Elbert Guillory: "Why I Am a Republican"

This is a must watch !

House to Consider Tax on New Flu Vaccines 

A federal tax on your Flu vaccination  is about to pass Congress!    [clipper]

Eighth-Grader Who Refused to Remove NRA Shirt Could Face Year in Prison

The New York Daily News reports:

The clothing kerfuffle began when Marcum wore a shirt bearing the NRA’s logo and a hunting rifle. As he stood in line in the cafeteria, a teacher ordered him to either change shirts or turn it inside out.

Marcum declined and was sent to the office, where an officer was dispatched after he again refused to comply with the school’s request.

Cops arrested him and charged him with disrupting the educational process and obstructing an officer.

[National Review]

Failte First Family: the Obamas touch down in Ireland

"No expense has been spared in catering for the comforts of Mrs Obama and her party. It is understood she will stay in the luxurious €2,500 [$3,300] -a-night Princess Grace suite.

It is understood a total of 30 rooms in the five-star, 265-bedroom hotel, have been booked for the visit of Mrs Obama and her entourage. During their stay in Dublin, Mrs Obama and and her daughters will visit Trinity College where they will view the Book of Kells."     [Independent - Ireland]

Lessons Better Left in Denmark

"It isn’t always easy living in a country described as the land of milk and honey by socialists all over the world. They should, of course, love Denmark, since it’s by many measures the most socialist country in the Western hemisphere. 


Denmark is basically the closest thing to a socialist utopia you can find.

On the surface, I really do seem to live in the land of milk and honey. As a student, the government provides me with publicly paid university education and a monthly stipend of about $1000 ($700 adjusted for buying power) to cover living costs. I live comfortably in a rather large apartment with its own garden and rent paid by taxpayers. In my home is a nice, big, flat screen TV on the wall and many other luxuries you wouldn’t normally expect from a 
23-year-old student.

So what’s to complain about?"     [Tea Party Patriots]

Obamacare will share personal health info with federal, state agencies

 

"A new 253-page Obamacare rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service."     [Washington Examiner]

Janet Napolitano Denies Existence of ‘Orwellian State’

"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano weighed in on the NSA intelligence leaks on Friday, telling NY1 that fears over government surveillance were overblown.

“I think people have gotten the idea that there’s an Orwellian state out there that somehow we’re operating in. That’s far from the case,” "     [Observer]

Oh?  Really?  See article above re: Healthcare!

....and clipper says this is goodspeak !

NIMFY: Politicians Advocate for Rights of Homeless to Sleep on Sidewalks in Front of Homes . . . Just Not Theirs

 

Watch this video all the way to the end. There are TWO instances of police state intrusion, one local cop, one federal agent:  

 

Activate Damage Control, Senator Rubio

 

"...when Ryan Lizza writes that a Rubio aide told him Senator Rubio had “sided with the Chamber against the construction workers,” we have to take seriously that the aide to Senator Rubio really believes there are Americans who should, for lack of a better term, suffer the fate of natural selection."     [Red State]

 

Senators skip classified briefing on NSA snooping to catch flights home

"Many senators elected to leave Washington early Thursday afternoon instead of attending a briefing with James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Keith Alexander, the head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and other officials."       [The Hill]

Hollywood gun-controllers have met their match

Fresh voice takes on firearm hypocrisy in Tinseltown

“You’re opinion against guns means nothing when you built your fortune based on the glorification of violence.”     [Colion Noir]

 

NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

"National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too."       [CNet]

 

Doctors dump health insurance plans, charge patients less

"A Kansas physician says he makes the same income and offers better quality care to his patients after he dumped all health insurance companies.


