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Crist Vetoes Anti-Obamacare Legislation [When a RINO casts off all restraint]

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Where are America’s “children of Issachar"?

Life and Liberty Report
June 15, 2010

by Tom Hoefling

And of the children of Issachar, which were men that had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do; the heads of them were two hundred; and all their brethren were at their commandment.

– I Chronicles 12:32, (written as David was given the administration of the nation of Israel) (KJV)

In America, the elections of 2010 are a transition election. Our country is in a transition period. God knows what it is we are transitioning to. Time will tell.

But, before we examine that, let’s step back a century and a half:

In the America of the1850s it’s doubtful that many understood what was just ahead. In any generation foresight and true leadership are rare commodities. And as the Scripture says:

“Where there is no vision My people perish.” - Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)

Oh, the signs abounded, as they always do, and a few foresaw what was to come and dutifully issued stern warnings.

Half a century before, the wise father of our country, George Washington, caught a glimpse of the dangers to our republic posed by the spirits of party and disunion, regional factionalism, and a departure from America’s founding principles, and used his last public communication, his Farewell Address , to strictly warn his generation, and ours, in no uncertain terms. You should read and deeply ponder every word of it.

Thomas Jefferson literally shook with fear when he considered what the slave trade portended for the new nation:

“The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other…can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: That his justice cannot sleep for ever.”

– Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-1782)

And so, mere decades later, the America of the 1850s trembled on the precipice of coming dissolution, warfare, and bloodshed.

Those few who understood how things stood, and saw the dangers lying just ahead, tried to turn the nation from a road that would inevitably end in wrath and destruction.

One of the few who saw it all clearly, transparently, was a former slave, Frederick Douglass. If only America had heeded the fiery, eloquent rebuke he delivered to the nation in Rochester, New York, on July 5th, 1852 , much sorrow could have been avoided:

I have said that the Declaration of Independence is the ring-bolt to the chain of your nation’s destiny; so, indeed, I regard it. The principles contained in that instrument are saving principles. Stand by those principles, be true to them on all occasions, in all places, against all foes, and at whatever cost.

From the round top of your ship of state, dark and threatening clouds may be seen. Heavy billows, like mountains in the distance, disclose to the leeward huge forms of flinty rocks! That bolt drawn, that chain broken, and all is lost. Cling to this day — cling to it, and to its principles, with the grasp of a storm-tossed mariner to a spar at midnight…

…Standing with God and the crushed and bleeding slave on this occasion, I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the Constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery-the great sin and shame of America! “I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;” I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgment is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just.

Again, I beg you, read his entire "What is the slave to the Fourth of July” speech and continue to read it until his message and righteous passion gets down into your very bones.

It is now 2010, and the “leeward huge forms of flinty rocks” may be seen again, by those who will, with an informed eye, simply gaze ahead.

Since 1973 in our America more than fifty million innocent, voiceless, helpless, little children have lost their lives, brutalized by the conscienceless hands of the abortionists and their enablers.

This, as nothing before, not even the horrors of slavery, is the abandonment of what America is, of every foundational principle upon which we premise our republican form of self-government and our liberty.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men…” – The Declaration of Independence

The slaves found their voice for life and liberty in a freed slave. The murdered babies have no such advocate. On this earthly plane there is no such thing as a former aborted child. A slave can be freed, but dead is dead.

So, as the inevitable storms faced by this generation bear down, who will speak fearlessly to a people who have lost their connection to the true American ship of state, a ship that from the laying of its hull was dedicated to God and to the equal protection of the lives and liberty of all those persons who were created in His image?

Who will keep the constitutional oath to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to our Posterity”?

Where are the “children of Issachar” in this generation? Where are those men and women who understand the times we live in, and who have the necessary courage to speak and act upon that knowledge?

And even if those courageous leaders arise, will America listen?

Or is destruction and dissolution our lot and the fate of our posterity?

Will we dishonor the memory of every patriot who ever honestly pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to the preservation of America and her principles?

Along with Thomas Jefferson, I tremble at the answers to these questions, because those answers will determine the earthly fate of my children and grandchildren, and whether America will survive in liberty.

