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If Barack Obama, the black man, and Democrats, many of whom are black, are so opposed to and horrified by the notion of slavery in our country and are determined to move the country beyond it, why then did they just vote to become the most grotesque slave owners in history? Other despots in our history merely hated America and the Liberty she stood for and wanted to destroy the United States. Barack Obama and his fellow slave owners hate America and the Liberty she stands for yet do not want to destroy us; they want to compel us to...

WE DID IT!BILL C-391 PASSES SECOND READING BY 27 VOTES.As you know, the CSSA/CILA has been heavily involved in both Bill C-301 (Garry Breitkreuz) and its replacement, Bill C-391 (Candice Hoeppner). We are very pleased to announce that we have a major victory under our belts as C-391 has just passed second reading in the House of Commons. This was possible due to the hard work of a lot of people and arm twisting of opposition MPs. The CSSA/CILA played no small part in this victory and took on the antis face-to-face. The opposition was showing their desperation by releasing...

A New Jersy appeals court has concludedthat Americans have no Second Amendment right to buy a handgun

This column is in answer to the linked NAACP objection to my column(s.) Below are the column in question and the letter. Please read both before perusing my response. http://www.daveweinbaum.com/column100109.html http://www.therolladailynews.com/opinions/letters_to_the_editor/x1340500084/NAACP-takes-issue-with-Weinbaum-online-column First I want to thank the NAACP for providing me with column fodder as this can be problematic on a weekly basis.

On September 24, former state Representative Beverly Masek was sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to commit bribery at the federal courthouse in Anchorage. Masek admitted to accepting about $4,000 in bribes from Bill Allen, the former CEO of Veco. She also admitted to introducing legislation that would raise oil taxes, then pulling her bill after wringing a cash payment out of Allen—a bit of arm-twisting on a man who was famous for dumping cash into Alaska politics long before an FBI undercover investigation began to uncover Juneau’s Corrupt Bastards Club. U.S. District Judge Ralph Beistline gave Masek, a Republican...

I was tweeted a news story this weekend and read with absolute astonishment about a petition started by Ohio Representative Dennis Kucinich that aims to declare healthcare a civil right. Such a foolish endeavor reveals a profound misunderstanding as to our founding documents and the nature of our human rights. The Honorable Mr. Kucinich is not alone in this, nor is it something confined to the progressive left. He can get away with this because we have forgotten our history and don’t look to the Founding Fathers to understand why things are the way they are. People of all political...

Dont forget to vote on november 3rd. please view this link for who the gun rights candidates are in your district. http://www.nrapvf.org/ELECTIONS/State.a ... 9&State=NJ If you do not know the district you are in, please click the following link: http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/districts/ ... lities.asp

As noted in “British gun control: Coming soon to a country near you? ” seven countries, led by the United Kingdom, are attempting to revive U.N. efforts to restrict imports and exports of small arms. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the United States would reverse Bush administration opposition to international small arms control, potentially paving the way for the British-led effort, which calls for a vote by the U.N. General Assembly by year’s end. The U.S. would support the “Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty” as long as it was conducted under rules of “consensus decision-making,” interpreted...

A very good friend of mine has lately taken me to task for my opposition to a single payer, universal medical coverage. She argues that she is one of those the president speaks of when describing Americans that do not have “affordable” health insurance. She has a pre-existing condition and coverage is expensive. When I point out that while the cost of her coverage may be high it is certainly affordable (in that she is managing to pay for it) she rejects the argument on the basis that the high cost eats into other equally important expenses. When pressed to...

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal judge has ruled that Virginia violated the voting rights of military service members and other Americans overseas when officials failed to mail more than 2,100 absentee ballots in time for last year's presidential election. U.S. District Judge Richard Williams also ordered Friday that the Virginia Board of Elections count and certify the absentee ballots. The ballots from military service members and others living outside the state were the focus of a lawsuit filed by Republican candidate John McCain's campaign, which alleged that they weren't mailed in time for overseas voters to return them before the...

