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Constitution and Government Archives

White House puts UAW ahead of property rights

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Chrysler headquarters is shown in Auburn Hills, Mich.,
Wednesday April 29, 2009. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Last Friday, the day after Chrysler filed for bankruptcy, I drove past the company’s headquarters on Interstate 75 in Auburn Hills, Mich. As I glanced at the pentagram logo I felt myself tearing up a little bit. Anyone who grew up in the Detroit area, as I did, can’t help but be sad to see a once great company fail.

But my sadness turned to anger later when I heard what bankruptcy lawyer Tom Lauria said on a WJR talk show that morning. “One of my clients,” Lauria told host Frank Beckmann, “was directly threatened by the White House and in essence compelled to withdraw its opposition to the deal under threat that the full force of the White House press corps would destroy its reputation if it continued to fight.”


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Posted May 7, 2009 06:26 AM    Permalink
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The Left Is Making a Grave Mistake

The Left Is Making a Mistake in Ridiculing the Tea Parties

The political Left in the United States is making a grave mistake indiminishing and dismissing the anger of the American people. Where it may be commonplace for liberals, Leftists, neo-Marxists and Progressive-Leftists to take to the streets over anything and everything, including a change of wind direction, it is entirely a different story with conservatives and Republicans. Conservatives and Republicans don't march in the streets foranything. The fact that they have now taken to the streets in protest of massive government spending and government's encroachment into our liberties speaks volumes to those who would listen.


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Posted April 19, 2009 04:20 PM    Permalink
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It Has Begun

Posted March 22, 2009 09:30 AM    Permalink
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Eleven States Declare Sovereignty

Eleven States Declare Sovereignty Over Obama's Action

State governors -- looking down the gun barrel of long-term spending forced on them by the Obama "stimulus" plan -- are saying they will refuse to take the money. This is a Constitutional confrontation between the federal government and the states unlike any in our time.

In the first five weeks of his presidency, Barack Obama has acted so rashly that at least 11 states have decided that his brand of "hope" equates to an intolerable expansion of the federal government's authority over the states. These states -- Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, California, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas -- have passed resolutions reminding Obama that the 10th Amendment protects the rights of the states, which are the rights of the people, by limiting the power of the federal government. These resolutions call on Obama to "cease and desist" from his reckless government expansion and also indicate that federal laws and regulations implemented in violation of the 10th Amendment can be nullified by the states.


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Posted March 1, 2009 06:47 PM    Permalink
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Insanity and Economic Collapse

Alan Keyes is making serious new charges.

In a video (see above) released February 20th, Alan Keyes, who lost to Obama in the 2004 U.S. Senate race in Illinois that launched the new president's national political career, calls Barack Obama a communist and usurper and says he refuses to acknowledge the validity of Obama's inauguration over lingering questions about the 44th president's birthplace.

The U.S. Constitution requires any president be born an American citizen. Barack Obama has steadfastly refused to provide evidence of his place of birth with an original birth certificate.

Comments are welcome at redstatepatriot@hughes.net. Please include the title of the article as your subject line. Selected responses, in whole or part, may be published (appended to the article).

Posted February 22, 2009 09:33 AM    Permalink
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American form of Government

Posted January 22, 2009 08:09 AM    Permalink
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Harry Reid's Land Grab

It's hard to pinpoint the worst part of the public lands legislation bill Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is calling up for an under-the-radar Sunday vote tomorrow.

The 1200-page, pork-laden, $10 billion proposal locks up millions of acres of energy-rich property by designating it as environmentalist-friendly "federal wilderness" area where not even as much as a bicycle would be permitted to travel across the land. Many of these areas recently became available when the ban on domestic drilling in Western states expired last fall and the liberal left couldn't muster the courage to keep it in place due to rising energy prices. Now Democratic leaders are using different legislative strategies to put a new kind of ban in place.

One Republican House staffer put it this way: "Reid is going to make it federal land so no one can touch it. He's locking up the equivalent of ANWR."


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Posted January 13, 2009 03:49 PM    Permalink
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Will it be all right?

