"There is grievance politics in this country that's tearing the country apart"
Rush graced Fox News Sunday's presence (via the EIB Studio) with 15 minutes of candor and wit yesterday...a guiding light that Chris Wallace could definitely use more often. Pearls of wisdom, if you will. Check it out...
DailySignal: Seventy-three years ago today, on Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, an act that plunged the nation into World War II. The surprise attack that Sunday lasted less than two hours but killed more than 2,500, wounded about 1,000 and ruined 318 American ships and airplanes. Today we honor the lives lost and remember the terrible day that, in President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s words, will “live in infamy.”
Also remember, this was The Greatest Generation. A generation, who when attacked, took the fight to the enemy and decimated them into submission. There's a lesson to learn here, 21st century America.
To do full justice to Mark Levin's thought-provoking and motivating petition, please, just LISTEN, especially before drawing any conclusions...
Constitutional scholar, author, and radio talk show host Mark Levin delivers a passionate speech at the State & Nation Policy Summit at the American Legislative Exchange Council Conference, Dec 4, 2014. Levin is a powerful advocate for our state legislatures/legislators to use Article V of the Constitution, as intended, to rein in a runaway federal government. He is the author of "Liberty Amendments", a benchmark book on the use of Article V by We the People, through our STATE legislators, to take our country back from the overreaching, overtaxing, overregulating, and overbearing legislative-class elites in Washington, DC.
WashingtonExaminer: The building national movement for a constitutional convention of states to block President Obama’s executive orders got a huge boost Thursday when leading advocate Mark Levin urged state lawmakers to throttle all of Washington, including Republicans.
“Take your power back,” he demanded of the hundreds of lawmakers attending the American Legislative Exchange Council convention on Capitol Hill. “You are the last line of defense of liberty.”
Levin got star billing because a focus of the winter meeting of the limited government group is pushing for a convention of states, a project of the Citizens for Self-Governance, who sponsored the top talk show host who recently wrote a book laying out constitutional amendments the nation should consider. The process is offered in Article V of the Constitution.
He described a nation that is morphing into a “post-constitutional” crisis where state legislatures are “irrelevant,” and the president and Congress do whatever they want, and nobody in Washington provides checks and balances.
“We have a president of the United States who says, ‘Hey, Congress won’t act. I will.’ Excuse me? Well what’s that? Sounds like a runaway convention to me,” he said.
Ditto for Republicans. “Throw out the establishment Republicans and others who are stopping you from doing what you need to do,” Levin urged.
To applause, he pushed legislators to consider a convention of 2,000-3,000 delegates to review procedures for hosting a constitutional convention as a warning shot to Congress and the White House. “That alone would shake up this city,” he said.
And addressing the runaway convention naysayers, take Levin's advice, "Ignore these idiots! We’re not some cult over here; we’re the majority." Proponents of an Article V Convention of the States (NOT a 'Constitutional Convention', which is damn near an ongoing phenomena of what's occurring in Washington, D.C. right NOW!) are simply trying to save the country and the Constitution. Join US!
...and no color hides that. Talk about hitting the nail on the head! Bill Whittle does just that in this outstanding exposition...
TRS: Here’s another video from Bill Whittle that hits the nail right on the head. This time he elucidates what Obama’s illegal executive order on immigration means for our government and why he’s able to do it where no one would be – his “black skin privilege.”
Everyone knows it is true, and no one has the courage to say it. The American people are letting Barack Obama destroy this country through illegal executive orders for one reason and one reason only... Bill Whittle has the courage to speak out and make the case that no one else will make.
...and contrary to pop culture's belief, it's not racist to speak honestly, truthfully and civilly about it, particularly when you're referencing the man that led the genuine civil rights movement...
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Shutdown schmutdown be damned (and only a fraction of government, mind you). I could say the same of Boehner's useless show vote in the House. There is absolutely no reason why every single Republican on Capitol Hill shouldn't fearlessly articulate Cruz's sentiment...
