» Will Obama's Betrayal of Britain Cause a Second Falklands War?

While Obama could have easily put a stop to the escalating crisis by stating clearly that the United States was prepared to back England, just as England had backed the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq-- his declaration of neutrality emboldened left wing Latin American leaders like Hugo Chavez to jump into the fight on Argentina's side. In her meeting with left wing Argentinian President Christina Kirchner, Hillary Clinton could have quietly pressed her to back down. Instead Clinton endorsed a call for talks in order to resolve the status of the Falkland Islands. Which actually moved the United States away from supporting neutrality, and toward supporting the Argentinian position.

The entire matter may seem like a tempest in a teapot to many Americans, but it's actually quite important for a number of reasons.

... the British who did stand by the US after 9/11 in the War on Terror have now been left out in the cold by an Obama Administration that prefers to seek solidarity with America's enemies, rather than its allies. And now Britain, like Israel, is discovering just how far the radical in the White House will go to sell out to the free world to its enemies.

» Great Britain: Royal Navy Dispatches Nuclear Submarine To Bolster Falkland Defense

What is totally uncharacteristic is for the United States to behave in a way where it sides with such leftist populism against what was thought to be an unbreakable alliance. It is truly shameful that the American people are allowing this to pass without so much as a "hey wait a minute". Funny how friendships can be burned and tossed aside over the need to rebrand America as a born again Marxist champion of 'social justice". Even more insidious would be the virtual silence of the population while Komrade Hussein chooses Argentina over Britain, the Arabs over Israel, the Russians over the Eastern Europeans; when will the American people understand that healthcare is just the tip of the iceberg with this villain?

» The final days of a dying Republic

And this won’t be death by natural causes, either; it’s murder most foul, at the hands of a despicable class of poltroons, grifters, liars, thieves, and Leftists — sorry for the redundancy. Credit a lazy, uncaring, ignorant serf class who are by and large “just not into politics, man” with an assist.

And could we please dispense at long last with the Pollyanna-ish “they don’t have the votes” denialism? They don’t need the votes; they don’t CARE about the damn votes. Voting on this or any bill, for these collectivist revolutionaries, isn’t a sacred duty and trust; it’s a subterfuge, a dumb-show, an outmoded and unnecessary process to be manipulated on the irresistible march to the “correct” outcome, which henceforth will be a series of foregone conclusions in our Politburo.

The Democrat Socialists should be known forevermore as the American Tyranny Party; their attempt at taking over the health-care system has now degenerated from a crooked, cynically-manipulated legislative process to a sneaky, bloodless coup d’etat. They can’t grab the power they lust for so intractably by Constitutional means, so they’re perfectly willing to just cast the Constitution aside if that’s what it takes. And that’s exactly what they’re preparing to do. This is certainly the first time such an attempt has been made; if they’re allowed to get away with it, rest assured that it will NOT be the last.

» Mark Levin: I will immediately sue the president if they use the Slaughter Rule

One of the main weapons of the left is to tie up legislation or referenda in court so that, at best, they won't see the light of day for years. Well, guess what, two can play at that game. See you in court, punks.

Schoolhouse Rock Slaughter Edition: How a Bill Becomes a Law

Boy: But that's not what we studied in Civics class! A bill's supposed to be passed, identically, through both chambers of Congress! That's in the Constitution!
Bill: Don't be a chucklehead. The Democrats destroyed the Constitution decades ago. Now get lost. You bother me. And don't come back until you've got some money to grease the wheels of the legislature. Dummy.

» Lefties Furious as Their Human Health Care Props Are Debunked

» Idaho first to sign law against "health care reform"

Republican Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter used a ceremony Wednesday afternoon to become the first governor to sign into law a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government over any such insurance mandates.

There's similar legislation pending in 37 other states, a point Otter stressed when asked if the bill he signed can succeed, given constitutional law experts are already saying federal laws would supersede those of states in a U.S. District Court fight.

"The ivory tower folks will tell you, 'No, they're not going anywhere,'" he told reporters. "But I'll tell you what, you get 36 states, that's a critical mass. That's a constitutional mass."

» president barack obama Talks to Bret Baier About Health Care Reform Bill

This is a rush transcript of "Special Report With Bret Baier" from March 17, 2010. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

» Where's TOTUS when you need him?

Victor Davis Hanson
» Reflections on the Revolution in America

... the present attempt to remake America is the effort of the liberal well-to-do — highly educated at mostly private universities, nursed on three decades of postmodern education, either with inherited wealth or earning top salaries, lifestyles of privilege indistinguishable from those they decry as selfish, and immune from the dictates they impose on others.

Such are basically the profiles of the Obama cabinet and sub-cabinet, the pillars of liberalism in the Congress and state legislatures, the public intellectuals in the universities and foundations, the arts crowd, and the Hollywood elite. Let us be clear about that.

» Emails Reveal Nidal Malik Hasan's Pageant of Red Flags

An indication of how deeply moonbattery has eaten into our society is the degree of inadequacy even the military will put up with in the name of diversity

» Billboards of America

It's safe to say at this point that Hopey Change just didn't take. Unfortunately that doesn't mean it can't be imposed by force.

» Suicidal: UAW urges Congress to let EPA set new emissions rules

Here's a good way to commit suicide - have your puppet politicians that you bought with forced union dues give you control of a major auto company in bankruptcy, and then encourage said politicians to regulate emissions that will have no effect on global climate to fix a problem that doesn't exist, but regulations that will put said company at a huge competitive disadvantage to foreign car makers. There. Almost easier than putting a shotgun to one's head and pulling the trigger with your toe.

» CBO's latest: TARP to cost us $109 Billion

Barry then: "In the first round of repayments" from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit." Barack Obama on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009 in a statement at the White House.

Reality now: $109 Billion loss.

» USA: Another State Department Declaration...This Time Europe Is Unfair And Harsh On Its Muslims

And here I was under the impression that we were not doing enough to ward off the onslaught of this cult in western lands. Now don't misunderstand me; I am well aware of the fact that this is nothing short of the height of political pandering by this "State Department" and that it smacks of the worst and most obvious stenches of appeasement. I am also aware of the fact that this is the same "State Department" which declared British Falkland Islands to now be known as "The Malvinas; whatever the hell that means. So lets be perfectly clear here when we declare that this so-called report is nothing short of a political stunt in the wake of Obama failing to block a congressional ruling that the Armenian genocide is precisely that; a genocide. It also unsurprisingly follows in the wake of Biden pandering to the Palestinian animal by once again blaming Israel for all the world's woes. So the truth is that no one ought be surprised by such statements by such an administration. I myself am not; not in the least.

