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So lets see if we've got this right. Chicago, then Detroit, dump their union retirees healthcare plans and force them into Obamacare. Union contracted healthcare provisions thrown away by those cities who negotiated, then signed the agreements knowing full well that they were not affordable. They bought votes with these contracts, enriched themselves, shoveled money to their friends and supporters and now, poof, just like that, the rest of America is supposed to pick up the tab.These are the actions of someone who does not plan to ever run for office again. They've shown their hands to the very people...

This article excerpts from a report called Measure for America, which created an index for well being in the 50 states and major metro areas. It leads with the fact that "red states" run by Republicans still score low on the index, and points out one non-shocker to Freepers: the city with the highest gains on the index in terms of rising incomes, education levels and healthcare? Guess...

Seen your Dr. lately? My doctor did NOT ask me these questions at my annual physical today, but many will ... live a great day ... A Medical Appointment ...... I visited a physician last week. It was a new doctor in the practice -- a young lady (at MY age, EVERYBODY is "young" -- when I was born, the Dead Sea wasn't even sick) who was quite enthusiastic. I was thinking of hitting on her, but I don't like the phrase, "You remind me of my grandfather." She asked me what was wrong, and I replied, "I have a...

Proposition: The following equation provides a quite accurate prediction. Gay Marriage combined with loosening immigration enforcement requirements is equivalent to providing to undeclared cells of terrorists a legal means to bring in their undeclared terrorist "spouses."

I tried asking a question on an old thread but received no answer, so I decided to post this here. I have always been a big fan of Larry Pratt and particularly enjoyed his skewering of Piers Morgan on CNN, but now I am not so sure about Pratt. Mr. Pratt is scheduled to appear at Freedompalooza over the July 4th holiday. The event is hosted by Paul Topete, from the band Poker Face. Mr. Topete is on the record as having stated that the Holocaust was a hoax. If this is the same Mr. Topete, and I am pretty...

...Arguing the value of a system versus its cost is old hat in the video game industry. It's the go-to tool for any console manufacturer facing criticism about pricing decisions, but given Microsoft's other recent PR stumbles specifically, confusion about its policy on used games (which is still persistent, despite the company putting out a clear statement on the matter right before E3) and its required internet connection -- Mattrick's argument is falling flat. "Isn't this pretty much what Sony was saying last gen about their outlandish pricing?," noted one forum user on GameSpot. "The sign of a wise man...

The Su-35 (NATO designation Flanker E), Russia’s latest version of the famous super-maneuverable multirole fighter jet has demonstrated its stunning capabilities during the first day of the 50th Paris Air Show at Le Bourget. During its display, the 4++ generation aircraft has showcased some almost impossible manoeuvres, demonstrating unbelievable low-speed handling authority.

Are these agency scandals being deliberately leaked by team Obama to cause Americans to hop on board for a new form of government? Are these scandals all part of Obama's coup d'tat on our government? Why did the IRS plant a question with a reporter that would trigger a scandal implicating itself? Why was a subpoena leaked, implicating the DOJ for spying on Fox News' journalist James Rosen? What better way to get Americans to hate their government than to tell them they're being spied on by the NSA? Gee, thanks Mr. Snowden! In less than 6 months Obama has...

Senators on Tuesday rejected building the 700 miles of double-tier border fencing Congress authorized just seven years ago, with a majority of the Senate saying they didn’t want to delay granting illegal immigrants legal status while the fence was being built. The 54-39 vote to reject the fence shows the core of the immigration deal is holding. The vote broke mostly along party lines, though five Republicans, including Sen. Marco Rubio and the rest of the bill’s authors, voted against the fence, and two Democrats voted for it.

Our immigration system is not broken. The problem is that no one is enforcing the Laws. Who thinks Obama's ICE will enforce the safeguards in any new law?

So I'm watching the news today and start seeing our illustrious Bureaucrats Out Right Lying about what they collect and what they don't.   They tell us today they don't collect locations of cell phone trawled for in pursuit of a target named in a warrant.   I want you to understand when they issue a warrant, many times, with "Reasonable Cause" They are violating the Constitution by: 1.  Using "Reasonable Cause" as the basis for a warrant.  The Constitution requires no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.   2.  supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the...

So I'm watching the news today and start seeing our illustrious Bureaucrats Out Right Lying about what they collect and what they don't.   They tell us today they don't collect locations of cell phone trawled for in pursuit of a target named in a warrant.   I want you to understand when they issue a warrant, many times, with "Reasonable Cause" They are violating the Constitution by: 1.  Using "Reasonable Cause" as the basis for a warrant.  The Constitution requires no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause.   2.  supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the...

