The Wrap at Ask Marion 2.09.14 Thru 2.16.14

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Celebrating President’s Day… Washington’s Birthday

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was traditionally celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year…

Let us remember and honor all our presidents, but let us take a little time to remember our first president, George Washington, who took the job reluctantly because he realized the weight of the job as well as of the office itself.  He was the hero of the revolutionary war and was one of the Founding Fathers involved with the Declaration of Independence and the creation of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.  Quite a difference from the man in the White House today who says he has a pen and a phone and believes he can do with them what he chooses!

Governor Palin: God Bless The Legacy Of Our 16th President

• RIGHT PLANET FEATURE: My Meeting with Trevor Loudon
• Obama And Hollande – Scenes From The Class Struggle
• Iran and the New Axis of Evil
• The Council Has Spoken!! This Weeks’ Watcher’s Council Results
• Teacher scores win against pay-to-play political endorsements
• The National Guard Targets Constitutionalists As The Enemy
• Todd Palin, Inside Edition ~> Wife could win POTUS hands down!
• The Ambassadors We Choose
• Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) Files Lawsuit Against Pres Obama & NSA Mass Surveillance – Andrew Napolitano
• RUSH: What If Somebody Actually Did Begin Impeachment Proceedings?
• Governor Palin: God Bless The Legacy Of Our 16th President
• The Harris County Republican Party condemns “pay-to-play” slates
• New Benghazi Bombshell – House Report Blames White House For Security Lapse – The Kelly File
• David Webb, of Fox, Sirius Radio and Black Tea Party Activist, Confronts NAACP’s William Barber… What Hannity Didn’t Show You
• Watcher’s Council Nominations – Lawless Edition
• Report Faults White House & State Dept In Benghazi Attack & Obamacare – Sen Ted Cruz – Real Story
• Ben Carson, family and friends target of IRS harassment for criticizing Obama
• Has Petraeus stepped into a Clinton minefield?
• Shirley Temple – The Biggest Little Star Has Died
• Wishing Governor Sarah Palin a Happy 50th Birthday!!
• Striking Terror Into Progressives Hearts – Ted and Rafael Cruz
• The Best Romantic Movies and Ideas For Valentine’s Day
• Rep Steve King: Boehner has declined to clear the air between us which amounts to a public confession…
• The Legend of the Hildebeast: "Hillary Papers" Released
• Beatles, Olympics, Leno, History, Perspective… 
• Going Democrat-Lite will make GOP a permanent minority
• Sessions On Special Report: Admin’s Latest Immigration Rewrite Undermines Constitutional Order
• Forum: If You Could Play One Character In The Movies, Whom Would It Be?
• Benghazi Cartoons In Foreign Papers
• American Academy For Constitutional Education (AZ) Presents Trevor Loudon Feb 19th, See Schedule Upcoming Appearances for Trevor Loudon and The Enemies Within
• Ex-CIA Officer: Government’s ‘Fusion Centers’ Enable Obama ‘Turnkey Tyranny’
• Honey… the Iranians are here!
• Historic “Tele-Townhall” Series
• The Wrap at Ask Marion 2.02.14 Thru 2.09.14

Also See:

• Mark Brunell: NFL needs to crack down on marijuana 
• Dr. Ben Carson, family and friends target of IRS harassment for criticizing Obama
• Dr. Ben Carson Becomes Chairman of Save Our Healthcare
• Emilie’s Story: ObamaCare is hurting people like me
• Logan’s Law passes big hurdle in attempt to create Michigan animal abusers registry
• BSL and Pit Bulls
• Hopeful News: LA City Animal Shelter Deaths Plummet by Nearly Half During First Two Years of Best Friends Animal Society’s NKLA Initiative
• Spay, Neuter, Adopt – Repeat 
• Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games

ICE Officers Claim They’re Being Prohibited From Enforcing The Law – Huckabee – Wake Up America

Temporary Reprieve: McConnell: Amnesty Not Happening in 2014

Book of the Week – “The Death of the Grown-Up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization / Kindle – By Diana West

