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Health Care Reform: Failure to buy health insurance in the just-passed health care bill could get you five years in jail with a $250,000 fine. How can violating a law that's unconstitutional be a felony? The passage last Saturday night of the House health care measure by a fragile 220-215 margin may well prove to be a Pyrrhic victory. In polls, townhall meetings and tea parties, Americans have shown they don't want a "reform" that costs a staggering $1.2 trillion yet fails to meet the left's desire of insuring all the uninsured. And they certainly don't want a bill that...

It has come to this, America. Democrats have decided that if you don't agree with their policies, you are to be fined. And if you don't pay the fine, you are a criminal and will be sentenced to jail. That's right, Democrats are criminalizing dissent. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has decided to leave language in her heatlhcare bill that criminalizes and prescribes jail time for any American that does not want to buy private healthcare insurance. Think of this, America. I am telling you that the U.S. Congress has decided to force you to buy the product of...

Louisiana Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal urged his party Tuesday to shift to offering health care solutions instead of just rejecting what [Alleged] President Barack Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are proposing. “I think now is the perfect time to pivot and to say, not only here’s what we’re against, and not only here’s how we’re going to contrast ourselves, but here’s what we’re for,” Jindal said in an interview with POLITICO. Jindal acknowledged that the Republican Party for years had been too slow to stake out positions on the health care debate “to our peril and the nation’s...

American Voters believe in the US Constitution, even if the liberals in Congress act as if they never read it. The Obamacare bill working its way through the U.S. Senate includes a provision that requires all Americans to either buy health insurance or pay a $750 annual penalty. From their point of view it makes sense, because by enrolling relatively healthy younger people who might not usually purchase insurance in the plan, it helps to pay for the older people who generally need more services from health insurance. Of course there is absolutely NOTHING in the constitution giving the federal...

Senator Baucus. What can we say about him, other than he's another Biden, being put up to shovel an even worse plan than HR3200, in order to make people rather have THAT piece of crap. These bills are great to use to mail to people, to keep all the various issues and aspects of why this is so terrible, on hand and in your mind. Mail them to your lawmakers with a note about how we're watching them, we know the score, and we will kick their asses out of there at the next opportunity when we have the chance...

The great thing about fixing healthcare is not missing the opportunity to turn a bunch of regular people into criminals. You don't want healthcare, too damn bad. You're now a criminal. You don't have a choice. You are going to forcibly be made to enter a legal contract against your will. (This is against the law by the way). All contract law is void unless both parties entered into the contract voluntarily. There's little terms like "COERCION" and "AGAINST THEIR WILL" and stuff like that. How about someone gives you an abortion against your will? Didn't want it? Too bad....

HealthCare Reform Will Ruin Your Insurance And Your Job The healthcare reform that is being pushed by the President and Democrats in Congress is a terrible bill. It's purpose is very clearly designed to end private insurance and move everyone in the country towards the public option, socializing healthcare in effect, while pretending that choice is still an option. It would be one thing if Obama and Reid and Pelosi came out and said they liked socialist healthcare, and thought the country should move in that direction. If they admitted the expense, and the likely destruction of private insurance, you...

It's becoming clearer day by day. The President and Democrat leaders have been doing the Hustle. Not only hustling voters from the get-go, but hustling all year to push their statist legislative agenda through Congress. And, most often, they're attempting to do so in the still of the night. Why? Because undemocratic Democrats understand better than they're given credit that a solid majority of Americans occupy the center-right. Democrats, especially party liberals, well appreciate that last November's election wasn't a resounding mandate, but, rather, a small window through which to squeeze massive leftwing measures. Wasn't it the lighthearted Rahm Emanuel...

In an effort to avoid totally selling out his previous position in opposition to the so-called “card-check” bill (Employee Free Choice Act) that would authorize unions to represent workers without first having a secret ballot vote, Senator Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) has suggested a compromise that both proponents and opponents find unpalatable. While Specter’s proposed amendment would not change the no-ballot provision of the bill, it would restrict a union’s persuasion efforts. Under the Specter amendment, threats against property would continue to be permitted, but threats against persons would be criminalized. “We don’t want to totally inhibit the union’s opportunity to...