...instead of going along with Boehner's scheming among Democrats to once again undermine not just conservatives on Capitol Hill, but the vast conservative constituency who dragged so many Republican carcasses across the finish line last month. YOU OWE US! But now it's too much to ask to fight for us, to save the nation, to save our society, to enforce the law? Just because a leftist media might not say nice things about you? Or ignorance beyond can't control insatiable appetites for more and more government?
FIGHT FOR US, OUR CHILDREN AND THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY, DAMMIT!
ADDENDUM: And for those who still don't get what's at stake here...
TRS: Obama lied 22 different times about how he wouldn’t bypass Congress, suggesting he was for the founder’s vision of American government. 22 times he made the case that he didn’t have the power to ignore laws and that he didn’t believe in the presidency having too much power.
But Boehner, McConnell and all the other RINOs don't think impeachment or exercising the power of the purse that might result in a shutdown are viable options in restraining an out-of-control imperial president? Why the hell does what the media think matter more than national sovereignty and the rule of law?
Articulating principles and standing up for values will defeat them every time, Republicans. I know it's been a long time since you've seen it, but it exists...and there's a Senator from Texas who's doing it!
And throw away that big, fat styrofoam finger while you’re about it.
There’s no easy way to say this, so I’ll just say it: We’re no longer No. 1. Today, we’re No. 2. Yes, it’s official. The Chinese economy just overtook the United States economy to become the largest in the world. For the first time since Ulysses S. Grant was president, America is not the leading economic power on the planet.
It just happened — and almost nobody noticed.
The International Monetary Fund recently released the latest numbers for the world economy. And when you measure national economic output in “real” terms of goods and services, China will this year produce $17.6 trillion — compared with $17.4 trillion for the U.S.A.
As recently as 2000, we produced nearly three times as much as the Chinese.
To put the numbers slightly differently, China now accounts for 16.5% of the global economy when measured in real purchasing-power terms, compared with 16.3% for the U.S.
This latest economic earthquake follows the development last year when China surpassed the U.S. for the first time in terms of global trade.
Perhaps the idea between Democratic statists and the GOP Establishment, all with bundlers and donors in tow, is to infuse cheap labor (albeit, illegal) into the American market in a last ditch effort to increase goods and services? But what of added welfarism and citizen unemployment that's certain to grow with population boom in the Nanny State? (We know the truer intention is to drive Democratic Party enrollment, but these are also intended consequences) Our leaders are also missing a broader, yet dire historic lesson...
Yes, all statistics are open to various quibbles. It is perfectly possible China’s latest numbers overstate output — or understate them. That may also be true of U.S. GDP figures. But the IMF data are the best we have.
Make no mistake: This is a geopolitical earthquake with a high reading on the Richter scale. Throughout history, political and military power have always depended on economic power. Britain was the workshop of the world before she ruled the waves. And it was Britain’s relative economic decline that preceded the collapse of her power. And it was a similar story with previous hegemonic powers such as France and Spain.
This will not change anything tomorrow or next week, but it will change almost everything in the longer term. We have lived in a world dominated by the U.S. since at least 1945 and, in many ways, since the late 19th century. And we have lived for 200 years — since the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 — in a world dominated by two reasonably democratic, constitutional countries in Great Britain and the U.S.A. For all their flaws, the two countries have been in the vanguard worldwide in terms of civil liberties, democratic processes and constitutional rights.
Good luck finding those liberties, processes and rights that have maintained our prolonged status in any other corner of the world.
Dot those i's and cross those t's...Texas is leading the legal charge with our new governor-elect who knows a thing or two about the law!
FoxNews: Texas Gov.-elect Greg Abbott announced Wednesday that Texas is leading a 17-state coalition suing the Obama administration over the president's executive actions on immigration.
The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Texas on Wednesday, and names the heads of the top immigration enforcement agencies as defendants.
