Morning Updates [emphasis on scandals, outrages -- vanity]

Law Enforcement Give Dire Warning: Obama's Exec Amnesty Will Unleash 'Tidal Wave' of Illegals...

-- UNPRECEDENTED: Obama Forces Insurance Industry to Withhold 2015 Prices Until After Election

BOMBSHELL MEMO: Jeanne Shaheen Conspired With White House Insider On IRS Targeting Scandal

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222944/posts

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/03/bombshell-memo-jeanne-shaheen-conspired-with-white-house-insider-on-irs-targeting-scandal/

The DC Caller | Patrick Howley

Democratic New Hampshire Sen. Jeanne Shaheen was principally involved in a plot with Lois Lerner and President Barack Obama’s political appointee at the IRS to lead a program of harassment against conservative nonprofit groups during the 2012 election, according to letters exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) did not want to publicly release 2012 correspondences exchanged between the IRS and Jeanne Shaheen at her personal Washington office: the agency delayed releasing the information to a major conservative super PAC multiple times, even threatening to see the super PAC in court, according to emails. (RELATED: Lois... [snip]

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Law Enforcement Give Dire Warning: Obama’s Exec Amnesty Will Unleash ‘Tidal Wave’ of Illegals...

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/03/Law-Enforcement-Defines-Election-As-Referendum-Obama-s-Amnesty-Means-Tidal-Wave-Of-Illegal-Immigration

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WH Strategist: Dems Running from President ‘Look Like Chickensh*t’...

http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/03/politics/obama-strategy-democrats-questioning-acosta/

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[WOW!] James OKeefe Offered a Bus Load of Ballots in North Carolina

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222736/posts

youtube | Project Veritas Action

“Of all of the undercover investigations I’ve conducted, this was by far the easiest. They were willing to pass out fraudulently obtained ballots like it was Halloween candy,” said James O’Keefe.

“With almost three-quarters-of-a-million inactive voters and no Voter ID law in place, we could have turned the election results for most major candidates in the state. What we uncovered in this video illustrates how easy it would be for a well-orchestrated campaign with no regard for the law to change the outcome of a major election. Voter laws across the country need to be changed immediately to prevent this sort of potential voter fraud.”

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NC poll workers offer ballots to impostor — TWENTY TIMES!

[O’keef!]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2818443/James-O-Keefe-s-video-shows-North-Carolina-poll-workers-offering-ballots.html

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— Flyer in AL warns of ‘klansman’ rule if GOP wins...

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/2/campaign-flyer-tells-blacks-alabama-vote-or-face-h/

[And if democrats lose, KKK Byrd [D] will rise from his grave with a fiery cross and punish you! Seriously though, an ad about all the democrat praise showered on Byrd in post-20th century would be devastating! It would expose what hypocrites they are and break the back of democrat enthusiasm. I recommended that waa...aay back but the GOP refuses to.]

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Here’s why Ebola is no longer in the news [ZeroHedge Report]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3222752/posts

ZeroHedge: Here’s why Ebola is no longer in the news Forbes’ David Kroll – an adjunct professor at Duke University Medical Center - notes: The Associated Press and other press outlets have agreed not to report on suspected cases of Ebola in the United States until a positive viral RNA test is completed. In other words, the mainstream media has agreed not to report on any suspected Ebola cases. I guess the Ebola czar has been a busy boy, after all ... you know, preventing panic and all that. [snip]

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UNPRECEDENTED: Obama Forces Insurance Industry to Withhold 2015 Prices Until After Election

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222914/posts

The Gateway Pundit ^ | 11/3/14 | Jim Hoft
For the first time in modern history, the Obama administration has forced insurance companies to withhold 2015 prices until after the election. So he can shield Democrats. In the past, new prices were announced 60 days before the first day of the year. Not this year. Warner Todd Huston reported: Barack Obama is again playing political games with our health insurance industry and has turned in another underhanded move against it by forcing insurance carriers, brokers and agents to withhold their 2015 prices until after the 2014 midterm elections are over ... [snip]

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Holder Ignores Rampant Voter Fraud [US Attorney General]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3222917/posts

One of the biggest voter frauds may be the idea promoted by Attorney General Eric Holder and others that there is no voter fraud, that laws requiring voters to have a photo identification are just attempts to suppress black voting. Reporter John Fund has written three books on voter fraud and a recent survey by Old Dominion University indicates that there are more than a million registered voters who are not citizens, and who therefore are not legally entitled to vote. The most devastating account of voter fraud may be in the book “Injustice” by J. Christian Adams. [snip]

... except for ...

Holder Sends Election Monitors to Polls...

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/222682-justice-to-send-monitors-to-18-states

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Obama likely to spring major decisions on public after midterms

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222912/posts

The Washington Times | Dave Boyer

Major moves postponed until lame-duck session over concern about potential backlash.(VIDEOS-AT-LINK)Regardless of the outcomes of Tuesday’s midterm elections, President Obama is preparing to spring several major decisions on the public that he has postponed because of his concern about political backlash. Although presidents often sign legislation in lame-duck sessions of Congress, it’s unusual for a president to hide his executive “to do” list from voters on so many important subjects, such as sanctions against Iran, immigration reform and nominating the next attorney general.

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Solution to Lame Duck Sessions:

I’ve been working with an informal ‘think tank’. We came up with ‘Lame Duck Reform’ as part of a comprehensive constitutional amendment plan. Today’s ‘lame duck’ concerns can help speed along interest in this concept. If you are interested, please let me know.