The Tea Party vs. the Intellectuals

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Louisiana Passes Opt-Out Bill Voiding ObamaCare’s Abortion Mandate

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Helen Moore's Obama Watch - 'Say NO to Socialism!'

Is Jesus God? - DAVID JEFFERS

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Gov. Bobby Jindal Orders National Guard to Build Barrier Wall Off Louisiana Shore

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Calif. Marine released in Iraqi war crimes case

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'V-USA' - Veterans United to Save America

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JULIE WATSON

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Camp Pendleton Marine convicted in a major Iraqi war crimes case was released Monday and will remain free while his case is being reviewed after a military appeals court ruled he had an unfair trial. Monday's decision by a military judge at Camp Pendleton marked another major blow for the government's prosecution of U.S. troops accused of killing unarmed Iraqis.

Sgt. Lawrence Hutchins III has served four years in prison for the killing of a 52-year-old Iraqi man by his squad.

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Obama Blocks Oil Cleanup Ships to Appease Unions

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Helen Moore's Obama Watch - 'Say NO to Socialism!'

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June 14, 2010

[Alleged] President Obama is impeding clean-up efforts in the Gulf by kowtowing to unions and members of the American maritime industry, critics have charged in recent days. At issue is the president’s refusal to waive the Jones Act, a century-old law that effectively bars foreign-owned ships from moving between U.S. ports, a necessary component of participating in the cleanup effort.

When asked why [Alleged] President Obama hasn’t waived the Jones Act — which President Bush put on hold to facilitate Katrina rescue efforts — White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said a suspension wasn’t necessary.

But Sen. Bill Nelson, Florida Democrat, and others say the act is keeping boats from getting on the water to lay boom and skim oil. In a letter to the Coast Guard’s Thad Allen, Nelson wrote:

Admiral, I believe the orange mousse of oil that is now in Florida’s waters is more than enough evidence that we need to take advantage of every appropriate global resource. Please advise as to whether we are taking full advantage of the offers of assistance from other countries.

Members of the American shipping industry, (arguably the sole beneficiary of Jones) are open to waiving the Jones Act in dire circumstances, but insist that as of right now: “American vessels are doing the job.”

“Countless American vessels are already responding in the Gulf. In addition, we know that many other American vessels are standing by ready to help,” reads a statement released Friday by the Maritime Cabotage Task Force, a lobbying group that represents scores of both unionized and nonunionized employees and employers in the American maritime industry.

The presser goes on to say that the maritime industry “has not and will not stand in the way of the use of these well-established waiver procedures to address this crisis,” so long as the Obama administration can prove that there aren’t American vessels willing to help but waiting in the wings.

MTCF spokesman Mark Ruge confirms that his organization, which represents groups as disparate as the AFL-CIO and the Goodtime Cruise Line, has communicated its position to White House officials.

U.S. Pays $400 Million in Bonuses to Federal Employees

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June 14, 2010
Publius

The Obama Administration handed out more than $400 million in awards to federal employees last year, up by more than $80 million from the prior year, according to new government data.
The biggest winners were air traffic controllers and top managers in Washington, a review of fiscal year 2009 salary reports from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management showed.
OPM’s data, obtained by the Asbury Park Press through a freedom of information request, account for 1.3 million employees, or about 65 percent of the federal civilian work force.

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NC Congressman Etheridge - Drunk with power? - ALAN KEYES

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Alan Keyes

Congressman Bob Etheridge is walking along a sidewalk in Washington, DC. As he passes he is greeted by someone who asks “Do you fully support the Obama agenda?” The video posted herewith shows his reaction to the question, and their ensuing exchange. It speaks for itself. What excuse is there fore such conduct from someone who purports to be a representative of the people?

The Democrat Party’s name refers to the power of the people. But it’s more apparent every day that, as in the “People’s Republic of China” or the “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea”, the mentality that prevails is that of an unquestionable Party dictatorship. The Congressman certainly has a right to ask who he’s talking to before he answers a question (and/or to refuse an answer if he chooses to do so.) But he has no right to lay hands on someone showing nothing more threatening than curiosity and a camera.

Yet he responds as though offended by the very idea that some Joe Blow on the street would dare to question his views. All Americans should be deeply concerned with the arrogance of power this exemplifies. Government of, by and for the people is surely a dead letter when elected Representatives have so far forgotten their dependence on the will of their constituents that they no longer automatically treat everyone who politely approaches them with the respect an employee owes to the people who pay his hire.

