Burrtrayal!

 

 NC Renegade

VERBATIM

At 11:47 A.M EST on March 6^th, a historic event took place, a freshman Senator from Kentucky rose and stood up for the American people. Rand Paul’s message was simple, get the President to say that there would be NO drone strikes on non-combatant United States Citizens on American soil. Pretty simple message if you ask me.

 

While many pundits, press, and even one or two other Senators stayed with Mr. Paul, notably absent from this event was our own Sen. Richard Burr. Where was he you might ask. Was he rallying support for our civil liberties here on the home front in North Carolina? No…..Burr was enjoying an all expense paid dinner with President Obama at the Jefferson Hotel. A dinner which was paid for by the President – at least hopefully so and not with taxpayer money.

 

The purpose of the dinner was for the exchange of ideas on the current financial crisis. All in all there were twelve Republicans invited to the dinner, none from the leadership of the GOP party. So it begs the question, why these 12? Were they perhaps hoping to curry some favor from the President in exchange for promising to support his agenda?

 

Senator Burr on his website claims to take a strong stance on the current financial issues saying that “First, we need to stop spending money we do not have”, I agree, and so does the GOP leadership. So why did Sen. Burr feel the need to attend a fine dining experience about coming to a financial compromise with the President. He should stand with his leadership on this issue and simply have said “Mr. President, you have our response!”

 

So while a brave freshman Senator from Kentucky took a stand with the American people for twelve hours, our Senator ate steak and had a nice cozy chit chat with the President. While Sen. Paul managed to choke down a Milky Way and water, I am sure Mr. Burr had a nice wine and steak.

 

Surely the filibuster by Mr. Paul was being played on the televisions in the bar. Could not Mr. Burr have leaned across the table and said “Hey Mr. President, Rand is asking a good question there. Can you answer it?”. Even better, he could have politely left the dinner to stand with the American people and the people of North Carolina. I wonder then, where does Mr. Burr stand on the issue of drone strikes?

 

--NCThreeper

Our Very Own "No More Hesitation Targets"

Via WRSA

  

You remember Daryl right? 

He's the whale that wrote the DHS report that labeled everyone in America who didn't vote for Obama as a potential domestic terrorist.  Then being fired by DHS at some point he started his own business called DT analytics so as to continue hollering about the boogeyman of evil that is independent thought. 

Congratulations Daryl, you're first in line. 

If I could only mass produce these . . .

More @ The Cliffs of Insanity

 

"The Man and the Hour Have Met"

Via Ninety Miles From Tyranny

Watch: ‘Murder in Progress’ Experiment Terrifies New Yorkers

Via A Trainwreck In Maxwell 

 

Insane.  A good way to get killed in normal parts of the country.

A New York City-based marketing firm horrified New Yorkers by staging a “murder in progress” to help promote Niels Arden Oplev’s upcoming crime film “Dead Man Down.” While it is being described as an “experiment” to see how people would react if they walked in on a murder in progress, it seems more like a horrifying prank.

The agency set up hidden cameras inside and outside New York City elevator and filmed people’s reactions as they discovered a man trying to strangle another man to death with an extension chord.

While some freak out and run away, others actually attempt to come to the fake victim’s aide. One woman striked the “attacker” with a shopping bag and another man sprayed him with a fire extinguisher. Others just screamed at the man and ordered him to stop.

More @ The Blaze

Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read

 

Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University's community college system.
 
The number of kids behind the 8-ball is the highest in years, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Thursday.
 
When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn't make the grade.
 
They had to re-learn basic skills - reading, writing and math - first before they could begin college courses.

 They are part of a disturbing statistic.

More @ CBS 

Retired Marine is Top Gun at Subway Sandwich Shop

Roundabout via safetalker

 

Evidently this happened in 2007 and is being recycled, but the first I have heard of it. 

Link

Last week police were called to investigate an attempted armed robbery: The 71-year-old retired Marine who opened fire on two robbers at a Plantation, Florida, Subway shop late Wednesday, killing one and critically wounding the other, is described as John Lovell, a former helicopter pilot for two presidents. He doesn't drink, he doesn't smoke, and he works out every day. Mr. Lovell was a man of action Wednesday night.

