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Breaking News- NC Senate Rejects Key Provisions of Obamacare

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Senator Phil Berger

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February 4, 2013 Shelly Carver, 919-301-1744

N.C. Senate rejects key Obamacare provisions

Raleigh, N.C. – The North Carolina Senate tentatively passed legislation Monday night to opt out of participation in several expensive provisions of Obamacare.

Senate Bill 4 exempts North Carolina from establishing a state-based health insurance exchange or a state-federal partnership exchange. It directs the N.C. Department of Insurance to return unspent taxpayer funds awarded by the federal government earlier this month to create a state-federal partnership exchange. And it rules out expansion of the North Carolina Medicaid program.

Below is a statement from the bill’s primary sponsor, Sen. Tom Apodaca (R-Henderson):

“We are not running a state exchange because, to be honest, there’s no such thing. A state exchange gives no state control but would cost the people of North Carolina $100 million a year. The federal government chose to mandate health exchanges, so it should pay for them.”

“And Obamacare’s changes to Medicaid would cost North Carolinians close to a billion dollars through 2019. The federal government is trying to bait us in with ‘free’ federal money that switches to state money after a few years, leaving our taxpayers holding the bag. We are working to protect the economic health of our state.”

Background

Costs for North Carolina’s existing Medicaid program have increased significantly in recent years. In 2012, the General Assembly was forced to fill a surprise Medicaid shortfall that totaled more than $500 million. In fact, an audit released last week shows shortfalls totaling approximately $1.4 billion over the last three years.

Government Loves You So Much It Wants To Help Manage Your Retirement Account

Last Resistance

February 4, 2013 byMark Horne

Government Loves You So Much It Wants To Help Manage Your Retirement Account

I don’t know which is worse, that the government makes obvious moves to loot the people or that they are able to so easily announce such moves and everyone lets them do it. In my opinion, this Bloomberg headline is a fire alarm. “Retirement Savings Accounts Draw U.S. Consumer Bureau Attention”:

“The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is weighing whether it should take on a role in helping Americans manage the $19.4 trillion they have put into retirement savings, a move that would be the agency’s first foray into consumer investments. ‘That’s one of the things we’ve been exploring and are interested in in terms of whether and what authority we have,” bureau director Richard Cordray said in an interview. He didn’t provide additional details.’”

So, basically, they will do it if they can get away with it. This story didn’t seem to raise an eyebrow when it appeared. Over the weekend “Tyler Durden” at ZeroHedge noticed it:

“The obvious concept is that when the government runs out of money, or they face a drying up in interest for its debt, they will come for the $19.4 trillion in American’s retirement accounts. It seems that day may be finally drawing near. I stopped contributing to my 401k back when I worked at Bernstein, and I will probably now have to give more serious consideration whether I want to take the penalty and move the funds out of my retirement account entirely. I haven’t made any decisions, but will be watching closely.”

The excuse for this self-assumed “role in helping” us manage our retirements accounts is that the private sector should not be trusted:

“The bureau’s core concern is that many Americans, notably those from the retiring Baby Boom generation, may fall prey to financial scams, according to three people briefed on the CFPB’s deliberations who asked not to be named because the matter is still under discussion. The retirement savings business in the U.S. is dominated by a group of companies that handle record-keeping and management of investments in tax-advantaged vehicles like 401(k) plans and individual retirement accounts. The group includes Fidelity Investments, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Charles Schwab Corp. (SCHW) and T. Rowe Price Group Inc. (TROW).”

Well, no one needs to wonder if they have fallen prey to a scam, because there is no reasonable doubt about it—they have! The scam is called Social Security. Another is called Medicare. Yet these people are going to be trusted to protect us from scams?

What about JPMorgan Chase and others? Are they completely trustworthy? I doubt it. But since when has the Federal Government shown any real interest in holding them accountable for fraud and other possible malfeasance? These groups are two big to fail and thus too big to jail. The government continues to bail them out. Furthermore, when we look at the role of Fannie Mae in the housing crisis (to name just one example) we don’t see any reason to hope that the Federal Government can protect us from financial fraud and corruption. On the contrary, they encourage it. They are at the center of it.

I don’t think this should be debatable: the group that encourages us to trust in Social Security is not going to protect our interests if they take over the management of our retirement accounts. This is just a new larceny. They’ve tapped out their old ways of pillaging us and are now looking for a new way.

The old way was to justify the housing bubble on the grounds of helping the poor and minorities get housing. The next scam may have a similar rationalization. According to the New York Times, Deal Book blog:

“There’s been no shortage of ideas for how to jump-start economic growth in the aftermath of the financial crisis. But a new one comes with a high-profile backer: the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson. At a three-day conference in New York that began on Wednesday, Mr. Jackson discussed a proposal for increasing the availability of capital by using pension money to make loans in low-income communities. The idea is getting a prominent debut at the 16th annual Wall Street Project Economic Summit, hosted by Mr. Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition and the Citizenship Education Fund. ‘We’ve got to think outside the present fiscal-cliff-debt-ceiling box,’ Mr. Jackson said in an interview on Wednesday. ‘We must have some plan for reconstruction.’”

Right. That’s exactly what I want to do with my savings for retirement–risk it all in loans to people who can’t pay me back.

Jackson made this at a major meeting that included Bill Clinton and other establishment ruling class figures. As insane as it sounds, there is no reason to think that the idea won’t be used to justify robbing America’s retirees.

Important 2nd Amendment Update

IMPORTANT UPDATES – TWO PART ACTION ALERT – PLEASE SHARE

1. WE MUST COUNTER Organizing for Action – CALL YOUR US REPRESENTATIVES AND US SENATORS MONDAY AND TUESDAY

Organizing for Action (Obama’s campaign organization turned action network) has directed their members to “flood” the Capitol switchboard. Our representatives must hear from us to balance their effort.

In addition, Republican Senators Tom Coburn and Mark Kirk are working with Democrat Senators Joe Manchin, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on new legislation to “keep weapons away from criminals and the mentally ill.”

Grassroots NC’s position on potential bipartisan or Republican legislation: “None of this is acceptable.”

Many people are already being unfairly disqualified from owning a gun because of a diagnosis of PTSD or transient use of an anti-depressant in their past. Some legislators will want to compromise on this type of proposal, but it will infringe on the rights of the law-abiding.

Please call or email your US Representatives and US Senators on Monday and Tuesday, January 28 and 29. Ask them to SAY NO to any gun control measures.

House Reps are in their districts this week so use their local office numbers (while you’re calling, ask them when they will hold a town hall in the district):

Rep. G. K. Butterfield, Jr. (D-01) (252) 237-9816

Rep. Renee L. Ellmers (R-02) 1-877-645-8764

Rep. Walter B. Jones, Jr. (R-03) 800-351-1697

Rep. David Price (D-04) 919.859.5999

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-05) (336) 778-0211

Rep. Howard Coble (R-06) (336) 333-5005

Rep. Mike McIntyre (D-07) (910) 815-4959

Rep. Richard Hudson (R-08) 704-786-1612

Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-09) (704) 365-6234

Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-10) 800.477.2576

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-11) 828-693-5660

Rep. Mel Watt (D-12) (704) 344-9950

Rep. George Holding (R-13) 919-856-9778

Senators are in DC this week:

Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC) 202-224-3154

Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) 202-224-6342

2. FROM GRASSROOTS NC: CALL COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE STEVE TROXLER THIS WEEK

Ask him where he stands on gun control in relation to President Obama’s agenda.

Email AND call Commissioner Steve Troxler at Steve.Troxler@ncagr.gov and (919) 707-3000

“It’s been well over a week since The NC Department of Agriculture Commissioner fell in line with President Obama’s plan to ban the private sales of any firearms following a recent incident at a gun show. After a negligent discharge of a shotgun at a recent gun show at the NC Fairgrounds in Raleigh, representatives of Agricultural Commissioner Steve Troxler saw fit to declare that private sales of any and all firearms would be banned for the rest of the show, and possibly all gun shows held on NC agricultural property in the future.

Where does Commissioner Troxler stand?

After pronouncing that private sales were banned from State Agricultural owned property, Commissioner Troxler has gone silent. The big question now becomes: will a REPUBLICAN controlled state agency now jump on President Obama’s gun control policies without question? When accidents involving automobiles happen, we don’t ban private auto sales. When accidents involving house fires happen, we don’t arbitrarily ban private home sales. Why then, are our elected leaders so quick to ban private firearms sales when a negligent discharge happens?

Maybe we should just ask?

The citizens of North Carolina deserve to know where our leaders stand on this issue. Using the contact information provided and the suggested message (or one of your own), contact NC Agricultural Commissioner Steve Troxler and ask him personally where he stands on the issue of private firearms sales and President Obama’s gun control agenda. With the anti-gun crowd screaming loud these days, we deserve to know just where our leaders stand on the issue.”

All The Difference in the World

“I do care a lot” and “None of this was my fault” and “What difference at this point does it make?”

All The Difference in the World

– Daniel Greenfield (Bio and Archives) Thursday, January 24, 2013

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived back in the Senate, after dodging a few falling safes, multiple banana peels and an ornery dog named Henry, to give a carefully prepared histrionic rant which can be summed up, “I do care a lot” and “None of this was my fault” and “What difference at this point does it make?”

The last isn’t a sarcastic restatement. It’s what she actually said.

It might make a difference to a Coptic Christian whose trailer was blamed by the leader of the free world for a series of Al Qaeda attacks against American diplomatic facilities and who was sent to prison on the orders of members of the administration.

That fellow of many names, now serving a year in prison, is the only one to actually get locked up. The ringleader of the attack walks the streets of Benghazi freely. A drone could make short work of him, but no drones are coming his way. Instead a car bomb, planted by Libyan enemies, nearly took him out. Some of the other Benghazi attackers were killed by the Algerian military during the siege; doing the work that Obama won’t do. If the Benghazi terrorists finally die, it will most likely be at the hands of the French, the Syrian army or Libyan rival militias.

Benghazi, Obama said, during his appearance with Jon Stewart, the man of many grimaces, was a bump in the road. And that’s all it was. The Obama campaign bus drove over four bodies and reached its destination in an armored parking garage somewhere in D.C. An irritated Hillary Clinton, who is prepping for her own bus tour in 2016, has every reason to demand to know what difference it makes now to discuss who lied about what and who failed to secure the Benghazi mission.

