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Try this.....

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0519-20130519,0,1395725.column

Also.....a trick for any pay site or registration required site until their EB-3 work Visa systems managers figure it out is to do a google search on the title....and click the link from there.

I think the marketing guys may have left that “google loophole” in place to build traffic.

The 1/3-1/3-1/3 split is about the same today.

More telling....26 states are controlled by conservative GOPer’s in both houses and the governorships. 30 have GOP Governors and control at least one house.

We are no longer one nation. DC is an imperial city. It ends west of the Potomac, west of the Hudson, and east of the Sierra Nevada’s and Cascades. The rest of us are no more than colonies to them. Ignorant savages to be dragooned into their model world.

It will be a state, not a peasant rebellion...just like 1775 and 1861...that is the American way. Google the nullification laws on various issues now in place in so many states...Kansas and MO just passed nullification in the last week. I lose count. Here is a decent place to start...

http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/

The French didn’t pile on or even provide aid until late 1778 3 years into it. Popular support at one point was down to 2,500 cold, shoeless, unfed, unpaid men crossing the Delaware to capture Trenton and keep us in the war.

“Now is the time that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and sunshine patriot are long gone.” Sound familiar?

And....the federal government may be good at selective intimidation, but they are not effective on a large scale....were you ever in the military? A public school? Ever seen a large scale FEMA operation up close? A VA hospital? Airport security? Bay of Pigs? BenGhazi? 9/11? Boston bomber? Katrina? Sandy Hook relief? Fast and Furious? The current gun control circus bus crash?

And the most effective among them would in large part “go south” as they used to say.

I for one would rather face a pack of affirmative action fat lesbians from CA or NYC than one steely eyed country boy from TN with a trident and anchor pounded into his chest.

I personally think the current brink of disaster is outrageous and hope to hell it recedes...but people are stupid in herds and things get out of hand....August 1914.

I do not doubt that they believe their own BS and think they are omnipotent....I fear that they are stupid enough to try to prove it.

Pray for peace and God’s aid.

The GOP has ceased to be a national party because we have ceased to be a nation. The numbers above speak for themselves.

Christie and NJ does not count. This fatbastard is the next generation McCain RINO....he is beloved and kept as a pet Republican like Scarborough by the chattering class to be trotted out and mouth “bi-partisan” BS.

Perhaps fate will intervene and his new lapband will slip and strangle him....or as with his look alike Mamma Cass Elliot, he will choke on a chicken sandwich one night.....Chik-fil-A perhaps?

I am just a too old light infantry commander...no combat, no berets myself....just years working with troops in the field from every US service and from all over the world in training including US and foreign SF....but when I read about this at the time of the loss, my immediate thoughts were...........

1. What are seals doing so far inland on a relatively common every day mission?
2. What were 16.....16!!!! Seals doing concentrated in one operation that is a plain jane airborne infantry role?
3. Who in their right mind would put that many EXTREMELY high value assets in a single transport?
4. What are we using a single cargo Chinook to transport so many, as opposed to several smaller more nimble, better armed and tactically capable Blackhawks?

Now I hear the Afghan team that was to be on the chopper, were swapped out at the last minute? Who was saved and who was sacrificed?

Could be honest and rational answers to each....BUT..

The looks, looks mind you, as if these men were concentrated in such an unusual fashion and then their presence leaked to the enemy....who as we know is embedded throughout the Afghan and contract advisory forces.

If nothing else, careers should have been ended....but probably promotions gained.

There are games afoot Freepers to convert the US military...up until now a bastion of conservatism...into a progressivist vanguard of militant gays, lesbians, and uberlibs....while purging the “old guard”.

Gore...the almost Obama.

Just to be sure this doesn't get buried. Can anyone imagine where we would be had this lunatic been elected in 2000?

We would have been screwed!....oh wait. Never mind.

But we did get a few more "good" years in before the whirlwind.

Still, the discoverer of the internet, global warming/cooling, dying polar bears, REALLY big line charts, Al Jazera cash bonanza windfalls, and the dastardly man-bear-pig that still haunts South Park CO......is seriously damaged.

Be sure to see the video.....at the link. He gets red faced.

Great news on improving ammo and component availability!

I for one am tired of digging each bullet out of the bodies before they are buried. :->

Bad thing to bring up......could be argued as a reason for the jackboots to register everything.

MG’s are the 3rd rail of the 2nd amendment....shouldn’t be. Just are. Our side even argued as such in the Heller case even though the bastards in the 30’s made the NFA of 34 a revenue law just to avoid the militia question. $200 in 1934 would be about $10k today. An effective ban.

They are what we should own if GI Joe has them.

Cop in Dayton used a CIII M-16 in the late 80’s to whack his girlfriend. That is only criminal use of a legal NFA I know of.

To paraphrase a famous commercial....

“Mikey will ban it. Mikey hates everything.”

But little cereal Mikey had a much higher intellect than this current Caesar on the Hudson.

I pray every day for justice in this world. Regardless, I know with a certainty it will be delivered in the next.

St. Peter to Mayor Bloomie........

“Sorry Mikey. Checked the big book. YOU ARE BANNED!”

