FREE SPEECH - 12 WORST U.S. COLLEGES

http://godfatherpolitics.com/4460/12-worst-colleges-for-free-speech-in-2012/

Godfather Politics – 3/30/2012

While it was difficult to choose from such a wide talent pool, certain schools took our breath away with their dazzling performances. So here, in no particular order, are the winners of this year’s 12 Worst Colleges for Free Speech:

There are 12 schools on the list plus commentary and a few videos.

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THE OBAMA “ENERGY POLICY”

And they call this an energy policy?

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/and-they-call-this-an-energy-policy

Patriot Update – Chris Skates – 3/31/2012

Read the whole article!

With one coal plant after another beginning to shut down, has anyone asked who will fill the void in the grid when the economy does come back?  With a rebounded economy and the old reliable coal plants in mothballs, won’t we reach a tipping point where demand will force electric rates to “skyrocket”?

National coal exports to China doubled from 2010 to 2011. While this may be good for the mining industry, it doesn’t do a thing for American utility companies who are being rabbit punched by the Federal fist of regulation on one hand, while receiving a roundhouse of decreased electricity demand with the other.

It would seem that US energy policy in the year 2012 goes something like this: First, we panic over the non-threat of catastrophic man-made global warming. As a result we drastically increase regulations on reliable, cheap, coal-generated power to make it less reliable and less cheap.

Second, we propose a solution that under the best of conditions can only produce a fraction of our energy needs and even that at a greatly increased cost. Then we build the infrastructure for said system and force the rest of the market to purchase the more expensive power for which there is no demand. This not only results in increasing costs to the consumer. It also forces the cheaper coal plants to back down their generation, harming their plants physically and their bottom line economically.

Third, through both regulation and these convoluted economics, we severely limit the ability of our nation to benefit from one of our most abundant natural resources and cede the advantages of that natural resource to China. This decision allows China to have abundant access to the $.06 power mentioned above while simultaneously allowing them to preserve their own coal deposits for a rainy day.

Finally, the last I heard, we are a debtor nation and as already mentioned China may hold as much as half of our foreign debt. So could we possibly be paying interest to China on the windmills that will provide us with more expensive, less reliable power?

Who knows? With an energy policy like this, by the time China has to seriously tap into their own coal reserves our economy will be so damaged enough that we mightn’t need our coal anyway.

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PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION: DO WE LIKE THE RESULTS?

Reaping the rewards of a “progressive” America

http://www.gopusa.com/commentary/2012/03/30/salvato-reaping-the-rewards-of-a-%E2%80%98progressive%E2%80%99-america/?subscriber=1

GOP USA – Frank Salvato – 3/30/2012

Sixth Paragraph of this web article discusses a very important topic--college 'eduation.'

Take a walk on any college campus and the cultural decay envelops you at almost every step. As Progressives blanket every square inch of every campus in an effort to register as many college students to vote as they can, militantly Progressive professors, protected with tenure status, spew hatred of the Founders and Framers while juxtaposing the “benefits” of Socialism and Socialist Democracy against the “evils of Capitalism” to terminally half-hungover students in Ché Guevara t-shirts. I say terminally half hungover because in an age when an alarming number of college graduates need to be completely re-trained for the workplace – and in an age when those entering college need remedial classes just to feign that they graduated with any subject knowledge at all from high school – late-night orgasmic debauchery is the social norm.

1.     Have you checked out the school’s budget?  If they are building new buildings, where is the money coming from?  If the tuition is really high, have you checked out the retirement packages of the tenured professors and their age of retirement?  Remember, the tuition paid by the student pays the retirement of the professor.

2.     Have you checked out your school or your child’s chosen school according to the following?

3.     What’s the graduation rate of the school?  More important, what’s the hiring rate of graduates?  Are graduates finding good jobs, or not-so-good jobs that have nothing to do with their college major?

4.     Do many college graduates have to return to live at home with Mom and Dad, still covered by their parents’ insurance policy?

As the article continues, read about occupants of the White House and their quotes regarding the U. S. Constitution.  Be sad, very sad.

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AFFIRMATIVE ACTION – WHY IT DOESN’T WORK

Problems with Affirmative Action Liberals Refuse to Acknowledge

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/problems-with-affirmative-action-liberals-refuse-to-acknowledge

Patriot Update – David L. Goetsch – 3/30/2012

Affirmative action was originally conceived as a way to eliminate discrimination in hiring practices and in college admissions.  Ironically, in actual practice affirmative action attempts to end discrimination by discriminating.  Those being discriminated against as a result of affirmative action, particularly in the case of college and university admissions, more often than not are white and Asian students who score higher than the black students who are given their seats in the Freshman class.

The new rationale for maintaining affirmative action in college admissions is that the program promotes diversity.  Race is hardly the only aspect of diversity.  What about religion, worldview, politics, geography, and a host of other characteristics that make people different? 

Why stop at the classroom?  Why not apply affirmative action to the football, basketball, and baseball teams?  If a black applicant who scores low on the SAT can be admitted to college over an Asian who scores high, why shouldn’t a short, fat, white kid who cannot shoot or jump be admitted to the college’s basketball team over a tall black kid?