Personal Note: Again I present an article for its historical significance instead of the short (and valuable) quips from our founding fathers. As our liberty is being jeopardized by our growing government, I believe that knowing our history is becoming more important. Written before the Declaration of Independence and penned by James Mason (IV), this was one of our nation’s original founding documents. George Mason attended the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. Following the convention Mason became an anti-federalist. When he returned to Virginia he recommended that his State NOT ratify the new Constitution, complaining that it lacked a...

In his book, Sunstein laid out what he wants to become the new bill of rights, which he calls the Second Bill of Rights. Among his mandates: 1) The right to a useful and remunerative job in the industries or shops or farms or mines of the nation; 2) The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; 3) The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living; 4) The right of every businessman, large and small, to trade in an...

By Andrew W. Griffin Red Dirt Report, editor Posted: October 7, 2009 reddirtreporter@gmail.com OKLAHOMA CITY – Back in July, we here at Red Dirt Report noted how the radical animal-rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had blood on their hands no thanks to their decision to kill 95 percent of the dogs and cats put in their care in 2008. PETA found homes for less than one out of every 300 animals at their so-called “shelters.” PETA loves animals, right? It’s not looking that way. Just check out the informative website Petakillsanimals.com for more information. And...

BAGHDAD, Oct. 6, 2009 – Iraqi Defense Minister Mohammed Abdul-Qader Jassim hosted a conference here yesterday to highlight Iraq’s commitment to human rights. Senior Iraqi army officials, civilians, government employees, political leaders and women from Iraq’s Ministry of Human Rights were on hand for Iraq’s second human rights conference, as well as select members of the Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq, which is responsible for training and advising the defense ministry on human rights issues. “After criminals are captured in Iraq, we must protect their dignity and provide them with clothes, food, medical care and other needs,” the defense minister...

No wonder President Obama came away from Copenhagen empty-handed. Let's face it: the president doesn't have lots of experience in saying good things about the United States. The POTUS explained that he wanted the Olympics in Chicago because America needed to repair its image after what was going on during the past few years. In other words America sucks because of George Bush. This transcript of a meeting before the Denmark disaster was released by the White House, after Chicago was eliminated. One of the legacies I want to see coming out of Chicago 2016 hosting of the Games is...

SPECIAL ALERT As you may already know, the campaign to restore your 2nd Amendment rights took a big step forward yesterday when the U.S. Supreme Court decided to hear McDonald v. Chicago – the Illinois State Rifle Association's lawsuit to overturn Chicago's handgun ban. The road ahead for McDonald v. Chicago will be long and tedious. Here are what we believe will be important milestones: 1. By late November 2009, briefs from our side must be submitted to the court. 2. Chicago will be given time to offer its reply and we will be given the opportunity to rebut Chicago's...

Prior to people compacting or agreeing to live in a society under a rule of law to which they consent, they live in liberty, which refers to "a state of exemption from the control of others.” This liberty is abridged by the establishment of government. Civil liberty is the liberty of men in a state of society, or natural liberty, so far only abridged and restrained, as is necessary and expedient for the safety and interest of the society, state or nation. A restraint of natural liberty, not necessary or expedient for the public, is tyranny or oppression...

After World War II, the U.S. government invested an enormous amount of money in medicine; medical research, medical procedures and medical technologies. This investment made contemporary scientific medicine into American medicine, characterized by a continuing flow of new treatment possibilities. These advances raised all kinds of ethical questions. Some were personal and individual, others were social and political. Both type questions are addressed by a new academic discipline called bioethics. The first attempt to develop a scientific medicine took place in Greece in the 5th century B.C. It was called Hippocratic medicine. Closely linked with this first scientific medicine was...

That woman just brought me to tears, and that's not easy.

Fairfax, Va. -- The National Rifle Association applauds the Supreme Court's decision, announced today, to hear the landmark Second Amendment case of McDonald v. Chicago. The case will address the application of the Second Amendment to the states through either the Due Process clause or the Privileges or Immunities clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The case has major implications for the legality of restrictive gun laws not only in Chicago, but also in other cities across the United States. The decision to hear the case, which will be argued later this year or early next year, gives Second Amendment advocates...

