Why Chief Justice Roberts Made the Right Long-Term Decision With ObamaCare > > > > This article, written by I.M. Citizen, gives a much different > > perspective of Justice Robert’s decision. > > > > > > > > Before you look to do harm to Chief Justice Roberts or his family, > > it’s important that you think carefully about the meaning – the true > > nature — of his ruling on Obama-care. The Left will shout that they > > won, that Obama-care was upheld and all the rest. Let them. > > > > > > > > It will be a short-lived celebration. > > Here’s what really occurred — payback. Yes, payback for Obama’s > > numerous, ill-advised and childish insults directed toward SCOTUS. > > Chief Justice Roberts actually ruled the mandate, relative to the > > commerce clause, was unconstitutional. That’s how the Democrats got > > Obama-care going in the first place. This is critical. His ruling > > means Congress can’t compel American citizens to purchase anything. > > Ever. The notion is now officially and forever, unconstitutional. As > > it should be. > > Next, he stated that, because Congress doesn’t have the ability to > > mandate, it must, to fund Obama-care, rely on its power to tax. > > Therefore, the mechanism that funds Obama-care is a tax. This is also > > critical. Recall back during the initial Obama-care battles, the > > Democrats called it a penalty, Republicans called it a tax. Democrats > > consistently soft sold it as a penalty. It went to vote as a penalty. > > Obama declared endlessly, that it was not a tax, it was a penalty. But > > when the Democrats argued in front of the Supreme Court, they said > > ‘hey, a penalty or a tax, either way’. So, Roberts gave them a tax. It > > is now the official law of the land — beyond word-play and silly > > shenanigans. Obama-care is funded by tax dollars. Democrats now must > > defend a tax increase to justify the Obama-care law. > > Finally, he struck down as unconstitutional, the Obama-care idea that > > the federal government can bully states into complying by yanking > > their existing medicaid funding. Liberals, through Obama-care, > > basically said to the states — ‘comply with Obama-care or we will stop > > existing funding.’ Roberts ruled that is a no-no. If a state takes the > > money, fine, the Feds can tell the state how to run a program, but if > > the state refuses money, the federal government can’t penalize the > > state by yanking other funding. Therefore, a state can decline to > > participate in Obama-care without penalty. This is obviously a serious > > problem. Are we going to have 10, 12, 25 states not participating in > > “national” health-care? Suddenly, it’s not national, is it? > > Ultimately, Roberts supported states rights by limiting the federal > > government’s coercive abilities. He ruled that the government can not > > force the people to purchase products or services under the commerce > > clause and he forced liberals to have to come clean and admit that > > Obama-care is funded by tax increases. > > Although he didn’t guarantee Romney a win, he certainly did more than > > his part and should be applauded. > > And he did this without creating a civil war or having bricks thrown > > threw his windshield. Oh, and he’ll be home in time for dinner. > > Brilliant.

