Governing Ourselves
PHOENIX (Apr. 2, 2015) – Today, new Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey vetoed a bill that would have allowed gold and silver to be used as “legal tender” in the state, as required by the Constitution. …
…When Barack Obama came under fire for his mishandling of the horrific treatment of US veterans at the VA in Phoenix, and in fact throughout the entire system, he did what he usually did: deploy Susan Rice to come up with some optics. So we, as a people, were treated to the sight of the Compassionate Leader, who had, after monumental effort and at great personal cost, moved mountains to make sure that No Man Was Left Behind. We were told this action was in keeping with the highest traditions of the US Military, but we were not told that the Man Was Left Behind because he decided to walk away from his post and join the Islamic enemy. Six men, however, were left behind…
BISMARCK, N.D. …Last week, Gov. Jack Dalrymple signed a bill into law authorizing the farming, production, and sale of industrial hemp in the state, effectively nullifying the federal prohibition on the same….
The Senate approved a budget amendment Thursday that supports a repeal of the estate tax.
Senators voted 54-46 on the amendment. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) broke rank and voted against the amendment, while Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted for it.
The amendment, offered by Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), aims to repeal the estate tax, sometimes referred to as the "death tax." Under the tax, an estate, or assets, have to be worth more than $5.43 million before they are taxed.…
The Pentagon has declassified a document that was once labeled “top-secret,” which goes into sophisticated detail about Israel’s nuclear weapons program. The document was released quietly just prior to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to a joint session of Congress.
Israel has never officially confirmed or denied the existence of a nuclear weapon’s program within its borders. …
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is spending nearly $150,000 to test a “mindful eating intervention” on third graders in California.
A grant awarded earlier this month outlined the project that will use the methods of a Zen teacher to try to fight childhood obesity and turn kids into “change agents” to teach others how to eat healthily. …
[FTR: Mindful Webworks has no association with this "mindful eating disorder" thingy.]
The Senate on Tuesday destroyed any lingering hope President Barack Obama might have had for passing his budget plan through Congress this year, by voting down Obama’s plan 1-98. [via The Blaze]
Brett Kimberlin’s lawsuit against Mandy Nagy and other conservative bloggers has been, for the most part, dismissed in federal court.
He will be allowed to file in state court if he chooses.
A federal judge in Oklahoma has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a prominent atheist organization that sought to challenge the presence of a Ten Commandments monument in the state capital.
American Atheists, based in New Jersey, had filed the legal challenge on behalf of a woman who complained about its installment on the grounds of the Oklahoma capitol building. The State Capitol Preservation Commission argued that the woman had only seen the monument once and had traveled to the area just to see the display and take offense. … [Emphasis added]
A bill introduced in the Texas Senate would prohibit the state from providing resources or personnel for the enforcement of Obamacare within the state…. Practically speaking, this would make it difficult, if not impossible, for the federal government to run Obamacare in the Lone Star State. …
…I personally can’t think of any better representation of what it means to serve this country in uniform than this picture. Those of us who have taken the oath “to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same” do so for our nation’s children so they will have a peaceful world and a security that enables them to enjoy the blessings of liberty and freedom this Republic affords.…
Separate pieces of legislation on a so-called Article V convention advanced through the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives on Wednesday. …[House bill] would limit the convention to considering a budget-control amendment… [Senate version] says the convention may propose “amendments to the United States Constitution that impose fiscal restraints on the federal government, limit the power and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the term of office for its officials and members of Congress.” … The two measures now switch sides of the Capitol…
"Hillary Clinton and The New York Times are already in cahoots. Seems that the New York Times posted Hillary Clinton’s state about ‘releasing all her e-mails from the State Department’ before the actual tweet from Hillary Clinton. Busted! …"
"On Tuesday, a former Department of Justice prosecuting attorney said that he believes then-Secretary of State Clinton — probably using her unofficial and illegal email system — was complicit in the leaking of classified intelligence regarding military operation plans formulated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) to destroy Iran's nuclear weapons program. …" [Emphasis added.]
"Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Tuesday offered the latest in a series of Republican ObamaCare alternatives… Health Care Choices Act would allow people to buy health insurance across state lines… would also repeal Title I of ObamaCare, which would undo much of the law, including the mandate to buy insurance, the insurance marketplaces and subsidies to help people afford coverage. … "
…Police officers representing local, state and Federal agencies rounded up everyone in attendance, confiscated their cell phones, laptops or other recording devices and then fingerprinted each person. All this was done with a search warrant signed by a judge for an alleged misdemeanor committed by two of the attendees who were present at the meeting.