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HOMAGE TO A GOVERNMENT
by Philip Larkin (1969)

Next year we are to bring the soldiers home
For lack of money, and it is all right.
Places they guarded, or kept orderly,
Must guard themselves, and keep themselves orderly.
We want the money for ourselves at home
Instead of working. And this is all right.
It's hard to say who wanted it to happen,
But now it's been decided nobody minds.
The places are a long way off, not here,
Which is all right, and from what we hear
The soldiers there only made trouble happen.
Next year we shall be easier in our minds,
Next year we shall be living in a country
That brought its soldiers home for lack of money.
The statues will be standing in the same
Tree-muffled squares, and look nearly the same.
Our children will not know it's a different country.
All we can hope to leave them now is money.

Posted November 22, 2008 07:20 AM    Permalink
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Either Yo' is or Yo' ain't

Posted October 25, 2008 03:13 PM    Permalink
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I AM AN AMERICAN

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Free republics are not known to have long life expectancies. At the ripe old age of two hundred and thirty-two, America is definitely showing her age. She is long past her prime, and some are predicting her demise. No, some are PLANNING her demise.

Thomas Jefferson and the other founders of this once-great country believed there was a controlling cabal that was crafting America's servitude. With the assistance of Heaven, they decided to fight those forces. Pastors fought with fiery sermons from the pulpit; newsmen fought with the power of the pen; statesmen fought in the halls of Congress; and merchants fought with the sacrifice of their material gain. Together, they lifted Lady Liberty to her feet and defeated the powers of darkness.


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Posted July 21, 2008 12:44 PM    Permalink
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Check. Balance.

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It’s Official...James Baker Has Lost His Mind

Anyone familiar with the threat posed by the advancing American Fifth Column understands all too clearly that our Constitution is under attack. Whether it is the insistence that the Constitution is a living document meant to conform to the will of the times or the institution of political correctness - a shadow set of laws effectively usurping the laws of our Constitutional Republic - the American Fifth Column is slowly, incrementally, systematically, chipping away at the wisdom as set forth by our Founders and Framers. With news that a non-governmentally charged commission is introducing a measure that would impose "group think" on the Commander-in-Chief, it is evidenced that the American Fifth Column is on the march.

Recently, a story surfaced regarding the War Powers Resolution of 1973. The resolution states:


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Posted July 12, 2008 08:53 AM    Permalink
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My Right to Unlimited Rights

Not long ago, I was having a gathering of about eight people at my house. The last guy to show up walked right into my kitchen and then protested because he couldn't find any bottled water in the refrigerator. Next, he complained that we ate all the snacks before he showed up thirty-five minutes late. When he finally came into the living room to sit down, he asked what we were talking about. I told him we were talking about economics, which involves not just demand but supply. I joked that he wouldn't have to demand any bottled water and snacks if he'd remembered to supply some, too. That drew a laugh from one of our mutual friends.


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Posted July 8, 2008 07:45 PM    Permalink
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HELLER HIGH WATER

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June 26th, the United State Supreme Court issued the opinion in District of Columbia, et.al. Petitioners v. Dick Anthony Heller, the first decision by the court to truly address the nature of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, and the extent of the rights it protects. As such, this was a highly anticipated decision, with momentous bearing on one of the most hotly contested issues in American society at the beginning of the 21st century. On one side of the debate stood millions of gun owners and the largest grassroots lobby in the United States, the NRA, and on the other a well funded lobby, and other citizens committed to the idea that guns are an unnecessary danger, prevalent in our society.


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Posted June 30, 2008 12:10 PM    Permalink
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THE GODS OF GLOBALISM

The Gods of Globalism: The Devil is in the Details

The Constitution of the United States of America-Preamble

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The (self-anointed – emphasis added) Gods of Globalism will require a new Preamble. Perhaps this one will do:

We the people of the Integrated Western Hemisphere, in order to form a more harmonized union, redefine justice, socially engineer domestic tranquility, redistribute wealth for the social good and higher purposes, encourage hemispheric welfare, and confiscate the blessings of liberty from our former selves to our new and more desired posterity, do abstain from any former sovereign constitutions and embrace a new social order under the guise of democracy.


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Posted June 28, 2008 07:42 PM    Permalink
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THE EXECUTIVE ORDER

A Presidential Power not designated by the Constitution
By Harry V. Martin with research assistance from David Caul

Article I, Section 1 of the United States Constitution is concise in its language, "All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States (emphasis added), which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives." When the Constitution was proposed, those opposed to a strong central government, the anti-Federalists, argued that there was no Bill of Rights to protect the people and that a centralized government would become too powerful, usurping the rights of the individual States.

