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Department of Justice Drops Appeal and Pays Pro-life Sidewalk Counselor
www.LC.org Washington, DC – The Department of Justice (DOJ) has dropped its appeal in Holder v. Pine against pro-life sidewalk counselor Mary “Susan” Pine, who is represented by Liberty Counsel. The DOJ has agreed to pay $120,000 for this improper lawsuit. The DOJ had unsuccessfully sought thousands of dollars in fines against Susan Pine, as well as a permanent injunction banning her from counseling women on the public sidewalk outside the Presidential Women’s Center (“PWC”) abortion clinic. After 18 months of litigation, the DOJ’s case was thrown out of federal court, and the department was chastised for filing a case with no evidence. Federal Judge Kenneth L. Ryskamp stated that Holder’s complete failure to present any evidence of wrongdoing, coupled with the DOJ’s cozy relationship with PWC and their joint failure to … Read entire article »
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Is Calling 911 Enough?
One of the key witnesses to the events that led up the shooting of Trayvon Martin told police that he heard Zimmerman screaming for help and saw the teenager on top of the man beating him mercilessly. He made the 911 call, then went to an upstairs window to watch what happened next. To his credit, he, and one or two others responded the the victims screams with more concern then Kitty Genovese’s Kew Gardens neighbors did when she was stabbed to death in an alley next to her apartment building in 1964. I don’t know the man or his physical condition, but I am concerned that this thinking is far too prevalent in our world today. Many believe that seeing a situation and letting the government know about it is … Read entire article »
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Give Me Liberty!
[March 23, 1775 Patrick Henry took to the floor of St. John's Church in Richmond VA where he addressed the state's leading citizens. It had been a year and a half since the Boston Tea Party. It had been not quite a year since General Gage led four regiments into the same city. Just the month before John Hancock helped lead the Massachusetts Colony in establishing defenses against the unwanted British. Henry spoke from the heart - recognizing the dangers that lay ahead for the freedom seeking colonists, yet urged them forward anyway. May we be worthy of this man and the rest of the courageous founders who laid the groundwork for this great nation.] No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of … Read entire article »
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The Regulated Society
Over the past years, even under more benevolent administrations, we have seen increases in regulations tampering with ever growing areas of our lives. We have just recently felt the heat and aggravation as they have been coming at an ever increasing rate in recent years. We have more to blame for this than a renegade president and his henchmen. We have found ourselves in a situation where there is a lawyer behind every business conversation, from employment interview to water cooler. Our food is relentlessly controlled, tested and “approved”. Our cars are in the process of becoming miniscule, underperforming death traps – and that is just the tip of the iceberg. What brought us to this enslaved condition? Why are we permitting this continue? The fact is, at this point we have … Read entire article »
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The Crisis By Thomas Paine – Part I
[Editors note: In this classic article, Thomas Paine discusses the choices that laid before the colonists just prior to Christmas 1776. In many ways, they are the same choices we face today. Please return for Part II tomorrow.] December 23, 1776 Part I THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put … Read entire article »
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A Complete New Faith Being Pushed On America — At Taxpayer Expense
By Bob Larimer No one takes on a public policy stance without some firmly held belief, some foundational principle or worldview which they embrace, and from which they reason. What has been happening in our society for decades is a titanic battle between two powerful, competing worldviews. Unfortunately, one of those worldviews has had the advantage of pretending to be a ‘reasonable’ belief that is ‘free from religion,’ and which has gained access to your tax dollars. We have been financing a takeover by a Christianity-replacing faith. The new PC faith, the belief system of true-believing liberals, is actually a thoroughly developed, reasonable-sounding worldview. It is self-identified as a “Bold new faith” which must be “Established” in “All mankind’s institutions and associations,” in Humanist Manifesto I. And in Manifesto II we find the ultimate … Read entire article »
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Is The Constitution Partisan?
I recently saw an advertisement for a seminar on the US Constitution where the presenters took great pains to emphasize the fact that it was a non-partisan look at the document. This got me to thinking, most every such session does the same thing. Years ago, no one would have thought otherwise. What happened? Despite what some judges would have us believe, the constitution is the same as it was a hundred years ago, or for that matter, two hundred years ago. Of course there have been amendments, but for the most part, they have clarifications. Yet there were some that changed the philosophy of parts of the document. Allowing senators to be elected by the people rather than keeping them tethered to state governments was one instance. Permitting a graduated … Read entire article »
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Hoffa Wants To Take You Out!
If you think of yourself as a tea partier, Jimmy Hoffa’s kid wants to take you out. He does not mean that he wants to buy you dinner. Considering the Teamster’s penchant for violent thuggery, it would behoove us to take his rant seriously. The President has no problem with Hoffa’s rhetoric that declared union members were his army to execute his schemes. Then the brilliant Joe Biden encouraged union members by telling them that they were the only non-governmental body that could take on the tea party. These are times that can turn into a season of danger for everyone who takes a public stand for what is right. We are the ones who stand in the way of these collectivists guiding us into a socialist purgatory. The union leaders … Read entire article »
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Don’t Let Them Call You Extreme!
The progressive left establishment is fond of calling those of us who actually believe the constitution is a great outline for running our government, extremists, racists or even, fundamentalists. Using these inflammatory words, they try to appear that they have the reasonable approach to solving they problems they have created. They see a problem, and whether anyone else does or not, they seek to impose a “solution” that expands the depth of their intrusion into our lives, whether anyone wants that solution or not. It is when we tell them to check to see if their “solution” is permissible under the rules (constitution) our government is supposed function under, we get a paraphrased replay of the banditos in the Treasure of Sierra Madre, “Rules, we don’t need no stinkin’ rules.” These “rules” … Read entire article »
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