NYC mayor, major CEOs lobby for immigration reform - Chief executives of several major corporations, including Hewlett-Packard, Boeing, Disney and News Corp., are joining Mayor Michael Bloomberg to form a coalition advocating for immigration reform including a path to legal status for all undocumented immigrants now in the United States. REPORT TIME – The...
REVISED AGENDA JULY 6, 2010 – 9:00 A.M. GEORGE A. SMITH MEETING ROOM I. CALL TO ORDER. II. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO FLAG. (COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID CISCO) III. ROLL CALL. IV. APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF THE JUNE 1, 2010, MEETING. V. COMMENDATION. VI. INVITATION FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. VII. FIRST READING:...
Dangerous Prayers Because I am in *prayer* (conversation) all day, every day, with my Creator, God, I don’t fall into repetitious type prayers. I wake up thanking Him for being with me and watching over me as I slept and then I pray for Him to bless me with His Wisdom, Discernment, strength, throughout...
This last Monday morning, I received a call from Councilman Brooks who asked me to look into the 118 Allen property that morning. Mr. Brooks had received a call from a lady earlier that lived near the Allen property and questioned the activities. Both Mr. Brooks and I had, at the request of our...
As I looked at this photo and read over the story I was thinking of the cop in the Rainier Valley area that stopped the JAYWALKERS and that made national news. Can someone explain to me why that event was such news and drew so much attention – especially since the area was a...
Stage Right Exit The closed-door meeting in the Oval Office this morning between President Obama and General Stanley McChrystal was, by all indications, short and probably not very sweet. McChrystal, who was abruptly called to Washington to explain comments by him and his staff in Rolling Stone disparaging the administration’s national security team, left...
“Half the population no longer reads the newspapers; plainly, they are the more clever half.” Gore Vidal “The marginal person is neither consistently good nor bad, smart nor dumb, bullish nor bearish…. but is subject to influence. Buy him a drink on election day, and he may vote whatever way you want. Stir him...
In early March of last year, I interviewed with Congressman Wamp and I was not impressed by his record or his answers to my questions. To remind me of these things several of my friends have put together a inkling of items that during the last 7 or 8 years that Congressman Wamp has...
Health law could ban low-cost plans Part of the health care overhaul due to kick in this September could strip more than 1 million people of their insurance coverage, violating a key goal of President Barack Obama’s reforms. Under the provision, insurance companies will no longer be able to apply broad annual caps on the...
Campaign For Liberty I received a note this morning from John Tate telling me that the FEC has cried foul and has declared that the Campaign for Liberty has acted illegally and has filed at least two complaints in two different states against our issue discussion activities. The FEC is alleging that Campaign for Liberty...
A friend of mine sent me this from a “McClatchy Washington Bureau” report. Notice the title then read the report especially the note in red….. The energy and climate bill that Republicans call a light-switch tax would lower electricity bills, at least in its early years, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Tuesday. The EPA...
I would say that there is far more than the property on the Mexican Arizona border involved here. I would include all those so called SANCTUARY CITIES as well. They are harboring ILLEGALS which is in direct violation of the 8 USC Section 1324a states: “Any person who knowingly hires/harbors/transports any illegal alien is guilty...
If you run by the local stores in Jackson, you will see an endless supply of grills just waiting to taken home for the summer. Every man that ever walks by gracfully eyes each and every unit on the lot even though they have one already waiting at home patiently, one that has served at...
5 Stryker GIs Now Charged in Afghan Murders Five Soldiers accused of murdering three Afghan civilians allegedly threw grenades at them and shot them with rifles. Two Soldiers are accused of beating a fellow GI who might have been an informant, while a third is accused of trying to impede the investigation by asking...
To clarify, it’s too serious to call it a “spill” anymore. One spills milk, cries (or not), and wipes it up. This was a disaster almost from day one. If you’re old enough to remember the Iranian hostage crisis, which (if memory serves) lasted a mind-numbing 444 days and birthed, via endless media coverage,...
In An Emergency, Could You Survive? This column was initially released last December. Without a doubt, this has been one of my most requested columns. So, in response to the large number of readers who have asked me to re-release this column, I do so today. And in doing so, I have added some...
Original Post from TeaParty.org Rejuvenated Bill Clinton Takes Aim at Tea Party Darling Sharron Angle. After helping lead candidates in Pennsylvania and Arkansas to unexpected victories in recent weeks, former President Bill Clinton is now hitting the campaign trail in Nevada to help vulnerable Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid overcome Republican nominee Sharron Angle....
Well, well, it is amazing what some people will say isn’t it? Art Linkletter used to have a program, “Kids say the darndest things”. It seems this week that ‘Democrats say the darndest things’. TN State Rep. Janis Sontany (D-Nashville) was certainly guilty of ‘open mouth–insert foot’ syndrome. Proverbs 23 says: “As a man thinketh...