Since more than 70 percent of college and university professors identify themselves in surveys as either “liberal” or “very liberal,” colleges and universities are violating their own justification for affirmative action.

Congress needs to ask themselves a hard question: Is it time to eliminate affirmative action as a government program? 

Robert J. Kriegel, who once wrote: “SACRED COWS MAKE THE BEST BURGERS.”

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ABSTINENCE EDUCATION WORKS

New Study Shows Effectiveness of Abstinence Education

http://www.citizenlink.com/2012/03/30/new-study-shows-effectiveness-of-abstinence-education/

Citizen Link – Karla Dial – 3/30/2012

A recently released study shows that when sexual-risk avoidance messages are reinforced in classrooms, teens will delay beginning sexual activity.

The study, conducted by Choosing the Best Journey, followed two groups of high school freshmen over the course of one academic year, during which one group received eight sexual-risk avoidance messages in the classroom. At the end of the year, those students proved to be 1.5 times more likely to delay sexual activity than their peers.

When the sexual-risk avoidance message was not repeated, the researchers found, its effects tended to be neutralized by all the other sexual messages teens are bombarded with by the media.

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/30/new-study-shows-abstinence-education-effective/

LifeNews.com – Rachel Turner – 3/30/2012

Research published this week revealed more evidence that a Sexual Risk Avoidance (SRA) abstinence program is effective in delaying sexual onset. Four major conclusions are drawn from the article, entitled, Impact of the Choosing the Best Program in Communities Committed to Abstinence Education.

1. Students in an SRA class were more likely to delay the onset of sexual activity from pre to posttest than their peers.

2. The findings of this study are more realistic and relevant than the Jemmott study on abstinence, as well as most “comprehensive” sex ed. research since the study occurred in schools.

3. The study was conducted with schools and communities that supported the SRA abstinence message for their students.

4. SRA messages must be reinforced throughout the teen years in order to sustain effect.

The setting is additionally important because the study stresses that the program was implemented in the schools that desired this type of education. This confirms that there is significant community buy in across the country for SRA programs.

Valerie Huber, Executive Director of NAEA, commented: “This new study adds to 22 other peer reviewed studies showing SRA education has a positive impact on student sexual behavior.

STUDY:  Impact of the Choosing the Best Program in Communities Committed to Abstinence Education

http://www.choosingthebest.org/docs/CTB_Published_Research-SAGE_Publications.pdf

13-page PDF

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AMERICANS DESERVE BETTER

The Quote of the Decade:

"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America 's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills.

It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies.

Increasing America 's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that, "the buck stops here.'

Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”

~ Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

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ABORTION PROVIDER PLANNED PARENTHOOD PRAISED BY PRESIDENT OBAMA

Obama Praises Planned parenthood in Video Message to Supporters

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/03/28/obama_praises_planned_parenthood_in_video_message_to_supporters.html

Real Clear Politics – 3/28/2012

Two-minute video

"For you and for most Americans, protecting women's health is a mission that stands above politics," President Obama says in a video message to the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. "And yet over the past year we've had to stand up to politicians who wanted to deny millions of women the care they rely on and inject themselves into the decisions that are best made between a woman and her doctor."

"Let's be clear here, women are not an interest group. They're mothers, and daughters, and sisters, and wives. They're half of this country and they're perfectly capable of making their own choices about their health."

President Obama also got in a few blows to the Republican party in his message.

"So when some professional politicians casually say that they’ll get rid of Planned Parenthood, don’t forget what they’re really talking about: eliminating the funding for preventive care that millions of women rely on and leaving them to fend for themselves. That’s why last year when Republicans in Congress threatened to shut down the government unless we stopped funding Planned Parenthood, I had a simple answer: no," he said.

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EPA - TIME TO BE ABOLISHED

http://www.rightsidenews.info/2012033015944/editorial/us-opinion-and-editorial/abolish-the-epa.html?utm_source=Right+Side+News&utm_campaign=5e34d15734-daily-rss-newsletter&utm_medium=email

Right Side News – J. D. Longstreet – 3/30/2012

The EPA's recent move toward strangling the coal-fired electricity generating plants in America is another power grab by the "greenies" in the US government.  If not stopped by the Congress these new regulations will close and shutter dozens of coal-fired plants around the country and thousands upon thousands of workers in the electricity generating business, and businesses associated with them, will be out of a job.

We are looking at a shortage of electricity in America if Congress does not vacate these regulations.  Rolling blackouts will be common here (in America) as they already are in developing countries. 

Solar panels are great for powering driveway lights and small weather stations and such.  But to power a single city, like New York or Los Angles, you'd need an area larger than the size of Nebraska with nothing but solar panels twinkling at the sky. 

Windmills are a joke.  Unfortunately they are a lethal joke to the thousands of birds slaughtered by those whirling blades every year.  Today's windmills stand as much as two hundred to three hundred feet tall and their blades span as much as three hundred feet across.  They are monsters.

