Repeal Obamacare

 Dear Patriots,

Have you resigned to handing control over every decision you make to the federal government?  Are you resigned to worse medical care at higher prices?  Have you accepted the inevitability of Obamacare? 

If the federal government is allowed to takeover healthcare in our country, the Constitution is, for all intents and purposes, nullified. Every decision we make impacts our health and the potential cost of our healthcare. The car you drive, the food you eat, even how much time you spend outdoors all impact the potential burden of your healthcare under Obamacare and the government will have a financial interest and the perceived authority to regulate every aspect of your life. 

Obamacare is a scourge upon this nation and must be the primary focus in 2012.  In March the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments on the constitutionality of Obamacare, and if the court decides to uphold the constitution, the law will be struck down.  Unfortunately the court has four committed liberals who will rubber-stamp their messiah's power grab, four justices who are consistent strict-constructionists who are likely to strike down the law, and one who revels in being the deciding vote. 

The TEA PARTY is currently in the preliminary stages of planning a massive rally outside of the Supreme Court when they will weigh Obamacare.  If We The People can put together a huge showing, it could swing Justice Kennedy towards the constitution and solidify support among Justices Thomas, Scalia, Roberts, and Alito. 

OUR FREEDOM AT STAKE

 Patriots,

If Obama gets his way he’ll cut the Military down to almost nothing. He wants to cut 67,000 troops from active Army, National Guard and the Army Reserve. He wants to do this by October 1, 2012. He will also cut the Marine Corps by 15,200 troops fro the Active Reserves. The Navy and Air Force will loose 8,600 and 1,700 respectively.

 This is totally unacceptable. He thinks by cutting the Military Personnel it will save the U. S. economy. This is a ploy to give him more power. He is going to dangle a carrot in front of the Military Personnel hoping they will take the money and get out of the Military. Thus, by cutting the Military it is actually cutting our freedom.

 Sharp said in an interview before the budget was released, “I was surprised that they were going to complete the reductions to the Army and the Marine Corps in just five years.” He went on to say, “What they told us is that they will try to use those types of positive incentives to the greatest extent possible, but that involuntary separations would probably still be necessary.”

 He (Obama) will strip the U. S. Military down to nothing. This will destroy the U. S. economy. Right now people are out of work and having a hard time finding work. So when the troops that were kicked out of the Military try to join the work force it will put more of a strain on our delicate economy. It will also open the flood gate of uprising and crime. We will not be able to live as free Americans, and that scares the hell out of me. If this happens Obama will insert Marshall Law. When this is done our freedom is gone; then we have only 2 options: 

1. Do what the government tells you.
2. Or fight for Your FREEDOM.

What will you do? This is the question WE THE PEOPLE will have to ask ourselves.

SOMETHING HAS DISAPPEARED

This is part of the 'change' we were promised. But nobody will question him in fear of being called a racist.

What an embarrassment.

For a long time, we have noticed that the decor at the White House has changed since BHO moved in.

The Oval Office is now stripped of the traditional red, white, and blue, and replaced with middle eastern wallpaper, drapes, and decor.

The hallway that he walks out of to talk to the press now has middle eastern chairs, drapes, etc. And the thing that has bothered me the most is the bright yellow drape behind him every time he speaks from the white house. It has Arabic symbols on it and has been there from the beginning.

I’ve been noticing this for a while and it just dawned on me. That bright yellow curtain is highly visible, but as you look closer, you will see what is predominantly absent. Look at the traditional 'American' background and decor as opposed to the new decor. Trust me when I say that this is intentional. It should alarm every American.

What is missing at Barack Hussein Obama's press conference? No it is not the Teleprompters; it’s the U.S. flag!!! This is not acceptable to me, nor should it be to you. Vote in November - 2012 like your way of life depends on it! Because it does!!!!!

The Truth About ObamaCare Rationing for Seniors

 Patriots,

It is now clear that the BIGGEST LOSERS in the ObamaCare statist healthcare overhaul ARE AMERICA’S SENIORS and those approaching retirement age. Consider these shocking facts:

• According to Obama’s own chief actuary in the Department of Health and Human Services, ObamaCare will savage Medicare by cutting $575.1 billion in this decade alone.
   
• One website says that ObamaCare “will affect all aspects of health care for seniors -- coverage, prices, and access.” 
   
• “Medicare Advantage” -- the popular program which gives seniors more choices in healthcare -- is already being decimated by ObamaCare with major insurers dropping the plan altogether and Obama’s actuary projecting a 50% reduction in the program by 2017.
   
• And then there’s the reality of HEALTHCARE RATIONING that will be implemented by ObamaCare’s “Independent Payment Advisory Board” -- appointed by Obama with the power to make Medicare rationing decisions without Congressional oversight!

Of course, many seniors have been kept in the dark -- even deceived about ObamaCare by the nation’s largest membership association of seniors, AARP. From the onset, the AARP aggressively lobbied for passage of ObamaCare. Even as these troubling details emerged, AARP continued its staunch support of Obama’s plan...

The reason?

AARP stands to reap billions in profits by offering gap coverage as a direct result of deep cuts in Medicare!

This “Grand Deception” created by Obama and aggressively promoted by the AARP that seniors support ObamaCare is a lie now threatening the health care of every senior and the solvency of our nation.

With American seniors now at serious risk due to ObamaCare, and AARP essentially turning their backs on the concerns of seniors, Grassfire Nation is partnering with Conservative 50 Plus to unite conservative citizens in opposition to ObamaCare.

It is vitally important that seniors and those approaching retirement age stand together with one voice against ObamaCare and the AARP’s Grand Deception!

La Raza Calls for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s Resignation

As you know, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is being victimized by a politically motivated assault brought on by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s Department of Justice. Arpaio is also the convenient target of a savage liberal media as well as radical immigration zealots -- all of whom are looking to destroy a decorated and dedicated public servant committed to the citizens of Arizona.

On February 2, 2012, the National Council of La Raza -- a far-left Latino organization -- held a press event to call for Sheriff Joe's resignation.

According to Fox News Latino, La Raza "President Janet Murguia called Joe Arpaio... 'America's worst sheriff' and said it was time for him to step down."

As you may know La Raza is a pro-Latino rights organization that strongly supports amnesty. "La Raza" means "the race" and the phrase is linked to the "La Raza" movement which includes such ideas as "Reconquista" -- the goal to reclaim vast portions of the western United States as an independent Latino soveriegn nation.

This latest round of attacks against Sheriff Joe began when Obama's heavy-handed Department of Justice stripped his officers of their power to enforce federal immigration laws. Arpaio has repeatedly asked the DOJ for evidence into their assertion that his office profiles Latinos and bases immigration enforcement on racially charged complaints.

This is outrageous. It is bad enough that Obama supports the amnesty agenda, but to turn the Justice Department against local law enforcement who are simply upholding our laws is unconscionable.

Now, groups like La Raza are joining the attacks.

What is an Infidel

 The Muslim religion is the fastest growing religion per capita in the United States, especially in the minority races!!

Last month a friend of mine attended his annual training session that's required for maintaining his state prison security clearance. During the training session there was a presentation by three speakers representing the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Muslim faiths, who each explained their beliefs.

My friend was particularly interested in what the Islamic had to say. The Muslim gave a great presentation of the basics of Islam, complete with a video. After the presentations, time was provided for questions and answers. When it was my friend’s turn, He directed his question to the Muslim and asked: “Please, correct me if I'm wrong, but I understand that most Imams and clerics of Islam have declared a holy jihad [Holy war] against the infidels of the world and, that by killing an infidel, (which is a command to all Muslims) they are assured of a place in heaven. If that's the case, can you give me the definition of an infidel?”

There was no disagreement with his statements and, without hesitation, the Muslim replied, “Non-believers!” My friend responded, “So, let me make sure I have this straight. All followers of Allah have been commanded to kill everyone who is not of your faith so they can have a place in heaven. Is that correct?”

The expression on his face changed from one of authority and command to that of a little boy who had just been caught with his hand in the cookie jar. He sheepishly replied, “Yes.”

He then stated, “Well sir, I have a real problem trying to imagine The Pope commanding all Catholics to kill those of your faith or Dr. Stanley
ordering all Protestants to do the same in order to guarantee them a place in heaven!”

The Muslim was speechless, as he continued, “I also have a problem with being your friend when you and your brother clerics are telling your followers to kill me! Let me ask you a question: Would you rather have your Allah, who tells you to kill me in order for you to go to heaven, or my Jesus who tells me to love you because I am going to heaven and He wants you to be there with me?”  You could have heard a pin drop as the Imam hung his head in shame.

 Needless to say, the organizers and/or promoters of the 'Diversification' training seminar were not happy with his way of dealing with the Islamic Imam, and exposing the truth about the Muslims' beliefs.

In just a short few years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President; if it hasn’t been done already. This is an election year that you must get out and vote against Obama and his cronies. When he and his cronies are out of office WE THE PEOPLE must keep fighting against this tyranny; the tyranny that will destroy our Constitution and our freedom.  God Bless the United States of America and it’s Constitution.

Obama Continues to Import Foreign Workers

On January 30, 2012, President Barack Obama held an online town hall meeting where he took questions from Americans via webcam.  One participant, Jennifer Wedel of Fort Worth, Texas, asked, "Why does the government continue to issue and extend H-1B visas when there are tons of Americans just like my husband with no job?"  

 The question caused all sorts of problems for the president.  He admitted that there needs to be limits to the H-1B program, but found it "interesting" that Mrs. Wedel's husband, a semiconductor engineer couldn't find a job.

 I’m simply at a loss for words concerning the recent online exchange with Jennifer Wedel and Obama.  Her highly-skilled husband can’t find a job due to the veritable tsunami of unnecessary H-1B workers flooding this country.  And, all he can say is that he will look into her husband's situation to. Obama really don't care whether or not these H-1B workers take jobs away from U.S. workers! All he’s interested in is being re-elected! So to do that, he needs the votes of illegal immigrants.

 Do you know what the Department of Labor said about the H-1B program?  In a recent report, it wrote: "H-1B workers may be hired even when a qualified U.S. worker wants the job, and a U.S. worker can be displaced from the job in favor of the foreign worker."  This goes against Obama’s comment that companies should be obliged to look for and hire American workers first.

Furthermore, most H-1B workers are under the age of 30. This combined with their temporary nature, means they cost far less to hire than American workers of any age, but especially those ages 30 and above.  If Mr. Wedel is above the age of 30, he doesn't stand a chance against an H-1B worker, from an economic standpoint.  As long as the H-1B program allows employers to put H-1B workers ahead of American workers, no matter the cost, American workers will always lose out.

 If Obama is serious about putting Americans back to work, he will reform the H-1B program.  Or better yet, he'll scrap the program altogether.  The program harms hundreds of thousands of American workers and their families and only benefits companies that would rather hire less-expensive foreign labor. I understand that companies are in business to make a profit but they need to hire Americans first.

 Clearly, President Obama still doesn't understand that the H-1B program does not work. Far too many foreign workers are imported by technology companies and they are employed instead of U.S. workers (like Mrs. Wedels's husband).  And instead of promising to do something about the problem, he finds the problem "interesting."

Solar ooze continues

Patriots,

Solar ooze continues bubbling to the surface in the ever-widening Solyndra scandal. After bilking American taxpayers for more than $535 million in federal guaranteed loans, Solyndra employees are now destroying and discarding millions in company assets!

After viewing news video featuring employees discarding high-grade glass tubes used in the manufacturing of solar panels and worth millions of dollars into a dumpster...

Liberty News reported that the Chairman of the Energy and Commerce committee Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL), called the destruction "an outrage," and called on the U.S. Department of Justice to stand in the gap for taxpayers.

"Valuable equipment is being destroyed instead of being sold to reimburse the creditors, including the American people."

But wait! This scandal of this solar ooze gets worse...

The Washington Times reported that Solyndra attorneys just last week filed a proposal in a U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Delaware to hand-out up to a half-million dollars in bonuses "to persuade key employees to stay put."

According to the report, two dozen Solyndra employees "could receive bonuses ranging from $10,000 to $50,000 each." Company attorneys believe the bonuses would "add motivation" during a dire time for the remaining employees.

Since then, the congressional panel investigating Solyndra is demanding the bankrupt company's law firm to turn over all documents -- including billing and other communications.