Unless he was simply drunk out of his right mind, Etheridge’s reaction suggests that his party would more appropriately be renamed the Democratic People’s Republican Party, with all the overtones of socialist dictatorship and violent repression that suggests.

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For Flag Day, my favorite rendition of our National Anthem

Deace's Daily Diary: June 14th, 2010 [Half of Iowa Republicans did not support Branstad]

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Sharron Angle Says Harry Reid has "Waterboarded the Economy"; Needs to be Fired – Video

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June 14, 2010

Brian

Here is video of Nevada GOP U.S. Senate Candidate Sharron Angle appearing on “Fox & Friends” this morning, where she hammered Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as “the problem,” and said he needs to be fired by voters.

Angle said Harry Reid “is the problem” because he is a “let’s make a deal guy,” and voters “don’t trust him.” She said Reid has “pretty much waterboarded our economy for the last year and a half. . . . Harry Reid has truly failed, and we’re saying, ‘Harry Reid – You’re fired!’”

On the Tea Party Movement, Angle described it as the “silent majority” unwilling to be silent anymore.

She set the record straight on accusations by Democrats by she wants to get rid of Social Security. Angle said that’s “nonsense.” She said “we need to make the lockbox a lockbox.” She accused Harry Reid of “raiding Social Security for 24 years,” and she wants to fix it so Congress can’t raid it any longer.

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NC Dem Congressman Etheridge Goes Nuts When Asked if He Supports “Obama Agenda”; Attacks Student

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IHH's Deep, Longstanding Terror Ties [to Hamas and other terrorist organizations]

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Barack Obama is a counterfeit Alan Keyes

Plagiarizing the language of liberty and equality for socialism

Tom Hoefling

Tom Hoefling
March 21, 2008

"I don't need Mr. Keyes lecturing me on Christianity. That's why I have a pastor." — Barack Obama

In 2004, Ambassador Alan Keyes acceded to the persistent pleas of Illinois Republicans to represent them in the U.S. Senate race against Democrat Barack Obama, only after being informed of Obama's history of callous disregard for innocent human life in blocking the legal protection of babies who had survived abortion attempts in that state's hospitals.

Dr. Keyes, more than anyone in the country, saw the dangers posed by the rise of Barack Obama, and was willing to endure the obvious ambushes that were set for him in the race, even though he knew there was little prospect of electoral success, and that the personal costs would be considerable. He knew that if he did not pick up the standard and run to the sound of the guns, a pro-abortion woman was going to be chosen by the GOP, and Barack Obama's evil record would never be exposed, smoothing his path to power.

Like the Lincoln-Douglas debates of an earlier century, the Keyes-Obama confrontations were of historic value. It's hard to imagine two men more different in their character and philosophy. It's hard to imagine two more disparate worldviews. And, it's hard to imagine how Alan Keyes, a man with broad Reagan administration foreign policy and national defense experience, could have rhetorically thrashed the inexperienced Barack Obama any more thoroughly than he did.

But, as you know, with the help of an Obama-loving media and a Republican establishment that was more in tune with the Democrats than it was with the timeless American principles represented by Alan Keyes, Barack Obama won the election handily, just as Douglas defeated Lincoln so many years before. And, as expected, Obama's rise to power in the days since has been swift, financed and promoted by the most radical and powerful forces of socialism in America today, including George Soros.

In recent days we've observed the spectacle of presidential candidate Barack Obama fighting for political survival in the wake of the revelations of the racist America-hating "liberation theology" preached from the pulpit of his church of twenty years. Never mind that conservatives have known about and made known the nature of this institution for a long time, but that it only became "news" when friends of his primary opponent Hillary Clinton in the Democrat Media decided it was time to make an issue of it.

In a speech that was splashed across every network and the pages of every newspaper in the land, he employed every rhetorical tool and talent available to him to try and defuse the scandal. If you were foolish enough to believe some of the talking heads of television you'd think the man was Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount, or at a minimum Martin Luther King, Jr. preaching from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, instead of a politician trying to spin himself out of deep trouble.

