January 20, 2010

• The fallout: Democrats rethinking health care bill 01-20-10
  Oh, good. I hope they consider freedom this time around. I doubt it, of course, but hope springs eternal!
• Democrats point fingers after stunning loss 01-20-10
  Sure, they are. But I'll bet most of them aren't point back at themselves and the perception they're systematically destroying freedom in this country, and that's precisely where the real reason for yesterday's stunning electoral upset lies!

January 19, 2010

• Port St. Lucie doctor finds getting driver license almost impossible 01-19-10
  Once again, the government comes up with a plan to keep us safer that does little of that even as it brings on a whole new set of problems. The fact that it's apparently more than a little efficient only cements REAL ID as a government idea brought into reality by government officials and implemented by government flunkies. Gosh, I feel safe and secure just thinking about it!
• Long Lines, Angry Customers at State Driver Offices 01-19-10
  More expensive, less efficient. And to top it all off, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do! After all, a little wait or some frustration would be a small price to pay for the safety of a license that pretty much proves you're a law-abiding American citizen, right? Well, no. But even if it were, a criminal in Maine already managed to get a REAL ID compliant license under an assumed name, so yup, we've pretty much got nothing, and the government's got still more of our rights.
• Report: FBI Illegally Collected Phone Records 01-19-10
  While the authorities mull over whether or not there will be any disciplinary action taken, I'll just sit here and wait for them to suddenly jump up and down—as if it just occurred to them—that the PATRIOT Act pretty much absolves them from what they did. I don't think I'll be waiting long...
• REPORT ACLU Issues Report On Obama Administration's Civil Liberties Record 01-19-10
  Yes, the Obama administration has, indeed, been kind of a mixed bag where civil liberties are concerned. What I found most unfortunate, though, is that the report doesn't even mention what I consider to be some of the most grievous infringements of freedom. Mandatory health insurance comes to mind. So does the economic destruction of the middle class.
• Confirmed: Dems have 'voting legislation' in works 01-18-10
  So under the guise of ensuring every American can more easily exercise his or her rights, the Democrats would steal away the rights and the freedoms of us all. I'd like to say it's nothing out of the ordinary (seeing as how it really isn't), but this one's bad enough that one pundit referred to it as a "Democrat coup d'etat." No matter the battles we've won or are winning, the war could still be lost if measures like this one see the light of day!

January 18, 2010

• Time’s Mark Halperin: Dem Loss in Mass. = Win For ObamaCare 01-18-10
  We already know that this isn't about our civil liberties or even about our genuine welfare. But it's rare that some in Congress are so overt about their planned machinations to subvert both the will of the people and our freedom itself! I suspect a good number of them will be paying for it in 9 and a half months...
• COMMENTARY ‘Safer Streets 2010: Why the second amendment emphasis in a 2010 liberty platform?‘ 01-18-10
  While it's entirely fair to put the Second Amendment at the top of the list of unalienable rights (interestingly, the Founding Fathers began with the Second as the First), it's also crucial to note that voter knowledge is critical. Those who know our history and who value what our forefathers forged and held will always vote for freedom!
• 'Shame on Martha!' Senate race turns 'vicious' 01-17-10
  If Brown, unlike most politicians, is telling the truth about what he'll do if voters send him to Washington, he deserves every vote he gets. If he keeps his promises, unlike most politicians, he'll be good not just for Massachusetts but for every American everywhere who still values liberty.

January 15, 2010

• DMV begins issuing Advance Secure Issuance Licenses and ID Cards 01-15-10
  It sounds to me as if Nevada actually considered and rejected some of the worst implications of REAL ID (RFID embeds, for example, and a nationwide database). If Nevada's IDs are tough to forge, why can't other states take a lesson from Nevada instead of orders from Washington, eh? It's the federal control that scares those of us concerned with civil liberties, not the idea of secure identification media!
• COMMENTARY Danger ahead -- the nullification of the Congress 01-15-10
  There are, indeed, some very real dangers here. And while each diminishes the power of Congress per se, it neuters even more effectively the powers of "we, the people." As a result, I'd strongly encourage we, the people to do anything and everything still remaining within our power to put a stop to this tyranny-in-the-making!
• TSA: Security fails to spot gun at Mont. airport 01-14-10
  The honest-to-a-fault American turned himself in. But you had better bet a terrorist would have had no such compunction! You can also be sure that this little anecdote isn't making anybody feel a whole lot safer...