Here’s the basics: cut the ‘lame duck’ to one week and virtual ‘town halls’ during that transition, AND the lame duck congress [during that week] cannot pass any legislation without a 2/3 vote.

And, the concept of ‘virtual congressional sessions’ also helps speed the lame duck session. There’s no need to buy a new home away from constituents:

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GOP lawmaker seeks ‘virtual Congress’ with telecommuting plan [STOP WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL!]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3222118/posts

Jennifer Martinez:

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Congressman Pearce’s ‘virtual congress’ plan could be a key feature in this rapid congressional transition.

New candidates fresh off the campaign trail should have as little time as possible to be indoctrinated by the beltway. They would immediately pit themselves against unpopular policies.

During the one-week Lame Duck session, freshman congress-elect members need daily exposure to virtual ‘town halls’ that keep them in fresh contact with constituents. That helps strengthen their spines while they rest and ponder their future challange. The C-Span caller format isn’t a bad model to copy. Three or four hours a day of town halls might be about right. If their throats are sore, they can type responses, or just nod politely to callers and respond with a ‘thumbs-up’ or ‘thumbs-down’ to the caller’s point of view.

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— New Hampshire Boos Jeb Bush —

Conservatives Are Already Freaking Out About Jeb Bush’s Possible Run For President

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222929/posts

Yahoo Finance | Brett LoGiurato

During a prominent gathering of conservatives in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire, the largest spattering of boos among the crowd didn’t come at speakers’ frequent mentions of President Barack Obama. The loudest jeers came when a speaker would mention former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. “You know, I heard Jeb Bush the other day,” mogul Donald Trump said during his speech at the Freedom Summit, hosted by the conservative groups Citizens United and the Americans for Prosperity Foundation. He paused in his speech as the boos started. As chatter heats up about a Bush possibly running for president in... [snip]

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— Blackwater CEO Speaks Out —

Erik Prince reacts to conviction of 4 Blackwater contractors

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222601/posts

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But Enough About the Planet, Let’s Talk About Me...

[Vintage Steyn]

I’ve been off the Big Climate beat out promoting my new book this last fortnight, so when this came wafting into my in-box the other day I read it carefully three or four times just to be certain it wasn’t an ingenious parody: Climate Depression Is For Real. Just Ask A Scientist. By “climate depression”, they don’t mean a low-pressure system off Labrador. Rather, the massed ranks of climate scientists are depressed because nobody’s listening to them - well, nobody except President Obama, the Prince of Wales, the European Union, John Kerry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jessica Alba, etc. [snip]

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Twilight of the Froot Loops

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222599/posts

NRO | Kevin Williamson

Acknowledging the admittedly remote risk that I am giving a hostage to fate by writing these words, I note that the implosion of Wendy Davis’s ugly and vacuous gubernatorial campaign in Texas has been a satisfying spectacle. On Tuesday, it is all but inevitable that Greg Abbot’s campaign and Texas voters are going to beat Wendy Davis like a circus monkey, and it will be her second significant defeat in the campaign: She ran triumphantly unopposed in the New York Times primary, with Robert Draper all but kissing the hem of her garment ... [snip]

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— Police have New Challenge: Armor piercing crossbows —

Dog Shot Dead by SWAT Team During Alleged Dispute Over Neighborhood Dog Waste (Racine, WI)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3222907/posts

...Police Chief Art Howell said the owner threatened to kill the officers with an armor-piercing crossbow before setting his dog loose... [snip]

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Planned Parenthood faces questions following series of scandals

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3222904/posts

Live Action | Adam Peters

Planned Parenthood is America’s largest abortion provider, ending over 300 thousand lives every year. Most abortions are done early on and involve vacuum aspiration (i.e., sucking a human being down a tube), but that stops being practical around the end of the first trimester. By then, a fetus has to be pulled apart piece-by-piece with a set of forceps. While this is a gruesome image, it becomes even more troubling when you consider the findings of Dr. Kawaljeet Anand at the University of Tennessee. His research suggests that an unborn child is capable of suffering pain after just 20 weeks.... [snip]

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DUmmie FUnnies 11-03-14 (DUmmies in Denial: “What’s with all the GLOOM and DOOM threads?”)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3222737/posts

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Faith schools [in England] which ‘indoctrinate’ children against homosexuality face being closed down...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222897/posts

Schools found ‘indoctrinating pupils about gay people’ will face being closed down under new rules designed to promote ‘British values’, the Government confirmed today. The Department for Education insisted it was ‘nonsense’ to suggest teachers would have to give lessons on gay rights. But a spokesman insisted Ofsted, which has introduced the new rules the wake of the Islamist Trojan Horse plot to radicalise pupils in Birmingham, was right to ensure schools were not breeding grounds for homophobia... [snip]

[No longer a frog being slow-cooked, the Brits are getting fed up too.]