According to Plantation police, two masked gunmen came into the Subway at1949 N. Pine Rd. Just after 11 p.m. There was a lone diner, Mr. Lovell, who was finishing his meal. After robbing the cashier, the two men attempted to shove Mr. Lovell into a bathroom and rob him as well. They got his money, but then Mr. Lovell pulled his handgun and opened fire. He shot one of the thieves in the head and chest and the other in the head.

When police arrived, they found one of the men in the shop, K-9 Units found the other in the bushes of a nearby business. They also found cash strewn around the front of the sandwich shop according to Detective Robert Rettig of the Plantation Police Department.

Both men were taken to the Broward General Medical Center , where one, Donicio Arrindell, 22, of North Lauderdale died. The other, 21-year-old Frederick Gadson of Fort Lauderdale is in critical but stable condition.

Mr. Lovell was a pilot in the Marine Corps, flying former Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. He later worked as a pilot for Pan Am and Delta Airlines.

He is not expected to be charged authorities said. ''He was in fear for his life,'' Detective Rettig said, "These criminals ought to realize that most men in their 70's have military backgrounds and aren't intimidated by idiots."

Something tells me this old Marine wasn't 'in fear for his life', even though his life was definitely at risk. The only thing he could be charged with is participating in an unfair fight. One 71- year young Marine against two punks. Two head shots and one center body mass shot.

Redneck starting fluid or Why do the "good ol' boys" have all the fun?

Via Billy

To the Brow of the First Hill or My Trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

 

Horace Smith, December 20, 2004
Revised January 1, 2005 

Carolyn has asked me to write of my trip to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation on the weekend of December 12-13 so here goes.

A Newborn Is Introduced to the Cosmos

Ho! You Sun, Moon, Stars,

All you that move in the heavens,

I bid you hear me!

Into your midst has come a new life.

Give your consent, I implore you!

Make its path smooth, that it may reach

The brow of the first hill!

Omaha Indian 

After reading this article in the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship magazine that I get each month, I decided to look into the situation at Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Over the last few years I have met some wandering Indian men from the “rez” and have read of the standoff at Whiteclay Nebraska a few years ago when the Lakota Sioux from South Dakota tried to shut down the beer-selling in Whiteclay. (Whiteclay’s only reason for existence is to sell beer to Indians from SD.)

I found the web-pages for the Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation and the Yahoo! Message-board group and was immediately overwhelmed by the obvious needs of the people there. I will enclose some facts and some web-page addresses at the end of this letter.

So I went to the Thrift Store down the street who had a half-price sale on December 11 and loaded up on children’s (boy’s) clothes and a few odd toys. Carolyn also shopped there and elsewhere for girls clothes. Then at Costco I got some big bags of vegetables which are a great buy at Costco. Safeway had a hundred pounds of potatoes for ten bucks. And of course Costco had tomatoes for $1.40 a pound instead of 4 and 5 dollars near the reservation.

Very early on I was confused about making contacts with someone at Pine Ridge to handle the stuff because some of the web-pages suggested NOT visiting the Reservation. I called the people in the article, both ABOUT in Whiteclay and Pastor Leon Matthews in Pine Ridge. I also talked to the Denver Indian Center. All these people said Go! So I went. Leon Matthews said I would stay with his family and I did Sunday night. He is pastor of the Pine Ridge Gospel Fellowship Church which is now being supported by the Wesleyans and the American Baptist Convention. The church building, his house and a building being renovated as a coffee house are together on one block at the center of the town.

When I got there we took the van-load of goods 3 or 4 miles north to a conference center that he had taken over from the Seventh Day Adventists. Big place with a large conference building, a gym, a house for the director (Ken Martin from Mississippi), a new industrial arts building where they teach carpentry, electrical work and other employable skills. We left the goods there and they said they would call families in from the “rez” to pick them up. This was disappointing to me because I wanted to see the kid’s faces and be sure that “poor” kids were getting the clothing. Leon and Ken smiled at that. They assured me that I couldn’t find a kid there who wasn’t poor.

So we went to the Sunday night church service which consisted of fifteen teen-agers, about half white kids and half Indians watching Spiderman 2 projected on the wall of the building. I was impressed with the $2500 digital projector and Leon explained that Bill Clinton had come to Pine Ridge and among other things had built a Boys and Girls Club which was funded with more money than they could spend. He (Leon) had written a Grant request and been give $15000 from their money to spend on equipment. He also had a large high-powered computer at the house which he uses well.

