And assuming a republican bill gets passed by some incredible miracle, who would possibly believe that O'vomit will sign it?

"Their dire predictions that America's streets would run red have been shown up as a fraudulent sales pitch for public disarmament." No, no. You got that wrong. We misunderstood. They were really predicting that our streets would run red with blood AFTER they disarmed the law-abiding citizens. And that is one prediction that will most assuredly come true.

When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have them. The leftist takeover is counting on it.

The big deal this fall seems to be the discussion over extending the Bush tax reductions -- will they or won't they?

Both sides are claiming catastrophe if they don't get their way: The Democrats say that keeping the tax rates low will bury us in debt while the Republicans claim that raising the tax rate on upper income people will kill the economy.

Both sides are wrong.

Look at the 1950s and weep, boys and girls. The top marginal tax rate for most of the decade was 91%. As I remember it, the 1950s were a pretty good decade, with some bumps along the way, but all in all, pretty good.

It turns out that the problem isn't with the tax rate itself but with changes in the tax rate. If businesses and people know with certainty what the tax rate will be, they can make their long range plans accordingly. If, however, tax rates, loopholes, preferences, etc., change minute-to-minute, as has been the case recently, then large parts of the economy freeze up -- if I don't know what kind of governmental environment I'm going to be facing, I may decide to take things a bit slower than I otherwise would.

So, Patriot Post, drop the rhetoric of both the Evil Democrats and the Stupid Republicans and cast your voice for consistency and stability.

Cheers,

Barry Harmon

While Michelle chastizes the rest of us for our eating habits, that hypocrite should take a look at her rear end. I pity any bicycle seat......and then that same hypocrite should be chastizing her husband for smoking.

I noted while they were on their many vacations seeing Hussein and & kids eating ice cream & I bet they weren't made from tofu either.

Regarding Judge G. Thomas Porteous, if he is impeached he will now be qualified to run for congress just like Representative Alcee Hastings in Florida.

Any truth to the rumor that the ATF will charge the 2500 year old Egyptian mummy with planning to build a full automatic firearm (machine gun).

If the first lady is so unhappy with her post then perhaps she should be relieved of it.

If it is hell, perhaps she and her hubby should just quit. Of course that would mean we would have to put up with Joe for 2 years, but I really think that would be preferable then another 2 with bo.

In your September 17th Digest, I had expected to see some mention of the 148th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. This day was - and still is - the bloodiest day in American history. Along with December 7, 1941 and September 11, 2001, Americans need to remember these days and the lessons that accompany them. Each year allots a single day to officially memorialize these events, but it is equally important that we keep them all in our memories the other 364 days of the year.

One of the impeachment charges against Judge Porteous is that he lied under oath. How about Obama? It seems that he did the same thing when he swore to uphold the Constitution.

You mentioned that you favor a flat tax or a Fair Tax..... I agree that either would be better than the system we now have.

However, the flat tax would leave the IRS in place... MAJOR mistake! Let's get the transparency of the Fair Tax...then, taxpayers could observe what the federal government is costing them. Chances are good that we would decide that we can get by with less federal government.....

"violates the constitutional rights guaranteed everyone in the country, legally or not."

This judge is a retard, and I hope someone who is close to him tells him I said so.

All men everywhere have God-given and unalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness; only lawful citizens have .onstitutional rights. How is this so hard to understand?

Tea Party backed candidate Christine O'Donnell's win over Republican Mike Castle has stirred up numerous controversies. One big one is the question of whether Conservatives should vote for the most conservative Republican who they suppose can win, or whether they should vote for the most conservative candidate, period.

I think the first method is faulty, and here's why. Conservatism leads to More. It leads to a more robust economy, more prosperity, and more liberty. But in order to get More, you have to argue for Less - less government. In this case, Less is More. But it's hard to make the case for less government when the control-monger Liberals want more government to be in charge of, and when the guilt-ridden bleeding heart Liberals want more government to tax everything in sight in order to give a living to the "needy", and when the greedy leech-like special interest Liberals want more government to create more entitlement programs...

