I was watching in horror a series of Mark Dice videos of interviews in which passersby signed petitions to repeal the First Amendment toshut down criticism of Obama because it was all clearly racist. petitioned to repeal the Bill of Rights; revealed they didn’t know when and why we celebrate the Fourth of July; signed up to ban the American flag and replace it with a New World Order one.
I wanted to believe the people responding were outliers -- just ignorant San Diego beachgoers. Unfortunately there are too many indications they are not, and that this disregard for the Constitution and its protections, this lack of knowledge of our history and how it shaped the Constitution, and why it is important to us, are rife in both the states and the federal government.
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Sunday, July 5, 2015
Friday, April 17, 2015
Shocking!! Ice Director Tells Congress Obama Trumps the Law
ICE Director Sarah Saldana told a subcommittee of the House Budget Committee that a directive from Barack Obama trumps congressionally passed laws. As a law enforcement officer, she has a duty to uphold US immigration law as well as the constitution, which says in no uncertain terms that congress has the sole responsibility to pass laws. Rep Don Young (R) Iowa took exception to her statement and sought to establish that she was actually saying that Obama and not the law decides what he job is:
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
Why Does Obama Disregard the Law?
Kevin Williamson’s thoughtful and helpful piece, “The Front Man,” raises the question of why President Obama has so openly, systematically, and remorselessly set about exploring the limits of his ability to disregard the law. I have a somewhat different take on that question, and it begins with this video excerpt from an address given by Obama in 2002. There, Obama says, “I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but rich people are all for non-violence. Why wouldn’t they be? They’ve got what they want.” Here the future president shows himself perfectly capable of drawing upon the thought of his more questionable friends, who argued that the chronic violence of the system itself justifies counter-violence, at least in principle, even if not in practice in our current context.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Michigan: Union Workers Assault Crowder at Anti "Right-to-Work" Protest
12-11-12 - Steven Crowder asks union workers protesting the Michigan Legislature's vote to make Michigan a Right-to-Work state why they oppose "Right-to-Work"? Crowder also tried to stop protestors from tearing down Americans for Prosperity's tent, which had held 60-70 people. Video contains VIOLENCE.
Stephen Crowder is a stand up comedian, a FoxNews Contributor and social/political commentator.
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Stephen Crowder is a stand up comedian, a FoxNews Contributor and social/political commentator.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Gaffney: 'Bashing' Muslims?
8/4/2010 - New York panel okays mosque at Ground Zero
WASHINGTON TIMES, 8/2/2010 by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. - Shunning Shariah equates with loving liberty. A tectonic shift took place last week in the firmament of the war of ideas. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich directly and forcefully took on Shariah, the totalitarian theo-political-military program of authoritative Islam that its adherents seek to impose on the entire world. As he noted, the United States is squarely in the cross hairs of Shariah's devotees. Read more at the Washington Times...
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Wall Street Journal. 8/4/2010 by Dorothy Rabinowitz: Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11 - The enlightened class can't understand why the public is uneasy about the Ground Zero mosque. Read More......
WASHINGTON TIMES, 8/2/2010 by Frank J. Gaffney, Jr. - Shunning Shariah equates with loving liberty. A tectonic shift took place last week in the firmament of the war of ideas. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich directly and forcefully took on Shariah, the totalitarian theo-political-military program of authoritative Islam that its adherents seek to impose on the entire world. As he noted, the United States is squarely in the cross hairs of Shariah's devotees. Read more at the Washington Times...
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Wall Street Journal. 8/4/2010 by Dorothy Rabinowitz: Liberal Piety and the Memory of 9/11 - The enlightened class can't understand why the public is uneasy about the Ground Zero mosque. Read More......
Monday, May 10, 2010
Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen Explains SB 1070
From Benton Co. Republicans Newsletter, May 9, 2010:
"I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB1070 which I voted for and which was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer. ∴ Rancher Rob Krentz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence. Here are just some of the highlights from those who testified. ∴ The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property. One rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles.
Another rancher testified that drugs are brought across his ranch daily in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile further are more guards. These people are violent, and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard from that day who talked about the drug trains.
One man told of two illegals who came upon his property -- one shot in the back and the other in the arm by drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire; during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch, and they can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.
The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them and, if they get their hands on them, then they can take them back across the border.
Federal prisons have more than 35% illegals, and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals. 80% of our law enforcement officers who have been killed or wounded in the last few years have been killed or wounded by an illegal.
The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people coming -- they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.
The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the Border States. We have been overrun, and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education costs have been more than a billion dollars. The healthcare costs billions of dollars. Our State is broke – a $3.5 billion deficit -- and we have many serious decisions to make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here legally. It has to stop. The border can be secured. We have the technology; we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming, and they must come in an organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity of our country and the government which we live under.
I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem. We dare not do this until the Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive them because thousands will come behind them, and we will be overrun to the point that there will no longer be the United States of America but a North American Union of open borders. I ask you, what form of government will we live under? How long will it be before we will be just like Mexico, Canada, or any of the other Central American or South American countries? We have already lost our language – everything must be printed in Spanish, also. We have already lost our history – it is no longer taught in our schools. And we have lost our borders.