They have always came to the aid of mother Britain even when it placed them at great risk as in WWII. Stood with us in Korea and Nam...and more recently Iraq I and II as well as Afghanistan. They are and have been good friends.

Of late, they have been nuzzling up to Red China economically and the Red’s are using finance and rope a dope strategy to try to draw them away from us.

Strategically, 20mm Euro-colonialists surrounded by a few billion land and resource hungry Asians.....a bad outcome can’t be too far away....especially as our own ruling class is composed primarily of moron metro-sexuals and butch lesbians who won’t defend AZ and TX, let alone Australia.

The RA Navy as 12 frigates of 20 year old tech and 6 subs they had to recruit foreigners to run.

RA Army, has 30k regulars mostly mechanized infantry...a very light force. Double that if you count their ready reserves of 16k....and their standby reserves of 12k....which you probably shouldn’t

Air Force 70 F18’ and 20+ Super F18’s....with transport you could count on your fingers and toes.

The SpecFor guys have always been among the best whether in WWII or today. We had some on loan that trained with my light infantry battalion 25 yarns ago and they were tough and smart.....all outback boys back then.

But now...thanks to the British envy disease of the Aussie ruling classes...the civies are disarmed: Their women are in combat roles and gays have been gay in the open since 1992.

Bet the Chinese love all that.

The US?...some of us in the barbarous fly over lands still have our rifles and know how to use them...nearly from birth. Other than that, we aren’t any better off.

My prayers are with them.

The tall dogs hold and trade paper gold future contracts.....which have been twisted now to the same basic ponzi scheme as derivatives were/are.....yes they are all scum.

To me and others in the gold blogs...looks like the big money boys are fleecing the little guys by betting short and churning the paper contracts...this drives the price down and requires many investors to pony up more cash for their margin accounts.....often they have to sell to raise cash to do so...or, if they panic....sell it all...further driving down the price.

Could also be a conscious action by central banks to drive gold down to keep sale of the Cypriot gold reserves (any other indebted nations) from reducing their indebtedness as much as they could have now that they are forced to liquidate their gold reserves....double scum.

Probably both as both gain by it.

Physical gold will always have value...unlike Wall Street paper. It’s actually value in real world goods is constantly being distorted by the contract gold speculators....which as you might guess are banks and big funds.

You have heard it said before....gold is not an investment as much as a store of value....it appears to be true.

Dryly and morbidly amusing discussion of some of the ironic coincidences of the Boston Marathon bombing.

Knowing a few of them may get you a free beer in some bars for the telling....or get you thrown out of some others.

“Researchers urge brain autopsy of bombing suspect....”

I on the other hand, urge an immediate autopsy of the Researchers to determine IF they even have a brain.

It has always amazed me how Kipling speaks to manhood throughout the ages. His morals and messages timeless.
However, Kipling had balls.

This lesson is lost on the metrosexual loafer wearing sunken chested capons that pass for a ruling class now.

The only balls left in DC are found in golf bags and tennis courts.

As you have seen in the other posts....some state constitutions have hunting in them in addition to self-defense and militia duty....but as the the Bill of Rights, below is the sequence courtesy Wikipedia.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Second_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Earlier_proposals_and_drafts_of_the_Amendment

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Earlier proposals and drafts of the Amendment

And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
Samuel Adams, (February 6, 1788), reported in Charles Hale, Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1856), p. 86.

This language was proposed in the Massachusetts convention for ratification of the U.S. Constitution to be added to Article I of that document.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.

Original text of what was to become the Second Amendment, as brought to the floor to the first session of the first congress of the U.S. House of Representatives. original text
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but no person religiously scrupulous shall be compelled to bear arms.

Reworded version of the Second Amendment by the select committee on the Bill of Rights, July 28th 1789. AoC pp. 669).
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; but no one religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.

Draft version of the Second Amendment sent by the House of Representatives to the United States Senate, on August 24th, 1789. (Note: When the Amendment was transcribed, the semicolon in the religious exemption portion was changed to a comma by the Senate scribe).

A well regulated militia, being the best security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed

Revision voted on in the U.S. Senate, September 4th, 1789.
A well regulated militia being the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Final version passed by the U.S. Senate; the phrase “necessary to” was added when the proposed Amendment was entered into the U.S. House journal.

Plus they turned out Rick Santorum.....and now PA does not recognize FL non resident CCW’s.

Move west to freedom my Keystone brothers.

Perhaps between the dwindling remnants of western PA and hill country OH conservatism, we clinging survivors can together make a decent state again....Pennsyio?

Red meat for breakfast!

I won't even take the easy shots from you.

What flaws do you see in his study and conclusions?

Remember, he is a professional and highly trained in his art. He is obviously discerning things far beyond what you and I are capable of.

Website has a map that adds even more "duh!" to the obvious he is missing.

I was forced to excerpt it due to size.

The entire article will start your weekend with a laugh and confidence in ultimate victory......because the educated elite in the opposition are morons.

The PhD may not be stupid, but he is blind.

Whatever they pay this guy....they shouldn't.

Federal 4473’s are required to be kept by the dealer until he closes shop. Then they must be sent to the ATF storage facility in WV....not the state AG.