Americans are demanding accountability but all we get is a run-around. There's little question that Obama administration-led political favors were behind the $535 million Solyndra loan. There's also little doubt that American taxpayers are the biggest losers in this growing scandal. Obama's eco-cronyism is hurting America and breaking the backs of American taxpayers. As such, we deserve truth and justice; but once again all we get is a political two-step.

Justice Elena Kagan should step down from the ObamaCare lawsuit

Patriots,

On January 23, 2012, the Supreme Court refused to hear oral arguments on whether Justice Elena Kagan should step down from the ObamaCare lawsuit.

This was no surprise. The Supreme Court is the most isolated and powerful branch of government. Despite the overwhelming evidence indicating that Kagan should recuse herself, the Court has refused to take any action.

Let’s review the facts…

The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) has carefully documented Kagan’s work on behalf of ObamaCare while she served as Obama’s Solicitor General.

**According to JCN, Kagan engaged her department in the strategy to defend ObamaCare in court “before [ObamaCare] had even been signed into law.”  So Kagan was an advocate for ObamaCare even before the final votes were cast.

**JCN also tracks how Kagan was involved in the “deliberative process” for her office’s legal defense of ObamaCare. By definition, this means Kagan has knowledge of information (i.e. the Administration’s deliberative process) which is protected and therefore the other justices may not be allowed to hear!

It is clear that Elena Kagan was an open advocate of ObamaCare and that, in her position as Solicitor General, she was involved in defending the legislation.

By any judicial ethical standards, she should recuse herself.

But now her colleagues on the Supreme Court are “circling the wagons” to protect their elevated station in our society!

But this goes beyond her personal sense of ethics…

THIS IS THE LAW OF THE LAND!

Federal law (28 U.S.C. 455) clearly stipulates the grounds for judges to disqualify themselves in cases, including if the judge’s “impartiality might reasonably be questioned” or if the judge served in federal office as “counsel” or “adviser” or “expressed an opinion” on a matter.

Kagan has crossed all these lines and by law she must recuse herself for the ObamaCare case -- something she has already done dozens of times on other cases. But for ObamaCare, Obama’s hand-picked advocate refuses to step aside.

To make matters worse, much of the facts of Kagan’s open advocacy on behalf of ObamaCare was not disclosed during her confirmation hearings and has only come to light in the last few weeks after repeated Freedom of Information Act inquiries.

The Obama team hid the facts of Kagan’s ObamaCare advocacy! This is more Chicago style politics.

South Carolina’s Immigration Enforcement Law

President Obama's Justice Department has filed for a temporary injunction in federal court to stop South Carolina's immigration enforcement law from going into effect in January 2012. South Carolina's law, passed earlier this year, would require police officers to ask for proof of immigration status if they suspect an individual is in the country illegally. Similar to laws passed in Arizona and Alabama, South Carolina now faces the same fate as those two states - having to defend its law in federal court.

"The Justice Department has many important tasks and two of the most important tasks it has are defending the constitution and ensuring equality for all citizens," said U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles.

The Justice Department's lawsuit charges that South Carolina's law tries to enforce laws that are reserved for the federal government and that enforcement could result in the detention of legal immigrants and U.S. citizens.

I cannot understand why the Justice Department is challenging South Carolina's recently-passed immigration-enforcement legislation.  Surely police should have the right to determine if someone is in the country illegally.  Why is Obama sticking up for people who have no right to be in this country and take American jobs?

 States like South Carolina are passing immigration-enforcement laws because Obama refuses to step up to the plate and enforce these laws.  Americans are crying out for immigration enforcement and if Obama doesn't act and Congress doesn't act, the states will act.

 South Carolina's bill is simply a response to President Obama's Justice Department inaction.  If Obama truly wants to help the situation, suing South Carolina is not the solution.  The solution is to make sure America's immigration laws are enforced and to ask Congress to pass even more stringent laws.  Until this is done, no one will ever take Obama seriously on this issue and he will continue to make matters worse.

 Download the South Carolina’s immigration enforcement law (pdf form)

2012 Campaign Battle Plan

A few friends and I have completed our 2012 Campaign Battle Plan and it is enclosed with this letter.  I did not enclose a donation since I was unemployed from 2009 thru March 2011.  I will support your efforts when I get back on my feet again.

 The purpose of this letter is to offer some guidance from outside the beltway. Please let us explain.  Out here, we see things totally differently than what’s seen within the Beltway.  We’re losing elections because the commercials you run don’t connect with the general public.  One big glaring example is, I know that the constipation in the legislative pipeline is not the Republication held House of Representatives it’s the Senate and Harry Reid.  Who out here, other than a few of us who are awake know it?  Answer: NO ONE. 

 I’ve been a conservative republican for over 20 years and pay very close attention to what’s happening in all of the races and the bills that are passed through both the House of Representatives and the Senate.  It’s no secret that the ratings of both the House and Senate are the lowest they’ve ever been.  The reason for this is obvious.  Most people have no idea what’s going on with the bills.  People want to work and as far as their concerned, nothing is happening.  I know what’s happening and I know that everything is stuck in the Senate due to Harry Reid and the Senate democrats.

 We took over the House of Representatives in 2010.  During that time, the house has sent over 5 jobs and budget bills to the Senate.  Once there, they were tabled by Senator Harry Reid and the democrats.  So they sit there gathering dust.  Then Harry Reid has the audacity to blame the Republicans.  The fact that the Senate hasn’t passed a budget since Obama came into office is of no concern to them.  My question to you is; WHO KNOWS IT?  No one knows it.  You need to yell it from the highest mountain top that this is what’s happening via commercials.  You need to inform the general public exactly what’s happening.  Don’t ever let the general public form their own ideas. You need a two pronged attack.  You need the presidential attack and you need the congressional attack.  Fight like you mean it.  The democrats do and they draw blood.  I was told by an old veteran (my Grandfather) that when it looks like you’re gonna lose everything and it seemed hopeless, you have to get blinding nasty mean. You get that way, you win, if you don’t, you die. 

 We’re at that point where we have to get blinding nasty mean.  We have no choice.  This election season, is going to determine if we as Americans’ have a country and a viable constitution. Whether the rule of law is still alive and is applied where needed. Where bad ideas are canceled out and realistic workable ideas are used.  Where we teach our students what the true history of our country is all about and the values written within the Constitution.  Where we put God back in our schools, English is our countries language and our flag and Constitution is respected once again.

 These are just some of our thoughts; I will get off my soapbox now.  I hope our input helps you.

Pelosi and Her Leftist Cohorts Blaming Tea Party

Unwilling to give in to the Democrat’s gimmick of a two-month extension on the Middle Class Tax Cuts, Republicans blocked the President’s payroll tax cut.

Almost immediately, Nancy Pelosi sent out the following email to her Leftist cohorts …

Now, middle class Americans could see their taxes increase by $1,000 on January 1, unless Speaker Boehner, Eric Cantor and House Republicans back down from their extreme stance.

It is up to us to ensure that voters in their districts are aware of the damage that House Republicans are wreaking on behalf of the Tea Party fringe and the top 1 percent. We are just $7,659 short of our $100,000 Rapid Response goal that we need to reach before Midnight Tonight.

Contribute $3 or more to our Rapid Response Fund right now and we’ll hold Tea Party Republicans accountable with targeted advertising and calls. Act now and House Democrats will match your gift dollar-for-dollar.

This Republican Tea Party tax increase will hurt the middle class and obstruct the economic recovery. And they know it.

Patriots, the Payroll Tax cuts have become a political circus, with each party claiming they are trying to do what’s right for the American people.

With the Left blaming the Tea Party for obstructing their 60-day short-term gimmick, and Republicans demanding the Senate come back and negotiate a 12-month Payroll Tax fix, Congress is at an impasse, and the American taxpayers are ultimately the ones who will suffer if these political games are allowed to continue.

It’s been said before; a short-term gimmick like the two-month extension will put even more strain on our struggling economy by causing instability for our nation’s job market. So Patriots we must stop the false accusations and lies that the Democrats are saying. Write, fax email or call your representatives and senators and let them know that they can not back down from Pelosi, Reid or Obama. Also let them know that they should stop playing these political games. WE THE PEOPLE sent them there to represent us; not to join any circus.

It’s the Senate, stupid

You may remember the slogan "It's the economy, stupid" used by Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign to make the point that George H. W. Bush had not adequately addressed the poor economy.  Clinton's political strategist, James Carville, posted the phrase inside campaign headquarters as a way to keep the team focused and on message. The phrase later became the de facto slogan for the Clinton election campaign.

The slogan could make a comeback in 2012 as Republicans highlight Barack Obama's dismal economic record, but if you consider yourself a freedom-loving American, then I have a different slogan for you.

"It's the Senate, stupid."

That's right. It's the Senate, stupid.  Most Americans are focused on the presidential race right now, especially as the GOP nomination process is about to shift into high gear. But winning the White House — as critical as it is — won't be enough to save the country we love without a strong, conservative majority in the United States Senate.

• Without a conservative Senate, we won't repeal Obamacare.
• Without a conservative Senate, we won't balance the budget.
• Without a conservative Senate, we won't secure our borders.
• Without a conservative Senate, we won't stop the bailouts.
• And without a conservative Senate, we won't enact the pro-growth policies needed to get America back to work.

Winning the Senate is the key to restoring America's greatness.

Not only do the Democrats currently control the Senate but the rules of the Senate make it extremely powerful. If conservatives control the Senate, we not only can pass the reforms needed to undo Obama's mess, but we can also stop even more bad policies from being adopted.

The simple fact of the matter is this: a good president without a conservative Senate is a waste of a good president.

A president can campaign on great policies, but he doesn't write the bills. As long as liberals are in charge of writing legislation, it will be difficult for a Republican president to sign the right bills into law. Does anyone think Harry Reid will ever send a bill to the President's desk to repeal ObamaCare? The answer is no. There are 23 Democrat Senate seats up this cycle, and Republicans stand a strong chance of taking the Senate back. But it's not enough to just have a majority. We must have new senators who deeply believe in the principles of freedom and are willing to fight for them each day.

As we head into the most important election year in our lifetimes, we must also keep our focus on winning a conservative majority in the U.S. Senate. These leaders should have records that prove they not only talk the talk but also walk the walk. And each of them should show the courage to stand up to their own party's leaders when it is necessary to support and defend our principles and values.

Here are just a few candidates: Josh Mandel in Ohio, Ted Cruz in Texas, Don Stenberg in Nebraska, and Mark Neumann in Wisconsin. These candidates share a strong belief in the principles of freedom that make America great and they understand the critical role the U.S. Constitution plays in preserving those principles. So keep them in mind.

Obama is Trying To Bully Congress

Patriots,
Since Barack Obama took office, we've seen a steady and systematic advance of the liberal, big-government ideology that seeks to replace individual liberty with government interference. From the stimulus bill to ObamaCare, from the auto bailouts to growing environmental regulations, we've seen the Obama administration continue the march toward complete government control.

One tool the President has used - and continues to threaten to use - in order to advance his dangerous liberal agenda is the Executive Order. After suffering huge electoral losses that saw Republicans take control of the House of Representatives in 2010, Barack Obama relishes the idea of side-stepping Congress through the use of Executive Orders! We have news for you, Mr. President! We will not let you rule by fiat!

 When the framers wrote the Constitution, they intentionally designed checks and balances that would ensure that no one branch of government would become too strong. Among those checks and balances includes Congress's clear legislative authority. When it comes to writing laws, Congress is in charge.

But Barack Obama is attempting to change the paradigm in Washington and is exerting his authority in areas the founders did not intend. In 2010, we sent new leaders to Washington, putting conservatives in charge in Congress. And now that Obama faces opposition in the House of Representatives, he is actively trying to circumvent Congress in order to advance his leftist, big-government agenda!

We elected conservatives to Congress to stand up for us and our principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets, and we expect them to do just that! They cannot stand by and let Barack Obama use Executive Orders to circumvent the power intended for the people's representatives in Congress.

Congress must stand up to Barack Obama and not allow him to continue his unconstitutional power grab! This country will not survive if the President is able to circumvent the constitutional checks on his power. 

