Obama’s Transportation Secretary Says He Wants to ‘Coerce People Out of Their Cars’
By Terence P. Jeffrey/CNSNews.com
"Some conservative groups are wary of the livable communities program, saying it's an example of government intrusion into people's lives," said the moderator. "How do you respond?"
"About everything we do around here is government intrusion in people's lives," said LaHood. "So have at it."
http://tinyurl.com/plcd7m
Leap in U.S. debt hits taxpayers with 12% more red ink
By Dennis Cauchon/USA TODAY
Taxpayers are on the hook for an extra $55,000 a household to cover rising federal commitments made just in the past year for retirement benefits, the national debt and other government promises....
http://tinyurl.com/nv37e6
U.S. Expected to Own 70% of Restructured G.M.
By MICHELINE MAYNARD and DAVID E. SANGER/NY TIMES
Back in December, Mr. Obama...suggested that he wanted to avoid an uncontrolled bankruptcy. Now...his White House is embracing it as a highly efficient solution, given the quick if painful bankruptcy of Chrysler.
http://tinyurl.com/olzzjw
IRS tax revenue falls along with taxpayers' income
By John Waggoner/USA TODAY
Federal tax revenue plunged $138 billion, or 34%, in April vs. a year ago — the biggest April drop since 1981, a study released Tuesday by the American Institute for Economic Research says.
http://tinyurl.com/ovpluy
On Pelosi’s Arrival Thousands Protest Chinese Regime
Qiao Qi/Epoch Times
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Shanghai on May 24. On the morning of May 25, 2,000 Chinese took to the streets of Beijing protesting against the communist regime and urging Pelosi to pay attention to human rights in China. About a dozen were arrested by Chinese police. [What the Chinese people don't realize is that the American government is becoming more like the ChiComm government everyday...Swampfox]
http://tinyurl.com/ob9ba3
Saturday, May 30, 2009
HEALTH NEWS 05/30/09
Chimp That Mauled Connecticut Woman had Xanax in System
By John Christoffersen/Insurance Journal
Xanax is the same drug that many of the school shooters have had in their systems before their rampages. - Swampfox
http://tinyurl.com/rcs8ja
Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily
The...flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma....children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the vaccine, according to new research that will be presented on May 19, at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego.
http://tinyurl.com/o3h7t8
By John Christoffersen/Insurance Journal
Xanax is the same drug that many of the school shooters have had in their systems before their rampages. - Swampfox
http://tinyurl.com/rcs8ja
Children Who Get Flu Vaccine Have Three Times Risk Of Hospitalization For Flu, Study Suggests
ScienceDaily
The...flu vaccine does not appear to be effective in preventing influenza-related hospitalizations in children, especially the ones with asthma....children who get the flu vaccine are more at risk for hospitalization than their peers who do not get the vaccine, according to new research that will be presented on May 19, at the 105th International Conference of the American Thoracic Society in San Diego.
http://tinyurl.com/o3h7t8
Friday, May 29, 2009
Rabidly Anti-gun Sotomayor is Unacceptable
Obama Picks Anti-gun Judge for the Supreme Court - Time to start contacting your Senators right away
Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, May 29, 2009
Unless you've taken a very long Memorial Day vacation, you've no doubt heard the big news.
President Obama has picked an anti-gun radical to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.
Obama's pick is Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is currently on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. There she has racked up an anti-Second Amendment record and has displayed contempt for the rule of law under the Constitution.
The Heller decision put the Supreme Court in support of the Constitutional protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms. Sotomayor, a politically correct lover of centralized government power (as long as she is part of the power elite), immediately went into counter-attack mode against the Heller decision.
Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel earlier this year which ruled in Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. As she and her cohorts claimed, the Supreme Court has not yet incorporated the states under the Second Amendment. Until then, she believes, the Second only applies to the District of Columbia.
This is pure judicial arrogance - something Sotomayor relishes (as long as she is one of the ruling judges). In fact, protection of the right to keep and bear arms was a major objective for enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, as recently freed slaves were being disarmed and terrorized in their neighborhoods.
