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Quiz - Test Your Knowledge Of Our National Heritage

2014-07-07T12:26:00.000-07:00

Write down your answers to the following quiz:

1. Americans celebrate the Fourth of July for which one of the following reasons?

a. It marks mid-summer vacation
b. It is the day America declared her independence
c. It marks the day the Revolutionary War ended
d. It is an international day celebrating peace and goodwill

2. From which one of the following did the American colonies declare their independence in 1776?

a. Canada
b. France
c. Great Britain
d. Mexico

3. Which of the following are among the unalienable rights delineated in the Declaration of Independence?

a. Life, Liberty and Happiness
b. Honor, Duty, Country
c. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
d. Health, Wealth and Privacy

4. How many states comprised the original United States?

a. 48
b. 13
c. 50
d. 10

5. The “shot heard ‘round the world” refers to which of the following battles in the American War for Independence?

a. Lexington and Concord
b. Breeds or Bunker Hill
c. Yorktown
d. Saratoga

6. Which one of the following founding documents came first in chronological order?

a. The Articles of Confederation
b. The Bill of Rights
c. The Constitution of the United States
d. The Declaration of Independence

7. Who was King of England during the American Revolutionary War?

a. Charles I
b. James II
c. George III
d. Louis XVI

8. Which of the following comprise the three branches of our government?

a. Federal, State, Local
b. House, Senate, White House
c. Executive, Legislative, Judicial
d. Military, Judicial, Congressional

9. Which one of the following men never held the office of President of the United States?

a. Benjamin Harrison
b. James Madison
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. James Monroe

10. What does the President swear to "preserve, protect and defend" when he takes the Oath of Office?

a. The United States of America
b. The American people
c. Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
d. The Constitution of the United States

11. The first 10 Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known collectively as which of the following?

a. The Bill of Rights
b. The Bills of Attainder
c. The Power of the Purse
d. The Pursuit of Happiness

12. Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution, Congress is required to call a Constitutional Convention when how many state legislatures formally request that one be held?

a. One third
b. One half
c. Two thirds
d. Three quarters

13. The U.S. Constitution contains how many amendments?

a. 10
b. 25
c. 26
d. 27

Answers: 1 (b), 2 (c), 3 (c), 4 (b), 5 (a), 6 (d), 7 (c), 8 (c), 9 (c), 10 (d), 11 (a), 12 (c), 13 (d)

The United States Declaration Of Independence

The Articles Of Confederation

The United States Constitution

The United States "Bill Of Rights"

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Speaking Of "Political Correctness" .... watch this

2014-07-04T16:51:00.001-07:00

It about time someone told it like it is!

If you're interested in comments from those who watched this. . . [click here] and scroll down.

Films Worth Seeing and Circulating

2014-07-02T14:23:00.000-07:00

Dennis Michael Lynch, also known as DML, is an investigative filmmaker who specializes in producing films, videos and news clips that reveal the truth about the biggest issues facing America.

His first two films, THEY COME TO AMERICA and THEY COME TO AMERICA II, focused on the negative impacts of illegal immigration. Collectively, both films have been shared more than 1,000,000 times. The films inspired Americans from both parties to contact their Representatives and demand they vote against the Senate's immigration reform bill.

DML believes WE RIDE TO DC will help people realize the mainstream media distorts and ignores the facts when reporting on key issues. He also believes it will inspire Americans to take action in the upcoming elections.

In addition to producing THEY COME TO AMERICA III, DML is also creating a film called MONEY FOR NOTHING. The documentary takes a hard look at America's entitlement system and how it negatively impacts the American work ethic.

You can purchase the DML DVDs at http://weridetodc.com/

With the 238th anniversary of our nations Independence Day now upon us it is appropriate that every American take some time to reflect upon what our federal government has become and what each of us can do to steer our nation back to the rule of law and our Constitution.

God Bless America!

Why The Price Of Energy Keeps Going Up

2014-06-20T10:39:00.000-07:00

Gas Goes Up In Flames

Think He Cares?

Since the day he was elected to office, Obama has worked to drive up the price of fuel which is a key ingredient for a prospering economy. From the appointment of Steven Chu to Sec'y of Energy in January 2009 until he was replaced by Sec'y Moniz in May of 2013, it was all about suppressing drilling, shutting down coal mining, stopping the Keystone Pipeline and raising the cost of energy to that of Europe. Now it's all about carbon caps.