John Hood is standing up.
» I Will Not Comply

I’ve been arguing the case against ObamaCare for more than a year ... There is no conceivable way that the president or the leaders of Congress can legally enact their legislative monstrosity.

Instead, they are going to cheat. They are going to employ some kind of legislative trickery to pretend to pass a bill that, they now realize, will never become law through constitutional means.

I will not comply. If the government tries to make me comply, I’ll sue. And I’ll win

~~ thanks for the tip, Hans ~~

How Democrats may 'deem' ObamaCare into law, without voting
or How Dhimmicrats Intend to Blatanly Violate the Constitution and Dare You to Do Anything About It.
» Slaughter House Rules

Under the "reconciliation" process that began yesterday afternoon, the House is supposed to approve the Senate's Christmas Eve bill and then use "sidecar" amendments to fix the things it doesn't like. Those amendments would then go to the Senate under rules that would let Democrats pass them while avoiding the ordinary 60-vote threshold for passing major legislation. This alone is an abuse of traditional Senate process.

But Mrs. Pelosi & Co. fear they lack the votes in the House to pass an identical Senate bill, even with the promise of these reconciliation fixes. House Members hate the thought of going on record voting for the Cornhusker kickback and other special-interest bribes that were added to get this mess through the Senate, as well as the new tax on high-cost insurance plans that Big Labor hates.

So at the Speaker's command, New York Democrat Louise Slaughter, who chairs the House Rules Committee, may insert what's known as a "self-executing rule," also known as a "hereby rule." Under this amazing procedural ruse, the House would then vote only once on the reconciliation corrections, but not on the underlying Senate bill. If those reconciliation corrections pass, the self-executing rule would say that the Senate bill is presumptively approved by the House—even without a formal up-or-down vote on the actual words of the Senate bill.

Democrats would thus send the Senate bill to President Obama for his signature even as they claimed to oppose the same Senate bill. They would be declaring themselves to be for and against the Senate bill in the same vote. Even John Kerry never went that far with his Iraq war machinations. As we went to press, the precise mechanics that Democrats will use remained unclear, though yesterday Mrs. Pelosi endorsed this "deem and pass" strategy in a meeting with left-wing bloggers.

This two-votes-in-one gambit is a brazen affront to the plain language of the Constitution, which is intended to require democratic accountability. Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution says that in order for a "Bill" to "become a Law," it "shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate." This is why the House and Senate typically have a conference committee to work out differences in what each body passes. While sometimes one house cedes entirely to another, the expectation is that its Members must re-vote on the exact language of the other body's bill.

» Pelosi: 'Once we kick through this door,' more reform will follow

In a particularly Alice-in-Wonderland moment, Pelosi argued that the debate over health care reform can begin after the bill is passed. "Pelosi said passing the bill would allow Dems to undertake a 'debate' with Republicans over 'what is the balanced role that government should have,'

Once you let a dhimmicrat step on your Constitution, they just want to do it again. and again.
Their satisfaction will be complete only when it's ground into dust.

» White House Ducks "Slaughter Solution" Controversy

» Foreclosure worries cramping your style? President Obama's Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) lets taxpayers foot the bill!

In short, the unions and the bankers were paid off -- courtesy of you, the taxpayer -- but the salve is only a temporary remedy. The bill will come due someday soon. And because this administration can't deal with economic realities, the fall will be far swifter and far more painful than it ever needed to be.

» So America – How Easy Are You To Dupe?

Somehow I don’t get the feeling a real democracy should be run by pretending to vote on one set of laws and then having a small group commit a coupe d’etat and slip in their own preferred version. That is not the ‘law of the land’ I grew up to admire in this country.

» Hiding Holder’s True Intentions

One Obama cabinet member I think is in serious trouble, though he seems to be flying under the radar of the Health Care debate at the moment, is Attorney General Eric Holder. The fact he held back key amicus briefs from his Senate review is very disturbing, and just another sign the Obama administration is anything but ‘transparent’
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Clearly this is subterfuge, an effort to hide Holder’s risky and dangerous views from public scrutiny. This was a brief which exposes Holder’s (and Obama’s and John Brennan’s) views that they could dial back our reaction to terrorist threats used under the Bush admininstration. It explains completely why the terrorist investigations into Major Hasan were suspiciously and abruptly shut down before the true nature of the man was discovered. After all, he was an American citizen talking about Jihad and killing soldiers with another American citizen now in Yemen and tied to al Qaeda and 9-11.

In the twisted and limited views of liberals that is called free speech.

» Paul Ryan: ‘We are not governing here today, we are greasing the skids’

So said Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) during today’s Budget Committee farce wherein the “shell” bill was passed. It now heads over to be marked up and can include whatever they want, including public option, and can be loaded with earmarks to secure wavering or undecided votes. Like I said last night, everything is now on the table. Everything.

Ryan then went on to say the following during Budget Committee today: “This abuse of the process, this abuse of the constitution…are not worthy of your support.” Among other things.

» The unconscious racism of a San Francisco liberal newspaper reporter

I’m try to come up with a suitably scathing statement about a reporter who is so miserably informed about the world around him, and so biased, but I can’t. I’m just beyond words. Maybe that ignorance itself shouldn’t surprise me so much, though. It turns out that vast numbers of reporters are miserably uninformed about American iconography. And yet we trust these people to filter our complex world and given honest, comprehensible information about what they know.

» "I Won"

In the end everything we ever needed to know about Obama could have been gleaned from his two word reply to a Republican Senator who objected to Obama's disastrous economic stimulus plan. "I Won." And of course Obama won the battle and lost the war. The economic stimulus plan passed but was widely considered unpopular and a failure. It played a big part in the public perception of a wasteful government tossing around money with no real results. But Obama is still wedded to the "win".

