California College Forbids Passing Out Constitutions….....On Constitution Day

Via Knuckledraggin' My Life Away

In a stunning illustration of the attitude taken towards free speech by too many colleges across the United States, Modesto Junior College in California told a student that he could not pass out copies of the United States Constitution outside the student center on September 17, 2013—Constitution Day.

Captured on video, college police and administrators demanded that Robert Van Tuinen stop passing out Constitution pamphlets and told him that he would only be allowed to pass them out in the college’s tiny free speech zone, and only after scheduling it several days or weeks ahead of time. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has written to Modesto, demanding that the college rescind this policy immediately.

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$1,250 a day selling Margaritas

Via The Lonely Libertarian

GOA: Defund ObamaCare. Your efforts against this anti-gun law are paying off!

 

“To continue funding ObamaCare means that doctors will be able to ask their patients about guns and that health-related information will be used to deny guns to millions of citizens, just as more than 150,000 military veterans have already been denied.” 
-- GOA statement in postcards landing on congressional desks over the past several weeks

Folks, this is another incredible victory for GOA members -- and for any lover of the Constitution who has been working so hard to defund ObamaCare!

As we told you last week, the postcards you receive in the mail from Gun Owners of America are an EXTREMELY important part of our strategy -- click here to become a GOA member and to start receiving yours.

These postcards have proved their usefulness time and time again, as it pays off for us to dump thousands upon thousands of postcards on congressional desks.

And now we hear the great news from yesterday, which amounts to an about-face from the leadership’s earlier position. 

Finally, the House Leadership does an about-face on ObamaCare.

The House Republican leadership has (reluctantly) agreed to vote to send the Senate a government funding bill -- known as the “Continuing Resolution” or “CR” -- that defunds the anti-gun ObamaCare program for the next year.

According to Capitol Hill’s Roll Call newspaper yesterday, “House Republicans emerged from their weekly conference meeting Wednesday morning with a new strategy on the continuing resolution:  defund ObamaCare in the stopgap spending bill.”

As such, the House is also planning to send the Senate a bill raising the debt ceiling that will delay implementation of the anti-gun ObamaCare program for the next year. And it has plans for a “prioritization” bill assuring that critical programs are funded first from incoming revenues, even if the government reaches its borrowing limit.

Not surprisingly, Democratic Senate Leader Harry Reid has indicated he would rather shut down the government than not fund the highly unpopular ObamaCare program. Said Reid: “I’ve told the speaker personally…we are not going to have them hold the [spending bill]…hostage to ‘ObamaCare’…”

Fine.

If Reid is willing to shut down the government rather than defund his pile of corruption and bribes, let him. IT WILL BE REID WHO IS SHUTTING DOWN THE GOVERNMENT.

There are a bunch of myths which have been perpetrated by Obama and his cronies, but we will deal with two today and give you our suggested responses to them.

MYTH #1:  “Some Republicans in Washington are eagerly preparing to…shut down the government if Democrats…do not agree to defund ObamaCare…” [Manchester Union Leader, September 19, 2013]

ANSWER: This is simply incorrect.  Under the Antideficiency Act and a series of interpretations by the Office of Legal Counsel and the Office of Management and Budget, all essential functions of the government will continue. If the House wants to send the Senate a bill specifically reinforcing that fact -- and explicitly keeping popular programs open -- it should.

The House cannot remain neutral on ObamaCare. It either funds a program that it then cynically says it wants to eliminate -- or it doesn’t. If Harry Reid is set on shutting down the government, rather than approving a bill that fails to fund his corrupt bribe scheme, that’s his problem.

MYTH # 2: The GOP, by opposing the funding of ObamaCare, is committing “suicide.”

ANSWER:  If it is so suicidal for Republicans to fight to defund ObamaCare, why doesn’t Obama want them to do it? Why, instead, are Obama and his media terrified that conservatives will turn this into an issue?

The times conservatives have used government funding to enforce conservative principles -- in 1995-96 under Newt Gingrich and in July, 2011, over the debt limit -- they have benefited politically and produced huge policy victories.

Consider that in 2010, Republicans ran against ObamaCare and enjoyed huge electoral victories.  But in 2012, they nominated a candidate for president who invented the prelude to ObamaCare (a.k.a., “RomneyCare”) and who ran against the high unemployment rate.

Let’s see, which strategy produced the better result -- electorally speaking?

ACTION: Click here to contact your representatives and senators. Let them know that you want them to fight to preserve the House position defunding ObamaCare on the government funding resolution.