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Brandy Clark Enjoying Big Buzz Ahead of CMAs [Media Works OT to promote lesbian country singer]

ABC “News” | Kristin Hall

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222893/posts

....Brandy Clark, an openly gay artist who sings, among other things, about pot-smoking housewives, had almost given up on becoming an artist herself ... [snip]

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— IRS Agent Made a Complete Jackass of Himself —

Police: Man Arrested For Kicking Heinz Field Barriers, Trying To Bribe Officers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222901/posts

CBS Pittsburgh (KDKA)

A man was arrested after injuring a woman by kicking a steel barrier at Heinz Field Sunday evening. According to police, 29-year-old Stephen Sapp was intoxicated at the time of the incident. While at the hospital, Sapp allegedly tried to bribe officers to let him go. According to the criminal complaint, Sapp stated, “Listen, I know how this works. How much money will it take to make this go away and to let me go home today?” The officers informed Sapp that he could not attempt to bribe them, but Sapp continued. “Look, I am an IRS agent... [snip]

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Mitt Romney’s Pumped Up: If the Republicans Win the Senate, Amnesty Will Pass!

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222861/posts

[Newbie tip: We don’t call him ‘McRomney’ for nothing. He was our bottom-of-the-barrel choice in 2012. That’s why the primary was so rough.]

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UK SPY CHIEF: FACEBOOK IS HELPING TERRORISTS...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/11206398/Britains-spy-chief-says-US-tech-firms-aid-terrorism.html

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Terrorist Fail: Suicide Belt Detonates Prematurely

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3222932/posts

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FReedom! The Impeachment-Purge and State Empowerment Begins Here, Today

This idea is powerful and also easy.

The ENTIRE NATION seethes with impotent rage.

Are you sick of:

— Judges cramming ‘gay’ ‘marriage’ down our throats?

— The ‘supreme’ Court blessing of Obama-care?

— Remember Kelo?

— Gun-grabbing judges who oppose the death sentence due to ‘health risk’?

— Judges opposed to voter-ID?

— Judges who infringe religious freedom?

And we can do something about it!

This is one bold way — a constitutional amendment that names names, taints court opinions, kicks them to the curb, and establishes their legacy. No congressional rules will get in the way when the People realize that we can actually put them in their place.

So we can begin an online impeachment hearing — right here and right now.

I'll get the ‘ball rolling’ with clear examples of various outrages.

... And ...

Consider this — impeachment of the executive branch is a joke. Eric Holder, the CDC, etc? Impeachment is nowhere. It was the same during the Clinton administration too. Since the Federal government can't oversee itself, it is time to give the states a crack at impeachment.

... And ...

Why stop at impeachment? If repealing the 17th amendment fails to gain momentum, there are other ways to re-empower the states.

Without appointment power of the senate, states could have the power to taint bad court rulings, repeal executive orders, repeal bad legislation and even veto bad laws in in the future — there NEVER would have been an Obama-care law if that power was already in place.

[To be discussed later. But now back to the immediate purging.]

‘Common sense’ + ‘bold change’ = excitement.

That is the key to the Common Sense Counter-Revolution.

What Would Tainting Do?

More important than the tainting of a gavel-jockey is tainting the court opinion that would otherwise be looked upon as ‘valid thinking’ forever [aka ‘precedent’]. The opinions are tainted as well. That would be too long a list for the Constitution. So all the Constitution would need to note is an official ‘Tainted Court Opinions and Judges’ book that lists the tainted rulings as well as those tainted for those opinions. Several copies could be printed and sold at cost.

But as to tainting justices themselves, some are retired and many have passed away. But not even death should be an escape. We owe it to all who sacrificed so much for freedom — it is our duty to taint the legacy of those who bastardized everything righteous about our blessed nation.

The ‘taint’ is a permanent stain on the judge's history and [if the judge is still alive] it strips away the pension and perks that go with retirement.

At the very least a tainting should ban him or her from serving in any capacity as a gavel jockey anywhere — not even in a small claims court. Nor should the tainted person allowed to be a lobbyist. He or she should even be banned from setting foot in Washington DC [to prevent informal lobbying].

Nor should this tainted individual receive money from any college, university, or from any appendage of higher learning. Nor may he or she enter college or university property [if we have any say]. In all future text books, if this judge's name is ever mentioned it should be mandatory that the name be preceded with the words “tainted gavel-jockey”.

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What judges should be tainted?

Let's start with ‘Justices’ Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer and the Kelo Ruling.

[Justice Kennedy's constitutional interpretation is so unpredictable that not everyone personally cares either way if his name is added. By all means, feel free to suggest throwing him in the list too if you like.]

Sotomayor joined with ‘Justices’ Stevens, Breyer, and Ginsburg when they dissented against gun rights in McDonald v Chicago. The Bill of Rights clearly states: “shall not be infringed”. The Founders’ intention is indisputable [regarding gun rights].

Now for ‘Justice’ Elena Kagan and her first court opinion. It's unbelievable. Elena Kagan joined in dissenting against a lethal injection for a convicted murderer because it would be a ‘health risk’ for the murderer. Her dissent was in lockstep with the worst ‘justices’ of the supreme Court.

Kagan is overfond of foreign law while her disregard of the Constitution was clearly demonstrated in Harvard. She is opposed to the right to free speech, opposed to other constitutional rights, was fanatical about keeping partial birth abortion legal, and is even opposed to our right to amend the U.S. Constitution — not without supreme Court approval, which might be the most outrageous thing a supreme Court justice has said since Dred Scott. Talk about being a tyrant-in-robes.

So it is reasonable that Kagan too should be tainted and removed in disgrace. And any senator who voted for her confirmation ought to be ashamed of himself.

Roberts was part of the Obama-care ruling. That's just one example. The man is a loose cannon that crushes the Constitution left-and-right.