» Obama to Israel: 'Drop Dead'

Murdered Jews or Jewish apartments: Obama evidently finds the latter more repellent. Then again, Obama was silent on the mass murder of hundreds of Christians in Nigeria by Muslim marauders. Never will an unkind word be said about Muslim murderers or Palestinian killers that might detract from Obama's charm offensive to the Muslim world -- the one that so far has accomplished only a projection of weakness, cowardice, and a loss of any ability to weigh competing claims fairly.

The Rewards of Liberal Education
» Unrecognized Iwo Jima photo shows how World War II memories fading

I took a quick survey in the newsroom the other day, something between a Rorschach test and a pop quiz, asking younger colleagues to identify an iconic photograph of World War II.

While some instantly recognized the image, others couldn't quite place it.

"I know I ought to know it," one co-worker said. "It was in the movie, ‘Flags of Our Fathers.' " Some, seeing uniforms, realized it must be a war photo. Maybe Vietnam? One got the era right but the battlefield wrong. She guessed it was D-Day, not, as it was, the raising of the American flag on Iwo Jima.

Nearly a quarter of 17-year-olds recently surveyed by Common Core, an educational advocacy group and think tank, couldn't identify Adolf Hitler.

For many of us who remember World War II, it was the biggest event of our lifetime, not just in magnitude but rectitude. It was a morality play, lacking shades of gray or traces of ambiguity. Americans took lives, but they did so in order to stop the slaughter of millions.

Pass the image around at the next leftist-sponsored anti-war protest (or a Ron Paul rally), I got a $100 bill that says you'll find at least one prick that guesses it's a photo of American troops stabbing an Iraqi child with a flagpole.

» Gitmo's Indefensible Lawyers
"Legal counsel to some of the detainees went far beyond vigorous representation of their clients. " ... Far enough to qualify as treason.

On the evening of Jan. 26, 2006, military guards at Guantanamo Bay made an alarming discovery during a routine cell check. Lying on the bed of a Saudi detainee was an 18-page color brochure. The cover consisted of the now famous photograph of newly-arrived detainees dressed in orange jumpsuits—masked, bound and kneeling on the ground at Camp X-Ray—just four months after 9/11. Written entirely in Arabic, it also included pictures of what appeared to be detainee operations in Iraq. Major General Jay W. Hood, then the commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, concurred with the guards that this represented a serious breach of security.

How did the detainee get it? More importantly, who gave it to him?

An investigation by JTF-GTMO personnel revealed that Julia Tarver Mason, a partner at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, had sent it to Al Joudi and eight of the firm's other detainee clients through "legal mail"—a designation for privileged lawyer-client communications that are exempt from screening by security personnel. Worse, the investigation showed that Ms. Mason's clients passed it to other detainees not represented by Paul, Weiss lawyers. In all, more than a dozen detainees received a copy.

» Americans Don’t Give Up On America

Americans have always faced great challenges, and we’ve always persevered. The difficulties we face today are no different; we can overcome today’s challenges. We can reverse our debt burdens. We can reverse our education failures. We can defeat terrorism and Al-Qaeda. We can improve our health care delivery system. We can solve our energy problems. We can prosper and keep our environment clean and enjoyable. We can compete with China and India. We can live within the constraints of the Constitution.

» Faith, Hope and Charity

America, this is the moment. The fundamental transformation of America is here.

I know you are busy. I know you have other things going on in your life. But I also know that this is still America. It was right before Christmas 1776, Washington had lost two thirds of his army. They were about to face a far superior army. They wanted to go home. Congress ran away. Washington's bold plan was to just go get them or be slaughtered. As everyone freaked out, Thomas Payne wrote in the follow-up to "Common Sense":

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: It is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated."

We're not tired. We're going to keep on fighting this thing. We know what this bill means and that it seeks to fundamentally transform America. We will fight it with everything in us — not with bullets, not with guns, but with faith, hope and charity.

» Absence of U.S. flag in Haiti sparks controversy

The many nations helping Haiti recover from the devastating earthquake that struck there have set up their own military compounds and fly their flags at the entrances.
France's tricolor, Britain's Union Jack and even Croatia's coat of arms flap in the breeze.

But the country whose contributions dwarf the rest of the world's — the United States — has no flag at its main installation near the Port-au-Prince airport.

Oversight? Mistake?
What could be the reason?
You know, don't you? Of course ....

The Obama administration says flying the flag could give Haiti the wrong idea.

» Social Security to start cashing Uncle Sam's IOUs

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – The retirement nest egg of an entire generation is stashed away in this small town along the Ohio River: $2.5 trillion in IOUs from the federal government, payable to the Social Security Administration.

It's time to start cashing them in.

» Obama Kills Offshore Drilling

In case you thought there was any hope that the Community Organizer in Chief would set aside ideology long enough to alleviate unnecessary impediments to our economic recovery and slow the cascade of our money flowing into the pockets of our enemies, it is confirmed that he will not lighten up on senseless drilling restrictions.

"Despite public comments that favored a new leasing plan by a 2-to-1 margin, the Administration has decided to disregard the overwhelming opinion of the American people who support opening additional areas to drilling. By extending this drilling ban to 2012, the Administration is single-handedly preventing new job creation, billions in new government revenue and increased energy security."

If Chairman Zero wanted the economy to recover, would he prevent us from drilling our own oil? Prolonging the Depression worked out great for FDR; let's see how the strategy plays for Comrade Obama, who has a better informed public to contend with.

I know what you're thinking: Obama must lay awake at night, racking his pea brain for new ways to screw America.
And you are correct.

» Toy Gun Control

Airsoft guns, which fire little plastic balls, are used by a growing number of loyal enthusiasts (think paintball, only not as messy). In addition, thanks to their realistic look, weight, and feel, these guns are often used for training purposes by National Guard units and law enforcement.

It was this realism that led CBP agents to seize the shipment—which was destined for Airsoft Outlet Northwest in Cornelius, Oregon—and to call in the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE) for a closer look.

So far, a reasonable response ... well, reasonable if you factor in a certain amount of ignorance.
But ...

The BATFE was at least knowledgeable enough to discern that the guns in question were, in fact, not real guns. The case should have ended right then and there. After all, the agency has authority only with respect to the importation of real guns. Toy guns fall no more under BATFE jurisdiction than teddy bears.

Oh! You silly right-wing terrist, since when does ATF need jurisdiction? They invented jurisdiction!

However, a little technicality like lack of jurisdiction was not enough to keep BATFE off the case.

