Statewide voter suppression in Maryland...

     Today, an article from the Baltimore Sun caught my eye.  It's about gerrymandering reform in Maryland. 

     It got me thinking about a blog post I had written after the last mid-term elections, but never got around to posting.  I think I wanted to let a little time pass before I posted something I had written while so. very. angry.  That's a thing... Isn't it? Never put something in writing when you are angry?

     The post was about voter suppression in Maryland.  

     Suppression... disenfranchisement... deprivation... Whatever you want to call it. 

     But it may not be what you think. 

     It wasn't those cheating Republicans, as the media's drumbeat goes. 

     It was all but six Democrats in the Maryland legislature, with the signature of then-Governor Martin O'Malley, Democrat. 

     Gerrymandering. 

     Perfectly legal, I guess... because they voted it into law in 2012 (see vote details here). 

     And oh. so. perfectly. effective. 

     Click here for the history of the 2012 redistricting plan.

     The Republicans had offered a plan that looked like this (see map just below), grouping swaths of the state pretty much by counties with shared commonalities. But it was rejected.

Just below is the map that passed instead.  

Click here to see the 2002 map that this one replaced. 

Click here to see its predecessor from 1991. 

     Look at those convoluted districts. The party in power does this for only one reason. To stay in power.

     I happen to live in District 4 (see the map... bright pink/central Maryland), which meanders from the rural Chesapeake Bay clear across and around the top of District 5 to the heavily urban nation's capital. Conservatives in our suburban/rural Anne Arundel County neighborhoods will always be silenced in this district by a margin of nearly 3-1 because of the densely populated urban voters of Western Prince George's County. The same is true for conservatives in District 6/Western Maryland, whose votes were muffled by the densely populated Montgomery County liberals.

     I wonder why we should even bother to vote in the Congressional elections anymore. The deck is stacked. My voice will never matter. They have silenced me. 

     After this redistricting, there had been an effort to put a referendum on the ballot for the 2012 General Election, but by then, it was too late for that election anyway... the voters were already voting in their newly drawn gerrymandered districts. Plus, the wording of the Ballot Question was so vague, it looked more like a procedural technicality based on new census data than anything else, given that there was no map or explanation.  Here's how it appeared on the ballot:

Question 5
Referendum Petition
(Ch. 1 of the 2011 Special Session)
Congressional Districting Plan

Establishes the boundaries for the State's eight United States Congressional Districts based on recent census figures, as required by the United States Constitution.

For the Referred Law
Against the Referred Law

     The measure passed almost 2-1. I seriously doubt that hundreds of thousands of voters statewide knew that this new redistricting plan would silence their votes.
     But the legislature knew.
     Here is the vote breakdown by county for Question 5.

     This is the way Maryland voted for Governor in the recent 2014 Gubernatorial Election (scroll down when you click on the link to see the map). The red counties voted Republican, and the blue counties and independent Baltimore City voted Democrat. The three counties bordering Washington, DC (Montgomery, Prince George's, and Charles counties) traditionally contain heavy populations of Democratic voters. The same is true with Baltimore City.  In the 2012 gerrymandering, Democrat lawmakers drew from those counties for seven out of eight of Maryland's districts in such a way as to deliberately cancel out the votes of the conservatives in all but District 1.

     Here are the votes in the 2014 mid-term Congressional races, by district.  You will note that large Democratic populations from the blue counties pop up in every district but District 1.

Representative in Congress

Congressional District 1

	Bill Tilghman Democratic	Andy Harris Republican	Other Write-Ins
Baltimore	5,647	17,167	23
Caroline	2,665	6,252	6
Carroll	4,454	20,252	25
Cecil	7,678	18,377	21
Dorchester	3,731	6,431	1
Harford	14,416	47,938	76
Kent	3,261	4,232	4
Queen Anne's	5,815	13,046	16
Somerset	2,294	4,002	5
Talbot	5,735	8,830	15
Wicomico	10,073	15,093	22
Worcester	6,627	11,997	12
Totals	72,396 (29.4%)	173,617 (70.5%)	226 (.1%)

Congressional District 2

	C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger Democratic	David Banach Republican	Ian Schlakman Green	Other Write-Ins
Anne Arundel	11,092	6,466	466	15
Baltimore City	12,217	1,830	363	18
Baltimore	73,981	46,147	3,280	129
Harford	14,131	11,095	682	15
Howard	6,452	3,668	380	18
Totals	117,873 (61.3%)	69,206 (36%)	5,171 (2.7%)	195 (.1%)