But Sotomayor disdains this important right of individuals, as indicated by an earlier opinion from 2004. In United States v. Sanchez-Villar, she stated that "the right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental right."
Sotomayor has held very anti-gun views, even as far back as the 1970s. Fox Cable News reported yesterday that in her senior thesis at Princeton University, she wrote that America has a "deadly obsession" with guns and that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to firearms ownership.
Sotomayor's Second Amendment views go hand in hand with her politically correct views on the law and the role of judges.
In a speech given at Duke University in 2005, she made it abundantly clear that judges are involved in making policy. Realizing that this did not sound very judicial (even though most judges act on this basis), Sotomayor tried to laugh off her brazen admission: "I know this is on tape and I should never say that, [audience laughing], because we don't make law - I know. Um, okay. I know, I'm not promoting it, I'm not advocating it." The audience continued to laugh. They got the joke.
But Sotomayor's joke will be on us and our liberties if she gets confirmed to the Supreme Court. And that is why we need to start contacting our Senators early and often, urging them to vote against this dangerous nomination.
ACTION: Please contact your two Senators and urge them to oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. You can go to the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm.
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Gun Owners of America
8001 Forbes Place, Suite 102, Springfield, VA 22151
Phone: 703-321-8585 / FAX: 703-321-8408
http://www.gunowners.org
Friday, May 29, 2009
Unless you've taken a very long Memorial Day vacation, you've no doubt heard the big news.
President Obama has picked an anti-gun radical to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.
Obama's pick is Judge Sonia Sotomayor, who is currently on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District. There she has racked up an anti-Second Amendment record and has displayed contempt for the rule of law under the Constitution.
The Heller decision put the Supreme Court in support of the Constitutional protection of the individual right to keep and bear arms. Sotomayor, a politically correct lover of centralized government power (as long as she is part of the power elite), immediately went into counter-attack mode against the Heller decision.
Sotomayor was part of a three-judge panel earlier this year which ruled in Maloney v. Cuomo that the Second Amendment does not apply to the states. As she and her cohorts claimed, the Supreme Court has not yet incorporated the states under the Second Amendment. Until then, she believes, the Second only applies to the District of Columbia.
This is pure judicial arrogance - something Sotomayor relishes (as long as she is one of the ruling judges). In fact, protection of the right to keep and bear arms was a major objective for enactment of the Fourteenth Amendment, as recently freed slaves were being disarmed and terrorized in their neighborhoods.
But Sotomayor disdains this important right of individuals, as indicated by an earlier opinion from 2004. In United States v. Sanchez-Villar, she stated that "the right to possess a gun is clearly not a fundamental right."
Sotomayor has held very anti-gun views, even as far back as the 1970s. Fox Cable News reported yesterday that in her senior thesis at Princeton University, she wrote that America has a "deadly obsession" with guns and that the Second Amendment does not guarantee an individual right to firearms ownership.
Sotomayor's Second Amendment views go hand in hand with her politically correct views on the law and the role of judges.
In a speech given at Duke University in 2005, she made it abundantly clear that judges are involved in making policy. Realizing that this did not sound very judicial (even though most judges act on this basis), Sotomayor tried to laugh off her brazen admission: "I know this is on tape and I should never say that, [audience laughing], because we don't make law - I know. Um, okay. I know, I'm not promoting it, I'm not advocating it." The audience continued to laugh. They got the joke.
But Sotomayor's joke will be on us and our liberties if she gets confirmed to the Supreme Court. And that is why we need to start contacting our Senators early and often, urging them to vote against this dangerous nomination.
ACTION: Please contact your two Senators and urge them to oppose the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. You can go to the Gun Owners Legislative Action Center at http://www.gunowners.org/activism.htm.
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Obama's SCOTUS Pick
The president finally announced his pick to replace retiring Justice Souter for Supreme Court of the United States. I have already noticed some headlines labeling Sonia Sotomayor as being the first Hispanic Supreme Court nominee. I am sure that will be heavily propagated over the next few weeks.
There is already a lot of information being generated about the potential SCOTUS member. Here are some links that you can follow to read up on her.
