By Deborah Durkee on 1/14/2010 3:33 PM

 

Answers to Unconstitutional federal actions.

 

Rather than trying to get the Federal Government to respect state sovereignty, Daniel Baker over at The American Thinker says to use Thomas Jefferson as your guide in his answer to the Alien and Sedition Act. This act ran afoul of the First Amendment when it was used as a way to forbid criticism of the government. Residents of the states should work within their own states to nullify any unconstitutional acts by the Federal Government. The Constitution is basically a partnership agreement between the states, and the Congress, the Executive and the Supreme Court is a creation of the partnership, not a party to it (they are our managers and employees, not bosses). Interesting read and makes much sense:

 

Over the course of the past two hundred and twenty-two years, we have forgotten many of the...

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By Deborah Durkee on 1/12/2010 10:50 AM

 

Obama is routing the recovery.

 

This is from Charles Gasparino over at the New York Post. This column reveals a version of Atlas Shrugged for the 21st century. Small businesses aren’t all necessarily going bankrupt or closing their doors and heading for Galt’s Gulch (I’m sure some are), but the well-run businesses are holding their cash tight and laying off workers to survive the attack on capitalism that is the modus operandi of the Obama administration:

 

The number-crunchers at the Treasury Department have been celebrating what appears to be the end of the Great Recession as told through rising GDP, higher business profits and a buoyant stock market. But owners of small businesses -- the usual engines of economic growth -- are still refusing to hire back workers as they normally do when the economy turns up from a sharp decline.Snip –

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By Deborah Durkee on 1/11/2010 12:34 PM

 

Obama: The weak horse.

 

Jed Babbin of Human Events asks, “are we safer or in more danger than we were a year ago?” As he reviews Obama’s first year record, it’s plain to see that we aren’t and the reasons that is so:

 

…One of the first things the president did on taking office was to ban the “enhanced interrogation methods” ...  Snip – As George Tenet… said: "I know that this [enhanced interrogation methods] program has saved lives. I know we've disrupted plots. I know this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency put together have been able to tell us." President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Dennis Blair, said: "High value information came from interrogations in which those methods were used and provided a deeper understanding of the al-Qaeda organization that was attacking this country."...

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By Deborah Durkee on 1/9/2010 4:48 PM

 

How will Obama’s Chicago Boys win elections?

 

Hasn’t everyone wondered why Obama and the Democrats really don’t seem nervous about the fact that Americans hate basically everything they’ve been doing in Congress? Aren’t they committing political suicide? Well, I’ve often thought the slush fund they created with the so-called “stimulus” was what they were going to rely on to buy elections. But there is much more than that up their collective sleeves. Ed Lasky over at The American Thinker has also been curious, and he’s dug up a lot in this article:

 

…the release of the White House visitor logs that showed visits by Anna Burger, Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and named by Fortune Magazine as "the most powerful woman in the labor movement.”…

 

But Anna Burger is far more than an SEIU honcho;...

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By Deborah Durkee on 1/8/2010 11:37 AM

Thermopylae for Health Care. Quin Hillyer at The American Spectator has written a rousing rebuke to Republicans for not fighting hard enough to keep the monstrosity of Health Care from coming to fruition. He likens it to the 300 Spartans…we must fight. Republicans just do not fight hard enough. Hillyer has some brilliant suggestions for the Stupid Party: Conservatives want Thermopylae. Congressional Republican leaders instead imitate the Confederate defense of Atlanta -- the one that led a local editor to write that General Joseph E. Johnston's reputation had "grown with every backward step."

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By Deborah Durkee on 1/7/2010 10:37 AM

 

Our Second Civil War.

 

Bruce Walker, author of Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the LieandThe Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on Christianity, has penned an excellent column on what we’ve been experiencing since the 1960’s and has coupled it with the resurgence of the Left in the Obama administration.  He says this Civil War we’ve experienced since the 1960’s must be won. Please read the whole thing for a look back to our recent past and see why we are where we are now. From The American Thinker:

 

…The 1960s, which ended forty years ago, was the time of our second trial -- our Second Civil War. It is a testament to its ferocity and its reach that the consequences of this internecine war for the soul...

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By Deborah Durkee on 10/31/2009 8:30 AM

Dem Health bill will trigger unemployment.

 

By drips and drabs we’re finding out how dangerous this health care bill actually is. Don’t we need a little more unemployment? This is from Phillip Klein at The American Spectator blog:

 

One of the most onerous aspects of the House Democrats' health care legislation is the employer mandate, which would tax employers who do not offer health insurance to their workers. Not only does the proposal impose new costs on employers, but a whole new layer of red tape, both of which would undoubtedly lead to job losses and lower wages. Snip –

 

Under the provision, employers would have to offer every employee "qualified" health insurance coverage. The type of insurance that is considered "qualified" will be determined by the Health Choices Commissioner, a new post that will be filled by the President...

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By Deborah Durkee on 10/14/2009 7:48 AM

Two Euro nuclear scientists—al Qaeda?

 

Have you heard this story? Two European nuclear scientists (well-renown) were recently arrested because of ties to al Qaeda. They seem to be connected to the same al Qaeda group caught (many died) experimenting with the bubonic plague in Pakistan this past January. This is the same group, home base in Algeria, who bombed U.N. headquarters in Algiers, killing 41. Many Algerians live in France and move freely between the two countries. Hmmm…bombings, bubonic plague, nuclear scientists. Can you say “weapons of mass destruction?” This is from Annie Jacobsen of Pajamas Media who noticed something interesting online this past Friday night:

 

…a single-line item on the Counterterrorism Blog: “Switzerland: Terror cops arrest Collider scientist linked with al-Qaeda,”...

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By Deborah Durkee on 10/12/2009 8:06 AM

Czar seeks “chilling effect.”

 

This is all about Cass Sunstein, the new “regulatory czar,” his latest book, and his desire to impose a “chilling effect” on Internet websites. This is an example of the folks who surround our president. How’s that warm and fuzzy feeling treating you today? This is from Lee Cary of the American Thinker:

 

The meta-message of Cass Sunstein's new book delivers a warning to those who would spread Internet "rumors" about Barack Obama.

The Regulatory Czar's latest book is entitled Rumors. It purports to be about how rumors spread…

 

The subtitle of the book is "How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done." … For Sunstein, "part of the answer lies in recognizing that a ‘chilling effect' on those who would spread destructive falsehood can be an excellent idea."…

 

Most...

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By Deborah Durkee on 10/11/2009 12:13 PM

They still spell it “Amerika.”

 

Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner has an excellent piece. We’re starting to see more and more of these columns in regular newspapers, and not just online, highlighting the influence on Obama by left-wing 60’s radicals. From online to regular newspapers…the next step is to those newspapers Washington politicians might actually read: the New York Times and the Washington Post, then maybe (maybe?) it might break into the alphabet networks and the left-wing cable news shows:

 

For those of us who grew up in the era when Weather Undergrounders Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dorhn were familiar names in the news, it is always discomforting to be reminded of Barack Obama's many associations with people of the radical left - Ayers, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Van Jones, etc.

 

Such folks' political thought never...

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