Al Qaeda is dead, except for the parts of it rampaging across Syria, Iraq, Mali, Libya, Algeria and Pakistan Continue reading →

First in the Nation: Beaufort County, NC Adopts Federal Gun Laws Nullification Resolution

January 18, 2013 was a great day for North Carolina. Beaufort County took the first step nationwide to adopt a Federal Gun Laws Nullification resolution!! The resolution was passed unanimously by the Beaufort County Board of Commissioners and was greeted by overwhelming support. The resolution was written in strong terms, stating that no county official, paid employee, or resource will be used to cooperate with or enforce federal gun regulations. It also calls on the NC General Assembly to pass an act to nullify the implementation of any federal law, executive order, or regulation which restricts the right to keep and bear arms within the state of North Carolina, as well as to propose an amendment to the state constitution to enlarge gun rights.

ABC and Fox News were there to cover the event and Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center has spent the entire day getting the story out nationwide.

Please urge your own county commissioners or Sheriffs Department to adopt a similar resolution. Beaufort County, the Tenth Amendment Center, etc etc will provide the resolution if it will help.

Here is the link to the Beaufort Observer article and full video –

http://bit.ly/beaufortnullification

You can hear what the Commissioners each had to say about the resolution. I was touched by their loyalty to the US Constitution, their patriotism, their understanding of history, and the fidelity of their oaths.

Diane Rufino

The Guns of Obamerica

Guns of Obamerica

The Guns of Obamerica

Posted: 20 Jan 2013 10:46 PM PST

Forget Wal-Mart and skip your local gun show. The murderers of tomorrow will not be found wearing orange vests at your local sporting goods store. They won’t have NRA memberships or trophies on their walls.

You won’t find them in America. Look for them in Obamerica.

67% of firearm murders took place in the country’s 50 largest metro areas. The 62 cities in those metro areas have a firearm murder rate of 9.7, more than twice the national average. Among teenagers the firearm murder rate is 14.6 or almost three times the national average. Those numbers are from six years ago. They have grown worse since.

Those are the crowded cities of Obamerica. The places with the most restrictive gun control laws and the highest crime rates. These are the places where the family is broken, money comes from the government and immigrants crowd in from some of the most violent parts of the world bringing with them their own organized crime. These are also the places that have run by Democrats and their political machines for almost as long as they have been broken. Continue reading →

Letter to the Editor – TAKE BACK AMERICA on Nov 6th

ARE YOU TIRED OF: lack of progress on job creation? US Debt continuing to increase with more spending programs? increased taxation for all Americans? past and future bailouts? non-functioning Green Energy stimulus programs? lack of administration focus, direction, and leadership? replacing Capitalism with Socialism?

THEN DO THE FOLLOWING… On election day, November 6th, cast your vote for Mitt Romney for President and all conservatives, local, state, federal, including Judges. We need to stop the irresponsible socialistic behavior of President Obama and the potential devastation that will occur if he is reelected. This may be our last election to place America on the path to economic recovery. We desire a better America for our children and grandchildren than the practices President Barack Obama’s administration has forced upon us the past four years.

THE TIME IS NOW… You have the power to right the American ship and restore our Constitutional values by voting for Conservative candidates. Do it with pride…. Do it with passion… Do it for your love of the American way… Do it for all future generations !

Respectfully submitted,

Richard Wilson
Whispering Pines, NC

We've Heard All This Before!

Federal Court Upholds the Herding of Demonstrators Into “Free Speech Zones”

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Mac Slavo
SHTFplan

There was once a group of men who established a fundamental law of the land that allowed the people of their new found country to peaceably assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances. These founding fathers of that Great nation even went so far as to declare that the government itself could never make a law that would threaten to supplant these protections, which were reserved exclusively for the people. This concept of freedom of assembly and protest was so critical to protecting and preserving the liberty of the people that it was the very first law – the very first Amendment – proposed by the newly elected representatives of These United States of America and came into effect on December 15, 1791.

It’s frightening what just a couple of hundred years of politicking, self serving greed and expediency can do to a nation. Apparently, somewhere along the way, politicians and judges who hold their personal views in higher regard than those laws upon which this nation was founded, have taken it upon themselves to decide what’s best for the American people and that, perhaps, we have a little too much liberty:

A federal appeals court has upheld the creation of no demonstration zones, which prohibit free speech in certain public areas.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals released a ruling yesterday upholding a lower court’s decision that also declared such zones as being permissible. The opinion was penned by Judge Dennis Jacobs on behalf of a three judge panel that included Judges Pierre Leval and Debra Ann Livingston, two of whom are Republican judges appointed by George H.W. Bush.

The case surrounded an arrest that took place in 2004 when Michael Marcavage of Repent America and Steve Lefemine of Columbia Christians for Life attended the Republican National Convention in Madison Square Garden to address the large number of pro-abortion speakers at the event, including Rudy Giuliani and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

According to court records, the two were standing on the public sidewalk holding signs when they were approached by police. The police officer informed the men that they could not stand in their particular location because it had been marked by officials as being a “no demonstration” zone.

When the men asked where they could go to engage in free speech activity, the officer directed them to a free speech zone located a block away from the entrance of Madison Square Garden. The area, which police had specifically erected for demonstrations, was the only location where expressive activity was allowed to take place during the event. Individuals of varying and opposite opinions were forced to stand together in one consolidated and caged area, which included a stage with a microphone.

Marcavage and Lefemine complied by walking away from the area alongside the officers and toward the zone that the NYPD had established. As they walked and were questioning the police about the purpose and reasoning behind the zones, they were placed under arrest for not relocating to the area fast enough.

“They took us to an abandoned warehouse where they funneled hundreds of people into cages that they had set up for this purpose,” Marcavage explained. “They treated us like cattle.”

(source)

Only those who agree with the message being delivered at a particular political or public event are now authorized to assemble in or around these areas. Anyone else is relegated to the cattle cages out of view of the public, the media and the officials at whom their protest or grievance is directed.

These zones are the very antithesis of free speech.

And it’s not just judges ruling by decree that are stripping us of our right to assemble and protest. In fact, the 1st Amendment itself has been, per recent Congressional action, overridden by a new law that was passed earlier this year. The Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act now allows national and local authorities to declare any venue they so choose as an “event of national significance,” at which point anyone who is found to be demonstrating in those areas can be charged under Federal criminal statutes.

Congress Criminalizes the Right to Free Assembly; Strips Basic Protections of First Amendment:

The new legislation allows prosecutors to charge anyone who enters a building without permission or with the intent to disrupt a government function with a federal offense if Secret Service is on the scene.

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It’s not just the president who would be spared from protesters, either.

Covered under the bill is any person protected by the Secret Service. Although such protection isn’t extended to just everybody, making it a federal offense to even accidently disrupt an event attended by a person with such status essentially crushes whatever currently remains of the right to assemble and peacefully protest.

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In the text of the act, the law is allowed to be used against anyone who knowingly enters or remains in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so…

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Under that verbiage, that means a peaceful protest outside a candidate’s concession speech would be a federal offense…

With the definitions for “domestic terrorism” now taking on a broad scope and encompassing almost any activity deemed as such by the Department of Homeland Security and federal authorities, it is only a matter of time before peaceful demonstrators are not only detained for their criminal terroristic activities, but held indefinitely under US anti-terrorism laws like the National Defense Authorization Act.

That members of our Congress and appointed Federal judges would first create, then uphold, such laws designed to explicitly enact regulations in direct and overt violation of the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights is nothing short of a treasonous action.

It is, by all accounts, a betrayal of the people of this country and of the established laws of the land.

The Liar in Chief

Below is a list of Obama’s documented lies so far with the most recent lies first. If you see we are missing a documented lie Submit the lie here.

Lies During Third Year

I will walk on that picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain.
Youtube

In his 2012 State of the Union Address, President Obama said that American oil production is the highest that it’s been in eight years.
www.breitbart.com

I’ve done more for Israel’s security than any President ever
Obama aided Islamic Extremists take over of Egypt/ Libya – Weapons pour into Gaza

Virtually every Senate Republican voted against the tax cut last week
Examiner

“Every idea that we’ve put forward are ones that traditionally have been supported by Democrats and Republicans alike.”
Like Raising taxes?

Obama met highly qualified out of work teacher Robert Baroz
He wasn’t out of work and Obama never met him.

GOP Responsible for Obama Jobs Bill Not Passing
Dems Rejected Jobs Bill

You have 80 percent of the American people who support a balanced approach. Eighty percent of the American people support an approach that includes revenues and includes cuts. So the notion that somehow the American people aren’t sold is not the problem
Gallup Poll: Only 69%

These are obligations that the United States has taken on in the past. Congress has run up the credit card, and we now have an obligation to pay our bills.
Looks like it’s been incurred mostly in the years of Obama

Jobs Bill Paid for
Seems not so much Paid for

Then you’ve got their(GOP)which is dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health insurance
Barack Obama, campaiging in Asheville, NC, 10/17/11

I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven’t resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it.
American.com

USA producing more oil than ever before
Petroleum Insights

Fence between US and Mexico is “Practically Complete”
Department of Homeland Security says 5%

Rich doesn’t pay their fair share.
National Taxpayers Union

Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
Cnn Interview

Lies During Second Year

Obama claimed the SCOTUS decision in Citizens United v. FEC, “open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.
nationalreview.com

No signing statements to nullify or undermine congressional instructions as enacted into law
Obama Lies to Keep Czars

No “boots” on the ground Libya
Anyone that has worked with the AC-130 gunship can tell you, you need spotters to let aircraft know where the targets are. Usually it is Special Forces, Rangers etc trained for this mission. It’s CIA Agents in Libya on the ground

Reform will also rein in the abuse and excess that nearly brought down our financial system. It will finally bring transparency to the kinds of complex, risky transactions that helped trigger the financial crisis.
Obama Lies About Financial Reform Bill

All Americans WILL BE were, “surprised, disappointed and angry” about lockerbie bomber
Obama Memo

I will not rest until the BP Oil Spill stops
Obama’s Schedule

The health care bill will not increase the deficit by one dime.
Campaign and Presidency

If you like the health care plan you have you can keep it
TownHall

“Under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions, and federal conscience laws will remain in place.”
U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., September 9, 2009.