Recap:

So far that would taint ‘Justices’ Roberts, Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, Sotomayor, and Kagan.

But we're just getting started.

Just how popular would many federal ‘justices’ be when we bring up the following outrages?

What were their opinions regarding Voter ID? Arizona's ‘illegal immigration’ law? And where exactly did federal ‘justices’ find some magic definition of marriage that somehow has a greater claim to ‘natural law’ than the history of marriage throughout civilization? How many federal justices have stripped away free exercize of religion? You can bet there are a LOT!

[Just imagine the outrages we could find in the 9th ‘Circus’.]

‘Gay’ ‘Marriage’ & Transgender ‘rights’ Tainting

Any judge — federal or otherwise — who blocked gay marriage bans in states is a fanatic who should also be named in the tainting. First off, no ‘settled law’ of the US can possibly override the definition of marriage that is both ancient and recent at the same time with rock solid continuity. Secondly, a sodomous union violates free exercise of religion when a religious judge or pastor is required to preside over an arguably-infernal union. [And frankly, it's even tempting to ban attorneys who were overzealous in their support of ‘gay’ ‘marriage’ from ever being judges either.]

Most justices who support ‘gay marriage’ are progressive tyrants who want to drive a truck through the commerce clause and trample other rights as well because they don't believe in ‘originalism’. It's all part of the same ‘group-think’ that scorns our nation's foundation.

Then there are ‘transgender rights’. We're talking about compulsive ‘wardrobe confusion’, and it's being glorified as a civil right! Even women are happy to get out of women's’ clothes and wear something comfortable. A compulsion to wear improper and uncomfortable attire is not something that merits special rights.

Fanatical judges who try to legislate from the bench to enable wardrobe confusion should be tainted too. Or does America need to construct ‘transgender’ bathrooms in every public building? Isn't our economy being flushed down the toilet enough already? This is a perfect example of judicial tyranny, and over something as absurd as this.

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Temporarily ‘Undersized’ supreme Court

A depleted supreme Court could carry out its duties with only two justices if necessary. With two or three or four, a super-majority would be required to make a court decision. It is better to have an empty seat than one held by a tyrant or a fool. And there should be no race to ‘fill the empty benches’. Quite the opposite, we should deliberate each new nomination carefully and patiently, with much greater care, and with competitive nominations rather than with a single nomination. Competing nominees can be required to debate each other as part of the confirmation process.

And that's one thing we hope to suggest soon — a reform of how supreme Court justices, FBI Directors, and other public servants are nominated and confirmed.

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Other bold ideas:

1. At the very top of any completed amendment list should be an “Under God’ Amendment. [Details to be at the bottom of this post, which includes numerous things, such as elevating the privacy rights of all other religions one rung above the muslim faith, and also helps parents shield their children from what they might religiously consider to be reprobates.]

2. Competitive nominations for FBI, supreme court, ICE, etc. rather than a presidential monopoly. Nominees can debate each other.

3. A committee that can cut spending by 1% each year [targeted], freeze spending [targeted] and mandate debates [timer-based no-moderator web-conferencing], such as with congress critters and professors to allow penetration of their ivory towers. Deeper cuts could be suggested via mandatory debates. Also delays legislation during mandatory debates.

[Since congress is ‘do-nothing’ if it isn't coming up with new ‘central power’ ideas, the Committee can take the role of being ‘the heavy’ who says ‘no’ to new spending, who can trim spending, who can say ‘no’ to more central power, who can pressure congress to repeal central power, and can pressure Congress to cut spending more deeply, especially the waste.]

This new Committee can be vetted and monitored more carefully by the FBI since Congress already has a tradition of privacy when not in session.

4. State empowerment regarding education and law enforcement [including illegal immigration laws] that blocks ANY meddling by the federal judiciary. [The House can veto or repeal the legislation instead if it dares to.]

5. State legislators being empowered to grade the President on border safety. Too many low grades result in a state-run impeachment process.

6. A quicker lame-duck cycle, and a requirement that a lame duck congress doesn't pass anything without a 3/4 super majority vote. Only emergencies could be solved that way.

7. An option in which the House can unleash the FBI to blitz criminal hot zones [such as Detroit, which has problems that need a bold solution brought in from out-of-state], but strictly restricted constitutionally to no more than two counties in the US at any one time and only for a brief number of months.

8. Preventing the use of federal money to manipulate states, such as regarding healthcare, education, etc. And taking FEMA away from presidential control. [No more playing favorites.]

9. A gentle, 40 year phaseout of Social Security that doesn't leave anyone in a lurch. People can later save for retirement plans with *constitutional* protection from any taxation and with job-to-job mobility, and protection from corporate raiding and/or bankruptcy. [More stability — not laws that are later changed.] And without S.S., FICA, and employer matching, people should be free to purchase their own targeted insurance for any set of contingencies such as special needs children, disabilities, etc.

10. A 60 year loan plan to help our healthcare system get back on its feet.

11. A 60 year loan plan that helps states cut taxes but only if they sufficiently cut spending.

12. Busting ‘government union’ power — local, state, and federal — while preserving current union agreements with fire fighters and police who were hired before the amendment's ratification.

