WAKE UP CALL TO ACTION.
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The Emperor Barack
By Michael Reagan
1/18/2012
Much like one of his predecessors, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Barack Obama has all but declared war on the United States Supreme Court.
It will be remembered that in 1937 FDR was angry over the high court's refusal to put a stamp of approval on much of his New Deal agenda, and sought to bend the court to his will by adding new members to the existing court membership.
Contemptuously calling the court's members a collection of "nine old men," FDR sought to "pack" the high court with up to six additional members more likely to do his bidding. The proposal lost steam and, thankfully, failed.
Mr. Obama has not gone quite that far -- yet. But he's getting close. Like most U.S. presidents who chafe under the high court's authority to rule on the constitutionality of aspects of their agendas, Obama is unhappy with the court's failure to recognize the divinity of his proposals, if not that of his personhood.
Too bad. As we are often reminded, "Into each life some rain must fall."
Thanks to the high court, Mr. Obama has been much in need of an umbrella of late. The president's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was correctly overruled in a case involving religious freedom. The court clearly stated that the First Amendment protects churches in their decisions regarding workers with religious duties, a "ministerial exception" to employment-discrimination laws. This exception had already been supported by lower courts and many states.
Tragically for Mr. Obama and his vastly elevated ego, choirs of angels singing of the glories of his agenda cannot be heard. Despite the frantic efforts of his captive media to tune them in, the president remains a mere mortal, subject to all the slings and arrows that always target any holder of high office.
Soon the issue before the court will be Mr. Obama's health care program, rammed through Congress despite the widespread opinion that it was, and remains, nothing short of an opening to national socialized medicine. A ruling is expected by early July.
The question is whether the Constitution's Commerce Clause can be stretched beyond recognition to reach into everyone's pocketbook with the Obamacare mandate. We pray that the Supreme Court will put the question to rest with an emphatic rejection.
The notorious failings of Britain's socialized medicine have not failed to diminish the hopes and plans of our own fans of socialized everything -- of a government so big and so powerful that nothing can resist its meddlesome reach.
That is a lesson Barack Hussein Obama has yet to learn. If he doesn't learn his lesson by July, he will certainly learn it in November.
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
From "HOPE & CHANGE" to "CLASS WARFARE".
Folks, we can do better than this!
Monday, January 16, 2012
This would have brought on "the big one" for me :-)
The only entity that I trust to run my life is ME!
Sunday, January 15, 2012
IT'S ALL ABOUT CONTROL/ENSLAVEMENT
Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water
Collecting rainwater now illegal in many states as Big Government claims ownership over our water
Friday, January 13, 2012
WHAT ARE THE POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE PRESIDENT'S APPOINTMENTS?
Last week, President Barack Obama took the latest step on his road toward an arrogant, new authoritarianism with four illegal appointments that entirely trampled on the Constitution’s requirements. More troubling still, the President chose to shred the Constitution all in the name of serving his Big Labor agenda while killing jobs in the process.
The President’s actions once again gave voice to his animating view of governing: doing so is much easier when one isn’t constrained by the Constitution and its checks and balances. “We can’t wait,” the President exclaimed after unilaterally appointing Richard Cordray as director of the newly inaugurated Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). He also appointed three officials to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), two of whom had been nominated less than a month before.
The policy implications of the President’s appointments? The CFPB will now have unmitigated authority to issue regulation upon regulation, contributing to the already-crippling red tape that is strangling business in America. And the NLRB will have the power to advance the President’s agenda to bolster unions across the country at the expense of job growth in a smarting economy.
For what, exactly, can’t the President wait? Quite simply, constitutional republicanism — the system of checks and balances integral to American government and political freedom. He grew impatient with the delays that inevitably accompany any legislative action an acted outside the Constitution’s mandated process. But the American people should ask, “Is such action really preferable to a deliberative, if slower-moving, constitutional republic?”
The President’s appointments last week, troubling as they are, are but the next steps on the road to a despotic form of governance that has come to characterize his Administration — and all of liberalism in America today — what authors Fred Siegel and Joel Kotkin termed in City Journal this week Obama’s “New Authoritarianism.” Frustrated by the unwillingness of the people’s representatives to enact his agenda wholesale, Obama has, from early in his Administration, sought to enact a series of proposals through administrative fiat, not the legislative process:
- The Democrat-controlled Senate rejected his cap-and-trade plan, so Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency classified carbon dioxide, the compound that sustains vegetative life, as a pollutant so that it could regulate it under the Clean Air Act.
- After Congress defeated his stealth-amnesty immigration proposal, the DREAM Act, the Department of Homeland Security instructed Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to “adopt enforcement parameters that bring about the same ends as the DREAM Act,” as Heritage’s Mike Brownfield explained.
- When the woefully misnamed Employee Free Choice Act–explicitly designed to bolster labor unions’ dwindling membership rolls–was defeated by Congress, the NLRB announced a rule that would implement “snap elections” for union representation, limiting employers’ abilities to make their case to workers and virtually guaranteeing a higher rate of unionization at the expense of workplace democracy.
- After an innovation-killing Internet regulation proposal failed to make it through Congress, the Federal Communications Commission announced — on Christmas Eve, no less — that it would regulate the Web anyway, despite even a federal court’s ruling that it had no authority to do so.
- In its push for national education standards, the Education Department decidedto tie waivers for the No Child Left Behind law to requirements that states adopt those standards, shutting Congress out of the effort.