Every FReeper needs to listen to this. A mom. Passionate. One of the best callers to Rush. Maybe ever.

President Barack Obama used a dinner-time address to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to make an impassioned plea for health care reform, placing it in the tradition of the civil rights struggle. Obama, who last year addressed the group as one of its members, was hailed as "our great president" by caucus chair Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.). The crowd was jubilant as Obama came to the stage with first lady Michelle Obama, who Rep. Kendrick Meek introduced, saying she had "brought a new flavor to this country.

Wanted to once in awhile post a HERO bill as opposed to all the ZERO bills I have. I immediately thought of Charleton Heston. He was an admirable conservative man. For many, many reasons. With that, he gets the first HERO dollar bill. The ZERO bills, of course, are worth ZERO, they are worthless. In contrast, the HERO bill is, appropriately, priceless. Here's the front first, then the back: For the whole series of Zero dollar bills, go here: "Flickr Archive of Zero Bills"

To Americans Who Say Healthcare is a Right     As a citizen of the United States of America, you have a constitution that is set up to protect or preserve for you certain "rights". These include the right to live (life), to live free (liberty), to pursue happiness as you see fit, including amassing and managing or disposing of property, to speak and publish, to decide what you believe about religion and whether and how you will worship, to meet, gather, and associate as you will, to choose your friends and business partners, to defend your life and freedom and...

PersonhoodUSASacramento, CA – Wednesday, September 23, 2009 – California Civil Rights Foundation submits language to Attorney General for historic Human Rights Amendment.   The California Civil Rights Foundation, founded by Walter Hoye, is set to begin its campaign to recognize the rights of every human in the State of California.  The new campaign which will be known as the California Human Rights Campaign, will affirm the rights of all humans in the State.  WHAT: A press conference announcing the submission of the California Human Rights Amendment, a proposed 2010 California ballot initiative, to the Attorney General.   WHEN: Monday, September...

I just recieved an email about a petition drive in the Notre Dame pro life activist arrest. The peolpe at TFP are asking that all who can, sign their pettion to Father Jenkins (President of Notre Dame) asking him to drop the charges on the peaceful activists. They made a peaceful march on Notre Dame protesting President Obama's speech there. This not only goes against the priciple of life and aid for the unborn that the Catholic Church holds as a main teaching. But it also borders on violation of the First Ammendment's protect of free speech and free gathering.

UNIONS say prison officers are entitled to make offensive comments about their boss outside of work hours and should not be penalised for doing so. Six prison officers have been threatened with the sack for posting derogatory comments about New South Wales Corrective Services Commissioner Ron Woodham on a Facebook page titled "Suggestions to help Big Ron save a few clams", the Public Service Association (PSA) confirmed. The page was set up in October last year when prison officers decided to vent their anger over Government plans to privatise two of the state's prisons - one at Parklea and another...

Posted by constitutionallyspeaking on September 17, 2009 Today is Constitution Day. It was on this day, September 17, 1787, that the Constitution emerged for the first time from the convention in Philadelphia, Pa. Our blessed Constitution that was written not by men of all the same political faction, however, a coalition of men of many political factions, working together to “Form A More Perfect Union” and it was up to ‘We the People” to ensure its long lasting existence. Fast forward 222 years…

You owe your life — and everything else — to the sovereign. The rights of subjects are not natural rights, but merely grants from the sovereign. There is no right even to complain about the actions of the sovereign, except insofar as the sovereign allows the subject to complain. These are the principles of unlimited, arbitrary, and absolute power, the principles of such rulers as Louis XIV. Intellectuals have assiduously promoted them; think of Jean Bodin and Thomas Hobbes. A new intellectual champion of absolutism has now emerged. Mild-mannered University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein has been advancing the...

The Marxist in Chief has made it very clear in his actions, his statements and his appointments, the most notable of which has been avowed communist and Green Czar Van Jones, that the hope he brought to the White House was for the power hungry backers such as George Soros, who pushed him to the throne and the change was to the American political structure. B. Hussein Obama asked that we judge him, not by his experience, but by the company he keeps. He keeps some pretty strange company and he does some pretty anti-American things.

