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A funny thing happened this Saturday, in the small town of Murphy, in the mountains of western North Carolina. Without marching orders or bags of money from the Republican Party, or Karl Rove, or Dick Cheney, or Rush Limbaugh, a bunch of ordinary folks got together, got a permit from the town, and held a rally to…GASP!...impeach Obama. Sort of a celebration of the Fourth of July and the First Amendment, rolled into one (Video 1 and Video 2).

This has become a hot political climate. We are seeing advances towards socialism and outright communism every day in our country. It leaves one feeling stunned and useless. In the evenings we put the kids to bed and turn on our televisions and what we see happening to our country each night on the news leaves us angry, frustrated and disheartened. The country that we love, that we have always felt such pride in has been taken over by a gang of thugs. They don’t play by the rules, they don’t live by the laws, they treat our precious Constitution...

Judicial confirmation hearings are supposed to be about the fitness of the nominee to serve. Last week, however, the Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee used the hearings over Elena Kagan's nomination to attack the "Roberts Court." This attempt took several forms, one of which was to call as a witness Lilly Ledbetter, the unsuccessful party in a 2007 Supreme Court case where the issue concerned calculating the time period for filing a charge of pay discrimination with the EEOC. The Ledbetter decision no longer states the law on the subject; Congress amended the statute in question. Nor, it...

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee tried to use the hearings over Elena Kagan's nomination to attack the "Roberts Court" as activist. However, Jonathan Adler, at the Volokh Conspiracy, argues that the Roberts Court remains, by and large, "minimalist," rather than activist. Adler writes: As a general rule, this remains a court that tends to rule narrowly, and this is largely because the Chief Justice, Justice Alito, and sometimes Justice Kennedy have a preference for narrower rulings and smaller steps. But narrow rulings are not always possible. Sometimes the legal questions cannot be neatly divided. In such cases I think...

Bush political advisor Karl Rove, whom leftists consider to be a Snidely Whiplash-like figure, is reportedly putting together a group on the right to be an answer to the George Soros-led Democracy Alliance. Politico reports on the developing group, referring to it as a massive fundraising, organizing and advertising machine based on the model assembled by Democrats early in the decade, and with the same ambitious goal — to recapture Congress and the White House. Also involved is former GOP chairman Ed Gillespie. “Where they have a chess piece on the board, we need a chess piece on the board,”...

Organizing for America (formerly known as Obama for America) is the new organized group that President Obama is using to push his agenda on America. This group is so well organized it makes you wonder if President Obama should have hired the people who run it to take care of the BP oil spill.This group has two functions:  First is to push and promote Obama’s political agendas and bills from DC by delivering talking points through various mediums (My Barack Obama [1], Fight The Smears [2], and twitter.com/barackobama [3]).  The second is to create a pool of volunteers for the...

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Ameriican citizens across the US attended events today in support of Governor Brewer and the citizens of Arizona and their new Immigration legislation. If you attended an event in support of Arizona or another patriotic event please share your "after action report" and photos here. God bless Governor Brewer for her actions and those of the legislators of Arizona to protect their citizens!

Even in liberal California Tea Partiers are waking folks up and urging the conservative vote. This group gathered spontaneously at the intersection of Rio Road and Highway 1 near Big Sur, urging motorists to vote against Sam Farr. They urged support of Arizona, drawing many honks of support. This freep stopped and filmed the event, telling those on scene about FreeRepublic.

The Mojave Cross has been torn down again!The day after Memorial Day the Mojave National Preserve has removed the cross erected the day prior. The seven foot cross made of PVC pipe was erected as a War Memorial on Monday, May 31, 2010 during a celebration of Memorial Day and the Mojave Cross. At noon today a call came from the site that the cross has been removed again! Most of the small wooden crosses inscribed with the name of a fallen American hero were wedged into crevices of the rock and are still there today.-snip-

On her Twitter this morning, M.I.A. attacked New York Times writer Lynn Hirschberg over a profile (set to appear in print this weekend but available online now) that addresses the artist's politics and upbringing in Sri Lanka. ""CALL ME IF YOU WANNA TALK TO ME ABOUT THE N Y T TRUTH ISSUE," she Tweeted, adding Hirschberg's phone number. "ill b taking calls all day b--ches." In the piece, Hirschberg implies that M.I.A. doesn't understand the complex political web of Sri Lanka and that violent videos like "Born Free," in which red-headed children are assassinated by military police, are "exploitative" and...

A small convoy of vehicles, in everything from old pick-up trucks to a stretch limo, with about thiry passengers total, left Victorville for the 130 mile trip to the site of the Mojave Cross, which vandals had torn down and stole a couple weeks ago, after the SCOTUS had ruled that it was not a religious symbol, but a war memorial, and that the box(!) civering it since the suit was filed several years ago. When a replacement was erected, it was immediately taken down by rangers of the Mojave Preserve, contending that since it was not the original cross,...

Hemet could become one of the first California cities to formally support Arizona's immigration law. The City Council on Tuesday unanimously agreed to direct city staff to craft a resolution backing the law. ******************

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Please Join California Voters to Protest President Obama and Barbara Boxer in San Francisco, CA Tues May 25th!!! On the sidewalk across the street from The Fairmont Hotel. 950 Mason Street San Francisco CA 94108 Start:May 25, 2010 - 3:00 PM End: May 25, 2010 - 6:00 PM Email here for more information!

Start:May 29, 2010 - 10:00 AM End: May 29, 2010 - 1:00 PM Wheatfield Park 30627 Menifee Rd. Menifee CA 92584

KNOWING THE TARGET AUDIENCE It is always easier to convince people to act upon something they already believe than to convince them to act on something they do not yet believe… Environmental concerns may not be important to the advocate’s audience, in which case the advocate must determine what is important to this audience and frame the message to tap into it. For example, an advocate may wish to frame the message around such issues as religion (stewardship), public health, people’s livelihoods, children, or cultural and historical preservation. The tip comes from a toolkit distributed by ISAR: Resources for Environmental...

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On May 1st, 2010, “May Day” the American Anti-Communist Alliance of Denver confronted an Anti-American hate group called the Revolutionary Anti-Imperialist Movement. Many may not be familiar with May Day. Ironically, on Tuesday, May 4th, 1886 a group of workers (and anarchists) joined together to agitate for socialist policy of a minimum wage. As police closed in to isolate the rowdy, sometimes violent, protest and while showing great restraint, an Anarchist hurled a bomb at the innocent police whose lives were cut short by political violence and terrorist extremism. Most countries around the world celebrate May Day asMexican Workers...

Lea Klibanoff, 34, was a student at the Ma’aleh Film School when she started filming “The Messiah Will Always Come.” Before deciding to focus on Ofran in her movie, Klibanoff, who is religiously observant, wanted to sketch a portrait of the new breed of activists who are religious or formerly religious and have become prominent in many leftist, human rights organizations. People such as the founders of Breaking the Silence, members of B’nei Avraham, several leaders of the struggle in Sheikh Jarrah, as well as people affiliated with Ta’ayush, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch and Ir Amim.