By Deborah Durkee on 4/29/2009 9:49 AM

Case for Federalism Amendment.

 

 

Law Professor Randy Barnett has put together a case for federalism. He wrote an article that appeared in the April 23 Wall Street Journal. You can read it at the link at the end of this post.

 

Since the publication of that article, Barnett has received countless e-mail responses from lay people and learned folks alike on the best way to proceed. He has come up with a rough draft of several different amendments (sort of like the Bill of Rights) in order to prevent the federal government from continuing to usurp states’ rights. You can find the draft and can submit your own comments at this link: http://federalismamendment.com/

 

You can see an informative interview with Prof. Barnett posted at Pajamas TV at the link below. He also says simply abolishing the 16th Amendment (the one that established the income tax) will not be enough, that’s why he’s included this amendment.

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By Ted on 4/28/2009 12:51 PM

Read the attached article and see if you can pick out the banks that did the worst on the governments stress test.  The government will keep it a secret but the market information will tell us.

The real story here is the ignorance of the government in believing this information could be keep secret.  The arrogrance of the government in believing that they can control the informaiton of a, yet remaining, free market.

Check it out:  http://seekingalpha.com/article/133581-most-of-19-banks-passed-the-stress-test?source=yahoo

Now if we could just come up with a government stress test!  It seems the only test our government can pass on the economic front is the idiot test.   That my friends...

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By Ted on 4/28/2009 12:26 PM

Here is one that I think the left and right can agree on. The Cybersecurity Act of 2009 must be opposed. This bill would federalize internet infrastructure security. It would remove that responsibility from the private sector thereby eliminating entrepreneurial creativity, innovation and development. One provision gives the President authority to shut down internet traffic in an emergency and disconnect critical infrastructure system on national security grounds.  The bill would allow government control over commercial internet traffic and provides no guidance as to when that authority might be applied.

Privacy and freedom of information would be severely damaged by this legislation and no matter which party you favor, at some point you must face the fact that someone you don’t trust might be in-charge.

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By Deborah Durkee on 4/27/2009 9:25 AM

Who will lead the post-American era?

 

Mark Steyn is at his best as he evaluates the Obama presidency thus far and what it means in terms of world affairs as the president takes his country down several pegs and focuses on remaking the country rather than on the international responsibility of making sure the world doesn’t explode into chaos:

 

…(Pakistani President) Asif Ali Zardar (is)… ceding more and more turf to the local branch office of the Taliban. When the topic turns up in the news, we usually get vague references to the pro-Osama crowd controlling much of the "north-west," which makes it sound as if these guys are the wilds of rural Idaho to Zardari's Beltway. In fact, they're now within some 60 miles of the capital, Islamabad … In other words, they're within striking distance of the administrative center of a nation of over 165 million...

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By Ted on 4/27/2009 6:36 AM

As I sit here in my lounge chair with a glass of wine thinking about my right wing extremism attitude I wonder if the Obama Administration will find me out. Yes, I do own a couple guns and I have thoughts of kicking the crap out of stupid politicians, Nancy Pelosi would be my first target.

I then think about how I have gone to a tea party and chanted things like USA, USA. There were those signs I carried saying “Down With Pushers of Irresponsible Government” or “Politicians, Buying Your Votes with Other Peoples Money”.

The radical that I am, it is comforting to me to see Glen Beck on TV, that guy is nuts! I like him, he is quite educational but he is a nut. He would be an interesting person to spend an evening with just discussing politics and other things that might come up. The only thing better would be if Dennis Miller could join us. Now here is a guy that can coin a phrase. I wonder if he prepares for his radio show or does he just let it roll. My guess is the latter, but you do have to admire the partial insanity that just seems to roll out of his mouth. At least he is on the right side of most of the issues.

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By huffer_g on 4/26/2009 11:09 AM

I am not sure where this originated but it was sent to me by some friends at World Financial Group, a group that is doing quite well in this financial downturn, thank you very much… This could be one of the reasons why: An economics professor at a local college made a statement that he had never failed a single student before but had once failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer.

The professor then said, "OK, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism. All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test, the grades were averaged and everyone got a B.

The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy. As the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free...

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By Deborah Durkee on 4/26/2009 8:13 AM

Obama White House Nixonian.

 

The Washington Examiner comes right out and calls the Obama Administration “Nixonian” in its dishonesty on the “torture memos”:

 

(Obama) administration’s selective and highly prejudicial release of only partial information about CIA interrogations clearly was designed to gin up outrage against former Bush officials. Snip – The administration ignored near-uniform pleadings by respected intelligence professionals to keep the interrogation descriptions classified, yet refused to declassify the evidence that the interrogations saved countless American lives. … Then his administration went even farther. Not only did it refuse to declassify the exculpatory intelligence, but also it selectively and misleadingly edited a memo by its own national intelligence director about the program. As reported by the New York Times’...

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By Ted on 4/25/2009 9:38 PM

The information on the interrogation methods used by the Bush Administration following 9/11 have been placed on trial by a corrupt government and a biased media. The media, rather than investigating the facts and who knew what and when, they demand no information before going forward reporting partial information.  The media continues to report Information damaging to the Bush Administration, while absolving Democrat of any complicity. Our mainstream media has shown their partisan asses. It is one thing to report complete facts but  when the media chooses to report one sided biased information, they should be tarred and feathered. This type of Kangaroo court behavior, is akin to a person going to court and only the accusatory side of the argument is presented.   Now we the America people, are the final jury. Do we allow a biased media to mislead us once again or do we demand them to...

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By Deborah Durkee on 4/24/2009 10:12 AM

Goldberg: We’re losing ground.

 

This president needs to learn the other side of American history. He seems to think he knows of which he speaks, but as Jonah Goldberg says in this brilliant column, he’s only been exposed to the Left’s version (the Communist’s) of the truth:

 

The “intellectual coherence” of the Cold War didn’t stop many liberals from opposing Ronald Reagan’s foreign-policy efforts in Europe, the Caribbean, and Central America, nor did it dampen Hollywood’s ardor in portraying Reagan as a warmonger, a dunce, or both. In the 1980s, the SANE/Freeze movement fired the minds of much of the Democratic Party. And when the Cold War ended without a shot fired, the Left worked hard to give all the credit to Mikhail Gorbachev, since he seemed like a more reasonable fellow. All of that comes to mind as I watch Barack Obama stroll across the...

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By Deborah Durkee on 4/23/2009 8:58 AM

Congress knew about interrogations.

 

Congressman Pete Hoekstra says, hold on Congress. You knew about and approved these “enhanced interrogation techniques.” He also says any investigation will include everyone who watched the demonstrations of these techniques as well. And he warns Obama that perhaps there should be an investigation of what the Obama administration is doing to endanger national security with the release of the memos:

 

Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair got it right last week when he noted how easy it is to condemn the enhanced interrogation program "on a bright sunny day in April 2009." Reactions to this former CIA program, which was used against senior al Qaeda suspects in 2002 and 2003, are demonstrating how little President Barack Obama and some Democratic members of Congress understand the dire threats to our nation.

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