Thursday, May 28, 2009
Contacting Senators & Congressmen
Here are a few handy links to help us contact our Senators and Congressmen...
Contact U.S. Senator Mike Johanns
Contact U.S. Senator Ben Nelson
Contact U.S. Congressman Adrian Smith
Nebraska State Senators
Wyoming State Senators
State of Wyoming House of Representatives
Sotomayor opposes Gun Rights
Here is a sample fax or letter that you could copy and print out and send to your Senator.
[Sen.] [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]
Washington, DC
RE: Please REJECT Judge Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee
Dear [Sen.] [LAST NAME]:
I'm writing to ask you to please REJECT President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, due to the fact that she is a judicial activist who opposes the Constitutional right of an individual to keep and bear arms.
Judge Sotomayor ruled on a Second Circuit Appeals Court panel that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right and does not apply to the states in the case of Maloney v. Cuomo. This ruling is in direct conflict with a Ninth Circuit Court ruling in the Nordyke v. King case in California, which said that the Second Amendment IS incorporated through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court may take up this issue of incorporation during its next session beginning in October, because attorneys in the Maloney case plan to appeal in late June.
So, JUDGE Sotomayor ruled against our Second Amendment gun rights in Maloney v. Cuomo. If the Maloney appeal is accepted by the Supreme Court (as is likely)... would JUSTICE Sotomayor recuse herself from deliberations? At the very least, these questions MUST be asked; her nomination must NOT be rushed through, and her qualifications and out-of-the-mainstream ideological beliefs MUST be examined thoroughly. Please, do the RIGHT thing -- REJECT President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, due to the fact that she is a judicial activist who opposes the Constitutional right of an individual to keep and bear arms. Thank you.
Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
[ADDRESS]
[CITY], [STATE] [ZIP]
[Sen.] [FIRST NAME] [LAST NAME]
Washington, DC
RE: Please REJECT Judge Sotomayor as Supreme Court Nominee
Dear [Sen.] [LAST NAME]:
I'm writing to ask you to please REJECT President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, due to the fact that she is a judicial activist who opposes the Constitutional right of an individual to keep and bear arms.
Judge Sotomayor ruled on a Second Circuit Appeals Court panel that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right and does not apply to the states in the case of Maloney v. Cuomo. This ruling is in direct conflict with a Ninth Circuit Court ruling in the Nordyke v. King case in California, which said that the Second Amendment IS incorporated through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
The Supreme Court may take up this issue of incorporation during its next session beginning in October, because attorneys in the Maloney case plan to appeal in late June.
So, JUDGE Sotomayor ruled against our Second Amendment gun rights in Maloney v. Cuomo. If the Maloney appeal is accepted by the Supreme Court (as is likely)... would JUSTICE Sotomayor recuse herself from deliberations? At the very least, these questions MUST be asked; her nomination must NOT be rushed through, and her qualifications and out-of-the-mainstream ideological beliefs MUST be examined thoroughly. Please, do the RIGHT thing -- REJECT President Obama's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, due to the fact that she is a judicial activist who opposes the Constitutional right of an individual to keep and bear arms. Thank you.
Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
[ADDRESS]
[CITY], [STATE] [ZIP]
Marine Aviator's Memorial Day Wave Off
This article is by Mark Alexander of PatriotPost.us.
Every week, the greatest challenge I face as editor of The Patriot Post is determining which subject among all the current news and policy issues concerning liberty and constitutional integrity should be the target of an essay. I mention this because deep into this week's treatise and just a few hours ahead of deadline, I received a message from one of our Patriot readers that offered a far more powerful perspective on where we are as a nation than anything I'd been writing.
That message was from Mike McGinn, and began: "Only under the administration of a former 'community organizer,' a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine, who never served a day of his life in uniform, could a 20-year retired Marine Corps Officer be prohibited from visiting the Arlington National Cemetery resting place of his father, a 30-year retired Marine Corps Officer with distinguished combat service, on the most hallowed of days for our fallen and deceased military servicemen and women -- Memorial Day."
View the full article here
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.US
(To submit or to view reader comments visit our Letters to the Editor page.)
Every week, the greatest challenge I face as editor of The Patriot Post is determining which subject among all the current news and policy issues concerning liberty and constitutional integrity should be the target of an essay. I mention this because deep into this week's treatise and just a few hours ahead of deadline, I received a message from one of our Patriot readers that offered a far more powerful perspective on where we are as a nation than anything I'd been writing.
That message was from Mike McGinn, and began: "Only under the administration of a former 'community organizer,' a product of the corrupt Chicago political machine, who never served a day of his life in uniform, could a 20-year retired Marine Corps Officer be prohibited from visiting the Arlington National Cemetery resting place of his father, a 30-year retired Marine Corps Officer with distinguished combat service, on the most hallowed of days for our fallen and deceased military servicemen and women -- Memorial Day."
View the full article here
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.US
(To submit or to view reader comments visit our Letters to the Editor page.)
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Memorial Day 2009 is a Solemn Occasion
by Doug Patton
On Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend, my family and I gather at a small rural cemetery on a windswept hillside, surrounded by rich Iowa farmland, as the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars honors the men buried there who served in all of America’s wars, from the War of 1812 to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
An aging VFW honor guard provides a 21-gun salute, followed by a lone bugler playing Taps. Some of the men being honored there were teenagers when they lost their lives in battle. Some came home to raise families and grow old in that community, or perhaps they settled there after their war years to start a whole new life. Still others migrated elsewhere before returning home to live out their final years and be buried in that little cemetery.
Whatever their circumstances, they are remembered each Memorial Day at this brief ceremony. Among the names of those who served in World War I is that of my maternal grandfather. He and my grandmother settled there in the 1930s and made the community their home. They are buried together in that little cemetery.