13. A tax cut incentive for counties that build new or repair inoperable oil refineries of sufficient capacity.

14. A mandatory debate regarding the cost effectiveness of bio-fuels.

15. Annual debates that students are required to watch during summer break, such as a debate between Israel and muslims, between Marxists and critics, between abortionists and critics, between global warming believers and critics, between evolutionists and critics, between progressives and anti-progressives regarding the economic history of the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, the Carter Years, the 2008 Meltdown, the intelligence failure of 9-11, the War on Terror, etc. [Each student must be recorded watching the debates, and the parents must sign confirmation under penalty of a stiff fine if being untruthful. Libraries and volunteers could assist low income households that lack the equipment.]

16. Supplemental education videos, selected through contests that students will be required to watch [or listen to if blind]. Movie producers could compete to claim the year's video for .... the 9-11 terror attack, the Revolutionary War, the history of the Star Spangled Banner, the Battle of New Orleans, John Paul Jones, the many acts of terrorism and tyranny against newspapers during the Sedition Acts ...

[... catching breath ...]

... basic economics [or we could just go ahead and specify Milton Friedman's entire original PBS TV Series, “Free to Choose” as required viewing], Pearl Harbor [or we could go ahead and choose footage by Jerry Bruckheimer and Michael Bay's ‘Pearl Harbor’], D-Day [or we could just specify some footage from Saving Private Ryan], etc.

People whose financial rights are requisitioned [for free education] could be financially compensated, and other efforts should be considered to honor them for their contribution to such important work.

[While in theory a federal supplemental education regimen imposes on the ideal of freedom, a pool of profound common understanding is necessary for a free nation to unite as patriots.]

[Violent footage could be for high school seniors, and even then parents could sign waivers if they are too sensitive to watch. Or, we could require all normal students to tough it out — could be up to each state's discretion. After all, classrooms have been known to dissect frogs and learn other disturbing things. The video-verification-signing plan noted in ‘15’ could apply to here as well.]

17. Required studies for college students. Mark Levin's ‘Men in Black’ should be required reading for all students seeking law degrees along with Hillsdale College's online constitutional studies courses. Ann Coulter’s “Treason” should be required for all students seeking political science and government degrees.

Other suggestions: Coulter’s “Slander’ and Malkin’s ‘Unhinged’ should be required for all students seeking journalism and sociology degrees. ‘Unhinged’ and ‘Unprotected’ [by ‘anonymous’] should also be required for all students taking psychology courses. Perhaps Coulter’s ‘Godless’ might be required reading for students taking science courses. Economy students should be tested somewhat vigorously to ensure familiarity with Milton Friedman's “Free to Choose” series.

18. It is time to end disruption in all public schools. And it is also time to bring sunshine to the learning experience. Why now? Because the technology is now affordable. Students in all places of professional education should have the right to record and broadcast classroom activities not only for review, but also to display classroom disruption by students as well as the behavior of teachers and professors. Public school teachers should be required to record classroom activities in order to protect themselves from slander as well as to aid investigations of classroom disruptions by students. State legislation should be the policy that dictates how disruptive students are handled in public schools.

19. As part of supplemental education, I would [personally] suggest eight separate video sessions, each a minimum of 40 minutes long, that examine different aspects of Thomas Sowell’s important book ‘Intellectuals and Society’ each followed immediately by a 40 minute [or longer] debate. I can't think of a better way to teach ‘critical thinking’ than to display how wrong intellectuals have historically been and how they historically disregard people with specialized knowledge. This might be for first-year college students, or it might be for 9th graders or both.

[But this emphasis on Sowell’s book is just Arthur W. March. Just me speaking, and I realize that might appear to be ‘overdoing it’ for a single book.]

But while I'm at it, I'd be tempted to add the entire movie, ‘The Patriot’, as required for highschool seniors as well. While fiction, and although its star is far from perfect, it is the most compelling movie I know of to show what was necessary to trigger the worldwide revolution of freedom. Without such sacrifice at every level imaginable, it is impossible to know how much the Declaration of Independence would mean today.

[All to be suggested in more detail later.]

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[Frenzy-time over. Now for ‘settling down’ to specifics about state empowerment, impeachment, and tainting.]

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There are three ways we can go with tainting / impeachment:

1. A mega-purge, knock out all the fanatics at once by listing actual names.

2. A permanent reform of judicial impeachment/tainting/removal.

3. Another solution would be to repeal of the 17th Amendment [direct elections for the senate]. That's Mark Levin's suggestion. There's much to be said for it, but many of us are skeptical that voters would like such an idea.

[Or any combination of 1, 2, and 3.]

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The Future of Judicial Tainting

So yes, we can taint a long list of court rulings, toss a bunch of black robed tyrants from the bench, expose their true legacy by listing them as officially ‘tainted’ [even if they are retired or deceased], and for those still in the judiciary we can give them the boot. We can also take away their pensions. Great. But then what?

We need a new, permanent procedure to taint bad opinions and remove troublemakers. But why not kill several birds with one stone? States’ rights can be defended at the same time with ‘anti-power’ authority.

States can agree on a single person to be their [term-limited] representative with the title of ‘C.hief S.tate E.xecutive’. There is no formal ‘election’ for the CSE. It is an informal process in which the majority of states must be in agreement with empowering a single individual.

The CSE is an ‘anti-power’ executive, able to veto new legislation, recommend that old legislation be repealed, mandate fair debates that judges, professors, or politicians must engage in [’fair’ as in no moderator, but a timer that allocates time fairly — also the debates are public and via web conferencing], temporarily taint any federal court rulings, and plan impeachment hearings of federal officials of the executive branch.