Put Jobless Americans Back To Work 

Last Friday (December 2nd), House Speaker John Boehner told his Republican U.S. Representatives that all the work done in the House and everything they talk about needs to be about jobs: creating jobs for American workers and putting jobless Americans back to work. Unfortunately, Speaker Boehner doesn't seem to realize that the Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 2882, would put millions of Americans back to work, with hundreds of thousands of those Americans being put back to work within weeks of the bill's passage. 

Employers have illegally taken U.S. jobs out of the hands of 7 million American workers. Almost all of these jobs are in industries where citizens and legal immigrant workers compete directly with illegal labor. Most of the citizens victimized by this practice have less than a college degree.

The crisis that unemployed and disadvantaged workers face is our crisis. Less-educated workers make up almost one-third of our civilian workforce, and young workers who can't find employment by their mid 20s are often doomed to a life of dependency. If we fail them, we will be paying the price for generations.

The federal government has had the tools to level the playing field for some time, but the government of the people, by the people, and for the people has yet to put them to maximum use. The lack of action sends a chilling message to disadvantaged U.S. workers that they aren't worth protecting.

The Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) would change that. Within a couple of years of passage, 99 percent of all employers would be using E-Verify for all new hires, and the Social Security Administration would be identifying identity thieves and other illegal workers who gamed the system through theft or fraud.

The GOP has controlled the House for a year now, but hasn't done a thing to put Americans back to work. If you don't act soon to put these Americans back to work, you might find yourselves on the outside looking in once more. Remember We The People are the Government and we send Our elected officials to represent us. When the elected officials stop representing The People it is time for them to answer to The People.

Camera network will focus on jaguars

They (the Federal Government) are wasting our tax dollars to study jaguars instead of securing our borders, this is simply outrageous! If they want to study something, I say study the routes the cartels and illegals that are coming across the border and put a stop to it!!

Starting next year, jaguars not illegals or the cartels will be the target of an extensive network of remote cameras placed across Southern Arizona and southwest New Mexico.

In a three-year, $771,000 project that has been greeted warmly by environmentalists but warily by cattle growers, University of Arizona researchers will try to learn more about the status and presence of the endangered animal.

Fifteen years after the jaguar was listed as endangered in the U.S., this project will try to determine how often it roams from Mexico to the United States and back, said Melanie Culver, the project's principal investigator and a geneticist for the U.S. Geological Survey and the UA's School of Natural Resources.

Referring to the adult male jaguar photographed in Cochise County Saturday, Culver added that the project will try to learn, "Is this the only one?"

The research project has brought on a UA professor with a history of mediation work, Kirk Emerson, to reach out to environmental groups, ranchers, private landowners and others in an effort to minimize potential conflicts over the research.

Look, I like animals and would like for them to never be endangered but this is part of life. We are a broke nation so should we be spending on something like this? Should they (the Federal Government) spend our tax money on tracking criminals crossing our borders and killing Americans? The USA, a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment - etc, etc... YET they want to study about an endangered animal. We're "broke" and they spend our money in this way; this is ludicrous!!

Obama is Trying to Circumvent Congress

 Patriots,
When the framers wrote the Constitution, they intentionally designed checks and balances that would ensure that no one branch of government would become too strong. Among those checks and balances includes Congress's clear legislative authority. When it comes to writing laws, Congress is in charge.

But Barack Obama is attempting to change the paradigm in Washington and is exerting his authority in areas the founders did not intend. In 2010, we sent new leaders to Washington, putting conservatives in charge in Congress. And now that Obama faces opposition in the House of Representatives, he is actively trying to circumvent Congress in order to advance his leftist, big-government agenda!

We elected conservatives to Congress to stand up for us and our principles of limited government, fiscal responsibility, and free markets, and we expect them to do just that! They cannot stand by and let Barack Obama use Executive Orders to circumvent the power intended for the people's representatives in Congress.

Congress must stand up to Barack Obama and not allow him to continue his unconstitutional power grab! This country will not survive if the President is able to circumvent the constitutional checks on his power.

The battle lines have been drawn

Make no mistake; we’re heading into a war in 2012.  The battle lines have been drawn with patriotic Americans who hold dear this nation’s founding principles on one side, and the liberal media, President Obama and a group of Americans who would rather live under European-style socialism on the other.

The liberal media co-opted the democratic process in 2008, putting their preferred ultra-leftist in the White House.  They proved once and for all, that they will do whatever it takes to win. . . 

. . .hide damning facts about their fellow socialists

. . .give prominent conservatives the ‘Sarah Palin treatment’

. . .blame the tea-party for our record debt and deficits 

This is the liberal media’s playbook.  They liked hand-picking the president in 2008, and their 2012 program is already up and running.

We need to stand together against the liberal media machine in 2012. Our nation, our children and our grandchildren are counting on us.

The proof of media deception is everywhere

Last week, the MRC rolled out a scathing report on the disturbing double standard in the media coverage of Democrat candidates in 2007 and Republican candidates in 2011.  Democrats were coddled, celebrated and presented as scandal free.  Meanwhile, Republicans have been savaged!

Obama’s terrorist ties, the crimes of recently-indicted John Edwards, and Hillary’s decades of scandals were swept under the rug in 2007.  In 2011, anonymous rumors about conservative candidates get the “Stop the presses!” treatment as every major liberal media outlet focuses anything that might be damaging to a potential challenger to their leftist-in-chief.

The liberal media cover up operation didn’t end in 2008.  MRC reporting has showed a consistent effort to hide, spin and distort the facts on Solyndra, Fast and Furious, LightSquared, Van Jones and many, many more outrageous scandals since Obama took office.

If we do nothing, the liberal media will get their way in 2012 and, as Ronald Reagan warned, “we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” Help amplify our message of “Don’t Believe the Liberal Media” making sure every citizen around the country sees that Americans were standing together to challenge the liberal media’s blatant attempts to hijack the 2012 election. 

TSA TURNS 10 

Obama And His Radical Left Wing Environmentalist Agenda

Fellow Patriots,

President Obama and his radical environmental allies are at it again...With record-high unemployment, massive budget deficits and a rising cost of living, you'd think the White House and Democrats on Capitol Hill would be trying to help us out.

Wrong!

You see, Obama is recruiting left-wing, special interest groups like Greenpeace to quietly push his anti-consumer and anti-growth agenda. This may not be a surprise, but you won't believe what they are up to now.

They're waging a war against our favorite stores: Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target, Food Lion, Costco, Kroger, Safeway and Sam's Club! Using false and biased information, Greenpeace is smearing these stores with claims that they're hurting the environment...But the reality is that Greenpeace, Obama and liberal Democrats are just trying to make tissues, toilet paper and other household products more expensive for us.

We won't stand for that, especially in this difficult economy! These efforts are just a continuation of the White House's plan to make America into a Socialist European State. Don't they get it? Green jobs don't work; neither do phony investments in pie-in-the-sky solar companies like Solyndra.

I’m urging the heads of Wal-Mart, Kmart, Target, Food Lion, Costco, Kroger, Safeway and Sam's Club retailers to fight back against Greenpeace, the White House and their Green cohorts. Let them know that you believe in a strong American consumer and affordable household products, not a fanatic Green agenda!

Representative Neugebauer CO-SPONSOR Legal Workforce Act 

Representative Neugebauer as Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman, you have a responsibility to lead by example, and no one in the United States needs your leadership more than jobless Americans.  Please show leadership and help these Americans get back to work by cosponsoring the Legal Workforce Act, H.R. 2885. 

The Legal Workforce Act would not only require employers to run new hires through the free and easy to use E-Verify system, it would enable the Social Security Administration (SSA) to notify Americans when it suspects a Social Security number has been stolen or is being fraudulently used. 

The bill does this by requiring the SSA to notify the owner of a Social Security number when is used at multiple work sites by multiple employees.  An American who receives this notification would know that his/her identity has been stolen and that his/her Social Security number is being used by at least one other person to attain a job.  The true holder of the Social Security number would be able to verify their identity with SSA over the phone and the employers of the individuals using the stolen Social Security number would be required to run the employee(s) through E-Verify.  The end result is that individuals using stolen identities to hold a job would be eased out of the workforce so those jobs could be filled by unemployed Americans and legal immigrants. 

This provision will end the hyperbole coming from E-Verify skeptics who claim that illegal aliens using valid names and Social Security numbers can avoid detection and game the system.  Not only that, it will help Americans to get their identities back. 

Representative Neugebauer the Legal Workforce Act, and jobless Americans, need your help.  Please cosponsor this bill and give both a helping hand. Be a Patriot leader and lead this great country of ours back to prosperity. The Patriots of this great country will stand behind a great leader; WE THE PEOPLE are waiting but we can’t wait much longer, we only have a year to send Obama and his Administration packing. 

PATRIOT KEN  

Congress Must Stand Up To Obama

  My fellow Patriots,

What is happening to our great nation? This President has been an abysmal failure and after the American people rose up and changed the makeup of Congress in response in the midterm elections of 2010, he has the audacity to publically brag that he “can’t wait” for Congress. He has decided that he will abuse the executive order process to circumvent the Congress that we FOUGHT SO HARD TO ELECT in 2010. This law by royal decree is exactly the kind of outrage this Country was founded in response to!
 
Congress MUST STAND UP to this abuse of power, and we know that if they don’t hear from us they will continue to cower to the would-be dictator. Please take a few moments and send your letters to your Congressman and Senators demanding that they stand up to an abusive executive.

Hold Eric Holder Accountable

 Patriots,

Attorney General Eric Holder appeared before Congress once again to discuss ATF's failed gunrunning scheme "Operation Fast and Furious." This time it was the Senate Judiciary Committee questioning Holder, and while his Democrat allies took it easy on him, Senate Republicans were able to extract some interesting information from Holder.

If you'll recall, a US Border Patrol agent was killed nearly a year ago with guns that ATF allowed a Mexican drug cartel to acquire through Fast and Furious. ATF agents on the scene seemingly knew that this would cause an uproar, as they immediately tried to cover up the fact that these weapons were part of Fast and Furious.

Then Eric Holder tried to deny that gunrunning was taking place, sending a letter to Congress angrily defending Fast and Furious and saying that ATF had not been allowing guns to walk. He then went before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and lied about his knowledge of the ill-advised, and likely illegal, gunrunning scheme.

This is a clear and consistent pattern of lies, deception, and perjury on the part of the Attorney General in an attempt to save his skin in the wake of the death of a US Border Patrol Agent! Eric Holder must be held accountable, not only for his involvement in Operation Fast and Furious, but for attempting to hide the truth from Congress and the American people!

Holder is scheduled to appear before the House of Representatives again in December, which gives us a little less than a month to turn the heat on our elected officials to make sure they don't let him off easy! If we can flood the halls of Congress with more letters in the coming days and weeks, they will have no choice but to listen.

 Newt Gingrich Drawing Standing Ovations

Something incredible happened over the weekend, and if you rely on the traditional media, you may have missed it. Friday night, after watching four of the other candidates speak, Speaker Gingrich confidently took the stage. What he did next defied the viciousness of the modern political campaign: Newt offered praise for each of the candidates in the room individually. He praised them for their strengths, and then made his case why he is the best candidate to be the next President of the United States, and he did it without tearing others down to make himself look good.
 
He also promised that after he got the nomination his schedule would become the White House schedule, and he would appear four hours after every Obama appearance until the President agreed to seven, three-hour Lincoln-Douglas style debates. There will be no moderator, just a timekeeper, and as an extra incentive the Speaker would be willing to allow the use of a teleprompter. It is becoming more common to hear Newt get the loudest applause, but Friday night in Iowa, he brought the house down!
 
Saturday, the campaign traveled to Texas for a unique discussion on entitlements with Herman Cain. The format allowed both of the candidates to go beyond 30-second sound bites and give detailed answers on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. The media has already tried to portray the event as a “snooze fest,” and I can tell you it was anything but and that the audience was excited! The overwhelming feedback from the audience was that they "wish all the debates were like this.”
 
The major media largely tried to ignore this event because it threatens their debates, which tend to focus more on their moderators and perceived personal drama than on policy. They tell us that is the only way they can get ratings, but last night proved that to be hogwash! 

After the event, one reporter asked if fundraising was the only thing left blocking Newt from the Republican nomination. That kind of question clearly shows that even the media is starting to see the momentum of this campaign, but they want to know if we can raise enough money to be competitive.