Perhaps the environmental protectionists would prefer to see us all back in caves rubbing two sticks together to make a fire. No . . . that won't work either. That would mean chopping down protected timber.

Wake up America!

Patty is Pissed!

2014-04-19T17:06:00.001-07:00

A friend and fellow conservative sent this to me. It's right on target!

Patty is Pissed!

Alan Simpson, the Senator from Wyoming calls senior citizens the Greediest Generation as he compared "Social Security " to a Milk Cow with 310 million teats. Here's a response in a letter from PATTY MYERS in Montana ... I think she is a little ticked off! She also tells it like it is!

"Hey Alan, let's get a few things straight!!!
1. As a career politician, you have been on the public dole (tit) for FIFTY YEARS.

2. I have been paying Social Security taxes for 48 YEARS (since I was 15 years old. I am now 63).

3. My Social Security payments, and those of millions of other Americans, were safely tucked away in an interest bearing account for decades until you political pukes decided to raid the account and give OUR money to a bunch of zero losers in return for votes, thus bankrupting the system and turning Social Security into a Ponzi scheme that would make Bernie Madoff proud.

4. Recently, just like Lucy & Charlie Brown, you and "your ilk" pulled the proverbial football away from millions of American seniors nearing retirement and moved the goalposts for full retirement from age 65 to age, 67. NOW, you and your "shill commission" are proposing to move the goalposts YET AGAIN.

5. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying into Medicare from Day One, and now "you morons" propose to change the rules of the game. Why?
Because "you idiots" mismanaged other parts of the economy to such an extent that you need to steal our money from Medicare to pay the bills.

6. I, and millions of other Americans, have been paying income taxes our entire lives, and now you propose to increase our taxes yet again. Why?
Because you "incompetent bastards" spent our money so profligately that you just kept on spending even after you ran out of money. Now, you come to the American taxpayers and say you need more to pay off YOUR debt.
To add insult to injury, you label us "greedy" for calling "bullshit" to your incompetence.

Well, Captain Bullshit, I have a few questions for YOU:

1. How much money have you earned from the American taxpayers during your pathetic 50-year political career?

2. At what age did you retire from your pathetic political career, and how much are you receiving in annual retirement benefits from the American taxpayers?

3. How much do you pay for YOUR government provided health insurance?

4. What cuts in YOUR retirement and healthcare benefits are you proposing in your disgusting deficit reduction proposal, or as usual, have you exempted yourself and your political cronies?
It is you, Captain Bullshit, and your political co-conspirators called Congress who are the "greedy" ones. It is you and your fellow nutcase thieves who have bankrupted America and stolen the American dream from millions of loyal, patriotic taxpayers.

And for what? Votes and your job and retirement security at our expense, you lunk-headed, leech.
That's right, sir. You and yours have bankrupted America for the sole purpose of advancing your pathetic, political careers. You know it, we know it, and you know that we know it.

And you can take that to the bank, you miserable son of a bitch.

P.S. And stop calling Social Security benefits "entitlements". WHAT AN INSULT!!!!

I have been paying in to the SS system for 45 years "It's my money"-give it back to me the way the system was designed and stop patting yourself on the back like you are being generous by doling out these monthly checks .

EVERYONE!! If you agree with what a Montana citizen, Patty Myers, says, please send them the link to this post.

Happy Easter Everyone

2014-04-19T16:14:00.001-07:00

Just saw this for the first time last night on FOX NEWS. It's a MUST SEE, especially on this joyous Easter holiday. Turn up your sound.

What Difference Does It Make? ... I'll Tell You What Difference It Makes !

2014-03-01T12:11:00.000-08:00

A LOT ! Especially if you value your freedoms, our country and our constitution!

Judge for yourself.

Click the following link for the details:

https://www.google.com/search?q=zeifman+fires+hillary+clinton&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

· Whitewater & Rose Law Firm Missing Billing Records Coverup

· 1974 House Judiciary Committee Staff Misconduct

· 1978 - 1979 Futures Trading Irregularities

· 1996 - Bosnia Sniper Fire Claims

· Benghazi Whitewash

Over the years, Hillary has dodged bullet after bullet by excuse and delay after excuse and obstruction. The issue at this point is not whether she was in fact actually guilty of something but whether we, as a nation, can afford yet another president with a clear history of unethical and dishonest behavior and a penchant for dodging responsibility.