No court opinion is tainted permanently without simple majority approval in the US House of Representatives [via petitions rather than a vote to bypass the Speaker if necessary] or a simple majority of the states [via the majority of legislators]. The CSE has 100 days to obtain that approval or else the temporary taint is expunged.

[Note that with mandatory debate authority, the CSE can rake people over the coals if there's an outrage to spark public ire, and 100 days is a long time to rake those coals.]

A judge is tainted when three [or more] of his or her court opinions are tainted permanently by the House or majority of states, but retroactive taints [prior to this amendment's ratification] are not counted against the judge.

[For purposes of this amendment, official concurrence with another judge's opinion is the same as having that opinion oneself.]

[We should purge the worst judges before there's any CSE and forgive the rest with a ‘clean slate’ since many of them felt they had little choice but to conform because of the culture and indoctrination of ‘court precedent’.]

Impeachment Hearings by the CSE.

The CSE may call for impeachment hearings of federal officials of the Executive Branch. No federal official is removed unless the impeachment trial or hearing results in 3/4 super-majority of states in agreement with impeachment.

The CSE chooses a chair person who presides while the Senate and House appoint three members each to act as both prosecutors and/or defendants [whichever the individual prefers]. This hearing is via live, public videoconferencing unless the CSE and US President agree on Executive Privilege for certain witness testimonies. But the CSE may declassify any portions of secret testimony.

Participating senators and House members may subpoena up to three witnesses each and possibly more if the CSE approves, and each is allotted a minimum of two 20 minute ‘question-answer’ periods with each witness.

It is the states which decide the outcomes for themselves whether the accused should be impeached [via majority vote of each state's legislators]. Regardless of any conclusions stated in the hearing, states which are interested in the hearing have two decisions to make — should the official be impeached for suspicion? And should the individual be removed for poor job performance?

[Time to get away from ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ debates.]

If a simple majority of states agree with impeachment due to suspicion, then the official is censured and the FBI may choose to monitor the censured individual without warrants at any time for the rest of his or her life and forward any potentially impeachable information to the CSE who may later opt for a new impeachment hearing even after the official no longer serves the federal government.

The FBI must make a reasonable effort, however, to make such surveillance discreet and non-disruptive so that the censured individual can at least pretend to have a normal life. Failure to do so is potentially impeachable, as is leaking even part of this surveillance without written and signed CSE approval.

If a 3/4 super-majority of states agree with impeachment, then the official is removed, censured, and tainted. Someone may be removed by this super-majority of states post-service.

[Remember President Bill Clinton's last minute pardons? Post-service impeachment would have been helpful to hold the President accountable even during his final hours.]

[Good examples of how impeachment has recently failed to function — ‘Fast and Furious’, fraud in ‘Green Jobs’ stimulus, the Gorelick Wall, Benghazi, the Black Panther Voter Intimidation Cover-up, lack of ACORN investigation, lack of voter fraud investigation, and last but not least: IRS targeting the Tea Party — zero, zip, goose-egg. All should have triggered the impeachment process with either ‘suspicion’ or ‘poor job performance’ as conclusions. Most of these are also good examples of why the Attorney General should be competitively nominated.]

Once a year the censured person is given copies of his or her surveillance two years after being monitored and is free to declassify and publicize them although if any part of it is lewd the CSE may require that the public copy's version first be tightly censored in those sections.

A CSE may also later opt to end the FBI’s warrantless surveillance authority [regarding someone censured] unless that person is censured again on a later date. If two consecutive CSEs agree that the records of that individual’s surveillance be erased, then it is.

[Besides, the Senate has done a terrible job with impeachment anyway. And 3/4 is a very high bar — high enough to amend the Constitution. No US President, for example, has ever been removed by an impeachment trial, and that requires a 2/3 super-majority in the Senate. So perhaps 3/4 is too high? That's the question.]

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What about the Congressional Impeachment Process?

At the same time, the removal process of federal judges by the US Congress should officially be restricted to personal misconduct. Congress always had the power to impeach and remove federal judges, but they traditionally chose not to ‘politicize’ court decisions. A judge could only be impeached/removed for ‘personal misconduct’, petty things like spitting or swearing in public.

But something like Obama-care and Kelo [infinitely more harmful to our nation both constitutionally and as a practical matter] were not subject to impeachment according to some ‘rock solid’ artificial tradition that Congress could easily have suspended. The will to do it was never there because ‘more central power’ is like a drug when there's no longer any counter-weight.

However, we must assume that the Ruling Class would shed that ‘personal misconduct’ self-limitation in a heartbeat if it serves its agenda. Perhaps they would remain honorable, but since history tells us otherwise, why leave a power on the books when it was never used before and is no longer needed?

The states can handle judicial oversight on their own if necessary. As for members of the executive branch, there might as well be two different ways they can be impeached and removed since both ways require super-majorities to either ‘convict’ or to remove for ‘bad job performance’.

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Why a ‘simple majority’ for tainting court opinions?

‘Tainting’ a court opinion [whether its a decision or a dissent] should be much easier than being punitive toward a justice. The word ‘taint’ is useful because it's not as though the opinion ever really vanishes. Yes, the court decision is stripped of any legal power. But then legal scholars can still study and judge the words’ logic for themselves.