The 1984 GOPA and other laws through the years have allegedly prevented them from being indexed or transferred to a data base by specifically prohibiting it and denying any funding for it. When a gun is traced....they start with finding out who the manufacturer shipped it to and then thru the chain (wholesaler to dealer) and finally a visit to review the 4473 bound books in the dealer shop. They then call the “registered” buyer to see what he did with the gun.

States may have different laws such as the ones that require their own BG check (CA?) or permit (NY?)....I would imagine.

However, the current federal system has let us sell these 4473 “registered” firearms to anyone “off the books”...so they drop out out sight unless they surface in a crime. The so called gunshow and private sale loophole.

So, even though you bought a gun 5 years ago....it cannot be proved you still own it....unless you are buying ammo or accessories for it on a charge card or or have been seen shooting it at a range....etc. Then they may well suspect you still own it or something like it. They aren’t stupid.

Bottom line...there are many ways to track/profile who has guns, without knowing the specific gun or number owned.

You will only be able to hide if they aren’t looking for you or at you.

They hate God because He loves them. In their arrogant sin, they see His love as pity and it outrages them in their impotence.

Shake the dirt from your sandals and move on. Give a prayer daily for a nationwide Damascus Road moment.

It is getting much worse. It will get much worse still. The great falling away. Happening so fast, my ears pop.

Well....we send our queers and women to fight now...ships should be named sensitively as well.

How about some fighting heroes and names of warrior renown....nah, too old, male, angry and white.

It started to go to hell when they named a carrier for Carter whose only combat was with an aggressive aquatic rabbit and its been downhill ever since.

My father and and two uncles served on ships with names like Midway, Iowa, and Duncan.....now my sons will serve on the Gabby...oh wait...they won’t join a navy like this....and that guys is the plan. As well as Mabus boot-licking Obama and the libs wanting to memorialize another brain impaired gun victim prop before they plant old Jim Brady.

Obama is Sunni raised....Iran is Shiite.

Commander Zero will get a bonus of 72 extra virgins for whacking Shiites.

Too many wars. Know too many good friends harmed by the piddle poor way we fought the last 3 “big-uns”..Nam, Iraq and Afghanistan. We should declare real war. Level the bastards. Shoot the bad ones that survived and leave. This nation building sucks and we suck at it.

If we hadn’t held the Israelis back so long, they could have had it done in a long weekend 10 years ago.

Like feudalism, the lords of the manors have to make sure the peasants stay bound to the lords’ lands.

The peasants are indentured by contrived debts and forbidden to acquire their own land or even trade with silver or gold IF they have any.

Bitcoin, like gold or silver, breaks the chains and busts the gate wide open....therefore it must be banned.

Caesar co-oped and created the Catholic church from whole cloth in the 4th century for his use and its leadership has been handmaiden to tyranny far too often ever since.

As to heretics.....well...there are continuously existing Christian bodies such as the Coptics and Nestorians and Assyrians who split about the time the Bishop of Rome was crowned by Caesar as vicar and pontiff....body and bridge...an act of man...not God. Then of course we have the Orthodox Christians who also up and left over West vs East...lots of old timey guys dispute the Pope’s claims to the kingdom keys.

Who are the heretics? Got to smile on that one every time.

Ask your priest why the curtain was ripped in the Temple the instant of Christ’s death on the Cross. NO MORE PRIESTS! No one between man and God. NO ONE! Bow to no one but Lord Jesus. No more secrets...the truth sets us free.

The “keys” were given to all believers in the church, not one, and certainly not pretenders elected by a show of hands as you like to call it....a conclave. It is politics, not prophecy that drives Rome.

If Peter were here....I would be the first man by his side sword drawn...but he ain’t here and no Pope is Peter. Peter was a man, not a capon altar boy and book mouse.

The Catholic leadership contort one verse in Mathew like Schumer and Pelosi rework the Second Amendment to fit a worldly narrative and need.

1st and 2nd Timothy and Acts say nothing of church government beyond the local body of Christ. Deacons and Bishops are to be men of and in the local church...not celibate princes of an earthly power arrayed in Roman Senatorial Purple.

The nonsense talk on abortion is just that, impotent anger not even shaded with a whiff the truth. The evangelicals are the hard core church militant on abortion...not the Catholic who continued to give sacrament to murderous apostates like Teddy Kennedy and Tip O’Neal.....to get along and not rock the boat.

Like Rome, most leadership of the old line protestant churches have been co-opted, de-nutted, and emasculated much like the Catholic church buggering little boys and hiding it.

Satan howls in laughter when he can so easily mislead a whole flock by turning its shepherds be they Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, or whatever.

So, more importantly...what did the Pope say about you and me keeping our guns when you asked him?

Maybe his local reps on this side of the water will get back to you on it.

Will you turn your arms when they say to? If not, still sounds like dissent to me. Welcome to the Reformation, brother!

Fear not. My gun toting back country preacher will be in the line of battle with his flock defending it from the powers of this world if the time ever comes.

You know, my preacher is the best shot in the county.

How is your priest with a Garand?

Peace brother. See you at the barricades.