ObamaCare Fee is not a new tax
Obama denies healthcare is a new tax on all Americans

We have run out of places in the US to drill for oil.
Obama’s oval office speech in June 2010

Now suddenly if you don’t have your papers and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you can be harassed, that’s something that could potentially happen.
Arizona Immigration Law

Doctors choose amputation because they get better compensation. Greedy Doctors taking out tonsils for more money.
Claims never documented

The Health Care Package will pay for itself
Time

Republicans don’t have a single idea that’s different from George Bush’s ideas — not one.
Hmm Immigration?

We shouldn’t Mandate the purchase of health care
Democratic Debate Lies

Obama says he’ll save average family $8,000 in gas
Video Proof

I am immediately instituting PayGo “Pay as you go”
Said during a speech immediately after the Trillion Dollar “Shovel Ready” bill.

I got the Message from Massachusetts
Daily Bail

Lies During First Year

We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs.” – caught cooking the books and now changed to ‘jobs supported’ versus ‘created/saved’
AP fact Checker

Number one, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. … That wasn’t me.” – Congress, under Democratic control in 2007 and 2008, controlled the purse strings that led to the deficit Obama inherited.Obama supported the emergency bailout package in Bush’s final months — a package Democratic leaders wanted to make bigger.
AP fact Checker

Collective salvation
Obama calls himself a Christian

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Obama Inauguration. 20 Jan 2009

Cut Deficit in Half by end of first term
Associated Press Video

Health Care deals will be covered on C-span
Obama Lies

As President I will recognize the Armenian Genocide
ABC

Recovery Act will save or create jobs
ABC News

Unemployment rate will be 8.5% without stimulus.
Obama Lies

No Earmarks in the $787 Billion Stimulus
CNN

I happen to be a proponent of a single payer universal health care plan
Specator.Org

We have launched a housing plan that will help responsible families facing the threat of foreclosure lower their monthly payments and refinance their mortgages.
Obama Lies

I am not somebody who promotes same-sex marriage.
NPR

Guantanamo bay to be closed within a year
Council on Foreign Relations.

Won’t Raise taxes on those making less than 250,000 per year.
Businessweek: Obama Agnostic on taxes
List of Tax Promise Violations

2008 Campaign Lies

I will walk the picket line with you, if workers are denied the right to bargain
Youtube

No more wiretapping of citizens
Youtube

Mr. Ayers as “a guy who lives in my neighborhood,” but “not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis.
News Busters

I had a uncle who was one of the, who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Obama campaign would accept public funding
ABC

Minimum Wage will increase to $9.50/hr
A Socialist

Ann Dunham spent the months before her death in 1995 fighting with insurance companies that sought to deny her the coverage she needed to pay for treatment.
Mounting Heath Care Lies

Didn’t know Jeremiah Wright was Radical
Dreams of My Father – A radical Socialist.

Would have the most transparent administration in History
Cato Institute

We will go through our federal budget – page by page, line by line – eliminating those programs we don’t need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way.
Boston Globe

I have visited all 57 states.
Snopes

I’ll get rid of earmarks
Source: Any bill passed during presidency

When a bill lands on my Desk, The American people will have 5 days to review it before I sign it.
Campaign Speech

My father served in World War II.
The Videos and the Facts

Have troops out of Iraq by March 31, 2009
News Video

Seniors Making less than 50,000 will not have to pay taxes
YouTube

Would not vote for any bill supporting troop funding without a firm withdrawal commitment from the Bush Administration.
He has done nothing but continue the Bush admins strategy and to explain how the “surges total failure” has now become his greatest achievement.

Present Votes Are Common In Illinois
NPR

I Won Michigan
Huffington Post

I won Nevada
The Nation

I don’t Have Lobbyists
US News

My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad
Crooks and Liars

I Have Always Been Against Iraq
Washington Post

My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country
CNN

Barack was never an ACORN trainer and never worked for ACORN in any other capacity.
Obama Campaign Video

I Barely Know Rezko
Sun Times

My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church
ABC News

Large Corp. Exec’s &
Politicians are Royalty
You are the Serfs.

Videos

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The End of America?

A Couple of Conservative Movies

At last nights meeting, several people asked about two movies that are geared towards conservatives. These movies will not appear in theaters everywhere like most Hollywood production. Here is the information to date. Check the web sites listed for more theaters as the movies are released throughout NC (maybe).

Movies:

Obama’s America 2016 by Dinesh D’souza

based on the book “Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Good book

Web site: http://2016themovie.com/theaters/?state=NC

Movie has been released and will be playing in NC on August 17 in Charolette and Concord; they say more cities to be announced.

Atlas Shrugged Part 2

based on the book “Atlas Shrugged.” Another good book

Part 1 was released last year and is now available on DVD. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and plan to go to see Part 2.

Web site: http://www.atlasshruggedmovie.com/

Movie to be released 10-10-12

Theaters have not been announced yet; Part 1 was in Wilmington and Fayettville, and west. Check their web site for theaters as the release date approaches.

You can also contact the web sites and let them know that you want the movies played in this area. If they get enough requests, they may make arrangements for them to play here.

The President's $8 Billion Coincidende

The Ultimate Takedown of Obama’s ‘You Didn’t Build That’ Speech

via PJMedia

(go to original article for videos)

President Obama’s instantly infamous “You didn’t build that” speech is a major turning point of the 2012 election not because it was a gaffe but because it was an accurate and concise summary of core progressive fiscal dogma. It was also a political blunder of epic proportions because in his speech Obama unintentionally proved the conservatives’ case for limited government.

This essay will show you how.

When Obama implied at the Roanoke, Virginia rally that some businessmen refuse to pay for public works from which they benefit, he presented a thesis which, like a three-legged stool, relies on three assumptions that must all be true for the argument to remain standing:

1. That the public programs he mentioned in his speech constitute a significant portion of the federal budget;
2. That business owners don’t already pay far more than their fair share of these expenses; and
3. That these specific public benefits are a federal issue, rather than a local issue.

If any of these legs fails, then the whole argument collapses.

For good measure, we won’t just kick out one, we’ll kick out all three.

“Small Government” Is Not the Same as “No Government”

Progressives critique the fiscal conservative/Tea Party/libertarian position by purposely misrepresenting it as anarchy. When fiscal conservatives say “We want smaller government,” progressives reply, “Oh, so you want no government?”

“Government” in this particular discussion is shorthand for “communal pooling of resources for mutual benefit.”

Fiscal conservatives have never called for no government — that’s the anarchist position, and contemporary anarchism is actually dominated by extreme leftists, not extreme conservatives. Instead, fiscal conservatives clearly and consistently call for limited government, or for smaller government — but not for the absence of government altogether.

So when President Obama and his mentor Elizabeth Warren justify their call for tax hikes by pointing out that all entrepreneurs benefit from communal infrastructure, they’re committing the classic Straw Man Fallacy by arguing against anarchy — a position that their opponents do not hold.

Here’s the shocking truth: President Obama and Elizabeth Warren are correct — we all benefit from certain taxpayer-funded collectivist government infrastructure projects and programs. And here’s the other shocking truth: Therefore, we should limit government expenditures to just those programs. Why? Because most of the other government programs either

• hinder, constrict or penalize entrepreneurial activity; or
• benefit some people to the detriment of others; or
• waste money on bureaucracy, overhead or ill-considered expenditures that end up indebting the nation and by extension all Americans. Continue reading →

Walter Jones on Obama's Amnesty for Illegal Aliens

FROM:

Congressman Walter B. Jones

TO:

Kenneth Lang

Monday, June 18, 2012 4:57 PM

Dear Mr. Lang:

Thank you for contacting me to share your concerns regarding the DREAM Act, and the Obama Administration’s memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that closely resembles the DREAM Act. I appreciate you taking the time to contact me and I’m honored to respond.

As you are likely aware, the DREAM Act is a bill that has been introduced for the past few years that would provide legal status to illegal aliens. Specifically, the DREAM Act would allow illegal aliens who came to the United States as minors to obtain permanent residency if they meet certain requirements such as either completing college or military service. I have long opposed the DREAM Act and have always voted against it because, very simply, it rewards illegal behavior. Although these children came to our country through no fault of their own I cannot support amnesty—we are a nation of laws. The American people have consistently voiced their opposition to this legislation. In fact, so many voiced their concerns that the DREAM Act was not able to pass the Democrat controlled Senate in 2010.

Unfortunately, President Obama’s Administration recently overruled the will of the American people and the Congress and issued a memo that closely resembles the DREAM Act. This memo directs Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials to use discretion when deciding whether or not to deport illegal aliens if they are currently in school, have a family member serving in the military, or are pregnant or nursing. I am adamantly opposed to the DREAM Act and to the new ICE memo, and will continue to fight to ensure that our nation’s laws are enforced. You will be pleased to know that I am a cosponsor of H.R. 2497, the HALT (Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation) Act– legislation that would prevent President Obama from bypassing Congress and providing any amnesty. The Constitution, in article I, clause 8, section 4, grants Congress the power to establish immigration policies and President Obama’s end run around the Constitution and the Congress must not stand.

Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. Please know that I understand and agree with your concerns and will oppose any effort to provide amnesty to those who break our nation’s immigration laws. If I may be of any further assistance please feel free to contact my office.

Sincerely,

Walter B. Jones
Member of Congress

United Nations Arms Treaty (video)

We must seriously pursue getting out of the United Nations. They are systematically trying to usurp the U. S. Constitution and the rights afforded thereunder. The Law of the Sea Treaty (separate post), and not the UN Arms Treaty in this video…

Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST); Obama Gives USA Royalties to UN

Morning Bell: The Danger of Article 82 and Obama’s Latest Treaty

Mike Brownfield

May 22, 2012 at 9:05 am

Back in 1982, President Ronald Reagan decided not to sign a treaty known as “Law of the Sea” (LOST), a United Nations convention that would raid America’s treasury for billions of dollars, then redistribute that wealth to the rest of the world by an international bureaucracy headquartered in Kingston, Jamaica. But today, the Obama Administration has revived that treaty, and tomorrow Senator John Kerry (D-MA) will hold hearings designed to illustrate its supposed benefits and generate support for its ratification. Without a doubt, Reagan’s decision should stand, and LOST should remain relegated to the trash bin of history.