“In its present state, our firearms technology branch classified this as a machine gun,” said BATFE special agent Kelvin Crenshaw.

But wait a minute. Didn’t the BATFE previously admit that these are not real guns?

Yes, but “With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said.

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Brad and Ben Martin were robbed just as surely as if they had been mugged walking down the street. Only in this instance, the thugs operated under the color of law by an agency whose very existence is questionable.

Neener, Neener, Neener
» Matt Damon’s Bush-Bashing, Anti-American Iraq War Movie Bombs at Box Office

When will Hollywood learn that just because they hate America does not mean that we hate America?

» Courting Disaster

With Obamacare, the president knows that he will never run out of other people to blame for the failure of his policies. He can drive up the cost of health care through a vast new entitlement program, complete with new mandates, a whole new premium subsidy program and compulsory coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, and then turn around and blame the "greedy" insurance companies and the mindless pursuit of profit for the inevitable rise in premiums. Everything that goes wrong will become the rationale for more government intervention and control.
Last week Obama went out onto the highways and byways to sell the impending government takeover of health care as an act of personal benevolence and great political courage. But this was not like Daniel going into the lion's den. To the contrary ... it was more like a visit to Romper Room with assurances from the teacher that all the bad kids had been sent home

» The Dishonest Tyrant

Where the honest tyrant openly loots the people for his own enrichment, the dishonest tyrant claims to loot the people for their own benefit. The honest tyrant's answer to rebellion is naked force. The dishonest tyrant's answer is, "But just try to imagine what you would do without me." That is because the dishonest tyrant thrives by fostering the people's dependency on him, through a campaign of propaganda that convinces them that without him society would break down and nothing could function any more.
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The American Revolution was fought in order to create a government of the people and by the people. A state in which the people were the masters and government their servant. But through the trojan horse of progressive politics, the dishonest tyrants who claimed to be the protectors of the people wormed their way in and turned the government into the master, and the people into its servants.
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Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts, and We're From the Government and We're Here to Help, essentially mean the same thing. The Constitution was written with the understanding of the inevitable tug of war between the people and their leaders. To prevent tyranny, the people may not relax their grip, or accept gifts from the government, or the balance of power will be changed. As it has been changed. And as it is being changed right now, every day.

The dishonest tyrant does not need an army to rule the people. All he needs is their own complicity in their own oppression. Their willingness to be robbed and beaten down in the name of their own welfare. And it is only by bringing the people to such a state, that he can hope to rule over them.

It may be clever, but it is not constitutional
» Michael McConnell of Stanford Law: 'Slaughter solution cannot be squared with Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution'

Democratic congressional leaders have floated a plan to enact health-care reform by a procedure dubbed “the Slaughter solution.” ...Democrats would pass a rule that deems the Senate’s health-care bill to have passed the House, without the House actually voting on the bill. This would enable Congress to vote on legislation that fixes flaws in the Senate health-care bill without facing a Senate filibuster, and without requiring House members to vote in favor of a Senate bill that is now politically toxic.

Clever seems to be a Dhimmicrat specialty. Reading the Constitution - not so much.

» Obamacare: Shortcut to socialism

The official title is the "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," (bill text here) popularly known as "Obamacare," passed by the Senate in the wee-hours of Christmas Eve. This 2400-page monstrosity does what no enemy of America has ever been able to do: transform the land of the free into the home of the enslaved.

For the first time in the history of the nation, the federal government will force its citizens to purchase a product.

If Americans – through their elected officials – accept this principle, there is nothing to prevent the federal government from forcing its citizens to purchase any other product that the government decides its citizens should have. Nowhere does the Constitution authorize the federal government to require its citizens to purchase anything. The writers of this bill, however, conclude that even though insurance sales may be limited by each state, health insurance is still sold across state lines, and therefore is subject to federal regulations under the commerce clause, and that regulatory authority includes the authority to force citizens to purchase health insurance, whether they want it or not.

Individuals who fail to purchase the required insurance will be fined 1/12 of the annual cost of the required insurance with penalties "not to exceed 300 percent."(Chapter 48, Section 5000A, Page 321 ff)

As bad as this legislation is, it is just the first step toward a much worse condition: government control of health care.

That's the plan.

» Profits over people ?

Now we have the very unpleasant cumulative effect of irresponsible financial indifference and of finding someone to take ownership of a bill too long ignored because someone else was paying. The President has erroneously blamed insurance companies, but ignored the disastrous contribution of government wage and price controls to spawning a crisis brought about by distance between the patient and the bill. Now, however, the President is planning a colossally worse plan by preparing to have his monstrous-spending government, with all the appearance of righteousness, presume to be the solution.

» Attorney General's duplicity overlooked by media cheerleaders

"My read of Holder and his boss Obama is that they are perfectly comfortable befriending and defending terrorists. Obama's close friend -- and ghostwriter -- William Ayers was a bomb-maker for the fanatical Weather Underground. And Holder possesses a history of beneficence to terror organizations such as when he brokered a deal for releasing FALN bombers in New York just as Hillary Clinton began her campaign for that state's US Senate seat,"

A regular guy who became a fat, pampered Hollywood star, who somehow lost the plot, got way too full of himself and now spews slanders about the very men he chronicles in his latest movie.
» Tom Hanks, What Happened?

I don’t know when Tom Hanks became a “Blame America First”-crank, but his history sucks. And his current events aren’t any better. The soldiers serving us today are not genocidal maniacs engaged in a Race War, but as fine as any this nation has ever produced. I should know–those are my family, too.

If the Tuskeegee Airmen could love and serve America like they did, it should be child’s play for us today. You need to look at your own history, Tom. Maybe you’ll want to return to the time before slanders against America–and Americans–rolled off your tongue like a Hollywood promise.

» A Few [of the] Good Reasons to Despise Leftists

... In the past, I used to wonder where all the girly men came from, but then I remembered 50 years worth of rock concerts where young guys would shamelessly stand and gently sway while holding lighted candles aloft. Where, I’d like to know, are the Hell’s Angels when you really need them?
... I would like to use a baseball bat on the NY Times’ Frank Rich for having written that Sen. McCain “epitomizes the unpatriotic opposition.” Apparently, in some addled minds, spending 30 years at the NY Times, going to plays and pontificating, trumps five and a half years residence at the Hanoi Hilton.
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I only wish I could give credit to the GOP, but it was the American people, otherwise known as astroturfers and tea-baggers, who stopped that runaway freight train.
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Finally, can I respectfully ask that Barack Obama shuts up and not deliver a speech for, say, the next half hour?

