Brief

Monday, November 23, 2009

The Foundation

"All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree." --James Madison

Passing major legislation on Saturday night is a symptom of Potomac Fever

Political Futures

"Here's a new maxim: Nothing good ever happens when the Congress is in session on a Saturday night. As you know, Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nev) cajoled, coerced, and co-opted Senators Mary Landrieu (D-La) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark) into adding the 59th and 60th necessary votes to prevent a GOP filibuster of Reid's health reform bill. Reid and Obama Administration officials relied on the time honored method (used by Republicans and Democrats) of getting recalcitrant Members to vote a certain way: Bribery which, in the real world, is a felony but in Washington it is called 'hardball.' In Sen. Landrieu's case the bribe was $300 million in Medicaid benefits to Louisiana. It's not even a close call. According to the website 'Total Criminal Defense,' 'Bribery is an attempt to influence another person's actions, usually a government or public official employee, by offering a benefit in exchange for the desired decision.' Three hundred million in return for a vote to proceed. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck... Landrieu is a better bribee than she is an accountant. She said in her floor speech that there was $100 million in the bill specifically to pay for Medicaid in Louisiana and only Louisiana. Talking to reporters afterward, she said, 'I will correct something. It's not $100 million, it's $300 million, and I'm proud of it and will keep fighting for it.' No reports, yet, on how angry White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel was when he found out she had been satisfied with the $100 million and he overpaid by a factor of three." --political analyst Rich Galen

Liberty

"The 'reformers' in the White House and the House of Representatives have made all too plain their vision of the federal government's power to coerce individual Americans to make the 'right' health-care choices. The highly partisan bill the House just passed includes severe penalties for individuals who do not purchase insurance approved by the federal government. By neatly tucking these penalties into the IRS code, the so-called reformers have brought them under the tax-enforcement power of the federal government. The Congressional Budget Office stated on October 29 that the House bill would generate $167 billion in revenue from 'penalty payments.' Individual Americans are expected to pay $33 billion of these penalties, with employers paying the rest. Former member of Congress and Heritage Foundation fellow Ernest Istook has concluded that for this revenue goal to be met, 8 to 14 million individual Americans will have to be fined over the next ten years, quite an incentive for federal bureaucrats. ... By transforming a refusal or failure to comply with a government mandate into a federal tax violation, the 'progressives' are using the brute force of criminal law to engage in social engineering. This represents an oppressive, absolutist view of government power. ... The idea of imprisoning or fining Americans who don't knuckle under to an unprecedented government mandate to purchase a particular insurance product should outrage anyone who believes in the exceptional promises and opportunities afforded by our basic American freedoms. ... Unless this paternalistic juggernaut is stopped, Americans will lose some of their most fundamental freedoms, and the power of the federal government to impose novel requirements in every facet of our personal lives will have become virtually unlimited." --Brian W. Walsh & Hans A. von Spakovsky of the Heritage Foundation

Culture

"Tragically, this administration seems hell-bent to avoid seeing acts of terrorism against the United States as acts of war. The very phrase 'war on terrorism' is avoided, as if that will stop the terrorists' war on us. The mindset of the left behind such thinking was spelled out in an editorial in the San Francisco Chronicle, which said that 'Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the professed mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, will be tried the right way -- the American way, in a federal courtroom where the world will see both his guilt and the nation's adherence to the rule of law.' This is not the rule of law but the application of laws to situations for which they were not designed. How many Americans may pay with their lives for the intelligence secrets and methods that can forced to be disclosed to Al Qaeda was not mentioned. Nor was there mention of how many foreign nations and individuals whose cooperation with us in the war on terror have been involved in countering Al Qaeda -- nor how many foreign nations and individuals will have to think twice now, before cooperating with us again, when their role can be revealed in court to our enemies, who can exact revenge on them." --economist Thomas Sowell

Opinion in Brief

"By the time Obama came to office, KSM was ready to go before a military commission, plead guilty and be executed. It's Obama who blocked a process that would have yielded the swiftest and most certain justice. Indeed, the perfect justice. Whenever a jihadist volunteers for martyrdom, we should grant his wish. Instead, this one, the most murderous and unrepentant of all, gets to dance and declaim at the scene of his crime. [Attorney General Eric] Holder himself told The Washington Post that the coming New York trial will be 'the trial of the century.' The last such was the trial of O.J. Simpson." --columnist Charles Krauthammer

