What Would Che Think of Same-Sex Marriage?
Progressives may embrace the
gay movement now, but it is only a tactic. They want conflict. They want
chaos. They want to undermine the last great bulwark against socialism,
biblical religion. And they don't care what happens to gays in the
process. More
The Morphing of the Tea Party
The Tea Party movement morphed from protest signs to campaign signs. Progressives now see it as their greatest threat. More
The Obama Syndrome?
At what point does a disorder become a danger to the person suffering it, or worse, a danger to those around them? More
Obama Campaign Video Touts Dubious Green Energy 'Success' Story
The Obama-Biden campaign's
model manufacturing company does not manufacture wind turbines. It has a
moratorium on its one commercial project, and has been struggling for
over eight years to get a couple lousy windmills built. More
Obama and the Ethics of Public Speaking
Clearly blatant contempt for the truth is one kind of dishonesty but more subtle forms of dishonesty are just as unethical. More
Monday, August 6, 2012
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Have you ever seen the list of goals of the Communist Party USA, which was entered into the Congressional Record on January 10, 1963?
Communist Goals (1963) Congressional Record--Appendix, pp. A34-A35 January 10, 1963
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| 1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war. |
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
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| 3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength. |
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
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5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
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6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
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7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
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8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
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9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
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10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
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11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind.
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12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
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13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
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14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
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15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
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16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
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17. Get control of the schools.
Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist
propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers'
associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
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18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
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19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
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20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
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21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
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22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression.
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23. Control art critics and directors of art museums.
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24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
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25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
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26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
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27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
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28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
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29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
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30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers.
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31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history
on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give
more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
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32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
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33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
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34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
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36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
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37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
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38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand [or treat].
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39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
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40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
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41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
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42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition;
that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use
["]united force["] to solve economic, political or social problems.
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43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
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44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
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45.
Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the
World Court from seizing jurisdiction over domestic problems. Give the World Court jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.
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| Obama-Backed Syrian Rebels Carry Out Mass Torture, Massacres |
| Obama Allows Terrorist to Go Free Who Tortured and Killed 5 Americans |
| Video: Terrorist Invited to Obama White House |
| Ex-GOP US Rep and Deputy UN Ambassador Mark Deli Siljander Convicted of Obstruction of Justice and Acting as an Unregistered Foreign Agent related to His Work for an Islamic Charity with Ties to International Terrorism |
| GOP Senator John McCain Defends Muslim Brotherhood |
| NY GOP Politician Joe DioGuardi Tied to Muslim Terror Group, Albanian Mafia and Communists |
| Troubling Islamist Associations of Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) |
| Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ) Protecting Hamas Terrorism Supporter |
| US Gov't: Arming Muslims while Disarming Citizens |
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting
from ATLAS SHRUGS
The left is so self-righteous about voting rights for illegal aliens and the homeless ("just because we're homelesss deoesn't mean we don't have an opinion"), but our soldiers fighting and dying for this great nation? Drop dead! More of the 'Obama Administration's War on America.'
I have long blogged on the Obama campaign and adminstration attempts to restrict military voting. Our soldiers' voting rights are systematically destroyed under this administration. These men and women are putting their lives on the line every day and dying in record numbers under Obama's crippling rules of engagement. And how does Obama thank them? By making sure their vote doesn't count. This is no accident.
The sabotage of the military vote is a high crime. I previously reported on Lema Bashir, the Palestinian stealth jihadist at Obama's Department of Justice. Lema Bashir was at the center of Virginia's failing to mail military ballots in time in 2008. The same mistakes were made again in 2010, and United States military voters were heavily disenfranchised because of in-actions by Bashir and DOJ throughout that year.
Previous to her seditious career at the Department of Justice, Lema Bashir was a legal adviser with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) in Washington, D.C. The ADC:
- Opposes U.S. aid to Israel
- Opposes ethnic profiling of Arab Americans
- Supports Palestinian "martyrdom" campaigns in Israel
Disenfranchising the military vote is policy. You could make a case that bad mistakes were made in 2008, but that when those same mistakes are made and made worse in 2010 by a devout Muslim who calls Israel "northern Palestine," I submit that it is no accident but deliberate policy.
Oust the Muslim Brotherhood stooge in the White House.
