Tea Party Candidate To File Ethics Complaint Against Incumbent Grayson

See update below:The campaign chief for a Lake County-based Tea Party candidate challenging US Rep. Alan Grayson said that they plan to file an ethics complaint against the firebrand freshman.

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The Happiest Angry Mob

When you’re losing in sports or politics, it can’t hurt to see what the winning team is doing. So what are they doing? Protesting.

We should get off our “high ideals” and mount massive protest marches. After all, the Socialist Workers Party can lead tens of thousands against America defending herself.

So why can’t the tens of millions who love the Constitution and our founding principles inspire two million ex-military people, bikers, athletes, conservative Christians, and like-minded “average Americans” to march and shout in a grand circle around the Capitol in D.C, banging pots and pans and yelling, “Hey hey , ho ho, Socialism’s gotta go! If our servants in the Congress cower with fear that we might charge the building, so much the better. Not that we would, but it wouldn’t hurt if they thought we might.

I wrote that (with some now updated editing) six years ago, and though there’s always hope, I was never really sure we’d bring it off.

But this past Saturday, we did.
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Philosophy, not politics, is the key to success

The time is at hand when we will be heard – and loudly. We have already seen the evidence (Van Jones, the health care plan) that it doesn’t take a majority to throw roadblocks in front of those whose main purpose in life is to overthrow the Constitution, not by violence, but by neglect and deliberate misinterpretation.

But I am troubled by some of what seems to be on the agenda for the march this Saturday. Most references on the website for the march still speak in terms of lower taxation and individual fights on legislation as it appears in the Congress.
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Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.

They’re not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, have spent months drafting behind closed doors. CNET News has obtained a copy of the 55-page draft of S.773 (excerpt), which still appears to permit the president to seize temporary control of private-sector networks during a so-called cybersecurity emergency.

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Stressed by Politics?

Regardless of your political position, you may be experiencing increased stress and frustration with the current political issues that are yet to be resolved. You may notice how many citizens are for the first time in their lives stepping out and becoming politically active to support and defend their beliefs, feeling that they cannot sit idly by while their ideologies and lifestyles are perceived to be at stake. If you are reading, watching or listening to politics you may find yourself experiencing stress as you hear views and possible changes that are in opposition to your own views and convictions. This stress may evolve to the point of experiencing depression, anxiety, agitation or even anger.

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Is ‘Obamacare’ the Only Option?

Alternative ideas for health care reform abound; why no coverage of them?

We are hearing a lot about the Democrats’ health care reform plan(s), which consists of a full-blown government takeover of the industry, but what about other proposals? Other than bromides like “the party of no” and “Republicans have no solutions”, you don’t hear anything about the suggestions made by Republicans and non-partisan think tanks. Is Obamacare really the only game in town? Or is this just another example of the mainstream media being in the tank for the administration? I’ve been doing some research and was surprised to learn there are other proposals out there.

One proposal comes from the Republican Study Committee, the Empowering Patients First Act, HR 3400. Let’s take a look:
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Constitution is not a ‘living document’

“On every question of construction, (let us) carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying (to see) what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, (let us) conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”

One of the most dangerous philosophical and patriotic heresies facing the American Republic is the argument that the Constitution is a “living document” designed to be flexible enough to assign to the federal government the power to apply “new solutions to new problems.”
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Atlas Shrugged movie moves closer to reality

By Steven Zeitchik

Hollywood could soon be going Objectivist.

After decades in development hell, Ayn Rand’s capitalism-minded “Atlas Shrugged” is taking new steps toward the big screen — with one of the film world’s most prominent money men potentially at its center.

Ryan Kavanaugh’s Relativity Media is circling the Baldwin Entertainment project and could come aboard to finance with Lionsgate, which got involved several years ago.

Rand’s popular but polarizing book — it’s derided by many literary critics but has a huge public following — tells the story of Dagny Taggart, a railroad executive trying to keep her corporation competitive in the face of what she perceives as a lack of innovation and individual responsibility.
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New Chamber index shows conservatives aren’t corporate pawns

By Timothy P. Carney
DC Examiner Columnist

Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., had the most conservative voting record in 2008 according to the American Conservative Union (ACU), and was a “taxpayer hero” according to the National Taxpayer’s Union (NTU), but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce says his 2008 record was less pro-business than Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton.

Similarly, Texas libertarian GOPer Rep. Ron Paul—the most steadfast congressional opponent of regulation, taxation, and any sort of government intervention in business—scored lower than 90% of Democrats last year on the Chamber’s scorecard.

Liberal Democrats often accuse conservative Republicans of being pawns for Big Business, but the 2008 scorecard for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce—the largest lobbying organization in the country and the official Washington voice of business—provides convincing evidence to the contrary. In fact, the policy agenda of big business can be very different from that of limited-government conservatives and libertarians.

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Paul: Bill to tax bonuses an ‘outrage’ and unconstitutional

By David Edwards and Rachel Oswald

Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) yet again went against the grain in Congress when he stood up in the House and argued against a proposal that would tax 90 percent of AIG executive bonuses, saying that it was a “disgrace,” a “distraction” and an “outrage” that undermined the Constitution.

“I rise in opposition to this rule and the bill because of the problem — because of the lack of need for this and the disgrace that this has brought upon us,” Paul said. “Yesterday, for instance, the Federal Reserve met and they came out and they announced that they would create new money to the tune of $1.25 trillion.”
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