Thirty-two-year old family physician Doug Nunamaker of Wichita, Kan., said after five years of dealing with the red tape of health insurance companies and the high overhead for the staff he hired just to deal with paperwork, he switched to a system of charging his patients a monthly fee plus the price of an office visit or test, CNN/Money reported."     [Breitbart]

 

Police report filed for lost and stolen items from Dem convention include $30k iPhone and $75k laptop computer

"Organizers of the Charlotte, N.C., convention have filed a police report for lost and stolen electronics, some of which they appear to have valued at as much as 62 times the listed market prices."     [Michelle Malkin]

 

Maxine Waters: ‘Obama Has Put In Place’ Secret Database With ‘Everything On Everyone’

DEAR LEADER's Family Trip to Africa to Cost $60 to $100 Million

"When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa later this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances. Hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents will be dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania. A Navy aircraft carrier or amphibious ship, with a fully staffed medical trauma center, will be stationed offshore in case of emergency," reports the [Washington] Post.

"Military cargo planes will airlift in 56 support vehicles, including 14 limousines and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet-proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family will stay. Fighter jets will fly in shifts giving 24-hour coverage over the president’s airspace so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."     [The Weekly Standard]

They don't mention the TWO Presidential 747s which go on every trip that DL takes, one to be "Air Force One" the other as a backup. They don't mention the hundreds of other "staff" who accompany our IMPERIAL FAMILY.  Remember the Valerie Jarrett quote a few days before DL was inaugurated: 

"it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one"

[clipper]


UPDATE:  The Africa trip is later ....... THIS weekend he's taking Michelle and the girls along on a trip to Ireland and Germany!    I don't suppose this weekend get-away is free either! [clipper]

Rubio: I Should Have Been More “Artful” About Explaining How Legalization Comes before Border Security

OK ....So.... in his careful explanation he confirms .... “Let’s be clear,” Rubio said. “Nobody is talking about preventing the legalization. The legalization is going to happen. That means the following will happen: First comes the legalization. Then come the measures to secure the border. And then comes the process of permanent residence.”     [Patterico]

WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THE IRS TRYING TO DO ?

IRS CANCELS ORDER FOR SPY EQUIPMENT

Our guv'mint has crossed the Rubicon with this one !!!!  Our tax collectors trying to buy equipment to spy on WHOM ???? If not themselves, then ......... huh ! ....
[clipper]

Dem rep: We were “astounded” by what we heard in our new classified briefing about surveillance

 "A simple case of a liberal trying to impress the lefty base with her innocence about the surveillance state or proof that O and the NSA really are up to more than anyone thought? Well, she’s specific in saying that there are things happening that go beyond what’s been publicly revealed."     

 

 

[Hot Air]

Rubio’s Deceptive Amnesty Ad 

Here is the straight, unvarnished truth which disproves every claim made in Marco Rubio's recent Ad.       [clipper]

'I'm firing!' Grandma, 72, blasts away at burglar

FOR THOSE WHO SAY A PRIVATE CITIZEN'S GUN NEVER PROTECTS THEM

"In a 9-1-1 call, a breathless Jan Cooper, of Anaheim, Calif., told dispatchers an intruder was on the back porch and was trying to get in the house through a sliding door.

Cooper begged the dispatcher to send deputies and warned that she had a gun at the ready, as her dog barked in the background.

“Back up you son of a b—-! Back up! Get the hell out of here!” she can be heard yelling.

“I’m firing!” Cooper shouted to the dispatcher as a loud bang went off."     [WND]

 

BIDEN On Phone Monitoring - 2006

CHANGED HIS TUNE NOW

Obama Preps Army of Straw Men, False Choices to Defend NSA Surveillance

"President Barack Obama wants to you know that you can trust the government not to break the rules it has made for itself for surveillance, even though they had refused to tell you what those rules are, refused to say that the surveillance was even going on, and have been going hard against anybody leaking any information about the administration."     [Reason]

 

The Totalitarian Left is Back

I cannot print this headline bold enough

Here is the clearest, most forthright description I've seen of where we are and how we got here. [clipper]

The Speech That Rocked Virginia

Rush: Obama appointments a big - - - you'

"Radio powerhouse Rush Limbaugh says President Obama is basically telling Americans “F. You” with his two latest appointments in his administration.