Peace friend. Peace. Your argument is not with me.

Me and mine will let you be Catholic and follow your church precepts until Hell falls.

Obama will not. He makes war on you.

Practicing Catholics like conservative churches are the new Jews for the next Holocaust if you haven’t figured it out. Catholics just happen to be the biggest nail that needs hammered. First marginalize you....done. Then mock you....done. Generate hatred against you....done. Isolate you from your natural support....done, which by the way you are doing a great job of by pissing my kind off. And then comes the train rides to the east for resettlement while classic musics plays in the background.

Dolan is not alone in his call to surrender arms. The US Council of Bishops has long been on record as favoring guns for police and military only. Other Catholic bodies and personages saying the same thing include Tommaso Di Ruzza at the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

Gun control: Church firmly, quietly opposes firearms for civilians http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1100159.htm

“However, (while) armed defense is something appropriate for nations, not for all individual citizens in a state where rule of law is effective” said Di Ruzza.

Hmmmmm. Like my fathers, I and my my little Bible church will continue, using one of your terms, “with a show of hands” in conformance with God’s will, to be dissenters still from the will of our “betters” who have their private line to God.

Rome it seems is eager to grovel before yet another new Caesar. Have your BILLION Catholic brethern in their brimming pews and absent the burden of a Baptist Swaggart’s sin.....a send a message to your leadership.

FREEDOM!

But that isn’t the way the Catholic Church works is it? Rules come down with the claimed force of God. Gee, makes it kind of hard to argue policy doesn’t it?

Catholics will have to make an INDIVIDUAL choice in this or surrender their arms when the new Caesar’s call comes.

Sounds like dissent to me. Sounds like being Christian.

Don’t get in my way on the road to heaven....I won’t get in yours.

No time to re-argue what God, the sword and empty pews has already decided.

Go with God and go armed.

With all respect to my freedom loving Catholic brothers in Christ...

As a radical Calvinist....why should I give a rats testicle what a capon priest for a clown costumed gang of rascals and thieves thinks? In the old world, these guys’ predecessors tried to burn my fathers at the stake.

But oh wait. My grandaddies were armed with BOTH the sword and the Word. Christian liberty and political liberty then ensued quite beyond the control of kings and cardinals.

The Catholic church as an organization has NEVER been an advocate for true liberty. Quite the opposite. Blind ignorant obedience to Pope and to Caesar has been their demand since Constantine.

Had the Catholic hierarchy caught and burned Luther and the German landsmen who supported him, we would still be bending knee to men, buying indulgences, hearing Latin masses memorized by illiterate priests, and if caught with a heretic common vernacular language Bible, would be officially damned then flayed.

Let Mr. Dolan lick what boots he may....and screw him.

Any Catholic that stands for liberty and arms is a brother. Any who do not....a foe. It is a duty we owe to our fathers and our God.

SHHHHHH!

U R Spot on PapeBear3625....but don’t give the bastards any ideas they don’t already have.

It would have worked right after the Sandy Hook killings as the “panicked herd” dumped stocks like hot rocks, but his recent snarls and hisses have had no effect whatsoever.

In fact the stocks are rising...so if they played the same hand again in the bank and mutual funds letters......

THEY LOST THEIR A$$ES.

Yes. Oh please yes I hope it is so....

It isn’t working.....stocks of gun makers back up and climbing...which of course since it is now a wholly discredited and ineffective policy, expect to see MUCH more of the same from RahmaDon and his LibTards.

http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=RGR#symbol=rgr;range=6m;compare=;indicator=volume;charttype=area;crosshair=on;ohlcvalues=0;logscale=off;source=undefined;

Headlines found there....
Ruger’s Great American Comeback at Forbes Fri 10:39AM EST Jan 31

Big Gun Control Plan for President Obama, Big Profits for Gun Sellers at Motley Fool Mon Jan 28

The Big Cities’ Financial War on Guns May Backfire at BusinessWeek Mon Jan 28

Same Same on S&W. Buy gold, guns, ammo and stocks for the same and laugh all the way to the banks lads.....or the vault in your basement......

BWAAHAAAAHAAAHAAAA! What fiscally ignorant amateurs they are.

As a serial CEO and lifetime finance fink myself....my first take on Emanuel’s bleating is

1. it is tortuous interference with the firearms makers contractual and business relationships

2. it is a criminal or certainly a civil violation of RICO act.

So yes....were I the target of the RhamaDon antics...I would have my legal beagles all over it.

RICO for you honest hard working guys never having been threatened with it by competitor lawyers...is FedSpeak for racketeer influenced corrupt organizations act. Originally targeted at mob figures by Justice Dept. DA’s, it has been metastasized through the years by unctuous lawyers to become a civil hammer as well that hits any nail that you want to hit and cause trouble for...in this case it would used to...used to....ah...used to...OMG it would actually be used against mob figures and corrupt organizations...Emanuel/& ilk and the city of Chicago.

What epic justice that would be.

No knocks about Wikipedia....I sensitive with self esteem issues...:->...besides, it is the best summary I could find in 10 seconds....

This guy MIGHT be our William Wallace.....our Moses.

