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Clinton’s Sneak Attack on Freedom; Promoting Voter Fraud

In 2012, voter rights vs. voter fraud issues will be elevated to dizzying heights. While the average citizen may not perceive a problem, the fact remains, voter fraud is alive and well in the USA!

In 1993, President Clinton helped push through a voter registration law that enables the wide-spread practice of registering illegal voters. The American Thinker in a May 2010 article, “Democrats and Vote Fraud: On the Road to Rigged Elections,” explains:

“In 1993, Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, better known as the “Motor Voter” law, which requires motor vehicle departments, welfare offices, and other government agencies to provide forms and register voters. Motor Voter made it illegal to check the IDs of applicants and ordered the states to allow registration by mail.

Motor Voter opened the door to a massive increase in fraudulent registrations. For example, the number of registered voters in Philadelphia increased by 24% from 1995 to 2004, even as the city’s population declined by 13%. By 2009, an independent study estimated that America’s voter registration rolls included more than 16 million invalid voters. This provides fertile ground for ACORN and other groups that seek to turn phony registrations into votes.”

When anyone can register to vote, and states cannot refuse applicants, the prospects for voter fraud increase exponentially. For those who wonder why this is a big deal among conservatives, the fraud is usually perpetrated on conservative candidates. This is sometimes referred to as “normal” in Chicago. Saul Alinsky, the community organizer favored any tactic that would disrupt the ethical concerns of the population and ensure predictable outcomes, i.e., ensure that the Democrat wins the election.

The American Thinker article continues:

“In 2001, the bipartisan National Commission on Election Reform reported that the increasing use of absentee ballots and early voting is inconsistent with five key objectives of fair elections:

•1. Assure the privacy of the secret ballot and protection against coerced voting

•2. Verify that only duly registered voters cast ballots

•3. Safeguard ballots against loss or alteration

•4. Assure their prompt counting

•5. Foster the communal aspects of citizens voting together

Nevertheless, these trends have continued unabated. “No excuses” early voting (voting early without having to provide a reason) is now allowed by 36 states, starting as early as 45 days before the actual election. Large-scale absentee voting also creates delays in deciding elections — delays that offer additional opportunities for fraud.”

It is a difficult task for state election commissions to identify and remove from the voter registration files the names of unqualified voters.

I propose that the increased use of public records, such as court documents that may contain the names and addresses of convicted felons and other gang related activities that have resulted in a publicly releasable record, to be reviewed for possible voter record corrections as applicable to the state and federal laws pertaining to lawful registration.

Fox News video: “Voter Fraud in America”

Submitted by: Joseph Hall, Daymar Institute, Healthcare, Law, General Studies

I don’t know what he means by zero-based budget.

Watch:

Zero-based budgeting is basically starting with the amount of revenue you think you’ll bring in for the year, then coming up with a spending budget. When you get to zero, you stop spending. Gee, isn’t that a novel idea? Instead, we get baseline budgeting, where they take last year’s budget and then add to it. Since the Democrats ramped up spending so much in 2009, that year’s budget became the benchmark for the following year. And so on, and so on. Which is why we have such massive deficits and debt. Any spending cuts proposed aren’t really cuts at all, they’re just cuts to the spending increases. It’s a scam.

Who knows Gillibrand might actually know what zero-based budgeting is, and played dumb so as not to have to defend the current scam. So she’s either an idiot or a liar.H/T Lisa T.

That Fox is part of this media bandwagon is a fact I note in passing, while pointing out what was obvious to me long ago: Newt can’t beat Mitt.

It can’t happen and won’t happen, and those conservatives who believe they can make it happen are engaged in a type of behavior that Ace of Spades has called “wishcasting” — the idea that you can do anything you want to do, if only you wish and hope and believe in it enough.

There are many reasons why the seemingly possible dream of a Newt nomination is actually less practically feasible than the admittedly long-shot chance of an unexpected comeback by Rick Santorum. Most of these reasons have to do with Newt’s biography and character: His personal flaws and failings, which are well known even to his supporters, but which he (and they) suppose will be ignored by undecided voters who are less ideological than themselves because, doggone it, he has such great ideas!