Monday morning Leon gave me a tour of the Pine Ridge area and Whiteclay. I stood on the hill at Wounded Knee where the men, women, and children are buried in a common grave. The U.S. Army went off and left their frozen bodies piled in a ditch after shooting them to pieces with the Hotchkiss guns. Leon’s mother’s and father’s graves are at the entrance to the cemetery which is in front of the Episcopal church . My army doesn’t shoot Indians any more, we give them a government allotment each month so that people whose genes provide no natural immunity to alcoholism will never be a threat again.

I rode over the land that his relatives own, mostly leased to white ranchers, incredibly beautiful land. As we drove around the Indian radio station was on, first playing drum music and then there were two old guys just talking about local politics, the tribal council, and such things. I kept saying, “those guys have it right, they know what they’re talking about.” Soon we went up a steep hill that had a little studio and radio tower on it and went inside to talk to the manager, a white man who wanted to run a coffee-house type show from Leon’s church next month. After they finished talking and we were leaving the studio, here came two dried-up little men with pony tails and I was introduced to them. I was stunned to find out they were the two men I had been listening to earlier. They must be my age or older. I left them with my encouragement to stay on the air.

Whiteclay, Nebraska is America at its worst. The stores sell four million cans of beer a year to alcoholics from Pine Ridge, who sit against the buildings, pile into a “flop house”, or lie on the sidewalks. It was very cold. It gets to 40 below zero sometimes. A lot of them freeze to death I believe. There are no hot air grates like the homeless in Denver find to sleep on.

The people of ABOUT and 555 in Whiteclay have bought a huge old building which is being operated as a thrift shop and renovated for manufacturing, classrooms, and you-name-it. They are very sincere Christian types who work very hard against terrible odds to help the Native Americans. They had a Drug/Alcohol program going in a nice, multi-building facility south of Whiteclay but they couldn’t keep it going. They are trying to re-start it but I think they face staggering odds to get money at this time for alcoholism treatment. They use the Overcomers model of treatment which is a combination of AA’s 12 steps and Bible study. This seems to be in use on other reservations, like the Navaho in Arizona.

The 555 group partners with The Hands of Faith Ministries in an organization they call ABOUT (A Binding of Us Together), which seems to be about bringing all the churches and other helping groups together. The Hands of Faith Brochure didn’t scan well so I have extracted some data from it. Here it is.

The Hard Facts of Our Ministry Field

95% of all spouse and elderly abuse incidents are alcohol related.

Reservation unemployment averages 85% with 70% of those unemployed lacking the skills to get or maintain a job.

Arrests for drunkenness in 2000 were 11,606 on a reservation with population less than 30,000.

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) is a factor in 47% of newborns & teen suicides are increasing...

All the demographic data about the reservation are depressing. Alcoholism at 70%, diabetes above 50 %, life expectancy for men is 48 years.

By noon on Monday I had been there 20 hours and couldn’t take anymore. I left and headed south. It took another stop at Cabela’s in Sidney, Nebraska, where I had loaded up on clothes for myself the day before to get my head back in the world of unlimited consumer goods. I had bought some safari pants, a safari shirt, plaid shirt with white-tail deer embroidery and new walking shoes so I could look like an Indian would look if he had a VISA card.

I am going to stick some more things in here. It may be too much, but the whole thing is too much.

THE NEEDS OF OUR PEOPLE ARE MANY:

-Good clean used clothing and shoes

-Personal items (tooth paste, tooth brush, comb, brush, hair accessories, shampoo, conditioner, bath soap)

-Bath towels and washcloths

-Bedding (sheets and blankets)

-Dish soap

-Laundry soap

-Used furniture( dressers, beds chair and table, couch)

-Toilet paper

-School supplies (notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, colored pencils, markers, rulers, glue sticks, pencil sharpeners, folders, crayons)

-Cooking skillets and pans

-Non-perishable foods

-Craft items

-We collect toys, coloring books, stuffed animals and anything that is appropriate for children of K to 8th grade ages. We save these items and give them away each Christmas to the children in the schools.

-Help with propane (check or money order made out to Midwest Coop)

-Help with food ( Wal-Mart gift cards)

As you can see the needs are many, but when you live on such a fixed income and barely have enough money to make ends meet, there is none left for the other things in life. This is where our internet friends and we help out.

http://www.friendsofpineridgereservation.org/difference/sponsorship.shtml

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FriendsofPineRidgeReservation/messages

You probably can’t get the Yahoo! Group message board to come up unless you become a member of the board, which is easy. These people really pump the knitted goods into the reservation.