We should start a thread on him....maybe there is one already OR one or you alpha male experienced Freepers could lend a hand to to get it started.

Texas. AG. Leader the Heller 2nd amendment case,10 Commandment case, daddy a Cuban freedom fighter who got burned and exiled by Fidel, qualifies for President if Obama does...similar birth pattern...beat them a their own game.....here is is below...sounds perfect.

Is it all true?

Churchill was 1/2 English (dad) and 1/2 American (mom) and saved Britain....at least for awhile...to become the greatest Englishman in history...their choice, not mine. I favor Robin Hood.

American women seem to sire better sons than American men when crossed with freedom loving stock. Maybe lightening strikes twice.

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Ted Cruz
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Ted Cruz
United States Senator
from Texas
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2013
Serving with John Cornyn
Preceded by Kay Bailey Hutchison
Solicitor General of Texas
In office
January 9, 2003 – May 2008
Governor Rick Perry
Preceded by Julie Parsley
Succeeded by James Ho
Personal details
Born Rafael Edward Cruz
December 22, 1970 (age 42)
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Heidi Cruz
Children Caroline
Catherine
Alma mater Princeton University(AB)
Harvard Law School (JD)
Religion Southern Baptist[1]
Website Ted Cruz for Senate
Senator Ted Cruz

Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz (born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and the junior United States Senator for the state of Texas. A Republican, Cruz defeated the Democrat Paul Sadler in the November 6, 2012, United States Senate election. Cruz is also endorsed by the Tea Party Movement and the Republican Liberty Caucus.[2]

Cruz won the 2012 nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by his fellow Republican, Kay Bailey Hutchison.[3] On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff, 57–43 percent, on July 31, 2012.[4] In the general election, Cruz prevailed with 56.6–40.5 percent over Sadler.[5]

Cruz was Solicitor General of the U.S. state of Texas from 2003 to May 2008, appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. He was the first Hispanic Solicitor General in Texas, the youngest Solicitor General in the United States, and had the longest tenure in the post thus far in Texas history. He is currently a partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he leads the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice.[6]

He previously served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the Federal Trade Commission, an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the United States Department of Justice, and as Domestic Policy Advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign. In addition, from 2004 to 2009 Cruz was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, where he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.

On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.[7]
Contents

1 Early life and education
2 Legal career
3 2012 U.S. Senate election
4 Personal life
5 Honors and awards
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

Early life and education

Cruz was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, where his parents, Eleanor Darragh and Rafael Cruz, were working in the petroleum business.[8][9] His father was a Cuban immigrant during the Cuban Revolution to the United States. His mother, an American, was reared in Delaware, in a family of Irish and Italian descent.[9][10]

Cruz attended high school at Faith West Academy in Katy, Texas,[11] and then graduated from Second Baptist High School in Houston.

Cruz earned his Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He was an editor of the Harvard Law Review, an executive editor of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and a founding editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review.[12] While at Princeton, he competed for the American Whig-Cliosophic Society’s Debate Panel as one of North America’s top-ranked parliamentary debaters, winning the top speaker award at both the 1992 U.S. National Debating Championship and the 1992 North American Debating Championship.[13] In 1992, he was named Speaker of the Year and Team of the Year (with his debate partner, David Panton) by the American Parliamentary Debate Association.[13] In 1991 he and his partner came in second to Austan Goolsbee and partner David Gray. Cruz was also a semi-finalist at the 1995 World Universities Debating Championship.[14]
Legal career

Cruz also served as a law clerk to William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, and J. Michael Luttig of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.[15] Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.[16]

Cruz has authored more than 80 briefs before the United States Supreme Court and presented 43 oral arguments, including nine before the United States Supreme Court.

In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of thirty-one states in defense of the principle that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.[17] Cruz also presented oral argument for the amici states in the companion case to Heller before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

In addition to his victory in Heller, Cruz has successfully defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds, the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools and the 2003 Texas redistricting plan.[18]

Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.[19]
2012 U.S. Senate election
Main article: United States Senate election in Texas, 2012
Cruz speaking to values voters in October 2011.

On January 19, 2011, following an announcement that U.S. Senator Hutchison would not seek reelection, Cruz announced via blogger conference call his candidacy for the position.[3] Cruz faced opposition from sitting Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican senatorial primary. Cruz was endorsed by David Barton, founder and president of WallBuilders;[20] the Club for Growth, a conservative political action committee;[21] Erick Erickson, editor of prominent conservative blog RedState;[22] the FreedomWorks for America super PAC;[23] Princeton University professor Robert P. George;[24] nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin;[25] former Attorney General Edwin Meese;[26] Tea Party Express;[27] Young Conservatives of Texas;[28] and U.S. Senators Jim DeMint,[29] Mike Lee,[30] Rand Paul,[31] and Pat Toomey.[32] He has also been endorsed by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Texas Congressman Ron Paul,[33] Michigan Congressman Justin Amash,[34] and former-U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum.[35]

Cruz won the runoff for the Republican nomination with a 14-point margin over Dewhurst.[36] In the November 6 general election, Cruz faced the Democratic nominee Paul Sadler, an attorney and a former state representative from Henderson in east Texas. A public opinion poll conducted from October 15 to 21, 2012, indicated that Cruz was leading Sadler, 54-39 percent among likely voters. The poll questioned 800 voters and was conducted by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune and has a margin of error of 3.46 percent.[37] He prevailed over Sadler by the approximate margin of 57–41 percent, a margin even larger than the UT poll.