Obama Campaign Sues to Restrict Military Voting Breitbart
President Barack Obama, along with many Democrats, likes to say that, while they may disagree with the GOP on many issues related to national security, they absolutely share their admiration and dedication to members of our armed forces. Obama, in particular, enjoys being seen visiting troops and having photos taken with members of our military. So, why is his campaign and the Democrat party suing to restrict their ability to vote in the upcoming election?
On July 17th, the Obama for America Campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and the Ohio Democratic Party filed suit in OH to strike down part of that state's law governing voting by members of the military. Their suit said that part of the law is "arbitrary" with "no discernible rational basis."
Currently, Ohio allows the public to vote early in-person up until the Friday before the election. Members of the military are given three extra days to do so. While the Democrats may see this as "arbitrary" and having "no discernible rational basis," I think it is entirely reasonable given the demands on servicemen and women's time and their obligations to their sworn duty.
The National Defense Committee reports:
[f]or each of the last three years, the Department of Defense’s Federal Voting Assistance Program has reported to the President and the Congress that the number one reason for military voter disenfranchisement is inadequate time to successfully vote.I think it's unconscionable that we as a nation wouldn't make it as easy as possible for members of the military to vote. They arguably have more right to vote than the rest of us, since it is their service and sacrifice that ensures we have the right to vote in the first place.
If anyone proposes legislation to combat voter fraud, Democrats will loudly scream that the proposal could "disenfranchise" some voter, somewhere. We must ensure, they argue, that voting is easy and accessible to every single voter. Every voter, that is, except the men and women of our military.
Make no mistake, the Democrat lawsuit is intended to disenfranchise some unknown number of military voters. The judge should reject it with prejudice.
OBAMA'S PHONY BIRTHDAY TODAY...IT IS HOWEVER VIRGINIA SUNAHARA'S BIRTHDAY...YOU KNOW THE LITTLE GIRL WHO WAS BORN AUG. 4, 1961 AND DIED THE NEXT DAY...THE SAME GIRL WHOSE BIRTH REGISTRATION NUMBER IS OBVIOUSLY BEING USED BY THE KENYAN-BORN USURPER...
DID I ACTUALLY SAY THAT AUGUST 4 WAS MY BIRTHDAY?
BOY ARE PEOPLE GULLIBLE.
When you start thinking about how healthcare will change under Obamacare, just think about how complex buying new tags for your car has become at the DMV. That's a preview of what you can expect from the healthcare bureaucracy that is just around the corner. American Spectator phrased it best: "Think about the folks at the Department of Motor Vehicles making your healthcare decisions for you while you stand in line" waiting for your new car tags. When you deal with any bureaucracy, bureaucrats couldn't care less if you lived or died as long as everyone receives precisely the same "service." When the government bureaucracy takes over the healthcare industry, "care" will very quickly become a very mundane "service." And excellence will become mediocrity. And, in a mediocre medical system, many people who should have survived their medical crisis, will die.
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there are two things the American people should have learned about Barack
Hussein Obama over the last 1,339 days it is that his words are not
to be trusted. He is a liar. Every promise the man made on the campaign
trail in 2008 has flipped into "bait and switch" ploys. He flipped
every promise he never intended to keep, proving to the American people
once again that they cannot trust those they elected to protect this nation
from its enemies—both foreign and domestic (especially the miscreants
within our own government). Obama is so inherently corrupt that
he promulgated a Bait & Switch much worse than the illegal ratification
of the 16th Amendment that created the privately-owned piggy bank of the
rich that controls the money supply of the United States. And even more
criminal than the theft by the princes of industry and barons of banking
when they successfully usurped the superior authority of the States over
the central government by assuming the powers reserved to the States and
the People, for themselves. What could be worse than that? Government bureaucrats assuming the authority to euthanize its senior citizens at will because petty politicians over the last 80 years squandered the retirement income funds that rightfully belonged to America's seniors.
When
the Social Security Act of 1933 was signed into law, government
was required to invest the retirement savings of the people in high yield
US treasuries that would grow those reserves. That pledge was short-lived.
The Social Security Trust Fund became a slush fund for social progressives
who used our retirement savings to finance Lyndon Johnson's Great
Welfare Society in the 1960s. Today, the Social Security fund is bankrupt.
And, as long as abortion is legal, and as long as we keep exporting our jobs to the third world, there will never be enough working class taxpayers in the United States to keep the economy from collapsing.
