The IRS & The Constitution

Schulz explained that the petition that he submitted to the United States Government included the following alleged violations of the Constitution: U.S. aid to Israel, illegal immigration, North American Union, the Iraq War, The Patriot Act, the Federal Reserve, and income tax fraud.

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The Real Global Crisis

It does us great harm to ignore the lessons history can teach. We are not the first to come this way, however, most people's historical perspective begins from the moment of their birth. This failure to garner wisdom from our ancestors has us to believe that Socialism/Communism/Marxism are new and exciting ideas, nothing could be further from the truth. I was reminded years ago why my parents insisted on a good education, and why my dad always was demanding that I think, I just hope that one day we will all do as my dad requested. The present financial turmoil is really a failure of global statism. Socialism has failed once again. Let's try capitalism.

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New Life On Earth Baby!!

Well, life that we didn't know about anyway. Several thoughts popped into my mind while I was reading... Why is it that humans are always referred to as disturbing the delicate animal life by the same folks who claim that we are just very distant cousins of the same? Can't we all get along? Just curious..also, do you think that it is possible for some of these folks to start looking at other animals to determine if they too are guilty of overpopulation? I doubt it. Lastly, hypothetically of course, if it were possible for humans to have been around when the dinosaurs were here (no Palin jokes please) would we be at fault for that too?Sorry one last thing...you do realize that the only reason that a government is ever interested in anything is if it will lead them to more power.

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Pelosi: Dems bear no responsibility for economic crisis

So, you already have a partial grip on the economy, you want more, but it's not your fault when things go a bit south. When Obama gets elected and they ram through socialized medicine I bet they will be innocent when people are waiting in lines for simple tests and annual check-ups. Wake-up America!

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How the death tax bulldozed a hole in the environment

The Left's tax policy has, once again, destroyed a small business, left us with one less local farm and killed a slew of old-growth trees. They stuck it to "The Rich" though...nice job!!

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Anti-American or Anti-Green?

The spin-meisters will spin, that is what they do. This is not an isolated incident that can be looked at in a vacuum. I do not think that Obama put these there, a lower level staff member, even a the janitorial crew of the convention center probably did. But it is indicative of the culture that is created within an organization. Both McCain and Obama have "people" to take care of these things. McCain's people would have kept them for the next event. Obama's should have been smart enough to know that it gets this petty at this level. The other side looks for every angle. At the very least, though, wasn't this dubbed as a "Green Convention?" These flags can be recycled for the next 60 days; what a great statement that would have made to the country!!

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Why Africa Is Still Starving

Las Vegas is a desert too, and they are doing quite well. It looks as though they had something positive going and then Congress decided to put our corn into our gas!! Do-gooders never do, they just look like it!! Markets never lie people...until someone restricts them!!

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Stupid in America

If you ever wanted to know what "School Vouchers" are about watch this.

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Drop Dead, Oregon’s Socialized Health System Tells Patients

Either you value life, or you don't. You cannot have someone put up the cash for something yet still have a say in how that cash is allocated. The procurement of the resource is inextricably tied to the control of it.

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CO2 Doesn't Cause Global Warming?!?!

What will Algore and his socialist buddies do now to control our lives? I mean surely there is some way that he can prove that humans must be removed from the planet!!!

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Every child deserves a chance, but does The State have the best formula?

Whether we want to own up to it or not, the welfare state has done what Jim Crow, gross discrimination and poverty could not have done. It has contributed to the breakdown of the black family structure and has helped establish a set of values alien to traditional values of high moral standards, hard work and achievement.

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Seize This Opportunity or, please rule my life sirs!!

Yet another example of Government’s well-intentioned control of our lives turning into a dismal failure; the private citizen is a much better guarantor of his well being than some busy-body bureaucrat 100’s of miles away. It makes absolutely no sense to me why someone would advocate that these sorts of duties are better left in the hands of government. Not to mention that in our form of government, and according to the law of the land, this is an absolute violation of the law.What will unfortunately happen here is that the elite mind’s of congress (by the way what exactly qualifies them as experts in finance? Oh yes, they won a popularity contest) will determine that a government entities’ failure is the fault of the free market and that their needs to be more control and oversight by them. I should be so lucky as to gain employment that enshrines in me the wisdom to determine that my failures were actually the fault of my competition. We should throw all of our mortgages in the Boston Bay!!!