Watch this 20 minute video then send it to every senator, representative and voter you know! This is a fiendishly-crafted document that builds corruption into our immigration system by placing mamagenment responsibility in the Justice Department, Civil Rights Division, and a network of community organizers accross the country. This will make your blood boil!!! Acorn is reborn on steriods and funded by the taxpayer. Your worst fears are realized with this legislation. By design, immigration laws become unenforceable, because all enforcement is weighted in behalf of the immigrant. Spread the word.

WASHINGTON – A Washington-based IRS supervisor acknowledged she was personally involved in reviewing Tea Party applications for tax-exempt status as far back as 2010, Fox News confirms -- a detail that further challenges the agency's initial claim that the practice of singling out those groups was limited to a handful of employees in Ohio. Congressional sources confirmed to Fox News that Holly Paz, who until recently was a top deputy in the division that handles applications for tax-exempt status, told congressional investigators she reviewed 20 to 30 applications. Some requests languished for more than a year without action. The account...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans' hopes to reclaim the White House in the 2016 elections hinge on whether they support — or sabotage — the immigration overhaul being debated in the Senate, two lawmakers who helped write the proposal warn. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday told conservatives who are trying to block the measure that they will doom the party and all but guarantee a Democrat will remain in the White House after 2016's election. Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., went a step further and predicted "there'll never be a road to the White House for the Republican Party" if immigration...

So a few a days ago Rubio comes out with a proposal for an amendment to ban Obamacare. He really gives us no credit for having any intelligence. If this immigration bill passes Obamacare will be set in stone. The electoral demographics of this country will be fundamentally altered, and in the words of Barack Obama, we will be fundamentally changed as a nation. Unless Lyndsay Graham is right and the illegals will love the Republicans if they help pass this amnesty bill...lol. These guys are so out of touch. If Mitt Romney would have made this an issue, we...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Sunday that world leaders should neither be fooled by the results of Friday’s election in Iran nor be encouraged to let up pressure regarding the country’s nuclear program. Iranian President-elect Hasan Rowhani is being widely described as a “moderate,” a description Netanyahu took issue with in his first public reaction to the election. Netanyahu Warns Let Us Not Delude Ourselves About the Moderate New Iranian Leader Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the weekly cabinet meeting on June 16, 2013 in Jerusalem. Netanyahu said the world should keep up pressure on Iran to...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is bullish about the chances of an immigration reform bill passing the Senate — and he says Republicans need to pass it to avoid falling further into a "demographic death spiral" that could hurt their chances in the next two big election cycles. "If we don't pass immigration reform, if we don't get it off the table in a reasonable, practical way, it doesn't matter who you run in 2016," Graham said on NBC's "Meet the Press" Sunday.

Sen. Barbara Boxer is planning an amendment to the Senate's immigration bill which would redirect funds committed to border security to reimburse state and local governments providing health care to newly legalized immigrants. Boxer plans to take $250 million, and likely much more, out of border security and use it to underwrite uninsured immigrants health care costs.

The West Virginia eight-grader arrested and suspended over his National Rifle Association T-shirt with an image of a firearm is now facing a $500 fine and a year in jail. A judge is allowing prosecutors to move forward with charging Jared Marcum, 14, with obstructing an officer, WOWK-TV reported.

Have a picnic or cookout, Give Dad a nice present, Take Dad out for a meal, Go to a game or a movie...

Just a question to all Freepers: It is clear that the central planners for years have created this Federal Leviathan that is neither practical and is also restraining on our Constitutional rights. So my question is: How do we in essence (either through public relations, pulling the "right strings", changing laws to cause them to effect one another so as to reverse our large Government)? How do we in essence reverse engineer the Federal Government and all the onerous laws? (This is a discussion thread): AND I DON'T WANT TO HEAR ANY DEFEATISM like "It can't be done".

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George Orwell's famous novel, 1984, was published in 1949, and he predicted that people in the future would have no privacy, as governments would monitor all their activities. The "big brother is watching" phrase became well known. But Orwell could never have predicted the technologies of the future, when he described a fictional system of oppression based on technologies that were available in 1949. In 1949, there were no personal computers, no cell phones, no internet, no satellites, etc. In the communist regimes of 1949, most people did not own telephones, therefore there were no phones to bug. Most people...

I had a disturbing conversation with a therapist about reporting/seizing patient’s guns. It revolved around the recent FR article reporting a 72 year old man had his musket collection seized because his therapist requested it. (A link would be appreciated.) We’ll call the therapist Bill. Bill: “A therapist must follow the ethical guidelines of the practice plus any state laws. So, if the patient had expressed any suicidal ideation or depression, the therapist may be obligated to report this and the weapons will be seized.” Me: “Do you think that might damage the trust relationship with the therapist?” Bill shrugged...

