RT -- April 29, 2012    Media buzz as US confirms Russian troops to train on American soil   The US has confirmed that Russian troops will carry out joint anti-terror drills on American soil in May. Reports of the unprecedented initiative had triggered hysteria in American public debate, with claims of the US fraternizing with "the enemy." -- The US has confirmed that Russian troops will carry out joint anti-terror drills on American soil in May. Reports of the unprecedented initiative had triggered hysteria...

Associated Press -- April 29, 2012     Subversive Obama regime may not detain likely illegals at traffic stops  Immigration officials say they will no longer immediately detain suspected illegal [aliens] who are arrested only on minor traffic violations and have no criminal history. -- [ICE] spokeswoman Barbara Gonzalez said Friday that immigration agents will now consider detaining people arrested on minor traffic offenses - provided they have no criminal history... [as if sneaking into the country isn't a crime]...

Joe Weisenthal -- Business Insider -- April 29, 2012    Obama, the austerity president   One of the things that comes up every time we get a GDP report is that government, far from being the main driver of the economy, is actually a big drag on the economy. -- Yesterday's initial Q1 report confirmed that government spending cuts were a big drag (though at least the private sector is picking up the baton). -- To appreciate the extent of the austerity under Obama, check out this chart from Naufall Sanaullah...

Infowars Special Report -- April 29, 2012     Arizona open Border Crisis and the Battle for States Rights   Infowars.com travels to Arizona with Patrick Henningsen for a special report investigating the open border crisis and Arizona's battle for states rights against a federal government who is suing the state over the controversial SB 1070 law, a case currently being heard in the US Supreme Court. -- In an exclusive interview with Arizona State Representative Carl Seel (R), inside details are revealed...

Investor's Business Daily -- April 29, 2012    How Obama shares his 'anti-anglo' father's dreams   ...The man sitting in the Oval Office views the Anglo-American alliance through the same anti-colonial lens as his late father and their shared hero --- Frantz Fanon --- who argued that America and Britain were great oppressors. -- From 1920 to 1963, Britain colonized Kenya and, according to Obama, mistreated his grandfather in the process. His father, moreover, was briefly jailed during the emergency declared by the British...

Army Sgt. Robert A. DeMitry (Ret.) -- News-Leader -- Springfield, Mo. -- April 29, 2012  New World Order is Obama's goal   Why the liberals want to destroy the Constitution: This single document created the framework for the greatest nation in the world and responsible for more than 224 years of freedom, liberty and prosperity. Yet many liberals see it as an obstacle to the New World Order. -- In spite of the evidence, many on the left actually believe that America would be much better if government dictated every aspect of our lives...

King World News -- April 28, 2012     The "recovery" faked by phony government numbers   John Williams, of Shadowstats, stated in his latest commentary, “The recovery is an illusion.” There are two graphs in this piece from Williams, which show highly manipulated and phony government GDP reporting versus the inflation corrected real GDP. The difference between the two graphs is a shocking revelation of government propaganda at its best. Here is what Williams had to say...

End of the American Dream -- April 28, 2012   Bad things about the economy that Obama doesn't want you to know   The human capacity for self-delusion truly is remarkable. Most people out there end up believing exactly what they want to believe even when the truth is staring them right in the face. Take the U.S. economy for example. Barack Obama wants to believe that his policies have worked and that the U.S. economy is improving. So that is what he is telling the American people. The mainstream media wants to believe that Barack Obama...

James Fulford -- VDare.com -- April 28, 2012    Pew declares "victory" over illegal immigration   The latest Main Stream Media immigration meme: immigration has stalled, as a result of a) Immigration enforcement (Obama tends to get credit, in spite of his Administrative Amnesty) -- b) The U.S. economic situation -- c) Slightly better economic times in Mexico --- This is all based on a recent report from the Pew Hispanic Center...

Michelle Malkin -- VDare.com -- April 28, 2012  "Crucify Them": The Obama way   One of President Obama's radical eco-bureaucrats has apologized for confirming an indelible truth: This White House treats politically incorrect private industries as public enemies who deserve regulatory death sentences. -- Environmental Protection Agency administrator Al Armendariz, an avowed greenie on leave from Southern Methodist University, gave a little-noticed speech in 2010 outlining his sadistic philosophy...

