On December 14th, 2010 a group of armed illegal aliens crossed the border and were confronted by Border Patrol agents. The Border Patrol agents confronted the illegal aliens and ordered them to drop their weapons. When the illegal aliens refused to do so the Border Patrol agents opened fire on the illegal aliens…..with beanbag guns. One illegal alien responded by firing a single shot which killed Brian Terry.
Brian Terry is now dead because he was under orders by Homeland Security not to use lethal force. This is what Brian Terry’s brother had to say about this policy:
You go up against a bandit crew that is carrying AKs, and you walk out there with guns loaded with beanbags – I don’t get it,” Terry said in a phone interview from Michigan. “It’s like going to the Iraqi war with one knife. It boggles my mind. … These guys (Border Patrol agents) are professionals; they should be able to use their judgment call on their own
From an earlier post of mine about the Westboro Baptists:
I can’t even begin to express the disregard in which I hold the Westboro Baptists. This is the group of people who go around the country under the guise of Christianity and protest at the funerals of our heroes who have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, claiming that these deaths are retribution from God because of the United States’ acceptance of gays and lesbians.
While our heroes are being laid to rest, these despicable human beings shout slogans such as “God hates fags,” as well as “thank God for dead soldiers,” and “God hates the USA.” Siting their first amendment rights to free speech, the freedom of religion, and the right to peacefully protest as justification for their intolerant and despicable acts, they continue to interrupt these funerals as distraught family members try to mourn their loved ones.
What these “christians” fail to remember is the simple fact that those whom they are protesting died defending the rights of the Westboro Baptists to conduct such a deplorable protest in the first place. Technically they are not doing anything that is not within their rights, but I would argue that just because you have the right to do something, that doesn’t mean you should do something. This isn’t an issue of rights–much like the Ground Zero Mosque–these people have the right to do what they are doing–but rather an issue of common decency, and that is what these people are missing. In my opinion, these people should be protesting in Washington, not at the private ceremonies for fallen heroes.
Now, onto today’s story: The father of a Marine who was killed in Iraq decided to sue the Westboro Baptists for disrupting his son’s funeral and earlier today the Supreme Court ruled that the father had no case because the Westboro Baptists were simply exercising their first amendment rights. The case was decided by an 8-1 margin with Justice Alito being the lone dissenter.
Here is what Justice Alito said in his statement: Read more…
As is well known by now, earlier today the House voted by a margin of 335-91 to extend the federal budget for two weeks, avoiding a government shutdown and giving the House a little time so that a deal can be hammered out to pass a budget for the remainder of the fiscal year. This extension included spending cuts of $4 billion, and the measure is expected to pass the senate and make its way to the president’s desk for his likely signature.
I for one am not sure that shutting down the government in a showdown over spending would have been a bad thing, but Republicans know that this is a strategy that backfired on them when Bill Clinton was president and they were unwilling to take that chance once again. But this is an important issue and these politicians should not be looking at how their votes will effect them politically, because the future of our nation is at stake. Hopefully House Republicans will use the next two weeks to force the Democrats into agreeing to even more budget cuts than were included in the original budget, but we will have to wait and see if they have to courage to hold the Democrats’ feet to the fire.
Both newly elected Hew Hampshire Republican representatives–Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass–voted in favor of the budget extension and I do not feel as if I am going to far out on a limb to state that I believe if Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hodes were still “representing” New Hampshire that the final vote would have been 333-93. While that wouldn’t have come close to changing the outcome of the vote, it is a great feeling to see our representatives show a little bit of fiscal responsibility for once. Over the last four years that Hodes and Shea-Porter have been in office we had seen that the only time they cared about fiscal responsibility was when they were running for re-election in 2010. All of a sudden they claimed they were the fiscally responsible ones even though they had voted for Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid’s bloated budget increases. Thankfully the New Hampshire voters saw through this ruse and sent Frank Guinta and Charlie Bass to Washington to replace them.
Barack Obama agrees to let states opt out of Obamacare, or does he?
Obama offers states flexibility on healthcare.
That is the headline that appeared on the Drudge Report earlier today. At first glance it would appear as if this was a softening of Barack Obama’s earlier position as it would allow states to “opt out” of Obamacare if they saw fit to do so. On the surface this looks like a major concession and a step in the right direction, but once you read the article is becomes quite obvious that the “opt out” provision comes with a strings attached–and major ones at that–because in order for a state to be eligible for the “opt out” option that state would have to meet standards which are at least equal to the original healthcare law that the states are opting out of in the first place.
To gain new powers, states would first have to convince Washington that their plans would cover as many people, provide equally affordable and comprehensive care and not add to the federal deficit.
