Abbott say among other things that the proposal violates the Commerce Clause of the Constitution.  This argument predates the incredulity of the Nebraska Compromise mandates that 49 states will be forced to pay for the increased state obligation created by the health care bill.  While Senate Majority Leader Harry Reed seems quite content with entering into this corrupt bargain in order to ensure the vote of Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb), the rest of the nation is screaming foul.

While this monstrous bill may eventually be passed in some form or another, for citizens to sit back mutely is unacceptable.  Failure to protest is consent by silence.

The complete letter can be found at this link

For Bush vacations were about renewal of the spirit and he found his balance while cutting down mesquite trees and putting up fences.  Manual labor, hard, hot work for a man who was carrying the weight of a country under attack on his shoulders.

President Obama vacation this year has taken him back to a place that he is familiar with as well. He spent much of his youth in Hawaii and only last year returned their following the death of his grandmother.  This year, the time off doesn’t carry the same cloak of grief, but a time of family fun and recreational relaxing all at a price that would make some Americans a little uncomfortable. Although there are accomodations available for less than the rate of $750,000 daily rate for beachfront house that will house the Obama clan, there is still the issue of feeding the rest of the entourage.  The most parsimonious diner will find it hard to find anything on the menus of Honolulu for less than $22.  But the weather is beautiful allowing time for golf which will add $100 to the expense account.

It is certainly easy to see why the press would prefer Obama over Bush.  Of course it is always easy to choose Paradise over Inferno, especially if someone else is picking up the tab.  And with this president, all spending is considered an answer to the recession.

The 2010 elections are coming up soon.  It is time to begin the fight that will bring back a government for the people instead of against the people.  Change we can believe in  has proven to be nothing more than a hollow slogan mouthed by a socialist who wants nothing more than cradle to grave legislation which will imprison citizen rather than empowering them.

To save our country, the Constitution must be protected and followed.  It is the DUTY of all freedom loving Americans’

From those fine folks who brought us Amtrak, US Post Office, and $400 toilets seats.  This is a present the taxpayers can not afford.

Prosecutors say Faleh Hassan Almaleki, 48, of Glendale, conducted an “honor killing” on his own daughter because he felt she had shamed the family by not following traditional Iraqi or Muslim values.

The elder Almaleki is accused of using his Jeep Grand Cherokee to run down his daughter and another woman in a parking lot outside a state agency’s office in Peoria.

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Almaleki believed Noor had become “too westernized” after she left her arranged marriage to an Iraqi man and moved back to Arizona to live with her American fiance.  The other victim was future mother-in-law, Amal Kalaf, 43, who lived with her Noor and her son.

Social experts say honor killings are an accepted practice in Iraqi tribal society, where family members believe they must kill a woman who has dishonored them by not living by traditional values.

After he ran down Noor and Kalaf, Almaleki fled to Mexico where he boarded a plane to London.  He was detained at Heathrow where he was extradited back to the United States.  He is currently in jail under a suicide watch.

Noor was remembered by her friends as being a strong, caring young woman who did not want to be disrespectful to her father but did want to be free to make her own choices about her life which included college and working to earn her own money.  Almaleki forced his daughter to quit her job at Applebee’s.

A Facebook page has been set up by her friends in order to honor her memory.

Noor’s murder reminds one of that the anniversary of the deaths of Sarah and Amina’s Said will soon be here.  Their father, Yasser Said remains at large.

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“[The Supreme Court] was at first considered as the most harmless and helpless of all its organs. But it has proved that the power of declaring what the law is, ad libitum, by sapping and mining slyly and without alarm the foundations of the Constitution, can do what open force would not dare to attempt.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1825.

And so it has come to fruition that the “harmless..organ” has become a powerful and unencumbered force in driving public policy in the United States. When Jefferson envisioned a government for the people and of the people, he insisted that all branches should carry equal weight, but the Supreme Court has shown its ability to usurp the other branches by being the ultimate arbiter in the interpretation of laws.

The question of why judges wear black should be asked and the answer would be that it would make them outwardly identical, and so the hope would be that their judgments would also be symmetrically tied to the letter of the law.  However, President Obama has said that he will nominate judges who have empathy and “real-life” experienes.