Be sure to read the whole thing. He’s right.

Related: Get over the Romney Derangement Syndrome. It’s not an endorsement of Romney, but a reminder to people to just calm down.

Conservatives are by nature optimists. They are intensely focused on retaking the White House and the Senate. But what if, in that optimism, they are missing a growing threat?

That threat is to the House of Representatives. Republicans claimed a sweeping victory there in 2010, a win that stopped President Obama’s marauding legislative agenda. Yet that has led to a certain Republican nonchalance about the House in 2012.

What the optimists are missing is that the House remains the linchpin of all their future ambitions. A Republican presidency will mean little with Speaker Nancy Pelosi redux. Mr. Obama may well win re-election. What leverage will a Republican-run Senate have in the face of that, and a Democratic House? Or consider the possibility that Republicans botch both the Oval Office and the Senate.

True, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), under Texas Rep. Pete Sessions, is aware of the challenge and is energetically fund-raising and recruiting. True, the party is already coaching its newer members about the rigors of re-election. And true, John Boehner and Eric Cantor are going all out to collect money for their members. The speaker alone raised some $46 million in 2011—nearly double his take for the entire last election cycle.

What Messrs. Boehner and Cantor know is that they’ll need all this, and more. The House is no sure thing.

Read the whole thing, then find out how you can help the Republican running in your district.

Update: In case you were wondering, PT wasn’t bad at all. It was kind of nice, actually.

The Washington Post reported:

The Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure Foundation Friday announced it would revise a controversial new policy that barred the organization from funding Planned Parenthood.

The foundation said that Planned Parenthood would now be eligible to apply for grants. It did not, however, address other reasons Komen has cited for why it might choose not to approve such grants.

“Our original desire was to fulfill our fiduciary duty to our donors by not funding grant applications made by organizations under investigation,” a Friday statement said. “ We will amend the criteria to make clear that disqualifying investigations must be criminal and conclusive in nature and not political. That is what is right and fair.”

“We will continue to fund existing grants, including those of Planned Parenthood, and preserve their eligibility to apply for future grants, while maintaining the ability of our affiliates to make funding decisions that meet the needs of their communities,” the statement continues.

The statement left some ambiguity, however, because it did not mention a second reason Komen has given for ending Planned Parenthood’s funding: That the group did not provide direct mammogram services, but instead referred patients out to other locations.

Earlier today I heard that Komen’s fundraising rose by 100% after announcing they were going to stop sending funds to PP. I wonder how many people now wish they had held off.

Update: Perhaps I rushed to judgment. Read Da TechGuy’s post. I guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Zero Hedge has the details [emphasis original]:

A month ago, we joked when we said that for Obama to get the unemployment rate to negative by election time, all he has to do is to crush the labor force participation rate to about 55%. Looks like the good folks at the BLS heard us: it appears that the people not in the labor force exploded by an unprecedented record 1.2 million. No, that’s not a typo: 1.2 million people dropped out of the labor force in one month! So as the labor force increased from 153.9 million to 154.4 million, the non institutional population increased by 242.3 million meaning, those not in the labor force surged from 86.7 million to 87.9 million. Which means that the civilian labor force tumbled to a fresh 30 year low of 63.7% as the BLS is seriously planning on eliminating nearly half of the available labor pool from the unemployment calculation.

Be sure to read the whole thing, and check out the disturbing charts. Remember it when Obama comes out and tells us his policies are helping the economy.

Atlas Productions, LLC announced today that “Atlas Shrugged Part 2”, the second installment of the Atlas Shrugged movie trilogy, has been officially greenlit with principal photography to begin this coming April in Los Angeles, Colorado, and New York.

