Legislation Updates…

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL) has reintroduced the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (HR800), protecting firearm manufacturers and dealers from frivolous lawsuits.

Reps. Tom Tancredo and Mark Souder are seeking broader sponsorship on a bill that would formally recognize Taiwan and essentially scrap our “One China” policy in favor of a “One China, One Taiwan” policy.

Rep. Scott Garrett (R-NJ) introduced the Financial Customer Identification Verification Improvement Act (HR815), which would prohibit the use of identification cards issued by foreign governments, including matricula consular cards, for purposes of verifying the identity of a person who wants to open an account at a U.S. financial institution.

Rep. Roscoe Bartlett reintroduced HR43, to restore the celebration of George Washington’s birthday to a federal holiday and effectively end “President’s Day”- which the federal government never officially recognized, it should be noted.

Call your representatives and senators and let them know what YOU think.

Our Newest Op Ed- By R.A. Hawkins

February 28, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Canada Knows Best (No Ticky No Washy)
- By R.A. Hawkins

Canada has informed us that they want nothing to do with our missile defense system. They are unwilling to pay any money into it at all. But they know best don’t they. In all actuality they don’t need a missile defense system and we should have known better than to even ask them. They have found a different kind of a missile shield. It’s working quite well for Europe right now and since Canada has such strong ties to Olde Europe they are simply following the example of the fatherland. I’m unaware as of yet of any instances of them having any anti Israel rallies. So they haven’t completely rounded ‘that’ corner……….
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Media Aiding Terrorists in Iraq!

February 27, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Here is a GREAT article by a Lt. Col. in our armed forces that is saying what I have been saying for over a year; the “free” press seems to be interested in defeating the USA in Iraq.

Here are a few excerpts (CLICK ON THE TITLE TO SEE ENTIRE ARTICLE)…

World’s view of Iraqi reality is distorted
By LTC Tim Ryan - Guest Columnist

All right, I’ve had enough.

I am tired of reading distorted and grossly exaggerated stories from major news organizations about the “failures” in the war in Iraq. “The most trusted name in news” and a long list of others continue to misrepresent the scale of events in Iraq. Print and video journalists are covering only a fraction of the events in Iraq and, more often than not, the events they cover are only negative.

The inaccurate picture they paint has distorted the world view of the daily realities in Iraq. The result is a further erosion of international support for the United States’ efforts there, and a strengthening of the insurgents’ resolve and recruiting efforts while weakening our own. Through their incomplete, uninformed and unbalanced reporting, many members of the media covering the war in Iraq are aiding and abetting the enemy.

Ironically, the press freedom that we have brought to this part of the world is providing support for the enemy we fight.

Harry Reid and cohorts - “almost a socialist”

February 26, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Senator Harry Reid is trying to make a big name for himself where it concerns President Bush’s judicial nominations that the Senate has been snarled with since Bush’s election in 2000. Reid is just the latest in a line of Senate obstructionists who have done their level best to thwart the will of the majority of the American people. When I think of this Reid another Reed comes to mind. Speaker of the House Tom Reed from the 1880s, to be specific, who once said “We live in a world of sin and sorrow. Otherwise there would be no Democratic Party.”

The current Reid is just the latest example of the left using tactics now that they decried when they were a nascent ideology at the dawn of the 20th century. The Progressives of the late 1800s and early 1900s created a novel way to look at the creation of the Constitution and, therefore, this country. It was a conspiracy theory to beat all conspiracy theories.

The biggest proponent of it was a writer (some call him an historian, but he was no such thing, in reality) named Charles Beard. The novel idea that he proposed in 1912 was that the Founding Fathers hated Democracy and had no interest in philosophy, but were just money grubbing, selfish creeps who wanted to keep the vaunted “people” in misery and poverty. He basically called all the Founders liars. He further went on to state that the Founders used the courts to force their ideas on an unwilling populace, thereby bypassing legislature and democracy. By the way, according to a Beard friend, Matthew Josephson, Charles Beard once described himself as “almost a socialist” in the early 1900s. Shocking, I know.