The Paradox of China

The Paradox of China

The U.N. Conference on Sustainable Development is wrapping up in Rio de Janeiro, and we're all gonna die. That's the claim made by the eco-tyrannists at this years' annual international environmental confab. Just the mere presence of so many human beings, they claim, is enough to send the entire world into a complete species meltdown, much like the cataclysmic event that killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago. This year's gathering of representatives from virtually every nation (and environmental organization) on the planet is meant to further the goals presented at the first Rio "Earth Summit" in 1992, via a detailed plan known as Agenda 21 – the global political agenda for the 21st century. The 1992 conference was unique in that it made global warming a household term, introduced the planet to Al Gore and presented the details of a term conjured up by U.N. masterminds nearly 10 years earlier: "sustainable development." In short, sustainable development insists that the human species is certainly no more significant than any other species on the planet, and in fact should be discriminated against because, left unchecked, it will do great harm or even destroy all other species. Sustainable development is described by its architect, Maurice Strong, founder of the U.N. Environmental Program, as akin to "putting our planet, Earth Incorporated, if you will, on a sound business basis." That "business plan" sees liberty-loving humans as carriers of a plague. It's prescribed cure is liberty-sapping, heavy-handed regulations and laws designed to control human behavior. As for Agenda 21, as I write in "Eco-Tyranny," it's sustainable development's version of a PowerPoint presentation. The Agenda begins with a preamble that speaks "the fulfillment of basic needs, improved living standards for all, better protected and managed ecosystems and a safer, more prosperous future. No nation can achieve this on its own; but together we can – in a global partnership for sustainable development." It should be no surprise that Agenda 21 deems universal health care a "right." It also redefines wealth, insisting on "the need for new concepts of wealth and prosperity." The Agenda also encourages government-sponsored societal brainwashing, stating, "Achieving the goals of environmental quality and sustainable development will require … changes in consumption patterns." Indeed, "Governments themselves [can] also play a role in [determining] consumption … and can have a considerable influence on both corporate decisions and public perceptions." Of course, Agenda 21 also heralds the abolition of private property rights, something Maurice Strong began pushing via the U.N. in 1976 at the Conference on Human Settlements, aka "Habitat I." At the event Strong proclaimed: "Private land ownership is a principal instrument of accumulating wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice. Public control of land use is therefore indispensable." "Public ownership of land is justified in favor of the common good, rather than to protect the interest of the already privileged." "Zoning and land-use planning [are to be used] as a basic instrument of land policy in general and of control of land-use changes in particular." "Fiscal controls [are to be employed], e.g. property taxes, tax penalties and tax incentives [in order to eradicate private lands]. As the Agenda states, governments shall "formulate appropriate land-use policies and introduce planning regulations specially aimed at the protection of eco-sensitive zones against physical disruption by construction and construction-related activities." Click here to read more about Sussman's newest book: "Eco-Tyranny," This plank from Rio has done more to abolish physical private property in the United States than any other governmental policy. Coinciding with its plan to usher us into a brave new world, Agenda 21, is responsible for promoting "green jobs," as well as high-speed rail and other mass transit projects that "promote the use of labor-intensive construction and maintenance technologies which generate employment in the construction sector for the underemployed labor force found in most large cities." And we can't forget the hidden crown jewel of the sustainable development scheme: population control. Agenda 21 demands, "Population policy should also recognize the role played by human beings in environmental and development concerns." Additionally the document reveals that the population-control method of choice is abortion. Cloaking their message with terms like "curative health facilities," (a deceptive alias for abortion clinics), the Agenda declares, "Governments should take active steps to implement programs to establish and strengthen preventive and curative health facilities that include women-centered, women-managed, safe and effective reproductive health care and affordable, accessible services, as appropriate, for the responsible planning of family size." Now, as the U.N. doubles down on their global sustainable development ploy in Rio, they are rebranding the issue in a new agenda, alleging that the "greatest threat" facing the planet is the extinction of species. Trouble is, just like with global warming, extinction of species is not a problem. The massive species losses being cited in Rio are based on sloppy extrapolations, wild guesses and unfounded presumptions – all force-fed into biased, non-validated, virtual-reality computer models that assume increased carbon dioxide levels will raise global temperatures so high that plants, birds, reptiles and animals will be exterminated. Like their ridiculous global cooling, global warming, climate change scenarios, there is no evidence to support any of these bizarre extinction scenarios. In a nutshell – we're not gonna die. However, if we let the U.N. have their way, liberty will be pushed to the brink. http://superstore.wnd.com/Welcome/Eco-Tyranny-How-the-Lefts-Green-Agenda-will-Dismantle-America-AutographedHardcover

Billy Graham's Prayer For Our Nation THIS MAN SURE HAS A GOOD VIEW OF WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR COUNTRY! 'Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, 'Woe to those who call evil good,' but that is exactly what we have done. We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it the lottery. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists and called it justifiable... We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self esteem. We have abused power and called it politics. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it ambition. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, Oh God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from sin and Set us free. In Jesus name, amen!' With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we once again can be called 'One nation under God!' Think about this: If you forward this prayer to everyone on your e-mail list, in less than 30 days it would be heard by the world. (It's worth a try!) 'One Nation Under God!'