What other dirt does Emanuel have on Democrats?
» Massa Pile of Corruption

If Massa's claim is even partially true, it signals a redoubling of "Chicago-style" political assassination efforts by the Obama administration to ensure passage of their holy grail, health care legislation.

» My Son's Textbook "Screws" Ronald Reagan and John Paul II

I found that his class is presenting a brand new version of History, a version that never occurred ... for example it claims that Jesus lived in Palestine, which is simply propaganda. There was no such place as "Palestine" in the time of Jesus.

And technically, realistically and in reality there still is no Palestine. It exists only in the mind of the anti-Jew leftists.

Beyond the ancient mistakes, my son's text book distorts events I saw with my own eyes.
... It sets up the Cold War period with the mistaken explanation that both sides were aggressors. On page 983 it gives the politically correct, "both sides believed that they needed to stop the other side from extending its power." What it should have said was that it was a battle between the Soviet side wanting to expand its communist philosophy across the world, and the west trying to prevent the takeover."

I'm off to Amazon!
» Politically Incorrect Fiction

I, Sniper by Stephen Hunter

“Someone once defined a newspaper gun story as ‘something with a mistake in it.’”

While I, Sniper (Simon & Schuster, $26) ostensibly is about iconic hero Bob Lee Swagger taking down snipers who have killed several Vietnam-era radicals and framed a war hero for the crime, Hunter’s crosshairs are really on the mainstream media in general and the New York Times in particular.

Hunter, a former film critic for the Washington Post, obviously is fed up with the media’s narrative about Americans who love their guns and the warriors who fight for our freedom.

After someone has taken out an actress who collaborated with the North Vietnamese and made a fortune out of exercise videos, then shot two Chicago academics who were ’60s domestic terrorists (yes, the resemblance is intentional), FBI agent Nick Memphis has this exchange at a press conference:

“Do you have any opinions, special agent, on the use of ‘trained killers’ in the military and the risks such men pose for society when they return to civilian world? I mean this seems to dovetail neatly with the report released by the Homeland Security Agency some months ago that ?”

“You must be from the New York Times.”

“Yes sir,” the young man said.

» Short-Bus Shortshanks Short Circuit with Shortcuts

“Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; If he approve he shall sign it…it shall become a Law. But in all such Cases the Votes of both Houses shall be determined by Yeas and Nays, and the Names of the Persons voting for and against the Bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House…”–Article 1, Section 7, The Constitution. Yes–of the United States. Yes–of America.

If you are going to pass a law, pass a law.

You don’t pass a rule that says you passed a law, when you didn’t. And further, “deems” it as signed by the president in order to facilitate the shortcut of the first part.

Some try to dismiss this as mere “process”. Newsflash: The Constitution is process.

“Full Faith and Credit”: process.
No unreasonable search without a warrant: process.
“Congress shall make no law…”: process.
“Advice and Consent”: process.
“Due process”: …process!

That “process” is our liberty, and not to be toyed with by a Gangster Government hellbent on imposing Chicago Rules on an unwilling country.

» Kudos to Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman for his Negotiating Stance with the Public Sector Unions -- Fire Everyone, Rehire Those Willing to Work

Las Vegas faces a $70 million budget shortfall with wages and benefits of public sector employees comprising a huge percentage of the total. Mayor Oscar Goodman asked union members to forgo scheduled pay raises and instead take 8% cuts in salary over the next two years.

We're talking about unions here, so you know how that went.

» Pelosi: I'm delighted the President will be here to burn the Constitution in Effigy... it's going to be historic.

Even a simpleton or a Democrat (but I repeat myself), would admit that it has nothing to do with health care. It's a political calculation: Democrats are willing to lose Congress in November if they can create a brand new unfunded entitlement that will cement the power of government over the citizen.

» Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change

After three days of turbulent meetings, the Texas Board of Education on Friday approved a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.

Bear in mind, this is the New York Times reporting. So many of the facts reported are actually opinions; accusations of bias are actually just bias accusations.
Like the above quote "...put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks...", which would read more accurately as "... remove the socialist progressive stamp ...".

“We are adding balance,” said Dr. Don McLeroy, the leader of the conservative faction on the board, after the vote. “History has already been skewed. Academia is skewed too far to the left.”

What he said.

Efforts by Hispanic board members to include more Latino figures as role models for the state’s large Hispanic population were consistently defeated, prompting one member, Mary Helen Berlanga, to storm out of a meeting late Thursday night, saying, “They can just pretend this is a white America and Hispanics don’t exist.”

“They are going overboard, they are not experts, they are not historians,” she said. “They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.”

That would be the opinion of the leftists that have rewrote history for about four decades. So technically, the Texan conservatives may be accused of rewriting the rewritten history.

“I reject the notion by the left of a constitutional separation of church and state,” ... “I have $1,000 for the charity of your choice if you can find it in the Constitution.”

There ya go, lefties, your opportunity to funnel 100 Franklins into the coffers of your favorite Communist organization. All you have to do is prove something that does not exist.

Dr. McLeroy, a dentist by training, pushed through a change to the teaching of the civil rights movement to ensure that students study the violent philosophy of the Black Panthers in addition to the nonviolent approach of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He also made sure that textbooks would mention the votes in Congress on civil rights legislation, which Republicans supported.

“Republicans need a little credit for that,” he said. “I think it’s going to surprise some students.”

It's going to surprise alright - especially all those little Obamabots that have been tricked into singing hymns to the Big-O, to finally realize that their beloved Dhimmicrat party was the one that tried to prevent civil rights legislation from passing.

Mr. Bradley won approval for an amendment saying students should study “the unintended consequences” of the Great Society legislation, affirmative action and Title IX legislation. He also won approval for an amendment stressing that Germans and Italians as well as Japanese were interned in the United States during World War II, to counter the idea that the internment of Japanese was motivated by racism.

Other changes seem aimed at tamping down criticism of the right. Conservatives passed one amendment, for instance, requiring that the history of McCarthyism include “how the later release of the Venona papers confirmed suspicions of communist infiltration in U.S. government.” The Venona papers were transcripts of some 3,000 communications between the Soviet Union and its agents in the United States.

