American Patriots and Guns .....

With that as a backdrop, I was asked this week if Patriots have an obligation to arm themselves -- to be gun owners, and be proficient at the use of arms. I thought at first the question was rhetorical, but after some consideration, I realize that there are millions of grassroots Patriots who are NOT among the 60 million plus Patriots who are already law-abiding gun owners.

Apparently, the question needs to be addressed, as the answer may not be as obvious to some folks as it should be. By way of responding to this question, let me first briefly reiterate the historical and enduring case for gun ownership, which is as relevant today and tomorrow as it was at the dawn of our national founding.

Residents Alerted to Obamas’ Hawaiian Holiday Plans .....

I do not begrudge any President and his family a vacation...but these people put a whole new spin on it. I'm still trying to pay off the last vacation we took 3 years ago.....so easy to do in this wonderful (!?) economy....

Adding to the controversy surrounding the President's visit is the cost of the trip.

With the staff, special forces, local police presence and equipment, the President's visit adds up annually to at least a $4 million vacation courtesy of the Hawaii and federal taxpayers.

Will Scott Brown's Senate Departure Prove Brief?.....

Brown has not publicly said whether he would seek a return to the upper chamber, but close observers of Massachusetts politics have few doubts that the politically gifted, charismatic, and generally popular Republican would strongly consider a bid to duplicate his special election victory in 2010, when he claimed the seat long held by Ted Kennedy.

“From what I hear from people who’ve talked to Brown and are close to him, he definitely has interest in the special, if it happens,” said a Massachusetts Republican strategist. “But he hasn’t made up his mind that if it happens, he’s definitely going to run. He’s waiting to see where the appointment process goes, and then he’ll decide.”

Obama's Tax Increases Fund Government for Eight Days.....

It's nothing more than a Class Warfare power grab....it's all about "Fairness"...who's?

The problem is that the rich don't have enough money to put so much as a dent in America's $16 trillion national debt. "If the IRS grabbed 100 percent of income over $1 million, the take would be just $616 billion," writes John Stossel. "That’s only a third of this year’s deficit. Our national debt would continue to explode."

Why Ingraham is Right and Perry is Wrong on Illegal Immigration and the Vote.......

This all precisely underscores Laura Ingraham's unapologetic post-election point, one that she has been making since November 7 -- albeit mostly in an isolated effort on the part of the vast majority of conservative radio talk show hosts. To add to her argument, one might follow with another logical question. If we are to become -- as President John Adams so ardently warned against -- a nation of men rather than a nation of laws, why even bother with elections? Obviously, once you concede your will to that which is antithetical to all you believe in, you now stand for everything -- which means, in fact, that you believe in nothing. And standing for everything and believing in nothing make for no way to win elections, much less maintain a great nation.

Glenn Beck Clashes With Mike D’Antuono Over First Amendment Hypocrisy | Video | TheBlaze.com

THIS is what honest "Debate" and the Arena of Ideas looks like for those of you who do not know.....

 “If he says the sky is blue, they are going to say it’s red. And blue is a communist color anyway. If he says he likes puppies they are going to say, well, he hates kittens,” he said. “So he was being crucified no matter what he did.”

Then Beck applied the hypocrisy test: “Would you think that you would ever paint something of me, that I am crucified by the Left?”

“Well, uh, I haven’t given that any consideration,” D’Antuono replied.

Republicans Control Best-Run States in America, 24/7 Wall St. Survey Shows.....

...And we're surprised why???

The list is based on a review of data for financial health, standard of living and government services. While noting that current situations may stem from decisions made years ago and that external factors like weather can be as much to blame as poor governance, 24/7 Wall St. also points out that all of the high-ranking states have “well-managed budgets” and the worst states have “high debt relative to both income and expenditure.”

Liberals Respond to Beck’s ‘Obama in Pee Pee’ Artwork.......

Funny when shoe is on the LEFT foot!

Of course, the Twitter rants didn’t end there. Someone else told Beck, “I hope you enjoy hell as*hole.” Another more sinister message read, “I’d like to put ‘Beck’ in his jar urine with his GOP buddies. Then put an air tight lid on it.” Discussion wasn’t limited only to Twitter.

Legislature grants raises to staff, despite fiscal crunch.....

DO you know who they are?????!!!

Legislative leaders quietly handed out pay raises to their staff last week, despite a looming budget crunch that has prompted Governor Deval Patrick to freeze pay raises for low-wage human services workers and weigh a new round of spending cuts.

Did massive gun sales crash the FBI’s background checking system? .....

 That decline was not seen in one very specific area of the retail business, gun sales. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), gun sales — based on Black Friday background checks — set a new record, jumping by 20%. The surge in gun sales was so great that many retailers reported extended wait times in order to get applications processed by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).

A new single-day record for point-of-sale background checks was established on Black Friday, November 23, when 154,873 were conducted by the FBI.

The Truth About Pledges .....

"An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation." --John Marshall

The Fiscal Cliff: Absolutely everything you could possibly need to know.......

Analysts disagree on exactly how quickly the recession would begin. That’s why the “cliff” metaphor is inapt. If financial markets freak out, it might happen very quickly, proving the “cliff” imagery correct. But it might happen gradually, affirming those who’ve argued it’s a “slope.”

Claptrap About Compromise.....

Today's redistributionists in America don't have bank robbery in their pasts but they do accept organized theft as the norm of politics. They see all wealth belonging to the state automatically, which is why they count all tax cuts as "government spending" and why they feel entitled to hike up taxes whenever a self-inflicted "crisis" appears.