Re: The Left

"In modern America, the guilty are sanctified, while the innocent never stop paying -- including with their lives, as they did at Fort Hood [recently]. Points are awarded to aspiring victims for angry self-righteousness, acts of violence and general unpleasantness. But liberals celebrate diversity only in the case of superficial characteristics like race, gender, sexual preference and country of origin. They reject diversity when we need it, such as in 'diversity' of legal forums. After conferring with everyone at Zabar's, Obama decided that if a standard civilian trial is good enough for Martha Stewart, then it's good enough for the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks. So Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is coming to New York! Mohammed's military tribunal was already under way when Obama came into office, stopped the proceedings and, eight months later, announced that Mohammed would be tried in a federal court in New York. In a liberal's reckoning, diversity is good when we have both Muslim jihadists and patriotic Americans serving in the U.S. military. But diversity is bad when Martha Stewart and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are subjected to different legal tribunals to adjudicate their transgressions." --columnist Ann Coulter

For the Record

"[There are] uncanny parallels between George W. Bush and Herbert Hoover: Both were president during a time of economic crisis; both presided over vast expansions of government that helped cause the crisis or at least make it worse than it might have been otherwise; finally both were (inaccurately) portrayed by their political opponents as dogmatic free market advocates, when in fact both were highly statist. After leaving the presidency, Bush is unconsciously imitating Hoover in yet another way -- by rhetorically supporting free markets and criticizing the even more interventionist policies of his Democratic successor (which in both cases built on the expansions of government initiated by the Republicans who preceded them).... Bush's belated support for free markets follows in Hoover's footsteps. After leaving office in 1933, Hoover wrote books and articles defending free markets and criticizing the Democrats' New Deal. Some of his criticisms of FDR were well-taken. Many New Deal policies actually worsened and prolonged the Great Depression by organizing cartels and increasing unemployment. But by coming out as a free market advocate, the post-presidential Hoover actually bolstered the cause of interventionism because he helped cement the incorrect impression that he had pursued free market policies while in office, thereby causing the Depression. Bush's post-presidential conversion creates a similar risk: it could solidify the already widespread impression that he, like the Hoover of myth, pursued laissez-faire policies which then caused an economic crisis. ... The greatest contribution Bush can now make to free market policies is to dispel the impression that he pursued them while in office." --Ilya Somin, Associate Professor at George Mason University School of Law

Faith & Family

"[W]hy is religious freedom such a concern to us as Christians? Freedom of religion is called the first freedom for a reason. Our Founding Fathers recognized that without freedom of conscience, no other freedom can be guaranteed. Christians, in fact, are the greatest defenders of religious freedom and human liberty -- not just for Christians, but for all people. Compare religious freedom in those countries with a Christian heritage to the state of religious freedom in Islamic nations, Communist countries, and Buddhist and Hindu nations, and you will see my point. The reason that Christians place such a high value on human freedom is that freedom itself is part of the creation account in the Bible. God made humans in His image. He gave us a free will to choose to love, follow, and obey Him, or to follow our own way. That free will, given us before the Fall, is part of human nature itself. Perhaps more than anything else, it was this understanding of individual freedom that turned me into the kind of patriot who would willingly give his life for his country. It was the words of the Declaration of Independence that inspired me to join the Marines: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.' So this question of human freedom goes to the very heart of who we are as Christians and as Americans." --author Chuck Colson

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Reader Comments

"I laughed while reading 'Health Care Cost Nightmare' when I saw the new term 'HarryCare.' I thought of Hara-Kiri, the ritualistic disembowelment my a disgraced Samurai. Sad to think that could be the bureaucratic prescription from the death, er, I mean 'End of Life' panels for those veterans who have exceeded their state allotted life span." --Tony

"In reference to your rebuttal to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), you state that his reference is to the Preamble to the Constitution. Unfortunately (for I am in your corner), he is accurate in his statement that it is part of the first of the enumerated powers -- Article 1, section 8, part 1. That said, I must take issue with his position regarding the power enumerated. The power is that 'to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises' -- not to enforce purchase of a service, but to direct fulfillment of responsibility; the clause, 'provide for the common defense and general welfare' describes the reason for collecting those revenues, not the enumerated power itself." --Guy

Editor's Reply: You are correct. The same wording is used in both the Preamble and Article I, Section 8 and an editor misread the quote because of Merkley's reference to it being "right on the front end."

