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By Chris Rowan

American Thinker is my favorite place to go for thoughtful conservative commentary. Sometimes, the comments that follow a piece are just as interesting as the article itself. The comment below followed an article by George Picard titled “Obama’s Racial Spoil System.” It is an excellent article, but what really caught my attention was this comment:

Stanley Kurtz coined a term to describe Barack Obama’s modus operandi as a state senator. He gave him the moniker Senator Stealth. One way of understanding Barack Obama’s stealthiness and capacity for hiding and befogging is that he is psychologically Islamic. Christianity calls for a boldness and directness of expression — the yea that is yea. However, Islamic doctrine is less straightforward. For example, the Islamic doctrine of taqiya means concealing or disguising one’s beliefs, convictions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and/or strategies at a time of imminent danger, whether now or later in time, to save oneself from physical and/or mental injury. It is impossible to imagine Barack Obama bravely leading soldiers in battle, but he has demonstrated an affinity for drone weapons. Does this affinity reflect his psychological incorporation of taqiya?

This theme of “otherness” in Obama is nothing new. But when you consider taqiya against the backdrop of Obama’s presidency so far, there are some interesting parallels. Twenty years of Jeremiah Wright had to have some effect.

Public employees are indispensable. No city or town can do without its firefighters, police, paramedics, sanitation workers, and so on. Even the tiniest of municipalities need people to sweep the floors of City Hall, stuff sheets of paper into manilla folders, round up stray dogs and cats, and so on. I have no idea how many city, county, state, and federal employees there are in Brownsville, but there must be quite a few.

Public employees are indispensable, but it really irks me when I read about public employees threatening to strike over benefits, pay, or whatever. At some point, collective bargaining becomes a euphemism for a shakedown, for extortion. You don’t want to cross firefighters or the police because . . . Why, exactly? If the city doesn’t give in to the demands of, say, the firefighters union, will they decide to no longer put out fires? Or will they continue in their capacity as firefighters, only in a somewhat more diminished capacity, meaning they’ll take their time getting to the blaze?

So we’ve gotten to the point where over the years public employees have demanded and been given class “A” benefit packages and retirement benefits that were unsustainable and unrealistic back when they were instituted, but were instituted anyway. And we’re broke.

Scary stuff.

By Chris Rowan

The fight is far from over in Wisconsin. Governor Walker and the Republicans in the Wisconsin state House may have won a crucial battle, but the war goes on. The unionistas are now planning on getting a LibProg elected to the state Supreme Court, which would tip the balance of power in favor of the unionistas.

According to the Texas Political Insider,

A memo written by liberal groups explains that the left’s strategy is to win this race and then “challenge in the courts,” nearly every budget reform that Mr. Walker and the Republican majority in the legislature tries to enact. It also appears that if the court challenge to the collective bargaining bill goes all the way to the Supreme Court, this would happen after the April 5th election.

This should come as no surprise to anyone affiliated with the tactics of the political left. Frustrated at the ballot box and the arena of public opinion, they simply shift focus to manipulation of the courts and the legal system. This is the branch of government in which the political left is the most comfortable because they can rule by decree and avoid pesky, annoying and time- consuming processes like open debate and elections.

There are many roads to socialism, communism, totalitarianism, and ruin. And the unionistas know them all very well.

Contributed by Hugh Goldberg

1. Americans spend $36,000,000 at Wal-Mart Every hour of every day.
 
2. This works out to $20,928 profit every minute!

3. Wal-Mart will sell more from January 1 to St. Patrick’s Day (March 17th) than Target sells all year.

4. Wal-Mart is bigger than Home Depot + Kroger + Target +Sears + Costco + K-Mart combined.

5. Wal-Mart employs 1.6 million people, is the world’s largest private employer, and most speak English.

6. Wal-Mart is the largest company in the history of the world.

7. Wal-Mart now sells more food than Kroger and Safeway combined, and keep in mind they did this in only fifteen years.

8. During this same period, 31 big supermarket chains sought bankruptcy.

9. Wal-Mart now sells more food than any other store in the world.

10. Wal-Mart has approx 3,900 stores in the USA of which 1,906 are Super Centers; this is 1,000 more than it had five years ago.

