The 2nd Bill of Rights

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

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The Second Bill of Rights and The New Federalist Papers offers a non-partisan package of eleven amendments to the United States Constitution, accompanied by fifty brief essays, all aimed at re-energizing three core principles named by the Founders—limited government, individual freedom, and liberty. As in 1787, these principles are essential in overcoming factional politics in any government administered by some citizens over others. Each essay is contributed anonymously, as James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton contributed to the original Federalist Papers. The Founders established among the States the world’s first free-trade zone—the most fabulous success in history. Unlike so many revolutions on the ash heap of history—the American Revolution succeeded because citizens accepted power as their due, and both freedom and liberty were guaranteed to citizens by the Constitution. The Founders didn’t “talk” about giving power to citizens: they gave it. They did not think they were indispensable; they assured regular transition of power. They did not presume to know what was best for fellow citizens; they encouraged individual choice and responsibility. George Washington described the constitution’s amendment process in a letter to his nephew. He took for granted that experience would reveal the constitution’s imperfections, requiring careful consideration and future amendment by the people. Washington wrote, “I do not think we are more inspired, have more wisdom, or possess more virtue, than those who will come after us.” With this same perspective, and with a focus on principles that unite us rather than divide us, The Second Bill of Rights and the New Federalist Papers: Eleven Amendments to the United States Constitution and Fifty Papers that Present Them offers an innovative, holistic, and humble path forward, a path that Miller and his contributors hope is worthy of Washington’s confidence.

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Livestream From An Angry Madrid

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

This coverage from Madrid may be spotty depending on the circumstances.

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Radical Muslim Demands – It Just Keeps Getting Better…

Posted on July 11, 2012 by LT

(The Blaze)  Feminists often complain that marriage is an institution that renders women subservient to men; in fact, the more radical of them believe it’s tantamount to slavery. Shockingly, the Salafists not only agree with this diagnosis, but think it‘s shockingly unfair that Egypt won’t allow them to engage in marriages that are explicitly based around sexual slavery. From a report by the Investigative Project on Terrorism: Continue reading →

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California Furloughs 11,000 Union Workers

Posted on July 11, 2012 by LT

It’s about damn time, too.  These are the union thugs who have refused to “bargain” with Gov. Jerry Brown regarding “concessions” in pay and/or benefits.  A furlough is quite a generous offer, in my estimation – were I in his shoes, I would have put every one of those “union leaders” in the hoosegow for extortion!!

http://blogs.sacbee.com/the_state_worker/2012/07/jerry-brown-administration-issues-furlough-orders-for-holdout-unions.html

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Nullification: The Rightful Remedy

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

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In my discussion with Stewart Rhodes (the founder of Oath Keepers), he stated that our course of action against the Federal government is:

1. Nullification
2. Civil Disobedience
3. Revolution

Does anyone believe nullification will stop Obama?

David DeGerolamo

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I Do Not Want a Constitutional Convention

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

See additional comments on Tea Party Nation.

Troy Robinson wrote an article called “I Want A Constitutional Convention”  in which he postulated four conclusions:

Conclusion #1: The worst outcome of a Constitutional Convention might not be that bad.

Conclusion #2: If we the people can no longer trust each other to at least try to do the right things, all is lost no matter what else we do.

Conclusion #3: The consequences of doing nothing, of trying nothing, are far worse that even the worst possible outcome of a Constitutional Convention.

Conclusion #4: The real question is not whether a Constitutional Convention is our best hope – at this point, it may well be our only hope. Waiting for the current mess that passes for a Federal Government to somehow crawl out of the pit it has dug for us is an exercise in futility.

I will concentrate only on his second conclusion: If we the people can no longer trust each other to at least try to do the right things, all is lost no matter what else we do. We the People are no longer represented by the government. So let’s rewrite this conclusion accordingly: Continue reading →

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The Beginnings of Public Virtue?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Our founding fathers were very concerned over the lack of public virtue in the colonies prior to the Revolution. Without public virtue, we were not “good” enough to be able to handle or set up our own government. Over a period of three years, the people came to realize that they had to put aside their petty differences and come together for the greater good. This greater good gave their descendents the very freedom that we are in danger of losing today. What is the measure of our public virtue today?

One of the measurements in colonial times was a decline in the number of civil court cases. A quick search shows that the civil court case load in Rhode Island and Ohio has declined last year. Since many municipalities are cutting their police forces, we will see how this impacts the number of lawsuits and court cases in the future.