In any case, Barack Obama is not Jesus or Reverend King. He's Joe Biden. You see, Barack Obama is cribbing from the founding documents of this republic, and the timeless statements of its actual statesmen, even though it's obvious that his political philosophy has nothing to do with the founding principles, and that his ideology would be completely foreign and hateful to those great Americans who came before.

He even borrows from the Bible, though like virtually all modern Democrats he twists the meaning of the eternal Word of God at his whim. He's learned his lessons from Bill Clinton well.

He speaks of "we the people," while completely misunderstanding who the men were that penned those words, and the words which followed.

He steals the constitutional theme of "a more perfect union," while ignoring in every facet of his political life the rest of the words of the Preamble, especially its closing statement of purpose: "To secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves AND OUR POSTERITY." His support for abortion-on-demand, and even infanticide, makes a mockery of the spirit and the letter of our Constitution, as well as the founding paragraph of our nation, found in the Declaration of Independence:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men..."

You see, he doesn't even understand why human government exists, much less how to unify all Americans in support of it.

He utters with his lips sweet-honeyed homage to "union," while tearing down with both hands all possibility of unity, just as Stephen Douglas and many of his contemporaries did. You see, without truth, without adherence to God's laws and ways, without justice, without respect for the lives and liberty of all of those who are created in God's image, true unity cannot exist.

He decries the horrors of slavery, while exhibiting a total commitment to the exact same spirit of injustice as the slaveholders of the nineteenth century once did.

He speaks of liberty and justice, while showing that he has no conception of the moral basis for either.

He praises those who have fought for freedom and equality over the centuries, while dishonoring their memory with every action he takes in the political arena.

And, in between, he spouts classic Marxist class warfare rhetoric, which, while appealing to the base self-interest, jealously, and greed of the ignorant, accomplishes nothing in its fulfillment but destruction and division for all.

The "hope" he famously offers is a false hope, based in socialist nonsense, flattery, crude political calculation and complete disregard for the intrinsic value of each human life, in open defiance of the moral principles held dear by those who founded and built this "one nation under God."

The true language of liberty and equality has nothing to do, in its spirit or substance, with the kind of virulent racialism advocated in the Obamas' church, or with the failed Marxist vision embodied in Obama's political philosophy and record.

Barack Obama gives strength to the very things that have been the most destructive of the lives of blacks AND whites in this country. The brutal aborting of a whole generation of helpless, innocent children. The government-assisted destruction of the two-parent family. The enslavement of a formerly free and sovereign people to an overwhelmingly powerful and invasive federal government. The banishment from the public square of the Creator, upon Whom our liberty entirely depends.

If we truly care about our posterity, the political career of Barack Obama, who thinks that life and liberty is only for those he arbitrarily deems worthy of it, must be relegated along with all his liberal fellow travelers to the same historical dustbin as their fellow Democrat Stephen A. Douglas, who thought that the Union could survive part slave and part free. That goes for those like John McCain who falsely label themselves "Republicans," but act in the same way. They have squandered any moral authority to lead.

If our goal is to bring about a truly "post-racial" America, one that is based in genuine liberty and equality for all, we must do what the people of Illinois failed to do in 2004 and what the Republican Party has refused to do in 2008: elevate Alan Keyes to the position of service to this country that God has obviously prepared him for.

Why? Because he's black? Not on your life. We should elect him because he's quite simply the best man for the job.

Barack Obama falsely mimics via teleprompter what Alan Keyes, without a single written note, so eloquently and powerfully speaks directly from his heart and mind.

Alan Keyes, the great moral statesman of our day, has been foolishly betrayed by the Republican Party which he has faithfully supported and served throughout his adult life, and he is apparently about to leave it. And so, the duty of "we the people," the sovereign citizens of the United States, irrespective of political party, is to stand up and do the hard work necessary to make sure he's on our presidential ballot come November. We must go over the heads of the failed "leaders" and elites of our time, and make sure that he takes the oath of office in January.

Better than anyone else, Alan Keyes knows what that sacred oath means. And so, with God's help, let us strive to see him prevail over Obama and the others just as Lincoln ultimately prevailed over Douglas.

That generation was willing to sacrifice everything to fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence for all. Surely we can muster the active will and the energy to restore it, and preserve it, for the sake of our posterity.