A tainted opinion could even be mentioned in a trial although it no longer has the weight of ‘precedent’. And perhaps an opinion is tainted one year and somewhere down the road another court risks that same opinion again. And perhaps it is never tainted the second time around. Thus deliberation need never be at a standstill. If someone’s logic is compelling enough, it endures.

[Even if later revised, this can be our official ‘original intent’ to help keep the meaning of the Constitution clear.]

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Replacing the CSE

First off, the CSE is term limited to four years [perhaps] and can never serve a second time, not as CSE anyway. But during that time, the states might agree to replace the CSE with someone else. The states, would, however, need to agree on a single person. Or the states can choose the future replacement to step in the moment the current CSE’s service ends. That would be the Deputy CSE who can assist and learn from the Chief. [So the deputy might have over seven years of experience by his or her last year.]

But there is a chance that the states remain divided. It's possible that three or more nominees prevent any one from having majority support. In that case, the states punish each other through disunion until there is unity later on. But better that than to have some skilled, slick operator who knows how to use ‘third party’ ticket splitters. The politics of ‘divide and conquer’ have been nothing but harmful to our nation. So no minority of states should be able to place someone with such power — only the majority.

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Empathizing with our Best Legal Minds

Today's only ‘legal creativity’ is tyranny by activist-judges. It is so deeply ingrained that the heroic side of our legal culture has been conditioned to despise ‘creative’ law. This means that they will be deeply uncomfortable with rapid change. That is also why they cling so desperately to ‘court precedent’. So do not be surprised if they are resistant.

Law reform is exciting to most people, but it's terrifying to most of our best legal minds. We must remember that conforming to precedent is how they were educated. [Education reform is something else we will work on.]

They devoted their lives to this career and often hate the outcomes of bad precedent, convinced that they had no real choice. Their world was forged by leftists and they have trouble imagining it any other way. We should be patient with them.

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Tainting Older Opinions

Here are some older court opinions that certainly merit tainting:

Wickard v. Filburn [ ... which “cannot pass the ‘giggle test’”].

Dred Scott.

NLRB v Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation.

[We thank Mark Levin for writing ‘Men in Black’ which helped us immensely.]

We do not recommend tainting Roe-v-Wade because [sadly] it is not wildly unpopular at the moment [the way Kelo and other court opinions currently are]. However, those who believe that Roe-v-Wade is unconstitutional should take heart because original intent will be given a tremendous boost by this and other amendments as judicial activists are placed on the defensive. [More good news — it will be even more difficult for the Left to find any wildly unpopular rulings by originalist judges.]

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Other Problems Easily Solved — Commerce Clause and General Welfare ‘Clause’

The Commerce Clause, ‘regulation of interstate trade’, has been the ‘mega-super freeway’ that empowered the federal government to reach far beyond original intent. We recommend that it could be solved through a simple clarification — “No future federal laws may regulate interstate trade other than to reduce federal or state power, but never to increase any government power.”

The Founders’ purpose was never to actually ‘regulate’ interstate commerce other than to build roads, dams, canals, harbors, and so forth. Other than infrastructure, our Founding Fathers’ goal was primarily to DE-regulate interstate trade. Before the Constitution was ratified, every state had its own import/export tariffs along with trade bans. It was very harmful to our overall economy, making trade overly-complex and heavily taxed. So this was, in fact, a ‘legal loophole’ that the Ruling Class has been driving trucks through.

If you make that into an amendment, then you head off countless future tyrannies and put a choke hold on the older ones.

“Good and Plenty Clause” — It's apparently necessary to specify in an amendment that ... “No federal powers are enumerated in the Constitution's preamble which is nothing more than an abbreviated summary.” [The ‘preamble’ is where the illustrious Conyers ‘good and plenty clause’ is found.]

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Returning to Strict Interpretation:

One problem we have today is that ‘original intent’ fails to keep constitutional interpretation together. The Constitution has ‘breathed’ itself to nothingness. Look at all that fails to be constitutional now:

National parks. Dustbowl prevention. Social Security. Banning machine guns. Keeping felons disarmed. [The list goes on.]

Rather than periodically amending the Constitution, federal leaders took the easy way out and simply ignored strict interpretation unless it was trickery to centralize power. For example, the 17th amendment ended senate opposition to central power as a voice of the states. Now the senate represents central power AND confirms judges who also in turn represent central power thanks to that amendment. It was a double-coup. With the judges and senate now representing central power, they widened the ‘commerce clause’ and ‘kaboom!’ Now it appears [based on central-centric interpretation] we can even nationalize healthcare and later a person's diet and exercise program.

Another centralized amendment — the never-popular income tax.

So we need to clear up this entire mess before our nation can return to strict interpretation, and we plan to make such suggestions soon.

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The Single-Subject Rule for Constitutional Amendments

A ‘single subject’ restriction is one of the artificial limitations set by congress, and it is not etched in constitutional stone. It does serve a good purpose because if congress were flooded with amendment ideas and formed the wrong kind of convention [note Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments], then we could suddenly be flooded with 500 amendments, most of which were sponsored by George Soros!

It would be best if suspension of the ‘single subject’ rule is tightly and temporarily focused on popular ideas that are proposed with exact word duplication by a 3/4 super-majority of state legislatures.

There is also a ‘time limit’ rule in congress that can also be suspended temporarily with surgical focus once 3/4 of states are of a single mind.