The rationale for LOST is that it supposedly brings order to the world’s oceans, defines the rights and responsibilities of nations as they navigate and conduct business across the seas, protects the marine environment, and allows for the development of natural resources of the deep seabed. On the surface, these all sound like worthwhile goals. The thing is, the United States doesn’t need to join another United Nations treaty to make it happen.

For more than 200 years before LOST was adopted in 1982 and for 30 years since then, the U.S. Navy has successfully protected America’s maritime interests regardless of the fact that the United States has not signed on to the treaty. The United States’ navigational rights and freedoms have been secure, and they are best guaranteed by a strong Navy.

LOST is not without consequences, either. One of the more nefarious and insidious of its provisions is Article 82, which requires the United States to forfeit royalties generated from oil and gas development on the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles – an area known as the “extended continental shelf.” That money, which one estimate says could be worth many billions, if not trillions of dollars, would go to the International Seabed Authority, a new international bureaucracy created by the treaty and based in Jamaica. Heritage’s Steven Groves explains that from there, America’s money could be shipped to the Middle East, Africa, China, and even state sponsors of terror:

LOST directs that the revenue be distributed to “developing States” (such as Somalia, Burma … you get the picture) and “peoples who have not attained full independence” (such as the Palestinian Liberation Organization … hey, don’t they sponsor terrorism?). The assembly – the “supreme organ” of the International Seabed Authority in which the United States has a single vote to cast – has the final say regarding the distribution of America’s transmogrified “international” royalties.

The assembly may vote to distribute royalties to undemocratic, despotic or brutal governments in Belarus, China or Zimbabwe – all members of LOST. Perhaps those dollars will go to regimes that are merely corrupt; 13 of the world’s 20 most corrupt nations, according to Transparency International, are parties to LOST. Even Cuba and Sudan, both considered state sponsors of terrorism, could receive dollars fresh from the U.S. Treasury.

In addition to shipping America’s money overseas to unsavory recipients, LOST could have other negative consequences, as well, by exposing U.S. industry and manufacturing to baseless international lawsuits. In fact, environmental activists and international legal academics are actively exploring the potential of using international litigation against the United States to advance their agendas. And for those who say LOST is a tool for mediating international disputes, take a look at the Philippines, which signed on to the treaty and yet today is finding itself browbeaten by China and its claims in the South China Sea.

If America truly wants to preserve its rights on the sea, then it needs to bolster the one tool that has guaranteed those rights throughout history — a strong U.S. Navy. Unfortunately, under President Obama’s watch, the United States is seeing its fleet diminished in size and ability. A lone piece of paper will not defend America’s interests on the sea, and neither will transferring billions of dollars to an international authority in Jamaica for redistribution the world over. LOST should not be ratified and signed, and instead Washington should turn its attention to ensuring that the U.S. Navy has the resources it needs to protect America’s interests on the high seas.

Quick Hits:

Things aren’t looking any better for the euro zone. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has slashed its forecasts for the region’s economic growth and warned that the debt crisis could lead to a downward spiral.
The Big Labor / National Labor Relations Board revolving door continues to turn. Craig Becker, a former member of the NLRB who was appointed by President Obama in 2010, is returning to the AFL-CIO as general counsel.
The Yemeni government is blaming an al-Qaeda affiliate for the bombing that killed 101 of the country’s soldiers on Monday. Jihadist websites posted a statement supposedly from the terrorist group in which it claims responsibility for the attack.
Facebook’s shares dropped 11 percent yesterday prompting a round of finger pointing that aimed at Morgan Stanley’s role as lead underwriter, Facebook’s greed, and the Nasdaq Stock Market, which handled last week’s IPO.
Yesterday the University of Notre Dame filed a legal challenge against an Obamacare regulation that requires health care plans to include coverage for contraception. Read more about it on The Foundry.

Posted in American Leadership

NC Democratic Party Executive Director Resigns

Updated at 08:38 PM today

Former NC Democratic Party Executive Director Jay Parmley (WTVD Photo)

RALEIGH — The executive director of the North Carolina Democratic Party announced his resignation Sunday in the wake of frustrations by party activists over high turnover at the party headquarters and harassment allegations there.

Jay Parmley took over as executive director last year after serving three years in the same post in South Carolina. Before that, he served in the same position in Oklahoma – his native state.

In his resignation letter obtained by ABC11, Parmley vehemently denied harassing any party worker.

“Let me be clear: I have never harassed any employee at any time,” he wrote in part.

Click here to read the entire letter(.pdf)

News of the rumored allegations first surfaced Friday on conservative websites, including the Drudge Report.

Click here to read more

The stories were based on emails between top North Carolina Democratic Party officials which the ABC11 I-Team also obtained. The messages reference rumors of allegations of sexual harassment within the headquarters of the North Carolina Democratic Party.

The emails don’t show who was allegedly harassed, but they mention rumors of a financial settlement that allegedly was reached between a former staffer and a top party official which allegedly included a non-disclosure agreement.

While Democratic officials confirmed some staffers had left their employment with the NCDP, they declined to comment further on personnel matters.

Contacted by ABC11, other top Democrats called the rumored allegations – if true – troubling and called for further investigation.

In his resignation letter, Parmley called the reports false and misleading.

“The over one thousand political people who have worked with me over the years know this kind of behavior would be unconscionable to me. In fact, fighting against actions like these is one of the reasons I’m a Democrat,” he wrote.

In a statement that accompanied Parmley’s resignation letter Sunday, NC Democratic Party Chairman David Parker accepted the resignation and said he believes there have not been grounds to fire Parmley.

“As an attorney who has successfully prosecuted harassment and discrimination cases, I have seen the devastating consequences of hostile environments on harassed workers and also on those inappropriately accused of creating them. I am strongly committed to the principals of a harassment, hostility and discrimination free environment, both at work and in general society and to justice fairly and impartially rendered. My commitment applies equally to same gender relationships and harassment as to any other form of harassment or discrimination,” wrote Parker.

“After consulting legal counsel, and based on my own experience in harassment cases and my own personal philosophy, it became my opinion that there have not been grounds for termination for cause of Jay Parmley.”

“In this political world of rushing to judgment and the presumption of guilt, however, my legal and personal opinion has been outweighed by this having become a political distraction and issue.”

Parmley did not say what his future plans include.

“Everything happens for a reason and I’m sure this unfortunate chapter will lead to a new challenge in my life and career,” he wrote.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/politics&id=8621986

Who's Fault is It? Bush or Obama

Please read this very carefully and let it soak in … Whose fault is this

problem we have?

This tells the story, why Bush was so bad at the end of his term.

Don’t just skim over this, it’s not very long, read it slowly and let it

sink in. If in doubt, check it out!

The day the Democrats took over was not January 22nd, 2009; it was actually

January 3rd, 2007. That was the day the Democrats took over the House of

Representatives and the Senate, at the very start of the 110th Congress.

The Democrat Party controlled a majority in both chambers for the first time

since the end of the 103rd Congress in 1995.

For those who are listening to the liberals propagating the fallacy that

everything is “Bush’s Fault,” think about this:

January 3rd, 2007 was the day the Democrats took over the Senate and the

Congress. At the time: The Dow Jones closed at 12,621.77; The GDP for the

previous quarter was 3.5%; The unemployment rate was 4.6%.

George Bush’s economic policies had set a record of 52 straight months of

job growth.

Remember the day …

January 3rd, 2007 was the day that Barney Frank took over the House

Financial Services Committee and Chris Dodd took over the Senate Banking

Committee.

The economic meltdown that happened 15 months later was in what part of the

economy? Banking and financial services!

What was the Democratic response to this crisis among MANY other things):

dumping 5-6 trillion dollars of toxic loans on the economy from YOUR Fannie

Mae and Freddie Mac!

Bush asked Congress 17 TIMES to stop Fannie and Freddie – starting in 2001

because it was financially risky for the US economy.

And who took the THIRD highest pay-off from Fannie Mae AND Freddie Mac?

OBAMA!

And who fought against reform of Fannie and Freddie? OBAMA and the Democrat

Congress! So when someone tries to blame Bush.

Remember January 3rd, 2007 … The day the Democrats took over!

Budgets do not come from the White House. They come from Congress and the

party that controlled Congress since January 2007 is the Democrat Party.

Furthermore, the Democrats controlled the budget process for 2008 and 2009

as well as 2010 and 2011. In that first year, they had to contend with

George Bush, which caused them to compromise on spending, when Bush somewhat

belatedly got tough on spending increases.

For 2009 though, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid bypassed George Bush entirely,

passing continuing resolutions to keep government running until Barack Obama

could take office. At that time, they passed a massive omnibus spending bill

to complete the 2009 budgets.

And where was Barack Obama during this time? He was a member of that very

Congress that passed all of these massive spending bills and he signed the

omnibus bill as President to complete 2009.

If the Democrats inherited any deficit, it was the 2007 deficit, the last of

the Republican budgets. That deficit was the lowest in five years, and the

fourth straight decline in deficit spending. After that, Democrats in

Congress took control of spending and that includes Barack Obama, who voted

for the budgets.

If Obama inherited anything, he inherited it from himself. In a nutshell,

what Obama is saying is I inherited a deficit that I voted for and then I

voted to expand that deficit four-fold since January 20th.

There is no way this will be widely publicized,unless each of us sends it

on!

Brutal week for Obama, the worst of his presidency

Friday, April 6, 2012 10:32 PM

How would you like 4 more years of his leadership?

HURT: Brutal week for Obama, the worst of his presidency

By Charles Hurt

Thursday, March 29, 2012

ANALYSIS/OPINION:

The past seven brutal days will go down as one of the worst weeks in history for a sitting president. It certainly has been, without any doubt, the worst week yet for President Obama.

Somehow, Mr. Obama managed to embarrass himself abroad, humiliate himself here at home, see his credentials for being elected so severely undermined that it raises startling questions about whether he should have been elected in the first place — let alone be re-elected later this year.