Tell Congress to Man Up

 Patriots,

Article 1 Section 1 of the United States Constitution reads, “All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

When this President declares that he "can't wait on Congress" and instead seeks to rule by royal decree, he is literally violating the first written law of our nation.  Congress must stand up for its constitutional authority and fight the flagrant abuse of the executive order.

Barack Obama's reliance on the executive order to advance his ideological agenda belies two things. First, he cannot provide the leadership necessary to get majority to support his proposals. Second, he is willing to ignore the Constitution in order to advance his agenda.

This issue is about the basic, constitutional construction of our government that every elected official has sworn to uphold. This fundamental disregard of the Constitution must be challenged if we are to remain governed by the people. 

Congress, especially Republicans, remain unacceptably silent on this important issue. They need you to tell them to stand up to Obama and help us end ‘King’ Obama’s executive order power-grab. Write, fax and or email your representatives and senators. Remember we pay our elected officials to work for us, THE PEOPLE; we don’t work for them. Remind them that WE THE PEOPLE put them there and we can give them a pink slip in the next election.

Obama has GOT to go

 Obama has GOT to go. He doesn't understand his people. To any liberal dumb enough to be mystified by Obama's consistently dismal approval ratings, just look at the way the president always puts socialistic principles before the needs of the American people. His administration's legal war against Arizona's attempt to enforce immigration law is a case in point. The United States has a serious illegal immigrant problem. So what does Obama do when the state of Arizona makes the intelligent—and nationally popular—decision to allow its police to question people about their immigration status during routine stops? Why, he seeks to have the state law overturned in the courts, so as to pander to the hurt feelings of the Mexican government (which supplies the illegals) and to his hard-left sympathizers (who see the illegal immigrants as a future left-wing voting bloc). The American people should not and will not forgive him for jeopardizing their security in this way.

Obama Admin Opposes Prayer at WWII Memorial

The Obama administration announced its objection on November 3, 2011 to adding President Franklin Roosevelt's D-Day prayer to the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C., according to a FoxNews article by Todd Starnes.

The objection was noted during a Nov. 3 congressional hearing on Rep. Bill Johnson's (R-OH) bill - the "World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2011."

Robert Abbey, the director of the Bureau of Land Management, said any plaque or inscription of the prayer would "dilute" the memorial's central message and therefore "should not be altered."

Roosevelt asked the nation to join him in prayer as U.S. and allied troops launched the invasion that led to the defeat of Nazi Germany. He asked God to give the allied troops courage and faith, saying, "With thy blessing we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy."

"For there to be objections to demonstrating a faith in God at critical points in our nation's history - particularly D-Day - boggles my mind," Johnson said. "I was very surprised they were going to object."

Johnson's bill, which had bipartisan support, is expected to pass a committee vote and he anticipates the full House will support the legislation.

Bob Abby should immediately drop any opposition to the World War II Memorial Prayer Act, apologize for his un-patriotic stance and publicly announce his support for the bill.

Demand a Free Energy Market

 Patriots,

The government should not be in the business of picking winners and losers. Selectively providing tax credits is a manipulation of the free market and a huge part of government corruption. Selective energy tax credits have artificially propped up failed energy markets for decades, disincentivize exploration and investment in real solutions that are left at a competitive disadvantage because they lack the advantages of tax credits.  

The Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act of 2011 (HR 3308) eliminates the practice of targeted subsidies and to deceive or mislead investors; competitive free market is the best way to encourage American ingenuity to solve our growing energy crisis. The passage of the Energy Freedom and Economic Prosperity Act of 2011 will create a market where failure and success of an energy company is based on merit instead of their ability to lobby for special subsidies in Congress.  

Great conservative organizations like the Heritage Foundation, Americans For Prosperity, and Americans For Tax Reform are standing on this important measure! This is an actual solution that would have an immediate impact on the competitiveness of the energy market and WE THE PEOPLE need to let our elected representatives know that we are paying attention. Once again I say, “Write, fax, phone or e-mail your Congressman and or Congresswoman to push  the Prosperity Act of 2011 (HR 3308).”

Remember we pay our elected officials to work for us, THE PEOPLE; we don’t work for them. Remind them that WE THE PEOPLE put them there and we can give them a pink slip in the next election.

Political Fat Cats

 Hey Patriots,

The political fat cats in Washington have run up the national credit card to obscene levels, and they've proven that they have no semblance of self-control when it comes to spending taxpayer dollars.

We the People cannot stand for this! We cannot sit by any longer as politicians steal from our children and grandchildren to fund their pet projects and pork-barrel spending! Congress must stop this insane spending! We the People must force them to take notice; call, fax, or email your congressman and or congresswoman and let them know that you are not happy with them. Remind them that they can be voted out if they won’t start representing We the People. Let them know you will also stop your contributions to them.

Lethal scandal involving libs draws media silence

It has been described by the Washington Times as “a risky strategy to allow weapons to be placed in what Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents call the ‘Iron River’ of guns flowing south into Mexico.”

The misguided “Fast and Furious” operation, where the ATF  intentionally put thousands of guns in the hands of Mexican criminals, ended when two of the more than 2,500 weapons turned up at the site of dead U.S. federal law enforcement officer.  Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed in a firefight with Mexican bandits who used weapons purchased for them by U.S. taxpayers.

As a Congressional investigation begins to peel back the layers on this ill-conceived operation; bringing to light serious questions and concerns about President Obama and his Attorney General Eric Holder; the liberal media couldn’t be less interested. 

This is a classic case of “bias by omission” where the media simply ignore huge stories to protect an official or program that they like.

With a collective yawn, the so-called “news” media have not bothered to provide any substantive information about the botched Fast and Furious operation, and in fact, are aggressively working to insulate Obama from any of the coming fall-out!

It is the media’s job to expose this exact type of government misdeed!

+ + Huge scandals are only news when conservatives are easy to blame

Given the lawlessness, violence and international intrigue of the exploding “Fast and Furious” scandal, you would expect this to be splashed across the front page of every major newspaper and the lead story on the evening news.  And it would be, if it involved conservatives.

But because it involves the Obama administration, the media go silent, while waiting for public interest to die down. The liberal media’s failure to responsibly cover this story and provide answers to the American public underscores what growing numbers of citizens already know -- that the media are the willing pawns of the Obama administration and as such cannot be trusted to report the truth.

SECURING THE BORDERS NOT NEARLY ENOUGH

 -- 'REVERSING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION' IS GOAL

The federal government's goal with respect to illegal immigration should be to reduce the number of illegal immigrants in our country, over time and in an orderly and systematic way, until the number is as low as it feasibly can be.

Stopping illegal immigration isn't enough. Securing the borders isn't enough.

The country has to cause the millions of illegal aliens in the country to go back home -- so that the United States becomes a net exporter of illegal aliens each year, instead of a net importer of illegal aliens each year.

A responsible approach to illegal immigration would seek to make the number of illegal aliens who leave the country annually greater than the number who enter the country annually. Experts who study the issue believe that we could achieve a net outflow between one million and two million per year by implementing or enhancing a handful of measures that are already known to be effective, and in fact are largely premised on existing law. Namely:

• turning off the jobs magnet by requiring workplace verification of legal status (i.e., requiring all employers to use the existing but not-yet-mandatory program known as E-Verify);
• turning off various other magnets such as in-state tuition, drivers licenses and birthright citizenship;
• building an effective, physical fence on the Mexican border;
• deploying a reliable check-in/check-out system for visitors to the United States (i.e., fixing the current program known as US VISIT); and
• enforcing existing deportation laws to perhaps double the effect of current enforcement.

These five measures alone should reduce our illegal alien population by half in less than six years. Let us consider each measure in turn.

THE 5 STEPS

Turning off the jobs magnet.

By far the most important means of reversing illegal immigration is to stop illegal aliens from holding jobs. Without jobs, most illegal aliens will find it difficult to support themselves and will return home.

Candidates would do well to endorse House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith's Legal Workforce Act because it does more than require E-Verify for new hires and sets up systems for identifying and firing illegal aliens who have obtained jobs with stolen identities.

We need to hear candidates pledge as President to fully enforce every aspect of this legislation.

Turning off other magnets.

For the same reason the jobs magnet should be turned off, so too should all the other magnets. One example is in-state tuition for illegal aliens. There are others such as the current privilege of not paying for health care in hospitals. The biggest, however, is birthright citizenship: the granting of American citizenship to a child merely because he or she was born here, even if to illegal alien parents.

Building an effective, physical fence.

Effective, physical fencing along the Mexican border (i.e., a wall where that is appropriate, or a double-fence with a barrier road between the fences where that is appropriate) is a well-established and bi-partisan idea. Congress has already authorized the building of an effective, physical fence along about 700 miles of the 2000-mile southern border. Building that 700-mile stretch of fence is a good start. An even better policy would build 1,000 miles of effective fencing encompassing the entire 800-mile ground border between San Diego and El Paso, plus another 200 miles of the most needed river border in Texas. As a practical matter, most experts believe it is not necessary to fence the entire 2,000-mile southern border, but that theory can be tested over time. If 1,000 miles of fencing proves insufficient, we can build more.

And to be effective, fencing must have the appropriate level of Border Patrol and detection technology.

Deploying a check-in/check-out system.

30-40% of illegal aliens first enter the United States on legal visas and then overstay. Although Congress authorized a check-in and check-out system in 1996, no President has fully implemented it. The current US-VISIT system, for example, makes virtually no effort to have the 45 million foreign visitors each year check out. And Congress exempts most Canadians and Mexicans. The problems with US-VISIT can all be fixed without undue expense or genuine controversy.

Enforcing existing deportation laws to perhaps double the effects of current enforcement.

Deportations reduce our illegal alien population directly. They also discourage illegal entry into the United States in the first place, and they encourage illegal aliens already here to leave voluntarily. As of now, we deport less than 4% of the illegal alien population each year (despite 100% of that population being legally eligible for deportation). Under current policy, large numbers of people who are identified by law enforcement as probable illegal aliens are never placed into deportation proceedings. And large numbers of those who are subjected to proceedings and ordered deported abscond or are otherwise allowed by the federal government to avoid their deportation orders. A President could perhaps double the number of illegal aliens who leave the country as a result of existing detection without any change in law by Congress by increasing cooperation between local law enforcement and the feds, by reducing the opportunities for illegal aliens to abscond after deportaton orders and by requesting that Congress provide more funds for ICE agents, immigration judges and detention capacity.

When U.S. Rep. Barbara Jordan (D-Tex.) chaired President Clinton's commission on immigration, she aptly summarized the need for deportations to be part of improved immigration policy: "Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave. ... (F)or the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

There you have it:

5 EASY STEPS A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE COULD PROMISE TO REVERSE ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

how the communist leaders will take over this great country of ours

 We must remember daily why we (whom love America as the Republic) must continue to fight this mindset and overturn or stave off this socialist agenda for as long as we can. There is still hope for the USA…You and I are the hope! Of course being a Christian I also believe a praying Nation will greatly expedite the efforts and change we are attempting to instill or shall I say RESTORE? We must educate the children about what America is about. It is our fault that they think everything should be given to them. We have to tell the parents and grandparents to educate the children about what America is about; because the school systems are failing to teach them the real and true history. We ourselves must learn more about our heritage. If you learn the truth about the past and you teach the truth of the past, hopefully the bad will not be repeated in the future.

 I believe that God gave us this great country of ours knowing that we would be on the right. He gave us our founding fathers the wisdom to lead this great country. I also believe that he has been testing us by putting some left in charge. He is also testing us to see if this country that he developed for us will still believe in his word and in his son, We The People must not fail. If you progressives don't like the way this country was set up you still have one freedom, you are free to leave. As you will see from the list below many of these goals have been implemented. It is up to us to stop this insanity and the only way that will happen is for us to be armed with truth. We The People can make a difference; especially when we all stick together.

 Here is a list how the communist leaders will take over this great country of ours: Read More

Hertz suspends Muslim shuttle drivers

Once again we witness a group of Muslims demanding special accommodations not afforded to anyone else.

In an MSNBC story (highlights added), it read that Hertz suspended Muslim shuttle drivers who took time off work to pray but did not clock out when doing so. (Not all Muslim shuttle drivers refused to clock out and those who did clock out were not suspended.)