Irish Jokes. A bloke at a horse race whispers to Paddy, "Do you want the winner of the next race?" Paddy replies "No tanks, I've only got a small garden." Paddy and Mick found 3 hand grenades and decided to take them to the police station. Mick "What if one explodes before we get there?" Paddy: "We'll lie and say we only found two!" A coach load of paddys on a mystery tour decided to run a sweepstake to guess where they were going. ... The driver won £52! Paddy's racing snail was not winning races anymore. So he decided to take it's shell off to reduce it's weight and make him more aerodynamic. It didn't work, if anything it made him more sluggish. Paddy finds a sandwich with two wires sticking out of it. He phones the police and says "Bejaysus I've just found a sandwich dat looks like a bomb." The operator asks, "is it tickin?” Paddy says "No, I tink it's beef" Joe says to Paddy: "Close your curtains the next time you're making love to your wife. The whole street was watching and laughing at you yesterday." Paddy says: "Well the joke's on them stupid, because I wasn't even at home yesterday." Mick walks into Paddy's barn and catches him dancing naked in front of a tractor. Mick says, "Bejaysus, Paddy, what ya doing?" Paddy says, "Well me and Mary haven't been getting on in the bedroom lately and the therapist recommended I do something sexy to a tractor." The Irish have solved their fuel problems. They imported 50 million tons of sand from the Arabs and they're going to drill for their own oil. Paddy says to Mick “I'm ready for a holiday, only this year I'm going to do it a bit different. 3 years ago I went to Spain and Mary got pregnant. 2 years ago I went to Italy and Mary got pregnant. Last year I went to Majorca and Mary got pregnant." Mick asks, “So what are you going to do this year?" Paddy replies, “I'll take her with me!" Paddy says to Mick, "Christmas is on a Friday this year." Mick says "Let's hope it's not the 13th." Paddy's in the bathroom and Murphy shouts to him. "Did you find the shampoo?" Paddy says, "Yes but it's for dry hair and I've just wet mine."    

Top 12 Reasons to Vote for a Democrat : Political Outcast

Top 12 Reasons to Vote for a Democrat : Political Outcast

Communist Defector Endorses Washington Conference to "Vet" Obama  Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc official ever to defect to the West, tells me that "€¦President Obama should have no reason to hide his Marxist upbringing. Unless he is still a Marxist, and is not able to defend it." Pacepa has endorsed our July 19 "Vetting" conference at the National Press Club, saying too much of Obama's background is still shrouded in mystery. "I hope this conference will be a turning point in our political life," Pacepa said. "I hope that its speakers and some of the participants who have lived in the sanctum sanctorum of Marxist countries, as I did, will help the United States understand that Marxism is indefensible." Pacepa, who ran Romania's espionage service but defected and later wrote a book exposing Soviet KGB involvement in the assassination of JFK, cannot attend personally because of threats to his safety and security. The conference is open to the public and the press and features the first Washington speech by Professor Paul Kengor about his new book on Obama's communist mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. Pacepa commented, "I understand that Paul Kengor's new and scrupulously documented book The Communist proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that President Obama was educated as a Marxist." The Kengor speech will examine FBI documents about and the writings of Frank Marshall Davis, a Communist Party operative who helped raise Obama in Hawaii.  Another speaker is Soviet KGB defector Konstantin Preobrazhensky, who will talk on the subject, "Communists and Muslims: The Hidden Hand of the KGB."  The all-day conference also includes former FBI informant Larry Grathwohl; Ryan Mauro, an expert on the Islamic Jihad; bloggers Trevor Loudon and Jeremy Segal; and filmmaker Joel Gilbert. Go to http://leninandsharia.com/ for information and details about attending our conference. There are still a few seats left.   Paul Kengor, will discuss his new book, THE COMMUNIST Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. You can purchase copies of his new book at our event at a discount. Send me your thoughts at Kincaid@comcast.net For America's Survival, Cliff Kincaid, President