Kilroy letter may have influenced AIG company's decision Thursday, April 23, 2009 3:00 PM By Jonathan Riskind THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH WASHINGTON -- Did an inquiry by Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy on behalf of a desperate constituent facing foreclosure persuade a giant AIG-owned mortgage company to take part in an Obama administration-crafted loan modification program? In a back and forth exchange between Indiana-based American General Finance and Kilroy, D-Columbus, the mortgage company doesn't acknowledge a cause and effect in its reversal. And AIG indicated that the chain of events leading up to the change of heart predates Kilroy's involvement. But the...

Passed the House, Passed the Senate, and outlawed Religion for those in 'volunteer' programs: last week, the House passed the Serve America Act (SAA), which will triple the number of federally funded "volunteer" positions, create a "Clean Energy Corps" to weatherize homes, and make September 11th a "National Day of Service." Like many federal assaults on the taxpayer, the SAA is a bipartisan offense: It passed by huge margins in both houses. Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, the primary sponsor, got a standing ovation after the vote was in, and co-sponsor Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican, gushed that "the whole Kennedy...

Please copy, paste, and circulate this press release from the Governor of Missouri. Note the Web domain of the press release, governor.mo.gov. This is not "someone's blog," a "rumor," or a "smear." It is the official Web site of Missouri's state government. The Governor of Missouri says openly that Barack Obama conspired to misuse his state's law enforcement resources to "threaten and intimidate his critics."We cannot overemphasize the gravity of Governor Blunt's accusation. While we are not attorneys and cannot give legal advice, "Conspiracy against rights" is a felony under the U.S. Code, Title 18 (Crimes). At present, Governor Blunt's...

Across China, Security Instead Of Celebration Washington Post[Saturday, July 19, 2008 11:54] Police Crack Down on 'Hostile Forces,' Apply New Safety Measures By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service YENGISHAHAR, China July 19 - Shortly after dawn on July 9, the local government here bused several thousand students and office workers into a public square and lined them up in front of a vocational school. As the spectators watched, witnesses said, three prisoners were brought out. Then, an execution squad fired rifles at the three point-blank, killing them on the spot. The young men had been convicted of having connections...

The Point | In defense of waterboarding By Mark Bowden No one should be prosecuted for waterboarding Abu Zubaydah. > Several investigations are under way to find out who ordered the destruction of CIA interrogation videotapes, apparently an effort to cover up evidence of torture. Leaving aside for a moment the wisdom of destroying the tapes, I'd like to take a look at what was allegedly done to Zubaydah, and why. > When captured in Pakistan in 2002, Zubaydah was one of the world's most notorious terrorists. The 31-year-old Saudi had compiled in his young life 37 different aliases and...

Top Scholar Predicts “Slow Motion Humanitarian Tragedy” in China Stinging rebuke delivered during address to World Economic Forum in Dalian, China By Samantha Singson NEW YORK, September 21, 2007 (CFAM.org) - Likening the Chinese one-child policy to a “slow-motion humanitarian tragedy,” prominent demographer Nicholas Eberstadt urged the Chinese government to “immediately and without reservation” scrap the coercive population control program that has been “a tragic and historic mistake.” Eberstadt delivered the stinging rebuke during an address to the World Economic Forum held in Dalian, China earlier this month. Eberstadt told officials that while the population control program has achieved its...

Late-Term Abortionist's Patient Drops Bombshell Testimony Of Illegal, Coerced Abortion TOPEKA, Kansas, September 10, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A former patient of abortionist George R. Tiller gave jaw-dropping testimony before a joint interim legislative committee Friday, telling the detailed story of her late-term abortion experience that, as described, violated the Kansas ban on such abortions at nearly every turn. "This is perhaps the most explosive testimony that has every been heard at the Capitol. Based on this testimony alone, Tiller's medical license should not survive to the end of the day," said Operation Rescue President Troy Newman. "We demand that the...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 31, 2007Wellington, New Zealand (LifeNews.com) -- The leading pro-life group in New Zealand is calling on that nation's parliament to draft legislation to make it illegal for people or groups to pressure or coerce a woman into having an abortion. The measure is similar to legislation some states in the United States have considered.Right to Life New Zealand cites the bill the Michigan legislature approved as evidence that this kind of legislation is not without precedent.The group says it is "trying to establish procedures to make sure that a woman is not intimidated into an abortion...