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The Last Word

"Whether it's the academic community, the media elite or politicians, there is a great tolerance for the ideas of socialism -- a system that has caused more deaths and human misery than all other systems combined. Academics, media elites and leftist politicians both in the U.S. and Europe protested the actions and military buildup of President Ronald Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately the breakup of the Soviet Union. Recall the leftist hissy fit when Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union the evil empire and predicted that communism would wind up on the trash heap of history. ... [T]he reason why the world's leftists give the world's most horrible murderers a pass is because they sympathize with their socioeconomic goals, which include government ownership and/or control over the means of production. In the U.S., the call is for government control, through regulations, as opposed to ownership. Unfortunately, it matters little whether there is a Democratically or Republican-controlled Congress and White House; the march toward greater government control continues. It just happens at a quicker pace with Democrats in charge. You say, 'Come on, Williams, there will never be the kind of socialist oppression seen elsewhere here!' You might be right because Americans have become very compliant with unconstitutional and immoral congressional edicts. But what do you think would happen if some Americans began to rise up and heed Thomas Jefferson's admonition 'Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.' and decided to disobey unconstitutional congressional edicts?" --George Mason University professor Walter E. Williams



Comments

redhawk

Isn't it time to put the brakes on these Subversive Demo-Comms and VOTE EM ALL OUT?????

Posted November 23, 2009 at 11:14:20 AM


Ray

FYI.

Nidal Hasan on Obama's Security Task Force..............

Now we have a little insight into why Obama said to not jump to conclusions about Nidal Hasan and why Congressmen were not briefed before the press leak.

This murdering Muslim Terrorist who killed and wounded the soldiers and civilians at Ft Hood, Texas was an advisor to Obama's Homeland Security team. Look on page 29 of the Homeland Security Institute link below.

I wonder how many more skeletons there are to come out of the cupboard. Who else is there in the government or its numerous advisors or Czars that will harm our country and citizens?

http://www.gwumc.edu/hspi/old/PTTF_ProceedingsReport_05.19.09.pdf Go to page number 29, scroll down toward the bottom on the Left Column

He is listed under "THINKING ANEW- SECURITY PRIORITIES FOR THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION", as Nidal Hasan, Uniformed Services University School of Medicine (8TH DOWN ON LEFT COLUMN PAGE 29).

Please send this link to everybody on your email list. The world needs to know who Obama really is. This is very scary guys.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 11:32:49 AM


Martin E. Weinstein

Re: Chuck Colson on religious freedom.

Does religious freedom include the right of a Muslim major to conduct jihad at Ford Hood. Texas, or for any Muslim to conduct jihad anywhere in the United States. If not, then we had better carefully consider what religous freedom means and what are its limits. Is Islam with jihad to be accepted in the United States as a legitimate religion, protected by the Constitution? The limits of religous fredom and the limits on the powers of Congress are the two most important Constitutional issues of our time.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 11:51:01 AM


Louis from Texas

I found a really relevant verse recently which y'all may be able to use in the future;

"Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights..." -Isaiah 10:1-2a NIV

Posted November 23, 2009 at 12:17:32 PM


Bill

Professor Williams,

Please Please Please avoid the phrase 'Democratically-controlled Congress and White House...'

There is nothing democratic about the Democrat party.

Regards,

Bill Scarberry

Posted November 23, 2009 at 12:24:03 PM


Bruce R Pierce

I recently had a brief discussion with a Political Science Professor. I say brief because as soon as he found out I had read the Federalist and anti-Federalist papers he turned and walked away, mumbling something about how interesting the anti-Federalist papers were. The lesson here is to read and UNDERSTAND those documents pertaining to our Country and be ready to share and talk with others. Thank you for sharing and helping others to learn what was really going on in the minds of our Founding Fathers.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 12:27:09 PM


Ken Langley

If the health care over-reach bill passes, millions of patriots should head down to their local police stations and say, "I don't have government-mandated insurance and I'm here to turn myself in." Maybe if the jails are flooded, Constitutional Reality will prevail and Congress will have to rearrange the political furniture accordingly.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 12:29:13 PM


Craig

Thomas Sowell's rhetorical question (11-23-09) can be answered by millions of Americans refusing to purchase government health care -- and being willing to go to jail rather than pay the fines. If we protest en masse, the courts and prison systems will be overwhelmed and unable to accommodate all us protestors. I have already committed myself to this. How many of you will join me?

