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Obama co-sponsers national finger-print database bill

Monday, June 9th, 2008
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Senators Mel Martinez and Diane Feinstein along with 11 co-sponsors include Barack Obama have authored a bill creating a national finger-print registry according to analysis of the bill.  Yet another step towards a surveillance society.  And another hint of the type of “Change” that Barack Obama will support - fewer freedoms.
See
Martinez press release: http://martinez.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsReleases.View&ContentRecord_id=89001ad0-4718-47ed-8145-7c7398179489&IsTextOnly=False
Heritage Foundation on the [...]

Commander in chief of our economy? How about Freedom?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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“It’s time for a president who is ready on day one to be the commander in chief of our economy. ” Hillary Clinton, March 27, 2008
 ”I don’t want to run the national economy!  I want your national economy runners to leave me alone!”  Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged  
The nature of freedom is being in charge of [...]

Sharpton says don’t seat Florida and Michigan Delegates in 2008

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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“I firmly believe that changing the rules now, and seating delegates from Florida and Michigan at this point would not only violate the Democratic party’s rules of fairness, but also would be a grave injustice. … I knew the rules, abided by them, and ultimately accepted the consequences. Changing the rules in the middle of a [...]

Spying Upon Ourselves

Monday, January 14th, 2008
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United States Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell, is drafting a plan that is supposed to protect America’s cyberspace. The plan, according to The New Yorker (January 14, 2008) is that “the government must have the ability to read all the information crossing the Internet in the United States.” Yes, you read [...]

Hillary and the Law

Friday, January 11th, 2008
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“No woman is illegal,” Clinton said, to cheers. (http://www.lvrj.com/news/13702902.html)
From someone sworn (as a United States Senator) to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States, this is disgraceful.  Yet again Hillary Clinton shows her disdain for the laws that she expects everyone else to obey. 

A pragmatist is someone who would have compromised with [...]

Spitzer decries Hyperpartisanship

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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Nothing reflects the result of hyperpartisanship more than the current immigration debate, which has become so toxic that anytime a practical proposal is put forward, it is shot down before it can even be weighed on its merits. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, November 14, 2007
One wonders what Gov. Spitzer would have said about Patrick [...]

AMT, Republicans and Socialist Charles Rangel

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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With all the grousing about the AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) and the plans to “do something” about it, the following factors must be considered. Charles Rangel, Democratic Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee’s plan is to raise taxes (don’t worry, you won’t be left out) elsewhere to “pay for” reducing the AMT. [...]

Sicko Michael Moore and the truth about Cuba

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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Michael Moore, please call your office – or the church. In a stunning move, the very liberal Episcopal Church unintentionally repudiates Michael Moore’s manipulative movie Sicko.
As is typical for the Episcopal Church, the Church again injected politics into the pulpit, at least this time, it was something that people could -and should- [...]

Buffett says taxes are too low, but doesn’t pay more himself

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Constitution, First Amendment, big government, capitalism, personal responsibility, privacy, rights, taxes | No Comments »

Echoing his comments in June, Warren Buffett is complaining about tax rates as being too low. The relevant question is: has he done anything about it or is he just being a hypocrite, again?
Let’s see what Buffett has actually done instead of said: Buffett is giving away is fortune (http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/25/magazines/fortune/charity1.fortune/). [...]

Judge David Sentelle and life saving medicines

Sunday, October 21st, 2007
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“I may have gotten a thin copy, but I had a hard time finding it in my copy of the Constitution.” Judge David Sentelle questioning the “right” for terminally ill patients to get life saving medicines. (March 1, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. For more, see Reason.)
It seems like Judge Sentelle is [...]

Power-hungry Univ of Florida, Gainesville Police

Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
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Power-hungry and abusive police arrest and taser a student asking John Kerry speech:
Look at those little Napoleon police. Pathetic officers.
Capt. Jeff Holcomb of the University Police Department and the officers involved should be fired.
see
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/article/20070918/NEWS/709180325/1007/NEWS
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3ec_1190097717&p=1

McCain-Feingold limits McCain’s Campaign

Thursday, July 12th, 2007
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One might call it ironic that the McCain campaign is faltering due to lack of funds. Ironic because he has helped to silence his own speech rights while limiting everyone else’s. Instead of being free to donate and disclose to a candidate who shares your views, you are greatly limited. McCain suffers [...]

Brian Lamb of C-SPAN and the meaning of “give”

Thursday, June 21st, 2007
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Brian Lamb of CSPAN obviously has no idea what the meaning of the word “give” is.
Politico.com quotes him as stating:
“We are not a taxpayer organization … We get no federal funds, state funds, local funds. We get our money from you. You give us a nickel a month when you pay your bills, and that’s [...]

Sen. Kennedy on ’settled’ Constitutional law

Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Wednesday, July 27, 2005
Sen. Kennedy on ’settled’ law
Senator Kennedy’s assertion (Wall Street Journal, July 25, 2005) that Commerce Clause jurisprudence is settled is laughable for many reasons.
1. First and foremost, Commerce Clause jurisprudence was “settled” in favor of freedom and liberty until the Supreme Court of the 1930s gutted the doctrine in order to make [...]

Five Disgraceful Supreme Court Justices on Kelo

Sunday, June 26th, 2005
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Sunday, June 26, 2005 Five Disgraceful ‘Justices’ on the US Supreme Court in Kelo vs New London (125 S. Ct. 2655 (2005)) With the Supreme Court eviscerating the freedoms protected in the Constitution this week with its abandonment of the Founders’ intent in writing the Commerce Clause and Fifth Amendment, every protection becomes that much [...]