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What We Believe - Small Government

2011-03-15T12:46:00.000-07:00

Support Walker

2011-02-21T01:39:00.000-08:00

Click here to sign a petition in support of Gov. Walker of Wisconsin.

The time is now. Let's hope he is an inspiration of things to come across the nation!

wtp

Union Busting Øbama Style

2011-02-20T11:24:00.000-08:00

When Øbama talks about Governor Walker "union-busting", I think it's time we clarify:

There's a difference between a Private Sector Union and a Public Sector Union.

1) If Chevrolet decides to treat with a union, and give in to every demand it makes, and the price of their cars goes up as a result, I as a consumer have the choice to support that action by buying a higher priced Chevy, or NOT support that action by buying a cheaper, better car from another maker.

2) When the government decides to treat with a union, it comes to my house with a gun and steals my money in order to give the union members what they demand.

Note the difference.

Tea Partiers are okay with option #1.

Let me Make One Thing Perfectly Clear...

2011-02-20T09:04:00.000-08:00

WTF?

2011-02-19T21:23:00.000-08:00

Big government. Bad. Perfect Example.

Seriously.

wedapeeps

BOOCUG

2011-02-18T13:01:00.000-08:00

I have limited my vision to a laser-wide view.

There is only one political problem in the United States. Everything else is a symptom and/or a result of the original, fundamental problem.

It's not rocket science. It's Big, Out-Of-Control, Unconstitutional Government.

That's all there is. All else is vanity.

Too poetic? Whatever. You get the point. No matter what the issue, it can be laid at the feet of BOOCUG.

Currency issues your problem? Big Government inflating the currency is the culprit.

Free Trade your issue? Big Gummint seeks to dominate and control the marketplace.

Abortion your bugaboo? Big Gummit is funding Planned Parenthood; and has declared abortion legal in all 50 states without a vote or the say of the people (Roe v Wade = Central Govt Activist Supreme Court).

Illegal Immigration your problem? Big Government is feeding, educating, paying and medicating every illegal that comes across the border. Why would they leave?

Dreadful education piss you off? Big Government's interference and mandates and Department of Education foisting all sorts of politically correct nonsense on our schools, teachers and local districts is the problem.

Government bankrupting the nation? Big Gummint spending out of control without restraint...

Government workers outrageous salaries, benefits and lifetime pensions stuck in your craw? Big Government IS unionized government workers...

There is only ONE problem: Big Out-Of-Control Unconstitutional Government.

And we should spend every bit of energy only on things that directly impact that:

1) finding candidates that will go to Washington (and State houses) and dismantle Leviathan
2) learn and do whatever it takes to get them elected
3) watch them like hawks and make sure they do what they promised.

Every other issue will take care of itself as long as we make this happen.

I may be really, really pissed off...but I am really, really clear on the concept.

Abortion and Big Government

2011-02-18T09:11:00.000-08:00

American Spectator has an article that coincides with the view that "big government" is the problem, and that solving that will, by default, solve most of the other issues we are concerned about.

In this case, it is the so-called "social" issues that are critical to so many. In so many cases, the position to which conservatives are opposed are subsidized by our tax dollars through direct governmental support.

And...with the restoration of Constitutionally Limited Government...that funding support would, by necessity, cease.

And that is a good thing.

Egypt and Islamists and Democracy

2011-02-14T10:07:00.001-08:00

I love it when I don't have to explain things....because someone else has already done it for me...heh heh.

Is there a better analysis of the Egyptian situation than this?

wedapeeps

How Much Do We Pay Them?

2011-02-10T12:41:00.000-08:00

Chris Lee, the Congressman who resigned today should have.

If not because of his sleazy sexual behavior...then certainly because he is too stupid to properly represent his constituents.

How did this knucklehead get elected?

He sends half naked pictures to chicks he meets online, using his real name and email address?

Seriously?

I'm not encouraging deception...I'm just stayin' stupid is as stupid does, and maybe you don't want someone who displays that depth of it representing you in Congress.

Good riddance seems in order.

Call me crazy.

They Know Where You Are!

2011-02-05T13:37:00.000-08:00

More bad news in the "Big Brother" wars...

See the report here.

O-Bama

2011-01-31T10:15:00.001-08:00

Action Alert - High Speed Rail

2011-01-24T15:47:00.000-08:00

From: COMMUNITY COALITION ON HIGH SPEED RAIL

Dear Friends:

LITIGATION DATES
Last Friday, CC-HSR attorney Gary Patton met with the Judge who will decide the two lawsuits challenging the program level EIR for the Bay Area to Central Valley portion of the proposed high-speed rail project. If CC-HSR and other plaintiffs are successfull in our lawsuit, the Authority will have to redo the program EIR. We continue to insist that doing it right means following the law!

At a hearing in late March, the Court will consider whether to allow additions to the administrative record. Arguments on the lawsuit will be scheduled on either August 2nd or September 12th, depending on how quickly briefing proceeds, with a decision by early fall.

LEARN SOMETHING ABOUT GILROY/MORGAN HILL
Concern about the proposed high-speed train project runs statewide. Gilroy/Morgan Hill residents have been particularly outspoken about how the Authority's current plans will adversely affect them. Many believe that important information is not reaching that community.

At the request of residents from that area, we are including some information provided by Yvonne Sheets-Saucedo about the area and upcoming meetings. You can find documents referenced in this section of our Community Update at the City of Gilroy's website.

Yvonne reports that Gilroy and Morgan Hill formed a HSR Task Force and that she and many residents are afraid that the decisions of that task force will promote urban sprawl to the disadvantage of the larger community.

Prior to the Program Level EIR being circulated, commented on and certified, the HSR Task Force crafted a Gilroy/Morgan Hill Joint Resolution addressed to the California High-Speed Rail Authority. The resolution opposed the track alignment that followed the Union Pacific right-of-way and supported an East 101 alignment. Residents are concerned that the task force took this position without studying the benefits and burdens of either alignment. They are particularly concerned that the East 101 alignment falls outside of any existing transportation corridor and any station would be outside an existing city center. Thus the East 101 alignment would violate the HST Principles and Guidelines established by the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

Consider attending one of these upcoming public meetings for more information and to express your opinion:

Tuesday - January 25, 6:00 - 9:00PM
Gilroy High School Student Center
750 West 10th Street, Gilroy

Thursday - January 27, 6:00 - 9:00PM
Hiram Morgan Hill Room
17000 Monterey Road. Gilroy

SEVEN DEADLY SINS
Well, Seven Deadly Financial Facts, anyway! That is the title of the latest financial analysis by William Grindley and a group of financial experts. William is taking copies to Washington D.C., lobbying Congress to take account of the financial realities of high-speed rail before spending billions of federal dollars on a Train to Nowhere. You can download this report, plus Six Myths and Train To Nowhere, from the CC-HSR website

TAKE ACTION
There are many ways you can make a difference and affect the outcome of this project! For tips and resources please visit our revised TAKE ACTION page.
Sincerely,

Your Friends at the Community Coalition on High Speed Rail
The Community Coalition on High Speed Rail is a grassroots, non-profit corporation, based on the San Francisco Peninsula, that is working through public advocacy, litigation, and political action to make sure the proposed California High Speed Rail project doesn't adversely affect the economy, environment, or quality of life of California's existing communities.

A Special Thank You...

2011-01-21T14:59:00.000-08:00

Thank you so very much to all my friends and supporters for your generous contributions . . . and for your wonderful words of encouragement and well wishes. The response has been overwhelming to say the least. Words can not express the love and gratitude I feel. It’s humbling and empowering at the same time. Your prayers, love and financial support have picked me up and pushed me forward. Being diagnosed with cancer has been challenging, but the blessings that have come from this are astounding. Among those blessings are friends like you. I am truly humbled by your kindness. Wishing you good health and happiness in the coming year.

God Bless you and Merry Christmas,

Dirck Jackman

Airport Security is an Expensive Farce

2010-12-23T13:04:00.000-08:00

SACRAMENTO, CA - An airline pilot is being disciplined by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for posting video on YouTube pointing out what he believes are serious flaws in airport security. The 50-year-old pilot, who lives outside Sacramento, asked that neither he nor his airline be identified. He has worked for the airline for more than a decade and was deputized by the TSA to carry a gun in the cockpit. He is also a helicopter test pilot in the Army Reserve and flew missions for the United Nations in Macedonia.

Three days after he posted a series of six video clips recorded with a cell phone camera at San Francisco International Airport, four federal air marshals and two sheriff's deputies arrived at his house to confiscate his federally-issued firearm. The pilot recorded that event as well and provided all the video to News10. At the same time as the federal marshals took the pilot's gun, a deputy sheriff asked him to surrender his state-issued permit to carry a concealed weapon. A follow-up letter from the sheriff's department said the CCW permit would be reevaluated following the outcome of the federal investigation.

The YouTube videos, posted Nov. 28, show what the pilot calls the irony of flight crews being forced to go through TSA screening while ground crew who service the aircraft are able to access secure areas simply by swiping a card. "As you can see, airport security is kind of a farce. It's only smoke and mirrors so you people believe there is actually something going on here," the pilot narrates.

Video shot in the cockpit shows a medieval-looking rescue ax available on the flight deck after the pilots have gone through the metal detectors. "I would say a two-foot crash ax looks a lot more formidable than a box cutter," the pilot remarked. A letter from the TSA dated Dec. 6 informed the pilot that "an administrative review into your deputation status as a Federal Flight Deck Officer has been initiated." According to the letter, the review was directly related to the discovery by TSA staff of the YouTube videos. "The content and subject of these videos may have violated regulations concerning disclosure of sensitive security information," the letter said.

The pilot's attorney, Don Werno of Santa Ana, said he believed the federal government sent six people to the house to send a message. "And the message was you've angered us by telling the truth and by showing America that there are major security problems despite the fact that we've spent billions of dollars allegedly to improve airline safety," Werno said. The pilot said he is not in trouble with his airline, but a supervisor asked him to remove public access to the YouTube videos. He does, however, face potential civil penalties from the TSA. He said he would likely go public when it becomes clear what the government plans to do with him.

http://www.news10.net/news/story.aspx?storyid=113529&catid=2

pel

The START Treaty is BAD NEWS for America!

2010-12-20T11:11:00.000-08:00

Call, e-mail and write to your representatives and demand that they vote NO on the dangerous START Treaty! Go below to read the 10 main reasons this "Treaty" will damage America's defense and future.

http://www.tngovwatch.org/2010/11/heritage-gives-you-10-reasons-that-the-new-start-treaty-is-not-good-for-america/

pel

Dream Act = Yesterday's Nightmare

2010-12-18T11:28:00.000-08:00

Your dream is going to wait and, yes, if your came here illegally, you have committed a crime and thus, you are a criminal. Sorry, but you must obey the laws here.

Webster's dictionary: Illegal ~ 1. unlawful; 2. illegitimate; 3. criminal 4. illicit; 5. unlicensed.

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In a final showdown on immigration legislation, the Senate on Saturday blocked a bill to grant legal status to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrant children and young adults, likely taking the issue off the table for several years.

Known as the DREAM Act, the bill would have immediately legalized many illegal immigrants between 16 and 30, and would have offered a path to citizenship to some of them.

It was halted by a Republican-led, bipartisan filibuster, with senators saying they think voters want to see border security before any legalization.

"You're wasting your time," Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican, said. "We're not going to pass the Dream Act or any other legalization program until we secure our borders."

Hundreds of students, some of whom would benefit from the bill, packed the chamber's public gallery to observe the vote, with many of them wearing graduation caps on their heads.

They had spent weeks making visits to lawmakers' offices, pleading for action, and had their hopes raised last week when the House passed the bill — but were disappointed by Saturday's vote.

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, the Illinois Democrat who has led the fight to pass the immigration bill, pointed to them before the vote, urging his colleagues to have compassion for their plight.

"These people have been waiting for more than 10 years. Their lives hang in the balance," he said.

The final Senate vote was 55-41, leaving them five votes shy of the 60 needed to overcome the filibuster. Five Democrats voted for the Republican-led filibuster, while three Republicans joined Democrats in trying to move the bill through the chamber.

ANOTHER SOLDIER FIGHTS FOR HIS FREEDOM.

