Court Strikes Down Heart of Obamacare Requiring Americans To Spend Their Money on Insurance

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A federal appeals court has struck down the individual mandate portion of Obamacare while not invalidating the rest of the law, sending the case back down to a lower court judge who had previously ruled the law was unconstitutional.

According to The New York Times, by a 2-1 vote, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans invalidated the provision of Obamacare, or the Affordable Care Act, which required Americans to buy health insurance or pay a fine.

On the rest of the law, the court sent the case back to Judge Reed O’Connor of the Federal District Court in Fort Worth to “conduct a more searching inquiry.”

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Virginia 2nd Amendment Map as of December 18h, 2019

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Vietnamese Refugee: Why I Support Donald Trump

Via Nephew Lê Bá Dzũng

 

 Why do I support President Donald Trump?

Immediately after Mr. Trump announced that he would run for President, I decided to vote for him as President for America! This was not a sudden decision, but I have my own judgment and decision! The image of Mr. Trump as a successful businessman, shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan is always in my mind! In my eyes, President Reagan was not only a benefactor of the world when he overthrew communism in the Soviet Union, but he was always a savior for my family and many HO families! Without President Reagan’s approval of the Humanitarian Operation (HO) refugee program for former Vietnamese “Re-education” prisoners to sponsor more than 100,000 of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam soldiers and their families to settle in the United States, we would not be here today! Our family was among those to set our foot to this wonderful land in 1991! For our family, HO stands for “Hope” and “Opportunity”!

It is impossible to imagine the poverty of our family after the Fall of Saigon in 1975! Our Father was captured and imprisoned by the Communist after the war ended and left my mother with 5 young children ranging from 7 years old to 2 months old! I was the youngest one at the time. She was only 32 years old. She was the most extraordinary mother in my eyes! The only fortune that our father left behind for us was a small house but soon after that, the unimaginable thing happened-a fire completely burned the entire house down! Due to his high ranking, Father was in prison for 10 years! 10 years is a long time for a lifetime of imprisoned people, a brutal revenge of the communists! 10 years, our mother had to take care of 5 of us and tried to visit our father in the communist prison as much as possible!

Eventually, our father was released and we once became family again, the hardships have passed and we have rebuilt our family in this great country!... I am a Buddhist, I always have a good heart, if the North Vietnamese communists’s mission was to take care of their people, then perhaps, one day I will forget and forgive what they did to my father and my family... but no, evil the communist, selfish and savage people are still there! There is no freedom of speech, there is no human rights in Vietnam under the Communist regime!

We all have witnessed what is going on in Hongkong today. There are millions of them marching on the streets to protest again the Extradition Bill. As we all know, the British handed control Hongkong back to China in 1997 after 156 years of ruling Hongkong territory. Obviously, Hongkong people and its young generation have enjoyed a humanized education, they understand the value of democratic freedom, they value freedom, and human rights, so when they feel that the basic right will be lost if they are ruled by the Chinese communists, they are no longer afraid and stand up to fight for it! Don't compare Hong Kong youth with Vietnamese youth and then be disappointed! Young people in Vietnam have been brainwashed for many years, on top of that, they have different focus, they don’t want to be involved in politics, they don’t take the initiative to learn about the truth history of the Vietnam War, but rather believing in the Vietnamese Communist propaganda...

I support Mr. Trump for one reason and a single hope - he will follow the footsteps of the late President Ronald Reagan and destroy the communist Chinese Communist !! ! If Chinese Communist fell, the Vietnamese communist will automatically follow! That is my wish for a better Vietnam! 44 years has been more than enough for South Vietnam to endure! The Communist agenda is not for the better of its people but corruption, brutal attacks on those who voice their views that are not in line with their agenda!

I lost quite a few “friends" just because I supported President Trump, knowing that he was not a perfect person, talking frankly, easily offending others, but he fights for world peace, especially he does not like socialism/communism and for that only reason, he is my hope and my Vietnamese people! 

~~Cao Xuan Thanh Ngoc

“IT’S YOUR FUNERAL” – New York Post Savages “Swamp Mistress” Pelosi After Trump Impeachment Vote

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The New York Post savaged House Speaker Pelosi on Wednesday evening calling her a “Swamp Mistress.”

Democrats voted in a straight party line vote to impeach President Trump for abuse of power on Wednesday night.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wore black at her funeral Wednesday night after she walked her caucus off the cliff.

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IG Michael Horowitz: ‘Text Messages’ Contained Evidence of ‘Political Bias’ at FBI

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'We also did not receive satisfactory explanations for the errors'

Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Wednesday left the door open to the possibility that political bias played a role when FBI officials launched a probe—codenamed Crossfire Hurricane—into a Trump campaign aide in 2016.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), the head of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, questioned Horowitz about his probe into the FBI’s FISA application to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page for as long as a year.

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Rebel Yell Rings Out as USMC Major Warns Virginians Are Close to Tipping Point

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“I work plainclothes law enforcement,” Woods said. “I walk around without a uniform, people don’t see my badge, people are angry."  

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It begins: Virginia forms active militia to protect sheriffs, citizens from unconstitutional laws

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Things are getting really bad in Virginia. But this group isn’t going down without a fight.

Virginia – Earlier in the week, we reported on how lawmakers over in Virginia were threatening to use the National Guard if members of local law enforcement refused to enforce laws passed in the state that they felt violated the second amendment.

Well, looks like Tazewell County isn’t going down without a fight. On top of calling themselves a second amendment sanctuary county, they’re also crafting a militia as well. The Virginia county has taken the movement that has swept across the state and added an element that is sure to trigger pro gun-grabbing politicians in the state.

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I Miss My Friend

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Southern Anticolonialism

 

A review of Burden of Dependency: Colonial Themes in Southern Economic Thought (Johns Hopkins, 1992) by Joseph Persky

An Under-Appreciated Book

In 1973, the young economist Joseph J. Persky wrote piece in Southern Exposure with a promising title: “The South: A Colony at Home.” He recalls thinking at the time that he was in “some sort of “vanguard.”[1] I read the piece when it came out and made a note to watch for further work by Persky. Meanwhile, he discovered that he was going over well-trodden ground,[2] but stuck with his topic, producing in 1992 a powerful treatment of the theme of the South as an internal colony.

I’m afraid I missed the arrival of his book and only stumbled on it recently. Having caught up, I can say that it is evenhanded, scholarly, and focused, even if destined to annoy the friends of what we might call Official Free Trade. A quick survey on a dreaded “search engine” turns up few reviews of the book. On the other hand, we find it much cited in the literature on dependency studies. What the book lacks in Germanic bulk, it makes up for with concise and well-executed analysis.

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"What is all this for?"

www.Circa1865.org  The Great American Political Divide

“What is all this for? Why this array of armies? Why this fierce meeting in mortal combat? What is all this carnage and slaughter for? Why the prolongation of this conflict? Why this lamentation and mourning going up from almost every house and family from Maine to the Rio Grande, and from the Atlantic and Gulf to the Lakes, for friends and dear ones who have fallen by disease and violence in this unparalleled struggle?

The question if replied to by the North can have but one answer.”

Alexander H. Stephens, 1863, Messages and Papers of the Confederacy, Vol. I, pg. 175.