One of the few benefits from our economic downturn has been the resurgence of personal fiscal responsibilty. The following information comes from an article concerning credit card debt:

Credit card debt fell 4.1% to an average $4,591 during the quarter, according to credit bureau TransUnion. That marks the fifth straight quarter of declines and the first time credit card debt has dipped below $5,000 since the first quarter of 2002, according to TransUnion.

“Consumers continue to pay down their credit cards in response to economic uncertainty and high unemployment,” said Ezra Becker, director of consulting and strategy at TransUnion’s financial services unit.

Credit card delinquencies, which measure the percentage of debtors who are at least 90 days late in making payments, also continued to slide, to a mere 0.92% . That’s down a whopping 21.3% from the prior year and 17.1% from the prior quarter. Both are the biggest decreases since the recession began at the end of 2007, said Becker.

Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian religious beliefs that have been constantly under attack. However church attendance is on the rise this year which is another good sign for our future. I agree with Glenn Beck that our nation’s only remedy can be found through our faith in God.

David DeGerolamo
2010

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Spanish Debt Crisis

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Riot police and protesting miners have clashed in Madrid as the Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy announces more sweeping austerity measures, including a rise in VAT and other taxes, and increases to spending cuts.

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Syntagma Riotcam Resumes Broadcasting From Madrid Where Cops Use Rubber Bullets On Protesters

First thing this morning when discussing the upcoming festivities in Europe in the aftermath of Spain’s decision to hike sales tax from 18% to 21%, while making sure it is the common people who get hurt in the upcoming bank nationalization in which sub notes and hybrid debt is impaired, largely held by retail investors as the FT showed yesterday, we said that “Spain promised to crush its middle class even more by impairing retail held sub debt and hybrids, while forcing them to pay more taxes, a move which will lead to some spectacular Syntagma Square riotcam moments.” Three hours later and the riotcam is now live. Continue reading →

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NATO, Russian naval-air buildup in E. Mediterranean, French units to Gulf

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

French aircraft carrier Charles de GaulleFrench aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle NATO, which proclaims non-involvement in the Syrian conflict, and Russia, which vows to block foreign military action against the Assad regime, are both moving large naval forces into the eastern Mediterranean opposite Syrian shores.

A flotilla of at least 11 Russian warships has been detached from Caspian Sea, Black Sea and North Sea fleet bases and is on its way to the Syrian coast for a maneuver; NATO has consigned its rapid response Maritime Group 2 to the same stretch of sea – where also five Israeli warships are deployed. The Western alliance has also increased surveillance flights over the Mediterranean from the Geilenkirchen air base in Germany.

This rush of military movements is explained officially by the big air-and-sea exercise launched by Syria Sunday, July 8, to simulate outside aggression. It follows Iran’s practice of continuous military drills for repelling mock Western or Israel attacks.

The exercise began with a barrage of dozens of surface-to-sea missiles simulating naval and shore defense against approaching enemy craft and landing forces.

At about the same time, Iran embarked on a big air-cum-missile defense exercise in the south to fight off potential aggression from the direction of the Gulf of Oman and the Gulf of Aden, where US air force units are clustered.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that this is the first simultaneous, coordinated Syrian-Iranian military maneuver for drilling action against an advancing enemy. It is synchronized from a joint headquarters established for the purpose in Damascus.

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Food Price Spike Dead Ahead: US Cuts Corn Crop Forecast By 12% As 56% Of America Is Under Drought Conditions

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Who knew the next black swan would be deep fried? The biggest piece of  food inflation news over the past months, coupled with what is shaping up to be another record hot summer (for the best tracking of real-time electricity consumption primarily for cooling news we recommend the following PJM RT tracker of power load), has been the collapse in the corn harvest due to the worst drought since 1988 as 56% of America is in drought conditions. Today, the US just added some burning oil to the popcorn by cutting the corn-crop forecast by 12% to 13 billion bushels on expectations of a 13.5 billion harvest. Then again, who needs corn, when you can have cake?

Bloomberg explains:

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Chart Of The Year: The Fed Has Doubled The S&P Admits… The Fed

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Prepare to have your minds blown courtesy of what is easily the most astounding chart we have seen in a long, long time, prepared by the economists at the, drumroll, New York Fed, which finds that absent what the Fed calls “Pre-FOMC Announcement Drift“, or the move in the S&P in the 24 hours preceding FOMC announcements, the S&P 500 would be at or below 600 points, compared to its current level over 1300. The reason for the divergence: the combined impact of cumulative returns of in the S&P on days before, of, and after FOMC announcements. But, but, fundamental, technical, coffee grinds, Finance 101, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Cramer and Econ 101 (in order of relevance) all tell us this is im-po-ssible? Because if the Fed is right about the Fed induced drift, it is all about, you guessed it, easy money.