In the general election, Cruz prevailed with 4,456,654 ballots (56.6%) to Sadler’s 3,183,359 (40.5%). Two minor candidates held the remaining 2.9% of the ballots cast. Cruz ran 99,203 votes behind the Republican presidential nominee, Mitt Romney.[5]
Personal life

Cruz was born and spent the first four years of his life in Calgary before his parents returned to Houston. His father was jailed and tortured by the Fulgencio Batista regime and fought for Fidel Castro in the Cuban Revolution[38] but “didn’t know Castro was a Communist” and later became a staunch critic of Castro when “the rebel leader took control and began seizing private property and suppressing dissent.”[39] Rafael Cruz moved to Austin in 1957 to study at the University of Texas. He spoke no English and had $100 sewn into his underwear.[40] The elder Cruz worked his way through school as a dishwasher making 50 cents an hour. Cruz’s mother, who was from Delaware, was the first person in her family ever to attend college. She earned a degree in mathematics from Rice University in Houston in the 1950s, working summers at Foley’s and Shell. Cruz has said, “I’m Cuban, Irish, and Italian, and yet somehow I ended up Southern Baptist.”[41]

Cruz and his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz, have two daughters, Caroline Camille and Catherine Christiane. Cruz met his wife while working on the George W. Bush presidential campaign of 2000. Cruz’s wife is currently head for the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker.[42][43]
Honors and awards

“America’s Leading Lawyers for Business,” Chambers USA (2009 & 2010)
“50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America,” National Law Journal (2008)
“25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century,” Texas Lawyer (2010)
“20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise,” Newsweek (1999)
Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Cruz

Yup. Since these will be he same troops Colin Powell and McCrystal will be leading against the American people....maybe a mixed blessing for us.

The Arabs, Russians, and Chinese will be emboldened by it when laughing themselves silly.....pillow biters and women led by a community organizer.

Yeah. Scares me, too.

What shall we then say to these things If God be for us, who can be against us. Romans 8:31

Give them Hell. Literally.

A light shines brightest amongst the darkness.

Here is originating link with letters and list having now grown to 60+

http://constitutionclub.ning.com/forum/topics/letters-from-county-sheriffs

Looks like it may have some legs.

Just an aside....most states extend the membership in their state “unorganized militia” to 65 or even 67 years of age. Some go downward to 16 or lower...lots of variations.

States also usually have their National Guards, State Defense Forces (SDF’s) and Naval Militias encoded under the “enrolled or organized” sections of their laws. The balance of the age bracketed men not enrolled are defined as “unorganized”.

The Guard and those citizens falling under the Federal unorganized militia limits are obviously subject to Federal call up by the Prez....the SDF’s and state naval forces....and left over state “unorganized” citizens are not.

Kind of confusing....but basically, if you got a gun or not....someone will expect you to show up somewhere when the poo hits the fan as long as you can fog a mirror.

Of course you have the right of rebellion and the tools as well. The right comes from God and the tools are in your gun safe.

Some insectoid legal drones argue that magically the right to rebellion (resistance to tyranny is obedience to God) was emasculated by the Constitution. Its structure provides for exclusively non violent civil actions like voting, appeals to the court, the legislature or the executive to come to the people’s aid depending on who was doing the oppression.

But there is an escalation embodied in that very varied framework of checks and balances.....

Soap Box
Ballot Box
Jury Box

are the constitutional means, BUT

The soap box may one day be silenced or subverted to wokr for the powers not the people(can you say NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, NPR)

The ballot box can be stuffed, over run by illegal votes or even illegal voters....corrupted to a lynch mob democracy as where 3 wolves vote to have the sheep for dinner. Democracy, what we are NOT...but the way we are being run.

The jury box can be emasculated by judges ordering the jury to judge only the facts and not the law....as we remember many an English/American revolutionary tussel was started when juries kept turning loose “guilty under the law but not before God” defendants.

& OMG......cartridge box...only effective if the people have arms in sufficient quantity and or sufficient quality to enable a sizable portion of them to set things right.

Our rights are simple and natural. Life. Liberty. Property or just pursing happiness as you see it. Rebellion is a derivative right to protect and recover the fundamental rights whenever they are abridged and all other recourse exhausted or perverted.

Tommy Jefferson summarized 1,000 years of hard won liberties wrestled back from the craven claws of monarchy over 1,000 years very well. He both assets it aggressively, while depicting it’s natural moderation to not be used lightly.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”

Who can even ask with a straight face if we retain the right of rebellion when all other avenues are exhausted.

Of course we do. Of Course we do. The greatest minds of Western man....and the Lord God himself say so.

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s.....but that does not include life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness as you see it. Else, Satan need only subvert the government of weak men....and win the world.

FORBID IT ALMIGHTY GOD! Patrick Henry.....you gotta love that man, too.