- Rather than push Congress to repeal federal laws against marijuana use, the Department of Justice (DOJ) simply decided it would no longer enforce those laws.
- DOJ made a similar move with respect to the Defense of Marriage Act: rather than seeking legislative recourse, DOJ announced it would stop enforcing the law.
While these efforts are all aimed at circumventing the legislative process, none was so brazen as his four illegal appointments. Last week, Obama went one step further: He violated not just the spirit of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the power to make laws, but the letter of the law as well.
The move is “a breathtaking violation of the separation of powers,” explain former U.S. Attorney General Ed Meese and Heritage colleague Todd Gaziano, a former attorney in DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel, in a Washington Post column. “[N]ever before has a president purported to make a ‘recess’ appointment when the Senate is demonstrably not in recess,” they note. “That is a constitutional abuse of a high order.”
Dr. Matthew Spalding, vice president of American Studies and director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation,explains that this “new despotism” — a government where regulations and unilateral actions replace republican governance — runs entirely counter to the Founders’ vision of America:
The greatest political revolution since the American Founding has been the shift of power away from the institutions of constitutional government to an oligarchy of unelected experts. They rule over virtually every aspect of our daily lives, ostensibly in the name of the American people but in actuality by the claimed authority of science, policy expertise, and administrative efficiency.If this regime becomes the undisputed norm — accepted not only among the intellectual and political elites, but also by the American people, as the defining characteristic of the modern state — it could well mark the end of our great experiment in self-government.
President Obama’s actions are exactly the kind that the Founders feared and sought to guard against. His illegal appointments usurp power from the American people’s duly elected representatives, and the regulations they will promulgate will, undoubtedly, contribute to the unabated growth of the undemocratic administrative state.
Now that the President has crossed the threshold of constitutionality, there really is no telling where he may stop. There is a clear trend here, however, and it leads further and further from the constitutional order. With these illegal appointments, the President has taken to new heights his disdain for the separation of powers. Whether it will stop here depends on Congress — Will lawmakers of both parties reassert the legislature’s constitutional authority and take a stand against Obama’s arrogant new authoritarianism?
Monday, January 9, 2012
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THIS MAKES SENSE......
Especially since BHO has become POTUS and the world is now a much safer place.....as an example, let me point to......er......er......well, give me a minute or two.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
YOU GO GIRL!
There is no better way to prevent "repeat crime".
Okla. Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It's OK to Shoot - Yahoo!
Okla. Woman Shoots, Kills Intruder: 911 Operators Say It's OK to Shoot - Yahoo!
TO SHOW OR NOT TO SHOW
OK, if folks don't have to show a photo ID to vote, I don't have to show a photo ID to purchase a firearm!
I'm down with that.
Arab Spring…
Two weeks ago President Barack Obama told a Jewish group that his administration has done more than any other in support of Israel’s security. Yeah right!
Arab Spring… Muslim Brotherhood Plans to Cancel Israel Peace Pact | The Gateway Pundit
Arab Spring… Muslim Brotherhood Plans to Cancel Israel Peace Pact | The Gateway Pundit
THE ORIGINAL HOMELAND SECURITY
What is the Boy Scout's motto......oh yeah, "BE PREPARED"!
CLASS WARFARE IS ALIVE & WELL
Supporters of the Millionaires Tax of 2012 have put out a new video vilifying Kim Kardashian for making too much money and not paying enough of it back in taxes.
So. Totally. Unfair.
“Don’t you think she should pay a little bit more?” The ad boldly asks in a chivalrous effort to stick it to them and make a stand for class warfare. The only problem is that this ad isn’t based in reality. Kim Kardashian didn’t pay only a leetle bit more in taxes than the average Golden State resident, she paid a yacht-load more.
The average Californian paid $4,371. Kim K paid $1,236,000. She paid over 280 times what the commoners paid.
Now who’s not paying their fair share?
Let me be clear, there are plenty of reasons to vilify this whiney prima donna, but the amount of money she makes isn’t one of them.
Further, 53% of Americans do not pay any income tax; conversely, that means 47% of us are carrying 100% of the load.
Now, who's not paying their fair share?
Hypocrisy alert!
Less than a year into Obama’s presidency, on January 4, 2010, notwithstanding the longstanding propensity shared by President Barack Obama and the American political left of criticizing former President George W. Bush and the Republican Party leadership for perpetuating cronyism by engaging in so-called “sweetheart deals” with favored contractors and political buddies, the Obama White House awarded a contract for “rule of law stabilization services” in Afghanistan to Checchi & Company, a Washington, D.C.-based group owned by Vincent Checchi, a prominent and consistent Democratic Party campaign contributor.
It gets better.
Notwithstanding the longstanding propensity shared by President Barack Obama and the American political left of criticizing former President George W. Bush and the Republican Party leadership for perpetuating cronyism by engaging in no-bid contracts with and for the benefit of favored contractors and political buddies, the Obama White House awarded that $24,673,427 contract to Checchi & Company without entertaining a single competitive bid.
It gets better.
Notwithstanding the longstanding propensity shared by President Barack Obama and the American political left of criticizing former President George W. Bush and the Republican Party leadership for perpetuating cronyism by engaging in no-bid contracts with and for the benefit of favored contractors and political buddies, the Obama White House awarded that $24,673,427 contract to Checchi & Company without entertaining a single competitive bid.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
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