11. This year 7.2 billion different purchasing experiences will occur at Wal-Mart stores. (Earth’s population is approximately 6.5 Billion.)

12. 90% of all Americans live within fifteen miles of a Wal-Mart.

You may think that I am complaining, but I am really laying the ground work for suggesting that MAYBE we should hire the guys who run Wal-Mart to fix the economy.

This should be read and understood by all Americans Democrats, Republicans, EVERYONE!!

To President Obama and all 535 voting members of the Legislature: It is now official you are ALL corrupt morons:

a. The U.S. Postal Service was established in 1775. You have had 234 years to get it right and it is broke.
 
b. Social Security was established in 1935. You have had 74 years to get it right and it is broke.

c. Fannie Mae was established in 1938. You have had 71 years to get it right and it is broke.
  
d. War on Poverty started in 1964. You have had 45 years to get it right; $1 trillion of our money is confiscated each year and transferred to “the poor” and they only want more.
  
e. Medicare and Medicaid were established in 1965. You have had 44 years to get it right and they are broke.
  
f. Freddie Mac was established in 1970. You have had 39 years to get it right and it is broke.
   
g. The Department of Energy was created in 1977 to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. It has ballooned to 16,000 employees with a budget of $24 billion a year and we import more oil than ever before. You had 32 years to get it right and it is an abysmal failure.
 
  
You have FAILED in every”government service” you have shoved down our throats while overspending our tax dollars.
  
AND  YOU WANT AMERICANS TO BELIEVE YOU CAN BE TRUSTED WITH A GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ??
 
MAYBE WE OUGHT TO KICK OBAMA AND HIS EGG-HEAD BUDDY BUMS OUT OF OFFICE AND HIRE WAL MART TO RUN THE GOVERNMENT???
 
WAL MART SEEMS TO KNOW HOW TO RUN A BUSINESS. WHY DON’T YOU GUYS JUST ADMIT IT’S WAY BEYOND YOUR PAY GRADE, AND QUIT?

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What a country!  Nowhere else on Earth can you rise to stratospheric heights of stardom and wealth and be such a complete ignoramus.  There’s a reason why actors like Danny Glover are given scripts.  How embarrassing for leftists everywhere.

I went to high school in the 70′s, and spent many a night at my friend’s apartment watching Monty Python’s Flying Circus on “late night” PBS. Many of their skits and movies are comedy classics – The Parrot Sketch, The Cheese Shop Sketch, Argument Clinic, many others. But one sketch in particular – The Hospital Sketch – has a rather prescient resonance that is both hilarious and haunting.

John Cleese and Graham Chapman are two witless doctors who are more concerned with impressing the Hospital Administrator (played by Eric Idle) by arranging expensive-looking equipment in the delivery room than they are in the welfare of their terrified pregnant patient. I’ve seen the sketch many times over the years, and it has never failed to evoke guffaws of laughter. But lately, it just doesn’t seem very funny.

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An oldie, but goodie from Obama:

And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor. Period.

When Texas doctors start opting out of Medicaid, patients will not get to keep the doctors, especially specialist, they like. According to the Dallas Morning News, doctors fear cuts in Medicaid payments and are threatening to opt out. They cannot afford it.

Things may get worse under ObamaCare.

Update: Edited Obama quote into a block quote for clarity.

(From American Thinker)
By James Lewis

Stalinism” is a useful term for the totalitarian left — even to the left itself. It’s one word they haven’t been able to chew up, gulp down, and transform into its opposite. They still know what “Stalinist” means, even after generations of new names for the same community agitators: “The New Left,” “hippies,” “Black Panthers,” “youthful radicals,” “idealistic students,” “feminists,” “the workers,” “black nationalists,” “Third World socialists,” “the wretched of the earth,” “Green Party,” “Gay activists,” “LGBT,” “Global Warming,” “peace and freedom party,” “eco activists,” “civil rights campaigners,” “post-modernists,” “gender studies,” “J Street,” “Bolivarismo,” “ACORN,” “undocumented workers,” “Moveon.org,” “Liberation Theology” — there must be hundreds and hundreds of front labels for the Same-Old, Same-Old. They make up new ones all the time. This year’s fashionable lefty cult is called “progressivism!”