Thank you JoProBono

I never figured out how to post the pics on FreeRep.

This one says it all for any age and all times!

Fellow old dawgs.....stories to show there are still a few good bites left in any man. Please forward to any other old dawgs you might know. Woof.

Must I put your spine limper than Warner's and Machin's....at least they sold out for lucrative jobs and popularity amongst their "kind"....do you really only value your birthright at $150? Peace of Jesus to you brother, but man up. No one will get to sit this one out....if your claim is really just a red herring to hold out to the agents when they come to your house and you bow to lick their boots.....beg to be passed over. It won't work. It never does. What will you think of yourself then? No arms. No honor. No hope. “Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the reward of such sacrifices?' Bid us and our posterity bow the knee, supplicate the friendship and plough, and sow, and reap, to glut the avarice of the men who have let loose on us the dogs of war to riot in our blood and hunt us from the face of the earth? If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!” FIGHT now when it is cheap and easy. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” ― Edmund Burke Start the counter-attack……write, call and fax Senate and Congress…. http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml has mailing addresses and e-mails. http://www.conservativeusa.org/links/complete-email-fax-list/?/mega-cong.htm has faxes (efax is free for first 20 faxes a month) and phone numbers in excel and cvs files.... Does anybody else have any other suggested weapons for the digital battlefields of our rights other than sell it for more than you got in it?

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” ― Edmund Burke Start the counter-attack……write, call and fax Senate and Congress…. http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml has mailing addresses and e-mails. http://www.conservativeusa.org/links/complete-email-fax-list/?/mega-cong.htm has faxes (efax is free for first 20 faxes a month) and phone numbers in excel and cvs files.... Does anybody else have any suggested weapons for the digital battlefields of our rights?

Letters-Yes indeed. Faxes and phone calls as well. Many conservative sites offer the ability to hammer the congress critters at leisure in one stop....

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/Elected.shtml
has mailing addresses and e-mails.

http://www.conservativeusa.org/links/complete-email-fax-list/?/mega-cong.htm
has faxes (efax is free for first 20 faxes a month) and phone numbers in excel and cvs files....

anybody got ant other world beating weapons for the digital battlefields of our rights?

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.” ― Edmund Burke

Freepers,

Here are my e-mails to Warner of VA and Machin of WV along with the links to there comment pages…..as you know both campaigned on pro-2nd amendment platforms and are NRA A rated….and now are obvious weasels.

To these spineless apostates and others in the next few days....do what you can to remind them of history and that we live in a Republic, not a mobacracy.

http://www.warner.senate.gov/public//index.cfm?p=ContactPage

http://manchin.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/contact-form

Don't let the bastards win.

Can you check the link and post as a comment.....I need some inspiration right now...THX

Wow. I had no idea the fricking pills went that that high on the black market....around here my cop buddies say, they dopers substitute black tar heroin which tickles the same fancy for 1/10th the price. The Obama class of white trash trogs score the pills, then sell to yuppie addicts and use the cash to buy the heroin or juts trade outright for the stuff to pushers who work both ends.

I have to believe, given how addictive they are (hooked Rush Limbaugh) that the pharmaceutical companies (like big tobacco) are consciously involved in the “crisis” to build sales.

With the extended unemployment benes running out for many, that might be driving the increase in crime as they have to steal more now to fill their habits instead of cashing G checks.

1 How clearly the sky reveals God’s glory!
How plainly it shows what he has done!
2 Each day announces it to the following day;
each night repeats it to the next.
3 No speech or words are used,
no sound is heard;
4 yet their message goes out to all the world
and is heard to the ends of the earth.
Psalm 19

Thank you for both posts. Beautiful. One very brief. One almost timeless. Keeps things in perspective, eh?

Adorno wrote...
“God “knew” that Satan would become “imperfect” all along, therefore, God decided to create something that he (God) knew to be imperfect and evil.”

PRIDE goes before the fall whether the fallen be angel or man.

It is Lucifer’s pride that compelled him to speak the 5 “I wills” in Isaiah 14:12-14 found in other replies here. It is his pride that keeps him in opposition to God and deceiving man.

Lucifer was not created imperfect or evil....he had the potential (as do we all) to become it. He chose.

God stands outside time and sees all things and all times as if they are happening now. This gives Him perfect knowledge outcomes.

To us, with our little ape brains the seems like predestination...that God created sin and picked winners and losers at the start.

He did not. He created life. Lucifer engineered his own fall not God. Adam, and in turn each of us, do/did so as well when we rebel against Him in arrogance and pride.

A farmer sows a field knowing full well that weeds will grow, but still he sows.....he wants the good crop and tolerates the bad to get it. So it is with God.

We have used www.cheapodrugs.com for years for a wide variety of maintenance meds in our family without issue or concern.

It is not demographics that have beaten us if we indeed are beaten. It is treason that has encouraged too much of the rest of the world to come here with their bent knee, boot licking, peon values.

And even then, the thralls predominate only in a very small geographic area.

Maybe it is time for a country of our own again......we should get to keep the flag and toss New England and the west coast out of the union.