Reports indicate Susan Rice, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, will become a national security adviser, and her replacement at the U.N. will be Samantha Power, a foreign-policy expert who is married to Obama’s former regulatory “czar” Cass Sunstein."     [WND]

CASS SUNSTEIN ........ the philosopher-czar of the Obama Administration - Harvard infamy, who believes and writes that elitists REALLY ought to control the rules by which the rest of us should live.  What an incestuous liberal, pig-wallow this Administration has become!     [clipper]

The President WAS INVOLVED in Causing the IRS Debacle

As I reported a week ago (See HERE) Dear Leader met with the president of the National Treasury Employees Union, Colleen Kelley, on March 31, 2010.  This meeting is well documented in White House logs.

This meeting is significant for two reasons:  1) It seems strange for the President to meet directly with a Government employee union leader, but 2) the very next day after her White House meeting with the President, according to the Treasury Department’s Inspector General’s Report, IRS employees — the same employees who belong to the NTEU — set to work in earnest targeting the Tea Party and conservative groups around America.

Why hasn't this matter been discussed, even on Fox? 

[clipper]

Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

 

And some of you were raising hell about the Bush administration's use of selective call data?????

This vacuum cleaner is sweeping up EVERYTHING Verizon handles every second of every day - foreign AND DOMESTIC!!

[clipper]

An Example Of Distortion Of The Facts

An acquaintance who could most charitably be described as "on the left", was waxing long and eloquently to all in earshot at the coffee bar this morning how Gov. Bobby Jindal just signed a HORRIBLE gun law.  According to this loudmouth, Jindal now allows ANYBODY, AT ANY AGE, WITHOUT EXAMINATION AND NEEDING NO PERMIT, to have a gun in Louisiana.

Because I wasn't familiar with this Louisiana law just passed a few days ago, I was unable to rebut his firm and vocal assertions with facts.   So unfortunately, those several folks in earshot went away believing that Louisiana, will soon become a hotbed of mayhem with everyone running around carrying all sorts of guns.  

The simple truth is that EVERY ONE of this (East Coast, retired school teacher) elitist, snob's assertions is factually incorrect.   Read THIS ARTICLE describing the law Jindal signed.  Seems quite responsible to me.     [clipper]

Ted Cruz: ‘Abolish the IRS’

Hear, hear!!! Many now agree .........

However, I for one, do NOT AGREE with Cruz's solution.  The good Senator is proposing that we abolish the IRS and, presumably the tens of thousands of pages of tax code, and move to a FLAT tax.  He wants "the average American" to fill out a postcard sized tax return.  He describes it as "Put down how much you earn, put down a deduction for charitable contributions, home mortgage and how much you owe."  Although he doesn't say, FLAT TAX proponents would have all individual payers paying the same rate.  Unfortunately this simplistic solution does not go far enough. 

How does the FLAT TAX treat businesses?  No change?  Well then,  bring back a few ten thousands of those tax code rules.

The FLAT TAX, leaving deductions available for home mortgages and charitable contributions, really simply leaves the gate open for special interests to petition Congress for other deductions...... and soon we are right back where we started.

The only REAL ANSWER to this tax issue is for us to implement the FAIR TAX
 which would abolish the IRS, repeal the 16th Ammendment which gives the Federal government the right to tax our income, and would establish a national sales tax on all NEW goods and services.

Where the FLAT TAX charges ALL INDIVIDUALS with the same tax on their INCOME (however one determines "income").......  the FAIR TAXis a consumption tax.  EVERYONE (including drug dealers, hookers, and illegal immigrants) would be equally taxed.   Under the FAIR TAX every person living in the United States pays a sales tax on purchases of new goods and services, excluding necessities due to the prebate. The FairTax rate after necessities is 23% and equal to the lowest current income tax bracket (15%) combined with employee payroll taxes (7.65%), both of which will be eliminated.

 The FAIR TAX is currently before the House of Representatives as H.R. 25 .

The FAIR TAX, would NOT tax businesses (except for their purchases of NEW goods and services).  This will cause an explosion of overseas companies coming to our tax-haven shores.

Remember ...... it's the FAIR TAX that is the solution   .... 

NOT THE FLAT TAX.

Becky Gerritson - Wetumpka Tea Party On IRS At Hearing 'I Received A Letter From Lois Lerner'

IRS exempts terror front group over tea party

"At the same time the Internal Revenue Service delayed or denied requests for tax-exempt status from hundreds of conservative non-profit groups, it was quietly restoring the tax-exempt status of an Islamist front group accused of collaborating with terrorists.