Clocking out is a perfectly reasonable requirement—in spite of what a union official said. The union official said requiring the Muslim drivers to clock out to pray “is like having workers clock in and out for smoke breaks or bathroom breaks.”

Uh, no it isn’t.

In case you missed it, here’s another example of Muslims demanding special treatment. This time, it was at a New York theme park in August, where Muslim women were told that safety rules required they not wear headscarves on certain rides.

Again, sounds perfectly reasonable to us—but not to some of the Muslim women. A brawl erupted.

Some foolishly and incorrectly called this safety requirement further evidence of “Islamophobia.” Would those people be willing to pay the legal costs incurred by the park if a Muslim woman got strangled by her headscarf on a ride and then her family sued the park for not protecting her safety? Of course they wouldn’t.

A central element of radical Islam is an ideologically-based supremacist mindset that demands that societies accommodate them, rather than their assimilating into their host societies. This also reflects sharia law’s requirement that human laws must always be subordinate to Islamic law.

ATF Ruling Disarms All Medical Maurijauna Users

The Obama administration is at it again.

With the stroke of a pen, the U.S. Justice Department has just subjected hundreds of thousands of Americans to a lifetime gun ban. 

In an open letter to all licensed firearms dealers, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) unilaterally decided that any person who is prescribed marijuana for medical purposes is prohibited from possessing a firearm.

That means over 300,000 people in the states that allow medical marijuana suddenly cannot buy or possess a gun. Oh yeah, and for the many who already own firearms, watch out. They are now felons and could be subject to lengthy prison terms of up to ten years. 

Gun Owners of America is not going to wade into the marijuana debate, but the fact that such a large group of people are losing their constitutional rights without even seeing the inside of a courtroom leaves a lot of people scratching their heads.

After all, this is the same Justice Department that, in 2009, basically advised federal prosecutors to turn a blind eye to medical marijuana use. 

And, in a bit of twisted irony, the ATF itself has helped thousands of guns to get into the hands of known and dangerous drug cartels in Mexico through their operation “Fast and Furious,” which has led GOA to call for anti-gun Attorney General Eric Holder’s resignation.

The Justice Department makes it perfectly clear in the letter what it expects from gun dealers and gun purchasers, even though the Department and ATF obviously consider themselves above the law—both at the federal and state levels. According to the agency: 

"Any person who uses or is addicted to marijuana, regardless of whether his or her State has passed legislation authorizing marijuana use for medical purposes, is an unlawful user of or addicted to a controlled substance, and is prohibited by Federal law from possessing firearms or ammunition."

Notice that persons need not be regular users of the prescribed drug; just the mere possession of a prescription card from a doctor is sufficient to trigger the gun ban. Firearms dealers are further instructed by the ATF:

"If you are aware that the potential transferee is in possession of a card authorizing the possession and use of marijuana under State law, then you have 'reasonable cause to believe' that the person is an unlawful user of a controlled substance."

As far as the overbearing, overreaching federal government is concerned, there is no need for a finding in a court of law that the person is a criminal, and there is no need for a finding that a person is a danger to self or others. 

In fact, the gun ban is not even limited to when a person is actually using the drug for medical purposes. If you have the prescription card, you can’t own a gun—period.

This is just one example of how the government uses various existing laws to sweep people onto its gun prohibition list. The same thing occurred over the past decade to more than one hundred thousand military veterans who were prohibited from owning guns because of ailments such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)—in this instance, too, without the benefit of due process of law.

The fact that the ATF is acting against a state-sanctioned medical issue is also particularly troubling. The reason Gun Owners of America has opposed ObamaCare so vociferously is over the concern that medical records databases could be abused by the government. 

How many other heretofore legally prescribed drugs could be frowned upon by federal agencies and subject masses of people to a lifetime gun ban?

If the ruling in the ATF letter is allowed to stand, we will have allowed the federal bureaucracy to arbitrarily carve out—with no input from the peoples’ representatives in Congress—an entire class of persons for whom civil rights may as well not exist.

And, to make matters worse, this letter looks like more proof that the ATF is doing all it can to draw attention away from its own “gunrunning” scandal and to avoid investigating and punishing official wrongdoing along the U.S.—Mexico border.
 
John Velleco (jvelleco@gunowners.org) is Director of Federal Affairs for Gun Owners of America, a grassroots lobbying organization with over 300,000 members nationwide.  GOA spokesmen are available for comment.

House Ways & Means Committee Do Your Job

Rep. Lamar Smith has introduced legislation, H.R. 2885, that would require all businesses in the United States to use the E-Verify employment verification system. This legislation has been referred to the House Ways & Means Committee for its several provisions that mention the Social Security Administration.  Unfortunately, Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp has refused to act on this legislation.

Among its other provisions, H.R. 2885 would:

• Open up jobs for 22 million unemployed Americans by phasing in E-Verify over two years, starting with the largest companies first.
• Protect the identities of Americans by requiring SSA to send a yearly notification to each owner of a Social Security number that has income reported by multiple employers and may have been stolen by illegal aliens. Requires employers to run through E-Verify those employees who likely have stolen the number from the legitimate owner.

Most important, this law does not increase costs for the Social Security Administration or require any private information to be shared with the Department of Homeland Security.

Even though President Obama wants to give deferred action amnesty and work permits to around 300,000 illegal aliens, there are still 11-18 million illegal aliens that would not be able employable if H.R. 2885 were passed. This bill would be effective in freeing up millions of jobs now held by illegal aliens.

 The legislation would also protect against identity theft by preventing illegal aliens from using the Social Security numbers of American citizens and legal immigrants.  What's not to like?

 However, you and your fellow Republicans have been in charge of the House of Representatives for nine months and have done nothing to move illegal aliens out of 7 million non-agricultural jobs. You and your colleagues on the Ways & Means Committee are the ones dragging your feet. Put the Legal Workforce Act on the House floor for a vote this fall so that 7 million Americans can get back to work!

Farmers and Consumers Denied the Right to Consume Milk from Their Own Cows

Wisconsin judge goes further and rules that none of us—farmers or consumers—have the right to decide what we have for our own dinner. Last week, Wisconsin judge Patrick J. Fiedler ruled against the property rights of cow owners and their right to consume raw milk from their own cows. Plaintiffs included Galyle Loiselle and Robert Karp, who boarded their cows at Mark and Petra Zinniker’s farm so that they could consume raw milk from them, and the Zinnikers. Here is what the judge said in his own words:

• Plaintiffs [Loiselle, Karp, and the Zinnikers] do not have a fundamental right to own and use a dairy cow or a dairy herd;
• Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to consume the milk from their own cow;
• Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to board their cow at the farm of a farmer; [and]
• Plaintiffs do not have a fundamental right to produce and consume the foods of their choice.

It would certainly seem that the judge’s ruling violates constitutional rights to property, private contract, and bodily autonomy. After all, is there a more fundamental right than deciding what to eat? (Before this, we thought the FDA’s contempt for freedom of food choice was bad enough!)

Raw milk is natural and healthful; people are 35,000 times more likely to get sick from other FDA-protected foods than from raw milk. I recall milking our cow as a child and drinking the fresh milk. Let’s not allow that to become illegal. What other rights will they take from us; the government tells us that we can’t grow a garden or have bake sells. They even tell us that if we do these things they will arrest and confiscate what we own. What is this a Police State or a sovereign nation? I as an American Patriot say enough is enough. Remember this is your life, your way of living; don’t let the government tell you how to live your life.

If you are a Wisconsin resident, please write to your state legislators today and ask them to support Wisconsin bill SB 108, which allows for sale of unpasteurized milk and milk products.

FCC will unconstitutionally seize control of the Internet

 On November 20, 2011 the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will unconstitutionally seize control of the Internet through their Net Neutrality regulations.

Not only will the move destroy one of the last, great free-market frontiers our nation and the world has ever seen, but the move will also kill an estimated 100,000 to 200,000 real jobs -- not to be confused with the fake jobs created by President Obama and his socialist cronies.

It gets worse...

Having granted itself the authority to regulate the Internet, the FCC has already begun strong-arming Internet Providers into supporting Net Neutrality guidelines on themselves or risk FCC imposed penalties. As a result, we are beginning to see early signs of what awaits religious and politically conservative websites. Web-hosting companies are starting to suspend these websites -- classifying them as "hate sites."

According to a Sept. 15, 2011 article in the Washington Times , Internet media giants aren't giving Christian and other faith-based groups a fair shake.

  Patriots we must rise up and challenge this federal power-grab, and demand Congress protect our First Amendment free speech rights on the Internet, conservatives can and likely will be effectively silenced - removing the last hurdle for a radical socialist agenda to be implemented in our nation!

 Yet despite an overwhelming majority of Americans opposed to the regulatory move, Obama continues pushing aside the constitution and our rights as citizens. He even arrogantly bragged about his actions saying, "Until Nancy Pelosi is speaker again, I'd like to work my way around Congress."

Don't let between now and November 20, 2011 pass without taking action. Demand the Senate move rapidly to pass SJ Res. 6, a Joint Resolution of Disapproval to overturn the Net Neutrality order.

greenspan in favor of printing more money

 Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has come out in favor of what no rational person would ever endorse: printing valueless money to cover indebtedness. Here are his exact words: “The United States can pay any debt it has because we can always print money to do that. So there is zero probability of default.” Gee, I can remember when the money maestro said the best way to protect our currency was to back it with gold. I still like that solution. If he likes that solution then I’ve got one that WE THE PEOPLE may want to use; start writing checks to pay our bills even if the checks are bad. When the Sherriff comes knocking just say, “I’m doing the same thing as Greenspan so I can pay my bills.”

Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011

Message sent to the following recipients:
Representative Neugebauer
Senator Cornyn
Senator Hutchison
Message text follows:

Kenneth Cook
8506 CR 5500 #6
Lubbock, TX 79416 My address has been blacked out.


September 28, 2011

[recipient address was inserted here]


Dear [Representative Neugebauer, Senator Cornyn, Senator Hutchison],

I write to you today on a matter of great importance to myself and my
increasingly tech-savvy family. Pro-consumer and bipartisan legislation
affecting millions of American consumers who regularly use e-commerce to
buy 'digital goods' and 'digital services' online has been introduced in
the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. S. 971 and H.R. 1860, known
as the 'Digital Goods and Services Tax Fairness Act of 2011,' establishes
a national framework for how these digital purchases should be fairly
taxed, and taxed just one time, at the state and local levels.

I have recently learned that some of the things my fellow wireless users
and I buy online, such as applications (apps), ringtones, music, movies or
tv shows, and e-Books, could be taxed over and over again by different
states because these digitally-purchased goods travel over IT networks
that cross numerous state boundaries. I've also learned that many states
are considering adding additional "utility type" taxes onto digital goods
just because they travel over these communications networks. If I were to
purchase any of these goods in a more traditional book, movie or music
store, I would pay the state and local sales tax one time only. It's
incredibly unfair that these transactions could be double- or even
triple-taxed, solely because of the way they are being provided to
consumers.

As my elected official in Washington, D.C. I urge you to act on my behalf
on this matter. The Congress can establish a consistently responsible
national framework for the taxation of this rapidly increasingly-growing
digital goods and services market segment of the 21st century economy,
which will be more fair and will avoid creating a confusing and messy
patchwork of 50+ different state and local tax laws to further burden
digital commerce. I think it's only right that it's made clear what items
we're paying taxes on, that we are only paying taxes once, and that we
know to whom we are paying these taxes to in order to support the rising
cost of government services.

Thank you for your strong leadership on this issue, and please support the
pro-consumer efforts of Senators Wyden and Thune, and Representatives
Smith and Cohen. Please co-sponsor and pass S. 971 and H.R. 1860 today.

Sincerely,

Patriot Ken

H R 2885 HELPS unemployed and disadvantaged workers

Rep. Lamar Smith has introduced legislation that would require all businesses in the United States to use the E-Verify employment verification system. In order to ensure that DHS has enough time to ramp up its resources and get the E-Verify ready for mandatory use, the bill allows the DHS Secretary a one-time six month extension of the implementation deadlines if the Secretary certifies that the system will not be ready within six months of enactment (the original deadline).