2010-12-14T19:02:00.000-08:00

PFC David Lawrence is an American soldier from Indiana. David is 20 years old. He is accused of premeditated murder for the alleged shooting of Mullah Muhibullah on Oct. 17 while guarding him in Kandahar province, Afghanistan. Mullah Muhibullah was a senior Taliban commander and had been captured by U.S. forces the day before his death. Muhibullah's death was announced by an angry Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Oct. 19. Formal charges were filed against PFC Lawrence the same day, Oct. 19.

PFC Lawrence was medivaced out of Afghanistan on Oct. 24, and he arrived at Fort Carson, Colo. on Nov. 6. Though the Army had ordered a sanity inquiry on Nov. 5 to determine PFC Lawrence’s mental status and whether he is suffering from a major mental defect or disease, the Army decided not to wait for that answer before initiating the court-martial process in PFC Lawrence’s case. When the Army scheduled PFC Lawrence’s Article 32 Investigation (the equivalent to a preliminary hearing) for Nov. 29, the defense submitted two separate requests for a delay to enable the psychiatrists to determine PFC Lawrence’s mental status. Both delay requests were denied.

"We are going to an Article 32 for a kid who is hearing voices," James Culp, PFC Lawrence's attorney, said. The Article 32 Investigation proceeded on Nov 29 and 30. As a result of his medication regiment, which includes the strongest does available of the drug prescribed for the treatment of schizophrenia, PFC Lawrence regularly fell asleep during the legal hearing that would ultimately decide if he will be court-martialed for premeditated murder. The "minimum" sentence for premeditated murder in the U.S. military is confinement for life. The maximum sentence is the death by execution.

Mr. Culp also said he was concerned the Army might be rushing the case to court-martial to appease Karzai. On Dec. 3, President Barak Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to calm the tensions between the U.S. and Afghanistan that had been exacerbated by the killing of Taliban Commander Mullah Muhibullah. On the same day it was reported by Reuters that President Karzai and his brother have received large payments from the Taliban for the release of key Taliban prisoners. Coincidentally, on July 7, 2007, the Pajhwok Afghan News Agency reported that Muhibullah, Mullah Omar’s secretary, had already been captured. Neither U.S. nor Afghanistan officials have released any information about the process by which Muhibullah re-entered the stream of insurgency to kill and maim U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan.

Less than a week before the shooting, PFC Lawrence was examined by psychiatrists and given drugs for depression and sleeplessness. Days later, he was put on guard duty at a detention center in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province, despite having no training for it.

Even before David requested to be taken for treatment to a combat stress clinic in Kandahar, David was reporting to his mother and father that he was hearing voices that were “freaking him out.” David subsequently reported to his family that his reoccurring hallucinations include seeing soldiers who had died in Afghanistan, including Capt. Dale Goetz. He told his father "... he could see the chaplain with only half a head remaining," Capt. Dale Goetz was a chaplain in the 4th Infantry Division for the 66th Armor Regiment’s 1st Battalion based out of Ft. Carson, Colorado. Capt. Goetz is the first Army chaplain killed in combat in 40 years. Capt. Goetz was David's friend. It was a known fact that David was closer to the chaplain than anyone else in the platoon.

This young man comes from a wonderful family and has very loving, caring parents who are undoubtedly afraid of what lies ahead. This is going to be a lengthy battle. Costs for specialists, travels to and from Colorado and all the costs involved with repeated weeklong stays there, medical evaluations and doctors are adding up.

This family needs help. Please show your support of PFC David Lawrence by making a contribution to his defense fund:

United Community Bank
19710 Stateline Road
Lawrenceburg, IN 47025

Please make checks payable to "FOB PFC David W. Lawrence" Contributions can also be sent via paypal using the e-mail address: pfcdavidlawrence@yahoo.com

Any contribution, no matter how small is huge to the Lawrence family. Please keep PFC Lawrence and family in your prayers.

pel

A federal judge dismissed part of the U.S. Justice Department's challenge to Arizona's new immigration law.

2010-12-14T11:10:00.000-08:00

Another victory for the survival of America as we know it!

Arizona regained its footing in court Friday when a federal judge dismissed parts of the U.S. Justice Department's challenge to the state's new immigration law and rejected several claims made by Hispanic activists and Phoenix police officers.

U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton's ruling on Friday struck down the federal government's challenge to the portion of the law that prohibits the transport of illegal immigrants.

It also rejected a challenge from Phoenix police officers and an advocacy group called Chicanos Por La Causa who argued that the cops could be sued for racial profiling if they enforced the law or lose their jobs if they didn't.

It is great to help people, but we just can't afford to take care of people coming here illegally (which demonstrates total disregard for our laws), taking jobs from our own citizens, sending most of their money out of the country, not paying taxes and receiving all kinds of benefits from the taxpayers.

pel

Federal judge in Virginia ruled that part of the new health care reform law is unconstitutional.

2010-12-14T10:58:00.000-08:00

A federal judge in Virginia just ruled that a major component of the new health care reform law is unconstitutional. This is a major victory for the survival of our economy and for common sense. Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled for the state's claim that the requirement for people to purchase health care exceeds the power of Congress under the Constitution's Commerce Clause or under the General Welfare Clause. It is so wonderful to see a judge with courage, brains and values.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/13/federal-judge-rules-favor-virginia-challenge-health-care-law/

pel

Does This Man Look Right To You?

2010-11-18T09:34:00.000-08:00

Judge Lewis A. Kaplan needs have his head examined and his motivations looked at closely. He did everything he could to block evidence against Guantánamo Bay detainee terrorist Ahmed Ghailani, who was a key player in the American Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Civilian trials for terrorists are ridiculous! Why is this liberal judge, who was appointed by Bill Clinton, so sympathetic to Islamic terrorists who murder hundreds of people in cold blood?

pel

We need to Scrutinize the Suspicious not your helpless grandmother!

2010-11-18T09:24:00.000-08:00

A terrorism expert says the invasive screening procedures demanded by the Obama-run Transportation Security Administration would do almost nothing to stop a determined terrorist because they already are experimenting with inserting explosives in a body cavity or even surgically implanting the destructive charges.

The comments come from Brigitte Gabriel, who is the founder of Act! For America, a 150,000-strong group that works to warn Americans against the dangers of militant Islam and the Muslims who follow it. She also is a member of the board of advisers for the Intelligence Summit, and she lectures internationally on global terrorism.

Join more than 17,000 others in a petition demanding action against the intrusive airport screening procedures implemented by Janet Napolitano and send a letter to Congress, President Obama and others telling them exactly what you think about the issue.

The issue has hit a flashpoint in the last few days as newly installed TSA procedures demand that airline passengers submit to a full-body scanning machine that generates an essentially nude image of the passenger for TSA workers to see, or a full-body pat-down that includes what critics have called "groping" of private parts of the body.

"These procedures are not effective at all with terrorists," Gabriel told WND in an interview today. "If a true terrorist wants to go blow up an airplane, these machines will not detect it." She said like drug dealers already have proven, substances hidden inside body cavities or even embedded surgically remain undetected by any or all of the TSA's procedures.

"If al-Qaida is planning against the U.S. multiple attacks in a day, in multiple airplanes, it could duplicate 9/11," she told WND. "Al-Qaida is testing inserting breast implants, stuffing breast implants with explosives." She said a woman then could go into an airplane restroom and use a syringe similar to those used by diabetic patients to trigger an explosion that would disintegrate a modern jet. "This is what al-Qaida is resorting to, and they're exploring surgery for men," she warned. "They want to implant explosives inside the body. "Terrorists are conditioned and trained to blow themselves up, to become suicide bombers," she said. "They are ready to die to go to heaven to meet Allah."

It was last February that the special intelligence report Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin documented the same circumstances Gabriel described. At that time, it was revealed in the special report that intelligence agents for Britain's MI5 service found that Muslim doctors trained at some of Britain's leading teaching hospitals had returned to their own countries to fit surgical implants filled with explosives.

The report documented that women suicide bombers recruited by al-Qaida were known to have had the explosives inserted in their breasts under techniques similar to breast enhancing surgery. The lethal explosives – usually PETN (pentaerythritol Tetrabitrate) – are inserted during the operation inside the plastic shapes. The breast is then sewn up. The report said similar surgery has been performed on male suicide bombers. In their cases, the explosives are inserted in the appendix area or in a buttock. Both are parts of the body that diabetics use to inject themselves with their prescribed drugs.

The report at the time quoted Jonathan Evans, head of MI5, saying, "Properly inserted the implant would be virtually impossible to detect by the usual airport scanning machines. You would need to subject a suspect to a sophisticated X-ray. Given that the explosive would be inserted in a sealed plastic sachet, and would be a small amount, would make it all the more impossible to spot it with the usual body scanner." Experts confirmed in the report that a sachet containing as little as five ounces of PETN when activated would blow "a considerable hole" in a jet airliner, guaranteeing a crash.

"They know how to profile, ask the right questions. This is what it's going to take," she said. "We need to throw political correctness in the garbage where it belongs. This is the time for the public to rise up and demand public officials to come up with ways to identity the threats by name." The current TSA demands "insult our intelligence," she said. "It's nothing more than window dressing. … The American public must come together and revolt against these procedures. The Obama administration has failed in identifying our problem. The administration is not paying attention to terrorism."

She called out Obama even for his decisions to eradicate references such as "Islamic terrorist," "jihad" and "Islamic radicals" from the speech of the government.

"How on earth can we win against the jihadists if we are afraid to identify them by name," she said.

pel

Manifesto For America

2010-09-21T16:50:00.000-07:00

MAS/pel

SLAYING THE PUBLIC EMPLOYEE PENSION MONSTER

2010-09-20T16:03:00.000-07:00

If there is one issue that animates the Tea Party, and more and more the American public, it is the ever growing cost and intrusion of government into our lives. This trend had started many decades ago but has accelerated dramatically over the last two years, with the Democrats taking control over both congress and the White House.

The most expensive cost component of this ever increasing government is employee costs. Of those costs, pension obligations, both current and future, to those public employees are the fastest growing cost of state and local governments. The Pew Research polling company estimated recently that the unfunded future obligations, nationwide, of public pension plans exceed $1 trillion. A recent Stanford University research estimates that in the next 20 years, California public pension alone will be liable for $500B of unfunded liabilities too its retirees. And who is it exactly that state politicians expect to bail out these pension funds? You guessed – the California taxpayers.

Not only is a government employee guaranteed a fixed pension payment for his or her life after retirement (a guarantee very few private sector employees have), but because the way these payments are computed the employee can cook for himself an artificially high retirement pay by spiking his final year’s hours worked to achieve a higher pension payment. This is done by accumulating heavy overtime, during that last year of employment. This corrupt practice is done with explicit or tacit agreement by government managers, who have little to lose, personally, finally there is an ever existing struggle by the public employee unions to keep the retirement age of public employees low, allowing them to retire with full and guaranteed pension at a significantly lower age than their counterparts in the private sector. This open ended guarantee is ultimately provided by the taxpayer, and therefore threatens us all.

How can we put a stop to this ever growing menace to our economic security?

The most straight forward approach is to transfer the responsibility for an individual’s retirement plan from the taxpaying public to that individual. This can be done by converting the defined benefit plans currently in force in the public sector to a defined contribution – where the employee is responsible for his retirement plan, by contributing a percentage of his wages to his retirement plan – just like the great majority of private sector workers. A defined contribution plan, similar to a 401K or 403b plan would allow the individual to contribute a percentage of his wages towards a retirement plan. This approach would create a more portable workforce in the public sector, relieving the individual from completing a minimum number of years on the job to be eligible for retirement, as he can move on to other jobs at any time, taking his accumulated retirement funds with him, exactly as is done in the private sector. Most importantly, the taxpayers would be off the hook for retirement payment liability to public employees beyond those employees working years.

Raffy Chatav

MyLiberty Member

Michael Berry of Texas Tells It Like It Is!!!

2010-09-17T10:02:00.000-07:00

Houston Radio Host Michael Berry Wakes Them Up Right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrATS4mthX4

Patricia Lindberg

Here is a quality video letter to President Obama.

2010-07-25T12:45:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVAhr4hZDJE

The American Trinity

2010-06-10T22:24:00.000-07:00

I bet you start carrying around a penny...I know I will. Just as a reminder.

wtp

Prager Articulates our Mission!

2010-06-10T21:07:00.000-07:00

wtp

Watch the Cat Watch the Gull....

2010-06-09T17:25:00.001-07:00

A little break from the Election Wars...wtp

Moneybags or Decent Candidates?