For the past ten years, my father’s name has been among the interred who served in World War II. As a 22-year-old NCO on Eisenhower’s staff during the planning for D-Day, only a freak accident resulting in a broken ankle kept him from sailing across the English Channel on June 6, 1944, with the rest of the invasion force. Like most WWII vets, he never talked much about his wartime experiences, but he did tell us about that one, and I believe it always haunted him that the young man who took his place that day was one of the first to fall on Omaha Beach.
Until this year, I had always viewed this special Memorial Day ceremony as a celebration of the lives of ordinary men who rose to the occasion in the worst of times to do extraordinary things. This year, I felt a sense of sadness and resentment for those men, because their country is now led by a man who believes that America is an arrogant nation that needs to apologize to the rest of the world.
From the bloody, mustard gas poisoned battlefields of World War I to the beaches of Normandy, from the freezing cold of Korea to the rice paddies of Vietnam, from the deserts of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan, these brave men set aside their own personal hopes, dreams, goals and lives to serve us when we needed them most. They fought for an ideal this president cannot even fathom and about which he apparently cares nothing.
I hear people say, “He’s not one of us,” almost as if he’s a space alien. I know what they mean, and I agree. He is not a loyal, patriotic American, and I am tired of pretending he is anything other than an underprepared, slick-talking Marxist. He is a radical ideologue whose worldview is global and whose loyalties lie somewhere other than with the nation that has given him so much.
I miss my father. I wish he had lived beyond the mere 76 years he was given. Hardly a day has passed in the last ten years that I have not wished that I could ask him the questions I failed to ask when I thought I had another year or another month with him, or to tell him how much I appreciate the sacrifice he and his generation made to preserve my freedom.
But when I see the President of the United States travel to Europe and refuse to go to a U.S. military cemetery in France — even at the invitation of the French president — I am glad my father did not live to see it. When I see my president stand before crowds of Europeans, all of whom, without the intervention of my country — twice in one century — would be speaking German today, I am ashamed for the honor of my father and my grandfather.
May God grant us the endurance and the fortitude to stand against the evil of this president’s ideology and agenda, and the wisdom to replace him with the next true patriot who runs for that office.
____________________________________________________________________________
© Copyright 2009 by Doug Patton
____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
On Sunday morning of Memorial Day weekend, my family and I gather at a small rural cemetery on a windswept hillside, surrounded by rich Iowa farmland, as the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars honors the men buried there who served in all of America’s wars, from the War of 1812 to Operation Iraqi Freedom.
An aging VFW honor guard provides a 21-gun salute, followed by a lone bugler playing Taps. Some of the men being honored there were teenagers when they lost their lives in battle. Some came home to raise families and grow old in that community, or perhaps they settled there after their war years to start a whole new life. Still others migrated elsewhere before returning home to live out their final years and be buried in that little cemetery.
Whatever their circumstances, they are remembered each Memorial Day at this brief ceremony. Among the names of those who served in World War I is that of my maternal grandfather. He and my grandmother settled there in the 1930s and made the community their home. They are buried together in that little cemetery.
For the past ten years, my father’s name has been among the interred who served in World War II. As a 22-year-old NCO on Eisenhower’s staff during the planning for D-Day, only a freak accident resulting in a broken ankle kept him from sailing across the English Channel on June 6, 1944, with the rest of the invasion force. Like most WWII vets, he never talked much about his wartime experiences, but he did tell us about that one, and I believe it always haunted him that the young man who took his place that day was one of the first to fall on Omaha Beach.
Until this year, I had always viewed this special Memorial Day ceremony as a celebration of the lives of ordinary men who rose to the occasion in the worst of times to do extraordinary things. This year, I felt a sense of sadness and resentment for those men, because their country is now led by a man who believes that America is an arrogant nation that needs to apologize to the rest of the world.
From the bloody, mustard gas poisoned battlefields of World War I to the beaches of Normandy, from the freezing cold of Korea to the rice paddies of Vietnam, from the deserts of Iraq to the mountains of Afghanistan, these brave men set aside their own personal hopes, dreams, goals and lives to serve us when we needed them most. They fought for an ideal this president cannot even fathom and about which he apparently cares nothing.
I hear people say, “He’s not one of us,” almost as if he’s a space alien. I know what they mean, and I agree. He is not a loyal, patriotic American, and I am tired of pretending he is anything other than an underprepared, slick-talking Marxist. He is a radical ideologue whose worldview is global and whose loyalties lie somewhere other than with the nation that has given him so much.
I miss my father. I wish he had lived beyond the mere 76 years he was given. Hardly a day has passed in the last ten years that I have not wished that I could ask him the questions I failed to ask when I thought I had another year or another month with him, or to tell him how much I appreciate the sacrifice he and his generation made to preserve my freedom.
But when I see the President of the United States travel to Europe and refuse to go to a U.S. military cemetery in France — even at the invitation of the French president — I am glad my father did not live to see it. When I see my president stand before crowds of Europeans, all of whom, without the intervention of my country — twice in one century — would be speaking German today, I am ashamed for the honor of my father and my grandfather.
May God grant us the endurance and the fortitude to stand against the evil of this president’s ideology and agenda, and the wisdom to replace him with the next true patriot who runs for that office.
____________________________________________________________________________
© Copyright 2009 by Doug Patton
____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Franklin Roosevelt "Historically"
I never really knew President Roosevelt for what he really was. I always looked up to him historically because of I am in such awl of ww2 veterans and what they did. He was the "Commander in Chief" He died before the war ended but hands down our soldiers kicked butt! He deserves alot of the credit as the president for winning the war!
The New Deal! by a democrat president Roosevelt and overwhelming Democratic Congress...What harm could this combination do? "The Great Depression" should be renamed
"The Greatest Democratic Years"
What do you people think? Was he the greatest President or the worst? Democrats forever rewrite history to make them seem like they are the savior of our souls. Of course at the time he must have been a great inspiration and looked up too...but what a price we pay now! Obama has brought us to the "2nd Greatest Democratic Years" so lets call it what it is, and stand by the price we pay this time, will make the 1 st time look like chump change.