Swampfox
Sonia Sotomayor
Written by Adam Bitely/NetRightNation
Here is a list of stuff I have found on Sonia Sotomayor this morning.
http://tinyurl.com/qdb8bv
Obama picks Sotomayor for SCOTUS slot
by Ed Morrissey/HOT AIR
Sotomayor has been on the public short list the entire time, and the GOP has trained its guns elsewhere. They’ve been warning more about Elaine Kagan and Diane Wood, barely giving Sotomayor any notice at all. Republicans have also focused on the executive-branch appointments of Dawn Johnsen and Harold Koh, two radical activists, during this period. That public campaign may have made Sotomayor look less radical and activist in comparison, which makes a big public push less likely to succeed.
http://tinyurl.com/qech2t
There is already a lot of information being generated about the potential SCOTUS member. Here are some links that you can follow to read up on her.
Swampfox
Sonia Sotomayor
Written by Adam Bitely/NetRightNation
Here is a list of stuff I have found on Sonia Sotomayor this morning.
http://tinyurl.com/qdb8bv
Obama picks Sotomayor for SCOTUS slot
by Ed Morrissey/HOT AIR
Sotomayor has been on the public short list the entire time, and the GOP has trained its guns elsewhere. They’ve been warning more about Elaine Kagan and Diane Wood, barely giving Sotomayor any notice at all. Republicans have also focused on the executive-branch appointments of Dawn Johnsen and Harold Koh, two radical activists, during this period. That public campaign may have made Sotomayor look less radical and activist in comparison, which makes a big public push less likely to succeed.
http://tinyurl.com/qech2t
Monday, May 25, 2009
ANOTHER DAY TO FORGET
It's Memorial Day again. A time for cookouts with hamburgers and hot dogs, parties, the first official kickoff to Summer. A day for ultra-patriotic flag-waving, singing "God Bless America". Yeah.
Actually, it's not about any of those.
OK, what about honoring the troops, praising their sacrifice and heroism? No again.
Memorial Day has nothing to do with the living. Matter of fact, it has nothing to do with the deceased who came home.
Memorial Day has become a day to forget. Forget those who never came back. Forget those who may still languish in some prison. Forget those who died as prisoners of war. Forget those whose remains were never found. Memorial Day has become a day to pretend those men never really existed after all. Instead, we have replaced their memories with parades, cookouts, races, picnics, vacations and self-indulgence.
Memorial Day was first started by Confederate widows (depending on which story you count as authentic will determine which state you think these originated in). Northern occupation authorities knew a smart idea when they saw one, and soon various memorial days sprung up all across the country. By the end of World War II, the fallen of five different wars were being honored and remembered. But in 1951 the memorials took a new, darker meaning.
In 1951 rising hostilities turned into the Korean Conflict. When that ended in 1953 at a stalemate, our government had done something that had been totally unthinkable - allowed countless numbers of men to remain behind enemy lines. Many of these men were listed as MIA - missing in action, presumably captured by the enemy, or were known to be POWs, actual prisoners of war. And they would remain there.
Because we ignored General MacArthur's advice, we once again became involved in a war that our government was determined not to win or lose (although we really did lose that one). As in Korea, we left countless numbers of men behind enemy lines in Vietnam.
For a number of years, many wore bracelets with the names of those men; but now, we forget. Instead of remembering, we choose drunkenness and gluttony. Instead of solemnly reminding those around us, we choose to teach the next generation to be self-absorbed.
Memorial Day, like Independence Day, has become just another national party day, and we could care less about what it is supposed to be.
I will not forget.
I will fly the Black Flag.
I will remember those men who died behind enemy lines. I will remember those who may still remain as prisoners.
I will not forget.
Swampfox
**Addendum: According to many figures, we did leave men behind enemy lines in WW1, WW2 and as recently as the Persian Gulf wars. The following are sites that have been established for those POWs/MIAs - POWMIA.com, the Library of Congress' Vietnam Era POW/MIA Database, the Department of Defense POW/MIA Office, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, and the National League of Families of POWs and MIAS.
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