UN to Award Global PR Firm for Indian Population Control Condom Campaign Program was joint project of USAID and health ministry of Indian governmen By Hilary White NEW DELHI, August 22, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The United Nations has offered its "Grand Award" for achievement in public relations to a US-funded campaign to boost condom sales in India. The campaign, called "Condom Bindaas Bol" (Say Condom Freely), was a joint project of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and the health ministry of the Indian government. The campaign was meant to convince Indians that the word "condom" was not...

Board may decide that logos on apparel are Election Day no-nos Dayton Right to Life planned to put its name on workers, bringing about the debate of fairness with all decals. The Montgomery County Board of Elections may ban poll workers from wearing clothing with any names or logos after members heard of Dayton Right to Life's plan to put its name on poll workers' shirts.The plan, approved by a top board official, caught board members by surprise. Possible backlash They hope it won't discourage companies and organizations from helping the county find the 2,200 poll workers needed to staff...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Sen. John McCain will deliver a message Monday to the other Republican presidential candidates: opposing an immigration bill for political gain will only make worse the problems of undocumented immigrants and an unsecured border. McCain plans to talk about the bill at an event here Monday, and excerpts of his prepared remarks take aim at other Republicans in the race. "I would hope they wouldn't play politics for their own interests if the cost of their ambition was to make this problem even harder to solve," McCain said in the prepared remarks obtained by The Associated...

Britain buckles before Saudi threats Financial Times 12/19/2006 Author: Philip Stephens Consider the dry explanation of Britain's most senior law officer: "It has been necessary to balance the need to maintain the rule of law against the wider public interest." Now translate: "Faced with serious threats to the nation's security from the rulers of Saudi Arabia, I have decided to put aside the fundamental principles at the heart of our democratic system of government." Little wonder that Lord Goldsmith, the attorney-general, sounded almost contrite when he called a halt to the long-running criminal investigation into whether a British defence company...

Gov. Mitt Romney (R) supports the proposal, which would require all uninsured adults in the state to purchase some kind of insurance policy by July 1, 2007, or face a fine. Their choices would be expanded to include a range of new and inexpensive policies -- ranging from about $250 per month to nearly free -- from private insurers subsidized by the state. snip As simple as the idea sounds -- buy insurance or else -- the proposal is complex and, in some cases, still unfinished. For instance, it leaves the task of determining exactly how much some low-income residents...

OTTAWA - The Quebec Ministry of Education has told unlicensed Christian evangelical schools that they must teach Darwin's theory of evolution and sex education or close their doors after a school board in the Outaouais region complained the provincial curriculum was not being followed. "Quebec children are legally required to follow the provincial curriculum ... but these evangelical schools teach their own courses on creationism and sexuality that don't follow the Quebec curriculum," said Pierre Daoust, director-general of the Commission Scolaire au Coeur-des-Vallees in Thurso, Que. Mr. Daoust's complaint sparked the province-wide investigation. Quebec law requires school boards to assure...

The violent Muslim reaction to Pope Benedict's reference to Muhammad involves far more than the issue of freedom of speech. The ultimate issue is one of theological truth on the one hand, and the true nature of Islam on the other. Pope Benedict's "indirect" disparagement of Muhammad--who was will denigrated by St. Thomas Aquinas, the touchstone of Roman Catholicism--is by definition a disparagement of Islam. Be this as it may, the Pope now calls for "dialogue." When Islam substitutes dialogue for the sword it will cease to be Islam. Islamic leaders from Muhammad to Ahmadinejad have ever declared war on...

This is one case where silence isn't golden and ignorance isn't bliss. They are dangerous and dumb It's not easy to be shocked by jihad these days, five years and numberless atrocities after the Twin Towers imploded on almost 3,000 fellow citizens. That said, I admit my own jihad-fatigue was broken — shattered, really — by the "conversion" to Islam of Fox journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig videotaped during their two-week ordeal as captives of Palestinians in Gaza. Why? Andrew G. Bostom, writing at Frontpage mag. tells us forced conversions to Islam "have been the norm, across three continents...

Gay pride group sues Star Tribune over ads The organizer of the annual Twin Cities Pride Celebration has sued the Star Tribune, accusing the newspaper of discrimination and breach of contract for refusing to publish ads for the festival. The advertisements showed two men kissing. The lawsuit, filed Friday in Hennepin County District Court, said the newspaper applied different standards to GLBT/Pride Twin Cities because the newspaper had published ads depicting a heterosexual couple kissing. The lawsuit also contends the newspaper breached its advertising contract, and retaliated by failing to publish any of its advertisements, including one that did not...