So just about for forever, as long as the Republican party has stood for conservative principles, Republicans have had a handicap - trying to make the point that Less is indeed More. This has been patently obvious say, over the course of the last half century, while government has grown by leaps and bounds and overflowed with bounty from government coffers and into the hands of our fellow freeloaders. This massive redistribution of wealth has resulted in our massive national debt. Now the entire country, including the Liberals, faced with this obscene debt, should have learned that More is actually, and eventually, Less.

Over the historical long-term, this 150-or-so year path towards a larger, more Liberal government, has been assisted by Conservatives voting for the most conservative Republicans that they suppose might win instead of the most conservative candidate, period. This is because many such votes have been a compromise of principle, for many of those candidates were, in some way, willing to placate the Liberals and thus shed a portion of their handicap, in exchange for votes.

I certainly hope Christine O'Donnell wins against Democrat Chris Coons, but regardless, her primary win is a win for principle. And now Delaware voters will have a clear choice between a Conservative and a Liberal, rather than between a Liberal and a Liberal-in-training.

Double-speak leftists at their best with election year politics.

Had this been any other year, than before an election where the Socialists were taking such a terrible beating in the polls, they would have jumped on the Obama-Pelosi-Reid increase tax band-wagon in a heartbeat.

I hope November proves even better than the predictions, and that instead of "Republicans" taking seats, Conservatives do so in their places.

Time to take America back from the steal and redistribute commies!

Having the ATF spend 3 months with a long dead mummy is way preferable to them killing citizens, including children or ripping children from loving families. Maybe they should do facial recognition on their victims.

God bless you, Sgt Giunta, and may His Holy Spirit bring you comfort for the loss of your friend.

If we back home need any reason or incentive to stand and fight the oppressive and anti-American regime in place today, it may be provided by the hardships, pains, and sacrifices made by you and your fellows-in-arms; you deserve to return to a country worthy of your efforts and dedication.

Mr. Mark,

the us air force traces its honorable lineage as follows:

humbly began on august 1, 1907, as the aeronautial division us army signal corps. stil in the signal corps, on july 18, 1914, it became the aviation section. for a scant four days, may 20, 1918–may 24, 1918, it was the us army division of military aeronautics. on may 24, 1818, it become the us army air service, it gained corps status and became the us army air corps on july, 1 1926. on june 20, 1941 it became the us army air forces. finally becming as we know it today, the us air force on september 18, 1947

take it even from an old ground pounder

I think what Michelle said was "Don't ask, don't tell." She was just misquoted by M. Derai, a frenchman.

Two issues need comment. The first is that regardless of cutting taxes and stimulating the economy by doing so, we must (MUST!) cut government spending in other areas that the military. Were I president I would order each cabinet head to fire 25% of employees within 90 days, and then another 25% within the next six months. Any cabinet head who failed to do so would lose his job. We simply cannot support so many people on the government payroll, and on the dole, which sometimes is the same thing, e.g. looking at old mummies by ATF officers, who clearly have no useful purpose other than to assault and kill innocent American women and children. Next issue-- shallow water drilling is safe and effective, just like all those drugs, except much better. As a former drilling company business manager, I want to let Obama and company know that the oil industry employs truck drivers by the thousands, roughnecks by the thousands, accountants by the thousands, store clerks by the thousands, and before you know it, the number is in the millions. To deny that shallow water drilling delays (read moratoriums) are not hurtful is like saying that polio is not harmful. And by the way, Obama did not lie about his agenda before he was elected, he simply misrepresented what he was going to do to this country. That is technically not a lie, but is legally defined as fraud. He probably did lie about his place of birth.

