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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Though he usually focuses criticism on Democrats, top-rated radio host Rush Limbaugh is scorching Republicans as “clueless” in their efforts to stop President Obama and his health-care agenda, and what he expects to be its “disastrous” impact on everyday life in America. “We’re left with Obamacare, and we are left with a damaged Constitution, and we have a Republican leadership that’s clueless in how to slow any of this down,” Limbaugh said this afternoon. “If this keeps going this way, we’re going to lose it all, folks. Unless some people get their heads in the game...

While all of the mainstream press focuses upon the phony horse race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney for president, many Americans may be surprised to find that they will have several choices on their ballots in November. One of those other choices is the Constitution Party candidate Virgil H. Goode, Jr. and his vice presidential running mate, attorney Jim Clymer. Labeled “Mr. Independent” by his home newspaper in Virginia, the Richmond Times-Dispatch, former six-term Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode has demonstrated a willingness to change parties when his principles did not comport with his party. Goode was elected to the...

4 years ago no one was afraid of being retaliated against or SWAT'd for their speech or blog comments.4 years ago no one thought an American President might declare martial law and cancel the presidential election so he could stay in office.4 years ago no one thought we'd withdraw from Iraq COMPLETELY.4 years ago no one thought NASA would be all but eliminated.4 years ago no one thought an American President would ATTACK our right to choose what we eat and drink.4 years ago no one thought an American President would create an atmosphere where schools seize Twinkies from children's...

(1/2) Update: In reference to the Suspicious package at 10th and Penn Ave, NW. Please view the attached photo and avoid area outlined in (2/2) yellow until further notice. Motorists use alternate routes such as H St, New York Ave and Mass Ave, NW/7066 (1/2) Traffic Alert: MPD on scene of a Suspicious package at 10th and Penn Ave, NW. The following streets are blocked. * 9th to 12th St's2/2) NW (Both Directions) * 12th St and Constitution Ave to E St, NW, * 11th St and Pennsylvania Ave to E St, NW/7066

French police have raided the home and offices of the former president Nicolas Sarkozy as part of an investigation into allegations of illegal campaign-financing by France's wealthiest woman. Police searched the mansion rented by Carla Bruni in a chic gated community in the west of Paris early on Tuesday morning. She and Sarkozy have lived there since their marriage, in 2008. Detectives also searched the office of the legal firm where Sarkozy is a partner and the office he moved into after losing the presidential election to the Socialist François Hollande in May. The couple were not present as they...

The coastal town of Depoe Bay is about to experience its quietest July 3 in 19 years. Town officials this year reluctantly announced they were cancelling the annual pre-Independence Day fireworks show, following pressure from federal wildlife managers who said the noise disrupts protected sea birds. he shows ran smoothly for two decades. Then, in 2010, a Depoe Bay resident contacted the federal wildlife service and reported seeing seabirds nesting at Pirates Cove take flight during the fireworks. The federal agency asked the city to consider moving the fireworks to Fogarty Creek State Recreation Area, a little farther north. But...

Outspoken New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, in a CNBC appearance Tuesday, opened the door to a vice presidential run should Republican candidate Mitt Romney choose him. While many of those thought to be in contention for the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket have been coy about whether they would accept the nomination, Christie told "Squawk Box" that an offer would be hard to resist. "This is an election with one voter, Mitt Romney. He gets to decide who he thinks should be the vice president of the United States," Christie said. "I love being governor of New Jersey,...

IRS officials on background tell FOX Business the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on health reform gives the IRS even more powers than previously understood. The IRS now gets to know about a small business's entire payroll, the level of their insurance coverage -- and it gets to know the income of not just the primary breadwinner in your house, but your entire family’s income, in order to assess/collect the mandated tax.Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/government/2012/06/29/scotus-ruling-means-bigger-more-intrusive-irs/#ixzz1zaTFEJT5

Dentures of two of the world's most famous composers have allegedly been stolen from their graves by a Slovak man who boasts of his crimes on YouTube saying he intends to use the purloined choppers to start a museum. Ondrej Jajcaj, the self confessed thief, says the teeth he extracted from the tombs of the famous 19th century composers Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms will be part of an exhibition of hundreds of objects plundered from more ordinary graves. The man was identified in Austrian media reports simply by his initials, O.J. But a search on the internet reveals Ondrej...