Euthanizing the elderly and stealing their retirement savings (which have already been spent) is the only way to stabilize the economy. Which is why Obamacare exists. And you thought it was supposed to be a healthcare system designed to keep you alive and healthy. Silly you. Under the rules of Bait & Switch, the law always does the opposite what its name purports it will do. The name of the legislation is the "bait." The text of the law is the "switch."
READ MORE...
Obama, Jarrett and Axelrod, All Connected to Communist KGB Agent, Frank Marshall Davis and the Chicago Communist Party USA
Friday, August 3, 2012
One of the most glaring examples of the failure of the Congressional Republicans to hold the Democrats accountable for their corruption and constitutional treachery is in regard to the background and documents of someone who holds the office of the President.
The Question All Republican Politicians Fear
August 2, 2012
Patriotic Americans all across the nation are continually amazed
and deeply disappointed at the acquiescence of the Republican party to
the endless expansion of federal government power & control, (and
deficit spending) by the socialist elites occupying the Congress, the
White House, the federal bureaucracy, and the courts. They not only do
not always attempt to block or nullified the expansionist-statist agenda
and actions but instead often join the neo-socialists in expanding
ever-larger unfunded government. They are fellow members of the same
club and are often loath to condemn the actions of their colleagues and
call them what they are; namely the constitutional treason of
oath-breaking traitors to our foundational American charter of
government.
One of the most glaring examples of the failure of the Congressional
Republicans to hold the Democrats accountable for their corruption and
constitutional treachery is in regard to the background and documents of
someone who holds the office of the President. Not one single Democrat
nor Republican in Washington will dare to raise the issue of Barack
Obama’s unconstitutional usurpation of the office of the President.
They all are solidly in the three-monkeys mode of see-no-evil,
hear-no-evil, speak-no-evil in regard the his violation of the
constitutional requirement that the President be a natural born American
and not an alien-born American. Every office of the United States
government is constitutionally open to naturalized citizens, and
native-born children of foreigners, except the office of the President
and its attached position of Commander in Chief of the U.S. military
with all of its nuclear weapons.
THE CONSTITUTION, VATTEL, AND "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN"
THE
CONSTITUTION, VATTEL, AND "NATURAL BORN CITIZEN"
By
Publius Huldah
NewsWithViews.com
NewsWithViews.com
We have
been visited recently with several very silly articles which
assert that Marco Rubio is a “natural born Citizen” within
the meaning of Art. II, §1, cl. 5, U.S. Constitution (ratified 1789),
and hence is qualified to be President:
Bret
Baier (Fox News) asserts that Congress can define (and presumably
redefine, from time to time) terms in the Constitution by means
of law.
Chet
Arthur in American Thinker quips that “the original meaning
of ‘natural born citizen’” is determined by reference
to “The Heritage Guide to the Constitution” and to the definition
of “citizen” at Sec. 1 of the 14th Amendment, ratified 1868.
Human
Events claims that anyone born within The United States is
a “natural born citizen” eligible to be President.
Jake
Walker at Red State purports to show how the term has been used from
1795 to the present. After quoting James Madison on the citizenship requirements
imposed by Art. I, §2, cl. 2, to be a member of the House,
Walker gleefully quotes a 1795 discussion of “natural born subject”
to “prove” that anyone born here is a “natural born
citizen”:
“It is an established maxim, received by all political writers, that every person owes a natural allegiance to the government of that country in which he is born. Allegiance is defined to be a tie, that binds the subject to the state, and in consequence of his obedience, he is entitled to protection…” [emphasis mine]“The children of aliens, born in this state, are considered as natural born subjects, and have the same rights with the rest of the citizens.” [emphasis mine]
But
“subjects” are not “citizens”; and we fought a
war so that we could be transformed from “subjects
of the British Crown” to Citizens
of a Republic!
The
four writers don’t know what they are talking about. But I will
tell you the Truth and prove it. We first address Word Definitions.
Obama campaign sues to restrict voting by military
August 3, 2012
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Ann Coulter on Fox News: Unnamed Source In Kenya Says That Obama Was Born In Kenya
Ann Coulter on Fox News: Unnamed Source In Kenya Says That Obama Was Born In Kenya - VIDEO HERE.
Although Ann Coulter was cracking a joke the fact is Obama's own literary agent, the old-school media,...
Thursday, August 2, 2012
Hypocrisy Alert: Obama Media Leaks Mitt Romney's 9th Grade Report Card; Ignores Obama
Hypocrisy Alert: Obama Media Leaks Mitt Romney's 9th Grade Report Card; Ignores Obama's Hidden Records...
