Congressional Testimony on IRS by Becky Gerritson, LA Tea Party
Common Core Fails Web Site
FreedomWorks has created a web site with information on Common Core called Common Core Fails (click here). Get facts and more information on Common Core.
Battling Common Core – Iris scans now required?
Dangers of Common Core
HB 298 will test GOP leadership
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Beaufort Observer (April 28, 2013) — Depending on how this week’s action plays out, the story of HB 298 (The Affordable and Reliable Energy Act) may be the most significant thing to come out of the 2013 session. That’s a pretty far reaching statement, but consider this.
Many Republicans ran for office on a platform of putting a stop to “business as usual” wherein Big Money interests controlled what happened in the Legislature. But at this point in time, a small group of Republicans in the House have killed HB 298 by voting against it in committee. But a substantial majority of Republicans is said to favor the bill. Thus, what is set up is a real test of the Republican leadership in both the House and Senate. Continue reading
The Muslim World Hates the US More than Ever
http://www.prophecynewswatch.com/2013/April26/261.html
The Muslim World Hates the U.S. More Than Ever
If there was one thing the left was certain about in 2008 it was this: George W. Bush had catastrophically undermined America’s world reputation with his unprovoked aggression and use of torture. The advent of Obama would reverse the damage. As Andrew Sullivan wrote in 2007, among best assets Obama brought to the “rebranding” of America was “his face.” The election of Obama and his friendly approach to the Muslim world would make the United States safer as well as more just.
No one believed this tale more fervently than Obama himself. His first official act was to direct the closing of Guantanamo Bay within one year and the elimination of harsh interrogation techniques. The “message we are sending around the world,” he intoned, “is that the United States intends to prosecute the ongoing struggle … in a manner that is consistent with our values and our ideals.” In Cairo a few months later, he declared, “a new beginning” of relations between America and the Muslim world.
Obama participated in erecting a Bush straw man — a Bush who disdained and caricatured Muslims in general and committed war crimes in the name of national security. In fact, Bush had gone to great pains, within hours of the 9/11 attacks, to appear with imams and to stress that Islam was a “religion of peace.”
Because Iraq had been Bush’s war, as Obama saw it, he squandered the hard-won victory by failing to obtain an agreement that would have kept a stabilizing American force on the ground, electing instead to withdraw completely. And because Afghanistan was the war that Bush allegedly neglected, Obama sent 33,000 more troops (fewer than the generals requested) — a surge that, unlike Bush’s in Iraq — failed, but not before causing 70 percent of the American deaths in that conflict.
Most of all, the Obama administration fled from the concept of a struggle against Islamic terrorism as if fighting jihadis (the small subset of Muslims who’ve declared war on us) were equivalent to warring against all Muslims. Orwellian language flowed. The war on terror became “overseas contingency operations.” When Major Nidal Hassan gunned down his fellow soldiers shouting “Allahu Akbar!” the president warned against jumping to conclusions (a caution he failed to show himself in the Trayvon Martin and Henry Louis Gates cases). His administration later dubbed Hassan’s attack “workplace violence” rather than jihadism or terrorism.
When Faisal Shahzad attempted to explode a car bomb in Times Square, the administration at first declared it to be a lone wolf attack, only later reluctantly conceding that the Pakistani Taliban had been culpable. When the consulate in Benghazi was attacked (undermining the administration narrative that al-Qaida had died with bin Laden), the administration conducted a prolonged disinformation campaign designed to deny the obvious.
Tiptoeing through language after the Boston bombings, the administration at first declined to use the word “terror,” perhaps fearing that to use the word would imply a Muslim connection. “You use those words and it means something very specific in people’s minds,” explained David Axelrod. Besides, he continued, the president suspected “tax day” protesters.
What has this excruciating torture of the language and elaborate “rebranding” achieved? The U.S. is not safer. Terror attacks have been attempted at the same rate as during the Bush years (and have been thwarted slightly less successfully). As for U.S. standing in the Muslim world, the Guardian reports that a 2011 poll found favorability ratings for the U.S. have plummeted. “In most countries they are lower than at the end of the Bush administration, and lower than Iran’s favorable ratings.” A 2012 Pew poll of six predominantly Muslim nations — Turkey, Lebanon, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Pakistan — found U.S. approval ratings below those during the Bush Administration and well under the popularity of China.
It’s one thing to create a bogeyman for political purposes. Obama did it to Bush in 2008 (for use against McCain), and he did it to Romney in 2012. It’s quite another to believe your own propaganda and make policy in response. Bush was no anti-Muslim bigot. If he erred, it was in believing too credulously in the readiness for western-style democracy in the Arab world.
As for Obama, his doubletalk about the nature of our enemies — jihadis — has achieved neither greater safety for Americans nor improved popularity in the Muslim world. He’s 0 for 2.