In other words, perhaps a few generations will be taught the truth about McCarthy and the rise of the American Communist movement. The Venona papers proved that McCarthy was, indeed, right.

Bravo Texas!

The lefties are pitching a hissy fit all over the country. S'ok though. Cockroaches always get a little miffed when you first shed light on them, but then they run, run, run for the dark corners.

» Backing Away from the Wall

It is an article of faith on the left that a "Wall" separating church and state justifies hounding religion out of the public square. But the federal courts have been backing away from that metaphor.

» Debate Grows on Nuclear Containment of Iran
Comparing Iran to 1960s China is a stupid mistake. The Chinese were very interested in surviving; the prospect of nuclear war didn't appeal to them. That cannot be said of the Iranian mullahs.

When future generations of Americans are forced to do battle against a nuclear jihad, I doubt they will have fond memories of those of us that now condemn pre-emptive warfare.

Myopic Poppycock
» The Real Tea Party Story: Community Builders vs. Community Organizers

In less than a year, the MSM has gone from ignoring Tea Parties to mocking and insulting their participants to grudging coverage with ridiculing overtones. Finally it has arrived at giving wide attention to the movement, albeit grudgingly and ungraciously. A once-highly esteemed fourth estate, they have become talking-head dilettantes on a mission to save the disgruntled masses from democracy itself.

The real Tea Party story is quite simple and an eloquent tribute to democracy: a genuine movement of ordinary people rising to the demands of their all-American principles. It represents a fundamental difference between those who seek to provide for themselves and those who see government as provider of all material goods.
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The message from Tea Partiers is that Alinsky has not succeeded any better than his more illustrious revolutionary peers. Rather than losing all hope in the American system of liberty, justice and limited government, these community-builders -- the Tea Partiers -- are rallying to express their firm commitment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees equality under the law, not equality of material-world goods. The Constitution is designed to preserve liberty, not "empathy," for as any sentient person knows, empathy is entirely dependent upon which type of tyrant is sitting in the seat of judgment.

We are witnessing a clash of worldviews in which, as the Tea Partiers have recognized, fence-sitting is simply not an option. Americans will now either rise to reverse the tides of socialist tyranny, which have taken root for decades, or they will oversee the bitter end of our grand experiment in democracy.

» The Cuba I Saw

Interested in seeing Barack Obama's dreams for the U.S. in real time? Pack some toilet paper, Tylenol, and towels. Then hop a plane to Cuba. Just ninety miles off Florida's coast, Obama's ideas are alive and kicking.

In fact, visiting Cuba today may be more meaningful than ever before. Touring the country of 11 million lets you see everything the far left "knows" is right, just, and good for all of us.
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Cuba is an antique car-collector's dream...except that Cubans aren't collecting 1940s and 1950s vehicles -- they're driving them.
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Cuba's health care has "minor" glitches like no medicines. There aren't over-the-counter or prescription drugs, vitamins, or supplies like diabetic strips.
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Fired for wrongdoing or company politics? It's over. No severance, no recommendation, and probably not another job. But hey, who's complaining? It's socialism and it's fair, even when it's not.
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Cuba bans freedom of speech and the press, something Obama, Axelrod, Pelosi, Reid, and Durbin would celebrate. In fact, speak against the government and disappear: effective. Dissent is outlawed. (Obama and Pelosi, eat your hearts out.)
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Washington will be pleased to know that there are few overweight Cubans. (No financial drain there.) Of course, it's because they lack food. (Only the elderly, sick, and kids under seven are allowed milk.)
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if Barack Obama and his DNC succeed in making their dreams for the United States a reality, here's some advice: Head to the grocery and stack up on toilet paper. Then hang on real tight -- it's going to be one rough ride.

Merd Have Lorcy!
Did the congressman advocate sending SEALs after the Attorney General?!
» Rep. Poe Says SEAL Three Should Be Sent To Capture Another Terrorist
Oops, I jumped to a conclusion on that headline.

Rep. Ted Poe told HUMAN EVENTS he thinks the three Navy SEALs who captured terrorist Ahmed Hashim Abed should be sent back out to capture another terrorist. The SEALs face court martial after Abed accused them of punching him.

Poe isn’t necessarily buying Abed’s story, especially since Abed didn’t launch the accusations until after the SEALs surrendered him to the Iraqis (he supposedly underwent further questioning by the SEALs, while technically remaining in Iraqi custody). According to the Al Qaeda training manual released by the U.S. Justice Department, members of the organization must complain of torture and mistreatment inflicted on them.

“I think they ought to give them medals, send them out to bag another one,” Poe said of the SEALs. “I think they showed great restraint. We are at war.”

He and 76 cosponsors introduced a resolution back in December to honor the Navy SEALs for capturing Abed, but the resolution hasn’t made it out of a House committee.

The only investigation that was warranted was to determine if the SEALs suffered any abrasions on their fists; and if so award Purple Hearts.

Progressives' Step One : TAX
» Colorado Internet Retailer Tax Backfires

More evidence that if you want less of something, tax it: The so-called "Amazon tax" on Internet retailers.

In February, Colorado became the fourth state to approve the tax, which requires Internet retailers with in-state "affiliates" -- individuals operating websites with links to cyber-companies like Amazon.com -- to collect the state sales tax. New York, North Carolina and Rhode Island have already passed their own Amazon taxes.

Colorado Democrats predicted that revoking what they described as the Internet sales-tax exemption would bring an additional $5 million to the state's depleted coffers. Instead, it appears the Democrat-controlled legislature has killed an entire industry at the cost of as many as 10,000 jobs.

Almost immediately after Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter signed the legislation, Amazon struck back. The company sent out emails to its associates informing them that it would cease its affiliate program in Colorado. That means Colorado website operators can no longer earn income by referring customers to Amazon through links and advertising on their sites.

Logically, the next step would be for the CO dhims to appeal to the Congressional dhims to pass laws to force Amazon to do business with them. (After all, congress is no longer required to vote on legislation to pass it.)
If that doesn't work, then they could sic ACORN and SEIU on them.