Consider:

• Last Friday, Mr. Obama wandered into the killing of Trayvon Martin. Aided by his ignorance of the situation, knee-jerk prejudices and tendency toward racial profiling, Mr. Obama played a heavy hand in elevating a tragic situation in which a teenager was killed into a full-blown hot race fight.

Americans, he admonished, need to do some “soul-searching.” And then, utterly inexplicably, he veered off into this bizarre tangent about how he and the poor dead kid look so much alike they could be father and son. It was election-year race-pandering gone horribly wrong.

• By the start of this week, Mr. Obama had fled town and was racing to the other side of the planet just as the Supreme Court was taking up the potentially-embarrassing matter of Obamacare. While in South Korea he was caught on a hidden mic negotiating with the president of our longest-standing rival on how to sell America and her allies down the river once he gets past the next election.

• Meanwhile, back at home, the Supreme Court took up the single most important achievement of Mr. Obama’s presidency and, boy, was it embarrassing. The great constitutional law professor, it turns out, may not quite be the wizard he told us he was.

By most accounts, Mr. Obama and his stuttering lawyers were all but laughed out of the courthouse. They were even stumbling over softball questions lobbed by Mr. Obama’s own hand-picked justices.

• Mr. Obama closed his week pulling off a nearly unimaginable feat: He managed to totally and completely unify the nastily-fighting Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Late Wednesday night, they unanimously voted — 414 to zip — to reject the budget Mr. Obama had presented, leaving him not even a thin lily’s blade to hide behind.

So, in one week, Mr. Obama got caught whispering promises to our enemy, incited a race war, raised serious questions about his understanding of the Constitution, and then got smacked down over his proposed budget that was so wildly reckless that even Democrats in Congress could not support it.

It was as if you lumped Hurricane Katrina and the Abu Ghraib abuses into one week for George W. Bush. And added on top of that the time he oddly groped German Chancellor Angela Merkel and got caught cursing on a hot mic.

Even then, it wouldn’t be as bad as Mr. Obama’s week. You would probably also have to toss in the time Mr. Bush’s father threw up into the lap of Japan’s prime minister. Only then might we be approaching how bad a week it was for Mr. Obama.

Not that you will see any trace of embarrassment in the face of Mr. Obama. He has mastered the high political art of shamelessness, wearing it smugly and cockily. Kind of like a hoodie.

• Charles Hurt can be reached at charleshurt@live.com.

CCTPP Meeting Minutes, March 6, 2012

CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MINUTES OF
6 MARCH 2012

Meeting held at Golden Corral, Morehead City, NC
Meeting called to order by Chairman BOB CAVANAUGH at 6:05pm
Pledge of Allegiance led by BOB CAVANAUGH
Invocation by HARRY THOMPSON

RUTH PARKER said she felt we should all remember and pray for Andrew Breitbart’s family. It was a terrible lost to the Conservative movement. BOB said yes, and at a critical time in our history. ERNIE GUTHRIE said he still felt that there was something suspicious about his untimely death. He was only what 43? Several agreed, and said they would not put it past some of the liberal/Chicago crowd to have been involved. There are all kinds of ways to initiate a heart attack. HOWARD GARNER said, ‘Let’s wait and see if his information he told us about gets published. That should give us more of an indication as to what happened.” BOB said yes, he understood there were tapes that supposedly were going to change the election; but he wished the tapes had been kept secret until closer to the election. He said the day after Breitbart died they announced about the tapes and that they were planning to release them in about 10 days on the Hannity Show. He felt that if Sean Hannity had keep quite last time about all he knew about Obama (ie Rev. Wright, etal) until closer to the election instead of March and April, it would have made a big difference. He hopes they do not release the tapes until later on this summer a little before the election.

BOB announced that a lady from the Cape Lookout School was supposed to be here tonight, to present the facts about what occurred at Cape Lookout School and why their charter school license was initially renewed in December and then revoked a month later; but hopefully she will show up later.

BOB announced the titles of the books now to be loaned out in the TEA Party library. Anyone wishing to read any of them may check them out and return when finished reading. Many interesting books are now to be utilized from our increasing inventory from ‘My Bond is My Freedom’ by Fredrick Douglas (a black man who was one of Lincoln’s personal friends) written in 1855 to (a recent publication) ‘TEA Party Patriots’ by Mark Meckler.

He recognized RUTH PARKER, (a waitress at Cox’s during the day and joked with her about her night time occupation,) and thanked her for her generous donation to our cause tonight.

HOWARD said, speaking of contraceptives, that Fluke girl was a plant. Everyone agreed. Discussed how her testimony even came out. Denied by ISSA, picked up by Pelosi and Crew. She went to a Catholic University, BOB felt, just to stir up controversy. All agreed as to why should we pay for her birth control when she can, if she really cared, could already probably either get them free or for about $9.00 per month at Wal Mart or Target. Most there agreed that Rush Limbaugh pretty much pegged her. Most thought Rush should not have apologized since the liberals had called Sarah Palin almost every nasty name in the book and no one in the liberal media had ever called for an apology for her. Much discussion on this issue continued. BOB said he only had one question – where were the girls like that when he was in school????
BOB said he wished they would get off this subject and get back to the pressing needs of our country. The Democrats are trying to get as much air time as they can from stuff like this and keep off the really important things. PEGGY GARNER said only problem is once this does die down, the Democrats have some more of this same mess waiting in the wings. They do not want Obama’s record to be discussed because it is so bad.

BOB asked STEVE BEST to talk to us about his theater problems. STEVE said he normally served pop corn and hotdogs at each event; but next time they were going to have turkey. Bring a side dish. He said his projector had burned out and was looking to get another but he needed help. He hoped the TEA Party would either pay for a new one if they could or at least help buy another. He had checked and a new projector would cost around $400.00. BOB said he didn’t think the TEA Party could afford to just buy a new projector, but he felt we would be willing to chip in $100.00 and maybe he could pass the hat and some here would be willing to help out. He had looked into a used projector on Ebay, but had not found anything he felt would be suitable. BOB told those in the audience that STEVE showed religious movies and any movies that the TEA Party was interested in. STEVE said on the 31st of March he would be showing ‘The Passion of Christ’, (the Mel Gibson movie) right before Easter. GLADYS SUESSLE said she had seen the movie “Agenda -Grinding Down America” at his movie theater a couple of weeks ago and if you have not seen it, you really need to. It is amazing. She had gotten so excited she went on Amazon and ordered a copy. PEGGY said she had gotten a copy also. She hoped to get the Ladies group at her church to set up a time to show it and felt like it would definitely something for the high school groups to watch. If it was not allowed in the schools, maybe we could work something up like a field trip. It is about the Communist (50, 60, 70 years ago) and their agenda as to how they were going to tear down American. They have fulfilled almost every single thing they set out to do. If you get chance to watch this movie, you need to.

BOB called on HARRY THOMPSON to tell us about March 17th and how that was developing. HARRY said he found out today that we only had nine people signed up to attend the workshop. If anyone is interested in attending and have not registered, please do so, before it is cancelled for lack of interest. Please spread the word and try to get your friends to attend also. It is the second part of the seminar we had last year on the Constitution…..this is on the Federalists Papers. It is scheduled to be held at Joslyn Hall at the Community College.

HARRY also told us about a workshop now being held at Hillsdale College (on line), a college presentation called ‘Constitution 101’. Yesterday or today was the third week (but you can go on line and pull up their archives – which they have available for two or three weeks), so you can go back and begin at the beginning. You listen to a 40 minute lecture/video and they usually have a little test afterward. They also have some special reading for each session, four or five little short letters written by some of the founders. It is very good and gives you a great insight on the founders’ thinking. This is a free course also.

Discussion on emails and regular mail asking for money. Several said most of the emails they received; somewhere in the data it mentions request for donations. One member said she had gotten a dun saying that was her third notice and RUTH said she had gotten some also. BELVA MANNING said she had gotten notices in the regular mail. BOB said he got an email today and had sent it to KEN LANG to send out as a BLAST to our group looking for donations of $10.00, $20.00, $30.00 or whatever you could afford to help pay for this rally going on in DC on the 24th. They are hoping to raise something like $50,000.00 over the next several weeks. BELVA said she had read that the government was going into the TEA Parties and checking on what they are doing with the money they are getting. BOB said organizations like ours, the money we make off the shirts; the profits, whatever we are doing with that would be what they are interested in. HOWARD said VERNON THOMPSON had passed around an article on what the government was doing checking into the TEA Parties funding. PEGGY said they were asking all kinds of questions, not just about money. FRED asked if we had ever decided where we planned to send our donations (profits from the tee shirts and hats) since we had talked about not sponsoring the Wounded Warriors any more. BOB said the last conversation we had we are probably going to give the money to Sam Sanford’s ’We Care’. The guy that prints our shirts wants to know also who to send their portion of the profits to….they contribute $4.00 for every shirt that they sell to us and they too are going to back out of the Wounded Warrior Project (due to the head man making such an outrageous salary). HOWARD said he gets begging letters from the Wounded Warriors right regularly. Somehow they got our names and address.

BOB said speaking about the event on the 17th, we have the Constitutional Workshop at Joslyn Hall, from 10:00 am until 3:00 pm, with a break for lunch. Then on the 24th we have the TEA Party Rally in Washington, DC on the east lawn facing the Supreme Court. That’s the week the Supreme Court starts hearing arguments on Obamacare, (making a decision sometime during the summer months on the Constitutionality of Obamacare). The TEA Party Patriots wants to have a big demonstration (and from what he has heard a big crowd is planning to show up. They have a large group from the West Coast coming.) He does not think we have enough time to organize a full bus load. He asked how many people here tonight want to go to DC on the 24th. RUTH has a six passenger van and she is planning to go if anyone would like to go with her and help with the gas and driving. If we have more than six wanting to go, then maybe we can get another van and fill it also. STEVE said he was thinking about renting a 16 passenger van. HOWARD said he thought once you passed a 12 passenger, then you had to have different driver’s license (a commercial license).

BOB said apparently the lady from Cape Lookout School is not going to show up. She must have forgotten.