Posted November 23, 2009 at 12:35:03 PM


JTC

Colson is spot on. And for Mr. Weinstein above, ones freedom and right cease to be so when they interfere with someone elses freedom and right.

I'd say taking someones life falls into that catagory (along with many other practices by cultist like muslims).

Posted November 23, 2009 at 12:46:32 PM


George r. Clark

I feel like saying to the government like a teenager might "Please Mother, I can do it myself" When it comes to the government trying to force me to buy health insurance, now 'Harrycare'. I have not wanted government involvement from the beginning. Furthermore, I still don't want it.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:08:02 PM


Anton D Rehling

Turn myself in to go to prison for uncontitutional actions by our elected pukes that treat us with contempt? HELL NO! The only thing they will get from me when they come to arrest me for tyranical government dictates is the business end of my 2nd amendment!

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:09:05 PM


Tom

With the Executive Branch owned by the Obama Left, with Congress owned by the Obama Left and with the Courts seemingly in Obama's pocket, just where does one go to protest the blatant violations of our Constitution?

Our system of checks and balances no longer functions.

It would appear that the Marxist agenda of Obama's "Progressives" has a clear field to bulldoze the Constitution under and force compliance on us all.

We've all seen how fairly our system of "elections" works. The dead vote, the illegal alien vote, the family pets of voting age vote, absentee ballots being summarily tossed out, votes falling from the sky and votes being pulled out of automobile trunks at opportune moments.

I can easily envision SEIU and ACORN representatives of Obama's Thugocracy "monitoring" key polling places. They've gotten away with it with Eric Holder's direct intervention already.

It goes without saying that the next national election is critical to the survival of our Constitutional Republic.

The point: the 2010 and 2012 elections may already be decided.

Which leaves us what?

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:09:59 PM


Les Lennox

Please discuss the impact Americans can have on members of Congress if they will vote for the challengers running against incumbents in the upcoming primaries. These primaries will be all jmportant for unseating unwanted members of Congress

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:11:36 PM


Scott

I just read the comment left by Walter Williams regarding tolerance for socialism. While an undergraduate during the 1980s, I had a political science instructor who was so convinced that Soviet style socialism was "the way of the future" for the United States that he actually wept in class when the Soviet Union was collapsing after the Berlin Wall came down. And during my own time as a part time lecturer in the political science department at a UC school just recently, I came even closer to the academic "belief" that socialism is STILL "the way of the future." As a conservative, I immediately realized that discussing alternative methods of government (i.e. any form of democracy) was a quick way to, at best, be marginalized, that such discussion would very likely have led to not being brought on as a tenure track professor. For whatever original reason, instead of embracing the wide spectrum of politics in reflection of the rest of America, academia seems to have focused on and taken socialism to heart.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:15:27 PM


Phil Dollison

In terms of unconstitutional edicts, the lines in the sand are being drawn. Any unconstitutional law involving the second amendment regarding guns control, registration,etc will be widely ignored.

Lets see how many citizens are willing to go to jail for mandated gun control, health care, or for that matter, cap and trade.

We will not let socialists sweep the constitution under the rug.

Phil Dollison

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:36:46 PM


Winifred

Unfortunately, the liberal Democrats are holding secret sessions, away from knowledge of the general public, as if they really understood that what they are doing is out of the mainstream. They do not want the constituency to learn of their underhanded dealings until there is no option available to us. To me, that seems more like organized crime, than a Congress that was elected to represent our best interests. It is very disheartening to see how quickly the climate in Washington has deteriorated to a low-class, hit-and-run political machine. The next election can't come too soon.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:37:25 PM


Roy Allen

I am an 83 year old veteran who fought in Europe in WWII and returned, gy the grace of God, unscathed. I saw first hand the results of national socialism (Nazism) and the ills it brought to the people of Germany. My skin is not black, but I wholeheartedly agree with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that our government and society should be color blind. I am an American, not a hyphenated American. I doubt that any of the "African-Americans" in this country have ever even set foot on the African continent, let alone been born there. I pray for God'd support of you, your publication, and others like you. May you continue to have success in educating us about the values of freedom. God bless America and the brave men and women in the armed sevices defending our freedom.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:40:34 PM


Jared Taylor

Regarding KSM, what I have not heard discussed about KSM being tried in a civilian court is the standard set if a guilty verdict is reached while no warrant served, no rights were given while being detained, was held with out bail and not given the right to a speedy trial.