The recession is an essential part of the "Progressive" plan to transform the foundation of the country from capitalism to socialism
» Obama: Serving Ambitions, Not Citizens

The unemployment rate of 9.7 percent represents only about half of the workforce that would be working if jobs were available. Jobs in the private (productive) sector continue to decrease, while government and SEIU (Service Employees International Union) taxpayer paid jobs continue to increase.

With less and less revenue from private sector production and more and more government dependence, you can see where this is headed. You can also see why our government keeps borrowing more money to pay for liabilities that aren’t being covered by tax revenue.

When progressives talk about creating jobs, they're talking about government jobs. Government jobs (including 'green' jobs) contribute nothing to the GNP and reduce the economy instead of benefiting it. Government jobs produce no wealth.

the latest subversion of constitutional law comes from Rep. Louise Slaughter who is suggesting a new rule that would consider the bill passed if the House passes a “corrections bill” that would make changes to the Senate bill. This means that the House wouldn’t actually vote on the healthcare bill at all.

The Constitution is very clear on this point:

“…But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the journal of each House respectively.”

Obama is becoming desperate. He is becoming unglued, knowing that his signature legislation is failing, instead of becoming the most important accomplishment (the only accomplishment) of his career. He is demanding that Congress pass this abomination by March 18 before they go on Easter recess.

... we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it ...
» Nancy Pelosi Sums Up what is Wrong with the Democratic Led Congress and Barack Obama in One Sentence

Nancy Pelosi addressed the 2010 Legislative Conference for the National Association of Counties earlier this week. With her vacuous hyperbole, Pelosi confirmed, yet again, that she and Maxine Waters are cerebrally indistinguishable from cork. Being a fervid pursuant of the prodigiously stupid and the intellectually irrelevant, especially in Congress, I was once again surprised that I could be momentarily startled by any maniacal doctrine Pelosi or Waters verbalized.

In one sentence, Pelosi transcended everything that has been written or spoken about the health care reform bill. All the conjectures, suppositions, conclusions, and interpretations could not summarize this bill, Congress, and Barack Obama more poignantly than [that one sentence]

» "Slaughter Strategy" Is An Affront To The Constitution

Lose sight of what you are defending and defense isn't all that important, is it?

... there is tyranny afoot and it must be confronted and defeated with confidence, determination and passion. The confrontation is not about health care or any other piece of legislation. It is not about politicians, politics or parties.

The confrontation is about process. The confrontation is about fidelity to the Constitution.

» Best and clearest explanation of Democrats' reconcilation problems

» Wondering about the Blue Dogs’ pride

The question, then, is whether any of the Blue Dogs will have the courage to stand up and say “This isn’t right. Back in November 2008, I thought it was, but the reality is playing out differently from what I imagined. I’m going to accept that I erred, and place love of country ahead of ego-driven party loyalty.” The alternative is to do what they’re doing now, which is to cower behind Democratic party loyalty, as if that’s some sort of moral pass for helping to be an engineer of America’s destruction.

» Get Ready. The Democrats are Going to Slaughter Democracy Next Week

In case you're unfamiliar, the Slaughter Rule is named after Louise "she wore her dead sister's dentures" Slaughter and it works like this: The speaker brings a bill containing a list of changes that the House wants to make to the Senate bill to the floor for a vote. When the House members vote for and pass this list of changes to the Senate bill, the House will deem the Senate bill as passed as well, even though the Senate bill itself was never voted on to begin with.

What are Democratic leaders saying? "If you pass the Stupak amendment, more children will be born, and therefore it will cost us millions more. That's one of the arguments I've been hearing," Stupak says. "Money is their hang-up. Is this how we now value life in America? If money is the issue -- come on, we can find room in the budget. This is life we're talking about."

» Dems may not have votes, but they’ve got constitutional disregard down to an art

I mean, really, the whole concept of democracy is so out-dated. Tyranny is faster, easier and so much more efficient.

» Holder Lied… Attorney General Failed to Reveal 7 Legal Briefs During Confirmation

Senator John Kyl is skeptical of Attorney General Eric Holder’s claim that forgetfulness explains his failure to inform the Senate of his role in a brief supporting the position of terrorist Jose Padilla. Kyl asks: “Are we expected to believe that then-nominee Holder, with only a handful of Supreme Court briefs to his name, forgot about his role in one of this country’s most publicized terrorism cases?”

Kyl is skeptical? Sounds to me like Kyl is too diplomatic. I don't suffer from that particular characteristic, as demonstrated by saying things like
The US Attorney General was really busy defending terrorists and working against our military's missions when he was appointed AG. His credentials as a terrorist coddling traitor are what got him the job.

» The Warrior and Degeneracy

"When science becomes a religion the scientist becomes a profit"

One good example is environmental activism especially with the global warming scare. Any one objective looking for the truth can now see that it is being driven by arrogance and ignorance and people are starting to see the evidence of there fraudulent and fabricated claims.

» I Was Am-Bushed On MSNBC Over Iraq

Bush did NOT lie. President Bush acted in the best interests of the United States. Was our intelligence faulty? Yes. Did that change the fact that Saddam should be removed? No.

The truth will never be accepted by those who refuse to accept it.

» Shell halts gasoline sales to Iran

...according to someone with knowledge of the situation the company ceased gas sales to Iran sometime in 2009.

The House passed its own sanctions bill last year, and in order to become law the two bills would have to be merged and approved by both bodies before going to Obama for his signature.

Legislation that supports American ideals must be voted on before it's passed and signed to law? What a unique concept, why didn't Thomas Jefferson and the founding fellers think of that?

Makes me wonder why we can't apply that idea to legislation designed to kill our medical industry.

Anyway, kudos to Shell. Why wait for the government to decide whether or not it wants to defend the nation.

Today's Steaming Pile of Kokesh

» An IVAW traitor in GOP clothing

Adam Kokesh has decided to run for Congress to represent the Third District of New Mexico.
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He now portrays himself a libertarian conservative, and has even earned the endorsement of Ron Paul (surprise surprise). His shady background shows that he isn’t a conservative at all, that he was a poor NCO, and an awful excuse for a Marine.

And from the comments section ...

- Ron Paul is crazier than a ferret with syphilis. No wonder he likes this tool.
- Why you gotta hate on syphilis ridden ferrets, dude?

» An Interview with Tom Mullins by Cassy Fiano

Help Tom Mullins defeat Adam Kokesh in the primary. Get the word out, and donate to his campaign. We need real representatives who love this country, not a false prophet claiming to fight for the Constitution.