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Brownsville Voice is a local blog published by self-professed socialist Bobby Wightman Cervantes. On the Fourth, his post about the rights of the people to overthrow their government piqued my interest. He claimed the Fourth was a myth essentially because the judiciary essentially took away the state’s right to secede from or overthrow the Union. He took a quote from our Declaration of Independence that does not mince words and proclaims our right to institute a new government if we so choose.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

I dare not disagree or quibble with Brownsville Voice. Nevertheless, the very next section of our Declaration deserves mention as it clarifies that revolution over trivial or whimsical reasons is not enough justification.

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

If you have read David McCullough’s John Adams or watched the companion HBO miniseries, it should be familiar to you that Jefferson believed in constant revolution for every generation. Further, he believed the people should not hamstrung by the laws of past governments or generations.

On the other hand, Adams argued government should be respected and so should the rule of law. Working with the government they built is, in his mind, the only choice. It appears the quote in Brownsville Voice was Jefferson’s belief while the subsequent section was a significant clarification by Adams.

On a completely different note our Declaration points to many successive injustices by mad King George III. This particular one strikes me as odd considering Adams infamously defending British soldiers after the Boston Massacre.

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world….

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States

Any history buffs out there want to discuss if this included the Boston Massacre trial and if it was a slight against Adams?

Dagoberto Barrera is a member of the Tip of Texas Tea Party. He wrote the following which appeared on page A8 in The Brownsville Herald on Monday, May 3. Click recommend in the link if you support our Dag.

Editor:

Middle Americans are fed up.

How many countries and foreigners do we taxpayers have to feed, clothe and provide medical care for at taxpayers’ expense?

America’s financial lifeboat is about to go under if we keep giving financial assistance to bailout banks, subsidize stupid mortgage lenders, extend unemployment benefits for those not working, thus furthering the welfare state toward a socialistic model.

Thousands of illegals flaunt our laws, all leeching on us taxpayers.

I am not being cold or heartless in denying criminal illegals, lawbreakers, a permanent stay. I am just realistic and pragmatic in upholding the rule of law. Now we want to extend unemployment benefits up to a year. Why work?

This free ride has to stop! 

We have just extended the illegal mother and her son, a badly dimorphism child, more time to leech on our medical services, costing us and our hospital here and in Houston tons of money, when she is not a bona fide American citizen; she has eight more children, all on welfare and government Medicaid. 

Our government wants to help Haiti’s ex-president, an admirer of Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Gadhafi. 

Our treasury and our pocket books are empty. 

Outsiders have found a weak spot in us taxpayers; we are the “sugar daddy” for the whole world. This invites more leechers, more unproductive people, more irresponsible governments and more dependence on us. 

Middle America is fed up supporting non-Americans. 

The Tea Party movement is a resistant group of vocal Americans who are voicing consternation to bailouts, rewarding failure, car companies and insurance companies for their stupidity and malfeasance. The stimulus is also a giveaway.

The Tea Party is demanding that local, state and federal agencies demonstrate fiscal responsibility, stop wasting our money, stop increasing spending and stop raising our taxes.

The bleeding middle class has released a wave of dissent and demonstrations that Americans are fed up.

A wimpy Congress refuses to restrain spending. Americans are tired of being push around and decided to reassert their sovereignty and place government in its proper subordinate role to the people.

Dagoberto Barrera
Brownsville

(From Tea Party Patriots)

This Friday Senate Bill 3217, also known as the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2010, introduced by Democrat Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, is scheduled to hit the floor of the US Senate where it must wait 72 hours before it comes up for a full vote. CLICK HERE to read the actual 1,421 page bill.

The vast majority of Tea Party Patriots’ Local Coordinators from all over the country agreed on our most recent weekly conference call that this is a bad bill and we oppose it. 