The New Deal! by a democrat president Roosevelt and overwhelming Democratic Congress...What harm could this combination do? "The Great Depression" should be renamed
"The Greatest Democratic Years"
What do you people think? Was he the greatest President or the worst? Democrats forever rewrite history to make them seem like they are the savior of our souls. Of course at the time he must have been a great inspiration and looked up too...but what a price we pay now! Obama has brought us to the "2nd Greatest Democratic Years" so lets call it what it is, and stand by the price we pay this time, will make the 1 st time look like chump change.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Article on Bible Burning
Please see the bold print in the blog post here to read about authorized bible burning!!
Budget Cuts???
I would like to point out something that has happened that no one seems to realize "The Truth" about... May 7th 2009 Obama announced that he made 17 Billion dollars in cuts to the budget. Now like most people I thought what a joke... but the truth really is that no cuts in money were made, only cuts in programs. For example; money to widowed police officer wives and the military F-22 program.
This means the spending levels were set already before Obama made his announcement. In short he Lied (Again)
See the official government document here
Scott Dutra
This means the spending levels were set already before Obama made his announcement. In short he Lied (Again)
See the official government document here
Scott Dutra
Encouraged
I was reading your e-mail about kicking your self for not telling more people about what was going on... would they have listen? the left have been "Conditioning" our kids for years.
1) What's happening now is long time in coming and yet the full impact will not be felt or realized by people until they get their check and its been shredded by tax by all the spending that's going on. Trust me they are working today on how to blame this on Bush or anyone else and it will sound believable! Joseph Goebbels would be proud of our news press!
2) It has taken years of slowly chipping away at everything we believe in, to get us where we are at. It will take years to restore us to a point where we are not in such despair.
3) I have hundreds of letters and e-mails from senators and house members, (I stopped the letters because i am running out of room to store them now i use e-mails). After years finally only now do i feel like we can begin to stop the slow take over of our lives, liberties and religion. I have been called a nut "don't talk to dad about politics" ect I have told everyone i know at work, family...but no one seems to care, because the "left" have clung to the good works and hard labors of honest people like a virus to make us sick of our own selves and then bring down everything.
So what do we do, where do we start? We need to start by getting info out to people about the truth of our elected officials. What did they vote for, what is there record. Did they make deals that left us hanging out to dry? did the judges allow child molesters go free? did our school board members vote correctly?
What is a moderate politician? He's the guy you can't depend on! What does he believe in? he/she is the guy who stands on deals not beliefs! He's the one who will sell out for a vote! So who are the moderate politicians? Most people have no clue! or even that being a moderate is a cop out!
These type of people need to be exposed and elected out of office. People need to know what they do and who they are. At election time all you get is a guy smiling at you standing with his family on a post card saying he has made a difference...What does that mean?
Liberals don't compromise there beliefs,and neither should we. they just change the words or phrase to make it sound like what it is not. i.e. "The fairness doctrine" global warming is now "Green" who cares that most scientist don't believe that man is the cause or that it is even happening.
We need to set up a means of showing people who they are so that someone does not vote for someone based on "he looks ok to me" Our Tea Party should have a local and state preference rating for elections. If one vote makes a difference imagine what a couple of hundred or a thousand can do to an election!
Before the April 15th rally I was preparing for the worse, but now I see true hope! If we start chipping at the stone now, we have a chance.
I have numerous sites for sending e-mails regarding current events. If you would like i could gather some and send them over. It's easy to do and alot of the emails are already written for you, but almost all of them let you add your statement to it.
Thanks for all you do!
Scott R. Dutra
1) What's happening now is long time in coming and yet the full impact will not be felt or realized by people until they get their check and its been shredded by tax by all the spending that's going on. Trust me they are working today on how to blame this on Bush or anyone else and it will sound believable! Joseph Goebbels would be proud of our news press!
2) It has taken years of slowly chipping away at everything we believe in, to get us where we are at. It will take years to restore us to a point where we are not in such despair.
3) I have hundreds of letters and e-mails from senators and house members, (I stopped the letters because i am running out of room to store them now i use e-mails). After years finally only now do i feel like we can begin to stop the slow take over of our lives, liberties and religion. I have been called a nut "don't talk to dad about politics" ect I have told everyone i know at work, family...but no one seems to care, because the "left" have clung to the good works and hard labors of honest people like a virus to make us sick of our own selves and then bring down everything.
So what do we do, where do we start? We need to start by getting info out to people about the truth of our elected officials. What did they vote for, what is there record. Did they make deals that left us hanging out to dry? did the judges allow child molesters go free? did our school board members vote correctly?
What is a moderate politician? He's the guy you can't depend on! What does he believe in? he/she is the guy who stands on deals not beliefs! He's the one who will sell out for a vote! So who are the moderate politicians? Most people have no clue! or even that being a moderate is a cop out!
These type of people need to be exposed and elected out of office. People need to know what they do and who they are. At election time all you get is a guy smiling at you standing with his family on a post card saying he has made a difference...What does that mean?
Liberals don't compromise there beliefs,and neither should we. they just change the words or phrase to make it sound like what it is not. i.e. "The fairness doctrine" global warming is now "Green" who cares that most scientist don't believe that man is the cause or that it is even happening.
We need to set up a means of showing people who they are so that someone does not vote for someone based on "he looks ok to me" Our Tea Party should have a local and state preference rating for elections. If one vote makes a difference imagine what a couple of hundred or a thousand can do to an election!
Before the April 15th rally I was preparing for the worse, but now I see true hope! If we start chipping at the stone now, we have a chance.
I have numerous sites for sending e-mails regarding current events. If you would like i could gather some and send them over. It's easy to do and alot of the emails are already written for you, but almost all of them let you add your statement to it.