Last year, the politicized agency reinstated the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations’ tax-exempt status despite years of delinquent tax filings. CAIR officials had met with officials inside the White House before the decision was made. "     [WND] 

 

   

Fascism In America

"When fascism comes to America, what will it look (and feel) like? 

Very much like what we have now, because a version of fascism is already here.

Fascism is a totalitarian political system, in which an all-powerful central government directs a nation's economy. Virtually no aspect of society is independent of the state, which is a one-party regime, dominated by an omniscient leader. Although heavily influenced by populistic themes, fascist ideology is at once anti-democratic and collectivist.

At first blush, the American variety of fascism is different. For one thing, the traditional institutions associated with government in the United States are still in place. Sadly, however, the primary principles of American governance -- especially limited government, federalism, individual liberty, personal responsibility, and so on -- have been severely compromised."     [American Thinker]

DHS Flags Tweets About 'Militia,' But Not 'Jihad'

 

Homeland Security spying on YOU but not terrorists! 

 

 

Zero Tolerance Insanity: Deaf Three-Year-Old’s Hand Sign for His Name Said to Violate “Weapons Policy”

"Hunter Spanjer says his name with a certain special hand gesture, but at just three and a half years old, he may have to change it.

 

“He’s deaf, and his name sign, they say, is a violation of their weapons policy,” explained Hunter’s father, Brian Spanjer.

Grand Island’s “Weapons in Schools” Board Policy 8470 forbids “any instrument…that looks like a weapon,”     [Patterico]

Obama birth-certificate doubts head to Capitol

"Audible gasps, shock, outrage and support for a congressional investigation were the responses by law-enforcement officers, elected officials and attorneys to a presentation by Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse of evidence that Barack Obama’s birth certificate is fraudulent.

Arpaio’s lead investigator, Mike Zullo, made a public presentation Saturday at the annual convention of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in St. Charles, Mo., then held a closed-door session for police officers, elected officials and others.

Zullo said he was amazed by the number of law-enforcement personnel and others at the conference who were not aware of the evidence that Obama’s birth documentation is fake."     [WND]

Kindergarten and the Kafkaesque

"To follow up on the recent story about a five-year-old boy suspended for showing a cap gun to his friend on a school bus, Investor's Business Daily relates a charming collection of similar anecdotes regarding such child abuse at U.S. re-education camps -- oops, I mean public schools. Each tale involves a very young child receiving severe punishment for the offense of imagining he had a gun. 

In the most recent case in question, a kindergarten student in Maryland shows his cap gun to a friend, and is browbeaten for two hours by school officials, without his mother even being notified, until he wets his pants in fear.

The boys' harmless actions were unacceptable precisely because they were harmless. That is to say, in the current moral grammar of progressivism, it is an offense against society to think about guns without hating or fearing them -- just as it is an offense to think about Western history without the Marxist context of systemic oppression, to think of female modesty without its radical feminist critique, or to think of wealth without simultaneously thinking of greed. Thus, just as with these other notions, entertaining the idea of guns in an innocuous way is indecent, immoral, and warrants one's removal from the collective."

Trayvon, George, and the Homeless Man

 

"At a pre-trial hearing on May 28, the attorney for accused murderer George Zimmerman, Mark O'Mara, slipped a time bomb into the public record that no one in the major media seemed to notice.  It had to do with a homeless man, and the relationship between that man and the victim of Zimmerman's alleged crime, Trayvon Martin."     [American Thinker]

HHS Already Rationing Enrollment in Obamacare’s Pre-Existing Condition Plan

 

"A pre-existing condition health insurance program established by Obamacare is already straining its own budget and, to control costs, the administration’s Health and Human Services Department (HHS) has stopped enrolling any new people in the program, according to an audit by the General Accountability Office (GAO)."     [CNS]

 

The Great Pretender

Another Win For FREEDOM From Bureaucracy

"In a dispute with state school officials, the Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled that a homeschooling family is free to set its own school calender, as long as it meets the requirement for class hours."     [WND]