January 14, 2010

• 9th Circuit Strikes Down Washington's Felon Voting Law 01-14-10
  I can't say whether or not punishment for criminals in Washington state involves any kind of discrimination. What I can say is that the loss of the right to vote when you're in prison can easily be viewed as just a part of the punishment, and having no bearing whatsoever on anything else. It's almost incidental that I don't believe this ruling bodes well.
• Top Obama czar: Infiltrate all 'conspiracy theorists' 01-14-10
  Okay, after you stop laughing, consider: the guy is actually serious. Not so funny any more, eh?
• Meet Mikey Hicks, 8: U.S. has him on watch list 01-14-10
  Looks like the authorities have no problem finding an 8 year-old kid on a list he shouldn't be on every time he flies, but the same authorities can't find a guy on a list he should be (and is) on, even when his own father calls them and tells them to keep a sharp eye out. Yeah, I'm buying into that completely.
• Republican Senate Candidate Scott Brown Posed Naked In Cosmo 01-12-10
  Okay. But why is this an issue? He was a good looking guy (good enough he might want to use the photos for his own campaign—I'd vote for him!). The photos don't show everything. It was perfectly legal. He didn't say anything embarrassing, either. Meanwhile, his opponent misspells the name of her own state, has staff members who push members of the press around, and is clueless concerning foreign affairs. Yeah, that evens things up... <cough> Can you say, "desperate?" I knew you could!

January 12, 2010

• Dems stiffen spines on health bill 01-12-10
  Dems can pretend that "it would be politically disastrous to flip-flop now" all they like. There's no pretending at all that voting in favor of this monstrosity will prove politically disastrous for those who do! Besides, politicians are masters of flip-flops and explaining them away, so that doesn't sound like much of a threat to me.
• Labor angry over Obama-backed insurance tax 01-12-10
  I am not now, and have never been, a big fan of unions. But at least union leaders are smart enough to realize that the biggest hit from this version of healthcare reform will be to middle class families, a fact most in Congress are either busy ignoring or denying.
• ACLU Official Says It Is Not Realistic to Screen Air Passengers Against the Full Terrorist Watchlist 01-12-10
  I disagree. While there's no question in my mind that the lists are flawed, actually rifling through those lists isn't a problem at all. There's this modern invention we like to call the "computer" that'll do that job just fine. The real issue here is whether or not we can get our act together insofar as adding names to the list, and just as importantly, removing names from the list.
• COMMENTARY Gillibrand is running scared 01-12-10
  Given Gillibrand's past history and her current unpopularity, Democrats should be thrilled they've got the option of another candidate! Me? Well, I hope the Democrats continue to keep competition out of the way. As unlikely as it would have sounded a year ago, if Gillibrand keeps doing what she's been doing and then runs directly against a Republican in an election, the Republican has one hell of a good shot at winning.
• BLOG ENTRY Obama's TSA Nominee Targets Anti-Government Christians 01-12-10
  Well, I don't know about you, but I feel safer already!

