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Thu, 02 Sep 2010 01:22:45 +0100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_TjBNjc9Bo

The Real Newt Gingrich

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:58:49 +0100

Part one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02HX5v5Thpk

Part two: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmCU9Nbksw

Part three: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exs41FdfqpY

Part four: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk_0Ot9z3xg

First Three County Republican Parties, Now Tea Parties Issue Censure of Lindsey Graham

Tue, 03 Aug 2010 02:54:29 +0100

http://www.gwdtoday.com/clients/gwdtoday/tea-parties-issue-censure-of-lindsey-graham-p20990-1.htm

A group of South Carolina TEA Parties have issued a censure of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), in the wake of his recent vote to approve Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. Graham, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted on July 20th, along with 12 democrats to approve Kagan’s nomination. The 13-6 vote will move the vote out of the judiciary committee and onto the Senate floor for a full vote.

Graham was the lone republican on the committee to approve Kagan.

Tea Parties including Tea Party of the Lakelands, Laurens Tea Party and Tea Parties from Seneca, Boiling Springs, Columbia, Myrtle Beach, Spartanburg, Anderson, Florence, Aiken, Hilton Head, Fairfield, and Greenville issued the censure. The SC Black Conservatives movement, Patriots R Us of Walterboro, and RINO Hunt have also signed on.

In a press release issued on Monday the Tea Parties said they will work to replace Graham in 2014 if he does not step down from his Senate seat.

“Sen. Graham’s rationale appears to be that as President, Obama has the right to appoint anyone he wishes to the Supreme Court. However, the Constitution’s balance of power requires the Senate to confirm the nominee as being fit for the role. If the President appoints someone who is unfit, it is imperative for the Senate to check his power and vote no,” the Tea Parties said in a press release. “As part of the oath of office, Sen. Graham is required to uphold the Constitution. All of the available evidence indicates that Ms. Kagan is completely unfit for this office and will not uphold the Constitution, but will instead use her powers to legislate from the bench. Ms. Kagan has no experience as a judge, and her graduate thesis reveals her belief in judicial activism and that it is “not necessarily wrong” for judges “to mold… the law in order to promote certain ethical values and achieve certain social ends.” Her time at Harvard also showed that she favors international law over our U.S. Constitution, and she fought all the way to the Supreme Court to ban military recruiters from Harvard. It is clear that she will not uphold our Constitution and will legislate from the bench, helping to destroy our country in the process.”

The Tea Parties go on to call for Graham’s resignation.

“Sen. Graham, if you believe that since elections have consequences and therefore Obama can do as he wishes, without any fight or impediment from those who oppose his radical agenda for America, then we suggest that you step down now and let the people of South Carolina find someone who will fight for our country, our freedom, and our ideals. If you continue in office, understand that “We the People” are watching you closely, and we will continue to hold you accountable for your failure to uphold the Constitution and Conservative principles, and we will be working hard for your replacement in 2014.”

Oath Keepers Under Attack

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:57:25 +0100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS3H6Cakwpw

OATH KEEPERS is a non-partisan association of Military, Veterans, and peace officers who will honor their oaths to defend the Constitution, will NOT just follow orders, will stand for liberty, and will save the Republic, so help us God. Our motto is:

"Not on Our Watch!"

SUMMARY LIST OF ORDERS WE WILL NOT OBEY:

1. We will NOT obey orders to disarm the American people.

2. We will NOT obey orders to conduct warrantless searches of the American people

3. We will NOT obey orders to detain American citizens as unlawful enemy combatants or to subject them to military tribunal.

4. We will NOT obey orders to impose martial law or a state of emergency on a state.

5. We will NOT obey orders to invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.

6. We will NOT obey any order to blockade American cities, thus turning them into giant concentration camps.

7. We will NOT obey any order to force American citizens into any form of detention camps under any pretext.

8. We will NOT obey orders to assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil against the American people to keep the peace or to maintain control.

9. We will NOT obey any orders to confiscate the property of the American people, including food and other essential supplies.