I have about a thousand pages of stuff from the Internet. The pictures I took of Leon and Belva beside their home didn’t show up for some reason. They were standing in front of a basement doorway entrance added to the house by a work crew from the First Baptist Church of Radford Virginia. Needless to say they were stunned to hear that I had been a member of that church for 25 years and that Carolyn and I were married there. I’ll get another picture when I go back.

I hope I can inspire somebody to help those people in any way.

Merry Christmas! And Happy New Year!

Horace

Out To Lunch

City looks to make gun ownership mandatory

 

Every homeowner in a local town could soon have to own a gun or break the law. It's a controversial new plan for the city of Nelson.

Leaders told Channel 2's John Bachman the reason they need the law is because the city straddles Cherokee county to the south and Pickens County to the north.

That, they said, can lead to slower response times.

One police officer patrols Nelson, Georgia for eight hours during the day. That leaves 16 hours overnight when the city is basically unguarded.

"When he's not here we rely on county sheriffs--however it takes a while for them to get here," said Nelson City Councilman Duane Cronic.

That's why Cronic proposed the ordinance.

"Every head of household will own and maintain a firearm," he said.

Bill McNiff lives in Nelson, carries a pistol and supports the law.

"I think every city should do it. I think it should go countywide too," McNiff said.

The Nelson ordinance is modeled closely after the 1982 law passed in Kennesaw.

More @ WSBTV

Is the South Still Racist?

Via David G

 

At times even a chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court finds it useful, as the saying goes, to put the hay down where the goats can get it. And so it was last week in oral arguments over a big voting-rights case. 

At issue in Shelby County v. Holder was whether some states in the American South, unlike many states in the North, must still submit any change in voting practices to the Justice Department for approval, as required by one section of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg noted, the practical enforcement of this provision is mainly directed at Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. 

After listening to his liberal colleagues argue that Alabama's election practices, as interpreted by various legal formulas four decades after the law's passage, still discriminate against blacks, Chief Justice John Roberts put the hay down in front of Solicitor General Donald Verrilli.

Chief Justice Roberts: General, is it the government's submission that the citizens in the South are more racist than citizens in the North?

General Verrilli: It is not, and I do not know the answer to that, Your Honor. . . . 

Chief Justice Roberts: Well, once you said it is not, and you don't know the answer to it? 

General Verrilli: I—it's not our submission. As an objective matter, I don't know the answer to that question.

More @ WSJ

The Watermelon Hunter: Bloomberg-Backed Anti-Gun Lobbyist Enjoys ‘Assault Weapons,’ photo shows

Via Horace

 

One of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s top gun-control lobbyists in Colorado appears to enjoy firing the very guns he is working to restrict.

Denver-based Headwaters Strategies lobbyist Adam Eichberg participated at a “watermelon shoot” in September 2012 at the farm of Colorado state Sen. Greg Brophy (R.) where he fired a semi-automatic rifle with a high-capacity magazine.

A picture obtained by the Washington Free Beacon shows Eichberg smiling broadly as he shoulders a DPMS .308 rifle with a 20-round magazine.

“I really hate watermelons,” Eichberg said via email when asked for comment.

Bloomberg’s group, Mayors Against Illegal Guns, hired Headwater Strategies in January to lobby for several gun-control bills under consideration by the Colorado legislature. Those bills would ban the future sale, transfer, or manufacture of so-called high-capacity magazines in the state.

The Colorado-based company Magpul produces the high-capacity magazine Eichberg used, which would be banned under one proposed Colorado bill. Magpul has threatened to leave the state if the bill passes.

“It seemed like he had a darn fine time,” state senator Brophy said in an interview with the Free Beacon.

More @ The Washington Free Beacon

Boat In The Sky

Roundabout via Cousin Colby

More @ Eye Dr DeLengocky

Neocon Whores Attack! JOHN McCAIN AND LINDSEY GRAHAM GO AFTER RAND PAUL'S FILIBUSTER

Via Billy

 

You got to eat your words, traitors.

Fiscally liberal “neo-conservatives” John McCain and Lindsey Graham attacked their colleague Rand Paul for having the audacity to oppose the use of drone strikes on American citizens.