Eight years of Obama is more than enough! We don’t need eight more with Hillary!

That's what difference it makes !

2014-02-27T10:04:00.001-08:00

“We are now at the constitutional tipping point for our system. If balance is to be reestablished, it must begin before this president leaves office and that will likely require every possible means to reassert legislative authority,”

Jonathan Turley - Professor of public interest law at George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Protect C4 Free Speech

2014-02-14T16:46:00.000-08:00

The Internal Revenue Service has quietly announced a new rule that strictly limits the ability of 501(c)(4), tax-exempt organizations from working on their core missions in the months leading up to federal, state, and local elections. The proposed regulations would prohibit these organizations from engaging in candidate-related political activity, which, by the proposed rule's definition, includes any mention of a candidate's name or political party even if presented in a non-political context. Further, organizations would have to ensure that any references to candidates in past communications are not publicly available, including online, during the pre-election window. These regulations would, in effect, prohibit organizations from providing the public with candidate comparisons and voting records, engaging in get-out-the-vote activities, or encouraging informed civic participation, among other activities. They would severely limit both the organizations' First Amendment free speech and the public's ability to hold elected officials accountable for their actions.

This will not apply to 501(c)5 labor unions and (c)6 trade associations: The proposed regulation does not apply to labor organizations, although the proposal states that the Administration is considering a regulation in this area. Thus, a likely result is that a final rule will be promulgated further restricting non-profit speech and an activity long before any comparable regulation is promulgated on the activities of labor organizations.

See anything wrong about such action?

Are you willing to stand by and allow yet another “big government” attack on our constitutional rights?

I’m not and I’ve expressed my opinion to Regulations.gov Please do so as well.

For additional information on this important issue -> Click here.

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Obama Does It Yet Again! - Outrageous!!

2014-02-12T12:34:00.000-08:00

In August 2013 United States federal district judge Reed O’Connor in Dallas dismissed a lawsuit by ICE against President Obama’s policy to defer deportation for some young illegal Caribbean and other immigrants.

In his ruling, Judge O’Connor said the suit had been “likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Department of Homeland Security has implemented a program contrary to Congressional mandate” meaning DHS and president Obama did not have authority to interpret law in a manner contrary to that passed by Congress.

Now he has done it yet again!

>Columnist Charles Krauthammer spoke recently on Bret Baier’s Fox News show about the breakdown of Constitutional order: “It’s not incompetence; it’s willful breaking of the constitutional order. Where in the constitution is a president allowed to alter a law 27 times after it’s been passed?”

Has President Obama OVERSTEPPED his Constitutional authority? Here is what a Georgetown Law Professor testified to earlier this week.

It's high time the GOP got some spine and got this in front of the Supreme Court!

What's your opinion?

New Crop Of Bumper Stickers

2014-02-03T09:57:00.001-08:00

Thanks to one of our Conservative Thinkers for these.

"Relocate To New York . . . Unless . . .

2014-01-24T17:22:00.000-08:00

A current New York state ad being pushed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) invites businesses to relocate your business to the state of New York …

… unless you’re a conservative Republican!

If you are conservative Republican against abortion or homosexuality … you have no place in the state (of New York).

Such hypocricy!

Think he’ll find many takers?

Just More Tripe!

2014-01-09T16:59:00.001-08:00

Outspoken Defenders Of The Liberal Left

Let’s see if we have this right,

“If (Governor) Christie's story is true, and Bridgette Ann Kelly really lied to him, shouldn't every action she took during his administration be under review? Why isn't Christie reviewing them?” “He’s responsible because it is his leadership that created a culture which tolerated or encouraged such venal behavior.”

Yet again the liberal left attacks moderates and conservative alike at the drop of “you name it”, yet defends Obama and his administration vehemently notwithstanding irrefutable facts to the contrary on each and every occasion of similar behavior.

Before we recount the lengthy list of things the president says he didn't know about, it's important to note two inescapable conclusions:

• Either the president truly has been oblivious,

• Or, the president is not leveling with us.

The first alternative is discomforting, at the least. For about a century, the man in the White House has been the most powerful person on the planet. And this one doesn't know what's happening on his watch?