10. We will NOT obey any orders which infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.

Read the full declaration at http://oathkeepers.org

The paradox created by big government

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:42:51 +0100

As a traditional libertarian, I believe strongly in the right to own property. As a property owner, I have tried to do my best as a fellow citizen by passing the advantages I have in life on to those less fortunate. As such, my rental properties enjoy no cash flow. In fact, I purposely price them significantly lower than the market calls for in an attempt to help those in need: single mothers, special assistance individuals, etc.

I do not run a charity, however, and do charge for rent what I pay to borrow the money to buy these houses. Additionally, my hope is that in the event of eventual market recovery, I can sell these houses 20 years from now for a tidy profit. It makes me feel good to know I can help someone afford a slightly nicer place to live without having to shell out big bucks for it, while at the same time I have an investment for the future.

Sadly, the government has stepped in. The Bannock County Assessors office determined that two of my houses should be taxed at a value I cannot even get an appraiser to give me! Since one of these houses’ nearly doubled in value, I now charge a bit more for rent to cover the cost.

It’s ok, though, because since their rent went up, my renters now qualify for a bit more government assistance…and where do you suppose that extra money in their pocket comes from? The paradox created by big government.

This country has fallen into a dangerous trap where both the left and the right consider it the government’s job to dictate the distribution of kindness and welfare. Consider that sentence. The government, the one that is fraught with never ending sex scandals, tax evasion scandals and fraud allegations, is in charge of national Charity.

Apparently charity is considered impossible for honest and ethical people (like you and me) to be capable of. Kindness is only achieved when coerced and dolled out by an unethical and uncaring bureaucracy.

That doesn’t give We the People much credit if you ask me.

Philanthropy is not dead. There is no end to the caring and good-hearted nature of many people. Yet the U.S. Government has appointed itself the head of the distribution line, the self proclaimed judge of who should be the greatest benefactor of forced giving. Unfortunately, the government has also appointed itself the largest benefactor of forced giving.

Therein lies the rub: Tea Partiers and Libertarians fight a philosophically cannibalistic fight, for the only success we can have is to place someone in office whose sole responsibility is to eliminate the need for their own job. Not many are lining up to volunteer for self termination.

We need a new breed of politicians. Leaders who believe serving their country is a service, not a cushy job with excellent benefits and pension. Washington doesn’t need Change; Washington needs the whole system to crash.

Jack Spencer

Here's the Problem... and the Solution

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:48:34 +0100

THERE'S TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT!!!

But you already knew that.

Encroachments on our liberty, misuse of our money, abuses of power; federal, state, county, city, school districts and other taxing districts; they're too big, too expensive, and too intrusive!!! No one can keep track of it all by themselves, let alone hold them all accountable.

Here's just one local example: Pocatello Mayor Steals Chapter from Big Government Playbook. The Republican candidate for County Assessor spoke in favor of the plan, but it didn't fit with the City Council's version of Big Government so they decided against it.

We the People are the solution.

What if each layer of government and various issues were assigned a committee/task force/watchdog group (you get the idea) that shared their findings with the rest of us so we could all hold government accountable? And what if the 58 precincts in Bannock County each had its own committee that developed a neighborhood network to share the relevant information that no one person can keep track of?

We the People would be empowered to govern again.

We need to get you and all other patriots assigned to your Precinct Committee of Correspondence. Contact LaRae Oram 232-2888 with your address and she will get you connected with other patriots in your precinct. We have an average of 10 per precinct already on our list. You can work together to find the others and get them up to speed.
We truly need as many patriots as possible to select an area you'd like to learn more about and get involved. The Contacts below will simply get the organizational ball rolling by inviting those who contact them to an initial meeting where everyone will decide how they want to organize and what their goals should be. It is important to get potential candidates for public office on the appropriate committees.