Poverty Professionals And The Crony Capitalists Who Love Them
April 15, 2013
by Bill Frezza
Poverty Professionals And The Crony Capitalists Who Love Them
Yes, it looks like a wedding announcement out of The Onion, but when it comes to making a killing off the never-ending “War on Poverty,” the marriage of convenience between the financial services industry and federal bureaucrats is no laughing matter.
The idea that government welfare programs could eliminate poverty, rather than temporarily alleviate its worst impacts during hard times, took root during Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society initiative. From modest beginnings, a panoply of federal welfare programs expanded and multiplied to the point where they now consume one-sixth of the federal budget—some $588 billion last year, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
This is a lot of spending—even by contemporary standards—and this figure doesn’t even include the current explosion in unemployment benefits, as these are considered social “insurance” payouts rather than welfare. Nor does it include Social Security or Medicare, our largest and most rapidly growing federal expenditures. To make matters worse, these programs, which were designed to keep the elderly out of poverty, are entitlements not yet subject to means testing, so payments go to rich, middle class, and poor alike.
With anti-poverty programs enjoying meteoric growth thanks to the economic policies of the current and previous administrations, we may someday look back fondly on the days when we “only” had to fork over half a trillion a year to support the longest and least successful “war” in American history, with no sign of stopping. Continue reading
Hobby Lobby May Close it's Doors
Letter from Hobby Lobby CEO, “True” according to Snopes.com
Subject: *Hobby Lobby, We may close*
David Sloan “The wisdom that comes from above is, first, pure, then
peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits,
without uncertainty or insincerity.” – James 3:17
By David Green, the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
When my family and I started our company 40 years ago, we were working
out of a garage on a $600 bank loan, assembling miniature picture
frames. Our first retail store wasn’t much bigger than most people’s
living rooms, but we had faith that we would succeed if we lived and
worked according to God’s word. From there, Hobby Lobby has become one
of the nation’s largest arts and crafts retailers, with more than 500
locations in 41 states. Our children grew up into fine business
leaders, and today we run Hobby Lobby
together, as a family.
We’re Christians, and we run our business on Christian principles.
I’ve always said that the first two goals of our business are
(1) to run our business in harmony with God’s laws, and (2) to focus on
people more than money. And that’s what we’ve tried to do. We close
early so our employees can see their families at night. We keep our
stores closed on Sundays, one of the week’s biggest shopping days, so
that our workers and their families can enjoy a day of rest. We
believe that it is by God’s grace that Hobby Lobby has endured, and he
has blessed us and our employees. We’ve not only added jobs in a weak
economy, we’ve raised wages for the past four years in a row.
Our full-time employees start at 80% above minimum wage.
But now, our government threatens to change all of that. A new
government healthcare mandate says that our family business MUST
provide what I believe are abortion-causing drugs as part of our
health insurance. Being Christians, we don’t pay for drugs that might
cause abortions, which means that we don’t cover emergency
contraception, the morning-after pill or the week-after pill. We
believe doing so might end a life after the moment of conception,
something that is contrary to our most important beliefs. It goes
against the Biblical principles on which we have run this company
since day one.
If we refuse to comply, we could face $1.3 million PER DAY in
government fines. Our government threatens to fine job creators in a
bad economy. Our government threatens to fine a company that’s raised
wages four years running. Our government threatens to fine a family
for running its business according to its beliefs. It’s not right. I
know people will say we ought to follow the rules; that it’s the same
for everybody.
But that’s not true. The government has exempted thousands of
companies from this mandate, for reasons of convenience or cost.
But it won’t exempt them for reasons of religious belief. So, Hobby Lobby
and my family are forced to make a choice. With great
reluctance, we filed a lawsuit today, represented by the Becket Fund
for Religious Liberty, asking a federal court to stop this mandate
before it hurts our business. We don’t like to go running into court,
but we no longer have a choice. We believe people are more important
than the bottom line and that honoring God is more important than
turning a profit.
My family has lived the American dream. We want to continue growing
our company and providing great jobs for thousands of employees, but
the government is going to make that much more difficult. The
government is forcing us to choose between following our faith and
following the law. I say that’s a choice no American and no American
business should have to make.
The government cannot force you to follow laws that go against your
fundamental religious belief. They have exempted thousands of
companies but will not exempt Christian organizations including the
Catholic church.
Since you will not see this in the liberal media, please pass this on
to all your contacts.
Sincerely,
David Green,
CEO and Founder of Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc.
Letter to the Editor – 2d Amendment
Sunday
April 14th
Letter to the Editor
A rhetorical question..
After reading your editorial, ‘Are rights ever wrong?’ , I’ve reached the conclusion that there has been a shift in your position on 2nd Amendment rights. So allow me to ask you a rhetorical question. Of all the people you know, are you really OK with the amount of liquor they purchase on a monthly basis? You will note I did not say ‘consume’ but purchase for whatever reason.