2010-06-09T17:13:00.000-07:00

I have been grousing about the "money that bought the Republicans primaries" for California Governor and Senator (Whitman & Fiorina) since my candidates lost to them, and then I read this column by Ann Coulter.

She makes a fair point - with factual examples of several deep-pocket candidates whose lavish spending did NOT net them the nomination. Maybe there is something more to the two of them. I'm not yet convinced, but I'm not quite as disgusted as I was when I woke up this morning.

Thanks Ann...

wtp

Naming What's Wrong

2010-05-31T08:46:00.000-07:00

Robert Weissberg at American Thinker has written an extraordinary piece. In it he explains—I think in the most accurate way—the unease and disquiet most Americans are beginning to feel.

While Progressives continue to contribute it to racism and other character flaws, Mr. Weissberg has identified and given a name to the problem so many of us have with Barack Obama and his entire administration:

"Alien Rule."

"The suspicion that Obama is an outsider, a figure who really doesn't "get" America, grew clearer from his initial appointments. What "native" would appoint Kevin Jennings, a militant gay activist, to oversee school safety? Or permit a Marxist rabble-rouser to be a "green jobs czar"? How about an Attorney General who began by accusing Americans of cowardice when it comes to discussing race? And who can forget Obama's weird defense of his pal Louis Henry Gates from "racist" Cambridge, Massachusetts cops?

If the American Revolution had never occurred and the Queen had appointed Obama Royal Governor (after his distinguished service in Kenya), a trusted locally attuned aide would have first whispered in his ear, "Mr. Governor General, here in America, we do not automatically assume that the police were at fault," and the day would have been saved."

wtp

I'm 63 and I'm Tired!

2010-05-28T17:35:00.000-07:00

CORRECTION: Here is the website from which this essay comes: http://tartanmarine.blogspot.com/2009/02/robert.html

The photograph supplied with the original essay was not the writer. The photo here is from his website. See comments for more information. We'd like to thank Bob Hall for stopping by and setting us straight!

We love the letter, Bob.
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I'm 63. Except for one semester in college when jobs were scarce and a six-month period when I was between jobs, but job-hunting every day, I've worked, hard, since I was 18. Despite some health challenges, I still put in 50-hour weeks, and haven't called in sick in seven or eight years. I make a good salary, but I didn't inherit my job or my income, and I worked to get where I am. Given the economy, there's no retirement in sight, and I'm tired. Very tired.

I'm tired of being told that I have to "spread the wealth" to people who don't have my work ethic. I'm tired of being told the government will take the money I earned, by force if necessary, and give it to people too lazy to earn it.

I'm tired of being told that I have to pay more taxes to "keep people in their homes." Sure, if they lost their jobs or got sick, I'm willing to help. But if they bought McMansions at three times the price of our paid-off, $250,000 condo, on one-third of my salary, then let the left-wing Congress-critters who passed Fannie and Freddie and the Community Reinvestment Act that created the bubble help them with their own money.

I'm tired of being told how bad America is by left-wing millionaires like Michael Moore, George Soros and Hollywood Entertainers who live in luxury because of the opportunities America offers. In thirty years, if they get their way, the United States will have the economy of Zimbabwe, the freedom of the press of China, the crime and violence of Mexico, the tolerance for Christian people of Iran, and the freedom of speech of Venezuela.

I'm tired of being told that Islam is a "Religion of Peace," when every day I can read dozens of stories of Muslim men killing their sisters, wives and daughters for their family "honor"; of Muslims rioting over some slight offense; of Muslims murdering Christian and Jews because they aren't "believers"; of Muslims burning schools for girls; of Muslims stoning teenage rape victims to death for "adultery"; of Muslims mutilating the genitals of little girls; all in the name of Allah, because the Qur'an and Shari'a law tells them to.

I'm tired of being told that "race doesn't matter" in the post-racial world of Obama, when it's all that matters in affirmative action jobs, lower college admission and graduation standards for minorities (harming them the most), government contract set-asides, tolerance for the ghetto culture of violence and fatherless children that hurts minorities more than anyone, and in the appointment of U.S. Senators from Illinois.

I think it's very cool that we have a black president and that a black child is doing her homework at the desk where Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation. I just wish the black president was Condi Rice, or someone who believes more in freedom and the individual and less arrogantly of an all-knowing government.

I'm tired of a news media that thinks Bush's fundraising and inaugural expenses were obscene, but that think Obama's, at triple the cost, were wonderful; that thinks Bush exercising daily was a waste of presidential time, but Obama exercising is a great example for the public to control weight and stress; that picked over every line of Bush's military records, but never demanded that Kerry release his; that slammed Palin, with two years as governor, for being too inexperienced for VP, but touted Obama with three years as senator as potentially the best president ever. Wonder why people are dropping their subscriptions or switching to Fox News? Get a clue. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, but the media and Kerry drove me to his camp in 2004.

I'm tired of being told that out of "tolerance for other cultures" we must let Saudi Arabia use our oil money to fund mosques and mandrassa Islamic schools to preach hate in America, while no American group is allowed to fund a church, synagogue or religious school in Saudi Arabia to teach love and tolerance.

I'm tired of being told I must lower my living standard to fight global warming, which no one is allowed to debate. My wife and I live in a two-bedroom apartment and carpool together five miles to our jobs. We also own a three-bedroom condo where our daughter and granddaughter live. Our carbon footprint is about 5% of Al Gore's, and if you're greener than Gore, you're green enough.

I'm tired of being told that drug addicts have a disease, and I must help support and treat them, and pay for the damage they do. Did a giant germ rush out of a dark alley, grab them, and stuff white powder up their noses while they tried to fight it off? I don't think Gay people choose to be Gay, but I damn sure think druggies chose to take drugs. And I'm tired of harassment from cool people treating me like a freak when I tell them I never tried marijuana.

I'm tired of illegal aliens being called "undocumented workers," especially the ones who aren't working, but are living on welfare or crime. What's next? Calling drug dealers, "Undocumented Pharmacists"? And, no, I'm not against Hispanics. Most of them are Catholic, and it's been a few hundred years since Catholics wanted to kill me for my religion. I'm willing to fast track for citizenship any Hispanic person, who can speak English, doesn't have a criminal record and who is self-supporting without family on welfare, or who serves honorably for three years in our military.... Those are the citizens we need.

I'm tired of latte liberals and journalists, who would never wear the uniform of the Republic themselves, or let their entitlement-handicapped kids near a recruiting station, trashing our military. They and their kids can sit at home, never having to make split-second decisions under life and death circumstances, and bad mouth better people than themselves. Do bad things happen in war? You bet. Do our troops sometimes misbehave? Sure. Does this compare with the atrocities that were the policy of our enemies for the last fifty years and still are? Not even close. So here's the deal. I'll let myself be subjected to all the humiliation and abuse that was heaped on terrorists at Abu Ghraib or Gitmo, and the critics can let themselves be subject to captivity by the Muslims, who tortured and beheaded Daniel Pearl in Pakistan, or the Muslims who tortured and murdered Marine Lt. Col. William Higgins in Lebanon, or the Muslims who ran the blood-spattered Al Qaeda torture rooms our troops found in Iraq, or the Muslims who cut off the heads of schoolgirls in Indonesia, because the girls were Christian. Then we'll compare notes. British and American soldiers are the only troops in history that civilians came to for help and handouts, instead of hiding from in fear.

I'm tired of people telling me that their party has a corner on virtue and the other party has a corner on corruption. Read the papers; bums are bipartisan. And I'm tired of people telling me we need bipartisanship. I live in Illinois , where the "Illinois Combine" of Democrats has worked to loot the public for years. Not to mention the tax cheats in Obama's cabinet.

I'm tired of hearing wealthy athletes, entertainers and politicians of both parties talking about innocent mistakes, stupid mistakes or youthful mistakes, when we all know they think their only mistake was getting caught. I'm tired of people with a sense of entitlement, rich or poor.

Speaking of poor, I'm tired of hearing people with air-conditioned homes, color TVs and two cars called poor. The majority of Americans didn't have that in 1970, but we didn't know we were "poor." The poverty pimps have to keep changing the definition of poor to keep the dollars flowing.

I'm real tired of people who don't take responsibility for their lives and actions. I'm tired of hearing them blame the government, or discrimination or big-whatever for their problems.

Yes, I'm damn tired. But I'm also glad to be 63. Because, mostly, I'm not going to have to see the world these people are making. I'm just sorry for my granddaughter.

Robert A. Hall is a Marine Vietnam veteran who served five terms in the Massachusetts State Senate.

pel

A little perspective...

2010-05-23T10:33:00.000-07:00

In a nutshell

2010-05-23T10:23:00.000-07:00

No immigration without assimilation!

California's McClintock on Calderon's Termerity & Disrespect

2010-05-23T10:14:00.001-07:00

The Tea Party Scores!

2010-05-18T20:07:00.000-07:00

Rand Paul wins Kentucky Republican Senate Primary!

A "Tea Party" candidate beats the establishment Republican.

Sunshine and lollipops.

Now, let's get game, and do it here!

Carol

New Jersey Governor Chris Christy Scores A Knock-Out Punch of Truth!

2010-05-17T17:09:00.000-07:00

THE CHAMP!

CHECK-OUT THE KNOCK-OUT PUNCH!

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/05/13/video-chris-christie-destroys-reporter-for-calling-him-confrontational/

pel

Supreme Court Nominees

2010-05-17T12:08:00.000-07:00

Principles to Consider When Evaluating a Supreme Court Nominee

As the Supreme Court nomination of Elena Kagan is upon us, Tea Party Patriots has adopted the following set of principles to consider when evaluating any Supreme Court nominee. We encourage the Senate to use these principles as Senators are making decisions regarding the current and future Supreme Court nominees.

1. Judges must interpret the Constitution of the United States as written and not attempt to modify it, either by inventing new rights or by ignoring or diluting rights already there. The Constitution already provides an amendment process that gives that power to the people and their elected officials.

2. Judges must not use their positions to replace the text of the law and Constitution of the United States with their own personal feelings or agenda or "life experiences." Nor should they allow empathy, political favor, or political identification to affect their legal decisions. To do so is to engage in judicial activism.

3. Judges must understand that the Federal government has no power if the Constitution does not explicitly provide it. The Founders did this to maximize personal and economic liberty. The Constitution reserves all other rights to the states and to the people.

4. Judges must respect the delicate checks and balances and the separation of powers among the branches of government, refusing to become a tool of either the Legislative or Executive branches, and they must be prepared to invalidate efforts of either branch to overstep its constitutionally delegated powers.

The Constitution is an American document, and declares that it shall be "the supreme Law of the Land." Foreign law has no place as precedent or authority in the interpretation of the Constitution.

Right on the Mark!!! Thank you Bay Area Patriots! pel

Arizona Senator Sylvia Allen Explains SB 1070

2010-05-14T17:25:00.000-07:00

This is the best explanation of SB 1070 that I have heard so far. Thank you Senator Allen!

I'm Arizona State Senator Sylvia Allen. I want to explain SB 1070 for which I voted yes. Rancher Robert 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 is 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 and property, 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 daily drugs are brought across his ranch 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 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 that day that 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 the 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, if they get their hands on them then they can take them back across the border. Federal prisons have over 35% illegals and 20% of Arizona prisons are filled with illegals. In the last few years 80% of our law enforcement that have been killed or wounded have been 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 over run and once they are here we have the burden of funding state services that they use. Education costs have been over a billion dollars. The healthcare cost billions of dollars. Our State is broke, $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 and 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 give them amnesty because thousands will come behind them and we will be over run 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 country? We have already lost our language, everything must be printed in Spanish. 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, but it was an effort to try and stop illegal's from setting up businesses, and employment, and receiving state services and give the ability to local law enforcement 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 license, MVD identification card, Native American Card, or a Military ID. This is what you need to vote or get a hunting license. So nothing new has been added to this law. No one is going to be stopped walking down the street. The Socialists who are in power in DC are angry because we dare try and do something.The Socialists want us to 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. Senator Sylvia Allen

pel - Thank you R.B!

Don't Mess With Allah!