Thanks for all you do!
Scott R. Dutra
Las Vegas Trip
I do not think that tax payer money should go to those huge corporations going to Las Vegas. However, I also do not think that it is necessary for Obama to go there and help raise money for a Senator. It will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to transport all the personnel to Las Vegas for his trip plus all the equipment. As far as I know that is tax payer money as well that I really do not think needs to be spent, especially on Harry Reid. Just my opinion.
View this article on foxnews.com
Thanks,
Brandon Brown
View this article on foxnews.com
Thanks,
Brandon Brown
9.12 Main Event Sep 12, 2009
This is the MAIN EVENT! September 12th, 2009, the Glenn Beck 9.12 Project Event nationwide...whether you attend a viewing party of a few thousand, or you're by yourself watching it at home or alone in a conference room ;-) you aren't alone, they don't surround us, WE surround THEM!
We will be posting more information about this main event. Please keep Sep 12, 2009 open so that you may attend!
We will be posting more information about this main event. Please keep Sep 12, 2009 open so that you may attend!
Monday, May 18, 2009
Quote from John Adams
"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
~John Adams, Address to the Military, October 11, 1798
~John Adams, Address to the Military, October 11, 1798
Quote from Benjamin Franklin
“TRUTH is not always popular,
but it is always right.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
but it is always right.”
~ Benjamin Franklin
Quotes from Abraham Lincoln
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Barack Obama’s Irrelevant Religiosity
By Doug Patton
May 18, 2009
When Barack Obama told Rev. Rick Warren last year that knowing when life begins is “above my pay grade,” he was splitting hairs at a molecular level, and in so doing he told us more about himself than he may have realized. This president is more adept than any in recent memory at appearing pious while believing in nothing — except, of course, in the god of big government and the hedonism of radical autonomy.
As I write this, the president is in South Bend, Indiana, receiving an honorary degree from Notre Dame University at the graduation ceremony of that venerable Catholic institution. The church officials responsible for the university have managed to convince themselves that this most enthusiastic of pro-abortion presidents is somehow deserving of an honorary doctorate — in law, no less — from an institution that professes to be a leading proponent of the sanctity of innocent human life.
Apparently, being a community organizer who “helped the poor” on the streets of Chicago twenty years ago somehow negates the vicious pro-death policies he has embraced since. As an Illinois state senator, he voted to condemn newborns to die in closets after botched abortions. As a United States senator, he voted to allow full-term babies to be aborted up to the moment of birth simply because they were inconvenient. And now, as president of the United States, he advocates the destruction of human life for the purpose of embryonic stem cell research, he has ordered the export of abortion beyond our shores, and he has promised to sign a tyrannical policy known as the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would sweep away every federal, state and local restriction on abortion — including parental notification, the federal ban on partial birth abortion, and the conscience clause, which permits medical personnel to opt out of involvement in abortion procedures.
The Vatican has been silent on the president’s appearance at Notre Dame. I am not a Catholic, but it appears to me that this appeasement of the culture of death by the highest levels of the Catholic Church has effectively neutered the church as an ally in the fight for the sanctity of innocent human life. Obama, perhaps better than any politician in history, understands how to emasculate the institutions that oppose him. It’s as if, having waved his magic wand, he has blinded those who should be his greatest opposition and convinced them to aid him in furthering his agenda.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, in Afghanistan, American soldiers are helplessly watching as their privately owned Bibles are being confiscated and burned — not by the Afghan government, which would be outrageous enough, but rather by the U.S. military! That’s right. Because of a story on the Muslim-controlled Arab television network, Al-Jazeera, and because of the protests of a few atheists, the Bibles are being seized by Barack Obama’s Pentagon and burned!
These Bibles were printed in Pashto and Dari, the languages of Afghans. They were sent to American Christian soldiers and chaplains by private donors. They were meant for distribution to American troops who were attending Christian church services on bases in Afghanistan. American military officials admit that these Bibles could be useful to U.S. soldiers in learning the languages of their hosts. Also, under Army regulations, these Bibles could legally be given as gifts to Afghan citizens during the soldiers’ off-duty hours. No matter; we must appease a few disgruntled Muslims and even fewer disgruntled atheists.
According to former Navy Chaplain Gordon J. Klingenschmitt, who has recently publicized this story, U.S. Central Command’s General Order Number One defines “proselytizing” as “forcing religious conversions using military weapons.” However, writes Klingenschmitt, the Order “fully permits soldiers of any religion to engage in non-threatening evangelism,” defined as “voluntary conversations about their faith.”
So, what are American Christian believers to conclude about their president? Is he truly a reasonable leader willing to listen to all points of view and to “disagree without being disagreeable”? Or is he a defender of Muslims, atheists and a culture of death at the expense of Christians and of the Christian faith he claims to embrace? His actions, combined with his irrelevant religiosity, seem to indicate the latter.
____________________________________________________________________________
© Copyright 2009 by Doug Patton
____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
May 18, 2009
When Barack Obama told Rev. Rick Warren last year that knowing when life begins is “above my pay grade,” he was splitting hairs at a molecular level, and in so doing he told us more about himself than he may have realized. This president is more adept than any in recent memory at appearing pious while believing in nothing — except, of course, in the god of big government and the hedonism of radical autonomy.
As I write this, the president is in South Bend, Indiana, receiving an honorary degree from Notre Dame University at the graduation ceremony of that venerable Catholic institution. The church officials responsible for the university have managed to convince themselves that this most enthusiastic of pro-abortion presidents is somehow deserving of an honorary doctorate — in law, no less — from an institution that professes to be a leading proponent of the sanctity of innocent human life.