The Environmental Protection Agency has become a rogue agency.  It is power hungry and it has an agenda.  That agenda is based on a lie and a hoax, but it makes little difference because the EPA has the power to FORCE Americans to abide by the will of the EPA or be destroyed.  There is another agenda, akin to a "back story" to the pubic agenda of the EPA and that is the furtherance of socialism in America. 

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PRESIDENT OBAMA AND KARL MARX - A COMPARISON

Obama Pits America’s Makers Against Its Takers

http://news.investors.com/article/606265/201203301828/obama-echoes-communist-manifesto-in-blueprint-for-change.htm

Investors.com – 3/30/2012

This post starts with Karl Marx’s 10-Point Agenda – a small list on the left. 

The article then compares President Obama’s accomplishments to Marx’s list.

The Obama Record: GOP White House contenders think the president is taking the country down the path to "European socialism." They're wrong. It could be something much more radical.

So how did Obama do it? Or how did he get away with doing it?

By making capitalists the enemy of the people. By using media propaganda . . .

And by fomenting class envy between "the 99%" of Americans he imagines as "struggling" and a nebulous 1% overclass of "millionaires and billionaires" and "fat cat bankers" he demonizes as "greedy."

Lenin worked to control capital, banks, medicine and education to brainwash the masses

KARL Marx's Ten Points

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_were_Karl_Marx's_ten_points

Answers.com

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rent to public purpose.
2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.
3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.
4. Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.
5. Centralization of credit in the hands of the State, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
6. Centralization of the means of communication and transportation in the hands of the State.
7. Extension of factories and instruments of production owned by the State, the bringing into cultivation of waste lands, and the improvement of the soil generally in accordance with a common plan.
8. Equal liability of all to labor. Establishment of Industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
9. Combination of agriculture with manufacturing industries; gradual abolition of the distinction between town and country by a more equable distribution of the population over the country.
10. Free education for all children in government schools. Abolition of children's factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc.

The next step is AGENDA 21.

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EPA’S NEW STANDARDS FOR POWER GENERATION

EAP proposes first carbon pollution standard for future power plants

http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/9b4e8033d7e641d9852579ce005ae957!OpenDocument

EPA.Gov – 3/27/2012

Release Date: 03/27/2012
Contact Information: Cathy Milbourn (News Media Only) Milbourn.cathy@epa.gov 202-564-7849 202-564-4355

WASHINGTON – Following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the first Clean Air Act standard for carbon pollution from new power plants. EPA’s proposed standard reflects the ongoing trend in the power sector to build cleaner plants that take advantage of American-made technologies, including new, clean-burning, efficient natural gas generation, which is already the technology of choice for new and planned power plants. At the same time, the rule creates a path forward for new technologies to be deployed at future facilities that will allow companies to burn coal, while emitting less carbon pollution. The rulemaking proposed today only concerns new generating units that will be built in the future, and does not apply to existing units already operating or units that will start construction over the next 12 months.

More information: http://epa.gov/carbonpollutionstandard/

EPA to impose first greenhouse gas limits on power plants

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-to-impose-first-greenhouse-gas-limits-on-power-plants/2012/03/26/gIQAiJTscS_story.html

Washington Post – Juliet Eilperin – 3/26/2012

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U.N. CONTROL IN THE NORTHWOODS

U.N. Biospheres: A Scheme to Control People and Their Land

http://www.newswithviews.com/Williams/carole117.htm

News with Views.com -- Carole Williams – 2/24/2012

Read the entire article because the Northwoods is a prime target of this tactic.

Through the acquisition of more and more public land and subsequent control of how it may and may not be used by the human species, the bioreserves’ perimeters expand. They can overlap on a “landscape” scale into great swaths of highly controlled land, hundreds of miles in all directions. Most are connected with one another through buffered “migration corridors”. Like a malignant cancer, they’re never stagnant, and as they metastasize, they leave a path of industrial destruction and poverty in their wake.

The object of the Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB) truly isn’t to preserve “biodiversity, but rather to gain jurisdiction over the Earth’s entire surface and control resources - air, water, land, timber, minerals - and all forms of life, including human beings and their pets. Most, if not all forty-seven known UN-US Biospheres sit atop America’s most valuable underground resources, which in the western Upper Peninsula of Michigan includes uranium and the world’s richest deposit of native copper, among many other precious commodities. In the northern Lower Peninsula, it’s primarily gas and oil.

In truth, the conglomeration of international MAB land-grabbing thieves’ end goal is to hold the Earth’s entire land and air surface hostage as Gang Green manipulates people into cooperating with their scheme, one way or another.

To control bioreserve integrity and restore land to pre-European settlement (pre-Columbian) condition, land use must be severely restricted or halted altogether because eco-environmentalists consider human activity to be the greatest stress factor that purportedly destroys the essential wholeness of various ecosystems within the Bioreserves.

UNESCO’s MAB Program is a world network of Biospheres controlled through the partnership of international and national governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO’s) collaborating to keep the manipulative scheme rolling at the national, state, and local level

This article lists many organizations and programs that support biospheres, organizations with nice sounding names.

GREAT LAKES:  . . . project is now an internationally directed bi-national plot to control land use and water resources in each of the eight states and Canadian provinces surrounding the Great Lakes and the tributaries running into each.