1. State will avoid $10 - $100 million per year cost of operating Exchange. 2. Diifficult for IRS to track employees and enforce individual mandate ("tax"). 3. People will not be automatically forced into Medicaid against their will. 4. "Essential health benefits" including contraception will be difficult to require. 5. People will have more options than Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum policies. 6. Employers cannot drop employees and force them into the Exchange. 7. Employers can't be fined $2,000 per employee if just one uses Exchange. 8. Entitlements will not be expanded through Exchange-based tax subsidies. 9. Individual privacy will be...

In the video clip below, Katherine Albrecht, author of the book "Spy Chips" explains how microchips work, and how RFID tracking is used in all kinds of products, and then explains how embedded microchips work in the body. Watch carefully near the end of the clip, when Joe Biden, a Senator at the time asks Justice John Roberts at a Confirmation Hearing: "Can a miniature tag be implanted into a human body to track his every movement? You will rule on that, mark my words, before your tenure is over." This statement by Biden clearly exposes the heart of the...

..Continuing the Tenth Amendment Network series on the case to impeach President Barack Obama... Article I: Violation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 with regards to President Obama's troop deployment to Libya.

Chinese authorities vowed Tuesday to crack down on protesters after riot police clashed with hundreds of people rallying against a planned new metals plant over fears about its environmental impact. The latest bout of social unrest to hit China occurred in the small city of Shifang, which is still trying to recover after being badly hit in a 2008 earthquake that killed 88,000 people in the southwest of the country. The violence erupted on Monday when, according to the official account, protesters attacked government offices with bricks and stones, smashed cars, and clashed directly with police and government employees. In...

What a bunch of know-it-alls

The Obligations of Religious FreedomThere is a paradox to religious freedom — a genuine gain arising from an apparent loss. The dilemma goes something like this: If you want your religious beliefs to be protected, you must protect religious beliefs that fundamentally differ from your own. This does not require an endorsement of those beliefs, but it does require a certain respect for them.[2] Competing claims of truth and belief don’t easily coexist. However, “religious freedom for me but not for thee” cannot work, especially in a world as diverse as ours. Centuries of sectarian conflict have shown that such...

6/28/2012, the day Federalism died. It is also the day that exposed the true nature of centralized Statist power, how one man could change not only the fundamental nature of the relationship between the people and the government, but how this one man did so after first siding with the Constitution and then changing his mind in order to protect the image of the Supreme Court. Yes, you heard that correctly; Chief Justice Roberts, whose job as a justice of the highest court in the land is to rule on the Constitutionality of a law, ruled instead on the basis...

Three years after an Obamanesque media campaign about a supposed ‘Arab Spring’ convinced millions of people that the Muslim world was about to become democratic and peace-loving, the New York Times has finally trumpeted the headline that the Muslim Brotherhood just won the presidency of Egypt. Other than the NYT’s most gullible readers, is anybody surprised? The radical Muslim victory in Egypt is a first-rate foreign policy fiasco, one that might make Jimmy Carter green with envy. Thirty years after Jimmy’s biggest blunder, the mullahs still rule 70 million helpless people and have enough uranium for five nuclear bombs. Thirty...

President Obama will celebrate July 4 tomorrow at the White House with a naturalization ceremony, the White House announced today. The president will be joined by Department of Homeland Security secretary Janet Napolitano. "On July 4, President Obama will deliver remarks at a naturalization ceremony for active duty service members in the East Room. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas will present the countries of the candidates for naturalization and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will deliver the oath of allegiance," a White House press release reads.

orth Carolina Democrat Larry Kissell represents the state’s 8th Congressional district, one of the more closely-watched swing districts. He was one of 17 Democrats who voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in criminal contempt of Congress. And now, according to the Charlotte Observer, Kissell will join Republicans in voting to repeal Obamacare.

GOD knows who GOD chooses.