Congressional District 3

	John Sarbanes Democratic	Charles A. Long Republican	Other Write-Ins
Anne Arundel	32,370	32,780	80
Baltimore City	30,407	11,587	93
Baltimore	24,142	19,223	57
Howard	19,221	11,953	39
Montgomery	19,296	9,669	47
Totals	125,436 (59.5%)	85,212 (40.4%)	316 (.1%)

Congressional District 4

	Donna F. Edwards Democratic	Nancy Hoyt Republican	Arvin Vohra Libertarian	Other Write-Ins
Anne Arundel	21,913	44,180	1,605	52
Prince George's	108,360	8,912	1,091	142
Totals	130,273 (69.9%)	53,092 (28.5%)	2,696 (1.4%)	194 (.1%)

Congressional District 5

	Steny H. Hoyer Democratic	Chris Chaffee Republican	Dennis L. Fritz (Write In) Unaffiliated	Other Write-Ins
Anne Arundel	8,370	11,983	NR	36
Calvert	14,075	17,661	NR	70
Charles	28,766	17,056	NR	149
Prince George's	75,730	14,668	95	141
St. Mary's	14,038	17,803	NR	58
Totals	140,979 (63.9%)	79,171 (35.9%)	95 (0%)	454 (.2%)

Congressional District 6

	John K. Delaney Democratic	Dan Bongino Republican	George Gluck Green	Other Write-Ins
Allegany	7,059	12,539	338	7
Frederick	17,656	15,904	787	27
Garrett	2,136	6,598	160	3
Montgomery	51,635	31,041	1,747	85
Washington	13,600	23,793	598	12
Totals	92,086 (49.6%)	89,875 (48.4%)	3,630 (2%)	134 (.1%)

Congressional District 7

	Elijah Cummings Democratic	Corrogan R. Vaughn Republican	Scott Soffen Libertarian	Other Write-Ins
Baltimore City	71,839	3,804	1,401	73
Baltimore	37,787	24,978	2,214	60
Howard	31,103	26,248	2,333	70
Totals	140,729 (69.7%)	55,030 (27.3%)	5,948 (2.9%)	203 (.1%)

Congressional District 8

	Chris Van Hollen Democratic	Dave Wallace Republican	Lih Young (Write In) Democratic	Andrew Jaye Wildman (Write In) Unaffiliated	Other Write-Ins
Carroll	10,893	25,785	2	35	58
Frederick	15,970	26,387	NR	NR	81
Montgomery	105,504	33,808	NR	NR	319
Totals	132,367 (60.5%)	85,980 (39.3%)	2 (0%)	35 (0%)	458 (.2%)

     Investment analyst David Merkel wrote about this more than two years ago, creating a map that had simple, sensical borders, divided mostly along county lines (similar to the Republican plan - see map above):

"(This) map is my creation.  Given the odd geography of Maryland, I think it does a good job of creating equal districts amid the diverse cultural geography of Maryland.

1. Western Maryland (rural)
2. The Eastern Shore (rural)
3. Southern Maryland along the Chesapeake Bay (suburban/rural)
4. Montgomery County near DC (urban)
5. Prince George’s County with Charles County to the South (urban)
6. Baltimore County less its southern fringe (suburban/urban)
7. Baltimore City w/Baltimore County’s southern fringe (urban)
8. Central Maryland (suburban/rural)

   Hmm... gerrymander reform.  Maryland desperately needs it.  I'll believe it when I see it.

Today's events unfolding...