Almost every Biosphere from coast to coast is situated where there’s an important water resource, and more Biospheres will be designated unless citizens become irate enough to force their U.S. legislators to halt the whole U.N. Biosphere business in America.

In 1968, just prior to Richard Nixon’s election, there was a UNESCO “Biosphere Conference” and the Biosphere Reserve concept was laid out. The Nixon administration gave birth to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which is now under the gun for issuing more and more restrictive environmental regulations. The agency has become a handy tool for rabid eco-environmentalists who don’t want industrial smokestacks mucking up their pristine ecosystems.

In 1970 the UN’s Man and the Biosphere program surfaced to set the bioreserve scheme in motion. The U.S. joined the MAB Program in 1974 when the State Department signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” (not a treaty) and pledged that the U. S. would adhere to Biosphere conditions and limitations laid down by UNESCO.

There’s no national law mandating that Biospheres be designated in the United States. Regardless, through a “Memoranda of Understanding”, and at last count, there are forty-seven known UN-US Biospheres in America.

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AGENDA 21 -- LINKS FOR INFORMATION AND RESEARCH

AGENDA 21 TREATY ON THE HORIZON

http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/45478

Canada Free press – Henry Lamb – 3/24/2012

While liberal journalists continue to claim that Agenda 21 is just a “conspiracy theory” being advanced by right-wing crackpots, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and the International Council for Environmental Law (ICEL) have released their fourth Draft of the International Covenant on Environment and Development. This document was designed from the beginning to convert the “soft-law” non-binding Agenda 21 into firmly binding global law - enforceable through the International Criminal Court and/or the dispute resolution features of the Convention on the Law of the Sea.

Two excellent analyses of this document are available here, and here. Read the entire 242-page document here.

Few people understand that it is standard operating procedure for the U.N. to issue a massive non-binding policy document to test the water and make adjustments to its plans before introducing the real, legally-binding treaty.

BACKGROUND TO THE WILDLANDS PROJECT

http://www.discerningtoday.org/ALF/twp_bkgrnd.htm

Rural landowners who desire to use their own property are shocked when they learn new regulations increasingly restrict them from doing almost anything. These regulations ostensibly protect endangered species, viewsheds, open space, or a host of other reasons for limiting the owners rights to use their land. Although the environment and society allegedly benefit from the regulations, it is the landowner who pays the price through lowered property values. Rarely does the property owner receive just compensation for the societal benefit―as required by the U.S. Constitution and almost every state constitution. Rather the property owner is required to pay the entire cost, even though all of society supposedly benefits.

Small diagram:  Components of a Regional Recovery Network

AGENDA 21 LINKS

http://www.rightsidenews.info/2011052113216/links/links/agenda-21-links.html

Right Side News – Dozens of links regarding Agenda 21

Environment, Eugenics Quotes (dozens of quotes and a few videos

http://infowars.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/enviroment-eugenics-quotes/

Infowars – 2/13/2009

“Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced – a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources.  This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level.”  - UN Agenda 21

“The earth is literally our mother, not only because we depend on her for nurture and shelter but even more because the human sepcies has been shaped by her in the womb of evolution.  Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.”  - Rene Dubos, board member Planetary Citizens

IUCN.ORG – INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR CONSERVATION OF NATURE

http://www.iucn.org/about/union/members/who_members/members_database/

Mission:  Helps the world find pragmatic solutions to our most pressing environment and development challenges.

This website has info about IUCN, Members, Partners, around the world

UNITED NATIONS—THE FUTURE WE WANT

http://cmsdata.iucn.org/downloads/zero_draft_11jan2012.pdf

RIO + 20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development –  1/10/2012

19-page PDF – Vision, Renewing Political Commitment, Green Economy, Sustainable Development, Action and Follow-up

ISSUES BRIEF ON THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
http://www.unep.org/environmentalgovernance/IssuesBriefsontheInstitutionalFramework/tabid/54126/Default.aspx

United Nations Environment Program

IMPROVING INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT-A DEEP DIVE INTO GOVERNANCE ISSUES AND THE RIO+20 ZERO DRAFT

http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/index.php?page=view&nr=655&type=13&menu=23

RIO+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development

3/25/2012

http://www.accessinitiative.org/event/2012/governance

Event on 3/25/2012

Democrats Against Agenda 21
http://www.democratsagainstunagenda21.com/
Lots of info and videos on this blog.

 

American Thinker

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/10/un_agenda_21_coming_to_a_neigh.html
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FEDERAL RESERVE NEEDS TO BE EXPOSES

Personal Liberty Digest

30-minute cartoon video that depicts the Fed, our money “system” and our losses.

Watch it and forward it to your friends:

http://personalliberty.com/2012/03/24/exposing-the-federal-reserve/

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JUDICIAL INTEGRITY OR JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT

JUDICIAL MISCONDUCT                                                    03/22/12

Last week a revelation came to light that was so shocking in its implications that every Wisconsin citizen, regardless of party affiliation, should be deeply concerned.  No less than 29 Dane County judges were found to have signed petitions calling for the recall of Governor Walker.  The fact that serving judges would indulge in partisan politics is a disgrace that threatens each and every one of us.  America is a nation of laws, and if we lose confidence in the fairness of our court system, the result will be chaos followed inevitably by tyranny. 