EULA PARKEN asked us if we remembered about her talking to us about her personal experience with her Turkish maid and her engagement and potential marriage which had turned into a nightmare and EULA’s husband had given the maid a one way bus ticket to escape to stay with an uncle who lived far, far, away to avoid marriage. She kept thinking about what that lady had gone through 55 years ago, and wondered why she, EULA, had developed this obsession about Muslims and what is going on in the world today. Ironically, she happened to turn on TV and National Geographic was showing a two hour special called ‘Inside the Koran’. Then she remembered taking notes on that very subject many years ago and realized that was the beginning of her obsession. There were things that just stuck out like porcupine quills. One of the things in Saudi Arabia, they have the ability to publish 10 million Korans in Arabic and 44 other languages, and can distribute all around the world at well below cost and freight in some cases. An excerpt from the Koran says ‘the way of those of whom you have bestowed your grace is not the way of those who earned your anger, such as the Jews, nor of those who went astray such as the Christians.’ ‘And make ready against them all you can of power including steeds of war, tanks, planes, missiles, artillery.’ (And this is in the Koran???) She read several more passages. All these passages makes the Koran the perfect model for warfare. Jews and Christians believe the Bible is authored by men and inspired by GOD. Muslims believe the Koran is the word of God as dictated to Mohammad. In 1972, 20 potato sacks filled with Korans were found in an attic. Seven years later a German carefully separated the pages and found that they had been written between 705 and 715 AD or seventy years after the death of Mohammad. Individual words may have as many as 30 different meanings so verses and whole chapters have been changed over the years. Since the subject had come up as to why none of the pastors or preachers have brought this subject up, ironically this past Sunday at Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church our rector spoke about ’Take up your Cross’ and the consequences that if you took it up the possibility of death and he brought out the fact that 150 thousand Christians are murdered every year. We are just sitting here like ducks or deer in the headlights waiting for something to happen. We have to think seriously about our Christianity.

One other thing EULA told us was she was a survivor of cancer and had been asked to sell luminaries and if anyone would like to buy one please see her. The paper luminaries with the person you wish to honor or in memory of are $10.00 and there are a couple of more expensive ones. FRED asked if we had a team participating. Several thought that might be a good idea. BOB asked STEVE to chair that committee and get volunteers to participate. STEVE said he would.

Last thing from EULA, she will be having a special event next Sunday, the 100th anniversary of Girl Scouts, at the History Place in Morehead City. (She has her 50 year pin.) Please stop by and check out her display. 99% of the items on display belong to her. She is real proud of it.

JAMES LAWVER questioned where EULA got the 150 thousand Christians murdered each year. She said she had understood her preacher to state that fact during his sermon and she felt that he would not use a figure in his sermon that he could not verify. BOB said chances are he Googled that data. EULA said she was pretty sure he had stated 150 thousand but would verify if she had heard right and get back to us. JAMES said he seen a lot of studies about actual numbers of death and heard a lot of quoted facts about J’hadist Extremists and things like that and he didn’t want to rub anybody the wrong way but when he says this “Your actual chances of dying by one of those people are – you have a better chance of dying by a honeybee or a champagne cork hitting you in the eye. Those statistics come from people like American Scientists and things like that. That is why he was wondering where she got her statistics.” BOB said he knew a lot of Christians in Egypt are being killed, and then the massacres in Lebanon. Most of the Lebanese here are Christians that fled Lebanon. EULA said just last week they destroyed the last Christian Church in Afghanistan. BOB said Franklin Graham was talking on a talk show last week about all the people being murdered and schools being burnt down and even after they had rebuilt them, were burned again. HARRY said this stuff is happening all over the world and he thinks EULA is not talking about people here in the US. It is happening all over the world, Burma, Thailand, and all those other countries over there. Many Christians are being persecuted, killed and churches being burned, they are being run out of their countries, If you go on line, Robert Spencer is a good source on this J’had stuff. HARRY said it is not a problem in this country yet, but it is coming this way and that is a guarantee. There is nothing made up about it, it is getting more and more obvious – Sharia Law is beginning to take a foot hold in this country and when it does, you better watch out. JAMES said he was not arguing that it was not realistic, that it is not true or anything like that, but wanted to know where the statistics had come from. BOB said it is good to ask for facts. HOWARD said we have already had some judges here in the US rule on some cases based on Sharia Law. Another member of the audience (didn’t catch the voice) said ’Another thing good about these people they don’t just discriminate. There was a family in Texas where their daughters went out with Mexicans and the Muslim father executed his own daughters…considered an honor killing. They don’t discriminate, they kill anyone who doesn’t agree with them. BOB said that was not the first honor killing in this country either.

It was brought up again about the girl that Rush Limbaugh was talking about (Fluke). She was also talking about the government paying for sex changes. That is not a life or death thing, what ever they choose to do is their own problem not ours. BOB said to him it was cosmetic surgery.

STEVE said he had heard about a new movie that was coming out, by the people that made Jurassic Park. It is supposed to come out some time this summer, but no release date has been stated yet. Supposedly it is about Obama’s life.

HOWARD said a couple of things we need to bring out (1) Kirby Smith spoke to us the other night and said on a scale of 1 to 10 he was about an 8 for conservatism. When one of our members looked him up on the internet; most of his donations have been to liberal Democrats. BELVA said she saw a vehicle coming down here tonight that had an Obama sticker with a Kirby Smith sticker right next to it….

DENNIS TOMASO asked if we had anything planned for Tax Day, April 15. BOB said as far as he knew nothing had been planned right now. PEGGY said BOB’s committee he had appointed had let him down. Nothing has been decided yet whether to have a rally or a fundraiser. BOB said KEN LANG was leaning toward a fund raiser rather that a rally which will cost us money. BOB talked to the guy that owns the White Swan at the Reagan Day Dinner that they catered. He told BOB that they could put together meals (sort of like Smithfield does) for $3.00 a piece. We could sell them for say $6.00 each. Only thing he could see that would cost us is the advertising costs to get people out to buy. HOWARD said he thought that would be a lot simpler than us trying to do all the cooking and serving ourselves, which is what he and KEN had been discussing. He doubts that we could put it all together ourselves for that price. HOWARD said the food served at the Reagan Day Dinner was pretty good food. There he collected tickets as you went through the line and then charged for the number of tickets he collected. BOB said he did not pursue how long the feeding would last but obviously they have a time frame for the food to be served. We need to determine the length of time we want to use for the event. The shorter the duration the more advertising we need to have out in order to make sure people got there during serving time. We will have it at the Fort Benjamin Park, so we need to start making arrangements for its use also. FRED said the Newport Pig Cookin’ is the last of March and HOWARD said there were already two other food fund raisers scheduled in Newport this month, the Methodist Church and the Moose Lodge. We want to have ours somewhere around the 15th of April. Question was raised about having two food fund raisers at the same time on the same day, one here in Newport and the other in the western part of the county. Some discussion followed. BOB said he would go back and talk to the owner of White Swan and feel some of the questions raised out with him. Question was also raised about selling tickets in advance and having the plates already made and maybe even make deliveries. Cape Carteret community building was mentioned as a place for the food delivery there. HOWARD said when he checked into use of Benjamin Park, we need to make arrangements early because the manager there does not have the authority to let us use it. He thinks he was told it would have to come before the county manager, Russell Overman. (The Park belongs to the county, not Newport.)

BOB said KEN LANG was working on trying to get Larry Land and Terry Franks to attend our meeting next week. HOWARD said he had talked to Harry Taylor about coming to talk to us next week also.

JAMES asked when they had the precinct meeting a couple of weeks ago, he noticed a lot of slots for delegates were not filled Was it too late to fill one of the delegate slots. BOB said yes. You had to be at the precinct meeting in order to volunteer. Time has expired for submission.

Meeting adjourned at 7:00pm
Minutes submitted by PEGGY GARNER, Secretary

Obama Harvard Tapes Exposed on Hannity

Professor Admits Hiding Obama College Video By Todd Starnes

Harvard University Law School professor Charles Ogletree admitted that he hid controversial video footage featuring a college-age President Obama speaking at a campus rally in support of a radical professor.

“I hid this during the 2008 campaign,” Ogletree said in the video. “I don’t care if they find it now.”

The entire video was aired exclusively on Hannity by Breitbart.com editor-in-chief Joel Pollak and contributor Ben Shapiro.

The unedited video shows Obama speaking at a 1991 rally for Professor Derrick Bell.

Bell has been described as the Jeremiah Wright of academia. At one point in the video, Obama embraces Bell.

It’s unclear why Ogletree felt the need to protect Obama and hide the video during the 2008 campaign.

So how damaging do you think this video is to President Obama? How will the Mainstream Media react? And will it change anyone’s mind?

View video here

Letter to Editor – We're Just Frogs Dropped into Pot of Warm Water

Wow, what a week! Here we sit in warming gasoline while prices at the pump spiral up and up towards $4.00 and further. We are just like the proverbial “Frog In Warming Water”. But who’s worrying? The prices will all come down folks keep saying, but when? The answers are to be found in Raleigh and Washington. Could Bev Purdue call for a special session of the Legislature and redo the NC Fuel Tax? Could Obama call off his regulator Czars and open the way for the building of new refineries and sign the Keystone Pipeline Bill immediately to let Canada’s sand oil flow south? Sure, both of them could take those actions, but they won’t. They don’t care about regular folks daily use of cars for work and the American Dream of “Cruising” on a Sunday afternoon, the oldtime “Sunday Drive”. Ah, the “Sunday Drive”, a freedom thing, ironically that is the cover of the latest OUR STATE magazine. The Sunday Drive has sort of gone the way of the horse and buggy. How about high school kids going to the Local Drive In or Berger Joint and hanging out on a Friday or Saturday night? Is that a soon to be forgotten thing of the past? Sadly, it seems so. You see, we will all sit here like frogs and let it happen, we are so used to letting Joe or Jane do it, the Tea Party do it or worse yet Letting The Government Do it! We, you and me, our neighbors and friends are for the most part too damned lazy, sitting in our comfort zones, to get involved by writing letters, e-mailing or even phoning our elected officials. some of us don’t even bother to vote! We sit idly by waiting for a miracle from St. Bev or the Messiah Obama. We don’t even vet or check our local Candidates for Office like RINO Republican Candidate for NC Senate, Randy Ramsey, who in his own words tell you he is not a real Republican. He openly admits that he gave Big Dollars to Purdue, Basknight, Easley and Company and did we get better government as “Rino Randy”, expected? NO! We have the highest taxed fuel in the Southeast and about 3rd highest Lower Forty Eight and our roads are worsening. So, if you want to change things like the price of gasoline, roads or the economy, you must personally get involved. Start by going to political meetings, find out about the inside scoop on local and state candidates before you vote. Ask yourself, How’s That Hope and Change really working out that Obama and every Democrat ran in 2008? Now once again RINO (Republican In Name Only) Republicans or Pay to Play Republicans along with Democrats are trying quietly move a similar agenda as in 2008 ahead. The potential vehicle of change now may well be the American Automobile User/Owner/Voter that needs a quick “right turn” for a conservative voter refueling. Remember voting for a RINO (Republican In Name Only) will usually mean that a Democrat Policy or Position will be put in place or nudged ahead somewhere.