The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi Germany. Are you kidding? The ACLU and the leftist courts will do everything to protect those who are here illegally. SB1070 was an effort to try to stop illegals from setting up businesses, taking jobs from Americans, and receiving state services and to give local law enforcement the ability – when there is probable cause, like a traffic stop – to determine if they are here legally. Federal law is very clear: if you are here on a visa you must have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. In Arizona all you need to show you are a legal citizen is a driver’s license, MVD identification card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to vote, get a hunting license, etc. So nothing new has been added to this law. No one is going to be stopped walking down the street, etc. The socialists who are in power in D.C. are angry because we dare try to do something when what the socialists want us to do is just let them come. They want the "Transformation" to continue.
Maybe it is too late to save America. Maybe we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But, as an elected official, I must try to do what I can to protect our Constitutional Republic. Living in America is not a right just because you can walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility and it comes by respecting and upholding the Constitution – the law of our land which says what you must do to be a citizen of this country. Freedom is not free."
THE YEAR…1907
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American....There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Read More......
"I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB1070 which I voted for and which was just signed by Governor Jan Brewer. ∴ Rancher Rob Krentz was murdered by the drug cartel on his ranch a month ago. I participated in a senate hearing two weeks ago on the border violence. Here are just some of the highlights from those who testified. ∴ The people who live within 60 to 80 miles of the Arizona/Mexico Border have for years been terrorized and have pleaded for help to stop the daily invasion of humans who cross their property. One rancher testified that 300 to 1200 people a DAY come across his ranch vandalizing his property, stealing his vehicles, cutting down his fences, and leaving trash. In the last two years he has found 17 dead bodies and two Koran bibles.
Another rancher testified that drugs are brought across his ranch daily in a military operation. A point man with a machine gun goes in front, 1/2 mile behind are the guards fully armed, 1/2 mile behind them are the drugs, behind the drugs 1/2 mile further are more guards. These people are violent, and they will kill anyone who gets in the way. This was not the only rancher we heard from that day who talked about the drug trains.
One man told of two illegals who came upon his property -- one shot in the back and the other in the arm by drug runners who had forced them to carry the drugs and then shot them. Daily they listen to gun fire; during the night it is not safe to leave his family alone on the ranch, and they can't leave the ranch for fear of nothing being left when they come back.
The border patrol is not on the border. They have set up 60 miles away with check points that do nothing to stop the invasion. They are not allowed to use force in stopping anyone who is entering. They run around chasing them and, if they get their hands on them, then they can take them back across the border.
Federal prisons have more than 35% illegals, and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals. 80% of our law enforcement officers who have been killed or wounded in the last few years have been killed or wounded by an illegal.
The majority of people coming now are people we need to be worried about. The ranchers told us that they have seen a change in the people coming -- they are not just those who are looking for work and a better life.
The Federal Government has refused for years to do anything to help the Border States. We have been overrun, and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education costs have been more than a billion dollars. The healthcare costs billions of dollars. Our State is broke – a $3.5 billion deficit -- and we have many serious decisions to make. One is that we do not have the money to care for any who are not here legally. It has to stop. The border can be secured. We have the technology; we have the ability to stop this invasion. We must know who is coming, and they must come in an organized manner legally so that we can assimilate them into our population and protect the sovereignty of our country. We are a nation of laws. We have a responsibility to protect our citizens and to protect the integrity of our country and the government which we live under.
I would give amnesty today to many, but here is the problem. We dare not do this until the Border is secure. It will do no good to forgive them because thousands will come behind them, and we will be overrun to the point that there will no longer be the United States of America but a North American Union of open borders. I ask you, what form of government will we live under? How long will it be before we will be just like Mexico, Canada, or any of the other Central American or South American countries? We have already lost our language – everything must be printed in Spanish, also. We have already lost our history – it is no longer taught in our schools. And we have lost our borders.
The leftist media has distorted what SB 1070 will do. It is not going to set up a Nazi Germany. Are you kidding? The ACLU and the leftist courts will do everything to protect those who are here illegally. SB1070 was an effort to try to stop illegals from setting up businesses, taking jobs from Americans, and receiving state services and to give local law enforcement the ability – when there is probable cause, like a traffic stop – to determine if they are here legally. Federal law is very clear: if you are here on a visa you must have your papers on you at all times. That is the law. In Arizona all you need to show you are a legal citizen is a driver’s license, MVD identification card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to vote, get a hunting license, etc. So nothing new has been added to this law. No one is going to be stopped walking down the street, etc. The socialists who are in power in D.C. are angry because we dare try to do something when what the socialists want us to do is just let them come. They want the "Transformation" to continue.
Maybe it is too late to save America. Maybe we are not worthy of freedom anymore. But, as an elected official, I must try to do what I can to protect our Constitutional Republic. Living in America is not a right just because you can walk across the border. Being an American is a responsibility and it comes by respecting and upholding the Constitution – the law of our land which says what you must do to be a citizen of this country. Freedom is not free."