The preamble to Wisconsin’s Code of Judicial Conduct is unequivocal in its commitment to judicial integrity: “Intrinsic to all provisions of this Code are the precepts that judges, individually and collectively, must respect and honor the judicial office as a public trust and strive to enhance and maintain confidence in our legal system.”  Fairness and impartiality is a theme that resonates throughout the Code, but is specifically underscored in SCR 60.03: “A judge shall avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety in all of the judge’s activities. (1) A judge shall respect and comply with the law and shall act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary.”  And, with regard to political activities specifically, section SCR60.06 states:  “Wisconsin adheres to the concept of a nonpartisan judiciary.  A candidate for judicial office shall not appeal to partisanship and shall avoid partisan activity in the spirit of a nonpartisan judiciary.” 

There are only three possibilities that can explain the shameful actions of the Dane County judges:  One, they never read the Wisconsin Code in the first place; two, they simply chose to disregard it; or, three, they didn’t think they would ever be caught.  

Last year the childish behavior of our Supreme Court was made public, to the chagrin of all of us who believe in the rule of law.  The petition scandal is now only the latest affront to the integrity of our courts and suggests a disturbing trend, which must be stopped. 

We snicker at neighboring states, especially Illinois, which is so riddled with corruption that its last two governors are currently serving time in federal prison.  Well, it’s time we stop laughing and look in the mirror.

Bud Kuppenheimer

3025 Kentuck Lake Road

Phelps, WI  54554

Phone: 715/545-2296

Email: budkuppen@msn.com

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INTERSTATE COMMERCE AND OBAMACARE THROUGH FILBURN WHEAT

Back to the Future?

http://www.creators.com/print/conservative/thomas-sowell/back-to-the-future-12-03-27.html

Creators.com – Thomas Sowell – 3/2/52012

What makes that 1942 case — Wickard v. Filburn — important today is that it stretched the federal government's power so far that the Obama administration is using it as an argument to claim before today's Supreme Court that it has the legal authority to impose ObamaCare mandates on individuals.

Roscoe Filburn was an Ohio farmer who grew some wheat to feed his family and some farm animals. But the U.S. Department of Agriculture fined him for growing more wheat than he was allowed to grow under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, which was passed under Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.

Filburn pointed out that his wheat wasn't sold, so that it didn't enter any commerce, interstate or otherwise. Therefore the federal government had no right to tell him how much wheat he grew on his own farm, and which never left his farm.

The implications of this kind of reasoning reached far beyond farmers and wheat. Once it was established that the federal government could regulate not only interstate commerce itself, but anything with any potential effect on interstate commerce, the Tenth Amendment's limitations on the powers of the federal government virtually disappeared.

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THE PROFOUND COMPLEXITIES OF INFORMED CONSENT TO ABORTION

http://www.nationalrighttolifenews.org/news/2012/03/the-profound-complexities-of-informed-consent-to-abortion/#more-10950

National Right to Life – Margaret Somerville – 3/24/2012

one of the most pernicious myths propagated in relation to abortion — one that we can see in the nurse’s reassurance to Anna that in two weeks she will have forgotten about all of this — is that abortion will restore the woman to a situation as if the pregnancy never occurred. That is impossible, as many women like Anna come to realize too late.

Anna speaks about her consent in this way, “In that time of my pregnancy I had a lot of nausea and was on a real hormonal roller coaster! The difference between my decision process in my ‘normal’ state and that ‘state’ are two worlds. I think that when a woman is pregnant, from my experience, she is much more vulnerable, and thus can be ‘pushed around’ more easily. This should be taken into account when a clinic is looking to have consent from a pregnant woman.”

As this case shows, abortion is not the simple quick-fix solution to an unplanned pregnancy that it’s often presented as being. It’s a life-affecting decision in more ways than one. Anna’s comment on reading this article, which I publish with her permission, was, “Thank you for this. I hope (the loss of) a life and my own suffering will help others.”

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UN GLOBAL GOVERNANCE THROUGH ENRIVONMENTAL CONSTITUTION

Proposed UN Environmental Constitution For The World Would Establish An Incredibly Repressive System of Global Governance

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/proposed-un-environmental-constitution-for-the-world-would-establish-an-incredibly-repressive-system-of-global-governance

End of the American Dream

Most people have no idea that the United Nations has been drafting an environmental constitution for the world that is intended to supersede all existing national laws.  This document has a working title of "Draft International Covenant on Environment and Development" and you can read the entire thing right here.  Work on this proposed world environmental constitution has been going on since 1995, and the fourth edition was issued to UN member states on September 22nd, 2010.  This document is intended to become a permanent binding treaty and it would establish an incredibly repressive system of global governance. 

