WaPo Columnist: The Constitution is Impossible to Understand Because It’s Over 100 Years Old

I have to say that, yes, I suppose that regardless of its age the Constitution is impossible to understand...if you're a liberal idiot from the Left Stream Media like Ezra Klein.  The rest of us understand it very clearly for it's only liberals who spend their time trying to redefine words so that the outcome of the written Constitution conforms with their warped beliefs on how the government should operate.

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Actor R. Lee Ermey Hammers Obama Administration: ‘They’re destroying this country’

The Gunny.  You've just got to love him.  He's an original, for real and a lot smarter than the wimps he's talking about.  He may be an entertainer but he has more common sense than 80% of Hollywood.

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Obama Administration Bypassing Congress to Institute Death Panel ‘Discussions’

There can be no argument.  This is what the left behaves and what they want and they'll do it if we let them.  Repeal is the only option.  

During the run-up to the last minute vote last year on the universally reviled Obamacare act last year the Left Stream Media blasted Sarah Palin for coining the phrase "death panels" because they couldn't find the term in their reading of that 2,000 + page monstrosity.  Of course, nobody in their right mind gives the Left Stream Media much credit for intelligence...other than themselves and their carefully selected "experts" and Sarah Palin was right.   In the end the Senate managed to take out the "end of life" counseling before the bill went to the President for his triumphant signing ceremony; but that only delayed the eugenics-minded left in creating the panels.  They now are in the process of conducting an end-run on the American people and are  putting them in place by executive fiat.

So Obama will have his "death panels"--or so he believes--anyway.  It's now up to the new House of Representatives to step-up and tell him and his Czar no.  Not only no but hell no!  It's high time that we defunded all the Czars, especially those involved in health care, and sent them packing.

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David Limbaugh: Too many coincidences for the Bible to be mere fable

He died for our original sin that we may have everlasting life.  

The title of the story, in this case, is an understatement.

I recently had several long conversations with my son about Christianity and I must admit that I am not a Biblical scholar for much of the Bible I accept on faith and faith alone.  My son, who believes in God, has a hard time wrapping his arms around Jesus and asked me questions not to challenge me but to find out what I believed.  Unfortunately my lack of Biblical knowledge made it very difficult for me to articulate my beliefs for I am becoming a Christian at a rather late stage in my life.  I did start studying the catechism of the Catholic Church about 50 years ago but didn't complete it because I didn't want to upset my devout Nazarene grandparents.  And before that I attended Sunday school at the local Nazarene church but could not see following that faith after being told at a very young age by my Sunday school teacher that going to see "The Ten Commandments" was a sin.  After I quit going to catechism I began a long journey trying to find the water for which my soul thirsted.

In the interim 50 years I was nominally Christian without a baptism and then began following the Buddhist faith after spending 6 years in Thailand.  Still, I never stopped believing in Jesus as the Son of God and the Savior and there was an itch in my intellect that just would not stop.   In 2002 I married a cradle Catholic who didn't mind my professed Buddhism and loved me greatly. It wasn't until the birth of my youngest daughter in 2006--a blessing from Heaven and my cradle Catholic wife--and a fight with cancer that I realized that what I had perceived as an intellectual itch in my psyche was actually a void in my own soul.  It came as I carried out my promise to my wife that our daughter would be raised Catholic and I began attending Mass regularly.  I came to realize that during and immediately after those services, my itch subsided and was replaced with something peaceful...something that I wanted more of because it satisfied a thirst that had never been properly quenched.  I wanted it so much that earlier this year I began again taking the steps necessary for conversion to the Catholic faith.  Clearly, when you think about it, I am an extremely slow student for this spring when I finish, am baptized and confirmed as a Catholic it will have been about 50 years since I began attending Mrs. Haken's catechism class with one of my best friends, her son, Ron.  I now wonder how different my life would have been had I completed that class.  But that is yesterday and I can't worry about what I can't change.  By God's grace today is here and tomorrow promises to be even better.

The Bible is, of course, not a fabrication.  It is the truth as God revealed it to His church and God can neither deceive or be deceived.  It has stood the test of time and is still the Greatest Book ever written.  I recommend it for your daily reading.  And, son, I recommend that you read the attached article.

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Fil-Am who committed suicide negative for drugs

Was it a case of desperation or death before dishonor?  

In what I initially viewed as a sad case there is now a new twist.  It seems that LCDR Scintar Mejia, USN, did not have drugs in his possession.  I can now imagine his complete and total despair at being accused of having drugs in his possession because he could clearly see that no matter the outcome of the investigation, his career in the United States Navy was clearly going to end.  When he arrived in Manila to visit his extended family he did so as one who is a hero.  He had not only done well in the United States but had become an officer in the military which was a most honorable accomplishment.  In his mind I'm certain that he could see that all that he had sacrificed for was being torn away from his grasp.  Instead of honor he was faced with guilt by suspicion at best or, at worst, dishonor and jail.

Was Mejia a drug user as confirmed by a post-mortem toxicology screen?  Was the sachet of powder in his bag, now known to be just powder and not a drug, a joke planted by a relative jealous of his accomplishments?  Was it placed there to take him down a notch or two from his perch of honor?  Or was it merely something slipped into the bag through slight of hand right there at the Manila airport with the idea of extracting a healthy bribe?  We will probably never know now that Mejia in a fit of total desperation threw himself into a stairwell thus ending what appears to have been a promising life.  Any of the above is a possibility but none of the above are certain.