Austin “Gus” Wilgus

Emerald Isle, NC 28594

AFP Sponsors Bus Trip for Supreme Court Obamacare Case

Dear Kenneth,

March marks an important and unfortunate anniversary. It will have been exactly two years since President Obama forced his unpopular health care takeover onto the American people. Americans for Prosperity has educated the public about the dangers of government interference in the health care market for the past several years, and now the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments and make a ruling on that very issue.

As you are most likely aware, the U.S. Supreme Court will be considering the constitutionality of several elements of the President’s health care bill. This may be our best chance to overturn this offense against our health care freedoms. That’s why Americans for Prosperity will be hosting a Hands Off My Health Care rally for free-market grassroots activists from North Carolina and across the country near the Supreme Court on March 27th. Details can be found below.

Americans for Prosperity – North Carolina will host bus rides to DC from the following locations the day of the event:

Bolivia, Charlotte Area, Fayetteville, Goldsboro, Greensboro, Raleigh, Rocky Mount, Sanford, Southern Pines, Wake Forest, Wilmington, Wilson.

Click here to register for the Hands Off My Health Care Rally now!

Hands Off My Health Care Rally

Near the United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C.
March 27th at 1:00PM

Over the past few years, Americans for Prosperity has been the premier grassroots group educating the public on the dangers of the President’s health care bill. AFP’s Hands Off My Health Care Tour criss-crossed the nation in 2009 hosting over 300 events and rallies. Then, in late 2009, over 5,000 activists gathered for AFP’s Code Red Rally in Washington.

We must remind the Court and all of Washington (including the President and Congress) that the President’s health care takeover is an affront to free-market principles and our Constitution. Not only is the individual mandate unconstitutional, but it forces consumers to enter the health insurance market against their will. Click here to read more about the individual mandate.

Click here to register for the Hands Off My Health Care Rally now!

Sincerely,

Dallas Woodhouse
State Director
Americans for Prosperity – North Carolina

Obama's Attack on the Catholic Church and Freedom of Religion

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President Obama and his Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Kathleen Sebelius, have put people of faith and religious organizations squarely in their crosshairs! The ObamaCare contraceptive and abortifacient mandate that has erupted into front-page news is an overreaching government intrusion into the lives of all Americans – and is patently unconstitutional.Obama’s dictate has stirred up a firestorm of protest from religious organizations and is being likened to a slap across the face to people of faith.

Liberty Counsel Action has been in this war for many, many years, and we feel this latest eruption is unique. Make no mistake – we are wholeheartedly standing with other groups that are strongly opposing this outrage, but we have known for a long time where ObamaCare’s implementation was heading!

By coordinating with tens of thousands of deeply concerned patriots like you, we believe we can win not only this particular battle, but make substantial headway in turning back the entire ObamaCare law and further dismantling the Obama/Reid power base! Read my very important message below – Mat.

In a blatant assault on religious liberty, Barack Obama has ventured far out on a limb by openly challenging Christians and their institutions.

This escalating confrontation erupted over the unveiling of yet another unconstitutional “mandate” during the implementation phase of ObamaCare.

And, President Obama has yet again reneged on a promise made to get his healthcare “reform” bill through Congress two years ago: He is retracting an ObamaCare “conscientious exemption” for people of faith and religiously oriented institutions.

++ObamaCare’s contraceptive and abortifacient mandate assails the moral integrity of every American who holds religious convictions.

With this brazen (some would say “reckless”) policy announcement, the President has used ObamaCare to inflict even more damage on our Constitution.

He and Secretary Sibelius are now declaring that all employers, including nonprofit organizations, must adhere to an ObamaCare contraceptive and abortifacient mandate requiring employers to pay for birth control, contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs as supplied through their insurance providers.

The January 20th announcement, made by Sebelius but clearly speaking for the President, immediately provoked a firefight between the Obama Administration and religious organizations, especially the Roman Catholic Church.

But the over-reaching and inappropriate severity of the policy impacted EVERY believer in the nation and delivered a stark and chilling message:

“Your religious freedom and conscience protections are not as important as our statist initiatives and bureaucracies. Comply or suffer severe consequences.”

Obama and his Administration have so far refused to compromise.

After meeting resistance, President Obama circled his wagons.

Kathleen Sebelius has been on the media circuit with campaign-style rhetoric to make it sound as though the mandate is not as bad as it seems – and actually “respects religion.”

Nancy Pelosi called Obama’s decision “courageous.”

Liberal media outlets are characterizing people of faith opposed to this overarching mandate as “zealots” and are using the new leftist term for citizens who defend their constitutional rights, “sovereignty activists.”

But we are returning fire! Catholics, Baptists, and outraged Americans of all denominations are up in arms over the Obama Administration blatantly trampling on our religious liberties!

++Senator Marco Rubio jumps into the fray.

Senator Rubio (R-FL), a pro-life Catholic, scolded the Obama Administration and then offered a congressional counter attack…

“The Obama Administration’s obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people….

“Under this President, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly, and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.”

Rubio’s countermeasure: The “Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012,” about which he says…

”This is a common sense bill that simply says the government can’t force religious organizations to abandon the fundamental tenets of their faith because the government says so.”

Liberty Counsel Action stands in strong support of Senator Rubio’s bill. We began lobbying for such a bill the moment we realized the President had the audacity to try to force this new policy down America’s throat by using an administrative vehicle to circumvent the will of the people.

Now, we are calling on 100,000 pro-life, pro-faith, pro-family, and pro-liberty citizens to demand that Congress PASS THIS BILL NOW!

Please, click here to sign the LCA petition to stop Barack Obama’s intrusion on our religious civil liberties and to support the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012”:

http://www.lcaction.cc/660/petition.asp

++This is a call to action!

Liberty Counsel and Liberty Counsel Action would be among the employers forced into adhering to this most recent ObamaCare mandate.

Religious-based hospitals and healthcare providers would no longer have an “out” under Obama’s promised “conscience clause.” They would be required to comply – or pay stiff fines that would in all likelihood lead to their closing down.

The implementation of ObamaCare has turned out to be one socialist infringement of our personal liberties after another – and it must be stopped NOW!

If our President honored his oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States, our petition would be unnecessary. But ObamaCare and its mandates are blatantly unconstitutional and this “contraceptive mandate” is not only unconstitutional – it is a total violation of the conscience of the entire nation!

The two most likely methods to turn back this latest outrageous mandate: First, through the Supreme Court’s decision that ObamaCare itself is unconstitutional (and Liberty Counsel is filing two briefs at the High Court on this issue). Second, through the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012,” we can stop this most recent infringement on religious liberty.

That’s why I am urging all of my Liberty Counsel Action team to take one minute and add your name to this petition. PLEASE, click here to sign:

http://www.lcaction.cc/660/petition.asp

Mandi Campbell, Director of Public Policy for Liberty Counsel Action, wrote to Senator Rubio about his legislation. He published our letter in a press release:

“Liberty Counsel Action, on behalf of more than 750,000 members nationwide, would like to express support for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012. … [W]e appreciate the exemption that your bill provides to secure the consciences of those with deep and sincere religious convictions opposed to the coverage of contraceptives (especially those that act as abortifacients) and sterilization, the provision of which is currently mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Thank you, Senator Rubio, for introducing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012.”

I cannot emphasize strongly enough how important and timely Senator Rubio’s bill is – and how urgent it is that we immediately endorse it with the signatures of at least 100,000 grassroots citizens. Right now, Senator Rubio has 21 Senate co-sponsors for the bill.

Please click here to sign our petition of support:

http://www.lcaction.cc/660/petition.asp

Thank you for taking immediate action on this critical issue!

God bless you,
Mathew Staver, Chairman
Liberty Counsel Action

P.S. The ObamaCare “contraceptive mandate” requires employers to pay for birth control, contraceptives, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs as supplied through their insurance providers. This is unconstitutional and immoral! As a counter-assault, LCA is strongly endorsing Senator Marco Rubio’s “Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2012.” We are calling for 100,000 signers as soon as possible! Click here to add your name to the petition:

http://www.lcaction.cc/660/petition.asp

Email from Walter Jones re. Obama's Contempt for the Constitution

January 13, 1012

I thought you might be interested in seeing today’s Wall Street Journal editorial, “Contempt for the Constitution.” In the piece, the Journal expounds on one of President Obama’s most recent total disregards of the Constitution. As you will recall, earlier this month the president made a number of recess appointments—a new head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) members.

The president’s power to make recess appointments is only valid when the Congress is in recess. However, these appointments were made during a time in which the Senate was not in recess, which is a clear violation of the Constitution.

Please feel free to share this with your friends and family, because unfortunately this appears to be part of a pattern of disregard for the Constitution that needs to be known and opposed.

Thanks,

Walter

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Wall Street Journal Editorial

Contempt for the Constitution

Justice invents a legal rationale for Obama appointments

Where’s John Yoo when President Obama needs him? The famous Bush Administration legal official was much maligned for issuing opinions supporting Presidential power, and he surely would have come up with something better than the junk law issued by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel yesterday.

The 23-page memorandum (dated January 6) by Assistant Attorney General Virginia Seitz is meant to justify Mr. Obama’s recess appointments last week of Richard Cordray at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and three new members of the National Labor Relations Board—even though the Senate was not in recess but was holding pro forma sessions. The House also did not consent to the Senate’s adjournment, as required by the Constitution’s Article I, section 5, clause 4.