     I bumped into a gentleman recently, who said he reads my blog but wonders why I haven't been posting any of my own writing lately... just the Funny Guy stories.
     I told him that since starting my homeschooling adventure last year, my time has been spent elsewhere, but he could check my sidebar for all of my favorite links and he would see where I go for my news and information.
     Then, I told him that he could really just go back and re-read everything I wrote about a year or more ago, and it's all the same stuff. Only now, it's all coming true.
     This week, we are watching the continued emergence of the Muslim Brotherhood as the violent Islamo-radicals that they are, not the refreshing new day of the democratic Arab Spring that the president and his media have painted them to be.
     We are watching in horror as terrorists attack our embassies in the Middle East on the anniversary of September 11, murdering our ambassador to Libya and several of our servicemen. Not because of some youtube clip, by the way. These attacks were orchestrated and required intel to find the safe house where the ambassador would be.
     We have witnessed the destruction of the American flag on the sovereign soil of our embassies and its replacement with the Islamists' flag.
     And Barack Obama appears at best completely disinterested. First apologizing for "religious insensitivity" toward these terrorists who have attacked and killed Americans, reading dispassionately from his prepared statement, before winging off to Las Vegas for a Democratic fundraiser.
     And we stand by and watch the repeated and most recent disrespect of Benjamin Netanyahu by President Obama. After all… Beyonce and Letterman await.
     And now today, the Fed announced it will further monetize our debt. Further devaluing our dollar.
     Here are just some of the stories I posted that are playing out in today's headlines.
     And we could see it all coming from a mile away.
Monetizing the debt (November, 2010)  
Egypt 101 (February, 2011)
The reason for bombing Libya (March, 2011)
International Crisis Group (March, 2011)
Remember the objectives of September 11 (May, 2011)
Obama's disdain for Israel (May, 2011)
America's Shadow Party (March, 2012)
Current events sum-up (June, 2012)

"We are not French"...

     This is a link to a piece by Ann Coulter called, "On July 4th, Remember: We are not French." Well worth the read.

Are you still on the fence about Romney vs. Obama?

     In the presidential primary, Mitt Romney was not my first choice, as I am a Constitutional conservative, and I view him as another progressive player in the Republican establishment.
     But… at least Romney is not a Constitution-trampling, America-loathing, capitalism-hating, culture-destroying, religious-freedom-tamping, redistribute-the-wealth Marxist revolutionary statist.
     Okay, so SCOTUS ruled that Obamacare remains the law of the land.
     Romney has pledged to repeal it.
     The only positive thing about this ruling is this: It has stirred up the base. The voters are beyond angry.
     Further, once again, the progressives are naked. John Roberts is a progressive, appointed by a progressive. As much as I liked George W. Bush personally, he was a big-government progressive. And more and more the voters will understand the genesis of today's Supreme Court decision forcing us to buy a product or pay a "tax," and they will grow to understand the destructive, freedom-robbing cancer behind it… Progressivism.
     And the more the sunlight bathes these people, the more the voters won't like what they are peddling, and have been peddling for nearly a century. Freedom loving American patriots will prevail and eventually will stop putting up progressives.
     The paradigm has shifted. It isn't Republican versus Democrat anymore.
     It's freedom vs. statism.
     This November, as we look to replace Obama, the alternative may not be perfect, but the choice is perfectly clear.

SCOTUS upholds Obamacare… Constitution: Rest in peace...

     It's too early to find any details yet. But what a huge defeat for freedom. Now the state can force you to buy anything it wants you to. And the Supremes can twist it and declare it Constitutional.
     I have no words except my usual God has a plan. I trust Him.
     Dear Constitution:  There were those of us who were faithful to you. May you rest in peace. But only for a time. 
     Mitt Romney has pledged to repeal this monstrosity. Wake up people. Your vote has consequences. We must try our best to defeat tyranny at the ballot box.
     Long ago, I lost faith in our civic leaders. The party of evil vesus the party of weaklings. But I will try anyway. I pledge to do the right thing and let the chips fall. This November you have a choice to make… again. Will you stand with those who wish to enslave you? Or with those who work to preserve your freedom.

Shedding light on America's Shadow Party...

     About two decades ago, in the wake of the Republican gains of the 1994 midterm elections (when the voters ironically and overwhelmingly rose up against socialized health care), George Soros got an idea. An awful idea. Soros got a wonderful, awful idea.
     He began quietly working to convince Congress that Americans were clamouring for campaign finance reform. By 2002, Soros had poured millions of dollars into the passing of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform, apparently cutting off the vital so-called soft money contributions to the Democrat party. But why would he do that? Hmm.
     Soros then set up a vast web of private political action organizations (527 committees) in order to launder money back to the Democrat party without limit, a power allowed under the new law. A law that he knew intimately. 
     Soros's vision of the Democrat party was more radicalized and leftward lurching than ever before. And Soros controlled the purse strings, of course.
     This "privatized" Democrat party is what has become known as the Shadow Democrat Party, or Shadow Party.
     Hillary Clinton and Harold Ickes helped found the Shadow Party and are key players as well. At the heart of the Shadow Party is a think tank called the Center for American Progress. They have called the shots on every policy decision coming from this administration.
     Some say this Shadow Party is the Clinton White House in exile. Does anybody remember when the newly-elected President Obama set up his cabinet? I remember thinking that for all of the new-tone, fresh, hopey-changey promises, Obama sure was recycling the same old stale Clinton power brokers. By design. But whose exactly?
     George Soros.