Apparently, being a community organizer who “helped the poor” on the streets of Chicago twenty years ago somehow negates the vicious pro-death policies he has embraced since. As an Illinois state senator, he voted to condemn newborns to die in closets after botched abortions. As a United States senator, he voted to allow full-term babies to be aborted up to the moment of birth simply because they were inconvenient. And now, as president of the United States, he advocates the destruction of human life for the purpose of embryonic stem cell research, he has ordered the export of abortion beyond our shores, and he has promised to sign a tyrannical policy known as the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), which would sweep away every federal, state and local restriction on abortion — including parental notification, the federal ban on partial birth abortion, and the conscience clause, which permits medical personnel to opt out of involvement in abortion procedures.
The Vatican has been silent on the president’s appearance at Notre Dame. I am not a Catholic, but it appears to me that this appeasement of the culture of death by the highest levels of the Catholic Church has effectively neutered the church as an ally in the fight for the sanctity of innocent human life. Obama, perhaps better than any politician in history, understands how to emasculate the institutions that oppose him. It’s as if, having waved his magic wand, he has blinded those who should be his greatest opposition and convinced them to aid him in furthering his agenda.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, in Afghanistan, American soldiers are helplessly watching as their privately owned Bibles are being confiscated and burned — not by the Afghan government, which would be outrageous enough, but rather by the U.S. military! That’s right. Because of a story on the Muslim-controlled Arab television network, Al-Jazeera, and because of the protests of a few atheists, the Bibles are being seized by Barack Obama’s Pentagon and burned!
These Bibles were printed in Pashto and Dari, the languages of Afghans. They were sent to American Christian soldiers and chaplains by private donors. They were meant for distribution to American troops who were attending Christian church services on bases in Afghanistan. American military officials admit that these Bibles could be useful to U.S. soldiers in learning the languages of their hosts. Also, under Army regulations, these Bibles could legally be given as gifts to Afghan citizens during the soldiers’ off-duty hours. No matter; we must appease a few disgruntled Muslims and even fewer disgruntled atheists.
According to former Navy Chaplain Gordon J. Klingenschmitt, who has recently publicized this story, U.S. Central Command’s General Order Number One defines “proselytizing” as “forcing religious conversions using military weapons.” However, writes Klingenschmitt, the Order “fully permits soldiers of any religion to engage in non-threatening evangelism,” defined as “voluntary conversations about their faith.”
So, what are American Christian believers to conclude about their president? Is he truly a reasonable leader willing to listen to all points of view and to “disagree without being disagreeable”? Or is he a defender of Muslims, atheists and a culture of death at the expense of Christians and of the Christian faith he claims to embrace? His actions, combined with his irrelevant religiosity, seem to indicate the latter.
____________________________________________________________________________
© Copyright 2009 by Doug Patton
____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Patton is a freelance columnist who has served as a political speechwriter and policy advisor to conservative candidates, elected officials and public policy organizations. His weekly columns are published in newspapers across the country and on selected Internet web sites, including Human Events Online and GOPUSA.com, where he is a senior writer and state editor. Readers may e-mail him at dougpatton@cox.net.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Church and State
Is the phrase 'separation of church and state' found anywhere in the constitution?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
Visit this link to learn about our Constitution and The First Amendment
Blessings,
Brian Hale
Public Relations Team
308 632-4653
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state
Visit this link to learn about our Constitution and The First Amendment
Blessings,
Brian Hale
Public Relations Team
308 632-4653
FREE NRA Membership
The following link will let you sign up as an NRA member for one year, absolutely FREE.
NRA has a need to expand membership now. They need our help to save and preserve the 2nd Ammendment.
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https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp
Sincerely,
Brian Hale
Public Relations Team
WyoBraskaTeaParty.com
308 632-4653
NRA has a need to expand membership now. They need our help to save and preserve the 2nd Ammendment.
This link has been published to the website already, but you can click on it below...
https://www.nrahq.org/nrabonus/accept-membership.asp
Sincerely,
Brian Hale
Public Relations Team
WyoBraskaTeaParty.com
308 632-4653
Nebraska's "Right To Be"
After several hundred notes, cards, meetings and thousands of phone calls -- a vision and plan for a free and prosperous Nebraska has emerged. The attachment to this e-mail gives an outline for action. That action will cause building of citizen-teams across this great State and region to work on 1) State Sovereignty, 2) Right to own property, 3) Immigration law enforcement, and 4) for a limited tax system void of federal/state income taxes and inheritance tax. This system of local neighbor-to-neighbor, friend-to-friend, business and social contacts, professional meetings, etc. allows for quick networking and confidence building. Much of our initial effort will be in educating ourselves and others about renewing Americanism and being winners. Our route back to strong economic communities with American values and our Sovereign State (having limited Federal ties) is an easy sell. The non-political foundation for freedom allows broad based support.
These grassroots efforts were a culmination of elected representatives (at all levels) and some businesses showing poor leadership over the last several decades. Recently our Federal Government has put the destruction of our current way of life and freedom on fast track. Now Nebraskans are choosing to take back our State.
To help coordinate our restoration efforts, a website called www.PeoplesLiberty.net is being assembled. This website will be a "go-to" place for coordinating team-building, training and education seminars, collecting and distributing information from groups and websites across Nebraska and other interested States. This will assist local Meet-Up Groups, 912 Project input, taxpayer organizations, freedom and sovereignty sites, etc. to display their data and endeavors. Our goal is to have this website functioning by June 15, 2009.
For informative DVD's on American fundamentals, contact us at (402) 751-2557 or reply to this email. We have an item called "Overview of America" that explains how "who owns the economic tools" coupled with "good morality" impacts the success or failure of a culture. Also a DVD called "Thomas Paine" (an 18th century patriot who helped write our U.S. Constitution) that shares his thoughts about today's U.S.A. Also we have another DVD of the "We the People Rally" in Hastings, NE, April 13, 2009. This DVD is an inspiring event to be shared with all about a cross-section of Americans renewing hope and committment. Its simplicity and celebration is proof that miracles still happen.