More troubling may be the second possibility posed by Obama's avowed lack of knowledge about the activities of his tax agents, health care officials, spies and other federal apparatchiks. What if the president knew, despite his statements to the contrary? What's that mean for a nation of laws?

Here's a partial list of things the president claims to have been unaware of before they occurred: The NSA spying scandal, domestic and foreign; multiple warnings about the Obamacare website disaster prior to its launch; IRS targeting his political opponents; millions who will lose their health plans and doctors despite his promise otherwise; Department of Justice spying on journalists; the flawed security at Benghazi which resulted in the killing of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and another diplomat and the killing two embassy security personnel; ATF running guns to Mexico which resulted in the death of Agent Brian Terry. Finally, and perhaps the one destined to generate the most backlash, that Obamacare will result in tens of millions of insured Americans losing their current plans and being forced to replace them with policies costing exorbitantly more.

Got it? If the right did it, it’s wrong! If the left did it, it’s perfectly acceptable.

With the 2014 elections less than twelve months from now and Governor Christi currently a leading moderate contender, the liberal left jumped at the opportunity to discredit him at the onset of the campaigns. It matters little that the Democrats have a long history of similar behavior.

Pardon me if I dismiss the views and opinions of the propagandists of the left as "just more tripe!"

Best Description Of Barack Obama Ever Written

2014-01-05T17:36:00.000-08:00

A friend and fellow conservative thinker recently sent this to me. It’s worth circulating again. Click here to read it on line or save it as I did for later or repeated reading.

In case you’ve forgotten, or perhaps did not know, Obama’s early mentors were schooled by students of Saul Alinsky, The author of Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for RealisticRadicals.

Sun Tzu; (c. 6th century BCE) was a Chinese general, military strategist, and author of The Art of War, who wrote the following:

It’s past time to wake up America! The liberals declared war on the American way of life decades ago.

Obamacare Should Remind Us We Are Not 'Subjects,' We Are People

2014-01-05T16:06:00.000-08:00

Opinion from Professor Laura Hollis - Notre Dame

Obamacare Should Remind Us We Are Not 'Subjects,' We Are People

Laura Hollis is a professor at the University of Notre Dame

November 20, 2013|10:42 am

The unveiling of the dictatorial debacle that is Obamacare absolutely flabbergasts me. It is stunning on so many levels, but the most shocking aspect of it for me is watching millions of free Americans stand idly by while this man, his minions in Congress and his cheerleaders in the press systematically dismantle our Constitution, steal our money, and crush our freedoms.

The President, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid (with no small help from Justice John Roberts) take away our health care, and we allow it. They take away our insurance, and we allow it. They take away our doctors, and we allow it. They charge us thousands of dollars more a year, and we allow it. They make legal products illegal, and we allow it. They cripple our businesses, and we allow it. They announce by fiat that we must ignore our most deeply held beliefs – and we allow it.

Where is your spine, America?

Yes, I know people are complaining. I read the news on the internet. I read blogs. I have a Twitter feed. So what? People in the Soviet Union complained. People in Cuba complain. People in China complain (quietly). Complaining isn't the same thing as doing anything about it. In fact, much of the complaining that we hear sounds like resignation: Wow. This sucks. Oh well, this is the way things are. Too bad.

Perhaps you need reminding of a few important facts. Here goes:

1. The President is not a king. Barack Obama does not behave like a President, an elected official, someone who realizes that he works for us. He behaves like a king, a dictator – someone who believes that his own pronouncements have the force of law, and who thinks he can dispense with the law's enforcement when he deigns to do so. And those of us who object? How dare we? Racists!

And while he moves steadily "forward" with his plans to "fundamentally transform" the greatest country in human history, he distracts people with cheap, meaningless trivialities, like "free birth control pills"! (In fact, let's face it: this administration's odd obsession with sex in general - Birth control! Abortion! Sterilization! Gay guys who play basketball! -- is just plain weird. Since when did the leader of the free world care so much about how people have sex, who they have it with, and what meds they use when they have it? Does he have nothing more important to concern himself with?)

2. It isn't just a failed software program; it is a failed philosophy. People are marveling that Healthcare.gov was such a spectacular failure. Well, if one is only interested in it as a product launch, I've explained some of the reasons for that here. But the larger point is that it isn't a software failure, or even a product failure; it is a philosophy failure.