Ms. Seitz concedes that “The question is a novel one, and the substantial arguments on each side create some litigation risk for such appointments,” and little wonder. Most of the opinion is an off-point digression on the constitutionality of recess appointments between Senate sessions, which no one disputes. But on that “novel” question, Ms. Seitz’s legal reasoning is remarkably weak.

She avers that the pro forma sessions aren’t technically sessions. As “a practical matter,” she writes, in those sessions the Senate isn’t capable of receiving and acting on nominations to the executive branch and therefore cannot exercise its advice and consent duties. Ms. Seitz points in particular to a Senate “standing order”—the rules of order it adopts to govern its procedures—that no business would be transacted during the pro forma sessions. If the Senate itself says it can’t conduct business, she says, then the President can conclude it isn’t really in session.

The problem is that the Senate does most of its work by unanimous consent—meaning without objection from present Members and without a vote or quorum. Even a single Senator alone on the floor (or “as a practical matter” one from each party) can use this process to modify the standing order in a heartbeat and conduct business.

The Senate did exactly that to pass Mr. Obama’s payroll tax holiday in December, changing a standing order by unanimous consent to conduct business during an ostensibly pro forma session. Mr. Obama signed that bill. Either that was a real session and therefore his recess appointments are unconstitutional or the bill was invalidly enacted and therefore unconstitutional. Both can’t be true.

The practical effect of Ms. Seitz’s legal logic is that the President could make a recess appointment when the Senate adjourns for the day, or for lunch. He could also decide that the Senate isn’t functioning to his liking—for instance, by dragging its feet on his nominations—and recess appoint nominees even when the Senate is conducting other business.

Last week, White House spokesman Jay Carney claimed Mr. Obama relied on the advice of White House counsel and didn’t mention that the Office of Legal Counsel had been consulted beforehand. Now we know why: The Administration’s position is a made-to-order legal invention.

Email from Walter Jones re. Border Security

JONES TO OBAMA: DON’T TAKE NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS OFF THE MEXICAN BORDER

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-3) has joined Texas Republican Congressman Ted Poe (R-TX) in urging President Barack Obama not to reduce the presence of U.S. National Guard troops along the U.S.-Mexico border this coming year. In a letter to the president, Jones and a bipartisan group of lawmakers cited their deep concerns with recent reports that the Obama Administration plans to withdraw half of the National Guard troops currently in the region.

“The violent crimes along our southern border have escalated substantially in recent years,” said Jones. “These crimes are not just taking place on the Mexico side; innocent Americans are in frequent danger. It is of the utmost importance that our National Guard maintains a strong presence along our southern border in order to protect the American people.”

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently reported that the U.S. Border Patrol only has operational control of 44 percent of the southern U.S. border. While this number is disappointing, it illustrates the need for the continued presence of the National Guard to help secure the border.

The full text of Congressman Jones’ letter to President Obama can be read here.

Obama and Holder taking on Arizona's SB1070

Excellent summary of Obama’s suit against AZ Immigration Law

Obama Budget Cuts Visualization

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Obama The Divider

Peter Wehner 10.07.2011 – 1:45 PM
A Washington Post story from earlier this week reports, “There is a noticeably more aggressive, confrontational President Obama roaming the country these days, selling his jobs plan and attacking Republicans for standing in the way of progress by standing up only for the rich.” That report, if anything, understates things a bit. Obama has essentially given up on his governing responsibilities (at which he has shown himself to be terribly inept) in lieu of a fierce and near constant attack on his political opponents. I have my doubts as to whether that strategy will work. But the point I want to make is a different one, which is that Obama has become the most intentionally divisive president we’ve seen in quite some time.
It’s not unusual, of course, for the policies of presidents to divide the nation. And politicians running for re-election often highlight differences. But Obama now belongs in a separate category. Each day, it seems, he and/or his supporters are seeking to divide us. The rhetoric employed by the president and his allies is meant to fan the flames of resentment, to turn Americans against one another, and to stoke up feelings of envy, grievances, and rage.
This is not healthy for our country or good for our political culture. And while we all contribute to what constitutes public discourse, there is one officeholder, the president, who bears the greatest responsibility for creating a sense of common purpose and for reminding us that we are, in the words of the Pledge of Allegiance, “one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Yet the president is trying, with almost every speech, to pry us apart. It’s a strategy he clearly believes is necessary for him to win re-election. But that doesn’t make what he’s doing any less shameful or any less hypocritical.
It was Obama, after all, who – more than any political figure in our lifetime – promised to heal the breach. That was at the very core of his message, and his appeal, during the last presidential election.
For example, in his announcement speech on February 10, 2007, it was Obama who complained, “We’re distracted from our real failures and told to blame the other party…” He would not sink to such depths, he promised us.
It was Obama who said in his 2007 Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Iowa, “I don’t want to pit Red America against Blue America – I want to be the president
of the United States of America.” It was Obama, in his March 18, 2008 speech in Philadelphia (addressing the controversy over the Reverend Jeremiah Wright) who said, “We have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division and conflict and cynicism… That is one option. Or, at this moment, in this election, we can come together and say, ‘Not this time….’” It was Obama who told Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone, “I want us to rediscover our bonds to each other and to get out of this constant petty bickering that’s come to characterize our politics.” It was Obama who said during his acceptance speech on August 28, 2008, “If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.” And it was Obama who said on the night of his election, on a stage in Grant Park, “I will listen to you, especially when we disagree… Let us resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for too long.”
What he has done is the antithesis of what he said. Barack Obama has succumbed to virtually every partisan temptation, reached for every stale tactic, and bred division and conflict and cynicism across our land. He has resorted to petty bickering and pitted Red America against Blue America. He has even characterized his political opponents as “enemies.”
I suppose there are worse things a president can do, but this is bad enough. He is purposefully causing wounds that will be hard to heal – and he’s only just begun. Things will get uglier before they get better. Eventually, and thankfully, we will rediscover our bonds of affection. But it will require removing Obama from office before we do.

PRESS RELEASE

President Pro Tempore

Senator Phil Berger

Government Loves You So Much It Wants To Help Manage Your Retirement Account

“I do care a lot” and “None of this was my fault” and “What difference at this point does it make?”

All The Difference in the World

Federal Court Upholds the Herding of Demonstrators Into “Free Speech Zones”

Lies During Third Year

Lies During Second Year

Lies During First Year

2008 Campaign Lies

Movies: Obama’s America 2016 by Dinesh D’souza

based on the book “Roots of Obama’s Rage.” Good book

Web site: http://2016themovie.com/theaters/?state=NC

Movie has been released and will be playing in NC on August 17 in Charolette and Concord; they say more cities to be announced. Atlas Shrugged Part 2

based on the book “Atlas Shrugged.” Another good book

Part 1 was released last year and is now available on DVD. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie, and plan to go to see Part 2.

Web site: http://www.atlasshruggedmovie.com/

Movie to be released 10-10-12

Theaters have not been announced yet; Part 1 was in Wilmington and Fayettville, and west. Check their web site for theaters as the release date approaches.

You can also contact the web sites and let them know that you want the movies played in this area. If they get enough requests, they may make arrangements for them to play here.

via PJMedia

This essay will show you how.

When Obama implied at the Roanoke, Virginia rally that some businessmen refuse to pay for public works from which they benefit, he presented a thesis which, like a three-legged stool, relies on three assumptions that must all be true for the argument to remain standing:

1. That the public programs he mentioned in his speech constitute a significant portion of the federal budget; 2. That business owners don’t already pay far more than their fair share of these expenses; and 3. That these specific public benefits are a federal issue, rather than a local issue.

If any of these legs fails, then the whole argument collapses.

For good measure, we won’t just kick out one, we’ll kick out all three.

“Small Government” Is Not the Same as “No Government”

Progressives critique the fiscal conservative/Tea Party/libertarian position by purposely misrepresenting it as anarchy. When fiscal conservatives say “We want smaller government,” progressives reply, “Oh, so you want no government?”

“Government” in this particular discussion is shorthand for “communal pooling of resources for mutual benefit.”

So when President Obama and his mentor Elizabeth Warren justify their call for tax hikes by pointing out that all entrepreneurs benefit from communal infrastructure, they’re committing the classic Straw Man Fallacy by arguing against anarchy — a position that their opponents do not hold.

• hinder, constrict or penalize entrepreneurial activity; or • benefit some people to the detriment of others; or • waste money on bureaucracy, overhead or ill-considered expenditures that end up indebting the nation and by extension all Americans. Continue reading →

Dear Mr. Lang:

Thank you for contacting me to share your concerns regarding the DREAM Act, and the Obama Administration’s memo from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that closely resembles the DREAM Act. I appreciate you taking the time to contact me and I’m honored to respond.

Again, thanks for sharing your thoughts with me. Please know that I understand and agree with your concerns and will oppose any effort to provide amnesty to those who break our nation’s immigration laws. If I may be of any further assistance please feel free to contact my office.

Sincerely, Walter B. Jones Member of Congress

We must seriously pursue getting out of the United Nations. They are systematically trying to usurp the U. S. Constitution and the rights afforded thereunder. The Law of the Sea Treaty (separate post), and not the UN Arms Treaty in this video…

Morning Bell: The Danger of Article 82 and Obama’s Latest Treaty

HURT: Brutal week for Obama, the worst of his presidency

Hands Off My Health Care Rally

ACTION ALERT

Movies:

Obama’s America 2016 by Dinesh D’souza

Movie has been released and will be playing in NC on August 17 in Charolette and Concord; they say more cities to be announced.

Atlas Shrugged Part 2

1. That the public programs he mentioned in his speech constitute a significant portion of the federal budget;
2. That business owners don’t already pay far more than their fair share of these expenses; and
3. That these specific public benefits are a federal issue, rather than a local issue.

• hinder, constrict or penalize entrepreneurial activity; or
• benefit some people to the detriment of others; or
• waste money on bureaucracy, overhead or ill-considered expenditures that end up indebting the nation and by extension all Americans. Continue reading →

Sincerely,

Walter B. Jones
Member of Congress