Union protests come to New Hampshire
Barack Obama called Wisconsin governor Scott Walker’s attempt to ask state employees to pay a little more into the system they benefit from an “assault on unions.” This one remark has now spurred protests–which have the potential to turn violent, and already have in a few cases–all across the nation, and now New Hampshire has jumped into the fray. Although someone must have forgotten to tell the bused in protesters (New York and Massachusetts buses were seen at this protest) that Concord was the capital of New Hampshire–not Portsmouth–because for some reason they decided to protest away from the capital.
Some of these people were here to show solidarity with the unions in Wisconsin, while others showed up to protest bills which are being proposed in the New Hampshire State House.
The New Hampshire House of Representatives recently passed a “Right to Work” bill by a margin of 221-131, and are in the process of debating pension reform because as of right now the state pension fund is a $5 billion unfunded liability. New Hampshire–like virtually every other state in the country–is facing a budget crunch and sacrifices must be made in order to get our out of control spending back in control.
House Republicans to put pressure on the Obama regime to reinstate offshore drilling
With the price of oil skyrocketing and the gas prices quickly escalating–in part due to the “turmoil” in Libya–two House committees have scheduled hearings with Interior Secretary Ken Salazar about Barack Obama’s ban on offshore drilling.
The Energy and Natural Resources Committee will meet with Salazar on Wednesday and the House Natural Resources Committee will meet with him on Thursday.
Insiders in the Obama regime are claiming that they are close to repealing the ban on offshore drilling that Barack Obama instituted illegally by defying a court order. But that simply is not good enough as more and more Americans are feeling the crunch of rising energy costs every day; we simply cannot afford–literally–to sit around and wait for the Obama regime to admit its mistake and lift a ban which it so whimsically and thoughtlessly put in place. The fact remains that Barack Obama’s ban on offshore drilling has had an impact on the price of oil as the price of oil has been slowly but steadily rising since the ban, and that effect is now magnified by the unrest in the Middle East.
Darrell Issa subpoenas two DHS employees
Last month Darrell Issa–the head of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee–demanded that the Department of Homeland Security turn over documents relating to what he felt was a politicization of hundreds of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests. He believes that Janet Napolitano is delaying the release of requested documents–in violation of the law–which might hurt Barack Obama from a political standpoint. At that point it looked as if DHS would be the first target in the crosshairs of Darrell Issa’s accountability gun.
Here is what is at issue here:
The Associated Press reported in July that for at least a year, Homeland Security had sidetracked hundreds of requests for federal records to top political advisers to the department’s secretary, Janet Napolitano. The political appointees wanted information about those requesting the materials, and in some cases the release of documents considered politically sensitive was delayed, according to numerous e-mails that were obtained by the AP.
Barack Obama is hiding lobbyists from public view
When Barack Obama was running for president he promised to end the influence of special interest groups as well as lobbyists in Washington. On his first day in the White House he even went so far as to sign an executive order banning lobbyists in the White House–but the executive order also contained a waiver process which allowed Barack Obama to hire lobbyists anyway, and he has done exactly that while ignoring one of his biggest campaign promises.
Barack Obama has already fallen under the spell of the Democrats’ largest special interest group–unions–and we have seen them use their influence to win waivers that exempt them from the healthcare reform law. A promise broken; but he has also broken his promise to ban lobbyists from the White House, and now we are learning that he is in the process of hiding the full extent of the influence of lobbyists by meeting with them secretly off of the White House grounds.
By doing this he is attempting to hide the influence that lobbyists have had on his regime’s policies; he is hoping that the American people will not learn exactly how beholden he has become to a group of people whom he promised to ban from the White house. This also allows these meetings to be dark because the Secret Service is not required to log these meetings. Read more…
Arizona makes a move towards eliminating “anchor babies”
The state of Arizona is no stranger to controversial immigration laws and they are in the process of passing yet another law that will not gain them favor with the federal government. As part of a much broader law, Arizona’s Senate Appropriations Committee took the first steps toward outlawing “anchor babies” in the state of Arizona.
This is just the first step as the bill will have to be passed by the full state Senate, and if the state Senate passes the legislation it will go before the House before it makes it to Jan Brewer’s desk. This is still many months away from becoming the law of the state of Arizona but it is great to see the state not backing down in the face of the federal government. Even while the controversial immigration law that Jan Brewer signed last year is making its way to the Supreme Court the state is busy trying to protect its citizens against the illegal invasion from her southern borders.
If this bill ever becomes law we can rest assured that the federal government will challenge the legislation based on the 14th amendment. As everyone who cares about the republic knows, the 14th amendment reads in part:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside
And commands the states:
No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States
Yesterday protesters in Massachusetts held a “rally” to show that they stand in solidarity with the cowardly Democrats in Wisconsin who fled the state rather than vote on a controversial issue which they are sure to lose. Several Massachusetts politicians showed up to the event to speak to the protesters and one of them was Michael Capuano–who ran in the Democrat primary in the special election to replace Ted Kennedy before losing to Martha Coakley.
Representative Capuano had some interesting words to say at that protest:
Every once and awhile you need to get out on the streets and get a little bloody when necessary
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