I have said this before: Obama is not a centrist; he is a central planner. And this – all of it: the disastrous computer program, the hundreds of millions of dollars wasted, the lies, the manipulation of public opinion, the theft of the public's money and property, and freedom (read insurance, and premiums, and doctors) -- IS what central planning looks like.

The central premise of central planning is that a handful of wunderkinds with your best interests at heart (yeah, right) know better than you what's good for you. The failure of such a premise and the misery it causes have been clear from the dawn of humanity. Kings and congressmen, dictators and Dear Leaders, potentates, princes and presidents can all fall prey to the same imperial impulses: "we know what is good the 'the people.'

And they are always wrong.

There is a reason that the only times communism has really been tried have been after wars, revolutions, or coups d'état. You have to have complete chaos for people to be willing to accept the garbage that centralized planning produces. Take the Soviet Union, for example. After two wars, famine, and the collapse of the Romanov dynasty, why wouldn't people wait in line for hours to buy size 10 shoes? Or settle for the gray matter that passed for meat in the grocery stores?

But communism's watered-down cousin, socialism, isn't much better. Ask the Venezuelans who cannot get toilet paper. Toilet paper. ¡Viva la Revolución!

Contrary to what so many who believe in a "living Constitution" say, the Founding Fathers absolutely understood this. That is why the Constitution was set up to limit government power. (Memo to the President: the drafters of the Constitution deliberately didn't say "what government had to do on your behalf.") They understood that that was the path to folly, fear, and famine.

3. Obama is deceitful. Just as the collapse of the computer program should not surprise anyone, neither should we be shocked that the President lied about his healthcare plan. Have any of you been paying attention over the past few years? Obama has made no secret of his motivations or his methods. The philosophies which inspire him espouse deceit and other vicious tactics. (Don't take my word for it: read Saul Alinsky.) Obama infamously told reporter Richard Wolffe, "You know, I actually believe my own bullshit." He has refused to be forthcoming about his past (where are his academic records?). His own pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, told author Ed Klein, that Obama said to him, "You know what your problem is? You have to tell the truth."

Did Obama lie when he said dozens of times, "If you like your plan, you can keep it. Period!"? Of course he did. That's what he does.

4. The media is responsible. And had the media been doing their jobs, we would have known a lot of this much, much earlier.

The press is charged with the sacred responsibility of protecting the people from the excesses of government. Our press has been complicit, incompetent, or corrupt. Had they vetted this man in 2008, as they would have a Republican candidate, we would have known far more about him than we do, even now. Had they pressed for more details about Obamacare, Congress' feet would have been held to the fire. Had they done their jobs about Eric Holder, Fast and Furious, Benghazi, the IRS scandal, NSA spying - or any of the other myriad betrayals of the public trust that this administration has committed, Obama would likely have lost his 2012 reelection campaign. (A fact that even The Washington Post has tacitly acknowledged. Well done, fellas! Happy now?)

Instead, they turned a blind eye, even when they knew he was lying, abusing power, disregarding the limits of the Constitution. It was only when he began to spy on them, and when the lies were so blatant that the lowest of low-information voters could figure it out that they realized they had to report on it. (Even in the face of blatant, deliberate and repeated lies, The New York Times has the audacity to tell us that the President "misspoke.") They have betrayed us, abandoned us, and deceived us.

5. Ted Cruz was right. So was Sarah Palin. The computer program is a disaster. The insurance exchanges are a disaster. What's left? The healthcare system itself. And this, of necessity, will be a disaster, too.

Millions of people have lost their individual insurance plans. In 2015, millions more will lose their employer-provided coverage (a fact which the Obama administration also knew, and admitted elsewhere).

The exorbitant additional costs that Obamacare has foisted on unsuspecting Americans are all part of a plan of wealth confiscation and redistribution. That is bad enough. But it will not end there.

When the numbers of people into the system and the corresponding demand for care vastly exceed the cost projections (and they will, make no mistake), then the rationing will start. Not only choice at that point, but quality and care itself will go down the tubes. And then will come the decisions made by the Independent Payment Advisory Board about what care will be covered (read "paid for") and what will not.

That's just a death panel, put politely. In fact, progressives are already greasing the wheels for acceptance of that miserable reality as well. They're spreading the lie that it will be about the ability of the dying to refuse unwanted or unhelpful care. Don't fall for that one, either. It will be about the deaths that inevitably result from decisions made by people other than the patients, their families, and their physicians. (Perhaps it's helpful to think of their assurances this way: " If you like your end-of-life care, you can keep your end-of-life-care.")