Suicide is never easy to explain but in this case, it appears that the wrongful accusation of a poorly trained airport security inspector played a significant role.  I can only hope that the results of the investigation are fully aired.

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Chief: Woburn cop slay like ‘wild west’

Officer down.  

Another brother officer is down in the line of duty.  Another family looses a husband and father.  When the sound of gunfire erupted he ran towards it, not away, because it was his duty.  He didn't think twice about it.  He just did it knowing that St. Michael was there beside him.  Now he will age no more and he stands beside St. Michael ready again to battle evil.

Now that I'm retired I often think of those brothers-in-the-profession of mine who died in the line of duty.  I will never forget them.

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Lone Police Officer in Mexican Border Town Remains Missing

Chief of Police Erika Gandara.  Very brave but very outgunned.  

I was most critical of El Presidente Felipe "Too Short" Calderon earlier year when he had the extreme gall to come to the United States and criticize Arizona for its efforts to control its common border with Mexico.  At the time I strongly suggested that he clean-up his own litter box before trying to tell us how to run our nation.  He clearly hasn't done so either because he is inept or because he would rather maintain the status quo.  He of course is comfortable, safe, rich and far removed from the daily violence that sparked Arizona's legislative action.  Far removed from anything but the money that flows into Mexico via remittances from the illegal alien Mexicans working in the United States.

Now we have a situation in Mexico that hasn't turned out like all the movies Hollywood has made.  You know what I mean.  The movies where the hero/heroine takes a stand and faces down the bad guys bringing law and order to the poor citizens of some unnamed, dusty western town.  Hollywood's suspension of reality allows us to watch such a movie where the villains can't shoot straight and the good guys never miss and believe it could be real.  Reality, unfortunately, is that a lone police officer stands little chance of defeating determined evil especially if evil is backed by a dozen or so killers armed to the teeth.

Erika Gandara, Chief of Police of the small Mexican border town of Guadalupe, is a very brave young lady.  She was willing to take a job that men in her community ran from not because they were necessarily cowards but because they knew the reality of their situation and had families to worry about.  She was willing to put her life on the line for the ideal of bringing peace, law and order to her community in the face of a very determined and very evil Mexican criminal element bent on trafficking drugs on their own terms.  In Mexico that is the reality and "Too Short" is short not only in stature but in any ability to control crime in the country that elected him el presidente.  It's a shame that Mexico, a beautiful country populated with wonderful people, has suffered from successive failures in leadership in the central government.  The people there deserve much better than they are getting and they know it.  That is why so many undertake the perilous trek north into the United States where their future is uncertain but also where they know there is, at least, some safety and justice.  If their entry wasn't unlawful I would feel for them; but the reality of the situation is that it is their own government--you know, the one led by "Too Short" Calderon--that drives them from their homes through its abject failure to provide for their security.  And it seems that the government of Mexico is in no hurry to change things because those who come here as illegal aliens send dollars back to their families in Mexico that eventually winds up in the bank accounts of the Mexican elite.  It is, you might say, financially beneficial if things remain as they are.

Police Chief Gandara's whereabouts is unknown as is her fate.  The reality of the situation, again unlike Hollywood's movies, is most grim.  We should all pray for her.  I know I shall.  But if the worst becomes reality, the blood of this heroine is on the hands of El Presidente Calderon just as surely as it is on the hands of men who took her at gunpoint and burned her home.

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Victory! Seattle Transit Drops Jewish Blood Libel Bus Ads

This is the type of speech that passes for approved civil discourse in Seattle.  Oddly, anything opposing this view is considered hateful.  

Seattle is a very liberal city--pardon the understatement--and it's not surprising that they, meaning Seattle Transit, had no compunction about accepting glaringly anti-semitic ads to run on their mass transit buses.  It is also not surprising that they quickly "unaccepted" those ads and refused to accept pro-Israel counter-ads.  It's a funny thing about liberals that they lack the moral compass necessary to see the difference between hate and discourse.  Anything they say in support of their beliefs is, of course, classified as legitimate discourse while opposing views are always branded as "hate speech" that could cause problems.

Evil always works best in darkness and they would have gladly run the anti-semitic ads until a light was shined upon them by The American Freedom Defense Initiative.  Then the back-peddling began.

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Star Power: Palin Takes Hollywood … And the Culture

Sara Palin continues to star.  The only question is:  How far will her star rise?  

Star Power: Palin Takes Hollywood ... And the Culture

Sara Palin continues to make waves and draw attention where ever she goes. There is something about her that speaks to Americans who are proud of their country...and she drives the left into fits of frothing anger. Which is why she's so popular among the 'regular folk' in the country.

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Mark Shields Apologizes for Saying 'Christmas Season' on Christmas Eve

Mark Shields Apologizes for Saying 'Christmas Season' on Christmas Eve

Somewhere in the world a village is truly missing its idiots. First it was Nina Totenberg and now Mark Shields.

When I first read this my first thought was "Where does PBS go to find people who are so divorced from reality and so steeped in the falseness of inclusiveness?" Shields and Totenberg are like bookends on a shelf of dime store, psycho-babble, new age books written by people who believe that the end goal is just to smugly feel good about themselves.

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