Here it is, black pixels on white LCD, straight from Simon “Harry” Potter henchmen’s mouth: Continue reading →

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I Want A Constitutional Convention

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

As I have done a number of times in this forum, I wish to repeat my call for a Constitutional Convention – before the “use by” date on our current Constitution expires.

As I write this, we are only two (2) States away from the “call” becoming mandatory – subject to some dispute over how long an individual State’s “call” stays in effect.

Every time I speak up for such a convention, I get alarmed responses exclaiming this would open the door for the progressives to make their political perversions legal and official through the act of embedding progressive nonsense into the re-written Constitution.

My first response to this is, yes it could happen.

For the sake of discussion, let us assume the worst – that a convention is held, that the progressives have their way with the re-written Constitution and that they somehow convince the legislatures of 34 States to ratify the thing. What would this mean?

For one thing, it would show clearly that the legislatures of a majority of the States (and, presumably, the citizens of those States) actually favor the progressive agenda. Under our system, this is their right, whether you and I agree or not.

I propose that such an outcome might actually work in our favor because it would clearly lay the groundwork for those States still loyal to the original Constitution to secede and form an alternate Republic, faithful to the ideas of our Founders. Such would allow a grand experiment to begin – a side-by-side comparison of the success of a progressive government versus a libertarian government, under otherwise similar conditions.

What? Did I hear you say our original government, that one established by the Founders, was not libertarian? I respond that you either do not know what the word libertarian means -or- you know far too little about the government of the Founders.

This leads me to conclusion #1: The worst outcome of a Constitutional Convention might not be that bad. Continue reading →

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ICE agents warn Americans “to brace themselves for what’s coming”

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Under new policy...we will be seeing less and less of this.

In the wake of the recent memo from the Obama administration which announced “prosecutorial discretion” in dealing with illegal aliens, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents across the country have been speaking out what many of them are calling a “backdoor amnesty.”

On Wednesday, ICE Union president Chris Crane told PRNewswire: “Any American concerned about immigration needs to brace themselves for what’s coming. This is just one of many new ICE policies in queue aimed at stopping the enforcement of U.S. immigration laws in the United States. Unable to pass its immigration agenda through legislation, the Administration is now implementing it through agency policy.”

Crane continued: “ICE and the Administration have excluded our union and our agents from the entire process of developing policies, it was all kept secret from us, we found out from the newspapers. ICE worked hand-in-hand with immigrants rights groups, but excluded its own officers.”

Also ignored by the press, was last year’s no confidence vote ICE agents gave Obama appointee, ICE director John Morton.

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NC Listen – Poverty Law Center sues to help illegals hurt poor citizens

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Concerned Citizens and Immigration Reformers,

The race-based Southern Poverty Law Center, who pretends to care about and help poor citizens, has sued Wake County in North Carolina because the county (according to the Law Center) is breaking federal law by not providing enough translation services to Hispanic students (one half of which are dependents of illegal immigrants).  What about the federal laws that state one cannot cross our borders illegally, use social services that don’t belong to them, and steal the identity of citizens in violation of the law, among other laws being broken by illegals?  Not to mention that illegals hurt poor Americans by using special and expensive educational services and programs that should be going to improve the educational level of the children of poor citizens.

One would think the Southern “Poverty” “Law” Center would be more concerned about the poverty of citizens and the rule of law, given their organizational name.   The Southern Poverty Law Center is attempting to have its way by pressing for a cutoff of federal education funds, should Wake lose in court.  Which begs the other question, why should we have to give our tax dollars to the federal government to fund the Department of Education in the first place and then have to beg for our own money back to be used in our local schools?

Send this email to your friends and associates.

Regards,

Ron Woodard
Director
NC LISTEN

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Dominion and the Dems Reach into your Pocket to Comply with Obama’s EPA Regulations

Posted on July 11, 2012 by DRenegade

Obama is a man who keeps his promises.  Remember his promise that ‘electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket’ under his administration?  Well, here it comes.  Dominion is proposing a 20% increase in rates, the majority of which they say is needed due to their increased cost to comply with state and federal emission regulations.

While Obama did not get Cap & Trade passed, he has been implementing his plan to regulate CO2 (the air you exhale) by executive order.  Those plans are going to cost us billions.  Obama tells us himself that we will bear those costs and that we will just have to get used to it.

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