6. We are not SUBJECTS. (or, Nice Try, the Tea Party Isn't Going Away). We have tolerated these incursions into our lives and livelihoods too long already. There is no end to the insatiable demand "progressives" have to remake us in their image. Today it is our insurance, our businesses, our doctors, our health care. Tomorrow some new crusade will be announced that enables them to take over other aspects of our formerly free lives.

I will say it again: WE ARE NOT SUBJECTS. Not only is the Tea Party right on the fiscal issues, but it appears that they are more relevant than ever. We fought a war once to prove we did not want to be the subjects of a king, and the Boston Tea Party was just a taste of the larger conflict to come. If some people missed that lesson in history class, we can give them a refresher.

The 2014 elections are a good place to start. Call your representative, your senator, your candidate and tell them: "We are not subjects. You work for us. And if the word "REPEAL" isn't front and center in your campaign, we won't vote for you. Period."

Laura Hollis is an attorney and teaches entrepreneurship and business law at the University of Notre Dame.

And this comes from Notre Dame. What a powerful and true letter!

For those of you who have yet to acquire a clear understanding of how and what radical liberals think and what tactics they use, I recommend two recently published books which I will shortly add to those already appearing on the right side of Doggone Blog. 1) RADICALS - Portraits Of A Destructive Passion by David Horowitz and 2) THINGS THAT MATTER: Three Decades Of Passions, Pastimes And Politics by Charles Krauthammer

Federal Government Waste You Should NOT Tolerate

2013-12-19T14:52:00.000-08:00

I just received a “heads up” email from Newt Gingrich. I present it here and second his recommendation that you read Wastebook 2013 by Senator Tom Coburn. You needn’t buy a thing. All you need to do is click on this link to read it on line or download it as I did for later or repeated reading.

Here’s what Newt had to say:

Do you remember spending almost a million dollars in the last few years on a website devoted to romance novels? How about that $17.5 million you spent on brothels in Nevada? Or the $200,000 treating record industry executives to a world tour?

No? Well, technically you didn’t spend all that money. Your government did. But it was your money the government spent.

Romance novels and record tours are just a few among dozens of outrageous expenditures Senator Tom Coburn has cataloged in his 2013 “Wastebook,” the latest of his annual reports to remind us just how out-of-control the federal government has become.

The entire report is worth reading, if only for the experience of discovering example after example of scandalous use of taxpayer dollars, each more absurd than the last, none of which you’ve ever heard of.

For instance, the State Department recently spent $5 million on custom crystal wine glasses for its embassies. USAID spent $300,000 on 600 gallons of diesel in Afghanistan--$500 per gallon, or a hundred times the going rate.

Amtrak lost $60 million last year alone providing food service on its long distance routes (some of which include complimentary wine and cheese, and offer gourmet meals subsidized by taxpayers).

And the USDA gave a $100,000 grant to a North Carolina distillery to “explore the feasibility” of the company making vodka out of yams--in a virtually dry county. The Department also gave nearly $17 million to dozens of businesses to fund the creation of products such as salsa and Bloody Mary mix.

Senator Coburn’s Wastebook is more than just a list of wasteful programs, however. It is a perfect documentation of the advanced breakdown in government we see throughout the federal bureaucracy.

In my new book, Breakout, I describe three kinds of breakdown in government: the breakdown in simple competence, the breakdown in common sense and defined purpose, and the breakdown in the rule of law. We see all of them in this report.

Large parts of the government are simply incompetent at performing the tasks they have taken on. The Wastebook includes $11 billion worth of improper payments the IRS made on the Earned Income Tax Credit last year alone. This is as much as 28 percent of all its Earned Income Tax Credit payments, an unbelievably high error rate which, as the report points out, causes the IRS to “erroneously dish out more money in improper payments than the entire budgets of the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of the Interior, and the Department of Labor.”

Senator Coburn identifies more than a billion dollars a year in Pell Grant fraud: scammers posing as students who take the money from the government and run. Evidently the Department of Education is incapable of stopping it.