Constitutional Education
Contact: 5000 in Pocatello

City of Pocatello
Contact: Carol Cunningham 251-2173

City of Lava Hot Springs
Contact: Jeanie Avery 339-5694

Bannock County
Contact: Carl Stoddard 226-4901

School District 25
Contact: Michael Todhunter 904-3204

State Legislature
Contact: Sovereign Idaho Coalition

U.S. Congress
Contact: Bill Oram 232-2888

Illegal Alien Issue
Contact: John Rogers 244-1576

Honest Elections
Contact: LaRae Oram 232-2888

Pocatello Tea Party Website
Contact: Chris Stevens 478-8683

Blackfoot Tea Party
Contact: Maxine Chavez 680-1061

The various committees will report to the hundreds of members of the Pocatello Tea Party via: http://groups.google.com/group/pocatello-tea-party

What's missing or what would you like to volunteer for? Reply to PocatelloTeaParty@gmail.com

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Obama's tips for the tea parties
What his community organizing can teach the conservative movement.
http://www.congress.org/news/2010/07/15/obamas_tips_for_the_tea_parties

SA@TAC - Why Foreign Policy Matters Most

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:21:06 +0100

Many on the mainstream Right are now increasingly beginning to question American foreign policy. This is not only long overdue, but absolutely necessary before genuine conservatism can ever take root.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kS1jUei71KM

"Unlike the Right’s past tax revolts, the Tea Party is animated by opposition to the exorbitant level of federal spending and indebtedness. With their rejection of Republican bailouts and “compassionate conservatism,” they have turned away from the neoconservatives’ social-democratic roots. By applying their frugality to foreign policy, they could make a clean break from neoconservatism.

"Although the Tea Party has an identifiable antiwar wing—one poll found that the elder Paul was the group’s second-most admired politician, after Sarah Palin—by and large the Tea Partiers’ instinctive patriotism makes them a tough audience for criticism of U.S. intervention. To them, the relevant question is whose side are you on? They know they are on America’s.

"But there is a limit to their willingness to spend American blood and treasure, especially as the nation teeters at the brink of insolvency. Many of them are tired of paying for the defense of Europeans they regard as fairweather friends and freeloaders, propping up foreign welfare states that serve as the model for everything they oppose at home. Neither do they want their tax dollars spent indefinitely in Middle Eastern countries whose populations don’t greet us as liberators and whose governments look more like the sharia states we claim to oppose than the democracies we are supposed to be creating..."

Read the article...

Glenn Beck's Lincoln Contradictions

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 05:34:00 +0100

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo

I’ve been occasionally watching Glenn Beck on the Fox News Channel and think he has done an admirable job of smoking out and identifying the shockingly hardcore, radical socialists who dominate the Obama administration. He has also done a generally good job talking about the libertarian founding principles of America, how they have been lost, and our duty to regain them. But he has been absolutely abysmal when discussing the subject of Lincoln, the War to Prevent Southern Independence, and its legacy. I suspect that the reason for this disconnect with historical reality is that: 1) The Fox News Channel is essentially a propaganda arm of the neoconservative political cabal that has captured the Republican Party; 2) One of the cornerstones of neocon ideology is Lincoln idolatry and hatred of the South and Southerners. (Professor Paul Gottfried, for one, has written extensively about this.) 3) Therefore, if Glenn wants to keep his gig at Fox, he must toe the party line on Lincoln. Being otherwise libertarian – while the Democrats are in power – serves the purposes of the neocon cabal nicely.

To the neocons, Lincoln idolatry serves the purpose of helping to prop up the centralized, bureaucratic, liberty-destroying, military-industrial complex that defines their existence. As William F. Buckley, Jr., the original neocon, declared in 1952, fighting the Cold War meant that "we have got to accept Big Government for the duration," including "a totalitarian bureaucracy within our own shores" with its "large armies, atomic energy, central intelligence, war production boards, and the attendant centralization of power in Washington." In case you haven’t noticed, for quite some time now the Republican Party has stood for war, war, and more war, and little else. How on earth genuine conservatives who favor limited constitutional government came to embrace Buckley as one of their leading spokesmen is a bizarre mystery.

When I debated one of the gurus of neocon Lincoln idolatry – Harry Jaffa – shortly after The Real Lincoln was published in 2002, he bellowed at one point that "9/11 proves more than ever that we need a strong central government." (In reality, it proved the failure and incapability of "the central government" to protect even its own D.C. headquarters from a few nuts armed with box cutters.) "We need big, totalitarian government to fight all the new Hitlers and potential Hitlers in the world" is the neocon mantra, in a nutshell.