John Hayward -- Human Events -- April 28, 2012     Good News: Jon Corzine's missing $1.6 billion has been located    Somehow, the chief investment guru of the Obama Administration, former New Jersey governor, Democrat senator, and top Obama campaign contributor Jon Corzine --- managed to lose $1.6 billion of his clients' money, in the fiery crash of his MF Global corporation. During the extensive congressional investigations, the term "vaporized" was floated...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- April 27, 2012 Justice Kagan seeks end of U.S. Constitution, says gun rights leader ..."What would you say if you learned that a member of the highest court in the land has spent the last 30 years openly advocating for the destruction of the US Constitution and even went so far as to accept $20 million from Shariah Law proponents to accomplish her goal?" asks Alan Gottlieb, president of the Second Amendment Foundation. -- "That Supreme Court Justice is Elena Kagan," he bluntly states... [Obama appointed this wretch]

Politico -- April 27, 2012     Poll: Feds' favorability at 15-year low     A decade ago, Americans felt similarly about their local, state and federal governments. No longer. -- Today, just one in three has a favorable view of the federal government --- the lowest level in 15 years, according to a Pew survey. The majority of Americans remain satisfied with their local and state governments --- 61 percent and 52 percent, respectively --- but only 33 percent feel likewise about the federal government...

WallStreet Journal -- April 27, 2012   U.S. firms add jobs, but mostly overseas     Thirty-five big U.S.-based multinational companies added jobs much faster than other U.S. employers in the past two years, but nearly three-fourths of those jobs were overseas, according to a Wall Street Journal analysis. -- Those companies, which include Wal-Mart Stores Inc., International Paper Co., Honeywell International Inc. and United Parcel Service Inc., boosted their employment at home by 3.1%...

Kerry Picket -- Washington Times -- April 27, 2012     Gowdy and Issa: Contempt charge against Holder coming soon Congressman Trey Gowdy, South Carolina Republican, appeared on Fox News Channel's On the Record with Greta Van Susteren Thursday night and said that Attorney General Eric Holder must comply with the subpoena to put forth all the documents relating to the Fast and Furious gun walking operation before Memorial Day or the AG will face contempt charges that have already been drawn up...

The Blaze -- April 27, 2012    More links between Obama and the Muslim Brotherhood    On Wednesday evening, GBTV unveiled a powerful documentary, "Rumors of War III," exposing how radical Islamists, including the Muslim Brotherhood, are infiltrating American government at its highest levels. Above is a video clip from the program outlining some of the key players involved. -- The following is an overview of each of the Islamist figures who have found their place --- in some way, shape or form --- at the Obama administration's table...

Associated Press -- April 27, 2012     Obama regime backs off new limits on child labor on farms    Under heavy pressure from farm groups, the Obama administration said Thursday it would drop an unpopular plan to prevent children from doing hazardous work on farms owned by anyone other than their parents. -- The Labor Department said it is withdrawing proposed rules that would ban children younger than 16 from using most power-driven farm equipment, including tractors...

Daily Caller -- April 26, 2012   Audio Included Nugent blames 'bizarre subhuman squalor,' 'liberal Democrat cesspool' for Secret Service probe  The clamor over Ted Nugent saying he would "be dead or in jail" if President Barack Obama is re-elected has settled down, but the conservative rocker isn't shying away from taking shots at his detractors. -- On Wednesday's broadcast of "The Dennis Miller Radio Show," Nugent blamed a certain core group for making an issue of his remarks and forcing the Secret Service to interview him...

Matthew Boyle -- Daily Caller -- April 26, 2012   Obama regime let grenades walk in Fast and Furious, documents show  In a shocking development in the Operation Fast and Furious investigation, documents show Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents allowed grenade parts to walk in addition to guns. --The emails also show Obama administration officials acknowledging that they may lose track of grenades but would still be able to accomplish their original objective even if the grenades explode...

Joe Wolverton -- The New American -- April 26, 2012    Arizona legislature passes anti-NDAA bill    Perhaps prodded by Virginia's success in passing a law preventing the federal government from apprehending and indefinitely detaining citizens of that state, the state legislature of Arizona on Tuesday passed its own anti-NDAA bill. -- After months of internecine legislative battles, including the threat that the bill as amended by the State House of Representatives would not make it out of committee, the Arizona State Senate...