The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that Section 13, Canada's much-criticized human rights hate speech law, is an unconstitutional violation of the Charter right to free expression because of its penalty provisions. The decision released Wednesday morning by tribunal chair Athanasios Hadjis appears to strip the Canadian Human Rights Commission of its controversial legal mandate to pursue hate on the Internet, which it has strenuously defended against complaints of censorship. It also marks the first major failure of Section 13(1) of the Canadian Human Rights Act, an anti-hate law that was conceived in the 1960s to target racist telephone...

Proponents of a government-run health system would like us to believe that universal health care is a right owed to every citizen of the United States of America (and illegal aliens). However, this assertion is plagued with the typical liberal-logic, which is almost always completely devoid of any actual logic and common sense. Let’s examine their notion in greater detail.

'This is an issue where the federal government has no business' Montana statehouse Supporters of a first-of-a-kind law in Montana that declared weapons or ammunition made and kept in the state were exempt from federal rules are preparing for a court challenge to the federal government's insistence it will regulate those items. The Montana Shooting Sports Association and the Second Amendment Foundation have formed a strategic alliance with plans to litigate over the Montana Firearms Freedom Act. The bill was passed by the 2009 Montana Legislature and signed into law by Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer.

While our greedy authorities, hungry for other country’s territories, passionately cling to some stolen Japanese islands, tiny pebbles in the ocean, the inhabitants of another island, a large and undoubtedly Russian one, are busy collecting signatures. I received a call from a certain local democrat. His name, address and appearance, I will not reveal for anything, lest some terrorist in Guantanamo Bay remember that said democrat, many years ago, equipped for their last mission the Boeings which crashed into the twin towers. Unbelievable, says you? Well, no more unbelievable than what happened to human rights defender Alexei Sokolov, when a...

I'm a strong proponent of the Second Amendment. One reason for that (there are others) is that I believe that you have an absolute right to self defense. A firearm is, for many, the best and most effective method of self defense. You'll often hear me lamenting the fact that one person at a crime scene—a passenger, a customer, a teacher, a student, a security guard, a clerk—could have saved many more if only they'd had a gun to use against the bad guy. And it's not bragging to tell you that I'm right in 100% of those cases because...

An unemployed Arkansas woman — and her unborn son, whose name she tried to auction on eBay — can't seem to catch a break. After five auctions on the Internet marketplace, Lavonne Drummond, 36, saw a winning bid of $6,800 was dashed Tuesday when the winning bidder, a producer at an Internet radio talk show, told the mother of six that he had no intention of paying for the naming rights of her seventh child. "They just apologized," Drummond told FOXNews.com. "They just wanted to help but didn't think they would actually win." Drummond, whose first four auctions were removed...

I keep hearing the phrase: "Healthcare is a right". I looked through the Constitution, but I didn't see any mention of Healthcare in it. But I'm reading the outdated original version, and not the Obama recommended Saul Alinsky version. However having read the original version of the Constitution I see the following in the Second Amendment to the Constitution: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This is not talking about Michelle Obama's right to bare arms, but the right...

Eight people who were arrested on the second day of the Democratic National Convention during a mass protest filed a lawsuit against the City and County of Denver last night alleging wrongful arrest. The plaintiffs who filed their case in Denver District Court - are represented by lawyers for the ACLU of Colorado and include a legal observer for the People's Law Project, a journalist, students documenting the protest and onlookers along 15th Street and Cleveland Place on Aug. 25. In addition, the lawsuit is seeking class-action status for nearly 100 people who were held at a special jail, dubbed...

PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN) -- A man toting an assault rifle was among a dozen protesters carrying weapons while demonstrating outside President Obama's speech to veterans on Monday, but no laws were broken. It was the second instance in recent days in which weapons have been seen near presidential events.