The series of wastebooks may be the clearest description ever published of the breakdown in common sense and defined purpose of the federal government. This year’s edition finds that Department of Justice employees spent more than $626,000 last year to book travel by speaking to a live travel agent rather than booking their trip online. That’s because the DOJ’s travel agency charges $6.49 to book a trip over the internet, and a whopping $31 to book one over the phone. In defiance of common sense, the employees used the phone 40 percent of the time.

A more expensive example of this collapse in common sense is the National Technical Information Service. This agency charges other organs of the federal government to provide reports which are largely available for free online. For instance, the wastebook notes, the NTIS sells the “Public Health Service Food Code” to other agencies for $69 a pop. Yet this document is available at no cost over the internet. In fact, it’s the first result when you search “Public Health Service Food Code” on Google. Senator Coburn refers to the NTIS as the “Let Me Google That For You” of the federal government. The agency costs taxpayers $50 million.

Finally, the report illustrates the breakdown in the rule of law. In one example, it points to $30 million intended to restore the Mississippi coast which was instead used for unrelated pet projects. One official allegedly directed millions of grants to entities associated with his family and friends.

Similar corruption exists on a grand scale. As of 2011, Senator Coburn notes, there were 312,000 federal employees or retirees who had failed to pay their income taxes--$3.5 billion worth of them. More than a third of these people (107,000) are current civilian employees (bureaucrats) who have not paid their taxes and yet continue to be paid by the taxpayers. Evidently these “public servants” do not feel they have to live under the law they administer.

This is the breakdown we must overcome. Read Senator Coburn’s Wastebook to understand it. Then demand that your elected officials commit to breaking out.

Your Friend,
Newt

Open Letter To Bill O'Reilly At FOX NEWS

2013-12-18T15:57:00.002-08:00

The following email was sent today to Bill O'Reilly at FOX NEWS

Judge orders removal of Mt. Soledad cross in La Jolla

U.S. District Judge Larry Burns in San Diego issued an order from the bench Thursday declaring that the government's display of a 43-foot cross atop Mount Soledad in La Jolla violates the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

He ordered the cross to be removed within 90 days, but stayed the order until all possible appeals have been exhausted.

On December 12, 2013 Burns gained notoriety over his ruling that the Mount Soledad war memorial cross near San Diego must come down. It was erected in 1954. Burns said he had no choice but to order its removal as the cross on the memorial amounted to an endorsement of Christianity. He stayed his order for 90 days to allow for an appeal of his ruling to the entire United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit or the Supreme Court of the United States

The federal display was challenged in a 2006 lawsuit by the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America and several local residents, all of whom were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial counties.

"We support the government paying tribute to those who served bravely in our country's armed forces," said Daniel Mach, director of the ACLU Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief. "But we should honor all of our heroes under one flag, not just one particular religious symbol."

What a “crock”!

Cross On Mt. Soledad

Arlington National Cemetery - Canadian Cross of Sacrifice

Please Bill, do not let them get away with it! This needs the widest possible exposure.

Regards,

Wayne Clark, Fullerton, CA

We The Sheeple ...

2013-12-18T11:22:00.000-08:00

2014 IS COMING !

REFLECT

THINK

VOTE !!

Send Out The Clowns

2013-12-16T15:42:00.001-08:00

Seen this guy anywhere ?

Click above to see him, his friends, associates and supporters.

America is run “ . . . by the people for the people . . . “--let us not forget. Morphs by Brisson Design, music by Carolina Taylor produced by Steve Nagel of UVPAQLITE in memory of David A. Noble (1984-2012) he never liked clowns.

While IT was fiction, ObamaCare is not, yet the fear, terror and misery being visited upon millions of our citizens is more real and palpable as that which flowed from the pages of IT. They had to pass it to find out what was in it, or so they said. And so it is as we now learn more with every passing day.

Join with the millions of Americans who oppose ObamaCare. Vote in 2014 to replace those in both parties who do not actively oppose it with those who will. Our failure to vote the clowns out will extend ObamaCare far beyond twenty-eight years.

Will you join us?

Who's Really Getting Paid After DOJ's $13B Settlement With JPMorgan?

2013-12-10T11:52:00.000-08:00

Megyn Kelly discussed the new revelations with Judge Andrew Napolitano, who called it a "perversion of justice for the federal government to extort billions of dollars from the second-largest bank in the United States and give it away to the president's political friends and favorite political causes."