Based on Ayn Rand’s (Feb. 2 1905 – Mar. 6 1982) 1957 novel, ATLAS SHRUGGED is set in the near future when a dystopian United States finds its leading innovators, from industrialists to artists, mysteriously disappearing at an alarming rate resulting in the “stopping the motor of the world.”

Joining the production is Duncan Scott, a four time Emmy® award-winner, who worked extensively with Rand on the restoration of her film classic “We the Living.”

“Rand has long been the focus of Duncan’s work. He brings invaluable experience to the table as well as an incredible depth of knowledge regarding Atlas. We’re thrilled to have him on the team.” stated Producer John Aglialoro. (Read More)

The announcement was made on Ayn Rand’s birthday. Here’s a video teaser, and the Part II website can be found here.

H/T Lady Liberty

Update: Via American Power, the LA Times estimates that the production budget will be in the $10 to $15 million range.

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If We Don’t Win We Lose

America’s slide from the forefront of freedom to the swamp of collectivist social engineering didn’t start with the current manager of our decline and his Cavalcade of Czars.  It didn’t start with President Obama’s favorite foil and arch-nemesis the man the Corporations-Once-Known-as-the Mainstream-Media love to hate, George Bush, the Younger.  It didn’t start with the Bush-Clinton decade + 2 of continuous government growth, its thousand points of light or its thousand points of light or its Hillarycare.

Even Ronaldus Magnus, the last good President left Washington bigger than he found it.

Jimmy Carter not only walked in the Inaugural Parade he walked us into the grip of a Department of Energy that works tirelessly to limit our energy production and a Department of Education that presides over the greatest decline in education in world History.   He chastised us in his malaise speech about our crisis of confidence never realizing it was our confidence in him not our country that was hobbling America.  And what was his advice?  Should we work harder, invent more, or launch out in bold new ways?  No he suggested we wear sweaters and turn the heat down.  Managing the decline has long been the theme song of those who see America’s glory days in the rearview mirror instead of in the headlights as we travel towards the future.

What about Nixon?  Forget about it!  He gave us price controls, OSHA, and the EPA.  He took us off the gold standard and left us at the mercy of the Federal Reserve, all this from the conservative wing of the Dualocracy which is the bi-polar Party of Power.

Lyndon Johnson and his Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, and Food Stamp revolution created the entitlement monsters which are poised to devour the budget.

Though he cut taxes to spur the economy, Kennedy with his phony missile gap and foreign policy blunders did little besides set the stage for Johnson.

Eisenhower spent eight years guiding the construction of the Military Industrial Complex he warned us about as he left the stage.

The Fair Deal was merely Truman’s election driven attempt to increase the size, scope, and power of FDR’s New Deal which was a massive and unprecedented intrusion of the central government into the economic and social life of America.

FDR was the 20^th century poster boy when it comes to stretching the size of government and putting the stamp of entitlement as the cause on liberty’s death certificate.

Hoover, contrary to FDR’s story line and the accepted version of America’s History, responded to the stock market crash with a massive extension of government and its programs.  The Great Engineer, as he was known before his name became a household word for failed presidency, was a champion of government intervention, and though today his devotion to the tenets of laissez-faire are blamed for the depression when it was instead his federal interference that provided a deep recession for FDR to turn into the Great Depression.

Silent Cal Coolidge was America’s last limited President.  He limited himself and stayed with the confines of the Constitution.

Harding tried but died.

Wilson used the War he bragged of keeping us out of as the excuse to arrest and detain citizens, seize control of the economy, foster segregation and racism, and generally slap the cuffs of a greatly expanded central government on America’s wrists.

Taft was Teddy Roosevelt’s handpicked successor.  And although he continued the Progressive agenda of attacking business and expanding government he didn’t do enough.  So Roosevelt broke him and his presidency running against him splitting the Republican vote and opening the door for the Progressive Democrat Wilson.

Teddy was the grandfather of them all.  His trust busting interventionism was Progressivism personified.

Though this may be the litany of the current gang of statists who are poised to smother freedom, the struggle to keep constitutionally limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom alive has been one long series of attack defenses declines and rebirths.