2010-05-10T15:49:00.000-07:00

Islam Becomes Taboo Topic on TV After

'South Park' Threats and Times Square Scare

Don't mess with Allah. That's the new, unwritten code in Hollywood following the one-two punch of Islamic extremists' threats against the creators of "South Park" and the failed bombing attempt outside the cartoon’s parent company, Viacom, in New York's Times Square. In the current, supercharged climate, it just isn’t worth endangering the safety of an entire production staff or network by pursuing a storyline that Muslim extremists might find offensive, media executives and writers tell Fox411.com.

'Daily Show' comedian Aasif Mandvi was asked by the show not to remark further on the Muslim extremist threats after the Times Square bomb scare, his rep said. Mandvi, a self-described “liberal Muslim” and the “senior Islamic correspondent” for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, said on air after the “South Park” threats that it would upset him to see the Prophet Muhammad depicted in a cartoon. But, he added: “Here’s what’s more upsetting. Someone, in the name of a faith that I believe in, threatening another person for doing it.” But after the failed Times Square terror attack, "The Daily Show" asked Mandvi not to comment further on the matter, according to his spokesman. In fact, reps for the networks and television shows reached for comment on this article, including Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, FOX, NBC, and CBS, either failed to respond or asked not to be named for fear of retribution.

And it isn’t just comedians on fake newscasts who are being muzzled. One writer for a scripted drama told Fox411.com that in one of his show's final episodes, there had been a minor plot point involving a Muslim extremist. Last week it was removed and the script was rewritten, he said. Hussein Rashid, religion professor and religion dispatches associate editor at Hofstra University, said he is concerned that self-censorship will lead to a shutdown of the dialogue that must continue if people can be brought to understand the true meaning of Islam. “I don’t think it is ever smart to self-censor,” Rashid said. “I am a big believer that the response to speech should always be more speech. I think this ‘South Park’ episode has been good for that conversation.”

But when it comes to Islam, the conversation seems only to be getting quieter. Random House canceled the 2008 publication of Sherry Jones’ “The Jewel of Medina” out of fear it would incite acts of violence, and last year Yale University decided to remove all images of Muhammad from Jytte Klausen's book, “The Cartoons that Shook the World,” a book commenting on the Danish cartoon controversy that sparked violence in the Muslim world.

The subject has gotten so sensitive, media pros are even chilling the conversation in forums where no one is watching. “The writer’s room has always been a safe place for jokes of any sort, the dirtiest jokes you can think of that you could never tell in public because your own mother would hate you,” a network comedy writer told Fox411.com. “But for the first time we feel like there is a taboo.”

But religion in general hasn’t become taboo -- just Islam. The Cartoon Network squeaked under the radar in March when it showed a racy depiction of Jesus voiced by jailed rapper Lil' Wayne. And Comedy Central is developing "JC," a half-hour cartoon about Christ wanting to escape the shadow of his "powerful but apathetic father" and live a regular life in New York City.

“[A] liberal democracy depends on the principle that each person is entitled to hold and express his or her own beliefs," said Svetlana Mintcheva, director of the Arts Program for the National Coalition Against Censorship. "The failure to stand up for free expression emboldens those who would attack and undermine it.”

By Jo Piazza - FOXNews.com

The political correctness and cowardice depicted above only makes the problem worse and fuels the fire for further bullying and threats from radicals. This is not good for anyone, including Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists or Muslims.

pel

May Day Protest In San Francisco 2010

2010-05-07T12:01:00.000-07:00

Here is a seven minute video of the May Day Protest in San Francisco. It is important to see this so that the hostility being faced is realized and we can act in ways that are intelligent and ensure safety. I see why the Tea Party leaders told their people not to counter-protest because they might be harmed. Be warned that some foul language is used by the protesters against the counter-protesters. You won't see this on TV! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FM_ezyIcAU

MyLiberty San Mateo Tea Party

2010-04-26T15:13:00.000-07:00

Nearly 300 protesters pounded the sidewalk of El Camino Real in San Mateo, CA on Wednesday to demonstrate their disapproval of the federal stimulus package and the implications of bailouts for taxpayers.

Some participants grabbed the attention of drivers-by and cameramen with colonial costumes, teakettle props, signs reading "Change - it's what's in your wallet," and chants of "no more pork." Others standing on the sidewalk quietly planned for a 2010 Republican comeback, or discussed their differing views with each other under swaying signs and flags. Some spoke their minds freely, while others balked at talking to me, since this piece was for the Huffington Post. Several in the crowd expressed their anxiety at the way I might twist their words, and how Arianna Huffington was "not credible" and a "nutcase."

Those who did speak to me described feelings of anger toward a stimulus bill that they called unconstitutional and a tax system that they felt leaned toward socialism. To support the argument that the stimulus package is not constitutional, veteran Leonard Stone passed out a resolution written in the Texas legislature, stating that the federal government is in violation of the tenth amendment, in which "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Stone said that 33 states are now adopting a similar resolution.

"Bailouts are unconstitutional," Stone said. "Let capitalism do what it does...when government pays for failure, you're only going to get more failure. You get what you pay for." Stone said that the vast majority of Americans are employed at small businesses, which are the cornerstone of American prosperity. He argued that the government should keep its hands off of business altogether: "The business of government is not business. It's governing. The rule of law. Treating everyone the same. Regulating for protection. Not to stop growth."

Barbara Barnes is a fourth-generation Californian who agrees with Stone. She came out to the Tea Party because she disapproves of being overtaxed. "This [protest] is not Democratic or Republican. This is for the people," Barnes said. She said that people are now taxed almost 50 percent, and that for those benefitting from others: "Once you run out of other people's money, I don't know what's going to happen."

Standing next to Barnes, 24-year-old Charles Hoelzel said that he did benefit from taxpayer money as a child, when his single mother was on welfare. But Hoelzel has done well for himself since then and plans to run for office in November. Originally from New Orleans, Hoelzel said that he took an unpaid day off to be at the Tea Party protest: "I'm 24 and I'm fed up with prosperity leaving us. I've seen poverty, and I'm not going back." Hoelzel's main purpose was to voice concern at the administration's recent actions and hope for a correction of the problem: "At the end of the day, Obama is still our president. No matter what, we need to back him and pray," a comment that many surrounding him did not agree with.

By Natasha Chen
Huffington Post
Submitted by R.L.

Jon Voight Makes Us Proud!

2010-04-12T18:44:00.000-07:00

Actor Jon Voight read a letter he wrote to the American people on the Mike Huckabee Show. It takes him only three minutes to read his letter, but he should get an award for this.

Go to the link below and listen to Jon. You will be proud of him!

http://www.thefoxnation.com/jon-voight/2010/04/11/watch-jon-voight-reads-letter-american-people

pel

Media Coverage of Protest Movements, Then vs. Now

2010-04-11T15:19:00.000-07:00

Once President Obama was sworn in, protesting became incitement to violence.

If you've opened up a newspaper or watched a cable news program in the past week or so, you've probably seen members of the media painting Tea Party activists as dangerous bigots. That's because disagreeing with President Obama on issues like government spending and high taxes makes you a racist, you see.

What's interesting about the media's latest freak-out is that there were radicals a-plenty under President Bush. They protested in the streets. They talked openly about revolution and killing. But oddly, the violent imagery used by people claiming to be advocates for peace never registered with the media. They were too busy fawning over Cindy Sheehan.

Why the difference in coverage? Did the media cheerlead the protests against President Bush to hurt him politically? Are they trying to marginalize the increasingly powerful Tea Party movement because they favor President Obama's agenda?

One thing's for sure: If there is such a thing as dangerous rhetoric, then the media is at least one president too late in reporting the story.

Let's take a trip down memory lane...

http://brain-terminal.com/posts/2010/03/31/a-trip-down-memory-lane#video

Bob Zeidman

pel

You Scare Me, Øbama...

2010-04-07T09:17:00.000-07:00

[Snopes has verified this letter and author.]

A LETTER FROM A PROCTER AND GAMBLE EXECUTIVE TO THE PRESIDENT

(Lou Pritchett rose from soap salesman to Vice-President, Sales and Customer Development for Procter and Gamble and over the course of 36 years, made corporate history.)

AN OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA

Dear President Obama:

You are the thirteenth President under whom I have lived and unlike any of the others, you truly scare me.

You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you.

You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.

You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of youth growing up in America and culturally you are not an American.

You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll.

You scare me because you have never had military experience, thus don't understand it at its core.

You scare me because you lack humility and 'class', always blaming others.

You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America and you refuse to publicly denounce these radicals who wish to see America fail..

You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the 'blame America' crowd and deliver this message abroad.

You scare me because you want to change America to a European style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector.

You scare me because you want to replace our health care system with a government controlled one.

You scare me because you prefer 'wind mills' to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves.

You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose that lays the golden egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.

You scare me because you have begun to use 'extortion' tactics against certain banks and corporations.

You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals.

You scare me because you will not openly listen to or even consider opposing points of view from intelligent people.

You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient..

You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.

You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaugh's, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view.

You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing.

Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.

Lou Pritchett

According to the author, this letter was sent to the NY Times but they never acknowledged it. Big surprise. Since it hit the internet, however, it has had over 500,000 hits.

wtp

The Cow and the Ice Cream

2010-04-01T08:55:00.000-07:00

Supposedly from a teacher in the Nashville area. There's a good chance you've seen this, but it's good to be reminded. Besides, for me at least, the illustrative graphic is new! —wtp

We're worried about the Cow—
when it's all about the Ice Cream.

The most eye-opening civics lesson I ever had was while teaching third grade this year... The presidential election was heating up and some of the children showed an interest. I decided we would have an election for a class president. We would choose our nominees. They would make a campaign speech and the class would vote.

To simplify the process, candidates were nominated by other class members. We discussed what kinds of characteristics these students should have. We got many nominations and from those, Jamie and Olivia were picked to run for the top spot. The class had done a great job in their selections. Both candidates were good kids.

I thought Jamie might have an advantage because he got lots of parental support. I had never seen Olivia's mother.

The day arrived when they were to make their speeches. Jamie went first. He had specific ideas about how to make our class a betterplace. He ended by promising to do his very best. Everyone applauded and he sat down. Now it was Olivia's turn to speak.

Her speech was concise. She said, "If you will vote for me, I will give you ice cream." She sat down. The class went wild. "Yes! Yes! We want ice cream..."

She surely would say more. She did not have to. A discussion followed. How did she plan to pay for the ice cream? She wasn't sure. Would her parents buy it or would the class pay for it?. She didn't know. The class really didn't care. All they were thinking about was the ice cream.

Jamie was forgotten. Olivia won by a landslide.

Every time Barack Obama opened his mouth he offered ice cream and 52 percent of the people reacted like nine year olds. They want ice cream. The other 48 percent know they are going to have to feed the cow and clean up the mess."

This is the ice cream Obama promised us:

Barack Hussein Obama is our savior

2010-03-31T12:57:00.000-07:00

Barack Hussein Obama is the best thing that has happened to America in the last 100 years. Truly, he is the savior of America's future. He is the best thing ever.

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. Barack Obama has plunged the country into levels of debt that we could not have previously imagined; his efforts to nationalize health care have been met with fierce resistance nationwide; TARP bailouts and stimulus spending have shown little positive effect on the national economy; unemployment is unacceptably high and looks to remain that way for most of a decade; legacy entitlement programs have ballooned to unsustainable levels, and there is a seething anger in the populace.
That's why Barack Obama is such a good thing for America.

Obama is the symbol of a creeping liberalism that has infected our society like a cancer for the last 100 years. Just as Hitler is the face of fascism, Obama will go down in history as the face of unchecked liberalism.

The cancer metastasized to the point where it could no longer be ignored. Average Americans who have quietly gone about their lives, earning a paycheck, contributing to their favorite charities, going to high school football games on Friday night, spending their weekends at the beach or on hunting trips - they've gotten off the fence. They've woken up. 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.

Think of the crap we've slowly learned to tolerate over the past 50 years as liberalism sought to re-structure the America that was the symbol of freedom and liberty to all the people of the world. Immigration laws were ignored on the basis of compassion. Welfare policies encouraged irresponsibility, the fracturing of families, and a cycle of generations of dependency. Debt was regarded as a tonic to lubricate the economy. Our children left school having been taught that they are exceptional and special, while great numbers of them cannot perform basic functions of mathematics and literacy.