What he means is that he wants judges who will base their interpretation of what they feel is the law not what is written in the law.  And with that, and his nomination of Sonia Sotomayer, he has ripped off the blindfold of lady justice.

“I think philosophically her statements indicate an approach to judging that is outside the mainstream,” Sen. Jeff Sessions, senior Judiciary Committee Republican, said in a nationally broadcast interview. Appearing on another news show, Democrat Chuck Schumer declared: “She’s not far left. She’s not far right. She’s mainstream.”

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But is she mainstream?  Looking at just one of her decisions, and the most well publicized, she ruled against firefighter, Frank Ricci’s suit alleging that his Constitutional rights were denied.  In a recent Supreme Court decision, however, her ruling was overruled saying that the city of New Haven was guilty of reverse discrimination for throwing out the results of a fire department promotional test on which no blacks and only a small number of Hispanics did well.

In her ruling against Ricci, she demonstrated her empathy for minorities while completely ignoring the Civil Rights statues.  Adding another judge that interprets laws from the heart instead of the head will continue to implement laws that uphold one citizen against another based on the perception of intent.

Sonia Sotomayor’s life may be inspirational, but she is exactly the kind of jurist that will lead to a imbalance in the division of power Thomas Jefferson and the founding fathers worked so diligently to establish.

In Sarah Palin’s resignation announcement she complained about the treatment of her son Trig who always teaches her life lessons. She said that the “world needs more Trigs, not fewer.” That’s a presidential campaign promise we can all get behind. She will be the first politician to actually try to increase the population of retarded people. To me, it’s kinda like saying the world needs more cancer patients because they teach us such personal lessons.

Her first act as President: To introduce a Pre-K lunch buffet that includes lead paint chips. Sort of a Large HEAD-START Program.

She will then encourage women to hold off on pregnancies until their 40’s just to mix up some chromosomes.

She now is in favor of abortion only in case of diploid birth.

Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter.

This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job

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A tip of the hat to NewsBusters who snagged this post before it was taken down due to emails from offended loved ones of the retarded. Well, duh, what moron wouldn’t find it offensive. Why is it that the absence of sensitivity is only noted by liberals when it comes from their critics.

Included at NBs’ is a screenshot of the original HuffPost screen provided by a reader that proves that the slime job was actually posted before it was jerked.

Maybe HuffPo didn’t take note of what happened when David Letterman tried to make serious, personal issues food for political criticism.  Perhaps advertisers of the Huffington Post should be made aware that their consumers do not appreciate such callous, insensitive tripe.

When the Muslim students attacked the embassy,  the newspaper was still the mainstay of most news buffs and satellite television was in its infancy.  With the first commercial television satellites only five years old, transmissions from the other side of the world were possible,  but there was many technical issues and logistics to consider.   Following the embassy takeover,  media, print and television, carried the story as their lead news story.  As is true with most news stories, interest in the hostage situation eventually waned as other national and world events took precedence.  One show, however, was to rise to prominence during the hostage crisis and bring a dramatic change in the way people get their information.

Looking back at this point in history it is amazing to realize the primitive nature that was the news media of the day.  There were no 24/7 news shows, no CNN, no Sirrus, no internet.  Most people didn’t know what a computer was much less be able to envision the way in which they would change the delivery of information.  There was, however, a new television program which premiered on ABC just days before the embassy takeover.  Nightline was a half-hour show that in an almost suicidal move went up against late-night television king, Johnny Carson.  ABC’s president, Roone Arledge, began to see the show as a way to capitalize on the public’s new found patriotism following the hostage-taking by offering updates on the crisis while at the same time not taking time away from his traditional nightly news program.  With the dramatic title, Iran Crisis, America Held Hostage, viewers could follow the unfolding of a news event on a daily basis.  Replacing the original host, ABC anchor Frank Reynolds, veteran ABC reporter Ted Koeppel began chronicling the Iranian incident and a producer had the idea of adding the number of days which had elapsed since the original takeover to the title of the program.  Although the hostage situation only last 444 days, the format for the show was set, and it was the predecessor to the plethora of news shows that have followed on both network, cable, and satellite television.

