A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885
Happy New Year to each of you!
A special note of acknowledgement and a thank you to
Karen Peters for her years of diligent work and dedication in keeping us informed with the "real" news through her blog site “Conservative Corner”. While I cannot begin to fill Karen’s shoes I
am fortunate to have her mentor me while I continue her efforts through my blog
site “The Elephant’s Trunk and More”
located at http://elephantstrunkandmore.blogspot.com/.
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Employers in California and Illinois will be prohibited from demanding access to workers' password-protected social networking accounts and teachers in Oregon will be required to report suspected student bullies thanks to new laws taking effect in 2013.
In all, more than 400 measures were enacted at the state level during 2012 and will become law in the new year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
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Just before Christmas, after only being able to watch it in bits and pieces during October and November, I finally had the chance to take in the documentary film Hating Breitbart in one sitting. What prompted me to do so was some unfortunate news, namely a lawsuit filed by the immensely talented Dana Loesch signifying that the late Andrew Breitbart’s nascent publishing empire may be imploding. (Snip) While viewing the film, I could not help but wonder whether November’s presidential election might have turned out differently if Andrew had not died on March 1.
Thanks to O’Keefe’s work and Breitbart’s strategy, ACORN went from being one of the most untouchable leftist front groups in the country to a defunded pariah in Washington forced to suspend its operations in less than ten days. A few months later, it was out of business as a national organization. At the same time, Breitbart and O’Keefe completely exposed the knee-jerk leftist instincts of the establishment press. I’m not naive enough to believe that ACORN’s demise meant the end of the left’s efforts to rig voting, but it slowed them down considerably. A full-blown entrenched ACORN juggernaut in 2012 would have made it difficult for even the second coming of Ronald Reagan to compete.http://pjmedia.com/blog/missing-breitbart/2/
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America is entering a new economic normal, a reality where almost everything that should be going up is going down, and everything that should be going down is going up.http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/31/Obama-s-New-Economic-Normal-Seven-
Devastating-Facts
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http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/31/krauthammer-obama-showed-incredible-arrogance-in-astonishing-press-conference-video/
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A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino's Pizza doesn't have to immediately implement mandatory contraception coverage in theHEALTH CARE law.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONTRACEPTION_MANDATE_DOMINOS_FOUNDER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-12-31-13-34-01
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In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation’s foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America’s troubles.
“As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” Seidman wrote. “But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/31/georgetown-law-professor-scrap-archaic-idiosyncratic-and-downright-evil-constitution/#ixzz2Gj2H0bm5
Just before Christmas, after only being able to watch it in bits and pieces during October and November, I finally had the chance to take in the documentary film Hating Breitbart in one sitting. What prompted me to do so was some unfortunate news, namely a lawsuit filed by the immensely talented Dana Loesch signifying that the late Andrew Breitbart’s nascent publishing empire may be imploding. (Snip) While viewing the film, I could not help but wonder whether November’s presidential election might have turned out differently if Andrew had not died on March 1.
Thanks to O’Keefe’s work and Breitbart’s strategy, ACORN went from being one of the most untouchable leftist front groups in the country to a defunded pariah in Washington forced to suspend its operations in less than ten days. A few months later, it was out of business as a national organization. At the same time, Breitbart and O’Keefe completely exposed the knee-jerk leftist instincts of the establishment press. I’m not naive enough to believe that ACORN’s demise meant the end of the left’s efforts to rig voting, but it slowed them down considerably. A full-blown entrenched ACORN juggernaut in 2012 would have made it difficult for even the second coming of Ronald Reagan to compete.http://pjmedia.com/blog/missing-breitbart/2/
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America is entering a new economic normal, a reality where almost everything that should be going up is going down, and everything that should be going down is going up.http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/12/31/Obama-s-New-Economic-Normal-Seven-
Devastating-Facts
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| On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer voiced his displeasure over President Barack Obama’s New Year’s Eve press conference, which came during intense fiscal cliff negotiations on Capitol Hill. “I found it astonishing,” Krauthammer said. “Here he is — coming out to speak to the nation at a crucial moment in very delicate negotiations — and he comes out there with incredible arrogance. He ridicules the Congress. He spikes the football on the Republicans. |
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A federal judge has ruled a property management company owned by the founder of Domino's Pizza doesn't have to immediately implement mandatory contraception coverage in theHEALTH CARE law.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CONTRACEPTION_MANDATE_DOMINOS_FOUNDER?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-12-31-13-34-01
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In an op-ed published in the New York Times Monday, Seidman, a constitutional law professor, claimed that the nation’s foundational document is the real impediment to progress and solutions to America’s troubles.