Legislators decided that people could not be trusted to defend their own homes, and stripped citizens of their rights to own firearms. Productive members of society have been penalized with a heavy burden of taxes in order to support legions of do-nothings who loll around, reveling in their addictions, obesity, indolence, ignorance and "disabilities." Criminals have been arrested and re-arrested, coddled and set free to pillage the citizenry yet again. Lawyers routinely extort fortunes from doctors, contractors and business people with dubious torts. We slowly learned to tolerate these outrages, shaking our heads in disbelief, and we went on with our lives.

But Barack Obama has ripped the lid off a seething cauldron of dissatisfaction and unrest. In the time of Barack Obama, Black Panther members stand outside polling places in black commando uniforms, slapping truncheons into their palms.

ACORN - a taxpayer-supported organization - is given a role in taking the census, even after its members were caught on tape offering advice to set up child prostitution rings. A former Communist is given a paid government position in the White House as an advisor to the president. Auto companies are taken over by the government, and the auto workers' union - whose contracts are completely insupportable in any economic sense - is rewarded with a stake in the company. Government bails out Wall Street investment bankers and insurance companies, who pay their executives outrageous bonuses as thanks for the public support. Terrorists are read their Miranda rights and given free lawyers. And, despite overwhelming public disapproval, Barack Obama has pushed forward with a health care plan that would re-structure one-sixth of the American economy.

I don't know about you, but the other day I was at the courthouse doing some business, and I stepped into the court clerk's office and changed my voter affiliation from "Independent" to "Republican." I am under no illusion that the Republican party is perfect, but at least they're starting to awaken to the fact that we cannot sustain massive levels of debt; we cannot afford to hand out billions of dollars in corporate subsidies; we have to somehow trim our massive entitlement programs; we can no longer be the world's policeman and dole out billions in aid to countries whose citizens seek to harm us.

Literally millions of Americans have had enough. They're organizing, they're studying the Constitution and the Federalist Papers, they're reading history and case law, they're showing up at rallies and meetings, and a slew of conservative candidates are throwing their hats into the ring. Is there a revolution brewing? Yes, in the sense that there is a keen awareness that our priorities and sensibilities must be radically re-structured. Will it be a violent revolution? No. It will be done through the interpretation of the original document that has guided us for 220 years - the Constitution.

Just as the pendulum swung to embrace political correctness and liberalism, there will be a backlash, a complete repudiation of a hundred years of nonsense. A hundred years from now, history will perceive the year 2010 as the time when America got back on the right track. And for that, we can thank Barack Hussein Obama.

GARY HUBBELL - ASPEN TIMES WEEKLY

pel

Thanks, Flaming Progressives!

There are a lot of opinions out there right now. And some are sadly pessimistic about the future of our country. I get mad when I read them.

This is America. We are Americans. We can do anything.
That's not a wish or a hope or a dream. Them's the facts, ma'am.

Have you READ our history? We have already proven it hundreds of times. In every corner of the nation, and all over the world.

Yep, we can do ANYTHING we set our mind to—including restore our Constitutional Republic!

Don't let the cry-babies get you down. Don't let the "we can't" wusses get you down. Don't let the professorial elites - of either side - discourage you by explaining how difficult it is to dismantle the Imperial State.

Hells Bells! Nobody said this would be EASY....we're just saying WE'LL DO IT ANYWAY!

Have FAITH. Liberty is God's work.

Gary Hubbell, good man, agrees.

Muddy Vision - or Purposeful Lies?

2010-03-30T17:18:00.001-07:00

Just so you know. This is what Øbama thinks of you.

Nice work Mr. Resident. You just can't HELP alienating real Americans, can you?

wtp

"Harry, what do you mean Turnips don't have blood?" - BØ

2010-03-29T12:57:00.000-07:00

From American Spectator...

And now they're mad at the companies they're putting out of business...

...FOR GOING OUT OF BUSINESS!

They're going to have HEARINGS!

What's the word for it? Oh yeah....CLUELESS!

I guess they really are that STUPID!

And here I thought it was just wickedness.

wtp

[sorry about the yelling]

Obama in Rude Denial

By The Prowler on 3.29.10 @ 6:09AM

IT'S ALL A GOP PLOT
The White House political and legislative operations were said to be livid with the announcement by several large U.S. companies that they were taking multi-million or as much as a billion dollar charges because of the new health-care law, the issue was front-and-center with key lawmakers. By last Friday, AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Co., and AK Steel Holding Corp. had all announced that they were taking the one-time charges on their first-quarter balance sheets. More companies were expected to make similar announcements this week.

"These are Republican CEOs who are trying to embarrass the President and Democrats in general," says a White House legislative affairs staffer. "Where do you hear about this stuff? The Wall Street Journal editorial page and conservative websites. No one else picked up on this but you guys. It's BS."

On Friday White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and Obama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett were calling the CEOs and Washington office heads of the companies that took the financial hits and attacked them for doing so. One Washington office head said that the White House calls were accusatory and "downright rude."

The companies are taking the charges because in 2013 they will lose a tax deduction on tax-free government subsidies they have had when they give retirees a Medicare Part D prescription-drug reimbursement. Many of these companies have more than 100,000 retirees each. AT&T may have more than three-quarters of a million retirees to cover.

"Most of these people [in the Administration] have never had a real job in their lives. They don't understand a thing about business, and that includes the President," says a senior lobbyist for one of the companies that announced the charge. "My CEO sat with the President over lunch with two other CEOs, and each of them tried to explain to the President what this bill would do to our companies and the economy in general. First the President didn't understand what they were talking about. Then he basically told my boss he was lying. Frankly my boss was embarrassed for him; he clearly had not been briefed and didn't know what was in the bill."

It isn't just the President who didn't understand his own proposal. Late Friday, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman and Rep. Bart Stupak, chairman of the Oversight and Investigations panel, announced that they would hold hearings in late April to investigate "claims by Caterpillar, Verizon, and Deere that provisions in the new health care reform law could adversely affect their company's ability to provide health insurance to their employees."

Neither Waxman or Stupak -- who betrayed the pro-life community by negotiating for more than a week with the White House to ensure his vote on the health care bill -- had anything more than a cursory understanding of how the many sections of the bill would impact business or even individual citizens before they voted on the bill, says House Energy Democrat staff. "We had memos on these issues, but none of our people, we think, looked at them," says a staffer. "When they saw the stories last week about the charges some of the companies were taking, they were genuinely surprised and assumed that the companies were just doing this to embarrass them. They really believed this bill would immediately lower costs. They just didn't understand what they were voting on."

Principles vs Details - How Not to Lose the Argument

2010-03-28T21:53:00.000-07:00

We Conservatives/Libertarians/Constitutionalists often fall into a trap because we are only human, and find it difficult to resist engaging the Progressives/Marxist/Statists when they say something stupid, false, cruel, ugly, mistaken, threatening or evil.

That's the trap, you see.

If you offer money to a woman for sex and she doesn't slap your face, but starts arguing about the details of the transaction, she's pretty much ceded the underlying concept that she's a whore.

If you offer a citizen Socialized Medicine, and she doesn't slap your face, but starts arguing about the details of the bill, she's pretty much ceded the underlying concept of the possibility if not the legitimacy of Government-Run Health Care.

The citizen's reaction should be as sharp and instantaneous as the virtuous woman's: Outrage at the mere suggestion of such a concept, and its utter rejection on Principle.

The only correct response is to avoid debate on the details, and denounce the concept itself—on PRINCIPLE—and never let the baiting of the Left suck you into a false argument.

It is our principles of Individual Liberty, Limited Government and the Free Market that the very idea of Socialized Medicine offends. And that must be our argument. And we should make it clear to all that we will not dignify with debate or discussion, the details of a concept we find un-American, unconstitutional, immoral, reprehensible, repugnant and entirely unacceptable - on Principle!
There should be no discussion of any supposed "good" points in the monstrosity called ObamaCare. The entire thing must be rejected —on Principle!— from the beginning. Any suggestion of compromise will only impugn our characters as willing participants in the despicable Progressive house of ill repute.

wtp

PRESS RELEASE re: Media Hype of "Right Wing Violence"

2010-03-28T11:52:00.000-07:00

MyLiberty
9.12 Project • San Mateo County • Tea Party Patriots

March 27, 2010

[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

MyLiberty, the San Mateo County 9.12 Project Group & Tea Party Patriots, would like to address the issue of media hysteria in spreading fear of "Right Wing" violence against Democrats who voted for or supported ObamaCare.

Considering the unconscionable, actual, documented, serious, bloody and brutal violence perpetrated against Patriots attending Town Hall meetings recently and the minimal, even dismissive way it was covered in the Press, we find it sadly ironic (but predictable) that wild, unsubstantiated rumors, demonstrably false reports and debunked accusations of violence by "Right Wing Radicals goaded on by Republicans" should be covered endlessly and breathlessly by the Mainstream Media.

It goes without saying that MyLiberty and all other Patriot organizations consider violence in the name of ideology and politics unsavory and unacceptable—no matter WHO is involved. It is illegal, immoral and un-American.

But it is clear by the howling and overblown reports sans facts that this current "reporting" is less about "news" than propaganda—with the object of making the public believe that the patriotic dissent of those who are against the passage of ObamaCare, is somehow unreasonable and dangerous.

But it is rather the biased, ecstatic, uncorroborated reportage that is objectionable and unseemly. And we believe that a Party or a Press that would use such tactics against a political opponent to be most emphatically DANGEROUS to our American political and social system - to every citizen's Constitutional right of free speech, free expression, and political dissent.

As the Left lectured us for the entire eight years of George W. Bush's presidency: DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC!

Even when it's loud, angry, boisterous and passionate.

[END]

FYI

2010-03-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

National Speed Trap Exchange!

A listing of all the speed traps in YOUR TOWN!

I found a bunch in both the town I live in and the one I work in.

Check it out.

wtp
(from the mailbag) hat tip/Jon

Disclaimer: Of course, MyLiberty does not approve of speeding!

Are we Orcs or Men?

2010-03-28T11:11:00.000-07:00

Here's to You Mr. Jefferson...

2010-03-27T15:47:00.001-07:00

Reaching Back to Jefferson

2010-03-27T15:04:00.000-07:00

This is Thomas E. Woods, Jr. — Fan of Thomas Jefferson!

I recommend his books. I already have three...and just bought two more. Seriously smart dude...and definitely on the side of the angels (that would be us, the Enemies of the Imperial State!)

wtp

[This video should progress from part 1 to part 7. If it doesn't, you'll have to do it manually. Here's the Campaign for Liberty YouTube Channel link.]

The True Cost of Illegal Immigrants

2010-03-26T12:37:00.000-07:00

From a California school teacher - - -

"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal
immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:

I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a

large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1

school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and

income levels

Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell

Gardens, Huntington Park , etc., where these students are

protesting, are also Title 1 schools.

Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program.

When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll --

but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would

make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with

trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten.

I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least
moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones.

The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage

pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without

the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having

family watch their kids.

I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing

funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for

anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying

new computers for the computer learning center, half of which,

one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative

students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free

education in America.

I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute

teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students,

here in the country less then 3 months, who raised so much hell

with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores) and

throwing things, that the teachers were in tears.

Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc.

Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country

but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements?

To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants

contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and

housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some

time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the

TRUE costs.

Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs,

more crime, lower standards of education in our schools,

overcrowding, and new diseases. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.

Americans, we need to wake up. It does, however, have everything

to do with culture: It involves an American third-world culture that

does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and

dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an

American culture that has become so weak and worried about

“political correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything

about it.

If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to

everyone you know.

CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?

Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage.

Consumers don't want expensive produce.

Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs.

But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a

myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor.

“Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children.

He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six

dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he

files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up

to $3,200 free.

He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent. He qualifies

for food stamps. He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay)

health care.

His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school. He requires
bilingual teachers and books.

He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.

If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at

(our) taxpayer's expense.

He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or

homeowners insurance.

Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed

material. He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to

$30.00/hour in benefits.

Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6..00/hour left

after paying their bills and his.

Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!

THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING

TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OF EITHER PARTY.

AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY,

WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM.

pel

Is this what we want?

2010-03-23T12:20:00.000-07:00

Bumpy Night

2010-03-23T11:37:00.000-07:00

Democrats fire on Ft. Sumter

When the one time pro-life Democrat Bart Stupak was stammering through his bizarre press conference announcing that he and his cohorts would support ObamaCare, a friend texted me, "That's all she wrote." I fired back, "Hardly."