THE YEAR…1907
Theodore Roosevelt explains his ideas on Immigration
THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S IDEAS ON IMMIGRANTS AND BEING AN AMERICAN IN 1907
"In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person's becoming in every facet an American and nothing but an American....There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag... We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people." Read More......
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Poll: 59% favor Arizona's immigration status law
RASMUSSENREPORTS, 5/4/2010 - [...] Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters still favor legislation like Arizona's that authorizes local police to stop and verify the immigration status of anyone they suspect of being an illegal immigrant. Thirty-two percent (32%) oppose such a law. Those figures are virtually unchanged from a week ago. ∴ The support remains even though 57% of voters are at least somewhat concerned that efforts to identify and deport illegal immigrants will end up violating the civil rights of some U.S. citizens. Forty percent (40%) do not share that concern. Read more at Rasmussen's....
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Idaho first to sign law aimed at health care plan
3/16/2010 by John Miller, Associated Press Writer - (AP) Idaho took the lead in a growing, nationwide fight against health care overhaul Wednesday when its governor became the first to sign a measure requiring the state attorney general to sue the federal government if residents are forced to buy health insurance. ∴ Similar legislation is pending in 37 other states. Read more of AP article...
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Thursday, May 28, 2009
WSJ: The 'Unseen' Deserve Empathy, Too
Judges can do the most good by following the law. - Opinion writer, John Hasnas, uses examples to show that feelings such as sympathy or empathy could hamper a judge from considering the long range effects of a decision by focusing too narrowly on the current situation. "One can empathize with innocent children born with birth defects. Such children and the adversity they face can be seen. One cannot empathize with as-yet-unborn children in rural communities who may not have access to pediatricians if a judicial decision based on compassion raises the cost of medical malpractice insurance. These children are unseen." Read more at WSJ...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Geo. Will: Tincture of Lawlessness
Obama's Overreaching Economic Policies
WASHINGTON POST, 5/14/2009 by George F. Will - Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil -- the rule of law. The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness. Read more a the Washington Post...
Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John says, "I don't always agree with everything George says. But in this case he is right on." Read More......
WASHINGTON POST, 5/14/2009 by George F. Will - Anyone, said T.S. Eliot, could carve a goose, were it not for the bones. And anyone could govern as boldly as his whims decreed, were it not for the skeletal structure that keeps civil society civil -- the rule of law. The Obama administration is bold. It also is careless regarding constitutional values and is acquiring a tincture of lawlessness. Read more a the Washington Post...
Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John says, "I don't always agree with everything George says. But in this case he is right on." Read More......
Sunday, February 1, 2009
LETTER: Remember Republican history
Corvallis Gazette-Times OPINION/Letters, February 1, 2009
"Remember Republican History" by Jeff Limón
Republicans invented the Civil Rights movement. It was the post-Civil War Republicans who pushed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments (banning slavery, conferring equal protection under the law to the former slaves and giving the former slaves of the right to vote.)
These initiatives were staunchly supported by Republicans and furiously opposed by Democrats. We also pioneered women’s suffrage and were largely responsible for the passage of the 19th amendment.
Yet today, no one dares credit Republicans for these gains. No one remembers that when it came to voting on the Civil Right Act of 1964, a larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted “yes” in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. No one mentions that Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Klansman, filibustered against the Civil Rights bill for 14 hours.
I am a Republican because I believe in the fundamental wisdom and intelligence of ordinary people, just as the first Republicans believed that the slaves possessed these qualities, and more.
Lincoln referred to Frederick Douglass as “one of the most meritorious men in all of America.” Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, used racial slurs to describe Douglass.
Lincoln believed that the former slaves could govern themselves just as Republicans today believe that good government means less government. Johnson believed that if the former slaves governed themselves, they would “descend into barbarism.”
I believe that Lincoln got it right, and I am proud of the Republicans’ contribution to civil rights and to America.
Jeff Limon
Corvallis
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"Remember Republican History" by Jeff Limón
Republicans invented the Civil Rights movement. It was the post-Civil War Republicans who pushed the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments (banning slavery, conferring equal protection under the law to the former slaves and giving the former slaves of the right to vote.)
These initiatives were staunchly supported by Republicans and furiously opposed by Democrats. We also pioneered women’s suffrage and were largely responsible for the passage of the 19th amendment.
Yet today, no one dares credit Republicans for these gains. No one remembers that when it came to voting on the Civil Right Act of 1964, a larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted “yes” in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. No one mentions that Sen. Robert Byrd, a former Klansman, filibustered against the Civil Rights bill for 14 hours.
I am a Republican because I believe in the fundamental wisdom and intelligence of ordinary people, just as the first Republicans believed that the slaves possessed these qualities, and more.
Lincoln referred to Frederick Douglass as “one of the most meritorious men in all of America.” Lincoln’s successor, Andrew Johnson, a Democrat, used racial slurs to describe Douglass.
Lincoln believed that the former slaves could govern themselves just as Republicans today believe that good government means less government. Johnson believed that if the former slaves governed themselves, they would “descend into barbarism.”
I believe that Lincoln got it right, and I am proud of the Republicans’ contribution to civil rights and to America.
Jeff Limon
Corvallis
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