Firms embracing Software as a Service (SaaS) are not protected from government and civil search and seizure actions and may not be informed if their SaaS data is seized from their provider, according to a researcher studying the issue. "In cloud computing, you will not have the ability to fight seizure before it happens," said Alex Stamos, co-founder and partner of security consultancy iSEC Partners Inc.. "You may not even know. There are no legal requirements for [SaaS providers] to notify you, and in fact, they may be gagged from doing so." Black Hat USA 2009 Get the latest news...

The founders were wary of corporate influence on politics — and their rhetoric sometimes got pretty heated. In an 1816 letter, Thomas Jefferson declared his hope to “crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” This skepticism was enshrined in law in the early 20th century when the nation adopted strict rules banning corporations from contributing to political campaigns. Today that ban is in danger from the Supreme Court, which hears arguments next month in a little-noticed...

Here’s the latest from guest blogger Loud Lion: I feel that there is nothing wrong with a double standard. I am OK with the fact that Congress has a much better health plan that I do. I have no problem that people in my office get paid more than me. Do I wish I got paid as much as the named partner? Hell yeah; who wouldn’t? But that desire, that wish and want, is what drives me to work better each day. I do not believe that everyone has a right to go to college. We need garbage collectors and...

"The Arab and Islamic States Exercise Their Influence within the U.N. Human Rights Council to Affect Legislation... and Set Lower Standards for Human Rights, or Deny Those Rights"

We now see people clamoring for their right of health care, their right of same-sex marriage, their right to reveal information that will damage national security and so on. None of these rights are listed in our first ten amendments, yet the claims continue unheeded. Such claims were forecasted by several of the founding fathers; Alexander Hamilton penned his thoughts on the dangers of a Bill of Rights in Federalist 84. What follows here is a small section of the essay. Prior to this section he sets a foundation for his argument that is worthy of serious study. “I go...

University of South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier had it right two years ago, when he had the stones to say "I realize I'm not supposed to get in the political arena as a football coach, but if anybody were to ask me about that damn Confederate flag, I would say we need to get rid of it."

Courtesy Oleg Volk, A Human Right I'm sick of politicians. Democrats and Republicans continually prove themselves to be thinly-disguised collectivist sell-outs, and third parties haven't managed to make a dent in the status quo. Historian (and influence on Bill Clinton at Georgetown) Carroll Quigley laid it out for us in Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time: The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to the doctrinaire and academic thinkers. Instead, the two parties...

Radical Animal Rights Attorney Cleared To Become Obama’s Regulatory Czar Dog Owners, Hunters, Farmers Urged To Ask Their Senators To Stop Sunstein Nomination by JOHN YATES American Sporting Dog Alliance http://www.americansportingdogalliance.org asda@csonline.net This report is archived at http://eaglerock814.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=52 UPDATE July 22, 2009: WASHINGTON (Fox News) -- President Obama's nominee for "regulatory czar" has hit a new snag in his Senate confirmation process -- a "hold" by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who's says he's not convinced that Harvard professor Cass Sunstein won't push a radical animal rights agenda, including new restrictions on agriculture and even hunting. Senators are permitted "holds" to...

Doing no harm is the ancient tradition of Western civilization, stretching from ancient Greece to the present Judeo/Christian world. Doing Good requires a “problem” needing a remedy. Doing No Harm has no such trigger. Revolutions always crash and burn, if modeled after the French Revolution, anyhow. The people suffer, and the leaders of the revolution install themselves as all-powerful despots. The American Revolution was different, because it applied the concept of Doing No Harm. The American Revolution also contained a mind-set typified by Edmund Burke’s conservatism. See previous Freeper post. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-rlc/2205205/posts The current Revolution promulgated by the president and the...

There is a knock at the front door. Peeking through the window, a mother sees a man and a woman, both in uniform. They are agents of health-care reform....

WASHINGTON – Supreme Court aspirant Sonia Sotomayor said Tuesday that she considers the question of abortion rights is settled precedent and says there is a constitutional right to privacy. The federal appeals court judge was asked at her confirmation hearing Tuesday to state how she felt about the landmark Roe versus Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1973. Sotomayor told the Senate Judiciary Committee that "there is a right of privacy. The court has found it in various places in the Constitution." She said this right is stated in the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure and in the...