Kurt Nimmo -- Prison Planet -- April 26, 2012   Obama ban on youth farm chores part of larger power grab    Dredging up Dickensian horrors of child labor, the Obama administration has ordered the Labor Department to apply child labor laws to family farms. The new rules would make it illegal for children to perform a large number of labor tasks that have been performed by farm families for centuries. Traditionally, adults and children alike helped with planting and harvesting in the spring and fall, but the federal government...

London Daily Mail -- April 25, 2012    'The public is fed-up': Former TSA chief again criticises airport security  The former head of the Transportation Security Administration has once again lambasted the country's airport security system. -- Kip Hawley, who was head of the TSA from 2005-2009, says he understands why the public is 'fed-up' with the agency, because lengthy security checks and a laundry list of banned items do little to stop terrorists and need to be streamlined...

Fox News -- April 25, 2012     ICE to suspend over 16,000 deportations, usual suspects miffed    Immigration and Customs Enforcement has offered to temporarily suspend the deportation cases of roughly 16,500 people as part of a review of the immigration system pushed by President Barack Obama's administration which promised to review roughly 300,000 deportation cases. -- Immigration officials have offered to shelve 7.5 percent of deportation cases under a massive review of the backlogged U.S. system...

Jerome R. Corsi -- WND.com -- April 25, 2012   Sheriff Joe releasing more on Obama    Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio finds himself under increasing attack as he prepares to release new findings in his investigation of President Obama's eligibility for the state's 2012 election ballot. -- "I have no intention of resigning," said Arpaio, who is running for his sixth term as sheriff of Maricopa County. "They forget I have a four-decades long career in federal law enforcement that includes having been a special agent for the FBI..."

Ted Nugent -- Washington Times -- April 24, 2012   War on poverty is over - we lost    Here's a painful yet inescapable statement of the obvious to people with common sense and a lick of reality: Poor people are poor because they make poor decisions. That's the root cause of poverty. -- Now, with the Obama money-burning orgy in full swing, America herself is financially poor because, according to the Cato Institute, American taxpayers have been conned into spending $15 trillion since 1965...

Chuck Norris -- AmmoLand.com -- April 24, 2012    Soros and Obama vs. Sheriff Joe Arpaio    For many, the term "sheriff" conjures up images of the Old West. -- A few may consider a sheriff to have some form of outdated and obsolete political office. -- But for me and countless other patriots across our nation, a sheriff is the epitome of good and necessary county law enforcement. -- As documented on the Durham County, N.C., website, the position of sheriff originated in England more than 1,000 years ago...

London Daily Mail -- April 24, 2012    Is there a drone in your neighborhood?    There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit. -- The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states. -- Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams...

London Guardian -- April 24, 2012     Another TSA nightmare                 Of all the many complaints about airport security and the TSA, one of the most common is that they make little distinction between plausible security threats and passengers unlikely to be doing anything wrong. -- And a recent incident in Wichita, Kansas has reinforced that argument, as a four-year-old girl was apparently subjected to a humiliating ordeal after she hugged her grandmother while she was waiting in line...

Rick Oltman of The Immigration Tea Party -- The Examiner -- April 24, 2012   Dems vow to kill AZ immigration law?... GO FOR IT   April 25th the U.S. Supreme Court is going to hear arguments over parts of the Arizona immigration law SB1070. Only 4 parts, not the whole law. The 9th Circuit Court upheld the district court's injunction on only 4 sections out of 20 pages of law. -- So, while the pro-amnesty crowd wants to make a big deal about it, most of the law was left intact... [More from Rick Oltman]

Tiffany Gabbay -- The Blaze -- April 23, 2012  Are we headed toward the Constitution or the Communist Manifesto?    During his Thursday morning radio broadcast, Glenn Beck asked if America, on its current trajectory, is headed toward the values and principles of the Constitution, or rather, those of the Communist Manifesto. -- To glean greater insight, The Blaze expanded on each of the Manifesto's 10 planks and juxtaposed them with modern day American society. The picture revealed, while perhaps not shocking, is unsettling to say the least...

R. Cort Kirkwood -- The New American -- April 23, 2012   Judicial Watch sues Feds over Obama uncle records    A conservative legal group has sued the federal Homeland Security Department because it refuses to release documents relating to the arrest and possible deportation of Onyango Obama (left), the president's illegal-alien uncle collared for drunk driving last August in Framingham, Massachusetts. -- Judicial Watch says DHS has been stonewalling its efforts to obtain documents in the case since September, 2011...