January 11, 2010

• Data mining project benefits investigators, scares privacy experts 01-10-10
  Remember MATRIX? Well, it's getting set up to get worse...
• Wanted Fugitive Obtained Valid Maine License 01-11-10
  When I first saw this story, I thought to myself: Wouldn't it be ironic if Maine was a state that was already in compliance with REAL ID? Wouldn't it be a vindication of those of us ringing warning bells about REAL ID if somebody slid right through the supposed security processes? Had this been a terrorist who managed a significant attack as a result of his valid driver's license, I can assure you I'd not be feeling this perverse sense of delight right now...
• Mandatory health insurance becomes an issue 01-11-10
  It should be an issue. For all of those people who won't be permitted to make their own decisions any more, this is a clearcut violation not just of their unalienable rights, but of their personal sovereignty as well.
• BLOG ENTRY Digital STRIP SEARCH – Inverted Airport Body Scanner Image Shows NAKED Bodies In Full Living COLOR! 01-10-10
  I've actually been through a pat-down search at an airport, and that was in a foreign country where my civil liberties weren't exactly high on the list of those doing the searching. And I'll tell you right now that that was far less invasive than this is. If I hadn't already stopped flying thanks to the TSA's nonsensical rules (and I won't start again until those idiotic regulations are rescinded), this would surely make me stop flying now!
• Obama Highlights Immediate Benefits of Health Care Bill 01-09-10
  Most of this story just repeats Obama's usual lies and misdirection. But there's one line that's more than a little telling: "Obama and lawmakers also agreed to bypass formal negotiations as they reach for a deal." Since when does the President and members if his own party and his own party only get to make all the rules? This isn't a democracy, it's a tyranny. It's a slave state in the making. And the ultimate plantation owner wanna-be is Barack Hussein Obama.

January 8, 2010

• Passenger in Oregon to Hawaii air incident faces charges 01-08-10
  Let's see...a guy who is a known terrorist (he's on a list, his father reported him) can get on an airplane with a bomb in his underpants, but an apparent redneck who's rarely flown and is a nervous flyer makes a really bad joke (no mention of bombs, terrorists, highjackings or other genuinely bad stuff, just stupid), and pilots turn the airliner around. No wonder I don't feel safe!
• COMMENTARY Do Americans Want Freedom? 01-08-10
  Sadly, I think a vast number are perfectly willing to trade liberty for perceived security. Of course, by the time their perception clears, it will be too late...
• BLOG ENTRY It begins: Federal judge tosses Gitmo detainee’s confession as coerced 01-08-10
  I can't imagine anybody really thought this wouldn't happen... And the man in the White House, who is allegedly a pretty smart guy and educated as a Constitutional lawyer to boot, almost certainly knew exactly what he was doing.
• Pelosi vows to defend House healthcare bill 01-07-10
  I hope she does, because that would likely be enough to grind the entire process to a halt. But she won't. She's lying about that just as she's lied about pretty much everything else we actually know about. There are probably plenty of other lies involving things we don't know about in this, the most transparent legislation process ever! (FYI, that was another Pelosi lie...)
• New Jersey Senate Defeats Gay Marriage Bill 01-07-10
  This is unfortunate. By refusing to offer equal rights to all state residents, the New Jersey Senate has effectively worked to actively maintain a "lesser" class of American. I don't believe in special rights, but I do believe in equal rights.

January 7, 2010

• Top Dem: Health bill reconciliation needs to be private 01-07-10
  If you have to keep everything in back rooms, then the bill isn't worth passing in the first place. All you're doing by hiding is keeping the public from knowing just what dirty deals are included as part and parcel of every measure, good or bad (and there aren't many badder than this one).
• Final Health Care Bill May Require Proof of Insurance on Tax Returns 01-07-10
  I suspect that it will, indeed, do just that. And the IRS—which is already too powerful, largely corrupt, and wholly inefficient—will have almost complete control over how each of us is permitted to live. This nightmare is sounding more and more Soviet as time goes on. How is it that some are still too blinded by Barack to see what they're trying to impose on us?
  
• 'No New Information' About Terror Suspect Emerged During Flight, Official Says 01-07-10
  The information available before the flight would have been plenty if the authorities weren't more interested in random searches of American businessmen than they are in the legitimate profiling of fundamentalist Muslim men from suspect countries.