Here's why: if I asked you to name a famous battle of the American Civil War, what would you say? Most would name Gettysburg, some might mention Bull Run, Antietam, Shiloh, or even Sherman's March to the Sea. But left off most everyone's list would be the battle that started it all...the firing on Fort Sumter. That's primarily due to the fact that though it was the sparking event, the skirmish paled in comparison to the back-and-forth drama that would unfold over the next half a decade.
What happened Sunday in the House of Representatives was merely the opening skirmish of a coming war over not just healthcare in America, but abortion, states' rights, and the Constitution itself.

In the days leading up to the vote, several Democrats on Capitol Hill were heard remarking that they just wanted to get this vote behind them and move on with other business. That might have been possible if they would have voted to kill this unconstitutional monstrosity that is now poised to obliterate state economies. But they didn't. Instead, they fired on Fort Sumter.

So where will we see the next offensive in this unfolding war? Most likely the federal courts will take center stage as the embittered states fight back against the betrayal of their sovereignty and the shattering of their budgets.

Here in Indiana, for example, the state has reported that the enactment of ObamaCare will open up the government-subsidized Medicaid system to approximately 500,000 Hoosiers. That means half a million more citizens will be receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare. But who will pay for it? Well, in order to carry off their outrageous lie to the American people that ObamaCare is going to save us money (the hubris behind such a laughable suggestion is impossible to fully grasp), the Democrats have mandated that the states pick up the tab for this Medicaid stampede.

Someone should tell the teachers' unions who foam at the mouth anytime someone mentions funding cuts to the public school system that they ain't seen nothin' yet. When a state like Indiana has to pick up a tab that equals billions of dollars to fund the excessive doctor and hospital visits that will soon be "free" to 500,000 more citizens, does anyone expect not to see drastic cuts in other areas, as well as massive tax increases? Yet teachers unions' continue to support the very Democrats who are forcing this funding Armageddon.

So the states will undoubtedly sue – indeed somewhere between five to ten are already actively pursuing such a strategy. They will ask the federal courts to strike down multiple provisions of ObamaCare, including the blatantly unconstitutional federal mandate that all citizens purchase healthcare. (See related article: Lawsuit awaits Obama's signature on bill)

Even the most left-leaning constitutional law experts have had a hard time coming up with a defense of the individual mandate. About the best they've got is the silly suggestion that such a mandate is permissible under the Commerce Clause. But at the end of the day, they are forced to recognize that if that be the case, the Commerce Clause must be interpreted to give Congress the ability to force anyone to buy anything (next time GM is in trouble, they could just pass a law requiring you to buy a GM vehicle within a year) – a clearly untenable position to anyone who is sane.

A second battle will manifest at the ballot box as Congressional Democrats face the uncomfortable reality that their president and party leadership have made them walk the plank into a sea of furious, motivated citizens. In order to secure enough votes for passage, President Obama promised wary lawmakers that their constituents would forget about this issue come Election Day. That, of course, is preposterous. The vote Sunday only guaranteed an explosion of growth for the Tea Party movement. And it also demonstrated this crystal clear reality: there is a difference between the two political parties...a BIG difference.

Say what you will about past Republican Party indiscretions (and there have been many), but not a single Republican voted for this atrocity (see 219-212 Roll Call vote). In fact, Republicans led a courageous effort to thwart the authoritarian Democrats while offering common-sense alternatives that actually would help lower healthcare costs.

So that's what's coming next. From there, it's too early to tell. Millions of citizens are preparing to engage in civil disobedience to prevent their tax money from being used to pay for abortions (as ObamaCare did, does, and will always allow), several states are reviving the nullification theory, and Republicans are promising a fight to repeal the legislation.

But this much is clear: Sunday's vote was only the beginning. Things are about to get very interesting.

Peter Heck - Guest Columnist - 3/22/2010

pel

A Message From the Heritage Foundation About Repealing the Health Care Bill

2010-03-23T09:20:00.000-07:00

Repealing The Health Care Bill

Fellow Americans,

Late last night, in a narrow and partisan vote, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the most significant piece of social legislation in over seven decades. It did so in the face of overwhelming and principled opposition from the American people. Large majorities of Americans oppose this legislation because it offends the historic American dedication to the principle of self-government. They understand that this new law will accelerate Washington's intrusion into our most personal and private decisions.

This is why opposition to this bill will only grow. Supporters of this bill argue that popular hostility will recede upon its passage. But, rather than cementing our descent into a European-style welfare state, last night’s passage of Obamacare is best seen as a historic turning point, a true catalyst for real change.

I write to reassure our supporters, the conservative movement, and the American people at large that The Heritage Foundation will do all within its power to keep this issue alive in the public square and make the intellectual case for the repeal of this act. We will bring all our resources to bear on behalf of those who believe America is and will always remain the Land of the Free.

This, rest assured, can be done. The American people are never permanently thwarted. President Obama's health care legislation can and will be repealed.

Those who supported this bill are our fellow Americans, and we do not question their good will or patriotism. In public policy, however, good intentions alone do not suffice. And let there be no mistake, our philosophical differences with supporters of this bill are profound. The reason government-run health care has been the holy grail of the left for decades is that liberals realize as much as we do that it is a giant step toward the creation of a European-style welfare state. This is an evolution Americans have always resisted because it is alien to our national character.

If there is one good thing about the past year—one in which we have witnessed unprecedented horse-trading, press stunts, midnight votes and political manipulation in both houses of the U.S. Congress—it is that the American people have come away educated as never before about the differences between these two visions for America. Americans are strongly opposed to this bill not because they have been hoodwinked but because they understand this bill both in its particulars and at an instinctive, gut level.

They understand this health care bill forces individuals and employers to buy insurance policies designed by government bureaucrats. This intrusion is intended to follow us from cradle to grave.

Instead of empowering families and individuals to make their own choices, Obamacare empowers the bureaucracy to make those decisions for them. It is this unelected bureaucracy, unanswerable to the electorate, that will determine the content of health benefits packages, including medical treatment and procedures, and how much will be paid for those services. Yesterday’s legislation brings us one step closer to fully government-run medicine, with expanded government power over the financing and delivery of medical services that is sure to ration care in the name of cost control.

You will hear the left say this new entitlement will be popular with the American people. Do not believe them for a second. Yes, 32 million people will gain the theoretical right to health insurance. But over half of that coverage comes from placing at least 16 million more Americans into Medicaid, an unpopular and overextended welfare program that already rations care.

Americans will not stand for it. The American love for liberty prevailed in our founding, and will prevail once again.

In December of 1773, to protest unjust taxation, a group of American colonists dumped tea in Boston Harbor. The punishment for that first Tea Party was a series of intrusive laws passed by Parliament that were so oppressive that they could only be described as the "Intolerable Acts."

Obamacare is today's Intolerable Act. And just as the colonists banded together to enact change after those acts were passed, so should America respond to Obamacare. This law must be repealed.

Much of the fight against this bill will be led by the individual states, a process we encourage. All told, 33 states have already taken steps to challenge various aspects of Obamacare, including its unprecedented mandate that every American purchase health insurance or face a steep penalty for noncompliance. Four additional States will have this question on the ballot in November.

On Capitol Hill, the initial battle over Obamacare will occur when Congress considers whether to fund the tens of thousands of new federal bureaucrats necessary to implement the new law. In the tradition of the Hyde amendment, which prevented federal funding for abortions through annual limitations appended to appropriations bills, conservatives should look to the appropriations process as our first line of defense. Straightforward funding limitations would prevent any Administration official or any bureaucrat from implementing the law.

Our health care system requires reform, and we have long advocated measures to improve our system. We can and should strengthen the ability of American families to choose the coverage they want, rather than giving that power to Congress and its agency bureaucrats. We can also spur competition and choice to bring efficiency and lower costs to the health system, in place of the bill’s deadening regulation and damaging price controls. And, above all, we should foster state innovation rather than Washington-based central planning.

But such reforms can only be considered once this tragedy of arrogance has been fully and completely repealed.

Fortunately, there are no permanent victories or defeats in Washington. For millions of Americans and for Heritage, Round One of this fight is over. Today, the Heritage Foundation is answering the bell for Round Two. Join our fight; become a part of our mission. Help us educate our lawmakers, as well as those who aspire to become tomorrow’s lawmakers. Together we can make the persuasive case for repeal of this Intolerable Act and thereby return us to our American destiny.

Onward!

Sincerely,
Edwin J. Feulner, Ph.D., President, The Heritage Foundation

pel

From the Mailbag

2010-03-22T20:51:00.000-07:00

I copied this directly from the email. I did not verify it. I like the message, even if it's not technically "true".

Particularly the last two paragraphs!

wtp

Vermont State Rep. Fred Maslack has read the Second Amendment to the U.S.Constitution, as well as Vermont's own Constitution very carefully, and his strict interpretation of these documents is popping some eyeballs in New England and elsewhere.

Maslack recently proposed a bill to register "non-gun-owners" and require them to pay a $500 fee to the state. Thus Vermont would become the first state to require a permit for the luxury of going about unarmed and assess a fee of $500 for the privilege of not owning a gun.

Maslack read the "militia" phrase of the Second Amendment as not only affirming the right of the individual citizen to bear arms, but as a clear mandate to do so. He believes that universal gun ownership was advocated by the Framers of the Constitution as an antidote to a "monopoly of force" by the government as well as criminals. Vermont's constitution states explicitly that "the people have a right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the State" and those persons who are "conscientiously scrupulous of bearing arms" shall be required to "pay such equivalent." Clearly, says Maslack, Vermonters have a constitutional obligation to arm themselves, so that they are capable of responding to "any situation that may arise."

Under the bill, adults who choose not to own a firearm would be required to register their name, address, Social Security Number, and driver's license number with the state. "There is a legitimate government interest in knowing who is not prepared to defend the state should they be asked to do so," Maslack says Vermont already boasts a high rate of gun ownership along with the least restrictive laws of any state .. it's currently the only state that allows a citizen to carry a concealed firearm without a permit. This combination of plenty of guns and few laws regulating them has resulted in a crime rate that is the third lowest in the nation.

"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards."

This makes sense! There is no reason why gun owners should have to pay taxes to support police protection for people not wanting to own guns. Let them contribute their fair share and pay their own way.

The Truth Always Comes Out...

2010-03-22T13:11:00.000-07:00

From Al Sharpton....

"First of all, then we have to say the American public overwhelmingly voted for socialism when they elected President Obama."

So much for all the endless arguments from "Liberals" that the 'Bamster isn't a Socialist.

This is going to be embarrassing...

wtp

Unknown Text??

2010-03-22T12:18:00.000-07:00

"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed...

...But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."

Anybody in Congress heard this before?

wtp

Gird Loins, Warriors...

2010-03-22T11:39:00.000-07:00

Ben Stein:

As Churchill said:

"In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance."

And this is a war for Constitutional government. A war of words, to be sure, but a war we must win.

wtp

She Speaks for Me

2010-03-22T09:52:00.000-07:00

Dana Loesch at Big Government:

"Last night the Democrat party died as it drove a spear through the torso of the Constitution and passed legislation that the majority of Americans overwhelmingly opposed. Nancy Pelosi sauntered into the capitol surrounded by fellow socialists, carrying the gavel used in 1965 to pass the now-bankrupt Medicare.

All summer long Americans filled town halls, emailed, called, and faxed their lawmakers, and they were forsaken. They were called Nazis, racists, homophobes; they were threatened, beaten, and called stupid because they disagreed with the minority who feels that the government should run our lives. Our lawmakers unofficially stopped representing us last spring.

Last night, our legislators officially broke the contract with America that is the Constitution. Last night, they ceased to represent us. Last night, a new party was born; the malignant tumor that is the progressive caucus consumed the Democrat party from within and gave birth to the mainstream Socialist Party."

Read the whole thing here. Prepare to be inspired!

wtp

In a Word...

2010-03-22T08:54:00.000-07:00

The only campaign slogan necessary for 2010...

Just Watch. No Commentary Needed...

2010-03-21T18:12:00.001-07:00

Video of GroupaPalooza held in Mill Valley on March 7th

2010-03-21T15:14:00.000-07:00

GroupaPalooza held in Mill Valley on March 7th

Here is a great video of the Event. Check it out!

http://www.youtube.com/BayAreaPatriots

pel

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!