Mexico Offers Help in Exchange for Visas by Amanda B. CarpenterPosted Mar 27, 2006The Mexican government placed a full-page advertisement in major U.S. newspapers last week that said Mexican efforts to stop illegal emigration into the U.S. would be contingent on the United States' providing a "sufficient number of appropriate visas" to Mexican nationals who now enter the U.S. illegally. The ad was a summary of "Mexico and the Migration Phenomenon," a policy declaration adopted last February by Mexico’s Federal Congress. In the declaration, the Mexican government calls for a "bilateral medical insurance system" for Mexican workers in the U.S....

Sent to me via e-mail... *heheheh* (I think the sign he's giving is pret-ty close...) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has already started her 2008 presidential campaign by aligning herself with the military and pretending to be tough on terror. Fortunately, the ultra-liberal Hillary has yet to brainwash all of the voting public in to believing that her symbolism is really substance. Many have never forgotten that when she was co-president for eight years she was quoted as saying: "I loathe the military." The picture shows that this soldier has been thru Survival School and learned his lessons well. He's giving...

Copyright © 1998-2005 TruthOrFiction.com All rights reserved Picture of U.S. Soldier in Iraq Shaking Hands With Senator Hillary Clinton--But Not Willingly-Truth! Summary of the eRumorThe eRumor includes a picture of a U.S. soldier shaking hands with Senator Hillary Clinton. He is also crossing the fingers of his left hand, which the email says is a soldier's sign for coercion.      The TruthThis eRumor started circulating shortly after Senator Clinton made a Thanksgiving visit to the soldiers in Iraq in 2003. There was a lot of speculation about what the picture really meant. Was the soldier really indicating that...

The Real Story Behind ThanksgivingDid you know that the first [Plymouth Colony Pilgrim's] Thanksgiving was a celebration of the triumph of private property and individual initiative?William Bradford was the governor of the original Pilgrim colony, founded at Plymouth in 1621. The colony was first organized on a communal basis, as their financiers required. Land was owned in common. The Pilgrims farmed communally, too, following the "from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" precept.The results were disastrous. Communism didn't work any better 400 years ago than it does today. By 1623, the colony had suffered...

  Y'know... I like to make jokes that the Left can only get the crowds via Castro-style "bus rides and sandwiches", but this is getting ridiculous.   Clinton's book isn't flying off local shelves The buzz is there -- and it's No. 1 on Amazon -- but area stores stay calm. By M.S. Enkoji -- Bee Staff WriterPublished 2:15 am PDT Wednesday, June 23, 2004 (excerpt)   At the Sacramento store, Norma Valencia bypassed Clinton for a book on personal finance. She had been in Manhattan Monday on business when people began lining up at the other Barnes & Noble,...

A Leftist Professor Strikes Again By Nick Bahl FrontPageMagazine.com | January 23, 2004 I am a 22-year-old senior planning to graduate with a journalism degree and a political science minor from Metropolitan State College in Denver this May. This past semester I took a class called Latin American Politics taught by Dr. Oneida Meranto, a political science professor at Metro State. When I registered for Dr. Meranto’s class, I didn’t know what I was in for. During the past semester Dr. Meranto has wrongfully dropped me from her class; threatened to throw a campus Republican group that I belonged to...

<p>The city-funded San Francisco nonprofit group accused of pressuring workers to vote and campaign for Gavin Newsom for mayor also pushed its employees to work to re-elect former Mayor Willie Brown in 1999, according to interviews.</p> <p>Three former employees of the nonprofit San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners, or SLUG, told The Chronicle that they were ordered to walk precincts, attend rallies and debates and work a phone bank promoting Brown's candidacy.</p>

search:  About CRO  Perspectives  Features   Book Reviews  News  College Prep  Links  Internships   Email Signup  Contact Us  Home  campusreportonline.net is brought to you by Accuracy In Academia The Power Grab of the NEAby: William R. Alford, November 28, 2003 In the book Power Grab, we find that the National Education Association (NEA) has sued teachers for revealing its political activities to their colleagues. Teachers who are reluctant to participate in strikes sometimes face violence. One found her cats and dog dead near her home. Strikebreaking substitute teachers have been pelted with eggs, spat upon, and had their vehicles damaged. While on the way to class, a 12-year-old Los...

