Superman Renounces His U.S. Citizenship in 900th Issue of Action Comics - FoxNews.com

Superman Renounces His U.S. Citizenship in 900th Issue of Action Comics - FoxNews.com: "Superman even questions his longtime motto: 'Truth, justice and the American way.'

In-State Tuition-Federal Violation

WBFF FOX45 - Top Stories - In-State Tuition-Federal Violation Debate-Jennifer Gilbert

The debate continues over in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.

Advocates argue that higher education leads to better paying jobs.

But there's a big problem with that theory, it defies federal law.

Atlas Shrugged

Important stuff, and I bet most educators haven't read it. It's interesting that this is now a major film, about how a world is doomed in which the individual is not free to create, that civilization cannot exist where men are slaves to society and government, and that the destruction of the profit motive leads to the collapse of society. Sound familiar?

Ayn Rand: probably the most important intellectual mind in politics in the 20th century.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123146363567166677.html

Obama: Gas Price Solution Lies in Renewable Energy Sources

Let's see, we can either A) develop new energy sources not yet created, much less proven, but what we know about them is that they're expensive and made overseas, or 2) drill for resources we know we have and know are proven, and have them in the near-term.

If it's gasoline for cars that Obama's talking about, how can we revolutionize the entire industry and make everyone buy new cars in the near term, when we can't afford what we have now?

The man doesn't understand the first thing about economics. Hell, he doesn't understand HOME economics and household budgeting!

The answer is to drill for oil at home in the near term as a stopgap while we develop those new energy sources.  The pie in the sky mentality of liberal politicians is taking us broke.

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says one answer to high gasoline prices is to spend money developing renewable energy sources.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/23/obama-gas-price-solution-lies-renewable-energy-sources/#ixzz1KLvkc4AT

Subject: Next Amendment to the Constitution

I received this in my e-mail inbox today and it blew me away.  YES!  yes yes yes!

Subject: Next Amendment to the Constitution

 The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months&  8 days to be ratified!  Why?  Simple!  The people demanded it.  That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc.

 Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.

  I'm asking you to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on your address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.

  In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message.  This is one idea that really should be passed around.



 Congressional Reform Act of 2011



  1. Term Limits.
            12 years only, one of the possible options below.
             A. Two Six-year Senate terms
             B. Six Two-year House terms
             C. One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms


  2.  No Tenure / No Pension.
               A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.


  3.  Congress (past, present&  future) participates in Social Security.
                All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately.
            All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.


  4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.


  5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise.  Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.


  6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.


  7. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.


  8. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/2/12.

 The American people did not make the current contract with members of Congress.
 Congressmen made all these contracts to benefit themselves.


 Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career.
 The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.

 If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message.


 MUCH OF WHAT WE FACE IN TERMS OF PRIVILEGE AND SELFISHNESS IN THIS COUNTRY MIGHT BEST BE CHANGED STARTING FROM THE TOP DOWN.
 If you agree with the above, pass it on.   If not, just delete


 You are one of my 20. I INVITE YOU TO KEEP IT GOING. WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE -- THANKS!

Senate gives initial approval to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants - Baltimore Sun

How does one reconcile the need for documentation for one class who is in legal compliance with the law, when it is not needed for another who is breaking the law? Will MD citizens lose their place in MD-supported colleges if they don't have the proper documentation - such as a birth certificate? You bet they will. This is not fair, and places undue burdens on legal citizens.

It creates an unlevel playing field for college entry, with legal citizens at a disadvantage.

The MD legislature is requiring Maryland citizens to pay for things they do not support. And I can't for the life of me understand why politicians go down this road, especially at time of such bad financial crisis.

It's just not fair.

Senate gives initial approval to in-state tuition for illegal immigrants - Baltimore Sun: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Idaho Votes to Phase Out Teacher Tenure, Restrict Collective Bargaining

This wasn't in the news, but seems more than reasonable to me. The education and its product should be the issue, not whether or not public teachers have "rights" - not enumerated anywhere in the law, btw.

Idaho Votes to Phase Out Teacher Tenure, Restrict Collective Bargaining - FoxNews.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

What to do when the law fails?

We Americans hold the Constitution's first amendment as if it came down from the mount... but I assure you, had this happened in the day of our founding fathers, it would not stand.

I'm shocked that somehow the Supreme Court has correlated freedom of speech with freedom of action. This will later come home to roost as we deal with many other problems, including that of Islamic terrorism. In the short term, the ruling will lead to violence. With people on both side now knowing that they can no longer depend on the law to stop these vile protests, they'll take matters into their own hands. Just as the founding fathers would have.

Justices rule anti-gay church can protest at military funerals - Baltimore Sun: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Regarding US Trials for Combatants

I ran across this interesting historical tidbit today: A report about what the US did when it captured a WW2 German sabotage team operating within the US. These days, if this happened, they'd have been tried by the Justice Department and their legions of morons, then sent back to their home countries. Liberals would go to bed happy. But back in the day, when people knew how to do things and stuff actually mattered, that's not what happened.

"All eight German agents were tried, convicted by the Military Commission, with six men sentenced to death. President Roosevelt approved the sentences. The constitutionality of the military commissions was upheld by the Supreme Court in Ex parte Quirin and the six men were executed by electrocution on August 8."

http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Duquesne+Spy+Ring
http://encyclopedia.tfd.com/Attacks+on+North+America+during+World+War+II

Shocking Level of Influence: Trumka Talks to White House EVERY DAY and V...

The American Labor Movement as Extortionist

This picture sums up what has become of American labor unions: People have no right to work, unless it's with the approval of a labor union. Here in Maryland, and across the country, laws were enacted that required unions be paid by the individual employee regardless of whether he was a member or not; the reasoning was that he would be the beneficiary of collective bargaining no matter what, therefore he should pay. But isn't that tantamount to extortion - pay me or you can't work?

It seems the unions have truly come full circle. This is how mobs and gangs operated in large cities in the 19th century. Even the film, On the Waterfront, illustrated the control unions exert.  Governments and laws, however, were supposed to counter that kind of blackmail.  Now governments condone it, have even become the unions' enforcer. In the 21st century, Americans have no right to work with themselves as their sole representation.

No wonder American businesses look overseas for jobs.

Amid Union Protests, More Democrats Go On the Lam -- This Time in Indiana - FoxNews.com: "- Sent using Google Toolbar"

Funding Health Care Expansion

When Obama took office and the Democrats went wild over the opportunity to "reform" health care, they really went off the rails.  They became so entrenched with side issues, that they lost sight of their goal: providing health care to the poor.  Suddenly, everything became "insuring the uninsured," rather than "giving healthcare to the poor." In case you didn't notice, there's a big difference; who among us wouldn't defer health insurance costs in lieu of paying - even out of pocket - reasonable health care costs? Had this been a Republican action, every liberal from here to Timbuktu would swear it was a conspiracy involving Cheney and Halliburton to enrich the insurance companies. But this was Democrats, not Repubs, and the insurance companies are certainly poised to be enriched. So now what?

There are lots of ways to skin that cat of providing health care to the poor, and here's one of them:  Make all non-profit hospitals treat the uninsured for free.  

After all, non-profits already operate tax-free, and most of them are flush with cash because of philanthropic donors. Indeed, they have entire departments operating to solicit donations to their operations  And if you think these hospitals are the bottom of the barrel, be informed that none other than Johns Hopkins is a tax-exempt nonprofit.

So if the goal of health care "reform" is to deliver health care, then do it.  Otherwise, stop trying to get everyone else to foot the bill for insurance that the poor can neither afford, not even necessarily want to have to manage.