In addition, In order to assist in the protection of critical infrastructure sites, the bill allows the DHS Secretary to require an entity responsible for the protection of a critical infrastructure site, to use E-Verify and the bill creates an office within ICE Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose sole purpose is to respond to (within five business days of the complaint), and investigate, state and local governmental agency complaints about businesses hiring and/or employing illegal immigrants.

Among its other provisions, H.R. 2885 would:

• Phase in E-Verify over three years, starting with the largest companies first.
• Require the Social Security Administration (SSA) to target illegal aliens using fake social security numbers by sending out “no match” letters to employers if the name and social security number of a current employee do not match. Requires the employer to check those employees through E-Verify after receiving a “no match” letter.
• Require SSA to send a yearly notification to each owner of a social security number that has multiple employers reporting income to that number indicating that the number may have been stolen and is being used by illegal aliens. Requires employers to run through E-Verify those employees who are likely to have stolen the number from the legitimate owner.
• Establish a phone verification system as an alternative to using the electronic system.
• Require the use of E-Verify for those contracted at day labor sites and other referral or recruitment services.
• Protect employers who use the system in good faith from liability if the system makes an error on eligibility.
• Protect states’ and localities’ authority to revoke business licenses of employers who fail to use E-Verify as required by this Act.
• Significantly increases the penalties for employers who refuse to use the system, or who intentionally try to game it. The fines levied can be up to $25,000 per unauthorized worker and a minimum one-year prison sentence may be imposed on an employer who engages in a “pattern or practice” of violations.
• Require SSA to lock the use of social security numbers when it is being used by someone other than the rightful owner, when the owner has violated immigration laws and been ordered to leave the country, or when the owner’s temporary visa has expired.

The crisis that unemployed and disadvantaged workers face is our crisis. Less-educated workers make up almost one-third of our civilian workforce, and young workers who can't find employment by their mid 20s are often doomed to a life of dependency. If we fail them, we will be paying the price for generations.

The federal government has had the tools to level the playing field for some time, but the government of the people, by the people, and for the people has yet to put them to maximum use. The lack of action sends a chilling message to disadvantaged U.S. workers that they aren't worth protecting.

The Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) could change that. Within a couple of years of passage, 99 percent of all employers would be using E-Verify for all new hires, and the Social Security Administration would be identifying identity thieves and other illegal workers who gamed the system through theft or fraud.

A huge loophole in our current system involves illegal aliens who at an earlier time had a valid Social Security number, usually because they were legal temporary foreign workers.  The problem has been that once the work visa expires, the Social Security number doesn't.  The SS numbers don't even expire if persons holding them are deported.  These Social Security numbers are also favorites for resale to other illegal aliens in the fraudulent document industry.

 H.R. 2885 slams the door shut on this egregious loophole by locking out Social Security numbers that are attached to expired visas and deportees.  Illegal aliens with these locked SS numbers would not get through E-Verify to be hired and would be identified in the no-match process if they are already in the workforce. 

 You say the right things and most of the ingredients are there but when you write this “Job Bill” I would like to know what else is in it. Anyone can make a pudding but not everyone can put in all the ingredients and make it taste good. You said “Tell Washington that doing nothing is not an option”, that is totally wrong. If the Government would get out of the peoples way, WE THE PEOPLE would be doing a whole lot better.

 You said, “Millions of Americans who are watching right now: They don’t care about politics.” Well I ask you if they didn’t care about politics, why are they watching?  You’re right; Washington hasn’t always put our interests first, but if you would listen to The American People we wouldn’t have the deck stacked against us; so get out of the way if you are not going to listen to us. You ask if you can stop this political circus and do something. As the top clown you can listen more and govern less, because the more WE THE PEOPLE are governed the less we are able to produce.

These are some steps you can take right now to improve people’s lives:

 1. Stop driving from the passengers’ side and get off the brake peddle.

 2. Stop thinking you know everything and listen to people who have actually ran a business.

 3. Let the ones that do know what they are talking about, produce.

You keep saying, “Pass the bill”, I would like to read it before I tell my congressmen to pass it. You need to remember that congress works for the people, we don’t work for congress. So write your “Jobs Bill” and let the people read it and WE THE PEOPLE will get back with you. Until then let the ones that do know what they are talking about, produce.

NOTHING BUT LIES

 This so called president is so d*** arrogant that he thinks that he knows what is good for the AMERICAN people. You are nothing but a liar and a Socialist pig. If you think that the American people will sit back and let you run over them then you are wrong. I don’t know what the hell you’re thinking but stop living in a fantasy world. This is not a socialist country, this is a REPUBLIC and its d*** sure not a country that you can dictate.

 This country was built on an idea of that WE the PEOPLE would send someone to represent us not to rule over us. We abolished one king and we will not have another one. If you want to be a King then go to an island somewhere and be a Ruler there. When you go, take Prince Reid and Chamber Queen Nancy Pelosi.

 If you think that WE the PEOPLE are stupid you are dead wrong. We are simple people but we are not stupid. Start treating us as people not as animals you want to sacrifice. My family has been fighting aggressors like you for the past 200 years and we will keep fighting because we don’t want our government telling us that we have to do.  We are a Christian nation and we will not stop praying and we will not stop teaching about our true American history. We will stop those who say we can not do these things. I have great respect in our Constitution and I will not stand by and let some Socialist try to rip it up and rewrite it. Thomas Jefferson wrote this so that WE the PEOPLE could live like men not like slaves. John Adams once said, "I pray Heaven to bestow the best of Blessings on this House and all that shall hereafter inhabit it.  May none but honest and wise Men ever rule under this roof."  Well sir, I don’t believe you are an honest person and you sure not a wise person. You might be smart but you’re not wise. This country might not be perfect but it is the best thing on Gods earth. If you want a legacy then open your eyes, shut your mouth and listen to the AMERICAN PEOPLE otherwise YOU will be miserable. The way we will do that is fight until you are out of office in 2012. We will hold protest after protest until you start listening to the AMERICAN people so help me God.

 HERE ARE A FEW EXAPLES OF YOUR LIES: 

1: Promise: If we pass a stimulus package, unemployment won’t go above 8%. 
    Result: What did we get for our nearly $800,000,000,000 dollars? Unemployment remains above 9% and more than 14 million people remain out of work with another 30 million people who are still underemployed. The latest job report shows that the economy has gained exactly 0 jobs in the last month. 

2: Promise: The only way that we could open up the credit markets for regular Americans was to pump trillions of dollars into the banks. 
    Result: The banks pocket trillions of dollars both directly and indirectly (through 0% interest loans from the FED), but credit remains nearly impossible to attain for most Americans. Housing market remains deflated because Americans are unable to qualify for home loans. 

3: Promise: ObamaCare will reduce insurance premiums for all Americans and if you like your insurance you will be able to keep it. 
    Result: After passage, premiums skyrocket and this increase forces many businesses to stop offering insurance at all. 

I could go on and on, but I want you to think about what you have gotten in return for this government immorally stealing from our children. There is no high speed rail; there is no infrastructure improvement; credit remains locked up; and the housing market remains in the toilet. There are fewer jobs than before, the economy remains in turmoil, people are losing their healthcare, and both social security and medicare are racing towards bankruptcy. This government has mortgaged the prosperity of our children and grandchildren and failed to accomplish ANYTHING!  

Buy a Gun Become a Target for Federal Agents

 This is a reminder of what Obama is doing to take our freedoms and rights away

 Under the Patriot Act, the Obama Justice Department has stepped up efforts to track and profile gun owners by obtaining "business records" from gun dealers. The FBI recently sent out notices to gun shops and clubs reminding them that they must keep records of all customers' identities and purchases and urging them to report to the government any "suspicious" behavior, including "altered appearance from visit to visit," "paying with cash," or making "racist" statements.

 Before President Obama signed into law the reauthorization of four key provisions of the USA Patriot Act on May 26, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) had introduced an amendment to protect law-abiding gun owners from some of the privacy invasions being carried out by the federal government under the Act. The amendment failed, so the fishing expeditions will continue.

 The National Rifle Association opposed the Paul amendment, helping ensure it went nowhere. Contrary to popular belief, the NRA's political arm frequently takes stands that are at odds with the interests of its gun-owning members. An alternative pro-gun organization that takes a "no compromise" stance on Second Amendment rights is the National Association for Gun Rights (877-405-4570; www.nationalgunrights.org).

In the meantime, if you want to reduce your chances of being singled out for federal scrutiny, then you'd be wise to avoid any "suspicious" comments or behaviors within federally monitored gun shops.

 Also, be aware that the Obama administration is championing a United Nations-backed "Small Arms Treaty" that would create a global gun registry. It might therefore be wise to purchase your next firearm sooner rather than later. Remember that when seconds count, the police are just minutes away!

Why 9 /11 should be taught more in school

In the days immediately following the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, many teachers in the classroom dropped their lesson plans to involve students in unfolding events by watching television coverage and engaging in classroom discussion. It was the quintessential “teachable moment” that promised to galvanize student attention and stimulate interest in complex global events.

But, as the U.S. commemorates the 10th anniversary of the attack, social studies researchers say 9/11 is remarkably absent from the curricula in many classrooms and schools. Surprisingly little space is devoted to it in the history and government textbooks that have been published in subsequent years, they write in a recent special 9/11 issue of the journal, The Social Studies.

The reasons many teachers are unwilling to tackle the subject are diverse, say the authors of one article (“Dare We Not Teach 9/11?”): Fear of controversy, concerns about the complexity of the subject, worries about not having enough time to devote to the subject and still cover all the other required subjects in the curriculum, and lack of confidence in one's own knowledge to do justice to the subject.

9/11 should play bigger role in social studies and history
The 10th anniversary of 9/11 will resurrect the subject in many schools and classrooms for a day or a week. But, more is needed, say researchers, to keep the memory alive in this generation. So vividly imprinted are the events of 9/11 in the memories of most adult Americans that it is easy to forget a simple demographic fact: Most students in the classroom today were not born or were not old enough to form their own memories of the event. Today's juniors and seniors were only 6 or 7 years old on Sept. 11, 2001, and their memories are as likely derived from what they've seen and heard in the media and at home in the years since the attack as they are to be based on their own direct experiences of that day.

“…Unless we have a plan of action and materials to present that stir ideas and emotions, the memories of 9/11 will continue to fade away along with any feelings we have, morphing into another paragraph or two in a supremely heavy social studies textbook for students and teachers that perfunctorily covers discussions like that of the Battle of Lexington or the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in World War II,” writes Jack Zevin in his article, “Memories Slipping Away: The Tenth Anniversary of 9/11.”

Without a doubt, teaching 9/11 poses many challenges. Educators must be willing to address controversial issues in politics and religion and even examine ambiguities in the language such as the definition of terrorism, researchers write. But 9/11 also presents many opportunities for citizenship education, for developing critical thinking skills, for stimulating high-level dialogue and discussion in the classroom, and for engaging students in complex global subjects by tapping personal connections to this historic event.“

Advocates of meaningful citizenship education have long embraced the view that the heart and nature of social studies include the examination of issues that have broad social impact on America and its position toward the world,” writes Zevin.

Nancy Pelosi has given marching orders

 As every day passes, it becomes more and more obvious that Nancy Pelosi has given marching orders to her minions:  ramp up the rhetoric against the Tea Party! We've already been called hobbits by John McCain, terrorists by Joe Biden, and racists by just about everyone in the mainstream media, so she assumes we must be vulnerable to the attacks!

Less than two weeks ago, Maxine Waters received a standing ovation from public employees in the audience when she said the Tea Party can "go straight to hell." Just a few days later, her good friend and fellow Pelosi-goon Frederica Wilson (D-FL) told her constituents to remember that we are "the real enemy." And then, just a couple days after that, Jesse Jackson used his time at a Martin Luther King, Jr. luncheon to call the Tea Party movement racist again.

All of these attacks pale in comparison, though, to the hateful imagery used by another Democrat Congressman. Andre Carson (D-IN) who said Tuesday night that the Tea Party in Congress wants to see African-Americans "hanging on a tree!" Violent rhetoric like this detracts from the debate and makes it harder for us to do what's best for the country.

We've been told to tone down our rhetoric by the liberal elite, and John Kerry even lectured the media and told them to stop giving us our first amendment rights to free speech. It's obvious, though, to anyone paying attention that the violent, hateful rhetoric isn't coming from the Tea Party movement; it's coming from those who want to silence us!