And if congress were to change the wording in any way, it would be obvious. And we would see frenzied recall votes from sea to shining sea [perhaps something even worse].
It's true that the most brilliant solutions often require few words. But no one has come up with a ‘single subject’ solution that could effectively dismantle centralized government, restore the Constitution, and be supported by a super-majority at the same time. Remember, Social Security, national parks, dust bowl prevention, banning machine guns, banning felons from being armed — none of that is constitutional. It's not even clear to many if the income tax was properly ratified. Many conservatives might not mind a ‘cold turkey set-the-clock-back’ plan, but you'll never get 3/4 of the state legislatures to back you up.

Let's imagine this hypothetical — an amendment for the President to make a certain speech at a certain place every year. The President must ...

1. Be there on a certain day each year. [One or arguably two subjects.]

2. Have flexibility for contingencies. [Another subject, and perhaps several.]

3. Make a prayer under certain guidelines. [Another subject and perhaps several.]

That's three subjects minimum. So a simple amendment just to have the President make a single speech would require a constitutional convention!

Even walking could arguably be a ‘multiple subject’ word. The thigh muscle causes the left leg to rise while the left knee bends, causing the left foot to move forward. Well that's the first step. Then the right foot moves through the same complex process. But there are still more subjects. The body travels from one point to another point to another point.

So one could argue that simply walking is a cluster of countless ‘subjects’. So for the Chief Justice to stride ceremonially to the well of the Senate could also require a Constitutional Convention.

That's how the Ruling Class could opt to perceive any amendment while other amendments could be viewed as a ‘single subject’. I for one am suspicious of cute word games that might belittle good ideas artificially. So a web is woven that can only be understood by those educated [and indoctrinated] by the elite.

And then the flip-side: ideas that centralize power can be referred to as ‘single subject’.

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Political Will to Amend the Constitution

State governments will be glad to de-centralize power and have stronger influence.

But a Constitutional Amendment also requires overwhelming congressional support. So why would congress ‘go along’ with this? For one thing, it takes the heat off of them. [More on that later.] Also, it might require ‘finessing’ congress. Cold turkey term-limits for example. Many congress members right now might not mind other amendments, but they don't want to be kicked out of their careers. So we could offer them a ‘grandfather’ clause if necessary — only the future elected members of congress might be term limited.

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Taking the Heat off Congress

Many congress members secretly root for common sense, but they don't want to be the heavies when so many others refuse to be [and scorned as ‘heartless and stingy’]. Nor do they want to be the ‘heavies’ regarding a strict immigration policy [which is scorned as ‘racist’].

But you know that in their hearts most congress members are just as angry as we are about President O’s ‘ebola VISAs’. But congress is dysfunctional.

But look at how the governors have been acting during the ebola crisis. Many have been fearless. And consider how states like Arizona have tried to do something about immigration. Also, never forget the state-level response to Obama-care.

So when Capitol Hill is unable to function it would be great if states could step up and say no to centralized power, to foolish ebola policy, to foolish immigration policy, to executive branch misconduct, and to dangerous legislation like Obma-care. Some congress members would appreciate it, and as for those who don't, let's corner them with these ideas and force them to expose their inner hearts so we can replace them not only during future elections but also during future primaries.

The best way to advance the debate is to make a few words mean more.

Unless someone else has dibs, perhaps we could call this the ‘Common Sense Counterrevolution’ that promotes ‘Common Sense Amendments’, a single phrase that is PACKED with meaning. The Common Sense Counterrevolution would support Mark Levin's Liberty Amendments, but only as part of the solution.

Our strategy is simple. Common sense + Bold ideas = Excitement.

With excitement on your side, resistance fades.

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An “Under God Amendment”

[Which should be the first official Common Sense Amendment].

— At the very top of the Amendment would be a [generic] confession to God and a prayer to the Almighty [also generic] beseeching Him to bless our nation once again.

— Lawsuit reform that protects Christian and patriotic traditions.

— Officially elevating all other religions as one rung higher than the muslim faith and people from muslim terror zones regarding privacy rights, airline checks, and construction permits [to prevent or demolish muslim terror victory mosques and other such rally points for muslim terrorist supporters].

— Require the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule near the main door of every class room and government building. They could also be posted most anywhere else that any government chooses [but for reverence, not for mockery].

— State empowerment [but requiring House approval] regarding the Pledge of Allegiance, holiday decorum laws for Veterans Day, the Thanksgiving Season, the Christmas Season, Saint Patrick's Day, the Easter Season, and the Fourth of July. [There will be limitations so that people on private property who do not ruin the national celebration for others are otherwise as free as ever.] Jewish holy days may also be part of this plan as well.

— Relaxing restrictions of religious references and expression.

— State empowerment to ban any teacher or professor for any reason within that state's borders, but not allowed to ban homeschooling teachers or tutors. [Resolves numerous morality controversies, and a professor or teacher might find employment in another state.]

— Allowing each state and each non-muslim religious denomination to offer an optional online history education regimen so that parents are free to choose, but there will only be one muslim history education regimen that must be made public online and approved or censored by the House.

— Other than the annual mandatory debate [noted above] a ban on ‘evolution studies’ and ‘evolution questions’ except for specific degrees in higher learning which would likely make evolution or genetics an important part of one’s future career. [Otherwise it's really a waste of time and sows discord.]

— Relaxing ‘civil rights’ protection of people who choose unorthodox lifestyles so that parents can be more confident in organizations like the Boy Scouts.

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