I am in no way arguing on KSM's behalf. I worry about what this mean for the rest of us.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 1:47:23 PM


Anton D Rehling

I can classify the actions of our so called represenative government in just two words, Gangster Government!

Posted November 23, 2009 at 2:05:42 PM


Roger Lamothe

I am a Viet Nam era vet currently living on SS disabilty. I fear what this "Health Bill" will do to my chances of survival. I've been a reader of (and forwarder of many of your columns) for many years now. Like many of my friends I feel helpless to prevent the rape of the American Public from the monstrosity of the "Health Care Bill". Is there any possibility of your Publication initiating a campaign to notify all House Members that if they vote for it we Americans intend to vote out any candidate with an "I" (Incumbent) next to their name in 2010! Since all House members are up for re-election do you think it may sway any of them? Likewise the 1/3 of the Senate up for re-election). I have already convinced myself that Mr. Reid will be gone post election, and I'm hoping we can send many of his henchmen with him.

I believe the internet is the only way this can be accomplished, and know that all we need is a leader to carry the ball. Keep up your great work, it is one of the few bright spots in our lives.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 2:33:40 PM


J.A.E.

shouldn't the article in Monday's brief, written by Ilya Somin, have been better documented under the 'Braying Jenny Award,' rather than the For The Record moniker?

Posted November 23, 2009 at 3:03:55 PM

Editor's Reply:

First, Ilya Somin is a man and second, he has some pretty insightful things to say about both Hoover and Bush, so we'd beg to differ with your assessment all the way around.

Charles Sproull

I believe the trend in America, away from Constitutional Republic (free limited government) and towards socialism/communism (oppressive big government) needs to be reversed. It is not just a political issue (ie; a growing number of Democrats, liberals) that would be solved by increasing the number of Republicans, but is a maturity issue.

Immature leaders (not fully developed) are selfish, dishonest, proud, domineering, abusive, profane, more concerned about having riches, power and authority over other people. Immature followers are lazy and desire welfare, unfaithful in marriage, abusive to spouses and children, have no self-discipline and need millions of laws and big government to keep them in line.

Mature, fully developed people are honest, unselfish, humble enough and with enough self-control to live peacefully in homes, neighborhoods and communities without a millions of laws governing them, content to live within the bounds of standards that are good for all people, satisfied with the necessities of life and care about relationships and well being of all.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 3:12:53 PM


William Baker

Can you imagine how upset I am? Votes are going for $300,000,000 and my senator gave his away for free. Can you imagine the ad that will run from his opponent? Mary Landrieu sold her vote for for healthcare and brought in $300 million to Louisiana. Sherrod Brown gave his away for free. Apparently Sherrod Brown doesn't care about Ohio.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 3:35:49 PM


Tony R.

If you really want to compare the times.

try to locate "Billy Jack goes to Washington".

and listen to Billy Jack in Congress in this movie.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 3:41:16 PM


William Baker

Disregarding that our President and Attorney General pronounced that KSM et al. will be found guilty in fair trials (kind of makes you wonder if it is really fair if they have already convicted him.), what safeguards are in place if the jury doesn't listen to them finds the defendants "not guilty"? They say that won't happen but if the jury decides to make a statement about the trial and acquits them? Where will we find a jury of his peers? Would they have to be Muslim?

Posted November 23, 2009 at 3:44:44 PM


Don Lee Bunner

What you say sums up a prevalent mind set with a large and growing number of Americans...The only restraints is the fear of being fined or hauled

off to an already overcrowded prison system or

slamed dunked into ONE OF NEARLY 800 WAITING FEMA CONCETRATION Camps never to be heard from again...

Americans are at WAR with an enemy within and if

one has not arrived at the doorstep of that reality

now one will be overcome when it enters the door of

your home...

Posted November 23, 2009 at 4:50:37 PM


Barb

I realize that we live in a time of "Political Correctness", but when a US Senator openly admits to be guilty of basically allowing herself to be bribed or selling her vote, something is very wrong. The Senator from Louisiana and any other of the "bribe taking Senators and Congressmen" who received anything of value, money, goods, services for their state or themselves SHOULD BE PROSECUTED FOR RACKETEERING. Why are they exempt from prosecution for illegal acts? WE THE PEOPLE MUST TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM THE CRIMINALS IN CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE!