Meanwhile, there must be communication from you to all you know to spread the good news that Nebraska and its values is not for sale. Your contacts could be (for example) neighbors, teachers, associations, church affiliations, corn grower associations, livestock producers, bankers association, sporting and hunting groups, chambers of commerce, elected officials, manufacturers, residents of other States, political leaders, etc, etc. .....because this country belongs to all of us.
As we take ownership for our actions, our communities and country will be strengthened. I thank the endless list of people and organizations that have helped inform our decisions and give us the vision and faith to proceed. This author represents the many called "We the People ......" For information, until our website comes online, please call (402) 469-5546 (Butch Hughes) or e-mail jpf45@gtmc.net.
Respectfully,
Butch Hughes
Hastings, NE
(402) 469-5546
These grassroots efforts were a culmination of elected representatives (at all levels) and some businesses showing poor leadership over the last several decades. Recently our Federal Government has put the destruction of our current way of life and freedom on fast track. Now Nebraskans are choosing to take back our State.
To help coordinate our restoration efforts, a website called www.PeoplesLiberty.net is being assembled. This website will be a "go-to" place for coordinating team-building, training and education seminars, collecting and distributing information from groups and websites across Nebraska and other interested States. This will assist local Meet-Up Groups, 912 Project input, taxpayer organizations, freedom and sovereignty sites, etc. to display their data and endeavors. Our goal is to have this website functioning by June 15, 2009.
For informative DVD's on American fundamentals, contact us at (402) 751-2557 or reply to this email. We have an item called "Overview of America" that explains how "who owns the economic tools" coupled with "good morality" impacts the success or failure of a culture. Also a DVD called "Thomas Paine" (an 18th century patriot who helped write our U.S. Constitution) that shares his thoughts about today's U.S.A. Also we have another DVD of the "We the People Rally" in Hastings, NE, April 13, 2009. This DVD is an inspiring event to be shared with all about a cross-section of Americans renewing hope and committment. Its simplicity and celebration is proof that miracles still happen.
Meanwhile, there must be communication from you to all you know to spread the good news that Nebraska and its values is not for sale. Your contacts could be (for example) neighbors, teachers, associations, church affiliations, corn grower associations, livestock producers, bankers association, sporting and hunting groups, chambers of commerce, elected officials, manufacturers, residents of other States, political leaders, etc, etc. .....because this country belongs to all of us.
As we take ownership for our actions, our communities and country will be strengthened. I thank the endless list of people and organizations that have helped inform our decisions and give us the vision and faith to proceed. This author represents the many called "We the People ......" For information, until our website comes online, please call (402) 469-5546 (Butch Hughes) or e-mail jpf45@gtmc.net.
Respectfully,
Butch Hughes
Hastings, NE
(402) 469-5546
Becoming an Economic Switzerland
What is that? Well, for what is Switzerland in Europe known? It is a place where people and companies can place money (property) and not be taxed on their property. Why make the necessary changes? What does it take for Nebraska to do the same? And how to get it done.
Why make changes? Over the years we hear from state senators, chamber of commerce enthusiasts, and economic development teams that to bring in more industry and jobs, we’ll cut taxes! Here is an observation and fact – our legislature and local governments have no intention on cutting taxes. Currently, 1) our state taxes revenues are down over 30% because of free trade and too many taxes. 2) State spending is going up 1%, and furthermore, 3) our Governor and Legislature are borrowing $1.5 Billion from the Federal Government (Stimulus dollars) thereby increasing taxes for all people and businesses.
As we visit with these political leaders, they all admit this is not going to work and yet none had the courage to confront this mess and stop a run-away financial debt-train. Senator Utter, District 33, says he is too busy to worry about it. Being a banker-senator, Utter knows this current situation is financial suicide for Nebraskans and not sustainable. We are watching our non-representative representatives do business as usual where lobbyists rule and voters lose.
What does it take? Recently there were rallies across this great state (and nation) to where folks from all ages, skills, and heritage came together to celebrate what has made our culture and country strong. During and since those events in April 2009, interested people have shared issues and contact information to take back our communities and country from our non-representative representatives and leading un-American businesses. The groundswell of involvement to re-establish our core values in leadership is proof that miracles still happen. As people network to make a difference, there are four primary arenas of effort that will result in a Nebraska becoming a go-to place for family values, jobs and industry, investment, profitable agriculture, unbiased education, responsible and wholistic health care, and freedom, etc.
Arena 1 - Establish state sovereignty. We will restrict Federal services to areas of National Defense / border control, providing lawful money for exchange, and keep any state(s) from ganging up on another states(s). Freedom-loving citizens no longer will have ‘big brother’ telling us how to live/operate.
Arena 2 – Establish the right for citizens / Nebraska companies to own property. Currently the counties own all property wherein if the owner does not pay taxes, the county sells the property. Also companies that leave money in business accounts from one fiscal year to the next are taxed nearly 30% of that money amount.
Arena 3 - Legal and illegal immigration enforcement. A country of a common culture and language is critical to purpose, strength, and economy. Nebraskans are spending at least $1.5 Billion each year for medical, education, energy/rental assistance, and food stamp programs for families (individuals) who are here illegally. Some businesses and political leaders along with educational bureaucrats support non-enforcement. Well, non-enforcement supporters, change is coming!
Arena 4 - Tax Reform. The principle of “if you use it, you pay for it” is part of a responsible citizenry. Whether it’s roads, courts & prisons, education, retirement plans, or medical & mental services, the users will hold those service providers accountable. The ‘free lunch’ attitude will disappear. The State of Nebraska will pay our Federal Government our per-capital cost for the contract services our state citizens agree to, like national defense. State and Federal income taxes will cease to exist in Nebraska. To support a very limited state bureaucracy and a state militia, a consumption tax (FAIR Tax) is very probable.