Abbott, in a news conference in Austin, said the "broken" immigration system should be fixed by Congress, not by "presidential fiat."
He said President Obama's recently announced executive actions -- a move designed to spare as many as 5 million people living illegally in the United States from deportation -- "directly violate the fundamental promise to the American people" by running afoul of the Constitution.
"The ability of the president to dispense with laws was specifically considered and unanimously rejected at the Constitutional Convention," he said. Abbott specifically cited Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution which states the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."
He said the lawsuit asks the court to require Obama to go through Congress before enforcing laws, "rather than making them up himself."
I'm not going to go into some lengthy diatribe about all the racebaiting surrounding the Ferguson circus. You've heard it and seen it already. Rather, I'd just like folks to watch and LISTEN to a couple of voices of reason, black voices, who articulate precisely what's going on in America when it comes to race relations and how things need to be handled.
First, Charles Barkley...
Next, Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke...
...as Levin said last night, this man should be a governor, a congressman, even a presidential nominee! This kind of rational, level-headed common sense that cuts through all the pandering and deception deserves a higher platform.
"When we go to the ballot box, and we vote to change the direction of this country, to have this narcissist say to us, 'two thirds of the people didn't vote,' so he represents them? Well, ladies and gentlemen, if that's not the definition of totalitarianism, I don't know what is. And the pathetic, pretend media in this country just write it down and spit it out." ~ Mark Levin 12/1/14
Over the holiday break, if you bothered to turn on the news, it was blatantly apparent that government media wanted everybody's attention on Ferguson. For heaven's sake, can't talk about the President's overreach of power that affects every single person in this nation! Never mind them. Here's the disaster, thus far, that an overzealous, imperial president has caused with his executive overreach in bypassing constitutional rule of law...with the media's stamp of approval and Congress letting him!
NumbersUSA: The Heritage Foundation's expert on welfare and entitlement spending, Robert Rector, said on Monday that illegal aliens who receive amnesty and work permits through Pres. Obama's executive actions will draw $2 trillion over their lifetimes in taxpayer-funded government services. He based the figure on estimates that 4 million illegal aliens will benefit from the actions and will live an average of 50 years.
"The net cost — which is total benefits minus total benefits paid in — of the amnesty recipients I estimate will be around $2 trillion over the course of their lifetime," Rector told Breitbart News. "What [Obama] is doing is he is putting these 4 million people — who on average have a 10th grade education — into the Social Security and Medicare programs."
Obama's executive amnesty killed his own party's tax deal...not that that's necessarily a bad thing, as RINOs were bending over backwards, as usual, to appease Democratic statists over any kind of conservative principle, along with their own base...
Politico: How could a major tax deal brokered by the top Senate Democrat die so quickly at the hands of a Democratic president?
Immigration politics and Democratic infighting came together to doom the $400 billion deal even before it had made it into print. The brinkmanship threatens to disrupt the lives of millions of taxpayers who rely on the mishmash of expired provisions the plan was trying to revive.
And then combined with Obamacare, a loophole gives employers a $3,000 incentive to hire illegal immigrants, giving them green cards and work permits, over American citizens!
DailyMail: A perverse loophole in the Affordable Care Act will soon make illegal immigrants more affordable to hire than native-born Americans.
Once millions of people living in the U.S. illegally receive resident cards and work permits, they will be eligible to hold jobs and earn wages. But they won't qualify for Obamacare benefits or subsidies.
That means employers with 50 or more full-time workers can't be penalized for failing to provide them with company-based medical insurance. Ordinarily that fine amounts to $3,000 per worker, per year.
But you've got guys like Mitt Romney out there telling the GOP to pass a permanent amnesty to beat Obama? Do huh?! Or one up on that, Chicago's flagrantly liberal Archbishop describing immigration reform as somehow 'God's agenda'? (Note how the mediaites pull out the so-called 'religious leadership' whenever it accommodates the usurpation of the Constitution...separation of Church and State doesn't apply then!)