Missed The Kelly File last night? Watch “Who’s Really Getting Paid . . . “ now.

Hmmmm. This seems to ring a bell. Oh yes! ACORN! One of Obama’s early endeavors. If you really want to know how the sub-prime mortgage scandal went down and who the “players” were in that debacle, I recommend that you read

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed and Corruption Led To Economic Armageddon.

Soooo . . . , explain to me again why big government is better!

2013-11-07T17:16:00.000-08:00

Who's Sorry Now?

Obama apologized today that some Americans lost health care insurance but not for misleading [LYING].

While you think about what he said today, you may want to listen to this song to him.

Hmmm. Was Connie prescient? Many Americans were. Unfortunately not enough.

Razzle-Dazzle 'em

2013-11-05T16:41:00.001-08:00

The Obama theme song

Razzle-Dazzle 'em

Think of Obama, the biggest bamboozler of 'em all and his merry band of sycophants
[see below]
as you watch this clip.

The merry band of sycophants

Bob Beckel

Tamara Holder

James Carville

Jehmu Greene

Kirsten Powers

Juan Williams

Chief Bamboozeler and Key Staff

Bamboozler In Charge

Jon Favreau - Chief Bamboozle Writer

Add caption

Jay Carney - Press Corps Bamboozler

Gophers and Ex-Gophers

Kathleen Sebilius

Eric Holder

Lois Lerner

Hillary Clinton

Janet Napolitano

Are you surprised at the outcome?

2013-03-30T17:16:00.003-07:00

Americans WAKEUP!!!

Read: “First, They Came For The Cypriots...”

“Rule Of Law: Markets tumbled after Cyprus and the EU said they might tax private bank accounts to pay for a bailout. Arbitrary property grabs are a new low and a bad precedent in this crisis. Worse still, it can happen here.”

Read Full Article At Investor's Business Daily: Read more at IBD

“Already Congressional Democrats are plotting the expropriation of Americans' private 401(k) and IRA retirement savings accounts in favor of "a guaranteed income." [View the details of a 2010 Congressional testimony] If bank accounts can be casually expropriated in Cyprus to pay for big-spending governments and bailouts, there is no reason a nice slice of the $19 trillion in retirement accounts can't get the same treatment.”

Think not? Think again! Read: Obama Begins Push for New National Retirement System

Please realize that this is 100% about funding $1.5 TRILLION annual deficits using Americans’ retirement funds, as there is simply no other remaining pool of wealth able to soak up $1.5 Trillion in T-bills annually.

Then they came for the Americans!

Are You Pro or Con on “Term Limits” For Elected Government Representatives?

2013-03-30T12:31:00.001-07:00

I encourage you to read: SOWELL: A REAL TERM LIMIT

Here’s my opinion.

Concern over "loss of experience" is a non sequitur

Those against imposing term limits claim such a policy would result in a "loss of experience" provided by career politicians. Professor, economist, social theorist, political philosopher, and author Thomas Sowell says, "...Much - if not most - of that experience and expertise [by career politicians] is in the arts of evasion, effrontery, deceit and chicanery. None of that serves the interests of the people." I agree.

He further says, "If we want terms limits to achieve their goals, we have to make the limit one term, with a long interval prescribed before the same person can hold any other government office again." Failure to do so would only result in the career politicians spending more of their term campaigning for some other government office versus campaigning for re-election or supporting "special interest" legislation while in office with a view to obtaining a job within that "special interest" group as a reward for past performance.

Regrettably, there are far too many politicians in office today who entered public service to do good but stayed to do well. It is our nation and our citizens who suffer the consequences.

Think about it and post your opinion in “Comments:

Middle-Class [Obama] Backers Shocked Obama Raised Their Taxes

2013-01-08T11:00:00.000-08:00

Dyed-blue-in-the-wool supporters of President Obama are blue as can be after opening their paychecks and discovering that "ordinary folks," as the president likes to call them, got slapped with a sizeable tax hike on New Year's Day.

"What happened?" was the exclamation found repeatedly by the Washington Times' Joseph Curl as he surveyed commentaries posted on liberal websites.

"What happened that my Social Security withholding in my paycheck just went up?" a DemocraticUnderground.com post asked. "I guarantee this decrease is gonna hurt me more than the increase in income taxes will hurt those making over 400 grand. What happened?"