It is just a technical matter, the Obama administration says: We just need to make a slight change in a law to make clear that we have the right to see the names of anyone’s e-mail correspondents and their Web browsing history without the messy complication of asking a judge for permission.
It is far more than a technical change.
According to an internal U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services memo going the rounds of Capitol Hill and obtained by National Review, the agency is considering ways in which it could enact “meaningful immigration reform absent legislative action” — that is, without the consent of the American people through a vote in Congress.
“This memorandum offers administrative relief options to . . . reduce the threat of removal for certain individuals present in the United States without authorization,” it reads.
The other morning I received an e-mail containing an article found on the Drudge Report, entitled, Will Washington’s Failures Lead To Second American Revolution? From that article I quote, “Bill Clinton lowered the culture, moral tone and strength of the nation — and left America vulnerable to attack. When it came, George W. Bush stood up for America, albeit sometimes clumsily.”
The question posed by the title is one that I have been asking myself for quite some time, however the premise contained in the above quote left me wondering how much the author understood the extent of the corruption to the principles upon which this nation was founded.
We watched the 1986 movie “Extremities” the other night, staring the now deceased Farah Fawcett. It was a powerful movie on the subject of individual terror and rape. It explored the raw emotions of both victim, rapist and the hapless witnesses who stumbled on the scene. In the movie, the victim turned the tables on the rapist by fighting back and taking every opportunity to get away, or attack the attacker. In the end and even though she was not raped, she subdued the would-be rapist with a toxic spray and then used the same terrorizing tactics on the rapist as the rapist used on her. She turned from victim to attacker.
These are truly extraordinary times. With every passing day, we are witnessing what can only be called the People versus the Government. The distrust and disdain Americans of all political persuasions feel toward the White House and Congress is extraordinary.
A June Gallup Poll revealed that just 12% of Americans expressed confidence in Congress, “the lowest of the 16 institutions tested this year, and the worst Gallup has measured for any institution in the 35-year history of the question.”
Ok — so what is a fascist? According to The Urban Dictionary a fascist is “someone who believes in a totalitarian state rule by a supreme leader (dictator) who controls everything possible and treats people harshly — to gain the leader’s own success….”
Sound familiar? In a piece by John Griffing, published at American Thinker, Mr. Griffing says the following: “At its core, fascism is really just a system where government, through agreements with the private sector, controls virtually all property and income indirectly and Obama has embraced this template.”
New study documents harmful effects of “cap-and-trade” and “endangerment” schemes
Environmental justice demands that the United States address global warming, the gravest threat facing minority Americans, insist the EPA, Congressional Black Caucus and White House. Are they serious?
The alleged threat pales next to unwed teen motherhood, school dropouts, murder and other crime. But even assuming human carbon dioxide emissions will cause average global temperatures to rise a few degrees more than they have already since the Little Ice Age ended, it is absurd to suggest that any such warming would harm minorities more than policies imposed in the name of preventing climate change.
I have just returned from a 2700 mile, ten day speaking tour in the mid-west. The mood of the country is far worse than you have heard. The level of anxiety about the direction and agenda of the federal government and the abject level of crises that most of the states are in is beyond comprehension.
Career jobs and decent paying employment is gone. Forced accumulation of debt through inflation and taxes is rampant.