It is a matter of record that there are far more deaths on our roads from alcohol related accidents in which many innocent children die. Why not pass a law that says that ALL vehicles on the road will be operated by a designated driver and there will be zero tolerance for any driver suspected of consuming even one drink before stepping behind the wheel. The arresting authority will be mandated, by law, to have blood drawn at the scene of any driver, of any vehicle, involved in an accident where injury has occurred.
Let’s apply this reasoning to our 2nd Amendment. Suppose you suspect your neighbor of owning an illegal firearm as defined by our anti-firearm regime. Why not encourage him/her to report this to the State Police for, say, a small reward of $500. Most of your readers don’t know that this law was recently signed into law in New York State under the SAFE act.
The SAFE act, Secure Ammunition & Firearms Enforcement act encourages state residents to report “illegal” gun owners in exchange for a $500 reward. New Yorkers can call a “Gun Tip Line” if they believe someone they know has an illegal gun, according to CBS6Albany.com. Hotline calls are answered by state police and tips are referred to local law enforcement.
Reminiscent of programs in Cuba or the former Soviet Union, the “reward for turning in your neighbor” program is another example of overreaching by an anti-freedom, power-hungry State administration. It is outrageous, and it is un-American. These Gestapo like tactics were once employed in Germany during the thirties when true Germans were asked to report anyone harboring Jews or in the Soviet Union if your neighbor wasn’t on board with the Stalinist regime.
If there was ever a need for unrestricted ownership of firearms in our Country today it is apparent by the machinations of the Obama regime. Some will argue that there is a vast difference between a drunk driver and private ownership of a firearm and they are right. In the case of a social drinker you take one person off the road. In the case of unrestricted gun control you enslave a Country.
Louis Call
New Bern, NC 28562
Christensen: GOP goes after the wrong kind of voter fraud
Commentary
Christensen: GOP goes after the wrong kind of voter fraud
North Carolina has a long history of election fraud, although not the kind being debated in the halls of the legislature.
The way elections have historically been stolen in North Carolina is through the use of absentee ballots for obvious reasons – not only are there no photographs required but the “voter” doesn’t even have to show up in person.
For decades the Democratic organizations that ruled North Carolina would ship thousands of absentee ballots to machine-controlled mountain counties thatwould provide as many votes as were needed.
The 1920 governor’s race was almost certainly stolen that way. The machine-backed candidate, Cameron Morrison, finished second when the voting was completed on Election Day. But after 11 days of counting absentee votes trickling in from the mountain counties, he was declared winner of the Democratic nomination by 87 votes. That was at a time when North Carolina was a one-party state and Democratic factions stole elections from each other.
During the 1936 Democratic primary for governor, the state Board of Elections, controlled by the Democratic machine, sent out 108,250 absentee ballots in a runoff in which 480,000 votes were cast. Most were sent to mountain counties. A 1944 study found that the statewide percentage of absentee ballots cast was 6.7 percent, but in hard-fought mountain counties such as Clay it was as high as 26 percent.
Typically when absentee voting started, both parties contacted certain voters to see if they wanted to vote absentee. One label for these voters was “floating voters.” According to one mountain Democrat, whoever obtained the majority of those voters usually won.
Old mountain pols say the tradition of using absentee ballots to help steal elections continued into modern times.
Forged signatures used?
My colleague Scott Mooneyham, who writes for The Insider, recently highlighted two incidences of voter fraud related to absentee voting: an SBI investigation into the 2010 Yancey County sheriff’s race and the case of a Dunn city councilwoman who in 2002 was accused of receiving absentee ballots and returning them to the county board of elections with forged signatures.
In the sheriff’s race, the SBI is focused on allegations that jail inmates had their time reduced around the same time they filled out mailed-in absentee ballots witnessed and provided by sheriff’s deputies. The scandal was uncovered by theYancey County News.
Sheriff Gary Banks, a Republican, told the newspaper that the people interviewed were mistaken. The Dunn councilwoman pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor.
Loosening regulations
The Republican-controlled legislature says that fighting voter fraud is a priority. It cites voter integrity as the reason it wants to pass a law requiring voters to produce photo IDs at the polls. It cites fraud as a reason the state needs to cut a week off of early voting and end same-day registration.
But as far as new restrictions on absentee ballots? Not so much. In fact, House Majority leader Edgar Starnes of Hickory is proposing to loosen restrictions on absentee balloting by allowing third parties to collect multiple absentee ballots.
While other voting tools such as early voting and same-day registration tend to get used more by Democrats, Republicans more often use absentee ballots. During the 2012 election, Republicans mailed in 108,522 absentee ballots, while Democrats mailed in 62,210 ballots.
After getting some criticism for its see-no-evil stance, House Republicans did include a provision in their voter ID bill that would require people voting with absentee ballots to include their driver’s license number, Social Security number, or their non-operating license number.
But absentee ballots would still be the easiest way to commit voter fraud – a long North Carolina tradition.