Woman contends supervisor of community service workers demanded sex in exchange for falsifying hours By Claire Osborn AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, November 1, 2003 A woman has sued the City of Austin, contending that it was negligent in employing a park worker who is accused of coercing sex from young women assigned to work in the parks as community service for misdemeanor criminal convictions. The former employee, Freddie Urias, faces criminal charges of sexual assault, official oppression and tampering with a government record. His case is in pretrial hearings. According to the lawsuit filed in state District Court, Urias sexually assaulted...

If Sam Waksal had read Atlas Shrugged, he may have walked free. In a memorable scene in Atlas Shrugged, Hank Rearden, a self-made steel magnate, sat, like Waksal, in a courtroom, on trial. Rearden, like Waksal,had violated the law. Rearden's crime had been to sell four thousand tons of Rearden Metal, his own creation and property, the result of ten years of his arduous labor, to a customer of his choice, in violation of a law that dictated what quantities and to whom he could sell. Rearden, like Waksal, had "cheated the law" and "broken the national regulations designed to...

There are enough tax evaders to elect a government! Three out of four Canadians (77%) say they are determined to evade taxes. 42% said they had already evaded taxes. (COMPAS poll, Financial Post, June 3, 1995) “Evading taxes” means escaping taxes by illegal means. It includes such things as hiding income from the government, smuggling cigarettes or liquor, buying smuggled goods and secretly paying cash to escape sales taxes. If a party got 77% of the vote, it would be a landslide. Even 42% is usually enough to elect a government. Voting is safe, and tax evasion is threatened with...

The State of Texas County of Bexar Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day personally appeared Susan Renne, (Print Name) who, being by me duly sworn, upon oath, stated the following facts: My name is Susan Renne . I am over the age of eighteen years, and I am of sound mind and competent to make this affidavit. I have personal knowledge of the facts stated in this affidavit, and I do solemnly swear, or affirm, that the following facts are true: I was fifteen years old, growing up in Leawood, Kansas, when I realized I had not had...

Are Senate Democrats Pro-Choice or Pro-Coercion? by Maggie Gallagher [Pro-Life Infonet Note: Since January of 1993, Maggie Gallagher's opinion column has appeared in New York Newsday and in many other magazines and newspapers. Gallagher's first book, Enemies of Eros: How the Sexual Revolution is Killing Family, Marriage and Sex, was published by Bonus Books in 1989.] Here are the facts: Most doctors do not like to perform abortions, and most abortionists like to make money. They tend to locate clinics in lucrative urban areas, leaving rural women to travel sometimes as much as a few hours in order to get...

By John Lettice Posted: 07/19/2002 at 02:15 EST Microsoft's sales grew 10 per cent in its fourth quarter, helped by what is described as strong demand by business for Windows XP. This strong demand might under other circumstances be viewed as curious, considering businesses have battened down the hatches are are taking an extremely leery view of IT investment, but currently we have the small matter of the Licensing 6 31st July switch or die deadline. We'd have said 'strong surrender' was more appropriate. Microsoft also has this month to run before 6 kicks in, so should benefit in Q1...

Machiavelli says in "The Prince" that a people once free in an orderly society are extremely difficult to enslave, and that if they are enslaved, will never stop rebelling against their oppressors. Lost freedoms will never be forgotten. One wonders whether the same thing is true of a once proud, independent profession whose leaders have successfully enfeebled it to serve an ideology that is at cross purposes with the culture that sustains it. Matthew McGowan describes in "Coloring the News" a major change in the goals and ethics of the American mainstream media over the past few decades. Truthful and...

This one I've got personal knowledge of, so I thought I'd give everyone a heads up.Katie Hall is City Clerk of Gary, IN, and has held that office since 1987. Prior to that point, she has been an Indiana state senator, and was a US Congresswoman for a term and a half in the early 80's.In her position, Hall forced her employees to buy candy, tickets to dinners, and raise money for her political campaigns. The feds indicted Hall on 22 counts, which could net her 115 years in prison.What the story that I'm including below doesn't note is that...