To neocons, Lincoln is the poster boy of militaristic big government that runs roughshod over civil liberties while bankrupting the country with taxes and debt and murdering thousands of innocent foreigners (not that Southerners during the 1861–1865 war were foreigners; they were fellow American citizens). Doesn’t this sound like the Republican Party of today, as embodied in the recently dethroned Bush administration?

Despite his admirable performances discussing the founding fathers, socialism, progressivism, and other topics, Glenn Beck has been absolutely awful and sometimes untruthful when discussing Lincoln and his legacy...

Continue reading...

Youngest Tea Party Organizer in America

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 01:49:01 +0100

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNw3AZ_Z12A

Open Letter to Rep Mike Simpson

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:10:35 +0100

Dear Reader,

My name is Brian Schad and I am Idaho's 2nd CD Independent Candidate for this year's general election in November. Like many of you, I have become disillusioned with our federal government, our federal elected leaders, and the unsustainable financial path we are traveling as a country. I have stopped talking politics and began talking about "solutions" last year.

Around that time, I learned how my federal representative - one that I have repeatedly voted for in the past - has broken away from conservative principles and values important to Idaho. Having served our nation's armed forces for 12 years previous, I have made the commitment to once again return to the service of my country with the very same intensity of purpose I put into being a Navy SEAL to protect my country. It is that resolve I'll put into being the peoples' advocate for Idaho's Second Congressional District in the effort to restore our federal government back to "by the people, for the people."

I want all of my Idaho neighbors to know there are three of us in this Congressional race, so instead of voting for the lesser of two evils - as perhaps done in the past- if you like my message, you can now "vote your conscious" in November.

And now, my "open letter" to our Idaho Second Congressional District Representative, Mike Simpson:

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Dear Mr. Simpson,

Congratulations on winning this year's mid-term primary election hands-down. It's good to know we both love The United States of America: You as an elected office holder and me as a former US Navy SEAL.

Although "winning" is the ultimate goal, the first thing I learned as a Navy SEAL is the importance of winning as a TEAM. There is no "I" in "team". The team works together. The team supports one another. Only as a team can we survive, and then thrive.

Mr. Simpson, what we have seen is that you are not a team player, that is, with the "home team" right here in your district. Instead, your team has consisted of political action committees, political cronies, and others that are not on the home team, nor have the same values, needs, and desires as those of us here in Idaho's 2nd Congressional District. This is why you did not run unopposed in the primary election, and why you have opposition NOW. We here in the 2nd CD of Idaho want a voice that represents us and "our team” – the very issue we need to confront.

This mid-term election is about whom can best represent our Congressional District's views, our needs, and our dreams, so that the people of Idaho are assured of getting the very best possible Congressional representation. We should be a state (and nation) that's free and proud.

I have consistently voted for you in the past, because as a Republican in the most conservative state in the Union, I thought you represented the overall political beliefs and values of our district. In these past few years we now learn you have been substantially out of step and have been unable to effectively represent our district - which is why I'm now running against you. Honor, before personal (or political) gain, will always remain engrained in my character.

Idahoans are an independent people, and although I certainly don't think everybody can always agree on every political issue, as our congressman we can certainly agree you have no longer been that conservative Republican. Your type of Republican values no longer represent the values of our district, nor in my view the Republican form of government called for in Article IV, Section 4, of our US Constitution.