The left knows that it can't win against us in a battle of ideas. Our values of limited government, free markets, and fiscal responsibility will always win over their belief in big government and the welfare state. So, instead of engaging on the issues, they are attacking us from all sides. The frequency and intensity of these attacks is accelerating, which means it's a coordinated attempt by the left to dominate the media and get the American public to buy into their lies!

It's important for us to respond to these attacks, which is why we're soon launching our nationwide ad campaign highlighting the faces of the Tea Party. But what's even more important is that we maintain our focus on what started the Tea Party:  grassroots activism! With your help, we've provided a state-of-the-art petition system that has helped Americans all across the country send over a million letters to their elected representatives in Congress.

Obama Springs Sneak Amnesty with Congress on Vacation

Congress may be on vacation, but we're in full-on crisis mode! After a brutal battle about the debt ceiling, many Members of Congress left Capitol Hill thinking their work for the summer would be over.

But then, the Obama Administration announced the postponement of virtually ALL deportations of non-violent illegal aliens already ordered by U.S. immigration courts.

Think this is bad? Well it gets worse!

Not only will President Obama let these 300,000 illegal aliens ignore their deportation orders, he has begun giving these illegal aliens work visas to compete with U.S. workers! That's right. These 300,000 (and more!) illegal aliens will not be going back to their home countries, even though a U.S. judge had ordered them to go. Instead, they will be given a free pass and maybe a work visa to compete with 22 million Americans who cannot find full time work.

One of the upsetting things about this is that Pres. Obama repeatedly stated in recent months that he would NOT force any type of immigration policy on his own "without the approval or passage of Congress." This new policy proves Mr. Obama's previous law-abiding rhetoric to be misleading at best. He couldn't shove an illegal alien amnesty through Congress, so he just ordered a temporary one by fiat. This is an attack on the Rule of Law. Don't you agree!?!

The Administration timed its new amnesty policy to take effect during August, when Congress is out of session and the news media was distracted. Sure enough, the amnesty has flown under the radar of most media outlets. How many of your local newspapers, TV stations, or favorite blogs have reported this story?

We all know that the open borders forces have scolded Obama at every turn for increasing deportations (which the American people have asked him for). But just now, when deportations are starting to have an impact, he turns his back on law enforcement. And in doing so, he's turning his back on the American people. The President has taken an oath to follow the law -- not overturn the laws. WE THE PEOPLE can stop this. Obama will not follow through with this policy if America rises up and cries out loudly enough.

Funerals for Vets

The Department of Veterans Affairs and its Director of the Houston National Cemetery, Arleen Ocasio, are continuing to deny the use of Christian words or phrases at veterans' funerals.

Stated simply, Jesus is not welcome at gravesides. Even VFW honor guards are no longer able to say, "God bless you," part of their traditional ritual.

Since taking the directorship of the Houston facility in April, 2010, Arleen Ocasio has used her position to bully Christians, repeatedly trampling on the religious liberties of Veterans of Foreign Wars District 4, The American Legion Post 586, and the National Memorial Ladies.

"The hostile and discriminatory actions by the Veterans Affairs officials in Houston are outrageous, unconstitutional and must stop," said Jeff Mateer, Esq., general counsel of Liberty Institute.

Liberty Institute has amended an earlier lawsuit against the VA that states the new violations against religious liberty include:

• VA Forbids Mention of God at Funerals for Veterans and Requires Families to Submit Prayer for Approval to the Government (Video)
• VA instructs the VFW and a Private Funeral Home that they may not present the option of prayer to families
• VA Tells Volunteers to Remove "God Bless" from Condolence Cards to Grieving Families (Video)
• VA Closes Cemetery Chapel; Uses it for Storage

You can read Liberty Institute's detailed report of Director Ocasio's offenses here.

The HALT Act

House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith has offered legislation that would prevent the Obama Administration from offering amnesty to millions of illegal aliens through deferred action or parole. The notion of an administrative amnesty first surfaced through leaked internal memos last year, but a new blog from the White House has confirmed the new Obama Administration policy.

Chairman Smith's HALT (Hinder the Administration’s Legalization Temptation) Act (H.R.2497) would prevent the Obama Administration from:

1. granting parole (except in narrow circumstances),
2. issuing deferred action (except in narrow circumstances),
3. issuing extended voluntary departure to removable aliens,
4. granting work authorization to aliens on a discretionary basis,
5. granting TPS to any new groups of aliens,
6. waiving the three and 10 year bars to admittance for aliens who have been illegally present in the U.S., and
7. granting cancellation of removal to illegal immigrants.

The new DHS policy allows for  “prosecutorial discretion” such as by granting deferred action, “deciding whom to stop, question, or arrest”, deciding “whom to detain”, and “dismissing” a removal proceeding. The memo made clear that potentially millions of deportable illegal and criminal immigrants would be potentially eligible for administrative amnesty. “When weighing whether an exercise of prosecutorial discretion may be warranted for a given alien, ICE officers, agents and attorneys should consider all relevant factors”, such as:

• ICE’s “immigration enforcement priorities.” (ICE has expressed little interest in deporting illegal immigrants who have not yet been convicted of “serious” crimes.)

• The person’s “pursuit of education in the United States”. (The Migration Policy Institute estimates that more than two million illegal immigrants would be eligible for the DREAM Act amnesty).

• “Whether the person has a U.S. citizen or permanent resident spouse, child or parent. . . . “Whether the person or the person’s spouse is pregnant . . . .” (The Pew Hispanic Center estimates that illegal immigrants have 4.5 million U.S.-born and thus U.S. citizen children.)

• The person’s length of presence in the U.S. (The Pew Hispanic Center has estimated that millions of illegal immigrants have been in the U.S. since the 1990s.)

THE U N TRYING TO TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY

Imagine roving gangs terrorizing your neighborhood, rioting, setting fire to homes and businesses, and beating and robbing your neighbors.

The government is helpless to protect you. Your family looks to you to do something but you can't protect them with a gun because guns are banned. All you have is a baseball bat.

You've seen the heartbreaking images on TV, on the internet and in the newspapers. This is exactly what is happening in Great Britain right now.

But do you know what really angers me? This is what the U.N. envisions for America. U.N. diplomats and anti-gunners here in the U.S. are pushing the lie that, "Government will protect you … Protecting people is the job of the police." I say, "Tell that to the innocent victims in London."

I also say, "Tell that to the victims of Hurricane Katrina." In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, local police in New Orleans illegally confiscated the guns of law-abiding residents, putting them at the mercy of the rampaging mobs.

It took NRA a year to defeat New Orleans' so-called "Emergency Powers Act."

Now there's a new threat to our liberty. The U.N. is pushing a treaty to weaken our firearm freedoms. This is because the U.N. thinks we should be more like the rest of the world where guns are banned. Personally, I think the world should be more like us with more freedom.

What you and I are facing is a United Nations that has set its sights on global disarmament. Their goal is to disarm citizens worldwide, including you and me.

These international gun banners want every gun to be under U.N. and government control. This includes your rifle, your shotgun and your pistol. The bottom line is this: the U.N. treaty is not only an attack on the Second Amendment, it's an attack on our freedoms.

If you don't want to end up defenseless like the people of New Orleans in 2005 or the people of Great Britain today, then we need to fight this treaty now.

Air Force guilty of religious bigotry - bans Scripture in class 

The Air Force has banned a class on the Christian-based "Just War Theory" because the class used verses from the Bible.

"Just War Theory" has been a part of Western civilization since the days of St. Augustine in the 5th century A.D. It uses the abiding standards of the word of God to help members of the military determine when the use of lethal force against an enemy of this country is morally legitimate and helps them to know how to use that force in a morally just way.

The class has been taught for more than two decades at Vandenberg Air Force base, and has been an important source of perspective for those who have their fingers on the missile launchers that protect our liberties.

But because of noisy complaints from secular fundamentalists the class has now been shelved, and our military has been robbed of the moral guidance of the Scriptures.

Rather than fight for religious liberty, the Air Force meekly suspended the entire class the day the complaint was filed.

And so the banning of the Bible in the armed services continues. Donated Bibles were burned in Afghanistan because it might offend Muslims in Afghanistan. (Yes, our government apparently considers book burning to be okay as long as the book is the Bible.)

And weapons inscribed with Bible verses likewise have been banned in Afghanistan, again in order not to offend Muslims.

It's time for this extinguishing of the lamp of God's word to stop. 

Damn The Truth Full Speed Ahead

And then, the vitriol intensified even more. To hell with the facts.  Who cares about the truth? After all, when it comes to propaganda campaigns, facts and truth can be pesky things:
 *On Saturday, MSNBC's propagandist-in-chief, Keith Olbermann, went off the deep end and blamed Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly for the massacre and said they must all apologize or be "repudiated" and "dismissed" by the American people and members of the Republican Party.
*On Sunday, The Guardian UK reported: "The US was tonight seized by a fierce debate over whether inflammatory rightwing rhetoric was to blame for a shooting spree in Tucson, Arizona.... Palin today distanced herself from the shooting, as did leading figures of the Tea Party movement."

*The New York Times' Paul Krugman wrote; "violent acts are what happens when you create a climate of hate. And it's long past time for the GOP's leaders to take a stand against the hate mongers."

*A number of news outlets even irresponsibly reported that the killer, Jared Lee Loughner, was a veteran who fought in Afghanistan. Hours later, the Pentagon fortunately clarified the record and stated that Loughner attempted to enlist about a year ago but was not accepted for military service.

Of course, these attacks were short on both facts and truth, and as the facts slowly came to light, they revealed a picture that was very different from the one that Olbermann, Krugman and others were painting.

An ex-classmate actually described Loughner as "left-wing" and a "pothead." It is now being reported that Loughner listed Mein Kampf and The Communist Manifesto as two of his favorite books and that he wrote on his now scrubbed FaceBook page that his heroes were "Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara, Huo (sic) Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Mao Tse-tung, Joseph Stalin, and Yassir Arafat" and that "Obama and the Progressives will overcome the tyrrany (sic) of big business and the racist Tea Party."

Of course, if you're expecting Keith Olbermann and Paul Krugman to issue apologies, correct the record, stop the propaganda, and tone down THEIR rhetoric, don't hold your breath.

It won't happen because such an admonishment would run counter to the left's goal of blaming this tragedy on decent Americans like you and shaming patriotic Americans like you into SILENCE when it comes to repealing ObamaCare and stopping the radical Obama agenda.

They spoke before they knew the facts and, now that they know the facts, they still won't stop assassinating the character of decent, hard-working Americans because, truth be told, the left knows that the days of ObamaCare are numbered and this concerted effort to exploit this tragedy to demonize patriotic Americans, like you, is the last weapon in their arsenal.  Damn the truth... full speed ahead.

It's nothing more than a desperate attempt to shut you up, and YOU CAN thwart their plans. The left wants your SILENCE... the left desperately needs your silence... it's the one thing you must not give them.

HOW THE FAIR TAX WORKS 

Does the FairTax rate need to be much higher to be revenue neutral?

The proper tax rate has been carefully worked out; 23 percent does the job of:

(1) raising the same amount of federal funds as are raised by the current system,

(2) paying the universal rebate, and

(3) paying the collection fees to retailers and state governments. Unlike some other proposals, this rate has been independently confirmed by several different, nonpartisan institutions across the country. Detailed calculations are available from FairTax.org. 

How is the Social Security system affected?

Like all federal spending programs, Social Security operates exactly as it does today, except that its funds come from a broad, progressive sales tax, rather than a narrow, regressive payroll tax. Employers continue to report wages for each employee, though, to the Social Security Administration for the determination of benefits. The transition to a reformed Social Security system is eased while ensuring there is sufficient funding to continue promised benefits.

Meanwhile, Social Security/Medicare funds are no longer triple-taxed as under the current system:

1) when payroll taxes are initially withheld;

2) when those withheld payroll taxes are counted as part of the taxable base for income tax purposes; and

3) when the promised benefits are finally received. 

When Secrecy Doesn't Work, Lie, Lie And Lie Again.