With his own hands, Che Guevara -- the darling of the Progressives, Communists, Marxists, Obama supporters and defenders -- is known to have murdered 180 people. To hear his idolizers tell it, that's not all that many -- especially if they had to be removed for Fidel to gain control and to "change" Cuba into his island utopia. During the "relocation" of the Kulaks to Siberia -- 60,000,000 of whom were worked, starved, tortured, and murdered by the KGB -- Josef Stalin ("Man of Steel") justified their deaths as necessary for the "change" into a new Soviet Union to occur. He explained it this way: "The death of one person is a tragedy; the death of a million is a statistic." When asked to explain the confiscation of millions of Kulak farms, he answered, "You have to break some eggs to make an omelette." Pol Pot, formerly an English teacher and poet, tortured and murdered some two million Vietnamese in order to "change" Viet Nam to a Communist satellite. In his drive to "change" China, Mao Zedong might have been the bloodiest of them all. Obama intends to redistribute the money to insure 35 million previously uninsured Americans by reducing and eventually eliminating the 35 million of us whom he considers to be unproductive Old Phartes by restricting our access to medical care. His approach is that we should "Take two aspirin." It doesn't matter where, when, or which tyrant is "changing" a nation to central control. The language and the justifications remain the same. It's simply a matter of degree.

Article 1, Section 8, of the Constitution should be the heart and soul of the debate regarding spending. In that Article and Section, The Founders listed the TWELVE ENUMERATED DUTIES of the Congress. All other Duties were to be left to the States -- a rubric reinforced in crystalline language by the Tenth Amendment. Health "care," education, the "environment," mortgages, retirement, banking, agricultural subsidies, bail-outs, student loans and the thousands of other "duties" which Congress has assumed since FDR are all unconstitutional, not that it matters any longer. Do we want limited government? In Article 1, Section 8, The Founders laid it out for us in the simplest terms possible. It's a grocery list, stated just as simply. What it's lacking is obedience by the Congress. Of course, they haven't obeyed the Constitution because for the past 70-plus years, We, the People, haven't demanded it of them.

Rifleman- the only way in hell that the People can get Congress to obey the Constitution is to physically go there and watch them then drag them out of their chairs and out the door when they don't. The VA congressman (Perriello) told everyone on U-tube that to get them to stop stealing we'd have to tie their hands. What part of that don't you think he meant literally?

If he Iron Maiden was serious about children's health then she should get the corn syrup out of all the products we buy... Everything has it in it and this is a biggie for over weight everyone... It is unhealthy, even worse than sugar... So again just lip and spin from the socialist in charge.

In response to your Business and Economy section talking about the Small Business Jobs Act, you missed a key point regarding the capital being lent to small banks. "Treasury would require each bank applying for funds to submit a small-business lending plan “describing how the applicant’s business strategy and operating goals will allow it to address the needs of small businesses in the areas it serves, as well as a plan to provide linguistically and culturally appropriate outreach, where appropriate.” http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/print/243552

Reply to: Barry,

I don't know where you got that the highest marginal tax rate during the 1950s was 91%. That seems awfully high. But on to your main point, that the taxation rate doesn't matter to the private sector - that it's the uncertainty of where taxes might be going on down the road that matters. While I agree with your uncertainty point (the evidence gratiously provided by Obama and the Democrats all around the private sector right now, thank you very much), I think that overall taxation rates DO definitely matter. Economic booms always occur after tax reductions. That's a fact. And if we don't control taxation rates to something exactly respective of the amount needed to pay only for the enumerated powers of the government as outlined in the Constitution, we could end up with 100% tax rates for everyone. As I've said before in this forum, the cost of government is the sum of the overhead costs of all our family enterprises combined. And right now, our government is spending so much that family enterprise Americana is like a business running at 50+% overhead. Not a pretty picture.

And True Patriot, I wish you'd get with the program and understand that political condemnation isn't just a partisan event. We're trying to find our way and Republican or Democrat, or alien spaceranger, pushing America to spend itself into oblivion is the wrong direction.

Wait a minute here...Charlie Rangel with his HUGE ethics issues just won his primary. Teddy Kennedy killed a woman and held his seat for 40 years. Robert Byrd was a Grand Flegel in the KKK and held his seat for 40 years. POTUS JFK and POTUS Bill Clinton were/are both adulterers. POTUS Bark Obama is a druggie and a traitor, and Christine O'Donnell has to worry because she has some outstanding student loans and a gender discrimination suit against a former employer?