How to bring these changes? As citizen teams across this state gather and discuss the ‘how-to’, involvement will come from the whole spectrum of Nebraska individuals and associations. These meetings will result in statewide petitions to update our state constitutions in the four arenas discussed. This week, our State of Nebraska Attorney General, Jon Bruning, and Governor Heineman were put on notice in writing regarding State of Nebraska Constitutional violations that occur by taking and using Federal Stimulus dollars to balance our state budget. We’ll see if our Attorney General will represent Nebraska citizens 1) about the state spending dollars that we do not have and 2) by enforcing our State Constitution – it is Nebraska citizens’ main safeguard against government tyranny!
Summary - When a hint of these plans and purpose get out to mainstream U.S.A., there will be an avalanche of capital, business, manufacturing/jobs and families wanting moral and economic freedom coming into Nebraska. Other states will most likely follow our lead creating strong communities, states, and country alike. Becoming an economic Switzerland can and will happen. Stand up for America and get involved. We will succeed!
Marvin ‘Butch’ Hughes
402 469-5546
Why make changes? Over the years we hear from state senators, chamber of commerce enthusiasts, and economic development teams that to bring in more industry and jobs, we’ll cut taxes! Here is an observation and fact – our legislature and local governments have no intention on cutting taxes. Currently, 1) our state taxes revenues are down over 30% because of free trade and too many taxes. 2) State spending is going up 1%, and furthermore, 3) our Governor and Legislature are borrowing $1.5 Billion from the Federal Government (Stimulus dollars) thereby increasing taxes for all people and businesses.
As we visit with these political leaders, they all admit this is not going to work and yet none had the courage to confront this mess and stop a run-away financial debt-train. Senator Utter, District 33, says he is too busy to worry about it. Being a banker-senator, Utter knows this current situation is financial suicide for Nebraskans and not sustainable. We are watching our non-representative representatives do business as usual where lobbyists rule and voters lose.
What does it take? Recently there were rallies across this great state (and nation) to where folks from all ages, skills, and heritage came together to celebrate what has made our culture and country strong. During and since those events in April 2009, interested people have shared issues and contact information to take back our communities and country from our non-representative representatives and leading un-American businesses. The groundswell of involvement to re-establish our core values in leadership is proof that miracles still happen. As people network to make a difference, there are four primary arenas of effort that will result in a Nebraska becoming a go-to place for family values, jobs and industry, investment, profitable agriculture, unbiased education, responsible and wholistic health care, and freedom, etc.
Arena 1 - Establish state sovereignty. We will restrict Federal services to areas of National Defense / border control, providing lawful money for exchange, and keep any state(s) from ganging up on another states(s). Freedom-loving citizens no longer will have ‘big brother’ telling us how to live/operate.
Arena 2 – Establish the right for citizens / Nebraska companies to own property. Currently the counties own all property wherein if the owner does not pay taxes, the county sells the property. Also companies that leave money in business accounts from one fiscal year to the next are taxed nearly 30% of that money amount.
Arena 3 - Legal and illegal immigration enforcement. A country of a common culture and language is critical to purpose, strength, and economy. Nebraskans are spending at least $1.5 Billion each year for medical, education, energy/rental assistance, and food stamp programs for families (individuals) who are here illegally. Some businesses and political leaders along with educational bureaucrats support non-enforcement. Well, non-enforcement supporters, change is coming!
Arena 4 - Tax Reform. The principle of “if you use it, you pay for it” is part of a responsible citizenry. Whether it’s roads, courts & prisons, education, retirement plans, or medical & mental services, the users will hold those service providers accountable. The ‘free lunch’ attitude will disappear. The State of Nebraska will pay our Federal Government our per-capital cost for the contract services our state citizens agree to, like national defense. State and Federal income taxes will cease to exist in Nebraska. To support a very limited state bureaucracy and a state militia, a consumption tax (FAIR Tax) is very probable.
How to bring these changes? As citizen teams across this state gather and discuss the ‘how-to’, involvement will come from the whole spectrum of Nebraska individuals and associations. These meetings will result in statewide petitions to update our state constitutions in the four arenas discussed. This week, our State of Nebraska Attorney General, Jon Bruning, and Governor Heineman were put on notice in writing regarding State of Nebraska Constitutional violations that occur by taking and using Federal Stimulus dollars to balance our state budget. We’ll see if our Attorney General will represent Nebraska citizens 1) about the state spending dollars that we do not have and 2) by enforcing our State Constitution – it is Nebraska citizens’ main safeguard against government tyranny!
Summary - When a hint of these plans and purpose get out to mainstream U.S.A., there will be an avalanche of capital, business, manufacturing/jobs and families wanting moral and economic freedom coming into Nebraska. Other states will most likely follow our lead creating strong communities, states, and country alike. Becoming an economic Switzerland can and will happen. Stand up for America and get involved. We will succeed!
Marvin ‘Butch’ Hughes
402 469-5546
Eligibility attorney plans return to Supreme Court
Monday, May 11th, 2009By Bob Unruh, Worldnetdaily
California attorney Orly Taitz, who has taken cases challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president to a number of courts across the nation including the U.S. Supreme Court, says she’ll be returning to the high court, this time seeking a petition for the extraordinary writ of mandamus.
“As Attorney General Eric Holder and U.S. Attorney Jeffery Taylor did not institute Quo Warranto and did not respond, I will go back to SCOTUS,” Taitz announced today on her website.
“As you know, I am being crucified for every little error, so I have sent the draft to a couple of attorneys, paralegals, technical consultants and language consultants, to give me their input and I will file in a few days,” she said.
“Bottom line, I will be filing until I get an answer,” she wrote. Taitz was the lead attorney earlier representing military officers from the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines when they cited Quo Warranto, a legal right established in British common law nearly 800 years ago and recognized by the U.S. Founding Fathers, to demand documentation that may prove – or disprove – Obama’s eligibility.
What are you hiding?