“As the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system of government is broken,” Seidman wrote. “But almost no one blames the culprit: our insistence on obedience to the Constitution, with all its archaic, idiosyncratic and downright evil provisions.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/31/georgetown-law-professor-scrap-archaic-idiosyncratic-and-downright-evil-constitution/#ixzz2Gj2H0bm5
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President Barack Obama hopes – expects, really – that ’13 will be his lucky number, a year to cement his historical legacy and reap the benefits of an economy on the cusp of real revival.
That expectation, as much as anything, explains how Obama approached the fiscal cliff and why he opted for compromise over confrontation. The president, eyes fixed on history, always viewed the fight as an obstacle, not a destination, a thing to be gotten past on his way to breaking the historical pattern of weak, scandal-scarred and anti-climactic second-term presidencies.
But the endless battle over the budget — new fights over the debt ceiling and automatic spending cuts loom in a matter of weeks — could become a legacy trap for Obama, robbing him of precious leverage in redefining his relationship with Republicans on terms more favorable to an ambitious second-term agenda, they say.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-obamas-legacy-trap-85636.html#ixzz2Gj5LS7mK
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The Obama administration has dropped a bombshell in the recent Hobby Lobby challenge to Obamacare. According to CNS News, the Obama administration claims that the 1st Amendment still allows them to force Christians to violate their religious beliefs, amazingly, even on the basis where the life and deaths of innocent human beings is at stake. Americans opposed to Obamacare and fond of the 1st Amendment should stand behind Hobby Lobby on this one. A couple of informative videos about Hobby Lobby’s fight against tyranny and Obamacare are down at the bottom of the story.
President Barack Obama hopes – expects, really – that ’13 will be his lucky number, a year to cement his historical legacy and reap the benefits of an economy on the cusp of real revival.
That expectation, as much as anything, explains how Obama approached the fiscal cliff and why he opted for compromise over confrontation. The president, eyes fixed on history, always viewed the fight as an obstacle, not a destination, a thing to be gotten past on his way to breaking the historical pattern of weak, scandal-scarred and anti-climactic second-term presidencies.
But the endless battle over the budget — new fights over the debt ceiling and automatic spending cuts loom in a matter of weeks — could become a legacy trap for Obama, robbing him of precious leverage in redefining his relationship with Republicans on terms more favorable to an ambitious second-term agenda, they say.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/fiscal-cliff-obamas-legacy-trap-85636.html#ixzz2Gj5LS7mK
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The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is calling for a nationwide boycott of the advertisers of the suburban New York newspaper that published online maps revealing names and addresses of people with pistol permits.
The association on Monday announced it was urging people to stop patronizing any business who advertises with Gannett — the White Plains-based Journal News’ parent company — until the map is removed. On Dec. 22, the Journal News published interactive maps showing the pistol permit holders in the state’s Westchester and Rockland counties. The decisionsparked an uproar among conservatives and gun rights advocates, but the paper says it willcontinue adding names to the map.
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The Obama administration has dropped a bombshell in the recent Hobby Lobby challenge to Obamacare. According to CNS News, the Obama administration claims that the 1st Amendment still allows them to force Christians to violate their religious beliefs, amazingly, even on the basis where the life and deaths of innocent human beings is at stake. Americans opposed to Obamacare and fond of the 1st Amendment should stand behind Hobby Lobby on this one. A couple of informative videos about Hobby Lobby’s fight against tyranny and Obamacare are down at the bottom of the story.
http://beforeitsnews.com/obama/2012/12/obama-can-and-will-force-christians-to-act-against-their-faith-obama-administration-drops-a-bombshell-2446608.html
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We are being played; it's time we learned the game.
Conservatives have their Constitution. Progressives have their Narrative. The current battle for America is between these two concepts, and each side uses different rules to fight it.
One set of rules is consistent with an unchanging objective: limited government and individual freedoms. The other side's rules are as fickle as their goals, which are never fully disclosed beyond the equivocal references to fairness and hyphenated forms of justice. They will have to remain vague and deny their true allegiances until a time when American voters will no longer squirm at the word "socialism."
Thank you for your kind words. And thank you even more for taking the responsibility to inform those patriots who want to learn the truth. It is time consuming and addictive. I am proud of your work! Happy New Year!
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