Christensen: 919-829-4532
Read more here: http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/04/13/2823044/why-the-gop-is-going-after-the.html#storylink=cpy
These are the US Senators who Voted Against a bill Preventing the UN Gun Ban
Two independents no Republicans, the rest Democrats.
Over the weekend, we were four votes away from the United States senate giving our constitutional rights over to the United Nations. In a 53-46 vote, the senate narrowly passed a measure that will stop the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
The Statement of Purpose from the billread:
To uphold Second Amendment rights and prevent the United States from entering into the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty.
The U.N. Small Arms Treaty, which has beenchampioned by the Obama Administration , would have effectively placed a global ban on the import and export of small firearms. The ban would have affected all private gun owners in the U.S., and had language that would have implemented an international gun registry on all private guns and ammo.
Astonishingly, 46 of our senators were willing to give away our constitutional rights to a foreign power.
Here are the senators that voted to give your rights to the U.N.:
Baldwin (D-WI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Cowan (D-MA)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Please note: None are Republicans!
People, this needs to go viral. These senators voted to let the UN take our guns. They need to lose their next elections. We have been betrayed.
35 Questions About Common Core: Answers for North Carolinian's
35 Questions About Common Core: Answers for North Carolinian’s
Over the last several months, the Common Core State Standards Initiative has attracted considerable attention from the state and national media. As a result, North Carolinians have begun to consider how these changes will affect their public schools.
Unfortunately, readily accessible information about the Common Core is often hard to come by. The purpose of this primer is to introduce North Carolinians to the Common Core State Standards by answering some of the most frequently asked questions about common standards and tests. North Carolina taxpayers should use it as a first step in an ongoing effort to assess the massive changes underway in our public schools.
You can download the document here
http://johnlocke.org/research/show/spotlights/284
Dr. Stoops discusses CC
great site to read, run by 3 moms in Utah http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/
Our NC GOP legislative leadership needs to get with the program
H 494 and the Restoration Movement
Our GOP legislative leadership needs to get with the program
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April 08, 2013
Thom Tillis may have just killed his chances of becoming North Carolina’s next U. S. Senator. Depending on how some other current trends play out, Tillis may find that H 494 may very well drive a stake through the heart of his run for the Senate. Here’s how we see that possibility playing out.
These are unusual days in American history. We have a president who has effectively annihilated the U. S. Constitution. If you have any doubt about the truthfulness of that statement simply click here and here. The inescapable conclusion any intellectually honest person must come to is that traditional precedents established and adhered to for years no longer are “the law.” Moreover, what is equally clear is that both the Federal judiciary and the Congress are totally impotent to “preserve and defend the Constitution, either as textually written or as interpreted by judicial precedent.”
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The fact is that the original construct of federalism upon which the United States of America created the Union has been turned on its head. What we have today is most certainly not what the Founders intended, and what the sovereign states signed onto. No honest constitutional scholar would argue that “indefinite detention” or warrantless searches, no matter how justified, were envisioned by the Framers. And that list is virtually endless, all the way down to the light bulbs in your home.
We would posit that, at some point, enough knowledgeable and courageous people in this nation will reject this bastardization of the Founding Documents, and even the established precedents, and take a stand to return this nation’s laws to the original intent. Common sense would indicate that it will happen either peaceably or violently. If it is done peaceably it wil be operationalized by leaders stepping up and demanding that the illegal actions be overturned, nullified if you will, and state action interposed in their place. Continue reading
It Can Happen Anywhere – Even Here!
CCTPP Meeting Minutes, April 2, 2013
MINUTES
MOREHEAD CITY
APRIL 2, 2013
Jere Geurin opened with prayer and Bob led the Pledge of Allegiance. There were 12 people in attendance.
Nancy reported that, according to Catie McCabe, Peggy Garner will be returning from Greenville tomorrow and will be receiving physical therapy in her home. We will be sending flowers and cards may be sent to 1299 Nine Mile Road, Newport, 28570.
Bob reported that $100 donation was made to Lower Cape Fear Hospice in memory of Norm Sanderson’s mother and a card was sent to his home.
The Newport Pig Pickin’ is Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, and we will be in 2A, behind the Newport Library, near the band. A tent and cooker will be provided Friday by the men cooking the pig, the opening ceremony is at 5:30 Friday, and it is all over Saturday when the food runs out, about 3:00. There will be an extra grill if anyone wants to use it, no booze allowed, and we cannot sell anything, but are welcome to hand out constitutions, business cards, etc. Scott will be delivering flyers for distribution, also.
A discussion on declining attendance was led by Bob and reasons offered included the results of the last election, voter fraud, setbacks such as ObamaCare, and a general feeling of hopelessness. Other topics discussed were NC politicians, the stock market, the crisis in Cyprus, expansion of wildlife habitat area and flood zones as they relate to Agenda 21, personal property rights, legalization of immigrants, and the liberalization of college students.