Taxpayers didn't cause the "fiscal cliff" emergency; derelict pols did. But the taxpayers, not the pols, will pay for it. To pay off their debts, pols will first rob the rich and then move on to the middle class, where much greater potential tax revenue resides.

Ann Coulter: Romney was not the problem......

 The idea that Romney failed to present a clear contrast with Obama or was too “nice” is also nonsense. If Republicans continue to tell themselves comforting myths about our candidate being the problem, they better get used to losing a lot more elections.

The only Republican to defeat a sitting president in the last century was Ronald Reagan in 1980, when he beat Jimmy Carter, the second-worst president in U.S. history (pending the final results of Obama’s second term). Because of that, and also because he is in the top two best American presidents, Reagan’s example is worth studying.

Mitt Romney: A good man. The right fight........

When much of what passes for a political intelligentsia these days predicted that the selection of Rep. Paul Ryan meant certain death on the third rail of Medicare and Social Security, Mitt Romney brought the fight to the Democrats and made the rational, persuasive case for entitlement reform that conservatives have so desperately needed. The nation listened, thought about it — and on Election Day, Mitt Romney carried seniors by a wide margin. And it’s safe to say that the entitlement discussion will never be the same.

The Left's Scrooge McDuck Mythology of the Wealthy.....

The money is just sitting there. Never mind Scrooge McDuck earned the money; he isn't using it, so McDuck doesn't need it. In fact, McDuck would still be rich if he gave over half of it away to those who really need it -- like kids in Mexico, the Philippines, and Afghanistan. Obviously, the rich foreigners, like McDuck, are selfish jerks for not sharing their 'luck.'

Student-Loan Delinquencies Now Surpass Credit Cards......

Moreover, the actual rate of student loan delinquency is far higher than the official tally suggests. According to the New York Fed, “these delinquency rates for student loans are likely to understate actual delinquency rates because almost half of these loans are currently in deferment, in grace periods or in forbearance and therefore temporarily not in the repayment cycle.”

D.C. Suburb Spending $100K on ‘Application Assistance’ for Illegals Seeking Obama's 'Deferred Action'......

Run for the hills...all hope is lost.......JEEZ!

Officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, an affluent suburb of Washington, D.C., voted to approve $100,000 of public money to help illegal aliens sign up for President Barack Obama’s administrative amnesty program for certain young illegal immigrants.

An Overdue Book....

Since Who's The Fairest of Them All? was published in October, there was little chance that it would affect this year's election. But this little gem of a book exposes, in plain language and with easily understood facts, the whole house of cards of assumptions, fallacies, and falsehoods which constitute the liberal vision of the economy.

Two-thirds of millionaires left Britain to avoid 50p tax rate......same will happen here.....

THIS is what cracks me up....the successful and wealthy didn't become that way by being foolish. 

And assuming the Government can handle your money better than you can is FOOLISH. Nothing is static. 

For Warren Buffett to say we need higher taxes because he doesn't pay enough ( which is a TOTAL falsehood considering he already paid full taxes on his money PRIOR to paying his investment tax....oh, why bother...)...he KNOWS it's a fallacy. He knows it's a lie. 

Nobody is just going to "roll over" and take it....they make decisions to protect what is theirs....as THEY SHOULD. 

Almost two-thirds of the country’s million-pound earners disappeared from Britain after the introduction of the 50p top rate of tax, figures have disclosed.

Blog: Civility lessons from the left

Beside the fact these people are Morons....I've been thinking about the Tea Party alot for the last six months....

How did we allow a "group" of people with Constitutional Ideals as their tenant be so demonized and lied about by the Left?

How did WE allow that to happen? It isn't even a "real" Party....all though the way the GOP Leadership is behaving of late...the Tea Party looks better by the day.....

We have only ourselves to blame.

I've been to numerous Tea Party gatherings...and all I see are families, kids, people worried about our country and paid Union Thugs trying to stop our speakers.....

HOW did we allow this to happen? I think they fear us...

 ... these teabag bastards, who by the way, I just wish they would all go away, or like in Passover, I just wish there was an angel of the Lord that would pass over, instead of killing the first born in all the households of Egypt, just wipe out all the teabaggers. Just, you know, the terrible swift sword, just (Malloy emulates sound of sword cutting repeatedly through the air) lop their heads off.

Alabama Takes a Stand Against Soros-Backed ‘Agenda 21′ .....

Educate yourselves about this....don't let "Spooky Dude" destroy us from within......

Although the U.N.’s George Soros-backed plan for “Sustainable Development” (also known as “Agenda 21”) seems to have gone largely unnoticed by many Americans, the shadowy, backdoor attack on personal property rights didn’t slip past the people of Alabama.

Empty Embrace… Hurricane Sandy Victim Upset After Being Played By Obama .......

"Played" by our President....NO!....Really!?..... I'd dare say his entire Presidency is an "Empty Embrace"....

 I was very excited and felt warm by the embrace thinking this is really going to happen. I’m going to get the help I need because he promised that. I’ve gotten no help. I’ve gotten nothing but ‘No, you’re not covered for this. No, you’re not covered for that.”

Black Friday: Treasury Borrowed $211.69 Per U.S. Household on Day After Thanksgiving.....

Only on Friday - when you want to dump bad news....REALLY bad news...dump on Black Friday - when NOBODY is watching.....

The U.S. Treasury increased the net debt of the United States $24,327,048,384.38 on the day after Thanksgiving, which equals approximately $211.69 for each of the nation’s 114,916,000 households.