Barack Hussein Obama obviously has something to hide. He obviously knows how to keep a secret when it comes to releasing his Birth Certificate; the one document that could bolster the argument that he is, in fact, eligible under Article 2, Section 1, of the United States Constitution to hold the office of President of the United States.
And yet, Barack Hussein Obama has no problem sharing information that SHOULD remain secret to the entire world and to our enemies.
Case in point! The Obama Administration just released secret memos and photographs that detail the interrogations of terrorists that were being held in American custody.
Obama authorized the release of these photographs and memos in spite of the undeniable fact that releasing these memos and photographs places the lives of our intelligence operatives and their families in imminent danger.
Obama authorized the release of these photographs and memos in spite of the undeniable fact that releasing these memos severely compromises our national security, and endangers each and every one of us.
It's becoming more and more clear, with each passing day, that the issue surrounding Obama's refusal to release his Birth Certificate and prove his eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States goes much deeper than initially thought.
The fact that Obama has something to hide when it comes to his Birth Certificate (and some of his college records for that matter) is now more than apparent.
And Obama, through his own obstruction in this matter, has established that contention as valid. It can no longer be reasonably questioned.
But what is now becoming apparent is that Obama's refusal to release his Birth Certificate hints at an arrogance and disdain of the American people that is unprecedented... an arrogance and disdain that places all of us, our children, our grandchildren and our way of life in extreme jeopardy.
And yet, Barack Hussein Obama has no problem sharing information that SHOULD remain secret to the entire world and to our enemies.
Case in point! The Obama Administration just released secret memos and photographs that detail the interrogations of terrorists that were being held in American custody.
Obama authorized the release of these photographs and memos in spite of the undeniable fact that releasing these memos and photographs places the lives of our intelligence operatives and their families in imminent danger.
Obama authorized the release of these photographs and memos in spite of the undeniable fact that releasing these memos severely compromises our national security, and endangers each and every one of us.
It's becoming more and more clear, with each passing day, that the issue surrounding Obama's refusal to release his Birth Certificate and prove his eligibility to hold the office of President of the United States goes much deeper than initially thought.
The fact that Obama has something to hide when it comes to his Birth Certificate (and some of his college records for that matter) is now more than apparent.
And Obama, through his own obstruction in this matter, has established that contention as valid. It can no longer be reasonably questioned.
But what is now becoming apparent is that Obama's refusal to release his Birth Certificate hints at an arrogance and disdain of the American people that is unprecedented... an arrogance and disdain that places all of us, our children, our grandchildren and our way of life in extreme jeopardy.
Public Relations Team Meeting
The Public Relations Team will meet on Tuesday May 19, 2009 at 5:30 pm at 1512 1st Ave in Scottsbluff. If anyone else is interested in joining the team, please come to the meeting or let us know by email or phone and we'll contact you.
The Public Relations Team is responsible for all aspects regarding the release of information to the public and for keeping all tea party members informed about what we are doing and what they can do to help.
Ways the PR Team helps
Thank you and many blessings!
Brian Hale
Public Relations Team
WyoBraskaTeaParty.com
The Public Relations Team is responsible for all aspects regarding the release of information to the public and for keeping all tea party members informed about what we are doing and what they can do to help.
Ways the PR Team helps
- creation and maintenance of our website
- sending informative emails to all members
- handles phone calling duties
- create posters, banners, flyers, handouts, info sheets
- handle interviews with the press
- speak at our meetings
- research issues and gather material to be posted
- post messages directly to our blog
Thank you and many blessings!
Brian Hale
Public Relations Team
WyoBraskaTeaParty.com
States Rights Letter
Dear Governor Heineman,
I am writing to let you know that I oppose using federal "stimulus" dollars to balance our state budget. In addition to opposing it on the basis of sound financial planning and fiscal responsibility, I believe it it unconstitutional for the federal government to appropriate money for this purpose. I also believe that it goes against our state constitution to accept money in this way. I strongly urge you to consider not signing the budget as presented, and to oppose taking federal funds from the "stimulus bill".
We need to assert our sovereignty as a state, and refuse any more federal intervention in state business. Federal intervention in state's rights has been a problem for a long time, and it has gone way over the line in this current administration. It is time to stand up against the federal bureaucrats, join some of the other states (Texas, Oklahoma, Utah, Montana) in reestablishing our state's rights.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Organizational Meeting
Thank you to the nearly 100 people who showed up to offer their support in this very important crusade we have all taken on! It was good for all of us to get to know each other a little better. We feel it is vital to get organized and nothing will happen unless we band together and all head in the same direction.
Please let us know if there is anyone out there who wants to help with this. Even if you just want to be a follower and sit back. We need hundreds, even thousands from our area to unite for the greatest impact.
Many of the Teams assembled on the 12th will be meeting in the near future. If you are looking to join a team, please contact Brian Hale at 308 632-4653.
Please let us know if there is anyone out there who wants to help with this. Even if you just want to be a follower and sit back. We need hundreds, even thousands from our area to unite for the greatest impact.
Many of the Teams assembled on the 12th will be meeting in the near future. If you are looking to join a team, please contact Brian Hale at 308 632-4653.
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Welcome!
Greetings everyone! This is the official blog for the Tea Party that began on the steps of the Scotts Bluff County Courthouse on April 15, 2009.
It's time for all of us to stand up and defend our constitutional rights before they are all taken away by an administration that has completely abandoned the principles this nation was founded upon.
Send an email to info@wyobraskateaparty.com if you would like to be able to add to this blog. It's really simple to use and we can walk you through it.
Visit our official website at www.wyobraskateaparty.com and GET INVOLVED!
It's time for all of us to stand up and defend our constitutional rights before they are all taken away by an administration that has completely abandoned the principles this nation was founded upon.
Send an email to info@wyobraskateaparty.com if you would like to be able to add to this blog. It's really simple to use and we can walk you through it.
Visit our official website at www.wyobraskateaparty.com and GET INVOLVED!
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