Cousin John: 10 Acres, Tax value $62,000, Sell $ 39,900/OBO

 

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Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Declares: “[Segregation] Works, But It’s Wrong”

Via Frank

 

Excerpt

Now maybe what he'll do is he'll find a charter school that only accepts kids with high scores. Then he'll get a better quality of education.

Keep the poor kids out, re-segregate them, keep them locked in ghettos where they won't be near his kids; and then we will create in this country a dual school system such as we had before Brown vs. Board of Education, where the poor kids and the kids who don't make it and the cutoffs are segregated, where the kids with disabilities are kept out of the school, where the kids who are English language learners are kept out of the school.

That works, but it's wrong

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Article @ On Point

Safety Net for Crops Means $14 Billion Tab for Taxpayers

Via Cousin John

Former American International Group Inc. chief Maurice “Hank” Greenberg has a new business partner: the U.S. taxpayer. 

Greenberg’s Starr Indemnity & Liability Co. is one of 18 companies approved to get federal cash for insuring farmers against loss of crops or income. Wells Fargo & Co. (WFC), the nation’s fourth-largest bank by assets, Zurich-based Ace Ltd. (ACE) and units of American Financial Group Inc. (AFG), Deere & Co. (DE) and Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) all enjoy similar public backing.

The government subsidies show how a program created to safeguard the nation’s farmers has evolved into a system that in most years all but guarantees profits for insurers. In 2012, taxpayers spent $14 billion paying more than 60 percent of farmers’ insurance premiums, the companies’ operating costs and the lion’s share of claims triggered by a historic drought, according to the Congressional Research Service.

“What we’ve got is a money-laundering operation,” says Harwood Schaffer of the University of Tennessee’s Agricultural Policy Analysis Center. “It looks like we’re doing a free market thing and it’s not free market at all.”

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Suspect dies after gunfight with officer at pawn shop

Via Equal Force

 

A volunteer reserve deputy with the Harris County Sheriff's Office shot and killed a man on Wednesday in a gunfight outside a north side pawn shop.

The gunfire erupted about 6 p.m. at Cash America in the 9800 block of Airline near West Mount Houston.

The man was struck twice and taken by ambulance to Ben Taub General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His identity was not available late Wednesday.

The deputy was not injured, officials said.

Police called

Employees at the pawn shop said the man came into the store shortly before 6 p.m. and wanted to see several expensive pieces of jewelry.

"One of their policies is to have an ID with you in order to look," said sheriff's deputy Thomas Gilliland.

The man didn't have any and continued walking around the shop. Employees told deputies it appeared as if he was casing the store for a holdup.

The employees then called police, reporting a suspicious person.

More @ Chron

Arkansas father of two shot, killed late night intruder

Via Equal Force

An Arkansas father of two small children shot and killed an intruder who kicked open the back door to the house while the family slept late Wednesday night, according to local reports.

The home invasion occurred in Ashdown, about 20 miles north of Texarkana, just before 11 p.m. The homeowner, his wife and two preschool-age children were asleep when the suspect apparently broke into the house by forcing his way through the back door.

The suspect had already been in several rooms of the house before the family, who did not wish to be identified, woke up. Yet once the father did awaken, he grabbed his handgun and went to confront the man wandering in his home. It’s unknown if there was any sort of an altercation between the two men, but it is known that the homeowner fatally shot the man.

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Muslim Brotherhood Official, Former Clinton Foundation Employee Arrested

A senior Muslim Brotherhood official who, until recently, had been employed by the William J. Clinton Foundation was arrested in Cairo on Tuesday and charged with inciting violence.

Gehad el-Haddad served as one of the Muslim Brotherhood’s top communications officials until Egyptian security forces seized him as part of a wider crackdown on officials loyal to ousted former President Mohamed Morsi.

Before emerging as a top Brotherhood official and adviser to Morsi, el-Haddad served for five years as an official at the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit group founded by former President Bill Clinton.

El-Haddad gained a reputation for pushing the Muslim Brotherhood’s Islamist agenda in the foreign press, where he was often quoted defending the Brotherhood’s crackdown on civil liberties in Egypt.

More @ The Washington Free Beacon

Wrap-up Regarding Levin's Dangerous Con-Con Proposal

In this week's analysis behind the news video, JBS CEO Art Thompson wraps up the discussion of talk-show host Mark Levin's new book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic, which calls for an Article V constitutional convention and proposes eleven amendments that such a convention should consider.