This morning on the Today Show, Matt Lauer interviewed one of the  wives of one of the Navy Seals killed this weekend. He asked her what she  would say to her children about their dad and how she would want them to  remember him... She said, and I quote, "His love for Christ" and then  continued with a few other things. Throughout the day and on MSN  homepage -  when the story is replayed they have edited the "Love of Christ" part  out.  Why? Because using the word Christ might offend someone. Well, I am a  Christian and I am offended! Offended that they would edit it out.  Offended that we as Christians are asked to tread lightly so as not to offend  someone of another religion. I think anyone who missed the original broadcast  this morning should know what NBC has done. This man loved his country and  loved his God and gave his life for both, just as Christ gave His life for  him...  Please feel free to copy this and forward it to everyone on your email  list.. There are e-mails that go around saying, "If you believe in God"  then forward this... well, I am starting one... right here, right now... I am  not ashamed of God but I am becoming more ashamed of my country... It is time  to take a stand.        Please GOD, have mercy on us and help us all.

The Other Consequences of Fast and Furious

The Other Consequences of Fast and Furious

   The Hooker      An Illegal Immigrant picks up a hooker. ·       "Hey, how much you charge for da hour, sister?" he asks. "$100" she replies. In broken English, he says, "Do you do immigrant style? "No"   she says. "I pay you $200 to do immigrant style."    "No," she says, not knowing what immigrant style is. "I pay you $300." "No,"  she says.   "I pay you $400. "No,"  she says. So finally he says, "OK, I pay $1,000 to Do immigrant style."   She thinks, "Well, I've been in the game for over 10 years now. I've had every kind of request from weirdoes  from every part of the world. How bad could immigrant style be? So she agrees and has sex with him. Finally, they finish. Exhausted, the hooker turns to him and says,  "Hey, I was expecting something  perverted and disgusting. But that was ok.  So, what exactly is immigrant style?"   The illegal immigrant replies, "You send bill to Government."      AND THAT MY FRIENDLY TAXPAYER, IS EXACTLY WHAT ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE DOING TO US!