Bob reminded us that Mike Huckabee will be at the Convention Center in New Bern Friday speaking from noon-3:00. The event runs from 6:30 am until 4:30 and will be broadcast live on 94.1.
The meeting was adjourned at 7:00.
Addendum: Peggy is home from the hospital. CCTPP provided lunch for Peggy and Howard on April 5, 2013. Thank you Ruth for your help.
NC Tax Reform Moves Forward
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Tax reform is starting! Yesterday, Senator Bob Rucho (R-Mecklenburg) took the first step to reform the NC tax code. We’ll have to wait a bit longer for the real reforms, but this is a fine start. He introduced 2 bills – one of which signals much more to come… Here are the highlights:
As a first step, this is great news! Still, we have a long way to go before we can proclaim that North Carolina is “Open for Business”. I have good news for the new committee to study eliminating the income tax: “WE’VE DONE YOUR WORK FOR YOU! IT’S SITTING ON YOUR DESK!” On the off chance that you haven’t yet seen our work, here’s a quick update: We produced a study that shows the way forward on tax reform – here it is. We came up with a “Response to Critics” to combat the arguments from the left – here it is. And we have a growing petition movement to eliminate the income tax – here it is. The research is done and the groundwork has been laid for reform. And North Carolina is controlled by conservatives in every office that counts! I applaud the legislature and Sen. Rucho’s first step. But I need you to help me remind them that: The time for reform is now! The research is already done! And we’re tired of waiting for growth and opportunity in North Carolina – We have to make it happen! Sign our petition to Repeal the Income Tax here. I’m looking forward to more good news out of the legislature – and soon! Semper Fi, Francis X. De Luca P.S. We haven’t gotten exactly what we wanted yet, but this is a good sign of what’s to come. I am going to continue to educate the legislature on tax reform and make sure they know the best way forward. I need your help to remind them how much we need this reform! Please go to www.noincometaxnc.org, and sign the petition to repeal the income tax, send this email around to your friends, and get them to sign it too. If the electorate shows it’s officials that it wants reform, we will get it! |
Update on NC H298, Affordable and Reliable Energy Act
This is a progress report on the NC H298 bill: Affordable and Reliable Energy Act.
Yesterday (Wednesday) there was a Commerce Committee hearing on this bill. It was well-attended, and there were numerous inputs. At the end, the committee voted to pass the bill. There are now three committees left to be dealt with, but it was generally acknowledged that the Commerce one would be the most difficult.
For those who did not attend, here is a video of that Commerce Committee hearing.
The next hearing for H298 is scheduled to be the House Environment Committee. I have not yet heard about the schedule for the Environmental Committee. Right now that Committee has 12 other bills already on the docket to review, so it’s hard to say when H298 will come up. My guess, though, is that it will be expedited. An official place where the schedule will appear is here.
To be prepared for all options, I wrote this report as a comprehensive, eye-opening Environmental Assessment of H298.
In it I provide some rarely reported information — like the problematic consequences of Rare Earth Elements (each turbine uses some 4000 pounds of REEs!). Few people are aware that one investigation concluded that wind turbine manufacture produces more radioactive waste material than results from the operation of a comparable nuclear facility!
There is also a superior new NC map by the US Fish & Wildlife Service (US F&WS), showing how almost all of the NC wind “suitable” locations are environmentally problematic. On top of that I superimposed the low-level flight paths of three major NC air bases. The result is that there is essentially zero “suitable” NC land left.I also listed the annual agricultural cost due to turbine bat deaths for each NC county — which just on their own usually exceed the unguaranteed promises made by wind developers. Etc…I think that you will find this document to be a wealth of information, so please pass it on to other interested citizens.
Please let me know any questions on any of this — or any suggestions you have for improvements.
There are now over a dozen organizations actively supporting H298 and we would appreciate your help.
regards,
john droz, jr.
Senator Hagan Finally Revealing Her Position on Gun Control?
Sen. Kay Hagan favors expanding background checks for guns
2013-03-27T00:00:08 Wednesday, March 27, 2013
Updated 12:00AM
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By Travis Fain
travis.fain@news-record.com
News & Record
GREENSBORO — U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan likes the idea of expanding background checks for gun purchases, but her vote on legislation nearing the Senate floor will depend on the details, her office said Tuesday.
Hagan, a Greensboro Democrat, is also prepared to vote for increased gun trafficking penalties and new school safety measures widely expected to be part of a gun bill.
She’s “unlikely to support” a renewal of the 1994 assault weapons ban or limits on gun magazine sizes because of “the impact it could have on responsible gun owners,” said Sadie Weiner, a Hagan spokeswoman.
These comments come as rhetoric in the gun debate again nears fever pitch. The Senate is scheduled to take up a bill after it returns from Easter break April 8. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns group is running $12 million worth of commercials in the interim.
