Month: June 2014

Sent to us by the author.

Somewhere between reason and feeling exists another basic component of our humanness known as conscience. So important is this faculty of human existence-an individual’s conviction about the rightness or wrongness of their actions-that James Madison believed conscience should have been a permanent part of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights, even an unalienable right.

When Madison spoke to the First Congress he proposed 20 amendments for a Bill of Rights, not the ten that most people are accustomed to today. One important liberty that Madison wanted to protect from federal and state governments and abusive powers was conscience. According to Madison and in a pre-preamble to the constitution: “No state should violate the equal rights of conscience, …”(1)   Continue reading “Why Is Most Important Right Missing from U.S. Constitution?”

AmmoLand – by AWR Hawkins

Washington DC – -(Ammoland.com)-  Red state Democrats who are fighting to overcome their support of gun control and get re-elected are asking gun control proponents Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly to stay out of their states.

This comes after Breibart News’ June 4 report that Giffords and Kelly planned to help Senators Mark Udall (D-CO), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), and Kay Hagan (D-NC) get re-elected this November.   Continue reading “Red State Anti-Gun Dems to Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly: Please Stay Away”

Tenth Amendment Center

SACRAMENTO, June 24, 2014 – Citing the 10th Amendment and support from the Tenth Amendment Center (TAC), the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted unanimously to approve a bipartisan bill which creates a mechanism to turn off all material support and assistance, including water and electricity resources, from California to federal mass surveillance programs. The vote was 5-0.   Continue reading “California Assembly Committee Approves Bill to urn off Resources to the NSA”

You can give illegal immigrants new underwear but don’t you dare open up a small library in your yard.

Yahoo News – by Yazhou Sun

Spencer Collins, 9, loves to read. The idea of sharing his love of books with his neighbors thrills him. So with the help of his parents, he set up a Little Free Library in their yard in Leawood, Kansas.

But the town of Leawood decided the birdhouse-sized library was an illegal structure and the family was ordered to remove it.   Continue reading “Kansas Boy Forced to Remove Little Free Library From His Yard”

AmmoLand

Covington VA –-(Ammoland.com)- More anti-gun double-standards! This time it is ECPI University in Virginia Beach.

A student, Patrick Winslow, simply wants to form a Second Amendment Club, along the line of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, and was told “NO!”

Responding for the School, William C. Salice, the Campus Director of Academic Affairs, wrote in an email: “Patrick, the University wouldn’t sponsor a club like this as it does not correlate to program enhancement or community service.”  

Continue reading “ECPI University in Virginia Beach Bars Second Amendment Club”

CBS Houston – by Benjamin Fearnow

El Paso, Texas (CBS HOUSTON) – The Department of Homeland Security is looking to fulfill an order for thousands of pairs of men’s underwear – with hundreds of the requested men’s briefs in the 5X and 6X-large sizes.

A solicitation posted earlier this month by the Immigration & Customs Enforcement office seeks thousands of “White 100% Cotton Men’s Briefs” ranging from mediums to hundreds of 6X-large pairs of the underwear.   Continue reading “Homeland Security Seeks Thousands Of Pairs Of Underwear For Detained Immigrants”

KHOU 11 News – by Angela Kocherga

WESLACO, Texas — Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited the Rio Grande Valley and called on Washington to do more to protect the border and help Texas cope with “a major pending disaster.”

Perry made the comments at the Texas DPS Regional Headquarters after touring an overcrowded detention center filled with Central American children.

In May alone 9000 children crossed the border according to the Department of Homeland Security.   Continue reading “Texas Gov. Rick Perry warns the Border Patrol has been “overrun””

Reuters – by Dan Whitcomb

The U.S. government’s no-fly list banning people accused of links to terrorism from commercial flights violates their constitutional rights because it gives them no meaningful way to contest that decision, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

U.S. District Judge Anna Brown, ruling on a lawsuit filed in federal court in Oregon by 13 Muslim Americans who were branded with the no-fly status, ordered the government to come up with new procedures that allow people on the no-fly list to challenge that designation.   Continue reading “Federal judge rules U.S. no-fly list violates Constitution”

Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll trip over Hillary coming out of the WH and have a fall to the bottom of the WH steps and we won’t have to pay him.

Washington Free Beacon – by Bill McMorris

Vice President Joe Biden plans on relying solely on taxpayers to fund his retirement.

Biden declared on Monday that he had neither a savings account, nor any stocks to pay off his golden years.   Continue reading “Biden Plans to Live off Taxpayers Forever”

New York Times – by Benjamin Mueller

In a case weighing the government’s ability to require vaccination against the individual right to refuse it, a federal judge has upheld a New York City policy that bars unimmunized children from public school when another student has a vaccine-preventable disease.

Citing a 109-year-old Supreme Court ruling that gives states broad power in public health matters, Judge William F. Kuntz II of Federal District Court in Brooklyn ruled against three families who claimed that their right to free exercise of religion was violated when their children were kept from school, sometimes for a month at a time, because of the city’s immunization policies.   Continue reading “Judge Upholds Policy Barring Unvaccinated Students During Illnesses”

Fox News

Sudanese authorities have re-arrested a young mother a day after she was freed from death row where she’d been sent for refusing to renounce her Christian faith, FoxNews.com confirmed.

Meriam Ibrahim, who gave birth in a Khartoum prison after being sentenced to death in May for allegedly converting from Islam to Christianity, was arrested with her husband, Daniel Wani, at Khartoum airport as she tried to leave the country, according to Al-Sharif Ali, a member of her legal team.   Continue reading “Sudanese Christian mom spared death sentence rearrested trying to leave country”

Vladimir Suchan: Logo Politikos

As we know, President Putin has asked the Russian Federal Council, the Upper House of the Russian Parliament, to call off the March 1 resolution allowing the head of state to use the armed forces on the territory of Ukraine.

Poroshenko likes it and the West too can hardly want to “punish” Russia for this move or to introduce more sanctions. This sudden and, yes, unexpected move comes just a week or so after more Russian troops were moved back and now even unapologetically–to the borders with Ukraine.    Continue reading “Why do Western leaders want to commemorate the beginning of World War I one month ahead and in Ypres out of all the places? Should we be worried?”

RT News

As the insurgency in Iraq threatens the stability of the Shiite-led government there, only 18 percent of Americans think the Iraq War was worth the costs, according to a new poll.

The CBS/New York Times poll asked if the costs of the Iraq invasion, including monetary and loss of American lives, were worth it. A record 75 percent of those surveyed said that it wasn’t worth the costs, up from 67 percent in November 2011 (just before the final withdrawal of US troops) and 45 percent in August 2003, five months after the invasion began.   Continue reading “Was Iraq War worth the cost? 75% of Americans say no – poll”

RT News

Unidentified bombers have reportedly launched an air strike on ISIS positions in the northern Iraqi city of al-Qaim. Iraqi television has claimed they are US planes, but the Pentagon has denied responsibility.

US planes were identified by Iraqi television, but the Saudi Al-Arabiya network claims that the raid was carried out by Syria, citing local tribal chiefs.   Continue reading “Unknown planes bomb ISIS positions in N. Iraq, Pentagon denies it’s US”

Mail.com

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — For Queen Elizabeth II, one throne is enough.

The United Kingdom’s 88-year-old monarch toured the Belfast sets of the hit HBO series “Game of Thrones” and met many of its stars Tuesday beside the show’s sword-covered seat of power, the Iron Throne.   Continue reading “On set: Queen Elizabeth declines to sit on Iron Throne”