2010-03-21T10:51:00.000-07:00

Unsustainable Spending

By David Warren

A spectre is haunting Europe, and America -- the spectre of Keynesianism finally gone nuts.

What began, not very innocently, as a suggestion that governments should run deficits in bad times, and surpluses in good times, gradually "evolved." In the next phase, governments tried to balance at least the operating account during the best of times. In phase three, governments ran deficits by habit during the good times, but much bigger "stimulus" deficits during the bad times. We are now entering phase four.

Canadians tend to feel smug about this, for we look south at a fiscal catastrophe that had nothing to do with us. For the last generation, we have been trying to claw our way back to budgetary conditions before Pierre Trudeau broke the bank. This had once seemed a small price to pay for his "just society" (or "just watch me"). Surely it was worth mortgaging our children's future, and that of their children, and children's children, for the transient privilege of being governed by such a man. (I can still hear the erotic screams of the women, from the 1968 general election, as Trudeau passed by.)

By about 1984, we had had enough. Michael Wilson balanced the operating account, then Paul Martin balanced the overall budget, and today Jim Flaherty tries to keep the federal debt "shrinking" in proportion to national income. (Of course, the debt itself grows and grows.)

We feel smug because we are watching President Barack Obama do for the United States what Prime Minister Trudeau did for us -- although in their case, on top of what Obama's predecessors did. The U.S. national debt now exceeds $12.3 trillion in a $14.2 trillion economy, and the U.S. government is now piling it on with unprecedented new deficits. The U.S. Treasury's borrowing requirement is, as it were, coming up against the Great Wall of China.

Little things, such as the heart of the U.S. space program, are being gutted to make way for metastasizing social security entitlements and debt service payments that will soon swamp the entire federal budget -- thus requiring the elimination of more little things such as the army, navy and air force. At some point the entitlements simply can't be paid, without hyperinflation.

I am not exaggerating. The American debt is now at levels that ring bells at the International Monetary Fund. And as the world's biggest debtor rapidly accelerates its borrowing, the fiscal carrying capacity of the rest of the planet comes into question.

There are two large reasons why we cannot afford to be smug, up here. The first is that after adding the "entitlement" heritage of our provincial governments to the federal debt load, our position is not much better. The second is that even if it were much better, the tsunami coming from south of the border will anyway sweep all our dikes away.

The Obama administration's financial projections are extremely optimistic, yet even if they all come true, the U.S. debt will continue to grow unsustainably. The kind of alarm falsely placed in "global warming" would more usefully be directed towards the remarkable cooling effect this will have, as all our fiscal and demographic trends converge. For this is a predictable future; an issue where the numbers correspond to real things, not to mere speculation.

We can already see where the U.S. is headed, because Iceland and Greece are showing the way. Both have now passed a point of no return, and both are being followed down that plughole by Britain and several other European countries that will probably precede the U.S. into outright bankruptcy. The State of California also gives some clues.

While an optimist would say that we are witnessing the final demise of the welfare state, and good riddance, a pessimist would observe that everything must go down with it. Moreover, as we have seen from the history of Germany and other countries, fiscal catastrophe accentuates every latent threat to public order.

For our governments have created vast bureaucracies, employing immense numbers whose livelihoods depend entirely (whether they realize it or not) upon the capacity of profit-earning people to pay constantly increasing taxes.

It should have been grasped, decades ago, that the constant transfer of resources from the productive to the unproductive must eventually tip the ship. And when it does, real people go over the side, who get angry when they are thrown in the water. There are consequences to that anger.

The idea that we can spend our way out of a debt crisis -- or what I called above, "Keynesianism gone nuts" -- has already been rejected by the Tea Party movement in the U.S., and has always been rejected by voters of conservative tendency. They know what's wrong with the present order, and have an important teaching function to the rest of the electorate, which doesn't get it yet.

But more urgently, we are in need of a positive conception of how to rebuild economy and society, when Nanny State collapses under her own weight. For yelling "run!" is only a short-term solution.

OMG....the Truth!

2010-03-21T00:14:00.000-07:00

In a nutshell, this guy, a commenter at Big Journalism, has it exactly right!

The problem with your premise—that everyone in America doesn't have health care—is that it's wrong. They do!

If you pay for your health care it is convenient. If you don't pay for your health care it is inconvenient.

And that my friends is the plain and simple truth. What you might call "pithy".

So...in order to prevent some people from being inconvenienced, we are transforming America into a Socialist Imperial State.

Seems like a fair trade.

wtp

Today's D.C. Protest

2010-03-20T22:28:00.000-07:00

Just for our own satisfaction...because you won't hear it in the Fringe Media...here's the estimate of the number of Tea Party Protesters who showed up in D.C. today...

Be sure to go to the second page of the story for the picture and the scientific "crowd estimate"...

We might lose the battle of Health Care...but, my angels, we shall win the WAR for the Republic!

Read our glorious history....Washington did not win a single battle until he crossed the Delaware and surprised the Redcoats...

And it was months into WWII before we won our first battle.

And in both we were utterly triumphant.

Stay strong...stay angry...

wtp

Our Chance... Let's Make it Happen!

2010-03-18T09:07:00.000-07:00

Andrew Breitbart endorses Chuck DeVore.

You can meet Chuck next Tuesday, at the MyLiberty Special Event with Chuck DeVore.

He will be speaking and answering questions at the American Legion Hall, Post #82 in San Mateo. Click here for address and directions. We hope to see you there!

wtp

Are you Insulted Yet??

2010-03-17T15:28:00.000-07:00

What Democrats think of the American People.

This will come as no surprise...

"In other words: the American public doesn't care about how our representatives govern us--which is to say, about how we govern ourselves. Whether Congress follows its rules, whether there is democratic accountability, whether there is constitutional probity--none of this matters according to Hoyer. Rather, the self-centered and self-concerned American people only care about the (alleged) results of the legislation."

I'm thinking ol' Steny's going to find out just how wrong he is. Soon.

But hey, maybe it's just me.

wtp
(Publius)

HOLY FELONY, 'BAMSTER!

2010-03-16T16:08:00.000-07:00

The web of corruption may be closing in on the Øbama White House.
Check it out from American Spectator: Specter Opens Door on White House Felonies.

Who'd a thunk the turncoat would finally do something useful?

wtp

The 'Bamster at the Bat

2010-03-16T11:25:00.001-07:00

This is simply great.

MyLiberty Tea Party - April 15, 2010!

2010-03-10T13:26:00.000-08:00

COME OUT ON TAX DAY! And stand up for…

Limited Government, Individual Liberty, Fiscal Responsibility, Free Market!

Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010

Time: 2 - 6pm

Location: 31st Avenue & El Camino Real, San Mateo
(in front of Sears @ Hillsdale Mall)

Bring your flags, signs and Patriot enthusiasm!

MyLiberty

Sort of the News...

2010-03-10T12:50:00.000-08:00

I got quoted in the Chronicle about the Bay Area Patriots "Groupa-Palooza" at which MyLiberty SanMateo had a table, and schmoozed with patriots from all over the Bay Area.

May I say....the reporter was...well I'll let you come to your own conclusion...

The hardest work he did all day seemed to be his untiring efforts to insert the "racist" meme into his interviews.

The T-shirt he references was "The Obama Joker" on the front, and "The Bush Joker" on the back. Equal opportunity insults!

It was LIPSTICK, Chron-Dude. Not Watermelon juice....which was a total leap into the crazy tree by a frustrated reporter who couldn't find any fire-breathing, knuckle-dragging, inbred mouth-breathers to parade before his Leftist/Progressive readership in San Francisco.

And he was woefully ignorant of the movement and local celebrities. He asked me what I thought of Savage's speech. The problem is, it wasn't Michael Savage...it was Brian Sussman. The reporter also failed to mention Sussman's meteorological credentials when he mentioned Sussman promoting his book, ClimateGate. He merely refers to him as a KSFO talk show host.

In fairness, he did mention, and even quote a black guy who rejected the whole "racist" meme. And for the in-the-Progressive-bag-Chronicle...that's downright "fair and balanced".

MyLiberty

CHUCK DEVORE EMERGES UNSCATHED AND VICTORIOUS

2010-03-09T17:21:00.001-08:00

REDSTATE - by Leon H. Wolf - March 9, 2010

After having listened to the entirety first primary debate in the California Senate contest, there is only one rational conclusion to be drawn: Assemblyman Chuck Devore was the only candidate to emerge from this debate unscathed, and the only candidate to sound like a serious and credible threat to Barbara Boxer in November. Round one of this contest went convincingly to Devore over Carly Fiorina and Tom Campbell.

Right out of the box in this debate, the candidates were given an opportunity for a 60-second opening statement. Tom Campbell was afforded the opportunity to go first. His voice shook audibly with anger (as it would continue to do throughout the debate. Literally the second sentence out of his mouth he was angrily responding to accusations of anti-semitism and blaming Fiorina surrogates for spreading rumors about him. In fact, the entirety of his opening statement was a screed demanding that Fiorina stand by her staffers or apologize for them. I could perhaps understand why Campbell felt the need to do this, but it struck a bizarre and off-putting first note.

In fact, this was a constant theme throughout the debate. Campbell said very little of any positive affirmative nature throughout the entire debate, but instead was constantly angry and on the defensive against actual or perceived slights committed against him by the other Republicans in the race. He clearly telegraphed a dislike and disrespect for Fiorina in particular, and sounded nothing like the front runner in this race. On the merits, his defenses of his record with respect to Israel were uneven in parts. His response to the charge that he voted “against funding for Israel” in 1998 and 1999 (to wit, that he voted for $3B in funding, but not the additional amount sought by Clinton because it took money from Africa), was plausible; his defense of his vote to make Jerusalem a split capital was a draw with respect to how he handled Fiorina’s specific attack (but wrong on the merits), and his defense of his numerous associations with Jihadists were halfhearted-to-nonexistent.

Fiorina, for her part, was more measured in her opening statement, but if possible, even pricklier than Campbell during the rest of the debate. It was clear for the duration of the debate that the mere mention of Chuck Devore’s name got under her skin. In one exchange, when Devore pointed out information from a FOIA release, and Fiorina disputed its accuracy, Devore responded, “I’m just telling you what the Pentagon told us,” to which Fiorina sharply replied, “Did you hear what I said?” several times.

It was a petty exchange, and one that echoed a theme that remained constant throughout the debate, which was surprisingly acrimonious from the word “Go.” Tom Campbell was clearly upset and stung by the accusations made against him by Carly Fiorina. Carly Fiorina was clearly upset and stung made by the accusations made against her by Chuck Devore. The debate reverberated with their defensive actions and postures, which were audible even through the radio. Only one candidate in the debate remained cool, calm, collective, and substantive on the issues, his own qualifications, and his message: Chuck Devore. He emerged from the debate without a substantive glove laid upon him, and was clearly the calmest and most collected voice in the room.

This allowed him to close with a convincing argument for his own candidacy: all the candidates poll equally well against Barbara Boxer at this point in the campaign. After hearing the other two candidates bloody each other up on a host of embarrassing issues for the last hour, why wouldn’t the Republicans nominate someone with an unimpeachable record, like Chuck Devore? Why give Boxer a candidate against whom she would open the discussion with substantive personal toeholds against the GOP nominee? It is a question that admits of no easy answer for Tom Campbell, Carly Fiorina, or Republican primary voters.

We may yet see if Campbell or Fiorina can recapture forward movement in the days ahead, but in the first round of head-to-head debates, Chuck Devore emerged the clear winner.

pel

Patrick Henry Speaks to Americans Today

2010-03-07T10:28:00.000-08:00

Patrick Henry’s Speech at St. John’s Church,

March 23, 1775
Edited by: Leonard Stone

March 4, 2010

No man, Mr. President, thinks more highly than I do of patriotism, as well as the abilities of the very honorable gentlemen who have just addressed the house. Different men often see the same subject in different lights; therefore I hope it will not be thought disrespectful, to those gentlemen if, entertaining, as I do, opinions very opposite to theirs. I should speak my sentiments freely, and without reservation. This is not time for ceremony. The question before the house is one of an awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery. In proportion to the magnitude of the subject, ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at the truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I withhold my opinions at such a time, through a fear of giving offense? I would consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and disloyal to the majesty of Heaven who I revere above all earthly kings.