Jim Quinn -- Zero Hedge -- April 23, 2012    Epic Fail - Part One    No wonder one third of Americans are obese. The crap we are shoveling into our bodies is on par with the misinformation, propaganda and lies that are being programmed into our minds by government bureaucrats, corrupt politicians, corporate media gurus, and central banker puppets. Chief Clinton propaganda mouthpiece, James Carville, famously remarked...

Edward Cline -- Family Security Matters -- April 23, 2012    A renewed assault on freedom of speech    House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi of California and her fellow Democrats wish to "amend" the First Amendment in order to prohibit corporations from saying anything or spending anything during national elections. There is some satisfaction to be had in no longer having to identify her as House Speaker. I never liked seeing her wield that gavel. Someone once remarked that a hammer in hand...

New York Times -- April 23, 2012     Shift on executive power lets Obama bypass Congress    One Saturday last fall, President Obama interrupted a White House strategy meeting to raise an issue not on the agenda. He declared, aides recalled, that the administration needed to more aggressively use executive power to govern in the face of Congressional obstructionism. -- "We had been attempting to highlight the inability of Congress to do anything," recalled William M. Daley...

Alex Newman -- The New American -- April 23, 2012    UN seeks new powers to remake world at Rio sustainability summit    The United Nations plans to use its upcoming UN Conference on "Sustainable Development" (UN CSD or Rio+20) in Rio de Janeiro to amass a vast array of unprecedented new powers and literally re-shape civilization, the global economy, and even peoples' thoughts, according to official documents. All of it will be done in the name of transitioning toward a so-called "green economy."

Jennifer Abel -- London Guardian -- April 21, 2012     The TSA's mission creep is making the U.S. a police state  Ever since 2010, when the Transportation Security Administration started requiring that travelers in American airports submit to sexually intrusive gropings based on the apparent anti-terrorism principle that "If we can't feel your nipples, they must be a bomb", the agency's craven apologists have shouted down all constitutional or human rights objections with the mantra "If you don't like it, don't fly!"

Washington Beacon -- April 21, 2012    New book claims FBI cover up of third gun in murder of border patrol agent  The Department of Justice is using the liberal "watchdog" group Media Matters for America to deflect questions about the Fast and Furious scandal, including those regarding a gun that might have been used in the murder of a U.S. Border Patrol agent. -- A new book raises questions as to whether the FBI hid the existence of a weapon recovered at the scene of murdered U.S. Border Patrol agent Brian Terry... [Related item]

Daily Caller -- April 21, 2012   USAID training foreign workers for English-speaking jobs   While the president has been urging "insourcing," the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers. -- According to New York Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and North Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable and "shocking." -- The pair are calling on the United States Agency for International Development to immediately suspend...

End of the American Dream -- April 21, 2012   One nation under debt with endless debt slavery for all    Debt is a "soft" form of slavery. In America today, it is not legal to bind people up with chains and force them to work for you, but that doesn't mean that there are not millions upon millions of slaves in this country. When you borrow money, you willingly become a servant to the lender. Sadly, there are millions of Americans that will spend the rest of their lives working to pay off their debts but they will never escape...

Breitbart -- April 21, 2012   'Fast and Furious' exposes White House anti-gun agenda, coverup    Katie Pavlich's new book, "Fast and Furious," assembles the devastating evidence that implicates the Obama administration for its botched gun-walking operation and ensuing coverup to mislead Congress and the American people. -- Few journalists have devoted as much time reporting on Fast and Furious as Pavlich. As the news editor of Townhall, she has asked questions the mainstream media ignored..

Tyler Durden -- Zero Hedge -- April 20, 2012     700,000 are about to lose their extended jobless claims benefits    While virtually everyone has opined on the topic of the massive fiscal "cliff" set to take place on January 1, 2013, which could crush US GDP unless American politicians manage to find a way to end their acrimonious ways, most forget that a far more tangible cliff is set to take place much sooner, specifically over the next several months, as those currently collecting handouts from the government...

CNS News -- April 20, 2012 failed 'stimulus' scheme gave $10M to Project Gunrunner  President Barack Obama's economic stimulus act allocated $10 million to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) for a program that traced guns sold to straw purchasers, an operation that was designed to prevent Mexican criminal organizations from obtaining U.S. guns. -- The $787-billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the stimulus, was passed by Congress...

Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- April 20, 2012     Border agent indicted for violating illegal alien's rights    In almost total secrecy, the Obama Justice Department has charged a U.S. Border Patrol agent, Luis Fonseca, for depriving the rights of a yet to be identified illegal alien at the Border Patrol station located on Imperial Beach, California, last July. Fonseca, however, was not indicted until a week ago. -- Agent Fonseca, 32, allegedly kneed and choked an unidentified alien during his tour near the Mexican border...

Raymond Herrera -- The Sun -- San Bernardino, Calif. -- April 20, 2012     Violation of the rule of law    In the year 1789 James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution, Thomas Jefferson and the other founding fathers feared there would be a future president such as Barack Obama. -- The Obama administration and his unelected Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas are an ominous threat to the republic...

Paul Craig Roberts -- Infowars -- April 20, 2012     Unplugging Americans from the matrix    Americans, the British, and Western Europeans are accustomed to thinking of themselves as the representatives of freedom, democracy, and morality in the world. -- The West passes judgment on the rest of the world as if the West is God and the rest of the world are barbarians in need of chastisement, invasion, and occupation. As readers know, from time to time I raise questions...

Aaron Klein -- WND.com -- April 20, 2012     Obama quietly seeking to cede U.S. oceans to U.N. law    President Obama's ambitious plan for stepped up government regulation of the oceans includes an unreported effort to cede U.S. oceans to United Nations-based international law, WND has learned. -- The plan was previously a pet project of Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, whose ocean-zoning scheme was partnered with a globalist group that also aimed to hand over U.S. oceans to U.N. governance...

Damian Paletta -- Wall Street Journal -- April 20, 2012    Food stamp rolls to grow through 2014, CBO says    The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday that 45 million people in 2011 received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, a 70% increase from 2007. It said the number of people receiving the benefits, commonly known as food stamps, would continue growing until 2014. -- Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier...

Michelle Malkin -- The Patriot Post -- April 20, 2012    No more 'Mr. Obama is a nice guy'    There is a reflexive desire among a certain species of moderate Republicans to be perceived as "civil" by liberal opponents who believe that the mere existence of free-market, limited-government conservatism is an indecent affront to humankind. All aboard the U.S.S. Lost Cause. -- This disastrous, bend-over bipartisanship is a hard habit to break. In 2008, Arizona Sen. John McCain rode the "Barack Obama is a nice guy... "

Cliff Kincaid -- Family Security Matters -- April 20, 2012     Bishop says Obama on Hitlerian path    Comparing Obama to Hitler is something that the liberal / left used to blame on the Tea Party. However, posters and signs showing Obama with a Hitler moustache were inevitably traced to followers of Lyndon LaRouche. They sometimes tried to portray themselves as conservatives, but in reality LaRouche is a former Marxist who ran for president as a Democrat. They like to cause deliberate political confusion...

By Tim Devaney -- Washington Times -- April 20, 2012     Gun industry's economic impact skyrockets during Obama years    The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation claims that the economic impact of firearm sales --- a figure that includes jobs. taxes and sales --- hit $31 billion in 2011, up from $19 billion in 2008...

Michelle Malkin -- Family Security Matters -- April 20, 2012  The Real GSA Scandal: Job-killing big labor payoffs    Stop the presses: Big-spending Democrats are finally up in arms over a federal boondoggle. Details of the U.S. General Services Administration bacchanalia get worse by the day. We've graduated from overpriced breakfasts in Vegas, friends-and-family junkets galore and in-house videos mocking their own profligacy to extravagant bonuses, alleged kickbacks, obstructionism and bribes...

By Tim Devaney -- Washington Times -- April 19, 2012     Gun industry's economic impact skyrockets during Obama years    The economic impact of the firearms industry is up 66 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession, providing an unexpected shot in the arm for the economy, according to a new study. -- The National Shooting Sports Foundation claims that the economic impact of firearm sales --- a figure that includes jobs. taxes and sales --- hit $31 billion in 2011, up from $19 billion in 2008...

Michelle Malkin -- Family Security Matters -- April 19, 2012     The Real GSA Scandal: Job-killing big labor payoffs    Stop the presses: Big-spending Democrats are finally up in arms over a federal boondoggle. Details of the U.S. General Services Administration bacchanalia get worse by the day. We've graduated from overpriced breakfasts in Vegas, friends-and-family junkets galore and in-house videos mocking their own profligacy to extravagant bonuses, alleged kickbacks, obstructionism and bribes...