McGurn: Community Organizers Sue Obama What Chicago would be like with the contraceptive mandate—and without Catholic Charities. Saul Alinsky may have dedicated his "Rules for Radicals" to Lucifer. Even so, the father of community organizing knew that his efforts would have gone nowhere in his hometown of Chicago without the help of an institution that had been serving the city's poorest communities long before he arrived: the Catholic Church. In 1939, Alinsky famously worked with the church to organize the "Back of the Yards" slum on the edge of the Chicago stockyards. Nearly 50 years later, a young Columbia graduate named Barack Obama followed in his footsteps. From an office in the rectory of Holy Rosary Church on the city's South Side, the future president began his career as a community organizer. Now the one-time allies are at loggerheads. On Monday, Catholic Charities of Chicago—the social-welfare arm of the archdiocese—joined other Illinois Catholic organizations to file a lawsuit against the Obama administration's mandate that would force these Catholic groups to offer free contraceptives through their insurance, in violation of church teaching. The suit's message is direct: Mr. President, your mandate will make it impossible for us to do our jobs. Judging from how President Obama now sounds like George W. Bush when he talks about the Catholic Church, the president appreciates the political harm his mandate is doing. At a campaign stop last Thursday in Ohio, he repeated what has become a stock line: "When I first got my job as an organizer for the Catholic churches in Chicago . . . they taught me that no government program can replace good neighbors and people who care deeply about their communities [and] who are fighting on their behalf." In terms of religious liberty, the new lawsuit breaks no new legal ground. What it does is offer a window into how much the decency of daily American life depends on churches using their free-exercise rights. Our nation's third-largest city provides an especially compelling example. Chicago's Catholic Charities employs 2,700 full- and part-time staffers delivering relief aimed at helping people achieve self-sufficiency. They do everything from stocking food pantries to helping people with HIV/AIDS, resettling refugees, housing seniors, and training people for jobs. Last year alone, that translated into 19 million meals in the form of groceries for single moms, another 2.5 million meals served to the hungry or homeless, 458,000 nights of shelter for families and children, and 897,481 hours of homemaker services for seniors. And these numbers don't include the thousands of inner-city children served by the archdiocese's Catholic schools but not on the Catholic Charities budget. When you ask the Rev. Michael Boland, president and CEO of Catholic Charities, what percentage of those he serves are Catholic, he answers that he doesn't know, because they don't ask. The Obama administration's mandate would change that. Particularly galling, he says, is the charge that his church is engaged in a "war on women"—when 80% of those his organization serves are women and children. As the lawsuit puts it: Enforcing the mandate could soon require Catholic Charities to "stop providing educational opportunities to non-Catholics, stop serving non-Catholics, and fire non-Catholic employees—actions that would betray their religious commitment to serving all in need without regard to religion." Yes, the bulk of the Catholic Charities budget these days comes from government funding. There's a perfectly legitimate public question about what accepting that funding means for both society and the church. It's not, however, the only public question. Another important one is this: Will our society rely on civic institutions or the government to deliver these services? Does anyone really believe we would be better off turning over the work of Catholic Charities to states or the feds—with their higher costs, greater bureaucracy, and loss in efficiency? In a recent report, Catholic Charities notes that it costs Medicaid (read: taxpayers) $43,000 per year for every senior in a nursing home. By contrast, Catholic Charities provides day care for seniors at $6,461 per year, home-delivered meals at $1,188 and services such as housecleaning for $4,028. Any one of these services can keep an elderly citizen in his own house instead of being sent to a nursing home (one of the great drivers of Medicaid's escalating costs). Overall, 92 cents of every Catholic Charities dollar goes to recipients, which is one reason Catholic Charities is so often chosen for contracts. The church can provide such value because for every staffer, it has nearly seven volunteers. That works out to a volunteer army of 17,000 people, larger than Chicago's police force. It's worth asking what Chicago might look like if these religious volunteers were limited to employing and serving only those who share their faith. And not just Chicago. Across America, volunteers with other faith groups are also reclaiming lives and neighborhoods in a way that even Mr. Obama says is far superior to any government program. Something he might want to mention to his secretary of health and human services. Write to MainStreet@wsj.com

Unemployment Rate Dropped In Every State That Elected A Republican Gov. In 2010   In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their unemployment rates since January of 2011. Furthermore, the average drop in the unemployment rate in these states was 1.35%, compared to the national decline of .9%, which means, according to the analysis, that the job market in these Republican states is improving 50% faster than the national rate. Hello OBAMITES...CHANGE YOU CAN REALY COUNT ON!

Paul LePage, Maine Governor, Blasts Obamacare, Calls IRS 'The New Gestapo' Maine Governor Paul LePage blasted the Supreme Court's health care ruling on Saturday, saying the "decision has made America less free." "We the people have been told there is no choice," LePage said in his weekly radio address. "You must buy health insurance or pay the new Gestapo -- the I.R.S." He specifically targeted the individual mandate, calling its classification as a tax the most "disturbing" portion of the ruling. “Now that Congress can use the taxation power of the federal government to compel behavior or lack thereof, what’s next?" LePage asked. "More taxes if we don’t drive Toyota Priuses or if we eat too much junk food or maybe even pea soup?” LePage has a history of making controversial remarks. During his 2010 run for governor, the Tea Party-backed Republican turned heads at a GOP forum by vowing he would tell President Barack Obama to "go to hell." After winning the 2010 election, LePage chose not to attend a January 2011 NAACP event honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day. When asked why, he said he would not be held "held hostage" by special interests, and that the organization could "kiss my butt." At Maine's 2012 GOP convention, LePage took on welfare, telling able-bodied recipients to "get off the couch and get yourself a job." Those words drew a standing ovation from the crowd.