I'd go with Mark Levin's response to the Archbishop (@67:00):
"So, open borders, unrestricted illegal immigration, which no country can sustain, none, with a massive welfare state, Friedman's point. This is just logic. You see, Mr. Archbishop, and I do say this with all due respect, God gave us something else, a brain. And with that brain, we are supposed to reason. And when we reason, we understand that it is impossible for a shrinking number of productive American citizens to subsidize an exploding number of unproductive, subsidized individuals, legal or illegal. And if the entire society collapses, or the wealth of the nation is destroyed as a result of these man-made experiments, well then who benefits from that, Mr. Archbishop? Nobody."
There is a path forward to stop such executive fiat. It only requires Congress to look within their own power to follow the rule of law. And further congressional analysis concludes that Congress can indeed defund Obama's executive amnesty!
Breitbart: The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has concluded that House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) is wrong, and that Congress can in fact block funding for President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty order.
“In light of Congress’s constitutional power over the purse, the Supreme Court has recognized that ‘Congress may always circumscribe agency discretion to allocate resources by putting restrictions in the operative statutes,’” the CRS, a legislative authority on Capitol Hill, wrote in a report sent to incoming Senate Budget Committee chairman Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL). “Where Congress has done so, ‘an agency is not free simply to disregard statutory responsibilities.’ Therefore, if a statute were enacted which prohibited appropriated funds from being used for some specified purposes, then the relevant funds would be unavailable to be obligated or expended for those purposes.”
Sessions’ team provided the CRS report—which is not made public unless members of Congress who request such reports decide to make them so—exclusively to Breitbart News.
Rogers, last week, argued that Congress could not block funding for Obama’s executive amnesty because the agency that will be printing the work authorization and other documents for illegal aliens—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)—operates primarily on fees it collects rather than from tax revenue collected by the federal government. ...
But the CRS report that Sessions requested shows that is untrue. Even if an agency like USCIS operates on fees rather than tax revenues appropriated by Congress, the Congress can still block funding for the implementation of such matters as Obama’s executive amnesty. ...
Cutting the legalese language here, basically this means that, no matter how USCIS gets it money—even if it’s from a prior authorization appropriation that is permanent and based on fee collection—Congress can still restrict the use of that money for some purposes.
On the very night that Obama announced his executive dictate, Sen. Sessions encouraged Congress to do just that, imploring the House of Representatives to pass a government funding bill that blocks any money being spent on the president's unconstitutional amnesty. I suspect this is why the feckless leadership wanted Sessions out, but it's high time to listen to reason and allow it to prevail. Otherwise, the Republic, from sovereignty to subsidy, continues to crumble.
"America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit." ~ Sen. Barack Obama, March 16, 2006
As always, another lie. America is crossing into more uncharted territory with Barack Obama at the helm...
ZeroHedge: Last week, total US debt was a meager $17,963,753,617,957.26. Two days later, as updated today, on Black Friday, total outstanding US public debt just hit a new historic level which probably would be better associated with a red color: as of the last work day of November, total US public debt just surpassed $18 trillion for the first time, or $18,005,549,328,561.45 to be precise, of which debt held by the public rose to $12,922,681,725,432.94, an increase of $32 billion in one day.
It also means that total US debt to nominal GDP as of Sept 30, which was $17.555 trillion, is now 103%. Keep in mind this GDP number was artificially increased by about half a trillion dollars a year ago thanks to the "benefit" of R&D and intangibles. Without said definitional change, debt/GDP would now be about 106%.
It also means that total US debt has increased by 70% under Obama, from $10.625 trillion on January 21, 2009 to $18.005 trillion most recently.
And now we wait for the US to become Spain, and add the estimated "contribution" from hookers and blow to GDP, once again pushing the total debt/GDP ratio below the psychological 100% level.