     When Soros targets a country for "regime change," he begins by creating a shadow government... "a soup-to-nuts government-in-exile, ready to assume power when the opportunity arises." And one will arise. They have come too far, and invested too much. First, manufacture a crisis, and then claim to be the ones who can solve it. (See top down, bottom up, inside out.)

     Soros has said that he "could do a lot more about the issues I care about by changing the government than by pushing the issues." Soros also said he wants to “puncture the bubble of American supremacy.” To accomplish this, he has created a political apparatus of extraordinary influence.

     Soros's American Shadow Party greatly resembles those he has created in other countries, prior to instigating a coup. In the meantime, Obama, who apparently loves the feel of Soros's hand up his back, will suffice to do Soros's bidding. Click here to see how Obama's and Soros's ideology is the same. 

     This whole plan has been playing out for the last twenty years or so. Yes, progressives are very patient. They have been busy ramping up their actions, and their web now is vaster than ever.
     And make no mistake. Their goal is the ruination of America. The collapse of the free market. Global government. The supremacy of the state over God and over the freedom of individuals.

     I know this is a lot to read and process, but every American should know what is really going on.

     More on the Shadow Party here, here, and here, from Discover the Networks.
     Other posts of mine about Soros here, here, here, here, and here. My post about the orchestrated devaluing of the dollar is here.
     Also, worth another look if you missed it the first time: my post from nearly two years ago, called, "What is a fundamental transformation?"

Obama's new campaign propaganda film… Now where have I heard this before...

     President Obama's new campaign propaganda film, "The Road We Have Traveled," sounds an awful lot like a little book that was written in 1942 by Fabian Socialist and eugenicist Stuart Chase, called, The Road We are Traveling. I blogged about it more than a year ago here and here.

     Chase laid out the blueprint decades ago for the fundamental transformation of our republic, and our president and his progressive allies have been seeing it through to completion.

     Read about the parallels here, from the Blaze.

     Make no mistake: President Obama touts these changes as a good thing for America. Elimination of free enterprise. The rise of the state. All under the noses of a mostly unsuspecting electorate. Anyone who doesn't know history, that is.

     Wake up America. Time is running out.

We are not stupid Mr. President… We know it's not the speculators...

     When the president was asked recently about high gas prices, he blamed those  speculators. Ah. Yes. Nameless, faceless, greedy Wall Street types.
     He thinks we are stupid. Again. This is past getting old.
     If anyone wants to know who or what is responsible, look no farther than ruinous fiscal and monetary policy. Uh… Mr. President… That rests squarely on your shoulders. You and your Fed chairman, Ben Bernanke, have been destroying the dollar faster than anyone else in U.S. history. Oh, it started in the 1970's when the U.S. went off the gold standard, but you have accelerated it beyond anyone's wildest imagination.
     I think your pal George Soros referred to this as an "orderly decline of the dollar."
     Read all about it here, and here, from American Thinker.
     "Actually, it's not even that the price of gas is more expensive… It's that the dollar is worth less." 
     Mr. President… If you had run on trillion-dollar deficits and monetizing the debt, you never would have been elected.

Obama's wormy fruit...

     Let's see… Obama waxes religious, and, wow, what a beacon of hope and understanding. Rick Santorum explains his moral convictions and he is some kind of freak-show. The progressives in the media and the culture never cease to display their utter hypocrisy and contempt for the truth. So. very. predictable.
     Here is an article from American Thinker that exposes the truth about Obama's twisted pick-and-choose religiosity that is far from truly Christian. It's worth the read.
     “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but underneath are ravenous wolves. By their fruits you will know them. Do people pick grapes from thorn bushes, or figs from thistles? Just so, every good tree bears good fruit, and a rotten tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a rotten tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire. So by their fruits you will know them." Matthew 7

Smithsonian pushing agenda again… Erasing the Resurrection...