McCain and Graham – who are nothing but whores for America’s military-industrial complex – derided Paul for filibustering U.S. President Barack Obama’s nomination of John Brennan as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Paul filibustered Brennan’s nomination for thirteen hours on Wednesday night in protest of the Obama administration’s refusal to rule out the use of drone strikes against American citizens on U.S. soil.

“If Mr. Paul wants to be taken seriously he needs to do more than pull political stunts – than fire up impressionable libertarian kids,” he said. “I don’t think (his filibuster was) helpful to the American people.”

Wait … what? Standing for fundamental liberties makes one an “impressionable kid?”

                                                               More @ Fits News

Paul Scores Filibuster Win, Gets Holder Response on Domestic Drone Use

 

The White House issued a two-sentence response on Thursday to a 13-hour filibuster led by Sen. Rand Paul over whether the president is authorized to use a weaponized drone to kill U.S. citizens not engaged on combat on American soil.

“It has come to my attention that you have now asked an additional question: ‘Does the President have the authority to use a weaponized drone to kill an American not engaged in combat on American soil?’ The answer to that question is no,” Attorney General Eric Holder wrote.

White House Press Secretary Jay Carney read the letter during his daily press briefing.

Paul said in an interview on CNN on Thursday that Holder's response was satisfactory and that he would allow a vote on the nomination of John Brennan to lead the Central Intelligence Agency. The vote is scheduled to begin shortly after 3 p.m. on Thursday.

Meanwhile, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and Paul introduce a bill today that would prohibit the killing of U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they do not present an imminent threat.

“Our Constitution restrains government power,” said Cruz, a Texas Republican. “The federal government may not use drones to kill U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they do not represent an imminent threat. The commander in chief does, of course, have the power to protect Americans from imminent attack, and nothing in this legislation interferes with that power.”

More @ Newsmax

NC: 2nd Amendment Town Hall Meeting in Sanford March 13

Via Randy

  

On Wednesday, March 13, there will be a non-partisan Town Hall meeting for all residents of Lee County in Sanford, NC.  The subject will be: the Constitution, the Second Amendment and the position of Authorities.

Speaking from our State Government will be newly elected Lt. Governor, Dan Forrest.

Speaking from our judiciary will be sitting Administrative Court Judge, Beecher Gray.

Speaking for county law enforcement will be Sheriff Tracy Carter.

Speaking for our statewide advocacy group, Grass Roots North Carolina, will be Thomas Rhyne.

All citizens are urged to attend.  Time will be allotted for audience questions.

Time:  5:00 PM (later attendees will be welcome)

Location: Lee County Arts Center Auditorium
                     507 N Steele Street
                    Sanford, NC

Coordinator: Frank Del Palazzo

Contact: 919 – 776 – 9835 – fdp1@windstream.net

Colorado gun bills: They happen tomorrow

Via Horace 

 

The Colorado State Senate will convene at 9:00AM to begin a full floor debate on ALL of billionaire-playboy Mayor Michael Bloomberg's anti-gun bills. 

This second reading debate will likely take all day and into the evening, with a series of voice or standing votes. A final, formal (recorded) third reading vote will be taken on Monday for any bills that pass second reading.
They will be hearing:

• SB-195: Prohibits Colorado citizens from taking online CCW training courses.
  
• SB-196: Senator Morse’s De Facto "Assault Weapons" ban, which would includes common semi-automatic hunting shotguns.
  
• HB-1224: Bans all magazines that hold more than 15 rounds.
  
• HB-1226: Bans armed self-defense on college campuses; expanding criminal safe-zones to all state college and university campuses.
• HB-1228: Imposes a Jim Crow-style gun tax on all firearm purchases. This legislation has no limit on the amount the CBI could charge for a background check.
  
• HB-1229: Bans the private sale of firearms and expands background checks/gun registration for all Colorado gun owners.

Despite the crowing from the liberal media, there is a chance gun owners’ pressure could kill some of the worst pieces of this legislation. 

You see, despite the money and pressure that Mayor Bloomberg is using to push his New York-style gun grab here in Colorado, some in the Senate are feeling the heat.

That’s why I need you to contact these Senators, one more time. You and I might be able to kill some of Bloomberg’s agenda.

Politely and respectfully ask them not to support Bloomberg’s anti-gun agenda.