This "covenant", as it is being called, claims authority over the entire global environment and everything that affects it.  Considering the fact that everything that we do affects the environment in some way, that would mean that this document would become the highest form of law for all human activity.  This proposed UN environmental constitution for the world is incredibly detailed.  The U.S. Constitution only has 7 articles, but the UN document has 79 articles.  If the U.S. eventually ratifies this treaty, any national, state or local laws that conflict with this covenant will be null and void.  This is potentially one of the greatest threats to our national sovereignty that we have ever seen and we need to warn the American people about it.

Essentially what this proposed environmental covenant does is it takes the sustainable development principles underlying Agenda 21 and turns them into global constitutional law.

All parties to this new constitution would be forced to turn their nations into centrally-planned societies where all decisions about everything are evaluated within the framework of sustainable development.

Check the long but informational comment by 1stVARifleman

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ENVIRONMENTALISTS, TREE HUGGERS, AGENDA 21 -- IT'S ALL THE SAME

Big Green Wants to Repeal the Industrial Revolution – Part 1

http://epaabuse.com/5766/editorials/big-green-wants-to-repeal-the-industrial-revolution/

EPA Abuse.com – Marita Noon – 3/13/2012

Transportation, Modern Conveniences, Health, Housing

‘Energy Freedom’ – Part 2

http://epaabuse.com/5774/editorials/second-of-a-three-part-series-of-excerpts-from-energy-freedom-by-marita-noon/

EPA Abuse.com – Marita Noon – 3/14/2012

The environmental movement has been hijacked and the rank-and-file tree hugger is being used. Today the Birkenstock, love-bead wearers have grown up. They wear suits when needed, and they lobby Washington. Working with big budgets and contributions from wealthy foundations, they have almost unlimited tax-free dollars to push their agenda. They have cadres of attorneys with the sole goal of stopping things—attacking private property rights and free enterprise—in the name of saving nature. Their efforts are connected—if not coordinated.

There have probably always been people who don’t like America—but they became outspoken in the 1960’s. They have been subtly working behind the scenes and most of us have paid no attention. We were sleeping and our freedoms have eroded.

‘Energy Freedom’ – Part 3

http://epaabuse.com/5822/editorials/third-of-a-three-part-series-of-excerpts-from-energy-freedom-by-marita-noon/

EPA Abuse.com – Marita Noon – 3/15/2012

Spotted owl, DDT, Ethtanol

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OBAMACARE VS. LENINCARE: NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE

http://news.investors.com/article/605433/201203231732/obamacare-ominously-similar-to-soviet-socialized-medicine.htm

Investors.com – IBD Editorials – 3/23/2012

The Obama Record: When V.I. Lenin sought to remake Russian society into a "proletariats' paradise," he targeted three sectors for control: health care, banking and education. Sound familiar?

In 1918, the USSR became the first nation to promise "free" universal health care.  Fifteen years later, major flaws appeared in its grand social experiment, even to Western observers who largely romanticized it.

Russia in 1933:   "there still exists a great shortage of physicians and hospitals," they wrote in their report, "Red Medicine: Socialized Health in Soviet Russia." "Drugs are almost fabulously dear and scarce."  "Overworked doctors" couldn't handle the flood of new patients. A bloated new medical bureaucracy, led by the People's Commissar of Public Health, only worsened delays in treatment.

"Most workers and their families receive free medical treatment as insured persons," the report said. "But the funds for this treatment do not come from insurance funds, but from general taxation."

ObamaCare creates some 160 new federal agencies and offices overseen by the Health and Human Services Department, which will control a handful of large insurance companies operating like public utilities.  Like Lenin, Obama plans to ration care, especially for the elderly.

. . . cost-saving recommendations, which can't be overruled, go into effect starting in 2014. Cutting costs through rationing is now more critical than ever, as ObamaCare is already over budget. In its first decade, it will cost twice as much — more than $2 trillion — as first projected, according to a new Congressional Budget Office study.

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OBAMACARE: BROADER IMPLICATIONS

Think Obama is Attacking the Church?  Watch What the Other Hand is Doing

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/think-obama-is-attacking-the-church-watch-what-the-other-hand-is-doing

Patriot Update – Chris Gadsden – 3/24/2012

Read the entire article to understand the context.

Sex and birth control are personal decisions and the costs associated with them, like birth control pills, are incidental and recurring costs related to the decision to have such interactions. It is not the reason insurance, by its very definition, exists. Why does your home insurance not cover repainting the house or the exterminator? It is because that insurance was meant to cover large unexpected expenses, not recurring bills for the upkeep of the home. If you force insurance companies to provide coverage for monthly expenses and not just catastrophic unforeseen expenses, you remove the original intent of insurance.

Faced with that, what is a church, for example, to do? Either they get with the program, which would be fine with obama or, and this is where it gets good, they stick to their religious principles and are forced to cease offering health coverage of any kind. BINGO. While everyone is watching the fight over churches/pills/sex/Rush Limbaugh/Sandra Fluke, obama has found a way to take advantage of individuals that have the spine to stand against him. It is a win/win situation for his perverse side. Either churches provide the coverage for birth control services or stop offering insurance at all. If they cease covering their people, where will they get insurance? Good old obamacare. The more people he forces on to the public plan, the harder it will be to get rid of it down the road, and the quicker our descent into societal collapse and socialism.