     I will never step foot in a Smithsonian museum again. I simply cannot trust them to show me historical truth without pushing their agenda. First, it was the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit (warning: graphic content).
     Now this.
     The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is running an exhibit displaying an edited bible, cut and pasted by Thomas Jefferson, depicting the life of Jesus. The Smithsonian claims that "Left behind in the source material were those elements that [Jefferson] could not support through reason or that he believed were later embellishments, such as the miracles and the Resurrection." The display is entitled, "A Revolutionary Act," and runs right through Easter.
     The [Smithsonian] web site states that Jefferson's "New Testament" is "an extension of his revolutionary spirit" and that, "in religion as in politics, he imagined liberating contemporary minds from inherited misconceptions and superstitions."
     Yes. Because everybody knows those bitter clingers need to be liberated.

Daniel Hannan speaks… "We still hold these truths…"

     Too bad this guy is British and can't run for office here.
     If only we had a more representatives with this kind of clarity and humble and abiding affection for our institutions.
     This is a must-see speech, by Daniel Hannan, member, British Parliament. He loves his homeland, England, but she is careening off the cliff of European socialism, having forfeited her national sovereignty and birthright to an unelected distant bureaucracy. And he says he is saddened when he looks in his rear-view mirror, and sees America with her foot on the pedal, trying to overtake him.
     We still 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.
     This next election, what will it be? Restoring our Constitutional republic, reducing the size and scope of government, states' rights, and greater freedom for each citizen?  Or will we choose the ever-growing Europeanization of America, greater reduction of her citizens, and the rise of the State?

Klavan on the Culture… "Shut up."

Looking back… Looking ahead...

     So, here we are at the start of a new year. Naturally, I've been looking at the year in review, and noticing some big changes.
     If you have followed this blog since its beginning, you probably have noticed that I used to post many more political/current events stories than I do now. It isn't that I don't care anymore. It's just that nothing ever seems to change. And when it does, it doesn't last.
     Take the Tea Party victory, for instance. What a disappointment how the Republican leadership repeatedly squandered the mandate for restoration... both by their votes and by their voices. And shame on the media for being complicit in the fundamental transformation of our Republic. Historians will have a field day. Someday.
     In the meantime, if you are looking for political commentary, you can go back into my archives. It's all there. I sounded the alarm for a year and a half. And my sidebar still offers a wealth of information and useful links.
     People ask me who I like in the field of Republicans. My answer is whoever runs against Barack Obama. It's not tricky really. Four more years of this, and America will cease to exist as we know her. She's different already.
     I guess for the primary election, for me, it will come down to who is the least statist of all of the statists. And who truly recognizes the threats to America, both foreign and domestic. Show me a true, small-government, protect our borders, constitutional conservative, and he will get my vote. Doesn't America deserve civic leaders who will ensure freedom, and who won't spend and regulate her to death?
     Enough about politics.
     On a personal note, so much has changed for me. Of course the passing of Mark's dad has left a gaping hole in our family. Time and hope are what help there.
     Sweeping across the year… by the end of last school year, we had decided to withdraw from institutional education and teach our kids at home.
     Best. Decision. Ever.
     They genuinely enjoy their days and each other. God is present all day long. Our family has a freedom we had never enjoyed before. Our daily rhythms are natural. The kids play outside. And they are learning.
     Teaching them has been a big challenge for me, as I have a tenth grader, a sixth grader and a second grader, all with different learning styles and at different stages… all at the same time. Very difficult for me, as order does not come naturally. But I am very happy. And I thank God for each new day. Plus, I have a lot of support from my homeschooling, and non-homeschooling friends. I thank God for that, too. Mark is still skeptical, but he'll see the fruits soon enough. Onward I go.
     In the fall, I attended my 30th high school reunion. The time period that followed that night took me by surprise. I went through a bit of spiritual upheaval. Mostly involving forgiveness and letting go of my pride. Thank you Lord for my time with you in Adoration to really take a long look at my heart.
     I have often said that I prefer the woman I have become to the young girl I left behind. A girl who was mostly self conscious, insecure and somewhat detached. But I faced that girl from graduation day and finally embraced her. A girl that I had considered silly and fearful, always telling her, You should have been more confident.
     I have realized that she had protected me on many occasions. And she was mostly kind. And she loved God and her family. That's still me. It may sound silly, but I thanked her. And I told her that she did good. For the first time ever, I told her she did good.
     Subsequently, I opened up a Facebook page. For years, I had told myself I didn't need to stay connected, but I was wrong. I like to reach out. I like to share little nuggets for the day. I like to see other people lifting each other up. I still hesitate a little when "friending" others, for fear of intruding in their lives without having been invited. A remnant of the teenage me, I guess.
     Thanksgiving, and then Christmas, came and went, carrying with them so many blessings. And now we are at the start of a brand new year.
     My word for this year is order. This year, I will try to establish order in my days… in our schooling, in our home, and in my prayer life. This is the Lord's house, too. A calm lake reflects the sun. Calmer days for us will reflect the Son.
     Blessings to you in the new year. May the peace of Christ be always in your hearts and in your homes.