WATCH SHERIFF JOE'S 2ND OBAMA INVESTIGATION PRESS CONFERENCE HERE: CLICK HERE.
WATCH SHERIFF...
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Release Your Harvard Transcripts; Burden of Proof on Obama
Rush Limbaugh: Obama Release Your Harvard Transcripts; Burden of Proof on Obama - VIDEO HERE. Hat tip Mara Zebest.
WATCH SHERIFF JOE'S 2ND OBAMA INVESTIGATION PRESS CONFERENCE HERE: CLICK HERE.
WATCH...
2012 Democratic National Convention Schedule
2012 Democratic National Convention Schedule
Posted by By GeorgeM August 2, 2012
4:00 PM Opening Flag Burning Ceremony
4:05 PM Singing of “God Damn America” led by Rev. Jeremiah Wright
4:10 PM Pledge of Allegiance to Obama
4:15 PM Ceremonial ‘I hate America’ led by Michelle Obama
4:30 PM Tips on Dodging Sniper Fire Hillary Clinton
4:45 PM Obama Receives Oscar for BEST ACTOR from George Clooney, Whoopi Goldberg, & Oprah
5:00 PM UFO Abduction Survival Joe Biden
5:30 PM Eliot Spitzer Speaks on “Family Values” via Satellite
5:45 PM Tribute to All 57 States
6:00 PM Joe Biden Delivers 100,000-Word Speech Featuring 23-Minute Question and 2-Hour Answer
8:30 PM Airing of Grievances by the Clintons
9:00 PM Bill Clinton Delivers Rousing Endorsement of Obama
9:15 PM Tribute Film to Freedom Fighters at Gitmo Michael Moore
9:45 PM Integrity and Personal Finance Seminar – Charlie Rangle
10:00 PM Denunciation of Bitter Gun Owners
10:30 PM Ceremonial Waving of White Flag for IRAQ, & Afghanistan
11:00 PM Obama Energy Plan Symposium/Tire Gauge Demonstration
11:15 PM Crucifixion of Sheriff Joseph M. “Joe” Arpaio
11:30 PM Obama Accepts Tony and Latin Grammy Awards
11:45 PM Feeding of the Delegates with 5 Loaves and 2 Fish Obama Presiding
12:00 AM Official Nomination of Obama by Bill Mahr
12:01 AM Obama Accepts Nomination as Lord and Savior
12:05 AM Public Display of Forged Hawaii Birth Certificate
3:00 AM Biden Delivers Acceptance Speech
Obama’s October Surprise May Be His Ugliest Action Yet
Jerry McConnell Full Story
If
you think the illegal aliens problem in this country is bad; if you
think the outrageous amounts of our legal citizens’ tax paid dollars is
unfair to legal citizens; and if you think that all the other free
benefits such as welfare, housing, clothing, food, education even into
the post high school years and preferences in employment are too
burdensome now, as the saying goes, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
Jerry McConnell Full Story
If
you think the illegal aliens problem in this country is bad; if you
think the outrageous amounts of our legal citizens’ tax paid dollars is
unfair to legal citizens; and if you think that all the other free
benefits such as welfare, housing, clothing, food, education even into
the post high school years and preferences in employment are too
burdensome now, as the saying goes, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet.”
In the Vision to America (VTA) July 27, 2012 online Newsletter an article titled “Obama Plans Massive 2nd Term Amnesty for Illegals”. A follow-up sub-heading read, “Program would immediately register new Americans to vote.” How does that grab you?
The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connnection...MUST READ...MUST WATCH...
The Most Important Press Conference Ever Held at Any Time in U.S. History: Part I
By James Simpson for Right Side News
The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connnection
On Thursday, July 19th, Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival held a critical National Press Club event: The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection. At this pivotal time, we face a national election that may well determine the fate of our great country. And as America goes, so goes the world.
The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connnection
On Thursday, July 19th, Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival held a critical National Press Club event: The Vetting: Obama, Radical Islam and the Soros Connection. At this pivotal time, we face a national election that may well determine the fate of our great country. And as America goes, so goes the world.
Thus, it is not an exaggeration to describe this as the most important press conference in U.S.
history, because it explicitly details, with new facts and more
evidence than ever presented in one place at one time, from extensive,
highly credible sources, the dangerously extremist nature of President
Obama and the true goals of his virulently anti-American, radical
leftist administration.