“WHERE HAVE ALL THE GROWN-UPS GONE?” That is the provocative question Washington Times syndicated columnist Diana West asks as she looks at America today. Sadly, here’s what she finds: It’s difficult to tell the grown-ups from the children in a landscape littered with Baby Britneys, Moms Who Mosh, and Dads too “young” to call themselves “mister.” Surveying this sorry scene, West makes a much larger statement about our place in the world: “No wonder we can’t stop Islamic terrorism.  We haven’t put away our toys!” As far as West is concerned, grown-ups are extinct. The disease that killed them emerged in the fifties, was incubated in the sixties, and became an epidemic in the seventies, leaving behind a nation of eternal adolescents who can’t say "no," a politically correct population that doesn’t know right from wrong. The result of such indecisiveness is, ultimately, the end of Western civilization as we know it. This is because the inability to take on the grown-up role of gatekeeper influences more than whether a sixteen-year-old should attend a Marilyn Manson concert. It also fosters the dithering cultural relativism that arose from the “culture wars” in the eighties and which now undermines our efforts in the “real” culture war of the 21st century—the war on terror. With insightful wit, Diana West takes readers on an odyssey through culture and politics, from the rise of rock ‘n’ roll to the rise of multiculturalism, from the loss of identity to the discovery of “diversity,” from the emasculation of the heroic ideal to the “PC”-ing of “Mary Poppins,” all the while building a compelling case against the childishness that is subverting the struggle against jihadist Islam in a mixed-up, post-9/11 world. With a new foreword for the paperback edition, "The Death of the Grown-up," is a bracing read from one of the most original voices on the American cultural scene. 

Dad: Are You Part of “The Great Conversation”? 

God Bless the Conservative Father

American Academy Event

American Academy For Constitutional Education (AZ) Presents Trevor Loudon Feb 19th, See Schedule Upcoming Appearances for Trevor Loudon and The Enemies Within

Start: 19 February 2014 6:30 pm
Venue: Immaculate Heart High School

Know who your enemies are — The Enemies Within. Trevor Loudon names names. Get ready to vote them out this mid-term 2014!

“THE ENEMIES WITHIN: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress/Kindle” is like no other book written on American politics. The book exposes, in layman’s terms, the comprehensive communist, socialist and extreme progressive infiltration of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate.

The book profiles fourteen Senators and more than fifty Representatives and their ties to the Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America, the Workers World Party and the Institute for Policy Studies, Council for a Livable World and other radical anti-American organizations. Trevor has done the hard work to connect the dots of why the U.S. Congress has moved further and further left over our lifetime and you won’t want to miss him. The Mid-Terms are coming. It’s time to clean House — and Senate!

Be sure to see our friend and Watcher’s Council Alumnus Trevor Loudon when comes to your area!!

Shane Krauser’s American Academy for Constitutional Education
Wednesday, February 19 | 6:30 pm

Immaculate Heart High School
625 E. Magee Raod
Tucson, AZ 85704

Check out Trevor’s TOUR MAP AND SCHEDULE which is constantly being updated with new events and venues.

If your TEA Party, 9.12, or patriotic group would like to have Trevor Loudon speak, please contact Regina Thompson.



[RADIO] Van The Radio Man
BlogTalkRadio
Monday, February 17th — 2:00 pm

AZ Red Mountain  Patriots
Faith Christian School, 7464 E. Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85207
Monday, February 17th — 7:00 pm

The TEA Party Patriots of Arizona
Northgate Church, 34835 N. 7th St., Phoenix, AZ 85086
Tuesday, February 18th — 6:30 pm

More Events to come… 

RIGHT PLANET FEATURE: My Meeting with Trevor Loudon

And another must read is: Collusion: How the Media Stole the 2012 Election—and How to Stop Them from Doing It in 2016 (Kindle)

Memorable Photos…



Thank you Shirley Temple for a Life Well lived!

Shirley Temple – The Biggest Little Star Has Died

Shirley Temple Black – Life Achievement Honoree



Thank you Sarah Palin for Continuing the Fight… Against the Stooges below… Larry, Moe, Curley Joe and Benghazi Betty

Todd Palin, Inside Edition ~> Wife could win POTUS hands down!

Wishing Governor Sarah Palin a Happy 50th Birthday!!

Photo Thoughts

Going Democrat-Lite will make the GOP a permanent minority

David John Marotta, a Wall Street adviser and President of Marotta Wealth Management, puts U.S. unemployment closer to 37.2%, much higher than even the 25% most bloggers and honest journalists have estimated, and certainly not the unicorn dust propaganda of 6.7% claimed by the Fed.

Video: Money, Banking and the Federal Reserve

Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson understood "The Monster". But to most Americans today, "Federal Reserve" is just a name on the dollar bill. They have no idea of what the central bank does to the economy, or to their own economic lives; of how and why it was founded and operates; or of the sound money and banking that could end the statism, inflation, and business cycles that the Fed generates.

Dedicated to Murray N. Rothbard, steeped in American history and Austrian economics, and featuring Ron Paul, Joseph Salerno, Hans Hoppe, and Lew Rockwell, this extraordinary documentary is the clearest, most compelling explanation ever offered of the Fed, and why curbing it must be our first priority.

Alan Greenspan was not, we're told, happy about this 1996 blockbuster. Watch it, and you'll understand why. This is economics and history as they are meant to be: fascinating, informative, and motivating. This movie is changing America…

Some say that this, David Rockefeller is the chilling face of the New World Order… Others question and speculate Whether… The American Republic can survive; whether we are in the End Times; others just wonder why everything is unfolding as it is; and others wonder whether we can affect change or if everything is set in stone and out of our hands?