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I LOVE AMERICA – PASS IT ON

At last year’s Fourth of July parade I was wearing a tee shirt for a conservative candidate.  As I walked past a crowd of supporters for the opposition party, I casually stated: I LOVE AMERICA—PASS IT ON.  To which I heard:  Then why are you a Republican?  Please read the entire article linked below which answers that question.

Burning our Constitution for More Power

http://patriotupdate.com/articles/burning-our-constitution-for-more-power

Patriot Update --  Daniel Greystone – 3/24/2012

The question in my mind is based upon people who are trying to achieve power; that is to say, they are seeking to obtain power-filled positions so they can either get money, gain control over others or both. Everyone wants to control their own destiny in life, but people who are power-crazy, not only want to control their own life, they want to control everyone else’s life as well.

There are those who just do not believe in the existence of any type of higher intelligence, such as God, because in their mind, no one is smarter than ‘they’ are and if they cannot see God, then God does not exist. 

What really has gotten me thinking is how there are power-crazed people who live their life in the USA but actively embrace the teachings of radicals and anarchists. These power-crazed people were born into a governmental system that allowed them the opportunity to live life and experience it as free people, but they now actively “sell” anarchy to others.

Anarchy is something they never lived but they want others to embrace it. How do they know anarchy is better than freedom?  They are only trying to gain power and they use anarchy as the mechanism to create power for their self interests. 

Their fictional anarchy is only to make people mad at something so they can become their leader of these mad people, thus giving them the power they are seeking. Once a person gets mad, they get a feeling of empowerment and being mad is the oldest trick Satan has because it gets people to do irrational actions; thus when a person is acting mad, Satan is actually in control. 

“HOW CAN DEMOCRATIC POLITICIANS AND PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THOSE WHO EMBRACE THEIR OWN FREEDOM, LIVE THEIR LIFE AS FREE CITIZENS IN THE US AND WHOSE CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WILL INHERIT WHAT THEY LEAVE BEHIND, HOW CAN THEY BE SELLING-OUT OUR NATION?”

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SOCIAL ISSUES CAUSE FISCAL EXPENSES

Phony Divide Between Fiscal and Social Issues

http://www.eagleforum.org/psr/2012/mar12/psrmar12.html#2

Phyllis Schlafly – March 2012

We used to have a social structure in the United States where husbands and fathers provided the financial support of wife and children. Last year, 41% of all babies born in the U.S. (including 53% of babies born to women under 30) were illegitimate, growing up without their own fathers.

It is obvious that when the mother of these children has no husband to support her and her babies, she calls on Big Brother Government. You and I then pay the bills for what is labeled welfare. It's not poverty that causes broken families; it's the absence of marriage that causes poverty and puts kids below the designated poverty line. Social issues cause fiscal expenses.

The massive national problem of having babies without marriage started with Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in the 1960s. LBJ Welfare channeled all the money and benefits to the woman, making the husband and father unnecessary. Charles Murray laid this all out more than 20 years ago. He said "Illegitimacy is the single most important social problem of our time . . . because it drives everything else," imposing gigantic costs on the taxpayers

Most Americans are unaware that nearly $900 Billion a year of federal taxpayers' money is handed out to non-taxpayers allegedly below a designated poverty line.

Half of Americans (47%) pay no income tax and depend for their living expenses in whole or in part on government handouts paid by the other half who do pay income taxes.

Welfare spending is a failure; it doesn't advance us toward any constructive goal, such as helping recipients to get on their feet economically. It merely increases dependence on government handouts and increases votes for big-spending politicians.

This weblink includes 12 graphs listed below.

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Population on food stamps

Welfare and low-income health care surges

Gap between married and unmarried birth rates has narrowed

Four in 10 children are born to unwed mothers

Medicaid costs rapidly increasing

Hidden welfare state

91 million Americans dependent on government

Housing assistance breaks record

More than 70 percent of federal spending goes to dependence programs

Nearly half of all Americans don’t pay income taxes

Programs used to calculate index values

Births to unmarried mothers as a percentage of all births

We Can't Separate Social Policy from Tax Law

Social issues are not only an integral feature of our fiscal policies but also specifically of our tax laws.  The majority of Americans say they support traditional marriage, the union of a husband and a wife, and support children being raised by their parents who are married to each other.

Don't let anyone tell you that federal tax policy should be neutral about marriage, children and the family. Every part of your income tax return that you will file by April 15 is a manifestation of social policy.

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FETAL BODY PARTS USED FOR RESEARCH

Is it Ethical to Experiment on Aborted Humans?

http://www.investigatemagazine.co.nz/Investigate/?p=2451

Investigate Daily – Ian Wishart – 3/7/2012

This is a long article.  Abortion clinics contract to supply body parts to "research" firms.

It’s the hidden side of medical research. A massive industry harvesting pieces of dead children for experiments, or transplanting into animals. IAN WISHART discovers the University of Auckland has imported body parts from American babies for a research project, and asks some hard questions

“The title of the project,” tipped our source, “is ‘Photoreceptor-associated gene expression in human fetal and embryonic chicken retina’. As far as I am aware this project is unlikely to have received regional ethics approval from the Ministry of Health. The tissue has been obtained from elective abortions in the United States and was transported here for the experiments. This may be the first research of its kind in New Zealand and I am sure the public are quite unaware of it.”

