Senate Passes Bill To Allow Airports to Kick Out TSA

It is known by experience that once a stupid law is passed, a hundred corrections will be needed to make it good. But never expect a legislature to repeal a stupid law and make its job easier. Legislators prefer to keep mending and correcting old stupid laws rather than simply repeal them and solve the problem once and for all.

9-11 gave a good opportunity to the legislators of both parties to punish 300 million American citizens with a law that deprived them of their tradition Constitutional liberties by declaring every American a suspect terrorist by default, until proven innocent. Our lawmakers didn’t miss that opportunity; they passed the Patriot Act. Of course, out of that came tyrannical monsters like Homeland Security and its child, the TSA. The legislators who proposed it at the beginning, now claim they didn’t expect it to turn into the monster it is today. Whether they expected it or not, it is a monster. For all the years of its existence, it didn’t catch a single terrorist, and it can’t prove that it improved the security of anything. Not that it is without its achievements, of course. Children were groped and molested, old and disabled people were terrorized, sexual predators and perverts found legitimate employment coupled with free satisfaction, and petty thieves had good opportunities to steal directly from travelers’ bags with impunity. Flying became more dangerous than before; except that now the terrorists are paid with Federal money and have blue uniforms. TSA, of course, adopted the policy of “our people are always right even when they are wrong,” and much of that Federal money went to protect them against court action.

A stupid law can create dangerous results. The Patriot Act went above and beyond in that respect.

So now the lawmakers had to repair what could be repaired – without, of course, just repealing the stupid law.

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Registering Tim Tebow and Tom Brady to Vote in Minnesota

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Reconstruction’s Baleful Effects

The war waged upon the American South is estimated to have cost the lives of a million persons, during and after the conflict, and a total of $8,000,000,000, which, “with destruction of property, derangement of the power of labor, pension system and other economic losses, would reach thirty billions of dollars.” A practical and peaceful abolition proposal from the North would have avoided this result.

Bernhard Thuersam, Chairman
North Carolina War Between the States Sesquicentennial Commission
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“One evidence of the baleful effects of Radical Reconstruction is to be found in the increase in the Negro death rate. [Author] DeForest noted that “a large part of the colored was incapable of self-support and without natural guardians…But for the pity of former owners, themselves perhaps bankrupt…multitudes of aged, infirm and infantile blacks would have suffered greatly or perished outright.”

Dependable figures are available only for Charleston; but they are representative of the entire State and agree with many individual observations. So many Negroes, particularly children, died during Reconstruction, and venereal and other social diseases increased at such a rate, that some observers even predicted that the race would die out within a few generations.

For thirty-nine years after the war…the Negro death rate increased 69 percent to 43.33; the white rate dropped to 24.4. During the same periods, too, Negro deaths from tuberculosis increased nearly 400 percent. Many Southern friends of the race like [Wade] Hampton deeply regretted the senseless state of affairs that was bringing about this physical as well as social demoralization of a kindly people.”

(Wade Hampton and the Negro, Hampton M. Jarrell, USC Press, 1949, pp. 13-14)

Reconstruction’s Baleful Effects

If there is no change to our entitlement programs, we will become a Socialist country.

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February 7, 2012 Senate Hearing - Ben Bernanke

1. We are not too far behind Greece.
2. Our spending is out of control.
3. It is up to Congress to figure out the right role of government in regards to the economy.
4. The cost of government is leading us to Socialism and Communism.
5. If there is no change to our entitlement programs, we will become a Socialist country.
6. We have no presidential leadership with president Obama.
7. Uncertainty in the government is impacting the economy.

The only surprise is that they are both clear in the direction our country is headed.

What Girl Scout cookies fund

Via Ol' Remus

In 2011, Girl Scouts USA sold 198 million boxes for a record $714 million in profits. Where the money goes is something Honest Girl Scouts wants you to know. They're offering information entitled Girl Scouts Doesn't Want You to Know, here in .pdf format.

Source: honestgirlscouts.com

New Reuters Poll: Romney 29%, Paul 21%, Gingrich 19% & Santorum 18%

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Efforts to Eliminate the Natural Born Requirement (2003-2005)

Evidence that we have a fraud and a usurper currently residing in the people’s White House is overwhelming, despite the overt lack of journalistic investigating on the part of the American press. But now new evidence indicates that the conspiracy to carry out that fraud was much broader than originally thought.

The story of whom and what Barack Hussein Obama II really is – is a forty-year story that requires a book, not a column, to tell. Strong evidence suggests that he was being groomed from a very young age for the moment in history that would end American supremacy in the world, and usher in a new era of Global Marxist Governance.

But there was a major hurdle that had to be overcome - the U.S. Constitution, in this case, Article II – Section I – Clause V specifically, which requires that “no person except a natural-born citizen of the United States” can hold the office of President. – Obama is not a natural-born citizen of the United States…and may not even be a legal citizen of the United States. So, how can he be President?

This column focuses upon the period 2003-2008 and the political maneuvers that took place in order to make way for America’s first unconstitutional resident of the White House.

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Right or Authority?

Via Freedom of Oceania by way of Arctic Patriot

"The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority."

Lord Acton

Dallas Solves The Illegal Alien Invasion Problem

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Here's an effective way to get illegal aliens off the road:

Recently, the City of Dallas , Texas , passed an ordinance stating that if a driver is pulled over by law enforcement and is not able to provide proof of insurance, the car is towed.

To retrieve the car after being impounded, they must show proof of insurance to have the car released.

This has made it easy for the City of Dallas to remove uninsured cars.

Shortly after the "No Insurance" ordinance was passed, the Dallas impound lots began to fill up and were full after only nine days. Most of the impounded cars were driven by illegals.

Not only must they provide proof of insurance to have their car released, they have to pay for the cost of the tow, a $350 fine and $20 for every day their car is kept in the lot.

Dallas' solution gets uninsured drivers off the road WITHOUT making them show proof of nationality.

Here's the web site for the city of Dallas explaining how this ordinance works. Sounds like a local solution to illegal immigration that the Treason Lobby can't block. Clever!

A Fairness Quiz for the President

President Obama has frequently justified his policies—and judged their outcomes—in terms of equity, justice and fairness. That raises an obvious question: How does our existing system—and his own policy record—stack up according to those criteria?

Is it fair that the richest 1% of Americans pay nearly 40% of all federal income taxes, and the richest 10% pay two-thirds of the tax?

Is it fair that the richest 10% of Americans shoulder a higher share of their country's income-tax burden than do the richest 10% in every other industrialized nation, including socialist Sweden?

Is it fair that American corporations pay the highest statutory corporate tax rate of all other industrialized nations but Japan, which cuts its rate on April 1?

Is it fair that President Obama sends his two daughters to elite private schools that are safer, better-run, and produce higher test scores than public schools in Washington, D.C.—but millions of other families across America are denied that free choice and forced to send their kids to rotten schools?

Is it fair that Americans who build a family business, hire workers, reinvest and save their money—paying a lifetime of federal, state and local taxes often climbing into the millions of dollars—must then pay an additional estate tax of 35% (and as much as 55% when the law changes next year) when they die, rather than passing that money onto their loved ones?

MANYMORE