From that point on leftist intelligensia became fond of claiming that the establishment, the government and the country itself was illegitimate because democracy was thwarted and so it all must be destroyed because of that early deception. They patted themselves on the back that THEY were more “democratic” than Republicans at the turn of the century or any American politician since the founding.

But, do we see what Democrats and Leftist’s are now doing and have been doing since FDR’s days in office? That’s right, hypocritically thwarting democracy by using the courts to go around the legislature as they castigated the Founders for doing. So, now we get back to why Harry Reid is obstructing Bush’s judicial nominations. Now we must consider why, for the first time in US Senate history, that filibusters are being used against even lower court nominations. Now we can realize why Harry Reid and his un-democratic Democrats are so intent on trying to “screw things up” in the Senate (Reid’s very words Last week). They wish to be LESS democratic. THEY wish to be sure that judges who do not toe the line of their social agenda are to be denied a place in the courts of this country.

At issue is their impotency at the ballot box. They are losing more and more offices as each decade has passed since the Reagan revolution in 1980. But, even before that they realized that their socialist leaning agenda was not something the average American would agree to. So, the courts was the balm they could spread upon their bleeding hearts. If the American people aren’t smart enough to agree with the social liberals, then go around them, was and is their cry. Why not? The Founders did it, after all. And FDR did, too. And they were all successful, right?

Only the godfather of this idea that the Founders were anti-democratic created his new polemic on faulty historical analysis. His was an historical fraud of finding “proof” to fit his preconceived “almost a socialist” agenda. Nearly everything the Founder’s did in the Constitutional convention was based on the voluminous reading of philosophy and history that the Founders immersed themselves in. The ideas of democracy from the classical histories to that of recent times was the Mother’s milk of the Founder’s creation of the Constitution as the Federalists Papers makes abundantly clear. Further more, many of the Founders had quite a few run ins with the Supreme Court and other courts themselves and they, too, grumbled about “activist judges”. That very fact alone makes the lie to the very basis of the Left’s reasoning for court packing.

So, there we have it. Harry Reid is just another “almost a socialist” who is trying his level best to defeat the kind of democracy that the Founders AND the American people want.

I have one request of Harry’s constituents. Daschle this guy, will ya?

By Warner Todd Huston

Our Newest Op Ed-By Michael M. Bates

February 23, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

William Rehnquist: The Lone Ranger no more
- By Michael M. Bates

Members of the Supreme Court traditionally toil in relative obscurity. Chief Justice William Rehnquist is no exception.

In the early 70s President Richard Nixon mistakenly called him “Renchburg” in a conversation. Only a few months later, Mr. Nixon, presumably now knowing the man’s actual name, nominated him to the Supreme Court.

William Rehnquist has served on the court for over 30 years. More than half that time, he’s been the chief justice. Still, most Americans don’t know who he is, despite the substantial influence he’s had on the United States and its people…………
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Quick Takes-Spain votes for the EU

February 22, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Well, the EeeeEwww (that’s European Union, or EU, to the uninitiated) has fooled another nation into its foolishness. Spain has voted and approved further investigation into belonging to the EU.

But to show the false facade that these pernicious thieves hide behind, look at how they phrased the question put before Spanish voters:

“Do you approve the treaty establishing a constitution for Europe?”

Yeah, right. Seemingly innocent enough. Notice how this bland question doesn’t inform the voters what they are in for, eh? The EU will rob all its member states to fund an unwieldy monster of a nanny state that will give free rides to france and Germany, whilst everyone else will be expected to foot the bill. So far that is its history and I don’t see any reason why that should change.

But, the Spaniards have been easy to fool before, now haven’t they?

Our Newest Op Ed- by Hans Zeiger

February 20, 2005 | Filed Under Uncategorized | No Comments

Two Decades
- By Hans Zeiger

It is my twentieth birthday. When I became an American two decades ago at 9:33 in the evening, Tacoma General Hospital, I was a survivor of abortion. Every child born in those days, and in the twelve years prior and in all the years since, has been a survivor. If ever birth cries were justified, mine were. I had much to mourn………
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