Just how did body parts from a group of aborted American infants end up in New Zealand for students to conduct experiments on? To find the answers, we began investigations in the United States, and a controversy that blew up there six years ago.

It was an interview that shocked America. An Insider, spilling the beans on massive malpractice to a reporter on ABC’s 20/20. It was the US abortion industry, exposed as harvesting the organs from aborted babies. According to former abortion clinic technician Dean Alberty, clinics were harvesting eyes, brains, hearts, limbs, torsos and other body parts for sale to the scientific market: laboratories wanting to test new drugs or procedures, or researchers trying to find the causes of genetic disorders or discover new ways of treating disorders like Parkinsons.

“We would have a contract with an abortion clinic that would allow us to go in…[to] procure fetal tissue for research. We would get a generated list each day to tell us what tissue researchers, pharmaceuticals and universities were looking for. Then we would go and look at the particular patient charts—we had to screen out anyone who had STDs or fetal anomalies. These had to be the most perfect specimens we could give these researchers for the best value that we could sell for.

“We were taking eyes, livers, brains, thymuses, and especially cardiac blood…even blood from the limbs that we would get from the veins” he said.

Alberty worked for a Maryland agency called the Anatomic Gift Foundation, which essentially acted as a brokerage between universities and researchers seeking body parts, and the abortion clinics providing the raw material. Alerted by the clinics about the races and gestations of babies due to be aborted each day, AGF technicians would match the offerings with parts orders on their client lists. Alberty and his colleagues would turn up at the abortions that offered the best donor prospects to begin dissecting and extracting what they needed before decay set in.

In the United States, trafficking in baby parts for profit is a criminal offence. But to get around the problem, universities and researchers pay a fee – not for the parts themselves but for the “cost of extraction”. Thus, there are different fees depending on the amount of work involved. And shipping and handling is extra.

Harvesting fetal tissue is not yet illegal in the US. In fact, the programme at five major universities including the University of Washington is part funded by the US National Institutes of Health. It is the University of Washington that has been supplying Keely Bumsted O’Brien at the University of Auckland, with some of her eyeball retinas of aborted children.

Under current New Zealand law, you can import body parts to your heart’s content as long as you do it in a biosafe manner.

Are human children, ask ethicists, any less-deserving of protection from medical experiments and execution than animals?

Is research a valid line of reasoning that justifies made-to-order abortions?

. . . the death toll alone from abortion far eclipses anything Hitler was able to achieve. In fact, one estimate of the abortion tally in the West in the past 30 years is that more than 58 million lives have been lost. Once you kick in the figures for the rest of the world including China, more people have been killed by abortion in the past 30 years than in all wars in recorded history. For the record, international studies like a 1999 paper from International Family Planning perspectives suggest 46 million lives a year are taken throughout the world.

Leaked documents from inside abortion clinics have hit the headlines across the US, and they make dark reading. They’re order forms from scientists to agencies like Advanced Bioscience Resources, instructing what parts they need and how to get them.

“Dissect fetal liver and thymus and occasional lymph node from fetal cadaver within 10 (minutes of death).” “Arms and legs need not be intact.” “Intact brains preferred, but large pieces of brain may be usable.”

Or this, from a scientist studying the “Biochemical Characterization of human type X Collagen,” who requests “Whole intact leg, include entire hip joint, 22-24 weeks gest.”

University of Auckland’s Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research – Tom Barnes – says it is ethical under current NZ law to harvest organs from fetuses for the sake of improving the lives of adults.

But is that a valid line of reasoning that justifies made-to-order abortions?

According to World magazine in the US, which broke the story, other specifications state that they are to be “preserved on wet ice,” “picked up immediately by applicant,” have “low risk no IV drug abuse or known sexually transmitted diseases,” and no prescription medications used by “donor” mother. The contract is signed both by Dr. Miller and, for the Regents of the University of Colorado, by “Sharon Frazier, Director of Purchasing.”

But let’s look at that more closely. The American Society For Cell Biology, an association of cell biologists, lobbied hard against regulating the fetal tissue harvesting industry, including a suggestion that researchers should have to “verify that the tissue was obtained properly”. This condition, and others, were regarded as too onerous for the scientists to accept.

Not only is there no ethical oversight of the abortion clinics, there is none on the companies doing the fetal tissue harvesting either. All the way through, the process appears to be done purely on “trust”.

And just how good is the actual informed consent process that the ethics committees rely on? According to the University of Texas, informed consent forms had to spell out what kind of research was specifically planned.

Based on Linda Tracy’s interview with Investigate, it now appears certain that no donating mother gave informed consent for her baby’s body parts to be transplanted into human/mouse hybrids, or injected into the veins of rats. Little wonder the US Government National Institutes of Health refused to release informed consent forms from ABR regarding those projects.

Last item in the article:  PRICE LIST FOR BODY PARTS (US$)

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