This one's not strictly about Kokesh. It's about some of the traitors he's been hanging with.
IVAW’s evil plot to destroy the world

Deeply Stupid and Dangerous Ideas
» A Gitmo deal with the devil

Obama would drop his insistence that the detainees be tried in civilian courts and instead let them be tried in military tribunals in exchange for Congress allowing (and funding) the closing of the Gitmo facility and the moving of the detainees to US prisons.

Only in Washington could bureaucrats hatch such a deal to trade one deeply unpopular proposal for another.

Unfortunately, some in Congress have bought the idea, including my Republican colleague Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina.

» Documents Show Obama's Justice Department Put Kibosh on Acorn Investigation

Now we know why the there is no federal investigation of the criminal enterprise ACORN. There was one..well that is until President Obama's Attorney General Eric Holder made it disappear.

If you're a conservative and belong to the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), .you're actually funding Barack Obama's radical agenda to change America into an all-powerful Socialist State.

Raleigh, NC
» Health Care Rally

St. Charles, MO
2,225 of the expected 600 ... showed up.
» The Anti-Obamacare Blowout

Stupid Things I heard Liberals say yesterday.
"I understand that America can't afford this bill, but there are so many needy people out there"
So, when America is bankrupt, in deep depression, nobody working - those needy people will be ... still needy, but at least we'll all be equal. I must be really dense, because I don't think needy folks are gonna be comforted by the fact that everyone else is just as needy.

"Health care is a right, not a privilege."
Well no, it's not a right - ignorant little liberal.

"Pass the Bill"
That does seem to be the first step - by Progressives: pass the bill, then write the bill. Read the bill? No thanks, still haven't read the original bill - The Bill of Rights.
Oh, and don't forget that passing the bill no longer requires actually voting on it.

» New York 'Teetering on Verge of Insolvency', Yet Thousands of State Officials Earn Over $180,000 Per Year

Today's Democrats are Statists, through and through, the last remnants of a failed strain of virulent Marxism for which we can begin inoculating the world in November.

Assuming we get to vote in November, and assuming there's anything left of America to save.

Blue State Blues
» New York's $9.2bn budget deficit could cause depression, says governor

The governor admitted that the state is discussing drastic measures to control spending and increase revenue, such as enforced, unpaid holidays for state workers and issuing IOU's for payments.

IOU's? Is that even legal?

» Troise: Silver Lining for Bond Investors in California Budget Crisis

Today California is facing a political and financial crisis of epic proportions. Rumors of default are gaining momentum and the continued ineffectiveness of the elected class in Sacramento has done nothing to allay the concerns of investors.

» Illinois seeks $13B for budget shortfall

The state of Illinois meets the classic definition of insolvency. That is, it is unable to pay its bills as they come due.

~~ via DougRossJournal ~~

» House Approves Pelosi Investigation

The ethics committee, controlled by Democrats and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D., Calif.), a Pelosi ally, will ultimately make the decision on how to move forward — if at all — on their own.

When Nancy (in 2006) said she was going to "drain the swamp", she actually meant to make room for more alligators.

» The jihad in Nigeria
The author lost ALL of his progressive readers on the first five words:

"Utterly appalling violence by Muslims "

» Adam Kokesh: An anti-war smear merchant in “Republican” clothing

The Gordon Libby Radio Show Libby interviews retired SEAL, Captain Larry Bailey about the RINO Kokesh

» The Middle East Peace Scam

For nearly twenty years the great sham of the Middle East Peace Process has dragged on. And this despicable scam has consisted of only one policy, only one platform and only one plan. Pressuring Israel for more concessions.

Year in and year out, new peace conferences were declared and new plans for peace were hammered out. All of them had one thing in common, they carved up Israel for a non-existent peace.

Listen instead to the soothing words of Ahmad Bahar, the Speaker of the Palestinian Authority Parliament.

"Make us victorious over the infidel people… Allah, take hold of the Jews and their allies, Allah, take hold of the Americans and their allies… Allah, count them and kill them to the last one and don’t leave even one.”

Ah, but you say it's about "the occupation". And there will be peace when the terrorists have all the land they feel they're entitled to. But... no.

"Our enmity with the Jews is a matter of faith, more than an enmity owing to occupation and the land."

Oh yes, there will be peace when they have all the land that they feel Muslims are entitled to. And this is the scope of their territorial demands.

“Soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, like Constantinople was conquered, according to the prophecy of our prophet Muhammad. Their capital will be the first post of the Islamic conquests that will spread all over Europe then it will turn to the two Americas and even to Eastern Europe."

» Another state to feds: Take your gun regs and stuff 'em

Local governments in massive revolt against rules ordered by Washington

» A simple point: why health care is not, and can never be, a "right"

Health care is a set of goods and services that are procured through payments.
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Our country's founders would never have countenanced the mandated delivery of services compelled by an authoritarian, centralized government.

Health care is an infinitely complex series of transactions facilitated by doctors, nurses, pharmaceutical companies, insurers, hospital systems, brokers, third-party networks, caregivers, volunteers and others.

The Democrats want to nationalize this entire system, and set up small committees of central planners who will formulate all of the rules, set prices, dictate treatments, and proscribe the activities of every kind of market participant, including patients.

Can a tiny group of Harvard-educated elites, serving as central planners similar to the Politburo, replace millions of decisions based upon free will?

» Another Socialized Medicine Success Story

» What's Arabic For 'You're No Atticus Finch'?

A group of "leading conservative lawyers" -- a phrase never confused with "U.S. Marines" -- has produced an embarrassingly pompous letter denouncing Liz Cheney for demanding the names of attorneys at the Justice Department who formerly represented Guantanamo detainees.

Not only do Americans have a right to know the legal backgrounds of lawyers setting detainee policy at the Department of Justice, but I personally demand the right not to have to listen to Eddie Haskell lawyers constantly claiming to be Atticus Finch.

» Monica Conyers convicted of bribery, sentenced to 3 years, but claims her taped cry of "you'd better get my loot" was taken out of context

She is the wife of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), who is the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

» Latest Dem Project - Taking Lessons On How To Sound Tough On National Security

“The fact that Democrats have to train their own candidates on how to talk about defending America is an indictment not just of their candidates but of their policies, as well ..."