• Senator Angela Giron -SD03- (303)866-4878
  Email Facebook Twitter
  
• Senator Jeanne Nicholson -SD16- (303)866-4873
  Email Facebook Twitter
  
• Senator Cheri Jahn -SD20- (303)866-4856
  Email Facebook Twitter
  
• Senator Nancy Todd -SD28- (303)866-3432
  Email Facebook Twitter
  
• Senator Andy Kerr -SD22- (303)866-4859
  Email Facebook Twitter
• Senator Linda Newell -SD26- (303)866-4846
  Email Facebook Twitter
  
• Senator Gail Schwartz - SD05- (303)866-4871
  Email Facebook Twitter

Not sure what to tell them?

Here's what I recommend:

Dear Senator NAME,

  Coloradan's DO NOT support more gun control:

• NO Magazine Bans
  
• NO ban on private firearms sales
  
• NO Gun Tax on gun purchases
  
• NO universal background checks/gun registration
  
• NO "Mental Health" database to deny gun rights
  
• NO Backdoor "Assault Weapon" bans.

Please vote with Colorado gun owners, not anti-gun lobbyists from New York

Signed: (Your Name)

Once you've contacted these Senators, please forward this e-mail to ALL of your gun-owning friends and urge them to call and e-mail these Senators as well. 

Want to do more? Show up at the Capitol tomorrow and fill the Senate gallery. If you can’t make it to the Capitol, you can watch the debate on Comcast channel 165 or click here to live stream the Senate debate.

Your activism -- TODAY -- could make the difference. Please don't put off for tomorrow what we must do today.

Call, e-mail, Tweet and Facebook these Senators TODAY.

For liberty,

Dudley Brown
Executive Director

Reporters call out White House for badgering, name-calling

A group of journalists are speaking out regarding their treatment by White House press people. Their new boldness comes in the wake of reportedly being called foul names, among them “b***h”, “c**t” and “a**hole.”

Their new outspoken behavior was sparked by Bob Woodward’s recent op-ed on President Barack Obama in The Washington Post where he said the administration was “moving the goalposts” the night before the sequester went into effect.

The Commander-in-Chief’s people are not, and have never been, very fond of when the press — or any public figure for that matter — puts too much pressure on Obama’s White House.

“The whole Woodward thing doesn’t surprise me at all,” said David Brody, White House correspondent for CBN News. “I can tell you categorically that there’s always been, right from the get-go of this administration, an overzealous sensitivity to any push-back from any media outlet.”

Brody may not be surprised about the White House’s behavior because he experienced that same bullying in 2009 when he pursued an article regarding a cross be taken down at Georgetown University before President Obama was scheduled to speak there, according to Mediaite.

“What started as just some verbal frustration from the White House that I would even want a reason about this story turned into a full-fledged shouting match on the phone with some choice words, shall we say, and it escalated from there,” Brody said.

More @ Red Alert

"Welcome to the new Confederacy where a bunch of white men are now going to take over black schools."

Via Billy

State Rep. Mary Moore has shown time and again she isn't one to add clarity to a situation.

Remember it was Moore who called Birmingham News/AL.com staffer Marie Leech "retarded" in a public meeting last summer. Despite offending several advocacy groups, Moore didn't apologize for her insensitivity to them or to Leech.

There are plenty of valid criticisms to make about last week's hijacking of the legislative process by Republicans to pass the Alabama Accountability Act. Wouldn't take much work, either. But leave it to Moore to get that simple task wrong, too.

More @ AL

Whoops!

Via onepamop 

Written Testimony on Behalf of Nullification

 Via David G.

 

..........by a simple majority, Congress could, under Article III, nullify the Supreme Court’s control over school prayer, abortion, law enforcement, gun control, and a hundred other things by removing those topics from the Court’s appellate jurisdiction.

Here is the text of the statement delivered by Professor Donald Livingston — who has been an important intellectual influence on me — on behalf of state nullification before the House Judiciary Subcommittee in South Carolina two weeks ago:

State nullification is not a violation of the supremacy clause of the Constitution. That clause says that laws made by the United States “in pursuance” of the Constitution are the supreme law of the land which means that acts not in “pursuance” of the Constitution are not laws at all. But who is to decide whether an act is or is not in “pursuance” of the Constitution? Some would say the Supreme Court.

The Court may, indeed, express an opinion, but it cannot have the final say. That can only be vested in the supreme authority that ratified the Constitution and gave it the force of law, namely the people of the several states.