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The truth about ANWR

Pictures showing the size of the actual proposed drill area in ANWR. The article also shows comparisons of the typical pictures you see in the media to what the drill area actually looks like.

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Read the Constitution lately?

It is truly disgusting what our elected officials do on a daily basis with the power we lend to them.

This article will, on it's surface, appear as though it is about the abortion debate. While that is a debate that I engage in, and am more than motivated to discuss, I wish to highlight what might otherwise be overlooked. This is supposed to be an Iraq War Supplemental Bill and one of our illustrious "representatives" felt it was a good idea to tack on a provision that has nothing to do with the war. Now, you can agree or disagree on the war, and you can agree or disagree on the abortion issue, but you must, in all candor, be with me when I say that the name of any bill should be in close alignment with it's contents.

One of the sneaky little tricks in Washington is something called an earmark. It occurs on both sides of the aisle and it is, in this humble thinker's opinion, tantamount to blatantly violating one's oath of office. In its essence it is a money laundering scheme with Tax Payer dollars and You should be thrown out of office for doing such things.

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Income Redistribution: Rangel’s Reward

Democrats sure know how to say thank you. Or perhaps it’s just coincidence that a bill passed by the House last week contains a special tax perk for trial lawyers—one of the largest contributors to Democrat campaigns. Buried in the Energy and Tax Extenders Act of 2008 is a provision, offered by House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel (D-NY), which would let trial layers deduct the up-front expenses they incur while chasing ambulances—er, filing contingency-fee lawsuits—whether or not they anticipate future reimbursements for these expenses. Under current law, these expenses, deemed “loans” to clients, are deductible only if not repaid. Rangel’s Reward would allow lawyers to claim deductions now and, in essence, defer tax payments until they receive reimbursements—which, as we know from watching infamous class-action lawsuits unfold, can take years.

A Rangel spokesman claims, “This is purely a matter of fairness and tax equity. The individuals who would benefit from this provision are already eligible to deduct expenses related to contingency-fee lawsuits, the only question is when.” In reality, though, the bill gives trial lawyers a green light, no speed limit, and free gas to launch a convoy of ambulance chasers.
Of course, as a rule, tax cuts are a good thing, but when they come in the form of special-interest loopholes that reward often-frivolous, economy-wrecking lawsuits, we hardly see the “fairness and equity” in that.

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Regulatory Commissars: How to lower prices

The spectacle of liberals in fiscally strapped states making unrealistic and unsupportable promises of government-controlled health-insurance schemes is providing Republicans with a chance to campaign on conservative ideas in the field of healthcare. Some conservatives have begun to take action on this topic.

In Florida, the state legislature unanimously approved Republican Governor Charlie Crist’s proposal to allow insurers to sell cheaper insurance containing fewer of the costly government requirements that price consumers out of the market. Only in overregulated markets does the idea of shedding costly government requirements to enable entities to meet consumer desires seem radical. In New Jersey, where the health-insurance market was destroyed by state-government intervention in the 1990s, Republican Assemblyman Jay Webber will introduce legislation to let residents purchase low-cost health insurance from any policy issued in any other state. Despite New Jersey’s costly mandates, Webber’s reform will prove ineffective unless the state also discards the guaranteed-issue and community-rating laws that increased premiums for a family policy anywhere from 500 to 700 percent. (No, that’s not a misprint—New Jersey insurance costs are about double those of states lacking these laws.)

Health-insurance reform is an issue conservatives can win on—if they quit acting like big-government liberals. Billions in unsustainable debt through expanding bankrupt government programs is never a good idea, nor is it conservative. Conservatives succeed only when they act like conservatives.

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