I've been advocating leaving the scouts since the vote, but that's the wrong approach. The BSA is worth fighting for. I went last night to the Boxwood Scout Retreat here in Tennessee to pick up my son from a week of scouting. As I looked around at the pristine property on the edge of Old Hickory Lake, and the decades of work it must have taken to build the facilities located there, I realized what a shame it was to give it all up without a fight. The BSA have assets on their books of over $1 billion offset by...

I deeply appreciate that day in and day out Mark Levin takes on the Republican establishment. I'm encouraged that he has called out Paul Ryan and others for their disingenuous support of this 1000+ page immigration bill. It is far past time he call out Marco Rubio, who it he face of this bill. I think if he is going to be sincere on this issue, he needs to highlight the main reason this bill has a chance of becoming law, and that reason is Marco Rubio.

Dear Mr. President ` ` I hereby absolve you of ANY responsibility to protect my family from terrorism on our farm. I have some pretty spiffy self-defense gadgets and have established decent clear zones around the house and out-buildings. So I think we can take care of most terrorist threats on our own for now. ` Of course, I'll let you know if that EVER changes. (But thanks for standing by--just in case.) ` ` In exchange, please remove the surveillance you are conducting on our mail, cell phones, internet, credit cards and CB/shortwave radios. You don't need me to...

Just thought I'd call Obama's arming Syrian rebels for what it REALLY is; America training and arming terrorists who've committed atrocities just as bad as those committed against them. When evil fights evil, we should just let them kill each other! There is no 'good guy' in this fight and we should stay OUT of it. Obama is arming Al Qaeda. Why is America doing this, to help spread the Caliphate? To further the reach of Sharia Law?

Now is our chance to change the political field of battle; the recent revelations regarding the IRS's political targeting and the NSA's domestic spying have engendered a healthy distrust of the now feral Federal Government. - We have the opportunity not only to stop this thing dead in its tracks, but make support for it legally actionable at the federal and State level. Here's how: The governors of the Several States have a lot of unused power, commonly set forth in their respective state's constitution is the power to declare a state of invasion. If two or more States...

War is hell and should be else there would be more of it, but there are things that are far worse. Living in a godless tyrannical Marxist/fascist hell with no liberty, no religious, political or economic freedom for one. No thank you. I'll stand by the constitution and defend my God-given unalienable rights, including the rights to free speech, free religion, to be armed, to be free from government spying, freedom from over-reaching tyrannical government, etc., etc., etc. The corrupt democrat politicizing of our government agencies must stop NOW!! The government snooping programs MUST be shut down NOW! Our borders...

All those 'safeguards' will be excluded and it will become AMNESTY! A Leftist Federal judges (through equal protection under the law) or Obama (Executive Order/Action) will gut the Bill and 11-30 million illegal immigrants will have all the rights of citizens. They will vote, have any Government benefits they request, etc.

Wow..be listening to Becks show this morning..you will understand what's going on. It is in fact the immigration bill. Bohner, Grahmn and McCain are threatening GOP members who are standing firm against immigration bill. There are 50 of them and some have chairs that are being threatened by GOP and Bohner.

Over the last two weeks we have seen revelations regarding the NSA datamining and allegations that DHS has compiled a list of people it deems dangerous to the government. Anyone want to bet against the NSA capturing and segregating in a separate database all NCIC instant check phone calls as part of the creation of the enemies list or simply for collation with the list if the government decides these dangerous people need a visit? Think about the information in that phone call... name, SSN, type of firearm ...all information handed to the government for safekeeping. The FBI and ATF...

http://www.bet.com/news/global/2013/06/12/poll-should-alicia-keys-perform-in-isreal.results.rightpoll.html#rightpoll Poll: Should Alicia Keys Perform in Israel? A petition with over 10,000 signatures is calling on the singer to cancel the concert and "stand on the side of justice." By Patrice Peck Posted: 06/12/2013 02:31 PM EDT Filed Under Palestine, Alice Walker, Global News, Israel, Alicia Keys, Music News, Palestinian To protest an upcoming Alicia Keys concert in Tel Aviv, a delegation of Palestinian-Americans recently delivered a petition with 12,000 signatures to the New York City office of Keys' Keep a Child Alive non-profit organization. "We ask Alicia Keys to stand on the side of justice," read the Change.org...