The goal is to pressure key lawmakers to vote for the bill, and particularly for the new background checks. The group lists 15 senators it’s targeting — 10 Republicans and five Democrats, including Hagan. Continue reading
CCTPP Meeting Minutes, March 19, 2013
CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MEETING MINUTES OF
19 MARCH 2013
The meeting was held at the Golden Corral in Morehead City, NC
The meeting was called to order at 6:00pm by Chairman BOB CAVANAUGH
The invocation by given by NANCY BOCK
The pledge of allegiance was led by BOB CAVANAUGH
Attendance – 17
PEGGY said at the GOP County meeting last Saturday, Pat McElraft told us that most people say ‘One Nation’ – ‘Under GOD’ (with a pause between). We should be saying ‘One Nation Under GOD’ as all one sentence. PEGGY said she planned to make every effort to do this from now on. Discussion – and BOB said Dwight Eisenhower had included ‘under GOD’ into the pledge when he was president.
BOB asked who went to the convention last Saturday Continue reading
CCTPP Meeting Minutes, March 12, 2013
CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MEETING MINUTES OF
12 March 2013
The meeting was held at the Golden Corral in Morehead City, NC
The meeting was called to order at 6:00 by Chairman BOB CAVENAUGH
Invocation by JERE GEURIN
Pledge of Allegiance was led by BOB CAVANAUGH
Attendance – 25
BOB announced the death of Jim Ferrell. Many of those in attendance knew Jim, a former Highway Patrolman, former member of Newport Pig Cookin’ committee, plumber and sign salesman. BOB had been a neighbor of Jim’s several years ago and told of a few instances he remembered with Jim…example….the time BOB accidentally set fire to Jim’s yard. Many joking comments were made as to BOB and his fire problems….started with yard fire, then shed fire….what is next? JERE said we need to introduce BOB to Smokey the Bear.
BOB turned the floor over to KEN LANG. KEN reminded everyone that the county commissioners meeting is this coming Monday night. They are going to pass a resolution on supporting the 2nd Amendment. Right now it is on the Consent Agenda, so there it will not be any discussion on it, unless we can get a Commissioner to move if off the Consent Agenda and say a few words about it. He is going to talk to a couple of them and see if we can’t get it off so they will have to vote on it separately and so we can see who actually votes for it. The meeting is at 6:00 in the Court House in Beaufort on the second floor in the Commissioner’s Meeting Room. Recommend you get there early. Someone asked if Jennifer Hudson planned to speak again this time. HOWARD said according to the letter to the editor she wrote recently, she planned to speak. Discussion on the article in the paper about the Commissioner’s meeting where Jennifer had spoken….indicating and assuming that she had spoken as a TEA Party member. She emphasized that she had spoken as a Carteret County voter and not affiliated with any party. She did say she appreciated our attendance and support though.
KEN said he had met with Lockwood Phillips this afternoon and told him about the Resolution. He did not know about it, so KEN is hoping he will look into it and put something on his radio program. The main reason KEN met with Lockwood is about the insurance rate hike in NC and the big hit eastern NC is going to take. Continue reading
CCTPP Meeting Minutes, March 5, 2013
CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MEETING MINUTES OF
5 MARCH 2013
Meeting was held at Golden Corral in Morehead City, NC
Meeting was called to order at 6:02pm by Chairman BOB CAVANAUGH
Invocation by LYN BAKER
Pledge of Allegiance was led by BOB CAVANAUGH
Attendance – 23
BOB announced that STEVE BEST would be showing another movie at his “Cave” theater –
Apostle Peter and the Last Supper on Saturday, March 23 at 5:00pm. Steve’s address is 103 Washington Ave., Newport and his phone number is 252-723-0493.
BOB said he had mentioned last week that he had ordered the “First in Freedom” book from the John Locke Foundation. It came in this week and he hasn’t had the opportunity to read it yet; however, it would be available from our TEA Party ‘rolling’ library for anyone wishing to read it.
Comments were made on the letter to the editor by Tim Buck and all questioned why he did it.
It was just a little short paragraph that said “Note to the GOP. The GOP will live by the TEA Party or die by the TEA Party. To the TEA Party – go crawl back under the rock you came from”. Several members wanted to know who Tim Buck was. They were told that Tim used to come to our meetings and had worn our Uncle Sam outfit in the parades we participated in. One night he came and returned the outfit and told us he would not be wearing it anymore…and he has not been to a meeting since. None of us know what happened or why he got upset but he has avoided us ever since. It is presumed that since he was not re-elected Precinct Chairman, that he lashed out at the TEA Party (since BOB was elected chairman of the Broad Creek precinct), but we do not know for sure.
Discussion on the number of various TEA Parties now springing up around the country and all are asking for funding. This is creating a bad name for the original TEA Party groups (the grass roots groups). Someone said, since we are in need for money, maybe we should fall in line with them. All others said ‘no way, we prefer to stay broke and honest and stay true to our convictions. BOB said the TEA Party was supposed to be a bottom up organization – not a top down organization. A lot of the other groups are trying to assume some sort of leadership role. Continue reading
Why Is Obama's Growing DHS Army Buying Armored Vehicles?