The second President, John Adams, was a man who helped write the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.  He was a man who worked tirelessly for the ratification of the Constitution, and passed and signed the Alien and Sedition Acts under which he arrested people who criticized him, his administration or his policies.  From there it goes on and on.

Jefferson compromised his beliefs about the limited power of the central government and purchased Louisiana without Constitutional authority, a good deal but a bad precedent.   Monroe committed America to defending the entire Western Hemisphere. Polk sent American troops into territory internationally recognized as part of Mexico and then asked for a declaration of war when Mexican troops fired on those troops.  Lincoln suspended the right of habeas corpus whenever he needed to in order to maintain the Union though the Constitution does not grant that power to the Federal Government. The 10^th Amendment strictly prohibits the Federal Government from having any powers not expressly delegated to it, and at least one state, Virginia, in their ratification convention expressly considered the Union voluntary and reserved the right to secede.

From one battle to another America’s freedom fighters have stood before the Leviathan of Central Government and clung relentlessly to the promises first set forth in the founding document of the United States of America, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”  Considering that these uplifting and timeless words of human liberty were penned by a slaveholder and that it took four score and nine years for this stain to be removed from our nation we can see that our road away from serfdom has always been one of fits and starts.

Today we face the next great challenge.  Progressivism, America’s current variation on the age-old theme of government knows best is poised to break the bounds of limited government, regiment the people, and smother the economy.  After more than one hundred years of incremental growth in just three years the promises of hope and change have broken the bank and mortgaged the future.  One more term of this profligate spending and oppressive regulations and they will kill the golden goose.

The forces of freedom cannot afford to lose this next election to the purveyors of class warfare and division.  If we do this great experiment in limited government, personal liberty and economic liberty will have progressed from a new country on the margins of civilization to the greatest power the world has ever known, to just another socially engineered centrally planned economically shackled democracy voting itself benefits it can’t afford.

Our adversaries believe they have stacked the deck by taking control of both major political parties which operate as two wings on the same bird of prey.  They hope by nominating a Progressive in both parties there will be no way for the forces of freedom to prevail.

Our ranks are filled with those who have been in the trenches for a lifetime and are weary of the fight.  They have been joined by the recently awakened who know little of the history and less of the tactics.  Our opposition is comprised of the slickest, best funded, and most corrupt professional politicians, labor barons, and crony capitalists the world has ever seen with thousands of Occupy storm troopers thrown in for good measure.  The odds are against us.  The smart money is betting on the victory of the all-powerful government, lining up to get their deals and haul away the loot.

The odds have always been against us.  We fought the greatest empire in the world to gain our freedom.  We have persevered and prevailed against plot after plot to extinguish the light of liberty and in this battle too we must remember that the one we should never be forgotten told us long ago, “if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

Yes, the blood of more than 54,000,000 innocent lives cry out for justice, yes we as a people have legalized what should be unlawful and condoned what should be condemned.  Yes, we have fallen from the high road and are weakened by an entitlement mentality and an addiction to entertainment.  But we are the American people.  We are, “We the People” and if we will but turn and acknowledge the one who has given us everything we have a chance.

The time is now.  The place is here.  We are the people we have been waiting for.  We must rise to the occasion.  We must win this battle because if we don’t win we lose.

Keep the faith.  Keep the peace.  We shall overcome.

Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, and Religion for Southside Virginia Community College.  He is the author of the History of the Future @ http://drrobertowens.com © 2012 Robert R. Owens drrobertowens@hotmail.com  Follow Dr. Robert Owens on Facebook or Twitter @ Drrobertowens

Gee, it’s so surprising that we keep uncovering time-bombs buried inside a 2,200-page bill that no one read. …

With delightful surprises like this built into the Democrats’ destructive health care bill, it’s no wonder that Obama’s advisers are predicting the death of America’s health insurance companies. Which should do wonders for unemployment.