And many wonder who is controlling the clowns in Washington (video), DC and why so many Americans can’t see them for what they are!

During her speech, UN Christine Lagarde’s every word calls for a New World Order, a one world currency, and more! Read the entire speech HERE

Thousands of Shelter Pets Killed Every Day Yet Half of Americans Uninformed and Unaware

Crews Killing Thousands of Dogs for Sochi Olympic Games

Stop the Pain… Get-Involved and Speak Up Whenever You Suspect Abuse, Of Any Kind

We are living in amazing times, good and bad, the kind of times that truly try men’s (and women’s) souls and that make or break countries and shape (or reshape) societies. Please get involved, pray for guidance, prepare for the worst (for yourself and to help others), then educate yourself and share what you learn with as many people as you can. All our futures depend on it!!

Be sure to come visit us here at Ask Marion regularly and subscribe to receive the latest posts first… as well as visit: Just One More Pet, True Health Is True Wealth!!, Knowledge Is Power, and the Daily Thought Pad.

The wolves are at the door!!

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Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) Files Lawsuit Against Pres Obama & NSA Mass Surveillance – Andrew Napolitano

Video: Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) Files Lawsuit Against Pres Obama & NSA Mass Surveillance - Andrew Napolitano

Video: Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) Announces Lawsuit Vs Pres Obama, Dirs Of NSA, FBI, DNi, FBI Named In Suit -

Video: NSA Class Action Lawsuit - Pres Obama, Dirs Of NSA, FBI, DNI Named In Suit - Rand Paul

Video: FreedomWorks & Rand Paul Sue the NSA

New American: As he has promised for months, Senator Rand Paul (shown, R-Ky.) has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Obama administration, challenging the constitutionality of the National Security Agency’s dragnet collection of metadata.

In a press conference held Wednesday, the libertarian-leaning freshman senator announced that he was teaming with FreedomWorks and former Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli in pursuing this “historic” lawsuit.

“There’s a huge and growing swell of protest in this country of people who are outraged that their records are being taken without suspicion, without a judge’s warrant and without individualization,” Paul said, standing outside the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

In a statement made in a video defending the Fourth Amendment, Paul declares, "Our Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government."

Paul’s purpose in the lawsuit is to demonstrate that principle by holding the NSA and the rest of the intelligence community accountable for the constitutionality of their activities.

“I’m not against the NSA, I’m not against spying, I’m not against looking at phone records,” Paul said. “I just want you to go to a judge, have an individual’s name and a warrant. That’s what the Fourth Amendment says.”

In an interview with Politico, Paul indicated he believed there is no wiggle room when it comes to adhering to the standards set out in the Constitution regarding the process for searching and seizing information from citizens.

“Whether you breach the Fourth Amendment 20 percent of the time or 100 percent of the time, it’s still not the point,” he said. “The point is whether or not you still collect millions of people’s information with a single warrant.”

During an appearance on Fox News Sunday in June of last year, Paul announced plans to file a class action lawsuit against the Obama administration, demanding it provide legal justification for the recently revealed wholesale watching of millions of citizens not suspected of any crime.

“I’m going to be seeing if I can challenge this at the Supreme Court level,” Paul said, according to the show transcript. "I’m going to be asking all the Internet providers and all of the phone companies, ask your customers to join me in a class action lawsuit. If we get 10 million Americans saying, 'We don’t want our phone records looked at,' then somebody will wake up and say things will change in Washington," he added.

When asked by host Chris Wallace why he considered the NSA’s surveillance unconstitutional, Paul responded:

Well, you know, they're looking at a billion phone calls a day is what I read in the press and that doesn't sound to me like a modest invasion of privacy. It sounds like an extraordinary invasion of privacy. The Fourth Amendment says you can look at and ask for a warrant specific to a person, place and the items.

This is a general warrant. This is what we objected to and what our Founding Fathers partly fought the revolution over is they did not want generalized warrants where you could go from house to house with soldiers looking for things or now from computer to computer, to phone to phone, without specifying who you're targeting.

Specifically, the Fourth Amendment states that the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

While unapologetically spying on millions of Americans, the federal government makes no attempt to demonstrate that any of those whose phone records have been seized are suspected of committing some crime. It is a plain and simple violation of the Fourth Amendment in the hope of discovering something that one day might be found to qualify as suspicious. That is putting the cart of culpability before the horse of the Constitution, and the American people are right to insist that the president be held accountable.

As Senator Paul explained to Chris Wallace, “What I do in my private life is my private life. If you suspect me of a crime, have probable cause.”

How far are the citizens of this Republic willing to let the federal surveillance apparatus go toward constructing a Panopticon? At this accelerated rate of construction, how long until every call, every text, every e-mail, every online message, and every movement will fall under the all-seeing eye of federal overlords?