In short it grants permanent, unlimited bailout authority to the Federal Reserve.  It’s like TARP forever without the nasty, unpopular debates and votes in Congress.  Beyond that it gives the Fed the power to takeover vaguely defined “nonbank financial companies”.  And the Fed has the power to decide what constitutes a “nonbank financial company” on a case by case basis.

Here are some links to a few articles that give a bit more insight into this very, very bad piece of legislation which must be stopped:

• How To Create Bailouts Forever
• Hidden Danger in Dodd Financial “Reform” Bill
• Dodd Bill Creates Permanent TARP and You Can Quote That
• Connecting the Dots: Does Wall St. Want Dodd Bill?
• Obama: Read My Lips, No More Bailouts (But Let’s Keep $50 Billion Around Just in Case)

 So, what are we asking you to do?

Four things:

1.  Please contact your own Senators first and voice your opposition to this bill.  If possible, physically go in person to the local home offices of your two Senators and speak to someone there who will take note of your opinion and pass it on.  If you’re not able to go in person, please call, email, and fax the offices of both Senators from your state. (Find Your Senators by State on the Senate Website)

2.  Call, email, and fax these 8 Republican Senators who are not yet 100% opposed to this bill:

Bob Bennett of Utah (202) 224-5444
http://bennett.senate.gov/public/

Susan Collins of Maine (202) 224-2523
http://collins.senate.gov/public/

Christopher Bond of Missouri (202) 224-5721
http://bond.senate.gov/public/

Saxby Chambliss of Georgia (202) 224-3521
http://chambliss.senate.gov/public/index.cfm

Bob Corker of Tennessee (202) 224-3344
http://corker.senate.gov/public/

John McCain of Arizona (202) 224-2235
http://mccain.senate.gov/public/

Olympia Snowe of Maine (202) 224-5344
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/

Scott Brown of Massachusetts (202) 224-4543
http://scottbrown.senate.gov/public/

3.  Write Letters about this issue to your local paper for publication on or before Sunday.  Also leave comments on as many news blogs and websites related to this subject as you can find.

4.  Forward this message to as many people as you can and ask them to take these same 4 steps as soon as possible.  Use the full power of your circle of influence to move others (at least 1 more person) to take action.

Once again it’s up to us, you and your fellow Tea Party Patriots, to defend America from out of control government.

Thank you for performing this valuable service for your country!

The following Democrats flipped their votes on Obamacare.  They lied to their constituents.   They’re not “pro-life.”  They’re not “conservative,” fiscally or otherwise.  By voting for this bill, they have exposed themselves as hardcore leftists who do not represent the will of the majority of their constituents.  They represent the tyranny and the corruption that has been ushered in by the Obama Administration, and they must go.

             Name of Congressman – - – - – - – - Amount paid for vote

• Rep. Jerry Costello of Illinois.: $1,418.7 million ($256.4 million in 2010)
• Rep. Solomon Ortiz of Texas: $618 million ($726.1 million in 2010)
• Rep. Bart Stupak of Michigan: $578.9 million 
• Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio: $294 million ($305.7 million in 2010)
• Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper of Pennsylvania: $236.8 million ($54 million in 2010)
• Rep. James Oberstar of Minnesota.: $207 million ($226 million in 2010)
• Rep. Brad Ellsworth of Indiana.: $115.4 million ($82.3 million in 2010)
• Rep. Charles Wilson of Ohio: $84 million ($62.3 million in 2010)
• Rep. Paul Kanjorski of Pennsylvania.: $67.1 million 
• Rep. Steve Driehaus of Ohio: $33.2 million 
• Rep. Joseph Donnelly of Indiana: $19.8 million ($11.65 million in 2010)

The Constitution and Declaration of Independence were written in plain English for plain folk. The Founders intended for ordinary citizens to read those founding documents and internalize the principles contained therein. We don’t need a group of robed experts to interpret our rights for us. I certainly do not. Obamacare is unconstitutional and a flagrant violation of our natural rights. The only way to fix Obamacare is to repeal it, COMPLETELY, and start over with a focus on increasing access to health insurance, lowering costs to consumers, enacting tort reform, and increasing competetion between insurance companies.