Mr. President, it is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of the siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the determining part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of a number of those who, having eyes, see not, having ears, hear not those things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. And, judging by the past, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry, for the last ten years, to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and the House. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir; it will prove a snare to your feet. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition compares with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled, that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.

I ask gentlemen, what does this martial array mean, if not to force us to submission? Can gentleman assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Briton any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us: they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry has been so long forging.

And what have we to oppose them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; it has all been in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication? What terms shall we find, that have not already been exhausted?

Let us not, I beseech you, deceive ourselves longer. We have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and implored its intervention to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrations have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.

In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation? There is no longer room for hope. If we wish to be free; if we mean to preserve inviolate, those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending; if we mean not dishonorably to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest be obtained; we must fight! I repeat sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms, and to the God of hosts, is all that is left to us.

They tell us that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. When shall we be stronger? Will it be next year, or the next? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and a British guard is stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the elusive phantom of hope, until our enemies have bound us hand and foot?

We are not weak if we make proper use of the means which the God of nature has placed in our power. Three million people armed in the holy cause of liberty, in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force our enemy can send against us.

Besides we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise friends to fight our battles with us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone: it is to the vigilant, the active, and the brave. Besides we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. Our chains are forged! The clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!

It is vain to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace – but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!

pel

Chicago Reception

2010-03-02T11:58:00.000-08:00

When President Obama recently visited Chicago he was delayed by a huge traffic jam and a large group of people communicating their opinions to him. Here are some pictures. Those of you who have been to Chicago will recognize the downtown area. Funny, I did not see any reporting of it on NBC, CBS, CNN or MSNBC. They must have been busy elsewhere. Hurray for these folks in the Windy City!

pel

Pres Obama Needs to Answer Rep Paul Ryan

2010-02-28T11:26:00.000-08:00

Rep Paul Ryan of Wisconsin

Good for Investors.com for this important article!

Politics: Many viewers were wowed by the president's performance at the health care summit, his command of facts and ability to rebut every point the Republicans made. We must have been watching another channel.

'Obama dominates the room at health care summit" was the headline on a Reuters dispatch that found the president "always in command not only of the room but also the most intricate policy details, as he personally rebutted every point he disagreed with."

In a Washington Post column titled "Professor Obama schools lawmakers on health care reform," Dana Milbank marveled at how the president "controlled the microphone and the clock, (using) both skillfully to limit the Republicans' time, to rebut their arguments and to always have the last word."

Milbank went on to tell how Sen. John McCain got his "knuckles rapped" by the learned professor, how Sen. Mitch McConnell was made to "look small in his chair" and how various other Republican low-achievers felt the sting of Obama's "big rhetorical paddle."

But neither Reuters nor Milbank — nor many others, it seems — noticed Obama's conspicuous non-rebuttal to Rep. Paul Ryan.

It was the Wisconsin congressman who made the most pointed remarks about Obama's reform proposal. For example:

• "This bill does not control costs (or) reduce deficits. Instead, (it) adds a new health care entitlement when we have no idea how to pay for the entitlements we already have."

• "The bill has 10 years of tax increases, about half a trillion dollars, with 10 years of Medicare cuts, about half a trillion dollars, to pay for six years of spending. The true 10-year cost (is) $2.3 trillion."

• "The bill takes $52 billion in higher Social Security tax revenues and counts them as offsets. But that's really reserved for Social Security. So either we're double-counting them or we don't intend on paying those Social Security benefits."

• "The bill takes $72 billion from the CLASS Act (long-term care insurance) benefit premiums and claims them as offsets."

• "The bill treats Medicare like a piggy bank, (raiding) half a trillion dollars not to shore up Medicare solvency, but to spend on this new government program."

• "The chief actuary of Medicare (says) as much as 20% of Medicare providers will either go out of business or have to stop seeing Medicare beneficiaries."

• "Millions of seniors who have chosen Medicare Advantage (Medicare through a private insurer) will lose the coverage that they now enjoy."

• "When you strip out the double-counting and ... gimmicks, the full 10-year cost of the bill has a $460 billion deficit. The second 10-year cost of this bill has a $1.4 trillion deficit."

• "The 'doc fix' (restoring cuts in Medicare reimbursements) costs $371 billion ... a price tag (that) made the score look bad. (So) that provision was taken out, and (put) in stand-alone legislation. But ignoring these costs does not remove them from the backs of taxpayers. Hiding spending does not reduce spending."

• "Are we bending the cost curve down or are we bending the cost curve up? If you look at your own chief actuary at Medicare, we're bending it up. He's claiming that we're going up $222 billion, adding more to the unsustainable fiscal situation we have."

In response to all this, Obama basically talked up the benefits of Medicare Advantage. Call us sticklers, but we expected something a little more, uh, professorial.

Great Article and Thank You Paul Ryan!

pel
My Liberty
Communications

Constitutionality Of Government Run Health Care

2010-02-27T17:50:00.000-08:00

Judge Napolitano is the youngest life-tenured Superior Court judge in the history of the State of New Jersey.

Click below and listen to Judge Napolitano's important message to all Americans about the very constitutionality of Government Run Health Care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=7n2m-X7OIuY

pel

Open Letter to the Republican Party

2010-02-25T01:47:00.000-08:00

This is awesome.

wtp

Beware California Repair

2010-02-10T21:22:00.000-08:00

Hello Patriots,

Some of you may have received emails or invitations from RepairCalifornia.org.

Please be warned that according to two separate sources, among the things this group wants to do with their vaunted California Constitutional Convention are:

1) reverse Proposition 13

2) eliminate the currently required super-majority vote to raise taxes in the California

From all reports, they are Liberal Progressives who are tired of the "restraints" under which their agenda has been forced to labor in California (blood shooting out of my eyes!)—but they are masquerading under the banner of "populism", hoping to use the popularity of the Tea Party Movement to gather support.

Be careful of these posers.

At least one member of the Executive Committee of the Bay Area Council of which this group is an offshoot, donated $2,300 to Obama for American in 2008: Michael A. Covarrubias.

As you can see here: http://www.campaignmoney.com by searching his name for '08.

I do not think his idea of "repairing" California is our idea of it.

wtp

Fringe Media & the Military

2010-02-09T08:16:00.000-08:00

Just received an email about this. I checked out the source, and here it is.

It's touching and important.

The question is...why didn't we know about this?

wtp

Setting the Global Warming Question Straight in Simple Terms

2010-02-07T17:06:00.000-08:00

John Coleman has been a respected meteorologist and network weatherman for 55 years. He is also the founder of the weather channel. Go to the following link to hear the most simple, straight-forward explanation of the global warming issue I have ever heard. It is short and to the point with no headache inducing terms or complications. This is an excellent little session in common sense for those addicted to the global warming senario habit.

http://www.kusi.com/home/78477082.html?video=pop&t=a\

Patricia L.

Help Defeat Pelosi!

2010-02-07T00:08:00.001-08:00

Hello Patriots!

This is an URGENT call for anyone who can spare a few hours to help John Denis' campaign gather signatures to get him on the ballot in Nancy Pelosi's district. He is seeking to send the Speaker packing!

Conventional "wisdom" pretends that Pelosi is "safe", but those who know something about it suggest that she is not nearly so invulnerable as the fringe media, and her propaganda machine would have us believe.

If you can help....please email Barry at: holey46@hotmail.com and he will set you up!

This is a critical campaign, and he needs every hand he can get.

Please try to squeeze in a few hours for the pleasure of being even more amazing than Massachusetts!

Thanks,

wtp

Thomas Jefferson Rocks!

2010-02-04T13:35:00.001-08:00

Moneybomb for Marco Rubio

2010-02-03T19:08:00.000-08:00

If you are interested in donating to Marco Rubio in the Florida Republican Senate Primary...

Go here.

From BAP (Bay Area Patriots)

2010-02-03T19:04:00.000-08:00

Dear Everyone:

Check out what the left is up to.

With the success of the Scott Brown campaign and the continued decline in support for Obamanomics, our friends on the left are ramping things up, taking on individuals and using mob tactics to invade the lives of conservative citizens--a veritable witch hunt. All three targeted individuals are running for Congress in Illinois; great Americans all.

Notice the name on the bottom: American Public Policy Committee

Google it and you are taken to opensecrets.org…

Click on "about us," then "funders" and you will see they are financed by several groups including the open society institute…Soros' umbrella group.

The left was caught sleeping for the Scott Brown campaign. They are obviously awake and bearing down… Keep your eyes out for more on the internet…

Sally Z

Massachusetts Miracle!

2010-02-03T18:59:00.001-08:00

Here is an example of some of the work that helped elect Scott Brown. Well Done! If this can happen in Massachusetts, it can happen in California!

pel

WTF?

2010-02-03T18:06:00.000-08:00

On Feb 2, 2010, the CBC reported that Newfoundland's Premier Danny Williams will undergo heart surgery in the United States.

WTF?

Shunning the Canadian health care single payer system he is going to a renowned U.S. expert. A popular progressive, Mr. Williams has in the past vehemently opposed Conservative governments.

WFT?

"It's typical of Canadian politicians to talk a good game", said one observer. " But as soon as it's them or their families that need help they seek it in the big bad USA."

WTF?

Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa and liberal PM Jean Cretin also sought and received medical treatment in the U.S.

WTF?

One critic commented: " Canadian politicians set up a system for the common people who have to wait on dangerously long waiting lists for vital health care. They then tell them how good they have it, only to seek help in the U.S. when it's their lives and health at risk."

Vipers!

I wonder where those poor Canadians will go for help if Obama/Pelosi/Reid Care passes?

LOL!

Beck's Epic Takedown of Joe Klein of Time Magazine

2010-02-02T17:09:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day (Maybe the Year)

2010-02-02T17:06:00.001-08:00

"Don't believe the man who tells you there are two sides to every question. There is only one side to the truth."
- William Peter Hamilton

The Star Spangled Banner - As it SHOULD be Heard!

2010-02-02T16:54:00.001-08:00

Turn up your sound!

Massachusetts Miracle

2010-02-02T15:57:00.000-08:00

Click on the following link to see part of the work that helped make possible the Massachusetts Miracle we witnessed recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nEoW-P81-0

Olbermann....savaged.

2010-02-02T15:52:00.000-08:00

This is very satisfying.

Wow! Apparently this vile blowhard is actually getting what's coming to him: Savaging by everyone he knows—including Left Wing fellow travelers.

Sometimes there are those sweet moments when life seems almost fair!

wtp

Obama's Idea of "Austerity"

2010-02-02T15:39:00.000-08:00

In the wildly unlikely case you mistook Obama's call for "austerity" as actual cost cutting by the Imperial State Bureaucracy...

Silly Citizen. He means austerity for you...not the government, Gaia forbid.

You don't have to be a proponent of small government to favor austerity. Communists and socialists have been doing it for years. So, too, have the mullahs. They are excellent practitioners of the same kind of austerity that sneers at free choice and reliably produces shoddy products and grinding poverty.

Price controls, shortages, queuing and rationing -- all those are key elements in the socialist tool kit. Since this administration was already prepared to ration health care , CO2 emissions and incomes (with severe tax penalties for anyone making more than $200,000 or $250,000 a year), why not ration jobs as well.

Read the entire article by Andrew Wilson.

wtp

'BamsterTaxes

2010-02-02T13:01:00.000-08:00

Here they come!

Obama's Tax increases.

Doesn't this increase in all our taxes, no matter our income level, break his loudly repeated promise?

Does this cook his goose?

wtp

UPDATE: The broken link above is NOT a mistake. This story was removed from Reuters...

Leap to your own conclusions!

Just So You Know...

2010-02-02T09:41:00.000-08:00

I compared a variety of these claims with my copy of HR3200...and they appear to be quite accurate.

It's worse that anyone imagined...and NOTHING like they said.

Wow...there's a surprise!

wtp

To Democrat Statists

2010-02-02T08:31:00.000-08:00

Choice

2010-01-29T12:56:00.000-08:00

"There must be a RESTORATION so that there is not a TRANSFORMATION".

-Glenn Beck, speaking about learning and restoring the principles and values of our Founders....and the "evolutionary transformation" demanded by Progressives like Barack Obama..."transformation" FROM our foundational ideas, values and principles, to those found desirable by the elites who consider only themselves fit to RULE us common people.

"Search for answers everywhere...
We will be the key.
Just remember who we are...
We will be the key.

Beck's new theme song

wtp