Senator Paul thinks now is the time to derail this “long train of abuses” and he believes that the American people have the will and the way to do so. Citing the successful defeat of a pair of recent legislative attempts to pierce the veil of Internet privacy, Paul thinks that those events prove that popular resistance can provide a pathway toward ending the NSA’s snooping, as well.

The bills referred to by Paul are the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) and the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). Both acts were defeated in Congress, although many of their provisions were enacted as part of other bills or through executive orders.

Speaking of the popular uprising that led to the defeat of these measures, Paul told Wallace, “If we can have that again — people by the millions coming out and saying, 'Look, I want to be part of a class action suit that says to the government, let's hear this at the Supreme Court level. Are you allowed to look at phone records even though there's no probable cause that I'm related to a crime?' — I think we'll put an end to this.”

The Justice Department sees things differently, of course.

In a statement published by Politico, a Justice Department spokesman said, “We remain confident that the Section 215 telephone metadata program is legal, as at least 15 judges have previously found.”

Although he’s been promoting the idea since late last year, perhaps Senator Paul chose to file the suit now in light of recent favorable court rulings.

In December, for example, a federal judge ruled that the NSA’s dragnet collection of information on all phone calls likely violates the Constitution. In a 68-page Memorandum Opinion issued on December 16, Judge Richard J. Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the NSA’s unwarranted surveillance of telephone calls is prohibited by the Fourth Amendment’s protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

The suit that was the subject of Leon’s ruling was filed by Larry Klayman, the founder of Freedom Watch. In a statement published by WND, Klayman reached out to the senator-turned-plaintiff, welcoming him to the fray.

“I invite Sen. Paul to join our ongoing class actions, as they have already proven to be successful in large part — given Judge Leon’s unconstitutionality ruling. The other plaintiffs and I are pleased that Paul also is fighting to slay the NSA express,” Klayman wrote.

Donations to help pay the legal expenses associated with pursuing Senator Paul’s complaint are being collected at defendthefourth.com and constitutiondefensefund.com, a website managed by FreedomWorks.

“Any money donated through the petition page on www.ConstitutionDefenseFund.com will be going towards the legal costs of this suit,” FreedomWorks spokeswoman Jacqueline Bodnar said, as reported by Politico. “We expect this case to go all the way to the Supreme Court, so it’s going to be expensive.”

While Senator Paul’s efforts are to be commended, the federal judiciary is not empowered in the Constitution to be the arbiter of what is or is not constitutional. 

Furthermore, the Supreme Court has demonstrated repeatedly that it cannot be relied upon to rein in the other branches of the federal government.

The best answer to the NSA’s wholesale violations of the Fourth Amendment is state and local actions refusing to cooperate with the organization’s surveillance activities, whether through bills nullifying federal acts permitting the programs or through measures cutting off vital utilities from NSA facilities.

Senator Paul's lawsuit names President Obama, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, NSA director Keith Alexander, and FBI director James Comey as co-defendants.

Photo of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announcing his lawsuit Feb. 12: AP Images

Joe A. Wolverton, II, J.D. is a correspondent for The New American and travels nationwide speaking on nullification, the Second Amendment, the surveillance state, and other constitutional issues. Follow him on Twitter @TNAJoeWolverton and he can be reached at jwolverton@thenewamerican.com.

Join Rand Paul’s Class-Action Lawsuit Today!

Sign up by visiting Paul’s website or go to RandPac or to Rand Paul’s Facebook Page

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Watcher’s Council Nominations – Lawless Edition

Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the best two posts, with the results appearing on Friday morning.

Council News:

The Council in Action…

Greg over at Rhymes With Right was instrumental in getting a resolution passed by his local county Republican Executive Committee coming out against ‘pay for play’ local endorsements.

Joshuapundit’s latest piece Going Democrat-Lite will make GOP a permanent minority is up at the Washington Examiner…and a shout out and thanks from me to all of you whom linked to it or tweeted it.

Noted author and Council Alumni Trever Loudon continues to burn up the ground with his book tour for his latest opus,“The Enemies Within: Communists, Socialists and Progressives in the U.S. Congress” .He’ll be appearing on the Glenn Beck Program on ‘The Blaze’ TV next month,with taping scheduled for March 27th. And that’s not all:

Peoria IL TEA Party
Gateway Building, 200 NE Water St., Peoria, IL 61614
Thursday, February 13th — 6:30 pm

[RADIO] Roger Moore Interviews Trevor Loudon
WOAM 1360AM Talk Radio
Friday, February 14th — 7:00 am

Peoria IL TEA Party Morning Event
Sterling Restaurant, 4513 N. Sterling Ave., Peoria IL 61615
Friday, February 14th— 8:00 am