It further reveals how a huge network of U.S.
and foreign communist and hard left organizations connected to this
President has colluded with radical Islam for decades to oversee the
destruction of their mutual enemy: America. Overshadowing all is the malevolent Soros network, and the billions he and others like him are devoting to facilitate this goal.
This information simply must reach the electorate before November.·
Speakers include veteran investigative reporter Trevor Loudon, author of Barack Obama and the Enemies Within; KGB defector Konstantin Preobazhensky, speaking on his report, Communists and Muslims, the Hidden Hand of the KGB; Paul Kengor, author of The Communist, Frank Marshall Davis, The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor;
Larry Grathwohl, the only FBI informant to successfully penetrate Bill
Ayers’ Weather Underground; Rebel Pundit blogger Jeremy Segal; Joel
Gilbert, producer of the film, Dreams from My Real Father, a Story of Reds and Deception; and the Clarion Fund’s Ryan Mauro, speaking on the Muslim Brotherhood, the War on the New York City Police, and the film, The Third Jihad.
Additional contributions were provided in the form of printed reports
from former Romanian intelligence chief, Ion Mihai Pacepa, who exposed
Lee Harvey Oswald’s KGB assassin training; Walid Shoebat, who revealed
Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin’s ties to the Muslim Brotherhood and
Tina Trent who describes the latest radical left agenda supported by
George Soros: the prison depopulation movement.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
UPDATE:The
House passed the legislation Tuesday night by a vote of 261-116. The
bill now goes to President Obama’s desk for his signature.
The
House of Representatives is set to consider legislation Tuesday that
would exempt certain presidential appointees from having to be confirmed
by the Senate.
But a number of
conservative groups are arguing that the “Presidential Efficiency and
Streamlining Act” amounts to Congress neutering itself and giving the
executive branch unprecedented power.
Presidential
appointees that would no longer require Senate confirmation under the
legislation include the treasurer of the United States and the deputy
administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.
“The
United States Constitution does not bestow kingly powers on the
President to appoint the senior officers of the government with no
process,” wrote Thomas McClusky,the senior vice president for the Family
Research Council’s legislative arm,in a Monday memo to lawmakers.
Sources
told The Daily Caller that there is concern in the ranks among
conservatives opposed to the legislation that House leaders will bring
the legislation up for a voice vote to avoid putting members on the
record.
Read More at the Daily Caller. By Alex Pappas.
Breitbart.com Offers $50,000 Reward for Obama-Khalidi Jew-Bashing Tape LA Times Hid
Breitbart.com Offers $50,000 Reward for Obama-Khalidi Jew-Bashing Tape LA Times Hid
Breitbart.com Offers $50,000 Reward for Obama-Khalidi Jew-Bashing TapeExcerpts via Jim Hoft @ Gateway Pundit
In 2008 The LA Times withheld a video that contained footage of Barack Obama celebrating...
Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindal were all not born to U.S. “citizen” parents (“natural born Citizens” or “citizens of the United States” at birth or after birth) at the time of their birth.
Attorney Mario Apuzzo Responds To Fred Thompson's
Article Defending Marco Rubio's Constitutional Eligibility
By Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
Article 2, Section 1, Clause 5 of the Constitution of the United States: “No person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution shall be eligible to the Office of President.” Did you see that, today only a “natural born Citizen” is eligible to be President. A “citizen of the United States” is not eligible to be President today.
The clear distinction between a “citizen” and a “natural born Citizen” is natural and therefore universal, for a civil society must start with original members (called “citizens” in a republic) who are the creators of that society. Their children, grandchildren, etc. (“Posterity”) then are the “natural-born citizens.” This is what Article II, Section 1, Clause 5 in effect says. The creators of the new republic were “Citizens of the United States” and their “Posterity” (Preamble to the Constitution) were “natural born Citizens.” The Founders and Framers also allowed for new citizens through naturalization. Hence, any naturalized citizen under any Act of Congress becomes a “citizen of the United States,” just like the original “Citizens of the United States.” A reading of the plain text of the Fourteenth Amendment shows that it also only adds to the “citizens of the United States,” simply by persons being born (without requiring “citizen” parents) or naturalized in its jurisdiction. And the children (“Posterity”) born in the United States to those new first generation “citizens of the United States” then become “natural born Citizens,” just like the children of the descendents of the original “Citizens of the United States.”