There are several articles like this posted on the internet; however, this is from a well-known, reputable source. Why is this not on the news? Why aren’t our elected representatives calling for hearing? Why is Obama gearing up for war on the streets in the United States? Call, write, and email Congressman Jones, and Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan and ask why they are not protecting their constituents from what appears to be preparation for attacking US citizens. Not only that, why can’t our government cut this kind of radical, over-the-top spending instead of cutting security in airports and laying off teachers as Obama has said Sequestration will do?
Posted 03/05/2013 06:26 PM ET
Security: In addition to stockpiling over a billion bullets and thousands of semiautomatic weapons the feds would deny U.S. citizens, the vehicle of choice for fighting the counterinsurgency war in Iraq is appearing on U.S. streets.
The sequestration question du jour is why the Department of Homeland Security, busy releasing hundreds, if not thousands, of deportable and detained illegal aliens due to budget constraints, is buying several thousand Mine Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles?
And just who are they intended to be used against?
This acquisition comes on top of the recent news of the stockpiling by DHS of more than 1.6 billion (with a ‘b’) bullets of various calibers, enough by one calculation to fight the equivalent of a 24-year Iraq War, and the ordering of some 7,000 5.56x45mm NATO “personal defense weapons” (PDW) — also known as “assault weapons” when owned by civilians.
Additionally, DHS is asking for 30 round magazines that “have a capacity to hold thirty (30) 5.56x45mm NATO rounds.”
The Department of Homeland Security (through the U.S. Army Forces Command) recently retrofitted 2,717 of these MRAP vehicles for service on the streets of the U.S. They were formerly used for counterinsurgency in Iraq.
These vehicles are specifically designed to resist mines and ambush attacks. They use bulletproof windows and are designed to withstand small-arms fire, including smaller-caliber rifles such as a .223 Remington. Does DHS expect a counterinsurgency here?
After IEDs began to take a toll on U.S. military forces in Iraq, the Pentagon ordered a large supply of MRAPs.
“They’ve taken hits, many, many hits that would have killed soldiers and marines in uparmored Humvees,” Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a recent interview.
A DHS officer, Robert Whitaker, stationed in El Paso, Texas, recently proudly described the agency’s new armored toy as “Mine-resistant … we use to deliver our team to high-risk warrant services … (with) gun ports so we can actually shoot from within the vehicle; you may think it’s pretty loud but actually it’s not too bad … we have gun ports there in the back and two on the sides as well. They are designed for .50-caliber weapons.”
This is needed to serve warrants? Perhaps it might have been useful at Waco.
So the question is what does DHS need 1.6 billion bullets, 7,000 Ar-15s and 2,700 armored vehicles for?
What are they anticipating or planning for, and why are few in the media and Congress asking about it, particularly in the light of daily apocalyptic bleats from the administration about sequestration cuts?
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CCTPP Minutes, February 26, 2013
CRYSTAL COAST TEA PARTY PATRIOTS
MEETING MINUTES OF
26 FEBRUARY 2013
Meeting was held at Golden Corral, Morehead City, NC
Meeting called to order at 6:00pm by Chairman BOB CAVANAUGH
Invocation by STEVE BEST
Pledge of Allegiance led by BOB CAVANAUGH
Attendance – 24
BOB said when he attended the meeting in New Bern the other night, he noticed that they had the Invocation prior to the pledge and someone commented about we should always put GOD first, so from now on we will have our Invocation first.
All in attendance sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to RUTH PARKER (whose birthday is tomorrow) and to BOB CAVANAUGH (whose birthday was yesterday).
BOB acknowledged that VERNE THOMPSON, after threatening for several weeks, had finally brought in the book “American Sniper” by Chris Kyle, to be included in our TEA Party library. Anyone wishing to check it out, please see BOB.
BOB said he had ordered several books from the John Locke Foundation and they are only $10.00 each plus $3.00 tax. The latest one is called ‘First in Freedom’. It lays out a road map for North Carolina’s agenda for going forward with fiscal responsibility and getting back to sound government. The books were written by John Hood. The first book was ‘Our Best Foot Forward’, (an investment plan for NC economic recovery). It provides historical context and a broad outline for a conservative reform agenda for the state. ‘First in Freedom’ offers analysis and recommendations from the John Locke research team of the biggest fiscal and economical issues facing NC in 2013. It is time for our state to become First in Freedom once more. When he receives his copy of ‘First in Freedom’ book he will add it to our library. If anyone is interested in purchasing a copy you can go to John Locke web site (just Google John Locke Foundation and it will take you to the web site). Go to the ‘store’ and you can read the reviews on the various booklets. Continue reading
Greg Brannon For US Senate (to replace Kay Hagan)
Come my “Trusted Friend” and your next US Senator, Wednesday, February 27, 2013 at the Greenville Hilton: TIME 1:00
Is the next Rand Paul in North Carolina?