The DuPage IL TEA Party
Carriage Greens Country Club, 8700 Carriage Greens Dr., Darien IL 60561
Saturday, February 15th — 2:00 pm

[RADIO] Van The Radio Man
BlogTalkRadio
Monday, February 17th — 2:00 pm

AZ Red Mountain Patriots
Faith Christian School, 7464 E. Main Street, Mesa, AZ 85207
Monday, February 17th — 7:00 pm

The TEA Party Patriots of Arizona
Northgate Church, 34835 N. 7th St., Phoenix, AZ 85086
Tuesday, February 18th — 6:30 pm

This week, The Mellow Jihadi, Daphne Anson, Maggie’s Notebook, Right Truth and The Pirate’s Cove earned honorable mention status with some great articles.

You can, too! Want to see your work appear on the Watcher’s Council homepage in our weekly contest listing? Didn’t get nominated by a Council member? No worries.

To bring something to my attention, simply head over to Joshuapundit and post the title and a link to the piece you want considered along with an e-mail address ( which won’t be published) in the comments section no later than Monday 6PM PST in order to be considered for our honorable mention category. Then return the favor by creating a post on your site linking to the Watcher’s Council contest for the week when it comes out Wednesday morning

Simple, no?

It’s a great way of exposing your best work to Watcher’s Council readers and Council members. while grabbing the increased traffic and notoriety. And how good is that, eh?

So, let’s see what we have this week….

Council Submissions

• Liberty’s Spirit – When told they can’t use the word “bitch,” watch some male heads explode
• Simply Jews – John Kerry’s “stand with Ukraine’s people” and the staggering ineptness of State Department
• The Noisy Room – Idaho Opens the Door to Martial Law and Gun Confiscation – the Nullification of the Posse Comitatus Act
• Joshuapundit-The UN Reveals Its Cowardice And Hypocrisy By Attacking The Catholic Church
• Ask Marion – Beatles, Olympics, Leno, History, Perspective…
• The Razor – A Republican Reflects On a Kennedy
• GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD – Code Name: Johnny Walker
• Bookworm Room – Conservatives should take a page out of the Islamists’ book and disavow bad actors marching under their banner
• The Right Planet – David Carroll: Angry Blacks Confront DNC/MSNBC Slave Al Sharpton
• Rhymes With Right – Note To Michael Sam — I Don’t Care
• The Colossus of Rhodey – A Kickstarter idea which is not only unoriginal, but based on pure media bias
• The Independent Sentinel – Common Core Is Rewriting History Like a Tin Pot Dictatorship
• The Glittering Eye -It’s Not Our Salami
• VA Right! - Battered Obama Supporter Syndrome – B.O.S.S.
• Nice Deb – ACLJ Head Says Newly Discovered IRS Emails Are A “Smoking Gun” – Calls For Special Prosecutor

Honorable Mentions

• The Mellow Jihadi – Flooding & the nine P’s
• Maggie’s Notebook – Diane Blair’s Hillary Papers: Hillary Furious Bill Ruined Presidency, Couldn’t Organize or Punish
• The Pirate’s Cove – Hooray! Warmists Find Excuse #8 For Pause
• Daphne Anson – Why Jordan’s Not Jumping for Joy: David Singer explains …
• Right Truth – Republican Punk – Book Review

Non-Council Submissions

• Oliver Bullough/New Republic – Sochi is Haunted by the Ghosts of a Forgotten Genocide submitted by Liberty’s Spirit
• The Sad Red Earth – Academic Boycotts and Re-Colonization by Theory submitted by Simply Jews
• Diana West – A Nation of Laws, Not Men, Must Impeach Obama submitted by The Noisy Room
• Mark Steyn – America Takes Early Retirement submitted by Joshuapundit
• KingJester - Welcome to the Sochi Olympics… My Name is “Peggy” submitted by Ask Marion
• Michael Totten – The Truth About Che Guevara submitted by The Razor
• Small Wars Journal – General Patton as a Counterinsurgent submitted by GrEaT sAtAn”S gIrLfRiEnD
• The Elder Of Ziyon - EoZ posters for “Apartheid Week” submitted by Bookworm Room
• Frontpage Mag – Union Gangsters: John Sweeney submitted by The Right Planet
• George Scott Reports – Veteran Texas House Lawmaker Eviscerates Pay To Play Slates As Destructive To GOP Future; Uses Schofield’s Race In District 132 As Example submitted by Rhymes with Right
• Minding The Campus – An update on the mess at Bowdoin submitted by The Colossus of Rhodey
• The Daily Caller – EPA ‘clean coal’ rule would increase power prices by 70 or 80 percent submitted by The Independent Sentinel
• Robert Haddick/War On the Rocks – America Has No Answer to China’s Salami-slicing submitted by The Glittering Eye
• The Federalist – “Alex” Tokeville Has Some Choice Words For President Obama submitted by VA Right!
• Sipsey Street Irregulars - An Open Letter to Michael Lawlor, the CT Governor’s Hatchet Man on Firearms Confiscation. “How’s your KGB file hangin’, Mike?” submitted by Nice Deb
• Marc Thiessen/WAPO – Obamacare’s $70 billion pay cut submitted by The Watcher
• Victor Davis Hanson – An Immigration Morality Tale submitted by Watcher

Enjoy! And don’t forget to like us on Facebook and follow us Twitter..’cause we’re cool like that!