Prior to pulling the "end-of-life" ruling (and after the efforts to keep it under wraps failed) leftists spin-doctors frantically went to work to control the damage. As Congressman Blumenauer's email promised, leftists issued "a rapid, targeted response."

     To put it another way, they started lying... they played fast-and-loose with the truth multiple times... and they're still playing fast-and-loose with the truth.

     The first lie to come out? 'We didn't do it... George W. Bush did it.' And The New York Times dutifully provided cover and reported: "The White House on Sunday said the new Medicare directive, reported Sunday by the New York Times, doesn't constitute a resurrection of the original health-care-bill language. It said the George W. Bush administration had already put in place guidelines allowing for Medicare to pay for end-of-life consultations."

     Here are the facts. Congress passed a revamp to Medicare in 2008 which simply permitted doctors to discuss "end-of-life" options with patients during their INITIAL "welcome to Medicare visit." President Bush actually VETOED the bill, but Congress overrode Bush's VETO. So... no... 'Bush didn't do it,' and moreover, there's a huge difference between simply permitting doctors to brief patients on Living Wills ONCE and encouraging them to do it each and every year.

     As Betsy McCaughey, the former Lieutenant Governor of New York said; "Government should never prescribe what is discussed between doctor and patient, or pressure doctors financially to push their patients into living wills and advanced directives."

     And now, even though they've apparently abandoned the "end-of-life" provisions (at least for now) the far-left is still playing fast-and-loose with the facts. With their tongues firmly planted in their cheeks, leftists are telling us that repealing ObamaCare will INCREASE the federal deficit.

     While we find it a might strange that liberals in Congress are suddenly concerned with fiscal responsibility, we're still trying to figure out how NOT spending an ungodly amount of money on government-run health care is going to INCREASE the deficit.

     As Rush Limbaugh put it: "Now, anybody with independent intelligence, anybody who doesn't just follow conventional wisdom has to know that the Obamacare budget busts like crazy. There is zilch, zero, nada deficit reduction with Obamacare."

     But don't simply take Limbaugh's word for it. According to the Heritage Foundation: "The new law includes several new taxes and penalties for businesses that threaten to kill job growth and further damage the economy. Budget gimmicks and double counting of savings mean Obamacare will increase federal deficit spending significantly."

     Nancy Pelosi recently (apparently suffering from some form of delusion) said that her caucus would focus on reducing the deficit and creating jobs. Well... so be it, Madame Pelosi, you can start with the REPEAL of ObamaCare.

     Enough with the spin... enough with the talking points... enough with the outright lies. The American people must push their advantage and take the battle straight to Barack Obama. Let's REPEAL ObamaCare once and for all.

Why there are so few new jobs

Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, says that businesses considering hiring new workers face a "regulatory tsunami" from the Obama Administration. The hurdles include 200 new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency, 100 new regulations from the Department of Labor, 183 new agencies under Obamacare, and 540 rules and 170 new reports under the new financial regulation bill. Combine that with the vast uncertainty about what their tax rates will be next year, and is it any wonder that most companies are playing wait and see?

J P Morgan Chase Bank: Anti-Christmas and just plain callous

According to the Star-Telegram, a local Texas businessman had assembled and decorated a 9-foot-tall tree in the lobby of the Chase Bank Southlake Boulevard branch in Tarrant County as a favor to the manager, who is one of his clients.

The branch manager was quickly told by the bank that the tree had to go. She later showed the businessman an e-mail from JPMorgan Chase saying that the tree had to be removed because some people were offended by it.

According to internal Chase documents the American Family Association has received, Chase says every bank has "received approved holiday decorations in your December One Box. These are the only (emphasis in original) decorations that may be displayed in the public areas of your branch. If you have any other decorations...please take them down."

Chase provided decorations...four small window stickers with lights printed on them. That's it!

According to the employee, "At work, Chase expects us to perform like company-programmed robots and not share the spirit of Christmas with our customers. We're real people and our customers are real people, but Chase has put chains on our individuality and our ability to share the spirit of Christmas with our friends and neighbors who bank with us."

More Reasons To Oppose Amnesty...

By now, I shouldn't have to tell you what's wrong with Harry Reid's so-called DREAM Act. You already know that it's a NIGHTMARE... a back-door amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.

But Mark Krikorian, writing for National Review Online, gives us two more reason to oppose the DREAM Act... namely fraud and the likelihood that passage of the DREAM Act will simply encourage more people to enter the United States illegally.

We've been down this road before. In 1986, with the passage of Simpson-Mazzoli, we granted amnesty to 3 million illegal aliens in exchange for the false promise that we would then stop the flood of illegal aliens coming into the United States. (Incidentally, former-RINO-Senator Alan K. Simpson is the same guy who is co-chairing Barack Obama's Debt Commission with fellow liberal Erskine Bowles... fills you with a lot of faith... doesn't it.)

Today, after supposedly stopping the flood of illegal aliens coming into this country, there are 12-20 million living in the United States illegally. Speaking to Obama supporters, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin recently quipped: "I gotta ask the supporters of all that, 'How's that hopey, changey thing working out for ya?'" In that vein, perhaps we should all ask Harry Reid; 'I gotta ask the supporters of all that, How's that stopping illegal immigration thingy working out for ya?'

Of course, the biggest irony here is that Harry Reid's DREAM Act is nothing more than an attempt to grant amnesty to those who came to the United States illegally (by first giving amnesty to their children) AFTER the passage of Simpson-Mazzoli... AFTER the passage of legislation that was supposed to stop massive amounts of illegal aliens from coming into the country. When will the madness stop?

Speaking of Simpson-Mazzoli and ironies, Krikorian wrote: "Perhaps one-fourth of those legalized under the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act received amnesty fraudulently, including Mahmud Abouhalima, a leader of the first World Trade Center attack. The fraud in that first big amnesty program was so pervasive as to be almost comical, with people claiming work histories here that included picking watermelons from trees and digging cherries out of the ground."

 "Picking watermelons from trees?” "Digging cherries out of the ground?" Okay, perhaps Simpson-Mazzoli didn't stop fraud... but Harry Reid's DREAM Act gives those who are planning to come to the United States illegally a ROADMAP.

Krikorian again: "And yet what does the DREAM Act say about fraud? As Sen. Jeff Sessions (R., Ala.) points out in 'Ten Things You Need To Know about S-3827, the DREAM Act,' the measure 'prohibits using any of the information contained in the amnesty application (name, address, length of illegal presence that the alien admits to, etc.) to initiate a removal proceeding or investigate or prosecute fraud in the application process.' This is like playing a slot machine without having to put any money in — any illegal alien can apply, and if he wins, great, but if he loses, he can’t be prosecuted even if he lied through his teeth about everything."

And just as Simpson-Mazzoli encouraged more illegal immigration, Harry Reid's DREAM Act will do the same... at least Krikorian said, “Another problem with DREAM, which all amnesties share, is that it will attract new illegal immigration. Prospective illegal immigrants, considering their options, are more likely to opt to come if they see that their predecessors eventually hit the jackpot. In 1986, we had an estimated 5 million illegals, 3 million of whom were legalized. We now have more than twice as many as before the last amnesty, and they’ve been promised repeatedly that if they hold out a little longer they’ll be able to stay legally. Any new amnesty, even if only for those brought here as children, will attract further illegal immigration."

Harry Reid's DREAM Act can be stopped... it must be stopped.

Good News

The Senate’s controversial FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) now appears to be dead in the water!

The Senate passed its version of the Food Safety bill by a margin of 73 to 25, and sent it on to the House of Representatives for approval. Congressman Henry Waxman (D-CA) had previously agreed to accept the Senate’s bill in place of the House’s version, already approved, so this approval was expected to be pro-forma.

But it turns out that Section 107 of the Senate bill contains a revenue-raising (i.e., taxing) provision. And such a provision is unconstitutional: “All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives,” according to Article I, Section 7, of the Constitution. Because the Senate violated the funding origination clause, the House has implemented a procedure known as “blue slipping” to block the bill, keeping it out of consideration and sending it back to the Senate.

The only possible “quick fix” would be a unanimous consent agreement in the Senate to strike that revenue-raising provision from the bill—but Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) has already stated that he will oppose, so unanimity will be impossible. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now faced with some tough choices: spend a huge amount of time all over again to deal with this (which is unlikely in a Lame Duck Congress, especially considering how controversial the bill is); or do nothing, and allow the bill to die at the end of this Congress. This will mean a new Food Safety Bill will be introduced next year—but next year’s Congress will be very different from the current one, so we expect that the bill will look very different, and could be much more favorable to the natural health community.

HIGH SCHOOL -- 1957 vs. 2010

Here are some scenarios of how crazy and ridiculous that our country is getting.

Scenario 1: Jack goes quail hunting before school and then pulls into the school parking lot with his shotgun in his truck's gun rack.

1957 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.

2010 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for traumatized students and teachers.  

Scenario 2: Johnny and Mark get into a fist fight after school.

1957 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins.. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.

2010 - Police called and SWAT team arrives -- they arrest both Johnny and Mark. They are both charged them with assault and both expelled even though Johnny started it.

Scenario 3: Jeffrey will not be still in class, he disrupts other students.

1957 - Jeffrey sent to the Principal's office and given a good paddling by the Principal. He then returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.

2010 - Jeffrey is given huge doses of Ritalin. He becomes a zombie. He is then tested for ADD. The school gets extra money from the state because Jeffrey has a disability.

Scenario 4: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.

1957 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college and becomes a successful businessman.

2010 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is removed to foster care and joins a gang. The state psychologist is told by Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has an affair with the psychologist.

Scenario 5: Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.

1957 - Mark shares his aspirin with the Principal out on the smoking dock.

2010 - The police are called and Mark is expelled from school for drug violations. His car is then searched for drugs and weapons.  

Scenario 6: Pedro fails high school English.

1957 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college.

2010 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that learning English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against the state school system and Pedro's English teacher.  English is then banned from core curriculum. Pedro is given his diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.  

Scenario 7: Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from the Fourth of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle and blows up a red ant bed.

1957 - Ants die.

2010- ATF, Homeland Security and the FBI are all called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI investigates his parents -- and all siblings are removed from their home and all computers are confiscated. Johnny's dad is placed on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.  

Scenario 8: Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary.  Mary hugs him to comfort him.

1957 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.

2010 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.  Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

Come on Senator Hutchison

Don’t Vote For IT

Even though pro-amnesty candidates were roundly defeated on November 2^nd, the leadership in both the House and the Senate are determined to ignore the will of the American people and try to shove a mass amnesty down our throats while they still can.  Unfortunately, the upcoming lame duck session represents the best chance they have had or will have during the 111^th Congress of forcing an amnesty on Americans and legal immigrants.

On November 16th President Obama made it clear that he wants the DREAM Act amnesty passed DURING THE LAME DUCK SESSION and Rep. Nydia Velazquez, speaking on behalf of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus after their meeting with President Obama, said that there would be a DREAM Act vote on November 29.

Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has indicated that she will not support the DREAM Act amnesty during the lame duck session.  However, she did support the bill in 2007 and has indicated to Senate staffers that she might support the legislation in the 112^th Congress. 

She should not be swayed by the military argument for the DREAM Act in the 112th Congress because 10 U.S.C. § 504 gives illegal aliens a path to join the armed forces. There are 22 million citizens who cannot find a job and the Congress should not consider passing any amnesty when so many Americans are out of work.

 It is completely unethical for the Congressional leadership to even consider pushing through the DREAM Act amnesty. It's estimated there are currently some two million illegal immigrant children in the United States. They are only a fraction of the millions of aliens who would qualify for the DREAM Act amnesty, because the DREAM Act does not place a cap on the number of people who qualify, provides exceptions to the under-35 age limit, and applies retroactively to anyone who first illegally entered the U.S. before age 16. Furthermore, the recipients of the DREAM Act amnesty will be permitted to petition for their illegal parents and adult relatives to come here once they become citizens.  Surely this loophole should be closed before legislation such as the DREAM Act is even considered?

 The marketing campaign for the 2007 DREAM Act made it seem that the amnesty was intended for high school graduates who were on their way to college or the armed forces. But the bill, as written, ensured that illegal immigrants did not have to attend high school or go to college to qualify for the amnesty: they needed only to take an ability-to-benefit test and complete a one-year vocational program to get on the path to citizenship (and there was no requirement that they actually complete their college education).