For Ahmadinejad, Nightline must have been a great ego boost.  For 30 minutes a day, he could enjoy the angst Americans were feeling over being bested by a group of radicals in a country most couldn’t even locate on a map.  What he might not have considered, however, was the reaction that was rising up from the Great Satan.  The embarrassment would quickly turn resolve and that resolve would turn to anger.  Possibly even more disgusting to the  Americans than the hostage-takers was the ineffectiveness seen in Washington’s ability to resolve the crisis.  And this wave of emotion would throw the hapless Jimmy Carter out and bring in the hawkish Ronald W. Reagan.

In the same way, a new wave is taking over Iran right now.  The protestors in the streets are by and large young people who are tired of the strict reins of the theocracy to which Admadinejad owes his power.  Attempts to eliminate the spread of information is not as easy as it was in 1979.  Tech savy and loaded with cash, the youth of Iran are broadcasting their rebellion faster and easier than could have ever been imagined when the Muslim students scaled the walls of the American embassy.  Twitter, camera and video phones, Skyping have not only spread the news of the rebellion within Iran but around the world as well.

It is too early to tell whether the current Iranian crisis will be succsuccessful, but it is for certain that in this fight technology is the first weapon of the protestors.  For Almadinejad who came to power through violence, it must the a cruel irony to see himself going down not because of superior firepower but superior thumbpower.

The Fourth of July was traditionally celebrated as America’s birthday, but the idea of an annual day specifically celebrating the Flag is believed to have first originated in 1885. BJ Cigrand, a schoolteacher, arranged for the pupils in the Fredonia, Wisconsin Public School, District 6, to observe June 14 (the 108th anniversary of the official adoption of The Stars and Stripes) as ‘Flag Birthday’. In numerous magazines and newspaper articles and public addresses over the following years, Cigrand continued to enthusiastically advocate the observance of June 14 as ‘Flag Birthday’, or ‘Flag Day’.

On June 14, 1889, George Balch, a kindergarten teacher in New York City, planned appropriate ceremonies for the children of his school, and his idea of observing Flag Day was later adopted by the State Board of Education of New York. On June 14, 1891, the Betsy Ross House in Philadelphia held a Flag Day celebration, and on June 14 of the following year, the New York Society of the Sons of the Revolution, celebrated Flag Day.

Following the suggestion of Colonel J Granville Leach (at the time historian of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the Revolution), the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America on April 25, 1893 adopted a resolution requesting the mayor of Philadelphia and all others in authority and all private citizens to display the Flag on June 14th. Leach went on to recommend that thereafter the day be known as ‘Flag Day’, and on that day, school children be assembled for appropriate exercises, with each child being given a small Flag.

Two weeks later on May 8th, the Board of Managers of the Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution unanimously endorsed the action of the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames. As a result of the resolution, Dr. Edward Brooks, then Superintendent of Public Schools of Philadelphia, directed that Flag Day exercises be held on June 14, 1893 in Independence Square. School children were assembled, each carrying a small Flag, and patriotic songs were sung and addresses delivered.

In 1894, the governor of New York directed that on June 14 the Flag be displayed on all public buildings. With BJ Cigrand and Leroy Van Horn as the moving spirits, the Illinois organization, known as the American Flag Day Association, was organized for the purpose of promoting the holding of Flag Day exercises. On June 14th, 1894, under the auspices of this association, the first general public school children’s celebration of Flag Day in Chicago was held in Douglas, Garfield, Humboldt, Lincoln, and Washington Parks, with more than 300,000 children participating.

Adults, too, participated in patriotic programs. Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior, delivered a 1914 Flag Day address in which he repeated words he said the flag had spoken to him that morning: “I am what you make me; nothing more. I swing before your eyes as a bright gleam of color, a symbol of yourself.”

Inspired by these three decades of state and local celebrations, Flag Day – the anniversary of the Flag Resolution of 1777 – was officially established by the Proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson on May 30th, 1916. While Flag Day was celebrated in various communities for years after Wilson’s proclamation, it was not until August 3rd, 1949, that President Truman signed an Act of Congress designating June 14th of each year as National Flag Day.

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