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Wishing Governor Sarah Palin a Happy 50th Birthday!!

 

Video: Happy 50th Birthday Governor Palin!!

Join us in following the lead of ‘A Time For Choosing’ by donating $20.14 or more to SarahPac… and then pass this on.

And Sign Governor Palin's Birthday Card HERE at: http://birthday.shepac.com!

Happy Birthday Governor Palin from Ask Marion

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Historic “Tele-Townhall” Series

Citizens for Self-Governance: Thousands of patriots joined us during the first Tele-Townhall of our “Convention of States Project.”  We want you to join us for Parts 2 and 3!

On February 13th at 8:00 EST, we’re hosting another live, interactive event. “During the Convention: We Know the Rules” will explain how a convention will operate.

(Yes, we actually know this!)

Mark Meckler, founder of Citizens for Self-Governance and Tea Party Patriots, and Professor Rob Natelson will speak on how a Convention of States would operate based on previous interstate conventions and legal precedent.

You’ll be able to ask Rob any questions on the amendment ratification process too!

Don’t miss out on this historic opportunity to save our nation. Part three will take place on February 20th.

REGISTER HERE TO JOIN IN FOR THIS HISTORIC SERIES

TheBlaze: Wallbuilders founder and Historian David Barton has officially announced his support for a convention of states. The historian, who contemplated a Senate bid late last year, has spoken of the subject in the abstract before. But now that a convention is growing increasingly possible, Barton is “confident that this is the correct course of action.”

Though a convention of states has not been held since the nation’s founding, it has grown increasingly popular as a response to what many see as overreach from the federal government. Through Article V of the U.S. Constitution, states can propose amendments to the Constitution if two-thirds of states submit applications for such a convention. In December, nearly 100 state lawmakers gathered at Mount Vernon, Va., to discuss the process. On Tuesday, the Georgia state Senate became the first state legislative body to pass the current “constitution of states” application by a vote of 37-17.

David Barton - Photo: TheBlaze

“We have not come to this conclusion lightly,” Barton and “Wallbuilders Live” co-host Rick Green said in a letter to Glenn Beck Monday. “Like many of our conservative friends, we initially avoided this constitutionally-specified process due to a fear of what might occur, or what could happen. But after years of research and studying the founders’ original intent for this amendment process — and after years of witnessing an unconstitutional reshaping of our federal government — we are both confident that this is the correct course of action.”

Barton and Green said the Constitution “specifically furnishes each part of government ‘with constitutional arms’ for its own ‘effectual powers of self-defense.’”

“One such arm of self-defense that the Constitution gives to the states is an Article V Convention of States,” they wrote. “For states to refuse to use this tool would be like going into a street fight, but refusing to use one of your biggest and most effective weapons. And it is illogical to consider the use of any constitutional provision as a threat to the Constitution. It makes as much sense as violating the free-market system to save it, or breaking health care to fix it.”

Speaking about the letter on his radio program Wednesday, Beck said a convention of states “must happen.”

He acknowledged that he was wary of the process before, but, having done his homework, now stands by figures like Mark Levin and Barton who are advocating the convention.

“This was why Article V of the Constitution was written,” Beck said. “[The Founding Fathers] knew there would come a time where you’ve used every other lever, and [those in Washington] will not cede their power.”

Beck called a convention of states “your right and your responsibility.”

Video: See Beck Discussion of David Barton on Convention of States

Could a Convention of States Occur as Early as 2016? 

Mark Levin & Glenn Beck Discuss Re-Establishing the Constitution in First-Ever Conversation 

Nearly 100 Lawmakers Descend on Mount Vernon to Talk Convention of States – Updated 

Glenn Beck Declares ‘Convention of States’ Is the ‘Only Way Back’ 

Yes, States Have the Constitutional Right to Nullify Obamacare 

Mark Levin talks about his new book with an expert panel on Hannity – The Liberty Amendments

Levin’s Book: The Liberty Amendments (Kindle)

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IRS’s Lerner Bombshell, Treasury Department Secretly Drafted New Rules To Restrict Activity of Conservative Groups… Yet Pres Obama Says No Smidgen of Corruption

Remember Lois Lerner?