The Blaze -- April 19, 2012    Communist / segregationist Obama crony Van Jones unloads    Van Jones remains a lightning rod of controversy since his disgraced departure from the White House. -- You might remember a few weeks back in a Blaze story where Jones lashed out at Libertarians: "They say they're Patriots but they hate everybody in America who looks like us. They say they love America but they hate the people, the brown folk, the gays, the lesbians, the people with piercings, ya know ya'll."

Diana West -- WND.com -- April 19, 2012 Is Obama disowning online birth certificate?    Almost exactly one year ago --- with Donald Trump on top of presidential polls and author Jerome Corsi on top of Amazon's best-seller list, both for asking where President Barack Obama's "real" birth certificate was – Judith Corley, the president's personal attorney, flew to Hawaii. She went there to pick up two certified copies of the president's long-form birth certificate from the Hawaii Department of Health...

Alan Caruba -- Family Security Matters -- April 19, 2012      Obama's eco-lies    As the nation and the world close in on Earth Day, April 22nd, a tsunami of Green propaganda will overwhelm us with all the usual lies about global warming --- now called climate change --- and calls to reduce the use of all fossil fuels in order to reduce "greenhouse gas" emissions. -- This Big Lie ignores the fact that there is no relationship between carbon dioxide (CO2) and the climate...

Jeffrey Phelps -- The Examiner -- April 19, 2012 Obama officially ineligible    A crushing situation is emerging for, not only Barack Obama, but also for the American people as a landmark statement has been made by the Obama administration that is going to turn the entire 2012 Presidential race and potentially much more on its head. -- Lawyers representing the current sitting President of the United States of America have been forced, under penalty of perjury, to admit that...

Orange County Register -- Santa Ana, Calif. -- April 19, 2012  Supreme Court to take up Arizona immigration law    Local immigration activists are gearing up to hear the final word on Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law. -- Oral arguments on Arizona's SB1070 start next week before the U.S. Supreme Court. On April 25, Justices are scheduled to hear arguments on both sides of the landmark case. -- State of Arizona v. United States challenges the authority of a state to enact its own immigration enforcement laws...

Andrew P. Napolitano -- LewRockwell.com -- April 19, 2012     A government of waste    What can we learn from allegations against a half-dozen supervisors in the Government Services Administration for wasting, and perhaps stealing, taxpayer dollars on foolishness in Las Vegas, and against a dozen Secret Service agents for dangerously procuring prostitutes in Cartagena, Colombia, while there to prepare for a visit by the president?

Brent Daggett -- The Intel Hub -- April 19, 2012     Executive Orders: Is the Constitution being shackled?    "I believe there are more instances of abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments than violent and sudden usurpations." — James Madison at the Virginia Ratification debates. -- When one analyzes Madison's logic, it seems prophetic, especially if one applies it to executive orders. -- In a February 21, 2001 article, The Use and Abuse of Executive Orders and Other Presidential Directives...

Daisy Luther -- Inalienably Yours -- April 19, 2012     Your illegally extorted tax dollars at work    When you get your next pay stub, take a look at the withholdings. The income tax you pay and the Social Security contributions (that you will probably never see again) are being spent to pay for the war that the de facto government is waging against Americans. We are funding our own demise at the rate of more than 20% of our personal income...

Real Clear Politics -- April 19, 2012     Obama regime woos Latinos by hitting Romney    In discussing the launch of its first Spanish-language ads in three key battlegrounds Wednesday, the Obama re-election campaign revealed a key part of its messaging strategy for courting Latinos: Republicans are stalling White House immigration reform efforts and Mitt Romney is an extremist when it comes to those issues. -- In 2008, Barack Obama doubled John McCain's support among Hispanic voters...

Politico -- April 19, 2012     Allen West backs Ted Nugent    Ted Nugent doesn't bear "any ill will" toward President Barack Obama, Rep. Allen West said Thursday despite the rocker's appointment with the Secret Service over his controversial comments. -- "I think he was just expressing maybe his opinion about something and of course everyone wants to sensationalize things but let's leave it up to the Secret Service to interview him and get to the bottom of it"...