Occupy Wall Street and the Founders...

     A great article by the American Thinker. No matter how the press or the statists spin this, the Founders would be nowhere near Zuccotti Park.

Occupy Wall Streeters don't like people stealing from them...

     Apparently the Occupy Wall Street crowd doesn't like it when people descend upon them and take their stuff.
     Sometimes the irony is just too rich.
     Read all about it here from the American Thinker.

Some questions for the "Occupy Wall Street" protestors...

     Read the questions here.
     One last question for the "occupiers" who may not have a clue as to what Glenn is talking about... Have you ever heard of Stalin's useful idiots? Click here for first hand accounts from those who were there.
     Don't forget: top down, bottom up, inside out. If you don't know the answers to Glenn's questions, you are probably being used. Make no mistake, this is being orchestrated from the top.
     Bottom line... Do you know what you stand for and with whom you are standing?
     The "Occupy Rome" people took this statue of Our Blessed Mother from a nearby church and smashed it in the street as they went along. For video of this desecration by the protestors, see here.
     Thanks always to Creative Minority Report, Romantic Poet, and GBTV.

Cut, Cap and Balance...

     The House Republican plan called "Cut, Cap and Balance" passed the House last night, and should now move to the Senate for a vote. The president has promised to veto it. Let him.
     I applaud the Conservatives in the House. I am still skeptical because I don't think it goes far enough, but it's a step in the right direction. Here is why some Conservatives voted against it.
     Gang of Six in the Senate, with your proposal for an additional $1 trillion in new taxes, go sit down. That is a leap in the wrong direction. No compromise. Stop playing games. Do the right thing for the country.
     Cut spending. Cap future spending. Balance the budget.
     The Senate will try to block this.
     I am so sick of the weasels, aren't you? You may want to call them. Buckle up. This could get ugly.

Welcome Back Carter...

     Obama and Carter's dueling malaise speeches. Listen here, from the Laura Ingraham Show.
     History repeats itself.

Feds buying up land they flooded...

     I've been warning about this for a year and a half. Beware of the federal land grab.
     The federal government has been gobbling up the American heartland, rich in natural resources.
     If you don't read Romantic Poet regularly, it is time to start. See this article about how in May, the Army Corps of Engineers blew a Mississippi River levy and flooded precious Missouri farmland, destroying property and crops, only to now offer to buy it from desperate landowners.
     Evil.
     What is the president's new rural council for? Have you read about Agenda 21? It's in my sidebar. It is the stuff of nightmares. Control the farms (grain). Control the food. Control the people. Stalin did it.
     Do you realize what they did? They disregarded private landowners' property rights, in order to carry out the goals of the State. What happened to those farmers' pursuit of happiness?
     “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..."
     We must reclaim our Republic. It's not about Democrat versus Republican. It is about the Constitution versus Statism/One World Order. American sovereignty versus global governance. Freedom versus tyranny.
     I've said it before. I'll say it every day. Heaven help us.

Project Gunrunner...

     Here is the summary of the scandalous Project Gunrunner, where the American government was selling weapons to Mexican drug cartels. And the guns have been used to kill people.
     The administration knew about it. The funding was in the stimulus. Twenty one million dollars.
     The president has denied knowledge, even though it was his stimulus package... and Attorney General Eric Holder testified before Congress that he only recently learned of it, but actually he bragged about the project two years ago in a speech in Mexico. There is also a video tying Project Gunrunner directly to President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder.
     And now it looks like Project Gunrunner may have a cousin: Operation Castaway. It has been reported that the Federal Government, out of an ATF office in Tampa, provided more than 200 weapons to a ruthless group of Hondurans known as the MS-13s. See Michele Malkin's update here, including Congressional letters that outline these problematic programs.
     Guns used in crimes on both sides of the border. All at the taxpayers' expense. And of course the expense of the victims' families.
     This goes high up in the Administration. And they are doing their best to cover it up.
     Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Expect stonewalling anyway.