What did the states ratify? They ratified a compact between the States to create a central government to which were delegated only enumerated powers, leaving all other powers to the states. Article VII leaves no doubt that the Constitution is a compact between the states, for it says the compact will hold “between the states so ratifying the same.” The powers delegated by the compact to the central government, as Madison said, are “few” and “defined.” The powers reserved to the states are indefinite in number and undefined.

More @ Tom Woods

Old Black Joe

Via Billy

A Dozen GOP Senators #DineWithObama While Rubio and Cruz #StandWithRand

 

A dozen Republican senators, including John McCain (R-AZ), Bob Corker (R-TN), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), chose to dine with President Obama at a Washington hotel Wednesday evening rather than join Senator Rand Paul on the Senate floor to provide him brief ten-minute question breaks during his historic filibuster. 

Paul took the Senate floor at 11:17 am on Wednesday and held the floor for nearly thirteen hours. Republican Senators who stayed with Senator Paul and provided him short respites during his filibuster (under the Senate rules, a filibustering Senator may allow brief questions without yielding the floor) included Marco Rubio (R-FL), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and John Thune (R-SD).

The dozen GOP Senators who dined with Obama while Paul filibustered CIA Director nominee John Brennan in opposition to the unconstitutional authorization of drone killings of American citizens on American soil may have expressed a spirit of bipartisanship, yet the imagery and optics juxtaposing the two events could prove difficult to overcome.

More @ Breitbart

In Louisiana, a conservative backlash against gun control

In the gun-friendly state of Louisiana, the backlash against President Barack Obama's proposed restrictions on firearms seems to be everywhere.

It can be seen in the frenzied sales and empty racks at Jim's Firearms store in the state capital, Baton Rouge, where customers have rushed to make purchases as Congress weighs several gun-control bills.

It is evident in the state Legislature, where a series of bills aimed at protecting gun owners' rights have been introduced as a counter-punch to Obama's push in Washington.

It is abundantly clear in the sea of hands that pop up when a congressman asks an overflow crowd in Baton Rouge how many are worried about their constitutional right to bear arms being threatened.

Obama's call for Americans to stand up against gun violence after the December massacre of 20 children and six adults at a Connecticut elementary school reignited a national debate over gun control, and drew calls for expanded background checks on gun buyers and a ban on military-style "assault" weapons.

A Senate committee will take up at least four gun-control proposals on Thursday.

But in Louisiana and other states where traditions of gun ownership and hunting run deep, the Democratic president's efforts have not just failed to register: they have galvanized opposition to any attempts to restrict firearms - and complicated the prospects for gun-control measures in Congress.

                                                                   More @ Reuters

Sen. Paul ends nearly 13-hour filibuster of Brennan nomination

 

 

The Little Boy's Room called.:)  Congratulations, Sir!

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) ended his filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan to be the next director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to cheers and applause in the Senate chamber.

Paul used the rare talking filibuster for nearly 13 hours on Wednesday, spilling over into early Thursday morning, when he finally yielded the floor at 12:39 a.m.

Paul said he would have liked to have gone another 12 hours to break the record of former Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.), but Paul needed to “take care of something you can’t put off in a filibuster,” referring to using the restroom.

The Kentucky senator said he believed the White House would give him a response on the drone program in the morning. Paul wants President Obama to say he will not kill U.S. citizens on American soil with drone attacks if they are non-enemy combatants. He says U.S. citizens deserve due process under the Fifth Amendment.

More @ The Hill

Malaysia Invaded: Hundreds of Terrorists Land on Beaches, Western Media Mute

Roundabout via Billy

 

Malaysia has called in air support and armor to confront a bizarre terrorist invasion in its eastern state of Sabah.

The West’s woeful, irresponsible coverage of a burgeoning region-wide destabilization, fits in nicely with its coverage of US-Saudi funded/armed terrorism around the world, including in Syria where US-funded terrorists of the so-called “Free Syrian Army” have just taken dozens of UN peacekeepers hostage in the Golan Heights – just days after the US announced it would fund the terrorists further, to the tune of $60 million and the West’s Arab partners have just granted the terrorist faction Syria’s seat at the “Arab League.”

Terrorists are US-Saudi Funded Extremists – Part of Engineered Destabilization.