Second alternative is 20 or 30 million red meat eating American’s migrating north tipping the balance toward conservative sanity in Canada by infiltrating up there the same way the Mexicans have robbed us our our birthright down here.

Redneck here.

Teach your children to be predators, not prey.

Mine were slaughtering hogs and cattle with me before they were out of diapers. Grown now, blood and screams and the pain of others hold no fear for them.

It they have their pants on, they have a knife. A real knife and I taught them how to use it close in eye to eye.

They know how to shoot and kill. They know a man’s “sore spots” and how to fill your hand with something heavy when you can.

They know how to read the land and the street and another person so you strike first....I taught them. My daddy taught me.

Teach them righteous violence is a good thing and serves God. Teach them to take glory and honor in crushing and killing evil.

Does this sound brutal? Sound like the Taliban?

A properly raised Redneck is worth 4 Talibanners or a half dozen cannibal street thugs. History proves it.

Teach them also Christian virtue. That the strong protect the weak. the slow and the stupid. That the strong pleads for the widow and defends the orphan.

Do this and you have a raised a Christian warrior imbued with the Holy Spirit and whose ally in any battle is the Undefeated God.

My littlest warrior looks alot like Autumn Pasquale....just a bit older. Had she or any of my kids been there for Autumn......the twins momma would have gotten the call from the police, not Autumn’s.

Teach your children. Predator, not prey. Do it today.

Oh well, never mind. I confused MSNBC’s Ed Schultz with the equally noxious Fox News Bob Beckel....both ugly fat liberal white guys that nobody cares about.....

Too much Jack and too little sleep.

Better question is who is Ed Schultz? Does his mother even watch this tokenized, slavering, self abusing Marxist loon?

Little Eddie is among the tiny jabering gaggle of hand me down libtards on Fox News like Jerry Rivers (aka Geraldo Rivera....who re-latinized his name because his mother once had lunch at Chi Chi's) and whining cow eyed Juan Williams who discovered his Libtard nose picker buddies sometimes become a shrieking lynch mob of banshees that cannibalize their own when he mouthed the wrong confessional on PBS.

These cowanistic cretins and capons are given air time so FOX CEO Roger Ailes can claim to be “fair and balanced” and thereby drive even greater weight to the right wing entertainers like O’Reilly, Hannity and Ingram.

Now as to Colon Powell....yes Colon....he was once a warrior who discovered how handy it was career wise in an affirmative action Army to be mostly black but look, sound and act white.....He always gave the ring banging good old boys network in the Army what they needed....an upwardly mobile colored mannequin to hold up like a talisman whenever they were challenged on their diversity program.

In return, Colon got promotions and choice assignments over his paler, more qualified and competent colleagues....even getting jumped over 36 more senior generals to be named the youngest and first “almost black?” Chairman of the Joints Chiefs of Staff by a new Republican President (Old Man George Bush). Ol Georgie was eager to build his rep as trendy, hip, and even with the happening “thingy”. Oh, and because Colon was just that great. Yeah. That great. Really Colon deserved it.... Colon's color didn't have anything to do with it. Read George's lips. It is true.

So, old Colon ended his show dog boot licking Army career as just another house “n-word” proving that shallow conservatives knew what political theater was just as well as the shallow libtards. While one of the white guys he got promoted over (Schwarzkopf) did all the heavy lifting and brain work during Desert Storm.....gee, we never see that in real life do we. But Colon almost got a 5th star because he stopped Stormin Norman 60 miles short of Baghdad and ensured we got to go back a second time. Clauswitz and Napoleon have nothing on Colon....except skill and judgement I suppose.

Colon was called back as Sec of State by Georgie junior because his Dad told him he had to....and Colon was the only Republican stupid enough to actually believe Saddam Husein had WMD’s. What a tool.

Who cares who Colon endorses.....but if he is voting for Commander Zero for any reason OTHER than Obama is mostly kinda sorta black just like Colon...then he really is a moron. Why else would anybody vote for the worst president since....well, I guess he is the worst president period.

So Colon spent his life getting ahead and being there by being, as Joe Biden described Obama....a real clean black man that didn't smell funny.

Now that is a man whose erudite intellectual prowess I respect.

God save us all. Children are in charge and they have guns.

Howdy Bill. Respectfully, I think you are splitting hairs...Christian principles=Christian nation.

Think medieval....think Christendom. Those nations of the Christain culture. France, Spain and Italy are Roman Catholic. Greece Orthodox, etc....the Old USA is a protestant Christian nation with the most developed understanding of liberty and man’s superior standing in the state as opposed to its subject.

Rex Publica....Republic. The people are king. We are a confederation of kings because of Christ in the Calvinistic/Knoxian tradition.

The litany for any believer goes God then country...just like Christ required God before family. To say one belongs to a Christian family does not elevate the family over God....just that the family tries to live by Christ’s teaching and New Covenant.

The old USA however, like Israel of old, has fallen away. Many of the people still hold the faith of Christ and hold to the Christian principles in the Declaration and governed mechanically by the Constitution/Bill of Rights....but much or of leadership has become apostate...even many of those who claim to be our “Christian” leadership.

As it is always noted on FR....keep posting and I am just saying.