Minor defined a "natural-born citizen" under the "common-law" with which the Framers were familiar. The definition it gave is a child born in a country to parents who were "citizens" of that country at the time the child was born. Some argue that this definition is not dispositive, because the Court did not say that a child born in the United States to alien parents is not a “natural-born citizen.” This argument is frivolous, for we need to understand what the Court intended by what it said, and not by what it did not say. If I want to define a dog, I include as many of a dog’s attributes, including that a dog by nature is an animal with warm blood. I do not also have to say at the same time that by nature a dog is not an animal with cold blood. There is no indication that this definition is not totally inclusive and exclusive. On the contrary, this has always been the definition of the clause. This definition has never changed.
It is more than clear that Minor had two types of “citizens” in mind, a “citizen” and a “natural-born citizen,” and it cannot be otherwise. In the doubt-free definition of a “natural-born citizen” presented by Minor and to which you also concede, the parents are “citizens” and the children are “natural born citizens.”
So, there was no question for the Minor Court whether children born in the United States to alien parents were or were not “natural-born citizens.” Those children simply did not meet the Founders’ and Framers’ definition of a “natural-born citizen.” So, they were not “natural-born citizens.” The only question was whether those children now fell under the new Fourteenth Amendment which included as “citizens of the United States” children born “within the jurisdiction” of the United States. Minor did not need to answer that question, for Virginia Minor was a "natural-born citizen."
Minor did not itself create this definition but only confirmed it. In fact, Emer de Vattel had already stated this same definition in 1758 as follows:
"The citizens are the members of the civil society: bound to this society by certain duties, and subject to its authority, they equally participate in its advantages. The natives, or natural-born citizens, are those born in the country, of parents who are citizens. As the society cannot exist and perpetuate itself otherwise than by the children of the citizens, those children naturally follow the condition of their fathers, and succeed to all their rights. The society is supposed to desire this, in consequence of what it owes to its own preservation; and it is presumed, as matter of course, that each citizen, on entering into society, reserves to his children the right of becoming members of it. The country of the fathers is therefore that of the children; and these become true citizens merely by their tacit consent. We shall soon see, whether, on their coming to the years of discretion, they may renounce their right, and what they owe to the society in which they were born. I say, that, in order to be of the country, it is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; for if he is born there of a foreigner, it will be only the place of his birth, and not his country."
Emer de Vattel, The Law of Nations, Section 212 Citizens and natives (London 1797) (1st ed. Neuchatel 1758). Vattel required that for a child to be a “natural-born citizen,” at the time of birth, the child had to be born in the country to “citizen” parents. See also The Venus, 12 U.S. (8 Cranch) 253, 289 (1814) (C.J. Marshall concurring) (“The natives or indigenes are those born in the country of parents who are citizens”); Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 393 (1857) (J. Daniels concurring) (“The natives or natural-born citizens are those born in the country of parents who are citizens”).
Minor added that "some authorities" go further. But the Court was referring to whether a child "born in the jurisdiction" to alien parents is a "citizen of the United States" under the Fourteenth Amendment, not whether that child is an Article II "natural born Citizen." After all, the Founders and Framers had only one definition of a "natural born Citizen" in mind and the Court stated that doubt-free definition. That definition came from the law of nations and was confirmed by our First Congress which passed the Naturalization Act of 1790 and subsequent Congresses which passed the acts of 1795, 1802, and 1855 (all treated children born in the United States to alien parents as aliens), and also in 1814 by Founder, Chief Justice Marshall. When the Constitution was adopted, that one definition became the supreme law of the land which can be changed only by constitutional amendment. Minor would also not have referred to the Founders and Framers as "some authorities" and even add that "there have been doubts" about their definition of a "natural born Citizen." In fact, the "natural born Citizen" clause was not even debated during the Constitutional convention, so surely there were no doubts about its definition.
On the contrary, the Court even said that there were no doubts about the definition of a "natural-born citizen" that it gave.