John Boehner says something stupid about taxing those earning over 250K just to hear himself talk? Karl Rove trashes Christine O'Donnell because he has a bad case of irrelevance? Republicans are talking about repealing the "worst" portions of BOCare (like there is anything good about it)? What is this? The twilight zone?

Obviously the Republicans think they are immune from getting the boot. But they too will fall like rotten fruit from the tree when conservatives start shaking it.

BOCare needs to be repealed in its entirety. Crap & Tax needs to die a quick and painful death. Taxes AND spending both need to be cut. And while we are at it, every politician and talking head needs to stop referring to "government money." America needs to wake up to the fact that the government does not create revenue by selling goods and services and then with a generous heart distributes it to those it deems worthy. The money that the government continuously wastes belongs to the Tax Payers. It is, first and last, the Tax Payers money. If Bu!!sh!t were a commodity, then maybe the government would have some money. But until that day, the government needs to get their d@mned hand out of our pockets.

"The Small Business Jobs Act authorizes the creation of a $30 billion fund run by the Treasury Department that would deliver ultra-cheap capital to banks with less than $10 billion in assets," Despite the requirement Shane M notes, won’t the actual result be the same kind of Government encouragement of risky loans that helped get us into the current economic mess ?

Can't stand the heat get 'OUT' of the kitchen!!!

Term and Tenure Limits---Proposed Constitutional Amendment as follows:

We The People of the United States of America, declare the Declaration of Independence and the Signatory Clause as the fore word and the end word of this our Constitution, and ever proclaim our Sovereignty as a People and a Nation. And Renounce the use of Force: Armies, Navies to make aggressive War, declared or nor, for the purpose of conquest or dominion.

No Person, upon sole reason of quantity of debt shall be deprived of life or liberty; and the Congress shall make No Debt for the Nation or the several States, lest the monies appropriated be for exigencies of War or of the common defense.

The Person, a Citizen, whether being; Elected, Appointed, or Commissioned; such that each of these officers, not elsewhere provided for in this Constitution, shall have been a Citizen of the United States seven years; and Cadre military, hired civil servants, and contractors of all inferior offices shall be a Citizen. And these Persons upon candidacy for office, to prove literacy and to Know Thine Oath, shall read aloud and whole, in English, henceforth the official language of the Land, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States; before a randomly Called and Sworn Jury of one hundred Citizen peers of the vicinage of the Person; and after reading, the Jurors being empowered to annul such candidacy by a vote of seventy-six. Citizenship is not required of non-cadre enlisted military lest secrecy be a necessity in the performance of their regular duty.

No one Person shall be an employee of the United States as any Officer or subordinate- receiving an emolument or profit, for a span longer than thirty-eight years. A Citizen only, shall vote in the vicinage of the state wherein they reside, proving residence of seven months per annum; for elective offices or issues in federal, state, or local elections or referendums within the United States or any jurisdiction thereof. And the Will of the People as determined by vote tally shall not be challenged, stayed, or negated, by any Person, Citizen, Judicial Court, or Officer of the United States or of any State, lest the resultant margin be less than one percentile. And no Justice, Judge, or other Officer shall cite any other source save this Constitution to decide the constitutionality and meaning of the Laws of the Land, or treaties made in pursuance thereof; or to decide any cause of action.

The President; -he, in the event of a vacancy of Office not elsewhere provided for in this Constitution, shall appoint Constitutional Officers, military Flag officers, and other inferior managerial and staff officers made by Congress, to take office with the advise and consent of the Senate; such that all terms of appointment and commission, and of election, begin upon the day of Senate consent, certification of election, and upon Affirmed or Oath of Office. Each Person appointed to be twice eligible for appointment of the same Office, except military officers thrice eligible for appointment. So, henceforth, the President, –he, shall appoint Supreme Court Justices; and Judges to the Bench of inferior courts made by Congress, to a term of eleven and nine years, respectively, though not subject to His forbearance. So, the President, -he shall appoint Secretaries, Generals, counselors, chairmen, directors, ad-ministers, and other officers of the Departments to one term concurrent with his own term; but subject to his forbearance as chief-executive. So, the President, -he shall appoint Ambassadors and Consuls to a term of five years, subject to his forbearance as head-of-state; with Senate consent to affirm to Office or recall from Abroad or Office, all these officers of state. So, the President, -he shall appoint to a term of five years, Flag-officers of the military, though these be subject to his forbearance as commander-in-chief, and he may repost or retire military officers by his own initiative.