Read the whole thing. Keeping up with these rotten statists is a full time job and then some. I’m tired, and it doesn’t take a PhD to know this is totally insane.

Oh, and speaking of government-run health care, have you heard what they’re doing to cancer patients in Great Britain?Is it really wise to put your health and well being in the hands of bureaucrats?  Watch what you wish for, folks.

Update: Katy Pundit linked – thanks!

Via Doug Ross, this is the economic devastation President Obama has imposed on residents of Gulf states. Hope and change – this is it.

The Democrats constantly accuse Republicans of trying to kill Social Security, while it’s their cockamamie ideas that are defunding it. If only the Republicans had spines and stood up to them. Now the funding of Social Security is drying up faster than any of those high paid economists expected.

The outlook for Social Security’s trust fund has deteriorated to an astonishing degree over the past year, new Congressional Budget Office projections show.

The nonpartisan budget scorekeeper released the estimates Tuesday as part of broader economic and budget forecasts. CBO expects the trust fund to peak in 2018 and decline to $2.7 trillion in 2022 — a full $1 trillion less than Social Security’s own actuaries predicted last year.

The new trajectory suggests that the trust fund’s current depletion date of 2036 may jump ahead several years when Social Security’s trustees release their annual report this spring, making the retirement program more central to the 2012 election .

Read the whole thing, in the past year Social Security has taken a hit of $1 trillion in funding. There aren’t enough rich folks to pay for this. Is it too much to ask people to pay a portion of their own retirement?

The reader who sent this saw something like it at a KFC, and said these kids of signs are popping up all over where he lives. Have you seen any?

The last time the LC family went out for dinner, we paid for it with a gift card we received for Christmas. It’s so nice to know others are eating out on our dime while we work our fingers to the bone.

This week the House passed a bill banning welfare recipients from using benefits at liquor stores, strip clubs and casinos. Maybe they should have added restaurants and fast food joints. Why should the recipients of taxpayer funds enjoy luxuries the ones paying for it can’t afford?

Image credit: Sign Fails.

Was breast cancer research and fundraising giant Susan G. Komen hacked? It appeared that way when Wednesday night, when those who logged into the sight were greeted with an unorthodox message, likely a result of their changing policies involving Planned Parenthood.

For the few that accessed the site around 12:30AM on Thursday, they were redirected from the regular site (www.komen.org) to an artificial site made by the hackers (ww5.komen.org). The job was so inclusive that even in search engines, you were only able to find the hacked site.

Taking a cue from Komen’s regular messages to would-be walkers of “Help women…”, the hackers instead changed the wording to “Help us run over poor women on our way to the bank.”

With Susan G. Komen hacked, it stands to reason that many people may wonder why, seeing as how they’re a powerhouse in the fight against breast cancer. As many may know, Komen has recently announced their decision to pull funding from Planned Parenthood – a decision that has many former supporters shocked and outraged.

As Gateway Pundit pointed out, “91% of the pregnant women who visit Planned Parenthood have an abortion.”

I know quite a few women who have survived breast cancer thanks to the work of organizations like Susan G. Komen. Anyone who would try to shut them down over an issue like this is evil. It’s one thing to disagree and speak out, it’s quite another to resort to criminal activity to make a political point.

Also of note is that there is a chance abortion could lead to breast cancer. So this decision could literally be a lifesaver for many women.

As a side note: About eight years ago Mr. LC and I, and our older son, who was about 2 at the time, went to a Komen fundraiser at Gilly Lake near Syracuse, NY. It was a great day. They had so many fun things for the kids to do. There were a ton of raffles and I still have the awesome hair straightening iron I won. I clearly remember it was a day of celebrating life. I’ll have to remember to keep an eye out for any future fundraisers and lend my support.

Earlier: Have You Thanked Komen for Severing Ties With Planned Parenthood?

Update: Be sure to follow the link above to the Komen website and consider making a donation. The left will pull out all stops to bring them down, don’t let that happen. Conservatives are known to be quite generous, now is the time to put our money where our mouths are.