Wong Kim Ark did answer the question left open by Minor and said that those children, born in the United States to domiciled and resident alien parents, are “citizens of the United States” under the Fourteenth Amendment. But Wong Kim Ark twice demonstrated that those children are only “citizens of the United States,” not “natural born Citizens.” Wong Kim Ark recognized that Wong was a Fourteenth Amendment “citizen of the United States,” but not an Article II “natural born Citizen.” Justice Gray told us twice of this distinction. The first time he said: “The child of an alien, if born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.' Page 22, note. This paper, without Mr. Binney's name, and with the note in a less complete form, and not containing the passage last cited, was published (perhaps from the first edition) in the American Law Register for February, 1854. 2 Am. Law Reg. 193, 203, 204. ” Wong Kim Ark, at 665-66. Later in his opinion, Justice Gray, in speaking about a child born in the United States to alien parents again said that an alien’s “child, as said by Mr. Binney in his essay before quoted, 'If born in the country, is as much a citizen as the natural-born child of a citizen, and by operation of the same principle.'” Id. at 694. It is critical that when he mentioned it for the second time, his sentence followed the Court’s conclusion which he based on how the English common law held aliens in amity to have sufficient allegiance to the King to make his children born in the King’s dominion “natural born subjects,” that Wong was born “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States. So twice, Justice Gray told us of the distinction between a child born in the country to aliens and a child born in the country to “citizen” parents. He explained that both are “citizens,” but only the latter is a “natural-born citizen.”
So, Minor confirmed the original definition of a "natural born Citizen" used by the Founders and Framers. That definition is a child born in a country to parents who are “citizens” of that country at the time of the child’s birth. To date, that definition has not been changed, not even by the Fourteenth Amendment (only defines a “citizen of the United States) or U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (construing the Fourteenth Amendment, only defined a “citizen of the United States”). Any other U.S. “citizen” is a “citizen of the United States” under the Fourteenth Amendment, Act of Congress, or treaty. So, today, a “natural born Citizen” is still a child born in the United States to parents who were “citizens” at the time of the child’s birth. That definition continues to be the supreme law of the land until changed by constitutional amendment.
Barack Obama, Marco Rubio, and Bobby Jindal were all not born to U.S. “citizen” parents (“natural born Citizens” or “citizens of the United States” at birth or after birth) at the time of their birth. Being born to just one U.S. “citizen” parent (Obama’s birth circumstance) is not sufficient because the child inherits through jus sanguinis from the one non-U.S. citizen parent a foreign allegiance and citizenship just as strong as if born to two non-U.S. “citizen” parents. Hence, Obama, Rubio, and Jindal are all not “natural born Citizens.” Rubio and Jindal, being born in the United States and “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” are “citizens of the United States” under the Fourteenth Amendment. If Obama was born in Hawaii, he too is a “citizen of the United States” under the Fourteenth Amendment. But what this means is that since Obama, Rubio, and Jindal are neither Article II “natural born Citizens” nor “Citizens of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution” they are not eligible to be President and Commander in Chief of the Military or Vice-President.
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
July 31, 2012
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"Mr. Thompson,
I would appreciate it if you would release my comment from moderation."
My second comment is also still in moderation.
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
July 31, 2012
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I posted my response to Mr. Thompson yesterday which he did not release from moderation. My response contained nothing but my legal argument on the question of whether Marco Rubio and Barack Obama and Bobby Jindal are "natural born citizens." I followed up with an inquiry as to why he did not release my comment from moderation. He also did not release that second comment. Today, I see that my two comments have been totally erased from Mr. Thompson's blog."
Mario Apuzzo, Esq.
August 1, 2012
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Fred Thompson's article can be read here: http://fredthompsonsamerica.com/2012/07/31/is-rubio-eligible
A Few Water-Cooler Questions for Bair’-ack Obama
August 1, 2012
(correct phonetic pronunciation; -accent on first syllable as that was how his father pronounced their shared name)Hey Mr. President,…may I call you Barry? Thank you.
I was just wondering, are you really an American citizen?
You are? Great! I thought so.
Uuuuh, I have just one more question.
By what law are you an American citizen?
I can’t seem to find any answer to that question.
Since you’re a constitutional scholar and all, I expect that you will be able to explain the legal source of your citizenship.
Having read the 14th Amendment I’ve learned that you are not covered by its citizenship clause. It only bestowes citizenship to children of immigrants, but your father was not an immigrant. He was merely a foreign student in the country on a student visa.
That meant that neither he nor you, his natural off-spring, were subject, as the amendment requires, to the full jurisdiction of the federal government, -which included foremostly, the authority to draft immigrants into the U.S. military and send them to war. Since you and your father were subject to the British Nationality Act of 1948, -as was openly declared on your 2008 election website, it’s evident that neither you nor anyone else can possibly be totally subject to the full authority of two different nations.
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Hillary Clinton: America's Worst Secretary of State
There's some stiff competition for the title, but the former first lady has lately surged ahead. More
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