At the time of its formation, the Constitution was created in secrecy and in direct contradiction to the mandate of the Congress, which was to amend the Articles of Confederation that were governing the infant nation since the end of the American revolution. Under the Articles of Confederation, the President of the United States was known as the President of the United States in Congress Assembled. The one-year Presidency was very limited in its scope, responsibility and authority. The Constitution, in contrast to the Articles of Confederation, established a strong four-year Presidency, but still only providing extremely limited powers to the office.


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Posted May 23, 2008 05:03 AM    Permalink
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Change doesn’t come by electing a president

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We have heard during this presidential election cycle – ad nauseam – how our country is in dire need of “change.” We are promised by each of the candidates that they are the ones – the only ones – who can bring about this much needed change. Of course, this is all disingenuous politicking. The fact of the matter is this: the office of the presidency is quite limited in its power to affect any change at all. The real entity capable of affecting immediate and dramatic change in government, the governmental branch with the real power, is the Legislative Branch.

When we examine the Charters of Freedom – and specifically the US Constitution – it is clear that the Executive Branch is charged with executing the laws of the land created by the Legislative Branch (with the consent of the Executive Branch via the signature of the President) and that the Legislative Branch is charged with crafting legislation; charged with debating, weighing and then enacting legislation that would become the law of the land. The Framers even established a mechanism where the Legislative Branch might “override” a presidential veto should the Executive Branch oppose legislation brought forth by an enlarged majority of Congress.


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Posted April 25, 2008 05:01 PM    Permalink
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NAFTA is not a Treaty

BIPARTISAN CRIMES AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION

The liberals have come up with a clever way of ratifying dangerous treaties, which now require a two-thirds vote (67) to pass in the Senate. They will introduce them as legislation, requiring only a majority vote to pass. The model for this new approach is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which President Bush mistakenly refers to as a treaty.

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have been portrayed by our media as being opposed to it. In fact, they want to make NAFTA stronger. They want to renegotiate the pact and attach binding commitments and strong enforcement mechanisms on labor and environmental issues. In effect, the Democrats are calling for NAFTA to assume even more supranational authority over economic activity in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. This could be the next step on the road to a proposed North American Union.

Regarding NAFTA, Hillary says she wants “to fix NAFTA by making it clear that we’ll have core labor and environmental standards in the agreement. We will do everything we can to make it enforceable, which it is not now. “Obama says, “As president of the United States, I intend to make certain that every agreement that we sign has the labor standards, the environmental standards and the safety standards that are going to protect not just workers, but also consumers.”


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Posted March 9, 2008 08:48 AM    Permalink
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Government Will Continue To Grow

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Prediction: There is a 100% chance that government will continue to grow

It’s the season of predictions. Here are mine:

1. Government will consume an increasing share of the economy.
2. Most Americans won’t care.
3. Because most Americans won’t care, most politicians won’t do anything about it.
4. Because most politicians won’t do anything about it, future generations face lives of serfdom, which is defined as working more hours for the government than for themselves.

Before backing up the predictions with facts, let me pause here and insult myself to save those on the political right and left from having to do so.

Cantoni, you’re nothing but a cynic and defeatist.

That’s what conservatives typically say when I say that government growth is unstoppable. Because I deal in facts, they mistakenly think that I want to throw in the towel and let left-liberals win without a fight.

Cantoni, you’re a selfish, mean-spirited jerk.

That’s what left-liberals typically say when I say that government growth should be stopped. They mistakenly think that I don’t care about the poor. They also are delusional and think that most government spending has something to do with the poor.


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Posted January 13, 2008 04:48 AM    Permalink
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Religion Informs the Conduct of its Adherents

Is Religion’s Standing in American Society Absolute?
John W. Howard

A young man came into my office last week looking for a job as an associate in my law firm. He seemed bright enough, went to an Ivy college and a great law school, and graduated law review at the top of his class. During our interview, though, I was stunned by some of what he said. He observed that the law is merely a tool to be used in service of our clients and is entitled to no more dignity than any other set of arbitrary rules when it comes to getting our clients what they want. When I asked if that meant he would allow a client to lie in court, he said “certainly.” There is a higher purpose to what we do, he said, than to slavishly observe laws against perjury. Everybody lies in court. If we are unwilling to let our client do so as well, we will be at a tremendous competitive disadvantage. We are there to help our clients and if the way to do that is to lie, then that is what we have to do.