Each of the several states shall be entitled to three and no more than fifty-three Representatives. Each Representative shall be elected by the citizens of the state such that each citizen shall vote election of two Representatives, one of which shall be elected by the citizens of the whole state and shall be the Spox of the State congressional delegates; the remaining Representatives allotted to the several States per the Census, shall be elected by citizens within a district made by the state legislature. The Representative shall have a term of two years, and be nine times eligible for election, no more than eighteen years. In the event of a vacancy of office, the Governing executive of the State, shall appoint a Representative for the remainder of the vacant term, and a Representative elected from one state or district within that state shall Not be elected a Representative by any other of the several states. A majority of all Representatives must be present to constitute a Quorum to do business provided each State shall have one Representative present.

Each Senator shall be elected by the citizens of the whole state; such that each citizen shall vote election of three Senators. Each Senator elected upon bi-annual years. The Senator shall have a term of six years and be thrice eligible for election no more than eighteen years. In the event of a vacancy of Office, the Governing executive of the State, with consent of the state Legislature, shall appoint a Senator for the remainder of the vacant term, and a Senator elected from one state shall Not be elected a Senator by any other of the several states. Each Senators staff shall be provisioned by the State. A majority of all Senators must be present to constitute a Quorum to do business provided each State shall have one Senator present.

The Congress shall meet at least once per year, commencing the third day of January, excluding Saturdays and Sundays, no less than eighty days, nor more than ninety-nine days; the President may waive this provision to call a Special Session, or the Congress may assemble should imminent danger to the Union or to any of the several States will not admit of delay. Upon certifications of election of the new Congress, each Elected shall be sworn or affirmed to office and assume their place. The members of the House of Representatives shall number no more than three times the number of members elected to the Senate.

Upon each decade, in the seventh year, betwixt assembly the second Monday of May and adjournment by disbandment September 17, a Federal Convention shall be convened, presided by the Speaker of the House, who shall have no vote lest they be equally divided. This Body may adjourn for any exigency, or to meet as the House and the Senate in regular session. This Body shall be composed of the Spox of each State and those Senators elected upon the sixth year, and each member shall have one vote. Upon convening, each member shall be sworn or affirmed to office. This Body, upon necessity, shall be empowered to propose and submit to the legislatures of the several States, upon the approval of seventy-six of the members, Constitutional Amendments for ratification- pursuant to petitions for the redress of grievances, received by the President or the Speaker, and being originated by one-tenth of the populations of each of two-fifths of the several States, or pursuant to applications of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States. Further, this Body shall be empowered to review the Constitutionality of all laws, resolves, treaties, and other Acts which shall have been approved by Congress, or ratified by the Senate; and signed by the President; also all executive orders, rules, and regulations, having the force of law pursuant to those Acts; also all judicial reviews, adjudications, and opinions of the Supreme Court or of the inferior courts of the United States. And to introduce, and by simple majority vote, approve bills of statute legislation for corrections, or pursuant to petitions as afore being originated, for the requisite approval or disapproval of the House of Representatives and of the Senate in next regular session. The Convention shall make NO Amendments of effect upon this Constitution as provided hereunto and any other provisions wherein this Body shall deem proper to add hereunto: Amendments One through Ten, the Bill of Rights; Article I, Section 7; Article I, Section 8; Article I, Section 9; Article I, Section 10.

To Rifleman:

Yours were two wonderful additions to this column.

Thank you.

Dear enemaofthestatusquo,

What a curious collection of details to be gathered in one place. They are not yet ready for prime time.