Have been posting on TB2K for more than 2 years, now over 550 x. Today posted on past two days Debka postings, on GCC council voting to expell Lebanese exiles, first by Kuwait, @ 2k people, after Iran and Hezb'allah stopped support for Sunni anti-Assad rebels in Syria... Plus Breitbart today article on DHS immigration being "relaxed" to point of NO ID REQUIRED" Final, Obama @ 2 wks past telling UN USA would become a "Muslim nation" by 2016. WTF???? No mainstream media covering this...

Kind of strange a shooter walks onto a college campus, multiple people killed at his hand, anti-gun "advocates" run amok yet there's been very little about this case since the day it happened?? hmmmm....

Stung by criticism of their role in newly revealed government surveillance programs, Google (GOOG) and other leading Internet companies responded Tuesday by calling on federal authorities to let them tell the public more about the National Security Agency's secret efforts to gather data on Internet users. The new response from Google, Facebook and Microsoft came as a coalition of civil liberties groups urged Congress to conduct a broad investigation of the government's data-gathering, the ACLU filed a lawsuit challenging a separate surveillance program involving phone records and a poll showed that Americans are sharply divided over whether such surveillance is...

What if this administration orchestrated "Snowdens NSA Leak" for the purpose of evoking just the reactions being displayed by at least half the US public? Outrage over the spying and invasion of privacy. Patriot Act gets called into question. Hang on I'm getting there...we beg them to stop spying on us. The Senate now wants to review the Patriot Act ect...modifies or eliminates certain elements making it fairly innoculous regarding domestic issues. What if by doing this the administration opens the door really wide enabling a attack that dwarfs 9/11 and blames it those who opposed the NSA spying. What...

Mayor Bloomberg has one upped our efforts by setting up a 1800 hotline that will re route your out of state call and assign it a local number to make it seem like a resident called in favor of this bill so do us all a favor and use his HOTLINE number to call which does 2 things.. 1. uses the antis money against them 2. makes our vote no vote look local. 1-888-966-9224 when the liberal talking head starts speaking just press 2 to skip it and wait to be redirected to the mayors office where you will press...

I'm Sick and Tired, and you should care.. REALLY! Why you should care, is that I am a member of that generation of folks that remembers what our Country was before the 60's radicals began destroying our country, culture, and future.. I am indeed sick, but still strong enough to muster the revolting reaction to the state of our National decline..I can't say I haven't warned everyone that would listen to me, to react to the changes that have taken us down this road, sadly without much reaction from those that had to suffer my diatribes.. There aren't many of...

My name -- No More Names: The Drive to Reduce Gun Violence Friday marks six months since the mass shooting in Newtown, CT. It also marks six months of inaction from Congress. That's why we're launching an ambitious, nationwide bus tour that will bring survivors and supporters directly to members of Congress across the country. No More Names: The Drive to Reduce Gun Violence will visit 25 states in 100 days. We will stand in front of the local offices of members of Congress and read the names of Americans murdered with guns since Newtown, who number more than 5,000...

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Conservatives must work together.

What is your opinion of [National Security Leaker] Edward Snowden? He's a hero He's a traitor I haven't made up my mind yet

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich, portrayed by Julia Roberts in a 2000 movie about her fight over the pollution of a California town, was arrested on suspicion of boating while intoxicated at Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Sunday. Brockovich was arrested late Friday night after breath tests showed her blood-alcohol level was just over twice the legal limit of .08, said Edwin Lyngar, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. A game warden noticed she was struggling and needed assistance while trying to moor her motor boat at the Las Vegas Boat Harbor, he said. Brockovich had been out...

I was talking with my brother today about all that's going down and the NSA whisleblower, etc. He reminded me of Rahm Emanuel's White House power grab of gathering the Census data back in 2009. Does anyone have detailed info on this? His speculation was that that was the groundwork, with all its detailed snoopy questions, for things to come. No one has brought this up out in the blogosphere. Rush needs to talk about this tomorrow and bring it out in the open. I bet the boys in Congress would sure be curious to connect the dots. Let's roll!!

The 2nd Amendment protects our bullets in its first half of the amendment, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state,..". Well regulated meaning well practiced, well run, well drilled, able to shoot well and accurate from shooting practice, etc. To achieve this, the abundance of bullets and the ease to obtain them inexpensively is necessary and certain. To the California legislature and all other government bodies and agents, obstruction of the free, simple, and inexpensive access to a plentiful supply of ammunition by the militia or the people is a violation of the Constitution...

They are only working with democrats and is another organization being converted after the campaign to a standing entity. Listen carefully to what they say they can do... This is pretty scary and does make me wonder if there is some sort of a connection to the NSA here. If not directly perhaps through a handoff of technology?