Introducing Dr. Greg Brannon
Karl Rove made some news over the weekend when he said the GOP needed more Rand Paul’s instead of more Christine O’Donnell’s. Sincere or not, Karl Rove is absolutely correct. Candidates that are for Constitutional government and package together conservative and libertarian values are the future of a successful Republican party. These candidates must be articulate in their message and principled to back up their rhetoric. Senator Rand Paul is the best example of this. Senator’s Mike Lee and Ted Cruz are others that fit this description.
It is encouraging to see other candidates arise in that mold. In North Carolina, there is one. His name is Dr. Greg Brannon, OB-GYN. A strong Christian, devoted husband of 25 years, and father of 7, he has run his own medical practice since 1993 and has delivered over 9,000 babies. Brannon is a popular speaker to Tea Parties throughout North Carolina, and from that alone his name recognition earned him 5% in the latest PPP poll. In 2009, Greg created Founder’s Truth, a website dedicated to spreading the message that the Founding Father’s believed in and fought for.
You can find Dr. Brannon’s stances on the issues on his excellent website, HERE.
Here is Dr. Brannon’s video message on his run for Senate:
How is Brannon like Paul? They are both medical doctors, they are both active within the Tea Party movement, they are both devoted Christian family men, and they are both articulate speakers.
North Carolina will most likely be a safe pickup for Republicans in 2014. Kay Hagan won on the unpopularity of Elizabeth Dole and the popularity of Barack Obama, and in a trending red state she has neither of those things going for her. 2014 will be a down year for Democrats because many of their voters do not show up and vote in non Presidential elections, particularly the minority vote which is a large part of the electorate in the state. There is no need to settle for an uninspiring establishment figure; they helped get us into this mess in the first place.
A grassroots candidate is needed, and that is Dr. Greg Brannon.
Keystone pipeline is the key to the future
Keystone pipeline is the key to the future
Source: State.gov
By Bill Wilson — Everything we will ever need to know about the Obama Administration may come down to a single decision. And that is whether Obama, along with newly sworn in Secretary of State John Kerry, approve the Keystone XL pipeline from the Alberta tar sands to the U.S.
For, contained in that decision is not just the future energy independence of North America — the U.S. currently depends on foreign sources for 45 percent of our fuel — but perhaps the future prosperity of the American economy.
If completed, the expanded pipeline — there actually is another Keystone pipeline from Alberta operated by TransCanada that already delivers about 590,000 barrels of oil a day — will add another 500,000 barrels a day to the mix.
The fact the Chinese are waiting in the wings to claim this energy for themselves would be reason enough to approve it. Beijing has offered to pay for building an alternative pipeline to the Pacific coast to have the oil shipped there.
For now, global production keeps up with global demand, but developing economies like China and India — oil importers both — invariably are leading to higher demand.
Which means every drop we fail to develop here, whether in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, or fail to gain access to, as in Canada, is driving up prices at the pump. Continue reading
The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
via AmericanThinker
February 22, 2013
The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
By John White
Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag.
Last January 18th, in a little noticed interview of Richard Cordray, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Bloomberg reported “[t]he U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] 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 thought generates some skepticism, as aptly expressed by the Richard Terrell cartoon published by American Thinker.
Days later On January 24th President Obama renominated Cordray as CFPB director even though his recess appointment was not due to expire until the end of 2013. Continue reading
Democrats Against Agenda 21
This doesn’t seem plausible, but it is real. There is some very good information about UN Agenda 21 on this site, and it is from a self-admitted very socially liberal Democrat. But she really nails the insidiousness of Agenda 21.
NC "Elections Bureaucrats Ran Amok"
Elections Bureaucrats Ran Amok
Posted on February 19, 2013 by Susan Myrick in Elections & Voting
In a blatantly partisan move, the staff of the North Carolina State Board of Elections (SBE) successfully subverted state law to facilitate online voter registration in North Carolina by the 2012 Barack Obama campaign. In doing so they coordinated with partisans behind closed doors, lied about the NC Attorney General’s Office concurring with the SBE staff on the issue, and dodged oversight by their own board and the legislature. The end result was to add thousands of people to the North Carolina voter rolls illegally.
The SBE staff’s audacity is so breath-taking that it’s hard to believe, so let us emphasize: The Civitas Institute has documented how SBE bureaucrats conspired with a private company, working for the Obama campaign[i], to facilitate a form of online voter registration for the 2012 General Election – in violation of state law. It’s a classic example of how bureaucrats ignore the democratic process and hijack an agency for partisan purposes.
Breaking the Law
Civitas initiated a series of public records requests to uncover this scheme concerning online registration in defiance of state law. Continue reading
Obama on Sequester – Then & Now
Here’s President Obama on the Sequester THEN: November 2011
Here’s President Obama on the Sequester NOW: February 2013
(view 1st three to five minutes at minimum)