While the West pleads ignorance over the identity of the militants held up in the jungles of Malaysia’s Sabah state, the militant organizations themselves have declared thousands more in reinforcements are being arranged in the Philippines to join and exasperate the conflict. The Free Malaysia Today newspaper reported in its article, “10,000 Tausugs to sail to Sabah,” that :

Thousands of Tausug from Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi have sailed to Sabah to reinforce members of the so-called royal army of the sultanate of Sulu who are fighting it out with Malaysian security forces, a Moro National Liberation Front official said Tuesday.

The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) of course, is one of several of Al Qaeda’s franchises in Southeast Asia, and spun off the notorious terrorist organization, Abu Sayyaf, a US State Department-listed foreign terrorist organization with direct ties to Al Qaeda.

The Philippines’ terrorist organizations, located amongst the country’s southern islands have long held ties to Al Qaeda and receive funding and support from Saudi Arabia. AFP reported in their 2010 article, “WikiLeaks: US suspected Saudi ambassador to the Philippines of terror link,” that:

The United States suspected a Saudi Arabian ambassador to the Philippines of potential involvement in funding terrorists, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks this week.

The report would also state:

More  @ Global Research

Bishops Throwing Another $800K Behind Amnesty Fight

Via Matthew

 

Apparently, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is rolling in dough. It's giving $800,000 more to propaganda efforts "aimed at mobilizing regular Catholics to push for the bishops' immigration platforms", i.e., mass legalization and open borders.

That comes on top of the $3.5 million the group has already spent to promote mass amnesty. For some wacky reason, this political money gets labeled "antipoverty" activity. That's really bizarre. And it flies in the face of the facts.

Our current legal immigration system hands out visas to an original immigrant's adult brothers and sisters, grown kids, cousins, aunts, uncles, etc. — on no basis whatsoever beyond their being related, even distantly — and without regard whatsoever to their education level, skills, talents, resources, etc. This chain migration contributes to the importation of poverty, not poverty's alleviation.

Illegal aliens are likely to be even poorer and less educated and less skilled. Their legalization further boosts the poor population, because then former illegals can sponsor their relatives for visas — again, based solely on familial ties.

More @ CIS

The Antifederalists: North Carolina's Other Founders

 

It is tempting to dismiss the Anti-Federalists, for the U.S. Constitution that they opposed is a sacred document to most modern Americans.  Under that Constitution, the United States grew rapidly in population, wealth, and territory to become, by the late twentieth century, the world’s only superpower.  Whatever its failings, no other political regime, by most conventional measures of accomplishment, has been more successful.

North Carolina’s Anti-Federalists have been too easily dismissed.  One Federalist described them as a “blind, stupid set that wish Damnation to their Country.”  They were among the most bitter of the bitter-enders, blocking ratification of the Constitution at the Hillsborough convention of July 1788, even after the document had been approved by eleven other states.  Not until November 1789, after George Washington had been president for seven months, did North Carolina finally join the Union.

More @ North Carolina History

“We need not justify the exercise of our rights to would-be tyrants”

Via WRSA

by Frank Sharpe
Fortress Defense Consultants

Need?  We need not justify.

When asked what I do for a living I reply: I teach people how to shoot people. I teach people how to shoot people because some people need to be shot – and they need to be shot NOW.

I have found that in the long run sugarcoating reality rarely produces good results. Yes, it might make some people “feel” better, but feelings and reality are often polar opposites. Pretending something is what it is not only postpones judgment day, and the longer it’s ignored, the higher the price.

Twenty-six years ago I began my involvement with “gun rights”.  I had a good grasp on what Article II of the Bill of Rights was about then, and my thoughts haven’t changed since. Article II is about the individual’s ability to shoot tyrants – plain and simple.

It has nothing to do with hunting, collecting or competition. And tyranny, as I define it, may appear in the form of a rapist in the alley, a mob during civil unrest, an invading military, or one’s own government.

I personally own no “sporting arms.” I own and train with auto-loading, magazine fed weapons; rifles and pistols which are designed to get hot and function during conflict. Most are black and “scary looking”, and that suits me just fine – I’m not in the rainbows and unicorns business, I’m in the force business.

What I, and thousands of other instructors around the country do, is provide the necessary skills that Americans need to deploy firearms in tyranny’s direction. We don’t teach people how to play games or take quail; we teach people how to effectively launch bullets into the bodies of tyrants.

And to such tyrants, my advice is this:  If you don’t want to find yourself on the business end of my rifle, then behave yourself.

More @ Guns Save Lives