“In fact”, he said, “I am not above a little intimidation, if necessary.” Horrified, I asked him what he meant by that. He told me that the object of litigation is to win and that if witnesses exist who are inclined to hurt our case, he would not have a problem with a visit to suggest that if they step forward, we may not only take action against them in court, but they could find themselves in physical danger. He felt that the higher purpose was our clients’ wishes.


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Posted January 11, 2008 02:04 AM    Permalink
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Welcome to '1984'

George Orwell would be proud.
FBI Prepares Vast Database Of Biometrics

CLARKSBURG, W. Va. - The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database of peoples' physical characteristics, a project that would give the government unprecedented abilities to identify individuals in the United States and abroad.

Digital images of faces, fingerprints and palm patterns are already flowing into FBI systems in a climate-controlled, secure basement here. Next month, the FBI intends to award a 10-year contract that would significantly expand the amount and kinds of biometric information it receives. And in the coming years, law enforcement authorities around the world will be able to rely on iris patterns, face-shape data, scars and perhaps even the unique ways people walk and talk, to solve crimes and identify criminals and terrorists. The FBI will also retain, upon request by employers, the fingerprints of employees who have undergone criminal background checks so the employers can be notified if employees have brushes with the law.

"Bigger. Faster. Better. That's the bottom line," said Thomas E. Bush III, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Justice Information Services Division, which operates the database from its headquarters in the Appalachian foothills.

The increasing use of biometrics for identification is raising questions about the ability of Americans to avoid unwanted scrutiny. It is drawing criticism from those who worry that people's bodies will become de facto national identification cards. Critics say that such government initiatives should not proceed without proof that the technology really can pick a criminal out of a crowd.


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Posted December 22, 2007 02:38 PM    Permalink
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Our Rights are at Stake

Our Rights at Stake in Michael Savage Case
By Cliff Kincaid
December 14, 2007

Michael Savage, who is being accused of "hate speech" by a Muslim group whose own holy book The Koran is full of hate against Christians, Jews and other unbelievers.

Radio personality Michael Savage wrote a book on why liberalism is a mental disorder. That helps explain why he is under attack by radical Muslims, who are fellow travelers with the liberals in trying to dismantle American defenses against terrorists and criminals.

Two recent developments, the banning of capital punishment by politicians in New Jersey and the House vote to ban the waterboarding, or simulated drowning of terrorists, provide more evidence of Savage’s thesis. Why is it that liberals are so determined to keep convicted killers alive at public expense? Why are they so determined to spare terrorists from a few seconds of discomfort? It is because they have a mental disorder. For them, it is fashionable to be indifferent to the suffering of the real people who should count—American citizens.


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Posted December 14, 2007 03:17 PM    Permalink
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Googled By the State of Arizona

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We live in an age where the protections of personal liberty afforded to us by our Constitution and tradition are being undermined from sources outside the erected protection barriers. While we have been vigilant to prevent the government from building massive, vertical information databases on citizens using social security numbers and a national identity card, we allowed private enterprise to build exactly those databases under the guise of "credit reporting." TRW, Experian, and Equifax have painfully detailed information about our lives. The government then does an end-run and simply uses those commercial databases as though they had created the files themselves.

Funny that TRW also builds spook satellites - hmmm?

Now, the same thing is happening with supposedly commercial search engine technology. By opening all government files and databases to search engines like Google, claiming this to be in the name "open and transparent government" this is also "open and transparent and easy" to all other parts of the government.


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Posted May 18, 2007 10:28 AM    Permalink
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Sirens of Liberalism

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I've come to understand, and it took longer than it should have because it's incredulous, that Democrats truly (sincerely) believe the three branches of American government are the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, and the liberal courts. It seems clear to me after years of observation, and too many conversations with devout socialists (who aspire to mind-numbing levels of egalitarianism), that Democrats see issues in a single-minded framework, i.e., an attempt by one branch (Republicans) to usurp the powers of another branch (the liberal courts), and so, see the Democratic Party's role as properly protecting the Constitution.


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Posted February 15, 2007 01:00 PM    Permalink
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