Tell me it isn’t just me… that this entire event come across as bizarre… to the point of making your blood pressure elevate? …
For some reason I found myself checking a map of Texas. Bryan is not too far from Waco…remembering a different show of force wherein the Federal government decided to overplay their hand. …
On Friday, C.J. Pearson, a 12-year-old conservative from Georgia who posted a viral video supporting Rudy Giuliani, discovered that his personal Facebook page was locked. In an exclusive interview with Examiner.com on Saturday, Pearson said he received a message from someone about 6 a.m. Friday. That's when he learned his account and page had been locked for "suspicious activity." …
As is so often the case in these situations, Facebook did not respond to his requests for help. Nor would they tell him what the alleged suspicious activity was. We reached out to Facebook, but the social media giant has so far refused to respond to our request for comments.
…Let’s put it this way.
This isn’t an effort to welcome immigrants to the US in order for them to assimilate into the American culture.
This is an invasion — orchestrated by radical amnesty organizations and facilitated by the Obama White House.
This is an invasion of foreign nationals who are being encouraged to come to the US — not to become Americans, but to avail themselves of US welfare programs. It’s Cloward & Piven on steroids. …
…The IRS belatedly told Congress it may have lost some of Ms. Lerner’s emails after her computer crashed, and asserted that the backup tapes didn’t exist.
But under questioning from Mr. Chaffetz, Mr. Camus said it took him only two weeks to track down the backup tapes, and when he asked the IRS depository for them, the workers there said they’d never been contacted by the agency itself. …
The collection in the Ninawa museum dates back to the Assyrian empire [video]
Their opposition is running up against a critical deadline. A stopgap measure that has kept Homeland Security running will expire on Feb. 27.
Conservatives say they are not concerned with the deadline and will vote against the Senate deal.
“I think the American people and the members of the United States Congress are dissatisfied with any plan that does not stop the president’s illegal and unconstitutional conduct,” Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala, told the Washington Examiner.
"…at least 20 officers corralled, searched and fingerprinted all 60 meeting attendees, before seizing all cellphones and recording equipment in a Valentine's Day 2015 raid on the Texas separatist group.…"
"Trey Gowdy gave a great opening speech today blasting Obama’s illegal amnesty, explaining why it’s wrong and what it can lead to." -Pistol Pete
Irving, Texas, Mayor Beth Van Duyne: "Sharia Law Court was NOT approved or enacted by the City of Irving. Recently, there have been rumors suggesting that the City of Irving has somehow condoned, approved or enacted the implementation of a Sharia Law Court in our City. Let me be clear, neither the City of Irving, our elected officials or city staff have anything to do with the decision of the mosque that has been identified as starting a Sharia Court." (Read the whole post)
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT MUHAMMAD ART EXPO IN GARLAND, TEXAS
Here is a clarification of great importance. Regarding submissions not being anonymous:
Submissions cannot be made with a pseudonym, or anonymously, but this does not mean your name will be released to the public.
You have to supply your real name for AFDI so you can be paid if you should win the $10,000, for tax purposes, but they will not be giving ISLAM, THE LEFT or any other maniac, a roadmap to your house.
Anonymity? They'd better not put the names on a computer. Or write them down. Or… Entrants better accept that their names may be discovered and broadcast!
"At least I can look back at my life and think:damn, I had me a time."
"…the ongoing sham of the Obama administration's under-the-radar policies get seen in the light of day in Bill Whittle's latest FIREWALL."
CNBC Contributor Rick Santelli recalled his famous rant that helped spark the Tea Party movement on its six-year anniversary on Thursday’s “Squawk Alley.”
Six years ago, he railed against bailouts and said “we’re thinking of having a Chicago Tea Party in July. All you capitalists that want to show up to Lake Michigan, I’m going to start organizing,” a monologue that drew cheers from the crowd at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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"…hecklers from the ACORN-association CASA de Maryland interrupted the Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security and Rep. Gowdy's reaction is priceless…." -Miss CJ [Video 4:20]
This brings us to the aforementioned interview of Chief Justice Moore by Chris Wallace on his Sunday Fox television program.
Chris Wallace seemed baffled by Chief Justice Moore’s arguments as if he had never heard such things before. When he questioned how anyone could dispute a ruling of a Federal Judge, Chief Justice Moore replied, “When federal courts start changing our Constitution by defining words that are not even there, like marriage, they’re going to do the same thing with family in the future,” Moore declared. The Chief Justice went on to say, “When a word’s not in the Constitution, clearly the powers of the Supreme Court do not allow them to redefine words and seize power. 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. This power over marriage which came from god under our organic law is not to be redefined by the United States Supreme Court or any federal court.”
The look on Mr. Wallace’s face was one of bewilderment.
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