Marion Algier - AskMarion:

The Daily Caller: The Obama administration’s Treasury Department and former IRS official Lois Lerner conspired to draft new 501(c)(4) regulations to restrict the activity of conservative groups in a way that would not be disclosed publicly, according to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

The Treasury Department and Lerner started devising the new rules “off-plan,” meaning that their plans would not be published on the public schedule. They planned the new rules in 2012, while the IRS targeting of conservative groups was in full swing, and not after the scandal broke in order to clarify regulations as the administration has suggested.

The rules place would place much more stringent controls on what would be considered political activity by the IRS, effectively limiting the standard practices of a wide array of non-profit groups.

“Don’t know who in your organizations is keeping tabs on c4s, but since we mentioned potentially addressing them (off -plan) in 2013, I’ve got my radar up and this seemed interesting…,” Treasury official Ruth Madrigal wrote in a June 14, 2012 email to Lerner and others obtained by Ways and Means and provided to The Daily Caller.

Ways and Means chairman Rep. Dave Camp blasted the off-the-record plan during a hearing Wednesday with IRS commissioner John Koskinen, and called for the administration’s newly proposed 501(c)(4) rules to be halted until criminal investigations into the IRS targeting scandal are complete.

“If Treasury and the IRS fabricated the rationale for a rule change it would tend to raise questions about the integrity of the rule-making process,” Camp said.

“I want to be perfectly clear – this committee will fight any and all efforts to restrict the rights of groups to organize, speak out and educate the public, just as unions are allowed to do so.  We will get to the bottom of this, and I expect the IRS to produce – quickly – the outstanding documents the committee has requested,” Camp said.

“I believe the IRS has a long way to go in restoring its credibility.  But, you can take a first step by complying with this committee’s request and stopping all action against 501(c)(4) groups until the appropriate investigations are completed.”

The new rules define more previously acceptable activities by nonprofit groups as prohibited “candidate-related political activity.” Communications and activities including voter registration drives and publishing voter guides, among others, are now classified as political activity. Grants and donations that 501(c)(4)’s give to other nonprofits are now subject to new record-keeping and increased scrutiny to prevent the money’s use for broadly-defined political activity.

The rules were “drafted in a manner, in my view, to shut down tea party groups” Rep. Camp said earlier this week.

New IRS commissioner Koskinen said that the rules should “put to rest all of the issues surrounding applications for tax-exempt status.”

But Madrigal’s email to Lerner proves that the regulations were being developed long before the IRS needed to publicly put anything “to rest.”

At least 292 conservative groups were subjected to unfair targeting between 2010 and 2012, against six liberal groups that were allegedly given similar treatment.

“They are both over-broad and under-inclusive,” said Foley & Lardner LLP partner Cleta Mitchell on the new rules.

“They’ve taken everything that 501(c)(4) organizations do in the normal course of business and proposed to convert that all to candidate-related activity, even if a candidate is never mentioned.”

Mitchell said that the rules are being “rushed through” for political purposes.

“The objective is to get the rules in place before the 2014 election,” Mitchell said.

Hmmmm… Remember the O’Reilly-Obama pre-Super Bowl interview just last weekend where the President said there was not a smidgen of corruption involved in the IRS situation where conservative groups were targeted?

Video: Bill O’Reilly’s Super Bowl interview with President Obama

Transcript of IRS Portion of the Interview:

O’REILLY:  I’ve got to get to the IRS…
OBAMA:  Yes.
O’REILLY:  — because I don’t know what happened there and I’m hoping maybe you can tell us.  Douglas Shulman, former IRS chief, he was cleared into the White House 157 times, more than any of your cabinet members, more than any other IRS guy in the history, by far.
OK, why was Douglas Shulman here 157 times?
Why?
OBAMA:  Mr. Shulman, as the head of the IRS, is constantly coming in, because at the time, we were trying to set up the, uh, HealthCare.gov and the IRS…
O’REILLY:  What did he have to do with that?
OBAMA:  — and the IRS is involved in making sure that that works as part of the overall health care team.
O’REILLY:  So it was all health care?
OBAMA:  Number two, we’ve also got the IRS involved when it comes to some of the financial reforms to make sure that we don’t have taxpayer funded bailouts in the future.  So you had all these different agendas in which the head of the IRS is naturally involved.
O’REILLY:  Did you speak to him a lot…
OBAMA:  — (INAUDIBLE).
O’REILLY:  — yourself?
OBAMA:  I do not recall meeting with him in any of these meetings that are pretty routine meetings that we had.
O’REILLY:  OK, so you don’t — you don’t recall seeing Shulman, because what some people are saying is that the IRS was used…
OBAMA:  Yes.
O’REILLY:  — at a — at a local level in Cincinnati, and maybe other places to go after…
OBAMA:  Absolutely wrong.
O’REILLY:  — to go after.
OBAMA:  Absolutely wrong.
O’REILLY:  But how do you know that, because we — we still don’t know what happened there?
OBAMA:  Bill, we do — that’s not what happened.  They — folks have, again, had multiple hearings on this.  I mean these kinds of things keep on surfacing, in part because you and your TV station will promote them.
O’REILLY:  But don’t…
OBAMA:  But when (INAUDIBLE)…
O’REILLY:  — think there are unanswered questions?
OBAMA:  Bill, when you actually look at this stuff, there have been multiple hearings on it.  What happened here was it that you’ve got a…
O’REILLY:  But there’s no definition on it.
OBAMA:  — you’ve got a 501(c)(4) law that people think is focusing.  No — that the folks did not know how to implement…
O’REILLY:  OK…
OBAMA:  — because it basically says…
O’REILLY:  — so you’re saying there was no…
OBAMA:  — if you are involved…
O’REILLY:  — no corruption there at all, none?
OBAMA:  That’s not what I’m saying.
O’REILLY:  (INAUDIBLE).
OBAMA:  That’s actually…
O’REILLY:  No, no, but I want to know what…
OBAMA:  — (INAUDIBLE)…
O’REILLY:  — you’re saying.  You’re the leader of the country.
OBAMA:  Absolutely.
O’REILLY:  You’re saying no corruption?
OBAMA:  No.
O’REILLY:  None?
No?
OBAMA:  There were some — there were some bone-headed decisions…
O’REILLY:  Bone-headed decisions…
OBAMA:  — out of — out of a local office…
O’REILLY:  But no mass corruption?
OBAMA:  Not even mass corruption, not even a smidgeon of corruption, I would say.

If there isn’t a smidgen of corruption, why was Obama’s new #IRS Chief apologizing… and perhaps already lying?

Then on Wednesday, 02.05.14, the new chief of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, John Koskinen (74), a lawyer with little tax experience but with a reputation as a troubleshooter, apologized and promised that one of his priorities is to restore public trust in the IRS on the one hand but played down the IRS scandal as a minor issue with a handful of conservative political groups as if the matter was minor and settled (which it isn’t) on the other hand… just as new of the Lerner off-plan has emerged.

Video: IRS Commissioner Apologizes For Tea Party Targeting - Jenny Beth Martin - On The Recorded

It has also come to light that virtually the first thing Koskinen did after taking office as IRS Commissioner was to give out $62 million in bonuses to boost moral among IRS workers… Really?  How about the moral of average Americans and those who have been targeted by the IRS with audits and delays of approval for their 501(c)(4)? Sounds a lot like same old same old to me?!?

Video: But as Carney Said Previously… An IRS Apology Is Not Concrete Evidence Of IRS Scandal

Bombshell Revelation: ‘Smoking Gun’ E-Mail Uncovered at IRS Congressional Hearing (Video)

Is it me… or does something just not ring true here? 

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Happy Birthday, President Reagan

Today marks the birthday of Ronald Wilson Reagan, 40th president of the United States of America.

Joshua Pundit:

Reagan became president when the United States was in a period of great stress, just after the tenure of Jimmy Carter. Inflation and interest rates were in double digits and unemployment was close to 7%, taxes were at an all time high, America's foreign policy and international prestige were reeling from the Iranian hostage crisis, severe cutbacks in defense and successful Soviet penetration all over the world.

Worse than that, Americans seemed to have lost confidence in themselves and in the country's greatness.

Reagan squared his shoulders, rolled up his sleeves and got to work. He cut government, cut taxes, and oversaw the creation of 16 million new jobs and economic growth at 3.5 % per year. He rebuilt America's military. He was unafraid to call the Soviet Union an evil empire, or to challenge them directly so that their evil empire crumpled into the dust of history.

He left America safer, stronger and wealthier than it was when he came, which is the most you can ask of a president. In simple terms, he was a singularly decent man who honored both himself and the nation he served.

He gave us confidence in ourselves again, reminded us of who we are and that we are a country singularly blessed by G-d's providence. He inspired us as a nation. And he did it with grace, charm, wit and style, and with a sunny optimism that reached out to the best in us.

If ever a president deserved a national holiday to honor him, President Reagan does.

He was by no means perfect, as he would doubtless be the first to say. But in Ronald Reagan, we have an example of what real leadership is, an example especially needed today.

Happy Birthday, Mr. President...We Miss You!!!

** And let us remember this conservative yet practical leader in the upcoming elections of 2014 and 2016.  Reagan's old and proven formula was to unite behind the most conservative and principled candidate(s) available, and to make sure he or she knew that 2-years, let alone 10-months, isn't that far away. It won't be perfect, but it will even put RINO’s who survive on notice that times have changed!!

Reagan at His Best…

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