It ain't the Constitution that's broke, it's the imperial application of man-rule by POTUS and SCOTUS and the cavalier attitude of COUS that hurt.

Mrs. Obama reportedly denied she ever made the statement, but let's accept for a minute that she did. What she is discovering is that the First Lady position is not a "no-show" job. She actually has to WORK for it.

How can you report that violent crime rates are falling, when here in Denver, Co; the local TV news stations have recently reported that violent crime rates across the country are rising the past three years ?

p.s. I know who is lying

Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

The 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.

""What's galling about all this is that Mrs. Obama's anti-obesity campaign -- like the policies pushed by her husband -- presumes government has all the answers. In reality, it doesn't." "

Even more galling, this hypocrite needs to take care of the junk in her own trunk before pointing out that shortcoming in others.

As far as the "hell" of being first lady, it is assumed she sleeps with barry.

Hell, indeed.

The Obama's are not known for any previous charitible works, real or implied. They don't know the way to helping others, and enforcing an anti-obesity program ain't it.

Maybe she should give some thought to an 'anti-smoking' campaign and stop 'Himself' from smoking up OUR house, the White House. After all, it's smoking that kill, not only the smoker, but the standbyers..not to mention the awful smell in the drapes, furniture, etc....who wants to kiss a smoker?

..and keeping his feet off the furniture...

A fool and his money are soon elected.

----Will Rogers (1879-1935)

With regard to the soon-to-be-ubiquitous RFID chips. By now, I'm sure some 13-year-old has built a device to detect the presence of a RFID chip. It only takes a basic knowledge of physics. The next step is to build a device to swamp the chip with an overload of RF power and render it useless. As with the Cleveland re-cycle bins. Still only high-school physics.

Don't think so? In the early 70s nerds learned how to access the AT&T billing signals and nerds were getting their dope money by selling "blue boxes" which were used for making free long-distance calls. Some noted sellers were Jobs and Woz and one William S. Gates III. I knew a guy who could whistle the tones.

:') GordAuch, Yes it is a 'curious collection of details', but I assure you I have a reasoned opine for each. Some based upon- J. Madison's convention notes, &or the Anti&Federalist debates 1787-88, some are responses to more recent issues, &or reminders to our Governance that We The People are in charge. for instance, a 3rd Senator?! every voter of each state should have = leverage each election cycle in either House. Debtors prison has never been officially denounced. Has the Fed Govt. ever addressed any petition of grievances directly from the people? Does the governance class need to read the documents of governance guidance often & w/ the people being able to check a demigogue b4 office not just after the error is in office. Protects constitutional rights of citizens voters, limits influence of any one person by limits in offices. States The Declaration is a moral principle document is ignored too often, & the Signatory clause has never had official recog being within Art7, the Constitution ratification details. Denies games of 'political musical chairs', & judges no more lifetime appt. is reeligible to appt but by different HR, & S, & POTUS!

Gosh.........I'm trying really hard, but I just can't seem to reach the current First-lady-want-a-be. Are you kidding me? She thinks her life in the White House is "hell"? If she thinks THIS life is bad, wait until judgement day.

The ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms) should not be out investigating mummies and assaulting mommies. They should be a privately-owned, jobs-creating, convenience store!

Saint Peter

I really enjoy your newsletters, and getting the news I wouldn't otherwise get. The only problem I have is your tendency to emphasize political parties, as if they mean something. I think we found out during 2001 to 2007 that political parties don't mean anything. After years of preaching fiscal reponsibility, the Republicans went on a spending spree that would put drunken sailors to shame. I am more interested in who is a fiscal and social conservative then whether they claim to be Republican or Democrat. Olympia Snowe is a prime example.

My comment is aboout the mosque at ground Zero. No one has fully addressed the source of the funding for that building, and I believe Americans need to know. In addition, I'd like some enterprising conservative to hire Arabic speakers to attend their services, reporting on what is being taught during their "worship." I'd like the same for European mosques, especially those surrounding Israel.

She needs a vacation indeed..............a permanent one not paid for with our tax $$!