When we have citizens going to jail for speaking out in opposition to political shenanigans you know something is WRONG when this kind of action can take place and the PERP isn’t put in jail. Political class elite will not tolerate citizens or their involvement in the political process. This shocking video demonstrates not...
Well let’s see if I can make sense of what happened….. SB3498-HB3433 was the original Health Freedom Act. SB 3498 by *Beavers , Tracy, Black, Crowe, Norris, Johnson, Watson, Ramsey, Faulk, Yager *HB 3433 by *Bell , Weaver, Harwell, Carr, Williams, Dunn, McDaniel, Matheny, Maggart, Dean, Lynn, Campfield, Rich, Shipley, Brooks K, Watson, Floyd,...
Heavy News: Caterpillar, Inc., the Peoria, Ill.-based heavy equipment maker, came out in opposition to a huge package of tax breaks, unemployment benefit extensions and other provisions today, citing $14.5 billion in proposed tax increases on multinational’s overseas operations. While supportive of provisions like an extension of the research and development tax credit and...
Two good (related) sites on asserting the rights guaranteed in & by the Constitution. http://www.flexyourrights.org/ This is a video that was made a few years back, but is still relevant. I don’t necessarily condone some of the behavior of the actors in their encounter with police (e.g. drug use), but in this country, you...
My son, Tim Baldwin, is a constitutional attorney and historian. And now, after reading his just-released book, FREEDOM FOR A CHANGE, I learned something else about him: he is quite the scholar. I dare say his new book, FREEDOM FOR A CHANGE, rivals any great textbook of law and history written during the...
I couldn’t help but be amused by this article because it reminds of the way the city / county / state executive offices justify the maintence of staff to the public. While we might see a zero hiring policy, rarely do we see the city remove personal even during the worst of economic times...
From HumaneWatch.org In reading the Coloradoan’s coverage of our increasingly popular 50-state report titled “Not Your Local Humane Society,” you might have noticed that an organization called the “National Federation of Humane Societies” (NFHS) recently sent us an angry letter: After catching wind of the campaign, the National Federation of Humane Societies —...
Anti-Christian bigotry is rearing its ugly head again. Comedy Central is developing a new animated series called “JC.” Its premise is that Jesus Christ, alienated from his aloof and bored father, God, goes to New York City and has adventures in the Big Apple. Christ will be shown as a deracinated, cynical city slicker...
One of my favorite bumper stickers from Ron Paul’s presidential bid in 2008 says “Because the Lesser of Two Evils is Still Evil”, in response to the growing lament in America about choices between the major parties’ candidates. Two recent examples of battles where it was tough to pick sides are the Church of...
By JEFF ZELENY NYT BEL AIR, Md. — The reception that Representative Frank Kratovil Jr., a Democrat, received here one night last week as he faced a small group of constituents was far more pleasant than his encounters during a Congressional recess last summer. Then, he was hanged in effigy by protesters. This time,...
Keeping a promise from his Cairo speech, President Obama is hosting a gathering of business leaders from 50 majority Muslim nations and 200 top American firms for a two-day “Entrepreneurship Summit” beginning today here in Washington. The President has repeatedly declared that the U.S. is “no longer a Christian nation,” and because Christian leaders...
The GOP is making moves to attempt to repeal healthcare law. House Republican leaders introduced a bill Thursday to repeal and replace the sweeping healthcare law adopted in late March. According to Rep. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), the measure would repeal the current law and replace it with the alternative the minority party offered to...
I couldn’t care less what the Gores do or don’t do in their personal lives - they mean nothing to me. However, the mess that Al Gore has created in this country/world with his faux climate idiocy does affect us all and that is what this article is about. Read this in case you...
From Bobbie Patray: Many of you have been carefully following HB3433 which would endeavor to protect Tennesseans from federally mandated health care. After having passed the State Senate 26-1-5 the House companion had been awaiting action in the House Budget Subcommittee. Last evening it was finally heard where the: TN Health Care Freedom Act...
There are times when I get a little unnerved by cartoons such as this because in comes a little close to home. A shiver runs down my spine, a tingle in my fingers, a quickening of the heart and the knowledge of the outcome. The reality of death and having seen death occur on...
To be honest, I have not had a chance to validate this as I just recieved the notice below: This is supposed to be part of the new Health Care Bill. I contacted my Congressman about House bill HR3590 the health care bill just passed. I asked for a summary of changes. The aid...
If Obama’s lost Frank Rich, he’s lost Middle America. By JAMES TARANTO Remember “accountability journalism”? As we noted in 2007, this was an Associated Press innovation designed “to report whether government officials are doing the job for which they were elected and keeping the promises they make.” It started in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina,...
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