January 6, 2010

• Newark airport's security cameras not recording during Sunday breach 01-06-10
  Cameras are pretty simple stuff, but have been known to be effective without being overly intrusive (unlike a whole lot of other security measures the government now wants to phase in). But to be effective at all, they kind of have to be working. I'm more and more of the opinion given so many obvious failures and the clamor for so much egregiously intrusive security to "fix" the "problem" that some of this is by design and is the excuse for the aforementioned intrusive security.
• Washington prisoners entitled to vote, federal court rules 01-06-10
  How do I put this delicately? Hmmm...This, my friends, is a crock of crap! You don't lose the right to vote because you're black (or Asian or Native American or...) You lose it because you're in freaking jail! As far as I'm concerned, unless the minority inmates (who are the majority behind bars which is what I suspect is really pissing them off) can prove white guys get to vote while they don't, there's no discrimination involved here. What in hell was that (majority Democrat?) court thinking?
• Married Couples Pay More Than Unmarried Under Health Bill 01-06-10
  Congress claims it's not possible to fix this problem without causing others. Oh, yeah? How about we scrap the nonsense all together and try something that might actually work (not to mention be affordable and far more equitable) instead?
• INTERVIEW America Under Barack Obama 01-05-10
  Nat Hentoff isn't exactly a far right conservative. And yet he, too, recognizes that we're in deep, deep trouble under the administration of this president. Fortunately, he also points out something he calls the "Second American Revolution." Count me in.
• COMMENTARY Democrat Asks For Real ID As Urgent Fix For U.S. Security 01-06-10
  I couldn't disagree more. These IDs would prove even more invasive than extant surveillance—which is really saying something!—and would do little or anything to add security. I realize these things are on the government's wish list, but has it never occurred to people like this guy that there are reasons far above and beyond the "war on terror" for that to be the case? I hereby assign him to go do some research on recent American history. I'd start by googling John Ashcroft.
• BLOG ENTRY Let’s pass on PASS ID 01-06-10
  Good idea. Of course, the better the idea, the less likely Congress will like it.
• CAIR accuses feds of racial profiling 01-05-10
  I think we all knew that certain civil liberties groups would be less than thrilled if the government finally actually used a little common sense and targeted those mostly likely to be radical Muslim terrorists with a little extra scrutiny. My best guess? The government will back down, and more people will die at the hands of those who are permitted their murderous ways solely because some of us can't bear to be less than perfectly politically correct.
• COMMENTARY Hiding health bills behind closed doors 01-05-10
  This isn't transparency, Nancy, and it isn't remotely ethical, Harry. The fight against Barack Obama, his lead henchmen, and the Democrats currently in office in Congress can't be fought hard enough. I've said it before, and I'll say it again: This isn't about you, me, or even health care reform. At this point, our very country is at stake.

January 5, 2010

• Civil liberty groups oppose new U.S. air screening 01-05-10
  Of course they do. But racial and religious profiling is going to be the single most effective way to nip the majority of terrorist attacks in the bud. Why on earth would anyone consider patting down a kindergardner, or strip searching a grandmother from Des Moines, to have anything to do with security?
• COMMENTARY Screening must include religion, ethnicity 01-04-10
  No discrimination here, just the simple fact that 100% of the terrorists we've actually caught have been male and Muslim, and almost all of them have been of Middle Eastern extraction. When a person matches the description of the suspect, it seems there's no violation of rights to double-check they're not the bad guy you're looking for, doesn't it?

January 4, 2010

• Obama to Tackle Airport Security Following Several Breaches 01-04-10
  Oh, goodie. We can now look forward to still more invasive things that won't work and/or could easily be replaced by far less odious measures. But hey, we still won't engage in such despicable activity as targeting those most likely to be a danger, so it's all good! <cough>
• Feds order toughest airport security rules ever, with extra measures for terror-prone nations 01-04-10
  I understand that security isn't necessarily simple. But it could be a whole lot simpler than this! And I'm well aware that flying isn't an unalienable right. But why must I give up so many of those that are if I want to fly, eh?
• COMMENTARY Fact-Checking Ben Nelson 01-04-09
  Isn't it interesting how all of the promises made by politicians concerning healthcare reform not only don't measure up, but actively require lies and obfuscations to be made at all? And we're giving up all of our money and many of our rights for this?

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