Posted November 23, 2009 at 4:54:44 PM


jeff griffen

Of course Obama wants to move the trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to NY. He wants it to be a spectacle like the trial of OJ.

How else can he pass his Marxist agenda by imposing the socialized medicine power grab, clamping down on the internet and conservative talk radio, cap & trade taxes & control, spending money we don't have to break America's back making her ready for the REAL Government option he has in mind (Totalitarian control over all of us as we become part of the one world order)! He needs to keep us distracted because he sees Americans waking up and all the reality TV shows aren't working on everyone.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 4:57:01 PM


Leon Robey

I wanted you to know that my check "is in the mail" and to ask a question. Have you ever covered the question of whether Obama meets the constitutional standards Article II "natural born citizen" to be President and Commander-in-Chief of our military? There's a lawsuit on this issue--that he may be a U.S; "citizen" but not "natural born" and therefore does not qualify for the Presidency. If you haven't covered it, please consider doing so. More info is available on www.protectourliberty.org. Thanks for what your have done and are doing for America.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 5:03:38 PM


David Hill

It's ironic, whereby the U.S. Gov., is enforcing compliance for the country's citizens to participate in the Health Scheme, by fining and jailing. Once in jail, full healthcare will be provided. At an annual cost of $65,000.00 per inmate x 8,000,000 (new inmates) the yearly cost will be $520 billion in room and board plus healthcare costs, say $5,000pp = $40 billion. The enforcement process is the same root cause that occured some 333 years ago. Since when does elected officials throw the people who elected them under the bus?

Posted November 23, 2009 at 5:04:16 PM


Jeff Griffen

Don't despair Tom, the states are working hard on how to tell Obama to shove off. Check out the site for www.sheriffmack.com to see a very interesting piece of information about how county sheriffs answer only to the people and the local, state or federal con men. The sheriff has the right to throw feds out of his county if they try and usurp the constitution, like forcing govt health care on us. Need to exhaust all options before considering the second amendment solution. Our tea party group of 600 has this guy coming out to talk to us in Feb, should be interesting.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 5:15:54 PM


Jeff Griffen

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care, and so on. The only thing lacking ... is freedom." -- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Posted November 23, 2009 at 5:24:25 PM


Idahosauce

pull charging handle back until it stops, and release.....

Posted November 23, 2009 at 5:39:12 PM


Tom

If it was legal I'd vote in 2010 with my Glock strapped to my hip. Bullies rarely challenge those who can and will defend themselves.

That's been a large part of our problem. We haven't stood up and roared NO! Even with the open 9/12 and T.E.A. Party demonstrations this past summer our Congress just doesn't get the idea. Those efforts have been belittled, smeared and largely ignored by the sitting members of what was once OUR Congress.

The Left hasn't done all of the damage in one mad rush. They've chipped away for years. Now Obama and his Radical Left partners and backers see the opportunity to swoop in for the "kill". Mister Nice Guy in the White House has anything but our best interests at heart.

It isn't all and only Obama. The Al Gore led Far Left has been busy concocting a grand international scheme called Global Warming. If the Administration delegation in Copenhagen signs on to the emissions standards and transfer of money penalties and our Senate ratifies it, we have left ourselves wide open to direct international interference in our internal affairs. Waiting there is Obama with his transfer of wealth Cap and Trade lunacy.

The problem is multiple. The stakes are huge. Congress won't easily give up the potential for personal enrichment that all of this can bring them.

Whatever message we send to what passes for Congress, it must be UNMISTAKABLY LOUD and CLEAR.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 5:42:56 PM


Anton D Rehling

Is it legal to strap a glock to your hip?

Answer is simply, yes!

That is another of our God given protected rights that our current unconstitutional government wants you to believe is government controlled when in fact the 2nd amendment does not say only a selected segment of society shall have the right to own and bear arms, what it says is our right to own and bear arms shall not be infringed; That means our government does not have the right to legally encroach or restrict on our 2nd amendment right. The only way a government can infringe upon our constitutionally protected and God granted rights is if they dictate and restrict us in a tyrannical fashion.