Let's not be so quick to take my word for it. Let's have your voting record speak for itself:

Mr. Simpson, a close study of your recent voting record aligns closely with the likes of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senators Barbara Boxer & Harry Reid. Are the ideals of “this” group representative of our district? I don't think so, but let's take a peek…

You, sir, have repeatedly voted for the original stimulus and Obama administration's bailouts: Bailing out the financial institutions…bailing out the insurance groups...bailing out the big-banks…bailing out Greece by sending our hard-earned tax dollars to the UN, the IMF, and even to…China. Although that may be nice for you and your political action committee friends, what that really means is we here back home in Idaho will be paying higher taxes for a very L-O-N-G time to come, while being forced to relinquish personal freedoms. As a Navy SEAL, I happen to cherish freedom - personal freedom and financial freedom. I fought hard for it in the military and I am now fighting for it as a citizen, seeking a seat in the citizen's house, to represent Idaho and to support genuine conservatives in the congress with an important vote from Idaho. These are the issues being vastly overlooked by you and not brought to the attention to the average voter here in Idaho.

Lately your votes have chained us to debt and feed a political machine that lives off the working class to the primary benefit of the wealthy elite (outside of Idaho). The economic policies you have supported with your votes have a strong record of failure as demonstrated with their European models. Unemployment is at levels not seen since the Great Depression, businesses are failing, and people are being forced out of their homes - not because they don't want to work, or wreckless spending habits, but because of the economic policies YOU support from the financial advisors our federal government takes direction from.

Here's another fine example of what I'm talking about, and what most people here in Idaho aren't aware you voted for:

The "Ca$h-4-Klunkers" Program: Here's a classic Obama administration stimulus concept that every working man, woman, and working-age child in this district is supporting with the taxes of their labor – offering up to $4,500.00 in credit (from our tax-dollars no less) when individuals turn in their old car for a new one. As it turned out in the end, to actually implement the program it cost "us" $3,000,000,000.00 in order to sell 125,000 vehicle's nationally. So for every $4,500 received by the car-buyer, in all it was a total $24,000.00 expense for the tax-PAYER ($3B divided by 125K vehicles).

Who made out in the deal? The car companies (mainly overseas) and executives in Detroit. I bet their quality of life, job benefits, and executive perks such as private jets, country-club memberships, and personal chefs are all intact while we here in Idaho's 2nd CD still struggle with taking care of, and providing for, our own families - and in my individual case, deciding which month we will drop health insurance.

Mr. Simpson, we can no longer allow ourselves to be led by you, nor can we afford to allow you to be benevolent with our money any longer. If you were the right kind of Congressman for Idaho, then where were you when the whole financial system was collapsing all around us? You did nothing to stop it. In fact, you are partially responsible for creating the problem with your vote! I contend your actions have been the problem - never the solution - and in part we are now where we are in our nation's history because you were there governing in our district's Congressional seat. We elect Congressmen to go to Washington to fight for "us." If you were a private sector employee, you would have been fired long ago.

Mr. Simpson, these are my main points of contention with you remaining qualified to lead me, my family, my state, and my beloved country. I grew up believing as a Christian we always forgive and allow a person a second chance. However, when it comes to our personal freedom and liberties, we cannot allow a representative like you any more chances to help control our lives any longer than we already have since 1998. Once our freedom, liberties, and unalienable rights as United States citizens are completely gone, it will take much more time and effort to restore them.

Mr. Simpson, I have stood with you in the past, stood with you while I thought you were on "our team." Now I am parting with you. You are a compromised politician. You are no longer solely on the conservative side of the isle.

You will be held accountable for your voting record, your misrepresentation of our District's values, and your willingness to abide with President Obama's overall agenda on major issues threatening our individual sovereignty leading our country down the wrong "dark alley." I contend you are no longer doing the "people's work" in Washington on behalf of Idahoans as evidenced by your individual, liberal actions. You have been in this position to lead our district for 12 years now, but your actions prove that you continue to be part of our country's problems - not the solutions - because matters have only become worse under your watch. Let's change the guard…

As a former United States Navy SEAL, one who has taken several oaths and assumed the responsibility to "protect and defend our US Constitution against all enemies - foreign and domestic"- honorably over the course of 12 years, I am asking you to voluntarily part ways with The House and come home to beautiful Idaho. For the good of the most conservative political state in the Union, Mr. Simpson, please step aside of the race and let others who keep the Constitutional tradition alive compete for your seat.

Respectfully,

Brian Schad | Idaho's 2nd CD 'Independent' Candidate
Contact: Schads554@msn.com / (208) 529-8889