The 2nd amendment was written for our protection against exactly what we are faced with today, an over reaching totalitarian government intent on legislating control over every aspect of our daily lives.

In Washington State the government legislated a new law here that restricts its state citizens to only 8 payday loans per year. Apparently we cannot manage our own lives and make our own financial decisions and the government in their infinite wisdom must do it for us to protect us from ourselves.

It is way past time for us to exercise all of our constitutionally protected rights and resist the use of government brute force that will be used if we do not bow to governmental nanny state, socialist, tyrannical dictates.

Government plays on our fear of threatened imprisonment and possible loss of our life if we do not follow to the letter what ever they decide will be the law.

I will not look for any trouble, but I will not back down from what God has given and our citizens have paid for with their blood and fortunes.

If it is my death at the hands of our government that I earn for exercising my right as a freeman, so be it!, I am going to die one day anyway. I would rather die a freeman than live as a slave!

Posted November 23, 2009 at 6:56:13 PM


11Bravo in CO

Excuse me... but the Congress was in session Saturday night and something very good came of it... the Continental Congress that is. The one convened in St. Charles, IL, on November 11th. Delegates from 48 states, 114 men and women dedicated to returning this once great nation to a Constitutional Republic. Bet you missed it didn't you? Shame, shame, shame... Wait until the bullets fly because nobody in this God forsaken place cares anymore and what's right and good... Nuff said.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 7:37:21 PM


Harold

Right on Walter keep telling it like it is!!!!!!!!!

Posted November 23, 2009 at 8:47:37 PM


Don Broome

Mark: The $300 Million Dollar bribe of Mary Landreiu, by Harry Reid angers and offends me. I am a WWII Marine Corps veteran, and I live ona fixed income. A part of this $300 Million was my personal money; It is not Harry Reid's money; we are not at some blackjack table in Vegas. I don't have the means to do so, but what is to prevent us(taxpayers)from taking this arrogant, nincompoop to court and asking for our money back; he committed a criminal offense; I don't care what kind of fancy name Reid and his cohorts give it.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 9:20:29 PM


Patrick

"The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own Part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery..."

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated;.." "Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded; and we have been spurned, with contempt..." Patrick Henry, 1775

After reading the Brief and the readers comments I thought these quotes very relevant.

Posted November 23, 2009 at 10:19:31 PM


George

The ultimate travesty is that the rules of Obamacare do not apply to the Congress nor to the Senate who are passing them !

Posted November 24, 2009 at 2:54:18 AM


Ruth Ann Wilson

George, I thought that this would help you.

The question of the "Fluff policies" of the legislators comes to this. Most "conscientious doctors and medical personnel" have stated that they will "retire". They will not be "second guessed by young, smart aleck bureaucrats in Washington" about the medical decisions concerning "their" patients.

No conscientious medical personnel, no hospitals with excellence, no research, if the "quality is gone" what would matter what type of "Fluff policy" a legislator may have. "Mediocrity" will be the only service available!!!!!!

So pursuing this National Health Care will end "quality and excellence" for everyone. As has been the result of the socialization of Health

Care everywhere it has been tried. Check the record in England and Canada, the system of "mediocrity" can not solve the "hard cases", those are sent to the United States where our research is better because of the "incentives" in our Private system. When our Health Care system has been "amalgamated with the world" the excellence will NOT be available to anyone at any price.

For God & Country

Ruth Ann Wilson

Posted November 24, 2009 at 9:44:29 AM


Fritzie Maddock

Regarding civil disobedience, I cannot be party to any plan that will pay for abortions. Wonder if I will see whether this administration will jail a 74 year old great-grandmother.

Posted November 24, 2009 at 2:11:09 PM


Daniel O. Christian

Thank you for the article comparing G.W. Bush and Hoover by Ilya Somin, George Mason University School of Law. George W. Bush did a great job on the War on Terror, but he sold out the conservatives throughout his administration when it came to the economy and at the end, with TARP, he revealed that he is also a statist and for more government control as shown by the No Child Left Behind Act that he let Sen. T. Kennedy write. It doesn't matter whether they have a D or an R behind their names when it comes to Statists.

Posted November 29, 2009 at 6:14:29 PM


John L. Hessler

Tuesday, December 15th, Washington, D.C. is to take the first major step to get this government and its satist, socialists polices out.

Posted December 12, 2009 at 5:56:13 PM


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